Speaker 1: Apple sets a time and date for its next big event,
Speaker 1: The new way to secure your Zoom account, fake Amazon reviews,
Speaker 1: plus your tech questions answered.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: I'm Rich Dmiro and this is Rich on Tech, the
Speaker 1: podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think
Speaker 1: you should know about. It's also the place right answer
Speaker 1: the questions that you send me What's going on? My
Speaker 1: name is Rich Demiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. How's it going working
Speaker 1: and schooling from home? I have been working from home.
Speaker 1: I can't believe that it is now September? Can you September?
Speaker 1: Where did the time go? I remember going out for
Speaker 1: Memorial Day weekend, like thinking that was the first kind
Speaker 1: of kickoff to the summer. And here we are past
Speaker 1: Labor Day, Summer's over, and we are into the thick
Speaker 1: of school, into work, into just everything, and we've gotten
Speaker 1: used to working from home. I kind of enjoy it
Speaker 1: at this point, and I think that there are some
Speaker 1: advantages to it.
Speaker 2: There's some disadvantages.
Speaker 1: But everyone's sleeping longer except me since I still wake
Speaker 1: up pretty early for the news. But my wife and
Speaker 1: kids are sleeping longer. Because they don't have a commute anymore.
Speaker 1: There's no rush to get in the shower and get
Speaker 1: dressed and get on the commute to work in school.
Speaker 1: So now everyone just kind of rolls out of bed,
Speaker 1: they have some breakfast, they watch some TV, and then
Speaker 1: it's the reality of work. And here in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: last week, man, it was hot. Whoa, it was really
Speaker 1: really hot last week. And now we've got some fires
Speaker 1: going on in California. I think that's an understatement. So
Speaker 1: these are some interesting times for me. It is getting
Speaker 1: into the thick of gadget season. We've got so many
Speaker 1: new gadgets coming out in the next couple of months.
Speaker 1: We just got through all of Samsung's stuff, and now
Speaker 1: we are going to get into all of Apple stuff
Speaker 1: and maybe even some of Google stuff and Microsoft stuff
Speaker 1: and Sony stuff. So it is a time for gadgets.
Speaker 1: Right before the holidays, this is when everything is announced.
Speaker 1: And sadly, I am sending back my Note twenty Ultra
Speaker 1: today along with a Z flip but I or Z
Speaker 1: fold but I didn't really think I would use that phone.
Speaker 1: But no, twenty Ultra, I have to say, still one
Speaker 1: of my favorite phones.
Speaker 2: So if you are.
Speaker 1: Thinking of making the switch to a Samsung device or
Speaker 1: the Note device. The Note twenty Ultra was one of
Speaker 1: my favorite phones I have tested in the past five years,
Speaker 1: i'd say. And so with that said, the biggest problem
Speaker 1: I had with the Note twenty Ultra was the size,
Speaker 1: and the thing that I wanted was a smaller version,
Speaker 1: and I kind of contemplated. In fact, let me see,
Speaker 1: it was actually on sale on Amazon for uh. I
Speaker 1: had it in my let's see my browsing history. I
Speaker 1: had the Note twenty, the regular version, in my browsing
Speaker 1: in my Amazon cart for a moment. Ah, the price
Speaker 1: went back up again.
Speaker 2: Darn it.
Speaker 1: Oh wait, wait wait, maybe it didn't hold on. Nope,
Speaker 1: it's still two hundred dollars off the Note twenty, not
Speaker 1: the big one, not the Ultra, but the regular Note
Speaker 1: twenty is eight hundred bucks, which is still expensive. But
Speaker 1: you just don't get a couple of things that I
Speaker 1: want on there. But anyway, I will be happy my
Speaker 1: iPhone is right here. It's not as exciting as some
Speaker 1: of the Samsung devices that I've been testing, but it
Speaker 1: still works and for social media. You know, I've talked
Speaker 1: about this, It's still better let's get into the first
Speaker 1: big story of the podcast. Apple officially announces it's September
Speaker 1: fifteenth event. This was really funny because, so here's what happened.
Speaker 1: Everyone was waiting because there's a big rumor that they
Speaker 1: would announce this event on Tuesday, September eighth.
Speaker 2: I think it was Yes, that is correct, And so.
Speaker 1: All the people are just sitting there refreshing Apple's website refresh, refresh, refresh,
Speaker 1: looking at their email refresh, refreshed, waiting for this invite.
Speaker 1: As journalists that we get well. Apple did something kind
Speaker 1: of funny this year. They put the information on their
Speaker 1: website first, and then they waited a little bit, and
Speaker 1: then they sent out the invitation.
Speaker 2: So we got two different stories.
Speaker 1: At first, all the people that saw the information on
Speaker 1: the website said, yes, we have our big iPhone event
Speaker 1: happening September fifteenth, ten am Pacific. And then after everyone
Speaker 1: tweeted that and screenshoted that, they sent out the invitation
Speaker 1: to journalists including myself that had won two extra words
Speaker 1: on it that the website did not, and it said
Speaker 1: time flies, which immediately everyone realized that, oh, this is
Speaker 1: about the Apple Watch and not necessarily the iPhone because
Speaker 1: we know that the iPhone supposedly is delayed this year.
Speaker 1: So as it stands September fifteenth, ten am Pacific, you
Speaker 1: can watch the live stream of Apple's next big event,
Speaker 1: and we are expected to see new Apple Watches and
Speaker 1: a new iPad Air.
Speaker 2: That's according to Bloomberg.
Speaker 1: They say that the iPhone twelve will launch later in October,
Speaker 1: and that makes sense because we've heard with the pandemic
Speaker 1: that things are a little bit delayed.
Speaker 2: So am I.
Speaker 1: Excited for new Apple Watch and new iPad Air? Yes,
Speaker 1: the new iPads. I am excited because I'd like to
Speaker 1: buy my kids new iPads. It's been a while, it's
Speaker 1: been I think four years now, and they need a
Speaker 1: new iPad, both of them.
Speaker 2: So I am excited for that.
Speaker 1: My one kid's iPad is all cracked and it just
Speaker 1: needs to get a new one. And they're just small,
Speaker 1: and ideally like to get them iPad Mini. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if they're refreshing that, but whatever it is, I
Speaker 1: just need to buy new iPads. So I will be
Speaker 1: very excited for the iPad situation and Apple Watch. I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine what they're gonna add to the Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: That would make me more excited about it. I think
Speaker 1: the current Apple Watch is near perfect except for battery life,
Speaker 1: but I've gotten so used to charging it every night anyway.
