WEBVTT - Plastic hotel keys are definitely going away 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:17.640 Netflix raising prices, Netflix tests paid subscriptions, faster cellular internet 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:21.599 rolls out in a big way, Plus your tech questions answered? 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:24.360 What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:26.759 on Tech, the podcast where I talk about the tech 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:29.159 stuff I think you should know about. It's also the 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:33.320 place where I answer the questions you send me what 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.240 is going on? I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:39.199 five in Los Angeles. Did I already say what's going on? 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:42.239 I think I did to What's going on in just 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:46.280 the span of thirty seconds. Welcome back to the show. 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.760 I know last week I was off. I was out 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:54.360 sick because of you know what. And the funny thing 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:58.360 is I didn't even have it. So, you know, everyone 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:00.520 thought that I would get sick at CEF in Las 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.760 Vegas and I would get you know, COVID, and I didn't. 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:07.199 I made it through just fine, and I come home 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:11.480 to my kid who has it and proceeds to infect 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.800 fifty percent of the house, not including myself or my 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.000 other kid. So my wife and one of my kids 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.480 had it and she got it pretty bad. So it 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.640 is a serious thing. I somehow escaped it. I'm not 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:27.280 sure how, but I'll take that for now. But that's 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:29.520 why I wasn't here last week. And let me tell 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.560 you a scrambling for those COVID tests when you need 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.319 them the most. Oh my gosh, that was like the 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:36.280 trickiest thing. I'm going to talk about later in the 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.360 show my experience with that and the whole new website 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:41.600 that the government has, and we'll talk about that a 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:42.880 little bit. I know, I don't want to get too 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.520 much into that because I know it's a topic that 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.960 a we're kind of sick of hearing about and be 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.320 you know, everyone has their own thoughts on it, and 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:53.920 I don't want to get into that whole section. All 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:56.600 I'm saying is that for us here it was real. 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.400 I mean, it was a solid week of realness and 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:04.840 the Demro house, so you know, it can happen to anyone, Okay. 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.880 So I asked on my Facebook page, let's see what 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.920 was the question that I asked here? I said, what 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:15.360 is your current favorite tech gadget besides your phone? And 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:20.280 the comments just coming in fast, all kinds. I'm getting 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:25.119 so many great ideas. Chair speaker, voice enhancing TV soundbar 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.160 my fitbit Amberly says, I'm not sure if this is 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.120 considered a gadget. But I love the Apple Watch I 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:35.200 got for Christmas. Jerry says, probably my Amazon Fire TV Box. 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.600 It's kept me sane while working from home the past 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:42.840 twenty one months. Alejandro says my Sony walkman. Oh wow, 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:47.160 I don't know, Maybe he's kidding. Let's see, Louis says, 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:50.920 my iPad, since it's faster than my Windows PC. Jordan 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.160 says his m one Mac Pro sixteen with monitor and 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.640 iPad sidecar. Wow, that's a pretty good setup. James says 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:01.520 his Bosh electric drill. Yeah. I hear the tim the 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:06.040 tool man Taylor in that one. Let's see what else. 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.840 Lynnette says, or kindle paper white signature reader. I've got 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:14.160 to start reading. I really fell off. I really fell 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.680 off the train. What do you call it? Fell off 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.240 the bus? I don't know, whatever you call it, but 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.680 I really fell off whatever you fall off these days, 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.520 I fell off. I was reading so well up until 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.160 about the holidays, and then it just kind of took 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.680 a nose dive. And I don't know why. I just 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.120 I was just like glued to my phone for some reason. 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.679 And so some of that comes with not having a 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.640 good book to read. I feel like if you're like 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:38.600 I finished a really good book and then I was 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.600 trying other books and they just weren't doing it for me. 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:43.240 So I just downloaded another book today I will see. 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.800 I think I'm gonna like that one more. But it's 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.680 all about the good book, right, Like, if you are 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:50.640 starting to read a book and you get into it, 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.720 it should just be automatic. You shouldn't really have to 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.320 even think much about it. It should just work. And 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.080 so you know a good book when that happens, and 0:03:58.160 --> 0:03:59.840 so it's kind of a natural thing. So if you're 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:02.440 really forcing yourself to read a book, I used to 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.240 do that and finish it. Now I'm just like, no, 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.480 I'm not gonna do that. Like why you know, reading 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.360 is tough enough. I feel like in this day and age, 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:12.440 like we just were so like screen centric and everything 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.120 is like fast, and I mean you Instagram reels and 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.280 TikTok and it's like it's like stimulation overload. And then 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:20.320 we go to this book that's like kind of boring 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:21.960 and you fall asleep and you start reading it. That 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.559 should not be happening. It should be like a really 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.240 great experience where you can't put the book down, and 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:28.960 I'm trying to remember with the last book I read 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.839 that was like that. Oh, I think it was The 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.279 Silent Patient, and it was it was really good. You know, 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.200 it's like a it's just an easy read, you know, 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.400 it's one of those like kind of beach reads. All right, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:42.120 let's see what Tommy said his fitbit or his eight 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.600 k TV. Wow. Let's see what else do we have. 