Speaker 1: A major lifeline bank to the tech industry fails. Ring
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Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: It is a really big day in the tech world.
Speaker 1: Not for a good reason, but for a pretty bad reason.
Speaker 1: A major bank that provides a lot of banking services
Speaker 1: to Silicon Valley has collapsed. It's Silicon Valley Bank. That's
Speaker 1: the name of the bank. You probably haven't heard of it.
Speaker 1: It's a regional bank, but it is very popular among
Speaker 1: the tech community. We're talking VC funds. These are the
Speaker 1: people that hand out money to startups to help them
Speaker 1: create new businesses that might one day become an uber
Speaker 1: or a Twitter or a square or anything else we've
Speaker 1: heard of. They all started with VC funds. Founders do
Speaker 1: business here. Tech industry employees do business at this bank.
Speaker 1: Imagine you going to your bank and it's closed, and
Speaker 1: they say you can't transfer money out, you can't use
Speaker 1: your online banking app, you can't do anything. Your money's
Speaker 1: just stuck. Imagine that feeling. That is the feeling right
Speaker 1: now among thousands of people in the tech industry right now,
Speaker 1: that uncertainty where is my money going to come from?
Speaker 1: How am I going to access this? Am I going
Speaker 1: to get it? This bank is now under the protection
Speaker 1: of the US government. Now I've said in the past
Speaker 1: that this is a tech show for the average consumer.
Speaker 1: So you might be wondering, well, Rich, how does this
Speaker 1: really affect me? Well, in a lot of different ways,
Speaker 1: Because number one, this is something we haven't seen in
Speaker 1: a very long time. A bank of this stature, a
Speaker 1: bank this big, has not failed since two thousand and
Speaker 1: eight with Washington Mutual, remember that bank. So we haven't
Speaker 1: seen something of this magnitude in a very long time.
Speaker 1: Plus the repercussions of just how this will sort of
Speaker 1: go through the tech industry. So I mentioned these startups
Speaker 1: that rely on this bank. So many of these startups
Speaker 1: now may just not be able to make payroll or
Speaker 1: not be able to pay their employees, or the people
Speaker 1: that work at these companies can't do anything.
Speaker 3: Their hands are tied. So how did this all happen?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not an expert in financials, but basically people
Speaker 1: lost confidence in this bank for no really good reason.
Speaker 3: The actually put out a press.
Speaker 1: Release saying what they were going to do, how they
Speaker 1: were going to raise money, what they were doing to
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, even shore up their financials, and
Speaker 1: people saw that as a signal to say, ooh, I'm
Speaker 1: not really sure. I like what's happening here, let's go
Speaker 1: And so the stock price plunged. Then people did a
Speaker 1: run on deposits, so old fashioned bank run. People just
Speaker 1: said hey, I want my money, I want out. And
Speaker 1: then when people started doing that, it's snowballed until everyone
Speaker 1: had to say, okay, stop, stop stop. Government stepped in,
Speaker 1: FDIC takes over, and now this bank is under the
Speaker 1: power of the US government. Now for all we know,
Speaker 1: the bank's financials were actually very sound. So that's what's
Speaker 1: scary here is that this was an old fashioned bank
Speaker 1: run where people just said, you know what, I want
Speaker 1: out and I'm done. And now this bank is just
Speaker 1: affecting so many people's livelihoods. Like I said, the big
Speaker 1: issue here, so many startups rely on this bank. So
Speaker 1: for all these people that had their banking here, this
Speaker 1: is a big period of uncertainty. This is going to
Speaker 1: impact startups, founders, employees, payrolls probably will not.
Speaker 3: Be met this week.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at this press release from the FDIC
Speaker 1: and this is like when you realize that government is
Speaker 1: you know, there's a reason why some of these things
Speaker 1: are in place. So to protect insured depositors, the FDIC
Speaker 1: has created the Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara DNB.
Speaker 1: SO at the time of closing, this was on Friday afternoon,
Speaker 1: the FDIC has now received transfership of all insured deposits
Speaker 1: at Silicon Valley Bank. Now insured deposits is the keyword here.
Speaker 1: All insured depositors will have full access to their insured
Speaker 1: deposits no later than Monday morning, March thirteenth. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing. If you know that insured deposit, that number
Speaker 1: is not very high when it comes to how much
Speaker 1: money some people may have had in this bank. Especial
Speaker 1: if you're a small business, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: That's the standard insurance among any bank in America. So
Speaker 1: when you have a bank account somewhere or multiple bank accounts,
Speaker 1: you are insured up to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Anything after that, there's really no saying you're not necessarily
Speaker 1: guaranteed that money in the case of something like this happening.
Speaker 1: So uninsured depositors are going to get so after their
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand, a receivership certificate for the
Speaker 1: remaining amount of their uninsured funds. So what does that mean.
Speaker 1: That means you get a little certificate that says, uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we know you had a lot of money at this bank,
Speaker 1: but we're just gonna give you this little piece of
Speaker 1: paper that says we're going to try to get your
Speaker 1: money back to you. But there's no guarantees. So as
Speaker 1: the FDIC sells the assets of this Silicon Valley Bank,
Speaker 1: future dividend payments may be made to uninsured depositors. How
Speaker 1: would you feel if if you were a startup and
Speaker 1: you had, you know, you went through this whole process
Speaker 1: of going to these vcs getting a couple of million
Speaker 1: dollars to art your company. Maybe it's not a ton
Speaker 1: of money in the scheme of things, but you know,
Speaker 1: to you it is a couple million to start your
Speaker 1: new business. And next thing you know, you've got two
Speaker 1: fifty and that's it. And the rest of this money
Speaker 1: is just who knows when it may come. Silicon Valley
Speaker 1: Bank had seventeen branches in California and Massachusetts. The main
Speaker 1: office and all branches will reopen on Monday, March thirteenth.
Speaker 1: They're going to maintain their normal business hours, but again
Speaker 1: under the guise of the government, and banking activities will
Speaker 1: resume no later than Monday, March thirteenth, including online banking
Speaker 1: and other services. So you can bet when this online
Speaker 1: banking fires up again on Monday, what do you think
Speaker 1: people are going to do immediately? They're going to try
Speaker 1: to get as much funds out of this bank as
Speaker 1: humanly possible in the shortest amount of time. Official checks
Speaker 1: will continue to clear. As of December thirty first, Silicon
Speaker 1: Valley Bank had approximately two hundred and nine billion dollars
Speaker 1: in total assets and about one hundred and seventy five
Speaker 1: billion in deposit. Now I'm no math whiz, but I'm
Speaker 1: just doing the math right there, two nine minus one
Speaker 1: seventy five. That leaves about thirty five million dollars on accounted.
Speaker 1: So right there, there's a problem. And that's typically you know,
Speaker 1: banks operate this way. When you put your money in
Speaker 1: a bank, it's not sitting there. I mean I learned
Speaker 1: this in like first grade.
Speaker 3: They don't just sit.
Speaker 1: They don't just take your dollar bill and put it
Speaker 1: in a safe and it stays there until you request it. Again, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: they take that dollar bill and they loan it out
Speaker 1: to people, and in that loan they make, you know,
Speaker 1: millions upon millions of loans. They make money on the loans,
Speaker 1: and that's how they're able to pay you that paltry
Speaker 1: interest rate that you get on your savings account. So
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to figure that part out as well. Now,
Speaker 1: again I am reading a press release from the government.
Speaker 1: What do you think the government's role in this is?
Speaker 1: They want people to think that everything's going to be okay,
Speaker 1: and this is just very simple. This is a very
Speaker 1: easy process. Obviously that is not the case. The repercussions
Speaker 1: of this are still very undetermined. We don't know how
Speaker 1: people are going to react. We don't know what people
Speaker 1: are going to do. In fact, I would gather that
Speaker 1: even folks that have business at other banks are going
Speaker 1: to say, Hey, I want some of my money back
Speaker 1: right now. I want to take some of that money
Speaker 1: out because I just I'm losing confidence now, especially when
Speaker 1: it comes to banks that might be a bit smaller
Speaker 1: than the big banks. The big banks, yeah, they'll probably
Speaker 1: be okay. The smaller banks, which people favor because of
Speaker 1: their service, because of the loans they can get, because
Speaker 1: of the hands on approach. That's where we may be
Speaker 1: in trouble because again I mentioned earlier that you probably
Speaker 1: never heard of this bank. But if you're in Silicon Valley,
Speaker 1: there are banks that people do business with regularly because
Speaker 1: they understand the startup world. They understand what it's like
Speaker 1: to start a company. They understand the term bootstrapped, and
Speaker 1: they understand, you know, having employees and making payroll and
Speaker 1: this is not Facebooks of the world. They're going to
Speaker 1: be just fine. The Googles of the world, they'll be
Speaker 1: just fine. These are all the apps that you might
Speaker 1: have on your phone that are brand new, that are small.
Speaker 1: I can think of several on my phone right now
Speaker 1: that I'm like, hmm, what's going to happen when this
Speaker 1: company can't continue to operate because their money is just
Speaker 1: held up or not there. And so again, the repercussions
Speaker 1: of this will be felt by consumers, by you and me.
Speaker 1: It's a scary thing. I mean, you know, I've gone
Speaker 1: through this once in my life, with this whole bust,
Speaker 1: actually twice now. I remember specifically the bust of you know,
Speaker 1: about nineteen ninety nine, two thousand and you know, we
Speaker 1: saw all these tech companies just implode. And it was
Speaker 1: the wild part was that the Super Bowl, I believe
Speaker 1: it was probably nineteen ninety six, ninety seven something like that.
Speaker 1: All of the commercials in the Super Bowl were startups
Speaker 1: you'd never heard of in your life, pets dot Com
Speaker 1: and all these different companies. And you sat there and
Speaker 1: he said, how did they afford super Bowl commercials?
Speaker 3: Howdid this pets dot Com I've never heard of?
Speaker 1: How can they go up against all these pet companies
Speaker 1: that we know and love, like a pet Co or something.
Speaker 1: And sure enough, yeah, it was it was all just
Speaker 1: you know, it was all before its time. Now, tech
Speaker 1: companies have taken ten years to recover from that moment,
Speaker 1: and they've learned a lot from that. And then of
Speaker 1: course we saw the housing bust in two thousand and
Speaker 1: eight and that was a big deal, and of course
Speaker 1: the government bailed out a lot of big financial firms
Speaker 1: during that time. So this will be another lesson learned.
Speaker 1: It's not over yet.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 1: It's not the exciting way to start the show that
Speaker 1: I typically do, and you know, I feel like it's
Speaker 1: important just because we need to understand that when one
Speaker 1: thing unravels, it has effects on the rest of our world,
Speaker 1: whether it's you, whether it's me, whether these startups, and
Speaker 1: as just a human I feel for these people that
Speaker 1: are sitting there just very uncertain right now. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're only twenty four forty eight seventy two hours into
Speaker 1: this and there's still a lot ahead, all Right, we
Speaker 1: got a lot more coming up on the show. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk about that a little bit more later
Speaker 1: on in the show. I've got kaya Yurief in south
Speaker 1: By Southwest and Austin, Texas. She said that already that
Speaker 1: is the talk of the town. So we're going to
Speaker 1: talk to her about what founders are saying down there. Also,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about the yellow iPhone. Yes, this week
Speaker 1: Apple released a new iPhone that's just a different color,
Speaker 1: so we'll talk about that. Facebook is making a big
Speaker 1: change to Facebook Messenger, kind of doing it about face,
Speaker 1: so we'll talk about that.
Speaker 3: Plus.
Speaker 1: My other guests this week include John Faulkner from Clean
Speaker 1: Fleet Report, We're gonna talk evs, and Jefferson.
Speaker 3: Graham Live in studio.
Speaker 1: You may know him as the former editor at USA
Speaker 1: Today Talking Tech. He's going to join me here live
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Speaker 3: What a week. This was a this was a this
Speaker 3: was a week for me man.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's so interesting that so many of these
Speaker 1: tech events and things were sort of sidelined for many,
Speaker 1: many years, like three years. I'm talking virtual events with Google, Apple,
Speaker 1: you know, Facebook, whatever you name it. These companies all
Speaker 1: just you know, went to hibernation for a couple of years,
Speaker 1: and so all these events that I would go to
Speaker 1: and all these things I get invited to just kind
Speaker 1: of stopped. And it was nice because it was relaxing.
Speaker 1: The bad side is that now everything's starting up again.
Speaker 1: I guess it's not bad, it's just it went from
Speaker 1: like zero to one hundred. So I just rattle off
Speaker 1: to my wife every week, like how many things I'm
Speaker 1: getting invited to that either I can't go to or
Speaker 1: it's just conflicting or whatever. And you got to pick
Speaker 1: and choose because it's a lot of travel. I got
Speaker 1: two kids. Can't go to everything, right, But I did
Speaker 1: go to a couple of things this week. First off, Vegas,
Speaker 1: so this was I was actually supposed to shoot a
Speaker 1: story there on Monday, but at the last minute it
Speaker 1: got kind of canceled.
Speaker 3: And the story is really cool. It's can I talk
Speaker 3: about it? Maybe I shouldn't.
Speaker 1: It's a company that's starting up that's uh, they're remote
Speaker 1: remote driving cars. Let's put it that way. So this
Speaker 1: car that's driving you is actually remotely driven. So it's
Speaker 1: it's I don't want to give the whole thing away
Speaker 1: right now, because I do want to do a story
Speaker 1: with them, and it's just so super super cool. But
Speaker 1: if you like, let's just put it this way, if
Speaker 1: your kid is playing video games with one of those
Speaker 1: like you know, steering wheel controllers at this point, they
Speaker 1: may have a future with this startup because that's basically
Speaker 1: what they're doing, except they're driving real cars on real
Speaker 1: streets from a remote place. So anyway, that got canceled.
Speaker 1: So my wife and I were supposed to go to
Speaker 1: Vegas anyway and pick up this story, and so we're like,
Speaker 1: you know what, let's just go.
Speaker 3: So we be lined it to Vegas.
Speaker 1: And as a tech person, I am always interested in
Speaker 1: seeing sort of tech in action, right, So no matter
Speaker 1: what I mean, I think there's this like term for
Speaker 1: like people always be closing, for like a you know, salesperson.
Speaker 1: For me, it's ABT always be testing. So when I'm
Speaker 1: doing something, and I mentioned this last time, how I
Speaker 1: went to the airport and I charged my cars and
Speaker 1: wanted to see how the charging works, the EV charging
Speaker 1: at the airport. So you know, it takes a little
Speaker 1: bit longer, and it takes it's a little bit more
Speaker 1: in depth for me, you know, involved I should say,
Speaker 1: bringing multiple phones, trying out multiple apps. But anyway, let
Speaker 1: me go through the different things that I was sort
Speaker 1: of testing along the way, just on a regular trip
Speaker 1: to Vegas. And I know people love or hate Vegas.
