Speaker 1: The FBI warns about smart TVs, the mattress hackers, top
Speaker 1: apps of twenty nineteen, plus Your tech questions answered.
Speaker 2: What's going on? I'm Rich damiro.
Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
Speaker 1: about the tech stuff I think you should know about
Speaker 1: and answer the questions that you send me.
Speaker 2: Joining me is producer Megan. There you are, Oh, here
Speaker 2: you are.
Speaker 3: Sorry, my Mike wasn't.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm back at the radio station pressing
Speaker 1: buttons that I don't know what they do. We did, Man,
Speaker 1: the questions are at an all time high, Megan, I
Speaker 1: will tell you this, I'm getting so many. Yesterday I
Speaker 1: spent two hours just in the afternoon going through excited
Speaker 1: like a backlog from before Thanksgiving. Oh and I felt
Speaker 1: back as some people were like kind of asking me
Speaker 1: about their Cyber Monday and Black Friday shopping and I
Speaker 1: couldn't get to all of them.
Speaker 2: I just couldn't. So some people were like, thanks, Rich,
Speaker 2: I already bought whatever I asked you about.
Speaker 1: I was like, sorry, but we had a great time.
Speaker 1: We did four hours on the radio on KFI in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, So thanks to KFI for letting me do
Speaker 1: that and Megan was there and we had a great time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was really fun. Felt like one hour.
Speaker 2: What was your highlight of that. I know, your cousin
Speaker 2: or your.
Speaker 3: Uncle, Maddie, that was probably the highlight.
Speaker 4: I got my uncle we call him crazy Uncle Matt,
Speaker 4: and he called in and he wasn't that crazy on air.
Speaker 2: But he was pretty good though.
Speaker 3: I could see you could feel that, yes, I could.
Speaker 2: I could see. He was like an onion. There was
Speaker 2: a lot of layers.
Speaker 4: He's from New York and he wears shorts to like Christmas,
Speaker 4: Eve and Thanksgiving. He really doesn't really he doesn't care
Speaker 4: much about looking super fancy.
Speaker 3: And he's really fun and hysterical.
Speaker 1: And I called my sister, who is like a vegan
Speaker 1: and she's a health nut and it's so funny.
Speaker 2: I got so many emails about that too. They were like,
Speaker 2: I love your sister. She's so great. I have a
Speaker 2: brother that's vegan or whatever, and like, I love the
Speaker 2: back and forth.
Speaker 3: She should get a podcast.
Speaker 1: I gave her a hard time about, you know, her
Speaker 1: eating and stuff, because it's just it's just interesting to me,
Speaker 1: Like I try to eat healthy, but it's like really
Speaker 1: very healthy. I just had four peanut butter chocolate oreos
Speaker 1: in the newsroom.
Speaker 3: Like four donuts.
Speaker 2: No, I wish. I'm really trying to stay off the
Speaker 2: donuts at this point.
Speaker 1: But anyway, so she you know, so like I try,
Speaker 1: but she actually delivers, like she really does eat healthy
Speaker 1: like and the stuff that she eats, it's like I
Speaker 1: can't imagine, Like to me, like if I eat a
Speaker 1: healthy lunch, I immediately go to the cabinet and get
Speaker 1: like a whole bag of M and ms and eCos. Yes,
Speaker 1: like I punctuate all healthy meals with like something really bad.
Speaker 1: I'm the same, and it's just weird.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I have.
Speaker 3: To do that oat meal. Then I'm like, okay, you
Speaker 3: can have hot cheetos now, right.
Speaker 2: So anyway, uh so we got lots of questions. You
Speaker 2: have some queued up for the show?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do. I have a lot.
Speaker 1: Actually, well we'll get to those in a moment. But
Speaker 1: first let's start with this a new rumor about the
Speaker 1: next iPhone. Maybe it might be completely wireless. So first
Speaker 1: they remove the headphone jack everyone's talking about. Maybe they're
Speaker 1: going to take the lightning off and put on a USBC.
Speaker 1: But ming chi quo, this noted analyst that always seems
Speaker 1: to get it right, says that he thinks the highest
Speaker 1: end model in the twenty twenty one lineup is going
Speaker 1: to be completely wireless. Now, by the way, that's not
Speaker 1: next year, that's the next year, So we do have
Speaker 1: a year to like.
Speaker 2: Get used to this idea.
Speaker 1: But if you look at Apple's past, and you look
Speaker 1: at the computer I'm on right now, there's no CD drive,
Speaker 1: there's no DVD drive, there's there is a headphone jack,
Speaker 1: there's no micro SD cards.
Speaker 2: Saw.
Speaker 1: All these things that we used to have on laptops
Speaker 1: are all gone. Yeah, And every time they went away,
Speaker 1: people cried. And now I've been using this like this
Speaker 1: for years and I still cry when I.
Speaker 3: Do, I still cry.
Speaker 2: I do cry because it is annoying.
Speaker 4: Sometimes they just simplify.
Speaker 1: They simplify, but to a level that like we're not
Speaker 1: like the average person's not ready yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 3: I mean I missed the headphone jack.
Speaker 2: Sometimes there are just times when you want to plug
Speaker 2: in a headphone. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the twenty twenty lineup, according to this prediction, is
Speaker 1: a four point seven inch LCD screen, which will be
Speaker 1: the kind of part of the iPhone se like that
Speaker 1: small one a five point four inch OLED screen. Oh,
Speaker 1: they're going all O lead now except for that tiny one,
Speaker 1: a six point one inch O lead, another six point
Speaker 1: one inch O lead, and then another six point seven
Speaker 1: inch O lead, which is kind of like the flagship
Speaker 1: with triple cameras. So it looks like kind of the
Speaker 1: main thing is for next year. It doesn't look like
Speaker 1: there's gonna be that much difference, except for the fact
Speaker 1: that they might use a USB.
Speaker 2: C on the bottom of the phone.
Speaker 1: But otherwise it seems like the triple camera is kind
Speaker 1: of gonna stay. Triple camera is gonna move to like,
Speaker 1: you know, the top of the end phones, or stay
Speaker 1: on the top of end phones, but there's gonna be
Speaker 1: more on the bottom end, so it seems like the
Speaker 1: lower end there'll be more to choose from. Okay, and
Speaker 1: the lower end continues to get better because the screens are.
Speaker 3: Better, right, So that's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it just continues to kind of go along.
Speaker 1: The iPhone is now at this point where it's tough
Speaker 1: to innovate within a big way, like because we have
Speaker 1: pretty much everything we want on it, and I think
Speaker 1: there's more that people can always want, like battery. But
Speaker 1: I mean, if you think about my phone, like my
Speaker 1: iPhone eleven Pro Max, I would say five nights out
Speaker 1: of the week, I am going to bed and this
Speaker 1: is at like seventy to eighty percent battery.
Speaker 4: Wait what, I'm a whole from not trickle charging.
Speaker 2: Well, I do charge.
Speaker 1: I would say probably once throughout the day, like when
Speaker 1: I'm driving in my car.
Speaker 2: But that's it.
Speaker 1: And I'm talking I've gone through a whole day, and
Speaker 1: like even on like days where I'm using my phone
Speaker 1: a ton. I mean, the battery on this thing is
Speaker 1: crazy good.
