Speaker 1: Broku has some new players. Alexa gets smart about the election.
Speaker 1: Facebook has a new way for you to video chat
Speaker 1: if you're willing to invite them into your home. What's
Speaker 1: going on. I'm Rich dmiro. This is Rich on Tech,
Speaker 1: the podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I
Speaker 1: think you should know about. Plus it is the place
Speaker 1: where I answer your tech questions with the help of
Speaker 1: producer Megan. Welcome to the show. Hello, Rich, Hello, I
Speaker 1: like how you say hello, like. We have not been
Speaker 1: working together for like six hours this morning so far. Yes,
Speaker 1: but here we are and welcome to the show. Thank
Speaker 1: you for joining me once again. Of course we are
Speaker 1: about to embark kind to contractually obligated to be this.
Speaker 1: I do test. I think. Look, I will tell you,
Speaker 1: I will tell you, and I'll kind of let you
Speaker 1: in on a little secret here. But the podcast is
Speaker 1: doing very well. People like the podcast. Yes, so the
Speaker 1: feedback I get. I don't share all the feed back
Speaker 1: with you, especially when people comment on your outfits. But
Speaker 1: it's fine.
Speaker 2: I mean it's weird because they can't even see them.
Speaker 2: Then they're already hating me.
Speaker 1: They just comment on your voice, What do they say? No,
Speaker 1: they love your voice. It's just interesting because the feedback
Speaker 1: we get is good and it's you know, when the
Speaker 1: emails first started, it would be asking me stuff, and
Speaker 1: now they're like, oh and tel producer Megan this because
Speaker 1: we don't reveal your email address.
Speaker 2: It's all mine, so it could be they can send
Speaker 2: emails to.
Speaker 1: Your personal one.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but my social Security number.
Speaker 1: So it's getting it's the downloads are increasing every week,
Speaker 1: which is a good sign. That means that people are
Speaker 1: actually coming back and listening.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that there's a amount of people that leave
Speaker 1: us every week, but sad for them. Yeah, you know what,
Speaker 1: and we don't need that.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I will tell you one thing that happened to me
Speaker 1: this week. I went to a concert at the Greek
Speaker 1: Theater here in Los Angeles. Oh yeah, yeah, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, Megan, thank you for hooking me up with
Speaker 1: those tickets, because Megan was instrumental in getting me these
Speaker 1: any time. It was Maren Morris. If you're a country
Speaker 1: you've heard of her. If not, you've never heard of her.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the Greek Theater was great. But here was
Speaker 1: the craziest thing about it. There was no I've Verizon.
Speaker 1: There was no Verizon service, and they had Wi Fi
Speaker 1: there that would not work. So I was, I think,
Speaker 1: this is the longest stretch of time I've ever been
Speaker 1: without cell phone connectivity. So I used to go to
Speaker 1: a lot of USC games, and connectivity in that coliseum
Speaker 1: historically has been horrendous.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't exist right now.
Speaker 1: Apparently they have Wi Fi this season. But have you
Speaker 1: ever experienced that where you're just like out of touch
Speaker 1: with your phone, like it's not working. Yes, it's really bad,
Speaker 1: Like it really makes me.
Speaker 2: At the same time, like I think that it's a
Speaker 2: good thing because then you can think, you like you
Speaker 2: can What I love about like Instagram now is like
Speaker 2: you can always story the next day. Like if you
Speaker 2: go to a concert, you don't have to like you
Speaker 2: can actually be in the moment, film it on your
Speaker 2: phone and like you know, sing along instead of like,
Speaker 2: oh I have to post this now.
Speaker 1: Like I do feel like that's a problem at all.
Speaker 1: Almost every event people are they're not living in the
Speaker 1: moment for the event, they're living it through their phone.
Speaker 1: And so I will say the side effect of this
Speaker 1: concert and no connectivity was that I kind of just
Speaker 1: ditched my phone. Yeah, I took about three pictures. I
Speaker 1: posted one of them on Instagram, but I think I
Speaker 1: took three pictures the whole night, and I wasn't. I
Speaker 1: recorded two songs. One song I recorded because I was
Speaker 1: surprised that Maren Morris did that song. It was called
Speaker 1: Loveful Love Fool by the Cardigans, which was a song that, like,
Speaker 1: when I was in college, that was a popular song,
Speaker 1: and I'm surprised that. No, it's like, it's such an
Speaker 1: old song, but it was a catchy song and it
Speaker 1: was it was the Cardigan's like top hit basically, it
Speaker 1: was their one hit, wonder kind of thing, and so
Speaker 1: she played that, so I thought that was cool. So
Speaker 1: I recorded that. And then there's another song she did.
Speaker 1: I think I recorded for my kids, I thought, because
Speaker 1: they like it. But other than that, that's it. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was really like anyway. So my point is the
Speaker 1: Greek is at the top of this mountain, and so
Speaker 1: I had to walk all the way down to get
Speaker 1: my uber or lyft whatever. I switched a lift recently
Speaker 1: and I got to the gas station finally had connectivity.
Speaker 1: Everything started coming in, you know, finally like crying.
Speaker 2: My screen wife was like, okay, you have a you
Speaker 2: might have a problem.
Speaker 1: So the best part is that the people we are
Speaker 1: with what they were, they had AT and T and
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, this is working just fine, And I
Speaker 1: almost had them set up a hot spot.
Speaker 2: That's okay. On THEO, I went to the Greek last
Speaker 2: year for a concert and I remember having service.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you have a Yeah, So.
Speaker 2: I, yeah, I do have AT and T.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see what should we start with this week.
Speaker 1: I know the big story this week is obviously everyone's
Speaker 1: getting their iPhones. Probably by the time you listen to
Speaker 1: this you may have yours in hand, but lucky, yeah,
Speaker 1: I I do not have mine in hand yet. So
Speaker 1: I'm not going to really talk about what I know
Speaker 1: about the phone because we already talked about that last
Speaker 1: week we went hands on. But until I have next
Speaker 1: time you talk to me on the podcast next week,
Speaker 1: I'll have a lot of hands on time, so I
Speaker 1: will have time with the phone, and I'll have a
Speaker 1: much better understanding. So all the headlines I've seen so
Speaker 1: far is how great it is. It's better than the
Speaker 1: pixels camera, it's the best camera ever made. And all
Speaker 1: those things may be true, but you have to understand that,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, number one, the people who got
Speaker 1: this phone early are generally people who love the iPhone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, let's be honest, like that's who's going to
Speaker 1: get it first from Apple. So now I'm not saying
Speaker 1: they're all I have no doubt that this is probably
Speaker 1: one of the best phones in the world, but it's
Speaker 1: just one of these things like, of course it's going
Speaker 1: to be better than the pixel that came out last year.
Speaker 1: So let's see what it does against this year's pixel.
Speaker 1: And I'm not knocking. I think this year what And
Speaker 1: I just got off the phone with Apple actually to
Speaker 1: talk about it and the stuff they're telling me. I mean,
Speaker 1: they really do think about the end user, and they
Speaker 1: think about kind of how people use their phone, the
Speaker 1: pain points they have. And they did increase things like
Speaker 1: the battery life and the camera quality and you know,
Speaker 1: the low light they heard kind of the and by
Speaker 1: the way, the front facing camera. I've always been saying, like,
Speaker 1: we need a wider angle lens, like all these things
Speaker 1: I've wanted on the iPhone. They kind of did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I got to give Apple kudos for that.
Speaker 2: I'm excited.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the other big story as I just
Speaker 1: ignore you that you're excited. Yeah, oh what was that, Megan?
