Speaker 1: What's going on? I'm rich Demiro and this is Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech, the podcast where I talk about the stuff
Speaker 1: that I think you should know about happening in the
Speaker 1: tech world. It is also where I answer the questions
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Speaker 1: carrier pigeon, Carrier pigeon. There's producer Megan. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 1: What happened to the hey? Hey hey?
Speaker 2: I've never had a you had a.
Speaker 1: Little catchphrase hello Yeah, Nope, you had one a little bit.
Speaker 1: You were like, hey, hey.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, I think that was one time.
Speaker 1: I remember it. I think the community remembers it well.
Speaker 1: But anyway, how's it going? Good? Good?
Speaker 2: Some crazy stories this week?
Speaker 1: This was a secretly weirdly busy week. And I mean
Speaker 1: everything from like how are you the head of Amazon?
Speaker 1: And have your iPhone hacked? Yeah? I mean, what is
Speaker 1: going on there? I did a really cool story this
Speaker 1: week with a contact lens that is like this. There
Speaker 1: are some stories you go on and I this happens often,
Speaker 1: but not you know me, Like I most of the time,
Speaker 1: when I get a story or I see something in
Speaker 1: real life, I kind of give you like the real deal.
Speaker 1: I'm like, here's what's going on with that? Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I'm not that impressed most of the time. Other times
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is really cool. Here's why. Contact Lens
Speaker 1: was one of those moments where I'm like, this is
Speaker 1: amazing and this is the future, even though I didn't
Speaker 1: believe it would be. It really what they showed me
Speaker 1: in that room was like whoa. It just it had
Speaker 1: me thinking for the rest of the day like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is really cool. Then another thing that did is
Speaker 1: this app I'm gonna talk about later. That is just amazing.
Speaker 1: For when it comes to, you know, finding all the
Speaker 1: stuff that's streaming on your like Netflix and Disney Plus,
Speaker 1: it's so crazy out there, like I don't know what
Speaker 1: do you have? What's streaming services? You have got Apple.
Speaker 2: Tvababy Plus, Apple TV, Netflix and Hulu.
Speaker 1: And like, just so I'm imagining every night when you
Speaker 1: want to find someone to watch, it's like you know,
Speaker 1: ping pong between these things and you're like, oh, let
Speaker 1: me check this and let me go back, and then
Speaker 1: your brain has to make a decision and then you
Speaker 1: go back into that thing and then you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: let me find that again, it's such a mess right now,
Speaker 1: it's too much. This makes cable TV look like a
Speaker 1: cakewalk streaming services right now for reals. Anyway, all right,
Speaker 1: well let's just get right into it, because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of stories this week, and the first one that
Speaker 1: I just think is insane is this Jeff Bezos, you know,
Speaker 1: head of Amazon, trillionaire getting his iPhone hacked. Now, when
Speaker 1: I first heard this story and I heard that his
Speaker 1: his phone was hacked, I was like, oh, well, clearly
Speaker 1: it's an Android, because there's no way what they're talking
Speaker 1: about could be done on an iPhone, like everything sandboxed.
Speaker 1: Everything kind of runs in its own little world and
Speaker 1: nothing kind of talks to each other. But no, this
Speaker 1: was an iPhone.
Speaker 2: Ten Do you picture him with an Android?
Speaker 1: I did when I heard this story. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's probably some.
Speaker 2: Probably as an android.
Speaker 1: No, I just I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, like I I have no I I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: iPhone interesting, it's very ihe I.
Speaker 1: Don't know if most people care. Maybe you do, but
Speaker 1: I really am interested in what people carry around as
Speaker 1: their phone on a daily basis. It's like it's very intriguing.
Speaker 2: Like did he update right, Like did he upgrade right
Speaker 2: when the new iPhone came out?
Speaker 1: Like I wouldn't know because he has an iPhone ten.
Speaker 1: So he's clearly rocking, not even like the TENN S
Speaker 1: or the TENNS max or multiple eleven too, I don't think.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of tough to to juggle multiple phones.
Speaker 1: I mean I do that, and it's it's hard, not easy,
Speaker 1: all right, So what happened He was having a WhatsApp
Speaker 1: conversation with a Saudi prince, right, is that what it is?
Speaker 1: A Saudi prince? Yeah, And next thing you know, the
Speaker 1: Saudi prince sent some sort of video to his phone,
Speaker 1: and his phone was hacked, and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the data on his phone went from an average of
Speaker 1: four hundred and thirty kilobits per day to one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty six megabytes a day. So it just started
Speaker 1: siphoning off information from his phone. Now, I don't even
Speaker 1: understand how that would work on an iPhone because for
Speaker 1: anything to get access to your phone, if it's a
Speaker 1: regular app, you have to give permission, Hey can we
Speaker 1: access your contacts? Can we access your photos?
Speaker 2: Just suck out.
Speaker 1: But so I think the theory is that this was
Speaker 1: operating on kind of the inside of his phone, like
Speaker 1: a at a very base level of his phone that
Speaker 1: had access that most apps don't have. So it's really weird.
Speaker 1: It's like some super like deep stuff going on here.
Speaker 1: But long story short, I was just trying to figure out,
Speaker 1: like what's the takeaway for me and you, because if
Speaker 1: this can happen to Jeff Bezos, this can happen anyone.
Speaker 1: And the reality is apparently he had a setting toggled
Speaker 1: on that was in WhatsApp, and this isn't a lot
Speaker 1: of apps steal Yeah, please let others take all my info.
Speaker 1: That is basically auto down load media. So when you
Speaker 1: get a file sent to you, like a video, it
Speaker 1: will download it to your phone automatically. And that's convenient
Speaker 1: because then you don't have to wait. Like let's say
Speaker 1: you send me a video file, I don't have to
Speaker 1: wait for it to download, Like when I get to
Speaker 1: my phone and open it up, it's already there. It's
Speaker 1: been delivered, it's been signed to delivered that yeah, and
Speaker 1: I think most people do. But you should probably turn
Speaker 1: that off. And it's on WhatsApp, this is on on sapp.
Speaker 1: But this has to do with a lot of different
Speaker 1: apps out there. Most of the time, the first time
Speaker 1: you use a messaging app, it'll say like, do you
Speaker 1: want a preview of a link? When someone sends you
Speaker 1: a link? And I always turn that on because I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's easy to see, you know. It shows you like
Speaker 1: a little web page or like a little if someone
Speaker 1: sends you an Instagram link, it'll send you like a
Speaker 1: little you know, a little preview of what that link
Speaker 1: can take.
Speaker 2: Inspiring so many hackers right now.
Speaker 1: I mean you have to be pretty heavy duty to
Speaker 1: figure out a hack like this, Like this is really
Speaker 1: this is like government based, this is this is like
Speaker 1: super duper intelligent. You can't you and I could not
Speaker 1: do this right, Like I could be like, hey, what
Speaker 1: was your secret code word again? And you might be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was pigeon, and I'm like, oh, thank you. Wait.