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:51.479 Karen says the Volkswagen ID four electric car. Yeah, that's 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.520 a good one. Kelly says, my tile for my tortoise. 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.720 You gotta tile on your tortoise to keep track of 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.320 your tortoise. Huh. Stephanie, another vote for the Kindle, heather, 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:06.479 vote for the Amazon fire tablet. Let's see, Joshua the 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:10.919 Cardo motorcycle helmet, Bluetooth. Okay, that's cool. Richard says the 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.640 heated steering wheel. Oh wow. Chris says my kindle. I 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.160 read at least twelve to fourteen hours a week. Ps. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.479 I am a ninety year old. Wow, that's awesome. So 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:22.720 a lot of people with their kindles. I gotta say, 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.279 look at this. Irwin says my super fast iPad on wheels. 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.320 He's got a video of the self driving mode on 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:31.800 his Tesla. Anyway, if you want to get in on 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:36.360 the question what's your current favorite tech gadget besides your phone? 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.960 You can go to my Facebook page Facebook dot com 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.359 slash Rich on tech. All right, let's talk about the 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.480 first big story of the week. It's not that big 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.520 of a story because I mean, what are you gonna do? 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:49.400 I feel like we've talked about this before with the 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:52.960 other streaming services when they raise prices. But Netflix is 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:57.560 raising prices once again a dollar to two dollars per 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:02.239 month depending on the plan. So this is the first 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.880 rate increase since it was about four hundred and forty 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.640 days since they announce the one before this, so just 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.279 over a year. And you know, it comes at a 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.440 hard time because with the pandemic, you know, people have 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.719 been trying to cut back and people have been you know, 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:18.000 just I mean, this is like their lifeline for a 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:19.960 lot of people. Is your is your Netflix? You know, 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.080 it's like this is the connection to the entertainment that 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.120 they need. And so Netflix, it's like one of these 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.240 things are at this point. Okay, so let's go over 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.120 the plans. I mean, at this point, you know you're 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:35.600 talking plans, so the Standard plan, which does not include 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:39.080 any sort of like HD streaming, is like nine to 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.120 ninety nine a month, and then the the okay, the 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.120 standard plan which has you know, which is the one 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.279 that most people have. That's the middle plan that includes 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.840 just HD. Sorry scratch what I said about the nine 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:51.520 and nine. I'm not sure if that's right. But the 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.600 Standard plan, which is like the middle plan, that's fifteen 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.280 forty nine a month. That's up from thirteen ninety nine 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:02.480 a month, okay, And that includes HD and two simultaneous streams. 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.680 Then you go up to the Ultra HD, which is 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:08.800 the plan that I have, which gives you four K 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:10.760 and I think four streams at a time because I 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.200 need those because the one time I logged in when 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.920 someone was maybe how do we call it sharing my account? 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.920 They you know, I couldn't watch the show that I 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:22.920 wanted to watch. So I had to upgrade my plan 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.040 so that I can make sure that doesn't happen again. 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.160 And so that's going up by two dollars a month. 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.480 So if you look at that, that was seventeen ninety nine. 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.200 Now it's nineteen ninety nine a month. And I guess 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.200 the basic plan is nine ninety nine. It used to 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.760 be eight ninety nine. So here's the thing. This makes 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:42.000 Netflix really expensive when it comes to streaming services. Twenty 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.280 dollars a month. Now, for some of you listening, you 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.680 may say, Rich, that's fine. I mean, I watch so 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:48.960 much Netflix, it's not a big deal. Twenty dollars a 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.400 month is still a pretty good value for what I get, 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:54.680 and I would agree with that. A one movie ticket, 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.640 you know, in LA, could be seventeen ninety nine eighteen. 