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Speaker 1: we got some great guests this week. We got a
Speaker 1: packed schedule of guests. Matt Swider of The Shortcut just
Speaker 1: got back from Barcelona or actually you might even still
Speaker 1: be there. He's gonna talk about the coolest gadgets he
Speaker 1: saw at Mobile World Congress. Then later in the show,
Speaker 1: we've got doctor Gita Nayer, Doctor g She's gonna break
Speaker 1: down the growing crisis of healthcare misinformation on social media. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know how when you look up something or you
Speaker 1: see something you're like, is that true? And Stephanie Humphrey
Speaker 1: later on in the show is going to talk digital citizenship,
Speaker 1: sharing her expert advice on kids and social media so
Speaker 1: great guests there, and of course I will bring you
Speaker 1: all of the latest news and great topics that you
Speaker 1: should be aware of in the tech world.
Speaker 2: Let's start with Apple.
Speaker 1: This week, Apple did what I call some press release
Speaker 1: announcements of products. So this is when they don't have
Speaker 1: a big event to announce products, but they just put
Speaker 1: out a press release and voila, we have some new products.
Speaker 1: These are not new products in a way of like
Speaker 1: we've never seen them before.
Speaker 2: These are just refreshed products.
Speaker 1: So we got new iPads, we got a new MacBook,
Speaker 1: MacBook Air, and let me go over what you need
Speaker 1: to know about these. So first off, let's start with
Speaker 1: the iPads. So right now, Apple has a couple of
Speaker 1: iPads in their lineup. They've got the Mini, then they've
Speaker 1: got the iPad, then they've got the iPad Air, and
Speaker 1: then they've got the iPad Pro. So these are the
Speaker 1: new iPad Airs and of course the new iPad which
Speaker 1: I call the standard iPad. So let's start with the
Speaker 1: iPad Air. Got the M three chip, so that's Apples.
Speaker 1: You know, these are the chips that Apple makes themselves,
Speaker 1: and they are really good because they're very power efficient
Speaker 1: and they're very powerful, and of course they're written for
Speaker 1: Apple software. So ever since Apple started writing their own
Speaker 1: chips and making their own chips, they products have just
Speaker 1: gotten really good. So this is not their latest M
Speaker 1: four chip, but it's the M three, so last year's model,
Speaker 1: but that's still really good in an iPad AIR. And
Speaker 1: the big thing that this brings to the iPad is
Speaker 1: Apple Intelligence, so that means that you can have Apple
Speaker 1: Intelligence on the iPad AIR. This is their version of AI.
Speaker 1: Of course, I'll tell you more about that in a
Speaker 1: little bit, because it's been delayed just a little bit.
Speaker 1: Some of the big features we've been waiting for. So this,
Speaker 1: like I said, is not their top of the line iPad,
Speaker 1: but it's the next in line. So these are kind
Speaker 1: of pricey. You're talking five ninety nine for an eleven
Speaker 1: inch model, seven ninety nine for a thirteen inch model.
Speaker 1: But they did drop the price on that magic keyboard.
Speaker 1: So that's the keyboard case that goes along with this,
Speaker 1: And if you're trying to get any work done on
Speaker 1: an iPad, I highly recommend you get that. It's kind
Speaker 1: of expensive. I mean it's two hundred and sixty nine dollars.
Speaker 1: My wife was in the Apple store with me and
Speaker 1: we saw this. My kid wanted it, and she's like, wait,
Speaker 1: why is a keyboard three hundred dollars? This is before
Speaker 1: the price guy says, that's just what it is, but
Speaker 1: it does sort of you know, here's the deal. Apple
Speaker 1: is riding this really fine line with the iPad where
Speaker 1: they're still trying to keep this thing as a productive device,
Speaker 1: but they don't want to eat into their laptop sales,
Speaker 1: right So if they wanted to sort of merge these things,
Speaker 1: they would give you a laptop that has a touchscreen,
Speaker 1: or they'd give you a full fledged iPad that runs
Speaker 1: Mac os or very close to it software. They've done
Speaker 1: neither of those things. They keep kind of doing different
Speaker 1: things with the laptops versus the eyepads because they want
Speaker 1: to keep them sort of separate and keep the use
Speaker 1: case scenarios separate. So whether that's a good or bad thing,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but they are very separate devices. My
Speaker 1: feeling is the iPad overall is still very much a
Speaker 1: consumption device, whereas the laptop is very much a productivity device.
Speaker 1: So back to the keyboard. It got a row of
Speaker 1: function keys at the top, and it also got a
Speaker 1: larger track pad, So again trying to make these things
Speaker 1: more useful for productivity. So you might be wondering, We'll
Speaker 1: wait a second, do I go with the iPad Pro
Speaker 1: or do I go with the iPad Air?
Speaker 2: Well, the Pro is just overall better.
Speaker 1: That's the best iPad that Apple makes, and it's probably
Speaker 1: the closest to a laptop replacement if you want just
Speaker 1: one product that gives you both the laptop experience and
Speaker 1: also the iPad experience. So the Pro has a better screen,
Speaker 1: it's got face ID, it's got thunderbolt, it's got better cameras,
Speaker 1: it's got more speakers, and it has better microphones. So
Speaker 1: that is the iPad pro versus the iPad Air. Now
Speaker 1: let's talk about the iPad. I think that is probably
Speaker 1: the best for everyone out there. I call it the
Speaker 1: standard iPad. We're up to the eleventh generation of this device.
Speaker 1: And I still remember when this thing launched. I was
Speaker 1: working at techmeme dot com. That's the tech website for
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the front page for tech news,
Speaker 1: and I remember watching this event and just sitting there.
Speaker 1: There had been so many rumors about what this device
Speaker 1: was gonna be. This was Apple's big follow up after
Speaker 1: the success they saw with the iPhone. They were like,
Speaker 1: we have something else that's gonna even be better.
Speaker 2: And the iPad was.
Speaker 1: I mean, it really was revolutionary. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: think about all of the businesses that the iPad has affected,
Speaker 1: it's been a lot. I mean you're talking magazines, books,
Speaker 1: you know, creativity, drawing, and it's just so many.
Speaker 2: It goes on and on.
Speaker 1: The iPad has just become kind of like what the
Speaker 1: iPhone did for everything else, the iPad does for sort
Speaker 1: of the rest of the world. Right, you need a
Speaker 1: screen that just runs great software and can do pretty
Speaker 1: much anything, that's the iPad. So the standard iPad, we're
Speaker 1: up to the eleventh generation. This now has a faster chip.
Speaker 1: It's the A sixteen. It's not Apple's fastest once again,
Speaker 1: that's the A eighteen, which is in the latest iPhones.
Speaker 1: But the interesting thing here is that there is still
Speaker 1: no Apple AI support on this chip. So they upgraded
Speaker 1: the iPad, but they didn't go so far as to
Speaker 1: give you the AI, which again they're protecting their product lines.
Speaker 1: They have to have differences between these products. So if
Speaker 1: you want the AI on the iPad, you got to
Speaker 1: go with the Air or the Pro. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: think any of that matters, because if you need AI
Speaker 1: on the iPad, you could just download Chat GBT that's
Speaker 1: still going to run just fine. But again, it's kind
Speaker 1: of a weird choice by Apple because they've been promoting
Speaker 1: AI so heavily. Then they come out with a brand
Speaker 1: new product that doesn't have it storage bump. Now you
Speaker 1: get one hundred and twenty eight gigs of storage it
Speaker 1: used to be sixty four. Still the same price, three
Speaker 1: hundred and forty nine dollars. Amazon is already discounting this
Speaker 1: brand new iPad.
Speaker 2: It hasn't even launched yet. It comes out March twelfth.
Speaker 1: They're giving you thirty dollars let's see, yeah, twenty dollars.
Speaker 1: Twenty dollars off three hundred and twenty nine dollars. So again,
Speaker 1: don't buy this iPad at full price, get it at
Speaker 1: a lower price. Should you upgrade, Well, if your iPad
Speaker 1: still does what you need, I don't think he needs
Speaker 1: upgrade because your iPad's just fine. Now Here is my
Speaker 1: thought process on the upgrade. Okay, if you are running
Speaker 1: an iPad in the year twenty twenty five, that's not
Speaker 1: going to get the new software update next year. So
Speaker 1: right now, iPad OS eighteen is compatible with the iPad
Speaker 1: seventh generation and later. Okay, so if you are running
Speaker 1: an iPad seventh generation right now, it might be a
Speaker 1: good idea to upgrade because next year, chances are iPad
Speaker 1: or this year, later this year, iPad OS nineteen is
Speaker 1: probably not going to run on your iPad. It's probably
Speaker 1: going to drop off. So in that reason, I would say,
Speaker 1: probably get a new one if you want it. But
Speaker 1: if your iPad's just fine, it's getting software updates, is
Speaker 1: doing what you need, You're gonna be just fine. Now,
Speaker 1: the MacBook Air, this got the M four chip, and
Speaker 1: that is their latest chip. This got the M four
Speaker 1: chip and a new sky blue color. And I will
Speaker 1: tell you I bought the iPad air last year. Oh sorry,
Speaker 1: the MacBook Air last year with the M three chip,
Speaker 1: and I absolutely love it.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 1: It's not as good as a Pro, but it's a
Speaker 1: great laptop. My battery life on this is absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: In fact, I leave it on for the three hours
Speaker 1: of this show. I leave the screen on, and I
Speaker 1: come home and I still have about eighty percent battery life.
Speaker 1: I mean this thing, or if not more, I mean
Speaker 1: this thing is really an amazingly power efficient device. They're
Speaker 1: saying you now get even more battery life eighteen hours
Speaker 1: of battery life. That's of course with all the peak
Speaker 1: conditions and things like that, and tariffs, what tariffs. This
Speaker 1: got a price cut of one hundred dollars. Starts at
Speaker 1: nine hundred ninety nine dollars, So nine hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: nine dollars for one of the best laptops. You can
Speaker 1: get eight hundred ninety nine dollars if you have education
Speaker 1: pricing access. That's a you're a teacher student. You can
Speaker 1: look on Apple's website see if you qualify for that.
Speaker 1: It also has a better camera for video calls, and
Speaker 1: it now supports two external displays with the built in
Speaker 1: screen active.
Speaker 2: So here is my one tip for this.
Speaker 1: Go with the thirteen inch if you are just looking
Speaker 1: to do basic things like email, web browsing, and YouTube.
Speaker 1: But if you're going to try to do any work
Speaker 1: on this MacBook Air, go with the fifteen inch model.
Speaker 1: Last year I went with the or two years ago
Speaker 1: I went the thirteen inch. Could not get anything done
Speaker 1: on that thing. The screen was just too small. Now
Speaker 1: I went with the fifteen inch. You can have your
Speaker 1: web browser on the left, you can have your AI
Speaker 1: and your messages on the right, So go with the
Speaker 1: fifteen inch if you want the best productivity. Now about
Speaker 1: Apple Intelligence, it is being delayed. Some of the biggest
Speaker 1: features that Apple promoted are going to be delayed, and
Speaker 1: that is smart Siri. So Siria is supposed to get
Speaker 1: really smart by indexing all of your emails, your messages,
Speaker 1: and your photos. But John Gruber, one of the prominent
Speaker 1: Apple bloggers out there, actually got a a message from Apple,
Speaker 1: a comment from Apple that says, yeah, this is taking
Speaker 1: longer than we expected, So this is gonna be maybe
Speaker 1: next year when you get these features.
Speaker 2: So there you have it.
Speaker 1: A lot of the AI features are built in at
Speaker 1: this point, but the one killer feature is that ability
Speaker 1: to ask Siri about your emails, your messages, and your photos,
Speaker 1: and that feature is the one that's being delayed.
Speaker 2: All right, coming up, I.
Speaker 1: Will tell you about a way to thwart scammers scam
Speaker 1: callers that I discovered over the week, and you apparently
Speaker 1: like that tip, so I'll share that plus your.
Speaker 2: Calls at triple A rich one oh one.
Speaker 1: That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one, the website rich on Tech dot TV. My
Speaker 1: name is Rich dmiro more rich On Tech coming your
Speaker 1: way right after this, Tony in the Redlands. Tony You're
Speaker 1: on with Rich.
Speaker 3: Hey Rich.
Speaker 4: Okay, I have Amazon Music unlimited, say like thirteen bus
Speaker 4: fulve bucks a month for it for like years now.
Speaker 4: But I only listened to a handful of songs and
Speaker 4: I want to buy them, and I found I can
Speaker 4: buy them, and I would say all that money if
Speaker 4: I can't find platform to play them on my phone.
Speaker 4: No app, Every app I want to download says you
Speaker 4: have to pay for the service, and that defeats the promise.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't want to keep paying ten bucks
Speaker 4: a month for ten songs, you know I listened to.
Speaker 4: So is there an app you know, like remembery, I
Speaker 4: used to have the I used to have that little eye,
Speaker 4: that little square thing, white thing Apple, and I don't
Speaker 4: it's been gone a long time. I just want to
Speaker 4: be able to listen to my music.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So you've got music, You've got the music, the audio files,
Speaker 1: you want to play them on your Android phone? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: Well there's a couple of ways you can do this.
