Speaker 1: I take a virtual reality ride.
Speaker 2: On a ride, some good advice when it comes to
Speaker 2: those passwords security questions, Instagram gets rid of an interesting feature,
Speaker 2: and of course your tech questions answered.
Speaker 1: What's going on? I'm Rich Dmiro.
Speaker 2: This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
Speaker 2: about the stuff I think you should know about happening
Speaker 2: in the tech world. And I answer all of those
Speaker 2: little questions that you send me through all the different
Speaker 2: ways you can send those to.
Speaker 1: Me, joining me as always producer Megan. What's up?
Speaker 3: Oh? All the little questions, Well, they're big questions, little ways.
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's big little there.
Speaker 2: There's a play on words there, and I totally did
Speaker 2: not get it. But you were not with us last week.
Speaker 2: I know the show was not the same.
Speaker 3: That's so sad.
Speaker 1: Lots of people emailed in wondering where you were.
Speaker 3: I bet it was probably my mom.
Speaker 2: She go, have you seen Megan, because she's been gone
Speaker 2: for a week now. Like, No, it's probably in some
Speaker 2: tropical place where I want to share where you are?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was in Cabo in Mexico.
Speaker 1: How is Cobo these days?
Speaker 3: It's such a unique place, really fun, beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's been a couple of weeks since I've been there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you need to go.
Speaker 1: I think you I would like to.
Speaker 3: Maybe don't bring your kids.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, we're thinking of that.
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like it's a fun place to
Speaker 3: just have a good time, let loose, like Vegas, but Mexico.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: Interesting, there's no gambling though. No, okay, then I'm out.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, but you like tequila.
Speaker 1: Maybe I might do that.
Speaker 3: We'll see, have a have a sip.
Speaker 2: Followed by a lot of water, one little sip and
Speaker 2: then I'll pass out. Uh, let's see what should we
Speaker 2: talk about first this week? I guess we'll talk about Oh,
Speaker 2: you want to talk about the Instagram thing first? Okay,
Speaker 2: let's talk about Instagram removing what I called the creepy
Speaker 2: feature ever and I call it.
Speaker 3: The most necessary feature.
Speaker 2: So the Instagram, In case you did not know, they
Speaker 2: removed a feature this week called following. And I actually
Speaker 2: got a bunch of emails about this and dms on
Speaker 2: Instagram from people saying where did this feature go? And
Speaker 2: I said, don't you watch the TV? Yeah, or look
Speaker 2: at my tweets or look at my Instagram stories. I mean,
Speaker 2: we posted this, they don't. She's like no, I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I don't know where to go from there. So Instagram
Speaker 2: ditches what's called the following tab. This was in your
Speaker 2: activity feed, so it's look, you either knew about it
Speaker 2: or you didn't. You either used it or you didn't
Speaker 2: use it. It's the part next to the hearts where
Speaker 2: you look at all your likes and who's following you
Speaker 2: and who commented on your stuff. Next to that, you
Speaker 2: would see all the stuff that your friends were doing
Speaker 2: on Instagram. Yeah, and sometimes you would see some pretty
Speaker 2: interesting movements from your.
Speaker 3: Friends, pretty weird, you know, pretty weird.
Speaker 2: You basically learn what your friends are into.
Speaker 1: It was very.
Speaker 3: Telling, like it, I mean, I don't know certain people.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh okay, like just just certain people, sorry,
Speaker 3: specifically men liking like a lot of model stuff. And
Speaker 3: it's like, oh, okay, you know, I don't know. I
Speaker 3: feel like if you're like dating someone, that's kind of
Speaker 3: a nice feature to have, or it's stalking.
Speaker 1: Well that's so that's the thing. I mean.
Speaker 2: Okay, So two sides of this, yes, so number one
Speaker 2: do you think?
Speaker 1: Well, okay? For by the way, Instagram.
Speaker 2: Said that nobody really cared about this or used it
Speaker 2: which I don't know if that's true.
Speaker 3: I feel like they're kicking themselves.
Speaker 1: Here's here's what I think.
Speaker 2: Here's the reason why I think Instagram got rid of it.
Speaker 2: It was a it was the it was a very
Speaker 2: unprivate part of the site. So when people are on Instagram,
Speaker 2: you can see who you're following. You can you can
Speaker 2: kind of see like now they've done the thing where
Speaker 2: like if I go to a picture that you've already liked,
Speaker 2: it'll h and you're my friend, It'll put your name
Speaker 2: at the top and be like Megan like this picture,
Speaker 2: or like I can see you know my friends that
Speaker 2: like that picture. Oh that's interesting, they follow this person too.
Speaker 2: But this was like one place where you can go
Speaker 2: you can see like just everything they've liked in the
Speaker 2: past hour.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now that's gone.
Speaker 2: So I feel like Instagram did this because they wanted
Speaker 2: to make Instagram a little bit more private, more personal.
Speaker 2: Well I feel like they did it because they want
Speaker 2: people to like more pictures that they would have hesitated liking. Okay,
Speaker 2: so now you're talking about some creepers that you obviously
Speaker 2: have seen on there, that have liked a bunch of
Speaker 2: stuff because they didn't care or they didn't know this existed.
Speaker 2: But now that people are like, oh nobody can see
Speaker 2: what I'm doing, they can be all the stuff be
Speaker 2: like crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean whatever, it's fine, but it's it's just
Speaker 3: I think, like it's they're going in a different direction,
Speaker 3: and so now I feel like it's harder to like
Speaker 3: discover stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, well they have those explore pages.
Speaker 3: Right, but you have to like think about that.
Speaker 1: You got to think about that. I agree. I never
Speaker 1: used the following.
Speaker 2: I would maybe look at it once a year, so
Speaker 2: I never really did daily.
Speaker 3: I just occasionally be like okay, and then I would
Speaker 3: see like Rich Demurrel likes food something I don't know,
Speaker 3: and then I'm like, oh, that looks interesting.
Speaker 2: I did discover one thing on Instagram, though, and this
Speaker 2: is really it's a sad state of affairs with the
Speaker 2: whole influencer culture and the whole everything. Yeah, and you
Speaker 2: can do this on Instagram in a million different ways.
Speaker 2: But if you just look at the similar pictures to
Speaker 2: whatever you're looking at. Like, let's say you go to
Speaker 2: a cool restaurant that's in Los Angeles that has a
Speaker 2: cool Instagram wall. Well, if you tap the location, the
Speaker 2: place on Instagram, you will see your same exact picture
Speaker 2: taken a thousand different times from a thousand different people.
Speaker 1: It's all the same. There's nothing unique. It's really sad.
Speaker 2: You think you're being so cool by getting this cool
Speaker 2: angle or whatever anything exactly, take your pick. It's all
Speaker 2: been done. And the other thing, and this is my
Speaker 2: other new trick on Instagram, is that if you go
Speaker 2: to the explore page and you look at anything that's
Speaker 2: interesting on the Explore page, like here is this new
Speaker 2: phone that's like this weird looking phone, and literally I
Speaker 2: just scroll up and this one, of course is not
Speaker 2: really working because it's too new. But let's say you
Speaker 2: just like look at a picture of an iPhone. It
Speaker 2: says the perfect case. It will literally just you scroll
Speaker 2: up and it's the same thing over and over.
Speaker 1: Same thing with influencers.
Speaker 2: Let's say you like a fitness influencer, scroll up after
Speaker 2: you tap on their picture, and you'll see a thousand
Speaker 2: of the same type of fitness influencers.