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:59.440 I haven't been in a while, but that's how much 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.920 they used to be. So the reality is it's not 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:04.360 all on her. I mean, twenty dollars for a full 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.559 month of entertainment. But the problem is when you layer 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.200 on the other services that you have, and you've got 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.600 Disney Plus, you've got Amazon Prime, which is you know, 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.840 it's mixed in with the Prime membership. You've got Hulu, 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.080 You've got all these other little services as well, Disney Plus, 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:22.880 Hbo Max. So I mean I'm paying for all those 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.680 including and YouTube as well. So I've got a whole 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.880 bunch of these services. Now when I add them up, 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:29.840 I think I added them up one time, even on 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:31.280 this podcast, and I think it came out to like 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.880 one hundred and twenty bucks a month, maybe even less 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.240 than that, And so when you look at it that way, 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.839 it's still a pretty good value. I mean, it's kind 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:40.760 of like what you paid for cable back in the day, 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.440 except this you can come and go as you please. 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:47.000 So even though the prices are definitely in line with 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.520 what we were paying, there's much more flexibility and you 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.000 don't need to subscribe to everything all at once. So 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.679 if you just have a young kid, maybe you've got 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.320 Netflix for the parents and Disney for the kids and 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.720 you're done. Maybe you're an adult, you just have HBO 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.040 and Netflix and nothing else. So I mean, it just 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:06.960 really depends. You can pick and choose, and I think 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.240 that's the biggest benefit we're seeing over these over the 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:12.960 standard cable and I you know, from what I saw 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.360 on my Facebook page when people are commenting about this, Yeah, 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.600 some people are complaining, but a majority of the people said, look, 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.240 you know what, it's a dollar or two a month, 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.640 it's really not that big of a deal. I think 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.960 the bigger deal is really the fact that we're just 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:29.800 seeing Netflix raise prices very in a similar fashion to 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:33.160 the way that cable raise prices like clockwork. Every year 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.400 you get that little bill insert that said, oh, your 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.760 rates are going up, And now I feel like that's 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:39.600 kind of what Netflix is doing, because they want a 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.280 long time without raising rates, and now it just seems 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:43.880 like that's the new thing where they just go ahead 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:50.040 and raise rates. All right, let's get to the first 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:53.240 question of the show. Valerie says, which are the best 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.080 ad blockers? I keep getting pop ups about them? Are 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:58.720 they a scam? No, they're not a scam. You can 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.640 definitely use an ad blocker on your computer and on 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.920 your phone, so on iOS and Android. It works a 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.040 little bit differently. On Android. There's much more flexibility, of course, 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:12.080 so you can install pretty much whatever you want. I 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.520 like the one called ad Guard, and so there's a 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.840 couple of ways you can install it. The easiest way 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:20.960 is to go into your connections under your Wi Fi 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.319 and it says like more and it's like your DNS 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.760 and you literally can just pop in I think it's 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.360 DNS dot adguard dot com and it will literally just 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.120 block all the ads on your phone, like at the 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:35.560 network level. It's pretty pretty simple. It's very clean. The 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:37.120 only thing I don't like about it is when you 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.480 come across an AD on your phone, it's a whole 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.400 bunch of gibberish. Like there's just a whole bunch of 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.960 stuff there, like all the coding that it takes to 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.160 like put that AD there. It's like the link or whatever, 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.000 and so it's just annoying to like scroll through and 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.960 see that. Now on the iPhone, it's a little bit cleaner. 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:56.000 What it does is it just eradicates the AD completely 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.640 so you don't even see it. But it's not system 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.680 wide the Android. It can be system wide on the iPhone, 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:06.040 it's really only inside Safari. And inside Safari you have 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:09.760 to install what's like basically what's called an AD blocker, 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:14.240 And so if you go into you basically enable it. 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.520 Once you install it, you install it from the app Store, 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:20.280 and then you enable it inside Safari and it just 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:24.200 kind of blocks the ads inside Safari. And so you know, 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.440 there's a benefit. It's not just the ads, it's really 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.319 privacy protection as well that you're getting. And a lot 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.480 of the times these ads can sometimes they can be 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.960 in you know, or try to install malware on your phone. 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:36.319 A lot of those pop ups that you see that 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.160 says the FBI, is looking at your phone, or FBI 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.040 warning or virus warning. Those are being served up by 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:45.160 malicious ads and they're not meant to be doing that, 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.040 but sometimes they just slip through because a lot of 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:52.640 the ADS systems are automated, and so the bad actors 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:57.400 can put these ads in and sure they're approved automatically, 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.679 but then of course an hour or so later, they're 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.120 not a proved and in that time they've already done 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.600 enough damage. So I would definitely recommend the ad guard 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:09.600 for iOS and also for Android. There's also I mean, 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.000 there's a bunch of them on on iOS, like Crystal 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.160 I think is another one, but there's a whole bunch. 