Speaker 2: Guys? Classic?
Speaker 1: Sorry, what did you say?
Speaker 2: Classic? A day in the life.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, let's talk about Facebook Portal, because this is
Speaker 1: a device that I think is has I think this
Speaker 1: is an amazing device. The problem is, are people ready
Speaker 1: to invite Facebook into their home in a big way?
Speaker 1: And that's what you have to do if you want
Speaker 1: to use a Facebook Portal. The first set of these
Speaker 1: devices totally failed do a I don't think anyone bought them.
Speaker 1: And the new ones I think they address some of
Speaker 1: the privacy concerns of the previous models. But there are
Speaker 1: three new models, the Portal, the Portal Mini, and the
Speaker 1: Portal TV. And the Portal and the Portal Mini look
Speaker 1: like a picture frame that you would have on a
Speaker 1: shelf in your house, and they do display pictures when
Speaker 1: you're not using them, and that's great. But the other
Speaker 1: one is for the TV and it is basically a
Speaker 1: video camera for your TV, so you can video chat
Speaker 1: from your couch, which I think, I know your family
Speaker 1: all lives here, You're not like you know. For me,
Speaker 1: the idea of video chat like FaceTime to a lot
Speaker 1: of people is just kind of fun. And convenient to me.
Speaker 1: Like I've lived away from my family for a long time,
Speaker 1: and I feel like the killer the Killer app is
Speaker 1: really not like video calling on your phone, but video
Speaker 1: calling on your couch because you can sit down and
Speaker 1: actually kind of just like have a conversation with someone
Speaker 1: without holding up your phone or holding it in front
Speaker 1: of you or having it shaky, like my sister is
Speaker 1: always like moving her phone around while she's talking to me,
Speaker 1: and she's moving around the house and all the like.
Speaker 1: If you're just on the couch, it's very natural to
Speaker 1: just sit there and kind of like chat. The kids
Speaker 1: can come up, sit down, talk whatever. So that's what
Speaker 1: the Portal TV does. That's my pick for this device.
Speaker 1: The problem with this device in the demo I got
Speaker 1: is that it does some streaming things but not all
Speaker 1: of them, so it can't replace your streaming device, which
Speaker 1: means you have to switch inputs every time you want
Speaker 1: to use this. You it was kind of sluggish, like
Speaker 1: it wasn't the best. I think what Facebook should have
Speaker 1: done is just created a camera that plugs into the
Speaker 1: Apple TV, the Fire TV, your regular TV whatever, and
Speaker 1: it kind of just works with whatever box you have.
Speaker 2: Where would it plug in. On the Apple TV, I.
Speaker 1: Think there's some sort of like USBC on the back.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's usable, but I think there is
Speaker 1: on the Apple TV. Okay and Fire TV I think
Speaker 1: has one as well. But my point is that's not
Speaker 1: going to happen because all these companies are at war
Speaker 1: and they don't want to work with each other. So
Speaker 1: you can The video calling is fantastic. It works really well.
Speaker 1: The cameras follow you around the room. It looks great,
Speaker 1: it sounds great. Scary thing on the Facebook TV one
Speaker 1: is there are eight microphones, so talk about Facebook listening
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 2: Why I know why eight?
Speaker 1: I guess just to get you no matter where you
Speaker 1: are in the room, so you don't have to like
Speaker 1: be loud. I don't know. Here's the main thing they
Speaker 1: did that. I think it'll probably quell some privacy concerns,
Speaker 1: but not really. Yeah, they do have little sliding lens
Speaker 1: shutters on all all of the devices so you can
Speaker 1: physically shut it off and know that the camera's not
Speaker 1: looking at you and know that the microphones are not
Speaker 1: listening to you. Is that enough? I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know what do you think of this? Imagine Mom lived
Speaker 1: in Hawaii.
Speaker 2: Okay, well yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1: Like drink and Opinia.
Speaker 2: Penia classic Maggie. I think that for me, I just
Speaker 2: can't get over their the privacy issues with Facebook. I
Speaker 2: think that the last year has just been a lot
Speaker 2: and so in terms of like just the pr of
Speaker 2: the company, Like, I just think that I don't trust them,
Speaker 2: I don't want them on my don't trust see.
Speaker 1: I trust I fully trust them. I really, I have
Speaker 1: no problems with Facebo.
Speaker 2: Do you not trust no one?
Speaker 1: I really? I I this whole idea of people not
Speaker 1: trusting tech companies, like you're being tracked. You go on
Speaker 1: the web. The open web is the most trackable thing
Speaker 1: there is in technology. Yeah, so the fact that you
Speaker 1: think your phone's listening to and Facebook and stuff like,
Speaker 1: they're just a portion of what's happening. Yeah, and also
Speaker 1: people are just learning about this. But to me, the
Speaker 1: idea that you're being tracked.
Speaker 2: I just think the camera you're going to the.
Speaker 1: Grocery store, you're being tracked.
Speaker 2: I think the camera is going to get hacked.
Speaker 1: It's not going to get hacked. I don't think so. Well,
Speaker 1: and you have a camera on your phone that you
Speaker 1: carry everywhere, and a microphone on your phone that you've
Speaker 1: carried everywhere for how many years? Now? How many years
Speaker 1: have you had an iPhone?
Speaker 2: Since I was one?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So your whole life?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, it's been six years. Yeah, I've had it
Speaker 2: for like ten years.
Speaker 1: Again, No, I know, I know this is the world
Speaker 1: we live in.
Speaker 2: That Yeah, I don't know. I think I want to see,
Speaker 2: like give it a year and like see what the
Speaker 2: reviews are.
Speaker 1: Like they have they have given it a year and
Speaker 1: I just gave the review. No, so October fifteen out
Speaker 1: for a year the portal has. These are new versions
Speaker 1: of it. They came out last year with ones that
Speaker 1: just totally the last year ones did not have the shutter.
Speaker 2: These are the new like.
Speaker 1: So anyway, there's also Amazon Alexa built in.
Speaker 2: Are you going to try it?
Speaker 1: I would love to try this, but here's the reason
Speaker 1: why I don't think it'll work because who am I
Speaker 1: going to use this with my mom, my sisters, my brother,
Speaker 1: My brother and I we already know how to video
Speaker 1: chat where like the techi's in the family. So it's
Speaker 1: really my dad, my mom, and my sisters to get
Speaker 1: them to plug this into their TV, set it up
Speaker 1: and change inputs when I want to call them just
Speaker 1: not going to work. Right. My mom will never get
Speaker 1: back to her fire TV if I tell her to
Speaker 1: change the input to go to go to portal TV. No,
Speaker 1: it's a pain. And I get that that's a pain
Speaker 1: point and they need to figure that out. So then
Speaker 1: so I think what Google has, and I think maybe
Speaker 1: the solution for my mom would be one of these
Speaker 1: fixed ones, because like I said, there's three models. One
Speaker 1: that sits on top of your TV, the other two
Speaker 1: where they look like a picture frame. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: have a camera built in you video chat there, so
Speaker 1: maybe that's better, But that means you have to sit
Speaker 1: in front of it. And if she's going to do that,
Speaker 1: I'd probably just rather give her a Google Nest Hub Max,
Speaker 1: which does the same thing.
Speaker 2: Well, now I have a prediction. I think in the
Speaker 2: next two years three years, TV's are just gonna have
Speaker 2: cameras on them.
Speaker 1: Well that okay, talk about privacy. Now, would you rather
Speaker 1: have a camera built into the TV or one that
Speaker 1: I attach? I'd personally rather have one that I attach
Speaker 1: rather than having one that's built it cover it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying why.
