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Speaker 1: zero three. So welcome. This is the last show before Christmas.
Speaker 1: Can you believe it? Christmas always seems to creep up
Speaker 1: on me. I don't get why it happens every year,
Speaker 1: but for some reason, I don't know, I always feel
Speaker 1: like I run out of time, and this year I
Speaker 1: feel like it's really weird because Christmas is on a Monday,
Speaker 1: and so I feel like it's just really strange because
Speaker 1: I'm off next week and not this week. So usually
Speaker 1: I have time off before the holiday and then you
Speaker 1: get time, but now I don't. So but it's fine.
Speaker 1: We all have Saturday and Sunday, which is kind of
Speaker 1: fun and that's different. So if you want to call
Speaker 1: me and talk tech, you are free to do that.
Speaker 1: But I want to talk about this big story first
Speaker 1: that everyone is talking about, and this is the thing
Speaker 1: about Apple with their iPhones. This is Apple confirming that
Speaker 1: iPhones with older batteries are sort of slowed down. And
Speaker 1: this is the thing I've been getting this question as
Speaker 1: a tech tech reporter for Everyone's always like, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: does Apple slow down my old iPhone? Because it sure
Speaker 1: feels that way, And I always said no, of course,
Speaker 1: they would never do that. Why would Apple do that?
Speaker 1: They would never knowingly slow down your phone. Well, it
Speaker 1: turns out they do. So this all started with a
Speaker 1: bunch of people on Reddit noticing that their phones were
Speaker 1: slowed down if they were a little bit older. And
Speaker 1: then people did a bunch of tests and they figured
Speaker 1: out that if they replaced the battery on the phone,
Speaker 1: it would actually speed up again. So people figured, h
Speaker 1: is it a battery thing? And then of course they
Speaker 1: asked Apple some some tech reporters, and next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: Apple says, oh, yeah, actually, here's what we do. Because
Speaker 1: lithium ion batteries become less capable of supplying peak current
Speaker 1: demands and cold conditions, or they age over time, the
Speaker 1: device can unexpectedly shut down. So we released a feature
Speaker 1: last year for the iPhone six, iPhone Success and iPhone
Speaker 1: se to smooth out the instantaneous peaks only when needed
Speaker 1: to prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down. Now what
Speaker 1: does all that mean. Basically, what it means is Apple
Speaker 1: is saying as the batteries age on these phones, they
Speaker 1: don't work as well, and Apple doesn't get the performance
Speaker 1: that they deserve out of these devices, and so they
Speaker 1: slow them down to kind of smooth it out. Now
Speaker 1: do they slow them down to a crawl? How slow
Speaker 1: do they make them? We're not really sure. But the
Speaker 1: reality is Apple did this. People are just finding out
Speaker 1: about it. People are up in arms about it. They're
Speaker 1: not happy. And here's my advice for Apple, because you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think this is a bad thing. On part
Speaker 1: of the iPhone. And it's kind of interesting because if
Speaker 1: you look at the Android world, here's the biggest difference
Speaker 1: I see. When you're on an Android device, you feel
Speaker 1: like you're in control of that device. And that's what
Speaker 1: Android lovers, and that's why a lot of them are
Speaker 1: kind of nerds love about their Android phones is they
Speaker 1: can tweak everything they need to about that device. When
Speaker 1: you're on an Apple device, you can't really tweak very much. Yes,
Speaker 1: you can download some apps and pick things up, but
Speaker 1: you can't really you can't even put apps on the
Speaker 1: home screen the way you want to. You know, you
Speaker 1: have to arrange them the way that Apple wants you
Speaker 1: to arrange them. And that's nice and it keeps the
Speaker 1: phone working very nicely. But the reality is, I think
Speaker 1: Apple needed to tell people they were doing this, just
Speaker 1: let them know, and then if they could put the
Speaker 1: option in the settings to say, hey, I don't want
Speaker 1: this done on my phone. I have an older phone.
Speaker 1: I'll deal with the peaks and whatever and the automatic shutdowns,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to have my phone slowed down.
Speaker 1: So that's the difference here, and I think that's the
Speaker 1: mistake they made. We'll see what they do. It's you know,
Speaker 1: it's still not the company. Look, it's still a good phone.
Speaker 1: The iPhone is still a great phone. It's and they
Speaker 1: do run longer than most of the phones out there,
Speaker 1: So I still think in that aspect, they're pretty darn good.
Speaker 1: They last a long time. You know, when you get
Speaker 1: when you're done with your iPhone, you give it to
Speaker 1: someone else. You sell it to a family member, you
Speaker 1: give it to a I mean you sell it to
Speaker 1: a friend or you give it to a family member.
Speaker 1: I don't really see that happen as much with Android phones.
Speaker 1: When those things are done, they're like they're they're toast.
Speaker 1: You're not giving those to someone else to use. So Apple,
Speaker 1: interesting little story. Apple seems to not be able to
Speaker 1: catch a break late. They had the home Pod delayed,
Speaker 1: They had the mess up on the Mac operating system
Speaker 1: with the hacker issue with the route, they had the
Speaker 1: iOS eleven problems. I mean, just so many. I feel
Speaker 1: like there's a new iOS update all the time. Doesn't
Speaker 1: mean it's over for this company. Look, you got to
Speaker 1: hand it to all these tech companies. They're doing stuff
Speaker 1: in a way now that they never did before, and
Speaker 1: that's making fast iterations on things, and so you have
Speaker 1: to give them credit for that. We're living in a
Speaker 1: new time. This is not the old days where you
Speaker 1: buy a washing machine and it does the same thing
Speaker 1: for ten years. This is a phone that constantly changes,
Speaker 1: and that's what we're dealing with. So phone lines are
Speaker 1: open three one zero five nine four three zero zero
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Speaker 1: You want to talk about tech, you want to talk
Speaker 1: about your iPhone slowing down, tell me what you're getting
Speaker 1: for Christmas, whatever you want, or you can chat on
Speaker 1: if you're watching on Facebook Live, just go ahead and
Speaker 1: chat me up and I will tell you. Jill says
Speaker 1: on Facebook Live, I just got a new computer. It
Speaker 1: already says my one drive is full. Am I supposed
Speaker 1: to update it and add more storage? Well, Jill, it
Speaker 1: sort of depends on what you have in your one
Speaker 1: drive already. So if you're signing in on a Windows machine,
Speaker 1: it's probably carrying over everything from your other device. So
Speaker 1: it really depends on how much you have in that
Speaker 1: one drive and how much you want to pay for storage.
Speaker 1: So let's see what the one drive pricing plans are.
Speaker 1: So I think it's like ten dollars for a terabyte. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so let's see one drive plans. Let's see here we go.
Speaker 1: One hundred dollars for the year gives you five gigabytes
Speaker 1: five terabytes total. So or you can pay seventy dollars
Speaker 1: for the year and get one terabyte. Or you can
Speaker 1: pay fifty gigs and pay for two dollars a month.
Speaker 1: So I say go with the fifty gigs for two
Speaker 1: dollars a month and see if you need more than that.
Speaker 1: All right, nine o nine, you're on with Rich?
Speaker 2: Hey, Rich, I am watching your show right now, and
Speaker 2: I had a quick question.
Speaker 1: Sure who speaking with the Holidays?
Speaker 3: My name is Vince.
Speaker 1: Vince Yeah, okay, cool, what's up?
Speaker 4: Awesome?
Speaker 2: So I am getting the Apple air Pods for Christmas,
Speaker 2: and I really have been reading the reviews online that
Speaker 2: you know it's at, you know, being Apple's first venture
Speaker 2: and the wireless headphones and so forth and so on,
Speaker 2: and I wanted to know your take on the Apple AirPods.
