WEBVTT - First Color Kindle, New iPad Mini & Tracking Cats 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:05.200 Amazon has its first Kindle with a color screen, a 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:08.360 new iPad many from Apple, but they didn't improve one 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:13.240 key feature, and how to enable Android's new theft detection feature. 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:16.800 Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on. I'm Rich 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:20.439 Demiro and this is Rich on Tech. This is the 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:22.600 show where I talk about the tech stuff I think 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:24.799 you should know about. It's also the place where I 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.600 answer your questions about technology. I believe the tech should 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:33.080 be interesting, useful and fun. Let's open up those phone 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:37.280 lines at triple A Rich one oh one. That's eight 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:42.400 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:45.239 All right, we got some great guests this week. We're 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:49.840 gonna talk to swan dot COM's CEO, Corey Clipston. He's 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.440 gonna talk about bitcoin and the current state of the 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:56.880 cryptocurrency market. I went to the Bitcoin Day this week, 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:00.160 and uh, it's quite interesting to see all the bitcoin 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.320 getting together. They are really into this stuff and it's 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:04.040 kind of exciting. 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:05.039 So we'll talk to Corey. 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.360 Then later in the show, we've got Consumer Reports Suki 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:13.560 Golatti to talk permission Slip. This is their tool to 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:18.280 help you reduce your digital footprint and protect your online privacy. 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.880 Suki will join us a little bit later in the show. Well, 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:25.000 it is fall, it is spooky time, it's pumpkin patch time. 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:27.200 Went to the pumpkin patch with the kids last night, 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:29.520 had a nice time. It was a little emptier than 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.319 previous years. But it's one of those traditions that I 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.520 grew up on the East Coast, always going to the 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.319 pumpkin patch and taken. We did a lot of haunted 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.360 hay rides there. But my kids California, it's a little 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:43.280 bit different because sometimes you go to the pumpkin patch 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.280 and it's like eighty degrees. Thankfully, last night it was not. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:51.040 That was fun always, you know, it's just tradition. Gotta 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.840 do the tradition. On Instagram, by the way, I was 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.040 just posting something and I don't know if you noticed this, 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.400 but when you go into your stories, when you look 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.640 at the top, there's like little bats that fly around 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:02.440 on the lettering. 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:04.240 So I was like, what is that? What is that? 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:04.760 What is that? 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:08.240 And so if you look at that, it's actually Halloween writing. 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.200 So if you go to my Instagram at rich On 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:11.440 Tech you can see I used it. 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:11.880 I love it. 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.280 It's a classic kind of like Halloween writing, and you 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.079 have to scroll all the way to the left. Let's 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:21.000 see what it's called. Let's see here, so go here create, 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:24.440 let's see. Oh you got to post a picture first. Well, 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.880 I'm glad I'm doing this on live radio. Very very exciting. 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:30.200 All right, tap that. Oh it's just called Halloween writing. 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:30.640 There you go. 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.320 It's funny too whenever I go to these events, I've 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.359 been testing phones for so long. To me, it's all 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.320 about when I look back in my pictures and my 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.840 Google Photos, It's all about the progression of the cameras. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:43.840 Like I've been taking pictures of my kids at the 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.799 same pumpkin patch for ten years, and it's like back 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:48.839 in the day, the pictures were just so bad. 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:50.079 They didn't look bad back then. 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.160 Now they look bad, and so I see that progression 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:54.920 of Like last night, I was using the new iPhone 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.760 sixteen pro and it's like, oh, wow, these look pretty good. 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.960 A little tip by the way, I was organizing. I'm 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:02.959 always organizing my Google Photos collection. 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:03.200 You know. 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.000 Google Photos is my preferred way to store my photos. 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:08.959 Always looking for ways to kind of like delete stuff 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:10.400 out of there that I don't need anymore. 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:11.600 And I found a pretty good search. 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.960 Just search for the word blurry, and it'll bring up 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.600 all the pictures that hurt, like nonsense, blurry pictures that 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.200 you've taken over the years, and you could just go 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.360 through and delete a bunch of those. It also brings 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.079 up blurry videos, and that's a good way to just 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.280 kind of prune. I love pruning. That's like in some 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.920 people might prune their plants outside. No, I'm just pruning 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.520 like my Google photos collection all day every day. I 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:36.280 thought this was interesting. Today I was filling up my 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.320 water bottle from the fridge and I noticed that the filter, 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:43.960 which seems to go very fast, needed a replacement. And 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:46.160 you know, I've got these Amazon Echoes around the house. 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:47.960 I've been telling you about how I replaced a bunch 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.000 of my Sono speakers, which I'm still enjoying, by the way. 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.680 I love the voice control on those things. But every 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.040 once in a while, the Amazon Echo will have like 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:57.680 a green light on it and I'm like, all right, 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.520 you got me, like, Alexa, what do you thinking? 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:01.520 And that's what I say to it. 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.160 And it's like, I've got a notification you seem to 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.440 be running out of your whatever that you ordered six 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.240 months ago, and it's been pretty spot on with some 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.760 of the things. And I said, you know what, actually 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:13.480 you can help me right now. Can you reorder my 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.599 water filter for the fridge? And sure enough, she brought 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.480 up the old one that I've ordered over the past 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.919 couple of years and said, here it is. It's forty dollars. 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:22.719 Would you like me to place the order for you? 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.400 And I said sure. Well, first she said I'll put 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.680 it in the car, and I said, well, actually, you 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.640 can go ahead and order that, and so she just 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.320 went ahead and said, okay, I have placed the order, 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:33.600 which I thought was incredible. I mean, I get it. 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.479 They put all these Alexas, these echo speakers in people's homes, 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.080 hoping that they would one day order items from them. 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:40.000 I'm not sure how many. 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.920 People actually do that, but I did. And it's kind 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.279 of fun, kind of easy because it knows what you've 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.320 ordered in the past, so it just defaults to that. 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:50.960 And so I thought of a cruel prank, which do 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:54.080 not do this. But what if you were at someone's 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:57.160 house and you just ordered stuff off their echo. I mean, 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.320 are these things like linked to their actual voice. I'm 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.599 not sure they are. Do not do this, Please, do 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:03.480 not say, rich On Tech told you to do this, 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.600 but I'm just you know, my mind goes to, like 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.920 all the different ways that this could be used nefariously, 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.360 and that's one of them. I mean, it's like, these 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.200 things are everywhere anyway, don't do that. You can always 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.880 cancel the order, but I mean, it's just kind of 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:21.320 a weird prank to play on your friends. Something else 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.400 I tried this week, I flew back to New Jersey. 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.040 Last week's show was from New Jersey. 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:27.640 You know, I do these shows live, so I love 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.520 being live no matter where I am. But I'm back 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.520 here in Los Angeles today. But I did try something new. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.200 I'm always trying something. Whatever is available, I will try 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.720 it because I love technology. I'm just going to see 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.520 how this stuff works. So TSA pre check they have 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:45.160 this thing called touchless ID. While you're checking in, it's like, hey, 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.240 do you want to go touchless? I'm like, all right, 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.720 let me try it. I've tried the digital ID, I've 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.360 tried just about everything they offer, but I was like, 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.800 let me try touchless. So basically, you use your face 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.320 for recognition at the TSA pre check line instead of 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.120 your ID. And so I said, all right, let's try it. 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.520 So I get to the pre check and there's two 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.880 separate lines. One is the touchless ID which uses your 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.840 face and your boarding pass has like a green outline 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.400 around it to like signify that you've opted into this. 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.160 Because you can't do it at the airport, you have 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.760 to do it at check in. So the line was 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.839 like significantly shorter than the regular pre check line, which 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.320 is significantly shorter than the regular security line. And so 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.080 I get up to the front and of course I'm 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:27.520 like waiting for the person to be like, we don't 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.400 do that, but they said, okay, stand there, take your picture. 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:31.200 You take a picture. 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:32.800 You't have to take anything out, you don't have to 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.480 show anything, and somehow it scans your face. Next thing, 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.479 you know, okay, you can go checks against your boarding pass, 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:43.080 which is pretty impressive. So I was wondering how this worked, right, 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.120 because where do they get my picture from. I didn't 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.279 submit a picture to anyone. I'll tell you about that 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.279 in a second. But then when on the way back, 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.159 I saw that you can do a self bag tag 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.960 with just your face, and so I was like, all right, well, 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:56.200 let me take this to the next level. 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.320 Let me check in my bags without showing anything. 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.000 You know, usually when you check in your bag, unless 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.080 you're going like first class, you know you have a person. 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.760 But usually if you're just going the regular class like 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.280 everyone else like I am, typically you just go up 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.240 to a little machine. You type in your number or 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.440 you scan your barcode, and it spits out the bag 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.640 tag and bag. Some places I've seen were actually tag 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:19.760 it yourself, Like when I was coming back from Hawaii, 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.360 I actually literally put the bag tag on my bag, 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.040 like I am an airline employee now, like I'm trained 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.760 to do this stuff, and you know, my bag made it. 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.920 But you know, sometimes with the airline, usually the airline 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.920 I fly typically has someone that does it for you. Anyway, 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:36.680 I stand in front of this little machine, takes a 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:38.760 picture of my face and it says okay, and it 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.240 spits out the bagtag. Someone comes from behind the scenes 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.400 and they put the thing on my bag and that's it. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.360 Didn't have to show my ID to verify it's me 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:47.760 because they already did. 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:48.000 So. 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.080 I asked the person, I said, hey, where are you 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.560 getting my picture from for all this technology? And they said, oh, 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.680 it's from your passport, so yeah, sure enough. I looked 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.440 up a little bit more information. TSA pre check touchless 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:02.680 identity solution is being test. It's totally optional, it's opt 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:04.880 in if you want to do it. It compares your 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:09.440 live facial images to pre existing government photo IDs, So 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.080 guessing that's your passport most of the time, unless you've 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.320 submitted something else, maybe during pre check. I guess you 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.040 did have to submit a picture. It's currently being tested 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.480 at some airports with Delta and United. You can opt 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.200 in during your mobile check in and they collect data 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.880 including your live photo, your passport number, and your known 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:30.760 traveler numbers. They say the information is anonymized, encrypted and 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.520 deleted within one hundred and eighty days. And of course 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:37.320 this is all aiming to enhance security and streamline the 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:41.520 verification process. So I don't know, I mean, it's just 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.400 these little things that are happening in our world that 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:44.319 are just progressing. 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:44.880 I get it. 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:46.480 There's a lot of pros and cons with all this 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:51.280 facial technology, facial recognition, but the reality is they've got it. 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:55.040 If you've been uploading your photos to Facebook, to Instagram, 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:59.320 maybe even Twitter, all this stuff is being scanned for 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.960 AI and it's being sliced and diced in a million 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:06.600 different ways. Remember Facebook was tagging people in photos years ago. 