WEBVTT - Watch this space, it's time for another Apple Event 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:13.160 Apple sets a time and date for its next big event, 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:18.040 The new way to secure your Zoom account, fake Amazon reviews, 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:20.360 plus your tech questions answered. 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:21.560 What's going on? 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:24.439 I'm Rich Dmiro and this is Rich on Tech, the 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:26.960 podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.640 you should know about. It's also the place right answer 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.720 the questions that you send me What's going on? My 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:37.240 name is Rich Demiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:44.960 in Los Angeles. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. How's it going working 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:49.120 and schooling from home? I have been working from home. 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:53.800 I can't believe that it is now September? Can you September? 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:58.160 Where did the time go? I remember going out for 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:02.200 Memorial Day weekend, like thinking that was the first kind 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.319 of kickoff to the summer. And here we are past 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:10.399 Labor Day, Summer's over, and we are into the thick 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:17.640 of school, into work, into just everything, and we've gotten 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.120 used to working from home. I kind of enjoy it 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.039 at this point, and I think that there are some 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:24.000 advantages to it. 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:25.319 There's some disadvantages. 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:29.119 But everyone's sleeping longer except me since I still wake 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.240 up pretty early for the news. But my wife and 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.200 kids are sleeping longer. Because they don't have a commute anymore. 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.360 There's no rush to get in the shower and get 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.640 dressed and get on the commute to work in school. 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:42.920 So now everyone just kind of rolls out of bed, 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.000 they have some breakfast, they watch some TV, and then 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:50.080 it's the reality of work. And here in Los Angeles, 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:54.760 last week, man, it was hot. Whoa, it was really 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.200 really hot last week. And now we've got some fires 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:02.120 going on in California. I think that's an understatement. So 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:07.240 these are some interesting times for me. It is getting 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:12.280 into the thick of gadget season. We've got so many 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.240 new gadgets coming out in the next couple of months. 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.440 We just got through all of Samsung's stuff, and now 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:19.800 we are going to get into all of Apple stuff 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:23.079 and maybe even some of Google stuff and Microsoft stuff 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:28.520 and Sony stuff. So it is a time for gadgets. 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.440 Right before the holidays, this is when everything is announced. 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:36.680 And sadly, I am sending back my Note twenty Ultra 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.520 today along with a Z flip but I or Z 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.120 fold but I didn't really think I would use that phone. 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:46.000 But no, twenty Ultra, I have to say, still one 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:47.040 of my favorite phones. 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:48.359 So if you are. 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:52.760 Thinking of making the switch to a Samsung device or 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:56.120 the Note device. The Note twenty Ultra was one of 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.440 my favorite phones I have tested in the past five years, 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:04.280 i'd say. And so with that said, the biggest problem 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:06.520 I had with the Note twenty Ultra was the size, 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.360 and the thing that I wanted was a smaller version, 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.520 and I kind of contemplated. In fact, let me see, 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:17.160 it was actually on sale on Amazon for uh. I 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:21.000 had it in my let's see my browsing history. I 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.960 had the Note twenty, the regular version, in my browsing 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:28.840 in my Amazon cart for a moment. Ah, the price 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:29.680 went back up again. 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:30.280 Darn it. 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.360 Oh wait, wait wait, maybe it didn't hold on. Nope, 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.440 it's still two hundred dollars off the Note twenty, not 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.600 the big one, not the Ultra, but the regular Note 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:41.800 twenty is eight hundred bucks, which is still expensive. But 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:43.880 you just don't get a couple of things that I 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.280 want on there. But anyway, I will be happy my 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.960 iPhone is right here. It's not as exciting as some 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.360 of the Samsung devices that I've been testing, but it 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.640 still works and for social media. You know, I've talked 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:00.600 about this, It's still better let's get into the first 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:05.160 big story of the podcast. Apple officially announces it's September 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:11.120 fifteenth event. This was really funny because, so here's what happened. 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.320 Everyone was waiting because there's a big rumor that they 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.599 would announce this event on Tuesday, September eighth. 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:21.280 I think it was Yes, that is correct, And so. 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:25.480 All the people are just sitting there refreshing Apple's website refresh, refresh, refresh, 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.159 looking at their email refresh, refreshed, waiting for this invite. 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.320 As journalists that we get well. Apple did something kind 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.720 of funny this year. They put the information on their 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.840 website first, and then they waited a little bit, and 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:39.120 then they sent out the invitation. 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:40.640 So we got two different stories. 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.159 At first, all the people that saw the information on 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.800 the website said, yes, we have our big iPhone event 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:50.560 happening September fifteenth, ten am Pacific. And then after everyone 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.839 tweeted that and screenshoted that, they sent out the invitation 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:58.080 to journalists including myself that had won two extra words 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.840 on it that the website did not, and it said 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:05.839 time flies, which immediately everyone realized that, oh, this is 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:11.360 about the Apple Watch and not necessarily the iPhone because 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.920 we know that the iPhone supposedly is delayed this year. 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:18.440 So as it stands September fifteenth, ten am Pacific, you 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:22.599 can watch the live stream of Apple's next big event, 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.880 and we are expected to see new Apple Watches and 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:27.400 a new iPad Air. 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:28.919 That's according to Bloomberg. 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:33.120 They say that the iPhone twelve will launch later in October, 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:35.760 and that makes sense because we've heard with the pandemic 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:37.160 that things are a little bit delayed. 