Speaker 2: What what I'm confused about is like there's so many
Speaker 2: layers to the story, Like did they meet once?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think they were friends. I think they were
Speaker 1: I think they had.
Speaker 2: A meeting and they friend hacked him.
Speaker 1: No, I think no, that's that's it's all concluded. And
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not going to get into the
Speaker 1: whole Saudi prince relationship thing, but it is fascinating. It's
Speaker 1: also fascinating to me. I've always been fascinated by the
Speaker 1: idea of like Jeff Bezos' everyday life, Like what it's
Speaker 1: like to wake up, like have breakfast in his house,
Speaker 1: like go to work, like get to to get to work,
Speaker 1: like be out, be throughout the day. Like what does
Speaker 1: he do for lunch? She's like, uh, you know, to
Speaker 1: his assistant, like, can you order me WI typical egg
Speaker 1: whites and spinach? He does, Yeah, he does whatever anyway,
Speaker 1: All right, time for the first question. Enough about Jeff.
Speaker 2: Okay, so if you want Rich to answer your tech question,
Speaker 2: go to his website site Rich on tech dot tv
Speaker 2: and hit the contact button to send your question. So
Speaker 2: this first question comes from Diane. I need help in
Speaker 2: switching from Google to one of the more secure search
Speaker 2: engines that you mentioned this morning. So this was back, yeah,
Speaker 2: a couple a couple of days ago. She said, she's
Speaker 2: seventy eight and she does not understand She yeah, she
Speaker 2: does not understand most of the jargon associated with computers. Anyways,
Speaker 2: So can we go through some of the websites that
Speaker 2: we mentioned.
Speaker 1: Okay, and she wants to know how to switch to
Speaker 1: those okay, because I mentioned on TV that you know,
Speaker 1: like okay. So this all came about because I talked
Speaker 1: about that one search that Verizon one, and then I
Speaker 1: gave you know that like protects your privacy. We talked
Speaker 1: about this extensively in the last show. The other ones
Speaker 1: were Duck dot Go, Startpage, dot com, and then something
Speaker 1: called quant out of France. So Diane is asking. I
Speaker 1: said on TV, you can switch your default search engine
Speaker 1: on iPhone, on Android, on the on Chrome, on your desktop.
Speaker 1: Pretty much any web browser lets you switch your default
Speaker 1: search engine. So on iPhone, you go into your settings
Speaker 1: and then you look for Safari, and under Safari you'll
Speaker 1: see more settings, and you go and you look for
Speaker 1: search engine, and inside there you can select which search
Speaker 1: engine you want to use. Now, on iPhone, as far
Speaker 1: as I can see, with Safari, it doesn't seem like
Speaker 1: you can put in your own. I only see Google, Yahoo, Bing,
Speaker 1: and duck duck Go. So if you wanted one that's
Speaker 1: more private, duck dot go. Now you can also download
Speaker 1: a whole web browser that like like I think duck
Speaker 1: duck go has like its own app I'm sure these
Speaker 1: other ones do as well, Like one Search. I'm sure
Speaker 1: they have like their own apps that you can download.
Speaker 1: If you're on Android, you probably love Google, so you're
Speaker 1: probably not gonna change your stuff. And on android's tracking
Speaker 1: in a lot of different ways, so it may not
Speaker 1: make that most sense. But you can open up Chrome.
Speaker 1: You can go into menu, which is the three little
Speaker 1: dots in the upper right hand corner, Settings and search engine,
Speaker 1: and on Chrome you can set it to whatever you want.
Speaker 1: And I had a lot of luck setting it to
Speaker 1: all kinds of things very easily. The main thing is
Speaker 1: that you just have to use that search engine once
Speaker 1: on your phone or on Chrome rather and it then
Speaker 1: registers in the list. It'll be like, oh, do you
Speaker 1: want to we noticed you use this? Do you want
Speaker 1: to set that as your search engine? And on Chrome
Speaker 1: desktop you go into Settings, then search Engine, then manage
Speaker 1: search Engines, and again you just look at the list
Speaker 1: of all the places that you've used for search, and
Speaker 1: it comes up with a lot of websites like you
Speaker 1: can even set like Macy's dot com as you like
Speaker 1: to fall search. It's like every time you search, it's
Speaker 1: like it comes up yeah, like whatever close match your search.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can actually do Macy's, but
Speaker 1: it does come up with like almost every website you
Speaker 1: go to that has a search bar. Let me just
Speaker 1: see you real quick. So if I go to manage
Speaker 1: search engines, yeah, like you can set it as anything
Speaker 1: like you can even Yeah, you can basically set it
Speaker 1: as anything Amazon, whatever you want. So you just click
Speaker 1: the three little dots next to the search engine and
Speaker 1: you set it as your default. Now, the only thing
Speaker 1: I will say with that is I tried doing this
Speaker 1: to start Page for like literally one search, and I
Speaker 1: couldn't deal with it because you don't realize just how
Speaker 1: much Google presents you information without you having to do
Speaker 1: a lot of work. So, with the example of start Page,
Speaker 1: which I thought was good because it gives you Google results,
Speaker 1: I just search for CVS pharmacy. And now normally if
Speaker 1: you do that on Google, you're gonna get a little
Speaker 1: thing at the top that shows you your closest CVS
Speaker 1: in a map, along with a website link, along with
Speaker 1: a button to call that or a map so you
Speaker 1: can get directions to it. Versus, if you don't have
Speaker 1: Google set and you just have start Page, you're gonna
Speaker 1: literally get like CVS Pharmacy a link to just like
Speaker 1: general the web page.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's like that, I don't know where you
Speaker 2: they don't know where you are.
Speaker 1: It doesn't help, right exactly. So anyway, there are some
Speaker 1: quirks associated with switching your search engine, and I'm not
Speaker 1: ready to do that. I personally love Google. I love
Speaker 1: the personalization, I love how it knows about me, and
Speaker 1: I love all that stuff. So I'm good with it
Speaker 1: for now. Speaking of privacy, so if you thought your
Speaker 1: iCloud backups were encrypted and safe and secure, well not
Speaker 1: so much. There's a report from Reuter's that says Apple
Speaker 1: considered making iCloud backups the most secure they can be,
Speaker 1: which is called end to end encryption, but they decided
Speaker 1: not to because the FBI complained to them. Now, this
Speaker 1: is a report from sources. This is not fact, but
Speaker 1: this is what they are reporting, and it is no
Speaker 1: matter what the story is, whether Apple succumb to pressure
Speaker 1: or not, it still tells us a lot about our
Speaker 1: iCloud backups. And to me, this was news to me
Speaker 1: because if you go on Apple's website and you look
Speaker 1: at the iCloud backup, it says encrypted. It does not
Speaker 1: say end to end encrypted. Now what does that mean?
