WEBVTT - Apple's New iPads & A Free Cell Phone Plan 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.160 This is rich On Tech. Before we start the show, 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:07.160 I'd like to remember a colleague of mine, Sam Rubin. 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.039 Those in Los Angeles know him best as a longtime 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:14.640 entertainment anchor at KTLA, the TV station that I've worked 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:17.960 for for thirteen years. Sam was also on this very 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:21.000 show talking about his experience at the Sphere Las Vegas. 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:24.759 Sam's segment would often run right before mine, and we 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:26.960 also shared a studio where we tape things, so we 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:30.520 chatted throughout the day. Our most popular topic was EV's, 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:34.120 in particular Rivian, but we also chatted about all kinds 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.600 of random topics, and he always asked me how things 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:43.000 were going with my career and lately this show. Sam 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.320 always had a smile on his face. He had a 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.960 sharp sense of humor and a wide range of knowledge 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:52.640 about people and places. I've never told anyone this story publicly, 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.440 but Sam would often go longer than his allotted segment time. 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.200 The guy like to talk something that would cut into 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.480 the time of my segment, and early on in my 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:03.480 career at KTLA, when I ask the producers about this, 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.959 they politely told me that Sam is the show, and 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:09.760 I guess that's right. I always have KTLA on in 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.040 the background all morning while I'm at work, and when 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:16.440 Sam comes on, the volume goes up. Sam died unexpectedly 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:18.960 at sixty four. They say life is short, but in 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:25.000 his case, it was way too short. Please let your friends, 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.720 your family, your colleagues know how much you love, appreciate 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:29.520 and respect them while they're still here. 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.760 Embrace the people around you every day. 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.640 Ah, When something like this happens, it tells me that 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.520 we as humans are not truly equipped to understand the 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:43.000 mystery of our existence here. But we can love, we 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:46.440 can find joy and connection. We can help others and 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:52.280 make the most out of every moment we have. And now, 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:56.880 as they say, on with the show, Apple unveils new iPads, 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:00.240 Google has a five hundred dollars phone, and Sam's song 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:04.160 rolls out a major update for older devices. There's a 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.480 new cellular plan that gives you calling and texting for free, 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:12.280 plus access to essential apps. We'll explain five G home Internet, 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.440 and of course your tech questions answered. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:16.600 What's going on? 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:19.519 I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech. This 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.720 is the show where I talk about the tech stuff 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.040 I think you should know about. It's also the place 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.760 where I answer your questions about technology. I believe that 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.600 tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. Let's open up 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.400 those phone lines at triple A Rich one oh one. 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:38.680 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:39.639 zero one. 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:40.440 Give me a call. 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.560 If you have a question about technology. Email is also open. 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.919 Just go to Rich on tech dot tv and hit contact. 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:52.519 Guests this week include Chris Sheldric, creator of the app 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.880 called What Three Words. He's gonna explain how to use 0:02:55.919 --> 0:03:01.240 it to tell someone your exact location using three simple words. Later, 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.800 Eli Blumenthal of cnet will explain how your cell phone 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:09.120 carrier tracks you and how to change that, and later 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.680 in the show, Michael Motamedi we'll talk about how he 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:18.440 traveled the world for a year using AI. This week, 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:23.320 Apple held an event virtually called let Loose, and it 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:27.200 was all about new iPads. Apple has a big event 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:31.160 coming up next month called WWDC. This was sort of 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.240 the appetizer to that event where they get these new 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.360 iPads out into the world, and I'm gonna give you 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.720 a rundown of exactly what they're all about. Let's start 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:44.120 with the iPad Air. This is sort of almost like 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:47.160 a mid mid level model. You've got the iPad, then 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.160 the iPad Air, then the iPad Pro. So the iPad 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.920 Air gets the new M two chip. It typically came 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.120 in that eleven inch design, so they still have that, 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.400 but now they have an all new thirteen inch size 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.960 as well, so now you get the choice of two sizes. 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.000 Do you want something that's small and compact or a 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:05.760 little bit bigger so you can get more work done 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.320 on the screen. It also comes in a new blue 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:12.240 and purple color along with the standard starlight and space gray. 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.960 Let's see what else. Front facing camera they moved, so 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.560 now it's at the top of the iPad when you 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.000 have it horizontal, which means when you are video chatting, 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.600 your face is not off to the side. It's a 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.000 straight on view, which makes a lot of sense for 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.640 video calling and video chatting and zooming and all that 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.800 good stuff. Some people are a little disappointed this did 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.080 not get Wi Fi seven. It does have support for 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:40.200 Wi Fi six E. It starts at five hundred and 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.520 ninety nine dollars for the eleven inch iPad Air. Then 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.240 you've got seven hundred and ninety nine dollars starting price 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.560 for the thirteen inch iPad Air. Keep in mind that 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.560 is for a one hundred and twenty eight gigabyte model. 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:54.400 I do not think that's going to be enough for 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.880 most people. You can download a few movies to these 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.640 iPads and that will fill up that entire one hundred 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.599 and twenty eight gigabytes practically with your pictures and your videos. 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.280 So you may want to consider the step up from that. 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.000 I thought Apple should have gone with two fifty six starting, 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.800 but it's still one twenty eight to get that nicer 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:18.360 price point. Availability beginning Wednesday, May fifteenth. All right, now, 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:20.840 onto the iPad Pro. This is where they put a 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:25.800 lot of their new features. This is available also in 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.400 a eleven inch model and a thirteen inch model, so 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:30.120 you get to choose if you want the high end. 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.720 You also get those two sizes for the first time 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.240 in an iPad. They've got O lead technology. Apple calls 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:40.520 it tandem O lead, so apparently they sandwiched two old 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.240 screens on top of each other to make it brighter 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.320 than a standard O LEAD and so you know the 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.719 wizards that Apple did that. They also introduce a brand 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:53.080 new chip, the M four chip. So this is a 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.920 chip that they say is even more powerful than before. 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:59.840 But it's more power efficient as well. So Apple has 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.000 really done a great job with their M chips and 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.800 this is no different and it's probably gonna have a 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.320 very long life because we're looking at the M two 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:10.400 in the iPad Air, which came out a couple of 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.160 years ago, and they're still getting some great use out 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.440 of that. Apple did not make a huge deal out 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.960 of AI as expected at WWDC, but they did say this. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:21.520 Is going to be great for running AI. 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.440 They've got a new neural engine on it, which is 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.800 the stuff that kind of computes that area of things, 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.480 so they did talk that up just a little bit. 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.840 Eleven inch iPad pro starts at nine hundred ninety nine dollars. 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.800 The thirteen inch iPad pro starts at thirteen hundred dollars. 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.960 We're getting into laptop territory here and these are available Wednesday, 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:46.000 May fifteenth. And of course they did make these with 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.120 the two hundred and fifty six gigabyte storage standards, so 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.320 they did know that the real serious pro users need 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.640 a lot of storage. They did start at two fifty 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:58.880 six for that base storage. When you add the keyboard 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.640 and all the different things to this, it adds up 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:05.479 very quickly. They also introduced a new Apple Pencil Pro. 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:08.800 The features they added to this squeeze so you can 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.400 now squeeze it to do some things. It also has 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.040 haptic feedback, so it will vibrate to let you know 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.320 that it's doing some things. And for the first time, 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:20.400 they have put fined my on the Apple pencil, which 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.520 means if you lose this thing, you can find it 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:24.280 more easily. 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.520 The Apple Pencil Pro is one hundred and twenty nine dollars. 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.640 If you want to figure out which Apple pencil works 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:32.720 with which iPad, you're going to have to consult the 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.280 Apple website. At least two different Apple pencils work with 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.280 every different iPad, so there is a matrix there. You 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:41.320 get your choice of a cheaper Apple pencil and a 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.680 slightly more premium Apple pencil for every one of these iPads. 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:47.000 So it's gonna be a little bit of a decision 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:48.760 there to make that stuff. They came out with the 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.520 new Magic Keyboard. This starts at three hundred dollars. 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:52.040 It's got a. 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:56.080 Bigger, bigger trackpad area, which is nice if you're doing 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.240 a lot of computing work. They've got new smartfolios. This 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:03.960 is sort of the it's almost like a case or 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.800 a cover that magnetically attaches to the iPad. 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:08.480 I have one of these things. It's great. 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:11.840 The thing that's new here is that it now supports 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.800 multiple viewing angles instead of just one viewing angle. Those 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.000 start at seventy nine dollars. And finally a couple of 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.280 new apps to talk about. Final Cut Pro got a 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.239 major upgrade. Last time, it was all about the Apple pencil. 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.400 This time it is all about touch. The cool thing 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:30.920 is Apple came out with this new app called Final 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:35.880 Cut Camera. This lets you connect up to four iPhones 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:40.360 to an iPad to do a multicapture. So if you 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.480 want multi camera capture, let's say you want it to 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:46.240 record a podcast or your band, you can now just 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.160 link up all of your iPhones to an iPad and 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.120 it will record all of those feeds simultaneously. 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:54.000 I mean, this is the kind of. 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:57.240 Stuff that would take a huge setup and an engineer 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.200 to figure out. Now you can do it with just 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.880 you and your friends iPhones and an iPad. That is incredible. 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.600 It's called Final Cut Camera that is available. This will 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.960 all be available later this spring as. 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:13.000 Well. Final Cut Camera is free. 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.559 Final Cut Pro two is either five dollars a month, 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:17.120 or fifty dollars for the year. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.160 Final Cut for Final Cut. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.320 Pro for iPad also allows you to edit projects directly 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.760 from external storage, which is really nice. 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.280 And then finally Logic Pro. 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.640 Now I'm not a big audio editor, even though I 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:34.280 should be with this podcast, I guess, but if you 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.160 listen to the podcast, you know the levels could be 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.840 a little all over the place sometimes, so that's why. 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:44.960 But Final Cut Final Sorry. Logic Pro for iPad two 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.120 and Logic Pro for Mac eleven also got a big update. 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.200 They've got this new feature called Session Players, which is 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:55.800 basically like having your own little background orchestra. They've got drummers, 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.920 they've got bass players, they've got keyboard players. Pretty amazing 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.120 stuff that is going to be available May thirteenth as 0:10:03.160 --> 0:10:06.320 a free update for existing users, one two hundred dollars 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.839 for new users, and if you're on the iPad, it's 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:12.079 available May thirteenth, five bucks a month, fifty dollars for 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:12.520 the year. 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:13.920 So there you have it. 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.120 Updates to the Apple products and services. 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:20.080 Apple does a really nice job. 