Speaker 1: The other thing is that the well, we'll just say,
Speaker 1: we'll see. So that's that, And I don't know what
Speaker 1: more to say about the Apple event. It's gonna be exciting,
Speaker 1: it's virtual. I'm not going up there, so that saves me,
Speaker 1: you know, the time and effort of going up to Coopertino.
Speaker 1: It's always fun to go up there, but it's just
Speaker 1: not happening that way right now. So we will see
Speaker 1: what happens with Apple. Maybe they'll throw us some surprises,
Speaker 1: throw us some loops, But right now, as it stands,
Speaker 1: we're looking forward to new Apple Watches and new iPads.
Speaker 1: Perhaps maybe some smaller gadgets like an air tag, but
Speaker 1: I think that's coming with the iPhone, and even with
Speaker 1: the iPhone, I mean, what more do you want with that?
Speaker 1: I mean except for people that are just waiting to upgrade,
Speaker 1: and five G is cool, but we know that five
Speaker 1: G is not necessarily all there just yet. So let's
Speaker 1: get to our first question. This comes from let's see,
Speaker 1: Lisa says, good morning, Good morning. I have a tech
Speaker 1: question for you. I recently purchased a Roku to save
Speaker 1: money and lose our cable during this difficult time. Would
Speaker 1: like to still have some basic channels and some sports.
Speaker 1: Do you recommend any particular app for this? Thank you
Speaker 1: for your time and input. Love the Channel five News. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Lisa. So you ditched cable, which was a
Speaker 1: smart move to get you save some money here, and
Speaker 1: you have a Roku. So the good news is Roku
Speaker 1: has pretty much everything you need, with the exception right
Speaker 1: now of HBO Max and also what is it HBO
Speaker 1: Max And what's the other one that's not on there
Speaker 1: right now? HBO Max blanking right now, there's two? What
Speaker 1: was the one that just came out? Anyway, So Hulu
Speaker 1: has a lot of what you need. The problem is
Speaker 1: you're looking for sports, which is kind of tricky. I
Speaker 1: will tell you one app that I think is pretty
Speaker 1: cool that I think is kind of like having cable
Speaker 1: but for free.
Speaker 2: And it's called Pluto TV.
Speaker 1: And this is I kind of tell these stories, but
Speaker 1: I've been wrong about a couple of things several times
Speaker 1: in my tech career, and I'm human, I get it.
Speaker 2: It happens.
Speaker 1: But I'll never forget sitting there with this guy at
Speaker 1: lunch who told me that he started this new app
Speaker 1: called Pluto TV, and I didn't get it. I literally
Speaker 1: sat there and told this guy. He's like, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you should do a story on it. I'm like, why,
Speaker 1: come on, dude, there's so many streaming apps out there.
Speaker 1: This was many years ago, and I'm not kidding. I
Speaker 1: sat there at lunch as he told me all about
Speaker 1: Pluto and how it was going to be like cable
Speaker 1: but for free, and I just didn't get it. It
Speaker 1: did not register in rich Demuro's mind that this was
Speaker 1: a three hundred million dollar idea, because a couple of
Speaker 1: years later, that's how much Viacom paid him for Pluto TV.
Speaker 2: So, needless to say, I was wrong, he was right.
Speaker 2: And sometimes I will be honest.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I am told stuff so early in the game
Speaker 1: that my little brain cannot process just how big of
Speaker 1: an idea this is. Now, I'm not saying that's all
Speaker 1: the time. When I remember the Microsoft came in and
Speaker 1: told me about the surface, I got it immediately.
Speaker 2: And while no one else can.
Speaker 1: Understand how a tablet could be a PC and how
Speaker 1: PC could be a tablet and touchscreen and pen and
Speaker 1: all this stuff. I got that, and it took a
Speaker 1: while for the rest of the world to catch on
Speaker 1: to that idea. But with the Pluto TV situation, I
Speaker 1: just didn't really get it. I said, why would you
Speaker 1: want this? I downloaded it when I got home. I
Speaker 1: watched it for about five minutes. It seemed to me
Speaker 1: that it was YouTube but strung together, you know, one
Speaker 1: one video after another, which I kind of like, but
Speaker 1: I'd rather just watch what I want to watch by
Speaker 1: keying and keywords.
Speaker 2: Well, now I get it.
Speaker 1: Pluto has really done a good job of expanding and
Speaker 1: when you download the app, it's fast.
Speaker 2: The channels changed like cable channels. There's a whole bunch.
Speaker 1: Of stuff to watch for free, and I'm very impressed.
Speaker 1: And someone at Viacom, which is much smarter than me,
Speaker 1: because they capitalized on it and bought it from this guy.
Speaker 2: And now the rest, as they say, is history.
Speaker 1: So Lisa, to answer your question, I would start with
Speaker 1: something like a I would just go through Roku and
Speaker 1: look at the top channels. Everything is represented there. So
Speaker 1: if you want, you know, entertainment, sports, whatever, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get it. The problem is what it's going to be
Speaker 1: tough to do is local news in certain aspects, and
Speaker 1: sports are really tricky too because you usually have to
Speaker 1: pay for those.
Speaker 2: The other website I'd.
Speaker 1: Recommend is Untangled dot tv, so if you want to
Speaker 1: pay for a little bit of something, you might.
Speaker 2: Want to look at that.
Speaker 1: The other service that gives you a lot of channels
Speaker 1: for a little bit is Filo Philo. Filo is a
Speaker 1: cable kind of streaming service that's twenty bucks a month
Speaker 1: for a whole bunch of channels, fifty channels plus a DVR,
Speaker 1: and what you'll find is there's no sports on there.
Speaker 2: That's how they save money.
Speaker 1: But they've got all the cable channels, like or a
Speaker 1: lot of them, AMC, Animal Planet, DIY, Food Network, FI,
Speaker 1: Game Show Network, MTV, Lifetime, No Oxygen, No Oxygen, Nicktoons,
Speaker 1: Nick Junior. So they have a lot of stuff on there.
Speaker 1: But again, go to Untangled dot tv and pop in
Speaker 1: the things that you want to watch, the things that
Speaker 1: you like, and just see if that gets what you need.
Speaker 1: But if you canceled cable to save money, personally, I
Speaker 1: would just not subscribe to anything and just see what
Speaker 1: you can get.
Speaker 2: At for free through these streaming services.
Speaker 1: On the live stream, folks are recommending Peacock's a bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff there. You can get a bunch for free streaming.
Speaker 1: Just go ahead and like I said, look at the
Speaker 1: top channels on Roku and just see what what interests you.
