WEBVTT - Best Buy tests a smaller format store 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:14.800 Best Buy unveils a smaller store. Google Maps begins work 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:19.040 on its metaverse, an unlimited plan for just twenty five 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:22.640 bucks a month plus Your tech questions answered? What's going 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:25.599 on on Richdemiro And this is Rich on Tech, the 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:27.800 podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:31.200 you should know about and I answer the questions you 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:35.640 send me. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:40.680 in Los Angeles. Welcome to the show, Welcome to my 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:45.640 friends on Instagram Live. Well, that's gonna do it for 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:47.360 this episode of the show. Oh, it's just kidding. I 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.920 was reading the at the end of the script. Oh 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:54.200 it's Friday where I am. You know, it could be Monday, 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.400 could be Tuesday, could be any day when you're listening, 0:00:56.400 --> 0:01:00.240 but today is Friday when I record this. So welcome 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:02.800 to the weekend. If you are listening to this before 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.160 the weekend starts, if you listen to it after the weekend, 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.399 prep for your next weekend. So it looks like my 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:11.840 wife and kids are joining on the live stream as 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:16.240 well this week. Let me just explain one cool thing 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:19.400 about and I already I think I explained this last week. 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:21.800 I'm you know, I don't want to tell the same story. 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:23.319 I'm trying to think, when did. 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:25.240 I go to that? Yeah? I did? All right, Uh, 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:26.920 do I have a story for this week? I don't 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:28.720 really have a story for this this week. 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:30.800 Usually I start the show with like a little, tiny story, 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.360 but I am so unprepared that, oh, you know. 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:36.840 I'll tell you I got fitted for a suit this week. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:41.600 So I was listening to a podcast, and I guess 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.600 this goes to show the power of social media marketing. 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:46.640 But I was listening to a podcast that I love. 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.760 It's called The All In Pod and it's hosted by 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:56.639 Jason Calacanis and others. And he mentioned Indo Indo Chino, 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.240 Indo Chino, Indo Chino suits and he's like, oh, should 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.560 get an Endochino suit. He just mentioned it in passing 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:04.480 on the podcast, and I looked it up. I'm like, oh, 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.640 that's kind of cool. So it's like a tech startup, 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:08.560 but they're doing suits. So you go in there and 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.800 you get measured for a suit and they make this 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.960 custom suit and then they ship it to you. And 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:18.280 so I go into the Americana at the Glendelle Americana 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:19.799 make my appointment. 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.760 This little guy like measures me, you know, I call 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:23.280 him little guy. 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.520 I mean he's like he was like a younger guy, 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.640 younger than me, I guess, And so he measures me 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.960 all up and you know, he's you know, taken every 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.800 single like it's unbelievable how many little measurements. Maybe this 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:36.760 is just typical if you get a fitted sue. I've 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:40.040 never done that before, so I usually buy like a 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.480 you know, off the shelf kind of thing or off 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:46.160 the rack. And so anyway, I got all measured up 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.679 and my suit is arriving in a couple of weeks. 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.320 And I thought it was pretty cool. So we'll see now. 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.720 The neat thing is that once you have all of 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.959 your sizes in their system, now you can just log 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:58.880 in on the website and buy another sue. 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:00.840 And so I thought that was pretty cool. 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.880 So if this suit fits, which I hope it does, 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:05.960 it better fit well with all the measurements they took. 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:08.400 It would be really cool to just be able. 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.480 To go on there when I save up again for 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:12.800 another suit and just buy another one in a different 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:13.520 color or something. 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:15.800 But I've been to, you know, a couple weddings, and I'm. 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.560 Always like this guy that you know, there's always like 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:22.400 these guys at weddings that just look better than everyone else, 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:23.920 like they just dress nicer. 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:25.639 And I've never been that guy. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.320 I'm always like the kind of you know, I'll wear 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.200 something nice, but it's never that nice. And so after 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.200 this last wedding, I went to like my brother looked 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.440 really good, my brother in law looked really good, and 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:35.840 I was like, you know what, I'm gonna get a 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.160 nice suit for my next wedding. And so I've got 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:42.040 a wedding coming up, and not mine. My wedding was 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.960 a long time ago, but I got a wedding coming up, 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:46.200 and I don't know if this is gonna make it 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.600 in time, but I figured, you know what, let's look 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.080 nice and you can really customize everything, Like I thought 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:53.400 when they start started going through, like oh do you 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:54.400 want brown buttons? 