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Speaker 1: about it. Think about what's vexing you in your life.
Speaker 1: What's happening in your life that you need to talk
Speaker 1: to someone about technology, whether it is your WiFi that
Speaker 1: doesn't work, whether it's something on your phone you're getting
Speaker 1: double notifications or double text messages, or you can't find
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Speaker 1: my life. This is what I talk about every day.
Speaker 1: I'm studying this stuff, and believe me, I've got a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff to share with you guys. Let's just
Speaker 1: start with Facebook, because I know it's on a lot
Speaker 1: of your minds and the privacy concerns. I was on
Speaker 1: a Serious satellite radio yesterday and for those of you
Speaker 1: who listen, thank you. It was a really cool It
Speaker 1: was my first time on Sirious and it was really cool.
Speaker 1: But we got into this really interesting conversation about Facebook
Speaker 1: and privacy, and to me, I just always assume that
Speaker 1: everyone assumed they were not private on Facebook. No matter
Speaker 1: what you exchanged on Facebook, some kind of computer or
Speaker 1: server or artificial intelligence is analyzing and scanning what you
Speaker 1: look at, or well what you look at, as well
Speaker 1: as what you're typing, what you're browsing, anything you do
Speaker 1: on there. I don't think people realize just to the
Speaker 1: extent that Facebook can also monitor things that are outside
Speaker 1: of Facebook. So when you go to a separate website
Speaker 1: and it has some Facebook functionality built into it, Facebook
Speaker 1: can also see what you do at that website, and
Speaker 1: that's something that's called the Facebook pixel. A lot of
Speaker 1: websites have it installed, and what it does is when
Speaker 1: you go to a third party website, any random website,
Speaker 1: and it has this Facebook pixel installed, it's basically sending
Speaker 1: back information about your visit to Facebook so that they
Speaker 1: can connect the two lines. So they know that rich
Speaker 1: DeMuro visited this belt website that I really like. I
Speaker 1: like these certain type of belts, and I go to
Speaker 1: that website and now that belt website goes, ooh, did
Speaker 1: he came to our website but he didn't buy anything?
Speaker 1: So let's go back to his Facebook page and let's
Speaker 1: put a little ad there for five percent off his
Speaker 1: next purchase at our belt company. Yes, if you're a marketer,
Speaker 1: that's brilliant, because now I go back to my Facebook
Speaker 1: page the next day and I go, oh, that was
Speaker 1: the belt I was looking at. Let me oh oh,
Speaker 1: and I get ten percent off. That's cool, let me
Speaker 1: buy it now. And now they just converted that sale.
Speaker 1: So a lot of this does have to do with
Speaker 1: making sales, selling you stuff, merchandising, marketing. It is scary
Speaker 1: that they can track you this closely, but the reality
Speaker 1: is this has been going on in our lives in
Speaker 1: so many different ways. It's just that Facebook has gotten
Speaker 1: really good at doing it. And I haven't even gotten
Speaker 1: into the other web companies like Google. They're the major platforms,
Speaker 1: and so these are the companies that are doing it best.
Speaker 1: And the reality is people have always been tracking us,
Speaker 1: and technology has been out there to do that. Your bank,
Speaker 1: your credit card. If you don't think your credit card
Speaker 1: is slicing and dicing the information of where you're shopping
Speaker 1: and how you're spending your money and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff, I mean, you're kind of fooling yourself because
Speaker 1: it's all meant to sell you more stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: these are the kind of things that these companies do
Speaker 1: and it's not a bad thing. It really isn't. It's
Speaker 1: bad for your wallet, and if you listen to the
Speaker 1: Daily podcast, I've explained this before, it's bad for your
Speaker 1: wallet because the better they get at marketing us stuff,
Speaker 1: the more we are spending money. And in that aspect
Speaker 1: it's bad. But in other aspects it's actually not bad
Speaker 1: at all. So when you think about it, if you
Speaker 1: use Facebook Messenger to message someone, and I just never
Speaker 1: assume that those messages were private. Now, I don't think
Speaker 1: Facebook would ever put those messages in a public forum,
Speaker 1: like They're not going to share what I'm saying to
Speaker 1: my friends on the cover of the New York Times.
Speaker 1: That's not the way I imagine the privacy is when
Speaker 1: I think privacy, I think that it's private, but a
Speaker 1: server is reading and consuming that message to figure out
Speaker 1: is he talking about going to Tahiti? All right, Let's
Speaker 1: send him a Facebook ad about Tahiti because he talked
Speaker 1: about that with his friend and Facebook Messenger. To me,
Speaker 1: that was just logical. It makes sense. Why would Facebook
Speaker 1: Messenger offer a free service like that without something in return?
Speaker 1: And if you say, well, why do they have to
Speaker 1: track me? Why can't they just put ads on there
Speaker 1: that aren't linked to me, Well they don't work. If
Speaker 1: they show me an ad for Greece and I don't
Speaker 1: have any idea about wanting to go to Greece, then
Speaker 1: that person that's buying that Greek ad or that Grease
Speaker 1: ad is just wasting money because I'm not going to
Speaker 1: go there. I have nothing against Greece. I'm just using
Speaker 1: that as an example. So anyway, there you go. I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to explain a little bit more as to
Speaker 1: what these companies are doing. And if you're searching on Google,
Speaker 1: it's the same thing. They're creating a profile of you.
Speaker 1: And a lot of these companies are quick to say
Speaker 1: they don't sell your data they're not selling your data,
Speaker 1: but they are using your data so that marketers can
Speaker 1: market to you. So if I'm a person that wants
Speaker 1: to sell something on Facebook, I don't get a list
Speaker 1: of everyone that likes my company. Maybe you can get that, perhaps,
Speaker 1: but the reality is all I want is a list
Speaker 1: of let's say I'm selling, Let's see what do we
Speaker 1: want to sell. Let's say I want to sell. Let's
Speaker 1: see what can I sell a new type of a candle. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's say I want a list of everyone on
Speaker 1: Facebook who has expressed interest in going out to nice
Speaker 1: dinners or fun little handmade items around their house, or
Speaker 1: they're into their home, or they're into maybe even gardening,
Speaker 1: because gardening might lead me to believe that you like
Speaker 1: a nice candlelight dinner. So now I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: get I'm not going to get a list of all
Speaker 1: those people. But Facebook says, hey, we're gonna send to
Speaker 1: all those people your ad for those candles because they
Speaker 1: seem like they're interested in that kind of stuff. And
Speaker 1: the more you do on Facebook, the more they can
Speaker 1: build that profile of you. So anyway, that's I agree,
Speaker 1: And Angie says, I feel like we already knew this,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of like what I feel like. I mean,
Speaker 1: who didn't know this? Carlin says exactly, nothing is free,
Speaker 1: and Claudia says, definitely tracking our every step. Unfortunately I
Speaker 1: did not know anything anyone that isn't. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's the thing. Let's see what else do we have
Speaker 1: any Manny says, very very true. So anyway, that's it.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just giving you guys ideas so that
Speaker 1: you know what's happening. Phone lines are open, area code
Speaker 1: three one zero five nine four three zero zero three.
