Speaker 1: Amazon announces a bunch of new devices and they all
Speaker 1: have that a ward built in Ring unveils its cheapest
Speaker 1: camera yet. I've got details on my new book about
Speaker 1: iOS thirteen and the iPhone. Ways to make your web
Speaker 1: browsing more private. Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on?
Speaker 1: I'm Rich Demiro. This is Rich on Tech. This is
Speaker 1: the podcast where I talk about this stuff I think
Speaker 1: you should know about happening in the tech world. Plus
Speaker 1: I answer the questions that you send me, whether it's
Speaker 1: through email, the website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or by messenger Pigeon.
Speaker 1: Welcome as always to producer Megan. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Uh. I'm glad you're back up for it, because for
Speaker 1: a while I thought you might not return.
Speaker 2: What why?
Speaker 1: Just last week was a little little dicey, But I'm
Speaker 1: glad to see you back. It's at dicey and we
Speaker 1: are ready. We have a lot to talk about this
Speaker 1: week because I just want to get this out there
Speaker 1: because you don't see me angry very often or do you?
Speaker 1: Probably every day? No, but I will say I am
Speaker 1: very competitive, do you know that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh yep, yeah. So we did not get invited to
Speaker 1: this Amazon event.
Speaker 2: That happened this week coming out with it, and I.
Speaker 1: Mean I didn't talk about this on Twitter, I didn't
Speaker 1: make a big deal out of it on my Facebook,
Speaker 1: and m'post about it on TV, none of those things.
Speaker 1: But here on the podcast where I talk to you
Speaker 1: and only you, I want you to know my true
Speaker 1: feelings on this. And I feel like Amazon made a
Speaker 1: big mistake in not inviting us to their event this
Speaker 1: week where they unveiled a gazillion gadgets that, by the way,
Speaker 1: are exactly what my audience is asking about. Yep, okay.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. This happened. So when Amazon had
Speaker 1: their first event, they invited me. It was in somewhere
Speaker 1: like Los Angeles. I was like, oh, that's cool, it's
Speaker 1: in a life. This is many years ago, probably I
Speaker 1: would say like eight years ago. Then they had another event,
Speaker 1: like a smaller one. It was like we weren't invited.
Speaker 1: It was like, eh, oh no, they had one New
Speaker 1: York Sorry New York still invited, went to New York
Speaker 1: for their event. Next one didn't get an invite. I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's weird. So email the people at Amazon whatever and
Speaker 1: you know whatever, This one hear about it. Everyone gets
Speaker 1: their invites, and so I email someone remains to be unidentified,
Speaker 1: and their response back to me was basically, invites are
Speaker 1: really tight. I'm like, okay, so whatever, I just couldn't go.
Speaker 1: And I look at everyone on Twitter and their mom
Speaker 1: and they are all there. I mean, I'm talking for everyone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even if I did, I've broken iPhones and Apple still
Speaker 1: invites me their events. And by the way, Apple is
Speaker 1: the best tech company in the world right now.
Speaker 2: And thought that is tight.
Speaker 1: That's called the tight list. Yeah, yeah, let's talk.
Speaker 2: About tight lists. Let's talk about let's talk about the
Speaker 2: fire phone. How'd that do?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Exactly. Maybe that's maybe that I'm actually going to
Speaker 1: be totally honest. Maybe this is why I did not
Speaker 1: get invited. I never I never returned the firephone. Well
Speaker 1: oh no, let's let's.
Speaker 2: Just get it out there.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you why I didn't, because it was
Speaker 1: such a colossal failure that I told Amazons are like,
Speaker 1: you have to give this back to us now, and
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I just want to wait
Speaker 1: for one more software update, which was true. I wanted
Speaker 1: to see kind of like if they made any improvements
Speaker 1: and after that software update, They're all right, you got
Speaker 1: to give it back now, and I'm like, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I really wanted to keep it because I felt.
Speaker 2: Like probably, but also it's not it Okay, I mean
Speaker 2: I don't know anyway. But also you're a Google person.
Speaker 1: I'm not a Google person.
Speaker 2: You are for your home, all your homestill okay, okay,
Speaker 2: And so I will say so maybe they think he
Speaker 2: doesn't even like Alexa, he doesn't like.
Speaker 1: That is wrong for him to think that way, or
Speaker 1: they just they like, if you're a tech company and
Speaker 1: you're thinking you're not going to invite someone because they
Speaker 1: don't use your products, then half the tech reporters would
Speaker 1: not be there because guess what, half the people at
Speaker 1: Google in two weeks are going to be using iPhones
Speaker 1: and Apple watches. Yeah, that's just the way it is
Speaker 1: right now. When you go to Apple, everyone's using iPhone.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean so.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that. I'm telling that to you because
Speaker 1: I want you to take what I say about all
Speaker 1: these new devices with a grain of salt, because I
Speaker 1: may not be so kind to them. And also I
Speaker 1: don't have the basis to tell you what you really
Speaker 1: need to know about them, right, because I'm just reading
Speaker 1: what they sent to me, because they did send me
Speaker 1: a synopsis of the event so nicely. Oh cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so I told the person who sent me that.
Speaker 1: I was like, next time, why don't we be there?
Speaker 2: You should read like the synopsis for one device and
Speaker 2: then or just say what you think it is and
Speaker 2: then read the synopsis, just so that people can get
Speaker 2: an idea of what Amazon wants you to think.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. So Alexa, I've said this before,
Speaker 1: I don't think is as good as other assistants out there.
Speaker 1: So they can build it into a million and one products,
Speaker 1: and I still don't think it's as good as Google Assistant,
Speaker 1: and even Siri for certain cases, like Siria is very
Speaker 1: good at commanding your phone, not so good at commanding
Speaker 1: all kinds of knowledge. Alexa, when I had it set
Speaker 1: up in my house, I would ask it the simplest
Speaker 1: things like to turn off lights, turn on lights, and
Speaker 1: it would never get it right. And then with the skills,
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of tricky. Anyway, They've done very well
Speaker 1: with Alexa because the price points are good and they've
Speaker 1: got them into a lot of hands and they've got
Speaker 1: a lot of products with it, but I'm still not convinced.
Speaker 1: So without further ado, let's get into some of these products.