Speaker 1: What kind of phone do you have?
Speaker 4: Samsung?
Speaker 2: Okay, Samsung, So.
Speaker 1: I mean you can use uh, let's see, Samsung used
Speaker 1: to have a built in player, but I guess they
Speaker 1: don't more. Huh okay, well there, you could use YouTube Music.
Speaker 1: If you download that, you can actually upload the songs
Speaker 1: to their cloud service. So it actually makes it quite
Speaker 1: easy because you don't even have to transfer them to
Speaker 1: your phone. So if you go to even if you
Speaker 1: don't have a subscription. By the way, so if you
Speaker 1: go to music dot YouTube dot com, you can go
Speaker 1: to library and you can literally just drag music into
Speaker 1: there and you'll see a section that says uploads, and
Speaker 1: then when you go to your phone, those songs will
Speaker 1: be on your phone as well. So that's one of
Speaker 1: like the easiest, simplest ways to do it. Other than that,
Speaker 1: there are some apps that you can use, but I
Speaker 1: would have to do some research to figure out which
Speaker 1: one I would recommend on that because it's been a
Speaker 1: long time since I used an app to play music
Speaker 1: on the phone like that. But I'll have to look
Speaker 1: into that. But I think I mean, obviously you can
Speaker 1: use an app like VLC. They have local playback of
Speaker 1: anything on your phone. But I'm trying to think of
Speaker 1: an app that actually like has a good organization for
Speaker 1: your phone. But I would start with the YouTube music
Speaker 1: because I think that's going to be the simplest one,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be able to store your stuff and
Speaker 1: organize it inside that app even if you're not paying,
Speaker 1: So you don't necessarily need to pay for that to
Speaker 1: use that feature, because Google used to have that as
Speaker 1: a feature where that was sort of the included music player.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's more. So if you if you're
Speaker 1: listening and you have a music player that you like
Speaker 1: on Android, give me a call eight eight eight rich
Speaker 1: one O one, or sebody a message Rich on tech
Speaker 1: dot tv and just hit contact and I will take
Speaker 1: a look at that and give some of your suggestions
Speaker 1: and I'll see what I got I've got. You know,
Speaker 1: I take some notes on some of this stuff, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see what I have in my notes about
Speaker 1: what I like for like a music app, let's say, so,
Speaker 1: I know I always kind of bookmark these things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna look at that as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, good question, Tony, Thanks for that, appreciate it. Eight
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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. I thought this
Speaker 1: was interesting week. So I got a phone call eight
Speaker 1: hundred number. And I know you're not supposed to answer
Speaker 1: calls that you don't know who they're from, but you know,
Speaker 1: when you've got kids, you kind of have to answer
Speaker 1: the phone right, no matter what. Because the last time
Speaker 1: I didn't answer the phone or I don't even remember,
Speaker 1: but it was basically my kid had like a broken arm.
Speaker 1: It was like a random call and I wasn't going
Speaker 1: to answer it, but I did, and it was like, oh,
Speaker 1: thank god I did. But this time, so I typically
Speaker 1: answer my phone unless it's marked spam call, I will
Speaker 1: answer it. So eight hundred number calls and immediately the
Speaker 1: person says, hey, this is Bank of America credit Card
Speaker 1: Verification Center. They wanted to prove my recent application. I
Speaker 1: was like, number one, if you apply for a credit card,
Speaker 1: which I didn't, they approve it or deny it right away.
Speaker 1: They don't call you to like I mean, as far
Speaker 1: as I know, I've never seen that. So I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: it seemed like this was a scam, but I wanted
Speaker 1: to see where the guy was going. And it occurred
Speaker 1: to me that I should try something new. So I
Speaker 1: tapped the call recording feature on the iPhone. This is
Speaker 1: brand new in iOS eighteen and there's a little icon
Speaker 1: upper left hand corner when you're on a call, looks
Speaker 1: like kind of an audio wave. I tap that and
Speaker 1: it said this call will be recorded. And it gave
Speaker 1: a little countdown three to two one. And as soon
Speaker 1: as they heard that this call will be recorded, guess what,
Speaker 1: they hung up immediately. And I said, Okay, I guess
Speaker 1: it's a scam because who wants to be recorded if
Speaker 1: you're a scam artist, of course you don't. You don't
Speaker 1: want your voice. I mean not that they not that
Speaker 1: you're going to like catch this person, but they just
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Speaker 1: rich on Tech, and you guys just went nuts on it.
Speaker 1: You said, this was awesome. You love it. People are
Speaker 1: trying it out. It seems to work. So the bottom line,
Speaker 1: it might not be fool proof, but it might be
Speaker 1: something fun to try. My general advice is not to
Speaker 1: answer these calls, but if you do answer one, you
Speaker 1: find yourself in a tricky situation with anyone any you know,
Speaker 1: telemarker or whatever. They don't want to be recorded, so
Speaker 1: just press that call recording. As soon as they hear that,
Speaker 1: they might hang up. Call recording is now built into
Speaker 1: IF as well as newer Pixel and Samsung devices. So
Speaker 1: on Pixel, when you're in a call, it says call assist.
Speaker 1: You tap that, and then it says call notes. You
Speaker 1: tap that and it will record. They should just label
Speaker 1: it call recording. Why they say call notes call assist,
Speaker 1: I don't know. On Samsung, if you're on one UI seven,
Speaker 1: which is the latest software, not every phone has it,
Speaker 1: but a lot of the newer ones do. It looks
Speaker 1: like an icon with a cassette tape and the letter T.
Speaker 1: So again, once you're on that call screen, if you
Speaker 1: see that icon, you can tap that and all of them,
Speaker 1: because of legal reasons, say this call will be recorded,
Speaker 1: and so once the other person hears that, if they
Speaker 1: hang up, yeah, you know you got a scam artist
Speaker 1: on your hands. If you want to see that tip,
Speaker 1: go to my instagram at rich on Tech. Coming up,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk to Matt Swider about the coolest things
Speaker 1: he saw at this year's Mobile World Congress. This is
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Speaker 2: We just got a question from Tony.
Speaker 1: He was at asking about a good app for playing
Speaker 1: local files on his Samsung phone, like local MP three's,
Speaker 1: and I recommended the cloud feature in Google Music. But
Speaker 1: I also said that Samsung used to have like their
Speaker 1: own music app. I guess they don't pre install it
Speaker 1: on the phones, but doing some further research during the commercial, yes,
Speaker 1: Samsung still does have a Samsung Music app in the
Speaker 1: play Store, so that's probably what I'd recommend for your
Speaker 1: Samsung phone is just download the Samsung Music app.
Speaker 2: And it's interesting. I tested it.
Speaker 1: You can't download it on a non Samsung device, so
Speaker 1: probably the best thing to do is if you have
Speaker 1: a Samsung phone, you can do that, and it supports
Speaker 1: all the different music files. And it was just updated
Speaker 1: on February sixth, so clearly Samsung is keeping this up
Speaker 1: to date.
Speaker 2: So there you have it.
Speaker 1: That is the best way Tony to play those local
Speaker 1: music files.
Speaker 2: There you go. I love it. All right, Let's bring
Speaker 2: on Matt.
Speaker 1: Swy just got back from Barcelona for Mobile World Congress.
Speaker 2: Matt, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 1: I think you now have the designation of being the
Speaker 1: guests that has been on the most.
Speaker 4: That I.
Speaker 5: Cherished that. I will await my award. Thank you.
Speaker 1: We'll take another ding for that. We got Adam in
Speaker 1: for Bobo today. He was very excited because he brought
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of sound effects with him, so he
Speaker 1: said he's got to get quicker, but he will. You know,
Speaker 1: we're just warming up here, all right. So explain what
Speaker 1: Mobile World Congress is.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a lot like CEES which a lot of
Speaker 6: your listeners know about, but it's in Barcelona and it's
Speaker 6: dedicated to mobile technology. So anything that fits in your
Speaker 6: pocket or anything that fits in a backpack, including laptop,
Speaker 6: so those types of things.
Speaker 1: So what's the deal with big companies because I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a lot of international companies stuff that
Speaker 1: doesn't really necessarily come to the US. But you see
Speaker 1: a lot of cool like concept y stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Apple isn't here, you know, they weren't there. Samsung
Speaker 6: hasn't unveiled a big flagship phone at More World Congress
Speaker 6: in years. It's a lot of Chinese manufacturers, Lenovo, Honor, Oppo, Gao,
Speaker 6: Me Real, met some people might not be familiar with those,
Speaker 6: but they make a lot a lot of the gadgets
Speaker 6: that you wish you could get, and it's definitely stuff
Speaker 6: that trickles down to us products eventually. So a lot
Speaker 6: of the innovations that they're doing at a cheaper price,
Speaker 6: eventually the Samsungs and the Apples of the world will
Speaker 6: take those ideas and have their own version of those.
Speaker 1: So tell me about some of the things you saw this, uh,
Speaker 1: this Lenovo solar powered laptop.
Speaker 2: Tell me about that. Was it? Was it cool?
Speaker 1: Did you get to like touch it or is it
Speaker 1: one of those things where it's like behind glass.
Speaker 6: Yeah, not only did I get to touch it, I
Speaker 6: got to, you know, full around with it where it's
Speaker 6: I was covering up the lid that is solar powered.
Speaker 6: You know, it has a grid on there. It looks
Speaker 6: a lot sleeker than you would expect, and it was
Speaker 6: able to you know, if you cover it up, it
Speaker 6: dips in its charge meter. But if you're you know,
Speaker 6: outside outdoors, it can get twenty minutes with direct sunlight.
Speaker 6: It can get one hour of video playback. So that's
Speaker 6: that's pretty good. It could be one day an everlasting laptop.
Speaker 6: So I love the future of It's not quite there,
Speaker 6: but it's something that is a concept that that could
Speaker 6: go really far.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Who do you think that would be good for?
Speaker 1: Just in general? Like if do you have to be
Speaker 1: out in direct sun? Or can you be inside?
Speaker 6: That was the thing that a lot of my followers
Speaker 6: had mentioned. It's like, why do I want to be outdoors?
Speaker 6: It doesn't have to be direct sun. And so if
Speaker 6: you're you know, we have a window that has indirect
Speaker 6: sunlight that also works. So it'll be a little bit
Speaker 6: slower of a charge, but it's still going to charge
Speaker 6: your your.
Speaker 2: Laptop, all right.
Speaker 1: Tell me about this other Lenovo laptop eighteen inch screen
Speaker 1: because that's pretty large.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so eighteen inches that just seems even too big
Speaker 6: to actually fout them. But it folds down into a
Speaker 6: thirteen inch laptop, which is kind of awesome. So it
Speaker 6: has this screen that extends upward, so that's a really
Speaker 6: cool thing. And it just has a screen on the
Speaker 6: front and the back basically, and you can unfold it
Speaker 6: upward and that's really cool. I think that's great for
Speaker 6: a productivity because I have a multi monitor setup that
Speaker 6: I always use, but I can't take that with me
Speaker 6: on the road, and it's the think Book flip AIPC
Speaker 6: another concept but something that's very promising.
Speaker 1: And I was just complaining earlier how I bought the
Speaker 1: MacBook Pro thirteen inch a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 1: I literally was ready to throw the thing out the
Speaker 1: window because I couldn't. My productivity went so far down
Speaker 1: for two years, I almost didn't do any work. It
Speaker 1: was just like I couldn't even check my email. It
Speaker 1: was fast, but the screen real estate was so tiny
Speaker 1: that I felt like I was back using the original iPhone.
Speaker 6: A great suggestion for that is sidecar, which you use
Speaker 6: an iPad and that kind of acts as a screen,
Speaker 6: but you know, it's a little bit just joint you
Speaker 6: at the set it up. And I feel like my
Speaker 6: eleven inch iPad Pro isn't quite a good match for
Speaker 6: a fourteen inch MacBook Pro. You really need the larger
Speaker 6: iPad Pro for that reason to kind of feel like
Speaker 6: it's not a tiny sidecar you want. You want that,
Speaker 6: but that's a good remedy until Lenovo and others come
Speaker 6: out with this new technology.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I went fifteen inch this time, and it's
Speaker 2: just fine.
Speaker 1: I have got my chat GBT on the right, my
Speaker 1: browser window on the left, and I'm very happy. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about Honor. So, what what's the deal with Honor?
Speaker 1: I've heard of this company and where are they out
Speaker 1: of and like what are they? What's their deal?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's a Chinese company.
Speaker 6: It used to be kind of like a sub brand
Speaker 6: of Huawei before they got spun out, but now they're
Speaker 6: they're making a lot of the gadgets that are undercutting
Speaker 6: what Apple can do.
Speaker 5: So they have something that's it's not a MacBook, but
Speaker 5: it's a magic Book Pro fourteen.
Speaker 6: It's a Watch fifteen Ultra, and it's an Honor Pad nine.
Speaker 6: So those are some of the new gadgets. They also
Speaker 6: have kind of a new category that's emerging. The earbuds open,
Speaker 6: so they're they're not they don't quite stick in your ears,
Speaker 6: but they kind of hang on the uh like just
Speaker 6: outside the ears, and it's like having speakers on your ear.
Speaker 5: So it's pretty good uh volume.