Speaker 1: Apple AirPods are the best, the best headphones I've ever used.
Speaker 1: So I hope that answers your question. They are amazing.
Speaker 1: Did you are you a runner at all? What are
Speaker 1: you gonna use these for.
Speaker 2: Basically, I just don't want to carry my phone around
Speaker 2: and I'm basically going to stream music from my watch.
Speaker 2: Well I'm out and about just kind of just trying
Speaker 2: to ditch the phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's absolutely amazing. They are. They are
Speaker 1: my favorite gadget of all time when it comes to
Speaker 1: these headphones. So there's two that I like, and one
Speaker 1: of them is the air pods. And what I love
Speaker 1: about the AirPods is number one, they work with both
Speaker 1: iPhones and Android devices, so you don't have to use
Speaker 1: them just with the iPhone. They work equally well with Android.
Speaker 1: On iPhone. You get some benefits like they pair up
Speaker 1: to your phone really fast, you can put them in
Speaker 1: your ears, you can take them out, they will pause
Speaker 1: the music on your phone. You can summon Siri from
Speaker 1: them as well. So there's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: they do when they're connected to an iPhone. But they
Speaker 1: also work really well with Android, which is really nice
Speaker 1: and most people don't talk about that. They don't fall
Speaker 1: out of my ears, so I love that aspect. The
Speaker 1: battery lasts so long on these things, I really don't
Speaker 1: even think about charging them ever because it always just
Speaker 1: seems to work and so every time, and if you
Speaker 1: do need to charge them, they will charge up really fast.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I literally if I need to go
Speaker 1: out on like a run, I'll just put them on
Speaker 1: the charger for a couple of minutes. So I mean
Speaker 1: they're really really good little devices. Is there anything specific
Speaker 1: that you were wondering, like anything you read in reviews
Speaker 1: that you were worried about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually you just brought it up when you
Speaker 2: said they don't fall out of your ears. That's the
Speaker 2: thing I was worried about, Like am I going to
Speaker 2: be running or am I going to be somewhere and
Speaker 2: they just fall out? And if they do, ever do
Speaker 2: is there's like a like a I don't know how,
Speaker 2: like string or something that you suggest that they're that
Speaker 2: they make that holds them together so they don't fall out.
Speaker 5: So I.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've run many many miles in mine and
Speaker 1: I've never even thought about them falling out. And if
Speaker 1: they do fall out, the one thing that's good is
Speaker 1: that your music will pause, so you'll you'll have like
Speaker 1: an audio queue that something happened. But I've never even
Speaker 1: I've never even had like a thought that they might
Speaker 1: fall out. They're that secure in your ears. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: sure you can look online and they might have like
Speaker 1: little rubber tips you can put on them, like maybe
Speaker 1: that that go around the tops of these things that
Speaker 1: will keep them in your ear even more. I don't
Speaker 1: think you need them. I don't think you need the string.
Speaker 1: I really think you're going to be just fine with
Speaker 1: these things, because I was very skeptical because every single
Speaker 1: pair of headphones that I get, they fall out of
Speaker 1: my ears. No, no headphones ever stay in my ears.
Speaker 1: And I put these things in at the Apple event
Speaker 1: back when they came out. God, it's going on like
Speaker 1: two years ago, I feel like now, or maybe this
Speaker 1: was last year, but they just stayed in and I
Speaker 1: moved my head around and it was fine. So I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna love these things. I really I want
Speaker 1: to get my wife a pair, but they've been out
Speaker 1: of stock. Now they're back in stock. But I've really
Speaker 1: just been talking up the praise on these things. So
Speaker 1: I hope that helps answer your question, does it, Vince?
Speaker 2: It sure does? And thank you for your advice, Richie.
Speaker 1: All right, good good luck, and send a tweet with
Speaker 1: a picture of you with these headphones on. All right, Vince,
Speaker 1: take care, thanks for calling. I appreciate it, all right.
Speaker 1: Phone number is three one zero five nine four three
Speaker 1: zero zero three three one zero five nine four three
Speaker 1: zero zero three. So you know, it's so funny this
Speaker 1: whole uh, this whole Skype thing. They are, yeah, they
Speaker 1: I always tell you, guys the problems I have with
Speaker 1: this podcast, but so they change Skype and literally I'm like,
Speaker 1: for the life of me, cannot figure out how to
Speaker 1: turn off all these like while you guys, you guys
Speaker 1: keep calling in, and the problem is when you're calling in,
Speaker 1: I get like a thousand notifications while I'm on the
Speaker 1: phone with the caller. And it doesn't make sense to
Speaker 1: me that that Skype while you're on the phone with
Speaker 1: someone would literally give you one hundred and fifty notifications
Speaker 1: with all these different sounds and stuff of people calling.
Speaker 1: So Skype, come on, figure this out. Please. People want
Speaker 1: to do a radio show with Skype? All right? Six
Speaker 1: three zero You are on with Rich six three zero.
Speaker 1: Who am I speaking with?
Speaker 3: How you doing Rich? This is Giuseppe from Chicago.
Speaker 1: Giuseppe and Chicago. How you doing.
Speaker 3: Good? How are you good?
Speaker 1: I'm doing great? Are you ready for the holidays? Or
Speaker 1: what I think. I think I am very good. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: you've got.
Speaker 3: Enough electronics and more than that, I can imagine that
Speaker 3: I really want that I can't get yet, but I will.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's the way I feel. Sometimes we all do.
Speaker 1: So what's on your mind? What can I help you with?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: So my question is on the Google Hole, yes, and
Speaker 3: Google Mini. So I've had the Google Home for since
Speaker 3: it pretty much came out, and uh, I love it.
Speaker 3: And then I started adding, uh, you know, the smart
Speaker 3: plugs and everything, and then and that's after I got
Speaker 3: the Google Mini. But I've noticed that the Google Home
Speaker 3: has a problem a talking to the smart plugs, like
Speaker 3: I have the Smart.
Speaker 1: Life okay plug.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So if I tell say, I say, okay, Google,
Speaker 3: turn on the Christmas tree. I on my Google Home.
Speaker 3: I can't do that. I have to I have to
Speaker 3: go into Google Home like this. I have to say, okay,
Speaker 3: Google talk to smart Life and then smart Life comes
Speaker 3: on and says what would you like to do? And
Speaker 3: if I turn on the Christmas tree by that time,
Speaker 3: I could go over there and hit the switch. But
Speaker 3: my Google Mini, which is my master bedroom, I could
Speaker 3: tell it automatically, you know, Okay, Google, turn out my
Speaker 3: my my Christmas tree, and it'll do it right away. Well,
Speaker 3: I don't know if if it's just something that because
Speaker 3: Google Home is a little older.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't have that absolutely no, no, no, I
Speaker 1: mean I'm I use mine for my Christmas tree every day.
Speaker 1: I think it sounds like there's something that's not set
Speaker 1: up properly because okay, so you're saying you can say
Speaker 1: the exact same thing to the mini and it will
Speaker 1: turn on the Christmas tree, and you can say that
Speaker 1: exact same thing to the other one and it won't.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And I was driving my wife nuts one day
Speaker 3: because I kept trying it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, my wife is always Google.
Speaker 3: Yeah, She's like, get up and do it. I'm like, no,
Speaker 3: this is why I got this thing. But I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's because Google Home is a
Speaker 3: little older and it's an older version.
Speaker 1: No, absolutely no, I'm thinking of that.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: Have you so you've have you been in the app?
