Speaker 1: A new iPhone at a price that can't be beat.
Speaker 1: A new phone to compete with the Samsung Galaxy S
Speaker 1: twenty TikTok, get some controls your kids will not like.
Speaker 1: Plus your tech questions answered.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: I'm Rich Dumiro and this is Rich on Tech, the
Speaker 1: podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think
Speaker 1: you should know about. Plus it's the place where I
Speaker 1: answer the questions that you send me. My name is
Speaker 1: Rich Dmiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Joining me is producer Megan, who has not left the
Speaker 1: house in five weeks.
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 3: It has it been five weeks?
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's been a long time.
Speaker 1: Well today, okay, so the day we're recording this, it's
Speaker 1: officially been four weeks since the Mayor of Los Angeles
Speaker 1: did that stay at home order. So well it's been
Speaker 1: I think that was only sixteenth, so it's been about
Speaker 1: four weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean I've left house a bunch. Have
Speaker 2: you left the house?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just to like go to the market. But I haven't,
Speaker 3: like this week, I haven't left the house where I
Speaker 3: go on walks every day. Does that count as leaving
Speaker 3: the house?
Speaker 1: Ah, yeah, that's nice. Yeah, that that helps. I mean
Speaker 1: I feel like my entire neighborhood is walking. Have you
Speaker 1: noticed that that? Oh yeah, everyone is walking. It's like
Speaker 1: the only thing you can do.
Speaker 3: The one thing I have noticed is in my neighborhood
Speaker 3: people think that if they're running, they don't have to
Speaker 3: wear a mask. Like every runner I see no mask,
Speaker 3: and I'm always like, yeah, no, I don't like most people,
Speaker 3: Oh you haven't, Oh I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't wear them on walks either. I only wear them,
Speaker 1: like the only the only thing you're supposed to do
Speaker 1: is wear them when you go to the grocery, to
Speaker 1: a store, to a business.
Speaker 3: Really, every like everyone I see out walking, they're all
Speaker 3: wearing masks.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, a lot of people are doing that.
Speaker 1: I mean it's not required at this point, so I
Speaker 1: mean I will do it if it's required, but until then,
Speaker 1: I will not do that. Yeah, because I just a
Speaker 1: I don't. I think it'd be really tricky.
Speaker 2: To run with a mask. But yeah, I see, I
Speaker 2: see kind of half in half.
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's I think it depends on also
Speaker 1: your personal comfort level with what's going on.
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, I've just had runners like zoom by me
Speaker 3: and they like, no mask, and I'm like, come on, like,
Speaker 3: you can't do that, you know, I like that.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. I guess I'm in that you
Speaker 2: don't do that. No, I do do that, Like I'm.
Speaker 3: I'm wow, one of those.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't really understand because like there's no
Speaker 1: requirement for the masks outside, so I.
Speaker 2: Just like in the grocery sure, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the only my parents make me wear a mask
Speaker 3: or like you have to wear a mask outside, well,
Speaker 3: if you're going to be like if you're walking and
Speaker 3: there's like other people around, Like that's what I thought.
Speaker 2: I don't know, No, I haven't heard that.
Speaker 1: I know at businesses, like it is required at businesses,
Speaker 1: so that's the only only place I know it's required.
Speaker 2: I do think that's going to change. I probably.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to changed to outside in general
Speaker 1: in the next you know, probably in the next couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, if they decide to do that. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I did go to the grocery store yesterday at
Speaker 1: Trader Joe's, and I will tell you it used to
Speaker 1: be really fun to go to the grocery store, and
Speaker 1: now it is the worst experience because it's depressing.
Speaker 2: It's sad.
Speaker 1: People are acting like everyone has you know, these crazy
Speaker 1: like it Like you said, when people like are jogging
Speaker 1: past you, you just assume like, oh, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: something like that's the way everyone's acting now, And I
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 2: You have to be prepared and kind of on guard.
Speaker 1: But at the grocery store it's like people are just
Speaker 1: really being weird. So and then you have to go
Speaker 1: into the grocery store and you have to walk like
Speaker 1: a certain way.
Speaker 2: So anyway, it was not fun yesterday.
Speaker 1: And then I got yelled at the at the cashier
Speaker 1: because I wasn't standing in the red box that I
Speaker 1: was supposed to be standing in.
Speaker 2: That also happened to be at home depot. So I'm
Speaker 2: going to.
Speaker 1: Start looking at all floor markings when I check out
Speaker 1: from now on because I'm getting checked a lot. Well,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the big story of the week besides coronavirus.
Speaker 1: And this was very smart for Apple to do this
Speaker 1: at this time. It's been a long time rumor, it's
Speaker 1: finally happening. The iPhone S is a real iPhone and
Speaker 1: the price could not be better. Three hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: nine dollars, which just blows everyone else out of the
Speaker 1: water because you cannot get a phone for three hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety nine dollars new. You also can't get a
Speaker 1: phone of iPhone quality for three hundred and ninety nine dollars.
Speaker 1: So the fact that Apple is doing this is brilliant.
Speaker 1: They could have sold this phone for four ninety nine
Speaker 1: and people would have been happy with that.
Speaker 2: Three ninety nine is really amazing.
Speaker 1: Now, with that said, I'm not saying that Apple is
Speaker 1: doing us a favor by coming out with this phone,
Speaker 1: because it's a design that's been around for years. This
Speaker 1: is the iPhone eight with new insides, so they already
Speaker 1: had the outside. The screen is old news. There's nothing
Speaker 1: new about the screen, the touch id that's on it.
Speaker 1: It's got the home button that's not new. So basically,
Speaker 1: they didn't have to invent anything for this phone. They
Speaker 1: just took parts from other devices and just popped it
Speaker 1: into this phone and they can sell it at a
Speaker 1: pretty good price.
Speaker 2: The only thing.
Speaker 1: That could be new or similar to I mean, or
Speaker 1: kind of modified or they had to work on is
Speaker 1: the camera, because it's not the same camera that's in
Speaker 1: the iPhone eleven. It's not the old camera. It's kind
Speaker 1: of a mix of those things. So this is a
Speaker 1: four point seven inch HD screen. It's got touch ID
Speaker 1: like I said, which means there is a home button
Speaker 1: and there's I don't think it has face ID obviously,
Speaker 1: because that would be totally different. But the cool thing is, Megan,
Speaker 1: that this has the top of the line A thirteen chip,
Speaker 1: which is the same chip you get in the iPhone eleven,
Speaker 1: so you're not sacrificing any speed on this.
