Speaker 1: Google shows off new features and a great new phone.
Speaker 1: At Io twenty nineteen, Samsung says the Fold will live,
Speaker 1: the popular photo app that was doing something not so nice,
Speaker 1: and another app I'm currently obsessed with right now. Plus
Speaker 1: your questions. What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro. This is
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk about this
Speaker 1: stuff I think you should know about happening in the
Speaker 1: tech world. Plus we answer your tech questions. Joining me
Speaker 1: as usual is producer Megan.
Speaker 2: Hello, Rich, how are you.
Speaker 1: We've had quite the morning here. We've been testing new equipment.
Speaker 2: It's been pretty intense.
Speaker 3: We've been trying to figure out how to use the
Speaker 3: audio board or new audio board, and also how to
Speaker 3: live stream.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like they are mutually exclusive at this
Speaker 1: point because we can do the audio board just fine.
Speaker 1: We can take calls, but as soon as we try
Speaker 1: to put it into Facebook Live, it just conks out
Speaker 1: on us. So we will go back to the drawing
Speaker 1: board on that. But don't worry about it. We still
Speaker 1: have lots of questions, and we actually did a successful
Speaker 1: test earlier today on my Facebook page. But now we're
Speaker 1: actually going to get just into the podcast. So I
Speaker 1: just got back from Google Io, which is the company's
Speaker 1: big developers conference up in Mountain View. By the way,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite events of the year because I
Speaker 1: love Google. I love what they do, I love their
Speaker 1: approach to things. I think they're a really smart company,
Speaker 1: and I love just seeing kind of what they're doing
Speaker 1: on stage. Now, I'll admit this year was not the
Speaker 1: most exciting year, but they did have a bunch of
Speaker 1: things I think you guys should know about. And I
Speaker 1: think the first one is basically the theme that they
Speaker 1: always go after is using AI. They just use AI
Speaker 1: to kind of solve every problem in the world, and
Speaker 1: these are not necessarily problems, but they're just kind of
Speaker 1: fun stuff. So if you know about Google Lens, that's
Speaker 1: their product where you can kind of aim your camera
Speaker 1: at things it can identify stuff. Well, now they're using
Speaker 1: that in search, so they're bringing augmented reality to search.
Speaker 1: And the example they showed, which is kind of cool,
Speaker 1: is let's say you're a kid doing a report on
Speaker 1: a great white shark. You can aim your phone kind
Speaker 1: of in your kitchen and see how big the shark is,
Speaker 1: like super imposed over your kitchen, which is kind of cool.
Speaker 1: That's cool, you know, like to get to understand like
Speaker 1: the size of something, like here's what going to use that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's really fun, or like if you're buying sneakers. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously everything with Google has some sort of financial slant eventually,
Speaker 1: you know, or hopefully not really they do a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff that doesn't make the money, but you know,
Speaker 1: if you want a pair of sneakers, you can see
Speaker 1: how they look in your room or with an outfit
Speaker 1: or something. So that was kind of interesting too. Little
Speaker 1: fun things with Google lens. You can point your camera
Speaker 1: at a restaurant menu and it will highlight the most
Speaker 1: popular things on that menu, and then the other one
Speaker 1: was what was the other one? It was the restaurant menu,
Speaker 1: and it was also the tip at the end, Like
Speaker 1: if you get your bill, you aim your lens at
Speaker 1: the bill and you can divide up like it gives
Speaker 1: you a virtual calculator on the screen. So that was
Speaker 1: kind of cool like that. You can also read things
Speaker 1: out loud, so you can, let's say you're in like
Speaker 1: a foreign country and you see a sign, you can
Speaker 1: literally aim your phone there and it will read the
Speaker 1: sign out loud in whatever language that you want. So
Speaker 1: that's kind of cool. Then they talked about Google Duplex.
Speaker 1: I talked about this on earlier podcasts how I used
Speaker 1: it to make a restaurant reservation. Now they're expanding it
Speaker 1: to the web. So let's say the example they shown
Speaker 1: they showed was booking a rental car. So you have
Speaker 1: to go through all these screens, put in all your information.
Speaker 1: Well with the assistant. It kind of knows when you've
Speaker 1: planned your trip because you've already booked your ticket and
Speaker 1: it's in Gmail, so it knows the dates. It knows
Speaker 1: what kind of rental car you like because you're previous
Speaker 1: rental cars, and it basically fills in the web form
Speaker 1: for you. And this is not like one of those
Speaker 1: autofill things you've seen with like a password manager or
Speaker 1: just like any autofill. This is actually intelligent autofill, where
Speaker 1: it's looking at what it needs to fill in, finding
Speaker 1: that information and placing it there for you and you're
Speaker 1: always in control. By the way, the other announcement from
Speaker 1: Google was the Pixel phones, and they came out with
Speaker 1: two phones, the Pixel three A and the Pixel three AXL.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you right off the bat, I
Speaker 1: played with these things just a little bit at Google Io,
Speaker 1: and they're forced to be reckoned with Now you're talking
Speaker 1: four hundred dollars for one of the best smartphones on
Speaker 1: the market. That's incredible, it is, and it has the
Speaker 1: best camera, one of the best cameras. Actually, I think
Speaker 1: it is the best camera you can get on a smartphone.
Speaker 1: So now you're talking four hundred bucks for a smartphone
Speaker 1: camera that's really good.
Speaker 3: Better you said best camera on a smartphone. Yeah, better
Speaker 3: than iPhone?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, Okay, Now I wouldn't say in every
Speaker 1: single situation, I think the iPhone is a good overall
Speaker 1: camera and an excellent overall camera. The Pixel excels at
Speaker 1: taking pictures in a way that like every picture you
Speaker 1: get is like amazing, no matter what it is of
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's kind of like that puts a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure on other companies at this point, because you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of phones out there that are more
Speaker 1: expensive than that. And i'd probably recommend if someone doesn't
Speaker 1: care about like the whole phone, like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I need like the fastest processor. The things you don't
Speaker 1: get with the Pixel are the fastest processor. It's like
Speaker 1: a processor that's at least a year old. You don't
Speaker 1: get water resistance, you don't get wireless charging, you get
Speaker 1: a plastic back instead of like this, you know, pretty
Speaker 1: glass phone. But for the average person who literally emails
Speaker 1: me all the time saying like, hey, Rich, I just
Speaker 1: want a phone that's really good. It'd be nice if
Speaker 1: hat a good camera, this is like an easy no brainer.
