Speaker 1: A free way to speed up your sluggish PC. Direct
Speaker 1: tv Now is changing its name. Samsung has a new tablet.
Speaker 1: Google reveals more features on Pixel four, and we're answering
Speaker 1: your pressing tech questions.
Speaker 2: What's going on. I'm Rich damiro.
Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
Speaker 1: about this stuff I think you should know about happening
Speaker 1: in the tech world. Plus I'm answering your tech questions.
Speaker 1: Joining me is producer Megan. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Hello, how's it going.
Speaker 1: It is going well, although I will tell you, Producer Megan,
Speaker 1: I am not feeling so well today. Why well, I
Speaker 1: have a story to tell you. And this is very embarrassing.
Speaker 3: Oh no, yeah.
Speaker 2: So it's my kid's birthday this weekend and.
Speaker 1: Well soon okay, And I was at Target yesterday just
Speaker 1: do my normal. You know, sometimes you want to go
Speaker 1: on a target run, right You ever feel that way?
Speaker 1: I feel like that, Okay, Well I haven't had that
Speaker 1: urge until just like this week for some reason. So
Speaker 1: I go to Target and I'm thinking I'm like Dad
Speaker 1: of the Year because I'm like buying wrapping paper for
Speaker 1: his gifts, and I'm like, you know what I'm gonna get?
Speaker 1: My kid a card, and so I look at all
Speaker 1: the cards I see, like the ones for little boys
Speaker 1: or whatever, and it's like, you know, they have a
Speaker 1: whole bunch that like, you know, when they're turning like five, six, seven, eight, whatever.
Speaker 1: So I get a card that has a seven on
Speaker 1: it and I'm like, this is It's like a big
Speaker 1: cutout of a seven. And I texted to my wife
Speaker 1: thinking she's gonna be like, oh my gosh, you're so
Speaker 1: I can't believe you would.
Speaker 2: Even think to do that, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I get a text back and she says, well, he's eight,
Speaker 1: So I'm basically buying a card that I should have
Speaker 1: bought last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is Yeah, So how did that make me feel?
Speaker 2: As a dad?
Speaker 1: Like I, you know, I love technology and I've got
Speaker 1: all that figured out right, not everything, but here it
Speaker 1: is my personal life. I'm just like a.
Speaker 3: Mess focus clearly I'm a mess.
Speaker 4: No, But you know what, at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: the thought was there you were you were trying to
Speaker 4: be a good dad. I was trying to be and
Speaker 4: you know what, like he won't ever find out, he.
Speaker 1: Will never listen to this podcast in thirty year. Could
Speaker 1: you imagine let me just go through the archives.
Speaker 3: Of Dad and I mean, you know seven and eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's understand he is currently seventh.
Speaker 3: You had his age correct, all right?
Speaker 1: Now, well let's talk about the Galaxy tab s six.
Speaker 2: Get that number right.
Speaker 1: Samsung, ahead of their event that's happening in New York
Speaker 1: next week, is announcing a tablet. Now, why would you
Speaker 1: do that? Why don't you just wait until the event
Speaker 1: so we have something fun for the event. So Samsung
Speaker 1: has their big unveiling next week in New York City
Speaker 1: and they are announcing the tablet that.
Speaker 2: They're going to show there.
Speaker 1: So anyway, it's the Galaxy tab s six and it
Speaker 1: kind of sounds like the competitor to the iPad pro.
Speaker 1: It's got a s pen which is a stylist that
Speaker 1: magnetically attaches for charging, so it attaches to the side
Speaker 1: of the tablet. It also has Bluetooth remote control functionality
Speaker 1: air Action, which lets you take a selfie from the pen.
Speaker 1: You just click the little clicker on there. They have
Speaker 1: this Samsung decks which lets you plug the tablet into
Speaker 1: a monitor and it turns that monitor into like a
Speaker 1: desktop computer. I don't know if anyone's using that feature.
Speaker 1: Samsung really tries to sell this every time we go
Speaker 1: to a Samsung event. I don't know if anyone's actually
Speaker 1: using that. It's got a new processor, it's got good
Speaker 1: lag free game experience. It's five point seven millimeters, so
Speaker 1: it's slim. It does have a dual camera. Now they
Speaker 1: put in the ultra wide lens which is one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty three degrees, which is very similar to what
Speaker 1: they have in the Galaxy S ten. And you can
Speaker 1: also unlock it through an on screen fingerprint scanner, which
Speaker 1: also sounds like the Samsung Galaxy S ten. This is
Speaker 1: like a giant phone. It's gonna be available September sixth
Speaker 1: in gray, blue and rose. It's going to be available
Speaker 1: for pre order on August twenty third in stores again
Speaker 1: September six for six hundred and.
Speaker 2: Forty nine dollars.
Speaker 1: That is an insane amount of money to spend on
Speaker 1: an Android tablet. Here's why there are no apps for
Speaker 1: Android tablets. If you look at what the iPad has done,
Speaker 1: I think the iPad is the gold standard for tablets,
Speaker 1: and I almost never recommend an Android tablet because the
Speaker 1: tablet might be fine. And this sounds like a great,
Speaker 1: nice screen, high powered, it's got the stylus. But when
Speaker 1: you go to look at the apps, go to find
Speaker 1: an app like from the top, big apps like you know,
Speaker 1: I'm talking all the news apps, all the video apps
Speaker 1: like Netflix is there, right, It's just like I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're going to spend six hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 1: to watch Netflix, you can get a fire tab for
Speaker 1: sixty bucks from Amazon. So my point is that I
Speaker 1: don't think you should be spending six hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars on Android tablet. I just don't think the support
Speaker 1: system is there, whereas if you're spending three hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty nine dollars on the iPad, the inexpensive entry level,
Speaker 1: which I know you want. Yeah, that's a much better
Speaker 1: deal right now because it's been out for while. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So two hundred and fifty bucks for a tablet that's
Speaker 1: gonna blow away this brand new Samsung tablet.
Speaker 2: And I'm not hating on Samsung.
Speaker 1: You guys know, if you listen to the podcast I
Speaker 1: hate on everything.
Speaker 3: He's just critical, like that's his job.
Speaker 1: But I'm just trying to tell you you're spending all
Speaker 1: this money, it's better placed.
Speaker 2: On an iPad.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Do you think that they're trying to deter everyone's attention
Speaker 4: from the foldable phone.
Speaker 2: I don't think so, because that's still coming out in
Speaker 2: September as well.
Speaker 4: But maybe they're like, but let's focus on our you know, well,
Speaker 4: they've got Samsung has a couple of things coming out.