Speaker 1: I'm one of those people that I love it when
Speaker 1: I am anticipating going there, and I hate the drive
Speaker 1: home or I hate coming home because you're not feeling
Speaker 1: so good, you know what I mean. So let's start
Speaker 1: with the parking. So at Lax, reserve the parking online,
Speaker 1: which they they just readed all the parking at Lax
Speaker 1: and so it's all high tech, it's all new. Of
Speaker 1: course they increased the price, but I reserve my parking online,
Speaker 1: and there isn't a thing that I'm there's always a
Speaker 1: lesson in all this stuff. But the reason why I
Speaker 1: mentioned this is because you should always try to do
Speaker 1: stuff online or through the app as much as possible
Speaker 1: right now, because this is where all the companies are
Speaker 1: trying to get you to go, and so they're giving
Speaker 1: you some discounts. So by booking my parking online, it
Speaker 1: was cheaper than driving up and booking it in person
Speaker 1: or just taking a ticket, So I saved like twenty
Speaker 1: thirty bucks. The thing I thought was cool about it,
Speaker 1: and I wondered if they did this, But they asked
Speaker 1: me to put my license plate in the account when
Speaker 1: I paid for my parking, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: wonder if they're going to like automatically let me into
Speaker 1: the parking lot when it does a read of my
Speaker 1: license plate. And sure enough, I've drove up to the
Speaker 1: little guard rail and the thing just rose when it
Speaker 1: saw my license plate. So I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: And then I was like, all right, let's see if
Speaker 1: they're really good. Let's see if this works on the exit.
Speaker 1: And sure enough I didn't have to pull out a ticket.
Speaker 1: I didn't have to do anything. I just drove to
Speaker 1: the exit of the parking garage. It recognized my license
Speaker 1: plate once again, the little pole lifted, and it was great.
Speaker 1: At the airport, I got a salad from this vending
Speaker 1: machine they call Farmer's Fridge, but I thought was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: So it's a high tech vending machine that has fresh
Speaker 1: salads in there. And what's neat about this is that
Speaker 1: it's just neat. I mean to have They emailed me
Speaker 1: because once I tweeted about they have six hundred fridge
Speaker 1: and wholesale locations nationwide. I had no idea. This is
Speaker 1: like a logistical nightmare to get these fresh salads across
Speaker 1: the nation to all of these different vending machines, but
Speaker 1: it was excellent on my way. I use this app
Speaker 1: called Flighty if you want a really good flight tracking app.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna talk more about spring break apps and
Speaker 1: a little bit, but this one is called Flighty. It's
Speaker 1: really the most beautiful tracking app for flights you could
Speaker 1: ever imagine on iOS. And yes, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: pay if you really want the best features. But what
Speaker 1: I love about this app is that it looks back
Speaker 1: through all of your previous flights and it will show
Speaker 1: you how many miles you've flown and how many different
Speaker 1: times you've gone to different places. So I can look
Speaker 1: at my lifetime miles and see that I've gone five
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty one thousand miles two hundred and forty
Speaker 1: eight twenty one point three times around the world, and
Speaker 1: I've been to forty six airports twelve countries, and I've
Speaker 1: flown for fifty one days.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: This is all just what they found in my email,
Speaker 1: and it only goes back to uh well, twenty thirteen
Speaker 1: according to them. But anyway, that's the kind of cool stuff.
Speaker 1: And then when you're in Vegas, Oh my gosh, has
Speaker 1: tech taken over? I remember when there were little change
Speaker 1: carts and buckets for coins, and now it is all
Speaker 1: cash less. I mean, I guess it's not cashless, it's
Speaker 1: just cash. And those cash machines, by the way, they
Speaker 1: don't even give you change. When you've got, like, you know,
Speaker 1: twenty one dollars and twenty two cents to cash out,
Speaker 1: they just give you the twenty one bucks and then
Speaker 1: you could donate the rest of charity, many many more things.
Speaker 1: I'll talk more about Vegas after the break. Phone lines
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Speaker 1: By Southwest is happening in Austin, Texas. It is one
Speaker 1: of my favorite things to go to, even though I
Speaker 1: have not been there in a while. It's just it's
Speaker 1: it's always just right after CS and you know, I'm anyway,
Speaker 1: so uh Kaya Yuif is a reporter for the Information
Speaker 1: and she is down there, and Kaya, how is it Welcome.
Speaker 5: To the show, Hi Rich, thanks for having me. I mean,
Speaker 5: it feels like it's back. I was here last year
Speaker 5: and it was firstly attended. We were coming out of Omicron.
Speaker 5: Still there were all sorts of restrictions, so there's tons
Speaker 5: of hus one bustle. The events are very busy, so
Speaker 5: it does feel like we're.
Speaker 3: Back in action here now.
Speaker 1: South By Southwest IF for the uninitiated, is kind of
Speaker 1: it started out as like a music festival and then
Speaker 1: it was music interactive and oh film, So there's like
Speaker 1: three kind of tracks at this festival, and tech is
Speaker 1: a big part of it, and a lot of tech
Speaker 1: folks go there to talk about stuff and to discuss
Speaker 1: kind of the issues or things that are happening in
Speaker 1: the industry. But it's also a place where many startups
Speaker 1: have gotten their start, Like I mean, I think Twitter, Kaya,
Speaker 1: can you help me out here?
Speaker 3: Was it Twitter? Like yep?
Speaker 5: Twitter, Fourth Square? There were a few really big ones
Speaker 5: that came out of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so every year I would go and I would
Speaker 1: just kind of walk around and see what the startups were,
Speaker 1: which ones looked cool, and of course they were always
Speaker 1: giving out like little swag. And you know, the thing
Speaker 1: is everyone's trying to get your attention. That's really what
Speaker 1: it comes down to. If you're a startup, they're all
Speaker 1: just trying to get your attention. So kaya, first off,
Speaker 1: the big news of the day this SVB, this Silicon
Speaker 1: Valley Bank.
Speaker 3: I assume that's just what everyone talking about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean absolutely, you have you know, on one hand,
Speaker 5: you have the festival attack, people are excited, but you
Speaker 5: do have this news of Fulican Valley Bank's implosion hanging
Speaker 5: over the kickoffs, you know, as founders and vcs descended
Speaker 5: on Austin yesterday. So we're telling me they were scrapping
Speaker 5: their evening plans or you know, trying to just navigate
Speaker 5: the unfolding situation. So pretty much every conversation that, every
Speaker 5: conversation I've had with people has touched on a sub.
Speaker 1: And so my sort of thought is that this is
Speaker 1: obviously just starting. This is just the beginning. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying other banks will fail. I mean, we don't know
Speaker 1: if that's going to happen or not, but it does
Speaker 1: have repercussions throughout the industry that we may not understand
Speaker 1: just yet. I mean, a lot of these startups use
Speaker 1: this bank and may not have access to their capital
Speaker 1: at this point, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, The Information has done a ton of reporting
Speaker 5: on this. I Mean, the big issue immedia issue is
Speaker 5: making payroll, so startups are really trying to figure that out.
Speaker 5: You know, it's possible a buyer will come in as well.
Speaker 5: So this is really unfolding and could change by the minute,
Speaker 5: or the day or the hour.
Speaker 1: So besides that, what is kind of what is some
Speaker 1: of the main themes you're seeing this year? I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously crypto is always kind of a lingering in the
Speaker 1: tech world.
Speaker 3: Is that a big thought this year?
Speaker 5: So it's funny because last year it was you could
Speaker 5: not escape crypto. There were flyers everywhere for crypto projects.
Speaker 5: One of the most popular activations was from Doodles, which
Speaker 5: was an NFT project that's very pastel you pastel themes,
Speaker 5: there were long lines to get into it. This year
Speaker 5: it's pretty much crickets. I mean, there are still webs
Speaker 5: three and crypto panels going on, but the big scene
Speaker 5: is definitely AI. So we've done this, this pivot from
Speaker 5: crypto to AI. Last year I went to a brunch
Speaker 5: for women in Websterree and this year I was invited
Speaker 5: to an AI brunch, So you're really seeing kind of
Speaker 5: the sharp move to AI here this year.
Speaker 1: I feel like with the tech industry at this point,
Speaker 1: it is like just imagine a bunch of people like
Speaker 1: sitting in a in an auditorium and just looking over
Speaker 1: the left ah, looking over to the right, ah, looking
Speaker 1: over to the middle AH. So it's like all these
Speaker 1: different things that the industry kind of fixates on. Crypto
Speaker 1: definitely had its time. It seems like there's less interest
Speaker 1: these days, clearly because of what happened with FTX and
Speaker 1: all the collapse of that. But now AI, I don't
Speaker 1: see the same future for that like AI. Well, there's
Speaker 1: also VR was in there where people were all excited
Speaker 1: about VR, which I still think is gonna happen, but
Speaker 1: it's AI has seemed to happen the fastest out of
Speaker 1: anything we've seen so far.
Speaker 3: Would that be kind of accurate?
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, And I think the focus is really on
Speaker 5: generative AI so we've seen obviously open ais chat GBT
Speaker 5: takes the world by storm over the past few weeks
Speaker 5: and months. So it's not even it's AI, but it's
Speaker 5: also generative AI and kind of what the applications can
Speaker 5: look like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, explain can you explain that a little bit? What
Speaker 3: does that mean?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think the difference is it's tangible, right, you can
Speaker 5: go into this chat box and ask it to write
Speaker 5: something for you and it does it. Whereas I think
Speaker 5: with a lot of these webs free and crypto applications,
Speaker 5: it was still, you know, very much still an idea
Speaker 5: versus the tech wasn't totally there yet. So I think
Speaker 5: that's part of the reason. But I think it's also
Speaker 5: really useful and has really strong consumer application.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know personally, I've been using the bing
Speaker 1: ai since I got access to the wait list feature,
Speaker 1: you know, like the bing dot com slash new, and
Speaker 1: I've now been using it on a daily basis because
Speaker 1: it's so interesting, especially having it on my phone. Like
Speaker 1: the other night, I was at a concert and there
Speaker 1: was three artists, and typically I would look up those
Speaker 1: artists on Google and just get like a little background
Speaker 1: of them, and you know, Google has its way of
Speaker 1: kind of putting different information front and center when you
Speaker 1: Google someone, but with this being AI, it pretty much
Speaker 1: gives me like a biography of them that's sort of
Speaker 1: written up just for me, And it's just a whole
Speaker 1: different way of thinking about getting information, which I think
Speaker 1: is really fascinating to me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely. So we've we've seen a lot of that.
Speaker 5: I haven't got for a ton of sessions yet on
Speaker 5: jener to AI, but it's very hard to escape this
Speaker 5: year now.
Speaker 3: You cover creator economy in.
Speaker 2: A big way.
Speaker 1: Yes, I do, So tell me about that. I mean,
Speaker 1: what's what's going on with that? Especially at south By
Speaker 1: and are we seeing anything new with that?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think with the Creator company. The main event that
Speaker 5: I went to yesterday was an event thrown by Doing
Speaker 5: Things Media. It's a meme account that raised over twenty
Speaker 5: million dollars in VC funding last year. They're behind popular
Speaker 5: Meana accounts, and they actually acquired another meme account called Overheard.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you know overheard La, but it's
Speaker 5: a pretty funny account. So they threw a big party yesterday.
Speaker 5: It's interesting because last year there were companies like Patreon.
Speaker 5: The membership platform for fans and creators who had a
Speaker 5: big event. I don't think they have a big presence
Speaker 5: this year. So I think a lot of startups are
Speaker 5: just feeling kind of the change in the economy and
Speaker 5: they're they're not really spending the dollars as much as
Speaker 5: last year, but they're certainly our creators here.
Speaker 3: Did you just say that a meme account raised twenty how.
Speaker 5: Much more than twenty million dollars last year?
Speaker 7: Correct?
Speaker 1: Twenty million dollars for memes. This is the stuff that
Speaker 1: we're talking about that you scroll through on Instagram and
Speaker 1: it looks like it's sort of hacked together by someone,
Speaker 1: and these are these are business. This is a big
Speaker 1: business behind this. I've never heard of this company doingthings
Speaker 1: dot com this.
Speaker 3: Is media, yeah, oh doing things? Yeah, this is wild.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: Yes, there was an Instagram fame. It's Corky at the
Speaker 5: event yesterday as well. Who has one million followers on
Speaker 5: Instagram name vaccine. So okay, well that celebrity.
Speaker 3: Sighting that I get.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get the fact that these animals on Instagram.
Speaker 1: I mean, look Instagram. Now hold on about this whole thing, though,
Speaker 1: I've got this article about about Instagram pausing their reels
Speaker 1: play bonus.
Speaker 3: So have you heard that?
Speaker 1: And you know this is basically if you've saw a
Speaker 1: lot of reels on your Instagram feed, it's because they
Speaker 1: were paying creators a bonus for doing these things. And
Speaker 1: that bonus at the beginning was a lot, and then
Speaker 1: of course it became less and less as we went on.
Speaker 1: But now they're going to say they're not going to
Speaker 1: do this anymore over the next thirty days are kind
Speaker 1: of like sunsetting it.
Speaker 3: Do you think that will have an impact at all?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we've seen this kind of pull back
Speaker 5: across the board. I mean, these tech companies saw such
Speaker 5: rich engagement during pandemic lockdowns. They were trying to rival
Speaker 5: the rise of TikTok. So a lot of these platforms,
Speaker 5: not just Instagram, rolled out all sorts of cash incentives
Speaker 5: for creators. But you know, now these companies are laying
Speaker 5: off workers and they're not as flush with cast they're
Speaker 5: not able to make those investments. So, you know, I
Speaker 5: think these programs were always a nice bonus for creators
Speaker 5: and it was nice to be able to get that cash,
Speaker 5: but creators know that they can't rely on those programs
Speaker 5: because they come and go. I think what's been most
Speaker 5: reliable is partnerships with brands as well as YouTube has
Speaker 5: you know, long been kind of the leader in terms
Speaker 5: of directly making money from a platform through their ad
Speaker 5: revenue sharing. So I do think it's it's obviously going
Speaker 5: to have a hit on creators' earnings, but I think
Speaker 5: the creators who are really savvy know that they have
Speaker 5: to just take adage of the cash when it's there.
Speaker 1: And at the same time, YouTube just unleashed shorts revenue,
Speaker 1: so you creators for the first time are making money
Speaker 1: based on ads on their shorts. So that's a good
Speaker 1: thing there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and YouTube actually used to have a fund for
Speaker 5: sports and they moved to the ad revenue sharing model,
Speaker 5: so we make the Instagram go that route as well.
Speaker 1: All right, Kaya Yurif. How can folks find you?
Speaker 5: You can find me on Twitter at k Urif and
Speaker 5: you can also subscribe to my newsletter at the Information
Speaker 5: about the Creator Economy.
Speaker 3: All right, you're gonna get some barbecue while you're down there.
Speaker 5: Oh absolutely.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they're doing like vegan barbecue. I mean,
Speaker 1: you get to you know, you gotta please everyone.
Speaker 5: Right, totally. I'm further.
Speaker 1: But you're not doing that one. That's I just be curious.
Speaker 1: I'm not that I'm vegan, but I just be curious,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, barbecue for me, all.
Speaker 1: Right, get some good stuff, all right, Thanks so much
Speaker 1: for joining me here on the show. All right, coming
Speaker 1: up Southwest, south by Southwest just one of my favorite
Speaker 1: Austin in general, just one of my favorite cities.
Speaker 3: I don't even know why I said the vegan thing.