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:39.200 So am I. 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:41.839 Excited for new Apple Watch and new iPad Air? Yes, 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:43.839 the new iPads. I am excited because I'd like to 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.200 buy my kids new iPads. It's been a while, it's 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.240 been I think four years now, and they need a 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:49.360 new iPad, both of them. 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:50.880 So I am excited for that. 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.160 My one kid's iPad is all cracked and it just 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:57.599 needs to get a new one. And they're just small, 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.440 and ideally like to get them iPad Mini. I'm not 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.160 sure if they're refreshing that, but whatever it is, I 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.120 just need to buy new iPads. So I will be 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:09.960 very excited for the iPad situation and Apple Watch. I mean, 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.040 I can't imagine what they're gonna add to the Apple Watch. 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.640 That would make me more excited about it. I think 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.119 the current Apple Watch is near perfect except for battery life, 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.599 but I've gotten so used to charging it every night anyway. 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:25.039 The other thing is that the well, we'll just say, 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.920 we'll see. So that's that, And I don't know what 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.240 more to say about the Apple event. It's gonna be exciting, 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.880 it's virtual. I'm not going up there, so that saves me, 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.560 you know, the time and effort of going up to Coopertino. 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:38.960 It's always fun to go up there, but it's just 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.000 not happening that way right now. So we will see 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:45.080 what happens with Apple. Maybe they'll throw us some surprises, 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.040 throw us some loops, But right now, as it stands, 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.720 we're looking forward to new Apple Watches and new iPads. 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.760 Perhaps maybe some smaller gadgets like an air tag, but 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.960 I think that's coming with the iPhone, and even with 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.600 the iPhone, I mean, what more do you want with that? 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.480 I mean except for people that are just waiting to upgrade, 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.680 and five G is cool, but we know that five 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.679 G is not necessarily all there just yet. So let's 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:18.320 get to our first question. This comes from let's see, 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:21.800 Lisa says, good morning, Good morning. I have a tech 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.600 question for you. I recently purchased a Roku to save 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:28.400 money and lose our cable during this difficult time. Would 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.040 like to still have some basic channels and some sports. 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.760 Do you recommend any particular app for this? Thank you 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.880 for your time and input. Love the Channel five News. Well, 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:43.760 thank you, Lisa. So you ditched cable, which was a 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:48.200 smart move to get you save some money here, and 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.240 you have a Roku. So the good news is Roku 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.240 has pretty much everything you need, with the exception right 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:57.880 now of HBO Max and also what is it HBO 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.160 Max And what's the other one that's not on there 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:06.080 right now? HBO Max blanking right now, there's two? What 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.480 was the one that just came out? Anyway, So Hulu 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.720 has a lot of what you need. The problem is 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.880 you're looking for sports, which is kind of tricky. I 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:16.679 will tell you one app that I think is pretty 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.400 cool that I think is kind of like having cable 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:19.920 but for free. 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:21.440 And it's called Pluto TV. 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.160 And this is I kind of tell these stories, but 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.000 I've been wrong about a couple of things several times 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.240 in my tech career, and I'm human, I get it. 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:30.800 It happens. 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.800 But I'll never forget sitting there with this guy at 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.560 lunch who told me that he started this new app 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:42.440 called Pluto TV, and I didn't get it. I literally 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.880 sat there and told this guy. He's like, you know, 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.520 maybe you should do a story on it. I'm like, why, 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:50.960 come on, dude, there's so many streaming apps out there. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:56.840 This was many years ago, and I'm not kidding. I 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:58.680 sat there at lunch as he told me all about 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:00.480 Pluto and how it was going to be like cable 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.680 but for free, and I just didn't get it. It 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.640 did not register in rich Demuro's mind that this was 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:09.719 a three hundred million dollar idea, because a couple of 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:13.319 years later, that's how much Viacom paid him for Pluto TV. 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:18.640 So, needless to say, I was wrong, he was right. 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.760 And sometimes I will be honest. 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:26.160 Sometimes I am told stuff so early in the game 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.800 that my little brain cannot process just how big of 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:31.880 an idea this is. Now, I'm not saying that's all 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:35.800 the time. When I remember the Microsoft came in and 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:39.920 told me about the surface, I got it immediately. 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:41.600 And while no one else can. 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.960 Understand how a tablet could be a PC and how 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.319 PC could be a tablet and touchscreen and pen and 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.480 all this stuff. I got that, and it took a 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.440 while for the rest of the world to catch on 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:54.080 to that idea. But with the Pluto TV situation, I 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.560 just didn't really get it. I said, why would you 0:09:56.600 --> 0:10:00.240 want this? I downloaded it when I got home. I 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.880 watched it for about five minutes. It seemed to me 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.760 that it was YouTube but strung together, you know, one 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:09.840 one video after another, which I kind of like, but 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.080 I'd rather just watch what I want to watch by 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:13.280 keying and keywords. 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.160 Well, now I get it. 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:19.079 Pluto has really done a good job of expanding and 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.600 when you download the app, it's fast. 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.320 The channels changed like cable channels. There's a whole bunch. 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.520 Of stuff to watch for free, and I'm very impressed. 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:30.880 And someone at Viacom, which is much smarter than me, 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:34.160 because they capitalized on it and bought it from this guy. 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.680 And now the rest, as they say, is history. 