Speaker 1: Echo Dot with Clock. This is an Echo Dot that
Speaker 1: has an LED display that shows you the time, the temperature, timers,
Speaker 1: and alarms. That's sixty dollars. I think this is probably
Speaker 1: going to be the most popular device they launched because
Speaker 1: it's an Echo Dot for your bedside that has a
Speaker 1: clock on It makes perfect sense. You could put this
Speaker 1: thing anywhere you could put it. I mean think if
Speaker 1: you run like an Airbnb, could put this on a
Speaker 1: bedside table, you know whatever. You could put it in
Speaker 1: the spare room, in the bathroom, whatever, and it still
Speaker 1: kind of works. It's cute, and it's sixty dollars, which
Speaker 1: really means an Amazon money that it's probably like forty
Speaker 1: when it goes on sale because these Echo Events devices
Speaker 1: always go on seal. Yeah. Echo Show eight is their
Speaker 1: answer to the Google Home Hub. This is an Echo
Speaker 1: Show that has an eight inch display and the main
Speaker 1: thing here is that it has a built in camera
Speaker 1: shutter because privacy is top of mind these days, and
Speaker 1: so you can slide that closed and it's one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty dollars. Echo Studio is their best sounding echo.
Speaker 1: This is kind of a giant echo and if you
Speaker 1: really want to convert your whole house to Amazon Sound,
Speaker 1: then you probably want to get this thing. And it's
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety nine dollars. That's expensive, but it's
Speaker 1: not as expensive as if you compare it to something
Speaker 1: like Sonos, and that's kind of what they're putting this
Speaker 1: up against. Echo buds these are my head scratcher of
Speaker 1: the day. These are wireless earbuds that have bows active
Speaker 1: noise cancelation or noise reduction technology and hands free access
Speaker 1: to you know who. One hundred and thirty dollars. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing. These have micro USB, which has not
Speaker 1: been used on a gadget like five years. Okay, most
Speaker 1: of the gadgets these days, or ninety nine percent of them,
Speaker 1: are USBC, which is reversible, it's faster, it's better, it's
Speaker 1: the standard nowadays, and lightning obviously on Apple products, even
Speaker 1: some Apple products. The new ones are USBC, and they're
Speaker 1: still micro USB on these earbuds, so that's a big
Speaker 1: like eh. And they're not in air buds replacement at
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty dollars. No way, air buds are
Speaker 1: one sixty or AIRPODSDS get the AirPods?
Speaker 2: Or are the Samsum buds the.
Speaker 1: Galaxy buds those are like ninety nine on them.
Speaker 2: Can you connect those buds to your phone?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're just Bluetooth so the work. Yeah. Echo Frames
Speaker 1: these are two experimental products. Echo frames are glasses that
Speaker 1: have hands free access to a and those are one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty dollars. They also have I mean you
Speaker 1: basically can use them and hear Alexa. There's no camera inside,
Speaker 1: there's no display. It's not like one of those like
Speaker 1: futuristic glasses. They're just glasses that in the sides have
Speaker 1: like microphone and speakers. You can talk to Alexa all day.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Those are only compatible with Android phones,
Speaker 1: which limits their you know, broad appeal. Echo Loop is
Speaker 1: a smart ring that provides access to Alexa on the go.
Speaker 1: This is one hundred and thirty dollars and it has
Speaker 1: two microphones and the tiniest speaker ever on a Echo device,
Speaker 1: plus a tiny haptic that vibrates. So if you now,
Speaker 1: that's kind of cool. So if you get an incoming call,
Speaker 1: your ring vibrates, which is kind of cool if you
Speaker 1: don't want to watch right. It also can announce you know,
Speaker 1: you can be Here's how they describe get this.
Speaker 2: I feel like you're getting No.
Speaker 1: They can you can discreetly ask how much is the
Speaker 1: right amount to tip at dinner. You can confirm you
Speaker 1: lock the front door, or announce you're on the way home.
Speaker 1: Or you can use it for short phone calls.
Speaker 2: Or you could just google it like on your phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or you can just use your phone. This the
Speaker 1: echo loop smart ring. If it was a fitness ring,
Speaker 1: I could see the benefit of it, and maybe there
Speaker 1: are some fitness things, but no, Amazon is really stretching
Speaker 1: with some of this stuff, like give me a break, right.
Speaker 2: I wonder if Jeff Bezos is going to get engaged
Speaker 2: to his girlfriend with the ring. That would be I hope,
Speaker 2: so sorry. That's yeah, that's just funny.
Speaker 1: See the way you think Amazon's smart oven. This is
Speaker 1: a convection oven, microwave, airfrer, and food warmer. You can
Speaker 1: ask Alexa to preheat the oven starter, stop cooking, and
Speaker 1: be notified when it's ready. I actually think that's really cool.
Speaker 1: And there's also a barcode scanner, so you can scan
Speaker 1: smart foods or special foods from Whole Foods and Marie
Speaker 1: Calendars and Guarden and it will tell you like it'll
Speaker 1: cook them properly. That's kind of cool.
Speaker 2: That is cool.
Speaker 1: I actually like the idea of a smart oven because
Speaker 1: I love the idea that when I'm on my way home,
Speaker 1: I can preheat the oven.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, when your dad you're like making nuggets for
Speaker 1: the kids and stuff. So it's always like, I know
Speaker 1: you're going to like Sweet Green for like a fifteen
Speaker 1: dollars salad like with you know, protein.
Speaker 2: I literally never go to Sweet Green. I wish I
Speaker 2: could afford that. That's so expensive.
Speaker 1: It is expensive, but it's all local and it's really good.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: Sweet Green is like my absolute favorite. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: feel like every time I go in there, it's just
Speaker 1: more and more expensive. I'm like this, get like another
Speaker 1: dollar more expensive.
Speaker 2: My favorite thing is to like look up a salad
Speaker 2: from there and then find regrade it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My new favorite thing has been going to salad bars.
Speaker 1: Oh so it's like at Gelson's.
Speaker 2: You see that I'm not good at putting it together.
Speaker 1: I need here's what you do? This guy, doctor Grieger.
Speaker 1: He has the how not to die and he just
Speaker 1: has his list of twelve things you should be eating
Speaker 1: every day, which is like nuts, seeds, greens, cruciferous. Just
Speaker 1: dump all that in the salad and it's great. So
Speaker 1: just go for like anything that, like most people don't
Speaker 1: want in their salad. That's what you put in there,
Speaker 1: like the the atamamae beans, the sunflower seeds, the good
Speaker 1: you know, kale, the you know, like anything that you
Speaker 1: don't want, that's what you have to eat. Okay, that's it,
Speaker 1: and you just dump it all in there. Put a
Speaker 1: little dressing. Tastes good, It tastes great.
Speaker 2: Little chicken obviously, chicken makes anything taste good. I think.
