Speaker 1: The websites to help you find coronavirus supplies, the best
Speaker 1: ways to clean your smartphone, plus as usual, your tech
Speaker 1: questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich Dmiro and this
Speaker 1: is Rich on Tech, the podcast where we talk about
Speaker 1: the tech stuff I think you should know about and
Speaker 1: answer the questions that you send me. My name is
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Joining me is producer Megan, who is
Speaker 1: currently applying hand sanitizer. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: I apply it every five minutes and that's how I'm
Speaker 2: combating coronavirus.
Speaker 1: And I know we're not going to joke about this
Speaker 1: because it is very serious, although there may be some
Speaker 1: lighthearted moments, because it's unreal. What's happening in the world
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, and you're listening, you're thinking about coronavirus
Speaker 1: on the news, it's on your social it's everywhere. There
Speaker 1: are hundreds of new podcasts dedicated to coronavirus. And I
Speaker 1: think what's so odd about it is that we haven't
Speaker 1: really seen something like this kind of capture not only
Speaker 1: the minds of the world, but also like a physical
Speaker 1: result of something like we're seeing actual things happening. I mean,
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks, I saw that last night, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what is going on in this world? I was at
Speaker 1: the grocery stores and they are the supplies are in
Speaker 1: such tight demand.
Speaker 3: It's insane.
Speaker 2: My dad's seventy two, and I asked him. I was like,
Speaker 2: have you ever seen anything like this before? Like, was
Speaker 2: there some sort of disease that was similar when you
Speaker 2: were younger? He said, no, this is this is crazy,
Speaker 2: Like this is a moment in history that will always remember.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent, and there have been similar I call this.
Speaker 1: I was talking with someone here today and I was saying,
Speaker 1: I haven't felt this disoriented since September eleventh. You were
Speaker 1: a little young, were even born it was like six, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you may not remember at all, Like I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember like this.
Speaker 2: I remember it, but in like a weird way, like
Speaker 2: you knew it a story. Yeah, I knew it happened
Speaker 2: when I was like older, but yeah, when I when
Speaker 2: it was happening, I don't think it was ever really explained.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that makes sense. As a parent, I can
Speaker 1: understand that my kid was watching like he turned on
Speaker 1: Apple TV last night and we don't have cable, but
Speaker 1: he tuned into uh, like a streaming newscast, and I
Speaker 1: was like, excuse me, what are you doing? And you know,
Speaker 1: he's eight, and he he is interested in what's happening.
Speaker 1: And I'm not keeping everything from him, but I don't
Speaker 1: think he needs to know everything on the play by
Speaker 1: play of what's going on. And so we've explained and
Speaker 1: you know he understands, and even at school they've talked
Speaker 1: about it. But I'll be honest, this podcast, a lot
Speaker 1: of it is going to have to do with coronavirus.
Speaker 1: And you know, you can tune out if you'd like,
Speaker 1: but the reality is, I'm fascinated by this. I'm going
Speaker 1: to take it all from the tech angle. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have regular questions from the viewers or in the listeners,
Speaker 1: so you have that, but we're just going to start
Speaker 1: with a couple of the things that are happening in
Speaker 1: the tech world. Number one E three twenty twenty canceled
Speaker 1: because of the coronavirus. This is the big video game
Speaker 1: show that's normally scheduled for June ninth to eleventh in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I've been for many years. It's a show
Speaker 1: that kind of has all the latest and greatest when
Speaker 1: it comes to video games, So all the upcoming games
Speaker 1: the consoles this year, Sony was actually pieced out before
Speaker 1: this whole thing, so it was really like Microsoft, Nintendo
Speaker 1: and you know all the other games that are out there.
Speaker 1: But it's over and this the reality is. They said
Speaker 1: it was a difficult decision following increased and overwhelming concerns.
Speaker 1: We felt this was the best way to proceed during
Speaker 1: such an unprecedented global situation. We know it's the right decision.
Speaker 1: They will be providing full refunds, and they're looking at
Speaker 1: ways to do an online experience. And again this is
Speaker 1: for June ninth to eleventh. Oh wow, so that's a
Speaker 1: ways out. But I think it's right now. People can't
Speaker 1: imagine even booking a flight right now to come to
Speaker 1: a show like that where it brings in people from
Speaker 1: all over I think that's concerned. Activision Blizzard Esports says
Speaker 1: Overwatch League games are canceled. Sorry, the Overwatch League home stands.
Speaker 1: So I believe the home stands. Well, let's see, is.
Speaker 3: That where people come and watch them?
Speaker 1: I think so. But it says we are canceling all
Speaker 1: Overwatch League events scheduled from March and April. And these
Speaker 1: are overwatches kind of like the big esports gaming where
Speaker 1: they have all these people sitting in the center of
Speaker 1: the arena and a lot of people cheer them on
Speaker 1: and watch. Yeah, and again we heard the NBA is
Speaker 1: canceling the games. I mean, it's so widespread it's not
Speaker 1: even funny. The one thing I thought was kind of
Speaker 1: interesting about their little press release, Blizzard Entertainment says, concurrently,
Speaker 1: we are working hand in hand with our teams to
Speaker 1: see that all matches are played when it's safe and
Speaker 1: logically feasible. And I would say not the best use
Speaker 1: of words hand in hand. Don't want to use that
Speaker 1: right now. Come on, you want to be you want
Speaker 1: to be elbow to elbow right now, right And Google
Speaker 1: is saying if your business is affected by coronavirus, it
Speaker 1: might be a good time to update your business profile.
Speaker 1: And you may not know this, but if you own
Speaker 1: a small business, you can look for something called Google
Speaker 1: my Business and you can claim your business listing within Google.
Speaker 1: You know, when you search for a company on Google,
Speaker 1: like a small business, local retailer or a big retailer
Speaker 1: has that little info box that shows up. It says
Speaker 1: if they're open, has like website directions, all this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. Well, businesses can update that information and Google saying, look,
Speaker 1: if you're affected by coronavirus, let people know what's happening.