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:22.160 They did get a little bit of backlash for this 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:26.040 sequence they showed called Crush. I will talk about that 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.160 a little bit later in the show. Basically, they showed 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:34.000 a whole bunch of creative tools like a piano and uh, 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.839 you know, drums and just things people use to write 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.280 and create. They showed that all being crushed down and 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.240 then out came an iPad at the end. And some 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.160 people are very offended by that because they said, Apple, 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.880 how dare you? Our world is already black mirror enough 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.240 and to actively exploit that. 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.480 Come on, you're better than that, all right? 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:58.840 Phone line for the show Triple eight Rich one oh 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:03.520 one eight eight two four one zero one. The website 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.679 is Rich on tech dot TV. Give me a call 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.120 if you have a question about technology. My name is 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.319 Rich Dmiro and you are listening to Rich on tech. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.760 Let's go to Jeff in Fort Worth, Texas. Jeff, you're 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.199 on with Rich. Hi. 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.200 Rich, thanks so much for taking my call. And my 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.120 question is has to do with connectivity with devices to 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.960 my WiFi. So my neighborhood they dropped high speed internet, 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:35.280 and so I purchased the Google Wi Fi Mesh system 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.640 to bring me up to five G which is great, 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:41.160 love it. But a few years ago I put in. 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.240 Led lights around my swimming pool and they run on 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:50.400 the two point four and so now I can't enact, 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.360 and I try to go through all the settings of 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.720 the Google Mesh and am I going to have to 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.840 replace my lighting system to five g year? Is there 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:01.200 a way to make my LG the lights talk to 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.080 my match system at two point four while keeping five 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.280 point oh everywhere else? If that makes sense? 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:09.480 Well, yeah, that makes sense. 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.440 And I get this question a lot, and it seems like, 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.240 you know, the new devices are a lot better than 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.200 the older devices, and it sounds like you've had these 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.280 up for a while and that's why this is happening. 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:26.440 So the Google Wi Fi does support all three bands, 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.280 so it's got a two point four gigahertz, a five gigaherts, 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.600 and a six gigahertz band. Most of the devices will well, 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:35.600 it depends on the Wi Fi, you know, the Google 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.679 Wi Fi that you have, But most of the time 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:43.120 all of those bands are active simultaneously, and the problem 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:47.920 is the device may not recognize the fallback to that 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:52.120 two point four gigaherts. So everyone, every device sort of 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.560 functions differently in this aspect, and I think that's why 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:56.680 you're running into issues. It's just you have a modern 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:58.840 network with a device that's older and it's just they're 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:02.079 not talking to each other. So the thing to do, 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.240 according to Google, is that you have to go into 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:10.319 the Google Home app and turn on WPA three. This 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.560 is kind of an older protocol that is not used 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:18.000 as much anymore, and so that should toggle the two 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.320 point four gigaherts. So you go into the Google Home app. 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.960 According I'm looking at the support document here, tap Wi 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.240 Fi and then go into settings and then it says 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.360 advanced Networking and it says use Wi Fi Protected Access three. 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.679 And then when you toggle that on, your network's going 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.480 to reset. Your devices will lose connectivity for a little bit, 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:45.160 but it should it should find that. So now it says, okay, 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.480 some smart home devices that only use the two point 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.880 four gigahertz band will not be available for setup if 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:53.559 your phone is on the five gigahertz or six gigahertz band. 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:57.240 So if you're trying to use that phone as like 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:01.040 a middle man between the connection, you may have to 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.839 also try to manually connect your phone to that two 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:07.120 point four gigahertz band, and that may involve going into 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:11.199 your Wi Fi's settings as well. I have had in 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.880 the devices that I've set up over the years I 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:18.360 have only found one device that I could not get 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:23.080 to set up with any success at all, and it 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.720 was an outdoor plug that was on the two point 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.920 four gigahertz network. And I did everything in my power. 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.480 I've got the Ero at home, and in the Eero 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:36.360 there is a ten minute mode where your euros will 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.160 restart into just two point four gigaherts to give those 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.600 devices an opportunity to just see that network and connect. 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:45.960 But even with that, it would not connect. And I'm 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.360 not kidding. I probably spent a half an hour just 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.920 sitting there trying to get this thing to connect before 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:52.800 I said, you know what, not only can I not 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.680 do this, but I'm also never recommending this outdoor plug. 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:58.480 And I ended up buying a different one on Amazon 0:14:58.520 --> 0:14:59.640 and it connected immediately. 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:01.360 So that's my advice. 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:06.560 Try that advanced networking setting, make sure that your phone 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:10.920 is also on that setting, and that hopefully will. 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.800 Get that bridge to your network and keep those on there. 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.240 If that doesn't work, you may have to consider replacing 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.880 the lights unfortunately, or maybe just buy a cheap router 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.960 that just uses that for the you know, an older 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.320 router that only uses that network to. 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:26.520 Connect those lights. Good question. 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.840 Thanks Jeff for finding us out there in Fort Worth, Texas. 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:36.480 Open Ai on Monday, the day before Google's event, is 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.400 holding an event to announce updates to Chat, GPT and 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.600 GPT four. Now a lot of people are saying that 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.520 this might be a new Chat GPT search engine to 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:51.920 rival Google. Sam Altman, the founder of Chat of open ai, says, 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.760 that is not true. We're not releasing a search engine 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:58.320 that day, but we do have new updates we think 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.880 people are gonna love. He just gribe the updates is 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:02.960 feeling like magic to him. 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:03.480 Now. 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.200 The interesting thing here is that this event is scheduled 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:10.160 just twenty four hours before Google Io. This is where 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:14.880 Google shows off its latest AI products and advancements. 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:16.360 So Google is. 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:20.520 Certainly feeling the heat right now from open AI and Chat, 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:24.720 GBT and Perplexity and Claude and all of these search 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:28.560 engines that are really gunning for what Google has done. 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.600 And we've taken for granted for so many years. But 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.640 now Google, you know, they've got to show us that 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:38.000 they are going to continue to really be the search 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.880 provider that we know and love for for years to come. 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.160 So we'll see what happens with open AI and then 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.360 we'll have Google as well, all next week eighty eight 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.840 rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.200 two four one zero one. You are listening to rich 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:58.680 on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.880 here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple eight 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.600 rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four two 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.080 four one zero one. We'll get to the phone lines 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.639 in just a bit, but first I want to tell 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.119 you about an app called What three Words. This is 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.920 an app that if you've listened to me for a while, 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:18.680 you've probably heard me talk about it before. I think 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:22.320 it's pretty cool. It basically divides the world up into 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.760 ten by ten squares ten feet by ten feet squares, 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:29.440 which means you can give someone a really precise idea 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:31.600 of where you are. So let's say you're in a field, 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.560 GPS might lead that person to the middle of the field. 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.960 This will lead them to exactly where you are in 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.960 that field no matter what. It also works offline, which 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:45.679 is really cool. Recently I spoke with Chris Scheldrick. He 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.479 is the creator of the app called What three Words. 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:51.560 He's explaining how you can use it to tell someone 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:55.359 your exact location using three simple words. 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:59.159 So I grew up on a farm where nobody finds 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.800 where I live because my address points in the middle 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:04.400 of a field. So I wanted to make a really 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.040 simple system for anyone in the world to talk about 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:11.200 any location. So I divided the world into ten foot 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:14.560 by ten for squares, and named each one with three 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:16.040 words from the dictionary. 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:19.800 Now, did you give us yourself the three words or 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:21.879 did you come up with some program? Like how did 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:23.359 you decide what words to use? 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:25.880 So I came up with this idea with a couple 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.800 of friends of mine, a mathematician and a linguist. We 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.520 put together this word list of forty thousand words, so 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:33.520 like table chesso anything like that. 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.840 So there's a unique one for each tenth for square 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:37.320 on Earth. 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.119 Some people might wonder, well, don't we already have GPS. 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.000 Isn't that just fine for helping people find where they 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.080 need to go? What's the difference here? 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:48.280 Well, a lot of people obviously navigate with ZIP codes 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.800 or if you want to be precise, GPS coordinates. But 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:54.520 I think for the everyday person, if there is no address, 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.480 the points to the right place, GPS coordinates are kind 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:01.159 of confusing and complicated. I mean, nobody really in everyday 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.639 life does that. So the idea of what three words 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:07.000 is just to make a big load of numbers super simple, 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.760 like as easy as just saying something like table, chess, 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:12.640 spoon and you refer to one point in the world. 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.040 Somewhere and how are people using this and how are 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.600 you getting this into the hands of people? 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:20.800 So we're really doing a huge awareness drive about what 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:22.960 three words. We're already a household name here in the 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:25.480 UK and at the moment we're trying to do exactly 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.800 the same in the US. So a big part of 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.200 how we get the word out is through emergency services, 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:35.160 police forces, fire ambulance. But we're also doing many other 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:37.800 vertical notes now and a lot of those are around 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:42.359 big stadiums, big parks, California's day Parks, and our most 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:45.800 recent partnership, which is really exciting, is with LAFC. 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:47.960 And so tell me about that partnership. What do you 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:48.439 think this is. 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:51.080 How do you think it's going to enhance the guest 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:52.800 experience at this stadium? 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:55.119 So I think now that LAFC have added three with 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:58.040 addresses to each of their entrances and key points around 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:00.719 the site, this is going to make it super simple 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.080 for anybody to show up at exactly the right place, 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:05.560 because when you go to a stadium, there are so 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:08.040 many different gates where you might want to park your 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:10.600 car or where your ticket actually brings you to. An 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:13.480 entrance doesn't really have an address that you can type 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:15.760 into an app. So if you just go to an 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:19.160 NFC website, you'll now see that there are threewhere addresses 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:21.280 for every single place that you might want to go 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:25.320 around that entire stadium site, which will make it so 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:25.919 so easy. 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:28.320 So the idea is that GPS takes you to a 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:31.439 generic or a general location, and this takes you to 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:35.720 a specific ten by ten area within that location exactly. 