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:39.480 So Lisa, to answer your question, I would start with 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:43.520 something like a I would just go through Roku and 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.800 look at the top channels. Everything is represented there. So 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:51.560 if you want, you know, entertainment, sports, whatever, you're gonna 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:53.960 get it. The problem is what it's going to be 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:58.719 tough to do is local news in certain aspects, and 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.120 sports are really tricky too because you usually have to 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:01.520 pay for those. 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:02.520 The other website I'd. 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.680 Recommend is Untangled dot tv, so if you want to 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:08.200 pay for a little bit of something, you might. 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:08.720 Want to look at that. 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.679 The other service that gives you a lot of channels 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:18.520 for a little bit is Filo Philo. Filo is a 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.000 cable kind of streaming service that's twenty bucks a month 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.160 for a whole bunch of channels, fifty channels plus a DVR, 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.679 and what you'll find is there's no sports on there. 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:29.880 That's how they save money. 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.160 But they've got all the cable channels, like or a 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:36.240 lot of them, AMC, Animal Planet, DIY, Food Network, FI, 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:42.360 Game Show Network, MTV, Lifetime, No Oxygen, No Oxygen, Nicktoons, 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:44.440 Nick Junior. So they have a lot of stuff on there. 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:47.680 But again, go to Untangled dot tv and pop in 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.400 the things that you want to watch, the things that 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.680 you like, and just see if that gets what you need. 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.280 But if you canceled cable to save money, personally, I 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:59.480 would just not subscribe to anything and just see what 0:11:59.559 --> 0:11:59.960 you can get. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.200 At for free through these streaming services. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.520 On the live stream, folks are recommending Peacock's a bunch 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.760 of stuff there. You can get a bunch for free streaming. 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:11.840 Just go ahead and like I said, look at the 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:20.680 top channels on Roku and just see what what interests you. 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:27.319 Oh whoops, sorry, wrong sound effect. I'm going to a 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:28.199 story right now. 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:35.360 Microsoft unveiled details on the Xbox Series S and the 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:41.240 Xbox Series X S and x S and x S 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:44.199 and x S and x say that ten times fast. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:49.160 And here is an interesting part. I believe they've had 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:54.000 this before, but you can now basically rent to own 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:57.120 an Xbox. So it starts at twenty five bucks a month. Here, 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:00.000 let me give you details. November tenth, that is when 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.760 the Xbox Series X and the Xbox Series S. 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:04.640 Will be available. 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.880 Pre orders are already or no, they're starting on September 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:12.000 twenty second. So let's talk about the Xbox Series S. 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:16.560 This is the I guess, the inexpensive model. This is 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:21.520 the cheaper one, all digital, and that means it's still 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.559 fast still. 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.600 You know, has what you need. But it's a small, 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:27.559 sleek Xbox. 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.959 That I believe does not have any sort of CD drive, 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:33.000 disk drive, whatever. 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:34.400 It's all Ye, it's all digital. 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.840 So that's kind of the entry level model that I 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.160 think a lot of people will like. But if you're 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.400 a true gamer, you're probably going to be more interested 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:46.640 in the Xbox Series X. The Xbox Series S, by 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.679 the way, is three hundred bucks. Then you've got the 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.400 x which is the you know, the the big boy. 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:56.839 It's the real deal everything that you need five hundred 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.360 dollars for that one. And again these are both you know, 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:08.760 big new gaming platforms, gaming consoles, I should say, And that's. 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.960 What you need to know. So pricing, let's talk about 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:12.600 the prices. 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:16.640 They are doing this Xbox All Access and so for 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.040 twenty four months, you pay and you get this console 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:21.000 your choice. 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.600 So here's what you get. You get the console of 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:24.160 your choice. 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.720 Then you get one hundred high quality games to play 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.120 on that console, including next gen optimized games. Then you 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.880 get one hundred high quality games to play on your PC. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.520 Then you get an EA Play membership, so you can 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:40.320 play sixty of EA's biggest games and one hundred games 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.800 to play from the cloud. So a whole bunch of games. 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:46.760 Now it sounds great. I'm counting this up one hundred, 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:51.000 two hundred two sixty three hundred and sixty games to play. 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.840 How many of these games are you actually going to play? 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:58.760 Probably not many. The games that you actually want to 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:02.080 play are probably still going to cost you the sixty 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:03.880 bucks or whatever they cost for a new game. 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:04.600 Now. 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.240 I am not a huge gamer, so I can't really 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.640 comment on how many games are in this Xbox Game 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.800 Pass Ultimate, but I'm sure there's some. It's kind of 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.640 like the Nintendo Switch or Apple Arcade. You're gonna find 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.560 stuff to play, But is it gonna be the latest, greatest, 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.760 best games that you want to play? Probably not in 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:22.680 every circumstance. 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:24.120 How much does this cost? 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.200 Twenty five dollars for twenty four months for the Xbox 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.920 series S. If you want the x which is the 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.680 bigger batter machine, that's gonna be thirty five dollars a 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.680 month for twenty four months. I'll do the math for you, 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.680 save you the math, and that is six hundred dollars 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.040 or eight hundred forty dollars. So how much are you 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.800 paying extra? You're paying an extra three hundred dollars on 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.240 top of the small one, three hundred and forty on 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:49.640 top of the big one, so you have to decide 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.360 in two years is three hundred or three hundred forty 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.760 dollars worth all those games you get? And also the 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.240 I guess the pricing plan. So if you like to 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.600 pay monthly, it might seem like a better deal because. 