Speaker 1: They've got the new tablet, they've got the new foldable phone,
Speaker 1: and they have the new note, right, a couple of
Speaker 1: things in the pipeline for Samsung.
Speaker 2: They're all coming out very soon.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think Samsung is a numbers game, and they're the
Speaker 1: number two number. I think they're number one or number
Speaker 1: two worldwide with phones. Yeah, certainly ahead of Apple in
Speaker 1: terms of worldwide sales. And I think they're just they're
Speaker 1: just playing the numbers game. They put out a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff, A lot of people around the world by it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: All right, So our first question comes from Danetta Jones.
Speaker 4: Can you recommend a program for writing other than Office
Speaker 4: three sixty five. I have it, but cannot use it
Speaker 4: if I if I am not connected to the internet.
Speaker 4: I am really tempted to just try and find a typewriter.
Speaker 4: I just want to try. I just want to write
Speaker 4: without all the hassle. Thank you to Netta.
Speaker 1: I think I have something that's a little bit easier
Speaker 1: than a typewriter, and I would recommend Google Docs. Google
Speaker 1: Docs is available for free. It is what I've been
Speaker 1: using for I can't remember the last time I fired
Speaker 1: up Microsoft Word or any other word processing app. Although
Speaker 1: I did write my book in the Apple Notes app
Speaker 1: on my computer last year, I'm not sure why this
Speaker 1: year I'm writing it in Google Docs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I felt like, since I was writing a book about iOS,
Speaker 1: I should write it in an iOS app.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Able notes app.
Speaker 4: I just I see the notes app as just being
Speaker 4: like a notes app.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't associate that with like writing.
Speaker 1: I think what I liked about it is that you
Speaker 1: know how you have all your notes on the left
Speaker 1: hand side, like it's so. I had like a folder,
Speaker 1: and then each tip was in a separate, little kind
Speaker 1: of note itself, and I can count them up really easily,
Speaker 1: because I was trying to get to one hundred and
Speaker 1: one tips, so it took a while to do that.
Speaker 1: But Google Docs works offline. I use this on the
Speaker 1: plane all the time. The only thing I would have
Speaker 1: to check to see is if Google Docs works offline
Speaker 1: on all web browsers or just Google Chrome.
Speaker 2: So that would be the only thing for who is it.
Speaker 1: Again, Janetta Donetta, So I would say that's the only
Speaker 1: thing you really need to kind of look out for,
Speaker 1: is if you might have to switch to the Chrome
Speaker 1: web browser to make the offline functionality work. But otherwise
Speaker 1: you can use everything offline and when you get back online,
Speaker 1: it just kind of sinks it all up. It stores
Speaker 1: it in the background on your computer, and it works
Speaker 1: really well. Like the first time I try this out,
Speaker 1: which by the way, this might have been a year
Speaker 1: or two ago.
Speaker 2: Offline mode, Yeah, I was so impressed.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that they had a lot.
Speaker 2: I don't think a lot of people do.
Speaker 3: So is it just a like a switch like, No,
Speaker 3: it's just.
Speaker 2: It does it all automatically.
Speaker 1: So if you have a bookmark, which I have a
Speaker 1: bookmark for a new Google document, if I press that
Speaker 1: on the plane, it'll make a new document. I can
Speaker 1: copy it, I can make it whatever I want, and
Speaker 1: then when I get back to the you know, regular internet, boom,
Speaker 1: it all syncs up with the cloud very.
Speaker 2: Very works well. Google Docs.
Speaker 1: It's all free and you know, you don't necessarily need
Speaker 1: anything else. Speaking of computers, you've got a computer that
Speaker 1: has probably slowed down over the years, or maybe it
Speaker 1: just bought your computer and it's already slow. This happened
Speaker 1: to me with my mom. I bought her a new computer,
Speaker 1: and my brother and I sort of went a little
Speaker 1: cheap on it, and my mom is not one to complain,
Speaker 1: and she complained about it, and I went over there,
Speaker 1: she lives in New Jersey, and I checked it out,
Speaker 1: and sure enough, this thing was so slow. It was
Speaker 1: ridiculously slow. Like I couldn't believe that Dell would sell
Speaker 1: a computer this slow. How old, brand new, it was
Speaker 1: slow out of the box.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So one of the problems with some of these computers
Speaker 1: is that the manufacturers are paid to install a bunch
Speaker 1: of software on computers, not necessarily when you get a Mac,
Speaker 1: but on the Windows side. So you might get a
Speaker 1: brand new Windows computer and it comes with all these
Speaker 1: weird apps that you never recognize, a photo editing app,
Speaker 1: some sort of control panel app, all these weird things
Speaker 1: games that are on your desktop, stuff.
Speaker 2: That you just don't need. What do you need nowadays.
Speaker 3: Just a place to put your photos.
Speaker 2: A web browser, web.
Speaker 3: Browser like, that's it.
Speaker 2: That's like, I only use Chrome pretty much. That's all
Speaker 2: you need.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So ADW Cleaner is a program from malware Bytes, which
Speaker 1: is a respected software company, and they now have a
Speaker 1: feature inside the latest ADW Cleaner seven point four point
Speaker 1: zero that will go through your computer and scan it
Speaker 1: and not just find the malware and all of the
Speaker 1: garbage stuff that you don't need, but it will now
Speaker 1: detect pre installed software on your computer that you might
Speaker 1: not need to run your computer. And for a lot
Speaker 1: of computers, it's going to find some stuff and you
Speaker 1: have the option to get rid of that. Now, if
Speaker 1: you're like me, this is something that you know, like
Speaker 1: I would go through my computer and get rid of
Speaker 1: all the stuff that I don't recognize or don't need because.
Speaker 2: I'm a power user. But for the average person, they
Speaker 2: don't necessarily know how to do that.
Speaker 1: It's intimidating. You might think you're gonna break something. So
Speaker 1: this program sort of cuts through all that and it says,
Speaker 1: you know what, you can get rid of this stuff,
Speaker 1: and by the way, we will keep a copy of
Speaker 1: it in the background, but it's not gonna be running.
Speaker 2: So if you ever do something wrong. You can easily
Speaker 2: get it back.
Speaker 3: That's cool.
Speaker 2: That nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a free program. It's called malware Bytes adw Cleaner.
