1 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: Ring makes its cheapest video doorbell yet, but there is 2 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 1: a catch. Who's the winner In smartphones? Another streaming service 3 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 1: raises prices? Plus Your tech questions answered? What's going on? 4 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: I'm Rich Dmiro and this is Rich on Tech, the 5 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think 6 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: you should know about, and it's where I answer the 7 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,480 Speaker 1: questions you send me. My name is Rich Dmiro, tech 8 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,839 Speaker 1: reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Hope you're 9 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 1: having a fantastic day. So I finally did something that 10 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: I've wanted to do for so long. This has been 11 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: a project that is I don't know, evaded me for many, 12 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: many years. I took down my NASS, which is my 13 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: network attached storage drive, probably a couple of years ago, 14 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 1: like maybe two three years ago. 15 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 2: It's probably two years ago. 16 00:00:58,080 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: I never set it back up again, and I just 17 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: always wanted to, but I never got around to it. 18 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: And so finally I've been running up against this problem. 19 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 1: It's this whole Google thing charging for storage that has 20 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,720 Speaker 1: really gotten me to clean up my act with my 21 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: cloud files. So I wanted to back up my Google 22 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 1: Drive to the NAS and then move a bunch of 23 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:22,759 Speaker 1: files in the Google drive to the NAS, and NAS 24 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 1: means network attached storage. It's basically a hard drive that 25 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: plugs into your network so that you can access it 26 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: from all your computers. And you know, you can have 27 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 1: these big hard drives in it. Right now, I've only 28 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: got like a four terabyte in there. But ideally what 29 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:40,479 Speaker 1: you do is you mirror the drives and that way, 30 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: whatever you put on the one drive copies to the 31 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: other drive, and so if something ever happened to one 32 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 1: of the drives they fail, you've got the other drive, 33 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: and so it's kind of a fail safe method for 34 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: backing up your stuff. You should also have your stuff 35 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: in a third place, which is, you know, a cloud 36 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: or the original file itself, which in my case would 37 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: be Google Drive. But anyway, I finally did this. I 38 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: finally SYNCD my Google Drive to it, and now I'm 39 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: ready to move out this giant batch of files and 40 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: free up some space on my Google Drive. And it's 41 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:11,800 Speaker 1: a long story what the files are, but they're basically 42 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 1: the old Google photos files, and so I'm not sure 43 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:17,959 Speaker 1: this is what I don't know just yet. I don't 44 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: know if those Google file Google photos files are actually 45 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 1: taking up storage on my Google drive right, like my 46 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 1: quota of two terabytes, I'm not sure. I don't know, 47 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:30,399 Speaker 1: so when I move them out, I will find out. 48 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: I have a feeling they are, but I don't know. 49 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: Originally they were not, and then I feel like maybe 50 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: they are now. So anyway, the network attached drive is 51 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 1: great because you just have a ton of storage that 52 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: you can just move files between. And it's been a 53 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: lot of fun. The one I have in case you're 54 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: interested in, is from snology sy no l O g 55 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: Y Snology. I have the disk station and it's an 56 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:54,959 Speaker 1: old one, but I looked up the new one. It's 57 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 1: the DS two twenty plus, which is kind of the 58 00:02:57,800 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: consumer solution. 59 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 2: It holds too hard drive and was at USBC on 60 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 2: the front. 61 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 1: No, it's just regular and that is three hundred dollars 62 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:08,919 Speaker 1: on Amazon. I believe I paid a little bit less 63 00:03:08,960 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: than that, but anyway, really cool, and I'm you know, 64 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 1: I'm trying to not pay extra for Google Drive at 65 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 1: this point because now they're charging for everything in my 66 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,680 Speaker 1: Google Photos. They're charging for that starting soon, so I 67 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: want to make sure that I don't have anything in 68 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: my Google Drive. And those two terabytes I pay ten 69 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: dollars a month for any more than I need in there, 70 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: like I only need the absolute essentials. So I'm going 71 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,079 Speaker 1: through my whole drive file by file and just making 72 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: sure that it's all cleaned up and ready to go. 73 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: Let's move on to the first story in today's podcast. 74 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening. 75 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: By the way, Apple crosses one billion active iPhone users 76 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: for the first time this according to nine to five Mac, 77 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: Tim Cook, in an interview with Reuter, said they have 78 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: one hundred one point sixty five billion devices active, but 79 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: one billion of those are iPhones. Can you imagine a 80 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: billion iPhone around the world. I mean, this company is 81 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: just printing money all those iCloud messages every day. Oh 82 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: you have no more storage in your iCloud. We couldn't 83 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: back up your phone. Oh charge me some more. They 84 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 1: last time they mentioned how many active iPhones, it was 85 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: nine hundred million in twenty nineteen. That's a lot of 86 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: phones and Apple is just killing it. The latest numbers 87 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 1: from IDC, who tracks this stuff, that's International Data Corporation. 88 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: The fourth quarter was really good for smartphone makers and 89 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:33,239 Speaker 1: really really good for Apple. In the top five Apple 90 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: number one, they sold ninety million phones or they shipped 91 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 1: I should say, I don't know if that actually means 92 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: they sold them, but I think that means pretty much 93 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 1: the same ninety million devices, and mostly that was driven 94 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: by the the iPhone twelve. How successful that is, So 95 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: ninety million phones in one quarter, I mean, that's just phenomenal. 96 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: Samsung number two with seventy three million, well, let's round 97 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: it up to seventy four million now the twenty nineteen 98 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: Q four. So just to give you an idea of 99 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 1: how many people upgraded in twenty twenty versus twenty nineteen, 100 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 1: seventy three, let's say seventy four million were sold in 101 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:15,159 Speaker 1: twenty nineteen the last quarter, compared to ninety million for Apple, 102 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:18,800 Speaker 1: sixty nine million. Well, let's say seventy million for Samsung 103 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 1: versus seventy four million. So both companies did see an increase, 104 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: which is pretty amazing during a pandemic. But for Apple 105 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 1: that increase was very dramatic and very pronounced. The rest 106 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 1: of the companies, there's really no competition anymore. There's only 107 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,720 Speaker 1: Samsung and Apple, and the other ones are all Chinese 108 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: manufacturers Jaomi. 109 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 2: Appo and Huawei. 110 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: And Huawei has been hit really hard. I think on 111 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 1: this very podcast I mentioned how Huawei was like number 112 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,679 Speaker 1: one for global shipments and now for this fourth quarter 113 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty they're down to the one, two, three, 114 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: four fifth. But if you take it big picture, for 115 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,680 Speaker 1: the whole year in twenty twenty, Samsung number one, Apple 116 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 1: number two, Huaweih number three. So it's interesting. I'm obsessed 117 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: with smartphones. I love them. 118 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:08,160 Speaker 2: Today. 119 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 1: The Samsung Galaxy S twenty one series is out best 120 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: Samsung devices in years. I will say it again. If 121 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: you're gonna upgrade your Samsung, do it this year. The 122 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: phones they came out with are just phenomenal. The S 123 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: twenty one series is fantastic. I find that the S 124 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 1: twenty one Ultra, as I find with a lot of 125 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:30,640 Speaker 1: these big phones nowadays, it's just too big. And I 126 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 1: love that phone and I want to carry it around. 127 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 1: I want to switch to it, but I can't. It's 128 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: just too big. I can't carry that thing in my pocket. 129 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: I always use the kind of the wedding as the example. 