Speaker 2: Oh whoops, sorry, wrong sound effect. I'm going to a
Speaker 2: story right now.
Speaker 1: Microsoft unveiled details on the Xbox Series S and the
Speaker 1: Xbox Series X S and x S and x S
Speaker 1: and x S and x say that ten times fast.
Speaker 1: And here is an interesting part. I believe they've had
Speaker 1: this before, but you can now basically rent to own
Speaker 1: an Xbox. So it starts at twenty five bucks a month. Here,
Speaker 1: let me give you details. November tenth, that is when
Speaker 1: the Xbox Series X and the Xbox Series S.
Speaker 2: Will be available.
Speaker 1: Pre orders are already or no, they're starting on September
Speaker 1: twenty second. So let's talk about the Xbox Series S.
Speaker 1: This is the I guess, the inexpensive model. This is
Speaker 1: the cheaper one, all digital, and that means it's still
Speaker 1: fast still.
Speaker 2: You know, has what you need. But it's a small,
Speaker 2: sleek Xbox.
Speaker 1: That I believe does not have any sort of CD drive,
Speaker 1: disk drive, whatever.
Speaker 2: It's all Ye, it's all digital.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of the entry level model that I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people will like. But if you're
Speaker 1: a true gamer, you're probably going to be more interested
Speaker 1: in the Xbox Series X. The Xbox Series S, by
Speaker 1: the way, is three hundred bucks. Then you've got the
Speaker 1: x which is the you know, the the big boy.
Speaker 1: It's the real deal everything that you need five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars for that one. And again these are both you know,
Speaker 1: big new gaming platforms, gaming consoles, I should say, And that's.
Speaker 2: What you need to know. So pricing, let's talk about
Speaker 2: the prices.
Speaker 1: They are doing this Xbox All Access and so for
Speaker 1: twenty four months, you pay and you get this console
Speaker 1: your choice.
Speaker 2: So here's what you get. You get the console of
Speaker 2: your choice.
Speaker 1: Then you get one hundred high quality games to play
Speaker 1: on that console, including next gen optimized games. Then you
Speaker 1: get one hundred high quality games to play on your PC.
Speaker 1: Then you get an EA Play membership, so you can
Speaker 1: play sixty of EA's biggest games and one hundred games
Speaker 1: to play from the cloud. So a whole bunch of games.
Speaker 1: Now it sounds great. I'm counting this up one hundred,
Speaker 1: two hundred two sixty three hundred and sixty games to play.
Speaker 1: How many of these games are you actually going to play?
Speaker 1: Probably not many. The games that you actually want to
Speaker 1: play are probably still going to cost you the sixty
Speaker 1: bucks or whatever they cost for a new game.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I am not a huge gamer, so I can't really
Speaker 1: comment on how many games are in this Xbox Game
Speaker 1: Pass Ultimate, but I'm sure there's some. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like the Nintendo Switch or Apple Arcade. You're gonna find
Speaker 1: stuff to play, But is it gonna be the latest, greatest,
Speaker 1: best games that you want to play? Probably not in
Speaker 1: every circumstance.
Speaker 2: How much does this cost?
Speaker 1: Twenty five dollars for twenty four months for the Xbox
Speaker 1: series S. If you want the x which is the
Speaker 1: bigger batter machine, that's gonna be thirty five dollars a
Speaker 1: month for twenty four months. I'll do the math for you,
Speaker 1: save you the math, and that is six hundred dollars
Speaker 1: or eight hundred forty dollars. So how much are you
Speaker 1: paying extra? You're paying an extra three hundred dollars on
Speaker 1: top of the small one, three hundred and forty on
Speaker 1: top of the big one, so you have to decide
Speaker 1: in two years is three hundred or three hundred forty
Speaker 1: dollars worth all those games you get? And also the
Speaker 1: I guess the pricing plan. So if you like to
Speaker 1: pay monthly, it might seem like a better deal because.
Speaker 2: It's only twenty five bucks a month. It's only thirty
Speaker 2: five bucks a month, no big deal.
Speaker 1: But you're actually paying three hundred dollars in interest or
Speaker 1: three hundred and forty dollars in interest in the form
Speaker 1: of games. So I'm not gonna tell you whether that's
Speaker 1: good or bad. You can decide on your own. But
Speaker 1: I will tell you that both of these Xbox consoles
Speaker 1: are backwards compatible with thousands of generations or games from
Speaker 1: four generations of Xboxes. So that's kind of cool because
Speaker 1: that's always a big question, will these play old games?
Speaker 1: And I think that, you know, I think that my
Speaker 1: kid wants the Xbox. It's gonna be Xbox versus PlayStation.
Speaker 1: I think he wants the Xbox because he wants to
Speaker 1: do Minecraft and Minecraft on a console. He's been asking
Speaker 1: for it for a while, so that will probably be the.
Speaker 2: Direction we go in the DeMuro household.
Speaker 1: But again, now you know, next question from Kristen or Kirsten.
Speaker 1: I never know if it's Ki. I guess that's Kirsten, right,
Speaker 1: Kirsten says, Hi, Rich, have you done a review on
Speaker 1: the new Samsung Galaxy Watch three. I have not, and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. I wore the Samsung Galaxy Watch
Speaker 1: three for about twenty four hours and that was it.
Speaker 2: That was about all I could take of it. So
Speaker 2: I don't want to knock it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that if you have an Android and you
Speaker 1: know Samsung device, it's great. I just could not get
Speaker 1: into it, and especially at the price four hundred bucks,
Speaker 1: it just did not seem like something that was what
Speaker 1: I wanted, and it just it's the Samsung Galaxy Watch three.
Speaker 1: It has a leather band number one, which I immediately
Speaker 1: don't like because I feel like I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: get a watch for looks.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get a watch for.
Speaker 1: Fitness situations, and I just I don't know. So, Kirsten,
Speaker 1: I did not do a formal review because I just
Speaker 1: did not see the mainstream appeal of that device at
Speaker 1: that price. And so maybe I'll change my mind to
Speaker 1: do it, but I just have not gotten a lot
Speaker 1: of interest from it either. And also, I be totally honest,
Speaker 1: I think that the Fitbit Sense, the new Fippit coming out,
Speaker 1: is a way better fit for an Android user and
Speaker 1: a lot of iPhone users out there now. I think
Speaker 1: iPhone the Apple Watch is always going to be best,
Speaker 1: but I think when it comes to in general for Android,
Speaker 1: I just feel like the Fippit is a better device.
Speaker 1: It just has more features, it has a better price point.
