Speaker 1: A breakdown of Apple's announcements on iPhone twelve and home
Speaker 1: pod Mini, the best deals on the iPhone twelve, a
Speaker 1: helpful math app, plus your tech questions answered.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: I'm Rich Damiro and this is Rich on Tech, the
Speaker 1: podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think
Speaker 1: you should know about. It's also where I answer the
Speaker 1: questions that you send me. In case you don't know
Speaker 1: who I am. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel
Speaker 1: five in Los Angeles. Thanks so much for tuning me
Speaker 1: in today. Hope you're having a great day. Can you
Speaker 1: believe we've been doing this pandemic thing for this long.
Speaker 1: It's my seven month work from home anniversary, seven months
Speaker 1: in this little studio in my house that I set
Speaker 1: up overnight thinking this would all be done in like
Speaker 1: two or three weeks. I don't know what I was
Speaker 1: thinking at the time, because now when I think back,
Speaker 1: it's like, what did I think would change in two
Speaker 1: or three weeks. There's been a lot of gadgets, lots
Speaker 1: and lots of gadgets. It is really the time of
Speaker 1: the year when just so many things come out. I've
Speaker 1: been talking about a lot of them on this show
Speaker 1: phones galore. So this week I've been playing with a
Speaker 1: Pixel five, which I actually put my SIM card into
Speaker 1: and I don't really do that for a lot of phones,
Speaker 1: but I really wanted to see, like could I make
Speaker 1: this my phone? And I think the answer is no. Sadly,
Speaker 1: what else have I've been playing with the one plus
Speaker 1: eight T so the Pixel five we talked about on
Speaker 1: the show, it's kind of like the Pixel four A
Speaker 1: four A five G. I'd actually recommend that phone, I
Speaker 1: think for more people or most people, because it's got
Speaker 1: a bigger screen and even though it doesn't have the
Speaker 1: water resistance or the what's.
Speaker 2: The other thing it doesn't have? Has a headphone. See,
Speaker 2: this is weird.
Speaker 1: It's got a bigger screen, it has a headphone jack,
Speaker 1: but there's no wireless charging, and there there's no water resistance,
Speaker 1: and then there's a little bit less RAM.
Speaker 2: So it's just kind of a weird thing.
Speaker 1: Like you would think the bigger phone would be more powerful, better,
Speaker 1: but it's just not.
Speaker 2: So the Pixel five has been great. I like it.
Speaker 1: I think it's nice, but it's tiny, tiny, tiny in
Speaker 1: my hands. After going from the iPhone eleven Pro Max
Speaker 1: and my wife looked at the pictures I took last
Speaker 1: night at the beach, and she goes, Eh, what phone
Speaker 1: did you use last night? I don't like those pictures,
Speaker 1: so that's a bad sign if she doesn't like them.
Speaker 1: And I feel like the pixel is frozen in time.
Speaker 1: I don't think anything's changed on it in three years,
Speaker 1: Like the camera just feels like the same exact camera
Speaker 1: that we had three years ago, and so that's kind
Speaker 1: of weird. But I do like the price, and I
Speaker 1: think if you like small phones, when it comes to
Speaker 1: Android phones, it's probably one of the best because it
Speaker 1: always just takes a solid picture. So one thing that
Speaker 1: I just have to hand it to the pixel. Out
Speaker 1: of all the Android phones, it takes a great picture
Speaker 1: every single time aim.
Speaker 2: It at something.
Speaker 1: There's just no thought. So if your kid is making
Speaker 1: a funny face, boom, you take a picture, it's perfect
Speaker 1: the first time, whether whereas you know the Samsung's and
Speaker 1: the one pluses of the world, you got to take
Speaker 1: a couple of pictures for it to really be good.
Speaker 1: So and in low light two the pixel is just
Speaker 1: really really good. Although I just feel like I'm spoiled
Speaker 1: by the iPhone because it's gotten so good with the
Speaker 1: camera that it's it's really good.
Speaker 2: Now the one plus eight T.
Speaker 1: This is a kind of a head scratcher because as
Speaker 1: I was going through my meeting with them and kind
Speaker 1: of learning more about this phone, it's like, wait, what
Speaker 1: so there's no wireless charging on this one and there's
Speaker 1: it's it's yeah, it's just a strange phone. And the
Speaker 1: camera's not as good as the one plus eight pro.
Speaker 1: So it's like this weird kinda I don't know. But
Speaker 1: it's got a great processor, it's got great memory. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like twelve gigs of memory, I think, so that's good.
Speaker 1: But it's just I don't know. It's like and the
Speaker 1: camera's just not that good, and oh, this weird thing
Speaker 1: that's happening to me, which you know, you take a
Speaker 1: selfie and it's like blurry like half the time.
Speaker 2: So that's weird.
Speaker 1: But it's a seven hundred and fifty dollars phone. It's
Speaker 1: a nice phone.
Speaker 2: I mean to me, my.
Speaker 1: Preference with all androids is OnePlus. It's just I wish
Speaker 1: they would figure out the camera situation because I would
Speaker 1: recommend them to every single person in the world if
Speaker 1: they could figure out their camera situation. Bright light things
Speaker 1: not moving, it looks great. It's when you get into
Speaker 1: the more nuanced, you know, low light kind of stuff, selfies,
Speaker 1: pictures of people, movement, it just doesn't doesn't work as well.
Speaker 1: So anyway, we got lots of stuff to kind of
Speaker 1: continue to go through. I'm happy to answer any specific
Speaker 1: questions you have on these devices, because that's the main
Speaker 1: thing is when you're deciding between a couple of devices,
Speaker 1: you know, let me know, and I can. I can
Speaker 1: definitely help steer that because I do spend a lot
Speaker 1: of time with these things trying to figure out which
Speaker 1: one is best and what one does better than the other.
Speaker 1: But I will say, out of the three sort of
Speaker 1: mid range phones, you've got the one plus eight T,
Speaker 1: you got the Pixel five well, you also have the
Speaker 1: Pixel four A five G, and then you have the
Speaker 1: Samsung S twenty FE, which is a fan edition. I
Speaker 1: will say my pixels, the Pixels are the are my
Speaker 1: favorite for like sort of the overall like camera situation.
Speaker 1: I think that the one plus is the best for
Speaker 1: the software, and then the Samsung is the best for
Speaker 1: sort of like the speediness and just in general.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a nice you know, it's a nice
Speaker 2: middle ground phone.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I think you're just depending on your preferences,
Speaker 1: you'll be happy with any of those. But we're here
Speaker 1: to talk about the big news of the week, and
Speaker 1: that is the iPhone. Apple finally gave us the info
Speaker 1: on the iPhone twelve, so I'll go over the iPhone
Speaker 1: twelve and twelve Mini. Actually, you know, I'll probably just
Speaker 1: do all four of them right now.