Speaker 1: And have you have you been inside the Google Home
Speaker 1: app on your phone and have you looked at all
Speaker 1: the settings in there?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Because of what I noticed yesterday, I noticed that all
Speaker 1: my settings were reset inside my app because I was
Speaker 1: having some trouble with one of my devices and I
Speaker 1: noticed that everything had gotten reset, and I was like,
Speaker 1: that's weird because I didn't do anything differently, So maybe
Speaker 1: your setting's got reset. But I would go in and
Speaker 1: kind of look through everything and see or maybe just
Speaker 1: kind of refresh the Google Home and just start fresh
Speaker 1: with it and see if it kind of picks up
Speaker 1: everything once again. But it should absolutely be able to
Speaker 1: do that command, and the same command should work across
Speaker 1: both of them. There's no different software. Believe me, these
Speaker 1: things are almost one hundred percent software based at this point,
Speaker 1: so they're getting the same. I mean, yeah, they don't
Speaker 1: have different capabilities based on the Home, the Mini or
Speaker 1: the Home. So but yeah, I've got all that stuff
Speaker 1: set up. I love it. I mean I've got my
Speaker 1: Christmas tree, I've got my lights outside inside, I got
Speaker 1: the smart plugs, I've got the lights. And the best
Speaker 1: thing I was telling this story to my friends at
Speaker 1: work today, the best thing that ever happened was I
Speaker 1: was in my office right here when you see me
Speaker 1: on the Facebook, and I was testing something for Halloween
Speaker 1: where you can say, okay, Google, get spooky or something
Speaker 1: like that. And I thought it would just like change
Speaker 1: the stuff in my office. Well, it was changing everything
Speaker 1: throughout the entire house. So my wife comes running in.
Speaker 1: She's like, what are you doing? Everything is messing up
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, whoops. So these these smartphone
Speaker 1: things are really fun for some reason. We really like
Speaker 1: love it. We love to play with these things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm love it where it's going And.
Speaker 1: Yeah, have you checked out the Max that's the one
Speaker 1: I was playing with today.
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Max, not yet.
Speaker 1: So that's like the Giant. That's the giant Google Home one.
Speaker 1: And this thing. I had it at the office today.
Speaker 1: I was doing a segment with it and it is
Speaker 1: so loud that I mean, that thing is unbelievable. So
Speaker 1: it's four hundred dollars. It's way way expensive compared to
Speaker 1: the Mini. Is like pretty awesome for like thirty bucks,
Speaker 1: forty bucks whatever they charge now. Yeah, but Max is, uh.
Speaker 3: You really need the speaker than okay, maybe the Max,
Speaker 3: but I mean the Google Home is a pretty good
Speaker 3: speaker of the many you know esause she putting it
Speaker 3: in every room in the house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I think I think the speakers on
Speaker 1: these things are awesome, even though they're they're pretty small,
Speaker 1: and the MAX just takes it to a next level.
Speaker 1: I have a so no speaker that's pretty loud, so
Speaker 1: I use that most of the time for my music,
Speaker 1: so I don't necessarily need to get the MAX just yet.
Speaker 1: But we'll see, we'll see. Schoogles slowly converted me. All right, Jeppe,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for calling in from Chicago. How cold
Speaker 1: is it over there?
Speaker 3: Only forty degrees today. We've been having a pretty good one.
Speaker 1: Okay yet, oh well we expected Okay, all right, we'll
Speaker 1: have a great day and have a merry Christmas. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: bye bye. All right, there you have it. Uh oh sorry,
Speaker 1: I am so sorry. Oh I just got Amy on
Speaker 1: the live stream is saying, oh my god, my Mini
Speaker 1: is hearing you say the words. So I'm so sorry. Uh,
Speaker 1: I know it's I it's one of these things where,
Speaker 1: uh you know. That's why I don't really try to
Speaker 1: say this stuff on TV or on the air, because
Speaker 1: if you say these code words, basically, the problem is
Speaker 1: that they all these things go crazy, they all go nuts.
Speaker 1: So I don't say the word the a word I
Speaker 1: call it, which is I don't want to say. It's
Speaker 1: like the Amazon One, you know. And then the the
Speaker 1: B word, which is a R. I'm sorry, the A
Speaker 1: word and the B word. Sorry, I'm trying to figure
Speaker 1: out these notifications on my computer, so I'm a bit distracted.
Speaker 1: But the A word, which is you know, A L
Speaker 1: E X A, or the G word which is g O.
Speaker 1: You know, okay, g O O G L E. All right,
Speaker 1: let me talk about something else I think is really interesting.
Speaker 1: And I feel like this is something that I predicted
Speaker 1: in my mind a while back. But GM turning a
Speaker 1: million cars into basically rolling podcasts destinations. I guess they're
Speaker 1: saying it on the USA today. So you know, these
Speaker 1: new General Motors cars have a infotainment system with a
Speaker 1: four G L T E connection, right, And so now
Speaker 1: what they did was they have eight news and entertainment
Speaker 1: companies like Fox Sports, USA Today, New York Times, Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal, Washington Post, NPR, People Magazine, and Dash Radio.
Speaker 1: And now you can download an icon for those services
Speaker 1: right onto your home screen on your GM car. And
Speaker 1: what does this mean? Well, that means you get one
Speaker 1: click access to that audio. And you're like, okay, well
Speaker 1: big deal, Rich, I can do that with my phone.
Speaker 1: I can get any audio I want. But here's the difference,
Speaker 1: and this is what's kind of crazy, is that this
Speaker 1: is coming right to your dashboard. So I'm talking. Imagine
Speaker 1: if there was a one touch button for rich on
Speaker 1: Tech and you get in your car in the morning
Speaker 1: and you just tap that and next thing you know,
Speaker 1: it's streaming this podcast twenty four to seven and you're
Speaker 1: always hearing the latest tech news. That's pretty cool, now,
Speaker 1: I get it. You can already do that with your phone.
Speaker 1: But this is kind of cutting out the middleman. And
Speaker 1: this is what's really interesting when you think about radio stations,
Speaker 1: how they have the broadcast territory in a market or
Speaker 1: like serious you know fifteen one hundred and fifty different stations. Well,
Speaker 1: now imagine anyone is available to have one touch access
Speaker 1: to anything they want, like any content without going through
Speaker 1: a phone. I get it. A phone is easy. But
Speaker 1: the difference is and this is I think their problem
Speaker 1: with this. This is this is their mistake that GM's making.
Speaker 1: And this is because GM, you know, they have a
Speaker 1: deal with AT and T to get the four g
Speaker 1: LT in there, but they really want to sell data
Speaker 1: plans because to use this, you have to have a
Speaker 1: data plan on your car, which I don't think a
Speaker 1: lot of people are going to do the data plan
Speaker 1: in their car. We all have unlimited plans nowadays. I
Speaker 1: don't think people want to payn extra twenty bucks for
Speaker 1: the unlimited plan inside a GM car. Now maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: If you have that, if you pay for that plan,
Speaker 1: tell me on the live stream on the chat, But personally,
Speaker 1: I don't think that a lot of people want to
Speaker 1: pay for that. Already, our cell phones are so expensive.
Speaker 1: Why have a dedicated data plan just for your car.
Speaker 1: I don't really see the point, to be honest. So
Speaker 1: I think that's their mistake. I think they should have
Speaker 1: made this free, and by making it free, it would
Speaker 1: have driven the adoption of this, and then they could
Speaker 1: have built upon that. But I think it's really really
Speaker 1: interesting because when you think about a one tap access
Speaker 1: to your favorite show. So, for instance, I really like
Speaker 1: a guy named Dave Ramsey, Imagine if I could just
Speaker 1: tap one icon on my dashboard on whatever you call
Speaker 1: that infotainment screen and it just starts his show. Now
Speaker 1: I already do that through my podcast, but it takes
Speaker 1: a couple of clicks. Now, I think that this is
Speaker 1: kind of tough because a lot of us are already
Speaker 1: using a lot of us are already using the Apple
Speaker 1: car Play and the Android Auto, so it's kind of tough.