130 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 1: You know, if you're dancing at a wedding, could your 131 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 1: phone be in your pocket? With the Ultra no Way, 132 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: no Way, iPhone twelve pro, Yes, Samsung S twenty one, Yes, 133 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: S twenty one plus I'm not sure. I have not 134 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 1: held that one yet, but that would be probably. I 135 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:58,559 Speaker 1: gotta say the S twenty one is a perfect size. 136 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 1: It's the same exact size as the I Phone twelve 137 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 1: Pro and the iPhone twelve. So if that's you know, 138 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 1: if you like a nice size phone, nice screen size, 139 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: but not giant, go with the S twenty one. It's 140 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: a great little device, and I have not found any 141 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: problems with it whatsoever. I wish it had a little 142 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: bit more memory. It has eight gigs of RAM. I 143 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 1: wish it had closer to the I think the Ultra 144 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: comes with sixteen or twelve, but I wish it had that. 145 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: I think the Ultra sixteen. But anyway, let's get to a. 146 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 2: Question, shall we. Jody Wrights, Hello, they're rich. 147 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: I'm wondering if you have any recommendations for wireless earbuds 148 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: that are not over one hundred dollars sent for my iPhone. 149 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 1: You know, it's funny when people send me questions, I 150 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:52,239 Speaker 1: generally get a little indication of the answer I should 151 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: give them with how they're sending me. So if it 152 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 1: says sent for my iPhone, generally I will recommend AirPods 153 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: ten out of ten times times because air pods are amazing. 154 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: They sync with the iPhone, they seamlessly switch between devices. 155 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 2: They're just perfect. 156 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: Now, Jody is asking me for something under one hundred dollars, 157 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 1: and generally you can't get the air pods for under 158 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 1: one hundred dollars. So in that case, I will defer 159 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: to two different pairs of headphones that I've liked in 160 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: the past year. Number one are called the Let's Fit 161 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:26,560 Speaker 1: T thirteen. They are dirt cheap under thirty dollars and 162 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 1: they work fantastic. I will say for under thirty dollars, 163 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:33,960 Speaker 1: the Let's Fit T thirteen are just great, not a 164 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 1: lot of fuss. They work great, they charge fast, the 165 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 1: battery lasts, they stay in your ears, they feel good, 166 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: they sound good, and actually sound amazing. So that's my 167 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 1: number one pick. 168 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 2: Now. 169 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: The second pair that I like is from one Plus. 170 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: They made a pair this year called or last year 171 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 1: called the one plus buds Z. These were fifty dollars 172 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 1: and I find myself going back to them over and over. 173 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: They're excellent and they stay ears. They had a little 174 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 1: problem at the beginning where they were pausing during workouts 175 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: a lot because there's something with the sensor, but I 176 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: think they fix that with the softwareupdates. I don't really 177 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:14,199 Speaker 1: see that happening much anymore. And those are fifty dollars. 178 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:16,079 Speaker 1: You might be able to get them cheaper online if 179 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: you look around, but those are the two that I recommend, 180 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: and they will both cost you under one hundred dollars, 181 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 1: and I think you'll be very happy with either pair. 182 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 2: Jody, thanks for the question. Now. 183 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:28,679 Speaker 1: I don't know if you're following what was going on 184 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: this week with Robin Hood and these stocks, but these 185 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 1: Reddit traders were pumping up the prices of these random 186 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:41,679 Speaker 1: stocks like game Stop, BlackBerry, AMC movie Theaters. I think 187 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: American Airlines was in there at some point, but oh, 188 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 1: they have them. 189 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 2: All listed here BB. I think that's best buy. 190 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: But what they did was they pumped up the prices 191 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: because all of these hedge fund traders apparently. And I'm 192 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: not a stock market person, believe me, I know nothing 193 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 1: about this. I only do mutual funds. That's the only 194 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 1: thing I invest in. I don't do individual stocks. I 195 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: set it, I forget it, that's it. I don't even 196 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 1: look at it again ever again. I just put the 197 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 1: money in and leave it there. So that's my way 198 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:14,000 Speaker 1: of doing investing. I just don't really put a lot 199 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 1: of thought into it. I figure, you put it in early, 200 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 1: and you'll leave it in there for as long as 201 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 1: humanly possible, and hopefully when I retire something will be 202 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: made off of this stuff. But these people are you know, 203 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: if you know what you're doing, you could day trade 204 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:28,560 Speaker 1: and you could make money. 205 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:30,559 Speaker 2: I guess I, you know. I to me, it's just 206 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:32,080 Speaker 2: much too much work. 207 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: So this whole thing of robin Hood is is one 208 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: of these apps that people were using to buy these stocks, 209 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 1: and apparently they stopped people from trading these random stocks 210 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: like game Stop and you know all these other ones. 211 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 1: And the Robinhood traders were pretty mad because they were 212 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,319 Speaker 1: all on Reddit, and you know, from everything I read 213 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 1: what they were doing, there's really nothing wrong with you're 214 00:10:56,080 --> 00:11:00,679 Speaker 1: you're allowed to unless someone was giving false information or 215 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: you know, putting out misleading information or insider information about 216 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 1: the companies. Like what they were doing seems to be 217 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: legal from everything that I saw. 218 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 2: Now, is it right? I don't know. 219 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 1: I mean that's a whole nother topic, you know, I 220 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 1: think what the the bottom line about all this is 221 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 1: that we are seeing the use of the Internet and 222 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 1: social media to coordinate things in ways that we never imagined, 223 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: in ways that were never possible before. And we're going 224 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 1: to continue to see this. We are going to continue 225 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 1: to see social media enable things that we never thought 226 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,720 Speaker 1: was possible in our society. And I'm telling you, the 227 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 1: implications of this stuff is very, very far reaching. We've 228 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 1: seen it with election We've seen it with protests, We've 229 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 1: seen it with anything where you can get a whole 230 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,199 Speaker 1: bunch of people together all at the same time and 231 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,560 Speaker 1: move things in big ways very fast. And sometimes that's 232 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: good and sometimes it's not so good. I'm just saying 233 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: that we're going to see more of this, and I'm 234 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: not sure that the social media companies can keep up 235 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: with the implications of their technology. 236 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 2: Now. 237 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: A lot of this is inspired by that documentary on 238 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 1: Netflix that I watched, This Social Dilemma. It really resonated 239 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 1: with me because we know, when I was a kid, 240 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 1: you'd go on the BBS, right the bulletin board system, 241 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 1: and you'd write something, and you know, you'd go to 242 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:26,679 Speaker 1: sleep and you'd wake up and you'd see a couple 243 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: replies to what you said. It was really cool. Now 244 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: you talk about teenagers posting on Instagram, and they refreshed 245 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,679 Speaker 1: their Instagram posts so fast to see how many likes 246 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 1: they're getting and how many comments they're getting. If they 247 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:41,679 Speaker 1: don't get enough in a certain amount of times, they 248 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 1: delete their post. That's how immediate gratification we have gotten 249 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 1: to in our society. And so same thing here with 250 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 1: this Robinhood stuff. These people just banded together, they decided 251 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 1: to do what they wanted to do, and it worked. 252 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:55,920 Speaker 1: They got these stock prices up and up and up. 253 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 1: But then all of a sudden, robin Hood said never mind, 254 00:12:57,720 --> 00:12:59,839 Speaker 1: you can't trade. And they're like, wait, hold on, is 255 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 1: that is that what you're allowed to do? Because I 256 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:05,320 Speaker 1: didn't realize that was in part of the terms of service. 257 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 1: So they went on Google Play. They gave it one 258 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:13,200 Speaker 1: hundred tons of one star reviews. They are asking for 259 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 1: Apple to remove robin Hood from the App Store, and 260 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:18,200 Speaker 1: I think we're just gonna see this kind of shake 261 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:21,200 Speaker 1: out more and more because I guess they were trying 262 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:25,439 Speaker 1: to stick it to the man. The hedge fund folks, 263 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 1: who I guess have like giant short positions in these 264 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: big you know, in these in these in these troubled 265 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 1: companies like game Stock, and when game stop stock starts 266 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: going up and up and up, these hedge fund traders 267 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: lose their shirts and they lose a lot of money. 