Speaker 3: Device, which crazy.
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty cool. So black, white, and red. Friday,
Speaker 1: April seventeenth is the pre order date and it will
Speaker 1: be in hands on April twenty fourth. It does have
Speaker 1: wireless charging, by the way, and for that three ninety
Speaker 1: nine price, it's sixty four gigabytes, so personally I would
Speaker 1: bump up to the one twenty eight gigs. If you
Speaker 1: follow me on Twitter, you know that I've filled up
Speaker 1: my iPhone at two hundred and fifty six. I am
Speaker 1: totally filled up. And it's sad to me, Megan, because
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I have Google Photos and I
Speaker 1: can do that thing where it frees up all the
Speaker 1: space by deleting all the photos off my phone. But
Speaker 1: it's like really sad to me to do that because
Speaker 1: I like having all my photos on there, or all
Speaker 1: the photos I've taken in recent months. But anyway, so
Speaker 1: this thing is gonna sell bananas. I can't imagine a
Speaker 1: better selling phone in the next twelve months.
Speaker 3: I can't believe the price, Like it's so it's so crazy, Like.
Speaker 2: Remember when your father was in the market for a
Speaker 2: new phone.
Speaker 3: And been the phone he should have gone.
Speaker 2: Right, this would have been the phone.
Speaker 1: This is the phone for so many people that don't
Speaker 1: necessarily need the best, and even not saying it's the best,
Speaker 1: this is really I will say, there's almost nothing on
Speaker 1: this device that I can fall apple for now I'm
Speaker 1: saying all that without having it in hand yet, so
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe when I get this thing, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: this screen is terrible or it's not as fast as
Speaker 1: I think because they use some sort of old memory.
Speaker 1: But the fact that it's got the best processor on
Speaker 1: it and a pretty good camera and at this price,
Speaker 1: I can't really imagine a better deal.
Speaker 2: So I'm impressed.
Speaker 3: At what what's the camera comparable to?
Speaker 1: Well, we don't know because they just kind of mixed.
Speaker 1: They said they they just mixed a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: camera technology, so it sounds like it's old and new.
Speaker 1: So we don't know yet until we actually take pictures
Speaker 1: with it how good it is or how bad it
Speaker 1: is compared to the iPhone eleven.
Speaker 2: But I think it's going to be just fine, to
Speaker 2: be honest.
Speaker 1: If you're spending four hundred bucks on a phone and
Speaker 1: you're getting all this stuff, I think the camera is
Speaker 1: going to be just fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, cool, that's you.
Speaker 1: Okay, So our first question can you hear that sound
Speaker 1: when I did that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I heard it. Yeah. Our first question comes from
Speaker 3: f Eff. I read your article on Zoom Alternatives. Why
Speaker 3: didn't you mention go to meeting dot com? I used WebEx,
Speaker 3: but it's hard to use when others are not comfortable
Speaker 3: on their computer. I needed a service. I could just
Speaker 3: send a link to participate, no codes or software. Right,
Speaker 3: go to meeting dot com.
Speaker 1: Good question and the reason I did not put go
Speaker 1: to meeting in my roundup. I got a lot of
Speaker 1: angry emails from folks when I did that. Do you
Speaker 1: remember the story we did on the Zoom alternatives?
Speaker 2: We did that, yeah last week?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was last week, so yeah, lots of em
Speaker 1: That was a very popular story, by the way, but
Speaker 1: the emails I got were so angry. People are like, well,
Speaker 1: how came you to include this? And how can you
Speaker 1: include that?
Speaker 2: Number one?
Speaker 1: I said seven alternatives or six alternati. I didn't say
Speaker 1: every alternative I can't make.
Speaker 3: We also didn't say the best ever like that.
Speaker 1: I didn't say, you know, but now, And these are
Speaker 1: the things that I don't get to talk about on
Speaker 1: TV because I'm on for like, you know, a minute thirty.
Speaker 1: I can't necessarily explain every reasoning behind every story. But
Speaker 1: what I do is behind the scenes, I put a
Speaker 1: lot of effort and research and prep into my segments
Speaker 1: so that when you see them on TV, they are
Speaker 1: the information that I think you need to know, kind
Speaker 1: of like this podcast. And the reality is I did
Speaker 1: go through a whole bunch of alternatives, and I pared
Speaker 1: them down to what I thought was a good mix
Speaker 1: of alternatives for the people watching. And let me explain
Speaker 1: what that means. Yes, go to meeting is a good alternative,
Speaker 1: but it's not one of the alternatives I want to include,
Speaker 1: because the number one thing about go to meeting is
Speaker 1: that there is no free tier.
Speaker 2: And that was the Bob Online.
Speaker 1: Now maybe you could try it free for seven days.
Speaker 1: But again, I'm doing a segment that is broadcast across
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of stations nationwide, and there are people
Speaker 1: watching that are trusting the information that I'm giving them,
Speaker 1: and I have to give them information fast, quick and
Speaker 1: in a simple way.
Speaker 2: And I did the research, and so when I.
Speaker 1: Looked at go to meeting the problem is I just
Speaker 1: didn't really see a free solution there. And so of course,
Speaker 1: now that I'm seeing this, it does say there is
Speaker 1: a free one.
Speaker 3: So now, okay, sorry, I love the honesty.
Speaker 1: Okay, so unlimited free online meetings. But I'm curious what. Okay,
Speaker 1: so here's what they offer for free. And now I'm
Speaker 1: just seeing this, and this could be new based on coronavirus, right,
Speaker 1: So they're offering up to three participants for free, up
Speaker 1: to forty minutes. So again that's not necessarily what I
Speaker 1: wanted to do. I wanted things that were free for
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people, and just the most
Speaker 1: universal things that I think I could recommend. So Go
Speaker 1: to Meetings was not included because mainly it costs money,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of the main reason. Now I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's bad, but again, like you said, I'm just
Speaker 1: giving people a bunch of options, and that was these
Speaker 1: were the options that I felt were the best for
Speaker 1: my segment.
Speaker 2: And I did a mix.
Speaker 1: You know, we did that one called house Party, which
Speaker 1: is kind of a fun one. Then we did one yeah,
Speaker 1: we did Skype, which you know, I did the pros
Speaker 1: and cons.