Speaker 1: So all right, Megan, do you have a let me
Speaker 1: just try one of these sound effects out here. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: that's that's your intro music transition. Do you have a
Speaker 1: question for us?
Speaker 3: I do, and it's from Twitter. It has to do
Speaker 3: with Google. This is from at NJ Neer. I think
Speaker 3: he's trying to say engineer.
Speaker 1: Oh, which is that's a good one.
Speaker 2: Clever.
Speaker 3: Rich. Having seen the Pixel three A, would you pick
Speaker 3: the three A or the S ten E if price
Speaker 3: was equal?
Speaker 1: Wow? Good segue. Megan, do the clapping? Oh, I should
Speaker 1: have done the clapping. So that's a great question. So
Speaker 1: the the S ten E is kind of Samsung's low
Speaker 1: end phone. It's really not a I shouldn't say low end,
Speaker 1: I should say it's their least expensive phone. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like the S ten You have the S ten
Speaker 1: plus and then you have the S ten e. I
Speaker 1: believe it starts at seven hundred and fifty dollars for
Speaker 1: that phone, which now seems like it used to seem
Speaker 1: like a little bit of money. Now it seems like
Speaker 1: a crazy amount of money because if you think about it,
Speaker 1: I think that the Pixel three A is a better
Speaker 1: value because you're getting a better camera overall the Samsung
Speaker 1: S ten e. It's got a fingerprint reader kind of
Speaker 1: in I think in a weird place. I think the
Speaker 1: Pixel engineer, you go with the Pixel and the S
Speaker 1: ten e is I think that Samsung excels in the
Speaker 1: high end phones, and I wouldn't go for for seven
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty bucks. I think you're better served for
Speaker 1: four hundred dollars with the smaller phone from Google. And
Speaker 1: they're about the same size. When I say smaller, I
Speaker 1: mean like the you know, the budget model or whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call it. But that is that's going
Speaker 1: to be the question that a lot of people are
Speaker 1: going to wonder because the S ten e was sort
Speaker 1: of like the phone that was like the entry level
Speaker 1: kind of like the the iPhone ten are those are
Speaker 1: kind of like right now the entry level devices, And
Speaker 1: now we've got this pixel at four hundred. That just
Speaker 1: kind of messes with everything. You have to rethink everything exactly.
Speaker 1: I like it, though, I agree it was definitely necessary,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad that Google it took Google to do
Speaker 1: something like that. Speaking of Google, they also announced the
Speaker 1: new product at Io called the Nest Hub Max. Now
Speaker 1: this I did get some extensive hands on time with,
Speaker 1: so I will tell you everything you need to know
Speaker 1: about this. If you're familiar with the Google Home Hub,
Speaker 1: that was a little product they introduced last year that
Speaker 1: has the screen and it's also Google Assistant. It's also
Speaker 1: a speaker. It also shows off your pictures that did
Speaker 1: not have a camera. It also had a tiny screen,
Speaker 1: seven inch screen. It's great, great for the kitchen, great
Speaker 1: for like maybe bedside, but probably not. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess you could put it there. But I'd like
Speaker 1: to remember at CES we saw that little tiny clock,
Speaker 1: that Lenovo smart clock, yeah, which never came out on it,
Speaker 1: Like they said, spring is spring still here?
Speaker 2: It's so summer?
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you? Yeah, So they need to either come
Speaker 1: out with that or what that was eighty bucks that
Speaker 1: would be perfect for the bedside. But this one is
Speaker 1: the neb the Nest Hub Max. And if you notice
Speaker 1: they've rebranded this to Nest, it's no longer Google Home.
Speaker 1: It's now called Nest Hub, so, which is kind of
Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean I So the reason why
Speaker 1: they're renaming it Nest is kind of, you know, I
Speaker 1: bring things in line across all their products. And this
Speaker 1: has a Nest camera in it, so there is a
Speaker 1: security camera in this device, or a camera that could
Speaker 1: be used as a security camera. Plus it could be
Speaker 1: used for video chat. It could also recognize you, so
Speaker 1: it does have facial recognition, so when you walk up
Speaker 1: to this thing, it gives you your notification. So if
Speaker 1: you share your house with a couple people, only when
Speaker 1: you walk up to it, does it say, oh, here's
Speaker 1: what's on your calendar next, just for you. So that's interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what if you're a twin that it would.
Speaker 1: Have some problems. Good question, Megan, good question. Okay, So
Speaker 1: the camera is a wide angle camera. It also follows
Speaker 1: you around the room, so when you're video chatting, you
Speaker 1: can kind of be like cooking or moving around it
Speaker 1: follows you, which is kind of cool. And then they
Speaker 1: have this thing called quick gestures, So when you're let's
Speaker 1: say you're playing music with your Google Home Hub. Before
Speaker 1: you have to go up to the screen and press
Speaker 1: the pause button. Now you can just look at the
Speaker 1: screen and hold your hand up kind of like that.
Speaker 1: Talk to the hand motion, and it will pause the
Speaker 1: music or start playing it. Yeah, I know, just don't
Speaker 1: talk to the hand. Rich So it's gonna be two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty nine dollars. They say it's going to
Speaker 1: be available this summer. My Intel tells me sometime in July,
Speaker 1: so we'll see.
Speaker 2: Present.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm excited for this one because I love that
Speaker 1: it's multifunctional, like you can have this in your living room.
Speaker 1: It acts as a security camera. It also acts as
Speaker 1: a video chat device. And I'll be honest, what I
Speaker 1: think is missing in the home is a way to
Speaker 1: video chat easily with people in a fixed way. So
Speaker 1: I know you probably use FaceTime with folks. FaceTime is great,
Speaker 1: but the problem with FaceTime is people are moving around
Speaker 1: too much and they're always kind of like moving and
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to prop your phone up. With this,
Speaker 1: it's like the device is there, you can kind of
Speaker 1: it's steady, so it's like a much more calm experience
Speaker 1: in my for my taste. Like with tablets and stuff,
Speaker 1: you're always trying to either prop it up or you're
Speaker 1: moving around, and it's just like you want to be
Speaker 1: done video chatting to me quicker because it's too much
Speaker 1: movement a laptop. I don't ever video chat on a
Speaker 1: laptop ever, Like I've never I don't think I've ever
Speaker 1: done that. Okay, Well you're the new generation, so maybe
Speaker 1: that's maybe that's why are you a millennial? Yeah? Oh
Speaker 1: you are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm right on the cuss.