Speaker 1: Whether your business hours has changed, maybe you're staying open
Speaker 1: later or earlier, or are closing earlier, or you're closed,
Speaker 1: or you're just closed. Maybe you want to talk about
Speaker 1: your business operations. You can share any precautions that your
Speaker 1: business take. Let's say you run a small gym and
Speaker 1: you can write in there, hey, we are sanitizing our equipment,
Speaker 1: deep cleansing every single night. Rest assured that when you
Speaker 1: Google that business, you're getting that information presented. Or if
Speaker 1: you're experiencing delays, or you can create a post. And
Speaker 1: I don't think many businesses know this, but the Google
Speaker 1: Businesses has something similar to like Twitter, where you can
Speaker 1: create a little post or an Instagram post, but it
Speaker 1: shows up under your business when someone googles it, and
Speaker 1: that can be helpful for just giving updates. Maybe you've
Speaker 1: got sanitizer back in stock or probably not, you can
Speaker 1: put that on there. Yeah, all right, razy Megan, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's get a question.
Speaker 2: Our first question comes from Wilmer. I shattered the screen
Speaker 2: of my Apple Watch Series three, and I'm devastated. He
Speaker 2: knows that they're not cheap, and he was going to
Speaker 2: save up and just repurchase the series three again, and
Speaker 2: he's wondering if he should spring for the series five
Speaker 2: at this point, since it's two years old or three
Speaker 2: years old.
Speaker 1: I would agree go with the series five. And the
Speaker 1: reason why he's not mentioning the series four is because
Speaker 1: you can't really find it. The series five replace the
Speaker 1: series four. Apple does this weird thing sometimes where they
Speaker 1: keep kind of the oldest version of something or an
Speaker 1: older version and the newer one, and they leave out
Speaker 1: the one in between, and you're like, why would they
Speaker 1: do that? Well, because the older one they can drop
Speaker 1: the price and not truly have it cut into the
Speaker 1: sales of the newer one because the features are kind
Speaker 1: of different. So on Apple Watch Series three versus five.
Speaker 1: With the series five, you're going to get the always
Speaker 1: on display, which may or may not be something you want.
Speaker 1: You may want to turn it off because it does
Speaker 1: use more battery. You're also going to get the compass,
Speaker 1: which could be handy if you're out and about in
Speaker 1: the wilderness, or if you just like the idea of
Speaker 1: the compass, and you're also going to get a slightly
Speaker 1: larger display I believe, and also ekg oh, so those
Speaker 1: are four pretty solid things that you might want over
Speaker 1: the Series three. Oh, you're also gonna get a faster processor. Okay,
Speaker 1: so it's been a couple of years, like he said.
Speaker 1: And the Series four or sorry, Series five is I
Speaker 1: believe three ninety nine. Oh for the I believe for
Speaker 1: the cellular version. Let me see how much this is.
Speaker 1: Let's see. We're going to click the website and I
Speaker 1: will show you the price. Three ninety nine. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: three ninety nine for the regular and then four ninety
Speaker 1: nine for the cellular. So it's a little bit more
Speaker 1: expensive than the other one. But you know, I think
Speaker 1: that you're getting three years of technology.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's probably worth it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you still won an Apple Watch, right?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Are you still? Well?
Speaker 2: You know I've actually like searched for the Series.
Speaker 1: Four and you can find that you can find it, yes,
Speaker 1: not from Apple officially, right, it's a best buy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: best buy or like Coals or something. Yeah, but my
Speaker 1: advice is, and I tell this to a lot of
Speaker 1: people that email me these questions about this. Whenever you're
Speaker 1: buying one of these Apple devices, look outside the Apple
Speaker 1: Store because you don't necessarily have to get it from
Speaker 1: Apple Store. Apple store doesn't really run any deals or sales.
Speaker 1: But for so, if I was buying the apple Watch
Speaker 1: Series five today, I would search apple Watch five deals
Speaker 1: and then in Google you type in you go to news,
Speaker 1: and that way you find the bloggers that blog about this, okay,
Speaker 1: And the reason why bloggers blog about it is because
Speaker 1: they get what's called an affiliate link to that thing.
Speaker 1: So if you buy it through their click or through
Speaker 1: their blog posts, they'll get a little tiny cut of that.
Speaker 1: So it's in their best interest to keep these things
Speaker 1: updated with like the latest deals because it entices people
Speaker 1: to buy. So if I looked at apple Watch five
Speaker 1: is not going to have any deals right now, but
Speaker 1: apple Watch three is in stock and on sale at
Speaker 1: one ninety nine for best buy. Wow, now you may not.
Speaker 1: You may be able to find apple Watch four. Let's
Speaker 1: see if there's any four deals. So it looks like yes,
Speaker 1: six days ago, Series four GPS returns to Black Friday price,
Speaker 1: So there you go. Two ninety nine. So again, if
Speaker 1: you don't need all those features, you can do that.
Speaker 2: He also mentions that the Series three that he's looking
Speaker 2: at is at Apple and it's two thirty.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: He doesn't even realize that if he was going to
Speaker 2: get the Series three.
Speaker 1: He could get it for one thirty bucks less past
Speaker 1: by at a bunch of places in the side. But
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, exactly, very so a good question, all right,
Speaker 1: speaking of your digital gadgets, the best ways to clean
Speaker 1: and disinfect your dirty smartphone. This is the story that
Speaker 1: we did on KTLA. We talked to a professor of
Speaker 1: chemical engineering at USC, Andrea Armani, and she said that
Speaker 1: cell phones are actually one of the dirtiest things that
Speaker 1: we handle every day, no surprise there. And we talked
Speaker 1: about several of the ways to clean your phone, and
Speaker 1: the number one is a damp microfibercloth. You can find
Speaker 1: microfibercloths on Amazon. I've got a bunch of them around
Speaker 1: the house. That's what I use most of the time.
Speaker 1: I really like little wipes, and in the past I've
Speaker 1: used the eyeglass wipes, but now Zeis actually has a
Speaker 1: specific mobile screen wipe. I also like Whoosh, which is
Speaker 1: a spray and they have a good stuff. Now most
Speaker 1: of these some people will tell you that these are
Speaker 1: good enough on your phone because it's such a smooth
Speaker 1: surface that you will wipe off the bacteria and grime
Speaker 1: and even the bad stuff like you know what, coronavirus.
