Speaker 1: Twitter goes premium for three dollars a month. YouTube gets
Speaker 1: rid of dislikes, kind of sort of Robinhood gets hacked.
Speaker 1: Plus your tech questions answered? What is going on? I'm
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast
Speaker 1: where I talk about the tech stuff I think you
Speaker 1: should know about.
Speaker 2: It's also the place.
Speaker 1: Where I answer the questions you send me and yes, yes,
Speaker 1: send me a lot of them, keep them coming. I'm
Speaker 1: the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the folks listening on Facebook audio rooms.
Speaker 2: That feature was big.
Speaker 1: It's funny with these social media platforms they love to
Speaker 1: their attention span is very short. So with Facebook, for instance,
Speaker 1: they were all about these live audio rooms for like
Speaker 1: a month or two, and you know, whenever I would
Speaker 1: do one of these, it would promote it across the
Speaker 1: board to all my followers, and you know, hundreds of
Speaker 1: people would log in to listen because Facebook was pushing
Speaker 1: it to as many people as possible because they were
Speaker 1: trying to start that feature. Well, now that they don't
Speaker 1: care about it as much and they've moved on to
Speaker 1: other things, it's not as popular. You don't see it
Speaker 1: promoted as much. It's just kind of one of those
Speaker 1: features that's there. And I'm seeing the same kind of
Speaker 1: thing happen right now on Instagram. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've noticed, but they've really really ramped up reels.
Speaker 1: They've ramped up two things in your feed. Number one reels.
Speaker 1: Number two suggested posts. So if you're scrolling through Instagram
Speaker 1: and this happens to me, I'm looking at these posts
Speaker 1: and I'm like, wait a second, I don't follow that person.
Speaker 1: It says, oh, suggested because you follow this person or
Speaker 1: that person, and I don't mind it. But a lot
Speaker 1: of my feed has become suggested posts. So they're definitely
Speaker 1: it's definitely becoming an Instagram that was very different than
Speaker 1: the Instagram many of us signed up for. Also, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of moving stuff. There's just a lot going
Speaker 1: on now.
Speaker 2: The reels.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why so many people are doing reels
Speaker 1: right now is because Facebook is paying bonuses for doing reels.
Speaker 1: So I tell you this because I was invited to
Speaker 1: the program and basically they said, oh, we'll pay a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of money if you do some reels, and
Speaker 1: so that is I have not done one, but that's
Speaker 1: The reason why you're seeing so many people doing reels
Speaker 1: right now because they're trying to reach these bonus amounts
Speaker 1: and if they get these bonuses, it could be a
Speaker 1: decent amount of money, so I don't know, maybe a
Speaker 1: couple hundred bucks or something.
Speaker 2: So that's why you're.
Speaker 1: Seeing so many reels in your Instagram feed at this point.
Speaker 1: But we are here to talk tech. We're here to
Speaker 1: talk about the questions that you send me. And as
Speaker 1: you know, I am an open book. I've been talking
Speaker 1: about the Tesla on social media that's been going well.
Speaker 1: I've been talking about the Pixel six Pro, which I
Speaker 1: haven't switched to, but I've been using it alongside my
Speaker 1: iPhone for like two weeks now, and I'll tell you
Speaker 1: I do love the phone. I mean, they're the Pixel
Speaker 1: six I think is just such an incredible device, except
Speaker 1: for a few things. Number One, the size is just
Speaker 1: I can't Maybe this sounds like a broken record from
Speaker 1: last week's podcast, but it's just such a big phone
Speaker 1: that you can never get comfortable using it, Like.
Speaker 2: It's just so big.
Speaker 1: Maybe if you're used to the size of the iPhone
Speaker 1: thirteen Promax, you'd be fine with this, But I don't
Speaker 1: think if you have that phone that you'd be switching
Speaker 1: to this phone. The other thing is the fingerprint sensor
Speaker 1: is just like absolutely one hundred percent like terrible, Like
Speaker 1: I've never like it's it's taking a step back maybe
Speaker 1: five phone generations. I haven't seen a fingerprint sensor this
Speaker 1: bad in many many phones.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I do believe in Google, and I think that Google
Speaker 1: is very much not hardware oriented but software oriented.
Speaker 2: So they came out and said, yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, the reason why our fingerprint sensor is a little
Speaker 1: slower than the rest is because it's very It's very secure,
Speaker 1: and I think ninety nine point nine percent of people
Speaker 1: would be like, well, let me give up like fifty
Speaker 1: percent of that security for a fingerprint sensor.
Speaker 2: That actually works in a reasonable.
Speaker 1: Amount of time. I've gotten to the point where I
Speaker 1: have a fear of unlocking this device. FO fear of
Speaker 1: unlocking it FO you, I because I sit there and
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is gonna take so long to unlock.
Speaker 1: Let me just go to the iPhone and I'll use
Speaker 1: that because it's instantly unlocked as soon as you look
Speaker 1: at it. Now, there are some rumors that face unlock
Speaker 1: will be coming to the iPhone, but I'm not sure
Speaker 1: we'll see I mean, I hope so. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I did find a good case. I think a good
Speaker 1: case really makes this phone. And the Spegan I actually
Speaker 1: picked two that I really like. So Spegan sent over
Speaker 1: all the cases to test out and I tried them
Speaker 1: all on the phones, and I found two that I
Speaker 1: really like. Remember I like a thin case, and so
Speaker 1: these are thin, but there are also some protection, and
Speaker 1: they're also grippy. And the two I like are the
Speaker 1: Pixel six Pro Ultra Hybrid from Spegin and then the
Speaker 1: Pixel six Pro Liquid Air.
Speaker 2: Those are my two picks. But there are you know, maybe.
Speaker 1: A half a dozen cases that if you want more protection,
Speaker 1: you have to upgrade to one of those. And you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you like that you don't mind the bulk. You know,
Speaker 1: some people don't mind the bulk because they don't keep
Speaker 1: their phone in.
Speaker 2: Their pocket like I do.
Speaker 1: I keep my phone in my pocket, so I want
Speaker 1: a thin case and a smaller phone. But this, this
Speaker 1: Pixel has won me over for many, many reasons, and
Speaker 1: one of them is.
Speaker 2: That I forgot how useful.
Speaker 1: I forgot how much I call it hunting and pecking
Speaker 1: you have to do on the iPhone to complete stuff.
Speaker 1: So on the iPhone, everything is notifications and apps right,
Speaker 1: nothing is integrated into the fabric of the phone unless
Speaker 1: it's something that Apple wants, Whereas on Android, apps and
Speaker 1: notifications are much more woven into the fabric of the phone,
Speaker 1: so when you buy it or when you download an app,
Speaker 1: it sort of becomes part of the operating system in
Speaker 1: different ways. One example is that I've just keep seeing
Speaker 1: over and over is that when you get a notification
Speaker 1: on the pixel, there are action steps you can take
Speaker 1: right from that notification. So, for instance, if someone you
Speaker 1: know texts you something I don't know, there's just so
Speaker 1: many little things that you can do directly from the notification.
Speaker 1: And one of the simplest examples is like for Tesla,
Speaker 1: the Tesla app, for example, there's a notification on your
Speaker 1: screen that always lets you unlock your car, open the
Speaker 1: front trunk, open the rear trunk, and so it's like
Speaker 1: little things like that where it's really cool. Or if
Speaker 1: you get a notification from Google Maps about a place
Speaker 1: that it wants you to review, which I know are
Speaker 1: kind of annoying, but it'll say something like not useful
Speaker 1: or didn't go there, which you can just in one click,
Speaker 1: say I didn't go there, Versus on the iPhone, you'd
Speaker 1: have to tap into the notification and then tap into
Speaker 1: the experience to figure out where to.
Speaker 2: Go to do all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So it's just little things. I'm not saying one's better
Speaker 1: than the other. It's just more of the differences that
Speaker 1: I'm pointing out. I still love the iPhone, believe me.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty amazing device, and I will say I
Speaker 1: think in some cases it's just a better creator device
Speaker 1: than the Pixel. I find that I'm more creative when
Speaker 1: I'm holding my iPhone than i am with a Pixel.