268 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: And I'm simplifying this in a way that I this 269 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 1: is what I understand from this, but it just it 270 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 1: was wild. I was looking at these stock prices and wow, 271 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 1: uh no, it did not tempt me to jump in 272 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: or jump out. And so that's that's kind of my 273 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:57,200 Speaker 1: thoughts on this stuff. But it's pretty wild to watch, 274 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 1: that's for sure. I have a little sip of my 275 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: tea here. Annabella says, Hey, rich, I wanted to talk 276 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,200 Speaker 1: to you to ask what device do you recommend to 277 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: download and store pictures from my iPhone? I have over 278 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 1: thirty six thousand pictures currently on my phone. Whoa any 279 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: and need to do something to save them and delete 280 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 1: them from my phone? Anything you can recommend, TIA. I'm 281 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 1: guessing that means thanks in advance. Thank you, Annabella. Okay, 282 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 1: this is a great question, and thirty six thousand pictures 283 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 1: on your phone that is a lot. I would recommend 284 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: a couple things. So number one, you can go with 285 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: something like this synology that I recommended that earlier in 286 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 1: the show, but that seems to be a very it's 287 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: kind of a a you're putting a fire hose. 288 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 2: On a on a I don't know what would the 289 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 2: term be? A matchstick? 290 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: Is that even like a phrase sounds good though right 291 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 1: you're using you know it's it might be too much 292 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 1: for your what you need. 293 00:14:58,080 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 2: So a couple of things you can do. 294 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: Number one, if you want a free solution and an 295 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:05,080 Speaker 1: easy solution, just get Google Photos. Install that on your phone, 296 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 1: let it go to work. It will back up all 297 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: thirty six thousand pictures and then it will give you 298 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 1: a message when it's done, and it will say now 299 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: you can go ahead and delete all these pictures from 300 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 1: your phone. 301 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 2: It will actually do that for you. That's one way 302 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 2: of doing it. 303 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 1: The downside of that is that I would recommend at 304 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 1: this point don't use high quality for Google Photos anymore, 305 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: because there's no point that they're not giving it away 306 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 1: for free anymore, So why you're going to degrade the 307 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 1: quality of your pictures. So in that case, you would 308 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 1: want to spring for Google Storage. You get fifteen gigs, 309 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 1: which might hold your thirty six thousand pictures, depending how 310 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: big they are, or you might have to pay a 311 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: little bit more each month, maybe three dollars a month 312 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: to store all those I think that's perfectly reasonable, and 313 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 1: I think that's a great way to do this. If 314 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: you want something that's more integrated with the iPhone, you 315 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 1: can just go ahead and sign up for iCloud and 316 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 1: you can get fifty gigs of iCloud storage for I 317 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:00,440 Speaker 1: think it's a couple bucks a month, three dollars a 318 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: month I pay, or maybe I pay for two hundred gigs. 319 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 1: Let's see iCloud storage pricing. Let's see how much your 320 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 1: pricing plan is for this. So with iCloud in America, 321 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,320 Speaker 1: it's fifty gigs for ninety nine cents, which I think 322 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 1: would hold your pictures, or two hundred gigs for three 323 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: dollars a month. Either way, you're looking at under three 324 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 1: hundred three dollars a month. So a year, that's thirty 325 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 1: six dollars a year. Now, if you don't want to 326 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: do the cloud route, which it sounds like you might 327 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: not because you're asking me this question, so you may 328 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 1: not want them in the cloud, I would say the 329 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 1: next best thing is probably this device called eb that's ibi. 330 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: It's made by sand Disc. It's very similar to the 331 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 1: synology that I was talking about, but it's just for 332 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:46,359 Speaker 1: pictures and it's. 333 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 2: It's very simple. 334 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 1: You install the EB app on your phone, you hook 335 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: up this hard drive to your Wi Fi at home, 336 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 1: and next thing you know, every time you open up 337 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: this app on your phone, it will back up the 338 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: pictures to this hard drive. And it's store not in 339 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 1: the cloud, It's stored on the drive in your house. Now, 340 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:06,639 Speaker 1: the danger of that is that your photos are not 341 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:09,160 Speaker 1: properly backed up because you need them in two places. 342 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:11,520 Speaker 1: So I'd want to see them on this hard drive 343 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: and then somewhere else as well, And so for that reason, 344 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: I'd probably go with the iCloud. I'd go with a 345 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 1: combination of two things. I'd probably go with like an 346 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:23,439 Speaker 1: iCloud storage or Google Photos. Maybe do Google Photos for 347 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: free as much free as you can get, and then 348 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,639 Speaker 1: go with the EB for the rest of it. The 349 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,199 Speaker 1: EB is like a hundred bucks for one terabyte, so 350 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: good question. I get that a lot, but back up 351 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 1: those pictures. Back up those pictures. You do not want 352 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: to lose your pictures. I get so many emails from 353 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 1: people saying, rich is there any way to recover my 354 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:47,719 Speaker 1: pictures anyway. 355 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,119 Speaker 2: And I say, did you back them up? 356 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 1: Because yeah, it's really easy when you back them up, 357 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: and they say, no, I didn't back them up, and 358 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 1: I say, I don't know what to say because I 359 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:00,879 Speaker 1: always talk about backing them up. You're not listening to 360 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: this podcast, and I get it. A lot of people aren't, 361 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:05,719 Speaker 1: but a lot of people are. But I know if 362 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: you're listening to the podcast, you probably are backing up now, 363 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 1: full disclosure. Right now, at this moment in time, my 364 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 1: Google Photos are not backed up. And so that's a 365 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 1: big old for rich DeMuro. And again that is what 366 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:21,639 Speaker 1: I'm working on with my This is all part of 367 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 1: my snology plan, because I am working on a plan 368 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 1: to get my Google Photos backed up on a reasonable schedule. 369 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 1: And you can actually do this, by the way, in 370 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 1: something called Google Takeout. 371 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 2: They will. It's a little complicated, but. 372 00:18:37,840 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 1: What they can do is they can automatically export your 373 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:45,760 Speaker 1: data to a cloud service on a schedule, so on 374 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 1: a on a regular basis, you can have your Google 375 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:53,160 Speaker 1: Photos backed up to a random you know, like these 376 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: various let me see. 377 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:55,120 Speaker 2: What I think. 378 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:58,439 Speaker 1: I talked about this on the show before. But you 379 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:00,800 Speaker 1: can have your Google Photos backed up to like a 380 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:04,880 Speaker 1: cloud service. And this is my ultimate plan. So look 381 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:09,719 Speaker 1: at export every two months for one year, and you 382 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:13,640 Speaker 1: can back up to Google Drive, which is what I'm 383 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 1: gonna do. So my goal is to basically I need 384 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: to free up my space on Google Drive so that 385 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:21,639 Speaker 1: this can just back them up to Google Drive regularly. 386 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 1: And then you can also do Dropbox. You can do 387 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 1: one drive and you can do Box. So again you 388 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 1: would just have your photos backed up every two months 389 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:33,840 Speaker 1: for a year, so you don't have to think about 390 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 1: this and your photos are backed up in a physical place. 