Speaker 1: It's all the same.
Speaker 3: It's so crazy.
Speaker 2: So anyway, so much out there. There's nothing new on
Speaker 2: Instagram anyway. Yeah, all right, you got a question for us, Megan.
Speaker 3: Yes, I do this first question, Concept Conception wrote in
Speaker 3: on Rich on tech dot tv. If you ever want
Speaker 3: to send Rich a question, you just go to rich
Speaker 3: on tech dot tv and just click the contact page.
Speaker 3: So Concept writes, dear Rich on October fifth, I downloaded
Speaker 3: the latest update for my iPhone eight and then he
Speaker 3: said that the bedtime feature is always on the alarm screen,
Speaker 3: his bedtime alarm, and he can't get rid of it,
Speaker 3: and so his concern is that he might accidentally activate it.
Speaker 3: My concerns, I may actually activate it. What do you suggest.
Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of you, So I guess.
Speaker 1: Are you saying that or is that still? That was
Speaker 1: definitely okay? I didn't know if you switched back to Megan.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, the bedtime in the in iOS thirteen, bedtime
Speaker 2: is now in the forefront. So when you go to
Speaker 2: your alarms, it is now on the alarm page at
Speaker 2: the top. And that does freak out a lot of
Speaker 2: people because nobody uses bedtime.
Speaker 1: They don't really do you use it? No?
Speaker 2: No, nobody does except me. I love bedtime. I will
Speaker 2: tell you why. Why Because when you say.
Speaker 3: The alarms, I know meanime no, but like I have
Speaker 3: like every minute.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, trouble waking up.
Speaker 2: It's it's like somehow Megan got the alarms go by
Speaker 2: like the thirty second mark.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The reason why Bedtime is so great is because when
Speaker 2: you set a bedtime alarm, the alarm arm gradually comes on.
Speaker 1: So normal alarm on the iPhone is like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, bedtime starts out soft and it gently gets louder. Yes,
Speaker 2: And so I love that. For that feature alone, it
Speaker 2: is worth the price of admission. Take the time to
Speaker 2: set up bedtime. I also think that it's easier to
Speaker 2: set the alarm for bedtime because you just use the
Speaker 2: slider and you can also see how much time you're
Speaker 2: going to sleep. So what happens is when I get
Speaker 2: into bed at sadly really early in the night, I
Speaker 2: will put my wake up time, which is generally really early,
Speaker 2: and then I'll put the little slider and see if
Speaker 2: I have maybe like fifteen minutes to kind of like
Speaker 2: surf you know, Instagram before I go to bed, because
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh cool, I'm getting six hours and forty
Speaker 2: five minutes of sleep if I go to sleep at
Speaker 2: nine pm versus eight thirty or nine thirty.
Speaker 3: I do the same thing like in my brain in
Speaker 3: your brain.
Speaker 2: Though, but this does it all for It calculates to forty.
Speaker 2: So anyway, conceptsy on. I think that's how I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think that's how we say there's no cea conception.
Speaker 1: Oh conception. Yeah, maybe, well we don't try. We try.
Speaker 2: So I say, embrace the Bedtime and you can turn
Speaker 2: it off, but you're not gonna get it off that
Speaker 2: main screen. Let me see if I turn it off fully,
Speaker 2: does it go off the main screen?
Speaker 1: Now it's still going to be there.
Speaker 2: So I think Apple's just trying to put this on
Speaker 2: the main screen so that more people use it and
Speaker 2: realize try it out. If you haven't tried Bedtime, just
Speaker 2: try it. It's a little complicated because it looks intimidating
Speaker 2: because you have to set like every day that you
Speaker 2: want it to come up. And you might say, well,
Speaker 2: I have different alarms for different days. But just go
Speaker 2: in every night and before you go to bed, just
Speaker 2: hit bedtime and move the slider to the time you
Speaker 2: want to wake up. It tells you how long you
Speaker 2: get to sleep, which is really nice.
Speaker 1: I love that feature.
Speaker 3: So you can set a different alarm for every day.
Speaker 2: Well, you just have to go in manually into it.
Speaker 2: You can't automatically set it, but you.
Speaker 1: Just use a little slider. It's it's easy.
Speaker 2: Like if I want to wake up at four am tomorrow, boom,
Speaker 2: and I can go to bed at eight pm.
Speaker 1: Nice knowing that I get eight hours of sleep.
Speaker 2: So yeah, some people can do that math in their head,
Speaker 2: but it's really nice. And again, the main benefit to
Speaker 2: me is the fact that you can get that gradual alarm.
Speaker 2: I don't care what time you're waking up. Nobody wants
Speaker 2: to be blared awake. No. In fact, a lot of
Speaker 2: people are switching to these lights that gradually come up
Speaker 2: because I think there's a lot of health research that
Speaker 2: says you don't want to be like rocked awake, No,
Speaker 2: you want to be gently awoken.
Speaker 3: Well, back in the day, when we used to just
Speaker 3: sleep right when the sun went down, exactly woke up
Speaker 3: when you know sunrise, people.
Speaker 1: Didn't have to work for a living. Ye, go outside, hunted, yeah,
Speaker 1: go kill some animal word yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they slept like twelve hours.
Speaker 1: Twelve hours.
Speaker 3: I mean if the sun sets at six pm and
Speaker 3: then you the sun rises at like six am, yeah,
Speaker 3: they probably slept a lot more.
Speaker 2: Some good advice from Mashable on password recovery questions. Every
Speaker 2: website nowadays seems like it's getting more and more complicated
Speaker 2: when it comes to setting your password. And I think
Speaker 2: people are hip to the fact that they don't really
Speaker 2: log in using Facebook or Instagram or Facebook or Twitter
Speaker 2: anymore or Google. Twitter was there for a minute, but
Speaker 2: most of the time it's either Facebook and Google as
Speaker 2: a log in. I generally don't recommend using those as
Speaker 2: a log in. Recommend using a unique password and your
Speaker 2: you know, email.
Speaker 1: Address for every website.
Speaker 2: And if you don't know how to do this, or
Speaker 2: if it's too much work, you know, maybe invest in
Speaker 2: one of these password programs, which last Pass is a
Speaker 2: really good one. One Password is another one, and also
Speaker 2: dash Lane is another one that I really like. And
Speaker 2: the advice from Mashable Jack Morse writing and Mashable, I
Speaker 2: love this advice. He says, do not answer those stupid
Speaker 2: questions that they ask you to recover your account truthfully,
Speaker 2: because a lot of times, like especially United Airlines, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: It's like literally, what's your favorite flavor of ice cream?
Speaker 2: It's like, okay, for ninety nine percent of people are
Speaker 2: gonna put vanilla chocolate.
Speaker 3: So there has to be a better way to.
Speaker 2: Choose an answer that is not your true answer, it's
Speaker 2: off the cuff. And also with friends, a lot of
Speaker 2: people like what street did you grow up on?
Speaker 1: Like I know that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: For some people pick weird things and write in weird answers.
Speaker 2: Now you might be saying, well, rich, how am I
Speaker 2: going to remember these weird answers?
Speaker 1: Two ways to do it.
Speaker 2: I sometimes take a screenshot of the random answers that
Speaker 2: I make up for these questions, which can work, but
Speaker 2: then you have to keep track of the screenshot what
Speaker 2: he's recommending. And this is actually a little bit smarter,
Speaker 2: and I do this as well. Inside these password managers,
Speaker 2: the big ones, you can leave a note associated with
Speaker 2: a website, so in addition to your password, you can say,
Speaker 2: like first car. Everyone that knows you knows your first car.