Speaker 1: I guess this would be more for people that don't
Speaker 1: want to do that, Like my dad is not going
Speaker 1: to do that. He's not going to use Android Auto
Speaker 1: or car Play. All right, six six to one, you're
Speaker 1: on with Rich. Sixty six to one, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 4: Hey, Rich, it's Greg from the Antelope Valley.
Speaker 1: Hey, Greg, what's up?
Speaker 5: Not a whole lot.
Speaker 6: I actually got no question today. Oh okay, I just
Speaker 6: called in to wish you everyone merry Christmas and healthy
Speaker 6: and happy New Year.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much. Merry Christmas to you two.
Speaker 1: I'm I can't believe that it's already Christmas. I feel
Speaker 1: like it was just last year that we celebrated Christmas.
Speaker 1: And I know it's been a year, but for some reason,
Speaker 1: it just goes faster and faster the older you get.
Speaker 1: You know, when I was a kid, it was like, man, Christmas,
Speaker 1: it took forever to get around. Now it's like, give
Speaker 1: me some more time. I need two more shopping days.
Speaker 1: But I'm excited. Well, thank you so much for that.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 6: All I can say is thank God for Amazon Prime
Speaker 6: because I'm getting all my deliveries in two days.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I feel so bad for these guys that
Speaker 1: have to deliver all these things, and now is like
Speaker 1: the you know, this is the time, you know, like
Speaker 1: they are they are really under the wire. But man,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. It's just I see in my neighborhood they
Speaker 1: have them delivering them like all different ways. You know,
Speaker 1: There's like guys on bikes, there's guys out of tractor trailers.
Speaker 1: I mean there's so many like rented trucks. I see
Speaker 1: with the Amazon stuff. They are just really doing a
Speaker 1: good job this year.
Speaker 6: So yeah, last night I got a UPS delivery at
Speaker 6: nine forty five. I was about to go to bed,
Speaker 6: and I got scared because the doorbell rang.
Speaker 1: Oh man, you forget order, We forget that, we order
Speaker 1: this stuff. My wife is always ordering Prime now, and
Speaker 1: so I just get the knock at the door. I'm like,
Speaker 1: who is this and it's like delivery. I'm like, oh okay,
Speaker 1: oh man, all right, Greg, Well, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: calling in. I do appreciate you being a regular caller.
Speaker 1: In twenty seventeen and We'll see you probably in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: How about that?
Speaker 2: Yep, you will all.
Speaker 1: Right, have a great holiday. Thanks so much.
Speaker 6: Bye bye, you did the same, byebye.
Speaker 1: Let's see here I saw a question about let's see.
Speaker 1: Can I go back on my questions? Okay, Jen from
Speaker 1: the live stream says, Hey, rich how do I listen
Speaker 1: to a podcast? Where do I find them? Do I
Speaker 1: have to download an app to find podcasts? If so,
Speaker 1: which one you mentioned you're on a podcast? How would
Speaker 1: I access it? Great question? So here's the deal. If
Speaker 1: you have an iPhone, you have an app on there
Speaker 1: called podcasts. You can just download the podcast through there
Speaker 1: you can search if you try searching rich on tech,
Speaker 1: you'll find it. If you want a better podcasting app,
Speaker 1: the one that I prefer on a iOS is called overcast,
Speaker 1: and so overcast dot fm is the iOS app that
Speaker 1: I like. I just think it feels nicer, it looks
Speaker 1: better than what you can get from Apple on THEIRS.
Speaker 1: And you just download that app. It's free, and then
Speaker 1: you search in there for podcasts. So try download that app,
Speaker 1: then search rich on tech and then you will find
Speaker 1: my podcast. You subscribe press like a little plus button
Speaker 1: and then when you're in your car, hook up your
Speaker 1: phone or Bluetooth whatever, you do, play the app, play
Speaker 1: the podcast, and next thing you know, you're listening to
Speaker 1: this in your car. It's pretty cool. I'm like almost
Speaker 1: like exclusively podcasts right now when I drive. Maybe a
Speaker 1: little Christmas music mixed in there. Now, if you're on Android,
Speaker 1: my favorite Android podcasting app is called pocket Casts, and
Speaker 1: pocket Casts I think it's like four dollars, but it
Speaker 1: really is amazing, so I think it's one of the
Speaker 1: better ones. My favorite feature is that I can star
Speaker 1: episodes that I want to listen to to listen to later.
Speaker 1: And it's just a simple little thing, but I can
Speaker 1: go through it when I'm sitting at my desk at
Speaker 1: work and say, oh, there's a new podcast, there's one
Speaker 1: I want to listen to, and then I can just
Speaker 1: star them, and then when I get into my car,
Speaker 1: I just go to my starred playlist and just pick
Speaker 1: one that I want to listen to. So Joel says, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: your info is invaluable. Thank you. Can you suggest a
Speaker 1: cloud based storage service free and paid that you love?
Speaker 1: Thanks well? Personally, I am all about Google Drive. I
Speaker 1: really really like Google Drive. It sort of depends what
Speaker 1: platform you're on. Now, on iOS, you can use the
Speaker 1: built in iCloud, and there's Cloud Drive, which might be
Speaker 1: easy if you're on iOS, you have an iPhone, you
Speaker 1: have a MacBook, you have an iPad. That might be
Speaker 1: the easiest for you to use because it's just sort
Speaker 1: of into graded into the system and the pricing is
Speaker 1: about the same. Actually, I think I think iCloud might
Speaker 1: be cheaper than Google. So I pay ten dollars a
Speaker 1: month for one terabyte and I throw everything in there.
Speaker 1: So I just have everything in Google Drive and I
Speaker 1: have a backup of that as well. So the thing
Speaker 1: you need to know, Joel about doing this is that
Speaker 1: you want to make sure you have a backup of
Speaker 1: everything that you put in one of these drive services.
Speaker 1: And that's the scary part is that most people don't
Speaker 1: do that, so you have to figure out a way
Speaker 1: to do that. I have a little server that I use.
Speaker 1: I know it's a big setup, it's kind of a
Speaker 1: little bit more than most people are probably gonna do,
Speaker 1: but that's what I have. It's called Synology. Synology I'm
Speaker 1: looking at it right now, and that's like a little
Speaker 1: server that mirrors anything that I put on Google Drive,
Speaker 1: so I always have a copy in real life of
Speaker 1: what I upload to the cloud because I don't think
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. I don't think that Google is going
Speaker 1: away anytime soon, but if they ever do, I would
Speaker 1: like to have a copy of my stuff and not
Speaker 1: have to deal with the billions of other people that
Speaker 1: are trying to download their stuff from their servers before
Speaker 1: they go out of business at the same time. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that's gonna happen, but that's, uh, that's
Speaker 1: just a something that could happen. We've seen these things
Speaker 1: happen with other with other cloud services. Three one zero
Speaker 1: five nine four three zero zero three three one zero
Speaker 1: five nine four three zero zero three. I'm on the
Speaker 1: hunt on my Mac computer to figure out when someone
Speaker 1: calls me on Skype. I'm getting all these notifications like
Speaker 1: these blue bloop bloop blop bloop. Let me see if
Speaker 1: I can just turn on do not Stir, Do not
Speaker 1: Stir from one one pm two, I'm gonna I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna turn on do nuts sturb and see what happens
Speaker 1: one pm and uh, let's see one pm to seven pm.
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens okay, cool, So now I should
Speaker 1: be on do nut sturb all right?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: Three one zero you're on with Rich three one zero Hello, Hi,
Speaker 1: how are you good? Who am I speaking with?
