WEBVTT - Best ways to find holiday shopping deals 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:13.000 What's going on on Rich Damiro And this is Rich 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:15.400 on Tech, the podcast where I talk about the tech 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.440 stuff I think you should know about and it's where 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.960 I answer the questions you send me. Again, my name 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:24.840 is Rich Dmiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.560 Los Angeles. I hope you are having a great day. 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.920 It is Black Friday. It is the kickoff to the 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.959 holiday shopping season. Although let's be honest, we've all been 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:40.080 working from home, We've been shopping all all the time, 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.480 and this weekend we'll just be more shopping. Now, normally 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.040 I don't make a big deal about the day that 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.159 it is, but since this is the uh, pretty much 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.240 the official kickoff to the holiday shopping season, this show 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.560 is going to be dedicated to just your question So 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.160 just the questions that you send me. This is a 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.400 special episode to the show. And before you tune out, 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.760 wait wait, wait, it's gonna be good. I got a 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:07.120 lot of stuff to talk about, so many questions that 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.120 need to be answered. But like I said, it is 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.680 Black Friday, or if you're listening on the weekend, it 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.200 is this kind of you know, kickoff to the holiday 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.960 shopping season. Before you know, the day we all give 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:22.839 gifts to each other. And you might think that people 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.320 are not going to be spending money this season, and yes, 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.680 some might not be, but apparently people are. And according 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.360 to Adobe Analytics, I love the data that they always 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:36.240 put out, US online holiday sales are going to total 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:39.640 one hundred and eighty nine billion dollars this year, thirty 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:45.679 three percent year over year increase. Wow, that's two years 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.720 of growth in one season. Now, I don't know what 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:51.920 that is related to. I think that's because they're talking 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.520 about online sales, and I'm guessing, if I had to guess, 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:59.040 I'm guessing that's taking some of the chunk out of 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.680 the brick and mortar sales as they normally say, you know, 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.760 like going into a Best Buy, because I can't really imagine, 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.040 you know, I used to love waiting in line for 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:11.040 a Black Friday, and believe me, I've done many many 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:15.120 a Black Friday in my past. And I've waited in 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:19.280 line at Sears for a TV deal one time, Best Buy, 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:23.080 many times Target, one time for a PlayStation. I won't 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:24.679 say which one because it was a long time ago, 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.520 but I've been known to do that. In fact, that 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.240 used to be my tradition. My wife thought I was crazy. 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:32.640 She's like, why would you do this? Why do you 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.840 do this? Now? I haven't done it in years past, 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.000 Like in the last couple of years, I haven't really 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.600 done it. But you know this is I'm talking. You know, 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.880 ten years ago. It used to be my thing because 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:44.079 I used to love it. You know, it used to 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:47.120 get such great deals. And there's also a camaraderie of 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.760 sitting outside in the freezing cold. And no matter where 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:51.799 you live, at three am when you have to be 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:53.920 out there, it's pretty much cold. You know, there's not 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:58.200 a warm three am anywhere that I know, and it's 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.680 like this camaraderie. The store would come and like, you know, 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.959 maybe give you some like donuts and some coffee or something. 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.800 I don't know. Maybe I'm confusing the Apple launch events, 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:08.880 but you know I've done a lot of those too, 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.280 so you know what, I've been outside early in the 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.560 morning many times and with lots of shoppers. And the 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.200 thing about it, people think they're crazy, but you know what, 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.760 it is fun and there is, like I said, a 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:24.000 camaraderie and a kind of shared experience that you know, 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.200 you only get in certain aspects of life. And right 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.360 now there's none. I mean during the pandemic. You know, 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.480 you're not going to sporting events together. You're not going 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:33.240 to bars, you're not going to restaurants, you're not going 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:34.880 to concerts, you're not going to live show. So I 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:40.240 mean the shared experience right now is is zero. So 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:42.280 I mean you gotta think about it. You got to 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:43.800 you gotta take it where you can get it. Now. 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.160 I'm not saying to go out for these you know, 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.480 early morning things. I think you're gonna be perfectly great 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:51.600 just sitting at home and shopping you from your from 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.880 your computer this year. And let me tell you about 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:57.200 some of the sites that I visit because I love 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.200 all these sites. I love looking at the deal sites 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.600 because I'm always, you know, I always have my eye 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.040 on something right. So dealnews dot com is a great 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.920 website that you know. What I like about them is 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:11.000 they just have a whole bunch of deals, endless scrolling 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.360 on their on their homepage. But I like about their 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.359 deals is that they're legit number one, because they do 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.280 have a team of editors. Number Two, they actually give 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.919 you kind of some some basis for that deal. Like, 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.599 for instance, I'm looking at this Sony noise canceling over 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:29.040 ear wireless bluetooth headphones eighty eight dollars normally two hundred. 