Speaker 1: I probably just upset a lot of people because when
Speaker 1: you're going to Austin barbecue, you're not really thinking about
Speaker 1: getting vegan barbecue. But I'm just saying I'm curious. I
Speaker 1: you know, there's so many new things happening. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at the like the milks that you can get
Speaker 1: in your coffee. Right you go there and there's like
Speaker 1: a list of like one hundred different milks you can
Speaker 1: get now, made from everything from oats to almonds and bananas.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I was just curious. Don't don't send me
Speaker 1: the hate mail, all right. Phone lines are open at
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Speaker 3: My name is rich Dmiro.
Speaker 1: You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to
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Speaker 1: at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: Every week in the show, I talk.
Speaker 1: About some of the things that I've posted to my
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Speaker 3: Week, let's see did I do a lot?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, I did so I posted, Uh, let's see
Speaker 1: I've got at rich on Tech is where you can
Speaker 1: find me on Instagram. Posted some pictures from my trip
Speaker 1: to Vegas I talked about earlier. Oh you gotta see this,
Speaker 1: I posted. I'm We're gonna talk a little bit later
Speaker 1: about this car, but the Lucid Air EV. So this
Speaker 1: Lucid car you've probably started just started seeing them on
Speaker 1: the streets if you live anywhere in California. Maybe not elsewhere,
Speaker 1: but it is an incredible EV that's very high end.
Speaker 1: So this one I drove was like over one hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, So we're talking luxury EV. This is not
Speaker 1: for everyone, believe me, but it'd be nice, that's for sure.
Speaker 3: So I've got a video.
Speaker 1: They took us in this car and we went zero
Speaker 1: to sixty in about three zero point four seconds. And
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. I was not prepared for that at all,
Speaker 1: like really not prepared, and so this captures the reality
Speaker 1: of my reaction, which I've never seen me react like
Speaker 1: this to anything, so you can check that out. I
Speaker 1: also every time it rains in Los Angeles, I post
Speaker 1: the same exact video of me in this get up.
Speaker 3: It's a pod.
Speaker 1: It's called the walking Pod, and it looks like a
Speaker 1: giant wearable hamper. And we recorded this video three years
Speaker 1: ago at this point, maybe four years ago at this point,
Speaker 1: and it went viral and every time I post it,
Speaker 1: it still goes again, every single time. So I posted
Speaker 1: a new kind of clip of just me walking down
Speaker 1: the street in this thing, so you can see how
Speaker 1: silly I look. And then of course I posted some
Speaker 1: pictures from the week in review. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: about Facebook. By the way, if you're trying to call in,
Speaker 1: I believe it looks like we had a little bit
Speaker 1: of an issue with that in case you couldn't tell.
Speaker 1: But if you're trying to call in, I think it
Speaker 1: all seems to be resolved at this point. Kim is
Speaker 1: standing by waiting for your call at triple eight rich
Speaker 1: one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two,
Speaker 1: four to one zero one. I'd blame it on the
Speaker 1: time change, but that hasn't happened yet, so we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens next week. I know I'm always a little
Speaker 1: off with that time change, so maybe the lines we're
Speaker 1: just sleepy today. Facebook making a major change. They put
Speaker 1: out this blog post this week saying, hey, contrary to
Speaker 1: popular reports, we're not dying.
Speaker 3: We're not dead.
Speaker 1: In fact, we've got two billion people using our service
Speaker 1: every single day. People are using Facebook for more than
Speaker 1: just connecting with friends and family, but also to discover
Speaker 1: and engage what's important to them, which is true. I'd
Speaker 1: probably agree with that. I think that I've seen even
Speaker 1: on my Facebook feed that they are using a lot
Speaker 1: more AI to kind of figure out what goes in
Speaker 1: that feed. You don't realize that these tech companies are
Speaker 1: scanning everything you're uploading. So even you know, back in
Speaker 1: the day of Instagram, you would put hashtags on things,
Speaker 1: those are almost not even necessary because Facebook and Instagram
Speaker 1: know more about what you're in TikTok and Twitter. They
Speaker 1: know more about what you're posting about than we do.
Speaker 1: They're scanning your images, they're scanning your videos, They're slicing
Speaker 1: and dicing to figure out exactly what content is in
Speaker 1: there and then using that information to serve this up
Speaker 1: to other people. They're not doing it to be nice
Speaker 1: to you. They're doing it for the benefit of their platform,
Speaker 1: because the more people that interact with things that people post,
Speaker 1: the better. And if you post something really interesting it
Speaker 1: just happens to be a video of a waterfall and
Speaker 1: you don't say anything about it, they know, okay, we're
Speaker 1: going to show this to people that like pictures of
Speaker 1: waterfalls in Hawaii and you didn't even have to say anything.
Speaker 1: So Facebook is kind of doing it about face. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you remember this a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: so back I had to look this up. It was
Speaker 1: like in two thousand. It was a while ago. I
Speaker 1: can't remember. It's twenty fourteen maybe that they said, you
Speaker 1: know what, We're gonna split off Facebook Messenger from the
Speaker 1: main Facebook app. And people went nuts, myself included, because
Speaker 1: I said, why why do we need a separate app
Speaker 1: for Facebook Messenger. It's so much easier to have it
Speaker 1: all built into one thing, And they did it. People
Speaker 1: downloaded Facebook Messenger. Facebook Messengers become very popular, but now
Speaker 1: Facebook is saying, you know what, We're going to rethink
Speaker 1: that little decision. We're now going to build messaging back
Speaker 1: into the main Facebook app. Wait what, why are they
Speaker 1: doing this? Well, they're doing this because of a little
Speaker 1: app called TikTok. And the reason they're doing this is
Speaker 1: because TikTok's really good at showing you stuff, videos that
Speaker 1: you want to see, or maybe you didn't want to see,
Speaker 1: or you just didn't even know existed. But the problem is,
Speaker 1: TikTok is not a very good social network. You may
Speaker 1: send those videos to your friends, but it's not in
Speaker 1: the same way that you can post it to your
Speaker 1: Facebook or to share it on Instagram. And so now
Speaker 1: Facebook is thinking, okay, this might be a pretty killer
Speaker 1: solution we have where people can watch stuff on our
Speaker 1: platform and also share it to their friends on our platform.
Speaker 1: And that is why they are now testing building messaging
Speaker 1: back into Instagram. So are back into Facebook. So don't
Speaker 1: be surprised if you log into Facebook and you get
Speaker 1: this little window that says, hey, did you know you
Speaker 1: can message in Facebook again? You're gonna say, wait, I'm confused.
Speaker 1: I thought I need a Facebook Messenger to do that.
Speaker 1: I thought they took it out of Facebook. Now they're
Speaker 1: putting it back in, So it's been long enough. I
Speaker 1: think it was twenty fourteen when they did that, so
Speaker 1: it's been a while. All right, let's take our first call.
Speaker 1: John is in mission viah John, you're on with.
Speaker 8: Rich Okay, thank you. I've got to go from Windows
Speaker 8: eight point one because it's at its EOL, so I'm
Speaker 8: going to have to go to either Windows ten or
Speaker 8: Windows eleven. I do very basic stuff on my computer,
Speaker 8: mostly financial stuff, and I was wondering which is going
Speaker 8: to be the easier operating system to use, either ten
Speaker 8: or eleven? Which one do you think is going to
Speaker 8: be better for me to use long term?
Speaker 3: What do you do on your computer?
Speaker 8: Mainly just email and then online access to my different accounts,
Speaker 8: and I'd like to do some scanning.
Speaker 3: Okay, oh scanning? Interesting? Okay?
Speaker 1: What about so you're most of what you're doing is
Speaker 1: happening inside a web browser, like email and all that.
Speaker 3: Kind of stuff and connecting tier counts.
Speaker 8: So I mean I've been running the Windows Live email program.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you're using that, okay, which is a nice
Speaker 1: email program. I think that's fine. It'll change a little
Speaker 1: bit when you get to new version of Windows. But
Speaker 1: here's what I'd recommend, So I'd say just skip over
Speaker 1: to Windows eleven. Windows eleven is pretty much a version
Speaker 1: of Windows ten. I think the biggest leap is going
Speaker 1: to this new software in general from Windows eight. I mean,
Speaker 1: Windows ten is a whole different kind of look and feel.
Speaker 1: So why go to Windows ten when it's going to
Speaker 1: be supported for a couple more years. You mentioned EOL
Speaker 1: that means end of life, so Windows eight means it's
Speaker 1: it's not getting active software updates. Windows ten will get
Speaker 1: software updates until October fourteenth, twenty twenty five. Windows eleven
Speaker 1: is pretty much the operating system, which is the one
Speaker 1: I'd go with. They just came out the big ol'
Speaker 1: update for it, so I say take the plunge, do
Speaker 1: the big update to Windows eleven. Learn the system, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna last for a long time because Windows eleven
Speaker 1: is very very new. So I would just skip to
Speaker 1: the eleven and not worry about the ten portion, because
Speaker 1: why learn something twice? Just learn it once? All right,
Speaker 1: John and Mission Viejo, thanks so much for calling today.
Speaker 1: Do appreciate it. Phone lines are open at Triple eight
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Speaker 3: Graham is going to join me formerly of USA Today.
Speaker 1: He's going to talk about taking better pictures with your
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name is rich DeMuro,
Speaker 1: hanging out here talking technology with you at Triple eight
Speaker 1: rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: two four.
Speaker 3: To one zero one.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about the new ring video doorbell in
Speaker 1: just a little bit, but first let's get to Richard
Speaker 1: in Georgia.
Speaker 3: Richard, I like your name.
Speaker 9: You're on with rich Hey, Rich great job. By the way,
Speaker 9: I've been listening to you since you took over for Leo.
Speaker 3: No thank you. Appreciate that.
Speaker 9: I've got a home studio and I'm looking to move
Speaker 9: my control room from the same room into another room
Speaker 9: for better sound isolation. That way I can hear the
Speaker 9: audio coming through the gear and not you know, physically
Speaker 9: in person. But obviously I don't want to cut a
Speaker 9: hole in the wall between the two bedrooms. That's not
Speaker 9: very good for reseal all that, you know, resell of
Speaker 9: the house.
Speaker 1: But well, how long are you gonna stay here? I
Speaker 1: mean maybe maybe this is a long term plan, right.
Speaker 9: Well, at least a few years. But I was wondering
Speaker 9: if if there's like a digital solution for that. Maybe
Speaker 9: I was thinking maybe a march or on one side,
Speaker 9: monitor on the other in a camera.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's one of them. That's that's that's a start.
Speaker 1: It's funny you say this because I went to my
Speaker 1: friend's house in the Las Vegas area, he's a musician,
Speaker 1: and he showed me he had done exactly what you're
Speaker 1: talking about, but he cut the hole in the wall.
Speaker 1: So he had a great setup. I mean it was
Speaker 1: a whole studio. He had all the little streaming cameras
Speaker 1: set up. Everything was was really really like slick. So
Speaker 1: I get it. The window is probably the best way
Speaker 1: to go. But if you don't want to do that,
Speaker 1: and you know the best the next best thing is
Speaker 1: to probably.
Speaker 3: Do some webcams.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, it's funny because when I when I first
Speaker 1: got into the not radio business, but TV back in
Speaker 1: the day when I was a journalism student. I will
Speaker 1: never forget when they told us that the control room
Speaker 1: is not overlooking the studio. It was like, you know
Speaker 1: where I work at Katla, it's a whole different area.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not in the same building. Well it
Speaker 1: used to not be, now it iss But the reality
Speaker 1: is that, yeah, you can do all kinds of stuff
Speaker 1: from anywhere now because of how good technology's gotten. So
Speaker 1: I just happened to be at the Spotify. I took
Speaker 1: a big, a big tour of the Spotify studios here
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. They have an incredible facility and Richard,
Speaker 1: you would be you would love to see.
Speaker 3: These things, have to check that out.
Speaker 7: Awesome.
Speaker 1: But they showed me the studio where they do all
Speaker 1: the recordings for sort of like you know where artists
Speaker 1: come in. So I'm looking at some of my pictures here.
Speaker 1: They just have a whole bunch of instruments, just tons
Speaker 1: of instruments that people can choose from. So they come
Speaker 1: in there and they just pick something and they want
Speaker 1: them to be They actually said they want them to
Speaker 1: be different than what they typically use because that feeds
Speaker 1: the curiosity or the sorry, the creativity, right.
Speaker 9: Absolutely yeah, they get your brain going, it makes you
Speaker 9: think out of the box. Yeah, absolutely right.
Speaker 1: And now I'm looking, I'm looking at their studio and
Speaker 1: their control room does have windows overlooking the studio. Uh,
Speaker 1: they've got probably a giant panel of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Oh,
Speaker 1: probably about forty five what do they call mixer pots
Speaker 1: or something whatever boards?
Speaker 9: Yeah, the headphone mixers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of them there, so I don't
Speaker 1: know how extended. But but here's my point about all
Speaker 1: this is because here's what I learned. The term that
Speaker 1: I learned when I was there is called PTZ.
Speaker 3: Have you heard of that term?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, So that is a pan tilt and zoom. So
Speaker 1: a PTZ camera. As soon as you look this thing up,
Speaker 1: you will recognize it. This is pretty much what these
Speaker 1: studios are using, not only to live stream, but also
Speaker 1: you can use it to sort of monitor what's happening
Speaker 1: in there. So I think you can do dual use
Speaker 1: with this. But I would recommend taking a look at
Speaker 1: a couple of those and installing them very good.
Speaker 9: I didn't think about. Yeah, a control in the pan
Speaker 9: and zoom in in the tilt. That's great, that's a
Speaker 9: great idea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you could go you can go with a
Speaker 1: standard camera, but you know, without that move and it's
Speaker 1: just one big wide angle. But you know, why not,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna be building this thing out, why not
Speaker 1: spend a little bit more and get something that's more
Speaker 1: flexible that will enable you to either connect with the
Speaker 1: people that are in this studio a little bit more
Speaker 1: monitor them. If you want a really cheap solution, have
Speaker 1: you heard of the company whys Yes, So Whise makes
Speaker 1: a pan and tilt camera that's very inexpensive. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's let's see how much theirs is. It is there
Speaker 1: on version three of it. It is thirty three dollars
Speaker 1: and ninety nine cents. So if you want something very inexpensive,
Speaker 1: that's one way to go. But if you want to
Speaker 1: get one of the more expensive PTZ cameras, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm seeing them on I was just looking them up quickly,
Speaker 1: and there's you know, Best Buys got some for about
Speaker 1: four hundred bucks.
Speaker 3: But they go up.
Speaker 1: They can get up pretty expensive, so they can go
Speaker 1: up to a couple thousand. But that's that's probably what
Speaker 1: I recommend and maybe get like a you know, while
Speaker 1: you're while you're at it, get you know, like a
Speaker 1: zoom set up, Like maybe put one of these monitors
Speaker 1: in the corner that people can zoom in so that
Speaker 1: way you can just connect they can see your face,
Speaker 1: you know, over the zoom. But there's a lot you
Speaker 1: can do here. I mean, all this stuff is off
Speaker 1: the shelf and very much doable, and people are doing
Speaker 1: this every day, So I think that it's just a
Speaker 1: matter of kind of figuring out what you want the capabilities,
Speaker 1: and just having fun with it.