Speaker 2: I just I don't know I have I have to
Speaker 2: think about this topic.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you the prices and you can put that,
Speaker 1: okay to your thinking caps October fifteenth for the portal
Speaker 1: and Portal Mini. That the portal TV is going to
Speaker 1: be on November fifth. The portal Mini, I'll just start
Speaker 1: at the smallest one is a portal Mini that's gonna
Speaker 1: be one thirty. The portal is one eighty and Portal
Speaker 1: TV is one fifty. If you buy any two portal
Speaker 1: devices you get fifty dollars off. So sorry, that's not
Speaker 1: what I meant. I did not. That was totally That
Speaker 1: is not has nothing to be the board. I don't
Speaker 1: know the board.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 1: All right, you got to get my friend, my friend
Speaker 1: bald Brian does this for a living, so he would
Speaker 1: be if he ever listened to one of my podcasts,
Speaker 1: which she doesn't shake his head, he would really be sad.
Speaker 2: All right. So this first question comes from Rich's Facebook
Speaker 2: ray posted on your wall. He said, good evening, Rich,
Speaker 2: I have the iPhone TENNS Max and was thinking about
Speaker 2: the iPhone eleven base model. Would it be a big
Speaker 2: step down or would the camera be worth the switch?
Speaker 1: iPhone eleven base model eleven?
Speaker 2: Sorry TENNS max.
Speaker 1: What do you say again?
Speaker 2: He said, I have the iPhone TENNS Max and was
Speaker 2: thinking about the iPhone eleven base model. Okay, it's actually
Speaker 2: a common question, a lot of common questions about this.
Speaker 1: I feel like, here's the bottom line on all this
Speaker 1: upgrade stuff. If you have the only reason to upgrade
Speaker 1: from the here's my upgrade cutoff if you have anything
Speaker 1: before an iPhone ten R. So if you have an
Speaker 1: iPhone ten R, iPhone ten S, or an iPhone tennis Max,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think you need there's no impetus
Speaker 1: to upgrade. Now. With that said, all the phones below that,
Speaker 1: if you're ready for an upgrade, you want to upgrade,
Speaker 1: you will notice a huge increase in camera quality and
Speaker 1: that's really the only reason and battery life from your
Speaker 1: current device and snappiness now with these higher end devices,
Speaker 1: do you need it only if you want that wide
Speaker 1: angle lens. And to me, that is something that I've
Speaker 1: been accustomed to on phones because Samsung has had it
Speaker 1: for a while. LG has had it for even longer
Speaker 1: than Samsung. And to me, like when I first started
Speaker 1: shooting with those wide angle lenses in taking pictures, it's
Speaker 1: so much fun. You just have such a blast taking
Speaker 1: pictures in so many different ways that it is a
Speaker 1: really cool feature to have. Is it a must have?
Speaker 1: Is it an upgrade? Like a must upgrade? Not necessarily,
Speaker 1: but if you want that, And that's kind of the
Speaker 1: only reason, like if you're thinking your phone's gonna be faster, snappier,
Speaker 1: all that stuff, like no, no, no, for the for the
Speaker 1: cutoff that I said, yeah, so again, that's that's my cutoff, right,
Speaker 1: And will he be happy with the eleven? I think
Speaker 1: the eleven will be just fine for ninety nine point
Speaker 1: nine percent of people.
Speaker 2: And we talked about this last week. Isn't the camera
Speaker 2: on the ten s the same? Like pretty much the
Speaker 2: same as the eleven? Like it's the same, Oh oh
Speaker 2: big step better?
Speaker 1: Is cameras upgraded? For sure?
Speaker 2: But I thought it was like a slight up you
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: I well, again, I need some time with it to see.
Speaker 2: Oh I was listening to our podcast last week.
Speaker 1: Yes, we said, from what I've learned, it is a
Speaker 1: it is a sizeaball upgrade. Yeah, it seems like okay,
Speaker 1: and so and I think that the other sizeble upgrade
Speaker 1: was really from the ten to the ten R and
Speaker 1: ten s like it jumped, like there's you can tell
Speaker 1: the difference in the camera quality, and I think this
Speaker 1: is another jump. And later on in the year they're
Speaker 1: going to introduce software that makes the camera quality even
Speaker 1: better because they're gonna start even putting more AI into
Speaker 1: it like Google does. So yeah, it's gonna get even better.
Speaker 1: And they're calling it. I forget it's something fusion, but
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of like, okay, this is like iPhone's
Speaker 1: getting real, like Apple's getting real.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're they're stepping. They're not game.
Speaker 1: They're not sitting back letting these other companies, you know,
Speaker 1: just takeovers.
Speaker 2: You have that sound on your board?
Speaker 1: What sound?
Speaker 2: Okay, there's like a fun radio sound that they play.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, people are very The sound effects in the
Speaker 1: show are very divisive. What's the word when it divides people?
Speaker 1: It really divides people. People don't like them, but.
Speaker 2: You know what, I feel like we should have a
Speaker 2: sound though, for like when we talk about how all
Speaker 2: these companies are like battling, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's great, Okay, definitely not work all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, I was like trying to do the sc
Speaker 2: fight song sound, but you know you should like that
Speaker 2: because you went there.
Speaker 1: You know, yeah, I did go there, talk about Roku.
Speaker 1: Roku has some new devices as well, and let's see
Speaker 1: Roku has the things you need to know about Roku.
Speaker 1: Number one, Roku users are streaming an average of three
Speaker 1: and a half hours a how much are you streaming
Speaker 1: a day?
Speaker 2: That's probably that's.
Speaker 1: It really is.
Speaker 2: I have it on and then I like do stuff.
Speaker 1: That is so wild I can't Okay, I know you
Speaker 1: don't watch it. I know I don't watch TV.
Speaker 2: But I'm like, I'm probably for that three hours sitting
Speaker 2: and watching for thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: Okay, but but you have it on. You're streaming stuff,
Speaker 1: and what what show like? Give me? I know it's
Speaker 1: all like Real Housewives, I know it.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, r h o C. Depends on the day, friends, Okay,
Speaker 2: Grey's anatomy like the old episode school stuff, vander Pump Rules, okay, garbage,
Speaker 2: Bachelor in Paradise or garbage.
Speaker 1: You just you just like trashy stuff.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say Band of Brothers.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what that is. Is that an
Speaker 1: HBO show?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, well I there.
Speaker 2: I have my classy shows and then I have my
Speaker 2: trashy shows. It depends on like, if I'm trying to
Speaker 2: decompress after being with you all day.
Speaker 1: That I got reality a lot of trashy TV.
Speaker 2: Trashy TV like really relaxes me. But if I'm like
Speaker 2: ready for you know, emotions and stuff after and we.
Speaker 1: If we know Megan, we know she's ready for emotion,
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah. So three and a half hours
Speaker 1: of Roku a day. They've got thirty million active accounts,
Speaker 1: which I guess that sounds like a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I don't know, wow, But here's what you need to know.
Speaker 1: So they've got two new devices that I kind of
Speaker 1: got from their presentation, Roku Express, and the Roku Express
Speaker 1: is smaller. It also includes an Hdmi cable and it's
Speaker 1: just forty bucks. So for forty dollars, that is a
Speaker 1: really cheap way to get into streaming, right, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that is that's really cheap. But the only thing
Speaker 1: about that device it does not oh sorry, thirty dollars.