Speaker 2: So there's four.
Speaker 1: There's two main models, and then within those models, there's
Speaker 1: two different sizes of each. So we'll start with the
Speaker 1: iPhone twelve that's kind their standard phone right in the middle,
Speaker 1: and then they have a smaller version, which is the
Speaker 1: iPhone twelve Mini. So the iPhone twelve has a six
Speaker 1: point one inch screen. It's got an OLED screen now
Speaker 1: for the first time in that kind of mid range.
Speaker 1: I guess you want to call it for Apple, and
Speaker 1: you know last year's they had LCDs. Let's see, it's
Speaker 1: got the new processor, which is the A fifteen fourteen Bionic,
Speaker 1: which Apple says is like faster than any chip in
Speaker 1: a phone, and I do believe them, still has good
Speaker 1: battery life. It's got the you know, dual camera system now,
Speaker 1: so it's got the ultra wide and the wide camera.
Speaker 1: So the difference here is that you don't get the
Speaker 1: telephoto lens. That's the main thing here. Let's see what
Speaker 1: else do you need to know about those phones? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's got the ceramics shield, so this is like a
Speaker 1: stronger screen. But like, let's be honest, who's not going
Speaker 1: to put a screen protector on their phone because it
Speaker 1: has that. That's just not going to happen. So you
Speaker 1: drop your phone either cracks or a dozen. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not like, oh it, I dropped it ten times,
Speaker 1: it only cracked four out of the ten times. It's
Speaker 1: just you drop it once in a crack. That's all
Speaker 1: you need to know. So hopefully you don't drop your
Speaker 1: phone too much, hopefully it doesn't crack as much.
Speaker 2: What else?
Speaker 1: It comes in four colors or five colors rather blue, green, black, white, red.
Speaker 1: And again you've got the regular and the mini. So
Speaker 1: the mini is five point four inches. That's pretty small
Speaker 1: considering the pixel that I'm carrying I think is a
Speaker 1: six inch phone, and so five point four in the
Speaker 1: pixel seems tiny in my hand. Five point four seems
Speaker 1: really small to me. Pricing is six ninety nine, seven
Speaker 1: ninety nine. And that's kind of it when it comes
Speaker 1: to those phones. I mean, it's it's it's.
Speaker 2: Basically, it's it's just better.
Speaker 1: Of course, it's faster, and oh it also has this
Speaker 1: new thing called mag Safe, and so these are magnets
Speaker 1: on the back of the phone that lets you attach
Speaker 1: a bunch of magnetic accessories, including a charging cable. They've
Speaker 1: got wallets, they've got snap on cases, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1: So it's cool. It's just going to make you spend
Speaker 1: more money.
Speaker 2: On accessories, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Now let's talk about the big brothers or sisters, the
Speaker 1: iPhone twelve Pro and the iPhone twelve Pro Max. Now,
Speaker 1: originally I thought these were the same phone, just different sizes.
Speaker 1: But I did the Brian Tong's podcast Apple Bits XL
Speaker 1: and he mentioned that the camera is slightly better on
Speaker 1: the Pro Max. I didn't realize that. I thought they
Speaker 1: were just the same. You just had a choice of size,
Speaker 1: and it's like, okay, well, if you want the bigger one,
Speaker 1: you go big. If you want the middle one, you
Speaker 1: go middle. And the iPhone twelve Pro is a six
Speaker 1: point one inch screen, so again same size as the
Speaker 1: twelve and then the Pro Max is six point seven
Speaker 1: inch screen and apparently with the Pro Max they made
Speaker 1: the screen bigger, but it's like the same form factor
Speaker 1: as my current phone, which is the iPhone eleven Pro,
Speaker 1: so they know they made the screen more edge to
Speaker 1: edge kind of thing. And this has the top of
Speaker 1: the line camera that Apple offers. It also has the
Speaker 1: ceramic shield and the bionic chip they fourteen. It's got
Speaker 1: the ultra wide, the telephoto, and then the wide camera
Speaker 1: and the main thing to know here is that they've
Speaker 1: improved the cameras, especially in low light. They also added AlIdar,
Speaker 1: which is like a laser scanner that helps with augmented reality,
Speaker 1: but nobody's really doing that anyway, so you probably won't
Speaker 1: really care about that too much, but it does help
Speaker 1: with low light photography, which will be nice. It also
Speaker 1: has Adobe Vision for video, so video will look better,
Speaker 1: but only if you have a way to play it back,
Speaker 1: so that's not really a thing that a lot of
Speaker 1: people care about. They also have what's this called Pro Raw,
Speaker 1: so if you're like a photographer that really wants to
Speaker 1: edit your stuff and sort of that raw version, you
Speaker 1: have that as well. Four colors here, Graphite silver, gold
Speaker 1: and Pacific blue. The phone is nine ninety nine or
Speaker 1: one thousand ninety nine. The other cool thing they did
Speaker 1: here is that they finally finally made the base storage
Speaker 1: one twenty eight. They did away with that whole random
Speaker 1: thing where it would be sixty four and then two
Speaker 1: fifty six and so. But the thing is, the difference
Speaker 1: in pricing was not very much, so you're actually it
Speaker 1: was like, you're getting quadrupleed the storage, but for you know,
Speaker 1: only a couple bucks more. So it didn't make sense.
Speaker 1: So finally it's one twenty eight based storage. My pick
Speaker 1: out of all these, and the phone I will probably
Speaker 1: be pre ordering, is the iPhone twelve PROMX in Pacific blue.
Speaker 1: I last year I bought the phone in the gray
Speaker 1: color because I got scared. I was like, well, when
Speaker 1: I sell it, it'll get more or actually it'll sell
Speaker 1: faster because it's gray and not green. And this year
Speaker 1: I'm kind of like, eh, whatever, I'll worry about.
Speaker 2: That next year.
Speaker 1: So there's the main things to know on the iPhone twelve.
Speaker 1: In an upcoming segment here on the show, I will
Speaker 1: talk about some of the iPhone.
Speaker 2: Deals that the various carriers are doing.
Speaker 1: They're very complicated, but you can get a deal if
Speaker 1: you work it. So I will tell you about those
Speaker 1: in just a moment, but first let's get to a question.
Speaker 1: Let's see where is my question? Okay, Jody says, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure you can answer this, but hopefully so.
