Speaker 1: T mobiles free, Netflix, Steel has a big new catch.
Speaker 1: Consumer Reports slams Tesla's autopilot, The magic behind Google Duplex,
Speaker 1: plus your tech questions. What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro.
Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
Speaker 1: about this stuff I think you should know about happening
Speaker 1: in the tech world. Plus I answer your questions with
Speaker 1: the help of producer Megan. What's up? Producer Megan? Hey,
Speaker 1: how are you good? How now? A couple weeks ago
Speaker 1: I asked you to change your Twitter handle, yes, from
Speaker 1: your name to producer Megan. How is that transition going?
Speaker 2: You know? It's fun because I think that people can
Speaker 2: find my Twitter obviously easier and they can see the
Speaker 2: fun stories that we're doing that I post about because
Speaker 2: obviously you post a lot. But I have a different angle.
Speaker 1: You have a different angle. What is your angle? What
Speaker 1: do you think that is?
Speaker 2: I I'm slowly discovering whatever my angle is.
Speaker 1: Just behind the scenes, okay, be oh interesting?
Speaker 2: So kind of liked the camera You're.
Speaker 1: Giving folks like a little taste of stuff. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: welcome to everyone joining us on Facebook Live. We're doing
Speaker 1: it there too, so people can watch on Facebook. We
Speaker 1: do the show live here, and I will say I
Speaker 1: think the show has evolved in a pretty big way
Speaker 1: since we started this journey, and I think it's going
Speaker 1: to continue to evolve. I think it's gotten a lot better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's fine. I'm excited to be a
Speaker 2: part of it.
Speaker 1: Do you like the questions this week? Because basically what
Speaker 1: I do is you guys email me a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of questions. I forward them to Megan and then she
Speaker 1: picks the ones she likes to feature on the show.
Speaker 1: So did you find some good ones this week?
Speaker 2: I found some really good ones, some interesting questions that
Speaker 2: we haven't gotten before that I haven't read before.
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's good. Yeah, And if you're watching on Facebook,
Speaker 1: you can call in the number on your screen. We'll
Speaker 1: take you as part of the show as well. And
Speaker 1: the way that works, if you're listening on Facebook and
Speaker 1: you get in on the call, just kind of hold
Speaker 1: on until you hear me announce your number, so I
Speaker 1: might put you on whole That's the way it works.
Speaker 1: Because we're kind of producing this all ourselves. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot of moving pieces in the show. So let's
Speaker 1: just get right into what's happening with Apple, they are
Speaker 1: holding one of their biggest events of the year. They
Speaker 1: usually hold maybe three events a year, one for the
Speaker 1: iPhone one kind of you know event where they just
Speaker 1: have a bunch of Actually now it's just about two
Speaker 1: events a year, so it's well, you know what, near
Speaker 1: mind it is three because one of them is usually
Speaker 1: about their services, like remember they one with like the
Speaker 1: Apple TV Plus and all that stuff, which was a
Speaker 1: total bummer.
Speaker 2: And Apple News Plus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Apple News Plus, Apple TV Plus. And the next
Speaker 1: one is WWDC and this is happening on June third
Speaker 1: up in San Francisco, really San Jose. So what happens
Speaker 1: at WWDC is they have a whole bunch of developers
Speaker 1: come out and kind of celebrate Apple. Not only do
Speaker 1: they celebrate what Apple's accomplished with their operating system and
Speaker 1: their products, but also they learn how to create the
Speaker 1: apps that we know and love. So if you're a
Speaker 1: developer from like Milwaukee that makes a cool iPhone app
Speaker 1: or anywhere the Netherlands, you come to this event and
Speaker 1: it's it's tough to get tickets. It sells out in
Speaker 1: like record time every year. Wow, and they have I
Speaker 1: think about five thousand people come, so it's kind of
Speaker 1: cool as a journalist. And this is what I love
Speaker 1: about my job is I'm just like a schlub that
Speaker 1: gets to like come to these things, right, Like they're
Speaker 1: just like slub. Well it's true. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: like developing apps. I'm not sitting there like doing anything
Speaker 1: amazing for the world. But yet Apple is like, oh,
Speaker 1: you can come, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like you're covering the event. You're telling the
Speaker 2: story of what's happening.
Speaker 1: It's not nothing, yeah, but it's in the scheme of things,
Speaker 1: Like I'm not creating a life changing app, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Like a lot of the people there
Speaker 1: have created things that are pretty amazing. People have made
Speaker 1: a lot of money off of their apps. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's there's some amazing stories that come out of this show.
Speaker 1: I call it show. It's really an event. But they
Speaker 1: stay for like the whole week. I go for basically
Speaker 1: about three hours on Monday morning, I hear the whole keynote,
Speaker 1: and enduring the keynote, they kind of show you what's next.
Speaker 1: Now you know. I wrote that book one hundred and
Speaker 1: one Handy Tech Tips for the iPhone.
Speaker 2: No, I have no idea what he's talking.
Speaker 1: So the book is really about iOS twelve. And so
Speaker 1: me when I'm sitting in the audience, I'm sitting there going,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, look at all these things I need
Speaker 1: to update in the next version of the book. If
Speaker 1: that happens, no guarantee that that's gonna that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: But this is me writing the book.
Speaker 2: Is that a typewriter?
Speaker 1: No, I'm actually I've upgraded to a computer, so I'm
Speaker 1: using a computer now typewriter. But yeah, so anyway we
Speaker 1: learn basically, this is the thing I hate about the
Speaker 1: show is that they show us a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: stuff that does not come out for a while. So
Speaker 1: they show us all this great software and all the
Speaker 1: new features of iOS and of course the iPad and
Speaker 1: the MacBooks, and then they say, oh, and this will
Speaker 1: come in the fall, and see then you have to wait, like,
Speaker 1: you know, three to six months for this stuff to
Speaker 1: actually hit your phone. But it's fun. And the main
Speaker 1: thing that people do when they look at these invites
Speaker 1: is they try to figure out what Apple means by
Speaker 1: the invites. And so the invite they sent for WWDC,
Speaker 1: it was a picture of a unicorn with its mind blown.
