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Speaker 1: it's from like MSN dot com or like Yahoo dot com.

428
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,000
Speaker 1: It's like, come on, you know, It's like I hold

429
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,199
Speaker 1: my tech stories to a little higher standard than some

430
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,520
Speaker 1: of these random websites that they show up on. But anyway,

431
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,280
Speaker 1: I tell you that because I am a tech person,

432
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,640
Speaker 1: I know how technology works. And yes, there are implications

433
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,160
Speaker 1: of the air tag that could be used for tracking,

434
00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:35,400
Speaker 1: and they could be scary. And in fact, I think

435
00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,639
Speaker 1: this is the best tracker ever invented in the entire

436
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,800
Speaker 1: history of mankind because they're twenty nine dollars and they

437
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,480
Speaker 1: work really well. And so I did a story on

438
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:46,800
Speaker 1: KTLA to kind of explain what air tags are all about,

439
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:50,159
Speaker 1: what you need to know, what's real, what's fake, and

440
00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,840
Speaker 1: just understanding the technology. So the main thing to know

441
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:55,240
Speaker 1: is that if you want to use air tags to

442
00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:58,000
Speaker 1: track your stuff, they're amazing. If someone wants to use

443
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,000
Speaker 1: an air tag to track you, yeah they probably could

444
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,879
Speaker 1: or your car. And the reason why that is is

445
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:07,240
Speaker 1: because air tags are constantly pinging almost a billion Apple

446
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,359
Speaker 1: devices around the world in this fine my network, and

447
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 1: so chances are these air tags are are kind of

448
00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,119
Speaker 1: the location is being updated on a very regular basis

449
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,479
Speaker 1: and with pretty good accuracy. So what do you need

450
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:24,400
Speaker 1: to know about these things? Yes, we've definitely seen instances

451
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,399
Speaker 1: of people using them to track people and also to

452
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:32,160
Speaker 1: steal cars and you know, but also a ninety nine

453
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,440
Speaker 1: percent of people are using them on a daily basis

454
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,439
Speaker 1: just to do good things like track their keys and

455
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,800
Speaker 1: track their luggage and see where their kids are. And

456
00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,640
Speaker 1: so that's all good, but you need to know that, yes,

457
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:43,639
Speaker 1: there could be an instance where someone could slip one

458
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 1: of these into your purse or pocket or stuff and

459
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,679
Speaker 1: now they can see where you go. And your phone

460
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:51,879
Speaker 1: is supposed to notify you, that is if you have

461
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 1: an iPhone, and so you'll get a message after a

462
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:56,720
Speaker 1: couple of hours when you know, because the iPhone is

463
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,960
Speaker 1: always kind of tracking these things and saying like, oh wait,

464
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,240
Speaker 1: we see this air tag but it's not yours, but

465
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 1: it's been traveling with you for the last six hours.

466
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,120
Speaker 1: We think that's kind of weird, and so it will

467
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 1: alert you and say that on your phone, and then

468
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 1: in that case you need to you know, you can

469
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:13,639
Speaker 1: tap the top of the air tag with your phone

470
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 1: and you can see the owner information but if this

471
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,919
Speaker 1: is a you know, an evil person putting this on you,

472
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,160
Speaker 1: I doubt that owner information is gonna be any good.

473
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,160
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be a real phone number. Oh hey,

474
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,679
Speaker 1: uh uh, did you just try to track me with

475
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: this air tag? Yes? That was me. Oh okay, thank you.

476
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,359
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure. No, you gotta you

477
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 1: gotta unplug this thing and you know, get the serial

478
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:38,640
Speaker 1: number to the police. And so that's the recommendation. Don't

479
00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,639
Speaker 1: drive home with it, don't don't go home, go to

480
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 1: a safe place. If you think one of these things

481
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,040
Speaker 1: is on you, and you know, get it off of

482
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 1: you and or your car, and you know, get that

483
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:51,520
Speaker 1: get that serial number before you take it apart. And

484
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,199
Speaker 1: so that's you know, that's what you need to know.

485
00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 1: It's kind of scary. And the reality of this situation

486
00:24:57,760 --> 00:24:59,920
Speaker 1: is if you have an iPhone, yeah, it's supposed to know.

487
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 1: But how long does that notification take? Because Apple has

488
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: to ride a line here of we don't want to

489
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 1: be notifying people every twenty seconds that there's an air

490
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,960
Speaker 1: tag nearby, but we also want to give them a

491
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: heads up if we think this thing is tracking them.