Speaker 6: A lot of runners and bicyclists love this because you're
Speaker 6: able to hear the outside world and legally you're not
Speaker 6: supposed to have earbuds in when you're biking, at least
Speaker 6: in New York.
Speaker 2: City.
Speaker 5: So this is kind of like, what, Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's illegal to wear air pods in New York City.
Speaker 6: Yeah when you're on a bike. Yeah, because come on,
Speaker 6: you're supposed to hear the traffic.
Speaker 2: Wow, traffic.
Speaker 6: So this has kind of been a remedy and runners
Speaker 6: love it too, because they don't want to be, you know,
Speaker 6: with noise isolation while they're running completely, but they want
Speaker 6: to have good sounds. So the Honor earbuds open are
Speaker 6: kind of a good choice. But we were really impressed
Speaker 6: when we got to go hands on with my Moraile Congress.
Speaker 6: My colleague Max was able to test them out. But
Speaker 6: Honor's big thing is that they are investing ten billion
Speaker 6: dollars into AI, which you know, doesn't really mean a
Speaker 6: lot for consumers right now, but it just means that
Speaker 6: it's a company that's keeping up with Apple, Microsoft and
Speaker 6: everybody else investing gobs money into artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1: It's funny on the on the topic of the open earbuds,
Speaker 1: I this morning, I typically run with these shocks like
Speaker 1: open earbuds, like they you know, they use like the
Speaker 1: bone conduction instead of like sealing out your ear, So
Speaker 1: it's nice when you're running and you can hear everything
Speaker 1: around you. But today I ended up using the AirPods pro.
Speaker 1: But I did the the mode where it kind of
Speaker 1: adapts when it's you know, if you're talking, it'll go
Speaker 1: into like where you can hear transparency or it'll noise
Speaker 1: cancel when nobody's around you.
Speaker 2: So I found that that worked pretty well.
Speaker 1: The open The thing about the open earbuds is that
Speaker 1: the audio quality is not going to be as like
Speaker 1: pronounced as something that seals out your ear right.
Speaker 6: We we tested out a couple, you know, the one
Speaker 6: plus open the earbuds that they have not as good
Speaker 6: as as something that you know you'll have that on.
Speaker 5: But you know that's that's really the balance.
Speaker 6: You have to strike the right balance between great quality
Speaker 6: and you know, the transparency that you were talking about.
Speaker 6: That's that's really you know, what they have to hit on.
Speaker 6: I call the transparency mode that Apple has. It shames
Speaker 6: me basically into not singing Kerry Okio on the streets
Speaker 6: in New York City because it starts to make the
Speaker 6: sound volume go down because it thinks you're talking to somebody,
Speaker 6: So I it catches me sometimes.
Speaker 1: That's so funny, or if like I actually they must
Speaker 1: have done some sort of upgrade because I felt like
Speaker 1: it got a lot better today when I had a monks.
Speaker 2: It's been a while since I wore them.
Speaker 1: But the other thing is when you like cough or
Speaker 1: make like I find myself and I'm running trying to
Speaker 1: not make any noise whatsoever, because when they first introduce
Speaker 1: that mode, it would take a long time for it
Speaker 1: to like kick out of the mode, like once it
Speaker 1: gets into it. At one point when it first launched,
Speaker 1: I had to like restart my phone basically, like it
Speaker 1: was so bad. It was like I had to disconnect
Speaker 1: the air buds and or the air pods and everything.
Speaker 1: But now today it was like perfect.
Speaker 6: It's very sensitive sometimes, but I think they, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 6: There was some sort of firmware update, probably along with
Speaker 6: the hearing aid technology that came out with When I
Speaker 6: was in Barcelona, we went to a you know, someone's
Speaker 6: party and one of the companies and it was very loud,
Speaker 6: but you could actually stick in your AirPods pro AirPods
Speaker 6: PRO two specifically and kind of drown out the noise.
Speaker 6: So use it as a noise cancelation devices.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Finally, before we go this this real meet ultraphone concept.
Speaker 2: I saw this scrolling through my Instagram a lot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so you know it's basically replacing the body of
Speaker 6: a mirrorless or DSLR camera. So say you forgot the body,
Speaker 6: you know, that big bulky body of a camera, real camera,
Speaker 6: but you still had the DSR lenses and your phone,
Speaker 6: so you're able to kind of stick that that lens
Speaker 6: on top of the smartphone and get three times and
Speaker 6: ten times zoom and it feels like DSLR quality. Got
Speaker 6: to test that out. Putting together it was like, you know,
Speaker 6: very interesting. It took a second to do it. That
Speaker 6: was my first first time doing it, and I was
Speaker 6: really impressed with the quality. But it's another Chinese phone
Speaker 6: company called real Me. It's there, it's their concept, but
Speaker 6: the fact that we got to test it out means
Speaker 6: it's we're probably gonna see it very soon.
Speaker 1: I feel like all these concepts that we see, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, people just go back to
Speaker 1: their iPhone. It's like the same technology for the past
Speaker 1: like ten years now or however many years the iPhone's
Speaker 1: been out.
Speaker 5: It's true.
Speaker 6: And I call that trickle down technology because you know,
Speaker 6: you might not be able to you know have these
Speaker 6: devices because maybe they don't they don't release in the US,
Speaker 6: or maybe it's just not part of your you know,
Speaker 6: your it's not in your wheelhouse of what you get
Speaker 6: because you.
Speaker 5: Maybe stick to the iPhone.
Speaker 6: Eventually, if that technology is good enough, it's going to
Speaker 6: force the Samsungs the Apples of the world to adopt that. So,
Speaker 6: you know a lot of the flip and foldable screens
Speaker 6: that we've been seeing. Eventually, maybe next year Apple will
Speaker 6: have something of that kind with a foldable phone.
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Speaker 5: Thanks for having me Rich all right.
Speaker 2: Always good to see you.
Speaker 1: I saw you a couple of weeks ago in New
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Speaker 1: four one zero one, Donald recommended a double Twist as
Speaker 1: an app for playing music files on an Android. He
Speaker 1: says he regularly uses it and it works well free
Speaker 1: for general use, but they also have a paid version.
Speaker 2: Remember that one. It's been a while.
Speaker 1: And then let's see here, got another question here from Tony.
Speaker 1: Tony says, Hey, rich great show. You always mentioned useful
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Speaker 1: Is the same info post it available on other social
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Speaker 2: Good question.
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Speaker 2: Slash rich on Tech. Those are both meta.
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Speaker 1: I understand that you know you won't see those. I
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Speaker 1: because I'm like, oh, okay, people thought that was interesting,
Speaker 1: so let me include it for my broad audience. Great question, Tony. Thanks,
Speaker 1: Let's go to Fernando in Laguna Hills.
Speaker 2: Fernando. You're on with Rich.
Speaker 3: Hi. Rich.
Speaker 7: I appreciate everything you do with Thank you for taking
Speaker 7: my call.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, I've got a question.
Speaker 7: I have an iPhone, the sixteen Pro, and now that we.
Speaker 3: Have acts to the.
Speaker 7: Port, so we can add another like a external hard
Speaker 7: drive or you know, reader, I'm trying to have a
Speaker 7: lot of music files already, and I'm trying to find
Speaker 7: also a music player that will say this file directly
Speaker 7: without any subscription anything like that.
Speaker 1: iPhone to transfer the MP threes from an external drive
Speaker 1: to the iPhone. There may be a way to drag
Speaker 1: them in there directly from the drive, but I think
Speaker 1: that that is you know, the way Apple's operating system works,
Speaker 1: everything is very it's not like a typical operating system.
Speaker 1: So if you were to drag those files in, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can do that, but they're going to go into
Speaker 1: the files app on your iPhone, which is not ideal.
Speaker 7: Right, So.
Speaker 2: The way that Apple does.
Speaker 1: Things is slightly different than all the other manufacturers out there.
Speaker 1: So what I'd recommend is there's an app called Walter
Speaker 1: Pro wa l t R Walter Pro And what's great
Speaker 1: about this app is you installed on your computer and
Speaker 1: you can drag and drop pretty much any file that
Speaker 1: you want onto your iPhone and it can do it
Speaker 1: with your iPhone plugged into your computer. You can do
Speaker 1: it wirelessly, but that is the way I'd recommend doing
Speaker 1: it because what this will do is it will put
Speaker 1: the files into the music player, into the native player
Speaker 1: on the iPhone.
Speaker 2: So that is what I'd recommend doing.
Speaker 1: And that program, I believe has probably a one time cost,
Speaker 1: but you can try it for free. So if you download,
Speaker 1: it's called Walter waltr Pro. It's from a company called
Speaker 1: soft Reno and I've been using it for years. It
Speaker 1: is fantastic, And what's neat about it is that it
Speaker 1: will convert the files so you don't have to think
Speaker 1: about what the format is that you're putting on your phone.
Speaker 1: So Apple's very particular about the formats that it supports
Speaker 1: natively for the iPhone. So this if you have a PDF,
Speaker 1: you can drop it in there if you have a
Speaker 1: music file, I mean, it really will do anything. And
Speaker 1: if you have like a random file that has like
Speaker 1: a you know, a different format, it will convert that
Speaker 1: into a format that is compatible with your iPhone. So
Speaker 1: it works with pretty much anything you can think of.
Speaker 1: So you can do ring tones, you can do audio books,
Speaker 1: you can do video, you can do just anything. And
Speaker 1: what's great about it is you just drag and drop
Speaker 1: and it will put right in there and you can
Speaker 1: use your your native music player on the iPhone to
Speaker 1: play those files. So again, Walter Pro, I know you
Speaker 1: mentioned free, but and there may be a free alternative,
Speaker 1: but this is the best solution that I've found that's
Speaker 1: super easy and they do a great job. Wa ltr
Speaker 1: pro Walter Pro. So great question, Fernando. I know it's
Speaker 1: Apple just likes to do things their own way and
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to find a way around that. It's
Speaker 1: so weird because here it is an iPhone. It's all
Speaker 1: it is is a hard drive, right, and you would
Speaker 1: think that they would build software where you can just
Speaker 1: drag and drop stuff onto that phone. No, or just
Speaker 1: by the way, once you have stuff on that phone, Hey,
Speaker 1: I just want to pull that information off the phone. No,
Speaker 1: you don't realize until you actually need to do these
Speaker 1: things that they're kind of complicated.
Speaker 2: So and Apple did that for a reason.
Speaker 1: They they did it for either protecting you know, the
Speaker 1: file form, you know the files that are copyright protected.
Speaker 2: They did it for iTunes with the music stuff.
Speaker 1: So there's reasons for it, and probably a lot of
Speaker 1: it is security as well, but it's just kind of
Speaker 1: like you're like, wait a second, this should be really simple.
Speaker 1: I want to drag a file onto my phone. Oh
Speaker 1: that's tougher than I thought. And I think Apple Music
Speaker 1: used to do that or iTunes used to do it,
Speaker 1: but it was also a weird thing where it's like
Speaker 1: a one way street. So Walter pro is going to
Speaker 1: be really easy, and I think you'll you'll really like that.
Speaker 1: Let's see, Okay, we only have a minute. Oh my gosh, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll do this. I'll save the Google Store Santa Monica
Speaker 1: for the next segment here, but I'll tell you about this.
Speaker 1: If you have an iPhone and you want Google Gemini
Speaker 1: on your lock screen, there are six new lock screen widgets.
Speaker 1: So if you want to do something other than what
Speaker 1: Apple has with the AI stuff and other than what
Speaker 1: chatchibt does. If you like Gemini, you can now get
Speaker 1: this on your lock screen. So they got six different
Speaker 1: widgets that you can add. The first is one where
Speaker 1: it brings you instantly to typing, so you can type
Speaker 1: in a question, get an AI answer. The next one
Speaker 1: is talking, so it opens up Gemini Live. Then you've
Speaker 1: got a microphone for voice input. That's the one I
Speaker 1: put on there. Camera, you can take a picture, ask
Speaker 1: AI about it. You can share an image, or you
Speaker 1: can share a file.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: These are all new widgets in the Google Gemini app
Speaker 1: for iPhone.
Speaker 2: If you want to add them to your lock screen.
Speaker 2: You are listening to Rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: We got the question about earlier about the best Android
Speaker 1: music app for an Android phone for local files and
Speaker 1: CALLI cardinal Fan writes in on x Pulsar is a
Speaker 1: reasonably good music player for Android.
Speaker 2: It is compatible with Android Auto.
Speaker 1: Two ooh, I like that. That's a good point. Make
Speaker 1: sure it's compatible with Android Auto.
Speaker 2: So I looked it up. Pulsar Music Player.
Speaker 1: It's got five million downloads, four point six in the ratings.
Speaker 1: And most importantly, and this is always how you want
Speaker 1: to judge an app. By the way, always look at
Speaker 1: the updated on date, because if an app is out
Speaker 1: of update, it's not going to be you know, they're
Speaker 1: not it's not actively getting any improvements or updates. So
Speaker 1: this was last update on December eleventh, twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: which is just fine. So again, if you're looking iOS
Speaker 1: or or Android, always look at that updated on date,
Speaker 1: the last update, because that will give you an idea
Speaker 1: if an app is actively being maintained or if it's
Speaker 1: something that's just still lingering in the store and not
Speaker 1: really getting any active updates. So again, we got a
Speaker 1: lot of suggestions on the best Android music app. So
Speaker 1: we've got YouTube Music Cloud, which I think that's the easiest.