Speaker 1: It's already down to three hundred bucks on Amazon, down
Speaker 1: from three to thirty, and.
Speaker 2: I just think it just I don't know, it just
Speaker 2: seems better to me.
Speaker 1: I've not tested it yet, so I don't know for sure,
Speaker 1: but that's my feeling. So I just didn't really see
Speaker 1: the big appeal of the Samsung Galaxy Watch three.
Speaker 2: And I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong, like I was about about the other thing,
Speaker 1: the Pluto TV. But at the same time, that's why
Speaker 1: I didn't cover it. I played with it for a
Speaker 1: little bit and it's just there's literally no apps available.
Speaker 1: There's just not much on that. It's like the same
Speaker 1: thing that I opened up a couple years ago when
Speaker 1: I checked out the Galaxy Watch.
Speaker 2: The last time.
Speaker 1: There has been no movement on that device whatsoever. There's
Speaker 1: no there's no music apps, there's no no I mean,
Speaker 1: if I look at my Apple Watch, every app I
Speaker 1: install on my iPhone, there's a there's a companion app
Speaker 1: that goes onto the Apple Watch. Google Maps just came
Speaker 1: to the Apple Watch after many years of not being there.
Speaker 1: There's just a lot of pro there's just a lot
Speaker 1: of progress with the Apple Watch, and I just have
Speaker 1: not seen that same progress with the adoption of Samsung's watch.
Speaker 2: And when it comes to something.
Speaker 1: Like Fitbit, I feel like they have progressively gotten better
Speaker 1: and better and better and kind of honed things.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I just.
Speaker 1: Think that's a better choice for most people. So I
Speaker 1: will be reviewing the Fitbit. I don't think they're sending
Speaker 1: it to me, so I will be purchasing that myself
Speaker 1: and definitely getting that on a review because I feel
Speaker 1: like people need to know about that watch.
Speaker 2: A sense.
Speaker 1: Just seems like they put everything we need in a
Speaker 1: smart watch for the Android side, from sleep to temperature
Speaker 1: scanning to all kinds of stuff, and it has a
Speaker 1: six day battery life. So to me, that's where my
Speaker 1: money is, and I think that that's where your money
Speaker 1: should be. If you're looking for a watch for the
Speaker 1: Android side of things, if you're looking for.
Speaker 2: iPhone side of things.
Speaker 1: I still think you gotta go Apple Watch because it
Speaker 1: just integrates so well with their iPhone that I can't
Speaker 1: imagine going with something else. Unless sleep is your primary
Speaker 1: sleep and battery life are your primary motivations for a watch,
Speaker 1: then I think the Sense would be good for you
Speaker 1: for that.
Speaker 2: But again I haven't tested it yet, so that's you know.
Speaker 1: And again this is this podcast is called rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: It's it's my opinion, it's what I see in the world.
Speaker 1: So if you listen to an Android podcast or a
Speaker 1: Samsung podcast, they may say that the Samsung Galaxy Watch
Speaker 1: three is the best thing ever invented.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's the case.
Speaker 1: I am very quick to judge things when it comes
Speaker 1: to some of this tech, and to me, when I
Speaker 1: put that watch on.
Speaker 2: It just felt like a step backwards. And so I
Speaker 2: feel like you have to just go with your gut.
Speaker 1: Sometimes on these things, even though yes I'm wrong sometimes,
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, I tried it.
Speaker 1: I did a couple I did a run with it,
Speaker 1: I did a bike thing, with it. It just didn't
Speaker 1: give me the satisfaction that I get from the Apple
Speaker 1: Watch or even from when I wore the Fippit. I
Speaker 1: wore the Versa for a long long time over the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch, and I think the Fipbit Versa three looks
Speaker 1: very promising. I think the inspired, I think what fipbit
Speaker 1: is doing is very good. When it comes to just
Speaker 1: every day general fitness and tracking, that's what you want
Speaker 1: to go with, all right. So in Los Angeles, you know,
Speaker 1: everyone's talking about COVID nineteen and I hope you're safe
Speaker 1: from that, and I hope you're doing well with that.
Speaker 1: But this whole idea of contact tracing, So if you know,
Speaker 1: if you're familiar with that idea of contact tracing, it
Speaker 1: means that it you know, if you come down with COVID,
Speaker 1: someone out there in the health department wants to know, well,
Speaker 1: who did you come into contact with because we need
Speaker 1: to call them and they need to be aware of
Speaker 1: this and potentially get tested. And so the tech companies
Speaker 1: Apple and Google, they came up with a system that's
Speaker 1: built into all the iPhones and all the androids, and
Speaker 1: it's a really good system that uses Bluetooth to track
Speaker 1: you where you go, but not location, just track who
Speaker 1: you come into contact with. And if you come into
Speaker 1: contact with someone that gets COVID nineteen and they report
Speaker 1: it to their phone, then it will be reported to
Speaker 1: you all anonymously. Well, it's getting some pick up, but
Speaker 1: not a lot. Well, Los Angeles County decided to go
Speaker 1: with Citizen and an app that they have called safe Pass,
Speaker 1: and it's the same idea. You go into this app
Speaker 1: every day and you report whether you have COVID or
Speaker 1: symptom or testing or whatever, and it will tell the
Speaker 1: folks that you've come into contact with if they should
Speaker 1: get tested because well, you came down with COVID.
Speaker 2: Well, the big difference.
Speaker 1: Here is that when I downloaded the safe Pass app,
Speaker 1: which is being promoted all over the place because city
Speaker 1: County of Los Angeles decided to go with it, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden I noticed that there was no log in,
Speaker 1: there was no whatever, But it was somehow linked to
Speaker 1: my Citizen app, which I love.
Speaker 2: Citizen.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you don't have the Citizen app
Speaker 1: on your phone, get it.
Speaker 2: It's awesome.
Speaker 1: It tells you all the insane crime happening around your house,
Speaker 1: and it's scary, And it's scary in a good way
Speaker 1: because you feel very informed, but you don't know what
Speaker 1: to do about it. But you know what's going on
Speaker 1: in your neighborhood.
Speaker 2: Well what safe Pass?
Speaker 1: I was a little bit perturbed because before I downloaded it,
Speaker 1: I looked all over the permissions on iPhone and Android
Speaker 1: and all.
Speaker 2: I saw was Bluetooth, Bluetooth, Bluetooth, nothing about GPS.
Speaker 1: And so when I downloaded it, it said, oh, here
Speaker 1: are the people in your neighborhood, and it gave my
Speaker 1: neighborhood name and said here's how many people are using it.
