Speaker 1: Your view of the sky. You have a connection to
Speaker 1: the Internet and this right now. A lot of this
Speaker 1: is free, but of course the carriers are gonna make
Speaker 1: and the satellite companies are gonna make a lot of
Speaker 1: money on this. One estimate has this expected to reach
Speaker 1: sixteen point eight billion dollars by twenty twenty eight. This
Speaker 1: is called direct to satellite services. Now, this is very
Speaker 1: different from what we used to have. You might be thinking, rich,
Speaker 1: We've had satellite phones forever. Those had a giant antenna
Speaker 1: and the satellites were slow with connectivity. This is brand new.
Speaker 1: Now you can use the smartphone you already have to
Speaker 1: connect to a satellite. This is called direct to sell
Speaker 1: and a lot of smartphones already support this.
Speaker 2: So let's go through the list.
Speaker 1: Team Mobile and Starlink they are definitely ahead of everyone else.
Speaker 1: They launched their public beta during the Super Bowl, so
Speaker 1: pretty much anyone can sign up for this, no matter
Speaker 1: what carrier you have. You do not have to be
Speaker 1: a Team Mobile customer. I signed up and I'm still
Speaker 1: in the waiting list and they're rolling out the access
Speaker 1: to this. So this works on T Mobile spectrum they
Speaker 1: already have, which means a lot of the smartphones that
Speaker 1: are in people's pockets will work with this service. We're
Speaker 1: talking iPhone fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, Google Pixel nine, a bunch
Speaker 1: of the Motorolas from twenty twenty four and later, a
Speaker 1: bunch of the Samsungs, the A series, the S series,
Speaker 1: the Z series when it comes to the popular Samsungs
Speaker 1: all the way back to the S twenty one edition,
Speaker 1: and then of course some of T Mobile's own phones. Now,
Speaker 1: this will also support wireless emergency alerts, which means even
Speaker 1: if you're in an area with no cell signal, you'll
Speaker 1: still get those critical updates. Right now, they're just supporting
Speaker 1: text messaging, but in the future you're gonna be able
Speaker 1: to do voice, data and picture messaging through this. Now,
Speaker 1: this is free through July twenty twenty five, So if
Speaker 1: you want to try this out and you've got a
Speaker 1: smartphone that works with it, go for it. You don't
Speaker 1: need to switch services, you'll just add this to your
Speaker 1: cell phone through an eSIM. Basically, this will be included
Speaker 1: eventually for T Mobiles top of the line customers if
Speaker 1: you're on the Go five G Next plan, but fifteen
Speaker 1: dollars a month for other T Mobile customers. Twenty dollars
Speaker 1: a month if you're not a T Mobile customer. And
Speaker 1: this is the first time that we've seen pricing on
Speaker 1: a satellite service on the smartphone. So Apple has had
Speaker 1: satellite texting on their iPhone since the iPhone fourteen, but
Speaker 1: we never got a price tag. At first, they said
Speaker 1: it was going to be free for two years, and
Speaker 1: they later extended that to three years, so we never
Speaker 1: really had a price tag. How do you put a
Speaker 1: price tag on such a critical service. Well, now we
Speaker 1: have it, So fifteen dollars a month for T Mobile
Speaker 1: users that are not on that top of the line plan,
Speaker 1: twenty dollars a month for non T Mobile users. So
Speaker 1: what is AT and T doing. They're partnering with a
Speaker 1: company called AST Space Mobile, and I would say they're
Speaker 1: probably the furthest behind on this whole satellite texting and
Speaker 1: their idea is to focus on remote areas and also
Speaker 1: their first response under network. So they've got this AT
Speaker 1: and T first Net Emergency network, which kind of prioritizes
Speaker 1: emergency communications when there is an issue, and so people
Speaker 1: like you know, firefighters and police officers can get their
Speaker 1: calls and texts prioritized when there's an issue on the network,
Speaker 1: and we saw that of course recently with all of
Speaker 1: the hurricanes in the Carolinas and in Florida and also
Speaker 1: the wildfires here in southern California. They have not announced
Speaker 1: any pricing or even a launch date, but they are
Speaker 1: obviously doing this now. Verizon, like I said, they had
Speaker 1: the commercial during the Super Bowl. You saw Buzz Aldrin
Speaker 1: on it. Also, they brought back their the test network guy.
Speaker 1: He's an actor, Paul Marcarelli, So they brought him back.
Speaker 1: Remember he was the big Verizon guy. He was in
Speaker 1: all those commercials and then all of a sudden they
Speaker 1: dropped him, and then he went to Sprint and he
Speaker 1: started doing Sprint commercials. And now of course you don't
Speaker 1: even have Sprint. They were purchased by T Mobile, and
Speaker 1: now he's back to Verizon. So anyway, it was kind
Speaker 1: of fun to see him back in the commercial, but
Speaker 1: he was.
Speaker 2: The can you hear me now?
Speaker 3: Guy?
Speaker 1: But Verizon's taking a slightly different approach like T Mobile
Speaker 1: is like basically, hey, wherever you are, you're going to
Speaker 1: be covered. Verizon saying, look, we're going to cover areas
Speaker 1: without coverage, so dead zones, that's what we're focusing on
Speaker 1: first and we know Verizon's got a great network in general,
Speaker 1: so they're saying, look, we're just going to kind of
Speaker 1: patch the areas for now that are dead zones so
Speaker 1: that we have coverage everywhere. Whether it's cellular, traditional or satellite,
Speaker 1: you're going to be covered on Verizon. And they've said
Speaker 1: they've invested one hundred million dollars in this ast space mobile.
Speaker 2: So there they are.
Speaker 1: Now, Amazon, as I've mentioned before on this show, they
Speaker 1: are launching their rival to Starlink. It's called Project Kuiper.
Speaker 1: They're launching three thousand satellites eventually, and this year they've
Speaker 1: got i think they said eighty three launches expected, and
Speaker 1: they're going to launch their service by the end of
Speaker 1: the year. Now when we say end of the that
Speaker 1: could be like December of twenty twenty five. But again,
Speaker 1: this is going to be more competition, and they are
Speaker 1: saying that their service is going to be cheaper and
Speaker 1: faster than Starlink. So we'll see what happens there. But
Speaker 1: the good news is for consumers, we're going to have
Speaker 1: more options now. Like I mentioned, there already is satellite
Speaker 1: texting on the iPhone. They launched emergency SOS via satellite
Speaker 1: With the iPhone fourteen, Apple partnering with a company called
Speaker 1: global Star. And if you're keeping track, yes, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of different companies that are in this right. I've
Speaker 1: mentioned Skylow, I've mentioned Space Mobile, I've launched global Star,
Speaker 1: I've mentioned Amazon, I've mentioned Starlink. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of companies that are in this game. But with Apple,
Speaker 1: you have to aim your iPhone at a satellite in
Speaker 1: the sky, and this is very much different than Starlink,
Speaker 1: which kind of works in your pocket. So with iOS eighteen,
Speaker 1: recently they expanded the emergency SOS to work with regular texting,
Speaker 1: so you can just text friends and family over I message.
Speaker 1: And again they have not put a price. They've included
Speaker 1: this in the price of the iPhone for going on
Speaker 1: three years now, and they have not said what the
Speaker 1: price is going to be.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Samsung just had a brand new phone come out, the
Speaker 1: S twenty five, and this does have support for satellite messaging,
Speaker 1: but Samsung is not teaming up with anyone. They're just
Speaker 1: letting the carriers handle it. So already Verizon said they
Speaker 1: will support it. Obviously, Tea Mobile can support it through
Speaker 1: Starlink and whatever AT and T eventually does that will
Speaker 1: be supported as well Google Pixel if you've got a
Speaker 1: recent model Pixel Pixel nine has satellite sos and the
Speaker 1: way they're doing it is again just for emergencies you need.
Speaker 1: When you have an emergency at dial nine one one,
Speaker 1: it'll put you through a safety questionnaire to get you
Speaker 1: the help you need. And they said it was going
Speaker 1: to be free for the first two years, very similar
Speaker 1: to Apple, but again that's limited to just emergency use.
Speaker 1: So where does this lead us?
Speaker 2: Apple?
Speaker 1: So far they've had emergency satellite texting in general texting
Speaker 1: on their phones for a couple of years. Samsung leaving
Speaker 1: it up to the bars. Google has got it, but
Speaker 1: nothing full just yet. But I think in general, all
Speaker 1: this connectivity is a good thing for consumers. We're going
Speaker 1: to see faster speeds, wider coverage areas, and you'll be
Speaker 1: able to have a signal and be able to connect
Speaker 1: with people no matter where you are. The downside of
Speaker 1: all of this a lot of satellites in our sky,
Speaker 1: So this requires thousands of satellites and like I just mentioned,
Speaker 1: there are so many companies doing this, So what about
Speaker 1: collisions between these satellites. You think one of these things
Speaker 1: might malfunction, space junk, light, pollution and regulations. Who's keeping
Speaker 1: track of all these satellites in the sky right now?
Speaker 1: It's a free for all. So we've got a lot
Speaker 1: going on with satellite messaging. But the good news is
Speaker 1: for us, it means your text is always going to
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
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Speaker 1: Uh talk about all the cool stuff that I talk
Speaker 1: about in this show, but in newsletter format. Uh this week. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see Apple TV. Man, I can't believe this. The
Speaker 1: Apple TV app is now available on Android devices. When
Speaker 1: I heard this news, my jaw just about dropped. So
Speaker 1: Apple TV is you know, it's It's been around on
Speaker 1: different devices other than just Apple devices, like on some
Speaker 1: smart TVs. But this is the first time they've ever
Speaker 1: had this app for Android phones. So now you can
Speaker 1: download Apple TV app on Android smartphones and tablets. And
Speaker 1: the whole point of this is really to give you
Speaker 1: access to Apple TV Plus and MLS Season Pass, which
Speaker 1: is soccer through you know, the Android phone. So Netflix
Speaker 1: is everywhere. All these other streaming services are pretty much
Speaker 1: on every platform. Apple was the last holdout. They're like,
Speaker 1: now we just want the iPhone and iOS devices and
Speaker 1: Apple devices, but when you want the viewers, you got
Speaker 1: to put these things where the viewers are. And there
Speaker 1: are millions of Android users out there. So Apple designed
Speaker 1: this app from the ground up to work on Android.
Speaker 1: And if you've searched for it before and you've been
Speaker 1: frustrated because you can't watch Apple TV Plus programming like
Speaker 1: you know, Ted Lasso and Severance, They've got this new
Speaker 1: movie The Gorge. Now you can do that all on
Speaker 1: your Android smartphone. So again this the downside of this
Speaker 1: app is that it does not give you access to
Speaker 1: your iTunes library. So don't think because you have this app,
Speaker 1: you can now access all of the movies and TV
Speaker 1: shows that you've either rented or purchased in the past.
Speaker 1: This is just for streaming at this point of Apple
Speaker 1: TV Plus and MLS, you can also download those for
Speaker 1: offline viewing, like if you're on a plane or something
Speaker 1: like that. But again, you will not get access to
Speaker 1: your library of iTunes content. Maybe that's coming in the future.
Speaker 1: Apple would not say, but you know, hopefully they will.
Speaker 1: I think that would be a smart way to do it.
Speaker 1: Let's see. The other thing is they're fully embracing Android,
Speaker 1: so you can actually subscribe to Apple TV Plus or
Speaker 1: the MLS Season Pass directly through Google Play. So that
Speaker 1: was another surprise because I think, I think with Apple Music,
Speaker 1: because they do have another app for Android, Apple Music,
Speaker 1: but I don't think you can subscribe directly through Google Play.
Speaker 1: But I have an Apple Music account already, so I
Speaker 1: just download it and there. It is also no casting,
Speaker 1: so if you want to cast your videos from your
Speaker 1: phone to a TV screen, that is not available through
Speaker 1: this app right now. But kind of a big deal.
Speaker 1: I mean literally, to sit through a meeting and hear
Speaker 1: Apple even say Android by not like kind of knocking it,
Speaker 1: because usually they've said Android in the past and their keynotes,
Speaker 1: but it's always mocking it. But to have them say like,
Speaker 1: here it is we have an app for Android. I
Speaker 1: was just like, what that is so wild to have,
Speaker 1: like to imagine like Apple engineers just sitting there like
Speaker 1: having to create an Android app. It probably kills him.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Alison in Newport Beach. Allison, you're on
Speaker 1: with Rich.
Speaker 4: Hey, Rich, I hope you can help me out. I
Speaker 4: here in Newport Beach. I run a small children's cooking
Speaker 4: business out of my home, and I've got this cute
Speaker 4: little Instagram I've built up over seven years, and I
Speaker 4: own my own IP so I owned my trademark, I
Speaker 4: owned my images of what I post, and recently I
Speaker 4: just had something that got posted and taken down and
Speaker 4: I reposted it, not really thinking anything bad would happen
Speaker 4: because it was taking a while for Apple to get
Speaker 4: back to us. And then my account is now completely disabled,
Speaker 4: permanently deleted, And despite my attempts to work with the
Speaker 4: AI chatbots and send them all of my patents for
Speaker 4: the US Patent Office, I'm getting nowhere.
Speaker 5: And I'm just.
Speaker 4: Wondering if there's anything you can suggest I can do
Speaker 4: to get human eyes on this, because it was obviously
Speaker 4: an error that this happened, and I'm just kind of
Speaker 4: devastated that all these beautiful memories of these kids cooking
Speaker 4: with me are now just completely deleted.
Speaker 1: Well that's unfortunate, but yes, this can happen on these
Speaker 1: services because they do use a healthy dose of AI
Speaker 1: to help them kind of screen things and go through
Speaker 1: the posts. Now, I had my account taken down randomly.
Speaker 1: I logged in one day and I've never posted anything bad,
Speaker 1: and they said copyright infringement. We're taking this down and
Speaker 1: in ninety days, we're deleting your account completely. So how
Speaker 1: did your account get deleted completely? Did you cause you
Speaker 1: reposted the same content or did they give you those
Speaker 1: ninety days because usually they have someone review it.
Speaker 6: They didn't give me the ninety days.