Speaker 2: It really just is.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 2: Anyway, let's get to your first question, Megan.
Speaker 4: All right, so this first question comes from Paul and
Speaker 4: he actually wrote this on your Facebook page, which is
Speaker 4: Facebook dot com slash rich on Tech looks like Apple
Speaker 4: slash Goldman Sachs just started reporting to credit agencies today,
Speaker 4: prompting all the credit monitoring companies I employ to report
Speaker 4: suspicious activity on my account. When I called gold Sacks,
Speaker 4: they said people had been calling about the credit alerts
Speaker 4: all day, no email warning or anything.
Speaker 1: This is interesting because so you know the Apple card,
Speaker 1: this is Apple's credit card that they issued with Goldman Sacks.
Speaker 1: And the thing is they kind of thought differently from
Speaker 1: like your standard credit card. But I guess in the
Speaker 1: beginning they were not. They were not reporting to credit
Speaker 1: agencies your activity on this card, which for some people's good,
Speaker 1: some people it's bad. So for the good, it's basically,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're late on a payment or something like,
Speaker 1: I guess it wouldn't really matter. I don't really I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no late payments on that card, so I don't
Speaker 1: really know how that would impact you. But now that
Speaker 1: they're reporting and or on the flip side, the bad
Speaker 1: part of that is that if you're trying to build credit,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't be building it with that card because they're
Speaker 1: not reporting. You'd be spending a whole bunch of money
Speaker 1: every month and doing everything right, and your credit report
Speaker 1: doesn't reflect that because Apple wasn't reporting it, or I
Speaker 1: guess Goldman Sacks.
Speaker 2: So now it started.
Speaker 1: Now they just started, So I guess this guy has
Speaker 1: all of his alerts from all these different credit reporting
Speaker 1: agencies saying like, hey, make sure you tell me when
Speaker 1: something goes on my credit report, and he's like.
Speaker 2: Bing, mgm mming. So I guess that's probably a good
Speaker 2: thing and it was inevitable.
Speaker 4: We know, why did they do that just to get
Speaker 4: people to.
Speaker 2: Be like, oh, you know what, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think maybe it was just a system they you know.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know like why they did it. Maybe
Speaker 1: they just wanted they just didn't care at the beginning.
Speaker 4: Oh here that they didn't warn anyone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it did something.
Speaker 2: Well I think you knew.
Speaker 1: I think if look, if you if you read the
Speaker 1: terms and conditions when you signed up, I guarantee you
Speaker 1: In there it says we will begin reporting to the
Speaker 1: credit agencies or we have the right to report to
Speaker 1: their credit agency. So I'm sure it was in there somewhere.
Speaker 1: But now that it started, be warned. So if you
Speaker 1: are late with a payment, they might not charge you
Speaker 1: for that lateness, but they might actually report.
Speaker 3: That yeah, and your credit could be affected.
Speaker 2: Have you ever been late on a payment?
Speaker 3: No? No, I haven't.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: I was late on a payment this month for the
Speaker 1: first time and I think almost a decade, so I
Speaker 1: actually totally forgot to pay my water bill, my water
Speaker 1: and electricity, and so all of a sudden on Thanksgiving Day,
Speaker 1: I get I think it was a text.
Speaker 2: Or an email from like Element Automatic. No, I don't
Speaker 2: do any automatic bills. Oh you don't know. I don't
Speaker 2: do anything.
Speaker 1: The only automatic bills I do are like Netflix, the
Speaker 1: things that are required to be automatic. But anything else,
Speaker 1: like any bill I have, I always pay manually because
Speaker 1: I want the right to have the option. Like with
Speaker 1: my water bill, especially it could be hundreds of dollars.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure it's okay, and even if
Speaker 1: it isn't, like what am I gonna do? It'll be
Speaker 1: like I think I use five gallons instead of a
Speaker 1: thousand that you said.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, So I got a text during Thanksgiving dinner. I'm
Speaker 1: like looking at my phone, like this thing comes in.
Speaker 1: It's like, we are disconnecting your service within like five
Speaker 1: days if you don't pay your bill.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what do you get charged to it? They
Speaker 2: did not charge me, I guess cause my first time
Speaker 2: or whatever.
Speaker 1: But so I went on and I paid like immediately,
Speaker 1: but I was like, I literally just totally forgot, Like
Speaker 1: I got the bill in the mail and I just
Speaker 1: totally forgot.
Speaker 2: So it can happen.
Speaker 4: I mean for my credit cards, I have it on automatic,
Speaker 4: but I still manually want to go in and do
Speaker 4: it myself because I want to like see what's going
Speaker 4: on versus just like completely forgetting about it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's nice. It's nice to have.
Speaker 1: A little manual control because then you're more kind of
Speaker 1: in control of what happens, right, Yeah, I guess that's
Speaker 1: the main thing anyway. Good to know I don't have
Speaker 1: the Apple credit card.
Speaker 3: I don't either, so.
Speaker 2: I don't have that.
Speaker 4: I don't know why I wanted it when it first
Speaker 4: came out, because it just like seemed cool and then I.
Speaker 3: Was like, yeah, I'm good.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: My thing about it is that I do have one
Speaker 1: credit card. I actually don't have it linked up to
Speaker 1: Apple Pay. I use my debit card with that. But
Speaker 1: there's no difference, Like to me, it's like I already
Speaker 1: have a card in Apple Pay. There's what's the difference
Speaker 1: between having the Apple card or my other card? Like
Speaker 1: it's to me, it's literally the same thing except my
Speaker 1: other card. The money comes out of my bank account immediately,
Speaker 1: so don't have to think about it. Like it's I
Speaker 1: know that I have the money to spend, Like I'm
Speaker 1: a big like I want to make sure I have
Speaker 1: the money to spend before I buy stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so if I'm good, yeah, it is.
Speaker 3: It's that's very smart.
Speaker 2: Well, it took me a lot of learning to figure
Speaker 2: that out, because back in the day, I would when
Speaker 2: it's a credit card, it's a swipe and it just
Speaker 2: goes through and oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Worry about the bill later. And believe me, that only
Speaker 1: worked out for a.
Speaker 2: Few years for me.
Speaker 5: It catches up to definitely caught up to me. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so but I'm good now, Yeah, I know you're chilling. No,
Speaker 5: I'm okay, but back, oh my gosh, not so good.
Speaker 5: Uh for a while.
Speaker 2: Actually, there's a point when I couldn't get a credit
Speaker 2: card because that's how bad my credit was.
Speaker 3: Oh no, but you have a house now, yeah.
Speaker 2: Now I have a house. Oh look it all worked out. Well.
Speaker 4: I feel like if you have bad credit, like you
Speaker 4: never can get out.
Speaker 1: No, it was it was so he did I did?
Speaker 1: I think it was like seven years wait, not like
Speaker 1: I had bankruptcy, but it was just like so bad
Speaker 1: that literally the only company that would give me a
Speaker 1: credit card was Capital One, and it gave me a
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars credit line out of every company. So
Speaker 1: I should have a Capital one credit card to this
Speaker 1: day because they were so kind and like, yeah, helping
Speaker 1: me out back in the day when nobody else would give.
Speaker 2: Me a card.
Speaker 4: That's a that's a good like uh, what's it called?
