Speaker 1: Facebook makes it easy for small businesses to sell stuff online.
Speaker 1: Apple is reopening some stores. A startup offers satellite TV
Speaker 1: plus Your tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich
Speaker 1: Damiro and this is rich on Tech, the podcast where
Speaker 1: I talk about the tech stuff I think you should
Speaker 1: know about, and I also answer the questions that you
Speaker 1: send me. And this is a special edition. It is
Speaker 1: just the questions you posted to my Facebook page at
Speaker 1: Facebook dot com slash rich on Tech. My name is
Speaker 1: Rich Damiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Joining me is producer Megan. What's up?
Speaker 2: Hello? How are you happy? Friday? How can I say that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Sure, I mean if you're listening on a different day,
Speaker 1: then it may not be Friday, But you know what,
Speaker 1: we are recording this on a Friday, so it is Friday.
Speaker 1: We both have off Monday, which is nice, so little
Speaker 1: ended weekend. Although with working from home, it's kind of
Speaker 1: funny like requesting days off because I'm like, well, it's
Speaker 1: kind of like you're not in any way, but.
Speaker 2: Right right, I mean you're still working.
Speaker 1: You're still working. That's the thing.
Speaker 2: Like I it's a mental break, it's.
Speaker 1: A mental break exactly, and my mental has been breaking
Speaker 1: many times since I've been at home, so I am
Speaker 1: so ready. In Los Angeles, they are targeting July fourth
Speaker 1: as our Freedom Independence Day. Do you think that's funny
Speaker 1: that they you know, July fourth, come on?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean normally a day people take off, but.
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, that's the day we get back to work.
Speaker 1: July fourth, what day is no holiday? Let's see July
Speaker 1: fourth is a Saturday this year. Oh wow, that's like
Speaker 1: the best case scenario. Yeah, that's so interesting when holidays
Speaker 1: fall and like, like, I think Halloween on a Saturday
Speaker 1: night is probably the best case scenario.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, Halloween should not be during the week. I
Speaker 2: feel like that just it's just not They should be
Speaker 2: school the next day or work or work.
Speaker 1: They should always do Halloween on a Saturday night. I
Speaker 1: don't know why who invented these holidays that are on
Speaker 1: different days like we want? I mean, okay, like Easter
Speaker 1: is always on a Sunday, that's fine, Christmas should always
Speaker 1: be on like a Saturday night or whatever. The best
Speaker 1: day is where you get the most time off of work.
Speaker 1: That I think is the best.
Speaker 2: Well, they should just do it, Like how they do
Speaker 2: Mother's Day and Father's Day, they should be like, it's
Speaker 2: the third Saturday in December. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: All right, well let's get uh, let's get started with
Speaker 1: some of the news happening in the tech world. If
Speaker 1: you're new to the show, thanks for tuning us in.
Speaker 1: We talk about stuff that is the you know, the
Speaker 1: average consumer needs to know about. This is not the
Speaker 1: Inside Baseball Tech podcast, because we want to help the
Speaker 1: average person. And I think this actually really helps the
Speaker 1: average person. Facebook is introducing something called shops and it's
Speaker 1: kind of a way for small businesses to set up
Speaker 1: a store on Facebook instantly. And I think this is
Speaker 1: a really big deal because Megan, I know you're on Instagram,
Speaker 1: maybe not so much on Facebook. Are you even on
Speaker 1: Facebook at all?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I'm on I have Facebook. Do you use it?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Are your friends like you're my friends? Like I you know,
Speaker 1: I'm an older older I'm like my like guy friends
Speaker 1: are not on Facebook, you know, Like if I go
Speaker 1: on Facebook, it's mainly like my mom and her friends. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just don't.
Speaker 2: Find my family that's on Facebook.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's not the same then that makes sense anyway.
Speaker 1: So but the point is there are many many people
Speaker 1: on Facebook, and when you're a small business, I would
Speaker 1: almost argue at this point in time, you don't even
Speaker 1: need a website. You don't even need a small who
Speaker 1: wants to shop on a random website if I could
Speaker 1: buy I always give the example of like candles. Right,
Speaker 1: Let's say you start a candle company and you have
Speaker 1: an Instagram page, and I see your candle on your
Speaker 1: Instagram page. Why would I want to go to a
Speaker 1: separate website to complete that transaction? Why would I not
Speaker 1: just want to press purchase right inside Instagram and buy
Speaker 1: your candle? Doesn't that make sense?
Speaker 2: It seems safer, right, And I don't.
Speaker 1: Know if Instagram has payment information on people, Like there's
Speaker 1: not really been a reason to put your credit card
Speaker 1: information into Instagram, but I think most people would be
Speaker 1: fine with that. Now Facebook, I do believe they have
Speaker 1: my credit card for things like donations or whatever I've
Speaker 1: done in the past on Facebook. So again they're setting
Speaker 1: up these small business shops. You can kind of take
Speaker 1: pictures of your products, you can put them in the catalog.
Speaker 1: You can customize what your shop looks like with a
Speaker 1: cover image and accent colors, and that means that anyone
Speaker 1: can sell on Instagram and Facebook instantly. And the other
Speaker 1: thing is you can kind of help people discover what
Speaker 1: you're selling through Instagram stories, Facebook stories or the million
Speaker 1: dollar ads, right, So that's what they're really trying to do.
Speaker 1: They're offering this for free because Megan, once you set
Speaker 1: up your shop on there, now you want to buy
Speaker 1: ads to get your candles in front of more people.
Speaker 1: So it makes a lot of sense. I could see
Speaker 1: you do.
Speaker 2: I think that's awesome.
Speaker 1: What would be your candle scent?
Speaker 2: Oh? Like what would I always go for? Like the
Speaker 2: Hawaiian smell?
Speaker 1: Interesting?
Speaker 2: You know, a Little Island Vibes.
Speaker 1: Coconut, that's a coconut candle. I usually go for like
Speaker 1: a just vanilla, like the most boring, Like that is
Speaker 1: like the most generic candle scent in the world.
Speaker 2: But I got your favorite ice cream?
Speaker 1: Yeah it is.
Speaker 2: Actually I think that's my favorite too.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, my kids are all chocolate on chocolate.
Speaker 1: They love like chocolate ice cream with chocolate. Everything we
Speaker 1: get now in our house, this is like week number
Speaker 1: like seventy nine of quarantine. Everything in our home is
Speaker 1: somehow chocolate or chocolate chip based.
Speaker 2: At this point, that's so funny. I'm not a chocolate
Speaker 2: person at all. Like I like a chocolate chip cookie,
Speaker 2: but I don't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I'm not a chocolate person. Oh that's not
Speaker 1: totally true. Okay. Other features of this. This all adds
Speaker 1: up to being really brilliant because now you've got your
Speaker 1: business on Instagram and Facebook. People can instant message you
Speaker 1: right through Messenger. So let's say they have a question
Speaker 1: about your candle. They can ask a question and you've
Speaker 1: got it on your phone and you can just write
Speaker 1: them right back. Now, this is all free, except for
Speaker 1: obviously the purchase process. So somehow people are gonna have
Speaker 1: to check out and someone is going to get a
Speaker 1: percentage of that transaction. So if you sell a candle
Speaker 1: for forty bucks, when the person checks out, you're only
Speaker 1: going to get thirty seven dollars out of that or
Speaker 1: whatever they you know, the small percentage, But to me,
Speaker 1: that's a small price to pay. Now, if you think
Speaker 1: about this, this really takes on something like an Etsy.