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.000 Do you want green buttons? Do you want black buttons? 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:58.440 Do you want the notch to be this way? 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.320 Do you want the Everything was a custom and so 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:03.880 I was like, Oh, here comes the sales pitch, and 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:08.040 sure enough, everything's included in the price, and Jessica's ore 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.840 j Jay Singh is asking what the pricing is, like, 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.240 very reasonable, I think for a custom suit. 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:16.240 It was like four hundred and. 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.960 Fifty dollars for the base suit, and then they go 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.080 up from there. I just got the base and so 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.920 everything's included in that price, and they do run deals 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:26.440 like I got like twenty five bucks off because I 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.240 was like a first time customer. So yeah, it's expensive, 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.080 but it's something that you hopefully wear for a long time. 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.039 And at the same time I asked the guy, I 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:35.560 was like, well, what if I start like working out, 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.560 Like what if I'm what if I get bigger than 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:41.200 this suit or whatever? And he's like, don't, Like, okay, 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.240 So I guess I have to stay just. 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.840 The way I am. All right, let's get to the 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:52.159 first story of the week. Oh wow, pause to poor connection. 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:54.440 Let's get to the first story of the week. 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:58.839 Best Buy is testing out a new, smaller format digital 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:02.040 first store. What does this sound like? It sounds like 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:06.400 the Apple Store, So first ever digital first store. This 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:10.360 is a five thousand square foot store in I think 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.520 it's in North Carolina and so open. 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.039 It opened this week. And here's the deal. 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.040 So instead of having a bunch of stuff all stocked, 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.000 you know, stacked up to the ceiling, this store has 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.640 a bunch of stuff on you know kind of displays 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:26.840 and then you scan a QR code if you want 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:28.359 to buy it, and then they bring it up to you, 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:29.880 just like the Apple Store. 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:30.800 So the Apple Store. 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.839 Doesn't have like thousands of Mac computers stacked up. Remember 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.080 like the old big box stores, I mean Best Buy, 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.599 I guess you know, they would have a computer monitor. 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.680 They'd have three hundred of them stacked up in the 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.000 center of the store. You just pick one up and go. 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.880 And so they realize that stores are getting smaller. They 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.200 don't need all this space, and so why not just 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.160 have a smaller format store. People are so used to 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.279 using their phones. They scan the QR code, the associate 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.839 brings it out from the back, You finish the transaction, 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:02.760 and you go. So they've got home audio, theater, home theater, 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:07.520 audio computing, headphones, wearables, fitness, cell phones, cameras, smart home, 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.000 small appliances. There are no big appliances, but they will 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:15.680 have TV. So they do have TVs, but these are 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:20.159 all curated. So the idea is that this curated selection 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:22.679 is like a couple of things, not a lot of things. 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:26.039 And Steve It's funny mentioned on the Instagram Live they 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:30.080 used to call that service merchandise. And absolutely when I 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.760 grew up in New Jersey, we had service merchandise and 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:35.360 there was these big there wasn't even anything on display. 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.479 It's just these big giant books that you would flip 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.080 through like a catalog and you would write down the 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.240 numbers on this little piece of paper. 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:44.800 You would give it to the associate. 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.479 They would ring everything up and then you'd watch these 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.359 giant box come skidding down some sort of like weird 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.640 conveyor belt system they had. It was so weird as 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.160 a kid to see that, but I thought it was 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.920 really cool because it was very efficient. And you know, 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.160 over the years we got to this like self service 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.839 model with these big box stores, and now we're sort 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:05.560 of going back to the idea of, well, we don't 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.360 necessarily need all this stock up front, like this new 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.160 Amazon style store. You know, all the stock is in 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.360 the back and you scan it and then they bring 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:14.920 it to you. Now, we were just in there at 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.120 the Americana as well, and I'll be honest, it was 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.240 a little bit of a process. You know, you scan 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:22.480 the stuff, the clothes you want to try on with 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:24.560 the barcode, and then they bring it to you. 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:25.640 And it took a while. 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.360 It was like a good ten minutes and with two 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.240 kids running around the store. My wife, you know, we 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:31.680 were like, I don't know if we want to do this. 