WEBVTT - Sell your old, even broken, gadgets for cash 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:15.360 Amazon sets this year's Prime Day. Air tags get their 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:16.960 first major update. 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:19.320 The website that will. 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:23.160 Buy your old gadgets for cash, even if they're broken. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:27.400 Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.240 Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:32.360 I talk about the tech stuff I think you should 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:36.120 know about. It's also the place where I answer the 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:40.480 questions you send me. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.680 Channel five in Los Angeles. Hope you are having a 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:48.639 fantastic day. We are into the summer. I don't even 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:50.319 know is it summer just yet? 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:50.760 I don't know. 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.000 I mean, you could be listening to this next year 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.440 for all I know, or you could be listening to 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:57.440 it last year. If you're a time traveler, that would 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:01.600 be interesting, butrobably wouldn't be listening to a podcast. You'd 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.080 be so rich that why would you be listening to 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:07.480 a podcast? I mean, seriously, you would be on an 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:11.560 island somewhere living off your bitcoin if you sold it 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:16.520 right before the giant bitcoin dip of twenty twenty one, 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:21.240 you'd be much smarter than me. Let's see, so I 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.840 was going through my I'm on this quest, you know, 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.560 to kind of clear out my Google drive, get things organized, 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:30.759 get it all backed up, and it is quite the process. 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:34.280 Everything's the process right when you as we acquire more 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.840 tech and digital stuff. But I was going through my 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.679 drive and I found all I went through and like 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:42.800 did a search for all my old audio files so 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.080 I can finally get them into one place. Of course, 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.280 I had like hundreds of duplicates, Like these files are 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.640 just duplicated one, two, three, four. Like I have this 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:53.800 thing where I can never like just delete stuff. I 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:55.600 always have to like make a copy of it just 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.640 in case before I delete there's like a backup, and 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:01.040 that makes all these extra files. Anyway, what I'm trying 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:02.680 to say is that I found a whole bunch of 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:04.800 old files that, like, if you've been listening to the 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:06.920 podcast for a long time, they've all had their place 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:08.280 in the podcast throughout the year. 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:12.680 So like this one, uh, I don't know, these were like. 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.200 This was like the music that I would use for 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.519 like the end of the show. Sounds like you're in 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:19.280 like a nightclub. 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:27.960 What about this one? You know, I'm obsessed with radio. 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.600 I've always loved radio my entire life, growing up as 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.720 zero one hundred New York and it's just like all 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.760 radio sounded like this back in the day. You're listening 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:42.680 to whtz Z one hundred New York. And then like 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.560 this kind of stuff, like all these little likes, this 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:49.280 was the one I always wanted. Drum roll, drum roll please, 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.919 Yes we have the new winner of the Amazon Echo. 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:57.760 Say hello, how about this one? Like all this kind 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:59.880 of stuff, like you are tuned in to the war. 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:04.600 It's leading broadcaster from the top of the Empire State Building. 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:10.080 And then this was my intro initiating rich on Tech. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.960 This was from DJ Ski. He made a couple of 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.600 intros for me back in the day. And then this, 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.560 if you remember, was the original intro to the podcast 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:26.360 a long time ago. Not the original, but it was 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:28.960 definitely one of the one of the there's been many, 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:34.520 is it permutation, permutations, permutations, permutations. I don't know how 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:36.080 you say that word. I always say that a lot. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.960 Someone should do a clip of me saying I don't 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:40.480 know how you say that word. Why did I grow 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:42.520 up not knowing how to say words? You know, I 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.360 grew up in New Jersey, where I'm not kidding. I 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:49.600 called a drawer a draw until I got to college 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.400 and I'll never forget. I told my roommate who was 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.200 from Torrents, and I was like, Hey, can you open 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.480 that draw? And he's like, what what are you talking about? 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:57.040 Draw? 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.680 Yeah, open that draw. Go take look at yourself in 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:04.400 the mirror, the mirror. What Let me have a glass 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.080 of water. I mean literally the things that I said. 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.360 And it's ironic that I become a broadcaster because this 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:12.920 the way I spoke for so long was just everything 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:14.560 was wrong, and it's a lot of it still is, 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.039 which is you know, that's just who I am. Like 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.400 I still say button and everyone's like, isn't it button 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.800 butt in? Uh, take a look, take a lift at 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:26.359 the fountain, and then press the button. You know, I 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.200 just this is who I am. I'm from New Jersey. 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:29.640 It's like just the way I grew up. 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:34.520 But the ironic thing is going to USC was pretty 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.719 good for me because I'll never forget literally sitting down 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:39.839 in a circle with a whole bunch of people in 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:41.920 my dorm room freshman year and they would just like 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.560 I was like this weird specimen, right, Like I'd just 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.000 be this weirdo from New Jersey that they were like, so, 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.320 how do you say this? Word and I'm like Oregon 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:51.599 and they're like no, no, no, it's Oregon, and I'm like okay, 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:53.760 and we'd go through like for like an hour. 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:59.680 Uh. Anyway, I digress, as I generally do. Let's talk 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:00.160 about out. 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.359 Uh. I guess I'm not going to go with the 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:04.200 top story of the week right now. I'm going to 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.160 go with what I think is a really important and 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.840 fun story. We did it on KTLA today and it's 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:13.839 a website that will pay you cash for the gadgets. 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:16.280 Laying around your house. Now. I know there's a. 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:21.200 Bunch of these websites, like Gazelle. Swap a Glide is 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.240 another one that I used to talk about a lot, 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.359 but I guess they're back. They were gone for like 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.880 a while, but and Gazelle even was gone for a 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.800 while like they weren't doing it. But anyway, So when 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.680 I heard about this website, Gizmo Go, I had never 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.360 heard of it before, and I was like, huh, that's 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.560 I mean, it's rare that I haven't heard of something 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:41.880 like that's you know, in a main space like gadget refunds. 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:43.440 And I think what's happened with a lot of these 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:47.080 gadgets is that people sell them back to the carriers 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.760 and people sell them back to Apple. But the reality 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.679 is there's three levels of getting rid of your old gadgets. 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:56.560 Number one is if you just have old gadgets that 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:58.320 kind of you don't want to throw out in the 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.279 trash because they are you know, they're bad for the 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.960 environment to throw out. That's like an old, super old 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.560 device that's worth like almost nothing, right, like ten dollars, 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:07.760 five dollars or zero. 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:09.239 That's one level. 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.719 Then you've got the next level where you know it's 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.760 worth something and you can trade it in and get 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.440 some good cash for it, which is generally like if 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.279 you have last year's iPhone, you want to upgrade to 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.400 the new one. And then there's this middle ground of 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.120 just like a bunch of random stuff that you might have, 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.520 like an older phone that's like it's not really not 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:28.839 worth anything, but it might be worth something. So anyway, 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.120 that's where this website comes in. Now you know those 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.960 levels of selling stuff, so you're always going to get 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.839 the most with what I call a person to person 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.440 exchange or or sale. So the best way to do 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.919 it is to sell it to a friend. Right, So 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.320 if you put on Facebook, hey, I've got this old iPhone. 