Speaker 1: It means that Apple, even though your iCloud backup, which
Speaker 1: has your texts in it, it has your contacts, it
Speaker 1: has all your I Cloud information, your photos, who you call,
Speaker 1: all kinds of data. I mean, there's just a ton
Speaker 1: of data in there. Well, it means that Apple can
Speaker 1: unlock that data. They hold the key to the encryption
Speaker 1: on their end. So when the FBI comes to them,
Speaker 1: it says, hey, we know you won't help us unlock
Speaker 1: Megan's phone because we get it you don't do that,
Speaker 1: but do you mind helping us out by giving us
Speaker 1: just a copy of Megan's last iCloud backup? And they say,
Speaker 1: do you have a warrant? You? What's this for? Blah blah,
Speaker 1: And according to this article, like ninety percent of the
Speaker 1: time they say yes. Wow. So even though you thought
Speaker 1: you were being safe and encrypted, not really. The government
Speaker 1: can kind of have almost direct access to your data,
Speaker 1: which is kind of scary. Everything, I mean pretty much
Speaker 1: everything is in iCloud. Wow. So yeah, So the way
Speaker 1: around this is basically, if you want a fully encrypted
Speaker 1: backup of your phone, you have to ditch iCloud and
Speaker 1: you have to go back to plugging your phone into
Speaker 1: your computer and using iTunes and making sure that you
Speaker 1: select the option that says, well, now there's no iTunes
Speaker 1: but music. No, it's actually through Finder now. So you
Speaker 1: would just plug it in, your phone would show up
Speaker 1: and Finder, you would click your phone name and then
Speaker 1: look up in backups and make sure you click the
Speaker 1: option for encrypt backup. And so once you do that,
Speaker 1: it will be encrypted and nobody can have access to that.
Speaker 1: Like that's it. And if you forget your code or
Speaker 1: your pass code to your phone, your SOL, you'll have
Speaker 1: to start over. So wow, yeah, kind of crazy, but
Speaker 1: I'm glad. No matter what if the report's right or wrong,
Speaker 1: like whether Apple's to come to pressure because they were
Speaker 1: going to encrypt them two years ago. Whether that's true
Speaker 1: or not, it doesn't really matter. It has now brought
Speaker 1: light to the fact that Apple does not fully encrypt
Speaker 1: these things, so that's kind of important for consumers.
Speaker 2: Now people know.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: This next question comes from Tiffany high Rich today, without
Speaker 2: any new update. I started getting ads when I opened
Speaker 2: a text message, mostly for games, and I have to
Speaker 2: close out the AD tech to continue to read the text.
Speaker 2: Is this new and how can it be stopped? PSI
Speaker 2: have a Samsung Galaxy and have been with Sprint for
Speaker 2: at least twenty years.
Speaker 1: This is an interesting one because this is I think
Speaker 1: a Android only issue because on iPhone, again, like I've said,
Speaker 1: when something's in the background, it's not running. So even
Speaker 1: if there was an app, the worst it can do
Speaker 1: on your phone is really send you a notification like
Speaker 1: you've seen notifications spam. My kids download these games that
Speaker 1: I call them tycoon games that they want you to
Speaker 1: play all the time, so they're always sending you notifications
Speaker 1: like hey, your villagers are going hungry, make sure you
Speaker 1: play hop back in the game, or you know, one
Speaker 1: thousand more gold coins till you reach the top of
Speaker 1: the mountain or whatever it is. Or your amusement park
Speaker 1: is looking low these days, can you build a new ride?
Speaker 1: Whatever it is? It's garbage and so I but that's
Speaker 1: how they spam you on iOS. That's like kind of
Speaker 1: the extent of it. On Android. Apps in the background
Speaker 1: can do a lot of stuff. They can serve up ads.
Speaker 1: They and take over a full screen ad with a
Speaker 1: little tiny X in the corner or no x. It
Speaker 1: makes you pause before you can do anything. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: this can happen while you're not using the app. So
Speaker 1: my theory is that some app that she downloaded onto
Speaker 1: her phone is serving up these ads in the background, right.
Speaker 2: Like maybe her child downloaded something, if.
Speaker 1: She has a kid, and like, yeah, and so what
Speaker 1: I would do is I would go through your entire
Speaker 1: app list and I would go through and uninstall anything
Speaker 1: that you don't use. And it could be, if I
Speaker 1: had to guess, it's probably a free game that's doing it,
Speaker 1: or it could be something more evil. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but it's crazy. It's just weird that
Speaker 1: it's probably not like something that's coming from the phone,
Speaker 1: I don't think. But I would again just go and disable.
Speaker 1: If you can't uninstall an app, disable it and then
Speaker 1: restart your phone and see if they still persist. But
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of annoying.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's got to be really cool, getting an
Speaker 2: AD every time you open a text.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, I mean, it's odd that it's happening when
Speaker 1: she's opening the text. And yeah, it could be that
Speaker 1: she's using a third party text messaging app that maybe
Speaker 1: does have ads, but it usually wouldn't be that intrusive
Speaker 1: even if it was, but it could be.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Speaking of apps, quake Alert USA now available. If you
Speaker 1: live in the Los Angeles area or the California area,
Speaker 1: it is essential that you have one of these earthquake
Speaker 1: early warning apps. And this is one that I've been
Speaker 1: talking to the developer for about two years now, and
Speaker 1: it took him a while to get this to market,
Speaker 1: but it is here. It's called quake Alert USA and
Speaker 1: it basically the first day of availability, they had tens
Speaker 1: of thousands of downloads and they actually even had their
Speaker 1: first alert, So this was crazy. This guy sent me
Speaker 1: the message that his app was now available, and I've
Speaker 1: had it on my phone since two years ago. He
Speaker 1: gave me access to the beta, so I've had it
Speaker 1: for a while now. But so the first night that
Speaker 1: this is available, there's an earthquake in the LA area,
Speaker 1: which I felt this one yep, quacker Alert USA, and
Speaker 1: I actually did not get an alert. And I asked him,
Speaker 1: I said, Josh, the guy who created it. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what's the deal? How come I didn't get an alert?
Speaker 1: And he said, well, you were actually not in the
Speaker 1: area of alerts, so you have to be in a
Speaker 1: certain magnitude and a certain shaking feeling. Now, the difference
Speaker 1: between this app and a lot of the other early
Speaker 1: warning apps is that you can actually set a threshold
Speaker 1: for how hard the shaking is to alert you. Okay,
Speaker 1: So if you want every single alert for like even
Speaker 1: the lowest threshold of shaking, you can get it. Or
Speaker 1: if you only want somebody that's really gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: rock your house back and forth, then you can set
Speaker 1: it that way as well. And you also get a
Speaker 1: countdown to shaking, which I think is really interesting. So
Speaker 1: it will count down on your phone screen earthquake in thirty,
Speaker 1: twenty nine, twenty eight, twenty seven, and it gives you
Speaker 1: instructions on what to do. Now. I did not grow
Speaker 1: up in California, so I did not know about this
Speaker 1: whole like get under a table thing. I would have
Speaker 1: run outside. And when I met Josh and interviewed him
Speaker 1: the first time, he's like, what are you doing an earthquake? Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm getting out dodge, I'm gonning, I'm running outside. He goes,
Speaker 1: that's how you get killed, because guess what's gonna fall
Speaker 1: on top of you? Something from the top of the
Speaker 1: building that you just ran outside. From I said, oh interesting,
Speaker 1: I never thought about that safest place go under a table?