Speaker 1: I can't guarantee that with these methods, but that's what
Speaker 1: I've read online. Now, if you want something a little
Speaker 1: more industrial strength. What's interesting is that a lot of
Speaker 1: people recommended a mix of rubbing alcohol or you know,
Speaker 1: alcohol with water and put that. Always put it on
Speaker 1: the device, on the wipe, by the way, like the
Speaker 1: microfiber not you't you don't pour it exactly, don't pour
Speaker 1: it on your device.
Speaker 3: So can you put it on a cotton ball?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think so, I've done that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so long story short. After we did our
Speaker 1: story on TV, a couple of days later, Apple comes
Speaker 1: out and says, you know what, you can actually go
Speaker 1: ahead and use Clorox wipes on your phone, even though
Speaker 1: previously they did not recommend any sort of like household chemicals. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but now with the whole coronavirus thing, people want their
Speaker 1: stuff really disinfected. They said, go ahead, use a Clorox wipe,
Speaker 1: or use a combination of seventy percent isopropyl alcohol along
Speaker 1: with some water. Okay, and that should take care of it. Now,
Speaker 1: if you really want to get heavy duty on your phone,
Speaker 1: which I have started to do, I've had one of
Speaker 1: these phone soap disinfectant things in my house for a year.
Speaker 1: I got it for Christmas last year for my in laws,
Speaker 1: and I never set it up. I was like, give
Speaker 1: me a break, and now I am a believer. I
Speaker 1: put my phone in there, not every night, but a
Speaker 1: couple times a week. It turns on the UV light,
Speaker 1: it disinfects the phone. And if you're wondering how it works, well,
Speaker 1: I talked to the CEO of the company's name is
Speaker 1: Dan Barnes, and here's what he had to say.
Speaker 4: So, phone soaps technology is built on UVC light. UVC
Speaker 4: is a short wavelength that can penetrate the cell wall
Speaker 4: and effectively fuse the DNA together, which kills it. It's
Speaker 4: no longer operable. It can't harm you, and it can't reproduce,
Speaker 4: so it's really the safest way to clean your phone.
Speaker 4: There's no harsh chemicals like alcohol, it won't void your warranty.
Speaker 4: And it's effective at ninety nine point nine nine percent
Speaker 4: in killing this bacteria and virus every time.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the big question is will it kill the coronavirus?
Speaker 1: So I asked him that specifically.
Speaker 4: While we have not been able to test the coronavirus specifically,
Speaker 4: you know it's being held by organizations like the CDC,
Speaker 4: only we do know that it's an envelope virus similar
Speaker 4: to bacteria that we have tested. Phone soap's been clinically
Speaker 4: proven to kill ninety nine point nine nine percent of influenza,
Speaker 4: which is an envelope virus similar to coronavirus. We have
Speaker 4: tested against rhinovirus, staff ecoli, Salmonila, mursa, and phone soap
Speaker 4: is always designed to do a three hundred and sixty
Speaker 4: degree clean on your entire phone or any item you
Speaker 4: put in there. So, while we haven't been able to
Speaker 4: test this novel strain of coronavirus specifically, we have tested
Speaker 4: a wide range of viruses in bacteria that in some
Speaker 4: degrees or other are similar to it.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going to take that as I think we're okay.
Speaker 3: I think he knows what he's doing.
Speaker 1: I think he knows what he's doing. And so I've
Speaker 1: been putting my phone in this little device. The model
Speaker 1: I have, I believe it's about eighty dollars. That's how
Speaker 1: much it looks like it is on Amazon. Of course
Speaker 1: they're sold out. It's impossible to get one of these things.
Speaker 1: But I'm kind of in love with it because I
Speaker 1: love the idea that it not only sanitizes my phone,
Speaker 1: but it kind of sanitizes everything, like all the little
Speaker 1: nooks and crannies, all everything. It's like a three sixty
Speaker 1: clean And the one thing it doesn't do is wipe
Speaker 1: down your phone. So I wish it was more like
Speaker 1: a little mini car wash for your phone, where it
Speaker 1: actually sanitized with the UV light and then it kind
Speaker 1: of scrubbed it with like bubbles. But well, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I guess that'd be kind of tricky because.
Speaker 3: You know, I know, things could get a little messed up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So anyway, keep your phone clean, and those are
Speaker 1: some of the ways you can do it. And I
Speaker 1: think that everyone is sort of looking at their phone
Speaker 1: these days wondering just how dirty is this thing? And
Speaker 1: should I be cleaning it? Yes, you should be, yes.
Speaker 3: All the time.
Speaker 2: This next question comes from Joe Months ago you introduced
Speaker 2: a new phone company plan that was forty dollars a
Speaker 2: month on limited unlimited by some new company. At the time,
Speaker 2: my phone didn't qualify. Anyways, I need to do phone now.
Speaker 2: Should I wait for the Samsung twenty? What was the network?
Speaker 2: I live in Orange County?
Speaker 1: My gosh. Those are a lot of questions.
Speaker 3: You know, But the main thing is.
Speaker 1: The main thing is what you know? The answer to
Speaker 1: this yes, Visible Visible. We've got a lot of questions
Speaker 1: about Visible because it's forty dollars a month and it
Speaker 1: runs on the Verizon network. It doesn't just run on Verizon,
Speaker 1: it is owned by Verizon. Yeah, and it is a
Speaker 1: fantastic deal. And the other cool thing about Visible And
Speaker 1: by the way, they offer the s twenty, So when
Speaker 1: they first came out, it was it was iPhone only
Speaker 1: and so it excluded When we first did our story
Speaker 1: about this on KTLA, it excluded a lot of people
Speaker 1: because they had Android and they're like, Rich, I can't switch.
Speaker 1: You just told me about this amazing thing. And it's
Speaker 1: a legit plan. It is everything you need on Verizon unlimited,
Speaker 1: everything for forty bucks a month. Now. The one catch
Speaker 1: is the speed limit. It is it is limited to
Speaker 1: five megabits per second, which you remember, this was one
Speaker 1: of your first stories you did. We tested it, remember, outside,
Speaker 1: and we saw if like YouTube worked, if snapchat work,
Speaker 1: and it worked.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was the difference of like maybe two seconds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a little you know, a little bit.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it could be a little bit slower. But they
Speaker 1: and I'm also kicking myself for this for my wife
Speaker 1: because I wanted to switch her to it and I didn't.