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:19.040 You can also install the Firefox what's it called Firefox 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:24.680 Focus web browser and you can you can toggle on that. 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:29.000 It has its own Safari ad blocker as well built 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.400 in there, so it's a little different. Let me, I've 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.400 it's been a long time since I enabled this, so 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.320 let me go into my settings and see what the 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.480 deal is that you go into settings and then Safari 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:44.640 and let's see does it have okay here it is? 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:46.800 So you go all the way down under the settings 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.960 and Safari and it says content blockers and then you 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.520 can do use content blockers on all websites, and so 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.600 that's the way you do it there. But you can 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.680 do it that way. You can also download the Brave 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.160 browser for either phone and that will block the ads 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:03.760 on there as well. Or you can download that for 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:07.720 your desktop too. Now on desktop for Chrome, I like 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:11.439 the u Block Origin ad blocker, and that's a good 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.200 one because it's nice and lightweight. I mean it's used 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.520 by ten million people and it's a very like simple 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:22.320 ad blocking software for that, so good question. And you 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:24.959 know it's they have their place. Like sometimes it's annoying 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.200 because if you're trying to click on an AD and 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.160 you can't. It's like, especially with Google Results, like a 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:33.920 lot of times I want to click an AD because 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.920 it's like the most direct link that I want, and 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.559 it's like sometimes it's broken. So there is a downside 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.520 to doing it. You just have to weigh the pros 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:46.840 and the cons of whether it works for you. All right, 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.199 So let's talk about you probably saw this in the news. 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.319 It was everywhere, but the whole deal with the airlines 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:56.840 and the five G networks around the airports. So of course, 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:00.160 in typical fashion, with anything that's tech related. There's there's 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.800 just a lot of like, you know, bad narratives out there, 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.120 misleading narratives, or just a lot of stuff that you know, 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.480 you're like, okay, is this real, Like what's the deal? 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.360 So I looked into some of the things that is 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.880 going on with this whole you know, with the whole 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:21.240 five G. So the main thing is that AT and 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:27.040 T and Verizon this week they both activated their five 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:31.600 G networks in the C band, which is a super 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:36.160 fast spectrum. And so the reality is that the five 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.200 G networks nationwide or at least wherever they put these 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.120 are going to be a lot faster. And so they 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.920 really really are. And I can tell you just in 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:48.480 my experience just driving around town in the past twenty 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:52.160 four hours, I can't believe how many places now have 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.280 this ultra wide band. And so with AT and T, 0:14:55.880 --> 0:15:00.440 they opened it up in let's see, eight metro areas, 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:06.600 and those metro areas include Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Worth, Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, Orlando, 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.280 and South Florida. And so that's where they did it. 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:13.320 Now Verizon went a little wider with this and they 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:17.320 are doing one hundred million people in the in the 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:21.320 US this month, so five G ultra, So that's seventeen 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.400 hundred cities across the nation that they're opening up this 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.960 ultra wideband network, and that means that you know what 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.280 I've seen in LA, it's it's pretty expansive. I mean, 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.080 I'm catching this signal in a lot more places now 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.200 in just the past forty eight hours. And it's it's 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.880 pretty awesome because once you have this signal, it is fast. 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.520 I mean I'm talking really fast, like I'm talking faster 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.240 than your Internet at home. Fast, like a gig down 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:50.680 in a perfect world. And so you might notice on 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.080 your phone if you look in the upper you know, 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.800 upper corner of your phone where your your five G 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:59.680 signal typically lives. On AT and T, if you're on 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.760 that newer network, it'll say five G plus, it'll have 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:06.160 a little plus. And on Verizon if you're on the 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:09.640 five G the super fast one, it'll say five G UW. 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:13.120 And when you see UW, you immediately go to Netflix 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.560 and you download a movie or download something or do 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:20.760 anything that involves a lot of horsepower with downloading stuff 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.320 from the internet. Because it is really really fast, you'll 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.720 burn through whatever data plan you have, you don't have 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:30.440 unlimited in about one second. Okay, So that is what's 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.680 happening with these with the five g Okay. Now when 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.640 it comes to the airport, Oh and by the way, 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:39.200 you have to have a certain device to take advantage. 