WEBVTT - What to look for in a UV phone sanitizer 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:11.080 CS twenty twenty one, the show will go on Facebook 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:14.160 Now lets you delete your old posts in Bulk, a 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:17.520 new app that supports your favorite podcasts, plus your tech 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:20.840 questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich Damiro and this 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.439 is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk about 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:26.200 the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.520 also where I answer the questions that you send me. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:31.800 My name is Rich Dumiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:35.720 five in Los Angeles. Joining me is producer Megan Welcome 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:36.600 to the show. 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:38.519 Hello, how are you? 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.640 Oh that's a loaded question these days, I aw this 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:46.760 this is one of the most I thought that the 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.560 pandemic was one of the most interesting times of our lives, 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:56.200 and now with everything going on, it's just twenty twenty 0:00:56.480 --> 0:01:00.280 is a year that will will be one of the 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:05.080 most written about years in history. I think it's now 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.080 just to kind of get through the show. This is 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.399 a tech show. I talk about technology. It's a consumer 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:13.679 focused show, so I'm talking about the gadgets I think 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:17.319 you should know about. I'm talking about the apps and things. 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.080 So we don't really get into the news of the 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:24.200 day in this show, but I don't want to ignore 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:26.639 the fact that there is a lot happening in our world. 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.560 So I guess I'll leave it at sort of saying, 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.920 we know what's going on. We work in the news media, 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:36.560 so we are very well aware of the things that 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:39.600 are happening in this world. We are cognizant. We are learning. 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.440 I'm learning, Megan. I don't know about you, but I'm 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.640 learning a lot. I think the story that we did today, 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:51.440 you know, just hearing other voices and hearing just various 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.640 points of view is really helpful during this time. That's 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:58.760 really what's interesting to me. I don't pretend to know 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.960 it all, you know, nor do I pretend to think 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:06.360 that I understand where everyone's coming from. And so it's 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:11.080 been a process in life to understand everyone's standpoint and 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.079 why people do things and why people feel the way 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.000 they do. And you know, even at my age, I'm 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.680 still learning. And so that's kind of where I want 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:23.200 to leave that. It's been interesting. I hope you're safe. 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:28.080 I hope you're feeling well, both with pandemic and everything 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.440 that's going on elsewise. But we will get into our 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.679 podcast to talk about the stuff that I think you 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:35.640 should know about in the tech world. If you are 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.400 a regular listener of the podcast, you might have noticed 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.079 there was not an episode last week, and this is 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.000 the first time this has happened, and it was very 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.200 sad to me that Megan and I actually did record 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.519 a podcast and I could not put it out there 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:53.440 because the audio quality was so bad that it just 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:58.280 wasn't acceptable. And Megan sounded great. So your audio was 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.320 perfect to Megan, like switched it. 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.760 If there's a way to make it. Your audio is good. 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:06.720 Mind can be a little bit bad. 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:11.320 Somehow, it was recording the wrong microphone on my side, 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.760 and so it was recording just a random mic from 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.160 my computer versus the one I was actually speaking into, 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.240 So it just would have been bad to have people 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.560 try to listen to that. So I just decided that 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.200 we would not post it at all. So anyway, let's 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.200 get into the show. And one of the big stories 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.519 this week is kind of a crazy one that CS 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:34.920 twenty twenty one is actually going to happen as an 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:38.800 in person event. Now, Megan, you and I have not 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.320 discussed this. Whether you would even go, I don't know, 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.280 but let me let me give you kind of the background. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.640 I'll tell you about the blog post that that CS 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:51.080 put out. So every event has been canceled, but CS 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.360 is probably one of the biggest, is the biggest event 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.240 I go to every year. It's in Las Vegas. The 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.800 joke about CS is that you try not to get 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.080 sick at CS because there's so many people from all 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.840 around the world touching so many things in close proximity 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.800 in smoke filled casinos. I mean, it's just it's a 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.240 nightmare and it's dry out there. But here's what CS says. 