Speaker 9: Very cool. I appreciate that it's a lot of great
Speaker 9: information and I look forward to checking out some more
Speaker 9: out in the LA area once I get back out
Speaker 9: to California. Awesome and to longin it's been out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ring me up and we'll see if we can
Speaker 1: get back into the Spotify studios, see if they'll let
Speaker 1: me back in once. Once these companies, once they let
Speaker 1: you out, they kind of like close the door behind
Speaker 1: you and they're like, Okay, we'll see you never again. No,
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding, right, especially since I worked for iHeart,
Speaker 1: So we'll see anyway, all right, Richard, thanks so much
Speaker 1: for joining me today.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 3: All right, have a good one.
Speaker 1: All right, let me tell you about the speaking of
Speaker 1: video cameras, let me tell you about the new Ring
Speaker 1: Video doorbell, so brand new battery doorbell Plus. It's called
Speaker 1: I think Ring has way too many video doorbells at
Speaker 1: this point. You go to their website and you're just like,
Speaker 1: which one do I get? Because there are so many.
Speaker 1: There used to be one Ring video doorbell. Now there
Speaker 1: is a lineup of all different types, some plug in,
Speaker 1: some are battery, some are new, some have higher resolution.
Speaker 1: But the battery doorbell Plus is pretty much their standard
Speaker 1: selection video doorbell. It's a little higher end, so it
Speaker 1: gives you some new features. The number one feature I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna like is that the battery life is
Speaker 1: up to three times better than the standard Ring video doorbell.
Speaker 1: Now they say the original, So now does that mean
Speaker 1: when the original came out like ten years ago? What
Speaker 1: do they mean by that? So I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: test this and see just how much battery. I've got
Speaker 1: a Ring video doorbell with the battery, and I'm replacing
Speaker 1: the battery probably every I'd say, maybe every four months,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't lie as long as i'd like, but
Speaker 1: I do have two batteries, so I just swap them
Speaker 1: out and that makes life. By the way, a little
Speaker 1: pro tip, just swap them out so much easier. Just
Speaker 1: go on the Ring website. If you've got one of
Speaker 1: these video doorbells that you're swapping the battery and you're
Speaker 1: taking the battery out and you're charging it and you're
Speaker 1: putting it back in, just just buy a secondary battery
Speaker 1: and keep that one charging and then you can just
Speaker 1: swap them out and that way you're never without your
Speaker 1: your video doorbell. So this is their first doorbell launch
Speaker 1: in two years. The biggest difference you're gonna notice with
Speaker 1: the video is that it has a brand new viewing
Speaker 1: angle one hundred and fifty degrees by one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty degrees field of view, so it's a one to
Speaker 1: one aspect ratio, so it's not like sixteen by nine.
Speaker 1: I think the Google one is more like that. But
Speaker 1: this will give you a head to toe view of
Speaker 1: your visitors, which is kind of cool. Then also you
Speaker 1: can see if you have a package at your front door.
Speaker 1: Because the field of view is so wide, up and
Speaker 1: down and left and right, you can see the floor,
Speaker 1: so that's really handy because that's something that was greatly
Speaker 1: missing in the Ring video doorbells from yesteryear. The resolution
Speaker 1: is also better. It's got the highest HD resolution of
Speaker 1: any battery doorbell at fifteen thirty six p, so it's
Speaker 1: a decent resolution. It's probably you know, it's pretty reasonable.
Speaker 1: So that's that's very good because sometimes people talk about
Speaker 1: how the resolution of these video doorbells just isn't very good.
Speaker 1: So fifteen thirty six will will provide a pretty good
Speaker 1: view of what's happening there. And it does have color
Speaker 1: night vision as well. So how much this is one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy nine dollars. It will start shipping on
Speaker 1: April fifth. I will tell you this may be enough
Speaker 1: for me to update my Ring video doorbell. It's been
Speaker 1: been a while since I got one, and so I
Speaker 1: think that this is probably about time to do it.
Speaker 1: One hundred and eighty dollars. The only thing I would
Speaker 1: caution you on is paying full price. Ring products like
Speaker 1: Amazon products, because they're owned by Amazon, they do typically
Speaker 1: go on sale one, two, maybe three times a year,
Speaker 1: so I would wait until one of those things goes
Speaker 1: on sale. One of those special days they have. Usually
Speaker 1: it's around a holiday, obviously during Prime Day, but I
Speaker 1: would wait one hundred and eighty bucks. Still decent deal,
Speaker 1: but I think you can get it for cheaper. I
Speaker 1: think you could probably get that price down to maybe
Speaker 1: fifty dollars less than that. So something'll look out for
Speaker 1: for sure. Google Io happening in person May tenth.
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Google Io is Google's big, big developers conference. I've been
Speaker 1: to this many many times. It's one of my favorites
Speaker 1: of the year because they pretty much show you all
Speaker 1: the cool stuff they've been working on at Google. And
Speaker 1: this year should be very exciting because we're going to
Speaker 1: see their new AI. I think they're gonna wait to
Speaker 1: show us barred in a big way until Google Io
Speaker 1: comes out on May tenth, so I.
Speaker 3: Will be there.
Speaker 1: This is happening in Mountain View, California, Shoreline Amphitheater. It's
Speaker 1: a limited live audience, but I was lucky and I
Speaker 1: got an invite from Google, so I will definitely be
Speaker 1: taking advantage of that. Love I'd love the Google stuff.
Speaker 1: These Googlers are just so nerdy and fun. They're like
Speaker 1: my people, you know. I just love chatting with them,
Speaker 1: I can be like, hey, answer me this question about
Speaker 1: how Android auto works. Like you get to talk to
Speaker 1: the actual engineers that program this stuff. And so for
Speaker 1: me that's always a delight because there's only so much
Speaker 1: you can get by looking at the stuff they put
Speaker 1: online or playing with yourself.
Speaker 3: Other things expected.
Speaker 1: To be seen at Google Io twenty twenty three Pixel
Speaker 1: seven a that is going to be an inexpensive pixel device.
Speaker 1: Also the Pixel tablet, that's exciting because we haven't seen
Speaker 1: a good Android tablet in a while. And maybe even
Speaker 1: the Pixel fold their foldable phone, and maybe a pixel
Speaker 1: tracker as well. And of course Android fourteen they'll probably
Speaker 1: show off that too.
Speaker 3: All right, coming up on.
Speaker 1: The show, we're going to talk about evs. Plus what
Speaker 1: else do I have going on here? Oh, we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about spring break apps. I've been testing a bunch
Speaker 1: of them. So I told you about flighty earlier. I've
Speaker 1: got plenty more where that came from. Be a call
Speaker 1: triple eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four to one zero one.
Speaker 3: You're listening to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you on a well, you know, some of
Speaker 1: you are listening live, some of your listening later. So
Speaker 1: I'm just hanging out with you eight eight eight rich
Speaker 1: one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two,
Speaker 1: four to one zero one. I usually do some feedback
Speaker 1: at the end of the show, but since Bob just
Speaker 1: emailed me and said, great job on your show, but
Speaker 1: one suggestion, since you're broadcasting nationwide to people who may
Speaker 1: or may not know California cities, instead of saying Chatsworth
Speaker 1: or call from Northridge, you might want to add California.
Speaker 3: Just a suggestion. Thanks for all you do fun stuff.
Speaker 1: Uh, you know this is so interesting, Bob, because this
Speaker 1: is I struggle with this also on KTLA because I'm
Speaker 1: i mean very LA centric, right, like I am located
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. The show broadcast Los Angeles, both KTLA
Speaker 1: and this show. But you're right, my KTLA segment goes nationwide,
Speaker 1: and so does this show, and so there's always that
Speaker 1: line of making sure people are comfortable understanding what you're
Speaker 1: talking about, where you're coming from, what you're doing, and
Speaker 1: so on KTLA it's become you know, sometimes if there's
Speaker 1: a city I'm referencing in a story that people outside
Speaker 1: Los Angeles may not know. I say we went to
Speaker 1: San Bernardino, California, and people in Los Angeles are watching
Speaker 1: my story saying, wait, why is Rich saying.
Speaker 3: San Bernardino, California?
Speaker 1: Like, I know San Bernardino, I live right here, but
Speaker 1: people that are watching in other cities like Chicago or
Speaker 1: Honolulu may not know those places. So I agree that
Speaker 1: is definitely something I need to get better at, and
Speaker 1: I will do that for sure, because I take for
Speaker 1: granted I think if I say Phoenix, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I need to say Arizona. But if it's a
Speaker 1: smaller city somewhere, maybe I'll just do that anyway. All right,
Speaker 1: So I was only about Vegas earlier, and I kind
Speaker 1: of want to continue that conversation because there was more
Speaker 1: I had, more I had thoughts on. So I was
Speaker 1: talking about how my wife and I went to Vegas
Speaker 1: over the weekend. We didn't really do much except just
Speaker 1: kind of enjoy you know, eating out, dinner and just
Speaker 1: kind of shopping whatever. Not a huge gambler, but you know,
Speaker 1: I do like playing some of these machines the kind
Speaker 1: of fun. Sometimes I'm not going to spend a lot
Speaker 1: of money on them because to me, it's you know,
Speaker 1: I'd rather buy something with my money, but it's still fun.
Speaker 1: But one thing I noticed is that the digitizing of
Speaker 1: Vegas is really happening in a very fast way. And
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier how when I first started going to Vegas,
Speaker 1: they actually had people that would give out change. There'd
Speaker 1: be people walking around these little carts that would change
Speaker 1: your money. You would take a twenty dollars bill and
Speaker 1: you'd get nickels in a role.
Speaker 3: I mean this is going back many many.
Speaker 1: Years, but used to actually put coins in a machine
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas, which nowadays is just so not the
Speaker 1: thing you put money in. And we used to sit
Speaker 1: there and play a nickel slot for an hour on
Speaker 1: five ten bucks. And now, of course people feed twenties
Speaker 1: and hundreds into these machines. But the slot machines are
Speaker 1: really getting high tech. I mean bigger and bigger and bigger.
Speaker 1: Every time I go. I think at the Venetian wherever
Speaker 1: I was, they're gonna have to open up the ceiling
Speaker 1: because some of these machines are getting so large three
Speaker 1: D screens, the sound effects. The other thing I noticed
Speaker 1: is that all of these table games that used to
Speaker 1: have dealers sitting there are now digital And so we
Speaker 1: went to the Paris Casino in Las Vegas and they
Speaker 1: had this entire almost it looked like a nightclub area
Speaker 1: where it was three dealers on a stage. One was
Speaker 1: doing craps, one was doing blackjack, one was doing roulette,
Speaker 1: but they were also sort of dancers and DJs at
Speaker 1: the same time. So they're literally spinning music, spinning the
Speaker 1: roulette table, and everyone that's playing is playing on a
Speaker 1: digital screen at a seat in front of them. So
Speaker 1: imagine a little mini auditorium where it's kind of real
Speaker 1: and kind of digital.
Speaker 3: It was a mix.
Speaker 1: That was the first time I've ever seen that, and
Speaker 1: I saw that theme at various other hotels. It wasn't
Speaker 1: just the Paris. I also saw that happening at Caesar's
Speaker 1: and in general, I've just seen a lot more of
Speaker 1: these games that were traditionally table games becoming digital.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: As a tech person, I thought when they had USB
Speaker 1: charging ports on the slot machines, that was cool until
Speaker 1: I realized the security implications of that, and I'm not
Speaker 1: a big fan. So now they have switched to wireless charging,
Speaker 1: so while you're sitting there at a slot machine, you
Speaker 1: can just put your phone down and it will wirelessly charge.
Speaker 1: The other thing that I'm seeing is the idea of
Speaker 1: back in the day, you were not allowed to take
Speaker 1: pictures in a casino, or it was frowned upon. Like
Speaker 1: I specifically remember when we first started having cell phones
Speaker 1: and casinos, they were just like no, no, no, can't take pictures.
Speaker 1: And now, of course there's selfie stations, which is a
Speaker 1: whole other thing. So it's just the changes that are
Speaker 1: happening are happening rapidly, and if you're not watching them,
Speaker 1: you may not realize just how much of these things
Speaker 1: are changing.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: As a tech person, I find it very fascinating to
Speaker 1: just watch this digital transformation of almost every industry and
Speaker 1: in Vegas and almost everywhere. It's like we are doing
Speaker 1: more and more on our own. It's much more self
Speaker 1: service no matter what you're doing these days, and it's
Speaker 1: almost like tech creep right where it's just it's creeping
Speaker 1: up on us and we don't really realize that it's
Speaker 1: all just changing very quickly. So I mentioned these spring
Speaker 1: Break travel apps. I tested a bunch. I put a
Speaker 1: piece on KTLA last week. I tested a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of apps and here's the ones that I would recommend.
Speaker 1: All right, So first off, if you need some help
Speaker 1: with packing, the app is called pack point, So you
Speaker 1: put in some details about your trip, where you're going,
Speaker 1: It looks at the weather and it just a list
Speaker 1: based on the activities and whether where you're going. And
Speaker 1: so that's called packpoint, and it's just a nice thing
Speaker 1: if you're always forgetting something when you pack. Tripsy so
Speaker 1: a lot of people like this app called trip it,
Speaker 1: which puts an itinerate together for your travel. Tripsy is
Speaker 1: a little bit more consumer oriented, and what I love
Speaker 1: about it is once you put everything in there, then
Speaker 1: you can share it with friends and families. You can
Speaker 1: share your whole itinerary. Now, when it comes to hotels,
Speaker 1: you got to check out Google Hotels to see if
Speaker 1: there's any cheap dates for where you're going. They will
Speaker 1: mark things as deals because Google has so much data.
Speaker 1: So definitely go to Google Hotels if you have not
Speaker 1: done that. You gotta be careful though, because sometimes they
Speaker 1: will lead you to some sort of random hotel sites
Speaker 1: that you don't want to book on, so just be careful.
Speaker 1: And I also mentioned Flighty that is a beautiful flight
Speaker 1: tracking app.
Speaker 3: On iOS.
Speaker 1: But if you're on Android, check out an app called
Speaker 1: flight Aware. I love flight Aware because it gives you
Speaker 1: really good flight alerts, especially if you have someone that's
Speaker 1: coming into town. Flight Aware will help you know when
Speaker 1: they take off, when they land, baggage, all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: I've got this all linked up on my website at
Speaker 1: Richontech dot TV. Coming up, we're gonna talk evs. You're
Speaker 1: listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here talkin technology at triple eight Rich one
Speaker 1: oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two,
Speaker 1: four to one zero one. So this week had a
Speaker 1: little fun with a EV called the Lucid. Lucid is
Speaker 1: a new car company that is building luxury evs, and
Speaker 1: the one that I testdrove is the Lucid Air. And
Speaker 1: this isn't a car that's very expensive. Let me let
Speaker 1: me get the specs up here. We did the Touring edition.