Speaker 1: Finally, Echo Glow this looks really cool too, So I'm
Speaker 1: not hating on, you know, on Amazon, I mean, but
Speaker 1: Echo Glow is a multicolor smart lamp that pairs Alexa
Speaker 1: and it's just thirty dollars and I love this.
Speaker 2: I think I would get this too.
Speaker 1: Did you see it? Yeah? It looks really it looks
Speaker 1: really cool.
Speaker 2: It reminds me of.
Speaker 1: Yes, the Hue the you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, it's literally the same thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but for half the price.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So that's why I love it.
Speaker 2: And so basically doesn't it increase in brightness as you're
Speaker 2: waking up, so it helps you wake you up, helps
Speaker 2: wake you up.
Speaker 1: You can put on your bedside to do that. They're
Speaker 1: they're doing they're marketing it as a multicolor smart lamp
Speaker 1: for kids, but it can you know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things you can do. But I just love the
Speaker 1: idea of the kids. You know, they love building forts
Speaker 1: and to have this little glowing in fact, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to order this right now, pre order done.
Speaker 1: I don't be released on November twentieth. I mean, why would
Speaker 1: I not want this?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Now, can I control it with my phone? That's the
Speaker 1: only thing.
Speaker 2: That's what I was about to say. I have a
Speaker 2: Google Home Yeah I don't have.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that I can get it
Speaker 1: with Bluetooth, because that's the thing about the phone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because if I can't do it with Bluetooth, that's a problem.
Speaker 1: Because I can't. I'll I have to look on into
Speaker 1: this a little bit more.
Speaker 2: You know. What I started using, yes literally yesterday, was
Speaker 2: there's a sleep app that I used to use and
Speaker 2: I haven't touched it in a year. And it basically it's.
Speaker 1: Called a good story, Megan, what cool story?
Speaker 2: Tell against sleep cycle? Okay, have you ever used it? No?
Speaker 2: So basically what it does is it wakes you up
Speaker 2: when you're in the lightest like frem or whatever. And
Speaker 2: like I woke up at two thirty ish, like I
Speaker 2: started to wake up, and it like turned on the
Speaker 2: alarm then because it knew.
Speaker 1: I was like, actually, have to put your phone on
Speaker 1: your pillow, No, you.
Speaker 2: Put it on your used to have to have it
Speaker 2: on your bed, but now you can put it like
Speaker 2: on your bedside table. And I don't know, but it's
Speaker 2: like it knew that I was waking up like naturally,
Speaker 2: which I don't ever do. I normally like can't wake up.
Speaker 2: It's like hard for me to wake up like always,
Speaker 2: I've always been this way.
Speaker 1: You're a dead sleeper.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like even if I have to wake up, even
Speaker 2: after if I have to wake up at like ten
Speaker 2: am on the weekend, it's hard for me. So it
Speaker 2: literally is the safe funny.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm a jump out of bed kind of person.
Speaker 1: I wish I could. I wait to wait.
Speaker 2: I will wait as long.
Speaker 1: As I'll look over at my little alarm clock and
Speaker 1: see I like tap my watch and I'll be like,
Speaker 1: is it time to wake up yet? And I'll just
Speaker 1: like lay there and like wait, and I'll wake up
Speaker 1: like a little bit earlier than my clock sometimes. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to the first question of the day.
Speaker 2: All right, So this first question comes from Janetta and
Speaker 2: she wrote to you through Facebook, which is Facebook dot com,
Speaker 2: slash rich stamiro Right rich on Tech, rich on Tech.
Speaker 2: She asked, what do you think about mobilio app? Is
Speaker 2: it safe to use? I've never heard of this.
Speaker 1: I have not heard of this either. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I've noticed that a lot of people email me questions
Speaker 1: about stuff they see advertised on TV. Because when I'm
Speaker 1: at the gym, I see a whole bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: and I'm just taking notes. I'm like, I need to
Speaker 1: cover that. I need your story on that, and what's
Speaker 1: that app? What's this? So I guarantee you this is
Speaker 1: something that she either saw shared on Facebook, advertised on Instagram,
Speaker 1: or on a TV somewhere. So I looked it up
Speaker 1: and Mobilio is an app where you drive with this
Speaker 1: app on your phone, and the better you drive, the
Speaker 1: more they reward. You, but they don't reward you in cash.
Speaker 1: They reward you with their own cryptocurrency called Mobilio. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything wrong with this app. I
Speaker 1: think that it's an interesting idea. But what they're doing
Speaker 1: is there, and they are paying you for your data.
Speaker 1: Unlike Google Maps, which is doing the same thing. It's
Speaker 1: collecting all kinds of data on you, it's not paying
Speaker 1: you for that data. So I like the idea that
Speaker 1: they are paying you for the data they're collecting. But
Speaker 1: do I trust their weird crypt currency. No, And for
Speaker 1: that reason I would not get this app. Now, with
Speaker 1: that said, let me just see. I'm curious. I'm always curious.
Speaker 1: You can't really trust Okay, yeah, it's only has Okay, interesting,
Speaker 1: it's from uh, it's from Germany, so it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: a bad app. But I just I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just feel like I'm not really convinced that this
Speaker 1: is the way to go to give up all your
Speaker 1: data about driving. And I'd also be concerned if something
Speaker 1: were to happen, if you got into an accident, if
Speaker 1: someone could subpoena the data from this app. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think you should go for that.
Speaker 1: But good question.
Speaker 2: It's an interesting I've never heard of something like that.
Speaker 1: Well, something that people don't realize is and I told
Speaker 1: Uber this when I was in contact with them about
Speaker 1: you know, long story short, a lot of these apps
Speaker 1: like Uber and Lyft, they're actually looking at what the
Speaker 1: drivers are doing on those apps while they're driving. So
Speaker 1: there is monitoring software inside those apps that see if
Speaker 1: a driver is handling their phone, if they're speeding, yeah,
Speaker 1: if they're breaking too hard. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: all the drivers know that. They probably do know that, yeah,
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure that even Uber is using this
Speaker 1: data to you know, score drivers or you know x
Speaker 1: drivers from their system or their platform. But I'm just
Speaker 1: saying in a lot of these apps that you download,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of things that you may not
Speaker 1: know are happening in the background. And I think we're
Speaker 1: seeing this with iOS thirteen. Actually, have you updated your
Speaker 1: phone yet? Okay, so if you've updated your phone, you
Speaker 1: have definitely noticed that you're getting all these little alerts
Speaker 1: that say this program has been using your location in
Speaker 1: the background, this program has been using Bluetooth. And so
Speaker 1: for me, I got one from Ralph's. You know, Ralph's
Speaker 1: the grocery store. Why would Ralphs need access to my bluetooth?