Speaker 1: Did you know this? Did you grow up and learn this? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I did never learn this.
Speaker 2: And you cover your neck?
Speaker 1: Oh interesting. I would cover my phone screen.
Speaker 2: I know you would. That's the first thing you like,
Speaker 2: where's my phone? I can't drop yet?
Speaker 1: Okay, Uh anyway, so download it Quake alert USA.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this next question is from Tony.
Speaker 1: Oh Tony, hold on, this is for Tony. Remember that?
Speaker 1: Do you remember that?
Speaker 2: What's that from Tony the Tiger? Yes, which I love.
Speaker 2: That's like one of my favorite cereals.
Speaker 1: So you know they make chocolate now everything is chocolate now,
Speaker 1: Like every that I had as a kid is now
Speaker 1: there's a chocolate version. So okay, my kids are obsessed
Speaker 1: with cereal.
Speaker 2: But I miss it well because.
Speaker 1: We don't have a fridge in the text studio. I know, Jason,
Speaker 1: we need a.
Speaker 2: Fridge almond milk. Okay. So Tony asks, is there any
Speaker 2: way to make a Mac do a two factor authentication
Speaker 2: when someone logs into my computer? I'm okay if I
Speaker 2: use touch ID since that would be hard to break,
Speaker 2: But I'm worried if my computer is stolen someone could
Speaker 2: potentially guess my password and there is no second factor.
Speaker 2: I think this is a bit of a security issue.
Speaker 1: That is a great question. And I'm assuming he's talking
Speaker 1: about Mac because or actually Windows has a thumbprint as well.
Speaker 1: But he said touch ID specifically.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's for Max.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't think so. I don't think there is
Speaker 1: two factor right now. Apple has two factor authentication, not
Speaker 1: for every time you log in.
Speaker 2: It's for like iCloud.
Speaker 1: Well, it's for like the first time you log into something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for like yeah, well it just well so normally,
Speaker 2: like with my laptop, it's like after an hour if
Speaker 2: I tried to if I try to get in, I
Speaker 2: have to do the fingerprens right right, But he's saying
Speaker 2: like why.
Speaker 1: Can't Yeah, he wants it every single time he logs
Speaker 1: in someone you have to put in a code. Now,
Speaker 1: I think that would be really annoying. Yeah, that would
Speaker 1: be very annoying because how many times you unlock your
Speaker 1: computer day. And by the way, Megan, I would recommend
Speaker 1: this is what I do, okay is and I would recommend.
Speaker 2: This for anyone fingerprint just fingerprint.
Speaker 1: No, No, I'm just saying what I would recommend for locking.
Speaker 1: You said your computer locks after an hour if you
Speaker 1: work in a public shared place at work, two things
Speaker 1: I would do. Number one, if you have a Windows computer,
Speaker 1: when you walk up away from your desk, I would
Speaker 1: just tap the Windows in L at the same time,
Speaker 1: hold those two buttons down for a second, and it
Speaker 1: locks your computer gets you back to the locks you
Speaker 1: because you never know. I mean, we live in a
Speaker 1: world with corporate espionage and Jeff Bezos getting his phone hacked. Yes,
Speaker 1: so you don't want to leave your computer where anyone
Speaker 1: could just walk up to it and start using it.
Speaker 1: So when I use my Windows can at work, I
Speaker 1: always Windows in L boom lock it up. Second thing,
Speaker 1: on a Mac, I have a hot corner set up,
Speaker 1: So if you go to my Mac computer, if you
Speaker 1: if I right before I walk away from it, I
Speaker 1: just move my mouse to the lower right hand corner
Speaker 1: and it locks my desktop. So that when like the
Speaker 1: other day, this is so this came into Plague of
Speaker 1: the day, Megan comes running in. She's like, oh, I'm.
Speaker 2: Just heading to right sat at the studio.
Speaker 1: Right I'm heading to the studio And she's like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, She's like, you forgot to save your script
Speaker 1: it's still open on your desktop. And she's like, no worries,
Speaker 1: I'll just I'll just go on your desktop and save it.
Speaker 1: I was like, you can't do that, Like, my computer
Speaker 1: is locked as soon as I walk away. So I
Speaker 1: had to go back and use my touch ID and
Speaker 1: it was fine. We got on the air. But still,
Speaker 1: so if you want to set that up, let's see
Speaker 1: how do you do that? You got to I forget
Speaker 1: how I do this. Okay. You go into a settings
Speaker 1: on your Mac computer mission control hot corners, and you
Speaker 1: can set whatever one you want as your hot corners. Personally,
Speaker 1: I have the upper left as mission control, which shows
Speaker 1: if I put my mouse in the upper left hand
Speaker 1: corner shows me all my windows, which I just love.
Speaker 1: If I put it in the lower left hand corner,
Speaker 1: it shows me my desktop, so I can drag and
Speaker 1: drop things and this and that. And if I do
Speaker 1: the right lower right, I lock the screen. Upper right
Speaker 1: I've not found a good use for. Also, that's where
Speaker 1: the little spotlight searches, so you go there more often
Speaker 1: than like other corners.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So so for your computer, is it always touch.
Speaker 1: Or well, it's it depends. I have my Apple Watch
Speaker 1: so if my Apple Watch decides to work with it,
Speaker 1: it will unlock when I get near my computer, when
Speaker 1: I go to the login screen. Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: using Bluetooth to do that. Got it. And then if
Speaker 1: that doesn't work, my new computer as touch ID, which
Speaker 1: I'll use. If that doesn't work, it's password. But again,
Speaker 1: to answer the question, I don't believe that Apple has
Speaker 1: a way that that forces you to two factor authentication
Speaker 1: every time you log in, and I think that would
Speaker 1: be kind of annoying for most people. Also, Tony, I
Speaker 1: think if you set your computer as lost, like in
Speaker 1: lost mode, once you do lose it, I think that
Speaker 1: there might be some more higher security precautions when you
Speaker 1: do that. That would be my guess.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 1: All right, now, let's talk about this contact lens that
Speaker 1: is just totally wild. It's from a company called Mojo Vision.
Speaker 1: I get it. So here's what happened. I think it
Speaker 1: was this week on Monday, this company came out of
Speaker 1: stealth and I saw all the articles posted online of
Speaker 1: all these people at CS that got a little I
Speaker 1: guess you could call it heads up or a sneak peek,
Speaker 1: not to use puns for the eye. At this company
Speaker 1: that's making an ar contact lens, an augmented reality contact lens,
Speaker 1: think terminator. Think you're looking through a contact lens that
Speaker 1: puts stuff into the world around you, like time, temperature,
Speaker 1: people's names, like when I look at your face, it
Speaker 1: would auto recognize it and say Megan mcmonagall and like
Speaker 1: have like more information about you.
