WEBVTT - Just your tech questions, answered! 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:05.800 It's a special edition of the rich on Tech podcast 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.799 What's going On? I'm Rich DeMuro and this is rich 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.039 on Tech, the podcast where we talk about the tech 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:14.320 stuff I think you should know about and I answer 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:17.080 the questions that you send me. My name is Richdmiro, 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.440 tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Joining 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:26.680 me via zoom is producer Megan. 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:27.680 How are you? How's it going? 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.840 Oh, live in the dream, quarantined in my home. I 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:34.360 think we're going on week number three. 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:36.600 It feels like week number ten. 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.640 Oh my gosh, this is this is I just I 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:41.840 think I say this every podcast, but this is the 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:45.960 most insane thing I have ever experienced in my life. 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.760 I'm actually asking every day to go back to work, 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.280 and work is saying no, you can't, Like you cannot 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.080 come to work. I mean, when do you ever have 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:55.000 a job that says that. 0:00:56.040 --> 0:01:00.000 I know, it's it is the craziest thing that's ever happened, 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:04.080 and in many and like everyone's lifetime, Like it's just 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:05.640 it's insane. 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.480 I keep saying, I cannot wait till the history book 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:12.400 is written on coronavirus, because I can't wait to read it. 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:15.400 I'm just so curious like what went right, what went wrong? 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:17.360 What did we do right? What did we do wrong? 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:19.920 And you know how the city's reacted. I mean, it's 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:24.480 a really wild thing. And you know, I'm glad a 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.240 lot of people out there are safe, you know, and 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.120 I know people that have been affected. I know, I 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.600 know personally several people that actually got coronavirus, which is 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:33.399 also crazy. 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:34.320 Wow. 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:36.520 I mean, it's just this wild thing that's happening. My 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:39.319 mom is is you know, she's by herself, which is 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.880 really tricky. You know, It's just it's just a very 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:46.520 odd thing. So anyway, everything's been fine here. I've been 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.360 going to the grocery store the most out of any 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.120 person I know, because I'm the designated survivor in my 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.800 house to like go out and do things. So okay, 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:58.080 if anyone's at most risk here, it's me. But so far, 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:00.560 so good. I did order some masks and wait for those. 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.760 But anyway, if you're tuning in on the Facebook Live, 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.280 thanks for joining us. We do appreciate it. This is 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.320 going to be a little different, you guys know that 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:11.160 I've experimented. It's very it looks like it's easy to 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.160 go live on Facebook doing all this stuff, But it's 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.000 not because what I'm trying to do is get a 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:22.919 quality recording of the broadcast for the podcast, but also 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.239 go live, and so it's a lot of little tricky 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.080 things to do that. And so if you're watching on Facebook, 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.600 thanks for doing that. If you ditch out, that's fine, 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.120 but we do appreciate you joining us. This version of 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.640 the podcast is going to be all questions. So let 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.560 me see if we have our sound effects. Megan, let's 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.120 see if they work. Oh nope, that's not it. Do 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:41.560 you hear that? 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:42.359 Yeah? 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:42.920 I hear it. 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:44.760 So we got the sound effects. So let's here we go. 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:46.320 Can they hear the sound effects? 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:47.359 I don't know. We'll find out. 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.079 Oh, okay, okay, all right. 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.640 Our first question comes from Nancy and she wrote on 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:57.959 your Facebook page. She asked, have you ever reviewed blue 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.560 Tooth microphones for the iPad? We are doing a lot 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.760 of zooming, but need a microphone for people to hear 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:05.400 us better. 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:06.799 That's a good question. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.079 That is a good question, and it's something that yeah, 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:12.440 everyone's been doing, is these You know, people are connecting 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:17.920 their zooms to the big screen because you can just 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:21.360 go ahead and chrome cast it to your big screen 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.600 or you can use airplay and reflect it to your 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:25.680 big screen. I love doing that and I've done that 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.240 several times, and I think it's a really good way 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:30.639 of doing it. But what she's saying is she's connecting 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:34.800 it via a cable, and so the difference is is 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.440 that her iPad is really close to the TV, whereas 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.040 she's not doing airplay. So that's the difference, and that's 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.720 why her setup is a little trickier because I actually 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.320 had to email her for some clarification on this question. 