Speaker 1: They actually had a promotion where they were giving you
Speaker 1: unlimited speed and everyone who signed up during that time
Speaker 1: gets unlimited speed for the rest of their time. Remember that,
Speaker 1: And I should have signed up because forty bucks a
Speaker 1: month is such a deal. And they do this thing.
Speaker 1: They don't do family plans, but they do like a
Speaker 1: something like I think it's a party plan. Yeah, visible
Speaker 1: party pay and you actually just get like up to
Speaker 1: how many friends up to I don't know, three or
Speaker 1: four friends and yeah two, three or four friends and
Speaker 1: every friend you join in on, they you each get
Speaker 1: five bucks off. So if you and I did a
Speaker 1: party play plan, yeah, so we would pay thirty five each.
Speaker 1: So and it's the party you are, it's just your
Speaker 1: linked up kind of just online. It has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with your bill. You still get your bill separately
Speaker 1: and so do I.
Speaker 3: But it's just one month.
Speaker 1: No, no, it's every month.
Speaker 3: Oh it's thirty five moving forward. Yeah, oh I thought
Speaker 3: it was a month that you sign up.
Speaker 1: No, as long as you link in, that's amazing.
Speaker 3: So you could have like three friends and it could
Speaker 3: be like twenty dollars ars.
Speaker 1: So they're trying to get you to like tell your
Speaker 1: friends about it and join with you, which makes sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like a spin on. I think everything with Visible
Speaker 1: is kind of like a spin on, you know, the normal,
Speaker 1: typical plan, right, And the only major catch besides the
Speaker 1: speed limit, is really the fact that everything is sort
Speaker 1: of done online. You activate your phone online customer service.
Speaker 1: There's no store to walk into if you need help.
Speaker 1: But that's the one. The other weird thing is they
Speaker 1: just started a version of Visible now called Yahoo Mobile,
Speaker 1: and it is identical. It's basically Visible because think about it,
Speaker 1: Verizon owns Yahoo. Oh, Okayon owns Visible Now. We have
Speaker 1: Yahoo Mobile, and I think they're just playing upon the
Speaker 1: Yahoo brand selling it to all the millions of email.
Speaker 1: It's I can't see a difference between Visible and Mobile
Speaker 1: and Yahoo Mobile.
Speaker 3: I wonder, like it's the website.
Speaker 1: The website's different, No websites different.
Speaker 3: You sign up through an app, different audience.
Speaker 1: It's just different audience exactly. I personal would go at Visible.
Speaker 1: It seems like a cooler little thing than Yahoo.
Speaker 3: But it's funny. Does Yahoo just have like a bad rep?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, really, don't you think? I mean, Yahoo used
Speaker 1: to be the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 3: I used to search.
Speaker 2: I remember searching on Yahoo, yeah, way back when, Like now.
Speaker 3: You just use Google.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Yahoo doesn't even I don't think they do
Speaker 1: search anymore. I think it's run through Microsoft like.
Speaker 3: They used to have like the top searches.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Yahoo was they still do probably, Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: sure they still. I think still the number one. It
Speaker 1: is kind of funny though, and I don't think I
Speaker 1: do this anymore. But it used to be when I
Speaker 1: was testing a device or going to like a web
Speaker 1: page for something, just to see if the Internet worked,
Speaker 1: you would always go to Yahoo. It's just like the
Speaker 1: first thing that comes to mind, you think Internet, you know,
Speaker 1: And now to me, Yahoo is just so like.
Speaker 2: It's stated they have the same layouts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it hasn't changed. I actually was offered a job
Speaker 1: by Yahoo many years ago, and when they send you
Speaker 1: your job offer, it was a big box that they
Speaker 1: overnight to your house and when you open the box,
Speaker 1: it goes Yahoo. Yeah, and it would welcome you to Yahoo.
Speaker 1: And it had a T shirt which I still wear.
Speaker 1: I still wear it to be how long were you there? No, No,
Speaker 1: I got a job offered, got a job offer. I
Speaker 1: did not take the job. Got it Okay, if I
Speaker 1: took the job, I would not have to have worked
Speaker 1: for the rest of my life. No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: But it didn't have a lot of stock options. I
Speaker 1: didn't really understand what those war back then. Really No,
Speaker 1: I had no idea. So I was like, They're like, here,
Speaker 1: we'll give you all this, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: have no idea what this means. But anyway, I didn't
Speaker 1: take the job, and the value went down right eventually.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know, it wouldn't be worth me.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess now they'd be Verizon stock. I don't know. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't really know. I don't really know because the
Speaker 1: two times in my life when I had stock options
Speaker 1: from the companies I worked for, I lost them both
Speaker 1: because I left the companies. So well, yeahoo, I never joined.
Speaker 3: You can't get the money out.
Speaker 1: It depends if you're vested. So here's the way they work.
Speaker 1: So let's say this one company I worked at a
Speaker 1: couple years ago, they gave me a bunch of I
Speaker 1: think they were called options or stocks or whatever it was.
Speaker 1: But they give it to you, but you don't get
Speaker 1: it unless you stay there for three more years and
Speaker 1: then they're actually transferred to you. So that's an incentive
Speaker 1: for you to stay at that company. That makes sense,
Speaker 1: and you get kind of a bonus for.
Speaker 3: Staying there, right, Okay, it makes sense.
Speaker 1: It's that bonus because there must be.
Speaker 2: People that go and then they're like, I got these
Speaker 2: stock options and then they try to take it out
Speaker 2: and they're like, no, you've just stayed in it three years.
Speaker 1: What do you give you? Those just fun?
Speaker 3: I had fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you've been a store lately,
Speaker 1: but they are actually bananas. I went to five different
Speaker 1: stores yesterday. I went to Ralph's, I went to Vonn's,
Speaker 1: I went to CVS, I went to Office Depot ninety
Speaker 1: nine cent stores, and then I went to Ralphs again.
Speaker 3: You went to the ninety nine cent store?
Speaker 1: Yeah, first time I've never been to one. Really yeah,
Speaker 1: actually I lied, second time I've ever been in one.
Speaker 3: Not everything's ninety nine cent.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't understand that, Like, no, I don't either.
Speaker 1: A lot of things are. But they had water at
Speaker 1: the door that was nine ninety nine. I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: what now? Maybe they play upon nine nine nine if
Speaker 1: that's part of their.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's their stick.