Speaker 1: I just feel like the Pixel is more a smartphone
Speaker 1: like it just it kind of anticipates your needs a
Speaker 1: little bit better.
Speaker 2: Let's get to the first story of the week. Twitter.
Speaker 1: I don't really talk about Twitter too much because I
Speaker 1: don't feel like a lot of people use it that
Speaker 1: are general, everyday people, And that's kind of who I
Speaker 1: imagine listens to this show. But you know, there are
Speaker 1: some people that use Twitter that are just regular people.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's mostly either people kind of in
Speaker 1: industry or you know, it's not like my mom.
Speaker 2: Or my dad or something like that. You know, like
Speaker 2: the average tech person.
Speaker 1: So I don't talk about it too much, but you know,
Speaker 1: they did something interesting this week. They opened up what's
Speaker 1: called Twitter Blue, and so for three dollars a month,
Speaker 1: you get features that the regular free Twitter users don't get.
Speaker 1: Number one, you get some ad free sites. So when
Speaker 1: you go to like Washington Post, you open an article
Speaker 1: from Twitter, La Times, USA Today, The Atlantic Reuter's, a
Speaker 1: couple others A you don't see any ads on those articles.
Speaker 2: So I mean, is that worth three bucks a month?
Speaker 2: Probably not.
Speaker 1: The funny thing is that you don't get a subscription
Speaker 1: to any of these, So it'd be nice if they
Speaker 1: bypass the paywall when you clicked on these things. That's
Speaker 1: not happening, so you still if it's a paywalled article,
Speaker 1: you're not going to get to see it for free.
Speaker 1: Let's see top articles. This is my favorite feature so far.
Speaker 1: So this summarizes all of the top articles people are
Speaker 1: sharing in your network over the past twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: So that's really really useful.
Speaker 1: But that also used to be free through a website
Speaker 1: called Nuzzle, And I'm guessing that did Twitter buy Nuzzle?
Speaker 1: I thought I said that on the radio. I'm guessing.
Speaker 1: Let's see, yep, Twitter bought Nuzzle.
Speaker 2: Yep. Okay, so yeah, so that's that's the thing.
Speaker 1: Like that website was free and I used it every
Speaker 1: day and I loved it, and then Twitter bought it
Speaker 1: and they shut it down, and now they're making me
Speaker 1: pay for it. You also can customize your experience with
Speaker 1: exclusive app icons, So if you want to change your
Speaker 1: you know, your navigation icons or the way your Twitter
Speaker 1: icon looks on your home screen, you can do that.
Speaker 1: I mean, probably not worth three bucks. The undue tweet
Speaker 1: is the kind of the big main feature a lot
Speaker 1: of people have been talking about, which is fine. It's
Speaker 1: not an edit button per se, but it's just a delay.
Speaker 1: So if you have this setup in Gmail like I do,
Speaker 1: where it delays my email by twenty seconds, so if
Speaker 1: I think of something or made a mistake, I can
Speaker 1: undo it. Same thing now with Twitter. So the other
Speaker 1: thing that's kind of cool, and this is like a
Speaker 1: very I don't know, one percent kind of person feature,
Speaker 1: but it turns long Twitter threads into like an easy
Speaker 1: to read experience, which is also really nice. You can
Speaker 1: upload longer videos and that's about it. So I subscribe
Speaker 1: just to check it out it's fine.
Speaker 2: I you don't know.
Speaker 1: If I will pay three dollars a month. They would
Speaker 1: have to do a couple things for me to keep
Speaker 1: paying three dollars. Number one, they would have to take
Speaker 1: away the ads.
Speaker 2: I cannot deal with the ads on Twitter. They're so annoying.
Speaker 1: They're after like every other tweet, and so three bucks
Speaker 1: a month, one hundred percent. I would be totally down
Speaker 1: with paying that just to get rid of the ads.
Speaker 1: And if they threw in the rest of these features,
Speaker 1: that would be pretty cool too. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: to the first question of the day. Ron says, how
Speaker 1: can I delete pictures on Facebook Messenger? Ron, what I
Speaker 1: would do typically is press and hold. So whenever you
Speaker 1: can't find something to do on your phone, it's not
Speaker 1: very obvious, there's two things you want to look for.
Speaker 1: Number One, just press and hold on whatever you're trying
Speaker 1: to manipulate. So if you're trying to like delete a picture,
Speaker 1: press and hold it and see if a little menu
Speaker 1: comes up that lets you delete the picture. Indeed, I
Speaker 1: think that's the case here with Facebook Messenger. You can
Speaker 1: do that on your iPhone or Android and it should
Speaker 1: bring up a delete button that you can.
Speaker 2: Get rid of that picture.
Speaker 1: The other thing to look out for is a menu icon.
Speaker 1: So like a menu icon these days, they look like
Speaker 1: two things. Number one, three little dots in a row,
Speaker 1: up and down. So just three little dots up and down.
Speaker 1: Click that or tap that rather, and that should bring
Speaker 1: up the what we call an overflow menu that you
Speaker 1: know has the other options for whatever you're trying to do.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing is the hamburger menu, and
Speaker 1: that often will bring up either a slide a slider
Speaker 1: menu or I'm saying hamburger and slider in one one sentence.
Speaker 1: It's pretty funny, no pun intended, but that's generally what
Speaker 1: you do. But in in general with the phones, especially
Speaker 1: the way the iPhone was designed, you know, they made
Speaker 1: everything very simple. So press and hold and typically that
Speaker 1: should bring up what you need to do. Oh also
Speaker 1: on Twitter, let's get back to Twitter for just a moment.
Speaker 1: There's a new feature on someone's profile if you're on iOS.
Speaker 1: So if you're on iOS and you're using Twitter, it's uh,
Speaker 1: there's a new little search button on one's profile, and
Speaker 1: so just go to their profile, you know, just tap
Speaker 1: on their name and go to their profile, which shows
Speaker 1: like their bio and how many tweets they've done, and
Speaker 1: how many people are following. In the upper right hand corner,
Speaker 1: you'll now see a little search icon like a magnifying glass,
Speaker 1: and you tap that and then you can type in
Speaker 1: a keyword. So if you want to see all the
Speaker 1: times in my Twitter world that I've ever mentioned the
Speaker 1: word pixel, you can just search for the word pixel.
Speaker 1: If you want to see all the times I've ever
Speaker 1: mentioned I don't know, chuck E cheese. That'd be a
Speaker 1: tough one to type in, but I probably spelled it wrong,
Speaker 1: but you know, you can type in Chuck E cheese.
Speaker 1: So this is really handy. It's it's always a It's
Speaker 1: a feature that's always been around on Twitter. It's just
Speaker 1: been way more complicated to use because you'd have to
Speaker 1: go and do an advanced search to get this figured out.
Speaker 1: So I think that by putting this front and center
Speaker 1: on someone's profile, it does make things a lot easier
Speaker 1: because if you saw me say something on TV and
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, I want to get more information about that,
Speaker 1: you can just go to my profile, type in a
Speaker 1: keyword from whatever story I did, and there you can
Speaker 1: find the tweet that is associated with that story, and
Speaker 1: not just a tweet, but a lot of times in
Speaker 1: my course of testing stuff out, I will often tweet
Speaker 1: as I go. So I'll be tweeting like little features
Speaker 1: and little things that I discover, and then I'll put
Speaker 1: some of those or all of those into my main
Speaker 1: review on TV, and so you can see kind of
Speaker 1: my thoughts along the way with the different things that
Speaker 1: I talk about and review and go to. So simple,
Speaker 1: simple check for the new search icon on the Twitter
Speaker 1: profile page of your favorite tweeter.
Speaker 2: All right, Stace.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's Stace or stay C because
Speaker 1: it's STACEE, so that could be Stace, could be Stace.
Speaker 1: I have a problem getting rid of tech stuff. I
Speaker 1: have a ton of old memory two hundred chips whoo,
Speaker 1: as well as cables, motherboards.