Speaker 2: That's a good friend. Now, I hope your good friends
Speaker 2: aren't hacking into your accounts. But my point is, okay,
Speaker 2: that was scary. But the point is you don't want to,
Speaker 2: you know, It's like it's like there's only so much
Speaker 2: information about you that's personal that people don't know.
Speaker 1: You've been around for a while people know a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff about.
Speaker 2: You, So good advice from Jack, make up those random
Speaker 2: answers and then just keep it in one of the
Speaker 2: secure notes on your password manager. And you might be
Speaker 2: saying rich, but if someone hacks my password manager, they
Speaker 2: get all this stuff. Well, you got to secure the
Speaker 2: password manager and big time you're.
Speaker 3: Really DISCREETE five x one two four two nine one
Speaker 3: that is rich as past.
Speaker 2: Word, but use that password, but also use two factor
Speaker 2: authentication and the app I recommend for that is AUF
Speaker 2: the A U T H Y. Again, you had to
Speaker 2: have multiple layers of this stuff because it's you gotta,
Speaker 2: you know, gotta keep on your toes at this because
Speaker 2: there's just people out there every day that are trying
Speaker 2: to get this stuff.
Speaker 3: I mean, like, why are we working on the autonomous
Speaker 3: car when we should be working on the fingerprint reader
Speaker 3: for all things?
Speaker 1: I'm all about that. What happened to that? Why do
Speaker 1: we stop doing That's how I mean the fact.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like the face of lot maybe that's our side job.
Speaker 2: But face unlock has been on the iPhone for a
Speaker 2: couple of years now. Why aren't websites like able to
Speaker 2: tap into that? Maybe maybe for security reasons they can't.
Speaker 2: I don't know, all right, Megan, Okay, we're not going
Speaker 2: to solve the world's problems right now.
Speaker 1: You got a question.
Speaker 3: Yes, This next question is pretty straightforward. It's from Kim,
Speaker 3: and she wants to know. Does your book have a
Speaker 3: section on how to keep your iPhone and other accounts secure?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: My god, we just talked about that, Kim, were you're
Speaker 2: not listening? Oh wait, she doesn't know, because she if
Speaker 2: anything I was, you weren't listening.
Speaker 3: Did you say that your book has a section?
Speaker 2: No, the book does not, do we I mean? The
Speaker 2: thing is the book one hundred and one iPhone Tips
Speaker 2: and Tricks available now on Amazon, paperback and ebook. It's
Speaker 2: all about iOS thirteen. I do talk about privacy in
Speaker 2: the book a lot, because there are so many new
Speaker 2: privacy features in iOS thirteen, and there's also a lot
Speaker 2: of privacy considerations in general.
Speaker 1: Nowadays.
Speaker 2: I feel like everything comes down to privacy. So is
Speaker 2: there a certain section of the book. No, But will
Speaker 2: you be smarter about privacy when you use the book?
Speaker 2: I think so, And I think the main thing with
Speaker 2: privacy comes down to understanding what apps are trying to
Speaker 2: get a hold of when they're you know, like, my
Speaker 2: wife came out to me the other day and she's like,
Speaker 2: what's this and she shows me that new screen. You
Speaker 2: haven't downloaded iOS thirteen yet, you haven't seen it, but
Speaker 2: it's a screen that gives little blue dots on a
Speaker 2: map of all the places that you've gone and all
Speaker 2: the times that an app has accessed your location. And
Speaker 2: it's really scary because you're like, why guy, dark Sky
Speaker 2: accessing my location in all these different places? And I said, well,
Speaker 2: dark Sky has a feature that tells you when it's
Speaker 2: about to rain. That's why it wants to know where
Speaker 2: you are at all times, so it can tell you that.
Speaker 2: If you don't sell that data, well, usually the privacy
Speaker 2: policy of a lot of them, they don't like dark Sky,
Speaker 2: I don't think sells that data, but yes they could.
Speaker 3: Dark Sky is like the it's.
Speaker 1: A cool app for the weather.
Speaker 2: It's a cool weather app, and its main thing is
Speaker 2: that it tells you when it's going to rain wherever
Speaker 2: you are. It'll say light drizzle starting right now, in
Speaker 2: two minutes, and all of a sudden, you'll go outside
Speaker 2: and yeah, light drizzle, and it's that's their kind of magic.
Speaker 2: But they need to know where you are at all times.
Speaker 2: For that Magic Citizen, another app that we talk about
Speaker 2: all the time.
Speaker 1: It scary, scariest.
Speaker 2: If you just want to be scared about where you live,
Speaker 2: just download Citizen, put it on your phone.
Speaker 1: Freak.
Speaker 2: You will just hear about every armed robbery within five
Speaker 2: feet of you.
Speaker 3: It's insane guy with gun down the block and like okay, right.
Speaker 1: Take cover.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that app again needs your location at all
Speaker 2: times so it can tell you about the scariest stuff
Speaker 2: happening literally steps away from you.
Speaker 1: We're so there's always.
Speaker 3: Something, especially like Hollywood, there's always like you know, crazy
Speaker 3: man running with like.
Speaker 1: No, it's like naked man running.
Speaker 3: Knife, yes, with chicken and knife.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy, it really is.
Speaker 2: But anyway, it's a great app, but it needs to
Speaker 2: know your location so that it can understand where you
Speaker 2: are and tell you all the scary stuff that's happening
Speaker 2: around you.
Speaker 1: If you don't want that.
Speaker 2: In iOS thirteen, the first time that little thing pops up,
Speaker 2: just say don't allow, or you can say only allow
Speaker 2: while using the app. So in iOS thirteen you have
Speaker 2: the option for almost every app, I think it's every
Speaker 2: app now to either allow location once or only when
Speaker 2: the app is open, which is kind of nice. And
Speaker 2: then the other thing is Bluetooth that all the apps
Speaker 2: are asking for. We've covered that in a previous podcast.
Speaker 2: But every app wants access to your Bluetooth as well.
Speaker 2: If it doesn't need it, don't give it the access.
Speaker 2: That's what you need to know. Let's see what should
Speaker 2: talk about next. This is an interesting little experience that
Speaker 2: I did yesterday. It is the Bride of Frankenstein Hollow Ride.
Speaker 2: This is a VR experience in a car. You sit
Speaker 2: in the backseat of a car, you put on a
Speaker 2: VR headset, and you ride in this car while you're
Speaker 2: in VR like a ride. It's so weird. Don't call
Speaker 2: it a ride, I know, whatever you do. Lots of
Speaker 2: restrictions around this one, but yeah, I did this ride. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's about five to seven minutes. It's basically an Oculus
Speaker 2: rift or just I don't think they call Oculus rift anymore.
Speaker 2: I think it's just Oculus headset off the shelf kind
Speaker 2: of stuff. But here's the thing. They kind of buried
Speaker 2: the lead on this whole thing. It's not a new
Speaker 2: ride at Universal Studios. It is what this company thinks
Speaker 2: is the future of backseat entertainment.
Speaker 1: Did you ever have a car with like the DVD
Speaker 1: player in the back.
Speaker 2: And a VCR VCR you have that you watch like
Speaker 2: Disney movies on the road trips with your family up
Speaker 2: to Arrowhead?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, good time.