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:49.640 Here's how much i'll sell it for it. You're always 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.560 gonna get the most from a friend or a family 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.600 member because you're doing the transaction in cash. You're not 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.040 paying any fees. You don't have to pay transaction fees, 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:01.920 PayPal fees, whatever. Right, that's always the best way, and 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:03.679 you know, you feel good knowing that it's a family 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:05.120 member or friend that's getting it. 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:06.520 The next way is eBay. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.920 You're always going to get a good amount on eBay, 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.240 and you've got a national audience, so you can sell 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.800 to anyone in the US. You may think your iPhone 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.760 five is you know, worthless, but there's someone out there 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.880 that may have an iPhone five hooked up to their 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.920 telephone system to pipe in music for their you know, 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.640 their their hold music for an office or something. You know, 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.520 you just never know what these situations are. And so 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:32.040 that's another good way. And then you have the middle way, 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.800 which is like Gazelle, Swapa and this new one Gizmo Go, 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.320 which you're going to give you more cash than say 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.440 trading it into the carriers. The carriers usually give you 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.600 the least amount of cash because you know it's a 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.360 it's a volume transaction for them, they're just kind of 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:48.120 doing it as a courtesy. And then they don't they 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.080 don't really care about the transaction. They just want to 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.480 get you into a new phone on a new twenty 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.880 four to thirty month contract or whatever you call it 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.440 payment plan. So they're just doing this to make it 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.559 easy for you to like not have any barrier to entry. 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:02.880 So they're not going to give you the most, but 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:07.040 it's gonna be fine. And then sometimes they run deals 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.360 like Samsung often when a new phone comes out, will 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.440 give you a little bit more, or Apple or any 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.160 of these companies they'll give you like a little bit 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.280 more T Mobile, Verizon, AT and T just because again 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.280 they're trying to get you to upgrade. Anyway, all that 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.360 is said that when I heard about Gizmo Go, I 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:22.920 was like, huh, I never heard of them. And then 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.160 it turns out they're in Chino, which is in nearby 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.880 city in Los Angeles, probably like an hour away maybe, 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:30.600 and so I was like, can I visit and see 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.559 the operation and see how these things work? And sure 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.240 enough they said yeah, And so I went down there 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.240 and oh, my gosh, the amount of gadgets that were 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.840 in this warehouse was just wild. Just stack to the 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.640 walls or stack to the ceiling, I should say. And 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.040 so they do two things. They do like mass recycling. 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.600 Like let's say your target and you're upgrading all your 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.400 point of sale systems, you'll just ship all your old 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.600 ones to this company. They may give you a little 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.199 price for them, or you know, I don't know how 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.000 they do it, but you know, they must either charge 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:58.560 you or they'll just take them for free. And then 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.240 they'll reclaim the metals out of these things and recycle 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.599 them properly, because there's a whole business in that. And 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.239 then the consumer side of things, they'll take your electronics. 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:11.800 And so the electronics they'll take is basically, you know, laptops, tablets. 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:16.600 Let's see what else, computers, gaming, consoles, cameras, lenses, drones, 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:18.199 smart watches, even iPods. 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:19.920 And the website gives you an estimate. 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:22.760 And you know, I did not tell I was at 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:24.920 a little sneaky on this story because I went to 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.360 Gizmo Go. It seemed great, you know, they led me around, 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.240 showed me everything. But then I said, you know what, 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:31.839 since I haven't heard of this company, I just want 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:33.800 to make sure that it works the way they're telling me. 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.520 And so after I got back, I actually took my 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.640 kid's old iPad. He had an iPad mini that the 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.000 screen was cracked. It was sitting in my garage. I 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.320 had done previous estimates. It said it was worth about 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.400 thirty bucks on one of these other websites, and so 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.080 I was like, ah, it's not really worth my time, 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.120 and so I put this on gizmo Go and they 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.200 said we'll give you eighty bucks. I was like, wow, okay, 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.080 they said they would pay top dollar, and sure enough 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.360 they did. So I sent it in and Gizmo Goo 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.000 kept asking, Hey, when's the story airing? 0:09:59.040 --> 0:09:59.959 When's the story airing? 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:01.959 And I kept like putting them off because I was 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:05.600 waiting for this iPad to come through and get my money, 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.920 and so I wanted to see as a regular person. 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:09.600 I didn't want to tell them that I was doing 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.600 this because you know, then they would go find the 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.480 iPad and kind of fast track it. I wanted to 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.200 see what the average person would go through. So sure enough, 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.600 in about a week, and it was over a holiday weekend, 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.880 I got my eighty dollars. Eighty dollars and fifty five 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.160 cents in my PayPal account. I was very happy the 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.840 whole process worked out as they promised, and now I 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:31.520 can recommend Gizmo Go Gizmo like gizmo go dot com. 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.719 They take it all and it's a great process. It's 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:38.280 pretty quick. They'll pay via PayPal, and I guess it'll 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.560 be my new place to get rid of old stuff 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.640 if I need to. And you can even send in 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.320 stuff like if it's totally worth nothing, just send it 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:47.280 to them and they'll get it properly recycled, which is 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.120 also really nice. So you can see the story on 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.480 my website. Rich on tech dot tv look for the 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:57.000 cash for Old Gadgets story and there you go. Don't 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:59.560 throw stuff in the trash. Batteries and old electronics, do 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.760 not do it. Not good for the environment. 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:05.760 All right. 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.520 Terry has a very long question, but I'll try to 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.959 paraphrase it. But she says, I just watched you recommend 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.800 two USB drives to download photos from Android to the 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.920 USB and then download the photos from the flash drive 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.120 to a computer. I have a similar situation. I want 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:24.520 to transfer all my text messages. I purchased a Samsung 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.720 Duo Type C flash drive. No problem, downloading the text 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.200 onto the USB. But Samsung only allowed a very small 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.080 sample of texts that could be viewed. 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:33.840 I was told I. 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:37.679 Would need to purchase droid Transfer to download them to 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:42.480 my laptop. You identify two drives, will they handle these texts? 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.800 And it just goes on and on. But the reality 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:52.920 is so droid Transfer is a paid service. You do 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:56.240 not need it. You do not need that program. You 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:59.560 don't need to pay at all. The program that will 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.960 do this all for free is called SMS Backup and Restore. 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.080 SMS Backup and Restore. It's been around forever, It's gone 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.679 through a couple of owners. It is completely free. They 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:11.880 do have a paid version. I'm not sure what that does. 