Speaker 1: Suspended from Twitter for no reason whatsoever. Had the account
Speaker 1: for a long time, there was no warning. I've appealed
Speaker 1: but heard nothing but general thanks for the info. I've
Speaker 1: been told by many that it's not humans suspending accounts,
Speaker 1: so obviously mistakes can happen. But then what I heard
Speaker 1: from someone with the same problems. She was able to
Speaker 1: retrieve her account from someone who works with Twitter. To
Speaker 1: get accounts back up, it costs a hundred bucks. I
Speaker 1: can't really afford to throw this money away, but I think,
Speaker 1: but I think without it, I'll never have my Twitter again,
Speaker 1: and I really like it back. Have you ever heard
Speaker 1: of such a thing? Of course it would be a scam,
Speaker 1: but several people claim it wasn't and they got their
Speaker 1: account unlocked. Thoughts, thank you for your time. Here is
Speaker 1: my answer. Nope, nope, wrong one, that's my answer.
Speaker 2: Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: Do not spend one hundred dollars to get your Twitter
Speaker 1: account back. I mean, number one, I didn't know that
Speaker 1: people just randomly get suspended for no reason. So there
Speaker 1: could have been something that you did on your account
Speaker 1: that flagged it somehow. And long story, but this was
Speaker 1: from many, many years ago. But I remember they did
Speaker 1: this thing on Twitter where at some point or sorry
Speaker 1: on Google, where at some point Twitter was giving them
Speaker 1: what's called the fire hose to tweets, where Twitter would
Speaker 1: feed Google a real time fire hose of everything people
Speaker 1: were tweeting, and then when you would search on Google
Speaker 1: for something, you would literally see all the people tweeting
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 2: Now they do a version of that.
Speaker 1: Now, it's not the same as it originally was because
Speaker 1: on the original one, the results page on Google would
Speaker 1: actually change right before your eyes and you see, you
Speaker 1: just see all these scrolling tweets of whatever you search for.
Speaker 1: They don't do that anymore. They do like kind of
Speaker 1: the top tweets now.
Speaker 2: But anyway, so.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, my Twitter, for whatever reason, would
Speaker 1: not show up in that fire hose, and so I
Speaker 1: reached out to Twitter and I asked them, I said, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, what's the deal, And they said, oh, let
Speaker 1: me look into it, and they came back to me
Speaker 1: and said, oh, your account was flagged for because you
Speaker 1: basically followed and unfollowed a whole bunch of people at once.
Speaker 1: And this was back in the day when Twitter was
Speaker 1: kind of new, and so I was, you know, experimenting
Speaker 1: with various things, and I want to you know, you'd
Speaker 1: follow a bunch of people and then you'd want to
Speaker 1: clear out your account to start fresh. So I did
Speaker 1: that at one point, and so that kind of blocked
Speaker 1: me from Google. So anyway, Jody, I do believe that, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe something could have happened here that you did not
Speaker 1: really knowing why you were suspended. I would try to
Speaker 1: get it back going through the you know, logical chain
Speaker 1: of command, which you know, if you go to help
Speaker 1: dot Twitter dot com and you know, start there and
Speaker 1: just say, you know, hey, I can't don't have access
Speaker 1: to my account.
Speaker 2: Try that first.
Speaker 1: And then if you can't do that, just start a
Speaker 1: new account, use a different just use a different email address.
Speaker 1: No big deal. All right, good question. Now let's get
Speaker 1: to the iPhone deals. There are a lot. They are
Speaker 1: so confusing I can't really explain them, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go over them. In case something catches your ear and
Speaker 1: then you know you can go and investigate. Number one, Walmart,
Speaker 1: they have up to one hundred and thirty dollars in
Speaker 1: savings starting on October sixteenth for customers who activate the
Speaker 1: iPhone twelve or iPhone twelve pro on an AT and
Speaker 1: T or Verizon installment plan through Walmart dot com or
Speaker 1: in store. Notice the words AT and T or Verizon.
Speaker 1: So clearly some sort of kickback is happening here, or
Speaker 1: maybe that's only who they work with.
Speaker 2: Who knows.
Speaker 1: iPhone twelve starts at seven forty nine on installment, which
Speaker 1: is a savings over the outright retail of eight seventy nine,
Speaker 1: and comes in black, white, red, green, and blue, which
Speaker 1: we know.
Speaker 2: Now, let me compare that. Hold on, So.
Speaker 1: We said earlier that the iPhone twelve starts at seven
Speaker 1: forty nine, and that's interesting because it says, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: so they're actually even fifty dollars cheaper than oh, no,
Speaker 1: outright retailer eight seventy nine.
Speaker 2: That's weird. I don't know what that means. That's kind
Speaker 2: of strange.
Speaker 1: Anyway, the pricing has been a little weird because at
Speaker 1: some point there was a premium for the unlocked phones
Speaker 1: on the unlocked phone and also the phone on T
Speaker 1: Mobile or Sprint. But now I don't think that's the
Speaker 1: case anymore. Anyway, Let's see what else. iPhone twelve pro
Speaker 1: starts at nine to forty nine on installment outright, retail
Speaker 1: is ten forty nine. Now see, now that's weird. iPhone
Speaker 1: ten twelve pro is ten nine. Oh, okay pro, So
Speaker 1: they're they're trending like fifty dollars more.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Let's see in addition, anyway, so that's Walmart. Then you've
Speaker 1: got Verizon. Now they made it big to do because
Speaker 1: Verizon's got the new five G. I actually got the
Speaker 1: five G on my Pixel five, and I'll be honest,
Speaker 1: so far, I've not seen a speed that's faster than LTE.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm still kind of following that and
Speaker 1: seeing like what the deal is there. But I do
Speaker 1: have high hopes. I've said this before on the podcast.
Speaker 1: I do have high hopes for Verizon because I think
Speaker 1: that they're gonna do five G really nicely. I keep
Speaker 1: getting a lot of information from T Mobile about how
Speaker 1: THEIRS is so much better, but again, when I've tested THEIRS,
Speaker 1: I have not really seen that with my own eyes.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think out of all the times I
Speaker 1: tested T mobiles five G, I didn't really get any
Speaker 1: signal that was better than any speed that was better
Speaker 1: than four G. All right, so Verizon, let's see what
Speaker 1: they're doing pricing. iPhone twelve starts at six ninety nine retail. Oh,
Speaker 1: the Mini iPhone twelve starts at seven ninety nine. iPhone
Speaker 1: twelve pro starts at nine ninety nine. Okay, yeah, we
Speaker 1: already know all that. Okay, So here's their deal, an
Speaker 1: iPhone twelve for as low as free when you switch
Speaker 1: to Verizon, trade in select smartphones and sign up for
Speaker 1: a Select unlimited plan. So what that means is you
Speaker 1: have to have a really new smartphone like I'm guessing
Speaker 1: last year's phone like mine, or you know, one of
Speaker 1: the Samsung Galaxy S twenties or a note that is
Speaker 1: from last year. And that's how you can get the
Speaker 1: iPhone for free. That makes sense, and you have to
Speaker 1: sign a sign as select an unlimited plan. Existing customers
Speaker 1: can get the iPhone twelve, let's see, for fifteen dollars
Speaker 1: a month when you do a Verizon device payment and
Speaker 1: select an unlimited plan when you trade in a select phone,
Speaker 1: so iPhone twelve for fifteen it's usually thirty three, so
Speaker 1: they're giving you like fifteen bucks.
