WEBVTT - Don't fall for these common email scams 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:15.040 Netflix loses subscribers for the first time ever. Amazon Prime 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:19.960 membership benefits, but on other websites, Chili's puts more robots 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:23.960 in their restaurants. Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on? 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:27.080 I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Teche, the 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:29.280 podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.559 you should know about. It's also the place where I 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:36.120 answer the questions you send me. I'm the tech reporter 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:40.680 at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles, and I'm a 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:45.040 little distracted because whenever I do my podcast in front 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.640 of the live audience on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter, 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.199 it's a little distracting. But I love it because I 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.880 get the instant feedback. People are talking, people are chatting, 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.560 but it's a little distracting, so I'm reading what people 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.160 are saying. So it's something in that. You know. Typically, 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:04.400 if I do a show without the live feedback, it's 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:07.200 a little bit easier, but it's more fun to do 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.039 the show when people are listening because they respond and 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:14.160 they say stuff. And so anyway, I have been off 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:17.880 for a week now, so I'm just getting back. It's weird. 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:20.560 I usually I typically if I go on vacation, like 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:24.920 to do it from you know, the weekend to the weekend, right, 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:26.880 so you don't come back to work in the middle 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:31.160 of the week. But this time, just because of scheduling, 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:35.520 we actually went away and came back yesterday. And so 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:38.640 it's been weird because I went back to work on 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:43.319 a Thursday, which is totally odd. Right, So I'm just 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.480 kind of I'm totally discombobulated, and I my wife and 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:50.000 I were discussing this. We went to Scottsdale by the way, Arizona, 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:54.160 which was beautiful, great place. The weather was perfect, everything 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:58.480 was really We had some amazing restaurants that we went to. Actually, 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.800 our favorite restaurant was a little tiny place called Pomo 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:05.720 Pom in Scottsdale. Look it up. It was I'm from 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:07.560 New Jersey. You know I love my pizza. You know 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:10.440 I love my Italian food. It was excellent. We had 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:14.000 a great, great time, and so it was a really 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.119 nice place. And we kept saying our joke the entire time. 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.200 You know, when you go on vacation, you don't like 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.079 typically go to the same place twice, But our joke 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.800 the entire time was, let's just go to Pomo again. 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:26.840 It was like this casual little place, but it was 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:30.280 so good. And some of the other restaurants we went 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.280 to that were super hyped up and much more expensive. 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:35.880 You know, they left a little bit to be desired. 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:40.840 But we overall thought the city was beautiful. Everything was clean, 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:47.280 everything was really nice, brand new. It's so different than La. 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.040 Like La it seems like an old city compared to 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.360 Phoenix or Scottsdale. Everything looks brand new. I'm so not 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.880 used to that. Like every single building seemed like it 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.799 was new construction, which I don't really understand. I mean, 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.040 I feel like it's been around for a while, but 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:05.919 it's just a very different kind of different landscape, I guess. 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:09.799 And here everything is much more compact, right like when 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:13.160 you see a Best Buy store. Here it's like wedged 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:15.880 in between like two other places or three other places. 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:19.280 But there everything is just so grand and big, and like, 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.320 I guess, they just have a lot of space to 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.280 put stuff in and so they just build these places. 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.000 Like I could not believe the chain restaurants we were seeing, 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.560 like just something as simple like a Chili's or like 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.760 a Maggiano's, or you know, all these steakhouses and stuff. 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.920 They were all so big. I mean, so big. I 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.520 was like, how do they fit? Like, what's with all 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.960 the people? Like do they these these restaurants must see 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:46.840 a thousand people if not more. But anyway, it was 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:48.760 a nice time. It was a quick drive. We drove 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.160 from Los Angeles. It was probably like seven hours. We 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:55.000 actually just drove. My trick was on the way there. 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.240 We stopped over and over and over and over. We 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.520 stopped for food. We stopped for this, we stopped for that, 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.640 and way back we only stopped for restroom breaks and 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.640 we just ate snacks the whole time that we had 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:09.160 packed and the drive went really really fast. So I 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:11.200 kind of I've talked about this on the podcast before. 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.200 Growing up, you know, my parents never stopped, and so 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.320 I kind of when I started doing road trips with 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.080 my kids, I would stop, just like the kids would 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:20.560 be like, I think I've to go to the bathroom. 