Speaker 1: Pixel six a review. Netflix tries to squeeze more out
Speaker 1: of subscribers. Amazon buys a doctor's office, well lots of them.
Speaker 1: Plus your tech questions answered? What's going on on? Rich
Speaker 1: Demiro And this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where
Speaker 1: I talk about the tech stuff I think you should
Speaker 1: know about. It's also the place where I answer the
Speaker 1: questions you sent me. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA
Speaker 1: Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome to the show. Hopefully
Speaker 1: you are having a fantastic day looking forward to a
Speaker 1: fantastic next day or weekend. Whenever you happen to listen
Speaker 1: to this show. I don't know. You could listen to
Speaker 1: it in a year from now. You could be listening
Speaker 1: from the future or the past. Who knows. All right,
Speaker 1: So what is going on? Man? So much to talk about?
Speaker 1: So many things? So last night I was out I
Speaker 1: kind of late for a school night. I know I
Speaker 1: do it sometimes only for really good reasons. But last
Speaker 1: night we were out at this event. It was a
Speaker 1: pizza making event where they, you know, have these pizza
Speaker 1: ovens that are cool and techie and all that. So
Speaker 1: I did a segment, but the person who was cooking
Speaker 1: the pizzas is this guy named Chris Bianco, and if
Speaker 1: you're not familiar with him, he's kind of a big
Speaker 1: deal in the pizza making space. I mean, he's a
Speaker 1: big deal in the chef space all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: And so it's this is what I think is so
Speaker 1: interestingly fascinating about being a reporter like I am because
Speaker 1: I know this guy Chris, and this has happened plenty
Speaker 1: of times, you know, follow him. Wanted to go to
Speaker 1: his restaurant in Phoenix, which I didn't make it too,
Speaker 1: but he just opened one up in LA But it's
Speaker 1: like one of these things where like I never expect
Speaker 1: to meet this person that I really think is cool,
Speaker 1: and then here I am interviewing and making pizza with
Speaker 1: this guy you know last night. Just amazing fascinating. This
Speaker 1: happens over and over and over, and this is one
Speaker 1: of the things I always talk about which is so
Speaker 1: fun about being a journalist is that you are put
Speaker 1: into situations that average people are not put into. You
Speaker 1: are talking to people that average people don't get access to,
Speaker 1: and you get just access to things that you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes regular people don't get access to. That's really fun.
Speaker 1: And your job is to take that and to kind
Speaker 1: of bring that experience to the people watching or listening
Speaker 1: or reading. And you know, I hold that to a
Speaker 1: It is very near and dear in my heart, the
Speaker 1: fact that I am entrusted to do that. And if
Speaker 1: you didn't like it, you know, I don't know, Like
Speaker 1: it's definitely like I see, It's one of these things
Speaker 1: that it just keeps me going because it's so much
Speaker 1: fun to have that honor and privilege. And I get it.
Speaker 1: I'm just a regular person. The people I'm talking to
Speaker 1: are just regular people. We're all just human. But it's
Speaker 1: just a really cool kind of like I don't know,
Speaker 1: like I really there's a reason, like the answers that
Speaker 1: he was giving yesterday about making pizza or just so
Speaker 1: fun and interesting. So anyway, I'll have that story soon
Speaker 1: on KTLA. But the other thing I want to talk
Speaker 1: about is I'm always trying to make this show less
Speaker 1: I guess, more green, you know. And so in the
Speaker 1: past I've tried things where I've used my iPad to
Speaker 1: do the show. I have used the web to do it,
Speaker 1: like just looking at you know, things, But this time
Speaker 1: I actually resubscribe to Evernote and I tweeted this a
Speaker 1: couple of minutes ago. But I resubscribe to Evernoe and
Speaker 1: so I'm using that today to produce the show. And
Speaker 1: it's pretty amazing because just by you know, subscribing to
Speaker 1: Evernote again, I am now saving a ton of paper
Speaker 1: by not having to print this stuff out. We'll see
Speaker 1: if the shows is good, but I don't know, we'll see,
Speaker 1: But it's just one of these things that it's like
Speaker 1: a small change that really makes a big difference. So
Speaker 1: if I'm stumbling a little bit more than typical on
Speaker 1: the show, that's why, because I'm saving the Earth in
Speaker 1: the creation of this show. All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: the first topic of the show, which is the Google
Speaker 1: Pixel six A. If you're watching on Instagram right now,
Speaker 1: you see it. It is right there. Google Pixel six
Speaker 1: A is Google's least expensive smartphone. It is four hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars and it is a phenomenal device at
Speaker 1: that price. So what do I like about it? This
Speaker 1: is the Sage green color, which is really cool. What
Speaker 1: I love about it is the price four hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars. So many people come to me. Now you
Speaker 1: may sit there and say, oh, rich, Come on, everyone
Speaker 1: gets an iPhone everyone Not everyone wants an iPhone, right,
Speaker 1: And so the reality is there are a lot of
Speaker 1: people out there. There are a lot of people that
Speaker 1: want different options, and one of those options is a
Speaker 1: different kind of phone that is a little bit less
Speaker 1: expensive than an iPhone, and the Pixel Phone is that phone.
Speaker 1: So the Pixel six A. You know, what do you get?
Speaker 1: You get a really good size phone. I love the
Speaker 1: size of this phone. You get excellent software, you get
Speaker 1: an amazing camera. The Pixel camera is known to be
Speaker 1: really really good, and I can vouch for that because
Speaker 1: I've used it many times. The fingerprint reader a little
Speaker 1: bit sluggish, a little bit slow, and the refresh rate
Speaker 1: on this phone is definitely not the highest, and so
Speaker 1: it does feel a little bit more sluggish on the screen.
Speaker 1: It's tough to explain because the screen can feel sluggish.
Speaker 1: But the phone is actually really fast. It's got the
Speaker 1: latest processor in it, Google's tensor processor, which is really good.
Speaker 1: So it's a fast phone. I was editing video on
Speaker 1: this phone and it's just phenomenal. But the screen itself
Speaker 1: kind of the things that move on the screen are
Speaker 1: a little bit slower than you'd expect. Which is kind
Speaker 1: of weird because it's the thing that you probably won't notice,
Speaker 1: but I do because my current phone is a much
Speaker 1: faster refresh rate, and so you do notice those kind
Speaker 1: of things when it comes to the camera. Excellent for
Speaker 1: everyday shots. No optical zoom, wide angles. A little bit
Speaker 1: less wide than some other flagship phones, but that's fine.
Speaker 1: There's this fun feature called Magic Eraser, which will erase
Speaker 1: random people and objects out of your photos. There's another
Speaker 1: new feature called Camouflage, which will kind of let's say
Speaker 1: you took a picture of your kid and there's like
Speaker 1: a big cooler in front of it, or some sort
Speaker 1: of big distracting object. You can just basically circle around
Speaker 1: that object and it will make that object sort of
Speaker 1: blend in with the screen. It will make it less vibrant.
Speaker 1: Let's see. Biggest downside, like I said, is just the
Speaker 1: fingerprint and the sluggish screen. Otherwise, this is a really
Speaker 1: really good phone. Now let me just say one thing
Speaker 1: about it. Though. It's four hundred and fifty dollars right,
Speaker 1: which sounds pretty cheap. But the Pixel six, which is
Speaker 1: this phone's older sibling, which has slightly better specs, or
Speaker 1: I should say better specs. That phone was on sale
Speaker 1: for four hundred and ninety nine dollars on Prime Day.
Speaker 1: So basically, I'm telling you that this phone should be
Speaker 1: at a target price of three hundred and ninety nine
Speaker 1: dollars on sale at some point before the end of
Speaker 1: the year. I'm expecting this to be that price before
Speaker 1: the holidays because of the fact that it's older sibling,
Speaker 1: which sells for closer to I think it's six hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: It was let's say it's four ninety ninety five ninety
Speaker 1: six ninety nine, so it was two hundred dollars off.
Speaker 1: So my point is, this is a great phone. Keep
Speaker 1: your eye on it. No need to purchase it right now,
Speaker 1: but just put it in you know, put it in
Speaker 1: the back of your head, put it in your Amazon cart,
Speaker 1: or just look for kind of deals on this phone.
Speaker 1: At three ninety nine. I think at four point fifty
Speaker 1: it's still a good deal. But three ninety nine I
Speaker 1: think is still a pretty good deal too, So just
Speaker 1: watch for that price drop. All right, let's get to
Speaker 1: the first question of the show. Victoria says, is there
Speaker 1: a way to stop or curb spam emails that are
Speaker 1: flooding my inbox and junk. Thanks appreciate any help. Victoria
Speaker 1: love your segments on Fox forty. Fox forty in Sacramento. Yes, uh,
Speaker 1: Fox forty has been a great station over the year,
Speaker 1: so thanks for watching there in Sacramento. I'm actually going
Speaker 1: to visit Sacramento for the first time very soon, so
Speaker 1: I'm excited about that. All right. So stopping or curbing
Speaker 1: spam emails, Number one rule, do not unsubscribe. Do not
Speaker 1: interact with any spam email. If you get a spam email,
Speaker 1: do not. I would rarely even open it, But if
Speaker 1: it you know, in the rare chance that it comes
Speaker 1: to your inbox, I would not open that email. Delete
Speaker 1: it immediately. Do not press unsubscribe in a spam email.