Speaker 1: The seven point four point zero is the one that
Speaker 1: detects pre installed software, and pre installed software can have
Speaker 1: a real negative effect on your computer. It can be
Speaker 1: running in the background. It could be hogging your processor,
Speaker 1: your memory. You don't want stuff running on your computer
Speaker 1: that you don't need running, and that's what this kind
Speaker 1: of keeps from happening. And the company in their blog
Speaker 1: post at malwarebytes dot com says, let's be clear, pre
Speaker 1: installed software is not malicious. It's not like adware. Adware
Speaker 1: is something that hijacks your browser. When you go to
Speaker 1: search on Google, it might redirect you to bing or
Speaker 1: Yahoo or something like that, and they make a little
Speaker 1: bit of money off the ads you click. Pre Installed
Speaker 1: software is just stuff you don't really need. A company
Speaker 1: might pay that manufacturer to put their app there because
Speaker 1: they want it in front of a lot of people,
Speaker 1: especially when you buy computers from big box stores if
Speaker 1: you buy them online.
Speaker 2: There is a little tip I got a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago.
Speaker 1: If you buy a Windows computer from the Microsoft store,
Speaker 1: this specific one they don't allow these manufacturers to put
Speaker 1: these third party apps on there.
Speaker 2: So that's a little hint for you.
Speaker 1: If you want to buy a computer, maybe instead of
Speaker 1: Best Buy, go check the Microsoft store and save yourself
Speaker 1: a headache.
Speaker 3: Oh interesting, Yeah, Oh cool.
Speaker 2: I think that's it on this program. But really cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love that idea because I think for so many
Speaker 1: people it's just very it's very nerve racking to make
Speaker 1: any changes on your computer and to have a program
Speaker 1: like ADW Cleaner do it for you and to kind
Speaker 1: of be confident in that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. All right.
Speaker 4: So this next question was written on your Facebook from
Speaker 4: Don Heaton. Good morning, Rich, I was thinking about buying
Speaker 4: one of the Verizon five G jet packs. Can you
Speaker 4: explain the difference between that and the hot spot on
Speaker 4: my phone? All I want to do is watch a
Speaker 4: few movies in my motor home while traveling, and maybe
Speaker 4: a laptop here and there. With my phone, I always
Speaker 4: have issues with buffering. Thank you for your time, Don, Don.
Speaker 1: So let's see the hot spot now, he says, the
Speaker 1: five G hot spot, So I would actually one hundred
Speaker 1: percent recommend that. The Only problem is you're not going
Speaker 1: to find five G anywhere you go, especially in an
Speaker 1: RV five G if you find it in a city
Speaker 1: right now, is relegated to the usually the city centers,
Speaker 1: and even there not very much. There's not a wide
Speaker 1: swath of five G just yet. So I don't think
Speaker 1: that the five G is going to be the best
Speaker 1: bet for you if you want to get it, because
Speaker 1: if it handles a four G connection, which I would
Speaker 1: assume it does, you can I assume it handles for
Speaker 1: four G LTE as well, like it falls back if
Speaker 1: it doesn't find it. So if you want a future,
Speaker 1: proof yourself and buy this thing now.
Speaker 2: But you're talking.
Speaker 1: It's a four hundred, five hundred dollars on a two
Speaker 1: year contract for this hot spot, whereas you can get
Speaker 1: a regular hot spot for much cheaper than that. So
Speaker 1: I would definitely recommend the hot spot. And here's the
Speaker 1: reason why hotspot is going to have a better antenna
Speaker 1: inside for both receiving the signal and sending it out,
Speaker 1: because it's a hot spot. It's meant for that purpose.
Speaker 1: Whereas your phone can function as a hot spot and
Speaker 1: it's fine. Ninety nine percent of the time, your phone
Speaker 1: is going to be fine. We use it with our
Speaker 1: kids all the time they're on their iPads in the
Speaker 1: back seat. My wife turns her phone on and it's
Speaker 1: a hot spot and it works great. It's not going
Speaker 1: to be as powerful in all situations using your phone
Speaker 1: as it is a dedicated hot spot. And if you're
Speaker 1: talking about an RV, it's probably way easier to just
Speaker 1: have a hot spot in your RV close to the
Speaker 1: window so it gets a nice signal from outside. So
Speaker 1: use some of those command strips or something to stick
Speaker 1: it up on the window. Then you can plug it
Speaker 1: into a plug in the RV so it always has power.
Speaker 1: And now you don't have to worry about your phone
Speaker 1: and you can use your phone. You don't have to
Speaker 1: turn it on and off. Just leave this thing powered
Speaker 1: on at all times. It will be picking up that
Speaker 1: signal and broadcasting it out and you'll have a nice
Speaker 1: hot spot in your RV. So I wouldn't necessarily recommend
Speaker 1: the five G my Fi hot spot, but if you
Speaker 1: want to go with a Verizon hotspot, sure, Now I
Speaker 1: would ask the Verizon folks if the five G falls
Speaker 1: back onto four G, which, of course, like I said,
Speaker 1: I assume it does. But it's expensive and it's brand
Speaker 1: new technologies. You're probably just better off getting a regular
Speaker 1: hot spot. I think that's probably your best bet. Good question.
Speaker 1: So the Pixel four is Google's next smartphone, and Google
Speaker 1: is doing something really strange with this smartphone. Megan, what
Speaker 1: do you know about the Pixel? Just off the top
Speaker 1: of your head, great camera, that's it. The marketing has
Speaker 1: worked from Google. Now, it's not just the marketing, it's
Speaker 1: the truth, you know. I test every phone out there.
Speaker 3: You loved the pixel.
Speaker 2: I love the pixel, Pixel four, Pixel three, Pixel three.
Speaker 1: Ye. Yeah, I've loved all the pixels. Yeah there's three pixels. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they are near and dear to my heart. But the
Speaker 1: problem with the Pixel is that I call it a
Speaker 1: one trick pony. Amazing camera. The rest of it just
Speaker 1: not very good. And it's one of those phones that
Speaker 1: it's an amazing camera, amazing software, but the rest of
Speaker 1: the phone leaves a little bit to be desired. And
Speaker 1: that's really frustrating. Because the features on the Pixel are
Speaker 1: so cool. Google makes this software so clean. They have
Speaker 1: great ambient display that shows you stuff all the time
Speaker 1: on your screen, like your time and your weather, and
Speaker 1: your notifications and your next calendar appointment.
Speaker 2: But the phone overall.
Speaker 1: Just isn't as polished as some of the other phones
Speaker 1: on the market, like from Samsung and some of the
Speaker 1: other manufacturers like OnePlus, which has arguably better, cleaner, faster
Speaker 1: running software. Anyway, I digress Pixel four is coming out
Speaker 1: and Google's doing something weird to hype it up. They're
Speaker 1: letting us know the features before it comes out.