Speaker 2: Isn't the fire TV stick?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Fire TV is cheap. Two yeah, But I mean
Speaker 1: this is this does not include four K so but
Speaker 1: it does include an Hdmi cable, which, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of cool. I guess the four the stick just sticks
Speaker 1: right in your TV, so I guess that doesn't really matter. Okay,
Speaker 1: now here's the one I'm interested in, the top of
Speaker 1: the line Roku Ultra. This is brand new. They say
Speaker 1: that everything is faster on it. So all the channels
Speaker 1: launch faster. Have you noticed when you launched something that
Speaker 1: it's not that fast?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Okay, I've noticed that.
Speaker 1: So now it's faster, and news channels are twenty percent faster.
Speaker 1: Top one hundred launch channels average of seventeen percent faster.
Speaker 1: But here's the new feature that a lot of people like,
Speaker 1: personal shortcut buttons, which means there are two buttons on
Speaker 1: the remote that you can personalize to make whatever you want.
Speaker 1: So you know how on your remote you've got a
Speaker 1: couple of buttons that are like Netflix and all the
Speaker 1: stuff Sling. Yeah that you're like, I don't use slinging, right,
Speaker 1: you can't reprogram that because Sling paid to be there.
Speaker 1: So if you want, now you have two buttons that
Speaker 1: you can make your own. So one can bring you
Speaker 1: directly to the latest episode of Real Housewives of Orange County.
Speaker 1: The other one can bring you directly to Band of
Speaker 1: Brothers Orange.
Speaker 2: That is so trashy.
Speaker 1: You've got total whatever, total control, miss mcmonogall, miss and
Speaker 1: they have a full lineup now there are let me
Speaker 1: just count how many sat one, two, three, four, five.
Speaker 2: Six years on Facebook.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I just mostly listened to my own podcasts and
Speaker 1: watched my old YouTube videos. No, I watch movies on
Speaker 1: the weekends, so I will attempt to watch a movie
Speaker 1: on the weekend. So actually last weekend, No, this is
Speaker 1: how sad. It was so last weekend. So by the
Speaker 1: time we get the kids in bed, it's like we're
Speaker 1: tired and we're like, all right, six Yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: six thirty. So last weekend we watched I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's this new Jim Gaffigan thing. This is when you're old.
Speaker 1: You watched like Jim Gaffian comedy on on Amazon. And
Speaker 1: Lindsey's like, I think we watched that last weekend or
Speaker 1: whatever or last time we sat down. I was like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't think we did. So Amazon shows you the
Speaker 1: last time you played something. Yeah, So it was like
Speaker 1: we were halfway through and I had totally forgotten that
Speaker 1: we watched it. We watched the other half. Oh you really,
Speaker 1: I'm really not. I'm just not a I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: not like.
Speaker 2: It's good at your you. When you have free time,
Speaker 2: you are productive, create and creating. Yeah, I'm trying to wasting.
Speaker 1: No, I'm trying to create and I'm trying to organize.
Speaker 1: You know, I was writing a book for the last
Speaker 1: six months, so I mean that definitely. You can't feel
Speaker 1: good about yourself when you're sitting down watching a TV
Speaker 1: show in the middle of the day when you have
Speaker 1: a book that you're trying to write. That's just the
Speaker 1: reality of it. Now, when this book is done and
Speaker 1: out there and you know, into the masses, then I
Speaker 1: can relax a little bit more. That's the reality of it,
Speaker 1: all right. The other things I thought was cool about Roku.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have a new release called Roku nine point two,
Speaker 1: and you will be able to search by movie quotes,
Speaker 1: which is kind of cool. So do you have a
Speaker 1: movie quote that you like?
Speaker 2: I said it earlier, but.
Speaker 1: Nobody puts baby in a corner?
Speaker 2: No? No, no, shoot, okay, keep going. I'll think of
Speaker 2: my quote and.
Speaker 1: The thing you need to know that's different. If you're
Speaker 1: going to go for that cheapy, the low end one,
Speaker 1: the express I would go for the Walmart exclusive of
Speaker 1: the Express plus ten dollars more because you get a
Speaker 1: better remote control which controls the power and the volume
Speaker 1: on your TV. So if you're going for the super
Speaker 1: cheap one for thirty dollars, you do not get those controls.
Speaker 1: Just those are those are the kind.
Speaker 2: Of things say hello to my little friend.
Speaker 1: Ah, very good, very good, Megan.
Speaker 2: All right, So your next Twitter, your next Twitter, Your
Speaker 2: next question comes from Twitter at bb or at b
Speaker 2: Besser five zero two. Which screen protector do you recommend
Speaker 2: for the iPhone eleven Pro and Promax that is durable,
Speaker 2: anti fingerprint and anti glare without interfering with the clear
Speaker 2: screen display.
Speaker 1: I will tell them about the one that I have
Speaker 1: on my phone right now, and I just install.
Speaker 2: This tech the one from ces.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one too, But this one that's
Speaker 1: Belcan Belcan. Yeah, that was a good one. But they
Speaker 1: put that on for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it also cracked.
Speaker 1: But it's been dead.
Speaker 2: It's been long.
Speaker 1: It's been a while. It's been a while, but I
Speaker 1: like I like tech armor a lot, and tech armor
Speaker 1: is the reason I like tech armor stuff is because
Speaker 1: a I've met the folks behind it, and B they
Speaker 1: sell them for really cheap and they're good quality, and
Speaker 1: I really like them because you know, if you go
Speaker 1: into the Apple store, it's like fifty bucks for a
Speaker 1: screen protector.
Speaker 2: What the heck? Oh no, I know what.
Speaker 1: Megan actually knows the board, so it's fifty dollars. This
Speaker 1: this tech Armor one is so much cheaper, and it's
Speaker 1: I would say, let me just look up, let's just
Speaker 1: see how much it is.
Speaker 2: What's actually insane. And then they're like, it's twenty dollars
Speaker 2: for me to put it on, and then there's bubbles.
Speaker 2: Really no, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Oh, I was gonna say, well, I feel.
Speaker 2: Like I would go to the store just because.
Speaker 1: They know how to put it on, right, I agree
Speaker 1: with that, and I do think that's worth it a
Speaker 1: little bit. But yeah, here's the thing with tech Armor,
Speaker 1: A three pack is nine to ninety five. Wow. Now
Speaker 1: here's what I really like. And I did not discover this.
Speaker 1: This is this is what happens to me. Sometimes these
Speaker 1: companies send me stuff. It takes it. It takes me
Speaker 1: a while to get to it sometimes, so I will
Speaker 1: be totally on your book. Well, no, I'm doing a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff and everything's prioritized. So screen protectors. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of like, I get it. You sent me a
Speaker 1: lot of scream protectors. I can't really put these all
Speaker 1: on my phones, so I will be honest. I just
Speaker 1: put the screen protector on my iPhone TENNS max and
Speaker 1: they sent it to me. I looked at my stuff
Speaker 1: like last August, I think, so I was going through
Speaker 1: and I was like, why did you put it on
Speaker 1: like two weeks ago?
Speaker 2: Oh? Okay, so you know you like it? Well, Like
Speaker 2: it's like it's been twenty four hours, Like oh.
Speaker 1: No, and I've tested these before. It's just taken me
Speaker 1: a while to put it on this exact phone. But
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I thought was so cool is this.
Speaker 1: It comes with this plastic tray that you snap your
Speaker 1: phone into so that when you put the thing on top,
Speaker 1: it's perfectly aligned with your screen. It was amazing. And
Speaker 1: I sat there at my desk and I was like,
Speaker 1: why did it take me so long to install this?
Speaker 1: And I felt so dumb emailing the company because I
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, They're like, yeah, we've had that, like
Speaker 1: since we sent you that like a year ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah. They're like come on, They're like rich come.
