WEBVTT - Facebook Wants to Put a Camera In Your Living Room 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:08.639 Broku has some new players. Alexa gets smart about the election. 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:11.720 Facebook has a new way for you to video chat 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:14.720 if you're willing to invite them into your home. What's 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.520 going on. I'm Rich dmiro. This is Rich on Tech, 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:20.080 the podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.319 think you should know about. Plus it is the place 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:25.560 where I answer your tech questions with the help of 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:30.440 producer Megan. Welcome to the show. Hello, Rich, Hello, I 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:32.080 like how you say hello, like. We have not been 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:35.199 working together for like six hours this morning so far. Yes, 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:39.239 but here we are and welcome to the show. Thank 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:41.440 you for joining me once again. Of course we are 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:45.960 about to embark kind to contractually obligated to be this. 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.199 I do test. I think. Look, I will tell you, 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:52.320 I will tell you, and I'll kind of let you 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.280 in on a little secret here. But the podcast is 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:58.360 doing very well. People like the podcast. Yes, so the 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:00.279 feedback I get. I don't share all the feed back 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.080 with you, especially when people comment on your outfits. But 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:03.600 it's fine. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.200 I mean it's weird because they can't even see them. 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:07.720 Then they're already hating me. 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:10.679 They just comment on your voice, What do they say? No, 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:15.399 they love your voice. It's just interesting because the feedback 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:17.360 we get is good and it's you know, when the 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.640 emails first started, it would be asking me stuff, and 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:22.119 now they're like, oh and tel producer Megan this because 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:23.560 we don't reveal your email address. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.560 It's all mine, so it could be they can send 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:27.200 emails to. 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:28.119 Your personal one. 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:32.240 Yeah yeah, but my social Security number. 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.440 So it's getting it's the downloads are increasing every week, 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.440 which is a good sign. That means that people are 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:38.760 actually coming back and listening. 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:39.160 Yeah. 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.880 I'm sure that there's a amount of people that leave 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.600 us every week, but sad for them. Yeah, you know what, 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:45.400 and we don't need that. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:46.200 Okay. 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:48.200 I will tell you one thing that happened to me 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.720 this week. I went to a concert at the Greek 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.560 Theater here in Los Angeles. Oh yeah, yeah, which, by 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:55.080 the way, Megan, thank you for hooking me up with 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.480 those tickets, because Megan was instrumental in getting me these 0:01:57.800 --> 0:01:59.960 any time. It was Maren Morris. If you're a country 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.160 you've heard of her. If not, you've never heard of her. 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.680 But anyway, the Greek Theater was great. But here was 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:09.800 the craziest thing about it. There was no I've Verizon. 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.840 There was no Verizon service, and they had Wi Fi 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:16.840 there that would not work. So I was, I think, 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.720 this is the longest stretch of time I've ever been 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.079 without cell phone connectivity. So I used to go to 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.400 a lot of USC games, and connectivity in that coliseum 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:27.079 historically has been horrendous. 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:28.560 Yeah, it doesn't exist right now. 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.200 Apparently they have Wi Fi this season. But have you 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:33.000 ever experienced that where you're just like out of touch 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:36.240 with your phone, like it's not working. Yes, it's really bad, 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:37.240 Like it really makes me. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.040 At the same time, like I think that it's a 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:42.360 good thing because then you can think, you like you 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.280 can What I love about like Instagram now is like 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.920 you can always story the next day. Like if you 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:50.960 go to a concert, you don't have to like you 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.520 can actually be in the moment, film it on your 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.200 phone and like you know, sing along instead of like, 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:57.680 oh I have to post this now. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:02:59.960 Like I do feel like that's a problem at all. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.960 Almost every event people are they're not living in the 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.600 moment for the event, they're living it through their phone. 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.119 And so I will say the side effect of this 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.600 concert and no connectivity was that I kind of just 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:14.360 ditched my phone. Yeah, I took about three pictures. I 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:16.400 posted one of them on Instagram, but I think I 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.519 took three pictures the whole night, and I wasn't. I 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.000 recorded two songs. One song I recorded because I was 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.560 surprised that Maren Morris did that song. It was called 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.360 Loveful Love Fool by the Cardigans, which was a song that, like, 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.440 when I was in college, that was a popular song, 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.120 and I'm surprised that. No, it's like, it's such an 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.679 old song, but it was a catchy song and it 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.640 was it was the Cardigan's like top hit basically, it 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.320 was their one hit, wonder kind of thing, and so 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:41.760 she played that, so I thought that was cool. So 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:43.640 I recorded that. And then there's another song she did. 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:45.760 I think I recorded for my kids, I thought, because 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:47.960 they like it. But other than that, that's it. I mean, 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.720 it was really like anyway. So my point is the 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:53.960 Greek is at the top of this mountain, and so 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.320 I had to walk all the way down to get 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.440 my uber or lyft whatever. I switched a lift recently 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.760 and I got to the gas station finally had connectivity. 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.960 Everything started coming in, you know, finally like crying. 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.120 My screen wife was like, okay, you have a you 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:11.000 might have a problem. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:12.680 So the best part is that the people we are 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.920 with what they were, they had AT and T and 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:16.600 they're like, oh, this is working just fine, And I 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.240 almost had them set up a hot spot. 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.719 That's okay. On THEO, I went to the Greek last 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.000 year for a concert and I remember having service. 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.480 Yeah, because you have a Yeah, So. 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:29.200 I, yeah, I do have AT and T. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.000 All right, let's see what should we start with this week. 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.240 I know the big story this week is obviously everyone's 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.640 getting their iPhones. Probably by the time you listen to 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:40.520 this you may have yours in hand, but lucky, yeah, 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.080 I I do not have mine in hand yet. So 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:44.960 I'm not going to really talk about what I know 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:46.800 about the phone because we already talked about that last 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.800 week we went hands on. But until I have next 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:52.880 time you talk to me on the podcast next week, 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:54.919 I'll have a lot of hands on time, so I 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.280 will have time with the phone, and I'll have a 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.520 much better understanding. So all the headlines I've seen so 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.400 far is how great it is. It's better than the 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.240 pixels camera, it's the best camera ever made. And all 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.960 those things may be true, but you have to understand that, 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.280 you know, I mean, number one, the people who got 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:16.120 this phone early are generally people who love the iPhone. Yeah, 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.120 I mean, let's be honest, like that's who's going to 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.680 get it first from Apple. So now I'm not saying 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:22.799 they're all I have no doubt that this is probably 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.279 one of the best phones in the world, but it's 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:26.640 just one of these things like, of course it's going 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:28.560 to be better than the pixel that came out last year. 