Speaker 1: But you know, yeah, it's kind of sad for Etsy.
Speaker 1: I don't think Etsy is going to go out of business,
Speaker 1: but that's kind of what they're taking, you know, taking
Speaker 1: aim at here.
Speaker 2: Does an Instagram already have this too?
Speaker 1: They do, but it's very limited. It you know, you
Speaker 1: had to be a partner, you had to you know,
Speaker 1: it's and nobody had access to it. You know, it's
Speaker 1: very limited. And so the fact that they can now
Speaker 1: let anyone do this is to me a big win.
Speaker 2: All right. Our first question comes from Kimberly Smith Brown.
Speaker 2: My sprint contract is up, switching to switching to Verizon
Speaker 2: or AT and T any good deals. I'm an iPhone
Speaker 2: user and my husband is fifty five. I don't know
Speaker 2: if that's a senior and if there are any senior
Speaker 2: plans that's not a senior though, right, fifty.
Speaker 1: Five is like quite young. I mean yeah, like the
Speaker 1: closer you get to these numbers, the younger they seem.
Speaker 1: So I don't I don't, you know, I think T
Speaker 1: Mobile they're well okay. So what I'd recommend is I
Speaker 1: would check out a website called whistle Out. Remember we
Speaker 1: did the story with them. They Oh yeah, they help
Speaker 1: you compare the various cell phone plans, and there are
Speaker 1: a lot of plans out there. If you're going for
Speaker 1: something like just Verizon or AT and T. I would
Speaker 1: just go on there. And it's whistleout dot com and
Speaker 1: cell phone plans and you say how many lines do
Speaker 1: you want? Two lines? You can say if you already
Speaker 1: have a phone, or did they already have a phone.
Speaker 1: It'll say I'm own an iPhone user, okay, So I
Speaker 1: would say she probably already has her phone, right, and
Speaker 1: I would say that she has a unlocked GSM phone
Speaker 1: And that's it. And now you can say the networks
Speaker 1: you want, so you can first look at Verizon and
Speaker 1: see what they've got, which you know they're gonna be
Speaker 1: a little bit more expensive. But it just depends. I mean,
Speaker 1: but that's what I'd recommend, because for me to just
Speaker 1: tell you what's perfect for you, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so many plans out there, and you know, if
Speaker 1: you want to be on the Verizon network, I mean,
Speaker 1: it depends how much how much are you talking on
Speaker 1: your phone? Do you want all unlimited data? Like for me,
Speaker 1: I want unlimited everything, so don't have to think about anything.
Speaker 1: But you may say, rich, I'm in my house, like
Speaker 1: ninety percent of the time, I just use Wi Fi
Speaker 1: and I just want a lot of texting and you know,
Speaker 1: unlimited calls. So I mean something like this, Like here's
Speaker 1: straight Talk, okay, straight Talk wireless, which I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've ever been in to a Walmart, but they
Speaker 1: sell it there. This is ninety dollars.
Speaker 2: I've never been in a Walmart, never in.
Speaker 1: Your life, never in my life. So wild, you know.
Speaker 1: I think we talked about this, but I don't think
Speaker 1: I ever was until I moved to Yakima, Washington. But
Speaker 1: I didn't grow up where they had Walmarts, and certainly
Speaker 1: in California there's not that many in like the main
Speaker 1: big cities. Okay, so ninety bucks a month for two
Speaker 1: lines on straight Talk, which uses apparently uses the Verizon network.
Speaker 1: So again, I think that you kind of need to
Speaker 1: just go through this website and see what's best for you.
Speaker 1: If you just go to the Verizon website, you can
Speaker 1: see what's there if you really want, like the cheapest
Speaker 1: for fifty five up. I think that T Mobile has
Speaker 1: like a fifty five and up plan, which is there
Speaker 1: let's see, Yeah, unlimited fifty five plus discount plan for seniors.
Speaker 1: I guess they are a senior theoretically, but I don't
Speaker 1: really think that's the definition of senior. But this is
Speaker 1: fifty five or over you can get twenty seven dollars
Speaker 1: and fifty seve fifty five dollars for two lines.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, wow, that's really good.
Speaker 1: And that's unlimited talk, text and smartphone data. So the
Speaker 1: only thing that I would say for Kimberly is that
Speaker 1: you want to make sure that T Mobile works in
Speaker 1: your area. But she's on Sprint, so which which leads
Speaker 1: me to believe since she's saying Verizon or AT and T,
Speaker 1: she wants better coverage. But if T Mobile has fine
Speaker 1: coverage in your area, I would do that. I mean,
Speaker 1: fifty five dollars a month for two lines with auto pay,
Speaker 1: That's that's an amazing deal. I pay. I pay like
Speaker 1: one eighty five a month to Verizon for two lines.
Speaker 1: That includes my Apple Watch though.
Speaker 2: So oh okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of Apple, Apple is opening some of their
Speaker 1: stores around the United States. I think about twenty five
Speaker 1: of them. They've said they've opened about one hundred worldwide.
Speaker 1: And it's not going to be the same Apple store
Speaker 1: that you remember. Nothing is going to be the same
Speaker 1: as we remember before this whole coronavirus madness. So number one,
Speaker 1: face coverings required in the store, and customers that don't
Speaker 1: bring them, will actually Apple will provide them, which I
Speaker 1: think is kind of nice, right.
Speaker 2: Because oh yeah, if you don't, that is nice.
Speaker 1: A lot of places aren't doing that, like you, A
Speaker 1: lot of places, like I imagine, like the casinos in Vegas.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to buy a face mask for like
Speaker 1: nine ninety nine or even more. Let's be honest. Temperature
Speaker 1: checks will be conducted at the door, and you're also
Speaker 1: gonna have like a sign that says, you know, you
Speaker 1: need to make sure you're your cough and fever free.
Speaker 1: They're going to also do deep cleanings on things that
Speaker 1: people touch. Now, would you go into an Apple store
Speaker 1: and touch an iPhone at this point right now to
Speaker 1: like pick it up and look at it.
Speaker 2: Like if it wasn't cleaned? No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean how would you you mean.
Speaker 2: What I think twice? Like, if I was going in
Speaker 2: an Apple store like three months ago, now knowing what
Speaker 2: we know, just.
Speaker 1: Know what today? If you had an Apple store today,
Speaker 1: would you pick up an iPad to like see what
Speaker 1: it feels like?
Speaker 2: I think I would still do it, but I would
Speaker 2: be hesitant. I mean, if they're cleaning them ever read
Speaker 2: ten minutes or they you know, like I feel fine,
Speaker 2: I would just wash my hand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would wash my hand.