Speaker 2: I think this is the first episode of Black Mirror.
Speaker 1: It's stuff like that.
Speaker 2: It's like something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so I was, you know, like, oh, all
Speaker 1: these tech people got to see this except me. Then
Speaker 1: I get a call from someone who remains on knowing.
Speaker 1: They're like, I got Mojo Vision in Los Angeles on Wednesday?
Speaker 1: Do you want to meet? And I'm like, why are
Speaker 1: you talking so softly? I can hear you just fine.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh okay, so yeah, would you like to
Speaker 1: meet with them? I said sure, and so we go
Speaker 1: over and uh, I was hesitant because I didn't really know.
Speaker 1: I was like, is this a scam? It's just kind
Speaker 1: of like bogus. No. Turns out it's pretty amazing. And
Speaker 1: so I put on this little contact lens which looks
Speaker 1: like a thick version of a contact lens, which actually
Speaker 1: will be the thickness, but it's like a medical grade
Speaker 1: contact lens, so apparently these are in use for other
Speaker 1: medical issues. It looks like a really thick do you
Speaker 1: wear context, it's like a it's like pretty thick, but
Speaker 1: it stays on your eyes. No, they said it works.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you think about your eye, I mean
Speaker 1: it's not really it's not like you're I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't wear contact, so I have no idea. But
Speaker 1: I put this little thing on, and or I didn't
Speaker 1: put it on, but I looked through it, and inside
Speaker 1: this lens is a tiny display, the world's tiniest display.
Speaker 1: They also have wireless power and wireless data transfer, and
Speaker 1: so you look through this thing and I'm looking at
Speaker 1: a screen and all of a sudden, like okay, one scenario,
Speaker 1: it's a business meeting where the person speaking like another language,
Speaker 1: and in your eyeball you're seeing everything translate in real time.
Speaker 1: So when they're saying nice to meet you, mister Demiro,
Speaker 1: I see that translated in English, even though they're talking
Speaker 1: a different language in English, and like I can respond
Speaker 1: to that, and then presumably they have to wear it
Speaker 1: to see the other side. Anyway. The other one was
Speaker 1: like bikers. You know, you look down at your watch
Speaker 1: when you're biking or you're running for all the data
Speaker 1: on how fast you're going and this and that. No,
Speaker 1: now you just look ahead on the horizon and all
Speaker 1: the data's right there. The other scenario was like a
Speaker 1: basketball game, which is showing you, like the shot clock
Speaker 1: and the score right in your eyes as you're watching
Speaker 1: the game. Then they took me into a dark room
Speaker 1: that was completely black, and I could actually see in
Speaker 1: the dark. Yeah, pretty much. And that's a little tricky
Speaker 1: because it uses AR or infrared light. But the craziest
Speaker 1: thing I did was they showed me what the operating
Speaker 1: system is going to look like. Because you're like, well,
Speaker 1: how do you use this thing?
Speaker 2: Yea, yeah, you charge it.
Speaker 1: Well, there's a little box that sits on your waist
Speaker 1: and that will give you like all the data on
Speaker 1: power that you need. So but the operating system, the
Speaker 1: way it works is it's kind of like imagine four
Speaker 1: corners in your eye. You look to the upper left
Speaker 1: to get your calendar, you look to the upper right
Speaker 1: to get the weather, you look to the lower right
Speaker 1: to get your to get your whatever. But the coolest
Speaker 1: thing was I asked the guy. I said, hey, this
Speaker 1: would be great for news anchors because we don't need
Speaker 1: to tell a prompter anymore. We can just read the
Speaker 1: script in our eyeballs. And he goes, that's part of
Speaker 1: the demo. And so at the end of the demo,
Speaker 1: I am doing a speech with the prompter in my eyes,
Speaker 1: where I'm just like talking to you, but I'm reading
Speaker 1: a speech in my eyeball.
Speaker 2: So do your eyes shift while you're reading it or
Speaker 2: you're just like staring.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the other thing. It automatically advances the script
Speaker 1: when you pause, the script pauses, it just sees the
Speaker 1: tiny movement in your eye and it goes by that,
Speaker 1: so it knows that you're reading up a little bit,
Speaker 1: and it's like it's just following your movie.
Speaker 2: It blows my mind, like, like does the dimensions of things?
Speaker 2: How does it?
Speaker 1: How do they It's amazing, I don't know. And how
Speaker 1: how they make something that tiny? Yeah, it's just it's
Speaker 1: it's mind boggling. This is a couple of years off.
Speaker 1: Initially it's going to be for people with vision issues,
Speaker 1: so like macular to get to macular degeneration, yeah, degeneration, uh,
Speaker 1: those kind of things. But eventually this is the kind
Speaker 1: of thing that you just imagine we will have in
Speaker 1: the future and we're all going to be terminator with vision.
Speaker 1: I love the idea of when you walk by someone,
Speaker 1: your little contact lenses automatically scanning their face and giving
Speaker 1: you all the information on them their latest social media updates,
Speaker 1: so you can see like, oh, they just in Hawaii.
Speaker 1: Your name, so like, I don't forget your name when
Speaker 1: I walk past you in the hallway and be.
Speaker 2: Like hey, mangan Wow, that is so crazy. Hey dude,
Speaker 2: I just this blows my mind.
Speaker 1: Do you have anyone here that you don't really know
Speaker 1: their name but you say hi to them a lot?
Speaker 1: I've got a whole laundry list.
Speaker 2: Uh, there are some people, a couple of people I
Speaker 2: can't like tell you because I don't know their name,
Speaker 2: but I.
Speaker 1: Know, but you know that you walk by that I
Speaker 1: know you. Yeah. For me, that's really tricky because yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, it's kind of that's see, that's an unfair
Speaker 1: advantage because that happens to me out and about like
Speaker 1: this will happen to me nine times out of ten.
Speaker 1: I will go up to like, let's say, a parking
Speaker 1: attendant or someone at the checkout and they'll just be like,
Speaker 1: all right, Rich, have a good day. I'm like what
Speaker 1: And every time I'm like wait what did that person?
Speaker 2: Still it still gets you.
Speaker 1: Every single time, every.
Speaker 2: Single time to say like a number. After a lot
Speaker 2: of years, after like two years of being on TV, everyone.
Speaker 1: Knows, but it is, it still gets you because it's
Speaker 1: it's an unnatural thing that most people don't have to
Speaker 1: deal with. And like, it still gets me because when
Speaker 1: I'm out at Costco and it's always weird because they
Speaker 1: just throw it in, they slide it in and then
Speaker 1: they'll do something. I'll like kind of like do something.
Speaker 2: I'll be like, oh, like no, I actually know you.
Speaker 2: My kid plays with your kid?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh yeah TV.
Speaker 2: And they're like wait what you're on TV.