391 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:42,120 Speaker 1: That's what I recommend, all right, Sling TV, we talk 392 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,160 Speaker 1: about these streaming services. We talk about how everyone wants 393 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 1: to cut the cord to save money. Guess what we've 394 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:51,720 Speaker 1: all learned. The cutting cord saves you exactly zero dollars 395 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:57,439 Speaker 1: unless you are only subscribed to one streaming service like 396 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,360 Speaker 1: you know, like Netflix or some thing. But in the end, 397 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:04,199 Speaker 1: what we're seeing here is that these streaming services, you 398 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:06,439 Speaker 1: have to have multiple streaming services if you want to 399 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 1: watch all the shows that everyone's talking about. And yes, 400 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,679 Speaker 1: everyone's talking about Bridgerton right now. No, I have not 401 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 1: watched it. Yes, I've heard what all the fuss is about, 402 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 1: because it's basically kind of like the shows that used 403 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,680 Speaker 1: to be on like Cinemax in the Middle of the 404 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:24,880 Speaker 1: Night or HBO in the middle of the night, if 405 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:27,400 Speaker 1: you catch my drift. So all these people are talking 406 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,680 Speaker 1: about how great Bridgerton is, but yeah, we know why 407 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,199 Speaker 1: you're watching it. It is a little skin involved in 408 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 1: that show apparently. Yeah, so anyway, if you want to 409 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,679 Speaker 1: watch all these shows, you got to have all these 410 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:45,639 Speaker 1: various services. And Sling TV is a cable service. I 411 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: get it. It's not like a Netflix, it's not like 412 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 1: a Disney Plus. But we've seen them raise prices as well, 413 00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,000 Speaker 1: and SlingTV, just like the rest of them, is raising 414 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 1: prices right now five dollars a month for new customers. 415 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: So now the minimum plan is thirty five a month 416 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 1: through them, and new customers are sorry. Existing customers will 417 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:07,679 Speaker 1: have their prices jump in July. So thank you Sling 418 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 1: for the little runway there of six months for existing customers. 419 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: But here's the funny part about this is that when 420 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:19,159 Speaker 1: Sling sent me this email, they kind of headlined it 421 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:23,360 Speaker 1: with how they're expanding free DVR storage to fifty hours 422 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 1: versus I think it was ten before for users, and 423 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:29,159 Speaker 1: so that was the headline and I was like, oh, 424 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 1: that's cool, but is that really that Oh and then 425 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 1: you read a little further and oh, there's the news 426 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 1: of the five dollars there. It is buried in the email. Now, 427 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:43,920 Speaker 1: they did do something nice. They did expand, like I said, 428 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 1: the free DVR storage to fifty hours, which is nice 429 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,520 Speaker 1: and that's actually quite useful. But the DVR Plus now 430 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:51,440 Speaker 1: if you pay extra five dollars a month for that, 431 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 1: it's now two hundred hours of storage instead of fifty. 432 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:58,360 Speaker 1: So again Sling is saying, look, our hands are tied here. 433 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 1: We had to raise our prices because the cable or 434 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,920 Speaker 1: the I guess they are cable TV channels are raising 435 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 1: their programming fees to us. And this is something we've 436 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: seen over and over. It's what the cable companies all 437 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:14,199 Speaker 1: all complained about. Is said, it's not us, We're not 438 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 1: raising your rates. It's just that all these providers keep 439 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 1: charging us more, so we have to pass that along 440 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 1: to you. And I'm sure some of that's true and 441 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: some of it's not. But at the end of the day, 442 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: what we've seen over and over is that. It doesn't matter. 443 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:29,440 Speaker 2: It's the same old thing. 444 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 1: If you're getting programming, the prices are going to go up, 445 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: whether they go up every year or every other year 446 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: or every year and a half, they go up on 447 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 1: a regular schedule. We've seen it with Netflix, We've seen 448 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 1: it with Disney Plus, We've seen it with everything except 449 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 1: I don't even want to say this out loud, but 450 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: the music services. The music services have not raised their 451 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 1: prices since they started. If you think about it, Spotify 452 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: Premium started at nine to ninety nine a month and 453 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: it's continued at nine to ninety nine a month. The 454 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: only cheaper music service out there is Amazon Music, which 455 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 1: you can get for seven ninety nine a month. Why 456 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: am I not subscribed to that for cheaper? I'm paying 457 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 1: so much. I'm paying for Apple Music, I'm paying for 458 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 1: Google Music, and I'm not paying for Spotify. But I'm 459 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: paying for two music services and what's the other one, SiriusXM. 460 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 1: So I'm paying like thirty thirty five dollars a month 461 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 1: for music? Gosh, why am I doing that? I should 462 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,199 Speaker 1: just go with Amazon and just be done. But I 463 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,359 Speaker 1: haven't even used their music service. I'm guessing it's the 464 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,919 Speaker 1: same for eight bucks a month. Why am I not 465 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 1: doing that? 466 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:33,680 Speaker 2: I should? 467 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:44,440 Speaker 1: All right, let's get to another question. Joseph Fina says, Hi, Rick, 468 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,280 Speaker 1: thank you for your services. You've been a blessing for 469 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 1: me and I have learned a lot from you. My 470 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 1: question is this My phone carrier is T Mobile. We've 471 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,359 Speaker 1: been paying for insurance protection on a plan of three 472 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 1: of my family members for a while. Now we all 473 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,640 Speaker 1: have iPhones. My question is do you know of any secure, 474 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,880 Speaker 1: free app that we could use? T Mobile charges are high? 475 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:10,399 Speaker 1: We pay eighteen dollars a month per phone. Whoo. I 476 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,359 Speaker 1: think by now we've already paid the cost of the 477 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: phone twice just by paying insurance. Thank you, say hi 478 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 1: to your beautiful family, Sent from my iPhone Josephina. Josephina, 479 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:24,119 Speaker 1: you are correct in your assessment that, yes, you have 480 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,840 Speaker 1: already paid for a new phone in the insurance that 481 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 1: you've been paying for. 482 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:30,200 Speaker 2: So diligently every month. 483 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 1: So what's my recommendation, Well, I have two number one 484 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: and this is the ideal recommendation. If you have any 485 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:41,679 Speaker 1: savings whatsoever, dump the insurance because if you do the 486 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,639 Speaker 1: math on insurance, yes you're insuring an eight hundred nine 487 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,760 Speaker 1: hundred dollars phone. But do the math if you actually 488 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:49,919 Speaker 1: have a problem with this phone other than a screen, 489 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 1: you know, a screen crack, which they're going to charge 490 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 1: you know, twenty nine bucks for whatever, or maybe even 491 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,439 Speaker 1: do it for free. You know, if you look at 492 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 1: these other things that they're doing, there's a pretty deductible 493 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 1: of probably one hundred, one hundred and twenty nine to 494 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 1: you know, two hundred dollars depending on what needs to 495 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 1: be done. And so if you add that up with 496 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 1: the monthly fee, so twenty dollars a month times twelve months, 497 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 1: is two hundred and forty dollars a year. Now, if 498 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,119 Speaker 1: you have one problem with that phone, let's say you 499 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:22,840 Speaker 1: spend another one hundred dollars. Now you're up to three 500 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 1: hundred and forty dollars. So if you don't have a problem, 501 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 1: all that rolls into the next year, and now you're 502 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,640 Speaker 1: up to you know, four hundred dollars for the insurance. 503 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,520 Speaker 1: So again, if you have any any savings whatsoever, think 504 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:39,679 Speaker 1: about maybe imagining that a portion of that savings is 505 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 1: to protect your phone investment. And I say investment, it's 506 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:45,480 Speaker 1: not really an investment because the price drops so it's 507 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 1: not an investment, it's a what's the thing that the 508 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: car is. It's like, when you drive it off the lot, 509 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 1: it just goes down in price. It's a it's not 510 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:56,120 Speaker 1: an investment at all. It's a it's a diminishing returns product. 511 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 1: Right as soon as you drive it off, it's it's 512 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,360 Speaker 1: lost some of its value. Same thing with your phone. 513 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: So again, when we look at this, this phone charge 514 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 1: for eighteen dollars a month times a family of three, 515 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:12,200 Speaker 1: that is a lot, that's sixty dollars a month. Practically, 516 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 1: I think you're better served doing two things. Number one, 517 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,480 Speaker 1: start a little fund that is just for your iPhone insurance. 518 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: Put in one hundred bucks and just start with that. 519 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 1: Then take a portion of your eighteen dollars a month, 520 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 1: which let's say you're paying. You know you said almost sixty. 521 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: Let's just say you put in twenty five dollars a month. Automatically. 