Speaker 1: I'm Rich Jumiro. You're listening to Rich on tech Live.
Speaker 1: And if you have a question, you've got something on
Speaker 1: your mind about technology, call in. You can talk to me.
Speaker 1: We'll talk you through it. What else is happening in
Speaker 1: the news. I'll talk about more Facebook in a little bit.
Speaker 1: Let's let's let Facebook breathe for a moment, but let's
Speaker 1: talk about something that is How about my next favorite topic, Apple?
Speaker 1: So Apple, you know, we talked about the HomePod on
Speaker 1: this podcast, and apparently the HomePod is not doing so well.
Speaker 1: Bloomberg out with a story that apple stumbling HomePod isn't
Speaker 1: the hot cellar it wanted. This is from Mark German.
Speaker 1: He is literally the Apple the Apple expert he is.
Speaker 1: This guy clearly has a lot of friends at Apple
Speaker 1: because he's always getting a scoop from them. And basically
Speaker 1: a couple of things that they're saying about the HomePod
Speaker 1: is that, you know, Apple was all about the quality
Speaker 1: of this device, and it does. It sounds great, but
Speaker 1: the problem is consumers didn't really necessarily care about the
Speaker 1: quality of the device. And that's a problem because realistically,
Speaker 1: when you think about the HomePod, the only thing that
Speaker 1: it works with is the Apple Music and that's just
Speaker 1: not enough for this thing to take off. Apparently, in
Speaker 1: its first ten weeks of sale, it only got ten
Speaker 1: percent of the smart speaker market, seventy three percent for
Speaker 1: Google or Amazon Echo, fourteen percent for Google Home. And
Speaker 1: those numbers are not from Apple or anyone that's from
Speaker 1: a third party, so we don't know how accurate they are.
Speaker 1: But the reality is most people are not out buying
Speaker 1: HomePods right now. It's too expensive. It only works with
Speaker 1: Apple Music. If you're an Apple ecosystem fanatic, then it's
Speaker 1: a great buy. Otherwise, if you're into Spotify or anything else,
Speaker 1: it's a really tough buy. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: the phone line. We've got five six to two on.
Speaker 1: We've got five six two you're on with Rich. Hello.
Speaker 1: Who am I speaking with?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 3: Rich is David Hughes out of lake Wood.
Speaker 1: Hey, David, how are you doing?
Speaker 3: I'm doing good? Thank you?
Speaker 1: How's the good morning? How's the show? How's the show looking?
Speaker 1: Today's everything technically? Okay?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got it up on the Facebook live page.
Speaker 3: I'm streaming good audio problems.
Speaker 1: Beautiful, just making sure? All right? What can I help
Speaker 1: you with today?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 3: So two questions for you. First one is the Samsung
Speaker 3: S nine phone. When are they gonna be coming out
Speaker 3: with S ten phone? And should I wait for that?
Speaker 1: I would not wait for the S ten because the
Speaker 1: S nine just came out. I mean you're talking. What
Speaker 1: was it March March fourteenth? I think it went on sale.
Speaker 1: So it just went on sale. We're we're in April,
Speaker 1: so it's only a month old. Everything about the S
Speaker 1: nine I think they did a really nice job with
Speaker 1: So what do you have right now? I want to say, okay,
Speaker 1: sir on a seven? So I think when you the
Speaker 1: seven was a really nice upgrade from the six because
Speaker 1: the six had a lot of battery problems. I think
Speaker 1: the seven was a nice smoothing out of all those problems.
Speaker 1: The seven, the thing I like about it is it
Speaker 1: still has the fingerprint reader on the front right, so
Speaker 1: it's a good position underneath the screen. The eight they
Speaker 1: really messed up on because they put the fingerprint reader
Speaker 1: on the back, but they put it in a really
Speaker 1: bad position. So I'm glad you skipped the eight. The
Speaker 1: nine they actually put the fingerprint reader in the right position,
Speaker 1: and I would say when it comes to a Samsung device,
Speaker 1: this is about as perfect as it gets. The only
Speaker 1: thing I could see improvement for at this point on
Speaker 1: the Samsung device is some software improvements. Although I think
Speaker 1: the software has gotten really good. It's really just maybe
Speaker 1: the front facing camera and that's it. I've seen some
Speaker 1: stumbles in the software when it comes to the smoothness
Speaker 1: of it. But I really think the S nine is
Speaker 1: probably the perfect Android phone at this point. Unless you're
Speaker 1: looking at their devices. What's the most important thing you're
Speaker 1: looking for and you're Android.
Speaker 3: Well, I use it a lot for work, so just
Speaker 3: reliability for performance, you know, I came from originally with
Speaker 3: a motorola and it crashed ONMMI and then I jumped
Speaker 3: to the five, and then I went to the five
Speaker 3: to the seven, so I jumped versions. So ever since
Speaker 3: I had the five, I really liked it. I've been
Speaker 3: sticking with it since then.
Speaker 1: The only other phone that I would recommend you take
Speaker 1: a look at is, uh, the one Plus. Have you
Speaker 1: heard of this one?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: So the reason I like the one Plus is because
Speaker 1: it really does a nice job with their phone. It's
Speaker 1: five hundred bucks, it's a beautifully designed phone, it's got
Speaker 1: a great screen, it's got a it's got a good camera.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it's the best camera in the world,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna it's gonna be a capable camera, and
Speaker 1: you really don't you The software is just unbelievable. So
Speaker 1: that's really where this kind of I think is ahead
Speaker 1: of the Samsung. The Samsung there's a lot of there's
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff on there, but there's a lot
Speaker 1: of extra up on there sometimes that you don't necessarily need,
Speaker 1: whereas the one Plus has a lot of nice software features,
Speaker 1: but it's not a lot of stuff that you don't need.
Speaker 1: So I would take a look at that and otherwise
Speaker 1: the pixel the Pixel two I really like as well,
Speaker 1: except I think the pixel too xcel is a little
Speaker 1: bit too big, and I think the Pixel two is
Speaker 1: a little bit too small. And you also kind of
Speaker 1: lose a lot of features on the pixel like wireless charging,
Speaker 1: the extra storage capacity, so things like that. So I like,
Speaker 1: and the screen is better on the S nine. So
Speaker 1: you said you had two questions. What's the second question.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, the other one's always about Wi Fi ringty.
Speaker 3: Once again, we always have Wi Fi issues and they
Speaker 3: get an extend an only sends in one room gaming
Speaker 3: and we have an extender if he's not getting strong
Speaker 3: enough signal, So we're looking to do something else to
Speaker 3: get our signal boosted on.
Speaker 2: Our Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: Well, the one thing I recommend is it's a system
Speaker 1: called EO E E R O. If you've listened to
Speaker 1: the podcast, you've definitely heard me talk about it. The
Speaker 1: thing about EO is it's unbelievable. I mean I recommended
Speaker 1: it to a cowork the other day and he bought
Speaker 1: it immediately, and it was shipped to his house through
Speaker 1: Amazon immediately, and he just couldn't believe how good it was.