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:32.080 It's the best deal we could find by two dollars, 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:36.520 So I mean, there you go. Or this, let's see 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:40.719 like open box Samsung two channel wireless rear system speaker 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:44.120 system fifty five dollars in cart It's thirteen dollars under 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.239 the lowest price we could find for a new system. 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.520 So it gives you just kind of that perspective on 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.360 a deal that most of the time you got to 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.479 go around looking for on the web, and it's not 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:57.359 always easy to find all right, slickdeals dot Net. I 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.559 love this website. I check this website every single morning. 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:04.160 I check about fifty five websites every morning to kind 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.360 of go through the tech world and see what's happening, 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.239 and slick deals dot net is definitely one of those, 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.640 and I just love seeing just all the deals. And 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.039 what's cool about this website is that anyone can submit 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.400 a deal, but then the members vote them up. So 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.279 the front page deals are going to be fantastic because 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.840 people have said, yeah, these are really good deals. And 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.240 then not just the front page, but there's also a 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.760 bunch of other a bunch of other pages as well, 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.720 where you can kind of narrow down and see exactly 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:35.680 what you want. Maybe you only want computers, maybe only 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.000 want video game systems. But I mean, just looking at 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.680 the deals here, I mean it's great, Like look at this, 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:44.200 so I mean it's also cool because they give you 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.159 like just ideas on how to use. It's just great. 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.200 Like here one month's CBS All Access membership for new 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.719 or returning members. So you might think, oh, I already 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:54.480 had a freeze. Tryal to that I can never sign 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.960 up again unless I pay. Well, if you're checking slick deals, 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:58.839 now you can watch you know, some of those shows 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.880 again for free for you know, a month. Wow, let's 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:06.599 see fifty dollars. Nintendo E Shop gift card for forty 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.960 five dollars. Ooh, that's not a bad one. That's a 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:13.120 new egg. My kids want that three hundred and sixty 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:17.640 day red Pocket prepaid plan unlimited talking text plus three 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.320 gigs of LTE data for one hundred and seventy dollars. 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.040 So if you have like a loved one like a 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.760 mom or a grandma or someone in your family that 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.440 does not need a lot of data, look at this 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.800 one hundred and seventy dollars covers you for the whole year. 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:36.520 Three gigs every thirty days for a year for one 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.159 hundred and seventy bucks. I mean that's pretty good. So anyway, 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:44.360 slick Deal's always a fun site to visit. Clarkdeals dot com. 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.920 I wasn't I know Clark. I don't know Clark Howard, 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.440 but I know of him and I really like his show, 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.039 But I didn't know this little website that he keeps 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:56.120 clarkdeals dot Com. They're also really great, and again they 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.039 kind of do the same thing that these better sites do, 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.600 which they vet the deals. They say like, oh this is, 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.880 you know, better than the five dollars or five dollars 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.719 less than we've ever seen on this deal. So clarkdeals 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.680 dot Com, then I've got another another way to kind 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:13.800 of price check things, Like I do this a lot 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.600 if I want a deal on a particular item. So 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:20.280 let's say you want like the Note twenty ultra and 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.240 you want to see the best deal on that. And 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.200 I've mentioned this on the podcast before, but you just 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:27.640 search Note twenty ultra deal on Google and then hit 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:30.640 the news tab. You would think you'd hit shopping, but no, 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.880 you hit news and then you'll see all the blog 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.080 posts about that deal. So if there's a deal on 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.960 that item, chances are someone has blogged about it, and 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:44.040 now here you go and note twenty is fifty percent 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:48.600 off at Google five. Note twenty ultras is seven ninety nine. 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.240 Well I want the regular one, the not the five version. Well, 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:55.200 I guess five would be fine. Coupon cabin This one 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:58.040 is someone I interviewed for a KTLA segment. Wasn't really 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.119 familiar with the site. It's merrily one of those sites 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:02.800 that tries to give you, like the cash back, so 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:04.720 like shop at Macy's and they give you, you know, 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.960 ten percent back on your order or whatever, but they 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:12.880 also have a pretty good coupon. Repository Is that a 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:17.680 word that sounds weird? Is that really? Let me look 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:22.080 that up. Repository Is that that sounds like, oh yeah, 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:26.760 a place, a building or receptacle where things are stored. 