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.240 I mean we're talking probably a decade ago. All of 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:10.959 a sudden you'd get a thing that said, hey, you 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:12.439 showed up in someone's picture, and they'd be like, I 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.560 didn't tag you in that. It was just automatically applying 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:19.920 the tag. So the information's out there. I think moving forward, 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:24.720 what's really important is how is this information used. Are 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:28.960 the organizations thinking about the privacy of this information? And 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.560 of course, when you share any information, always be thinking 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:36.000 about how private it is, what the implications are of 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.480 sharing that information, and what could go wrong if that 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.480 information gets out If my photo that I took at 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.600 the TSA pre check, you know, gets out there in 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.080 the world. Not the end of the world. I mean, 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.240 people already know what I look like. It's really just 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.680 a general awareness I think you should have about how 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.800 you're sharing your information and where I would actually argue 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.800 that sharing your information for one of those like sweepstakes, 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:01.400 when you go to like a football game or something. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.320 You know, it's like when this new car and you 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.240 fill out this whole form with like all of your 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:09.400 information and all of your identifying information and your your 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:12.880 just everything you know how many kids live in your house, 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.880 your household information. I feel like that is actually going 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:17.960 into a bigger database that will be used against you 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:19.920 than my photo at the TSA pre check. 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:22.280 But again, think about this stuff and be aware of 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:23.520 this stuff. All right. 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:25.160 Coming up on the show, we're going to talk a 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.640 lot of stuff. We've got many many things coming up. 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.120 I'm going to talk about the new color Kindle. We've 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:34.120 got that. Apple also came out with a new iPad Mini, 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:38.280 so we've got that. You've got the website that's rich 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.560 on Tech dot TV. So if you want to go 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.560 there get in touch with me, you can do that 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.560 by hitting contact. You can get show notes there by 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.079 hitting the light bulb, and you can give me a call. 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.559 Eight to eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.800 eight seven four to two four one zero one. My 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.280 name is rich Darmiro. You are listening to rich on Tech. 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.120 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:07.599 out with you, talking technology at triple eight rich. 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.079 One oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.120 two four one zero one. The email. 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:14.760 If you want to get in touch with me that way, 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.679 go to the website rich on Tech dot TV hit 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:22.480 contact and we got an email from Steve about the 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.920 Alexa ordering. He said, I've never used it to order, 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.920 but I do believe there's an optional pin that probably 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.360 makes a lot of sense. In fact, if you do 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:33.280 not live alone, I would probably enable that. Probably smarter 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:36.360 to do that, although I have enabled the pin on 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.280 the Amazon Prime Video because of my kids, and it's 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.559 such a nightmare, Like every time I want to watch something, 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:43.960 which is not very often, but this is probably why 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.640 I don't watch a lot on Prime Video, I have 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.480 to put in this pin that's like, you know, six 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.920 digits on my remote control, and it just keeps me 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.680 basically from watching anything on Amazon Prime. Speaking of Amazon, 0:11:56.160 --> 0:12:01.400 let's see here. Amazon updated their entire Kindle family, including 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:06.920 the first ever color Kindle. Now I know the Kindle 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.240 is known for having a page that looks just like 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.360 the printed page. This still uses e ink, so I 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:16.480 do like that. You've got four new Kindle models hitting 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.800 the market, including that first ever color Kindle. They also 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:23.840 reimagine the Kindle Scribe with some AI features. They've got 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:27.520 the fastest Kindle paper white yet, and then they've got 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:31.160 the new entry level Kindle in a fun Macha color 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.320 I don't know if you know about this trend started 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:39.199 on TikTok, where people they basically decorate their kindles. It's 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.880 like a whole thing. I mean, books are popular now 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:45.280 because of TikTok. They call it book talk. So these 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.200 these people they recommend books that they're reading other people 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.240 read them. Oh my gosh, what a concept, people reading 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:51.840 books again. 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:52.400 I love it. 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:56.000 So the Kindle Colorsoft, I think is the most notable 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:59.120 model here. This is the first kindle with a color display. 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:03.959 So it's color pages, it's got color pictures. It's also 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.240 got color on the screen. So if you want to 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.040 look at the cover of your book in full color, 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:10.719 you can do that, and then if you want to 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:12.360 highlight in color, you can do that. 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:14.840 Now. Do I think this is necessary on the Kindle? 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:15.520 No? 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.920 But is it nice to have. Sure, Like if you 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:19.880 read graphic. 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.080 Novels, kids are reading books on there, that's kind of 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:25.280 cool to have color for that. If you read comic 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:28.840 books on there, I think this was inevitable to have 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:29.680 the color Kindle. 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:31.880 Do you need it tomorrow? Probably not. 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.160 I can't think of a reason why I want the 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.480 Color Kindle except for the fact that it's brand new 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.560 and available, and I'm really fighting that urge to get one, 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.200 because why do I need this thing. I've been reading 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.040 books in black and white forever, and I like the 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.680 fact that the kindle is closer to the printed page. 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.520 It does not look like an iPad, It does not 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.440 look like a smartphone screen, it does not look like 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.200 a computer screen. So even when I'm reading my Kindle, 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.760 I do not feel like I am engaging with technology. 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:00.840 And that's the whole beauty of the Kindle is that, 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.760 even though it is very high tech, the technology blends 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.200 into the background and you actually just focus on reading. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:08.679 And I do love my Kindle. I really do prefer 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:14.240 it over physical books a majority of the time. Let's see, okay, 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:18.560 colorsoft is waterproof, which is nice. Bring it in the bath, 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.000 you can bring it to the beach. It also has 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.520 wireless charging, so they did that for a reason make 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:27.120 it easier to charge, obviously, But this only gets eight 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.120 weeks of battery life. And I know that sounds like 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.080 a lot, but if you're like me, you don't charge 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.120 your kindle very much. I don't, so eight weeks is 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:38.840 noticeably shorter than say, the months that a standard kindle 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:42.080 would last. Okay, Next up the Kindles Scribe, and I'll 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:43.400 tell you the prices afterwards. 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:44.440 Kindlescribe. 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:46.280 Remember this is the Kindle that is like a little 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.000 bit bigger of a screen. You can write on it. 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:51.440 It's almost like a notebook. So this has new borders, 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:55.640 smaller borders in book writing experience. You can actually write 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:59.560 inside the pages that you're reading and the text will 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.960 wrap a it, which I thought was pretty cool. It's 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.280 got an AI powered notebook for summarizing your own handwritten notes. 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.640 This is for pre order. It will ship on December fourth. 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.320 Then you've got the Kindle paper White. This is the 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.080 Kindle I think that a majority of people should buy. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.280 This is the one that has a faster page turns. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.440 They're twenty five percent faster. It's got the highest contrast 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.480 ratio of any Kindle. It's got a larger seven inch 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.920 displace just a little bit larger there. But it's also 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.640 the thinnest paper white ever, and that gets you up 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.520 to three months of battery life. So for my money, 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.600 I think the Kindle Paper White is probably the best 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.680 bang for your buck for everyone because you're getting kind 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:42.040 of like the best looking screen, the thinnest. Also, it's bigger, 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:43.920 and so I think that that's going to be probably 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:47.400 the best for most people. And then you've got the 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.160 entry level kindle, which I get it's probably the most 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.600 tempting because it goes on sale the most. It's obviously 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.000 the cheapest, but I think if you spend just a 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.520 little bit more, you're going to get that kindle. Paper 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.200 white is just a better, better value for your money. 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.920 But this is the smallest kindle, it's the most affordable. 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.680 Obviously comes in that new Machta color. How do you 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.600 say that Macha macha color? Not machta macha. It's like 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:14.480 macha tea, Macha green tea. It's like a green, yeah, green, 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:17.160 it's green. But you know, we gotta say macha because 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:21.120 that's what the TikTokers are. You know, everything on Instagram is, 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:26.120 you know, it's all about esthetics. It's aesthetics everything, Like 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:29.560 there are literally people on Instagram where everything is just 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.240 like a certain color or a certain vibe or a 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:32.960 certain theme. 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:34.320 It's all about aesthetics. 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.080 And they make a lot of money promoting just stuff 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:38.280 that's aesthetically pleasing. 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:39.240 Yeah, it's a big thing. 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.040 This has twenty five percent brighter front light, so that's 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:43.920 the entry level kindle. 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:44.880 How much are these things? 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.640 Entry level Kindle starts at one hundred and ten dollars, 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:50.560 Kindle paper white starts at one hundred and sixty, the 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:54.200 color soft with that color screen two hundred and eighty dollars, 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.840 and then the Kindlescribe starts at four hundred dollars. Keep 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.400 in mind you're gonna want a case for any of 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.720 these things. That adds another fifty dollars to it, whatever, 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:05.440 maybe twenty if you get the knockoff cases. But again, 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.520 do not buy these things full price. Do not buy 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.520 the kindles full price. They always go on sale, and 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:13.320 you can trade in your old Kindle to get twenty 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.160 percent off the nuance, So stack that with a sale. 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:20.280 Put this thing in your Amazon cart, save it for later, watch. 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:21.080 When it goes on sale. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.720 Eighty eight Rich one on one Rich on tech dot TV. 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.479 Submit your question there. We'll get to your questions right 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:33.880 after this. Let's get to us Stephanie in Los Angeles. 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:35.120 Stephanie are on with Rich. 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:41.560 Hi, Hi, Rich, I need some help in regard to telephones. 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.960 All I have now is a landline. I'm a senior citizen, 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:51.040 as you might guess, I have m acular degeneration, which 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:55.879 means I need oversized numbers, letters, markings on it. My 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.119 landline went out during the week and I was stuck 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:03.080 here with no community vacation whatever, which made me realize 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.800 it's a long overdue that I get a cell phone, 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:09.199 a mobile phone, an iPhone what I referred to as 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:15.280 magic machine for emergencies, and I'm hoping that you can 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:21.120 make some suggestion emergencies and businesses. I don't need any colors, music, lights, whistles, 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:22.080 anything like that. 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.879 Yeah, so you just want a simple phone that you 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.160 can use to call in the event that your landline 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:27.600 goes out. 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:28.480 Exactly. 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:32.160 Okay, Well, the website that I would check out is, well, 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:32.920 there's a couple of things. 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:34.840 So there's there's actually I have. 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.720 No website, no computer, no TV, no you know, I 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:42.000 barely have a doorbell I have I have I don't 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:45.480 have any technology except for the landline, and I have 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:46.360 indoor plumbing. 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:47.359 Oh wow. 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:51.719 Okay, well so then it sounds like you need to go. 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:53.600 Can you go? Can you make it into a store. 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:55.120 Yeah, I have a caregiver. 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:59.600 Okay, okay, Well, I mean I would say for you, 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:03.920 you probably want to get a phone that has large 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:06.960 numbers on it, and that's basically it. Now, there is 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:11.840 a phone that's made specifically for folks with a sort 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:16.000 of a vision impairment or you know, so I'm trying 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:16.479 to find it. 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:17.720 I did a story with it. 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:22.240 Saw that the Great Sea Sun Assistive Tech conference, and 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:23.920 they had all kinds of great stuff and this was 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:25.960 one of them on display. Now, the problem is it's 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:27.600 a little expensive, so I don't know how much you 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:31.159 want to spend. But this phone, it's called Blind Shell 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:34.679 B L I N D S H E l L. 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.040 And what I like about this is that they specifically 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:42.439 created the phone to work for users like yourself, and 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:46.080 so all of the features on it are are really good. 