Speaker 4: This happened about two weeks ago, And what I did
Speaker 4: was I thought that perhaps maybe the that set up
Speaker 4: my marketing, maybe one of the image logos I was
Speaker 4: using for like like a little insignia of.
Speaker 7: Like a whisk and a spoon or.
Speaker 4: Something, maybe that I didn't purchase the rights to that
Speaker 4: and I didn't know, So I took that off and
Speaker 4: tried to replace it with another just stock image through
Speaker 4: pick monkey, and I reposted it thinking I was correcting
Speaker 4: the issue and it was like strike three year out
Speaker 4: and they just permanently deleted my account. And I've I've
Speaker 4: sent an email to them twice and they just said, no,
Speaker 4: you're you're, you have violated our intellectual property. And I
Speaker 4: don't know if it's because they don't understand that I away.
Speaker 2: So here's the deal.
Speaker 1: So well, I think you're gonna have to keep appealing
Speaker 1: to them. You've got to go on their website and appeal.
Speaker 1: The only other thing you can do is maybe go
Speaker 1: to the verified program and see if you can pay
Speaker 1: for that, and that will help someone get to uh,
Speaker 1: you know, get a human looking at this account. Hang
Speaker 1: on the line. I'm going to give you a link
Speaker 1: that's important here.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 8: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking
Speaker 8: technology with you. If you love to travel, you've probably
Speaker 8: visited the pointsguide dot com. I first interviewed founder Brian
Speaker 8: Kelly about ten years ago, just after he started it.
Speaker 8: Now he's back to share some tech travel hacks from
Speaker 8: his new book, How to Win It Travel.
Speaker 9: I started the Points Guy in twenty ten. It was
Speaker 9: just a fun side blog to help my friends and
Speaker 9: family members get the most value out of their points
Speaker 9: because I could not believe no one knew how to
Speaker 9: use Frekamplyer miles. So started as a fun little blog
Speaker 9: that just sort of blew up.
Speaker 2: How have points been to you? Where have you gone?
Speaker 3: Where haven't I gone? I mean points can take you anywhere.
Speaker 9: And for me and what I want to let people know,
Speaker 9: points are like an insurance policy when you have points.
Speaker 9: When the airline cancels your flight and you see a
Speaker 9: two hour line to speak to an agent, I don't
Speaker 9: wait in that line. I booked my next flight with Points.
Speaker 9: I'll handle the refund with the airline later. It's a
Speaker 9: mentality like being good about your points is harnessing your
Speaker 9: financial strength and just having the flexibility to go anywhere.
Speaker 9: And I've been some admit I love South Africa. That's
Speaker 9: one of my favorite places to visit on points.
Speaker 1: Tell me about the book How to Win at Travel?
Speaker 1: What inspired you to write this?
Speaker 9: What inspired me to write this was, you know, every
Speaker 9: dinner party I went to, people were like, Oh, you're
Speaker 9: the points guy. Let me just capitalize on you for
Speaker 9: the whole And I'm teaching people from scratch over and over.
Speaker 9: So even after fifteen years of having this website. Now
Speaker 9: we have you know, fifty plus writers covering everything in travel.
Speaker 3: It's almost overwhelming. There's too much information on the.
Speaker 9: Internet, and the information changes, so what you're reading from
Speaker 9: five years ago may not be accurate. This book is
Speaker 9: an accurate representation of the travel landscape. I give tips
Speaker 9: not just on points and credit cards, but you know
Speaker 9: where to book your flights. That makes a huge difference
Speaker 9: these days, because when an airline cancels your flight, if
Speaker 9: you book through an online travel agency, you may not
Speaker 9: be able to get home that night.
Speaker 3: And that's what people don't realize.
Speaker 9: Here's how to book in the most efficient way, to
Speaker 9: get the cheapest rates and protect yourself. I have a
Speaker 9: whole chapter when things go wrong, because I see far
Speaker 9: too many people melting down in the airport screaming at
Speaker 9: the agents, and that couldn't be a worse.
Speaker 3: Way to deal with it.
Speaker 9: I teach people how to be strategic and have fun too.
Speaker 9: There's even a fear of flying chapter, which millions of
Speaker 9: people globally and growing have a fear of flying, so
Speaker 9: it's really a resource. I think everyone wants to travel,
Speaker 9: but no one really teaches you how. I think this
Speaker 9: book will teach even the most beginner traveler how to
Speaker 9: handle themselves and thrive and travel because it should be fun.
Speaker 1: On the note about the fear of flying, we've had
Speaker 1: a couple of notable airline accidents and incidents in the
Speaker 1: past couple of years. What do you make of that?
Speaker 1: Do you feel like flying is still safe? In What's
Speaker 1: your advice to you?
Speaker 3: I talk about this in the book.
Speaker 9: I think the statistic is you really have to fly
Speaker 9: every single day for one hundred and three thousand years
Speaker 9: to have a statistical high relevant chance.
Speaker 3: Of dying on a plane crash.
Speaker 9: It is extraordinarily safe, and certainly especially the incident in DC,
Speaker 9: which we're still waiting to hear exactly what happened. Things
Speaker 9: will always go wrong, but it's hard to put into
Speaker 9: words how safe air travel is. I have zero qualms
Speaker 9: flying on any aircraft globally, but especially within the US.
Speaker 9: You know, it had been sixteen years before the last
Speaker 9: real fatal crash, so flying is still safe, and after
Speaker 9: each incident, I am sure that we will learn from it.
Speaker 9: So I tell people you're the most dangerous part of
Speaker 9: your journey is getting to the airport.
Speaker 3: By far.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of the tools that you like
Speaker 1: to have to you know on your phone, like what
Speaker 1: should travelers have apps wise and resource wise?
Speaker 9: Yeah, so for cheap flights, and I wish I could
Speaker 9: say Tuesdays at four pm is the cheapest flight day.
Speaker 9: Everyone go get It's not like that anymore. You have
Speaker 9: to use technology Google Flights. I cannot stress. You have
Speaker 9: to learn how to use Google Flights to find cheap flights.
Speaker 9: There's a tool called Explore and what this will let
Speaker 9: you do, say, your flexibility is how you get the
Speaker 9: cheapest deals.
Speaker 3: So if you're in LA.
Speaker 9: And you want to go to Hawaii, don't put in
Speaker 9: one island and check island by island. You can just
Speaker 9: put in La to Hawaii specific dates a week in March,
Speaker 9: a week in June, and it'll reverse engineer and show
Speaker 9: you all of the cheapest flights. Don't call your friend
Speaker 9: and say is this a good deal? When Google Flights
Speaker 9: tells you based on their billions of data sets, that's
Speaker 9: when you get a good deal. You can even set
Speaker 9: alerts if the price drops. And then on the point side,
Speaker 9: there's a tool called point dot Me and it's basically
Speaker 9: Google Flights, which is for paid tickets. If you have
Speaker 9: airline miles, and you have credit card points that transfer
Speaker 9: to different airlines, it can be really hard. There's so
Speaker 9: many points hoarders out there because they don't know how
Speaker 9: to use their points.
Speaker 3: Point dot me will.
Speaker 9: Tell you AMX points transfer to air France to fly
Speaker 9: LA to Paris and then Paris to Istambul or wherever
Speaker 9: you're trying to go. So that's what really does a
Speaker 9: lot of the heavy lifting. There's one other seats dot arrow,
Speaker 9: which is a more expert tool for frequent flyer miles.
Speaker 9: But if your dream is to fly LA to Dubai
Speaker 9: on Emirates, which is one of those bucket lists redemptions,
Speaker 9: if you search day by day, it's like trying to
Speaker 9: find a needle in a haystack. Seats dot arrow will
Speaker 9: show you an entire year of a route. You can
Speaker 9: sort by first class and you can pick the days
Speaker 9: where there's availability. So that's how people in the points
Speaker 9: where they're getting outsized value find these amazing airlines. You
Speaker 9: can't just hope that they land in your lap. You
Speaker 9: need to go on the offense.
Speaker 1: Tell me about hotels, any hacks for getting good deals
Speaker 1: on hotels or using points for hotels.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so with hotels, you know, once again it's kind
Speaker 9: of like air lunch. I try to book directly with
Speaker 9: hotels whenever possible because you're going to get loyalty.
Speaker 3: They treat people better who.
Speaker 9: Book directly, So when possible, even if you find a
Speaker 9: cheaper hotel rate on an online travel agency, call the hotel.
Speaker 9: They'll usually match it or give you extra perks because
Speaker 9: they don't want to have to pay twenty percent commission
Speaker 9: to that online travel agency. And remember you're at the
Speaker 9: bottom of the pecking order when you book through an OTA.
Speaker 9: Now on the flip side, luxury hotels, if you want
Speaker 9: to splurge, don't book direct because luxury travel advisors people
Speaker 9: don't realize you should book through a luxury travel advisor
Speaker 9: who books a lot of their clients at the hotel
Speaker 9: because if anything goes wrong, they can make sure your trip.
Speaker 9: They take care of you extra perks Champagne. So for
Speaker 9: luxury hotels, you always want to book through a luxury
Speaker 9: travel advisor. For you know, standard hotels, book directly with
Speaker 9: the hotel and using points. Similarly to point me, there
Speaker 9: are now tools. Maximipoint dot com is a great one.
Speaker 9: Say you want to go to Alila, big sur on
Speaker 9: and use your Hiatt points one of the best redemptions
Speaker 9: out there. This tool will let you look or the
Speaker 9: Parkhayatt Paris and von Dome all the top properties. You
Speaker 9: can now search by calendar date, so the Waldorf Astoria
Speaker 9: in Cabo, which is a top points you know redemption.
Speaker 9: It can be tough to find, but it will show
Speaker 9: you a calendar search month by month. So once again,
Speaker 9: pick your when possible. You know, I know, school dates
Speaker 9: and everything, but when possible, choose your trip around where
Speaker 9: the best availability is.
Speaker 3: That's how you get the most bang for your point.
Speaker 1: That's actually another tool that I like on your website
Speaker 1: is the conversion tool where it says like, here's how
Speaker 1: much the flight is costing in cash, here's how much
Speaker 1: it is in points. So do you have to get
Speaker 1: a certain value for the point for it to be
Speaker 1: worth it? Ye?
Speaker 9: For that redemption in general, you know it depends on
Speaker 9: the airline. Some airline miles are worth more than others.
Speaker 9: But but you know you want to be getting ideally
Speaker 9: one and a half cents per point to two cents
Speaker 9: in value. And that takes a little bit of math,
Speaker 9: but simply put, like a thousand dollars flight, if it
Speaker 9: was one hundred thousand points, that's a one cent per
Speaker 9: point valuation.
Speaker 3: That's fair.
Speaker 9: But if that thousand dollars flight it's fifty thousand points,
Speaker 9: that means you're getting two cents per point in value.
Speaker 3: That's where the sweet spot is.
Speaker 9: And then the higher you can go, the better you
Speaker 9: can get five to ten cents per point by booking
Speaker 9: those really amazing what I call sweet Spot awards, which
Speaker 9: I talk about in the book International first in business class,
Speaker 9: especially to Asia. Those flights are ten fifteen thousand dollars
Speaker 9: that sometimes you can get for sixty thousand miles.
Speaker 3: So in the book, I'll.
Speaker 9: Teach you easy redemptions and then how to become an expert.
Speaker 9: And I just be warned, once you start redeeming for
Speaker 9: those amazing redemptions, you will be hooked because when you
Speaker 9: can fly a ten thousand dollars flight for eighty thousand miles,
Speaker 9: that is a rush. And that's why I'm still doing
Speaker 9: this after fifteen years.
Speaker 1: Any travel gadgets that you really make your life easier, yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: off the bat, you have to have air tags, even
Speaker 1: if you don't check your luggage.
Speaker 9: AirTags are critical and the airlines nowadays are even integrating
Speaker 9: with Apple where if they lose your bag, you can
Speaker 9: share your air tag status and that can be the
Speaker 9: difference between getting your bag before that's seven day cruise.
Speaker 9: You know, losing your luggage can really throw a wrench
Speaker 9: in your plan. So always knowing where all of your
Speaker 9: bags are, even your carry on, because you could get
Speaker 9: separated from it. They might make you check it last minute.
Speaker 9: So I have an air tag in everything. And also,
Speaker 9: you know, noise canceling headphones are an oldie but a goodie.
Speaker 9: You will have a crying baby on your flight. I
Speaker 9: can guarantee you that at some point. But when you
Speaker 9: have your noise canceling headphones and you have your own entertainment,
Speaker 9: because the airline entertainment will probably break as well. So
Speaker 9: controlling what you can control, your noise, your what you're
Speaker 9: able to watch. Bring a good book on a flight,
Speaker 9: you know, bring snacks because the airline is always going
Speaker 9: to run out. So I just tell people try to
Speaker 9: control what you can. You can't control delays or planes breaking.
Speaker 9: That's going to happen. But if you've got a great book,
Speaker 9: your music, you have to shift your mentality.
Speaker 3: This three hour flight delay.
Speaker 9: Well great, I'm gonna have some me time in a lounge,
Speaker 9: get a drink and enjoy it. It's all about you,
Speaker 9: know your mentality, and I think too many people leave
Speaker 9: their homes losing at travel, and in this book, I
Speaker 9: want to teach you how to enjoy it even when
Speaker 9: things inevitably go left.
Speaker 1: That's Brian Kelly, founder of thepoints Guide dot com.
Speaker 8: His new book, How to Win at Travel is out now.
Speaker 2: I'll put a link on my website. Richon Tech dot
Speaker 2: tv coming up.
Speaker 1: More of your calls at Triple A Rich one oh one.
Speaker 1: You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology Triple A Rich one oh one eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. The
Speaker 1: Darklord on X. Looking for some clarification on the satellite
Speaker 1: stuff I was talking about earlier, specifically AST Space Mobile.
Speaker 1: That's the company that's working with AT and T. They
Speaker 1: said that they are not behind starlink. So here's the deal.