Speaker 1: Just upload your music to YouTube Music. They have a
Speaker 1: free service where you can just upload your MP three'es
Speaker 1: and they'll show up on your phone Samsung Music if
Speaker 1: you have a Samsung phone. And then listeners recommended Double
Speaker 1: Twist and Pulsar. And by the way, if you want
Speaker 1: anything that I talk about, I take very good show notes.
Speaker 1: It's all on the website rich on tech dot tv.
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Speaker 2: Let's see here. Let's go to Ron in Norco. Ron.
Speaker 2: You're on with Rich.
Speaker 8: Good afternoon, Rich. How are you folks doing today?
Speaker 2: I am doing fantastic great.
Speaker 8: I'm sitting here watching the Eagles, Eagles and the lists
Speaker 8: and Big Bear on my camera. I'm a third monitor
Speaker 8: here and it's fantastic.
Speaker 9: Oh.
Speaker 8: The father's going down and getting the fishing and bring
Speaker 8: the fishing up and then mom picked the fish apart
Speaker 8: and feeds the three babies.
Speaker 1: People are obsessed with this stuff. It's like a big
Speaker 1: on YouTube. I think it's one big ad for Big Bear.
Speaker 2: That's what I think. Because it is it makes you
Speaker 2: want to go there, Yeah for sure.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm not too far away, but I don't go
Speaker 8: very often. My question is I do consulting and I
Speaker 8: go to site, do site visits from time to time.
Speaker 8: And I I used to use the live scribe with
Speaker 8: the pen and the special paper in the audio system,
Speaker 8: which has been good, But what can I use now?
Speaker 8: With AI emerging? It helped me do interviews that hadn't
Speaker 8: transcribed instantly or virtually.
Speaker 2: Oh my, how long are you recording?
Speaker 8: Typically not more than an hour, half an hour? I mean,
Speaker 8: I get break it up and segments if necessary.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, my favorite favorite favorite app is called Whisper
Speaker 1: Memos w hisp e R Whisper Memos.
Speaker 2: Are you on iPhone or Android?
Speaker 8: Android?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, hold on, that's different. Okay, so if you're
Speaker 1: on Android, that's a little bit different. So are you
Speaker 1: on Samsung or you on Pixel?
Speaker 8: I'm on Samsung, but I also have an iPad. I
Speaker 8: usually take an iPad with me.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, well, I think I think the best app
Speaker 1: right now is the Whisper Memos app app. And what
Speaker 1: I love about it is that you record and basically
Speaker 1: it will transcribe using the latest open Ai whisper model,
Speaker 1: which is really good.
Speaker 2: There's there's a couple of ways to do it. Do
Speaker 2: you need to What kind of computer do you have?
Speaker 10: I have a.
Speaker 8: Basic number, okay.
Speaker 1: Windows Desktop. I mean there's so many there's so many
Speaker 1: apps that do this. There's another one called letterle L
Speaker 1: E T T E R L Y. Now, for what
Speaker 1: you're doing, I think the service from otter might be
Speaker 1: the best one.
Speaker 2: That's for what you're doing. Have you heard of otter
Speaker 2: dot ai?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, so I think for your your purposes that might
Speaker 1: be the best solution. It all depends on do you
Speaker 1: want this to be free? Do you want this to
Speaker 1: be free or do you or do you mind paying?
Speaker 8: I don't mind paying that.
Speaker 1: I like the time too, yeah exactly, So I mean
Speaker 1: I love free too. So what I do and I
Speaker 1: transcribe every interview I do for TV. So when I
Speaker 1: interview someone, we record it and then I transcribe it.
Speaker 1: And so what I do is I take that audio
Speaker 1: and drop it into an app called mac Whisper and
Speaker 1: ma ac Whisper now the equivalent for other There's another
Speaker 1: app called Descript, which I used to use and that
Speaker 1: you can use as well.
Speaker 2: Anytime you're doing something for business.
Speaker 1: It's tough to get the free because you're using it
Speaker 1: more than what the free allotment is. Right, So with
Speaker 1: something like descript, you can use it for free, but
Speaker 1: as soon as you go over a certain amount, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to start paying. So it all depends on
Speaker 1: how much you're using this. With built into the phones nowadays,
Speaker 1: they've got so many different options for transcribing.
Speaker 2: So you mentioned you have a Samsung, Yes I do.
Speaker 2: Do you have the latest one UI on it?
Speaker 11: Or no?
Speaker 2: Like, do you have the AI features?
Speaker 8: Or no, I don't think so. I have the S
Speaker 8: twenty two Interim that I hadn't upgrading to AI.
Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, if you have the S twenty two Ultra,
Speaker 1: that's not going to have the AI because basically at
Speaker 1: this point, the iPhone, the Pixel, and the Samsung they
Speaker 1: all have audio recording on them that also transcribes for free.
Speaker 1: So that's another way of doing it. But if you
Speaker 1: got the S twenty two, they just I think they
Speaker 1: just announced the one UI beta. Let's see one UI
Speaker 1: seven beta rolls out to more phones.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, see it's going to the S twenty three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's it's not to your phone just yet, but
Speaker 1: that would be a good way to do it. But
Speaker 1: I mean, look, there's a lot of options out there.
Speaker 1: I think that one of these AI kind of it
Speaker 1: depends if you want your phone to do it one
Speaker 1: hundred percent, if you want your phone to do it
Speaker 1: from start to finish, I'd probably recommend something like otter
Speaker 1: dot AI. If you don't mind taking the file and
Speaker 1: transcribing it later, then I would use something like a descript.
Speaker 2: That would probably be the best option there.
Speaker 1: And then you know, there's just there's so many ways
Speaker 1: of doing this, but I think those are probably some
Speaker 1: good ways to start doing it. But again, so what
Speaker 1: I do is I get my file, I throw it
Speaker 1: into mac whisper, and then I will use that transcription
Speaker 1: and then toss that into something like a chat GBT
Speaker 1: just to get some key takeaways things like that to
Speaker 1: help me think about crafting my story around that. There
Speaker 1: is a I'm trying to find. There is a transcription.
Speaker 1: Let's see where it is. There is a transcription website
Speaker 1: that I will look up the the url, but I
Speaker 1: shared it. It's a free transcription on like basically any computer,
Speaker 1: so it's hosted on hugging face. I gotta find the
Speaker 1: website though, But that one's pretty cool and I will
Speaker 1: put that in the show notes. Rich on tech dot
Speaker 1: tv is where you can find that. Thanks for the call,
Speaker 1: Ron appreciate it. There are so many It's so funny.
Speaker 1: I went from never ever transcribing my interviews to now
Speaker 1: I transcribe everything. In fact, I have a folder inside
Speaker 1: my notes of transcriptions, so anything someone says I can
Speaker 1: go back and just and I record everything. All my
Speaker 1: meetings I take now, like if I go to like
Speaker 1: a briefing I will record that on my phone, and
Speaker 1: it's just gotten so incredibly easy to do this process
Speaker 1: of transcribing that it's like, why not just have everything?
Speaker 1: And I think that, you know, with the later phones,
Speaker 1: the newer phones that handle the AI stuff, it really
Speaker 1: makes it a lot easier because it's built in for free,
Speaker 1: like I said, on the Pixel phones, the latest Samsung phones,
Speaker 1: and of course the iPhones if they support the iOS eighteen,
Speaker 1: it's all right there for free. But if you don't
Speaker 1: have access to the free services, you can always do
Speaker 1: some of the paid stuff that will work just as well.
Speaker 1: And I'll put everything I mentioned, by the way in
Speaker 1: the show notes rich on tech dot TV. I know
Speaker 1: I mentioned a lot of different services, but it sort
Speaker 1: of depends on what you want out of them, which
Speaker 1: one is the best for you? Eighty eight rich one
Speaker 1: on one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one visited the new Google store in Santa Monica, California.
Speaker 1: It's at the Third Street Promenade. If you're familiar with
Speaker 1: LA one of my favorite places. I joke, it's one
Speaker 1: of the first places I ever visited when I came
Speaker 1: to California, and I thought this was like heaven on Earth.
Speaker 1: I have never seen anything like this in my life.
Speaker 1: Growing up in New Jersey, it was an outdoor mall
Speaker 1: on a street and I'm talking vibrant Adam, you remember this.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, Third Street Promenade was like the
Speaker 1: place to go for everything, and you just stroll down
Speaker 1: the street. You'd get a Wetzel's Pretzels. You'd go into
Speaker 1: Barnes and Noble browse the books. You'd go into all
Speaker 1: these stores never buying anything, or maybe you did, you
Speaker 1: know something little, but you could just spend a whole
Speaker 1: night there and you know, you'd run into people, you'd
Speaker 1: see people.
Speaker 2: It was just so great. Now it's gone through some
Speaker 2: ups and downs.
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's back on its way up after you know,
Speaker 1: pandemic really was tough on the outdoor malls. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so now they've got a new Google store there where
Speaker 1: you can check out the Pixel phones, they're watches, Nest devices.
Speaker 1: You can get a help desk, so if you need
Speaker 1: a screen repair, you can do that, or you need
Speaker 1: your device swapped, if you have a warranty on it,
Speaker 1: they can do that. This is their sixth store they've
Speaker 1: got them in New York Chicago Mountain View they're headquarters.
Speaker 1: And Boston, LA, of course, is a big market. Austin
Speaker 1: is up next and everything is on display. So if
Speaker 1: you're looking for an accessory for your pixel watch or
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Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
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Speaker 1: we're going to talk to doctor Gita, doctor g Uh,
Speaker 1: doctor Gita Nayir. She's gonn to talk about healthcare misinformation
Speaker 1: on social media. Yeah, there's a lot of it, so
Speaker 1: she'll talk about that. We had a question from Reggie
Speaker 1: in South Carolina that apparently I guess Reggie didn't want
Speaker 1: to be on the air, but was asking about tax
Speaker 1: time and software that you like, and so I will
Speaker 1: tell you what I used this year, which was absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: I love it and it is so good. It's called
Speaker 1: fly Finn, flyfinn dot. I guess their websites flyfinn dot tax,
Speaker 1: but it's called fly Finnai. And this was one of
Speaker 1: the first guests I ever had on this show. And
Speaker 1: basically I found this app and it is incredible if
Speaker 1: you are even if you're not a freelancer, like it's
Speaker 1: just so easy because the way this app works, you
Speaker 1: download the app to your phone right and if you're
Speaker 1: a freelancer, this is like or whatever you are, it's
Speaker 1: still incredible. But basically what they do is that you
Speaker 1: connect your bank account to this app and then as
Speaker 1: you get transactions in those accounts, AI will go through
Speaker 1: and suggest if that's a write off or not, and
Speaker 1: basically put it into the categories as you go along
Speaker 1: during the year, and so when it comes to tax time,
Speaker 1: your taxes are like ninety nine point nine percent done.
Speaker 1: And then you can either do them yourself and just
Speaker 1: use all the categories and everything that you've already categorized,
Speaker 1: or you can use one of their CPAs to do it.
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Speaker 1: CPA seemed to be overseas because I got like a
Speaker 1: little warning that my tax return was being handled overseas.
Speaker 1: I think, so, you know, if you're comfortable with that,
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, this is the easiest thing I've
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Speaker 2: And it's so easy. They handle everything, and so you
Speaker 2: go through.
Speaker 1: You have all this stuff on the app, and then
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Speaker 1: I went back to the app and I was just like,
Speaker 1: all right, this is the way it is. It's so easy,
Speaker 1: it's so great, and I love it. Like I can't
Speaker 1: speak highly enough of this. The pricing, you know, it depends. Okay,
Speaker 1: they've got three plans. Yeah, so they have a standard
Speaker 1: plan where if you're just individual then they've got the
Speaker 1: premium and the ultimate. But I'm telling you, oh, the
Speaker 1: other thing is, let's say you have during the year,
Speaker 1: Let's say you have an expense and you're like, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if this is even a write off. I'm
Speaker 1: not even sure if this is deductible. You can flag
Speaker 1: it and your CPA the person they assign they have
Speaker 1: like all you know, even if you don't have your
Speaker 1: own CPA, like if you don't pay for that level,
Speaker 1: they still have a whole bunch of CPAs they employ
Speaker 1: that just look at these questions all day long and
Speaker 1: then respond to you. So if you went out to
Speaker 1: lunch with someone in discuss business and you're like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, is this a business expense? You flag that expense,
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Speaker 1: it and say, oh, yeah, that's categorized under this boom done.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's really really incredible. It's called flyfinn aiflyfin
Speaker 1: dot tax is the website.
Speaker 2: I really like it.
Speaker 1: I tried doing the turbo tax thing, and I think
Speaker 1: that that's probably my second favorite.
Speaker 2: And the reason I like it, I know it's complicated.
