WEBVTT - Rich On Tech Radio Show 002 - January 14, 2023 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.120 Samsungs. That's a date on veil, It's newest smartphones. The 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:08.840 new scam with a yucky name. Yet another streaming service 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:14.600 is raising prices. Plus your tech questions answered? What's going on? 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:17.320 I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:19.319 show where I talked about the tech stuff I think 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.599 you should know about. It's also the place where I 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:26.840 answer your questions. Phone lines are open at triple A 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.640 Rich one oh one. That's one eight eight eight rich 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.800 one oh one. And once again, my name is Rich Dmiro, 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:37.120 tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles and 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:41.680 now coming to you live on radio station's Coast to Coast. Now, 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.400 as many of you know, Leo Deporte has retired from 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:49.000 radio and this is the new show, so welcome, very exciting. 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:53.200 This is episode number two. Now, many of you wrote 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.600 to me, tweeted me, DMed me. You let me know 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.120 that you listened last week, and I am very grateful 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.600 about that. Thank you. But I did not realize that 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:06.640 I had so many esteemed radio critics in my audience. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:10.640 It was kind of fun to hear from so many 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:15.319 of you. Alex said, good job, but yeah, you sounded 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.039 a little nervous because of that, it seemed like you 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.640 were rushing deep breath and you'll be fine. Okay, here 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:25.480 we go, deep breath. I know you know. When I 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:27.479 was growing up, I learned you didn't want any dead 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:29.720 airtime on the radio. So I felt like you had 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.680 to fill every second with something, with some word, with 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:37.800 some phrase, with something pithy, something interesting. Mario said, avoid 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:42.280 speaking with what could be described as vocal fillers, such 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:46.839 as certain uses of the word whatever. Did I really 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:47.440 say whatever? 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:47.840 A lot? 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:54.120 Whatever? Randy said, great start, good guests, and excellent content. 0:01:54.560 --> 0:02:00.280 Looking forward to your positive and uplifting attitude during the show. Okay, 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:02.960 I like that. I think things are getting better. Let's see. 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:08.280 Carooda said, good luck on your new radio slash streaming show. 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.880 I am listening to streaming on my PC at home 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:16.359 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Okay, that's cool. Maybe we should do 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.840 a remote show from Honolulu, Coroda. Would you be good 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:24.840 with that? I think so. Mike said, super duper great 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:31.160 show was very tech diverse, focused, and very appreciatively moved quickly. 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:36.679 Meliki and those were his words. Thanks Mike, and thank 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.760 you for listening. This show will continue to evolve just 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.120 like the tech I talk about in it. This is 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.080 episode number two. I'm still getting the hang of this. Yes, 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:50.280 I do TV during my weekdays, and so radio is 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.119 new to me. And it's really fun because I get 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.160 to talk about this stuff for just a little bit 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.400 longer than I get to talk about this stuff I 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.760 do on TV. But it's all the same stuff, and 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:01.920 that's the beauty of it. So if I find something 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:03.560 interesting during the week, and I've got a pile of 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.320 stuff here to talk about, that's the whole point of 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.000 this show is it's really too you know, you're busy, 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.240 you're doing your work, you're doing your job, You've got 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.760 your kids, you've got your family, you've got travel, whatever 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:16.720 you're doing, you know, you're taking care of you and 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.160 I'm taking care of the tech side of things. And 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.840 so the whole point of this is to, you know, 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.639 have me talk about the tech stuff that I think 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:26.560 you should know about. And that's what we're gonna do 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.520 here this week. Speaking of kids, I actually went to 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:33.120 a movie with the kids, and this is kind of 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.160 a big deal. I know a movie does not seem 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.560 like a big deal, but it is because most of 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.200 the time, what are we doing we're streaming stuff at home, 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:43.960 and this was a movie we actually saw Puss and Boots, 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.240 which was funny. By the way, all the Shrek movies 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.320 are pretty funny. And you know, I'm not a big 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.480 like kids movie, especially animated movie person, but when they 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.200 get it right, like when they get the jokes to 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.240 work for the kids and the adults, I mean, that's 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.320 a win in my book. And this was this was 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.480 like on point, so highly recommend seeing it. But going 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.520 to the movies was kind of a big deal because 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.640 a it's expensive and the movie is streaming at home, 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:09.480 so yeah, it was a little more expensive. Like this 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:11.680 movie is one of those like they're you know, they're 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.440 like experimenting with where it's like thirty bucks to watch 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:16.880 at home, which if you think about how much I've 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.320 paid for three tickets, it was about the same. So 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.320 of course at home you only get to watch it once. 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.200 I guess that's the same in the movies. But it 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.000 was much more comfortable to be at home. You've got 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.840 your couch, you've got no overpriced popcorn. You know, I 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:29.760 can make my own popcorn. I've got my own soda 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:33.159 and drinks, and you know, candy could pause the movie 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:34.680 if you want to get up to do something. But 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.440 I think that's the problem, right, So when we got 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.200 to this movie theater, the seats are comfy. They had 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:42.719 heated seats. I've never seen that before in a movie theater. 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.040 So here I am turning on the heat on a seat. 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.360 It was like a you know, it's felt like one 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.400 of those blankets, you know, those like heated blankets for 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.039 your back, like if you're having like a you know, 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:53.680 and I just happen to have like a little stretch 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:55.080 in my back that kind of hurt. So I'm like, 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.400 all right, this is cool. I'm getting like a back 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.640 therapy session and a movie all in one. So that 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.200 was cool. You know, the kids are not really bopping 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.120 around as much as they would at home because it's 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:05.880 a movie theater. And when you're in a movie theater 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.599 something comes over you. It's like a hypnosis that you 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.240 just sit there and watch the screen. It's so big, 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.520 it's larger than life. And so that was kind of 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.400 the whole point of this. That was my thesis of 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.159 this whole movie is that you know, we've replaced so 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:22.480 many things in our lives with new, better, digital on 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:28.080 demand and sometimes doing things the old way just feels right, 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.040 and a movie is one of those examples. Now, I 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.920 know the movie business has been impacted greatly by all 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.400 of this streaming and people with their big TVs and 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.479 this and that, But when you actually go to a movie, 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.600 I don't think you have a bad experience. I mean, 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.120 when I was a kid, yeah, the ground was sticky 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.480 and you threw your trash on the ground, right. I mean, 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.279 now people take their trash and they put it in 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:49.720 the trash can at the end of the movie theater 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:53.279 when you walk out. I mean, that's an improvement. But 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.360 this whole experience because I had such a good time. 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:56.839 You know, every time I go to a movie in 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.200 the theater, which is not very often, I always like 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.480 plan my reach to the theater. I'm like, I'm going 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.360 to a movie next week. I can't wait. I'm taking 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.400 Tuesday off of work and I'm just gonna sit in 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.960 that theater and watch a matinee. And you know, it 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.080 never really happens until like another six months. I'm like, 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:11.640 ah see, I should have come earlier. I should have 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.159 come to the movies again. But it got me thinking 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.640 of all the different ways that we sort of do 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:20.560 things digitally versus the old analog way. And one of 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.359 these questions I proposed as I'm trying to get organized 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:24.839 in the new year, I said to folks on Twitter, 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.359 I said, hey, do you use paper or digital for 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.880 your daily planner, for your to do list? For your notes? 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.359 And I got so many people chiming in, you know, 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.200 paper is better, digital is better. Here's the app I use. 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:37.960 And so I went down this sort of rabbit hole 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:39.960 of trying out all these different apps for my to 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.120 do list and my daily notes. And I've used, you know, 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.159 all the suggestions people were telling me, and I did 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.040 come to a conclusion of one app that I really like. 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.479 The problem is it's twelve dollars a month, and I 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:53.039 don't know if I want to be that organized, Like 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.359 it's my organization worth twelve dollars. I'm not sure, but 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.640 so far I really like it. It's called noe Plan, and 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.320 I like it is because it's a very simple thing 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.400 that not many apps offer. Many apps offer you the 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.440 ability to do a to do list, which is fine, 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.320 and then some have a calendar. This one puts it 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:16.000 all together, so every single day you get a fresh 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.480 page for your calendar. That you can just take notes on. 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.320 It's kind of like a notebook for your calendar, and 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.360 that's the way I operate. Like every day, I'm like, Oh, 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.520 that's a cool website. Let me where do I put that? 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.160 Do I put it in my notes? Do I put 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:27.880 it in my to do list? 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:28.080 Oh? 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:29.520 I got to call someone? Do I put that in 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.440 my to do list, my notes, my calendar as a reminder? 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.080 Do I put it as an event in my calendar? 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:36.040 This sort of brings everything together. 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:36.200 Now. 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.920 I think it's a little bit over the top for 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.960 many people's uses. It's got a lot of different little 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.120 features in it and the ways you can link notes 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:45.960 and templates and all this stuff. So I don't know 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.680 if I need all of that stuff, but it's a start. 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.760 And I've been using it now since let's see yesterday, 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:56.000 the day before, the day before that, so about three 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.240 days now, and I think that it has made me 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:01.040 a better person. I think I'm much more organized. I 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.520 can see my notes from every single day this week, 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.240 and it doesn't get lost because you can refer to 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.520 the day before the next morning, so things that were 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.320 still on your list or your notes that you kind 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:13.880 of didn't get to you say, oh, yeah, that was 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.480 something I wanted to do. But this, of course got 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:18.600 me thinking about all these different things that we've just 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.400 done digitally, Like remember all the things we used to 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:26.080 have on paper receipts, movie tickets, concert tickets, newspapers, records. 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.920 I saw a record player at CS that connects with 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.960 sons and I've never had a I mean I had 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.680 a record player as a kid in my house, but 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.400 I was like, I need this record player. And it's 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.840 an expensive record player, but it connects with Sonos, which 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:41.040 I have in my house, and I just thought it'd 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:42.920 be cool to put a record on. And then I 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:44.400 told my wife about it, and she was like, a, 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.200 do we really need a record player with all the 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.720 streaming music we have? I said, I don't know. It 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.000 sounds kind of fun. I mean you got to change 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.280 the record every forty minutes, but I mean that's a 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.760 small price to pay, right. Sometimes it give me a 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.680 challenge to sort of adopt these new digits things, but 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.720 then we get used to it. Like my mom, she 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.560 flew home the other day and I gave her her 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.800 boarding pass for the first time on her smartphone. I said, Mom, 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:09.720 I'm not printing this out for you. You're going to use 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:13.040 your phone as your boarding pass. And she was very hesitant, 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:14.439 but I said, you're going to do this, and you're 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.800 gonna And she was so proud of herself when she 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.320 got home with just her phone. Remember if you lost 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.600 your plane ticket was gone forever. I mean that that 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:25.320 was the way things worked back in the day. Money 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.200 is digital. I mean we were asking around the office 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.240 the other day who uses, you know, cash, who has 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.880 cash on them? And only a handful of people actually 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.080 raise their hand. But if you ever try this, try 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.320 this for me, Take a twenty dollars bill and try 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.720 to spend it like using the cold, hard cash in 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.600 your hand. For some reason, it takes longer to come 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.560 out of your hand than tapping your phone. I don't 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.199 know why. It's just like this thing like I can 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.040 tap my phone no problem, but if I have to 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:52.680 hand over cash, man, it's just a whole nother world. Anyway, 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:54.480 this is the kind of stuff I think about on 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:56.120 a weekly basis, And this is the kind of stuff 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.360 I'm putting in my new app that I like, called 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:00.800 note Plan. So I decided it it's a combination of 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.840 No Plan and Microsoft to do for me, and that's 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.160 what I'm gonna stick with for the new year. All Right, 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.240 I've got a great show planned for you today coming up. 