Speaker 1: And this this is really, if you want the best
Speaker 1: WiFi in your house, Ero is the way to go.
Speaker 1: The only downside to it is twofold. It's a startup,
Speaker 1: so it could go out of business, but I don't
Speaker 1: anticipate that. I think that a company would at least
Speaker 1: buy the technology from them because it's so good and
Speaker 1: they kind of they kind of they invented this technology.
Speaker 1: So it's four hundred dollars for a starter system or
Speaker 1: I guess the best selling system. You can get it
Speaker 1: as cheap as two ninety nine, let's see, and then
Speaker 1: you can get little individual ones for one fifty. But
Speaker 1: I would say check out euro that's gonna be your
Speaker 1: absolute best case scenario. Then the other one that's good
Speaker 1: is Netgear ORB. So people really like that one. I
Speaker 1: have not tested it personally, but it's a it's a
Speaker 1: very popular system. It comes from Netgear, which is a
Speaker 1: big networking company. That one's good, and then the other
Speaker 1: one to look at is Google Wi Fi, which a
Speaker 1: lot of people like as well. The problem with Google
Speaker 1: Wi Fi is that Google is very haphazard in kind
Speaker 1: of their continuing projects. So this is a great product,
Speaker 1: but Google kind of is all over the place when
Speaker 1: it comes to support in the long term, so they
Speaker 1: may stop making this, they may forget about it. But
Speaker 1: this one is really good as well. So those are
Speaker 1: the three I recommend taking a look at, but don't
Speaker 1: go with a booster or extender anymore. I don't recommend
Speaker 1: those because they just don't work for today's systems and
Speaker 1: today's gadgets. We're much more. We've moved past those those
Speaker 1: types of systems. Now there's just a lot more stress
Speaker 1: on what we need.
Speaker 3: Okay, great, Thank you very much for great David.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for calling in appreciate it. Thanks for
Speaker 1: calling the show. Phone lines are open if you'd like
Speaker 1: to get in. The phone number is three one zero
Speaker 1: five nine four three zero zero three. Now's a good
Speaker 1: time to tell you about my favorite case. I've been
Speaker 1: buying this case for every phone that I ever use.
Speaker 1: I just love this case. So I'm telling you guys
Speaker 1: about it. Not sponsored. This is just one of the
Speaker 1: I just love this case, and I've purchased it for
Speaker 1: a couple of the phones I use regularly, and I
Speaker 1: just got this one. This is basically it's called the
Speaker 1: Spec Presidio Grip, and I just love the way this
Speaker 1: case fits on your phone. There's a on the iPhone ten.
Speaker 1: It's super grippy. You just can't It's just amazing the
Speaker 1: way it fits onto your phone. It doesn't make your
Speaker 1: phone too big. And the grips. You've got these little
Speaker 1: grips on the edges that literally make you never drop
Speaker 1: your phone ever. So I love that aspect of it. Spec.
Speaker 1: I can, you know, I forgot, I keep forgetting that
Speaker 1: I could actually comment on these things. So let me
Speaker 1: let me put this in the comments so you guys
Speaker 1: can actually see what I'm talking about. But that's the
Speaker 1: Spec Presidio grip. I don't think that you can click
Speaker 1: on it from you can click on it from there,
Speaker 1: all right. Anyway, that's a really nice case, so I
Speaker 1: highly recommend that. And JT says, does the case come
Speaker 1: in clear? I, you know, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it comes in the grip. I think it
Speaker 1: just comes in colors in the grip. But they have
Speaker 1: Spec Presidio without the grip. But I think that if
Speaker 1: you're gonna go with the Spec Presidio, you gotta get
Speaker 1: the grip. And Angie says she got one for my
Speaker 1: S nine. It's sleek. I haven't dropped it once and
Speaker 1: that that's really nice. All right, let's go to the
Speaker 1: phone lines. Uh eight, let's see what was this? Eight
Speaker 1: oh one? You're on with Ritch? Who am I speaking with?
Speaker 4: Hey, Rich, this is Steve. How are you doing?
Speaker 1: Oh? I'm doing fantastic, Steve. It's a Saturday.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, tell me what dun Fox thirteen all the time.
Speaker 4: And then I travel to California for work and see
Speaker 4: you on KTLA.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's so funny. So Fox thirteen Salt Lake City.
Speaker 1: That's a great station. And it's funny when people travel
Speaker 1: because most people we don't make a big deal of
Speaker 1: the fact that I'm on a bunch of different stations.
Speaker 1: So people can be watching on KTLA and have no idea.
Speaker 1: But then they travel to other cities and they're like,
Speaker 1: oh is my hotel room and I saw you, So
Speaker 1: thanks for watching on Fox thirteen. That's pretty cool. I
Speaker 1: love Carry and Dan over there. What's going on?
Speaker 4: You know? I'm curious and maybe this is just wishful thinking,
Speaker 4: but do you ever see the headphone jack coming back
Speaker 4: to the iPhone?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: That is wishful thinking, don't I don't see that happening.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing I mean, we have to look at
Speaker 1: Apple's past. So Apple has a history of getting rid
Speaker 1: of things on their devices and being the first to
Speaker 1: get rid of them and never looking back. So when
Speaker 1: you think about I think the DVD player was probably
Speaker 1: the first thing that they got rid of on the
Speaker 1: MacBook and literally people went nuts, myself included I'm like,
Speaker 1: how could you live without a DVD player or a
Speaker 1: DVD burner or a DVD recorder whatever? And to me,
Speaker 1: that was just insane. You remember that, right? And the
Speaker 1: other thing, the other thing Apple never did on their laptops.
Speaker 1: Everyone went to a Blu ray player on their laptops
Speaker 1: and Apple said, no, we're not doing that, and everyone
Speaker 1: was like, wait, are you crazy? How could you not
Speaker 1: Blu rays the next generation? But Apple has their reasons
Speaker 1: for things and the reason why they ditched the DVD players.
Speaker 1: They wanted to push everyone to digital movies. They wanted
Speaker 1: to create less piracy. They also saw people burning DVDs
Speaker 1: less I'm sure their data showed that, or sharing DVDs
Speaker 1: or whatever it was. They just knew that they could
Speaker 1: do without those and people would be fine. And I
Speaker 1: actually bought the external I have it somewhere in here
Speaker 1: my h.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got an external with the Blu ray burner
Speaker 4: that I love you thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got my Trustee external you know, Mac computer
Speaker 1: Player Blue DVD. I think this is a burner too.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it is. Haven't used it in a while,
Speaker 1: but you know, I bought one of those, so I
Speaker 1: had to have the external because you know, it's like,
Speaker 1: how can I do without it? And now we just
Speaker 1: realized we don't really think about DVDs as much as
Speaker 1: we used to do. There's still a place for them,
Speaker 1: but we just don't use them as much as we did.