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:30.640 So let's see what it does against this year's pixel. 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.200 And I'm not knocking. I think this year what And 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:34.800 I just got off the phone with Apple actually to 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.200 talk about it and the stuff they're telling me. I mean, 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.120 they really do think about the end user, and they 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.240 think about kind of how people use their phone, the 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.680 pain points they have. And they did increase things like 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.440 the battery life and the camera quality and you know, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.280 the low light they heard kind of the and by 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.520 the way, the front facing camera. I've always been saying, like, 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.240 we need a wider angle lens, like all these things 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.479 I've wanted on the iPhone. They kind of did. Yeah, 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.560 so I got to give Apple kudos for that. 0:05:58.680 --> 0:05:59.279 I'm excited. 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:01.680 Let's talk about the other big story as I just 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:04.880 ignore you that you're excited. Yeah, oh what was that, Megan? 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:05.800 Guys? Classic? 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:07.120 Sorry, what did you say? 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.560 Classic? A day in the life. 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.479 Go ahead, let's talk about Facebook Portal, because this is 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.440 a device that I think is has I think this 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:20.239 is an amazing device. The problem is, are people ready 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.440 to invite Facebook into their home in a big way? 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:24.280 And that's what you have to do if you want 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.800 to use a Facebook Portal. The first set of these 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:30.479 devices totally failed do a I don't think anyone bought them. 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.040 And the new ones I think they address some of 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.600 the privacy concerns of the previous models. But there are 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.159 three new models, the Portal, the Portal Mini, and the 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.160 Portal TV. And the Portal and the Portal Mini look 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.720 like a picture frame that you would have on a 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.360 shelf in your house, and they do display pictures when 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:51.000 you're not using them, and that's great. But the other 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.520 one is for the TV and it is basically a 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.920 video camera for your TV, so you can video chat 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.200 from your couch, which I think, I know your family 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:02.640 all lives here, You're not like you know. For me, 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.040 the idea of video chat like FaceTime to a lot 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:06.800 of people is just kind of fun. And convenient to me. 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.520 Like I've lived away from my family for a long time, 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:14.240 and I feel like the killer the Killer app is 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.440 really not like video calling on your phone, but video 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.120 calling on your couch because you can sit down and 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.800 actually kind of just like have a conversation with someone 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.200 without holding up your phone or holding it in front 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.600 of you or having it shaky, like my sister is 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.000 always like moving her phone around while she's talking to me, 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:31.680 and she's moving around the house and all the like. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.000 If you're just on the couch, it's very natural to 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:35.640 just sit there and kind of like chat. The kids 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.160 can come up, sit down, talk whatever. So that's what 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.760 the Portal TV does. That's my pick for this device. 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.040 The problem with this device in the demo I got 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:48.040 is that it does some streaming things but not all 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.280 of them, so it can't replace your streaming device, which 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.000 means you have to switch inputs every time you want 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:55.880 to use this. You it was kind of sluggish, like 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.440 it wasn't the best. I think what Facebook should have 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.280 done is just created a camera that plugs into the 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:06.400 Apple TV, the Fire TV, your regular TV whatever, and 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:09.120 it kind of just works with whatever box you have. 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.520 Where would it plug in. On the Apple TV, I. 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.480 Think there's some sort of like USBC on the back. 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.360 I don't think it's usable, but I think there is 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.160 on the Apple TV. Okay and Fire TV I think 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:19.960 has one as well. But my point is that's not 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:21.720 going to happen because all these companies are at war 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.920 and they don't want to work with each other. So 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:29.000 you can The video calling is fantastic. It works really well. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.440 The cameras follow you around the room. It looks great, 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.200 it sounds great. Scary thing on the Facebook TV one 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.480 is there are eight microphones, so talk about Facebook listening 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:39.760 to you. 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:41.880 Why I know why eight? 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.559 I guess just to get you no matter where you 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:45.920 are in the room, so you don't have to like 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:50.800 be loud. I don't know. Here's the main thing they 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:55.320 did that. I think it'll probably quell some privacy concerns, 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:59.040 but not really. Yeah, they do have little sliding lens 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.680 shutters on all all of the devices so you can 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:03.880 physically shut it off and know that the camera's not 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.200 looking at you and know that the microphones are not 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.400 listening to you. Is that enough? I mean, I don't 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:13.720 know what do you think of this? Imagine Mom lived 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:14.480 in Hawaii. 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.080 Okay, well yeah, I mean. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:18.320 Like drink and Opinia. 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:24.520 Penia classic Maggie. I think that for me, I just 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.400 can't get over their the privacy issues with Facebook. I 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:32.040 think that the last year has just been a lot 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.760 and so in terms of like just the pr of 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.520 the company, Like, I just think that I don't trust them, 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.480 I don't want them on my don't trust see. 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.400 I trust I fully trust them. I really, I have 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:42.320 no problems with Facebo. 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:44.120 Do you not trust no one? 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:48.079 I really? I I this whole idea of people not 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.280 trusting tech companies, like you're being tracked. You go on 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.800 the web. The open web is the most trackable thing 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.440 there is in technology. Yeah, so the fact that you 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.480 think your phone's listening to and Facebook and stuff like, 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.440 they're just a portion of what's happening. Yeah, and also 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.480 people are just learning about this. But to me, the 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.160 idea that you're being tracked. 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:08.199 I just think the camera you're going to the. 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:09.360 Grocery store, you're being tracked. 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:10.960 I think the camera is going to get hacked. 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.920 It's not going to get hacked. I don't think so. Well, 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.320 and you have a camera on your phone that you 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.040 carry everywhere, and a microphone on your phone that you've 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:20.960 carried everywhere for how many years? Now? How many years 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:21.720 have you had an iPhone? 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:23.240 Since I was one? 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:25.319 Yeah? So your whole life? 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.400 No, no, no, it's been six years. Yeah, I've had it 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:28.439 for like ten years. 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.439 Again, No, I know, I know this is the world 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:31.920 we live in. 