Speaker 1: Ast Space Mobile. They have launched their first five satellites
Speaker 1: so far, and their goal is to basically build a
Speaker 1: network that is kind of like a cellular network, but
Speaker 1: in space and so right now they're saying their peak
Speaker 1: speeds will be up to one hundred and twenty megabits
Speaker 1: per second, which is fast, yes, but not as fast
Speaker 1: as some of the other speeds I'm hearing from Starlink
Speaker 1: and also from Project Kuiper, which is going to be
Speaker 1: apparently double what starlink is or faster than starlink.
Speaker 2: But this is the other thing.
Speaker 1: So I said, AT and T invested in them, but
Speaker 1: apparently AT and T, Verizon, Google, Vodafone, and a bunch
Speaker 1: of other mobile carriers worldwide are supporting this company as well,
Speaker 1: so I guess they're one to watch for sure, and
Speaker 1: looks like they're out of Texas perhaps, But yeah, so
Speaker 1: it says AT working with a S T Space Mobile
Speaker 1: to one day offer voice, data, text, and video services
Speaker 1: in remote, off grid locations. So again, this is a
Speaker 1: very competitive field. We're gonna hear a lot about this stuff,
Speaker 1: and you know it's it's gonna mean kind of like
Speaker 1: what happened with the the Internet at home, where you
Speaker 1: know it was always delivered to your house via First
Speaker 1: it was phone line, then it was cable and fiber,
Speaker 1: and now you can get it wirelessly wirelessly through the
Speaker 1: five G networks. So again, now we're seeing this start
Speaker 1: to happen with internet from space and of course texting
Speaker 1: from space. So interesting stuff happening. Glad to do the
Speaker 1: clarification for you there the dark Lord. Hope that helps.
Speaker 2: Let's go to.
Speaker 1: Gary and Laguna Nagel Gary, you're on with Rich?
Speaker 10: Yeah, Rich, this is kind of an anti tech question.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I know. That's a good way of putting
Speaker 10: in the nurser. Okay, the watch I had I was
Speaker 10: recommended from a good friend of mine, Bob. Of course
Speaker 10: he's a tech kind of guy, and of course he's
Speaker 10: an Apple guy, and he knows I'm an Android guy.
Speaker 10: And what I got I got was called the Amazed
Speaker 10: Fit BP three pro. Yeah, I like, I couldn't stand
Speaker 10: them thing. I couldn't stand it?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 10: Well let me tell you why. Okay, I'm an I'm
Speaker 10: a wildlife photographer, so I'm out walking the trails sometimes
Speaker 10: I get kind of hot and sweating, and what happened
Speaker 10: with this thing? And it's just outually drow me nuts.
Speaker 10: This thing needed my cell phone on me at all
Speaker 10: times to even function. And that's the number one thing
Speaker 10: that really bothered me about it. And half the time
Speaker 10: I go to look at the time of the watch
Speaker 10: and was showing me my heart right. Well, you know what,
Speaker 10: I don't want to know my heart right, I want
Speaker 10: to know what tim it is. And I mainly got
Speaker 10: the thing just to have a pedometer. So maybe you
Speaker 10: can recommend a pedometer watch that is I repeat, not
Speaker 10: not not tied to a cell phone, well just by itself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you're I mean, look, most people and
Speaker 1: most of these companies, they want a the smart watch.
Speaker 1: You know that that is the that is the marketplace.
Speaker 1: So smart watches are where all of the momentum is behind.
Speaker 1: That's most of what I see. Now, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: your experience with this watch. I mean, you know, I've
Speaker 1: tested the amaze fit devices and I've actually been very
Speaker 1: impressed with them, and they are amaze Fit is sort of,
Speaker 1: you know, a less expensive version of a lot of
Speaker 1: the stuff you see out there. So if you look
Speaker 1: at the bit five kind of looks like an Apple watch.
Speaker 1: But I mean you're talking, the price on this thing
Speaker 1: is a lot cheaper. Let me just check the price
Speaker 1: on Amazon. These things are like me, I think it's
Speaker 1: like under one hundred dollars. Yeah, fifty dollars for this thing.
Speaker 1: So number one, you can't expect the same kind of
Speaker 1: quality you're going to get from a two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars Apple watch for something that's fifty dollars. And
Speaker 1: I think the big kind of delineator here is the software.
Speaker 1: So the software and these devices, and I actually, again
Speaker 1: I tested almost everything in the Amaze fit lineup, Like
Speaker 1: I tested their high end smart watch, their cheap smart watch,
Speaker 1: their ring and every single one of them. I came
Speaker 1: away thinking like, Wow, these are pretty good for being
Speaker 1: so inexpensive. What's the catch? You know, the catch is
Speaker 1: generally the software. But even with these I thought the
Speaker 1: software or the app I think it's called zep is
Speaker 1: pretty well designed as well. So to answer your question, Gary,
Speaker 1: I don't have a recommendation on a standard standalone pedometer,
Speaker 1: but if you search on you know, I mean Garman
Speaker 1: comes to mind first off, because Garman is kind of
Speaker 1: the leader in fitness tracking, but they've kind of gone
Speaker 1: to the smart watch kind of area connecting to the
Speaker 1: phone with all of their devices. But it looks like
Speaker 1: you could probably use this like a Vivo Active five
Speaker 1: without a smart watch. If you don't want to connect
Speaker 1: it to the smart watch, it looks like it does
Speaker 1: everything on its own. Now this may be too much,
Speaker 1: but this is just a simple watch that does It's
Speaker 1: got a one inch to one point two inch display,
Speaker 1: up to eleven hours of battery life, detailed heart advance fitness.
Speaker 1: You can use the Garment Connect app on your iPhone
Speaker 1: or Android if you want, if you want to download
Speaker 1: your information, but again I don't know if you have to,
Speaker 1: because it looks like it's got everything built in that
Speaker 1: what you want. It's built in NAP detection, heart rate,
Speaker 1: risk based heart rate, so you can have your heart
Speaker 1: rate without your phone. There, stress tracking, UH pulse oxy
Speaker 1: pulse sensor so pulse ox blood, blood oxygen, meditation, mindful breathing, hydration, respiration,
Speaker 1: and then again it's got all the different UH fitness.
Speaker 1: This thing's got a lot. So again, if you don't
Speaker 1: want to use your phone with this, you don't necessarily
Speaker 1: have to. But you said you have an Android phone,
Speaker 1: so I mean it's not gonna hurt to connect it,
Speaker 1: you know, once in a while to get a software
Speaker 1: update or something like that. Now, if you look on Amazon,
Speaker 1: if you type in like Fitness Tracker, no phone needed.
Speaker 1: There are a couple that come up, but again these
Speaker 1: are going to be probably even cheaper, and the quality
Speaker 1: is probably not even going to be as good as
Speaker 1: with the Amaze Fit that you had. The top one
Speaker 1: that comes up is the urans eu R A NS
Speaker 1: and it's a smart watch, no app or phone required,
Speaker 1: fourteen days battery life. But sounds like what you're talking
Speaker 1: about is you just want a standard pedometer. I think
Speaker 1: they used to give those out at like with like
Speaker 1: a happy meal. Just put that thing on the side,
Speaker 1: So maybe just look up pedometer. I mean, they they
Speaker 1: do have these things. I mean, here's here's a pedometer,
Speaker 1: three D pedometer for walking fifteen ninety nine.
Speaker 2: Clip it to your side.
Speaker 1: Remember, I mean these were these were what people used
Speaker 1: before they went with the smart watches. But again, most
Speaker 1: of the most of these devices are wanting to connect
Speaker 1: to a smart watch. That doesn't mean they don't. They're
Speaker 1: a pedometer is not there. It's just a lot simpler
Speaker 1: than the smart watches. But and by the way, you
Speaker 1: can use a smart watch without the phone. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I I you know, I've got my Apple Watch on
Speaker 1: right now without my Apple phone, which is you know,
Speaker 1: so basically it's just not connecting back. If I needed
Speaker 1: to make a phone call or get a text, it's
Speaker 1: not going to happen. But you could still use them.
Speaker 1: It's just not the preferred method for using these things
Speaker 1: because most people at this point they want to be connected.
Speaker 1: But I understand that you don't want to be connected, So,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of options out there. I
Speaker 1: think it's going to come down to with this, it's
Speaker 1: going to be, you know, do you want to get
Speaker 1: something like a garment. I would probably look there first
Speaker 1: because I think Garman probably has the best overall solution
Speaker 1: with the option to connect it to your phone. But
Speaker 1: then I would kind of look at some of these
Speaker 1: other you know, I call them cheapies on Amazon, and
Speaker 1: just see which one works for you. You know, who
Speaker 1: knows what the accuracy is too. That's the other problem
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Speaker 1: Let's go to h Christine and el Segundo. Looks like
Speaker 1: she's got a thought on what we were talking about
Speaker 1: with the smart watches.
Speaker 2: Christine, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 11: Hi, rich Oh my god, I love you guys. You
Speaker 11: guys are all brilliant.
Speaker 2: Oh thank you.
Speaker 12: So.
Speaker 13: I love the piece you just did. I'm a registered nurse,
Speaker 13: but I work in the aerospace industry and there are
Speaker 13: a lot of top secret, you know, physicians, and they
Speaker 13: can't have those smart watches you were referring to, or
Speaker 13: any of the smart devices that transmit information. So your
Speaker 13: garment wait, no, the garment does too. So the pedometer
Speaker 13: you were talking about, I think is perfect for those
Speaker 13: types of jobs.
Speaker 1: Oh, so you're saying it your your job. You can't
Speaker 1: have the smart stuff.
Speaker 13: Right, Not for me.
Speaker 11: I'm I'm a registered nurse in that industry, but I'm
Speaker 11: not like top secret, I think you. I'm not top
Speaker 11: secret like the engineers are. They're like dealing with spider
Speaker 11: jet software and blah blah blah. So that's why they
Speaker 11: can't have any of those devices that transmit makes Your
Speaker 11: pedometer idea is a great idea. And now they have
Speaker 11: more modern pedometers that are not going to like cheat
Speaker 11: when you shake.
Speaker 2: It should always be.
Speaker 13: Very competitive when we had our wellness walks and stuff.
Speaker 12: So there are good pedometers.
Speaker 11: So I'm glad you brought that up.
Speaker 1: What's the what's the what's the most popular one around
Speaker 1: the nurses quarters?
Speaker 2: Is it the Apple Watch or what?
Speaker 11: So for hospitals, the Apple Watch is perfect. Apple is good.
Speaker 11: And then I have patients that have heart conditions that
Speaker 11: are not in top secret, so once again it's also
Speaker 11: perfect for them because they're like, oh, my watch triggered
Speaker 11: it and I hadn't felt anything. So they come over
Speaker 11: and I checked their pulse.
Speaker 13: They're apul to their heart.
Speaker 11: Pulse with a stethoscope and boom, I find out that
Speaker 11: they're having.
Speaker 13: A rhythm that's irregular and ultimately saved their life.
Speaker 11: So when when for you know.
Speaker 2: Certain cases, that's wild.
Speaker 1: I did a story with a guy who a really
Speaker 1: healthy guy, and he had an Apple Watch and it
Speaker 1: gave him that alert and he went right to the
Speaker 1: hospital and he got a think he said, like a
Speaker 1: stent or what's the thing that keeps your pacemaker in
Speaker 1: his heart?
Speaker 11: So, oh my god, do you see?
Speaker 13: So his heart rate was probably either very irregular or
Speaker 13: extremely slow and and alerted him.
Speaker 6: It saved his life.
Speaker 11: He needs stuck an app one whatever, But yeah, what happened.
Speaker 2: I think I think he got it.
Speaker 1: Afterwards, Christine, thanks for the call, appreciate it. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Daisy in Homeland, California. Daisy, you're on with rich
Speaker 1: Oh thank you.
Speaker 7: Yes, I was wondering if you could recommend some classes
Speaker 7: or a direction I can go in. I'm seventy seven
Speaker 7: years old and I'm interested in keeping up with the
Speaker 7: new technology, and AI is what I'm interested in finding
Speaker 7: out about. On TikTok, they're advertising a lot of classes
Speaker 7: and things like that, and I just don't know which direction.
Speaker 7: But I don't want to be left in the desk.
Speaker 1: Oh interesting, Okay, Well, there's definitely there's definitely a lot
Speaker 1: of places to go with it when it comes to AI.
Speaker 1: First off, I would start with the AI itself, So
Speaker 1: just get on Chat, e Ebt, get on Gemini, get
Speaker 1: on claud and just start using them. You're not going
Speaker 1: to break anything, and you can ask them like, hey,
Speaker 1: what can you do? What are some things I should try?
Speaker 1: And that's kind of like the first getting into it
Speaker 1: is just just try some of this stuff and then
Speaker 1: you know, if you want to get into some of
Speaker 1: the more, you know. I would listen to some podcasts
Speaker 1: about AI. There's a whole bunch of pot if you
Speaker 1: just go on the top tech podcasts. I mean half
Speaker 1: of them are dedicated to AI right now. So I
Speaker 1: would subscribe to one or two of those and listen
Speaker 1: to them because they're going to talk about the ins
Speaker 1: and outs of what these companies are doing, and it
Speaker 1: can kind of the trends that are happening in that world.
Speaker 1: A newsletter that I really like is called Wonder Tools
Speaker 1: wo Nder Wonder Tools put out by a guy named
Speaker 1: Jeremy Kaplan. Believe he's out of New York City and
Speaker 1: He does a great job every week of running down
Speaker 1: some of the great new AI tools out there, and
Speaker 1: so that is a great solution for learning about all
Speaker 1: the AI stuff that's new, and it doesn't he doesn't
Speaker 1: get like some of it's really techy, but some of it,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of it is very consumer oriented.
Speaker 2: So that's another way to do it.
Speaker 1: When it comes to classes, I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: what they're advertising on TikTok, but you know, I mean
Speaker 1: you can you can look at classes at like your
Speaker 1: local community college and see what's there. If you want
Speaker 1: to go to online classes. I mean, you know, con
Speaker 1: Academy is kind of like a great free source of classes,
Speaker 1: So I would go on there and con Academy is
Speaker 1: k H A N.
Speaker 2: And let's just see.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna search AI and let's see if they
Speaker 1: have any AI classes. Let's see air constant air. It
Speaker 1: comes up with air, so I don't know, maybe that's
Speaker 1: not the best one. Let's see artificial intelligence. Let's see
Speaker 1: if we can do that.