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.680 I think I paid for at some point. It might 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.559 be like four dollars and fifty cents, maybe no ads 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.640 or something. But you can easily use that to back 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:25.359 up your SMS messages on an Android. Now, on an iPhone, 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:27.680 yes it gets a little trickier, but you're not talking 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.720 about iPhone Apple. You know good old Apple. They like 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:34.719 to lock things down. So just accessing your text messages, 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.360 the things that you have created on your phone is 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.800 oh my gosh, it's so tough. It's I'm a tech 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.439 person and I can't figure it out. Yes, there are 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:47.800 some apps like Samsung Smart Switch and OnePlus that will 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.560 tap into your iPhone and bring those messages over to 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:54.439 your new phone sometimes, but it is really, really tricky, 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:56.920 and for the average person that just you just want 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.640 to see your texts in your Google Drive, it's nearly 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:02.439 impots with the iPhone. Yes, there's a bunch of software 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:05.200 that can do it. It's a weird file, it's a 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:08.520 weird format, and it's just the way Apple rolls. And 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:10.520 so with iPhone, yes, it's it's a lot tougher. And 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.040 people tell me all the time here Rich, you know, 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.560 I would like to restore or download my messages from iCloud. 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:18.320 I'm like, yeah, not gonna be able to do it. 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.440 To restore them from my cloud, you have to literally 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.880 format your phone and start fresh. And that's the way 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:25.800 you have to back them up from my cloud and 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:29.000 then on you know, if you just want to download them, 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.600 like just have a nice like backup of your text messages, 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.720 oh good luck with that. There's really no app even 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.560 on the iPhone that can easily do that. And I 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.200 say easily because someone's gonna email me and say, rich 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.000 you can do this. No, no, no, it's not easy. Like 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.240 I'll be honest. You know, I'm a tech person. I 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.960 look at this stuff all day long. I'm always looking 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:51.640 for simple solutions. SMS backup and restore is totally simple 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:55.760 and easy. Sorry, that's my producer or my editor texting me, 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:01.079 so hold on. Let me text him back and say cool. 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.839 Oh gosh, remember the days when you weren't interrupted every 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.360 two seconds with something? But it just happens, you know, 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.640 So anyway, where was I? That's the program. Since you 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.440 said you're on an Android, SMS backup and restore is 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.160 the program to use. It will work easily if you 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.800 have a solution for the iPhone that's simple, easy, And 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.440 you know for your messages, tell me, I don't think 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.000 there is one. It's just Apple likes to make things 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.440 really complicated because guess what, it keeps you in the 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:30.520 Apple ecosystem. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:31.920 You know, your messages are in. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.600 iCloud somewhere, you just don't really know how to access 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.160 them very easily, and neither do I, And so you 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.240 can't just go on iCloud dot com and say, hey, 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.360 download my texts or my I messages. 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:43.280 You just can't do it. 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:46.360 As far as I know, and Apple will continue to 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.680 make things tricky for us. I think they're getting better, Honestly, 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.480 I'm not trying to knock Apple. I think I think 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.360 that it was the way their system was built to 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:56.720 be safe and secure. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:58.600 Like with respect to text. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.960 Messages, they don't want a bunch as because every app 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.480 would love to tap into those, right, So it used 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.960 to be on Android, like every app could just access 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:10.040 your messages, no big deal. But it becomes this security 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.720 issue because there's a lot of information in those messages 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.360 and so by having every app read them can be 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.000 a potential security issue. So Apple says, well, let's lock 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.280 them down. But they need to make these things a 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.600 little bit easier because they have them locked down. But 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.800 give us a simple way to kind of get the 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.640 information when we need it, right, especially for something like 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:32.440 a simple backup that's not iCloud. All right, I'm done 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.680 with that. All right, Let's talk about Prime Day. This 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:38.480 is happening on June twenty first and June twenty second. 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.240 The headline says two days of epic savings on more 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:45.320 than two million deals globally. Oh my gosh, this is 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.760 so big, and this is when I need my little 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:53.240 bump bump bum sound effect that I don't have. Prime 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:57.320 Day will feature can't miss deals from top brands like Levi's, 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.320 I Robots, Samsung, and Redkin. Oh my gosh, I gotta 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.880 get that shampoo I've always wanted at ten percent off. 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:07.720 Uh So, And they're also pushing small businesses because you know, 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:13.040 Amazon gets a gets a lot of uh hassle for being, 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.320 you know, putting small businesses out of work, but you 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.120 know it does it do support a lot of small 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.200 businesses in the fact that any of them can sell 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.960 on Amazon. Whether that's a nice process, I don't really know, 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.720 I know whatever. So it's happening June twenty first, June 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.720 twenty second. I'll be honest, I always think that Prime 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.320 Day is kind of a letdown. And what I do 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.320 on I'll just give you my two things that I 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:36.080 do on Prime Day. Number one, I kind of stop 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.680 buying big things on Amazon until Prime Day. I just 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.120 put them in my cart. And if I need something, 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.600 I'm not talking ten dollars things. I'm talking like you know, 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.080 right now, I've got this whole push to buy like 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.280 these huge light bulbs right, And so I'll put those 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:49.800 in my car and I'll just let them sit. I've 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:54.000 got a Synology Network attached storage system just sitting in 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:55.640 my car. I've got a hard drive that i want 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.640 ten terabytes, just sitting in my car. So I will 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.480 sit those things in my car and then on Prime Day, 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.480 I will see if the prices come down, and if 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.480 they do, I'll buy. If not, then I'll just you know, 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.320 move out my life and purchase them at some point. 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:10.840 That's really I think the best way to approach Prime 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:12.960 Day if for sitting there just looking for stuff to buy, 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:16.720 it's just like, ugh, it's just it's like a whole effort, right, 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:18.879 So put the stuff that you want to buy in 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.120 your cart, and then on Prime Day the twenty first, 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.280 twenty second, see if it's on sale. That's my number 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:23.840 one advice. 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.960 Number two. There's a couple of things. 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.520 Oh, all Amazon products. So if you're in the market 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:33.240 for anything from Amazon or Ring, like an echo or 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:38.240 a ring, you know, lights or anything from Ring, just 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:40.200 put it, you know, put again, put it in your cart. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:41.240 The price should drop. 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.280 Amazon devices go on sale during Prime Day big time, 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:46.760 So that's the best time to buy those, right, Now 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.520 there's two deals you can take advantage of three really 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:53.640 starting on Monday, June seventh through Sunday June twentieth, you'll 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:55.400 get a ten dollars credit to use on Prime Day 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:59.560 if you spend ten dollars on select small business products 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:04.800 in Amazon's store, so they will have I believe it's 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:08.760 Amazon dot Com slash Support Small and so you can 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:10.119 look for that if you want to get a ten 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.719 dollars credit, or you can do a ten dollars promotional credit. 