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.040 That Yeah, I don't know. I think I want to see, 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.120 like give it a year and like see what the 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:37.800 reviews are. 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.120 Like they have they have given it a year and 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:43.400 I just gave the review. No, so October fifteen out 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:46.360 for a year the portal has. These are new versions 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.240 of it. They came out last year with ones that 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.040 just totally the last year ones did not have the shutter. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:52.319 These are the new like. 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.560 So anyway, there's also Amazon Alexa built in. 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:56.640 Are you going to try it? 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:58.600 I would love to try this, but here's the reason 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.679 why I don't think it'll work because who am I 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.040 going to use this with my mom, my sisters, my brother, 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:04.760 My brother and I we already know how to video 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:06.439 chat where like the techi's in the family. So it's 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.240 really my dad, my mom, and my sisters to get 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.319 them to plug this into their TV, set it up 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.320 and change inputs when I want to call them just 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.240 not going to work. Right. My mom will never get 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:18.880 back to her fire TV if I tell her to 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.080 change the input to go to go to portal TV. No, 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:23.760 it's a pain. And I get that that's a pain 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:25.439 point and they need to figure that out. So then 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.040 so I think what Google has, and I think maybe 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.520 the solution for my mom would be one of these 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.959 fixed ones, because like I said, there's three models. One 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:35.960 that sits on top of your TV, the other two 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.920 where they look like a picture frame. Yeah, and they 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:40.640 have a camera built in you video chat there, so 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:42.360 maybe that's better, But that means you have to sit 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:43.680 in front of it. And if she's going to do that, 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.959 I'd probably just rather give her a Google Nest Hub Max, 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:48.319 which does the same thing. 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.320 Well, now I have a prediction. I think in the 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:54.160 next two years three years, TV's are just gonna have 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:54.880 cameras on them. 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.800 Well that okay, talk about privacy. Now, would you rather 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.160 have a camera built into the TV or one that 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:02.640 I attach? I'd personally rather have one that I attach 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.840 rather than having one that's built it cover it. Yeah, 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:06.840 but I'm just saying why. 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.480 I just I don't know I have I have to 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:10.760 think about this topic. 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.360 I'll tell you the prices and you can put that, 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:17.800 okay to your thinking caps October fifteenth for the portal 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:21.199 and Portal Mini. That the portal TV is going to 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.040 be on November fifth. The portal Mini, I'll just start 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:25.800 at the smallest one is a portal Mini that's gonna 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.760 be one thirty. The portal is one eighty and Portal 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.520 TV is one fifty. If you buy any two portal 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:36.560 devices you get fifty dollars off. So sorry, that's not 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.040 what I meant. I did not. That was totally That 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.920 is not has nothing to be the board. I don't 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:42.360 know the board. 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:43.119 Sorry. 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.480 All right, you got to get my friend, my friend 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.280 bald Brian does this for a living, so he would 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.160 be if he ever listened to one of my podcasts, 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.119 which she doesn't shake his head, he would really be sad. 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:57.679 All right. So this first question comes from Rich's Facebook 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:03.280 ray posted on your wall. He said, good evening, Rich, 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.960 I have the iPhone TENNS Max and was thinking about 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.760 the iPhone eleven base model. Would it be a big 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.400 step down or would the camera be worth the switch? 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:18.320 iPhone eleven base model eleven? 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:20.360 Sorry TENNS max. 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:21.360 What do you say again? 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:25.400 He said, I have the iPhone TENNS Max and was 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:30.880 thinking about the iPhone eleven base model. Okay, it's actually 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.400 a common question, a lot of common questions about this. 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.160 I feel like, here's the bottom line on all this 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.880 upgrade stuff. If you have the only reason to upgrade 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:43.440 from the here's my upgrade cutoff if you have anything 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:47.120 before an iPhone ten R. So if you have an 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:51.200 iPhone ten R, iPhone ten S, or an iPhone tennis Max, 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.800 I don't I don't think you need there's no impetus 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.560 to upgrade. Now. With that said, all the phones below that, 0:13:57.920 --> 0:13:59.480 if you're ready for an upgrade, you want to upgrade, 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:03.320 you will notice a huge increase in camera quality and 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.560 that's really the only reason and battery life from your 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:09.520 current device and snappiness now with these higher end devices, 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.200 do you need it only if you want that wide 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:15.640 angle lens. And to me, that is something that I've 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.320 been accustomed to on phones because Samsung has had it 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.000 for a while. LG has had it for even longer 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.920 than Samsung. And to me, like when I first started 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.200 shooting with those wide angle lenses in taking pictures, it's 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.480 so much fun. You just have such a blast taking 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:34.120 pictures in so many different ways that it is a 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.760 really cool feature to have. Is it a must have? 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.160 Is it an upgrade? Like a must upgrade? Not necessarily, 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:42.280 but if you want that, And that's kind of the 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.560 only reason, like if you're thinking your phone's gonna be faster, snappier, 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.840 all that stuff, like no, no, no, for the for the 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:52.960 cutoff that I said, yeah, so again, that's that's my cutoff, right, 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:54.800 And will he be happy with the eleven? I think 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:56.680 the eleven will be just fine for ninety nine point 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:57.480 nine percent of people. 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.560 And we talked about this last week. Isn't the camera 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.520 on the ten s the same? Like pretty much the 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:07.080 same as the eleven? Like it's the same, Oh oh 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:07.960 big step better? 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:09.400 Is cameras upgraded? For sure? 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.280 But I thought it was like a slight up you 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:11.720 don't know. 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.480 I well, again, I need some time with it to see. 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.640 Oh I was listening to our podcast last week. 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.000 Yes, we said, from what I've learned, it is a 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:23.040 it is a sizeaball upgrade. Yeah, it seems like okay, 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.640 and so and I think that the other sizeble upgrade 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.640 was really from the ten to the ten R and 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.440 ten s like it jumped, like there's you can tell 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.200 the difference in the camera quality, and I think this 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.960 is another jump. And later on in the year they're 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.280 going to introduce software that makes the camera quality even 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.240 better because they're gonna start even putting more AI into 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:44.520 it like Google does. So yeah, it's gonna get even better. 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.640 And they're calling it. I forget it's something fusion, but 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.480 it's it's kind of like, okay, this is like iPhone's 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.240 getting real, like Apple's getting real. 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.840 Yeah, they're they're stepping. They're not game. 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.720 They're not sitting back letting these other companies, you know, 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:00.520 just takeovers. 