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:48.919 Not only are the buttons really big, but the you know, 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:51.720 it's very simple. The letters on the screen are nice 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.320 and big. But it also can call out everything that 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:56.359 you do. So if you dial a number and you 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:58.520 dial three, it will say the number three as you 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:01.720 press it, which I really like as well. So that 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.120 the problem with that is that it's a little pricey, 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.720 and I wish they would come out with a simpler one. 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:10.040 But that's that that would be the first thing I 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:11.600 would tell your caregiver about. 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:13.879 Is blind Where do I find it? 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:15.480 That You're gonna have to get online? 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:19.159 Typically, so you got to tell the caregiver to to 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:23.240 check out blind shell dot com. Okay, got that, so 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:26.320 blindshell dot com the other website. Now, you can also 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:30.720 walk into like a you know, a consumer cellular kind 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:32.800 of place if you want to get a phone from them, 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:35.680 or just go into like a Verizon store and see 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:37.359 what's your You don't have a carrier at all. 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:39.120 Huh, I don't have a carrier, okay. 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.040 So what I would do is look for, you know, 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:45.040 maybe one of the carriers, whoever your your caregiver's carrier is, 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:48.399 maybe walk into their store and they typically sell a 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:50.639 couple of flip phones. You can even go into a 0:20:50.680 --> 0:20:53.320 Walmart and and just see, like what flip phones they 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:55.840 have with big numbers. That's all I think you need 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:57.960 at this point is just a flip phone with big numbers, 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.840 and that's it. Okay, So and that's it, and then 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:03.840 just get it activated, get it on a plan. It 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:05.359 doesn't sound like you need a lot of minutes, so 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:07.200 you can get it on a plan that's maybe prepaid 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.280 for the whole year at once or monthly whatever you need, 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:13.160 but you don't need like a big unlimited plan from 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:16.920 something like a AT and T or Verizon, because it's 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:19.640 just going to be wasteful. So get something maybe that's 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:23.240 you know, even pre paid, but that you know, those 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:26.040 those those will work for you. And I think the 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:27.800 other website that I like if you want to look 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:31.359 for phones that are just simple is Dumbwireless dot Com 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:33.480 did a story with them. It's a couple in Los 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:36.200 Angeles that's trying to, you know, help spread the word 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:38.600 about these simple phones. And they've got a bunch on 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:41.399 their website that at least can give you some ideas 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:44.320 for the simple phones and you might end up purchasing one. 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:49.640 So again, Dumb Wireless Consumer Cellular, check them out, blind 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:52.000 Shell check them out, and maybe just go into a 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:54.080 Walmart pick up a flip phone and just prepay it 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:56.760 for the year and that'll be perfect if you ever 0:21:56.760 --> 0:21:59.399 need it in the event of emergency or if your 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:02.680 phone goes out. Thanks for the call, Stephanie, do appreciate it, 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:07.280 Mike writes in Let's see, I bought a Wi Fi 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:10.480 extender antenna and now it's installed, but I don't know 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:11.159 how to set it up. 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:13.159 With all the ring and r low equipment that I have. 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:15.520 My question is how to find someone to help me out, 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:18.040 But I'm not even sure what to search home Wi Fi. 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:19.280 Home security CCTV. 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:23.360 I live near Santa Clarita and Palmdale on a large property, 0:22:23.400 --> 0:22:25.600 so extended Wi Fi is important to set up my 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:26.480 security cameras. 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:28.600 Any help is appreciated. Thank you. 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:32.080 So, Mike, I would just search on Yelp for home 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:36.040 network installation. So Yelp will have a great amount of 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:39.000 people that do this stuff. Home network installation. You can 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:43.360 search home automation. You can search TV mounting, a lot 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:46.240 of those folks will do it as well, and security systems, 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:49.320 so any of those searches will yield someone in your area. 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:52.159 When it comes to selecting someone, what I like to 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:54.800 do is not only look for nice reviews, but also 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:58.280 call maybe the top two people that you decide on 0:22:58.640 --> 0:23:00.560 and just get a feel for them. So if they 0:23:00.640 --> 0:23:02.720 are nice to you on the phone, if they have 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:04.760 time for you on the phone, if they answer your 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:08.679 questions in a nice manner, then they will probably be 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:12.480 nice when you actually need them to install this, and 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:15.200 also afterwards if you have any problems with them, if. 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:17.280 They're short with you. If they tell you, hey, can 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:18.040 you send me a text? 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:20.199 Whatever? Make this quick? You probably don't want to do 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:22.640 business with them. So again, just search for those things. 0:23:22.680 --> 0:23:25.000 You might even just search for exactly what you're trying 0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:29.040 to do, ring cameras or r low cameras and put 0:23:29.040 --> 0:23:31.400 that into Yelp and see what happens there. But those 0:23:31.440 --> 0:23:33.439 are the way to do it, and that should be 0:23:33.560 --> 0:23:34.200 what you need. 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:36.320 Let's see. 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:42.439 Lori writes in from Canal Fulton, Ohio. What's the next 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:47.119 best Apple phone? After the twelve Mini? I prefer smaller phones, 0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:52.640 probably because I started with a BlackBerry. Any recommendations, Well, Laurie, 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:55.639 what about the iPhone thirteen Mini? So if you go 0:23:55.680 --> 0:24:00.400 to Apple's website, they do not continue to sell the 0:24:00.440 --> 0:24:03.719 previous phones after the original the new phones are out. 0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:05.960 They only have a selection of them. So if you 0:24:05.960 --> 0:24:08.199 go to Apple dot com and you look at the 0:24:08.240 --> 0:24:11.520 phones that they sell after they release the new iPhone, 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:15.640 they typically discontinue certain old phones. So right now they're 0:24:15.640 --> 0:24:20.160 selling the iPhone sixteen Pro, the iPhone sixteen, the iPhone fifteen, 0:24:20.560 --> 0:24:24.600 the iPhone fourteen, and the iPhone se. So my advice 0:24:24.800 --> 0:24:27.120 is go to a third party website get the iPhone 0:24:27.160 --> 0:24:30.520 thirteen Mini. So this phone was released about three years ago, 0:24:30.840 --> 0:24:32.600 which means is not gonna be the newest, not gonna 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:34.080 be the best, but it's gonna be an upgrade over 0:24:34.119 --> 0:24:37.120 the twelve Mini, and I would say it probably has 0:24:37.160 --> 0:24:40.640 about three years of software updates left, so you can 0:24:40.680 --> 0:24:43.280 get this right now, and then what I would do is, 0:24:43.400 --> 0:24:44.879 you know, just use that for the next couple of 0:24:44.960 --> 0:24:48.439 years until it's discontinued. Now, there's a difference between a 0:24:48.440 --> 0:24:53.159 phone being discontinued software wise and hardware wise, So theoretically 0:24:53.240 --> 0:24:56.440 the iPhone or I guess currently the iPhone thirteen Mini 0:24:56.960 --> 0:25:00.920 is discontinued. Apple's no longer actively making new phones, they're 0:25:00.960 --> 0:25:04.399 not manufacturing those anymore, but they're still supporting it with 0:25:04.560 --> 0:25:08.199 software updates. So that means that you could get this 0:25:08.280 --> 0:25:11.320 phone today and you'll still be security wise and software 0:25:11.320 --> 0:25:14.199 wise fine for the next couple of years. Apple doesn't 0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:17.399 publish the amount of years they support the iPhones, but 0:25:17.520 --> 0:25:21.440 they will tell you when the iPhones are supported through 0:25:21.440 --> 0:25:23.480 the new updates of iOS. So if we look at 0:25:23.560 --> 0:25:27.880 the iOS eighteen right now, they are supporting phones all 0:25:27.920 --> 0:25:32.880 the way back to the iPhone ten R, the eleven, 0:25:33.320 --> 0:25:38.360 the twelve, the thirteen. So if we extrapolate, the thirteen 0:25:38.560 --> 0:25:42.320 is still one two three models ahead of the oldest phone, 0:25:42.760 --> 0:25:46.320 which means they usually drop off one one year every time. 0:25:46.720 --> 0:25:49.480 We're talking three more years of software updates, I would say. 0:25:49.920 --> 0:25:50.040 So. 0:25:50.440 --> 0:25:52.320 I looked up on Amazon. It's about three hundred and 0:25:52.359 --> 0:25:56.159 fifty dollars refurbished. So iPhone thirteen many perfect. It'll be 0:25:56.200 --> 0:25:59.120 a great solution for your iPhone twelve Mini. Nice replacement 0:25:59.200 --> 0:26:01.920 for that. And then what you can do is you 0:26:01.960 --> 0:26:05.320 can buy the iPhone S when the three or two 0:26:05.400 --> 0:26:08.040 years is up. Whenever you're done with this iPhone thirteen Mini, 0:26:08.320 --> 0:26:11.080 then you can go with the iPhone se which is. 0:26:11.000 --> 0:26:12.520 Expected to come out. 0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:17.240 Let's see if you go to MacRumors Buyer's Guide Buyer's 0:26:17.280 --> 0:26:20.399 Guide dot MacRumors dot com, this is an excellent website. 0:26:20.880 --> 0:26:23.320 This will tell you the cycle of the phone. So 0:26:23.400 --> 0:26:26.760 right now, just to give you some perspective, iPhone sixteen 0:26:26.800 --> 0:26:30.280 pro says buy now in large green, and it's only 0:26:30.359 --> 0:26:31.680 been out for thirty six days. 0:26:31.720 --> 0:26:32.120 That's it. 0:26:33.040 --> 0:26:34.760 I can't believe I only had this for thirty six 0:26:34.800 --> 0:26:36.359 days and I actually got it two weeks early, so 0:26:36.400 --> 0:26:40.159 I've had this for a little bit longer. So iPhone S, 0:26:40.520 --> 0:26:44.240 on the other hand, has been out ready nine hundred 0:26:44.280 --> 0:26:48.080 and fifty six days. The average is seven hundred and 0:26:48.119 --> 0:26:49.840 twenty five days. This is what I love about the Internet. 0:26:49.880 --> 0:26:52.000 There's someone that sits there and tracks this stuff, so 0:26:52.040 --> 0:26:54.560 you don't have to and I don't have to. So again, 0:26:54.600 --> 0:26:58.120 buyer's guidet, MacRumors dot com. It's uh, they are rumoring 0:26:58.280 --> 0:27:01.800 that the iPhone S will be updated pretty much any 0:27:01.880 --> 0:27:06.240 day now, so we can expect this. Uh it's supposedly 0:27:06.400 --> 0:27:09.280 in the spring, but we can expect this just any 0:27:09.320 --> 0:27:12.600 moment now. iPhone se So again, that's the that's the 0:27:12.600 --> 0:27:15.080 one i'd wait for. Is for your replacement for this 0:27:15.119 --> 0:27:15.520 other one? 0:27:16.080 --> 0:27:16.440 All right? 0:27:16.440 --> 0:27:19.399 Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven 0:27:19.640 --> 0:27:22.120 four to two four one zero one. The website for 0:27:22.160 --> 0:27:25.280 the show rich on tech dot tv. If you want 0:27:25.280 --> 0:27:28.119 show notes, just hit the light bulb icon. If you 0:27:28.160 --> 0:27:30.119 want to get in touch with me, just hit the 0:27:30.400 --> 0:27:33.280 contact button. Coming up, I'm gonna tell you about the 0:27:33.320 --> 0:27:38.280 new iPad Mini. Speaking of which, iPad Mini, let's see 0:27:38.280 --> 0:27:38.960 how long that went? 0:27:39.080 --> 0:27:42.240 Can I find that real quick? Oh, it's only been us. 0:27:44.160 --> 0:27:45.919 Twenty seven days since they had a new one, but 0:27:46.000 --> 0:27:48.600 now it's available very soon. I will tell you what 0:27:48.640 --> 0:27:51.880 the iPad Mini has and what it doesn't have, coming. 0:27:51.800 --> 0:27:57.360 Up right here on rich On Tech. Let's see here. 0:27:57.520 --> 0:28:02.760 Let's go to uh Morgan, who wrote in from Thousand Oaks. Hey, 0:28:02.840 --> 0:28:04.840 rich I'm moving to a twenty three hundred square foot 0:28:04.880 --> 0:28:07.600 house and a five acre ranch surrounded by avocado trees, 0:28:07.640 --> 0:28:10.439 which means lots of coyotes. I want to get tracking 0:28:10.480 --> 0:28:12.960 callers from my two indoor kiddies in case they get out. 0:28:13.280 --> 0:28:16.520 There are so many options, I'm having difficulty deciding. Any 0:28:16.560 --> 0:28:18.840 advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm a huge fan and 0:28:18.840 --> 0:28:21.160 trust your advice for keeping my kiddy safe. 0:28:22.200 --> 0:28:25.320 Okay, so Morgan, Okay, good. 0:28:25.359 --> 0:28:27.760 I was gonna say, I'm glad these are not outdoor 0:28:27.840 --> 0:28:32.080 cats because with coyotes not good, not a good mix. 0:28:32.200 --> 0:28:35.119 So and even if they get out, you got to 0:28:35.200 --> 0:28:37.159 keep them inside. You don't want these cats outside. So 0:28:37.560 --> 0:28:40.080 couple ways you can do this. So, just to give 0:28:40.120 --> 0:28:42.520 you a basis of understanding, there are a couple things 0:28:42.560 --> 0:28:45.680 going on here. There are callers for pets that have 0:28:45.800 --> 0:28:46.840 GPS built in. 0:28:47.480 --> 0:28:50.320 Now that is going to give you the absolute best. 0:28:50.080 --> 0:28:55.440 Precision location every second that this cat is moving anywhere 0:28:55.440 --> 0:28:57.760 they go, because that is actually going to have a 0:28:57.840 --> 0:29:01.080 cellular connection on it along with GP. Yes, that is 0:29:01.120 --> 0:29:03.760 going to be the most precise. It's also going to 0:29:03.800 --> 0:29:06.000 be the most expensive because they typically come with a 0:29:06.040 --> 0:29:09.240 monthly monitoring fee and the battery life is going to 0:29:09.320 --> 0:29:11.520 be the absolute worst out of all of the solutions. 0:29:12.040 --> 0:29:15.360 So I would say, at the very least, probably don't 0:29:15.360 --> 0:29:19.800 do that because it's probably not the best case scenario. 0:29:19.960 --> 0:29:21.840 So you're going to be charging this thing all the time, 0:29:22.040 --> 0:29:24.000 You're gonna be paying a monthly fee. And again you 0:29:24.040 --> 0:29:27.040 mentioned that these are indoor cats, so this is only 0:29:27.080 --> 0:29:29.520 if they get out you want an idea, but on 0:29:29.520 --> 0:29:32.400 the flip side, you get the best location tracking. So 0:29:32.480 --> 0:29:35.200 the two brands that are probably the tops for this 0:29:35.320 --> 0:29:41.800 are one called Tractive tr ac Tive and then Whistle Whistle. 0:29:43.200 --> 0:29:45.760 I've actually done a story with Whistle and their stuff 0:29:45.840 --> 0:29:49.680 is great. They mostly market it towards dogs, so if 0:29:50.160 --> 0:29:52.200 you'd probably want their smallest one, I would check to 0:29:52.240 --> 0:29:55.360 see what the weight limits are or what the suggested 0:29:55.360 --> 0:29:57.480 weight is, but there typically we did this story with 0:29:57.520 --> 0:29:59.600 a small dog and that was one of the issues 0:29:59.600 --> 0:30:01.320 is that the tracker is a little bit big, so 0:30:02.440 --> 0:30:06.479 but again that's gonna be the most precise. The thing is, 0:30:06.560 --> 0:30:08.720 the battery life is gonna be really bad. So I mean, 0:30:08.720 --> 0:30:11.280 once these things are on full GPS, you're gonna get 0:30:11.280 --> 0:30:13.520 about two days of battery life before this goes dead, 0:30:13.880 --> 0:30:15.680 which means if your cat got out and you didn't 0:30:15.680 --> 0:30:17.440 find them within two days, that's it. 0:30:17.480 --> 0:30:19.720 That collers one hundred percent useless. 0:30:20.280 --> 0:30:23.200 So you can extend that time by creating sort of 0:30:23.240 --> 0:30:26.320 like a geofence around your house, which means the caller, 0:30:26.400 --> 0:30:29.080 if it's in the area that you set for that geofence, 0:30:29.200 --> 0:30:31.760 will not use GPS, which means it's not going to 0:30:31.920 --> 0:30:34.960 use the battery up. It's gonna use Wi Fi around 0:30:35.000 --> 0:30:37.960 the house, which uses much less power. Now, the two 0:30:38.000 --> 0:30:39.800 other ways you can do this is with a tracking 0:30:39.840 --> 0:30:44.200 device like a tile or an air tag or a 0:30:44.240 --> 0:30:47.440 Google tracker or a Samsung tracker. Let me go through 0:30:47.440 --> 0:30:50.480 those real quick. So an air tag obviously is probably 0:30:50.480 --> 0:30:52.320 the most popular way people do this. You get an 0:30:52.360 --> 0:30:54.960 air tag collar on Amazon. You put the air tag 0:30:55.040 --> 0:30:58.000 on your cat cat gets outside. Anyone who has an 0:30:58.040 --> 0:31:00.960 iPhone nearby which Remember, you are in this big area, 0:31:01.200 --> 0:31:03.320 five acre ranch. There's not gonna be a lot of 0:31:03.320 --> 0:31:06.080 iPhones on that five acre ranch, so the chances of 0:31:06.120 --> 0:31:09.600 getting an update on where your cat is located in 0:31:09.600 --> 0:31:13.360 that area is going to be tricky. But the neat 0:31:13.360 --> 0:31:16.160 thing that the air tags have with the new iPhones 0:31:16.280 --> 0:31:20.480 is precision location. So if you are getting close, if 0:31:20.560 --> 0:31:23.400 you walk around your yard, your iPhone will tell you 0:31:23.480 --> 0:31:26.719 how close you are to your cat. So yesterday I 0:31:26.840 --> 0:31:29.120 left my phone somewhere around my house. I did not 0:31:29.240 --> 0:31:31.520 know where it was. I went on my Apple Watch 0:31:31.520 --> 0:31:34.840 I used to find my feature and it directed me 0:31:34.920 --> 0:31:37.360 to my phone which was sitting on the car seat 0:31:37.440 --> 0:31:40.400 outside in my car, and it said, Okay, your phone 0:31:40.440 --> 0:31:42.640 is thirty nine feet away, it's forty feet away, it's 0:31:42.680 --> 0:31:44.719 forty it's twenty feet away, it's ten feet away, it's 0:31:44.760 --> 0:31:47.640 five feet away. Okay, you're right there, and then you 0:31:47.640 --> 0:31:49.240 can ring it. Same thing with an air tag, you 0:31:49.240 --> 0:31:51.080 can use that to kind of get to the general location, 0:31:51.200 --> 0:31:52.920 and then you can ring it to see where your 0:31:52.960 --> 0:31:56.280 cat is. When it comes to tile, they don't have 0:31:56.320 --> 0:31:58.880 the precision finding, but they do have a very wide 0:31:59.200 --> 0:32:03.360 long rain for the tile tracker which is anywhere anywhere 0:32:03.360 --> 0:32:05.040 from three hundred and fifty to five I think it's 0:32:05.120 --> 0:32:07.520 up to five hundred feet, and so you can get 0:32:07.520 --> 0:32:10.280 a tile tracker hanging on your cat. Again, it's going 0:32:10.360 --> 0:32:12.360 to use all the other TILE users in the area 0:32:12.440 --> 0:32:14.800 to find it, but there's probably not going to be many, 0:32:15.120 --> 0:32:16.920 so you're going to be relying on your phone to 0:32:16.960 --> 0:32:18.400 help you find it. But the good news is you 0:32:18.400 --> 0:32:21.160 can ring it from far away and still find it 0:32:21.160 --> 0:32:23.880 because it's got that long tracking. Now, if I was 0:32:23.920 --> 0:32:25.640 going to do something, if you have a Samsung phone, 0:32:25.640 --> 0:32:28.880 I'd probably go with a Samsung specific tracker. They call 0:32:28.880 --> 0:32:32.080 them smart tags, I think, and are smart things, and 0:32:32.120 --> 0:32:34.120 those are going to be great because they also have 0:32:34.200 --> 0:32:37.640 the precision finding. So again my recommendation, if you've got 0:32:37.640 --> 0:32:39.320 an iPhone, probably go with an air tag. If you've 0:32:39.360 --> 0:32:42.920 got Samsung, go with their specific Samsung tag. And if 0:32:42.920 --> 0:32:44.440 you don't have one of those phones, you got a 0:32:44.520 --> 0:32:46.760 random Android phone, maybe go. 0:32:46.720 --> 0:32:47.280 With the tile. 0:32:47.560 --> 0:32:50.480 But I think this specific GPS tracking callers are going 0:32:50.520 --> 0:32:53.120 to be the most expensive solution and they're also going 0:32:53.160 --> 0:32:55.680 to be the best if your cat ever went missing. 