Speaker 3: Who does that backwards?
Speaker 1: So the new features that they announced are radar, which
Speaker 1: they're calling solely and the radar will detect movement around
Speaker 1: the phone, which means you can use hand gestures to
Speaker 1: do things like skip songs, snooze alarms, and silence phone
Speaker 1: calls just by waving your hand in front of the screen.
Speaker 2: Interesting. Does that make you want to buy a phone?
Speaker 4: I don't think so, not really, because I feel like
Speaker 4: I would mess with I would accidentally.
Speaker 2: Is it really necessary? It's unnecessary.
Speaker 1: It's cool and it reminds me of the future, but
Speaker 1: it's not something that's going to make people buy this phone.
Speaker 1: The other thing they're doing is adding face on lock,
Speaker 1: which I mean, hello, Apple to have that for two
Speaker 1: generations now.
Speaker 2: But here's Google.
Speaker 1: Here's how they knock face on lock on the iPhone.
Speaker 1: They say, our face on lock is better because it's
Speaker 1: ready the second you're near your phone. Because the phone
Speaker 1: has the radar, so it knows when you're nearby, it
Speaker 1: turns it on, and it unlocks your phone in a
Speaker 1: variety of positions. Your phone could be upside down, so
Speaker 1: I'm not talking face down, but just upside down.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, upside down and you can.
Speaker 2: Still yeah you thought face down?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, So it works in any orientation, which again,
Speaker 1: I mean, now I have picked up my iPhone and
Speaker 1: it's flipped over because it's kind of like a symmetrical
Speaker 1: piece of glass at this point. So I have picked
Speaker 1: it up and you have to flip it over before
Speaker 1: it unlocks. I mean, give me a break. And the
Speaker 1: other thing you have to do that the Google said
Speaker 1: is on other phones you have to swipe up to
Speaker 1: access to home screen. Our home screen will just appear
Speaker 1: once it's unlocks. I mean, okay, and other Android phones
Speaker 1: have done that. It's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 1: So again, the pixel is going to have amazing an
Speaker 1: amazing camera once again, But is this going to be
Speaker 1: the phone that people all of a sudden switch from
Speaker 1: the iPhone too?
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 2: Probably not.
Speaker 4: No, it's going to take a lot for Apple lovers
Speaker 4: to make the switch.
Speaker 3: Yes, I agree.
Speaker 4: Okay, so this next question is from Beth as always,
Speaker 4: thank you and your team for all your hard work.
Speaker 2: Team.
Speaker 4: I know, I know, I never get a shout out
Speaker 4: like that. Anyways, if your ears burn all the time,
Speaker 4: it is my fault because I tell everyone who will
Speaker 4: listen about all your great advice.
Speaker 2: Love that.
Speaker 3: Thank you all.
Speaker 2: Okay, anyway, she's really into the team.
Speaker 4: I just saw an ad for Honey that I believe,
Speaker 4: I understand is a coupon finding Slash lowest price website
Speaker 4: that works with Amazon, Amazon Prime, etc. To find the
Speaker 4: latest oh sorry, to find the lowest prices on thousands
Speaker 4: of items. I am not the most knowledgeable tech savvy person,
Speaker 4: so I'm asking for your advice. Have you heard of
Speaker 4: Honey and what do you know about it?
Speaker 1: I love Honey in my TEA good one.
Speaker 2: I actually have nice.
Speaker 1: So Honey is a Chrome extension or any any web browser.
Speaker 1: It's an extension, a little piece of software that sits
Speaker 1: inside your web browser and it monitors all the websites
Speaker 1: that you go to, waiting for you to go to
Speaker 1: a shopping website, look at an item, and as soon
Speaker 1: as it notices that you're looking at something. It says, hmm,
Speaker 1: let me see if a there's a promo code for
Speaker 1: that website or a cheaper price.
Speaker 2: On that product.
Speaker 1: That's the way it's supposed to work. In my experience,
Speaker 1: Honey is good. It's got a lot of name recognition.
Speaker 1: They've got a lot of installs. I feel like they
Speaker 1: don't have the best coupon codes and the best promo
Speaker 1: codes and the bright best price comparison. But I will
Speaker 1: tell you one feature I did use, which it did
Speaker 1: one hundred percent work on is I wanted one.
Speaker 2: Of those little what was it called. It was a.
Speaker 1: Google smart alarm clock from Lenovo. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you remember we saw it at CTEs. Yes, little tiny
Speaker 1: eighty dollars device. Yeah, And it came out a couple
Speaker 1: months ago, and I said, well, I'm not paying eighty
Speaker 1: bucks for this seventy nine, but I'll pay some when
Speaker 1: it goes on sale.
Speaker 2: I'll snap one up.
Speaker 1: So I sat using Honey a little price alert and
Speaker 1: you just are on a page, you click their bookmark
Speaker 1: and it says, hey, we'll add this to your price alert,
Speaker 1: and as soon as the price drops, we'll send you
Speaker 1: an alert. Sure enough, the second that price drop to
Speaker 1: fifty nine dollars, which was twenty dollars off, I got
Speaker 1: an alert from Honey before all the blogs that I
Speaker 1: follow picked it up.
Speaker 3: Oh I love that.
Speaker 1: So I did like that feature and it worked out,
Speaker 1: So bottom line, try Honey. The other one that I
Speaker 1: really like is called wiki by Yes, And the reason
Speaker 1: I like wiki by is it does very similar things,
Speaker 1: but I find that the discount codes that it finds
Speaker 1: are really good. And the reason why they're good is
Speaker 1: because the way wikibi works is when you enter a
Speaker 1: discount code into let's say gap dot com, it notices
Speaker 1: that and it saves it for the next person it does,
Speaker 1: and it notices if that code worked or not. So
Speaker 1: if it didn't work, it won't show it to the
Speaker 1: next person. Or I'm sure there's some threshold maybe if
Speaker 1: it doesn't work for five people, it stops showing it.
Speaker 1: But I love that smarts and Honey may do that
Speaker 1: same thing. I'm just not sure.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Honey is actually a local company in LA, so maybe
Speaker 1: we should do a story with them and get some
Speaker 1: clarification on how their system works. I just personally found
Speaker 1: that wikibi has worked really well it's come up with
Speaker 1: some codes.
Speaker 2: It has saved me. I would gather hundreds of dollars
Speaker 2: since I've installed it.
Speaker 4: I use wikiby too, but I don't know why, but
Speaker 4: lately when I've used it, I've had to manually put
Speaker 4: in the promo code, like it'll give me eight and
Speaker 4: I have to like try each one.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's supposed to try them automatically.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I used to do it automatically.