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:01.840 You have that sound on your board? 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:02.400 What sound? 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:07.840 Okay, there's like a fun radio sound that they play. 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:13.520 Oh yeah, people are very The sound effects in the 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:18.760 show are very divisive. What's the word when it divides people? 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.640 It really divides people. People don't like them, but. 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:23.920 You know what, I feel like we should have a 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.440 sound though, for like when we talk about how all 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:33.240 these companies are like battling, I don't I don't know. 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.760 That's great, Okay, definitely not work all that. 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.480 Yeah, oh, I was like trying to do the sc 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.880 fight song sound, but you know you should like that 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:43.400 because you went there. 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:47.200 You know, yeah, I did go there, talk about Roku. 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:52.280 Roku has some new devices as well, and let's see 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:54.880 Roku has the things you need to know about Roku. 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:58.520 Number one, Roku users are streaming an average of three 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.680 and a half hours a how much are you streaming 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:02.120 a day? 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.000 That's probably that's. 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:05.080 It really is. 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.159 I have it on and then I like do stuff. 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.280 That is so wild I can't Okay, I know you 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:11.840 don't watch it. I know I don't watch TV. 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:15.320 But I'm like, I'm probably for that three hours sitting 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:16.560 and watching for thirty minutes. 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.200 Okay, but but you have it on. You're streaming stuff, 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.840 and what what show like? Give me? I know it's 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:23.639 all like Real Housewives, I know it. 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:29.040 No, no, no, r h o C. Depends on the day, friends, Okay, 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:37.720 Grey's anatomy like the old episode school stuff, vander Pump Rules, okay, garbage, 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:39.520 Bachelor in Paradise or garbage. 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.080 You just you just like trashy stuff. 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:44.360 I was gonna say Band of Brothers. 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:45.919 I don't even know what that is. Is that an 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:46.560 HBO show? 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:46.840 Yeah? 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.159 Okay, well I there. 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:51.520 I have my classy shows and then I have my 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:54.760 trashy shows. It depends on like, if I'm trying to 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:56.760 decompress after being with you all day. 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.000 That I got reality a lot of trashy TV. 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.960 Trashy TV like really relaxes me. But if I'm like 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:07.160 ready for you know, emotions and stuff after and we. 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:09.560 If we know Megan, we know she's ready for emotion, 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.560 Oh my god. Yeah. So three and a half hours 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:16.640 of Roku a day. They've got thirty million active accounts, 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.719 which I guess that sounds like a lot of people. 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:21.879 I don't know, wow, But here's what you need to know. 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.719 So they've got two new devices that I kind of 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:29.160 got from their presentation, Roku Express, and the Roku Express 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:32.720 is smaller. It also includes an Hdmi cable and it's 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:37.360 just forty bucks. So for forty dollars, that is a 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:41.200 really cheap way to get into streaming, right, Yeah, I 0:18:41.240 --> 0:18:43.119 mean that is that's really cheap. But the only thing 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:47.040 about that device it does not oh sorry, thirty dollars. 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:48.520 Isn't the fire TV stick? 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:52.240 Yeah? Fire TV is cheap. Two yeah, But I mean 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:54.679 this is this does not include four K so but 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:57.640 it does include an Hdmi cable, which, you know, kind 0:18:57.640 --> 0:18:59.840 of cool. I guess the four the stick just sticks 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:02.720 right in your TV, so I guess that doesn't really matter. Okay, 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:04.600 now here's the one I'm interested in, the top of 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.480 the line Roku Ultra. This is brand new. They say 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:09.520 that everything is faster on it. So all the channels 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:11.280 launch faster. Have you noticed when you launched something that 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:12.000 it's not that fast? 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:13.800 I don't know. Okay, I've noticed that. 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:18.159 So now it's faster, and news channels are twenty percent faster. 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:22.480 Top one hundred launch channels average of seventeen percent faster. 0:19:22.920 --> 0:19:25.080 But here's the new feature that a lot of people like, 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.800 personal shortcut buttons, which means there are two buttons on 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:31.520 the remote that you can personalize to make whatever you want. 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:32.920 So you know how on your remote you've got a 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:34.800 couple of buttons that are like Netflix and all the 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:38.640 stuff Sling. Yeah that you're like, I don't use slinging, right, 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:41.440 you can't reprogram that because Sling paid to be there. 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:44.600 So if you want, now you have two buttons that 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.040 you can make your own. So one can bring you 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:49.719 directly to the latest episode of Real Housewives of Orange County. 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:51.840 The other one can bring you directly to Band of 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:52.680 Brothers Orange. 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:54.480 That is so trashy. 0:19:54.560 --> 0:20:00.600 You've got total whatever, total control, miss mcmonogall, miss and 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:02.520 they have a full lineup now there are let me 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.600 just count how many sat one, two, three, four, five. 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:06.960 Six years on Facebook. 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:09.240 Yeah. I just mostly listened to my own podcasts and 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:12.679 watched my old YouTube videos. No, I watch movies on 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.359 the weekends, so I will attempt to watch a movie 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:20.520 on the weekend. So actually last weekend, No, this is 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:22.800 how sad. It was so last weekend. So by the 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:24.800 time we get the kids in bed, it's like we're 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:27.000 tired and we're like, all right, six Yeah, it's like 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:30.320 six thirty. So last weekend we watched I was like, oh, 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:32.920 there's this new Jim Gaffigan thing. This is when you're old. 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:36.600 You watched like Jim Gaffian comedy on on Amazon. And 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:39.320 Lindsey's like, I think we watched that last weekend or 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:41.320 whatever or last time we sat down. I was like, no, 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:43.560 I don't think we did. So Amazon shows you the 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:45.960 last time you played something. Yeah, So it was like 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:48.560 we were halfway through and I had totally forgotten that 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:50.880 we watched it. We watched the other half. Oh you really, 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.720 I'm really not. I'm just not a I'm just I'm 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:55.119 not like. 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:57.920 It's good at your you. When you have free time, 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:03.200 you are productive, create and creating. Yeah, I'm trying to wasting. 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:05.200 No, I'm trying to create and I'm trying to organize. 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:06.600 You know, I was writing a book for the last 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:09.480 six months, so I mean that definitely. You can't feel 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.240 good about yourself when you're sitting down watching a TV 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:13.919 show in the middle of the day when you have 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:15.840 a book that you're trying to write. That's just the 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:18.160 reality of it. Now, when this book is done and 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:21.080 out there and you know, into the masses, then I 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:23.719 can relax a little bit more. That's the reality of it, 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:26.520 all right. The other things I thought was cool about Roku. 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:30.440 They're gonna have a new release called Roku nine point two, 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:33.160 and you will be able to search by movie quotes, 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:35.320 which is kind of cool. So do you have a 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:36.240 movie quote that you like? 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:39.680 I said it earlier, but. 