Speaker 1: On, They're like, we wondered why you didn't respond to
Speaker 1: our emails and say how great this was. So I
Speaker 1: think that's really cool and I love that feature. And
Speaker 1: I will tell you, if you look at my phone,
Speaker 1: do you see one imperfection in this screen? I mean,
Speaker 1: look at this. Isn't it great? Oh?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: I mean it really is. And I had one. I
Speaker 1: had one bubble in the middle of my screen after
Speaker 1: I did it, and I was very concerned, and after
Speaker 1: about twenty four hours it evaporated and it was fine.
Speaker 1: And that happens sometimes when you instat yourself. So anyway,
Speaker 1: for a three pack, and they have various levels of
Speaker 1: their there's yeah, they're qualities you can get like ones
Speaker 1: that don't show what's that? Like the the one the
Speaker 1: Privacy film, which is really cool. So people are looking
Speaker 1: at your phone from other angles.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: Have you ever had that on your phone?
Speaker 2: No? But I like see people that are on their
Speaker 2: phones and it's dark, and I'm like, you can't. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Megan always has that side eye looking at people's phones,
Speaker 1: and when they have that, you're just like, darn it,
Speaker 1: why foiled again? Oh? No, I give it.
Speaker 2: I was going to press it. I thought about it,
Speaker 2: I was like ready.
Speaker 1: To go, Oh, I give up on that. Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: tech Armor check them out. Love that and I think
Speaker 1: it's a great one.
Speaker 2: So it's a great one.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else do we want to talk about.
Speaker 1: I'm doing something a little differently this week. I didn't
Speaker 1: print out the stories, so it's really I'm being eco friendly.
Speaker 1: But it totally derails the show because it takes me
Speaker 1: longer to like figure everything out. You want to talk
Speaker 1: about Alexa and the election, Yeah, do that. Alexa is
Speaker 1: getting much smarter about the election. They are programming her
Speaker 1: to know everything about the twenty twenty US presidential election,
Speaker 1: which by the way, is just over a year away. Now,
Speaker 1: before you get we're not getting into politics here on
Speaker 1: the show. So Megan, I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 1: I don't stop it.
Speaker 2: Don't know who's running for Okay.
Speaker 1: Thank you. So the thing is, you are not going
Speaker 1: to get opinions out of Alexa on the election. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stop saying you name because I don't want to
Speaker 1: keep activating things if I'm doing that. But you will
Speaker 1: get data. And Amazon was very clear to say that
Speaker 1: they are a conduit for news they are not creating
Speaker 1: the news, so that makes sense anyway. So here's the
Speaker 1: things that you can ask her, which is kind of cool.
Speaker 1: Let's see Number one, you can donate to a candidate's
Speaker 1: contribution fund fundraising effort up to two hundred dollars. That
Speaker 1: will start next month. I have to say, is A
Speaker 1: donate to Blank? And we don't even know because we
Speaker 1: don't even know who's running, so we can't even say
Speaker 1: even say Rock? Who Rock?
Speaker 2: I just thought of the rock, the Rock? Yeah, Rock,
Speaker 2: he should run.
Speaker 1: You should run. He'd have a solid campaign.
Speaker 2: Oh fans?
Speaker 1: Okay, Alexa? Oh sorry? You can say A who is
Speaker 1: running for president? A? How is Blank pulling? A who
Speaker 1: endorses Blank? That's kind of interesting? A when is the
Speaker 1: Blank caucus? So like, I don't know what a caucus is.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that's like the primary thing. Yeah, I sound
Speaker 1: really dumb, but I can stay.
Speaker 2: We don't I do tech, I do technology. We don't
Speaker 2: play in.
Speaker 1: DC, Alex, A, how does Blank stand on education? So
Speaker 1: I'd like to hear that one? And A when is
Speaker 1: the next debate? So those are all the things you
Speaker 1: can ask and you can donate, which is kind of cool.
Speaker 1: I mean, so many people have these things in their home,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure I would just love to see all
Speaker 1: the questions are being asked to these smart assistants throughout
Speaker 1: the day, because I see the way my kids interact
Speaker 1: with Siri on their iPad and it is insane. It's
Speaker 1: totally different. They say I love you, good morning, good night,
Speaker 1: all this crazy stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's actually really cute.
Speaker 1: I know, but it's kind of sad because Alex, like,
Speaker 1: make a friend. No, Siri just responded. She's like, I
Speaker 1: am sorry, I understand that, and they keep asking. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: used to. She doesn't understand anything you're asking. She has
Speaker 1: no clue, she has no heart, she has no soul.
Speaker 2: She's not even a.
Speaker 1: Mom and dad.
Speaker 2: Love you more kids, all right, So this next question
Speaker 2: comes from Cookie. She wrote in on your.
Speaker 1: Sorry Hold it Together, Megan.
Speaker 2: She wrote it on your website, Rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 2: All you have to do is go to the contact
Speaker 2: link and just fill it out there and you can
Speaker 2: ask Rich any question you have regarding tech, not anything else.
Speaker 1: Don't ask me anything else.
Speaker 2: Don't ask him anything anyways. Hi, Rich, I wonder if
Speaker 2: you can help me. I keep seeing the commercial about
Speaker 2: Alexa playing music for a senior at home, and think
Speaker 2: about getting it from my dad. He is ninety years
Speaker 2: old and of course he's technically challenged. Not sure if
Speaker 2: it would work as he has a flip phone, but
Speaker 2: he does have Wi Fi. What do you think with
Speaker 2: a different system would a would a different system be
Speaker 2: better or would you would any really work for him?
Speaker 1: What does she want to do for him?
Speaker 2: Get him an Alexa to play music?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that would work just fine.
Speaker 2: You don't need a phone to like connect.
Speaker 1: To set it up. You probably need a phone can
Speaker 1: do that, but she can do that. I mean you
Speaker 1: could set up with his WiFi once and then you
Speaker 1: know it's off and running by itself.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I personally am a little bit more towards the Google
Speaker 1: Home kind of things. Yeah, and I think that I
Speaker 1: think for music, you're gonna be fine with a home Pod,
Speaker 1: which is the most expensive way to go, or an
Speaker 1: Echo which is she's talking about from Amazon, or a
Speaker 1: Google Home Mini. So those are your three options I
Speaker 1: personally like, I mean, if you want the best, I
Speaker 1: would go with the series with the home pod because
Speaker 1: that the sound on that thing is amazing. If you're
Speaker 1: just doing Apple music with that it's pretty awesome and
Speaker 1: it sounds great, and she gets all the queries perfectly.
Speaker 1: So if the dad is asking to play music from
Speaker 1: you know, the twenties or whatever, hey play the play
Speaker 1: the latest song from nineteen twenty one, Sason.
Speaker 2: As nineties used born in the thirties.
Speaker 1: Oh so he's not playing twenties music. Okay, So he's.
Speaker 2: Playing like way, I don't even know.
Speaker 1: So okay, hold on if if it's twenty nineteen and
Speaker 1: he's ninety years old, yeah, born in nineteen twenty nine,
Speaker 1: So if he was a teenager, he'd probably be playing
Speaker 1: songs from nineteen forties, nineteen forties to nineteen fifties, which
Speaker 1: is perfect. Wow, so you can ask, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: Siria be like, hey, play that do wop song? You
Speaker 1: know is that a song?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I just can't get that mental image out
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: Like so I new, yeah something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: So I would say that's too. She doesn't want to
Speaker 1: do that because that's way too expensive. But I would
Speaker 1: say I would go with the Google one. But then
Speaker 1: because Google also well, like I say, both work with Spotify.