Speaker 2: A month for twenty four months.
Speaker 1: Existing iPhone eight or eight plus customers can save two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars when you trade in and purchase
Speaker 1: a new iPhone twelve on an unlimited plan.
Speaker 2: So there's your Verizon deals.
Speaker 1: If you look, I mean, what's gonna happen is you're
Speaker 1: gonna go on your website or you're gonna go into
Speaker 1: the store and you're just gonna kind of say like, hey,
Speaker 1: here's the phone I got, what deal do you have?
Speaker 1: And then we have AT and T is offering existing
Speaker 1: and new AT and T customers on an unlimited plan
Speaker 1: a five G Apple device for zero dollars with an
Speaker 1: AT and T installment plan when you have an AT
Speaker 1: and T unlimited plan and a qualifying trade in. Again
Speaker 1: that word qualifying trade in. That means you have to
Speaker 1: have one of the new phones to trade in. So
Speaker 1: the thing I think is funny, I mean it's I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's just so funny. Okay, T Mobile, Now
Speaker 1: this is an interesting deal. You can get two iPhone
Speaker 1: pros with two lines of unlimited five G data for
Speaker 1: just one hundred bucks a month. That sounds pretty compelling,
Speaker 1: but again, it's like this whole thing where you have
Speaker 1: to say on for a certain amount of months. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of fine details that you got to look at.
Speaker 1: Then they have get an iPhone twelve free or up
Speaker 1: to eight hundred and fifty with late or up to
Speaker 1: eight fifty off of any other model with late model
Speaker 1: trade in and new line of service. So that's nice
Speaker 1: that at least they say late model trade in. So
Speaker 1: that's an interesting thing. So if I, let's say I
Speaker 1: wanted to switch to T Mobile, I could switch my phone,
Speaker 1: which you know, I don't know how much i'd get
Speaker 1: for my phone from, you know, if I just sold
Speaker 1: it on Gazelle or something like that or swap a
Speaker 1: but I can get eight fifty off the price of
Speaker 1: the iPhone twelve Pro Max, which is eleven hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: So I could theoretically pay two hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 1: for a brand new iPhone if I switched to T Mobile,
Speaker 1: and you know, got a new line of service. So
Speaker 1: that's not bad. That's not bad at all. Get five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars up to up to five hundred dollars off
Speaker 1: with a trade in. And now here's another interesting one.
Speaker 1: Customers that have been with T Mobile including Sprint for
Speaker 1: more than five years, can get two hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Off, so that's kind of nice.
Speaker 1: And they can combine that off for with the five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars trading offer for up to seven hundred dollars off.
Speaker 1: So if you are a T Mobile customer and you've
Speaker 1: been a T Mobile customer for five years, definitely mentioned
Speaker 1: that two hundred bucks off. That's a great deal right there.
Speaker 1: That's I think the only loyalty deal I've seen. So
Speaker 1: there you have it. Some of the deals on the
Speaker 1: iPhone twelve, Which one are you gonna get?
Speaker 2: Let me know, all right, Melba, says Rich.
Speaker 1: A while ago, you did a segment on credit bureaus
Speaker 1: and getting the three major credit reporting companies to give
Speaker 1: a free report every twelve months. Who do I write
Speaker 1: to get the free reports? Is at annual creditreport dot com.
Speaker 1: I just want to make sure before I give up
Speaker 1: my info to any website, please let me know who
Speaker 1: to write to. Thanks so much, Melba. Now I looked
Speaker 1: up this segment and this was a little bit ago.
Speaker 1: It was November sixth, twenty seventeen, three years ago that
Speaker 1: I did this segment. But it's fine. Here's the things
Speaker 1: I looked at. Number one, I looked at Credit Sesame,
Speaker 1: and Credit Sesame gives you a free credit score that's
Speaker 1: updated monthly. It gives you a complete view of your loans,
Speaker 1: so you can see your debt to income ratio. Credit
Speaker 1: Sesame also gives you real time alerts about changes to
Speaker 1: your credit plus ways to improve your score. Credit Karma
Speaker 1: lets you see your monthly score, but from two different companies,
Speaker 1: TransUnion and Equifax. You can also get credit alerts to
Speaker 1: see what's affecting your score, and you can do something
Speaker 1: called a direct dispute, which helps you correct mistakes on
Speaker 1: your report. And then finally, I looked at wallet Hub,
Speaker 1: which is my personal favorite. It's the one that I use.
Speaker 1: It gives you access to your full credit report. In
Speaker 1: addition to your score, it also alerts you about changes,
Speaker 1: and it gives you up to date information because your
Speaker 1: score is refreshed on.
Speaker 2: A daily basis.
Speaker 1: It also gives you a credit analysis plus a look
Speaker 1: at the credit cards that you'll likely get approved for,
Speaker 1: so I like the wallet Hub the best out of
Speaker 1: all three of these, but they all, like I said,
Speaker 1: I mean, they all offer sort of different things. I
Speaker 1: would not sign up for all of them because you
Speaker 1: don't want your information out there, you know, as much
Speaker 1: as possible. Now, if you just want your credit report, Melba,
Speaker 1: like you were mentioning, you can just go to Annualcreditreport
Speaker 1: dot com that is run by the three major agencies.
Speaker 1: And I believe, like you know, the law kind of
Speaker 1: makes this. They have to do this. This was a
Speaker 1: law that they passed. But oh wow, look at this
Speaker 1: during the times. Sorry, just eight before this show, so
Speaker 1: I'm like breathing heavy in this mic.
Speaker 2: Sorry about that.