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:42.560 Nobody puts baby in a corner? 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:46.600 No? No, no, shoot, okay, keep going. I'll think of 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:47.760 my quote and. 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:49.440 The thing you need to know that's different. If you're 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:52.800 going to go for that cheapy, the low end one, 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:58.640 the express I would go for the Walmart exclusive of 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:01.520 the Express plus ten dollars more because you get a 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:05.120 better remote control which controls the power and the volume 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:07.760 on your TV. So if you're going for the super 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:09.960 cheap one for thirty dollars, you do not get those controls. 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:11.720 Just those are those are the kind. 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:13.720 Of things say hello to my little friend. 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:18.959 Ah, very good, very good, Megan. 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:23.120 All right, So your next Twitter, your next Twitter, Your 0:22:23.160 --> 0:22:29.320 next question comes from Twitter at bb or at b 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:33.760 Besser five zero two. Which screen protector do you recommend 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:37.440 for the iPhone eleven Pro and Promax that is durable, 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:42.439 anti fingerprint and anti glare without interfering with the clear 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:43.400 screen display. 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:45.879 I will tell them about the one that I have 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:48.880 on my phone right now, and I just install. 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:52.080 This tech the one from ces. 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:55.200 Oh that's a good one too, But this one that's 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:58.359 Belcan Belcan. Yeah, that was a good one. But they 0:22:58.400 --> 0:22:59.080 put that on for you. 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:00.439 Yeah, it also cracked. 0:23:00.480 --> 0:23:01.359 But it's been dead. 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:02.440 It's been long. 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:04.760 It's been a while. It's been a while, but I 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:07.760 like I like tech armor a lot, and tech armor 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:11.200 is the reason I like tech armor stuff is because 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:14.920 a I've met the folks behind it, and B they 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:18.560 sell them for really cheap and they're good quality, and 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:20.080 I really like them because you know, if you go 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:21.720 into the Apple store, it's like fifty bucks for a 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:22.560 screen protector. 0:23:22.880 --> 0:23:28.720 What the heck? Oh no, I know what. 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:32.400 Megan actually knows the board, so it's fifty dollars. This 0:23:32.400 --> 0:23:36.000 this tech Armor one is so much cheaper, and it's 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:37.840 I would say, let me just look up, let's just 0:23:37.840 --> 0:23:38.560 see how much it is. 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:41.119 What's actually insane. And then they're like, it's twenty dollars 0:23:41.119 --> 0:23:43.400 for me to put it on, and then there's bubbles. 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:44.359 Really no, I don't know. 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:46.359 Oh, I was gonna say, well, I feel. 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:49.000 Like I would go to the store just because. 0:23:48.760 --> 0:23:50.440 They know how to put it on, right, I agree 0:23:50.440 --> 0:23:52.080 with that, and I do think that's worth it a 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:55.040 little bit. But yeah, here's the thing with tech Armor, 0:23:55.119 --> 0:23:58.720 A three pack is nine to ninety five. Wow. Now 0:23:58.760 --> 0:24:00.880 here's what I really like. And I did not discover this. 0:24:00.880 --> 0:24:02.720 This is this is what happens to me. Sometimes these 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:05.480 companies send me stuff. It takes it. It takes me 0:24:05.520 --> 0:24:07.960 a while to get to it sometimes, so I will 0:24:08.000 --> 0:24:10.680 be totally on your book. Well, no, I'm doing a 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:13.040 lot of stuff and everything's prioritized. So screen protectors. I'm 0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:14.680 kind of like, I get it. You sent me a 0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:16.399 lot of scream protectors. I can't really put these all 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:19.000 on my phones, so I will be honest. I just 0:24:19.080 --> 0:24:22.159 put the screen protector on my iPhone TENNS max and 0:24:22.200 --> 0:24:24.240 they sent it to me. I looked at my stuff 0:24:24.280 --> 0:24:27.720 like last August, I think, so I was going through 0:24:27.760 --> 0:24:28.919 and I was like, why did you put it on 0:24:29.080 --> 0:24:29.880 like two weeks ago? 0:24:30.119 --> 0:24:33.720 Oh? Okay, so you know you like it? Well, Like 0:24:33.760 --> 0:24:36.600 it's like it's been twenty four hours, Like oh. 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:38.480 No, and I've tested these before. It's just taken me 0:24:38.480 --> 0:24:40.280 a while to put it on this exact phone. But 0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:42.320 I'll tell you what I thought was so cool is this. 0:24:42.920 --> 0:24:46.440 It comes with this plastic tray that you snap your 0:24:46.480 --> 0:24:49.080 phone into so that when you put the thing on top, 0:24:49.200 --> 0:24:53.840 it's perfectly aligned with your screen. It was amazing. And 0:24:53.880 --> 0:24:55.639 I sat there at my desk and I was like, 0:24:55.760 --> 0:24:57.639 why did it take me so long to install this? 0:24:57.880 --> 0:24:59.879 And I felt so dumb emailing the company because I 0:24:59.920 --> 0:25:01.760 was like, Oh, They're like, yeah, we've had that, like 0:25:01.800 --> 0:25:03.320 since we sent you that like a year ago. 0:25:03.400 --> 0:25:05.520 Yeah. They're like come on, They're like rich come. 0:25:05.400 --> 0:25:07.040 On, They're like, we wondered why you didn't respond to 0:25:07.080 --> 0:25:09.760 our emails and say how great this was. So I 0:25:09.800 --> 0:25:13.480 think that's really cool and I love that feature. And 0:25:13.520 --> 0:25:15.040 I will tell you, if you look at my phone, 0:25:15.440 --> 0:25:20.400 do you see one imperfection in this screen? I mean, 0:25:20.560 --> 0:25:23.200 look at this. Isn't it great? Oh? 0:25:23.200 --> 0:25:23.480 Wow? 0:25:23.520 --> 0:25:25.159 I mean it really is. And I had one. I 0:25:25.200 --> 0:25:27.000 had one bubble in the middle of my screen after 0:25:27.000 --> 0:25:29.840 I did it, and I was very concerned, and after 0:25:29.880 --> 0:25:31.920 about twenty four hours it evaporated and it was fine. 0:25:31.960 --> 0:25:35.120 And that happens sometimes when you instat yourself. So anyway, 0:25:35.920 --> 0:25:38.600 for a three pack, and they have various levels of 0:25:38.640 --> 0:25:41.920 their there's yeah, they're qualities you can get like ones 0:25:41.920 --> 0:25:45.600 that don't show what's that? Like the the one the 0:25:45.640 --> 0:25:47.880 Privacy film, which is really cool. So people are looking 0:25:47.880 --> 0:25:48.920 at your phone from other angles. 0:25:48.920 --> 0:25:49.360 I love that. 0:25:49.640 --> 0:25:50.720 Have you ever had that on your phone? 0:25:50.800 --> 0:25:52.560 No? But I like see people that are on their 0:25:52.600 --> 0:25:56.360 phones and it's dark, and I'm like, you can't. Yeah. 0:25:56.119 --> 0:25:59.520 Megan always has that side eye looking at people's phones, 0:25:59.560 --> 0:26:01.800 and when they have that, you're just like, darn it, 0:26:01.880 --> 0:26:07.800 why foiled again? Oh? No, I give it. 0:26:07.920 --> 0:26:10.359 I was going to press it. I thought about it, 0:26:10.359 --> 0:26:11.480 I was like ready. 0:26:11.200 --> 0:26:13.679 To go, Oh, I give up on that. Yeah, anyway, 0:26:13.760 --> 0:26:16.120 tech Armor check them out. Love that and I think 0:26:16.160 --> 0:26:17.400 it's a great one. 0:26:17.640 --> 0:26:19.000 So it's a great one. 0:26:19.480 --> 0:26:21.360 Let's see what else do we want to talk about. 0:26:21.400 --> 0:26:23.320 I'm doing something a little differently this week. I didn't 0:26:23.320 --> 0:26:26.960 print out the stories, so it's really I'm being eco friendly. 0:26:27.000 --> 0:26:29.040 But it totally derails the show because it takes me 0:26:29.080 --> 0:26:31.359 longer to like figure everything out. You want to talk 0:26:31.359 --> 0:26:35.080 about Alexa and the election, Yeah, do that. Alexa is 0:26:35.119 --> 0:26:38.440 getting much smarter about the election. They are programming her 0:26:38.520 --> 0:26:41.879 to know everything about the twenty twenty US presidential election, 0:26:42.280 --> 0:26:45.120 which by the way, is just over a year away. Now, 0:26:45.240 --> 0:26:47.600 before you get we're not getting into politics here on 0:26:47.640 --> 0:26:49.360 the show. So Megan, I don't want to hear it. 0:26:50.119 --> 0:26:50.800 I don't stop it. 0:26:50.920 --> 0:26:53.160 Don't know who's running for Okay. 0:26:53.080 --> 0:26:58.960 Thank you. So the thing is, you are not going 0:26:59.000 --> 0:27:01.920 to get opinions out of Alexa on the election. I'm 0:27:01.920 --> 0:27:03.280 gonna stop saying you name because I don't want to 0:27:03.320 --> 0:27:05.600 keep activating things if I'm doing that. But you will 0:27:05.640 --> 0:27:09.440 get data. And Amazon was very clear to say that 0:27:09.520 --> 0:27:12.680 they are a conduit for news they are not creating 0:27:12.720 --> 0:27:15.240 the news, so that makes sense anyway. So here's the 0:27:15.240 --> 0:27:17.040 things that you can ask her, which is kind of cool. 0:27:18.240 --> 0:27:21.600 Let's see Number one, you can donate to a candidate's 0:27:22.720 --> 0:27:25.679 contribution fund fundraising effort up to two hundred dollars. That 0:27:25.720 --> 0:27:27.959 will start next month. I have to say, is A 0:27:28.160 --> 0:27:31.760 donate to Blank? And we don't even know because we 0:27:31.760 --> 0:27:34.680 don't even know who's running, so we can't even say 0:27:34.960 --> 0:27:38.159 even say Rock? Who Rock? 0:27:38.240 --> 0:27:40.360 I just thought of the rock, the Rock? Yeah, Rock, 0:27:40.400 --> 0:27:41.000 he should run. 0:27:41.080 --> 0:27:43.200 You should run. He'd have a solid campaign. 0:27:43.560 --> 0:27:46.399 Oh fans? 0:27:46.840 --> 0:27:51.000 Okay, Alexa? Oh sorry? You can say A who is 0:27:51.119 --> 0:27:55.560 running for president? A? How is Blank pulling? A who 0:27:55.680 --> 0:27:59.200 endorses Blank? That's kind of interesting? A when is the 0:27:59.440 --> 0:28:02.280 Blank caucus? So like, I don't know what a caucus is. 0:28:02.280 --> 0:28:04.760 I'm assuming that's like the primary thing. Yeah, I sound 0:28:04.800 --> 0:28:05.920 really dumb, but I can stay. 0:28:06.119 --> 0:28:10.440 We don't I do tech, I do technology. We don't 0:28:10.440 --> 0:28:11.000 play in. 0:28:11.280 --> 0:28:17.040 DC, Alex, A, how does Blank stand on education? So 0:28:17.040 --> 0:28:19.440 I'd like to hear that one? And A when is 0:28:19.480 --> 0:28:21.199 the next debate? So those are all the things you 0:28:21.200 --> 0:28:23.200 can ask and you can donate, which is kind of cool. 0:28:23.240 --> 0:28:25.760 I mean, so many people have these things in their home, 0:28:25.800 --> 0:28:27.600 and I'm sure I would just love to see all 0:28:27.640 --> 0:28:30.160 the questions are being asked to these smart assistants throughout 0:28:30.160 --> 0:28:32.720 the day, because I see the way my kids interact 0:28:32.720 --> 0:28:35.760 with Siri on their iPad and it is insane. It's 0:28:35.800 --> 0:28:39.600 totally different. They say I love you, good morning, good night, 0:28:39.840 --> 0:28:40.880 all this crazy stuff. 