Speaker 1: The only benefit to the Amazon one is that the
Speaker 1: music subscription might be a little bit cheaper if she
Speaker 1: has like Amazon Prime and she can hook it up
Speaker 1: that way. I think it's like seven ninety nine versus
Speaker 1: nine ninety nine.
Speaker 2: And you can play radio on Alexa.
Speaker 1: Yes, but here's the thing again, I think that's easier
Speaker 1: on the Google because you can ask it to play
Speaker 1: any radio station. It pretty much plays it, whereas I
Speaker 1: think with Alexa it's a little trickier because you have
Speaker 1: to enable the skill. Maybe not, maybe I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: I actually set up in Alexa in my house to
Speaker 1: kind of like refamiliarize myself because I'm not that familiar
Speaker 1: because I just kind of write it off because I
Speaker 1: feel like the Google Home is so much smarter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had Alexa and I basically and I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people have it, so I'm probably all these
Speaker 1: people are like, oh, Rich, Yeah, but I just found
Speaker 1: that like when I asked it to change things like
Speaker 1: the lights and stuff, it's just like it would always
Speaker 1: give me an error message. I'd be like, sorry, I
Speaker 1: don't know what's like you're talking about. And like with Google,
Speaker 1: I can literally just be like, hey, tron on lights
Speaker 1: and it will know that I'm in the kitchen. And
Speaker 1: will turn on my kitchen lights. Oh wow, he just
Speaker 1: kind of understands that stuff. Yeah, it's smarter anyway, So
Speaker 1: I think that that's the way to go go with
Speaker 1: one of those. But wait until October fifteenth, because that's
Speaker 1: when Google is announcing all of its new stuff. So
Speaker 1: just wait until then to purchase anything. Is it my turn?
Speaker 2: Uh yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, gosh, so many things to about.
Speaker 2: Do we already talk about iOS thirteen.
Speaker 1: No, that's a good one to talk about, because.
Speaker 2: I want to know right now. That was going to
Speaker 2: be my question today, if you know, should I download
Speaker 2: it or should I wait?
Speaker 1: I say, Well, here's the thing. There's a couple couple
Speaker 1: of things. Some people are saying that it's buggy. I've
Speaker 1: been playing with the beta of iOS thirteen for since June,
Speaker 1: and I found it to be quite good. Now, it
Speaker 1: was not on my primary phone. I was using a
Speaker 1: test device to kind of like not keep it on
Speaker 1: my main phone. But I wrote the whole book with
Speaker 1: it and it was fine. Every every feature that I
Speaker 1: wanted to try out worked except for one that I
Speaker 1: can't wait to try out today because it wasn't live
Speaker 1: in the beta that I was doing. But apparently. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if this is totally true. I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta figure this out. But apparently there's something to do
Speaker 1: with fonts on the new one, and I I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can change fonts on the whole phone,
Speaker 1: because I feel like that's very Samsung slash Google or
Speaker 1: androidy And I can't imagine Apple letting you, like change
Speaker 1: your font to like that comic sands on your whole phone.
Speaker 2: Right, that is totally going to be here, But that
Speaker 2: was the.
Speaker 1: Only thing I was not able to test out. But
Speaker 1: otherwise I'll just tell you. I'm just going through my
Speaker 1: book right now, so I have it right here. One
Speaker 1: hundred Well plug it. It's one hundred and one iPhone
Speaker 1: Tips and Tricks. That's the new title along with the
Speaker 1: subtitle is Unlock the useful, time saving and fun Features
Speaker 1: in iOS thirteen. So I'm just going to tell you
Speaker 1: all the things that that's in this book. Dark Mode,
Speaker 1: new privacy filters for a location, you can create a
Speaker 1: name and profile photo. You can swipe to type, you
Speaker 1: can access the emoji keyboard faster. You can pick up
Speaker 1: the cursor to move it. You can rearrange your apps.
Speaker 1: You can see app shortcuts in a new way, stop
Speaker 1: robo calls, choose your Wi Fi and Bluetooth connections fast.
Speaker 1: There's a new on screen volume control. You can make
Speaker 1: an emoji that looks just like you, even if you
Speaker 1: don't have a phone that has the face thing. Generate
Speaker 1: personal stickers, organize your contacts in a new way. Download
Speaker 1: large apps on a cellular connection, which is something you
Speaker 1: can do in the past. You can ask Siri to
Speaker 1: tune into any radio station. You can look around a mapps,
Speaker 1: you can share eta, you can close out old tab
Speaker 1: since Safari. By the way, that's just like up to
Speaker 1: number nineteen. There are one hundred and one of those tips.
Speaker 1: So not all of them are iOS thirteen specifics. Some
Speaker 1: are more just about the iPhone. But a lot of
Speaker 1: things have changed, like slightly in iOS thirteen. And I
Speaker 1: will tell you I think this is one of the
Speaker 1: best versions of iOS ever. Really, it looks cool, it's clean.
Speaker 1: I think people are going to be a little bit
Speaker 1: sad that so many things have changed. The looks like
Speaker 1: the share menu when you go to share something for
Speaker 1: the first time, totally different. Oh, it's like boom, like
Speaker 1: in your face, just like menu. It's like now they're
Speaker 1: instead of like the little icons at icons, they change
Speaker 1: it to a menu that's long. Everything's like its own
Speaker 1: line which icons. Yeah, and it's also customized using like
Speaker 1: AI for like what it thinks you want to do? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's it's just different anyway. So I'm downloading it as
Speaker 1: we speak, finishing the books. I'm gonna do screenshots and
Speaker 1: then publish this thing phone. Yeah, on my main phone. Now.
Speaker 1: I also what I like to do, and I know
Speaker 1: nobody else likes to do this, but I do. When
Speaker 1: a new operating system comes out, I like to fresh
Speaker 1: start install it, which means I like to delete everything
Speaker 1: off my phone and start over. As not a popular opinion,
Speaker 1: I don't recommend you do that, I personally like to
Speaker 1: do that as an old nerd that kind of likes
Speaker 1: the idea of a fresh start. But you lose all
Speaker 1: your setting year.
Speaker 2: It's a yeah, exact new tech year.
Speaker 1: And it kind of makes your phone, you know whatever,
Speaker 1: it was kind of like lingering on your phone, all
Speaker 1: these little problems that you had. Something I kind of
Speaker 1: want to do that, you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, how you download something, you delete it, you
Speaker 1: get rid of something, You change the setting and you
Speaker 1: just kind of forget about it. This kind of puts
Speaker 1: everything back to like fresh start.
Speaker 2: So is it just like the main like ten apps
Speaker 2: and then you have to download everything else.
Speaker 1: I actually did that the other day. But what about
Speaker 1: your texts that that's an eCloud? Those can come back
Speaker 1: if you want, you can re you can do just
Speaker 1: like your text I believe. I don't see why you couldn't.
Speaker 1: But have you ever wanted a fresh start? Megan?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Always? Oh what is that I wanted to do?
Speaker 1: That? Are the touchdowns?
Speaker 2: Open the ferry fresh screw me?
Speaker 1: A fresh start?
Speaker 2: Fresh start?
Speaker 1: That's it. It's a new you know, It's just you
Speaker 1: just want a new year sometimes. And that was like
Speaker 1: Parker yesterday he had my son had a rough day
Speaker 1: and he's just like he's just like I just you know,
Speaker 1: I just uh, I forget what he said, like I
Speaker 1: want this day to be over something or I just
Speaker 1: had a bad day. I'm like, you know, sometimes you
Speaker 1: just need a fresh start. Like sometimes you have a
Speaker 1: bad day, you just want to go to sleep and
Speaker 1: like wake up and have the next day.