Speaker 2: What would you do?
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'd feel icky, Like it'd definitely be
Speaker 1: like a weird feeling like you you know, we were
Speaker 1: talking about this last night, my wife and I, like,
Speaker 1: you know, with Vegas, would you go on a slot machine?
Speaker 1: Like someone gets up from that slot machine? Would you
Speaker 1: sit down at that slot machine? And then we were like, well,
Speaker 1: are they gonna have wipes nearby that you like wipe
Speaker 1: down everything? And then like it just where does it end?
Speaker 1: It gets kind of crazy.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, so crazy.
Speaker 1: Anyway, So these stores in Los Angeles, there's no stores
Speaker 1: in LA that are opening right now, but there are
Speaker 1: some stores in the LA area, And I did a
Speaker 1: post on Twitter which I'm attempting to find right now,
Speaker 1: but I believe the closest one was Baker's Field, and
Speaker 1: I was all set to actually go out there and
Speaker 1: see what the deal was because I want to see
Speaker 1: what it looked like. And it turns out that in
Speaker 1: California they're not actually opening the stores just yet. It's
Speaker 1: going to be a drive up situation where you have
Speaker 1: to you know, drive up you can drop off your
Speaker 1: phone for repair and pick it up, you know, say
Speaker 1: the next day or something. Okay, Monterey, Roseville, Sacramento, San Luis, Obispo.
Speaker 1: Is that how you say it, San Luis, San Louis, Obispo.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure, Lewis. I feel like people say Louis, San.
Speaker 1: Louis, Obispo, Obispo. Okay, Modesto, Fresno, and Bakerfield. So those
Speaker 1: are the stores in California. So if you're near one
Speaker 1: of those stores, you can finally bring your iPhone in
Speaker 1: for a repair, or you can purchase something and pick
Speaker 1: it up at the store. But no going in just yet.
Speaker 2: Okay. This next question comes from Deborah rosoul hi Rich.
Speaker 2: I would like you. I would like your opinion on
Speaker 2: headphones Jive Mini pods. I guess that's what she wants
Speaker 2: your opinion on. I trust your opinion. Thanks.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you trust my opinion. So I get a
Speaker 1: look up of these Jive Mini pods and I will
Speaker 1: tell you that I don't trust them in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form. We've talked about this before on the website.
Speaker 1: When you go to a website and there's certain red
Speaker 1: flags that pop out right. Number one is when I
Speaker 1: went to this website. It's a giant wheel of fortune
Speaker 1: that you spin it and you might get a discount
Speaker 1: or free shipping or this or that. Number two, it
Speaker 1: has your location and it says my location seventy percent
Speaker 1: off expires today. High pressure sales tactics. Right then it's
Speaker 1: got all these logos of different companies. Now, if you
Speaker 1: ever see a logo of a company on a website
Speaker 1: but you can't click through, that's a red flag because
Speaker 1: I see that it's featured in tech Crunch, giz Moto,
Speaker 1: Huffington Post USA today, yet I can't click any of
Speaker 1: those links to see what tech Crunch wrote about them,
Speaker 1: what Gizmoto wrote about them, what Huffington Post wrote about them.
Speaker 1: And if you go by the way, these look like
Speaker 1: the Jive minipods look like identical to a knockoff AirPods AirPod.
Speaker 1: And do you remember when we were in China when
Speaker 1: the AirPods were everywhere, the knockoff one and they were
Speaker 1: like twenty bucks to purchase and they started out at
Speaker 1: one fifty and I was like negotiating with them and
Speaker 1: they kept following them.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yay, I remember that.
Speaker 1: That's what these are. These are just the same thing
Speaker 1: you would get in China on a street corner, but
Speaker 1: sold on a website. Now, the other thing that really
Speaker 1: gets me with this website is when you go back
Speaker 1: to Google Search, the number two results is a MarketWatch
Speaker 1: press release, and people do that. They do these press
Speaker 1: releases so it looks like they're coverage, but they're really not.
Speaker 1: So I'm not finding.
Speaker 2: Any actual coverage.
Speaker 1: It's very sketchy.
Speaker 2: So when I visit the website, I feel like it's
Speaker 2: a pop up, Like the.
Speaker 1: Whole thing is just kind of bogus, like it's fly
Speaker 1: by Night.
Speaker 2: It looks totally fake to me at least.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, so I feel bad for these mini pods,
Speaker 1: but look, there are a lot of different AirPod kind
Speaker 1: of alternatives out there. So the ones that I looked
Speaker 1: up and found some good reviews on that are decent
Speaker 1: and they're very popular. So my advice, can you click
Speaker 1: the link that I put in there, Megan. You see
Speaker 1: these they're called Anchor Soundcore, Liberty Neo. These are thirty
Speaker 1: three dollars. They have eleven thousand, four hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: one ratings on Amazon four and a half stars. So
Speaker 1: if you want a cheap pair of earbuds. I would
Speaker 1: go at these for thirty three dollars that eleven thousand
Speaker 1: people have rated versus these random whatever you're finding on there.
Speaker 1: And now the thing is, and I know this is
Speaker 1: what people like, people like the AirPods look, and these
Speaker 1: don't have the AirPods look, So I know that's kind
Speaker 1: of a problem. But we did do a story and
Speaker 1: I can't remember what the name of the company was,
Speaker 1: but we did this in tech Updates a couple days ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple weeks ago. We did a story on
Speaker 2: Urban Ears, which look a little bit like AirPods, but
Speaker 2: they cost around seventy dollars. Is a great alternative, Okay.
Speaker 1: So the Urban Ears, and and I know that that
Speaker 1: company actually has decent reviews for a lot of their stuff.
Speaker 1: So Urban Ears they've got the Luma and the alb
Speaker 1: alb y allb and they're gonna be ninety nine and
Speaker 1: sixty nine, so that's pretty good. That's like half the
Speaker 1: price of AirPods. And the difference between the two sets,
Speaker 1: I remember is with the ninety nine dollars one, you
Speaker 1: get the sensor and you get a longer battery life,
Speaker 1: and the sensor means when you pull them out of
Speaker 1: your ears, they will pause the music, so right, I
Speaker 1: would maybe hold off for those if you can. I
Speaker 1: believe they're coming sometime this summer, so you can go
Speaker 1: on their website on Urban Ears and sign up for updates. Now,
Speaker 1: we did do a review on a TCL smartphone this week.
Speaker 1: TCL is the company known for the Roku TVs. Megan,
Speaker 1: I believe you have one of those, right, yes, I do,
Speaker 1: and you love it?
Speaker 2: I love it?
Speaker 1: And now TCL they've made smartphones for a while. I
Speaker 1: believe it was under the Alcatel brand name and maybe
Speaker 1: even TCL phones, but these are like kind of their
Speaker 1: first entree into like, hey, we're making smartphones that are
Speaker 1: like pretty legit. And this is the TCL ten series.
Speaker 1: They make three different phones. Two are available now, the
Speaker 1: ten L and the ten Pro. I focused on the
Speaker 1: ten L just because it has the two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars price tag. The ten Pro for four to
Speaker 1: fifty I'll be honest, I'd probably recommend a pixel at
Speaker 1: that point or something similar. No, probably just a pixel.