Speaker 1: I know they you know, do all the stuff where
Speaker 1: they fight to make taxes complicated and all that stuff
Speaker 1: or people say they do. But I like it because
Speaker 1: they do a lot lot of returns and so it's
Speaker 1: like their strength in numbers where they've seen a lot
Speaker 1: of data and so anytime someone's seen a lot of data,
Speaker 1: I always like kind of like that. But you know,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, look, going to like
Speaker 1: a person in your neighborhood is probably the easiest and nicest.
Speaker 2: But for me, you know, I like to do everything online.
Speaker 1: So to me, this worked eight and eight Rich one
Speaker 1: on one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one. Coming up, we'll talk misinformation when it
Speaker 1: comes to health on the internet.
Speaker 2: Let's go to uh Sureley in Long Beach. Surely you're
Speaker 2: on with Rich?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 12: Hi, Rich. I'm super excited. I'm starting my retirement degree
Speaker 12: and I have a computer I haven't used in three years.
Speaker 12: It is probably six years old. So I turn it
Speaker 12: on and it said battery half uh like depleted. So
Speaker 12: I just mean it for like word and typing in
Speaker 12: a class or typing notes at a meeting.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 12: But of course I want to say it and then
Speaker 12: send it, you know, send it somewhere as a PDF.
Speaker 12: So I was just wondering, what does what does that
Speaker 12: mean to me? With this battery half depleted. It's an
Speaker 12: HP it's I think it's a seventeen inch laptop, but
Speaker 12: it's super nice, hardly used, but I want to, you know,
Speaker 12: make use of something instead of just going out and
Speaker 12: getting another one.
Speaker 4: What do you think?
Speaker 2: Well, is it working?
Speaker 12: It turns on and then it goes right off. And
Speaker 12: it just said battery half So I'm like, can't you
Speaker 12: like to me, it's like, well, what's with the half battery?
Speaker 5: I can't If it.
Speaker 12: Took me a half battery for the first few years,
Speaker 12: cannot use the other half for the next like five.
Speaker 9: Months, three year?
Speaker 2: Okay, So you turn Okay, so this is an HP.
Speaker 2: What do you know the model now?
Speaker 12: If hand?
Speaker 2: So it's an HP. You've had it for six years.
Speaker 2: So does it work when you plug it in? Yes,
Speaker 2: it turns on, It turns on off, and then it
Speaker 2: goes right off.
Speaker 12: About the battery and then it goes off.
Speaker 2: Can you remove the battery?
Speaker 12: I haven't touched anything, but I don't know. Like, go ahead,
Speaker 12: and I'm listening. If you remove it, what.
Speaker 2: Do you mean, like, like, does the battery pull out
Speaker 2: of the Does the battery pull out?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 12: Probably because it's fairly new. I mean, it's not that
Speaker 12: old to me, it's not that all. I'm sure it will.
Speaker 4: But what about it?
Speaker 1: Well, if you could pull out the battery, then you
Speaker 1: could just replace the battery and get a new one,
Speaker 1: so I would, Yeah, so I would. I would bring
Speaker 1: this somewhere you can look up on Yelp, like a
Speaker 1: local repair shop, computer repair shop. If the computer is
Speaker 1: doing what you need it to do when it turns on,
Speaker 1: you know, if it's if it's going to accomplish the
Speaker 1: tasks you need, then I would just spend a couple,
Speaker 1: you know, a couple bucks on a new battery. It's
Speaker 1: probably HP replacement battery. Let's see how much that would be.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing like one hundred and fifty three to maybe
Speaker 1: three hundred bucks, but it all depends, you know, but
Speaker 1: I would. Yeah, I can't find a price on here
Speaker 1: right now, but that's what I would do. So HP
Speaker 1: has a so you can't get this thing to turn
Speaker 1: on at all.
Speaker 12: It goes on with that like a pretty screen saver,
Speaker 12: and then it says battery is half like done, have you?
Speaker 2: And that's when it's plugged in.
Speaker 12: When it's been plugged in overnight. I can't set it
Speaker 12: plugged in now just to see what happened.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you've left it.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, like leave it plugged in for
Speaker 1: a long like longer than you think, and see what
Speaker 1: happens there. But if it's okay, So if it's if
Speaker 1: it's been plugged in overnight, which gives it plenty of
Speaker 1: time to charge that battery, and it's still not turning on,
Speaker 1: there's something going on there. And typically even with like
Speaker 1: a a laptop that the battery is depleted, it would
Speaker 1: still turn on with the Yeah, with the battery out.
Speaker 2: But okay, So I think what you need to do
Speaker 2: is I would bring this to a shop get an estimate.
Speaker 2: Where do you live? You said, Long Beach, Long Beach?
Speaker 1: Okay, so there are let's see here, there are places
Speaker 1: called you break I Fix.
Speaker 2: Have you heard of that?
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, So I would bring it there. They will
Speaker 1: give you a free estimate and see what that estimate is.
Speaker 1: And if it's I would say for a six year
Speaker 1: old computer to replace the battery, I would not spend
Speaker 1: more than one hundred and fifty bucks on that because
Speaker 1: six years for a Windows laptop, it's probably not going
Speaker 1: to be the best and you can get a new
Speaker 1: laptop for five hundred, six hundred dollars, So I would
Speaker 1: probably put my money more towards that than this repair.
Speaker 2: If it's more than that money that makes.
Speaker 9: Sense, yes, sir.
Speaker 1: Okay, so check that out and if you if you
Speaker 1: need a recommendation on a new laptop after you do this,
Speaker 1: but call me back next time. After you get this estimate,
Speaker 1: call me back and let me know what they say.
Speaker 12: Okay, off the top of your head, what would be
Speaker 12: a good college laptop, like an extensive like Lenovo or
Speaker 12: something like something to get.
Speaker 3: By to the next fight.
Speaker 1: Well, I think I think the I think the MacBook
Speaker 1: Air at eight ninety nine for a brand new M
Speaker 1: four chip is going to be your absolute best choice
Speaker 1: because you're gonna get ten years out of that thing
Speaker 1: and it's going to be incredible.
Speaker 2: The battery life is going to be incredible. Airis four MacBook.
Speaker 1: MacBook Air M four and it just came out comes
Speaker 1: out actually on March twelfth.
Speaker 2: But I would go with that.
Speaker 1: That's going to get you through whatever you need for
Speaker 1: your studies and longer, and when you're done with it,
Speaker 1: you can pass it down to someone that also needs
Speaker 1: a laptop while you get a new one.
Speaker 7: So that's how great got awesome.
Speaker 12: Thank you, sir, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: All right, Shirley, thanks for the call. Triple eight rich
Speaker 1: one on one eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one. Let's go to Tom and Woodland Hills. Tom,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.
Speaker 3: Hey, Rich, good show.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I've got a weird one for you. I've got Sonna's
Speaker 3: one speaker with the Summer's App, which has Alexa enabled,
Speaker 3: and I can play other iHeart radio stations like KOs
Speaker 3: and things like that, but I can't play KFI.
Speaker 2: Can't play Kfi. No, hmm, that's so why not?
Speaker 3: It says, hold on here, Alexa play Kfi.
Speaker 2: Okay, here, I hear it working.
Speaker 7: I'm right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I hear I heard it said. I'm having
Speaker 1: trouble playing that. Okay, So you're trying to do the
Speaker 1: voice assistant there. The short answer is, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I don't know if anything changed. I don't know if
Speaker 1: anything uh is going on in the background. I do
Speaker 1: know that things sort of happen sometimes that may impact that,
Speaker 1: But in general, can you bring it up through the app.
Speaker 2: Like if okay, so and.
Speaker 3: I will let's see.
Speaker 2: So it's just a voice.
Speaker 3: Itself in the Sonos app itself, I can't, but.
Speaker 10: You know I could use Wait, why can't you through
Speaker 10: the Sonos app? I don't know it just wouldn't do it, Okay,
Speaker 10: well if you so.
Speaker 1: If you go into your services on the sonosapp, there
Speaker 1: is an iHeartRadio service and that's kind of like a
Speaker 1: fool proof way of getting it to play.
Speaker 2: So I would try that.
Speaker 1: And sometimes these uh, these radio stations are also on
Speaker 1: that tune in, which also is on iHeart or sorry
Speaker 1: on sons, so I would check for it there as well,
Speaker 1: But bring those two serface in if something you know,
Speaker 1: and this, if this continues not working, you might try
Speaker 1: to disconnect your Alexa from Soos and bring it back,
Speaker 1: or do a restart of your son No system on
Speaker 1: the app, like just say restart your system. But you know,
Speaker 1: now I'm angry at Sonos right now in general because
Speaker 1: they have really failed me in the past year of
Speaker 1: their speakers, because I have them in every room and
Speaker 1: they I still can't adjust the volume across all my
Speaker 1: speakers with this new app.
Speaker 2: It's just like it's slow.
Speaker 1: One of my speakers skips every song, like it just
Speaker 1: it plays half the song and then skips it. So
Speaker 1: Sons and you know, the CEO recently either left the
Speaker 1: company or was pushed out, so they've been going through
Speaker 1: some issues with their quality control there, so maybe that's
Speaker 1: part of it, but you should be able to play it.
Speaker 2: So I would do those two steps.
Speaker 1: I would disconnect the uh maybe first restart your system,
Speaker 1: see if that helps them. Maybe disconnect the Alexa service,
Speaker 1: bring it back on board and see if that helps.
Speaker 1: But I do think all of this is going to
Speaker 1: get better when Alexa is infused with AI, because I
Speaker 1: think she's gonna be able to understand what we're trying
Speaker 1: to do a lot better. And even though you just
Speaker 1: said play KFI, I think you're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: do a lot more with Alexa when it comes to
Speaker 1: music and streaming and all that stuff once she understands
Speaker 1: sort of natural language commands.
Speaker 2: But Tom, I you know source subject for me?
Speaker 1: This so no no stuff because they just had the
Speaker 1: best speakers and service in the world until they decided
Speaker 1: to redo the app, and then just everything started going
Speaker 1: wrong after that, and I ended up getting rid of
Speaker 1: my speakers and replacing them with Amazon Echoes, and then
Speaker 1: that was fine. But I kind of like the grouping
Speaker 1: of the speakers and I like having them everywhere, and
Speaker 1: I like the app, and they're slowly but surely clawing
Speaker 1: their way back to a working system again, but it's
Speaker 1: been really, really tricky. Eighty eight Rich one on one
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: We're gonna try to get our guests coming up to
Speaker 1: talk about medical misinformation. We'll see if we can get
Speaker 1: them on the line coming up right here on Rich
Speaker 1: on tech.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then Steve in response to our last caller, says,
Speaker 1: I'm listening to Ki on the Alexa Echo Show right now,
Speaker 1: so it is working. So it's something to do with
Speaker 1: your So nos, all right, my next guest is going
Speaker 1: to break down the growing crisis of healthcare misinformation. Uh,
Speaker 1: doctor Gita Nayer, Doctor g welcome to the show.
Speaker 13: Thank you so much for having me, Rich, So tell me.
Speaker 2: Let's let's just start with tell me what you do.
Speaker 1: First off, you've got you know, you're you've been on
Speaker 1: all kinds of places talking about healthcare, your doctor. So
Speaker 1: why are you interested in this idea of healthcare misinformation?
Speaker 11: Well, you know, Rich, I'm a doctor, a technologist as
Speaker 11: well as a best selling author on exactly this topic,
Speaker 11: miss and disinformation in the era of health tech, AI,
Speaker 11: social media, all the things we your viewers know and
Speaker 11: love and really because as a physician, I've just run
Speaker 11: into this so many times, and having come from a
Speaker 11: tech background, was previously chief medical officer of salesforce at
Speaker 11: and T. I understand the power of tech, and I
Speaker 11: believe in the power of tech, but you still got
Speaker 11: to understand what you're looking at.
Speaker 13: And what and how it affects your body. And so
Speaker 13: this has really become a passion project for me.
Speaker 1: So I imagine that are we talking Like basically people
Speaker 1: see this crazy stuff on TikTok and then they start
Speaker 1: doing it, or you know, it used to be you
Speaker 1: would just google like what your symptoms were, and you
Speaker 1: would just follow like what was it WebMD or something.
Speaker 1: And of course at the end of the day, I
Speaker 1: always made the joke like no matter what you have,
Speaker 1: you're gonna die because it's like you just go down
Speaker 1: this rabbit hole of like the worst possible thing, and
Speaker 1: then you go to the actual doctor and like, oh no, here,
Speaker 1: all you need is this little cream and you'll be fine.
Speaker 13: Exactly, you got it.
Speaker 11: Look in today's post pandemic world, the everyday consumer out
Speaker 11: there is really hungry and thirsty for healthcare information, and
Speaker 11: you're right, they're going.
Speaker 13: To doctor Google. But more often than not, they're going
Speaker 13: to doctor TikTok.
Speaker 14: Right.
Speaker 11: We know that fifty nine million Americans turn to social
Speaker 11: media for questions about their health.
Speaker 13: And I think social media is a great asset.
Speaker 11: And tool, but you have to be mindful of what
Speaker 11: you're actually looking at, who is it that you're following,
Speaker 11: and that you understand and know when to take some
Speaker 11: of that information with a grain of salt.
Speaker 2: So how do you know? I mean, like, let's give
Speaker 2: an example.