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:12.600 Bitcoin is up, Tesla is down. I've got the Google 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:14.959 Drive shortcut you need to know about. We're gonna talk 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.880 TVs later. We're gonna talk to a psychology professor about 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:23.520 whether big social media companies are really ruining teenagers' lives. Plus, 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.199 the phone lines are open at triple eight rich one 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.840 oh one. That's triple eight rich one O one. You 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:32.720 are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.720 on Tech. This is the show where I talk about 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:36.520 the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.680 also the place where I answer your questions. Phone lines 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.400 are open. It is triple eight rich one oh one, 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:47.080 Triple eight rich one O one. Andy is in Pine River. Andy, 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:48.200 You're on with rich. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.200 Oh good afternoon. Thanks about for taking my call. I 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:57.080 was just wondering if you're gonna get into well, I'm 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.760 kind of a lot ied. I'm bed buying my first 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:04.520 one phone or Android phone, and just you know, is 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:06.920 there a model or a place you can start if 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:08.960 you don't need a whole It doesn't need to be 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.680 that sophisticated. I don't need that much, you know, just 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.240 you know, it's kind of a way to wait in. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.680 Is there something you know? How do you get started? 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.360 You have no smartphone, You've never. 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.240 Had a start? Nope, I've never had a smartphone. I've 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.640 had a flip phone that I stepped on. I can't 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:31.040 even send tex to at the moment. I'm looking for something. 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.600 I'm pretty low tech, looking for something I don't need 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:34.040 a lot of. 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.439 I mean, what do your friends think of this? I'm 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.360 I'm fascinated right now because you're you're one of a 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.360 few that don't have a phone unless someone's trying not 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.160 to have a phone, right, Like some people don't want 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.200 to have a smartphone. I know people like that, but 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.880 you've just not kind of gone into this world just 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:49.959 because what. 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:55.559 Well, because I like, give an example, like when I 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.640 was in a band, I didn't buy a CD player 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.400 till my band released CD. In other words, I wasn't 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.520 going to buy a CD to listen to somebody else's 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.640 music on a CD. So I recorded a CD. I 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:08.520 didn't need a CD player. So I've always been just 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.439 kind of a luddite and I never I never bought 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:15.480 a computery, like that whole computer craze. It's like a 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:19.280 computer was kind of like a fancy file cabinet back 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.640 in the day, and then now all of a sudden, 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:23.240 you know, I mean, that's all I was. It was 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:27.000 an accounting packet. It was a file cabin with accounting packete. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.840 So I never jumped into the hole let's buy a computer, 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.520 and I never did it, and it kind of left 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.040 me in the dust down the line because I never 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.920 wanted a smartphone. I just so here I am. You know, 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:42.000 it's twenty twenty two or twenty twenty three now, and 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.640 I don't have a smartphone. I'm off the grid as 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.120 far as you can get. I don't have a landline, 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.160 I don't have an I got nothing. 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.280 Don't even calling me. I mean, what are you? Are 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:54.160 you on a pigeon messenger pigeon right now? 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:55.120 Am I a what? 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:56.320 How are you calling me? 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:57.920 Oh? 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.800 I'm just calling on a flip phone. Oh don that. 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:01.760 I can't even text? 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:03.280 Got it? Okay? So what do you want to do 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:04.240 on this new phone? 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.480 Well, all I'd want to do on my phone, it's 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.760 just to be able to get on the internet, you know, 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.640 maybe get song lyrics and you know, get on Google. 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.080 You're not. It wouldn't need to be just almost minimal. 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.079 I don't need to Facebook or nothing. 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.079 And you're not sitting there like with Apple Envy saying 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.080 oh I've got to have an iPhone. I mean, you 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:25.640 know you're open to Android as well. 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.360 Yes, Android is what I was told. That's the simplest one. 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.920 Well, I mean, I think that's debatable, but I think 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.880 for I mean, you know, for someone just getting into this, 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.439 I would actually recommend a Google Pixel. I think that 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.240 that's going to be a phone that takes a great 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.840 pictures if you want to get into that eventually. But 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.200 also I think what you'll like about it is the voice. 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.959 It really has great voice commands, so you can. 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.959 Wrote I wrote that down, I wrote down Google Pixel. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.520 But what I was asking, what is the Well, I 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:57.560 guess what I would ask, what's the price range for 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:58.280 one of those? 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.120 So you can get the XEL six A, which is 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.679 the phone i'd recommend for you. That's sort of their 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:07.120 basic starter phone. It's gone on sale for as cheap 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.079 as about three hundred dollars, and I think it retails 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.040 for like four fifty. But I wouldn't pay that. I 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.720 would get you know, just check for sales and it 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.640 goes on pretty regularly. 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.160 But what I like, the other question is is I 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.320 would like to avoid I don't want five G. I 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.520 heard that's very unhealthy, so I'd like to keep it 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:29.240 in the like four gears. Last, Is that an option too. 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:31.880 I mean, there's ways that you might be able to 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.200 change that on your phone where you can kind of 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.400 limit it to LTE like a four G connection. But 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:42.480 I think that the whole five G issue is probably 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:44.120 a little bit overblown. I don't think you need to 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.440 worry about that, especially as a person who's just getting 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.080 their phone for the first time. I mean, I do 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.840 think about the fact that I wear an Apple Watch 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.800 and I've got this connection that is just sort of 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:57.120 on my wrist at all times, like you know, during 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.360 the day, So you know, I think there's a there's 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:02.920 a reason to sort of wonder about that stuff, but 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.320 I'm not sure there's anything that's concrete, especially with the 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.120 five G signals. I mean, that's pretty standard on most 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.560 phones at this point. But I think the Pixel six 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:12.960 A is really going to be your best bet. I 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.240 think that you'll love the ability to use your voice 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.320 to search on that phone. It's got great voice search, 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.320 it's got a great camera. I think the software is 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:26.680 very simple, and also the software updates quite frequently, so 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.320 you'll get new features on that phone for a few years. 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.560 So if you're looking to invest, like I said, three 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.080 fifty four hundred bucks on a phone, I think it'll 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.360 last a long time. I know everyone has the iPhone, 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:41.240 and the iPhone is great, it's a fantastic device, but 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.320 you know there are other phones out there, and especially 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:45.960 for someone like yourself that's just getting into it, I 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:48.520 think that the Pixel six A is going to be 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:50.520 great for you. The only downside, and I'll tell you 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:54.040 this about getting the Pixel, is that your friends probably 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:58.160 don't have that, so when you have trouble with your phone, 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:00.560 you can't really ask a friend, Hey, how do I 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.320 put this into airplane mode? Or how do I put 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:03.960 this into you know, how do I change the Wi Fi? 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.440 Because most of your friends are probably gonna have iPhones, 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.120 so that would be the argument to maybe get a 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:14.360 basic iPhone if you don't want the Pixel. But great question, Andy. 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:16.640 I wish I had more time to hear about your 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.120 your rock star past, because I feel like there's a 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:22.040 lot there, and I think that you've probably got some 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:23.840 some cool stories there. But thanks for calling the show. 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:27.040 I appreciate it. All right. Phone lines are open triple 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.560 eight rich one oh one. That's one eight eight eight 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:33.640 seven four to two four one zero one. All right. 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.640 Speaking of smartphones, if you're in the market for a 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:40.480 new Samsung, I would hold off because Samsung is going 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.760 to hold their next event they call them Unpacked events 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.560 in February February first, to be exact, this is their 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:51.400 first in person event in three years, and this is 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.600 for the Galaxy S series, so this is their top 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.000 of the line phones. The S twenty three is what 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.200 we're expecting to see here. Samsung says it will be 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:03.240 the epitome of how we define the ultimate premium experience. 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.120 In fact, this was the last event that I went 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.399 to before COVID stopped all of the events, so I 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.080 was up in San Francisco. It was at this really 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.600 cool location. I can't remember what it was called, but 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:15.240 it was so neat and it was packed, and I 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:17.240 remember there were little signs that had to take our 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.760 temperature because it was February something and it was just 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.240 at the beginning of COVID and they were like, Okay, 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.200 well we're still having this, but you know, everyone take 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.600 your temperature and you'll be fine. And I'm not even 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.679 sure masks were a thing at that point, but this 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:32.000 was the last event I went to before the entire 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.720 world came crashing down. So again, February first, we're going 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:40.320 to hear all about the new Samsungs. All right, coming up, 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:44.440 My guest is a psychology professor. She's going to talk 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.040 about Seattle public schools in the lawsuit against the big 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.800 tech social media companies, and whether TikTok is really ruining 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.800 our teenagers' lives. I'm also going to talk about Bitcoin 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.880 being up, Tesla being down, and the Google drive shortcut 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.920 you need to know about. My name is Richdimiro. You 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.800 are listening to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here, rich 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.760 on Tech. You are listening to rich on Tech on 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:08.680 the radio. This is the show where we talk about 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:12.400 tech stuff and answer your questions. Phone lines are open 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.879 at triple eight Rich one oh one. So I should 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.800 probably mention that I am on social media. It's a 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.520 big part of my day actually Instagram at rich on Tech. 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.119 So I'm looking through some of the things I've posted lately. 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:29.840 I you would be surprised at how much time I 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:35.280 spend sort of crafting Instagram posts. And I don't know why, 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.520 because you know, it's just fun and I love I 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:40.679 think the combination, like when they came up with Reels, 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.679 which I know is a direct copy of TikTok, But 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:47.160 for me, Instagram is sort of where my followers are, 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.800 so I kind of stuck with it and it's just fun. 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.040 Like I got this video editing program that I use 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:55.280 on my phone called Splice, which a friend recommended. So 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:57.320 I was, okay, I guess I'll tell you the whole story. 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:01.200 But I was editing reels on my phone and using 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.199 the built in editor on Instagram, and it was just 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.760 it was horrific, like I couldn't do anything, like it 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:08.959 just took me hours on end to try to like 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:12.360 do one thing, and so I ended up. I saw 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:14.679 my friend who was posting, and I said, hey, how 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:16.959 are you getting these things so good? Like what how 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.920 are your posts always so amazing? He goes, dude, don't 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:21.960 use the built in editor. He's like, you got to 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.159 use this program called Splice, and so I downloaded it. 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:26.720 Of course it's like a little free trial, and then 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:30.560 it costs me money, but it has changed my life 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:33.280 because it's so great and it just works so well. 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:37.040 And so now I'm editing things on Splice all the time, 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:40.320 and it's just it's almost like a hobby, and you know, 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:42.480 I don't have to do it, but it's just great 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:44.760 and it's fun. And so anyway, some of the things 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:48.239 I posted recently, some of the more fun ones. This 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:52.960 Lenovo notebook that is just wild. It's got like two 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:56.359 giant screens. It's a yoga notebook, so it just folds 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.399 in a million different ways. I've got the Ring carcam 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:01.960 on there, which is the new ring you know them 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.439 for their video doorbell. They've got a new camera for 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.840 your car. And then I've got this cookie shot robot 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:11.560 that is inside Caesar's Palace. I've got this glow in 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:14.800 the dark basketball that I got my kid or well, 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:18.400 we got sorry, my cut my nephew. We got him 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:21.480 one of these things. Then we've got this Britta water 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:26.040 filter for your countertop. We've got the Ring Flying Drone camera. 