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.120 Now through June twentieth, if you purchase forty dollars in 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:21.240 Prime branded Amazon gift cards, you can get a ten 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:25.160 dollars gift promotional certificate to use on Amazon. 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:28.160 So, oh wow. Interesting. 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:30.960 So the one gift card is sold out, so there 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.359 was two gift cards. I actually think I brought the 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:35.760 wrong one. I did this, and I think I got 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:39.200 taken because you have to buy the Prime Day E 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.840 gift card and or this Prime card that came in 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.240 a ten which I didn't get. So I bought the 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:47.359 E gift card, but I just bought an Amazon gift 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:48.919 card like a standard one. 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:50.680 It was not the Prime gift card. 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.360 And I don't think that I actually purchased the one 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.879 that qualifies, so little fine print there, and with a 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:58.440 lot of these things, you know you always have to 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.600 follow directions perfectly to get at the free money. I 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:03.320 think I did it wrong. So if you do it, 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.480 just make sure that you buy the Prime day e 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:08.440 gift card for forty bucks. You can apply it to 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:10.080 your account and then you should get a ten dollars 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:18.000 gift card after that. All right, let's get to the 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:22.399 next question. Paul says, Hey, Rich, my iCloud storage is full. 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:24.840 I only have four hundred and eighty four photos and 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:28.000 ten ten second videos. I saw there's a way to 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.800 add storage with a cloud without a monthly fee. You 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.560 also mentioned an iPhone flash drive that goes into the 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.600 charging port on my iPhone eight plus. Is best buy 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:38.199 the best place to go now that the death of 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:41.960 Fries has happened. A couple of things to unpack here, Paul, 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:44.920 I can't believe your iCloud storage is full with only 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:48.200 five hundred pictures and ten videos, but you know it happens. 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:52.800 Is there a way around adding cloud storage without the 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:57.040 monthly fee? So I wouldn't typically recommend this, but because 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:00.760 you don't have that much stored in the cloud. You 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:04.000 can just look into getting a different account, like maybe 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:07.040 start Google Photos and just put your videos and photos 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:08.720 in there and that will clear up your storage and 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:13.200 eCloud and that would be free, because I bet you'd 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:16.280 be under the fifteen gigabytes because now that's that's all 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:20.119 they give you on You can go with Amazon if 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.240 you have Prime, you can go with Amazon Prime Photos. 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:24.679 You can put them there and that's free and you 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.240 get five gigs of videos, which I think your ten 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:29.159 ten second videos would be under. So you can do 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:32.960 it that way. Or you can open up a one 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:36.000 drive account and put them in there and you do 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:39.960 get five gigabytes there. That's Microsoft one Drive. Now typically 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.040 I would not I would say just you know, if 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.480 I was recommending for you, I would pay the I 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:47.159 think it's ninety nine cents for fifty gigs on iCloud. 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:49.400 I would recommend doing that. It's a dollar a month. 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:50.920 I know you don't want to pay the monthly fee, 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.000 but you know it is a buck, and I bet 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:56.000 you spend a buck somewhere throughout the month. That's not like, 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:58.639 oh my gosh, a big return on your money. So 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:00.920 I know it's twelve dollars a year. It's not the 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:03.359 answer you wanted, but it just makes life a little 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:06.600 bit easier. And since it doesn't sound like you are 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:10.160 spending a lot of or using a lot of storage, 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:12.320 I think you should be okay for a long time 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:15.040 with that fifty gigs. And you're asking about the flash drive. 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:17.119 I mean, by the time you spend forty dollars on 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:19.639 the flash drive, forty to fifty bucks, you know, that 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:22.280 could pay for like three years of the cloud storage 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:26.840 on your on your iCloud. So that's what I would 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:29.919 go with. I think that would be the simplest, easiest 0:21:29.960 --> 0:21:32.680 way for you to do that. And that's what I'm 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:38.880 gonna say. All right, Well, Apple is already doing kind 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:41.760 of the first big update for the air tags. According 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:45.880 to Sinet, they are going to add a little bit 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:50.160 a little more security to these things, especially for Android users. 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:54.600 So number one, let's see, So if you the whole 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:56.840 thing about these air tags is that. And by the way, 0:21:57.240 --> 0:21:59.199 these things have been around for a month now and 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:01.919 we haven't heard one major like oh my gosh, like 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:05.280 this stalking situation happened because of air tags. We haven't 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:07.800 heard any of that. And the only thing I've seen 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:09.840 is that. You know, everyone I've talked to is just 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:13.080 thinks these things are amazing because you clip them and 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:15.840 you forget about them, and when you need them, they're there, 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:19.199 And I think they're pretty amazing. I've got one of 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:21.280 my keychain and it's just like one of those things 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:23.840 that's just okay, you know, you just know it's there 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:25.720 when you need it. And I think a lot of 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:28.440 people feel that way. And yes, there are some privacy concerns, 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:32.840 so Apple is addressing those. Number One, it used to 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:35.800 be a couple of days before an air tag that 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:38.280 was kind of clinging on to you would play a sound. 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:43.879 Now they're gonna play a sound anywhere between eight and 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:46.520 twenty four hours of it being kind of around you. 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:49.080 And Apple's not giving you the exact time because they 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:51.240 don't want people to plot around that. Right, Like they 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:53.840 knew it was eight hours, they would do their nefarious 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:56.919 measures in seven hours before the thing dinged, right, So 0:22:57.560 --> 0:22:59.960 they're not going to say when this thing's gonna be. 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:01.080 Then. 0:23:01.960 --> 0:23:05.160 Apple is developing an app, according to Cnepp, for Android 0:23:05.160 --> 0:23:08.120 devices that will help people detect an air tag that's 0:23:08.200 --> 0:23:10.960 traveling with them. And so the iPhone obviously has this 0:23:11.040 --> 0:23:14.920 built in, but Android will be released later this year. 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:18.000 Now that's kind of weird though, because you know what, 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:20.720 so every Android person now has to download this app 0:23:20.760 --> 0:23:23.840 to keep air tags from stalking them. Like, it's kind 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:27.480 of weird, right, So it's not a perfect situation. It's 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:30.439 not a perfect solution, but it is one solution in 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:33.359 one way that if you are kind of a little 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:36.600 bit paranoid about these things, or you're in a bad 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:39.600 situation and you just worry about this, then yeah, you 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:44.040 can get this app on your phone and hopefully, I mean, look, 0:23:44.160 --> 0:23:47.960 is it going to stop all instances of stalking or whatever. 0:23:48.160 --> 0:23:50.240 Probably not, but it could help. And it just I 0:23:50.240 --> 0:23:53.280 think it's more for the user to feel better knowing, like, Okay, 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:55.440 well I'm an Android, so I'm kind of left out 0:23:55.440 --> 0:23:58.120 of this whole find my situation. But I can put 0:23:58.119 --> 0:24:00.359 this on my phone and feel a little bit better 0:24:00.440 --> 0:24:02.679 knowing that I will be able to detect these things 0:24:03.760 --> 0:24:05.560 if they happen to be near me. 0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:11.040 All right. 0:24:11.119 --> 0:24:14.160 Kiki from California says, Hey, Rich, I love your show. 0:24:14.280 --> 0:24:17.240 It's so informative and a source I can trust. Well, 0:24:17.240 --> 0:24:20.719 thank you just want it to know if there are 0:24:20.800 --> 0:24:26.359 any reputable trustworthy sites that offer free Microsoft Office software downloads, 0:24:26.520 --> 0:24:30.800 not an introductory offer free lifetime. I lost my job 0:24:30.840 --> 0:24:33.000 to COVID. I had to buy an inexpensive computer to 0:24:33.040 --> 0:24:35.359 search for jobs. It doesn't have any software loaded, and 0:24:35.400 --> 0:24:36.639 I need Microsoft Office. 0:24:36.720 --> 0:24:38.959 Can you help? Thank you? Kiki in California. 0:24:39.720 --> 0:24:43.439 Kiki, Well, I'm sorry to hear about you losing your 0:24:43.520 --> 0:24:46.159 job due to COVID. I'm sorry. I know what happened 0:24:46.160 --> 0:24:49.639 to a lot of people. But the good news is 0:24:49.680 --> 0:24:51.440 there are a lot of jobs out there right now, 0:24:51.520 --> 0:24:54.800 so hopefully you'll land on your feet. And it sounds 0:24:54.840 --> 0:24:56.919 like you spent your money on this computer, which you 0:24:56.920 --> 0:24:59.159 know is a good step. I'm glad you got that 0:24:59.280 --> 0:25:01.240 because you need it in today's day and age to 0:25:01.280 --> 0:25:06.040 look for a job. But this Microsoft Office situation, I 0:25:06.080 --> 0:25:08.359 think that I get this question a lot, which is 0:25:08.440 --> 0:25:11.400 kind of odd. You don't need it. You don't need 0:25:11.440 --> 0:25:14.359 Microsoft Office now. If you have it, or if you 0:25:14.359 --> 0:25:15.679 have access to it, it's amazing. 