Speaker 2: Like tip? Yeah, if you're a part for credit.
Speaker 4: Check because they helped you out, I should but I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 2: But look at me, I didn't. I don't have them
Speaker 2: anymore my wallet.
Speaker 4: So Also, there's another podcast that I was listening to
Speaker 4: like the other day, and she her name is Stossy
Speaker 4: from Bravo okay, and she makes a ton of money,
Speaker 4: but like recently now she can actually look into getting
Speaker 4: houses because her credit has been horrible.
Speaker 3: For like ten years.
Speaker 2: Oh wow. Yeah. It definitely like it's all paperwork.
Speaker 1: Like it's like literally, it's like it's no matter how
Speaker 1: good you are, if something happened, it's like sorry, we're
Speaker 1: not Like banks are just not going to take that risk.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about T Mobile. They are taking
Speaker 1: a risk, not really, I guess not first five G
Speaker 1: network nationwide five G and it is lit up.
Speaker 2: They've got it all over America.
Speaker 1: They got two hundred million people covered more than a
Speaker 1: million square miles and.
Speaker 2: This is it.
Speaker 1: They are first out of the gate with five G
Speaker 1: in a very big, meaningful way. Now what does this
Speaker 1: mean for you? Because you are gonna be seeing a
Speaker 1: lot of commercials, a lot of hype about five G
Speaker 1: from T Mobile. Full disclosure, I have not tested this network,
Speaker 1: so I cannot tell you if it's good, if it's bad,
Speaker 1: if it's somewhere in between. But I will tell you this,
Speaker 1: you probably don't need to go out and jump on
Speaker 1: this network today. Anything that's brand new, especially when it
Speaker 1: comes to technology, you don't necessarily need to be on
Speaker 1: there day day one because even though they've built this
Speaker 1: out and I'm sure it's fine, it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: as robust as the networks that you're used to. And
Speaker 1: five G, when you think about it, sounds really fast.
Speaker 1: But from what I'm reading, T Mobile decided to go with.
Speaker 1: There's two flavors of five G. There's like super fast,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't travel very far, and that's called millimeter wave.
Speaker 1: And then there's more broad spectrum where it goes further
Speaker 1: or it travels further but.
Speaker 2: It's not as fast.
Speaker 1: They went with that kind, so that's how they're able
Speaker 1: to get such wide swaths of coverage.
Speaker 2: Versus like Verizon.
Speaker 1: If you go and look at their five G maps
Speaker 1: for like Chicago or La or LA is non existent.
Speaker 1: But like Chicago, it's literally like a park that has
Speaker 1: five G or like a street that has five G.
Speaker 2: It's really small areas.
Speaker 1: So if you're outside in that park, you'll get five
Speaker 1: G as soon as you go into that building that's
Speaker 1: right there, no five G. So there's two phones that
Speaker 1: work with T Mobile right now. It is the one
Speaker 1: plus seven T Pro five G. McLaren say that five
Speaker 1: times fast and this. Yeah, McLaren is the car company.
Speaker 1: They do the one plus teams with them to like
Speaker 1: make these super fast phones. Basically Samsung Galaxy Note ten
Speaker 1: plus five G and those are the two phones. So
Speaker 1: they tap into the six hundred megahertz five G spectrum
Speaker 1: and they're also capable of using sprints five G spectrum
Speaker 1: once the merger closes. So I don't think that it's
Speaker 1: that bad. But I don't think there's an impetus to
Speaker 1: jump on this right now. I don't think that you
Speaker 1: really need to do that. Yeah, if you're not, I
Speaker 1: think that the speeds are just fine from what I'm reading.
Speaker 1: Let's see c NEET tested it in Maui, I guess
Speaker 1: with the five G and.
Speaker 2: Let's see uhi. Yeah, so I didn't want to talk
Speaker 2: about this. It's a little source subject.
Speaker 1: But basically Qualcom, who makes all the chips and the phones,
Speaker 1: they fly out all these journalists, well sorry, not necessarily journalists.
Speaker 2: They fly out.
Speaker 3: Tech tech influencers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, influencers to like Maui every year, tastemakers, taste makers,
Speaker 1: and so here's and this is you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to knock them because like I get it, and
Speaker 1: we've we've done trips before, like we've done press trips
Speaker 1: where a company will host us and so I'm I'm
Speaker 1: not sitting here throwing glass you know what is it
Speaker 1: rocks in a glasshouse. Yeah, but here's the thing that
Speaker 1: is interesting to me with something this big. So they
Speaker 1: take out a lot of influence, like a lot of
Speaker 1: tech people, right from big publications, small publications, YouTubers, whatever.
Speaker 1: They fly them all out to Maui, which is obviously
Speaker 1: they're in San Diego, like the company.
Speaker 2: They don't need to go to Maui.
Speaker 1: They could do this insane you go, but they fly
Speaker 1: them all out there, put them up at this five
Speaker 1: star hotel, very nice. I mean, everything's covered, but and
Speaker 1: then they talk about their new chip that's in all
Speaker 1: the phones and five G and.
Speaker 2: All the stuff.
Speaker 1: But like I was thinking about this, like if the
Speaker 1: news like we're not going there to cover it, and
Speaker 1: like I bet nobody else is either, But like if
Speaker 1: it was that big, wouldn't tech publications when the New
Speaker 1: York Times go there, like wouldn't on their own dime.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't. I don't even know if
Speaker 1: they could take a trip like that. But the point
Speaker 1: is it's one of these it's a weird thing. It's
Speaker 1: like it's a lot of hype and I'm seeing a
Speaker 1: lot of posts from people that I know and love
Speaker 1: about this Maui trip, but like it's tough to kind
Speaker 1: of like sift through the hype of these people are
Speaker 1: excited at a free trip in Maui versus is this
Speaker 1: really amazing technology that we shall know about? And that's
Speaker 1: kind of like the tough part of it. And so
Speaker 1: I'm just keeping it real.
Speaker 3: Bought to hype it up.
Speaker 1: I did not say that, but well, I agree, But
Speaker 1: those that's the question as.
Speaker 2: A consumer, You're right, that's the question that goes through
Speaker 2: your mind.
Speaker 3: But also like I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't work for this company, but like if it
Speaker 4: was company X, like wouldn't you want your new tech
Speaker 4: to be on the like actual news.
Speaker 2: Or well that's the thing.
Speaker 3: So I don't know on YouTube, like I just I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 2: It's their audience. Look, and this is the world we
Speaker 2: live in. This is the world we live in today.
Speaker 1: And like I said, we've gone on trips like this,
Speaker 1: so I can't say that I've never taken a trip
Speaker 1: where we went to We went to Disney one time
Speaker 1: and they opened up a new ride and they did
Speaker 1: a new land and you know, it was a whole
Speaker 1: big thing and Disney took care of us. And like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it happens, and you disclose it. You make sure that
Speaker 1: when you're on a trip like that, you have to
Speaker 1: make sure. And you also like to me, I've never
Speaker 1: gone on a trip because it's a free trip like
Speaker 1: that would be yeah, just not cool.
Speaker 2: No, And believe me, going on the trip, I get
Speaker 2: offered a lot of these things. You know it. I
Speaker 2: tell you all the time, like hey, this this place
Speaker 2: offered to take us and they're all in like Alaska,
Speaker 2: I'd go there.