Speaker 1: But I was impressed. I mean there had a lot
Speaker 1: of selections. Have you ever been in one? Yeah? I have?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what what is that look on your face?
Speaker 1: Nothing?
Speaker 2: And I used to babysit or like when I had
Speaker 2: like a little kids camp when I was younger, I
Speaker 2: would go and get like arts and crass.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like two dollars. It's all like ninety nine cents.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Lindsay's obsessed with the dollar tree because everything's a dollar
Speaker 1: and she gets like all this stuff that's you know,
Speaker 1: a little things like holidays and stuff, and it's it's
Speaker 1: it's great, it's a dollar. But I had just hadn't
Speaker 1: been in one, so it was really cool first time
Speaker 1: for everything, But I did not find what I was
Speaker 1: looking for which I was on a I was trying
Speaker 1: to see what the supply levels were like for everything
Speaker 1: that people are looking for, like toilet paper, paper towels,
Speaker 1: hand sanitizer, wipes and sprays like lysol and that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. And I will tell you, Megan, it was
Speaker 1: really bad. I mean, I'm talking, I don't want to
Speaker 1: raise I mean, as we record this on our air
Speaker 1: right now, they're talking about panic buying. Yeah, and it
Speaker 1: was It's unlike anything I've ever seen. And I've worked
Speaker 1: through hurricanes, I've worked through natural disasters, and I've never
Speaker 1: really seen anything like this.
Speaker 3: So weird.
Speaker 1: And so with that in mind, and by the way,
Speaker 1: Amazon is also sold out of all this stuff. When
Speaker 1: was the last time you searched Amazon It was out
Speaker 1: of stock of like a large majority of things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna go over some of the things that
Speaker 1: can maybe help you find some of these products, and
Speaker 1: in my experience, they're not going to be much help,
Speaker 1: but at least you know about them. And the first
Speaker 1: one is now in stock dot net And this is
Speaker 1: a website that well, it's mainly made for the holidays
Speaker 1: when you're trying to get the tickle Me Elmo or
Speaker 1: the Nintendo Classic whatever, and they have a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of hot products and it will tell you which retailers
Speaker 1: have them in stock online. And they've added hand sanitizer
Speaker 1: and also household cleaning, which is crazy because they probably
Speaker 1: never had that before in their lifetime. And you can
Speaker 1: click hand sanitizers and it gives you a list of
Speaker 1: all of the different things that you can get and
Speaker 1: if they're available, and I'm actually seeing that, yeah, currently unavailable.
Speaker 1: But I did notice also on Amazon that you can
Speaker 1: for certain items if they're out of stock. They will
Speaker 1: have a links, a little button show up that says
Speaker 1: email me when it's in stock, and so you can
Speaker 1: do that. But now in stock dot Net is the
Speaker 1: first one, and then the second one is Google Shopping.
Speaker 1: So if you go to shopping dot Google dot com
Speaker 1: and you type in what you want, you can search
Speaker 1: and see if things are available locally. And I had
Speaker 1: some luck, but it's one of these things where unless
Speaker 1: you're getting it delivered, I wouldn't really trust it to
Speaker 1: know if it's in stock. So, for instance, if I
Speaker 1: put paper towels, which I was able to find last night,
Speaker 1: just very slim pickens. But if I look here paper
Speaker 1: towels and I go compare prices. It's just not it's
Speaker 1: just really tough to find. So again, Google shopping is
Speaker 1: another one, but they some of these, you know, like
Speaker 1: Google Shopping is linked up on the back end to
Speaker 1: like targets inventory and best buys inventory, like certain big retailers,
Speaker 1: maybe Walmart, probably not Walmart and Google probably hate each other,
Speaker 1: but they have some sort of inroads into like what
Speaker 1: their inventory stock is showing that's not always right, okay.
Speaker 1: And if you've ever tried to find like a hot
Speaker 1: video game when they're really and you go online and
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, GameStop has it available, and you go
Speaker 1: there and they're like, oh no, dude, that that's not
Speaker 1: always right. You've experienced that.
Speaker 3: All the time.
Speaker 1: Brickseek dot com is another website. Now. This launched as
Speaker 1: a website to help lego collectors find popular sets, and
Speaker 1: they have expanded to have inventory an inventory search function,
Speaker 1: and so if you go to inventory checker, they've got Walmart, Target,
Speaker 1: Lowe's Office depot, Macy's Home depot, CVS, Staples, and BJS
Speaker 1: all listed on there. Oh wow, and I tried. This
Speaker 1: one's a little trickier because it's not just a search.
Speaker 1: You have to go to like Target's website, get the
Speaker 1: skew number and then type it in and it does
Speaker 1: it through that. But still one more resource. And finally,
Speaker 1: this is more local. This is an LA based startup
Speaker 1: called Mark m akk mark App. And I don't see
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of people using.
Speaker 3: This m akk m a r kkh mark.
Speaker 1: I believe, okay. And this mark app is a it's
Speaker 1: kind of like an Instagram Stories, but for places you go.
Speaker 1: So instead of writing like a big review on a
Speaker 1: restaurant that you went to, you would just market and
Speaker 1: you would put like a little photo and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: just date at Benny Hannah. It's so good, you know,
Speaker 1: like flaming onion or whatever, or what is that thing?
Speaker 1: The onion is bloomin onion at that's at Uh, what's
Speaker 1: that restaurant? Blooming onion is at steakhouse?
Speaker 3: Onion steakhouse? What's the steakhouse?
Speaker 1: Oh? Oh on the border? Lowry's No, the other one,
Speaker 1: the Australian one out back, out back, outback. So so
Speaker 1: what they've done is the Mark app has done the
Speaker 1: emergency Supply finder and it lets people report live availabilities
Speaker 1: of essentials as stores like Costco, CVS, Target, and they
Speaker 1: plot it on a map so you can make better
Speaker 1: decisions before you head out. But the reality is, even
Speaker 1: if someone posts that they have some stock, you'd have
Speaker 1: to be searching this and looking at this like religiously.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. I'm telling you this because I
Speaker 1: don't think a lot of people are using it right now.