522 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 1: Just put in twenty five dollars a month. At the 523 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,120 Speaker 1: end of a year, you will have twenty five dollars 524 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 1: times twelve, you'll have three hundred plus your original one 525 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: hundred dollars. That's four hundred dollars that should cover a 526 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,400 Speaker 1: repair should you need it. And I'm talking a repair outright. 527 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 1: You just go to you break, I fix whatever, I crack, 528 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,199 Speaker 1: you break whatever, all those things. You go into one 529 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 1: of those stores and they say, oh, your screens crack, 530 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:57,919 Speaker 1: We're gonna have to charge you two ninety nine. You go, 531 00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 1: oh cool, I've got four hundred in this little account. 532 00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:02,640 Speaker 1: Here you go cash. Now does it feel as good 533 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,080 Speaker 1: as paying thirty bucks because you have insurance? 534 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 2: No? But the reality is when you really do the math. 535 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: The thing about insurance is you're gonna end up paying 536 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,800 Speaker 1: for it, and it's gonna cost you a lot. And 537 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 1: this a phone that you can if you save up 538 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 1: this money eventually eclipse the cost of the insurance that 539 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: you're putting in every month, and it turns out to 540 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: be a much better deal. Now, if you don't want 541 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,879 Speaker 1: to do that, the thing that I would recommend is 542 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 1: a company called Square Trade. They are now owned by 543 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 1: all State, and their iPhone plan is four phones for 544 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 1: twenty dollars a month. Four phones twenty dollars a month, 545 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,800 Speaker 1: covers accidents, protects a new phone, protects an old phone, 546 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 1: and that's it. It just there is a deductible and 547 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 1: the deductibles are kind of high, but it's one hundred 548 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: and forty nine dollars deductible. So but again this is 549 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. If you know so one forty 550 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 1: nine plus that twenty a month, one month in if 551 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 1: you have a problem, you're already looking at fifty one, 552 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,159 Speaker 1: sixty one and seventy dollars to fix your phone. So 553 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,080 Speaker 1: I think it's better just to save the money and 554 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,440 Speaker 1: self insure, as I would call it. But on the 555 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,919 Speaker 1: flip side, the only thing about the Square trade that 556 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:15,640 Speaker 1: I remembered when I did a story with them many 557 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: years ago, and maybe they changed this is that you 558 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,280 Speaker 1: have to have your phone so they they will not 559 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:26,120 Speaker 1: replace a lost phone or a stolen phone. It has 560 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 1: to be a damaged phone. So even if you had 561 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 1: to bring your phone to them in a little plastic 562 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,679 Speaker 1: baggie all messed up, they will take it, and they 563 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:35,680 Speaker 1: will they will give you a new one, a refurbished one, 564 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,240 Speaker 1: but they can't do a lost or stolen phone. And 565 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 1: that's how they keep their price so much cheaper than 566 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,240 Speaker 1: what you're paying, because I think in your plan they 567 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 1: may give you a new phone if you lost it, 568 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,840 Speaker 1: but you have to check the terms of your plan. 569 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:52,640 Speaker 1: But great question. And it was funny. I was in 570 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,360 Speaker 1: Apple buying a phone. This was a couple of years ago, 571 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,400 Speaker 1: and I think I told this story, but you know 572 00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 1: they they were like, do you want Apple Care? And 573 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 1: it was like ninety nine and I said, no way, no, 574 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 1: I'm not doing Apple Care. I'll just self ensure. And 575 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,360 Speaker 1: then I proceeded to buy a case for fifty dollars 576 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 1: half the price of the Apple Care for. 577 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 2: The two or three years whatever, maybe a year. 578 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 1: Amazon's Alexa device is getting smarter and smarter and smarter. 579 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,840 Speaker 1: And I got to say, I used to really pooh 580 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,440 Speaker 1: pooh the Alexa, and I think that they have really 581 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: come a long way. And I think Alexa and what 582 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,600 Speaker 1: app Amazon is doing with Alexa is pretty good. I 583 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:35,480 Speaker 1: still think that Google responds to commands just a little 584 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 1: bit better and a little bit smarter. But I think 585 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:41,720 Speaker 1: that Alexa has gotten really really good, and the amount 586 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 1: of things that you can do with Alexa has just 587 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:45,240 Speaker 1: gotten so good. 588 00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,360 Speaker 2: And the ecosystem of products. 589 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 1: That work with Alexa and where it is and how 590 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,480 Speaker 1: you can access it has just gotten really really good. 591 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 2: But some new features. 592 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 1: Number one, Alexa has always done this thing where it's 593 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 1: called hunches, where it would light up. Don't use Alexa 594 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,760 Speaker 1: a lot, so I'm not particularly sure about this, but 595 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,719 Speaker 1: if it thought about something proactively, it would light up 596 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 1: and then you say, oh, what's going on a and 597 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 1: it would say to you like, I think you left 598 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:11,920 Speaker 1: this light on. Do you want me to turn it off? 599 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 1: And you go sure, Now it's gonna do that by itself. 600 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 1: So I think this is brilliant. And you know, let's 601 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 1: say you leave your house for the weekend, you forget 602 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 1: to turn off your lights, or maybe you leave your 603 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 1: music playing or something. You know, Alexa kind of knows 604 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 1: your patterns and it says, huh, that's not like Rich 605 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,640 Speaker 1: to leave his lights on for twenty hours. I'm gonna 606 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,200 Speaker 1: go ahead and just turn that light off. And it 607 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 1: does and it won't ask you permission to do it, 608 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 1: which I think is really cool. And I'm sure you 609 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:39,960 Speaker 1: can turn this off. Don't don't scream at me. 610 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 2: And say, Rich, how dare we let these things do 611 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,280 Speaker 2: their own thing? They're just gonna at some point kill us. No, 612 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:47,280 Speaker 2: we'll be okay. I think we'll be okay. 613 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 1: Now this is even cooler. This is Alexa's new feature 614 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 1: called guard plus. This is five dollars a month. But 615 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 1: it kind of turns any echo speaker into a security system. 616 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,360 Speaker 1: And what it does is it links up with ADT 617 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: and when it listens for sounds and it hears something 618 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,040 Speaker 1: that seems like it could be part of a break 619 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:14,480 Speaker 1: in or yeah, basically burglary, break in, smoke fire, it 620 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,320 Speaker 1: will alert you. And it will it will listen for 621 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 1: these sounds. It will listen for the sound of a 622 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: smoke detector, it will listen for the sound of glass breaking, 623 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,360 Speaker 1: it will listen for the sound of when you're not home, 624 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 1: someone talking in your house or outside your home. If 625 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 1: it can listen that far, and it will call you. Well, 626 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,960 Speaker 1: it will alert you on your phone. And then once 627 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,360 Speaker 1: it alerts you, you can say you can listen in 628 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:40,640 Speaker 1: on your device, which is just brilliant, and then you 629 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 1: can decide if you want to call the authorities, and 630 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,120 Speaker 1: with one more click you can get you know, you 631 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 1: can reach one of these Alexa I guess it's like 632 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,480 Speaker 1: a you know, like one of those call centers for 633 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,960 Speaker 1: your for your alarm companies. It's like that, but it's 634 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 1: you know, now handling these Alexa requests. And I probably 635 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,080 Speaker 1: said a way too many times. I probably set off 636 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:02,400 Speaker 1: all your smart devices. I apologize, but this is five 637 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,480 Speaker 1: dollars a month. I think it sounds really cool. The 638 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 1: other thing that it can do is it can make 639 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,160 Speaker 1: the sound of a dog barking. So if you are 640 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: not home and this thing here's someone outside your house, 641 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,240 Speaker 1: you're a speaker, can just start sounding like a dog. 642 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:18,640 Speaker 1: And I have not tested this, so I don't know 643 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 1: how good it sounds. But I mean, this is just 644 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,320 Speaker 1: this stuff is fascinating to me. 645 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 2: It really is. 646 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just getting so smart, and I mean, 647 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,080 Speaker 1: why would you not want that, you know, I mean 648 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 1: it just sounds it sounds like something that you would want. 649 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 2: Let's get to the next question. Let's see here. 650 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:49,760 Speaker 1: Eric says, is there a good, totally free or very 651 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:55,320 Speaker 1: low cost VPN for an older Mac desktop? Thank you, Eric, Well, 652 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 1: I am not fully up to speed on VPNs, and 653 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 1: I know that the Holy Grail is is a free VPN, 654 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,920 Speaker 1: and I'm sure if you search for free VPN there 655 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,840 Speaker 1: are probably many, many of them that show up. But 656 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 1: I would be a little concerned about a free VPN 657 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 1: because VPNs cost money to operate and especially to keep 658 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,760 Speaker 1: them private and secure. So I probably would not want 659 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 1: a free VPN. Now, with that said, there are some 660 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,880 Speaker 1: free VPNs out there. I know that if you have 661 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,400 Speaker 1: Google Drive, if you pay for storage on a certain tier, 662 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,959 Speaker 1: they do have a free VPN available for your Android device. 