Speaker 1: I said, well, that's odd because I never gave you
Speaker 1: access to my location. So what's going on here?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: I figured since I had Citizen downloaded on my phone,
Speaker 1: which needs location to work, that somehow safe pass was
Speaker 1: sort of piggybacking on their data. And my hunch was
Speaker 1: correct because I emailed Citizen and I got a response,
Speaker 1: and let me read you their response. I said, does
Speaker 1: it use location? And they said if a safe pass
Speaker 1: user already has Citizen downloaded and location enabled, safe pass
Speaker 1: will use this information to provide you with the location,
Speaker 1: as well as the time, date, duration, and around a
Speaker 1: potential COVID nineteen exposure, so the user can decide all
Speaker 1: location data is deleted after thirty days. Okay, fine, but
Speaker 1: here's my problem with that. You need to tell me
Speaker 1: that you are using my location, especially with something that
Speaker 1: is purportedly tracking me twenty four to seven every single
Speaker 1: place I go. Now, I know that the Citizen app
Speaker 1: has been doing this, and I like that because in return,
Speaker 1: I get a really good product for free, which is
Speaker 1: crime alerts around where I am. But I know that
Speaker 1: that's doing that, and safe pass never told me it
Speaker 1: was doing that. Now I took it a step further,
Speaker 1: specifically saying, I see that it only asks for Bluetooth
Speaker 1: in permissions, but is it piggybacking on location data from
Speaker 1: the Citizen app or otherwise sourcing it?
Speaker 2: I see?
Speaker 1: I ask because I see that when I activated safe
Speaker 1: Pass is said where I was located and how many
Speaker 1: other people in my city were using the app.
Speaker 2: Here's what their response was.
Speaker 1: Safe Pass depends on Citizen for GPS data for now,
Speaker 1: and eventually all users will benefit from the GPS enabled features.
Speaker 1: If you're logged into Citizen with location permissions enabled and
Speaker 1: then download safe Pass, the accounts link so that the
Speaker 1: user's Citizen app will provide GPS data to the users
Speaker 1: safe pass app.
Speaker 2: What hold on? You need to tell us this?
Speaker 1: This was not revealed in any way, shape or form
Speaker 1: to the citizens of Los Angeles downloading this app. Now
Speaker 1: they say, users who have both Citizen and safe Pass
Speaker 1: are informed of GPS data location via our privacy policies. Okay,
Speaker 1: when was the last time you read a privacy policy
Speaker 1: while you downloaded an app?
Speaker 2: Exactly? Never?
Speaker 1: So I don't like this further for now, if you
Speaker 1: don't have Citizen downloaded and location enabled, if you download
Speaker 1: safe Pass, safe Pass will not use GPS location. So
Speaker 1: what I get from this If you want to protect
Speaker 1: your privacy and you don't want safe Pass to keep
Speaker 1: a location of where you are at all times with GPS,
Speaker 1: you can download the app by first deleting your Citizen
Speaker 1: app off your phone, but then you don't get the
Speaker 1: benefit of Citizen.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I am not saying that it's bad that it's using
Speaker 1: location to do this COVID tracing. I think that there
Speaker 1: is definitely a level of privacy that you're giving up
Speaker 1: if you decide to go that route, and the route
Speaker 1: that this app is going is specifically the route that
Speaker 1: Apple and Google wanted to avoid because they specifically do
Speaker 1: not use your GPS location for their COVID nineteen exposure notifications.
Speaker 1: They use only Bluetooth, and that is the most private way.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that it's a big deal. If
Speaker 1: you don't care, if you're not doing anything wrong, you
Speaker 1: don't really care about your location, then it's not that
Speaker 1: big of a deal. Where I take issue with this
Speaker 1: is the fact that nowhere, nowhere, nowhere, except in the
Speaker 1: privacy policy, did they tell us that this is happening.
Speaker 1: And I don't like that. I feel like that's not
Speaker 1: very nice to do to people. And so for an
Speaker 1: app that the County of Los Angeles is using and endorsing,
Speaker 1: I feel like people should know they throw ound Bluetooth, Bluetooth, Bluetooth,
Speaker 1: but realistically they're.
Speaker 2: Using location, location location, so they really need to make
Speaker 2: that clearer.
Speaker 1: And I suspect as more people kind of realize this,
Speaker 1: I suspect that the Citizen website will change, and in fact,
Speaker 1: I'm taking a screenshot of it right now because right
Speaker 1: now it says with save pass, you can track your symptoms,
Speaker 1: find testing sites, and enable Bluetooth contact tracing to get alerted.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling they are going to change that
Speaker 1: wording because when people realize that it's more than just bluetooth, yeah,
Speaker 1: that will change. Speaking of privacy, am I am?
Speaker 2: I getting fired up yet?
Speaker 1: I love getting fired up in this podcast because it's
Speaker 1: it's my place to get fired up. But here's something
Speaker 1: that you need to do today on your Zoom account.
Speaker 1: And it's called two factor authentication. And if you've heard
Speaker 1: me blab on on this podcast over and over and
Speaker 1: over and over and over, you've heard me talk about
Speaker 1: two factor authentication. Two factor authentication is the probably the
Speaker 1: best way to secure your accounts. What it means is
Speaker 1: that if you're using the same password over and over
Speaker 1: or a variation of your password over and over for
Speaker 1: all your accounts, which I know you are. I know
Speaker 1: you're out there, I know a couple of you are.
Speaker 1: If you're doing that, which I highly recommend not doing,
Speaker 1: you need to enable two factor authentication, which makes things
Speaker 1: a little bit more secure.
Speaker 2: So what two factor.
Speaker 1: Authentication does is when someone gets a hold of that
Speaker 1: tired old password that you're using everywhere and they enter
Speaker 1: it to log into your accounts, it will say oh okay, well, hey,
Speaker 1: we also need to get a text message that we
Speaker 1: just texted to your phone and the hacker goes, oh
Speaker 1: darn it, I don't have that person's phone, so in
Speaker 1: that aspect, they can't log in. So it basically stops
Speaker 1: these logins from happening when people get your password because
Speaker 1: you use a really weak password.
Speaker 2: So it's protecting you from yourself. And so.