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.320 And so what she needs to do, and what I 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.520 think is the best recommendation for her, is to get 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:56.440 a portable Bluetooth speaker and she can connect that Bluetooth 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.200 speaker to her iPad, put that in front of her. 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.240 Like at my house, of the couch, then we have 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.160 like an automan and then the TV on the wall. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.920 So if the if the iPad was near the TV screen, 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.520 then I would put the little speaker in front of me. 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.320 And if you look on Amazon, they have a bunch 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.680 of these little Bluetooth speakers. I personally would just go 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:18.680 Amazon Basics and let me just search here right now. Oh, now, 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.760 did you guys hear that? I hope you didn't. Did 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:22.240 you hear that? 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:24.200 Yeah? I did. 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:26.640 Yeah, so I hope you guys don't hear my computer 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:28.880 sound effects. Now, if I go on Amazon and I 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:33.600 get an Amazon Bluetooth speaker, it is twenty five dollars 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.040 and that has a microphone built in for hands free calling, 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.240 and that's super easy. So I love that. Twenty five 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.560 dollars will solve all of her problems. Now here's the 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.720 bigger problem that she's going to run into. Oh, free 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:49.960 delivery on Tuesday. So nevermind. I was gonna say a 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:51.960 lot of these you know, Amazon, we've talked about this 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.880 where you can't get a lot of stuff, but apparently 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:56.599 this is one of those things that you can get delivered. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:05:00.240 So that's the solution you can use. If you want 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:01.840 to go more expensive, you can just get a pair 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:06.000 of Bluetooth headphones, and I bet you Amazon Basics has 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:09.400 those two. But the problem with the headphones is that 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.400 your family can't listen in and you want your whole 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:14.640 family to Yeah, do that. 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.400 I was going to say air pods, but that does 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:18.000 not work. 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:23.400 Oh really well because it just to you. Yeah exactly, 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:27.840 nobody heard except you. But well, okay, good question. Oh 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.080 I guess we just keep doing that because it's more questions. 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:37.760 Okay, this next question comes from deb Hi Rich. I 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.039 was wondering if you could tell me if all the 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:44.960 worry about five G towers and phones are true, will 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.359 they be super bad for our bodies? 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:49.359 And what's this talk about? 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:54.280 What's this talk about going around that they would want 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:59.400 to put a chip implanted for protection against the bag? 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.760 Oh wow? This is like some men in black stuff 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.560 whose this is like really yeah. 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:09.760 Oh wow, any input on these subjects would be appreciated. 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:14.040 Okay, so they're asking in your body. Wow, that's what 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:15.240 I haven't heard. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.320 Yeah, And I also haven't heard a lot about this 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.920 five G, like the five G theory. 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.840 I just okay, I have. So what happens is, here's 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:28.360 a couple of things are happening. So five G is 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.720 the new advanced wireless, right like there we have four G, 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:33.640 we had three G, we had two G that they 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.000 didn't really call two G at the time, but now 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:37.800 we have five G, and so five G is like 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:41.920 this super fast wireless. The problem is with the super 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:46.640 fast wireless is that people think that it's connected to 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:51.080 all these problems with COVID, And I just don't see 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:55.800 that happening. So uh, And the bigger problem is just like. 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:57.120 Trying to see the connection. 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:01.880 Yeah, the big the bigger problem is that over in 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:06.640 Europe they are burning down these five G towers because 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:09.200 or they're setting fire to them apparently. And I guess 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:11.840 a lot of it was connected to like celebrities tweeting 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.360 about it, like saying like these towers are evil. There's 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.440 been a bunch of conspiracy theory videos on YouTube and 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:21.200 on Facebook, and so there's a lot going on. Now. 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:25.040 I am not an expert in wireless communication, so can 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:29.000 I say for certain that there's no connection. I feel 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:33.400 like I actually am concerned sometimes about all the wireless 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.920 frequencies around US. I work in a TV station where 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.920 there's a lot of wireless frequencies, so I'm concerned. I mean, 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.400 I'm not an exp But am I saying there's a 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.640 connection between COVID and five G. I don't think so, 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.000 And nor do I think you should believe that, And 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:53.240 nor do I think we should stop advancement of RF 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.200 and wireless frequency because of a new technology. I think 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.760 it's just they're packing the radio waves in a different way. 