Speaker 1: We never had that in our car, the VCR or
Speaker 1: the DVD. Well you have iPads, Well, now there's iPads.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But so this company, hollow Ride, seems to think that
Speaker 2: the next generation is going to just put on a
Speaker 2: VR headset and the parents are in the front seat driving.
Speaker 3: You know, they're kids are literally on a roller coaster. Right,
Speaker 3: That's actually kind of really fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really fun if you don't throw up all
Speaker 1: over the back seat.
Speaker 3: That also would be me and.
Speaker 2: I will tell you that you did not do this,
Speaker 2: which you should have by the way, But I watched
Speaker 2: him do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Megan was holding the camera so it was tough for
Speaker 2: her to do it. Yeah, but it's just it was rough.
Speaker 2: I don't get carsick or motion sick, but it was.
Speaker 2: I walked out of there being like, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, something's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So well, also they said, oh, you won't get you
Speaker 3: won't get sick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think the best. The quote in the
Speaker 2: actual press release says it reduces motion sickness, so they
Speaker 2: definitely know it's a problem. Oh yeah, significant, Okay. Hollride
Speaker 2: technology provides a new type of immersion into any kind
Speaker 2: of VR content, creating a break breath taking immersive experience
Speaker 2: and significantly reducing motion sickness, So they know that motion
Speaker 2: sickness is a part of this thing. But with that said,
Speaker 2: this is totally free. You don't take my word for it.
Speaker 2: Go try it out and see. Don't be scared like
Speaker 2: you got to try it. Yeah, but it's a five
Speaker 2: to seven minute ride. It's this whole thing where like
Speaker 2: you're in the back seat, You're you're shooting at monsters
Speaker 2: that come at you. The bride of Frankenstein is sitting
Speaker 2: in the seat in front of you.
Speaker 1: It's cool.
Speaker 2: It wasn't the best VR I've ever done. If you
Speaker 2: want the best VR by far, it's called Dreamscape and
Speaker 2: it's at Westfield Century City and at a bunch of
Speaker 2: other males in America.
Speaker 1: That's the best VR experience.
Speaker 3: I've ever seen that I still need to do.
Speaker 2: You gotta do that one too. Just call them up
Speaker 2: and tell me I want to do it because you should.
Speaker 3: Initially for this story, though, I when we were going
Speaker 3: into it, I thought that it was going to be
Speaker 3: more scary, like the footage I saw that you experienced.
Speaker 3: I thought like monsters were going to run up to you,
Speaker 3: and I mean it's Halloween times, so you know. But
Speaker 3: I agree wasn't as scary, No.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: I thought there's gonna be things that came out at you.
Speaker 2: The only thing that really at one point and you
Speaker 2: see on my instagram at rich On Tech you can
Speaker 2: see where I kind of jump. It is the beginning
Speaker 2: where the bride jumps into the car. I'm not really
Speaker 2: giving things away. You know that's gonna happen. I knew
Speaker 2: that was gonna happen without even knowing. And then at
Speaker 2: the end of the day you're like whoa, yeah, and
Speaker 2: the whole thing you're just shooting at these monsters.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I thought there's gonna be kind of like a story
Speaker 2: arc and different things, and there wasn't.
Speaker 1: It never really evolved.
Speaker 2: So anyway, do I think it's bad technology, No, I
Speaker 2: think it's really cool, and I do think that will
Speaker 2: be a part of the future.
Speaker 1: Is it there just yet? Probably not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I also had a theory that I thought
Speaker 2: that VR on a plane would be kind of the
Speaker 2: coolest use of VR because you're locked in this seat,
Speaker 2: You're locked in this tube traveling at six hundred miles
Speaker 2: an hour. What are you gonna do? People watch movies
Speaker 2: on the plane. So if you can have a movie
Speaker 2: that's giant in front of your face because of VR,
Speaker 2: even cooler.
Speaker 3: It's like it feel like you're in a theater.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like a private movie theater with a giant screen.
Speaker 2: So I did do this. I watched a movie on
Speaker 2: the plane. I thought they were going to kick me
Speaker 2: off the plane because it was so like weird, creepy
Speaker 2: to see this guy like taking out his headset and
Speaker 2: putting in the thing. And then I set up a
Speaker 2: GoPro in front of me so I can get some videocause.
Speaker 3: It's free, like who is this like live streaming?
Speaker 2: And so that that I watched half of the movie
Speaker 2: before I kind of got sick.
Speaker 3: You also got sick.
Speaker 2: Well, this headset got really hot. I didn't get sick
Speaker 2: with the headset got really hot.
Speaker 3: I have to work on that that. I have little fans, a.
Speaker 1: Lot of things to work with this stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I think VR is really cool.
Speaker 1: Though, what have you done VR?
Speaker 3: Not a lot, But I thought there's this whole thing
Speaker 3: about empathy VR, like helping people like understand. I mean
Speaker 3: it's like.
Speaker 1: Deep stuff, but I like, if I'm ready for that,
Speaker 1: it's like.
Speaker 3: The future of like journalism and teaching people about like
Speaker 3: what's going on in like certain countries. Okay, there are
Speaker 3: like these VR experiences and like Syria and you can
Speaker 3: like walk around and like it immerses you, yeah, to
Speaker 3: help you understand you just.
Speaker 1: Like instead of getting sick, you just have cry.
Speaker 3: At the they have some program at USC and it's
Speaker 3: like the Film School ICT.
Speaker 2: They do a lot with soldiers with that like military. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's implia. We did a story with them a long
Speaker 2: time ago. It's well, they do it. In fact, that's
Speaker 2: what they did. They the empathy training was basically it
Speaker 2: was something like you know because a lot of these
Speaker 2: soldiers come back and or military and it's like it's
Speaker 2: tough for them to adjust to everyday life because of
Speaker 2: PTSD and all this stuff. So this thing that we
Speaker 2: saw that I think they they took me through. It's
Speaker 2: been a while, but I remember it, like helping them
Speaker 2: understand that not you know, every loud sound isn't affecting them,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. It was that kind of
Speaker 2: stuff where it's pretty interesting. And then there's like a
Speaker 2: job interview where the person was a veteran and they
Speaker 2: were kind of seeing how to deal with that if
Speaker 2: you're an interviewee, you know, like that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So I think there.
Speaker 2: I think VR, don't get me wrong, is going to
Speaker 2: be the future of everything. Like Hilton Hotels, Rich Carlton,
Speaker 2: they will have a hotel in virtual reality that you
Speaker 2: take a vacation app. Wow, you won't have to go
Speaker 2: to Cabo anymore.
Speaker 1: Megan every weekend.
Speaker 2: Just you literally go on your open up that tequila.
Speaker 3: Here's me and you're like in a blank room.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it'll it'll put you in the room in
Speaker 2: the thing. You'll just like like close your eyes okay
Speaker 2: and be like one.
Speaker 3: I think it cou'd be good for like elderly people
Speaker 3: that can't go.
Speaker 1: So many again, there's so many applications.
Speaker 3: So many applications. All right, So this next question comes
Speaker 3: from Aaron. She wrote on your Facebook, Hi Rich, Now
Speaker 3: that iTunes is a thing of the past, should slash
Speaker 3: could the app be deleted. Wait what I think she
Speaker 3: doesn't understand that you have to update your computer.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's a good segment. Yeah, the mac Catalina stuff.
Speaker 3: I've had a lot of people, Well no, I've had
Speaker 3: one person ask me what happens to my iTunes?