Speaker 1: No. The best is when you go to a conference
Speaker 1: and they're like, all right, Rich, we'll get that right
Speaker 1: out for you. I'm like, oh, thank you, I'm on
Speaker 1: Channel five. Good to see you. Like now you have
Speaker 1: a badge on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, It's like I'm looking at your card like wow, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm just still thinking about the contact lens.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's it's wild.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this next question comes from John Rich. I
Speaker 2: was listening to YouTube streaming audio on my iPhone seven
Speaker 2: last night, and all of a sudden, at midnight, my
Speaker 2: LG smart O l E l ed TV in my
Speaker 2: family room turned itself on to the same song I
Speaker 2: was listening to. The audio stopped on my iPhone when
Speaker 2: this occurred. Do you have any idea what might have
Speaker 2: caused this?
Speaker 1: I believe this is some sort of casting of audio
Speaker 1: to your smart TV. So most of the smart TVs
Speaker 1: these days have some sort of receiver built in which
Speaker 1: talks to your phone, and when your phone is on
Speaker 1: the same Wi Fi network as your TV, or you know,
Speaker 1: these smart speakers and all this stuff, you can kind
Speaker 1: of what's called cast whatever you're doing on your phone,
Speaker 1: whether it's video or audio to your device, and it's
Speaker 1: pretty seamless. Now, I think it's odd that has happened automatically,
Speaker 1: but these phones, I think what happened is that he
Speaker 1: might have pressed the button in the upper right hand corner,
Speaker 1: the cast button. It looks like a little screen with
Speaker 1: a couple of waves coming out of it, and I
Speaker 1: think he might have pressed that just out of curiosity, like, oh,
Speaker 1: why that's weird. Yeah, And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: that triggered the casting. And when you do that, even
Speaker 1: if your TV is not actively on, it's smart enough
Speaker 1: to turn itself on when you start that process, which
Speaker 1: is pretty convenient. So in my house, when you turn
Speaker 1: on the Apple TV or the Fire TV, there's something
Speaker 1: called CEC control, which is I don't know what it
Speaker 1: stands for, but it basically all these manufacturers have worked
Speaker 1: together to say, hey, we know that when you turn
Speaker 1: on your Apple TV, you probably want your TV to
Speaker 1: turn on as well. So we're gonna go ahead, when
Speaker 1: you press the power button on your Apple TV, turn
Speaker 1: on your TV for you so you don't have to
Speaker 1: use two remotes. And that's the same thing with casting.
Speaker 1: When you cast something to your Chrome cast or your TV,
Speaker 1: we're going to assume you want that TV to come
Speaker 1: on so that you can actually hear or see what
Speaker 1: you're casting, right, And I think that's what happened here.
Speaker 1: It's not a ghost. It might have been a quirk.
Speaker 2: I mean, it could have been probably a ghost. That's Megan,
Speaker 2: that's what Megan thinks. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: It could have been a quirk that this happened automatically.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's just some sort of misfire, But I think
Speaker 1: that that's what happened, is or or when he opened
Speaker 1: YouTube music, it was already casting earlier in the day
Speaker 1: and it just kind of resumed the casting. There's a
Speaker 1: million things that could have happened here, but that's what
Speaker 1: I believe is going on. So it wasn't some sort
Speaker 1: of crazy weird you know, something taking over or TV. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I mean it could have been.
Speaker 1: If you have what's apped the Saudi Prince lately? What's
Speaker 1: his name?
Speaker 2: That's the name of it, Oh.
Speaker 1: John, John, If you've been what'sapping with the Saudi Prince,
Speaker 1: I'd be concerned because you made him in taken Over.
Speaker 2: Do you ever forget like when you connect your phone
Speaker 2: to your like speakers in your house and then you're
Speaker 2: going through like Instagram stories and like suddenly it's like
Speaker 2: super loud and it's like someone's concert.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I haven't had that at my house, but in
Speaker 1: my car because I do that because I I disconnect
Speaker 1: my bluetooth sometimes to listen. It's very complicated. But when
Speaker 1: I when I watch the packages that Okay, this is
Speaker 1: so in the weeds, but so basically our editor at
Speaker 1: the end of the day sends me my story on Dropbox,
Speaker 1: so I can watch it, yes, and I'll but when
Speaker 1: I do that, I don't want it to play through
Speaker 1: my car speakers because I'm usually in the car at
Speaker 1: the time, like I'm stopped on the side of the
Speaker 1: road right and I'm so I'm picking up my kids
Speaker 1: usually yeah, and uh so I don't want it through
Speaker 1: my speakers. I want it through my phone so I
Speaker 1: can hear it properly. And so sometimes I forget to
Speaker 1: when I reconnect in my car later, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the pack it starts playing in the car.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, And you're like, who, I like, what
Speaker 2: is that?
Speaker 1: I'm like, why am I hearing myself? It happens a lot.
Speaker 1: It happens often enough, So why I.
Speaker 2: Like open like an Instagram store and that it's playing
Speaker 2: on my speaker upstairs?
Speaker 1: That is disconcerting. But you know that, you know when
Speaker 1: it happens that you can fix it easily. All right,
Speaker 1: let's uh, let's see Okay, people are up in arms.
Speaker 1: What do you want me to talk about next? You
Speaker 1: want to talk about voting online or Google's new look?
Speaker 2: Oh, voting online?
Speaker 1: I know so this when I was a kid I
Speaker 1: never understood that why we couldn't vote online. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: come on, Like, doesn't it just make sense. You can
Speaker 1: vote from your phone. You do everything from your phone,
Speaker 1: I know. But voting is the last thing where you
Speaker 1: have to go into a weird place that you never go,
Speaker 1: like church.
Speaker 2: Go into your local school.
Speaker 1: Or a library, like all these places you would never
Speaker 1: normally go.
Speaker 2: It is random.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so I'm joking, don't come after me if
Speaker 1: you go to church.
Speaker 2: Or school or library your phone in.
Speaker 1: That's that's bogus. They totally no, that's totally bogus because
Speaker 1: everyone brings their phone in. And I last time I
Speaker 1: looked at my phone to see what my choices were.
Speaker 2: How yeah, how else am I supposed to figure out
Speaker 2: who's running for president? You have to google it?
Speaker 1: Uh so? Yeah, and you just vote for the first
Speaker 1: person that shows.
Speaker 2: Up there abe, whoever's first BBC.
Speaker 1: I just usually go through whatever the first vote things.
Speaker 2: I just do AAA.
Speaker 1: That's the easiest way to do it. Yeah. And you know,
Speaker 1: those voting people, by the way, know which dots are highlighted,
Speaker 1: and so they're just looking at you like they know
Speaker 1: where you.
Speaker 2: Voted for it when I turned in and they look
Speaker 2: at it and they're like.
Speaker 1: They like know, and they go like this to me,
Speaker 1: like are you sure. I'm like, excuse me, I want
Speaker 1: to try again.
Speaker 2: They like rip it up and throw it.
Speaker 3: Away, like we joke, that does not happen, total jokes.