Speaker 1: So this one hundred and seven thousand dollars, dual motor,
Speaker 1: six hundred and twenty horsepower, three point four seconds zero
Speaker 1: to sixty and by the way, the top of the
Speaker 1: line goes zero to sixty in two point six seconds
Speaker 1: with over a thousand horsepower. I am not a car guy,
Speaker 1: but a thousand horsepower seems pretty pretty intense. Even this
Speaker 1: six hundred and twenty was pretty intense. Battery is the
Speaker 1: thing about this company, and I think they're trying to
Speaker 1: take that Apple model is efficiency. So the battery compared
Speaker 1: to the software, they get about four hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five miles to the charge and that's the big lead here.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So while I was up in Ventura, I talked to
Speaker 1: John Faulkner. He's a senior editor at clean Fleet Report.
Speaker 1: They talk all about EV's. Enjoy our conversation, Rich DeMuro
Speaker 1: here in Ventura, California, actually on a Lucid EV drive.
Speaker 1: So I'm testing out a new car called the Lucid Air.
Speaker 3: This is a very high end EV. Expensive but it's.
Speaker 1: Got a long range and it's really a luxury vehicle.
Speaker 1: Joining me on the trip is John Faulkner. He is
Speaker 1: the senior writer at cleanfleet Report dot com.
Speaker 3: He tests a lot of evs. John, thanks so much
Speaker 3: for joining me.
Speaker 1: Hey, Rich, fantastic all right, So what are your impressions
Speaker 1: of this Lucid First off, the first.
Speaker 10: Thing is that it's one of four models that they have,
Speaker 10: and they began with their first two models that were
Speaker 10: over one hundred thousand dollars and this one is at
Speaker 10: ninety two thousand dollars. Yes, it has a smaller battery,
Speaker 10: but you're still going to be getting several hundred miles
Speaker 10: in range. And we just drove it from Malibu through
Speaker 10: the mountains down here to Ventura and it handled extremely
Speaker 10: well on the on the twisties and using regenitive braking.
Speaker 10: I didn't touch the brakes on the whole time I
Speaker 10: went through the mountains.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, so you were just letting it kind of
Speaker 1: it kind of slows down. That's a new experience for
Speaker 1: a lot of folks if you haven't driven an EV.
Speaker 1: What's happening in that In that scenario.
Speaker 10: Whenever you lift off the accelerator, and with an EV
Speaker 10: you don't call it the gas pedal, it slows the motors.
Speaker 10: And when the motors are slowing or it comes to
Speaker 10: a stop, you are regenerating kinetic energy heat from the
Speaker 10: motor back into the battery. You can actually watch on
Speaker 10: the battery gauge. You can watch the you can watch
Speaker 10: the amount of charge rise.
Speaker 3: So you've been reviewing evs for a long time.
Speaker 1: Is there increased interest or is it at interest at
Speaker 1: all time highs at this point?
Speaker 10: Well, it certainly is. And I live in California, and
Speaker 10: California is the center for electric vehicles in the United States.
Speaker 10: And we have in this state the most robust built
Speaker 10: out charging network and then people are doing solar panels,
Speaker 10: people are putting level two chargers in their house, and
Speaker 10: so this state has really adopted electric vehicle propulsion.
Speaker 1: What if I live in another state, what what's the
Speaker 1: state of affairs there?
Speaker 10: Several states are getting into building out their infrastructure also,
Speaker 10: and the the current Inflation Reduction Act also called ira A,
Speaker 10: billions are going into building out the the electric charging
Speaker 10: infrastructure around the United States. But as far as individual
Speaker 10: states go, it really comes down to and I hate
Speaker 10: to say it, but it's politics, and some states don't
Speaker 10: want to believe in electric.
Speaker 1: Vehicles.
Speaker 10: There are actually a couple of states that say that
Speaker 10: they want to ban electric vehicles from being sold there.
Speaker 10: And so this is this is not a nationwide grasping
Speaker 10: of the technology. It certainly is along the coasts Oregon, Washington, California, Arizona,
Speaker 10: Texas has a has a large ev population U as
Speaker 10: as does the Northeast.
Speaker 1: So what are some of the benefits to evs versus
Speaker 1: the challenge of owning an EV.
Speaker 10: Well, the benefit is that every single time that you
Speaker 10: drive down the street, you drive by a gasoline station
Speaker 10: that has assigned five twenty five for gasoline, you can
Speaker 10: just say oh and off you go, so you don't stop.
Speaker 10: That's that's what's nice about that. The also owning an
Speaker 10: EV versus a conventional internal combustion engine car is that
Speaker 10: you don't have tune ups. You you don't have there's
Speaker 10: no fluids changed, there's no belts there the brakes I
Speaker 10: mentioned regenerative braking. Actually what that is is that's the
Speaker 10: motor slowing the vehicle. That means that the brakes, the
Speaker 10: brake pads are not being used as much. There are
Speaker 10: stories of people in some EV's going over one hundred
Speaker 10: thousand miles before they change their brake pads. So the
Speaker 10: cost of maintenance is a serious consideration when it comes
Speaker 10: down to owning an electric fevehicle. Since the average that
Speaker 10: a person drives every day is forty five miles round trip.
Speaker 10: If you have a vehicle that gets one hundred and
Speaker 10: fifty to three hundred miles on a charge. You can
Speaker 10: figure out how you only have to do that. Vehicle
Speaker 10: may charge it once once a week. But if you're
Speaker 10: plugging it in every night, just like you would your
Speaker 10: mobile phone every night, plug in your car at home,
Speaker 10: you top off the battery and we're back to the
Speaker 10: beginning of what we said. You drive by the gas
Speaker 10: stations and you get that kind of a nice feeling.
Speaker 1: Now, whenever I do a story about EVS and post
Speaker 1: it to my social media, I get the folks saying.
Speaker 3: Well, what about these batteries.
Speaker 1: They're dirty, they can't be recycled, you can't do anything
Speaker 1: with them.
Speaker 3: What can you speak to that at all? The battery
Speaker 3: does it have a life after the car batteries?
Speaker 10: Absolutely do. They are being recycled in a way that
Speaker 10: people probably didn't think several years ago they could be.
Speaker 10: There are companies that are completely dedicated to recycling the batteries.
Speaker 10: But it's it's not just recycling the components, which you've
Speaker 10: heard the term rare earth metals. What they're doing is
Speaker 10: they're taking these and there and they're making battery walls
Speaker 10: out of them, so you get solar panels on your roof. Well,
Speaker 10: that's good, But overnight, when the sun's not hitting your panels,
Speaker 10: you're now on the grid. Well, you have a battery
Speaker 10: set up in your house, and now you can run
Speaker 10: your battery. You can run off of the batteries from
Speaker 10: the electric that you've created from the solar panels during
Speaker 10: the day, so they're being repopulated for that. They're also
Speaker 10: there's the battery technology is increasing every single day. The
Speaker 10: batteries we're using now in twenty twenty three, this will
Speaker 10: not be the technology we're using five to ten years
Speaker 10: from now.
Speaker 1: What are some of your favorite or most exciting evs
Speaker 1: out there?
Speaker 3: Besides the Lucid of course, I.
Speaker 10: Really like the Kia EV six or the performance version
Speaker 10: of the.
Speaker 3: EV six GT.
Speaker 10: I like the Genesis GV sixty. I like the Hyundai
Speaker 10: Ionic five. The common thread running through all those is
Speaker 10: they're all they're all produced by the Hyundai Group, and
Speaker 10: somehow Hundai has electric compulsion figured out. I like the
Speaker 10: Machi from Ford. It's a very nice vehicle. I think
Speaker 10: they're probably the best value on the market. Is the Bolt,
Speaker 10: whether you get the bolt or you get the one
Speaker 10: called the EUV, which stands for Electric Utility Vehicle wonderful vehicle,
Speaker 10: almost three hundred miles in range. The vehicle costs, you know,
Speaker 10: around thirty thousand dollars, and it qualifies for all of
Speaker 10: the all of the tax rebates for the Feds and
Speaker 10: state rebates also. So those are some of them, but
Speaker 10: there are. Every single day, it seems a manufacturer is
Speaker 10: announcing they're coming out with electric vehicle. Now some of
Speaker 10: them are quite exotic, and some of them are going
Speaker 10: to be hopefully on the on the lower end, and
Speaker 10: so that that's going to be the shakeout is an
Speaker 10: EV for everybody. They're not for everybody, and we need
Speaker 10: to we need to stress that that's either because of
Speaker 10: their driving lifestyle, what they do, their vocation. And another
Speaker 10: thing is going to be the charging situation, and that
Speaker 10: is that here in California, where it's temperate, you plug
Speaker 10: in your vehicle and you're going to get a maximum charge.
Speaker 10: When you go into a climate that is cold, and
Speaker 10: I don't mean fifty degrees, I mean maybe you know,
Speaker 10: thirty or thirty below, that vehicle is going to have
Speaker 10: a reduction in the amount that the battery can charge
Speaker 10: and also the range that you can drive the vehicle.
Speaker 10: So most evs are coming out now with what are
Speaker 10: called battery conditioners. They raise the battery before you charge it.
Speaker 10: They raise the battery up to the proper temperature so
Speaker 10: they can accept a full charge. So the technology is
Speaker 10: changing every single day and it's exciting.
Speaker 11: And if.
Speaker 10: You pay attention to ads almost Super Bowl, you will
Speaker 10: see that everything advertised there was an electric vehicle, all right.
Speaker 1: John Faulkner of the Clean Fleet Report, tell folks how
Speaker 1: to find.
Speaker 10: You cleanfourport dot com. And what you'll find there is
Speaker 10: that we cover what we consider what we consider alternative
Speaker 10: fuel vehicles, and so that's anything that's electrified natural gas,
Speaker 10: hydrogen fuel cell, which is another form of electricity powered
Speaker 10: vehicles which we did not discuss, and that would also
Speaker 10: include diesel.
Speaker 3: All right, thanks for joining me today.
Speaker 10: It's been my pleasure.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: If you want to see a little video from my
Speaker 1: test drive of the Lucid, we did a zero to
Speaker 1: sixteen about three point four seconds. I was not exactly
Speaker 1: prepared for it.
Speaker 3: It's pretty wild.
Speaker 1: You can find that on my Instagram at rich On Tech.
Speaker 1: I'm Rich Dumuro more of rich On Tech. After this,
Speaker 1: welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here plus
Speaker 1: your calls at eight eight eight rich one oh one
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Speaker 1: I finished that Elvis movie last night. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've seen this, but it's the one it's I
Speaker 1: called it, and I I called it the Tom Hanks
Speaker 1: Elvis movie, and I realized that I was wrong because
Speaker 1: this was before I saw it. It's really the Austin
Speaker 1: Butler Elvis movie. But I wasn't familiar with this actor
Speaker 1: before I watched it, and wow, he did a great job.
Speaker 1: I know I'm very late on this movie because I
Speaker 1: see things sometimes with movies. It takes me a long time,
Speaker 1: and it took me two weeks to finish this movie,
Speaker 1: but it was. It was really good, and I tweeted
Speaker 1: yesterday saying, I hope it's accurate because almost all of
Speaker 1: my knowledge of Elvis now is from this movie, and
Speaker 1: so I hope that it was at least somewhat accurate
Speaker 1: because that's all I know about Elvis. And wow, I
Speaker 1: mean just such just a visually stunning movie. So if
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it, definitely check it out. Took me
Speaker 1: a bit to get on board with it, but I did.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Phone lines are open at triple eight Rich one one
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Speaker 1: zero one.
Speaker 3: Let me do a question.
Speaker 1: I get a lot of questions via email, so let
Speaker 1: me do a question I got from Roslind. She says, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: what are your recommendations regarding a laptop versus an iPad
Speaker 1: from Microsoft Office? I use it for personal nothing too fancy.
Speaker 1: Thanks in advance, Roz Roz. Here is my thought about
Speaker 1: a laptop versus an iPad. Okay, laptop is great if
Speaker 1: you are getting work done. It is a phenomenal work
Speaker 1: device you want to do You mentioned Microsoft Office. That
Speaker 1: leads me to believe that you want to do work
Speaker 1: on this device, whether it is email, whether it is
Speaker 1: writing documents, whether it is creating something anything. That's what
Speaker 1: I think a laptop is best for. The iPad is
Speaker 1: a phenomenal device, But the iPad is more of a
Speaker 1: content consumption device. And don't get me wrong, people do
Speaker 1: plenty of content creation on iPads. It can be used
Speaker 1: in many, many different ways. But I would say a
Speaker 1: majority of the people who are using an iPad are
Speaker 1: using it to consume content, whether that's Netflix, whether that
Speaker 1: is just reading their email, whether that's Web browsing, whether
Speaker 1: that's reading a book. You can do a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff on an iPad. It is an incredible device. But
Speaker 1: you mentioned Microsoft Office specifically, and so in that case,
Speaker 1: I would say you probably want a laptop. A laptop
Speaker 1: is going to be much more suited because of that
Speaker 1: keyboard that's built in, because of the screen, because of
Speaker 1: the ports.
Speaker 3: It's just going to be easy to use.
Speaker 1: Now, I will say I wish that Apple would get
Speaker 1: on board with a touch screen laptop, which my kids
Speaker 1: don't understand when they see me using the iPad or
Speaker 1: they use their iPad and then they go to their laptop.
Speaker 1: They say, I don't understand why Apple doesn't just have
Speaker 1: a touch screen, And I say, I don't know, and
Speaker 1: I think I do know. The answer is that they
Speaker 1: want you to buy the iPad in addition to the laptop.
Speaker 1: That's probably why they don't have the touch screen on
Speaker 1: the laptops. But all the other major companies have moved
Speaker 1: to a touchscreen laptop for the most part, and so
Speaker 1: you can have the best of both worlds. Where you
Speaker 1: see something on the screen, you want to tap a
Speaker 1: box or whatever you need to do, just tap the screen.
Speaker 1: That's not the case on the Microsoft or the MacBook computers.
Speaker 1: I will say that if you are thinking of getting
Speaker 1: the iPad with the keyboard case and maybe you're just
Speaker 1: doing light email, maybe you're just doing light work on
Speaker 1: the iPad, that's another solution because then you truly get
Speaker 1: the best of both worlds, especially if you're traveling a lot,
Speaker 1: because then you can have the iPad on the plane
Speaker 1: and when you get back to the hotel, you can
Speaker 1: actually do your work and email with that little keyboard.
Speaker 1: Those keyboards are never as good though, That's the bottom
Speaker 1: line with that. Susan wrote in and said, my nephew
Speaker 1: suggested I start using duck duck goo to search and
Speaker 1: duck for my emails.
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts, Sue? Okay.
Speaker 1: Duck Duckgo is a search engine that prides itself on privacy.
Speaker 1: That is the main thing. And you've probably seen the
Speaker 1: ads if you go to their website duck duckgo dot com,
Speaker 1: it says, tired of being tracked online?
Speaker 3: We can help.
Speaker 1: We don't store your personal information, we don't follow you
Speaker 1: around with ads, we don't track you.
Speaker 3: Ever, there's no sign up for this.