Speaker 1: Then we had USB ports. They kind of let made
Speaker 1: less of those, and they started even on this new
Speaker 1: MacBook I have, I have only USBC and they got
Speaker 1: rid of my SD card slot, which I was also
Speaker 1: angry about. So Apple just has a history of doing
Speaker 1: this and they like to streamline their products. When you
Speaker 1: look at their products, there's not much going on now.
Speaker 1: The interesting thing is that the new iPad that just
Speaker 1: came out does have a headphone jack, so they have
Speaker 1: not ditched it on the iPad, So I think when
Speaker 1: they think about the use case on the iPad, they're thinking, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: people are watching a lot of movies on there. Maybe
Speaker 1: not everyone has a pair of Bluetooth headphones, so it's
Speaker 1: interesting that they're doing two different things. But on the
Speaker 1: iPad there's also more space inside for components, and Apple
Speaker 1: has always argued that on the iPhone, they're trying to
Speaker 1: maximize the space inside for other stuff and that's why
Speaker 1: they got rid of the headphone jack.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, or what were you gonna have?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, why do you want the
Speaker 1: headphone jack back? Because I've kind of gotten used to
Speaker 1: not having it. But I do still like it myself
Speaker 1: as well, because I like being able to have that
Speaker 1: default of my headphones aren't charged or I just you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you're on a plane, you don't feel like dealing
Speaker 1: with all the stuff. You just want to plug in,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm still clinging to my iPhone SIXSS actually,
Speaker 4: but so I haven't dealt with that. But my wife
Speaker 4: teaches a lot of fitness classes and she says it's
Speaker 4: such a pain dealing with a dong dole and everything else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny. I always I always see that in
Speaker 1: the fitness classes I go to that they literally have
Speaker 1: like the iPhone with like, you know, ten different things
Speaker 1: because they've got to charge it at the same time
Speaker 1: as the you know, you got to get a connector
Speaker 1: you know that has like to both. It's such a pain.
Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, it reminds me of driving in my
Speaker 4: dad's Cadillac with an A track player and having an
Speaker 4: a track to cassette converter and then a cassette to
Speaker 4: CD converter.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, wow. Well, I remember there was a
Speaker 1: point that's a little bit before my time, but there
Speaker 1: was a point when a cassette, a cassette to like
Speaker 1: external like a three point five millimeters was like all
Speaker 1: the rage, you know. And I remember when I wanted
Speaker 1: to get serious satellite radio, I wanted a clean install
Speaker 1: so I did not want to have to use the
Speaker 1: cassette to three point five inch jack. So I spent
Speaker 1: like the most money of my life at the time,
Speaker 1: which I think was probably like two hundred dollars on
Speaker 1: getting like a best buy installation where they went through
Speaker 1: and they did the FM uh what was it FM
Speaker 1: modulator where they installed it behind my radio. Oh, and
Speaker 1: to me that was like living large at the time.
Speaker 1: That was like the best I was like, this is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: This is high tech and now, of course, you know,
Speaker 1: you plug your iPhone and you're Android in it's like
Speaker 1: just a world ahead of that, right, right.
Speaker 4: So a lot of people talk about broadcast TV going
Speaker 4: away as we see it and everything going to streaming.
Speaker 4: I studied broadcast journalism when I was in college, which
Speaker 4: was a little while back. But to me that seems
Speaker 4: a little bit forward thinking. I don't see it happening
Speaker 4: as quickly as some people say. I think physical media
Speaker 4: is not dead yet, but I don't know I would
Speaker 4: you have any insight into.
Speaker 1: That specifically, what like what the future broadcast?
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, if we're really going to lose big network
Speaker 4: seasons of TV and you're just it's just going to
Speaker 4: go to all subscribe, like a lot of people are saying, oh,
Speaker 4: Star Trek Discovery is the way of the future. And
Speaker 4: then a lot of people really like Fox of the
Speaker 4: Whorville because it's actually broadcast and it's free, right versus
Speaker 4: a subscription based.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's kind of weird because you're
Speaker 1: you're you're you're speaking in terms of like our entire society.
Speaker 1: You know, It's like there used to be a time
Speaker 1: you know, the whole water cooler conversation, which is kind
Speaker 1: of It's interesting when things bubble up to the level
Speaker 1: of people all knowing about them. That's pretty rare these days,
Speaker 1: like a big show Like remember when Cereal the podcast
Speaker 1: was pretty big and everyone was talking about that, you know,
Speaker 1: and it was really interesting that people were talking about
Speaker 1: something that wasn't on a broadcast, and it wasn't It
Speaker 1: was mass available, but it wasn't available in a mass way,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like it didn't air on broadcast.
Speaker 1: So nowadays it's like these little things bubble up to
Speaker 1: the top. I say, because there's so many things out there.
Speaker 1: You ask anyone, Hey, what what shows are you watching,
Speaker 1: and they can tell you five shows that you've never
Speaker 1: heard of, and there's probably one show of overlap that
Speaker 1: you have heard of. So do I think broadcast is
Speaker 1: going away? I think over the long term, I think
Speaker 1: we're going to see a lot of evolution, But I
Speaker 1: don't think it's going away. I remember when TVO first
Speaker 1: came out back in two thousand and everyone spelled doom
Speaker 1: and gloom for everything when it came to TV. Now,
Speaker 1: I think TVO changed the fabric of television but we
Speaker 1: still have TV pretty much the same way that we
Speaker 1: had it in two thousand, which is a show broadcast
Speaker 1: on TV over the air, and yes, now it's available
Speaker 1: in a million different on demand ways and on DVR,
Speaker 1: but it's still broadcasts like Survivor. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: still on anymore. Maybe it is, but that was the
Speaker 1: first show that I DVRD back in the day on
Speaker 1: my TVO, and I thought it was so crazy that
Speaker 1: I could skip through the commercials, but I still watched
Speaker 1: it pretty quick to the day that it aired because
Speaker 1: I wanted to be up to date on that show.
Speaker 1: So I just think things are evolving in a in
Speaker 1: a pretty rapid way. But I think we have a
Speaker 1: pretty long runway before things change in where NBC, CBS, ABC,
Speaker 1: nightly news those kind of things are gone. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's happening right away, especially because news is still
Speaker 1: one of the news in sports are still two of
Speaker 1: the most most popular things that happen live. So but
Speaker 1: shows shows, I think a lot of that has changed,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, especially Netflix launching shows all at once,
Speaker 1: that changed the game again. So it's it's really it's
Speaker 1: really crazy when you think about what's happening and how
Speaker 1: things will still continue to change.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my favorite ti Vo box that I had was
Speaker 4: made by Samsung and it had a built in DVD
Speaker 4: burner on it, so things.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: I always hope that they would do a blu ray
Speaker 4: burner and they never did.
Speaker 1: That was the one I always wanted. I never got
Speaker 1: that one, but that I had. Almost every Tvo accept
Speaker 1: that model. I think that model was really expensive, like
Speaker 1: cause I remember my first TV I paid eight hundred
Speaker 1: dollars for and they they were pretty expensive throughout the years,
Speaker 1: but they got cheap. They got really cheap after a while.
Speaker 1: But I love the Tvo and the idea of burning
Speaker 1: to DVD, you know what, Hold on, I'm wait a second.