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:33.320 I don't know if we want to wait, but we 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:37.160 decided that it's the best if you're if you're by 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.400 yourself and you have a lot of time, because she 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:41.120 was like, I'll just buy it on Amazon. I'll buy 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.560 the two sizes and return it. And I said, well, 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.560 we're right here. Why go through all that. You know, 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.920 it's a lot of waste by buying the medium and 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.320 the large size or the small and the extra whatever, 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:53.360 you know, because that's what a lot of people do 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:54.520 and they buy clothes online. 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:55.840 It's it's kind of this. 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:58.320 You know, you try it and you have to return 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.120 the one that doesn't fit. And so by having that 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.040 store there, you can try them on in the store, 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:06.440 and you know, if you have your time, if you've 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.640 got the patience, it's actually a better experience because you 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:11.960 leave with what you need and you know the size 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.040 that you want because you've tried it on. I bought 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.640 some jeans there. I bought Amazon jeans, Amazon Essentials. They're 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:20.480 not honestly, I've worn them a couple of times they're 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:24.200 not my favorite jeans. It's funny, after all these years, 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.600 I came back to Levi's that I was putting them 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.160 on this morning, and I was like, God, I really 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.920 like these genes, Like they're just standard Levi's jeans. And 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:34.600 for me, I'm the kind of person once I find 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.680 something that fits, I just keep buying that over and over. 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:41.440 Like I like this one T shirt from Coals of 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.440 all places, and I got one of them from my 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:45.280 mom as a gift. 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:46.640 I put it on, I was like, oh, I like 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:48.160 the way this fits. It's a little stretchy. 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:50.640 It just it when it washes, it doesn't like get 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:52.719 all bent out of shape. And so I went back 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:55.600 to Coles and I literally bought every single color of 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.480 that T shirt and every you know, that's it. It's 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:00.680 just like in these genes, I'm going to buy another 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.360 pair of these genes when I like them. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:06.440 Also, Target genes fit very well. The Good Fellow brand. 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:07.320 I like those as well. 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:12.160 Anyway, this store is already open, and they do have 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.280 stuff where you can grab and go, like kind of 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.080 like cases, you know, phone cases and stuff like that, 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.080 so they do have anyway, it's kind of a departure 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:21.720 for Best bikesse we think of them as a big 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:26.240 box store, but this digital first, small format store is 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:27.760 kind of like the new way of the world. I 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.480 don't think we're going to see them building a lot 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:33.640 of giant big box stores in the future. Maybe I'm wrong, 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:35.760 but I think that this idea of kind of bridging 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:39.199 that digital and kind of physical gap is kind of 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:45.000 like the new way of the world. We'll say, all right, 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.080 let's get to the first question of the podcast. Sharon 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:52.040 writes in do I need Windows Defender on my Samsung 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.200 Galaxy S twenty one? And to be quite honest, I 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:59.480 didn't even know that Microsoft had sort of an anti 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:04.760 virus program for Android. Microsoft Defender is what I recommend 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.960 you should have on your computer if you're running Windows. 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.439 It's built into Windows eleven, and so I would recommend 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.760 you having that up to date, having that active. And 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:18.640 I don't really know if you necessarily need a separate 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:22.240 antivirus program on your computer. The number one way that 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:26.000 viruses get on computers these days is really through malware 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.760 when you are clicking links that come in through email 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.320 and so most of the time when you're surfing the web, 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.559 you're probably not going to get a side I call 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.360 it like a side by. 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:39.640 Download of an app. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.199 You know, it's really if you're downloading an app that's 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:46.000 an executable like an ex app, and you double click it, 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.800 those are the biggest danger to your system. But Windows 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.880 has gotten really good about figuring out, you know, trusted 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:55.520 developers and trusted apps versus untrusted apps. So if you're 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.400 downloading some random app and it's untrusted, you'll get a 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:00.360 message on your computer saying, hey, do you really want 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:04.560 to run this? You know, PDFs can also be a concern, 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:09.040 and also word files, like real word files that have 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.760 macros in them can also be a problem. On your phone, 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.240 I think things are a little bit less scary because 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:18.520 you know, on Android, yes you can install an APK 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.719 like an application, you can sideload it, which means you 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.360 can get that from anywhere. But again, the phones have 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.160 gotten a little bit smarter about saying, hey, you sure 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.440 you want to run this application? It can harm your system, 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.080 so it gives you that little like pause. 