Speaker 1: Zoom recently enabled this for everyone, and I highly highly
Speaker 1: recommend that you enable it. It works with both a
Speaker 1: SMS which is a text to your phone, or a
Speaker 1: password authentication app, which there are many of them. Google Authenticator,
Speaker 1: Microsoft Authenticator or authy is another one, and just pick
Speaker 1: one of those. It takes a little bit to set
Speaker 1: it up. Don't lose your password to that account. But
Speaker 1: those are the things that are a little bit more
Speaker 1: secure than using your phone to do this, but at
Speaker 1: the minimum, use your phone for SMS. Here's how you
Speaker 1: do it. Go to zoom dot us slash profile. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to log in and then scroll to where
Speaker 1: it says two factor authentication. You're gonna have to log
Speaker 1: in again when you say turn on, and you turn
Speaker 1: it on, follow the steps.
Speaker 2: It will be turned on and your life.
Speaker 1: Will be better for it, especially if you're a teacher.
Speaker 1: You do not want someone hacking into your Zoom account.
Speaker 1: I don't know if a lot of people are hacking
Speaker 1: into Zoom accounts. I know that, like zoom bombing is
Speaker 1: a big thing. This doesn't really help with that, but
Speaker 1: it will help from someone getting access to your account.
Speaker 1: You just don't want people to have access to your account.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see here, let's see Amanda.
Speaker 1: Amanda says, good morning. I guess a lot of people
Speaker 1: write me emails in the morning, can I get I
Speaker 1: guess you know what. It's probably because they see me
Speaker 1: on TV and then it's like boom. They want to
Speaker 1: they want to email me because like, oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: gotta email that guy that's always on my TV talking
Speaker 1: about tech.
Speaker 2: Good morning.
Speaker 1: Can I get your suggestions on the best apps to
Speaker 1: monitor your teenage kid on social media and personal texts?
Speaker 2: Thank you, Amanda, Amanda.
Speaker 1: I recommend the same thing to everyone, and it is
Speaker 1: called bark bark dot us. And the reason why I
Speaker 1: like bark is because while I have not used this
Speaker 1: with my children, I feel like they are the most
Speaker 1: I don't know, it just seems like they do it right.
Speaker 2: They can do a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: They can monitor thirty of the most popular apps and
Speaker 1: social media platforms, including text messaging and email, and they
Speaker 1: use artificial intelligence.
Speaker 2: So what I like is that they actually don't there's
Speaker 2: some services.
Speaker 1: That just give you a list of all of your
Speaker 1: kids stuff and you have to like go through it
Speaker 1: and look at it. What Bark does is it kind
Speaker 1: of like monitors using AI, so it will kind of
Speaker 1: tell you when it notices something that's a little bit off. Now,
Speaker 1: it's not always going to be right, but I kind
Speaker 1: of like that approach better than you having to read
Speaker 1: every one.
Speaker 2: Of your kids text messages. To me, that seems better.
Speaker 1: And this works with a lot of stuff iPhone, Android, Chrome, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, Gmail, WhatsApp,
Speaker 1: kick disc, TikTok, Skype. It works with a lot of stuff,
Speaker 1: and I think that that's pretty good. It looks for
Speaker 1: signs of harmful interaction and content, and so it will
Speaker 1: give you a little alerts that tell you when you
Speaker 1: need to kind of give something a human eye, and
Speaker 1: so I really like that. I don't know, I just
Speaker 1: think it looks really good and I, you know, I
Speaker 1: hate the fact that we have to do this, but
Speaker 1: the reality is we do.
Speaker 2: And how much is it.
Speaker 1: It is five dollars a month or fifty dollars a
Speaker 1: year for Bark Junior, and that is something that you
Speaker 1: don't really that's just managing screen time and filtering websites.
Speaker 1: So realistically, if you want to get the most out
Speaker 1: of Bark with all the monitoring the apps, it's fifteen
Speaker 1: bucks a month or one hundred dollars for the year,
Speaker 1: which it sounds like a lot, but that's a small
Speaker 1: price to pay for peace of mind with your kid.
Speaker 1: I am dealing with this with my kids with Minecraft
Speaker 1: and Roadblocks. They want to be able to Minecraft. I
Speaker 1: figured it out where they can chat with just their friends.
Speaker 1: With Roadblocks, it's a whole different story.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of Roadblocks. If it was up
Speaker 1: to me, it'd be banned in my home, but I
Speaker 1: know all the kids play it. So my kids do
Speaker 1: get to play it, but they are highly restricted. And
Speaker 1: the problem with Roadblocks is that there's a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff going on in there that I don't like, a
Speaker 1: lot of chat. It's very sticky. The kids love it,
Speaker 1: gets them playing all day long. They can chat with
Speaker 1: their friends, but there's you know, there's just a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff going on in there. So I don't like
Speaker 1: that they are not allowed to chat and they're always
Speaker 1: asking me. And the games are restricted, and my kid
Speaker 1: is like, oh, can I just unrestrict my games? And
Speaker 1: then you can go through every week and kind of
Speaker 1: see the games I've played. I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to just sit there and go through
Speaker 1: every game you've played and see if it's a bad.
Speaker 2: Game or not. So I just restrict them, and it
Speaker 2: does limit what they can do.
Speaker 1: And so anyway, I digress' that's what I'm dealing with.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: If you have a Visio TV, you can get the
Speaker 1: Apple TV app on your Visio TV. Now this was
Speaker 1: a holdout for a while, but if you have a
Speaker 1: Visio smart Cast TV, you can now get the Apple
Speaker 1: TV app.
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Well, that means that you can watch all of your
Speaker 1: app TV content and any movie that you've purchased on
Speaker 1: Apple TV you can watch that on your Video now
Speaker 1: and also Apple TV Plus.
Speaker 2: Which I know you've been wanting to watch.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are a couple things on there that
Speaker 1: are pretty good The Morning Show is the only thing
Speaker 1: I've watched on there. I do want to watch the
Speaker 1: Boys State documentary because I did Boy State when I
Speaker 1: was a kid.
Speaker 2: I loved Boy State. But I watched a trailer and
Speaker 2: it didn't really appeal to me.
Speaker 1: It was like it looked good, but like it didn't
Speaker 1: look like something I need to watch like that day.
Speaker 1: For a limited time, Visio Smartcast customers in the US
Speaker 1: can sign up for Apple TV Plus and get three
Speaker 1: months free.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: Three months free is always nice, and Apple TV Plus
Speaker 1: if you've purchased an Apple product, you get a year
Speaker 1: free of that. I wonder if you can stack those
Speaker 1: Probably not, So what can you do on Apple TV?
Speaker 1: You can subscribe to Apple TV channels like Showtime, CBS,
Speaker 1: All Access, and Stars, and of course.
Speaker 2: Get the Apple TV Plus content.
Speaker 1: You can also rent and buy one hundred thousand movies,
Speaker 1: which you can already already do in other ways. And
Speaker 1: you have Airplay two and Home Kit so this will
Speaker 1: work on Visio TVs with Smartcast twenty sixteen and later.