Speaker 1: According to Mark, they told me that nineteen hundred users
Speaker 1: reported in their beta version in one week, and ten
Speaker 1: thousand views have been seen globally. But I'm telling you
Speaker 1: this because if more people use it, the better it gets,
Speaker 1: the better it is for everyone.
Speaker 3: And we know.
Speaker 2: Okay, this next question comes from Lisa.
Speaker 3: The subject is Whole Food app.
Speaker 2: I have a phone, but it's not a smartphone and
Speaker 2: I only use it as my cell phone. I use
Speaker 2: it for emergencies and I hardly turned it on. Okay,
Speaker 2: so she doesn't really use her phone. Isn't is there
Speaker 2: some way that I could connect the Whole Food app
Speaker 2: to my phone? Because she goes to Whole food to
Speaker 2: shop and she wants to be able to get I
Speaker 2: guess some sort of point system that Whole Foods has.
Speaker 3: She can't. I can't use my Amazon card.
Speaker 1: Okay. I think what she is asking about is hold
Speaker 1: on one second. I'm ordering some hand sanitizer right now.
Speaker 1: Uh literally. Okay. So as we said that, I just
Speaker 1: got an alert on my computer that Purel was in
Speaker 1: stock at Amazon you got from that website now in
Speaker 1: stock dot net. And I just ordered it.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: And now Clorox wipes them getting a message that those
Speaker 1: are in stock. Oh they're not though, anyway, So there
Speaker 1: you go. I just got a I got a Purel
Speaker 1: Advanced Little Mini Mini pack. See it right there.
Speaker 3: I just bought that nice.
Speaker 1: I should have bought more than one for me.
Speaker 3: It's as currently unavailable.
Speaker 1: Well that's probably because I just purchased it.
Speaker 3: Oh by now in stock nineteen dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, should I get it? Yeah, of course it's I mean,
Speaker 1: but is that So there you go. So we just
Speaker 1: that's a that's a that's good for now in stock
Speaker 1: dot net.
Speaker 3: I just did it.
Speaker 1: Let's see if it actually works. We'll we'll update you
Speaker 1: on the next podcast.
Speaker 3: But don't touch my hand. Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: So what were we talking about now? You were talking
Speaker 1: about Amazon.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, so is there some way that she can
Speaker 2: still get points goes?
Speaker 1: So here's what she's asking, I believe. Okay, so you
Speaker 1: don't shop at Whole Foods, but if you did, they
Speaker 1: have this thing with Amazon because they're owned by Amazon,
Speaker 1: where you show them this little code inside your app,
Speaker 1: kind of like a club card at the grocery store. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well they have their own version, except there's no card
Speaker 1: and there's really no club.
Speaker 3: No phone number.
Speaker 1: Well that's what she's asking. So she's saying she doesn't
Speaker 1: have a smartphone, but she still wants to be able
Speaker 1: to because you have to scan this little QR code
Speaker 1: from your phone.
Speaker 3: Got it?
Speaker 1: You bring up the Amazon app and inside the card
Speaker 1: is like it says Whole Foods code. So you bring
Speaker 1: it up on your phone and they scan it at
Speaker 1: the register and you purportedly save money. It's never saved
Speaker 1: me more than like seventy five cents, but theoretically you're
Speaker 1: supposed to save money. And that's what she's asking. So
Speaker 1: she's saying, I don't have a smartphone. How do I
Speaker 1: do that? Well, you can link up your mobile number,
Speaker 1: just like you can at a grocery store like Ralph's.
Speaker 1: Or Albertson's or any of these stores. You have to
Speaker 1: go to Amazon dot com slash Prime Savings, and once
Speaker 1: you go there, you'll see right on the home screen
Speaker 1: it says Prime members save more at Whole Foods market
Speaker 1: and it says choose how to get your savings. Number
Speaker 1: one scan your Whole Foods code inside the app, or
Speaker 1: number two use your mobile number and you can click
Speaker 1: update settings. You pop in your mobile phone number, and
Speaker 1: then at the register you tell them your phone number.
Speaker 1: They can type it in. I believe you can type
Speaker 1: it in yourself, as some of them, but that's it.
Speaker 1: That's how it works, so pretty easy. I did that
Speaker 1: because I used to not always have my phone and
Speaker 1: it kind of sometimes would take a long time. So
Speaker 1: I was like, this is easier to just do a
Speaker 1: phone number, you know, although I always had my phone,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I think the thing was that
Speaker 1: sometimes it just would be a long time to like
Speaker 1: find it in the app. So it's just easier to
Speaker 1: use your thing.
Speaker 2: Don't you remember on like keychains, people would have like
Speaker 2: cards for like Costco or Peco.
Speaker 3: Now it's like that's not a thing.
Speaker 1: My thing is I have nothing on my keychain, which
Speaker 1: I love. I have one thing.
Speaker 3: I've a list that I just got rid of all that.
Speaker 1: Actually, and I think I told this story on the
Speaker 1: podcast because I have an electronic lock for my front door.
Speaker 1: I actually was not carrying around a key at all
Speaker 1: except for my car.
Speaker 3: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: And so I had no house key. But then I
Speaker 1: got burned about twice when it gets in Yeah, when
Speaker 1: it gets really cold for some reason, it doesn't work,
Speaker 1: it doesn't respond the keypad, and so that's a little concerning.
Speaker 1: So now I keep a key on my keychain just
Speaker 1: in case, because you still have the manual option. But
Speaker 1: it's only it's only It hasn't burned me where I
Speaker 1: wasn't where I had to sit outside my house. But
Speaker 1: the two times that happened, once was outside. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: that happens sometimes if you're married. Yeah, gotta do that sometimes.
Speaker 1: But no, my wife was. She had her key and
Speaker 1: so she was able to open it. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of a concern if you go all electronic. Yeah. Wow, Okay, coronavirus.