Speaker 1: You don't need an account to search, and their big
Speaker 1: thing is that it is private compared to Google, that
Speaker 1: as soon as you start searching, they're recording everything you're
Speaker 1: doing and putting it into a profile of who you
Speaker 1: are and what you're searching for, so that they can
Speaker 1: sell ads against that. So duc Ducco still has ads,
Speaker 1: but I think they're sold on a more broad level
Speaker 1: and they're not necessarily targeted towards you. They're targeted towards
Speaker 1: what you might be searching for. So if you search
Speaker 1: for kayaks, you're gonna get ads for kayaks, but the
Speaker 1: kayak company does not remember that you were searching for
Speaker 1: kayaks specifically. They just know that you happen to be
Speaker 1: searching for kayaks at that time. There's a difference there,
Speaker 1: and that's the reason why you get those follow follow
Speaker 1: me around ads where you search for a pair of
Speaker 1: shoes on one website or sneakers, and next thing you know,
Speaker 1: they're following you around to every other website because those
Speaker 1: shoe sellers have gotten information from Google that say, oh,
Speaker 1: you visited this website. In fact, they're getting the information
Speaker 1: from the website that you first visit. So let me
Speaker 1: explain how that works. You go to a website, let's
Speaker 1: say you go to a shoe website. That shoe website
Speaker 1: has a little tracking pixel in it from Facebook, from Google,
Speaker 1: from Microsoft, from other companies that serve up ads, and
Speaker 1: every time once you go to that website, it says, oh,
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro visited here. Now it may not have my
Speaker 1: name per se, but it has a link to who
Speaker 1: I am online, And so that website says, all right,
Speaker 1: Rich visited here. He looked at these sneakers and that's
Speaker 1: what he's interested in, and that information now goes into
Speaker 1: this little database. And then when I go to a
Speaker 1: different website, it says, oh, by the way, Rich was
Speaker 1: looking for these sneakers before, so you should show him
Speaker 1: these sneakers up higher on our search results because he's
Speaker 1: probably looking for those. And by the way, you might
Speaker 1: want to send him a deal for those sneakers because
Speaker 1: he's looking for those sneakers. Let's get him to make
Speaker 1: that purchase. Let's convert him, as they say. And so
Speaker 1: that's really what's happening. And the more that you search,
Speaker 1: the more information they get about you, the more they
Speaker 1: realize that you like to do outdoor stuff, you have
Speaker 1: a boat, you make a certain amount of money, you
Speaker 1: go to this place. You're looking at that place for
Speaker 1: a vacation, And all these websites that you visit sort
Speaker 1: of aang their information to prioritize the things that they
Speaker 1: think you like. And when you search on Google, same
Speaker 1: thing happens. It kind of knows what you're looking for.
Speaker 1: It prioritizes ads, and they sell ads at a higher
Speaker 1: cost based on knowing more about you. So it's a
Speaker 1: big business. So what I recommend Duck doc go Yes,
Speaker 1: if you like your privacy. I'm not a personally the
Speaker 1: biggest fan of the search results that you get, but
Speaker 1: I will recommend getting the Duck email address. In fact,
Speaker 1: I have that email address. It's at Duck dot com
Speaker 1: and it's a privacy centric email address that does not
Speaker 1: track you, and so it strips all the trackers out
Speaker 1: of your email when someone sends you something. So I
Speaker 1: use that when I sign up for websites that I
Speaker 1: may be shopping on or something like that, or maybe
Speaker 1: just one time things where I just you know, if
Speaker 1: I'm signing up for Wi Fi at a Starbucks, I'll
Speaker 1: just give out my Duck dot com email address so
Speaker 1: that way I can just turn off that email and
Speaker 1: it's not tracking me and they don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1: They don't get my real email address. So yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: as a secondary email address, it's free.
Speaker 3: Why not sign up for that?
Speaker 1: But as for Duck Duco, you know, it's fine. I
Speaker 1: think that you know, if you like the search results
Speaker 1: and it's working for you, go for it. Coming up
Speaker 1: next on the show, we've got Jefferson Graham joining me,
Speaker 1: tech guy extraordinaire. He's going to talk about getting better
Speaker 1: pictures with your iPhone plus. Your call is a triple
Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one. You're listening to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the third hour of rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: My name is rich DeMuro, hanging out talking technology with you,
Speaker 1: waiting for Jefferson Graham to arrive. He's going to join
Speaker 1: me former USA Today Talking Tech reporter. He's gonna join
Speaker 1: me in studio. We're gonna chat about the new yellow
Speaker 1: iPhone taking pictures.
Speaker 3: Let's see what else do I have for him. Let's see.
Speaker 1: Oh, Apple's new classical music app. That's interesting, So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get his take on that. Why he thinks they
Speaker 1: did a separate app just for classical music. You can
Speaker 1: find me online at rich on Tech. My website is
Speaker 1: rich on tech dot tv. If you want to prove
Speaker 1: the links I've got on there. It's all the stuff
Speaker 1: I talk about on TV, my newsletter and all of
Speaker 1: my social media links and a link to a podcast
Speaker 1: version of this show. Jesse is in Brooksville, Florida. Jesse,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.
Speaker 9: Hey Rich, how's it going?
Speaker 11: Man?
Speaker 3: Everything's going well? How about you?
Speaker 11: Awesome? Pretty awesome? Yeah, just a quick question. Basically, I
Speaker 11: just switched over to my carrier, my cell phone carrier,
Speaker 11: to be my internet provided or at my home. So
Speaker 11: basically just a few months, I want to say, maybe
Speaker 11: like in summer, like June July, I went to do
Speaker 11: some upgrades on my cell phones and then you know,
Speaker 11: they they made us the offer of doing that. I
Speaker 11: thought it was too good to be true, actually, just
Speaker 11: because I'm actually saving money on what I was paying
Speaker 11: my cable company for Internet. Sure, that was pretty skeptical,
Speaker 11: pretty skeptical as to, you know, is this going to
Speaker 11: be as good? You know, we stream HD, we do
Speaker 11: you know the works, you know Netflix, there's a thousand devices,
Speaker 11: you know, all that kind of stuff. So I guess
Speaker 11: they gave me a money back guarantee. You know that
Speaker 11: if I didn't like it, I could return it, but
Speaker 11: I'm gonna go for it. Well, lo and behold. I
Speaker 11: mean I started connecting one thing after the others, my
Speaker 11: security system and everything little by literal was holding, holding, holding,
Speaker 11: and it's still holding. But I've been wondering, you know,
Speaker 11: the other day, I was just thinking about that. As
Speaker 11: we hear about so much hacking and stuff and craziness
Speaker 11: out there, I was wondering, I wonder how.
Speaker 5: Secure is this?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 11: Is it as secure as what I had with.
Speaker 8: My cable company.
Speaker 11: I've been meaning to call for a while now, and
Speaker 11: I finally got around to it today.
Speaker 3: Good question.
Speaker 1: So you're wondering if the home internet because you're you're
Speaker 1: basically getting home Internet through your cable or through your
Speaker 1: cellular provider, which I'm guessing is either T Mobile or Verizon.
Speaker 8: Right, it is T Mobile.
Speaker 11: And it's like this device that you put in your house.
Speaker 11: It's like a little power that you sit there and
Speaker 11: it basically just starts to you know, it is the
Speaker 11: one that sends out that signal and everything just connects
Speaker 11: to it. It behaves like Wi Fi if everything recognizes
Speaker 11: it like Wi Fi.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so what it's doing.
Speaker 1: Is it's basically a capturing a signal, a cellular signal
Speaker 1: from outside. Typically they want you to put these little
Speaker 1: routers near a window. It captures the cellular signal and
Speaker 1: then it broadcasts that cellular signal out as a Wi
Speaker 1: Fi signal in your home. So, for all intents and purposes,
Speaker 1: it functions exactly the same as your wired internet box
Speaker 1: that you typically have from your cable company or a
Speaker 1: fiber company, or back in the day you know a
Speaker 1: company that would provide just phone service, right like an
Speaker 1: AT and T or something. So it's it's very similar,
Speaker 1: except the cable that connects this box is no longer
Speaker 1: a cable. It's just wireless, so it's a five G signal.
Speaker 1: So is it as secure that's a great question. I
Speaker 1: actually think that it is very secure. I think that
Speaker 1: the problems that happen with hacking ninety nine percent of
Speaker 1: the time have to do with the network itself and
Speaker 1: the devices themselves, and actually the people that are accessing
Speaker 1: these things on the network. So I'm going to tweet
Speaker 1: out this PDF that actually the National Security Agency recently
Speaker 1: put out. This was in February. It's a best practices
Speaker 1: for securing your home network. And the bottom line is
Speaker 1: that people may get on your home network to get
Speaker 1: access to your devices. And the reality is once someone's
Speaker 1: inside your home, if they are connecting on your network,
Speaker 1: that's when they can do the most damage because they
Speaker 1: are on the inside. From the outside, it's a little
Speaker 1: bit tougher. You have to have an open port. You
Speaker 1: have to Most of these routers come come to you
Speaker 1: in a way that it's pretty much locked down and
Speaker 1: unless you do something, unless you go into these settings
Speaker 1: and you change something, they're going to be locked down
Speaker 1: from outside folks getting access to the inside of your network.
Speaker 3: So that's typically how it's done.
Speaker 1: With that said, a couple of recommendations and going off
Speaker 1: this executive summary here, So you got to update your devices.
Speaker 1: Those always have to be up to date, and that
Speaker 1: includes this router that T Mobile gave you. You can
Speaker 1: log in if you look on the bottom of this router,
Speaker 1: there is a little log in information. You can access
Speaker 1: the software on that router and there may be a
Speaker 1: firmware update or a software update for that router. So
Speaker 1: I would check to see that would be my first
Speaker 1: line of defense. Then I would one hundred percent have
Speaker 1: a guest network. So if the router supports it, and
Speaker 1: many routers, do you want a secondary network that is
Speaker 1: just for guests when they come to your home. And
Speaker 1: I know it feels weird. I have it on my refrigerator.
Speaker 1: I've got a little QR code that people can scan,
Speaker 1: and it feels odd giving guests this kind of like
Speaker 1: secondary network. But the reality is it is protecting your
Speaker 1: network from them. And I'm not saying your friends are
Speaker 1: going to do anything on your network, but you never know.
Speaker 1: One of the kids friends may come over with a
Speaker 1: virus on their computer and it may somehow make its
Speaker 1: way onto your network. So you don't want to do
Speaker 1: you don't want to have people connecting to your standard network.
Speaker 1: I know it seems odd to make them connect to
Speaker 1: a secondary but just make a guest network. Definitely, definitely
Speaker 1: do that. That's a very smart thing to do. And
Speaker 1: then when it comes to the people that are on
Speaker 1: your network, you want to remind them about standard security,
Speaker 1: which is clicking links today is pretty much the main
Speaker 1: delivery mechanism for all malware that people are getting attacked by.
Speaker 1: And so when you're clicking that link that you get
Speaker 1: in an email or a text, message, and then you're
Speaker 1: getting some sort of software that's installed in your device
Speaker 1: that is where the problems happen. And so most of
Speaker 1: the time it's just human error. We're just clicking something
Speaker 1: without thinking about it, and that gives the bad actors
Speaker 1: a method to access our devices and so, and they're
Speaker 1: always looking for these exploits, and that's the reason why
Speaker 1: you also want to make sure all of your software
Speaker 1: is updated on the devices that are connecting to this network. Now,
Speaker 1: if you want to be really secure, there are devices
Speaker 1: out there that can help you secure your network. And
Speaker 1: one of them. I have not personally tested this, but
Speaker 1: I know about it. I know it's been out there
Speaker 1: for a long time. It's called the FIREWALLA. And so
Speaker 1: a firewall is basically a mechanism that keeps you secure
Speaker 1: from the outside of the network. And so FIREWALLA is
Speaker 1: a little device that you plug in to your network
Speaker 1: and it will block it will basically try to safeguard
Speaker 1: you as much as possible from anything that might happen
Speaker 1: to your network. Now, some routers have these features built in,
Speaker 1: but this is a third party device that you can get.
Speaker 1: It's a little expensive. The cheapest one, I believe is
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty nine dollars. But it's one of
Speaker 1: these set and forget type of things. You plug it
Speaker 1: into your network and you maybe you know, tweak some
Speaker 1: of the settings, but it does a lot of things.
Speaker 1: So not only does it protect your network from cyber attacks,
Speaker 1: it's got content filtering. So if you have kids and
Speaker 1: you want to take advantage of some of those things,
Speaker 1: you can do that. You can block ads across your
Speaker 1: entire network. So I've got my router set up where
Speaker 1: it will block all the ads on the network, much
Speaker 1: to my kids dislike because some of these games they
Speaker 1: play rely on ads to serve up and they don't
Speaker 1: like that feature of what I do built in VPN,
Speaker 1: so you can also have a VPN that's built into this.
Speaker 1: And there's no monthly fee on this, so that's kind
Speaker 1: of nice as well. It's kind of one of those
Speaker 1: things where you buy it once and it's going to
Speaker 1: last you for a long time. So again that's FIREWALLA.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you need this per se on
Speaker 1: your network. I think that I would do all the
Speaker 1: things that I mentioned first and just make sure that
Speaker 1: folks on your network know what's happening. Make sure you
Speaker 1: don't have any ports open for any gaming or anything
Speaker 1: that people are doing. But that's really what you want
Speaker 1: to do, is just make sure things are locked down
Speaker 1: and make sure you have that separate guest network, make
Speaker 1: sure everything up to date. And I think that's really
Speaker 1: the best way to protect yourself in a very convenient way.
Speaker 1: And if you want to take things to the next
Speaker 1: level with this with a physical device like the firewall,
Speaker 1: and then sure go with something like that. But as
Speaker 1: for the actual wireless being any more insecure than the wired,
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: I think you're going to be just fine. So Jesse, good.
Speaker 1: Question, Thanks for calling in, appreciate it, and thanks for listening.
Speaker 1: All right, before we have our guest, Jefferson Graham come
Speaker 1: into the studio, let me tell you about a new
Speaker 1: game from the makers of Pokemon Go. So it's called Paradot.
Speaker 1: So Paradot is launching on May ninth, and this is
Speaker 1: a new game that is sort of like Pokemon Go.
Speaker 1: So think these whimsical little creatures, but these are as
Speaker 1: they describe amazing magical creatures that eat, sleep, play with toys,
Speaker 1: explore their environment, get bored, develop unique personalities, and are
Speaker 1: always in need of a loving adopter like you. They're
Speaker 1: all unique, and it's your job to feed these things,
Speaker 1: keep them healthy, keep them love.
Speaker 3: They're called Dots.