Speaker 1: So I wonder it'd be the website that you were on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that could have been. It so sketchy, but those are
Speaker 1: the two. Yeah, that's gonna say for the websites you're
Speaker 1: on the sketchy. It's like the dresses that they sell
Speaker 1: on Instagram will look up address and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, she's like, oh my gosh, this is the
Speaker 1: perfect dress. It's on Instagram, Like, yes, it was targeted
Speaker 1: towards you.
Speaker 3: Because literally, like that happens to me.
Speaker 1: All they're crazy marketers with these dresses. But she has
Speaker 1: bought some of them for like twenty nine bucks or
Speaker 1: something in.
Speaker 4: That Instagram like Legit stores, Pinterest, like the weirdest, strangest stores.
Speaker 4: Like you'll see a dress you like it and then
Speaker 4: you go to the website and it's some random store
Speaker 4: that you've never heard us, Like, you're.
Speaker 2: Shipping like direct from China. Yeah, which is fine.
Speaker 1: We've been there. No, we've been there and we saw
Speaker 1: the clothing. Remember we were in that giant store with
Speaker 1: all the clothing stuff.
Speaker 2: You bought a dress. I bought one too, but not
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 1: Android Auto is getting an upgrade if you use Android
Speaker 1: Auto in the car. I feel like I've talked about
Speaker 1: this before on the podcast, but it's actually now rolling out.
Speaker 1: If you have an Android phone, you plug it in.
Speaker 1: This is what happens when it takes over the screen
Speaker 1: in your car. It's Android's answer to CarPlay from Apple,
Speaker 1: but they are getting some really good improvements. I got
Speaker 1: a preview of this at Google Io a couple months ago,
Speaker 1: and I've been eagerly, eagerly waiting for this because it
Speaker 1: just makes Android Auto so much more useful. Number One,
Speaker 1: you don't have to switch between categories of apps. So
Speaker 1: if you're familiar with Android Auto right now, if you
Speaker 1: want a music app, you have to tap music and
Speaker 1: then it gives you all of your apps and you
Speaker 1: have to tap again or scroll to get into your
Speaker 1: next music app, or to select the music app you want,
Speaker 1: or to switch. It's a big process to switch. That's
Speaker 1: not good. Now it's all one screen. If you want
Speaker 1: to go to a map program, you got to go maps,
Speaker 1: click again and then see all your maps programs, which
Speaker 1: maybe you have like Ways and Google Maps and maybe
Speaker 1: another one on there, and you have to choose that.
Speaker 2: So now they've streamlined it.
Speaker 1: Also, it's one screen and your top four apps on
Speaker 1: the top row are the ones that you've used recently,
Speaker 1: or the algorithm determines that you might want to use next,
Speaker 1: which is smart. The other thing is that it has
Speaker 1: an overall darker look, so it kind of blends in
Speaker 1: more with your car screen. Android Auto used to be
Speaker 1: really bright and it kind of didn't make sense on
Speaker 1: a car, which the dashboards are mostly dark in cars
Speaker 1: except yours.
Speaker 2: You have like a cream colored.
Speaker 3: Dashbar, right yeah, but still like you know, it's dark, but.
Speaker 1: It's still dark, right like your screen and like your
Speaker 1: dashboard and stuff. And then the other thing that it does,
Speaker 1: and this is Holley Lujah. It finally plays the audio
Speaker 1: that you were playing when.
Speaker 2: You left your car.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 1: If you're in the middle of a song. It will
Speaker 1: just start playing that song. It will pick up where
Speaker 1: you left off. You're in the middle of a podcast
Speaker 1: you're listening to. I haven't tested with serious XM, but
Speaker 1: I would assume it would start playing again. Maybe not
Speaker 1: from the middle of the song because it's live streaming,
Speaker 1: but maybe it'll just start the stream again.
Speaker 2: I have to test it. This has not come to
Speaker 2: my phone yet.
Speaker 1: I am literally checking every moment of the day because
Speaker 1: it's rolling out. They announce these things and they say, oh,
Speaker 1: a're rolling this out because let's say there's a problem.
Speaker 1: They don't want all billion Android phones in the world
Speaker 1: having a major issue, so they roll it out to
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand they see, make sure everything's okay. Now
Speaker 1: rolled out to another one hundred thousand, so it could
Speaker 1: take a few weeks to get through the whole earth.
Speaker 1: What else, it opens up right to your map, so
Speaker 1: immediately when you get into Android Auto, your maps are
Speaker 1: up so you can just directly go to like where
Speaker 1: you need to go. It looks and sound it's amazing.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I saw this and tried it at
Speaker 1: Google Io, but I have not had it in my
Speaker 1: own hands, so I can't wait and someone did email
Speaker 1: me and said.
Speaker 2: Rich you suck.
Speaker 1: You don't realize that I've already had in my phone.
Speaker 1: When I get into my car, my audio starts again
Speaker 1: and I have Android. Yes, every Android phone is different.
Speaker 1: Some of them do that, but now Google is making
Speaker 1: this streamline streamline and all phones will do it. Yes,
Speaker 1: your Samsung phone might have done that. But and I replied,
Speaker 1: and they have a fancy Android.
Speaker 2: They didn't reply back. Yeah, your phone is so fancy.
Speaker 3: That's funny. All right.
Speaker 4: This next question is from Christy Baderacco.
Speaker 1: Okay, you don't have to do the last names if
Speaker 1: you don't want Christy those are those can be tricky sometimes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Christy, Christy, Christy, Christy, Chris d Nope, Christie. Do
Speaker 4: you know anything about the photostick in air quotes? It
Speaker 4: is supposed to plug into your computer and organize all
Speaker 4: of your photos. I wanted to see if it is
Speaker 4: safe to use.
Speaker 1: I get no less than a dozen emails about the photostick,
Speaker 1: like all the time.
Speaker 3: Really, I feel like this is the first one I've seen.
Speaker 1: This is the first one I forwarded to you, because wow,
Speaker 1: I'm curious. I just get so many of these things,
Speaker 1: so number one, if you search photostick, this is something
Speaker 1: that they advertise on Facebook and all these online things
Speaker 1: like crazy. Yeah, I'll just tell you why I don't
Speaker 1: like this.
Speaker 2: Number One, you go to Google, the first result is
Speaker 2: photostick review.
Speaker 1: Is it a scam or legit? That's your first clue
Speaker 1: that you don't want to buy this thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Number two, when you get to the photostick website, it
Speaker 1: uses a really.