Speaker 4: That would actually be really cool.
Speaker 1: I guess at the bottom line, I'm jealous I wasn't invited.
Speaker 2: I guess that's really a horrible place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would not want to go there. I hear
Speaker 1: this is really cold this time of year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's raining, actually raining, like nice warm water. Okay,
Speaker 4: So this next question comes from Adriana. She asks, I'm
Speaker 4: looking for some cool ideas for my husband. I'm assuming
Speaker 4: for Christmas or the holidays, and she says, any thoughts
Speaker 4: on wireless charging pads versus charging banks.
Speaker 1: So wireless charging pads versus a wireless charging bank, they're
Speaker 1: two different things, and they're two different uses. So I'll
Speaker 1: just tell you what I do. So I have a
Speaker 1: wireless charging pad next to my bed. So wireless charging
Speaker 1: is way slower than typical charging. In most cases. It's
Speaker 1: just not as fast as plugging in your phone. So
Speaker 1: if you need your phone done WI, you know, charged
Speaker 1: up fast, always plugging it in is going to be faster.
Speaker 1: Wireless has gotten better at this, but it's still not
Speaker 1: as fast as wired as far as I know.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: So that's so I'd recommend the wireless charging for two
Speaker 1: places bedside overnight, so.
Speaker 2: You put your phone there and it charges slowly throughout
Speaker 2: the night and you wake up and it's done.
Speaker 1: Or at work, when you're just sitting there and your
Speaker 1: phone is next to your desk, you can have it
Speaker 1: trickle charging all day. You just kind of lay your
Speaker 1: phone down there. Anyway, most people lay their phone on
Speaker 1: their desk, might as well lay it on a charging pad,
Speaker 1: wireless charging pad. Those are the two places. Now with
Speaker 1: the bedside thing, I will tell you there have been
Speaker 1: many nights where if you don't place it just right,
Speaker 1: you wake up in the morning and your phone has
Speaker 1: not been charged. Now I will tell you that happened
Speaker 1: to me this week. My phone was still at seventy
Speaker 1: three percent. So the iPhone, like I said, it's like, is.
Speaker 4: It one of those things where you're just supposed to
Speaker 4: really like look and see that you put it down
Speaker 4: and you hear it go.
Speaker 2: Yes, you have to. You have to check every single time.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And sometimes I'll like go to sleep and I'll like
Speaker 2: open an eye, I'm like, oh, I really, let me
Speaker 2: check again, and you have to look and make sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So that's number one. The power bank is different.
Speaker 1: That's when you need portable power, right, And so I
Speaker 1: would recommend a company named Anchor. They make fantastic portable
Speaker 1: battery packs.
Speaker 2: Go on Amazon. You can get a great pack.
Speaker 1: The higher the number, they're usually in milliamp hours, so
Speaker 1: ten thousand, so about I'll just give it to you
Speaker 1: this way. iPhone battery is about three thousand million amp hours.
Speaker 1: Let's just say that. Okay, if you get one of
Speaker 1: these power banks, let's say it's three thousand million powers,
Speaker 1: how many times does that charge your iPhone once? Yes,
Speaker 1: if it's about five thousand, you might get twice. If
Speaker 1: it's ten thousand, you might get three times. So again,
Speaker 1: the higher you get, the more charges you're gonna get.
Speaker 2: And it's not a perfect science.
Speaker 3: And you get wireless charging banks that charge.
Speaker 2: It faster, yes you can.
Speaker 1: And in fact, there are actually power banks that are
Speaker 1: wireless as well, like Mophi Mate Turn where you sit
Speaker 1: it on top of it. Yeah, so there are Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the sound. So there's a lot of things to do.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I think he's gonna be happy with
Speaker 1: something from Mophy for the wireless charging and then something
Speaker 1: from Anchor for the regular charging power bank.
Speaker 2: Cool.
Speaker 1: All right, this was my head scratcher of the week.
Speaker 1: Oregon FBI. Do you know that I used to say
Speaker 1: Oregon when I came from New Jersey.
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Really soon?
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 3: Oh isn't that a character from Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 2: Oh I don't know. Okay, I never saw that.
Speaker 1: Uh, Oregon, now it's now I'm getting confused. It's Oregon,
Speaker 1: It's Orgon Okay, so Oregon. FBI out with a press
Speaker 1: release this week that says you must secure your smart TV.
Speaker 1: So a lot of people are getting these smart TVs,
Speaker 1: especially during Black Friday Cyber Monday, a lot of people
Speaker 1: picked up TVs, and they're warning about the microphones in
Speaker 1: these TVs that could potentially be used to.
Speaker 2: Spy on you.
Speaker 1: But also they say a number of the newer TVs
Speaker 1: also have built in cameras. Now this is where I
Speaker 1: find their advice to be kind of strange, because here
Speaker 1: in the US, we have not seen a large number
Speaker 1: of TVs with cameras in them. In fact, I have
Speaker 1: yet to find one model that's been sold in the US.
Speaker 1: I did find some that were sold overseas, Asia and India. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this is definitely a thing. And of course in
Speaker 1: the future, like I personally would love to have a
Speaker 1: camera in the TV because video chatting would be a
Speaker 1: lot easier.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway, so their article is going through all the things
Speaker 1: that like, they're basically saying that you just need to
Speaker 1: keep in mind that your smart TV could be spying
Speaker 1: on you with the camera and the microphone, so just
Speaker 1: be aware of that. And so my advice is twofold
Speaker 1: number one. If you don't use the smart side of
Speaker 1: your TV, like the apps, then just disconnect it from
Speaker 1: Wi Fi. Some TVs you can't do that, so that's
Speaker 1: maybe never logged into the Wi Fi.
Speaker 2: I don't know. They also recommend that if you do
Speaker 2: have a camera, you can put a piece of black
Speaker 2: tape over it as a basic option for like privacy.
Speaker 4: I see a lot of people putting tape over the
Speaker 4: camera on their laptop.
Speaker 2: Yeah. They make those little slider things too.
Speaker 1: I have one on my computer, but it just kind
Speaker 1: of interrupted the close ability, like the it didn't sit flat,
Speaker 1: and it really just annoyed me. Yeah, and it's just
Speaker 1: annoyed the aesthetic of you.
Speaker 3: I really think someone's watching.
Speaker 1: I don't think someone's watching, but I definitely think there
Speaker 1: is a potential for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, but here's the thing we've carried phones around
Speaker 1: now for ten years, and they have cameras, and they
Speaker 1: have cameras and microphones, and we have yet to see
Speaker 1: a wide spread issue of like someone tapping into a
Speaker 1: lot of phones and monitoring people. And we also have
Speaker 1: these speakers in our homes from Google and elect and
Speaker 1: Echo you know Amazon, the Echo, Yeah, that also have microphones.
Speaker 1: And we have cameras, like we have Nest cameras, we
Speaker 1: have ring cameras.
Speaker 2: So no matter what your TV is, just like the
Speaker 2: least your worries.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's cameras and microphones everywhere nowadays, and we're putting
Speaker 1: them there. Yeah, and so if someone was able to
Speaker 1: figure out and exploit it could be pretty bad. But
Speaker 1: most of the time what happens ninety nine point nine
Speaker 1: percent of the time, your password is very weak and
Speaker 1: that's how they crack into these things. And so if
Speaker 1: you and I think like a lot of these companies
Speaker 1: are doing better at making you choose a strong pasth
Speaker 1: like the Nests of the World and stuff. But if
Speaker 1: you get one of these, especially a cheap kind of
Speaker 1: IP camera off of Amazon, the best thing you.