Speaker 1: And I got this message on iOS thirteen. Ralphs has
Speaker 1: been using your bluetooth thirteen times in the past, you know,
Speaker 1: in the background. And here's why, because a lot of
Speaker 1: these companies will use bluetooth as a beacon to track
Speaker 1: you and see where you are inside the store. They
Speaker 1: can see what things you walk past. Serious, absolutely, and
Speaker 1: so now iOS thirteen is cracking down because something you
Speaker 1: wouldn't even have thought of.
Speaker 2: Thanks Apple.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're being very cool, and so is Androids doing
Speaker 1: the same thing. They're both getting because we went through
Speaker 1: this renaissance of apps and the beauty of all the
Speaker 1: things our phone can do, right, and now we're getting
Speaker 1: into like, okay, we let you have free rain for
Speaker 1: a long time. Yeah, now we're gonna pull back a
Speaker 1: little bit because hold on, what's going on here, and
Speaker 1: that's kind of what we're seeing with these new operating systems.
Speaker 1: So wow, if you see those messages, the maps one
Speaker 1: looks a lot scarier than it really is, but you
Speaker 1: have to it gives you pause. So for me, I've
Speaker 1: an app called Citizen which alerts you when there's crime
Speaker 1: in your area. We've talked about this before. Yes, for
Speaker 1: that one, I do want my background location on at
Speaker 1: all times because no matter where I am, I can
Speaker 1: get an alert about crime happening near me to scare
Speaker 1: the hell out of me. With the other one, with Ralphs,
Speaker 1: when I saw the bluetooth thing, I don't need them
Speaker 1: to have access to my bluetooth. I'm not using the
Speaker 1: Ralphs Alexa microphone in my phone or whatever, so I
Speaker 1: don't need that. So immediately I said, Nope, don't allow.
Speaker 1: And in my book, by the way, we'll talk about
Speaker 1: in a moment, but I do talk about how you
Speaker 1: can turn off access because there's a lot of new
Speaker 1: ways to turn off access to stuff on your phone
Speaker 1: in iOS thirteen than you had before. So we talk
Speaker 1: about that. I'll get to that after the next question.
Speaker 1: But let's talk about Ring they have. This is related
Speaker 1: to Amazon, but they also launched their most affordable security
Speaker 1: camera to date. It's called the Ring Indoorcam. Everyone loves
Speaker 1: indoor cameras now, there's so many of them, fifty nine
Speaker 1: to ninety nine, which is considerably cheaper than what Nest offers.
Speaker 1: But not as cheap as what Wise offers. Wise has
Speaker 1: a camera for about twenty dollars. If you just need
Speaker 1: a basic indoor security camera, Wise is the way to go.
Speaker 1: Former Amazon folks did that. Amazon Cloudcam also not a
Speaker 1: bad way to go. But the Ring Indoorcam can be
Speaker 1: mounted anywhere in the house. It's got ten ADPHD video.
Speaker 1: It also has a privacy feature that lets you disable
Speaker 1: motion and audio recording from the app, not on a
Speaker 1: physical key, which a lot of these things are doing.
Speaker 1: And there's also an indicator light that lights up whenever
Speaker 1: the camera is recording. Then they also announced their third
Speaker 1: generation Ring stick up Cam, And I love the idea
Speaker 1: of the stick up camp because it's really simple. A
Speaker 1: lot of times you don't want to When they came
Speaker 1: to my house to install the Nest Cam, it took forever.
Speaker 1: They had to run wires and this and that. It
Speaker 1: was a whole big nightmare. You need power and all
Speaker 1: this stuff. The stick up Cam you can put anywhere
Speaker 1: by yourself, and you can power it by pluggin if
Speaker 1: you got a plug nearby. Great battery if you want
Speaker 1: to recharge it, or solar which is kind of cool.
Speaker 1: So if you want a camera in your backyard and
Speaker 1: you don't have you know, a plug close to wherever
Speaker 1: you plug. Put the camera in Solar Boom Ring stick
Speaker 1: up cam and they call it stick up because you
Speaker 1: just stick it up anywhere. Wow.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: And both new cameras of course work with you know
Speaker 1: who Alexa. Yes, so you can say Alexa, show the
Speaker 1: backyard or show the living room or answer the living room.
Speaker 2: So anyway, sorry, yeah, sorry but yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh and the Ring Indoor Ham is available today sixty
Speaker 1: bucks Ring dot com, Amazon dot com, Best Buy dot com,
Speaker 1: Target dot com, Home Depot dot com.
Speaker 2: You sound like one of those.
Speaker 1: Marcials late at night.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, like the people that sell our.
Speaker 1: Our oh our auction. All right, let's hear it.
Speaker 2: The next question comes from Galen and she's looking for
Speaker 2: a charger phone case for her iPhone. I'm looking for
Speaker 2: a lightweight, slim phone case that will charge my phone.
Speaker 2: Getting ready to go to Australia. She wants to be
Speaker 2: efficient and prepared. If you have a suggestion for a
Speaker 2: portable charger, I'm happy to learn this as well.
Speaker 1: Oh, she wants a portable charger or a or a phone.
Speaker 2: Case that charges her phone. So one or the other.
Speaker 1: All right, well the phone. There's two phone cases that
Speaker 1: are and she has iPhone, okay, so the two phone
Speaker 1: cases are kind of the gold standard. Number one is
Speaker 1: even before Apple did it, a company called Mophi did it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and everyone's heard of the Mofi case. So
Speaker 1: Mophi has a juice pack and that's what I'd recommend.
Speaker 1: So it depends if you want. They have different levels
Speaker 1: of them, but your phone basically slides into this case.
Speaker 1: Nowadays a lot of them are wireless, so you still
Speaker 1: get the use of the lightning port on the bottom.
Speaker 1: It used to be your phone would snap into the
Speaker 1: case like this and it would take over the lightning
Speaker 1: port because the charger the case would charge the lightning port.
Speaker 1: Now it just sits on your phone on the back
Speaker 1: and it wirelessly charges because all the new phones have
Speaker 1: wireless charging, so you still get access to your charging
Speaker 1: port if you need to plug in anything, headphones, whatever.
Speaker 1: So that's the main thing. Those are about one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: I would recommend the Mofi one. Just go for that.