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:16.479 CTA is the company that puts on cts CS. They 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.400 say that, yes, we will produce an in person event 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.560 in Las Vegas. We will continue to expand the show's 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.600 digital reach so you can see more live stream content. Okay, 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.360 but here's what they're going to do. Clean and sanitize 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:33.520 spaces around the show venue regularly and provide sanitation stations 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:37.960 so hand sanitizer, enable social distancing with wider aisles in 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.920 many exhibit areas and more space between seats and conference programs, 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:46.839 best practices issue best practices for attendees like wearing masks 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:50.000 and avoid shaking hands. Now, they didn't say they're going 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:52.479 to require people to wear masks, so I'm not sure 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.400 on that one and then limit touch points throughout the facility, 0:04:55.400 --> 0:05:00.640 including cashless systems for purchases, and then perhaps have thermal 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:05.760 scans at entry points. So I don't know. I mean, 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:10.239 we're still it's June, so we've got July, August, September, October, November, December, 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:14.320 so you've got you've got six months minimum for us 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.640 to figure out how this pandemic plays out after things 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.800 have reopened. Vegas opened this weekend and so if I 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:23.360 don't know if you saw any of the video from there, 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:27.760 but people flooded in and it's like almost back to normal, 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.440 except for the fact that there are some slot machines, 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.800 Like I think every other slot machine is closed or whatever. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.279 But you when you have that many people in one place, 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.960 you can't avoid it. You're you're with the people, right. 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.000 Yeah, Yeah, it's so crazy. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:44.880 I mean, we really don't fully understand coronavirus still, so 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:50.159 who knows what we'll know then, you know. But yeah, 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:54.160 I just think of like, especially as media, when we 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:57.680 see something that's really cool and everyone's crowding around it 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:59.680 and you're trying to get the best angle, and you 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:01.720 will you have like two hours. 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.839 At that event. It's like crunch time. I just can't. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.360 I don't know. I can't imagine these days, like how 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.320 that would how that would work. 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:13.680 You know, I can't either. And the other thing is 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.000 that there are people from all over the world, so 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.840 it's like you're gonna have folks from everywhere, and every country, 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.880 in every state, in every city has its own sort 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:27.720 of precautions and the way they're handling corona. So yeah, 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.800 if you're standing next to some guy from a country 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.120 that doesn't really care and just has let everyone just 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.240 do whatever they want and you're in, you know, it's 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.400 a big mix. So I find this very challenging. I 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.760 was I think I said this on I forget if 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:42.919 I said it on TV. But you know, I've been 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:44.840 going to see Yes for like I think ten years now, 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.359 and I was actually kind of secretly inside looking forward 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.320 to the fact that like, oh, no pressure this year 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.680 because I can't go, it's not going to happen. And 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:54.560 now that it's happening, I actually do need to make 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:58.400 a decision of whether I am going. Right now I 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:03.880 am I'm thinking thinking yes, just because you know, we 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.840 have six months, but of course it will be something 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.080 I think that everyone's going to be evaluating. I think 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.360 it's not really important what I think. It's important what 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.440 these companies are thinking, because if I'm a Microsoft or 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:19.800 a Huawei or a Panasonic or a Samsung, I have 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.320 to decide now if I'm going to ditch this event. 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.679 And I think that's actually going to decide for us 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.760 whether this event happens, and not the people that go. 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:32.880 I think it's really going to be the companies. So 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:37.800 we will see, right. I think only you can hear this, Megan, 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:39.360 So tell me is this your right sound? 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:44.080 Yes? That's the sound question time. 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:49.360 Okay, So this first question comes from Robert hi Rich. 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:53.760 I saw your story on police scanner apps, specifically the 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:57.960 fifty app. I understand that police agencies in Orange County 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.320 scramble their signals so scanner cannot pick them up. 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:02.600 Is this true? 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.720 Is there an app whereby I can hear police calls 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:07.480 from Orange County agencies? 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.400 Now, this is interesting. We did this story on TV 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:15.040 this week that the police scanner apps were the top 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:18.280 downloads on the app store, and for obvious reasons, people 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:22.000 people were monitoring what was happening in their communities, and 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.880 it's you know, probably a mix of curiosity, safety, and 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.960 maybe avoidance, I don't know, but all three of those things. 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.960 So an app called five zero Radio Police Scanner, which 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.960 is five dollars is the number one was the number 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:38.640 one paid app. I'm not sure if it still is, 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.120 but could you imagine the person who coded that app 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:45.160 probably a while ago, and all of a sudden they 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:49.200 just overnight see like, oh wow, I've got a lot 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:52.920 of downloads, I'm making a lot of money. Number three 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.959 right now in utilities, it's got two hundred and thirteen 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.559 thousand ratings. And let's see when this guy came out 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.280 with this app all the way back in twenty thirteen. 