Speaker 1: I thought you were too young to be millennial, not.
Speaker 2: A gen Z or whatever there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, do you have another question for me? Yes?
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 3: This is a little different. This is an email from Chris.
Speaker 3: He said a while ago, you shared and a vacation
Speaker 3: booking app Best Deals in Hotels.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, that's the email. Oh is there a question?
Speaker 1: Does you want to know what it is?
Speaker 2: What the share?
Speaker 3: You shared a vacation booking app.
Speaker 2: That's the vacation booking app.
Speaker 1: So I think he's talking about Ernie. Yeah, so that's
Speaker 1: what I'm guessing. So I talked about Ernie, but I
Speaker 1: feel like I talked about something else. Oh I did
Speaker 1: I talked about the other one too. Okay, so Ernie
Speaker 1: E ar and Y this is an app that is
Speaker 1: a great app for refunds. Well, it used to be.
Speaker 1: They've kind of the service has The service has not changed,
Speaker 1: but the retailers have gotten really hip to what they
Speaker 1: did and they kind of changed everything. So when I
Speaker 1: first signed up with Ernie, my credit card would give
Speaker 1: me a refund anytime a price dropped on Amazon. Well,
Speaker 1: my credit card basically took that functionality away because so
Speaker 1: many people started doing claims. So they're like, oh, never mind,
Speaker 1: we don't give you that anymore. So the only reason
Speaker 1: they had it on the credit card was when people
Speaker 1: didn't use it, which is so dumb. Then when people
Speaker 1: started using it, they're like, oh never mind, we're not
Speaker 1: going to give you that feature anymore. So Ernie went
Speaker 1: and they said, okay, we'll try it through. Anyway. Long
Speaker 1: story short, they still get you refunds, but only if
Speaker 1: like the retailer can support it, and if you're there
Speaker 1: are certain credit cards that still do it. Mind does not,
Speaker 1: so that's the number one. They've added hotels to the mix,
Speaker 1: so if you book a hotel and the price drops,
Speaker 1: they will find you a better price. Now, I'll be honest.
Speaker 1: I did book a couple hotels in the past couple
Speaker 1: months since we did this story. They never even showed
Speaker 1: up in my Earni app. So I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: they're not parsing my data correctly or if maybe Hilton
Speaker 1: is not part of this. But that's why I book primarily.
Speaker 1: But I've never seen in the app saying like here's
Speaker 1: your Hilton, here's how much you pay two twenty four
Speaker 1: to night, and we're watching that price like that never happened,
Speaker 1: so I'm not sure I can't really vouch for how
Speaker 1: good that service is. Got it now. The other app
Speaker 1: that I talked about was Google one, and so Google
Speaker 1: one is basically if you have Google storage with Google,
Speaker 1: you're paying That means you're paying for storage through Google,
Speaker 1: Google Drive, something like that. They have a hotel benefit.
Speaker 1: So if you go to one dot Google dot com,
Speaker 1: they have special Google one member pricing on hotels. So
Speaker 1: there is a link, there's not I don't think there's
Speaker 1: a direct link to get to it, but you tap
Speaker 1: that link and next thing you know, you'll be taken
Speaker 1: to a hotel search. And if you if they have
Speaker 1: like a deal from Google like a special deal, special rate.
Speaker 1: You will see that show up. Now I'm looking in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, I don't see any. So I usually go
Speaker 1: to Orlando because that has a lot of hotels and deals.
Speaker 1: So let's see. So if I go to Orlando, member price.
Speaker 1: So the Crown Plaza Orlando is normally one hundred and
Speaker 1: one dollars, but Google one members get it for ninety
Speaker 1: one dollars, so you're saving ten bucks.
Speaker 2: What's the membership? Is it free?
Speaker 1: No, it's you have to be paying for storage through Google.
Speaker 1: It's so weird. I mean, what a random like side thing, right,
Speaker 1: you know, like, oh, I pay for storage on Google Drive,
Speaker 1: so I get hotel rates that are better than the
Speaker 1: average person. Makes no sense? Yeah, all right, but that
Speaker 1: answers this question. So Ernie and also one dot Google
Speaker 1: dot com fair member, and you know you've got travel happening.
Speaker 1: Google Maps I love. Do you love Google Maps? Do
Speaker 1: you use them? I know your iPhone? You just default.
Speaker 3: Well, but I was trying to use Google Maps for
Speaker 3: a while and then to be honest, I prefer Apple Maps.
Speaker 1: Really. I think I prefer the look of Apple Maps.
Speaker 1: I think it's like simpler. Yeah, but I like the
Speaker 1: functionality of Google Maps better. Well, now Google is bringing
Speaker 1: incognito mode to Google Maps. So incognito mode is basically
Speaker 1: a private mode where Google does not track what you're doing.
Speaker 1: They introduced it, I believe, on Chrome. Then they brought
Speaker 1: it to YouTube, which is handy for my kids because
Speaker 1: when they're watching their Disney videos, it doesn't go into
Speaker 1: my algorithm of like basically, when my kids started watching
Speaker 1: videos on my phone, all my videos would be changed
Speaker 1: to Mickey Mouse and gamers that are doing like walkthroughs
Speaker 1: on games. So it's kind of like that's annoying, you know.
Speaker 1: And now you can pop it in incognito mode. They
Speaker 1: can search and do all their stuff and it doesn't
Speaker 1: like kind of count towards your account, which is kind
Speaker 1: of cool. So now they're doing this with Google Maps,
Speaker 1: and once you turn this on, it will not save
Speaker 1: the data that you're searching, like any places that you
Speaker 1: search for, any places that you route to. And of
Speaker 1: course what comes to mind, what like cheating couples basically
Speaker 1: oh yeah, like someone's like, oh I don't want to
Speaker 1: you know, let's just make sure I'm going to navigate this.
Speaker 3: Does the map turn kind of gray?
Speaker 1: It doesn't turn gray.
Speaker 2: What happens when you go incogast.
Speaker 1: They showed, Yeah, they showed that would.
Speaker 2: Be kind of weird, like turned really dark.
Speaker 1: They know what did turn dark though, is normally there's
Speaker 1: a blue little icon that lights up on Google Maps
Speaker 1: that did turn gray, so you know, signifying that like
Speaker 1: we know your location, but we're not sharing that, we're
Speaker 1: not tracking. So anyway, it's interesting. I mean, it's one
Speaker 1: of those things that, like, I believe in privacy we
Speaker 1: should have with all these things that are tracking us,
Speaker 1: it should be easier to like pause that tracking. But
Speaker 1: of course what comes to mind is like people using
Speaker 1: this for like, you know, like to get around you know.