Speaker 3: Of each, So if you had to pick your favorite
Speaker 3: and then your least favorite from the ones that we did.
Speaker 2: My favorite.
Speaker 1: It turns out that Zoom Actually there is a reason
Speaker 1: why Zoom took off the way it did.
Speaker 2: It works really well.
Speaker 1: And I will say I will talk about another one
Speaker 1: that I will reveal later in the show that we
Speaker 1: tested that I actually think is really cool. It's only
Speaker 1: one on one, but I think that Zoom is the
Speaker 1: best option for most people.
Speaker 2: I don't like the forty men limit.
Speaker 1: Have you come up against that in your like, yeah,
Speaker 1: like a friend's happy hour or something. The first time
Speaker 1: I came up against it, it was kind of annoying because
Speaker 1: I thought I could just hop out and my friend
Speaker 1: could take over and then I could hop back in.
Speaker 2: That did not work.
Speaker 1: So we did have to disconnect and reconnect, which I
Speaker 1: thought was a little annoying. But I'm not paying fifteen
Speaker 1: bucks a month right now.
Speaker 3: Do you the least favorite out of the list.
Speaker 2: My least favorite?
Speaker 1: I think FaceTime is just I never really liked FaceTime
Speaker 1: and I'm still not.
Speaker 3: A fan of it.
Speaker 2: It's just it's too annoying.
Speaker 1: It's too confusing, it's too like I don't really understand
Speaker 1: what number I'm calling with people, and it's like too limiting.
Speaker 3: I just don't like it, and it's weird when there's
Speaker 3: multiple people the way Yeah the boxes move like it's
Speaker 3: distracting and we don't need things to like move around
Speaker 3: for a video conference. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think what I like about Zoom the most is
Speaker 1: the format. Like what if folks are watching on Facebook
Speaker 1: Live right now, the format is is just side by
Speaker 1: side if you want, if you have two people. I
Speaker 1: like how it just moves depending on how many people
Speaker 1: you have. And they also have that view where the
Speaker 1: person that's talking is like big and then everyone else
Speaker 1: is small. But I kind of like just keeping everyone
Speaker 1: in the same size all the time and you see
Speaker 1: who's talking because they're highlighted.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's move on to the next story.
Speaker 2: Another phone that launched this week, and.
Speaker 1: A long time ago when I did my tech segment,
Speaker 1: I used to compare every phone that was Android against
Speaker 1: the iPhone. And now I just don't do that anymore, because,
Speaker 1: you know what, the reality is not everyone's comparing against
Speaker 1: the iPhone. Most people are sort of in their bucket
Speaker 1: of iOS. They're sticking with Apple or they're sticking with Android.
Speaker 1: I don't really see as many people wanting to switch
Speaker 1: anymore these days. It used to be always like people
Speaker 1: would be like, hey, Rich, I get the Samsung and
Speaker 1: ditch the iPhone. I don't get that question anymore. I
Speaker 1: really don't very rarely. So there's a new phone. It's
Speaker 1: the one plus one plus eight Pro. And I will
Speaker 1: say this is probably my favorite Android phone of the year.
Speaker 2: It's it's a great device.
Speaker 1: I think there is one major problem with this device,
Speaker 1: and it is the edges of the screen are curved,
Speaker 1: and it makes it not only tough to hold, but
Speaker 1: really annoying because I'm always touching something on the screen
Speaker 1: that I don't mean to touch.
Speaker 2: And it's a weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a really weird thing that iPhones have never
Speaker 1: had that problem. And when you use an Android, they
Speaker 1: always seem to have that problem, and this one has
Speaker 1: it really bad.
Speaker 2: And it's kind of annoying.
Speaker 1: Other than that, this is the best phone out there
Speaker 1: that you can get for Android. I will tell you why.
Speaker 1: Number one, It's a great size, got a big screen.
Speaker 1: It's got a really high quality screen one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty hurts refresh rate, which means that it is so
Speaker 1: buttery smooth you will not believe it. It's got a
Speaker 1: great processor, it's got a ton of memory, ton of ram.
Speaker 2: The camera.
Speaker 1: Every time I've done a OnePlus story in the past,
Speaker 1: I always said, well, the camera is just okay. This
Speaker 1: time the the camera is fantastic. I mean it really,
Speaker 1: truly is a fantastic camera. I wish the colors popped
Speaker 1: a little bit more, and especially on the front facing camera,
Speaker 1: everything looks very washed out. Some people might like that
Speaker 1: because it makes your skin look better, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's it's one of those things where I just wish
Speaker 1: it had better color. It's got wireless charging for the
Speaker 1: first time, it's got water resistance for the first time
Speaker 1: on a OnePlus, and the price is pretty amazing. Eight
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety nine dollars, and I get it. I'm
Speaker 1: not recommending anyone purchase anything right now during this uncertain
Speaker 1: time of jobs and work and all this stuff. But
Speaker 1: for eight hundred and ninety nine dollars if you did
Speaker 1: have money saved up for a phone, that's a great
Speaker 1: price for what you're getting. Because I would compare this
Speaker 1: phone to the Samsung Galaxy S twenty, which is thirteen
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety nine dollars, and this phone, I think
Speaker 1: is a better phone. The only other thing I will
Speaker 1: say I don't like about it is the haptics on it.
Speaker 1: So and haptics, Megan, is when your phone vibrates when
Speaker 1: you touch something on screen.
Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm talking out?
Speaker 1: The iPhone does it best, The Samsung Galaxy S twenty
Speaker 1: does it really well. This phone does not do it
Speaker 1: well at all. And it's really sad to me because
Speaker 1: it's kind of it's not a deal breaker, but it's
Speaker 1: just one of those things where like it's very like
Speaker 1: flimsy feeling, and I'm like, this is a great phone,
Speaker 1: Why does the haptic feel so flimsy? Otherwise one plus
Speaker 1: eight pro I think is fantastic. They also launched another phone,
Speaker 1: the one plus eight and that's six hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: nine dollars. I thought that was a great phone, a
Speaker 1: great little device, but now I can't recommend it with
Speaker 1: an iPhone at three ninety nine.
Speaker 2: Three ninety nine, iPhone will be.
Speaker 1: The device that I recommend for the next inforeseeable future
Speaker 1: for the average person.
Speaker 3: I can't really imagine once you review it.