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.400 It's only twenty five bucks a month. It's only thirty 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:04.800 five bucks a month, no big deal. 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:08.800 But you're actually paying three hundred dollars in interest or 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.040 three hundred and forty dollars in interest in the form 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.680 of games. So I'm not gonna tell you whether that's 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.600 good or bad. You can decide on your own. But 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.000 I will tell you that both of these Xbox consoles 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:24.120 are backwards compatible with thousands of generations or games from 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:28.360 four generations of Xboxes. So that's kind of cool because 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.600 that's always a big question, will these play old games? 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.200 And I think that, you know, I think that my 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:37.800 kid wants the Xbox. It's gonna be Xbox versus PlayStation. 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.440 I think he wants the Xbox because he wants to 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.960 do Minecraft and Minecraft on a console. He's been asking 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.480 for it for a while, so that will probably be the. 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.480 Direction we go in the DeMuro household. 0:16:49.520 --> 0:17:00.840 But again, now you know, next question from Kristen or Kirsten. 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.160 I never know if it's Ki. I guess that's Kirsten, right, 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.439 Kirsten says, Hi, Rich, have you done a review on 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:09.439 the new Samsung Galaxy Watch three. I have not, and 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:12.720 I'll tell you why. I wore the Samsung Galaxy Watch 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:17.520 three for about twenty four hours and that was it. 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:19.000 That was about all I could take of it. So 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:20.719 I don't want to knock it. 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.679 I'm sure that if you have an Android and you 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:27.520 know Samsung device, it's great. I just could not get 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:31.720 into it, and especially at the price four hundred bucks, 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:35.119 it just did not seem like something that was what 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:39.160 I wanted, and it just it's the Samsung Galaxy Watch three. 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.520 It has a leather band number one, which I immediately 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.600 don't like because I feel like I'm not trying to 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:45.480 get a watch for looks. 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:46.480 I'm trying to get a watch for. 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:51.920 Fitness situations, and I just I don't know. So, Kirsten, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.159 I did not do a formal review because I just 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.359 did not see the mainstream appeal of that device at 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.200 that price. And so maybe I'll change my mind to 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:01.639 do it, but I just have not gotten a lot 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.960 of interest from it either. And also, I be totally honest, 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:09.680 I think that the Fitbit Sense, the new Fippit coming out, 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.920 is a way better fit for an Android user and 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:15.120 a lot of iPhone users out there now. I think 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:17.919 iPhone the Apple Watch is always going to be best, 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:21.760 but I think when it comes to in general for Android, 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:23.719 I just feel like the Fippit is a better device. 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:28.000 It just has more features, it has a better price point. 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:31.000 It's already down to three hundred bucks on Amazon, down 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:32.600 from three to thirty, and. 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.320 I just think it just I don't know, it just 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:36.159 seems better to me. 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.320 I've not tested it yet, so I don't know for sure, 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:42.600 but that's my feeling. So I just didn't really see 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.080 the big appeal of the Samsung Galaxy Watch three. 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.159 And I could be wrong. 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.360 Maybe I'm wrong, like I was about about the other thing, 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.440 the Pluto TV. But at the same time, that's why 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:55.320 I didn't cover it. I played with it for a 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:58.640 little bit and it's just there's literally no apps available. 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.359 There's just not much on that. It's like the same 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:03.600 thing that I opened up a couple years ago when 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.040 I checked out the Galaxy Watch. 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:06.800 The last time. 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:10.880 There has been no movement on that device whatsoever. There's 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:14.120 no there's no music apps, there's no no I mean, 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:16.080 if I look at my Apple Watch, every app I 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:19.359 install on my iPhone, there's a there's a companion app 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.920 that goes onto the Apple Watch. Google Maps just came 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.920 to the Apple Watch after many years of not being there. 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.720 There's just a lot of pro there's just a lot 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.520 of progress with the Apple Watch, and I just have 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:37.480 not seen that same progress with the adoption of Samsung's watch. 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:39.560 And when it comes to something. 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:42.399 Like Fitbit, I feel like they have progressively gotten better 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:44.919 and better and better and kind of honed things. 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.040 But at the same time, I just. 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.359 Think that's a better choice for most people. So I 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:53.359 will be reviewing the Fitbit. I don't think they're sending 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:55.600 it to me, so I will be purchasing that myself 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.960 and definitely getting that on a review because I feel 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.000 like people need to know about that watch. 0:20:01.840 --> 0:20:02.879 A sense. 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:04.840 Just seems like they put everything we need in a 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.280 smart watch for the Android side, from sleep to temperature 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:11.600 scanning to all kinds of stuff, and it has a 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:13.959 six day battery life. So to me, that's where my 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.800 money is, and I think that that's where your money 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:20.080 should be. If you're looking for a watch for the 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:21.600 Android side of things, if you're looking for. 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:22.720 iPhone side of things. 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.399 I still think you gotta go Apple Watch because it 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:30.200 just integrates so well with their iPhone that I can't 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:36.360 imagine going with something else. Unless sleep is your primary 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:40.720 sleep and battery life are your primary motivations for a watch, 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:42.439 then I think the Sense would be good for you 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:42.639 for that. 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:46.760 But again I haven't tested it yet, so that's you know. 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:49.680 And again this is this podcast is called rich on Tech. 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:54.439 It's it's my opinion, it's what I see in the world. 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:57.760 So if you listen to an Android podcast or a 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:01.320 Samsung podcast, they may say that the Samsung Galaxy Watch 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:03.280 three is the best thing ever invented. 