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:38.560 I think you know, the GPS probably takes you to 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:41.680 the exact center point of the field, but really, unless 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:45.159 you're playing, nobody needs to go there. So really this 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:47.440 is for everybody who wants to go to a specific 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:50.920 part of a specific site, which is basically everyone except 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:51.719 for the players. 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:56.359 You also mentioned for fans with accessibility challenges that this 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:58.040 can help. Is there a way that this can help 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:01.359 with people with varying level of ability as well? 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:04.840 Yeah, I think for fans with accessibility challenges, it's really 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:06.880 important that you get to the right place or where 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:09.320 you want to go as easily as possible. And if 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.080 you've got ten foot precision in means you can exactly 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:14.800 get to that right gate. Maybe you need to leave 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:17.679 the car somewhere very precise as well, And it just 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:20.280 simplifies that whole experience so that you haven't got to 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:22.960 be around crowds of people if all you want to 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:25.000 do is just get to that pint where you're going 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:27.760 to watch the game. So I would really encourage any 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:30.399 fans with accessibility challenges check out what three was. 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:31.800 It could really really help. 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:34.399 Any locations you can rattle off the top of your 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:35.480 head that might be notable. 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:39.920 Yeah, So I mean the LAFC HQ is at Spice 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:44.040 June's Cowboy. I know that the door dash Gate, which 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:47.040 is their north east entrance is at feast Lane's Affair. 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:49.639 So you know you'll find plenty more of these on 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:50.959 the LAFC website. 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:54.520 And how do people get these names? How do they 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:56.359 figure out where they are? And how do you send 0:21:56.359 --> 0:21:58.280 it to a friend that may not be using the app? 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:00.480 So you can use the word three words, You could 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:03.000 use the what three words websites and literally you'll see 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:04.760 a map of the world that you're used to, and 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:07.320 as you click around, you'll just see the three random 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:12.359 words they'll appear. It could be custard, crayon, door knob, 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:14.560 anything like this, And as you click the different squares, 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:17.520 you'll see what we've named your front door, your back door, 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:20.520 or anywhere else in the world. Because literally every ten 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:22.159 for square is covered. 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:23.919 For like search and rescue situations. 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:26.360 I feel like this is pretty handy because it gets you, 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:29.200 like exactly where you are versus you know, the park 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:30.640 that you're at or something like that. 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:32.080 Is that what you're finding to be true? 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:34.640 What three words has been really instrumental in a lot 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:37.240 of search and rescue situations because there are so many 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:39.400 times if you don't know where you are, you think 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:41.760 your cell phone might be able to communicate its exact location, 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:44.520 but there are problems, and so if you're calling nine 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:47.320 on one in a lot of cases now you can 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:49.520 then give them the three words for exactly where you 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:51.880 are or where help is needed, and they will get 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:52.919 it straight to that point. 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:55.640 So I think in nearly all fifty. 0:22:55.280 --> 0:22:59.080 States now we have search and rescue, police and many 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:02.280 other first responders using what three was on a daily basis. 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:07.080 And what about the partnerships with different automakers and like, 0:23:07.119 --> 0:23:09.840 tell me where you're trying to go with us. 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:12.000 Well, we want what three was to be a global standard. 0:23:12.040 --> 0:23:14.359 So whatever you put an address into, we want you 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:16.040 to be able to put a threeword address into it. 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:20.280 So for example, with auto makers like Mercedes, Benz with subru, 0:23:20.359 --> 0:23:24.280 with Mitsubishi, Lotus, Lamborghini, you can now start putting three 0:23:24.720 --> 0:23:28.240 addresses into your car. And we're also working with e 0:23:28.280 --> 0:23:31.440 commerce and logistics players. So really it's trying to transform 0:23:31.600 --> 0:23:33.520 the whole way that we think about addresses. 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:36.639 How has this journey been for you creating this product 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:38.360 and getting people to believe in it? 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:39.720 I mean creating what three words? 0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:42.359 Has been this kind of mind blowing journey where we 0:23:42.800 --> 0:23:45.120 came up with this concept of three words for any 0:23:45.119 --> 0:23:47.760 ten for square in the world. To have household name 0:23:47.800 --> 0:23:50.480 status in our home country in the UK is just 0:23:50.600 --> 0:23:53.600 astonishing and to feel like this is really now coming 0:23:53.600 --> 0:23:57.119 alive in the US, it's just truly awesome. So the 0:23:57.160 --> 0:23:59.639 fact that it's car makers, the fact that it's national parks, 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:04.440 we've now stas, we're in pretty much every fifty states now, 0:24:05.200 --> 0:24:07.119 it really feels like, well three words is coming to 0:24:07.119 --> 0:24:09.520 the US in a huge way, and that's brilliant. 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:11.000 Once again. 0:24:11.000 --> 0:24:14.159 That is Chris Sheldrick, creator of the app called What 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:17.639 three Words. I love this app. It's handy to have 0:24:17.720 --> 0:24:20.080 on your phone. Get used to it, download it, and 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:22.719 you never know when you might need it, especially if 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:25.520 you like to hike or it's just we find useful 0:24:26.240 --> 0:24:29.320 in this app. When my photographer and I are meeting 0:24:29.400 --> 0:24:31.800 at a location, and let's say we're in like a 0:24:31.880 --> 0:24:35.280 huge area where there's multiple entrances, I will share my 0:24:35.480 --> 0:24:38.520 what three words location with him that's exactly where I am, 0:24:38.800 --> 0:24:41.600 so that he can find me very easily instead of 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:43.359 trying to like walk all around looking for me. 0:24:43.440 --> 0:24:45.399 So I'll put a link up on the website. Just 0:24:45.400 --> 0:24:46.679 go to Rich on tech. 0:24:46.600 --> 0:24:50.239 Dot tv, hit the light bulb that will take you 0:24:50.280 --> 0:24:53.440 to the show notes for this show and you'll see 0:24:53.440 --> 0:24:56.280 in real time the link to what three Words. All right, 0:24:56.280 --> 0:24:58.119 before we go to break here, let me just tell 0:24:58.160 --> 0:25:00.480 you about this. If you have an older Samsung phone, 0:25:00.480 --> 0:25:02.840 they are just on a roll here with this AI 0:25:02.960 --> 0:25:07.680 stuff Galaxy AI. So rolling out now is the new 0:25:07.760 --> 0:25:12.240 update for one UI six point one and this is 0:25:12.280 --> 0:25:15.359 going out to the Galaxy S twenty two series, the 0:25:15.440 --> 0:25:20.199 Galaxy Z Flip four, the Galaxy Z Fold four and 0:25:20.400 --> 0:25:23.720 tab S eight users. These are phones that came out, 0:25:23.800 --> 0:25:26.040 you know, two years ago, and they are now getting 0:25:26.080 --> 0:25:27.679 the update for Galaxy AI. 0:25:27.880 --> 0:25:29.000 This means you're gonna get. 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:33.560 My favorite favorite favorite feature called Circle. To search with Google, 0:25:34.440 --> 0:25:36.879 you literally just press a hold on the home button 0:25:37.240 --> 0:25:39.720 and then just scribble on anything on your screen and 0:25:39.760 --> 0:25:42.359 that will search it on Google, whether it's a picture, text, 0:25:42.400 --> 0:25:43.000 whatever it is. 0:25:43.040 --> 0:25:44.679 It's really a cool way to search. 0:25:45.600 --> 0:25:50.040 Chat Assist, which can translate your text messages, Live Translate, 0:25:50.720 --> 0:25:56.760 no Assist, Transcript Assist, browsing Assist, Generative Edit, which means 0:25:56.800 --> 0:26:02.399 you can edit your pictures using AI and AI generated wallpapers. Again, 0:26:02.440 --> 0:26:04.960 this is all rolling out to the Galaxy S twenty 0:26:05.000 --> 0:26:07.440 two series, so if you have an older Samsung phone, 0:26:07.800 --> 0:26:10.840 this isn't your app update. This is actually a software 0:26:11.000 --> 0:26:13.560 update that is in the settings, So check it out. 0:26:13.600 --> 0:26:16.280 Go there and definitely download that because it's almost like 0:26:16.280 --> 0:26:18.560 getting a new phone with all these new AI features. 0:26:19.000 --> 0:26:21.639 First thing you should try doing is recording something with 0:26:21.720 --> 0:26:25.000 the voice recorder and then using AI to summarize it. 0:26:25.000 --> 0:26:28.560 It is quite quite incredible. Eighty eight rich one O 0:26:28.680 --> 0:26:31.720 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:26:31.800 --> 0:26:34.680 zero one. The website for the show Richontech dot TV. 0:26:34.920 --> 0:26:37.640 You can find me on social media. I am at 0:26:37.800 --> 0:26:38.560 rich on Tech. 0:26:38.880 --> 0:26:41.439 Coming up, we're gonna get to those phone lines. 0:26:46.880 --> 0:26:50.720 Let's go to John in Lake Forest, California. John, you're 0:26:50.760 --> 0:26:52.800 on with Rich Hi Rich. 0:26:53.200 --> 0:26:56.920 The situation I have is my mom's eighty nine years 0:26:56.920 --> 0:27:00.000 old on the East Coast and she's got a problem 0:27:00.080 --> 0:27:04.480 with QBC, Home Shopping Network, KTV all the rest of them, 0:27:05.400 --> 0:27:10.560 and how do I dabypoof for TV too? So she 0:27:10.600 --> 0:27:12.360 can't get on those channels? 0:27:13.600 --> 0:27:17.680 What type of service is she using to watch these channels? 0:27:19.280 --> 0:27:21.840 Like you said, on the East Coast or whatever, the 0:27:21.880 --> 0:27:25.640 local cable is, like Verizon, that's the local cable there. 0:27:25.760 --> 0:27:29.960 Okay, so she's just using a cable box, yes, okay, 0:27:29.960 --> 0:27:33.840 so like traditional cable comes into the house connected to 0:27:33.880 --> 0:27:34.720 the box sort of. 0:27:34.640 --> 0:27:36.680 Thing, simplic TV. 0:27:36.920 --> 0:27:37.600 Okay, got it? 0:27:38.040 --> 0:27:43.120 Uh, Well, look, without understanding exactly what Verizon offers, this 0:27:43.160 --> 0:27:45.000 is gonna be something that you'd probably have to go 0:27:45.040 --> 0:27:47.560 and do yourself, or do you have a family member 0:27:47.600 --> 0:27:49.000 that might be able to go because This is gonna 0:27:49.000 --> 0:27:51.000 be like a physical You're gonna have to go and 0:27:51.119 --> 0:27:52.400 change some settings on there. 0:27:53.160 --> 0:27:54.680 I can have somebody. I can have somebody to do that. 0:27:54.800 --> 0:27:58.119 Okay, So I think this is gonna be It's gonna 0:27:58.119 --> 0:28:00.520 sound silly, but you're probably gonna have to elve into 0:28:00.520 --> 0:28:05.080 prontal controls on this cable box, and inside those prontal 0:28:05.119 --> 0:28:09.280 controls will probably be a way to block these channels, 0:28:10.200 --> 0:28:15.639 almost like restricting the access to certain rating. But most 0:28:15.640 --> 0:28:18.399 of them have a channel have most cable boxes, I 0:28:18.400 --> 0:28:20.800 would say, and even streaming devices have a way to 0:28:20.920 --> 0:28:24.800 lock out certain channels with a PIN. So I think 0:28:24.840 --> 0:28:26.240 that's gonna be the best way to do it is 0:28:26.240 --> 0:28:28.400 to go into settings and look for the prontal controls. 0:28:29.440 --> 0:28:34.160 You said it was a Verizon box. Prontal controls, I'm 0:28:34.200 --> 0:28:36.639 assuming they have them built into that box. You have 0:28:36.800 --> 0:28:40.160 you tried looking for that, Yeah, it looks like they 0:28:40.200 --> 0:28:43.760 do have it on Verizon TV. Go into Menus, Setting System, 0:28:43.960 --> 0:28:46.800 p Rental Purchase Controls and follow the TV prompts to 0:28:47.080 --> 0:28:50.160 create your pin and then you can decide from there 0:28:50.680 --> 0:28:53.600 what you want to restrict on there. Have you talked 0:28:53.600 --> 0:28:55.840 to mom about this and what's her response. 0:28:56.920 --> 0:29:02.400 Yeah, it's only five payments, five easy payments. 0:29:02.960 --> 0:29:03.840 I mean, I get it. 0:29:04.120 --> 0:29:06.440 I've seen these channels and I'm you know, every time 0:29:06.440 --> 0:29:08.560 I flip through, I'm I'm taken in. I want to 0:29:08.600 --> 0:29:10.520 buy this stuff and I don't even need it, so 0:29:10.640 --> 0:29:11.400 I get it. 0:29:11.440 --> 0:29:11.560 You know. 0:29:11.600 --> 0:29:14.000 It's kind of like a world people get involved in, right, 0:29:14.800 --> 0:29:15.360 I keep. 0:29:15.160 --> 0:29:19.000 Telling me, they do the super salespeople, you know, it's 0:29:19.040 --> 0:29:21.560 it's just stuff that goes wow that I know somebody 0:29:21.560 --> 0:29:27.280 who could use that And no, yeah, all right, it 0:29:27.400 --> 0:29:30.000 was the menu settings and parental control. 0:29:30.200 --> 0:29:32.160 Yeah, that's what I would look for and uh and 0:29:32.240 --> 0:29:34.720 report back because I'm always curious, uh you know, if 0:29:34.720 --> 0:29:36.480 that's the case. But I think you send someone over 0:29:36.520 --> 0:29:38.480 there and just uh, you know, have them go through 0:29:38.480 --> 0:29:41.320 the prontal controls and block out these channels. And I 0:29:41.360 --> 0:29:42.880 don't think Mom's going to be that happy. 0:29:44.360 --> 0:29:47.240 Oh no, oh no, But that's okay, We're ready for that. 0:29:47.520 --> 0:29:50.200 It's it's wild how things come full circle here. You know, 0:29:50.440 --> 0:29:52.280 parents have to have to take care of the kids, 0:29:52.280 --> 0:29:53.520 and then the kids have to take care of the 0:29:53.560 --> 0:29:54.360 parents at some point. 0:29:55.240 --> 0:29:57.240 Yep, yep, that's that's what we're trying to do here. 0:29:57.400 --> 0:29:59.640 All right, John, I appreciate the call. Thank you. 0:30:01.280 --> 0:30:04.280 Oh my gosh, that's uh, that's wild, that just happens. 0:30:04.560 --> 0:30:10.360 Let's go to Seraphine in uh studio city. I know 0:30:10.400 --> 0:30:13.320 you've called before or you've emailed before. Did I say 0:30:13.320 --> 0:30:13.880 your name right? 0:30:14.720 --> 0:30:16.000 Correct? Absolutely? 0:30:16.160 --> 0:30:18.040 All right? What's going on today? 0:30:18.640 --> 0:30:22.200 Okay, I have an eye injury that's going to be 0:30:22.240 --> 0:30:27.680 permanent forever. Well, that's exactly the same thing. And I'm 0:30:27.760 --> 0:30:32.240 light sensitive on my computer. On my laptop, I have 0:30:32.280 --> 0:30:35.280 a button that I while I'm watching something, if it 0:30:35.320 --> 0:30:37.960 gets too bright, I can dim it or I can 0:30:38.120 --> 0:30:41.760 go to the opposite direction. Okay, what I'm wondering is 0:30:41.800 --> 0:30:45.880 there is there a television, a small television like for 0:30:45.920 --> 0:30:52.000 a kitchen, with that kind of control on say the remote, 0:30:52.680 --> 0:30:57.040 because sometimes I have to look away when the brightness 0:30:57.120 --> 0:31:00.640 comes on it hurts my eyes. Oh often to see 0:31:00.640 --> 0:31:05.320 if I could find something that I could live with. 0:31:06.640 --> 0:31:09.840 Yeah, So I have not ever seen a TV with 0:31:10.000 --> 0:31:15.200 dedicated brightness controls on the actual device, like physical controls. 0:31:15.280 --> 0:31:18.840 Obviously all of them have them built into the settings. 0:31:18.840 --> 0:31:20.760 But that's not what you want. You want something that 0:31:20.880 --> 0:31:23.560 is a media and fast and you can just adjust 0:31:23.600 --> 0:31:24.120 on the fly. 0:31:24.320 --> 0:31:25.600 Correct, right, So. 0:31:25.720 --> 0:31:28.680 You know, within a couple of seconds, I can just 0:31:28.800 --> 0:31:31.480 press the button and it dims it, and then when 0:31:31.480 --> 0:31:34.440 the show comes back on or something or the scenes 0:31:34.520 --> 0:31:36.840 get too dark, I can brighten it up again. 0:31:37.720 --> 0:31:40.000 So I don't think that that's going to be something 0:31:40.000 --> 0:31:42.440 you're going to find a TV that has that dedicated. 0:31:43.440 --> 0:31:46.920 You know, TVs are getting less buttons in general. A 0:31:46.920 --> 0:31:48.800 lot of the new TVs you know, just have one 0:31:48.880 --> 0:31:51.640 or two if any on the actual physical device. So 0:31:51.640 --> 0:31:53.240 I don't think you're going to find a TV that 0:31:53.360 --> 0:31:55.080 has that. I mean, you can go take a quick 0:31:55.120 --> 0:31:57.600 look at best Buy and see, but I just I've 0:31:57.760 --> 0:32:01.240 never seen a TV that has that, you know, functionality. 0:32:01.320 --> 0:32:05.000 But with that said, there might be some ways that 0:32:05.040 --> 0:32:08.520 you can program the remote to do it quickly. If 0:32:08.560 --> 0:32:12.120 you have, like maybe a streaming device connected to the TV, 0:32:12.240 --> 0:32:14.080 you might be able to use your voice to say 0:32:14.160 --> 0:32:15.720 dim or brighten the screen. 0:32:16.200 --> 0:32:17.120 So you might be able to do that. 0:32:17.320 --> 0:32:19.920 Or you might look into sort of a universal remote 0:32:20.360 --> 0:32:23.840 that has a shortcut button on it and that way 0:32:24.040 --> 0:32:28.280 you can assign that shortcut to do what you want 0:32:28.280 --> 0:32:32.880 to do. I'm looking at Wirecutter for their universal remote 0:32:32.880 --> 0:32:35.719 picks right now. Their top pick is called the Sofa 0:32:35.800 --> 0:32:39.520 Baton and that is a sixty dollars remote, and so 0:32:39.640 --> 0:32:42.560 that may be a nice way of doing it because 0:32:42.560 --> 0:32:46.440 you can program tasks onto that remote. So that might 0:32:46.440 --> 0:32:47.760 be a good way to do it if you want 0:32:47.840 --> 0:32:50.720 just something that's simple. And then their other pick is 0:32:50.720 --> 0:32:56.640 the Insignia eight device Universal Remote that's only thirty dollars. 0:32:57.440 --> 0:32:59.120 They say the setup is a little bit tricky on 0:32:59.160 --> 0:33:00.880 that one, and I'm not sure. I've got to look 0:33:00.920 --> 0:33:02.520 at it a little bit more closely to see if 0:33:02.520 --> 0:33:05.480 it has like a programmable shortcut button. But that's another 0:33:05.520 --> 0:33:07.640 way to do it. I mean, the universal remote might 0:33:07.720 --> 0:33:10.240 be the easiest way you can program that functionality of 0:33:10.280 --> 0:33:13.760 dim or brightness into the TV. Have you looked around 0:33:13.760 --> 0:33:15.280 for a TV that has anything like this? 0:33:16.680 --> 0:33:17.880 Excuse me say that again. 