Speaker 2: I don't even think I need to review it.
Speaker 3: I think that you're like, I know, I've trust that nice.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like, it's like, I just can't imagine
Speaker 1: a better product for the average person who just wants
Speaker 1: a good phone, because not only are you getting the iPhone,
Speaker 1: you're getting iOS, You're getting all the great apps that
Speaker 1: work along with it, all the accessories that work with iPhone.
Speaker 1: You're getting things like the Apple Watch and air Uh
Speaker 1: what is it not Airplay? What's the thing when you
Speaker 1: send stuff to.
Speaker 2: H Airdrop, I get think of it. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. You get the whole kit and kaboodle.
Speaker 3: You get the whole situation. Okay. Next question comes from
Speaker 3: Troy hi Rich. Hope You're well, what's your favorite travel
Speaker 3: size blue tooth speaker?
Speaker 2: That's a good question. It's funny.
Speaker 1: I half the time I go to a hotel room,
Speaker 1: I bring a speaker, and half the time I forget
Speaker 1: to bring my speaker. So I in the times I forget,
Speaker 1: I just use my phone. But when I do bring
Speaker 1: a speaker, I always love having a speaker in my
Speaker 1: hotel room because it's just nice to have that music
Speaker 1: that sounds a little bit better than coming off your
Speaker 1: phone speaker. So my favorite is the Ultimate Ears Logitech.
Speaker 1: Ultimate Ears is to me the little speaker that I
Speaker 1: have been bringing around for a while because it's small,
Speaker 1: it's simple, and it's easy, and they make a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of different ones. But the one that I've been
Speaker 1: taking around the most in the past couple of years
Speaker 1: has been called the Wonder Boom, and it's it's not
Speaker 1: that expensive.
Speaker 2: I think it's like sixty nine bucks. Depending on when
Speaker 2: you get it's.
Speaker 1: Two hundred, it's one hundred dollars, but a lot of
Speaker 1: times it goes on sale for less.
Speaker 2: But the Wonder Boom is a good one.
Speaker 1: If you don't want that, and you know, do you
Speaker 1: really need that great audio quality in your hotel room.
Speaker 2: Probably not.
Speaker 1: I think you'll be just as well served with the
Speaker 1: Amazon Basics Bluetooth speaker. And that speaker if you can
Speaker 1: find it in stock and get it delivered from Amazon,
Speaker 1: is twenty six dollars and sixty four cents.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: You know, if you don't really care that much, I
Speaker 1: think this will be just fine. And you know, let
Speaker 1: me see, now, how do I can I paste a comment? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put my comment onto the screen. If so,
Speaker 1: if you're watching on Facebook Live, you should be able
Speaker 1: to see my comment, but maybe not. Everything's delayed on Facebook.
Speaker 1: There goes okay, so.
Speaker 2: Now I find it.
Speaker 1: So So, I mean those are my two picks. I
Speaker 1: think those are both great. But again, like I'm not
Speaker 1: an audio file, so I don't I get when I
Speaker 1: listen to music on a good speaker. Like I was
Speaker 1: just telling my wife last night because we bought that
Speaker 1: son No move.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a son No speaker, so it's expensive.
Speaker 1: It was four hundred bucks and at the time I
Speaker 1: was like, so I really need this speaker, like it's
Speaker 1: just for the backyard. But now I have grown to
Speaker 1: love it because I bring it everywhere. It's like it
Speaker 1: has a little handle on it, and now I just
Speaker 1: bring it wherever I am in the house or outside,
Speaker 1: front yard, backyard. And I guess maybe I bought it
Speaker 1: at the best time. I bought it before coronavirus, So
Speaker 1: we have been home so much. I listen to music
Speaker 1: all the time at home. This thing has been a
Speaker 1: godsend because it is amazing and it's the quality. The
Speaker 1: audio quality is so good. I do actually love it.
Speaker 1: So maybe I am an audio file.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think, Oh, you definitely are, no, because once your
Speaker 3: go to playlist.
Speaker 1: Oh, I just found a new one that is key
Speaker 1: right now, major key. I've got a couple of playlists
Speaker 1: I love, but one I just found. They just I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe they just came out with it on
Speaker 1: YouTube music. But my new favorite one is called Shiny
Speaker 1: Happy pick Me Ups and it's the description is bright, brassy,
Speaker 1: soulful and fun. This eclectic mix is capable of pulling
Speaker 1: you out from the winter doldrums or your mid afternoon slump.
Speaker 1: And what I love about this playlist is it has
Speaker 1: everything from Sewn Mendes to four non Blondes, fine young Cannibals,
Speaker 1: the Beg's Queen Portugal, the Man MGMT. So it's a
Speaker 1: big mix it's like old songs and new songs. And
Speaker 1: I really love playlists that mix old stuff and new
Speaker 1: stuff because you just want the new stuff. And I
Speaker 1: you know, but some of my other playlists, I love
Speaker 1: PG pop hits. That's good when I've got the kids
Speaker 1: in the car. I'm a real big fan of down
Speaker 1: tempo instrumentals, So if you have serious XM's that is
Speaker 1: XM chill, which I use for like during the day
Speaker 1: when I'm kind of just working, I'll listen to that
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 2: I also like country music. I'm a huge.
Speaker 1: Country fan, so I do listen to a lot of
Speaker 1: country stuff. Kickback country is one of my favorites for
Speaker 1: the afternoon when I'm just kind of hanging out.
Speaker 2: What about you, Producer Megan.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, you have such a like legit list
Speaker 3: of like playlists. I mean I just listen to a
Speaker 3: lot of the same stuff on Spotify, Like I follow
Speaker 3: let's see one of their like new hits playlists, Senate,
Speaker 3: just like it's just the new songs that came out
Speaker 3: that week. Yes, but you know, I also.
Speaker 1: Just hold on when you listen to new hits, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like every time you're listening to a song it's new
Speaker 1: and so to me.
Speaker 2: I feel like, ever since I started listening to.
Speaker 1: Uh sorry, ever ever since I started listening to the
Speaker 1: uh like the streaming music, I don't really want new
Speaker 1: stuff because I'm always listening, Like I'm always hearing.