Speaker 2: It's tough to.
Speaker 1: Type and talk at the same time. There we go
Speaker 1: artificial intelligence. So talk search artificial intelligence, and that will
Speaker 1: give you a whole bunch of stuff where you can start.
Speaker 1: But con Academy is another one. One of those places
Speaker 1: is where you can get kind of free classes and
Speaker 1: free online learning. So that's a good one, but there's
Speaker 1: just so many. I mean, you know, read up online.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you're already ahead of the curve because
Speaker 1: you're on TikTok and you want to learn about this stuff.
Speaker 1: But those are the place I I would stay away
Speaker 1: from paying right now. I mean, unless you're doing community
Speaker 1: college whatever, maybe have to pay a small amount. But
Speaker 1: I don't know if you necessarily need to pay to
Speaker 1: learn about AI because what it sounds like, unless you're
Speaker 1: trying to get a new job with this, I think
Speaker 1: that you should just you know, try the free stuff first.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: So there's also this interesting there's also a master Class.
Speaker 1: Have you heard of that program? So master Class is
Speaker 1: these online classes that basically they have like prominent people
Speaker 1: teach courses and things. They have got two hundred plus classes.
Speaker 1: You can watch them on your computer and things. But
Speaker 1: the problem is you got to pay for that. So
Speaker 1: let's see how much of a standard plan ten dollars
Speaker 1: that's an annual membership. They have ten dollars fifteen dollars
Speaker 1: or twenty dollars, But it looks like you have to
Speaker 1: pay for the whole year in advance. So but you
Speaker 1: know that may be another app you want to pay
Speaker 1: and you want something that's a little bit more like
Speaker 1: a course. But again, I mean YouTube, there's so much
Speaker 1: free content out there. It's just a matter of finding
Speaker 1: something that resonates with you and also deciding, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of what do you want to learn about. But
Speaker 1: I think playing with the with the tools themselves is
Speaker 1: the best way to kind of get acquainted with them,
Speaker 1: see what they can do, and then once you figure
Speaker 1: out what they can do, maybe then you go into
Speaker 1: some of these systems and see what they can do
Speaker 1: to help you out. Great question, Daisy really appreciate it?
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Speaking of TikTok
Speaker 1: it is back. TikTok is back on both the Apple's
Speaker 1: App Store and Google Play officially back. The app disappeared
Speaker 1: in January. We know because of the pending US band
Speaker 1: tied to Byte Dance owning this app. Bite Dance out
Speaker 1: of China. There's been a lot to talk about this.
Speaker 1: I've been covering this app now and whether it's gonna
Speaker 1: go away for years, and it just keeps kind of percolating.
Speaker 1: But we did see it go off Google Play and
Speaker 1: the App Store because the company said, okay, we're going
Speaker 1: to enforce this ban, and then President Trump said, now
Speaker 1: it'll be okay, and they said, okay, Well we don't.
Speaker 1: We don't know if we want to believe you just yet,
Speaker 1: because what if it's not okay? And now we get
Speaker 1: sued for all the time that we had this thing
Speaker 1: in our app store. But I guess he's gotten a
Speaker 1: reassurance or these companies have gotten a reassurance from the
Speaker 1: US Attorney General's office and they said, no, it'll be fine.
Speaker 1: You can put them on your app stores until we
Speaker 1: figure out the permanent solution for this. The problem was
Speaker 1: people were finding that if they updated their phone, or
Speaker 1: they got a new phone, or they switched phones, their
Speaker 1: their TikTok app might not have followed through. So I
Speaker 1: got a lot of people saying frantically, hey, Rich, I
Speaker 1: upgraded my phone and my TikTok is no longer here.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you can do. There's not much
Speaker 1: you could do.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I did know for Android, because Android's a little bit
Speaker 1: different than iPhone. Android, you can download apps from anywhere
Speaker 1: and install them on your phone. I don't recommend you
Speaker 1: do that unless you know what you're doing. Got to
Speaker 1: be a little bit more tech savvy, because you can
Speaker 1: get some malware on your phone. But TikTok did come
Speaker 1: out with what's called the direct download ap case. So
Speaker 1: if you went to TikTok dot com, I think it
Speaker 1: was just download.
Speaker 2: Let's see here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you just went to TikTok dot com slash download,
Speaker 1: you could get the download of the software file. So
Speaker 1: you know how you download software for your computer. On Android,
Speaker 1: you can do that bypassing the app store, and in
Speaker 1: Europe you can do that now, but in the US
Speaker 1: the iPhone is sort of locked down. You have to
Speaker 1: get your apps through Apple's vetted app store, but on
Speaker 1: Android not the case.
Speaker 2: You can.
Speaker 1: It takes a little bit like on the on the
Speaker 1: Samsung device the new one I got. You know, they
Speaker 1: put a lot of procedures in place before you can
Speaker 1: actually download software outside of an app store. So I
Speaker 1: downloaded the TikTok app to my new Samsung S twenty
Speaker 1: five Ultra, and I wanted to see what the process
Speaker 1: was like, and it did give me a couple of
Speaker 1: hoops to jump through, a specifically one through Samsung where
Speaker 1: it said, hey, you've got to change this setting to
Speaker 1: make it so you can download this app. And then
Speaker 1: Google asked if it can scan the app to make
Speaker 1: sure there's no malware on it. But anyways, that's called sideloading,
Speaker 1: and that was an option if you're an Android user,
Speaker 1: of course, but for iPhone there wasn't. But anyway, all
Speaker 1: this is a moot point at this point because it's
Speaker 1: back in the app stores, So if you still want TikTok,
Speaker 1: still using it, I will admit, I mean there's something
Speaker 1: about it. You know, once I downloaded it to quote
Speaker 1: unquote test it out to see if I can get
Speaker 1: out on my phone, you know, I started flipping through it,
Speaker 1: and you know, it gets you hooked.
Speaker 2: It really does.
Speaker 1: Like they just have a way of like all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, they present one video and you flip through
Speaker 1: and if you watch it long enough, they start showing
Speaker 1: other videos just like that. And so the algorithm is good.
Speaker 1: There's no denying that. But again, it's there. I said,
Speaker 1: I was joking with someone at the TV station. I said,
Speaker 1: you know, our productivity ever since TikTok is back, has
Speaker 1: gone back down again because this has a way of
Speaker 1: just sucking you in and just keeping your attention for
Speaker 1: long periods of time. That swipe, It's all about that
Speaker 1: swipe to the next video. Eighty to eight rich one
Speaker 1: O one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one. The website Richontech dot TV.
Speaker 2: Coming up.
Speaker 1: We have a new Apple product coming out next week.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what we expect that to be right
Speaker 1: here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech.
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Speaker 1: zero one. All right, coming up, we're gonna talk about Apple.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, new product coming this week. So Tim
Speaker 1: Cook teased an Apple product reveal for February nineteenth, that's Wednesday.
Speaker 1: All signs point to the long awaited iPhone S refresh
Speaker 1: so on X. Tim Cook said, the newest member of
Speaker 1: the family will arrive on February nineteenth. Everyone seems to
Speaker 1: think this is the iPhone se this is their budget
Speaker 1: friendly phone model. It was last updated about three years ago,
Speaker 1: so it is time. So I think I talked last
Speaker 1: week on the show what's going to change? But basically
Speaker 1: no more home button. I know a lot of people
Speaker 1: like that on this phone. They got it for that reason.
Speaker 1: But you know they're doing face ID now on everything
Speaker 1: faster chip which will give it AI features and a
Speaker 1: bigger screen, maybe mag safe on the back USBC. But
Speaker 1: this is Apple's phone that costs generally under five hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: so a lot of people like this as a simple
Speaker 1: kind of entry level iPhone Again, iPhone se probably going
Speaker 1: to be announced on February nineteenth.
Speaker 2: Let's go oh to uh, let's see here is it?
Speaker 1: Taren Karen in Tennessee Taren, he welcome to the show.
Speaker 14: Heh Yes. I love to read books, and I currently
Speaker 14: have the Kindle app on one of my very very
Speaker 14: very old iPads. So I'm gonna either need to buy
Speaker 14: a Kindle or buy an iPad, and I don't know
Speaker 14: which to do.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's the question, That's an easy one, Karen, Taren
Speaker 1: Karen Taran is my sister's name. Actually she spells it a
Speaker 1: little different t A R y N. So do you
Speaker 1: pronounce that?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 3: What? No? Why?
Speaker 14: Well Tyrone Power, very famous old actor. His daughter was
Speaker 14: named Taren with a y.
Speaker 1: Ah, Okay, I'm gonna have to ask my mom.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So I think this is a super super easy decision.
Speaker 1: And the decision is one thousand Kindle, oh okay. And
Speaker 1: the reason why is because the Kindle is for reading.
Speaker 1: The iPad is great and it's an amazing device, but
Speaker 1: I hate it for reading. I mean, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: my screen all day on my phone. The stress level
Speaker 1: on your eyes on a kindle is infinitely less than
Speaker 1: the stress level on your eyes on an iPad. And
Speaker 1: plus it has other benefits like when you're out and
Speaker 1: about when you're out in the sun, this thing does
Speaker 1: not heat up. It reads in the sun. It's waterproof,
Speaker 1: so you can bring it by the pool and the
Speaker 1: tub whatever. I mean, there's just so many benefits to
Speaker 1: the Kindle versus the iPad as a reading device. Plus
Speaker 1: there's no notifications. You're not sitting there and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you get a notification and now you're down,
Speaker 1: you know, a TikTok. Not that I think you're on
Speaker 1: a TikTok rabbit hole, but you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like that could happen, you know.
Speaker 14: So what kindle would I get? There are a few
Speaker 14: of them.
Speaker 1: Well that's the that's the million dollar question. So I personally,
Speaker 1: I still use a really old kindle. I would not
Speaker 1: go for the kindle with the color soft. I would
Speaker 1: not get that one. So let me see. I got
Speaker 1: to look at the kindles, because there's a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of them. I think the best one is the middle one,
Speaker 1: so it is the not the color soft and not
Speaker 1: the regular kindle. I think the paper white is the
Speaker 1: one to go with ye, and that's kind of their
Speaker 1: middle of the road one. It's one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: dollars I would spend. I would spend the extra. I
Speaker 1: think it's like twenty bucks to get the one that
Speaker 1: doesn't have ads on the screen, on the home screen,
Speaker 1: like or the lock screen. I should say, but that's
Speaker 1: that's optional. But here's the thing. I would not just
Speaker 1: buy this thing today, because these things go on sale regularly,
Speaker 1: and that's what I would wait for. So I would
Speaker 1: set an alert, put this in your shopping cart on Amazon,
Speaker 1: and wait for the price to drop before you purchase it.
Speaker 1: Kindles go on sale all the time, all.
Speaker 14: The time, Okay, super Thank you. You've been so helpful.
Speaker 1: All right, well, well thanks Tarn and Tennessee love the question.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. I love my kindle, absolutely love
Speaker 1: my Kindle. I mean I read on it every single day,
Speaker 1: and to me, it's an escape from the screen centric
Speaker 1: world we live in.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I know they came out with the Kindle. They've got
Speaker 1: several different kindles. They've got the Kindle, which is their
Speaker 1: standard one. I don't I would skip the standard one,
Speaker 1: just go with the paper white. I know it's a
Speaker 1: little bit more, but you're gonna get such better value
Speaker 1: out of your money. It's just going to be a
Speaker 1: bigger screen. It's going to be faster. I believe it's
Speaker 1: sharper text as well on the screen. But you know,
Speaker 1: the battery lasts forever on these things. They're just so easy. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the yeah, okay, so the okay, the text is
Speaker 1: the same on oh gosh, the text is three hundred
Speaker 1: PPI and all of them. So okay, So I stand
Speaker 1: corrected there. But so from the Kindle to the paper white,
Speaker 1: battery life on the regular kindle is six weeks. On
Speaker 1: the pay paper white, it's twelve weeks. Storage is the same.
Speaker 1: There's no wireless charging on those two models. If you
Speaker 1: go to the Signature edition on the paper White, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get double the storage, wireless charging. Let's see auto
Speaker 1: adjusting front light sensor. So that means that when you
Speaker 1: go from like a dark room to a light room,
Speaker 1: it's gonna adjust how intense the brightness is. Let's see
Speaker 1: the Kindle The standard one is not waterproof, but the
Speaker 1: Kindle paper White is.
Speaker 2: And above.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so again, I think the sweet spot here
Speaker 1: is the Kindle Paper White. If you want wireless charging
Speaker 1: and a little bit more adjustment on the lighting by itself,
Speaker 1: I would go with the Signature edition. That's two hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: That's a lot. But the paper White, I think for
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of people is going to be just perfect.
Speaker 2: I still have the.
Speaker 1: Old Oasis from many years ago.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: I'm still waiting for them to come out with a
Speaker 1: new version of that. But I guess none of them
Speaker 1: have physical buttons anymore. It's all touchscreen eight to eight
Speaker 1: which one O one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Coming up, we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about managing your digital estate. This is rich on Tech
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology at eight eight eight Rich
Speaker 1: one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two
Speaker 1: four one zero one. We'll get back to the phone
Speaker 1: lines in just a moment. There's an app this week
Speaker 1: that us kind of getting a little bit of headlines.
Speaker 1: It's called the death Clock. App uses AI to predict
Speaker 1: your lifespan. Yeah, I downloaded it. I'm sorry I did.
Speaker 1: I put in all my information and told me my
Speaker 1: last day. Gives you a save the date card. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: this stuff is dark. But the idea is that you
Speaker 1: kind of have an idea of how to improve your
Speaker 1: life and live longer. So at the end they try
Speaker 1: to sell you on like a you know, a longevity plan,
Speaker 1: but you know you ask It asked you a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of questions about your exercise, stress, your medical history.
Speaker 1: And while you might be saying, Rich, isn't this just
Speaker 1: like a data grab, it actually doesn't ask any personal
Speaker 1: identifiable information at least for the questionnaire, So just ask
Speaker 1: your age and then your first name. It doesn't even
Speaker 1: ask for your email to get the the death date.