663 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:36,600 Speaker 1: And if you let me see where that page is, 664 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:42,720 Speaker 1: if you look at VPN by Google one. So if 665 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:48,760 Speaker 1: you just go just Google Google VPN, sorry, Google Google 666 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,800 Speaker 1: one VPN, and it's included in your price of Google 667 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:58,440 Speaker 1: one membership. And oh, oh wow, Google just chimed in. 668 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:03,400 Speaker 1: I did not say, h hg but okay, but you 669 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:04,160 Speaker 1: can turn this on. 670 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:05,160 Speaker 2: Oh look at this. 671 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 1: Okay, so this is actually this is actually pretty cool. 672 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 1: I did not realize this. But the VPN is included 673 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,359 Speaker 1: on Google one membership with two terabytes in higher, which 674 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,239 Speaker 1: is what I pay for. That's ten dollars a month 675 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,640 Speaker 1: right now. The VPN is for Android phones, but it 676 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:24,359 Speaker 1: says it is coming soon to iOS, Windows and mac 677 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 1: so that is a very good added benefit. Now you 678 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,720 Speaker 1: may want to debate me on do you trust Google 679 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,080 Speaker 1: with your VPN information. 680 00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:35,799 Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. 681 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:39,280 Speaker 1: I'm assuming that Google has documented exactly what they keep. 682 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:43,200 Speaker 1: It says here some minimum logging is performed to ensure 683 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,960 Speaker 1: quality of service, but your network traffic is never logged 684 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,839 Speaker 1: and your IP is not associated to your activity. I mean, 685 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 1: that's kind of cool. Maybe I'm gonna start installing this 686 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,720 Speaker 1: on my Android phones. That's really neat. 687 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:55,400 Speaker 2: Okay. 688 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,719 Speaker 1: The other thing that you can do is if you 689 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:02,160 Speaker 1: want something that's totally free. Opera, the Opera web browser 690 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:04,760 Speaker 1: has a built in VPN that's free, and there's probably 691 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:06,920 Speaker 1: some limitations on just how much you can use it 692 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,120 Speaker 1: for free, but that's another freeway of doing it. So 693 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:13,200 Speaker 1: that's what I'd recommend Eric, if you want some free options. 694 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,319 Speaker 1: If you want to pay a little bit, I'm not 695 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,239 Speaker 1: really an expert in the best VPNs out there, but 696 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,080 Speaker 1: I do hear Nord VPN over and over and over. 697 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:26,840 Speaker 1: They've got apps for everything from Android to Linux and 698 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,080 Speaker 1: Firefox and iOS. So if you want to pay a 699 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,960 Speaker 1: little bit, Nord VPN is pretty good. 700 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:34,240 Speaker 2: And it's if. 701 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,400 Speaker 1: You pay for a two year plan, it's three dollars 702 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,319 Speaker 1: and seventy one cents a month. Yeah, so it's eighty 703 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,880 Speaker 1: nine dollars for the first two years. If you just 704 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,240 Speaker 1: do it month by month, it's very expensive. It's twelve 705 00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,840 Speaker 1: dollars a month. I'm sure that there are some deals 706 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,200 Speaker 1: out there, like some promo codes and stuff for NordVPN, 707 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,880 Speaker 1: but that's what i'd recommend. If you are a Google 708 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,799 Speaker 1: one subscriber, I would check into that first. 709 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:57,640 Speaker 2: Great question. 710 00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:02,239 Speaker 1: Oh, speaking of Amazon, you know they own Ring. I'm 711 00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:03,840 Speaker 1: just gonna spend a short amount of time on this, 712 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,480 Speaker 1: but they came out with a new small and cheap 713 00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:10,080 Speaker 1: video doorbell from Ring. It's called the Ring Video Doorbell Wired. 714 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,600 Speaker 1: It's their cheapest and smallest doorbell yet at just sixty dollars, 715 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,960 Speaker 1: you get ten ADP HD video, night vision, live view, 716 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:21,799 Speaker 1: two way talk with noise cancelation, and basically everything you 717 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,719 Speaker 1: need the main thing, and I would definitely definitely recommend this. 718 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,359 Speaker 1: If you have a doorbell on the front of your home, 719 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:33,240 Speaker 1: go with this wired Ring video doorbell versus the battery 720 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 1: one because you'll never have to change a battery and 721 00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:40,040 Speaker 1: that is a win in my book. All I know 722 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,440 Speaker 1: is I'm constantly charging the battery for my Ring outside 723 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,680 Speaker 1: and I wish it was wired. But I did not 724 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,600 Speaker 1: have a wired doorbell on my house when I moved here, 725 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:51,879 Speaker 1: and I talked to an electrician or several of them 726 00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,960 Speaker 1: to get that you know, that little low voltage installed, 727 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,719 Speaker 1: and it's kind of a pain if it's not already there. 728 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,680 Speaker 1: It's kind of a pain because they base have to 729 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,960 Speaker 1: use a transformer at the top and then run that 730 00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:06,040 Speaker 1: wire down. I'm sure it's not that big of a deal, 731 00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:08,440 Speaker 1: but they made it seem like it was kind of 732 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:09,839 Speaker 1: a pain. And so I just said, you know, I'll 733 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:11,960 Speaker 1: just go with the battery, but I would love, you know, 734 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:15,879 Speaker 1: I might revisit this actually, And and because I think 735 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna switch over everything to ring at this point, 736 00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:20,799 Speaker 1: because I really like what they're doing. And I just 737 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,600 Speaker 1: I'm sick of my doorbell going dead, right, It's like, 738 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:24,960 Speaker 1: why is my doorbell dead? 739 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:30,240 Speaker 2: Oh, I gotta charge it again. I've had people standing outside. 740 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,640 Speaker 1: Friends, not recently, but you know in the past, in 741 00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:35,759 Speaker 1: the in the before days, when friends would come over 742 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,239 Speaker 1: and they just stand out there because they rang the 743 00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,640 Speaker 1: doorbell and it didn't work, and they and finally you 744 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:44,960 Speaker 1: hear this little knock, like and they'd be like, I'm 745 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,480 Speaker 1: like someone at the door, and sure enough they'd been 746 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:52,400 Speaker 1: standing out there because the doorbell didn't work. So yeah, 747 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,279 Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta get on that. I do try 748 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,520 Speaker 1: to I've gotten alerts before from ring to like charge 749 00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,759 Speaker 1: my doorbell, but I didn't see one recently, and my 750 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,880 Speaker 1: mother in law came by and she said, your doorbell 751 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:04,399 Speaker 1: was not working. 752 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,000 Speaker 2: Rich, Well, maybe that was a reason. 753 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:14,879 Speaker 1: Just kidding, just kidding, all right. Uh. Marvin says, I've 754 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,120 Speaker 1: noticed on many occasions that Google has responded to a 755 00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,880 Speaker 1: stream of words used in a conversation as if I 756 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,920 Speaker 1: had pressed the Google Assistant button on my phone? Is 757 00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:27,520 Speaker 1: there a means to turning this standby mode off? Thanks 758 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:32,480 Speaker 1: sent for my iPad, Marvin. You know it just happened 759 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,560 Speaker 1: on this podcast. It often happens when you say the 760 00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:39,120 Speaker 1: word Google and you didn't actually say the h Google. 761 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:41,480 Speaker 1: And I asked Google how they get around this. I 762 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,759 Speaker 1: actually asked some of my contacts at Google. I said, 763 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:46,920 Speaker 1: you're you're around these things all day, like what do 764 00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:49,680 Speaker 1: you say? And they use the term hey G. So 765 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,640 Speaker 1: if they don't want it to activate, so hey G, 766 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:55,239 Speaker 1: hey G, and it won't activate. So I try to 767 00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,000 Speaker 1: remember that on my show, but generally I mess it up. 768 00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:01,680 Speaker 1: But if you so on the iPhone, there's a simple, 769 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,640 Speaker 1: simple way to do this, And on the iPhone, all 770 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:06,520 Speaker 1: you have to do if you don't want Siria to listen. 