Speaker 2: Do you want to go to about at like two pm?
Speaker 2: Because you're like today was so bad. I might as well.
Speaker 1: I haven't, but I've gone as early as like six pm.
Speaker 2: Oh me too. I didn't.
Speaker 1: Screw it. I'm going to sleep. I'm done.
Speaker 2: I'm going on this day over.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So okay, So iOS thirteen, did I answer your question?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I guess I can download it.
Speaker 1: But some people are saying it's kind of buggy, and
Speaker 1: there is this wait, this is the other weird thing
Speaker 1: they're coming out with an iOS thirteen point one. They've
Speaker 1: already pre said that they're coming out with that, I
Speaker 1: think on September thirtieth. So if you want to wait
Speaker 1: the eleven days to just or whenever you're listening to this,
Speaker 1: But if you want to wait until then to get
Speaker 1: the first kind of like Creed do yeah, like the
Speaker 1: redole errors. Okay, but you know me, I'm doing it now. Anyway,
Speaker 1: if you want to find the book, I believe you
Speaker 1: can search for one hundred and one iPhone Tips and
Speaker 1: Tricks on Amazon and pre order it as a Kindle.
Speaker 1: You can't pre order the paperback just yet, because I'm
Speaker 1: not done there yet. Yeah, but save some trees in
Speaker 1: order the kindle version, we'll do. Okay, I got the
Speaker 1: right one.
Speaker 2: There we go. Okay, So this next question comes from
Speaker 2: Lisa on Facebook. She wrote question for friends, what's a
Speaker 2: good tracking app for families, especially with kids. I have
Speaker 2: friends that with kids that have iPhones, but parents have androids,
Speaker 2: so the find my friends or find iPhone app doesn't
Speaker 2: work for them. Thanks.
Speaker 1: The one I always recommend is is Life three sixty.
Speaker 1: They're the ones that kind of do what you need
Speaker 1: and it's kind of like, you know, if you have iPhones,
Speaker 1: everyone uses that find my app, which is also new
Speaker 1: in iOS thirteen. They consolidated Find my iPhone and Find
Speaker 1: my Friends into one app. So you know. So anyway,
Speaker 1: the Life three sixty works cross platforms. You installed on
Speaker 1: both devices Android iOS, you set it all up. It's
Speaker 1: free for its basic but like any free app, after
Speaker 1: using it for a week, you're just super frustrated with
Speaker 1: all the things that you don't get and you just
Speaker 1: end up subscribing. Is that ever happening? That happens with
Speaker 1: every app with me? I just start out, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I am not subscribing to this app, and after like
Speaker 1: a week, it's like like I've been using ever. Note again,
Speaker 1: I'm just like I am not like the last time
Speaker 1: I canceled ever, note is because my renewal came up
Speaker 1: and it was like seventy bucks for the whole year
Speaker 1: just to take notes, which by the way, Apple has
Speaker 1: like notes built in h which also got a major
Speaker 1: upgrade on iOS. It's really good now. It searches like
Speaker 1: inside text, inside photos and stuff inside your scans. It's
Speaker 1: pretty good. Maybe not inside the photos, but inside scans
Speaker 1: that you do. Actually I think it is in photos,
Speaker 1: but it's it's pretty good. Yeah, I should know. I
Speaker 1: wrote the book. I got to test that one more.
Speaker 1: But Life three sixty does this. And the other thing
Speaker 1: about Life three sixty you have to know is that
Speaker 1: you know you're giving some you're giving some of your
Speaker 1: privacy up because this is an app that is free,
Speaker 1: that is tracking you at all times, and so they
Speaker 1: are collecting some data about you. You have to understand
Speaker 1: that they're making they have a business. My friend has
Speaker 1: a theory that they are. My friend has a theory
Speaker 1: that basically, if you're driving your car with this app
Speaker 1: around and it's like, you know, you're going eighty miles
Speaker 1: an hour or whatever, they're logging all that. Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's say you get to an accident, your insurance company
Speaker 1: is like, oh, we want a subpoena all the records
Speaker 1: from your life three sixty account, which I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's happened before, but that think about that.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of apps on your phone that
Speaker 1: are sort of like looking at your GPS and that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. So will that be something that insurance
Speaker 1: companies will want to just take a little looky loo at.
Speaker 2: Well, it's like the camera for your surveillance camera for
Speaker 2: your car.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, to see like, oh.
Speaker 2: We want a subpoena. Fun word. You know, were you
Speaker 2: on your phone when you got into that thunder bender?
Speaker 1: Right? You get one of those little cameras that points
Speaker 1: both ways you know and in and you're like, oh
Speaker 1: can I cover up that in? Like you? And next
Speaker 1: thing you know, you're like, you.
Speaker 2: Like take the camera after you hit someone's car because
Speaker 2: you don't want anything, right, and.
Speaker 1: You're like burning the SD card because you don't want
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like a whole big think about it.
Speaker 2: No, I mean a total like going to happen.
Speaker 1: Oh of course it is. And with the new cars
Speaker 1: they're going to have all this built in. Who owns that.
Speaker 1: So let's say like you have a Chevy and you know,
Speaker 1: next thing, you know, you get to an accident and
Speaker 1: it's got all these cameras that are recording the whole time.
Speaker 1: There's a black box DVR in your car. Can they
Speaker 1: subpoena Chevy and be like, hey, we want that video
Speaker 1: and they're like, well, we don't know what happened to it.
Speaker 1: Rich deleted it right after that accident.
Speaker 2: Rich burned it in a fire.
Speaker 1: Rich's car is currently at the bottom of a river.
Speaker 2: According to this GPS Oh my gosh, wild we joke,
Speaker 2: but it is a seri serious scary future. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: definitely gonna happen real quick.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna talk about the Nintendo Switch Light. This
Speaker 1: is the new version of the Nintendo Switch that's a
Speaker 1: little bit cheaper, a little less expensive. Reviews are out
Speaker 1: for it. It's one hundred and ninety nine dollars for
Speaker 1: the switch light. It hits store shelves on September twentieth.
Speaker 1: And I've not played with this, but my kid loves
Speaker 1: the switch and the switch light is kind of like
Speaker 1: a smaller version of it. It has better battery life,
Speaker 1: it does not connect your TV. This time because the
Speaker 1: old switch connects your TV or I should say the
Speaker 1: standard switch, and it has no kickstand, so that can
Speaker 1: present some complications because the controllers also don't disconnect from it.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's basically a modern game Boy that
Speaker 1: you know or whatever, Nintendo three DS or DS, whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call it, but it's kind of a
Speaker 1: mobile first gaming platform, whereas the switch bridge the gap
Speaker 1: between the TV and mobile. So I think the switch,
Speaker 1: I think for my son personally, like it's funny because
Speaker 1: he was playing the switch exclusively by like disconnecting it
Speaker 1: from the TV and I kind of rehooked it up
Speaker 1: to the TV, and I'm like, Parker, you and Tanner
Speaker 1: can play on the TV together. So now for the
Speaker 1: last three nights they've been playing Mario Kart on TV
Speaker 1: together and it's kind of cute to watch like the brothers,
Speaker 1: you know, play games. And that frees up Dad to
Speaker 1: basically do my own thing.
Speaker 2: Yes that you can not watch TV but write your
Speaker 2: next book.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can do something else. I actually I am
Speaker 1: writing another books. Yeah, it's I started the other day.
Speaker 1: It's one hundred and one Essential apps and it's basically
Speaker 1: like all the apps.
Speaker 2: Are very serious. Why didn't you tell me this earlier?
