WEBVTT - A New T-Mobile Plan for $15 a Month 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:08.480 Too many streaming devices. Hackers can use lasers to talk 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:12.719 to your smart devices. T Mobile unveils a fifteen dollars 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:17.560 plan a hidden camera finder, getting the best deals on airfare, 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.680 plus your tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich Dmiro. 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:24.200 This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:26.240 about the stuff that I think you should know about 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:29.280 happening in the tech world. It's also where I answer 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:34.920 the questions that you send me, whether it's through Facebook, email, website, carrier, pigeon, 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.559 however you get them to me, we answer them here. 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:40.160 Welcome to the show. Producer Megan, Hey, how's it going. 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:45.640 It is going well, well, somewhat well. So you know, 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.120 I always tell Megan this. So we do this thing 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.880 for We tape our segment for the stations that we're 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.000 on KTLA in Los Angeles, but we're also on a 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:58.760 bunch of other stations, and so we always tape our 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:00.880 stuff for the next day and we do it live 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:02.920 as well. So some of the stations run a tape, 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.160 some of them do it live. But anyway, all the 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:06.960 time I always say to her, Ever, since having kids, 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:09.280 I'm always like, we should just tape this today, even 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.679 if it's two days early. Yeah, because you never know 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:13.240 what's gonna happen tonight when I go home, Like the 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.200 kids could be sick. I'm not in tomorrow anyway, So 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.000 last night turn out to be me. So I actually 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.040 was cleaning out. I was taking down the Halloween decorations, 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:22.920 and I blew off the front yard with like a 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:26.080 you know, an air blower, and I knew I should 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.520 have worn the eyeglass stuff or whatever because there's so 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.959 much dust from all the fires and everything. So just 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:32.680 all this stuff was blown up all over the place, 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.160 and my kid was there and I'm like, oh, watch 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.120 your eyes. Well, well, of course, so what happens? I 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:39.160 get something in my eye? So last night I spent 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:43.920 probably three hours going to the doctor. You know, I 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.720 was literally running water over my eye for forty five minutes, 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:47.880 trying to get it out of the mirror, you know, 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.120 in the mirror whatever. Long story short, it was just 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.520 like a scratch on the lower part of my eye. Okay, 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:55.560 thank god not the cornea, because he's like, if this 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:57.960 was a cornea, you'd be really hurting. But basically, I 0:01:57.960 --> 0:01:59.640 think I got something in there and like tried to 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.280 rub it out of my eye, but I scratch you know. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.559 Anyway, did you go to the like an ear. 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.560 Yeah, like no, no, no, like an emergency care, you know, 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.560 like a little okay. So so that was you know, 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.360 twenty five dollars thankfully, and then these eye drops they 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.240 prescribe me, you're like fifty five dollars. Yeah, what this 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:19.799 is insane? So long story short. I could have been 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.280 fine with my eyewear, you know, like if I would 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.960 have just put on the stupid glasses I normally wear, yeah, 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.120 I would have been fine. And of course now it 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:28.560 costs you have all people. 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.799 I feel like, you know, wouldn't feel like really good 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:31.359 about that. 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.000 I usually am. And usually it's like, look, anytime you 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:35.960 ever do stuff with the with the eyewear protection, you're 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.480 always like, give me a break. Yeah, nothing's gonna happen, 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.040 right until it does, and then it's like you wish 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:43.400 she did. Yeah, So all that time and energy wasted 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.680 last night, the pizza, like all we had dinner ready, 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:46.880 like all this stuff we had to like you know, 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.160 so anyway, it's one of those things lesson learned. Just 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.240 do what you're supposed to do when you're doing something, 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.080 like if there's a step to take, like where eye 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:56.799 protection whatever, Just do it. Yeah, it'll save you the 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:58.640 house helmet Yeah, where. 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.400 The helmets in the seatbelt? Please? 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.079 All good advice. If you're listening for the first time, 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.280 I do want to say, welcome to you. If you 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.800 heard me on the Leo Laporte radio show or maybe 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.440 on his podcast, welcome to this show. You're going to 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:17.000 soon find out that it's much more unpolished than Leo's show. Yeah. 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.720 Well yeah, but we try. We're a podcast, we're not radio. 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:21.640 But it's fun. 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:23.800 We don't have commercials though, I mean we have little 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:24.440 tiny ones. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.240 But do we even have commerce? I don't know if 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.640 we do. We have like intros, we have like the intro, 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:31.440 I don't know. Yeah, but all right, let's start with 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.520 this because I've been watching the Have you been watching 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:37.240 any of the Apple TV plus stuff? No? Okay, so 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:37.560 I have. 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.040 Yeah, I know you're you're into it. 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.360 It's the first time I've ever been waiting for a 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.960 new episode of a show. Wow, which is so crazy. 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:46.720 I've heard this time ever. 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.640 In a long time, I mean probably in like a decade. Well, 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:51.480 with Netflix, they give you everything all at once, right, 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.480 and I'm beginning to realize that I'm not sure that's 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.600 the right way to do it, because it has gotten 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:57.520 me in the app kind of checking the app. I've 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:01.280 been watching The Morning Show on Apple TV plus Jennifer Anderson, 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.280 Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell. It's not the best show in 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.120 the world, but a I'm in that business, so I 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:09.040 find it fascinating and it's just fun. And I don't 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.560 watch a lot of TV, so for me, it's actually 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.960 quite interesting. And you know, I was up in Petaluma 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:15.440 over the weekend, so I had a lot of time. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:17.600 So I watched three episodes of a show in one weekend, 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:19.520 which is more TV than I can tell you I've 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.480 watched in a long time. But I tell you this 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:24.480 because Apple TV Plus I'm getting for free because I 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.279 bought an iPhone, and a lot of other people are 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.640 getting it for free. But we're soon gonna have some 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.640 decisions to make. According to a new survey by TV 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:37.640 Time and UTAIQ, beyond the Big Three, they're saying seventy 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.200 percent of those asked feel there will be too many 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.719 streaming services to choose from. I kind of agree it's overwhelming. Right, 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.960 So you've got HBO, Max coming up. You've got Disney 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.960 Plus coming up, and Apple TV Plus just launched in 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.559 addition to that. What else do you have? Well, you've 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:59.200 got what else? Netflix, Ulu, all these random little ones, 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:00.839 you know, like the food Boos of the world, like 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:01.479 all these like you. 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.240 Know, I don't know any of these, like off the 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:08.120 grid smaller streaming services. I know they're out there. 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.120 They're specialized. Like if you're into soccer, I think Fubu 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.240 is like a big soccer one or Fubo. Okay, So 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.280 if you're into British stuff, I think there's one that's 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.320 for British stuff, you know, like that kind of thing. 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:23.200 CBS has CBS All Access. Yeah, you can't watch CBS 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:25.839 like show, like an old show or whatever without that. 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.640 So crazy, isn't it. Oh, Amazon Prime Now a lot 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.360 of people get that for free with Prime, so it's fine. 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.320 But anyway, it's getting kind of crazy. So let's just 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.400 see some of the things. In the survey. Forty two 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:40.159 percent less than half said they intended to add a 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.279 new streaming service for household viewing, which will probably be 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.640 HBO Max or Disney Plus. And that's the thing. Disney 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.640 Plus and HBO Max are both like very lucrative or 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.200 not appealing, I should say, like, there's a lot of 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:52.960 good stuff on them. 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:56.120 It covers a lot of yeah, surface area of shows. 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.720 Like if I'm understanding Disney Plus, right, they have all 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:00.880 the movies basically that he's ever come out with. 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:02.799 So I ABC content. 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.080 Yeah, so I get all the Pixar movies, Like my 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:08.799 kids can just watch like all the Pixar movies forever forever. Wow, 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:10.520 And that's pretty wild for seven bucks a month. 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:12.880 No, I love it, it's very it's amazing. 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.039 Eighty eight percent of participants said they were aware of 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.760 the November twelfth launch of Disney Plus. Who's not. They've 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:23.120 been advertising everywhere, so clearly, let's see. The other thing 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:26.160 that helped with Apple TV plus is when Jennifer Aniston 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.839 joined Instagram. Oh yeah, and she broke a record, earning 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.240 one million followers in forty five minutes. And she has 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.320 seventeen point five million followers. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:35.479 She broke Instagram. 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.920 Yeah, as we say, still got it. Yeah, I mean 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:39.040 that's pretty amazing for her. 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:40.320 She is a force for sure. 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.719 The service that most people don't know about is called 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.560 QB qeb QB. 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:47.880 How do you expel it? 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:51.160 I don't know Quibi okay, And this is this has 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.080 a lot of money behind it, Quebe, I don't know, 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.839 has a lot of money behind it. Only five percent 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.560 of people are aware of it. It's the one that's 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.240 being started by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman. You know, 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.120 she was the former eBay person, like. 