Speaker 1: So at two hundred and fifty dollars, I was very
Speaker 1: skeptical of this phone, but I got to say, I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed this device because it doesn't play games with you.
Speaker 1: A lot of these cheap Android phones they're garbage, honestly,
Speaker 1: and this is not garbage. It's got a nice display
Speaker 1: six point five to three inches, it's got four cameras,
Speaker 1: has an actual headphone jack on the top, which I
Speaker 1: thought was really cool. And again they're playing to that
Speaker 1: budget connoisseur that may not want to spring for Bluetooth headphones.
Speaker 1: Have headphone jack, so you can plug in a headphone
Speaker 1: jack without an adapter, and again playing to that budget connoisseur.
Speaker 1: You can now tune in FM radio through this device
Speaker 1: because they put in an FM radio app. I'm not talking. iHeartRadio,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking, you know, one of these streaming apps.
Speaker 1: This is radio that is taken through the airwaves and
Speaker 1: sent through your headphones. And the reason why that's cool
Speaker 1: is because that means you can listen to music or
Speaker 1: talk radio without using your data plan. Then they have
Speaker 1: a smart key on the side of this thing, which
Speaker 1: is really cool. You can program that to do any
Speaker 1: kind of functionality you want, whether it's your assistant or
Speaker 1: three clicks to clear your memory. This has sixty four
Speaker 1: gigs of storage, six gigabytes of RAM USB C. Which
Speaker 1: is another thing that these budget devices do is they
Speaker 1: give you the older micro USB, which is terrible and
Speaker 1: it's not very good. See there's hardly any bloatwear on
Speaker 1: this phone. The software is really good. They've got an
Speaker 1: air drop kind of fileshare feature that lets you transfer
Speaker 1: things back and forth between your computer. The camera is
Speaker 1: I would say it's very good for the price. This
Speaker 1: is not going to beat out the iPhone se it's
Speaker 1: not going to beat out any sort of flagship pic
Speaker 1: android phone. But for two hundred and fifty dollars, it
Speaker 1: was just fine. In fact, I was sitting there taking
Speaker 1: pictures going wow, oh oh, okay, that's actually pretty good.
Speaker 2: And so you're pleasantly surprised.
Speaker 1: I was pleasantly overall on this entire phone for two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars. If you need just a phone,
Speaker 1: this is not Megan. This is not for your sister,
Speaker 1: who is you know, uh atok TikTok star. This is
Speaker 1: not for her. It's not for your brother who's a
Speaker 1: YouTube star. Why is the whole mcmonagall family, uh, some
Speaker 1: sort of social media star. It's so funny, but you
Speaker 1: rub it in me. You have the top tech podcast.
Speaker 2: Though that's true, Raise the room.
Speaker 1: They've probably never listened though.
Speaker 2: Sadly, I mean, we all support each other in different ways.
Speaker 1: The TCL tenel is also sold unlocked, which I really like,
Speaker 1: and I did confirm with TCL. It works on Verizon
Speaker 1: AT and T and T Mobile, so all three carriers
Speaker 1: is verified and it's on Amazon. So if you need
Speaker 1: a phone, TCL ten L. If you just want a
Speaker 1: basic Android phone, look no further than that device.
Speaker 2: Okay. Our next question comes from Heidi Levine. Help my
Speaker 2: daughter will be auditioning for musical theater called Programs in
Speaker 2: the coming months. I've gone a sure microphone and mixer
Speaker 2: connected via USBC to my MacBook. It took me a week,
Speaker 2: but I figured out GarageBand. Now I need help connecting
Speaker 2: my Cannon Revel T six to my Mac so that
Speaker 2: the microphone and music come through the video taken on
Speaker 2: my camera. I've googled my heart out and I can't
Speaker 2: find the answers. Help me, Rich tamiro You're my only hope.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, only hope. Well, here's what I'd say to Heidi.
Speaker 1: Why is she making things so complicated? Yeah? She really is,
Speaker 1: so I think that she's this is this sounds way
Speaker 1: too complicated to me. Number one, unless these are live auditions,
Speaker 1: which I don't think they are. It says they have
Speaker 1: to be video submissions. So I'm thinking that she's recording
Speaker 1: these things because she also talked about garage band, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I've been working, you know, for twenty
Speaker 1: years in news and TV and audio, and I've never
Speaker 1: used garage band because it's so complicated and I don't
Speaker 1: like it. I edit this podcast in final cut because
Speaker 1: it's so much easier, and I'm sure I'm not alone, Like,
Speaker 1: you don't need to use garage band unless you are
Speaker 1: of like trying to literally start a garage band, Like,
Speaker 1: you don't need that. I think everything's way too complicated.
Speaker 1: So you've got the microphone, you've got the mixer. So
Speaker 1: what I would do if I was in your shoes, Heidi,
Speaker 1: and I was helping my kid get into musical theater,
Speaker 1: which awesome, I would just use the camera, the Rebel
Speaker 1: T six on a tripod and yeah, and I would
Speaker 1: just connect the microphone and mixer to the camera and
Speaker 1: I would record everything. So you're basically recording the submission
Speaker 1: on the camera, but the mic is coming through the
Speaker 1: nice microphone. That would be what I would do. And
Speaker 1: then you can take that video, import it into your
Speaker 1: computer and just clip the you know, wherever you need
Speaker 1: to clip the beginning and the end. You can do
Speaker 1: that in quick time.
Speaker 2: And I'm getting there is a place on the rebel
Speaker 2: where she can plug in her microphone, I would assume.
Speaker 1: So you probably you may need an adapter if it
Speaker 1: doesn't have like a standard three point five millimeter input,
Speaker 1: but most most cameras can do that, so I would.
Speaker 1: But that's to me way easier and it just makes
Speaker 1: life a lot simpler than trying to Why are you
Speaker 1: trying to feed everything into your computer and sync it
Speaker 1: up all at the same time when there's really no
Speaker 1: need to. Now, if she's doing these things on Zoom,
Speaker 1: that's a different case scenario, right, And yeah, it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like she's doing on Zoom because she said they
Speaker 1: have to be video SUBMISSI and so, and I don't
Speaker 1: think that these schools are auditioning everyone on Zoom like
Speaker 1: a live It seems like you would make a tape
Speaker 1: and send it. So that's what I would do, and
Speaker 1: I'd even I'd even take it up a notch. I
Speaker 1: would just use my iPhone And why even bother with
Speaker 1: doing I.
Speaker 2: Was going to say my cousin he's in college now,
Speaker 2: but a year ago when he was sending in his
Speaker 2: auditions and he's like an amazing singer. He was auditioning
Speaker 2: for musical theater college programs and his dad just filmed
Speaker 2: him on his phone. And then I think he sent
Speaker 2: me the files because he needed to convert them from
Speaker 2: like an MP four.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I remember you using you doing that at work?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was all day.