Speaker 1: During these times of COVID nineteen, accessing your credit, assessing
Speaker 1: accessing your credit is important. That's why Equifox, Experience, and
Speaker 1: TransUnion are now offering weekly online reports. So and Melbur
Speaker 1: you said to write in, I would just go on
Speaker 1: the website. Make sure you go to the right website,
Speaker 1: Annualcreditreport dot com, and you can request your free credit
Speaker 1: reports and it takes just a minute, and you put
Speaker 1: in your information and you will get what you need
Speaker 1: and you can kind of look through those. But again,
Speaker 1: I would also, i you know, sign up for one
Speaker 1: of the other ones as well. The websites and those
Speaker 1: are a good way to kind of keep tabs on things.
Speaker 1: But good question. Let's move on to another Apple announcement,
Speaker 1: HomePod Mini. This was not really a surprise if you
Speaker 1: were following the rumors, but you know, a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, Apple launched a HomePod, which was a very
Speaker 1: expensive speaker for the home. I don't even know if
Speaker 1: i'd call it a smart speaker because it was really
Speaker 1: just a music speaker that had Siri and then you know,
Speaker 1: eventually got some podcasts and stuff like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was supposed to be smart, but it just Apple
Speaker 1: does not really do a lot with the smart home
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: They're trying, I know.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the HomePod Mini is three point three inches tall.
Speaker 1: It's small, and the best thing about it is the
Speaker 1: price ninety nine dollars. It'll be available in white and
Speaker 1: space gray, and it does work with various services, Apple Music, podcasts,
Speaker 1: radio stations from iHeartRadio radio dot Com, tune in, also
Speaker 1: Pandora and Amazon Music coming soon.
Speaker 2: So what does that tell you?
Speaker 1: It shows that Apple is actually trying to work with
Speaker 1: some of these third party services instead of just pushing
Speaker 1: everyone to Apple Music, which was basically what the first
Speaker 1: one did. Well, now you can use these other services.
Speaker 1: But did you notice there is one big thing missing
Speaker 1: That is Spotify and Apple. Apple has a lot of friends,
Speaker 1: but they also have a lot of enemies, Spotify being
Speaker 1: one of them, what is epic with Fortnite being another one.
Speaker 1: Google their sort of frenemies. With Amazon they've cozied up to.
Speaker 1: There's a long time when you could not buy Apple
Speaker 1: stuff officially on Amazon. Then they sort of came to
Speaker 1: terms and now you can, so that's good.
Speaker 2: Who else.
Speaker 1: Microsoft they're good friends with. They've actually really cozied up
Speaker 1: to Microsoft. They probably don't see them as a really
Speaker 1: big challenger because they don't have any phone or search
Speaker 1: engine or anything like that.
Speaker 2: So anyway, the HomePod Mini looks p cool.
Speaker 1: I think it's probably going to be one of the
Speaker 1: hottest gifts this holiday season because it's so simple. Oh,
Speaker 1: this person has an iPhone, I can buy them a
Speaker 1: home Pod Mini for ninety nine bucks and maybe discounted
Speaker 1: a little bit over the holidays. You know, these companies
Speaker 1: work in a little bit of like you know, a
Speaker 1: little bit of room. It's like when you get your coffee,
Speaker 1: you know, they say, oh.
Speaker 2: Do you want a little room for cream?
Speaker 1: Sure, and they always leave a ton of room for
Speaker 1: some reason. How much cream do people put in their coffee?
Speaker 1: But it's kind of like the pricing on these gadgets,
Speaker 1: especially during the holidays.
Speaker 2: They leave a little room for the cream, and that cream.
Speaker 1: Is the discounts they know that are inevitably going to
Speaker 1: happen over the holidays, and so they still make their profits,
Speaker 1: but you feel like you're getting a better deal even
Speaker 1: though they kind of had the idea that these things
Speaker 1: might be discounted. That's kind of what I see with now.
Speaker 1: I don't think Apple's going to discount the HomePod Mini.
Speaker 1: I think the third party retailers will, like the best
Speaker 1: buys of the world. You'll go in there for you
Speaker 1: know something, and oh you can you can bundle a
Speaker 1: home Pod Mini for an extra eighty nine bucks. I
Speaker 1: think that'll be the price, by the way, not anything
Speaker 1: less than that. What else, It's got some interesting little
Speaker 1: features that are going to either you know, be out
Speaker 1: of the gate or eventually coming. But it'll work with
Speaker 1: Apple devices, so you can pick up an incoming call
Speaker 1: on it, listen to music on the Mac or.
Speaker 2: Use your Apple TV with them.
Speaker 1: You can also listen to music on the iPhone and
Speaker 1: then bring your device close to the Mini and it'll
Speaker 1: hand off the music without missing a beat.
Speaker 2: That's kind of cool. This is kind of neat too.
Speaker 1: They're gonna when you hold your iPhone near your home potter,
Speaker 1: if it's close to it, your iPhone will show personalized
Speaker 1: listening suggestions without even having to unlock your phone. That's
Speaker 1: actually a really cool thing because when I come home.
Speaker 1: When I used to come home from work before I
Speaker 1: just you know, stayed home all the time, there was
Speaker 1: a cool thing where, you know, I would always just
Speaker 1: turn on the same music every day when I came
Speaker 1: home on Sono's and it was a whole big thing.
Speaker 1: You'd have to unlock your phone, you got to open
Speaker 1: the so nosapp, you have to group the speakers, and
Speaker 1: then you gotta, you know, pick the music you want.
Speaker 1: And this seems a lot easier. Then they have this
Speaker 1: intercom feature, which is really cool. You basically say something.
Speaker 1: You can send an intercom message from one home pod
Speaker 1: to another that's in a different room or multiple rooms,
Speaker 1: and the voice plays on the various speakers. It also
Speaker 1: works on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods, CarPlay, so if
Speaker 1: you want even yeah like AirPods, Like if your kid
Speaker 1: has the AirPods in, you can say dinner's ready and
Speaker 1: it will broadcast every one of your things, no matter
Speaker 1: where your family is. That's really cool. Then there's ambient sounds.
Speaker 1: They've got rain, fireplace stream and more. And you can
Speaker 1: set a sleep timer so they stop playing. Automatically Find
Speaker 1: my helps you locate your missing iPhone, iPad, iPod, touch
Speaker 1: and all your good stuff.
Speaker 2: My kids do that all the time.
Speaker 1: They will ask their iPad where the other one is,
Speaker 1: which I don't even know you could do that, but
Speaker 1: they say, hey, where's you know, the other iPad and
Speaker 1: it'll chime. Then you've got web search results from HomePod
Speaker 1: Mini can be sent to your iPhone for easy viewing
Speaker 1: musical arms and that kind of reminds me of like
Speaker 1: Google Assistant. I still think the Google Assistant is probably
Speaker 1: a better thing, but so many people have iPhones. This
Speaker 1: is going to be a real no brainer for that ecosystem.