Speaker 1: They start out as a little baby, and basically they
Speaker 1: say this is a game that delivers all the joy
Speaker 1: of raising a pet without the mess. Kind of reminds
Speaker 1: me of these Tamagatchi games. Over the years, there's been
Speaker 1: a lot of games like this. I think that obviously
Speaker 1: with Niantic and Pokemon Go, it's all about the real
Speaker 1: world meeting the virtual world, and so I think we're
Speaker 1: going to see some unique plays there. So if you
Speaker 1: want to get this new Paradot p E R I
Speaker 1: d O T. If you want to get this game
Speaker 1: on your phone, as soon as it launches, you can
Speaker 1: go search it in the App Store or Google Play
Speaker 1: search Paradot, and you can sign up for what's called
Speaker 1: a pre registration and you'll get a notification as soon
Speaker 1: as the app is available. Coming out May ninth. I'll
Speaker 1: play this, I'll try it out. It's been since twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen when Pokemon Go came out, and that game really
Speaker 1: changed things with how they mix the real world and
Speaker 1: the augmented reality world and people are still having fun
Speaker 1: playing that. All right, Coming up, Jefferson Graham is going
Speaker 1: to join me. We're going to talk about the new
Speaker 1: yellow iPhone, which I have in my hand right here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get some thoughts on from him about what
Speaker 1: he thinks of this color, which I'll describe it when
Speaker 1: he gets back in here. Plus, we will talk about
Speaker 1: taking better pictures on the iPhone, and we'll talk about
Speaker 1: Apple's new app just for classical music. You're listening to
Speaker 1: rich on tech. Give me a call triple eight rich
Speaker 1: one on one eight eight eight seven four to two four.
Speaker 3: One zero one.
Speaker 1: Let me tell folks about Jefferson so big into photography,
Speaker 1: getting the best pictures out of the iPhone, and what
Speaker 1: have you been up to? Come over to my microphone.
Speaker 1: We can share a microphone here.
Speaker 3: Let's do that. Oh there you go, look at that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, sounds good now, alrighty. I do a video
Speaker 2: series on YouTube called Photo Walks TV. I take people
Speaker 2: with me to great places and show them how to
Speaker 2: get better photos, better travel photos on their smartphone. We've
Speaker 2: got a newsletter comes out every weekend called the Photo
Speaker 2: Walks TV newsletter. Photography meets Technology meets travel.
Speaker 1: And I think we just got your mic. The mic
Speaker 1: was actually unplugged. You know what I want for this show.
Speaker 1: I want to soundboard because I want to be able
Speaker 1: to do like the different, like the and so now can.
Speaker 3: We hear you? Let's say, now you know so much better?
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you're doing photo walks. You've been traveling a
Speaker 1: lot with this show. Huh, yes, I have. Where we've been.
Speaker 1: We've been to Solving. Yes, I love Solving. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: one of my favorite places. It's this Solving is a
Speaker 1: city that's about what an hour and a half two
Speaker 1: hours north.
Speaker 2: Of a half hours an hour. It's seven thousand people,
Speaker 2: but they get a million visitors a year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's in credible. It's like a little it's
Speaker 1: really like a Hallmark movie twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2: It's a Danish town that was developed by Danish immigrants
Speaker 2: and they kept all the architecture is incredible. But the
Speaker 2: surrounding community is you know, Sandy Inns Valley is out
Speaker 2: of this world.
Speaker 1: Beautiful, beautiful place, great wine tasting up there. They just
Speaker 1: had a couple of really high end places open up it.
Speaker 1: For many, many years, it was very much like kind
Speaker 1: of a three star hotel town. Now they've got this
Speaker 1: place that is Hotel talk that's really nice, but no
Speaker 1: even nicer. I'm not even sure what the name is,
Speaker 1: but it's this hotel that just opened by Loso Livos. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's like more than five star because I know because
Speaker 1: my wife is planning some sort of like party up
Speaker 1: there and she has to stay there, and it's very expensive,
Speaker 1: so we've been debating whether it's worth it.
Speaker 2: Anybody listening, this is the time to go. Your best
Speaker 2: time is before spring break. We have a few more weeks.
Speaker 2: Winner is just gorgeous and it's not jammed, so it's
Speaker 2: a really good time. And I was in Las Vegas
Speaker 2: this week as as you were as I was yet
Speaker 2: and I think we were at different events.
Speaker 1: I was at no event. I was at my own event,
Speaker 1: the Rich DeMuro enjoying Las Vegas. I was supposed to
Speaker 1: a story there and then that didn't work out. By
Speaker 1: the way, we're talking with Jefferson Graham, tech Extraordinaire. He
Speaker 1: is formerly of USA Today and now with Photo Walks TV.
Speaker 1: Give us a call if you want to talk about
Speaker 1: tech eight eight eight Rich one O one eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two, four to one zero one.
Speaker 3: You want to take a call?
Speaker 1: Sure, all right, let's see what Tim in uh Oak Hills,
Speaker 1: California is asking about?
Speaker 3: Tim? What's on your mind? Welcome to the show.
Speaker 7: Good afternoon, Rich, Thanks so much. I have a little device.
Speaker 7: It's kind of cool. It's a little things in China,
Speaker 7: like seven or eight blocks, and it's a Bluetooth receiver
Speaker 7: to plunge into a cigarette lighter of the car. I
Speaker 7: actually have one of the house, and it turns the
Speaker 7: Bluetooth signal to my cell phone into an FM signal,
Speaker 7: So no matter where I go on my property, I
Speaker 7: can have different radios on and always hear iHeartRadio. It's
Speaker 7: kind of cool to have, you know, multiple radio stations
Speaker 7: receivers all around the house from the little thing. It
Speaker 7: works perfectly with my little Android phone. But when I
Speaker 7: just got a tablet about two or three weeks ago,
Speaker 7: it seemed to work fine the first time. But today
Speaker 7: I actually noticed it yesterday when I trans When I
Speaker 7: listened to iHeartRadio on the tablet itself, it sounds fine,
Speaker 7: but when I transmit Bluetooth to this little transceiver, that
Speaker 7: turns it into an FM signal. It's all garbled and distorted,
Speaker 7: and I thought, well, maybe it's the iHeart app. But
Speaker 7: it does it with my local radio station app as well,
Speaker 7: and that's where I'm at.
Speaker 1: So you've got a device that is maybe I'm not
Speaker 1: understanding this. It's a device that's sending a FM signal
Speaker 1: through your house or a Bluetooth signal.
Speaker 3: Through your house.
Speaker 7: It receives the Bluetooth signal. It's looks look like a
Speaker 7: little dongle that plugs into a cigarette lighter. Your car
Speaker 7: has a little boltmeter on it in the USB charging things.
Speaker 7: But yeah, it receives a Bluetooth signal from my phone,
Speaker 7: and then you can adjust which frequency you know, you
Speaker 7: get to a frequency nobody else is transmitting on. Okay,
Speaker 7: zero or eighty nine point seven? I think I use
Speaker 7: up here, okay, And then it's a nice FM signal
Speaker 7: that I can listen to radio all over my got it?
Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm actually surprised this works that well. But
Speaker 1: are you is are you sort of in a more
Speaker 1: rural area.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I mean I'm in the high desert.
Speaker 3: Here at Old Kills, Okay, got it? So?
Speaker 1: So it so certain stations work, Certain stations don't work.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm getting from this.
Speaker 7: Well, the thing is my with my cell phone, everything
Speaker 7: works perfect, no matter what app I use, whether it's iHeart,
Speaker 7: I heard, I pretty much only use a KFI And
Speaker 7: I have a local radio station up here called Talk
Speaker 7: nine to sixty that I listened to occasionally, and that's
Speaker 7: they have their own private El Dorado app. That all
Speaker 7: sounds fine. So it's not the station, it's just whether
Speaker 7: it's iHeart app or my local radio station app. My
Speaker 7: cell phone seems to work perfectly. It's worked two or
Speaker 7: three years I've been doing. This works great. But with
Speaker 7: the with the tablet when it connected by Bluetooth, it's
Speaker 7: garbled and cuts out too as well.
Speaker 3: What kind of tablet is this?
Speaker 7: It is a Blue Phones. Yeah, that's b l u okay.
Speaker 7: You smartphones?
Speaker 3: That might be it right there. That might model number
Speaker 3: is M eight l M A l okay.
Speaker 1: So that might be the reason Blue Blue products are
Speaker 1: traditionally inexpensive, and they may not have the best Bluetooth
Speaker 1: in that product, like the the Bluetooth. Yeah, there's different
Speaker 1: versions of Bluetooth, and so it may be that the
Speaker 1: version they're using is just a very inexpensive version is that.
Speaker 2: Tried it on iPad?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say that's what I would do.
Speaker 1: Get a friend over there, try it on an iPad
Speaker 1: and see if that works.
Speaker 7: But well, it works, it works on my cell phone.
Speaker 7: I've already I know that the receiver thing works fine,
Speaker 7: and it works my cell phone is no problem. But
Speaker 7: the thing is, it worked two weeks ago, it seemed
Speaker 7: to work fine. It seems to be just this weekend
Speaker 7: when I started up.
Speaker 8: It's just doing it well.
Speaker 7: I was thinking, would it would it do any good
Speaker 7: to do a full factory reset, so to speak on Android?
Speaker 1: Now you're speaking my line. I love doing that. That's
Speaker 1: my favorite thing to do on any device.
Speaker 3: I love.
Speaker 1: Three months.
Speaker 3: Well, that's that's a lot. That's that's a lot.
Speaker 1: But I love well I I yeah, I would do
Speaker 1: the I would do the the full reset. I love
Speaker 1: doing that. It's you know, you do a factory reset.
Speaker 1: It gets everything back to the standard the way it
Speaker 1: was from the factory. Maybe you installed something on this
Speaker 1: device that just isn't working properly, or it just isn't
Speaker 1: playing nice with this receiver. I'm still not understanding why
Speaker 1: you wouldn't just use the app to stream the station.
Speaker 2: I would just test it on another another person's device
Speaker 2: and see what happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's what I would do. But Tim, it
Speaker 1: sounds like you've got it figured out. This reminds me
Speaker 1: of when I first had, like back in the car,
Speaker 1: Like when you would use like your your iPod and
Speaker 1: you didn't have like a connection, right, You'd use like
Speaker 1: an FM transmitter to get your signal, and it never worked, right.
Speaker 1: I ended up having to get it like factory installed.
Speaker 1: All right, more of rich on tech coming up after this.
Speaker 1: I've got Jefferson Graham in studio. Give us a call
Speaker 1: at Triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two, four to one zero one.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the yellow iPhone.
Speaker 2: Coming up next Jefferson Graham dot nettwalkstv dot com or
Speaker 2: two great places. And I've got my newsletter Jefferson Graham
Speaker 2: dot substack dot com comes out every Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 3: You told me about substack.
Speaker 1: I signed up and I did it for a bit
Speaker 1: and I still have my newsletter.
Speaker 3: Uh, I guess which list.
Speaker 1: But I don't actively do it, but one of these
Speaker 1: days I will because I love the newsletter.
Speaker 2: Best journalism experience I've ever had, and I've been around
Speaker 2: for a while.
Speaker 3: Because the feedback it's so it's so direct to your fans.
Speaker 2: Yes, and they feel you know, you're going into their
Speaker 2: email box, and like there's always a question, well, what
Speaker 2: time should I send it? When's a good day to
Speaker 2: send It doesn't matter. People are happy to get an
Speaker 2: email that's not a sales email at any time of
Speaker 2: the day.
Speaker 1: And also, you're in is your inbox like the way
Speaker 1: I see my email inboxes.
Speaker 3: It's all the tasks.
Speaker 1: So if I get it no matter what time of
Speaker 1: day and I'm going through my emails, I will save
Speaker 1: it for later and I will get to it when
Speaker 1: I get to it. I don't delete things out of
Speaker 1: my inbox until I'm done with them, and it's almost like.
Speaker 3: A little to do list. All right, let's talk about
Speaker 3: two things.
Speaker 1: We've got the new in my hand, the new iPhone
Speaker 1: fourteen and fourteen plus. This is the fourteen in yellow, yes,
Speaker 1: end of sentence. There's really nothing else except it's a color,
Speaker 1: and it's only on the fourteen and plus. It's not
Speaker 1: on the Pro or Promax. It's yellow yellow like a
Speaker 1: bowl of Trix or like Pikachu from Pokemon. That's about
Speaker 1: as close. It's Would you call it banana yellow or no?
Speaker 2: No, it's yellower. It's yellower than a banana. It's brighter yellow,
Speaker 2: it's bright. Yeah, the question I had. I understand why
Speaker 2: Apple does it because it looks good in an ad
Speaker 2: And they may sell a few one hundred thousand copies,
Speaker 2: I don't know whatever.
Speaker 3: They'll sell millions. So they'll sell millions.
Speaker 2: Okay, they'll sell millions. But who do you know who
Speaker 2: doesn't have a case.
Speaker 3: That's my question.
Speaker 2: Okay, and my wife has a case and it happens.
Speaker 3: To be yellow.
Speaker 2: Oh so it's like Hlity has a yellow phone. She
Speaker 2: was ahead of twenty dollars case or whatever we paid
Speaker 2: for it, you know, and there was no need to
Speaker 2: have this yellow phone. None.
Speaker 1: I don't understand the phone colors because it's always the
Speaker 1: same you put a case on.
Speaker 3: Now, I do have a clear case.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some people have clear cases.
Speaker 1: But if you're gonna, I mean, I don't know. And
Speaker 1: I've been wanting to go caseless, but I actually think
Speaker 1: my phone is grippier with the case.
Speaker 3: I like the case on it. And are you caseless.
Speaker 3: You have the big case.
Speaker 2: I have the wallet.
Speaker 3: You have the wallet case. So you can't do that.
Speaker 2: I don't. I haven't had a wallet for years, so
Speaker 2: this is my wallet. And then it's been fantastic. And
Speaker 2: then I have a cage. I have a cage on
Speaker 2: my other iPhone. A photographer, I'm always going around with
Speaker 2: multiple iPhones.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: So seven hundred and ninety nine dollars for the one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty eight gigabyte version of this phone, the
Speaker 1: iPhone fourteen plus and yellow starts at eight ninety nine.
Speaker 3: It is going to be available. Let's see.
Speaker 1: I think yesterdaek Yes, wasn't it yesterday? Availability Tuesday, March fourteenth.
Speaker 1: Pre Orders were on Friday. So if you are looking
Speaker 1: to get a yellow phone, there you go, or by yourself.
Speaker 2: It's twenty dollars case.
Speaker 1: Or buy a case. And you know, but here's the thing, people.
Speaker 1: Apple has gotten on this cadence where now they come
Speaker 1: out with a spring color of the iPhone and it's
Speaker 1: always this. You know, it was purple, then it was blue, red,
Speaker 1: now it's yellow. So it just it's just the way
Speaker 1: Apple operates. And I really struggled with this on KTLA
Speaker 1: because I was like, do I mention like, is this one?
Speaker 1: I get three news stories a day? Is that one
Speaker 1: of my news updates?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's just to justify you know it is. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: let's go to Austin in San Diego.
Speaker 3: Austin. You're on with Rich and Jefferson.
Speaker 7: Hey, how's it going?
Speaker 3: That's going great? How about you? Good?
Speaker 1: Great?
Speaker 3: What can we help you with?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 6: So I was just asking about I've always used Chrome
Speaker 6: as my internet browser, and lately I've been having a
Speaker 6: lot of issues where it keeps popping up saying I
Speaker 6: need to updateate web pages, like for banking. I'll open
Speaker 6: one tab and it loads, you know, six pages, and
Speaker 6: half the pages don't fully load, or it looks like,
Speaker 6: you know, it's an HML HTML page without any kind
Speaker 6: of like anything to it. So question being what would
Speaker 6: be your recommendation for it internet browser if I still
Speaker 6: want the conveniences of Google integration with Chrome.