492
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,880
Speaker 1: So how long do we wait to tell that person. Now,

493
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,359
Speaker 1: you could be on a train going from LA to

494
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 1: San Diego and there's a bunch of air tags around

495
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 1: you that are traveling with you, but they're not tracking

496
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 1: you per se, They're not on your person. And so

497
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 1: Apple has to write their algorithms to ride that fine line.

498
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:35,439
Speaker 1: And that's tricky. Now. The other thing to know is

499
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 1: that if you have an Android phone, Yeah, you're not

500
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 1: gonna get a notification because it's Android, and you know,

501
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 1: we all know Apple's relationship with Android. They're not gonna

502
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:46,800
Speaker 1: do much. But they do have an app called Tracker Detect,

503
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 1: and this will scan for unknown air tags. Now that

504
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:53,639
Speaker 1: sounds great, but here's the reality of that. How many

505
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 1: times are you gonna sit there and scan for unknown

506
00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,160
Speaker 1: air tags? Are you gonna do this every day when

507
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,200
Speaker 1: you wake up? Are you gonna do this in your

508
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,480
Speaker 1: car every time you get into it, every time you

509
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: leave work? I mean, you'd go mad just trying to

510
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 1: figure out if there's an air tag tracking you. So

511
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: what would make a person scan around them for an

512
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: air tag? Maybe if you broke up with an X

513
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: and it was a bad breakup and you thought someone

514
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,399
Speaker 1: was tracking you, Yes, that's a good idea maybe you

515
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 1: had an feeling that someone was tracking you in your car.

516
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, but the reality is, like I said, it's

517
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,679
Speaker 1: kind of like this. I mean, I don't know how

518
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 1: do you go down that route of like when do

519
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: you scan for these things? So, yes, if you have

520
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: an iPhone, it's nice and it works hopefully, but if

521
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 1: you have an Android, it definitely gets a little trickier.

522
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:39,679
Speaker 1: To disable one of these air tags. You press the

523
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 1: two sides together, you twist them apart, and the battery

524
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 1: will fall out. And again I did say that you

525
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 1: can tap any phone to an air tag, So if

526
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 1: you have an Android or an iPhone, these air tags

527
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 1: have NFC, so if you tap a phone to them,

528
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,239
Speaker 1: it will bring up a website that tells you the

529
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: information about that air tag, whether it's legitimate owner information

530
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,239
Speaker 1: or whether it's the air tag serial number, or if

531
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 1: the air tag is marked as lost. The person could

532
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: put their phone number or email address in there. Now,

533
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 1: that was all a very long story. To get back

534
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:13,880
Speaker 1: to Jerry's question in Sherman Oaks, is there any guidance

535
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,120
Speaker 1: on false hits on the Android tracker? I recently got

536
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 1: three consecutive hits while driving Jerry, you said while driving,

537
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: So what does that mean? You were driving there was

538
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:27,400
Speaker 1: air tags nearby at some point because fellow drivers had

539
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 1: some air tags, and then all of a sudden those

540
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 1: drivers moved away from you. So yeah, you got nothing

541
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: later on, So that's gonna happen. Now. I tested the

542
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: Android tracker in my home because I have a bunch

543
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: of air tags on my stuff. And it's interesting because

544
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,679
Speaker 1: it says it will track unknown air tags. So the

545
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: air tags in my house, it does not pick up

546
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: unless I put my iPhone in a Faraday bag. And

547
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 1: a Faraday bag if you're not familiar with what that is,

548
00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: it's a bag that locks out all signals in and out.

549
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 1: So I have one from this company called Silent Pocket.

550
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: Now they're called edging, I think just silent. But I

551
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 1: put my phone in there and as soon as I

552
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: put my iPhone in there, then I ran the scan

553
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 1: once again and sure enough, the air tag showed up.

554
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: So the the scanner app is smart enough to know

555
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 1: when these are unknown tags. So let me give you

556
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: an example that Let's say someone comes over to your

557
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: house a friend and they've got an air tag on

558
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: their body with you know, on their keychain, and they've

559
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: got their iPhone in their pocket as well, and you

560
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 1: run this little Android tracker scanner or sorry tracker to

561
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: tech scanner in your house while your friend is there,

562
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: and you say, oh, this is an unknown air tag.

563
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 1: It's my friend's air tag, it's not mine. Well, it's

564
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 1: smart enough to know when you do that scan that

565
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: that air tag is not unknown because the person who

566
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: owns it is with you, so it's not tracking you,

567
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: they're tracking their own stuff. So that's an example of,

568
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 1: you know, the smarts that Apple has built into this system.

569
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: And that's just on the surface level. There are so

570
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: many things that I'm sure Apple has taken into consideration.

571
00:29:06,240 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, like I said,

572
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: the thesis on the air tag is that these are good.