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:28.679 I mean, it's just Oh. I've got this thing that 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:31.720 it's like a pet I don't know what you call it, 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.720 a flowbe for pets. It's just cool. It's just fun. 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.320 So anyway, check it out at richon Tech on Instagram 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:39.240 if you want to see some of my reels on there. 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:41.600 And yes, I answer people's questions on there too, Like 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:44.960 people are always surprised when I write them back and say, 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:47.720 you know, like they'll comment on stuff, and I don't 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:52.400 really expect to return message when I text someone through Instagram, 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:54.840 and I'm always surprised that I never get them. But 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:57.679 when I right back to people, they're surprised they do 0:20:57.720 --> 0:20:59.159 get them. And I do spend a fair amount of 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:02.720 time doing that again Instagram at rich on Tech if 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:05.680 you want to join in the fun there. So bitcoin 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:08.400 a little surprise. Woke up this morning and I saw 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:12.520 an email that bitcoin was over twenty k. Now, this 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:14.800 is not the show where I'm gonna sit here and 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:18.919 talk about the nuances of the bitcoin price, but I 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:22.400 feel like this is a pretty big change in bitcoin 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:25.280 because it is above twenty thousand for the first time 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:29.320 since early November. And that's when ftx collapsed, you know, 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:35.080 that platform that was doing things a little, I don't know, 0:21:35.320 --> 0:21:39.800 not so right, and everything came crashing down. And so 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:43.439 the whole thing about bitcoin is everyone was really into 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:46.200 this during the pandemic, and people were investing money and 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:48.280 they were excited. And yes, you still have a lot 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:50.600 of people that are excited, but then you have a 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:52.520 lot of people that have invested a lot of money 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:55.879 and now have to be excited because they wanted to 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:57.840 go back up so that they recoup some of their 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:01.320 losses that they've sustained over the last couple of years. 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:03.320 And so I think that's where we're at is there's 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:06.320 an excitement again because I looked at the numbers and 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:07.959 you know, by the time you listen to this, if 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:10.080 you listen, you know later if you're not listening live, 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:12.280 you know, the numbers could be down again. But if 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:14.399 you look at the past month of bitcoin, it's up 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:17.439 like sixteen percent. Like where did that come from? And 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:19.800 I kind of I just stopped looking. I stopped looking 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:21.439 at the app that I used for this because I 0:22:21.480 --> 0:22:22.760 just got bored and I was like, all right, you 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:26.040 know what, this money is gone. It's never coming back. 0:22:26.359 --> 0:22:27.639 I don't have a ton of money in it, but 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:31.000 I've got some and I just you know, it's gone. 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:34.399 I just figured it was written off forever. But who knows, 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:38.760 Maybe it's not so. Bitcoin definitely going up, but if 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:41.840 you remember the high, it was over sixty five thousand 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:44.840 dollars at one point, and this is the price per coin. 0:22:45.359 --> 0:22:47.160 I'm not a bitcoin expert, but you know it goes 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:50.760 by coin. And I remember my friend who is a 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:54.640 big sort of crypto person, he was emailing me back 0:22:54.680 --> 0:22:57.960 when bitcoin was starting, and he's like, hey, you got 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:00.080 to cover bitcoin for your you know, tech report or 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:02.360 it's this thing is like over I think the coin 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:04.720 was over one hundred dollars and I was like, I 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:07.439 don't know if I'm getting into all this digital currency stuff, 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:11.119 but sure enough, he was right, and I probably should 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:15.840 have invested back then, but that didn't really work out anyway. 0:23:15.920 --> 0:23:17.960 So if you have bitcoin and you want to take 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:20.400 a look at it once again and not feel so depressed, 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:22.920 now's the time to do it. But I wouldn't sell 0:23:23.040 --> 0:23:24.639 just yet. I mean, actually, you know what, I'm not 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:27.199 giving investment advice. You can do whatever you want. But 0:23:27.320 --> 0:23:28.760 I think it's one of these things where it's just 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:30.719 kind of at this point, you just kind of kind 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:35.480 of wait and watch. Speaking of Bitcoin being up, Tesla 0:23:35.720 --> 0:23:40.919 is down. This week. Tesla cut prices across the board 0:23:41.760 --> 0:23:45.240 on a lot of its cars. And you know, people 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:47.439 have been kind of mixed about Elon Musk lately. I 0:23:47.480 --> 0:23:50.639 say that nicely because most people have been like, not 0:23:50.800 --> 0:23:54.280 very nice about Elon Musk. But he's been making a 0:23:54.280 --> 0:23:57.719 lot of changes both at Twitter and Tesla, and so 0:23:57.800 --> 0:24:03.120 Tesla some massive price drops. The Model Why is now 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:07.040 thirteen thousand dollars less than it was just a few 0:24:07.080 --> 0:24:10.000 days ago. That's almost twenty percent cheaper than it was. 0:24:10.520 --> 0:24:12.439 So let's look at some of these prices. The Model 0:24:12.480 --> 0:24:16.080 three old price about forty seven thousand, now the new 0:24:16.080 --> 0:24:20.760 price forty four thousand. Model Why was sixty six thousand, 0:24:21.400 --> 0:24:24.679 and the new price is fifty three thousand. That's thirteen 0:24:24.720 --> 0:24:28.600 thousand dollars less. The Model Why Performance was seventy thousand, 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:32.640 now it's fifty seven thousand. These are still very expensive cars. 0:24:32.760 --> 0:24:36.280 And you know the thing about the Tesla is there's 0:24:36.280 --> 0:24:40.159 a lot of competition that's grow. It's just the competition 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:43.800 continues to pile up against these cars. Now, I still 0:24:43.840 --> 0:24:49.040 think that Tesla still has the best charging infrastructure, and 0:24:49.080 --> 0:24:51.760 I think that makes the biggest difference for this company 0:24:51.760 --> 0:24:54.160 than any other car you get. And I've heard horror 0:24:54.200 --> 0:24:56.320 stories people that have other evs. You know, it can 0:24:56.359 --> 0:24:59.680 be tricky. Now, with that said, if you are commuting 0:24:59.800 --> 0:25:02.760 with this car, you know, any any EV you are 0:25:02.880 --> 0:25:05.119 just fine. If you're charging at home or you're charging 0:25:05.119 --> 0:25:07.800 at work. Most people are commuting, you know, maybe thirty 0:25:07.800 --> 0:25:09.480 miles each way to work. That I think that's the 0:25:09.480 --> 0:25:12.959 average in America. Most of these cars can do sixty 0:25:12.960 --> 0:25:16.160 miles in a day, no problem, you know, many of them. 0:25:16.200 --> 0:25:18.280 The new ones can do two, three hundred miles in 0:25:18.320 --> 0:25:20.600 a day. You know. Then you've got the lucids that 0:25:20.640 --> 0:25:22.560 can do like five hundred miles in a day. But 0:25:22.600 --> 0:25:24.920 we don't really need that. I mean, I've done road trips. 0:25:25.240 --> 0:25:27.879 I'm not driving five hundred miles before I stop to 0:25:27.920 --> 0:25:29.720 get a drink or go to the bathroom or something. 0:25:29.760 --> 0:25:32.120 I mean, you know, two hundred miles is just fine. 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:34.359 I mean, I think it's more of peace of mind 0:25:34.640 --> 0:25:37.440 because we've gotten so used to the gas cars having 0:25:37.480 --> 0:25:40.320 a five you know, four to five hundred mile range perhaps, 0:25:40.840 --> 0:25:43.600 But with electric cars, if you're just getting one to commute, 0:25:43.640 --> 0:25:45.600 you'll be fine. If you install a charger in your 0:25:45.600 --> 0:25:48.040 garage or if you have charging at work, you'll be 0:25:48.119 --> 0:25:50.720 just fine. With any of these electric cars, I think 0:25:50.760 --> 0:25:55.159 the Tesla the advantage is it's got that that charging 0:25:55.200 --> 0:25:58.040 infrastructure that allows you to take road trips and be 0:25:58.240 --> 0:26:00.719 just fine because you can pretty much find a Tesla 0:26:00.800 --> 0:26:04.880 charger supercharger anywhere. Now there are many electric chargers around, 0:26:04.920 --> 0:26:07.240 they're just not that fast many times. And what people 0:26:07.280 --> 0:26:10.359 realize the first time they take their non Tesla EV 0:26:10.480 --> 0:26:13.239 on a road trip is, oh, wow, I pulled up 0:26:13.240 --> 0:26:16.719 to this charger and it's a slow charger. So I 0:26:16.720 --> 0:26:19.000 gotta stay here for an hour to get this thing charged, 0:26:19.119 --> 0:26:21.159 or I gotta stay for forty five minutes to get 0:26:21.200 --> 0:26:23.520 any kind of range on this thing, whereas a Tesla 0:26:23.640 --> 0:26:26.480 it could be, you know, fifteen twenty five minutes to 0:26:26.560 --> 0:26:29.119 get a charge, and if you want a full charge, 0:26:29.119 --> 0:26:30.480 you know, you just got to stay there for half 0:26:30.520 --> 0:26:33.000 an hour or something with some of these really fast chargers. 0:26:33.480 --> 0:26:36.720 So the other thing about these Tesla is that I 0:26:36.760 --> 0:26:39.200 think is happening here is that they are now once 0:26:39.240 --> 0:26:43.719 again eligible for this seventy five hundred dollars US tax credit. 0:26:44.119 --> 0:26:45.920 And that's a change at the beginning of the year. 0:26:46.000 --> 0:26:48.000 So it's there's been a lot of changes with all 0:26:48.000 --> 0:26:51.560 of this stuff. And the Tesla prices have just been 0:26:51.560 --> 0:26:55.600 all over the place in general over the past couple 0:26:55.600 --> 0:26:59.000 of years, but this, this price cut is pretty big. 0:26:59.000 --> 0:27:01.480 I'm trying to see if there's something that I'm quoting 0:27:01.480 --> 0:27:03.800 Electric by the way, that's a good blog that covers 0:27:03.800 --> 0:27:06.760 all this stuff. Trying to see if Elon Musk said anything. 0:27:06.800 --> 0:27:09.119 I guess he cited inflation and just kind of the 0:27:09.200 --> 0:27:12.639 changing nature of this whole thing. But that's a pretty 0:27:12.640 --> 0:27:14.800 big deal if you had your eye on a Tesla. 0:27:14.920 --> 0:27:16.639 Now with that said, I think there's a lot of 0:27:16.640 --> 0:27:19.040 other cars out there that if you just can wait 0:27:19.040 --> 0:27:21.440 a year for a new EV I think that there's 0:27:21.600 --> 0:27:23.680 a lot of cars out there to consider, and things 0:27:23.720 --> 0:27:26.120 just continue to get better with evs. I mean here 0:27:26.119 --> 0:27:28.199 in Los Angeles we're on based. I mean EV's have 0:27:28.240 --> 0:27:30.280 been a thing for a while. I think in other cities, 0:27:30.840 --> 0:27:33.800 you know, it's a good option if you just want 0:27:33.800 --> 0:27:36.320 to be on the cutting edge, or if you like 0:27:36.440 --> 0:27:39.120 different things, or like I said, if you're just commuting 0:27:39.160 --> 0:27:40.879 with a car, that's kind of the way to do 0:27:40.920 --> 0:27:44.520 it all. Right, coming up, we're going to talk about 0:27:44.600 --> 0:27:48.960 another streaming service that is hiking prices. This just is 0:27:49.000 --> 0:27:51.680 happening with all of them. Plus we're going to talk 0:27:51.760 --> 0:27:54.040 TVs later on in the show. I've got some great 0:27:54.080 --> 0:27:57.560 recommendations for Super Bowl TVs. And of course phone lines 0:27:57.600 --> 0:28:00.600 are open at Triple eight. Rich one on one. You 0:28:00.640 --> 0:28:04.040 are listening to me Rich DeMuro here on rich on Tech. 0:28:05.000 --> 0:28:07.679 Welcome back to the show, Rich DeMuro here. This is 0:28:07.840 --> 0:28:10.280 rich on Tech, the show where we talk tech stuff 0:28:10.320 --> 0:28:16.359 and answer your questions. Ron is in Downey, California. Ron, 0:28:16.440 --> 0:28:17.240 you're on with Rich. 0:28:18.160 --> 0:28:21.160 Hey, richat great to talk to you. Hey, I've got 0:28:21.680 --> 0:28:24.400 I've got a Chromebook and I've got a work laptop 0:28:24.440 --> 0:28:28.320 and they connect to the Internet through Wi Fi no problem. 0:28:28.680 --> 0:28:33.080 But my HP PC Windows ten I turned it on 0:28:33.160 --> 0:28:36.479 this week and it won't connect. And I get an 0:28:36.640 --> 0:28:40.640 error that says Wi Fi doesn't have a valid IP configuration. 0:28:41.640 --> 0:28:46.640 Reset Wi Fi adapter completed, Investigate router or broadband modem 0:28:46.680 --> 0:28:49.760 issues failed, and I don't know what to do. I've 0:28:49.800 --> 0:28:53.640 searched on the internet for some command line codes to 0:28:53.720 --> 0:28:56.560 reset things, and I'm kind of at a loss. 0:28:56.600 --> 0:29:00.080 Now have you ever connected to the internet on this But. 0:29:00.280 --> 0:29:04.160 It's worked, it's worked, it's hummed along, worked just fine until. 0:29:03.880 --> 0:29:06.600 What what changed? Was it a software update. 0:29:07.320 --> 0:29:09.600 I don't know. I just turned it on. I turned 0:29:09.600 --> 0:29:13.280 it on this week and I've wanted to download something, 0:29:13.480 --> 0:29:16.400 but I could never connect. It would never it would 0:29:16.480 --> 0:29:18.000 never connect to the internet. 0:29:18.440 --> 0:29:23.240 What about a different Wi Fi network? Have you tried that, a. 0:29:23.200 --> 0:29:27.560 Different Wi Fi network? Just from what five? Two four? 0:29:28.200 --> 0:29:30.560 Well? Yeah, I mean that's well that. I don't think 0:29:30.600 --> 0:29:32.720 that's the problem, because you've said you've connected before. But 0:29:32.760 --> 0:29:34.800 I'm saying, like, have you tried just connecting to a 0:29:34.840 --> 0:29:36.680 different like you're trying to connect to the Wi Fi 0:29:36.720 --> 0:29:39.240 network in your home. I'm guessing, what about like a 0:29:39.280 --> 0:29:41.520 hotspot on your phone? Like will it connect to that? 0:29:41.680 --> 0:29:41.760 Like? 0:29:41.880 --> 0:29:45.200 Is it just haven't? Yeah, I haven't tried that, Okay. 0:29:45.280 --> 0:29:47.280 So I would start there and see if it would 0:29:47.280 --> 0:29:50.280 connect to a different network. Have you deleted the old 0:29:50.320 --> 0:29:52.320 network off the computer completely? 0:29:54.160 --> 0:29:54.360 No? 0:29:54.520 --> 0:29:55.600 Probably not, okay. 0:29:55.680 --> 0:29:57.520 So I would go into your Wi Fi settings and 0:29:57.520 --> 0:30:00.160 look at your saved networks and then I would delete. 0:29:59.880 --> 0:30:01.800 The Oh yeah I've done that. Oh yeah, I did that. Yeah, 0:30:01.840 --> 0:30:02.240 I did that. 0:30:02.320 --> 0:30:04.400 Okay. And so when you do that and you does 0:30:04.400 --> 0:30:06.480 it find the new does it find the network again? 0:30:06.560 --> 0:30:08.520 And say connect? And you type in your password and 0:30:08.560 --> 0:30:10.040 then what it just says, can't do it. 0:30:10.400 --> 0:30:11.240 It can't do it. 0:30:11.440 --> 0:30:16.800 Interesting. Okay, Well, and you've tried restarting this obviously, yeah, 0:30:17.200 --> 0:30:19.760 and that doesn't work. What about how old is this computer? 0:30:20.280 --> 0:30:22.320 It's probably seven or eight years old. 0:30:22.400 --> 0:30:25.840 Oh okay, so it's it's definitely an older computer. Okay. Interesting. 0:30:26.560 --> 0:30:28.520 Uh And you've done all the software updates on. 0:30:28.480 --> 0:30:31.160 It, yeah, as far as I know, but you know, 0:30:31.600 --> 0:30:35.920 so it hasn't been turned on in a while, and 0:30:35.920 --> 0:30:37.560 and now I just like, so I just want to 0:30:37.560 --> 0:30:40.880 turn it on and download my tax software and I can't. 0:30:40.920 --> 0:30:42.920 I can't get I can't get connected. 0:30:43.640 --> 0:30:47.360 Interesting okay, Uh, well, it sounds like either the Wi 0:30:47.400 --> 0:30:51.200 Fi connection has you know, it's kind of fried up. 0:30:51.680 --> 0:30:54.080 But I without knowing if you're able to connect to 0:30:54.120 --> 0:30:56.080 a different network. I think that's the tricky part. Do 0:30:56.120 --> 0:30:58.520 you have a hotspot on your phone? Like, do you 0:30:58.520 --> 0:31:01.120 have that ability to turn on your cell phone and 0:31:01.120 --> 0:31:02.440 turn it into a hot spot or now? 0:31:03.000 --> 0:31:05.200 Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure I do. That's something I 0:31:05.840 --> 0:31:08.480 don't think I've ever done. But I'm if that's a suggestion, 0:31:08.560 --> 0:31:09.840 I can try and figure out how to do that. 0:31:10.040 --> 0:31:11.640 Yeah, so that's what Okay, So what I would do, 0:31:11.720 --> 0:31:15.120 and this is you know how Rich would troubleshoot this personally, 0:31:15.720 --> 0:31:18.360 is I would Number one, I'd update all the software 0:31:18.400 --> 0:31:20.320 on this computer, so I would make sure that everything 0:31:20.360 --> 0:31:22.840 is up to date. Make sure that you know I'm 0:31:22.960 --> 0:31:25.760 running the latest software. It's all good. I would get 0:31:25.840 --> 0:31:27.680 rid of any programs that I don't need. I mean, 0:31:27.720 --> 0:31:31.000 there could be some malware that that's interfering here, that 0:31:31.160 --> 0:31:34.040 might be interfering with your connection. So I would get 0:31:34.160 --> 0:31:36.560 rid of any programs on this computer I don't need 0:31:36.600 --> 0:31:39.959 anymore or don't recognize. I would delete those, and then 0:31:40.000 --> 0:31:42.440 of course restart the computer one more time. I'd go 0:31:42.480 --> 0:31:45.240 into my Wi Fi settings. I would delete any networks 0:31:45.240 --> 0:31:48.440 that I'm no longer using, including the old network, and 0:31:48.480 --> 0:31:51.240 then again I would restart, and then I would try 0:31:51.280 --> 0:31:54.720 connecting this to my mobile phone. So turn on the 0:31:54.760 --> 0:31:56.400 hot spot setting on your mobile phone. You can go 0:31:56.440 --> 0:31:59.080 into settings, turn that on. It'll it'll generate a little 0:31:59.080 --> 0:32:01.600 mobile hotspot just like your regular WiFi in your home, 0:32:02.240 --> 0:32:04.640 and try connecting to that. If it doesn't connect to 0:32:04.680 --> 0:32:07.320 that network, then you know you have a bigger problem here. 0:32:07.400 --> 0:32:10.440 And it's not just the fact that your WiFi has 0:32:10.520 --> 0:32:13.560 decided to stop talking to this computer. If you are 0:32:13.600 --> 0:32:16.160 able to connect to the hot spot, you can use that, 0:32:16.280 --> 0:32:20.600 of course. But then once you've got that connection uh completed, 0:32:20.720 --> 0:32:22.440 now you can go back to the other Wi Fi 0:32:22.600 --> 0:32:24.440 and see if that one works. And if it works, 0:32:24.480 --> 0:32:27.160 you're good. If not, then you're gonna have to investigate 0:32:27.160 --> 0:32:29.280 a little further. And it could you know, if it 0:32:29.320 --> 0:32:30.960 connected to the one on your phone, it's probably not 0:32:31.000 --> 0:32:34.800 a big problem because the hardware seems like it's intact, 0:32:34.840 --> 0:32:37.160 So then it could be something with how your router 0:32:37.320 --> 0:32:41.520 is configured. And that's getting a little bit more technical then, 0:32:42.120 --> 0:32:43.880 you know, than most people want to deal with. But 0:32:43.960 --> 0:32:46.320 that's kind of the uh the steps I would take 0:32:46.400 --> 0:32:48.640 ron those are you know, those are the steps that 0:32:48.640 --> 0:32:50.760 I would take to troubleshoot that and hopefully you can 0:32:50.800 --> 0:32:52.600 get on there. I would just be careful if you're 0:32:52.640 --> 0:32:55.760 doing taxes or anything, you know, very secure on a 0:32:55.800 --> 0:32:57.760 computer that's that old. I would make sure that your 0:32:57.800 --> 0:33:01.080 software is up to date and there's no no issues 0:33:01.120 --> 0:33:04.440 with that computer because you know, that's that's some private 0:33:04.480 --> 0:33:06.400 stuff there, so you want to make sure that computer 0:33:06.520 --> 0:33:10.960 is secure. Thanks for the call, Uh, We've got is 0:33:11.000 --> 0:33:12.800 it Gay in Woodland Hills. 0:33:13.560 --> 0:33:14.480 Yes, by thank you. 0:33:15.680 --> 0:33:19.400 I want to find out two things, if I may please. 0:33:19.640 --> 0:33:22.000 Sure, Well, let's start with the first thing. That's the 0:33:22.040 --> 0:33:22.400 first thing. 0:33:23.480 --> 0:33:26.560 First one is how do I play a DVD on 0:33:26.600 --> 0:33:31.240 my Chromebook? And the second is the transfer from last 0:33:31.280 --> 0:33:34.520 test to Bidwarmen. I was told if you do that, 0:33:35.120 --> 0:33:40.360 there's a point where your transferred file will lose encryption 0:33:41.000 --> 0:33:44.360 and it has to be deleted right away. That's what 0:33:44.520 --> 0:33:48.040 Leo said. So if you can give me a step 0:33:48.080 --> 0:33:51.320 by step process how to do that transfer from last 0:33:51.400 --> 0:33:53.960 past to bid warm Those are two questions. 