Speaker 1: What's YouTube doing about it? Well, YouTube's doing a couple
Speaker 1: of things. Number One, you think about coronavirus and misinformation
Speaker 1: lots of misinformation. Anyone with a webcam or a phone
Speaker 1: can sit there and tell you their thoughts on coronavirus
Speaker 1: or a podcast and just spout out all kinds of
Speaker 1: coronavirus stuff. But you want to make sure the information
Speaker 1: you're getting is reliable and reputable. And so what YouTube
Speaker 1: is doing they are promoting authoritative sources in their search,
Speaker 1: and they're also showing information panels on relevant videos. But
Speaker 1: videos that are flagged, like videos with misinformation, videos that
Speaker 1: say you can you don't have to seek medical treatment,
Speaker 1: or they claim that these harmful substances will have health benefits,
Speaker 1: they will demote those. So when you look for those,
Speaker 1: they're not going to come up. So even if a
Speaker 1: video sort of goes viral because it's like here's the
Speaker 1: cure to coronavirus. Take this, take apple side or vinegar,
Speaker 1: you know that YouTube, a bunch of people will flag
Speaker 1: that and YouTube will demote it. So even if it's
Speaker 1: gone kind of viral, YouTube is like no more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're not letting this thing get out of control. That's
Speaker 1: the idea. Now does that always work? Who knows? And
Speaker 1: I think this is why news organizations like ours are
Speaker 1: important in these times because you can search, you can
Speaker 1: scroll through social media, and myself included. I posted a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of pictures on my Instagram of all the
Speaker 1: empty shelves at stores, and you can sit there and
Speaker 1: be like, oh, that's the reality. But this is why
Speaker 1: we have news organizations that vet stories. That's just my
Speaker 1: personal experience.
Speaker 3: My mom just sent me a picture of speaking the Devil.
Speaker 1: There's not that your mom's a devil, but you know
Speaker 1: what I.
Speaker 3: Mean, that's a phrase like absolutely no toil.
Speaker 1: Absolutely nothing nothing. It's it's funny because yesterday when I
Speaker 1: went to a bunch of the stores, specifically with the
Speaker 1: toilet paper, and I joked about this on my Instagram,
Speaker 1: all the good stuff was gone, like the main brands, but.
Speaker 3: There was the bad ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like Scott.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what Scott.
Speaker 1: Scott is like, you know, it's like the thin like
Speaker 1: one ply, like what it's like the stuff that's just
Speaker 1: like generic, you know, not knocking Scott, but like that
Speaker 1: was the brand. Like all My point is, people still
Speaker 1: have preferences, even in times of dire straits. They're like,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna we'll buy that. Well, maybe I'll find
Speaker 1: it another place.
Speaker 2: What about Cleenex If you can't find any they had
Speaker 2: clean X, they didn't you use clean X.
Speaker 1: I know, h that's a personal thing. That's you've had.
Speaker 3: This conversation toilet paper.
Speaker 1: Oh god, no, no, no, okay, I think it goes
Speaker 1: this way. I think Kleenex and toilet paper can go
Speaker 1: one way, right, they both can't go the other way.
Speaker 1: Bring the toilet paper to But.
Speaker 2: Basically, if there's nothing and you've gone to five stores
Speaker 2: and there's no more toilet paper, ye CLEANX.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess it's probably not good to flush though that.
Speaker 1: I don't think they break up the same way as
Speaker 1: toilet I think toilet paper was like specifically made to
Speaker 1: break up in the toilet.
Speaker 2: You know in other countries you have to put toilet
Speaker 2: paper in a trash can.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I always found that really disgusting. Yeah. Anyway, well
Speaker 1: that's the first and last time we'll talk about this
Speaker 1: conversation on this podcast. Hey, are you eating lunch or dinner? Yeah,
Speaker 1: or having your morning coffee? So you to He was
Speaker 1: doing a whole bunch of stuff to combat misinformation. And
Speaker 1: now one aspect of this is for creators, because if
Speaker 1: you think about it, there's a lot of opportunity here
Speaker 1: to make money on videos about coronavirus because people are
Speaker 1: looking for information. And what happens is YouTube has what's
Speaker 1: called a sensitive Events policy, and this means when a
Speaker 1: sensitive event happens, they basically flag videos dealing with that
Speaker 1: event so that they can't be monetized, So that people
Speaker 1: can't capitalize on tragedy, on a natural disaster, on something
Speaker 1: that's really important. People can't say, oh, let me just
Speaker 1: make a video that's crazy and a lot of people
Speaker 1: will watch it and I'll make a million bucks. So
Speaker 1: this little sensitive events policy gets, you know, it goes
Speaker 1: into place, and then next thing you know, you're not
Speaker 1: making money on your video. So YouTube is aware of that,
Speaker 1: and they said that they're going to help some creators
Speaker 1: get some money off these videos by re enabling ads
Speaker 1: as long as creators have self certified and are and
Speaker 1: or are a news partner. So really interesting this this thing.
Speaker 1: Just as you can tell, I'm fascinated by this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is fascinating and kind of scary. This next
Speaker 2: question comes from Carol. What are some of the best
Speaker 2: fitness slash health trackers.
Speaker 1: HM fitness slash health trackers. Well, if you're on the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch. I'm sorry the iPhone. If you're on the iPhone,
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty clear that the Apple Watch is
Speaker 1: your number one. And yeah, for many many reasons, but
Speaker 1: I that's what I personally use. And when I'm testing
Speaker 1: a different phone and I'm not with my Apple Watch
Speaker 1: or it's not working properly, it's like really sad because
Speaker 1: I've gotten so used how good the fitness tracking is.
Speaker 1: And I have been doing Orange Theory as well, and
Speaker 1: I've been comparing my Apple Watch against with that dedicated
Speaker 1: tracker I had to buy. I had to buy their tracker,
Speaker 1: which is like one hundred and twenty dollars what, which
Speaker 1: is ridiculous because I already have an Apple Watch which
Speaker 1: tracks my heart rate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, why would you need to even because.
Speaker 1: To connect to their sort of system you have to
Speaker 1: have their specific But even.
Speaker 2: When you're sweating and working out, doesn't your Apple Watch
Speaker 2: tell you how many calories you're brain?
Speaker 1: Yes, but I don't. I'm not even sure you can
Speaker 1: work it. Maybe you could work out there without their tracker,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of like the whole system. It's like
Speaker 1: all on the screen. It tells you how you're doing,
Speaker 1: and you really would. You probably wouldn't get as much
Speaker 1: out of the class without it.
Speaker 3: Oh interesting.
Speaker 1: So anyway, and the annoying thing is I bought this
Speaker 1: and they have an Apple Watch one coming out that
Speaker 1: connects your Apple Watch. It goes on your Apple Watch band.