Speaker 1: That will just cue the spammers to let you know
Speaker 1: that they've got a live email address and they will
Speaker 1: actually send more spam. So don't do that. If it's
Speaker 1: a legitimate spam email, like something from Macy's or Home Depot,
Speaker 1: those aren't really spam. You've actually signed up for those
Speaker 1: at some point and now you just continue to get emails.
Speaker 1: So you can safely unsubscribe to a company that sends
Speaker 1: you an email that is a legitimate company or a
Speaker 1: service or something like that. But if it's an unsolicited thing,
Speaker 1: do not unsubscribe. You don't want to do that. To
Speaker 1: curb these things, what I would do is look up
Speaker 1: how to not load remote images. You can do this
Speaker 1: on Apple, you can do this on Gmail, you can
Speaker 1: do it. You should be able to do it on
Speaker 1: most email providers. But you want to turn off remote
Speaker 1: load images. What does that do? So a lot of
Speaker 1: times these email spammers will put little pixels or little
Speaker 1: pixel It's like a tiny, tiny image in your email
Speaker 1: that you may not even see or any image in there.
Speaker 1: And when you load that image, it cues to them
Speaker 1: that this is a good email because that image was loaded.
Speaker 1: If it's never loaded, they don't know that you actually
Speaker 1: opened it. So I would say that definitely turn off
Speaker 1: remote image loading. Turn off remote image loading. Just google that.
Speaker 1: Plus like you know, Gmail, Windows Mail, whatever. Disable automatic
Speaker 1: image loading is what a lot of these providers call it.
Speaker 1: But again, once you do that, these providers will not
Speaker 1: be able to tell that you open their email, even
Speaker 1: if you didn't interact with it in any other way.
Speaker 1: So definitely turn that off. It's gonna be a little
Speaker 1: bit of an annoyance because every email now will not
Speaker 1: have images by default, but I do it for all
Speaker 1: of my emails, and you can turn it on per email,
Speaker 1: or you can turn it off, turn it on for
Speaker 1: the entire sender. So it'll say at the top of
Speaker 1: a new email, it'll say turn on images for this
Speaker 1: email or all emails from this provider. So definitely do
Speaker 1: that I get. I'm honestly, I don't even think I
Speaker 1: get any spam at this point, like maybe once in
Speaker 1: a while, and if I do, I'm very surprised that
Speaker 1: it comes through because it just doesn't really happen as much.
Speaker 1: When it does, I'm like, oh wow, I can't believe it.
Speaker 1: There's more spam. All right, good question, Thanks for watching.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the next topic of the day. Samsung.
Speaker 1: Samsung says they have sold well this is the weird thing.
Speaker 1: At first I thought that it said they sold ten
Speaker 1: million foldables last year, but now I'm reading it again
Speaker 1: and it says last year, we saw almost ten million
Speaker 1: foldable smartphones shipped worldwide. So I'm not sure that they
Speaker 1: sold ten million or the industry sold ten million, because
Speaker 1: there are other companies that make foldable phones. The first
Speaker 1: time I the first time I ever saw a foldable screen.
Speaker 1: I was at CS and it was just it was
Speaker 1: pure magic. And again, this is why I love my job.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm hands on with this thing that you
Speaker 1: just my eyes and my brain and my body had
Speaker 1: never experienced before. And I'm sitting there and I take
Speaker 1: a screen and I just fold it in half. How
Speaker 1: wild is that? I just totally amazing. And so we
Speaker 1: did a little This is when I was starting to
Speaker 1: This is when I was just starting to do like
Speaker 1: reels and stuff on Instagram. Don't even think they were
Speaker 1: called that back then, but I did a little video
Speaker 1: showing that, and it, you know, kind of went viral
Speaker 1: and it was just so cool because people had never
Speaker 1: seen the screen, like an LCD screen or LED screen,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. Folding in half. Now
Speaker 1: it's commonplace. Samsung says it's becoming even more commonplace. It's
Speaker 1: just been three years since since they introduced the foldable phone,
Speaker 1: and their first one was kind of a little bit
Speaker 1: of a problem, right. The problem was that the screen
Speaker 1: was kind of if it got a little piece of
Speaker 1: dust behind the screen, the whole thing went bad. So
Speaker 1: they figured that out for sure. Now they're shipping two
Speaker 1: phones that are really good, the Galaxy Fold the Galaxy Flip.
Speaker 1: Seventy percent of people choose the Flip over the Fold.
Speaker 1: The Flip is the smaller phone. It literally looks like
Speaker 1: this except imagine it looks like a standard smartphone, except
Speaker 1: it just literally folds in half. The Fold is kind
Speaker 1: of a bigger phone. It folds almost like outward. And
Speaker 1: so one of them folds up and down top to bottom.
Speaker 1: One folds left to right, and when you open up
Speaker 1: the fold, it basically looks like a tablet screen. And
Speaker 1: that's much more for productivity seekers. And they say that
Speaker 1: seventy percent of people choose the Flip and then thirty
Speaker 1: percent choose the Fold. Now, the reason why Samsung's saying
Speaker 1: all this is because on August tenth, they're having a
Speaker 1: new event, and in that event, they will show off
Speaker 1: their upgrades to the Fold and the Flip, which I
Speaker 1: expect to be better cameras. I don't know if they're
Speaker 1: gonna make them thinner or lighter. Maybe they'll get you know,
Speaker 1: a little bit of increases in those areas, but I
Speaker 1: think that's gonna be tough. But I think the main
Speaker 1: takeaway from these phones last year is that the cameras
Speaker 1: were good, they just weren't as good as the flagship.
Speaker 1: So hopefully we'll see better cameras because that would push
Speaker 1: more people to get these, because you're not sacrificing the
Speaker 1: camera to get this cool foldable form factor. I love
Speaker 1: the Galaxy Flip. In fact, I would probably use that
Speaker 1: as my daily driver, except the camera just wasn't up
Speaker 1: to par with what I needed on my phone on
Speaker 1: a daily basis. So again, August tenth Unpacked will be
Speaker 1: a This will be a virtual event, so it's not
Speaker 1: in person. I can't go to this thing, but I
Speaker 1: will get the phones hopefully and be able to test
Speaker 1: those out soon. The other thing is if you're even
Speaker 1: thinking that, even even considering that you might get one
Speaker 1: of these phones, go to Samsung's website and you just
Speaker 1: put in your email address and you get a two
Speaker 1: hundred dollars reserve credit, so one hundred dollars off the phone,
Speaker 1: then one hundred dollars up to one hundred dollars off accessory.
Speaker 1: So I feel like that's a pretty good deal just
Speaker 1: for putting in your email address. You don't there's no obligation,
Speaker 1: it's not like reserving a Tesla or anything. It's you're
Speaker 1: just putting in your email address, and if you do
Speaker 1: purchase it on pre order, you'll get this really good deal.
Speaker 1: All right. A lot of questions coming through on the Instagram.
Speaker 1: G Baxter six ninety five says, well, they have software
Speaker 1: upgrades on August tenth for the S twenty two Ultra.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, the S twenty two Ultra
Speaker 1: has been getting regular software updates. That thing has been
Speaker 1: phenomenal with the upgrade cycle with the the software. I
Speaker 1: think Samsung is just doing a really great job with
Speaker 1: software updates to kind of keep these phones fresh. The
Speaker 1: big update that we're expecting is called one UI. I
Speaker 1: think it's five point zero now at this point, and
Speaker 1: that's the entire kind of the entire interface is going
Speaker 1: to get a refresh. They haven't said when, but it's
Speaker 1: happening at some point, so stand the lookout. They'll probably
Speaker 1: show off some of those things when they're showing off
Speaker 1: the new phones next month, all right. Doug Sandra says, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I belong to a group of seven in a text,
Speaker 1: some iPhone users and some Android users. If I like
Speaker 1: a text and I read it. If I like a
Speaker 1: text that I read and I add a heart to it,
Speaker 1: it repeats the whole text again instead of just showing
Speaker 1: the original text with the heart. Any idea is about
Speaker 1: this dilemma. Thank you Sandy, sent for my iPhone. Yes, Sandy,
Speaker 1: this is a great example of the disconnect between iPhone
Speaker 1: and Android. So what you're doing is using a proprietary
Speaker 1: feature inside I message or messages on the iPhone called reactions.