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:04.960 I don't know if that's the case. 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:08.560 I am very quick to judge things when it comes 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:10.600 to some of this tech, and to me, when I 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:11.440 put that watch on. 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.720 It just felt like a step backwards. And so I 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:17.800 feel like you have to just go with your gut. 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:20.720 Sometimes on these things, even though yes I'm wrong sometimes, 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.280 But at the same time, you know, I tried it. 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:24.760 I did a couple I did a run with it, 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:26.800 I did a bike thing, with it. It just didn't 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:29.520 give me the satisfaction that I get from the Apple 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:31.639 Watch or even from when I wore the Fippit. I 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:35.080 wore the Versa for a long long time over the 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:38.240 Apple Watch, and I think the Fipbit Versa three looks 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:41.040 very promising. I think the inspired, I think what fipbit 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:44.919 is doing is very good. When it comes to just 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:49.720 every day general fitness and tracking, that's what you want 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:55.560 to go with, all right. So in Los Angeles, you know, 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:58.600 everyone's talking about COVID nineteen and I hope you're safe 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:00.040 from that, and I hope you're doing well with that. 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:04.880 But this whole idea of contact tracing, So if you know, 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:07.879 if you're familiar with that idea of contact tracing, it 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:12.400 means that it you know, if you come down with COVID, 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:15.800 someone out there in the health department wants to know, well, 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:18.040 who did you come into contact with because we need 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:19.879 to call them and they need to be aware of 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:24.000 this and potentially get tested. And so the tech companies 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:26.200 Apple and Google, they came up with a system that's 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:29.080 built into all the iPhones and all the androids, and 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:32.520 it's a really good system that uses Bluetooth to track 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:36.280 you where you go, but not location, just track who 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:38.959 you come into contact with. And if you come into 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:41.399 contact with someone that gets COVID nineteen and they report 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:43.199 it to their phone, then it will be reported to 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:47.320 you all anonymously. Well, it's getting some pick up, but 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:50.560 not a lot. Well, Los Angeles County decided to go 0:22:50.680 --> 0:22:54.280 with Citizen and an app that they have called safe Pass, 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:57.080 and it's the same idea. You go into this app 0:22:57.160 --> 0:22:59.480 every day and you report whether you have COVID or 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:03.159 symptom or testing or whatever, and it will tell the 0:23:03.200 --> 0:23:06.200 folks that you've come into contact with if they should 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:08.520 get tested because well, you came down with COVID. 0:23:09.240 --> 0:23:11.159 Well, the big difference. 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:13.600 Here is that when I downloaded the safe Pass app, 0:23:14.040 --> 0:23:16.919 which is being promoted all over the place because city 0:23:16.960 --> 0:23:20.040 County of Los Angeles decided to go with it, all 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:22.159 of a sudden I noticed that there was no log in, 0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:25.040 there was no whatever, But it was somehow linked to 0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:26.760 my Citizen app, which I love. 0:23:26.800 --> 0:23:27.240 Citizen. 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:29.040 By the way, if you don't have the Citizen app 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:30.440 on your phone, get it. 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:31.000 It's awesome. 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:35.440 It tells you all the insane crime happening around your house, 0:23:35.520 --> 0:23:38.360 and it's scary, And it's scary in a good way 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:40.359 because you feel very informed, but you don't know what 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:42.399 to do about it. But you know what's going on 0:23:42.440 --> 0:23:43.480 in your neighborhood. 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:45.159 Well what safe Pass? 0:23:45.480 --> 0:23:49.320 I was a little bit perturbed because before I downloaded it, 0:23:49.400 --> 0:23:52.240 I looked all over the permissions on iPhone and Android 0:23:52.280 --> 0:23:52.800 and all. 0:23:52.640 --> 0:23:55.560 I saw was Bluetooth, Bluetooth, Bluetooth, nothing about GPS. 0:23:56.359 --> 0:23:58.800 And so when I downloaded it, it said, oh, here 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:00.399 are the people in your neighborhood, and it gave my 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:03.320 neighborhood name and said here's how many people are using it. 0:24:03.359 --> 0:24:04.960 I said, well, that's odd because I never gave you 0:24:05.000 --> 0:24:07.640 access to my location. So what's going on here? 0:24:08.240 --> 0:24:08.560 Well? 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:12.000 I figured since I had Citizen downloaded on my phone, 0:24:12.080 --> 0:24:16.479 which needs location to work, that somehow safe pass was 0:24:16.520 --> 0:24:20.520 sort of piggybacking on their data. And my hunch was 0:24:20.880 --> 0:24:26.560 correct because I emailed Citizen and I got a response, 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:30.400 and let me read you their response. I said, does 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:33.160 it use location? And they said if a safe pass 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:37.000 user already has Citizen downloaded and location enabled, safe pass 0:24:37.040 --> 0:24:39.680 will use this information to provide you with the location, 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:42.520 as well as the time, date, duration, and around a 0:24:42.560 --> 0:24:45.640 potential COVID nineteen exposure, so the user can decide all 0:24:45.640 --> 0:24:50.720 location data is deleted after thirty days. Okay, fine, but 0:24:50.840 --> 0:24:53.639 here's my problem with that. You need to tell me 0:24:53.760 --> 0:24:57.040 that you are using my location, especially with something that 0:24:57.119 --> 0:25:00.600 is purportedly tracking me twenty four to seven every single 0:25:00.640 --> 0:25:03.240 place I go. Now, I know that the Citizen app 0:25:03.280 --> 0:25:07.360 has been doing this, and I like that because in return, 0:25:07.600 --> 0:25:10.600 I get a really good product for free, which is 0:25:10.760 --> 0:25:14.320 crime alerts around where I am. But I know that 0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:16.760 that's doing that, and safe pass never told me it 0:25:16.840 --> 0:25:19.840 was doing that. Now I took it a step further, 0:25:19.960 --> 0:25:23.280 specifically saying, I see that it only asks for Bluetooth 0:25:23.320 --> 0:25:26.320 in permissions, but is it piggybacking on location data from 0:25:26.359 --> 0:25:28.600 the Citizen app or otherwise sourcing it? 0:25:28.640 --> 0:25:29.119 I see? 0:25:29.160 --> 0:25:31.359 I ask because I see that when I activated safe 0:25:31.400 --> 0:25:33.520 Pass is said where I was located and how many 0:25:33.560 --> 0:25:35.240 other people in my city were using the app. 0:25:35.880 --> 0:25:37.439 Here's what their response was. 0:25:37.840 --> 0:25:41.240 Safe Pass depends on Citizen for GPS data for now, 0:25:41.640 --> 0:25:45.200 and eventually all users will benefit from the GPS enabled features. 0:25:45.200 --> 0:25:48.280 If you're logged into Citizen with location permissions enabled and 0:25:48.320 --> 0:25:52.199 then download safe Pass, the accounts link so that the 0:25:52.320 --> 0:25:56.000 user's Citizen app will provide GPS data to the users 0:25:56.040 --> 0:25:56.960 safe pass app. 0:25:57.760 --> 0:26:01.640 What hold on? You need to tell us this? 0:26:02.520 --> 0:26:05.359 This was not revealed in any way, shape or form 0:26:05.560 --> 0:26:09.040 to the citizens of Los Angeles downloading this app. Now 0:26:10.000 --> 0:26:13.320 they say, users who have both Citizen and safe Pass 0:26:13.320 --> 0:26:18.360 are informed of GPS data location via our privacy policies. Okay, 0:26:18.560 --> 0:26:22.399 when was the last time you read a privacy policy 0:26:22.560 --> 0:26:24.080 while you downloaded an app? 0:26:24.840 --> 0:26:26.080 Exactly? Never? 0:26:26.960 --> 0:26:31.520 So I don't like this further for now, if you 0:26:31.600 --> 0:26:34.920 don't have Citizen downloaded and location enabled, if you download 0:26:34.960 --> 0:26:37.840 safe Pass, safe Pass will not use GPS location. So 0:26:38.000 --> 0:26:39.720 what I get from this If you want to protect 0:26:39.720 --> 0:26:41.960 your privacy and you don't want safe Pass to keep 0:26:41.960 --> 0:26:44.720 a location of where you are at all times with GPS, 0:26:44.920 --> 0:26:47.800 you can download the app by first deleting your Citizen 0:26:47.840 --> 0:26:49.439 app off your phone, but then you don't get the 0:26:49.440 --> 0:26:50.280 benefit of Citizen. 