Speaker 1: So there's like a whole bunch of like stuff coming
Speaker 1: out of the unicorn's head, like augmented reality, and you know,
Speaker 1: the app store and all these little things that nerds love, right,
Speaker 1: So I love this kind of stuff. I love just
Speaker 1: seeing what the vision for the company is because it
Speaker 1: is getting much more competitive these days because iPhone rules
Speaker 1: in the US, but when you think about the world,
Speaker 1: there's a big world out there, and so Apple is
Speaker 1: just getting more competitive with what they do and the
Speaker 1: features that they add to the iPhone because people are
Speaker 1: now more critical than ever of kind of what they
Speaker 1: have in their pocket and what they're using. So anyway,
Speaker 1: so that's happening June third, I will definitely be up
Speaker 1: there and I will bring you all the updates for
Speaker 1: what you need to know.
Speaker 2: One question, how much does it cost to go if
Speaker 2: you're a developer?
Speaker 1: A lot. It's it's gosh, let me shout look it up.
Speaker 2: It's it's a yeah, I'm just curious. Yeah, I'm working
Speaker 2: on an app.
Speaker 1: It's WWDC twenty nineteen. Tickets. They probably don't even ticket price.
Speaker 1: I love that I can just google this and see
Speaker 1: sixteen hundred bucks. Wow. So all right with that said,
Speaker 1: producer Megan. First question.
Speaker 2: Okay, so our first question is from Instagram and it's
Speaker 2: Apple related from Brandon K nine two seven. Hey, Rich,
Speaker 2: how much hands on time have you had with the
Speaker 2: Galaxy S ten. I have been a longtime Apple user
Speaker 2: and currently have the iPhone X iPhone ten. Since it
Speaker 2: came out. I feel like it's starting to slow down
Speaker 2: and the battery life on it is getting pretty bad.
Speaker 2: It's starting to make me want to try out the
Speaker 2: S ten.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Okay, So Brandon was that his name? Yeah, Brandon.
Speaker 1: So here's my advice. Number one. He has the iPhone ten. Right, So,
Speaker 1: if you have the iPhone ten and things are slowing down,
Speaker 1: I don't think you need a new phone. And I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to knock the S ten. I mean I
Speaker 1: and with respect to your question about how much hands
Speaker 1: on time. So here's what happens usually with phones. So
Speaker 1: usually I get a device as a review unit, and
Speaker 1: I use it for a couple of weeks, right to
Speaker 1: kind of come up with my initial thoughts and what
Speaker 1: I think of this thing, and then after a while
Speaker 1: I'll switch back to kind of what I'm using most
Speaker 1: of the time, which is either like my ant preferred
Speaker 1: Android or my preferred iOS device, and then they come
Speaker 1: out with a big software update, a major update to
Speaker 1: the camera, major update to the operating system, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: and I'll go back to that device to kind of
Speaker 1: revisit it. And that's probably like a month later, right,
Speaker 1: because a lot of times these devices come out and
Speaker 1: then they get a big software update afterwards, and so
Speaker 1: you want to go back to them. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of like my experience with the S ten is I
Speaker 1: probably used it for a couple of weeks and then
Speaker 1: I've used it a little bit more after that. It's
Speaker 1: a good phone. It's a very solid phone. I do
Speaker 1: have some other favorites out there, but I think overall,
Speaker 1: the S ten has kind of like every feature you want.
Speaker 1: I don't think the camera's as good as some of
Speaker 1: the other phones out there, like the pixel, but the
Speaker 1: pixel is also very boring. So to answer your question,
Speaker 1: what I would do is, I'd probably stick with the
Speaker 1: iPhone because I don't know if you need to switch
Speaker 1: phones just because your iPhone is slowing down. I think
Speaker 1: you're probably getting a little bit bored with the iPhone,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean you should switch because it's expensive
Speaker 1: to switch, and you have the iPhone ten, which is
Speaker 1: like a brand new phone. So my advice would be
Speaker 1: to just actually go in and start over. So go
Speaker 1: into your settings, factory form at it, which means you're
Speaker 1: going to RaSE it back to the way the factory
Speaker 1: put it, and then don't do a backup restore. So
Speaker 1: don't restore it from your old phone. Literally, just go
Speaker 1: through and install all the apps once again, and your phone,
Speaker 1: I think will run like new, and I think you'll
Speaker 1: be just fine.
Speaker 2: I mean that takes a lot of work.
Speaker 1: Though, Yeah, but you know what, Yeah, it's a thousand
Speaker 1: dollars afternoon.
Speaker 2: How often do you recommend doing a factory reset?
Speaker 1: I do that pretty much once a year, i'd say
Speaker 1: with the iPhone. Yeah. In fact, when I get new phones,
Speaker 1: I don't like to restore them because think about it,
Speaker 1: you're restoring all the mistakes that you made on your
Speaker 1: old phone, all the settings, all the gunk from the apps,
Speaker 1: all this stuff. Like why do you want to do that?
Speaker 1: Like start fresh? It takes an afternoon on a Saturday,
Speaker 1: and you know, yeah, you have to redo your home
Speaker 1: screen and all that stuff. But like it's kind of fun.
Speaker 2: It's like a fresh cleaning closet.
Speaker 1: Maricondo, I like that. Good question, good answer. That So
Speaker 1: T Mobile. T Mobile is the carrier I love to
Speaker 1: hate because T Mobile they here's the thing about T Mobile.
Speaker 1: They're like the loudest person in the room. Right, They're
Speaker 1: always screaming. I feel like, you know if you think
Speaker 1: about T Mobile, Yeah, don't you always see an ad
Speaker 1: on TV for T Mobile? Like sure, Verizon and AT
Speaker 1: and T. But T Mobile is always like kind of
Speaker 1: hammering the other people, right, They're always like we're the best,
Speaker 1: We're the best. Where the best, like Verizon sucks eighteen
Speaker 1: T sucks. But T Mobile is not perfect, right, they
Speaker 1: do have their downsides. And number one, their network is
Speaker 1: just simply not as good as AT and T of Verizon.
Speaker 1: That's just a fact. But they're getting better. But here's
Speaker 1: what I love. Let me just give you an example
Speaker 1: of here's what something they did. So they sent an
Speaker 1: email today to all journalists with like some news and
Speaker 1: the news. The headline was love your discount, not your carrier.