0:33:54.080 --> 0:33:57.120 Okay, Well let's start with the Let's start with the 0:33:57.240 --> 0:34:02.760 DVDs on the Chromebook. So it's possible it's going to 0:34:02.840 --> 0:34:06.840 require an external DVD drive. So if you've got you know, 0:34:06.880 --> 0:34:08.760 you probably have to invest in one of these things, 0:34:09.280 --> 0:34:11.920 and it's going to need a specific DVD drive because 0:34:11.920 --> 0:34:13.880 not all of them are going to work. For instance, 0:34:14.400 --> 0:34:17.400 I've got the I've got a MacBook and they stop 0:34:17.520 --> 0:34:20.280 doing DVD drive so a while ago on these things, 0:34:20.680 --> 0:34:23.000 and so at home, I've got just a DVD drive 0:34:23.040 --> 0:34:25.279 that I plug in from time to time, and you 0:34:25.320 --> 0:34:28.680 plug it in, the computer recognizes it and it works. Now, 0:34:28.760 --> 0:34:32.680 I'm not sure exactly how far you can go with 0:34:32.760 --> 0:34:35.640 this DVD device, Like you probably don't want to get 0:34:35.680 --> 0:34:39.440 like a DVD burner or anything like that, because it's 0:34:39.480 --> 0:34:41.640 probably not going to be able to burn DVDs or 0:34:41.640 --> 0:34:44.600 do anything very elaborate, but you should be able to 0:34:44.600 --> 0:34:47.319 play them. And from everything I'm seeing, it looks like 0:34:47.360 --> 0:34:49.879 you're going to need some software to do that as well, 0:34:49.920 --> 0:34:54.360 which VLC should should take care of that. VLC is 0:34:54.360 --> 0:34:56.960 a great sort of it's almost like a Swiss Army 0:34:57.000 --> 0:35:00.839 knife of apps. It will play almost anything, and so 0:35:00.920 --> 0:35:03.280 you can you know, you can use that to play 0:35:03.280 --> 0:35:05.960 the DVD. It'll play almost any file. It's a great 0:35:05.960 --> 0:35:08.480 program that a lot of people rely on. When you 0:35:08.520 --> 0:35:11.440 find a file that just doesn't work, try VLC. And 0:35:11.480 --> 0:35:15.200 it's an open source program that should work. So that's that. 0:35:15.280 --> 0:35:16.560 I mean, you're gonna have to invest a little bit. 0:35:16.600 --> 0:35:18.760 I'm not sure how much those drives cost anymore, maybe 0:35:18.800 --> 0:35:22.399 thirty to fifty dollars for one of those drives. When 0:35:22.400 --> 0:35:27.359 it comes to switching over from last Pass to Bitwarden, 0:35:28.000 --> 0:35:31.399 and you know, it's a logical thing to do because 0:35:31.480 --> 0:35:36.640 last Pass has had so many issues The issue is 0:35:36.880 --> 0:35:39.719 you probably have to have a file that is going 0:35:39.800 --> 0:35:43.600 to be readable by Bitwarden, and I'm guessing that's a 0:35:43.880 --> 0:35:46.799 you know, Comma separated value. Anyway, last pass is going 0:35:46.840 --> 0:35:49.440 to export your file. Bitwarden's going to take that file. 0:35:49.480 --> 0:35:51.480 But for it to read it, you know, you've got 0:35:51.520 --> 0:35:54.400 to have no encryption on there because the file, you know, 0:35:54.400 --> 0:35:56.359 it has to be able to see all your passwords 0:35:56.400 --> 0:36:01.160 and your user names. So once it's in Bitwarden, it's 0:36:01.200 --> 0:36:04.120 going to be encrypted again. But yes, I think what 0:36:04.120 --> 0:36:05.880 you're referring to is you probably want to get rid 0:36:05.960 --> 0:36:08.920 of that file almost immediately because it is going to 0:36:08.920 --> 0:36:12.480 be pretty insecure. And that's the concern is you don't 0:36:12.480 --> 0:36:16.480 want to keep that password file on your computer because 0:36:16.520 --> 0:36:19.720 someone could just crack open that file and see everything 0:36:19.719 --> 0:36:21.239 that's in there because of the way you need to 0:36:21.280 --> 0:36:24.319 export it. But I love Bitwarden. I think it's a 0:36:24.320 --> 0:36:27.279 great program. I think that's a smart thing to do. 0:36:27.440 --> 0:36:30.160 So thanks for calling from Woodland Hills this morning. You're 0:36:30.200 --> 0:36:32.520 listening to Rich on Tech. Coming up later in the show, 0:36:32.520 --> 0:36:34.440 I'm going to talk about the Google Drive shortcut you 0:36:34.520 --> 0:36:38.080 need to know about, plus the streaming service that's hiking 0:36:38.200 --> 0:36:41.480 prices similar story these days. My name is Rich Damiro. 0:36:41.640 --> 0:36:44.240 Give me a call Triple eight rich one oh one. 0:36:44.600 --> 0:36:47.560 Welcome to rich on Tech. This is the show where 0:36:47.600 --> 0:36:51.120 we talk about tech stuff and answer your questions. My 0:36:51.200 --> 0:36:54.839 name is Rich Jamiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five 0:36:55.040 --> 0:36:59.680 in Los Angeles. During the week, I am covering technology 0:36:59.719 --> 0:37:02.760 for ATLA, keeping track of all the trends and things 0:37:02.760 --> 0:37:04.920 that you need to know about, and on the weekends 0:37:05.000 --> 0:37:08.360 right here talking with you about the stuff that happens 0:37:08.440 --> 0:37:10.440 during the week. And there's a lot of it. A 0:37:10.440 --> 0:37:13.120 lot of things are little, some things are big. Depends 0:37:13.160 --> 0:37:15.400 on the week, depends on you know, sort of the 0:37:15.440 --> 0:37:19.399 new cycle of things. But there's always something. There's always 0:37:19.440 --> 0:37:21.759 something changing in the tech world. If you want to 0:37:21.800 --> 0:37:24.480 keep up with me, I am on social media at 0:37:24.600 --> 0:37:29.800 rich on Tech. My website is rich on tech dot tv. 0:37:30.480 --> 0:37:33.520 That's also where you can watch my TV segments. So 0:37:33.880 --> 0:37:35.680 it's where I sort of take a deep dive into 0:37:35.680 --> 0:37:39.239 different things, new gadgets, kind of cool. Last night we 0:37:39.239 --> 0:37:42.120 were watching Shark Tank. One of the stories I did 0:37:42.520 --> 0:37:46.200 last week, I met with a startup that was going 0:37:46.239 --> 0:37:48.120 to be on Shark Tank and they were on last night, 0:37:48.480 --> 0:37:51.080 and I guess spoiler alert since it's already aired. They 0:37:51.080 --> 0:37:53.160 got a deal, which is kind of fun. So it 0:37:53.200 --> 0:37:54.759 was kind of neat to watch them because I just 0:37:54.800 --> 0:37:58.360 had interviewed them at their place in Hollywood and then 0:37:58.560 --> 0:38:00.560 seeing them on TV that night. But of course Shark 0:38:00.600 --> 0:38:03.799 Tank was taped like months ago, but they couldn't tell 0:38:03.800 --> 0:38:05.480 me what the outcome was, so I got to watch 0:38:05.520 --> 0:38:08.480 it live. Kind of cool, kind of fun. They did 0:38:08.520 --> 0:38:11.960 a well, I guess it's It was called Cabinet, and 0:38:12.000 --> 0:38:14.360 it's basically a new way for your medicine cabinet like 0:38:14.400 --> 0:38:21.600 reusable pill bottles, cool idea. Hbo Max announces its first 0:38:21.800 --> 0:38:26.319 price hike, effective immediately. I mean, I don't know if 0:38:26.320 --> 0:38:29.320 you've seen the trend, but pretty much every single streaming 0:38:29.360 --> 0:38:33.720 service that I have has gone up in the past 0:38:34.080 --> 0:38:36.480 I don't know, six months to a year. I mean, 0:38:36.560 --> 0:38:39.960 every single one of them, just like clockwork. So I'm 0:38:39.960 --> 0:38:45.200 paying more for my YouTube TV paying sorry, not YouTube TV, 0:38:45.239 --> 0:38:47.920 what's the other one? Just YouTube? I guess YouTube premium 0:38:47.920 --> 0:38:50.040 went up from like I think it was seventeen ninety 0:38:50.080 --> 0:38:53.160 nine to twenty two ninety nine, and then my Apple 0:38:53.200 --> 0:38:57.400 storage went up. Netflix went up. Actually, I think the 0:38:57.480 --> 0:38:59.319 Netflix was the one that didn't go up because I 0:38:59.320 --> 0:39:01.000 was subscribed to the highest. I can't you know, I 0:39:01.040 --> 0:39:02.880 can't even keep them straight anymore because so many of 0:39:02.880 --> 0:39:04.960 these things came in And the thing is they've got 0:39:04.960 --> 0:39:07.560 you on that automatic payment. So realistically, what are you 0:39:07.560 --> 0:39:10.000 gonna do. You're gonna stop subscribing to Netflix because of 0:39:10.000 --> 0:39:12.319 a dollar price increase? I don't know. I mean some 0:39:12.360 --> 0:39:14.920 people consider it, I guess, but in my house, you know, 0:39:14.960 --> 0:39:19.319 people if I mention anything about switching up services, it's like, oh, no, 0:39:19.360 --> 0:39:21.920 you can't do that. I may watch that one day, okay. 0:39:23.000 --> 0:39:26.440 But Warner Brothers, which owns HBO Max Warner Brothers Discovery, 0:39:27.160 --> 0:39:29.520 raising the price for the first time since it launched 0:39:29.880 --> 0:39:33.800 two years ago. So effective Thursday, January twelfth, the price 0:39:33.880 --> 0:39:37.520 went up from fourteen ninety nine to fifteen ninety nine 0:39:37.680 --> 0:39:40.920 a month, So that's about a seven percent increase. According 0:39:40.920 --> 0:39:46.560 to Variety, existing subscribers who are already paying fourteen ninety 0:39:46.640 --> 0:39:48.840 nine a month will see their rate increase to fifteen 0:39:48.920 --> 0:39:53.040 ninety nine a month effective next billing cycle. So Saturday, 0:39:53.120 --> 0:39:56.640 February eleventh, I guess if you if basically, if your 0:39:57.480 --> 0:39:59.879 subscription is passed that day, Like if you get billed 0:40:00.000 --> 0:40:02.600 on the twelfth, the thirteenth, whatever, you're going to see 0:40:02.640 --> 0:40:04.360 it on the next cycle, not this one, because it 0:40:04.760 --> 0:40:07.440 didn't have time to catch this cycle. And then they 0:40:07.480 --> 0:40:10.640 said they told Variety that the price increase of one 0:40:10.760 --> 0:40:13.680 dollar will allow us to continue to invest in providing 0:40:13.760 --> 0:40:18.480 even more culture defining programming and improving our customer experience 0:40:18.520 --> 0:40:21.400 for all users, the company said in a statement. So 0:40:22.160 --> 0:40:24.680 one dollar makes a big difference. I guess when you 0:40:24.680 --> 0:40:28.040 have seventy million subscribers, then you know it's seventy million 0:40:28.120 --> 0:40:30.120 dollars a month. You just printed at a thin air, 0:40:30.719 --> 0:40:33.040 and maybe a couple of people will drop it. But 0:40:33.440 --> 0:40:35.200 I don't think so. I think that once you're on 0:40:35.280 --> 0:40:39.480 these this cycle, remember Hbo when you had it as 0:40:39.520 --> 0:40:42.600 part of your cable company. It was really tough to 0:40:42.920 --> 0:40:45.480 get rid of because you had to call someone and 0:40:45.520 --> 0:40:49.800 you had to say, you know, you know, Sopranos just ended. 0:40:49.880 --> 0:40:52.160 I'm not really watching anything on there. I don't really 0:40:52.160 --> 0:40:54.919 I can't justify the twenty dollars a month, And they'd say, 0:40:54.960 --> 0:40:58.120 no problem, sir, we can give you Hbo for the 0:40:58.160 --> 0:41:02.120 next six months. For five dollars a month and he said, okay, fine, 0:41:02.160 --> 0:41:04.960 I'll keep it. Now. You can't really do that. I mean, 0:41:05.000 --> 0:41:06.840 some of these will do that. Like I had Paramount 0:41:06.880 --> 0:41:10.359 Plus and I went to cancel it and it said, hey, 0:41:10.840 --> 0:41:13.040 you know, keep it for another three months for you know, 0:41:13.120 --> 0:41:14.840 ninety nine cents or whatever it was. So some of 0:41:14.880 --> 0:41:17.960 them do have some of these like systems programmed to 0:41:18.160 --> 0:41:20.680 try to keep you even when you get rid of it, 0:41:20.960 --> 0:41:22.640 But I don't know if they're savvy. Most of them, 0:41:22.680 --> 0:41:26.280 like Netflix is literally just like you. You you say cancel, 0:41:26.400 --> 0:41:29.160 and it's like canceled before you even breathe, like before 0:41:29.200 --> 0:41:31.360 you even click. It's like, oh, shoot, did I really 0:41:31.440 --> 0:41:33.480 just do that? Uh oh h Now I got to 0:41:33.480 --> 0:41:35.359 go back because some of them are just merciless. They'll 0:41:35.400 --> 0:41:37.440 just cancel immediately. Like you don't even get that like 0:41:37.480 --> 0:41:41.480 confirmation screen that says please stay so HBO Max, don't 0:41:41.520 --> 0:41:44.480 be surprised when your price goes up. Joe is in 0:41:44.560 --> 0:41:46.920 Los Angeles? Did I get that right? 0:41:47.000 --> 0:41:47.120 Joe? 0:41:47.160 --> 0:41:51.600 Are you in LA or Louisiana? Y? No, Okay, what's 0:41:51.640 --> 0:41:52.000 going on? 0:41:52.080 --> 0:41:52.239 Joe? 0:41:52.320 --> 0:41:53.120 Welcome to the show. 0:41:53.680 --> 0:41:54.720 Oh and welcome. 0:41:55.520 --> 0:41:58.680 I've seen a lot of times I'm glad that John 0:41:58.719 --> 0:42:04.279 dis So of course, and there's the other show. But sure, 0:42:04.320 --> 0:42:05.880 we're gonna listen to you from now. I don't know, 0:42:06.000 --> 0:42:09.719 get about catch on a while to listen Lilio every 0:42:09.719 --> 0:42:10.520 now and then as well. 0:42:10.719 --> 0:42:12.879 Well excellent, thank you the best of both worlds. 0:42:13.400 --> 0:42:14.120 Absolutely. 0:42:14.800 --> 0:42:15.399 So I'm here. 0:42:15.440 --> 0:42:17.799 I'm just doing some household chores on a rainy day 0:42:17.840 --> 0:42:19.360 and one of the things that bigger. Hey, maybe not 0:42:19.400 --> 0:42:21.439 to get to the rich. You got a question about 0:42:21.440 --> 0:42:23.839 the flat TV. It's an older one, obviously, you got 0:42:23.840 --> 0:42:27.120 some new smart TVs here. I got a Roco box. 0:42:26.880 --> 0:42:27.640 Hooped up to it. 0:42:27.760 --> 0:42:30.360 I got the dish hooked up to it, DVR. 0:42:30.000 --> 0:42:30.520 Hooked up it. 0:42:30.840 --> 0:42:32.640 But one of the things it's not and I discovered 0:42:32.680 --> 0:42:36.239 it's not blue tooth capable. I've tried searching like a 0:42:36.400 --> 0:42:39.200 Hitten menu at all. So no, there's something external I 0:42:39.200 --> 0:42:42.399 could plug into, maybe to a USB port, perhaps get 0:42:42.400 --> 0:42:44.160 it blue tooth capable, because then I have I was 0:42:44.200 --> 0:42:47.799 a Bluetooth speaker, you know, soundbody. They would work with 0:42:47.880 --> 0:42:48.960 it if I'm able to do that. 0:42:49.920 --> 0:42:53.280 Okay, I don't know if they have one that would 0:42:53.280 --> 0:42:55.920 plug in via USB, because I don't think that that 0:42:56.040 --> 0:42:59.759 TV would output the audio signal through USB. But does 0:42:59.800 --> 0:43:03.440 it have some other external connections like an RCA or 0:43:03.480 --> 0:43:05.440 like even like a headphone jack on the back? Do 0:43:05.280 --> 0:43:07.000 you do you see those? Does it have any of 0:43:07.000 --> 0:43:07.520 those things? 0:43:08.280 --> 0:43:12.160 The RCA is is there the audiof but I got 0:43:12.160 --> 0:43:13.880 a tuble check. I'm not in the same room or 0:43:13.920 --> 0:43:14.239 the TV. 0:43:14.320 --> 0:43:15.000 Is that right now? 0:43:15.440 --> 0:43:19.040 But I'm thinking those RCA audio is already being utilized, 0:43:19.040 --> 0:43:20.680 and I forget where it might have been the dish 0:43:20.760 --> 0:43:24.280 or it might be the vocal box. Is there splitters 0:43:24.320 --> 0:43:26.720 a little ball or do I have to decide between 0:43:26.760 --> 0:43:27.279 one or the other? 0:43:27.280 --> 0:43:27.440 They? 0:43:27.680 --> 0:43:29.120 Yeah, I mean there may be a splitter. I mean, 0:43:29.160 --> 0:43:31.279 obviously you can find anything on Amazon, but I don't 0:43:31.280 --> 0:43:34.200 know if that would be the best quality audio. But 0:43:34.280 --> 0:43:37.360 there are devices you can plug in, like a Bluetooth 0:43:38.440 --> 0:43:40.600 transmitter that you can plug into the back of this TV. 0:43:40.719 --> 0:43:42.600 You know, they're not that expensive. I'm looking on Amazon 0:43:42.680 --> 0:43:45.200 right now. I see one for about forty bucks. I 0:43:45.200 --> 0:43:48.279 think the problem is going to be the sync, like 0:43:48.320 --> 0:43:50.560 whether it actually syncs up to what you're seeing on 0:43:50.640 --> 0:43:53.279 TV may or may not work. I think that's the 0:43:53.280 --> 0:43:56.000 biggest consideration. Do you want to be able to listen 0:43:56.040 --> 0:43:59.200 to all of the audio through this TV on headphones 0:43:59.320 --> 0:44:01.560 or is it just certain things like you're maybe just 0:44:01.560 --> 0:44:03.080 your streaming. No. 0:44:03.239 --> 0:44:06.120 Absolutely. What I wanted to do is, uh, there's a 0:44:06.280 --> 0:44:08.680 USB stone bar we have, and I like it to 0:44:09.000 --> 0:44:11.920 be able to listen to the programs through the USB 0:44:12.080 --> 0:44:15.560 songdbar rehab. I tell us a Bluetooth sombar. 0:44:15.640 --> 0:44:17.360 Okay, so it's a Bluetooth soundbar, So you want to 0:44:17.360 --> 0:44:20.080 connect the Bluetooth soundbar. Okay, Yeah, So I think you're 0:44:20.120 --> 0:44:22.200 gonna need one of these transmitters and you're just gonna 0:44:22.200 --> 0:44:23.920 have to kind of try and see if it works. 0:44:23.960 --> 0:44:26.440 So you know, it connects in different ways. If you've 0:44:26.440 --> 0:44:29.040 got an optical out on the back of this TV, 0:44:29.160 --> 0:44:31.680 some of the older TVs do have that, that may work. 0:44:31.880 --> 0:44:33.719 That's probably your best bet. Actually, that's the way I 0:44:33.760 --> 0:44:37.640 connect connected many things over the years, was the optical out. 0:44:37.800 --> 0:44:39.799 But I think that might work, and that will take 0:44:39.840 --> 0:44:43.680 the optical audio output and it will send that to 0:44:43.719 --> 0:44:48.960 the Bluetooth transmitter and then your Bluetooth sound bar will 0:44:49.000 --> 0:44:51.560 pick up that signal, and of course you can hear 0:44:51.600 --> 0:44:53.480 things through there, and that should work with all the 0:44:53.520 --> 0:44:56.520 audio that runs through the TV. So whether it's the dish, 0:44:56.600 --> 0:44:59.840 whether it's the Roku box. The other solution you could 0:45:00.200 --> 0:45:05.160 use or try is you know Roku boxes, the rokup remote. 0:45:05.200 --> 0:45:07.880 A lot of them have like a little headphone jack 0:45:07.920 --> 0:45:09.480 on the side. Does yours have that or no? 0:45:10.239 --> 0:45:12.600 Yeah, and actually it does work. We've done that already 0:45:12.640 --> 0:45:15.040 when that's when we're watching, say we're streaming a movie, 0:45:15.120 --> 0:45:17.000 and I'll do exactly what you just said, I'll plug 0:45:17.040 --> 0:45:21.759 the ro cool uh jack and then then when we're 0:45:21.800 --> 0:45:24.040 hearing the sound bar and we're watching the movie through that. 0:45:24.440 --> 0:45:26.960 But that's only when we're utilizing the rocup box. If 0:45:27.000 --> 0:45:30.200 I'm watching you know, something on dish or whatever, then 0:45:30.239 --> 0:45:32.640 again that doesn't work. It's not utilizing a roll cup. 0:45:32.680 --> 0:45:35.200 So absolutely, you know that does work. But then our 0:45:35.239 --> 0:45:38.759 thing is that maybe perhaps making uh you know, utilizing 0:45:38.760 --> 0:45:42.160 the Bluetooth or gaming a game a capable. That's that's 0:45:42.200 --> 0:45:43.600 what I was asking. But that what you just said, 0:45:43.600 --> 0:45:44.399 it actually does work. 0:45:44.480 --> 0:45:47.000 Well, Okay, so that that's one option. But I think 0:45:47.040 --> 0:45:49.760 the Bluetooth transmitter, if you want everything from this TV 0:45:50.000 --> 0:45:52.600 to go through the sound bar, I think that's probably 0:45:52.600 --> 0:45:53.840 gonna be your best bet. And it's gonna be a 0:45:53.880 --> 0:45:56.399 hit or miss. Like this may work amazing, it may 0:45:56.440 --> 0:45:59.160 not work very well at all. I have not personally 0:45:59.200 --> 0:46:01.880 tried this, but that is kind of the solution. 0:46:02.000 --> 0:46:02.080 Now. 0:46:02.080 --> 0:46:04.759 If you have a you know, if you have a 0:46:04.800 --> 0:46:07.600 headphone jack on there, like a you know, standard headphone 0:46:07.680 --> 0:46:09.879 jack on the back, that would be your best bet. 0:46:09.880 --> 0:46:13.200 There's also another company that I like called Airfly and 0:46:13.680 --> 0:46:15.839 or sorry, a device called Airfly from a company called 0:46:15.880 --> 0:46:19.279 twelve South, and they make a little device that you 0:46:19.320 --> 0:46:22.040 can plug in. It's very simple and easy that that 0:46:22.080 --> 0:46:24.360 may work as a way to just sort of connect 0:46:24.360 --> 0:46:27.080 these two things. I mean, I think the bluetooth transmitter. 0:46:27.160 --> 0:46:30.080 Just search Bluetooth transmitter for TV on Amazon and pick 0:46:30.120 --> 0:46:33.120 one that you think is you know, either highly rated, 0:46:33.280 --> 0:46:36.120 lots of reviews and people say it works and try 0:46:36.120 --> 0:46:37.719 it and if it doesn't, you can always return it. 0:46:38.400 --> 0:46:41.600 But that's that's what I do. So thanks for listening. 0:46:41.680 --> 0:46:44.200 Is it's still raining outside in Los Angeles because. 0:46:43.960 --> 0:46:47.160 It yeah, but you know what, it's raining, but kind 0:46:47.160 --> 0:46:49.920 of like regular. Last week's storm was a little bit 0:46:50.000 --> 0:46:50.520 more hefty. 0:46:52.000 --> 0:46:52.359 This one. 0:46:52.760 --> 0:46:54.320 We'll see how it goes. It looks like it's just 0:46:54.400 --> 0:46:58.200 regular nice going on. 0:46:58.360 --> 0:47:00.440 Oh, man. Yeah, it's been it's been wild here in 0:47:00.440 --> 0:47:03.359 Los Angeles. I'm more rain in the past six months 0:47:03.400 --> 0:47:05.839 than I've seen in a long long time here. But 0:47:06.160 --> 0:47:08.600 it's cozy in here in the studio. You are listening 0:47:08.640 --> 0:47:11.960 to Rich on Tech. My name is rich DeMuro. Coming up, 0:47:12.000 --> 0:47:15.200 we're going to talk about Seattle Public schools. They are 0:47:15.320 --> 0:47:20.520 suing these big tech companies over the youth of our nation, 0:47:21.120 --> 0:47:23.560 and I will talk about that. Coming up, Phone number 0:47:23.560 --> 0:47:26.120 triple eight, Rich one oh one. You are listening to 0:47:26.920 --> 0:47:30.799 rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. This 0:47:30.840 --> 0:47:33.200 is the show where we talk about technology and answer 0:47:33.280 --> 0:47:37.799 your questions. My name is Richdmuro. I am at Rich 0:47:37.880 --> 0:47:41.160 on Tech. On social media, oh gosh. Speaking of social media, 0:47:41.840 --> 0:47:46.800 Seattle Public Schools filed a ninety one page lawsuit against 0:47:47.160 --> 0:47:52.920 the companies behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and YouTube. They 0:47:52.960 --> 0:47:56.640 say that these apps are ruining kids' lives. Now, I'm 0:47:56.680 --> 0:47:59.240 a parent and my kids are not on social media, 0:47:59.280 --> 0:48:02.480 but they are on devices, and I've seen the impact 0:48:02.640 --> 0:48:05.440 of that, and I think that there's a lot to 0:48:05.560 --> 0:48:11.279 unpack here. Joining me is professor of psychology Gene Twangy. 0:48:11.400 --> 0:48:15.200 She is author of Eye Jen why today's super connected 0:48:15.280 --> 0:48:18.920 kids are growing up less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy, 0:48:19.360 --> 0:48:23.640 and completely unprepared for adulthood. Gene, thanks for joining me. 0:48:24.760 --> 0:48:25.160 Thank you. 0:48:26.120 --> 0:48:28.080 What do you make of this? What do you make 0:48:28.120 --> 0:48:29.880 of this lawsuit? Like when you heard about it, what 0:48:29.920 --> 0:48:31.280 did you think? What was your reaction? 