Speaker 1: And there are a couple of reactions. I would go
Speaker 1: through them right now, but my phone is in use.
Speaker 1: But one of them is like a thumbs up, one
Speaker 1: is a heart, one is a haha, and there's a couple.
Speaker 1: More So, when you press and hold an I message
Speaker 1: and leave one of those reactions, an I message device
Speaker 1: aka an iPhone or an iPad or a maccomputer on
Speaker 1: the other end can interpret that reaction and show it
Speaker 1: as a little tiny heart or a ha haa on
Speaker 1: top of your message. But when an Android gets that reaction,
Speaker 1: it doesn't know what to do, and so it is
Speaker 1: sent through as a Sandy liked and then whatever your
Speaker 1: message was. This happens all the time, and so the
Speaker 1: reality about this is that this is a proprietary feature
Speaker 1: on Apple. Again. I've talked about this in the past,
Speaker 1: but Apple I Message. That's a proprietary system and Apple
Speaker 1: doesn't have to make that work with Android. It'd be
Speaker 1: nice if they did, and I think they really should
Speaker 1: because many people here in the US use I Message.
Speaker 1: People outside the US could care less about I Message.
Speaker 1: Nobody outside the US uses I Message. Yes, it's done,
Speaker 1: but it is not common. They use WhatsApp, they use
Speaker 1: Facebook Messenger, they use a whole host of things, but
Speaker 1: they do not care about I Message. I Message here
Speaker 1: in the US is number one. It is what it
Speaker 1: is the standard of messaging for some reason, and it's
Speaker 1: a proprietary system that does not work on all platforms,
Speaker 1: which in my mind is a big old I don't
Speaker 1: like that I use I Message because everyone I know
Speaker 1: is on it, and it's a very convenient way to
Speaker 1: send things, and if you send a picture through text,
Speaker 1: it looks horrible. Now, the rest of phones in the
Speaker 1: world use something called RCS. RCS is basically I Message,
Speaker 1: but a standard that every phone can use, and Apple
Speaker 1: has refused and decided to not accept that standard on
Speaker 1: their iPhones. Being very clear about this because what Apple's
Speaker 1: choosing to do is basically, give you a feature that's
Speaker 1: really cool, but it's proprietary and it doesn't work on
Speaker 1: any other device except their devices. It's amazing, it works great,
Speaker 1: but it would be nice if Apple said, you know what,
Speaker 1: let's either give I Message to the world as an
Speaker 1: app that you can download and use with your friends,
Speaker 1: or let's also accept this other way of texting, which
Speaker 1: is called RCS, which would enable all of those iPhone
Speaker 1: I message features, but for every phone on Android and iOS.
Speaker 1: So my point is, I guess all of this is
Speaker 1: to say that yes, this is just an iPhone thing.
Speaker 1: That's why your Android friends see it. It makes Android
Speaker 1: users annoyed, It annoys the iPhone users, it gets people
Speaker 1: to go to iPhone I guess I don't know. But
Speaker 1: on the flip side, Google has recognized this little problem
Speaker 1: that you speak of, and in the latest version of
Speaker 1: the Messages app. So this is not this is an
Speaker 1: app you would have to download, It's called Messages and
Speaker 1: it's from Google. They take that little heart and they
Speaker 1: translate it into the actual reaction on the other side
Speaker 1: on Android because they realize that this message is coming
Speaker 1: through that is kind of annoying. And so that's what
Speaker 1: they do. So if you download the messages app, you
Speaker 1: can get that to work. But Sandra, you're on an iPhone,
Speaker 1: so that's actually not going to work on your end.
Speaker 1: This would only happen on the other person's end if
Speaker 1: they adopt that messaging program. I know, very complicated and
Speaker 1: would all be solved. Like I got my whole family
Speaker 1: to download Telegram, and it's been amazing because guess what,
Speaker 1: I don't have to deal with a couple of people
Speaker 1: that use Android in my family, a couple of people
Speaker 1: that use iPhone. We are all on the same playing field.
Speaker 1: If I send a giant video through it looks the
Speaker 1: same on everyone's phone, whether you're using iPhone or Android.
Speaker 1: If someone sends a picture, it works a if someone
Speaker 1: switches devices, it's all the same. So this is the
Speaker 1: kind of stuff we could have if Apple did not
Speaker 1: decide to be so proprietary with their I Message. And
Speaker 1: it's amazing that I Message has taken off in such
Speaker 1: a nice way. It's great for Apple, but it would
Speaker 1: be really nice if they brought it to everyone. Where's
Speaker 1: my tiny violin? All right, let's get to the next story.
Speaker 1: Netflix Netflix Netflix Netflix is one of the most or
Speaker 1: if not the most popular streaming service out there. They're
Speaker 1: doing really well, but they've got this little problem. You see.
Speaker 1: It's all of these people that I call klingons. And
Speaker 1: I'm guilty of it, not myself, but I let a
Speaker 1: lot of people. Can I say this, There may be
Speaker 1: people that have access to my account. I may have
Speaker 1: given them that access. They may not live in my household.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna ban me from Netflix, go ahead, take
Speaker 1: away my Netflix account. I don't know what do you
Speaker 1: I mean? That'll save me twenty dollars a month. But
Speaker 1: the reality is a lot of people do this, I think,
Speaker 1: to the tune of about one hundred million people. And
Speaker 1: Netflix knows this. And Netflix is in this period now
Speaker 1: where for many many years it was growth growth growth growth, growth, growth, growth, growth, growth, grow,
Speaker 1: everything was going up. Now they're in this time of okay,
Speaker 1: oh hold on, don't go, don't go, don't go, because
Speaker 1: it's gotten to a saturation point where people they know Netflix,
Speaker 1: they know what they want on there. If it's not
Speaker 1: on there, they have no problem either getting rid of
Speaker 1: it or just not subscribing or actually canceling or you
Speaker 1: know whatever. So they've had some problems in the last
Speaker 1: two quarters their subscriber numbers. Actually they lost subscribers, which
Speaker 1: is pretty wild for a company that has built subscribers
Speaker 1: for so many years now fifteen to be exact. So
Speaker 1: all of this to say that Netflix is now testing
Speaker 1: a way to get some of those klingons to actually
Speaker 1: pay up. And so this is the new plan. They
Speaker 1: have this new at a home feature that they're testing
Speaker 1: in South America, Central America, not in the US just yet,
Speaker 1: so you don't have to be scared just yet of this.
Speaker 1: But basically, when you go to log in from a
Speaker 1: TV that is outside your home, right it will say,
Speaker 1: are you sure you want to log in from here?
Speaker 1: Because this doesn't look like your house. So what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do is, we're gonna give you two weeks to
Speaker 1: watch all you want on this service, but after that
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to pay up because we're pretty sure
Speaker 1: this is not your house and we know you have
Speaker 1: a TV in your house that's logged into Netflix. And
Speaker 1: so in some countries it's basically about three dollars a
Speaker 1: month depending on where you live for this extra house.
Speaker 1: You may say, rich, I've got a vacation home in
Speaker 1: a different place, it'll be fine. Vacation home will probably
Speaker 1: be fine. Rich I travel a lot, and so I
Speaker 1: should be able to watch Netflix wherever I want. Yes,
Speaker 1: you will be able to watch Netflix wherever you want.
Speaker 1: Netflix is not stupid. They know. They can tell in
Speaker 1: a heartbeat who is using their accounts as a klingon
Speaker 1: and who is actually just using their accounts sort of
Speaker 1: where they travel and where they go and where they vacation.
Speaker 1: If you're going on vacation for more than two weeks
Speaker 1: in a in a vacation home, then you know what,
Speaker 1: more power to you. That's amazing, and you probably should
Speaker 1: pay for Netflix in that separate location. Nomes kidding, uh uh,
Speaker 1: just kidding, just kidding. That was a joke. So the
Speaker 1: reality is Netflix is they They are not stupid. They
Speaker 1: know from IP addresses, they know from patterns, they know
Speaker 1: from AI when people are when when friends of subscribers
Speaker 1: are logging in versus when the actual subscriber is logging in.
Speaker 1: So they're just sort of, you know, turning up that
Speaker 1: little knob, turning up the heat just a little bit,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna see what happens, and eventually they may
Speaker 1: roll this out to all of their accounts. But look,
Speaker 1: we have we have lived in a world with these
Speaker 1: streaming accounts that have been very free flowing. These streaming
Speaker 1: accounts they charge you, you know, a certain amount of
Speaker 1: month and you can basically share your account with as
Speaker 1: many people as you want, as long as there's there's
Speaker 1: limitations on how many people can stream at the same time.