Speaker 1: T Mobile will match or beat that discount on magenta
Speaker 1: and magenta is their color. Right, So the email goes
Speaker 1: into explaining the fact that they are introducing a new
Speaker 1: plan in uh, let's see in June. I think June second,
Speaker 1: where a lot of people stick with their cell phone
Speaker 1: carrier because they have a great discount. Right if you're
Speaker 1: with AT and t 're on this old plan. So
Speaker 1: now they're saying, call us up. We will match that
Speaker 1: and basically give you that same discount, so you can
Speaker 1: switch to us and start fresh. So that's number one.
Speaker 1: Then they hide in this thing the fact that they're
Speaker 1: changing the name of their plan. So T Mobile used
Speaker 1: to be called T Mobile one. Now it's being called
Speaker 1: T Mobile Magenta and then Magenta Plus, which I don't know.
Speaker 1: Why why do you need to change the name, Like
Speaker 1: what's the deal? Like why that's so complicated? Okay, So
Speaker 1: that's number one. Number two. Then this is, by the way,
Speaker 1: about towards the end of the email. So the new plan,
Speaker 1: you get some more benefits, including three gigs of high
Speaker 1: speed smartphone hotspot, which is great. People love that used
Speaker 1: to be whatever they say, it's a three dollars value
Speaker 1: per line whatever. T Mobile one had no LTE hotspot,
Speaker 1: it was all slowed down. So and hotspot is when
Speaker 1: you connect to your phone for your data, like from
Speaker 1: your computer versus like a Wi Fi hotspot. Right, it's
Speaker 1: safer to do it that way. But then they put
Speaker 1: number three Netflix on US changes to account for the
Speaker 1: Netflix price increase earlier this year, Magenta includes Netflix Basic
Speaker 1: for families. So it used to be Netflix Now it's
Speaker 1: Netflix Basic. By the way, Netflix Basic has no HD video.
Speaker 1: Do you want to watch videos and non HD? No?
Speaker 1: So I mean you're getting it for free? You don't care?
Speaker 2: No I care?
Speaker 1: I mean no, no HD is. You don't want that.
Speaker 1: So if you want to continue on the Netflix Standard plan, now,
Speaker 1: they're going to charge you two dollars a month for that.
Speaker 1: And I get it. It's two bucks a month, big deal,
Speaker 1: not that much. But I tweet this out and I
Speaker 1: get a response from T Mobile saying, Rich, we think
Speaker 1: you're wrong. You said that people are going to be
Speaker 1: paying two dollars extra to T Mobile. Well they're not.
Speaker 1: It's Netflix. There's nothing we can do about it. And
Speaker 1: I said, well, wait a second, So is Netflix charging
Speaker 1: the two dollars? How does this work? And it's so confusing.
Speaker 1: The two dollars Netflix pass through charge will be on
Speaker 1: their T Mobile bill. It's not just our charge, our
Speaker 1: plan isn't changing anyway. It's so complicated. Bottom line is,
Speaker 1: if you have T Mobile one and you enjoy Netflix
Speaker 1: with h D quality, you're going to see a two
Speaker 1: dollars charge on your bill. Or you can now get
Speaker 1: rid of Netflix altogether so you don't have that benefit,
Speaker 1: so you don't have the two dollars charge on your bill.
Speaker 1: Or you can switch to T Mobile Magenta and get
Speaker 1: T Mobile Basic for free, which has no HD streaming
Speaker 1: by the way. Yeah, so it's it's going to be
Speaker 1: old school quality. Okay, you know what that means, Megan.
Speaker 2: It's time for another question. Yes, okay, So our next
Speaker 2: question is from Mark Rudisil. Oh, Rude Rudisil. I bet
Speaker 2: that's pronounced a lot better, like it's like friend.
Speaker 1: No, they don't, No one else knows that.
Speaker 2: So this is about cell phone traveling in Europe. I
Speaker 2: was wondering what is the most economical way to have
Speaker 2: a cell phone while vacationing in Europe?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So if you said, Mark, Yeah, if Mark
Speaker 1: would have asked me this a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: I would have told him that getting a local SIM
Speaker 1: card is probably the easiest and the most economical, because
Speaker 1: you know, it was really expensive to bring your phone
Speaker 1: from America over to Europe, and so you would just
Speaker 1: get a SIM card there and pop it in your
Speaker 1: phone and it would work great. I've done that many times.
Speaker 1: I've done that in Spain, I've done that in England,
Speaker 1: and every state or every country over there is slightly
Speaker 1: different because some have like, like when I got my
Speaker 1: SIM card in Spain, they wanted like all this personal information,
Speaker 1: like my driver's license and all this stuff. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm not signing up for a plan. I'm just like
Speaker 1: buying a SIM They said, no, that's the way our
Speaker 1: government works. So okay, everyone's different. So that's number one,
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of a learning curve. Number two,
Speaker 1: your phone has to support it, right, So your phone
Speaker 1: has to be able to have an unlocked SIM card slot,
Speaker 1: which most of them for international do. So that's what
Speaker 1: I used to recommend. Now I just recommend adding the
Speaker 1: ten dollars a day to your plan. If you have
Speaker 1: AT and T or Verizon, it's basically ten dollars a
Speaker 1: day to use your phone the same way overseas that
Speaker 1: you use it here. There are some limits on the
Speaker 1: data and stuff that you can use but to me,
Speaker 1: I think that's worth it. Now if you do the
Speaker 1: math and you say, rich, I'm crunching the numbers here right,
Speaker 1: I'm crunching the numbers and I'm coming up with three
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a month. A yeah, it's like you're like
Speaker 1: there's a lot of like computing going on. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: So you do that and it comes out to three
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a month, which sounds like a law. But
Speaker 1: how long are you taking a If you're taking a
Speaker 1: month long vacation, you can afford three hundred dollars for
Speaker 1: the month exactly. I'm assuming he's it's going for a
Speaker 1: normal time, which is probably like a week if you're
Speaker 1: going to Europe. So a week is seventy bucks. That's
Speaker 1: seventy dollars to use your phone the way you use
Speaker 1: it here, I say, just do that. So what you
Speaker 1: need to do is just call up at and T
Speaker 1: or Verizon or I'm not sure what Sprint does, but
Speaker 1: and with T Mobile it's included actually, so if you
Speaker 1: have T Mobile, you're fine if you're on their one plan,
Speaker 1: if you're on eighteen tier Verizon usually for ten dollars
Speaker 1: a day, you can add the data and you're good
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 2: So what about just putting your phone in airplane mode
Speaker 2: and just calling people through Wi Fi? Ef No, some
Speaker 2: people don't want to spend.