0:25:15.720 --> 0:25:17.159 It's great. Like I love it. 0:25:17.200 --> 0:25:19.280 I mean it's I don't use it personally, I mean 0:25:19.320 --> 0:25:22.120 I use it for work. We have you know, our 0:25:22.119 --> 0:25:24.880 company does have a deal with Microsoft to use teams 0:25:24.960 --> 0:25:26.800 and all the Office three six five. 0:25:27.119 --> 0:25:28.040 And it's fantastic. 0:25:29.520 --> 0:25:32.240 In fact, one of my favorite features on Word that 0:25:32.400 --> 0:25:35.359 you may not even know about is the transcription feature. 0:25:35.760 --> 0:25:38.760 You can upload basically as far as I can tell 0:25:38.800 --> 0:25:42.600 an unlimited amount of audio to Microsoft Word and it 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:45.719 will transcribe it word for word, and it's pretty phenomenal, 0:25:46.119 --> 0:25:49.000 and it'll even put time codes and stuff. I think 0:25:49.119 --> 0:25:50.680 it's it's really good. I used it a couple of 0:25:50.720 --> 0:25:53.800 days ago twice for two different little things I needed 0:25:53.840 --> 0:25:54.960 and it worked perfectly. 0:25:55.359 --> 0:25:55.520 Oh. 0:25:55.600 --> 0:25:57.439 Actually, I'll tell you what I used it for. This 0:25:57.640 --> 0:25:59.399 was just a this is embarrassing, But I'll tell you 0:25:59.440 --> 0:26:01.240 what I used it for. Are So I've been listening 0:26:01.280 --> 0:26:07.640 to Bobby Flay and his daughter Sophie Flay's new podcast. 0:26:08.400 --> 0:26:09.240 Oh what's it called? 0:26:09.800 --> 0:26:12.880 Something about food? I don't know what's cooking? I don't 0:26:12.920 --> 0:26:14.479 what's it. I don't even know what it's called. Let 0:26:14.480 --> 0:26:15.399 me see what it's called. 0:26:17.000 --> 0:26:21.200 What is it called? It is recently updated? Where is it? Oh? 0:26:21.400 --> 0:26:22.680 How embarrassing is this? Oh? 0:26:22.720 --> 0:26:26.560 Always hungry, that's what it's called. So I've always loved 0:26:26.560 --> 0:26:29.560 Bobby Flay. I've just I don't know why, Like I 0:26:29.680 --> 0:26:32.760 just always have loved Bobby Flay, and so when he came, 0:26:32.800 --> 0:26:35.600 you know, and his daughter is a reporter here in town, 0:26:35.720 --> 0:26:38.440 and so I followed her for a while. She does 0:26:38.600 --> 0:26:40.959 she's a really cool kind of this new age reporter 0:26:41.080 --> 0:26:44.800 that they it's like they call him m MJ's where 0:26:44.800 --> 0:26:47.080 they shoot their own stuff, but they take it even 0:26:47.119 --> 0:26:50.439 a level further. She is just focused on a single 0:26:50.520 --> 0:26:52.920 area of LA and I think it's like either Echo 0:26:53.000 --> 0:26:55.200 Park or Silver Laker. It's like one of the cool 0:26:55.240 --> 0:26:57.959 like neighborhoods, you know. And so she just literally like 0:26:58.320 --> 0:27:01.120 you know, goes around and like finds cool restaurants, opening 0:27:01.280 --> 0:27:03.560 things that are happening in the community. And she does 0:27:03.600 --> 0:27:06.359 it all herself, like she produces, she edits whatever she 0:27:06.359 --> 0:27:08.960 puts it on air, I think on social media anyway. 0:27:09.000 --> 0:27:10.960 So I've been following her and then when I saw that, 0:27:11.040 --> 0:27:12.640 you know, they have a podcast, I'm like, oh my gosh, 0:27:12.640 --> 0:27:15.200 of course, easy listen, and I've just loved every episode. 0:27:15.200 --> 0:27:17.600 They just talk about one type of food each episode 0:27:17.600 --> 0:27:19.679 and Bobby gives kind of his tips on how to 0:27:19.720 --> 0:27:24.240 do it and his thoughts. Anyway, long story short, Bobby 0:27:24.280 --> 0:27:27.400 mentioned one of his favorite bakeries in Los Angeles and 0:27:27.440 --> 0:27:29.320 he said it really quick, and I was in the car, 0:27:29.400 --> 0:27:31.199 so I just told Siri to you know, remember this 0:27:31.480 --> 0:27:33.639 name of this bakery. But the way I said it, 0:27:33.720 --> 0:27:36.480 I totally butchered it, like I didn't get the right thing. 0:27:37.240 --> 0:27:39.000 And so I was like, how in the world am 0:27:39.040 --> 0:27:41.760 I going to find the name of this bakery. I'm 0:27:41.760 --> 0:27:43.840 not gonna listen to the whole podcast again. And for 0:27:43.880 --> 0:27:46.840 some reason, Apple, if you're listening, can you make a 0:27:46.880 --> 0:27:49.399 bookmark on a podcast? Just? Can you please give us 0:27:49.400 --> 0:27:52.119 the ability to bookmark a spot in a podcast? It 0:27:52.119 --> 0:27:54.879 would be such an easy thing, Right you're listening in 0:27:54.920 --> 0:27:57.639 the car, they say something interesting, you bookmark it, and 0:27:57.680 --> 0:27:59.320 you come back to it. I mean, why is that 0:27:59.440 --> 0:28:02.760 such a It's such a winning feature. 0:28:02.920 --> 0:28:04.280 Just please someone come up with that. 0:28:04.920 --> 0:28:06.800 So anyway, so I couldn't book mark, I was like, Okay, 0:28:06.800 --> 0:28:08.600 how am I gonna find this without listening to the 0:28:08.760 --> 0:28:11.359 entire podcast again? And it occurred to me that I 0:28:11.400 --> 0:28:15.520 could transcribe the entire podcast using Microsoft Word and so 0:28:15.600 --> 0:28:18.520 I downloaded the podcast, I uploaded it to Microsoft Word. 0:28:18.600 --> 0:28:20.520 It gave me a transcription within like, you know, a 0:28:20.560 --> 0:28:23.440 minute or two, and I searched for the word bakery 0:28:23.520 --> 0:28:28.360 and sure enough I found the bakery and I will 0:28:28.359 --> 0:28:30.800 tell you what the name is. It's Tartin t a 0:28:31.040 --> 0:28:34.320 r t i n E. Tartin Bakery. So next time 0:28:34.320 --> 0:28:36.399 I'm in Santa Monica, I will have to go to 0:28:36.520 --> 0:28:39.200 Tartin Bakery because that's the one that Bobby said is 0:28:39.200 --> 0:28:42.640 his favorite. And so they also, by the way, have 0:28:42.720 --> 0:28:45.840 locations all over the world. They have them in the 0:28:45.880 --> 0:28:52.720 Bay Area, Los Angeles, and then Korea. So yeah, interesting, right, 0:28:53.440 --> 0:28:55.600 So that was a long story, but I gotta say, 0:28:55.640 --> 0:28:57.880 I mean, it was just such a brilliant This is why. 0:28:57.920 --> 0:28:59.720 This is why I'm so happy that you listened to 0:28:59.800 --> 0:29:02.360 a like this, not to hear me drone on and 0:29:02.400 --> 0:29:04.920 on about all this stuff, but it's all about building 0:29:05.120 --> 0:29:07.440 that that base of knowledge in your head. 0:29:07.800 --> 0:29:08.320 You may have. 0:29:08.600 --> 0:29:10.280 You may say, Rich, you're going on and on about 0:29:10.280 --> 0:29:14.160 this transcription feature. Well, yeah, until the day comes that 0:29:14.240 --> 0:29:16.800 you need something like that, and then you go, oh 0:29:16.840 --> 0:29:19.760 my gosh, I remember Rich talking about that, And that's 0:29:19.840 --> 0:29:22.680 why we do stuff like this. That's why we enrich 0:29:22.760 --> 0:29:26.680 our brains with knowledge. And yeah, you may say I'm 0:29:26.680 --> 0:29:28.640 not a tech person, I'm not at this, but like 0:29:28.960 --> 0:29:31.240 you may be at work and someone says, oh, I 0:29:31.240 --> 0:29:33.840 got this whole big thing, this interview I did with someone, 0:29:33.880 --> 0:29:36.320 and I gotta find this one thing that they talked about. 0:29:36.640 --> 0:29:39.320 And your light comes on and you say to your boss, like, 0:29:40.160 --> 0:29:40.800 I can do that. 0:29:40.880 --> 0:29:41.200 I can. 0:29:41.320 --> 0:29:43.200 I can find where he said the uh where he 0:29:43.280 --> 0:29:47.480 referenced Tokyo. And you're like, really, and this hour long 0:29:47.560 --> 0:29:49.040 thing that I talked to him, Oh yeah, I can 0:29:49.040 --> 0:29:51.480 find Tokyo. Let me let me show it and you 0:29:51.560 --> 0:29:53.280 and you take the audio and you upload it to 0:29:53.320 --> 0:29:56.040 Microsoft three sixty five into a word and you search 0:29:56.120 --> 0:29:58.080 for Tokyo and next thing you know, you here's what 0:29:58.120 --> 0:30:01.040 he said. The best restaurant in Tokyo and the best 0:30:01.040 --> 0:30:02.760 hotel to stay out are these two. And you're like, 0:30:02.840 --> 0:30:05.000 oh my gosh, and your boss just gives you a race. 0:30:05.440 --> 0:30:08.200 So that's why we do this kind of stuff. And 0:30:08.240 --> 0:30:10.880 that's why you know, I, as a tech person listen 0:30:10.920 --> 0:30:13.200 to other people and other stuff because I'm always looking 0:30:13.240 --> 0:30:15.479 for cool new tips. I don't know it all and 0:30:15.640 --> 0:30:17.880 again it's not something you might use today, but you 0:30:17.960 --> 0:30:20.360 never know. And that's it's like one of these things. 0:30:20.840 --> 0:30:23.120 It's just building that reference. Like this is as the 0:30:23.200 --> 0:30:26.680 older I get, I wonder like what is my value 0:30:26.680 --> 0:30:28.480 as a human or as a person, or as a 0:30:28.560 --> 0:30:31.880 tech reporter, or as a parent or as a friend. 0:30:32.160 --> 0:30:37.280 It's like it's really just you build up kind of 0:30:37.400 --> 0:30:40.320 layers of things. And so as a parent, you know, 0:30:40.400 --> 0:30:41.920 when I see a new parent, I'm like, ah, I 0:30:42.000 --> 0:30:44.440 remember those days, like and you know, and you give 0:30:44.440 --> 0:30:46.600 them a little bit of advice on something or whatever. 0:30:46.800 --> 0:30:48.959 Or as a as an employee, you know you've been 0:30:49.000 --> 0:30:50.600 there for a long time and you know a new 0:30:50.600 --> 0:30:52.200 person comes on board and you're like, okay, let me, 0:30:52.280 --> 0:30:54.720 let me show you the ropes here. So if everyone 0:30:54.920 --> 0:30:57.920 was fresh and new and you know, clean to something, 0:30:58.400 --> 0:31:01.719 it would be a bad because we need people that 0:31:01.760 --> 0:31:04.800 bring perspective to things. And that's why, you know, I 0:31:04.840 --> 0:31:06.920 get it when you're little and your grandpa starts going 0:31:06.960 --> 0:31:09.040 off about something, You're like, oh, come on, grandpa, I 0:31:09.120 --> 0:31:10.520 know how to do it better on my phone with 0:31:10.560 --> 0:31:14.560 an app and just hear them out because you know 0:31:14.920 --> 0:31:17.400 things have changed, but a lot of it. You know, 0:31:17.440 --> 0:31:20.840 they say history repeats itself. I mean you just have 0:31:20.960 --> 0:31:24.440 to just just be open to that perspective around you, right, 0:31:24.680 --> 0:31:26.960 Just be open to it because you never know when 0:31:26.960 --> 0:31:29.520 you're gonna get a little nugget that might really help 0:31:29.560 --> 0:31:33.520 you in the future. All right, So to answer your question, Kiki, 0:31:33.600 --> 0:31:36.560 that was a very long roundabout way. You don't need 0:31:36.600 --> 0:31:39.360 Microsoft Office for free. After I just said how great 0:31:39.400 --> 0:31:42.280 it is, I think you need Google Docs. You can 0:31:42.320 --> 0:31:45.280 always subscribe to Microsoft Office later if you actually need it, 0:31:45.320 --> 0:31:47.800 but micro Google Docs will do just what you need. 0:31:47.840 --> 0:31:50.959 Go to Docs dot Google dot com. It's what I 0:31:51.080 --> 0:31:53.000 use for ninety nine percent of what I do on 0:31:53.040 --> 0:31:58.720 a daily basis. It works phenomenally, it's free, and it 0:31:58.880 --> 0:32:00.680 just does what you need and you'll be able to 0:32:00.720 --> 0:32:03.880 make your resume, You'll be able to make documents, spreadsheets, 0:32:04.120 --> 0:32:06.600 slide presentations, whatever you need, you'll be able to do 0:32:06.640 --> 0:32:09.640 it there. And if you need Microsoft Office as you 0:32:09.720 --> 0:32:12.440 go along, if there's a feature that Docs doesn't have 0:32:12.520 --> 0:32:14.960 that you need, then you can go ahead and when 0:32:14.960 --> 0:32:17.120 you've got your feet on the ground, maybe subscribe for 0:32:17.200 --> 0:32:20.000 seven bucks a month to Office three six five and 0:32:20.800 --> 0:32:25.800 go that route. All right, good question, very long winded answer, 0:32:25.840 --> 0:32:29.880 but I hope that I made some sense there. Speaking 0:32:30.040 --> 0:32:36.520 of Microsoft, let's just make this the Microsoft podcast. Microsoft 0:32:36.800 --> 0:32:40.600 is going to reveal the next generation of Windows on 0:32:41.600 --> 0:32:42.760 should I do my drum roll. 0:32:43.240 --> 0:32:45.840 Let's do let's do the drum roll? Please? Hold on? 0:32:46.240 --> 0:32:48.160 How do I get my drum roll again? Hold on? 0:32:48.560 --> 0:32:51.920 Oh, this is a really really great podcast, Rich. Oh, 0:32:52.000 --> 0:32:55.800 you're just so on top of things here. Let's let's 0:32:55.840 --> 0:32:59.840 start this over. Let's see where is my drum roll? Okay, 0:33:00.040 --> 0:33:05.560 it is ready, it is right about. 0:33:06.400 --> 0:33:07.440 Drum roll please. 0:33:14.840 --> 0:33:19.040 June twenty fourth, Microsoft will reveal the next generation of Windows. 0:33:19.600 --> 0:33:19.959 Wow. 0:33:20.120 --> 0:33:23.320 You know my friend Bald Brian does the sound effects 0:33:23.360 --> 0:33:26.000 for the Adam Kroller Show. He would be so embarrassed. 