0:32:56.080 --> 0:32:58.880 But it's also the most headaches because you're paying every month, 0:32:58.920 --> 0:33:01.920 and you're charging this thing all the time, which may 0:33:01.960 --> 0:33:03.680 not sound like a big deal right now, but I 0:33:03.720 --> 0:33:06.880 guarantee this eighty to eight. Rich one on one, thanks 0:33:06.880 --> 0:33:09.440 for the call or the email from Thousand Oaks. If 0:33:09.480 --> 0:33:11.440 you want to get your email in, go to rich 0:33:11.480 --> 0:33:15.360 on Tech dot tv, hit the website, hit contact there, 0:33:15.720 --> 0:33:18.080 and that's where you can find it. I'm gonna tell 0:33:18.120 --> 0:33:21.080 you about the iPad Mini coming up. iPad Mini has 0:33:21.120 --> 0:33:25.840 a brand new chip, it's got some new features, it's 0:33:25.840 --> 0:33:28.280 got the same price tag. But there's one thing in 0:33:28.320 --> 0:33:30.920 particular I don't like about what Apple did not improve. 0:33:31.000 --> 0:33:33.640 I'll explain coming up right here on rich on Tech. 0:33:37.240 --> 0:33:39.880 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:33:39.920 --> 0:33:44.920 out with you talking technology on a beautiful fall weekend. 0:33:45.000 --> 0:33:48.360 Hopefully it's nice where you are. The weather is uh. 0:33:48.560 --> 0:33:50.560 This is like the perfect time of the year. It 0:33:50.680 --> 0:33:53.200 just really is. I Spring and fall are just two 0:33:53.240 --> 0:33:56.120 of my favorites. Rich on Tech dot tv is the 0:33:56.160 --> 0:33:59.440 website to go to. Let's see. You can hit the 0:33:59.520 --> 0:34:01.760 light bulb if you want links to anything I mentioned. 0:34:01.800 --> 0:34:05.680 I keep great show notes. This is show number ninety four, 0:34:06.360 --> 0:34:08.440 so you can go in there and check out anything 0:34:08.440 --> 0:34:10.920 that I mentioned. You can hit contact if you want 0:34:10.920 --> 0:34:13.000 to get in touch with me, which many of you do. 0:34:13.360 --> 0:34:14.920 And that's what I love about this show. You know, 0:34:15.040 --> 0:34:17.280 I talk about the tech stuff I think you should 0:34:17.280 --> 0:34:20.000 know about. You know, I cover this stuff, and there's 0:34:20.040 --> 0:34:21.320 so much more to it. 0:34:21.320 --> 0:34:21.960 It's not just me. 0:34:22.040 --> 0:34:26.040 This is really like a community because I've got you listening, 0:34:26.480 --> 0:34:28.600 and you're also writing back to me saying, hey, Rich, 0:34:28.719 --> 0:34:31.440 let's mention this mention that. So I got a lot 0:34:31.520 --> 0:34:35.239 of emails about the question about the senior citizen who 0:34:35.320 --> 0:34:39.239 wanted just a simple phone for emergency. Stand Ward says, hey, Rich. 0:34:39.280 --> 0:34:42.640 Target sells consumer cellular prepaid plans. I've been with them 0:34:42.760 --> 0:34:47.040 four years. That's a record for me. Walmart has straight talk. 0:34:47.080 --> 0:34:49.239 I didn't care for them, only lasted two weeks for me. 0:34:50.280 --> 0:34:52.640 Let's see here. Thank you, stan Ward. Then we've got 0:34:53.120 --> 0:34:57.800 Randy said app Rich. Apple sells refurbished phones on their site. 0:34:58.080 --> 0:35:00.120 You can also get them from gazelle dot com. I 0:35:00.160 --> 0:35:02.920 buy mine and get a significant discount. The phones come 0:35:02.920 --> 0:35:05.799 packaged in a white box like new. You might see 0:35:05.800 --> 0:35:07.880 a spot or two, like a mild scratch, but the 0:35:07.880 --> 0:35:10.480 phone is brand new and worth the huge discount. They 0:35:10.480 --> 0:35:12.919 have Samsung and Google as well. I personally never buy 0:35:13.040 --> 0:35:15.279 new and I own the phone, so you can sell 0:35:15.320 --> 0:35:19.240 your old phone back to them. Randy, computer technical surgeon 0:35:19.440 --> 0:35:22.960 and computer angels. Wow, Randy sounds like he knows what 0:35:22.960 --> 0:35:25.520 he's doing. And yes, I one hundred percent agree, Randy, 0:35:25.960 --> 0:35:28.759 buy your stuff refurbished because you will save money. The 0:35:28.880 --> 0:35:33.480 problem is, we as Americans, are so in love with 0:35:33.520 --> 0:35:36.759 the finance plans and the installment plans that when you 0:35:36.800 --> 0:35:38.680 tell someone, hey, you could buy this phone out right 0:35:38.719 --> 0:35:41.319 for six hundred bucks on Gazelle, or you can walk 0:35:41.360 --> 0:35:43.359 into your AT and T store and pay thirty dollars 0:35:43.400 --> 0:35:45.680 a month for the next three years, nine times out 0:35:45.680 --> 0:35:47.319 of ten people want to pay thirty dollars a month 0:35:47.360 --> 0:35:49.560 for the next three years. Don't ask me why. That's 0:35:49.600 --> 0:35:51.200 not the way I am. That's not what I like 0:35:51.239 --> 0:35:53.560 to do. But I think buying the phone is great, 0:35:53.600 --> 0:35:56.000 and you made a great point. At the end, you 0:35:56.080 --> 0:35:58.000 own the phone, and you can sell your old phone 0:35:58.040 --> 0:36:00.680 back to them with a lot of these products, you know, 0:36:00.760 --> 0:36:03.920 installment upgrade plan things. You got to give the phone 0:36:03.920 --> 0:36:06.920 back to get your new phone. And so it's eighteen 0:36:06.920 --> 0:36:09.400 and T and Verizon they get to capture that. You know, 0:36:09.440 --> 0:36:11.240 it might be one hundred or two or two hundred 0:36:11.239 --> 0:36:16.080 dollars spread, but times millions of customers. They are really 0:36:16.120 --> 0:36:19.120 making out on all these installment plans that pretend to 0:36:19.120 --> 0:36:21.960 be zero percent or whatever, zero for thirty six months, 0:36:22.200 --> 0:36:23.720 but really at the end of the day, you're paying 0:36:23.760 --> 0:36:27.680 more for your plan, and you're also paying more when 0:36:27.719 --> 0:36:29.319 you give up that phone and give up that one 0:36:29.400 --> 0:36:31.880 hundred to two hundred dollars that you may get the 0:36:32.000 --> 0:36:34.160 spread between what they're going to resell it for and 0:36:34.200 --> 0:36:35.799 what you could have sold it for on your own. 0:36:36.200 --> 0:36:39.359 So highly recommended, Randy, I love your system. Gazell dot 0:36:39.360 --> 0:36:42.759 Com is great. Swapa is also a good one. That's 0:36:42.800 --> 0:36:46.080 a very popular site for buying things like phones and 0:36:46.080 --> 0:36:48.600 stuff like that. So just be sure that you're getting 0:36:48.600 --> 0:36:52.000 it from a respectable site, because you know, some of 0:36:52.000 --> 0:36:53.680 these phones, you want to make sure that they're they're 0:36:53.719 --> 0:36:55.640 on the up and up, and by going to a 0:36:55.680 --> 0:36:58.680 Gazell dot com or a Swapa they typically are, and 0:36:58.719 --> 0:37:03.040 of course of Apple's webs as well. Let's see Nika 0:37:03.400 --> 0:37:08.160 in Torren says Rich I've used track phone for twenty years. 0:37:08.160 --> 0:37:12.520 It's perfect. Verizon owns it, so no reception problems. Home 0:37:12.560 --> 0:37:15.760 Shopping Network in QBC sell with an entire year of service. 0:37:15.840 --> 0:37:18.920 I have a nice latest model Samsung, but for the 0:37:18.920 --> 0:37:21.160 woman who called a flip phone, will cost less than 0:37:21.160 --> 0:37:24.920 forty dollars with a year service plan after this nineteen 0:37:25.000 --> 0:37:27.719 ninety nine every three months ideal for an emergency phone. 0:37:27.920 --> 0:37:31.520 Love your show, great suggest in Nica. That is a 0:37:31.560 --> 0:37:33.200 good way to do it. I love having it the 0:37:33.239 --> 0:37:36.840 whole year in advance, right, very very simple. And Ralph 0:37:37.000 --> 0:37:40.640 in Van Buren Township, Michigan writes in to say there 0:37:40.719 --> 0:37:43.160 is a flip phone with features for the elderly. It's 0:37:43.200 --> 0:37:45.880 called the Jitterbug. It's a flip cell phone and camera 0:37:45.960 --> 0:37:48.239 with large number buttons. 0:37:48.680 --> 0:37:49.400 The Jitterbug. 0:37:49.600 --> 0:37:52.280 Yeah, isn't the Jitterbug? Is that its own brand? Okay, 0:37:52.280 --> 0:37:55.439 that's through Lively, Oh, best Buy. I bought this company, Yes, 0:37:55.560 --> 0:37:59.440 Jitterbug from best Buy. Great great suggestions. As you can see, 0:38:00.120 --> 0:38:02.759 there are many many options out there. The other thing 0:38:02.800 --> 0:38:06.759 you can do if you have like a regular Samsung phone, 0:38:06.880 --> 0:38:09.160 and you've got a person that you helped take care 0:38:09.200 --> 0:38:11.160 of or that has a phone and just thinks they're 0:38:11.200 --> 0:38:15.520 way too complicated. Samsung has what's called easy Mode, and 0:38:15.560 --> 0:38:18.440 if you are helping an elderly person with their phone 0:38:18.560 --> 0:38:22.400 or someone who's not so tech savvy, turn on easy Mode. 0:38:22.440 --> 0:38:26.560 It makes the Samsung any Samsung phone so much easier, It. 0:38:26.560 --> 0:38:27.400 Makes all of the. 0:38:28.920 --> 0:38:32.920 Display screen size much bigger, it simplifies everything. 0:38:33.320 --> 0:38:34.840 It's just so much easier. 0:38:34.880 --> 0:38:38.160 So easy Mode on the Samsung devices is like a 0:38:38.200 --> 0:38:41.880 hidden kind of gem. If you're using any Samsung device 0:38:41.960 --> 0:38:45.719 with a person that needs help, Let's go to let's 0:38:45.719 --> 0:38:48.719 see Oscar in Winchester, California. 0:38:48.800 --> 0:38:51.279 Oscar. You're on with rich Y. 0:38:51.560 --> 0:38:57.239 Rich Hi. I got a simple question. Last week. You 0:38:57.280 --> 0:39:04.560 were talking about the switching from Verizon to Google Messages 0:39:05.280 --> 0:39:08.000 and you mentioned that it's best if we do an 0:39:08.120 --> 0:39:12.080 SMS backup before doing it. So I was looking on 0:39:12.400 --> 0:39:16.840 Google Play for an SMS backup and I found SMS 0:39:16.880 --> 0:39:20.920 backup restore, but I was looking for one that didn't 0:39:21.000 --> 0:39:24.319 have Some of them just said it had a lot 0:39:24.360 --> 0:39:29.160 of options, but some of them said with ads and 0:39:29.239 --> 0:39:32.880 stuff like that. I was looking for a name that 0:39:33.200 --> 0:39:37.560 was just looked like it was generic, just do a 0:39:37.640 --> 0:39:45.480 backup and restore, and I downloaded one that that SMS 0:39:45.560 --> 0:39:51.720 backup and restore but in setting it up, it asked 0:39:51.760 --> 0:39:59.000 for some stuff which was normal, I think, like excuse 0:39:59.040 --> 0:40:10.520 me that access access to messages, uh, calls storage. But 0:40:10.640 --> 0:40:15.239 when I got stubbed when danced me for ability to 0:40:15.400 --> 0:40:19.399 make calls and that I you know, I got out 0:40:19.400 --> 0:40:21.480 to the program then just set up. 0:40:22.040 --> 0:40:24.040 Okay, well the so great question. 0:40:24.320 --> 0:40:27.480 And this is something that is very simple on the 0:40:27.520 --> 0:40:30.840 Android side of things, which is what you're using, and 0:40:31.280 --> 0:40:34.440 it's this is the only backup SMS backup that I 0:40:34.480 --> 0:40:36.600 recommend on the Android side of things, because this is 0:40:36.600 --> 0:40:38.720 the one that I've been using pretty much forever. 0:40:38.760 --> 0:40:40.920 It's gone through it's changed hands over the years. 0:40:42.000 --> 0:40:45.000 But the specific name of the program, like you noticed, 0:40:45.120 --> 0:40:49.000 is SMS Backup and Restore and the company that makes 0:40:49.000 --> 0:40:53.279 it is sync Tech pty Ltd sink Tech. 0:40:53.719 --> 0:40:55.399 That's the one that I like, and that's the one 0:40:55.400 --> 0:40:57.600 that I use. Now, you are right. 0:40:57.719 --> 0:41:00.520 It does ask for a couple of permissions, but it's 0:41:00.680 --> 0:41:03.320 mostly for the things that it needs to do, and 0:41:04.440 --> 0:41:06.319 typically it asks if you want to back up your 0:41:06.360 --> 0:41:09.399 messages and your phone calls, and then it asks where 0:41:09.400 --> 0:41:11.200 do you want to store your calls and messages? So 0:41:11.239 --> 0:41:14.480 you can configure this thing to run on Google Drive 0:41:14.840 --> 0:41:16.960 or drop Box, or you can just keep it on 0:41:17.040 --> 0:41:20.160 your phone and then you can schedule a recurring backup 0:41:20.239 --> 0:41:23.640 as well. And so what I think what you got 0:41:24.239 --> 0:41:26.760 tripped up on was why did it ask for access 0:41:26.920 --> 0:41:30.040 to the phone. The reason for that is to access 0:41:30.160 --> 0:41:32.600 the phone logs. Now, I don't think you need to 0:41:32.640 --> 0:41:34.480 back up your phone logs unless you had, you know, 0:41:34.600 --> 0:41:37.160 business or something where you needed that information, so you 0:41:37.200 --> 0:41:38.520 can safely turn that off. 0:41:38.960 --> 0:41:41.000 And this is a trusted app. 0:41:41.040 --> 0:41:43.960 It's been around for a very long time and I 0:41:44.080 --> 0:41:46.120 do trust it, So even if you had access to 0:41:46.160 --> 0:41:49.080 your call logs, I mean, look, here's here's the thing 0:41:49.120 --> 0:41:51.759 that we have to think about in general, is this 0:41:51.920 --> 0:41:54.400 app has accessed to your text messages. There's a lot 0:41:54.440 --> 0:41:57.759 of information, personal information in text messages. So when you're 0:41:57.800 --> 0:42:00.400 choosing a backup app, you do want something that is 0:42:00.520 --> 0:42:03.040 trusted because it does have full access to a lot 0:42:03.080 --> 0:42:06.480 of data. So what I like about this is that 0:42:06.640 --> 0:42:10.200 it's putting it into your own places. So it's putting 0:42:10.200 --> 0:42:12.520 it into Google Drive, it's putting into Dropbox, One Drive, 0:42:12.600 --> 0:42:15.160 or your phone. It's not putting it to its own cloud. 0:42:15.719 --> 0:42:17.680 So I think that that's going to be Okay, I 0:42:17.760 --> 0:42:19.799 think that this is a way to go. I think 0:42:19.840 --> 0:42:21.719 that you should do this for sure if you have 0:42:21.760 --> 0:42:25.279 an Android phone, and it's it's very simple to do. 0:42:25.560 --> 0:42:28.759 So a great question, Oscar, go with that app and 0:42:28.840 --> 0:42:31.160 I think you'll be fine. Get those messages backed up. 0:42:31.200 --> 0:42:33.839 I did get some emails from folks that we're going 0:42:33.920 --> 0:42:36.880 through that changeover Verizon, you know, as you know. 0:42:37.000 --> 0:42:38.680 Is getting rid of their messages. 0:42:38.719 --> 0:42:41.920 Plus in just a couple of weeks, November seventh, I believe, 0:42:42.000 --> 0:42:44.360 is the date where that app will stop working, and 0:42:44.520 --> 0:42:47.320 so everyone's switching over, and everyone was asking, you know, 0:42:47.360 --> 0:42:50.239 what should I switch to? Google Messages is the app 0:42:50.280 --> 0:42:52.680 that I recommend because it does have support for rcs, 0:42:53.120 --> 0:42:56.880 which means your messages to Android other Android phones and 0:42:57.120 --> 0:43:00.000 more importantly iPhones are going to be much much improved, 0:43:00.480 --> 0:43:01.920 especially photos and videos. 0:43:02.239 --> 0:43:05.320 But some people did have issues and they didn't. 0:43:05.080 --> 0:43:07.319 Make a backup and they lost all of their text 0:43:07.400 --> 0:43:08.680 messages in the switchover. 0:43:08.719 --> 0:43:10.800 I don't know how, but you know, it's software. It 0:43:10.880 --> 0:43:11.239 can happen. 0:43:11.280 --> 0:43:13.680 There could be a hiccup, So please back up your 0:43:13.719 --> 0:43:15.560 messages if they're important for me. 0:43:15.719 --> 0:43:17.719 I don't care. I don't need my messages backed up 0:43:17.800 --> 0:43:18.000 to me. 0:43:18.520 --> 0:43:21.520 Text messages are fleeting, and I don't really need them 0:43:21.600 --> 0:43:23.799 backed up because it's mostly like, hey, i'm outside, okay, 0:43:23.800 --> 0:43:25.840 I'll come down and get you, or Hey, your pizzas here, 0:43:25.960 --> 0:43:28.800 whatever it is. I'm not like sitting there having, you know, 0:43:29.440 --> 0:43:31.359 things that I want to remember forever on my text 0:43:31.360 --> 0:43:34.400 message conversations. I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but that's the 0:43:34.440 --> 0:43:38.839 way I feel right now. On the Android side of things, again, 0:43:39.040 --> 0:43:40.960 just do a backup SMS, backup and restore. 0:43:40.960 --> 0:43:42.120 I'll put the link in the show note. 0:43:42.200 --> 0:43:44.560 On the iPhone side of things, it's a little bit 0:43:44.600 --> 0:43:47.880 trickier because Apple backs up your text messages, but they 0:43:47.880 --> 0:43:50.480 don't give you really a way to access those. But 0:43:50.560 --> 0:43:52.279 if you want a way to access them, I like 0:43:52.280 --> 0:43:57.240 an app called imazing I the letter I mazing mzing. 0:43:57.840 --> 0:44:01.000 The website is the letter imzing dot com. You will 0:44:01.080 --> 0:44:03.560 have to pay for that. It is not free software. 0:44:04.320 --> 0:44:07.080 Eight and eight rich one oh one eight eight eight 0:44:07.480 --> 0:44:10.880 seven four two four one zero one. I see the 0:44:10.920 --> 0:44:12.560 calls on the board. We will get to those. Plus 0:44:12.680 --> 0:44:16.560 more of your emails at richon tech dot tv. Hit 0:44:16.680 --> 0:44:20.719 contact to send me an email. Plus Netflix just had 0:44:20.800 --> 0:44:24.840 their earnings report and uh, not only are they adding 0:44:24.920 --> 0:44:27.400 more subscribers, there's some interesting takeaways. 0:44:28.560 --> 0:44:30.319 I'll tell you what they're doing next coming up right 0:44:30.360 --> 0:44:31.439 here on rich on Tech. 0:44:35.719 --> 0:44:39.480 Welcome back to rich on Tech, rich DeMuro here. Okay, 0:44:39.560 --> 0:44:42.600 I did promise two stories, so let's probably get through 0:44:42.640 --> 0:44:47.759 these Apple new iPad Mini so iPad Mini you know 0:44:47.880 --> 0:44:50.480 and love same thing, basically, just a couple of upgrades, 0:44:50.640 --> 0:44:52.480 new chips, so it's going to be faster. It's got 0:44:52.520 --> 0:44:56.160 the A seventeen pro. Obviously, it's built for Apple Intelligence, 0:44:56.200 --> 0:45:00.320 which is their new AI that's coming soon, coming very soon. Actually, 0:45:00.400 --> 0:45:02.960 let's see the rumor mill has it by the end 0:45:03.000 --> 0:45:05.439 of the month, because well, actually it's not a rumor 0:45:05.440 --> 0:45:10.120 anymore because this Apple iPad announcement said the first phase 0:45:10.160 --> 0:45:11.799 of AI will be coming by the end of the month. 0:45:11.920 --> 0:45:15.440 So end of October now comes with double the storage, 0:45:15.480 --> 0:45:17.640 one hundred and twenty eight gigs instead of the old 0:45:17.719 --> 0:45:21.160 sixty four for the same price. So apparently it's faster, 0:45:21.440 --> 0:45:25.360 better graphics, it's got the AI features like the writing tools, 0:45:25.360 --> 0:45:28.640 improved SERI more down the line, it's got faster Wi 0:45:28.760 --> 0:45:33.600 Fi so Wi Fi six e, which probably your router 0:45:33.719 --> 0:45:37.440 does not handle. So that's not really that exciting unless 0:45:37.480 --> 0:45:40.480 you have a router that's Wi Fi sixty enabled. It's 0:45:40.520 --> 0:45:42.799 got five G support on the cellular if you buy 0:45:42.840 --> 0:45:46.560 the cellular version. No more physical simcard, it's e SIM only. 0:45:47.160 --> 0:45:51.279 Cameras are improved. Now supports the Apple Pencil Pro. It's 0:45:51.320 --> 0:45:53.960 got a couple of new colors, including blue and purple. 0:45:54.480 --> 0:45:57.799 Comes in the standard. I think it's starlight, and let's 0:45:57.800 --> 0:46:00.839 the other one space gray. It's got an eight point 0:46:00.920 --> 0:46:05.040 three inch screen. The USB C port is faster. It's 0:46:05.080 --> 0:46:07.080 got well I think I had lightning on the old one. 0:46:07.120 --> 0:46:10.239 Now it's USBC. It's got ten gigabits data transfer, so 0:46:10.400 --> 0:46:13.200 faster than before if you're transferring big files off this thing. 0:46:14.960 --> 0:46:16.879 But the screen, Let's talk about the screen real quick. 0:46:17.000 --> 0:46:19.360 That's the thing I'm disappointed at. It's got an eight 0:46:19.400 --> 0:46:21.920 point three inch screen that doesn't seem to be improved 0:46:21.960 --> 0:46:24.120 from before. And I will tell you an experience. I 0:46:24.200 --> 0:46:25.840 bought the iPad Mini because I wanted to use it 0:46:25.880 --> 0:46:28.799 as my in flight kind of entertainment, and I could 0:46:28.840 --> 0:46:31.160 not deal with the screen because it just wasn't very clear, 0:46:32.080 --> 0:46:34.160 and I'm very used to the clear screen. The retina 0:46:34.239 --> 0:46:38.000 display on the iPhone, and I don't think this iPad 0:46:38.080 --> 0:46:39.520 Mini has it, so I'm gonna have to see. I'm 0:46:39.520 --> 0:46:40.840 gonna have to go into the store and check it 0:46:40.840 --> 0:46:44.120 out when it launches. But that's my feeling right now 0:46:44.200 --> 0:46:47.200 is that if you want the clearest iPad screen, and 0:46:47.320 --> 0:46:48.719 this is not cheap by the way, this is five 0:46:48.800 --> 0:46:51.000 hundred dollars. So if you want kind of like a 0:46:51.040 --> 0:46:54.040 better screen, you gotta go with a better iPad. Let's 0:46:54.120 --> 0:46:58.560 go to let's see here, Let's go to Sarah in 0:46:58.760 --> 0:47:01.120 a studio city. Sorry, you're on with Rich? 0:47:01.680 --> 0:47:03.600 Hi Rich. I'm so glad I held on because I 0:47:03.680 --> 0:47:05.920 love your advice and I have some two questions I 0:47:06.000 --> 0:47:09.600 really need help with. Okay, So the California fast tech scam, 0:47:09.640 --> 0:47:10.680 I don't know if you've heard about it. 0:47:10.840 --> 0:47:11.920 A lot of people were talking. 0:47:11.719 --> 0:47:14.600 About it on the neighborhood app. I got that text 0:47:14.840 --> 0:47:18.080 and unfortunately I clicked it, but nothing opened up. I 0:47:18.160 --> 0:47:21.120 didn't let it go so long that it opened up. 0:47:21.160 --> 0:47:21.560 I caught it. 0:47:21.640 --> 0:47:23.719 I was like, oh no, that's that might be wrong, 0:47:23.760 --> 0:47:26.200 and I closed it and you know, it went away, 0:47:26.480 --> 0:47:29.359 and then I blocked and reported the text. But yes, 0:47:29.719 --> 0:47:32.400 my phone has been not really acting funny. But I 0:47:32.440 --> 0:47:34.640 got kicked out of my Instagram and had to log 0:47:34.680 --> 0:47:38.200 back in and had a problem doing that, And that's 0:47:38.239 --> 0:47:39.800 really the only thing that's happened weird. But I'm a 0:47:39.800 --> 0:47:42.640 little nervous. Is there anything I should do? Or really 0:47:42.719 --> 0:47:45.080 I want to know what can they do if they 0:47:45.120 --> 0:47:46.000 did get in my phone? 