0:48:33.320 --> 0:48:40.920 Well, it is actually really just yet another case where 0:48:41.719 --> 0:48:44.880 people are trying to hold the social media companies to account. 0:48:45.040 --> 0:48:48.640 So at this point, doesn't the families have social media 0:48:48.680 --> 0:48:52.120 companies for harm to their children? And a group of 0:48:52.320 --> 0:48:57.960 attorneys general are doing the same on the behalf of state. 0:48:57.719 --> 0:49:01.080 Governments, And so far it's been like teflon, you know, 0:49:01.160 --> 0:49:04.879 it's nothing's really stuck. And they all say, oh, we're 0:49:04.920 --> 0:49:09.120 doing what we can. We've got these you know, safety 0:49:09.480 --> 0:49:12.879 things in place. We do this with the advertising. They 0:49:12.880 --> 0:49:15.920 make a small change. But the school system is accusing 0:49:15.960 --> 0:49:19.680 these social media platforms of increasing students' anxiety and depression. 0:49:19.800 --> 0:49:21.799 Is that possible through social media? 0:49:23.160 --> 0:49:26.160 Absolutely? And we have lots and lots of studies showing 0:49:26.200 --> 0:49:29.920 that that's the case. The more time a team spends 0:49:29.960 --> 0:49:33.960 on social media, the more likely it is that she's depressed, 0:49:34.320 --> 0:49:39.800 that she's harming herself. The experimental data showing causation as well. Plus, 0:49:40.640 --> 0:49:43.680 the adolescent mental health crisis that we're grappling with right 0:49:43.719 --> 0:49:46.920 now didn't begin during the pandemic. It began more than 0:49:47.000 --> 0:49:49.360 ten years ago, right at the time that social media, 0:49:49.440 --> 0:49:51.920 because became very popular among kids. 0:49:52.800 --> 0:49:55.799 What is it about social media that is feeding this? 0:49:56.080 --> 0:50:00.000 Like what makes you know, what ruins these teams life 0:50:00.040 --> 0:50:01.279 lives because of it? 0:50:01.320 --> 0:50:01.400 Like? 0:50:01.440 --> 0:50:02.520 What is it doing to them? 0:50:03.800 --> 0:50:06.200 There's a lot of factors. There's a lot of factors. 0:50:07.160 --> 0:50:13.440 So for some young people, especially girls, they experience major 0:50:13.480 --> 0:50:18.719 issues with body image and eating disorcer disorders. And Facebook's 0:50:18.800 --> 0:50:21.719 own research delved into that, so they you know, the 0:50:21.760 --> 0:50:26.400 company's aware that these things are happening, you know, based 0:50:26.440 --> 0:50:30.719 on the Facebook papers that were leaked in fall twenty 0:50:30.760 --> 0:50:35.720 twenty one by Francis Howgen. So that's one of the issues. There's, 0:50:35.760 --> 0:50:39.719 of course, cyber bullying. There's, of course the constant comparison 0:50:39.760 --> 0:50:43.160 to other people. There's seeing all the things you're missing 0:50:43.239 --> 0:50:47.440 out on. There's the amount of time that teams are 0:50:47.480 --> 0:50:50.880 spending on social media, which is not a coincidence because 0:50:50.880 --> 0:50:55.720 the algorithms on these apps are designed to keep people 0:50:55.880 --> 0:50:58.160 on the apps for as long as possible and keep 0:50:58.200 --> 0:51:00.359 them coming back as many times as possile. 0:51:01.160 --> 0:51:03.719 Now, can't some of this be said for adults? I mean, 0:51:03.719 --> 0:51:06.000 I see the same thing happening with adults. You know, 0:51:06.040 --> 0:51:07.920 you see someone on vacation and next thing you know, 0:51:07.960 --> 0:51:10.800 you want to go to that vacation place as an adult. 0:51:11.160 --> 0:51:14.320 Is it different because our brains are you know, different? 0:51:14.480 --> 0:51:15.800 Or is it the same problem? 0:51:17.719 --> 0:51:23.680 The problem is similar, It's just that for adults, you know, 0:51:23.800 --> 0:51:27.400 right or wrong. We consider adults as making their own choices, 0:51:28.120 --> 0:51:33.400 and we as a society tend to protect children and 0:51:33.520 --> 0:51:37.080 teens from many of these harms. So, for example, alcohol, 0:51:37.280 --> 0:51:40.680 Alcohol can be harmful no matter what age you are 0:51:40.719 --> 0:51:43.600 when you're using it, But we have made the drinking 0:51:43.719 --> 0:51:47.560 age twenty one with the idea that children and teens 0:51:47.600 --> 0:51:52.399 are less able to control those impulses and make good 0:51:52.400 --> 0:51:55.120 decisions when it comes to alcohol. You could argue the 0:51:55.120 --> 0:51:58.520 same should possibly be true for social media. Yet there's 0:51:58.640 --> 0:52:01.319 lots of kids on these platforms and minim they are 0:52:01.320 --> 0:52:05.360 supposed to be thirteen. It's not enforced, and these platforms 0:52:05.400 --> 0:52:08.160 were not designed for children, they were designed for adults. 0:52:08.600 --> 0:52:10.239 I see it every day in my home. I mean 0:52:10.320 --> 0:52:13.840 I see my kids flipping through not TikTok, but you know, 0:52:13.920 --> 0:52:18.439 YouTube shorts, maybe to a lesser extent Instagram, but it's 0:52:18.480 --> 0:52:20.839 it's definitely it takes a hold of them. I mean, 0:52:20.880 --> 0:52:24.080 they can't stop. And also we haven't even talked about 0:52:24.080 --> 0:52:26.319 the information that they're getting from there. That could be wrong. 0:52:26.360 --> 0:52:28.160 I mean, as an adult, you know, you have a 0:52:28.200 --> 0:52:31.080 sense of what's real, what's fake, what's not, you know 0:52:31.120 --> 0:52:33.840 what's good, what's bad. As kids, you may not have that, 0:52:33.920 --> 0:52:36.000 and I think that's another issue that we see here. 0:52:36.480 --> 0:52:39.319 What's your recommendation to parents about all this? What do 0:52:39.400 --> 0:52:43.399 you think parents can do to either understand this more 0:52:43.640 --> 0:52:46.319 or you know, act with their teams? I mean do 0:52:46.360 --> 0:52:49.080 they The problem is the teenagers are all on it, 0:52:49.120 --> 0:52:51.520 so you can't stop them from being on there. 0:52:52.520 --> 0:52:55.920 Of course you can, of course. Why why Well, I 0:52:55.960 --> 0:52:59.719 mean it is true that the companies are basically conspiring 0:52:59.760 --> 0:53:03.000 again parents to allow us to do that. They don't 0:53:03.000 --> 0:53:07.320 require Frital perussion because they don't force their eight limits. However, 0:53:09.040 --> 0:53:11.600 to take it as as a parent, so one has 0:53:11.640 --> 0:53:14.879 no device in the bedrooms overnight. That's not just good 0:53:14.880 --> 0:53:18.200 for kids and teens, it's good for adults too, because 0:53:18.239 --> 0:53:20.600 that will at the very least prevent them being on 0:53:20.600 --> 0:53:24.040 it in the middle of the night. But then, you know, 0:53:25.040 --> 0:53:27.239 don't allow your kids to have social media until they're 0:53:27.239 --> 0:53:29.680 at least thirteen. That's actually the way it's supposed to 0:53:29.680 --> 0:53:32.520 be under the law. And consider having that age be 0:53:32.960 --> 0:53:34.440 sixteen or even eighteen. 0:53:34.680 --> 0:53:36.520 What do you do all their friends are on it? 0:53:36.560 --> 0:53:37.799 How do you deal with that? 0:53:38.360 --> 0:53:38.800 You say no. 0:53:39.360 --> 0:53:41.960 If all their friends were drinking alcohol or jumping off cliffs, 0:53:42.000 --> 0:53:42.800 you could also say no. 0:53:43.440 --> 0:53:45.319 It's not easy as a parent to do that. 0:53:46.000 --> 0:53:47.640 And I'm not going to suggest it's easy. I don't 0:53:47.640 --> 0:53:50.960 mean to be overly good. I have three kids myself, sixteen, thirteen, 0:53:51.000 --> 0:53:54.960 and ten. So there are other ways to communicate. 0:53:55.120 --> 0:53:55.520 Is the thing. 0:53:56.000 --> 0:54:00.440 You can text, you can face time. There is so 0:54:00.520 --> 0:54:03.200 many other ways that kids can connect online. It doesn't 0:54:03.239 --> 0:54:04.719 have to be social media. 0:54:04.880 --> 0:54:06.879 Yeah, all right, I'm gonna have to leave it there 0:54:07.320 --> 0:54:10.520 for time. Thank you, doctor Gene Twangy for talking to me, 0:54:10.680 --> 0:54:14.040 author of I jen Why today's super connected kids are 0:54:14.080 --> 0:54:18.120 growing up less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy, and completely 0:54:18.360 --> 0:54:23.000 unprepared for adulthood. It's a problem even in my house. 0:54:23.160 --> 0:54:25.400 My kid wants, you know, he wants to sign up 0:54:25.400 --> 0:54:28.000 for a discord. He wants he wants me to change 0:54:28.040 --> 0:54:30.759 his Google account to be thirteen and up so that 0:54:30.800 --> 0:54:33.279 he can access certain things that he can't get with 0:54:33.440 --> 0:54:37.279 his account that he's with his real age. So I 0:54:37.320 --> 0:54:39.240 don't know what to say as a parent. It's really 0:54:39.280 --> 0:54:41.799 really tricky. And I understand if you're listening and you're saying, Rich, 0:54:41.880 --> 0:54:45.360 these are really really tough things to stand firm on, 0:54:45.560 --> 0:54:47.839 But I get it. My name is Rich Dmiro. You're 0:54:47.840 --> 0:54:52.440 listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:54:52.480 --> 0:54:55.560 My name is Rich Damiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel 0:54:55.600 --> 0:54:58.640 five in Los Angeles. Taking your calls at triple eight 0:54:59.280 --> 0:55:02.759 Rich one one. That's one eight eight eight seven four 0:55:02.800 --> 0:55:06.600 to two, four to one zero one. You can find 0:55:06.640 --> 0:55:09.640 me on social media at rich on Tech. You can 0:55:09.680 --> 0:55:13.920 even email me rich on Tech. Dot tv is the website. 0:55:14.960 --> 0:55:21.040 Got a dm on Instagram and this is Alejandra says. 0:55:21.080 --> 0:55:23.040 Do you know how do you know if some apps 0:55:23.120 --> 0:55:26.080 are listening to your conversations? How do you disconnect them? 0:55:26.600 --> 0:55:28.640 It's a good question. Now, I know this gets into 0:55:28.680 --> 0:55:32.239 some sort of conspiracy theory kind of things, but it's 0:55:32.280 --> 0:55:35.359 a valid argument. It's a valid question of you know, well, 0:55:35.440 --> 0:55:39.120 number one, what qualifies as an app spying on you? 0:55:39.280 --> 0:55:42.600 Are you just thinking about audio and video or are 0:55:42.640 --> 0:55:45.760 you thinking about location as well? So I would consider 0:55:45.800 --> 0:55:47.799 all three of these things. Also, your camera, could it 0:55:47.840 --> 0:55:50.560 be monitoring that? Your microphone could it be monitoring that. 0:55:51.080 --> 0:55:55.600 Now this all comes to sort of the forefront when 0:55:56.080 --> 0:55:57.680 remember how a lot of people and I guess people 0:55:57.760 --> 0:56:00.200 still say this, but they say that Facebook is listening 0:56:00.320 --> 0:56:02.920 to them because the ads on there. You see an 0:56:02.960 --> 0:56:06.279 ad on Instagram, and it's uncanny. It's like something that 0:56:06.320 --> 0:56:09.560 you just talked about with your friend and you said, 0:56:09.560 --> 0:56:12.400 they must be listening to me because I'm seeing an 0:56:12.440 --> 0:56:14.960 ad for the dog food that my friend was telling 0:56:15.000 --> 0:56:19.320 me about, or the mattress or the sneakers or anything. 0:56:19.960 --> 0:56:23.239 And everyone's had it happen to them, myself included. And 0:56:24.560 --> 0:56:27.960 I come from the background of there's just no way 0:56:28.520 --> 0:56:32.239 that Facebook is listening to our microphones, to millions and 0:56:32.239 --> 0:56:36.320 millions of people, billions of people and scanning for keywords 0:56:36.360 --> 0:56:39.480 and then matching up those keywords. But it is uncanny, 0:56:39.680 --> 0:56:42.760 and it is quite remarkable how many times this happens, 0:56:43.520 --> 0:56:45.240 and I'm talking even if you go to a friend's 0:56:45.239 --> 0:56:48.640 house for dinner or something and something that you mentioned 0:56:48.680 --> 0:56:51.839 in your conversation with them shows up on your Instagram feed, 0:56:51.880 --> 0:56:55.200 and it just happens. It's happened to everyone now. The 0:56:55.239 --> 0:56:58.520 way Facebook and Instagram explain it is that their systems 0:56:58.560 --> 0:57:03.800 are so smart and so high tech that they understand 0:57:03.840 --> 0:57:07.120 that if someone recently bought something on one website and 0:57:07.200 --> 0:57:09.520 now your phone is in the vicinity of that person, 0:57:10.560 --> 0:57:12.360 they figure, well, they might have talked about it, and 0:57:12.360 --> 0:57:14.080 they serve up that. I don't know, it sounds like 0:57:14.120 --> 0:57:17.000 that would be pretty complicated in its own right, but 0:57:17.400 --> 0:57:20.720 that's sort of their explanation. Don't forget they're tracking you 0:57:20.760 --> 0:57:23.160 on pretty much every website you go to, whether it's 0:57:23.200 --> 0:57:27.439 on your phone, whether it's on the web. And here's 0:57:27.480 --> 0:57:31.240 what I would say. I would recommend checking your permissions. 0:57:31.600 --> 0:57:34.120 So I don't think that these apps are spying on 0:57:34.160 --> 0:57:37.160 you in the way that you may think traditional spying happens, 0:57:37.200 --> 0:57:40.840 but they are collecting a fair amount of information. So 0:57:41.000 --> 0:57:43.360 if you go on the iPhone into your settings and 0:57:43.400 --> 0:57:45.479 this is just something you want to look at, let's 0:57:45.640 --> 0:57:47.120 just choose an app so you can go to your 0:57:47.120 --> 0:57:50.200 settings and just on your main page, scroll all the 0:57:50.240 --> 0:57:53.160 way down and you can look at something like Instagram. 0:57:53.200 --> 0:57:56.400 So let's just do this right now, here is Instagram 0:57:56.440 --> 0:58:00.880 on my phone. Okay, I got to get my abcdefgh am. 0:58:00.920 --> 0:58:02.200 I the only person that has to spell out the 0:58:02.240 --> 0:58:04.600 alphabet every time I want to see where a letter falls. Okay, 0:58:04.680 --> 0:58:07.280 So now I tap Instagram and it says allow Instagram 0:58:07.280 --> 0:58:11.760 to access. You've got location, you've got contacts, you've got photos, 0:58:11.800 --> 0:58:17.840 you've got microphone, you've got camera, Syrian search, background, cellular data, 0:58:17.880 --> 0:58:22.280 and notifications. So location is a big one, and there 0:58:22.320 --> 0:58:24.440 is a reason why it wants access to all of 0:58:24.440 --> 0:58:26.560 this information. Location is so that if you want to 0:58:26.600 --> 0:58:29.560 tag the restaurant you're at, when you go to tag it, 0:58:29.560 --> 0:58:33.320 it shows the closest things to you, the closest restaurants, 0:58:33.320 --> 0:58:35.840 the closest points of interest, and you can easily select 0:58:35.880 --> 0:58:38.760 one and tag your photo with that. So there's a 0:58:38.800 --> 0:58:42.120 reason why they want that. Now, there are some settings 0:58:42.160 --> 0:58:45.360 here where if you dive into that, you can allow 0:58:45.440 --> 0:58:49.120 location access. Never ask me next time while using the 0:58:49.160 --> 0:58:52.280 app or precise Location. Now, I would turn off precise 0:58:52.360 --> 0:58:55.280 Location because I don't think Instagram needs to know your 0:58:55.320 --> 0:58:59.440 precise location. Now they can understand your general location. If 0:58:59.440 --> 0:59:02.520 you want to tag stuff, that's fine. Next up contacts. 0:59:02.560 --> 0:59:05.400 Contacts helps you helps them figure out who they should 0:59:05.440 --> 0:59:07.960 suggest to you. So if they look at your contacts 0:59:08.000 --> 0:59:10.400 and they sync them up on the back end, they 0:59:10.440 --> 0:59:13.520 can suggest someone in your feed that you're friends with 0:59:13.640 --> 0:59:15.480 that's in your address book, or someone you work with, 0:59:15.600 --> 0:59:18.400 or someone that you've exchanged contact info with. And next 0:59:18.440 --> 0:59:22.760 thing know now their network grows photos. Pretty self explanatory. 0:59:22.800 --> 0:59:25.960 They want to scan your photos to help you upload stuff. 0:59:26.520 --> 0:59:32.400 Microphone and camera. Now, if you're not taking pictures inside Instagram, 0:59:32.400 --> 0:59:35.000 you may not need access to camera. And if you're 0:59:35.000 --> 0:59:39.040 not doing Instagram stories with audio and video, you may 0:59:39.080 --> 0:59:41.400 not need the microphone. And so you can turn those 0:59:41.440 --> 0:59:44.280 off safely until you need them again. Now, when you 0:59:44.280 --> 0:59:46.480 swipe over for stories, it may ask you, hey, we 0:59:46.520 --> 0:59:49.120 need access to this, and you can't do anything until 0:59:49.120 --> 0:59:52.680 you give that access again. So the other thing is 0:59:52.720 --> 0:59:55.560 that when you're on the iPhone or on Android, in 0:59:55.760 --> 0:59:58.920 the upper right hand corner of the iPhone, it will 0:59:58.960 --> 1:00:02.000 have a little light when when something's accessing your camera. Oh, 1:00:02.040 --> 1:00:05.320 it's actually moved to the center Now, when something's accessing 1:00:05.440 --> 1:00:09.240 your camera, you'll see a little dot towards the center 1:00:09.880 --> 1:00:13.360 middle top part of your phone. And so that little 1:00:13.520 --> 1:00:16.720 microphone or that little light means that a camera is 1:00:16.800 --> 1:00:21.280 accessing or some app is accessing your camera. If you see, 1:00:21.520 --> 1:00:24.160 I believe it's an orange light. That is when something's 1:00:24.200 --> 1:00:29.000 accessing your microphone and similar on the Android devices they 1:00:29.040 --> 1:00:30.720 do that as well. So if you open up your 1:00:30.760 --> 1:00:33.400 camera in the upper right hand corner there it is 1:00:33.400 --> 1:00:35.160 in the upper right hand corner, it'll have a little 1:00:35.160 --> 1:00:38.240 green dot that means that an app is actively using 1:00:38.280 --> 1:00:39.960 your camera. And you can just test this out, just 1:00:40.000 --> 1:00:43.200 open up your camera app. So the concern and the 1:00:43.240 --> 1:00:45.600 reason why they did this, I think is because people 1:00:45.680 --> 1:00:48.240 were saying, you know, Instagram's accessing my camera and my 1:00:48.280 --> 1:00:52.680 microphone without me knowing. Well, theoretically, if they were, you 1:00:52.680 --> 1:00:54.320 would see that light light up. So if you ever 1:00:54.320 --> 1:00:58.760 see that light light up when you're not using the app, 1:00:58.920 --> 1:01:02.280 that you think, then you have a problem. But that's 1:01:02.360 --> 1:01:06.200 kind of my general you know, quick lesson in are 1:01:06.240 --> 1:01:08.320 your apps spying on you? I don't think they are, 1:01:08.400 --> 1:01:10.440 but they are collecting a lot of data and they 1:01:10.440 --> 1:01:12.080 do know a lot and they mix it, by the way, 1:01:12.120 --> 1:01:15.080 with other forms of data. So just keep that in mind. 1:01:15.560 --> 1:01:19.000 The less permission is the better. That's my advice. Billy 1:01:19.160 --> 1:01:21.960 is in fuller tin. Billy, you're on with rich what's happening? 1:01:23.720 --> 1:01:23.880 Why? 1:01:25.120 --> 1:01:25.320 Hi? 1:01:28.160 --> 1:01:31.280 I have a Lenovo laptop and I just got a 1:01:31.400 --> 1:01:35.160 T Mobile five G Internet while I was Internet for home. 1:01:35.400 --> 1:01:36.680 Oh great, how's that working? 1:01:37.640 --> 1:01:42.080 Well? My phone and my wife's Lenovo laptop is connecting 1:01:42.120 --> 1:01:46.440 to it. But my personal laptop, Lenovo also is not connecting. 1:01:46.480 --> 1:01:48.840 It's not even on the list of the Wi Fi. 1:01:49.360 --> 1:01:49.720 Okay. 1:01:50.520 --> 1:01:55.120 And I worked with a T Mobile technician. We did everything. 1:01:55.240 --> 1:01:58.320 He changed the frequency to a lower frequency and all that. 1:01:58.520 --> 1:02:00.880 My computer is up to date. But there's a seven 1:02:00.960 --> 1:02:02.840 year old Lenovo with Windows and ten. 1:02:03.640 --> 1:02:06.360 Okay. So you worked this out with a T Mobile 1:02:06.360 --> 1:02:08.120 tech and you think I'm able to figure it out. 1:02:08.440 --> 1:02:09.960 I don't know. It seems like no. 1:02:10.000 --> 1:02:13.640 He suggested I call Lenoby Oh okay. 1:02:13.720 --> 1:02:17.320 So okay, So you're calling Rich on tech. So your 1:02:17.360 --> 1:02:19.400 wife's laptop is newer. I'm guessing. 1:02:20.920 --> 1:02:23.560 Yes, it is newer. She got it from work late 1:02:23.600 --> 1:02:27.360 after I got mine from you know, Costco. Mine is 1:02:27.400 --> 1:02:28.120 seven years old. 1:02:28.160 --> 1:02:29.880 HER's is seven years old. So I think this is 1:02:29.920 --> 1:02:33.160 a problem of the spectrum that it's using. That whether 1:02:33.200 --> 1:02:36.440 it's two, there's a term there's either five gigahertz wi 1:02:36.480 --> 1:02:39.400 Fi or two point four gigaherts, and I think what's 1:02:39.440 --> 1:02:42.160 happening is that this hot spot is putting out the 1:02:42.240 --> 1:02:45.480 five gigaherts, not to be confused with five g. Five 1:02:45.520 --> 1:02:47.880 G is how it's getting its cellular signal. But it's 1:02:47.920 --> 1:02:50.960 putting out this five gigaherts signal by default, where you 1:02:51.040 --> 1:02:54.200 ab to change the signal from the router to be 1:02:54.280 --> 1:02:56.640 also two point four because that's usually in the setting. 1:02:56.800 --> 1:03:00.200 Yeah, tam Obile Tech did that. He changes to two 1:03:00.240 --> 1:03:03.560 point four. We assigned a new name, and it still 1:03:03.600 --> 1:03:06.720 doesn't appear on the list on my laptop. So I'm 1:03:06.760 --> 1:03:10.919 guessing it's gonna be my old laptop time to get one. 1:03:11.120 --> 1:03:13.120 Yeah, I think so, because here's the thing. There's another 1:03:13.360 --> 1:03:16.440 there's another part of this two point four which is 1:03:16.520 --> 1:03:19.000 the band that it works on, and it's usually like 1:03:19.120 --> 1:03:21.720 B or G or something like that. And so I 1:03:21.840 --> 1:03:25.480 think that this new hotspot is just not putting out 1:03:25.760 --> 1:03:29.320 the signal that would be compatible with your laptop anymore. 1:03:29.360 --> 1:03:32.000 And that's you know, if you try to switch it 1:03:32.080 --> 1:03:33.960 to the two point four and it's just not working, 1:03:34.040 --> 1:03:37.680 it's not picking it up, it's it's probably not gonna work. 1:03:37.680 --> 1:03:41.040 You could get an adapter. Have you thought about it. 1:03:40.920 --> 1:03:45.120 It thing is, I've been using a Spectrum wireless router 1:03:46.040 --> 1:03:48.600 and I have two options. I have five G and 1:03:48.960 --> 1:03:52.920 two point four and either one works on my laptop. 1:03:53.520 --> 1:03:55.240 Oh, well, that's interesting. 1:03:55.480 --> 1:03:58.240 Really interesting. I've been using that. That's what I'm using 1:03:58.360 --> 1:04:02.640 right now. For some reason, it doesn't like T Mobiles. 1:04:03.720 --> 1:04:06.680 Well, that's definitely frustrating. And I know a lot of 1:04:06.680 --> 1:04:10.560 people are getting these new five G kind of home 1:04:10.920 --> 1:04:16.120 wireless internet connections from either Verizon or T Mobile. Typically 1:04:16.160 --> 1:04:18.160 it works, but it is a mystery though, the fact 1:04:18.160 --> 1:04:21.960 that it's not working on your laptop. It just sounds 1:04:22.080 --> 1:04:25.240 like I mean, I would think that the five gigahertz, 1:04:25.240 --> 1:04:28.560 if it's working from Spectrum, your laptop has that capability. 