Speaker 1: If you want to stick with Apple and stay in
Speaker 1: the Apple family, then I would go with the Apple
Speaker 1: iPhone Smart Battery case and did she say which model
Speaker 1: of phone she had? No, No, okay, so they should
Speaker 1: have it for most phone models. So it just depends.
Speaker 1: But you know, that's the phone. Now. The one from
Speaker 1: Apple is a little bit more expensive because that's Apple.
Speaker 1: You're paying that little premium that's one hundred and thirty dollars.
Speaker 1: And the only reason I like the Apple one a
Speaker 1: little bit more is because it's grippy. It has that
Speaker 1: silicone case, which is grippy, and I find that that's
Speaker 1: really cool.
Speaker 2: The only way does it have two stars?
Speaker 1: Oh that's just on the Apple website. Who knows. Okay,
Speaker 1: they probably don't like that as grippy. But the main
Speaker 1: problem with the grippiness for a guy is that getting
Speaker 1: it in and out of your jeans pocket not so easy.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so I've had.
Speaker 2: The grippy girls put their phones in their genes part
Speaker 2: in the back too.
Speaker 1: But it's but it's a little bit easier because you're
Speaker 1: sliding it in, like screen first. I feel like, how
Speaker 1: do you put your phone in your back pocket? Screen first?
Speaker 2: Or screen first?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I feel like, Yeah, do you do that.
Speaker 1: I've started to do that because I really am concerned
Speaker 1: about having my phone in the area that it's in
Speaker 1: when it's in your pocket, you know what I mean, right,
Speaker 1: Like that area is a little sensitive, you know, right,
Speaker 1: So I feel like that I've been carrying a phone
Speaker 1: there for like twenty years now I'm done having kids.
Speaker 2: Radiation, Yeah, I never thought.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, you've never thought about that. I also think
Speaker 1: about it with my wrist with the Apple Watch, because
Speaker 1: this has cellular and I feel like cellular is just
Speaker 1: you know, pouring down on my wrist all day.
Speaker 2: That's really crazy.
Speaker 1: So I've actually started and I think, so one should
Speaker 1: do this putting my phone in my sock.
Speaker 2: But then if your foot gets cancer.
Speaker 1: Well that's fine. They can just chop it off, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, if it comes down to that, that's much.
Speaker 1: It's a much better place if I had to pick.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's hope we don't get to that. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that phones do that, but you just
Speaker 1: it's been a long time, and yeah, you know, like.
Speaker 2: Sometimes when I watch TV on my laptop and it's
Speaker 2: on my stomach, I'm like, this might not be good.
Speaker 1: Depends how much you're binging. If you're binging a lot,
Speaker 1: yeah might ours Yeah, cash out for that I'm not
Speaker 1: a doctor, so don't take it. Don't take any medical
Speaker 1: I and I love. I love having two kids because
Speaker 1: they play together so much. It's amazing.
Speaker 2: I think that's the perfect America.
Speaker 1: It really is. Oh that's mean you have three in
Speaker 1: your family. So mean.
Speaker 2: When I have kids, I've thought about, well, I used
Speaker 2: to want four if this is when I was like twelve,
Speaker 2: and now I'm like, I think two. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Everything's so expensive these days. I'll probably just stick to cats.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2: I don't have cats. I have a dog. That's my
Speaker 2: child for now. My mom's one of eleven, though, so
Speaker 2: that's a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a lot of kids. I was one of five.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and luck how you turned out.
Speaker 1: I'm yeah the thing. I was early in the bunch.
Speaker 2: Yeah you're the first.
Speaker 1: Oh my, I'm the second. But all my siblings are great,
Speaker 1: and it's I actually loved having five because it was
Speaker 1: a party. Yeah, and I'm sure you know, I love
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: I loved having like I thought it was so normal
Speaker 2: to have such a big family. And I love all
Speaker 2: the cousins.
Speaker 1: So and solo kids. What do you call it? A
Speaker 1: single thing?
Speaker 2: And my dad's an only child.
Speaker 1: Only child. Only child's probably great too. You kids probably
Speaker 1: love that because.
Speaker 2: They get all that at all the attention.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I love my kids. I love I call
Speaker 1: it like autopilot when they're just playing with each other
Speaker 1: and I'm like.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, this is That's like when my dogs
Speaker 2: play with each other.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing, very similar. And you're like, come on,
Speaker 1: come and get it, come and get the food. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you about my new book, because I am
Speaker 1: very proud of this, Megan. We've talked about this on
Speaker 1: the show before, but now it is actually available so exciting.
Speaker 1: It is called one and one iPhone Tips and Tricks,
Speaker 1: and I say it is the key that's going to
Speaker 1: help you unlock the most useful features on your phone.
Speaker 1: Now you might be remembering that I wrote a book
Speaker 1: last year, and you might be like, Rich, I already
Speaker 1: got your last book. I don't need a new book.
Speaker 1: Stop trying to get me to get this new book.
Speaker 1: This new book is completely up, updated for iOS thirteen.
Speaker 1: So while everyone else was out this summer vacationing sunbathing,
Speaker 1: you were in Hawaii. Guess what I was doing.
Speaker 2: You were in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: I was writing my book no matter where I was,
Speaker 1: and so I've been pouring over iOS thirteen finding all
Speaker 1: the little nuggets new things that you can do in
Speaker 1: this operating system, and I wrote the book all about it.
Speaker 1: So I tell you about the new way you can update, delete,
Speaker 1: and rearrange apps, because that will throw you for a
Speaker 1: loop when you try it. There's a new photo editor
Speaker 1: and video editor. How to set time limits for apps,
Speaker 1: and I can set time limits for websites too. Oh
Speaker 1: wow cool. Okay, you can set your phone up to
Speaker 1: help out in the emergency situation, block robo calls, activate
Speaker 1: the dark mode, swipe to type, create an eye message profile,
Speaker 1: which I'm surprised you have an update because that's like
Speaker 1: one of the best features. When you text someone now
Speaker 1: it shows their stuff, which is really cool.
Speaker 2: Is there a reason why I don't see your profile?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're not on iOS thirteen yet.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: You can ask Siri to play any radio station, all
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. And if you're wondering how much of
Speaker 1: this book is different from the first, I was very
Speaker 1: cognizant of writing it for someone that purchased the previous book,
Speaker 1: So yes, there is some stuff that repeats, but even
Speaker 1: if it repeats, I do put a new twist on it,
Speaker 1: but a majority of it is new now. Right now,
Speaker 1: it's available as an ebook on the Kindle on Amazon.