0:33:26.040 --> 0:33:28.600 I know he doesn't listen to this podcast because he's 0:33:28.600 --> 0:33:33.520 a good friend, and they don't do that. I always 0:33:33.520 --> 0:33:35.280 had this idea that you just mention a bunch of 0:33:35.360 --> 0:33:37.360 random people in your podcast every week and then they 0:33:37.480 --> 0:33:39.960 clearly like you'll know if they're listening because they'd. 0:33:39.800 --> 0:33:41.520 Be like, oh, I heard you mentioned me. But that 0:33:41.600 --> 0:33:42.200 never happens. 0:33:42.680 --> 0:33:44.800 But anyway, So he does the audio for the Adam 0:33:44.880 --> 0:33:47.160 Kroller Show, and he's so The reason why he's had 0:33:47.160 --> 0:33:48.960 his job for so long there is because he's so 0:33:49.040 --> 0:33:51.800 quick witted and he's so fast. What you just saw 0:33:51.960 --> 0:33:56.920 is the one opposite of that. It's just like, Rich, 0:33:57.040 --> 0:33:59.400 it took you fifteen minutes to get a drop, as 0:33:59.400 --> 0:34:02.200 they call them. I think he calls him a drop anyway. 0:34:02.760 --> 0:34:06.600 So Microsoft detailing the next generation of Windows. The events 0:34:06.640 --> 0:34:11.680 happening on June twenty fourth, probably going to be virtual, 0:34:11.920 --> 0:34:17.120 I think, as everything has been, but they'll have a CEO, 0:34:17.239 --> 0:34:19.799 Satya Na Nadella is going to be there, and then 0:34:20.640 --> 0:34:23.000 Chief Product Officer Panos Piney. 0:34:23.320 --> 0:34:24.840 Who I have met. 0:34:25.200 --> 0:34:28.240 He came to the KTLA studios when the first Surface 0:34:28.320 --> 0:34:31.600 launched to do a personal one on one with me, which, 0:34:32.000 --> 0:34:34.359 like I've said in the podcast before, he'd never do that. Now, 0:34:34.440 --> 0:34:36.600 I mean, this guy went from you know, I mean 0:34:36.600 --> 0:34:38.719 he was big back then he was like the main designer, 0:34:38.719 --> 0:34:40.799 but now he's like chief product officer and he's he's 0:34:40.800 --> 0:34:43.400 like big time because Microsoft has had a lot of 0:34:43.440 --> 0:34:46.160 success with their Surface lineup and he has been kind 0:34:46.200 --> 0:34:48.719 of the guiding force for that. So these are two 0:34:48.719 --> 0:34:50.680 big names, and so what is what are those two 0:34:50.680 --> 0:34:53.520 big names tell us that this is going to be 0:34:53.560 --> 0:34:57.120 focused on software but also how it works with their hardware, 0:34:57.239 --> 0:35:01.440 because the hardware, the hardware side of things with these 0:35:01.480 --> 0:35:04.919 big tech companies has become just as important. I mean, 0:35:04.960 --> 0:35:08.560 obviously we know with Apple, but Microsoft, yes, same thing. 0:35:08.600 --> 0:35:10.440 I mean, they're you know, they've had a lot of 0:35:10.440 --> 0:35:13.239 success with Windows, but a lot of their success has 0:35:13.280 --> 0:35:17.160 been integrations with things. You know, how does office work 0:35:17.200 --> 0:35:20.120 with their laptops or how does office work across a 0:35:20.160 --> 0:35:22.200 lot of different devices? Right, how does it work with 0:35:22.239 --> 0:35:26.400 Samsung devices? And of course how do they optimize their 0:35:26.960 --> 0:35:29.560 software and services to work on their stuff? But everyone's 0:35:29.600 --> 0:35:32.920 stuff too, So the fact that they're both going to 0:35:32.920 --> 0:35:35.400 be there tells me a lot about the next generation 0:35:35.480 --> 0:35:37.880 of Windows. They did not see a lot of success 0:35:37.960 --> 0:35:42.399 with their little dual screen devices, but that doesn't mean 0:35:42.440 --> 0:35:45.080 that those are going away. So maybe they'll have a 0:35:45.120 --> 0:35:48.680 two point zero or something, or a new approach to 0:35:48.719 --> 0:35:52.240 those devices. Because I think there's one thing that's pretty 0:35:52.239 --> 0:35:55.080 clear in our world is that more screens are happening. 0:35:55.320 --> 0:35:58.000 We're not getting less screens. We're getting more screens. Screens 0:35:58.000 --> 0:36:01.000 are everywhere, and Microsoft doesn't want to miss the boat. 0:36:01.000 --> 0:36:04.880 You know, when screens come to everything, right, don't forget 0:36:04.880 --> 0:36:06.359 you know, right now we've got all these little smart 0:36:06.360 --> 0:36:10.440 speakers and you know they're getting screens. TVs are getting 0:36:10.440 --> 0:36:13.239 are sorry not TVs. TVs are getting screens. Oh my gosh, 0:36:13.280 --> 0:36:17.040 I can't believe it. No, all these little smart devices, 0:36:17.080 --> 0:36:19.040 the first step was to connect them to the internet. 0:36:19.120 --> 0:36:21.359 The next step is to give them a screen. And 0:36:21.520 --> 0:36:23.719 you know, we've seen this with you know a lot 0:36:23.719 --> 0:36:28.359 of little things like refrigerators, appliances. They're all getting screens, grills, 0:36:28.480 --> 0:36:32.160 everything's getting a screen. And Microsoft does not want to 0:36:32.200 --> 0:36:34.880 miss the boat on running their software on these screens. 0:36:34.880 --> 0:36:39.239 So anyway, eleven am Eastern, eight am Pacific, June twenty fourth, Oh, 0:36:39.280 --> 0:36:40.480 why do you have to Why do you have to 0:36:40.480 --> 0:36:43.280 do this to me? Microsoft? Eight am Pacific? You're in Seattle. 0:36:43.320 --> 0:36:45.200 Why would you do eight am? Why couldn't you just 0:36:45.239 --> 0:36:47.480 split the difference and do like, you know, what's a 0:36:47.560 --> 0:36:50.200 nice time on the East coast and West coast? 0:36:50.280 --> 0:36:50.440 Right? 0:36:50.520 --> 0:36:55.120 Maybe eleven am ten am Pacific, which would be like 0:36:55.280 --> 0:36:58.520 what one pm Eastern? You know, I'm from New Jersey 0:36:58.520 --> 0:36:59.839 and I still can't get the time right. I don't 0:36:59.880 --> 0:37:02.319 know what it is. Why is it so tough for 0:37:02.400 --> 0:37:06.840 me to do this? The other thing that Microsoft said 0:37:06.960 --> 0:37:09.440 is that they were they this Windows ten X, this 0:37:10.120 --> 0:37:12.120 operating system that they were making that was like a 0:37:12.120 --> 0:37:14.920 lot simpler and kind of like, you know, just like 0:37:14.960 --> 0:37:18.000 super easy and for for dual screens that apparently is 0:37:18.040 --> 0:37:20.080 not happening. I think what they're gonna do is just 0:37:20.120 --> 0:37:22.600 make one operating system that works on various things. I 0:37:22.640 --> 0:37:26.239 think that's you know, these operating systems get really really complicated, 0:37:26.280 --> 0:37:30.359 because it's kind of like Apple. They've got one thing 0:37:30.400 --> 0:37:33.239 going on with their desktop systems, like the you know, 0:37:33.280 --> 0:37:35.480 the mac os, and then they've got iPad os. 0:37:35.960 --> 0:37:36.960 But you've got people that. 0:37:36.920 --> 0:37:39.400 Are kind of like, okay, you're they're going between both, 0:37:39.440 --> 0:37:42.360 and it's really complicated to have like a totally different 0:37:42.480 --> 0:37:47.040 methodology of doing things on two devices that you use. 0:37:47.160 --> 0:37:49.880 So and I know Microsoft tried, like remember back in 0:37:49.880 --> 0:37:52.840 the day, like the Microsoft Windows Phones. They were literally 0:37:52.880 --> 0:37:55.320 like a tiny version of Windows that ran on phones. 0:37:55.360 --> 0:37:57.839 And so then they came out with Windows Mobile, which 0:37:57.880 --> 0:38:00.920 was a totally completely you know, different an operating system 0:38:00.920 --> 0:38:03.360 with the tiles. But it goes to show that we 0:38:03.440 --> 0:38:08.319 have seen so many, you know, just variations of this 0:38:08.400 --> 0:38:10.759 stuff over the years. Like these companies are just are 0:38:10.840 --> 0:38:13.200 trying to figure it out in real time, and we're 0:38:13.200 --> 0:38:15.879 here for the ride, and it's not always easy, it's 0:38:15.880 --> 0:38:23.680 not always simple, but things are progressing all right, Steve 0:38:23.719 --> 0:38:27.120 says my late model Samsung four k Q ninety Oh 0:38:27.160 --> 0:38:30.840 good system, Wow, Steve. Nice Nice TV is not yet 0:38:30.840 --> 0:38:35.080 making KTLA plus available. Deep in its instruction manual, Samsung 0:38:35.160 --> 0:38:37.839 seems to suggest there's a manual way of downloading apps. 0:38:37.880 --> 0:38:39.840 I haven't tried any luck with that. Do you know 0:38:39.880 --> 0:38:42.400 a way of manually downloading the KTLA plus app? I 0:38:42.440 --> 0:38:45.319 suspect suspect Samsung and other TV makers are waiting for 0:38:45.480 --> 0:38:48.560 very for a little financial incentive to add more streaming apps. 0:38:48.600 --> 0:38:53.760 I don't think Roku lists everything. Thank you, Steve and Colton. Steve, 0:38:54.520 --> 0:38:57.400 you know, I don't know what operating system the Samsung 0:38:59.160 --> 0:39:03.120 smart TVs work on. I don't know if it's their 0:39:03.160 --> 0:39:05.920 own thing or what. But I know they have their 0:39:05.960 --> 0:39:08.320 own app store, but I'm not sure if it's Android based. 0:39:08.360 --> 0:39:10.080 I know the Sony's. 0:39:09.680 --> 0:39:14.640 Are, I don't know what the what the Samsung's use. 0:39:14.680 --> 0:39:18.479 I haven't I haven't tested these you ever, I don't 0:39:18.480 --> 0:39:23.600 think but anyway, So to answer your question, so this 0:39:23.680 --> 0:39:27.240 is why I always recommend just skip the smart TV 0:39:27.800 --> 0:39:31.640 and just get a smart device. And if you've listened 0:39:31.680 --> 0:39:34.480 to this podcast, you've heard my reasoning for this. Okay, 0:39:34.520 --> 0:39:36.360 and I'll just go through it once again. So Ktla 0:39:36.440 --> 0:39:40.799 Plus our app is available on Apple TV, Roku, and 0:39:40.880 --> 0:39:43.160 Fire TV. And of course, as soon as we said that, 0:39:43.760 --> 0:39:45.879 everyone comes out of the woodwork saying, Rich, how come 0:39:45.920 --> 0:39:48.960 it's not on this platform? Rich, how come it's not 0:39:49.000 --> 0:39:50.960 on the Sony TVs. How Come it's not on the 0:39:50.960 --> 0:39:53.200 Samsung TVs. How Come it's not on Visio. How Come 0:39:53.239 --> 0:39:55.520 it's not on Chrome Cast. How come it's not on 0:39:55.600 --> 0:39:58.600 It's like, yes, there are a million platforms out there 0:39:58.640 --> 0:40:02.000 to get your your content on your TV. The reason 0:40:02.239 --> 0:40:08.279 I'm assuming our corporate folks decided on Roku, Apple and 0:40:08.360 --> 0:40:11.880 Amazon is because those are the three largest platforms. And 0:40:11.960 --> 0:40:15.120 after that, yes, there's a whole long tail of other platforms, 0:40:15.120 --> 0:40:18.200 but it drops off a cliff pretty quickly. Like, yes, 0:40:18.239 --> 0:40:20.439 there's a lot of people using Chrome Cast and Android TV, 0:40:20.560 --> 0:40:23.520 but not as many as Roku and not as many 0:40:23.640 --> 0:40:24.360 as Amazon. 0:40:24.360 --> 0:40:25.160 I mean, Amazon and. 0:40:25.120 --> 0:40:28.160 Roku are just the two biggest out there. Apple TV, 0:40:28.960 --> 0:40:30.640 you know you have to sort of have an app there. 0:40:30.719 --> 0:40:33.960 Everyone does. It's it's like, you know, it's might not 0:40:34.040 --> 0:40:36.319 be as big as the other platforms, especially when you 0:40:36.320 --> 0:40:40.040 look at the iPhone, but it is it is kind 0:40:40.040 --> 0:40:42.719 of a standard platform, and it's easy to develop for 0:40:43.040 --> 0:40:45.080 and and of course it does beautiful things. So I 0:40:45.120 --> 0:40:47.799 think that's another reason we're there. I don't know, I'm 0:40:47.800 --> 0:40:49.960 not part of that situation. I don't you know, I'm 0:40:49.960 --> 0:40:52.680 not like the developer of this app. But I would 0:40:52.680 --> 0:40:54.560 say that's kind of the reasoning. And that's why when 0:40:54.560 --> 0:40:56.680 people are like, oh, I like my Samsung Smart TV 0:40:56.840 --> 0:40:59.920 and it's just easy, the apps are integrated, Well, that's great. 0:41:00.200 --> 0:41:01.759 You run into an app that you want that they 0:41:01.760 --> 0:41:04.160 don't have, and a lot of this long tail of apps, 0:41:04.160 --> 0:41:06.319 and I would consider ktla plus to be one of those. 0:41:08.400 --> 0:41:11.959 They're not on all these random, you know, platforms because 0:41:12.239 --> 0:41:15.480 just be too cost prohibitive to be on those. Yeah, ideally, 0:41:15.960 --> 0:41:18.600 you know. And if you're like an HBO Max, like, yes, 0:41:18.680 --> 0:41:21.600 you have like your entire business is streaming, so you 0:41:21.600 --> 0:41:23.040 have a lot of people that are trying to plan 0:41:23.120 --> 0:41:25.120 for this. But even HBO Max took a long time 0:41:25.200 --> 0:41:28.200 to get to every platform, and they may not still 0:41:28.200 --> 0:41:33.040 be there. May still not be there. So my recommendation, uh, 0:41:33.160 --> 0:41:36.200 get a firestick, get a get a Roku and plug 0:41:36.200 --> 0:41:37.640 it into the back of the TV. You can get 0:41:37.640 --> 0:41:41.799 one for under fifty bucks. I would say that's the 0:41:41.840 --> 0:41:44.080 best way to go if you want the biggest selection 0:41:44.160 --> 0:41:46.719 of your apps, and not just the biggest selection, but 0:41:46.800 --> 0:41:50.040 also apps that are updated the most, you know, if 0:41:50.040 --> 0:41:52.319 the Again, when you go through the big app developers, 0:41:52.360 --> 0:41:55.480 even if you're a Hulu or an HBO Max or 0:41:55.520 --> 0:41:59.040 a Disney Plus or a YouTube TV, you're going to 0:41:59.200 --> 0:42:02.880 update the apps that are on the biggest platforms first. 0:42:02.920 --> 0:42:05.840 You're gonna update them with your newest features, your latest features, 0:42:05.880 --> 0:42:08.960 and your best features because that's where a majority of 0:42:09.000 --> 0:42:12.000 your customers are. If you see that, you know, ten 0:42:12.080 --> 0:42:15.680 thousand people are streaming through an Android Shield TV, you're 0:42:15.680 --> 0:42:17.960 gonna say, Okay, that's great, and we love those customers. 