Speaker 2: So if you have a Visio TV, there you go.
Speaker 1: By the way, the three free months expires October sixteenth,
Speaker 1: so you have until then to sign up for it.
Speaker 1: You can go to visio dot com slash Apple Offer
Speaker 1: for more information on that. So grab your three months
Speaker 1: free of Apple TV Plus and at least watch the
Speaker 1: Morning Show.
Speaker 2: That was pretty good. There might be some other stuff on.
Speaker 1: There that you might like, but that's that's the only
Speaker 1: thing I found that I liked. There's a movie with
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks called Greyhound on there, and so that looks
Speaker 1: good as well.
Speaker 2: Uh, let's see what else.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: Well, that's it for that. I'm not the podcast not over.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, We're still going. We still got time,
Speaker 1: we still got another question. Let's get to the next question. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see. Good morning, Rich another good morning. I currently
Speaker 1: have the Samsung Galaxy S nine plus. I'm looking for
Speaker 1: a screen protector. Do you recommend any particular brand that
Speaker 1: is case friendly. Thank you for your time and I
Speaker 1: look forward to hearing from you.
Speaker 2: Jose B.
Speaker 1: Well, I will tell you the brands that I have
Speaker 1: used in the past that I've had good luck with
Speaker 1: and like, and number one on the list is tech Armor.
Speaker 1: I love tech Armor because they are cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap,
Speaker 1: but they're also good. So the guy from tech Armor.
Speaker 1: I forget where he came from, but he had a
Speaker 1: lot of experience with tech and I forget what his
Speaker 1: background was. But now he came to me with tech Armor,
Speaker 1: and immediately I understood it because I said, dude, everyone
Speaker 1: else is charging fifty bucks for a screen protector. You're
Speaker 1: charging ten. Like, what's the catch? He said, nothing, We're
Speaker 1: just not doing it at mal Kiosks. So we can
Speaker 1: charge a lot less because we're going straight to Amazon.
Speaker 1: And on Amazon you can find a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: out there, but you want to go with brands that
Speaker 1: you know. So I'm looking on here and do they
Speaker 1: have the Samsung Galaxy S nine?
Speaker 2: And yes they do.
Speaker 1: And this is a little bit of a curved screen,
Speaker 1: so I think that's why you're saying, is it case friendly?
Speaker 1: But they've got it tech Armor three D curved HD
Speaker 1: clear ballistic glass and it is twelve dollars ninety five
Speaker 1: cents for.
Speaker 2: Is it coming to three pack?
Speaker 1: Sometimes they come in like a two pack, oh, one pack, okay,
Speaker 1: so it's twelve ninety five for one. So that's the
Speaker 1: one that I'd recommend go with that, and that's the
Speaker 1: first choice. The other choices are zag Zag is great.
Speaker 1: I really like their screen protectors. They do charge if
Speaker 1: you you know, they do charge a little bit more.
Speaker 1: So if you go into the mall, you are gonna get.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get, you know a well. I think Invisible
Speaker 1: Shield is the brand name from Zag. But you're gonna
Speaker 1: pay a little bit more, but you know what, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be high quality. Now let's see do they have
Speaker 1: the S nine and and they do S nine? Did
Speaker 1: you have an S nine plus or an S nine?
Speaker 1: You have an S nine plus? So S nine plus.
Speaker 1: Let me see how much it is for Zag. Zag
Speaker 1: is twenty nine ninety nine used to be fifty. So
Speaker 1: you're gonna pay a little bit more for Zag. Sorry
Speaker 1: I keep calling it Zag. But invisible Shield I think
Speaker 1: does Zag also do no?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Zag, I don't know.
Speaker 1: But anyway, it's Invisible Shield is the ZAG brand, but
Speaker 1: they also so anyway, those are the two that i'd recommend.
Speaker 1: I would look into those. You know, it depends do
Speaker 1: you want to pay thirty bucks or do you want
Speaker 1: to pay thirteen dollars? Maybe start with the thirteen and
Speaker 1: if you don't like it, go to the thirty. But
Speaker 1: I always I those are the screen protectors I put
Speaker 1: on my phones and I like them. Now I will
Speaker 1: tell you I did put a screen protector on my
Speaker 1: iPhone this week.
Speaker 2: And that's what I love about scream protectors.
Speaker 1: When they break or they crack, you just peel it
Speaker 1: off and you put on a new one and it's
Speaker 1: like you have a new phone. And I'll be honest
Speaker 1: with the note twenty, I did not have a screen
Speaker 1: p protector on there because I did not get them
Speaker 1: in time for my testing and I dropped the phone.
Speaker 1: It survived for the most part, but there is a
Speaker 1: little tiny scratch on the screen and that's just annoying
Speaker 1: when you do that.
Speaker 2: And so it's just one of.
Speaker 1: Those things that when you have a scratch on your screen,
Speaker 1: it's really really annoying.
Speaker 2: And so that's that.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you're asking questions on Facebook Live,
Speaker 1: I will get to those, but at the end of
Speaker 1: the podcast, I always do the Facebook Live questions at
Speaker 1: the end, So stick around till the end and I
Speaker 1: will get to some of those questions. But that's you know,
Speaker 1: you got to have a screen protector. And okay, so
Speaker 1: my story was that I put on a screen protector
Speaker 1: that was a Matt finish, and I don't remember putting
Speaker 1: a Matt Finish on there. I don't. I like the
Speaker 1: privacy ones, but I can't really use them because I
Speaker 1: record a lot on my screen when I do little
Speaker 1: tips and tricks for you, So I can't really have
Speaker 1: a privacy one because if you're at just the wrong angle,
Speaker 1: it's gonna look weird. It just doesn't look as good
Speaker 1: on camera. But I like the privacy ones. Those are
Speaker 1: kind of cool because you know everyone's creeping on your phone.
Speaker 1: They're trying to see what you're looking at, especially if
Speaker 1: you're commuting or something.
Speaker 2: Or at work.
Speaker 1: You don't want all those eyes on your phone. They
Speaker 1: don't need to see that you're on Instagram the whole day,
Speaker 1: that's what you're doing. But I don't like Matt screen protectors.
Speaker 2: It's it's really off putting.
Speaker 1: For some reason, I am so used to a shiny
Speaker 1: phone screen that I put this Matt screen protector on
Speaker 1: my iPhone and it just it looks so weird. It's
Speaker 1: just like it feels like my phone is messed up,
Speaker 1: and it always looks grimy too, which I don't like.