Speaker 1: HomePod Mini, like I said, white and Space gray, ninety
Speaker 1: nine bucks. It'll be available on November sixteenth. Let's get
Speaker 1: to another question. Uh, Marcia or is it Marcia?
Speaker 2: Marcia? Is it Marcia or Marcia? I've been a longtime
Speaker 2: fan of the show. I have a question.
Speaker 1: My mom, who's in her seventies, lives alone and has
Speaker 1: been having some issues with balance, especially stepping in and
Speaker 1: out of the bathtub.
Speaker 2: I was thinking of buying either a few.
Speaker 1: Apple Home Pods, oh, look at that, Google Nests or
Speaker 1: Amazon Echoes to place around her house. I'm looking for
Speaker 1: devices she could use to voice activate, calling a family
Speaker 1: member if she fell, or nine one one if needed.
Speaker 2: I know you're probably going to.
Speaker 1: Suggest the Apple Watch for fall detection, but I'm looking
Speaker 1: for something else, as she doesn't always have her watch,
Speaker 1: she might not have her iPhone nearby to U Siri.
Speaker 1: Which product might think better? Do you might think be better?
Speaker 1: Is there another solution that you might recommend. I would
Speaker 1: recommend Alexa because Alexa has a feature called call for Help,
Speaker 1: which is specifically for sort of emergencies. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: call nine one. None of these things will call nine
Speaker 1: one one, at least not right now. But Alexa does
Speaker 1: have a call for help feature that you set a
Speaker 1: person like a family member as the emergency contact and
Speaker 1: it will call that person. So again, cannot call nine
Speaker 1: one one. That is not right now in the cards,
Speaker 1: I don't think. But you can do this emergency contact,
Speaker 1: which is call for help. And that's kind of a
Speaker 1: natural thing to say. If you did fall and you
Speaker 1: couldn't get up, you would just say a call for
Speaker 1: help and you know, call a family member. And so
Speaker 1: I think that's probably your best bet. And if you
Speaker 1: really want to outfit your mom's house, you've got you know.
Speaker 1: The Echo Dot was nineteen dollars over Prime Day and
Speaker 1: so you can. I paid thirty on a non Prime day.
Speaker 1: I think it retails for fifty, but don't ever pay that,
Speaker 1: especially during the holidays. They give out these things like candy.
Speaker 1: But yeah, just buy a couple Echo Dots and put
Speaker 1: them around and make sure you set up that future.
Speaker 1: I actually have a video on how to do it
Speaker 1: on YouTube. If you just google how to set up
Speaker 1: the new Alexa call for help feature rich DeMuro or
Speaker 1: rich on Tech, it will come up and show you
Speaker 1: how to do that. It's pretty simple. I've tested it
Speaker 1: out here. It also texts them as well, and so.
Speaker 2: Wait does it text them?
Speaker 1: It's been a while since I did the video, but
Speaker 1: I think it does text them and that's uh, that's
Speaker 1: part of it.
Speaker 2: Do I have it? You know that.
Speaker 1: Alexa emergency contact Now.
Speaker 2: That's so that's what that's how it works for help.
Speaker 1: It's a brand new and potentially life saving feature, but
Speaker 1: you have to set it up first.
Speaker 3: Here's how calling your emergency contact now.
Speaker 1: To start the name use this feature. And it's not
Speaker 1: a text message. It does send a text message. Yep, okay,
Speaker 1: so it does. So, yeah, that's that's what I would do.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's going to be the easiest
Speaker 1: way to do it. And again, like I said, it's
Speaker 1: so inexpensive and simple that that's that's the way to go.
Speaker 2: Good question.
Speaker 1: Oh, I should mention, by the way, depending on when
Speaker 1: you listen to this, I will be doing a panel
Speaker 1: for KRO, which is an organization focused on advancing sort
Speaker 1: of the quality of the lives of seniors. So it's
Speaker 1: all about doing stuff for seniors. And I will be
Speaker 1: speaking at their symposium this year, which is virtual on
Speaker 1: October twenty fourth, and it's totally free this year because
Speaker 1: it is virtual.
Speaker 2: Last year it was.
Speaker 1: A big event, a big, big event in gosh Long
Speaker 1: Beach and it was great. A lot of people came
Speaker 1: up to me afterwards. We talked about robots and all
Speaker 1: this stuff. So I'm leading this on Zoom and I'll
Speaker 1: be going through all this stuff so exactly what I
Speaker 1: just did in that question. My symposium thing is called
Speaker 1: Innovative Ways to Stay Connected. So I'm gonna look at robots,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look at Alex, I'm gonna look at all
Speaker 1: the Amazon Show, all those things that you know, the
Speaker 1: HomePod everything. I gotta add the HomePod Mini to my
Speaker 1: presentation now because that's brand new. But I'm gonna talk
Speaker 1: about all that stuff and all the apps and all
Speaker 1: the video chatting stuff and Zoom and so if you
Speaker 1: are curious for your family members or yourself.
Speaker 2: You you know, tune in and it's free.
Speaker 1: You just have to sign up before so oh, registration
Speaker 1: closes on October twenty second.
Speaker 2: So anyway, check it out.
Speaker 1: It's a kro dot org k e I r O
Speaker 1: dot org. Of course I will link it up in
Speaker 1: the show notes. All right, this is a really neat
Speaker 1: app that I did a segment on KTLA about and
Speaker 1: I did it on my Facebook page and my Instagram
Speaker 1: and my YouTube. My YouTube is really sad because I don't.
Speaker 1: I've never I've never gotten followers on YouTube, Like I've
Speaker 1: never tried.
Speaker 2: To build that.
Speaker 1: So it's really funny to me that, like I can
Speaker 1: post the same exact video to YouTube and get three
Speaker 1: hundred views that I can post to Instagram or Facebook
Speaker 1: and get you know, tens of thousands of views, and
Speaker 1: so it's just kind of funny. But I've never I
Speaker 1: don't advertise my YouTube. I just put it out there people.
Speaker 2: That find it.
Speaker 1: Sure, it's great, and it has been growing over the pandemic.
Speaker 1: I may have twenty thousand followers there, so that's cool,
Speaker 1: but I don't. It's not a thing like I don't
Speaker 1: have a relationship with those people. It's not like I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there like a YouTuber like doing a video every week.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe one day, but not right now.