0:42:17.960 --> 0:42:19.719 But you know we're gonna get to that Apple when 0:42:19.760 --> 0:42:22.320 we can, because we've got to put our our priorities 0:42:22.360 --> 0:42:25.799 and our and our our energies in places that will 0:42:25.840 --> 0:42:28.800 affect the most people. So, Steve, I'm not just saying 0:42:28.840 --> 0:42:31.920 like go out and buy something, but again, it's an 0:42:32.000 --> 0:42:35.640 easy solution, and I think it's a better solution than 0:42:35.680 --> 0:42:38.520 what Samsung offers you on screen. And I know there's 0:42:38.560 --> 0:42:40.360 some ads on screen with Samsung. If you want to 0:42:40.400 --> 0:42:42.480 avoid those. You know, you can get an Apple TV 0:42:42.560 --> 0:42:45.440 that's really fancy. But I'm guessing you're not an Apple 0:42:45.480 --> 0:42:47.640 guy because it says sent from mail for Windows ten 0:42:47.680 --> 0:42:51.680 and you've got a Samsung TV. So I'm guessing that 0:42:52.120 --> 0:42:55.640 maybe you're an Android slash, you know, non Apple person, 0:42:55.880 --> 0:42:58.760 which is fine, and so maybe you know. I personally 0:42:58.760 --> 0:43:02.200 think the the Roku or the fireTV are fantastic solutions 0:43:02.239 --> 0:43:07.120 for streaming if you want something that's inexpensive. I was 0:43:07.200 --> 0:43:10.600 using the fire TV last night. The old I mean, 0:43:10.640 --> 0:43:14.160 I've gotten old firestick. I'm talking. It's like from twenty nineteen. 0:43:14.400 --> 0:43:16.200 The thing was fine. I mean, the only thing you'll 0:43:16.239 --> 0:43:18.880 notice with the older devices is that it takes a 0:43:18.880 --> 0:43:22.520 little bit longer to load the apps. Like on Apple TV, 0:43:22.600 --> 0:43:25.239 it's pretty fast. On the Roku Ultra, it's pretty fast. 0:43:25.320 --> 0:43:27.640 But like when you start getting into these lower end 0:43:27.640 --> 0:43:30.640 devices that are twenty five thirty forty bucks, it's just 0:43:30.640 --> 0:43:32.840 gonna take a little bit longer to load your favorite apps. 0:43:32.840 --> 0:43:34.080 That's the main downside. 0:43:34.120 --> 0:43:36.600 As long as they're four k HDR all this stuff like, 0:43:36.880 --> 0:43:39.080 they're gonna be fine for the picture once it's playing, 0:43:39.520 --> 0:43:42.400 doesn't take much to play the video. It's just a 0:43:42.440 --> 0:43:44.680 matter of like how long do these things take to 0:43:44.760 --> 0:43:45.800 load your favorite apps? 0:43:45.880 --> 0:43:46.000 Right? 0:43:46.080 --> 0:43:49.160 The response time, that's really where you notice the difference. 0:43:50.239 --> 0:43:53.920 All right, let's talk about Amazon. Speaking of Amazon, everything 0:43:54.040 --> 0:43:59.080 just rolls into each other. Amazon's sidewalk is bubbling up 0:43:59.120 --> 0:44:01.440 once again. I did a story on this back in 0:44:01.560 --> 0:44:05.520 I think it was like December, and gosh. 0:44:05.160 --> 0:44:05.799 When was that. 0:44:07.200 --> 0:44:13.240 Let me see, I did the story on December fourth. 0:44:13.360 --> 0:44:15.080 I can't believe it's December fourth. 0:44:15.560 --> 0:44:16.120 Oh. This is cool. 0:44:16.120 --> 0:44:20.239 Because I'm my computer connected, I can actually pipe in 0:44:20.880 --> 0:44:21.520 here's the story. 0:44:21.640 --> 0:44:24.359 Look at this. Here's what I used. 0:44:24.400 --> 0:44:28.080 Here's what I Said's network called sidewalk. It's powered by 0:44:28.080 --> 0:44:31.360 a portion of home Internet connections along with millions of 0:44:31.480 --> 0:44:35.560 ring and echo devices installed in homes across America. If 0:44:35.600 --> 0:44:37.880 you have one of these devices, you'll help power the 0:44:37.920 --> 0:44:40.799 network by default. Okay, So anyway, so that's I feel 0:44:40.840 --> 0:44:42.440 like now I feel like I'm really on the radio 0:44:42.480 --> 0:44:44.520 here because that's like kind of you know, they they 0:44:44.560 --> 0:44:47.560 play like little clips of like news. In a recent email, 0:44:47.640 --> 0:44:50.800 Amazon says, side, I don't know, I just love it. Okay, 0:44:50.840 --> 0:44:53.319 So what do you need to know about sidewalk? So 0:44:53.400 --> 0:44:55.920 Sidewalk is Amazon's. 0:44:57.000 --> 0:44:58.239 New you know. 0:44:58.280 --> 0:45:02.480 It's basically a low low power, low frequency network that 0:45:03.160 --> 0:45:07.080 will long range, by the way, that is powered by 0:45:07.520 --> 0:45:11.040 Amazon devices like echos, a lot of echos, and then 0:45:11.160 --> 0:45:14.040 ring devices, but not the thing they left out was 0:45:14.080 --> 0:45:16.360 the doorbell, the video doorbell. So that's like the number 0:45:16.360 --> 0:45:18.480 one ring device that is not part of this network. 0:45:18.480 --> 0:45:19.680 So if you have one of those and that's your 0:45:19.680 --> 0:45:21.600 only ring device, you don't have to worry about being 0:45:21.600 --> 0:45:23.880 part of the sidewalk network. Now, if you have an 0:45:23.920 --> 0:45:26.879 echo or you have some of the higher end ring 0:45:26.960 --> 0:45:31.920 devices like the floodlights, those are part of the echo 0:45:32.000 --> 0:45:35.319 network and are the ring the sidewalk network. And I 0:45:35.360 --> 0:45:37.360 think they did that, and they did all these things 0:45:37.360 --> 0:45:39.520 that are that are wired right, so they have a 0:45:39.560 --> 0:45:43.520 constant connection to power and a constant connection to the Internet. 0:45:44.080 --> 0:45:46.279 And so what these devices do is they take a 0:45:46.320 --> 0:45:50.080 little tiny bit of your bandwidth and they rebroadcast it 0:45:50.160 --> 0:45:53.560 out as part of this mesh network, which is a 0:45:53.600 --> 0:45:56.759 new network called the Sidewalk Network. And I think this 0:45:56.800 --> 0:45:58.839 is brilliant. I think it's really smart. I think it's 0:45:58.840 --> 0:46:00.680 actually going to be very helpful in the future. But 0:46:00.719 --> 0:46:03.560 I know it's scary because it's using our internet. I 0:46:03.600 --> 0:46:06.040 don't think it's that scary. I think that Amazon did 0:46:06.040 --> 0:46:08.920 their homework. They figured out a way to use a 0:46:08.960 --> 0:46:10.120 tiny bit of your bandwidth. 0:46:10.160 --> 0:46:11.040 I think they said. 0:46:10.840 --> 0:46:14.360 It's like under, let's see what they say, five hundred 0:46:14.360 --> 0:46:21.000 megabytes a month. Five hundred let's see, yeah, five hundred 0:46:21.000 --> 0:46:24.000 megabytes a month. So you're not like they're not using 0:46:24.000 --> 0:46:24.760 all your Internet. 0:46:24.840 --> 0:46:25.160 They're not. 0:46:25.200 --> 0:46:29.040 Okay, the number one headline I'm seeing everywhere is Amazon Evil. 0:46:29.280 --> 0:46:33.319 Amazon is sharing your WiFi with your neighbors. 0:46:33.600 --> 0:46:36.760 Bump, bump, bump. That is not true. 0:46:37.040 --> 0:46:39.880 You cannot just latch onto this Wi Fi connection you 0:46:39.920 --> 0:46:40.319 do not have. 0:46:41.000 --> 0:46:42.839 You can't go on your phone and say, oh, let 0:46:42.840 --> 0:46:44.719 me connect to the sidewalk network. 0:46:44.400 --> 0:46:47.000 Because it's free, and I'll just cancel my internet at 0:46:47.040 --> 0:46:49.200 home and I'll just use my contents. He used my 0:46:49.360 --> 0:46:54.640 neighbor's Wi Fi. No, that's not how it works. What 0:46:54.680 --> 0:46:56.920 this is doing, Okay, there's a couple of things this 0:46:56.960 --> 0:46:59.560 is doing that's gonna make your life actually a lot better. 0:46:59.680 --> 0:47:01.480 So let's say you have. 0:47:03.000 --> 0:47:05.400 A ring video doorbell, right and you're setting it up 0:47:05.400 --> 0:47:07.799 for the first time, and this thing is for some 0:47:07.880 --> 0:47:10.080 reason you're just having trouble setting it up and it's 0:47:10.080 --> 0:47:13.680 not working. Well, maybe this device is sniffing around and 0:47:13.719 --> 0:47:17.879 it actually senses the sidewalk network and it says oh. 0:47:17.920 --> 0:47:20.520 And then you call Ring tech support and they say, well, 0:47:20.920 --> 0:47:22.680 hold on, let me give me the serial number on 0:47:22.760 --> 0:47:24.960 that Ring device and you say, well, here it is, 0:47:25.000 --> 0:47:26.680 and they go, okay, we see what the problem is 0:47:27.239 --> 0:47:30.080 because they can connect to it through the sidewalk network. 0:47:30.080 --> 0:47:32.480 Now I'm not saying that's possible today, I'm not even sure. 0:47:32.680 --> 0:47:35.080 But these are just ideas of how Amazon's going to 0:47:35.200 --> 0:47:37.600 use this, okay. And then they say, okay, we can. 0:47:37.680 --> 0:47:39.560 We can flip this switch. Do you mind if we 0:47:40.000 --> 0:47:41.920 flip this switch for you and we'll get this work 0:47:41.960 --> 0:47:43.359 in And then you say yeah, and you say okay, 0:47:43.440 --> 0:47:45.160 and they help guide you along and boom, now you're 0:47:45.200 --> 0:47:48.239 up and running. That's one scenario. Another scenario, you've got 0:47:48.239 --> 0:47:51.080 a TILE device, and Tile is kind of an early 0:47:52.160 --> 0:47:58.360 early ally of the sidewalk network, and the Tile, which 0:47:58.480 --> 0:48:02.200 generally has been limited in past years to just working 0:48:02.200 --> 0:48:05.400 off of random people's Bluetooth on their phones, now it 0:48:05.440 --> 0:48:09.959 can use this sidewalk network to have connectivity no matter 0:48:09.960 --> 0:48:12.480 where it is as long as this sidewalk network is nearby. 0:48:12.719 --> 0:48:15.319 And so apparently the sidewalk network does not need a 0:48:15.320 --> 0:48:17.640 lot of nodes for it to cover a wide swath 0:48:17.719 --> 0:48:20.360 of area. So if you know a couple people in 0:48:20.400 --> 0:48:22.680 your neighborhood leave this thing turned on, it could be 0:48:22.719 --> 0:48:26.920 a very powerful network. And yes it's evil, it's Amazon, 0:48:26.960 --> 0:48:29.759 oh my gosh, but when you lose your dog and 0:48:29.840 --> 0:48:33.239 you've got a tile connected to it, you'll really appreciate 0:48:33.280 --> 0:48:34.760 the power of the sidewalk network. 0:48:35.280 --> 0:48:37.560 Or when you lose. 0:48:39.160 --> 0:48:41.239 Let's say you lose power at your house and you're 0:48:41.280 --> 0:48:45.319 on vacation and your devices can still connect to the 0:48:45.440 --> 0:48:48.680 sidewalk network to sort of keep them in a state 0:48:48.760 --> 0:48:52.360 that is sort of still protecting your house. You know, 0:48:52.440 --> 0:48:54.440 you may not have all the functionality, but you might 0:48:54.440 --> 0:48:56.399 not be able to stream video and stuff, but maybe 0:48:56.400 --> 0:48:58.480 they'll still have enough to just kind of keep alerts 0:48:58.520 --> 0:49:01.560 going or whatever. You'll be like, oh, that's kind of cool. 0:49:01.640 --> 0:49:05.160 So again, you know, I think that we need to 0:49:05.239 --> 0:49:09.680 keep a critical eye when it comes to anything that 0:49:09.719 --> 0:49:10.560 big tech does. 0:49:11.120 --> 0:49:13.920 But I think that these stories are a little. 0:49:13.680 --> 0:49:16.960 Bit overblown sometimes and it makes the average person just 0:49:17.000 --> 0:49:19.919 say no, I will not do that. I'm not letting 0:49:20.000 --> 0:49:23.080 Amazon share my Wi Fi with my neighbors. Well, that's 0:49:23.080 --> 0:49:25.080 not what's happening here. And when you think about what's 0:49:25.120 --> 0:49:26.960 happening and you think about how we can create a 0:49:27.040 --> 0:49:30.919 network that you know, it may bring prices down from 0:49:31.040 --> 0:49:33.560 you know, this network has the potential to compete with 0:49:33.600 --> 0:49:36.760 something like Verizon or AT and T or T Mobile, 0:49:37.120 --> 0:49:41.040 because now you can empower a whole bunch of these 0:49:41.080 --> 0:49:43.719 new devices that may connect to the sidewalk network and 0:49:43.760 --> 0:49:48.440 have connectivity all the time to do little tiny things like, 0:49:48.640 --> 0:49:51.799 you know, check in on GPS or whatever. You know, 0:49:51.840 --> 0:49:53.480 maybe in the future it could even check email. 0:49:53.560 --> 0:49:54.000 Who knows. 0:49:54.040 --> 0:49:56.239 I'm just saying this. This network has a lot of 0:49:56.520 --> 0:49:59.520 potential to do a lot of cool things in the future. 0:50:00.000 --> 0:50:02.680 Why should we just immediately cut it off and say no, 0:50:02.719 --> 0:50:04.080 I'm not going to be a part of that without 0:50:04.120 --> 0:50:07.280 any reasoning, I personally am leaving mine on. I'm leaving 0:50:07.320 --> 0:50:09.120 it on on my gadgets. I have a couple of 0:50:09.120 --> 0:50:12.440 them here that will will latch on. I'm happy to 0:50:12.480 --> 0:50:14.759 help this thing take off, because you know, when you 0:50:14.800 --> 0:50:16.640 look at something like and I don't want to knock 0:50:16.640 --> 0:50:18.600 Apple again, but when you look at something like Apples 0:50:18.640 --> 0:50:21.799 find my network. Oh, it's pretty much turned on by 0:50:21.840 --> 0:50:24.520 default with every iPhone user in the world, which is 0:50:24.560 --> 0:50:27.439 you know, they say, nearly a billion devices. No one 0:50:27.480 --> 0:50:30.040 cried about that. No one said, oh, Apples so evil 0:50:30.040 --> 0:50:31.799 for doing this. They said, oh, my gosh, Apple is 0:50:31.840 --> 0:50:34.560 so cool that I can use these find my you know, tags, 0:50:34.600 --> 0:50:36.960 to these air tags to find my stuff all over 0:50:36.960 --> 0:50:39.279 the world. Now that's great, but why don't we have 0:50:39.360 --> 0:50:43.160 some competition? And Amazon is building something that could potentially 0:50:43.200 --> 0:50:46.360 compete with find my and give Apple a run for 0:50:46.400 --> 0:50:49.920 their money and importantly give us consumers a choice. And 0:50:50.000 --> 0:50:52.120 so now that Apple air tags, yeah, thirty bucks doesn't 0:50:52.160 --> 0:50:54.759 seem like a big deal, but now we may see 0:50:54.800 --> 0:50:57.720 these things come down to five dollars because other people 0:50:57.760 --> 0:51:00.719 can tap into sidewalk and make devices that are just 0:51:00.760 --> 0:51:04.319 as powerful, just as great. And you know, now we 0:51:04.360 --> 0:51:07.200 have choices, consumers. So I think that's what you need 0:51:07.239 --> 0:51:09.719 to know about sidewalk. It is your opportunity to turn 0:51:09.760 --> 0:51:11.840 it off if you like. You can opt out in 0:51:11.920 --> 0:51:15.640 the settings on the Ring app or on the Alexa app. 0:51:16.120 --> 0:51:19.239 Just go into your settings and look for Amazon Sidewalk. 