Speaker 1: Ten dollars a day. Okay, I hear you. I hear you.
Speaker 2: Economical.
Speaker 1: Oh he said economic. Okay, but but he said, how
Speaker 1: do I use? Okay? So, yes, Megan, you came up
Speaker 1: with the right answer. Well though, you okay, okay, the
Speaker 1: right answer. Yes, the most economical way is to turn
Speaker 1: off your phone and never use it. But or or
Speaker 1: to put airplane mode and then Wi Fi. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the most economical, but that's also the most annoying. So
Speaker 1: if you want to do that, mark, you can do it.
Speaker 1: But I'm giving you my advice as someone who has
Speaker 1: traveled to these places, and I've tried different things. I mean,
Speaker 1: believe me. I tried doing it on the company phone, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, was a big pain because you got
Speaker 1: to call someone in your company ask them to add
Speaker 1: the international plan. It's a whole rigamarole. I tried doing
Speaker 1: the thing, right, I didn't do anything, and I got
Speaker 1: a nine hundred dollars bill from AT and T because
Speaker 1: I uploaded like thirty megabytes of pictures to dropbox and
Speaker 1: thirty megabytes in China was nine hundred dollars. So, by
Speaker 1: the way, if that happens to you, you call your
Speaker 1: company and you ask them to pro rate or backdate you.
Speaker 1: So ask them to put on the international plan backdated,
Speaker 1: and they can do it. They'll take a little bit
Speaker 1: of like like the guy actually was really mean to me.
Speaker 1: He was like, this is your mistake. You deserve to pay.
Speaker 1: I was like, come on, dude, I'm like, come on,
Speaker 1: this is like who I am. So it was like
Speaker 1: a thirty dollar They made me pay thirty dollars so wow. Anyway,
Speaker 1: well that is yeah, that was a great value. What happened?
Speaker 1: What do I do with all my papers? I have
Speaker 1: no where? Did like the rest of my questions go? Okay,
Speaker 1: they just merged into I took over.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna start talking about the.
Speaker 1: Story Consumer Reports is knocking Tesla once again. I'm beginning
Speaker 1: to think that Consumer Reports is clickbaiting us with these
Speaker 1: Tesla stories, because it seems like every six months, Consumer
Speaker 1: Reports somehow like majorly knocks Tesla, and then they come
Speaker 1: back six months later and they say, oh, we like
Speaker 1: them again, and this has happened a couple times. I remember,
Speaker 1: you know, several times in the history of these two
Speaker 1: companies that this has happened. Well, now Consumer Reports is
Speaker 1: saying that autopilot technology on Tesla is not very good.
Speaker 1: In fact, it requires significant intervention from drivers, and it's
Speaker 1: far less competent than a human driver. Now, if I
Speaker 1: had to imagine autopilot, which you know, it's an emerging technology, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course it's less competent than a human right, duh yeah,
Speaker 1: So I don't do I have something for duh? No, no,
Speaker 1: I do, Like, wait, I don't have Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: have that one. So but the reality is there's okay.
Speaker 1: But there's a couple of interesting things that they say
Speaker 1: in this article. This is from tech Spot, which is
Speaker 1: basically rewriting the Consumer Reports blog. But they say autopilot
Speaker 1: has difficulty detecting vehicles that approach quickly from behind, which
Speaker 1: means that Tesla kind of cuts off cars that are
Speaker 1: driving faster than it, which is kind of risky. But
Speaker 1: you see people do that all the time on the freeway.
Speaker 1: So I guess maybe you know what. Here's the problem.
Speaker 1: The engineers at Tesla are from Los Angeles because they're
Speaker 1: right here in Hawthorne. They are programming this autopilot to
Speaker 1: drive like an LA driver.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we need more LA driver.
Speaker 1: It's so funny because literally I am I am. I
Speaker 1: am a grandpa driver. Okay, I will tell you. Have
Speaker 1: you ever been in the car with me? You are? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Did you notice that I was a grandpa driver or no? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't want to say anything. It was when we
Speaker 1: first started working. Yeah, but you notice that, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm a grandpa driver.
Speaker 2: Stay in the outside lane. Yeah, thirty miles per hour and.
Speaker 1: Not that I'm not that slow, but no, you just
Speaker 1: take your time, take my time. I don't care. I
Speaker 1: am not cutting people off, honestly, I respect. I'm a
Speaker 1: simple merger. I'm very easy, right, And I will tell
Speaker 1: you that people don't like it on the road because
Speaker 1: what every day when I'm driving home, it's like someone
Speaker 1: I see it every time they come right up to
Speaker 1: your the bumper on your car, super close. And then
Speaker 1: I'm just like, I'm not speeding up. I don't care.
Speaker 1: I'm listening to my podcast, not my own podcast, but
Speaker 1: a podcast, and well sometimes.
Speaker 2: My own Honestly, it's probably.
Speaker 1: Yeah, nine times out of ten, it's my podcast. So
Speaker 1: and then I go and you know, the guy of
Speaker 1: course like finds a little opening on the left and here,
Speaker 1: you know, and he comes around and it's like, I
Speaker 1: don't care, and of course he's looking at me for
Speaker 1: the reaction, for the finger or something, and I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give you that satisfaction. Not going
Speaker 1: to happen.
Speaker 2: So well, good for you.
Speaker 1: It's no big deal. By the way, if you're watching
Speaker 1: on Facebook Live and you have a question, feel free
Speaker 1: to dial the number on your screen and I will
Speaker 1: get you on the show live. So be prepared to
Speaker 1: talk live. Just call the number on your screen on
Speaker 1: Facebook and we'll get you in. But in the meantime, Megan,
Speaker 1: what are the folks saying on Facebook? You have some comments.
Speaker 1: Are you've seeing anything interesting or people asking any questions? There?