573
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 1: They're really good at what they do, and so yes,

574
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: people are going to use them for evil. Just like

575
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: any other technology ever invented in the history of mankind.

576
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: People find good uses, people find bad uses, and hopefully

577
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 1: the good outweighs the bad. But like anything else, it's

578
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: the same exact thing. I mean, knives can be really

579
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: bad if they're used against another person, but they're really

580
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 1: good for chopping up your salad. So again, this is

581
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: the kind of stuff that we have to take into consideration.

582
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 1: I don't think that we should just say air tags

583
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: need to be banned because they could be used for

584
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 1: these nefarious purposes. We have to realize that there is

585
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: always align with anything that we have. You think about

586
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 1: a car. It drives you places and it's amazing, it

587
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 1: gets you across the country. But that same car, if

588
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: it hits a person, could be really really bad, and

589
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: it's really dangerous. It's a dangerous item that we are

590
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: driving every single day. But again, we have to weigh

591
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 1: the pros and the cons, the safety and the danger.

592
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 1: And that's the same thing with these air tags. They

593
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: are pretty amazing there, and I think that the system

594
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: around them will continue to be evolved. I think the

595
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 1: android part specifically is a little tricky with these things,

596
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 1: but that's anyway. I probably spent way too much time

597
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: on the air tags. But there you have it, all right,

598
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,239
Speaker 1: Let's go to the next story. Facebook. You know, they

599
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: change their name to Meta. I'm not gonna spend a

600
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: lot of time on this, but I just wanted to

601
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: mention it because so many people got the oculus quest

602
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: over the holidays. Now I've talked about this before. Everyone

603
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 1: in my fingers are in quotes right now. Everyone hates Facebook, right,

604
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: I personally do not. I think Facebook has done some

605
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 1: amazing things in this world for connecting people. But you know,

606
00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: you may think they're evil, you may not. I've got,

607
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: you know, a one hundred and forty three thousand followers

608
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: on my Facebook page. And by the way, just in

609
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: the last month, I think that's up twenty thousand followers,

610
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: and so, yes, people are still on there. New people

611
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: are still on there. People still get their information from there,

612
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: People still connect with family members on their People still

613
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: use Facebook, whether you like to believe it or not.

614
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: Instagram is owned by Facebook. Do people done a lot

615
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: of changes, so it's certainly different than than when it

616
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 1: was invented. But you know, Facebook is on this. I

617
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: don't know why they want to change everything to meta.

618
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: So the bottom line is they're changing the name of

619
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 1: the Oculus Quest to Meta Quest. And I don't think

620
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 1: that's very smart because Meta is being thrown around in

621
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 1: the news as sort of the you know, this new

622
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: evil company because it's Facebook. It's the new name for Facebook.

623
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: You can't hide from us Facebook, You change your name.

624
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: We still are onto you. And so why change this

625
00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: product that has transcended the Facebook hate and and gotten

626
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: into so many homes over the holidays. Why are you

627
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: changing the name now to metaquest? Now You're gonna just

628
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: make people not like it because it's more associated with Facebook. Now, yes,

629
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: Oculus is owned by Facebook or you know, it's a

630
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 1: part of Facebook. They purchased Oculus, and you do need apparently,

631
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 1: as far as I know, a Facebook log in to

632
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: use Oculus, which a lot of people have a problem with.

633
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: But again, it's one of these things where now it's

634
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: called metaquest. It got a lot of blowback online. People

635
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: are just trashing Meta for doing this, and it's just

636
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,720
Speaker 1: one of those things where I feel like they should

637
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: should have left it. But I get it. Facebook is

638
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 1: on this huge like you know, they want meta metaverse

639
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 1: to be a thing, and so that's why, I guess,

640
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: because the Oculus quest is like the best entree into

641
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: the metaverse at this point, and so that's it. So

642
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: I don't know. I yeah, that's there's not much more

643
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: to mention about that. Anyway. If you have an Oculus

644
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: and you love it, which a lot of people have

645
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: told me, they do, it's going to change its name.

646
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: Cell Phone carriers is the subject line of the next question.

647
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 1: Good morning, rich Do you have any recommendations for cell

648
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,719
Speaker 1: phone carriers. I'm currently with Verizon. Your friend Leo Laporte

649
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: recommends Visible, but I've had no luck signing up with them.