0:47:46.440 --> 0:47:49.000 Well, okay, so number one, you got to follow me 0:47:49.080 --> 0:47:51.680 on Instagram, Sarah, because I did post about this yesterday 0:47:51.680 --> 0:47:54.040 and it was so when I get a bunch of 0:47:54.080 --> 0:47:56.919 emails from people about things. And by the way, this scam, 0:47:57.000 --> 0:47:59.040 this toll scam has been going on for a while. 0:48:00.560 --> 0:48:05.080 Better Business Bureau wrote about this thing. Let's see, they 0:48:05.160 --> 0:48:09.680 wrote about this thing back in August, so they were talking. 0:48:09.760 --> 0:48:12.240 They sent out the warning and Better Business Bureau. Actually, 0:48:12.440 --> 0:48:14.480 it's kind of like me, where a bunch of people 0:48:14.640 --> 0:48:16.520 email me and tell me about something, then I'll write 0:48:16.560 --> 0:48:19.480 about it. Better Business Bureau has this thing called Scam Tracker, 0:48:19.840 --> 0:48:22.640 so all people around the US are like writing in 0:48:22.840 --> 0:48:24.759 and saying how they got scammed or the scams that 0:48:24.800 --> 0:48:27.359 they've encountered, and then it kind of bubbles to the top, 0:48:27.440 --> 0:48:29.400 and Better Business Bureau will right about the ones that 0:48:29.480 --> 0:48:30.440 they see over and over. 0:48:30.840 --> 0:48:31.960 This was clearly one of them. 0:48:32.760 --> 0:48:35.000 But anyway, so I got that email from people, a 0:48:35.040 --> 0:48:37.120 bunch of emails from people saying, rich, I'm getting these 0:48:37.160 --> 0:48:41.320 scam told scam things, and basically it says, California Fast Tracked, 0:48:41.360 --> 0:48:44.040 you have an outstanding toll balance to steer clear of 0:48:44.080 --> 0:48:46.080 a late fee. Kindly settle your balance, and then it 0:48:46.120 --> 0:48:50.320 gives you a website. You clicked that website that and 0:48:50.400 --> 0:48:52.040 then did you put in any personal information? 0:48:53.040 --> 0:48:54.920 I didn't even let it go so far is to 0:48:55.040 --> 0:48:57.080 open a website, so I wasn't sure where it was 0:48:57.120 --> 0:48:57.520 even going. 0:48:57.600 --> 0:48:59.160 I dropped it and closed the. 0:49:00.719 --> 0:49:01.160 The page. 0:49:01.239 --> 0:49:04.239 Yeah, well, I click the websites. Do not do this 0:49:04.320 --> 0:49:06.680 at home, but I actually click the websites and I 0:49:06.840 --> 0:49:09.239 test them out to see exactly what the scam is. 0:49:09.719 --> 0:49:11.480 And in this one, of course, like most of them, 0:49:11.520 --> 0:49:14.480 they are trying to capture as much personal information as possible, 0:49:14.520 --> 0:49:17.120 your payment method and anything else they can get from you. 0:49:17.560 --> 0:49:18.879 So it's good that you close it out. 0:49:18.920 --> 0:49:22.600 I don't think that the getting logged out of Instagram 0:49:22.800 --> 0:49:25.520 is related to this, So I think you're okay because 0:49:25.560 --> 0:49:28.600 you do not let this website go through. But just 0:49:28.680 --> 0:49:31.040 to be safe, what I would do on your iPhone 0:49:31.280 --> 0:49:34.760 is clear your browser, all the data on your browser, 0:49:34.840 --> 0:49:38.359 so clear the cash, clear the any of the browsing history. 0:49:38.400 --> 0:49:40.279 So you can go on Safari to do that, go 0:49:40.400 --> 0:49:43.840 into your settings and just clear out everything. And I 0:49:43.960 --> 0:49:45.120 tell you how to do that real quick, but I 0:49:45.160 --> 0:49:47.040 got to look it up and see. But you can 0:49:47.160 --> 0:49:51.480 go on just just Google search Safari clear cash and cookies, 0:49:51.800 --> 0:49:53.320 and that that should tell you how to do it. 0:49:54.880 --> 0:49:57.480 Clear history, cash and cookies from Safari. I'll put the 0:49:57.520 --> 0:49:59.560 link in the show notes as well. But once you 0:49:59.680 --> 0:50:02.160 do that, restart your phone. Obviously you should be okay 0:50:02.239 --> 0:50:06.080 with that. But again, these kind of scams. There's another 0:50:06.120 --> 0:50:09.359 one going around right now with Amazon Prime. That's also 0:50:09.440 --> 0:50:12.160 on my Instagram at richon Tech, So check that one out. 0:50:12.640 --> 0:50:15.320 And so I kind of explain the anatomy of this scam, 0:50:15.880 --> 0:50:17.759 which you know, it doesn't use your real name. It 0:50:17.800 --> 0:50:19.960 tells you have to update your payment method to continue 0:50:20.040 --> 0:50:22.560 using Prime. It's got a link, and so of course 0:50:22.600 --> 0:50:24.520 I did click the link, which I do not recommend 0:50:24.560 --> 0:50:27.160 you doing, but I did it to figure out how 0:50:27.200 --> 0:50:30.560 these things work. The email address on the email is 0:50:30.640 --> 0:50:33.960 not from Amazon, It's from some random email address. The 0:50:34.080 --> 0:50:38.120 sign in page on this Amazon Prime scam looks very realistic, 0:50:39.320 --> 0:50:41.440 and so once you go through there, it'll capture your 0:50:41.480 --> 0:50:44.400 login information. Then it brings you to a payment page. 0:50:44.440 --> 0:50:48.200 It'll capture your payment information, and then the icing on 0:50:48.280 --> 0:50:50.640 the cake is that it will say enter the one 0:50:50.760 --> 0:50:53.640 time password. We just sent you the one time code 0:50:53.680 --> 0:50:57.080 the two factor authentication. So because you just they just 0:50:57.160 --> 0:50:59.160 tried to log in with your Amazon account, you got 0:50:59.200 --> 0:51:00.640 that code text at your phone. 0:51:00.960 --> 0:51:02.600 Now they ask you for that. It's a scam. 0:51:03.040 --> 0:51:05.719 And the California toll or any other toll authority does 0:51:05.800 --> 0:51:07.520 not ask for payment via text. 0:51:08.080 --> 0:51:10.360 This is rich on Tech. Coming up, we're talking bitcoin. 0:51:14.520 --> 0:51:15.600 Let's talk Bitcoin. 0:51:16.280 --> 0:51:21.279 Went to the LA Bitcoin Day this week and kind 0:51:21.280 --> 0:51:23.000 of interesting to be in the same room with a 0:51:23.120 --> 0:51:27.920 lot of hardcore bitcoiners. Bitcoin, let's see, hovering over sixty 0:51:27.960 --> 0:51:32.800 eight thousand dollars right now per coin, up eight percent 0:51:32.960 --> 0:51:36.560 this week. And you know, this was a gathering of 0:51:36.640 --> 0:51:40.000 folks discussing all the aspects of bitcoin, which they believe 0:51:40.120 --> 0:51:43.560 is the future of money. So I spoke with Swan 0:51:43.760 --> 0:51:47.840 CEO Corey Clipston about the bitcoin market. 0:51:48.760 --> 0:51:50.879 What is the state of bitcoin in twenty twenty four. 0:51:51.520 --> 0:51:53.680 Yeah, it's been an incredible year for bitcoin. 0:51:53.760 --> 0:51:56.360 A lot of legitimacy came in with black Rock and 0:51:56.400 --> 0:51:58.960 Fidelity and some of the other large Wall Street firms 0:51:59.040 --> 0:52:02.760 launching Bitcoin spot ETFs back in January, and then obviously 0:52:02.840 --> 0:52:05.320 it's been a big topic in the presidential election cycle 0:52:05.440 --> 0:52:10.200 and a lot more favorable attitudes of regulators and Congress, 0:52:10.239 --> 0:52:11.000 which has been really cool. 0:52:11.040 --> 0:52:12.080 It's been a nice tailwind. 0:52:12.400 --> 0:52:14.480 So we've seen the price go up from the thirties 0:52:14.520 --> 0:52:16.719 about this time last year and we're about sixty eight 0:52:16.760 --> 0:52:20.200 thousand dollars per bitcoin today, now very important. You can 0:52:20.239 --> 0:52:21.719 buy a piece of a bitcoin, you don't have to 0:52:21.719 --> 0:52:23.680 buy a whole thing. Just making sure people know that. 0:52:25.280 --> 0:52:27.359 That is important to know because people see that large 0:52:27.440 --> 0:52:30.960 number and think that's it. Explain in layman's terms what 0:52:31.160 --> 0:52:34.759 bitcoin is. If someone's watching or listening and they just 0:52:34.840 --> 0:52:37.239 don't even really understand what bitcoin is, how do you 0:52:37.480 --> 0:52:38.440 explain that to them? 0:52:38.719 --> 0:52:40.279 Yeah, I think one of the easiest ways to think 0:52:40.280 --> 0:52:43.760 about it is it's a new technology that has created 0:52:43.800 --> 0:52:46.480 a better form of money. And so all that you're 0:52:46.520 --> 0:52:49.480 seeing essentially with all of this hype cycles of you know, 0:52:49.600 --> 0:52:51.880 price goes really far up and then it crashes back down, 0:52:51.920 --> 0:52:53.160 and then it goes up even more, and then it 0:52:53.200 --> 0:52:53.880 crashes back down. 0:52:53.920 --> 0:52:55.960 And this has been going on for the last fifteen years. 0:52:56.480 --> 0:52:59.759 Is just more and more people around the world understanding 0:53:00.160 --> 0:53:02.560 what it is, and they're making a bet that they 0:53:02.640 --> 0:53:04.800 think it's going to be adopted by more people. But 0:53:05.040 --> 0:53:07.960 essentially it's just better monetary technology, better than gold and 0:53:08.080 --> 0:53:12.200 better than paper dollars like fiat cash, like the US 0:53:12.280 --> 0:53:12.879 dollar or the euro. 0:53:13.400 --> 0:53:16.160 And so that's really what it is. It's an adoption story. 0:53:16.719 --> 0:53:19.640 So what makes it a better type of currency? Is 0:53:19.680 --> 0:53:22.560 it the digital underpinnings of it. 0:53:23.440 --> 0:53:26.400 So I think what it is is if it's outside 0:53:26.440 --> 0:53:29.040 of any one person's control. That's the secret of bitcoin. 0:53:29.080 --> 0:53:31.759 It's actually decentralized. It means that you can't print more 0:53:31.800 --> 0:53:33.680 of it, so there can never be more than twenty 0:53:33.719 --> 0:53:37.360 one million bitcoins. They are subdivisible, so you have plenty 0:53:37.400 --> 0:53:41.640 of bitcoin and kind of infinite subdivisibility, but you can't 0:53:41.640 --> 0:53:44.200 print more of it, unlike what we see with the dollar, 0:53:44.360 --> 0:53:47.560 the euro and all these other fiat currencies. Fiat just 0:53:47.600 --> 0:53:50.960 means government controlled. They just print more of it. And essentially, 0:53:51.000 --> 0:53:54.480 when you print more dollars, that's a tax on everybody else. 0:53:54.560 --> 0:53:55.960 So this is what we've kind of seen for the 0:53:56.040 --> 0:53:58.640 last one hundred years or so, is instead of having 0:53:58.719 --> 0:54:02.200 to pass attack to be able to spend more on government, 0:54:02.520 --> 0:54:04.680 they just inflate the currency by printing more of it 0:54:04.760 --> 0:54:05.800 and that's what they spend. 0:54:06.760 --> 0:54:09.200 So you have some people that are sort of speculating 0:54:09.280 --> 0:54:12.000 on this and buying it for that reason. Some people 0:54:12.080 --> 0:54:16.200 want to make it the currency of the world. Do 0:54:16.280 --> 0:54:18.480 those two ideas work together, Yeah, they do. 0:54:18.600 --> 0:54:20.719 I mean, I think you need price discovery no matter what. 0:54:20.960 --> 0:54:24.480 So we welcome lots of traders in bitcoin. We focus 0:54:24.640 --> 0:54:27.640 on long term savings, investing for the future, kind of 0:54:27.800 --> 0:54:30.719 you know, seventh generation type stuff. So it's very much 0:54:30.719 --> 0:54:33.480 about accumulating and not a lot of active trading. But 0:54:33.719 --> 0:54:36.040 you can't have price discovery if you don't have a 0:54:36.160 --> 0:54:39.960 liquid market, and bitcoin has a very deep global twenty 0:54:40.000 --> 0:54:43.000 four to seven liquid market, more than any other asset. 0:54:43.239 --> 0:54:45.359 One of the interesting things we've seen over the last 0:54:45.520 --> 0:54:47.879 five years or so is it's actually that bell weather 0:54:48.400 --> 0:54:52.400 that tells you before the market opens or over the weekend, 0:54:52.600 --> 0:54:55.560 what's going to happen with the markets that trade, you know, 0:54:55.680 --> 0:54:57.600 nine to five or nine thirty to four or whatever, 0:54:58.640 --> 0:55:01.000 because bitcoin is something that they can actually sell or 0:55:01.000 --> 0:55:03.959 where they can actually express their view that we're heading 0:55:04.000 --> 0:55:05.080 into a bullish stretch. 0:55:04.960 --> 0:55:06.560 Or something like that. Bitcoin actually moves. 0:55:06.640 --> 0:55:10.120 First, do you think the average person should get into bitcoin? 0:55:10.200 --> 0:55:10.520 And why? 0:55:11.080 --> 0:55:11.279 Yeah? 0:55:11.360 --> 0:55:14.640 So, look, I think that buying bitcoin goes hand in 0:55:14.719 --> 0:55:16.360 hand with learning about bitcoin. 0:55:16.520 --> 0:55:18.160 So we always say the more you know, the more 0:55:18.200 --> 0:55:18.480 you buy. 0:55:18.600 --> 0:55:21.680 So I always say start with education now if it 0:55:21.840 --> 0:55:24.760 helps you to pay more attention and have selective attention 0:55:25.280 --> 0:55:28.680 for bitcoin podcasts, bitcoin when they're talking about it on 0:55:28.760 --> 0:55:30.920 CNBC or whatever. To own a little bit, just go 0:55:31.000 --> 0:55:33.359 buy one hundred dollars worth, go buy a thousand dollars worth, 0:55:33.600 --> 0:55:36.239 have it on an app, and just start following the price. 0:55:36.400 --> 0:55:38.800 Then you'll start to follow the news. Then maybe you 0:55:38.920 --> 0:55:40.799 buy a book. Then maybe you talk to a friend 0:55:40.840 --> 0:55:42.480 who's into it, and you kind of go down the 0:55:42.560 --> 0:55:47.160 rabbit hole, as we say, and you basically, like any 0:55:47.280 --> 0:55:50.719 good investment, you should only buy what you know and 0:55:50.840 --> 0:55:54.360 what you understand. Otherwise, by definition, we humans are just 0:55:54.560 --> 0:55:57.680 very sort of prone to buy the shiny object and 0:55:57.800 --> 0:56:00.840 then sell when it gets scary. So unless you actually 0:56:01.000 --> 0:56:04.040 know what you're holding, and what you've bought and understand it. 0:56:04.840 --> 0:56:07.839 You'll basically buy high and sell low, which is not good. 0:56:09.400 --> 0:56:12.080 Have we seen a breakthrough moment for bitcoin or do 0:56:12.160 --> 0:56:14.200 you think that's still on the horizon or will that 0:56:14.320 --> 0:56:14.879 day ever come? 0:56:14.960 --> 0:56:16.200 And what do you think that looks like? 0:56:17.080 --> 0:56:18.040 Look, I think we've seen. 0:56:18.480 --> 0:56:20.719 It's so funny if you kind of zoom out and 0:56:20.800 --> 0:56:23.800 you look at the last fifteen years since bitcoin launched 0:56:23.840 --> 0:56:26.360 in January of two thousand and nine, it didn't have 0:56:26.520 --> 0:56:29.120 a price, and then it was trading for tens of 0:56:29.200 --> 0:56:31.680 thousands of coins per dollar, and now it's sixty eight 0:56:31.719 --> 0:56:33.640 thousand dollars per bitcoin. 0:56:33.840 --> 0:56:36.520 So it is actually happening very rapidly. 0:56:36.760 --> 0:56:38.239 And when we look back on this, you know, one 0:56:38.320 --> 0:56:40.520 hundred years, two hundred years from now, I think we'll say, wow, 0:56:40.840 --> 0:56:44.080 that was actually incredibly fast when you think about being 0:56:44.120 --> 0:56:47.240 able to add a new monetary asset for eight billion 0:56:47.320 --> 0:56:50.520 humans around the world. Like I think sometimes people are 0:56:50.640 --> 0:56:52.640 very impatient and they want it to happen all at once. 0:56:52.760 --> 0:56:55.160 But by definition it is hard to understand, and there's 0:56:55.160 --> 0:56:57.400 a lot of science and a lot of technology underpinning it, 0:56:58.000 --> 0:57:01.080 and it takes a pretty good knowledge of seven or 0:57:01.120 --> 0:57:04.640 eight different disciplines to be able to understand bitcoin pretty well. 0:57:04.760 --> 0:57:08.920 You know, monetary theory, monetary history, cryptography, economics, finance, like 0:57:09.000 --> 0:57:11.440 so many different things you need to understand to in 0:57:11.560 --> 0:57:13.759 the rabbit hole goes ever deeper. 0:57:14.880 --> 0:57:18.040 When I hear that no one, no one person controls it, 0:57:18.400 --> 0:57:20.920 you know, and no government controls it. That tells me 0:57:21.000 --> 0:57:23.600 that governments may not like the idea of this is 0:57:23.680 --> 0:57:24.960 that proven to be the case. 0:57:25.560 --> 0:57:27.560 So it depends on the government, and it depends on 0:57:27.640 --> 0:57:29.360 who it is in the government. So what we always 0:57:29.440 --> 0:57:31.240 like to say is governments are actually just made up 0:57:31.240 --> 0:57:33.280 of people. And there are a lot of huge fans 0:57:33.320 --> 0:57:36.240 of bitcoin in the US government and in other governments 0:57:36.280 --> 0:57:38.560 around the world. And then also if you think about 0:57:38.600 --> 0:57:43.080 governments and totality, some governments are more in control than others, right, 0:57:43.160 --> 0:57:46.800 so we have dollar hegemony. Dollars, the U is the 0:57:46.840 --> 0:57:48.440 reserve currency of the world. There are a lot of 0:57:48.480 --> 0:57:50.640 countries around the world where that's not the case, and 0:57:50.760 --> 0:57:53.400 they may actually prefer some other currency, and more. 0:57:53.280 --> 0:57:55.480 And more they're choosing to look at bitcoin. 0:57:55.640 --> 0:57:58.560 They're mining bitcoin for themselves, you know, with their own 0:57:58.640 --> 0:58:01.640 energy resources, or they're opting it as legal tender and 0:58:01.760 --> 0:58:02.800 it's just an alternative. 0:58:03.800 --> 0:58:07.800 Why is there so much lore around bitcoin and discussion 0:58:08.080 --> 0:58:10.640 and just in the news and everything. 0:58:10.880 --> 0:58:15.920 Why it's just the most fascinating thing that I think 0:58:15.960 --> 0:58:18.960 has happened for a lot of people. It just touches 0:58:19.000 --> 0:58:20.840 a lot of interesting buttons for them and kind of 0:58:20.880 --> 0:58:22.480 helps them see things in a different way. 0:58:23.560 --> 0:58:25.920 I didn't set out on this path. I was like 0:58:25.960 --> 0:58:26.640 a startup guy. 0:58:26.680 --> 0:58:28.560 I used to work for big tech companies and was 0:58:28.600 --> 0:58:30.600 a consultant in all this. But it just, you know, 0:58:30.960 --> 0:58:32.720 it ticks something in my brain when I started to 0:58:32.760 --> 0:58:35.959 learn about it back in twenty seventeen, and we often 0:58:36.040 --> 0:58:38.080 refer to it as a mind virus, like it gets 0:58:38.120 --> 0:58:40.920 in there and it's really hard to think about anything 0:58:41.040 --> 0:58:45.880 else that has as much potential for positive impact in 0:58:45.920 --> 0:58:48.480 the world as bitcoin. I think it's the I think 0:58:48.520 --> 0:58:50.440 it's the one thing going on in the world that 0:58:50.560 --> 0:58:54.360 has the largest potential for positive change for humans. 0:58:54.400 --> 0:58:55.520 And that's why I focus on it. 0:58:56.760 --> 0:58:58.680 What is this week all about? What is the LA 0:58:58.760 --> 0:59:01.400 Bitcoin Week all about? What are the people doing here? 0:59:01.720 --> 0:59:02.919 What do they hope to learn? 0:59:03.600 --> 0:59:03.760 Yeah? 0:59:03.840 --> 0:59:07.240 Absolutely, so it's definitely about learning. It's also about connecting. 0:59:07.520 --> 0:59:11.600 It's about just you know, people can Some people live 0:59:11.600 --> 0:59:14.240 in a city with a high concentration of bitcoiners, a 0:59:14.320 --> 0:59:16.840 lot of people don't, and so giving them an opportunity 0:59:16.920 --> 0:59:20.000 to come somewhere and connect with other people in real 0:59:20.080 --> 0:59:24.480 life instead of just seeing bitcoin people tweet on x 0:59:25.200 --> 0:59:26.760 It's just something that I think a lot of people 0:59:26.840 --> 0:59:27.320 really enjoy. 0:59:27.400 --> 0:59:28.800 So we have people in from all over the world 0:59:28.880 --> 0:59:29.040 for this. 0:59:29.440 --> 0:59:32.200 As we all know, there's a lot of noise in 0:59:32.320 --> 0:59:34.520 the space and around the space, whether it's all the 0:59:34.560 --> 0:59:35.640 crypto stuff. 0:59:35.400 --> 0:59:37.200 You know, kind of the non bitcoin thing's going on, 0:59:37.400 --> 0:59:37.920 and you know. 0:59:37.960 --> 0:59:39.840 It's just really hard to figure out what's real and 0:59:39.960 --> 0:59:41.880 what's not, and so we try to be that voice 0:59:42.240 --> 0:59:44.960 that provides pure signal and people can trust us because 0:59:44.960 --> 0:59:46.800 we've done the homework and figured out what's true and 0:59:46.840 --> 0:59:47.080 what's not. 0:59:47.280 --> 0:59:49.959 We're ever going to find out who Satoshi is, we can. 0:59:49.880 --> 0:59:50.360 Talk about that. 0:59:51.400 --> 0:59:53.960 So, yeah, there was just a yet another attempt to 0:59:54.360 --> 0:59:56.840 see who Satoshi was. HBO did not get it right, 0:59:56.960 --> 0:59:59.240 but it was very good for marketing and promotion. I 0:59:59.240 --> 1:00:03.280 don't think we're ever going to know who the pseudonymous 1:00:03.440 --> 1:00:06.480 founder of bitcoin was. He went by Satoshi Nakamoto. I 1:00:06.520 --> 1:00:08.560 think that is lost to history, and I think it's 1:00:08.640 --> 1:00:11.080 better that way. It's a great foundational myth, as you 1:00:11.120 --> 1:00:13.840 were saying, like one of those things that intrigues people 1:00:13.920 --> 1:00:17.080 and gets them interested. Now, that is something that was 1:00:17.120 --> 1:00:21.439 a genius marketing stroke by the creator of bitcoin once again. 1:00:21.560 --> 1:00:25.840 That was Swan CEO Corey Clipston. And they help you 1:00:26.040 --> 1:00:28.720 invest into bitcoin. So if you want to check out 1:00:28.760 --> 1:00:32.520 their website, it is Swan bitcoin dot com. And the 1:00:33.000 --> 1:00:35.520 documentary he was referring to at the end there is 1:00:35.560 --> 1:00:37.920 called Money Electric, The Bitcoin Mystery. 1:00:38.000 --> 1:00:41.440 I did watch it. It is on Max so if 1:00:41.480 --> 1:00:42.080 you want to watch it. 1:00:42.160 --> 1:00:45.400 It's a new documentary about bitcoin, and the first half 1:00:45.400 --> 1:00:48.480 of the documentary really delves into what bitcoin is. The 1:00:48.600 --> 1:00:51.440 second half really tries to like nail down who created it. 1:00:52.400 --> 1:00:55.640 It's obviously anonymous, and they try I don't know if 1:00:55.640 --> 1:00:57.440 they got it right. He didn't think they got it right. 1:00:57.480 --> 1:00:59.920 I don't think they did there either, But still entertaining. 1:01:00.680 --> 1:01:03.560 Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 1:01:03.720 --> 1:01:06.320 four to two four one zero one the website for 1:01:06.520 --> 1:01:11.200 the show Rich on tech dot Tv coming up, Netflix 1:01:11.520 --> 1:01:15.400 adding continuing to add more subscribers. Tell you some of 1:01:15.440 --> 1:01:19.840 the details from their recent earnings report and what they're doing, 1:01:20.360 --> 1:01:23.560 what they're focusing on now, and how they're differentiating from YouTube. 