0:26:51.119 --> 0:26:51.679 Now. 0:26:51.840 --> 0:26:54.520 I am not saying that it's bad that it's using 0:26:54.600 --> 0:26:58.040 location to do this COVID tracing. I think that there 0:26:58.080 --> 0:27:01.360 is definitely a level of privacy that you're giving up 0:27:01.720 --> 0:27:04.600 if you decide to go that route, and the route 0:27:04.640 --> 0:27:07.280 that this app is going is specifically the route that 0:27:07.320 --> 0:27:11.520 Apple and Google wanted to avoid because they specifically do 0:27:11.720 --> 0:27:16.640 not use your GPS location for their COVID nineteen exposure notifications. 0:27:16.680 --> 0:27:20.160 They use only Bluetooth, and that is the most private way. 0:27:20.640 --> 0:27:22.639 And I'm not saying that it's a big deal. If 0:27:22.680 --> 0:27:24.199 you don't care, if you're not doing anything wrong, you 0:27:24.200 --> 0:27:27.359 don't really care about your location, then it's not that 0:27:27.400 --> 0:27:30.240 big of a deal. Where I take issue with this 0:27:30.400 --> 0:27:33.760 is the fact that nowhere, nowhere, nowhere, except in the 0:27:33.800 --> 0:27:36.520 privacy policy, did they tell us that this is happening. 0:27:37.080 --> 0:27:39.520 And I don't like that. I feel like that's not 0:27:39.640 --> 0:27:41.639 very nice to do to people. And so for an 0:27:41.680 --> 0:27:46.840 app that the County of Los Angeles is using and endorsing, 0:27:47.320 --> 0:27:51.200 I feel like people should know they throw ound Bluetooth, Bluetooth, Bluetooth, 0:27:51.280 --> 0:27:52.399 but realistically they're. 0:27:52.320 --> 0:27:56.840 Using location, location location, so they really need to make 0:27:56.880 --> 0:27:57.480 that clearer. 0:27:57.480 --> 0:28:02.679 And I suspect as more people kind of realize this, 0:28:02.960 --> 0:28:08.000 I suspect that the Citizen website will change, and in fact, 0:28:08.080 --> 0:28:11.160 I'm taking a screenshot of it right now because right 0:28:11.160 --> 0:28:13.680 now it says with save pass, you can track your symptoms, 0:28:13.720 --> 0:28:18.760 find testing sites, and enable Bluetooth contact tracing to get alerted. 0:28:19.080 --> 0:28:20.840 I have a feeling they are going to change that 0:28:20.960 --> 0:28:25.200 wording because when people realize that it's more than just bluetooth, yeah, 0:28:25.320 --> 0:28:35.280 that will change. Speaking of privacy, am I am? 0:28:35.359 --> 0:28:36.440 I getting fired up yet? 0:28:36.480 --> 0:28:39.080 I love getting fired up in this podcast because it's 0:28:39.320 --> 0:28:42.280 it's my place to get fired up. But here's something 0:28:42.320 --> 0:28:44.800 that you need to do today on your Zoom account. 0:28:44.960 --> 0:28:47.680 And it's called two factor authentication. And if you've heard 0:28:47.680 --> 0:28:51.160 me blab on on this podcast over and over and 0:28:51.200 --> 0:28:53.920 over and over and over, you've heard me talk about 0:28:53.960 --> 0:28:59.120 two factor authentication. Two factor authentication is the probably the 0:28:59.160 --> 0:29:02.040 best way to secure your accounts. What it means is 0:29:02.040 --> 0:29:04.840 that if you're using the same password over and over 0:29:05.000 --> 0:29:07.520 or a variation of your password over and over for 0:29:07.560 --> 0:29:10.440 all your accounts, which I know you are. I know 0:29:10.560 --> 0:29:13.400 you're out there, I know a couple of you are. 0:29:14.440 --> 0:29:17.240 If you're doing that, which I highly recommend not doing, 0:29:17.920 --> 0:29:20.640 you need to enable two factor authentication, which makes things 0:29:20.720 --> 0:29:21.800 a little bit more secure. 0:29:22.280 --> 0:29:23.440 So what two factor. 0:29:23.160 --> 0:29:26.000 Authentication does is when someone gets a hold of that 0:29:26.160 --> 0:29:29.200 tired old password that you're using everywhere and they enter 0:29:29.240 --> 0:29:34.600 it to log into your accounts, it will say oh okay, well, hey, 0:29:34.760 --> 0:29:37.520 we also need to get a text message that we 0:29:37.760 --> 0:29:41.400 just texted to your phone and the hacker goes, oh 0:29:41.840 --> 0:29:45.480 darn it, I don't have that person's phone, so in 0:29:45.520 --> 0:29:49.480 that aspect, they can't log in. So it basically stops 0:29:49.600 --> 0:29:53.080 these logins from happening when people get your password because 0:29:53.320 --> 0:29:55.280 you use a really weak password. 0:29:55.720 --> 0:29:58.240 So it's protecting you from yourself. And so. 0:30:00.040 --> 0:30:03.360 Zoom recently enabled this for everyone, and I highly highly 0:30:03.400 --> 0:30:06.680 recommend that you enable it. It works with both a 0:30:06.720 --> 0:30:09.320 SMS which is a text to your phone, or a 0:30:09.360 --> 0:30:14.000 password authentication app, which there are many of them. Google Authenticator, 0:30:14.280 --> 0:30:18.320 Microsoft Authenticator or authy is another one, and just pick 0:30:18.360 --> 0:30:20.040 one of those. It takes a little bit to set 0:30:20.080 --> 0:30:22.840 it up. Don't lose your password to that account. But 0:30:24.440 --> 0:30:25.960 those are the things that are a little bit more 0:30:25.960 --> 0:30:27.680 secure than using your phone to do this, but at 0:30:27.680 --> 0:30:29.960 the minimum, use your phone for SMS. Here's how you 0:30:29.960 --> 0:30:33.440 do it. Go to zoom dot us slash profile. You're 0:30:33.440 --> 0:30:35.720 gonna have to log in and then scroll to where 0:30:35.760 --> 0:30:38.720 it says two factor authentication. You're gonna have to log 0:30:38.760 --> 0:30:40.920 in again when you say turn on, and you turn 0:30:40.960 --> 0:30:41.880 it on, follow the steps. 0:30:41.880 --> 0:30:44.040 It will be turned on and your life. 0:30:43.880 --> 0:30:45.800 Will be better for it, especially if you're a teacher. 0:30:46.760 --> 0:30:50.560 You do not want someone hacking into your Zoom account. 0:30:50.800 --> 0:30:52.080 I don't know if a lot of people are hacking 0:30:52.120 --> 0:30:54.880 into Zoom accounts. I know that, like zoom bombing is 0:30:54.920 --> 0:30:57.800 a big thing. This doesn't really help with that, but 0:30:58.120 --> 0:31:00.480 it will help from someone getting access to your account. 0:31:00.680 --> 0:31:08.400 You just don't want people to have access to your account. 0:31:09.240 --> 0:31:14.480 All right, let's see here, let's see Amanda. 0:31:14.560 --> 0:31:16.680 Amanda says, good morning. I guess a lot of people 0:31:16.760 --> 0:31:20.000 write me emails in the morning, can I get I 0:31:20.000 --> 0:31:21.600 guess you know what. It's probably because they see me 0:31:21.680 --> 0:31:23.560 on TV and then it's like boom. They want to 0:31:23.880 --> 0:31:25.400 they want to email me because like, oh yeah, I 0:31:25.400 --> 0:31:27.440 gotta email that guy that's always on my TV talking 0:31:27.440 --> 0:31:27.960 about tech. 0:31:28.480 --> 0:31:29.000 Good morning. 0:31:29.040 --> 0:31:31.600 Can I get your suggestions on the best apps to 0:31:31.680 --> 0:31:35.640 monitor your teenage kid on social media and personal texts? 0:31:35.880 --> 0:31:38.840 Thank you, Amanda, Amanda. 0:31:39.000 --> 0:31:42.960 I recommend the same thing to everyone, and it is 0:31:43.000 --> 0:31:47.080 called bark bark dot us. And the reason why I 0:31:47.120 --> 0:31:50.200 like bark is because while I have not used this 0:31:50.240 --> 0:31:55.920 with my children, I feel like they are the most 0:31:56.280 --> 0:31:58.240 I don't know, it just seems like they do it right. 0:31:58.720 --> 0:32:00.800 They can do a lot of stuff. 0:32:00.840 --> 0:32:03.320 They can monitor thirty of the most popular apps and 0:32:03.360 --> 0:32:07.120 social media platforms, including text messaging and email, and they 0:32:07.160 --> 0:32:08.480 use artificial intelligence. 0:32:08.880 --> 0:32:13.040 So what I like is that they actually don't there's 0:32:13.080 --> 0:32:14.840 some services. 0:32:14.200 --> 0:32:17.080 That just give you a list of all of your 0:32:17.160 --> 0:32:19.040 kids stuff and you have to like go through it 0:32:19.360 --> 0:32:21.960 and look at it. What Bark does is it kind 0:32:22.000 --> 0:32:25.280 of like monitors using AI, so it will kind of 0:32:25.800 --> 0:32:29.840 tell you when it notices something that's a little bit off. Now, 0:32:29.840 --> 0:32:31.560 it's not always going to be right, but I kind 0:32:31.560 --> 0:32:33.320 of like that approach better than you having to read 0:32:33.360 --> 0:32:33.920 every one. 0:32:33.760 --> 0:32:36.600 Of your kids text messages. To me, that seems better. 0:32:36.920 --> 0:32:48.680 And this works with a lot of stuff iPhone, Android, Chrome, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, Gmail, WhatsApp, 0:32:48.880 --> 0:32:53.200 kick disc, TikTok, Skype. It works with a lot of stuff, 0:32:54.320 --> 0:32:58.080 and I think that that's pretty good. It looks for 0:32:58.280 --> 0:33:02.680 signs of harmful interaction and content, and so it will 0:33:03.000 --> 0:33:05.680 give you a little alerts that tell you when you 0:33:05.760 --> 0:33:08.560 need to kind of give something a human eye, and 0:33:08.640 --> 0:33:12.640 so I really like that. I don't know, I just 0:33:12.680 --> 0:33:15.000 think it looks really good and I, you know, I 0:33:15.000 --> 0:33:16.479 hate the fact that we have to do this, but 0:33:16.560 --> 0:33:17.680 the reality is we do. 0:33:18.120 --> 0:33:20.560 And how much is it. 0:33:20.560 --> 0:33:23.480 It is five dollars a month or fifty dollars a 0:33:23.560 --> 0:33:27.600 year for Bark Junior, and that is something that you 0:33:27.640 --> 0:33:30.920 don't really that's just managing screen time and filtering websites. 0:33:30.960 --> 0:33:33.440 So realistically, if you want to get the most out 0:33:33.480 --> 0:33:36.320 of Bark with all the monitoring the apps, it's fifteen 0:33:36.360 --> 0:33:38.160 bucks a month or one hundred dollars for the year, 0:33:38.440 --> 0:33:40.920 which it sounds like a lot, but that's a small 0:33:40.960 --> 0:33:42.840 price to pay for peace of mind with your kid. 0:33:43.040 --> 0:33:47.959 I am dealing with this with my kids with Minecraft 0:33:48.000 --> 0:33:50.000 and Roadblocks. They want to be able to Minecraft. I 0:33:50.040 --> 0:33:52.160 figured it out where they can chat with just their friends. 0:33:52.520 --> 0:33:54.719 With Roadblocks, it's a whole different story. 