Speaker 2: And your significant on others be able to see you.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a whole other topic. We're just talking. We're
Speaker 1: just telling that. We're telling you about the technology. We're
Speaker 1: not telling you how to use it, right, all right? So, uh, Megan,
Speaker 1: do you have another question?
Speaker 3: I have a Actually it's not really your question, it's
Speaker 3: more like a statement, but I just wanted.
Speaker 2: To include it.
Speaker 1: Is this something you wrote?
Speaker 3: It's not from me, it's from someone named Tito, and
Speaker 3: it's regarding the latest Samsung Galaxy system update.
Speaker 2: And he's kind of kind of upset about it.
Speaker 1: I smell a rant coming out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1: Let's hear it.
Speaker 3: Hi, Rich, have you experienced the latest Samsung Galaxy system update?
Speaker 2: I have an S.
Speaker 3: Eight and I absolutely hate the update. I chatted with
Speaker 3: someone at Samsung the other day who was of no help.
Speaker 3: Do you have an inside contact to tell them how
Speaker 3: much we hate what they did? Can you ask them
Speaker 3: to change it back? I lost some features I use religiously,
Speaker 3: and the icons look as if they belong on a
Speaker 3: Fisher Price phone.
Speaker 1: Ugh, that's it. Yeah, do you say like necessarily, Tito? Well,
Speaker 1: what he's talking about is the Samsung one. And I'll
Speaker 1: be honest, I've gotten a bunch of emails about this,
Speaker 1: because anytime something changes on a phone, people get up
Speaker 1: in arms. Right. You get used to how like remember
Speaker 1: when like iOS changed. You know, it's like you you
Speaker 1: kind of like get used to how something works, and
Speaker 1: then it changes and you're like, all of a sudden, ah,
Speaker 1: this is really obnoxious, right, Like I knew how to
Speaker 1: send a text, or I knew how to get to
Speaker 1: this part of the menu, and it all changes. So
Speaker 1: I understand where you're coming from, Tito, but it's not
Speaker 1: changing back. I'll tell you that they've I've been using
Speaker 1: the one UI. I was kind of a beta tester
Speaker 1: for like the past year before they launched it like
Speaker 1: on all their new phones, And it's kind of one
Speaker 1: of those things that like, yeah, it is kind of
Speaker 1: candy colored and candy icons and stuff, but it's they're
Speaker 1: trying to be simple, they're trying to be a friendlier interface,
Speaker 1: and that's what they decided to do. So there's not
Speaker 1: much you can do about it. You can't really go
Speaker 1: back as far as I know. I mean, you could
Speaker 1: probably find the software online, but you don't. You're not
Speaker 1: going to do that.
Speaker 3: Well, were the features that were lost?
Speaker 1: People have said that there were like certain little weird things,
Speaker 1: Like people have told me they're not able to sign
Speaker 1: assign specific ring tones to contacts anymore. That was like
Speaker 1: one thing that like someone emailed me about and I
Speaker 1: kind of like looked and I looked on my phone
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, yeah, I think they're right,
Speaker 1: Like that was something you used to be able to do.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's back. Here's the other thing. On a lot
Speaker 1: of these kind of big software updates, it takes them
Speaker 1: a while to like figure out. Oh shoot, we forgot
Speaker 1: to include that. We need to you know, or that
Speaker 1: people kind of liked how that worked and we need
Speaker 1: to go back. So and the other thing about being
Speaker 1: human that's awesome is that we adapt to a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff. So Tito, I have no worry or no
Speaker 1: doubt in my mind that eventually you will get used
Speaker 1: to it and you'll kind of forget the way things
Speaker 1: used to be. I mean, if you give me like
Speaker 1: an old iPhone from like five years ago, you would
Speaker 1: not even buil. You'd be like, this is disgusting, Like
Speaker 1: I can't even believe people use this. But back in
Speaker 1: the day, we thought it was amazing. So that kind
Speaker 1: of happens with tech. Well I'm gonna segue speaking of Samsung,
Speaker 1: since you brought up Samsung, I want to do like
Speaker 1: a oh a segue. Well, now that can't be segue,
Speaker 1: I have to do there we.
Speaker 2: Go, Oh do that okay.
Speaker 1: So Samsung says, actually, this is it is mysterious because
Speaker 1: the Fold wow just blow out everyone's ear drums. So
Speaker 1: the Galaxy Fold, you know, was supposed to launch on
Speaker 1: April twenty sixth in the US. It did not because
Speaker 1: a bunch of reviewers had problems with little gunk or
Speaker 1: something getting into the screen and it disabled the phone.
Speaker 1: And this happened to at least I think there was
Speaker 1: four reports. Two people pulled off the protective screen, which stupid,
Speaker 1: don't do that, like that messed up their phone obviously.
Speaker 1: The other two people were legit, like their phone was
Speaker 1: messed up because a piece of lint or something got
Speaker 1: behind the screen, which should not happen. Right. Yeah, Now,
Speaker 1: if you saw the Galaxy fold like I had, I
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to go hands on before this thing
Speaker 1: was recalled it there was like sort of a gap
Speaker 1: because the screen folds, so I can understand how stuff
Speaker 1: can get behind there and really mess it up. So,
Speaker 1: according to the Korea Herald, the phone will launch. The
Speaker 1: South Korean tech giant Samsung told them that they're going
Speaker 1: to reach a conclusion in the next couple of days
Speaker 1: on when they're going to launch this. So now they
Speaker 1: didn't say they didn't say they're going to reach a
Speaker 1: conclusion on the launch date. They said we're going to
Speaker 1: reach a conclusion. So does that mean maybe they're not
Speaker 1: going to launch it? I don't know. That's what a
Speaker 1: lot of the rumors.
Speaker 2: Say, right now, what's the headline.
Speaker 1: Well, the headline says Samsung CEO confirms imminent launch of
Speaker 1: Galaxy Fold after fixing flaws. But this can be interpreted
Speaker 1: in a couple of ways because the only quote they
Speaker 1: have is the company has reviewed the defect caused from
Speaker 1: substances that entered the device, and we will reach a
Speaker 1: conclusion in a couple of days on the launch. That
Speaker 1: could go both ways. That could go they're gonna say, okay,
Speaker 1: here's the date, or they can say, you know what,
Speaker 1: we're gonna scrap this like failure to launch. Right.