Speaker 1: You may have two streams simultaneous, you may have one,
Speaker 1: you may have four. But the general consensus is that
Speaker 1: there are people out there that are just sort of
Speaker 1: free loading, and those need to convert, at least some
Speaker 1: of them need to convert into actual paid accounts. Now
Speaker 1: I'm not talking if you have a college student off
Speaker 1: at college. Look, if that's happening and you're getting these
Speaker 1: paid messages, you will you will email Netflix and tell
Speaker 1: them and say, hey, look, my kids off at college.
Speaker 1: This is a this is a person in my household
Speaker 1: that lives somewhere else for eight months out of the year.
Speaker 1: But they're still in my household, and they're my student,
Speaker 1: they're my you know, my my college student. They're in
Speaker 1: my family. And of course, you know it'll be great.
Speaker 1: Uh G. Baxter says nothing about phones, but Yakima Washington,
Speaker 1: misses you. Oh wow, how do you remember from Yakima,
Speaker 1: Washington so long ago? But thanks? That was a I
Speaker 1: was so young. Uh. You know. It's so funny how
Speaker 1: as you go through life, like the things that I
Speaker 1: liked when I was young, or things I dislike are
Speaker 1: things that I like now. So for example, when I
Speaker 1: was young, I really loved everything big, you know, like
Speaker 1: big chains, big box chain restaurants, like anything that was
Speaker 1: like sort of standardized. And now as I get older,
Speaker 1: I really don't like that kind of stuff because, and
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, I'll go to Best Buy and
Speaker 1: I use Amazon and all that stuff. But I'm talking like,
Speaker 1: I like the mom and pop places. I like when
Speaker 1: things are small. I like when things are run by
Speaker 1: a single person because that's kind of like the fabric
Speaker 1: of America, you know, these little businesses. So that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff is funny. The second thing is that I
Speaker 1: really did not like small towns, Like I wanted a big,
Speaker 1: big city to live in, And of course I live
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles now, so I picked one of the
Speaker 1: biggest cities and I love it. But there are definite
Speaker 1: benefits to smaller cities, Like when I lived in Shreveport, Louisiana,
Speaker 1: and Yakima, Washington. I could not wait to get out
Speaker 1: of those places. I was so I had one foot
Speaker 1: on a plane and one foot in the city because
Speaker 1: I just didn't understand. I literally said at some point,
Speaker 1: why would anyone live here? Not on TV, obviously, but
Speaker 1: I just didn't understand. And now I understand. I get it.
Speaker 1: You have a family, you want small you want a
Speaker 1: nice park in your neighborhood. You want nice mom and
Speaker 1: pop shops, you want a little town square. You want
Speaker 1: When I ran down the street in Shreveport, Louisiana, people
Speaker 1: would wave at me while I was running and I
Speaker 1: was on TV, so I thought, Okay, maybe they know
Speaker 1: me from TV. But no way, this is my first
Speaker 1: week here. There is no way every person is waving
Speaker 1: to me from television. And the reality was that people
Speaker 1: just wave to other people in small towns. It's what
Speaker 1: you do. You acknowledge a fellow human passing you on
Speaker 1: the street. That does not happen in Los Angeles, and
Speaker 1: if it does, people think you're weird if you're waving
Speaker 1: to them on the streets. They're like, Okay, what's wrong
Speaker 1: with this person right now? Why are they waving at me,
Speaker 1: and I have something on my face? Am I drag?
Speaker 1: Like I was trying to tell a person the other
Speaker 1: day that something was like hanging out of their trunk
Speaker 1: on the freeway and I was like honking at them,
Speaker 1: and I was like hong honk, you know, like, and
Speaker 1: I was waving, but I was like literally worried for
Speaker 1: my life because I was like, Oh, this person thinks
Speaker 1: that I'm like trying to do something silly, right, and so,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just anyway, It's just it's just sad.
Speaker 1: But you look at this is this is the reality.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I've said reality like ten times in
Speaker 1: this podcast. This is just grow It's called growing up, right.
Speaker 1: I have a family now. I did not have kids.
Speaker 1: Back then. I wanted to go out to cool places.
Speaker 1: I wanted a party. I wanted to hang out late
Speaker 1: at night. Now I want to go to bed. I
Speaker 1: want to watch a movie in my own house. It's
Speaker 1: just it's just kind of the thing that happens as
Speaker 1: you get older. And I don't think there's necessarily something
Speaker 1: wrong about that. It's actually the way it should, you know,
Speaker 1: It's just the general way it happens. And I guess
Speaker 1: it's kind of you live and you learn, you change.
Speaker 1: But it's really funny because I guarantee you there's something
Speaker 1: in your life right now that you either make fun
Speaker 1: of your parents for, or your grandparents or a friend
Speaker 1: in a different place in life, and eventually, at some
Speaker 1: point you will get to that place and you'll be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: now I get it. And so it's just one of
Speaker 1: those little things. But there's still a lot of things
Speaker 1: I still like that I liked when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: So anyway, all of that to say that Netflix is
Speaker 1: going to be charging. So all right, let's get to
Speaker 1: the next question, shall we. Justin Justin What a cool name.
Speaker 1: Justin Justin says, have you reviewed Brooklyn Girl? Wow? Thanks
Speaker 1: for buying a badge. I don't know what that means,
Speaker 1: but thanks for doing that. That's awesome. I'll talk about
Speaker 1: small life, a small town life more. All right, Jetson says,
Speaker 1: have you reviewed T Mobile Home Internet? Did I miss
Speaker 1: it any good or bad news? I'm thinking of dropping
Speaker 1: AT and T for cable and Internet. The inflating bills
Speaker 1: are ridiculous. Any word on T Mobile would be great.
Speaker 1: Thanks Jetson, Justin Justin j E S T T O
Speaker 1: n okay. So I have not specifically tested out T
Speaker 1: Mobile Home Internet, but I'm familiar with it. I did
Speaker 1: test out Verizon's similar version of it, and it was fantastic,
Speaker 1: and I one hundred percent recommend it. The thing to
Speaker 1: know about this, So what he's talking about, or what
Speaker 1: they're talking about, is that you get this box. It's
Speaker 1: basically a wireless hotspot for your entire house. So you
Speaker 1: know right now, if you have cable internet from team
Speaker 1: from AT and T or let's it the other one
Speaker 1: FiOS or Spectrum or Comcast Infinity, whatever, someone comes to
Speaker 1: your house. They run a wire from the telephone pole
Speaker 1: to your house and then they run that little cable
Speaker 1: to a box. That box spits out a Wi Fi
Speaker 1: signal that you use in your entire house. Well, these
Speaker 1: new home Internet services from T Mobile and Verizon, they
Speaker 1: shortcut all of that. They take the wireless signal in
Speaker 1: from the cell phone towers to a wireless box, and
Speaker 1: that box then turns that into a Wi Fi signal
Speaker 1: that you use for your entire house. I know it
Speaker 1: sounds wild and crazy, but that's a thing that they
Speaker 1: can do now because of the five G spectrum is
Speaker 1: so good that it can power all of these devices
Speaker 1: in your house simultaneously. So what you need to look
Speaker 1: out for. Number one, the prices are excellent. They're trying
Speaker 1: to get people to sign up. Yes, the prices will
Speaker 1: eventually go up, just like cable. You know when you
Speaker 1: first got internet, Remember it was like thirty five bucks
Speaker 1: a month, and then it's slowly but surely it just
Speaker 1: keeps creeping up. Same thing's going to happen with these services.
Speaker 1: But right now, because they're new and people are trying
Speaker 1: to you know, they're trying to get your attention, they're
Speaker 1: very inexpensive. So if you can switch to T Mobile
Speaker 1: or Verizon's five G Home Internet, definitely give it a chance. Now,
Speaker 1: it's not available everywhere. Your home has to be approved
Speaker 1: for it to actually be there, and there's another caveat
Speaker 1: the speed. So what I would do is, before you
Speaker 1: sign up for this, you need to find someone with
Speaker 1: T Mobile or Verizon five G and you need to
Speaker 1: bring them into your house or wherever you would put
Speaker 1: this little box. You put them near a window typically,
Speaker 1: and I want you to do a speed test on
Speaker 1: your phone. So download the app called media or met
Speaker 1: ere just like like a Medior in the sky. Download
Speaker 1: that app, make sure your WiFi is off on your phone,
Speaker 1: make sure you're on the T Mobile network or the
Speaker 1: Verizon network, and you want to do the speed test
Speaker 1: and home loans by Octavio on the Instagram says he's
Speaker 1: got the T Mobile Internet, the home La Home Internet
Speaker 1: in La. It's fifty dollars a month, like I said,
Speaker 1: and he says it's excellent. So well, I don't know
Speaker 1: if he said it was excellent. He just said he
Speaker 1: has it, so tell me if it's excellent. But again,
Speaker 1: if you have a high if you have good fast
Speaker 1: internet at your house, this is going to be a
Speaker 1: great way to sort of get around those wired cable
Speaker 1: companies that have had a lock on home internet for
Speaker 1: so long, and that luck that they've had means that
Speaker 1: it just hasn't been very competitive. Now, if you live
Speaker 1: in a house like mine, where I do have two providers,
Speaker 1: it is actually to your advantage. But many homes do
Speaker 1: not have two providers. They have one provider and you're
Speaker 1: stuck with them and that's it. You have no other options.