Speaker 3: New stuff, right, No, And that's the thing I have
Speaker 3: to I like. I mean, I'll like listen to that
Speaker 3: for a little bit, but then I always go back
Speaker 3: to like my liked playlist, like all those songs that
Speaker 3: I've liked in the last like two months, you know,
Speaker 3: like I just like replay the same stuff over and
Speaker 3: over again.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I do like the like stuff because that's
Speaker 1: smart too, like the liked songs, because then you always
Speaker 1: get songs that you liked in the past.
Speaker 2: You're like, oh, hey, these are great.
Speaker 1: But music is a very personal thing, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: like I just number one, I just I have music
Speaker 1: going twenty four to seven in my home. There's yeah
Speaker 1: sonos always on in every room, So I need to be.
Speaker 3: Better about that. I really don't, like, I feel like
Speaker 3: I should listen to music more than I do. You know,
Speaker 3: it's for fun.
Speaker 2: You need to listen. Wait, so you don't just like
Speaker 2: listen we'll see.
Speaker 3: I don't listen to music all day like you. I'm
Speaker 3: not like constantly listening to music. And you said you
Speaker 3: listen like constantly.
Speaker 2: All day, like I definitely always on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I probably listened for like two hours.
Speaker 1: It's funny because like whenever I come home and like
Speaker 1: Lindsay's doing well, now, I don't come home anymore because
Speaker 1: I'm just always home. But like whenever Lindsay is like
Speaker 1: sitting there doing something, I'm like, why don't you have
Speaker 1: music on? Like to me, the first thing I do,
Speaker 1: like if I'm making breakfast is put on. And I
Speaker 1: have days too, like on Saturdays and Sundays, I'm mostly
Speaker 1: acoustic music, so I.
Speaker 2: You know I do.
Speaker 3: You're very specific.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I feel like you should change your music depending,
Speaker 1: Like if you're always listening to the same music on
Speaker 1: Monday through Sunday or Saturday whatever the whole week, I
Speaker 1: feel like it doesn't differentiate to me. On Saturday and
Speaker 1: Sunday morning I usually do or especially Sunday morning. Sunday
Speaker 1: is coffee house music, so I have to do XM
Speaker 1: coffee house or I've got coffee house playlists on all
Speaker 1: of music services I subscribe to several, so I listen,
Speaker 1: you know, hop.
Speaker 2: Between some of them.
Speaker 1: But I definitely have to do acoustic music or coffee
Speaker 1: house style music on at least Sunday, sometimes Saturday, but
Speaker 1: mostly just Sunday, just to differentiate in my brain, like
Speaker 1: this is a day, this is a special day, and
Speaker 1: it's right right, It's a day where your mind needs
Speaker 1: to relax.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2: I know I'm weird.
Speaker 1: TikTok has some new parental controls that you'll like as
Speaker 1: a parent, your kids will hate. And it's called family Pairing,
Speaker 1: and it allows you to do several things. It allows
Speaker 1: you to set up screen time management, which your kids
Speaker 1: are gonna hate, and so you can you can set
Speaker 1: a time limit for how long your kids can be
Speaker 1: on TikTok. Then you have restricted modes. So I told
Speaker 1: you along time on this a long time ago, on
Speaker 1: this podcast Megan that I when I started looking at TikTok,
Speaker 1: there was like swear words in all the videos, like
Speaker 1: a lot of them had them, And so I thought
Speaker 1: it was a little surprising, And you said, well, maybe
Speaker 1: it was customized whatever, and maybe it did do it
Speaker 1: on my data birth or whatever. And like if I
Speaker 1: put in that I was thirteen, maybe it wouldn't do that,
Speaker 1: but I thought that was kind of annoying. So I'm
Speaker 1: glad they have a restricted mode so you can set
Speaker 1: that up for your kids, and then direct messages you
Speaker 1: can restrict if they can only message their friends and
Speaker 1: not random people, which is also really smart. It's funny
Speaker 1: because TikTok says, you know, many many start their creator
Speaker 1: journey at thirteen, which is like the minimum age for
Speaker 1: being on all these online platforms.
Speaker 2: But you know there's kids on TikTok that are like
Speaker 2: eight and nine.
Speaker 1: But of course TikTok just has to say that so
Speaker 1: that they sound like they're following the letter of the law.
Speaker 1: So the thing that you need to know about these
Speaker 1: new family pairing restrictions or whatever you want to call
Speaker 1: them settings is that as a parent, you have to
Speaker 1: have an account and you link your account to your
Speaker 1: child's account. So what I think is really ironic about
Speaker 1: these family pairing settings is that to set them up,
Speaker 1: the parent has to create an account.
Speaker 2: And so is this like a growth hack by TikTok just.
Speaker 1: To get more accounts because the parent now has to
Speaker 1: have an account to set up their kids account or
Speaker 1: to control their kids account.
Speaker 3: Yeah, basically they're just doubling their users.
Speaker 1: Right, And you know the kids aren't going to tell
Speaker 1: their parents about this. You know, the parents aren't going
Speaker 1: to discover it on their own. So realistically, the only
Speaker 1: way you're gonna find out about it is if you're
Speaker 1: listening to someone like me tell you about it.
Speaker 2: Anyways. You know, kids aren't.
Speaker 1: Gonna be like, oh, mom and dad, you need to
Speaker 1: set up your parent accounts.
Speaker 3: You can, you know, so your kids aren't on TikTok.
Speaker 2: Oh No, I take again my kids. Every day.
Speaker 1: All I hear from my kids is I want to
Speaker 1: be a YouTuber. I want to be on TikTok? Can
Speaker 1: I be on Instagram? Can I be on YouTube? It
Speaker 1: just goes in circles and I'm like no, and then
Speaker 1: they go, well, dad, you're on them And I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I know, but I'm I kind of have to be
Speaker 1: even though I do love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah. My sister posted something on TikTok yesterday
Speaker 3: and it has two no, I think it has three
Speaker 3: million views right now. She's like blowing up on TikTok. Yes, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: I know same. This is Wait, let me find where
Speaker 3: she's at right now.
Speaker 2: This is that crazy.
Speaker 3: She's at three point six million on one video and
Speaker 3: she's really smart. So she posted something like right after
Speaker 3: and that video is at one hundred and thirty thousand.
Speaker 2: Yees out of here? Okay is can you share her name?
Speaker 2: Or no?
Speaker 3: It's it's special dot k A A y why?
Speaker 2: Oh wow, she even comes up in search. She's so
Speaker 2: popular special k oh. That's definitely not her special dot
Speaker 2: k A k a a y y okay special k
Speaker 2: there she is? Yes, so wow, three point six million?