Speaker 2: Someone said, no more giveaways? Uh, we have a giveaway today.
Speaker 1: We did a giveaway on KTLI. So I mean we
Speaker 1: did a giveaway. You giveaways, You know what. Giveaways are
Speaker 1: a lot of work. They take a lot to arrange,
Speaker 1: they take a lot to You're the one that has
Speaker 1: to call these people like today. Yeah, you would think
Speaker 1: that like, more giveaways are better, right, But more giveaways,
Speaker 1: Like let's say someone's like, oh, we can give away
Speaker 1: one hundred pairs of tickets. Guess who that falls on?
Speaker 1: Producer Megan over here. She has to she has to
Speaker 1: sit there and call one hundred people and get their
Speaker 1: nailing address and info and all this stuff.
Speaker 2: Also, if you ever enter a contest, like nine times
Speaker 2: out of ten when we call, no one picks up.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and then I have to wait two hours
Speaker 2: for you to like actually call back. It's a It
Speaker 2: takes a lot of time.
Speaker 1: It's funny because the people don't pick up because it's
Speaker 1: a number they don't recognize. It's usually the KHL a number.
Speaker 1: But just pray if you see a three two three number.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Yes, all right, do you have a question, Megan,
Speaker 1: I do have a question.
Speaker 2: This next question is from Cheryl rimmel Is. Facebook spying
Speaker 2: is the subject.
Speaker 1: Oh I love this question already.
Speaker 2: Hi Rich, I enjoy seeing you during the five thirty mornings.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Hi, rich, I.
Speaker 2: Enjoy seeing you during the five thirty morning news on
Speaker 2: KTLA five. We have a weird phenomenon in my office.
Speaker 2: There are three of us sharing office space, and we
Speaker 2: discuss daily things that we are working on. Within a
Speaker 2: day or so of a discussion, my coworker will receive
Speaker 2: a random sponsored advertisement on Facebook relating to something we
Speaker 2: have discussed. Ordering try tips online, ingredient labels happy socks,
Speaker 2: koa campground.
Speaker 1: Happy socks are good. Actually know what I like my
Speaker 1: happy So I don't like my happy socks as much
Speaker 1: as I do other socks. Anyway, go ahead, Maybe.
Speaker 2: Not always work related, she says. Anyways, this cannot be
Speaker 2: a coincidence. She has an iPhone six, as does my
Speaker 2: other coworker. She must have some sort of app on
Speaker 2: her phone that is spying on our conversations. Do you
Speaker 2: have any idea what this might be? Thank you so much, Cheryl.
Speaker 1: This is a great question, Cheryl. It's one that I
Speaker 1: get all the time. And actually, Megan and I we
Speaker 1: have tested the theory. The theory is if you have
Speaker 1: Facebook installed on your phone and you talk about something
Speaker 1: to someone else, next thing, you know, and ad shows
Speaker 1: up on your feed for that product, and this is
Speaker 1: so you and I we talked. I talked about these socks.
Speaker 1: They're called bombas, right, bombas. Yeah. I went to the
Speaker 1: Point Sky event in New York City, and they gave
Speaker 1: me this in my little gift bag. It was a
Speaker 1: pair of Boomba's Bomba's socks and they're my absolute favorite
Speaker 1: socks in the world. By the way, love these socks
Speaker 1: so much that I will not buy them because they're
Speaker 1: too expensive. They're fifteen dollars a pair, so I will
Speaker 1: not even though I love them. That's a lot for
Speaker 1: one pair of socks.
Speaker 2: I buy one dollar socks.
Speaker 1: One dollar socks, yeah, forever twenty one. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: one dollar socks.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're two dollars.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Okay, Well, the point is you like
Speaker 1: a value for your socks, yeah, and so do I.
Speaker 1: But I still like, like I have socks that I like.
Speaker 1: My favorite are well the Boombus.
Speaker 2: Sorry looking at your socks.
Speaker 1: Socks today are from Express, which that's where those are
Speaker 1: my second favorite. Those are great socks and they usually
Speaker 1: sell for about I think it's like three pairs for
Speaker 1: twenty five if they're on sales something like that. Whatever,
Speaker 1: it is. The point is I love these socks. I
Speaker 1: got right, So that's not the point of the story.
Speaker 1: But the point is I told you about them because
Speaker 1: you had never heard of them before, and we kept
Speaker 1: saying it out loud in front of our phones in
Speaker 1: hopes that the boombas would show up on your feed,
Speaker 1: and they didn't. They did not. So here's what's happening, Cheryl.
Speaker 1: Facebook uses something called a Facebook pixel, along with about
Speaker 1: a thousand other ways to get signals as to what
Speaker 1: you're doing, what you're interested in, and what add its
Speaker 1: should show you next. So here's my theory or my
Speaker 1: best solution for what's happening in your office. Facebook sees
Speaker 1: that you look up something online like Koa campgrounds. Right,
Speaker 1: then they see the fact that your phone is on
Speaker 1: the same Wi Fi network as your colleague's phone, right,
Speaker 1: and so your colleague may look up travel and next
Speaker 1: thing you know, they go, hmmm, we see that Cheryl's
Speaker 1: phone is near Megan's phone, and we're just gonna show
Speaker 1: her that Koa campground because we think that maybe she
Speaker 1: might be interested in that as well. And that happens
Speaker 1: all the time. Now, that is a very basic explanation,
Speaker 1: but that's what's happening. So when you go online and
Speaker 1: you search for the new Game of Thrones oreos and
Speaker 1: you think they're so good, and you're at work, and
Speaker 1: next thing you know, Oh my gosh, what happened to
Speaker 1: our lights? Here we are producer Megan, I'll let you
Speaker 1: go and tell them to turn on our lights. But
Speaker 1: in the studio, by the way that we're doing this
Speaker 1: in live, we had the lights go out. They go
Speaker 1: out after a certain amount of time. Apparently I guess
Speaker 1: we're off the clock. But the reality is that this
Speaker 1: system uses a lot of different cues to kind of
Speaker 1: figure out what you should be shown in your feed,
Speaker 1: and when it sees you interacting with people over and over,
Speaker 1: it kind of just assumes that you're talking about this
Speaker 1: stuff with them, and so it just kind of shows
Speaker 1: you their stuff that someone else is talking about. And
Speaker 1: that's how you get this phenomenon of when you talk
Speaker 1: about something at work and next thing you know, you
Speaker 1: see the same stuff that someone else sees at work.