Speaker 2: Can do is change the password immediately. Just don't use
Speaker 2: the default password.
Speaker 1: And in general, just be very very cognizant of how
Speaker 1: these things can affect you and just remember that. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, you want to set it up really fast
Speaker 1: and get the camera running, but like, think about the
Speaker 1: implications of using the same password that you use for
Speaker 1: everything for the past ten years on your security camera
Speaker 1: or your ring doorbell. Like, just think about that. Like
Speaker 1: you want it to be something unique and safe and
Speaker 1: a little bit uncrackable.
Speaker 2: Producer Megan.
Speaker 4: Okay, so our next question comes from Sherry Can Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's how she wants you to say it.
Speaker 1: I was just listening to four Seasons yesterday in the
Speaker 1: car after we talked about them.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: So Sherry asked, can you recommend a good flip phone
Speaker 4: for seniors?
Speaker 3: We are on T Mobile.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I know it. You're I have it.
Speaker 2: Oh no, because.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do a story on this and I have
Speaker 1: tested it and it's great. It's called the Alcatel Go
Speaker 1: Flip three. It is a flip phone in all its glory.
Speaker 1: But here's the beauty of it. It has access to
Speaker 1: Google Maps, YouTube, and Google Assistant. So you have this
Speaker 1: little phone that's kind of a dumb phone. It's a
Speaker 1: flip phone, but it has just enough smarts to get
Speaker 1: you through the day.
Speaker 4: Are they called dumb phone, like a pretty much.
Speaker 1: Kind of smart Yeah, dumb phone, yeah, if you think
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: And this is available on T Mobile.
Speaker 1: I think it's like a hundred bucks maybe with a
Speaker 1: contract or whatever, you know, like you sign up or whatever.
Speaker 2: But that, I mean, what more do you need?
Speaker 3: So the YouTube videos play on that small screen?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well this one inside it has a small screen
Speaker 1: on the outside and then a big screen on the inside.
Speaker 2: Which is still small.
Speaker 3: It's really interesting.
Speaker 2: It's a flip phone. What did you think. I was
Speaker 2: gonna say the Motorola one.
Speaker 4: Well, but then I realized that Motorola is only Verizon,
Speaker 4: yes for the Razor. Yeah, And and she didn't say smartphone.
Speaker 1: And that's a smartphone, right, So it's like, it looks
Speaker 1: like a dumb phone, but it's actually pretty smart.
Speaker 2: It actually looks pretty slick. But this is it.
Speaker 1: I think this is fantastic, and I actually wish I
Speaker 1: get a lot of emails about a very simple flip
Speaker 1: phone that people want. And there's actually another phone I
Speaker 1: could recommend too, but it's almost too simple to recommend
Speaker 1: for most people. But it's called I should have brought
Speaker 1: in here. It's called the light phone, okay, and they
Speaker 1: sent it to me to test. We're gonna include it.
Speaker 1: I'm doing a story, all right. Since you're listening to
Speaker 1: the podcast, you just get to know like things ahead
Speaker 1: of time. But we're working on a story that's called
Speaker 1: three Unique Phones. Yeah, and one of them is the
Speaker 1: light phone.
Speaker 2: Which is this. It almost does. I show it to you.
Speaker 2: It has the screen like a kindle No oh my.
Speaker 2: When you see it, you won't believe. It's so simple.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's literally just a phone. It's a tiny phone like this.
Speaker 1: It just dials numbers and gets texts and that's it.
Speaker 1: And it's super simple. It doesn't have it has a
Speaker 1: black and white display.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so.
Speaker 1: I'll show you that. That's a little bit more expensive.
Speaker 1: And it also really I mean, it's good for seniors,
Speaker 1: I guess because it's you know, it doesn't do any thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but no internet, no internet.
Speaker 2: No nothing, no camera, no camera.
Speaker 1: Does have a headphone jack, which I don't think it
Speaker 1: could play music right now, but it does have a headphone.
Speaker 2: Jack for late calls and stuff. Maybe yeah, maybe for calls.
Speaker 1: To and then the Go the Go Flip three is
Speaker 1: the other one, and then there's one more. It's the
Speaker 1: LGG eight X. I think it's a dual.
Speaker 2: Screen kind of smartphone android. It's kind of funky, oh cool.
Speaker 4: So anyway, that'll be that's in like two.
Speaker 1: Weeks supposedly, I'm trying to get that story done before
Speaker 1: the end of the year.
Speaker 2: But we are filling up fast stories, a.
Speaker 4: Lot of stories because good stories.
Speaker 2: It's happening on Channel five. You can watch us there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you if you don't watch us there, you
Speaker 1: know we're on you know, I know, you know it's
Speaker 1: from the podcast, but we are also on TV and
Speaker 1: you are, well you're on sometimes too. Oh but yeah,
Speaker 1: you'll see Megan and my stories.
Speaker 2: But we are.
Speaker 1: I am on at five am, five point thirty five,
Speaker 1: generally seven fifty am, and then in the nine am hour,
Speaker 1: I usually say, because we switch around there a lot, right,
Speaker 1: So if you want to watch KTLA or Channel five,
Speaker 1: you know that's that's where I am. Google Photos I
Speaker 1: love one of my favorites, although I will say on
Speaker 1: the desktop it has gotten slower and slower and slower,
Speaker 1: and it's really annoying me. So I hope that they
Speaker 1: are fixing that, but it's still the best way to
Speaker 1: store and organize your photos because they do it all
Speaker 1: for you and search for pictures when people ask me.
Speaker 1: It's gotten to the point where I was on the
Speaker 1: radio on the Leo Laporte show filling in, and I
Speaker 1: was telling a story about how I dropped my smartphone
Speaker 1: at at a hotel in where was it, San Clementy,
Speaker 1: And I remember dropping it off the balcony of my
Speaker 1: hotel room.
Speaker 2: I was on the phone.
Speaker 3: I don't think you ever told me the story.
Speaker 2: Okay, well I dropped it off.
Speaker 3: I saw the tweet and.
Speaker 1: I was like, yes, okay, so I dropped my I
Speaker 1: was on my phone where you kind of have it
Speaker 1: up to your ear like this.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was talking to I think it was my mom
Speaker 1: or Lindsay one or the other, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it just fell out of my you know when you.
Speaker 2: Move around, it just like slipped out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just fell right into the downstairs. I was
Speaker 1: one floor up, fell onto their patio which had a
Speaker 1: fire going like a fire.
Speaker 3: Pit, and it fell into the fire.
Speaker 1: It popped onto the like just on the side, didn't
Speaker 1: fall into the fire. Popped on there and then it
Speaker 1: popped off to the side and this.
Speaker 3: Is like like heard surface.
Speaker 2: It was a concrete surface and crack. So I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: So, it actually took a picture as it hit the ground.
Speaker 1: Somehow it got the camera got activated. So I had
Speaker 1: this great picture once I retrieved it of the fire
Speaker 1: and it falling into the fire.