1:01:30.360 --> 1:01:35.080 Let's talk Netflix. Netflix is uh man. They are just 1:01:35.440 --> 1:01:41.200 continuing to kill it. Added five million subscribers in the 1:01:41.320 --> 1:01:43.880 last quarter, bring their total to two hundred and eighty 1:01:43.960 --> 1:01:50.720 two million paid subscribers globally. Members watch about two hours 1:01:50.760 --> 1:01:56.439 of Netflix per day on average. Live programming is where 1:01:56.440 --> 1:01:59.440 they are expanding. They see this as high value content. 1:01:59.520 --> 1:02:02.280 They've got that I don't know if it already happened. 1:02:02.320 --> 1:02:06.680 The Mike Tyson, what's the other guy's name, Paul? What's 1:02:07.120 --> 1:02:07.680 Jake Paul? 1:02:07.800 --> 1:02:10.360 Yeah? Boxing match out? Did that already happen? I don't remember. 1:02:10.840 --> 1:02:11.360 I don't think so. 1:02:11.480 --> 1:02:16.240 Okay, then they have NFL football on Christmas Day. Ads 1:02:16.280 --> 1:02:19.440 supported tier is very popular. This is a trend we're 1:02:19.440 --> 1:02:23.600 seeing across all streaming. Apparently fifty percent of new sign 1:02:23.680 --> 1:02:26.680 ups are for the ads supported tier, which is so 1:02:26.920 --> 1:02:30.280 interesting because when Netflix first started to remember it was 1:02:30.320 --> 1:02:33.080 the anti ad company, you know, it was no ads, 1:02:33.640 --> 1:02:35.640 And now people are signing up. They're saying, I'd rather 1:02:35.640 --> 1:02:37.720 pay a little bit less and I'll deal with the ads. 1:02:38.480 --> 1:02:41.880 They're facing out their basic plan almost everywhere. The basic 1:02:41.960 --> 1:02:45.200 plan was their cheaper plan that had no ADS, but 1:02:45.400 --> 1:02:48.120 they're focusing on, of course, the ads supported plan is 1:02:48.200 --> 1:02:52.200 the low cost option games. They keep making these games. 1:02:52.200 --> 1:02:54.000 I don't know who's playing them, but I guess people are. 1:02:54.480 --> 1:02:58.080 But they make games based on Netflix shows. Squid Game 1:02:58.120 --> 1:03:01.919 and Virgin River are popular or those are upcoming rather, 1:03:02.640 --> 1:03:05.840 but they do have a couple of popular ones. How 1:03:05.880 --> 1:03:10.240 are they differentiating from competitors like YouTube premium high budget 1:03:10.360 --> 1:03:14.200 content and of course taken on the financial risk for creators. 1:03:14.280 --> 1:03:17.440 So YouTube, anyone can do it. Anyone can make it, 1:03:17.560 --> 1:03:19.600 takes a little bit of investment. You need a camera 1:03:19.640 --> 1:03:22.960 and I need to set up. But Netflix is focusing 1:03:23.040 --> 1:03:27.400 on premium, high budget stuff, which sometimes when you watch 1:03:27.440 --> 1:03:30.160 it you wonder they're not okay, They're not going to 1:03:30.240 --> 1:03:32.760 bundle with other streaming services, not interested in that. That 1:03:32.840 --> 1:03:35.360 makes sense because Netflix is kind of an outlier. Everyone 1:03:35.400 --> 1:03:37.880 else is like Peacock. It's like all these other ones. 1:03:37.920 --> 1:03:40.160 You're like, ah, do I really need that? But so 1:03:40.280 --> 1:03:42.560 you might bundle it. Disney of course obviously has a 1:03:42.600 --> 1:03:45.280 lot of interest in bundling with their three brands that 1:03:45.360 --> 1:03:48.920 they have, but Netflix does not have any interest in 1:03:49.000 --> 1:03:51.800 that and they still see a lot of room for 1:03:51.920 --> 1:03:56.320 growth less than ten percent of TV time. That they 1:03:56.360 --> 1:03:58.800 still account for less than ten percent of TV time 1:03:58.880 --> 1:04:00.800 even in their biggest markets. So just when you think 1:04:00.840 --> 1:04:04.920 netflixes everything to them, they still have got ninety percent 1:04:05.000 --> 1:04:06.280 of the market to capture. 1:04:06.280 --> 1:04:06.440 There. 1:04:07.440 --> 1:04:10.440 Let's go to uh Diego in San Diego Diego. You're 1:04:10.480 --> 1:04:10.960 on the rich. 1:04:12.360 --> 1:04:17.000 Hello, Hi, I have an iMac mom and Penham from 1:04:17.040 --> 1:04:20.400 my daughter to my wife, and she's complaining about any 1:04:20.440 --> 1:04:23.720 window that can't open. It tends to refresh itself when 1:04:23.760 --> 1:04:27.120 she's typing looking for something, and we refresh itself every 1:04:27.200 --> 1:04:30.160 nine to ten seconds. Only when you have a window open, 1:04:30.280 --> 1:04:33.920 even a web browser or anything like that, we don't. 1:04:33.720 --> 1:04:34.440 Know what it is. 1:04:35.360 --> 1:04:37.480 So explain to me what's happening again. 1:04:38.800 --> 1:04:41.960 Any windows you have open refresh itself. So as you're 1:04:41.960 --> 1:04:44.640 looking for something in the search, a window up on 1:04:44.720 --> 1:04:47.640 top and refresh itself. You have to reclick again to 1:04:47.760 --> 1:04:50.600 that window so you can keep typing, and you got 1:04:50.640 --> 1:04:52.560 to kind of beat the clock, which is nine or 1:04:52.600 --> 1:04:53.200 ten seconds. 1:04:53.400 --> 1:04:56.520 Are you Is this happening in a web browser. 1:04:57.920 --> 1:05:01.720 In any window you open, even like text edit or 1:05:01.920 --> 1:05:05.520 she's looking for a picture or a document usually uses 1:05:05.560 --> 1:05:07.560 it for email and document writing. 1:05:08.080 --> 1:05:08.360 Hmm. 1:05:10.200 --> 1:05:13.760 And it just so the window refreshes. Yeah, and is 1:05:13.800 --> 1:05:15.640 it is it a screen thing or is it a 1:05:15.720 --> 1:05:19.920 computer thing? Like it's does it look like the screen 1:05:20.040 --> 1:05:23.720 is refreshing itself or does it look like the window 1:05:23.760 --> 1:05:26.040 itself is doing something like software wise? 1:05:26.720 --> 1:05:29.560 No, because I can close every window and just look 1:05:29.560 --> 1:05:31.520 at the desktop of all this stuff on top of there, 1:05:31.720 --> 1:05:33.880 and it's just okay. 1:05:33.920 --> 1:05:35.080 So it stays okay. 1:05:36.160 --> 1:05:36.280 Uh. 1:05:36.600 --> 1:05:39.600 Well, I would say it sounds like you've got something 1:05:39.680 --> 1:05:41.960 running on this computer that is not agreeing with it, 1:05:42.200 --> 1:05:47.240 and that's that's probably what's going on here. I would 1:05:47.240 --> 1:05:49.640 say it's a graphics thing. But if it's if the 1:05:49.680 --> 1:05:53.160 computer desktop just sits there and doesn't do anything while 1:05:53.200 --> 1:05:55.400 you're just letting it sit idle, then it's probably not 1:05:55.480 --> 1:05:59.880 a graphics thing. And so okay, So let's I'm still 1:05:59.880 --> 1:06:01.640 trying to figure this out. You you open up let's 1:06:01.640 --> 1:06:03.520 say a web browser, and you're sitting there using it, 1:06:03.600 --> 1:06:06.960 and the screen just like the actual window just refreshes. 1:06:07.960 --> 1:06:12.560 Yes, we'll be watching We watched something some Christmas but 1:06:12.680 --> 1:06:15.320 I can watch it movie miracle or something, and it 1:06:15.480 --> 1:06:18.520 kept annoyingly kept doing it every nine to ten seconds, 1:06:19.640 --> 1:06:22.520 so we think the window out made a smaller and 1:06:22.600 --> 1:06:25.120 it still did it, and it was funny. Just gave up. 1:06:25.920 --> 1:06:29.240 We'll just repress itself. It doesn't have to be in 1:06:29.360 --> 1:06:31.440 the window. It has to be next to browsers. It 1:06:31.560 --> 1:06:34.600 doesn't on which he does a pretext, so your text 1:06:34.720 --> 1:06:39.280 edit rewrite something there, it still transfer onto a war document. 1:06:39.880 --> 1:06:43.160 And even that those two windows, the word document or 1:06:43.400 --> 1:06:45.360 the text edit will refresh itself. 1:06:45.600 --> 1:06:49.800 Okay, Well, I think what I would do personally is 1:06:50.320 --> 1:06:52.600 check to see what's going on in this computer, Like, uh, 1:06:52.920 --> 1:06:54.680 there's so many things you got to do to see 1:06:54.720 --> 1:06:56.760 what's going on here. So first off, is this computer 1:06:56.880 --> 1:06:58.240 still supported software wise? 1:06:59.200 --> 1:07:04.120 Well, it's an always him point six point eight. It's 1:07:04.160 --> 1:07:04.680 pretty old. 1:07:04.840 --> 1:07:08.919 Okay, so it's pretty So it's not getting active software updates? Yeah, okay, 1:07:09.120 --> 1:07:12.360 So so if it's not, that's ten point six point eight. 1:07:12.640 --> 1:07:14.760 Oh wow, it's like snow Leopard. That's yeah, that's a 1:07:14.800 --> 1:07:17.760 while ago. So if it's not getting any new updates, 1:07:18.760 --> 1:07:21.200 what I would do is I personally just go you know, 1:07:21.320 --> 1:07:24.000 number one, I'd probably start figuring out what the system, 1:07:24.080 --> 1:07:26.280 what the situation is for a new machine at some point, 1:07:26.360 --> 1:07:28.280 you know, budget whatever you need to do to get that. 1:07:29.520 --> 1:07:32.240 But to get this thing to work again, I would 1:07:32.320 --> 1:07:36.200 probably what I would do is just reinstall the operating 1:07:36.280 --> 1:07:38.680 system the whole thing. Because this is an old computer anyway, 1:07:38.680 --> 1:07:40.600 It's got a lot of little fragments and things on it, 1:07:41.000 --> 1:07:45.040 so you can reinstall the entire operating system. That's probably 1:07:45.080 --> 1:07:47.640 what I would do first. If you can't do that, 1:07:47.800 --> 1:07:49.600 or you don't want to do that, I would probably 1:07:49.680 --> 1:07:52.120 look through and get rid of any programs on this 1:07:52.200 --> 1:07:56.160 computer that I don't recognize, don't need, don't know, restart it. 1:07:56.960 --> 1:07:59.800 I would go into the login on the system settings 1:08:00.280 --> 1:08:02.920 and see if there's anything in the login items that 1:08:03.160 --> 1:08:06.200 are launching at startup. And that's probably the first thing 1:08:06.200 --> 1:08:09.200 I would do, is look in that login items and 1:08:09.240 --> 1:08:11.840 see if there's anything that's launching with the startup of 1:08:11.880 --> 1:08:13.800 this computer. And that could be some sort of program 1:08:13.880 --> 1:08:16.479 that's just not agreeing with it, and you can unclick 1:08:16.560 --> 1:08:18.599 those and then of course restart your computer there. 1:08:20.479 --> 1:08:23.080 And then you know, obviously you can't do the updates. 1:08:23.160 --> 1:08:25.320 You can't do that, but if. 1:08:25.240 --> 1:08:28.760 You're really a little bit more tech savvy, you can 1:08:28.800 --> 1:08:31.360 start this thing up in like safe mode and see 1:08:31.400 --> 1:08:33.439 if there's anything in there that you can delete or 1:08:33.479 --> 1:08:35.960 get rid of. But I would personally just try to 1:08:36.000 --> 1:08:37.880 get rid of anything on this computer that you don't need, 1:08:38.320 --> 1:08:41.439 don't use, don't want, and then restart it and keep 1:08:41.520 --> 1:08:44.760 doing those actions until this cleans itself up. And if 1:08:44.800 --> 1:08:47.000 it doesn't, then you might have to take it to 1:08:47.120 --> 1:08:49.400 some sort of like Mac place for them to take 1:08:49.400 --> 1:08:51.519 a look at this a little bit more closely. But 1:08:51.640 --> 1:08:54.519 good question, Diego. That is a frustrating issue to have. 1:08:55.080 --> 1:08:56.680 But I think if you get rid of stuff on 1:08:56.760 --> 1:09:00.439 that computer, hopefully that should work. There's another I like 1:09:00.520 --> 1:09:04.040 called clean my Mac that might be a good thing 1:09:04.120 --> 1:09:06.160 which you can run on there as well get rid 1:09:06.200 --> 1:09:08.680 of some of the gunk that's uh clogging up that 1:09:08.880 --> 1:09:12.200 old old computer. Eighty eight rich one O one eight 1:09:12.320 --> 1:09:15.519 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:09:16.240 --> 1:09:19.120 I'll tell you how Google flights is going cheap coming up, 1:09:24.320 --> 1:09:27.080 Welcome back to rich on Tech eighty eight rich one 1:09:27.120 --> 1:09:30.360 O one eight eight eight seven four to two four 1:09:30.600 --> 1:09:33.519 one zero one. I got a note from Don in 1:09:33.640 --> 1:09:37.559 a provo Utah that he wants to share a great 1:09:37.800 --> 1:09:39.880 site with me. Don. 1:09:41.080 --> 1:09:41.760 What's the site? 1:09:42.000 --> 1:09:43.160 Rich I love you so much. 1:09:43.200 --> 1:09:45.080 I listened to you every week. It's a I look 1:09:45.160 --> 1:09:46.000 forward to every week. 1:09:46.360 --> 1:09:47.479 Thank you much, thank you. 1:09:47.640 --> 1:09:50.800 I actually listened to maybe two or three times. But 1:09:50.920 --> 1:09:54.040 I am actually met Madonna's twins twin rang, so I'm 1:09:54.080 --> 1:09:56.560 living up to that. And then Delta dot com is 1:09:56.680 --> 1:09:59.080 z e l d t a dot com is the 1:09:59.120 --> 1:10:00.880 best website in the mo versus. There's a couple of 1:10:00.920 --> 1:10:03.760 pages every single day. It's a safe place for young 1:10:03.840 --> 1:10:06.040 people and everybody else to go, for everybody else to 1:10:06.080 --> 1:10:07.759 go for a few minutes. It's like in one hundred 1:10:07.800 --> 1:10:10.000 languages you can just translate instantly. 1:10:10.800 --> 1:10:13.120 And what is this Delta dot com that takes me 1:10:13.200 --> 1:10:13.879 towe an airline? 1:10:13.960 --> 1:10:19.640 No, no, no, Zelta z zebra e l d t A. 1:10:19.920 --> 1:10:22.560 It's actually just z LT Creations and Communications. 1:10:22.640 --> 1:10:23.400 But that's the website. 1:10:23.439 --> 1:10:25.880 Is z e l d t A dot com? 1:10:27.600 --> 1:10:29.120 Zelta Okay, got it? Okay? 1:10:29.280 --> 1:10:31.240 Interesting? Oh I see it's got It's got like a 1:10:31.280 --> 1:10:33.960 whole bunch of stuff. Okay, well we'll see you. We'll 1:10:34.000 --> 1:10:37.000 see if people like that. So uh yeah, I hope 1:10:37.080 --> 1:10:37.599 so thanks. 1:10:37.840 --> 1:10:39.680 I don't really have any money. I get your in 1:10:39.680 --> 1:10:42.760 an assistance. I'm hoping I don't have bitcoin yet. I'm 1:10:42.760 --> 1:10:44.320 hoping to get that soon. But I have like a 1:10:44.960 --> 1:10:46.880 on that website, have a few places where you can 1:10:46.920 --> 1:10:48.719 donate on Venmo or something. 1:10:48.800 --> 1:10:51.040 But well, you're trying to get. 1:10:51.040 --> 1:10:54.440 Money to activating my life body. I'm activating everybody's lightbody 1:10:54.520 --> 1:10:57.519 around the world right now. Oh, travel throughout the multiverse 1:10:57.640 --> 1:11:00.679 instantaneously everywhere, instant he and everything. 1:11:00.880 --> 1:11:03.559 What does that mean? Exactly? What does that mean? Exactly? 1:11:04.520 --> 1:11:04.560 What? 1:11:05.000 --> 1:11:08.600 What like around the multiverse? You know the healing? What 1:11:08.600 --> 1:11:09.120 does that mean? 1:11:10.400 --> 1:11:17.719 Well? I invented uh anyway, I have the technology virtual 1:11:17.760 --> 1:11:21.439 reality that's gonna actually help people travel throughout the multiverse. 1:11:21.960 --> 1:11:24.280 And they can't have weapons if they can't go, do 1:11:24.360 --> 1:11:24.880 they trust me? 1:11:24.960 --> 1:11:26.080 I don't have weapons. 1:11:26.640 --> 1:11:31.000 And also, like everybody can step on every sun and 1:11:31.080 --> 1:11:34.240 every moon, every star, every planet in the multiverse and 1:11:34.960 --> 1:11:35.760 from wherever they're at. 1:11:36.360 --> 1:11:38.439 And is this in in like reality or in a 1:11:38.640 --> 1:11:39.719 in a virtual reality? 1:11:40.120 --> 1:11:42.040 Well it's gonna it's gonna be in virtual reality with 1:11:42.080 --> 1:11:43.760 the goggles. That's the ultimate use of it. 1:11:43.960 --> 1:11:47.320 So wow, Okay, everybody's like twin rays. 1:11:47.360 --> 1:11:49.600 I'm connecting all twin rays together. They're gonna have like 1:11:50.080 --> 1:11:53.160 everybody who can have their own planet. Every male female connections, 1:11:53.360 --> 1:11:54.640 perfect connections. 1:11:54.800 --> 1:11:57.120 Okay, well I like the idea of this. So what 1:11:57.400 --> 1:11:57.880 just this is? 1:11:58.080 --> 1:12:00.400 It's very peaceful. It sounds like in your multi diverse 1:12:01.320 --> 1:12:05.040 Oh yeah yeah, Well. 1:12:04.479 --> 1:12:06.320 You can read a couple of pages every day. It 1:12:06.400 --> 1:12:09.920 goes back in twenty fourteen, been writing. My brother Paul 1:12:10.000 --> 1:12:13.840 actually invented a bunch of companies. He started like a 1:12:14.800 --> 1:12:19.599 citizen portal, dot Ai, Wow and Ancestry and like six 1:12:19.800 --> 1:12:20.400 lard companies. 1:12:20.439 --> 1:12:22.519 But and you're blogging every day. It looks like I'm 1:12:22.520 --> 1:12:24.840 looking at twenty twenty four every day. What happened in 1:12:24.880 --> 1:12:27.760 twenty twenty two? You only had nine posts? What happened there? 1:12:28.120 --> 1:12:28.320 I know? 1:12:28.760 --> 1:12:33.679 Well it's been since like then. Uh, my brother Paul 1:12:33.760 --> 1:12:42.120 actually he actually helped me edit the first three hundred pages, 1:12:42.560 --> 1:12:46.320 and then he quit and my sister helped me. She 1:12:46.439 --> 1:12:50.400 started like the Mormons mothers, like a couple of name mothers, 1:12:50.439 --> 1:12:53.800 and then stopped with that. But they started not talking 1:12:53.800 --> 1:12:54.439 about Mormons. 1:12:54.720 --> 1:12:56.760 Well, all I know about the Mormons right now is 1:12:56.840 --> 1:12:59.000 the Uh there's isn't there a show that everyone's watching, 1:12:59.120 --> 1:13:01.160 like this reality that people are watching? 1:13:01.240 --> 1:13:06.040 I don't know, Okay, TV. Oh so I'm sister wives. 1:13:07.560 --> 1:13:10.599 You helped me edit by myself the last couple of years. 1:13:10.640 --> 1:13:14.000 Every single day, oh wow, every day. I ride every day. 1:13:14.040 --> 1:13:16.040 I can't see them, right, so I can't really drive 1:13:16.400 --> 1:13:19.000 ride a bicycle, but I can. I can ride every 1:13:19.120 --> 1:13:20.320 day in my home and that's what I do. 1:13:20.560 --> 1:13:23.280 All right. Well, don thanks for the suggestion. I'll take 1:13:23.280 --> 1:13:23.559 a look. 1:13:23.800 --> 1:13:26.240 You're prolific writer on that site, and I like your 1:13:26.280 --> 1:13:28.920 idea of the multiverse piece piece for everyone. 1:13:29.400 --> 1:13:31.200 That's a that's a great idea. 1:13:31.320 --> 1:13:33.320 So thanks for the call today, and do appreciate you 1:13:33.400 --> 1:13:36.640 listening to me, even if I don't understand everything you 1:13:36.680 --> 1:13:37.120 were saying. 1:13:37.760 --> 1:13:39.479 I you know, I I got, I got, I get 1:13:39.520 --> 1:13:39.880 the gist. 1:13:40.600 --> 1:13:40.720 Uh. 1:13:41.040 --> 1:13:45.040 Speaking of back to real life, Google flights now has 1:13:45.840 --> 1:13:47.320 a cheapest option. 1:13:48.280 --> 1:13:50.519 This is like, this is what I needed in college. 1:13:50.600 --> 1:13:53.040 Although flights were a lot cheaper back then than they 1:13:53.080 --> 1:13:57.479 are now, but so cheaper option. So Google, if you 1:13:57.560 --> 1:13:59.960 go to Google flights, you know that's my absolute favorite 1:14:00.560 --> 1:14:03.960 flight searching website. You go to flights dot Google dot com. 1:14:04.680 --> 1:14:07.240 You type in where you want to go, departure dates 1:14:07.280 --> 1:14:08.959 if you want, if you want to get that specific 1:14:09.120 --> 1:14:11.120 or just look at the calendar and see the dates 1:14:11.160 --> 1:14:13.280 in green, and it will tell you those are the 1:14:13.320 --> 1:14:15.680 best cheapest days. But if you need to go on 1:14:15.800 --> 1:14:18.639 certain days but you want to get there cheaper, there's 1:14:18.720 --> 1:14:22.240 now a cheapest tab. This will show you the lowest 1:14:22.360 --> 1:14:26.840 airfare options, even if they're less convenient. So personally, you know, 1:14:27.080 --> 1:14:29.680 I'm of a certain age and I want to get 1:14:29.720 --> 1:14:31.960 there on a direct flight and I don't want a 1:14:32.000 --> 1:14:34.840 lot of you know, fuss, and so that is what 1:14:34.960 --> 1:14:37.680 I prefer. But if you just want and that's not 1:14:37.760 --> 1:14:40.439 always the cheapest, If you want the cheapest fair and 1:14:40.600 --> 1:14:43.080 maybe you have some extra time, maybe you don't care 1:14:43.120 --> 1:14:45.320 if you need a layover, Maybe you don't care if 1:14:45.360 --> 1:14:48.439 you fly to one airport and drive out of another. 1:14:49.760 --> 1:14:51.760 Maybe you don't care about the third party booking site. 1:14:51.880 --> 1:14:54.519 These are all the expanded options that the cheapest tab 1:14:54.640 --> 1:14:57.640 takes into effect. Because most people you know, with with 1:14:57.920 --> 1:15:00.439 with these search engines, they want the best fare and 1:15:00.640 --> 1:15:03.160 the you know, the the easiest kind of a combination 1:15:03.280 --> 1:15:05.560 of convenience and fair. But this is like, no, you 1:15:05.640 --> 1:15:08.600 want cheapest, we will find you the absolute cheapest. So 1:15:08.720 --> 1:15:12.520 this might include a longer layover, this could include multiple airlines, 1:15:12.880 --> 1:15:15.759 It couldn't could include something. It's called a self transfer. 1:15:15.840 --> 1:15:17.760 I've never even heard of this until I read about 1:15:17.800 --> 1:15:22.080 this with Google. A self transfer works like this. You 1:15:22.200 --> 1:15:25.719 fly one airline to a city. As you're connecting city, 1:15:26.040 --> 1:15:29.479 you collect your luggage, and then you check in at 1:15:29.520 --> 1:15:32.960 another airline to connect continue your flight. I mean, and 1:15:33.040 --> 1:15:34.880 those are not you know, they're not sort of like 1:15:35.000 --> 1:15:37.200 connected on your ticket. It's just like you booked them all. 1:15:37.560 --> 1:15:40.800 That's that's a wild way to go, but that's another 1:15:40.880 --> 1:15:42.760 way to do it anyway. So if you're looking for this, 1:15:42.920 --> 1:15:45.840 if you want cheap, just look on Google Flights and 1:15:46.400 --> 1:15:48.800 check out the new cheapest tab. It is rolling out, 1:15:49.280 --> 1:15:51.880 so it may not be on there right away. It 1:15:52.040 --> 1:15:53.680 was not on there the last couple of times I 1:15:53.920 --> 1:15:56.200 tried searching on there, which is pretty much every day. 1:15:56.760 --> 1:15:59.800 But if you're looking for the cheapest, absolute cheapest way 1:15:59.840 --> 1:16:01.960 to go. Oh and by the way, Google did throw 1:16:02.040 --> 1:16:06.040 in that right now is the cheapest time to book 1:16:06.400 --> 1:16:08.920 or the best time to book holiday flights, so that 1:16:09.080 --> 1:16:13.360 is right now in October. All right, there you go, cheapest. 1:16:13.720 --> 1:16:15.599 Let's see what else do we have here. We got 1:16:15.680 --> 1:16:19.439 so many emails from people. Let's see rich from New Jersey. Wait, 1:16:19.800 --> 1:16:21.559 is this me writing in What's What's happening? 