Speaker 1: Now, this may not be medical, but you know there's
Speaker 1: a big trend right now of like eating your weight
Speaker 1: in protein every day or something ridiculous like that. So
Speaker 1: I mean that kind of stuff I feel like started
Speaker 1: on social media and we've seen a million of these trends.
Speaker 1: How do you know what's real what's not?
Speaker 11: You know, there's a couple of things you can do
Speaker 11: if you're out there and interested in your health. Number One,
Speaker 11: checking the source, Right is this something coming from if
Speaker 11: you're looking for something for your kids? The American Academy
Speaker 11: of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, the American Whatever Association.
Speaker 13: Right, So one looking for who is the source?
Speaker 11: Keeping in mind there are actually associations out there that
Speaker 11: are for patients, four people with diabetes, four patients with
Speaker 11: heart disease. They're always going to be prop gating information
Speaker 11: that is good for the consumer. So that's one two.
Speaker 13: Looking for inflammatory language, right the always or never.
Speaker 11: You know, the human body doesn't tend to work in
Speaker 11: extremes and complex scientific things can rarely have a simple
Speaker 11: solution or a hack like eating your weight in protein. Third,
Speaker 11: you have to understand your body is not the same
Speaker 11: as everyone's body. Right, If you've got kidney issues, I
Speaker 11: can tell you that's.
Speaker 13: A bad plan. So you've got to know your own body.
Speaker 13: You have to know your own health.
Speaker 11: And lastly, rich you've got to have your own doctor
Speaker 11: right when and where you can double check things and
Speaker 11: actually get personalized information that is for you, relates to
Speaker 11: your family history and look, I know access is an issue,
Speaker 11: depends if you have health insurance, depends where you are.
Speaker 11: It can take a while to get an appointment. But
Speaker 11: there are a lot of online virtual telemedicine services out
Speaker 11: there now. And so if you are feeling like you
Speaker 11: are reading a lot of stuff but you're quite unsure
Speaker 11: of what to do, make that doctor's appointment. It's going
Speaker 11: to help you make the final decision and also get
Speaker 11: you information that's just tailored to you.
Speaker 13: Not just to the general population.
Speaker 1: It's so wild, and I'll admit this for myself, but
Speaker 1: you know, when you have any sort of issue, you're
Speaker 1: always scared to go to the doctor because you don't
Speaker 1: want to find out what it actually is. But the
Speaker 1: reality is it's probably better to know what it is
Speaker 1: than to not.
Speaker 11: Absolutely prevention is always going to be the key medicine.
Speaker 11: We want you to get the mammogram, the colonoscopy before
Speaker 11: you get breast cancer of colon cancer, so it.
Speaker 13: Is always wise to know. It can be scary.
Speaker 11: I agree with that, and I understand that emotion, but
Speaker 11: you know, knowledge is power, and I love that patients
Speaker 11: want to read. I often exactly what we said. I
Speaker 11: often direct my patients when we make a new diagnosis
Speaker 11: like lupus, ma twitter athritis. I'll say, look, I want
Speaker 11: you to read everything and come back and ask me
Speaker 11: your questions. But here's the top three sites, here's the
Speaker 11: top three influencers that I follow, And so don't be
Speaker 11: afraid to have that conversation too with your doc, which
Speaker 11: is where should I be reading, what should I be
Speaker 11: aware of? And one more Tipperach, if they're selling something,
Speaker 11: if they're selling you a supplement, if they're selling you
Speaker 11: something for just nine to ninety nine or click here
Speaker 11: for this subscription, that's often a really big red flag
Speaker 11: because doctors are never going.
Speaker 13: To ask you to do that.
Speaker 1: Interesting, what do you think about chat GBT? And like,
Speaker 1: you know, AI is now kind of replacing the Google search.
Speaker 1: I know that I've uploaded some of my medical records
Speaker 1: when you can tell me if I'm wrong for doing that.
Speaker 1: But it's like kind of fascinating you think you're getting
Speaker 1: like this analysis, this expert analysis.
Speaker 13: Well, look again, I think knowledge is power.
Speaker 11: I love that people are more and more curious about
Speaker 11: the human body, and I think that's terrific.
Speaker 13: But again, chat GBT is a great source, Like ninety
Speaker 13: percent of the time, the truth is we still don't know.
Speaker 11: And again remember it's only as good as the information
Speaker 11: you give it, right, So I don't know if you
Speaker 11: uploaded your whole medical record. I don't know if they
Speaker 11: if you uploaded what has most recently changed. So being
Speaker 11: mindful that so much of AI is dependent on the data,
Speaker 11: and that we in healthcare have lots of gaps and
Speaker 11: data Doctors don't share information. Hospitals don't share information, so
Speaker 11: you have to be mindful that it's not a silver bullet.
Speaker 11: Right again, there is no real quick, easy button solution.
Speaker 11: I think it's great to be curious. I encourage anyone
Speaker 11: to read scientific sites, to follow actual doctors with licenses.
Speaker 11: Because here's the other thing rich, right, there's entertainment. There
Speaker 11: are entertainers out there that are making millions of dollars
Speaker 11: off of propagating this and disinformation, but they're not accountable
Speaker 11: the way that physicians nurses are accountable.
Speaker 13: If I give you bad advice, I can lose my license.
Speaker 11: So there is an incentive to be on the side
Speaker 11: of the consumer, which is very different from entertainment.
Speaker 1: That is such a good point, and I do back
Speaker 1: to your point about the medical history not being shared.
Speaker 1: That has got to be the most frustrating thing as
Speaker 1: a patient. That for me, like I would just imagine
Speaker 1: that somehow in AI and this will happen in the future,
Speaker 1: would have everything for my birth up until now in
Speaker 1: a file, and that way you can see patterns, you
Speaker 1: can see things emerging, and I'm waiting for that day
Speaker 1: and I know we're working on it, but it is
Speaker 1: a very slow process. All right, doctor G. What's the
Speaker 1: best way for folks to find you online?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 13: Thanks, rich I'm everywhere.
Speaker 11: I'm on Instagram, I'm on LinkedIn, I'm on x I'm
Speaker 11: easy to find me, genayor and I look forward to
Speaker 11: continue the conversation.
Speaker 13: With you and your viewers.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, and I'll link you up on
Speaker 1: my website rich on tech dot TV. Doctor G, thanks
Speaker 1: for joining me coming up more of your calls right.
Speaker 2: Here on rich on Tech.
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Speaker 1: to Jim and Malibu.
Speaker 2: Jim, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 9: Hi, Rich, thank you for taking my call. The question
Speaker 9: involves how to expand my network outdoors. I have a
Speaker 9: large piece of property about one and a half acres,
Speaker 9: and I have an old house with a lot of
Speaker 9: last and plaster walls. So the Wi Fi MISH signal
Speaker 9: that I have in the house is very limited. It
Speaker 9: only goes maybe twenty feet past the walls of the house.
Speaker 9: So what kind of solution should I be looking at
Speaker 9: to try and cover all the way to my front gate,
Speaker 9: which is sixty feet or seventy feet from the house,
Speaker 9: down to my workshop which is about one hundred and
Speaker 9: fifty feet from the house.
Speaker 2: Did you say you're in Malibu?
Speaker 9: Yes? Oh?
Speaker 8: Are you? Were?
Speaker 10: You?
Speaker 2: Are you okay? From the fires? Did that affect you
Speaker 2: at all?
Speaker 8: Not this time?
Speaker 2: Okay, not this time?
Speaker 6: I know you.
Speaker 1: Not just one Yeah, it's been it's been really Uh
Speaker 1: my my thoughts are with everyone in Malibu and the Palisades.
Speaker 2: And all these areas they eat in area here.
Speaker 1: It's just it's been really really people think because it's
Speaker 1: not on their local news or their nightly news outside
Speaker 1: of La on a daily basis, but there are issues
Speaker 1: every single day with these people that were affected by this,
Speaker 1: Like people are still replaced, displaced in a huge way.
Speaker 1: People are still all over the city when they should
Speaker 1: be at home. It's just people lost so much stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's really a problem. And I know it
Speaker 1: because my wife works a lot of the people that
Speaker 1: lost a lot and they are rebuilding and it's very,
Speaker 1: very slow.
Speaker 2: It is not an easy process.
Speaker 1: So anyway to your question, I think that you need
Speaker 1: to get outdoor and out a mesh system that supports
Speaker 1: an outdoor access point. So there are two notable systems
Speaker 1: that have outdoor access points. This is not going to
Speaker 1: be cheap, but Jim, you know, this is going to
Speaker 1: solve your problem and it's going to make your WiFi
Speaker 1: actually usable outside. But it's not going to be cheap,
Speaker 1: but you know that's that's what you get if you
Speaker 1: want to have this Wi Fi in these various areas,
Speaker 1: You've got to get a system that's gonna be able
Speaker 1: to handle what you have. And so the two systems
Speaker 1: that I would recommend Eero that's obviously my favorite. And
Speaker 1: this may require that you have to get a whole
Speaker 1: new system because these mesh networking systems do not interact
Speaker 1: with each other. So if you already have one you
Speaker 1: mentioned that you did this, this other one is not
Speaker 1: going to play nice with that, so you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to probably replace them all. But the good news is
Speaker 1: you do this once. It's gonna last for a while.
Speaker 1: But Euroo has an outdoor access point. It's three hundred
Speaker 1: ninety nine dollars. You could probably get it on sale.
Speaker 1: The usually euro stuff goes on sale a couple times
Speaker 1: a year, so I would watch for a sale on
Speaker 1: this and you know, just do a price alert. But
Speaker 1: that is going to cover you outside. This is Wi
Speaker 1: Fi seven, so it's going to have, you know, a
Speaker 1: stronger signal, a better signal, it's going to get through
Speaker 1: more of the stuff that you have out there, and
Speaker 1: it's going to work with any eurosystem that you have existing.
Speaker 1: So if you want to get one for your house,
Speaker 1: this will be compatible with that, and you can mount
Speaker 1: it outside and one of these may solve all of
Speaker 1: your problems. So a one pack is three ninety nine
Speaker 1: and a two pack is six seventy nine. And they're
Speaker 1: saying that will Wi Fi coverage per device is fifteen
Speaker 1: thousand square feet of outdoor coverage, so hopefully that should
Speaker 1: support what you need on this area, and you may able.
Speaker 1: What you would do is you would just mount this
Speaker 1: outside your house and then that signal hopefully would go
Speaker 1: to where your gate was where you said that was
Speaker 1: six sixty feet away, and then the back house where
Speaker 1: you've got the uh the work area that you mentioned,
Speaker 1: that would hopefully go there as well. So that's number one.
Speaker 1: The other one is TP Link and they've got a
Speaker 1: system called Deco Deco and they've got an outdoor system
Speaker 1: as well. Now this is a whole home mesh Wi
Speaker 1: Fi six unit. So does this come with six units?
Speaker 1: Oh no, this is I think Wi Fi six, Sorry
Speaker 1: Wi Fi six, not six units. Okay, So this one
Speaker 1: similar thing you've got. Let's see here. You can mount
Speaker 1: it on a tabletop, a wall mount, or a pole mount.
Speaker 1: It's outdoor certified, so waterproof and dustproof you can power
Speaker 1: it over Ethernet, so that means you can have your
Speaker 1: data connection and your electric power with a single cable.
Speaker 1: Now this one, you may be able to just connect
Speaker 1: one outside and just use a separate network for your
Speaker 1: outdoor stuff if you want to do that, and I
Speaker 1: guess you could do that with the Eero two. Personally,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't like having two different networks at my house.
Speaker 1: But if you want to keep the network that you
Speaker 1: already have and just install something outside, you can just
Speaker 1: run an Ethernet cable to this and boom, you've got it.
Speaker 1: And let's see this covers up to this as it
Speaker 1: covers up to twenty five hundred feet, so it might
Speaker 1: be less. Yeah, this is one twenty five hundred feet outdoors,
Speaker 1: so you might need more. You might need two of these,
Speaker 1: but what you can do is put one on one
Speaker 1: side of your house, one on the other side, and
Speaker 1: those should extend the Wi Fi to your outdoor that
Speaker 1: you need outdoors, which you said your fence and then
Speaker 1: also your workshop. But those are the two that i'd recommend.
Speaker 2: Tp Link.
Speaker 1: You know that they've been they're very popular company. I
Speaker 1: know they're out of China, so there's been some issues
Speaker 1: with the government talking about them and and worried about,
Speaker 1: you know, the privacy and security of those. But I
Speaker 1: have yet to see anything new on that ever since
Speaker 1: the government first mentioned something on it. But I use
Speaker 1: TP link stuff in my home. It's a very popular product,
Speaker 1: so I think you can probably use it with you know,
Speaker 1: as long as you make sure you have a private
Speaker 1: a good password, and use your name on there for
Speaker 1: your network, you should be okay. Eero is the Eero
Speaker 1: Outdoor seven, but those are the two i'd recommend, and
Speaker 1: thanks for the question today. Eighty eight rich one on
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Speaker 1: dip your toes into it, but you're worried about privacy.