Speaker 5: Rock Sam from Miracle Mile.
Speaker 1: Rock Sand How you doing good?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 5: I have a question for you, Rich. When the Apple
Speaker 5: id the computer? I got a five K Retina and
Speaker 5: I have my iPhone but it's it's a six S
Speaker 5: plus iPhone, which I still enjoy. But for some reason
Speaker 5: I updated. You know that problem with the Apple and
Speaker 5: the root issue? The security is just.
Speaker 1: Like we ago, yeah, on your desktop computer?
Speaker 5: Yeah. Ever since then, I've I've been asked to change
Speaker 5: my my password several times on my computer and also
Speaker 5: my my phone. So I changed it on my phone.
Speaker 5: I'm just going to keep this password. But for some
Speaker 5: reason it's my computers it's not accepting the password and
Speaker 5: it's been a few days. So I don't know what
Speaker 5: to do. I have Apple Service, but I think you
Speaker 5: probably would give me a better opinion.
Speaker 1: Well you never know, but okay, so let me just
Speaker 1: get this straight. So your computer? Which password are you
Speaker 1: talking about? iCloud? Are you talking about the the past?
Speaker 5: Apple? Apple?
Speaker 1: Okay, so when you sow Apple i D. So it
Speaker 1: says like, hey, log in with your Apple I D
Speaker 1: and where are you trying to log in on your
Speaker 1: computer with this like iTunes or what?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, And the password is working on your computer
Speaker 1: or not working on your computer, but it works the
Speaker 1: same password works on your phone.
Speaker 5: Yes. Shouldn't they be soneimaus? Shouldn't they be the same?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, that's okay.
Speaker 5: I don't And and I did call Apple about that.
Speaker 5: And it was funny because this was a few weeks ago,
Speaker 5: because it's been doing this for a while since I
Speaker 5: had the computer in September. It's the newest five k
Speaker 5: ret now, which is a great computer. That's a nice computer,
Speaker 5: but it is and why I edit, so I need
Speaker 5: a big screen, and I need a lot of I
Speaker 5: need a lot of you know band you know, all right,
Speaker 5: And but it was funny because the tech guy on
Speaker 5: the other other in and maybe go to a go
Speaker 5: on the computer, and and it was just really strange.
Speaker 5: He made me put in the word root and all
Speaker 5: kinds of stuff. So this this root thing kind of
Speaker 5: freaked me out. But anyway, I'm still not able to
Speaker 5: to get on the iTunes with the same pack who
Speaker 5: is this tech guy?
Speaker 1: Who is the tech guy that helped you?
Speaker 5: Oh it was on Apple. You don't have Apple Care.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you called them, you called them through a
Speaker 1: number and then the person did they access your computer
Speaker 1: somehow remotely?
Speaker 6: Or no?
Speaker 1: Yes they did?
Speaker 5: Yea, well no they told no. They gave me the instruction.
Speaker 1: They just gave you that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they told me to put the root and I
Speaker 5: and I. That was That was kind of funny because
Speaker 5: wait a minute, that's kind of the password.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Oh I see. Okay, yes, he used the route to
Speaker 1: to do some things in your computer. Okay, here's what
Speaker 1: I would do. Number one. Okay, no worry. So number one,
Speaker 1: what I would do is close out all the apps
Speaker 1: on your computer. Just close everything, Okay. Then I would
Speaker 1: I would go onto the apps, you know, the the
Speaker 1: Apple app store, like on your computer. You know that
Speaker 1: blue icon, and I would make sure you got all
Speaker 1: the updates for your computer. So I just clicked it
Speaker 1: looks like it looks like the app store icon on
Speaker 1: your phone, but it's the one for your computer. Go
Speaker 1: to updates. Make sure you have everything, Like right now,
Speaker 1: I'm looking like I have one update. Okay, so make
Speaker 1: sure you do all that, then restart your computer, okay.
Speaker 1: Then I would open iTunes, I would go into account
Speaker 1: and I would sign out, okay. And then once you
Speaker 1: do that, I would go to this website. I think
Speaker 1: it's let's see I forgot, let me see what it's
Speaker 1: called iforgot dot Apple dot com. Okay, and so I
Speaker 1: would I would start there, and I would change your
Speaker 1: password on that website. And once you have your password
Speaker 1: and write it down, like, write it down on a
Speaker 1: piece of paper. I don't want any kind of mistakes,
Speaker 1: you know, letter upper lower whatever, make sure you write
Speaker 1: it down perfectly. And then I would sign in, you know,
Speaker 1: make sure you can sign in on iTunes, and then
Speaker 1: go to your phone, and it's probably gonna prompt you
Speaker 1: to say, hey, can you sign in again because I
Speaker 1: noticed it changed and see if that helps. But it
Speaker 1: seems really odd that your computer would not take this
Speaker 1: password because it should be working. I mean, that seems
Speaker 1: really strange.
Speaker 5: So it's kind of scary, to be honest. It's like
Speaker 5: a minute they know each other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, so cool. What kind of stuff do
Speaker 1: you edit?
Speaker 7: Just like like.
Speaker 5: Movies and just independent stuff, nothing big, you know, movies
Speaker 5: and I'm just someone to be well. But I use
Speaker 5: Avid Media Composer and sometimes Premier. You know, I use
Speaker 5: all that stuff. If you know editing software, it's pretty
Speaker 5: it doesn't it's really hard to on the computer with
Speaker 5: this kind of editing software I use. So that's why
Speaker 5: I just just decided to splurge some Ramen noodles for
Speaker 5: a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: It was worth it, Oh totally.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: I got my new laptop just about, I don't know,
Speaker 1: a couple of months ago, and I waited four years,
Speaker 1: and it's it's like night and day with editing because
Speaker 1: it's just so everything's so much faster. But I that's
Speaker 1: why I stick with Max that laptop. Oh yeah, well
Speaker 1: I edit for TV. You know, I don't do my
Speaker 1: I have an editor at work, but I do some
Speaker 1: of my own stuff for like you know, little things
Speaker 1: like Facebook and that kind of stuff. But you use
Speaker 1: I use Final Cut. I use Final Cut ten.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, seven ten ten. Yeah. Ten is easy. It's nice,
Speaker 5: a good good product. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 1: It's kind of weird. I mean I learned on Avid
Speaker 1: back in the day. Well, I actually learned on you know,
Speaker 1: VHS back in the day. But uh, well you know,
Speaker 1: now it's all about uh, it's all about digital. So
Speaker 1: now I do most of my editing on my phone.
Speaker 1: I mean you could do. You can have an iPhone edit.
Speaker 1: It's pretty amazing what you can do. I can trim
Speaker 1: graphics everything.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oh yeah, I use I edit all the
Speaker 5: time on my iPhone. Matter of fact, for a final
Speaker 5: and a production as cinema production class, I use my
Speaker 5: iPhone and I get an A plus.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 5: See my movie was great. Yeah, this is great.
Speaker 1: It's it's unbelievable what you can do nowadays on your phone.
Speaker 1: And I'm talking Android too, I mean there's amazing. There's
Speaker 1: programs on Android. I just upload a video today from
Speaker 1: Android and it worked great. I mean it really, it's
Speaker 1: really pretty amazing. Rock Sam. All right, well thanks so
Speaker 1: much for calling from Miracle Mile today. Have a great Christmas.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, Thank you you too, me Christmas.
Speaker 1: Bye. If you guys want to know a cool program
Speaker 1: on Android and iOS that's good for editing, it's called
Speaker 1: Video Shop v I d e O s Hop, very simple,
Speaker 1: but I like that one. There's one called Adobe Clip.
Speaker 1: I like that one. There's a lot you can do.