Speaker 1: I did have one that burned to DVD now that
Speaker 1: I think about it, but it was not a Samsung.
Speaker 1: I don't think. Do they have another model that burned
Speaker 1: to DVD. I don't remember, because I remember I actually
Speaker 1: have a bunch of my I lived in Shreveport at
Speaker 1: the time. I was a reporter there and I have
Speaker 1: a bunch of my air checks that I would offload
Speaker 1: to the DVD for later. But the problem is the
Speaker 1: way they formatted it to the DVD Like now, I
Speaker 1: just have them all and I can't really rip them
Speaker 1: because it's it's in like this weird format. I got
Speaker 1: to look at those again. But I did have one
Speaker 1: with a burner on it, but I just don't remember.
Speaker 1: It was not Samsung. Maybe it was. It's been a while,
Speaker 1: but yeah.
Speaker 4: Interesting. Well, sorry to dominate your time. I love your segment, bitch.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks, Steve, I appreciate it. Thanks for watching
Speaker 1: out there in Salt Lake, and when you're here in LA,
Speaker 1: thanks for calling in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, take care, all right, bybye?
Speaker 1: All right, there you have it. All right. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take a quick break real quick, just to do some
Speaker 1: some housekeeping on the Facebook Live side, but I'll be back.
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Speaker 1: Rich who am I speaking with? All Right, Rich, Hey,
Speaker 1: what's going on?
Speaker 2: It's good. It was great seeing you at.
Speaker 1: C Yes, it's been gosh four months since then.
Speaker 2: And great show at NAP this year. Everything was eight
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh from Korea and it was spectacular and
Speaker 2: doing all sorts of different video changes to video as
Speaker 2: it's live for like sporting events and everything.
Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting, like what amazing?
Speaker 2: Amazing like sporting events. In the middle of a lie clip,
Speaker 2: you can change the different view of the picture. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: that type of thing, you know, like Intel, Intel was
Speaker 2: doing where you're live and can change where you are
Speaker 2: in the stadium.
Speaker 1: That's always been kind of the dream of these sports
Speaker 1: broadcasts is to kind of, you know, make it more
Speaker 1: kind of user driven where they can do things. But
Speaker 1: we've seen a lot of we've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: things trying you know, we've seen a lot of companies
Speaker 1: try to do that. I don't think anyone has sort
Speaker 1: of mastered it yet, but definitely when that happens, that's
Speaker 1: that's a huge market right there, because people, you know,
Speaker 1: they they let's say you have a favorite player and
Speaker 1: you just want to learn more about them, see what
Speaker 1: they're doing see their stats or whatever at any given time.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of stuff that will really help with that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we're in the in the Futures Park area
Speaker 2: and they were demonstrating it all and I go, here
Speaker 2: we go. They're gonna beat us out at that too.
Speaker 2: It was amazing. And then uh AR was packed all
Speaker 2: over the place, all the boosts that we're doing AR
Speaker 2: more than VR. I was surprised.
Speaker 1: Interesting. I think, uh yeah, I think there's a place
Speaker 1: for both. But I personally, I like, I don't. I
Speaker 1: think VR is amazing. I think AR is cool. It's
Speaker 1: like a good like wading into the waters, you know.
Speaker 1: And they both have, like I said, they both have
Speaker 1: their augmented reality. If you're listening and you're wondering what
Speaker 1: we're talking about here, augmented reality is when they kind
Speaker 1: of add something to the world around you, but you
Speaker 1: still see the world around you, whereas virtual reality is
Speaker 1: more like your entire existence is happening in a computer
Speaker 1: generated world. So that's that's the differentiator that I explained
Speaker 1: last thing.
Speaker 2: Last thing on Facebook. I didn't never bother to follow
Speaker 2: up on this. When they put pixels on different sites
Speaker 2: and everything, do they make like any affiliate link, Facebook
Speaker 2: or any money by having somebody place a pixel, by
Speaker 2: them placing a pixel on your heade no.
Speaker 1: Because usually it's the website operator that's placing the pixel.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to remember, I don't think they make
Speaker 1: any money doing that. I think that it's it's more
Speaker 1: for the relationship of the website to kind of figure out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like, let's say I own a belt website. I
Speaker 1: want to be able to tap into Facebook's marketing data
Speaker 1: by kind of figuring out who's coming to my website.
Speaker 1: And then what they do is they call it similar audiences.
Speaker 1: So okay, let's say, all, let's say ten thousand people
Speaker 1: come to my belt website, and now I have the
Speaker 1: Facebook pixel. It knows exactly who those ten thousand people
Speaker 1: are on Facebook. And then Facebook says, well, here's another
Speaker 1: ten thousand people that are exactly like them. You can
Speaker 1: market to them because they're very similar to the people
Speaker 1: that just came to your website. And that's how the
Speaker 1: magic works, and that's the information marketers are kind of
Speaker 1: buying from Facebook. It's really fascinating when you think about it.
Speaker 2: Okay, and so then it's a paid service. The marketers
Speaker 2: are buying it from Facebook.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean it's not. You don't just to
Speaker 1: see the data that's being collected from your website. You
Speaker 1: don't have to pay to do that, but you do
Speaker 1: have to pay. Yeah, you only have to pay if
Speaker 1: you want to kind of do a marketing plan against
Speaker 1: that data, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay, yeah. I'm surprised that a piece of
Speaker 2: technology got buy me. Can you believe it?
Speaker 1: I don't know. You are you're You're better than me
Speaker 1: on some of this stuff.
Speaker 2: It's the thirty five years from IBM. That doesn't that'll
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 1: How is it in Vegas today?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Windy as usual, Yeah, and sunny. And before we moved here,
Speaker 2: I always said, why is it every time I fly
Speaker 2: into Vegas is clear and sunny, but yet the plane
Speaker 2: goes all over the place.
Speaker 1: I was just going to say that every time. It's
Speaker 1: like I've I've actually stopped flying into Vegas as much
Speaker 1: because I'm like, I'm sick of that flat landing. It's like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, it looks beautiful out, but it's like
Speaker 1: you're being whipped all around exactly.
Speaker 2: And now I was flying in for like twenty years
Speaker 2: that couldn't figure it out. And now that I moved
Speaker 2: here and retired and going and now I understand that.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's not just me because my wife for
Speaker 1: a while she was like refusing to fly in there
Speaker 1: because she was just sick of it. And I was like,
Speaker 1: it's pretty bad, but not like you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: clearly it works. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Well you get an autonomous car.
Speaker 1: And you're okay, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3: They have that.
Speaker 2: They have that Tesla service for eighty nine dollars that
Speaker 2: will go back and forth, which was great. I tried
Speaker 2: it once.
Speaker 1: Or did you really you took the Tesla because we
Speaker 1: did a story on it. I did not take it.
Speaker 1: They kept asking me to take it to Vegas. I
Speaker 1: was a little hesitant in being in a car for
Speaker 1: five hours with someone else driving, but or a combination
Speaker 1: of a human and Tesla driving. But what'd you think
Speaker 1: of it?