0:33:18.080 --> 0:33:18.960 Have you looked at any of that? 0:33:19.120 --> 0:33:20.760 Have you gone to like best Buy and just taken 0:33:20.800 --> 0:33:22.720 a look at the TVs to see if anything else? 0:33:22.840 --> 0:33:25.760 Yeah, I know this is just a fantasy in my head, 0:33:25.920 --> 0:33:29.600 so because I've been getting very irritated with my TV. 0:33:30.240 --> 0:33:31.960 Yeah, I understand. 0:33:31.640 --> 0:33:36.160 It makes the sofa, but that's all. 0:33:37.000 --> 0:33:41.560 It's just a company called Sofa Baton. So it's six company, Yeah, 0:33:41.680 --> 0:33:44.320 sixty bucks on Amazon. You know, Logitech used to have 0:33:44.360 --> 0:33:47.600 a really nice universal remote, but this other one, this 0:33:47.720 --> 0:33:50.360 insignia is thirty bucks. It does look like they have 0:33:50.440 --> 0:33:54.320 some action buttons. I think the problem is it may 0:33:54.320 --> 0:33:58.600 be trickier to program. The sofa baton looks like it 0:33:58.600 --> 0:34:00.880 has a companion app, which would make it a little 0:34:00.920 --> 0:34:04.959 bit simpler to uh to program in like a quick shortcut. 0:34:05.080 --> 0:34:07.600 So if you're willing to spend you know, a couple 0:34:07.600 --> 0:34:09.680 of minutes to program this thing, you may be able 0:34:09.760 --> 0:34:14.680 to program that. Universal remotes, in my experience, are just 0:34:14.920 --> 0:34:18.040 tricky in general. They just kind of you really have 0:34:18.080 --> 0:34:21.040 to spend some time with them to get them programmed properly. 0:34:21.160 --> 0:34:22.719 And I don't know if you have that time to 0:34:22.840 --> 0:34:26.440 deal with, but you know, that could be the best 0:34:26.440 --> 0:34:29.120 way of doing this. The other thing is what about 0:34:29.200 --> 0:34:31.480 just leaving the dimness? Is it is it too much? 0:34:31.600 --> 0:34:33.720 Just leave it dim the whole time that like, maybe 0:34:33.719 --> 0:34:37.480 go to like a white screen, see what what level 0:34:37.680 --> 0:34:39.840 looks good to your eyes, and then lower that to 0:34:39.920 --> 0:34:41.560 that level and leave it there. That might be the 0:34:41.560 --> 0:34:44.560 other way to do it. Surfing, Thanks for the question today. 0:34:44.600 --> 0:34:47.080 Eight eight eight Rich one oh one eight eight eight 0:34:47.200 --> 0:34:51.200 seven four two four one zero one. Rich on Tech 0:34:51.239 --> 0:34:54.120 dot tv is the website. My name is Richdmiro. We'll 0:34:54.160 --> 0:34:56.600 have more of your questions and tech news coming up 0:34:57.160 --> 0:35:03.560 right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 0:35:03.600 --> 0:35:06.560 on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking 0:35:06.719 --> 0:35:11.160 technology at Triple eight. Rich one oh one eight eight 0:35:11.280 --> 0:35:14.880 eight seven four to two four one zero one is 0:35:14.920 --> 0:35:16.919 the phone number to call if you'd like to talk 0:35:16.960 --> 0:35:22.440 to me about technology. Website is rich on Tech dot TV. 0:35:22.800 --> 0:35:25.960 Coming up this hour, we are going to talk to 0:35:26.160 --> 0:35:30.239 Eli Blumenthal of Cnet. He's gonna explain how your cell 0:35:30.239 --> 0:35:33.840 phone carrier tracks you and how to change that. Plus 0:35:33.840 --> 0:35:36.120 I'll tell you why T Mobile and Verizon might be 0:35:36.200 --> 0:35:41.040 buying a US cellular And Google's got a new smartphone 0:35:41.080 --> 0:35:43.760 for just five hundred dollars. 0:35:43.400 --> 0:35:48.560 And it's actually pretty good. Let's go to Marcel in Brooklyn. Marcel, 0:35:48.640 --> 0:35:49.359 you're on with Rich. 0:35:50.040 --> 0:35:54.279 Good afternoon, Rich. I'm so sorry about your city on 0:35:54.320 --> 0:35:58.560 the passing of Sam Rubin yesterday. Yeah, the prayers are 0:35:58.719 --> 0:36:04.160 with him and his family work at KTLA over the years. 0:36:04.239 --> 0:36:06.640 I've never seen Sam Ruben all in my life. When 0:36:06.640 --> 0:36:10.640 I was here in New York as well too. Thoughts 0:36:10.680 --> 0:36:14.799 and prayers, right, thanks for that, mister Sam Ruben. Now, 0:36:15.880 --> 0:36:19.320 mister demo, I have a question about my social media 0:36:19.400 --> 0:36:22.640 and their way to keep away from my hackers to 0:36:22.760 --> 0:36:29.000 protect me everything I can, even my Instagram and threads 0:36:29.880 --> 0:36:34.400 seriously activity the one thing is going to be controlled. 0:36:34.520 --> 0:36:38.920 No one's hacking and even and I have to say, 0:36:40.000 --> 0:36:44.440 I can tell you about my photos, my threads and everything, 0:36:44.480 --> 0:36:47.960 et ceterud to keep away from all of it from 0:36:48.000 --> 0:36:52.160 protecting themselves. So what can I do to keep away 0:36:52.200 --> 0:36:55.880 from hackers and even the return of my Instagram and 0:36:55.960 --> 0:37:01.839 threads from serious activity in not just one but it's 0:37:01.880 --> 0:37:05.920 gonna be a so much, so much of it, so 0:37:06.160 --> 0:37:12.640 use to FA and even the email as well before 0:37:13.920 --> 0:37:15.799 not going to be the activatest. So what could I 0:37:15.880 --> 0:37:19.040 do to keep away from hackers on my Instagram and threat? 0:37:19.160 --> 0:37:20.280 Okay, great question? 0:37:20.520 --> 0:37:24.640 And this is so number one, uh, the main way, 0:37:24.719 --> 0:37:26.960 even if you have well number one, you got to 0:37:27.000 --> 0:37:29.680 have two factor authentication. It sounds like you're aware of that, 0:37:29.760 --> 0:37:33.720 it sounds like you have perhaps enabled. 0:37:33.239 --> 0:37:34.480 That on these accounts. 0:37:34.520 --> 0:37:37.160 But the actual thing that a lot of the hackers 0:37:37.200 --> 0:37:40.920 get in number one, it's people reusing their passwords. So 0:37:41.200 --> 0:37:44.719 you may be using the same password for Instagram that 0:37:44.760 --> 0:37:47.600 you're using for some random website you signed up for 0:37:47.680 --> 0:37:51.120 a long time ago. That information was leaked out on 0:37:51.160 --> 0:37:53.520 the web due to a data breach, and now they're 0:37:53.560 --> 0:37:56.840 trying that information on Instagram. That's one way that hackers 0:37:56.880 --> 0:37:59.799 get in. Another way is they trick you, and so 0:37:59.840 --> 0:38:03.400 they may trick you into a notification comes up on 0:38:03.400 --> 0:38:06.480 your Instagram or your Facebook and it says, hey, you 0:38:06.560 --> 0:38:09.040 are out of line. You posted something that is not 0:38:09.320 --> 0:38:13.560 within the regulations of Facebook or Instagram. Please log in 0:38:13.600 --> 0:38:17.239 here and dispute that. And people go, what what did 0:38:17.239 --> 0:38:20.120 I post? And then they log in real quick, They 0:38:20.160 --> 0:38:24.279 capture your they capture your password when you log in, 0:38:24.760 --> 0:38:27.880 and then they log in on your behalf somewhere else. 0:38:28.480 --> 0:38:31.960 Now Instagram does have some built in safeguards. They will 0:38:32.000 --> 0:38:36.560 say are you sure you're logging in from some foreign 0:38:36.600 --> 0:38:40.080 country somewhere halfway across the world, and you say, what, no, 0:38:40.800 --> 0:38:42.799 And then that's one way that they may capture that, 0:38:42.880 --> 0:38:46.000 but it doesn't always work. So the best way to 0:38:46.040 --> 0:38:50.040 protect yourself is, like you mentioned, two factor authentication, but 0:38:50.160 --> 0:38:53.720 also being aware of this because if you're not aware 0:38:53.880 --> 0:38:55.879 that people are trying to get in twenty four to seven, 0:38:55.920 --> 0:38:59.400 you could have some issues. You got to turn on 0:38:59.400 --> 0:39:02.040 the two factor authentication. There are two ways of doing it. 0:39:02.600 --> 0:39:05.319 You can use an app or you can use a 0:39:05.360 --> 0:39:09.320 phone number. Now I personally think that the phone number 0:39:09.560 --> 0:39:11.280 is old school. 0:39:11.560 --> 0:39:13.520 You should be using an app. 0:39:13.600 --> 0:39:17.440 That is the recommended authentication method at this point. What 0:39:17.480 --> 0:39:20.279 you need to do is download an app. Some of 0:39:20.320 --> 0:39:25.320 the popular apps are called Duo Mobile. There's also Google Authenticator. 0:39:25.880 --> 0:39:30.279 Microsoft has an authentication app. A caller recommended an app 0:39:30.320 --> 0:39:35.560 called two fas dot com two fas dot com, so 0:39:35.600 --> 0:39:38.279 that's another way you could do it. But no matter what, 0:39:38.400 --> 0:39:40.560 you download one of these apps, you link it up 0:39:41.040 --> 0:39:42.719 with a one time kind of linkage. 0:39:43.160 --> 0:39:45.319 It's usually scanning a QR code. 0:39:45.080 --> 0:39:48.440 And then every time you want to log into Instagram, 0:39:49.000 --> 0:39:50.960 not every time you open the app, just every time 0:39:51.000 --> 0:39:53.120 you need to log in fresh, it will say, okay, 0:39:53.400 --> 0:39:54.400 we saw that you logged in. 0:39:54.480 --> 0:39:56.640 Now give us a code from that app. And the 0:39:56.719 --> 0:39:58.160 idea is that the. 0:39:58.520 --> 0:40:01.759 Bad people may have your password, but they don't have 0:40:01.880 --> 0:40:04.959 the app on your phone that's generating this what's called 0:40:05.000 --> 0:40:06.319 two factor authentication. 0:40:06.960 --> 0:40:08.279 So that is the best way to. 0:40:08.200 --> 0:40:13.040 Protect it, along with being aware that hackers are always 0:40:13.200 --> 0:40:16.000 trying to get into your account, and I'll tell you 0:40:16.040 --> 0:40:18.440 they prey upon our good nature. 0:40:18.600 --> 0:40:19.680 So, for instance, the. 0:40:19.600 --> 0:40:23.719 Other day, I got an actual notification from Instagram that 0:40:23.760 --> 0:40:26.799 said they took down one of my posts because it 0:40:26.960 --> 0:40:30.400 violated their terms of service. Now I've seen that a 0:40:30.480 --> 0:40:33.200 whole bunch of times, and usually it's a hacker trying 0:40:33.200 --> 0:40:37.080 to get my information, but this time it actually was real. 0:40:37.640 --> 0:40:43.520 It said, we removed your post that I posted September sixteenth, 0:40:43.640 --> 0:40:46.040 twenty twenty, and it was a little tiny image of 0:40:46.080 --> 0:40:46.480 a post. 0:40:46.520 --> 0:40:49.320 I couldn't tell what the post was. And I said, 0:40:49.440 --> 0:40:51.799 it said why, And I said why did you do this? 0:40:51.920 --> 0:40:55.160 And I said, we don't allow people to share nudity 0:40:55.520 --> 0:40:58.560 or sexual activity. I said, what, I wouldn't post that 0:40:58.600 --> 0:41:02.480 on my account, and examples of things we don't allow, 0:41:02.840 --> 0:41:04.879 and I'm not going to say what they are, but 0:41:04.960 --> 0:41:08.560 it's pretty specific what they sent me. And then it said, 0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:11.319 you have freedom of expression. We want you to share 0:41:11.360 --> 0:41:14.320 freely with others. We only remove things or restrict people 0:41:14.320 --> 0:41:18.440 to keep the community respectful and safe. And I said, well, respectfully, 0:41:18.520 --> 0:41:21.120 I would like a human to look this over because 0:41:21.320 --> 0:41:24.759 there's no way I posted something nude or sexual on 0:41:24.800 --> 0:41:28.040 my account, and it said, how did we make this decision? 0:41:28.239 --> 0:41:33.000 Our technology found out your content does not follow our guidelines. 0:41:33.040 --> 0:41:35.799 As a result, our technology took action. What does that 0:41:35.840 --> 0:41:41.080 tell me? AI was going through old posts. Somehow something 0:41:41.160 --> 0:41:44.919 in that post triggered their system to remove it. Now, 0:41:44.920 --> 0:41:47.200 I said, I dispute this, and I would like a 0:41:47.320 --> 0:41:49.600 human to look at it. And sure enough, a couple 0:41:49.640 --> 0:41:53.400 hours later, it said, Hi, mister Demiro, we found our 0:41:53.440 --> 0:41:57.400 technology made a mistake taking your post down. Thank you 0:41:57.480 --> 0:41:59.840 for taking the time to request or review and helping 0:41:59.880 --> 0:42:03.280 us improve our systems. Our priority is keeping the community 0:42:03.320 --> 0:42:07.160 safe and respectful. Sometimes we have to take precautions, and 0:42:07.239 --> 0:42:09.400 sure enough, my post is back up. I looked at 0:42:09.440 --> 0:42:11.719 the post once it was back up. It was me 0:42:11.960 --> 0:42:16.320 talking about the blood oxygen feature on the Apple Watch. 0:42:16.840 --> 0:42:22.000 Nothing in there was sexual or nudity. Let's go to 0:42:22.160 --> 0:42:26.080 Craig in Iowa. Craig, you're on with rich need going. 0:42:26.080 --> 0:42:29.360 I'm doing fantastic. What can I help you with today? 0:42:30.040 --> 0:42:36.920 Okay, I have a Champion dollars twenty four, the little one, 0:42:38.520 --> 0:42:43.160 you know, the nine hundred dollars one can I get 0:42:43.280 --> 0:42:47.520 AI on my own. I had to have been Mobo 0:42:47.680 --> 0:42:49.160 doing and what. 0:42:51.960 --> 0:42:55.160 Okay, I lost you there at the end. But you 0:42:55.239 --> 0:42:58.040 have the S twenty four. You said it was a 0:42:58.040 --> 0:43:00.000 little one, but you said it was nine hundred bucks, 0:43:00.000 --> 0:43:03.520 so's that's a good one. That's the there's three models 0:43:03.560 --> 0:43:05.759 of the S twenty four. You've got the S twenty four, 0:43:05.880 --> 0:43:08.120 the S twenty four Plus and the S twenty four Ultra. 0:43:08.520 --> 0:43:12.520 They all have Galaxy Ai built in. And this is 0:43:12.600 --> 0:43:17.399 a great question because it got me thinking, like, yeah, 0:43:17.440 --> 0:43:21.520 how do you find the Galaxy Ai features that Samsung 0:43:21.640 --> 0:43:24.680 is rolling out? I just mentioned earlier they rolled it 0:43:24.719 --> 0:43:26.839 out to the S twenty three a couple weeks ago. 0:43:26.880 --> 0:43:29.239 I mentioned that, and then today I mentioned that the 0:43:29.280 --> 0:43:32.000 S twenty two series is getting it. So all of 0:43:32.040 --> 0:43:35.560 these Samsung phones have it. How do you find it? Ready, Craig, 0:43:35.680 --> 0:43:38.920 I am going to tell you. Go into your settings 0:43:39.120 --> 0:43:42.200 on your Samsung device, and this is for all Samsung 0:43:42.280 --> 0:43:46.320 phones if you have Galaxy Ai. So go into Settings 0:43:46.640 --> 0:43:50.480 and then you tap Advanced Features. Okay, it might take 0:43:50.520 --> 0:43:52.720 you a second to find that, and then you tap 0:43:52.840 --> 0:43:57.200 Advanced Intelligence. And when you get there, you are going 0:43:57.280 --> 0:44:01.120 to see you've got a whole list of AI features 0:44:01.160 --> 0:44:04.520 and they explain each feature and you can tap to 0:44:04.600 --> 0:44:06.880 learn more about it and see where to find it. 0:44:07.000 --> 0:44:09.800 So what are these features? I mentioned them earlier. 0:44:10.320 --> 0:44:14.000 On the phone app, you get real time translation during 0:44:14.080 --> 0:44:17.000 voice calls. You can call someone in Tokyo. They can 0:44:17.040 --> 0:44:21.239 speak Japanese and it will translate on your screen. Samsung Keyboard, 0:44:21.680 --> 0:44:25.360 you can get spelling and grammar suggestions and translate messages, 0:44:26.040 --> 0:44:31.200 interpreter live translation of spoken conversations available as voice or text. 0:44:31.600 --> 0:44:35.840 In Samsung Notes, you can automatically summarize, correct, translate, and 0:44:35.880 --> 0:44:39.319 generate covers for your notes. The voice recorder you can 0:44:39.360 --> 0:44:44.960 transform recordings into text, transcripts and summaries, and Samsung Internet 0:44:45.000 --> 0:44:47.840 will give you simple summaries of web page text along 0:44:47.880 --> 0:44:51.480 with full translations. And don't forget about the photo editor. 0:44:51.680 --> 0:44:56.160 You can reimagine photos by moving, removing or resizing people 0:44:56.239 --> 0:45:00.480 and objects, and even generating new backgrounds. So again that 0:45:00.600 --> 0:45:04.360 is all built into your phone. Go into Settings Advanced Features, 0:45:04.520 --> 0:45:08.600 Advanced Intelligence, and that will give you all of those 0:45:08.640 --> 0:45:11.560 features and tell you how to find them. Great question, 0:45:11.760 --> 0:45:14.439 Craig in Iowa. Thanks for the call today. Eight eight 0:45:14.440 --> 0:45:17.640 eight rich one Oh one eight eight eight seven four 0:45:17.719 --> 0:45:19.239 to two four one zero one. 0:45:19.320 --> 0:45:19.839 Coming up. 0:45:20.440 --> 0:45:22.759 I'll tell you why T Mobile and Verizon want to 0:45:22.760 --> 0:45:26.240 split up US Cellular and how Google has a brand 0:45:26.320 --> 0:45:30.680 new phone for five hundred dollars and it's a good one. 0:45:31.080 --> 0:45:34.720 The website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. 0:45:34.960 --> 0:45:38.200 My name is rich Dumiro. You are listening to Rich 0:45:38.280 --> 0:45:45.320 on Tech. Let's go to Brad in West Los Angeles. Brad, 0:45:45.440 --> 0:45:46.280 Welcome to the show. 0:45:47.239 --> 0:45:47.719 Hi, Rich. 0:45:48.480 --> 0:45:51.239 So, my wife's traveling to Spain in France in the 0:45:51.280 --> 0:45:55.759 next month with an iPhone fifteen plus pro sorry pro? 0:45:56.200 --> 0:45:59.480 Is there anything she needs to do technology wise or 0:46:01.040 --> 0:46:05.840 just keep everything running smoothly with text and email whatever 0:46:05.880 --> 0:46:06.879 she needs to do out there? 0:46:07.360 --> 0:46:09.960 What service does she have? What cell phone service? 0:46:11.000 --> 0:46:14.719 Okay, So the way the way Verizon works is there's 0:46:14.760 --> 0:46:16.480 really nothing you need to do. I mean, you may 0:46:16.640 --> 0:46:18.719 you may need to turn on roaming in the settings, 0:46:19.960 --> 0:46:23.239 But the way Verizon works is that they charge you 0:46:23.320 --> 0:46:27.320 ten dollars a day for the service when you're overseas. Now, 0:46:28.239 --> 0:46:30.600 is she on like an unlimited plan or what type 0:46:30.600 --> 0:46:31.359 of plan is she on? 0:46:31.920 --> 0:46:32.200 Yeah? 0:46:33.080 --> 0:46:35.839 Okay, So the good news about that is that you 0:46:35.920 --> 0:46:40.400 can if you're linked into the the Verizon app, you 0:46:40.440 --> 0:46:43.680 can go online and see how many days you get free. 0:46:44.160 --> 0:46:48.359 So typically it all depends on the plan. But the 0:46:48.360 --> 0:46:51.520 way the Verizon plans work is sometimes you will get 0:46:51.600 --> 0:46:55.600 one day of roaming free for every month that you're 0:46:55.600 --> 0:46:58.480 a subscriber. Some plans have more, some plans have less. 0:46:58.800 --> 0:47:01.000 But the last time I checked, I had like fourteen 0:47:01.120 --> 0:47:04.960 days for my last trip of free roaming for ten 0:47:05.000 --> 0:47:05.680 dollars a day. 0:47:05.800 --> 0:47:08.360 So I mean, that's how much the value was. 0:47:08.400 --> 0:47:11.200 That's not how much it costs me, so the first 0:47:11.280 --> 0:47:13.640 So this is my recommendation. What I would do is 0:47:14.239 --> 0:47:17.960 either call Verizon or if you're logged linked into the app, 0:47:18.120 --> 0:47:20.160 just go on the app and kind of look around 0:47:20.200 --> 0:47:23.120 a little bit for the international section, and it should 0:47:23.160 --> 0:47:28.120 tell you how many days of their Verizon what do 0:47:28.160 --> 0:47:31.480 they call it international, like day pass or something. So 0:47:31.920 --> 0:47:34.120 when you go there, it'll tell you, like, hey, a 0:47:34.200 --> 0:47:36.480 travel pass, that's what they call it. So it'll say 0:47:36.520 --> 0:47:38.640 you have ten travel pass days, and depending on how 0:47:38.640 --> 0:47:42.799 many days she's going, that may cover it, or you 0:47:42.840 --> 0:47:44.920 can just pay the ten dollars a day when she 0:47:45.000 --> 0:47:46.840 gets over there. There's nothing really that you have to 0:47:46.880 --> 0:47:49.680 do if you're going for the first time. I would 0:47:49.719 --> 0:47:51.800 call Verizon and just say, hey, I'm going to be traveling. 0:47:51.840 --> 0:47:53.439 I just want to be sure that this is going 0:47:53.480 --> 0:47:57.160 to activate on my account. There's no block or anything 0:47:57.200 --> 0:48:01.440 on that travel pass. Otherwise, you can get an eSIM. 0:48:01.760 --> 0:48:04.680 It's a little bit more complicated, but that's another thing 0:48:04.719 --> 0:48:07.640 you can do, is you can download an eSIM from 0:48:07.680 --> 0:48:11.120 a company like Aralow, install that on her phone, and 0:48:11.120 --> 0:48:13.400 then you can turn off the Verizon service or go 0:48:13.480 --> 0:48:16.160 to Wi Fi only. The other thing I would do 0:48:16.320 --> 0:48:18.799 is make sure that you have Wi Fi calling and 0:48:18.880 --> 0:48:22.440 texting turned on before you leave. So make sure that 0:48:22.440 --> 0:48:24.720 that's turned on, and that way most of her calling 0:48:24.719 --> 0:48:27.239 and texting will route through Wi Fi when she's over there. 