Speaker 1: I mean it's really it's really quite amazing what you
Speaker 1: can do. Let's see here. Okay, I don't know what
Speaker 1: that's all about. Oh, let me tell you about this
Speaker 1: phone number if you want to call in by the way,
Speaker 1: three one zero five nine four three zero zero three.
Speaker 1: I'll be with you for another non fifteen minutes or
Speaker 1: so something like that. I think I told you guys
Speaker 1: about this before, but I think it's worth reiterating. So
Speaker 1: now on Amazon fire TV, great feature they added you
Speaker 1: can now surf the web on your TV. And I
Speaker 1: did a video about this on my Facebook page Facebook
Speaker 1: dot com slash rich on tech. People are loving it
Speaker 1: because you can now download Firefox or the Silk Browser,
Speaker 1: which I know you're like, what's the Silk browser? That's
Speaker 1: Amazon's own browser. You can now access that on your fireTV.
Speaker 1: Download those browsers. They're both free and now surf the
Speaker 1: web on your TV screen. So I get it now.
Speaker 1: Ten years ago, I would have thought this was amazing
Speaker 1: because everyone remember that dream of WebTV being able to
Speaker 1: surf the web on your television screen. Well, we don't
Speaker 1: care about that anymore. No one even needs to do
Speaker 1: that really anymore. There are some use cases where it
Speaker 1: comes in handy. But for the most part, we have apps.
Speaker 1: I mean there's apps for almost everything from redfin to Facebook.
Speaker 1: Facebook has an app, Twitter has an app, so you
Speaker 1: almost don't need to really be on there news. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're watching news on your TV screen, you're probably
Speaker 1: watching news. You're probably not reading it per se. You
Speaker 1: probably go on your phone for that. So there's really
Speaker 1: it's a very small slice of use case for these browsers.
Speaker 1: But the reality is it's kind of nice to have
Speaker 1: because sometimes you might be wanting to access a live
Speaker 1: stream or a video or something on your TV that
Speaker 1: is not optimized for TV, and so this will let
Speaker 1: you do that. So if Facebook says or Amazon says,
Speaker 1: you can do Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Reddit, local and international
Speaker 1: news sites, so international news I can definitely see if
Speaker 1: you watch a live stream of like a news station
Speaker 1: from somewhere else, video sharing services, cloud photo sites, and
Speaker 1: other social news, sports, and entertainment content. So what's the
Speaker 1: difference between Firefox and Silk. While Silk seems to be
Speaker 1: a little bit more full featured at this point, Firefox
Speaker 1: seems to be kind of thrown together. But that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that it's bad. I mean it does the purpose.
Speaker 1: You surf the web, you find a link, you click
Speaker 1: the link and you can watch a video, or you
Speaker 1: can just use it to surf the web. So I
Speaker 1: would download both. See which one works for you. Now,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you the one time that this would have
Speaker 1: come in handy. There was an iHeartRadio concert. I think
Speaker 1: this was like last year or the year before, but
Speaker 1: there was streaming just on Yahoo, and for the life
Speaker 1: of me, I couldn't figure out a way to, you know,
Speaker 1: watch this thing on my TV. I wanted to watch
Speaker 1: the concert on my TV, not on my phone, and
Speaker 1: I ended up casting it to my TV using Google
Speaker 1: Chrome Cast, but it was kind of a pain. I
Speaker 1: had to like mirror my screen and stuff. So this
Speaker 1: would have been a perfect use case. I would have
Speaker 1: just put the the coordinates in for the website and
Speaker 1: watched it right on my screen. Now, if you're into KTLA,
Speaker 1: which some of you are, you can use this to
Speaker 1: watch the KTLA live stream. And that's that's a pretty
Speaker 1: good use case there as well. Phone number is three
Speaker 1: one zero five nine four three zero zero three six
Speaker 1: one four. You're on with rich? Hello? Who am I
Speaker 1: speaking with?
Speaker 5: Hi?
Speaker 1: I can barely hear what's going on?
Speaker 4: My name is kay Hi.
Speaker 3: Well, that is exactly my problem.
Speaker 5: Whenever I try to talk to people, get gets cut
Speaker 5: out and it sometimes.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work on what on on your phone?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: What service do you have?
Speaker 2: I'm how you Sprint?
Speaker 1: Oh? Sprint? Okay, hmm. And does this happen everywhere using
Speaker 1: your phone or just in certain places?
Speaker 3: This actually happens in certain places, but sometimes everywhere.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Well, if I had to guess, maybe you're in
Speaker 1: an area that doesn't have the best service, and it
Speaker 1: could be I mean, it could be a lot of things.
Speaker 1: It could be that there's something on your phone near
Speaker 1: the microphone, So maybe I would get some canned air
Speaker 1: and perhaps as see if that helps. If you spray
Speaker 1: that very gently into your phone. You can use a
Speaker 1: little Q tip to kind of clean out all the
Speaker 1: different kind of openings on the phone, like on the bottom.
Speaker 1: And also you know where the microphones are kind of
Speaker 1: around the edges of the phone. That could help. I mean,
Speaker 1: it could be a Sprint issue too. Your phone might
Speaker 1: not have the latest provisioning. You can bring it into
Speaker 1: the Sprint store and say or you can call them
Speaker 1: up and say like, hey, I don't know. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: not on the latest tower or technology. It could be
Speaker 1: your roaming is turned in the wrong direction. You know,
Speaker 1: you might not have the roaming properly turned on. Your
Speaker 1: phone just might not be provisioned properly. So I would
Speaker 1: check those things and see what happens, and perhaps it
Speaker 1: would work better, because I kind of got it when
Speaker 1: you were talking to me here. It was definitely cutting
Speaker 1: out a little bit. So hopefully that helps. And I
Speaker 1: don't know what phone you have, but it could be
Speaker 1: the device as well. Wayne Smith on Facebook says, Merry
Speaker 1: Christmas to you and yours. Keep you keep up with
Speaker 1: all the good information. Rich Demro, just want to let
Speaker 1: you know up north in Winnipeg it is currently negative
Speaker 1: sixteen Oh my gosh, negative sixteen degrees in Canada. Who
Speaker 1: what is it here in La Let me see it
Speaker 1: is currently sixty degrees, So sixty degrees here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: And the phone number three one zero five nine four
Speaker 1: three zero zero three three three zero you're on with Rich?
Speaker 1: Who am I speaking with?
Speaker 6: Ali?
Speaker 5: Rich?
Speaker 4: This is Peter.
Speaker 1: Hey Peter, what's going on?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Not much.
Speaker 7: I was just wondering and I did already write it
Speaker 7: in the comments. What what camera you would you suggest
Speaker 7: that would be good for use in making videos, i e.
Speaker 7: YouTube and things like that.
Speaker 1: Good question. You know, it sort of depends on I mean,
Speaker 1: how professional are these videos? Like how do you want
Speaker 1: to be a blogger? Like what kind of videos are
Speaker 1: we talking?
Speaker 7: Yeah, kind of like that, like blogging, I would say,
Speaker 7: like mid range, but not like completely like you know,
Speaker 7: like KTLA or anything like that. Like, you know, just
Speaker 7: like something for a person that might want to make
Speaker 7: some YouTube videos or some educational videos.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's several ways you can do this.