Speaker 3: I think last week I said that they're going to
Speaker 3: scrap it.
Speaker 1: You think they're going to scrap it now you think now?
Speaker 2: I feel like they're using it to their advance.
Speaker 1: No, there's no advantage here. This is sad. This is
Speaker 1: like really, it's bad for their image.
Speaker 2: It's really sad.
Speaker 1: And who's gonna buy this? I mean, really, would you
Speaker 1: go into a store and buy this phone after you
Speaker 1: knew all these problems with it? No way?
Speaker 3: Even I was really rich, would I am rich?
Speaker 1: I mean that's my name, you are? And I still
Speaker 1: wouldn't buy it. So they said that they figured out
Speaker 1: that yes, it was stuff that got into the phone
Speaker 1: behind the screen. So what they're going to do is
Speaker 1: they're going to strengthen the durability of the exposed areas
Speaker 1: of the hinge. They're just going to minimize the tiny
Speaker 1: little gap behind the protective layer and the main displace
Speaker 1: that nothing can get in there. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: can't imagine except for the only person I can think
Speaker 1: that's gonna buy this in my head is like I
Speaker 1: just imagine like an eighties business person, like a high
Speaker 1: powered businessman in like Dallas, Texas and like the high
Speaker 1: like office building, right.
Speaker 2: Like, this is so specific.
Speaker 1: Well, it's in my mind. It's that. No, it's kind
Speaker 1: of like it's in my mind. It's that AMC show
Speaker 1: Catching Halt Fire, Catching What was that? Oh my gosh, Okay,
Speaker 1: now I'm totally off topic. Yeah, Catching hal Fire. That
Speaker 1: was the AMC show. That's that's what I have, Halt
Speaker 1: and Catch Fire. That's what I have in my head
Speaker 1: of the person who's gonna buy this is one of
Speaker 1: the people from that show.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I'm going to buy it.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's just have you do another question on Okay.
Speaker 3: This next question is from Twitter from Jorge Alvarez. He says,
Speaker 3: good morning, Rich. Quick question, if you had to pick
Speaker 3: between Ero and Google Wi.
Speaker 2: Fi, which would you choose?
Speaker 3: I don't know which one to get yet, Thanks as
Speaker 3: always for all your awesome advice.
Speaker 1: All right, good question is this is you know what
Speaker 1: these things are. These are the whole home Wi Fi networks, right,
Speaker 1: and so they're both great. I think that either one
Speaker 1: will do the job in a fantastic way. If you don't,
Speaker 1: if you haven't upgraded your WiFi to the Mesh networking
Speaker 1: system or the Mesh Wi Fi, go ahead and do it.
Speaker 1: You will. Like I say, I pay sixty five dollars
Speaker 1: month for Internet, I get every penny's worth because it
Speaker 1: reaches every corner of my home before, like we all know,
Speaker 1: you're in a one part of your house another part
Speaker 1: of your house and it doesn't work right. So this
Speaker 1: I think, Jorge, either of these will work perfectly in
Speaker 1: your home to give you nice, solid internet everywhere. My
Speaker 1: personal choice is Eero. Now. The reason why I liked
Speaker 1: Eero or still my like is like halfway down now
Speaker 1: because they were bought by Amazon and so I'm kind
Speaker 1: of like I used to like them when they were
Speaker 1: a startup because their entire job was to create a
Speaker 1: Wi Fi system, right google wi Fi. Google has about
Speaker 1: seventy five thousand other things going on. Google wi Fi
Speaker 1: is just a tiny portion of that. And also Google
Speaker 1: gets very distracted. They start something, they never finish it.
Speaker 1: They start something, they forget about it. They start something,
Speaker 1: they forget to update it. So again, Eero was a
Speaker 1: company that was started just to do this, just to
Speaker 1: solve this problem of making great Wi Fi. So that's
Speaker 1: why I love them. Now. Background on that. The original
Speaker 1: mesh wi Fi system I ever purchased was called Luma,
Speaker 1: and the reason I purchased it is because Amazon invested
Speaker 1: like one hundred and twenty million whatever it was. I'm
Speaker 1: maybe twelve million dollars whatever it was. They invested in
Speaker 1: this little startup, and I said, Ah, that's the one
Speaker 1: that's going to succeed because they've got Google backing them.
Speaker 1: Well guess what they bought them? Yeah, they Google?
Speaker 2: No they oh sorrying.
Speaker 1: Amazon gave them all that money and the company I
Speaker 1: don't even know if it's around anymore. So basically, my
Speaker 1: first inclination did not work. And so now Amazon went
Speaker 1: and bought euro which turned out to be the market leader,
Speaker 1: So hopefully, I'm assuming they're going to do good stuff
Speaker 1: with them. Amazon's got a lot of purchases. They did Ring,
Speaker 1: they did Blink, they did Eero. But there's so many
Speaker 1: products right now in the Amazon Electronics portfolio. They need
Speaker 1: to kind of unify this stuff very quickly. They have
Speaker 1: the cloud Cam, they have a lot of different brands
Speaker 1: that they need to like get together make work. Yeah.
Speaker 3: That's interesting though, because you just you basically feel like
Speaker 3: it'll get ignored if you were to buy from let's
Speaker 3: say Amazon or Google. You'd rather buy from a smaller company.
Speaker 1: H of course, because they know that's their job, like that,
Speaker 1: that's their world.
Speaker 2: Exactly, gotcha?
Speaker 1: All right, So this is I'm gonna call this a
Speaker 1: naughty little app because man, this was not nice to me.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, I was gonna press the clapping.
Speaker 1: Oh that sounds clapping. H This is a naughty app.
Speaker 1: This is called Ever, and NBC News out with a
Speaker 1: big story that says EVER, which is a This is
Speaker 1: an app that was kind of an alternative to Google Photos.
Speaker 1: Still is. They're still around and the bottom line is
Speaker 1: that they were using all the photos that you uploaded
Speaker 1: to this app to train their facial recognition without really
Speaker 1: you knowing, right, and then they were selling this artificial
Speaker 1: intelligence to private companies, law enforcement, in the military. So
Speaker 1: basically they're using all the faces in your pictures to
Speaker 1: train their AI systems and people had no idea and
Speaker 1: so now, oh yeah, so there's nothing you could really do. Like,
Speaker 1: here's the bottom line. And I've talked about this before
Speaker 1: on the show. If you're getting something for free, clearly
Speaker 1: there is a reason why you don't just get stuff
Speaker 1: for free. In this case, if you're getting a free
Speaker 1: photo service that has unlimited storage just like Google Photos
Speaker 1: or looking at your pictures, they're looking at your picture,
Speaker 1: so they're using your pictures to train stuff. And that's
Speaker 1: what they were doing. Now I'm not saying that for
Speaker 1: Google yah, which although they probably are, but the reality
Speaker 1: is this company was using it to basically profit by
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you get tens of millions of
Speaker 1: pictures really fast that you can use to train your system.