Speaker 2: It was outstanding. You know. They had drinks in there
Speaker 2: and a lot of connections, so you were all connected
Speaker 2: all the week, got a lot of work done. Really,
Speaker 2: and now they go to Irvine, where I used to live,
Speaker 2: so it's perfect to go to Burbank, Irvine and Palm Springs.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. Yeah, here it is. It's a test loop
Speaker 1: and basically you just you book a seat in the car.
Speaker 1: I think there's what there's four, four seats available or no,
Speaker 1: three seats available, three because they've got the driver, and
Speaker 1: then three. So right now, they've got Los Angeles to
Speaker 1: San Diego, Los Angeles to Palm Springs, Los Angeles to
Speaker 1: Orange County, Orange County to San Diego, Orange County to
Speaker 1: Palm Springs, Palm Springs and Las Vegas. I don't know
Speaker 1: what that means. Palm Springs and Las Vegas. I guess
Speaker 1: they're yeah, shuttle interesting. All right, well thanks for the call.
Speaker 1: All right, j do you go by Joe or JT?
Speaker 2: Either one? Because they couldn't get my web mail. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: my web site under Joe. I went to JT.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, well I'll call you JT because
Speaker 1: that's how I see a show up on Facebook. So JT.
Speaker 1: I will talk to you soon, okay, Yeah, take care
Speaker 1: of all right, bye bye bye. All right, Let's take
Speaker 1: some of the questions that I'm seeing on the chat room. Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: what was the website that you can check with internet
Speaker 1: services to see when you're moving to a new area.
Speaker 1: That website is all Connect A L L C, O,
Speaker 1: N N, E C T dot com and let's see here.
Speaker 1: I'll just put this on the screen so you can
Speaker 1: see it. This is now Here's the thing. I think
Speaker 1: that all connect is sort of owned by the cable
Speaker 1: and satellite companies. I don't really know. Let's see about us.
Speaker 1: But the point is it does help you put in
Speaker 1: your address and your phone number and everything, and they
Speaker 1: do that. It used to be called white fence, I think,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I mean it's anyway. It helps
Speaker 1: you just put in the you put in let's see
Speaker 1: a red Ventures company. Yeah, so I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It doesn't maybe it's not owned by them. Anyway.
Speaker 1: You put in your your address that you're you're moving to,
Speaker 1: or your home address, and it gives you all the
Speaker 1: providers in your area, which is really cool. I love
Speaker 1: this website. I recommend it to everyone, and you can
Speaker 1: look up let's see bundles internet TV, home phone. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, I should I tell you guys about my experience.
Speaker 1: I just I had to call Spectrum to negotiate my
Speaker 1: rate because it went up from forty five to sixty
Speaker 1: five dollars a month, and oh my gosh, that was
Speaker 1: not a nice conversation. I was not happy with them.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest they I got a guy in Texas
Speaker 1: and the first thing he does is try to get
Speaker 1: some information out of me about like how many gadgets
Speaker 1: I use and you know, how many how much Internet
Speaker 1: I use, and what my needs are. So immediately he
Speaker 1: was like, well, we don't do any deals anymore. So
Speaker 1: I was like, uh, that can't be true. A lot
Speaker 1: of the people I talked to tell me that they
Speaker 1: are paying forty five dollars a month, which is what
Speaker 1: I'm paying, and I'd like to keep paying that, but
Speaker 1: they bumped it to sixty five. Long story short, we
Speaker 1: went around and around. The best he did was fifty
Speaker 1: five bucks a month, so I got ten dollars off
Speaker 1: for the next year. But the funny thing is he
Speaker 1: tried to upsell me to the three hundred, which was
Speaker 1: going to be I think eighty dollars a month, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't really think I need so
Speaker 1: I called to save money and the guy's trying to
Speaker 1: sell me on more service, and I'm like dude, come on,
Speaker 1: like customer service one on one. I get it, you're
Speaker 1: trying to make a sale. But the things he was
Speaker 1: saying I thought were a little bit weird because he
Speaker 1: was kind of like not making fun of me, but
Speaker 1: he was kind of like telling me stuff that I
Speaker 1: knew wasn't true. He was like, well, and I guess
Speaker 1: it would be true for certain people. But he was like, well,
Speaker 1: if you change your internet to a different provider, which
Speaker 1: I said, you know, I can get AT and T
Speaker 1: here and it's the same price. Blah blah blah. He's like, well,
Speaker 1: if you change, you're gonna have to change all your
Speaker 1: gadgets and it's a you know, it's a pain. And
Speaker 1: I forget if he made fun of their service whatever
Speaker 1: he did, but my point is I was and I
Speaker 1: didn't say, you know, look, I do tech for a living.
Speaker 1: I don't really reveal that stuff. But it was just
Speaker 1: funny to kind of call as a regular person and
Speaker 1: hear what he's saying to someone that knows a lot
Speaker 1: about technology and to get the stuff that he's trying
Speaker 1: to sell people on. Anyway, long story, Shore ended up
Speaker 1: saving ten dollars, so I got to fifty five a month.
Speaker 1: I said, are you in the retention department and he said,
Speaker 1: we don't have a retention department anymore, which, come on,
Speaker 1: that's not true. They of course they have retention apartment.
Speaker 1: So I'm happy with it. I was gonna pay twenty
Speaker 1: dollars extra a month. I'm now paying ten dollars extra.
Speaker 1: I hate to see my bills go up, as we
Speaker 1: all do, but at the same time, I'm fining fifty
Speaker 1: five bucks a month. He told me I used nine hundred.
Speaker 1: The best part was at the end he was like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, you used nine hundred gigabytes last month, which
Speaker 1: I think sounded like a lot. I don't feel like
Speaker 1: I used nine hundred gigabytes, but I guess I did,
Speaker 1: so my kids must be watching a lot of Netflix.
Speaker 1: So he was like, well, you know, you use nine
Speaker 1: hundred gigabytes, So I think paying fifty or sixty five
Speaker 1: dollars a month for nine hundred gigabytes of Internet is
Speaker 1: pretty good. And I'm like, I really couldn't challenge him
Speaker 1: on that. I was like, yeah, because I pay about
Speaker 1: two hundred de verison every month for like, you know,
Speaker 1: unlimited data, which is really twenty gigs a month. So
Speaker 1: I really couldn't challenge him on that when he got
Speaker 1: me there, Anthony says on Facebook chap, Hey, Rich, what
Speaker 1: do you think of the Lynxis developed home home mesh
Speaker 1: Wi Fi system pack of three?
Speaker 2: And?
Speaker 1: Uh, you know, I think it's fine. I think that
Speaker 1: my favorites I've gone over this is Ero is my
Speaker 1: favorite E E R O. Then i'd say Google Wi
Speaker 1: Fi and Netgear orby. I don't have experience with the Lynxis,
Speaker 1: but uh, I think that you'll you'll probably be okay
Speaker 1: with them. Let's see, Lynxus is the one that's uh,
Speaker 1: I think that's the one that's owned by Belkin, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is okay. So Lynxus is owned by Belkan and
Speaker 1: you know they just got purchased. So I think you'll
Speaker 1: be fine with it. But I would check out the
Speaker 1: three that I recommend. Three one, Oh you're on with Rich?