Speaker 1: I remember that. It was just like I was like, Megan,
Speaker 1: can you please do this? And You're like, no, I'm
Speaker 1: converting files. I'm like, well for what, Like, don't worry
Speaker 1: about it. But I remember it was like long, eight
Speaker 1: hours every day.
Speaker 2: It's really important. But yeah, but yeah, his dad just
Speaker 2: did it on an iPhone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think so, I think you're overthinking this.
Speaker 1: I understand that you want your daughter to get into college,
Speaker 1: but you have to understand that. Believe me, your daughter
Speaker 1: is gonna shine through no matter what.
Speaker 2: You do.
Speaker 1: Not need the best, highest case, highest quality setup. Look
Speaker 1: at American Idol. I mean they did the entire show
Speaker 1: by shipping the contestants a microphone. Now, they did do
Speaker 1: a similar thing. They shipped them a microphone that plugged
Speaker 1: into the iPhone and they recorded. They actually, I think
Speaker 1: they shipped them two or three iPhones so they had
Speaker 1: different angles, and then they just sinked it.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: The editor synked it together. But you don't need to
Speaker 1: do that. You don't have to. You just need your
Speaker 1: daughter to this. Yeah, this is not American idol. This
Speaker 1: is your daughter, which I have no doubt she's amazing,
Speaker 1: but I think that her brilliance will shine through. And
Speaker 1: that's what you need to do, is just concentrate on
Speaker 1: making her comfortable and not making this too complicated, And
Speaker 1: that would be my advice to you. This week, Google
Speaker 1: and Apple came out with their exposure notification system. This
Speaker 1: used to be called contact tracing, but the word tracing
Speaker 1: and contact seems way too privacy woo for most people,
Speaker 1: so they rename this because this system only works if
Speaker 1: people actually use it and the so far only a
Speaker 1: couple of states have used this. But let me just explinks,
Speaker 1: I'm getting a lot of questions about this on my
Speaker 1: Facebook page. People are so scared of this system and
Speaker 1: there's really no reason to be scared of it. It's
Speaker 1: not tracking your location. It's not going to tell everyone
Speaker 1: in the world that you have coronavirus. It's not broadcasting
Speaker 1: where you are to anyone. It's really the way they
Speaker 1: design this program is actually very simple, and the way
Speaker 1: they designed it is your phone is broadcasting a simple
Speaker 1: code that changes every couple of minutes, no matter where
Speaker 1: you are. When another phone gets close, it picks up
Speaker 1: your code and it remembers it, and it doesn't remember
Speaker 1: who you are, doesn't remember where you were. And when
Speaker 1: someone in that system, let's say all those codes that
Speaker 1: are paired up, and imagine all the codes paired up
Speaker 1: means here's all the people that came into contact with
Speaker 1: each other within six feet for a couple of minutes,
Speaker 1: whatever it was. When someone in that registry says, bing,
Speaker 1: I got coronavirus, it sends out a message to all
Speaker 1: those phones saying, hey, it looks like you came into
Speaker 1: contact with someone that has coronavirus. Doesn't tell you their name,
Speaker 1: doesn't tell you where I don't know if it even
Speaker 1: tells you when probably does, because within the last fourteen days.
Speaker 1: That's it. Now you go get tested. If you figure out,
Speaker 1: you know, do I need to self quarantine. It's not recording,
Speaker 1: this data is not being kept, it's not being put
Speaker 1: on public databases. So it's fine. And I know that
Speaker 1: people are gonna be like, Rich, you're just drinking the
Speaker 1: kool aid of these tech companies and you're just you know,
Speaker 1: our privacy is at risk. It's not. The way I've
Speaker 1: been on the phone calls with Apple and Google, and
Speaker 1: the way they built this system is they made it
Speaker 1: so that your privacy can't be at risk. And I
Speaker 1: was reading an article from tech dirt dot com. They
Speaker 1: say the case for contact tracing apps built on Apple
Speaker 1: and Google's exposure notification system. This website is a very
Speaker 1: smart website and they basically said, yeah, this is fine,
Speaker 1: and they do a really good explanation with a system
Speaker 1: involving raffle tickets instead of like the more complicated Bluetooth
Speaker 1: beacons that they're using. And it's a great explanation. So
Speaker 1: if you want to read it, read it. But I
Speaker 1: imagine that people listening to this show are probably you know,
Speaker 1: they're probably thinking it's fine anyway. But when the Apple
Speaker 1: software came out, did you update your iPhone? Megan no.
Speaker 1: So when the Apple software came out, it had this
Speaker 1: contact thing in it, and people were like, what, it's
Speaker 1: turned off by default. It is only turned on when
Speaker 1: you download an app that takes advantage of it. Right now,
Speaker 1: there's only three states in America that have them, which
Speaker 1: is North Dakota and two others I can't remember and
Speaker 1: South Dakota. Was it South Dakota, I feel like it was.
Speaker 1: I feel like it was too but I felt like
Speaker 1: that was too convenient, like the two Dakota's, And then
Speaker 1: I think it was Alabama. California has not had you know,
Speaker 1: they've not mentioned any plans for them, which you of
Speaker 1: course know, Google and Apple want California because that's a
Speaker 1: big get, right, that's their home stakes. And the other
Speaker 1: place is the US. The US does not have a
Speaker 1: nationwide use of this yet, they don't have an app.
Speaker 1: So the other thing that came out, of course, to
Speaker 1: go against everything I'm saying, is that North Dakota's app
Speaker 1: has been sending data to four Square and Google. Now
Speaker 1: this is from a privacy company called Jumbo Privacy. Their
Speaker 1: whole business is getting you to be worried about privacy,
Speaker 1: right because they can sell you stuff against privacy. I'm
Speaker 1: not knocking them because I love the fact that we
Speaker 1: have whistleblowers like this that look into the code and
Speaker 1: see what's going on. And I would imagine that what
Speaker 1: happened is North Dakota, whoever developed their app, was probably
Speaker 1: using off the shelf stuff just popped in a bunch
Speaker 1: of modules, and it included tracking for for Square and Google.
Speaker 1: They probably didn't realize that they needed to take that
Speaker 1: stuff out. That was my best guess, but I could
Speaker 1: be wrong. Maybe the whole state of North Dakota is
Speaker 1: trying to track everyone on four square and send that
Speaker 1: to Google. I don't know, but I don't think so.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I think that stuff is all safe. If
Speaker 1: you want to look in your phone to see it,
Speaker 1: you go into Settings General, you know, Settings Privacy, Health,
Speaker 1: and then you'll see the COVID nineteen tracker. It should
Speaker 1: be turned off by default because pretty much unless you
Speaker 1: live in one of those states, there's no way to
Speaker 1: turn it on without downloading one of these apps.
Speaker 2: Well, will it work with Apple Watches?
Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good question. I don't know, and you'll
Speaker 1: get the notification through your Apple Watch. But I think
Speaker 1: if you're only wearing your Apple Watch unless they made it.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe it will. You mean if you go
Speaker 1: out for a run or something with only your Apple
Speaker 1: Watch on. Yeah, it's a good question. I would assume
Speaker 1: it would because that makes sense because a lot of
Speaker 1: people do run with just their watch, so that would
Speaker 1: be an important part of this, So I would hope
Speaker 1: they do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. Our next question comes from Chris Peak.