0:48:29.080 --> 0:48:32.280 And I mentioned that you should turn on roaming. I 0:48:32.360 --> 0:48:33.040 think that. 0:48:33.280 --> 0:48:36.960 It's probably actually better to It sort of depends, like 0:48:37.000 --> 0:48:38.960 I'm trying to remember the last time I went international 0:48:39.000 --> 0:48:41.319 if I had roaming on or off. Because you don't 0:48:41.360 --> 0:48:44.279 want to roam onto a different network and then get 0:48:44.360 --> 0:48:47.880 charged from Verizon for roaming on that network. 0:48:47.960 --> 0:48:51.680 So let me see here. I'm going into my settings as. 0:48:51.480 --> 0:48:57.239 We speak, and let's see phone and let's see here, 0:48:57.280 --> 0:49:00.680 where am I looking cellular there we go, so cellular 0:49:00.800 --> 0:49:03.319 data you can go in there, and yeah, I would, 0:49:03.400 --> 0:49:05.719 I would just check the roaming situation. I would go 0:49:05.800 --> 0:49:09.719 on just Google like Verizon roaming on or off, but 0:49:10.120 --> 0:49:12.799 for the travel past. But I think you want that 0:49:12.920 --> 0:49:15.399 turned off as far as I remember, because that way 0:49:15.400 --> 0:49:18.200 you're not roaming on different networks when you get there. 0:49:18.520 --> 0:49:22.480 But I will tell you the roaming and the international 0:49:22.520 --> 0:49:26.480 has gotten a lot easier in recent years. It's almost 0:49:26.520 --> 0:49:29.320 seamless when you get to when she lands wherever she lands, 0:49:29.320 --> 0:49:32.000 when she turns on her phone, it'll say welcome to 0:49:32.320 --> 0:49:35.560 you know, whatever country you're in, this is Verizon, and 0:49:36.120 --> 0:49:38.240 you know you're all good to go, so good question. 0:49:39.239 --> 0:49:40.200 It's it's a little. 0:49:40.080 --> 0:49:44.319 Daunting because we all remember the nineties and the two 0:49:44.360 --> 0:49:46.799 thousands where you would go to a different country and 0:49:46.840 --> 0:49:50.759 you'd come back with a giant surprise bill two months later. 0:49:51.280 --> 0:49:54.440 It happened to me in China once I was I'm 0:49:54.440 --> 0:49:58.160 not kidding. I did everything right except I forgot to 0:49:58.200 --> 0:50:02.000 turn off my dropbox up loloft codes and it only 0:50:02.080 --> 0:50:03.880 uploaded like thirty six megabytes. 0:50:04.080 --> 0:50:06.560 But I'm not kidding. The bill was so expensive. 0:50:07.440 --> 0:50:10.279 I think I called at and T At the time, 0:50:10.360 --> 0:50:12.879 it was my carrier, and I just was like, there's 0:50:12.920 --> 0:50:14.920 no way I'm paying this, Like, you have to figure 0:50:14.920 --> 0:50:19.040 out a way, and they actually backdated my international plan 0:50:19.680 --> 0:50:22.480 and it worked pretty well. So things have gotten a 0:50:22.520 --> 0:50:27.680 lot better, all right. Speaking of cellular carriers, T Mobile 0:50:27.719 --> 0:50:30.760 and Verizon are in talks to split up US Cellular. 0:50:31.360 --> 0:50:33.680 According to the Wall Street Journal, T Mobiles close to 0:50:33.760 --> 0:50:36.399 a two billion dollar deal to acquire some of US 0:50:36.440 --> 0:50:41.319 Cellular's operations and wireless spectrum. Verizon also in discussions for 0:50:41.360 --> 0:50:43.600 a separate transaction that may or may. 0:50:43.600 --> 0:50:47.080 Not happen, they says. They say US Cellular. 0:50:46.680 --> 0:50:50.720 Has over four million customers, mostly rural customers in twenty 0:50:50.719 --> 0:50:54.960 one states from Oregon to North Carolina. The company has 0:50:55.000 --> 0:50:58.520 four thousand cellular towers, and we have seen a lot 0:50:58.560 --> 0:51:01.239 of consolidation in the United States. I think that's why 0:51:01.280 --> 0:51:03.399 one company is probably not going to take this over. 0:51:04.080 --> 0:51:05.920 I think they're going to split it up between the two. 0:51:07.200 --> 0:51:10.480 Kind of sad to see that final company go, but 0:51:10.640 --> 0:51:12.520 it's not a done deal just yet. But it makes 0:51:12.520 --> 0:51:15.760 a lot of sense. We will have three major carriers 0:51:15.800 --> 0:51:20.359 in the US that will pretty much control everything, even 0:51:20.400 --> 0:51:23.239 the smaller mv and os, the smaller carriers like the 0:51:23.239 --> 0:51:26.440 Mint mobiles and all these companies, they're getting gobbled up 0:51:26.960 --> 0:51:29.160 by the big companies as well. We just saw that happen. 0:51:29.200 --> 0:51:33.040 T Mobile bought Mint Mobile. All right, coming up, speaking 0:51:33.120 --> 0:51:37.080 of wireless carriers, Eli Blumenthal of cnet is going to join. 0:51:37.160 --> 0:51:37.920 He's going to talk. 0:51:37.760 --> 0:51:41.400 About how your wireless carrier is spying on you and 0:51:41.440 --> 0:51:42.520 what you can do about it. 0:51:42.640 --> 0:51:44.640 You are listening to Rich on Tech. 0:51:49.360 --> 0:51:51.600 We'll get back to the phone lines in just a moment. 0:51:51.719 --> 0:51:55.720 But joining me now is Eli Blumenthal, senior editor at cnet. 0:51:56.160 --> 0:51:59.080 He covers all things wireless. Eli, welcome to the show. 0:52:00.000 --> 0:52:00.799 Thanks for having me. 0:52:01.200 --> 0:52:04.840 So your latest article got my attention. It's called data privacy, 0:52:04.960 --> 0:52:07.640 All the ways your cell phone carrier tracks you and 0:52:07.719 --> 0:52:10.440 how to stop it. You say that data tracking in 0:52:10.480 --> 0:52:14.279 twenty twenty four seems inevitable, So as a consumer, do 0:52:14.320 --> 0:52:18.279 we have any sort of hope of maintaining privacy in 0:52:18.320 --> 0:52:19.480 this digital age? 0:52:20.440 --> 0:52:22.959 We do, And that's some little bit of good news 0:52:22.960 --> 0:52:26.160 there is that as much as it seems inevitable, these 0:52:26.280 --> 0:52:29.560 companies do give you at least to varying degrees and 0:52:29.680 --> 0:52:33.240 ability to control what data they're collecting from you, and 0:52:33.320 --> 0:52:34.960 what you can turn on and turn off. 0:52:36.080 --> 0:52:38.080 The main thing is that a lot of people probably 0:52:38.120 --> 0:52:40.799 don't go in and change those settings. Many of them 0:52:40.800 --> 0:52:45.440 are on by default. And I'm guessing that the reason 0:52:45.480 --> 0:52:47.520 you wrote this article is because of this new thing 0:52:47.600 --> 0:52:52.920 T Mobile rolled out called profiling and automated decisions. Explain 0:52:53.000 --> 0:52:53.720 what that means. 0:52:54.880 --> 0:52:57.920 Yeah, so T Mobile basically over the last month or 0:52:57.960 --> 0:53:02.560 so has started to put this new pool in there 0:53:02.760 --> 0:53:05.920 and that they're not necessarily using today, but that they 0:53:05.960 --> 0:53:09.120 could use in the future to basically create profiles about 0:53:09.160 --> 0:53:13.440 you and make some actions based off of that profile. 0:53:14.040 --> 0:53:16.360 I was picked up by Reddit users and a website 0:53:16.360 --> 0:53:19.480 called the Mobile Report, and it got me wondering what 0:53:19.640 --> 0:53:23.359 other things are being tracked by these carriers and what 0:53:23.440 --> 0:53:26.279 can you do to turn them off? And looking at 0:53:26.280 --> 0:53:28.520 the major carriers at and T, Verizon and T Mobile, 0:53:29.000 --> 0:53:32.880 you could pretty easily see that you have a host 0:53:32.920 --> 0:53:35.920 of different things that they're collecting, and thankfully a host 0:53:35.960 --> 0:53:38.520 of different things that you can turn off pretty easily 0:53:38.960 --> 0:53:41.040 just by going into your account settings. 0:53:42.239 --> 0:53:46.840 So, first off, explain kind of like what these internet 0:53:46.880 --> 0:53:49.400 service providers, for a lack of a better term, are 0:53:49.480 --> 0:53:51.520 collecting and what they're able to see. I mean, even 0:53:51.520 --> 0:53:55.400 if you're using something like in incognito window or a VPN, 0:53:55.480 --> 0:53:57.800 will that protect you from what they see? 0:53:59.480 --> 0:54:02.680 It touched on some aspects of it. But because these 0:54:02.680 --> 0:54:06.239 are providers, they have access to the actual pipe. It's 0:54:06.239 --> 0:54:10.680 not just looking at one particular app or one particular browser. 0:54:11.360 --> 0:54:14.640 It's the actual connection itself. So sometimes this will be 0:54:15.400 --> 0:54:18.520 information like demographic data that they know about you because 0:54:18.560 --> 0:54:20.520 you have an account with them. You gave them your age, 0:54:20.760 --> 0:54:24.280 you gave them your location. It knows your zip code 0:54:24.280 --> 0:54:26.880 and knows a whole host of information just from regular 0:54:27.360 --> 0:54:30.759 day to day business aspects, and it puts that into 0:54:30.800 --> 0:54:33.879 a profile. Other times they could look at, you know, 0:54:34.280 --> 0:54:38.920 certain activities you're using their networks for if you're going 0:54:38.960 --> 0:54:42.600 to say, websites for news, or you're watching a lot 0:54:42.640 --> 0:54:46.600 of particular type of content. They're not necessarily capturing exactly 0:54:46.640 --> 0:54:49.760 what you're doing, but they can make general assumptions because 0:54:49.760 --> 0:54:52.480 you're going to YouTube dot com or you're going to 0:54:52.520 --> 0:54:56.640 Netflix dot com. And having the ability in some of 0:54:56.719 --> 0:54:59.840 these settings, you can actually provide a little bit of 0:54:59.880 --> 0:55:02.840 a anonymity or take back some of that control. 0:55:03.960 --> 0:55:07.600 So you've got three major carriers, AT and T, T Mobile, Verizon. 0:55:08.400 --> 0:55:11.480 Are there any settings that you think people should change 0:55:11.760 --> 0:55:14.600 immediately or is it more of a preference thing. 0:55:16.200 --> 0:55:18.640 Almost all of these I think you should go and 0:55:18.640 --> 0:55:21.600 and turn off. You're not really gaining much data there. 0:55:21.880 --> 0:55:23.960 The biggest thing that will change is that the ads 0:55:24.680 --> 0:55:27.719 that these companies show you won't be as personalized. And 0:55:27.760 --> 0:55:30.360 I don't really know of anybody maybe maybe rich you 0:55:30.400 --> 0:55:33.319 know of folks who like seeing more personalized ads. I 0:55:33.400 --> 0:55:36.360 personally don't care for them. Most people I speak to 0:55:36.480 --> 0:55:38.799 don't particularly care for them and would rather not have 0:55:38.880 --> 0:55:43.120 their data being used the market of other services. That said, 0:55:43.280 --> 0:55:46.360 some of these features should be left on, particularly something 0:55:46.400 --> 0:55:50.719 called identity verification. AT ANDT and Verizon both have distinct 0:55:50.760 --> 0:55:53.799 tabs that explain what this is, and it basically helps 0:55:53.840 --> 0:55:57.160 prevent fraud, whether it's from a bank or for your account. 0:55:57.600 --> 0:56:02.280 Leave that one on. That's actually pretty useful and pretty valuable. 0:56:03.320 --> 0:56:05.520 And of course I'll link up the article, the CET 0:56:05.640 --> 0:56:09.080 article that explains you go through in the article exactly 0:56:09.480 --> 0:56:12.279 what to change and how to change it once you 0:56:12.360 --> 0:56:14.719 do this. Is there a way to fully opt out 0:56:14.760 --> 0:56:17.640 of this or is there still some information that the 0:56:17.719 --> 0:56:19.040 carriers collect. 0:56:20.400 --> 0:56:22.920 You can ever fully opt out. As I mentioned before, 0:56:23.160 --> 0:56:27.160 they're still going to create profiles, but this is taking 0:56:27.160 --> 0:56:30.759 a little bit of that control back and hopefully that 0:56:30.800 --> 0:56:32.920 will allow you to own a little more of your 0:56:32.960 --> 0:56:36.680 digital life in a way that these companies won't necessarily market. 0:56:36.680 --> 0:56:38.640 You're still going to see ads that doesn't go away. 0:56:39.200 --> 0:56:42.040 They're still going to be able to get information from 0:56:42.120 --> 0:56:45.520 any number of other sources that they collect from, whether 0:56:45.560 --> 0:56:50.360 it's other websites or services or partners. So these companies 0:56:50.360 --> 0:56:52.080 still know a lot about you. They are still going 0:56:52.160 --> 0:56:55.200 to know a lot about you, but maybe this gets 0:56:55.239 --> 0:56:57.759 you a little bit more peace of mind. 0:56:58.400 --> 0:57:01.960 Do you think the wireless carriers are enough to educate 0:57:02.040 --> 0:57:05.640 and inform consumers about what they're doing and what they're collecting. 0:57:06.160 --> 0:57:08.800 I'm assuming most of the time it's in an email 0:57:08.840 --> 0:57:12.319 buried at the bottom, or a text message, or the 0:57:12.440 --> 0:57:14.919 terms of service, or do they tell us. 0:57:16.280 --> 0:57:18.320 It would be great if they were more proactive about this. 0:57:18.840 --> 0:57:20.840 As you mentioned, it's in the terms of service or 0:57:20.880 --> 0:57:24.360 a privacy policy or buried somewhere. Maybe you'll get an email, 0:57:24.680 --> 0:57:26.800 but you probably delete that email pretty quickly, or you 0:57:26.800 --> 0:57:29.240 get a notification on your phone, swipe it away just 0:57:29.280 --> 0:57:31.680 as fast as it comes in, if you even see 0:57:31.680 --> 0:57:35.360 it at all. It would be great if companies were 0:57:35.360 --> 0:57:37.680 more proactive, and that goes not just rewireless carriers, but 0:57:37.800 --> 0:57:40.840 just our general providers that we use for everything from 0:57:40.880 --> 0:57:47.240 social media to browsing to content consumption. It's always better 0:57:47.320 --> 0:57:49.840 to have people be more active telling you what they're 0:57:49.880 --> 0:57:53.640 doing with your data. But carriers aren't alone, and it 0:57:53.680 --> 0:57:56.520 is nice to have, at least for the main carriers 0:57:56.520 --> 0:57:59.440 and their main plans. I should note that people reach 0:57:59.480 --> 0:58:02.360 out to me spensus article one life. I focus primarily 0:58:02.440 --> 0:58:04.680 on the main plans offered by AT and T Rise 0:58:04.720 --> 0:58:06.720 and that T Mobile. Obviously, there are a lot of 0:58:06.760 --> 0:58:10.479 other smaller providers or prepaid providers, and some of those 0:58:10.520 --> 0:58:13.640 carriers don't give you that much flexibility or control on 0:58:13.680 --> 0:58:19.120 your privacy settings, so your mileage will vary. And it's 0:58:19.120 --> 0:58:21.920 certainly nice though that the main providers on their main 0:58:21.960 --> 0:58:24.360 plans allow you to have this level of control. 0:58:25.200 --> 0:58:27.440 So, if you're not very tech savvy, is there a 0:58:27.480 --> 0:58:30.480 particular setting you think that you know, the simplest thing 0:58:30.520 --> 0:58:32.480 you can do, the simplest change you can make for 0:58:32.520 --> 0:58:34.800 the average person is or one thing that you'd recommend 0:58:34.840 --> 0:58:35.040 to do. 0:58:35.720 --> 0:58:38.640 I would recommend honestly, since they're all generally bunched together 0:58:38.840 --> 0:58:41.480 just logging in. If you log in and look at it, 0:58:41.480 --> 0:58:44.840 it's not blanketed under one particular setting. It's not just 0:58:44.960 --> 0:58:48.080 one on off switch. It's usually a few, as I 0:58:48.120 --> 0:58:51.520 explained in the article, So there's not like a catch 0:58:51.520 --> 0:58:54.240 all that could say turn this one off and you're good. 0:58:55.040 --> 0:58:57.000 But once you log in you can very quickly see 0:58:57.080 --> 0:59:00.480 exactly what's going on and make those decisions. 0:59:01.040 --> 0:59:04.080 Now, Eli, I know you cover the big wireless carriers 0:59:04.080 --> 0:59:08.120 pretty closely. The plans are always changing, the services are 0:59:08.160 --> 0:59:13.560 always evolving, the pricing. Is there any difference between the 0:59:13.600 --> 0:59:15.600 big three at this point? Do you feel like there's 0:59:15.600 --> 0:59:18.160 a clear front runner when it comes to what they 0:59:18.200 --> 0:59:20.880 offer at a particular price or is it all just 0:59:20.960 --> 0:59:23.800 kind of what works for you and what system you're 0:59:23.800 --> 0:59:24.320 already on. 0:59:25.800 --> 0:59:27.800 It's a lot of what works for you. The differences 0:59:28.000 --> 0:59:30.800 between the big three providers AT and T, Verizon and 0:59:30.840 --> 0:59:34.800 T Mobile is honestly, for most people in most places, 0:59:34.800 --> 0:59:38.920 probably not that large. But what works for you and 0:59:38.960 --> 0:59:40.840 Los Angeles and me and New York may not work 0:59:40.880 --> 0:59:43.720 for one of your viewers in a more rural area, 0:59:43.760 --> 0:59:46.840 for example. The benefit there is, especially with the rise 0:59:46.880 --> 0:59:50.960 of virtual sin cards, is you can now with an 0:59:51.000 --> 0:59:55.240 unlocked phone pretty easily pessed out Verizon or AT and 0:59:55.280 --> 0:59:59.200 T or T Mobile for anywhere between two weeks to 0:59:59.240 --> 1:00:02.080 a month, I think T mobiles case three months, and 1:00:02.160 --> 1:00:05.720 see how that data performs for you where you live. 1:00:06.280 --> 1:00:09.600 So I've had friends who were debating switching from Verizon 1:00:09.640 --> 1:00:13.000 to T Mobile. They travel in an area where they 1:00:13.040 --> 1:00:15.000 don't always get It's on an interstate, they don't always 1:00:15.040 --> 1:00:17.040 get good service, and they're worried if they go to 1:00:17.080 --> 1:00:20.320 T Mobile, would they lose service, would their experience be 1:00:20.360 --> 1:00:22.800 that much worse? They tried this thing. After a couple 1:00:22.800 --> 1:00:25.520 of months, they still kept their Verizon number, so text 1:00:25.560 --> 1:00:28.360 called everything was still coming through, but they were able 1:00:28.400 --> 1:00:31.560 to without giving a credit card, without adding anything or 1:00:31.600 --> 1:00:34.400 changing too much on their phone, download this T Mobile 1:00:34.440 --> 1:00:38.360 trial which T Mobile offers through their AT and tried 1:00:38.360 --> 1:00:40.920 it out. They were happy with it, said some money 1:00:41.120 --> 1:00:41.760 made the switch. 1:00:42.160 --> 1:00:45.280 Eli Blumenthal, senior editor at CNAT what's the best way 1:00:45.280 --> 1:00:45.920 for folks. 1:00:45.760 --> 1:00:49.360 To follow you? I'm available on x or Twitter at 1:00:49.400 --> 1:00:52.400 Eli Blumenthal and of course dot com. 1:00:52.480 --> 1:00:55.080 I'll link up the article data privacy, all the ways 1:00:55.080 --> 1:00:57.360 your cell phone carrier tracks you and how to stop 1:00:57.360 --> 1:00:59.640 it on my website. Just go to rich on Tech 1:01:00.240 --> 1:01:03.200 TV for the link. Eli, thanks for joining me, thanks 1:01:03.200 --> 1:01:05.560 for having me or rich on Tech coming your way 1:01:05.880 --> 1:01:08.320 right after this. Give me a call triple eight Rich 1:01:08.360 --> 1:01:11.800 one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four two 1:01:11.840 --> 1:01:19.760 four one zero one. Let's go to another rich Rich 1:01:19.880 --> 1:01:21.680 in Colorado Springs. 1:01:21.800 --> 1:01:22.640 Welcome to the show. 1:01:23.480 --> 1:01:27.400 Thank you. Two questions for you. I am set up 1:01:27.480 --> 1:01:32.320 for two factor authentication on my I fourteen, but most 1:01:32.360 --> 1:01:36.280 of the time when I started and then it says, okay, 1:01:36.280 --> 1:01:39.480 we're gonna send you a message back, you know, for 1:01:39.600 --> 1:01:42.720 the second factor, I never get anything. 1:01:44.280 --> 1:01:49.240 It depends on the service. So sometimes that number that 1:01:49.320 --> 1:01:52.880 is sending from could be blocked. Are using a standard 1:01:52.880 --> 1:01:55.520 phone number or a like a Google Voice. 1:01:55.320 --> 1:01:56.920 Or something regular? 1:01:57.560 --> 1:01:57.920 Okay? 1:01:58.560 --> 1:01:58.800 Uh? 1:01:58.840 --> 1:02:00.880 And is it with a particular service or is it 1:02:00.920 --> 1:02:02.120 with all services? 1:02:02.560 --> 1:02:08.720 No, I've noticed that it's pretty much everybody. Once in 1:02:08.760 --> 1:02:12.120 a while it'll work right, but usually it doesn't. 1:02:12.920 --> 1:02:13.440 Interesting. 1:02:14.120 --> 1:02:16.600 I would talk to your carrier and see if there's 1:02:16.640 --> 1:02:21.000 any sort of block on texts, because those should be 1:02:21.040 --> 1:02:25.400 coming through I know onmine I have issues with just one, 1:02:25.560 --> 1:02:28.480 but it's only through Google Voice, not through my standard line, 1:02:28.600 --> 1:02:31.880 so that shouldn't be happening on a standard phone line. 1:02:31.920 --> 1:02:33.920 I would also the only other thing I would look 1:02:33.960 --> 1:02:38.640 into is sometimes on your iPhone there's two different message banks, 1:02:39.160 --> 1:02:41.960 and you could go into your settings and look for 1:02:42.120 --> 1:02:46.800 a section called unknown senders, and the verification codes could 1:02:46.800 --> 1:02:49.360 be in there, because that's where all mine live, and 1:02:49.400 --> 1:02:50.280 there's a lot of them. 1:02:50.320 --> 1:02:53.640 Scrolling down. I've got tons. What's the second question. 1:02:54.880 --> 1:02:58.440 How do I know if I should get a vp Internet? 1:02:58.840 --> 1:02:59.040 Oh? 1:02:59.160 --> 1:02:59.760 Good question. 