771 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,200 Speaker 1: Is just flip your phone over on its face and 772 00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:11,360 Speaker 1: if you lay your phone face down on the table 773 00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:15,640 Speaker 1: and you say H Siri, she will not spring into action. 774 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,080 Speaker 1: It's amazing, it's simple, it's easy. It's something that you 775 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:23,040 Speaker 1: probably have never done, but it works. Maybe you've inadvertently 776 00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,120 Speaker 1: done that with the Google stuff. It's not that easy now. 777 00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,640 Speaker 1: On the speakers, generally they have a little slider that 778 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:32,000 Speaker 1: you can do or I think I don't know if 779 00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,839 Speaker 1: you can say, uh, don't listen. I'm not gonna try 780 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,520 Speaker 1: it right now. But anyway, if you're on your phone, 781 00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:41,640 Speaker 1: if you have a speaker, generally look for a switch 782 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,440 Speaker 1: in the back. That's the short answer to that question. 783 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:48,200 Speaker 1: But if you are on the phone on Android, just 784 00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:52,359 Speaker 1: go into your Android into Assistant settings and then under 785 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,000 Speaker 1: all settings, tap General and then you can turn Google 786 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,279 Speaker 1: Assistant on or off. There used to be a way 787 00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:04,160 Speaker 1: that you can have H Google turn a Wait a second, 788 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,799 Speaker 1: did they did they turn off the ability to have 789 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:12,200 Speaker 1: H Google or Hey G. It used to be you 790 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,920 Speaker 1: could turn off. Well, maybe you can only turn it 791 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:16,480 Speaker 1: off when the screen was off. 792 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:16,880 Speaker 2: I don't know. 793 00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,880 Speaker 1: Anyway, it seems like anyway, you can go into settings 794 00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:23,600 Speaker 1: and turn it off completely. If you don't use it, it's fine. Personally, 795 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:26,280 Speaker 1: I would recommend. 796 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:27,320 Speaker 2: Against turning it off. And here's why. 797 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:30,360 Speaker 1: If you ever found yourself and I know this is 798 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,799 Speaker 1: weird dark places, but if you ever found yourself in 799 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:39,120 Speaker 1: an emergency situation and your last chance at life was 800 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:43,279 Speaker 1: to call Google for help, right, And I'm just saying 801 00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:44,759 Speaker 1: this is I don't even know if you could or 802 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,280 Speaker 1: if it would work or whatever, but let's just say 803 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,840 Speaker 1: you were in some sort of situation where you couldn't 804 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,640 Speaker 1: do anything except use your voice and your phone was nearby. 805 00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:59,560 Speaker 1: How frustrated and sad would you be if you didn't 806 00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:03,839 Speaker 1: make it because you turned off the hey g functionality 807 00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,680 Speaker 1: on your phone. You'd be really mad, right, You'd be 808 00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,560 Speaker 1: looking down from heaven at yourself, being like, why'd you 809 00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:10,200 Speaker 1: turn that off? 810 00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,880 Speaker 2: It could have saved you. And so I know it's a. 811 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:17,200 Speaker 1: Very small case scenario and it's weird, but you know 812 00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:17,719 Speaker 1: this is. 813 00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:19,320 Speaker 2: I have to think of all things. 814 00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,360 Speaker 1: And so that's why personally, I would rather deal with 815 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:27,919 Speaker 1: the the misfirings and the the false activations of hey 816 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:30,560 Speaker 1: G versus turn it off completely on my phone but 817 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:31,080 Speaker 1: that's just me. 818 00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,040 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just one person. I'm just giving you 819 00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:33,400 Speaker 2: my opinion. 820 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:36,279 Speaker 1: You're tuned into the rich on Tech show, so I'm 821 00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:38,520 Speaker 1: giving you what rich on Tech thinks, which is me. 822 00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,400 Speaker 1: You may think differently, but that's what I think. And 823 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:45,840 Speaker 1: so that's you know, that's it's one of those things. 824 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,640 Speaker 1: It's you know, do as you please. But I'm just 825 00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:52,760 Speaker 1: giving you all of the information, all of the information 826 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:56,400 Speaker 1: at hand, so that you can make the best possible 827 00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:00,480 Speaker 1: decision with it. All right, should we take a question 828 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,600 Speaker 1: from the voicemail? I usually get some voicemails on the 829 00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:08,120 Speaker 1: website at let's see it's rich on tech dot TV 830 00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:11,040 Speaker 1: slash podcast And if you look in the lower right 831 00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:13,400 Speaker 1: hand corner, you can actually leave a voicemail for me. 832 00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,520 Speaker 1: And this one has no name, but let's just hear 833 00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:17,240 Speaker 1: what it's all about. 834 00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:22,040 Speaker 3: Hey, rich Chip from Long Beach. A couple weeks ago, 835 00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:25,080 Speaker 3: Australian guy was asking you to have your podcast on 836 00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:27,279 Speaker 3: a little bit longer hour and a half and you're 837 00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,840 Speaker 3: explaining how hard that would be. But my question is 838 00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:33,080 Speaker 3: when is KTLA gonna start giving you more time for 839 00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,480 Speaker 3: your news segments? You only get about two and a 840 00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:40,040 Speaker 3: half minutes. You need more. The weather is like six 841 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:44,840 Speaker 3: segments within the hour, So we want more time with 842 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,560 Speaker 3: you on your KTLA news segment. 843 00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:51,719 Speaker 1: Oh that's funny. Wow, Chip, you are near and dear 844 00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,920 Speaker 1: to my heart. So thank you, thank you, thank you. 845 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,400 Speaker 1: I do appreciate you asking that. But you have to understand. 846 00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:02,080 Speaker 1: You have to understand, you know, you have to understand 847 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,520 Speaker 1: local news. You have to understand the news business and 848 00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:08,720 Speaker 1: my segment. So my segment is, for all intents purposes, 849 00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:12,200 Speaker 1: a feature segment on technology. Now do I think it's 850 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:13,640 Speaker 1: the most important segment in the show. 851 00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:14,520 Speaker 2: Of course I do. 852 00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:16,640 Speaker 1: I think that everything that I talk about and everything 853 00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:20,080 Speaker 1: I put in my segment is is super super important 854 00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:25,280 Speaker 1: and it's highly you know, I craft my segments around 855 00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:27,680 Speaker 1: what I think people should know when it comes to 856 00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,839 Speaker 1: consumer technology, and so yes, what I like more time? 857 00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:32,520 Speaker 2: Of course, would. 858 00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,240 Speaker 1: Katy La like to give me more time? I think, 859 00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:38,160 Speaker 1: I mean, they don't, but you know, what can I say? 860 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,920 Speaker 1: The other thing is it's also the timing of the show. 861 00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,320 Speaker 1: There are days when they say, Rich, you've got more time. 862 00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:47,360 Speaker 1: But in general, you're right, you must have taken a 863 00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:49,560 Speaker 1: stopwatch to my segment. But in general, yeah, It's about 864 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:53,759 Speaker 1: two minutes and thirty seconds, and I'm thankful every time 865 00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:56,600 Speaker 1: it's on, honestly because I've been there for ten years 866 00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:58,680 Speaker 1: and I've you know, I really feel like what I'm 867 00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:02,200 Speaker 1: doing is very important to be honest the way. Yes, 868 00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:03,680 Speaker 1: what I love to sit there and chat with the 869 00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:05,799 Speaker 1: anchors for ten minutes about all this stuff. Yes, but 870 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,640 Speaker 1: it's also tricky because it gets a little nerdy, and 871 00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:10,800 Speaker 1: you know, it's it is a newscast where they have 872 00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,200 Speaker 1: a lot of pressing day of air stuff to get 873 00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,400 Speaker 1: to as well. But with all that said, I feel like, 874 00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:18,520 Speaker 1: and this is what keeps me kind of going in 875 00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:22,640 Speaker 1: the scheme of things. I feel like I'm a three 876 00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:26,600 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty degree product, not just the KTLA News. 877 00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:29,279 Speaker 1: So yes, of course, the KTLA news segment is my 878 00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:33,120 Speaker 1: bread and butter. But I've got the podcast, I've got Instagram, 879 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:38,040 Speaker 1: I've got Facebook, I've got Twitter, I've got Facebook Live, 880 00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:41,279 Speaker 1: I've got Instagram Live. So all these little things where 881 00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:44,520 Speaker 1: people can reach me and also not just see the 882 00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:46,440 Speaker 1: one angle to my story that I put on KTLA, 883 00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:48,480 Speaker 1: but also you know, you can maybe comment on my 884 00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:52,160 Speaker 1: Instagram with a question about it, or maybe I explain 885 00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,440 Speaker 1: it a little bit more in depth on my Facebook page, 886 00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:56,920 Speaker 1: or maybe I do a video on it. So again, 887 00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,919 Speaker 1: that's the way I see it, and so to me, yes, 888 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:00,560 Speaker 1: that's what I love. 889 00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,799 Speaker 2: More time on the show, of course, and do I 890 00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:04,120 Speaker 2: ask for it, of course. 