Speaker 2: Where do I go?
Speaker 1: This is a major recycling problem. I'm trying to be sustainable.
Speaker 1: I know it's toxic. People need to know that there's
Speaker 1: a threat to the environment inside much. People need to know.
Speaker 1: Every city is different, but anyone who cares should have
Speaker 1: the option.
Speaker 2: You got one.
Speaker 1: Come on, dude, I watch you every day. This is
Speaker 1: major important. Did I miss one of your reports I
Speaker 1: watch you every day. Thanks Stace or Stacy. Well, Stacy
Speaker 1: or Stace, you did miss one of my reports, because
Speaker 1: I've talked about this several several times in recent memory.
Speaker 1: I've done two major stories on gadget recycling. The first
Speaker 1: was with a We visited a gadget recycling I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's like a waste place, just locally in the La
Speaker 1: Valley and or San Fernando Valley, I guess I should say.
Speaker 1: And it's a place where you could The coolest part
Speaker 1: about it was that they had this big giant machine
Speaker 1: that could chop up your hard drive. So if you
Speaker 1: have a hard drive, it would just grind it to
Speaker 1: like a million little pieces, and then they would of
Speaker 1: course take out the important precious metals and then send
Speaker 1: the rest on their way for recycling. But that was
Speaker 1: number one, so you can easily go there and bring
Speaker 1: all your stuff. I think it was called US.
Speaker 3: Waste Fernando Valley or was it Glendale. Oh gosh, I
Speaker 3: can't remember where it was. It might I can't remember.
Speaker 3: I'll have to look this up, but I'll put it
Speaker 3: in the show notes.
Speaker 1: But it was a nice little place where they you know,
Speaker 1: they just had a whole bunch of stuff that people
Speaker 1: bring there to recycle, so you can bring that or
Speaker 1: there's another website that we did a story with called
Speaker 1: Gizmo Gizmo Go, and they will pay you for stuff
Speaker 1: that they can pay you for, but this stuff doesn't
Speaker 1: sound like anything they would pay for because that's mostly
Speaker 1: like phones and old laptops and stuff. This sounds like more.
Speaker 1: You just need it recycled. And with that in mind,
Speaker 1: you could just send it to them in a big box.
Speaker 1: Or better yet, since you're local and they are they're
Speaker 1: in Chino Hills, you could just take the box of
Speaker 1: your stuff.
Speaker 2: To them and they will recycle.
Speaker 1: Now I would contact them first through their website before
Speaker 1: you just bring something over there. But they have a
Speaker 1: huge business of recycling this stuff, and yes, they keep
Speaker 1: it out of landfills, they keep it from ruining the environment,
Speaker 1: and it's a pretty big operation. And there are many
Speaker 1: any companies that will do this, and there's also many
Speaker 1: what do they call green recycling drives on the weekends.
Speaker 1: A lot of times are fundraisers for schools where you
Speaker 1: bring all this stuff and they'll take it for free.
Speaker 1: But the company that's taking it is actually making money
Speaker 1: off of this stuff, because what they do is they
Speaker 1: reclaim the precious metals from this stuff. So they will
Speaker 1: pay you for some of these things. Maybe the motherboards
Speaker 1: might have some value, the memory chips, I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: the cable's probably not, but they might pay you, you know,
Speaker 1: pay the organizations that's arranging this fundraiser drive just a
Speaker 1: little bit of money.
Speaker 2: But that's the way I would do it.
Speaker 1: Or they'll take it off your hands and then share
Speaker 1: a little bit of the profit with the fundraising place,
Speaker 1: but with the nonprofit I should say.
Speaker 2: So that's what you do.
Speaker 1: But look up those two things, Stace, Look up recycling
Speaker 1: old gadgets KTLA.
Speaker 2: Did I ever tell you how to search?
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 2: Just look?
Speaker 1: So I've got I've got two. There we go, two stories. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the first story. Got a new gadget over the holidays.
Speaker 1: Here's how to dispose? Okay, yeah, this was the place
Speaker 1: I went to. We went to a place called e
Speaker 1: Waste US Electronics Recycling in North Hollywood. And so they'll
Speaker 1: take it. And here's the thing. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I ever since I did this story on recycling old gadgets,
Speaker 1: I have never thrown out a battery ever again, because
Speaker 1: I realized in that story how bad they are for
Speaker 1: the environment when you just toss them in the trash.
Speaker 1: And so I now keep a mason jar and every
Speaker 1: battery that I use in my house that's you know,
Speaker 1: triple A or whatever kind of thing, I will throw
Speaker 1: in to there and then I will go and recycle those.
Speaker 2: So good question and get that stuff recycled.
Speaker 1: YouTube is going to stop showing dislikes.
Speaker 2: This is something that not a lot of people like.
Speaker 1: But boom, boom, I need a bad joke sound for
Speaker 1: my soundboard here. So YouTube says they did an experiment
Speaker 1: and they got rid of the dislike button, or they
Speaker 1: changed it so that you could still have the dislike button,
Speaker 1: but the total number of dislikes under a video was
Speaker 1: not displayed, and lo and behold, they found that it
Speaker 1: actually discourages what they call group dislikes or this group
Speaker 1: dislike mentality. So they've noticed when a lot of people
Speaker 1: start disliking a video, people sort of start piling on
Speaker 1: more dislikes, even though they just do it just to
Speaker 1: be funny or something. So they said, you know what,
Speaker 1: that's not very good for our creator viewer relationships. And
Speaker 1: so we're gonna still let you thumbs down a video,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna show the creators the total number of
Speaker 1: those thumbs down, but we're no longer gonna make it
Speaker 1: a game where you can see how many thumbs downs
Speaker 1: this video has compared to how many thumbs up thumbs.
Speaker 2: Up they'll still display, So that's basically it.
Speaker 1: You know, this is of course getting met with a
Speaker 1: lot of mixed reactions online. Some people say, well, that's
Speaker 1: how I can tell if a video is worthless, which
Speaker 1: I would agree with, because if you had noticed that
Speaker 1: a video has a lot of thumbs down, you might
Speaker 1: be like, I'm not gonna watch this. People were disappointed
Speaker 1: with it, but I guess you'll just have to go
Speaker 1: by viewcount, and that's you know, it's not the best,
Speaker 1: So it's going away, you know, rolling out, so it's
Speaker 1: not like immediately gone. But if you're a creator, you'll
Speaker 1: still be able to see these numbers on the back end.
Speaker 1: But if you're a viewer, you'll still be able to
Speaker 1: dislike stuff, you just won't be able to see the
Speaker 1: total number of dislikes. And on the flip side, you
Speaker 1: can still use that dislike button to craft your YouTube experience.
Speaker 2: So the stuff they show you for recommendations.
Speaker 1: When you thumbs up and when you thumbs down, it
Speaker 1: will still all go into that recommendation engine that's personalized
Speaker 1: just for you. Joe says, Hey, Rich, I'm a SOCW
Speaker 1: guy born and raised in a long time KTLA five viewer.
Speaker 1: My family relocated to the Kansas City area. I've been
Speaker 1: watching Foxford News and today was the first time I
Speaker 1: saw your tech Smart segment since we relocated. I'm super
Speaker 1: stoked to know you're on my new local channel. Thanks
Speaker 1: for keeping us tech smart. Keep up the great work,
Speaker 1: Joe Ka. Well, Joe, thank you. That's awesome that you
Speaker 1: saw me there. So it's kind of funny. I never
Speaker 1: tell people. I don't make a big deal that we
Speaker 1: are on and a whole bunch of different markets because
Speaker 1: it's just not really that important to the stories that
Speaker 1: I tell. You know, like, I'm just doing my segment,
Speaker 1: and if you happen to see me in a different city,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. Now I get a lot of people that say, Rich,
Speaker 1: I saw you in you know, Hawaii or this or that,
Speaker 1: and so I love it. I mean it's great, and
Speaker 1: so the dirty little it's not a dirty secret. But
Speaker 1: the little secret is that, yes, I originate out of KTLA,
Speaker 1: and our segment does go out to a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of other stations. And so with the company that we're
Speaker 1: owned by, Next Star, they have like two hundred stations,
Speaker 1: you know, they all have the potential of running it.