Speaker 1: That's what happens. And you've seen this happen before, like literally,
Speaker 1: we've all seen this. But I will tell you this
Speaker 1: because everyone always asked me this question. In the four
Speaker 1: or five times I've tested this, I've tested it with
Speaker 1: several people, myself, my wife, a guy here, Chris Martinez,
Speaker 1: we tried it. We talked about vacations in a place.
Speaker 1: I can't remember what the place was, but we had
Speaker 1: never been and we both just talked about it with
Speaker 1: our phones out and nothing came up on the feed
Speaker 1: about that place. So, Cheryl, I hate to bust your bubble,
Speaker 1: but it's not listening to you as far as I know.
Speaker 1: But that does not mean that they are not the
Speaker 1: smartest marketers in the entire world. Facebook knows what they're doing.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you back to that Facebook pixel.
Speaker 1: Every single website that you visit has a Facebook pixel
Speaker 1: installed nine times out of ten. And what that Facebook
Speaker 1: pixel does is it reports back to Facebook saying, oh,
Speaker 1: we got Megan here, she just visited this website. And
Speaker 1: so Facebook's advertising database of you begins to build this
Speaker 1: giant database of here's the websites you like to go to,
Speaker 1: Here's the places where you shopped. When you get to
Speaker 1: the checkout page, they know that you're there. So again,
Speaker 1: they have a lot of data. Yeah, doesn't scare you.
Speaker 1: It doesn't scare I could care less, not.
Speaker 2: Really, But I also make the mistake of when I'm
Speaker 2: on Instagram, if I get an AD nine times out
Speaker 2: of ten, it's like, actually something that I would like, right, Well,
Speaker 2: that's I swipe up and I like, go to the
Speaker 2: website and I've never heard of the brand before.
Speaker 1: That's the whole point.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, And it's so for me. I'm like, Oh,
Speaker 2: this is cool. I can learn about new clothing stores
Speaker 2: I've never heard of.
Speaker 1: I totally agree. Gee, but yeah, my wife's same thing.
Speaker 1: She's like, oh, I bought this dress off of Instagram.
Speaker 1: Like what what? Yeah? Like, oh, it's so it's perfect
Speaker 1: for me. I'm like, of course, it's perfect for you.
Speaker 1: It is targeted in like a thousand different ways to you.
Speaker 1: Like they know your body type, they know what you like,
Speaker 1: they know what color you like, they know what other
Speaker 1: people you look at on Instagram that have those similar dresses.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's crazy what they know. So, speaking of AI,
Speaker 1: I find Google Duplex to be fascinating and I've talked
Speaker 1: about it on this podcast before. And the reason I
Speaker 1: think it's fascinating is because Google they love to use
Speaker 1: AI to solve all these kind of problems. Right, And
Speaker 1: I told you the story on a past podcast about
Speaker 1: how we made a restaurant reservation in Palm Desert using
Speaker 1: Google Duplex because the restaurant did not take reservations over
Speaker 1: the internet, and so you have to call. And every
Speaker 1: time we tried calling, they were either closed or didn't answer.
Speaker 1: So I said, hold on, let me, let let me
Speaker 1: offload this to Google and let them do it. And
Speaker 1: Google Duplex, sure enough, had their computer system call and
Speaker 1: make the reservation and it worked out perfectly well. The
Speaker 1: New York Times did an article testing Google Duplex and
Speaker 1: the main thesis of the art article is that about
Speaker 1: twenty five percent of calls placed through Duplex actually start
Speaker 1: with a human, So the AI is not like there, right,
Speaker 1: But seventy five percent is still pretty good. But about
Speaker 1: fifteen percent of calls that began with the automated system
Speaker 1: have a human jump in at some point. So it
Speaker 1: sounds to me like they have this big call center.
Speaker 1: The computers are doing their thing, but when the computer stumbles,
Speaker 1: it kind of flips the call to a human that
Speaker 1: takes over, right, got it? So I imagine that's kind
Speaker 1: of like this, Like the call goes.
Speaker 2: Through, Hey, this is Elcholo, Hi, this is Google.
Speaker 1: I'm calling on behalf of a client. Oh okay, I'd
Speaker 1: like to make a reservation.
Speaker 2: Okay, how many people?
Speaker 1: Four people?
Speaker 2: What time?
Speaker 1: Seven pm?
Speaker 2: Actually we don't have any availability at seven pm?
Speaker 1: Mmmm?
Speaker 2: Are you still there?
Speaker 1: Yes? Hi, I'd like to make a reservation.
Speaker 2: Okay for how for how many people?
Speaker 1: I forget? I think it was four?
Speaker 2: Okay for what time?
Speaker 1: Seven pm?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I just said we don't have availability then, but about.
Speaker 1: Yeah seven thirty, seven thirty will work?
Speaker 2: Okay, great? What's your name? Uh?
Speaker 1: Rich?
Speaker 2: Okay, Rich, we'll see you at seven thirty.
Speaker 1: And my phone number for my client? Yeah?
Speaker 2: What is your phone?
Speaker 1: UM? Three one zero five nine four three zero zero three.
Speaker 1: Are you confirmed?
Speaker 2: Yes, you are confirmed for seven thirty.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. I don't know why.
Speaker 2: I just could not contain.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine that that must be?
Speaker 2: So it must happen out?
Speaker 1: Okay? So what what New York Times did, which was
Speaker 1: pretty cool is and why didn't I think of this?
Speaker 1: They basically sat there with the restaurant and made these
Speaker 1: calls and had the person at the restaurant pick up
Speaker 1: so they could listen. Yeah. So it's like when you
Speaker 1: do it, they do the call probably immediately anyway, So
Speaker 1: they did. It's a great article New York Times. It's
Speaker 1: called Google's duplex uses AI to mimic humans sometimes, and
Speaker 1: they say that let's see. I mean, there's just it's
Speaker 1: just so great. They the bot introduced itself as Google's
Speaker 1: automated service. But here's the best part they do. During
Speaker 1: one of the calls, the manager who the managers know
Speaker 1: that it's automated because they've gotten so many of these
Speaker 1: calls by now, they're pretty familiar with it, right, So
Speaker 1: he goes like this to them. After the reservation date
Speaker 1: in the party size, the guy goes, are there any kids?