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:00.760 I mean, there's millions of radio waves all around us 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.320 every day, no matter where you are, And I think 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.800 that's actually the most fascinating thing, the fact that think 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:09.720 about this. When you're walking through like your street, they're 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.360 like everything is being broadcast. They're like every radio station, 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.760 every TV station, like it's all like in the air. 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:16.120 Like don't you think that's crazy? 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:17.120 That is crazy? 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.400 And I never think about that, And now, like that's 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:20.160 pretty trippy. 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.920 And also, like most people, I mean, I sleep with 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:26.040 my phone like, yes, literally a foot away from. 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.320 My head, and like I've heard you're not supposed to 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.640 do that, but you know, now I'm kind of like, 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.720 is there some weird stic Further. 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:38.760 Dick, I have my phone next to my bed wirelessly charging, 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:41.520 and so I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm getting like 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.720 a one two punch of like my phone radiation plus 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.360 the wireless charging radiation. And again, we're told that these 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.079 things are safe, and I do believe that they are safe. 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.559 But I also think that as a human you have 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:57.920 to you know, you have to have a a little 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.800 bit of not skepticism, but you have to be smart. 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.480 And for a while, I didn't charge my phone wirelessly 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:07.000 next to me because I thought that wired charging was safer. 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.320 And the other thing I didn't like is that my 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.720 Apple Watch has LTE connected to it. And I thought 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:15.520 that it's a little bit weird because if you think 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.560 about it, it's on your wrist at all times. So 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:24.760 the LTE connection is one on your wrist all day long, weird. 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.000 Whereas a phone you have it in your pocket, you 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.160 have it on your desk, it's in different places. But 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.400 this is literally on my body at all times. Now 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.840 I sound like one of the crazy conspiracy theory people. 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:36.960 I mean, it's really easy to go down that rabbit hole, 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:37.400 it is. 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.680 And yeah, so I don't think I don't. I still 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.839 don't know where she's getting the microchip from. 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:47.320 But yeah, wait, so they're going to put chips in 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.920 people's bodies to protect them against the bad I. 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:51.960 Mean, yeah, I don't know. 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:53.520 Yeah, that one. I don't know about that. 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.480 But what I don't know about? Uh Okay, that was 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.800 a great question, And look at this, it's time for another. 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.400 I don't I hope you have enough question for a 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:01.280 whole show we have. 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:05.640 We actually have a lot of questions. We might be good. Okay, 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.199 so this next question, Yes. 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.520 We can also take some questions from the Facebook folks 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.480 if they put them on there. So if you guys 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.560 want to put a question in the chat, I can. 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:16.480 I don't think you can see those, but I can. 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:21.040 So okay, okay. So this next question comes from TJ. 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:26.080 The subject is video call with Grandma rich My ninety 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.120 seven year old grandma is quarantined in the nursing home 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.680 and she's getting lonely. We bought an iPad and I 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:35.600 set up FaceTime and Google Duo for the family to 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.920 call her. I have disabled all security, so when a 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.000 call comes in, all she would have to do is 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:44.880 slide to accept. This works perfectly on FaceTime, However, she 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.800 would have to press another button to start video on 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.800 Duo after the slide to accept. Is there a way 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:55.560 to have video enabled automatically when accepting a Google Duo 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:56.960 call on iPad? 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:03.439 That's okay, so no, I actually tested this, and the 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.880 problem is the way that and I think it's great. 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.680 I think that the way that Apple has done they've 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:13.080 implemented these things is great, but it's also oh wow, 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.240 I just realized that I can make this bigger on 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:19.320 the screen for everyone. So okay, So what he's asking is, 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.640 can you make it so that when you slide to 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.840 answer a call on Duo when it's coming in to 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:28.920 just go write to video. And I tested this on 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.520 my iPhone and here's what happens. You can slide to 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.559 answer the call, but then you also have to do 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:38.240 one more button press to start the video. And I'm 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.920 not sure if that's an Apple thing or a security thing, 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.120 but that's the way it is, and there's no way 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.360 around it as far as I could tell. Now on 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.000 Android it's different. You just swipe up and boom, it 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.840 starts the video. And Google actually Duo has this cool 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.760 feature which is called knock Knock, So when you're using 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.679 Google Duo, it actually shows the person if you allow 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:02.160 of video of you, like a preview. Have you seen 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:02.480 that ever? 