891 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:08,160 Speaker 1: But at the same time, I think that between everything 892 00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,120 Speaker 1: that I do, I really. 893 00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:12,440 Speaker 2: Try to feel like if you. 894 00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:13,520 Speaker 1: You know, I feel like the KTLA segment is a 895 00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,560 Speaker 1: little taste and you're like, oh, that's interesting. Let me 896 00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:18,920 Speaker 1: go to the website and see what are the resources 897 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:20,719 Speaker 1: Rich has on that. And that's the way that I 898 00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,160 Speaker 1: see it. So good question. Thank you Chip for looking 899 00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:24,560 Speaker 1: out for me. I feel like I should hire you 900 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:25,200 Speaker 1: as my agent. 901 00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:27,799 Speaker 2: All Right. 902 00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:29,760 Speaker 1: I got a couple of new features for Apple stuff 903 00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:31,319 Speaker 1: this week, so I'm just gonna go through them kind 904 00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:33,680 Speaker 1: of quick. Number one, if you have an Apple Watch, 905 00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:36,759 Speaker 1: there's a new feature called Time to Walk And they 906 00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,200 Speaker 1: don't call it a podcast, but for all intents and purposes, 907 00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:41,880 Speaker 1: this is a podcast on your Apple Watch that you 908 00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:45,480 Speaker 1: can listen to while you walk. And the first four 909 00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:49,319 Speaker 1: were a bunch of celebrities that you know, like Shawn 910 00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:53,520 Speaker 1: Mendes is on there, Draymond Green basketball, you know, very 911 00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:58,359 Speaker 1: very famous basketball player and these these are stories that 912 00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,359 Speaker 1: are so it's a story from the person twenty five 913 00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,479 Speaker 1: to forty minutes that you're meant to like kind of walk. 914 00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:06,480 Speaker 1: They're walking while they tell the story, and you're walking, 915 00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,680 Speaker 1: and so you're just walking with them basically, and there's 916 00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:11,640 Speaker 1: no host or anything. It's just them kind of talking 917 00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:16,040 Speaker 1: to you in your ear. And you know, Apple says 918 00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:18,480 Speaker 1: that walking is one of the easiest forms of exercise. 919 00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:19,879 Speaker 2: This will get people to walk more. 920 00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:22,920 Speaker 1: Now, I think it's kind of tough because it's basically 921 00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,120 Speaker 1: a podcast, and I think people are listening to a 922 00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:27,879 Speaker 1: lot of podcasts. But hey, if it's going to get 923 00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,040 Speaker 1: people to walk more and your favorite celebrity is on there, 924 00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:31,520 Speaker 1: why not. You know, I'm sure you can find a 925 00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:35,399 Speaker 1: million interviews with these people that they have on regular podcasts. 926 00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:38,120 Speaker 1: But hey, you know whatever, So you have to have 927 00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:40,560 Speaker 1: an Apple Watch. It's part of Apple Fitness Plus. I 928 00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,759 Speaker 1: should probably mention that, so you do need a subscription. 929 00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:46,959 Speaker 1: You know that the Fitness Plus subscription to access these 930 00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:48,600 Speaker 1: But if you want to see what they're all about, 931 00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:50,320 Speaker 1: all you have to do is make sure your phone 932 00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:53,600 Speaker 1: is updated and your Apple Watch is updated and you 933 00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:55,680 Speaker 1: open up that fitness app on your watch and it 934 00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:58,640 Speaker 1: should just open up and you should see the the 935 00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:00,000 Speaker 1: I don't know what they call it, like a tie 936 00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,560 Speaker 1: right at the top with one of these one of 937 00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:07,480 Speaker 1: these walks time to walk on that tile and you 938 00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:10,000 Speaker 1: can download them. I think they auto download your watch 939 00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:11,600 Speaker 1: or you can download them so you can do it 940 00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:12,360 Speaker 1: all offline. 941 00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,360 Speaker 2: But again, I mean, it's cool. 942 00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:19,160 Speaker 1: And the main difference between this and a podcast is 943 00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:22,200 Speaker 1: twofold number one. It's a story and then it's like, 944 00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:26,759 Speaker 1: I think three songs that the influencer or celebrity or 945 00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:30,960 Speaker 1: whoever inspiring person that they're interviewing, whoever they pick, I 946 00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,959 Speaker 1: think three songs that move them. And then those three 947 00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:35,919 Speaker 1: songs are at the end of the walk. And then 948 00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:39,000 Speaker 1: during the walk, while they're telling their story, there are 949 00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:42,920 Speaker 1: little pictures that are synced to the story. So for example, 950 00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,800 Speaker 1: Dolly Parton was talking about this statue that's in her 951 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,520 Speaker 1: I guess the city she grew up in, and you 952 00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:50,279 Speaker 1: know it's in like the middle of the square and 953 00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:52,600 Speaker 1: you you know, goes ding ning And while you're listening 954 00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:55,839 Speaker 1: to this, it will show you the little picture of. 955 00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,359 Speaker 2: The statue on your watch. 956 00:47:57,440 --> 00:47:59,600 Speaker 1: So that's kind of unique, and that's yes, that sets 957 00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:02,640 Speaker 1: it apart from your standard podcast. Uh. The other thing 958 00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:05,359 Speaker 1: is that if you have a home pod, and all 959 00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:07,800 Speaker 1: of these features really refer to very new Apple stuff. 960 00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,480 Speaker 1: If you have a HomePod Mini and an iPhone eleven 961 00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,200 Speaker 1: or twelve, there is an update for the HomePod Mini 962 00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:16,160 Speaker 1: that makes hand off just a little bit slicker, a 963 00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:19,000 Speaker 1: little bit cooler, and a little bit easier. So the 964 00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:21,720 Speaker 1: iPhone eleven, the iPhone twelve, and the home Pod Mini 965 00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:24,200 Speaker 1: have this special chip in it. I think it's called 966 00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:26,520 Speaker 1: the you. I think it's called the U one chip 967 00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,560 Speaker 1: or the UW chip, U one chip, let me see 968 00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:32,000 Speaker 1: if it's the U one Yeah, U one chip, And 969 00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:35,440 Speaker 1: the U one chip has ultra wideband technology, which is 970 00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:39,360 Speaker 1: just fancy term for things that can tell proximity to 971 00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,400 Speaker 1: each other. And so now your phone and your speaker 972 00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:44,279 Speaker 1: know when they're close to each other and they can 973 00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,680 Speaker 1: kind of just exchange information faster and easier because it 974 00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,640 Speaker 1: knows that you're nearby. And so it's got this new 975 00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:53,760 Speaker 1: revamped screen that you know, makes listening to stuff easier 976 00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:57,040 Speaker 1: and also starting and stopping music on your HomePod easier, 977 00:48:57,080 --> 00:49:00,960 Speaker 1: and setting alarms on your HomePod easier. If there's nothing 978 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:03,280 Speaker 1: playing on your HomePod and you bring your phone nearby, 979 00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,120 Speaker 1: it will give you some suggested things to play, kind 980 00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,600 Speaker 1: of like if you've seen that happen with AirPods. If 981 00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:10,080 Speaker 1: you put them in your ear and you look at 982 00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:12,719 Speaker 1: the lock screen on your phone, it suggests a whole 983 00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:14,560 Speaker 1: bunch of things that you can just tap once and 984 00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,440 Speaker 1: start playing, whether it's podcasts or music. 985 00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:19,080 Speaker 2: So it does that, and. 986 00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:23,800 Speaker 1: Then finally you can view the media controls without unlocking 987 00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,920 Speaker 1: your iPhone and anyone in your home I tried to 988 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:28,839 Speaker 1: nail Apple down on an answer on this. They don't 989 00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,040 Speaker 1: really give me a straight answer, but it sounds like 990 00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,920 Speaker 1: anyone with an iPhone near your device can can bring 991 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:37,000 Speaker 1: up those music controls from the HomePod and press play 992 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:40,239 Speaker 1: stop or perhaps change the music on there. But I'm 993 00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,759 Speaker 1: not really sure. Yes, see and control what's playing. Oh 994 00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:45,359 Speaker 1: see and control what's playing. Okay, so you can't change 995 00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:47,840 Speaker 1: the music, but you can control it. So that means like, 996 00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,840 Speaker 1: you know, play pause, whatever. Now, if you want to 997 00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:54,680 Speaker 1: get these things, your HomePod should automatically update, and if 998 00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:56,840 Speaker 1: you want to manually check for the updates, just go 999 00:49:56,880 --> 00:50:02,120 Speaker 1: into the home app on your iPhone, select home settings 1000 00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:05,200 Speaker 1: and then software update and that should find it. 1001 00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:09,160 Speaker 2: I did it. It's different. It's not like a huge difference. 1002 00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:10,640 Speaker 1: But it's definitely a little bit different and a little 1003 00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,960 Speaker 1: bit better than before. The haptics are really improved. They 1004 00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:17,240 Speaker 1: are very different. When you get your stuff nearby your phone, 1005 00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:20,280 Speaker 1: near to the HomePod Mini, I should say this doesn't 1006 00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:24,800 Speaker 1: apply to the regular home pod. Oh my gosh, listen 1007 00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:26,720 Speaker 1: to the sound of that music. 1008 00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:30,000 Speaker 2: You know what that means. 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