Speaker 1: But you know, they say it's for entertainment, but of
Speaker 1: course it's still a wake up call and it tells
Speaker 1: you even you know what it thinks is going to
Speaker 1: happen to you, whether it's you know, cancer or heart
Speaker 1: or whatever. But again it's called the Death Clock app.
Speaker 1: iOS and Android. Download it at your own risk.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like I shouldn't have done it, So I'm
Speaker 1: just warning you. If you don't want to think about
Speaker 1: it for like the next couple of days, don't do it.
Speaker 1: But if you're if you're okay, then you know, just
Speaker 1: take it with a grain of salt. On that note,
Speaker 1: this was an interesting article from the New York Times
Speaker 1: this week, how to prepare for your digital afterlife.
Speaker 2: So if you think about it, you.
Speaker 1: Know, you've got so many things, so many accounts what
Speaker 1: happens to those after we die? And here to discuss
Speaker 1: that is JD. Beersdorf for from the New York Times.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me, JD.
Speaker 15: Hey Rich, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 1: Would you do the Death Clock app?
Speaker 2: Do you want to know?
Speaker 11: Or no?
Speaker 15: I don't want to know?
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, see that's that's the way I feel after
Speaker 1: I did it. But I had to do it to
Speaker 1: try to like, you know, see what this thing was
Speaker 1: all about. You're curious, yeah, I mean yeah, but when
Speaker 1: you put it like a year on it, it's like if, okay,
Speaker 1: so let's talk about this article. So what what were
Speaker 1: you what was your thought behind this article? You just
Speaker 1: wanted to see, Like, you know, we've got like accounts
Speaker 1: for social media, You've got Google accounts, Apple accounts. Do
Speaker 1: they all sort of have a way that you can
Speaker 1: leave these to someone.
Speaker 15: They do, and it varies by each company. I mean,
Speaker 15: I sort of got into this. I had to tuttle
Speaker 15: one of my parents' estates, and so you get into
Speaker 15: it really deep when you're in the middle of it.
Speaker 15: And if you look, if you think about it, you know,
Speaker 15: we all know traditional estate of planning, you know, house property,
Speaker 15: car people get that. It's it's a long tradition. But
Speaker 15: we've had computers and internet for thirty forty years now
Speaker 15: depending on when you started. And if you think about that,
Speaker 15: in all those years, we've built up you know, photos
Speaker 15: and social media profiles and blogs and all of these
Speaker 15: things that leave little pieces of ourself in digital form
Speaker 15: over the Internet. And if you want something specific to
Speaker 15: happen to that after you pass you really need to
Speaker 15: leave instructions saying to my family, you know I want
Speaker 15: this to happen, or if you don't, conversely, so you
Speaker 15: have to say no, just delete everything. I don't want
Speaker 15: to be hanging around.
Speaker 1: So I guess my first question is is it as
Speaker 1: easy as just saying here's my password to my account
Speaker 1: or is that not as simple as that.
Speaker 15: It depends on the family and the trust level and
Speaker 15: all of that. And if you're really tight with your family,
Speaker 15: you know, no secession type thing going on here. But
Speaker 15: if you're really close to your family and you trust them,
Speaker 15: you can just basically write down what you want to happen.
Speaker 15: Most legal law sites advise you to write a letter
Speaker 15: or document saying these are all my online accounts, this
Speaker 15: is what I would like to happen to them, leave
Speaker 15: a separate list of passwords and user names so that
Speaker 15: they can get into those accounts. Most importantly, make sure
Speaker 15: that list is always up to date, and then just
Speaker 15: leave that with your state papers. The one thing you
Speaker 15: shouldn't do is put all your passwords in your will,
Speaker 15: because will has become public once they get fought with
Speaker 15: the court, and you don't want.
Speaker 3: All that stuff out there.
Speaker 15: But you leave your maybe you pick a digital executor,
Speaker 15: if you will, who's going to handle this. It could
Speaker 15: be the person who's doing your whole estate and just
Speaker 15: say I want all these things to happen. Here's how
Speaker 15: to get into the accounts, and then they can go
Speaker 15: from there. There is a legal provision called the hang
Speaker 15: on here the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act. Yes,
Speaker 15: rolls off the tongue, but most of the states in
Speaker 15: the country have enacted this, and this basically gives control
Speaker 15: to the executor or the person who's handling the estate
Speaker 15: to have access to someone's electronic communications and dental content.
Speaker 15: If that person said that they could. If they didn't
Speaker 15: leave any access and think gets a lot harder to
Speaker 15: get into the accounts and stuff, or if the person
Speaker 15: didn't even have a will or left any instructions at all,
Speaker 15: then it can be really quite a legal hassle.
Speaker 1: Okay, So what I'm hearing is if you leave instructions
Speaker 1: and say yes, I would like these accounts to be
Speaker 1: passed on, it sounds like the person who's the executor
Speaker 1: can get access to them. But if you didn't leave
Speaker 1: that specific instruction, then it's not like you can just
Speaker 1: email Google and say, hey, you know this person passed,
Speaker 1: I'd like access.
Speaker 2: It's not that easy.
Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, Then it gets to the point where maybe
Speaker 15: you have to have court orders in order to get
Speaker 15: this and also prove why you would need access to
Speaker 15: their stuff, that very long legal thing that we mentioned,
Speaker 15: the red Dice fiduiciary. I think the reason this revised
Speaker 15: is because originally they had just given complete access to
Speaker 15: the account for anyone who said other person died and
Speaker 15: I need to get anto their stuff and prib to say.
Speaker 15: Advocates said, well, no, this is a problem. Maybe they
Speaker 15: didn't want their stuff to get out on it, you know,
Speaker 15: the access, so they revised it and made it a
Speaker 15: little bit harder. But as long as you have permission
Speaker 15: from the person, it's usually okay. And a lot of
Speaker 15: sites too, like if you've got Microsoft's website, if you
Speaker 15: need to go in and close an Outlook account or
Speaker 15: cancel their Microsoft Word subscription or whatever. Microsoft's site says,
Speaker 15: you don't have to tell us when the person died.
Speaker 15: If you have the name of the password, do what
Speaker 15: you gotta do and just delete the account yourself. So
Speaker 15: it can be that simple. If the person is armed
Speaker 15: with all of the names and passwords for these accounts.
Speaker 1: So what about this legacy contact because I often talk
Speaker 1: about that who has the legacy contact access?
Speaker 2: Like who has that feature?
Speaker 15: Apple's got it, Google's got a version of it. It's
Speaker 15: there an active account manager thing. Facebook has one. There's
Speaker 15: a few other sites too, but you know, the big
Speaker 15: three definitely have it, and they all vary a little
Speaker 15: bit on how they approach it. Facebook's gives you when
Speaker 15: you name somebody your legacy contact. They can go in
Speaker 15: after you die and manage your profile and put up
Speaker 15: a memorial post or whatever, but they can't log into
Speaker 15: it directly and read your messages, so they sort of
Speaker 15: cry you that way. Apple will give you access to
Speaker 15: pretty much all the stuff in iCloud and like email, notes, calendars,
Speaker 15: all of that. But if you had a lot of
Speaker 15: like things you bought from iTunes maybe or Apple Movie Music,
Speaker 15: all of that license content doesn't actually transfer, so they
Speaker 15: only get your personal stuff but not like your iTunes library.
Speaker 1: So you said you had to do this for a
Speaker 1: family member, What did you learn in the process, Like,
Speaker 1: what was it tougher than you thought? Was it easier
Speaker 1: than you thought? Was there any eye opening part of it.
Speaker 15: It was a lot of stuff that I didn't think
Speaker 15: I would have to think about till it was actually
Speaker 15: there and once you get in there, but the relative
Speaker 15: was not maybe the most technical, if you will, And
Speaker 15: so we had set up a system right, do all
Speaker 15: the family tech support. Anyway, I've been writing about tech
Speaker 15: for thirty years, so it's just naturally my default position.
Speaker 3: And so what we.
Speaker 15: Would do instead of I would business say, no, don't
Speaker 15: put your passwords on the post it note on the monitor.
Speaker 15: Let's sit down and go over all your accounts. And
Speaker 15: I've got this thing called a password Manager, and it's
Speaker 15: a little app that's basically a digital vault to store
Speaker 15: all your passwords in and you can get into it
Speaker 15: with one master password. So we sat down and went
Speaker 15: through all the accounts, use their name password. If you
Speaker 15: change your password, please tell me so I can update
Speaker 15: the thing. And so when the day came and you
Speaker 15: passed on, I had all of the stuff that I
Speaker 15: could go through and take care of things, close them,
Speaker 15: do what I needed to do to settle it.
Speaker 2: And it does make.
Speaker 15: It easier too, Like if there's bill auto pay in
Speaker 15: some accounts, you can go and turn that off cancel
Speaker 15: like Netflix and Hula subscriptions.
Speaker 2: There's all these.
Speaker 15: Little things that we didn't used to have to do
Speaker 15: that because we're so digital now it's a thing.
Speaker 1: So the password manager does that complicate things or make
Speaker 1: it easier for this process you think?
Speaker 15: I think for people who are comfortable with tech, it can.
Speaker 15: Actually they save you a lot of time because you
Speaker 15: have one secure place. Usually it's stored on your phone.
Speaker 15: You put all the passwords in there. Some apps will
Speaker 15: let you store other things like secure notes, software license information,
Speaker 15: that kind of stuff, and it's you remember to update
Speaker 15: it because when you change you passwordor I need to
Speaker 15: go and hear an update it, whereas maybe if you
Speaker 15: had things written down, you'd forget to go find the
Speaker 15: piece of paper and update it. And a lot of
Speaker 15: these password managers actually have family licenses, so you can
Speaker 15: have a group of people all sharing the same vault
Speaker 15: and you can limit the access as you want. But
Speaker 15: if you needed them to have everything, it's easier to
Speaker 15: do that with a family plan. So I thought the
Speaker 15: password managers were actually pretty handy, and it's right there.
Speaker 12: You can back it up to computer if you want to.
Speaker 15: A lot of the more thoughtful ones will tell you, oh,
Speaker 15: look there's been this data breach and this password you're
Speaker 15: using was actually compromised, so maybe you should go and
Speaker 15: change that. I find it a little bit more secure.
Speaker 15: A lot of people still want to write the thing down,
Speaker 15: leave it with their lawyer, put it in a secure
Speaker 15: block box or something, which is another way to do
Speaker 15: It's just you got to keep in mind that if
Speaker 15: you've got an entire list of all your user names
Speaker 15: of passwords in your accounts, if you get robbed or
Speaker 15: somebody steals that, then that's basically, you know, golden mind
Speaker 15: for identity theft.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I've got less than a minute. But
Speaker 1: I'm curious your thoughts on like giving the pass code
Speaker 1: to your phone, like leaving that because you know that
Speaker 1: has a lot of information on it. And also like
Speaker 1: a lot of people are doing two factor authentication codes,
Speaker 1: does that play into this as well, Like you need
Speaker 1: to get those to that phone line.
Speaker 15: Yeah, that's another thing, and I mentioned this in the
Speaker 15: article in the Times, is while you're writing everything down,
Speaker 15: don't forget the pin code for your phone and the
Speaker 15: password for your computer because you need to get into
Speaker 15: the phone a for the two factor authentication that you mentioned,
Speaker 15: but also there's a contact list. Maybe you have to
Speaker 15: have a list of names of people who have to call.
Speaker 15: The phone has so much of our lives in it too,
Speaker 15: and you just need to be able to get in there.
Speaker 15: And the computer companies, do to privacy laws, will not
Speaker 15: take that pin code off. The only way you can
Speaker 15: get into the phone is a few do a factory
Speaker 15: reset and wipes all the data. So then you have
Speaker 15: an empty glass triangle, but you don't have all of
Speaker 15: those personal memories and things that were in the phone
Speaker 15: and some of the security tools that you need to
Speaker 15: get in there and start settling this stay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good information, all right.
Speaker 2: JD.
Speaker 1: Beersdorf for from the New York Times the article how
Speaker 1: to Prepare for your Digital after Life. I'll put a
Speaker 1: link to it on the website. Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: joining me today.
Speaker 12: Thanks for having me, Rich, I have a great day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. We'll get
Speaker 1: back to the calls in just a moment.
Speaker 2: Uh. Again.
Speaker 1: The link is on the website. Rich on tech dot
Speaker 1: tv New York Times How to Prepare for your digital afterlife.
Speaker 1: Great information back after this, Welcome back to Rich on tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here talking technology with you at eight eight
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Speaker 2: Let's go to UH in New Orleans. Doug, you're on
Speaker 2: with Pitch.
Speaker 5: Hey, Hi, Yeah, I've talked to you before. You've been
Speaker 5: so helpful. Anyway, I love TikTok and so remember they
Speaker 5: were saying, hey, don't do any iOS updates otherwise you're
Speaker 5: going to lose your TikTok. Yes, so I've avoided doing
Speaker 5: my updates on iOS the last two times, and I'm wondering, well,
Speaker 5: now that it's available on the app, should I go
Speaker 5: ahead and do the update?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: I would for sure because the last update had some
Speaker 1: critical patches in it. So you're you're good to go.
Speaker 1: And you know, from what I heard, people who did
Speaker 1: the software update didn't necessarily lose their TikTok. It was
Speaker 1: more of the if they switched phones or something like that,
Speaker 1: it may not have come over. Because I did the
Speaker 1: update on my phone, the iOS eighteen. I think they
Speaker 1: have a new one now since I did it.
Speaker 2: What are we update? Let me see here?
Speaker 1: We are up to General Software Update iOS eighteen point
Speaker 1: three point one. So there's been two software updates, like
Speaker 1: you said, since this happened in January. But I would
Speaker 1: do them because now you can download it from If
Speaker 1: something happened and it went away, you can re download
Speaker 1: it from the app stores.
Speaker 5: You're good to go, right, Okay, So do I do
Speaker 5: when I download the new updates? Do I do the
Speaker 5: old one first or just do the latest one?
Speaker 1: Whatever's on there, it should just be the latest one,
Speaker 1: should have it should have the old one as well.
Speaker 2: It may not.