Speaker 2: Do all of them run it every day? No, but
Speaker 2: a lot of them do.
Speaker 1: And so it's funny because I didn't know unbeknownst to me,
Speaker 1: but these there are tracking systems that track the number
Speaker 1: of times that your story is shown in different places,
Speaker 1: and PR people use these to see when you do
Speaker 1: a story that mentions them or one of their you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's a product, whether it's good or bad. They
Speaker 1: want to know, and so they want to see the
Speaker 1: clip to see exactly what she said. And I was
Speaker 1: fascinated because someone that I know that does PR actually
Speaker 1: sent me a copy of this because they said, Rich,
Speaker 1: we had no idea that your segment airs in so
Speaker 1: many different places, and said, yeah, I don't really tell
Speaker 1: a lot of people about that, but it does. And
Speaker 1: so they ended up I said, well, send me a list,
Speaker 1: let me.
Speaker 2: See where it airs. And so let me just go
Speaker 2: through some of the places so.
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, d C, Houston, Texas, Cleveland, Ohio, Sacramento,
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, Indianapolis, San Diego, Salt Lake City, Can City, Columbus, Ohio,
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, Oklahoma City, Greensboro, North Carolina, Albuquerque, New Mexico,
Speaker 1: New Orleans, Fresno, Little Rock, Des Moines, Iowa, Champagne, Illinois, Harlington, Texas, Harlingen, Harlingen, Texas,
Speaker 1: El Paso, Texas, Baton Rouge, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Tyler, Texas, Peoria, Illinois,
Speaker 1: Sioux City, Iowa, Terry, terre Hote, Indiana, and Dothan, Alabama.
Speaker 2: So pretty cool.
Speaker 1: And that's just one story, and that's just happens to
Speaker 1: be in, you know, in a small period of time.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of neat to know that you're airing now.
Speaker 1: We used to do a round robin with a lot
Speaker 1: of these stations, so I used to know specifically where
Speaker 1: I did live shots for these places.
Speaker 2: But we've changed it up just a little bit.
Speaker 1: So that's that's that's kind of a system that we're
Speaker 1: not We're basically sending out the story where stations can
Speaker 1: air it whenever they want, and so it's a little
Speaker 1: bit different these days, but the reality is they're still
Speaker 1: airing it and it's still fun and it's great when
Speaker 1: you see me in a different place.
Speaker 2: And especially when.
Speaker 1: I show up in place like Hawaii and like Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: I'm like, can I go there?
Speaker 2: Like that? Is that an acceptable business expense.
Speaker 1: To go visit these places that I air in, because
Speaker 1: I've got to see what they look like, right Like,
Speaker 1: I need another look at Honolulu just to make sure
Speaker 1: that you know this is what it looks like. Anyway,
Speaker 1: thanks for finding me there, and Joe, tell your friends
Speaker 1: in Kansas City that you watch and tell them to
Speaker 1: get tech smart. Robin Hood was hacked, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to spend too much time on this because it's
Speaker 1: one of these stories you're like, blah blah blah, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: isn't everything hacked? Well, it's kind of scary when this happens.
Speaker 1: And so on November three, Robin Hood said someone got
Speaker 1: access to their to personal information on a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of people. Now they said, no soci security numbers, no
Speaker 1: bank account numbers, no debit card numbers were exposed and
Speaker 1: nobody's nobody lost money as a result of this like,
Speaker 1: not directly at.
Speaker 2: Least, so that's that's good.
Speaker 1: But the odd thing is that this was a pretty big,
Speaker 1: big hack. This was a socially engineered hack, and social
Speaker 1: engineering means that they didn't really have to guess a
Speaker 1: password or break into the system. They basically tricked someone
Speaker 1: into giving them access. They don't say how they did that,
Speaker 1: but that's kind of scary. So h A customer said,
Speaker 1: the unauthorized party socially engineered a customer support employee by
Speaker 1: phone and obtained access to certain customer support systems. So
Speaker 1: what I'm guessing happened here is that this was not
Speaker 1: a customer who called in and said, hey, can you
Speaker 1: give me the password to your back end systems? This
Speaker 1: person probably discovered the back end systems or how to
Speaker 1: get access to those, or how to how to see
Speaker 1: where they live on a server, and then called an
Speaker 1: employee by phone and said, hey, Jim, it's a it's
Speaker 1: Robin over Robin, it's uh, it's it's Tanya over here
Speaker 1: in in accounts department. Can you give me that password
Speaker 1: real quick? Or what's the what's the pin code to
Speaker 1: get in? I got to do some work on the
Speaker 1: back end real quick. And the person was probably taken
Speaker 1: off guard and just gave the information over. Now I'm
Speaker 1: making that up, I don't know, but that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the idea of a social engineering attack,
Speaker 1: is that you kind of trick someone into handing over
Speaker 1: some information that you need that helps you hack a system.
Speaker 2: That's scary.
Speaker 1: And I saw some screenshots I think they were obtained
Speaker 1: by motherboard of these systems, and it was you know,
Speaker 1: some behind the scenes stuff. So anyway, what did they get.
Speaker 1: They got full email addresses for five million people, full
Speaker 1: names for two million people, and then for about three
Speaker 1: hundred people they got names, dates of birth, zip code,
Speaker 1: and ten people had even more information revealed. So what
Speaker 1: I think happened here is that for the you know,
Speaker 1: the five million and the two million, it was really easy.
Speaker 1: They just ran some sort of script that extracted like
Speaker 1: simple stuff. But then to get the like, the real information,
Speaker 1: they probably had to work a little bit harder, which
Speaker 1: is why they were only able to get three hundred
Speaker 1: and you know, twenty people's information on a deeper level.
Speaker 1: So anyway, what I would recommend is number one, it's
Speaker 1: the same security cautions every single podcast.
Speaker 2: Number one.
Speaker 1: Use a unique, separate password for every website that you visit,
Speaker 1: that you create a login for. Do not reuse passwords.
Speaker 1: Do not use variations of passwords. Do not use the
Speaker 1: same password for two websites. Do not keep a list
Speaker 1: of those passwords.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, you can keep a list somewhere, but as long
Speaker 1: as it's safe. But I would recommend using a password manager.
Speaker 1: And yes I am guilty of this too. When you're
Speaker 1: signing up for a website, you want it to be
Speaker 1: the fastest possible experience. Ever, take the extra one minute
Speaker 1: to go into your password manager, generate a password, save
Speaker 1: the log in, and then copy and paste it into
Speaker 1: this new website. I know it's especially tricky on your
Speaker 1: smartphone to do this unless you're using you know, one
Speaker 1: of the built in kind of you know, like Apple's
Speaker 1: iCloud password manager or something that's the android, the smart
Speaker 1: lock or whatever they call it an android.
Speaker 2: But if you're using sort of a.
Speaker 1: Third party one, which you know, I would probably recommend
Speaker 1: for most people, like a dash lane, or like a bitwarden,
Speaker 1: or a last pass or a one password. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so many to choose from. Just pick one that
Speaker 1: you like, that you think is fair. Bitwarden is totally
Speaker 1: free for the regular user, so maybe that's where you start.
Speaker 1: But just use these things and then set up two
Speaker 1: factor authentication. I went in to my Robinhood account and
Speaker 1: I noticed that I did not have two factor authentication
Speaker 1: turned on. And so as soon as I saw this hack,
Speaker 1: I said, Okay, let me go turn that on. So
Speaker 1: I've turned that on and now that's just one more
Speaker 1: one more barrier between you and someone that's trying to
Speaker 1: get into your account. Is it going to stop them
Speaker 1: every single time? Absolutely not. If you listen to the
Speaker 1: last podcast, they talked about how they're getting around. They're
Speaker 1: social engineering the two factor authentication codes, and so you
Speaker 1: just have to do the best you can do to
Speaker 1: keep yourself protected. And that's all you can do. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's get to the next question of the show. Ellie says,
Speaker 1: good morning, peace to you and your lovely family.