Speaker 2: Good evening, Rich, Well, you know it's morning, but whatever,
Speaker 2: do you have a recommendation for a blood pressure watch?
Speaker 2: There are just a few companies out there with this capability.
Speaker 2: Maybe you know of one in the making.
Speaker 1: I don't know if a lot of watches are doing this,
Speaker 1: but I do know that I remember we talked about
Speaker 1: this with during the Samsung event a while back, and
Speaker 1: I believe that the back of their phones can do
Speaker 1: blood pressure because I remember actually putting my finger on
Speaker 1: the back of the phone and it was like a
Speaker 1: stress test, but it was like they were using blood
Speaker 1: pressure for that. So I know Samsung's working on it.
Speaker 1: I dug up a press release from April twenty first,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty which now they have a blood pressure application
Speaker 1: for their Galaxy Watch devices. So I do remember at
Speaker 1: the Samsung event last year, they announced that they were
Speaker 1: going to do some stuff with blood pressure. It took
Speaker 1: a while for this to happen. But the Samsung Galaxy
Speaker 1: Watch Too, I believe, has this feature, But according to
Speaker 1: this press release, it looks like you have to calibrate
Speaker 1: it with a traditional cuff, so it's kind of confusing.
Speaker 1: The Samsung Health Monitor app will be available on the
Speaker 1: Galaxy Watch Active Too within the third quarter and will
Speaker 1: progressively expand upcoming watches, so it looks like you can
Speaker 1: actually from It's a little complicated because it looks like
Speaker 1: you need to use a cuff. No, you know what,
Speaker 1: it doesn't. This is very confusing. I think it's fine.
Speaker 1: I think it says once you're okay, so you calibrate
Speaker 1: it with a traditional cuff. So I think what you
Speaker 1: have to do is have you ever been into like
Speaker 1: Walgreens or CBS where they have like the blood pressure
Speaker 1: cuff in there?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know you always wonder as a kid, like what
Speaker 1: is that? Who needs that?
Speaker 2: I would always do it when I was a kid.
Speaker 2: I'd go and like check my blood pressure. I had
Speaker 2: no idea what I was doing, but I wasn't allowed.
Speaker 1: To touch it, but I always wanted.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well now with COVID, I mean clearly, so I think
Speaker 1: you calibrate at one time, like you go in with
Speaker 1: your watch to one of these places, calibrate it, and
Speaker 1: then you can now do it from your wrist and
Speaker 1: it's fine, or from your fingertip or from your whatever
Speaker 1: however they do it. But anyway, so I would look
Speaker 1: into Samsung. I would also look into a company called Whitvings.
Speaker 1: They are the company that makes a lot of these
Speaker 1: connected monitors, so if you want to use it with
Speaker 1: something like your phone or your iPhone. I think Whvings
Speaker 1: is the company that does all these things. And they
Speaker 1: do have a watch steal HR, but I don't know
Speaker 1: if it does blood pressure. Let's see learn more heart rate, activity, sleep,
Speaker 1: battery life. Yeah, it doesn't say anything about blood pressure.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, it doesn't say anything about blood pressure. But anyway,
Speaker 1: that's those are the companies I would look at. All right,
Speaker 1: I got a couple of things going here. Oh and
Speaker 1: I should probably say the Apple Watch I do not
Speaker 1: believe has that feature. I don't. I actually know it doesn't,
Speaker 1: but maybe the new one does, Maybe the one that
Speaker 1: they're coming out with I know has ECG and you
Speaker 1: know those features, but it doesn't with the Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: Is lacking is sleep monitoring, and like you said, blood pressure. Okay,
Speaker 1: so a couple of little things just to get you
Speaker 1: on the same page, I'm gonna give three little things.
Speaker 1: So number one, Hulu is updating its interface. I do
Speaker 1: you have Hulu. Yes, It's the worst worst interface in
Speaker 1: the world. It is so complicated.
Speaker 2: So it's really plain and like confusing.
Speaker 1: Very confusing and bulky like there's just like I and
Speaker 1: I don't know if you use a Roku, so it's
Speaker 1: probably a little bit easier to like navigate, but I
Speaker 1: use an Apple TV with the swipe it kind of
Speaker 1: like is a touchpad on the remote. And it's so
Speaker 1: bad with Hulu because you're just swiping and you're moving
Speaker 1: all over the screen. So Hulu knows it, they knew
Speaker 1: it for a long time. They are finally improving it.
Speaker 1: They're gonna do it more like what I call the
Speaker 1: cross system, which is up and down, left and right,
Speaker 1: and that's what Netflix uses. That's what pretty much every
Speaker 1: streaming service uses at this point except for them, and
Speaker 1: so Roku and tvOS. It is rolling out beginning today
Speaker 1: and I don't have it just yet on my apples
Speaker 1: or my Apple TV Hulu app, but it is coming
Speaker 1: out any day now. So if you don't have it
Speaker 1: just you're just on the list to be rolled out.
Speaker 1: It's going to come soon to other devices. Google podcasts
Speaker 1: a big app for their Google's app for iPhone. I
Speaker 1: don't see a big use case scenario for this. We've
Speaker 1: talked about this in the podcast. Why I think it
Speaker 1: has potential because of the way Google searches the words
Speaker 1: inside the podcast and can give you recommendations. But the
Speaker 1: reality is it didn't have car play support until now.
Speaker 1: Now it does, and if you open up car Play,
Speaker 1: you have the Google Podcast app on iOS, you can
Speaker 1: now play your podcast in the car. This I'm very
Speaker 1: excited about. You can't believe how many people have emailed
Speaker 1: me about how they can play poker with their friends
Speaker 1: online during this whole quarantine, because a lot of people
Speaker 1: get together and they play poker games on a Friday
Speaker 1: night whatever Saturday night, and so I recommended one called
Speaker 1: Poker in Place, and that was done by a developer.
Speaker 1: This one looks really cool because it's actually even easier.
Speaker 1: It's called Lee Poker l I poker easiest way to
Speaker 1: play poker online. You can play games without having to
Speaker 1: download or sign up for anything. You just share a
Speaker 1: link to your friends. It works on desktop and mobile,
Speaker 1: has in game video chat and messaging. Super easy, Megan,
Speaker 1: no download, no sign up, one click link. This is
Speaker 1: what I love about these new tech companies are finally
Speaker 1: understanding the beauty of a one click link. When we
Speaker 1: got on Google Meet for this meeting, I just sent
Speaker 1: you a link and you clicked it and you're in.
Speaker 1: It took one second. Now you were probably logged into Google,
Speaker 1: so that helped. But I think also Zoom kind of
Speaker 1: realized this. You make it easy for folks, they will
Speaker 1: join on and the easier you make it with those
Speaker 1: one links. Now Facebook does this with Facebook Messenger rooms.
Speaker 1: Just one link, get people in there.
Speaker 2: I feel like, did Dropbox start that?