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.120 We test this out, Yeah, you said you. We tested 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.760 it the other day, but I didn't see the preview. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.560 I think because on iPhone, I don't think you see 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:12.000 the preview. 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.520 It's only on androids, so yeah, so but that's cool. 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:20.480 Yeah, it is cool. And I'm trying to trying to 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.640 see if I have any phones that I'm testing that 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:24.280 are out that I can't show. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:32.000 Oh gosh, no, I don't, okay, just making sure, uh, 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.559 so yeah, you can't do that, but I I totally 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.720 what was the guy's name again, TJ TJ. 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.760 I totally identify with him because I am all about 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:47.040 getting the literally the simplest possible way of getting like 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.120 these things to friends and family, Like I want to 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.439 make it so that they can just swipe and boom, 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.880 it's done. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna do a question 0:12:56.000 --> 0:13:00.400 from the screen, so I'll do this ready, that'll be 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:05.199 the question from the street. Sylvia says, Megan's microphone looks awesome. 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.720 Can you share what type it is and where one 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.480 may purchase it? So, Megan, do you want to give 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:13.880 us some details on that microphone? Let me see, it 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.920 is a I know what it is. It's a blue snowball. 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:19.240 And so it's a blue snowball. 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:20.480 Blue. Yeah, blue. 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.080 Oh, the brand is called blue. 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:26.480 Okay, the brand is called Blue, and it's a snowball microphone. 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.839 And I actually looked this up the other day because 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:30.920 I was recommending it to someone and they have a 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:35.959 couple of different levels, I guess because it used to 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.240 have just one, I think, which was like eighty bucks, 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.640 and now I think they have like one for fifty dollars, 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:42.640 but I think there might be different. 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.040 Can Yeah, that's what I see. 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:45.840 What you have the seventy dollars one. 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.439 I don't know which one I have because I got 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.120 it from work, but it looks like this. 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:51.319 The fifty dollars one. 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.560 Well, the fifty dollars I'm wondering if the fifty dollars 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:55.960 doesn't have one of the connections, like maybe it doesn't 0:13:56.000 --> 0:14:01.319 have like a certain connection maybe me. I don't know, 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:05.680 but I do know that Blue is owned by Logitech 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:09.920 now and Blue microphones have been forever like the best 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.840 microphone for podcasting because they're so simple, they're so easy. Uh, 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.680 there's a snowball ice, and I wonder that's that's what 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:19.520 I have. That's the fifty dollars one. No, I think 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:20.560 you have the the other one? 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.440 Is this one snowball ice on the side. 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.240 Oh it says ice. Oh well, then there we go. 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.160 So I don't know what the other one is. Then 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:35.000 that's interesting. The snowball is classic. Who knows anyway, So 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.280 you got the fifty you got the cheap one fifty bucks. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.560 I have the cheap one. But it sounds good. That's good. Sorry, 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:41.680 I just like messed. 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.720 Up oh great, So now we have no no stand Sylvia. 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:47.680 No, I mean I just have to okay. 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:47.960 It's all good. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:54.320 Get lower. Yeah, all right, should. 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:55.040 We go to your question? 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:56.120 Sure? 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.680 Okay, So this next question comes from Michael Hi Rich. 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:04.280 I'm hoping you will call out the internet providers that 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:08.400 are supplying slower than advertised speeds for the same price. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.480 I understand it may be due to everyone being at 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:15.280 home during the coronavirus, but as auto insurance companies have 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:19.320 cut insurance for people that are driving less, internet providers 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:24.360 that are unable to provide their advertised speeds advertised prices 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.880 should reduce their prices during this time. I'm working during 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.040 this time, so my usage has not increased on their system. 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.960 I have Spectrum in Santa Clarita, and I pay seventy 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:40.120 dollars a month for four hundred megabytes with a guarantee 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.320 minimum of two hundred and I guess the last few 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:47.720 days he's been getting between twenty two and fifty megabytes max. 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.400 Okay, so little formality thing. By the way, the way 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:56.080 they measure internet speed, and this is for everyone, is 0:15:56.200 --> 0:16:00.360 megabits per second. So when someone says I have a 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:04.080 a twenty five connection, that's twenty five megabits per second. 