Speaker 1: Duck Duck go, which you know they've made their name
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Speaker 1: some AI features that you can check out that keep
Speaker 1: everything private, free and of course optional. So now they've
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Speaker 1: But now you can customize how often those answers appear
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Speaker 1: have heard me, because they said, we have improved our
Speaker 1: search results. So if you haven't tried them in a while,
Speaker 1: go ahead give us another shot. And so yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you want to use Duck duck Go, go ahead,
Speaker 1: no pun intended.
Speaker 2: Let's see here.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go to Duck Duck Go privacy peace
Speaker 1: of mind, and let's do a search here and let's
Speaker 1: see what the results look like. Yeah, I mean, you know, look,
Speaker 1: it's you know, some of their stuff comes from MSN,
Speaker 1: so it just depends. I mean, look, I still think
Speaker 1: that Google is probably going to have the best search
Speaker 1: results because it's Google. I mean, they've have like a
Speaker 1: seventy percent market share or maybe even more, but it's
Speaker 1: probably more.
Speaker 2: It's probably like eighty six percent. Who am I kidding?
Speaker 1: But you know, if you want to if you want
Speaker 1: something that's a little bit more, I understand. As soon
Speaker 1: as you search something in Google, it's going to show
Speaker 1: up all across your everything, because that's the way it is.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, oh pixel Speaking of Google, if you
Speaker 1: have a pixel phone, you got a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: new features. So they do these things called pixel drops
Speaker 1: every so often. It used to be like once a month.
Speaker 1: Now they just do them whenever they've got a new one.
Speaker 1: But a whole bunch of new features if you have
Speaker 1: a pixel phone, so definitely do that. Software update first off,
Speaker 1: Gemini Live. This is their AI now supports forty five
Speaker 1: languages without changing any settings. How wild is that You
Speaker 1: could just literally start chatting with this thing in all
Speaker 1: different languages and it will figure out what you're saying
Speaker 1: and respond. That's incredible. Now, it's got AI powered scam detection.
Speaker 1: You know, earlier I was talking about that tip to
Speaker 1: you know, get rid of the scam calls on your phone. Well,
Speaker 1: this actually has scam detection, so it literally listens to
Speaker 1: your phone call on the device, so it's private, and
Speaker 1: it uses AI to detect if there's a fraudulent call
Speaker 1: or text in real time. So what it's doing is
Speaker 1: it's listening for someone to say, hey, I've got some
Speaker 1: great crypto you should purchase, or I love you, please
Speaker 1: send me crypto, And next thing you know, the pixel
Speaker 1: will jump in and say, hey, we think this is
Speaker 1: a scam. So that's pretty interesting. I have not tested
Speaker 1: that feature, but I don't even know how I test it.
Speaker 1: I guess I can do a phone call with someone
Speaker 1: and then have them start Adam, you should do that.
Speaker 1: You should call me and say like, I love you,
Speaker 1: here's some crypto I need you to buy. Get me
Speaker 1: a plane ticket please, I want to come meet you.
Speaker 2: That sounded weird. Satellite SOS they're.
Speaker 1: Expanding now now available in Hawaii, Alaska, Europe, and Canada,
Speaker 1: so that means you can stay connected to emergency services
Speaker 1: without cell phone, without cell service or Wi Fi just
Speaker 1: think about that for a second. You can now travel
Speaker 1: with this pixel phone anywhere in the US, in Hawaii,
Speaker 1: in Alaska, in Europe, in Canada, and if there's an issue,
Speaker 1: if you are somewhere without a cell's you can still
Speaker 1: get help. That is incredible that we have that feature
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. I am amazed at that Verizon
Speaker 1: and T Mobile customers have additional text via satellite for
Speaker 1: Verizon for emergencies, T Mobile users can text nine one
Speaker 1: one over satellite as well.
Speaker 2: Let's see what else.
Speaker 1: Pixel Watch now detect non traditional movement like pushing a stroller,
Speaker 1: using a wheelchair, or hiking with poles, so more accurate
Speaker 1: activity tracking there. And then the g board, you know
Speaker 1: this is your your typing, your keyboard. It got a
Speaker 1: new voice toolbar, so if you want to see more
Speaker 1: of your screen while your voice to text, you can
Speaker 1: minimize the typing the keyboard and just still do voice
Speaker 1: to text. So if you want to see your whole
Speaker 1: screen while doing voice to text, you can do that
Speaker 1: as well. Rolling out to pixel devices right now, so
Speaker 1: if you have a pixel definitely do that softwareupdate. Those
Speaker 1: things just get better every day. And T Mobile, if
Speaker 1: you have a T Mobile. If you're a T mobile customer,
Speaker 1: you know they have this thing called T Mobile Tuesday.
Speaker 1: They've had it since twenty sixteen. Their latest perk is
Speaker 1: one free slurpy every month, so you can go to
Speaker 1: a seven to eleven or a Speedway. Who knew Speedway
Speaker 1: is owned by seven eleven. I guess now we know.
Speaker 1: You got to claim the perk through the T mobile
Speaker 1: the Tea Life app, and it's available not just once,
Speaker 1: but this is an ongoing thing. It's already started, so
Speaker 1: I guess. I guess what you do is you claim
Speaker 1: it in the app and then you can just use
Speaker 1: it at the store. And by the way, you can
Speaker 1: pick from a small, medium, or large slurpee. So you know,
Speaker 1: if you're a T mobile customer, it's funny because Verizon's
Speaker 1: got something similar. If you look in your Verizon app,
Speaker 1: they've got something called like my Offers or something Verizon
Speaker 1: has similar to this. It's not as like Robust, but
Speaker 1: they do have some offers in there, so check it out,
Speaker 1: especially for concert tickets. AT and T tried something called
Speaker 1: at and T Thanks, they gave up on it, but
Speaker 1: T mobile is still going strong. Like you get some
Speaker 1: good benefits if you're a T mobile customer. So now
Speaker 1: you can have a slurpee. I know my kids would
Speaker 1: be excited about that. Eighty eight Rich one O one
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Speaker 2: Coming up, We're gonna talk to Stephanie Humphrey.
Speaker 1: She's gonna talk about digital citizenship for kids and teens
Speaker 1: on social media.
Speaker 2: So, uh, this is a big deal digital citizenship.
Speaker 1: Kids are on social media, teens and we're all trying
Speaker 1: to figure out, especially as parents, what the best ways
Speaker 1: of doing this stuff is. And here to talk about
Speaker 1: that is Stephanie Humphrey. Welcome to the show, Stephanie so much.
Speaker 15: We're having me Rich Happy to be here.
Speaker 1: The website Stephanie Humphrey dot com. So you do this
Speaker 1: talk a lot? What at schools and stuff?
Speaker 14: Yeah, I talk to students. I have a version of
Speaker 14: till defutweet did I do for parents? There's one for professionals.
Speaker 14: But I've been doing this for over ten years now,
Speaker 14: just trying to help kids understand what it means to
Speaker 14: be mindful and intentional with their Internet use.
Speaker 1: What do you think you said you've been doing this
Speaker 1: for ten years? What do you think the biggest change
Speaker 1: has been in those ten years since when you started
Speaker 1: doing this, Man.
Speaker 13: Honestly, not a lot.
Speaker 14: I just spoke to some kids probably about a month ago,
Speaker 14: and the same issues that I was seeing way back
Speaker 14: when are the same issues that we're having right now.
Speaker 15: And it really, you know, I had to sort of
Speaker 15: amend what I say to parents because.
Speaker 14: They always want me to tell them like what apps
Speaker 14: specifically not to be on, or or what tool to
Speaker 14: download to monitor their kids.
Speaker 15: And I'm like, the tech kind of almost doesn't matter
Speaker 15: in a sense. It's really just the nature of the
Speaker 15: Internet and the way it behaves and the way you
Speaker 15: respond to it.
Speaker 14: You know, the Internet doesn't have anything to do with
Speaker 14: whether or not somebody's a good person, you know.
Speaker 15: So it really does sort of boil down to what
Speaker 15: you're teaching.
Speaker 14: Your kids about how to engage with other people, whether
Speaker 14: it's online or in real life.
Speaker 1: So, what are some of the biggest risks parents should
Speaker 1: be aware of when it comes to their kids and
Speaker 1: social media.
Speaker 14: Well, I think the first the biggest thing is the
Speaker 14: lack of age verification. They're still to this day is
Speaker 14: no way to know who the person you're talking to
Speaker 14: on the other end of that Internet is so you know,
Speaker 14: I have kids all the time that think, you know, well,
Speaker 14: I can just get them to FaceTime me, or I
Speaker 14: can just ask them. There is no way, no legitimate
Speaker 14: way beyond some type of serious age verification with IDs
Speaker 14: and Social Security numbers and whatever to really know for
Speaker 14: certain unless you know that person already in real life.
Speaker 14: There really isn't a way to know that you're talking
Speaker 14: to somebody on the other end of that Internet that
Speaker 14: is your age.
Speaker 15: That's not an adult.
Speaker 14: And I think, you know, you talk about current trends
Speaker 14: that are different from ten years ago. I think we're
Speaker 14: going to start to see a lot more sort of
Speaker 14: problem in streaming. It just leaves itself open to so
Speaker 14: much because it's live, because you don't really get a
Speaker 14: chance to think about the things that you're doing while
Speaker 14: you're streaming, and you don't get to think about those consequences.
Speaker 14: So I think we're going to start to see because
Speaker 14: we already saw a little problem with some grooming that
Speaker 14: was happening with with alleged let me put it that way,
Speaker 14: grooming that was happening recently on Twitch.
Speaker 15: So yeah, streaming is gonna be a situation for parents.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's it's kids don't realize that this
Speaker 1: stuff is permanent. Like you're live streaming, you say something
Speaker 1: off the cuff and know it's still there after you,
Speaker 1: you know, are done live streaming. And same thing with
Speaker 1: like even Snapchat. I know it's so popular because it's
Speaker 1: quote unquote disappears exactly.
Speaker 2: It does not.
Speaker 15: It does not, and they don't think about that. And
Speaker 15: that's why I say, like, not a lot.
Speaker 14: Has changed because because young people don't really think past
Speaker 14: the post. They you know, do what they do to
Speaker 14: get the clicks and the likes or the engagement, and
Speaker 14: they're not really thinking about that, and they're not really
Speaker 14: thinking about.
Speaker 15: The broader internet.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 14: They may only have one hundred friends or one hundred
Speaker 14: and fifty friends that follow them and that they follow back,
Speaker 14: so they think that what they do is always going
Speaker 14: to be contained to that small group and it's not
Speaker 14: the possibility for things to go viral. Happen every single
Speaker 14: day online and it can happen with you know, your
Speaker 14: kid as well.
Speaker 2: Ah, that's so true.
Speaker 1: That's such a good point that people just think of
Speaker 1: their audience like, oh, this is just my friends. Oh no,
Speaker 1: just one screenshot away from that going anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1: So do you recommend any tools or apps from monitoring
Speaker 1: or managing, like, do you have some recommendations?
Speaker 15: I do like Bark. Bark is super comprehensive.
Speaker 14: It's one of the best tools out there because it's
Speaker 14: actually looking for sort of nuance in emails and text messages,
Speaker 14: suicidal ideation.
Speaker 15: You know keywords website blocking, blocking and you know.
Speaker 14: So Bark I think is one of those ones that
Speaker 14: really could help because it is so comprehensive.
Speaker 1: And you talk about parents, you know, teaching their kids.
Speaker 1: What should parents be teaching their kids is it? Is
Speaker 1: it the non ephemeral aspect of this stuff that you
Speaker 1: think it's going to go away and it doesn't.
Speaker 15: That's one of the most important things.
Speaker 14: One of the things that I found that really resonates
Speaker 14: with young people when I go into schools to talk
Speaker 14: about them is to think like a brand and not
Speaker 14: instead of thinking like a man, think like a brand
Speaker 14: and think about, you know, what you're putting out there
Speaker 14: into that digital space and how it represents you in
Speaker 14: the same way. You know, brands like Nike have to
Speaker 14: think about colors and logos and things like that. We
Speaker 14: have that same thing in our personal brand that we
Speaker 14: need to be thinking about. And that really does tend
Speaker 14: to resonate with kids because now it gives them a
Speaker 14: little bit of ownership right of what they do online
Speaker 14: and how they might be perceived and how they might
Speaker 14: do damage to that brand.
Speaker 15: So we always start to comversation there with personal brand.
Speaker 2: And what are some of the questions you get from kids?
Speaker 1: Like what are some of like the kickbacks you get
Speaker 1: from them, like are they're like, come on, does this
Speaker 1: really matter what I say on you know, Instagram.
Speaker 14: Once once we have that conversation and put it in
Speaker 14: that perspective, it shifts the entire conversation. It really really does,
Speaker 14: And now they want to know, oh my god, my brand,
Speaker 14: you know, because kids these days they all want to
Speaker 14: be influencers and different things like that. So you know,
Speaker 14: they they really start getting a little worried that they
Speaker 14: need to kind of make sure that they're representing themselves
Speaker 14: in the best way.