1:03:00.440 --> 1:03:05.720 So VPNs are very heavily advertised and they're great for 1:03:05.800 --> 1:03:11.760 protecting privacy, but in average you don't necessarily need one 1:03:11.840 --> 1:03:14.120 all the time. Now, there are some reasons why you'd 1:03:14.120 --> 1:03:17.440 want a VPN. Number one my rule of thumb is 1:03:17.480 --> 1:03:20.000 to use a VPN if you want the most sort 1:03:20.040 --> 1:03:23.040 of protection for what you're browsing, Like if you just 1:03:23.120 --> 1:03:26.840 want to not deal with any company knowing where you're going, 1:03:26.920 --> 1:03:30.400 what you're looking at, what you're doing, a VPN could 1:03:30.440 --> 1:03:31.800 be a good way to do that. Now, you have 1:03:31.880 --> 1:03:34.720 to also understand the quality of the VPN. There are 1:03:34.800 --> 1:03:38.360 many many different VPNs out there. You typically want one 1:03:38.360 --> 1:03:41.840 that's a no log VPN. And I did a segment 1:03:42.920 --> 1:03:45.680 on VPNs and we had an expert that talked a 1:03:45.680 --> 1:03:48.840 lot about this stuff. And by the way, VPN stands 1:03:48.840 --> 1:03:52.600 for virtual Private network. So what it's doing is it's 1:03:52.640 --> 1:03:57.560 creating a little tunnel that your data is. Imagine a 1:03:57.600 --> 1:04:01.480 tunnel between your computer and the website that you're visiting. 1:04:01.520 --> 1:04:04.160 So it's a little tunnel that is private, and nobody 1:04:04.160 --> 1:04:06.480 can peer into that tunnel and see what you're doing. 1:04:07.480 --> 1:04:09.840 So the reason I would recommend a VPN is if 1:04:09.840 --> 1:04:12.760 you want to access things that you can't typically access 1:04:12.880 --> 1:04:15.240 in the place you are. So for instance, when I 1:04:15.280 --> 1:04:19.240 was in China, I couldn't access various social media networks, 1:04:19.240 --> 1:04:22.440 so I used a VPN to get around that. The 1:04:22.480 --> 1:04:24.360 other time you want to use a VPN is when 1:04:24.400 --> 1:04:27.360 you are on public Wi Fi and you want to 1:04:27.400 --> 1:04:30.840 protect what you're doing. Now, for most websites, I would 1:04:30.880 --> 1:04:33.280 say a majority of websites, that is not necessary. 1:04:33.320 --> 1:04:35.480 But if you are checking your. 1:04:37.080 --> 1:04:40.520 Your bank account, something like that, something that's very sensitive, 1:04:41.040 --> 1:04:43.560 then you might want to use a VPN in that aspect. 1:04:44.280 --> 1:04:47.760 But my recommendation is if you are on your smartphone. 1:04:48.280 --> 1:04:50.240 Let's say you're at a hotel, you're on your smartphone 1:04:50.280 --> 1:04:52.880 and you need to check your bank account. Instead of 1:04:52.920 --> 1:04:55.040 being on the Wi Fi at that hotel, turn off 1:04:55.080 --> 1:04:58.320 the Wi Fi and use your cellular connection and that 1:04:58.360 --> 1:05:02.280 will be much more private than the Wi Fi connection 1:05:02.400 --> 1:05:05.640 at the hotel. But in general, the web has gotten 1:05:05.640 --> 1:05:08.480 a lot better about privacy, and the Web's gotten a 1:05:08.480 --> 1:05:14.840 lot better about secure websites. So in general, it just 1:05:14.880 --> 1:05:19.160 really depends. It's more people just want VPNs to feel 1:05:19.160 --> 1:05:21.840 like they're being protected, and it's not a bad idea. 1:05:21.920 --> 1:05:24.400 Like I've used one in the past, and I have one. 1:05:25.320 --> 1:05:26.840 I just use it, you know, at the times when 1:05:26.840 --> 1:05:29.880 I think I need to use it. And also the 1:05:29.880 --> 1:05:33.800 other thing about VPNs is you can connect using different profiles, 1:05:33.800 --> 1:05:35.920 so if you want to. For instance, I was testing, 1:05:36.080 --> 1:05:40.120 someone said that on travel websites in Ireland they have 1:05:40.200 --> 1:05:43.760 to display the total including tax and everything, all the 1:05:43.800 --> 1:05:47.080 fees up front versus at the end when you get 1:05:47.080 --> 1:05:48.920 to that final screen. So I was like, oh, that's interesting, 1:05:49.040 --> 1:05:51.680 let me try that out, and so I fired up 1:05:51.680 --> 1:05:54.440 a VPN. I said I was in Ireland using the 1:05:54.480 --> 1:05:57.880 VPN because you can change your location and you know, 1:05:57.880 --> 1:06:00.360 I checked out the website, the travel website, and sure 1:06:00.440 --> 1:06:04.000 enough everything was added up at the beginning. So Rich, 1:06:04.120 --> 1:06:07.920 those are my suggestions for the UH the use of 1:06:07.960 --> 1:06:11.240 a VPN. But I would also check. I will link 1:06:11.320 --> 1:06:15.040 up an article that I did about the top VPNs. 1:06:15.560 --> 1:06:18.280 Let me just tell you what the the main VPNs. 1:06:18.280 --> 1:06:20.880 Oh yeah, there's a lot of good information here. Because 1:06:20.920 --> 1:06:22.760 the downside of a VPN is it could slow down 1:06:22.800 --> 1:06:26.280 your connection. So you want one that supports the WireGuard protocol. 1:06:28.240 --> 1:06:30.200 Look for one that works on all your devices. I 1:06:30.240 --> 1:06:32.880 would not use a free VPN. They're typically not very good. 1:06:33.560 --> 1:06:37.400 And the article also goes through a couple of recommendations 1:06:37.680 --> 1:06:42.120 that this expert I talked to recommended for good VPNs, and. 1:06:42.080 --> 1:06:43.400 I will put that on the website. 1:06:43.520 --> 1:06:47.680 Rich on tech dot tv and just click the light 1:06:47.720 --> 1:06:49.960 bulb and that will bring you right to the show notes. 1:06:51.400 --> 1:06:53.960 Let's go to UH. Let's go Let's go to Linda 1:06:54.400 --> 1:06:56.280 in Burbank. Linda, you're on with Rich. 1:06:57.280 --> 1:07:02.080 Hey, I heard you mention how ag int Verizon. I 1:07:02.160 --> 1:07:04.280 forget the name of the other one. You know, I'll 1:07:04.280 --> 1:07:07.080 just say like a dictory, Yeah, are going to you 1:07:07.120 --> 1:07:09.720 are going to eat up all the other cell phone 1:07:09.760 --> 1:07:13.840 companies and they'll be the only ones. Well, what about 1:07:13.880 --> 1:07:19.240 Pure Talk, what about Patriot Mobile? And what about Lively? 1:07:19.520 --> 1:07:22.600 Lively that's mainly for senior citizens, That's what I have. 1:07:23.480 --> 1:07:24.480 Yeah, great question. 1:07:24.640 --> 1:07:27.880 I know Pure Talk and Patriot Mobile are very popular 1:07:28.040 --> 1:07:31.800 by conservative talk show hosts. They're they're national. 1:07:32.160 --> 1:07:33.240 Yeah. Well, here's the thing. 1:07:33.360 --> 1:07:36.200 These these little carriers with their you know, we say 1:07:36.240 --> 1:07:41.320 little mv and o's Mobile Virtual network Operator. So the 1:07:41.360 --> 1:07:44.360 way that these carriers work, they all run on one 1:07:44.400 --> 1:07:47.160 of the big three networks. So even if you have 1:07:47.240 --> 1:07:49.640 something like a Lively, if you go to their website 1:07:49.720 --> 1:07:52.840 or you go to Wikipedia, it will tell you what 1:07:52.960 --> 1:07:57.480 network that Lively works on. And the same thing with 1:07:57.600 --> 1:08:00.120 Mint Mobile, the same thing with Cricket, the same thing 1:08:00.160 --> 1:08:00.800 with Visible. 1:08:01.160 --> 1:08:02.800 They all run on one of. 1:08:02.760 --> 1:08:06.640 The main you know, three networks, whether that's AT and T, 1:08:06.880 --> 1:08:10.320 whether that's Verizon or T Mobile. A lot of them 1:08:10.400 --> 1:08:14.360 run on T Mobile and AT and T some of 1:08:14.360 --> 1:08:17.479 them run on Verizon. So these mv and o's are 1:08:17.520 --> 1:08:20.559 not going away anytime soon. So if that was the 1:08:20.600 --> 1:08:25.080 way it sounded, part in my interpretation of that, what 1:08:25.120 --> 1:08:29.639 I'm saying is that there are only three main pipes 1:08:29.920 --> 1:08:33.280 in the United States. All of these other networks run 1:08:33.320 --> 1:08:36.040 on top of those pipes, whether they advertise that or not. 1:08:36.240 --> 1:08:39.760 You might see an advertisement where it says we run 1:08:39.800 --> 1:08:42.000 on the big network or the big or the best 1:08:42.160 --> 1:08:44.560 voice network in America, or the best data network or 1:08:44.600 --> 1:08:47.040 the fastest. They all have different ways of kind of 1:08:47.080 --> 1:08:49.439 signaling that. In the past, a lot of these mv 1:08:49.520 --> 1:08:52.200 and os never talked about the network that they're actually 1:08:52.280 --> 1:08:54.599 running on. But I've noticed more and more, Like we 1:08:54.640 --> 1:08:58.599 had a Mobile X on the other day and he said, yeah, 1:08:58.600 --> 1:09:00.519 we run on Verizon, which I was sup to hear 1:09:00.600 --> 1:09:02.960 him say that because typically they don't say that, but 1:09:03.000 --> 1:09:03.439 now they do. 1:09:03.560 --> 1:09:05.840 I guess, So that's what I mean. 1:09:05.880 --> 1:09:07.519 And the way that these mvn O is like, why 1:09:07.560 --> 1:09:09.719 would you go with an mv and O, Why would 1:09:09.720 --> 1:09:13.160 you go with a Lively over a Verizon. Well, it's 1:09:13.200 --> 1:09:18.400 because Lively has certain specific features and pricing plans that 1:09:18.479 --> 1:09:19.720 are very appealing to. 1:09:19.720 --> 1:09:20.920 A certain group of people. 1:09:21.800 --> 1:09:25.120 So, for instance, mint Mobile over the years was very 1:09:25.160 --> 1:09:29.000 popular for their fifteen dollars plan, which people like a 1:09:29.040 --> 1:09:33.559 fifteen dollars monthly fee that sounds amazing. Tello is another 1:09:33.760 --> 1:09:35.840 mv and O, which I've been testing and I love 1:09:35.840 --> 1:09:38.439 it because you can just have talk and text no 1:09:38.560 --> 1:09:41.040 data for just a couple bucks a month. You can 1:09:41.120 --> 1:09:44.240 literally build your own plan. So again, these mv and 1:09:44.280 --> 1:09:44.639 os are. 1:09:44.600 --> 1:09:45.439 Not going anywhere. 1:09:45.520 --> 1:09:49.000 They compete on services and pricing and the different plans 1:09:49.000 --> 1:09:52.799 and the different features, whereas the networks just run the network. 1:09:53.240 --> 1:09:59.200 You are listening to Rich on Tech. It is a 1:09:59.320 --> 1:10:01.960 Mother's Day weekend. I would like to give a shout 1:10:01.960 --> 1:10:05.960 out to my mom. She listens to the show, and 1:10:06.120 --> 1:10:09.519 so does my mother in law, Believe, and my wife. 1:10:10.080 --> 1:10:12.080 Lot of women in my life and they are all 1:10:12.200 --> 1:10:17.639 very special to me. Edison Research did a report about 1:10:17.680 --> 1:10:23.000 moms and media in twenty twenty four. Moms smartphone ownership 1:10:23.040 --> 1:10:28.559 has reached ninety eight percent, nearly full saturation. Forty seven 1:10:28.600 --> 1:10:31.960 percent of moms own a smart watch, up from thirty 1:10:32.040 --> 1:10:35.439 seven percent last year. Seventy five percent of moms have 1:10:35.560 --> 1:10:40.080 wireless earphones or headphones, up from seventy one percent last year. 1:10:40.600 --> 1:10:44.240 Forty three percent of moms are weekly podcast listeners and 1:10:44.360 --> 1:10:49.360 eighty two percent have listened in the past week. Moms 1:10:49.479 --> 1:10:53.600 spend an average of four hours and four minutes daily online, 1:10:54.040 --> 1:10:57.839 mostly on their smartphone, and ninety seven percent of moms 1:10:58.080 --> 1:11:01.960 use social media, with ninety six percent having used it 1:11:02.000 --> 1:11:05.120 in the last week. Now, I have a funny story 1:11:05.120 --> 1:11:07.920 about my mom. This week. She calls me out of 1:11:07.960 --> 1:11:10.840 the blue and she's like, uh, well, actually it was 1:11:10.880 --> 1:11:13.000 from a different phone number. It was from a New 1:11:13.080 --> 1:11:15.559 Jersey phone number that I didn't recognize, but I figured, well, 1:11:15.560 --> 1:11:17.120 it's New Jersey, I might as well pick it up. 1:11:17.560 --> 1:11:19.120 And so I pick up the phone. It's my mom. 1:11:19.200 --> 1:11:21.080 She said, Hell, did you recognize the number? I said, no, 1:11:21.840 --> 1:11:24.280 who is this? She said, oh, it's my colleague's phone number. 1:11:24.280 --> 1:11:26.679 And I was like, oh, okay, well what's going on. Well, 1:11:26.680 --> 1:11:30.679 my phone doesn't work. It says simcard not recognized. I said, 1:11:30.680 --> 1:11:33.719 what what are you talking about? My mom always calls 1:11:33.800 --> 1:11:38.240 me with the oddest tech questions you have ever experienced, 1:11:38.280 --> 1:11:41.720 Like nothing happens to her that is like ordinary. It's 1:11:41.760 --> 1:11:44.000 always the most random things. Like the last time, and 1:11:44.040 --> 1:11:46.320 I think I told this story on the radio. The 1:11:46.400 --> 1:11:49.080 last time. It was like her Roku or her firestick 1:11:49.160 --> 1:11:51.400 just stopped working and I had to go through all 1:11:51.400 --> 1:11:53.880 these troubleshooting tips. And my brother went over there and 1:11:53.960 --> 1:11:55.840 he said, yeah, the thing just burned up like it's 1:11:55.880 --> 1:11:56.360 just done. 1:11:56.960 --> 1:11:58.680 I said, what who does that happen to? 1:12:00.240 --> 1:12:04.479 So long story short, I'm like, I don't know how 1:12:04.560 --> 1:12:06.640 to explain this to you, mom, but you've got to 1:12:06.640 --> 1:12:08.559 pop that SIM card out and pop it back in. 1:12:08.680 --> 1:12:11.320 Maybe it got unseated, which I've never heard of my 1:12:11.479 --> 1:12:14.320 entire life. Like I've I've tested so many phones, I've 1:12:14.320 --> 1:12:17.200 never had a phone that says simcard not inserted. The 1:12:17.200 --> 1:12:19.439 only other thing I could think of is that she 1:12:19.560 --> 1:12:22.080 pays for her wireless bill a year at a time 1:12:23.000 --> 1:12:24.760 on one of those mv and o's, and so it 1:12:24.840 --> 1:12:26.479 saves her money to do it that way. And I 1:12:26.520 --> 1:12:30.760 was like, well, maybe your cellular service went out, you 1:12:30.800 --> 1:12:32.720 know before, and said no, I just paid the bill 1:12:32.760 --> 1:12:35.160 and I renewed. And I said, okay, well it can't 1:12:35.200 --> 1:12:37.439 be that, So why don't you try popping this SIM 1:12:37.439 --> 1:12:39.080 card out? So she says, well, I don't know how 1:12:39.080 --> 1:12:40.360 to do that. I said, well, there's a little hole 1:12:40.400 --> 1:12:42.880 in the bottom of the phone and you got to 1:12:42.880 --> 1:12:46.840 pop in like a paper clip that you ondo. She goes, oh, 1:12:46.880 --> 1:12:49.720 we tried that my teacher, you know, the teacher she 1:12:49.760 --> 1:12:51.760 works with. We tried it. I said, what do you mean, 1:12:51.800 --> 1:12:53.800 you tried it. Every paper clip I've ever used has 1:12:53.840 --> 1:12:56.120 popped this thing out. She goes, well, it's a coded 1:12:56.120 --> 1:12:58.600 paper clip. I said, well, you got to find a 1:12:58.600 --> 1:13:00.519 paper clip that's not coded so it fits in the 1:13:00.520 --> 1:13:02.559 little hole. She goes, well, there's two holes down there. 1:13:03.000 --> 1:13:06.000 I said, well, one it's a microphone. One is the 1:13:06.040 --> 1:13:08.479 simcard slot. Do not put it in the microphone hole. 1:13:08.960 --> 1:13:11.000 So she goes, okay, we got it. We got the 1:13:11.000 --> 1:13:13.200 they popped it out. I said, oh that was good. 1:13:13.240 --> 1:13:14.880 I go, when you pop it out, just make sure 1:13:14.920 --> 1:13:17.040 you look at how it's seated so that you don't 1:13:17.040 --> 1:13:17.479 put it in. 1:13:17.439 --> 1:13:18.000 The wrong way. 1:13:19.080 --> 1:13:22.160 And so her friend, I guess, pops out the card, 1:13:22.720 --> 1:13:25.640 pushes it back in, and all of a sudden, my 1:13:25.640 --> 1:13:27.840 mom goes, oh my gosh, all my messages are starting 1:13:27.840 --> 1:13:30.680 to come in. I said, really, this thing was physically unseated. 1:13:30.720 --> 1:13:33.519 I've never heard of this in my life. And then 1:13:33.520 --> 1:13:35.320 all of a sudden, I start hearing like something happened 1:13:35.320 --> 1:13:36.519 in the background. I said, what are you doing now? 1:13:36.520 --> 1:13:38.800 She goes, oh, my my colleague is blowing air into 1:13:38.840 --> 1:13:42.559 the float to clean it out. I mean, it was 1:13:42.680 --> 1:13:45.120 just the funniest thing sitting there listening to that, but 1:13:45.360 --> 1:13:47.559 she got it to work. She was very proud of herself. 1:13:49.120 --> 1:13:52.120 And I don't understand why these things happen to my mom, 1:13:52.160 --> 1:13:56.960 But love your mom, Happy Mother's Day, and to all 1:13:56.960 --> 1:14:00.479 the moms out there, you do an amazing job. And 1:14:01.000 --> 1:14:03.360 I noticed that a lot of moms do have the technology. 1:14:03.360 --> 1:14:06.599 They've got the smart watch, they've got the phone. And 1:14:06.640 --> 1:14:10.640 I love having my mom personally send me. She is 1:14:10.760 --> 1:14:14.479 my supplier of all of the scams that are happening 1:14:14.520 --> 1:14:17.080 out there. Every day, she's got like an email that's like, 1:14:17.200 --> 1:14:19.439 you know, someone's trying to get her personal information whatever, 1:14:19.479 --> 1:14:20.439 and she forwards it to me. 1:14:20.479 --> 1:14:22.559 I'm like, oh, thank you. I've never seen this one before. 1:14:23.960 --> 1:14:27.720 Speaking of mobile service, text Now is a company that 1:14:28.760 --> 1:14:33.320 offers free mobile service like free calling and texting. But 1:14:33.439 --> 1:14:37.519 now they're upping the ante. They are introducing a new 1:14:37.560 --> 1:14:41.840 plan called Free Essential Data and this provides you with 1:14:42.040 --> 1:14:46.839 free data for email, map apps, and ride share apps 1:14:46.880 --> 1:14:50.599 along with unlimited calling and texting. They want to make 1:14:50.600 --> 1:14:53.719 sure that customers never lose connectivity due to unpaid bills. 1:14:53.720 --> 1:14:55.760 They say that people spend about two thousand dollars a 1:14:55.800 --> 1:14:56.960 year on cell phone bills. 1:14:57.720 --> 1:14:59.400 Many lack emergency money. 1:15:00.800 --> 1:15:04.920 Text now uses advertisers to pay for cell phone service. 1:15:05.000 --> 1:15:08.360 So I have not tested out this service, but I'd 1:15:08.360 --> 1:15:10.680 be curious how it works. I actually asked them to 1:15:10.680 --> 1:15:12.599 send me a SIM card so I can test this out. 1:15:12.640 --> 1:15:15.639 So the way it works, as I understand, is you 1:15:15.680 --> 1:15:19.280 buy the SIM card, which is five dollars one time fee, 1:15:19.640 --> 1:15:22.200 you pop it into your phone, and then you've got 1:15:22.280 --> 1:15:26.720 unlimited talk and tech, unlimited talk and text, and I'm 1:15:26.760 --> 1:15:29.040 assuming there's some sort of ads that are served up 1:15:29.080 --> 1:15:32.479 in some way, but now you get this essential data. 1:15:32.880 --> 1:15:35.200 So if you open up your email, you open up 1:15:35.240 --> 1:15:38.400 a map app, or you open up a ride share app, 1:15:38.520 --> 1:15:40.640 it will understand that and it will give you the 1:15:40.720 --> 1:15:43.759 data to use those three apps or those three types 1:15:43.800 --> 1:15:48.920 of apps. They gave some examples, you know, Gmail, Google Maps, Ways, 1:15:49.479 --> 1:15:53.000 Uber Lift, but this is kind of neat. So you 1:15:53.000 --> 1:15:58.599 can theoretically have voice calling, texting, and then these essential 1:15:58.640 --> 1:16:01.640 apps that can get you around your emails, get your maps. 1:16:01.680 --> 1:16:03.040 All for free every month. 1:16:03.960 --> 1:16:06.439 And of course they're bigger play is to get you 1:16:06.479 --> 1:16:10.080 to buy more data, so they have an hourly data 1:16:10.120 --> 1:16:13.840 pass for ninety nine cents, daily data pass for five bucks, 1:16:13.840 --> 1:16:16.880 and then a monthly data pass for forty bucks. But 1:16:16.920 --> 1:16:19.439 they say that over eighty percent of Text Now users 1:16:19.479 --> 1:16:22.000 are connected to Wi Fi most of the time, which 1:16:22.000 --> 1:16:24.439 means you don't need an expensive data plan. And I 1:16:24.479 --> 1:16:26.439 asked them if you can get these simcards in the store. 1:16:26.479 --> 1:16:28.719 They said, no, you have to order it from the app. 1:16:29.280 --> 1:16:32.800 So I've got the simcard on the way. I'm very 1:16:32.840 --> 1:16:34.600 curious to try this out because this could be a 1:16:34.600 --> 1:16:36.640 good kind of like if you just want like the 1:16:36.920 --> 1:16:41.840 cheapest possible way to connect to the phone services. I mean, 1:16:41.880 --> 1:16:43.920 this is like five dollars and then you have access 1:16:43.960 --> 1:16:47.519 to talk, text and these essential apps. Anyway, I'll give 1:16:47.560 --> 1:16:49.320 you an update when I get that and try it out. 1:16:50.080 --> 1:16:51.040 Google this week. 1:16:50.920 --> 1:16:54.519 Launched a new smartphone called the Google Pixel eight A. 1:16:55.600 --> 1:16:59.280 This is their most durable A series smartphone, so the 1:16:59.360 --> 1:17:03.519 A series of the Pixel usually lags behind the standard 1:17:03.520 --> 1:17:08.040 Pixel about six months. And this has a metal frame. 