Speaker 3: I can't even like find Oh, here's the website the
Speaker 3: tenth link.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Photos.
Speaker 2: That's the other thing.
Speaker 1: It's it's like it's a it's a major down the
Speaker 1: list on Google, which does not tell me anything good.
Speaker 3: This is weird.
Speaker 1: So now you go to this one. Number Oh my god,
Speaker 1: there's so much that's wrong about this. It's just I
Speaker 1: don't even want to Just stay away from the photostick. No,
Speaker 1: stay away from the photostick. I'm looking at the picture
Speaker 1: of the photostick and the USB photostick looks like a
Speaker 1: USB drive that I got ten years ago at sea.
Speaker 1: It's so old school. Number three, they play pricing games.
Speaker 1: It says it retails for one sixty. Now it's on
Speaker 1: sale for seventy nine to ninety nine. I guarantee you
Speaker 1: if I add this to my cart and then leave
Speaker 1: the website or go to a different page on the website,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be like.
Speaker 2: Hold on, fifty percent off. We'll take another twenty five
Speaker 2: dollars off.
Speaker 3: Just today.
Speaker 4: It's fifty four dollars on Amazon right now. Yeah, don't
Speaker 4: buy it.
Speaker 2: Don't do it. Here's what I recommend.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. Every review is like, no, just.
Speaker 1: Get Google Photos. It does the same thing. It's free,
Speaker 1: it's Google. Why do you want your photos on a photostick?
Speaker 1: I don't understand Google Photo. We'll find all the pictures
Speaker 1: on your computer and upload them to Google Photos.
Speaker 3: Just do it that way.
Speaker 2: Don't do the photostick.
Speaker 1: Oh, someone in Greensboro, Australia, just bought the photostick for
Speaker 1: Mac and PC five hours ago. It's a little pop
Speaker 1: up on their website that tells you when someone buys it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just it uses, it's using high pressure, and I
Speaker 1: just I don't like it. And I and I will
Speaker 1: tell you I did email this company to get one
Speaker 1: to try out, because so many people are emailing me
Speaker 1: and guess what they said, no no response. That's even
Speaker 1: worse than a no that means they're just not even caring.
Speaker 1: If I'm getting no response as a journalist, imagine as
Speaker 1: a customer, I just don't recommend it. There are better
Speaker 1: ways to do this. T Mobile and Sprint are going
Speaker 1: to merge. Department of Justice has approved it, and it
Speaker 1: seems like this is a done deal. And so what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen with this? T Mobile and Sprint are going
Speaker 1: to merge and give a bunch of their assets to Dish,
Speaker 1: who is going to start up the new fourth carrier
Speaker 1: in America, which makes no sense because Sprint was the
Speaker 1: fourth carrier. They struggled as the small fourth carrier. But
Speaker 1: now apparently with Dish Network doing it, everything's gonna be
Speaker 1: great and they're gonna be able to compete. I don't
Speaker 1: really understand that. Yeah, why is Dish gonna make it work?
Speaker 1: But T Mobile and Sprint are tea or Sprint.
Speaker 3: Couldn't and they're gonna call it Dish.
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's a terrible name for a phone company.
Speaker 1: Dish, but they have they Dish to get a little
Speaker 1: headstart is going to get a bunch of assets from Sprint,
Speaker 1: their eight hundred megahertz spectrum whatever that means, I guess
Speaker 1: that's how they you know, one of their spectrums for
Speaker 1: the calls. They're also going to get Sprint's pre paid business,
Speaker 1: which is Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, and Sprint branded prepaid customers.
Speaker 1: They bought that. They got that for one point four
Speaker 1: billion dollars.
Speaker 2: That's nine point three million customers. Just to give you some.
Speaker 1: Kind of perspective, eighteen team Verizon have like one hundred
Speaker 1: million customers each or almost that many. Yeah, so you're
Speaker 1: talking a tenth You really think Dish is gonna be
Speaker 1: able to compete with a small amount of spectrum?
Speaker 2: No, no, but we'll see.
Speaker 1: Oh, I should probably say on the flip side, what
Speaker 1: T Mobile and Sprint want to do, and they said
Speaker 1: that we plan to build one of the world's most
Speaker 1: advanced five G networks, which will massively revolutionize the way
Speaker 1: consumers and businesses use their connected devices to enhance their
Speaker 1: daily lives.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 2: I'll believe it when I see it.
Speaker 3: The accent, what was that?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know why they had to get together, And
Speaker 1: I love that their networks don't even their networks don't
Speaker 1: even work together. Sprint and T Mobile have two totally
Speaker 1: different types of networks, but whatever.
Speaker 3: Okay, well anyways, this next question is from Ronda Taylor.
Speaker 3: Good afternoon.
Speaker 4: I purchased am dashcam and was wondering if you would
Speaker 4: know what different companies I could go through for service.
Speaker 4: This service through PURECM is horrible. Thank you in advance
Speaker 4: for letting me know. Have a great dar.
Speaker 1: Purecam is a four g LT connected car security cam
Speaker 1: dash cam and it is I've actually kept using it
Speaker 1: since our segment because I really like it. And I
Speaker 1: will tell you the service. You can pop in any
Speaker 1: simcard as long as it's GSM. So whatever service that
Speaker 1: it came with, which I think was Ultra Mobile, which
Speaker 1: runs on T Mobile, I don't know if it's going
Speaker 1: to be much better. Your only two choices are either
Speaker 1: AT and T or T Mobile. Now underneath those you
Speaker 1: can use any of the prepaid carriers, like if you
Speaker 1: want to stick in a Walmart SIM or a T
Speaker 1: Mobile prepaid or Ultra or Simple, anything that runs on
Speaker 1: the T mobile network or the AT and T network
Speaker 1: will work. And if you want to know, just just
Speaker 1: look up like list of you can say T Mobile MVN.
Speaker 1: Mvn O means Mobile Virtual Network Operator, which means those
Speaker 1: are the companies that operate on T mobile service.
Speaker 2: Which is boost Mobile.
Speaker 1: So I mean, look how many there are Consumer Cellular,
Speaker 1: Eco Mobile, Go Smart, Jaguar Mobile, Jolt Mobile, Liberty Wireless,
Speaker 1: Metro PCs, Mint Mobile, net Ten, Republic Wireless, Simple Mobile,
Speaker 1: speed Talk, Straight Talk, Ting, Trackphone, Ultramobile, Walmart, Family Mobile, ZIP.