Speaker 1: This is just started writing news to everyone, but I
Speaker 1: just started writing it and uh, it's it's it's really cool.
Speaker 1: I've got one hundred and six apps right now, so
Speaker 1: I need to narrow that down to add but it's cool.
Speaker 1: It's like all the apps I just think you should
Speaker 1: know about, you know, like just stuff like that.
Speaker 2: And it's going to be a book.
Speaker 1: It's going to be. Uh. My goal is to make
Speaker 1: this a very inexpensive ebook, like I'm talking probably less
Speaker 1: than adult.
Speaker 2: What if people want the paperback.
Speaker 1: There is no paperback in this. There will be no paperback.
Speaker 1: If you're printing out a book about apps. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but that's just.
Speaker 2: Not you know that there's people.
Speaker 1: Out there's people out there that want to do that,
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe I will do it. You know what,
Speaker 1: never say never, yes, Megan. One thing you've learned in
Speaker 1: life never.
Speaker 2: Ever say ever. And everything happens for a reason.
Speaker 1: Everything happens for a reason. Yes, all right, let's end
Speaker 1: the show with a new thing I call best Thing
Speaker 1: of the Week. Yes, do you have a best thing
Speaker 1: in the week? Megan?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think it's kind of funny. But
Speaker 2: normally every year for Halloween, I know it's September, but
Speaker 2: like I always wait till like the day before or
Speaker 2: the day after Halloween to actually be like, oh, I
Speaker 2: should have you know, been whatever a catween. So my
Speaker 2: friend and I have already started discussing what we want
Speaker 2: to be for Halloween.
Speaker 1: Okay, I like that.
Speaker 2: That's a good One's kind of silly.
Speaker 1: I my best part of the week or best thing
Speaker 1: of the week. I don't even know what the segment's called,
Speaker 1: but I made it up. The best thing of the
Speaker 1: week is, I'm gonna say, is all the pumpkin stuff.
Speaker 1: I've been enjoying what I bought pumpkin like currig Ca cups,
Speaker 1: which it's like to me, it's like the little things
Speaker 1: in life that I don't know why I've been so
Speaker 1: obsessed with Target lately, but it is. It's kind of
Speaker 1: a problem.
Speaker 2: Are you sponsored by them or something?
Speaker 1: I'm not. But here's the thing. I do all my
Speaker 1: shopping on Amazon and I don't go into stores. But
Speaker 1: for some reason, it's like really interesting to me that
Speaker 1: you can buy all this stuff in a Target like this.
Speaker 1: All these things I think are like so cool on Amazon.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my gosh, I can get this on Amazon,
Speaker 1: and it's like like any little thing like toothpaste, and
Speaker 1: I like order on Amazon because I think I'm like
Speaker 1: being smart. I'm like I can go into Target and
Speaker 1: choose from like five hundred different toothpastes in one.
Speaker 2: Eyele the drug store has.
Speaker 1: See that's the thing. I don't go to the drug
Speaker 1: store to buy anything because it way too expensive. The
Speaker 1: three letter word one three. Yeah, I don't. That's like
Speaker 1: whenever I tell it. Whenever that is like I love
Speaker 1: that place, but it is so expensive and it's like
Speaker 1: I just have to not buy anything there because it's
Speaker 1: triple the price of anywhere else. It's true, and it's
Speaker 1: convenient because there's one in every corner.
Speaker 2: But Target's expensive too. I mean for like drug store makeup,
Speaker 2: Like whenever.
Speaker 1: I go, I'm not buying a lot of that. So
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, sure, you think it's expensive for
Speaker 1: drug store makeup.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Target it's like more expensive.
Speaker 1: Some things are oddly expensive, yeah, there, But.
Speaker 2: I do really like Target, Like it's definitely a happy place.
Speaker 1: It's kind of cool.
Speaker 2: It's like the Disneyland of and you just go.
Speaker 1: Out of there and like you get so you get
Speaker 1: everything you need in one place like Costco. You go
Speaker 1: in there and you probably don't go to cost git
Speaker 1: you don't have kids, but no, I've you been in costover.
Speaker 1: You're familiar with the concept. Yeah, yeah, but it's one
Speaker 1: of those places where you go in there and it
Speaker 1: leaves you always leave satisfied but also desiring something that
Speaker 1: you did not get because you either had to buy
Speaker 1: it in bulk, yeah, or it they didn't have it,
Speaker 1: and now you're left with, oh, I gotta go somewhere else.
Speaker 2: I got a really cool, like fuzzy carpet from Costco
Speaker 2: for like seventy dollars and it was like a huge carpet.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I was like, what.
Speaker 1: So rang to fit it in the car?
Speaker 2: What do you mean? How did I finish?
Speaker 1: Did you a giant carpet in the car?
Speaker 2: Uh? You know what? It was like? Definitely tight in
Speaker 2: the car. We had to like fold it or something. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's been like four years since.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're telling a four year old story on a
Speaker 1: show in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: You definitely tell like ten year old stories.
Speaker 1: I do know all the time.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, sorry, everybody.
Speaker 1: I'd probably tell them over and over. Yeah, all right,
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Speaker 1: This is like your personal project. I will tell you.
Speaker 1: I'd look, if you've listened this far into the show,
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Speaker 2: Right, yeah, You're a super rich on techie.
Speaker 1: You're a techy. You're rich on techy. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: this is when I really reveal the stuff that we don't.
Speaker 1: But I will be honest with you. When I started
Speaker 1: with Meghan, I had what how many followers on Instagram?
Speaker 2: I had like thirty one thousand?
Speaker 1: Okay, and how much am I up to?
Speaker 2: Now? You're at seventy one thousand?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And I started what like in November last year? Yeah,
Speaker 2: so almost been a year.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you Meghan doubled. Yeah, I've doubled.
Speaker 1: And Megan is Megan.
Speaker 2: Isld not me? You know it's all.
Speaker 1: But you gave me the push and you told me
Speaker 1: that people care about Instagram and I was like, no,
Speaker 1: they don't. Who cares about Instagram? You said no, people
Speaker 1: get news and information from Instagram, and sure enough, when
Speaker 1: I kind of took that paradigm shift, I started thinking like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, there are people that are just flipping
Speaker 1: through Instagram and they're seeing stuff, and I'm affecting them
Speaker 1: in a way that like, oh, I learned something rather
Speaker 1: than what I used to. If you look, before Megan started,
Speaker 1: I only posted pictures of like me, my family, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know that kind of stuff like travel, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't It was cool, but it was not useful. And
Speaker 1: now I do a mix. Yeah, and who are we
Speaker 1: trying to be? Who's your friend that we're always trying
Speaker 1: to Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh we are saying names.
Speaker 1: But Megan is very competitive.
Speaker 2: We're both competitive. I think it's good to be competitive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. How do people get in touch with you?
Speaker 2: I am on Twitter producer Megan, and then I'm also
Speaker 2: on Instagram Megan mcmonagle. If you can spell.
Speaker 1: That, then then you deserve to be a follower. I
Speaker 1: five you can spell that, you deserve to be a follower.
Speaker 1: All right, Thanks so much for listening to the show.
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Speaker 1: and that's about it. I think that's going to do
Speaker 1: it right. Yeah, anything else I talk about here and
Speaker 1: the book, you can find it on Amazon to pre
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Speaker 1: all about iOS thirteen. Thanks so much for listening. Have
Speaker 1: a fantastic day. We can't wait to see you back here.
Speaker 1: I'm Rich demiro On behalf of me and Meghan. Have
Speaker 1: a great one. Bye bye. You're des No