Speaker 1: Or you have two providers and one is really slow
Speaker 1: and the other one's really fast. Where I happen to live.
Speaker 1: I've got two providers. They're both fast, and I basically
Speaker 1: ping pong between them. So for the past couple of years,
Speaker 1: I've had one service which is really fast, but the
Speaker 1: price keeps creeping up just a little bit. And so
Speaker 1: when that price gets to a point where when I
Speaker 1: call for you know, the price just went up, and
Speaker 1: I will call and say, hey, look I can go
Speaker 1: to the other people for a cheaper price. They are
Speaker 1: competitive when they hear that, so it definitely helps. But
Speaker 1: you have to be calling your cable company every single
Speaker 1: year to negotiate a better price. You have to be
Speaker 1: calling SiriusXM if you have them, do not let SERIOUSXM
Speaker 1: renew your subscription at the current price. If you have
Speaker 1: termin X, if you have any of these bug services,
Speaker 1: you've got to call them when the price goes up,
Speaker 1: and they know you have options. So you have to
Speaker 1: call and you have to get a better service price
Speaker 1: monthly because that's how you save money. And you're right
Speaker 1: just in These inflating bills are absolutely it's it's unlike
Speaker 1: anything I've ever seen. Every single monthly bill that I
Speaker 1: have has gone up in the past six months and yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: it's five dollars, two dollars, three dollars, ten dollars, but
Speaker 1: that all adds up. Maybe it's an extra fifty to
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars a month. Plus the groceries are going up.
Speaker 1: So we're all in this interesting time of we've been.
Speaker 1: You know, it was great times for many years with
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of money flowing and prices were cheap.
Speaker 1: Now we're in kind of a little bit of a
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, but it's definitely a
Speaker 1: correction for some of these things. And I don't I
Speaker 1: don't see prices going back down in a huge way.
Speaker 1: I think that the prices will kind of stick to
Speaker 1: where they are and maybe other things will kind of
Speaker 1: like gas will come down a little bit. But we'll say,
Speaker 1: I'm not an economist. I don't know. J nineteen sayss
Speaker 1: have you gotten your Amazon TV yet? Mine is delayed? No,
Speaker 1: mine is not delayed. If you were following me on Instagram,
Speaker 1: you know that this one hundred dollars TV deal, A
Speaker 1: lot of people were questioning me, and I have a
Speaker 1: bone to pick with those I'll tell you something. I
Speaker 1: was really sad that you did not believe that I
Speaker 1: had on very good authority. I don't just go on
Speaker 1: TV and talk about things without cross checking them several times.
Speaker 1: So when I had good word that this Amazon TV
Speaker 1: was going to be fifty dollars for a fifty what
Speaker 1: was it a fifty five inch TV or a fifty
Speaker 1: inch TV on Prime Day? This TV? It was Amazon
Speaker 1: Fire TV. Why am I not signed it into Amazon?
Speaker 1: I can't see what my TV is. Let me see
Speaker 1: if it'll let me see this. This was a Prime
Speaker 1: TV for fifty bucks, all right? Sorry? This was a
Speaker 1: TV Amazon TV for one hundred dollars and it was
Speaker 1: either fifty or fifty five inches. I can't remember. Oh,
Speaker 1: here's my order. Okay, let's see it was a okay,
Speaker 1: a fifty inch Amazon Amazon four Series four k UHD
Speaker 1: smart TV. It is currently selling for two hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety nine dollars. Many of us got it for one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. I can see my order right here. It
Speaker 1: is getting delivered soon. It is not delayed as far
Speaker 1: as I can tell. This is a It's not going
Speaker 1: to be the best TV in the world, but for
Speaker 1: one hundred bucks for a fifty inch TV, that's pretty
Speaker 1: good anyway. My point is I mentioned that on TV.
Speaker 1: It went completely and insanely viral, and it was a
Speaker 1: limited time deal, and so people were losing faith in me.
Speaker 1: They were calling me a liar. They were saying it
Speaker 1: was a scam. They were saying Amazon was scamming them.
Speaker 1: They were saying that the price was another price, and
Speaker 1: I said, hold tight, this is a limited time deal.
Speaker 1: We don't know when this deal is going to hit.
Speaker 1: Amazon does these things called lightning deals where they just boom,
Speaker 1: well it hit, and when it hit, is sold out
Speaker 1: in about six minutes. But I will tell you I
Speaker 1: got many messages from people that follow me on Instagram
Speaker 1: at rich On Tech that they were able to purchase
Speaker 1: the TV. I was not a liar. I was not
Speaker 1: a scammer. It was not a schemer. This was a
Speaker 1: real thing, you know, and you had to be there,
Speaker 1: and you had to be there at the right time.
Speaker 1: It's like any other deal that you see, you don't
Speaker 1: always get it. Have you ever been to a Black
Speaker 1: Friday sale? I have waiting out in line. The first
Speaker 1: twenty five people go in and they say, oh, that's it.
Speaker 1: That thing's sold out. And it happens every time. So
Speaker 1: again I'm glad that some a lot of people stuck
Speaker 1: with me. But you know, the haters and the naysayers.
Speaker 1: I was actually quite sad because I don't report fake news.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't even report close to that. In fact,
Speaker 1: when you see stuff, ninety nine percent of my stuff
Speaker 1: is so unhyped that it may not even get the
Speaker 1: traction that it deserves because you know, I don't really
Speaker 1: hype things up. I tell people what they need to know.
Speaker 1: That's like this podcast. I tell you what you need
Speaker 1: to know, and I don't do it in a scary means.
Speaker 1: I don't do it in a flashy means. I just
Speaker 1: tell you stuff. And I told you about the TV
Speaker 1: it was a good deal. It was going to sell
Speaker 1: out all those things out in my blog post. And
Speaker 1: if you chose to listen, maybe you got it. If
Speaker 1: you chose to not believe me, you were you know,
Speaker 1: some people were just going off and off and off,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, you're spending more time yelling at me
Speaker 1: when this this prime day is not even over yet.
Speaker 1: So anyway, my number one goal, and if you follow
Speaker 1: me on Instagram, which if you're watching on live Instagram,
Speaker 1: now I'll give you the secret to what I do.
Speaker 1: This is my number one secret. I'm giving it to
Speaker 1: you right now. The secret is I am trying to
Speaker 1: help you. That's it. That is the the number one
Speaker 1: thing that I do in every single aspect of my life,
Speaker 1: whether it is my TV report, whether it's a post
Speaker 1: on Instagram, whether it is a Facebook post, I try
Speaker 1: to help you. That's the bottom line. That's all I do.
Speaker 1: Now do I brag on my Instagram about, you know,
Speaker 1: what I'm doing, who I'm hanging out out with, where
Speaker 1: I'm going. I try not to because does that really
Speaker 1: help you? No? Now am I going to show you
Speaker 1: parts of my life that I think are fun and
Speaker 1: behind the scenes and it may not have an aspect
Speaker 1: of helping you, probably, But the reality is I went
Speaker 1: to Rome. Most people when they go to Rome, they
Speaker 1: sit there and they post all the pictures of their
Speaker 1: gelato and of you know, the amazing pasta they eat
Speaker 1: in their first class seat, which I did not fly.
Speaker 1: By the way, By the way, you never see economy
Speaker 1: class on Instagram stories. Have you noticed that nobody flies
Speaker 1: economy class on Instagram? Everyone seems to be flying first.
Speaker 1: Why are they flying first? Because that's what they choose
Speaker 1: to show you that one time they upgraded on their
Speaker 1: miles to a first class seat. Suddenly that's the seat
Speaker 1: they show you they're sitting in. Okay, good, great for you.
Speaker 1: Economy is just fine. I like economy. Plus it's a
Speaker 1: little extra leg room. I've said I can go anywhere
Speaker 1: in the world. Yes, I've flown first in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: Doesn't happen all the time, no, But the reality is
Speaker 1: every single person I follow on Instagram only flies first. Amazing.
Speaker 1: Good for you. Anyway. My point is, you know, when
Speaker 1: I went to Rome, I made a story out of
Speaker 1: it for TV. Nobody asked me to do that. KTLA
Speaker 1: didn't say, hey, can you do a story on your vacation.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to. I was going through my travel
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my gosh, these are little things
Speaker 1: that like will help other people, and so I chose
Speaker 1: to share those things on TV and in my stories.
Speaker 1: Did I share my gelato? Of course? Did it look delicious? Yes?