Speaker 1: You have a lot to choose from, but again those
Speaker 1: are all running on T mobiles network. Same thing with
Speaker 1: AT and T. If you do AT and T list
Speaker 1: of mvn O, you'll get all those. Personally, if you
Speaker 1: want better service, I would go with.
Speaker 2: The AT and T network. That's going to give you
Speaker 2: better service.
Speaker 1: Consumer Cellular, Cricket, Freedom, Pop, Huo, Wireless, net Ten, Straight Talk, Trackphone.
Speaker 1: Put any of those SIM cards in there and you'll
Speaker 1: be good to go. Personally, I would say that you
Speaker 1: want a SIM card that has a bunch of data,
Speaker 1: because the way this video camera works is it sends
Speaker 1: little clips to the cloud and it does a pretty
Speaker 1: good job at compressing those clips. But it's mainly data.
Speaker 1: You don't need any voice. You're not making calls through
Speaker 1: your dash cam. It also functions as a hot spot,
Speaker 1: so in your car you can use that as a
Speaker 1: hot spot. So if you're using that functionality, you probably
Speaker 1: want to get a bigger data plan. But I would
Speaker 1: say a data plan of a gig or two a
Speaker 1: month is probably fine, maybe six gigs a month at
Speaker 1: the most.
Speaker 3: Didn't we do a story on pr cam?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: Like it was a while ago. Yeah, yes, that's where
Speaker 1: I found it.
Speaker 2: It was great. It's a great little dash cam.
Speaker 1: It records inside and outside. It also has g shock sensor,
Speaker 1: so if your car gets hit, it'll do a little
Speaker 1: recording of the clip and it will send it, you know,
Speaker 1: up to the cloud.
Speaker 2: So you have it.
Speaker 1: You can live stream a view from your car inside
Speaker 1: or out. So if you're on vacation, your car's parking
Speaker 1: your driveway, you can get a little live stream make
Speaker 1: sure everything's okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of fun.
Speaker 2: AT and T.
Speaker 1: Let's see what I want to talk about AT and T.
Speaker 1: There's so many things to talk about this week. I'll
Speaker 1: just do a couple. I'll do two short things. So
Speaker 1: AT and T is rebranding direct TV Now. And if
Speaker 1: you have listened to me for a while, you know
Speaker 1: that I've been on DirecTV Now. We were there for
Speaker 1: the launch event in New York City back in twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen or is it twenty sixteen, whatever, it was a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. I've been a customer since day one.
Speaker 1: They had this fantastic plan. I think it was forty
Speaker 1: five dollars or forty for the month, and I get
Speaker 1: every channel. I'm talking every channel. I'll still have that plan,
Speaker 1: including HBO. Yes, but they raised the price. Now it's
Speaker 1: up to fifty dollars a month. So when I first joined,
Speaker 1: it was forty, which was amazing. Fifty dollars is still
Speaker 1: pretty amazing for all the channels I get. I don't
Speaker 1: watch any of them, but they're there, and I do
Speaker 1: get HBO, which I think is worth it.
Speaker 2: That's like fifteen dollars a month minimum.
Speaker 1: Right. So AT and T is rebranding direct TV now
Speaker 1: to become AT and T TV now say that ten
Speaker 1: times fast and T TV. Now, why do they have
Speaker 1: to rebrand? I mean, I get it. They want to
Speaker 1: make everything AT and T. But like direct TV now,
Speaker 1: it never really made sense because it was never delivered
Speaker 1: through satellite. Direct TV now direct TV you think of
Speaker 1: satellite TV. So that was our first mistake. They should
Speaker 1: have called it something else at the beginning. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you know it's been going on for a couple years now,
Speaker 1: so don't be surprised if your Direct tv Now app
Speaker 1: switches to AT and t TV now. You will have
Speaker 1: to if you use your AT. And this is the
Speaker 1: other thing I love about it, if you have direct
Speaker 1: TV now. And since I have all these channels, I
Speaker 1: can log into any of those apps for those channels.
Speaker 2: That's really why I keep it.
Speaker 1: I can log into the Nick app, I can log
Speaker 1: into the Disney Junior app. I can watch my favorite
Speaker 1: shows on any network if I had any I'm.
Speaker 2: Talking theoretically here right right, they're a Disney.
Speaker 1: No, most of them are. Yeah, but I can log
Speaker 1: into any app. So if someone's like, oh, there's a
Speaker 1: really cool show on Investigation Discovery, I'm like, oh cool,
Speaker 1: I'll just log into the app.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's really.
Speaker 1: A channel, Probably Investigation. I think that's like some of
Speaker 1: my mom watches. Yeah, History channel.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: I don't even know cable channels. That's how like out
Speaker 1: of it I am when it comes to TV. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what channels there are.
Speaker 4: I still remember the channels that I would watch as
Speaker 4: a kid that are now like completely different, Like fourteen
Speaker 4: was Disney free Form.
Speaker 3: Free Form used to be ABC Family.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know all these things from your childhood three
Speaker 1: years ago, Megan are just but I remember.
Speaker 4: There was a time where there was like just twenty
Speaker 4: not twenty channels, but like forty channels when I was
Speaker 4: really young, like seven, and like it was Nickelodeon was
Speaker 4: on channel twelve and fourteen was Disney.
Speaker 1: Now and now there's like seven Nickelodeon channels. It's like
Speaker 1: nick XD, or maybe that's Disney XD. There's like it's
Speaker 1: like a bunch of different channels. Yeah, it's wild and
Speaker 1: another quick pop here. Visio is rolling out support for
Speaker 1: Airplay two and Home Kit to its smart Cast TV sets.
Speaker 1: We did a story about this on KTLA a couple
Speaker 1: months ago, giving you a preview of what this is going.
Speaker 2: To look like. Now they're actually rolling out.
Speaker 1: So if you have a Visio TV with something called
Speaker 1: smart Cast dating back all the way to twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: you want to turn on your WiFi, go into your
Speaker 1: settings and update your software. You may not get the
Speaker 1: software update today since it's rolling out again, like we
Speaker 1: explained earlier, Yeah, but you will get it, and it's
Speaker 1: really this is a big software update to get Apple
Speaker 1: Airplay is really cool because now you can take a
Speaker 1: picture from your iPhone screen and show it off on
Speaker 1: your TV screen. Or you can watch a movie from
Speaker 1: iTunes on your phone and just kind of I call
Speaker 1: it sling it to your TV, you know, stream it
Speaker 1: to your TV, whatever you want to call it. But
Speaker 1: whatever you have on your phone now shows up on
Speaker 1: your TV screen, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 3: That is cool.