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:33.800 So let's see. 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:38.079 Microsoft Defender is a unified online security app provides individuals 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:43.240 online security for your personal life. It doesn't really say 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:48.560 what it does, but it looks like, yeah, it looks 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.880 like it just kind of protects. It scans your apps, 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.040 It scans your link malware, web protection, and history, so 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:57.559 it can't hurt. Look, if you feel like you are 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.839 clicking a bunch of stuff, get a bunch of random 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.080 apps on your phone, sure this can't hurt. I personally 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.680 think that most of the time, your biggest protection is 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:11.000 to really just know what you're clicking, the links that 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.120 you're clicking, the apps that you're downloading, and whatever you're doing. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.559 Just always be cautious. I think the biggest one of 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.600 the biggest problems too is phishing. So when you get 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.760 these emails from Amazon that says, hey, did you just 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.520 make a six hundred and fifty dollars five dollars purchase? 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.199 If not, don't worry, just click this link or give 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.680 us a phone call. And that's really where you get nabbed, 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.520 because those are just scam artists that are waiting for 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.280 your phone call. And when you call them, they say, okay, 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.560 let's verify your Amazon account. Please give me your email address. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.480 You give them that, okay, Now we're going to send 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:45.120 you a link or a text to your phone with 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.520 a code. Please give us that code so we can 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.040 verify it to you. And as soon as you give 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:50.800 them that code, they steal your account. So that's what 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:53.720 you need to really be concerned about, more so than 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.200 just you know, these blanket defender programs that give you 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.160 maybe a false sense of security. I think that you 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:03.319 really really need to just stay on your toes when 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:08.280 it comes to what you're doing on the internet. All right, 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:12.280 what should I talk about next? Let's see, I thought 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:13.200 this was interesting. 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.240 Boost Mobile. Remember Boost Mobile? 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.679 So Boost Mobile is now owned by Dish Network or 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:20.319 I guess they don't even know if they're Dish network. 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:20.880 I think it's just. 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:27.120 Called Dish I is called Dish Network. So Boost is 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.520 coming back. You know, remember boost was it used to 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.760 be It was owned by Sprint at one point. Then 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.480 I think it was owned by T Mobile at one 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.719 point they sold it to Dish. So now they're relaunching 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:42.439 this entire, this entire wireless carrier and it runs I 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:44.520 asked them, I said, hey, what is this run on? 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:46.800 And they told me it runs on a combination of 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:50.000 T Mobile and AT and T. Now I'm guessing it 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.680 leans more towards the T Mobile than the AT and 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:54.840 T but I could be wrong. 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:55.240 I don't know. 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.840 So if T Mobile works really well in your area, 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:00.480 then maybe this is a good thing. But it's it's 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.720 twenty five dollars a month for unlimited. It's not a 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:07.880 temporary promotion. There's no you know, like Mint Mobile is 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.920 really good, but they do require you to pay like 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.920 three months at a time to get their best rates. 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:18.520 And so also, you know, Visible is really good and 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.160 they have a twenty five dollars plan, but you have 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.880 to be in like a family like a pay plan thing, 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:26.760 which is easy to do. But you know, a lot 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:30.280 of the carriers, when you see the prices advertised, they 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.600 are because you're buying four lines. Like it's very misleading 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.240 when you're seeing these ads on TV or these ads online. 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.640 It's like Verizon forty dollars, fifty dollars. That's as if 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.560 you're buying four lines. So if you have one line, 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.440 it's way more expensive. It's like closer to ninety dollars. 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:50.800 So this is twenty five dollars unlimited. They say it's 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.040 about fifty percent less than what consumers pay for the 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.760 same five G networks on other carriers, And it's twenty five. 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:57.120 Dollars a month. 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.920 You get unlimited talk, unlimited text, and five G when 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:01.680 you're on autopay, so you do have to be on 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.600 auto pay. This is sort of a prepaid plan, but 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.000 it's you know, you just put on autopay and you're good. 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:08.720 So what I recommend this. 