Speaker 1: Three win, Oh you're on with Rich? Who am I
Speaker 1: speaking with?
Speaker 5: Julian Melendez? I've speak to you last time?
Speaker 1: Hey? How you doing?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 5: I do some looking at your life?
Speaker 1: Are you where are you calling from?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Culver City? That's right, okay?
Speaker 5: How you doing going good? Quick question on your own
Speaker 5: Speczone Internet ye cable, and I was thinking to change it,
Speaker 5: but I have the Riz and files and drug TV
Speaker 5: Geny and they told me I could switch over, but
Speaker 5: the direct with that time spectrum apps, you don't get
Speaker 5: that much channels. But they told me to add four
Speaker 5: cable boxes for four rooms. Let's make any difference or known,
Speaker 5: what are.
Speaker 1: You trying to do? What's what's the problem with what
Speaker 1: you have right now?
Speaker 5: The Drug TV Geny updating is not and my Directivity
Speaker 5: is messing up a lot. I don't know the update
Speaker 5: or messing.
Speaker 1: Up, and so you're just not happy with the quality
Speaker 1: of the service. Basically no costing us so much. And
Speaker 1: do you have four rooms that you have connected to
Speaker 1: the Genie?
Speaker 5: Yes, it's all wireless.
Speaker 1: And it's all wireless, okay, I mean yeah. Oh here's
Speaker 1: the thing. I mean, if you switch over, it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of a big switchover because they have to come
Speaker 1: to your house and make sure they install the cable
Speaker 1: boxes in each room. I would if you have FiOS,
Speaker 1: if you have Frontier FiOS Internet that's the Internet, Well
Speaker 1: maybe you should call them and see if they can
Speaker 1: give you TV as well, because then you're on one plan.
Speaker 1: It'll probably be a lot cheaper if you do it
Speaker 1: that way.
Speaker 5: I would think, Yeah, you've been including with their cell
Speaker 5: phone too. Oh, but I don't know if they have wireless,
Speaker 5: but I don't think they would run company. No, I
Speaker 5: don't think that network they do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dish network and a lot of them might have
Speaker 1: like a bundle with wireless, but if they're not providing
Speaker 1: the service. But I would if I were you, I
Speaker 1: would call uh. I would call FiOS, which is owned
Speaker 1: by Frontier now in our area, and I would I
Speaker 1: would just ask them, Hey, give me the price on
Speaker 1: four TVs for you know, with the DVR service. They've
Speaker 1: got the same thing where the DVR works in all
Speaker 1: the four TVs. I know people are mixed about Frontier
Speaker 1: and FiOS, so I'm just telling you I don't have
Speaker 1: experience with them except for what I know from a
Speaker 1: corporate level. But I know it was a big growing
Speaker 1: pain when they switched over in southern California to Spectrum
Speaker 1: or to FiOS from Verizon to Frontier. But it's been
Speaker 1: a couple of years now. So and Carlos is saying
Speaker 1: on the Facebook live chat he doesn't like the wireless
Speaker 1: Genie boxes the menus are really slow to react to
Speaker 1: the remotes, so that's interesting. I had a Genie. It
Speaker 1: wasn't bad. When I had it, I thought it was fine,
Speaker 1: but I didn't really watch it. I didn't really use
Speaker 1: my direct TV that much, so I did have it
Speaker 1: for a while. But I would do that. I would
Speaker 1: call up the I would call the FiOS and ask
Speaker 1: them to just give you a price on what you
Speaker 1: can do with that, and see what they say, and
Speaker 1: then compare that to what I guess if you have yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's your only option really, so I would
Speaker 1: do that versus going to anything else. I think that's
Speaker 1: a good question. But thanks so much for calling. I
Speaker 1: think that that's Uh. It's tough because most people are
Speaker 1: kind of calling to cancel their cable, and when they
Speaker 1: hear you that you want to add four TVs, I
Speaker 1: think they're they're like, Okay, let's give this guy a deal,
Speaker 1: because clearly we're losing a lot of customers right now
Speaker 1: to just kind of the internet customers. And I think
Speaker 1: that they like when they hear that you want to
Speaker 1: connect all those TVs, so I think they'll come over
Speaker 1: there and do that pretty well. All right, Rich Demiro
Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot TV. You're listening to Rich on
Speaker 1: tech Live. I just wanted to talk about one thing
Speaker 1: real quick here. Spotify and Hulu they teamed up. We'll
Speaker 1: take We have time for one more call. By the way,
Speaker 1: three one oh five nine four three zero zero three.
Speaker 1: Spotify and Hulu teamed up, so now they've got If
Speaker 1: you're a Spotify Premium customer, you can now add Hulu
Speaker 1: for effectively three dollars a month, which is pretty good
Speaker 1: if you want to get the Hulu programming, which has
Speaker 1: like seventy five thousand shows. If you're into like current
Speaker 1: TV shows, like a lot of the sitcoms and stuff
Speaker 1: that air or dramas, Hulu's really good for that. And
Speaker 1: of course a lot of people like that show, The
Speaker 1: Handmaid's Tale. I've not seen it, but a lot of
Speaker 1: people love that show. So if you have Spotify Premium,
Speaker 1: you're already paying the ten dollars a month for that.
Speaker 1: You can add sp Hulu to your plan for three
Speaker 1: dollars a month, so it's twelve ninety nine for both.
Speaker 1: I'm on the family plan with Spotify, I pay fifteen dollars.
Speaker 1: They are not allowing the family plan to add Hulu
Speaker 1: because I'd probably add it for three bucks a month.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty darn good deal. If you have it
Speaker 1: right now. You can do a ninety nine cent promotional deal,
Speaker 1: so you can try the Hulu for three months for
Speaker 1: ninety nine cents, So that's pretty good. The thing I
Speaker 1: don't like about Hulu Limited, which is what they're giving you,
Speaker 1: the limited plan still has commercials and have I mean,
Speaker 1: it's fine if you get to sit through limited commercials,
Speaker 1: but you're still paying for the commercials, so you're paying
Speaker 1: three dollars to sit through those commercials. But that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: So Glenda says, what if you already have Hulu. If
Speaker 1: you already have Hulu, you're gonna have to cancel Hulu
Speaker 1: and then sign up again through this special link to
Speaker 1: get the new product. So but you have to have
Speaker 1: you have to have Spotify Premium. Okay, so real quick,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about one thing real quick before
Speaker 1: we go, because I thought that this is I'm getting
Speaker 1: so many questions about this thing. So this is the
Speaker 1: Facebook BFF thing everyone's asking me about. If you type
Speaker 1: BFF on Facebook, does it? Hold on? Let me get
Speaker 1: the article here, because this is okay, so the article
Speaker 1: there's a big thing going around on Facebook. People are
Speaker 1: saying Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, invented the word BFF,
Speaker 1: which is stupid and not true. To make sure your
Speaker 1: account is safe on Facebook, type bff in a comment.