0:28:40.920 --> 0:28:42.480 Yeah, that's actually really cute. 0:28:42.560 --> 0:28:44.440 I know, but it's kind of sad because Alex, like, 0:28:44.720 --> 0:28:47.280 make a friend. No, Siri just responded. She's like, I 0:28:47.280 --> 0:28:49.600 am sorry, I understand that, and they keep asking. I'm like, well, 0:28:49.680 --> 0:28:52.320 used to. She doesn't understand anything you're asking. She has 0:28:52.360 --> 0:28:54.520 no clue, she has no heart, she has no soul. 0:28:54.640 --> 0:28:55.280 She's not even a. 0:28:57.080 --> 0:28:57.640 Mom and dad. 0:28:57.680 --> 0:29:04.640 Love you more kids, all right, So this next question 0:29:04.840 --> 0:29:08.440 comes from Cookie. She wrote in on your. 0:29:09.040 --> 0:29:11.600 Sorry Hold it Together, Megan. 0:29:12.000 --> 0:29:14.880 She wrote it on your website, Rich on tech dot TV. 0:29:15.760 --> 0:29:17.840 All you have to do is go to the contact 0:29:17.960 --> 0:29:20.160 link and just fill it out there and you can 0:29:20.200 --> 0:29:23.960 ask Rich any question you have regarding tech, not anything else. 0:29:24.280 --> 0:29:25.280 Don't ask me anything else. 0:29:25.320 --> 0:29:28.640 Don't ask him anything anyways. Hi, Rich, I wonder if 0:29:28.640 --> 0:29:31.560 you can help me. I keep seeing the commercial about 0:29:31.560 --> 0:29:35.280 Alexa playing music for a senior at home, and think 0:29:35.320 --> 0:29:38.480 about getting it from my dad. He is ninety years 0:29:38.520 --> 0:29:41.800 old and of course he's technically challenged. Not sure if 0:29:42.160 --> 0:29:44.560 it would work as he has a flip phone, but 0:29:44.640 --> 0:29:47.360 he does have Wi Fi. What do you think with 0:29:47.480 --> 0:29:50.880 a different system would a would a different system be 0:29:50.920 --> 0:29:53.560 better or would you would any really work for him? 0:29:54.000 --> 0:29:55.200 What does she want to do for him? 0:29:55.440 --> 0:29:57.080 Get him an Alexa to play music? 0:29:57.320 --> 0:29:59.920 Yeah, I think that would work just fine. 0:30:00.080 --> 0:30:02.520 You don't need a phone to like connect. 0:30:03.080 --> 0:30:04.880 To set it up. You probably need a phone can 0:30:05.000 --> 0:30:06.240 do that, but she can do that. I mean you 0:30:06.240 --> 0:30:09.040 could set up with his WiFi once and then you 0:30:09.080 --> 0:30:10.480 know it's off and running by itself. 0:30:10.600 --> 0:30:11.120 Yeah. 0:30:11.520 --> 0:30:15.959 I personally am a little bit more towards the Google 0:30:16.160 --> 0:30:19.160 Home kind of things. Yeah, and I think that I 0:30:19.160 --> 0:30:22.840 think for music, you're gonna be fine with a home Pod, 0:30:23.520 --> 0:30:26.680 which is the most expensive way to go, or an 0:30:26.720 --> 0:30:29.800 Echo which is she's talking about from Amazon, or a 0:30:30.120 --> 0:30:34.600 Google Home Mini. So those are your three options I 0:30:34.760 --> 0:30:37.360 personally like, I mean, if you want the best, I 0:30:37.360 --> 0:30:40.200 would go with the series with the home pod because 0:30:40.200 --> 0:30:42.920 that the sound on that thing is amazing. If you're 0:30:43.040 --> 0:30:46.280 just doing Apple music with that it's pretty awesome and 0:30:46.320 --> 0:30:49.000 it sounds great, and she gets all the queries perfectly. 0:30:49.320 --> 0:30:52.080 So if the dad is asking to play music from 0:30:52.200 --> 0:30:56.920 you know, the twenties or whatever, hey play the play 0:30:56.920 --> 0:30:59.440 the latest song from nineteen twenty one, Sason. 0:30:59.200 --> 0:31:01.960 As nineties used born in the thirties. 0:31:02.120 --> 0:31:04.240 Oh so he's not playing twenties music. Okay, So he's. 0:31:04.080 --> 0:31:05.240 Playing like way, I don't even know. 0:31:05.360 --> 0:31:07.840 So okay, hold on if if it's twenty nineteen and 0:31:07.880 --> 0:31:10.080 he's ninety years old, yeah, born in nineteen twenty nine, 0:31:10.400 --> 0:31:12.560 So if he was a teenager, he'd probably be playing 0:31:12.600 --> 0:31:16.840 songs from nineteen forties, nineteen forties to nineteen fifties, which 0:31:16.880 --> 0:31:19.280 is perfect. Wow, so you can ask, you know, uh, 0:31:19.360 --> 0:31:21.680 Siria be like, hey, play that do wop song? You 0:31:21.680 --> 0:31:22.560 know is that a song? 0:31:23.320 --> 0:31:25.560 I'm sorry, I just can't get that mental image out 0:31:25.600 --> 0:31:27.560 of it. 0:31:26.880 --> 0:31:30.320 Like so I new, yeah something like that. 0:31:30.480 --> 0:31:31.760 Yeah, I love that. 0:31:32.000 --> 0:31:33.880 So I would say that's too. She doesn't want to 0:31:33.880 --> 0:31:36.040 do that because that's way too expensive. But I would 0:31:36.080 --> 0:31:38.160 say I would go with the Google one. But then 0:31:38.360 --> 0:31:41.120 because Google also well, like I say, both work with Spotify. 0:31:41.440 --> 0:31:43.640 The only benefit to the Amazon one is that the 0:31:43.720 --> 0:31:46.240 music subscription might be a little bit cheaper if she 0:31:46.360 --> 0:31:48.120 has like Amazon Prime and she can hook it up 0:31:48.120 --> 0:31:49.720 that way. I think it's like seven ninety nine versus 0:31:49.800 --> 0:31:50.480 nine ninety nine. 0:31:50.560 --> 0:31:54.080 And you can play radio on Alexa. 0:31:55.160 --> 0:31:58.000 Yes, but here's the thing again, I think that's easier 0:31:58.160 --> 0:32:01.000 on the Google because you can ask it to play 0:32:01.040 --> 0:32:03.080 any radio station. It pretty much plays it, whereas I 0:32:03.080 --> 0:32:04.760 think with Alexa it's a little trickier because you have 0:32:04.840 --> 0:32:07.640 to enable the skill. Maybe not, maybe I could be wrong. 0:32:07.640 --> 0:32:09.200 I actually set up in Alexa in my house to 0:32:09.280 --> 0:32:12.440 kind of like refamiliarize myself because I'm not that familiar 0:32:12.480 --> 0:32:14.160 because I just kind of write it off because I 0:32:14.160 --> 0:32:16.640 feel like the Google Home is so much smarter. Yeah, 0:32:16.680 --> 0:32:19.200 I had Alexa and I basically and I know a 0:32:19.240 --> 0:32:20.600 lot of people have it, so I'm probably all these 0:32:20.640 --> 0:32:24.080 people are like, oh, Rich, Yeah, but I just found 0:32:24.120 --> 0:32:25.800 that like when I asked it to change things like 0:32:25.840 --> 0:32:28.080 the lights and stuff, it's just like it would always 0:32:28.080 --> 0:32:29.640 give me an error message. I'd be like, sorry, I 0:32:29.640 --> 0:32:31.520 don't know what's like you're talking about. And like with Google, 0:32:31.520 --> 0:32:33.640 I can literally just be like, hey, tron on lights 0:32:33.720 --> 0:32:35.320 and it will know that I'm in the kitchen. And 0:32:35.360 --> 0:32:37.120 will turn on my kitchen lights. Oh wow, he just 0:32:37.200 --> 0:32:40.000 kind of understands that stuff. Yeah, it's smarter anyway, So 0:32:40.080 --> 0:32:41.760 I think that that's the way to go go with 0:32:41.800 --> 0:32:45.400 one of those. But wait until October fifteenth, because that's 0:32:45.440 --> 0:32:48.320 when Google is announcing all of its new stuff. So 0:32:48.560 --> 0:32:53.200 just wait until then to purchase anything. Is it my turn? 0:32:53.760 --> 0:32:54.520 Uh yeah? 0:32:54.320 --> 0:32:57.280 Oh okay, gosh, so many things to about. 0:32:57.840 --> 0:32:59.640 Do we already talk about iOS thirteen. 0:33:00.640 --> 0:33:02.520 No, that's a good one to talk about, because. 0:33:02.320 --> 0:33:04.120 I want to know right now. That was going to 0:33:04.160 --> 0:33:07.640 be my question today, if you know, should I download 0:33:07.680 --> 0:33:08.600 it or should I wait? 0:33:10.000 --> 0:33:12.760 I say, Well, here's the thing. There's a couple couple 0:33:12.800 --> 0:33:15.560 of things. Some people are saying that it's buggy. I've 0:33:15.600 --> 0:33:20.280 been playing with the beta of iOS thirteen for since June, 0:33:20.360 --> 0:33:23.120 and I found it to be quite good. Now, it 0:33:23.160 --> 0:33:24.800 was not on my primary phone. I was using a 0:33:24.840 --> 0:33:26.760 test device to kind of like not keep it on 0:33:26.840 --> 0:33:29.880 my main phone. But I wrote the whole book with 0:33:29.920 --> 0:33:32.280 it and it was fine. Every every feature that I 0:33:32.280 --> 0:33:35.360 wanted to try out worked except for one that I 0:33:35.400 --> 0:33:37.520 can't wait to try out today because it wasn't live 0:33:37.640 --> 0:33:40.160 in the beta that I was doing. But apparently. I'm 0:33:40.160 --> 0:33:41.840 not sure if this is totally true. I gotta I 0:33:41.920 --> 0:33:44.920 gotta figure this out. But apparently there's something to do 0:33:45.000 --> 0:33:48.040 with fonts on the new one, and I I don't 0:33:48.080 --> 0:33:50.120 know if you can change fonts on the whole phone, 0:33:50.200 --> 0:33:53.000 because I feel like that's very Samsung slash Google or 0:33:53.480 --> 0:33:56.560 androidy And I can't imagine Apple letting you, like change 0:33:56.560 --> 0:33:59.080 your font to like that comic sands on your whole phone. 0:33:59.160 --> 0:34:01.800 Right, that is totally going to be here, But that 0:34:01.880 --> 0:34:02.160 was the. 0:34:02.080 --> 0:34:03.720 Only thing I was not able to test out. But 0:34:03.760 --> 0:34:05.640 otherwise I'll just tell you. I'm just going through my 0:34:05.640 --> 0:34:07.840 book right now, so I have it right here. One 0:34:07.880 --> 0:34:10.640 hundred Well plug it. It's one hundred and one iPhone 0:34:10.760 --> 0:34:15.319 Tips and Tricks. That's the new title along with the 0:34:15.360 --> 0:34:19.040 subtitle is Unlock the useful, time saving and fun Features 0:34:19.040 --> 0:34:20.920 in iOS thirteen. So I'm just going to tell you 0:34:21.000 --> 0:34:23.640 all the things that that's in this book. Dark Mode, 0:34:24.400 --> 0:34:27.920 new privacy filters for a location, you can create a 0:34:28.000 --> 0:34:30.279 name and profile photo. You can swipe to type, you 0:34:30.320 --> 0:34:32.640 can access the emoji keyboard faster. You can pick up 0:34:32.640 --> 0:34:34.480 the cursor to move it. You can rearrange your apps. 0:34:34.520 --> 0:34:36.720 You can see app shortcuts in a new way, stop 0:34:36.800 --> 0:34:40.000 robo calls, choose your Wi Fi and Bluetooth connections fast. 0:34:40.200 --> 0:34:42.520 There's a new on screen volume control. You can make 0:34:42.560 --> 0:34:44.520 an emoji that looks just like you, even if you 0:34:44.520 --> 0:34:47.720 don't have a phone that has the face thing. Generate 0:34:47.760 --> 0:34:50.840 personal stickers, organize your contacts in a new way. Download 0:34:50.920 --> 0:34:53.160 large apps on a cellular connection, which is something you 0:34:53.200 --> 0:34:55.719 can do in the past. You can ask Siri to 0:34:55.760 --> 0:34:58.080 tune into any radio station. You can look around a mapps, 0:34:58.080 --> 0:34:59.960 you can share eta, you can close out old tab 0:35:00.080 --> 0:35:02.000 since Safari. By the way, that's just like up to 0:35:02.120 --> 0:35:05.640 number nineteen. There are one hundred and one of those tips. 0:35:06.120 --> 0:35:09.560 So not all of them are iOS thirteen specifics. Some 0:35:09.640 --> 0:35:12.040 are more just about the iPhone. But a lot of 0:35:12.200 --> 0:35:14.600 things have changed, like slightly in iOS thirteen. And I 0:35:14.640 --> 0:35:16.600 will tell you I think this is one of the 0:35:16.600 --> 0:35:21.120 best versions of iOS ever. Really, it looks cool, it's clean. 0:35:21.760 --> 0:35:23.359 I think people are going to be a little bit 0:35:23.400 --> 0:35:25.839 sad that so many things have changed. The looks like 0:35:25.880 --> 0:35:27.960 the share menu when you go to share something for 0:35:28.000 --> 0:35:31.560 the first time, totally different. Oh, it's like boom, like 0:35:31.719 --> 0:35:34.439 in your face, just like menu. It's like now they're 0:35:34.719 --> 0:35:37.319 instead of like the little icons at icons, they change 0:35:37.320 --> 0:35:40.879 it to a menu that's long. Everything's like its own 0:35:40.920 --> 0:35:45.880 line which icons. Yeah, and it's also customized using like 0:35:45.920 --> 0:35:48.439 AI for like what it thinks you want to do? Oh, 0:35:49.920 --> 0:35:54.279 it's it's just different anyway. So I'm downloading it as 0:35:54.320 --> 0:35:57.440 we speak, finishing the books. I'm gonna do screenshots and 0:35:57.480 --> 0:36:01.439 then publish this thing phone. Yeah, on my main phone. Now. 0:36:01.520 --> 0:36:03.239 I also what I like to do, and I know 0:36:03.320 --> 0:36:05.640 nobody else likes to do this, but I do. When 0:36:05.640 --> 0:36:08.600 a new operating system comes out, I like to fresh 0:36:08.800 --> 0:36:11.720 start install it, which means I like to delete everything 0:36:11.760 --> 0:36:14.880 off my phone and start over. As not a popular opinion, 0:36:14.920 --> 0:36:16.920 I don't recommend you do that, I personally like to 0:36:16.960 --> 0:36:19.719 do that as an old nerd that kind of likes 0:36:19.719 --> 0:36:22.719 the idea of a fresh start. But you lose all 0:36:22.760 --> 0:36:23.960 your setting year. 0:36:24.120 --> 0:36:26.320 It's a yeah, exact new tech year. 0:36:26.280 --> 0:36:27.800 And it kind of makes your phone, you know whatever, 0:36:27.800 --> 0:36:29.480 it was kind of like lingering on your phone, all 0:36:29.480 --> 0:36:31.440 these little problems that you had. Something I kind of 0:36:31.480 --> 0:36:32.520 want to do that, you know what I'm saying, Like, 0:36:32.560 --> 0:36:34.640 you know, how you download something, you delete it, you 0:36:34.719 --> 0:36:36.279 get rid of something, You change the setting and you 0:36:36.360 --> 0:36:38.239 just kind of forget about it. This kind of puts 0:36:38.280 --> 0:36:40.200 everything back to like fresh start. 