Speaker 2: What was she doing? Is this her?
Speaker 3: She did?
Speaker 2: She cut?
Speaker 3: She like? So they filmed a movie at my house
Speaker 3: a while ago, and she basically like took the fact
Speaker 3: that they filmed something here and like made that a TikTok.
Speaker 2: Wait they filmed d at your house.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like just like one scene, one.
Speaker 2: Part that's crazy.
Speaker 3: So it like blew up? I know, isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2: That's amazing? I love that movie.
Speaker 3: By the way. Now I live with a YouTuber and
Speaker 3: a TikTok star.
Speaker 2: Yes, your brother's a YouTuber, your sister's a TikTok star.
Speaker 2: That is wild.
Speaker 1: I love that blowing up like that and okay, this
Speaker 1: goes back.
Speaker 2: To what I talked about on the podcast.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm very ahead of things when I
Speaker 1: talk about them on the podcast. Here did I not
Speaker 1: say on last week's podcast that a lot of people
Speaker 1: with the stay at home are capitalizing on becoming a
Speaker 1: new freshly minted YouTube star, right, or you know, a
Speaker 1: TikTok star?
Speaker 2: Rather, I said, yeah, and look at this, Oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you did? You did?
Speaker 2: That's well.
Speaker 3: It's interesting too because my brother he hit like forty
Speaker 3: thousand subscribers last week on YouTube, and then YouTube said
Speaker 3: to him, Okay, it's going to take you five months
Speaker 3: to get to fifty thousand, and then this week he's
Speaker 3: already at forty five thousand, so he's.
Speaker 2: Like, wrong, I love it.
Speaker 1: This is the time I tell you, if you have
Speaker 1: an urge to get on one of these platforms, this
Speaker 1: is there will be newly minted stars because of this
Speaker 1: stayed home. And the problem is, and maybe your brother
Speaker 1: noticed this, or maybe he'll notice it in a month
Speaker 1: when he gets paid for this month's you know, ad
Speaker 1: rev or whatever. The payments are apparently down because there's
Speaker 1: so much being done that you know, the payments have
Speaker 1: not adjusted, like the advertisers aren't necessarily.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I just read an article that it's
Speaker 2: kind of like.
Speaker 3: The no, yeah, he's can talk about that. And also
Speaker 3: they're basically taking ads off of any YouTube video that
Speaker 3: has a curse word in it. So I mean, he
Speaker 3: doesn't curse in his videos, but he was like, you know,
Speaker 3: people who do, they're like gonna lose their ad revenue.
Speaker 1: That's the craziest thing about the whole YouTube world is
Speaker 1: that you are at the mercy of this unknown force
Speaker 1: at you know, AdWords, I guess that or ads sense
Speaker 1: whatever they call it, and you never know, like you
Speaker 1: when you open up that check or you know, you
Speaker 1: get that report.
Speaker 2: You really don't know how much a video.
Speaker 1: Is going to make because just because one video made
Speaker 1: a certain amount does not mean the next video with
Speaker 1: that same exact viewcount makes that amount.
Speaker 2: There's so many.
Speaker 1: Variables because the way YouTube system works is it's kind
Speaker 1: of like an eBay system, where it's supply and demand.
Speaker 1: So if you have a video that has a lot
Speaker 1: of views and you're also you happen to get an
Speaker 1: advertiser that's paying a premium to reach those eyeballs, it's
Speaker 1: like the perfect thing. But other videos may not get
Speaker 1: that same match. So it's fascinating, and that's why a
Speaker 1: lot of YouTubers branch out into sponsored stuff and all
Speaker 1: these other things, because you want to keep your money
Speaker 1: flowing and not just be beholden to just that ad
Speaker 1: sense revenue. Let's talk about let's see, let's talk about
Speaker 1: something that's cool. If you are a teacher and you
Speaker 1: have Verizon Wireless, starting April twenty third, you can get
Speaker 1: a discount on your service. So Verizon is extending their
Speaker 1: same military discount to both nurses and teachers. And I
Speaker 1: looked at this because my wife is an educator, and
Speaker 1: we looks like we're eligible for the discount. It's going
Speaker 1: to be like ten to twenty bucks a month, depending
Speaker 1: on how much you spend every month on your plan.
Speaker 2: Now, the catch is that you kind of have.
Speaker 1: To change your plan to one of their newer plans.
Speaker 1: So my plan that I'm on is not one of
Speaker 1: their plans anymore, so you.
Speaker 2: Have to change your plan now.
Speaker 1: I looked and like, whatever plan I switched to offers
Speaker 1: kind of whatever I have, So I don't think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be that big of a deal, But I mean
Speaker 1: to save ten bucks a month, I'm in of course,
Speaker 1: on my Facebook page, I had a lot of people saying, oh,
Speaker 1: it's not that much money Samsung make or Verizon makes
Speaker 1: so much money, and I'm like, okay, well so then
Speaker 1: even if it's one hundred and twenty bucks a year,
Speaker 1: that's to me, ten bucks a month is a good
Speaker 1: amount of money because that pays for a portion of Hulu.
Speaker 2: It pays.
Speaker 1: I mean to me, I see everything and I've talked
Speaker 1: about this before. Everything to me is like I call
Speaker 1: it the Spotify you know thing. It's like, yeah, ten
Speaker 1: bucks a month is Spotify. So if you're getting ten
Speaker 1: bucks a month from Verizon for free, now you just
Speaker 1: paid for Spotify.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you have to sign up for this.
Speaker 1: On April twenty third is when it's available, so you've
Speaker 1: got That's when you have to go to the Verizon
Speaker 1: website look for this whole teacher thing and if you're teacher,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's free money to me if you have
Speaker 1: Verizon and I get it.
Speaker 2: People are like, well, Metros is cheaper.
Speaker 1: I didn't say Metro PCs, did I. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you want to start playing that game, we can play
Speaker 1: that game. There's a million things out there that are
Speaker 1: different I am saying, if you have Verizon and you
Speaker 1: are a teacher and you want to do one of
Speaker 1: these plans that are unlimited, you can save money.
Speaker 2: I didn't say you have to switch. I didn't debate
Speaker 2: whether T Mobile has a better network.
Speaker 3: You're not sponsored.
Speaker 2: No, And yeah. People are like, are you paid to
Speaker 2: write this stuff? Yes? I am by KTLA.