Speaker 1: Did you want some of that? Of course you did,
Speaker 1: and you know some of you probably go to Rome
Speaker 1: because of that. But was that my intention? No? My
Speaker 1: intention is just to have fun here, help you out
Speaker 1: and do the best I can So anyway, was that
Speaker 1: considered going off? I don't know, but it sure felt
Speaker 1: that way. Let's get to the next story, all right,
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime Video. Amazon Prime Video is getting a makeover.
Speaker 1: Starting this week, Amazon Prime Video is rolling out this
Speaker 1: new redesigned experience on Fire TV devices is de Android
Speaker 1: app and Connected living room devices, iOS and web to follow,
Speaker 1: which it's a little kind of knock on iOS there
Speaker 1: because they're like, oh, we're updating everything except iOS. It'll
Speaker 1: get there. But that's kind of funny because most apps
Speaker 1: update iOS immediately. The app is going to launch with
Speaker 1: six primary pages, home Store, Find Live TV Free with ads,
Speaker 1: and my stuff. I will tell you Amazon Prime Video.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of good stuff on there, or some
Speaker 1: good stuff, I should say. It is impossible to navigate impossible.
Speaker 1: It is impossible to see what's included in your subscription.
Speaker 1: It's impossible to see the top stuff that people are watching.
Speaker 1: It's just really, really not good because Amazon is mixing
Speaker 1: two things. They're mixing stuff that you can watch for
Speaker 1: free with Prime, but they're also mixing in stuff that
Speaker 1: you can rent, which is very confusing for people. So
Speaker 1: they're trying to make that easier. So now there's going
Speaker 1: to be two clear icons. A video that's included is
Speaker 1: gonna have a blue check mark. Something that you can
Speaker 1: rent by or subscribe to will have a shopping bag icon,
Speaker 1: which makes a lot of sense. They're also gonna kind
Speaker 1: of move sports into its own little hub, which is
Speaker 1: handy because now you can watch Thursday night football on
Speaker 1: Prime Video. And my favorite thing that they're doing, they
Speaker 1: are adding a top ten chart to show you stuff
Speaker 1: that's trending or popular stuff, trending stuff, and that's just
Speaker 1: so much handier. I it's funny, I am. I was
Speaker 1: talking about like I like small things and whatever, like
Speaker 1: mom and pop shops, But I actually do love the
Speaker 1: idea of the top ten chart because I just liked
Speaker 1: seeing I like seeing what other people are watching because
Speaker 1: sometimes things bubble up to the top. I don't consume
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of you know, like I
Speaker 1: don't know what people are watching on TV. I mean
Speaker 1: unless you see stuff, you know, trending in the news.
Speaker 1: But like, you know, there could be a show that's
Speaker 1: really popular that I may not discover because I'm not
Speaker 1: watching those kind of things, or I'm not checking out
Speaker 1: whatever I'm not keeping up with, like Entertainment Weekly anymore.
Speaker 1: So this I think is really handy. So what was
Speaker 1: I watching on Prime the other day that I watched? Oh,
Speaker 1: I watched House of Gucci on Prime and I thought
Speaker 1: it was great because I saw that House of Gucci
Speaker 1: was coming out on Prime and I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: let me watch. I'd just been to Rome and so
Speaker 1: I wanted to watch that. I thought it was a
Speaker 1: good movie. I know some people some people thought it
Speaker 1: was good, some people didn't, But I thought it was
Speaker 1: a great I just loved it because it took place
Speaker 1: in Italy or a lot of it. I thought the
Speaker 1: acting was so over the top. Jared Leto was excellent.
Speaker 1: What a lady Gaga was phenomenal. I mean, she really
Speaker 1: is a great actress. But and then the other guy,
Speaker 1: who's the guy from Girls. His name is evading me
Speaker 1: right now, but the guy from Girls, I thought he
Speaker 1: was really good too. And I felt like the acting
Speaker 1: just got more and more intense as the movie went on.
Speaker 1: Like I think as they were filming it, They're like,
Speaker 1: let's just be more over the top with our Italian
Speaker 1: I sense and whatever. So I enjoyed that movie. I
Speaker 1: thought it was pretty good. Not everyone likes it. But anyway,
Speaker 1: that was on Prime for free, and so I feel
Speaker 1: like I got my Amazon Prime fill because I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, I watched one movie for free on Amazon
Speaker 1: Prime this year. That is a major win in my book.
Speaker 1: I love watching free movies because I subscribe to so
Speaker 1: many of these services that I pretty much will only
Speaker 1: watch a movie if it's free. Although I did go
Speaker 1: to the movie theater the other day and that was great.
Speaker 1: All Right, enough about me, Rich, just gab on about
Speaker 1: your life. Let's talk Adelia Ar's questions. Ar has a question.
Speaker 1: I watch KTLA and I think you talk about how
Speaker 1: some backup drives has had a glitch or something that
Speaker 1: make your files disappear. This happened to me when I
Speaker 1: updated my old Passport for Mac backup drive because the
Speaker 1: old ones stopped working when I updated to Catalina. I've
Speaker 1: kept both backup drives in case something can be extracted.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, I'm seventy years old, I'm analog. I'm
Speaker 1: completely must by this. Not to mention uh losing all
Speaker 1: my writing files since nineteen ninety six, I've lost everything.
Speaker 1: There are many files in trash, but it's not accessible.
Speaker 1: Can you help I used to have a Mac guy
Speaker 1: come to my house but became unreliable and overcharged. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Ar all right, I think I know what happened here.
Speaker 1: And first off, I'm very sorry that you lost your files.
Speaker 1: That is extremely frustrating and horrible. Uh. This is why
Speaker 1: I tell you you have to back up. And I
Speaker 1: don't wanna know harp on this whole backup situation. But
Speaker 1: you have to have your files in two places. You
Speaker 1: have if you have your files on a physical hard drive.
Speaker 1: Let's say this is a physical hard drive. You can't
Speaker 1: just have this here. You also have to have this
Speaker 1: mirrored somewhere in the cloud because or you have to
Speaker 1: have two drives. You can't just have if a file
Speaker 1: is just here and only here, it will go away.
Speaker 1: Eventually it will be gone. You will lose it. That's
Speaker 1: the bottom line. It's just the reality of how things work.
Speaker 1: It's called Murphy's law. It will go away. You need
Speaker 1: to have your files in two places, ideally three. What
Speaker 1: I think happened in this situation is that when you
Speaker 1: plugged in your hard drive, the Mac computer said, hey,
Speaker 1: do you want to use this as your time machine?
Speaker 1: And you said, why yes, I do it's a backup drive,
Speaker 1: and Mac proceeded to eradicate all the files on that
Speaker 1: drive to make room for the new files and to
Speaker 1: format that for time machine so all may not be lost.
Speaker 1: What I recommend doing in this situation is you need
Speaker 1: to go on Yelp and you need to look up
Speaker 1: data recovery service and you need to find call the
Speaker 1: top two places in your area that are closest to
Speaker 1: you and just talk to the people on the phone
Speaker 1: explain the problem. One of those people will be will
Speaker 1: be very nice to you and you'll feel like you
Speaker 1: have a connection with them, And when you do, that's
Speaker 1: the person that you use to actually try to get
Speaker 1: this data back off your drive. It may not be cheap,
Speaker 1: it may not be easy, you may not get everything,
Speaker 1: but this is a professional needs to go in and
Speaker 1: see if they can recover these files. Usually, when a
Speaker 1: computer wipes files off a hard drive, it doesn't actually
Speaker 1: delete those files on the first pass. It just deletes
Speaker 1: all references to those files, so they're still on there.
Speaker 1: A computer just can't access them easily. Now, if you
Speaker 1: do a really secure wipe, which we call a a
Speaker 1: two pass, three pass, four past seven pass wipe, or
Speaker 1: you put zeros on there to really delete things. In
Speaker 1: that case, those files are permanently gone. But if you're
Speaker 1: just formatting a drive or any sort of like media,
Speaker 1: typically those files are still on there until they're rewritten
Speaker 1: over or you do a second pass on those files,
Speaker 1: and then they're really gone. So that's what i'd recommend
Speaker 1: you do. You got to find a good data person
Speaker 1: in your area and just talk to them and see
Speaker 1: if you can get that data back. I'm sorry that
Speaker 1: that happened to you. Mike Carpenter asked, what's that phone
Speaker 1: that you're using? That is the Pixel six A that
Speaker 1: I'm currently reviewing, or actually my review is up, and
Speaker 1: Alejandro in La said, when and how often do you
Speaker 1: go on with Handle? I go on with Bill Handle
Speaker 1: KFI AM six forty eight am on Tuesdays, eight am
Speaker 1: on Tuesdays, and I do Wednesday with Jennifer Jones Lee
Speaker 1: at five am. And that reminds me I need to email.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to start up this new food tech segment
Speaker 1: as well on KFI, and so that would be on
Speaker 1: the weekends. But that's still kind of in talks, all right.