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:13.040 I have requested boost Mobile to send me a SIM 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.000 card to test it out, so they will send me that. 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.000 I'll get that in the next couple of weeks. I 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:19.600 will test it out. I'll put it in a phone. 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:21.120 I will just kind of put it through its motion, 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.440 see how it is, See what the speeds you're like, 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.720 See if I become slowed down at any time during 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.640 the month. But you know, they I think the fine 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.160 print says that if you use over thirty gigabytes, they 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.640 can slow you down. And that's like every wireless carrier. 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.560 I think T Mobile does have a plan, and AT 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.440 and T have plans that are like premium plans that 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.600 say we will not slow you down no matter what. 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:44.880 But you just have to make sure. 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.760 I think for most people, if you're just using this regularly, 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.680 you're not going to run into that giant that throttling 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.240 unless you're doing a ton on your phone, but I 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.320 think for the average person you'll be fine. So twenty 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:01.040 five bucks definitely something they consider. Again, I think this 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.200 is gonna probably lean heavily on T Mobile, some on 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.320 AT and T. But again that's another thing that I'll 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.720 test when I'm in my testing is see kind of 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.880 like what kind of eighteen you know, if it's saying 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:14.520 it's on the AT and T network or if it's 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:15.080 saying it's. 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:16.720 On the T Mobile network. 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.720 Extra long nails Honey says, they do slow you down, 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:26.760 So okay, there you go. So I think that I 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:31.480 have Verizon personally, and honestly, I keep waiting for the 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.360 day when they slow me down, and they pretty much 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.280 never do. And I use a ton of data, Like 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.680 I'm talking tons and tons of data. So it's one 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:42.480 of these things where I think if you're just using 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.520 it regularly, it should be fine. If you're in a 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:48.360 congested area, it could be a little bit, a little 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.600 bit trickier. All right, let's get to the next question 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:58.640 of the podcast here. All right, Derek says, hey, Rich, 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.720 are you a big fan of air time? If so, 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:02.640 when you attach them to luggage, do you hide them 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.080 in a pouch or do you attach them to the 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.280 outside for others to see. What are your favorite air 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:10.160 tag accessories? Also, besides luggage, backpacking keys, what other areas 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:14.879 are air tags useful? Enjoy the Day, Love the Podcast, Derek, Derek, 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:16.520 I am a big fan of air tags. I think 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.320 they're fantastic. Although I've been using them for a year. 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:23.800 And I will tell you a story. My wife did 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.000 lose an air tag at the beach when I first 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:27.639 gave it to her for her keys. I guess she 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:29.760 detached her keys from the air tag for some reason, 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.000 I don't know why, left it at the beach and 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:35.119 we did find it a year later. So it was 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.560 still just kind of percolating down at the beach at 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.959 a restaurant and it was still there. Someone put it 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.600 at the I guess the Lost and Found and they 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.399 had it there. So we were at the beach and 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.560 I said, oh my gosh, this is still here. Let's 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:51.800 go inside and see if if it's you know, with 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.040 the Lost and Found folks, And sure enough they it 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:56.240 was beeping in the Lost and Found and it was 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.920 still there. So there's been plenty of stories of people 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.840 of finding these things. My one tip to you right now, 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.240 if you've been using an air tag since they came out. 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:07.520 I would definitely check on. 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.880 The battery situation because batteries are going dead on these things, 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:12.000 because it's been about a year. 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:15.000 So I have air tags on my luggage. 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:19.120 I've got them on my keys, what else I've I've 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:22.440 put them in my kid's pocket when we went to Disneyland, 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:24.679 and I just kind of like, had you know, an 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.760 air tag there, you know, you could put them anywhere. 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.080 Whatever you want, whatever you want to keep track of, 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:32.480 you can do it now. Like I said, that was 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.439 a rare case scenario with the keys with my wife. 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.119 I have yet to have to use these things, but 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.119 I have seen where things are. So I've looked on 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.320 the find my app and I've seen, Okay, my backpack 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:44.639 is here. 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:45.800 I know my keys are here. 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:48.800 But I haven't had a real like mission to find 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:51.760 something that I've needed that's been attached to an air tag, 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.080 like my keys, or like a lost wallet. 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:57.199