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.920 And uh, here I can I can prove that it's 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:34.120 actually a word. Oh it didn't go in repository there 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:38.840 it is repository. Okay, I know what I'm talking about here. 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.040 Let's see, so I will say, like the other day, 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:46.319 I was searching for I order from a what's that place? 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.800 Panera a lot, and I was like, ah, you know, 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.600 usually they send me like a deal, and they didn't 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:53.040 in a while, and so I was like, let me 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.680 just search coupon cabin and sure enough, I got five 0:08:55.760 --> 0:09:01.600 dollars off my uh my curbside chin order, and I 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.240 got to say, coupon cabin came through. So check it out. 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.280 Couponcabin dot com. All right, let's see what else Amazon 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.880 dot com slash Black Friday is another place to go 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.640 couple of deals. You know, if you're looking for an 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:16.280 Amazon product like a you know, ring, Echo, fire sticks, 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.920 all that stuff, tablets, anything Amazon brand, and they have 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:23.520 a lot of brands by the way, Amazon Basics, wag Bali, Solim, 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:28.240 Happy Belly, all that stuff is on sale. But let's see. 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:31.400 If you use Amazon reloads replenish your Amazon Gift card 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:32.880 of one hundred dollars or more, you get a ten 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.440 dollars bonus that you have to be the first time 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:39.160 user for that. Oh no, I think it says all customers. Oh, 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.800 maybe I'll do that. And then first time Amazon gift 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.439 card shoppers get a fifteen dollars promo credit with a 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.280 purchase of fifty dollars or more in Amazon gift card. 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.120 So that's like a no brainer if you've never purchased 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.880 an Amazon gift card, purchased a fifty dollars gift card 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.720 and get a fifteen dollars promo credit. And Amazon says 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.839 they've extended returns windows to January thirty first, twenty twenty one. 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.120 And if you're not aware of this, a lot of 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.079 these returns you can bring to like a coal store 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.720 or a UPS store without even having them in a box. 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:07.720 And I've done this with the UPS Store a bunch. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.360 Now Cole's just twice because it's kind of far from 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.800 where I live. But UPS store has been fantastic and 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:15.920 you just literally bring the thing in there and they 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.079 think they ship it all up. I mean, I don't 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:19.760 know how they do that, but that's what they do, 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.760 all right. Two more sites to go through Wirecutter Deals, 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.600 And you know, I love Wirecutter. It's a great, fantastic 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:30.160 website that always has a lot of great picks in 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.959 various categories. Their deals are cool because it's only stuff 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.079 that they've said is good, so it's like stuff that 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.559 they've reviewed which is really cool. And then Reddit Deals. 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:42.400 This is one that I don't generally check, but I've 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:46.840 been researching for my stories on KTLA and the Reddit 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.800 deals is cool. It's just a little bit more disorganized 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.800 because you know, people just submit stuff they voted up. 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.000 But it's not as organized as some of the other ones. 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:57.480 But still, I mean, you just scroll through there and 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.120 you see, you know a couple of great things that 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.120 you might like. And so all those are sites that 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.360 I will be keeping an eye on over this weekend, 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:13.199 and you should too. So let's get to the first question. 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.000 Oh you know what, Yeah, let's just get to the 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:18.760 first question. Enough of me talking. Oh wait, no, I 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:20.400 have to talk to this whole show. I kind of forgot. 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:25.720 Liz says, have you ever Oh and let's see, Liz says, 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.000 have you ever checked out the photo stick? I'm always 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.120 looking for something from my mister gadget brother. I saw 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.600 this on Facebook and it's supposed to organize your photos, 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:38.000 remove duplicates, et cetera. What is your opinion on this gadget, Liz, Liz, 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.360 my opinion on that gadget is I don't like it. 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:44.560 So here's the reason. I am very suspect of anything 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:49.240 that's advertised on Facebook or Instagram, because the main thing 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.000 about the stuff that's advertised is it all looks too 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.199 good to be true, Like it all like does exactly 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.160 what you need, which is, oh, this stick can just 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:59.520 go through my whole computer, find all the pictures, ferret 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.199 them out them on this thing, and organize them. And yeah, 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.640 and also I've looked at these things. These websites that 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:09.800 sell them are very kind of scammy, not scammy, I 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.719 should say spammy. You know, it's a lot of high 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.959 pressure sales tactics like this, this deal is going away 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:19.920 in three minutes, two minutes, one minute, whoa, watch how 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:23.280 it's over? Oh, refresh the page, it's still there. So 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.560 I mean I don't like it for that reason, I 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.880 would say, And I know that Google Photos is kind 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:31.280 of annoying to me at this point, but I would 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:35.559 say stick to something like a Google Photos. And Google 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.720 Photos does have a program, it's like their desktop app 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:43.120 that will actually find all the all the photos on 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.880 your computer and upload them to Google Photos. Now, I 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.679 know Google Photos just went paid instead of being free. 