Speaker 1: Are you running on Windows or Mac Windows? Okay, I
Speaker 1: think you've got some malware on your computer. I think
Speaker 1: that's what's happening. And I will tell you that Chrome
Speaker 1: definitely slows down after a while. So what I would
Speaker 1: do is I've been using actually Edge for a bit,
Speaker 1: which is Microsoft's version of Chrome.
Speaker 3: I don't like it as much as Chrome. I think
Speaker 3: Chrome is better.
Speaker 1: The fact that you're saying you're getting update notifications on Chrome,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a big deal.
Speaker 3: All you need to do is reopen the app and
Speaker 3: it updates.
Speaker 1: So in fact, I just opened my Chrome and I
Speaker 1: said relaunch Chrome to finish updating.
Speaker 2: So uninstall very simply picking off and reinstall.
Speaker 1: You don't even have to do that. On Windows. There's
Speaker 1: actually a built in they're taking it away, but there's
Speaker 1: a built in reset button on Chrome. Okay, and I
Speaker 1: will tell you where it is. Okay, you go here.
Speaker 1: I have this written down because I actually was going
Speaker 1: to talk about this, but then Google mentioned that they're
Speaker 1: getting rid of it because they said that this sort
Speaker 1: of malware is getting less and less on Chrome, which
Speaker 1: I don't believe. But okay, if you go into menu
Speaker 1: and then settings and then reset and it says reset, boom,
Speaker 1: it will reset all of your values back to zero.
Speaker 1: It will get rid of all any malware that you
Speaker 1: have on your device. It will try to clear that out.
Speaker 1: I would also uninstall any extensions that you have on
Speaker 1: there get rid of those, or if you don't want
Speaker 1: to do that, like Jefferson said, you can just uninstall
Speaker 1: the program reinstall it. But I would do all the
Speaker 1: software updates as well, So if your Windows is not
Speaker 1: up to date, I would do that. You might have
Speaker 1: malware at large on your computer. So if you want
Speaker 1: to run like something like malware bites, do you have
Speaker 1: a preferred program that you like to run for malware
Speaker 1: on Max.
Speaker 2: We don't tend to have problems with malware.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know that's but there are ways.
Speaker 1: On Mac you can use something like app cleaner to
Speaker 1: get rid of any fragments of programs or things that
Speaker 1: you may not want on there if you're trying to uninstall.
Speaker 3: But that's what I would do. I like Edged.
Speaker 1: I think it works nicely, but I don't like it
Speaker 1: more than Chrome. I think Chrome just recently got faster.
Speaker 1: They just figured out how to optimize the memory for
Speaker 1: the different tabs you have open. They just figured out
Speaker 1: how to do the energy savings on it. So I
Speaker 1: think Chrome is still pretty good for a free web browser,
Speaker 1: and I think it's secure, it's safe, it has all
Speaker 1: the programs you need and you mentioned that you want
Speaker 1: to keep your Google integrations, and Chrome is still the
Speaker 1: best at when you're using Google products like Drive and Gmail.
Speaker 1: It's very good at all the making sure that all
Speaker 1: the features of those programs work in a good way.
Speaker 3: So, Austin, does that answer your question? You're going to
Speaker 3: stick with it?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I actually had in your mention of malware, so I
Speaker 6: actually have like a lifetime membership for malware bites. I
Speaker 6: also use Norton and the only extensions on Chrome is
Speaker 6: last Pass, and I think it's like Adobe pdf reader. Okay,
Speaker 6: do you still think Do you still think I could
Speaker 6: have like malware on you could?
Speaker 1: It sounds like something some of the settings. If you're
Speaker 1: opening up like a banking page and six pages are
Speaker 1: opening that are doing different things, that's typically a sign
Speaker 1: of malware. So I would also go through and erase
Speaker 1: all history. So I would go into the history and
Speaker 1: it's there's an option for to erase all of your
Speaker 1: history for for you know, forever and ever, so I
Speaker 1: would do that as well, just to make sure that
Speaker 1: you have nothing on there that's you know, cookie oriented,
Speaker 1: that's messing up things. I would also ditch last Pass,
Speaker 1: honestly because at this point, they've had too many security issues.
Speaker 1: You might want to look into switching to a different
Speaker 1: password manager as well. So basically, Austin, you just have
Speaker 1: to change your entire, your entire operating operators right now.
Speaker 3: So it shouldn't be too tough, though. I think those
Speaker 3: are the things you want to do.
Speaker 1: All right, let me know if that works for you
Speaker 1: with the reset on Chrome before it goes away. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I think it's gonna work. Thanks for calling
Speaker 1: from San Diego. Is it raining down there like it
Speaker 1: is up here?
Speaker 6: It's it's on and off.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we'll stay dry, all right, thank you?
Speaker 1: All right, all right, let's see do we have time
Speaker 1: to talk about this Apple Classical. They have new Apple
Speaker 1: Music Classical app. Jefferson, Why is Apple making a new app?
Speaker 1: Standalone app designed specifically for classical music? Five million tracks
Speaker 1: from new releases to celebrated masterpieces, thousands of exclusive albums,
Speaker 1: the highest audio quality up to one hundred and ninety two.
Speaker 3: Killer hurts, per Killer hurts? Is that what you say?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 1: It will launch on March twenty eighth, requires an Apple
Speaker 1: Music subscription. It'll be available everywhere except China. Japan, Korea
Speaker 1: and Taiwan and uh Android version is coming soon. And
Speaker 1: to listen to music on Apple Music Classical you must
Speaker 1: have an Internet connection.
Speaker 3: That's odd. You can't download the music. So why are
Speaker 3: they doing this? I don't understand. Why wouldn't they just
Speaker 3: put this in the Apple Music app.
Speaker 2: Believe you need an Internet connection to listen to Apple
Speaker 2: Music as well.
Speaker 3: You can download the music, yeah, but you have to start.
Speaker 3: I know that's why. But why would they say that specifically?
Speaker 1: Like I get that you need an internet connection to Like,
Speaker 1: it doesn't come with five million songs you just download, right.
Speaker 2: I think they're very smart to do this. I know
Speaker 2: you disagree, but I think it's a very very smart move. Now,
Speaker 2: first of all, remember they bought this classical scription service already,
Speaker 2: so they already own it, so they're just putting their
Speaker 2: name on it. So Spotify is spotty when it comes
Speaker 2: to classical music. They've got some stuff they don't have
Speaker 2: other stuff. YouTube music is spotty. Classical music fans go
Speaker 2: downtown sometime, go stand at Disney Hall. You will see
Speaker 2: some very dedicated classical music lovers. They are really you know,
Speaker 2: but you know, if the grateful dead fans were enthusiastic.
Speaker 2: Classical music fans are incredibly enthusiastic, right, So by targeting
Speaker 2: this audience, they finally have a differentiation for Apple Music.
Speaker 2: It's different from Spotify. Now they have music that the
Speaker 2: other people don't have. They've never had that before. But
Speaker 2: you have to download a separate app.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just don't I get it that they have people
Speaker 1: that are very into this. I don't understand why they
Speaker 1: couldn't just blend it into Apple Music and make it
Speaker 1: a separate area of the app. But to have a
Speaker 1: different app. Maybe if you're into classical, you feel like
Speaker 1: they are speaking to you.
Speaker 2: Do you remember in a more direct way? Do you
Speaker 2: remember once upon a time Tower Records. Yes, there were
Speaker 2: a big, huge, biggest record store and they had a
Speaker 2: separate classical store across the street. Do you remember that.
Speaker 1: I do not remember the classical store, but at store.
Speaker 1: All right, we've got less than a minute. Tell folks
Speaker 1: where they can.
Speaker 2: Find you, photowokstv dot com, Jefferson Graham dot net, look
Speaker 2: for me on YouTube, YouTube dot com, slash Photo, Walks TV.
Speaker 2: Our latest episode just debut today from Clearwater, Florida, and
Speaker 2: I'm working on an episode, thanking viewers for helping me
Speaker 2: cross one million views, which happened this week.
Speaker 1: Amazing, I see I need the little congrats. All right,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining me in the studio today.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. We had some fun here with the callers.
Speaker 1: We're going to wrap up the show coming up next.
Speaker 1: More of your calls if I can fit one more
Speaker 1: in at triple eight Rich one O one. That's eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two, four to one zero one.
Speaker 1: You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology online.
Speaker 3: Rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: That's all of my social media is under that so
Speaker 1: if you want to find me online, that's where you
Speaker 1: can do it. Tony is in Daytona Beach, Florida. Tony,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich. Hey, Rich's great.
Speaker 3: What can I help you with?
Speaker 4: Okay? I write copies sometimes for a radio talk show
Speaker 4: like uh, you guys should do sure and uh sometimes
Speaker 4: they run. It's like writing a long letter and I'm
Speaker 4: looking for the best format, in the easiest format to
Speaker 4: write a letter like that and easy to control, like
Speaker 4: h Yahoo or Google or your Facebook or what's what
Speaker 4: site I should go to Okay, it's the best email format.
Speaker 1: Like that email. Oh email program? Okay, got it? Okay, email. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean I think that, uh Google, I use Google
Speaker 1: Docs for everything. I use Gmail for everything, and I
Speaker 1: would say those are probably your best combination. I also
Speaker 1: wrote a book, and I wrote the entire book in
Speaker 1: a combination of Apple Notes and then Google Docs, so
Speaker 1: I've written large amounts of text. I do the entire
Speaker 1: planning of this show on Google Docs and also through
Speaker 1: my email program as well, So I don't think you
Speaker 1: need anything special.
Speaker 3: Those are all free.
Speaker 1: And the one trick I would tell you with Google
Speaker 1: Docs is if you type in your once you sign
Speaker 1: up for g you know, Google, and have all your
Speaker 1: stuff figured out and you're logged in, if you type
Speaker 1: in doc dot new on your web browser, that will
Speaker 1: open up a new document. So if you're trying to
Speaker 1: just do something fast and quick and easy and you
Speaker 1: don't want to have to go through, just type in
Speaker 1: doct new and that will open up a fresh document
Speaker 1: for you on your on your web browser. So that's
Speaker 1: the way I do it. I organize everything through there. Now,
Speaker 1: when I wrote my book, I use a program to
Speaker 1: publish it. It was called Vellum v E L l
Speaker 1: U M. But that's really a book publishing app. And
Speaker 1: I also tested out another app. It was called I
Speaker 1: believe it was Scrivener, But it doesn't sound like you
Speaker 1: wanted to write a book. It sounds like you're just
Speaker 1: writing scripts and things like that. And with the scripts
Speaker 1: if you want, you know, I know, for radio and
Speaker 1: TV sometimes scripts need to fit a certain format. So
Speaker 1: in that case, I actually make a template of what
Speaker 1: a script typically looks like, which is two columns and
Speaker 1: one side is bigger than the other, and just large
Speaker 1: text on there as well, so you can do that too.
Speaker 1: The other program I really like for writing is called
Speaker 1: Bear B E A R. And what's great about this,
Speaker 1: and Tony, this may work for you since you're doing
Speaker 1: stuff that's for radio and you might need to time
Speaker 1: stuff out. What I love about Bear is that it
Speaker 1: times out what you write. So if you go into
Speaker 1: something that you wrote in Bear, there's a little icon
Speaker 1: and it tells you how many words, how many characters,
Speaker 1: how many paragraphs. But the best part is it tells
Speaker 1: you how long it takes to read that. And for me,
Speaker 1: that is very very handy when I'm writing things for
Speaker 1: this show when I want to hit a certain amount
Speaker 1: of time. In this case, I'm trying to hit a
Speaker 1: thirty second commercial. And so if I'm writing something that's
Speaker 1: a promotion for my show, I want to hit that
Speaker 1: twenty nine seconds. So Bear that is only available on iOS,
Speaker 1: So that is something that is on iOS and Mac only.
Speaker 1: They do not have a version that is available to
Speaker 1: the Windows platform. But that's a really handy program. I
Speaker 1: use a lot of programs actually to write stuff, now
Speaker 1: that I think about it.
Speaker 3: So I also use.
Speaker 1: Another app that is the Apple Notes app, but that's
Speaker 1: really just for more like notes.
Speaker 3: I also use Google Keep.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many ways you can do this
Speaker 1: that it really just comes down to what you use
Speaker 1: the most. And that's what I found is that you
Speaker 1: just have to use and keep using it and have
Speaker 1: your system down and that's the.
Speaker 3: Best way to do it. All right.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you about this scam real quick before
Speaker 1: we go, because I think it's important for you to
Speaker 1: know that we've heard so much about AI, but now
Speaker 1: scammers are already using AI to impersonate people that we
Speaker 1: know family members to call us and try to scam
Speaker 1: us out of money. So they have these very sophisticated
Speaker 1: programs that are off the shelf. You feed some audio
Speaker 1: into them, and now you can sound like that person
Speaker 1: just by typing out those words. And so this is
Speaker 1: AI that is being used in a very mean way
Speaker 1: against us. So if you get a phone call that
Speaker 1: purports to be from a loved one that needs money,
Speaker 1: that's in jail, that's whatever. It may just be an
Speaker 1: AI voice that sounds like that loved one. So when
Speaker 1: in doubt, call them up, call someone check on them,
Speaker 1: text them. Do not just go to the bank and
Speaker 1: try to withdraw money and send it to this person
Speaker 1: that's asking you for the money, because it's probably not
Speaker 1: I'll put the link to the Washington Post article about
Speaker 1: these new AI voice scams in the show notes as well.
Speaker 1: And finally, Vinyl overtook CD sales for the first time
Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty seven. I've been talking about Vinyl in
Speaker 1: my KTLA reports, how people seem to like it. Forty
Speaker 1: one million units they sold against thirty three million for
Speaker 1: CDs in the past year. Vinyl sales have increased over
Speaker 1: the past sixteen years. They're now seventy one percent of
Speaker 1: all physical music. Taylor Swift, of course, highest selling vinyl artists.
Speaker 1: She sold some one point seven million records. Harry Styles
Speaker 1: sold seven hundred and nineteen thousand, The Beatles still kicking
Speaker 1: five hundred and fifty three thousand sales. Of course, Spotify
Speaker 1: and Apple Music and streaming is still the most popular
Speaker 1: way to listen to music.
Speaker 3: All right, that is going to do it for this show.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. Thanks to all of my
Speaker 1: guests today. We had so many great guests. I know
Speaker 1: there's a little problem with the phone lines, so apologies
Speaker 1: for that, and thanks for working through that. You know,
Speaker 1: this is a growing show. This is only episode number ten,
Speaker 1: so we're still learning. I'm still learning how to do
Speaker 1: this whole radio thing, so I do appreciate you hanging
Speaker 1: out with me. Next week, we are going to talk
Speaker 1: to Ember about their self heating baby bottle. No longer
Speaker 1: is it good to be born with a silver spoon
Speaker 1: in your mouth. Now you can be born with a
Speaker 1: four hundred dollars self heating baby bottle in your mouth,
Speaker 1: and we're going to talk to the company that makes that.
Speaker 1: You can find me on social media at rich on tech,
Speaker 1: my website, richontech dot tv. My name is rich Dmiro.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways
Speaker 1: you can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending
Speaker 1: it right here with me. I'll talk to you real
Speaker 1: soon