1:04:28.600 --> 1:04:30.640 It seems like that would work. But since it's not, 1:04:30.840 --> 1:04:33.600 that is a mystery. I don't know. It could be 1:04:33.640 --> 1:04:36.560 time for an upgrade for the laptop. I hate to 1:04:36.760 --> 1:04:40.400 recommend an upgrade, but you know, if you figured it 1:04:40.440 --> 1:04:43.480 out with the tech from T Mobile, and you also 1:04:44.600 --> 1:04:46.680 you know, called me, but I would, I would try 1:04:46.680 --> 1:04:49.200 to figure it out. Maybe just give the Lenovo folks 1:04:49.240 --> 1:04:51.880 a call with tech support, see what they say. They 1:04:51.920 --> 1:04:55.160 may know something that I don't, but that is definitely frustrating. 1:04:55.320 --> 1:04:58.280 And of course if you have this as your home Internet, 1:04:58.320 --> 1:05:01.720 you want it to work, that's for sure. So good question. 1:05:01.840 --> 1:05:03.800 We're getting a lot of Wi Fi questions. Apparently a 1:05:03.800 --> 1:05:07.440 lot of people have trouble with their WiFi. It's one 1:05:07.480 --> 1:05:09.880 of those things where I was testing a gadget one time, 1:05:09.960 --> 1:05:12.160 like this plug, and it just I could not get 1:05:12.200 --> 1:05:15.040 it to connect to my Wi Fi. For anything I did, 1:05:15.080 --> 1:05:16.720 it just would not work. And I tried so many 1:05:16.760 --> 1:05:20.360 different things, but sometimes it just happens, all right. Coming 1:05:20.400 --> 1:05:21.720 up in the show, I'm going to talk about the 1:05:21.800 --> 1:05:24.200 Google Drive shortcut you need to know about. I learned 1:05:24.240 --> 1:05:26.720 about this this week. It's fantastic. I'll tell you why 1:05:26.720 --> 1:05:29.880 people are mad about Twitter all over again. And plus 1:05:29.880 --> 1:05:33.000 we'll talk TVs later in the show, specific recommendations on 1:05:33.000 --> 1:05:35.720 what to get. You're listening to Rich on Tech, give 1:05:35.720 --> 1:05:37.840 me a call at Triple eight rich one oh one. 1:05:38.960 --> 1:05:41.800 Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name is rich DeMuro, 1:05:42.040 --> 1:05:45.320 taking your calls, answering your questions and also talking about 1:05:45.360 --> 1:05:48.520 the tech stuff that happened throughout the week, things that 1:05:48.560 --> 1:05:52.200 are interesting, things of notes and stuff you can use 1:05:52.400 --> 1:05:57.440 like this. So I basically use Google Drive every day 1:05:57.480 --> 1:06:01.520 of my life. It's just a necessity. And it's one 1:06:01.520 --> 1:06:03.240 of these things where when I want to do a 1:06:03.280 --> 1:06:05.720 new document, it takes me a bit to figure it out. 1:06:05.760 --> 1:06:07.880 You know, you got to go to the bookmark of 1:06:07.920 --> 1:06:11.080 Google Drive. You gotta say, I mean, it's like a 1:06:11.120 --> 1:06:14.560 ten step process, right. You gotta click new, and you 1:06:14.600 --> 1:06:17.080 gotta click Google Docs and you gotta decide do you 1:06:17.120 --> 1:06:18.920 want a document, do you want to template? It just 1:06:18.960 --> 1:06:22.400 takes a couple of seconds. So I knew about this, 1:06:22.520 --> 1:06:24.919 but I had forgotten about it because this is nothing new. 1:06:25.440 --> 1:06:27.840 But once you commit it to memory, it'll be a 1:06:27.840 --> 1:06:30.320 whole lot easier. So if you go to a web 1:06:30.320 --> 1:06:32.960 browser and use Google Docs, if you just type doc 1:06:33.080 --> 1:06:37.200 dot new, it will give you a brand new Google Doc. 1:06:37.680 --> 1:06:40.360 It is like magic. And so when I figured this 1:06:40.440 --> 1:06:43.240 out the other day, I was in the newsroom, I 1:06:43.320 --> 1:06:46.400 went around and screamed to everyone, do you use Google Drive, 1:06:46.760 --> 1:06:48.840 Do use Google Docs? You need to know about this. 1:06:48.960 --> 1:06:51.840 Do you know about it, and I heard the oohs 1:06:51.880 --> 1:06:54.800 and ohs coming from the various folks in my newsroom 1:06:55.240 --> 1:06:58.080 because it's just one of those things that saves you 1:06:58.160 --> 1:07:03.000 time and time. You know, saving time is fun. Other 1:07:03.040 --> 1:07:04.480 things you can do. By the way, you have to 1:07:04.520 --> 1:07:07.439 be signed into your Google Drive for this to work. 1:07:07.480 --> 1:07:09.760 If you're not, it will attempt to open up the 1:07:09.800 --> 1:07:12.560 new file, but it will have to ask you to 1:07:12.600 --> 1:07:14.080 sign in first. So if you get the sign in 1:07:14.120 --> 1:07:16.520 page that means that you're not signed into Google. I 1:07:16.520 --> 1:07:18.000 don't know how you'd be signed out. I mean, I 1:07:18.040 --> 1:07:19.720 don't think I ever signed out unless I have to. 1:07:20.440 --> 1:07:23.080 But you can also create a new Google slides presentation 1:07:23.600 --> 1:07:28.480 if you type slide dot new, slide dot new. You 1:07:28.520 --> 1:07:32.480 can do a new spreadsheet if you type sheet dot new, 1:07:33.040 --> 1:07:37.000 S H E E T dot new, a new Google 1:07:37.160 --> 1:07:40.360 form if you type form dot new, f O, R 1:07:40.520 --> 1:07:44.240 M dot new, a new Google site site dot new. 1:07:45.120 --> 1:07:47.240 And one of the other ones I might use is 1:07:47.280 --> 1:07:50.560 a new calendar event cal dot new, and so if 1:07:50.600 --> 1:07:53.760 you type that in you can get a new calendar event. 1:07:53.800 --> 1:07:53.920 Now. 1:07:53.960 --> 1:07:56.280 I don't know if that one's that handy, because if 1:07:56.280 --> 1:07:59.200 you're in Google Calendar, you can tap create. I mean, 1:07:59.240 --> 1:08:01.160 it's only two cli to get an event, so it's 1:08:01.200 --> 1:08:03.280 not that big deal, a big of a deal, or 1:08:03.320 --> 1:08:05.439 you can just tap somewhere in your calendar and start 1:08:05.440 --> 1:08:07.960 a new event. But to me, the doc dot new 1:08:08.040 --> 1:08:11.200 is pretty big. There's a whole list of shortcuts. Google 1:08:11.360 --> 1:08:16.760 actually bought I guess that new dot new domain, and 1:08:16.800 --> 1:08:19.559 that's how they're doing this. So let's go to Google 1:08:22.000 --> 1:08:25.720 slash shortcuts and there's a whole list of shortcuts that 1:08:25.800 --> 1:08:29.880 they've got. But you know, those are the those are 1:08:29.880 --> 1:08:32.639 the important ones. I think that the doc dot new 1:08:32.760 --> 1:08:35.720 is just so handy. Write that down because you never 1:08:35.760 --> 1:08:38.640 know when you need it, and thank me for it. Now, 1:08:38.760 --> 1:08:42.040 I guess, don't thank me. I didn't do it. People 1:08:42.080 --> 1:08:44.880 are up in arms about Twitter once again, all over again. 1:08:45.600 --> 1:08:49.639 So when Elon Musk bought Twitter, people went nuts over it, 1:08:49.880 --> 1:08:52.960 and you know, there's a lot of discussions about people 1:08:52.960 --> 1:08:55.719 whether they're going to stay on Twitter, whether they ditch Twitter. 1:08:56.400 --> 1:08:59.160 You know, there's there's a couple of changes, things settled down, 1:08:59.680 --> 1:09:03.120 and now people are back up in arms because they 1:09:03.160 --> 1:09:06.559 have changed the feed on Twitter. So when you open 1:09:06.640 --> 1:09:10.160 up the Twitter app now it defaults to what's called 1:09:10.200 --> 1:09:14.200 a for you feed. Twitter did not invent the for 1:09:14.439 --> 1:09:17.400 you feed. They are just doing what every other social 1:09:17.400 --> 1:09:20.040 media company at this point is doing, which is the 1:09:20.400 --> 1:09:24.040 for you. Let me explain. TikTok sort of started this. 1:09:24.160 --> 1:09:27.360 You know, you had Okay, you had Facebook back in 1:09:27.400 --> 1:09:31.720 the day. Then you had Instagram and Twitter, and all 1:09:31.760 --> 1:09:35.360 of these websites operated pretty much the same way. You 1:09:35.479 --> 1:09:38.519 followed people, and if someone posted something, you would see 1:09:38.520 --> 1:09:40.800 what they post in your timeline in the order that 1:09:40.800 --> 1:09:44.360 people posted it, mostly your friends. Well, then all of 1:09:44.400 --> 1:09:47.519 a sudden, they weren't getting the engagement they wanted, because 1:09:47.640 --> 1:09:50.599 who's to say that when someone posts something it's interesting. 1:09:51.160 --> 1:09:55.360 So now they started to reorder your feed and prioritize 1:09:55.360 --> 1:09:57.760 things based on what they think you might like to 1:09:57.800 --> 1:10:00.400 see first. So if it's one of your friends, you 1:10:00.400 --> 1:10:02.080 know that just had a new kid, you would see 1:10:02.080 --> 1:10:03.840 that at the top of your feed because that's probably 1:10:03.840 --> 1:10:06.160 the most important thing in your feed. This is called 1:10:06.160 --> 1:10:12.680 an algorithmically you know, an algorithmically ordered feed. And they 1:10:12.720 --> 1:10:16.120 started doing that, but it was still your friends. Then 1:10:17.360 --> 1:10:20.000 you had TikTok come along, and TikTok said, you know what, 1:10:20.040 --> 1:10:22.080 we don't really care who you're following, We're just gonna 1:10:22.080 --> 1:10:24.120 show you a whole bunch of stuff that you might like. 1:10:24.800 --> 1:10:28.640 And they called it your for you page, and it 1:10:28.800 --> 1:10:33.120 worked really well. It still works really well. You watch 1:10:33.200 --> 1:10:36.200 one video on TikTok about a certain topic, and next 1:10:36.240 --> 1:10:37.800 thing you know, you're gonna see a whole lot of 1:10:37.880 --> 1:10:40.759 videos about that topic. It's just how their algorithm works. 1:10:41.160 --> 1:10:44.120 And they're gonna start it sprinkling in other things and 1:10:44.200 --> 1:10:46.120 see what you react to, what you like, what you 1:10:46.240 --> 1:10:48.720 linger on, what you click, what you interact with, who 1:10:48.800 --> 1:10:53.200 you follow and so TikTok and why people can go 1:10:53.320 --> 1:10:56.480 viral on TikTok and why people find it so addicting 1:10:57.120 --> 1:10:59.880 is that TikTok doesn't care who you follow. I mean, yes, 1:11:00.200 --> 1:11:03.920 use that as one signal, but TikTok really just wants 1:11:03.960 --> 1:11:06.639 to show you stuff that it thinks you will interact with. 1:11:07.320 --> 1:11:12.080 And now the other websites have seen this Instagram, Facebook 1:11:12.080 --> 1:11:13.680 and they're saying, Okay, we're going to kind of do 1:11:13.720 --> 1:11:16.160 the same thing because it seems to be working for TikTok, 1:11:16.280 --> 1:11:19.400 and people engage with this stuff because if you like 1:11:19.520 --> 1:11:24.920 pictures of you know, cats, and you know, cute cats 1:11:25.160 --> 1:11:28.160 in funny poses, you know, like you know, like those 1:11:28.400 --> 1:11:30.880 what of those Angetti's like pictures, you know, like the 1:11:30.960 --> 1:11:33.640 kids that were like in like different you know, flowers 1:11:33.680 --> 1:11:36.799 and stuff. Remember those? You know, maybe you like cats 1:11:36.840 --> 1:11:39.880 and you know, I don't know, just in silly kind 1:11:39.880 --> 1:11:43.840 of situations. And so next thing, you know, it's like, well, 1:11:43.840 --> 1:11:45.639 we're going to show you this cat picture that's really 1:11:45.680 --> 1:11:48.800 silly because so many people across the world have loved it, 1:11:48.880 --> 1:11:50.720 So if you like this, you're gonna love it too. 1:11:51.160 --> 1:11:53.240 And then they get that interaction and things go viral 1:11:53.360 --> 1:11:56.519 and the creators like it and everyone is happy except 1:11:56.600 --> 1:11:58.640 for the folks on Twitter right now, because Twitter has 1:11:58.680 --> 1:12:01.240 always been this world of you follow people for a 1:12:01.320 --> 1:12:04.599 reason and you want to see what they post. Well, 1:12:04.600 --> 1:12:06.960 now you see a whole bunch of stuff in your 1:12:07.000 --> 1:12:11.200 for you feed and that's the default. And so some 1:12:11.240 --> 1:12:13.880 people may argue that it's better in a way because 1:12:13.920 --> 1:12:18.599 now you're exposed to different thoughts, ideas, people, things, accounts 1:12:18.600 --> 1:12:22.320 you may want to follow. You can always go back 1:12:22.320 --> 1:12:25.240 to the regular following by swiping. But the problem is 1:12:25.320 --> 1:12:27.320 it always goes back to the for you when you 1:12:27.360 --> 1:12:30.479 reopen the app, so it doesn't stick to the following 1:12:30.560 --> 1:12:33.880 and there's no way to set a default where hey, 1:12:33.880 --> 1:12:36.479 I only want to see stuff from people that I follow, 1:12:37.240 --> 1:12:40.120 And so sure you can manually swipe every time you 1:12:40.280 --> 1:12:42.240 get into Twitter, but who wants to do that. It's 1:12:42.240 --> 1:12:44.559 a lot of work. So that's why people are up 1:12:44.600 --> 1:12:47.280 in arms. People are saying, once again, I'm leaving Twitter. 1:12:47.800 --> 1:12:49.400 I noticed that all the people that say they're going 1:12:49.439 --> 1:12:52.320 to leave Twitter, they're back. I mean, I haven't really 1:12:52.360 --> 1:12:55.679 noticed a substantial change in my feed, Like I haven't 1:12:55.720 --> 1:12:58.599 noticed oh yeah, that person I used to love is gone. 1:12:59.479 --> 1:13:02.120 I've noticed that the followers seem to be up, and 1:13:02.160 --> 1:13:03.840 the interaction seems to be up, and I seem to 1:13:03.880 --> 1:13:06.519 be having more fun on Twitter. I don't know. So 1:13:06.720 --> 1:13:08.679 I don't know if all the changes have been as 1:13:09.040 --> 1:13:12.240 horrible as people have made them out to be, but 1:13:12.880 --> 1:13:16.439 it seems to be an evolving place. But anyway, so 1:13:16.479 --> 1:13:19.559 if you use Twitter or any of these services, that's 1:13:19.600 --> 1:13:22.719 what's going on all right. Coming up in the show, 1:13:23.080 --> 1:13:25.479 I've got a couple of things to talk about this 1:13:25.560 --> 1:13:29.400 new social engineering trend. It's a scam. It's got kind 1:13:29.400 --> 1:13:31.720 of a yucky name, but you definitely need to know 1:13:31.760 --> 1:13:33.840 about that. You need to know why you should not 1:13:33.960 --> 1:13:37.120 be paying to use chat GPT, at least not right now. 1:13:37.720 --> 1:13:40.400 And we're going to talk TVs later in the show. 1:13:41.080 --> 1:13:43.960 My name is Rich Dmiro. You are listening to Rich 1:13:44.040 --> 1:13:47.960 on Tech. We'll be back after this. Welcome to rich 1:13:48.040 --> 1:13:50.600 on Tech. My name is Rich DeMuro. This is the 1:13:50.640 --> 1:13:54.560 show where we talk about technology and answer your questions. 1:13:55.200 --> 1:13:59.599 A lot of stuff this week about scams. I'm always 1:13:59.640 --> 1:14:02.720 interested in the latest scams and I'm always posting about 1:14:02.760 --> 1:14:04.960 them on my social media at rich on Tech if 1:14:05.000 --> 1:14:06.840 you want to follow me. By the way, I'm the 1:14:06.840 --> 1:14:10.640 tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. And 1:14:10.680 --> 1:14:13.960 this is a new show. This is a tech show 1:14:14.040 --> 1:14:18.640 that has been reinvented, reborn, kind of changed up. A 1:14:18.680 --> 1:14:21.320 lot of things have stayed the same, but you know, 1:14:21.360 --> 1:14:23.400 we're switching things up a little bit. So if you 1:14:23.479 --> 1:14:26.120 feel like it's a little different, that's for a reason. 1:14:26.320 --> 1:14:28.840 It's you know, it's a new show. So I'm going 1:14:28.880 --> 1:14:31.360 to try to pack it with information and news you 1:14:31.400 --> 1:14:35.280 can use. Obviously, i'll take your calls, but the main 1:14:35.320 --> 1:14:38.719 thing here is to just when you're listening, you feel 1:14:38.720 --> 1:14:41.800 like you are smart about technology. That's the takeaway that's 1:14:41.800 --> 1:14:43.840 what I want the goal to be. Every single week, 1:14:43.880 --> 1:14:46.160 I want you to feel like I've listened to Rich 1:14:47.160 --> 1:14:48.920 And yeah, Rich doesn't have all the answers. I don't 1:14:49.280 --> 1:14:52.320 know everything there is to know about technology, but I'm learning, 1:14:52.680 --> 1:14:56.360 You're learning, and hopefully we all learned so that we can, 1:14:56.560 --> 1:14:58.759 you know, we can be in charge of our gadgets. 1:14:58.800 --> 1:15:01.400 We can you know, not get scammed. We can you know, 1:15:01.479 --> 1:15:04.840 spend our money in places that make sense. So that's 1:15:04.920 --> 1:15:06.960 kind of the goal of the show, and I will 1:15:06.960 --> 1:15:09.800 continue to evolve the show to make that happen. It's 1:15:09.840 --> 1:15:12.120 a work in progress and it's it's new. This is 1:15:12.160 --> 1:15:16.000 only episode number two, so it will get it will 1:15:16.360 --> 1:15:20.439 change and evolve and breathe and live just like you 1:15:20.479 --> 1:15:25.040 know it should. This is an interesting new social engineering scam. 1:15:25.160 --> 1:15:27.960 It's got this weird name. It's called pig butchering. I mean, 1:15:28.960 --> 1:15:31.880 that does not sound fun. Definitely don't want that to 1:15:31.920 --> 1:15:36.599 happen to you. But the analogy is apparently with fattening 1:15:36.680 --> 1:15:39.000 up a pig than butchering it for all it's worth. 1:15:39.640 --> 1:15:45.120 And yeah, that's not very appealing, I guess. But here's 1:15:45.160 --> 1:15:47.640 the thing, and you know, anyone can be scammed. This 1:15:47.760 --> 1:15:49.800 is not you know, scamming is not like an old 1:15:49.800 --> 1:15:52.880 person thing. It's not like a dumb person thing. It 1:15:52.920 --> 1:15:55.960 can happen to anyone. And because we have so many 1:15:56.000 --> 1:15:58.000 tools in our world now that make it easier than 1:15:58.000 --> 1:16:02.880 ever to hand over your heart acquired hash and it 1:16:02.920 --> 1:16:07.120 can go to anyone, anywhere quickly. That makes scams even 1:16:07.520 --> 1:16:11.599 more interesting to scam artists because it's not just like oh, 1:16:11.640 --> 1:16:14.160 stealing twenty bucks from someone that you see in person, 1:16:14.640 --> 1:16:16.920 or getting a check from someone or their credit card. 1:16:17.040 --> 1:16:21.720 Now it is like Venmo, gift cards, PayPal. I mean, 1:16:21.720 --> 1:16:25.160 there's so many ways that people can scam people, and 1:16:25.200 --> 1:16:28.360 it's a worldwide thing, not just local. And so that's 1:16:28.400 --> 1:16:30.880 why you hear so much about scams because it just 1:16:31.240 --> 1:16:33.080 you know, if you get one percent or even a 1:16:33.120 --> 1:16:35.439 half a percent of people to fall form, it could 1:16:35.479 --> 1:16:38.280 be a lot on a big level. So here's how 1:16:38.320 --> 1:16:42.080 this new pig butchering works. It begins with sort of 1:16:42.080 --> 1:16:45.960 a cold call or a text. Right, So you may 1:16:46.000 --> 1:16:48.679 get a text that just says, hey, it was good 1:16:48.680 --> 1:16:52.160 to catch up last week, and you say, what what 1:16:52.160 --> 1:16:53.840 do you mean good to get I don't know this person, 1:16:53.840 --> 1:16:56.479 what are you talking about? And so in an act 1:16:56.479 --> 1:17:00.360 of common courtesy, you tell either the caller or the 1:17:00.600 --> 1:17:03.400 texter that you know, sorry, I think you got the 1:17:03.400 --> 1:17:07.479 wrong number, and next thing you know, they strike up 1:17:07.479 --> 1:17:11.040 a conversation with you and it sounds, you know, oh 1:17:11.120 --> 1:17:13.479 I'm sorry, Oh gosh, I you know, I must have 1:17:13.520 --> 1:17:16.479 the wrong number, and they start talking with you. And 1:17:16.520 --> 1:17:18.400 what they're really doing is they're trying to establish a 1:17:18.439 --> 1:17:22.160 relationship with you. And the closer and deeper they can 1:17:22.200 --> 1:17:24.600 get this relationship, the more they might be able to 1:17:24.640 --> 1:17:27.840 scam you. Now you may be thinking, oh, come on, rich, 1:17:27.960 --> 1:17:32.080 who's going to fall for this? People do, and not 1:17:32.240 --> 1:17:35.600 everyone is as savvy as you may think. And a 1:17:35.640 --> 1:17:37.800 lot of people, especially people that come from kind of 1:17:38.320 --> 1:17:43.600 an older school mentality of courtesy, and you know, let 1:17:43.680 --> 1:17:46.160 me write this person back to say, you know, sorry, 1:17:46.200 --> 1:17:50.000 of the wrong number whatever, They could be targeted by this. 1:17:50.240 --> 1:17:53.439 And so once the scammer gets the person in a 1:17:53.479 --> 1:17:58.040 place where they think they are fattened up, you know, 1:17:58.200 --> 1:18:00.479 that relationship is established, that's what they go in for 1:18:00.560 --> 1:18:03.559 the kill. And that's when they try to get, you know, 1:18:03.680 --> 1:18:06.519 them to sign up for some sort of app, maybe 1:18:06.600 --> 1:18:11.080 some sort of financial platform that may try to scam 1:18:11.120 --> 1:18:14.920 this person out of their money. And so once they 1:18:14.960 --> 1:18:18.360 get this going on, next thing, you know it's over. 1:18:18.600 --> 1:18:21.400 You know, they get this person hook line and sinker, 1:18:21.880 --> 1:18:24.880 they get them to fall for this, and you know 1:18:25.200 --> 1:18:30.360 they trusted this person because they built this relationship with them. Now, 1:18:30.960 --> 1:18:33.120 I don't know. I think it'd be tough for me 1:18:33.200 --> 1:18:36.240 to fall for something like this, but I will tell 1:18:36.280 --> 1:18:41.360 you that I have texted folks and said, hey, it's 1:18:41.520 --> 1:18:47.240 rich with KTLA, everything good, blah blah blah, and I 1:18:47.360 --> 1:18:49.320 sit there and I think about it. Oh wait a second. 1:18:49.400 --> 1:18:52.080 I just gave this person my name. I just gave 1:18:52.120 --> 1:18:54.599 them where I work. And if I had the wrong number, 1:18:54.600 --> 1:18:56.679 if I was off by a digit, if this person, 1:18:57.320 --> 1:18:59.599 in any way, shape or form, wanted to take advantage 1:18:59.600 --> 1:19:02.000 of me, they probably could because they can say, yeah, 1:19:02.160 --> 1:19:04.000 we're up for lunch next week, where do you want 1:19:04.040 --> 1:19:07.040 to meet? And you know it's not even the right 1:19:07.040 --> 1:19:09.599 person because they now know your name and who you are. 1:19:09.800 --> 1:19:11.519 So you just have to think about this stuff. Just 1:19:11.560 --> 1:19:15.400 be very careful because there are people out there that 1:19:15.439 --> 1:19:19.000 are actively looking to take advantage. I got an email 1:19:19.040 --> 1:19:22.240 from Chase this week, and they sent a whole email 1:19:22.240 --> 1:19:25.040 about learn how to spot a scam, and a lot 1:19:25.040 --> 1:19:27.559 of this stuff might be commonplace, but they went through. 1:19:27.640 --> 1:19:29.439 I thought it was actually a pretty good email coming 1:19:29.479 --> 1:19:33.599 from a big bank saying, you know, look, scammers pretend 1:19:33.640 --> 1:19:36.000 to be someone they're not. They trick you into providing 1:19:36.040 --> 1:19:38.600 information again, access to your account. Here are some of 1:19:38.640 --> 1:19:42.280 the scams that are going around, and you want to 1:19:42.360 --> 1:19:46.679 keep your account safe from these. So number one online shopping. 1:19:47.320 --> 1:19:49.599 They set up a fake online store and they ask 1:19:49.680 --> 1:19:52.360 you to pay in ways other than a debitter credit card. 1:19:52.760 --> 1:19:55.120 So obviously the whole point of that is, you know 1:19:55.600 --> 1:19:58.040 they don't want you to pay with debitter credit because 1:19:58.560 --> 1:20:03.400 you get some some you know you're safe from some 1:20:03.520 --> 1:20:05.160 of the scams out there. If you use a debit 1:20:05.200 --> 1:20:07.040 or credit card, it puts a little buffer between you 1:20:07.080 --> 1:20:10.479 and this bad person. But if you pay by a 1:20:10.600 --> 1:20:13.920 check or cashier's check or transfer the money instantly, then 1:20:14.080 --> 1:20:15.720 you know they've got that and you're not getting it 1:20:15.800 --> 1:20:19.520 back or Venmo or any of these other ways. Pay yourself. 