Speaker 1: And so you know, my primary focus is TV because
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's my job. The social media stuff
Speaker 1: is just fun and I love it because I can
Speaker 1: interact with people in a real time basis and so,
Speaker 1: you know, and I have grown a following on Facebook
Speaker 1: and Instagram. But anyway, I digress. The photo math is
Speaker 1: a video or an app that solves math problems. And
Speaker 1: this is really cool because I know kids can cheat
Speaker 1: with it. Don't worry about your kids cheating, worry about
Speaker 1: how this can teach them how to do the math
Speaker 1: problems that you may have problems with, or you may
Speaker 1: have an issue with, or you need some help figuring
Speaker 1: them out. But it's really neat. It uses AI to
Speaker 1: snap a picture. You snap a picture of it with
Speaker 1: your phone and instantly it, you know, figures out what
Speaker 1: the problem is and it shows you, step by step
Speaker 1: how to solve it. Now there is a caveat here.
Speaker 1: The step by step stuff is just okay. If you
Speaker 1: don't pay, it's like pretty simple. But if you pay,
Speaker 1: which is anywhere from ten dollars a month to sixty
Speaker 1: bucks for the year, obviously you you know, you pay
Speaker 1: less depending on how much an advance you pay, but
Speaker 1: or how much you prepay, I should say, but it's
Speaker 1: really really cool to watch the I sign up for
Speaker 1: the Plus as a you know, free trial, and it's
Speaker 1: just so cool to watch the animations because it brings
Speaker 1: back the concepts of math that I have forgotten.
Speaker 2: And I explained this in the video.
Speaker 1: But you know, if you had to do something like,
Speaker 1: you know four fourteen divided by two, You could figure
Speaker 1: that out in you know, two seconds in your head
Speaker 1: that that's two oh seven.
Speaker 2: Right. Let me just let me just make sure that
Speaker 2: I got that right, because I don't want to.
Speaker 1: Four to fourteen DIVI two, Yeah is two oh seven, Okay,
Speaker 1: just making sure I don't want to say that. And
Speaker 1: then it's like, Rich, what are you talking about? But
Speaker 1: this will show you how to do it. Remember long division,
Speaker 1: like you have to write all these like I forgot
Speaker 1: how to do that until this app showed me. The
Speaker 1: app does all kinds of problems, from algebra to basic math.
Speaker 1: It does common core, which I know in California is
Speaker 1: a big deal. I don't really get it because that's
Speaker 1: not how I was raised, but it somehow is the
Speaker 1: weird way they do math nowadays. This solves one point
Speaker 1: five billion math problems monthly, and it's not new. Don't say, Rich,
Speaker 1: I can't believe you're telling me about apps that have
Speaker 1: been around forever.
Speaker 2: You know nothing.
Speaker 1: I'm smarter than the tech guy. Yeah, I get those emails,
Speaker 1: but this isn't. Look I'm just telling you something when
Speaker 1: I looked it up in my email. Yes, I had
Speaker 1: downloaded this app like years ago, but you know, there's
Speaker 1: always new people coming on board the rich On tech train,
Speaker 1: so I want to bring you guys on board and
Speaker 1: tell you what's going on. And even if you weren't
Speaker 1: following me five years ago when I first might have
Speaker 1: mentioned this. Anyway, It's called Photomath. It's available for iOS
Speaker 1: and Android.
Speaker 2: Check it out. It is really really cool.
Speaker 1: Gail asks, is it best to turn off my home
Speaker 1: PC when I'm not using it? I usually only use
Speaker 1: for a few hours in the morning, turn it off
Speaker 1: and go to work. I have a desktop Windows ten
Speaker 1: PC with an external backup hard drive. What do you suggest, thanks, Gail. Well, Gail,
Speaker 1: first off, you get a star.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 1: One of these days, one of these days, I will
Speaker 1: remember what these sounds are assigned to on my soundboard.
Speaker 1: My friend Balb Brian would be so ashamed of me
Speaker 1: if he ever heard this podcast. And thankfully he does
Speaker 1: not tune in because he's not interested in anything I
Speaker 1: do professionally. But he, you know, he does sound for
Speaker 1: the Adam Kroller Show, and he, you know, has a
Speaker 1: million sounds at his disposal and his whole thing. I
Speaker 1: mean he's made a living on the fact that he
Speaker 1: comes up with these really good sounds very fast, and
Speaker 1: I can't even get four sounds right. There we go, So, Gail,
Speaker 1: you get the gold star for using an external backup
Speaker 1: hard drive.
Speaker 2: I love that you're backing up your computer.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to turning off your computer every day,
Speaker 1: I would say, no way. You don't want to turn
Speaker 1: off your computer every day. These computers are meant to
Speaker 1: stay on, especially at desktop. It can stay on forever
Speaker 1: until you need to restart it for a software update.
Speaker 1: It's not I think that the power use is negligible,
Speaker 1: and I think that the bigger thing you should be
Speaker 1: concerned about is the majority of times that a hard
Speaker 1: drive is going to fail is upon startup. So if
Speaker 1: you're doing that every day, not very good. So I
Speaker 1: would leave it on. Make sure you check your settings
Speaker 1: in the energy panel, and make sure that you have
Speaker 1: your you know, hard drive go to sleep, and your
Speaker 1: computer monitor and all that stuff go off after a
Speaker 1: certain amount of time of non use or you know,
Speaker 1: go to sleep after a certain amount of time of
Speaker 1: unused or non use, and that I think is a
Speaker 1: better way, and you can let me know. I mean
Speaker 1: maybe that's my answer. Now, you know, maybe you have
Speaker 1: a better answer. But I don't ever turn off my laptop.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever turned it off in you know,
Speaker 1: in ten years. I've had different laptops. But I'm just
Speaker 1: saying I don't ever power it down. The only time
Speaker 1: I power it down is if I'm going on vacation
Speaker 1: and I'm leaving it home, I will power it down.
Speaker 1: And so I think you should do that too. But otherwise,
Speaker 1: now leave your computer on during the week and it
Speaker 1: should be just fine. Now on Google, you can hum
Speaker 1: to search. Google introduce a new feature that lets you hum, whistle,
Speaker 1: or sing a melody to the Google app, which will
Speaker 1: then figure out the song. That's kind of cool. Let's see.
Speaker 1: Let's see if I can do this. I have my
Speaker 1: phone right here with Google Assistant.
Speaker 2: Let's try it.
Speaker 3: M m mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmm.
Speaker 1: Okay, that did not work at all. Okay, what what's
Speaker 1: another song? Oh, let's try another one.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 3: Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I see what's happening here. You have to
Speaker 1: see that's a problem.