Speaker 2: Sir. I know you could help me. I work.
Speaker 1: Let's see, it looks like you work at a church,
Speaker 1: two different churches, and I need to update past Google
Speaker 1: files that I have on Google slides and Google sheets,
Speaker 1: but I can't because of space. So this Saturday I
Speaker 1: followed the link on my Gmail account. Bottom line, I
Speaker 1: got charged for a year's charge of nineteen ninety nine,
Speaker 1: but through Apple. I'm confused because my Gmail and Google
Speaker 1: apps are still saying I'm out of space. I'm so confused.
Speaker 1: I'm fifty. I can't afford to be confused. Can you
Speaker 1: please help me explain what I did wrong and what
Speaker 1: are the norms I do work? But you can call me.
Speaker 2: Call me.
Speaker 1: I think I added my credit card to my iPhone wallet.
Speaker 1: I want I don't want my credit cards on anything
Speaker 1: on the iPhone. Ellia, Okay, so things just breaking this down.
Speaker 1: Number one, I don't think that this is a Google
Speaker 1: storage issue with Google slides and Google sheets. Editing a
Speaker 1: Google slide or a Google sheet unless these things are
Speaker 1: dozens and dozens of gigabytes big, there's no way that
Speaker 1: you're out of space and not able to manipulate those
Speaker 1: Google slides and Google sheets. So that's number one. I
Speaker 1: think it sounds like maybe you are out of space
Speaker 1: on your on your iPhone and then the year's charge
Speaker 1: of nineteen ninety nine. I'm not even sure where that
Speaker 1: comes from, because like on Google, for instance, if we
Speaker 1: go to storage, the plans. I'm trying to see if
Speaker 1: I can downgrade. Can they don't even give me the
Speaker 1: option to downgrade my storage. Wow, I don't even know
Speaker 1: if they have a plan. That's twenty dollars for the year.
Speaker 1: So anyway, bottom line, I think number one do this.
Speaker 2: So go to.
Speaker 1: Go to one dot Google dot com. Okay, So once
Speaker 1: you're there, this will help you manage your Google Drive plan.
Speaker 1: So I want you to go there. On the left
Speaker 1: hand side, it says storage. I want you to see
Speaker 1: how much storage you're using. So, for instance, I have
Speaker 1: five terabytes of storage. It's telling me I'm using two
Speaker 1: point one of my five terabytes. And breaking it down further,
Speaker 1: I've got one hundred and twenty five gigs in Google Drive,
Speaker 1: thirty three gigs in Gmail, which is an outrageous amount
Speaker 1: that needs to be lessened. Then I have two terabytes
Speaker 1: in Google Photos and three ge a third of a
Speaker 1: gigabyte in my recorder app. So if you scroll down
Speaker 1: a little bit, it says free up account storage, and
Speaker 1: now you can go through and free up some of
Speaker 1: the account storage that you have. And what I would
Speaker 1: do especially is empty the trash where it says deleted
Speaker 1: files in your Google drive. I would empty that trash.
Speaker 1: Now that will give you enough storage to work through
Speaker 1: these Google slides and Google sheets. Now you have to
Speaker 1: figure out where this twenty dollars went. So I think
Speaker 1: it went to iCloud storage, if I had to guess,
Speaker 1: But I'm not even sure they have a twenty dollars
Speaker 1: yearly plan.
Speaker 2: I'm not really sure.
Speaker 1: But you can go into your subscriptions on the iPhone
Speaker 1: and to get there, just go into your settings and
Speaker 1: then your iCloud, which is up at the top, and
Speaker 1: then it should say subscriptions and see if you have
Speaker 1: any active subscriptions, and if you need to, you can
Speaker 1: cancel those. But it sounds like you've got a couple
Speaker 1: of things going on here, and I know you're saying
Speaker 1: you're confused, and I totally understand this because cloud storage
Speaker 1: is one of these things where it is the trickiest
Speaker 1: thing that I deal with myself, personally, other people, family members,
Speaker 1: because think about it. You've got your phone, which has
Speaker 1: a number a certain number of gigabytes. Then you've got
Speaker 1: cloud storage, which has a certain number of gigabytes. But
Speaker 1: then you have to work to maintain both of those
Speaker 1: storage mediums, so that let's say you have an iphe
Speaker 1: that has a sixty four gigabyte limit, but then your
Speaker 1: Google Drive or your iCloud has you know, two fifty six,
Speaker 1: and you're like, well, I still have storage. I don't understand,
Speaker 1: well that storage is living in the cloud and anything
Speaker 1: that's on your phone is still taking up kind of
Speaker 1: both those places depending on how you have it set up.
Speaker 1: And so that's why you kind of have to go
Speaker 1: to the source on these things. I think iCloud is
Speaker 1: really really tricky with storage because they don't really give you,
Speaker 1: from what I can tell, a very good way of
Speaker 1: managing it. But you know, you just have to go
Speaker 1: through and just kind of go through and see what's
Speaker 1: taking up the storage on your phone and then in
Speaker 1: your in your cloud drives, and then that way you
Speaker 1: can kind of organize things and get them to a
Speaker 1: place where you're not overpaying. Right now, I'm overpaying every
Speaker 1: single month, even though it's you know whatever, it is,
Speaker 1: three bucks a month, But there's no reason for me
Speaker 1: to pay that.
Speaker 2: I'm paying twenty five.
Speaker 1: Dollars for Google Cloud storage for five terabytes. There's no
Speaker 1: reason why I need another two hundred on my iPhone.
Speaker 1: But somehow, I do because if I want to back
Speaker 1: up my iPhone, I need that storage across for the
Speaker 1: two iPhones in my house. So it's very tricky, and
Speaker 1: I totally understand that you're having trouble with it, and
Speaker 1: I don't think that you are. You know, you're lesser
Speaker 1: in any way because of this Elia, because believe me,
Speaker 1: it is something that is I think. I don't want
Speaker 1: to say they make it confusing, but it's confusing, and
Speaker 1: I get it. Twenty bucks a year not that much.
Speaker 1: But the reality is, why should we have to pay
Speaker 1: for anything if we don't need it, or if it's extra,
Speaker 1: or if it's duplicated. So good question, and hopefully you
Speaker 1: get that figured out.
Speaker 2: Let's see here this is a iCloud for Windows.
Speaker 1: According to nine to five Mac, the app has been
Speaker 1: updated with a password generator and then support for two
Speaker 1: formats from the iPhone pro raw and pro res. So
Speaker 1: previously you could use the iCloud utility on your PC
Speaker 1: to copy and paste passwords that you created on your iPhone.
Speaker 1: Well now you can actually use it to generate passwords,
Speaker 1: and so that's kind of cool. I I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess this is a step towards using iCloud password manager
Speaker 1: or whatever they call it on the iPhone and also
Speaker 1: with a Windows computer. But personally, if I was doing that,
Speaker 1: I would go with a third party, non platforms specific
Speaker 1: app like I said earlier, Bitwarden, or a dash lane
Speaker 1: or a last pass these also, these all work nicely
Speaker 1: on both platforms. Now, like I said, nine to five,
Speaker 1: Mac is reporting that the iCloud utility for Windows is
Speaker 1: getting better at helping.
Speaker 2: You use this feature on Windows.
Speaker 1: But again with Apple stuff, almost everything besides their own
Speaker 1: ecosystem is sort of an afterthought. And so if you
Speaker 1: look at storing your your photos in iCloud, which is great.
Speaker 1: iCloud is nice. It's your photos are on your phone,
Speaker 1: but it's only good if you use an iPhone only.
Speaker 1: So that's why I use Google Photos because I like
Speaker 1: to see my photos on any device that I log into,
Speaker 1: and the same goes for Amazon Photos. You can use
Speaker 1: that on iPhone, you can use it on Apple, you
Speaker 1: can use it on your certain TVs, just depends which one.