Speaker 1: It just depends on how Apple's done it. But I
Speaker 1: would just do whatever's on there, Just do that and
Speaker 1: then if it says, oh there's another one.
Speaker 2: Do that as well. But yeah, that's what I would do.
Speaker 1: But get those updates because you know they do you know,
Speaker 1: they patch some security flaws and things like that on
Speaker 1: the iPhone, and they're always a good idea to do.
Speaker 1: I know people like to wait a little bit just
Speaker 1: to make sure everything's good, but that's that's what I recommend.
Speaker 2: What do you like about TikTok? What do you learning
Speaker 2: on there? Or what?
Speaker 12: Just on?
Speaker 1: Stop we're talking, Kim and I are having a side
Speaker 1: conversation about how it just gets you. You know, you
Speaker 1: start swiping, it's just like you can't stop.
Speaker 5: And then hours, hours can really go by fast. But
Speaker 5: I don't know. I think for me it's I I
Speaker 5: do learn things and then I'll tell my friends day
Speaker 5: I just saw this on TikTok and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: It's certainly been a force.
Speaker 1: No, but it's but it's been a force in the
Speaker 1: world when it comes to, you know, information, My kid
Speaker 1: watches YouTube shorts and the amount of information he's picked
Speaker 1: up on there, good and bad, is pretty wild. You know.
Speaker 1: It sounds like it sounds like you're catching a flight
Speaker 1: or something. So Doug, we're gonna let you all right,
Speaker 1: where are you headed to anywhere?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 5: We're going, uh, to Charlotte and then to Tampa.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll have fun in Charlotte and Tampa. It
Speaker 1: sounds like someone's trying to try to get through there.
Speaker 1: Eight eight eight rich on eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Laura in a Rancho mission via Hoo, Laura,
Speaker 1: you're on rich Hello.
Speaker 6: There, thanks for taking my call. I love what you do,
Speaker 6: and thanks from informing people we need people like you.
Speaker 2: I try the world.
Speaker 1: Some people debate the merits of some of the information
Speaker 1: I share, but you know it's all on the floor site.
Speaker 6: But we need to have their discussion. Absolutely, So what
Speaker 6: can I have to you so I might have fixed
Speaker 6: my problem in the time I was waiting for you
Speaker 6: to come online? My problem has been I have a
Speaker 6: Google calendar that is shared by several volunteers, and we
Speaker 6: all put in our schedules, and every time someone put
Speaker 6: a schedule change or update, I get an email notescase
Speaker 6: and on my email account, and I went to Also
Speaker 6: it's a way you know different things. I've clicked so
Speaker 6: many things off. But I think the mistake I might
Speaker 6: have made is I wasn't in the calendar that was
Speaker 6: actually the volunteer calendar. I was probably in the calendar.
Speaker 11: Yes, well, I see it says.
Speaker 6: Select calendar and then change other notifications. And I finally
Speaker 6: found other notifications. So I believe if I select none
Speaker 6: on the events, change events, cancel events, events responses, everything
Speaker 6: should go away and I shouldn't get all of these email.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yes, this is a great question.
Speaker 2: I get.
Speaker 1: These calendar notifications can drive you nuts because there's so many, many,
Speaker 1: and they come everywhere. They come to my watch, they
Speaker 1: come to my phone, they come to my computer, and
Speaker 1: I just had to do this the other day. I
Speaker 1: had to turn off some of them because I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm getting like the same notification across so many things.
Speaker 1: And then, of course, like you said, you can get
Speaker 1: them in your email as well. So I think that
Speaker 1: is the trick is that there are if you look
Speaker 1: in Google Calendar, number one, you want to go to
Speaker 1: the calendar Google Calendar on your desktop and go into
Speaker 1: the settings. And by the way, these these notifications for
Speaker 1: your desktop could be different than your mobile phone. So
Speaker 1: if you're having they were you know, duple kits, you
Speaker 1: can go through and on your phone those are sort
Speaker 1: of like phone notifications. These are sort of like desktop
Speaker 1: and what you're talking about email notifications. So if you
Speaker 1: go into settings, there's a little gear icon that's sort
Speaker 1: of the universal icon. It'll say settings for my calendars,
Speaker 1: and so there's a general setting, which is probably what
Speaker 1: you were trying to figure out first, and you changed
Speaker 1: all those and they still happened. But then if you
Speaker 1: tap these calendars on the left hand side, there's a
Speaker 1: whole bunch and I've got a whole bunch of them,
Speaker 1: and then you can go in and see all of
Speaker 1: the different notifications. So, for instance, on my personal calendar,
Speaker 1: gives me event notifications ten minutes before and then one
Speaker 1: minute before. That might be too much, all day notifications,
Speaker 1: and then the other notifications is what you're talking about,
Speaker 1: which is new events, changed events, canceled events, event responses,
Speaker 1: and a daily agenda. You can switch those to none
Speaker 1: or email. I'm guessing that you've switched those two none.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I have none.
Speaker 6: So the trick was finding the correct calendar. I was
Speaker 6: doing it on some other I have three or four
Speaker 6: calendars that I'm using, and so gut finding the right
Speaker 6: calendar with the trick, I think, and then I could
Speaker 6: finally see other notifications. I've been looking for that for
Speaker 6: months now.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you found it while you're on hold.
Speaker 1: Thanks Laura for the question. Great information. The other thing
Speaker 1: to know, by the way, is the let's see when
Speaker 1: you're in Google calendar the automatic events made by Gmail.
Speaker 1: If you're sharing a calendar with someone, they may not
Speaker 1: see those automatic Gmail events. So if you see something
Speaker 1: that says automatically created by Gmail, use the copy to
Speaker 1: a different calendar to get that onto the other person's calendar.
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Speaker 1: You know why, this is why I can never post
Speaker 1: anything that's silly, because last night I got pizza and
Speaker 1: the AI Generative Edit on the Samsung device. The new
Speaker 1: one is just incredible, Like it's so good. It's just
Speaker 1: the best AI photo editing I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 1: So I thought it'd be funny to take a picture
Speaker 1: of me holding a slice of pizza and I just
Speaker 1: use the AI to make that pizza like enormous. And
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding the amount of people, and I thought
Speaker 1: it looked fake, right, Like, I mean, it looked real,
Speaker 1: but like, there's no piece of pizza that's the size
Speaker 1: of my entire body, right, And I'm not kidding. I
Speaker 1: got so many people texting me saying, where'd you get
Speaker 1: that giant slice?
Speaker 2: Where get that giant slice?
Speaker 1: And I had to take down the picture because I
Speaker 1: felt bad misleading people. Now, this is actually a lot
Speaker 1: of talk in the AI world of when you edit
Speaker 1: a photo using AI, the photo editor, a lot of
Speaker 1: them will leave a water mark on the file, and
Speaker 1: so when you upload that file somewhere that program understands
Speaker 1: that that file was edited using AI. In the case
Speaker 1: of Instagram and Facebook, they're supposed to market with a little,
Speaker 1: you know, a little tag that says made with AI. Well,
Speaker 1: I thought that tag would be on my story in
Speaker 1: the upper left hand corner. That didn't appear. So now
Speaker 1: on the Samsung it also puts a watermark on the
Speaker 1: bottom of the photo that said generated with AI.
Speaker 2: But that was sort of cut off.
Speaker 1: On the photo when it made it sixteen by nine
Speaker 1: in that story version versus the standard photo size. So
Speaker 1: it was just a whole thing, and I felt bad
Speaker 1: and all these people were texting me saying, oh, my
Speaker 1: kid would love it, giant piece of pizza, and I
Speaker 1: just had to take it down. But you have to
Speaker 1: two things. My two takeaways. Number one, the photo editor,
Speaker 1: the built in editing for AI. The AI photo editor
Speaker 1: on the Samsung is just truly incredible. Like I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: you can erase things from pictures, modify them, add things,
Speaker 1: and you cannot tell. I don't know what kind of
Speaker 1: magic they're using on the back end, but it's really good,
Speaker 1: better than what Apple's doing, better than what Google's doing.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Adobe this week they launched Video Firefly. It's called so
Speaker 1: they've got you know, video generation, and you know everyone
Speaker 1: does a level of AI video and photo generation. But
Speaker 1: with the editing you can do on the Samsung for
Speaker 1: free or included, I guess with the phone is just
Speaker 1: truly remarkable, like really really good. Like last week I
Speaker 1: was posting on my Instagram. If you want to see
Speaker 1: it at rich On Tech, look for the photo that
Speaker 1: it looks like I'm almost like showing like a ring
Speaker 1: in front of my face. People thought I was like
Speaker 1: they thought it was like a proposal photo or something,
Speaker 1: but you can actually we figured out you can erase
Speaker 1: a hand or anything in front of your face, and
Speaker 1: it will recreate your face underneath that hand with eerie accuracy.
Speaker 1: I mean, this stuff is just wild. How does it
Speaker 1: know what my face looks like? I was able to
Speaker 1: remove sunglasses from my face and it recreated my eyes. Now,
Speaker 1: they didn't specifically look like my eyes, but it was
Speaker 1: pretty close. Now, the face with your mouth, when I
Speaker 1: had my hand in front of my mouth, it was
Speaker 1: really good. Mary writes in Hey, Rich, got a conundrum
Speaker 1: with my senior mom, who lives in an assisted living home.
Speaker 1: I noticed she was going to bed wearing your hearing aids.
Speaker 1: She's not remembering to take them out. Wireless charging aids
Speaker 1: are out. As she's very old one hundred. She has
Speaker 1: no smart devices other than the Samsung Samsung TV as
Speaker 1: five years old. I'm thinking of an external device that
Speaker 1: we could hook up to her TV that would see
Speaker 1: everything all programming, old movies, sports, news, et cetera. If
Speaker 1: we enable CC on the TV via the Samsung remote,
Speaker 1: would that be on all the time. She can't manage
Speaker 1: a remote, so refreshing the closed captioning once the TV
Speaker 1: is turned back on is also out. She doesn't need
Speaker 1: to hear at night except to watch TV. Thank you
Speaker 1: Mary and tapanga Mary. If you turned on it depends
Speaker 1: if she's watching something that's coming through the TV and
Speaker 1: through the TV speakers, like not a streaming service. Yes,
Speaker 1: the CC on the remote would handle that. You just
Speaker 1: have to turn that on once and it would whatever
Speaker 1: channel she's on, the closed captioning would work. So I
Speaker 1: think that's fine. Now, if you're talking streaming, it gets
Speaker 1: a little trickier because the closed captioning from the TV
Speaker 1: and even I'm looking here, so Samsung Close Captions let's
Speaker 1: see says Samsung has a variety of accessibility settings. If
Speaker 1: you have closed captioning turned on for your TV, they
Speaker 1: still may not show up on some sources. Certain apps
Speaker 1: like Netflix or HBO Max have their own settings, So
Speaker 1: that is the main thing to know. If she's using
Speaker 1: a stream app for these sports and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: this the close captioning is not going to show up
Speaker 1: on there, So you do need to take that into consideration.
Speaker 1: But I think if she's just watching stuff that's on
Speaker 1: TV channels, go ahead, yeah, turn it on and it's
Speaker 1: just gonna be on there all day. I mean, my
Speaker 1: wife and I watch movies and TV shows with close
Speaker 1: captioning on. We're not hard of hearing, but we still
Speaker 1: just like that reassurance of what do they just say
Speaker 1: and it's on there now. The other thing, I'm not
Speaker 1: able to locate a universal closed captioning box, but there
Speaker 1: might be something like a specialized box that does that.
Speaker 1: But the thing about that box is your TV input
Speaker 1: would have to go into that box, so the box
Speaker 1: can listen to the audio and then real time close
Speaker 1: caption it and then send that signal back out to
Speaker 1: the TV. So it'd sort of be an intermediate box
Speaker 1: that could get expensive because it's probably a specialty box.
Speaker 1: The other thing that I would look into is something
Speaker 1: called Jubilee TV, and I did a segment with them
Speaker 1: on TV and basically this entire box is in invented
Speaker 1: for situations like you're talking about. The website get jubileetv
Speaker 1: dot com. The box is two hundred dollars and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a little pricey, plus you have to pay a membership.
Speaker 1: I think it's like thirty bucks a month. But this
Speaker 1: literally you can control every single aspect of this TV
Speaker 1: from your phone. You can turn the TV on, you
Speaker 1: can turn it off, you can start a movie. You
Speaker 1: can even see what mom sees on her TV screen
Speaker 1: on your phone screen, so it literally live streams it
Speaker 1: to your phone and you can turn off, adjust the volume,
Speaker 1: turn on the closed captioning, turn it off, change the channel,
Speaker 1: go into the streaming service. You say, hey, Mom, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put Netflix on for you. Here's a cool movie.
Speaker 1: Go ahead watch it. You can do it all from
Speaker 1: your phone.
Speaker 2: Again. It's called Jubilee TV.
Speaker 1: It's very specialized, but it is meant for situations like
Speaker 1: you're talking about. It's for caregivers that live across the miles,
Speaker 1: but they still want to be able to help their parents,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to the TV unless they're just
Speaker 1: sitting there. Flipping the standard channels on the antenna could
Speaker 1: get very tricky with all these streaming services, So get
Speaker 1: jubileetv dot com that that will do what you need.
Speaker 1: But it is probably a little priceier, a little a
Speaker 1: little more high end solution of what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: But I would try just enabling the close captions first,
Speaker 1: depending on you know what she's doing. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go to Earl in Witty or Earl You're on with Rich?
Speaker 2: Yes, Rich, how are you I am doing, excellen.
Speaker 16: I have ordered a starlink many and I actually haven't
Speaker 16: got it. I had it sent to an next door
Speaker 16: neighbor to where I'm going to install it, and it's
Speaker 16: several hundred miles from here. But I want to use
Speaker 16: it as an intrusion monitor since we have no telephone
Speaker 16: service or anything really over there except for electricity and sunlight.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you need sol.
Speaker 16: I wonder if there's a problem getting the thing a
Speaker 16: camera set up remote on the on the startling, and
Speaker 16: also if it's necess if I finally get it to
Speaker 16: the point where I can use it to transmit pictures
Speaker 16: after motion, will it just keep sending on for the
Speaker 16: next twenty four to seven and burn up my data allowance?