Speaker 1: I mean the first is just to use the cell
Speaker 1: phone that you have, So that's like the easiest way,
Speaker 1: and then you probably want to get a microphone and
Speaker 1: a light because that will help as well. So when
Speaker 1: I shoot my stuff for like Facebook, we shoot on
Speaker 1: whatever cell phone I have at the time, So we've
Speaker 1: shot them on iPhone. You're on a cell phone now
Speaker 1: right now, I'm on a cell phone. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: an iPhone that you're watching for you. Yeah, okay, so yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's you know, and I've tried different things, and
Speaker 1: the thing is that cell phones are sort of the
Speaker 1: easiest because you can upload you can trim videos, you
Speaker 1: can transform to your computer. I also really like the GoPro,
Speaker 1: but the problem is the GoPro is not that convenient
Speaker 1: when you're trying to hook stuff up to it, Like
Speaker 1: it has a lot of accessories, but it's not the
Speaker 1: simplest as a phone is so and also there's no
Speaker 1: screen that you can see, like if you're trying to
Speaker 1: record yourself. It's super easy to see yourself on a
Speaker 1: phone because you can just put it, you know, facing
Speaker 1: yourself and see yourself on the screen like a selfie.
Speaker 1: So that's why I like the phone as well. But
Speaker 1: if you're doing if you're doing anything outdoors, like anything
Speaker 1: like hiking or out you know, at the beach, or
Speaker 1: you know, any sort of like driving, skateboarding, whatever, GoPro
Speaker 1: is probably gonna be your best bet because it's just simple,
Speaker 1: it's easy, you can get really cool shots. And the
Speaker 1: GoPro also has a wider angle. So that's one little trick,
Speaker 1: by the way, with all these videos is that the
Speaker 1: wider the angle, the better it looks. So right now,
Speaker 1: the video you're seeing on Facebook is a pretty standard angle.
Speaker 1: It's it's the iPhone selfie camera. It's not very good.
Speaker 1: But if you get something called an olo clip o
Speaker 1: l l O clip you can use that on your
Speaker 1: phone and I'll make the angle wider. There's another uh,
Speaker 1: there's a phone, the lg V thirty which has a
Speaker 1: wide angle camera, which is amazing. So if you're looking
Speaker 1: to do videos seriously, that's a nice camera to get it.
Speaker 1: And then of course the GoPro also has the wide angle,
Speaker 1: so that's really nice as well. So I think those
Speaker 1: are your best bets. But it's it's kind of fun.
Speaker 1: I mean, you just got to you know, like people
Speaker 1: that have been watching me doing this here, it's it's
Speaker 1: never perfect, but it's really fun because I'm just using
Speaker 1: whatever I find around the house to create this, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's the beauty of what the world we live
Speaker 1: in doesn't cost that much to do all this stuff anymore.
Speaker 7: Thank you for getting so thorough. I appreciate it. I
Speaker 7: I what I'm interested in getting the Google Pixel, is
Speaker 7: that the phone that you would recommend or what on?
Speaker 1: I love, love the Google Pixel, But for for creating
Speaker 1: what you want to do, don't get it because here's
Speaker 1: the problem.
Speaker 3: It takes.
Speaker 1: It takes amazing videos, amazing pictures. You cannot connect a
Speaker 1: microphone to that thing, and that's the biggest problem with it.
Speaker 1: So what I found is there's several phones and basically
Speaker 1: the LG's of the world and the Samsungs of the world,
Speaker 1: when it comes to Android, they really let you be
Speaker 1: more creator because you can hook up a microphone to
Speaker 1: those phones, and you know, I'm talking about an external microphone.
Speaker 1: And when it comes to the iPhone, of course, there's
Speaker 1: a billion accessories. That's really easy. When it comes to GoPro,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of accessories. For some reason, Google has
Speaker 1: decided to cut out all creators from its device and
Speaker 1: not let us connect a microphone. And I've tried this
Speaker 1: over and over in some of these other phones too,
Speaker 1: like the OnePlus does not accept a mic input, and
Speaker 1: there's ways around it, but they're not easy, and I
Speaker 1: don't recommend it. So that's that's I notice.
Speaker 7: My Samsung actually like has it without even connecting It
Speaker 7: really does a great job. I have the Samsung S
Speaker 7: six Edge Plus and it does a great job without
Speaker 7: connecting anything. So you're saying that the pixel wuldn't even.
Speaker 1: Do that mean I find that the audio I'm talking both.
Speaker 1: I find that the audio quality on the Pixel, even
Speaker 1: on the regular microphone is not very good either. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just not and I love that, believe me. I
Speaker 1: love that phone like I love If I could carry
Speaker 1: one phone, it would be the Pixel. But it's just
Speaker 1: it's it really disappoints me when it comes to actually
Speaker 1: creating stuff as a creator's device, it's very disappointing. Now
Speaker 1: anything Samsung, thank you for that, is very There's so
Speaker 1: many tools on those phones. There's audio recorders, there's so
Speaker 1: many things that are built in that let you be creative,
Speaker 1: whereas the Pixel just doesn't really have that. So when
Speaker 1: it comes to the real creators devices, I say LG,
Speaker 1: Samsung and iPhone and go Pro, those are your best bets.
Speaker 1: And if you really want to get expensive, all the
Speaker 1: YouTubers use this like super fancy like Cannon camera that's
Speaker 1: like six hundred bucks and it has a flipout screen
Speaker 1: so you can record yourself in it. But that's too expensive.
Speaker 7: So great, Yeah, definitely, thank you for the advice. All right, Peter,
Speaker 7: thanks for saving me money perspectively.
Speaker 1: You got it all right. Good luck with the videos
Speaker 1: and sem me one when you're done.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Mitch are have a great holiday. But byee, there you
Speaker 1: have it? Wow. Okay, so many of you guys call
Speaker 1: on three one zero five nine four three zero zero three.
Speaker 1: It's uh, we're at forty five minute, so I'll just
Speaker 1: take a couple more right now, do you guys? Uh?
Speaker 1: Two on three you hear me? Nope, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: I don't know what just happened there. That's uh, man,
Speaker 1: I just got like an error message to end all
Speaker 1: error message five six you hear me? Hello, Yeah, Hi,
Speaker 1: what's up?
Speaker 6: Hey? Y? How's it going?
Speaker 1: Who's this?
Speaker 4: This is Miguel from Long Beach.
Speaker 1: How you doing?
Speaker 5: I'm doing I'm good, I'm doing this.
Speaker 6: I just have a question.
Speaker 4: I just got an Apple Apple Apple TV four K,
Speaker 4: and according to Apple, they were supposed to convert your
Speaker 4: your your your HD movies to four K if.
Speaker 1: They were available in four K, right, yes, and you're
Speaker 1: not kidding.
Speaker 4: So I'm not getting that. I see I see them
Speaker 4: in H I see that they're in four K. But
Speaker 4: once I play them and I put down the info,
Speaker 4: it's this HD and.
Speaker 3: Not four K.
Speaker 1: Interesting. So you're saying, okay, now, what what movie? What
Speaker 1: is this happening with every movie?
Speaker 7: A lot of the movies.
Speaker 4: Well, I linked my movies on the Movies Anywhere. You
Speaker 4: know that you're obviously we're doing a transition right now
Speaker 4: where they're trying to join a bunch of studios. So
Speaker 4: I did the Movies Anywhere, and I had a bunch
Speaker 4: of movies on Voodoo and I had them on iTunes.
Speaker 4: But since I thought that maybe it was because of
Speaker 4: the Voodoo, I decided to buy new movies and I
Speaker 4: renewed them through through uh through iTunes. But it's still
Speaker 4: won't up convert them to four K even if they're
Speaker 4: available in four K.
Speaker 1: Hmm. So it's just the Voodoo movies.
Speaker 4: Huh, yes, well, yes, I think it's the Voodoo movies. Yes,
Speaker 4: that are that are having the issue?
Speaker 1: Were they recently or HD?
Speaker 4: I bought them in Blu ray, not not for k oh.