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.280 So I think this is probably going to be his 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:10.400 biggest he or she's biggest payday in you know, let's 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.040 say June's let's say it takes some a month to 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:15.160 get the money July. Let's say in August, this person's 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:17.920 going on a nice vacation because they are going to 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:22.920 get hey right now, but not right now, Okay. So 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.440 the other thing is okay, so that's five dollars. There 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:27.960 is a free version. 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:31.160 Of the free version. With the free free version, but 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.000 I'm assuming there's ads, so he's probably getting paid from 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:34.400 that too. 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.040 Yeah, he's probably getting paid that way too. Now, you 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.640 worked on the desk at KTLA, and remember one of 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.440 your first stories, I believe, was Citizen, which is the 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.640 app that if you're not familiar with Citizen, this is 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.160 also beginning a lot of downloads. It's an app that 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.959 listens to the police scanner. Using artificial intelligence, it transcribes 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.480 what's being said on those scanners, and then it kind 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:58.920 of uses humans to filter and push out those notifications 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:00.959 to people that just live in that area. And I 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.080 don't know about you, but my Citizen's been going off 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:06.960 the hook lately. I'm getting all kinds of alerts from 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.960 things happening in the neighborhood just in general. Yeah. So, 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:15.040 now so we when we did this story, we talked 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.760 to our guy at KTLA that's been listening to scanners 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:19.800 for years, and he said that one of the things 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:23.280 that cities are doing is they are scrambling their signals 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:25.440 the police departments so that people can't really listen to 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:30.360 these without very expensive equipment. Is that you're understanding, no, exactly. 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:34.920 Yeah, I mean KATLA obviously has the really good scanners, 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.920 so we can like hear all, you know, what's going on, 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:39.360 But I don't think. 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.359 I don't think Citizen will pick up everything. 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.120 I think, well, I think Citizen does pick up the 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.439 scrambled ones. I think they do. That's why they're not 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.080 launched in every city. But when I looked at this 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.360 police scanner app and you've maybe you've used it more 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.080 than I have, I didn't see Los Angeles as one 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:56.640 of the cities. So I don't know if they are, 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:00.120 you know, I don't know if they're sort of getting 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.320 the scrambled ones. And i'm you know, according to Vance 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:06.240 from what I remember, he said, you can get them 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.000 de scrambled, but it costs a lot of money, like 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.080 the equipment, So most average people that buy like a 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.520 CB scanner, you know, or a not a CEB scanner, 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.280 a police scanner on Amazon would not hear the scrambled 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.720 stuff because those are maybe you know, fifty one hundred dollars. 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:22.719 So anyway to answer the question that we got, it's 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:26.240 really can I listen to them in Orange County? I'm 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.640 not sure. It just depends. If they're scrambled, then you're 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.520 not gonna be able to listen to them. I did 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.040 recommend or I am recommending Citizen for a lot of folks. 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:37.240 I'm not sure if Citizen is in Orange County, because again, 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.680 they have to set up the equipment to listen to 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:44.240 the scanners to be able to offer their services in 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.440 these places. So that that's a part of it that, 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:49.800 you know, I just don't have the answer to. You 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:51.440 just have to download it and see if it works 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.439 in your area. So that's that's kind of like a 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:59.559 kind of the answer to that, huh. But anyway, those 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.439 apps are very popular right now, that's for sure. And 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.920 I'm excited for that guy's pay day, that's for sure. 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.520 Right now. I wonder how many downloads he got. Is 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:09.960 there a way to figure that out? 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.760 There's some there's some companies that try to say how many, 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.440 but I mean, this says it was downloaded to over 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.720 two hundred thousand times, but who really knows. I mean, 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.200 you don't know. And the other thing is, it's like 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.559 you said, I would I would gather that most people 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.000 are probably downloading the free one, and then some are 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.200 downloading the paid I downloaded. 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:30.640 The free okay, okay, but. 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.319 You know it's still the top charge. Is an interesting thing. 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.920 It's not like the most paid app. It's it's it's 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.400 by time so it's not really like it's at that 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.840 moment kind of thing. So yeah, so if you looked 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:44.720 at it right now, it may not be there anymore. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:46.320 Like it may have sprung to the top and then 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.360 it's you know, it's back down a couple of notches. 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.240 But needless to say, he's doing okay at this point. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.120 All right, this was an interesting feature that Facebook launched 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:59.360 this week that totally got lost in the news because 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.480 of everything going on. But this is a feature called 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:08.280 Manage Activity. Now. Facebook is an app that it's kind 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.960 of like your It's kind of like your attic, right, 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.560 you put a lot of stuff up there and you 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:14.720 kind of forget about it. 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:16.360 Oh yeah, yeah. 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:18.600 It reminds me. Have you ever watched that movie Christmas 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:20.920 Vacation where they he puts the gifts up in the 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.120 attic for his wife for Christmas and he finds him 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:24.360 like five years later. 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:28.760 That I need to watch at. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.480 Oh one of my favorite movies. It's maybe watch it 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.320 during Christmas time. This is not the right time, but 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.360 it's I mean, it's always one of my favorites. Okay, 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:42.439 So Facebook Manage Activity lets you The best way I 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.040 can describe this is, think of all the posts that 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:50.199 you've made on your Facebook page as emails, and imagine 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.520 you can just delete those emails easily. You can filter 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.920 those emails by which ones had a picture, which ones 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:00.880 didn't have a picture, which ones have you know, just 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.640 a text post by date. You can say, oh, I 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:05.880 just want to look at the things that happened in 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.800 the last year. Or let's say you had a partner 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.000 during college freshman year and you want to just delete 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.199 all those posts. But you don't have to just delete them. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.000 You can archive them as well. So now you can 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.520 literally go through and just click the ones that you 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.400 want to get rid of and either delete them or 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.680 archive them. And archive is kind of a cool option 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:28.440 because it means they still exist in a place on Facebook, 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.440 but that nobody can see them. Deleting is like sometimes 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.280 you don't your past is your past, and yeah, you 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.520 know you don't necessarily want to just eradicate. 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.840 It, but could you imagine like if you had gone 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.880 on in not Instagram, Facebook when you were like. 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:47.120 Eleven, Oh my god, I know I have all these pictures. 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.720 If you if I search like Megan mcmonagall photos, or 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:52.680 like if I just go back and photos, if even 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.680 if I'm tagged and I've deleted the tag, it still 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.600 comes up because that person has like my name, you 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:00.560 just can't click on me. 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:02.720 And so I have all these pictures. I'm like, oh 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:03.520 my gosh, I. 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:07.640 Don't want this on Facebook, but you know whatever, that's 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:09.400 what happens when you join when you're twelve. 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.000 And that's the thing. Like, these kids are growing up 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.400 on these services, and I think that's why they're gravitating 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:19.400 to things like Instagram, stories and Snapchat, because why do 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.880 you want that permanent record? You know? Now, I will 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.680 say in some cases I love it, Like last night, 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.960 Lindsey or this morning. You know, you get these Facebook 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.240 memories and she came over and said, look at this. 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.040 This was like nine years ago you putting together the 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:37.000 crib for Parker in our old place. And that's amazing, 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.480 Like I love that, but you know, it's like that 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.760 had to be posted. And so when you don't post, 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:43.800 and when you do the stories and stuff, a lot 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:47.920 of that is lost because it's gone now stories. I've 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.440 noticed that Facebook is kind of like they do our 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.240 Instagram does keep the stories in your archive. Most people 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:56.440 don't realize that, but you can see what's in your stories, 0:15:56.440 --> 0:16:00.240 but that's only for your eyes. The other thing, if 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.920 you use Google Photos, they've started to do what's called 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.160 I think it's memories or something, where at the top 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.920 of your Google Photos library they have one year ago today, 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:13.240 two years ago today, three years ago, and it just 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.480 flipping through those is really cool because you forget ten 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:20.080 years went by this fast. Oh my gosh, yeah, ten 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:21.800 years ago today, I was sitting at my desk doing 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:23.360 a podcast, just like right now. 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:26.320 My life hasn't changed. 