650
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: So do you have anybody alike? Thanks to your time, Richard,

651
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: Uh Well, I thought Leo liked Mint because he was

652
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: they were a sponsor, but maybe Visible, maybe he's talked

653
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 1: about it. I think Visible is excellent. I think Mint

654
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: is really great. I think Cricket is really great. It

655
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: depends what you need. So you're with Verizon and so

656
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: you're on a network that's really really good, and so

657
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: I would recommend that you switch over to Visible. Now,

658
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: I don't know why you're having no luck signing up

659
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: with them. I'm not sure what that means now. I

660
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: know in the past people have had issues with Visible

661
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: because it's a virtual carrier, so it's owned by Verizon.

662
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 1: But the way they originally it is you had to

663
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: order a SIM card. It was only very specific phones

664
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: that would work with it, and you had to wait

665
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: for that SIM and there's no customer service that you

666
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,439
Speaker 1: could call or maybe you could call them, but there's

667
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: no stores you can walk into. And that was part

668
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: of the whole thing, is that they were kind of

669
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: aimed at, like the younger generation that wants the DIY stuff,

670
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: and it was a little bit tricky for a lot

671
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: of people. But if you can get in on their network,

672
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 1: once you're in, it's really great and it's forty dollars unlimited.

673
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,359
Speaker 1: But if you sign up for a party plan, it's

674
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars unlimited. And the trick about the party

675
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: plan is that you don't need to gather four friends

676
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,919
Speaker 1: to get that twenty five dollars deal. You can join

677
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 1: anyone's party plan. So people swap these party plan links

678
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: in Reddit or online or just ask anyone and you

679
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 1: can get onto this plan for twenty five dollars a month.

680
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: I know people that have done this. It's easy, it's real,

681
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: and it's only twenty five dollars a month unlimited on

682
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: Verizon for everything you need. Now, when I say everything

683
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 1: you need, there are some caveats. You don't get the

684
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:02,879
Speaker 1: full throttle of the Verizon network, so you are not yes,

685
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: you'll get five G, but you're not gonna get those

686
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 1: crazy blazing download speeds that their network is capable of.

687
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:13,280
Speaker 1: You're gonna get a solid, reputable network that works pretty

688
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,279
Speaker 1: much everywhere you need it to work, but you're not

689
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 1: gonna get the full, the full download and upload speeds.

690
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,399
Speaker 1: And they do that because they're charging you twenty five

691
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: dollars a month. What do you expect they're not you

692
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 1: know the plan that the standard plans for Verizon, or

693
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 1: you know they're up at ninety dollars a month, eighty

694
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 1: dollars a month, seventy dollars a month. So what do

695
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: you think they're doing for twenty five They're they're limiting

696
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: you in certain areas. Now for ninety nine point nine

697
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: percent of people, that does not matter. You're not me.

698
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:42,919
Speaker 1: You're not uploading giant video files into the cloud, you're

699
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: not downloading things, you're not posting to social media all

700
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: the time, these huge files. So it's not that big

701
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,800
Speaker 1: of a deal. If you're on Netflix, you're on YouTube,

702
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 1: you're sending emails, you're sending texts. That's all going to

703
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: be fine. Visible Now, I do have a problem with

704
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 1: the video resolution you get. I believe it's fury ADP,

705
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: which is like DVD quality. So I don't. I'm not

706
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 1: a fan of that. I personally could not deal with

707
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,399
Speaker 1: that on my cell phone. I would not do that.

708
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,959
Speaker 1: But most people don't care about that, and they they're

709
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,879
Speaker 1: just fine. They're like, look, I'm looking at a tiny screen.

710
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter anyway. And I'm saving a ton

711
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 1: of money every month. My Verizon bill is insane every month.

712
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 1: It's just like every month, I'm like, oh, how much

713
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: am I spending this month? It's leveled out, but it's

714
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 1: you know, it's just one of those things. It's it's

715
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: probably my number two bill. It's like it's that high.

716
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: It's pretty expensive. But the other one I do like

717
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: is Mint Mobile. The difference with Mint is that it's

718
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 1: on the T Mobile network, and if it works where

719
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,919
Speaker 1: you are and where you live and where you work,

720
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 1: that's fine. I personally find T Mobile to be a

721
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: little bit more hit or miss than Verizon, but I

722
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: don't use it full time. I only test on it,

723
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,240
Speaker 1: and so maybe that's why. But and all these networks,

724
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: by the way, have got a lot better in the

725
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: past couple of weeks due to this whole five G

726
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 1: the C band and all these new new spectrum that

727
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,919
Speaker 1: they're opening up. So to me, a lot of it

728
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:08,879
Speaker 1: is like just personal preference of where do you live,

729
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 1: where do you work, and how much do you want

730
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 1: to spend. What I like about MEN, and I have

731
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: a family member that's on MEN, is that we pay

732
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: the bill once a year, and my family member does

733
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: not have to worry about their bill for an entire year.