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.000 I'm like, all right, let's stop, no problem. And you know, 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.320 now it's like I'm kind of pulling back a little 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:27.440 bit because I realized it takes so much longer to 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:31.720 do that. So all right, let's get to the podcast. 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:36.120 And so during the vacation, I revisited the Samsung Galaxy 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.520 S twenty two Ultra. I figured it was a good 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.720 time since I was off. I didn't switch my SIM 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.520 card back into the phone, but I did use the 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.320 phone for the week and just to kind of revisit things. 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.880 There's been like three major software updates since I initially 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:54.040 reviewed the phone, and I will tell you the Samsung 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:59.040 Galaxy S twenty two Ultra is is is is the 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:02.320 best phone of twenty twenty two when it comes to androids. Now, 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:07.000 when I talk about phones in general, like I still 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.600 really really like the iPhone, and there's certain things that 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.240 I like about the iPhone, especially when it comes to 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.719 like the total package, but when you look at the 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.800 S twenty two Ultra, it's just like there was things 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:20.040 I was able to do on it that you just 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:23.240 can't do on the iPhone, like zoom, and a couple 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.000 things in general, like like turning around the video, like 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.840 just being able to flip while you're recording front facing 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.400 camera or sorry, the back camera, then you can just 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.839 flip to yourself and record yourself as well, so that 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:35.960 was kind of cool. You can also record both of 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.000 those cameras at the same time, although there's an app 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.280 on iOS that lets you do that. Called double take. 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:45.000 What was the other thing? So my main takeaway was 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.680 the fact that on iOS, I feel like I'm constantly 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:53.120 trying to outsmart the operating system. So just having voice 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.560 search alone on the Android was so refreshing because I'm 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.080 so not used to that with iOS, and so I 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.720 was doing by the end of the week, ninety nine 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:05.279 point nine percent of my searches were just voice and 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.080 so I would just start by asking a question or 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.760 just saying a bunch of search terms, and nine times 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:12.080 out of ten that would like bring me to what 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.159 I needed. The other thing I felt like is that 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:20.080 the operating system is much more cohesive on Android because 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.720 it feels like everything works together. So when you set 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:27.279 like a default for an app, it just works. Like 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.760 when I was clicking, I noticed myself like not having 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.159 to worry about clicking links because they would take me 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.360 to the right app. So if I wanted, like if 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.160 I clicked an address, it would take me to my 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.240 Google Maps instead of on iOS, right, I know not 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:42.800 to click links for addresses because it's going to take 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:44.719 me to Apple Maps and I have to go copy 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.920 and paste things into the maps Google Maps app. On 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:53.040 the flip side, I felt like, you know, like on iOS, 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:57.520 everything kind of brings you back to Apple stuff, like 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.360 it's always trying to push you into Apple, Apple, Apple Apple. 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.760 And I feel like with Android it's like much more 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:06.279 you know, I've said this before, but it's much more customizable, 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.600 so it becomes what you want it to be. If 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.520 you want to change the entire look and feel of 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:13.000 the operating system, you can do that. So I felt 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:17.280 like that stuff was pretty interesting. What else did I 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.520 observe in that time? I mean, I just felt like 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.120 the camera was really good. It was really solid. My 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.200 only problem with the S twenty two Ultra is that 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.760 it's a really big phone. And oh the other thing 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:31.040 I really really liked is the charging was just so fast. 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.680 I'm so not used to that on the iPhone because 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:37.200 the iPhone charges pretty slow still, especially if you're using 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:41.840 wireless charging. But the the Samsung, you plug it in 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.160 and I'm telling you, it's just like it's so fast, 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.120 it's unbelievable. If you have the right charger and it 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.560 just really charges up fast. I never I don't think 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:54.200 I ever dropped below fifty percent charge the entire time, 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.160 because I would just come back to the hotel room 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.080 to do something real quick, plug it in for fifteen 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.800 minutes and be done. And so it was it was 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.840 really really interesting to kind of to play around with 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:07.440 it for another week. And you know, I'm tempted to switch, 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.480 but it's definitely I see the pros and cons of both. 