Speaker 1: The paperback is coming soon. We're just literally finalizing the
Speaker 1: cover like this weekend, like it should be any day now.
Speaker 1: Once that's done, you'll be able to get a paperback.
Speaker 1: But the ebook is available. And some people have been
Speaker 1: emailing me because they can't seem to figure out if
Speaker 1: they don't have a Kindle how do they get the
Speaker 1: Kindle version. Well, you don't necessarily have to have a
Speaker 1: Kindle device. You can download the Amazon app, it's the
Speaker 1: Amazon Kindle App to your iPhone or your iPad or
Speaker 1: any tablet and read the book on there. But here's
Speaker 1: a little trick of this whole thing. If you're trying
Speaker 1: to buy the book from an iPhone, it will say
Speaker 1: this item is not available for purchase on this device.
Speaker 1: It's because Apple and Amazon are at war over a
Speaker 1: commission on books sold. So you have to go to
Speaker 1: a desktop computer buy the book that way, and then
Speaker 1: you can just download it's your Kindle app anywhere you want.
Speaker 1: That's a little trick to know. Or if you're really slick,
Speaker 1: you can do what I can. What I would do
Speaker 1: is I would just request the desktop version of the
Speaker 1: website on Safari on Amazon and just buy it through
Speaker 1: the website because you can buy it. Of course, you
Speaker 1: can buy something on a website. So the problem is
Speaker 1: if you go to Amazon on your phone and type
Speaker 1: in you know, one D and one, Well, now I
Speaker 1: have it on the desktop. So anyway, that's it one
Speaker 1: and one iPhone tips.
Speaker 2: Can you read us something from your book?
Speaker 1: Like not?
Speaker 2: You know, you don't want to give a lot of
Speaker 2: it away. No.
Speaker 1: If you go on Amazon, you get literally the first
Speaker 1: eleven chapters for free as a sample. So if you
Speaker 1: want to get an idea of this book, just go
Speaker 1: ahead and download the sample.
Speaker 2: And I'm doing it now.
Speaker 1: You get like the first ten chapters. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: pretty amazing. But I I talk about all kinds of
Speaker 1: fun stuff. So I mean, let's see, like privacy, every
Speaker 1: app wants access to your location at all times. The
Speaker 1: reason they can use this information to build a more
Speaker 1: precise profile of you and have better luck as selling
Speaker 1: you stuff. Of course, there are many benefits to sharing
Speaker 1: your location with an app. It's how car sharing service
Speaker 1: finds your house or weather app shows your local forecast.
Speaker 1: Apple understands that location access can be a double edged sword,
Speaker 1: which is why they're giving users more precise sharing options
Speaker 1: in iOS thirteen. There you go.
Speaker 2: Anyway, And I keep telling Rachi Sha do an audiobook.
Speaker 1: Oh see, that's what it would sound like. You're just
Speaker 1: gonna get me to read a little chapter every time
Speaker 1: and post it all together.
Speaker 2: It's because I love listening to audiobooks when I go
Speaker 2: on walks.
Speaker 1: So you want to take me everywhere? I get it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, okay, moving on. Next question comes from Rich's
Speaker 2: Instagram account, which is rich on tech. Blue Moon asks
Speaker 2: what is the best GPS watch for a person with
Speaker 2: autism that does not have a phone.
Speaker 1: Ooh, there, this is a market. If you're listening and
Speaker 1: you are handy in any way, shape or form, come
Speaker 1: up with a smart watch for kids because all the
Speaker 1: options out there are terrible. And Apple should make the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch for kids, but they don't. Oh yeah, but
Speaker 1: the one that I've been testing with my kid is
Speaker 1: the cool Pad Dino. I think we did a story
Speaker 1: on this. It's a smart watch kind of a random
Speaker 1: company that you probably haven't heard of, but it's a
Speaker 1: great little watch. It does what it needs to do.
Speaker 1: You can track your kid, it's GPS, it's got built
Speaker 1: in cellular. You can buy this thing by itself. I
Speaker 1: think the watch is like one hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 1: Then you have to buy the cellular plan. Yeah, the plan,
Speaker 1: which you know, they have various plans, but it's great.
Speaker 1: It works with iOS and Android. You can send text,
Speaker 1: you can call your kid. We've done calls like where
Speaker 1: they are at, like knots Berry Farm or something, and
Speaker 1: you call them on It sounds great, and you really
Speaker 1: do when your kid has this thing on the wrist,
Speaker 1: which she doesn't all the time, but you really do
Speaker 1: feel peace of mind that your kid can have a
Speaker 1: longer lease. They can kind of go because you know
Speaker 1: you can get in touch with them, so I kind
Speaker 1: of I mean, that's what I'd recommend Dino kids dot com. Okay,
Speaker 1: the website to go to. All right, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: we're almost out of time on the show. I can't
Speaker 1: believe it. What did I promise here? I should? Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, Okay, let me get to a couple of things.
Speaker 1: We talked about ways to make web browsing more private
Speaker 1: on KTLA, and so I just want to go through
Speaker 1: some of the tools that we talked about because I
Speaker 1: thought that this story did fantastic.
Speaker 2: I love this story.
Speaker 1: First thing we talked about startpage dot com. You probably
Speaker 1: haven't heard of it, but it builds itself as the
Speaker 1: world's most private search engine. And the cool thing about
Speaker 1: this search engine is twofold number one. The results are
Speaker 1: from Google, so you can actually use it and get
Speaker 1: good results and still protect your privacy. The second thing
Speaker 1: is that you can visit any search result anonymously. So
Speaker 1: next to each search result says something like anonymous visit,
Speaker 1: You click it, and it sets up a temporary proxy
Speaker 1: between you and the site you're visiting. So I always
Speaker 1: give the example of you know, you think you got
Speaker 1: something wrong with you you want to look it up,
Speaker 1: but you don't really want that on your permanent Google record,
Speaker 1: That's what I call it. And so you look up
Speaker 1: this weird you know thing that you think you have, which,
Speaker 1: of course is going to lead to you thinking you're dying.
Speaker 1: Have you ever done this, Megan? Okay, of course everyone has. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So again you don't want reminders of it, you.
Speaker 2: Know, beam a headache and Google like headache in the
Speaker 2: back of your brain. It's like taniarism, and then you're like,
Speaker 2: how many minutes do I have?