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.120 And to be honest, I'm not really sure why that 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:11.760 is versus megabytes, but that's how they measure it. And 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.080 so when he says, like, for me personally, I have 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:18.200 a two hundred megabit connection, and if you go into fiber, 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.320 which is like the fastest, it's one gig. So one 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:26.560 gig gig connection. That's one gigabits per second, I believe. 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.880 But anyway, so when people have Internet connections, like back 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:32.120 in the day, they used to be closer to like 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.560 twenty five and now they're closer to you know, one hundred, 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.720 two hundred. Some people have much more than that. But 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.320 that's kind of like the little lesson on those. But 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:45.640 with that said, I don't know what to say. I mean, 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:49.440 this is the reality of everyone working from home. Megan. 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:53.320 You can talk about your Internet connection. It's it's terrible, right, 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.200 I mean, it's like it's good sometimes. 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:56.640 And I have Spectrum too. 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.640 We had to get Google Wi Fi to like make 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:05.639 the connection like go like stronger throughout the house. 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:07.320 Network. 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:09.840 Yeah, and that helped. 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:14.320 Google Wi Fi definitely helped. But yeah, like yesterday it 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:16.840 just like went out for an hour and we don't 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:21.520 really know why. But two weeks ago, right when everyone 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.520 started working from home, like it was horrible, but now 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:25.439 it's a lot better. 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:26.800 I think it's a lot better. 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:30.719 So it's better because of Google Wi Fi or because 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:32.159 of I think. 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:33.920 I think, I think Google Wi Fi. 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:38.560 And I also think that Spectrum like figured out some issues. 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.680 I don't know, but my mom actually stopped a Spectrum 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:43.280 van last week. 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:45.320 She like stopped the card and. 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.679 We need help, and not we need help, but like 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.359 was like, you know, stopped him. He stopped, and she 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.920 was like, we just got Google Wi Fi, Like what's 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:57.240 wrong with Spectrum? 0:17:57.920 --> 0:17:59.960 And the guy said, we'll keep Google Wi Fi. 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.160 He said Google Wi Fi is great because we thought 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.640 it was Google Wi Fi because we were still having issues. 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:06.280 He was like, Google Wi Fi is great. 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:11.960 But yeah, no, Spectrum is obviously over capacity because everyone, 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:14.920 everyone in the house is using the internet. 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:16.920 So it's just I think it's just going to take 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.760 a little bit of time, you know. 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:24.200 Yeah, but maybe Michael needs a router. 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.439 Well that's the thing. So my question is because he 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:30.679 said he was getting twenty five. It's a lot of 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:33.080 times when people come to me and say their internet 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.720 is really bad. It's not necessarily their Internet. It's actually 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.200 it's the router that they're using, Like the Wi Fi 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:42.840 connection that they're using in their home is just not 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.640 very good. And then the other thing is where you're 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:48.440 testing your connection. So you know that when you're using 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.800 Wi Fi on your laptop, your connection is probably about 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.960 half of the speed that's coming in at the router. 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:56.960 So most of the time now unless you have one 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.199 of these new systems, like Megan, have you done a 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.400 speed test on your Wi Fi from where you are 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.080 right now, like compared to where they because I assume 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.119 when the Spectrum guy came there, he was kind of like, 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.359 let me test the Internet at the source, right, is 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.159 that kind of what happened? Yeah, And he's probably like 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:13.920 you're getting your full speed right. 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:20.280 Yeah, Well so we have someone come the guy the 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:22.840 car that just went by that was. 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:24.440 Just like okay, speaking of internet. 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:26.840 By the way, the one coming to our house for us, 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:28.440 that was someone. 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:33.360 Speaking of internet. Megan, your your connection just literally went 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:36.480 out of internet. Yeah, like it's just it went out 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:41.160 so badly, just now stopped. So anyway, Megan, I just got. 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.840 A thing saying your internet connection is unstable. 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:48.720 So yeah, oh my gosh, yeah, this is what happens 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:52.199 with the whole internet a little bit. Just keep just 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:53.960 stay on it. It'll come back. It just takes a 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:56.159 little bit. I'll just I'll just talk, I'll read some 0:19:56.200 --> 0:20:00.240 of the comments online. But uh so and and see 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:06.560 one of the commenters said, uh, where did I see that? Okay, 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:09.320