Speaker 1: You tell people, hey, upload all your pictures here for free.
Speaker 1: So NBC News kind of reached out, and obviously users
Speaker 1: were very surprised to know that's so much. It is
Speaker 1: kind of sketchy, and so I don't even know where
Speaker 1: to go with this, but the company said that it's
Speaker 1: mentioned in the apps privacy policy. Who reads the privacy
Speaker 1: policy of anything?
Speaker 3: The terms?
Speaker 1: But again, if you're listening to the rich On to
Speaker 1: Have podcast, you rich On Tech podcast, you know that
Speaker 1: I've said this before. If you're getting something for free,
Speaker 1: something's happening in the background. All those apps on your phone,
Speaker 1: what do you how do you think they're surviving? They're
Speaker 1: collecting your data. If they're free, they're collecting your data
Speaker 1: and using it in some way. Now does it mean
Speaker 1: it's bad? Like I mean the fact that your your
Speaker 1: friend's photos were you know, training their facial recognition. It
Speaker 1: doesn't really affect you in life, but it's just kind
Speaker 1: of one of those things where it feels icky, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: But if.
Speaker 3: You get added on Facebook from some random person that
Speaker 3: like for some reasons related to this company, like that's
Speaker 3: I don't know, that's where my brain goes.
Speaker 1: Okay, I see what you're saying thinking, Yeah, I can
Speaker 1: see that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's creepy.
Speaker 1: It is creepy. It's just it's just one of those
Speaker 1: things where it doesn't feel right, you know, like you
Speaker 1: have to be I think let's put it this way.
Speaker 1: Let me put it this way. Let's say Megan producer, Megan,
Speaker 1: you sign up for this app and it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: you can upload all your pictures here. Just fyi, we're
Speaker 1: going to use them to train our algorithms to recognize faces.
Speaker 1: Are you cool with that? You'd probably be like, well,
Speaker 1: you'd probably take a second thought, right, Whereas if it
Speaker 1: just says hey, free photo upload, go ahead, you'd be like,
Speaker 1: oh fine, right. So it's one of those things where
Speaker 1: like they know they were doing something wrong because they
Speaker 1: didn't present it to you very clearly, right, yeah.
Speaker 3: So and even on like the iPhone, how it like
Speaker 3: recognizes faces, that's all like just on your phone.
Speaker 1: Exactly, that's on device, Apple, Exactly, it's on device. And
Speaker 1: that's that's what we heard, by the way at the
Speaker 1: Google event, is Google's trying to do more on device
Speaker 1: because Google's big thing back in the day, it was
Speaker 1: always like we have such great computers that we can
Speaker 1: and they're so fast, and your phone is so powerful
Speaker 1: that we can like send data back and forth really
Speaker 1: quickly and your phone doesn't even have to be that
Speaker 1: powerful and we can still do our magic. Now they're
Speaker 1: kind of taken back from that, they're saying, you know what,
Speaker 1: We're going to try to do more on your phone
Speaker 1: so that less of your data leaves your phone and
Speaker 1: more of it's processed on your phone, which is kind
Speaker 1: of what Apple's been doing for a long time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so two different approaches. But now Google's kind of coming
Speaker 1: into the approach of like, yeah, we understand people want privacy,
Speaker 1: and so if you feel like your pictures can be
Speaker 1: categorized to trees and beaches and parks and people's faces
Speaker 1: all happening on your device and there's not some database
Speaker 1: of that stuff elsewhere, people feel better about that. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So basically that ever company said that you can opt out.
Speaker 1: There is a way to opt out in the settings,
Speaker 1: and you can also say in your settings that you
Speaker 1: don't want to have your photos used to train models.
Speaker 1: Those options are available to consumers today and have always been.
Speaker 1: That's what they told NBC.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, all right, next next question transition, that's fine, Okay.
Speaker 3: Next question is from Instagram from Debbie Cohen. She says,
Speaker 3: I need your opinion. I'm currently subscribed to Kaspersky Total
Speaker 3: Security for our computers. Is this the best one? My
Speaker 3: renewal is approaching and wanted to see if there is
Speaker 3: a better company to go with. It's for two desktop
Speaker 3: PCs and some laptops too, Mac and pc.
Speaker 1: A Kespersky. I mean that's fine. I mean it's that's
Speaker 1: a lot of people use that. It's for how many things?
Speaker 1: She's just wow, two desktop PCs and laptops mage, Okay,
Speaker 1: she's got a mix of things. Yeah, so I my
Speaker 1: recommendation is probably go at malware Bytes. That's the big
Speaker 1: company that makes this, and people seem to like it.
Speaker 1: Kespercy is fine. I think that I'm I know, I'm
Speaker 1: kind of like use I use something called silance. I
Speaker 1: don't use anything on my phones because I don't believe
Speaker 1: that you need it. Definitely iPhone, you don't need antivirus.
Speaker 1: There's no unless you're really doing something weird with your phone,
Speaker 1: like basically downloading apps outside of the app store on iPhone,
Speaker 1: there's no need.
Speaker 2: For dark Well.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if it's maybe I know it
Speaker 1: sounds great, the dark that's the dark Web. But the
Speaker 1: point is that, you know, iPhone, you just don't need antivirus.
Speaker 1: Don't even download it, don't even think about it. Just
Speaker 1: don't Android. I don't think you need it either, honestly,
Speaker 1: And there are things you can do much more on
Speaker 1: your on your Android than you can on iPhone, like
Speaker 1: you can you have access to a lot more of
Speaker 1: your device. But it's still again, unless you're downloading like
Speaker 1: super malware ridden stuff, which like what are you doing exactly,
Speaker 1: you really can't. It's like almost impossible, like unless you're
Speaker 1: you're trying, you're trying. So I think for the average
Speaker 1: person that's just going on normal websites and normal apps
Speaker 1: that they're downloading from Google Play, you really don't need it.