Speaker 1: And the Google bot goes, I'm actually booking on behalf
Speaker 1: of a client, so I'm not too sure, which is
Speaker 1: pretty good. Yeah, I mean, but that's not like an
Speaker 1: outrageous question. But the guy said everything was perfect after
Speaker 1: mister Park said, after an interview with conversing with the
Speaker 1: Google bot, it was like talking. It was like a
Speaker 1: real person talking. Oh that's cool.
Speaker 2: So client client, I want to be like, are you
Speaker 2: a robot?
Speaker 1: And I think they asked that. Hold on, let me
Speaker 1: say do they know? Okay, the person did ask are
Speaker 1: you robot? And the guy said, no, I'm not, And
Speaker 1: it turned out to be true. He wasn't a robot.
Speaker 1: It was one of the real callers from Google. So
Speaker 1: but I wonder it sounds, but if you ask like
Speaker 1: Google Assistant, if you're a robot, they have like some
Speaker 1: funny like responses. So yeah, but anyway, good good improvisation.
Speaker 2: Yeah that was like acting for the day.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's that's way too much acting for me.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So our next question comes from Janice.
Speaker 2: It's a short question. Just would you happen to know
Speaker 2: if there are dash cams that can capture rear end collisions?
Speaker 2: Did a story on.
Speaker 1: This, yes, so okay, great question, and I will tell
Speaker 1: you this. So when I got my new car a
Speaker 1: couple like two years ago, literally first month I have
Speaker 1: my new car, I get rear ended coming out of
Speaker 1: the airport. So I'm driving out of the airport and
Speaker 1: I just you know, you stop it a light and
Speaker 1: just person behind you right into you. Thankfully I wasn't hurt.
Speaker 1: Too bad?
Speaker 2: Wait too bad?
Speaker 1: Well, so because the yeah, well I did, I got.
Speaker 1: I got a little tiny settlement. I can't talk about it,
Speaker 1: but I got. You know, they do they pay you off,
Speaker 1: like her insurance company. I think they gave me like
Speaker 1: a thousand dollars to like you have to sign away
Speaker 1: and say that like you're not hurt for the rest
Speaker 1: of your life. So they did. Anyway, so, oh, we
Speaker 1: have a caller here, so I'm gonna put them on
Speaker 1: hold on. But yeah, so they basically make you sign
Speaker 1: away your life saying like here's a thousand bucks, like
Speaker 1: you basically can't sue us ever again or this girl
Speaker 1: or whoever. You know. So I was fine for the
Speaker 1: most part, I think, anyway, but.
Speaker 2: I still recovering.
Speaker 1: But I thought about it, like, oh, my gosh, wouldn't
Speaker 1: it have been great if there was a dash cam in
Speaker 1: the back that would because I have a dash cam
Speaker 1: in the front. I was like, wouldn't it be great
Speaker 1: if there's one in the back that can record like
Speaker 1: what happens because most of the time you're getting rear ended.
Speaker 1: That's kind of like, I mean, some of the accidents
Speaker 1: I'm sure happened in the front too, but like, you know, anyway, yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 2: I was going to say that the some cars have
Speaker 2: cameras on the back, if those cameras recorded, yes, record, Yes,
Speaker 2: that's the future, Megan, I agree, But then if something happens.
Speaker 1: Then they give you the video. But the Tesla does
Speaker 1: do that apparently, so I think in the future. But yes,
Speaker 1: every car now has Do you have a backup camera
Speaker 1: on your new ride? Sweet new ride?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't have censors. Okay, well I'm just
Speaker 2: saying that because I'm not a great parker, so oh okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, neither arem my yesterday I am the worst. I'm
Speaker 1: an easy driver, but I also run over a lot
Speaker 1: of curbs. I don't know, it's really a problem. Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: to answer your question, this was Cheryl Cheryl. Yeah, Jannis Janis.
Speaker 1: To answer your question, the only one I know of
Speaker 1: is called Pearlauto dot Com. And so this is something
Speaker 1: that this company was a big startup. I think they
Speaker 1: were acquired. But they have a device that kind of
Speaker 1: goes around the back of your license plate. It's like
Speaker 1: a like one of those frames that has a camera
Speaker 1: built into it. So it is three hundred dollars, which
Speaker 1: is a lot.
Speaker 2: But but if you get rear ended a lot this
Speaker 2: well I hope.
Speaker 1: It's not happening a lot like one time is probably
Speaker 1: too much. But yeah, anyway, so that's the only one
Speaker 1: I know of the cameras that I've seen, Like with
Speaker 1: the dash cams, what they're doing is there's a camera
Speaker 1: in the front and a camera facing inside on the car.
Speaker 1: But that's really not going to help you unless you
Speaker 1: maybe are able to see kind of like out the
Speaker 1: back window, which in my case, like I watched the
Speaker 1: lady through my rearview mirror like slam into me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: on her phone, so she was fiddling with her phone. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's usually how it happens, right. Unfortunately, if you're on Facebook,
Speaker 1: you want to call in, we can have time for
Speaker 1: one caller, So the numbers on the screen, go ahead
Speaker 1: and call. I'll get you guys in or get one
Speaker 1: person in. So that's the answer to that. But this
Speaker 1: I thought was fantastic. Iced tea? Do you know iced tea?
Speaker 1: The not the not the drink? The actor is he actor?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's on, he's on, he's on.
Speaker 1: Don't tell me, hold on. I know what you're gonna say,
Speaker 1: and I think you might be wrong. I know what
Speaker 1: you're gonna say.
Speaker 2: I'm right, that's iced tea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but what show? Were you going to say? Law
Speaker 1: and Order?
Speaker 2: Because you thought I was gonna say criminal minds?
Speaker 1: I didn't know which which law order you were going
Speaker 1: to pick. There's so many. Yeah, I think you're I
Speaker 1: think he was on a Law and Order s vu
Speaker 1: he used to be a rapper. He was also on
Speaker 1: Ice Love's Cocoa Yemer.