Speaker 1: But you know, Apple stuff is mostly geared towards Apple users,
Speaker 1: and yes they throw your bone every once in a
Speaker 1: while like this, but it's not ideal and Anyway, what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is it's nice that if you started using
Speaker 1: the iCloud password system on your iPhone and you were
Speaker 1: kind of frustrated with a computer system on your Windows computer,
Speaker 1: it does help that now this is available, so update
Speaker 1: that app and now you can generate passwords there, all right,
Speaker 1: Derek writes in Rich do you recommend doing a complete
Speaker 1: factory reset of a Sony TV before giving it away
Speaker 1: to a friend? Or is it okay to just sign
Speaker 1: out of the Google account, delete my installed apps, and
Speaker 1: do a system data reset instead. Have a tremendous day, Derek. Derek,
Speaker 1: if you listen to this show at all, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna say. You do the complete factory reset.
Speaker 1: And the reason I would do that is because why
Speaker 1: do you want things lingering any of your personal information?
Speaker 1: If you miss something, it can linger now the way
Speaker 1: that these TVs are set up, I would I would
Speaker 1: venture to say that when you sign out of the
Speaker 1: Google account, it would kind of bring it back to
Speaker 1: a place where the next person can use it. But
Speaker 1: you just don't know, and why are you gonna take
Speaker 1: that chance? And also, over the years of having this TV,
Speaker 1: you might have changed some settings you might have changed
Speaker 1: the way the audio format works, or the output or
Speaker 1: the picture or the screen like you might have adjusted
Speaker 1: contrast and different color portions or the color What am
Speaker 1: I trying to say, you know, like the color sliders right.
Speaker 1: You might have adjusted the output, you might have renamed
Speaker 1: the HDMI inputs.
Speaker 2: Whatever you did, it's nice.
Speaker 1: That you're giving this sony TV away to a friend,
Speaker 1: but don't burden them with all of your old settings.
Speaker 1: So go ahead, do a complete factory reset, and that
Speaker 1: way you know your WiFi is disconnected from it. But
Speaker 1: before you do that, I would just check to see
Speaker 1: if there's a software update for this TV and that
Speaker 1: might save your friends some hassles or headaches when they
Speaker 1: go to set it up again, because it'll you know,
Speaker 1: it just makes the.
Speaker 2: Process a little bit smoother.
Speaker 1: But yes, always, when you're giving a gadget away to anyone,
Speaker 1: complete factory reset is the best way to do it.
Speaker 1: Make sure that everything is gone and it's back to
Speaker 1: that screen that says hello or welcome or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: In fact, this is a major issue for myself, who
Speaker 1: is constantly going through gadgets with you know, these these
Speaker 1: test gadgets that I get you know before I send
Speaker 1: them back A lot of times, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of a process to get these things back into
Speaker 1: like you know, either the box or either the factory
Speaker 1: you know reset, and I have to sit there and
Speaker 1: like it takes me on a Saturday, like, you know,
Speaker 1: especially if it's an older gadget that I haven't used
Speaker 1: in a while, I have to plug it in.
Speaker 2: I've got to charge it.
Speaker 1: I've got to make sure, you know, if it's like
Speaker 1: a streaming stick, I got to connect it to the
Speaker 1: t make sure that I can you know, you know,
Speaker 1: get the HDMI connected and like make sure I can go.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a process sometimes, so I get it.
Speaker 1: But in the end, you always want to protect your
Speaker 1: personal privacy and so or your personal data and privacy.
Speaker 1: So Derek definitely definitely do the complete factory reset. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be the best way to do it, all right.
Speaker 1: So this is a really cool feature and something that
Speaker 1: I'm surprised nobody else has done. But on Prime Video.
Speaker 1: According to Amazon, they now have a new clip sharing feature.
Speaker 1: And this is very simple. If you see something that
Speaker 1: you like in a show, like a funny joke they made,
Speaker 1: or a funny just anything, anything that you like, you
Speaker 1: can make a thirty second clip of that and share
Speaker 1: it out to social media. And this can be done
Speaker 1: right from your phone. And this is a Prime Video
Speaker 1: exclusive only on iOS right now, and they call it.
Speaker 2: Let's see does it have a name.
Speaker 1: With x ray technology, Prime Video customers can now share
Speaker 1: their favorite clips from select Amazon original series with friends
Speaker 1: and family on social media or via direct message. So
Speaker 1: what I'm guessing this does, because I've not tested this myself,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing I'm trying to figure out if this actually
Speaker 1: gives you like the video. I think it does just
Speaker 1: kind of fascinating to me. Like, so they don't mind
Speaker 1: if it's a thirty second I guess it's thirty second clip.
Speaker 2: I mean if it gets the name or this show's.
Speaker 1: Name out there, then why not, right? And So it's
Speaker 1: funny because I did this the other day with my sister.
Speaker 1: I was watching a show and they made a joke
Speaker 1: about vegans and my sister's vegan, and so I just
Speaker 1: recorded my TV screen. It was just, you know, fifteen
Speaker 1: second joke and I sent it to her and this
Speaker 1: is exactly what I did. So now I think people
Speaker 1: are still going to do that because it's just easier.
Speaker 1: But this is kind of nice that for social media purposes.
Speaker 1: You know, I probably wouldn't share something that I recorded
Speaker 1: off the screen.
Speaker 2: On social media.
Speaker 1: Maybe I would, I'm not really sure, but you know,
Speaker 1: or if there's like an award show, you can clip it.
Speaker 1: But this is thirty seconds, and so all you have
Speaker 1: to do once you're on the show, you.
Speaker 2: Just hit pause, you hit share a clip.
Speaker 1: It'll make a thirty second clip of what you just watched,
Speaker 1: and you can fine tune it so you can say,
Speaker 1: you know, I want a couple seconds before, a couple
Speaker 1: seconds after, but it's only thirty seconds that you get
Speaker 1: so and then it looks like it puts a watermark
Speaker 1: of both Prime Video and the name of the show
Speaker 1: on the video clip. And then once you're ready to share,
Speaker 1: just hit share and you can upload it. Oh so yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like a it's a full video. You can upload
Speaker 1: it to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, I Message, WhatsApp and more. Now,
Speaker 1: this only works for a couple of shows right now.
Speaker 1: The Boys, which I haven't seen, The Wild which I
Speaker 1: haven't seen, Invincible, which I haven't seen. In Fairfax. With
Speaker 1: more original Amazon movies and series to follow. So I
Speaker 1: think this is one hundred percent brilliant thinking outside the
Speaker 1: by Amazon, and I think that Netflix should steal this
Speaker 1: feature immediately because or this should become a standard feature
Speaker 1: of any of any streaming service, because there's so many
Speaker 1: little shareable moments that are funny or interesting or you
Speaker 1: want to say for later or share with your friends,
Speaker 1: that this is just a no no brainer way to
Speaker 1: let people do this in a way that does not infringe.
Speaker 3: On copyright or you know whatever, whatever whatever it is.
Speaker 2: That was that was weird. I'm like, ah, copy, I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: Dan says, hello, Rich, is there a device or app
Speaker 1: that can translate foreign language TV shows or films in
Speaker 1: that can plug into my TV or install my phone?
Speaker 1: My wife is watching a Turkish show and he says
Speaker 1: the name which I can't pronounce, and not all shows
Speaker 1: episodes have English subtitles in YouTube. Thank you for being
Speaker 1: trying to be a hero for my wife. Thank you, Dan, Dan.
Speaker 1: I would recommend two things. Now, you sent this from
Speaker 1: your iPhone, so I would say, on the iPhone, just
Speaker 1: use the translate app. So there's a built in translate
Speaker 1: app now on iPhone you can try that, and it's
Speaker 1: not gonna install on your TV. But what your wife
Speaker 1: would do is just kind of prop up her phone
Speaker 1: underneath the show and it can listen to what's happening
Speaker 1: on TV and translate that in real time. Now, I
Speaker 1: haven't had enough experience with the app on the translate
Speaker 1: app on the iPhone to actually know if it does
Speaker 1: exactly what I'm talking about, but I think on if
Speaker 1: you want, you can also try downloading Google's translate app,
Speaker 1: and that is available for the iPhone and try the
Speaker 1: same thing.