Speaker 1: Like so iTunes, here's so, here's the thing.
Speaker 2: She's referring to mac os Cattle, which is now available
Speaker 2: for your desktop computer. I don't recommend that you download
Speaker 2: it right away because it's not like it adds like
Speaker 2: crazy new features that you need like today. Like I
Speaker 2: am a tech person, I'm not updating my computer for
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks because I need a program. I'm
Speaker 2: going to New York next week and I need to
Speaker 2: have the use of my full computer, and I want
Speaker 2: any surprises.
Speaker 1: Now. Do I want to update? Of course I do.
Speaker 2: I love updates, but I want to make sure that
Speaker 2: everything works and all the little apps I have, You know,
Speaker 2: all these you forget about the one little thing that
Speaker 2: you need on your computer, and all of a sudden
Speaker 2: it doesn't work, and now you're frustrated and you got
Speaker 2: to wait for a software update for everything to get fixed.
Speaker 2: That software update can come from Apple or it can
Speaker 2: come from the third party manufacturer of the program or
Speaker 2: the developer, and either one it just is annoying to wait.
Speaker 2: So yeah, just wait a little bit while things get
Speaker 2: worked out. But macOS Catalina, what she was referring to
Speaker 2: is there's no more iTunes on it per se. It
Speaker 2: is now Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, and Apple TV. And
Speaker 2: those are three apps that are on your computer. Will
Speaker 2: all your iTunes purchases be there, yes, all your music
Speaker 2: will be in the Apple Music app. All of your
Speaker 2: TV shows and movies will be in Apple TV. So
Speaker 2: it's still there, it's just not in iTunes.
Speaker 3: And if you have an iTunes Skift card that will
Speaker 3: still work, that still works. It's part of your Apple
Speaker 3: account and you can use that movies or Yeah. It
Speaker 3: doesn't go away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I just don't. I mean, I think that
Speaker 2: Apple is on the desktop at least. I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't know if a lot of people rent movies on
Speaker 2: their desktop, but most people, I think maybe use like
Speaker 2: Apple TV a their iPad, so it's not as much.
Speaker 2: I mean, you could still access the Apple TV store
Speaker 2: or the iTunes store through Apple Music or through Apple TV.
Speaker 1: You know, the app.
Speaker 2: It's confusing because it's called Apple TV even though there's
Speaker 2: there is a physical piece of hardware called Apple TV,
Speaker 2: but there's now also an app called Apple TV.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's very confusing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then there's a third party app called Apple
Speaker 2: TV that runs on like Sony TV.
Speaker 3: Is an Apple TV Plus.
Speaker 2: Well, that's their subscription service which is part of Apple TV,
Speaker 2: the app, which can also run on Apple TV, the hardware.
Speaker 3: When is Apple TV Plus November first?
Speaker 2: Can't wait? Watch that new show with what's your name?
Speaker 2: Well that one too, but what's the other one? What's
Speaker 2: the girl that?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Oh Haley?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Haley Seinfeld.
Speaker 3: Is it gonna be like Steinfelder Seinfeld stein Steinfeld Steinfeld? Okay,
Speaker 3: no Seinfeld, Hailey Seinfeld, No, Hailey Steinfeld, Hailey stein Feld, Yeah, Steinfeld.
Speaker 1: She's in the new show?
Speaker 3: Is it all episodes like available to watch immediately?
Speaker 2: We don't know yet. Sounds like Apple might might not
Speaker 2: do that, but we don't know.
Speaker 1: We don't know.
Speaker 3: I feel like they should do that if they want
Speaker 3: people to keep it, you.
Speaker 2: Know, well everyone that let's be honest, everyone that's getting
Speaker 2: Apple TV Plus for the first year is they're all freebies,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like I don't think anyone's subscribing.
Speaker 2: I think it's all the people about iPhones and the
Speaker 2: Apple devices hook us.
Speaker 1: They got to hook you up, bait and switch.
Speaker 2: No, I think I think it's gonna be good. I mean,
Speaker 2: look all these services. If you find one show that
Speaker 2: you like on them, Like what did I watch the other? Okay,
Speaker 2: we watched on HBO. We watched Halloween.
Speaker 1: Have you heard of that?
Speaker 2: It's like the it's like an old school movie and
Speaker 2: they keep doing like new versions of.
Speaker 3: It, like Michael Myers Halloween.
Speaker 1: Yes, so there's like a.
Speaker 2: New version of it with like Jane who's the actress,
Speaker 2: Jamie Lee Curtis. Yeah, so anyway, it came out last year.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know about this, but I'm browsing, Oh I.
Speaker 3: Need to watch that.
Speaker 1: I'm browsing Halloween.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, but it's on HBO, like which I get
Speaker 2: as part of my direct TV now, which I pay
Speaker 2: fifty dollars a month for. So to me just watching
Speaker 2: that one, that one movie is like a six dollars value,
Speaker 2: so I like mark it off in my head. I'm like,
Speaker 2: all right, forty four dollars to go.
Speaker 3: To get my fifty dollars a month, but I get.
Speaker 1: Every channel for that, which is actually it's like one hundred.
Speaker 3: You're talking about your service in general. Okay, HBO go
Speaker 3: is not.
Speaker 2: And then if I watch one USC game on a
Speaker 2: weekend or four in a month, and I'm watching it
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports or one of these espns, I am
Speaker 2: in my head mark off another five dollars. So by
Speaker 2: the end of the month, if I if I've used
Speaker 2: and my kids watch you know, Disney, Disney or nick,
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, that was another five bucks.
Speaker 1: So at the end of the month, it's I'm like
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars walking around.
Speaker 3: You're like, all right, five dollars, check it off the list.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a mental thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then Netflix, What did I watch Netflix? I watched
Speaker 2: two things on my last trip. I watched that documentary
Speaker 2: Social Animals. Oh yeah, And then I watched a scary
Speaker 2: movie that was really terrible, which was okay. It was
Speaker 2: called like House on Witch Hill or which the Witch
Speaker 2: House or something.
Speaker 3: Haunted House on Hill Street.
Speaker 1: No, it was not that. Was it a series, Nope,
Speaker 1: it was it was a movie.
Speaker 2: It was like a terrible B movie that you would
Speaker 2: never watch. But because it's free, on Netflix. Of course
Speaker 2: you watch it, got it, so me those two things
Speaker 2: were worth the sixteen bucks I pay for.
Speaker 3: Now there's actually a show on Netflix which everyone was
Speaker 3: obsessed with last year called The Haunted House on Hill
Speaker 3: Street and it's actually like an amazing series, Like everyone
Speaker 3: was obsessed with it. So if you need another thing
Speaker 3: to ding off your list, that show's really good. Okay,
Speaker 3: I might like rewatch it because I want to get
Speaker 3: into the Halloween.
Speaker 1: Yeah spirits spirit It's like deep yeah, okay, I don't
Speaker 1: want that. Well, okay, all right, let's see.
Speaker 2: What other features on macOS Catalina. They've got sidecar, which
Speaker 2: is a new feature that makes your iPad a secondary display,
Speaker 2: which is kind of cool. There used to be an
Speaker 2: app or there still is called Duet which does something similar,
Speaker 2: but now it's just built into macOS. And now there
Speaker 2: are third party apps like iPad apps that are in
Speaker 2: the Mac app Store. So one of them that I'm
Speaker 2: excited for is called Tripe, which is kind of cool,
Speaker 2: and trip it I used to organize all my travel.