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.880 She was, And I know Katzenberg. 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:12.120 Is he's big. He does something used DreamWorks SKG. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:13.920 Bielberg Disney. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.000 And then like left and them like made like Shrek 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:16.440 or something. 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.240 That's all that's right, SKG DreamWorks SKG Yeah. Yeah, And 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:24.200 he was the k in SKG Spielberg Katzenberg Geff. And 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.200 I'm guessing is the last one, uh huh no, because 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:28.400 well he did music, I think. 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:28.720 Okay. 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.880 Anyway, Jason Blum Bloom and Steven Spielberg they're they're they're 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:34.640 going to be part of the shows too. Anyway. This 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:39.000 Kibi thing is like supposedly for short term short form content. Oh, 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.240 I've heard of this, so it's that's gonna be a 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.640 big one too. So yeah, we'll see. 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:44.239 Yeah. 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.720 Anyway, I'm on overload with all these things. Every month 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.360 I get my credit card bill and I look at 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:53.320 this all these little charges and it's like Netflix sixteen bucks, 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.400 it's too little to be concerned about. Yeah, it's it's 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:58.400 a lot for like, oh wait, when you add them 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.080 all up, you're kind of like, am I really getting 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:00.800 the use of this? 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:01.560 I know? 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:03.960 And then at and T TV, I always talk about 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:05.520 I pay fifty a month for that, but I get 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:09.760 HBO plus every cable channel. So it's kind of like, well, HBO, 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:11.480 if I got it on its own, be fifteen you 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:15.480 HBO go Yeah all that HBO. 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.560 Yeah, got it? And HBO Max is confusing. I think 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:18.240 we talked about it. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.680 Last Yeah, but it's it's going to be good to Yeah, 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:25.800 a lot of stuff. Yeah, all right. Our first question Megan. 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:29.880 Okay, our first question comes from Kim, and she's asking 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:34.240 about outdoor wireless security cameras. She's looking for an outdoor 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:39.680 security wireless camera that alerts me and is inexpensive. There's 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:40.280 a lot of. 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:44.559 There's a lot of outdoor wireless cameras, but she wants 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:46.320 she said, what was her requirement. 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:47.800 Like cheap and inexpensive. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:49.920 Yeah, I mean who doesn't want that, right? I mean, oh, 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:51.559 hold on, I'd like to pay a lot of money 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:52.000 for our camera. 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.319 Some people I feel like want like really great quality cameras. 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:59.480 You know, Okay, I'm just saying, like Devil's advocate, there 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.199 are people, Oh yeah, especially in this city. 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:06.360 Yeah, well I think I would recommend this. So Amazon 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.600 bought a company called Blink Eli and K and I 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.160 think we saw them at CES. Were you with me 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:12.800 at CES when we saw this company? Yeah? 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:13.760 I don't remember them. 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.680 But well their thing is that their little battery or 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.760 their little camera lasts for two years on a battery, 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.559 and it's and the best part is there's no installation. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.679 It comes to like a magnetic mount. You screw that 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.040 magnetic mount to your outside wall and then you just 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.120 the camera is magnetic pops on there. So you can 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.760 install this thing easily yourself. It's called the Blink XT 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.400 two indoor outdoor smart security camera. And the other thing 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.160 is cloud storage is included. So she's talking cheap. Did 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:42.080 I even tell you the price? 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:43.240 No? 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.440 Ninety dollars? Oh wow, that's for the camera, and you 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.480 don't have to pay for cloud storage. So the way 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.160 the cloud storage works, this company is now owned by Amazon. 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.040 They bought them. The way the cloud storage works is 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.440 it gives you I think fourteen days of rolling storage. 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.120 So and they only do clips. This is not the 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.280 kind of camera that's going to record twenty four to seven. 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.640 If you want that, you're talking more expensive, right, You've 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:06.360 got to get a nest or something like that. A 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.600 lot of people have these R lowcams. Those are good, 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.319 but they're gonna cost you more. They kind of work 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.520 the same way where they take clips, I believe. But 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.480 you can also I think you can look in a 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.240 live stream of this camera, but it's going to eat 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.280 up the battery. That's how you get that two years 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.800 of battery life. It only starts recording when it senses motion. 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:22.800 Okay. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.920 And this company blink because I interviewed I think it 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.120 was the CEO or the founder someone from the company 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.400 a CS and I was like, dude, how are you 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.440 getting two years of battery life? And I said, that's 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:36.000 literally why Amazon bought us, because they built the technology 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:39.800 into these microchips that just they take a trickle of 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.160 energy versus you know, hogging up a ton of you know. 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.600 So they it senses movement, so like what if it's 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:46.559 like windy. 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.760 Well if something well that I'm sure they have algorithms 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.560 built in that. Yeah, that help with that. But I 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:56.040 have my nest cam during the holidays like Halloween, when 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.520 I have my decorations up, it's going crazy. Yeah, it's 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.360 sending me alerts every ten minutes because the decorations are 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.120 blown in the wind and it notices those and it 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:05.400 goes crazy. Yeah. So but I think that's a good 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.439 one to blink XT two indoor outdoor smart cam. You 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.040 don't hear about this company as much, but I'm sure 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.199 if you're within Amazon, they probably promote them a lot. 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:18.200 But that's easy, right, Yeah, I mean I say, I say, 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:22.960 go for it. Oh sorry, Okay, hold on, this is 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.480 that there is a catch. Okay, So that camera that 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.520 I just mentioned, that's an add on. You actually have 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.080 to buy a starter kit. I remember this little trick. Okay, 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:34.679 You've got to buy a starter kit which includes two 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:38.000 cameras and it's one eighty Okay, So I think that's 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.360 part of it is there's like a little hub that 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.000 you have to use inside your house that helps you. 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.160 But anyway, still still pretty darn good. Once you buy this, 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:47.480 you don't really have to think much about it. 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:47.840 Yeah. 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:53.560 I love that. Speaking of smart home devices, hackers can 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.440 use lasers to speak to your Amazon Echo or your 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.440 Google Home. And this was a surprise story at a 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.800 wired What they did was they aimed laser beams at 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:07.000 a whole bunch of devices. You're talking smartphones, the iPhone, 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:12.040 the Android phone, Amazon Echo, Google Homes, Facebook Portal, anything 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:14.640 that has a microphone on it. They were able to 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:18.000 trick it by sending a command over laser and all 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.160 they did was tune the laser beam so that it 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.680 sort of mimicked the frequency of a human voice. And 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.280 guess what the little microphone thought. It was a human voice. 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:26.679 And it's crazy. 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.320 It is crazy. Now Here's the only thing that's kind 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.040 of good about this is that it didn't work very 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.480 well from very far. So if you're thinking, you know, 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.160 you've got your device by a window and they can 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.200 hack in, you know, Okay, here's a scenario. You've got 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.360 a smart door lock, or you've got a garage that 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.280 has a smart you know, it's connected to your system, 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.880 and they use this little laser to say, hey, a 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.400 open the garage and now they can get into your 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.520 garage from outside the house because you've done you know, 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.120 you've set that up. So when you have all these 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.640 smart home devices connected, yes, I have that, not that. 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.160 You should say, but like I wouldn't. I don't know 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:04.960 I would ever think to connect my garage opener to 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:05.840 like ALEXA. 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.400 Oh see why not? Like I love it, I personally 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.080 have not done that. I do have the ability to 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.000 do it because I like the idea that Amazon could 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.160 put packages in my garage. I have not done that. 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:14.600 Now I do. 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.199 So I mentioned this to my mom, like the idea 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.839 of letting a ups or whatever be able to put 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:20.560 a package inside. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.640 She was like, no, really, yeah, I wonder why. I mean, 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.120 is it the house thing? Like is it just because 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.439 your house is your house? Like I don't feel comfortable 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.760 with that either. Yeah, but I don't know why, Like 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:32.360 if the guy's going to rob your house because he 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.199 has access because he's Amazon guy, Like what are you 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.280 going to do? And you have video of him doing it? 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:37.719 You know? Or her could be her? 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.000 Yeah, I mean I don't know. I think it's just 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:42.920 the idea of having someone be able to get into 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.760 your house that you don't know. If it's like a 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.079 male person that you know well and you see them 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.679 every day, then like maybe it's different. But I don't know. 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.920 I actually personally wouldn't want someone to be able to 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.320 even if it's Amazon, and like I can track it down. 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.840 Like it's like why I would rather. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.320 Avoid it, Yeah, invasion of your privacy. Well, see, for me, 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.480 it's more technical, like I don't really care about them 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.000 opening the door perhaps like and slipping the pack the 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.000 package in. But like to me, it's like we have 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.400 an alarm at the house, and so it would be 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.200 a whole nother thing where like you'd have to disable 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.360 the alarm and like they can't, so then you have 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.080 to on the days you're getting a package, which is 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:21.800 every day in our house, by the way, literally every day, 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.000 you'd have to disable the alarm for the personal comming. 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:25.480 So it's a whole big thing, right, I think that 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:27.320 would happen for a lot of people. Yeah, but then 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.320 you would argue, I'm sure you can set it up 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.840 where when they disable the front door or they unlock 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:33.800 it with the electronic clock, it'll disable your alarm. But 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.480 then who wants to go that far? Now everything's connected. 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:37.800 Yeah, and like what if the one day, like let's 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.440 say Lindsay leaves her eyepad. 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:41.920 Drag my wife into this, Okay, Well, like. 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:43.320 I'm just saying, anyone, let's say. 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:44.880 You like to make it real personal. 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.040 I'm just saying, like, let's say there's an iPad right 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.160 there by the front door and they just are like, 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:51.880 you know what, whatever, and they take it. 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.040 Yes, but do you do that? I mean, you work 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:58.200 here at our station. Do you just like steal stuff 0:14:58.240 --> 0:14:59.360 that you see around the station? 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.600 No, well, you're a normal person. 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.440 I'm just saying, ninety nine point nine percent of people 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.160 are normal. They're not stealing when they see like they 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:08.920 see a laptop on the table, like, oh, you know what, 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:10.440 I wasn't going to be a thief today, but I'm 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.360 just going to steal that laptop because it's right there. 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.960 Okay, never mind. 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:18.720 There's a lot of weirdos. But I'm just saying I 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.200 think that people don't give human beings the benefit of 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:23.280 the doubt. Like ninety nine point nine percent of the 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:26.800 people you meet are totally normal, average, regular, good people. 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:28.960 And I would hope the person knocking on the door 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.400 with Amazon is. But I agree, you don't know. 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.240 No, I think you should definitely test it out. Though. 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:35.640 I'll leave every I'll do it, and I'll leave like 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.360 a whole bunch of stuff. I'll leave like a bowl 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:42.920 of candy like a signer. Okay, it's funny because I 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.320 leave a tip out for the housekeeping at any hotel 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.560 I stay at, and I always make a point to 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:50.560 write a little note next to it that says thank you, 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.240 because I don't want them to just think they're stealing, 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:57.480 like my five dollars I leave out right right, So 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:59.800 I'll write a note next to the laptop that says thanks, 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:01.160 and see if they take it. 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.800 Yeah, No, that's nice. You should, but you don't say, 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:05.320 like housekeeping, this is for you. 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.400 No, I just say thank you and they know it's 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.560 I've never had a problem with that situation. Yeah, And 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.760 usually they write back a nice note like they love 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:13.680 writing back, a little note that says thank you so much. 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.480 And then they leave extra towels and extra soap and 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.160 all that stuff, like all this stuff in the bathroom 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.000 they leave like double which I hate because I'm like, 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:21.680 I don't need all this, but they do it. 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:22.600 Yeah, that's nice. 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:27.080 It's an ongoing cycle, oh, Rich, problem happens all the time. 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:31.240 So anyway, that's the deal with the laser beams, I guess. 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.080 And the two takeaways from that story are don't leave 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.520 your things by the window, and then also maybe these 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.600 manufacturers will do more voice authentication so it knows it's you, 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:42.720 and it has to verify certain things like maybe it 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.080 asked for a pin. If it's like, hey, drain my 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:46.600 bank account, it'll be like, hey, can I have your 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:48.360 PIN number before we do that, you know, if it's 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.880 the command. And then also maybe they'll build like some 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:54.360 sort of shield around the microphone that helps it deflect 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.720 these laser beams. Sounds so evil, all right, producer Megan, 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:58.840 go ahead, Okay. 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:02.280 So I have a question from Tina. She is a 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.600 She says that she's Tech Challenge, and she asks that 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.040 she's been trying to figure out if there is any 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.399 way that she can buy some sort of flash drive 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.480