Speaker 2: Just leave it open. You know, there's like a mic
Speaker 2: button you can leave it open.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I don't know how long these apps are going to
Speaker 1: let you translate for free, but that is, you know,
Speaker 1: that's the question here. But that's one way of trying
Speaker 1: to do it. And maybe if she can just get
Speaker 1: some of the show or you know whatever, that will work.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The other thing is there's a feature on Android called
Speaker 1: live caption and it actually works in like several languages now,
Speaker 1: and that is another option, but you'd have to go.
Speaker 1: I think it's just available on the Pixel six or
Speaker 1: the or the pixel lineup, I should say, but I'm
Speaker 1: not really sure. So that's another option. But that's a,
Speaker 1: that's a pretty amazing option. Oh wait, I just thought
Speaker 1: of another option. On Chrome. There is an option, oh
Speaker 1: but I think it's for English only, But there is
Speaker 1: a There is an option under Advanced and Accessibility. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's called live caption. And if you go into Chrome
Speaker 1: Options Accessibility and then live Caption, turn that on. This
Speaker 1: is pretty powerful and it's pretty amazing. It will live
Speaker 1: caption anything any video that is playing on your computer.
Speaker 1: And yes, it would work with YouTube videos, but it's
Speaker 1: only for English, so it would not work in this
Speaker 1: in this setting for a Turkish.
Speaker 2: Let's say, you know they oh gosh, yeah Turkish.
Speaker 1: So I would say, Now, the funny thing is Google
Speaker 1: came out with this feature on the Android side of things,
Speaker 1: that you know, on the pixel that does support more
Speaker 1: languages with that live caption, So I can only I
Speaker 1: can only imagine that it's just a matter of time
Speaker 1: before this makes its way into more places. The live
Speaker 1: caption feature was on Androids for a long time before
Speaker 1: it came to Chrome, so I think that it's probably
Speaker 1: I would say, another couple months, maybe a year before
Speaker 1: this makes it fully to Chrome, where anything you watch
Speaker 1: can be translated into any language that you need, so
Speaker 1: good question there, and hopefully you are a hero to
Speaker 1: your wife no matter what. All right, best and more
Speaker 1: states for ev charging. So what can I say? I
Speaker 1: have been talking about the Tesla on the podcast, and
Speaker 1: I will say I still one hundred percent absolutely infatuated
Speaker 1: with this car.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: It's the best car I've ever had. I will say
Speaker 1: the fit and finish of the Tesla is definitely not
Speaker 1: the best compared to other cars I've had, but it
Speaker 1: is overall the experience of driving, of using it, of
Speaker 1: not having to go to the gas station is pretty phenomenal.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because there's a little debate on Twitter about,
Speaker 1: you know, how expensive gas prices are, and people were saying,
Speaker 1: you know, why would you ever drive a gas car
Speaker 1: when you can get an electric car? And here's the thing,
Speaker 1: Like I understand the fact that you do not buy
Speaker 1: a brand new electric car to save money on gas
Speaker 1: number one, just because you're putting out all this new
Speaker 1: money on this new car, that is negating any sort
Speaker 1: of savings you might have with electricity. So for instance,
Speaker 1: for me, you know, not only was a car expensive,
Speaker 1: but then I had to pay it was like total
Speaker 1: about fifteen hundred bucks to get the charger installed for
Speaker 1: the car, and so right there, if you do the math,
Speaker 1: I was not. I mean, was I spending two let's see,
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred dollars times divided by twelve months, that's one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five dollars a month. So yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: I was spending that much on gas, but I don't
Speaker 1: think I was. I think I was spending closer to
Speaker 1: like forty or you'll say, eighty a month on gas
Speaker 1: for my car because it was a pretty, you know,
Speaker 1: gas sipping vehicle. Maybe not, but the reality is you're
Speaker 1: not buying a Tesla or an EV for the savings
Speaker 1: right now. In the future, maybe you are, and maybe
Speaker 1: you are in the way it works out for your math,
Speaker 1: but I think for most people that are buying it,
Speaker 1: it is like for me personally, it was it just
Speaker 1: felt what it just felt like what I wanted to
Speaker 1: do in my life, like the right thing for me.
Speaker 1: I just couldn't see myself getting another gas powered car
Speaker 1: because I live in Los Angeles mostly I commute. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to contribute to any problems happening with gas,
Speaker 1: Nor did I like the the progress of our gas
Speaker 1: prices here in Los Angeles, and so I just said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm doing it and I'm making the switch.
Speaker 1: And did I save any money in the process. I
Speaker 1: don't think so. But do I feel great about it?
Speaker 2: Yes? And do I love it? Of course?
Speaker 1: And have I had to pay for charging like a
Speaker 1: total of three times only?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I think that this whole idea of buying an
Speaker 1: EV to like, you know, avoid gas prices, maybe in
Speaker 1: the long term it is true. I don't know, But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like, there's always this debate, and I
Speaker 1: just don't think it's that.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's that clear cut. For most people.
Speaker 1: They're not going out there to buy an EV and like, oh,
Speaker 1: just buy a Tesla and you can avoid gas. Like, No,
Speaker 1: most people can't do that. So most people, if they
Speaker 1: have their car, they want to stick with it.
Speaker 2: I mean I do.
Speaker 1: I want to stick with my car as long as
Speaker 1: possible to save the most money. So anyway, with all
Speaker 1: that said, that's kind of a side note to this
Speaker 1: next story, the best and worst US states for EV charging.
Speaker 1: The reason I say this is because here in California,
Speaker 1: EV's are so easy, like it's almost a no brainer,
Speaker 1: But if I in a different state, I would probably
Speaker 1: have a little bit of pause before I got an EV.
Speaker 1: And the reason is because there are some trade offs.
Speaker 1: Like so, for instance, we went to San Diego last
Speaker 1: weekend and we went to our friend's house, and you know,
Speaker 1: I had to check where a charger was near their
Speaker 1: friend's house because I knew when we got down there
Speaker 1: we'd be on empty.
Speaker 2: And so it turns out.
Speaker 1: There was a supercharger literally at the shopping mall near
Speaker 1: their house, and it was so easy to charge.
Speaker 2: It was just it was so simple.
Speaker 1: Now on the flip side, yeah, when you charge your car,
Speaker 1: what do you do if it's in one of these
Speaker 1: shopping malls. You go in and you spend money. And
Speaker 1: I don't like that aspect because we did do that,
Speaker 1: and while our car was charging, you know, we went
Speaker 1: in and we spent you know, a couple of bucks
Speaker 1: at the store.
Speaker 2: And well, it wasn't a couple of bucks. It was
Speaker 2: it was like over one hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: And so if I would have just gassed up my car,
Speaker 1: we would have maybe spent five bucks on snacks at
Speaker 1: the gas station and you'd go. So that's one of
Speaker 1: the downsides is that you're always like, you know, you
Speaker 1: have this time to burn and what do you do?
Speaker 1: You end up going in a store and what are
Speaker 1: they doing. They're building a lot of these chargers outside
Speaker 1: stores and restaurants just for that reason. So maybe you
Speaker 1: have more willpower, maybe you can sit in the car
Speaker 1: and watch Netflix.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: I've also have kids, so we walked around whatever anyway.
Speaker 1: States with the most electric This is according to Electric
Speaker 1: Electric the website, which is a great website for all
Speaker 1: stuff ev Let's see number one. States with the most
Speaker 1: electric vehicles per public charging port. States with the most
Speaker 1: electric vehicles per public charging port is Arizona, Hawaii, Washington State,
Speaker 1: So that means that there's a lot of electric vehicles
Speaker 1: per port. States with the least evis per charge port
Speaker 1: or sorry, the best states for public charging points based
Speaker 1: on mileage is Washington, DC, California, and Hawaii. That's really surprising.