Speaker 1: But it's not ready. And I think it's because of coronavirus.
Speaker 1: Because China, everything's delayed.
Speaker 2: I mean workout classes are I not that I go
Speaker 2: to a lot, but i'd be if you did be
Speaker 2: a little sketched out to go to work a class
Speaker 2: or a gym.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like, oh no, I just.
Speaker 2: Wait, like you like, it's the same thing as going
Speaker 2: like to.
Speaker 1: Work or sketched out about going to work or.
Speaker 3: Going to school.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm saying like in general, like people are staying
Speaker 2: home and not working, they're like working from home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's you're still exposed.
Speaker 1: I agree, And I think I mean, I didn't feel
Speaker 1: unsafe the gym, but I'm a.
Speaker 3: Matter feeling safe. Well it is, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, it's like, how do I feel? I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know like it it? Of course it crossed my mind,
Speaker 1: like am I putting myself more at risk by being here?
Speaker 3: I would think like I'm touching equipment.
Speaker 2: That like someone who's sick, like that basketball player who
Speaker 2: touched all the mic.
Speaker 1: That's true, I guess. And but is it is it
Speaker 1: contracted through touch? I'm not licking the orange theory equipment sweat,
Speaker 1: but sweat is one way. What like, I'm not like.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Is it absorbed through sweat? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think there's too many unknowns for me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I've been going to the gym as normal.
Speaker 1: I went to the gym yesterday, I went on Monday,
Speaker 1: I went. You know, I've been going regularly.
Speaker 3: I can't tell you're fine, keep on going.
Speaker 1: But it's I agree, it's definitely every At this point,
Speaker 1: everything is up for debate. Yeah, when someone sneezes or coughs,
Speaker 1: it's up.
Speaker 2: For Except a sneeze doesn't mean something like sneezing. Isn't
Speaker 2: a symptom?
Speaker 1: Oh it's not. Oh that's good to know. It's coughing.
Speaker 2: Okay, So if someone coughs, you can get out.
Speaker 1: The girl next to me at Arn's Theory was coughing
Speaker 1: a lot, and.
Speaker 2: She coughs on you or in the air, and you're
Speaker 2: in that room.
Speaker 1: I actually did think about that you've said.
Speaker 3: Into your nose.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Like if you could see like the n trails
Speaker 1: of like you know, like the like going from her
Speaker 1: mouth like literally like a smoke vapor and it's just
Speaker 1: like I take like a deep breath in and I'm like,
Speaker 1: and it just goes right into me. Oh, why are
Speaker 1: we talking about this?
Speaker 3: For a run?
Speaker 1: Okay? So the best fitness tracker. So if she's on
Speaker 1: if she's on iPhone, I would say Apple Watch bar nun.
Speaker 1: If she's not, I would say on the on the Google.
Speaker 1: On the Android side, I would recommend the Fitbit. And
Speaker 1: there's a lot of models. I think that if you
Speaker 1: want sort of a smart watch, I'd go at the
Speaker 1: Fitbit versa two. If you want just a standard tracker,
Speaker 1: I'd go with the Fipbit. I think it's a charge
Speaker 1: three maybe, and you know any of those, any of
Speaker 1: the fhipbits. I do think Fippit's gonna get a lot
Speaker 1: better because Google has purchased them and they're in the
Speaker 1: process of buying them, and I think that we're going
Speaker 1: to see a lot more from fip it very soon.
Speaker 3: So do you have the Apple Watch five?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Oh you do?
Speaker 1: I do, yes, And I will say that the battery
Speaker 1: life not as good as the four, the three or
Speaker 1: the four, so it's it's definitely not as In fact,
Speaker 1: it ran out of battery yesterday. And I think that's
Speaker 1: because I started using Apple Maps, and Apple Maps I
Speaker 1: think keeps the screen. Oh, I guess the screen is
Speaker 1: always I don't know anyway, Okay, final story Instagram. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw these on Instagram, but you
Speaker 1: shouldn't look for them. They are coronavirus filters and on Instagram.
Speaker 1: I was not really aware that people could make their
Speaker 1: own filters on Instagram, but clearly they can. And there's
Speaker 1: a whole bunch. So when I've read this story, I said,
Speaker 1: let me go look at this, and sure enough, a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of filters that put a mask on your face,
Speaker 1: like a virtual mask. It'll have the germs swirling around
Speaker 1: your head. It will have one of them is a test.
Speaker 1: Have you seen that thing where it says like what
Speaker 1: Disney character are you like where it rips on your forehead, Well,
Speaker 1: this one says if you're gonna die from the coronavirus.
Speaker 1: It like says text that flashes between no, I'm safe
Speaker 1: for now and yes, goodbye. So obviously these are in
Speaker 1: poor taste. But these are user generated filters. But are
Speaker 1: they approved by Instagram. I'm not sure, but they're getting
Speaker 1: a lot of heat because you know, it's I get it.
Speaker 1: You have a lot of different people with a lot
Speaker 1: of different kind of thoughts and the way they feel
Speaker 1: about things. But to me, I saw these things and
Speaker 1: it's kind of like.
Speaker 3: Icky, yeah, poor taste.
Speaker 1: Yeah, poor taste. And some people are saying like, well,
Speaker 1: well wait a second, we are We're showing like one
Speaker 1: person who used one of these coronavirus filters and this
Speaker 1: is by the way, from the standard dot co dot UK.
Speaker 1: They said, I'm using the technology of augmented reality. He said,
Speaker 1: he's making a filter that helps people be aware of
Speaker 1: the origins of coronavirus and prevent how it's spread out.
Speaker 1: So he's saying it was for a good thing, which
Speaker 1: I could see that, Like if it was a virtual
Speaker 1: filter where when you coughed, it would show like where
Speaker 1: the where the you know, germs go or the viruses,
Speaker 1: like I could see that could actually be useful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I could see that, But I don't think that's what
Speaker 1: these things were made for. I think they were made
Speaker 1: for fun yeah, and not really education.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just good.
Speaker 2: I think as we see things progress, like who knows
Speaker 2: in a month, like we might be like, this is
Speaker 2: just not funny anymore. You know, the more serious it gets,
Speaker 2: the more it affects you, then you start to kind
Speaker 2: of stop making jokes.
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