Speaker 1: Next story, Apple fifty million dollars settlement over defective mac
Speaker 1: key MacBook keyboards, these butterfly keyboards, which I had and
Speaker 1: was a pain in the you know what. Apple finally
Speaker 1: admitted that they were not the best keyboards in the world.
Speaker 1: They affected MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro keyboard. They
Speaker 1: were sticky, they were unresponsive. If you got a little
Speaker 1: dust in there, it was tough to type. This affects
Speaker 1: people who bought MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro models
Speaker 1: between twenty fifteen and twenty nineteen in seven states California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan,
Speaker 1: in New Jersey, New York, and Washington. Apple of course
Speaker 1: denied any wrongdoing, but they will pay out. So the
Speaker 1: payouts are expected to be four hundred dollars to people
Speaker 1: who replaced a couple of keyboards, one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five dollars to people who replaced one keyboard, and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars to people who replaced key caps. It does nothing
Speaker 1: for people like myself that went and purchased a new
Speaker 1: laptop because I couldn't deal with the old keys, and
Speaker 1: I actually ended up giving my old laptop to my son,
Speaker 1: who has not complained about it, but he's not the
Speaker 1: same kind of typer as I am. He's not on
Speaker 1: it all day doing emails. So again, just be on
Speaker 1: the lookout. We're gonna hear about this. Two things to
Speaker 1: be on the lookout for. Number one, you may have
Speaker 1: some money coming your way. And the second thing is
Speaker 1: that there's gonna be scam artists that try to capitalize
Speaker 1: on this settlement, So don't fall for any scams. Live
Speaker 1: News twenty four to seven says you're gonna compete with
Speaker 1: the Fork Report. No, I'm not competing with the Fork Report.
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk on the Fork Report. Neil over
Speaker 1: there at the Fork Report. We did one little test
Speaker 1: run last week and or two weekends ago, and so
Speaker 1: the idea is that we would talk about some of
Speaker 1: these you know, fake not fake foods. I should say,
Speaker 1: these new foods like the food tech that I that
Speaker 1: you generally see me talking about and so and Loggie
Speaker 1: Wolf says, if I got the keyboard replaced on a
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen MacBook Pro by Apple, can I still get
Speaker 1: the money coming my way? Yes? I do believe that
Speaker 1: would qualify. So if you paid to have that replaced,
Speaker 1: it looks like you'll have about one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five bucks coming your way three ninety five if you
Speaker 1: paid for a couple of keyboards. Let's get to the
Speaker 1: next question of the show. Sue says, the other day,
Speaker 1: my kids went to camp on a field trip. My
Speaker 1: daughter did not take her cell phone because camp discouraged
Speaker 1: it and she would have to get a locker. What
Speaker 1: would a tech watch be a help if I can
Speaker 1: call and text her if needed. My coworkers say, talking
Speaker 1: in a watch phone does not work very well. Oh ow,
Speaker 1: Instagram's telling me I'm at my limit. We are an
Speaker 1: Android family. What do I buy for my kids to
Speaker 1: communicate with them if their phone is not available like
Speaker 1: they were when they were at Magic Mountain? Thank you, Sue.
Speaker 1: All right, Sue, Look, the number one smart watch out
Speaker 1: there is the Apple Watch. You can go cellular. That's
Speaker 1: why with my kid it was expensive, but we bought
Speaker 1: him an Apple Watch with cellular and it's it's basically
Speaker 1: you have to pay for the watch cellular version, which
Speaker 1: is a little bit more expensive, and then you have
Speaker 1: to pay ten dollars a month for the cellular service.
Speaker 1: I also got a little He broke his first one,
Speaker 1: so the next one we got him was a little
Speaker 1: screen protector that you snap on. It was ten bucks.
Speaker 1: It's fantastic. It's gonna save the screen because kids are
Speaker 1: all over the place. The other hand hits things, but
Speaker 1: that is the best way. We use it. With my son.
Speaker 1: It is fantastic. He can text back and forth on
Speaker 1: I message, he can make phone calls. It works anywhere.
Speaker 1: You do not need an iPhone to use it. However,
Speaker 1: you do need an iPhone to actually activate it. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't want to go off on Apple, but this
Speaker 1: is a This is a decision Apple made to make
Speaker 1: you stick in their ecosystem. So you need an iPhone
Speaker 1: to act activate an Apple Watch that does not need
Speaker 1: an iPhone to operate, just saying once the iPhone is activated,
Speaker 1: it works on its own. So theoretically you could use
Speaker 1: a friend's iPhone to activate this. I'm not sure you
Speaker 1: can use an iPad because I don't think the watch
Speaker 1: app is on there. But again, this is a little
Speaker 1: decision that Apple makes. I really think that they should
Speaker 1: let you activate this Apple Watch online. It's still ten
Speaker 1: bucks a month, But you know, I mean, why, why
Speaker 1: why do they make you do this? I don't know.
Speaker 1: So to answer your questions, sue the only other option
Speaker 1: for Android is you can go with a watch from Samsung.
Speaker 1: They've got LTE versions of their watches. You can do that.
Speaker 1: I have not tested it lately. I did put in
Speaker 1: a request with Samsung to test new watches that if
Speaker 1: they come out, which I'm expecting them to, I did say, hey,
Speaker 1: can you can you please give me one of those
Speaker 1: to test out and try it, and hopefully that will happen.
Speaker 1: The other option is some of the little watches from
Speaker 1: something like T Mobile or Verizon. In my experience, they
Speaker 1: are not very good. They're just not and they're bulky.
Speaker 1: The software is not good, they don't work very well.
Speaker 1: The Apple Watch is just the software is like butter,
Speaker 1: it just works. It's just amazing. So the other thing
Speaker 1: I'm hoping will happen, There's going to be a pixel
Speaker 1: watch that will have an LTE version that's coming out
Speaker 1: sometime and that will work with Android. That will be
Speaker 1: a great option when it happens. It does not happen
Speaker 1: just yet. The other thing is perhaps because Google bought Fitbit,
Speaker 1: perhaps they will make an LTE version of the Fitbit.
Speaker 1: That would be amazing too. But otherwise your options are
Speaker 1: pretty limited. When you're on Android. It's if you have
Speaker 1: any iPhone in the family, I would say just go
Speaker 1: with a with an Apple Watch. The cheapest Apple Watch
Speaker 1: you can get is the Apple Watch se that's there's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be a new version of that in September,
Speaker 1: so if you can wait, I would wait on that.
Speaker 1: But that would be the best best case scenario. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll get to another question here. This is just a compliment,
Speaker 1: it looks like Jennifer says, Hey, Rich, thanks for talking
Speaker 1: about the I Exit app earlier this year. We recently
Speaker 1: road tripped California to Tennessee and back and driving our
Speaker 1: diesel pickup towing our camping trailer. I use the trucks
Speaker 1: version of the app to find truck stops and parking
Speaker 1: areas throughout our trip because we need a diesel and
Speaker 1: we were far too long for any regular gas station.
Speaker 1: The app did a great job. We would not have
Speaker 1: known about it if not for you. We appreciate what
Speaker 1: you do. Keep up the good work. We listen to
Speaker 1: your podcast, follow you on social media and more. I
Speaker 1: feel like a stalker, but whatever, Jennifer Laguna Hills. Oh
Speaker 1: that's funny, Jennifer. I guess you probably if you're listening
Speaker 1: to the podcast. Thanks for writing in about this. The
Speaker 1: I Exit app is one hundred percent. You need it
Speaker 1: on your phone if you are road tripping at all
Speaker 1: this summer or anytime or driving and you need to
Speaker 1: find what's up ahead at the exit ahead. So let
Speaker 1: me just give you a scenario. You're driving up to
Speaker 1: Washington State and you really want, I don't know, pick
Speaker 1: some restaurant whatever, like fast food that's not like the standard, right,
Speaker 1: it's not McDonald's, or you know, Taco Bell or something
Speaker 1: you want. Maybe it could be Taco Bell because they're
Speaker 1: not at every stop, but maybe you want like Burger King,
Speaker 1: or maybe you want Chick fil A, or maybe you
Speaker 1: want Canes, or maybe you want you know, some of
Speaker 1: these little regional chains like what was Culver's right, So
Speaker 1: those are not going to be at every stop. With
Speaker 1: this app that you do instead of searching Google Maps
Speaker 1: and seeing like, oh, there's a Culver you know an
Speaker 1: hour away, what this does is it just lists all
Speaker 1: of the exits up ahead, and it tells you what
Speaker 1: restaurants are at those exits, or you can search and
Speaker 1: it'll tell you which exit up ahead will have it.