Speaker 3: We don't even vote, So in yeah, we would have
Speaker 3: to vote to know about this stuff. So in Seattle,
Speaker 3: one point two million voters in the county will actually
Speaker 3: be able to vote from their mobile web browser from
Speaker 3: until election day, which they're trying to make more people
Speaker 3: vote because it's super easy.
Speaker 1: So voters go to this election website, enter their name
Speaker 1: and date of birth, they make their selections, and then
Speaker 1: they sign their name on their phone screen, and then
Speaker 1: election officials compare their signature, so I guess the signature
Speaker 1: that they have from their driver's license back in the
Speaker 1: day or somehow, and that's it. Their ballot is counted.
Speaker 1: Now I think this sounds amazing. It sounds like it's
Speaker 1: so easy to hack.
Speaker 2: This screams hack.
Speaker 1: But like, I don't know, but if you could have
Speaker 1: the whole US vote like on Facebook, and if you
Speaker 1: could have.
Speaker 2: The CEO of Amazon get yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Guess it's kind of scary. But I mean, but what's
Speaker 1: scarier They put these things in a little ballot box
Speaker 1: and they count them. And I mean I used to
Speaker 1: cover you know, I was a regular reporter when I
Speaker 1: first started out, and I used to cover elections all
Speaker 1: the time. And I remember I would go into the
Speaker 1: assessor's office and they would have, you know, those like
Speaker 1: mail crates that like say, do not steal. It's a
Speaker 1: mail crate. It's like a plastic crate. Seeing those around,
Speaker 1: it's just like those filled with ballots, and they would
Speaker 1: put them into machines and count them and then take
Speaker 1: those counts and tell them no, they woul put them
Speaker 1: in a machine that like kind of like a money
Speaker 1: counter and it would like count the votes. And that's
Speaker 1: the whole thing with the hanging chads is that you
Speaker 1: were probably too young, but they had this thing in
Speaker 1: like I think two thousand with the hanging chads were
Speaker 1: they were saying that the when you punch Now we
Speaker 1: use ink ins in California, at least in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: but back in the day, you would punch through the
Speaker 1: ballot to make a hole in it. Well, sometimes when
Speaker 1: you punched through the little piece of paper didn't fall off.
Speaker 1: So when you went and you put them all atop
Speaker 1: of each other, guess what, when the machine went to
Speaker 1: read that hole, it wouldn't be there because it would
Speaker 1: still feel like it was filled in. So that was
Speaker 1: the whole controversy. And anyway, my point is, voting in
Speaker 1: the current methods are not perfect by any means, no
Speaker 1: matter what. But it seems like this online voting would
Speaker 1: be awesome, but at the same time kind.
Speaker 2: Of crazy fact authentication.
Speaker 1: They need retina scan when you can vote in your
Speaker 1: contact lens. That sounds like a win.
Speaker 2: What's up? That's what's up?
Speaker 1: All right, Megan?
Speaker 2: Oh, it's me, It's okay. So this next question comes
Speaker 2: from Marisa, where we're definitely in Apple family with iPhones iPads.
Speaker 2: For the longest time, my two sons have shared just
Speaker 2: one iPad air. However, my for my oldest son's upcoming birthday,
Speaker 2: we are planning on giving him his personal iPad. My
Speaker 2: husband and I share the same iCloud and the same
Speaker 2: Apple story d we so we can we all share
Speaker 2: the same Sorry, this is kind of confusing. We all
Speaker 2: share this share the same iphotos library across all devices,
Speaker 2: but thinking if we can separate app Store purchases. I
Speaker 2: think it's time to move us to an iCloud family
Speaker 2: sharing sharing setup. But I'm so confused. Help. So I
Speaker 2: guess she just wants to know how to do that
Speaker 2: with her family.
Speaker 1: What sounds very confusing, I know, I don't.
Speaker 2: It was like really wordy, you want to read it.
Speaker 1: I'm so confused right now.
Speaker 2: With the with the question everything you mean?
Speaker 1: All right? So I think what she's asking is that
Speaker 1: they have been sharing iCloud logins and all this stuff.
Speaker 2: Is that what she's asking? She never asks a question.
Speaker 1: Well, I think she's She kind of says, she says,
Speaker 1: I'm confused.
Speaker 2: Help.
Speaker 1: Yes, So this is what I gather from her question.
Speaker 1: And the bottom line is that she should be setting
Speaker 1: up family sharing. So every person on her iCloud account,
Speaker 1: So start with the master account that's hers. Then add
Speaker 1: your husband. Now he should have his own login so
Speaker 1: he can create that logan on his own. Doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be a sub account whatever. Create that login. Then
Speaker 1: you claim that logan under yours. So it says add
Speaker 1: family members to your account. So you go into your
Speaker 1: settings so everyone gets their own login. So I had
Speaker 1: to do this with my kids, and it was weird
Speaker 1: to My five year old have his own iCloud login,
Speaker 1: but you do it, yeah, And when you do it,
Speaker 1: it basically just sets him up as an account. And
Speaker 1: he has his own iCloud account. So does my little kid.
Speaker 1: They both do, both my kids, but they're under my
Speaker 1: family account. So does my wife. So when you go
Speaker 1: into your iCloud under your settings, family sharing is where
Speaker 1: you set it up and you add a family member
Speaker 1: and you can invite via I message in person, or
Speaker 1: you can create a child account. So I would go
Speaker 1: into a family sharing first and create They didn't have
Speaker 1: create child account when I did it back in the day,
Speaker 1: but now you can just create child account. It'll walk
Speaker 1: you through the process. They become part of your account
Speaker 1: and then you can share everything. So for instance, we
Speaker 1: have two hundred gigs of storage. Ooh sounds big, right,
Speaker 1: it's not when you share it against four people. So
Speaker 1: we have two hundred gigs of storage and it's all
Speaker 1: shared among everyone. So when we back up our phones
Speaker 1: and our devices, you don't have to be paying for
Speaker 1: multiple different accounts with music and all that stuff. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to sign up for a family account. Basically
Speaker 1: every thing gets parsed out, and so you're not sharing everything.
Speaker 1: I know so many stories of people who share the
Speaker 1: same iCloud account. Next thing you know, they're getting each
Speaker 1: other's I messages because they're sharing one account, and they're like,
Speaker 1: why am I getting my wife's texts?
Speaker 2: Well, that's what my parents have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of people do. Yeah, and it's like, no, no,
Speaker 1: you got to parse these things out. So create your
Speaker 1: own account, but manage it and family sharing and Apple
Speaker 1: has thought of everything, so you're not. It's not like
Speaker 1: this unique scenario like no, they know, like you want
Speaker 1: to prove your kids' purchases, you want to use your
Speaker 1: credit card for your kids purchases, you want to use
Speaker 1: their credit card. Whatever you want to do, you can
Speaker 1: do it inside that app. Just play with those settings.
Speaker 2: So again, do not give your kids a credit card
Speaker 2: buy apps.
Speaker 3: No, definitely approves that they approval by everything.
Speaker 1: So again, it's settings on your iPhone or your iPad.