Speaker 1: So you're saying you bought them on Blu ray put
Speaker 1: in the code to voodoo like the the movies anywhere
Speaker 1: before it was called ultraviolet. Is that what you're talking about?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well yeah, well yeah, but uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, interesting and so is it's happening with every movie
Speaker 1: across the board, because I've noticed with the I've noticed
Speaker 1: with the four k Apple TV that not every movie
Speaker 1: has been upscaled to or not upscaled. It's just they
Speaker 1: give you the four K version basically. So I noticed
Speaker 1: with some movies it's there and some movies it's not.
Speaker 1: But you're saying it's across the board with all of them.
Speaker 1: Have you checked, like various movies, because you should have
Speaker 1: some that are in four K. It depends on the
Speaker 1: studio too, because like Paramount.
Speaker 4: Yeah, noe, yeah, yeah, I bought, I bought a few
Speaker 4: movies in four K, and I get the digital code
Speaker 4: and in the digital codes.
Speaker 3: In four K, so there are in four K.
Speaker 4: My question was like, you know how Apple said that
Speaker 4: they were going to convert your HD movies to four
Speaker 4: K for free, right and right, So that was my question.
Speaker 4: My thing was to save money was to buy Blu
Speaker 4: rays with digital copies and then redeemed them, redeemed them
Speaker 4: on through iTunes and get them unconverted to four K.
Speaker 4: That was that was the deal I kind of wanted
Speaker 4: to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that that plan should work because it's you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, now here's the thing. It's interesting because you
Speaker 1: bring up an interesting point and and the companies will
Speaker 1: always want to make you know, their money. So I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if now they've sort of turned off since you
Speaker 1: can buy four K now, I'm wondering if they turned
Speaker 1: off that ability to put in that code from a
Speaker 1: Blu Ray and get the four K version. Have you
Speaker 1: tried this recently or are these all old movies?
Speaker 5: No, I just did it right now.
Speaker 4: I just came from you know, from a retailer and
Speaker 4: I bought buy they on sale, and I just did
Speaker 4: it right now, and it didn't do it. I saw
Speaker 4: that it was available in what I did. I saw
Speaker 4: them movies that weren't four K on on iTunes, and
Speaker 4: I bought them in Blu Ray and I got the
Speaker 4: digital copies and it didn't and didn't up converted or remastered,
Speaker 4: whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's interesting, and that might be that that could
Speaker 1: be miguel because they don't want you doing that, and
Speaker 1: that could be a nice little a little trick that
Speaker 1: they're using now. I don't know, because it seems like
Speaker 1: it seems like it should be doing it no matter what.
Speaker 1: Because a lot of the movies, like even stuff I
Speaker 1: bought years ago still came in as four K, but
Speaker 1: it was already in my library. I have not tried
Speaker 1: putting it a code from a Blu Ray now since
Speaker 1: I got one and seeing if it comes through as
Speaker 1: four K. But it's an interesting point that you bring up,
Speaker 1: because I see what you're saying. You can save the
Speaker 1: money by buying the Blu Ray and even gifting that
Speaker 1: Blu Ray to someone if you wanted to, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, and keep the digital copy, which is
Speaker 1: maybe they're just hip to that. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's a really good question. What I'll do is I
Speaker 1: will ask some friends at different places and see if
Speaker 1: they can come up with an answer to that and
Speaker 1: send me an email, and I'll see if I get
Speaker 1: a rich at KTLA dot com and I'll see if
Speaker 1: I can send you some more clarity on that. But
Speaker 1: it's interesting. So what Miguel's saying is that he basically
Speaker 1: bought the Blu Ray copy of a disc which is HD,
Speaker 1: he popped it into the redemption code in movies anywhere,
Speaker 1: and it should come up as four K on Apple TV,
Speaker 1: but it's not. So it's really interesting. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that happen with mine, because a lot
Speaker 1: of mine have come through in four K so, but
Speaker 1: I haven't redeemed a code lately. All Right, before we go,
Speaker 1: let me just tell you about one one app that
Speaker 1: I discovered that I really like. So if you're on
Speaker 1: Android and you are looking for a text messaging app,
Speaker 1: I really found one that I like. Now I switch
Speaker 1: phones more than the average person, so I'm always testing
Speaker 1: phones out. But and I kind of lose my text
Speaker 1: messages when I do that, because you know, I can
Speaker 1: sync them and I've backed them up, but it's kind
Speaker 1: of a pain. But this app is called Pulse SMS
Speaker 1: Pulse p U L s E SMS, and what it
Speaker 1: does is it backs up all of your messages onto
Speaker 1: their web cloud, you know, their cloud platform. And so
Speaker 1: I know on iPhone that's taken for granted, but on
Speaker 1: Android it's not. So it's getting better on Android, but
Speaker 1: it's still not there. But this app will do it
Speaker 1: for you across all your devices. And the cool thing is,
Speaker 1: I don't care about that part as much for the
Speaker 1: average person. I think for the average person, what you're
Speaker 1: gonna like the most is that you can access your
Speaker 1: same messages and type them on your computer. So all
Speaker 1: of the iPhone people they have I message it works
Speaker 1: on their phone, the same message comes to their desktop. Well,
Speaker 1: this one will do the same thing for you. And
Speaker 1: I discovered this last week and I'm absolutely obsessed with
Speaker 1: it because it's just so great. The app is clean,
Speaker 1: it looks really nice. It can replace your SMS app
Speaker 1: on your phone, and then you can access your messages everywhere,
Speaker 1: so you can access them on your computer. You can
Speaker 1: access them on various devices, so if you have, you know,
Speaker 1: a different phone or something like that, or maybe an iPad.
Speaker 1: It's not as pretty as on an iPad, but it'll
Speaker 1: still work. And the other cool thing this is the
Speaker 1: feature that I've loved and I hope that Apple adds
Speaker 1: this to the I. There's a feature called pinning, so
Speaker 1: you can pin your favorite conversations to the top of
Speaker 1: your text message list. And what's really cool about that
Speaker 1: is I pin like four conversations like my wife and
Speaker 1: a couple friends and a group I have And it's
Speaker 1: so cool because it takes me like a fraction of
Speaker 1: a second less to respond or to type a new
Speaker 1: message to them because I don't have to do anything.
Speaker 1: It's just right at the top of my list. And
Speaker 1: I love that feature, and I can't believe I've never
Speaker 1: seen that before. Pulse SMS also does a night mode,
Speaker 1: so if you're at night, it just automatically changes to
Speaker 1: a darker mode. You can have a delayed sending mode.
Speaker 1: Everything's encrypted, which is good. You can search all your messages,
Speaker 1: and you can schedule messages, so if you want to
Speaker 1: send something out, you can do that later. I'll take
Speaker 1: one more comment from the chat and then we'll close
Speaker 1: this up. Terry Miller says, hey, Richard me, I have
Speaker 1: an Apple five se and it wants to update to
Speaker 1: eleven point three. I'm afraid because last time I did
Speaker 1: an update, my phone had a lot of changes. I
Speaker 1: didn't like any suggestions. Thank you, sir, Terry. I think
Speaker 1: you already went through the big change of the iOS eleven,
Speaker 1: so at this point, point three is not going to
Speaker 1: make a big difference. I think it'll actually improve your
Speaker 1: device because they're always fixing bugs. If you were on
Speaker 1: iOS ten, I would have said maybe not do it,
Speaker 1: but since you're already on eleven, I would just go
Speaker 1: ahead and update your phone. All right, friends, that is
Speaker 1: gonna do it for this for this episode of rich
Speaker 1: On Tech Live. This is episode number two hundred and eleven.
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Speaker 1: Have a fantastic holiday, whatever you're celebrating, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah,
Speaker 1: everything else that's out there. Seriously, have a great holiday,
Speaker 1: enjoy the time with your family, and I'll be here
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