1:17:08.600 --> 1:17:12.000 It's their budget device. It's got IP sixty seven water 1:17:12.040 --> 1:17:14.720 and dust resistance. It's not the highest, but that's still 1:17:14.720 --> 1:17:18.200 pretty good. It's got a scratch resistant display that's kind 1:17:18.200 --> 1:17:22.280 of cool. And the price tag is incredible four hundred 1:17:22.280 --> 1:17:25.160 and ninety nine dollars. Now you've heard me talk about 1:17:25.160 --> 1:17:28.240 the Pixel before. I really love this phone because it 1:17:28.320 --> 1:17:33.400 is simple, it has great software, and it's actually a 1:17:33.479 --> 1:17:37.200 very smart smartphone. It's got the Google Ai features like 1:17:37.320 --> 1:17:41.320 image search, voice typing. The voice typing is next to 1:17:41.840 --> 1:17:45.479 it's the best available on a smartphone live translation at 1:17:45.560 --> 1:17:47.280 a glance, which I just love. 1:17:47.360 --> 1:17:49.360 On the home screen or on the lock. 1:17:49.240 --> 1:17:52.920 Screen, I should say, it'll give you like information about 1:17:53.000 --> 1:17:54.439 upcoming events and stuff like that. 1:17:54.479 --> 1:17:55.360 It's so handy. 1:17:55.840 --> 1:17:58.639 It's got the tensor G three chip, which is not perfect, 1:17:59.120 --> 1:18:01.760 but it's the same chip in their latest Pixel eight 1:18:01.800 --> 1:18:02.639 and Pixel eight Pro. 1:18:03.840 --> 1:18:04.360 It's got the. 1:18:04.280 --> 1:18:07.439 Pixel camera, which of course is one of the best 1:18:07.439 --> 1:18:10.960 point and shoot cameras available on a smartphone for basic 1:18:11.120 --> 1:18:13.559 you know, every day just amazing pictures without a lot 1:18:13.560 --> 1:18:14.040 of fuss. 1:18:14.280 --> 1:18:14.439 You know. 1:18:14.479 --> 1:18:17.000 I might argue that the Samsung is overall a more 1:18:17.040 --> 1:18:20.599 powerful camera, but the Pixel camera is pretty darn good 1:18:20.640 --> 1:18:21.880 if you just want to take a phone out of 1:18:21.920 --> 1:18:24.559 your pocket and take a picture. Now, the coolest part 1:18:24.600 --> 1:18:27.559 about this phone it's going to get operating system and 1:18:27.600 --> 1:18:31.320 security updates for ready seven years. 1:18:31.640 --> 1:18:33.960 What is seven years from now? Are we talking. 1:18:33.680 --> 1:18:38.439 Twenty twenty thirty one, twenty thirty one. You could buy 1:18:38.479 --> 1:18:41.720 this phone and not have to think about getting a 1:18:41.760 --> 1:18:44.080 new phone until twenty thirty one because you're you'll be 1:18:44.120 --> 1:18:45.960 covered with security and software updates. 1:18:46.600 --> 1:18:48.520 Also has a built in VPN. 1:18:48.880 --> 1:18:52.120 And it's just I can't speak highly enough of the 1:18:52.160 --> 1:18:55.920 Pixel series. If you're someone that doesn't want an iPhone 1:18:56.200 --> 1:18:58.559 right and you don't need a Samsung with all the 1:18:58.920 --> 1:19:01.720 high end features, you just want something that's basic but 1:19:01.880 --> 1:19:05.640 really good. The Pixel is incredible at that. And uh, 1:19:05.840 --> 1:19:09.559 this is their brand new one Pixel EIGHTA. Do I 1:19:09.600 --> 1:19:13.799 have the availability date? I think it's available next week. 1:19:14.680 --> 1:19:19.640 I don't have the availability date here. Let me say 1:19:19.920 --> 1:19:21.400 I know it's on pre order now, I think it's 1:19:21.400 --> 1:19:24.639 available next week. So I have not gotten this into test, 1:19:24.840 --> 1:19:28.479 but I requested a review unit from Google, and I 1:19:28.520 --> 1:19:30.000 have no doubt that this is going to be a 1:19:30.000 --> 1:19:30.639 great device. 1:19:31.920 --> 1:19:32.879 Eight and eight Rich. 1:19:32.760 --> 1:19:35.519 One O one eight eight eight seven four to two 1:19:35.680 --> 1:19:38.160 four one zero one. You can find me on social media. 1:19:38.320 --> 1:19:41.479 I am at rich on tech, the website for the 1:19:41.520 --> 1:19:44.439 show rich on Tech dot TV. I know I just 1:19:45.240 --> 1:19:47.200 talked about that text now plan if you want to 1:19:47.280 --> 1:19:49.479 check it out and get more information about anything I 1:19:49.520 --> 1:19:51.719 mentioned here. Just go to the website rich on tech 1:19:51.760 --> 1:19:56.000 dot TV. Hit the light bulb icon and that will 1:19:56.000 --> 1:19:59.479 take you to the show notes immediately for anything that 1:19:59.520 --> 1:20:06.760 I mentioned here. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich 1:20:06.800 --> 1:20:10.840 DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The website 1:20:10.840 --> 1:20:14.360 for the show rich on Tech dot Tv. There you 1:20:14.400 --> 1:20:16.680 can hit contact to send me an email. That's what 1:20:16.720 --> 1:20:20.400 Olga did in Burbank. Olga says, can you refer me 1:20:20.439 --> 1:20:25.759 to someone who can unhack my Galaxy? A fifty one phone? 1:20:26.080 --> 1:20:29.439 Someone hacked it at and T keeps giving me the 1:20:29.520 --> 1:20:33.960 run around. Olga, I don't think your phone is hacked. 1:20:34.439 --> 1:20:37.759 Although it can happen, I don't think it's very typical 1:20:38.240 --> 1:20:41.920 for that to happen. More likely there's some malware on there, 1:20:42.880 --> 1:20:46.439 downloaded something that you know is not working right on 1:20:46.479 --> 1:20:49.400 your phone. But what I'd recommend if you do believe 1:20:49.400 --> 1:20:54.320 that your phone is hacked, I would do a factory reset, 1:20:55.320 --> 1:20:58.280 and so I would just I would do a recovery mode. 1:20:58.400 --> 1:21:01.280 That's that's what I would do. This is like full strength. 1:21:01.840 --> 1:21:03.960 So what you want to do make sure that your 1:21:04.040 --> 1:21:06.719 important information is backed up. Let me say that again. 1:21:07.320 --> 1:21:09.720 Make sure your important information is backed up. This will 1:21:09.760 --> 1:21:13.439 erase everything on your phone. And so what you want 1:21:13.479 --> 1:21:15.160 to do is turn your phone off. This is what 1:21:15.200 --> 1:21:18.000 you do on Samsung. It's called recovery mode. You want 1:21:18.040 --> 1:21:20.200 to make sure your phone is turned off, and then 1:21:20.240 --> 1:21:23.120 you want to press the power button and the volume 1:21:23.200 --> 1:21:28.880 up at the same time simultaneously until the Samsung logo appears. 1:21:29.520 --> 1:21:31.560 And when this thing boots up, it's not going to 1:21:31.600 --> 1:21:33.360 look the same as it typically does. It's not going 1:21:33.400 --> 1:21:34.920 to open up into your phone screen. It's going to 1:21:35.000 --> 1:21:38.080 open up into something called Android Recovery, and it's going 1:21:38.120 --> 1:21:40.720 to look like an old school computer screen, and it's 1:21:40.720 --> 1:21:42.720 going to have a couple of options on it. 1:21:42.720 --> 1:21:44.240 It's going to say, reboot. 1:21:43.840 --> 1:21:47.559 System, apply update from ADB, apply update from sd card, 1:21:47.640 --> 1:21:52.719 wipe data, factory reset, wipe cash, partition, view recovery logs, 1:21:52.840 --> 1:21:56.479 run graphics test, run locale test, power off. What I 1:21:56.520 --> 1:21:59.160 would do is wipe the cash and then I would 1:21:59.200 --> 1:22:03.679 wipe the data slash factory reset. That will pretty much 1:22:04.240 --> 1:22:07.040 get your phone back to a place where it is 1:22:07.640 --> 1:22:12.840 completely pristine. Now, there may be someone out there that's listening, this, 1:22:12.920 --> 1:22:16.200 says Rich What about the bios? Could it be you know, 1:22:16.240 --> 1:22:19.360 could there be a malware in the in the firmware 1:22:19.400 --> 1:22:22.160 of this phone. Yeah, there's a potential for that, but 1:22:22.240 --> 1:22:24.280 I don't think that's what's happening here. That would be 1:22:24.320 --> 1:22:27.639 really really tricky to get. So that's what I recommend doing. 1:22:27.800 --> 1:22:29.880 And then once you do that, your phone will be 1:22:30.040 --> 1:22:33.840 factory fresh, reinstall everything, whatever you need to do, and 1:22:34.280 --> 1:22:38.960 I think that your hacking issue should go away. Thanks 1:22:38.960 --> 1:22:39.519 for the email. 1:22:39.560 --> 1:22:43.559 OGA, Let's go to Gary and Laguna Niguel. Gary, you're 1:22:43.560 --> 1:22:44.120 on with Rich. 1:22:44.920 --> 1:22:48.519 Yes, Rich, I got one of these watches here. It's 1:22:48.560 --> 1:22:52.080 called a AM's. Yeah, it's kind of hard to pronounce 1:22:52.080 --> 1:22:53.000 it because I always want to. 1:22:53.000 --> 1:22:56.639 Call it Amazon, oh Amaze fit and yeah. 1:22:56.560 --> 1:23:00.640 I thank you. It's what's called a b ip Repro 1:23:01.840 --> 1:23:04.280 and a good friend of mine, Bob Allen, helped me 1:23:04.280 --> 1:23:06.920 buy it last Sunday. And it is just confused that 1:23:07.000 --> 1:23:07.760 for Jesus out of me. 1:23:08.439 --> 1:23:10.000 Okay, And the thing I. 1:23:09.920 --> 1:23:12.519 Want to know we're here, Rich, is this one if 1:23:12.520 --> 1:23:16.719 you watches that you can get that does not need 1:23:16.960 --> 1:23:20.920 a telephone hooked up to it. Because see, I'm a 1:23:20.920 --> 1:23:25.400 full time nature photographer. I'm out photographing birds, butterflies, reptiles, 1:23:26.080 --> 1:23:29.160 and so many times I'm out and I don't want 1:23:29.200 --> 1:23:32.000 to carry my cell phone on me. I just want 1:23:32.000 --> 1:23:35.200 to carry a minimum amount of equipment in my photo list. 1:23:35.400 --> 1:23:37.360 But yet I do want to know how many steps 1:23:37.400 --> 1:23:37.800 I've taken. 1:23:39.840 --> 1:23:42.719 So okay, well, question, are you using iPhone or Android 1:23:42.800 --> 1:23:43.120 with S? 1:23:43.920 --> 1:23:46.519 I use an Android phone? Okay, I use an old one. 1:23:46.520 --> 1:23:49.200 It's a Samsung Galaxy S tanny. 1:23:49.600 --> 1:23:53.400 Oh wow, S ten, we're going back away bit there 1:23:53.439 --> 1:23:53.800 it works. 1:23:53.920 --> 1:23:54.120 Yeah. 1:23:54.160 --> 1:23:56.559 Hey, look I always tell people, you know, I'm not 1:23:56.640 --> 1:23:58.680 sitting here trying to sell you a new phone. If 1:23:58.720 --> 1:24:01.080 your phone that you have works, keep using it as 1:24:01.080 --> 1:24:02.559 long as the security is up to date. 1:24:02.600 --> 1:24:05.599 That's the important part. I'm not sure with. Yes, Okay, good, 1:24:06.120 --> 1:24:06.880 But here's the deal. 1:24:06.920 --> 1:24:10.400 So this, this watch does not It will work without 1:24:10.400 --> 1:24:12.360 a phone nearby, but it's not going to give you 1:24:12.360 --> 1:24:15.040 your texts or cellular calls because this does not have 1:24:15.120 --> 1:24:17.559 cellular built into it. So if you were ever in 1:24:17.600 --> 1:24:19.600 a place where you're taking a picture out in the 1:24:19.640 --> 1:24:22.800 woods and you know there's an emergency or you need 1:24:22.840 --> 1:24:25.479 to reach someone, this watch would not do that. So 1:24:27.320 --> 1:24:30.640 my recommendation is this is fine for you know, just 1:24:30.880 --> 1:24:33.479 basics and a maze fit. Is you know, people like 1:24:33.520 --> 1:24:35.960 these watches because they're inexpensive and they have the features 1:24:35.960 --> 1:24:39.800 they need, like you said, and it basically looks like 1:24:39.840 --> 1:24:43.000 an Apple Watch, but you're not going to get that 1:24:43.040 --> 1:24:46.200 cellular connectivity. So if you want cellular, you got to 1:24:46.200 --> 1:24:50.320 go with a watch that has a cellular connectivity built in, 1:24:50.600 --> 1:24:54.960 and that is a watch from Samsung, a watch from Google, 1:24:55.160 --> 1:24:59.599 the Pixel Pixel Watch, and also the Apple Watch, which. 1:24:59.439 --> 1:25:00.960 Will not work with your Android phone. 1:25:01.560 --> 1:25:03.800 There may be some third party watches out there that 1:25:03.840 --> 1:25:07.200 have it, but I know the recent watch I tested 1:25:07.240 --> 1:25:09.840 from one Plus did not have cellular built in. 1:25:10.160 --> 1:25:10.760 So you have to. 1:25:10.680 --> 1:25:12.479 Decide when you when you have a smart watch with 1:25:12.560 --> 1:25:15.800 your phone, that watch will function when it's not near 1:25:15.840 --> 1:25:19.720 your phone. And it's confusing because when it's by your phone, yes, 1:25:19.760 --> 1:25:21.559 you're going to get your texts, you may even get 1:25:21.600 --> 1:25:24.200 your calls through that watch when you're near your phone, 1:25:24.439 --> 1:25:26.920 but as soon as you leave the range, the Bluetooth 1:25:27.000 --> 1:25:29.439 range of that phone, your watch is only going to 1:25:29.520 --> 1:25:31.240 do things that it can do on its own without 1:25:31.280 --> 1:25:35.160 a cellular connection, which is, you know, track your steps, 1:25:35.640 --> 1:25:38.160 the different you know functionalities on there that all run 1:25:38.280 --> 1:25:40.760 on the watch, and your watch may have WI Fi 1:25:40.800 --> 1:25:42.360 on it as well, but out in the woods, Wi 1:25:42.360 --> 1:25:45.120 Fi is not really going to help. So the bottom line, 1:25:45.120 --> 1:25:47.880 if you want to get your calls and texts on 1:25:48.120 --> 1:25:50.839 a smart watch and be able to use data away 1:25:50.920 --> 1:25:54.960 from your phone anywhere, then you do need to get 1:25:54.960 --> 1:25:58.360 a watch that has a cellular connection and that's in 1:25:58.560 --> 1:26:00.840 you know, typically it's an LTE connection, so you have 1:26:00.880 --> 1:26:03.559 to look it's a different version of the watch. Apple 1:26:03.600 --> 1:26:07.000 sells a different version, Google sells a different version, and 1:26:07.240 --> 1:26:11.519 Samsung they all sell LTE versions of their popular watches. 1:26:11.560 --> 1:26:12.720 That's what you want to look out for. 1:26:13.320 --> 1:26:15.240 Not everyone needs that, but I run a lot by 1:26:15.280 --> 1:26:17.760 myself and I want that on my watch because I 1:26:17.760 --> 1:26:21.000 want to go with just my watch. And also, if 1:26:21.000 --> 1:26:22.640 you want to be less distracted, you don't want your 1:26:22.640 --> 1:26:25.120 phone screen near you. You can use just your watch, 1:26:25.360 --> 1:26:27.759 all right. Coming up, a guy who traveled the world 1:26:27.800 --> 1:26:30.760 for a year just using AI. We're going to talk 1:26:30.800 --> 1:26:32.840 to him about it. Coming up right here on rich 1:26:32.920 --> 1:26:40.000 on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro 1:26:40.120 --> 1:26:45.280 here hanging out with you, talking technology. Five G home Internet. 1:26:45.400 --> 1:26:47.640 This is a question that we get from time to 1:26:47.720 --> 1:26:51.599 time on this show because they're being heavily advertised by 1:26:51.640 --> 1:26:56.320 providers including T Mobile, Verizon, and AT and T. So 1:26:56.400 --> 1:26:59.600 I figured all Connect which is a great resource for 1:26:59.640 --> 1:27:03.120 all things like choosing plans and stuff. They had a 1:27:03.120 --> 1:27:06.800 great article about five G home Internet, so if you 1:27:06.800 --> 1:27:09.640 don't know what it is, it uses cellular networks to 1:27:09.720 --> 1:27:12.799 deliver a fixed wireless internet connection to your house. 1:27:13.200 --> 1:27:15.559 So you buy this or you just basically get a box. 1:27:16.600 --> 1:27:18.679 It's almost like a hot spot but for your house, 1:27:18.720 --> 1:27:21.200 so it takes that cellular connection and turns it into 1:27:21.240 --> 1:27:25.759 Wi Fi for your house. Five G Internet speeds range 1:27:25.760 --> 1:27:29.880 from twenty to one thousand, with upload speeds of ten 1:27:29.960 --> 1:27:31.080 to fifty. 1:27:31.360 --> 1:27:33.360 So T Mobile five. 1:27:33.160 --> 1:27:35.800 G has speeds from thirty five to two hundred and 1:27:35.880 --> 1:27:39.840 forty five megabits per second, Verizon five g's a little 1:27:39.840 --> 1:27:43.479 bit faster, eighty five to one thousand megabits per second, 1:27:44.120 --> 1:27:47.240 and then AT and T Internet Air five G has 1:27:47.360 --> 1:27:50.639 up to one hundred and forty megabits per second. There's 1:27:50.640 --> 1:27:54.560 also one called Starry Internet. It's available in much less places, 1:27:55.080 --> 1:27:58.559 but they've got speeds ranging from two hundred to five hundred. 1:27:59.240 --> 1:28:01.720 Now obvious fiber. 1:28:01.439 --> 1:28:05.240 Is going to be faster and more reliable, but five 1:28:05.320 --> 1:28:09.320 G has you know, an affordable, no contract option, and 1:28:09.400 --> 1:28:12.040 usually there's no data caps, although that may be changing. 1:28:12.760 --> 1:28:15.439 So again, the providers here are T Mobile, Verizon, AT 1:28:15.520 --> 1:28:18.439 and T and Starry. Prices are very good right now 1:28:18.479 --> 1:28:22.400 because these carriers are trying to publicize this and try 1:28:22.400 --> 1:28:24.719 to get people to sign up, So right now, price 1:28:24.800 --> 1:28:26.960 or anywhere from thirty five to fifty dollars a month, 1:28:26.960 --> 1:28:29.680 and if you're a subscriber of T Mobile, Verizon or 1:28:29.720 --> 1:28:32.519 AT and T, you may get a cheaper plan. T 1:28:32.720 --> 1:28:36.240 Mobile has sixty percent of the US covered, which is 1:28:36.280 --> 1:28:39.360 pretty good. Verizon's offering it in a bunch of places, 1:28:39.560 --> 1:28:42.080 and AT and T is only offering it where they 1:28:42.160 --> 1:28:47.040 don't have their fiber network, and it's pretty limited compared 1:28:47.040 --> 1:28:48.280 to T Mobile and Verizon. 1:28:48.920 --> 1:28:50.360 So bottom line, five. 1:28:50.200 --> 1:28:52.599 G may not match the speed you're going to get 1:28:52.600 --> 1:28:55.479 from cable or fiber, but it's kind of a good 1:28:55.600 --> 1:29:00.120 low cost option for someone who does not need extremely. 1:28:59.720 --> 1:29:00.679 High speed internet. 1:29:00.760 --> 1:29:02.960 So if you're considering, you know, trying to save money, 1:29:03.439 --> 1:29:07.519 definitely look at these five G home internet plans. All right, 1:29:08.240 --> 1:29:13.639 So Michael Motamedi traveled the world for a year using 1:29:13.760 --> 1:29:15.280 AI as his guide. 1:29:16.240 --> 1:29:17.599 Michael, Welcome to the show. 1:29:18.280 --> 1:29:19.040 Hey, how are you. 1:29:19.320 --> 1:29:22.599 I'm doing fantastic, So tell me we talked. It must 1:29:22.640 --> 1:29:24.960 have been a year ago at this point you used 1:29:25.000 --> 1:29:28.280 an AI tool called guide Geek. Right, so explain to 1:29:28.320 --> 1:29:30.599 me kind of how this call came about, Like, what 1:29:30.600 --> 1:29:31.439 what made you do this? 1:29:32.840 --> 1:29:35.639 Yeah, I mean it's actually been a year. Just got 1:29:35.680 --> 1:29:38.400 back to the States about a month ago. It's been 1:29:38.439 --> 1:29:42.719 a crazy twelve months. I'm in a crazy experiment really, 1:29:42.800 --> 1:29:46.240 just to kind of see how it would be to 1:29:46.320 --> 1:29:49.400 have AI control where we travel and what we did 1:29:49.439 --> 1:29:52.640 when we got to those destinations. But guy Geek is 1:29:53.120 --> 1:29:55.559 a pretty cool app. After using it for a year, 1:29:55.600 --> 1:29:56.639 I feel like I'm somewhat of. 1:29:56.560 --> 1:29:57.280 An ex Kurt. 1:29:58.760 --> 1:30:00.080 But yeah, it's all through. 1:30:00.680 --> 1:30:03.880 Or Instagram messengers, so there's no app to download, which is, 1:30:04.520 --> 1:30:07.400 you know, obviously a huge benefit. But it's been pretty 1:30:07.479 --> 1:30:08.000 nuts man. 1:30:08.439 --> 1:30:10.639 And you traveled with your family, right, didn't you take 1:30:10.680 --> 1:30:11.920 your wife and kid? 1:30:12.560 --> 1:30:12.800 Yeah? 1:30:12.920 --> 1:30:15.240 Wife and daughter all the way around everywhere everywhere I go, 1:30:15.320 --> 1:30:15.639 they go. 1:30:15.800 --> 1:30:17.200 And how many places did you go? 1:30:18.280 --> 1:30:21.040 Oh my gosh, I can't even count, but I think 1:30:21.080 --> 1:30:23.320 it was a rat I mean from a country perspective, 1:30:23.360 --> 1:30:25.040 I think it was around nine to ten countries. 1:30:25.160 --> 1:30:27.400 Oh, my gosh, but place wise you were. I mean 1:30:27.920 --> 1:30:31.200 I watched I watched your journey, and I'm not kidding. 1:30:31.240 --> 1:30:33.680 You are a very brave man with the stuff you 1:30:33.720 --> 1:30:38.000 were eating on your Instagram. I I just what was it? 1:30:38.040 --> 1:30:40.680 One of them like live worms or something. I don't know, 1:30:40.720 --> 1:30:42.719 it's just like tongue or either. 1:30:43.080 --> 1:30:44.800 There was a duck embryo. 1:30:46.080 --> 1:30:49.799 Called Ballot which was in the Philippines, a very international 1:30:49.840 --> 1:30:52.360 one of their national dishes, which was actually pretty fantastic. 1:30:52.400 --> 1:30:55.200 Okay, I shouldn't be saying, oh that's my personal but 1:30:55.280 --> 1:30:57.439 I get it these things. You know, people eat all 1:30:57.520 --> 1:30:58.840 kinds of stuff. Okay, So that was. 1:30:58.840 --> 1:31:03.280 One, and there was another one where it was like 1:31:03.439 --> 1:31:08.000 just an eel restaurant, all different eels, served ten different ways. 1:31:08.080 --> 1:31:08.559 That's the one. 1:31:08.600 --> 1:31:13.640 I saw it, catch it right in the water. They 1:31:13.640 --> 1:31:15.519 were in this bucket just all it looked like a 1:31:15.560 --> 1:31:18.479 bunch of giant tongues. It's like moving around and then 1:31:18.479 --> 1:31:20.280 all of a sudden you're eating it. I'm just like, okay, 1:31:20.320 --> 1:31:24.559 I I can't right now. So okay, so tell me, 1:31:25.040 --> 1:31:27.120 like how this worked. So every morning, let's say you 1:31:27.120 --> 1:31:30.400 were in like Morocco, would you just say, like, hey, guy, geek, 1:31:30.479 --> 1:31:32.240 like what's the coolest places to go? 1:31:32.320 --> 1:31:35.000 Like, how did you prompt this? Ai? And how how 1:31:35.000 --> 1:31:35.840 accurate was it? 1:31:36.640 --> 1:31:38.800 Yeah, so I think when we started this journey it 1:31:38.920 --> 1:31:40.880 was just like that. It was like prompting it in 1:31:41.040 --> 1:31:43.679 very you know, normal ways, somewhat like how you would 1:31:43.760 --> 1:31:44.360 use Google. 