0:36:40.360 --> 0:36:42.560 So is it just like the main like ten apps 0:36:42.760 --> 0:36:44.479 and then you have to download everything else. 0:36:44.880 --> 0:36:47.120 I actually did that the other day. But what about 0:36:47.120 --> 0:36:50.560 your texts that that's an eCloud? Those can come back 0:36:50.800 --> 0:36:54.080 if you want, you can re you can do just 0:36:54.200 --> 0:36:56.240 like your text I believe. I don't see why you couldn't. 0:36:56.680 --> 0:36:58.400 But have you ever wanted a fresh start? Megan? 0:36:58.840 --> 0:37:06.080 Yeah? Always? Oh what is that I wanted to do? 0:37:06.120 --> 0:37:07.520 That? Are the touchdowns? 0:37:07.560 --> 0:37:10.640 Open the ferry fresh screw me? 0:37:10.680 --> 0:37:11.320 A fresh start? 0:37:11.880 --> 0:37:12.480 Fresh start? 0:37:12.600 --> 0:37:14.680 That's it. It's a new you know, It's just you 0:37:14.760 --> 0:37:16.719 just want a new year sometimes. And that was like 0:37:16.719 --> 0:37:19.640 Parker yesterday he had my son had a rough day 0:37:20.000 --> 0:37:22.040 and he's just like he's just like I just you know, 0:37:22.080 --> 0:37:23.600 I just uh, I forget what he said, like I 0:37:23.640 --> 0:37:25.080 want this day to be over something or I just 0:37:25.120 --> 0:37:26.440 had a bad day. I'm like, you know, sometimes you 0:37:26.520 --> 0:37:28.360 just need a fresh start. Like sometimes you have a 0:37:28.400 --> 0:37:29.759 bad day, you just want to go to sleep and 0:37:29.800 --> 0:37:31.120 like wake up and have the next day. 0:37:31.160 --> 0:37:32.560 Do you want to go to about at like two pm? 0:37:32.600 --> 0:37:34.560 Because you're like today was so bad. I might as well. 0:37:35.200 --> 0:37:37.280 I haven't, but I've gone as early as like six pm. 0:37:37.719 --> 0:37:38.919 Oh me too. I didn't. 0:37:39.880 --> 0:37:41.680 Screw it. I'm going to sleep. I'm done. 0:37:41.800 --> 0:37:43.680 I'm going on this day over. 0:37:46.520 --> 0:37:51.040 Yeah. So okay, So iOS thirteen, did I answer your question? 0:37:51.760 --> 0:37:53.520 Yeah, I mean, I guess I can download it. 0:37:53.560 --> 0:37:55.680 But some people are saying it's kind of buggy, and 0:37:55.719 --> 0:37:57.920 there is this wait, this is the other weird thing 0:37:58.160 --> 0:38:00.359 they're coming out with an iOS thirteen point one. They've 0:38:00.360 --> 0:38:02.080 already pre said that they're coming out with that, I 0:38:02.080 --> 0:38:04.879 think on September thirtieth. So if you want to wait 0:38:04.920 --> 0:38:08.359 the eleven days to just or whenever you're listening to this, 0:38:08.480 --> 0:38:10.960 But if you want to wait until then to get 0:38:11.040 --> 0:38:14.040 the first kind of like Creed do yeah, like the 0:38:14.120 --> 0:38:18.320 redole errors. Okay, but you know me, I'm doing it now. Anyway, 0:38:18.320 --> 0:38:20.680 if you want to find the book, I believe you 0:38:20.680 --> 0:38:23.200 can search for one hundred and one iPhone Tips and 0:38:23.239 --> 0:38:26.520 Tricks on Amazon and pre order it as a Kindle. 0:38:26.760 --> 0:38:28.960 You can't pre order the paperback just yet, because I'm 0:38:28.960 --> 0:38:31.680 not done there yet. Yeah, but save some trees in 0:38:31.760 --> 0:38:36.320 order the kindle version, we'll do. Okay, I got the 0:38:36.360 --> 0:38:36.759 right one. 0:38:36.840 --> 0:38:39.640 There we go. Okay, So this next question comes from 0:38:39.760 --> 0:38:45.560 Lisa on Facebook. She wrote question for friends, what's a 0:38:45.680 --> 0:38:48.719 good tracking app for families, especially with kids. I have 0:38:48.800 --> 0:38:54.399 friends that with kids that have iPhones, but parents have androids, 0:38:54.480 --> 0:38:58.080 so the find my friends or find iPhone app doesn't 0:38:58.080 --> 0:38:59.720 work for them. Thanks. 0:39:01.400 --> 0:39:03.800 The one I always recommend is is Life three sixty. 0:39:04.200 --> 0:39:08.359 They're the ones that kind of do what you need 0:39:08.800 --> 0:39:11.120 and it's kind of like, you know, if you have iPhones, 0:39:11.160 --> 0:39:13.359 everyone uses that find my app, which is also new 0:39:13.360 --> 0:39:16.479 in iOS thirteen. They consolidated Find my iPhone and Find 0:39:16.480 --> 0:39:20.960 my Friends into one app. So you know. So anyway, 0:39:21.000 --> 0:39:23.600 the Life three sixty works cross platforms. You installed on 0:39:23.640 --> 0:39:26.520 both devices Android iOS, you set it all up. It's 0:39:26.520 --> 0:39:29.279 free for its basic but like any free app, after 0:39:29.400 --> 0:39:31.520 using it for a week, you're just super frustrated with 0:39:31.560 --> 0:39:32.880 all the things that you don't get and you just 0:39:32.960 --> 0:39:35.960 end up subscribing. Is that ever happening? That happens with 0:39:36.080 --> 0:39:37.920 every app with me? I just start out, I'm like, 0:39:38.080 --> 0:39:41.000 I am not subscribing to this app, and after like 0:39:41.040 --> 0:39:43.279 a week, it's like like I've been using ever. Note again, 0:39:43.680 --> 0:39:45.040 I'm just like I am not like the last time 0:39:45.080 --> 0:39:47.239 I canceled ever, note is because my renewal came up 0:39:47.239 --> 0:39:48.960 and it was like seventy bucks for the whole year 0:39:49.320 --> 0:39:51.319 just to take notes, which by the way, Apple has 0:39:51.360 --> 0:39:53.640 like notes built in h which also got a major 0:39:53.719 --> 0:39:57.600 upgrade on iOS. It's really good now. It searches like 0:39:57.719 --> 0:40:00.560 inside text, inside photos and stuff inside your scans. It's 0:40:00.600 --> 0:40:03.080 pretty good. Maybe not inside the photos, but inside scans 0:40:03.080 --> 0:40:04.880 that you do. Actually I think it is in photos, 0:40:05.200 --> 0:40:06.960 but it's it's pretty good. Yeah, I should know. I 0:40:06.960 --> 0:40:10.040 wrote the book. I got to test that one more. 0:40:10.360 --> 0:40:13.600 But Life three sixty does this. And the other thing 0:40:13.600 --> 0:40:15.279 about Life three sixty you have to know is that 0:40:15.320 --> 0:40:19.000 you know you're giving some you're giving some of your 0:40:19.000 --> 0:40:21.440 privacy up because this is an app that is free, 0:40:21.480 --> 0:40:23.960 that is tracking you at all times, and so they 0:40:24.000 --> 0:40:26.200 are collecting some data about you. You have to understand 0:40:26.200 --> 0:40:28.480 that they're making they have a business. My friend has 0:40:28.480 --> 0:40:32.080 a theory that they are. My friend has a theory 0:40:32.120 --> 0:40:34.560 that basically, if you're driving your car with this app 0:40:34.600 --> 0:40:37.120 around and it's like, you know, you're going eighty miles 0:40:37.160 --> 0:40:39.719 an hour or whatever, they're logging all that. Like, Okay, 0:40:39.840 --> 0:40:41.840 let's say you get to an accident, your insurance company 0:40:41.880 --> 0:40:44.200 is like, oh, we want a subpoena all the records 0:40:44.239 --> 0:40:46.880 from your life three sixty account, which I don't know 0:40:46.880 --> 0:40:48.719 if that's happened before, but that think about that. 0:40:48.960 --> 0:40:49.680 Oh my gosh. 0:40:49.760 --> 0:40:51.279 Yeah, there's a lot of apps on your phone that 0:40:51.320 --> 0:40:53.680 are sort of like looking at your GPS and that 0:40:53.760 --> 0:40:56.800 kind of stuff. So will that be something that insurance 0:40:56.800 --> 0:40:58.759 companies will want to just take a little looky loo at. 0:40:58.880 --> 0:41:01.759 Well, it's like the camera for your surveillance camera for 0:41:01.840 --> 0:41:02.239 your car. 0:41:02.440 --> 0:41:04.680 Yeah, yes, to see like, oh. 0:41:04.520 --> 0:41:08.279 We want a subpoena. Fun word. You know, were you 0:41:08.320 --> 0:41:11.280 on your phone when you got into that thunder bender? 0:41:11.680 --> 0:41:13.600 Right? You get one of those little cameras that points 0:41:13.600 --> 0:41:15.839 both ways you know and in and you're like, oh 0:41:15.880 --> 0:41:17.879 can I cover up that in? Like you? And next 0:41:17.920 --> 0:41:18.719 thing you know, you're like, you. 0:41:18.760 --> 0:41:21.359 Like take the camera after you hit someone's car because 0:41:21.400 --> 0:41:22.520 you don't want anything, right, and. 0:41:22.480 --> 0:41:24.799 You're like burning the SD card because you don't want 0:41:24.840 --> 0:41:26.279 I mean, it's like a whole big think about it. 0:41:26.520 --> 0:41:29.200 No, I mean a total like going to happen. 0:41:29.320 --> 0:41:31.480 Oh of course it is. And with the new cars 0:41:31.480 --> 0:41:33.520 they're going to have all this built in. Who owns that. 0:41:33.840 --> 0:41:36.319 So let's say like you have a Chevy and you know, 0:41:36.400 --> 0:41:37.920 next thing, you know, you get to an accident and 0:41:37.960 --> 0:41:39.960 it's got all these cameras that are recording the whole time. 0:41:40.120 --> 0:41:42.759 There's a black box DVR in your car. Can they 0:41:42.760 --> 0:41:44.760 subpoena Chevy and be like, hey, we want that video 0:41:45.080 --> 0:41:46.600 and they're like, well, we don't know what happened to it. 0:41:47.400 --> 0:41:49.240 Rich deleted it right after that accident. 0:41:49.400 --> 0:41:50.880 Rich burned it in a fire. 0:41:51.400 --> 0:41:53.480 Rich's car is currently at the bottom of a river. 0:41:54.880 --> 0:41:59.600 According to this GPS Oh my gosh, wild we joke, 0:42:00.680 --> 0:42:04.319 but it is a seri serious scary future. Yeah, it's 0:42:04.360 --> 0:42:06.080 definitely gonna happen real quick. 0:42:06.080 --> 0:42:08.719 I'm just gonna talk about the Nintendo Switch Light. This 0:42:08.800 --> 0:42:11.080 is the new version of the Nintendo Switch that's a 0:42:11.120 --> 0:42:13.759 little bit cheaper, a little less expensive. Reviews are out 0:42:13.800 --> 0:42:16.440 for it. It's one hundred and ninety nine dollars for 0:42:16.480 --> 0:42:19.719 the switch light. It hits store shelves on September twentieth. 0:42:20.280 --> 0:42:22.319 And I've not played with this, but my kid loves 0:42:22.320 --> 0:42:24.360 the switch and the switch light is kind of like 0:42:24.400 --> 0:42:27.959 a smaller version of it. It has better battery life, 0:42:27.960 --> 0:42:30.319 it does not connect your TV. This time because the 0:42:30.320 --> 0:42:32.480 old switch connects your TV or I should say the 0:42:32.480 --> 0:42:35.680 standard switch, and it has no kickstand, so that can 0:42:35.719 --> 0:42:39.840 present some complications because the controllers also don't disconnect from it. 0:42:40.080 --> 0:42:43.960 So you know, it's basically a modern game Boy that 0:42:44.200 --> 0:42:47.239 you know or whatever, Nintendo three DS or DS, whatever 0:42:47.239 --> 0:42:48.480 you want to call it, but it's kind of a 0:42:48.560 --> 0:42:53.080 mobile first gaming platform, whereas the switch bridge the gap 0:42:53.080 --> 0:42:56.520 between the TV and mobile. So I think the switch, 0:42:56.560 --> 0:42:58.839 I think for my son personally, like it's funny because 0:42:58.880 --> 0:43:02.680 he was playing the switch exclusively by like disconnecting it 0:43:02.719 --> 0:43:04.719 from the TV and I kind of rehooked it up 0:43:04.719 --> 0:43:06.680 to the TV, and I'm like, Parker, you and Tanner 0:43:06.760 --> 0:43:09.319 can play on the TV together. So now for the 0:43:09.360 --> 0:43:11.839 last three nights they've been playing Mario Kart on TV 0:43:11.920 --> 0:43:14.600 together and it's kind of cute to watch like the brothers, 0:43:14.640 --> 0:43:17.080 you know, play games. And that frees up Dad to 0:43:17.200 --> 0:43:18.399 basically do my own thing. 0:43:18.520 --> 0:43:21.600 Yes that you can not watch TV but write your 0:43:21.640 --> 0:43:22.080 next book. 0:43:22.200 --> 0:43:23.640 Yeah, I can do something else. I actually I am 0:43:23.680 --> 0:43:27.400 writing another books. Yeah, it's I started the other day. 0:43:27.400 --> 0:43:30.560 It's one hundred and one Essential apps and it's basically 0:43:30.600 --> 0:43:31.480 like all the apps. 0:43:31.280 --> 0:43:34.160 Are very serious. Why didn't you tell me this earlier? 