1:20:19.920 --> 1:20:21.880 A person pretending to be an employee ask you to 1:20:21.880 --> 1:20:25.280 transfer money to yourself to resolve a fraudulent activity. I mean, 1:20:25.280 --> 1:20:29.000 come on, don't fall for that. One grandparent someone impersonating 1:20:29.000 --> 1:20:31.240 a loved one and a crisis, claims their car broke 1:20:31.320 --> 1:20:33.679 down or they lost their wallet. They need money right away. 1:20:34.479 --> 1:20:36.840 Tech support. Oh my gosh, I've seen this one so 1:20:37.000 --> 1:20:40.800 many times. I can't believe it. But yeah, people get 1:20:40.800 --> 1:20:43.360 these messages on their computer screen. It says, hey, it's 1:20:43.400 --> 1:20:46.200 a tech support here. We noticed there's a problem with 1:20:46.240 --> 1:20:49.479 your computer. Call this number and we'll fix it. And 1:20:50.280 --> 1:20:53.000 people fall for this every single day. I've talked to 1:20:53.240 --> 1:20:57.320 very smart people, I've interviewed them, and they fall for it, 1:20:57.400 --> 1:21:02.439 because again, it's social engineering, appealing to, you know, our 1:21:02.479 --> 1:21:05.000 good side. It's appealing to our good nature. It's appealing 1:21:05.040 --> 1:21:07.160 to just like, oh, I got to solve this problem. 1:21:07.400 --> 1:21:09.320 I got all my stuff on my computer. I can't 1:21:09.320 --> 1:21:11.160 stand to lose it. Here. Let me call this number 1:21:11.200 --> 1:21:15.960 to Windows Support and figure it out. Utility shut off 1:21:15.960 --> 1:21:18.960 A person may pose as a utility employee saying your 1:21:19.000 --> 1:21:21.520 service is going to be stopped unless you pay them immediately. 1:21:21.880 --> 1:21:24.400 You might think who's going to fall for this? But 1:21:24.439 --> 1:21:26.719 I was at dinner a couple of weeks ago and 1:21:27.120 --> 1:21:30.680 my friend told me that his family members fell for this, 1:21:31.560 --> 1:21:34.200 and uh, in fact, it involved some of his money 1:21:34.240 --> 1:21:38.840 as well. So this happens and not everyone you know, 1:21:38.920 --> 1:21:41.080 for me, you know, in sitting around this table, we 1:21:41.120 --> 1:21:43.160 were all talking about how we would figure this out, 1:21:43.240 --> 1:21:45.880 be like, well, wouldn't you log into your account, wouldn't 1:21:45.920 --> 1:21:47.559 you see if you owe any money? Wouldn't you get 1:21:47.560 --> 1:21:49.840 a big red letter in the mail like five or 1:21:49.840 --> 1:21:52.880 ten times saying like you owe this money before you 1:21:52.960 --> 1:21:56.040 resolve this. But the way these scam artists got this 1:21:56.120 --> 1:22:00.720 person is that they they really preyed upon the immediacy 1:22:00.800 --> 1:22:03.400 of this and this person had something going on they 1:22:03.439 --> 1:22:05.880 didn't want to you know, story in the holidays, they 1:22:05.920 --> 1:22:09.000 had people over, they didn't want their power to go out, 1:22:09.080 --> 1:22:11.439 and so they paid, and of course it was a 1:22:11.439 --> 1:22:17.320 big scam. Following tips, Oh, romance, that's another one. Scammer 1:22:17.479 --> 1:22:19.880 creates a fake profile. I mean, I'm sure I'm not 1:22:19.960 --> 1:22:22.679 on the dating apps, but I'm sure this is must 1:22:22.760 --> 1:22:25.920 be a huge concern on these dating apps when you 1:22:25.960 --> 1:22:28.160 try to text people back and forth, and of course 1:22:28.200 --> 1:22:29.920 there's just a lot of scammers on there. You got 1:22:29.920 --> 1:22:32.400 to be careful there because you know, once you get 1:22:32.439 --> 1:22:36.080 love involved, that's a whole other level of scamminess. All right, 1:22:36.080 --> 1:22:38.519 How to protect yourself, guard your personal information. Don't give 1:22:38.560 --> 1:22:41.200 it out. I don't give information out to anyone. You 1:22:41.280 --> 1:22:43.760 gotta be very careful about who you give your information out. 1:22:44.160 --> 1:22:48.800 Don't act immediately. These scammers often they're preying upon our 1:22:48.880 --> 1:22:52.800 time and sort of the immediacy of the solution. Don't 1:22:52.840 --> 1:22:55.679 act immediately. Use a lot of caution when you're sending money. 1:22:55.720 --> 1:22:57.320 I talked about this earlier in the show. But you 1:22:57.360 --> 1:23:01.400 can send money so fast using things like zell, Venmo 1:23:01.720 --> 1:23:04.360 or PayPal. Just be very very careful and make sure 1:23:04.400 --> 1:23:07.160 you know who the recipient is. Once that money goes, 1:23:07.240 --> 1:23:09.800 it's not coming back, I'll be honest. It's just it's 1:23:09.880 --> 1:23:12.160 a one way street with these apps. You're never getting 1:23:12.160 --> 1:23:14.160 your money back if you paid out to someone that 1:23:14.200 --> 1:23:17.240 you shouldn't, and also if you have to credit or 1:23:17.280 --> 1:23:18.880 debit cards. They do give you a little bit of 1:23:19.479 --> 1:23:22.960 protection in these circumstances, and I guess that's why Chase 1:23:23.040 --> 1:23:27.519 is sending it out. Similarly, Chat GPT, you've probably heard 1:23:27.520 --> 1:23:32.559 about this. Everyone's talking about this amazing new website. Do 1:23:32.680 --> 1:23:36.000 not pay to use Chat GPT right now. There is 1:23:36.040 --> 1:23:38.560 no paid chat GPT as of right now. There's a 1:23:38.560 --> 1:23:40.439 bunch of apps. If you search in the app store. 1:23:40.800 --> 1:23:44.160 Chat GPT. This is this new search engine that's supposed 1:23:44.200 --> 1:23:47.719 to take on Google. It's amazing artificial intelligence. It's free. 1:23:48.160 --> 1:23:49.720 If you want to use it, just go to the 1:23:49.760 --> 1:23:54.760 website chat dot OpenAI dot com and that is the 1:23:54.760 --> 1:23:56.960 way you can use it for free. Again chat dot 1:23:57.040 --> 1:24:00.479 OpenAI dot com. Yes, in the future they may have 1:24:00.520 --> 1:24:02.439 a paid service, they may have a paid app, but 1:24:02.479 --> 1:24:05.120 that's not happening right now. So if you're looking for 1:24:05.200 --> 1:24:08.280 an app on the App Store or Google Play for 1:24:08.439 --> 1:24:11.800 chat GPT, do not pay for them, do not download them. 1:24:12.240 --> 1:24:14.200 Just go to the website on your web browser chat 1:24:14.280 --> 1:24:16.519 dot OpenAI dot com. And by the way, if you 1:24:16.600 --> 1:24:20.160 have not used chat GPT, you got to try it out. 1:24:20.200 --> 1:24:22.960 It is quite phenomenal. It's in beta, it's a test, 1:24:23.479 --> 1:24:25.720 but this is going to give Google a run for 1:24:25.800 --> 1:24:29.839 its money. In fact, Google's entire business in every business. 1:24:29.920 --> 1:24:32.240 I mean, it's really quite phenomenal. What you can ask 1:24:32.280 --> 1:24:35.639 this thing. One app was charging eight bucks a week 1:24:35.680 --> 1:24:37.680 to use it. And by the way, these apps are 1:24:37.720 --> 1:24:40.240 totally free. You don't need to use you don't need 1:24:40.240 --> 1:24:42.000 to pay for an app. There's not even an official app. 1:24:42.040 --> 1:24:44.280 I mean, I guess there is right now, but again 1:24:44.439 --> 1:24:48.519 it's it's free to use. So chat GPT is free. 1:24:48.760 --> 1:24:50.360 How many times I have to say that? I don't know. 1:24:51.840 --> 1:24:54.519 Coming up, we're gonna talk TV. I'm very excited for 1:24:54.600 --> 1:24:58.160 my guests. He is the senior editor at Digital Trends. 1:24:58.200 --> 1:25:00.880 He's going to talk about the best team for Super 1:25:00.920 --> 1:25:04.040 Bowl Sunday, which is coming up. We're also going to 1:25:04.080 --> 1:25:06.759 talk about the tracker that I've been using in my wallet. 1:25:06.800 --> 1:25:09.439 It's really really cool. You can give me a call 1:25:09.479 --> 1:25:12.519 triple eight Rich one oh one one eight eight eight 1:25:12.600 --> 1:25:15.120 seven four to two, four to one zero one. You're 1:25:15.160 --> 1:25:19.800 listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to Rich on Tech, 1:25:19.880 --> 1:25:21.640 the show where I talk about the tech stuff I 1:25:21.640 --> 1:25:24.760 think you should know about and answer your questions. My 1:25:24.880 --> 1:25:28.200 name is Rich DeMuro. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA 1:25:28.320 --> 1:25:31.479 Channel five in Los Angeles, hanging out with you today, 1:25:32.080 --> 1:25:34.720 taking your calls, and just talking about the stuff that 1:25:34.840 --> 1:25:38.000 has happened throughout the week. This show is all about, 1:25:38.240 --> 1:25:41.040 you know, useful tech information, and that's really my goal 1:25:41.240 --> 1:25:44.559 is to make this super super useful, So not just 1:25:44.800 --> 1:25:46.720 the stuff I talk about, but also the calls that 1:25:46.760 --> 1:25:47.200 we take. 1:25:47.600 --> 1:25:47.760 You know. 1:25:47.800 --> 1:25:50.200 I want you to learn. I want you to have 1:25:50.240 --> 1:25:52.880 a takeaway from each and every one of these. Will 1:25:53.040 --> 1:25:55.800 is in New York, New York. Welcome to the show. 1:25:55.840 --> 1:26:00.000 Will Hey, thank you for taking the call, and I'm 1:26:00.120 --> 1:26:02.840 enjoying the show today. So, but I want to ask 1:26:03.080 --> 1:26:06.479 I have I've had a Gmail account for almost twenty 1:26:06.560 --> 1:26:11.000 years now, and this past year, maybe six months ago, 1:26:11.200 --> 1:26:14.400 they told me I was at my like my limit 1:26:15.640 --> 1:26:18.639 of the amount of volume I'd used. I don't even 1:26:18.680 --> 1:26:22.719 know the my gigabytes. I guess yeah, and but both 1:26:22.800 --> 1:26:26.240 with the Gmail and also I guess Google Photos. So 1:26:26.520 --> 1:26:29.240 it wants me to start paying two dollars a month 1:26:29.600 --> 1:26:32.479 or twenty dollars and two dollars a month. And I've had, 1:26:32.560 --> 1:26:36.280 you know, my my credit debit card on file with them, 1:26:36.880 --> 1:26:41.040 and then my my card number change, so interrupted it 1:26:41.280 --> 1:26:45.200 just the convenience of this doesn't feel great. And also 1:26:45.200 --> 1:26:47.920 I'm wondering if that's the best value for me to do, 1:26:48.080 --> 1:26:50.639 and also if I want to stay married to Google, 1:26:51.200 --> 1:26:54.320 you know, going forward. I mean, it's really handy and 1:26:54.960 --> 1:26:58.240 I don't want to lose this Gmail account, But I 1:26:58.280 --> 1:27:01.519 guess I'm putting it all out there for advice. You 1:27:01.600 --> 1:27:03.559 know what, what do you think is the best way 1:27:03.600 --> 1:27:09.200 to go both there's a fight, you pay or to 1:27:09.240 --> 1:27:10.639 another service? What do you think? 1:27:10.800 --> 1:27:13.759 Okay, so I I number one. When when Gmail first 1:27:13.760 --> 1:27:17.120 came out, they had this little kind of number one. 1:27:17.160 --> 1:27:18.840 It gave you, like I think it was a gigabyte 1:27:18.880 --> 1:27:21.880 of storage, and it was just like, whoa what a gigabyte? 1:27:21.880 --> 1:27:24.520 Because back in the day, hotmail was like ten megabytes 1:27:24.640 --> 1:27:27.000 or one. It was a tiny amount, right, And so 1:27:27.080 --> 1:27:29.160 Gmail came along and blew everyone out of the water. 1:27:29.240 --> 1:27:32.360 Everyone signed up. It was amazing, It worked really well, 1:27:32.760 --> 1:27:36.080 and it was also supposed to increase as it went along, 1:27:36.120 --> 1:27:38.240 like they had this little ticker on the homepage that 1:27:38.280 --> 1:27:41.200 showed that your storage was always increasing, like every second 1:27:41.200 --> 1:27:44.160 of every day. And then, of course Google became a 1:27:44.400 --> 1:27:48.959 wildly successful company. So many people signed up and they realized, 1:27:49.040 --> 1:27:51.360 oh wait, we actually have to pay for the storage 1:27:51.400 --> 1:27:54.120 that we're giving to people for free. And so now 1:27:54.760 --> 1:27:57.519 things have changed a lot. Google Photos, like you said, 1:27:57.600 --> 1:28:00.679 is also linked and it's the same thing. Google Photos 1:28:00.680 --> 1:28:05.120 started out completely free, and then they started to kind of, 1:28:05.920 --> 1:28:08.200 you know, turn the ratchet a little bit on people 1:28:08.240 --> 1:28:10.240 and say, uh, you know, you got to pay so 1:28:10.680 --> 1:28:13.360 I'm in the same boat I am. I've got Gmail, 1:28:13.400 --> 1:28:15.760 I've got Google Photos. I'm up to paying I think, 1:28:15.840 --> 1:28:18.120 like I think it's twenty five bucks a month because 1:28:18.120 --> 1:28:20.000 I've got such a lot of storage in there and 1:28:20.040 --> 1:28:22.719 I'm trying to pair down. So here's what I recommend. 1:28:22.760 --> 1:28:25.200 Number one. I think I think you stick with it. 1:28:25.800 --> 1:28:27.639 You can continue to pay the two dollars a month. 1:28:27.640 --> 1:28:30.280 I would obviously, I would probably pay the twenty dollars 1:28:30.320 --> 1:28:33.000 a year just to save the you know, the twenty 1:28:33.000 --> 1:28:35.600 percent or whatever they give you discount. But what I 1:28:35.600 --> 1:28:37.559 think you should do is see if you can get under. 1:28:37.640 --> 1:28:40.080 What they do is they give you a fifteen gigabyte 1:28:40.160 --> 1:28:43.360 limit for free, so you can see if maybe you 1:28:43.360 --> 1:28:46.479 can get over that, get under that fifteen gigabyte limit. 1:28:46.520 --> 1:28:48.360 And there's a couple ways of doing that. Number one 1:28:48.960 --> 1:28:52.839 go to a website called one dot Google dot com. 1:28:52.880 --> 1:28:57.760 And inside this website they have an area called clean 1:28:57.880 --> 1:29:00.760 up Storage. And so not only is that website let 1:29:00.840 --> 1:29:03.040 you see what's taking up your storage, but you can 1:29:03.040 --> 1:29:05.200 also use it to sort of clean up your storage. 1:29:05.240 --> 1:29:07.720 And so if you look at that website, it will 1:29:07.760 --> 1:29:10.400 show you the items that you have in trash or spam, 1:29:10.960 --> 1:29:12.679 and so I'm looking, I've got two hundred and thirty 1:29:12.720 --> 1:29:16.080 nine megabytes of emails and trash. I've got forty megabytes 1:29:16.120 --> 1:29:19.920 and spam. I've got nine hundred megabytes almost a gigabyte 1:29:20.000 --> 1:29:23.360 of files and trash in my Google Drive. Then it 1:29:23.439 --> 1:29:26.240 shows me my large items, so it says I can 1:29:26.280 --> 1:29:28.960 gain up to two hundred and eighty gigabytes by freeing 1:29:29.040 --> 1:29:32.400 up all this stuff. So I've got emails with large attachments, 1:29:32.880 --> 1:29:36.880 I've got large files, large videos and files or sorry, 1:29:36.920 --> 1:29:40.280 large photos and videos, and I can review those. And 1:29:40.320 --> 1:29:43.280 then you also have this thing called unsupported items, So 1:29:43.439 --> 1:29:46.320 inside your Google Photos you may have unsupported items that 1:29:46.360 --> 1:29:49.840 you can review and clean up. So that's the place 1:29:49.880 --> 1:29:51.559 to start. Have you looked at any of that stuff? 1:29:52.520 --> 1:29:53.160 I haven't. 1:29:53.439 --> 1:29:57.720 I haven't been. It seemed to daunting because I just 1:29:57.840 --> 1:30:00.519 feel like I don't want to have to going to 1:30:00.640 --> 1:30:04.920 all these documents and decide, and I'd rather My thought 1:30:05.000 --> 1:30:07.680 was always just it would be there if I needed it, 1:30:07.760 --> 1:30:09.280 right right, you and. 1:30:09.280 --> 1:30:11.000 I agree with that, But here's the thing. There are 1:30:11.080 --> 1:30:13.160 some like I went through the other day on my 1:30:13.920 --> 1:30:16.080 just on a Saturday morning, and this is just the 1:30:16.120 --> 1:30:17.960 fun for me is I'll just sit there on my 1:30:18.040 --> 1:30:20.439 couch and I'll go through. And I looked at the 1:30:20.479 --> 1:30:23.519 files that were over one gigabyte in my Google Drive, 1:30:23.640 --> 1:30:24.840 and I just went through and I was like, do 1:30:24.880 --> 1:30:26.840 I need this? Okay, I can get rid of that. 1:30:27.080 --> 1:30:28.680 And so just by going you know, if you if 1:30:28.720 --> 1:30:31.200 you clean up, you know, five of those, that's five gigabytes. 1:30:31.240 --> 1:30:33.400 And for me, I'm taking a lot of video, so 1:30:33.640 --> 1:30:34.920 there's going to be a lot of those kind of 1:30:34.960 --> 1:30:37.200 files in there. The other thing you can do is 1:30:37.240 --> 1:30:40.040 that if you go to Google Photos on your phone, 1:30:40.560 --> 1:30:42.400 and Google is, by the way, added all of these 1:30:42.439 --> 1:30:44.800 tools in the last like year, because or year or two, 1:30:44.880 --> 1:30:48.320 because you know, people are getting much more savvy about this, 1:30:48.400 --> 1:30:50.840 because they're when when you're forced into paying or when 1:30:50.840 --> 1:30:53.360 you have to start paying, you're a little bit more critical. 1:30:53.400 --> 1:30:54.960 You're like, oh wait a second, let me see do 1:30:55.000 --> 1:30:56.680 I really have all this stuff in there? Do I 1:30:56.720 --> 1:30:59.160 need it? So if you go into your Google Photos 1:30:59.200 --> 1:31:01.240 and then you tap your profile picture in the upper 1:31:01.320 --> 1:31:04.439 right hand corner, then you tap managed storage, it'll give 1:31:04.479 --> 1:31:06.599 you a whole bunch of tools you can use where 1:31:06.600 --> 1:31:10.240 you can review and delete large photos and videos, videos 1:31:10.240 --> 1:31:13.120 from other apps, screenshots, which right now I've got two 1:31:13.200 --> 1:31:16.439 gigabytes of those, and then blurry photos. And the other 1:31:16.479 --> 1:31:19.120 thing that I do is I'm pretty brutal about going 1:31:19.240 --> 1:31:23.280 in my Gmail and I will search using the search 1:31:23.320 --> 1:31:27.280 bar in Gmail for anything that has a large attachment. 1:31:27.760 --> 1:31:30.680 And so you can just tap in there, say has attachment, 1:31:30.800 --> 1:31:33.479 and then put a size limit on there of like 1:31:33.520 --> 1:31:39.120 you know, over ten megabytes and go through and see 1:31:39.200 --> 1:31:41.200 or just over twenty five megabytes and see what you 1:31:41.240 --> 1:31:43.519 can get rid of that way. So there are many 1:31:43.520 --> 1:31:46.040 options for clearing this stuff out. But I agree we're 1:31:46.080 --> 1:31:49.200 all in this area of you know, once you're on 1:31:49.200 --> 1:31:51.720 that payment train, it's tough to get off, all right. 1:31:51.760 --> 1:31:54.080 Coming up next, we're going to talk TVs with a 1:31:54.080 --> 1:31:57.400 special guest, the best TVs for Super Bowl coming up. 1:31:58.400 --> 1:32:00.720 Welcome back to Rich on Tech, the show where we 1:32:00.760 --> 1:32:03.640 talk about tech stuff and answer your questions and have 1:32:03.760 --> 1:32:09.280 on fantastic guests like this guy. Caleb Dennison is the 1:32:09.400 --> 1:32:14.280 editor at large for Digital Trends and he is a 1:32:14.360 --> 1:32:17.080 TV expert, and we're going to talk about TVs for 1:32:17.120 --> 1:32:20.160 Super Bowl because it's coming up. Caleb, Welcome to the show. 1:32:21.120 --> 1:32:21.880 Thanks for having me. 1:32:21.920 --> 1:32:22.599 Great to be here. 1:32:22.760 --> 1:32:25.080 Hey, good to see us ces. Did you have a 1:32:25.080 --> 1:32:25.760 good time there? 1:32:27.120 --> 1:32:29.720 I did have a good time. It was much busier 1:32:29.760 --> 1:32:32.680 than the year prior, so a lot more activity. Good 1:32:32.720 --> 1:32:35.040 to see some folks that I haven't seen a long time. 1:32:35.760 --> 1:32:39.599 But the TV exhibitions were especially good this year. 1:32:39.640 --> 1:32:43.040 I felt okay. Super Bowls coming up February twelveth, this 1:32:43.080 --> 1:32:45.400 is kind of the time when people I don't know 1:32:45.439 --> 1:32:47.439 they do people still upgrade for the Super Bowl. I 1:32:47.439 --> 1:32:49.080 think they do because I get a lot of questions 1:32:49.080 --> 1:32:49.760 around this time. 1:32:51.960 --> 1:32:54.120 I get a lot of questions around this time as well. 1:32:54.200 --> 1:32:57.400 I think the Super Bowl is an occasion to get 1:32:57.439 --> 1:33:00.360 geared up and a lot of folks want to get 1:33:00.600 --> 1:33:03.080 a fancy new TV so they can see this huge 1:33:03.160 --> 1:33:05.160 game in the best possible way. 1:33:05.200 --> 1:33:08.800 Which is still not broadcast in four K? Is it? 1:33:08.800 --> 1:33:09.559 It is not? 1:33:10.000 --> 1:33:15.320 Unfortunately four K broadcasts are getting a little bit more common, 1:33:16.280 --> 1:33:20.599 but the getting the Super Bowl broadcast in four K 1:33:20.880 --> 1:33:24.320 is a pretty monumental challenge and they're still working up 1:33:24.320 --> 1:33:24.559 to that. 1:33:24.800 --> 1:33:28.000 Okay. I mean, it's it's kind of odd how long 1:33:28.040 --> 1:33:29.760 it's taken. You think that that would be kind of 1:33:29.800 --> 1:33:33.519 a event that they'd want to get on four K 1:33:33.680 --> 1:33:36.719 like immediately. But anyway, Okay, so I'm scrolling through on 1:33:36.920 --> 1:33:39.040 you know, best buy dot com and I'm looking at 1:33:39.040 --> 1:33:43.040 all these different terminologies. Okay, l ED, Mini l A, 1:33:43.160 --> 1:33:47.960 D O LEAD, Q LEAD or q l ED. What 1:33:48.000 --> 1:33:49.360 do you make of these? Like? What what do we 1:33:49.400 --> 1:33:51.200 need to know about these terms? 1:33:52.240 --> 1:33:58.120 Sure? Well, there's really only two prominent display technology types 1:33:58.200 --> 1:34:01.479 out there. You've got the OLED, which we call in 1:34:01.520 --> 1:34:05.040 emissive display. This is an organic compound that makes its 1:34:05.080 --> 1:34:08.679 own light at the pixel level. And then you've got 1:34:08.800 --> 1:34:13.640 basically LED LCD TV. You know, we've seen changes to 1:34:13.920 --> 1:34:15.720 how the back light works, but at the end of 1:34:15.720 --> 1:34:18.800 the day, you still have an LCD panel with lights 1:34:18.840 --> 1:34:22.000 shining behind it, and that's how you get the picture 1:34:22.680 --> 1:34:26.439 from that. The thing is the evolution of that back light. 1:34:26.880 --> 1:34:29.519 The stuff that makes the light has gotten better and 1:34:29.640 --> 1:34:32.479 better over the years. So when we start hearing terms 1:34:32.600 --> 1:34:37.040 like mini LED, they're just using much tinier little LED 1:34:37.280 --> 1:34:40.479 light and more of them, which gives you a brighter 1:34:40.520 --> 1:34:43.120 picture and a little bit more control over which part 1:34:43.120 --> 1:34:45.840 of the picture is bright and which part is dart 1:34:46.120 --> 1:34:49.200 so you get better contrast out of the mini LED 1:34:49.360 --> 1:34:53.439 TV with the o ED TVs. Again, each pixel is 1:34:53.479 --> 1:34:55.360 making its own light, so when you turn it off, 1:34:55.520 --> 1:34:59.320 it's completely off, which means you get perfect black levels. 1:35:00.200 --> 1:35:02.559 Very good colors come out of that as well. 1:35:03.320 --> 1:35:05.840 Now, what about the reflection, because that was a consideration 1:35:05.920 --> 1:35:07.960 in the past, like if you got a certain TV 1:35:08.120 --> 1:35:11.240 and you had a bright room. Do all TVs look 1:35:11.280 --> 1:35:13.479 okay in different rooms nowadays? Or we still have that 1:35:13.600 --> 1:35:14.519 issue with the reflection. 