Speaker 1: So true exactly, you've done this lately. The next thing
Speaker 1: is the Brave web Browser. Brave web Browser is entire
Speaker 1: web browser dedicated to privacy, so by default, it blocks trackers,
Speaker 1: it blocks ads, it forces secure encrypted connections on any
Speaker 1: website that supports it. They say that webpages load faster
Speaker 1: because of all this, and you can also see how
Speaker 1: Brave is working because they give you a little report
Speaker 1: card for each site, but that's kind of like a
Speaker 1: heavy handed approach because you're switching your entire web browser. Now,
Speaker 1: speaking of switching your entire web browser, there's one called
Speaker 1: Firefox Focus, and this is a mobile web browser, but
Speaker 1: this is for a super private web browser on your phone.
Speaker 1: And the thing about this web browser you probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: replace your web browser with it, but it's kind of
Speaker 1: fun to have for those searches. Like you said, if
Speaker 1: you're looking up some sort of weird, you know, medical
Speaker 1: condition you think you have and you don't really want
Speaker 1: this on your phone. Every time you type into series
Speaker 1: something and it's like you start with S and it's
Speaker 1: like you know or are, and it's like weird rash
Speaker 1: on side of leg you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 1: maybe you just don't want that, So Firefox Focus blocks
Speaker 1: all the stuff you don't need. It's highly secure, and
Speaker 1: at the end of your search session you press a
Speaker 1: trash can and boom, everything is gone, so there's no
Speaker 1: record of it. That's cool. Duck Duck Go Privacy Essentials
Speaker 1: This is good if you're hesitant to switch browsers. This
Speaker 1: is an extension for Chrome and other browsers that will
Speaker 1: put a shield between you and spying trackers. So it
Speaker 1: does all kinds of stuff. The only downside is it
Speaker 1: changes your search engine to Duck Duck Go, which is
Speaker 1: not very good. Yeah. I hate to say. They say
Speaker 1: that they source results from four hundred different things, but
Speaker 1: Google is not one of them, clearly because it's You'll
Speaker 1: be fine, but it's just not Google like Google, let's
Speaker 1: be honest, as the gold standard for search engine. And
Speaker 1: then a lot of people were asking me what the
Speaker 1: difference is between just all these things and using incognito
Speaker 1: or private browsing mode. The difference is that incognito and
Speaker 1: private browsing won't remember your search history, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily block what you're doing from your ISP whoever's giving
Speaker 1: you that Internet connection, which by the way, could be
Speaker 1: your employer. So if you're searching for this stuff on
Speaker 1: Wi Fi at work, your employer could see everything that
Speaker 1: you're searching. So that's the main difference. Okay, you got
Speaker 1: a quick question, Megan.
Speaker 2: Um, Yeah, this question comes from Alex, she asks, and
Speaker 2: she says, quick question. Oh perfect, I have Pixel three.
Speaker 2: Thinking of changing thoughts on S ten versus Note versus
Speaker 2: Pixel four.
Speaker 1: S ten versus Note versus Pixel four. So S ten
Speaker 1: and the Note are pretty much the same. They're both Samsung. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she has a Pixel three or he I would be
Speaker 1: partial to seeing what the Pixel four is gonna be
Speaker 1: all about. I mean, if you're used to that Pixel
Speaker 1: three camera, it's gonna be really tough to go to
Speaker 1: a Samsung camera. Not that the Samsung camera is bad,
Speaker 1: but it's just not as fast and like spot On
Speaker 1: the first time Pixel camera, no matter what you tap
Speaker 1: it and it's gonna be a perfect picture every single time.
Speaker 1: There's literally just no there's no fu whatsoever with Samsung.
Speaker 1: It takes great pictures, but sometimes it could be hit
Speaker 1: or miss in the low light situations, the selfie situations,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. Sometimes it can be good. Sometimes they're
Speaker 1: not so good. But with that said, I will say
Speaker 1: that Samsung makes some of the most fun cameras I've
Speaker 1: ever seen on a smartphone. When I have a Samsung
Speaker 1: device in my hand, I just feel like I want
Speaker 1: to take pictures in various ways, like I want to
Speaker 1: take portrait mode, I want to take live video, I
Speaker 1: want to just do all kinds of cool pictures with
Speaker 1: that camera. Pixel is great, but it's kind of a
Speaker 1: I always say this, it's a one trick pony. It
Speaker 1: takes a picture, it's great, it looks cool, but that's it.
Speaker 1: There's no wide angle, there's no you know, there's no telephoto.
Speaker 1: You know, there's nothing. It's just boom, you take a picture.
Speaker 1: So with that said, Pixel four is going to add
Speaker 1: that wide angle lens, So that'll give you a lot
Speaker 1: more in terms of creativity. So I'd wait for that
Speaker 1: and i'd probably see what they offer and then make
Speaker 1: your decision. But when it comes to S ten versus note,
Speaker 1: I would go S ten plus because it's a smaller
Speaker 1: form factor. Unless you need that stylus, it's a much
Speaker 1: easier to handle phone. It just is cool, all right?
Speaker 1: What else? What else? What else? Oh my gosh, I
Speaker 1: feel like we have so many things to talk about.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Google play Pass. So both Google and
Speaker 1: Apple have introduced a new way to purchase games, and
Speaker 1: these are the Netflix subscription model, and that means you
Speaker 1: pay one price a month, which is five dollars a month,
Speaker 1: and you get unlimited access to games. You talked about
Speaker 1: Apple Arcade last week. Google play Pass is what they
Speaker 1: call it. The best part about these games there are
Speaker 1: no ads or in app purchases, and we have been
Speaker 1: so trained over the years to buy these games or
Speaker 1: download them for free. Next thing you know, you're hit
Speaker 1: up for fifty bucks for gold coins, two dollars for this,
Speaker 1: three dollars for that. These games don't have that. So
Speaker 1: I love that. I'm trying to get my kids to
Speaker 1: play these games on the iPad. My kids says are
Speaker 1: not as good because the main thing is he wants
Speaker 1: these tycoon games, which are just sort of addictive games
Speaker 1: that are terrible. But he wants those, and of course
Speaker 1: those aren't offered in this model because guess but the
Speaker 1: whole point of a tycoon game is to sell you
Speaker 1: ondoing things faster, which means you need to buy gold
Speaker 1: coins to do it faster. So it doesn't even work
Speaker 1: with this model of no in app purchases. There is
Speaker 1: no game. The game is psychological warfare on your brain
Speaker 1: to get you to want to buy stuff, and if
Speaker 1: you're taking that out of the equation, there's no reason
Speaker 1: for those games.
Speaker 2: So it's a world that I don't Yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: know much about.