Speaker 1: I always have the joke back when Twitter was a
Speaker 1: little bit bigger than this now, like people you would
Speaker 1: see like this random person on Twitter and they'd be
Speaker 1: like a you know, person you follow, and they were
Speaker 1: nice and everything was business, ye, But then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden when they have like a flight delay, they
Speaker 1: just turn into like this evil, like meanest person ever
Speaker 1: because they're like complaining to the airline how like you know,
Speaker 1: it's delayed or their flight, and it's like it always
Speaker 1: cracked me up.
Speaker 2: It's like this Jecklin hide thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, here's this person you follow, and like all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it's like, oh my gosh, that was
Speaker 1: so mean about it's their minds.
Speaker 15: And you're like what happened?
Speaker 14: And it can be just that instantaneous thing that you know,
Speaker 14: gets you canceled or something.
Speaker 15: So we just have to be more mindful about how
Speaker 15: we engage on the internet.
Speaker 2: What about AI and all this stuff? How is that
Speaker 2: kind of uh?
Speaker 1: I mean I've heard of like the the issues high
Speaker 1: schools are having with these AI nude pictures and all
Speaker 1: this stuff.
Speaker 14: Yes, and we're going to see a lot more of that.
Speaker 14: That's one thing that we didn't see ten years ago. Right,
Speaker 14: We're definitely going to see a lot of the deep
Speaker 14: fakes happening. You know, law and law enforcement and our
Speaker 14: laws on our books are going to have to catch
Speaker 14: up with that kind of thing, you know, as they
Speaker 14: add that to what it means to do revenge porn
Speaker 14: and things like that, and then we really are just
Speaker 14: going to have to you know, disclose these kind of
Speaker 14: things when we're using them as tools and not add
Speaker 14: to that AI slop, if you will. So you really
Speaker 14: got to do your own due diligence when you're sharing
Speaker 14: things online to not add to that noise.
Speaker 1: It's crazy to me that these nude I guess texts
Speaker 1: or whatever they are are like actually a thing like
Speaker 1: this is a thing that is like very acceptable in
Speaker 1: the culture at this point, with not just young people
Speaker 1: but a lot of people like sending these pictures back
Speaker 1: and forth. Yeah, And it's like this is a picture
Speaker 1: that is not going to go away, and it's, by
Speaker 1: the way, very easily shared with other people. And we
Speaker 1: see the issues associated with that over and over, especially
Speaker 1: if you're a teenager sharing this stuff.
Speaker 15: Yeah, and and and that's one of the things I
Speaker 15: talk about as well.
Speaker 14: I tell students like this will never go away, and
Speaker 14: it is guaranteed to be shared, you know, even if
Speaker 14: it's just a boyfriend or a girlfriend, and they promise
Speaker 14: you that no one will ever see it.
Speaker 15: And I know this is kind of just the way.
Speaker 14: You know, romance happens with young people these days and
Speaker 14: in a lot of cases, but you know, we have
Speaker 14: to do a better job as adults, I think, to
Speaker 14: let young people know that this type of thing is permanent.
Speaker 2: Steph. What do you like about all this stuff you cover? Technology?
Speaker 2: Cover this? What's your kind of like? Why do you
Speaker 2: like doing this?
Speaker 15: It's just I love helping people. I'm an engineer by
Speaker 15: trade and training.
Speaker 14: I was an engineer for thirteen years, so you know,
Speaker 14: this is sort of my wheelhouse, and I see how
Speaker 14: it can be.
Speaker 15: That tool that can help us when it's used properly.
Speaker 14: So you know, I've sort of made it my mission
Speaker 14: to make sure that people understand how to use it
Speaker 14: to make their lives easier and not harder.
Speaker 2: All right, best place for folks to follow you.
Speaker 14: All around the weback tech Life, Steph. Or head to
Speaker 14: my website at Stephanie Humphrey dot com.
Speaker 15: And sign up for my newsletter.
Speaker 1: All right, we love the newsletters. Stephanie Humphrey, Thanks so
Speaker 1: much for joining me today.
Speaker 15: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Take care all right. Coming up, we are going to
Speaker 1: get through a couple more news items.
Speaker 2: Let's see what do we have here.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'll tell you about the biggest scams in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, according to the Better Business Bureau. Plus, I
Speaker 1: will open up the feedbag that's coming up right here
Speaker 1: on rich on Tech. If you want notes or a
Speaker 1: link to anything I talk about on the show, this
Speaker 1: is episode one twelve. Just go to the website look
Speaker 1: for that, or just tap the magnifying glass and type
Speaker 1: in a keyword and that should literally bring you right
Speaker 1: to whatever I mentioned before we open up the feedback.
Speaker 2: Couple of items of note.
Speaker 1: Better Business Bureau says financial grooming scams lead to the
Speaker 1: biggest losses in twenty twenty four. So they analyzed all
Speaker 1: of the scams of last year and found that investment scams,
Speaker 1: especially involving cryptocurrency, are the number one riskiest scams. Average
Speaker 1: reported loss yeah five thousand bucks. Financial grooming scams are growing.
Speaker 1: This is when scammers build trust over weeks or months,
Speaker 1: convincing their victims to invest in fake platforms, and then,
Speaker 1: of course by the time they realize it's too late,
Speaker 1: it's wild. But yes, people do fall for the stuff.
Speaker 1: Employment scams a number two median loss of fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: These target often target young job seekers. I get those
Speaker 1: things all the time. You know, hey, we got a
Speaker 1: great job for you. It's the text message like come on.
Speaker 1: If you're responding to that, don't do it. Romance scams
Speaker 1: number three, Oh wow, highest median loss of any scam
Speaker 1: at six ninety nine. Online purchase scams dropped to number four.
Speaker 1: Social media is a major risk. Almost fifty percent of
Speaker 1: reported scams started when people responded to social media ads
Speaker 1: or posts. Top impersonated brands, Publishers Clearinghouse, the USPS, PayPal, Amazon,
Speaker 1: and Spectrum the most faked companies. The takeaway here if
Speaker 1: someone you meet online wants to help you invest money,
Speaker 1: it is a scam.
Speaker 2: And there we go. That's okay. Sound like someone got electrocuted.
Speaker 1: AI is driving smartphone upgrades. Why do you think all
Speaker 1: these companies are advertising AI because their numbers are telling
Speaker 1: them people are buying new phones because of it. Assurant
Speaker 1: looked at the mobile trade in and industry trends. Let's see,
Speaker 1: people are holding onto their phones for about three point
Speaker 1: six years on average now before upgrading. That's forty three months.
Speaker 1: iPhone owners kept their devices for an average of three
Speaker 1: point seven eight years previously now it's three point six
Speaker 1: y three after the launch of the iPhone sixteen, So
Speaker 1: now it used to be forty five months. iPhone users
Speaker 1: we're keeping them. Now it's forty four months. Android users
Speaker 1: kept their devices for three point six seven years. Then
Speaker 1: when the S twenty four launch, three point three eight years,
Speaker 1: forty four months versus forty one. So basically, people are
Speaker 1: upgrading faster now because of AI. AI demand is growing.
Speaker 1: People want it on their phone. By the way, you
Speaker 1: can get AI on any phone, just download CHATCHIBT. Daylight
Speaker 1: saving Time is it daylight saving time?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It is this weekend.
Speaker 1: I never understand this, but yes, daylight it's not daylight
Speaker 1: savings time, it is daylight saving time.
Speaker 2: I do know that I grew up you know journalism,
Speaker 2: you know trained.
Speaker 1: Samsung looked at sleep patterns from their Samsung Health users.
Speaker 1: They're very clear to say, we got their permission to
Speaker 1: look at the data. And it's of course anonymized Daylight
Speaker 1: saving time throws off sleep for weeks, not just one night.
Speaker 1: People fall asleep thirty three minutes later and they wake
Speaker 1: up nineteen minutes earlier than night of the change, So
Speaker 1: be prepared. Probably gonna wake up early. Those in their
Speaker 1: twenties struggle the most. Even three weeks later, it's still unstable.
Speaker 1: So it takes a while for our bodies to adjust
Speaker 1: to all this stuff. And they say that the best
Speaker 1: way to deal with the change is to prioritize sleep.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people that prioritize sleep. You know,
Speaker 1: that's their deal. They just like to sleep. I'm like,
Speaker 1: a I like to sleep, but I don't need I don't.
Speaker 1: I do prioritize it, but I'm not one of those
Speaker 1: people that's crazy if.
Speaker 2: I don't get my sleep.
Speaker 1: Like there's some people I know, I'm not gonna mention
Speaker 1: names that if they don't get their eight or nine hours, they're.
Speaker 2: Like, the whole day is just ruined. My whole day.
Speaker 2: I didn't sleep last night. I didn't sleep, Okay, So.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I love giving people a hard time about sleep
Speaker 1: because I wake up very early, and I don't I
Speaker 1: make light of sleep.
Speaker 2: I like sleep.
Speaker 1: I think it's very important for your health. But anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, let's open up the feedbag. Did you bring
Speaker 1: a did you bring a sound effect this for the feedbag?
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: That sounds like the price is right, all right, Kevin
Speaker 1: from tahatch A Pee rites in rich, I wanted to
Speaker 1: share an important benefit of the iPhone sixteen E that
Speaker 1: many may not realize. My son has a pacemaker and
Speaker 1: is one hundred percent pacemaker dependent. Mag Safe devices can
Speaker 1: interfere with pacemakers, so he was limited to using an
Speaker 1: iPhone eleven. Now, with the iPhone sixteen E, he can
Speaker 1: upgrade without worrying about mag safe while still getting all
Speaker 1: the latest features he's I had to finally have a
Speaker 1: newer iPhone. I know he could have switched to Android,
Speaker 1: but his industry requires him to use an Apple device
Speaker 1: for text threads.
Speaker 2: AH see that.
Speaker 1: This is why I love this show. There's angles that
Speaker 1: I may not think of. And so yeah, people might say,
Speaker 1: oh boo the iPhone sixteen and he doesn't have MagSafe.
Speaker 1: Some people are welcoming that. Eric from Marana Arizona writes
Speaker 1: in you miss Jeff's issue with nord pass in your
Speaker 1: last podcast. He was going to a website login page,
Speaker 1: entering his username and then nord pass generated a password,
Speaker 1: expecting nord pass to inform the website of the new password.
Speaker 1: Since the site already had a stored password, the generated
Speaker 1: one wouldn't work, he needs to log in first as usual,
Speaker 1: then nord pass will ask if he wants to save
Speaker 1: that password. The password generator should only be used for
Speaker 1: setting up a new account or when resetting a password. Well,
Speaker 1: now I'm confused again. Maybe that's why I didn't understand
Speaker 1: the question the first time.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: Bob writes in I was listening to your radio show
Speaker 1: and thought, wow, he is really good. You lead with kindness,
Speaker 1: never make anyone feel like their question is stupid, and
Speaker 1: always take the time to answer.
Speaker 2: You're doing an amazing job, and I just wanted to
Speaker 2: let you know that. Well, thank you, Bob.
Speaker 1: Well, I take the time to answer because I'm on
Speaker 1: the radio anyway, So that makes sense, I guess.
Speaker 2: But no, thank you for that. I do appreciate it,
Speaker 2: and I guess we have another nice one.
Speaker 1: Derek from Wisconsin writes in Rich, I saw your Facebook
Speaker 1: post about the rude comment from a listener.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I posted that.
Speaker 1: A listener said I didn't respond to their email in time,
Speaker 1: so they said you lost a listener. I mean it
Speaker 1: was like a couple of days I missed their email. Okay,
Speaker 1: I get a lot of emails, I mean a lot.
Speaker 2: I saw your.
Speaker 1: Facebook post about that rude comment from a listener. You
Speaker 1: handled it beautifully. I've been a faithful and appreciative listener
Speaker 1: for many years. I always enjoy your passion for technology,
Speaker 1: lighthearted sense of humor. Yes, it is very lighthearted. It's
Speaker 1: more like dad humor and helpful tips and tricks. Although
Speaker 1: our paths have never crossed, I can honestly say you
Speaker 1: are the nicest person I've never met. Oh wow, I
Speaker 1: don't pay people to write this stuff. Keep up the
Speaker 1: tremendous work making a very positive difference in the world.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Derek. That's what I say to my wife
Speaker 1: every day. You see, I say, I'm making a difference
Speaker 1: in this world. I'm making a positive, great difference. You
Speaker 1: may not see it right now, but yes, the world does.
Speaker 11: No.
Speaker 2: I'm just you know, look, I love the emails. I
Speaker 2: do appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding when I tell you I get emails
Speaker 1: like this, and they just put a smile on my
Speaker 1: face because I get it. Like I'm not sitting here
Speaker 1: on a radio show talking about all the great emails
Speaker 1: I get from people. Oh wait, yes I am. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: never mind, okay, I'll stop. That's going to do it
Speaker 1: for this episode of the show. You can find links
Speaker 1: to everything I mentioned on the website go to Richontech
Speaker 1: dot tv. You can find me on social media. I
Speaker 1: am at rich on tech. Next week we are going
Speaker 1: to talk about how to spring clean your PC. Maybe
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Speaker 1: gonna talk about the best laptop for around five hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. There are so many
Speaker 1: ways you can spend your time. I do appreciate you
Speaker 1: spending it right here with me. Thanks everyone who makes
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Speaker 2: You for listening. My name is rich Dmiro. I will
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