1:35:15.920 --> 1:35:18.599 Well, the O LED TVs that we were talking about 1:35:18.760 --> 1:35:23.400 tend to prefer having glossy screens, right, because they look 1:35:23.520 --> 1:35:27.320 best when they have a glossy screen, and so sometimes 1:35:27.360 --> 1:35:30.160 you get more reflection off of those. If you've got 1:35:30.160 --> 1:35:31.840 a lot of bright lights in the room, or if 1:35:31.840 --> 1:35:34.360 you've got sun coming in the windows, you're going to 1:35:34.439 --> 1:35:38.439 see a little bit more reflection when there are darker 1:35:38.560 --> 1:35:41.880 moments on the screen. Then you would a higher end 1:35:42.479 --> 1:35:46.639 LED TV because they tend to put anti reflective or 1:35:46.680 --> 1:35:49.680 anti glare coatings on those TVs so you get a 1:35:49.680 --> 1:35:51.840 little bit less of that glare. That tends to be 1:35:51.880 --> 1:35:53.840 a problem mostly when you got a lot of lights 1:35:53.880 --> 1:35:56.439 in the room and you're trying to watch something dark. 1:35:56.720 --> 1:35:59.080 When you're watching something like the super Bowl, there's a 1:35:59.160 --> 1:36:03.439 lot of bright colors and brightness happening on the screen, 1:36:03.520 --> 1:36:06.960 and you're less likely to run into a reflection problem 1:36:07.320 --> 1:36:09.839 with something like that. It's mostly when you're watching movies 1:36:09.960 --> 1:36:13.720 and there's lots of dark scenes, and that I think 1:36:13.800 --> 1:36:16.719 brings us to an important point. When people buy TVs 1:36:16.720 --> 1:36:19.599 for the Super Bowl, they're thinking about the Super Bowl, right, 1:36:19.840 --> 1:36:21.599 and how good it's going to look for the sports, 1:36:21.600 --> 1:36:23.800 But think about the other things you use your TV for. 1:36:24.360 --> 1:36:27.479 You like to watch a lot of movies. You know, 1:36:27.600 --> 1:36:29.640 in the time when the super Bowl is not on, 1:36:30.080 --> 1:36:31.640 you might want to get a TV that's going to 1:36:31.720 --> 1:36:34.960 look great for movies as well, and anti glared coating 1:36:35.120 --> 1:36:37.120 can really help when you're watching during the day. 1:36:37.720 --> 1:36:40.760 We're talking to Caleb Dennison. He is the editor at 1:36:40.800 --> 1:36:47.280 large for Digital Trends on social media at Caleb Underscore. Dennison, so, 1:36:47.560 --> 1:36:50.000 what about this idea of four K versus eight K? 1:36:50.160 --> 1:36:52.479 Do we need to get the eight K TV just yet? 1:36:54.120 --> 1:36:57.000 I am telling most folks know you do not. Eight 1:36:57.120 --> 1:37:01.520 K is something that seemed like a nat full progression 1:37:01.760 --> 1:37:04.360 from four K, and now that there's a lot of 1:37:04.360 --> 1:37:08.080 four K content that we can watch, we can kind 1:37:08.080 --> 1:37:10.360 of get rid of this conversation about how, oh, there's 1:37:10.400 --> 1:37:12.600 no content to watch in four K, why would I 1:37:12.640 --> 1:37:15.599 want a four K TV? Well, these days almost all 1:37:15.640 --> 1:37:18.200 TVs are are four K, and everything's. 1:37:17.760 --> 1:37:19.920 In four K. I mean Netflix is in four K. 1:37:20.040 --> 1:37:22.559 I mean all the movies, everything that's streaming is pretty 1:37:22.600 --> 1:37:24.280 much in four K at this point if you're paying 1:37:24.320 --> 1:37:24.559 for it. 1:37:24.600 --> 1:37:28.080 By the way, yeah, exactly. If you play pay for 1:37:28.120 --> 1:37:31.240 the premium tier of many different streaming services and even 1:37:31.360 --> 1:37:34.559 cable channels, some of them are available in four K 1:37:34.600 --> 1:37:37.400 from time to time. So there's lots of four K content. 1:37:37.439 --> 1:37:38.280 If you're getting. 1:37:38.040 --> 1:37:40.599 Anything over, say at thirty seven inch TV, it's probably 1:37:40.640 --> 1:37:42.360 going to be four K anyway, you don't really need 1:37:42.400 --> 1:37:44.040 to think about it. But if you're looking at a 1:37:44.160 --> 1:37:48.720 very premium TV, a lot of those TVs are our 1:37:48.880 --> 1:37:52.559 eight K resolution. For a while there, manufacturers put their 1:37:52.720 --> 1:37:56.200 best stuff into eight K TVs, and so it's less 1:37:56.240 --> 1:37:59.120 of a question about whether you really needed that eight 1:37:59.240 --> 1:38:01.720 K resolution in that AK panel and more a question 1:38:01.880 --> 1:38:04.240 of did you want to get the best you could 1:38:04.320 --> 1:38:08.479 possibly buy. We're seeing manufacturers back down from that now. 1:38:09.040 --> 1:38:12.599 There were not that many aktvs at the big Cees 1:38:12.680 --> 1:38:14.840 Electronics show that you and I were just at and 1:38:14.960 --> 1:38:18.240 I think that is that's basically saying the brands have 1:38:18.400 --> 1:38:21.200 got it. They're like message receives you guys aren't interested 1:38:21.280 --> 1:38:23.599 in AK, so we're going to quit trying to shove 1:38:23.640 --> 1:38:26.080 it down your throat so much. I would not worry 1:38:26.200 --> 1:38:28.160 about getting an AKTV right now. 1:38:28.600 --> 1:38:31.599 Okay, that's that's fair, So let's talk about I mean, 1:38:31.760 --> 1:38:33.720 I think the most popular is going to be your 1:38:33.760 --> 1:38:36.200 budget pick. What's your budget TV pick? 1:38:38.160 --> 1:38:42.960 There's a couple. They're both made by TCL. TCL has 1:38:43.080 --> 1:38:47.799 really done an outstanding job providing really great picture quality 1:38:47.960 --> 1:38:51.000 for a very attainable price. So whether you're looking at 1:38:51.080 --> 1:38:54.600 the TCL five series or you want to spend a 1:38:54.720 --> 1:38:58.280 little bit more and get the TCL six series, both 1:38:58.360 --> 1:39:02.000 of those are outstanding options that are very affordable no 1:39:02.080 --> 1:39:03.680 matter which screen size you get. 1:39:04.400 --> 1:39:06.120 And what if you wanted a little step up, like 1:39:06.200 --> 1:39:08.240 what do you have like a middle ground pick? Like 1:39:08.360 --> 1:39:10.800 if I don't necessarily want budget but I don't want 1:39:10.840 --> 1:39:12.439 to spend the most, you have something in the middle. 1:39:14.080 --> 1:39:19.000 Yeah, I'd like the Samsung Q seventy. The Q seventy 1:39:19.600 --> 1:39:22.200 is kind of this sweet spot for Samsung where it's 1:39:22.240 --> 1:39:25.280 not outrageously expensive, but boy does it pack a punch. 1:39:25.960 --> 1:39:31.400 It's got great HDR performance and good color. That's a 1:39:31.479 --> 1:39:34.799 really solid pick. And you know, I mentioned the TCL 1:39:34.920 --> 1:39:37.439 six series earlier, that one kind of treads into the 1:39:38.200 --> 1:39:41.240 mid tier territory. So if you're buying a larger screen size, 1:39:41.320 --> 1:39:44.400 it's definitely in the mid tier. But it has a 1:39:44.520 --> 1:39:47.040 really great performance as well. So those are both good 1:39:47.280 --> 1:39:48.400 good options to look at. 1:39:48.880 --> 1:39:51.000 What about a premium set, Like, I want the best 1:39:51.160 --> 1:39:53.320 of the best, What am I getting if I want 1:39:53.479 --> 1:39:55.000 the absolute top of the line. 1:39:56.200 --> 1:40:01.519 I mean, for me, the best TV of two was 1:40:01.680 --> 1:40:05.120 the Sony A ninety five K. That's a quantum dot 1:40:05.240 --> 1:40:08.479 o lip so they took Olt technology, they threw quantum 1:40:08.560 --> 1:40:12.360 dots on it for even brighter, more well saturated colors, 1:40:12.880 --> 1:40:16.840 and that TV is just spectacular. The only bummer about 1:40:16.880 --> 1:40:19.840 the Sony A ninety five K is that only goes 1:40:19.960 --> 1:40:22.560 up to sixty five inches right now. So if you 1:40:22.680 --> 1:40:25.280 want the best sixty five inch TV, you can get 1:40:25.680 --> 1:40:28.320 the Sony A ninety five K is the one. If 1:40:28.360 --> 1:40:31.840 you want a larger screen size but equally premium performance, 1:40:31.960 --> 1:40:35.519 I'd be looking at the lg C two that guy 1:40:35.600 --> 1:40:38.519 goes all the way up to eighty three inches. I 1:40:38.640 --> 1:40:41.480 believe it is, and that is just an outstanding television 1:40:41.680 --> 1:40:42.920 all the way around. 1:40:43.640 --> 1:40:46.559 And do you get the smarts built in? I mean 1:40:46.640 --> 1:40:49.280 most of these TVs have their own sort of operating 1:40:49.360 --> 1:40:52.360 system built in. I like to attach, you know, an 1:40:52.400 --> 1:40:55.519 external like Apple TV or whatever, but it seems like 1:40:55.560 --> 1:40:57.360 people just want something built in. Huh. 1:40:58.520 --> 1:40:58.720 Yeah. 1:40:58.840 --> 1:41:01.720 These days, just about every TV has some kind of 1:41:01.760 --> 1:41:06.080 smarts built in, whether that's Roku or Google TV. LG 1:41:06.280 --> 1:41:08.920 has its own brand, and Samsung's got it so a 1:41:09.000 --> 1:41:11.320 brand as well. But like all the apps that you 1:41:11.680 --> 1:41:16.040 need to watch any number of different streaming services, it's 1:41:16.080 --> 1:41:18.160 all built in right now. So you don't have to 1:41:18.280 --> 1:41:21.840 get something like an Apple TV. But if you just 1:41:22.000 --> 1:41:25.320 love that Apple TV experience, absolutely go ahead and get it. 1:41:25.479 --> 1:41:27.280 Throw it in one of the HDMI ports and you're 1:41:27.320 --> 1:41:27.680 good to go. 1:41:27.880 --> 1:41:29.840 All right, Caleb, thanks so much for joining me today 1:41:29.840 --> 1:41:33.519 on the show. I appreciate it. Episode number two My pleasure. 1:41:33.560 --> 1:41:35.080 Thanks so much, Rich, I've been an. 1:41:35.000 --> 1:41:39.360 Honor Caleb Dennison. Go follow him at Digital Trends. You 1:41:39.400 --> 1:41:43.120 can follow him online. He is the TV expert. So 1:41:43.160 --> 1:41:45.200 if you're looking for a new TV. Just look at 1:41:45.240 --> 1:41:47.320 some of his reviews. He just gave us some great, 1:41:47.439 --> 1:41:50.880 great options for Super Bowl. I know I'm looking to 1:41:50.960 --> 1:41:54.320 upgrade myself. Maybe I was just being a little selfish 1:41:54.360 --> 1:41:57.240 in that interview because I'm just curious for myself. You're 1:41:57.280 --> 1:41:59.080 listening to rich on Tech. Coming up, I'll tell you 1:41:59.120 --> 1:42:01.760 about the new wall tracker I've been using and it 1:42:01.880 --> 1:42:06.479 works pretty well. You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome 1:42:06.560 --> 1:42:10.080 back to rich on Tech. Bruce is in the San 1:42:10.160 --> 1:42:13.360 Gabriel Valley. Bruce, you're on with rich what's up? 1:42:14.800 --> 1:42:17.080 First off, I wanted to congratulate you on your new show, 1:42:17.200 --> 1:42:21.640 Rich Well, thank you. I'm a longtime listener of your podcast. 1:42:21.840 --> 1:42:22.400 Oh thanks. 1:42:23.160 --> 1:42:25.639 Between you and Dave Ramsey, I walked off about fifty 1:42:25.640 --> 1:42:26.880 two pounds over the last year. 1:42:27.280 --> 1:42:30.200 I love it. Very nice. One of my favorites too. 1:42:31.120 --> 1:42:33.439 Give you my situation here. I'm a senior citizen and 1:42:33.600 --> 1:42:37.680 I'm in a retiredment club for my former company. I 1:42:37.880 --> 1:42:40.080 have been for the last couple of years the Zoom 1:42:40.240 --> 1:42:44.600 administrator for our monthly meetings. Now that we're able to 1:42:45.439 --> 1:42:49.439 go back in person, I've been tasked with setting up 1:42:49.880 --> 1:42:54.719 and equipping hybrid meetings. So I need to know where 1:42:54.880 --> 1:43:00.720 to learn basically production technology and what you recommend for 1:43:01.240 --> 1:43:06.000 either equipment or where to check out equipment. I'm local 1:43:06.200 --> 1:43:07.600 southern California, same as you. 1:43:07.880 --> 1:43:09.439 And are you trying to set up like sort of 1:43:09.479 --> 1:43:11.519 a little studio where people can pop in and do 1:43:11.680 --> 1:43:12.280 zooms or what. 1:43:12.760 --> 1:43:16.519 No, it's going to be a large meeting hall. We've 1:43:16.560 --> 1:43:20.759 got the hall already with no equipment available. It's seating 1:43:20.840 --> 1:43:25.679 for about two hundred and then plus our online zoom 1:43:25.800 --> 1:43:27.960 people who want to come back in who are either 1:43:28.040 --> 1:43:30.519 too far away or not able to come on any 1:43:30.560 --> 1:43:31.400 particular day. 1:43:31.880 --> 1:43:34.599 Oh got it. So you need like almost like you're 1:43:34.640 --> 1:43:36.280 live streaming and event kind of thing. 1:43:37.600 --> 1:43:40.200 Exactly. The closest thing that I've I've been looking a 1:43:40.280 --> 1:43:43.360 lot online. The closest I can see is a church meeting. 1:43:43.439 --> 1:43:44.439 Yeah, that's what I was thinking. 1:43:44.680 --> 1:43:47.679 Both, yeah, live stream and in person. 1:43:48.000 --> 1:43:50.360 Oh wow, So you need like microphones for the speakers 1:43:50.400 --> 1:43:51.400 all that kind of stuff. Huh. 1:43:51.680 --> 1:43:54.560 Absolutely, I need to be fifty years younger and go 1:43:54.680 --> 1:43:57.120 back and take broadcast technology. 1:43:58.680 --> 1:44:00.720 Well, I mean, look, you're gonna there's there's a couple 1:44:00.720 --> 1:44:02.240 of ways you can do this. I mean there's there's 1:44:02.360 --> 1:44:06.000 like full software where you can just use only software 1:44:06.080 --> 1:44:08.519 to accomplish this, and there's a lot of stuff that 1:44:08.960 --> 1:44:11.080 you know, sort of off the shelf software that will 1:44:11.120 --> 1:44:14.720 help you accomplish this with web cameras and you know, 1:44:14.840 --> 1:44:18.840 wireless microphones. But I think the best way to do 1:44:19.000 --> 1:44:23.360 this is realistically with a couple of cameras and I 1:44:23.479 --> 1:44:26.880 think a mixer as well, because you're going to want 1:44:26.920 --> 1:44:30.479 to feed all of this audio and video into one 1:44:30.600 --> 1:44:33.080 place that you can then send out to Zoom. So 1:44:33.240 --> 1:44:34.760 there's a couple of ways to accomplish this if you 1:44:34.800 --> 1:44:39.439 want to do it with maybe just you know, software 1:44:39.439 --> 1:44:42.479 based experience. There's something from Logitech that I really like 1:44:42.560 --> 1:44:46.400 called Mevo M e v O and M e v 1:44:46.640 --> 1:44:49.800 o dot com. That's Mevo M e v o dot com. 1:44:50.280 --> 1:44:52.479 And this started out as one camera. Now they have 1:44:52.720 --> 1:44:56.360 multiple cameras that you can kind of link up together 1:44:57.000 --> 1:44:59.479 and you know, you can place some in different areas 1:44:59.520 --> 1:45:01.400 of the room, so you got like three different cameras, 1:45:01.439 --> 1:45:05.200 maybe one wide, one close up, one side whatever. And 1:45:05.280 --> 1:45:07.840 then the beauty is the app they have, So the 1:45:07.880 --> 1:45:10.960 app kind of brings it all together and you can 1:45:11.040 --> 1:45:13.120 live stream to different things, so you can live stream 1:45:13.160 --> 1:45:17.360 to like you know, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, Twitter. But the 1:45:17.439 --> 1:45:19.280 other thing you want to do is you can use 1:45:19.320 --> 1:45:21.280 this as a webcam, and Zoom is one of these 1:45:21.280 --> 1:45:24.720 supported platforms. So that is sort of a more of 1:45:24.800 --> 1:45:27.760 a software based solution that you can use, which I 1:45:27.760 --> 1:45:30.360 think would work really well. But if you want to 1:45:30.360 --> 1:45:33.040 get into more of a hardware solution, which I think 1:45:33.360 --> 1:45:36.479 might be better in this situation, you know, you might 1:45:36.560 --> 1:45:39.360 have to look at just some cameras and a computer 1:45:40.320 --> 1:45:44.200 and then also a mixer with microphones, because if you're 1:45:44.240 --> 1:45:46.360 talking about a big room for two hundred people that 1:45:46.439 --> 1:45:49.680 are sitting there, you probably want some microphones because these 1:45:49.720 --> 1:45:51.560 cameras are not going to be super close up to 1:45:51.640 --> 1:45:53.120 the person. They're not going to be right in front 1:45:53.120 --> 1:45:55.600 of them like it would on a computer. So in 1:45:55.680 --> 1:45:57.800 that case, I would just get a mixer. I mean, 1:45:57.960 --> 1:46:01.439 Road makes some of the best mixer out there, especially 1:46:01.560 --> 1:46:05.080 for these, you know, these kind of solutions. So you 1:46:05.240 --> 1:46:07.880 get that, you get a couple of microphones, maybe lav 1:46:08.000 --> 1:46:10.360 mics that people can put on. You connect those to 1:46:10.439 --> 1:46:13.599 the mixture, and then you put that out and they 1:46:13.640 --> 1:46:16.479 have a USB out on that mixture to your computer 1:46:16.600 --> 1:46:18.320 that you're going to be bringing all this stuff in 1:46:18.439 --> 1:46:21.000 on so you've got the cameras coming in and you've 1:46:21.040 --> 1:46:24.240 got the mixed audio coming in as well, and then 1:46:24.280 --> 1:46:27.479 it goes on to Zoom. So it's it's going to 1:46:27.560 --> 1:46:29.599 take some work, it's going to take some set up, 1:46:29.640 --> 1:46:33.080 it's going to take some you know, trial and error. 1:46:33.640 --> 1:46:35.840 But you know, and also you'll evolve this as you 1:46:35.920 --> 1:46:38.080 go along. So the stuff that you use day one, 1:46:38.680 --> 1:46:41.920 you know, you may not use that day thirty. And 1:46:42.479 --> 1:46:45.519 you know, there's some there's some more dedicated hardware solutions 1:46:45.560 --> 1:46:47.599 out there too, Like if you go to Zoom's website 1:46:48.520 --> 1:46:51.120 or just type in Zoom hardware. You know, Zoom has 1:46:51.200 --> 1:46:55.080 like a whole area of recommended cameras and so they've 1:46:55.120 --> 1:46:59.920 got different appliances for zooming. And this is really expand 1:47:00.080 --> 1:47:02.000 did over the last couple of years because of the 1:47:02.080 --> 1:47:04.400 whole work from home kind of stuff. But if you 1:47:04.479 --> 1:47:07.559 go to Zoom, their website is actually zoom dot us, 1:47:08.240 --> 1:47:12.200 Zoom dot us slash hardware, you've got all kinds of stuff. 1:47:12.240 --> 1:47:14.080 So I think that's probably your best place to start 1:47:14.680 --> 1:47:16.960 is just look there for some of the different things 1:47:17.000 --> 1:47:20.599 that they recommend, and they even have it for room 1:47:20.680 --> 1:47:22.840 types they've got a huddle room which is two to 1:47:22.960 --> 1:47:26.559 seven people, a conference room which is seven to nineteen people, 1:47:27.040 --> 1:47:29.679 and a hybrid classroom which is fifteen to twenty five. 1:47:30.160 --> 1:47:33.320 So because you're even larger than that fifteen to twenty five, 1:47:34.520 --> 1:47:36.960 you're gonna want to look into into a more kind 1:47:37.000 --> 1:47:40.240 of studio solution where you're kind of rolling your own solution, 1:47:40.400 --> 1:47:42.799 like I mentioned, with a combination of software and hardware. 1:47:42.920 --> 1:47:45.679 But the good news is you're in Los Angeles. There's 1:47:45.720 --> 1:47:48.360 a lot of production people here, and there's a lot 1:47:48.400 --> 1:47:51.479 of stores you can go into, like physical stores like 1:47:51.920 --> 1:47:54.880 Sammy's Camera. You know that's a local place that has 1:47:54.960 --> 1:47:57.800 a lot of kind of this stuff there and just 1:47:57.880 --> 1:47:59.800 talk to people and see what they recommend, what of 1:47:59.840 --> 1:48:03.439 a people used, what have other people done, and you 1:48:03.520 --> 1:48:07.080 know that would be my start. So great question Zoom. 1:48:07.320 --> 1:48:09.200 It's funny. I had to do a zoom yesterday and 1:48:09.960 --> 1:48:12.200 I used to have a good zoom setup in my 1:48:12.320 --> 1:48:16.919 home when I was doing remotes for TV during the pandemic, 1:48:17.080 --> 1:48:19.080 and it was nicely set up. It was never perfectly 1:48:19.120 --> 1:48:20.720 set up, Like the lighting was never as good as 1:48:20.800 --> 1:48:23.280 I wanted, camera was never as good as I wanted. 1:48:23.640 --> 1:48:25.519 But it worked, And yesterday I had to do a 1:48:25.640 --> 1:48:29.120 zoom with someone and it's just my camera looked horrible. 1:48:29.200 --> 1:48:31.760 My lighting was bad. I mean, unless you have a 1:48:31.800 --> 1:48:34.200 good setup, sometimes these zoom calls you just it's like 1:48:34.240 --> 1:48:37.519 I'd rather just be in person sometimes because they're just 1:48:37.760 --> 1:48:39.479 you know, you gotta have a good setup. You gotta 1:48:39.520 --> 1:48:42.599 have one of those ring lights and all that good stuff. So, uh, 1:48:42.760 --> 1:48:45.439 great question. Thanks for that. All right, let me quickly 1:48:45.520 --> 1:48:49.520 tell you about this card finder. I've been using Chipolo 1:48:49.720 --> 1:48:52.799 card Spot. This is an air tag, but for your wallet. 1:48:53.080 --> 1:48:55.640 It's made by a company called Chipolo c h I 1:48:55.840 --> 1:48:59.720 p O l O. It's called the card Spot and 1:48:59.840 --> 1:49:02.880 it looks like a credit card, but it uses the 1:49:03.280 --> 1:49:07.040 Apple find My network to locate your wallet. So this 1:49:07.200 --> 1:49:09.439 slips into your wallet like a credit card. It costs 1:49:09.479 --> 1:49:12.880 about thirty five dollars and you can use the find 1:49:12.960 --> 1:49:15.800 My app on your iPhone to find where this is. 1:49:15.880 --> 1:49:18.200 So it's using all the other Apple devices in the 1:49:18.240 --> 1:49:20.559 world to locate your wallet, just like an air tag. 1:49:20.840 --> 1:49:22.600 But an air tag is too thick to put in 1:49:22.640 --> 1:49:24.680 your wallet. Now, how did they get this to fit 1:49:24.720 --> 1:49:27.880 in your wallet? Well, the battery is not user replaceable, 1:49:28.360 --> 1:49:30.759 so you pay thirty five dollars for this. It lasts 1:49:30.760 --> 1:49:33.200 about two years. It will help you see where your 1:49:33.240 --> 1:49:35.439 wallet is on a map. You can play a sound 1:49:35.479 --> 1:49:37.800 so you can hear where your wallet is. You can 1:49:37.840 --> 1:49:40.200 see the last known location. I'll send you alert if 1:49:40.240 --> 1:49:42.880 you leave your wallet behind. But when the two years 1:49:42.960 --> 1:49:45.280 is up, you can then just send this back in. 1:49:45.479 --> 1:49:48.040 They will recycle it, replace the battery, and they'll send 1:49:48.040 --> 1:49:51.360 you a new one for seventeen bucks. So Topolo card 1:49:51.600 --> 1:49:54.160 Spot highly recommend checking it out. If you want the 1:49:54.240 --> 1:49:57.800 power of an air tag in your wallet, that's going 1:49:57.880 --> 1:49:59.160 to do it for this episode of the show. If 1:49:59.200 --> 1:50:00.800 you want to submit a question for me to answer, 1:50:00.840 --> 1:50:03.720 you can go to my website Richontech dot tv and 1:50:03.920 --> 1:50:07.280 hit the email icon. You can find me on social media. 1:50:07.400 --> 1:50:09.479 I am at rich on Tech. If you want to 1:50:09.520 --> 1:50:12.000 see my TV segments, you can find me on YouTube 1:50:12.360 --> 1:50:15.840 KTLA channel or you can download the ktla plus app. 1:50:16.680 --> 1:50:19.599 Next week, I'm going to share my favorite apps for journaling. Yes, 1:50:20.200 --> 1:50:21.920 my goal is to journal in the new year. I 1:50:21.960 --> 1:50:24.080 think there's so many benefits to journaling, so I'll tell 1:50:24.080 --> 1:50:26.360 you what I found there. Once again, my name is 1:50:26.400 --> 1:50:29.439 rich Dmiro. Thanks so much for listening, especially to episode 1:50:29.520 --> 1:50:31.560 number two. We're building this thing up. 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