1:31:44.680 --> 1:31:44.840 Right. 1:31:45.960 --> 1:31:47.840 As time went on, we wanted to get more and 1:31:47.920 --> 1:31:50.120 more creative with the way that we prompted it. We 1:31:50.240 --> 1:31:52.519 realized that there's a lot of different ways where you 1:31:52.560 --> 1:31:55.160 can kind of have a conversation with guy geek. In 1:31:55.200 --> 1:31:57.880 some places like Spain, for example, I would say, hey, 1:31:57.920 --> 1:32:00.960 pretend you're Anthony and Bourdaine and plan me a day. 1:32:01.479 --> 1:32:03.640 What would you do if you were Anthony Bourdain in 1:32:03.680 --> 1:32:06.120 Spain and it planned this awesome day? 1:32:06.720 --> 1:32:06.920 Right? 1:32:07.280 --> 1:32:07.559 Wow? 1:32:08.560 --> 1:32:12.479 Super super creative with the way that you prompt guide geek. 1:32:12.880 --> 1:32:14.960 It's not just hey, tell me that the best pizza 1:32:15.000 --> 1:32:19.760 place right right, Like, pretend you're whoever and now let 1:32:19.840 --> 1:32:23.200 me experience the city like that, you know, Or Hey, 1:32:23.439 --> 1:32:25.640 I have a hundred in Paris and I have one 1:32:25.680 --> 1:32:28.599 hundred bucks to spend in Paris, which obviously we all 1:32:28.640 --> 1:32:31.120 know is not a lot of money in Paris, I said, 1:32:31.280 --> 1:32:32.920 I have one hundred dollars for the rest of for 1:32:33.040 --> 1:32:36.400 one day, plan my day, and it planned this awesome, 1:32:36.400 --> 1:32:41.519 cool day, you know, So it's super super interesting. I 1:32:41.520 --> 1:32:43.519 think this is definitely where the future is going to 1:32:43.600 --> 1:32:46.800 be going, especially because it's just the ease of being 1:32:46.840 --> 1:32:49.800 able to go into your pocket, right and it's a tool, 1:32:49.880 --> 1:32:51.639 it's not it's your friend. 1:32:52.760 --> 1:32:55.479 Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's weird because it definitely 1:32:55.479 --> 1:32:58.559 feels that way with the way these ais talk to us. 1:32:58.600 --> 1:33:00.800 I mean, it's just it don't almost like to me. 1:33:00.840 --> 1:33:02.960 I always think it's like almost like the smartest person 1:33:03.040 --> 1:33:04.800 you can have a conversation with because they just know 1:33:04.880 --> 1:33:05.839 everything about everything. 1:33:06.840 --> 1:33:09.160 Yeah, And I actually used that tip. 1:33:09.200 --> 1:33:11.320 I was in New York City last year and I 1:33:11.360 --> 1:33:14.000 was looking for a restaurant and I asked, Ai, I 1:33:14.000 --> 1:33:16.160 forget what I was using, and I think I might 1:33:16.200 --> 1:33:17.640 have used a little bit of guy Geek and a 1:33:17.640 --> 1:33:19.400 little bit of like Google. I think it was called 1:33:19.400 --> 1:33:23.360 Bard at the time, obviously, but I said, like, give 1:33:23.400 --> 1:33:26.280 me a list of all the restaurants that Bobby Flay 1:33:26.479 --> 1:33:28.080 likes in New York City, and I think it was 1:33:28.120 --> 1:33:30.920 Italian and then also Giata and I said, now cross 1:33:30.960 --> 1:33:33.280 reference them and give me the ones that they both like, 1:33:33.640 --> 1:33:35.280 and it came up with like two places and I 1:33:35.320 --> 1:33:36.760 picked one and we had a great night. 1:33:36.920 --> 1:33:38.360 So it is interesting. 1:33:39.479 --> 1:33:41.479 Yeah, I mean it's it's funny how you can get 1:33:41.520 --> 1:33:44.639 really you know, unique and I don't. 1:33:44.400 --> 1:33:45.800 Know specific with these things. 1:33:45.880 --> 1:33:48.479 So was it accurate, Like did it actually like I'm 1:33:48.520 --> 1:33:50.080 sure there are some things where it told you were 1:33:50.120 --> 1:33:52.519 like I can't really do that, or like how good 1:33:52.680 --> 1:33:52.960 was it? 1:33:54.280 --> 1:33:54.479 You know? 1:33:54.520 --> 1:33:56.960 For the most part, it was pretty bang on. Obviously, 1:33:57.000 --> 1:34:01.280 there are some you know, some improvements that they're making constantly, right. 1:34:01.280 --> 1:34:03.599 I think they made a major improvement by now pulling 1:34:03.640 --> 1:34:08.160 all the locations from the Google Maps API, which makes 1:34:08.200 --> 1:34:11.120 sure that they're open. You know, there were some times 1:34:11.120 --> 1:34:13.760 in the beginning where you know, the place wasn't open 1:34:13.760 --> 1:34:17.400 anymore information, so I'm glad they fixed that. 1:34:18.800 --> 1:34:20.640 And yeah, I mean from it it also. 1:34:20.479 --> 1:34:22.160 For me it was great because I'm a little bit 1:34:22.160 --> 1:34:26.160 of like a I don't know, a knowledge freak where 1:34:26.160 --> 1:34:27.640 I just like to know everything. So I'll be at 1:34:27.640 --> 1:34:30.120 a restaurant, I'll ask the history of the restaurant. You know, 1:34:32.120 --> 1:34:32.599 even in. 1:34:32.520 --> 1:34:34.040 Spain, I spent the day like. 1:34:34.000 --> 1:34:38.320 Picasso, So how did you do that? Explain that. 1:34:38.960 --> 1:34:39.200 Yeah. 1:34:39.200 --> 1:34:42.560 I mean they basically said, hey, you're pretending. Oh I 1:34:42.640 --> 1:34:45.479 actually did Salvern Dordali as well too. I said, pretend 1:34:45.520 --> 1:34:47.759 you're Salven Doardalis and what would you do if. 1:34:47.640 --> 1:34:48.960 You were in Spain for a day? 1:34:49.400 --> 1:34:51.519 And it sent me to his favorite bars. 1:34:52.760 --> 1:34:56.040 I love it. That is so wild. 1:34:56.160 --> 1:34:58.400 I love the idea of like kind of the role playing, 1:34:58.479 --> 1:35:00.560 like you know this person who's in there, and you 1:35:00.640 --> 1:35:03.479 kind of get where is guide geek pulling this information? 1:35:03.560 --> 1:35:05.080 You said it gets the Google Maps api? 1:35:05.160 --> 1:35:07.879 Like is it just kind of like program like explain 1:35:08.120 --> 1:35:10.600 for something that may not understand, Like why why is 1:35:10.600 --> 1:35:12.320 this better than like just searching Google? 1:35:12.439 --> 1:35:14.679 Like you know, why why would it be different? 1:35:15.200 --> 1:35:18.479 It is based off a chat GPT model, but with 1:35:18.600 --> 1:35:20.559 guyde Geek, which is really cool about it. They do 1:35:20.680 --> 1:35:24.800 have actual human intervention to ensure that you know your 1:35:24.800 --> 1:35:27.760 stuff is up to date and making sure that it's 1:35:27.800 --> 1:35:33.080 travel oriented right. And there's also the ability to even 1:35:33.120 --> 1:35:35.160 book flights through WhatsApp. 1:35:35.240 --> 1:35:37.479 Now oh wow, So it's awesome. 1:35:37.520 --> 1:35:39.160 And I mean I even use it as a translator 1:35:39.200 --> 1:35:40.320 at one point as well too. 1:35:41.520 --> 1:35:43.960 And so to start this you go to like guide 1:35:43.960 --> 1:35:48.080 geek dot ai on Instagram and then you say chat basically. 1:35:49.160 --> 1:35:50.920 Yeah, So you can either message it or you can 1:35:51.000 --> 1:35:52.720 just go to the website and then it'll message you 1:35:52.800 --> 1:35:54.960 on WhatsApp as well too. You can message it on WhatsApp. 1:35:55.000 --> 1:35:58.479 I use it on WhatsApp just because it feels so 1:35:58.560 --> 1:36:01.160 much more natural for me. But I guess you know, 1:36:01.320 --> 1:36:05.120 people nowadays actually use Instagram DM as a form of 1:36:05.120 --> 1:36:06.439 communication as well. 1:36:06.680 --> 1:36:07.439 It does well. 1:36:07.600 --> 1:36:10.200 I mean, whatever, hey, whatever works, whatever you have installed, 1:36:10.240 --> 1:36:13.599 why not exactly tell me about the podcast you're now 1:36:13.640 --> 1:36:14.880 doing a podcast about all this. 1:36:16.040 --> 1:36:18.280 Yeah, actually the podcast is not about the AI. It's 1:36:18.360 --> 1:36:22.240 it's actually called No Fixed Address, The World's Most Extraordinary People, 1:36:22.920 --> 1:36:25.640 And it's like the one of the only podcasts that 1:36:25.680 --> 1:36:27.919 I know of that's on the road. So we literally 1:36:28.000 --> 1:36:30.240 meet and my wife, who's the producer and co host 1:36:30.280 --> 1:36:33.880 on the show, lug around a suitcase into the middle 1:36:33.880 --> 1:36:37.400 of the villages of the Philippines or into the hills 1:36:37.400 --> 1:36:40.559 of the rice fields in Indonesia, and we go to 1:36:40.600 --> 1:36:44.040 the place where these extraordinary people live and work and 1:36:44.120 --> 1:36:46.800 have a real time conversation with them and actually be 1:36:46.800 --> 1:36:49.400 able to tour their facility or see what they do 1:36:49.520 --> 1:36:51.320 for a living and how we ended up getting here 1:36:51.360 --> 1:36:52.040 in the first place. 1:36:52.120 --> 1:36:53.839 It's it's pretty it's. 1:36:53.640 --> 1:36:56.599 Pretty crazy, actually, I mean there's no studio, there's no nothing. 1:36:56.640 --> 1:36:57.360 We got mics, we. 1:36:57.400 --> 1:36:59.479 Got a mixer, we've got a computer, and we got 1:36:59.479 --> 1:37:00.759 two I Fi and we filmed. 1:37:01.120 --> 1:37:02.280 That's amazing. I love it. 1:37:02.320 --> 1:37:05.400 And I'm sure you are following the news about what 1:37:05.520 --> 1:37:08.439 Apple launched with their you know, their camera app with 1:37:08.479 --> 1:37:10.559 Final Cut Pro on the iPad. You can now link 1:37:10.640 --> 1:37:13.559 up those two phones and use it as two different 1:37:13.560 --> 1:37:15.880 angles for your video and and you know, it's like 1:37:15.920 --> 1:37:19.439 a whole production facility inside an iPad. Now, it's pretty incredible, 1:37:19.479 --> 1:37:22.599 like multi Cara shoes. Yeah, it's it's something to look into. 1:37:23.320 --> 1:37:25.880 Michael Motameti. How do people find you on social media? 1:37:25.920 --> 1:37:28.080 What's the best way to follow you and your adventures? 1:37:28.080 --> 1:37:31.200 Michael Mosameti. So Michael M I C H A E L. 1:37:31.520 --> 1:37:35.000 Last name Motamedi m O T A M E b I. 1:37:35.600 --> 1:37:38.120 The latest podcast episode is out now. We actually just 1:37:38.120 --> 1:37:41.040 did an interview with Macy Gray Grammy Award winner Macy Gray, 1:37:41.040 --> 1:37:41.800 which is pretty fun. 1:37:42.000 --> 1:37:45.320 Oh wow, very cool and I've definitely enjoyed watching you 1:37:45.800 --> 1:37:46.880 travel for the past year. 1:37:46.920 --> 1:37:48.240 Where are you off to next. 1:37:49.080 --> 1:37:51.680 We are actually we haven't made the announcement yet, but 1:37:51.880 --> 1:37:53.840 we are on our way to curse ow. 1:37:54.240 --> 1:37:56.400 Oh wow. That be really really fun, amazing. 1:37:56.439 --> 1:37:57.760 I love it, and I love the fact that you're 1:37:57.800 --> 1:38:00.360 able to do this and continue to bring us the 1:38:00.360 --> 1:38:03.080 weirdest stuff that you've eaten in all of these different countries. 1:38:03.120 --> 1:38:05.479 So thank you for doing the stuff that I personally 1:38:05.520 --> 1:38:08.920 won't do because I'm too scared. There you go, one 1:38:08.960 --> 1:38:12.479 hundred percent, Michael MOTAMEDI thanks so much for joining me today. 1:38:13.240 --> 1:38:16.640 Check it out guide geek dot Ai. I'll link it 1:38:16.720 --> 1:38:20.320 up on the website and his podcast as well. Richon 1:38:20.439 --> 1:38:22.599 Tech dot TV just hit the light bulb. 1:38:22.880 --> 1:38:23.200 All right. 1:38:23.280 --> 1:38:25.959 Coming up, we are going to do a couple more items. 1:38:26.320 --> 1:38:29.520 Disney Hulu and Max are teaming up. There's a security 1:38:29.600 --> 1:38:33.720 update for iTunes on Windows, in an iPhone scam you 1:38:33.760 --> 1:38:37.519 don't want to fall for. Plus the feedbag segment you 1:38:37.720 --> 1:38:44.360 are listening to rich on Tech. Let's get through a 1:38:44.360 --> 1:38:47.080 couple items here. Before we get to the feedbag, Disney 1:38:47.160 --> 1:38:51.760 Hulu and Max announce a streaming bundle partnership. Can you 1:38:51.800 --> 1:38:55.840 believe this? Disney and Warner Brothers collaborating to offer a 1:38:55.880 --> 1:39:00.960 streaming bundle that includes Disney Plus Hulu and Max. Now, 1:39:01.000 --> 1:39:04.559 these are two separate companies, but they are teaming up 1:39:04.640 --> 1:39:08.120 to offer a streaming bundle otherwise known as in the 1:39:08.160 --> 1:39:09.400 past cable tv. 1:39:10.439 --> 1:39:11.840 So we've come full circle here. 1:39:12.800 --> 1:39:15.920 There will be ad supported and ad free options. Pricing 1:39:15.960 --> 1:39:18.880 and details are not announced, but it will launch in 1:39:18.920 --> 1:39:22.559 the US this summer. I'm expecting the pricing to be 1:39:22.720 --> 1:39:25.839 attractive at first. And by the way, all these streaming 1:39:25.840 --> 1:39:28.400 companies want you to pay for a year in advance now, 1:39:29.240 --> 1:39:30.479 and they want you to pay for a yur in 1:39:30.520 --> 1:39:32.920 advance so you save the most money. But let me 1:39:32.960 --> 1:39:34.439 tell you why they want you to pay for a 1:39:34.520 --> 1:39:37.280 year in advance, because guess what you are going to 1:39:37.360 --> 1:39:40.720 forget when that renewal time comes up and now you 1:39:40.880 --> 1:39:44.960 have exactly a day to cancel or whatever, because now 1:39:44.960 --> 1:39:46.960 you're gonna get charged for a whole year in advance 1:39:47.000 --> 1:39:48.760 on that next time and you're like, oh, I'll just 1:39:48.840 --> 1:39:52.200 let it ride. Instead of every month, if you're doing 1:39:52.240 --> 1:39:55.240 something by the month, you have every month to cancel this, 1:39:55.320 --> 1:39:57.240 you only have a little window every year where you're 1:39:57.240 --> 1:40:00.360 probably gonna forget and you're gonna get ding for another 1:40:00.479 --> 1:40:04.920 year there, Apple has released a security update for iTunes 1:40:04.920 --> 1:40:08.280 on Windows. As you might remember, Apple has launched standalone 1:40:08.320 --> 1:40:10.080 apps for Apple Music and Apple TV. 1:40:10.600 --> 1:40:12.760 But if you still want to get podcasts. 1:40:12.280 --> 1:40:15.560 Or use iTunes for something on Windows, there's still iTunes 1:40:15.600 --> 1:40:21.360 as a standalone app. It's version twelve point thirteen point two. 1:40:21.479 --> 1:40:24.720 There is a security vulnerability in the app, so if 1:40:24.720 --> 1:40:28.520 you have iTunes for Windows still installed on your system, 1:40:29.160 --> 1:40:31.320 check for updates using the app. 1:40:31.360 --> 1:40:32.360 If you installed it through. 1:40:32.240 --> 1:40:36.600 The Microsoft Store, it should automatically update. But again, if 1:40:36.640 --> 1:40:39.960 you're using iTunes on Windows, check for a security update. 1:40:41.160 --> 1:40:44.800 And speaking of the iPhone, don't fall for this new scam. 1:40:45.280 --> 1:40:49.639 It's called the iPhone activation lock scam. Basically, if your 1:40:49.680 --> 1:40:53.400 phone is lost and it's locked, you might get a 1:40:53.439 --> 1:40:56.600 text from someone claiming they have access to your personal information. 1:40:57.200 --> 1:40:59.080 They say, oh, we have your phone and we found 1:40:59.120 --> 1:41:02.040 it and we just want to erase it. So just 1:41:02.479 --> 1:41:04.640 you know, they try to urge you to remove your 1:41:04.680 --> 1:41:07.920 iPhone from your Apple ID so that you know your 1:41:07.960 --> 1:41:10.840 information is safe. But what they're really trying to get 1:41:10.840 --> 1:41:13.960 you to do is get rid of activation lock. Because 1:41:14.000 --> 1:41:17.280 let's say someone steals your iPhone and you report it 1:41:17.320 --> 1:41:21.200 as lost or stolen. A person who finds that iPhone, 1:41:21.280 --> 1:41:23.879 they can go through the whole motions of factory resetting 1:41:23.960 --> 1:41:25.800 if they know what to do. But when they try 1:41:25.840 --> 1:41:28.960 to activate that phone, it's gonna say sorry, there's an 1:41:28.960 --> 1:41:31.479 activation lock. You got to contact this person to get 1:41:31.479 --> 1:41:33.479 that lock removed. So that's what they're trying to do. 1:41:33.760 --> 1:41:37.000 They're trying to trick you into removing that activation lock, 1:41:37.040 --> 1:41:40.040 and once you do, they then have full access to 1:41:40.160 --> 1:41:42.120 your device. They're not going to have your personal information 1:41:42.240 --> 1:41:44.839 per se, but then they can now set that device 1:41:45.000 --> 1:41:49.320 up as their own. So if anyone says, hey, you know, 1:41:49.360 --> 1:41:51.280 we found your phone, can you please take off this 1:41:51.400 --> 1:41:54.120 activation lock so we can you know, save it for 1:41:54.200 --> 1:41:57.080 you and make sure everything's safe, do not listen to them. 1:41:57.120 --> 1:42:00.479 That is the part that is the scam. If your 1:42:00.520 --> 1:42:03.040 phone is tied to your Apple ID, your personal data 1:42:03.160 --> 1:42:07.040 is safe and the stolen device is useless to thieves. 1:42:07.439 --> 1:42:09.160 And by the way, you might also want to enable 1:42:09.200 --> 1:42:15.040 the new stolen device protection that Apple has enabled. All right, 1:42:15.200 --> 1:42:19.599 let's get to the feedbag. This is a combination of 1:42:20.000 --> 1:42:23.080 your feedback and also the mail bag. I call it 1:42:23.120 --> 1:42:27.679 the feedbag, And so let's get right into that. Let's see. 1:42:27.680 --> 1:42:30.360 This one's actually funny. This is from my mother in law. 1:42:30.800 --> 1:42:34.960 She said, Hi, Oh, whoops, never mind, I thought it 1:42:35.040 --> 1:42:37.080 was feedback. It's actually a question, so I got it. 1:42:37.120 --> 1:42:38.000 That's another segment. 1:42:40.439 --> 1:42:44.439 Let's see Richard in Hilton, New York. Interesting. 1:42:44.800 --> 1:42:46.920 A couple weeks ago, you mentioned an earbud that was 1:42:46.920 --> 1:42:48.760 selling for about one hundred and twenty dollars. I thought 1:42:48.760 --> 1:42:50.800 to myself, I have an earbud, the best I ever had, 1:42:50.880 --> 1:42:54.400 for ten dollars. It's called the new Bee, available on 1:42:54.479 --> 1:42:57.280 Amazon and Walmart. I use it only for a connection 1:42:57.320 --> 1:42:59.080 to my PC and iPad. I do not use it 1:42:59.120 --> 1:43:02.000 with my cell phone. But it's very clear, excellent range, 1:43:02.040 --> 1:43:04.160 holds a charge forever. It's the best I ever had. 1:43:04.280 --> 1:43:06.360 Love your show, all right. 1:43:06.400 --> 1:43:08.599 I haven't tried it, but Richard says, the new Bee 1:43:08.600 --> 1:43:13.000 on Amazon and Walmart for ten bucks. Why not? Let's see. 1:43:14.360 --> 1:43:16.880 Oh my gosh, there's so many emails here, Michael says, 1:43:17.640 --> 1:43:20.479 your caller wondered if one hundred slash five is enough. 1:43:20.520 --> 1:43:22.600 My experience, most people think they need way more than 1:43:22.640 --> 1:43:27.360 they actually do. My elderly parents have had thirty down 1:43:27.720 --> 1:43:30.240 five up for two to three TV streaming twenty four 1:43:30.280 --> 1:43:32.840 to seven. I'm always amazed at how much data they use, 1:43:32.840 --> 1:43:35.920 over one terabyte a month. With these slow speeds, you 1:43:35.920 --> 1:43:37.920 could have asked if anyone in the home was a gamer, 1:43:37.960 --> 1:43:40.680 as they're more sensitive to the latency of congestion. 1:43:40.960 --> 1:43:42.960 Yes, that is very true. 1:43:43.760 --> 1:43:48.880 And let's see here. Okay, there's just yeah, there's just 1:43:49.600 --> 1:43:50.679 too many questions here. 1:43:51.720 --> 1:43:52.280 Oh, here we go. 1:43:52.320 --> 1:43:56.600 Here's a comment, Franklin says in Butler, Pennsylvania. Thanks so 1:43:56.720 --> 1:44:01.439 much for all the great info, Rich Franklin, and Bruce 1:44:01.560 --> 1:44:03.920 in San Diego says, Hey, Rich, I followed your advice 1:44:03.960 --> 1:44:06.479 and I checked Google for the dark web. Everything turned 1:44:06.520 --> 1:44:08.800 up clean. Also, I was able to add a two 1:44:08.840 --> 1:44:12.120 step verification to my account. Thanks again, Bruce and San Diego. 1:44:12.840 --> 1:44:14.960 All right, that is going to do it for this 1:44:15.040 --> 1:44:17.439 episode of the show. Next time, I'll be more organized 1:44:17.439 --> 1:44:19.720 for my feedback. Caught me off guard. There you can 1:44:19.760 --> 1:44:21.400 find links to everything I mentioned on the website. Go 1:44:21.439 --> 1:44:23.080 to rich on tech dot tv. You can find me 1:44:23.240 --> 1:44:25.320 on social media. I am at rich on Tech. 1:44:25.400 --> 1:44:27.320 Next week it is Google Io. 1:44:27.520 --> 1:44:29.479 I can't wait to hear about all the goodies they 1:44:29.520 --> 1:44:31.679 are going to launch when it comes to AI. Thanks 1:44:31.720 --> 1:44:33.519 so much for listening. There are so many ways you 1:44:33.520 --> 1:44:36.240 can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending it 1:44:36.360 --> 1:44:38.599 right here with me. My name is rich Demiro. 1:44:38.840 --> 1:44:40.120 I'll talk to you real soon