Speaker 16: Or I don't understand how it knows how to do
Speaker 16: or what to do.
Speaker 1: Well, it depends on the camera you get, and it
Speaker 1: depends on the level of you know what you're setting.
Speaker 1: So with something like a ring cam, they typically there
Speaker 1: are settings in the camera which is called a timeout setting.
Speaker 1: So let's say it's triggered by motion. Let's say you
Speaker 1: have a raccoon, go and buy the camera, right, it
Speaker 1: gets triggered and then it sends you that notification to
Speaker 1: your phone. It can time out for the next you know,
Speaker 1: ten minutes, whatever you know, setting you put on there
Speaker 1: so it doesn't trigger automatically again, so that way you're
Speaker 1: not getting a ton of these all at the same time.
Speaker 1: And these cameras are also getting smarter, yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: built into the camera. So the wisecam, the ring cam,
Speaker 1: a lot of these cameras have that functionality built in,
Speaker 1: the UFI cams of the world. But I would start
Speaker 1: with maybe looking at the wisecams because those are the
Speaker 1: simplest and the cheapest and the easiest. The blink cams
Speaker 1: are also really simple and easy, and blink cameras in
Speaker 1: general are meant to sort of send you snapshots of
Speaker 1: things so that you can get alerts for you know,
Speaker 1: intrusion whatever, and that will send through the through the satellite.
Speaker 1: Do you have did you mention you have electricity for
Speaker 1: all of this or do you have to use solar?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 16: No, I have electricity.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you're just basically wanting to set up a
Speaker 1: remote cam in a remote place through the starlink and
Speaker 1: have it text you when there's activity or.
Speaker 16: Emotion exactly and let me take a look at it too. Yeah,
Speaker 16: I get there when I get a push notification from it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's a very straightforward setup. I think that
Speaker 1: you'll have no problem with this. And again it's just
Speaker 1: going to come down to the settings on the camera itself.
Speaker 1: The other one, the other camera that is sort of
Speaker 1: very simple and easy for this is called can Guru
Speaker 1: k A n g A r Oo and they have
Speaker 1: a system that can send you sort of a notification
Speaker 1: when there's it can send you like a series of
Speaker 1: snapshots when it senses motion. So I mean there's so
Speaker 1: many ways to tackle this. All these companies can pretty
Speaker 1: much do what you need. Now, the live stream part is,
Speaker 1: you know, when you get that notification, if you want
Speaker 1: to tap into the live stream of that camera, then
Speaker 1: you have the option to do that as well, and
Speaker 1: you can kind of either some of the cameras let
Speaker 1: you talk back and forth and say, hey, what are
Speaker 1: you doing there on my property or whatever. But again,
Speaker 1: the cameras that I would look at, the wisecam, the
Speaker 1: UFI cam, also the ring cameras and the Kanguru n
Speaker 1: g A r Oo and then the Blink cameras. But
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna have no problem with all this
Speaker 1: great question, Earle, thanks for the call today. Eight to
Speaker 1: eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. Coming up, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you how many people streamed the super Bowl. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology at triple eight Rich one O one the
Speaker 1: website rich on Tech dot tv. If you want to
Speaker 1: send me an email. Hard to believe the super Bowl
Speaker 1: was just about a week ago, feels like for me,
Speaker 1: it feels like forever ago.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: Super Bowl streaming hit a new record fourteen point five
Speaker 1: million streaming viewers. This is a new all time record
Speaker 1: two B thirteen point six million viewers. That is a
Speaker 1: major win. Think about that. I mean Fox owns to B.
Speaker 1: They got so many people to download this app. Maybe
Speaker 1: you've heard of it, maybe you're aware of it. But
Speaker 1: to get this many people to sit there and not
Speaker 1: only download it, but to use it and to give
Speaker 1: them their email address, this is a huge win. So
Speaker 1: total TV and streaming audience for the game hit one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty seven point seven million. So, as you
Speaker 1: can see, streaming still a small portion of this, but
Speaker 1: I think it goes to show the fact that so
Speaker 1: many people went direct with to be that's a big
Speaker 1: deal because it shows that, you know, over the years,
Speaker 1: you know, sports have been trying to protect their business
Speaker 1: because they make a lot of money on these services, right,
Speaker 1: like all the if you look at sports, it's kind
Speaker 1: of like the last hold out. Like everything else, you
Speaker 1: can kind of piece together. You can get stuff on YouTube,
Speaker 1: you can get stuff on Netflix and this and that.
Speaker 1: But like if you want to watch your favorite sports team,
Speaker 1: you typically have to subscribe to some sort of streaming service,
Speaker 1: like a paid service. And you know a lot of
Speaker 1: people either don't do that or they do. Look at
Speaker 1: Sunday Ticket, that's a big one. NBA has their own.
Speaker 1: So anyway, my point is that tub is now a force.
Speaker 1: A lot of people know about it. And I was
Speaker 1: actually talking to my mom last night about streaming services
Speaker 1: and I said, oh, Twob's on by Fox. She said, wait, what,
Speaker 1: She's like, they actually have a lot of good stuff
Speaker 1: on there, and I said, yes, they do, because Fox
Speaker 1: is putting a lot of their back catalog on this app.
Speaker 1: Why not You've got a whole catalog of old shows
Speaker 1: put them on there. You know, Pluto TV is Viacom,
Speaker 1: so they've got a whole bunch of old shows. I said,
Speaker 1: I'm watching Mister Wizard's World from Nickelodeon back in the day. Again,
Speaker 1: it's a show that was probably sitting on a shelf
Speaker 1: somewhere for many years, and they said, well, let's digitize
Speaker 1: this and put it on Pluto. And I don't think
Speaker 1: there's any ads on that one, but you know the
Speaker 1: other ones, they all have ads that play and that's
Speaker 1: how they make their money, just like old school TV.
Speaker 1: An app called trip case, travel app called trip case
Speaker 1: is shutting down. Saber is the company behind it. They're
Speaker 1: a big travel company. They are shutting down trip Case
Speaker 1: on April first. So tripcase was one of these sort
Speaker 1: of itinerary apps. You can put all of your information
Speaker 1: for your trip in there, and it was probably handy
Speaker 1: for like commercial travelers, you know, people that travel for
Speaker 1: business a lot. The big alternatives. If you were using
Speaker 1: trip case and you need something new, trip it is
Speaker 1: probably the number one biggest alternative to it, and trip
Speaker 1: it is great. Puts everything you need into a single
Speaker 1: itinerary and imports your emails automatically, your confirmation emails and
Speaker 1: it makes a nice itinerary. If you pay for the
Speaker 1: pro version, which your company may give it to you
Speaker 1: for free, that you get all kinds of real time
Speaker 1: alerts and all that good stuff that's available on iOS,
Speaker 1: Android and the web. Tripsy, if you're just iPhone you
Speaker 1: don't care about cross platform trips is just for iOS
Speaker 1: and the web, but very similar. It's kind of puts
Speaker 1: everything in a really it's like a nice it's like
Speaker 1: very well designed, let's put it that way. So Tripsy
Speaker 1: is same thing, very similar to trip It maybe not
Speaker 1: as corporate. This might be more for like, you know,
Speaker 1: the leisure traveler.
Speaker 2: Let's say.
Speaker 1: The one that I use I absolutely love, is called
Speaker 1: Award Wallet, and this is mostly designed to track your
Speaker 1: loyalty programs, like you can put in all your you know,
Speaker 1: Avis and Hurts and United and Delta and Marriott, and
Speaker 1: it will kind of keep track of all the points
Speaker 1: you have across all of those and I think it
Speaker 1: even gives you a value so you can see like
Speaker 1: your points value.
Speaker 2: But I don't use it for that.
Speaker 1: I actually just use it for this travel timeline feature,
Speaker 1: which is just incredible. The downside is you do have
Speaker 1: to give it access to your email account if you
Speaker 1: want it to do it automatically. If you don't want
Speaker 1: it to do it automatically, then you could just forward
Speaker 1: your confirmation emails to the award wallet. You get a
Speaker 1: special email. But what I love about this is you
Speaker 1: get one big travel timeline that you can scroll down
Speaker 1: and it gives you every single one of your reservations
Speaker 1: in timeline order, and it groups them too, so for instance,
Speaker 1: if you have a reservation that you're going to a
Speaker 1: trip on, it'll kind of group the trips together. So
Speaker 1: I mean, it's really really good and it's completely free
Speaker 1: and I love it. It's called a wardwallet dot com.
Speaker 1: And again it's available cross platform. You know, if you
Speaker 1: listen to me, I like apps that are available everywhere.
Speaker 1: I don't tell you about apps that are available on
Speaker 1: just one place most of the time because I don't
Speaker 1: believe in that. I believe that the Internet should be
Speaker 1: unifying us, not dividing us by saying, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: this only works on your type of phone. This only
Speaker 1: works on your type of phone. No, I like stuff
Speaker 1: that works on all phones the way it should. And finally,
Speaker 1: half right, I say that, And by the way, I'm
Speaker 1: going to go right to an app that's only available
Speaker 1: on the iPhone, but it's amazing. It's called Flighty. It
Speaker 1: is really the best and I've been begging the developer
Speaker 1: to bring it to Android. But Flighty is really incredible.
Speaker 1: But that's just for flight tracking, but it's the best
Speaker 1: app out there. It is incredible. Flighty.
Speaker 2: All right, Coming up, we.
Speaker 1: Are going to talk to the muscleman of tech, Bruce Peckman.
Speaker 1: He's got some tech gadgets for your health and fitness
Speaker 1: right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology.
Speaker 1: The website for the show rich on Tech dot TV.
Speaker 1: What you don't see during the breaks is me typing
Speaker 1: furiously in the show notes so everything I mentioned. It's
Speaker 1: my biggest pet peeve, both with TV and radio. When
Speaker 1: someone says, hey, go to the website to find what
Speaker 1: I just talked about, and you go there and you
Speaker 1: can't find it.
Speaker 2: I hate that.
Speaker 1: So I do my best to make sure this information
Speaker 1: is on there so that you can get the link
Speaker 1: to whatever I talk about, whether you see me on
Speaker 1: TV or the radio. So Rich on Tech dot TV,
Speaker 1: I keep great show notes. If you go to the website,
Speaker 1: hit the light bulb icon that will bring you to
Speaker 1: all of the show notes. This is episode one oh nine.
Speaker 1: Joining me now Bruce Peckman, the Muscleman of Technology. His
Speaker 1: website mister bicep dot com. If you see him in person, yes,
Speaker 1: he's got the biceps of you don't necessarily see on
Speaker 1: a lot of tech people. Not me, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 12: Thanks ch for having me.
Speaker 1: So tell me about yourself you've been covering. When did
Speaker 1: you get into like the tech, I guess fitness side
Speaker 1: of things.
Speaker 12: Well, you know, I was started out as an engineer
Speaker 12: in aerospace. In fact, I worked on the B one
Speaker 12: bomber and the B two bomber, and then I shifted
Speaker 12: over to director of it. But my real passion because
Speaker 12: I've always my whole life been an amateur bodybuilder, and
Speaker 12: to this day, I've been in in about twelve or
Speaker 12: a dozen bodybuilding contests. So I competed in my twenties, thirties, forties, fifties,
Speaker 12: and sixties, and I'm doing one final show next year
Speaker 12: in my seventies. But I always loved technology, and I
Speaker 12: always was passionate about fitness and bodybuilding. So when I
Speaker 12: moved here to San Diego, there was an opening at
Speaker 12: a local TV station, Good Morning San Diego for a
Speaker 12: tech guy, and I said, I'm the Muscleman of Technology,
Speaker 12: and they loved it. So I basically my beat is
Speaker 12: everything to do with digital connected health and wellness and
Speaker 12: consumer tech. So they call me the Muscleman of technology,
Speaker 12: and there you have my life story.
Speaker 1: Well, you don't just cover tech. I mean, you don't
Speaker 1: just cover fitnes stuff. I mean you cover everything, right,
Speaker 1: But I cover everything.
Speaker 12: I pretty much do if it's interesting, if it's something
Speaker 12: I think that the public should know about that they
Speaker 12: may not because there's so many wonderful products out there,
Speaker 12: and there's also some dogs out there which I do
Speaker 12: not show. And I'm very judicious about what I put
Speaker 12: on my TV show as well and what I actually
Speaker 12: put at my website because I have to test it.
Speaker 12: It has to get the double bicep approval.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Awesome, Bobo's laughing because I could see you on the video,
Speaker 1: but obviously on the radio we can't. But so tell
Speaker 1: me now you I had a health scare. This was
Speaker 1: wild because I saw you at a show where I
Speaker 1: didn't see you at a couple of shows and I said,
Speaker 1: where have you been?
Speaker 2: And you came out with.
Speaker 1: This story and I said, whoa what, So tell me
Speaker 1: what happened with your health?
Speaker 2: Scare right.
Speaker 12: Well, you know, all of us we have some really
Speaker 12: great genetics from our parents and some bad ones. I'm
Speaker 12: lucky I've got this great muscular body with a small
Speaker 12: waist and big shoulders. However, the bad side is that
Speaker 12: in my father's side of the family, we have very
Speaker 12: very extreme cardiovascular disease. Well. Being a bodybuilder, and to
Speaker 12: be perfectly honest with you, being brought up in New
Speaker 12: York City, I didn't have the best diet in the world,
Speaker 12: but it catches up to you. So in twenty eighteen
Speaker 12: a and though I looked fantastic and I still saw
Speaker 12: a cardiologist and I passed all the tests. I just
Speaker 12: went down one morning at like four in the morning
Speaker 12: and I got flushed and I didn't know what was
Speaker 12: going on, and I actually passed out for three to
Speaker 12: five seconds, and my wife said, no way, I'm calling
Speaker 12: nine to one one. So they ran test on me
Speaker 12: for two days. They couldn't find the thing wrong with me,
Speaker 12: and they said, you know, you have good insurance. Let's
Speaker 12: do an angiogram. Guess what the surgeon will be in
Speaker 12: your room in two hours. You're ninety percent clogged on
Speaker 12: all your three primary cauterioteries. And that's just how fast
Speaker 12: people die of heart attacks.