Speaker 1: So I will tell you that the play pass and
Speaker 1: has Tokoboca games built in, which is really cool if
Speaker 1: you have kids, which I know you don't, but Tokboca
Speaker 1: games are fantastic for kids. And for five bucks a
Speaker 1: month to get unlimited Tokoboca games, that's really cool. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's all of them, says Tokoboca Classics
Speaker 1: to the Mytown series. That's really cool. That's worth That
Speaker 1: is worth the price of admission right there. And by
Speaker 1: the way, Playpass is only a dollar ninety nine for
Speaker 1: your first twelve months for a limited time, So if
Speaker 1: you're on an Android device, I would jump on this
Speaker 1: even if you don't necessarily care today. Locking that price
Speaker 1: for twelve months, you get twelve months of gaming for
Speaker 1: twenty four dollars. That's awesome them. Then it jumps up
Speaker 1: to four ninety nine a month and they can do
Speaker 1: that at any time. And if you don't get in
Speaker 1: that one nine nine a month, you're gonna be kind
Speaker 1: of sad. I'm gonna subscribe to it just because.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was looking through the games so a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff on there.
Speaker 2: Do you play a lot of games?
Speaker 1: I don't at all? Zero for your kids, Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I'm but they're always playing games, so I'm I actually
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say zero. I've I've probably played an hour
Speaker 1: total last year of games. Oh okay, and I do
Speaker 1: play a little like just to test amount sometimes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, uh wow, end of the show. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: do best of the week. I found a quote last
Speaker 1: night in a book I'm reading that I really liked. Okay,
Speaker 1: and do you want to go first or you want me.
Speaker 2: To go first? You go first? This is like legit.
Speaker 1: Okay, So this was a great quote that I just
Speaker 1: thought was really good. I posted this by my desk
Speaker 1: at work. So and this was the quote. What do
Speaker 1: we mean by talent? In the most general sense, talent
Speaker 1: is a sum of a person's abilities, his or her
Speaker 1: intrinsic gifts, skills, knowledge, experience, intelligence, judgment, at itude, character,
Speaker 1: and drive. This is the most important part. It also
Speaker 1: includes his or her ability to learn and grow. I
Speaker 1: just thought I could read this over and over. It's
Speaker 1: just so interesting. When you think of someone being talented,
Speaker 1: you think, oh, they're really good at something, But if
Speaker 1: you think about it, talent is really a sum of
Speaker 1: all these different little things about a person, and it
Speaker 1: does include intelligence, judgment, attitude, character, drive. Someone could be
Speaker 1: really talented and be really annoying to work with, right,
Speaker 1: probably that's probably me. No, then I have to be talented,
Speaker 1: I guess to fit in that.
Speaker 2: Wait.
Speaker 1: This is from the book named Grit, which I'm reading
Speaker 1: right now. Oh yeah, And the whole thesis of the book,
Speaker 1: as far as I can discern from the first like
Speaker 1: two chapters, is that being you know, people described as
Speaker 1: a hard worker, but having that drive and that kind
Speaker 1: of like just doing doing doing is sometimes more valuable
Speaker 1: than just intrinsic talent. So that's why they're defining what
Speaker 1: is talent. So I thought that was a great quote.
Speaker 1: I love it and it reminds me actually of you, Megan,
Speaker 1: because you shot something yesterday at an event we went to,
Speaker 1: and it was kind of like a no brainer that
Speaker 1: you did a really good job on this thing that
Speaker 1: you shot, and I thought that was really cool. Sometimes
Speaker 1: we shoot things for social media on an iPhone and
Speaker 1: it's a talent to be able to actually just do that.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously we have skilled camera people that do.
Speaker 1: Luis our camera guy we love, and he is a
Speaker 1: fantastic camera person, but sometimes you don't burden him with
Speaker 1: these little social media things we do, so they could
Speaker 1: not look as good as our typical, like professional stuff.
Speaker 1: But anyway, he did a really nice job, and it
Speaker 1: just makes me realize that talent is. It's tough to
Speaker 1: like just say one thing when it comes to talent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I agree. I agree.
Speaker 1: So that's mine. What's your best of the week?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, mine is not as meaningful.
Speaker 1: That's okay, it doesn't have to be.
Speaker 2: So my brother has a YouTube page and it's called
Speaker 2: magic Mikey, and he basically does like reviews and stuff
Speaker 2: on like restaurants, and so he yesterday went to some
Speaker 2: bakery and brought home a ton of donuts and like
Speaker 2: horrible things I shouldn't be eating, but it was really
Speaker 2: nice and like I like had a donut and it
Speaker 2: was just like prop so far the best.
Speaker 1: That was the best part of your week. I love that.
Speaker 2: That's sad. I just I don't know, it was nice.
Speaker 2: My mom and I.
Speaker 1: Like like chowed down. Yeah, do you have more than
Speaker 1: one or no?
Speaker 2: I had like half of an apple fritter, but those
Speaker 2: are huge.
Speaker 1: Those are good though. After fritters. Yeah, your brother he's
Speaker 1: doing a good job. Yes, I see his videos pop
Speaker 1: up on my feed because I'm a subscriber.
Speaker 2: Are you a subscriber to him on YouTube?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Of course cool. Yeah, so his little videos and
Speaker 1: on my YouTube like auto plays a little bit, so
Speaker 1: I can see like a little preview sometimes and I'll
Speaker 1: sit and watch some of them. Yeah, it's it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's one of these things that he's eating like ten
Speaker 1: thousand calories, twenty thousand calories, like in a sitting. He's
Speaker 1: trying he.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he's trying to do less of that and
Speaker 2: more of just like.
Speaker 1: Like features and yea yeah, features of food.
Speaker 2: But that was what, like, you know, got him a
Speaker 2: lot of followers in the beginning, was the whole cheat
Speaker 2: day stuff.
Speaker 1: Well, I love donuts, as well. I would if I could,
Speaker 1: I would eat no joke. I could eat a dozen donuts,
Speaker 1: no problem, like the glaze ones, not like a full
Speaker 1: fritter kind of thing. But I could just sit there
Speaker 1: and eat that like that is. I can't because it's
Speaker 1: not good.
Speaker 2: For you to be here.
Speaker 1: I would. I would be dead, Yeah, I would.
Speaker 2: Donuts and bagels are pretty pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: Bagels have a good place in my heart. Yeah all right, Well,
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Speaker 1: and one iPhone Tips and Tricks, available as an ebook
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Speaker 2: Color it's in blue? Well, it's black and blue.
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