Speaker 1: I'm a tech reporter report in the tech world, So yes,
Speaker 1: I am paid.
Speaker 2: No, Verizon does not pay me to post this stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Okay, okay.
Speaker 3: This next question comes from Leah. Is Zoom safe from
Speaker 3: private confidential info being stolen?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't think anything online is one hundred percent safe.
Speaker 1: And there's a little debate about Zoom whether they were
Speaker 1: encrypted and to end, which is the safest method of
Speaker 1: transport across the internet, or if everything was being filtered
Speaker 1: through China and people in China are just watching all
Speaker 1: of our zooms on their TVs. You know, you can
Speaker 1: flip through channels and like you're just like, oh, let mean,
Speaker 1: there's Megan and rich on Zoom. There's a you know,
Speaker 1: a board meeting for the Fortune five hundred company. There's
Speaker 1: the Westlake School District doing their monthly, you know, board meeting.
Speaker 2: No, we don't. Look.
Speaker 1: As far as we know, Zoom was created to be
Speaker 1: as encrypted as possible, as private as possible. With that said,
Speaker 1: it does not mean that one of these videos can't
Speaker 1: get out. It doesn't mean that someone can't hack into them.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that it can't be cracked. But for
Speaker 1: all intents and purposes as we know it, yes, Zoom
Speaker 1: is an okay place to conduct your business, to talk
Speaker 1: this and that, and there is a level of encryption.
Speaker 1: Does that mean that nobody in the world could see.
Speaker 2: What you're doing.
Speaker 1: No, So you have to keep that in mind. And
Speaker 1: you also have to with anything you get in the
Speaker 1: world of internet, you have to bank how much you're
Speaker 1: paying for something compared to what you're getting out of
Speaker 1: the service. So if you want a super encrypted, secure
Speaker 1: service because what was the person's name, Liah, because Leah,
Speaker 1: you're running a bank online and you need to talk
Speaker 1: to your executive about secret things that you're doing with
Speaker 1: your bank, you might want to look into paying for
Speaker 1: a service that meets your needs. But if you're like
Speaker 1: me and you're having happy hour with your friends on
Speaker 1: Thursday night at five o'clock, I really don't care if
Speaker 1: you see what I'm doing on my happy hour, right
Speaker 1: if it happened to get out there. Now, I like
Speaker 1: to imagine that it's safe and it's secure and people
Speaker 1: can't pop in and watch, but we do know that,
Speaker 1: like I mentioned on my podcast, I think last week
Speaker 1: my five year old was able to tap into someone
Speaker 1: else's Zoom by just typing in a bunch of random numbers.
Speaker 1: I do believe that Zoom has stopped that from happening,
Speaker 1: because now, if you notice, every Zoom require a password
Speaker 1: at this point, and so, well, actually I'm looking at
Speaker 1: this and it doesn't so maybe, yeah, I guess people
Speaker 1: could just get in on it.
Speaker 3: So now don't you like, great, I just showed our
Speaker 3: Zoom on here, so now people can go up.
Speaker 2: Great. Well they'd have to have pretty to see that,
Speaker 2: but whatever.
Speaker 1: But yeah, a lot of the Zooms now, I think,
Speaker 1: I think for the new anyway, Zoom has done a
Speaker 1: bunch in recent weeks to kind of fix all the
Speaker 1: little holes that.
Speaker 2: Were in Zoom.
Speaker 1: So I might the short, the long answer to your
Speaker 1: short question is that look like anything else, it's just
Speaker 1: as secure as we think it is, and it's probably
Speaker 1: not as secure as we think it is, right, there
Speaker 1: could be people out there that are working every minute
Speaker 1: to hack into this stuff, and you have to keep
Speaker 1: that in mind.
Speaker 2: That's my answer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, speaking of privacy, Google and Apple, this
Speaker 1: was a story on KTLA today. Google and Apple are
Speaker 1: partnering on this system called contact tracing, and this is
Speaker 1: pretty interesting. Did you understand this story, Megan when you
Speaker 1: saw it like the you know, when you kind of
Speaker 1: saw our story and read it all, did you get
Speaker 1: kind of what they were doing At first?
Speaker 3: I was just kind of like what, Yeah, I was
Speaker 3: kind of confusing. I mean, I get it now.
Speaker 1: It is confusing, and yeah, the bottom line, let me
Speaker 1: explain this the best I can. So, Apple and Google
Speaker 1: have worked on a system that will work on both
Speaker 1: iPhones and androids to use the bluetooth in your phone
Speaker 1: to broadcast a little beacon from your phone. And it's
Speaker 1: a randomly changing number every couple of minutes, ten to
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. And so when I walked past you, Meghan,
Speaker 1: when you said, like the person that ran and coughed
Speaker 1: all over you outside, Yeah, yeah, that probably will not
Speaker 1: register under this system because you guys were not close
Speaker 1: enough for a long enough period of time for your
Speaker 1: phones to say Megan was in this person's presence for
Speaker 1: long enough where she could have gotten this disease. So
Speaker 1: now if you were to sit down next to that
Speaker 1: person on a park bench for eight minutes and talk
Speaker 1: to that person maybe, or even if you didn't talk
Speaker 1: to them, your phones would exchange that little number. And
Speaker 1: so what happens is, let's say that runner goes off
Speaker 1: on their merry way, you go off on your life,
Speaker 1: and next thing you know, that runner gets diagnosed with COVID.
Speaker 1: They go into the system and say I was diagnosed
Speaker 1: with COVID nineteen. Now their number is flagged. All the
Speaker 1: numbers that they broadcasted during those times were flagged. And
Speaker 1: your phone goes up to the server and it says,
Speaker 1: let me just check to see if any of these
Speaker 1: numbers that Megan's phone came into contact with were flagged.
Speaker 1: And it goes, oh, shoot, one of them was. And
Speaker 1: now your phone says to you, Megan, it looks like
Speaker 1: you might have been exposed to this disease. Doesn't tell
Speaker 1: you where or when or how, It just says that
Speaker 1: you were. And because they're not keeping track of location,
Speaker 1: they're not keeping track of user identities. They're literally just
Speaker 1: seeing that that one number that pinged your phone at
Speaker 1: some point was flagged. And so now you have to
Speaker 1: go and quarantine yourself or use that information however you want.