Speaker 1: Click your name, which is your Apple ID, and then
Speaker 1: go into family Sharing and you can set it all
Speaker 1: up there. Okay, finally, before we go, one quick mention
Speaker 1: of an app that has just changed my life overnight.
Speaker 1: It's called Real Good I got to give a shout
Speaker 1: out to my pal John who suggested this to me.
Speaker 1: I put a call out on Twitter for an app
Speaker 1: that can help me organize the movies that I want
Speaker 1: to watch, So bookmark things I want to watch, but
Speaker 1: also see where they're streaming. And there's been apps in
Speaker 1: the past. I've tried an app called Ydeo, I tried
Speaker 1: an app called just Watch, but none of them were
Speaker 1: very good. I tried IMDb would be the greatest solution,
Speaker 1: but Amazon clearly does not want you to watch things
Speaker 1: in other places because it'll show you something streaming on
Speaker 1: Prime but like nowhere else. And the Prime streaming thing
Speaker 1: is really confusing because theoretically everything's streaming on Prime. They
Speaker 1: don't really divide it up between like what's streaming for
Speaker 1: free and what's a paid stream, so that doesn't really work.
Speaker 1: I amdb, and it's also very cluttered. IMDb is like
Speaker 1: a mess, so but they do have everything anyway. So
Speaker 1: the app is called real Good and it is so
Speaker 1: far the best I found. The only downside is that
Speaker 1: it is only for iOS at this point. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: to say, but what you do when you sign up,
Speaker 1: you sign up and you say the services that you have.
Speaker 1: So all the TV services and the movie services, Netflix, Hulu, HBO,
Speaker 1: Prime Video, Showtime, Crunchy Role, Megan's favorite.
Speaker 2: I'm going through it right now, Crackle, Acorn TV.
Speaker 1: It's got everything. And so you go through, you say
Speaker 1: which ones you have subscriptions to. You also can say
Speaker 1: the TV everywhere. So let's say you have a subscription
Speaker 1: to Freedom or was it free Form? Your favorite network
Speaker 1: on TV used to be ABC Family. So you say that,
Speaker 1: and it will even tell.
Speaker 2: You when you look up Planet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you look up shows, it will tell you
Speaker 1: where it's streaming. But so here's what I did. I
Speaker 1: just went through and I bookmarked all the movies I
Speaker 1: want to watch, which is just a couple of Right now,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, Megan, funny you should ask let me
Speaker 1: say so, I will tell you. Let's see watch list
Speaker 1: movies Free Solo, The Two Popes Watching Six, Underground, Marriage Story, Aladdin, Uncut,
Speaker 1: gems Ford Versus Ferrari, Knives Out, Bombshell, A Beautiful Day
Speaker 1: in the Neighborhood nineteen seventeen, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,
Speaker 1: and the Final Countdown, as recommended by our pal gym
Speaker 1: oh Cool.
Speaker 2: Well, so where can you watch Once upon a Time
Speaker 2: in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Oh, exactly, tell me right now, it's just to rent
Speaker 1: or buy, so it will tell me. So there's two levels.
Speaker 1: One is the stuff that's already on my services, so
Speaker 1: I can just go through and those are the things
Speaker 1: I'll watch on a Friday night. Because here's how this
Speaker 1: all happened. I was I had free time the other
Speaker 1: day and I was gonna watch a movie. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: so I have all these screeners at my house and
Speaker 1: they're all DVDs, and so it's once Upon, It's all
Speaker 1: the new movies, Once upon a Time in Hollywood, bombshell,
Speaker 1: all these things. Well, I have no way of hooking
Speaker 1: it up because I have no DVD player. So I
Speaker 1: went into my garage. Oh for you, just give them
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 1: So I tried a million ways of using my computer
Speaker 1: as a DVD player, an old PS four, and I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, none of it was working like my
Speaker 1: PS four, Clearly I haven't turned it on.
Speaker 2: So you have to straight up by a DVD player.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm not gonna do that. So but I
Speaker 1: also refuse to pay for a movie where I had
Speaker 1: the DVD sitting in my hand. There's got to be
Speaker 1: an app that can help me figure out all the
Speaker 1: good movies that are already on my services.
Speaker 2: There is an app for this what well, I just.
Speaker 1: Told you about it Real Good.
Speaker 2: No, but there's an appems. What's it called? Never mind,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking of something else.
Speaker 1: Ever, I don't think you know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: Thanks, So anyway, today, check out real I thought it
Speaker 3: was very nice.
Speaker 1: Today. Check out Real Good. I think it is amazing.
Speaker 1: It's the best one that I've seen for these movies.
Speaker 1: And again, it helps you make the most of your
Speaker 1: streaming services. You're already paying for these things, or in
Speaker 1: Megan's instance, you're already on a family plan with these things,
Speaker 1: or sharing someone's password. Sol I am the family plan.
Speaker 1: I'm the one that's the host for all these people.
Speaker 1: If you look at my Netflix, where your account's being used,
Speaker 1: it's being used in places I haven't visited in years.
Speaker 1: I'm like, illin, who's streaming in Illinois? Because I don't
Speaker 1: know who's in Illinois using my account. Someone is, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's not good. It might actually be our corporate network here. Oh,
Speaker 1: but you know people. It's like if you look at
Speaker 1: my if Netflix decided to look into my account. They'd
Speaker 1: be like, they'd be like, we're canceling this guy because
Speaker 1: clearly he can't be in New Jersey wherever. All these
Speaker 1: places people are streaming in different devices all the same time.
Speaker 2: I thought that everything has to be in a certain rateto.
Speaker 1: No, they don't like crack Down and Netflix. If you're
Speaker 1: listening you want to cancel my account, go ahead, because
Speaker 1: nobody that's on my account will let me cancel it.
Speaker 1: Everyone's like, no, don't care. No, I don't care. I
Speaker 1: don't use Netflix. I could care less if Netflix went
Speaker 1: away tomorrow as a company, I would not even notice.
Speaker 1: I don't use Netflix. I don't care. I am paying
Speaker 1: sixteen nine a month for everyone else in the world
Speaker 1: to use Netflix. You can take sure. I only have
Speaker 1: five profiles.
Speaker 2: Out everyone on the podcast.
Speaker 1: So everyone has a profile. I've I've reached my max
Speaker 1: of five profiles.
Speaker 2: It'll be funny if you could have like hundreds of profiles.
Speaker 1: It's just like, clearly that would be like Bill Tell
Speaker 1: would be the ultimate Netflix power move to just be like, look,
Speaker 1: we really don't care. Yeah, so we are just going
Speaker 1: to get you know, We'll just give you.
Speaker 2: You get an account, and you get an account.
Speaker 1: And you get an account, and you get an account. Oh, Megan,
Speaker 1: I've said too much. How can people get in touch
Speaker 1: with you?
Speaker 2: I'm on Twitter at producer Megan.
Speaker 1: Did you pick up a lot of followers from the
Speaker 1: uh on TikTok?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't checked.
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