Speaker 2: Let's try this. There we go.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmm mm hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're waiting there. Okay, it did not get that.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's how you have to do it, because
Speaker 1: that that was the first time I've ever done that.
Speaker 1: You have to tap the voice search and then start
Speaker 1: humming and it will recognize that you're making some sort
Speaker 1: of noise and then it will say, do you want
Speaker 1: to search a song? You tap that little button there
Speaker 1: and then you start humming more. You got to sing
Speaker 1: for ten to fifteen seconds. According to this Variety article,
Speaker 1: it did not work. It said los manyati los minyatas,
Speaker 1: which I mean I assumed that you figured out I
Speaker 1: was singing Happy Birthday. Let me try another one. Ready,
Speaker 1: I'll do We're other world.
Speaker 3: M mmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Speaker 2: Oh look at that, it got it.
Speaker 1: We are the world USA for Africa twenty three percent match.
Speaker 2: Good job Google.
Speaker 1: That is amazing. Now I think that's cool. But I mean,
Speaker 1: this has been around for a long time. Have you
Speaker 1: ever heard of an app called SoundHound? Now, I know
Speaker 1: that Shazam captured the popular attention, but SoundHound was always
Speaker 1: out there, and SoundHound was I always thought better than Shazam. Shazam,
Speaker 1: by the way, was purchased by Apple and it's now
Speaker 1: built into iOS fourteen. But I always thought SoundHound was
Speaker 1: cool because it had a slight edge over Shazam. And
Speaker 1: the thing about Shazam that's a little bit different that
Speaker 1: you might not know is that Shazam has to be
Speaker 1: sort of programmed to listen to these songs, like to
Speaker 1: understand these songs, whereas SoundHound you could hum something and
Speaker 1: it would figure it out. And so anyway, I think
Speaker 1: Shazam has to be fingerprinted. That's the word, right, Like
Speaker 1: the song has to be fingerprinted for it to be recognized.
Speaker 1: But anyway, it's still cool that it's built into Google.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't think Google bought this, but.
Speaker 2: That's it. There you go.
Speaker 1: Features currently available in English on iOS and in more
Speaker 1: than twenty languages on Android. Humm to search is also
Speaker 1: available through Google Assistant, which is what I just tried.
Speaker 2: But pretty neat one more way to search Google. They
Speaker 2: are so smart. Let's see.
Speaker 1: Matthew says, good afternoon, Oh, good afternoon, Rich. I'm in
Speaker 1: the process of buying a new home. I know, during
Speaker 1: a pandemic. That's crazy. My wife and I are trying
Speaker 1: to think of Prime day deals. Oh I'm a little
Speaker 1: late on this. That will serve me well in the
Speaker 1: coming months as we transition from an apartment to an
Speaker 1: actual home. We saw that the Ring Alarm fourteen piece
Speaker 1: kit second generation with Echo Dot is on sale, which
Speaker 1: seems like a great deal. Do you know if this
Speaker 1: is their newest model or if they plan to update it.
Speaker 1: Should I wait for a new system or pull the
Speaker 1: trigger on this one? Ring seems like a great system.
Speaker 1: I am excited to add the always Home drone to
Speaker 1: the system when it launches next year. Really love the
Speaker 1: podcast in your enthusiasm during this dark year, Matt, Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, Matt. I do try to stay enthusiastic, but
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, some days it is really tough. You know,
Speaker 1: Like some days I wake up and I feel like
Speaker 1: I can take on the world. Other days I wake
Speaker 1: up and I just want to crawl under a rock.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, is this really still happening? So if
Speaker 1: that's happening to you, I think that is perfectly normal.
Speaker 1: Now I am a little bit more enthusiastic than the
Speaker 1: next guy or the next person.
Speaker 2: In general.
Speaker 1: I've always been like that, you know, I kind of
Speaker 1: roll out of bed with a spring in my step,
Speaker 1: and you know, just kind of like see things a
Speaker 1: little bit more positively than some people. But this has
Speaker 1: been a true, true test of my positivity and enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: Believe you me, matt On to your answer, I would say, absolutely,
Speaker 1: one hundred percent, get the Ring Alarm. I was actually
Speaker 1: thinking of transitioning to this myself. When I look at
Speaker 1: the landscape of security out there, I think that Ring
Speaker 1: has the most momentum behind them. When you look at
Speaker 1: the gadgets that they have in their arsenal, there is
Speaker 1: so much to choose from. They are continuing to evolve.
Speaker 1: I know some people don't like them because they're owned
Speaker 1: by Amazon, but don't let that distract you or deter you.
Speaker 1: I think that the Ring Alarm system, this second gen,
Speaker 1: which has not been out for too long, maybe a
Speaker 1: year or two, is amazing. They've got the video doorbells down,
Speaker 1: they invented that genre. They've got smart lighting, They've got
Speaker 1: you know, the I mean, just so much stuff, what
Speaker 1: else everything? I mean, they really just have so many things,
Speaker 1: security cameras, So I think at one point I am
Speaker 1: going to I will eventually switch over everything in my
Speaker 1: house to Ring, just because I feel like they they've
Speaker 1: got it going on, and I think that that's kind
Speaker 1: of like where I want to be. Whereas the security
Speaker 1: provider that I'm currently with, it's like it's been great,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of like it's it's a little bit tired.
Speaker 1: And so I think that Ring is exciting, and it's
Speaker 1: just a matter of like sort of money. It's like
Speaker 1: I have to decide one day to to kind of
Speaker 1: you know, spend the money and all this stuff which
Speaker 1: I need. The new alarm system, I need, you know,
Speaker 1: new cameras, everything.
Speaker 2: You gotta get all this stuff.
Speaker 1: But they have so many great cameras that stick up cams,
Speaker 1: all this stuff. Look at this, and even with your
Speaker 1: alarm system, you've got a flood and free sensor, smoke
Speaker 1: and carbon dioxide listener, panic button, motion detector, the I mean,
Speaker 1: you also have that little sensor for your mailbox.
Speaker 2: You've got the stick up camp. You got so much
Speaker 2: going on.
Speaker 1: So yes, I would one hundred percent, and thank you
Speaker 1: for your kind words and good luck with the new house.
Speaker 2: It is a blessing. It is amazing.
Speaker 1: It is so cool to have your own house because
Speaker 1: you can actually do stuff that you never wanted to
Speaker 1: do in your apartment, even though I'm still scared to
Speaker 1: put a hole in my wall.
Speaker 2: Oh what a fun show? Oh no, is that it already? Ah?
Speaker 2: Why do these Why does.
Speaker 1: This music always have to come up so fast? That
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