Speaker 1: So it's a fantastic gap. Not only does it do that,
Speaker 1: it also tells you the gas prices at each exit,
Speaker 1: and it tells you the exit up ahead with the
Speaker 1: cheapest prices, so you don't have to drive twenty five
Speaker 1: thirty five forty miles out of your way. It just says, hey, look,
Speaker 1: don't stop the next exit. Stop at the one after that,
Speaker 1: and they'll have the cheapest gas prices. So I exit
Speaker 1: is great. The other app I want to mention that
Speaker 1: I am a total believer in now is called Upside.
Speaker 1: So I mentioned it on it might have been in
Speaker 1: the same No, it wasn't in the same one. Maybe
Speaker 1: it was. Upside was an or is an app that
Speaker 1: gives you refunds or cash back on gas and so
Speaker 1: I obviously have an electric car, so I'm not filling
Speaker 1: up with gas. But my wife has a gas car
Speaker 1: and so I've been using it to fill up her car,
Speaker 1: and the cash back is great. You get you know,
Speaker 1: it's not a ton of money. You're not going to
Speaker 1: retire on the money you get back from Upside, but
Speaker 1: it is something, and if you refer friends, you get more.
Speaker 1: So I'll put my referral link in the notes. But
Speaker 1: you can find that on my website, rich on tech
Speaker 1: dot TV. But if you sign up through there, you
Speaker 1: get a little bonus. I get a little extra on
Speaker 1: my first or fill up or your first fill up,
Speaker 1: something like that. But what I've been doing, I've gotten
Speaker 1: the bulk of my refunds on groceries. So there's this
Speaker 1: one grocery store that I like to go to just
Speaker 1: for fancy meals. So I only go there, you know,
Speaker 1: a couple times a month, but you get One time
Speaker 1: it was like twenty percent back, another time it was
Speaker 1: ten percent back. Now I've noticed the more I go,
Speaker 1: the less they're giving me. Like this weekend it's six
Speaker 1: percent back. So you know, someone was asking earlier what's
Speaker 1: on the menu for tonight. But usually on a Friday night,
Speaker 1: if I'm making like a nice steak or something, I
Speaker 1: will go and get it at this certain grocery store
Speaker 1: in town that I feel like has better meat than
Speaker 1: other grocery stores, and it happens to be on upside.
Speaker 1: So I've been getting You know, if I spend one
Speaker 1: hundred bucks there on a dinner, which you know you
Speaker 1: could easily do these days, you know, it'll be like
Speaker 1: the first time I did it, was like twenty dollars back,
Speaker 1: which is pretty cool. So anyway, upside rich on tech
Speaker 1: dot tv for the link. I think it's still on there.
Speaker 1: Let me see. You might have to scroll down a
Speaker 1: little bit. Let's see is upside on there. No, it's not,
Speaker 1: so I'll put it on there. I'll put the upside
Speaker 1: referral link on there so you can see. I think
Speaker 1: you have to use my code to get the bonus
Speaker 1: cash back. But it's pretty cool. I'm impressed it's it's again.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be something that you, you know,
Speaker 1: make a ton of money through, but it is kind
Speaker 1: of a cool little way of getting some extra cash
Speaker 1: and it definitely helps. Okay, where was I think, uh oh, shoot,
Speaker 1: we run out of time here. I just uh, okay, Amazon,
Speaker 1: I'll just go through a couple of stories. I want
Speaker 1: to mention Amazon bought a doctor's office, one medical. I
Speaker 1: think they have a bunch of these in La or
Speaker 1: at least a couple. And now Amazon owns a chain
Speaker 1: of doctors' offices. I know it sounds weird, but these
Speaker 1: but I feel like, again, this is going back to
Speaker 1: the whole mom and pop thing, Like most doctor's offices
Speaker 1: are sort of like small businesses. My doctor small business
Speaker 1: they're usually they're usually aligned with some sort of hospital
Speaker 1: or like medical group, but it's still very small, and
Speaker 1: I kind of like that for doctors. But I would
Speaker 1: also like more digital elements to be built in, like
Speaker 1: the ability to make an appointment online, the ability to
Speaker 1: pay your bill online. So all that stuff is sort
Speaker 1: of lagging when it comes to doctors and dentists. They're
Speaker 1: getting better, but it's one of these things where I
Speaker 1: think Amazon will have an impact. What I don't like
Speaker 1: about this is that Amazon sort of lives by that,
Speaker 1: you know, ride hard and fast and kind of like,
Speaker 1: you know whatever, give up on things very quickly. So
Speaker 1: they could they could buy this company, do it for
Speaker 1: a year and just decide nevermind, just doesn't work, and
Speaker 1: then they'll sell it or get rid of it or
Speaker 1: close it. So I hope they don't do that. They
Speaker 1: paid three point nine billion dollars for this chain of
Speaker 1: high tech doctor's offices. We'll see it's a it's a
Speaker 1: primary care membership, so you do have to pay a
Speaker 1: membership fee to be a part of this, which, you know,
Speaker 1: access to healthcare is tricky enough. A lot of people
Speaker 1: do not want to pay extra for these boutique medical firms.
Speaker 1: I know, if you have a lot of money, you
Speaker 1: can do it, but I you know, like I've I've
Speaker 1: looked into this because I'm like, oh, it's so nice
Speaker 1: a concierge a doctor's office. But it's just, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like, you pay enough for doctor's offices, and so
Speaker 1: you don't really want to pay even more for that. Right,
Speaker 1: Let's see what else. Microsoft is putting in this little
Speaker 1: feature into teams called Microsoft Viva Engage, which literally is
Speaker 1: Facebook for your work inside teams, So be on the
Speaker 1: lookout for that. And Chevy unveiled a Chevy Blazer EV.
Speaker 1: It's a suv. It's gonna start at about forty five
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, although we all know those are probably gonna
Speaker 1: be tough to get at that price point. So but
Speaker 1: I love any competition in the EV space, and so
Speaker 1: the fact that Chevy is coming out with a really
Speaker 1: cool looking Blazer, and hey, this may be my next car.
Speaker 1: I think for my next EV, I'll go with an SUV.
Speaker 1: But I plan on I bought my Tesla, so I
Speaker 1: plan on keeping my Tesla for as long as humanly
Speaker 1: possible until that battery has like one mile left on it.
Speaker 1: I will continue to drive that Tesla. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like an iPhone where it just keeps getting software updates
Speaker 1: to make it better. And I'll tell you the autopilot
Speaker 1: has gotten way better. So it used to do this thing.
Speaker 1: If I was driving autopilot at you know whatever, sixty
Speaker 1: five miles an hour and I was coming up near
Speaker 1: a truck. As a human, my instinct is to kind
Speaker 1: of slow down when I'm going if I was going
Speaker 1: between two giant semis or something. Right. Not everyone does that,
Speaker 1: but I do that because it's just like, all right,
Speaker 1: I gotta be on my guard a little bit. But
Speaker 1: this Tesla would just like it. It reminds me of
Speaker 1: that movie with Denzel Washington, like Flight I think it
Speaker 1: was called, where it was like thread the Needle, Thread
Speaker 1: the Needle, where he's just like zooming up and he's
Speaker 1: he's all stormy and he's kind of hung over, so
Speaker 1: he's like threading this needle, just driving that plane like boom.
Speaker 1: That's the way it felt on the Tesla, and so
Speaker 1: I'm like always like, eh, let me slow down a
Speaker 1: little bit. Well, now, the Tesla, clearly people have felt
Speaker 1: like me in those situations where, now, if you're going
Speaker 1: really fast and a car is not going as fast
Speaker 1: next to you, like a big truck. I noticed this
Speaker 1: morning it kind of slowed down just a little bit,
Speaker 1: just a tenC bit, pulled back just to you know,
Speaker 1: get past that truck in a safe manner, and then
Speaker 1: it kind of went again. So little things like that
Speaker 1: that continue to get better on the Tesla. But anyway,
Speaker 1: the Chevy Blazer TV will be launching in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three as a twenty twenty four model year, and this
Speaker 1: is going to go anywhere between I would I say
Speaker 1: two fifty to three fifty miles an hour, two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty to three hundred and twenty miles on a charge. Again,
Speaker 1: it's a range of two hundred and forty seven miles
Speaker 1: for the base one. And oh okay, so there's a
Speaker 1: the most expensive is gonna have three twenty. The cheapest
Speaker 1: is going to have two hundred and forty seven on
Speaker 1: a charge. So we'll see. The cool thing about this
Speaker 1: this car, too, is I have a feeling it's gonna
Speaker 1: be among the first to get Apple's new car Play
Speaker 1: because both screens are digital. Chevy and Apple have had
Speaker 1: a really good relationship with CarPlay, and I think that
Speaker 1: this will be one of those new cars to take
Speaker 1: advantage of the car Play that does both screens, which
Speaker 1: is gonna be really really cool. That music does mean
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it. For this episode of the show,
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