0:33:54.840 --> 0:33:55.000 You know. 0:33:55.040 --> 0:33:57.640 I'm not a fan of Roadblocks. If it was up 0:33:57.680 --> 0:33:59.440 to me, it'd be banned in my home, but I 0:33:59.480 --> 0:34:01.080 know all the kids play it. So my kids do 0:34:01.160 --> 0:34:03.440 get to play it, but they are highly restricted. And 0:34:03.480 --> 0:34:05.720 the problem with Roadblocks is that there's a lot of 0:34:05.720 --> 0:34:08.160 stuff going on in there that I don't like, a 0:34:08.200 --> 0:34:10.840 lot of chat. It's very sticky. The kids love it, 0:34:10.880 --> 0:34:13.319 gets them playing all day long. They can chat with 0:34:13.360 --> 0:34:15.239 their friends, but there's you know, there's just a lot 0:34:15.239 --> 0:34:16.880 of stuff going on in there. So I don't like 0:34:16.920 --> 0:34:18.800 that they are not allowed to chat and they're always 0:34:18.800 --> 0:34:22.120 asking me. And the games are restricted, and my kid 0:34:22.200 --> 0:34:24.800 is like, oh, can I just unrestrict my games? And 0:34:24.800 --> 0:34:26.239 then you can go through every week and kind of 0:34:26.280 --> 0:34:28.360 see the games I've played. I don't want to do that. 0:34:28.400 --> 0:34:29.680 I don't want to just sit there and go through 0:34:29.680 --> 0:34:31.880 every game you've played and see if it's a bad. 0:34:31.680 --> 0:34:35.279 Game or not. So I just restrict them, and it 0:34:35.760 --> 0:34:36.920 does limit what they can do. 0:34:37.560 --> 0:34:41.960 And so anyway, I digress' that's what I'm dealing with. 0:34:43.239 --> 0:34:43.520 All right. 0:34:43.520 --> 0:34:46.080 If you have a Visio TV, you can get the 0:34:46.120 --> 0:34:49.160 Apple TV app on your Visio TV. Now this was 0:34:49.200 --> 0:34:53.319 a holdout for a while, but if you have a 0:34:53.360 --> 0:34:56.080 Visio smart Cast TV, you can now get the Apple 0:34:56.200 --> 0:34:56.920 TV app. 0:34:56.960 --> 0:34:57.640 What does that mean? 0:34:57.920 --> 0:34:59.719 Well, that means that you can watch all of your 0:34:59.719 --> 0:35:03.120 app TV content and any movie that you've purchased on 0:35:03.160 --> 0:35:05.399 Apple TV you can watch that on your Video now 0:35:05.719 --> 0:35:07.880 and also Apple TV Plus. 0:35:10.280 --> 0:35:12.120 Which I know you've been wanting to watch. 0:35:13.000 --> 0:35:14.640 I mean, there are a couple things on there that 0:35:14.680 --> 0:35:16.880 are pretty good The Morning Show is the only thing 0:35:16.880 --> 0:35:18.920 I've watched on there. I do want to watch the 0:35:18.920 --> 0:35:21.160 Boys State documentary because I did Boy State when I 0:35:21.200 --> 0:35:21.560 was a kid. 0:35:21.600 --> 0:35:24.600 I loved Boy State. But I watched a trailer and 0:35:24.680 --> 0:35:26.120 it didn't really appeal to me. 0:35:26.160 --> 0:35:28.760 It was like it looked good, but like it didn't 0:35:28.760 --> 0:35:31.360 look like something I need to watch like that day. 0:35:32.719 --> 0:35:36.120 For a limited time, Visio Smartcast customers in the US 0:35:36.239 --> 0:35:38.200 can sign up for Apple TV Plus and get three 0:35:38.200 --> 0:35:38.760 months free. 0:35:38.880 --> 0:35:39.279 I like that. 0:35:40.280 --> 0:35:43.520 Three months free is always nice, and Apple TV Plus 0:35:43.560 --> 0:35:46.080 if you've purchased an Apple product, you get a year 0:35:46.120 --> 0:35:48.160 free of that. I wonder if you can stack those 0:35:48.239 --> 0:35:51.360 Probably not, So what can you do on Apple TV? 0:35:51.640 --> 0:35:54.600 You can subscribe to Apple TV channels like Showtime, CBS, 0:35:54.640 --> 0:35:58.040 All Access, and Stars, and of course. 0:35:57.920 --> 0:35:59.480 Get the Apple TV Plus content. 0:35:59.520 --> 0:36:01.880 You can also rent and buy one hundred thousand movies, 0:36:01.920 --> 0:36:05.040 which you can already already do in other ways. And 0:36:05.120 --> 0:36:08.799 you have Airplay two and Home Kit so this will 0:36:08.800 --> 0:36:12.400 work on Visio TVs with Smartcast twenty sixteen and later. 0:36:12.719 --> 0:36:15.920 So if you have a Visio TV, there you go. 0:36:16.600 --> 0:36:19.920 By the way, the three free months expires October sixteenth, 0:36:19.920 --> 0:36:21.680 so you have until then to sign up for it. 0:36:21.880 --> 0:36:24.800 You can go to visio dot com slash Apple Offer 0:36:25.280 --> 0:36:27.919 for more information on that. So grab your three months 0:36:27.960 --> 0:36:30.000 free of Apple TV Plus and at least watch the 0:36:30.040 --> 0:36:30.560 Morning Show. 0:36:30.560 --> 0:36:32.640 That was pretty good. There might be some other stuff on. 0:36:32.640 --> 0:36:34.279 There that you might like, but that's that's the only 0:36:34.280 --> 0:36:36.440 thing I found that I liked. There's a movie with 0:36:36.520 --> 0:36:40.440 Tom Hanks called Greyhound on there, and so that looks 0:36:40.480 --> 0:36:41.040 good as well. 0:36:41.880 --> 0:36:43.600 Uh, let's see what else. 0:36:45.800 --> 0:36:46.120 I think. 0:36:46.160 --> 0:36:46.560 That's it. 0:36:47.040 --> 0:36:49.719 Well, that's it for that. I'm not the podcast not over. 0:36:49.719 --> 0:36:52.320 Don't get me wrong, We're still going. We still got time, 0:36:53.000 --> 0:36:57.279 we still got another question. Let's get to the next question. Uh, 0:36:57.880 --> 0:37:01.480 let's see. Good morning, Rich another good morning. I currently 0:37:01.560 --> 0:37:04.520 have the Samsung Galaxy S nine plus. I'm looking for 0:37:04.560 --> 0:37:07.640 a screen protector. Do you recommend any particular brand that 0:37:07.760 --> 0:37:10.279 is case friendly. Thank you for your time and I 0:37:10.320 --> 0:37:11.920 look forward to hearing from you. 0:37:12.120 --> 0:37:12.880 Jose B. 0:37:14.600 --> 0:37:16.480 Well, I will tell you the brands that I have 0:37:16.680 --> 0:37:18.560 used in the past that I've had good luck with 0:37:18.680 --> 0:37:22.000 and like, and number one on the list is tech Armor. 0:37:22.360 --> 0:37:26.520 I love tech Armor because they are cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, 0:37:26.920 --> 0:37:29.640 but they're also good. So the guy from tech Armor. 0:37:30.160 --> 0:37:33.080 I forget where he came from, but he had a 0:37:33.120 --> 0:37:37.080 lot of experience with tech and I forget what his 0:37:37.160 --> 0:37:41.839 background was. But now he came to me with tech Armor, 0:37:41.880 --> 0:37:44.640 and immediately I understood it because I said, dude, everyone 0:37:44.640 --> 0:37:46.920 else is charging fifty bucks for a screen protector. You're 0:37:47.000 --> 0:37:50.040 charging ten. Like, what's the catch? He said, nothing, We're 0:37:50.080 --> 0:37:52.000 just not doing it at mal Kiosks. So we can 0:37:52.080 --> 0:37:54.040 charge a lot less because we're going straight to Amazon. 0:37:54.480 --> 0:37:56.440 And on Amazon you can find a lot of stuff 0:37:56.480 --> 0:37:59.560 out there, but you want to go with brands that 0:37:59.600 --> 0:38:01.799 you know. So I'm looking on here and do they 0:38:01.840 --> 0:38:03.920 have the Samsung Galaxy S nine? 0:38:04.360 --> 0:38:05.759 And yes they do. 0:38:06.520 --> 0:38:08.880 And this is a little bit of a curved screen, 0:38:08.960 --> 0:38:10.920 so I think that's why you're saying, is it case friendly? 0:38:11.480 --> 0:38:15.359 But they've got it tech Armor three D curved HD 0:38:15.520 --> 0:38:19.799 clear ballistic glass and it is twelve dollars ninety five 0:38:19.880 --> 0:38:20.600 cents for. 0:38:22.360 --> 0:38:23.279 Is it coming to three pack? 0:38:23.360 --> 0:38:25.560 Sometimes they come in like a two pack, oh, one pack, okay, 0:38:25.560 --> 0:38:27.960 so it's twelve ninety five for one. So that's the 0:38:27.960 --> 0:38:30.680 one that I'd recommend go with that, and that's the 0:38:30.719 --> 0:38:36.160 first choice. The other choices are zag Zag is great. 0:38:37.160 --> 0:38:40.600 I really like their screen protectors. They do charge if 0:38:40.600 --> 0:38:42.399 you you know, they do charge a little bit more. 0:38:42.520 --> 0:38:45.080 So if you go into the mall, you are gonna get. 0:38:45.920 --> 0:38:49.680 You're gonna get, you know a well. I think Invisible 0:38:49.680 --> 0:38:52.239 Shield is the brand name from Zag. But you're gonna 0:38:52.239 --> 0:38:53.960 pay a little bit more, but you know what, it's 0:38:53.960 --> 0:38:57.680 gonna be high quality. Now let's see do they have 0:38:57.800 --> 0:39:04.000 the S nine and and they do S nine? Did 0:39:04.040 --> 0:39:05.719 you have an S nine plus or an S nine? 0:39:06.080 --> 0:39:08.520 You have an S nine plus? So S nine plus. 0:39:08.640 --> 0:39:12.400 Let me see how much it is for Zag. Zag 0:39:12.680 --> 0:39:14.880 is twenty nine ninety nine used to be fifty. So 0:39:14.920 --> 0:39:17.720 you're gonna pay a little bit more for Zag. Sorry 0:39:17.760 --> 0:39:20.399 I keep calling it Zag. But invisible Shield I think 0:39:21.040 --> 0:39:22.960 does Zag also do no? 0:39:24.200 --> 0:39:25.680 Yeah, Zag, I don't know. 0:39:25.719 --> 0:39:28.279 But anyway, it's Invisible Shield is the ZAG brand, but 0:39:28.320 --> 0:39:31.120 they also so anyway, those are the two that i'd recommend. 0:39:31.560 --> 0:39:33.040 I would look into those. You know, it depends do 0:39:33.040 --> 0:39:34.799 you want to pay thirty bucks or do you want 0:39:34.800 --> 0:39:37.239 to pay thirteen dollars? Maybe start with the thirteen and 0:39:37.280 --> 0:39:39.160 if you don't like it, go to the thirty. But 0:39:39.520 --> 0:39:42.920 I always I those are the screen protectors I put 0:39:42.960 --> 0:39:46.200 on my phones and I like them. Now I will 0:39:46.200 --> 0:39:48.680 tell you I did put a screen protector on my 0:39:48.719 --> 0:39:49.439 iPhone this week. 0:39:49.480 --> 0:39:50.880 And that's what I love about scream protectors. 0:39:50.880 --> 0:39:52.600 When they break or they crack, you just peel it 0:39:52.600 --> 0:39:53.839 off and you put on a new one and it's 0:39:53.880 --> 0:39:56.520 like you have a new phone. And I'll be honest 0:39:56.719 --> 0:39:59.799 with the note twenty, I did not have a screen 0:39:59.800 --> 0:40:01.839 p protector on there because I did not get them 0:40:01.840 --> 0:40:04.920 in time for my testing and I dropped the phone. 0:40:05.360 --> 0:40:07.320 It survived for the most part, but there is a 0:40:07.320 --> 0:40:10.000 little tiny scratch on the screen and that's just annoying 0:40:10.040 --> 0:40:11.080 when you do that. 0:40:11.640 --> 0:40:14.480 And so it's just one of. 0:40:14.480 --> 0:40:17.000 Those things that when you have a scratch on your screen, 0:40:17.120 --> 0:40:18.720 it's really really annoying. 