Speaker 1: So that's my story and I'm sticking to it all
Speaker 1: right Peloton, which has been the bell of the ball
Speaker 1: during the pandemic. They have a couple of new devices,
Speaker 1: a new bike and a new treadmill. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to go over the new treadmill because you can just
Speaker 1: look that up. But the new bike is called the
Speaker 1: Bike Plus, and if you can believe it, it's actually
Speaker 1: more expensive than the last Peloton bike. This one is
Speaker 1: twenty five hundred dollars, and so the old one was
Speaker 1: like twenty two hundred, I think or something like that.
Speaker 2: So what did they do new?
Speaker 1: It's got a new twenty three point eight inch rotating
Speaker 1: HD touchscreen. So the old one was a little bit smaller.
Speaker 1: It was like two inches smaller, and it did not
Speaker 1: rotate left and right. So what happens is when you're
Speaker 1: done with a Peloton this is spin bike, by the way,
Speaker 1: when you're done with a workout, you want to be
Speaker 1: able to spin your screen left or right so that
Speaker 1: you can do kind of the stretching or the strength
Speaker 1: exercises they have, and you couldn't do that before, and
Speaker 1: so now you can rotate it one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: degrees left and right. They've got a new better speaker system.
Speaker 2: But to me.
Speaker 1: I think that's pointless because who listens to the speaker
Speaker 1: on their peloton? Don't you just have headphones in. And
Speaker 1: then this is really cool. You can now tap to
Speaker 1: pair your Apple Watch and my gym.
Speaker 2: My old gym.
Speaker 1: Before I canceled my membership because of the pandemic, had
Speaker 1: this on some of their treadmills where you would just
Speaker 1: tap your Apple Watch to the treadmill and it would
Speaker 1: sync up the results, which was really cool. So because
Speaker 1: you're on a treadmill inside, you might not get the
Speaker 1: proper results from your Apple Watch. So of course the
Speaker 1: treadmill knows exactly how far you've gone, so it would anyway,
Speaker 1: so syncs that up. That's really cool. That's a that's
Speaker 1: a great feature. And then they have this new auto
Speaker 1: follow digital resistance. So if you put your metrics in,
Speaker 1: like what your target metrics are when the teacher calls out, okay,
Speaker 1: you got to be at thirty resistance right now, the
Speaker 1: bike will automatically adjust to that resistance, which is really cool.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like autopilot again.
Speaker 1: It's twenty five hundred bucks for the new bike, plus
Speaker 1: it's available September ninth, which has already passed, so you're
Speaker 1: good there. And the original Peloton bike is going down
Speaker 1: to nineteen hundred dollars, which is kind of cool.
Speaker 2: Don't forget.
Speaker 1: On top of all these prices, you still have to
Speaker 1: pay forty dollars a month for their service, for their membership,
Speaker 1: and if you have an original Peloton bike in the
Speaker 1: US in working condition, you can trade it in for
Speaker 1: seven hundred dollars towards the new one, which I thought
Speaker 1: was really cool.
Speaker 2: They don't have to do that.
Speaker 1: They'll even pick it up from your house, and if
Speaker 1: you bought a bike in the past thirty days, they
Speaker 1: will refund you the three hundred and fifty dollars price difference,
Speaker 1: which is how much the price of the bike dropped
Speaker 1: the original one. So I think Peloton has done a
Speaker 1: solid here, and that's it. I mean, Peloton's fantastic. I
Speaker 1: don't have one. I have a imitation bike that I
Speaker 1: use the Peloton app with and it's fantastic.
Speaker 2: It's the Bowflex C six if you're interested.
Speaker 1: I know when I mentioned that on my Instagram, everyone
Speaker 1: was like, well bike you have.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: If I was going to buy another one, i'd probably
Speaker 1: buy the Peloton. I just could not get over the
Speaker 1: forty dollars a month membership fee for the app I pay.
Speaker 2: I think it's thirteen dollars a month, which is a
Speaker 2: lot cheaper.
Speaker 1: And so if you're fine with all those fees, by
Speaker 1: the time you most people are buying the Peloton on payments.
Speaker 1: So by the time you add up the payment with
Speaker 1: the monthly payment for the app, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: you're talking what is that eighty and eighty that's a
Speaker 1: forty and Eightyes, yet I don't know. Oh yeah, fifty
Speaker 1: dollars a month plus forty that's ninety dollar a month
Speaker 1: for the bike. So now that seemed like a lot
Speaker 1: to me when I was paying for a gym membership.
Speaker 1: Now that I'm not paying for gym membership, it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem as high.
Speaker 2: So I understand where Peloton's coming from.
Speaker 1: I don't like to do monthly payments on things, So
Speaker 1: for me, I would want to pay the whole thing
Speaker 1: in advance and twenty five hundred bucks out the door.
Speaker 2: It's a lot, but I'd save up for it. That's
Speaker 2: the way i'd do it.
Speaker 1: But I think most people, many people like you know,
Speaker 1: the idea of forty bucks a month fifty bucks a month.
Speaker 1: Though it's just monthly, I'll have a job forever, but
Speaker 1: you never know. Clearly, as we saw during this pandemic,
Speaker 1: a lot of people were affected. And so that's why
Speaker 1: I don't like to do the monthly payments because you
Speaker 1: never know, never know, and you know what you're getting
Speaker 1: monthly is not coming in anymore. I know it's a
Speaker 1: negative way of looking at it, but it's just better
Speaker 1: you have more of your money. Anyway, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to get it. This is not a financial podcast, but
Speaker 1: so anyway, I am now doing Orange theory when that restarts,
Speaker 1: so I feel like, you know, paying for that and
Speaker 1: then pay for the bike whatever. You don't need to
Speaker 1: know how I'm staying in shape. But I'm just saying
Speaker 1: ninety dollars a month if you're just using that bike
Speaker 1: to work out at home along with you know, YouTube
Speaker 1: and all that other stuff or the app, it's fine,
Speaker 1: you're gonna that's a pretty decent price to pay.
Speaker 2: One hundred bucks a month. It's not that big of
Speaker 2: a deal.
Speaker 1: A lot of gyms are, you know, fifty sixty seventy
Speaker 1: one hundred bucks a month if you go to a
Speaker 1: fancy gym, it's gonna be two hundred a month.
Speaker 2: I don't know anything about that because I never belong
Speaker 2: to one of those so expensive.
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna do it for the end of
Speaker 1: the show. I think I'm done. I think I'm done
Speaker 1: preaching about all kinds of stuff. That is gonna do
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