Speaker 2: Wow, that is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: And it's just it's so I guess that's just it's
Speaker 1: just telling of you got to get these tests. You
Speaker 1: got to do these things because like you, I mean,
Speaker 1: healthiest guy in the room. But again, it comes down
Speaker 1: to a lot of it is genetics.
Speaker 12: Genetics and our day to day what we put in ourselves.
Speaker 12: How much processed food are we eating? Are we eating
Speaker 12: out five times a day? Are we ingesting an incredible
Speaker 12: amount of saturated fats? You know, these are the things
Speaker 12: that do us in And you know they call it
Speaker 12: said because the standard American diet is pretty horrific.
Speaker 2: Yeah it is.
Speaker 1: Well we try, I try, but it's not easy. We're
Speaker 1: up against a lot. Okay, so we are talking and
Speaker 1: by the way, you're doing great now, so that's good
Speaker 1: to hear. Let's talk about some of these gadgets. So
Speaker 1: what's the first gadget that you want to talk about?
Speaker 12: The first gadget and you know, I love connected health
Speaker 12: and fitness devices, and I like things that are small
Speaker 12: and portable because usually when they're small and portable, you're
Speaker 12: not only more app to use it because you don't
Speaker 12: need a lot of space, but usually they're portable. So
Speaker 12: I have the max pro Portable connective fitness device, and
Speaker 12: their website is max pro Fitness, and this is what
Speaker 12: it looks like, and you could just it's about ten
Speaker 12: or twelve pounds, but it folds up and you could
Speaker 12: attach these handles to it so you could either step
Speaker 12: on it and you can do all kinds of resistant
Speaker 12: exercises and there's a little dialog each side that goes
Speaker 12: from one to twenty five and I think the top
Speaker 12: one is the equivalent of three hundred pounds. But what
Speaker 12: I love is they actually have a bench where you
Speaker 12: can buy a third party bench and you could stick
Speaker 12: this under it and guess what you could do bench presses,
Speaker 12: you could do skull crushers, all your favorite exercises that
Speaker 12: you would do in the gym. But the best part
Speaker 12: it is connected and they have a wonderful app tells
Speaker 12: you all the exercises how well you're doing. It's Bluetooth
Speaker 12: and it's great. So I love this little thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's the max pro Portable Connected Compact Home. Jim,
Speaker 1: let's talk about this powerball gyroscope handheld exerciser because we're
Speaker 1: all holding our smartphones in our hands and on the keyboard.
Speaker 1: Is this good for that kind of stuff?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 12: I love this. And there's several versions of these, and
Speaker 12: I actually did some videos for them like ten years ago.
Speaker 12: But this is called the Edge. And when I love
Speaker 12: about this, hand grip is everything. Especially as we get older,
Speaker 12: it's really important to keep that finger grip opening jars,
Speaker 12: opening doors. So the fast that you spin it, the
Speaker 12: lights will change. First it goes to blue, which is
Speaker 12: about nine pounds and thirteen hundred RBMs. Then it goes
Speaker 12: to green, which is forty one thirty. Then it goes
Speaker 12: to red, which is twenty seven pounds but six thousand RPMs.
Speaker 12: And then if you get it really going, you hit
Speaker 12: the violet and that's thirty six pounds and eight thousand,
Speaker 12: two hundred. And if you're really super strong, which I'm not,
Speaker 12: you can make go to white, which is like three
Speaker 12: thousands something thirteen thousand rpm. So it's just really fun
Speaker 12: to do. You can do it with either hand, really.
Speaker 1: Fun, and it strengthens the muscles in your hands, wrists
Speaker 1: and forearms, which I love. That is uh, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a great It's one of what's that old thing
Speaker 1: people used to like that little like grip you know,
Speaker 1: you you know, like your dad would have it, you know, like.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, the squeegees squeechee.
Speaker 2: Yeah right.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of like a high tech version of that.
Speaker 1: All right, tell me about the the Withving's body scan,
Speaker 1: and we're run out of time, so I want to
Speaker 1: be a little quicker with some of these because I
Speaker 1: want to get there.
Speaker 12: The white thing body scan is really nice, but it
Speaker 12: hits all the biomarkers. So what you do You put
Speaker 12: in your bare feet and you hold up these things.
Speaker 12: It's eight electrodes and they have a wonderful connected out.
Speaker 12: So what you do is you hold these and it
Speaker 12: will tell you if your if your thirsty, will tell
Speaker 12: you your water, your fat, your visceral body fat. Visceral
Speaker 12: body pat is so important because that's the body fat
Speaker 12: in our abdominal cavity and that's very very telling. But
Speaker 12: it will also give you a cardiogram as well, very
Speaker 12: very nice, and it will tell you if something is
Speaker 12: wrong or not. It's great for early detection. It'll tell
Speaker 12: you your heart rate, it will tell you your muscle mass,
Speaker 12: your body fat. It's wonderful.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Is that that sounds like it does more than a
Speaker 1: smart watch.
Speaker 12: Well, it does, And don't get me wrong, I love
Speaker 12: the smart watches. I wear a Polar because Polar is
Speaker 12: all about heart, and heart's the most important indicator for me.
Speaker 12: But everyone should wear a fitness device because it's just
Speaker 12: nice to know how far you went equivalent of miles
Speaker 12: and steps and all these things help us.
Speaker 1: All right, tell me about the Massimo Mighty SAT Bluetooth
Speaker 1: connected digital pulse oxym oximeter pulse oxometers.
Speaker 12: Of the two most important things that you want to
Speaker 12: know when you put this on is it will tell
Speaker 12: you your blood oxygen level, which is critical if you're trying
Speaker 12: to diagnose whether you have maybe a flu or something
Speaker 12: more serious, because if your blood oxygen rate falls below ninety,
Speaker 12: that means you're about to pass out. If it's like
Speaker 12: eighty five or eighty four, you're not getting enough oxygen
Speaker 12: in your blood and you're going to probably start experiencing blackouts.
Speaker 12: It also tells you your heart rate as well. The
Speaker 12: reason I like the Masimo is because it's the first
Speaker 12: one that's FDA over the counter cleared. It's a little expensive,
Speaker 12: but they have something called set technology set technology, so
Speaker 12: that means it's going to be deadly accurate even when
Speaker 12: you're exercising. I use it on the treadmill.
Speaker 1: Rich, I don't want to hear the deadly and fitness
Speaker 1: in the same in the same sentence. There, all right, Finally,
Speaker 1: I know back pain is a huge thing. Give me
Speaker 1: the hyper hyper ice venom two. Tell me about that.
Speaker 12: Yes, that's wonderful. This is advice that does two things simultaneously.
Speaker 12: When we have back problems and my back goes out
Speaker 12: three times a year, I'm not immune from it because
Speaker 12: I abuse my body my whole life.
Speaker 1: Oh I had this happen once. It is not fun. Remember, Bobo,
Speaker 1: I came in. You're like, Rich, what's wrong? I could
Speaker 1: barely sit down when this happened.
Speaker 2: Yep, I remember that. Yes, Okay, keep going.
Speaker 12: Yeah, So eighty percent of the population is an experienced
Speaker 12: back pain at some point in their life. So you
Speaker 12: put this on. Heat is the best thing. What I
Speaker 12: like about this, it's connected and so you could actually
Speaker 12: have the duration and the type of heat you want
Speaker 12: and how long you want it.
Speaker 2: But it does a.
Speaker 12: Special trick up at sleep. It could also give you
Speaker 12: a massage, so that also not only helps loosen the back.
Speaker 12: But I love it because you don't need any of
Speaker 12: these over the counter and its allegiance and all these
Speaker 12: types of things that are toxic for our body. And
Speaker 12: I don't like those pads that you put on because
Speaker 12: that's also not good. Everything's absorbed through the skin. So
Speaker 12: this is wonderful. You're bringing heat which relaxes the muscles.
Speaker 12: It will help your back recover quicker.
Speaker 1: All right, here we are Bruce Peckman, the muscleman of technology,
Speaker 1: mister bicep dot com. How much are you gonna work
Speaker 1: out today? How many how many hours you spend a day?
Speaker 12: Well, I was the radio, was at the gym for
Speaker 12: an hour and fifteen minutes and all I did was
Speaker 12: back and then I'm going to go for my nightly walk.
Speaker 12: Tomorrow morning I'll be out in another gym. I'm going
Speaker 12: to be doing test and arms. So I trained six
Speaker 12: days a week, about an hour an hour and a
Speaker 12: half a day.
Speaker 1: All right, that's why they call you mister Bicep. You
Speaker 1: gotta see him. Go to the website mister Bicep dot
Speaker 1: com and I'll put links to all of these products
Speaker 1: on my website rich on Tech dot TV. Bruce, thanks
Speaker 1: for joining me today.
Speaker 12: Oh my pleasure.
Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we're going to open up the feedback.
Speaker 1: See what you've been emailing me this week. We got
Speaker 1: a lot of them right here on rich on Tech. Well,
Speaker 1: welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology online at rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: Follow me on Instagram.
Speaker 1: I promise not to trick you with some AI pictures
Speaker 1: like I did last night by accident. I swear it
Speaker 1: wasn't intentional. Pizza was good, by the way, I always
Speaker 1: get a message about the pizza I eat because I
Speaker 1: eat New York style in LA and that's not easy
Speaker 1: to find. But I did find a place out here
Speaker 1: that has it, and they nail it. Like I'm talking.
Speaker 1: They get it right. And every time I post a
Speaker 1: picture of people knows it.
Speaker 11: What is it?
Speaker 2: What is I want to see this picture you posted?
Speaker 1: I'll show you the picture after I have to find
Speaker 1: you because I deleted it, all right, but I'll text
Speaker 1: it you Yeah, I mean, come on, who thinks a
Speaker 1: piece of pizza is as big as the first half
Speaker 1: of my torso? But then my kid and I had
Speaker 1: an idea. We're like, we should start a business giant
Speaker 1: pizza slice and it's just one huge pizza slice, all right.
Speaker 1: Before we get to the feedback, couple of items, Apple
Speaker 1: now lets you merge purchases from multiple Apple accounts. This
Speaker 1: is something that a lot of people have been waiting for.
Speaker 1: If you have like two Apple accounts and you've wanted
Speaker 1: to merge them, you can take all that stuff from
Speaker 1: that secondary account and put it to your primary account,
Speaker 1: so you can migrate purchases. Mostly media apps, music, movies,
Speaker 1: TV shows, books all can move over to that primary account.
Speaker 1: Let's see podcast libraries and Apple TV's up next queue
Speaker 1: from the secondary account will overwrite those on the primary.
Speaker 2: Well, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: iCloud data does not transfer, so anything stored in the
Speaker 1: secondary account remains separate. After the migration, the secondary account
Speaker 1: can no longer be used for media purchases. They all
Speaker 1: have to be on with the primary account. But this
Speaker 1: is really nice. It makes it much more simple if
Speaker 1: you had multiple accounts in the past and it's been
Speaker 1: bugging you and you want to consolidate them. Now you
Speaker 1: can YouTube. Can you believe it turns twenty this week? Yes,
Speaker 1: twenty years old. We are getting old. Twenty years YouTube's
Speaker 1: been around. It feels like it's just getting started. The
Speaker 1: first video was me at the Zoo. So YouTube actually
Speaker 1: launched twenty years ago as a dating site. Yeah, tune
Speaker 1: in hook up, but that didn't work, so they pivoted fast.
Speaker 1: They uploaded this first video, Me at the Zoo, in
Speaker 1: April two thousand and five, and of course the rest,
Speaker 1: as they say, is history. There's been plenty of viral
Speaker 1: videos on YouTube over the years. Google bought them in
Speaker 1: two thousand and six, very quickly after it started, for
Speaker 1: one point six five billion dollars. By the way, that's
Speaker 1: a little nowadays that they've made that back, or they're
Speaker 1: they're on their way to I mean YouTube. It was
Speaker 1: a very big business. So that was a great, great move.
Speaker 1: Of course, now they've got the pressure from tik tok
Speaker 1: and the other stuff. All right, let's get to the mailbag.
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Scott from Battle Creek, listening on WBCKFM says, Hey,
Speaker 1: I was listening to your show and I wanted to
Speaker 1: correct something about Samsung's tablet lineup. You said the latest
Speaker 1: and greatest was the S nine, but it's actually the
Speaker 1: S ten. I recently bought an S nine plus and
Speaker 1: I really like it. Hope this helps.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know why I said the S nine,
Speaker 1: but yeah, S ten is the latest and greatest on
Speaker 1: the Samsung tablets.
Speaker 2: Let's see here.
Speaker 1: John writes in I caught part of your show where
Speaker 1: you advise someone not to trust a USB drive after
Speaker 1: seeing a corrupt error message. Usually this happens because they
Speaker 1: didn't eject the drive properly before pulling it out. I
Speaker 1: used to have this issue for years. Once I started
Speaker 1: ejecting my drives first, the problems disappeared. I hope your
Speaker 1: listeners don't throw away perfectly good USB drives. It depends
Speaker 1: on the kind of error, you know. If you're getting,
Speaker 1: you know you should definitely eject your USB drives. I
Speaker 1: hate that we have to do that, but got it.
Speaker 1: It's like a necessary evil. I'll be honest, So once
Speaker 1: in a while, just pull it out without all the act.
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Speaker 1: Thank you rich for all you do, Bobo. Do you
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Speaker 1: really really awesome. Let's see here. Oh my god, this
Speaker 1: a long one. Uh Okay, here we go. Rosebud. Deborah
Speaker 1: from San Diego writes in I love your show. I
Speaker 1: learned something new every week. I've been journaling for years,
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Speaker 1: using it. Thank you for sharing on your show, and
Speaker 1: congrats on broadcasting in New York. Deborah, I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: Rosebud is the best app I've ever used. If you've
Speaker 1: ever thought about journaling, give this app a try.
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding. Just talk to it.
Speaker 1: Just tell it what you're going through, or what your
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Speaker 1: excited about. And it is really incredible to see how
Speaker 1: AI can almost act like a therapist or an advisor
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Speaker 1: but it is. It really is good for your mental
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