Speaker 1: But with that said, if you want to get it,
Speaker 1: malware bytes very reputable. People really like them. They win
Speaker 1: a lot of accolades, so go with that and you'll
Speaker 1: pay now. Silance, the one that I use, was actually
Speaker 1: purchased by BlackBerry, so I don't know what their future is,
Speaker 1: but we did a story with them a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago and I fell in love because it uses AI.
Speaker 1: So unlike typical virus antivirus software that has this giant
Speaker 1: list of definitions of here's everything we think is a
Speaker 1: is a virus, this one literally just recognizes what files
Speaker 1: are doing on your computer. And when they try to
Speaker 1: do bad things, it will stop them. Oh kind of
Speaker 1: a little cop. Just stop, yo, don't do that. Why
Speaker 1: are you trying to access all riches private stuff? Stop?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to ask you to stop right there.
Speaker 1: It's like a mall cop on your computer. They roll
Speaker 1: up in the little segue. Do we have any Do
Speaker 1: we have any police?
Speaker 3: That's that doesn't what happens that doesn't?
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh that's not okay, okay, Oh my god. I
Speaker 1: feel like we're literally onlike public access right now with
Speaker 1: like the you know, I just fell on the soundboard.
Speaker 1: Oh that that's crickets. That reminds me.
Speaker 2: I've been pressing this the entire fair.
Speaker 1: That's the fairy us.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: I love the crickets because it reminds me of that
Speaker 1: ride in Disney.
Speaker 3: The next time you make a joke, I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks. It's the ride that what's the one where
Speaker 1: you can eat outside but or it's like in the Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the best.
Speaker 2: That's the best place to make out Disneyland rides and.
Speaker 1: That's the best place to eat. You know that.
Speaker 2: I've never eaten there.
Speaker 1: It's like blue buyou, blue buy you. No, you just
Speaker 1: know you're talking about Club thirty three eating. Oh you've eaten.
Speaker 2: There, but you haven't.
Speaker 1: You haven't the Underground Okay, I haven't eaten the one
Speaker 1: that opened to public, but you've eaten it. The one
Speaker 1: that's the other one's vip. Okay. So an app that
Speaker 1: I'm in love with right now is called Otter, and
Speaker 1: this is really cool. It's fantastic. If you are ever
Speaker 1: in a meeting and you just want a transcript of
Speaker 1: everything that's being said in the meeting, this app you
Speaker 1: literally just press one button. It records everything and transcribes
Speaker 1: everything that's being said in real time. Not just that,
Speaker 1: it divides up the speakers, so when Megan talks, it'll
Speaker 1: put it under yours. When I talk, it'll put under mind. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And it does it for free, by the way, for free. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so clearly they're taking all your data.
Speaker 3: And sorry, but you mentioned I think a similar kind
Speaker 3: of app a couple of weeks ago, and that wasn't free.
Speaker 2: That was like for recording.
Speaker 1: Oh no, we did mention it. No, we did mention it.
Speaker 1: I've already oh yeah, never mind. Okay, So I guess
Speaker 1: after I mentioned it last week, I started using it more. No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't it's free. Oh yeah, well it's free up
Speaker 1: to six hundred minutes a month. Okay, So basically I
Speaker 1: took my own advice, so I basically listened to my
Speaker 1: own podcast. That sounds good, Okay, Well anyway, so yeah,
Speaker 1: that's totally worthless. So anyway, if you listen to the podcast.
Speaker 1: I already talked about this, but it's called Otter Voice Notes,
Speaker 1: works on Android and iOS, and it's phenomenal. And once
Speaker 1: you link it to your calendar, every time you have
Speaker 1: a meeting in your calendar, it'll be like, do you
Speaker 1: want us to start recording? So from now on, you
Speaker 1: just press that one thing and you've got a list
Speaker 1: of like everything that was said. So I do like
Speaker 1: a lot of briefings for like tech products, and I
Speaker 1: just turned this on. Now, yeah I've done two since
Speaker 1: I started. I do a lot of and I do
Speaker 1: do a lot of briefings, but you've done two but
Speaker 1: since I did this, So anyway, six hundred minutes a
Speaker 1: month are totally free.
Speaker 2: There you go, Do we have time for one more?
Speaker 1: I think you have one more?
Speaker 2: I can?
Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead, Okay, be crazy, Okay, can I have
Speaker 3: the Okay, So this next question is from Peter Castillanos.
Speaker 3: This he emailed you. It's very simple, but I like it.
Speaker 3: Roku or firestick.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: You're Roku person. You love Roku.
Speaker 2: I mean I don't love it.
Speaker 3: I just I have a TCL Roku and I just
Speaker 3: accept what I know.
Speaker 1: If you have a TCL Roku, you gotta get the
Speaker 1: speakers for the back like I have those. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: because it will change your life. Put the two speakers
Speaker 1: are wireless. You plug them in if you have a
Speaker 1: TCL Roku, it works with them. Doesn't work with a
Speaker 1: regular like Roku box just yet. But if you have
Speaker 1: a TCL Roku TV, you plug them in the back
Speaker 1: and boom, your sound is like amazing, so much easier
Speaker 1: to hear things.
Speaker 3: Right because TV them in the back of the TV.
Speaker 1: No, sorry, you just they plug in the back of
Speaker 1: the room. Yeah, they're just wireless, so they once you
Speaker 1: plug them in, they connect to your TV and all
Speaker 1: your sound is piped through them and it sounds a
Speaker 1: lot better.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we did a demo with it, and it's
Speaker 1: just it's kind of a must have. But my pick is,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. I'm a hater of Roku. I don't
Speaker 1: know why I don't. I'm such a hater and I
Speaker 1: don't understand why because I used to love Roku. I
Speaker 1: feel like their stuff is Oh God, I'm gonna offend
Speaker 1: so many people here. I just feel like there's not
Speaker 1: a premium feel to Roku.
Speaker 3: You're reminding me of someone gosh who my sister and
Speaker 3: her hatred of Android okay, because she's.
Speaker 2: Like, I love Apple well okay, and she.
Speaker 3: Just won't even listen to me try to explain.
Speaker 1: I'm not like that with Roku. Like I'm fine with
Speaker 1: the road. I love what Roku is doing. They have
Speaker 1: a nice platform, they have every app available. It's nice.
Speaker 1: It's just to me, it doesn't have that premium feel
Speaker 1: like Apple TV is super premium. Yes, Fire TV it
Speaker 1: really doesn't have that premium feel either, but it's like
Speaker 1: I like it. It's just like it's nice. Too much advertising
Speaker 1: on there, but you know, Roku's biggest business is advertising.