Speaker 2: I don't know how it took the picture. Anyway. I
Speaker 2: was telling this story to Johnny Jet on the Leo Laporte.
Speaker 1: Show and he's like, oh my god, what a fantastic
Speaker 1: picture I was able to While I was telling him,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I wish I could find it.
Speaker 2: I searched in my email.
Speaker 1: I either searched San Clemente or fire or something, and
Speaker 1: I was able to find the picture in about two seconds.
Speaker 2: Thanks Google Photos. Anyway, it's amazing.
Speaker 4: You can also search fire in photos on your I
Speaker 4: phone on your eyes. Yeah, like I always searched dog
Speaker 4: to find like pictures of my dog.
Speaker 2: Yes, you can search you can. Yeah, you do that
Speaker 2: every day every day. Let's see. So this new feature
Speaker 2: in Google Photos.
Speaker 1: It's I know that you take for granted since you
Speaker 1: have an iPhone that it's super easy to send people
Speaker 1: pictures on I Message, right, yeah, But when you're an Android,
Speaker 1: it's not that easy because if you're sending a picture
Speaker 1: via text on Android, it comes through small, and if
Speaker 1: you're sending a video, don't even think about it.
Speaker 2: It's terrible. You can't. Have you ever gotten a video
Speaker 2: for an Android squares? Yes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really bad. It's really bad.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So Google Photos is tackling this problem by letting you
Speaker 1: send kind of your own photos through Google Photos. Now,
Speaker 1: you've always been able to do that, but they're now
Speaker 1: making it more like a chat, so it feels like
Speaker 1: you're sending a text. But in Google Photos they're kind
Speaker 1: of going around the whole texting system because it's so
Speaker 1: messed up here in the US because there's no one
Speaker 1: platform that everyone's using that can guarantee when you go
Speaker 1: out somewhere and someone says, hey, can you send me
Speaker 1: that picture you just took? And if I'm Android and
Speaker 1: I text it to you on an iPhone, it looks terrible.
Speaker 1: If your iPhone, you text me a picture to my Android,
Speaker 1: it looks to arrible. Only iPhone to iPhone works out
Speaker 1: right now, wow, And Android to android's getting better with
Speaker 1: what they call rcs, but I still don't have it
Speaker 1: on my androids, so clearly other people don't either. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but what they're doing is you can just now chat
Speaker 1: inside Google Photos and send pictures their full resolution. And
Speaker 1: it's kind of like I always think about, like my mom,
Speaker 1: like she doesn't know the difference. Someone's like, hey, I
Speaker 1: just texted to you inside Google Photos, and she can
Speaker 1: go in there. She knows Google Photos because she uses it,
Speaker 1: goes in there, sees my text looks like a text message,
Speaker 1: sees the picture, can save it to her camera, roll
Speaker 1: or out gallery whatever, it's full resolution.
Speaker 4: She can do like iPhone to Android through Google Photos exactly.
Speaker 1: Or Android to Android, Android to iPhone, iPhone to Android,
Speaker 1: Android to iPhone, whatever wherever has Google Photos, you can
Speaker 1: finally send pictures as if it's a text. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: look for that feature in Google Photos. I do not
Speaker 1: have it yet on my Google Photos, but it is
Speaker 1: rolling out to Android iOS and the web without any
Speaker 1: image loss from the photos you've backed up, and it's
Speaker 1: gradually rolling out over the next week, so it'll be
Speaker 1: there any day now.
Speaker 4: Okay, So the next question is from Nicole rich Help.
Speaker 4: I listened to you on Kfi from Houston. I bought
Speaker 4: your iPhone.
Speaker 3: Book last year for my hobby.
Speaker 4: You know it all, so I know you'll have my answer.
Speaker 4: I'm getting mixed answers on this. I want an Apple
Speaker 4: Watch to listen to my music at the gym. I
Speaker 4: want to leave my phone in the locker floor above
Speaker 4: where I'll be working out. Well the signal reach on
Speaker 4: a Series three. I need to be able to get
Speaker 4: texts and calls, just in case my boys' school calls.
Speaker 4: I'd love to buy the cheaper Series three, but do
Speaker 4: I need the Series five through.
Speaker 3: With cellular five? Series five though with cellular thanks.
Speaker 1: Okay, A couple things going on here. So she wants
Speaker 1: to be able to use She wants to be able
Speaker 1: to get her texts and calls on her watch when
Speaker 1: she's at the gym. Now, if your watch is in
Speaker 1: the locker and you're on Wi Fi at the gym, right,
Speaker 1: which she could be. I don't know what her gym deals,
Speaker 1: but a lot of gyms have Wi Fi, right, so
Speaker 1: if she has Wi Fi and the so let's say
Speaker 1: you sign into Wi Fi on your iPhone, it usually
Speaker 1: transfers that Wi Fi over to your Apple Watch, like
Speaker 1: it will share the credentials, so it works sometimes, sometimes
Speaker 1: it doesn't. Most of the time it works. So if
Speaker 1: she's close enough to her Apple iPhone and she's on
Speaker 1: her Apple Watch. Let's say she's on the treadmill downstairs,
Speaker 1: the watch, the phone is upstairs in her locker. If
Speaker 1: that kind of signal reaches, it should work to send
Speaker 1: her messages and calls. But I don't think that's a
Speaker 1: good way to do it because it's not guaranteed, so
Speaker 1: I don't recommend that, like if she wants to rely
Speaker 1: on making sure she can get a call on her phone,
Speaker 1: like I'm in my house sometimes and my watch is
Speaker 1: on Wi Fi and I answer it and it still doesn't.
Speaker 1: It's like transferring the call from my phone doesn't work
Speaker 1: half the time.
Speaker 4: And it doesn't matter if it's a Series three or
Speaker 4: Series five.
Speaker 2: That's both. She number one, you only need. If she's
Speaker 2: looking to save money, she only needs a Series three.
Speaker 2: They both offer cellular.
Speaker 1: The difference is some of the other features on the
Speaker 1: Series five, which always on screen, fall protection and a compass.
Speaker 1: She doesn't eat any of that stuff, So I don't
Speaker 1: know if she sounds young right, she's kids.
Speaker 3: She did not say her age.
Speaker 2: But well, I mean if you're.
Speaker 3: She has kids, she has sounds like she has young kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're at an age where you think you
Speaker 1: might be at risk for falling, then you might want
Speaker 1: to look into the series five. Yeah, that's kind of
Speaker 1: what I'm getting at there. But with the music situation,
Speaker 1: so I would number one for her recommend cellular.
Speaker 2: You got to get cellular.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ten dollars a month. It's a necessary evil. It's
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty bucks a year. Look, you know you
Speaker 1: get It opens up a lot of functionality on the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch. Number two music, So two things with music.
Speaker 1: Number one, if you have Apple Music, it automatically can
Speaker 1: transfer music to your Watch, and so you can listen
Speaker 1: to anything without a cellular connection. But if she's getting cellular,
Speaker 1: she can really use any music apps that she wants
Speaker 1: that supports the Apple Watch.
Speaker 4: So you can't download music on like Spotify on the
Speaker 4: Apple Water.
Speaker 2: Spotify, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: But Pandora, I believe, is the only one that's first
Speaker 1: out of the gate besides Apple.