0:40:19.239 --> 0:40:21.279 And so that's that. 0:40:21.560 --> 0:40:23.959 By the way, if you're asking questions on Facebook Live, 0:40:24.480 --> 0:40:26.360 I will get to those, but at the end of 0:40:26.520 --> 0:40:29.480 the podcast, I always do the Facebook Live questions at 0:40:29.480 --> 0:40:32.040 the end, So stick around till the end and I 0:40:32.080 --> 0:40:34.239 will get to some of those questions. But that's you know, 0:40:34.320 --> 0:40:36.400 you got to have a screen protector. And okay, so 0:40:36.440 --> 0:40:40.280 my story was that I put on a screen protector 0:40:40.520 --> 0:40:46.040 that was a Matt finish, and I don't remember putting 0:40:46.040 --> 0:40:47.840 a Matt Finish on there. I don't. I like the 0:40:47.840 --> 0:40:49.759 privacy ones, but I can't really use them because I 0:40:49.760 --> 0:40:52.480 record a lot on my screen when I do little 0:40:52.480 --> 0:40:54.680 tips and tricks for you, So I can't really have 0:40:54.719 --> 0:40:57.479 a privacy one because if you're at just the wrong angle, 0:40:57.520 --> 0:40:59.200 it's gonna look weird. It just doesn't look as good 0:40:59.239 --> 0:41:01.440 on camera. But I like the privacy ones. Those are 0:41:01.480 --> 0:41:03.279 kind of cool because you know everyone's creeping on your phone. 0:41:03.280 --> 0:41:05.520 They're trying to see what you're looking at, especially if 0:41:05.560 --> 0:41:06.880 you're commuting or something. 0:41:06.640 --> 0:41:07.200 Or at work. 0:41:07.520 --> 0:41:10.400 You don't want all those eyes on your phone. They 0:41:10.400 --> 0:41:12.319 don't need to see that you're on Instagram the whole day, 0:41:12.680 --> 0:41:17.400 that's what you're doing. But I don't like Matt screen protectors. 0:41:17.040 --> 0:41:18.760 It's it's really off putting. 0:41:18.760 --> 0:41:21.000 For some reason, I am so used to a shiny 0:41:21.040 --> 0:41:23.960 phone screen that I put this Matt screen protector on 0:41:24.000 --> 0:41:26.719 my iPhone and it just it looks so weird. It's 0:41:26.760 --> 0:41:28.799 just like it feels like my phone is messed up, 0:41:29.400 --> 0:41:31.799 and it always looks grimy too, which I don't like. 0:41:31.920 --> 0:41:36.480 So that's my story and I'm sticking to it all 0:41:36.560 --> 0:41:40.200 right Peloton, which has been the bell of the ball 0:41:40.760 --> 0:41:43.879 during the pandemic. They have a couple of new devices, 0:41:44.280 --> 0:41:46.600 a new bike and a new treadmill. I'm not going 0:41:46.640 --> 0:41:48.319 to go over the new treadmill because you can just 0:41:48.360 --> 0:41:50.040 look that up. But the new bike is called the 0:41:50.080 --> 0:41:53.200 Bike Plus, and if you can believe it, it's actually 0:41:53.239 --> 0:41:58.440 more expensive than the last Peloton bike. This one is 0:41:58.520 --> 0:42:01.759 twenty five hundred dollars, and so the old one was 0:42:01.760 --> 0:42:04.040 like twenty two hundred, I think or something like that. 0:42:04.440 --> 0:42:05.920 So what did they do new? 0:42:06.120 --> 0:42:09.680 It's got a new twenty three point eight inch rotating 0:42:09.920 --> 0:42:13.080 HD touchscreen. So the old one was a little bit smaller. 0:42:13.080 --> 0:42:14.680 It was like two inches smaller, and it did not 0:42:14.840 --> 0:42:19.200 rotate left and right. So what happens is when you're 0:42:19.200 --> 0:42:21.560 done with a Peloton this is spin bike, by the way, 0:42:21.680 --> 0:42:23.600 when you're done with a workout, you want to be 0:42:23.640 --> 0:42:26.680 able to spin your screen left or right so that 0:42:26.760 --> 0:42:28.760 you can do kind of the stretching or the strength 0:42:28.800 --> 0:42:31.759 exercises they have, and you couldn't do that before, and 0:42:31.800 --> 0:42:33.560 so now you can rotate it one hundred and eighty 0:42:33.560 --> 0:42:37.320 degrees left and right. They've got a new better speaker system. 0:42:37.360 --> 0:42:37.680 But to me. 0:42:37.800 --> 0:42:40.760 I think that's pointless because who listens to the speaker 0:42:40.800 --> 0:42:43.640 on their peloton? Don't you just have headphones in. And 0:42:43.680 --> 0:42:46.360 then this is really cool. You can now tap to 0:42:46.400 --> 0:42:49.360 pair your Apple Watch and my gym. 0:42:49.440 --> 0:42:50.240 My old gym. 0:42:50.080 --> 0:42:53.560 Before I canceled my membership because of the pandemic, had 0:42:53.760 --> 0:42:55.759 this on some of their treadmills where you would just 0:42:55.760 --> 0:42:57.879 tap your Apple Watch to the treadmill and it would 0:42:57.880 --> 0:43:01.879 sync up the results, which was really cool. So because 0:43:01.880 --> 0:43:05.120 you're on a treadmill inside, you might not get the 0:43:05.120 --> 0:43:07.600 proper results from your Apple Watch. So of course the 0:43:07.640 --> 0:43:11.880 treadmill knows exactly how far you've gone, so it would anyway, 0:43:11.920 --> 0:43:14.000 so syncs that up. That's really cool. That's a that's 0:43:14.000 --> 0:43:16.200 a great feature. And then they have this new auto 0:43:16.200 --> 0:43:20.000 follow digital resistance. So if you put your metrics in, 0:43:20.040 --> 0:43:22.799 like what your target metrics are when the teacher calls out, okay, 0:43:22.800 --> 0:43:24.920 you got to be at thirty resistance right now, the 0:43:24.960 --> 0:43:29.200 bike will automatically adjust to that resistance, which is really cool. 0:43:29.200 --> 0:43:31.279 It's kind of like autopilot again. 0:43:31.320 --> 0:43:33.200 It's twenty five hundred bucks for the new bike, plus 0:43:33.200 --> 0:43:35.879 it's available September ninth, which has already passed, so you're 0:43:35.920 --> 0:43:39.480 good there. And the original Peloton bike is going down 0:43:39.520 --> 0:43:42.560 to nineteen hundred dollars, which is kind of cool. 0:43:42.600 --> 0:43:43.120 Don't forget. 0:43:43.160 --> 0:43:44.759 On top of all these prices, you still have to 0:43:44.760 --> 0:43:49.360 pay forty dollars a month for their service, for their membership, 0:43:49.800 --> 0:43:52.600 and if you have an original Peloton bike in the 0:43:52.719 --> 0:43:55.279 US in working condition, you can trade it in for 0:43:55.360 --> 0:43:57.239 seven hundred dollars towards the new one, which I thought 0:43:57.239 --> 0:43:57.719 was really cool. 0:43:57.719 --> 0:43:58.480 They don't have to do that. 0:43:58.600 --> 0:44:01.439 They'll even pick it up from your house, and if 0:44:01.480 --> 0:44:03.440 you bought a bike in the past thirty days, they 0:44:03.480 --> 0:44:06.040 will refund you the three hundred and fifty dollars price difference, 0:44:06.040 --> 0:44:08.720 which is how much the price of the bike dropped 0:44:08.760 --> 0:44:11.680 the original one. So I think Peloton has done a 0:44:11.680 --> 0:44:16.360 solid here, and that's it. I mean, Peloton's fantastic. I 0:44:16.360 --> 0:44:19.600 don't have one. I have a imitation bike that I 0:44:19.719 --> 0:44:21.719 use the Peloton app with and it's fantastic. 0:44:21.760 --> 0:44:24.600 It's the Bowflex C six if you're interested. 0:44:24.640 --> 0:44:27.280 I know when I mentioned that on my Instagram, everyone 0:44:27.360 --> 0:44:28.200 was like, well bike you have. 0:44:28.880 --> 0:44:29.400 I love it. 0:44:29.880 --> 0:44:31.480 If I was going to buy another one, i'd probably 0:44:31.480 --> 0:44:33.400 buy the Peloton. I just could not get over the 0:44:33.480 --> 0:44:36.959 forty dollars a month membership fee for the app I pay. 0:44:36.960 --> 0:44:38.880 I think it's thirteen dollars a month, which is a 0:44:38.920 --> 0:44:39.520 lot cheaper. 0:44:40.400 --> 0:44:42.719 And so if you're fine with all those fees, by 0:44:42.719 --> 0:44:46.840 the time you most people are buying the Peloton on payments. 0:44:47.200 --> 0:44:48.960 So by the time you add up the payment with 0:44:49.120 --> 0:44:52.080 the monthly payment for the app, I mean, I think 0:44:52.120 --> 0:44:55.560 you're talking what is that eighty and eighty that's a 0:44:55.600 --> 0:44:58.200 forty and Eightyes, yet I don't know. Oh yeah, fifty 0:44:58.200 --> 0:45:00.520 dollars a month plus forty that's ninety dollar a month 0:45:00.560 --> 0:45:04.520 for the bike. So now that seemed like a lot 0:45:04.600 --> 0:45:07.759 to me when I was paying for a gym membership. 0:45:07.840 --> 0:45:10.280 Now that I'm not paying for gym membership, it doesn't 0:45:10.320 --> 0:45:11.440 seem as high. 0:45:11.640 --> 0:45:14.120 So I understand where Peloton's coming from. 0:45:14.160 --> 0:45:16.160 I don't like to do monthly payments on things, So 0:45:16.640 --> 0:45:18.560 for me, I would want to pay the whole thing 0:45:18.680 --> 0:45:20.879 in advance and twenty five hundred bucks out the door. 0:45:20.920 --> 0:45:23.680 It's a lot, but I'd save up for it. That's 0:45:23.719 --> 0:45:24.480 the way i'd do it. 0:45:24.680 --> 0:45:26.960 But I think most people, many people like you know, 0:45:27.000 --> 0:45:29.440 the idea of forty bucks a month fifty bucks a month. 0:45:29.440 --> 0:45:31.880 Though it's just monthly, I'll have a job forever, but 0:45:31.960 --> 0:45:35.080 you never know. Clearly, as we saw during this pandemic, 0:45:35.120 --> 0:45:37.480 a lot of people were affected. And so that's why 0:45:37.520 --> 0:45:39.759 I don't like to do the monthly payments because you 0:45:39.840 --> 0:45:42.680 never know, never know, and you know what you're getting 0:45:42.719 --> 0:45:45.440 monthly is not coming in anymore. I know it's a 0:45:45.440 --> 0:45:47.560 negative way of looking at it, but it's just better 0:45:47.600 --> 0:45:49.279 you have more of your money. Anyway, I'm not going 0:45:49.360 --> 0:45:52.360 to get it. This is not a financial podcast, but 0:45:52.640 --> 0:45:56.759 so anyway, I am now doing Orange theory when that restarts, 0:45:56.800 --> 0:45:59.600 so I feel like, you know, paying for that and 0:45:59.640 --> 0:46:01.799 then pay for the bike whatever. You don't need to 0:46:01.840 --> 0:46:04.320 know how I'm staying in shape. But I'm just saying 0:46:04.680 --> 0:46:07.120 ninety dollars a month if you're just using that bike 0:46:07.200 --> 0:46:09.320 to work out at home along with you know, YouTube 0:46:09.360 --> 0:46:12.000 and all that other stuff or the app, it's fine, 0:46:12.000 --> 0:46:14.400 you're gonna that's a pretty decent price to pay. 0:46:14.800 --> 0:46:16.680 One hundred bucks a month. It's not that big of 0:46:16.719 --> 0:46:16.960 a deal. 0:46:17.000 --> 0:46:20.120 A lot of gyms are, you know, fifty sixty seventy 0:46:20.200 --> 0:46:21.560 one hundred bucks a month if you go to a 0:46:21.560 --> 0:46:23.279 fancy gym, it's gonna be two hundred a month. 0:46:25.760 --> 0:46:27.640 I don't know anything about that because I never belong 0:46:27.719 --> 0:46:30.600 to one of those so expensive. 0:46:32.160 --> 0:46:33.480 I think that's gonna do it for the end of 0:46:33.520 --> 0:46:36.000 the show. I think I'm done. 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