1:16:21.600 --> 1:16:25.440 Here? Am I in? Am I in the Don's multiverse? 1:16:25.520 --> 1:16:27.679 Right now? I am coming from the future? 1:16:27.800 --> 1:16:27.960 Rich? 1:16:28.439 --> 1:16:30.639 No, I'm just kidding. This is not me, Rich, Rich 1:16:30.760 --> 1:16:31.160 here we go? 1:16:31.920 --> 1:16:35.240 Rich from New Jersey commented that he loves the show, 1:16:35.439 --> 1:16:38.679 writes in Hey, Rich, I have the great LG seventy 1:16:38.720 --> 1:16:42.040 seven inch TV with the Sonos Arc, the large subwoofer, 1:16:42.200 --> 1:16:44.720 and two so nos one rear speakers. When I bought 1:16:44.760 --> 1:16:47.559 all this, the salesperson never told me I wouldn't get 1:16:47.600 --> 1:16:50.080 at most with the ones. I found out I'd need 1:16:50.160 --> 1:16:53.160 the Sons fives for true at most. This really upsets 1:16:53.200 --> 1:16:55.200 me because I spent a lot of money. So my 1:16:55.320 --> 1:16:57.599 question is do I spend another thousand dollars to get 1:16:57.640 --> 1:16:59.400 the fives or is it not worth it? 1:16:59.560 --> 1:17:01.679 What? I not that big of a difference. I'm considering 1:17:01.800 --> 1:17:02.880 just staying with the surround sound. 1:17:02.920 --> 1:17:06.599 What are your thoughts? Thanks and love your show. Well, Rich, 1:17:06.680 --> 1:17:10.680 here's the deal. You've got the ones. How much are 1:17:10.720 --> 1:17:13.000 those Sonos ones are? 1:17:13.320 --> 1:17:13.599 Okay? 1:17:13.880 --> 1:17:14.080 Well? 1:17:15.400 --> 1:17:15.559 Two? 1:17:15.600 --> 1:17:18.639 Okay? Two pack is six hundred bucks. So two pack 1:17:18.720 --> 1:17:22.519 is six hundred bucks and you need the fives? For 1:17:22.640 --> 1:17:26.000 one thousand dollars, So maybe you sell the ones and 1:17:26.200 --> 1:17:28.360 just upgrade for the extra, you know, five hundred bucks, 1:17:28.400 --> 1:17:31.759 whatever it's gonna be. If you want the Dolbie Atmost, 1:17:32.160 --> 1:17:33.120 you've already gotten this far. 1:17:33.280 --> 1:17:33.400 Now. 1:17:34.120 --> 1:17:35.760 I don't know if you need the Dolby Atmost, but 1:17:35.880 --> 1:17:39.320 it is definitely People who have it love It is 1:17:39.479 --> 1:17:43.360 a very popular sound format. And if you're not familiar 1:17:43.400 --> 1:17:46.599 with what Atmost is, if you're familiar with regular surround sound, 1:17:46.960 --> 1:17:49.519 it's just stuff that's sort of like left and right right. 1:17:50.479 --> 1:17:53.840 At Most adds that sort of overhead and three D 1:17:54.560 --> 1:17:57.720 world around you. It's almost like basically spatial audio. So 1:17:57.960 --> 1:18:00.800 let's say there's like a helicopter to you might hear 1:18:00.840 --> 1:18:03.120 it left or right, you know, in the movie theater, 1:18:03.600 --> 1:18:06.360 this would be hear the helicopter coming from like the 1:18:06.560 --> 1:18:11.200 back left to the front, back right to the front left, 1:18:11.280 --> 1:18:14.000 so it flies over you and Dobey Utmost would give 1:18:14.000 --> 1:18:16.439 you that, and so it's more realistic. It's kind of 1:18:16.479 --> 1:18:19.439 like it envelopes you in the sound. And I think 1:18:19.520 --> 1:18:22.920 that because you've already got rich sounds like you like 1:18:23.080 --> 1:18:26.240 nice stuff. You've got that nice LGTV that's big you've 1:18:26.280 --> 1:18:29.439 got the son nos ark, you've got the subwoofer, and 1:18:29.640 --> 1:18:30.840 you've got the sons rear. 1:18:32.040 --> 1:18:32.400 I don't know. 1:18:33.120 --> 1:18:35.680 I think I'm thinking you want to upgrade, but I 1:18:35.760 --> 1:18:37.880 know you said maybe not, just stick with the sround, 1:18:37.920 --> 1:18:39.800 but I don't know. I have just regular surround sound 1:18:39.880 --> 1:18:42.080 seems to be fine. But if you want to get that, 1:18:42.280 --> 1:18:45.160 then you know I would go for it. Go for it, Richard, 1:18:45.240 --> 1:18:46.360 you deserve it if you work hard. 1:18:46.439 --> 1:18:46.800 Go for it. 1:18:47.560 --> 1:18:51.640 Eric from a Bismarck, North Carolina, North Dakota, listens on 1:18:51.720 --> 1:18:53.920 Apple podcasts. He writes in hey, rich do you have 1:18:53.960 --> 1:18:56.840 a recommendation for the best USB cable to use car 1:18:56.920 --> 1:19:00.960 play with my iPhone pro Mac sixteen. I have a 1:19:01.040 --> 1:19:04.040 twenty eighteen niece on Rogue with USBA. I'm looking for 1:19:04.080 --> 1:19:07.080 a USBA to USBC. Many cables I've tried caused my 1:19:07.200 --> 1:19:10.360 vehicle to lose connection randomly or produce static. I prefer 1:19:10.439 --> 1:19:12.559 a straight cable if possible, but I'm open to using 1:19:12.600 --> 1:19:14.720 an adapter. I enjoy your show. I listen to the 1:19:14.760 --> 1:19:19.200 podcast almost every week. Thank you, Eric, Do not use 1:19:19.200 --> 1:19:22.280 an adapter that will probably cause more problems. I noticed 1:19:22.280 --> 1:19:24.200 this with my wife's car when we got the new 1:19:24.240 --> 1:19:27.280 iPhone for her, she had an issue with the USBC 1:19:27.479 --> 1:19:29.840 with her CarPlay. I think that a lot of times 1:19:30.479 --> 1:19:33.479 these systems were not really they were engineered for one thing, 1:19:33.520 --> 1:19:36.400 and now we're kind of back ending in backing in 1:19:36.560 --> 1:19:39.920 some other things. So I did take about three tries 1:19:39.960 --> 1:19:43.040 with cables before I found when that worked with hers perfectly. 1:19:43.680 --> 1:19:47.519 So obviously the if Apple has an official cable on 1:19:47.560 --> 1:19:50.120 their website, that's probably a good way. That's going to 1:19:50.160 --> 1:19:52.040 be the most expensive. But I would just go on 1:19:52.120 --> 1:19:54.240 Amazon and search for an anchor cable and get that 1:19:54.439 --> 1:19:59.400 USB USBA to USB C and also check to make 1:19:59.439 --> 1:20:01.800 sure that you're the USB A connection on the car 1:20:01.960 --> 1:20:04.439 is not loose, like if that thing is coming out 1:20:04.520 --> 1:20:07.160 like it moves left right up down, because it's like 1:20:07.200 --> 1:20:09.400 an older car, maybe you've plugged in so many times, 1:20:09.840 --> 1:20:11.360 so if that's loose, I would bring it in to 1:20:11.439 --> 1:20:13.719 get that kind of tightened up. That could be causing 1:20:13.760 --> 1:20:17.120 it as well. But I think any any high quality cable, 1:20:17.160 --> 1:20:18.519 that's the main thing. It's got to be a high 1:20:18.560 --> 1:20:20.920 quality cable. So if you're buying one for a dollar 1:20:20.960 --> 1:20:24.800 at the checkout at the convenience store, probably won't work 1:20:24.840 --> 1:20:26.720 as well. I mean it may, but it just may 1:20:26.800 --> 1:20:28.840 not with the newer cars. Sure, it's all, it's all 1:20:28.920 --> 1:20:31.680 pretty simple, but the older cars. For some reason, when 1:20:31.760 --> 1:20:35.360 this new iPhone came out with USBC from USBA, it 1:20:35.439 --> 1:20:37.719 got a little bit, you know, that connection just seems 1:20:37.760 --> 1:20:40.360 a little bit more finicky than the standard USBC to 1:20:40.520 --> 1:20:43.200 USBC or USBA to lightning. 1:20:43.600 --> 1:20:44.120 Good question. 1:20:44.320 --> 1:20:48.679 Thanks for emailing in, Eric from Bismarck, North Dakota, appreciate. 1:20:48.800 --> 1:20:51.439 Listen to the podcast out there. Rich on tech dot 1:20:51.560 --> 1:20:53.439 tv is the website. If you want to send me 1:20:53.479 --> 1:20:56.120 an email. The phone number is eighty to eight rich 1:20:56.280 --> 1:20:58.639 one on one eight eight eight seven four to two 1:20:59.240 --> 1:21:00.800 four one zero one. 1:21:02.439 --> 1:21:02.880 Coming up. 1:21:03.560 --> 1:21:08.480 Uh the FCC making it easier to cancel subscriptions. 1:21:08.840 --> 1:21:10.000 I'll explain coming up. 1:21:14.200 --> 1:21:17.639 Shanna's in Long Beach, California. Shanna, you're on with Rich 1:21:18.680 --> 1:21:23.200 Oh Hi hi, hi, So at work. 1:21:23.280 --> 1:21:27.040 I have a work iPhone and I was wondering, I 1:21:27.160 --> 1:21:28.880 know they tracked me and stuff. Not that I care. 1:21:28.880 --> 1:21:29.880 I'm not doing anything. 1:21:29.640 --> 1:21:32.599 Wrong, but I'm just curious if what what's the tracking 1:21:32.760 --> 1:21:36.360 app that they use for? Like, and they're there, they 1:21:36.400 --> 1:21:38.840 can get into my phone, calls and text messages and 1:21:38.920 --> 1:21:42.400 emails and stuff like that. But like, is there like 1:21:42.400 --> 1:21:44.640 an app on my phone that I can see that 1:21:44.760 --> 1:21:45.800 they use to track me? 1:21:46.520 --> 1:21:47.920 Well, how do you know they can get into all 1:21:47.920 --> 1:21:48.639 this stuff that they. 1:21:48.600 --> 1:21:52.160 Told you this, No, it's just kind of obvious. 1:21:52.960 --> 1:21:56.200 Well, okay, I don't think it's that obvious because typically, 1:21:56.720 --> 1:21:59.120 especially on the iPhone, they are they are very much 1:21:59.200 --> 1:22:01.960 locked down to vice. Now, if it is a company 1:22:03.120 --> 1:22:06.040 issued device, they of course reserve the right to basically 1:22:06.200 --> 1:22:08.880 track anything that you do on that phone, but with 1:22:09.080 --> 1:22:11.560 respect to getting access to your messages and things like that, 1:22:12.640 --> 1:22:15.559 they don't typically have that. Now your emails, of course, 1:22:16.040 --> 1:22:17.880 but let me I mean, so, the main way that 1:22:18.040 --> 1:22:21.320 companies can track you on your iPhone specifically, this is 1:22:21.360 --> 1:22:24.759 iPhone specific. Android obviously much easier because it's a different 1:22:24.800 --> 1:22:26.720 operating system and there's things that they can do on 1:22:26.800 --> 1:22:29.160 there that they can't do on the iPhone. But there's 1:22:29.200 --> 1:22:33.439 typically what's called a VPN or an MDM profile. So 1:22:34.200 --> 1:22:37.000 this is this is a little app that they can 1:22:37.080 --> 1:22:40.080 have or a profile on your phone that basically gives 1:22:40.120 --> 1:22:44.040 them more access than typically allowed. So if you want 1:22:44.040 --> 1:22:46.240 to look for that on your phone, you can go 1:22:46.479 --> 1:22:50.560 into settings are you on iOS eighteen or before that? 1:22:51.720 --> 1:22:53.439 Oh it's an old phone. It's an iPhone five. 1:22:53.760 --> 1:22:57.000 Oh my gosh, that's a that's a security risk in itself. 1:22:58.040 --> 1:23:01.400 That is I iPhone five. Wait a second, what kind 1:23:01.439 --> 1:23:01.600 of what? 1:23:01.960 --> 1:23:02.000 What? 1:23:03.439 --> 1:23:06.519 And it still works, it's still fast and takes the updates. 1:23:06.560 --> 1:23:06.720 I know. 1:23:06.760 --> 1:23:09.200 I don't see how there's no updates for the iPhone 1:23:09.240 --> 1:23:13.040 five anymore. Oh hold on, let me let me see 1:23:13.080 --> 1:23:14.760 what's going on. Hold on, let me see end of 1:23:15.920 --> 1:23:18.760 iPhone five. Hold on, let me see. I'm looking up 1:23:18.840 --> 1:23:21.599 the end of life date on this. Okay, iPhone five, 1:23:22.760 --> 1:23:25.120 it's not even on my list. Oh there it is, Okay, 1:23:25.600 --> 1:23:30.479 iPhone five. This is a twelve year old phone September 1:23:30.560 --> 1:23:35.439 twenty first, twenty twelve, and it is eleven years ago. 1:23:35.640 --> 1:23:41.360 They stopped making it and then the software updates ended 1:23:41.439 --> 1:23:42.160 five years ago. 1:23:42.840 --> 1:23:44.720 What kind of company is this? Why are they giving 1:23:44.720 --> 1:23:45.599 you such an old phone? 1:23:47.000 --> 1:23:47.200 Yeah? 1:23:47.320 --> 1:23:49.880 No, it's it's a home health agency. I'm a registered nurse. 1:23:49.920 --> 1:23:53.360 I do home health, and I mean, if it works, 1:23:53.800 --> 1:23:55.840 I don't you know, there's no reason for them to buy, 1:23:57.120 --> 1:23:58.559 you know, new phone for all the nurses. 1:23:58.760 --> 1:24:01.519 Okay, interesting, all right, Well, so the main place to 1:24:01.560 --> 1:24:05.160 look is general, is settings General, and then there's something 1:24:05.280 --> 1:24:08.400 that says VPN and device management. So if you go 1:24:08.560 --> 1:24:11.799 into there and there is a profile for your company, 1:24:11.920 --> 1:24:15.160 that's where they're tracking you. And so that's the little piece, 1:24:15.280 --> 1:24:17.280 the key piece of information that gives them the ability 1:24:17.320 --> 1:24:21.320 to track you in general. Like I always tell people, 1:24:21.720 --> 1:24:24.599 if you're using a company device, yes, they are probably 1:24:24.640 --> 1:24:26.920 tracking you in some sort of way. If you're on 1:24:27.000 --> 1:24:29.560 your company Wi Fi at work, yes, they're tracking you 1:24:29.680 --> 1:24:32.439 in some sort of way. If you're driving a company car, yes, 1:24:32.520 --> 1:24:34.559 they're tracking you in some sort of way. If you're 1:24:34.640 --> 1:24:37.120 using company email, yes, they are tracking you in some 1:24:37.240 --> 1:24:39.800 sort of way. Now AI makes this stuff a whole 1:24:39.880 --> 1:24:43.479 lot easier because they're not necessarily looking at your phone 1:24:43.680 --> 1:24:47.160 or looking at your email, but they're using management software 1:24:47.200 --> 1:24:50.040 on the back end that will maybe alert them to 1:24:50.280 --> 1:24:52.240 Let's say you're a home health nurse and you know 1:24:52.320 --> 1:24:54.599 you go to the same five houses every day every week. 1:24:55.000 --> 1:24:56.640 All of a sudden, you start spending a lot of 1:24:56.680 --> 1:24:59.680 time in a different location. There is software that may 1:24:59.760 --> 1:25:01.600 tell hold on, you may want to look into this, 1:25:01.920 --> 1:25:06.040 and we're noticing that there's a variation in the pattern 1:25:06.560 --> 1:25:08.760 and so that's really what these things are looking for. 1:25:09.640 --> 1:25:11.280 When it comes to email and things like that. 1:25:11.439 --> 1:25:14.240 They're looking for maybe keywords that you're talking about, you know, 1:25:14.680 --> 1:25:18.080 company secrets, whatever. But this, this is what these these 1:25:18.160 --> 1:25:20.479 software programs are doing. They're looking for things in a 1:25:20.600 --> 1:25:23.599 smart way. They're not just looking at every single thing 1:25:23.680 --> 1:25:25.759 you do. I mean they are, but it's a computer 1:25:25.920 --> 1:25:28.280 most of the time, and if it needs to kind 1:25:28.280 --> 1:25:30.680 of kick that up to the bosses, then it will say, hey, 1:25:30.720 --> 1:25:32.680 you may want to review these five things or this 1:25:32.800 --> 1:25:35.160 website that this person keeps visiting or something like that. 1:25:36.080 --> 1:25:39.080 But in general, I would always just you know, be 1:25:39.200 --> 1:25:42.000 aware of that, especially if you're using a work VPN, 1:25:42.400 --> 1:25:45.599 especially if you're using a work issued computer. There are 1:25:45.640 --> 1:25:49.080 programs specifically on computers that they can pretty much watch 1:25:49.160 --> 1:25:50.040 your entire screen. 1:25:50.160 --> 1:25:52.720 Ask your kids they use them at school. Most of 1:25:52.760 --> 1:25:53.400 the schools have. 1:25:53.479 --> 1:25:57.000 This screen monitoring software built in where literally they can 1:25:57.080 --> 1:26:01.160 replay anything that happens on that screen any time, so 1:26:01.280 --> 1:26:02.640 that they you know, if a kid is sending a 1:26:02.720 --> 1:26:04.880 text or something through there, or an email they write it, 1:26:05.200 --> 1:26:07.600 they can just call up that screen later on and 1:26:08.280 --> 1:26:10.200 see exactly what they did and what they said. So 1:26:10.840 --> 1:26:13.439 this stuff happens, it's there, it's real, and you just 1:26:13.520 --> 1:26:16.160 have to be aware your your privacy is not your 1:26:16.200 --> 1:26:18.240 privacy when you're using a work device. 1:26:18.760 --> 1:26:21.639 Good question, Shanna. Thanks for the call today from Long Beach. 1:26:21.760 --> 1:26:24.760 Coming up, we are going to talk about an app 1:26:24.880 --> 1:26:27.080 speaking of privacy called Permission Slip. 1:26:27.520 --> 1:26:28.800 It's from Consumer. 1:26:28.479 --> 1:26:31.080 Reports and we're going to talk all about that coming 1:26:31.160 --> 1:26:36.120 up right here on Rich on Tech. All right. Joining 1:26:36.160 --> 1:26:42.719 me now is Suki Galotti, Gilbert product manager for Permission Slip. 1:26:42.840 --> 1:26:45.080 This is an app from Consumer Reports that helps you 1:26:45.800 --> 1:26:47.040 reclaim your privacy. 1:26:47.200 --> 1:26:48.360 Suki, Welcome to the show. 1:26:49.200 --> 1:26:50.080 Hi, Rich, Thanks for. 1:26:50.120 --> 1:26:53.080 Having me, so thanks for being here. Tell me, first off, 1:26:53.160 --> 1:26:54.960 what permission Slip is all about. 1:26:56.120 --> 1:26:59.360 Permission Slip is all about making it easy to exercise 1:26:59.479 --> 1:27:02.960 your right to digital privacy by submitting data rights requests 1:27:03.000 --> 1:27:06.000 to companies on your behalf. So what that means is 1:27:06.080 --> 1:27:09.280 we tell companies to stop selling your personal information or 1:27:09.400 --> 1:27:09.920 to delete it. 1:27:10.400 --> 1:27:12.639 And so this, i imagine is something that's like very 1:27:12.840 --> 1:27:16.280 deep inside their terms and conditions or something like that. 1:27:16.360 --> 1:27:18.320 When you hand over your phone number or email and say, 1:27:18.400 --> 1:27:19.840 by the way, you can tell us not to sell this, 1:27:19.960 --> 1:27:20.960 but nobody ever does. 1:27:22.360 --> 1:27:23.080 Exactly. 1:27:23.280 --> 1:27:26.719 So this is, you know, so important because every search, click, 1:27:26.800 --> 1:27:29.559 and tap you make online it's tracked by these companies, 1:27:30.080 --> 1:27:32.120 and submitting these requests is one of the very few 1:27:32.160 --> 1:27:34.519 things consumers have the power to do in the face 1:27:34.600 --> 1:27:37.240 of that. But as you mentioned, when we did research, 1:27:37.320 --> 1:27:39.920 we found that the links to exercise these rights are 1:27:40.000 --> 1:27:42.439 hidden deep in the privacy policies and they can be 1:27:42.520 --> 1:27:43.800 quite time consuming to find. 1:27:44.280 --> 1:27:47.160 And so, what kind of like what kind of companies 1:27:47.240 --> 1:27:49.600 do you work with with this app? I mean, I 1:27:49.640 --> 1:27:50.960 know you don't well, I don't know do you work 1:27:51.000 --> 1:27:53.680 with them or do you like just you've figured out 1:27:53.720 --> 1:27:55.599 like how to delete the data from all these companies, 1:27:55.640 --> 1:27:57.400 and like, explain to me how it works, Like I 1:27:57.479 --> 1:27:58.519 sign up on the app. 1:27:58.320 --> 1:28:01.720 And then what yes, So the way it works is 1:28:01.800 --> 1:28:04.759 we send what's called data rights request to these companies. 1:28:05.160 --> 1:28:08.120 Privacy law in the United States it's a big patchwork 1:28:08.200 --> 1:28:11.800 of it, and some states guarantee you the right to 1:28:12.240 --> 1:28:14.760 ask that companies stop selling or delete your data. But 1:28:14.960 --> 1:28:18.720 as you mentioned, exercising this right is difficult, and even 1:28:18.760 --> 1:28:22.120 a step before exercising that right, there's this question you asked, Right, 1:28:22.720 --> 1:28:25.559 who do I tell this to? So Permission Slip has 1:28:25.600 --> 1:28:28.400 two sets of companies on the app, consumer facing companies 1:28:28.479 --> 1:28:30.920 and the data brokers. I'm going to talk about data 1:28:30.960 --> 1:28:33.920 brokers a little bit because these are companies who you 1:28:34.000 --> 1:28:37.000 don't know, but they know you. They know your address, 1:28:37.760 --> 1:28:41.200 they know your family, they know your voting registration records, 1:28:41.600 --> 1:28:44.120 and they sell all of that data for profit. So 1:28:44.280 --> 1:28:47.560 what Consumer Reports does is we talk to experts and 1:28:47.680 --> 1:28:51.479 we survey state data broker registries to get a list 1:28:51.640 --> 1:28:55.160 of the worst offenders and to understand which data brokers 1:28:55.280 --> 1:28:59.160 own other data brokers and put together Right now we 1:28:59.200 --> 1:29:01.919 have a list of over one hundred. We're constantly revisiting 1:29:01.960 --> 1:29:05.040 it and working to expand it. And we tell these 1:29:05.120 --> 1:29:07.920 companies that you want them to stop selling your data 1:29:08.400 --> 1:29:10.679 and to ask that they delete your data. 1:29:12.080 --> 1:29:14.519 Oh wow, okay, so and so now I know you 1:29:14.600 --> 1:29:16.920 have a new like a plus version like that. So 1:29:17.040 --> 1:29:19.680 permission Slip at its core is free. You can do 1:29:19.800 --> 1:29:21.800 all this, like a lot of these things for free. 1:29:22.240 --> 1:29:23.960 But now I know you have this new plus version, 1:29:24.040 --> 1:29:26.479 So explain what do I get with the plus? Is 1:29:26.560 --> 1:29:27.759 that the data broker stuff. 1:29:28.800 --> 1:29:32.160 Absolutely, So the short answer is that Permission Slip saves 1:29:32.200 --> 1:29:35.439 you time and permission Slip Plus saves you even more time, 1:29:36.080 --> 1:29:39.000 so the process to send a data rights request. 1:29:38.880 --> 1:29:41.200 Can can be involved. 1:29:41.280 --> 1:29:44.280 And so what permission Slip as its core free tier 1:29:44.400 --> 1:29:47.160 does is we've gone to all these websites for you, 1:29:47.280 --> 1:29:50.720 both consumer facing companies like home depot or ticketmaster as 1:29:50.760 --> 1:29:53.360 well as data brokers whose names you might not know, 1:29:53.880 --> 1:29:57.080 and we've gone to the website and we've extracted the 1:29:57.200 --> 1:29:59.920 link so that you can send those requests by yourself 1:30:00.280 --> 1:30:03.040 in one tap, and in many cases, even on the 1:30:03.080 --> 1:30:05.479 free tier, we actually will send them for you. So 1:30:05.680 --> 1:30:08.479 if you download the apps, some of these companies have 1:30:08.560 --> 1:30:10.880 a lightning bolt by them and those are ones that 1:30:10.960 --> 1:30:13.200 will you know, we will will put we have our 1:30:13.240 --> 1:30:16.719 team of data data concierges sending these sending these requests 1:30:16.760 --> 1:30:19.280 on your behalf, even on the free tier, but on 1:30:19.400 --> 1:30:23.080 the Plus tier, we will give you a much more 1:30:23.160 --> 1:30:27.000 powerful automation and more human support to send out requests 1:30:27.080 --> 1:30:31.320 to over one hundred data brokers within minutes. So it 1:30:31.400 --> 1:30:34.120 can save you really hours of effort. Because even with 1:30:34.280 --> 1:30:36.840 all the work permission slip has done to get it 1:30:37.240 --> 1:30:39.400 to be just one tap to send these requests, it's 1:30:39.400 --> 1:30:41.160 still it's still a lot of time to send them 1:30:41.200 --> 1:30:44.439 out one by one, and so we have collected a 1:30:44.479 --> 1:30:46.640 list of over one hundred data brokers, and once you 1:30:46.720 --> 1:30:49.360 subscribe for Plus, we'll we'll send those requests out. Our 1:30:49.439 --> 1:30:52.800 data con search team will monitor them, monitor for them, 1:30:53.320 --> 1:30:55.000 monitor them for you, and work behind the scenes to 1:30:55.040 --> 1:30:56.679 get as many of those fulfilled as possible. 