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.240 Now it's typically the newer devices. So we're talking the 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:46.000 Galaxy S twenty one lineup, the Z fold, the z Flip, 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.280 the Pixel six and Pixel six Pro which are coming 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:50.680 soon with support who knows what that means when it 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.400 comes to Google, and then all the iPhone twelves and 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.640 iPhone thirteen's. So if you have one of those phones, 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.200 those are the phones that will take advantage of the 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:03.120 new five networks there and on AT and T. I 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.479 don't have a list of the phones, but you can 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.800 imagine it's pretty much the same same kind of thing. 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.399 The newer phones will take advantage of that. Now, what 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:15.440 happened with the planes? Okay, So around the airports, there's 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.760 a concern that this new network is very close to 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:23.840 the frequency that the altimeters on the airplanes use. Now 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:27.359 we are talking just the last twenty seconds of a flight, 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.160 and it's very important in those last twenty seconds because 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.840 the plane is touching down, and it needs to know 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.639 or the pilot needs to know exactly how far that 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:37.440 plane is from the ground. I don't know if you've 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.040 ever been on a plane when it lands and it 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.240 kind of does that not a hard landing, because that's like, 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.080 I think that's a term for like a you know, 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.560 really hard landing. But I'm saying just one of those 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.919 landings where you know, the plane hits the ground just 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.520 a little bit harder than you thought it would. And 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:55.360 that's all because it is very precise when these airlines 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.480 are bringing the plane down. It's it's like, you know, 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:01.479 it starts with a than feet and a five hundred, 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:03.639 you know whatever, two hundred one, and it's gonna, you know, 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.119 imagine bringing this giant thing that weighs so much and 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:09.600 just tapping it to the ground ever so lightly, because 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:11.440 if you tap it really hard, you know, you're gonna 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:14.639 mess that thing up. And so that's why the last 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.919 little portion of that flight is very crucial. So the 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:21.280 whole thing is that the last twenty seconds are critical. 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.480 They're worried that these altimeters could be influenced by the 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:26.880 five G. We're not really sure if that's one hundred 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.719 percent the case, but that's the concern. And so I 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:32.679 was reading this thing from the FCC and they said, well, 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.199 what about other countries they do this, And so in 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.760 places like France they have they have done a buffer 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.440 zone around the airport's kind of like what we're talking 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:46.040 about here in the US. And also the antennas are 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.399 turned down towards the ground instead of up, they're not 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:52.560 aimed up around the airports. That helps the frequency kind 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:55.159 of stay more towards the ground and not up towards 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:58.000 the sky towards the plane to interfere. And also the 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:02.720 power that we're we're letting the carriers activate their networks 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:06.080 at here is apparently a little higher than the power 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.680 that they're allowed to use over in Europe. So those 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:11.320 are kind of some of the reasons that they're concerned. 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.280 I've heard other things that maybe this is kind of 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:18.800 a political thing or just you know, a bureaucratic thing. 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.399 You know, the government agencies are kind of fighting. I mean, 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:24.359 it's all there's so much like what's going on with this? 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.440 Because also why did it take you know, everyone knew 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:29.840 what days these networks were going to light up. Why 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.000 did it take until the last minute for this whole 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:35.200 thing to kind of develop, you know, where they said, Okay, 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.639 we're going to give another two week time period to 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.840 kind of sort things out. So in the meantime, the 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.800 wireless companies have lit up the spectrum in places that 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.320 are not the airports, and they've kind of built these 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:51.440 buffer zones around the airports. So that's what's happening and 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:54.640 with these with this whole situation, and it's just it's 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:59.280 very odd, you know, but that's what's happening. So now 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:09.320 you know, all right, let's get to another question here, Rich, 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:11.400 can you help me understand something please. I just read 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:15.400 an article about clearing apples Safari browser issues and recommendations 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:19.399 to clear history and website data. I happen to notice 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:21.639 that in the Apple setting Safari all the way at 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:25.600 the bottom is a section called experimental features, and certain 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:28.840 things are on. What are experimental features? And should there 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:30.840 be features turned on? I appreciate your time and all 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:36.160 the great tips you give on your site and your broadcast. Respectfully, Mark, Mark, 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:39.879 very respectfully. I would not play in there unless you 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:43.280 have a reason to. Because I'm looking at this and 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:45.960 I you know, I never really looked at this, but 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:50.399 this is okay, experimental features are all kinds of like 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.680 wild things that you just don't need to worry about. 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:56.480