Speaker 1: Now it's available as a desktop app. Cool.
Speaker 2: And you also have Apple Arcade for five bucks a month,
Speaker 2: which I'm doing the free trial of right now. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: speaking of all this stuff, Tile, who is I think
Speaker 2: Tile is a little concerned for what's happening with Apple
Speaker 2: because Apple, the rumor is that they're coming out with
Speaker 2: their own Tile.
Speaker 1: Are you familiar with this product?
Speaker 3: Isn't it like a tracking device?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Exactly, and for anything, for anything.
Speaker 2: You can basically attach it to anything you want and
Speaker 2: it will use a combination of Bluetooth and then crowdsourced
Speaker 2: Bluetooth to find your stuff.
Speaker 1: So let me explain.
Speaker 2: So, let's save a little tile in your purse because
Speaker 2: you want to keep track of your purse. So you
Speaker 2: have an app on your phone that will ping this
Speaker 2: little thing in your purse that has a little battery
Speaker 2: in it, and it will be like, oh, your purse
Speaker 2: is I don't know if it just maybe makes a
Speaker 2: sound or if it tells you like it's in your house,
Speaker 2: because it tells you how far away it is something
Speaker 2: like that. Yeah, that's fine. That's one way of finding it.
Speaker 2: But let's say you leave your purse at work and
Speaker 2: you're at home and you're like, wait, where's my purse? Well,
Speaker 2: how would it find because Bluetooth only has a certain range.
Speaker 2: So then what Tile does is it looks to see
Speaker 2: if anyone has a tile app installed in their phone
Speaker 2: nearby your purse, and it will ping the Bluetooth from
Speaker 2: their phone to your device and it will be like, oh,
Speaker 2: we found it over here, here's a location because it's
Speaker 2: going through someone else's phone. Yeah, so that is great
Speaker 2: as long as someone has tile installed on their device
Speaker 2: near your tile. If they don't, then you're kind of screwed.
Speaker 2: So what Apple is doing they are building in this
Speaker 2: tile functionality to all their devices, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: there's an iPhone or an iPad or a MacBook around
Speaker 2: almost everything in the world, so.
Speaker 3: A tile could work with an iPhone.
Speaker 1: No, not the tile. Apple's upcoming tile knockoff, which is
Speaker 1: going to be called the.
Speaker 2: Tile knockoff from Apple Okay tracker Tile Apple Tracker, who knows?
Speaker 1: Yeah, poor Tyle, thank you. So I explained that.
Speaker 3: Well, because they even like, buy the whatever the rights.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's just so sad that Apple. I
Speaker 1: get it.
Speaker 2: It's kind of nice that Apple's doing this, but they
Speaker 2: should have just bought Tile and just integrated them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with that. Maybe hey, maybe they put
Speaker 3: out an offer and Tyle said no, Yeah, so.
Speaker 1: I doubt it, but probably so.
Speaker 2: Tyle has a couple of new devices that they're still kicking.
Speaker 2: They're still doing stuff even though they know in like
Speaker 2: three weeks everyone's going to be laid off.
Speaker 3: Oh so sad.
Speaker 1: So Tyle has Tile Sticker.
Speaker 2: This is a the thinnest it's literally a sticker you
Speaker 2: put on stuff, and it has a three year battery
Speaker 2: life and one hundred and fifty foot range and it
Speaker 2: can be attached to almost anything. They work with three
Speaker 2: m to make this adhesive that you can stick on stuff.
Speaker 2: I think that one sounds awesome because you can stick
Speaker 2: stick it to things. And you've got Tile Slim, which
Speaker 2: is a credit card shape which you can put in
Speaker 2: your wallet for your guy or a girl whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 2: no gender bias here, do whatever you want.
Speaker 3: Put it whatever wherever you want.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a slim credit card shape and that
Speaker 2: has a two hundred foot range, which is two times
Speaker 2: the range of the last Slim That also works for
Speaker 2: three years. Then they've got their most powerful finder on
Speaker 2: the market with a four hundred foot range of Bluetooth,
Speaker 2: which is the Mate and pro. So anyway, the sticker
Speaker 2: is thirty dollars thirty nine ninety nine for a two pack,
Speaker 2: sixty dollars for a four pack.
Speaker 1: These things are expensive. Wow, yeah they are, but it
Speaker 1: lasts for three years.
Speaker 2: That's the downside of tile. So when Tyle first came out,
Speaker 2: I got it, of course because I thought it was
Speaker 2: so cool. And then I switched over to an other
Speaker 2: one that was a user replaceable battery.
Speaker 1: I forget. I think it went out of business. But
Speaker 1: tile is kind of the thing.
Speaker 2: But the problem with the tile is that when the
Speaker 2: battery runs out, it's kind of you to buy a
Speaker 2: new one. If to buy a new one not user replaceable,
Speaker 2: I think you can send them in. I think as
Speaker 2: my battery was going dead, they kept sending me emails saying, Hey,
Speaker 2: we'll give you a new one for fifty percent off
Speaker 2: if you send us the old one. I think they
Speaker 2: could pop it open and replace the battery.
Speaker 3: Got it.
Speaker 1: So that's what did you buy?
Speaker 3: What kind of a tile?
Speaker 2: It was the standard? It was just the tile. I
Speaker 2: don't know if it was whatever it was, did you
Speaker 2: use it? I put out my keychain and went on
Speaker 2: Lindsay's keychain and I put one of my my luggage. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I'll tell you the one time I needed it
Speaker 2: because I was wondering where my keys were. I fired
Speaker 2: it up at the parking spot by Lax and no joke,
Speaker 2: a thousand tiles came up because everyone has these things
Speaker 2: on their keys, so it was kind of funny people
Speaker 2: are using them. But I never lost my stuff to
Speaker 2: the extent of I needed the app to find it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Do they make a tile that you can put on
Speaker 3: like a mug? That would be probably the stick his mug,
Speaker 3: Like he'll put it somewhere and then be like, where
Speaker 3: is my coffee mog?
Speaker 2: I think actually I might try to do the tile again.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's so many people have them. Although
Speaker 2: I gotta wait for the Apple one to come out
Speaker 2: because when Apple comes out game over.
Speaker 1: I mean there's literally an iPhone everywhere Apple. You know,
Speaker 1: me only Apple all day every day.
Speaker 3: I just kid, we're gonna stay with the theme, I think.
Speaker 1: Because I he'll tell me it's more Apple.
Speaker 3: Do you really know?
Speaker 1: Go ahead?
Speaker 3: Okay? Someone asks, I mean not someone Josephine. She wrote
Speaker 3: in on richon tech dot TV, and she said, what
Speaker 3: happened to the series four? Watch online? Apple is selling
Speaker 3: the five and the three but not the four.
Speaker 2: Well, I will tell you what happened to the Apple
Speaker 2: Watch Series four. It has been replaced by the Apple
Speaker 2: Watch Series five.
Speaker 1: And that's the deal.
Speaker 2: There's they So when Apple comes out with these new devices,
Speaker 2: they get rid of the old one and they do
Speaker 2: this weird thing where they skip a device. So you've
Speaker 2: got the Apple three on sale the watch, and then
Speaker 2: you've got the five. But the four has ninety nine
Speaker 2: percent of the functionality of the five except for the
Speaker 2: always on display. I want the four, but you can't
Speaker 2: get the four. So I actually think for you, you
Speaker 2: probably only need three because you don't need a detects old.