0:51:20.080 --> 0:51:20.840 I guess I can. 0:51:20.719 --> 0:51:25.080 Give you the the full you know, whatever you want 0:51:25.080 --> 0:51:27.840 what I just do here, But if you look at 0:51:28.120 --> 0:51:30.719 let's see where is it? So the settings, it's Alexa 0:51:30.880 --> 0:51:34.000 on your iPhone or Android, Tap more, tap settings, type 0:51:34.000 --> 0:51:37.319 account settings, tap Amazon sidewalk, and then toggle off on 0:51:37.440 --> 0:51:42.520 the Ring app. It's Ring And then it's not exactly 0:51:42.560 --> 0:51:43.920 where you would think it would be. I have to 0:51:43.920 --> 0:51:46.440 look in my I did it on a Facebook post, 0:51:46.600 --> 0:51:47.200 so you can. 0:51:47.440 --> 0:51:48.640 Let's see here where is it? 0:51:49.719 --> 0:51:54.080 Hold on, I gotta gotta scroll down. Let's see where 0:51:54.400 --> 0:51:55.640 it's How do you opt out with. 0:51:55.600 --> 0:51:56.280 A Ring device? 0:51:56.400 --> 0:51:59.240 It is Ring app menu, which is the three bars 0:51:59.280 --> 0:52:02.040 at the top, left, control center, and then Amazon sidewalk. 0:52:02.120 --> 0:52:04.440 So there you have it. I mean, make your own decisions. 0:52:04.440 --> 0:52:07.280 I mean, I'm just one opinion, and I'm an optimist 0:52:07.360 --> 0:52:09.920 when it comes to tech. So my opinion maybe not 0:52:10.040 --> 0:52:12.560 what you think, and that's fine. So I'm just giving 0:52:12.600 --> 0:52:15.400 you mind so you can understand why I'm staying on 0:52:15.440 --> 0:52:18.200 board with this thing unless Amazon proves me wrong, and 0:52:18.239 --> 0:52:20.400 if they do, then I will turn it off. But 0:52:20.480 --> 0:52:22.920 right now I feel like I'm contributing to something that 0:52:22.960 --> 0:52:26.480 has potential to be pretty cool, pretty powerful, and pretty helpful. 0:52:26.760 --> 0:52:29.000 For other people, and that's why I'm doing it. 0:52:34.960 --> 0:52:35.359 All right. 0:52:35.480 --> 0:52:38.680 So Richard, I did a story on how to avoid 0:52:38.800 --> 0:52:42.239 robo calls, and Richard put in his suggestion. The main 0:52:42.280 --> 0:52:43.680 point of the story, and I think I went through 0:52:43.680 --> 0:52:46.160 this last week, was that you download the app from 0:52:46.200 --> 0:52:48.799 your carrier, you install on your phone, and you can 0:52:49.280 --> 0:52:51.360 stop the robo calls that way. But then some people 0:52:51.520 --> 0:52:53.160 you know, got a lot of response. By the way, 0:52:53.480 --> 0:52:56.360 but Richard emailed in and said, I have a suggestion 0:52:56.480 --> 0:52:59.600 to help avoid robo calls. So here's what he did. 0:52:59.840 --> 0:53:02.920 He edited all of his contacts to a favorite same 0:53:03.000 --> 0:53:06.040 ring tone. When that ringtone is ringing, no problem answering 0:53:06.080 --> 0:53:10.400 these calls. It's a friendly call for all other incoming calls. 0:53:10.680 --> 0:53:13.719 Have a default ring tone that you know is for 0:53:13.920 --> 0:53:17.640 unknown callers that you can ignore. Let it go to voicemail. 0:53:17.640 --> 0:53:19.239 If someone needs to contact you, they can leave a 0:53:19.280 --> 0:53:22.520 message and you can have your unanswered message saying I 0:53:22.560 --> 0:53:26.320 do not answer any unknown numbers while I'm driving. Uh oh, sorry, 0:53:26.600 --> 0:53:29.200 I do not answer any unknown phone numbers or while 0:53:29.200 --> 0:53:31.520 I'm driving. Please leave a brief message if you wish 0:53:31.520 --> 0:53:32.319 me to call you back. 0:53:32.640 --> 0:53:32.960 He said. 0:53:32.960 --> 0:53:35.200 It takes time to edit each contact, but it's worth it. 0:53:35.239 --> 0:53:37.719 And yeah, I mean this is something that is an 0:53:37.719 --> 0:53:41.040 alternative to sort of all these apps, and it's kind 0:53:41.080 --> 0:53:43.319 of like it's almost like a do not disturb. Like 0:53:43.400 --> 0:53:47.480 on my iPhone, you know, I have a feature called 0:53:47.520 --> 0:53:50.640 do not Disturb, and you know, you put your friends 0:53:50.640 --> 0:53:53.800 in there and your your family and while you're sleeping 0:53:53.840 --> 0:53:55.759 at night, if they need to call you or they 0:53:55.760 --> 0:53:58.480 need to get through, it will still ring. But for 0:53:58.560 --> 0:54:00.600 ninety nine percent of other people, if they're not on 0:54:00.640 --> 0:54:03.160 that starred list or you know an Android, it's starred 0:54:03.160 --> 0:54:05.879 on iPhone, it's favorites. If they're not on that list, 0:54:05.880 --> 0:54:07.359 it's not going to ring your phone. And so that's 0:54:07.360 --> 0:54:09.960 pretty useful. That's that's another way of doing it. You 0:54:10.000 --> 0:54:11.799 can just leave your phone on do not Disturb all 0:54:11.840 --> 0:54:13.799 the time. But then you know, just add your friends 0:54:13.840 --> 0:54:17.000 to your favorites list and anyone on that list will 0:54:17.000 --> 0:54:17.719 be able to call you. 0:54:18.120 --> 0:54:21.000 Now, the only time that doesn't. 0:54:20.680 --> 0:54:23.520 Work is in a real emergency where it could be 0:54:24.000 --> 0:54:26.120 you know, someone calling you that may not be calling 0:54:26.120 --> 0:54:28.840 from a number that's on your preferred list. And so 0:54:28.920 --> 0:54:31.080 in that case, there are provisions apples thought of all 0:54:31.120 --> 0:54:33.440 this so is Android, if someone calls you a couple 0:54:33.480 --> 0:54:37.200 times in like fifteen minutes time period, it will still open, 0:54:37.200 --> 0:54:39.680 it will still ring your phone. So the first time 0:54:39.719 --> 0:54:41.200 they call, it won't ring. But you know, if you're 0:54:41.239 --> 0:54:43.960 an emergency, you know, call someone a couple times, right, 0:54:44.000 --> 0:54:45.759 You're trying to get a hold of them, and so 0:54:46.000 --> 0:54:48.839 you're trying to get their attention. And usually spammers don't 0:54:48.880 --> 0:54:50.960 call a whole bunch of times in a row. But 0:54:51.160 --> 0:54:53.359 so I think, Richard, your suggestion is a good one. 0:54:53.400 --> 0:54:55.680 It's it's one option, right. There's a lot of ways 0:54:55.680 --> 0:54:59.160 to do things with tech, and that's just one option, 0:54:59.480 --> 0:55:02.520 and I think that's a it's a good one. It's 0:55:02.800 --> 0:55:05.400 a little bit of work, but you know, you know, 0:55:05.640 --> 0:55:09.319 you gotta you gotta spend the time to get the 0:55:09.400 --> 0:55:13.600 return right. All right, let's talk about this as our 0:55:13.840 --> 0:55:17.359 maybe our final story United. I'm so excited about this 0:55:17.880 --> 0:55:23.960 bringing back supersonic speeds. They're buying fifteen aircraft from a 0:55:24.000 --> 0:55:27.799 company called Boom Supersonic. And the cool thing about these 0:55:27.800 --> 0:55:30.439 supersonic planes is that not only do they look cool 0:55:30.480 --> 0:55:34.400 even though they're an artist rendering, they will go twice 0:55:34.440 --> 0:55:37.279 the speed of your typical airliner and So as for 0:55:37.320 --> 0:55:40.120 someone who flies from LA to New York a lot, 0:55:40.520 --> 0:55:42.600 I think this would be just so cool to go. 0:55:42.960 --> 0:55:45.879 It's like twenty five hundred miles by plane, so it's 0:55:45.920 --> 0:55:48.799 like usually anywhere between four and six hours, So just 0:55:48.840 --> 0:55:50.799 cut that in half. So to get to from LA 0:55:50.880 --> 0:55:52.560 to New York, New York to LA in two hours 0:55:52.680 --> 0:55:55.400 or maybe three hours is would be groundbreaking. 0:55:56.280 --> 0:55:57.560 It'd be really really cool. 0:55:58.120 --> 0:56:02.160 Now, apparently after I posted that, people said, well, they 0:56:02.200 --> 0:56:06.160 don't really use SuperSonics over the trans continental because I 0:56:06.160 --> 0:56:08.960 guess the sonic boom is too much. But I don't 0:56:08.960 --> 0:56:11.040 really know, so I mean, maybe they'll do this in 0:56:11.080 --> 0:56:13.680 the future. But these airliners are expected to run by 0:56:13.680 --> 0:56:18.600 twenty twenty nine. It's gonna be the first large commercial 0:56:18.600 --> 0:56:22.000 aircraft to be net zero carbon from day one. They're 0:56:22.000 --> 0:56:24.960 gonna roll out in twenty twenty five, fly out fly 0:56:25.040 --> 0:56:27.960 in twenty twenty six, and carry passengers by twenty twenty nine. 0:56:28.680 --> 0:56:34.480 And so the sonic boom situation, all the all of 0:56:34.560 --> 0:56:39.040 the examples they gave of routes were all from you know, 0:56:39.280 --> 0:56:44.080 places that were like international, right, and so let's see 0:56:44.120 --> 0:56:48.239 what were the examples they gave Newark to London in 0:56:48.280 --> 0:56:50.400 three and a half hours, Newark to Frankfurt four and 0:56:50.440 --> 0:56:52.040 a half hours, San Francisco. 0:56:51.600 --> 0:56:53.080 To Tokyo in six hours. 0:56:53.600 --> 0:56:56.320 And of course they showed how beautiful the interior space 0:56:56.400 --> 0:56:58.920 is on these things, and they look awesome. But again, 0:57:00.280 --> 0:57:02.240 this is not gonna be cheap. This is not something 0:57:02.280 --> 0:57:03.759 that you and I will just be taking on a 0:57:03.760 --> 0:57:06.759 regular basis. Maybe you will, I don't know, probably not me, 0:57:06.960 --> 0:57:09.799 because it's my dream to fly first class from coast 0:57:09.840 --> 0:57:12.040 to coast once in a while, which you know has 0:57:12.120 --> 0:57:14.359 happened in the past, but it's not my regular and 0:57:14.400 --> 0:57:16.640 that's my ultimate dream, is to just be able to 0:57:16.680 --> 0:57:17.200 do that. 0:57:19.000 --> 0:57:19.720 All the time. 0:57:20.120 --> 0:57:21.960 I had a friend who worked for a big company 0:57:22.120 --> 0:57:25.000 and they got to fly first class to London. That 0:57:25.080 --> 0:57:27.280 was like the standard, like they flew well business class, 0:57:27.280 --> 0:57:30.200 I guess, and that's like my dream because can you 0:57:30.240 --> 0:57:33.880 imagine just the creature comforts of lying flat. I got 0:57:33.920 --> 0:57:36.280 to do this once to Europe. I was working a 0:57:36.400 --> 0:57:38.680 job and they flew me business class and it was 0:57:38.760 --> 0:57:41.640 just like I got off that flight and I said 0:57:41.680 --> 0:57:44.000 I could I could fly to Europe every day if 0:57:44.040 --> 0:57:46.720 I wanted to with this with the way I flew there, 0:57:46.760 --> 0:57:51.120 Because you had a nice dinner, you watched a nice movie, 0:57:51.280 --> 0:57:54.080 and then oh you laid your flat, your seat flat, 0:57:54.120 --> 0:57:56.160 and you went to bed and you slept in like 0:57:56.200 --> 0:57:59.000 a real bed, basically over to Europe, and it was 0:57:59.080 --> 0:58:02.240 just unbelievable. But most of the time on a plane, 0:58:02.240 --> 0:58:03.960 I'm in a cramp sea. You know, if I can, 0:58:04.040 --> 0:58:06.520 if I'm lucky, I'll get economy plus, which is amazing, 0:58:06.560 --> 0:58:09.479 you know, it's that's enough. But it would be nice 0:58:09.480 --> 0:58:12.920 to have that live flat or that nice big seat anyway, 0:58:12.960 --> 0:58:15.080 but this one would be a lot more expensive. You know, 0:58:15.120 --> 0:58:18.360 you're talking you know, five ten thousand dollars for a seat. 0:58:18.400 --> 0:58:20.640 Perhaps we don't know because all this is brand new, 0:58:21.440 --> 0:58:23.880 and also we don't know if they'll be doing you know, 0:58:24.400 --> 0:58:26.800 you know, LA to New York or if it'll be 0:58:26.960 --> 0:58:29.480 just international stuff. But anyway, I thought it was pretty 0:58:29.480 --> 0:58:32.160 cool because supersonic flights, you know, they were they were 0:58:32.760 --> 0:58:35.000 they had them at some point with the concord, and 0:58:35.040 --> 0:58:36.720 then all of a sudden they took them away. And 0:58:36.760 --> 0:58:38.840 now it's like we're getting back to where we were, 0:58:38.880 --> 0:58:41.440 but in like a new high tech maybe the technology 0:58:41.440 --> 0:58:46.080 has gotten better, who knows, But thank you Unitas for 0:58:46.120 --> 0:58:47.040 doing that pretty cool? 0:58:47.120 --> 0:58:47.280 Right? 0:58:48.800 --> 0:58:50.760 All right, let's see do we have anything else? Or 0:58:50.800 --> 0:58:52.440 is it the end of the show? I think it is. 0:58:52.480 --> 0:58:57.040 Actually yeah, that music means it is the end of 0:58:57.120 --> 0:59:00.480 the show. That's gonna do it for this episode. If 0:59:00.480 --> 0:59:02.240 you'd like to submit a question for me to answer, 0:59:02.280 --> 0:59:04.760 go to my Facebook page, Facebook, dot com, slash rich 0:59:04.800 --> 0:59:08.400 on Tech, hit the big blue send email button. 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