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.360 I think it really comes down to preference, you know, 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.720 and also not just preference, but kind of like what 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:19.360 you're already into. So it's like if you're already if 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.200 you have an Apple Watch like I do, I just 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.440 I love the Apple Watch and it's really tough to 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:27.000 give that up just to switch over to Android. And 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:28.760 so it's thees little things. I think some of the 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.280 apps work better on iOS, but then a lot of 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:34.440 stuff works on Android as well. Let's see, we've got 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:35.800 a question here on the live stream. What do you 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.000 think of iPhone thirteen? What is your advice on getting 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:41.480 a new iPhone weight for next year when I upgrade. 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:43.640 I think it's a good time to get one. I 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.600 think the iPhone thirteen is a really, really solid phone. 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.920 It's definitely the best best iPhone that Apple has ever 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.000 come out with, and I see no problem with continuing 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.000 to get it, even in this late in the game. 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.520 I know it's April. The new iPhone comes out in 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.480 September October. I think that you'll be perfectly happy with 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.960 the iPhone thirteen. There is literally not a thing on 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.319 that phone that I'd improve. So it's just it's really 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.240 just a matter of deciding, you know, do you want 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.319 the smaller one, do you want the bigger one? Dutch 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:15.720 Boy Az says, I love my Android Samsung F twenty 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.400 So yeah that. I mean, look the Samsungs of the world, 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.800 they really do give you a lot of choices. So, oh, 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.960 I should mention. I saw this article from droid Life 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.080 right now. If you're if you want to upgrade, you're 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.160 if you have a Galaxy S twenty one, they are 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.440 giving you one thousand dollars off the S twenty two 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.240 if you trade in the Galaxy S twenty one Ultra. 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:42.400 So it's interesting because Mkbhd, the you know, the pre 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:47.280 eminent tech reviewer on YouTube. He actually, even after a 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.800 bunch of software updates, said that he is still sticking 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:55.040 with the S twenty one Ultra as his daily driver 0:09:56.360 --> 0:10:00.200 over the S twenty two Ultra, which is pretty bold, 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.439 and I think his main reasoning is that he feels 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:07.880 like the cameras aren't considerably better, and also the stylus. 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:11.720 He's not using it, so why carry around a bigger phone? 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.000 I would say, I still think the cameras are a 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.360 bit improved, especially in low light and the video with 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.480 the S twenty two Ultra, I agree with the fact 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:24.160 that I don't need the stylus, and so I feel 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.560 like I'm carrying around a phone that is a little 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:28.680 bit bigger, a little bit bulkier, for a feature that 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:30.640 I don't need. And so I do agree with him 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:34.240 on that the S twenty two the standard one S 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.440 twenty two plus for me personally as a power user, 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:39.800 they don't offer the power that I need with the 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.079 speed of video editing, and so that's just kind of 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.320 a deal breaker for me. And also, if I'm going 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.640 to have something that's different than the iPhone, you want 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:52.480 something that's better than the iPhone. And so the reality 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.880 is when it comes to the camera, you can zoom 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.280 in ten x on the S twenty two Ultra, something 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:00.640 that you just can't do on the iph and so 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.040 that would lead me to believe that I just need 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.800 to use the S twenty two Ultra over the iPhone. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:09.360 Thirteen pro if I was gonna switch, that's what I'm saying. 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:13.080 I didn't say I'm doing that. And Tommy says, do 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.559 you what can I do to make Android messages come 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:19.280 clear when I send to iPhone? You can't. You've got 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:23.040 to You've got to switch to a messaging app. So 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:25.520 you've got to get You've got to get the person 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:29.120 to switch to Telegram. There is a setting in the 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.600 Messages app on Android that lets you send photos through 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:36.000 Google Photos. If you go into your settings, you can 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:38.240 toggle that on, and basically it sends people a link, 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.880 which is not perfect, but it's better than just if 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.280 you try to send a message from an Android to 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.480 an iPhone, a video message, it's gonna look like garbage. 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:50.840 It just is because SMS was not meant to send 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.720 large files, and so it's just not gonna be very good. 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.600 And I'm getting a message that says Signal is a 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.440 good messaging app. Signal is great. It just it really 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.560 depends on what your friends are on, so just pick 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.600 one and stick to it. So, for instance, with my family, 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.400 we all decided Telegram a couple of years ago. During 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.800 the holidays, we all joined up. We all made a 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.320 group text and It's been fantastic. It has been so 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.679 good because a couple of us are on iPhone, a 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.880 couple of us are on Android, and none of it matters. 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:22.959 It doesn't matter what people are on. Everything works perfectly. 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.760 Yo iPhone says, how do I get my Tesla to 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.640 recognize my wife's iPhone? It doesn't seem to know which 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:34.000 phone is close. There is a setting in Tesla that 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:38.040 lets you say, prioritize a certain phone, So you can 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.480 list your phones in there and it will let you 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.480 prioritize her phone or your phone. My wife does not. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.240 She doesn't go near the Tesla because she doesn't like 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.560 the idea of the phone key. I'm like, what's the 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.800 difference you have your You have your phone near you 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.640 at all times, that's your key. But she doesn't like that. 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.000 Although I haven't actually set up her phone as the key, 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.360 so maybe that's part of the problem. All right, let's 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.280 get to the first question of the show. I know 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:06.000 I got so many questions. I've said this before, but 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:07.760 I need to do a version of this show that 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:11.040 is just one hundred percent questions from Instagram, and that 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.800 could be an entire hour, super easily. But I do 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.880 want to get to some of these questions that I 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:19.480 do have prepared here that people email me at Hello 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:23.480 at richontech dot TV, Steve says, good evening, love the show. 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.360 Like what you did there, Steve. Since I have unlimited 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:28.920 data on Verizon, I rarely need to use Wi Fi 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.400 when I'm out and about. But even when I've signed 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.280 on to Wi Fi, say at Kaiser, which is a 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:37.280 local hospital here or healthcare facility in Los Angeles, I 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.920 find the service so slow as to be useless. Do 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:43.360 you ever run into that problem? Thanks Steve, Steve one 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:47.240 hundred percent? So I agree with this. In fact, I 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.880 never use the Wi Fi anywhere unless I have to. 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.679 I also have an unlimited data plan I happen to 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:58.120 be on Verizon as well. I use gobs and gobs 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:01.200 of data. I have never been slowed down. I'm on 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:05.960 five G and I find that Verizon service is so solid. 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.360 Nine times out of ten it is faster than the 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.480 Wi Fi than I'm on. Now, with that said, what 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.240 I do whenever I get into a hotel room or 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.320 somewhere where I'm gonna be using Wi Fi, like let's 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.000 say a sports stadium, I do two speed tests. I 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:23.920 open up my meteor app met EO R, and I 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:27.360 do a speed test of my standard signal on my 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.240 cellular carrier. Then I do I connect to the Wi 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.240 Fi and then I do a speed test with that 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:34.960 as well, and I just see which one's faster nine 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.160 times out of ten. Unless I'm in a place with 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.000 a really good Wi Fi signal, I just leave my 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.920 Wi Fi off and I will use my data. I'm 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:46.440 paying for a big data plan. My plan is so 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:50.240 expensive it's ridiculous, and so I'm going to get my 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.640 use out of it until they decide to slow me down. 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.800 And I've yet to see a place or a time 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:57.760 when I've been slowed down. The only thing we've come 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.200 close to on this last road trip my kid. We're 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.360 using my wife's hot spot, and it did say that 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.480 you came like ninety percent close to using all the 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:10.040 data on your hot spot. And after these certain data 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.080 was used, I think, I don't know how many gigs 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.320 you get, they do slow that down. So that's an 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:16.520 example of where it told me that. But I've never 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:18.520 gotten an email or a text that says, hey, you've 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:20.960 used you know, one hundred gigabytes this month. We are 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.760 going to start slowing you down. I'm getting some texts 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:27.160 here on the live stream saying about dead zones in 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.640 different places. Yeah, when you're in these big box stores 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:33.840 like a Walmart or a best Buy or a hospital 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:35.920 even a lot of times there are a lot of 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.200 dead zones where your cellular is not going to work 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.240 that well, and so in those cases it's it's critical 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.800 to have those Wi Fi connections. So, for instance, at 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.920 the hotel I was staying at recently, the Verizon signal 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.680 was not very good. I happen to have a T 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:56.320 Mobile account and so I was using that to test against. 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.440 T Mobile was like super duper fast. They must have 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.320 had a Tea Mobile cell site on property or something, 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:05.600 because I was getting like over one hundred down on 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:09.160 T Mobile and I was getting like five on Verizon. 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:11.880 And then the hotel Wi Fi, I can't remember, it 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.240 was like twenty five something in the middle. So I 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:17.040 did use the hotel Wi Fi when you know, when 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.600 I figured when I could not get a signal whatsoever, 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:21.880 like in the room and in certain areas of the hotel, 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.360 and also when I'm at different places, like if you're 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.840 a if you're in a big box place, that's like 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.560 a big metal box store. A lot of times your 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.640 cell phone signal doesn't work as well. I've noticed this 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:33.560 in like a home depot things like that. It just 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.920 really depends where you are. But that's what I do. 