Speaker 2: I agree, but that's how they get the price to
Speaker 2: be that magical under two hundred dollars. Yeah, but I
Speaker 2: will say Lindsay still wears the Series three.
Speaker 1: It works just fine.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The thing that it does not have it doesn't have
Speaker 2: fall detection. It does not I might need that. Get
Speaker 2: a little old hair.
Speaker 1: You're almost twenty five, you know you got to watch out.
Speaker 3: Oh you said my age?
Speaker 1: Oh are you? I don't even know how old you are.
Speaker 1: I have no idea.
Speaker 2: Oh you are, Yeah, I had no idea, but you guessed, well,
Speaker 2: I was guessing you're under thirty.
Speaker 3: I didn't know, Okay, but fine, I don't.
Speaker 1: But you're getting up there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm almost as old as you were.
Speaker 2: Still got a couple of years to do that. Series
Speaker 2: three has GPS. That's like, I think that was the
Speaker 2: first one they added GPS on. Maybe I'm wrong, but anyway,
Speaker 2: that's so. I think Series three is just fine. The
Speaker 2: main features you do not get is the compass. You
Speaker 2: do not get the always on display, and I think,
Speaker 2: let's say you don't get the ECG, so you can't
Speaker 2: take your heart rate.
Speaker 1: You're sorry.
Speaker 2: You can take your heart rate, you can't take your
Speaker 2: heart ECG, which is like you're I don't know, you know,
Speaker 2: like an ECG. No, not active heart rate, it's just
Speaker 2: a it's like your how's your heart doing kind of thing,
Speaker 2: Like you'll see your heart rate on the screen, but
Speaker 2: you just ECG's when you hold your finger on the
Speaker 2: side and it literally takes like a reading of like
Speaker 2: the electrical impulses from your heart.
Speaker 3: That's the four.
Speaker 1: This is the four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're gonna get the five.
Speaker 2: Every everything I've heard about the five is that it no,
Speaker 2: the screen always on display is sapping the battery and
Speaker 2: the battery and the Apple Watch will last a day
Speaker 2: what you need. But and I to be honest, like,
Speaker 2: there's only now. The only reason I think about the
Speaker 2: always on display is because I don't have it now,
Speaker 2: and I know it's a thing now, But there's only
Speaker 2: a couple of times when you're like at the gym
Speaker 2: or literally when you're your hand is on the table
Speaker 2: and you don't want to move any part of your
Speaker 2: body to see what the time is, right, yeah, and
Speaker 2: so you like do this little thing and you kind
Speaker 2: of like move your arm just the minimum it can
Speaker 2: go before it lights up, and it does. Yeah, So
Speaker 2: it's not that big of a deal. And other times
Speaker 2: when you're like running, you gotta like tap it to
Speaker 2: turn it on. It's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 2: But anyway, you can't get that anymore. You have the
Speaker 2: three or the five. The three starts at two hundred,
Speaker 2: the five starts at four hundred.
Speaker 3: But isn't there a place I can go to find
Speaker 3: the four?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but why do you want it?
Speaker 2: Just get the five that has the newest stuff, even
Speaker 2: though I think the processor in the five is the
Speaker 2: same as the four.
Speaker 3: But okay, Josephine, I feel your pain.
Speaker 1: But those are your choices, Josephine.
Speaker 2: Sorry, let's talk about Since you've talked so much Apple,
Speaker 2: let's talk about Google. They have a new feature, by
Speaker 2: the way, Google Event next week in New York City.
Speaker 2: I am very excited. Depending on when you listen, Yes,
Speaker 2: it is gonna be very fun. Yeah. So depending on
Speaker 2: when you listen to this, the Google event is happening,
Speaker 2: maybe it's already happened. But I personally am very excited
Speaker 2: because I am very fond of the Pixel smartphone and
Speaker 2: Apple or Google just does like the best camera ever.
Speaker 2: And so I'm just curious. We've seen so many leaks
Speaker 2: about this new device. I'm curious, like what it's actually
Speaker 2: gonna do. I'm curious to see the wide angle lens
Speaker 2: on or ultra wide on the Pixel four. I'm curious
Speaker 2: to see if they've improved anything else. Because I'll be honest,
Speaker 2: as a creator's device, the iPhone still wins every day,
Speaker 2: with the Samsung device a close second. And I say
Speaker 2: a close second. The actual the Samsung device is actually
Speaker 2: perfect as a creator's device. The problem is really with
Speaker 2: the apps. And I was explaining this to a friend
Speaker 2: the other day. I'll just say my friend's name Chris
Speaker 2: Martinez who works here.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we always debate.
Speaker 2: This kind of stuff because he's like, dude, when you
Speaker 2: switching back to Android, and I'm like, I can't because here,
Speaker 2: there's the deal. iPhone apps are just better at when
Speaker 2: you're trying to do content creation, like when I upload
Speaker 2: stuff to Instagram and when I do stuff on Facebook.
Speaker 2: It just works better on the iPhone. Not to say
Speaker 2: you can't do it. So if you're not considering any
Speaker 2: of that stuff, it doesn't matter, like get the pixel
Speaker 2: or get the Samsung. But when you're trying to do
Speaker 2: stuff like I'm doing, which is like responding to people's
Speaker 2: dms all the time, and you know, like, wait, he
Speaker 2: gets no. I get ms all day long, all day long.
Speaker 2: You have no idea how many dms I get?
Speaker 1: Okay, I get a lot.
Speaker 2: And the scariest ones and I don't know if you've
Speaker 2: ever gotten one of these, but they blur, like if
Speaker 2: you're not following that person, they blur the picture to
Speaker 2: protect your privacy.
Speaker 1: You ever seen this?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well they do it for a reason, thank god. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 2: they do that for a reason. And I'm always like,
Speaker 2: oh god, here we go. What sometimes if if it
Speaker 2: depends on the message instantly, No, it depends on the message.
Speaker 2: If I can tell, if someone's like, hey, can you
Speaker 2: this my camera keeps closing on my phone and there's
Speaker 2: a screenshot attached, I kind of know what's going on. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but otherwise I feel so of course it can't. That's
Speaker 2: why they do that. But they actually I think there's
Speaker 2: two levels. It's first one hundred ccent blacked out, and
Speaker 2: then it's smoothed out. Never had this, Yeah, I can't
Speaker 2: believe you've never seen this.
Speaker 3: I'm glad.
Speaker 2: So let me talk about the Google new features on
Speaker 2: Google that we know today, even though there's gonna be
Speaker 2: a whole bunch next week. But the main thing that
Speaker 2: they've done is with music. You can now switch your
Speaker 2: music to different speakers. And I will be honest, I
Speaker 2: tried to give Google a fair shot at being my
Speaker 2: whole house audio, even though you know I'm a big
Speaker 2: fan of Sons and so I did. I finally grouped
Speaker 2: all my little players and all the different rooms, the
Speaker 2: little Google homes and all the stuff I've collected over
Speaker 2: the years, and I figured out that, yeah, you can
Speaker 2: play music to all of those. It was fine. But
Speaker 2: it wasn't as good as Sons. And I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2: The music was delayed in other rooms. The magic of
Speaker 2: sons is that when you're playing a whole bunch of
Speaker 2: speakers at once in your home, everything is perfectly synced up.
Speaker 2: And that's been the magic of Sono since day one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Google Home.