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:50.960 Next year, you're gonna have to start paying for anything 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:55.080 over fifteen gigs of storage, even with the free high 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.600 quality storage. I know I talked about it my last podcast. 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.000 I'm not going over that again, but I still think 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.000 think it's a pretty good way to store your stuff. Now. 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.960 I don't know if there's another program that will scan 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.520 your computer. I'm sure there are. But that's the thing 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.840 about these photosticks. It's like it's all about the program, 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:14.960 like the software that has to be really good for 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.040 it to kind of find all these pictures wherever they're 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.600 stored in your computer. Now, Picasa used to do a 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:21.920 really good job at this, and in fact, that's what 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:25.679 ended up becoming Google Photos. But Picassa was really great. 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:27.880 You would just set it loose in your computer, and 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.240 you know, in an hour, all of your pictures would 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.960 be organized in this wonderful timeline. And you know, that's 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.600 that's become Google Photos, just a little bit different. So 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.520 I don't recommend the photostick if you want something similar 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.200 that doesn't organize your photos, but you can plug into 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.160 your iPhone or your Android. Look at the sand disc 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.760 I expand the other thing I like is called the 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.400 eb ib i, And I think that they're going to 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.920 be in a good position because It's like a networked 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.840 hard drive that you connect to your WiFi and it, 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.360 you know, it finds all the pictures on your phone 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:01.000 and I I don't know if it does your computer, 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.280 but it'll put them all in this drive. That's sort of, 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.720 you know, a backup at your house. And again, I 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.040 always recommend having all your pictures backed up in two places, 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.679 so make sure they're not just on one hard drive somewhere. 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:20.880 They've got to be somewhere else as well. All Right, 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:24.600 Richard writes, good morning, rich everyone says good morning. I 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.600 hope you and your family are continuing to stay healthy 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.960 and happy. I have a non tech related question with 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.840 your trying out new tech almost weekly at home. Does 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.760 that constant swapping of phones and especially home network speakers, 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.720 Wi Fi and Mesh systems create stress for your wife 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.120 or is she just used to your techiness? Lol? That 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.120 was just a thought as you were discussing the home 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.880 pods versus Sonos on your November thirteenth podcast. Be well, 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.920 rich and may you and yours have a blessed Thanksgiving 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:57.480 and Christmas. Richard, Oh, I love this question because it 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:01.000 is so appropriate for the DeMuro house. And to answer 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.280 your question, Richard. Yes, it is a big pain in 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:06.120 the you know what, to live in the DeMuro house 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:10.400 because I am always hooking up new stuff to try out. Now, 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.040 that doesn't mean it always stays hooked up, and so 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.600 a lot of times my family has to deal with 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.840 whatever I'm testing at the time and kind of get 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:20.840 used to that for a little bit, and usually it's, 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.400 you know, a week or two before you know, I 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:26.840 take it down. Now, if I really like something, I 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.640 will end up getting it and kind of mixing it 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.360 into my my tech mix here. But to be honest, 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.440 most of the stuff that I've had that stays with 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.440 me is stuff that I've been using for a while now. 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:43.840 Like my TV doesn't change. I have swapped out my 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.880 YEAH underneath my TV. Like the I went like I 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.360 used to be all Amazon Fire, then I went to 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.040 Apple TV. Then I went to Chrome Cast with Google TV, 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:54.640 which I still really like, but I kind of went 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:58.800 back to Apple TV speakers. I went through Google Home 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:03.040 son no Apple, and I went back to my Sonos, 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:05.400 which you know, I've collected over the years. So I mean, 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.040 and I realized at the end of the day that 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.320 Sons kind of offers everything that I want and I 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.560 already have the speakers that I want, so I just 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:17.160 don't have the new fancy, you know, exciting new thing, 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:21.000 but they work. And and Richard, to answer your question 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:24.120 in kind of a bigger scheme of things, it is 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.640 tough to test this stuff, like right now, I've got 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:28.600 you know, like, I do like to go hands on 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:30.920 with the stuff that I feature because I know