1:30:57.040 --> 1:30:58.840 But just to be clear, if I you know, I 1:30:58.880 --> 1:31:00.680 don't need to sign up for Plus to get some 1:31:00.840 --> 1:31:02.840 benefits out of this app, because this app has been 1:31:02.840 --> 1:31:05.880 around for a long time before you introduce the Plus feature. 1:31:06.760 --> 1:31:07.600 Absolutely so. 1:31:08.360 --> 1:31:11.680 Permission slip is something that Consumer Reports built because we 1:31:11.760 --> 1:31:17.120 believe privacy is a fundamental right. And so when you downloaded, 1:31:17.240 --> 1:31:19.920 you can immediately put us to work to be sending 1:31:20.000 --> 1:31:22.120 privacy requests for you on the free tier as well. 1:31:22.160 --> 1:31:24.519 You'll just save more time if you send it for Plus. 1:31:24.720 --> 1:31:26.719 Okay, now, what kind of information are we talking about? 1:31:26.800 --> 1:31:29.400 What kind of personal information? Like do I have to 1:31:29.560 --> 1:31:31.760 put in like my social or anything like that to 1:31:32.600 --> 1:31:33.800 ask for them to take it down? 1:31:35.040 --> 1:31:36.160 You do not have to put in. 1:31:36.240 --> 1:31:42.120 Your social So we send we ask for your phone number, 1:31:42.280 --> 1:31:45.000 your address, and your email address. The reason that we 1:31:45.080 --> 1:31:48.000 ask for this information is because that is sort of 1:31:48.200 --> 1:31:50.479 the minimal set of information. A lot of these companies 1:31:50.560 --> 1:31:53.599 need to identify you within their records so that they 1:31:53.720 --> 1:31:56.920 can delete you. And we're always we practice the principle 1:31:56.960 --> 1:31:59.840 of data minimization, so we collect as little data from 1:31:59.880 --> 1:32:02.720 you as we can to ensure that these requests get 1:32:02.760 --> 1:32:05.560 fulfilled as effectively as possible. But in terms of what 1:32:05.680 --> 1:32:08.960 data these companies have about you, they absolutely could have 1:32:09.240 --> 1:32:13.519 you know your social Security number, your address, your purchase history, 1:32:13.680 --> 1:32:15.760 so that the data that they have can get can 1:32:15.840 --> 1:32:18.400 get quite invasive and intimate. But the data that we 1:32:18.479 --> 1:32:21.360 ask from you is for the purpose of them identifying 1:32:21.400 --> 1:32:22.720 you so they can they can delete it. 1:32:23.160 --> 1:32:23.479 Got it? 1:32:23.640 --> 1:32:27.240 And then what's the benefit? How successful are you in 1:32:27.360 --> 1:32:31.040 these requests? And then what's the benefit of having less 1:32:31.080 --> 1:32:35.559 information about me out there? Great questions like why would 1:32:35.560 --> 1:32:37.640 I want not want ticket Master to be sharing my 1:32:37.800 --> 1:32:38.479 data or whatever? 1:32:38.720 --> 1:32:42.040 You know, explain that aspect absolutely so. 1:32:42.200 --> 1:32:46.000 There are so many reasons that it is beneficial to 1:32:46.080 --> 1:32:48.719 have less of your data out there. The first, of course, 1:32:48.840 --> 1:32:50.600 is just you know, if you're someone who believes in 1:32:50.640 --> 1:32:53.560 privacy as a principle, there's principled reasons too, But a 1:32:53.640 --> 1:32:56.120 lot of those it's election season. A lot of those 1:32:56.200 --> 1:32:59.320 texts that you're getting from campaigns are because a data 1:32:59.360 --> 1:33:02.760 broker sold your phone number to a research group. That 1:33:03.000 --> 1:33:06.280 data breaches, which become more frequent, can have your financial 1:33:06.560 --> 1:33:10.360 data much more likely if it has been sold by 1:33:10.400 --> 1:33:14.920 one company to another. Of course, all kinds of marketing 1:33:15.000 --> 1:33:17.840 that you don't want can can hit your doorstep by. 1:33:17.800 --> 1:33:19.200 Your address being sold. 1:33:19.360 --> 1:33:22.519 So really concretely, you know a lot of these spam 1:33:22.600 --> 1:33:25.519 techs and emails that flood your phone and inbox are 1:33:25.640 --> 1:33:28.920 because your data has been sold or exchanged. And there's 1:33:28.960 --> 1:33:33.479 also much more insidious and kind of inscrutable ways that 1:33:33.600 --> 1:33:37.559 your your data is propagated that can result in all 1:33:37.640 --> 1:33:40.920 kinds of you know, little marketing efforts or invasions of 1:33:40.960 --> 1:33:42.760 privacy that you might not even be fully aware of 1:33:42.840 --> 1:33:43.439 on the day to day. 1:33:43.640 --> 1:33:45.720 And it's interesting because the thing I get to kick 1:33:45.800 --> 1:33:47.960 back sometimes or the pushback people will be like, hey, 1:33:48.040 --> 1:33:49.559 you know, like I'm not doing anything wrong. I don't 1:33:49.560 --> 1:33:52.759 really care if my information's out there. At the very least, 1:33:53.439 --> 1:33:56.400 you may spend less money because you're being marketed to 1:33:56.800 --> 1:33:59.599 less and like that's at like the very least, right, 1:34:00.000 --> 1:34:02.280 And if all the other bad stuff is not a problem, 1:34:02.360 --> 1:34:04.320 Like you might just spend less money because they're not 1:34:04.400 --> 1:34:07.040 as good at getting you, you know, sold on on 1:34:07.320 --> 1:34:08.439 products and services. 1:34:09.520 --> 1:34:10.439 Yeah, totally. 1:34:10.560 --> 1:34:14.200 It's you know, it's not necessarily that you're doing something 1:34:14.240 --> 1:34:16.160 you don't want people to know about. But I think 1:34:16.200 --> 1:34:19.800 it's about the presumption by which you're kind of going 1:34:19.880 --> 1:34:22.040 through the world. Is the presumption that you're an open 1:34:22.080 --> 1:34:24.519 book for people to take what they know about you 1:34:24.800 --> 1:34:27.840 and use it to advance their own interests or do 1:34:28.000 --> 1:34:30.040 you want to be in control of what you're sharing 1:34:30.120 --> 1:34:31.320 with who, when and why? 1:34:32.040 --> 1:34:34.160 So do you think companies like literally you said they 1:34:34.200 --> 1:34:35.920 have a list of like purchase history, Like do you 1:34:35.960 --> 1:34:38.120 think that that stuff is sold around too? Like I 1:34:38.200 --> 1:34:40.720 always wonder that with like my credit card or debit card, 1:34:40.840 --> 1:34:43.360 Like is my bank like telling people like what I'm 1:34:43.400 --> 1:34:44.200 buying online? 1:34:45.600 --> 1:34:48.280 Yeah, I can't, you know, I don't. I can't speak 1:34:48.320 --> 1:34:50.840 so specifically whether your bank is, but I but I 1:34:50.960 --> 1:34:55.679 can tell you that this purchase history and basically everything 1:34:55.760 --> 1:34:58.120 you do is being tracked or sold on some level. 1:34:58.160 --> 1:35:01.000 You know, so rewards programs for you examples, many of 1:35:01.080 --> 1:35:04.439 those can be bought and sold as information about your 1:35:04.479 --> 1:35:05.280 purchase history. 1:35:07.160 --> 1:35:09.360 That's why everyone has a rewards program. It's not to 1:35:09.439 --> 1:35:10.080 save me money. 1:35:10.439 --> 1:35:13.040 It's because I'm basically agreeing to Hey, you can have 1:35:13.160 --> 1:35:16.400 my entire everything I purchase at Target, everything I purchased 1:35:16.400 --> 1:35:18.280 at you know, the grocery store. It's all on this 1:35:18.520 --> 1:35:21.000 list that I've somehow said, oh, yeah, you can take 1:35:21.040 --> 1:35:23.280 this information and market it as you please. 1:35:24.760 --> 1:35:26.240 Yes, a lot of you. 1:35:26.280 --> 1:35:30.840 Know, third parties that are offering to operationalize that reward 1:35:30.960 --> 1:35:33.560 service for a company. The company might who's running the 1:35:33.600 --> 1:35:35.840 reward service might not even know, but that that party 1:35:35.920 --> 1:35:38.719 who is running it for them is tracking your purchase 1:35:38.840 --> 1:35:39.840 history and selling it. 1:35:40.840 --> 1:35:42.280 We also see a lot. 1:35:42.200 --> 1:35:46.320 Of you know, different companies that are selling your for example, 1:35:46.479 --> 1:35:50.000 your health data to insurance companies, which can result in 1:35:50.160 --> 1:35:53.000 changes in your rates. There's been a lot of recent 1:35:53.080 --> 1:35:55.720 news around, for example, right twenty three and meters and 1:35:55.960 --> 1:35:58.080 the different ways in which your genetic data can be 1:35:58.280 --> 1:36:01.120 sold to places that you might not want to see 1:36:01.160 --> 1:36:01.599 it sold. 1:36:01.680 --> 1:36:05.519 So scary scary stuff. We're gonna leave it there. 1:36:06.160 --> 1:36:09.759 Suki Galotti, Gilbert, thank you so much for joining me today. 1:36:09.960 --> 1:36:15.400 From Consumer Reports. The website is permission slipcr dot com. 1:36:15.560 --> 1:36:19.800 Permission slipcr dot com. Download it, reclaim your data and 1:36:20.600 --> 1:36:23.040 reclaim your privacy. Thanks a lot for joining me today, 1:36:23.479 --> 1:36:26.519 Thanks for taking time. All right, coming up, we are 1:36:26.680 --> 1:36:29.120 gonna open up. I could barely drag it in here. 1:36:29.520 --> 1:36:33.120 The feedbag it's so big this week, it doesn't even 1:36:33.160 --> 1:36:33.920 fit in this room. 1:36:34.760 --> 1:36:38.720 What am I gonna do? Thanks for emailing. We'll have 1:36:38.840 --> 1:36:39.840 that in just a moment. 1:36:39.920 --> 1:36:40.040 Here. 1:36:44.160 --> 1:36:47.479 Welcome back to rich on Tech, rich DeMuro here hanging 1:36:47.560 --> 1:36:53.080 out with you, talking technology. Want to get through maybe 1:36:53.120 --> 1:36:55.400 a couple more stories before I get into the feedbag, 1:36:55.479 --> 1:36:58.240 which is overflowing this week. But I want to tell 1:36:58.280 --> 1:37:03.320 you about Android's new theft detection theft protection feature. If 1:37:03.360 --> 1:37:05.839 you have an Android phone, you have a new security 1:37:05.880 --> 1:37:10.240 feature called theft detection lock. If someone grabs your phone 1:37:10.320 --> 1:37:12.360 out of your hand and tries to run away with it, 1:37:12.640 --> 1:37:16.120 or walk away with mostly run or like bike, or 1:37:16.360 --> 1:37:19.040 you know, just get away from you quickly, your phone 1:37:19.160 --> 1:37:23.600 is now going to use it it's accelerometer to understand 1:37:23.720 --> 1:37:26.439 that and say, oh, I think something bad is happening here. 1:37:26.520 --> 1:37:29.360 I'm gonna lock down this device. But it is not 1:37:29.560 --> 1:37:31.840 turned on by default, so you have to turn this on. 1:37:32.080 --> 1:37:33.360 So what I want you to do. 1:37:33.720 --> 1:37:35.800 If you have an Android phone running I believe it's 1:37:35.840 --> 1:37:40.280 Android ten and up, which is most modern phones, go 1:37:40.439 --> 1:37:44.559 into Settings, then search, look for Google, and then tap 1:37:44.760 --> 1:37:49.320 all Services and then you'll see theft protection and then 1:37:49.439 --> 1:37:54.839 toggle on theft detection lock. So again, got settings, Google 1:37:55.479 --> 1:37:58.960 All Services. It's you'll see theft protection and toggle on 1:37:59.120 --> 1:38:02.320 theft detection in luck, I've got those instructions on my 1:38:02.400 --> 1:38:03.160 newsletter this week. 1:38:03.200 --> 1:38:05.000 So go to the website Rich on tech dot TV. 1:38:05.160 --> 1:38:05.879 Hit the newsletter. 1:38:06.240 --> 1:38:08.640 It's the one that says theft protection on it, and 1:38:09.120 --> 1:38:11.599 turn that on for sure if someone ever grabs your phone. 1:38:11.640 --> 1:38:14.720 I thought about this, you know the other We talked 1:38:14.720 --> 1:38:17.479 about this a while ago. Anyway, iPhone users also have 1:38:17.560 --> 1:38:21.519 a feature called Stolen Device Protection. So it's not the same, 1:38:21.600 --> 1:38:23.800 but it's similar, and so you can use that to 1:38:23.880 --> 1:38:25.960 protect your device as well. So if you're an iPhone user, 1:38:26.000 --> 1:38:29.160 you probably want to enable that too. All right, let's 1:38:29.200 --> 1:38:33.160 open up the feedback. We've got a lot. First email 1:38:33.200 --> 1:38:37.960 from Gary in Orange, Connecticut says Rich, thanks for all 1:38:38.000 --> 1:38:38.160 you do. 1:38:38.240 --> 1:38:40.040 I love the show. I look forward to the newsletters. 1:38:40.400 --> 1:38:43.120 I've got my why security cameras set to send an 1:38:43.160 --> 1:38:45.040 alert to my phone when they detect motion, but the 1:38:45.160 --> 1:38:48.200 notification is just a normal one time tone. Is there 1:38:48.240 --> 1:38:50.280 a way to set up a notification that will continue 1:38:50.320 --> 1:38:53.200 to ring until I disarm it, similar to a regular alarm? 1:38:54.320 --> 1:38:54.639 Gary? 1:38:54.800 --> 1:38:57.880 I assumed Gary was using an Android, but you know, 1:38:58.160 --> 1:39:00.360 I emailed him back and said, hey, are using Android 1:39:00.439 --> 1:39:03.200 or iPhone? But I just told them the solutions. But 1:39:03.400 --> 1:39:05.840 for Android, you can do a lot with your notifications 1:39:05.880 --> 1:39:08.760 pretty much anything you want. iPhone not so much. But 1:39:09.640 --> 1:39:13.400 for Android, I've recommended two apps. First is called Buzzkill 1:39:13.840 --> 1:39:16.760 b u zz ki ll that will give you a 1:39:16.960 --> 1:39:21.120 lot of a lot of you know, you could do 1:39:21.200 --> 1:39:24.040 a lot with your notifications basically anything you want with them. 1:39:24.160 --> 1:39:26.920 And then the other one I like is called Glimpse Notifications, 1:39:27.320 --> 1:39:29.320 and that's the one I used on my Samsung device 1:39:29.360 --> 1:39:30.920 when I wanted d screen to light up when I 1:39:30.960 --> 1:39:34.040 got a notification, And so that's there. On iPhone, i'd 1:39:34.040 --> 1:39:36.840 probably recommend just making like a really uploading your own 1:39:37.479 --> 1:39:39.840 ring tone that's really long and that will just keep 1:39:39.920 --> 1:39:41.680 going for like, I don't know, I don't know what 1:39:41.800 --> 1:39:44.240 the maximum ringtone sound is on an iPhone, but that's 1:39:44.280 --> 1:39:46.240 what I would do if you're on iPhone and Gary 1:39:46.320 --> 1:39:48.799 did follow up and say, let you know I installed 1:39:48.800 --> 1:39:52.000 buzzkill you recommended, did exactly what I needed to do. 1:39:52.240 --> 1:39:54.200 It was extremely easy to set up. Thanks for your 1:39:54.280 --> 1:39:59.200 personal response. It's great to have a resource. Thank you Gary. 1:39:59.439 --> 1:40:00.560 All right, do rites in. 1:40:00.720 --> 1:40:03.000 I continue to be amazed that the amount, variety and 1:40:03.040 --> 1:40:06.080 detail of information you provide. This week was particularly interesting 1:40:06.640 --> 1:40:09.240 had the massive AT and T Direct TV dish announcement 1:40:10.000 --> 1:40:12.120 massive outage involving AT and T oh this must have 1:40:12.120 --> 1:40:14.959 been from a couple weeks ago. My personal laptop malfunction, 1:40:15.160 --> 1:40:18.439 which was like catching fog to fix a plant power 1:40:18.479 --> 1:40:21.000 outage that affected my home tech setup. The Bank of 1:40:21.040 --> 1:40:24.160 America glitch affected our church accounts. It's like trying to 1:40:24.240 --> 1:40:26.519 drive at sixty five when everyone else is at ninety 1:40:26.600 --> 1:40:29.040 and weaving between lanes. There's no way to totally exist 1:40:29.160 --> 1:40:32.880 disconnected from this glitching world. Keep doing what you're doing. Rich, 1:40:32.960 --> 1:40:36.559 we all need you. Thanks Jim from Hollywood Hills Rights 1:40:36.600 --> 1:40:39.479 in Hey, Rich, I just remembered Henry Radio on Olympic 1:40:39.520 --> 1:40:42.800 Boulevard in West Los Angeles. Mostly hamgear, but a good 1:40:42.880 --> 1:40:47.000 source for large air insulated variable capacitors intended for high 1:40:47.040 --> 1:40:50.880 power transmitter final tuning. Also good for Tesla coils. There's 1:40:50.920 --> 1:40:53.320 also Federated Electronics sort of like a Best Buy, but 1:40:53.439 --> 1:40:56.240 mostly TVs and high five gear. I still have my 1:40:56.840 --> 1:40:59.559 loud speaker system in my home and I don't need 1:40:59.600 --> 1:41:03.240 a sub. It has two huge oiled walnut enclosures with 1:41:03.360 --> 1:41:08.720 twelve inch passive radiator instead of adducted port. You're no 1:41:08.840 --> 1:41:11.280 Leola Port, no better or worse, just different. I listen 1:41:11.280 --> 1:41:13.160 to your show whenever I have the free time. Nowadays, 1:41:13.200 --> 1:41:15.000 computers are just a tool for me, not a toy. 1:41:15.360 --> 1:41:18.560 So enjoy hearing the sorts of problems other have the solutions. 1:41:18.880 --> 1:41:20.479 Saves me a lot of time having to search on 1:41:20.520 --> 1:41:23.840 the internet. Thanks Jim from Hollywood Hills. I lived near 1:41:23.920 --> 1:41:26.400 the Henry Radio on Olympic Boulevard and I passed it 1:41:26.640 --> 1:41:28.960 ten thousand times in my life. I never knew that 1:41:29.040 --> 1:41:35.679 that was an actual radio store. Interesting, Rudy, let's see here, Okay, 1:41:35.840 --> 1:41:39.280 let's go. Mike oh also wrote in Mike from Atlanta, Georgia. 1:41:39.800 --> 1:41:42.600 He says, I remember going to ad raise for Electronics 1:41:42.640 --> 1:41:45.080 and Van Eyes. I loved it and Rogers Sound in 1:41:45.160 --> 1:41:48.880 Canoga Park. Bill from Cleveland says, Hey, great show. 1:41:49.000 --> 1:41:49.160 Rich. 1:41:49.240 --> 1:41:52.400 You mentioned quite often the latest data stealing scams, apps 1:41:52.479 --> 1:41:54.600 and sites, but at the same time you tend to 1:41:54.640 --> 1:41:57.320 recommend products such as any Google product as a solution. 1:41:58.080 --> 1:42:00.519 Recently you spoke about alternatives to Verise and Plus and 1:42:00.560 --> 1:42:04.400 recommended Google Voice. Google products are aimed squarely at sucking 1:42:04.479 --> 1:42:06.680 up as much data as possible. We live in a 1:42:06.720 --> 1:42:08.679 world where we have almost no privacy, so the little 1:42:08.760 --> 1:42:11.200 we do have we should probably protect. Love the show, 1:42:11.200 --> 1:42:13.839 and it'd be great to recommend more privacy centered solutions 1:42:13.880 --> 1:42:14.439 in the future. 1:42:14.920 --> 1:42:15.640 Bill, Thanks for that. 1:42:15.680 --> 1:42:17.960 I actually recommended Google Messages, not Google Voice, but I 1:42:18.000 --> 1:42:19.000 also like Google Voice. 1:42:20.040 --> 1:42:20.200 You know. 1:42:20.320 --> 1:42:22.320 Look, I do think I talk about privacy a lot 1:42:22.400 --> 1:42:25.880 and recommend that. But you gotta you know, if you're 1:42:25.920 --> 1:42:28.040 not paying for something, you are the product, and so 1:42:28.200 --> 1:42:29.720 you just have to understand that with some of these 1:42:29.800 --> 1:42:31.400 Google things. But I do I think I put a 1:42:31.439 --> 1:42:35.240 fair amount of work into the privacy stuff. Uh Don 1:42:35.439 --> 1:42:38.320 writes in thanks for the overview on budgeting apps. I 1:42:38.439 --> 1:42:40.360 paid for a year of Monarch money, but it can't 1:42:40.360 --> 1:42:43.200 connect to my regional bank, so it lost its ability 1:42:43.280 --> 1:42:45.880 to connect to two investment accounts, which pretty much makes 1:42:45.920 --> 1:42:48.040 the service useless to me, so I won't be renewing. 1:42:48.560 --> 1:42:49.880 Empower's been pretty good, and. 1:42:49.920 --> 1:42:52.760 As a Fidelity customer, I'm using the full View program now, 1:42:52.800 --> 1:42:55.120 which I didn't know existed until you mentioned it. I 1:42:55.200 --> 1:42:57.360 think the edge goes to Empower because it links to 1:42:57.439 --> 1:42:59.960 more accounts and can pull in a zilo estimate automatic 1:43:00.720 --> 1:43:03.240 rather than having to enter it manually in full View. 1:43:03.400 --> 1:43:04.639 Keep up the great work. 1:43:05.400 --> 1:43:10.439 James from Inverness, who listens on WXJB, says thanks so much. 1:43:10.479 --> 1:43:12.320 I listen to your program every week and enjoy it. 1:43:12.400 --> 1:43:14.680 When I can't listen live, I definitely listen to your 1:43:14.760 --> 1:43:18.799 podcast and oh we got more. Andrew from San Diego 1:43:19.000 --> 1:43:21.840 listens on the radio AM six forty on Saturday and 1:43:21.960 --> 1:43:25.360 six hundred on Sunday in San Diego. Love your radio show. 1:43:25.400 --> 1:43:28.799 You're so informative, friendly, easygoing and trustworthy for a novice 1:43:29.439 --> 1:43:32.920 novice novice like me loved your show about all the 1:43:32.960 --> 1:43:35.960 brick and mortar electronics stores that used to exist. And 1:43:36.120 --> 1:43:38.400 Stephanie finally writes in hey, Rich, I was able to 1:43:38.520 --> 1:43:41.000 shock someone recently with a tip you shared some time ago. 1:43:41.400 --> 1:43:44.200 I showed a friend coworker how to exchange phone numbers 1:43:44.240 --> 1:43:46.719 with our iPhones. Just by touching the two iPhones together. 1:43:46.760 --> 1:43:48.920 He was freaking out. Thanks for all the tips to 1:43:49.000 --> 1:43:51.880 keep my back pocket for times like this. And we 1:43:51.960 --> 1:43:54.960 did get more emails about the electronics stores and things 1:43:55.040 --> 1:43:57.040 like that, but I'm gonna have to hold those until 1:43:57.080 --> 1:43:59.160 a later date. But apparently you like to talk about 1:43:59.200 --> 1:44:01.760 the old days, so do I. That's gonna do it 1:44:01.800 --> 1:44:03.240 for this episode of the show. You can find links 1:44:03.240 --> 1:44:04.960 to everything I mentioned on my website. Just go to 1:44:05.080 --> 1:44:07.800 richon tech dot TV hop on the newsletter. If you're 1:44:07.840 --> 1:44:10.200 not there, you can find me on social media. I 1:44:10.280 --> 1:44:13.599 am at rich on Tech. Coming up next week, got 1:44:13.640 --> 1:44:16.559 a cool interview. Patrick O'Neill is going to join us. 1:44:16.640 --> 1:44:21.960 He is an entrepreneur. Remember those oloclips, those little lenses 1:44:22.000 --> 1:44:24.040 you would attach to your iPhone before they had the 1:44:24.120 --> 1:44:27.280 ultra wide lens and all those telephoto lenses built into 1:44:27.320 --> 1:44:27.759 the iPhone. 1:44:27.800 --> 1:44:30.080 He invented those. He's going to be here to talk 1:44:30.120 --> 1:44:31.320 about his latest creation. 1:44:32.240 --> 1:44:34.120 Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways 1:44:34.160 --> 1:44:36.559 you can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending 1:44:36.600 --> 1:44:38.519 it right here with me. Thanks to everyone who. 1:44:38.360 --> 1:44:41.360 Makes this show possible, including Adam filling in. I'm rich 1:44:41.439 --> 1:44:42.559 Timiro talk to you soon.