Speaker 2: It was good, but I could tell when I was
Speaker 2: shifting from room to room the music was slightly delayed
Speaker 2: in other rooms, and I could hear it, like one
Speaker 2: ear was in the living room, one ear was in
Speaker 2: the dining room, and you can hear the music was
Speaker 2: not insanc one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: That's really not fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Now, if you have a party in your house,
Speaker 2: you probably wouldn't notice because it wouldn't be a silent
Speaker 2: But when you're by yourself most of the time like
Speaker 2: I am, when you're.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's your life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you're pretty much.
Speaker 3: Your face just now is just like so sad, like
Speaker 3: smiling really big. When I'm always alone at home between
Speaker 3: the hours of twelve o'clock and four o'clock, Yes, just
Speaker 3: twiddling twiddling my thumb.
Speaker 1: It's scary that you know that.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not hard to figure out.
Speaker 2: So now you can say to Google, hey, you know
Speaker 2: who moved the music to the living room speaker, or
Speaker 2: so if you're starting it in one room in your office,
Speaker 2: let's say you can move that music to a different speaker,
Speaker 2: which is kind of cool, and it pick up the music.
Speaker 3: Hey G.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey G.
Speaker 2: And then you can tap the cast button to see
Speaker 2: all the devices in your home or select the group
Speaker 2: of devices you'd like to play your music to or
Speaker 2: podcast and yeah, I mean that's basically it. Or now
Speaker 2: they say you can browse for your favorite YouTube videos
Speaker 2: or whatever on your Nest Hub Max, tap the cast
Speaker 2: control on the screen and move it to your Chrome cuts.
Speaker 1: So complicated.
Speaker 2: Yeah, disregard everything I'm saying about this stuff. Try this
Speaker 2: stuff out for yourself. I just tell you, as a
Speaker 2: tech person what I've tried. And I tried grouping the
Speaker 2: speakers because I was like, huh, let me see, can
Speaker 2: I group the speakers?
Speaker 1: What will they sound like? Try it in your house.
Speaker 1: Maybe it'll work.
Speaker 2: But it does work, and you can control them all
Speaker 2: from like Spotify, from Google Music. It's really cool. It's
Speaker 2: just not to the level of Sonos just yet. And
Speaker 2: I will say I did break down after that little experiment,
Speaker 2: and I bought the Sonos Move Speaker, which is their
Speaker 2: new Bluetooth speaker, which is sorry bluetooth and wireless, so
Speaker 2: you can take it anywhere, yeah, to like the beach, anywhere,
Speaker 2: and it works and it's really.
Speaker 1: Cool, So anywhere anywhere you want. All right, that's going
Speaker 1: to do it for the show. Can you believe it? Megan? No,
Speaker 1: howd it feel to be back in the saddle here?
Speaker 3: It's great? Yeah I missed it.
Speaker 1: You did miss it when we were at Cabo.
Speaker 2: Were you just like h I wish ild I was like,
Speaker 2: this is when I would be like, oh, Rich is
Speaker 2: probably doing the podcast right now.
Speaker 3: So actually did on Friday.
Speaker 1: I did do it on Friday. Yeah. Yeah, that's how
Speaker 1: devastated I was.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 1: Do you have the best thing of the week?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I actually yesterday I got to meet so we
Speaker 3: have a lot of guests obviously at Kate Tula, and
Speaker 3: I got to meet this girl from the Bachelor. Her
Speaker 3: name's Becca Tilly, and she was a podcast that I
Speaker 3: listened to.
Speaker 1: That I really like and fame just being on the Bachelor.
Speaker 3: She's on the Bachelor and then she actually was on
Speaker 3: it twice.
Speaker 1: She was just a normal person.
Speaker 3: Yeah she was. She's from like far no, I genuinely
Speaker 3: don't know, but she's like really cool. Like we literally
Speaker 3: talked for like twenty minutes, and I was like, I
Speaker 3: feel like we're friends now.
Speaker 1: Did you tell her that you're a big fan of
Speaker 1: the Pods? Yes?
Speaker 3: I was, like the first thing I said to her,
Speaker 3: I was like, I listened to your podcast like every
Speaker 3: week and you hear that, and so I feel like
Speaker 3: that probably creeped her out a little bit. I was like,
Speaker 3: I feel like I know you, and she was like, oh,
Speaker 3: like yeah, and then we started talking about like normal
Speaker 3: stuff like really easily. But like there are other guests
Speaker 3: where you just you know, like they don't want to
Speaker 3: really talk or they're kind of just like in their
Speaker 3: own place. But she like literally her her and I
Speaker 3: and my friend Jen, we talked to her for a while.
Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah cool, So that was a good thing.
Speaker 2: And did you tell her you have a podcast?
Speaker 1: If you should be not? We should cross? What's that?
Speaker 1: What do they call it? Collab? We should collab? I know?
Speaker 2: She was like, I did a seminar. Oh I spoke
Speaker 2: or basically moderated a panel out a seminar. The kro Seminar.
Speaker 2: I hope I'm saying that right, but it was great.
Speaker 2: It was in Long Beach over the weekend, and it
Speaker 2: was so great because it's not often that I leave
Speaker 2: my house, so I don't obviously get to meet anyone
Speaker 2: that I see from TV. But it was really humbling
Speaker 2: to see so many people come up to me and
Speaker 2: obviously watched the segment. They probably know that I'm on KTLA.
Speaker 2: They probably don't know what I do, but they're like,
Speaker 2: I've seen you somewhere. Aren't you on for like a
Speaker 2: second here and there? Yeah, but like I'm a big
Speaker 2: fan of KTLA, and I'm like, oh, thank you, and
Speaker 2: like and they're always like, tell someone I said hi,
Speaker 2: because they don't really know who I am, but they
Speaker 2: know I'm at KTLA, right, I mean they know you,
Speaker 2: so they so they all come up and I'm kind
Speaker 2: of kidding, but anyway, it was really nice to see
Speaker 2: all these people that do watch and we do make
Speaker 2: an impact because a lot of people watch KTLA, YEA
Speaker 2: and in our other stations. I get emails from all
Speaker 2: over the US from all the other stations that are
Speaker 2: Segment Arizon as well, So that was really cool and
Speaker 2: It's just it was like a good little you know,
Speaker 2: like pump up where you're just like, oh, this is cool,
Speaker 2: Like I feel good.
Speaker 3: Well, you had a fan come up to you, fan,
Speaker 3: you had a guy come up to you when we're at.
Speaker 1: Universal, Yeah, I did. I think it was nice marketing.
Speaker 3: For everything you do, and it was.
Speaker 1: Just so nice.
Speaker 2: I know, I was like, what do I do? I
Speaker 2: don't really do anything, but kidding you, I don't like.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not like I'm like, I know, but
Speaker 2: I'm not like helping people. I mean maybe I guess.
Speaker 1: In a way.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I think you're helping people.
Speaker 1: Open your waist time I'm on your phone. All right.
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Speaker 1: You can do that.
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Speaker 3: I need to get it.
Speaker 2: Where has rich been all my life? Thanks so much
Speaker 2: for listening. Producer Megan. Where can people find you?
Speaker 3: I'm on Twitter at producer Megan and yeah I'm on
Speaker 3: Instagram too, But I mean it's not really tech related.
Speaker 1: So no, it's not. If you take a look at
Speaker 1: the first picture, that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Oh, I am on Twitter at rich Demiro and on
Speaker 2: Instagram at rich on Tech and Facebook dot com slash
Speaker 2: rich on Tech. We will meet you again right here
Speaker 2: next time.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: Have a great day. Bye bye.