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.320 I typically do the two speed tests if I'm going 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.080 to be in that place for a while, and whatever 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.880 one's faster, I'll just stick to that disconnect from the 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.320 regular Wi Fi and that's it, and I'll use my 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.920 cellular data. I think it's more security user cellular in general. 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:52.600 It's just you know, we talked about it on the 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:55.400 last show. Is Wi Fi safe? Most of the time? 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.920 It's perfectly safe. But I do think that, of course 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:01.520 cellular is going to be the same because it is 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:06.560 a very secure connection. It's not a public connection. All right. 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:12.040 Let's talk about everyone's favorite topic, uh, Netflix. So I 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:17.000 posted about Netflix losing subscribers. Anytime you post about Netflix, 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.400 I'll just tell you this right now. It is very, 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:24.320 very controversial. People they love Netflix, they hate Netflix. They 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.480 think it's too expensive, they think it's a great deal. 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.760 It's one of those things that has become so prevalent 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.639 in our lives that we have formed a lot of 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:37.119 opinions about it. And that's fine. I personally sit somewhere 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.159 in the middle in the in the middle in the 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.600 middle with Netflix. I feel like I'm paying too much. 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:47.720 It's twenty dollars a month. It's my most expensive service. Yes, 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:51.119 I am sharing my service with other people. It's just 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.440 the way it is. When they decide to clamp down 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.040 on that, of course, I will tell the people that 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.320 i'm sharing with, sorry, you got to you gotta pay 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.600 for your own service. And I'm sharing with you know, 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.480 household members and things like that. But you know, there 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:06.160 may be some people that still have my password that 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.760 I'm not really sure what's happening, and maybe they're using it. 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.119 I don't know, but it just happens. You share it 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.040 once and next thing, you know, these people they cling 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:18.320 on forever. So quarter one in twenty twenty two, big 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:23.000 big loss for Netflix. They lost Let's see, they had 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.040 two hundred and they have two hundred and twenty one 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:29.359 million subscribers, so overall they're doing great. But they lost 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:35.520 two hundred thousand subscribers, which is I mean, absolutely horrible. 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.680 You would think this service would still be growing. I'm 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:40.200 not going to get into I'm not like a Wall 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.199 Street person So we're not going to get into all 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.800 these like wild numbers with Wall Street, but let's just 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:49.720 put it this way. Investors expected them to gain two 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:54.960 and a half million subscribers. They lost two hundred thousand subscribers. 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.160 That is just wild. Now, they're still up four million 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.159 subscribers year over year, they still have two hundred and 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:05.240 twenty one million subscribers, but the reality is they gained 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:09.080 four million subscribers Q one last year. They lost two 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:12.080 hundred thousand overall this year. So that is really really 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.880 bad for Netflix. If you've been following the news, their 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.560 stock price went way down. They said that part of 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:20.840 it was getting out of Russia, but Russia only had 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.280 seven hundred thousand subscribers, so that really wasn't that big 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.840 of a deal. US and Canada they lost six hundred 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:30.480 thousand subscribers. So what does this tell us? When I 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:33.080 posted on my Facebook page that Netflix was putting that 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:36.400 price increase in once again, people were like, I say, 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.880 I'm canceling, this is the last straw. People were serious. 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.960 Six hundred thousand people in the US and Canada. They 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:46.639 didn't break down exactly how many in each cancel their service. 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:49.280 They lost six hundred thousand. That is that is a 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:52.960 huge loss, and that's a net loss. So we don't 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:56.080 know how many people actually joined and still you canceled. 0:19:56.359 --> 0:20:00.320 But the reality is are people getting streaming fatigue? Probably 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:04.320 this was you know, Netflix has enjoyed ten years of growth, 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.560 maybe twenty years of growth, whatever it's been since they started. 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.720 Things just kept going up, up up. Now they're getting 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:13.840 to a point where every move they make is being 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:18.800 analyzed by their subscribers and and people are just saying, 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:21.560 you know what, I only watched two shows on Netflix 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:24.720 last year. Maybe I'll just subscribe to it for six months. 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:28.840 That's actually an interesting way to look at this service. 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:31.679 Do you cut your price in half by just subscribing 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.000 for six months out of the year. Now, when Netflix, 0:20:34.040 --> 0:20:36.159 and this is why it always comes down to hit shows. 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:39.800 When services have a hit show, you do not want 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:42.120 to get rid of them. So what these services try 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:45.240 to do is get a hit show that ends and 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:47.879 then they get another hit show. But Netflix puts all 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:50.120 their shows, they let you binge them, so you could 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:54.520