0:43:34.200 --> 0:43:38.239 This is just started writing news to everyone, but I 0:43:38.360 --> 0:43:41.960 just started writing it and uh, it's it's it's really cool. 0:43:42.000 --> 0:43:44.200 I've got one hundred and six apps right now, so 0:43:44.239 --> 0:43:46.960 I need to narrow that down to add but it's cool. 0:43:46.960 --> 0:43:48.400 It's like all the apps I just think you should 0:43:48.400 --> 0:43:50.759 know about, you know, like just stuff like that. 0:43:50.760 --> 0:43:51.720 And it's going to be a book. 0:43:52.000 --> 0:43:54.239 It's going to be. Uh. My goal is to make 0:43:54.280 --> 0:43:58.279 this a very inexpensive ebook, like I'm talking probably less 0:43:58.280 --> 0:43:58.680 than adult. 0:43:58.760 --> 0:44:00.440 What if people want the paperback. 0:44:00.000 --> 0:44:02.200 There is no paperback in this. There will be no paperback. 0:44:02.760 --> 0:44:05.400 If you're printing out a book about apps. I'm sorry, 0:44:05.400 --> 0:44:07.160 but that's just. 0:44:07.160 --> 0:44:09.200 Not you know that there's people. 0:44:08.920 --> 0:44:10.520 Out there's people out there that want to do that, 0:44:10.560 --> 0:44:12.160 and you know, maybe I will do it. You know what, 0:44:12.560 --> 0:44:15.400 never say never, yes, Megan. One thing you've learned in 0:44:15.440 --> 0:44:16.520 life never. 0:44:16.440 --> 0:44:19.240 Ever say ever. And everything happens for a reason. 0:44:19.360 --> 0:44:22.719 Everything happens for a reason. Yes, all right, let's end 0:44:22.760 --> 0:44:24.680 the show with a new thing I call best Thing 0:44:24.719 --> 0:44:27.160 of the Week. Yes, do you have a best thing 0:44:27.200 --> 0:44:27.880 in the week? Megan? 0:44:28.840 --> 0:44:31.480 Yeah, I mean I think it's kind of funny. But 0:44:31.800 --> 0:44:35.480 normally every year for Halloween, I know it's September, but 0:44:35.600 --> 0:44:38.279 like I always wait till like the day before or 0:44:38.320 --> 0:44:40.400 the day after Halloween to actually be like, oh, I 0:44:40.400 --> 0:44:45.239 should have you know, been whatever a catween. So my 0:44:45.280 --> 0:44:47.680 friend and I have already started discussing what we want 0:44:47.680 --> 0:44:48.440 to be for Halloween. 0:44:48.520 --> 0:44:49.520 Okay, I like that. 0:44:49.520 --> 0:44:50.960 That's a good One's kind of silly. 0:44:51.120 --> 0:44:53.960 I my best part of the week or best thing 0:44:54.000 --> 0:44:55.879 of the week. I don't even know what the segment's called, 0:44:55.880 --> 0:44:58.040 but I made it up. The best thing of the 0:44:58.040 --> 0:45:02.960 week is, I'm gonna say, is all the pumpkin stuff. 0:45:02.960 --> 0:45:07.520 I've been enjoying what I bought pumpkin like currig Ca cups, 0:45:07.520 --> 0:45:09.759 which it's like to me, it's like the little things 0:45:09.800 --> 0:45:11.640 in life that I don't know why I've been so 0:45:11.680 --> 0:45:14.360 obsessed with Target lately, but it is. It's kind of 0:45:14.360 --> 0:45:14.800 a problem. 0:45:14.840 --> 0:45:16.160 Are you sponsored by them or something? 0:45:16.160 --> 0:45:17.680 I'm not. But here's the thing. I do all my 0:45:17.680 --> 0:45:20.520 shopping on Amazon and I don't go into stores. But 0:45:20.840 --> 0:45:23.440 for some reason, it's like really interesting to me that 0:45:23.480 --> 0:45:26.279 you can buy all this stuff in a Target like this. 0:45:26.560 --> 0:45:29.880 All these things I think are like so cool on Amazon. 0:45:29.920 --> 0:45:32.600 I'm like, oh my gosh, I can get this on Amazon, 0:45:32.680 --> 0:45:36.320 and it's like like any little thing like toothpaste, and 0:45:36.320 --> 0:45:38.040 I like order on Amazon because I think I'm like 0:45:38.080 --> 0:45:40.360 being smart. I'm like I can go into Target and 0:45:40.400 --> 0:45:43.000 choose from like five hundred different toothpastes in one. 0:45:42.880 --> 0:45:44.759 Eyele the drug store has. 0:45:44.920 --> 0:45:46.439 See that's the thing. I don't go to the drug 0:45:46.440 --> 0:45:50.040 store to buy anything because it way too expensive. The 0:45:50.040 --> 0:45:54.600 three letter word one three. Yeah, I don't. That's like 0:45:54.680 --> 0:45:57.200 whenever I tell it. Whenever that is like I love 0:45:57.239 --> 0:46:00.560 that place, but it is so expensive and it's like 0:46:00.600 --> 0:46:02.600 I just have to not buy anything there because it's 0:46:02.600 --> 0:46:04.839 triple the price of anywhere else. It's true, and it's 0:46:04.880 --> 0:46:06.400 convenient because there's one in every corner. 0:46:06.480 --> 0:46:09.960 But Target's expensive too. I mean for like drug store makeup, 0:46:10.080 --> 0:46:11.400 Like whenever. 0:46:11.080 --> 0:46:12.360 I go, I'm not buying a lot of that. So 0:46:12.360 --> 0:46:16.279 I don't know. Yeah, sure, you think it's expensive for 0:46:16.360 --> 0:46:17.320 drug store makeup. 0:46:17.480 --> 0:46:19.520 Yeah, Target it's like more expensive. 0:46:19.640 --> 0:46:22.040 Some things are oddly expensive, yeah, there, But. 0:46:22.000 --> 0:46:24.560 I do really like Target, Like it's definitely a happy place. 0:46:24.680 --> 0:46:25.319 It's kind of cool. 0:46:25.360 --> 0:46:27.160 It's like the Disneyland of and you just go. 0:46:27.160 --> 0:46:29.080 Out of there and like you get so you get 0:46:29.120 --> 0:46:31.440 everything you need in one place like Costco. You go 0:46:31.480 --> 0:46:32.880 in there and you probably don't go to cost git 0:46:32.880 --> 0:46:35.000 you don't have kids, but no, I've you been in costover. 0:46:35.400 --> 0:46:37.759 You're familiar with the concept. Yeah, yeah, but it's one 0:46:37.800 --> 0:46:39.400 of those places where you go in there and it 0:46:39.560 --> 0:46:44.239 leaves you always leave satisfied but also desiring something that 0:46:44.280 --> 0:46:46.359 you did not get because you either had to buy 0:46:46.400 --> 0:46:48.759 it in bulk, yeah, or it they didn't have it, 0:46:49.080 --> 0:46:52.000 and now you're left with, oh, I gotta go somewhere else. 0:46:52.080 --> 0:46:56.240 I got a really cool, like fuzzy carpet from Costco 0:46:56.320 --> 0:46:58.760 for like seventy dollars and it was like a huge carpet. 0:46:58.840 --> 0:47:00.840 Yeah yeah, I was like, what. 0:47:01.000 --> 0:47:02.400 So rang to fit it in the car? 0:47:04.600 --> 0:47:05.680 What do you mean? How did I finish? 0:47:05.800 --> 0:47:07.399 Did you a giant carpet in the car? 0:47:07.760 --> 0:47:11.080 Uh? You know what? It was like? Definitely tight in 0:47:11.120 --> 0:47:13.840 the car. We had to like fold it or something. Yeah, 0:47:14.120 --> 0:47:15.399 it's been like four years since. 0:47:15.480 --> 0:47:18.040 Okay, you're telling a four year old story on a 0:47:18.080 --> 0:47:19.240 show in twenty nineteen. 0:47:19.840 --> 0:47:22.120 You definitely tell like ten year old stories. 0:47:22.200 --> 0:47:23.600 I do know all the time. 0:47:23.760 --> 0:47:26.240 Oh yeah, sorry, everybody. 0:47:25.840 --> 0:47:28.359 I'd probably tell them over and over. Yeah, all right, 0:47:28.719 --> 0:47:29.960 let me tell you how to get in touch with 0:47:29.960 --> 0:47:34.960 the show. Rate and review us please. We're on Apple Podcasts. 0:47:35.000 --> 0:47:36.360 You can search for us in there. If this is 0:47:36.400 --> 0:47:39.640 the first time you're listening to us, subscribe, Please also 0:47:40.000 --> 0:47:43.120 rate and review because I feel like that helps. Why 0:47:43.160 --> 0:47:45.040 not if you see a show that has a bunch 0:47:45.040 --> 0:47:47.600 of ratings and reviews. And by the way, we're holding 0:47:47.600 --> 0:47:51.799 steady at five stars, so please keep that going. That's good. 0:47:51.880 --> 0:47:57.960 Oh I thought that's not the right one now, and 0:47:58.040 --> 0:47:59.959 I just was like she was reaching to the board. 0:48:00.480 --> 0:48:02.759 No here, story of my life, sad. 0:48:03.080 --> 0:48:05.560 I think that I think this show will bring it 0:48:05.600 --> 0:48:10.440 down to four stars. So let's see. You got the 0:48:10.480 --> 0:48:12.160 rate and review. If you want to get in touch 0:48:12.239 --> 0:48:15.120 with us, you can just go to my website rich 0:48:15.160 --> 0:48:18.880 on tech dot tv hit the big contact button. And 0:48:19.239 --> 0:48:20.800 I know people don't like to put stuff in a 0:48:20.840 --> 0:48:23.360 contact form, but I will tell you it actually is 0:48:23.400 --> 0:48:25.080 the best way you can do it, because that puts 0:48:25.080 --> 0:48:27.440 it in a filter on my Gmail and I can 0:48:27.520 --> 0:48:30.240 actually see I can filter and see all my viewer 0:48:30.239 --> 0:48:33.520 emails or listener emails, and that actually is a good 0:48:33.560 --> 0:48:35.560 thing because then I don't forget to respond to them, 0:48:35.600 --> 0:48:37.839 whereas other emails sometimes they get a little bit, you know, 0:48:38.239 --> 0:48:40.560 they can get sidetracked. What else do I want to 0:48:40.560 --> 0:48:43.960 tell you? I am at rich on tech on Instagram, 0:48:44.000 --> 0:48:47.920 which Megan is very proud of growing my Instagram following. 0:48:47.960 --> 0:48:50.560 This is like your personal project. I will tell you. 0:48:50.600 --> 0:48:53.840 I'd look, if you've listened this far into the show, 0:48:53.960 --> 0:48:55.160 you're not just a rando. 0:48:55.200 --> 0:48:57.560 Right, yeah, You're a super rich on techie. 0:48:57.719 --> 0:49:00.399 You're a techy. You're rich on techy. So I'm gonna 0:49:00.600 --> 0:49:02.479 this is when I really reveal the stuff that we don't. 0:49:02.520 --> 0:49:04.400 But I will be honest with you. When I started 0:49:04.719 --> 0:49:07.680 with Meghan, I had what how many followers on Instagram? 0:49:07.719 --> 0:49:09.200 I had like thirty one thousand? 0:49:09.239 --> 0:49:10.239 Okay, and how much am I up to? 0:49:10.360 --> 0:49:12.200 Now? You're at seventy one thousand? 0:49:12.320 --> 0:49:12.600 Yeah? 0:49:12.600 --> 0:49:16.319 And I started what like in November last year? Yeah, 0:49:16.400 --> 0:49:17.399 so almost been a year. 0:49:17.600 --> 0:49:20.200 And I will tell you Meghan doubled. Yeah, I've doubled. 0:49:20.239 --> 0:49:21.440 And Megan is Megan. 0:49:21.280 --> 0:49:23.000 Isld not me? You know it's all. 0:49:23.719 --> 0:49:26.160 But you gave me the push and you told me 0:49:26.880 --> 0:49:29.320 that people care about Instagram and I was like, no, 0:49:29.400 --> 0:49:31.680 they don't. Who cares about Instagram? You said no, people 0:49:31.800 --> 0:49:35.080 get news and information from Instagram, and sure enough, when 0:49:35.120 --> 0:49:38.600 I kind of took that paradigm shift, I started thinking like, 0:49:38.640 --> 0:49:40.640 oh my gosh, there are people that are just flipping 0:49:40.680 --> 0:49:43.160 through Instagram and they're seeing stuff, and I'm affecting them 0:49:43.160 --> 0:49:45.600 in a way that like, oh, I learned something rather 0:49:45.680 --> 0:49:47.560 than what I used to. If you look, before Megan started, 0:49:47.600 --> 0:49:50.920 I only posted pictures of like me, my family, Yeah, 0:49:50.960 --> 0:49:52.839 you know that kind of stuff like travel, and it 0:49:52.880 --> 0:49:55.440 wasn't It was cool, but it was not useful. And 0:49:55.480 --> 0:49:57.480 now I do a mix. Yeah, and who are we 0:49:57.480 --> 0:49:59.080 trying to be? Who's your friend that we're always trying 0:49:59.080 --> 0:50:01.040 to Oh? 0:50:01.080 --> 0:50:04.640 Oh we are saying names. 0:50:05.120 --> 0:50:07.640 But Megan is very competitive. 0:50:07.640 --> 0:50:10.719 We're both competitive. I think it's good to be competitive. 0:50:10.800 --> 0:50:13.239 Yeah, it is. How do people get in touch with you? 0:50:13.640 --> 0:50:17.359 I am on Twitter producer Megan, and then I'm also 0:50:17.400 --> 0:50:20.719 on Instagram Megan mcmonagle. If you can spell. 0:50:20.480 --> 0:50:23.360 That, then then you deserve to be a follower. I 0:50:23.360 --> 0:50:25.840 five you can spell that, you deserve to be a follower. 0:50:25.920 --> 0:50:27.479 All right, Thanks so much for listening to the show. 0:50:27.840 --> 0:50:30.040 Follow my newsletter just go to Rich on tech dot 0:50:30.080 --> 0:50:33.839 tv hit newsletter and every week or with regularity, I 0:50:33.880 --> 0:50:36.160 send out an email newsletter with all the stuff that 0:50:36.200 --> 0:50:38.040 I think you should know, kind of like this show 0:50:38.560 --> 0:50:40.160 and that's about it. I think that's going to do 0:50:40.200 --> 0:50:42.279 it right. Yeah, anything else I talk about here and 0:50:42.520 --> 0:50:45.359 the book, you can find it on Amazon to pre 0:50:45.440 --> 0:50:47.880 order one one iPhone tips and tricks, we'll tell you 0:50:47.920 --> 0:50:51.480 all about iOS thirteen. Thanks so much for listening. Have 0:50:51.560 --> 0:50:53.839 a fantastic day. We can't wait to see you back here. 0:50:54.120 --> 0:50:56.319 I'm Rich demiro On behalf of me and Meghan. Have 0:50:56.360 --> 0:51:01.719 a great one. Bye bye. You're des No