Speaker 2: That Melody Show. But he also was a rapper.
Speaker 1: But he's also a prolific texter or sorry, text tweeter.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, he's also a prolific tweeter. And here's what
Speaker 1: he tweeted. Message to Amazon. Now that you have regular
Speaker 1: people making your home deliveries, maybe they should wear a
Speaker 1: vest with Amazon Delivery on it. I almost shot an
Speaker 1: MF creeping up to my crib last night, just saying
Speaker 1: iced tea. What's MF mean?
Speaker 2: I can't say it when a podcast mother.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, you're right, so.
Speaker 2: What's a mass?
Speaker 1: But I was just kidding.
Speaker 2: You knew. I knew.
Speaker 1: Hold on, if I said it to you, could I mean, look,
Speaker 1: we are on a podcast. You can say whatever you want,
Speaker 1: but we're being respectful in case you're listening with the kids.
Speaker 1: There's no the FCC doesn't care about live streaming. We
Speaker 1: can do whatever we want.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say it, but we know what
Speaker 1: it means. So he has a point. I will tell
Speaker 1: you this. I was in my neighborhood the other day
Speaker 1: and I'm watching this guy walk up to a house
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my god, I'm witnessing a robbery
Speaker 1: in progress. I'm gonna turn out to be a delivery guy.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, I see when he turns the
Speaker 1: package that he was holding. I was like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: And this happened the day before I saw the the
Speaker 1: tweet from iced Tea. He has a great point because
Speaker 1: Amazon is sending out all these people that are like
Speaker 1: independent contractors. So are all these delivery services Postmates and
Speaker 1: you know, door Dash and grub Hub. Get these people
Speaker 1: some sort of uniform. Yeah that has reflectors. Right, But
Speaker 1: here's the thing, and this is gonna be scary.
Speaker 2: Oh I know what you're gonna say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tell me.
Speaker 2: People are going to wear them pretending to be Postmates
Speaker 2: and then they're gonna get into your house and they're
Speaker 2: gonna kill you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not kill you, that's right, but like.
Speaker 2: It opens up. But you know, if you ordered something
Speaker 2: like I just don't know, you don't you.
Speaker 1: Know every time you order something. I'm surprised every day
Speaker 1: when I.
Speaker 2: Literally don't open my door, like if someone I don't.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, your house is like that movie Quiet, what
Speaker 1: is it? Don't say a word?
Speaker 2: Isn't it called the quiet Place?
Speaker 1: Is it quiet?
Speaker 2: I've never seen it?
Speaker 1: But what why? I know there's a bunch of movies
Speaker 1: that were like this. There was one. Don't say a word.
Speaker 1: Oh that's not that movie. That's not that's definitely not
Speaker 1: the movie A.
Speaker 2: Quiet Place, saying someone could easily get into my house.
Speaker 1: No, I'm just saying it's like that movie where like
Speaker 1: there was a crazy movie. It's not a quiet place.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, what the one where like it was this
Speaker 1: crazy like military guy that like American beauty. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: it was maybe that was like it. Anyway, my point,
Speaker 1: I was making a joke about your place for like
Speaker 1: every like the doorbell rings, everyone's like quiet is like
Speaker 1: super scary.
Speaker 2: No, I that's why I go quiet.
Speaker 1: I do too, Like I don't want to answer the
Speaker 1: door most like knock weird, knock weird. Sense the yeah
Speaker 1: you can sense it canna be awkward and then you
Speaker 1: gotta yeaheah. But anyway, so he has an iced tea
Speaker 1: iced tea great point, yeah, because I I but I
Speaker 1: see what you're saying. I think that if we get
Speaker 1: these vests, next thing, you know, the new rash of
Speaker 1: robberies and criminals are going to wear these things.
Speaker 2: But then again, like the whole garage Amazon thing where
Speaker 2: you can have an Amazon person open up your garage
Speaker 2: and leave a package, like someone like a criminal could
Speaker 2: pretend to be one of those contractors.
Speaker 1: Right, but they can't open your garage. So see, that's
Speaker 1: the beauty of having that system is that they're not
Speaker 1: gonna have the code to your garage, whereas if they
Speaker 1: knock on your door. You know, So I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: a sign on my house that just says it's supposed
Speaker 1: to go in the garage, buddy. So now, oh, that's
Speaker 1: actually really Oh that's a that's a horror movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like remember that old horror movie.
Speaker 2: This should be a horror movie where.
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, the calls coming from inside the house.
Speaker 1: The new horror movie is gonna be when you order
Speaker 1: something from Amazon, they're suposed to knock on the door.
Speaker 1: But you know it's a criminal because they're trying to
Speaker 1: murder you because you've said it's supposed to go in
Speaker 1: your garage. Yeah, you're like, that's not supposed to go
Speaker 1: in a house.
Speaker 2: Movie moment this morning where I was like I feel
Speaker 2: like you're late for work. No, no, no, I do you
Speaker 2: want me to tell you? It's kind of quick. When
Speaker 2: I was like walking out the front door, I realized
Speaker 2: that I forgot milk for my coffee. So I liked,
Speaker 2: I like just went back to the kitchen. I didn't
Speaker 2: lock the door. Oh the front door. I just like
Speaker 2: and then and then like the thought occurred to me
Speaker 2: while I was like opening up the fridge, I was like,
Speaker 2: what if I just hear the front door open right now? Oh?
Speaker 1: That'd yeah, I always yeah, forty.
Speaker 2: Five in the morning, Yes, it's the middle of the night.
Speaker 2: That and like and then I was like terrified. And
Speaker 2: then I like into my car, yes.
Speaker 1: And like, yeah, isn't that funny? Like because we get
Speaker 1: up really early, so we're always like in these weird
Speaker 1: shifts and stuff. So it's so weird how the mind
Speaker 1: can really play games with you and like get you totally,
Speaker 1: like in this place where you're like oh yeah, like
Speaker 1: looking around, like there's shadows this and that, and like
Speaker 1: literally it's like any other night of any other day.
Speaker 1: But like, the mind is a is a powerful thing.
Speaker 1: It's kind of wild, so you gotta watch out for that.
Speaker 1: But guess what that's gonna do it for the show.
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