Speaker 1: Exactly?
Speaker 2: Okay, because I think that that's like the brilliance of dropboxes.
Speaker 2: You can create a share link and then easily share
Speaker 2: videos of people that they can downloade.
Speaker 1: Exactly. You are so right, that is the They were
Speaker 1: like the first to kind of popularize the here's the link.
Speaker 1: You don't need to sign up, you don't need to
Speaker 1: sign in. You don't need to do anything, just click
Speaker 1: this link. It will bring you to where you need
Speaker 1: to do it. And this is what people are realizing.
Speaker 1: I looked at this quickly, this Lee poker. It looks
Speaker 1: really cool. It's so funny because my friends played poker
Speaker 1: last Friday night and I didn't join in because I
Speaker 1: didn't feel like it. But it was The directions on
Speaker 1: the email chain were absolutely insane because they were using
Speaker 1: the PokerStars dot net, which is like a big company
Speaker 1: and PokerStars dot net. What do they want you to do?
Speaker 1: They want you to really play poker with real money
Speaker 1: on their website, and yes they offer the ability for
Speaker 1: you to do this with your friends, but they don't
Speaker 1: really care about that. They're just trying to get you
Speaker 1: to sign up, log in. So the question the sign
Speaker 1: up process was so insane and just kept going and going,
Speaker 1: and it was like, and I was sitting there, I
Speaker 1: was like I didn't have the heart to tell them,
Speaker 1: like you literally know you can do this with one
Speaker 1: link and it's so much easier, but I don't want
Speaker 1: to tell Max.
Speaker 2: You should have just hit reply all than like are
Speaker 2: you kidding? With all these instructions?
Speaker 1: I don't want to be the know at all, so
Speaker 1: I just sat down. Yeah, but yeah, of course, but
Speaker 1: if I did this, if I set up a poker
Speaker 1: night with my friends, I would do this and blow
Speaker 1: everyone away because they'd be like, oh my god, that's
Speaker 1: so easy. In fact, I made we have a lot
Speaker 1: of plans this weekend, so I don't know, because we're
Speaker 1: it's like Memorials popular. But so I think, like, like
Speaker 1: Saturday night would be a good night to do this,
Speaker 1: so I don't Yeah, maybe I'll try it out anyway.
Speaker 1: Oh the website, by the way, I should probably give
Speaker 1: you that because that's the thing you need to know.
Speaker 1: Let me uh, let me see. It's l I Poker,
Speaker 1: l I poker dot ioh l I poker dot I. Oh,
Speaker 1: it is so easy. You and I can start playing
Speaker 1: right now. That's how easy it is.
Speaker 2: Except I don't know how to play.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you got to learn. You got to learn.
Speaker 1: It's really it's fun. I mean, I don't want a stereotype,
Speaker 1: but I mean, like Lindsay plays poker, and you know
Speaker 1: most she hasn't played a long time, so actually no,
Speaker 1: she doesn't really play nevermind, but she know I think
Speaker 1: she knows.
Speaker 2: How to play, But do you recommend a way to learn,
Speaker 2: Like is there besides just it's other people, Like they
Speaker 2: just have.
Speaker 1: To go with other people. Just have your have a
Speaker 1: friend that knows how to play. And I always joke
Speaker 1: about this because I'm I'm good. I'm not good at poker,
Speaker 1: but I know how to play. But and I'm also
Speaker 1: not the guy that whenever you play poker with a
Speaker 1: group of guys or gals or whoever, if it's mixed group, whatever,
Speaker 1: whenever you play poker, there's always one person at the
Speaker 1: table that I call the poker sort of king. They
Speaker 1: know so not just how to play, but they know
Speaker 1: how to do everything. So when you have a question
Speaker 1: about the rules, they're the person you turn to. They're
Speaker 1: the ones that are doing all the little bets and
Speaker 1: like making sure you've got the blind and the big
Speaker 1: blind and the small blind and taking them you know cars. No,
Speaker 1: they don't do that, but they just know what's up.
Speaker 1: They are the person, They're like the gatekeeper. Right, I'm
Speaker 1: just sitting there like I have no idea. I'm just
Speaker 1: turning over my cards, I'm folding. I'm like I have
Speaker 1: no idea. They keep you going, you know, and they
Speaker 1: count everyone out. It's just there's always mark my words.
Speaker 1: If you play poker with friends, you know there's that person.
Speaker 2: Okay. This next question comes from Eva Candelario. SOS, I repeat, SOS, help,
Speaker 2: please help. We have run out of things to watch
Speaker 2: on Netflix. I repeat, we have ran out of things
Speaker 2: to watch on Netflix, and regular TV doesn't really offer
Speaker 2: anything good these days. Please tell us how we can
Speaker 2: unlock more options on Netflix.
Speaker 1: Good question, Well, you can't just unlock new stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's time for a new service. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff out there. I'm I'm over subscribed at
Speaker 1: this point, but I don't know what to say. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's but okay, So a couple things I would recommend.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you need to like look at websites
Speaker 1: that tell you what's what's on these services versus just
Speaker 1: looking at what Netflix shows you on the home screen.
Speaker 1: So a couple websites i'd recommend. First, one is my
Speaker 1: current favorite, which is called Real Good R E E
Speaker 1: L g oo D. I'm pretty much browsing this all
Speaker 1: the time in my free time, trying to find like
Speaker 1: the best stuff to watch for the kids, for myself,
Speaker 1: for Lindsay Right now, I'm on an eighties movies kick.
Speaker 1: So last night I was looking at all the eighties
Speaker 1: movies that are available across my services. But what's cool
Speaker 1: about Real Good is that they will help you find stuff,
Speaker 1: even free stuff. There may be stuff on like two
Speaker 1: B or what are all these other random like there's
Speaker 1: so many random ones now Pluto, so they may They
Speaker 1: will help you find stuff across fifty different services, and
Speaker 1: you can add your services and you can look for
Speaker 1: movies like so we just watched Big and then I
Speaker 1: was trying to find similar movies too Big, and so
Speaker 1: I went to Real Real Good and it will give
Speaker 1: you the other movies. People also liked more female director movies,
Speaker 1: more New York movies. I mean, how cool is that.
Speaker 1: So you can just look through there and it's a
Speaker 1: very well designed website. They also have an app, It's
Speaker 1: the best. Now there's a new one that I don't
Speaker 1: think is as good, but you should know about it,
Speaker 1: and it's called Universe V You. It's a V and
Speaker 1: then Universe Vuniverse. And what worries me about this website
Speaker 1: is that their logo is kind of inspired by the
Speaker 1: TV guide logo and anytime you're starting a startup and
Speaker 1: your logo is kind of lifted from a different company,
Speaker 1: I'm worried, like you're impersonating like another company's logo. But
Speaker 1: they do have some smart people behind this. But yesterday
Speaker 1: when I signed in, I did the same thing. I
Speaker 1: put big into the engine and the movie didn't even
Speaker 1: come up. So that was kind of a little red
Speaker 1: flag there. So that with Arnie no Tom Hanks, Oh,
Speaker 1: who's Arnie? Like Arnold Schwartz, you call him Arnie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't know, but I did.