people 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.320 are gonna ask me about it, and so I do 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.560 like to know kind of like how it works. I 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:37.600 don't just like to use like the handout video. I 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.560 like to like see how this stuff works. And I 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.200 think that it goes a long way because then when 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.480 I get questions on the podcast or on Instagram or 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:47.400 on Facebook or on Twitter, I can really tell people 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.880 what they need to know about this stuff. So, for instance, 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.000 you know, Ring is this new mailbox sensor that I've 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.000 been meeting to set up, and it's been sitting here 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:55.960 for like a week, and I need to set that 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:57.640 up so I can have some experience and then do 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.520 the story on it. But I don't really do the 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.600 stories unless I test stuff. I've got the Amazon Echo 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.280 sitting here right next to my Google Home because I 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:08.480 like to know, like if there's a question that I 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:10.040 get about one of those two things, I want to 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.560 see how they answer them differently. And you know that's why, 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.600 you know, it behooves these testers and these you know, 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.720 these testers to really test this stuff. Now with phones, 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.280 I really had to stop kind of putting my simcard 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:29.000 into the tester phones because that became a nightmare and 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.040 it's just easier to kind of just carry around the 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.080 other phone for a little bit, just in addition to 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:38.560 my standard bearer. Because believe me, that was like what 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:41.000 I said earlier in a podcast, like the telegram thing. 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.200 We switched to that because you know, it'd be tough 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:44.840 for my wife to be like, oh, I can't get 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:46.560 a hold of you right now because your phone number 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:48.520 is not working or whatever. You have like a test 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:51.000 phone on you and you left your regular phone at home. 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.240 So I've got a couple of little tricks up my 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.440 sleeve that helped me deal with all this tech stuff 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:58.879 on a daily basis. But that is a fantastic question. 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:09.400 Thanks for asking. Elber writes, question which exercise bike similar 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:15.280 to Peloton did you recommend from the Amazon website? Thank you, Well, 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.040 I'm not going to mention the one so This is 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:23.440 kind of a wild story. This happened a couple months ago, 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:28.840 where gosh, it was so wild. Basically, you know, everyone 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:33.239 wants this Peloton bike that is so expensive, and you know, 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.119 not only is a bike expensive, then the membership is expensive. 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.840 But it's great. I mean, I love the Peloton situation. 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:42.360 I use the app, I don't use their bike. Now, 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.359 if I was buying a new bike, I probably would 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.000 buy the Peloton because when I bought my bike, I 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.000 stold a gym membership and I didn't want to pay 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.800 I just couldn't imagine paying even more for like the 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.560 Peloton membership on top of my gym. Of course, I've 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.240 since canceled my gym membership because you know, when are 0:18:57.280 --> 0:18:59.359 we going back to the gym in California, don't know. 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:04.760 And so I bought the Bowflex C six, which I love. 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.479 I saw it at CS and it just was like 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:09.800 the most brilliant thing ever. I was like, wait, this 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:13.960 is amazing. It's a spin bike that has a spot 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.879 for an iPad and it also connects via bluetooth to 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.440 the app. So you don't get all the little kind 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:22.520 of you know, all the little benefits of Peloton that 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:24.919 the real bike has but you get enough Like for me, 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:27.320 it tells me, you know, my cadence, which is how 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:30.880 fast you're going, and that's it. I mean, that's all 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:34.199 I need. And then of course, oh, I think that 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:37.680 the resistance kind of matches up and I'm not really sure, 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:39.919 but it works for me. So anyway, I bought the 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.400 Bowflex C six. It was I think it was about 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:44.960 one thousand bucks versus you know, two thousand for the 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:47.280 Peloton and it's been great. It has gotten us through 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.000 the pandemic. We love it. It is amazing. Now the 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:53.880 one you're mentioning this was like the Echelon or something, 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:56.520 and this was like a this was kind of a 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:59.560 I don't know what happened here, but basically, this company 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.280 named Shalon I think that's how you say it came 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:06.080 out with a bike exclusively for Prime members called the 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:10.439 the Prime Bike. It was five hundred dollars and you know, 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:14.040 this thing was you know, widely promoted for like a 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:17.040 couple hours, and all of a sudden Amazon was like, er, no, 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:20.080 they have nothing to do with us. They I think 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.199 they just called it the Prime Bike. I don't know, 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:24.080 I don't know what happened, but the whole thing is pulled. 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:26.560 So don't get the Prime bike for five hundred bucks. 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:30.080 If you want an inexpensive Peloton alternative, go for the 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:33.199