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:30.920 Nothing's changed. This feature again, is called Manage Activity. I 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.840 could not find it on the Facebook app. It's going 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.080 to launch on mobile first. I could not find it 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.160 on the Facebook app on iOS or Android. I checked both, 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:41.840 so I don't know if it's launched yet or if 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:45.520 it's rolling out slowly. But if I can't find it, 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:47.760 you're not gonna be able to find it. So they 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.280 probably have not launched it and or they're doing a 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.920 really bad job of putting it out there. But from 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:54.840 what I understood, it was supposed to be available like 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:58.080 this week on Tuesday, I believe it was. So anyway, 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.160 look for Manage Activity if you want to just go 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.120 and clean up your Facebook posts from the past. 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:07.880 I'm definitely downloading that. Okay, This next question comes from 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:13.080 Debbie thoughts and recommendations on UVC wands or other devices 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.720 to use for cleaning hotel rooms and other virus type 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.200 gunk looking forward to your response. I mean general germ 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:24.840 of vogue now in hyperdrive with gunky people resisting public courtesy. 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.199 Gonky people gunky love that. 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.520 I don't think I've ever heard that term. 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.640 No, I just heard like a person. 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.000 Like I've heard grows, but not like gunky. 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.880 Yeah, well, this is a great This is a great 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.399 preview of an upcoming story on KTLA because I've gotten 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:47.600 so many emails about these sanitizers. One thing I've noticed, 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:53.960 whoever is advertising on Facebook and Instagram represents a majority 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.800 of the questions that I get email to me. Remember 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:58.840 those copper keys. We did a story on the touch 0:17:58.920 --> 0:17:59.720 free tools. 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.880 Yeah, now it's an ad on Oh my gosh. 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.679 It's all over I know everywhere, It's everywhere, and so 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.119 we were way ahead of that. But the reason why 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.800 we were way ahead is because I've got this army 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:16.280 of folks out there that email me and they're asking 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.480 me the stuff. They're kind of like my folks on 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.600 the ground. You know, I live a very insulated life, right. 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.520 I don't watch TV. I don't watch anything. I don't 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:26.600 look at anything. I don't go anywhere. I don't talk 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:29.600 to anyone. I just live in my house by myself 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:33.520 and don't do anything. I'm in a bubble. And so 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:35.520 I have this army of folks on the ground that 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:37.919 actually go out to places, and they actually look at ads, 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.119 and they actually watch things on Netflix, and they actually 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:43.440 see things. And so they're the ones that are telling 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.040 me what's happening in this world. And so you be, 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:50.399 sanitizers are clearly being advertised very heavily. And so I 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.080 did do research. I talked to an expert on uv 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:57.919 UVC does work to kill stuff. Now, with that said, 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.720 what I gathered from my interview is that not all 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.120 of these devices are made the same. Stay away from 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:08.040 the cheap ones. That's number one. Number two, you want 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:11.200 one that has a lot of lights inside around all 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:14.640 edges of your gadget because that means it will get 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:18.120 the maximum coverage area. These lights only work if they're 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:22.400 one hundred percent like on the like if it can 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.439 see the area, it doesn't work like if it it 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:28.280 doesn't work if there's a little shadow. It's not going 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.280 to get that virus or that bacteria or whatever. 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:30.960 Oh wow. 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:34.400 So I tested three of these. Now when I say test, 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:36.639 I can't tell you whether they work. I'm not sitting 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:39.520 there going, oh, there's a staff a staff bug on 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:41.720 this phone and then I've zapped it and it's gone. 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.159 I don't know about that. But I tested them and 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:46.280 seeing what they look like in the features they have, 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.240 and so I'll have those on KTLA. But the bottom 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:51.160 line is, if you're going to buy one of these things, 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:54.199 which our UV guy that I interviewed actually said you 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:57.320 probably shouldn't, like, don't waste your money. He said that 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:01.520 seventy percent alcohol wipe is your best spat. So just 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:03.960 get those alcohol wipes if you can use them on 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.040 your phone, and that will clean it probably the best way. 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:10.240 The problem with that system is that it does wear 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:14.080 down the coating on your phone that resists fingerprints. And 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:15.560 so I noticed this with my phone. 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:17.520 Unless like, if you have a cover. 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:22.199 Either one, if you have yeah, if you use just 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:24.480 you know, most people have a screen protector on their phone, 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:26.880 and so on my iPhone, I did have a screen protector, 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:28.920 but I kept cleaning it almost like every other day. 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:31.760 And I noticed that the fingerprints got to a place 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.399 where it was like it looked like an oil slick 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:36.239 on my phone when I was using it, because it 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:40.040 was it just had no they call olifolick coating. It 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:43.200 was all. It was all burned off. So if I 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:45.280