Speaker 1: I actually have run into Arnold I think twice actually
Speaker 1: at the beach, which is really funny. Yeah, I've seen
Speaker 1: him a lot smaller in person than I thought. But
Speaker 1: nice guy, very nice guy. He was very like friendly
Speaker 1: and like just you know, very very I mean, look,
Speaker 1: he's living the American dream. You know. He made it
Speaker 1: big here in America and in many different ways. And yeah,
Speaker 1: so anyway, okay, so those are the two websites that
Speaker 1: I digress. Those are the two websites that I recommend
Speaker 1: looking through. You can also look through the TV app
Speaker 1: on your iPhone that'll give you some ideas of stuff
Speaker 1: that's available. But Netflix is not included in there, so
Speaker 1: I'd stick to these two anyway. Okay, finally, before we
Speaker 1: go or be TV, this is a head scratcher. They
Speaker 1: are starting a or maybe they already have it. I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's already available, but it's a new satellite
Speaker 1: TV company. How weird is that I could get satellite
Speaker 1: TV installed at this point, I don't know, but they
Speaker 1: are doing it, and their whole proposition is a value proposition.
Speaker 1: Forty bucks a month and you get a bunch of
Speaker 1: cable channels, but they also put an antenna on the
Speaker 1: satellite dish that gives you your over the air channels,
Speaker 1: which I like. I like that aspect of it. But
Speaker 1: it's just weird to think that you would have to
Speaker 1: have someone come to your house install a satellite dish
Speaker 1: and now you need to use their proprietary box to
Speaker 1: get your stuff. And I just feel like it's fine,
Speaker 1: Like I get it, Like there's people out there, like
Speaker 1: you know, less tech inclient that would want something that's
Speaker 1: similar to cable but not as expensive or similar to satellite.
Speaker 1: But I feel like you can get all the stuff
Speaker 1: you need at point through a streaming service and you
Speaker 1: don't have to have someone come to your house and
Speaker 1: put this thing on your roof. Now I get it.
Speaker 1: The whole local channels thing is kind of a problem sometimes,
Speaker 1: but I think you'd be better served by just putting
Speaker 1: your own antenna on the roof or in your house,
Speaker 1: or get you're evenna pay someone, pay someone ninety nine
Speaker 1: bucks to install it on your roof, and get something
Speaker 1: like a Tableau or even a TVO that has the
Speaker 1: recording built in or the locals built in.
Speaker 2: Do you have Tableau? I have tablee.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I have two things. I have Tableau and
Speaker 1: I also have the Amazon fireTV recast, but I dismantled
Speaker 1: the recast in favor of Tableau because I switched to
Speaker 1: Apple TV and that in Tableau. The reason why I
Speaker 1: like Tableau is because it works with everything. It's kind
Speaker 1: of platform agnostic, and so whether you have a firestick
Speaker 1: or an Apple TV, it works just fine. And fire
Speaker 1: is fine. The fire TV recast is fine if you
Speaker 1: just have fire devices and that works really well. To DVR,
Speaker 1: it's great. They'll both do the same thing. But to me,
Speaker 1: like I would rather hack together my own little system
Speaker 1: because then you have the freedom. Let's say you're not
Speaker 1: happy with the channels that ORBTV offers for forty bucks
Speaker 1: a month. Well, you can't just download an app and
Speaker 1: now get YouTube TV because it's like their own weird platform.
Speaker 1: So if you had a Fire TV stick, you could
Speaker 1: just download YouTube TV. Oh I don't like YouTube TV. Okay,
Speaker 1: well let's go to Hulu Live TV. I don't like that.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Fubo. Oh I don't like that. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Sling. Oh I don't like that. Let's I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so many options. When you have your own the box.
Speaker 2: You should what's that Maybe you should just read a book.
Speaker 2: Yeah like that.
Speaker 1: If you don't like any of this stuff, yeah, just
Speaker 1: do that anyway. Well, so that's what I would recommend.
Speaker 1: And also, by the way, when you go with these
Speaker 1: third party apps, like our third party services, like what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about here, this ORBTV, don't forget that you
Speaker 1: these apps are not updated as much as say, like
Speaker 1: if I'm creating and we've talked about this on the
Speaker 1: podcast before, if I'm creating an app, I'm gonna update
Speaker 1: my Roku app, I'm gonna update my Amazon fireTV app,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna update my Apple TV app. Then I'm
Speaker 1: gonna worry about the rest of the stuff. Well, can
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Speaker 1: a review five stars. Megan timely tech and tips explained
Speaker 1: researched well wow, great tech info. He writes tips questions
Speaker 1: answered in an understandable way. Rich clearly has high tech credentials,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't show off his knowledge, but makes it
Speaker 1: his goal to be the conduit of his insights to
Speaker 1: the rest of us. Wow. He also doesn't assume the
Speaker 1: listener has unlimited funds and seeks to identify good deals
Speaker 1: that the average person can afford, kind of like that
Speaker 1: TCL phone we were talking about. Show is also entertaining
Speaker 1: in great chemistry and good humor between Rich and producer Meghan. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you, Will, We appreciate it.
Speaker 2: That's so nice.
Speaker 1: Producer Megan, where can folks find you on social media.
Speaker 2: I am at producer Megan on Twitter and you got.
Speaker 1: To check out producer Megan's story. Go to KTLA dot
Speaker 1: com slash chech and look up the wine story. You
Speaker 1: guys tasted three different wine boxes. So did anyone get
Speaker 1: slashed that day?
Speaker 2: Or what? You know? My parents they I mean, they drink,
Speaker 2: but they don't they don't really get slashed. No one
Speaker 2: got slashed. It was just kind of it was, you know,
Speaker 2: it was a nice little drinking experience with it looked like.
Speaker 1: You did it during the day though it was like
Speaker 1: five okay, was right on the you're like five PM time.
Speaker 1: It's funny because after watching the story, I'm going to
Speaker 1: order my mom the the wine box one, the ones
Speaker 1: that come in the files. I think that's so cool.
Speaker 2: It's they were so cool, great for someone that Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I does your mom know a lot about wine? No?
Speaker 1: Nothing, And like she also doesn't really drink, so it's
Speaker 1: kind of fun to like she can just like have
Speaker 1: like a glass like for the Zoom happy hours or whatever,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, yeah, it's just kind
Speaker 1: of fun. It's like the wine box one is served
Speaker 1: in like these vials that have a glass and a
Speaker 1: half each and it's just cool. The whole presentation of
Speaker 1: that one is really really cool.
Speaker 2: So yeah, wine box is a great gift that you
Speaker 2: could give someone.
Speaker 1: Watch Megan's story. Go to KTLA dot com slash tech
Speaker 1: and check out the wine story and that you can
Speaker 1: see her and her fam tasting the wines. You can
Speaker 1: find me at rich on Tech on social media. My
Speaker 1: name is rich dedmiro On. Behalf of everyone that gets
Speaker 1: this show to your ears. Thanks so much for listening.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you real soon. Bye bye,