Speaker 2: Music to let you download some music.
Speaker 1: Now, I could be wrong there, And if you're listening
Speaker 1: and you think I'm wrong, let me know. But as
Speaker 1: far as I know, I don't think that you have
Speaker 1: Spotify on the Apple Watch. I feel like I would
Speaker 1: have heard about this and so far. Yeah, so what
Speaker 1: I'm seeing if you're a Spotify subscriber, you can play
Speaker 1: pause and skip music and podcasts, control the volume, get
Speaker 1: info about what's playing. Nowhere to to say that you
Speaker 1: can listen to music offline, okay, which is what you
Speaker 1: want it to. You want to transfer music from your
Speaker 1: phone to your watch, and I think the only things
Speaker 1: that do that are Apple Music right now and Pandora,
Speaker 1: and you know, so pick one of those two things. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's a very complicated thing. I believe it was my
Speaker 1: sister who got an Apple Watch. She was so excited
Speaker 1: to use her Spotify on it, and I felt bad
Speaker 1: breaking it to her. I was like, oh, it doesn't
Speaker 1: work with Apple Watch, Like you can't. You would just
Speaker 1: think that your music would just carry over. I thought, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: So I actually have Apple Music on my watch, and
Speaker 1: I just have all my playlists or a couple, mostly
Speaker 1: my workout.
Speaker 2: Playlists like sync. So it's just like it's just like
Speaker 2: Cardio music or like workout beast mode. Duh.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think beast Mode is a Spotify playlist?
Speaker 3: Is it also an Apple No?
Speaker 2: Sorry, I was okay, yeah, I was good, good catch
Speaker 2: on that. I used to have Spotify.
Speaker 1: Yeah, now that I'm using Apple Music, I kind of
Speaker 1: switched over to Apple Music because it's free.
Speaker 2: I get it through Verizon and I have it on
Speaker 2: my watch.
Speaker 3: Really nice.
Speaker 1: I resisted it for many years because Spotify is kind
Speaker 1: of like the you know, gold standards.
Speaker 3: I just kidding.
Speaker 1: It's so funny that you say that, because I actually
Speaker 1: think Apple Music is way better than Spotify.
Speaker 4: Like, oh, I and I'm I feel like I have
Speaker 4: no idea because I've never used Apple Music truly, But
Speaker 4: I have a friend who had who got Apple Music
Speaker 4: because Taylor Swift had her album on there. Well it
Speaker 4: was taking off Spotify, Okay, so she switched to Apple
Speaker 4: Music and she thinks that she said, Spotify seems so
Speaker 4: much cooler.
Speaker 2: Oh really, she has Apple Music.
Speaker 1: So I think I think Spotify has more playlists, but
Speaker 1: I think there's more garbage on there, Like it's a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: It's like a lot of noise that.
Speaker 4: Because the app is like a different color than no.
Speaker 1: I just think there's too many playlists like anyone can
Speaker 1: create a playlist and it's like.
Speaker 2: On there, it's like too much.
Speaker 1: Like with Apple Music, it's like you want country music,
Speaker 1: it's like there's like five country music playlists and it like,
Speaker 1: now there's more than that.
Speaker 2: So Apple Music, don't get mad at me. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: I'm just saying.
Speaker 1: And it's organized in a way where it's like the
Speaker 1: top one is always called the A list, so it's
Speaker 1: like a list, pop A list, country a list, this,
Speaker 1: and it's.
Speaker 2: Like okay, just easy.
Speaker 4: But see now I'm like, maybe I don't get an
Speaker 4: Apple Watch and I continue to wait because I can't
Speaker 4: play my Spotify music.
Speaker 1: I will say I think that uh they will. They
Speaker 1: will sell a lot of Apple Watches when you can
Speaker 1: finally use Spotify on it. Oh, because a lot of
Speaker 1: people that have been holding out because they're just kind
Speaker 1: of annoyed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll be like, oh I can.
Speaker 3: Find I didn't know that I would.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, so I got let's see, I don't
Speaker 1: have time for both stories. Which story do you want
Speaker 1: to hear? Do you want to hear the Oh?
Speaker 2: I you know what? I the mattress hackers. I actually
Speaker 2: got so okay, really this is Wall Street Journal so uh,
Speaker 2: basically the story is that there are people out there.
Speaker 1: I'm calling them mattress hackers. You these all these new
Speaker 1: mattresses that come to your home in a box, like
Speaker 1: we just bought one, yeah, Lisa and I love it.
Speaker 2: By the way, the Lisa Hybrid. I got the Lisa Hybrid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, non not spot hashtag, not sponsored, but it we
Speaker 1: actually went with that over the Casper because we went
Speaker 1: on well, I went on both. I went into the
Speaker 1: mall and I laid on the casper. They have little
Speaker 1: rooms at the mall where you can actually schedule a
Speaker 1: nap for half an hour oh wow, yeah, and lay
Speaker 1: on and take a nap on the casper. It's like
Speaker 1: a little house that you should take a nap and
Speaker 1: try it out and see because it's a very different feeling.
Speaker 1: Like the casper is very like you sink into it
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Now they have new versions that like
Speaker 1: you don't sink as much. But anyway, so I went
Speaker 1: there and then I went to Lisa and Macy's and
Speaker 1: I ended up choosing to Lisa. But anyway, you get
Speaker 1: a hundred days to have these things in your home,
Speaker 1: and apparently people are hacking the system by literally They
Speaker 1: tell the story of a guy in New York City
Speaker 1: who has been sleeping on five different mattresses over the
Speaker 1: course of fifteen months, each one purchased and returned consecutively,
Speaker 1: using the free trial policies of dozens of box in
Speaker 1: a bed startups.
Speaker 4: How do they figure this out?
Speaker 1: It's actually kind of brilliant. I mean, a hundred days
Speaker 1: for how many months?
Speaker 2: Is that? Three months? Yeah, so it sounds like a lot.
Speaker 3: More so how do they figure this out?
Speaker 2: Though? Well, they just you know, all.
Speaker 4: All the mattress companies talk obviously, no if you buy
Speaker 4: one from the other one, it's like you just you know,
Speaker 4: you go it.
Speaker 2: So they talk about it.
Speaker 1: You got Casper, You've got Tuft and Needle, You've got Liza.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many When I do the research
Speaker 1: on these, there are so many of them.
Speaker 2: That I could see how you can do this.
Speaker 1: Personally, I think it's really annoying, Like who wants to
Speaker 1: switch out their mattress? Every this thing? Once you unbox it,
Speaker 1: it inflates and.
Speaker 4: You get so you basically pay so you pay for
Speaker 4: the mattress, you sleep on it for ninety nine days,
Speaker 4: then you're like, I want to return this, they'll pay
Speaker 4: give you the money back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is also kind of weird because I was
Speaker 1: wondering about that because I was wondering if they don't
Speaker 1: charge you until the hundredth day, You're like.
Speaker 3: What about the thirtieth day? Like why a hundred this
Speaker 3: is a long time.
Speaker 1: Well, they want to make sure because it's you're buying.