Speaker 1: I would not think. Maybe that's I don't know, but
Speaker 1: the top three states for chargers are California and New
Speaker 1: York and Florida, and of course those are just like
Speaker 1: huge states.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 1: California and Florida have the most registered evs. Texas comes
Speaker 1: in third. Alaska has the fewest number of EV charging outlets,
Speaker 1: followed by the Dakotas. Wyoming and Montana don't have very
Speaker 1: much either, but California is pretty much number one in
Speaker 1: every category. So if you want to cross the board,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just they're apparently, according to this table,
Speaker 1: they've got fourteen million electric cars. And again, this is
Speaker 1: another thing that you realize you when you have an
Speaker 1: electric car. Right now, it's all very novel, right you
Speaker 1: go to the store, you find little charger, you plug
Speaker 1: your car in.
Speaker 2: It's so great, you don't have to wait. But as these.
Speaker 1: Things take off, there is going to be a bigger
Speaker 1: impact on the grid, on the systems, on the chargers,
Speaker 1: on you know all those parking spots right now that
Speaker 1: are in the front of the store, because you know,
Speaker 1: you got your charger spot, your EV only parking. But
Speaker 1: I don't know how far out we are, but it's
Speaker 1: it is fun though.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 1: It's fun, I will that's the best way I can
Speaker 1: describe it. It's just fun. It's it's an adventure. And
Speaker 1: I tweeted this today, but it kind of reminds me
Speaker 1: of when I got the first iPhone because it was
Speaker 1: such a departure from every other smartphone I ever had.
Speaker 1: Every day using it was an adventure. The way it worked,
Speaker 1: the way it sounded, the way you could do things
Speaker 1: on the screen, the way you could read the newspaper
Speaker 1: on there, the way you could stream stuff, the way
Speaker 1: you could watch media, the way you can make phone calls,
Speaker 1: the way it did all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 2: You could run. Maybe you couldn't run with it at
Speaker 2: that point.
Speaker 1: But there's just so many like little easter eggs every
Speaker 1: day that you're discovering. And that's the same way I
Speaker 1: feel about the electric car. And so it's fun right now,
Speaker 1: but there will come a point where it's like the iPhone,
Speaker 1: it's like standard issue.
Speaker 2: Everyone has one.
Speaker 1: I mean I say that in a way that you
Speaker 1: know a lot of people have smartphones now, and so
Speaker 1: it's not so novel when you see someone pull out
Speaker 1: a smartphone at a table and you're like, ooh, ooh,
Speaker 1: show me the cool features, because it's just we all
Speaker 1: know what the deal is.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: That's it for that story. But I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 1: And by the way, the first iPhone, if you had one,
Speaker 1: you might remember this, but it was a nightmare nightmare,
Speaker 1: mikenightmare for making phone calls.
Speaker 2: It was so bad, so bad, it.
Speaker 1: Dropped every single call and never forgot walking down the
Speaker 1: street to my dentist. And I think I mentioned this
Speaker 1: on the podcast once before. I was talking to my
Speaker 1: best friend and I was saying, you know, I got
Speaker 1: the new iPhone. Can you believe it? He goes, Dude,
Speaker 1: I can't understand a word you're saying. You're breaking up
Speaker 1: so bad. This was back when it was on AT
Speaker 1: and t's brand new or I don't know, it was
Speaker 1: on some sort of AT and T network.
Speaker 2: It was an exclusive and it was just.
Speaker 1: So bad that it was so horrendous to use as
Speaker 1: an actual phone. Everything else was great, but the phone
Speaker 1: calls were just so bad. But that's all been fixed now,
Speaker 1: all right. Final story of the podcast Peloton. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you heard. They were kind of battered in
Speaker 1: the last week with their earnings and their projections. This
Speaker 1: is not CNBC, so I'm not going to get into that.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is that, yeah, Peloton had a
Speaker 1: moment during the pandemic where people realized they wanted to
Speaker 1: work out at home, and demand went through the roof
Speaker 1: and popularity went through the roof, and now that people
Speaker 1: are going back to the gyms, you know, Peloton is
Speaker 1: still doing well. And I still think that Peloton made
Speaker 1: a huge impact in our world. But they're just not
Speaker 1: going to sell as many bikes going forward or according
Speaker 1: to their projections, nor did they sell that many in
Speaker 1: the past couple of months. So do I think that
Speaker 1: this means the end of Peloton. Absolutely not. Peloton got
Speaker 1: us through through the entire pandemic, even though I used
Speaker 1: it on my bowflex. I used the digital classes and
Speaker 1: it was amazing, and I still think the instructors are amazing.
Speaker 1: I think what they're building is really cool, and it
Speaker 1: might be a little bit slower than what everyone else wants.
Speaker 1: I also think they're an acquisition target because you know,
Speaker 1: another bigger fitness company might come through and purchase them,
Speaker 1: or consolidate a couple of different types of fitness machines
Speaker 1: into one. But anyway, so Peloton has a new device
Speaker 1: called the Peloton Guide. This is a five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: The best way I can describe it is it's a
Speaker 1: camera that you put underneath your TV. Kind of looks
Speaker 1: like the remote from the Google Chrome Cast TV. It
Speaker 1: kind of reminds me of the Microsoft Connect from the Xbox.
Speaker 1: And this uses machine learning to track your progress and movements.
Speaker 1: So not only does it watch how you exercise and
Speaker 1: give you feedback on that, but it also helps you
Speaker 1: figure out which muscles you've worked and recommend other muscle
Speaker 1: groups that you need to work. It's voice activated, it's
Speaker 1: got a camera on it, but of course there is
Speaker 1: the privacy slider so that you can turn it off
Speaker 1: at anytime. There's also a heart rate band that goes
Speaker 1: along with it. So the thing here is that Peloton
Speaker 1: is trying to create a world where you don't just
Speaker 1: follow along on the TV with these workouts, but you're
Speaker 1: actively getting artificial intelligence feedback on your workout exactly what
Speaker 1: a what a trainer would do in real life. They
Speaker 1: would say, rich, you know, you gotta squat a little
Speaker 1: bit deeper, or you gotta, you know, do this, move
Speaker 1: your arm this way, or make sure you don't bend
Speaker 1: your back, whatever the trainer would say.
Speaker 2: In real life.
Speaker 1: That would be the goal of this new device.
Speaker 3: When is it arriving, I don't know when is it arriving.
Speaker 1: I don't know when it's arriving. In twenty early twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, so that's coming soon.
Speaker 2: I think it's cool.
Speaker 1: Five hundred dollars is very expensive, but we'll see. I mean,
Speaker 1: peloton stuff is not cheap. Incidentally to other things about
Speaker 1: the fitness stuff. Number one, I tested an app that
Speaker 1: was just like this and it's called on how do
Speaker 1: you say onx O n y x onyx And it
Speaker 1: exactly if you want to try this out, you can
Speaker 1: download this app for your iPhone and you can see
Speaker 1: it use the camera to monitor exactly how you're working out,
Speaker 1: and it will give you feedback in real time, and
Speaker 1: it's actually pretty amazing.
Speaker 2: I'll put it in the show notes.
Speaker 1: And the other thing is that I tested this thing
Speaker 1: called climber CLMBR and it's a vertical climbing machine and
Speaker 1: it's like a Peloton but for vertical climbing. And I
Speaker 1: got to say, all I have to say is ubsessed.
Speaker 1: And I told my wife, I'm like, I think I
Speaker 1: want to buy one of these, even though it's too expensive.
Speaker 2: It's twenty eight hundred bucks, but I really really want one.
Speaker 1: And it's just the full body workout that I got
Speaker 1: from it was just phenomenal.
Speaker 2: And that's a startup.
Speaker 1: But It's always a little scary to spend twenty eight
Speaker 1: hundred bucks on a startups product because you know, are
Speaker 1: they going to be around in a year or two
Speaker 1: and then this twenty eight hundred dollars product could be
Speaker 1: a brick. And I'm not saying that's going to happen
Speaker 1: with this company, but you just never know.
Speaker 2: All right, that's going to do it for this episode
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