Speaker 3: But you have to if you're diagnosed with it, you
Speaker 3: have to go and put that on your account. You
Speaker 3: have to like download this app and like right, yes.
Speaker 1: You have to go put it into the system. And
Speaker 1: the way they're getting past people being you know, smart
Speaker 1: about this or I guess I should say silly about
Speaker 1: this and just putting in you know, oh I was
Speaker 1: infected and just messing with other people, is that generally,
Speaker 1: when you get the COVID nineteen test, there will be
Speaker 1: a QR code on that test that you would scan
Speaker 1: and that's the only way that you can enter yourself
Speaker 1: into the system.
Speaker 2: That's what they've done in other countries.
Speaker 1: And the other thing is that you know, so at
Speaker 1: the beginning, there will be an app that you have
Speaker 1: to download for this to work. But eventually, and this
Speaker 1: is where Apple and Google come in working together, is
Speaker 1: that they're going to build this into their mobile operating systems.
Speaker 1: So literally this will be built into iOS and Android.
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure if it's going to be opt
Speaker 1: in at.
Speaker 2: When that happens.
Speaker 1: But from what I've read online, some outlets were reporting that,
Speaker 1: like let's say you did pass someone, they would kind
Speaker 1: of give you like a free thing of like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, you did come into contact with this person,
Speaker 1: and here's your alert, and you'd be like, oh, shoot,
Speaker 1: I didn't even sign up for that. But I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I didn't hear that. I listened to the whole
Speaker 1: conference call with Apple and Google. I did not personally
Speaker 1: hear that. I heard that everything was going to be
Speaker 1: opt in, So I'm not sure if that's one hundred
Speaker 1: percent correct. But if they did that, it would definitely
Speaker 1: get more people on board because you'd be like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm in this system.
Speaker 3: So have they ever worked together like this before.
Speaker 1: Not at an application like a developer level like this,
Speaker 1: at this low level where the operating system talks to
Speaker 1: the other operating system through Bluetooth, They have never.
Speaker 2: Really done that.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 2: So it is. It is crazy.
Speaker 1: But again, and I'm just playing Devil's advocate here, these
Speaker 1: are two big tech companies that have seen the world
Speaker 1: stop and they've seen a lot of money stop flown.
Speaker 1: Apple stores are closed Google. I mean imagine, I imagine
Speaker 1: this is good for Google in a certain way because
Speaker 1: people are on their computers more. But overall, it's just
Speaker 1: not a good thing to have the world stop working, right,
Speaker 1: And so they are being smart about this as tech
Speaker 1: companies that want to help kind of get things moving.
Speaker 1: But I think there is an interest in these tech
Speaker 1: companies to say, we need to get this world working again,
Speaker 1: and we need to get things to a place of
Speaker 1: normalcy again. And I'm not sure that this program will
Speaker 1: do that, but it definitely can help nudge us in
Speaker 1: that direction. And I do think that's why they're doing this,
Speaker 1: because normally these guys are I would describe as frenemies
Speaker 1: because Apple doesn't really need Google, but Google kind of
Speaker 1: needs Apple for you know, all the search terms that
Speaker 1: are typed in on iPhones. So and at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, I'm ready to get back to work
Speaker 1: in a normal way, and I am ready for some
Speaker 1: solution to this COVID issue. And if this, if this
Speaker 1: becomes a part of the solution, that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of this comes down to
Speaker 1: h and my wife and I, like we just talk
Speaker 1: about this every night, like how is there going to
Speaker 1: be a solution this besides a vaccine? And I think
Speaker 1: a lot of it is coming down to people knowing
Speaker 1: they have it earlier, or knowing they were exposed earlier,
Speaker 1: so that they take themselves out of play, and that
Speaker 1: means they sit home and they're not infecting other people
Speaker 1: for two weeks, not knowing until they come down.
Speaker 2: With a crazy cough or whatever.
Speaker 1: Like, if you get a notification, you know, as soon
Speaker 1: as you've come into contact with someone else that has it,
Speaker 1: those two weeks could be crucial in helping you not
Speaker 1: infect a whole bunch of other people at the club,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Megan.
Speaker 3: But so like what if you, you know, come into
Speaker 3: contact with someone and then you get the notification, you
Speaker 3: just have to like like not go to work for
Speaker 3: two weeks. I mean things were normal again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you know, you don't know.
Speaker 1: You have to take it with a grain of salt,
Speaker 1: you know, Like, well you have to sit there, and
Speaker 1: I think just knowing is better than not. But again,
Speaker 1: you're just bringing up one of a million kind of
Speaker 1: questions about this product, right, Like it doesn't so okay,
Speaker 1: now I can't go to work for two weeks because
Speaker 1: I got this notification like how long who was?
Speaker 3: And if you live in New York City, right, you're
Speaker 3: gonna get that notification all the time.
Speaker 2: It's very complicated.
Speaker 1: Again, this is why I say, I think this is
Speaker 1: just one portion of a plan to recovery. And I
Speaker 1: think there's gonna be a lot more, like you said,
Speaker 1: like the masks everywhere, the just the testing, the rapid testing,
Speaker 1: instant testing, and a body testing.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a lot. All right, let me just
Speaker 2: give one.
Speaker 1: More story real quick before we go, because it is
Speaker 1: the end of the show. But I do think this
Speaker 1: is important because everyone has their kids at home and
Speaker 1: on Google Play. They now have a separate section of
Speaker 1: Google Play called Teacher Approved. So this is a kids
Speaker 1: tab with apps that are teacher approved. So if your
Speaker 1: kids are like mine and they're constantly asking you toload
Speaker 1: apps this, you never know if these apps are good
Speaker 1: or bad for the kids. All these apps now in
Speaker 1: this section have been scanned by academic experts and teachers
Speaker 1: and chosen for apps that are good for the kids.
Speaker 1: So if you're looking to download apps for the kids
Speaker 1: on Google Play, look for the new kids tab and
Speaker 1: the teacher approved badge that will help you find apps
Speaker 1: that are actually decent for your kids. Mine are playing
Speaker 1: Minecraft in some other games, but you know, I'm always
Speaker 1: looking for apps that are better for them, right, So
Speaker 1: all right, that's going to do it for the podcast, Megan,
Speaker 1: Can you believe it? It always goes so fast. If
Speaker 1: you want links to what we talked about, you can
Speaker 1: take a look at the show notes, but generally I've
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