Speaker 1: And on another note, if you have a bunch of
Speaker 1: videos in your house, you can link them all up
Speaker 1: and have the same music playing on all of them.
Speaker 1: You create like almost like a Sono's kind of experience
Speaker 1: in your house.
Speaker 2: If you got that.
Speaker 4: Okay, this next question is from BEV. Subject is control
Speaker 4: lights in your home via a smartphone. I'm sorry, but
Speaker 4: I've searched and searched and can't find this on your site.
Speaker 4: Before May of this year, you did a segment on
Speaker 4: KTLA about little devices that you could plug your home lamps,
Speaker 4: et cetera, which allow them to be controlled off site
Speaker 4: through as through a smartphone.
Speaker 3: What was the name of this product.
Speaker 1: I think she's talking about a smart plug. Did she
Speaker 1: say control lamps, yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, smart plugs.
Speaker 1: So the ones we featured a couple in our segment,
Speaker 1: they're all My advice is just go to costco, see
Speaker 1: what's on sale, get them there, or you can get
Speaker 1: the Amazon one.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: It also depends on what you want to control them with.
Speaker 1: In my house, we're a Google house, so I need
Speaker 1: to make sure they work with Google Assistant. So there's
Speaker 1: three things out there that they could possibly work with,
Speaker 1: and some of them work with all three, but it's
Speaker 1: kind of rare to find all three.
Speaker 2: Most of the time they work with two.
Speaker 1: Most of the time you'll find that they work with
Speaker 1: both the Google Assistant and Alexa. Sometimes you'll find that
Speaker 1: they only work with home Kit, which is Apple's which
Speaker 1: is struggled. There's just not as much for Apple as
Speaker 1: there is for the other ones. But some of them
Speaker 1: support all three, like I believe the Weimo from Belkan
Speaker 1: supports all three. And this is smart plug. They're a
Speaker 1: little more expensive than the other ones. Right now, it's
Speaker 1: on sale for twenty five bucks for one plug, which
Speaker 1: is a lot for one device to control. But once
Speaker 1: you set this up, you can control anything that's attached
Speaker 1: to it, so for instance.
Speaker 2: In my living room. I have a light in a
Speaker 2: smart plug.
Speaker 1: It's a standard lamp that just comes on every night
Speaker 1: at six pm and goes off at midnight. And just
Speaker 1: now sitting there on the couch last night and there
Speaker 1: goes you hear the plug like turn on.
Speaker 3: Oh I like that.
Speaker 1: And you can do it that way, or you can
Speaker 1: connect it to Google or Alexa and have it on
Speaker 1: a routine. You could have it, you could do whatever
Speaker 1: you want. Once this Wi Fi plug, it connects your WiFi.
Speaker 1: By the way, once it's connected, the sky's the limit.
Speaker 1: Some people have fans on these things, so you can
Speaker 1: automatically have a fang one in your house. Now with that,
Speaker 1: you have to make sure that it can support a
Speaker 1: vice like that. You know, it depends on the rating,
Speaker 1: like it you'll see on the box. Some of them
Speaker 1: are more rated for like Christmas lights. That's a great
Speaker 1: example of something I always do my Christmas lights every
Speaker 1: year with these. But the I'm trying to see if
Speaker 1: the Belkan one, but I would recommend a couple to
Speaker 1: look at is the Yeah, this one works with Google Assistant,
Speaker 1: Alexa and home Kit.
Speaker 4: I think that's the segment that she's talking about is
Speaker 4: like a Christmas light.
Speaker 1: I know that was a long time ago though it
Speaker 1: was like last year. But the Wemo Mini smart plug
Speaker 1: is a good one. Amazon makes their own, which is good.
Speaker 1: I like that one, and then the other one that
Speaker 1: I like are actually a brand new one, I should say,
Speaker 1: is from Why's. And this is the company that is
Speaker 1: making a lot of budget products for home security. Now
Speaker 1: they have a camera, they have sensors for your doors,
Speaker 1: and now they have smart plugs. And for fifteen dollars
Speaker 1: you get a pair, which is.
Speaker 2: A two pack. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Seven fifty for two of these plugs. That's going to
Speaker 1: be shipping in September twenty nineteen. Those work with Amazon, Alexa,
Speaker 1: and Google Assistant, but not home Kit. But bottom line,
Speaker 1: go on Amazon and just see type in smart plug
Speaker 1: and kind of see what you like what's on sale.
Speaker 2: They all kind of work the same.
Speaker 1: The only thing you have to be aware of if
Speaker 1: you buy the ones that are sort of like a
Speaker 1: Chinese brand, that are direct from China, it could be
Speaker 1: a little bit tougher to set up because the app
Speaker 1: might not be as good as a mainstream one. What
Speaker 1: you really want to find is one where it doesn't
Speaker 1: even require a third party app, so some of them
Speaker 1: you can just open up the Google Home app on
Speaker 1: your phone and it will automatically set up. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if they have that yet with these plugs, but
Speaker 1: they do have it with light bulbs, and that's the
Speaker 1: easiest scenario where you don't have to really because most
Speaker 1: of the time what you have to do is you
Speaker 1: plug in the plug, you download the Plugs app, you
Speaker 1: sign in, you create an account, you get it all
Speaker 1: set up, and then you link your account from that
Speaker 1: app to the Google Home or to the Alexa and
Speaker 1: then you control it through the Alexa app out of
Speaker 1: the Google It's a lot, but it's fine. Once you
Speaker 1: do it once, it's pretty simple. Yeah, so it's pretty easy.
Speaker 2: Would you believe we are at the end of the show. No,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: We had so many more things to talk about, so
Speaker 1: many more questions, but we got to go. There's only
Speaker 1: so much podcast time in this world.
Speaker 3: Yes, you know that.
Speaker 1: There's I've read something where there's almost like one thousand,
Speaker 1: two thousand or three thousand new podcasts like every month
Speaker 1: or every week or something, every second, every second.
Speaker 2: It's like that YouTube thing.
Speaker 1: It's like every second of a billion like minutes of
Speaker 1: video or upload it to YouTube.
Speaker 2: It's something insane, that's crazy.
Speaker 3: I know everyone is out there making a podcast.
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Speaker 1: Straightforward with you, with you out there, okay, I would
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Speaker 1: even which would be even nicer. Go ahead, do it
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Speaker 1: the more people kind of notice and they look at
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Speaker 3: I did enjoy the show. I thought it's fun. We're
Speaker 3: doing this on a Wednesday, which is a little different.
Speaker 1: Producer, Megan, you're giving away all of our secrets. I'm
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