Speaker 1: It's a very new way to buy a mattress. So
Speaker 1: I actually do appreciate that. And thirty three months kind
Speaker 1: of gives you different seasons a little bit, like if
Speaker 1: you you know, a mattress in the summer might be hot,
Speaker 1: Like a lot of people say that the the these
Speaker 1: new mattresses are really hot because they don't displace the
Speaker 1: heat as much as a regular mattress.
Speaker 2: So that's something to think about. There's a lot like
Speaker 2: when you start doing research on them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's like it's like a whole thing, like you
Speaker 1: never like the last time I bought a mattress, I
Speaker 1: literally was at the furniture store and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: take a mattress.
Speaker 2: This time.
Speaker 1: I was like online, I'm like pouring through all these
Speaker 1: websites and like reading about it, and everyone says like
Speaker 1: you take.
Speaker 3: Like a personality test.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy take do.
Speaker 4: Blood work, like, oh, okay, this is the mattress.
Speaker 2: This is your blood mattress.
Speaker 4: I mean, in ten years, they're probably gonna make you
Speaker 4: do your blood test.
Speaker 2: This is your blood mattress. Isn't there that diet? It's like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah, haven't you heard that, like the blood diet.
Speaker 2: It's like, no, yeah, I think that's what I thought
Speaker 2: you were referencing.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I haven't heard that.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure there's like a diet where it's like
Speaker 1: it matched up to your blood. Anyway, one quick question
Speaker 1: from you, go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 3: I wasn't ready for this.
Speaker 4: Okay, oh, there we go. This is from Ray Rich Hi, Rick, Sorry,
Speaker 4: I had.
Speaker 3: To include that.
Speaker 2: I know people love to take.
Speaker 4: Can you recommend a decent duplicate photo finder?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, what's his name?
Speaker 3: His name is Ray?
Speaker 2: Okay, Raw, I knew you were.
Speaker 1: Going to do it back Okay, So I know on
Speaker 1: on my Mac computer, I know the one I like.
Speaker 1: It's called Gemini, and they also have a version of
Speaker 1: it for your iPhone. So that's pretty cool. So I
Speaker 1: would look into that. Does he say if he has
Speaker 1: Mac or PC? No, he doesn't say okay, he just
Speaker 1: says duplicate photo Finder. Okay, he says, so I would
Speaker 1: say the other one. I did some research on line
Speaker 1: found a website that recon So here's how I did
Speaker 1: my research. Since I don't really use duplicate filefinder on Windows,
Speaker 1: I looked for a website that recommends Gemini, which is
Speaker 1: my pick. And then I said, well, if they know Gemini,
Speaker 1: they obviously are pretty good and they might know another
Speaker 1: good one.
Speaker 2: So softwarehow dot com.
Speaker 1: They have two recommendations for PC Duplicate Cleaner Pro, which
Speaker 1: is their main one, and then easy Duplicate Finder. So
Speaker 1: those are the recommendations, so go with it as you will.
Speaker 4: Fun Ray isn't that his name?
Speaker 2: Okay, we're not going.
Speaker 1: To get into the story about the top apps of
Speaker 1: the year, but I'll just mention two of them because
Speaker 1: they're kind of cool. Specter Camera by lux Optics this
Speaker 1: is Apple's top app of the year, and what's cool
Speaker 1: about it is that it lets you do really cool
Speaker 1: things with your photos with artificial intelligence.
Speaker 2: Like you could take a.
Speaker 1: Picture of like the Eiffel Tower and get rid of
Speaker 1: the whole crowd around it, which would be kind of cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I need to try that feature because I'm curious how
Speaker 1: they do it. How would we do I don't know,
Speaker 1: you just have to find some anyway, we'll try it out.
Speaker 1: And then the other ones they mentioned our Canva, which
Speaker 1: are these are all things like help you with Social
Speaker 1: Media Canva, which I've used Unfold, which is really cool
Speaker 1: for Instagram stories. Spark Camera I had not heard of,
Speaker 1: and it's really cool if you want to do vertical videos.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a video camera and an editing software
Speaker 1: suite all in one. So if you ever see people
Speaker 1: with really slick Instagram stories, that's probably how they're doing them.
Speaker 2: Yea Canva or no. Spark Camera. Spark Camera cool Instagram Stories.
Speaker 1: Canva is also good for that, but that's mainly for
Speaker 1: like slides, you know what I mean, like still kind
Speaker 1: of thing. And then the other one is Over, which
Speaker 1: actually I did a panel. I mean I'm talking five
Speaker 1: six years ago and they mentioned over like so many
Speaker 1: years ago, so that's been around for a while. Over
Speaker 1: on Android, tell me about Albow. What happened yesterday with Albo?
Speaker 1: When you alow when you tested it? Okay, this is
Speaker 1: an app that lets.
Speaker 4: You yes, yes, it was literally that so that was it.
Speaker 2: What happens?
Speaker 1: Okay, So what happens or old Megan had to test
Speaker 1: this app yesterday for me, poor little Megan, and what happened.
Speaker 4: So basically, the app has cool graphics, like it shows you,
Speaker 4: doesn't show you, but it shows like the US, and
Speaker 4: then it takes like this plane and it flies to
Speaker 4: like Egypt, and then it's like.
Speaker 3: You're now talking to like this person from Egypt.
Speaker 2: And and I don't know what the person.
Speaker 3: Was, man or a woman.
Speaker 4: Oh well, so Luis tried it on video chat and
Speaker 4: he said, so he tried it first because he was like, oh,
Speaker 4: I just downloaded it, I'm gonna go try it. And
Speaker 4: he said that when he when the video chat started, the.
Speaker 3: Guy that he was video chatting with was it wearing
Speaker 3: a shirt?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, you said naked. Okay, that doesn't really count
Speaker 2: as naked.
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, that's he's just so. Then, so then I
Speaker 4: tried it when we're shooting the story, and every time
Speaker 4: I would say hi to someone.
Speaker 3: I didn't do face chat, but I didn't want to.
Speaker 4: They would just they would.
Speaker 3: Just leave the chat.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: So it's so and then like when I don't know,
Speaker 3: so anyway.
Speaker 2: This is this is the Google Best App of twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4: I don't know how you find friends on this because
Speaker 4: I tried it for twenty minutes I made no friends.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, maybe it's more popular. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe they don't like people from the.
Speaker 3: US, honestly, maybe maybe that's it.
Speaker 1: The other app, Google's user choice app is another social
Speaker 1: media helper.
Speaker 2: It's called Glitch Video Effects of Android. That was cool.
Speaker 1: It looked like it had a lot of it's the
Speaker 1: same one that does that. I think it's called Inshot.
Speaker 1: It's like the video editor program, same people.
Speaker 3: And then the Specter app.
Speaker 4: We used it in the newsroom where there were people
Speaker 4: and it did get rid of all the like like
Speaker 4: if someone walked in front of the camera, it got
Speaker 4: rid of it. It would get rid of them, which was cool.
Speaker 2: All right, yeah, well very cool. I like it. All right.
Speaker 2: Now you know the top apps, Well, that's going to
Speaker 2: do it for the show can you Believe it? Another
Speaker 2: show in what do you call it for a podcast
Speaker 2: in the can? You can't say in the can because
Speaker 2: it's like not really a can.
Speaker 1: Was probably like back in the day when you had
Speaker 1: film in the in the digital world, in the digit.
Speaker 2: In the library, in the library, I guess. Let's see.
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