Speaker 1: If it appears green, your account is protected. If it
Speaker 1: does not appear in green, change your password immediately because
Speaker 1: it will be hacked. So stupid, I mean, clearly that's
Speaker 1: not true. Anyway, So you see when you do that
Speaker 1: and what happens there. So my point is, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of other things you can type. These are little
Speaker 1: graphics that Facebook puts in there, and let's see here,
Speaker 1: I gotta figure out how to get rid of this
Speaker 1: thing because I just did this. Okay, So anyway, Facebook
Speaker 1: puts a lot so other things you can do. By
Speaker 1: the way, you can type in you're the best, and
Speaker 1: that will also do some flying stars. You can type
Speaker 1: in best wishes and you get two hands that unfold
Speaker 1: with colorful shapes flying up to the screen. Okay, you
Speaker 1: can let's see. Okay, here we go delete, there we go. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's see what else can you do? You can do
Speaker 1: this an article, by the way, I'm reading off on medium,
Speaker 1: I'll send you, guys, the link you can do you've
Speaker 1: got this and or you can do it and you'll
Speaker 1: get some thumbs up emoji bounces. You can do rad
Speaker 1: that will give you a flurry of thumbs up emojis.
Speaker 1: You can do congrats and you'll get a bunch of
Speaker 1: balloons and confetti. Or you can do XO and you'll
Speaker 1: get a bunch of small hearts. So kind of cool
Speaker 1: to try all these different things, because they don't are
Speaker 1: you guys? Now, I see you're commenting these things, but
Speaker 1: are they working on my Facebook Live? Because I don't
Speaker 1: think they work on the Facebook Live. You have to
Speaker 1: do them on someone's comment, right, all right, So Lisa
Speaker 1: is asking what is the safest way to save photos?
Speaker 1: And it's a fantastic question. So I will tell you
Speaker 1: what I do. Your results may vary, you may want
Speaker 1: to do it, but I'll tell you the system that
Speaker 1: you should be using for your photos. Okay, So number one,
Speaker 1: you take a photo. Most of us are taking our
Speaker 1: pictures on our cell phones, so that's the first place
Speaker 1: you want to make sure that you have your pictures
Speaker 1: backed up on your phone. Okay, So that means you
Speaker 1: can use iCloud. If you have Apple, you can use iCloud.
Speaker 1: So if you turn on iCloud, make sure that you
Speaker 1: say optimize photos on my phone because otherwise you're gonna
Speaker 1: run out of space on your phone before you can
Speaker 1: put all your pictures into iCloud. So you need to
Speaker 1: go into settings and make sure that you have a
Speaker 1: setting that's on called optimize iPhone Storage for Photos. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's going to enable you to do this. That's gonna
Speaker 1: enable you to see all your pictures on your iPhone,
Speaker 1: but some of them are going to be stored up
Speaker 1: in the cloud. So that means you can have twenty
Speaker 1: thousand pictures in your photo collection on your phone, but
Speaker 1: they're not really residing on your phone. Okay, So that's
Speaker 1: number one, So you have to do that. So you've
Speaker 1: got iPhone, you've got iicloud, that's good. Number two if
Speaker 1: you're using that system, you still want your pictures backed
Speaker 1: up in a secondary place. So this could be as
Speaker 1: easy as every month you download a copy of all
Speaker 1: your pictures to your computer and you have them on
Speaker 1: there as well. You always want your pictures in two places.
Speaker 1: That's the name of the game, because if one place
Speaker 1: goes down, the other place is going to be your
Speaker 1: backup savior. And believe me, it doesn't happen often, but
Speaker 1: it could and you want to make sure. So you
Speaker 1: can get an external hard drive. You can get something
Speaker 1: called the ie expand this is a really simple way
Speaker 1: to do it. This is from sand Disk and you
Speaker 1: can get this thing, plug it into your plug it
Speaker 1: into your iPhone and every once in a while just
Speaker 1: download your pictures to there. But again you have to
Speaker 1: have them in two places. So you can do iCloud
Speaker 1: plus the I expand flash drive, or you can do
Speaker 1: iCloud plus Google Photos, which is what I do. So
Speaker 1: I do well, I do Google Photos plus something else.
Speaker 1: So you can do Google Photos. And Google Photos is
Speaker 1: a free app. You put that on there, And Pauline
Speaker 1: is saying, what if you don't use Apple, Then if
Speaker 1: you don't use Apple, my choice is Google Photos. So
Speaker 1: that's where you want to go. And Google Photos is free,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent free. You put your photos in there
Speaker 1: and it will back up as many pictures as you
Speaker 1: have forever for free. And it's amazing, it's searchable, it's free.
Speaker 1: You don't have to think about it. If you don't
Speaker 1: want to use Google because somehow you don't like Google.
Speaker 1: You can use Flicker, and again, Flicker has an app
Speaker 1: that you can put on your phone and that's gonna
Speaker 1: let you upload all the pictures. Now, you only get
Speaker 1: a thousand gigs, which is one terabyte, so they are
Speaker 1: limit but for most people a thousand gigs should be fine.
Speaker 1: Amazon Photos that's another one. If you are an Amazon
Speaker 1: customer and you have Amazon Prime, you can use Amazon
Speaker 1: Photos for free and you get unlimited photo storage as well.
Speaker 1: If you don't have Prime, you get five gigs, So
Speaker 1: I don't recommend it. If you don't have Prime. I mean,
Speaker 1: you could use it up to five gigs, but that's
Speaker 1: that's pretty small. But if you have Prime, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get unlimited. So again, you need your photos in two places.
Speaker 1: One of these apps, which I just mentioned a bunch
Speaker 1: of them. You can do Amazon, you can do Google Photos,
Speaker 1: or you can do or you can do One Drive.
Speaker 1: That's another one. You just have to pick one. But
Speaker 1: you got to have it in two places, So have
Speaker 1: it on your phone, on a backup drive and in
Speaker 1: one of these places. So because your phone is going
Speaker 1: to run out of storage, so you really want to
Speaker 1: have you really want to have your photos in different place,
Speaker 1: and yes, Lisa, you can. Once your photos are in
Speaker 1: Amazon Phone Photos, then you click that optimized storage button
Speaker 1: and then you can do that. You don't really you
Speaker 1: want to make sure that these things are in a
Speaker 1: different place. I've seen way too many people lose their
Speaker 1: photos because they're not syncing them, they're not backing them up,
Speaker 1: they don't have them backed up in two places. But
Speaker 1: you have to do that. And Angie is saying, I
Speaker 1: need to save all my Facebook photos. Go to Facebook,
Speaker 1: go to Facebook Tools. It's called Facebook Download my Data.
Speaker 1: Download Download Data. And all you have to do is
Speaker 1: download all your data. It will give you a copy
Speaker 1: of all your pictures and then you can upload them
Speaker 1: to your cloud storage and you can do that from
Speaker 1: the web. You can do that in a lot of
Speaker 1: different places. So all right, thanks so much for listening
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