Speaker 1: Like they literally are like a huge advertiser. Somehow they
Speaker 1: get all these companies like they get a little bit
Speaker 1: of money, like every time someone like signs up for
Speaker 1: one of their services, you know, like sling. If you
Speaker 1: see like you know how the apps come pre installed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you like activate one. But they get a
Speaker 1: little cut from that. They get a cut from like
Speaker 1: all their free you know shows they're showing. They get
Speaker 1: like ad revenue. So Roku wants just a lot of
Speaker 1: people on there to be watching stuff at all times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they don't really care what app you're using. They
Speaker 1: I mean, they'd like you to do their billboard kind
Speaker 1: of yeah. Okay, even don't they even have ads on the.
Speaker 3: On the screen, say on screen all the time. But
Speaker 3: I just don't even I just go to Hulu or
Speaker 3: I go to Netflix.
Speaker 1: Yeah whatever, okay. Yeah, And as as a conduit for
Speaker 1: those things, it's fine. Yeah, I mean, and Roku's great.
Speaker 1: I mean, don't get me wrong, don't send me hate
Speaker 1: mail about Roku. I'm just he asked my preference, right right,
Speaker 1: And so if you're asking my preference, my preference out
Speaker 1: of those is fire TV. I like that platform. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's the best. I actually think Amazon does
Speaker 1: a terrible job of showing you, like simple information like
Speaker 1: what are the top movie rentals right now, or what
Speaker 1: are the top movies across all you know, like across
Speaker 1: that you can buy something that I just think is
Speaker 1: so basic. They do a really bad job at But
Speaker 1: I like the remote so basic. It is very basic.
Speaker 1: I like the remote, I like I just like a
Speaker 1: lot of little things about the Amazon fire Stick and
Speaker 1: or the fire TV platform. And you know that's just me.
Speaker 1: You asked, Peter asked for my opinion.
Speaker 2: Right, are the prices the same?
Speaker 1: See, that's the thing. The prices are pretty much the same.
Speaker 1: They're they're pretty cheap. You can get a fire stick, yeah,
Speaker 1: like you can start at like twenty five dollars. But
Speaker 1: here's okay, this is the reason why I don't like
Speaker 1: Roku as well, because they get people to buy these
Speaker 1: super cheap Roku sticks right like twenty five dollars, and
Speaker 1: they're super underpowered, and I just feel like, you got
Speaker 1: you know, you're you're trying to pump four K video
Speaker 1: through these things. It's just not gonna you know, it's
Speaker 1: like it's it's slow when you first get it. You know,
Speaker 1: like it's one of those things where it's like laggy
Speaker 1: and fire. Amazon does the same thing. Their entry level
Speaker 1: Firestick is like unusable to me because it's got like
Speaker 1: a super slow processor. You've got to go with the
Speaker 1: four K version and get like a decent one. Right,
Speaker 1: So all these companies do the same. They play little
Speaker 1: games with the pricing and they try to get you
Speaker 1: to get in on their platform in any way, shape
Speaker 1: or form. But again, and if I had to rank them,
Speaker 1: obviously Apple TV is the best. It's the premium and
Speaker 1: they're when you see what they're doing next, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be even better. And then Fire and then Roku to
Speaker 1: me again, this is rich on Tech. This is not
Speaker 1: you know, everyone the world's opinion. Roku is doing just fine,
Speaker 1: all right. Finally, before we go, website called Eskimo. This
Speaker 1: is really weird. Okay, website called eskimo. Eskimo. I don't know,
Speaker 1: let's see if they have the actual Eskimo what the
Speaker 1: website is, but basically you can send a let's see
Speaker 1: how I can know what the actual website is. You
Speaker 1: can send an anonymous email to anyone through this website
Speaker 1: eskimo dot com. Okay, and it's uh, oh weird, esk
Speaker 1: I am oh oh weird. The website is eskiimo dot com,
Speaker 1: but it's called eskimo. But basically it's literally a website
Speaker 1: that you just type in two and then you're from.
Speaker 1: You know, you can say a friend, coworker, family member,
Speaker 1: friend of a friend or someone, and you put your
Speaker 1: message in there, they send it off anonymously. Now this
Speaker 1: does not mean that the website is anonymous, because I
Speaker 1: think Eskimo can see anything that you send. So before
Speaker 1: you get any funny ideas of doing crazy stuff through this,
Speaker 1: don't because Eskimo will know. Anyway. I got an email
Speaker 1: from the founder, twenty five year old tech lover and
Speaker 1: creator from Sydney, Australia, and he said he built this
Speaker 1: over the weekend that lets you send emails to that
Speaker 1: special or maybe not that special person. So I think
Speaker 1: he came up with it from like a nice standpoint
Speaker 1: of like you're in love with someone or you want
Speaker 1: you know, secret admyer kind of thing, right. He said
Speaker 1: the project in just over forty eight hours has had
Speaker 1: over ten thousand eskimos sent. Thanks so anyway, and then
Speaker 1: he says you should see the eskimos being sent. It's
Speaker 1: really something, so I.
Speaker 2: Think, oh he's reading it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well okay, And at the bottom it says receive
Speaker 1: the best Eskimos of the week every Monday in your inbox.
Speaker 1: So I think they are kind of parsing these things.
Speaker 2: So it's like sending out creepy or funny.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, we don't know. We don't know how it's
Speaker 1: being used. Sign. I don't think I would. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not really something for me too. I mean, if
Speaker 1: I was in like high school, I think it'd be
Speaker 1: funny to send like an email to your crush, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like that, that's what comes to mind.
Speaker 3: I hope to your friend and make him think he
Speaker 3: has well.
Speaker 1: See, that's mean, that's you're much meaner than I am,
Speaker 1: so you thought you immediately went to like the meanest possible.
Speaker 2: That's not mean, it's me. It's funny.
Speaker 1: It's funny. What a funny way to end the show.
Speaker 1: That's going to do it for the show today. Thanks
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Speaker 1: I feel like maybe it helps Apple show the show
Speaker 1: to more people because it's like, oh, this is getting
Speaker 1: a lot of reviews. Maybe it bumps it up. I
Speaker 1: don't know. My book is called one hundred and one
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Speaker 1: and paperback. I also have a newsletter. It's every basically
Speaker 1: every week, I send out a newsletter of it's kind
Speaker 1: of like this podcast The Interesting Things I think you
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Speaker 1: newsletter Megan. Producer Megan is not on the newsletter, but
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