734
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,319
Speaker 1: And it's like we're talking three hundred dollars for the

735
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: entire year, and this family member does not need a

736
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: lot of data, so it's super easy. It works. And

737
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: when they tell people that they pay their bill once

738
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: a month, once a year and they get unlimited everything

739
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:36,800
Speaker 1: or whatever, you know, maybe it's not unlimited, but it

740
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 1: feels like it is to them. Everyone's like, wait, what,

741
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: I'm paying one hundred bucks over here to at and

742
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: tier one hundred and fifty of this or that or

743
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: three hundred or four hundred. Cell phone bills are really

744
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: really expensive. These carriers are not joking around. They are

745
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 1: they're making money handover fists and it is pretty apparent.

746
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: And you know, yes, they run these networks, but again

747
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: it's it's you're paying a premium for these networks ninety

748
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: nine percent of the time, so all right, is that

749
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: the question? I think we got the question. All right,

750
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 1: let's uh, let's move on to well, since we're talking

751
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: about carriers, let's talk about AT and T. This I

752
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: thought was pretty cool. AT and T is now the

753
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: fastest major internet provider. They are just they're doing now

754
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: two gigabyte plans and five gigabyte plans, so five gig

755
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: speed and two gig speed right now at my house,

756
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 1: I have a thousand. I thought that was a lot.

757
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,879
Speaker 1: Now they have two and five tiers, so you can

758
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: get and this is the best part with AT and

759
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: T fiber and a lot of these fiber offerings, the

760
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: network speed is the same up and down. So if

761
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 1: you subscribe to Spectrum, let's say it's they advertise four

762
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,800
Speaker 1: hundred right, four hundred down is pretty much their standard.

763
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 1: But if you have to search the website, by the

764
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 1: way to find this. But if you finally find what

765
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: the upload speed is, four hundred is the download speed.

766
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,360
Speaker 1: If you look for the upload, it's usually about thirty

767
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 1: to forty. So it's like it's it's considerably less. I

768
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: guess that's what ten times less? Is that ten times

769
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 1: less or one? Yeah, ten times less? So now again

770
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 1: for ninety nine point nine percent of people. Not a

771
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 1: big deal. Most people are downloading things, or downloading Netflix,

772
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: or downloading YouTube or streaming YouTube. I should say, they're

773
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: downloading files. They're not uploading a whole bunch of stuff

774
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 1: like I am. And so I want that upload speed

775
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: to be really fast because I'm working with large video

776
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 1: files form my job, and so I want the upload

777
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: and the download to be super fast. And so this

778
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:42,439
Speaker 1: now is available for five point two million customers in

779
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: seventy metro areas parts of seventy metro areas. I should say,

780
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 1: because even if they say that this is in your city,

781
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,399
Speaker 1: these super fast speeds, they may not be at your

782
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 1: exact house. And so I checked my address. They have

783
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 1: not updated the two gig and five gig speeds here,

784
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:01,399
Speaker 1: but it would be kind of fun. I don't even

785
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: need a thousand, but I mean I do, but I don't.

786
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,840
Speaker 1: I mean, it's probably overkill, but it's it's in you know,

787
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 1: cities including Los Angeles, Atlanta, Dallas. And they also changed

788
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 1: their their plans for new customers. They're making things a

789
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 1: little simpler. So if you have aight and T five,

790
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 1: no equipment fees, no any no contract no data caps,

791
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 1: no price increase at twelve months, and let's see what else.

792
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: They also say that they've gotten up to ten gigabyte,

793
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 1: so it's ten gigabytes per second. I guess that's a

794
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 1: gbps speeds in their labs. And so the two gigabyte

795
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 1: plan is one hundred and ten dollars a month. The

796
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:40,840
Speaker 1: five gigabyte plan is one hundred and eighty dollars a

797
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:44,439
Speaker 1: month plus taxes. And if you're on business it's way

798
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: more expensive. It's two twenty five a month and three

799
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 1: ninety five a month. Now, I can't really imagine why

800
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: someone needs a two gig downloads or two gig speed

801
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: for their Internet. I thought a thousand was pretty wild,

802
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: but you know, there are use cases. If you're running

803
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: a home business, if you're you know, like I said,

804
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: you're a video editor, you're working with giant files. I mean,

805
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: these are there are reasons why people need this stuff.

806
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 1: So anyway, just something to be on the lookout for.

807
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,439
Speaker 1: Uh att. How do you find out if it's buy

808
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: in your area? Let me see if there's a website

809
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: I can give you uh att dot com slash fiber fast.

810
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 1: Att dot com slash fiber fast and I should probably

811
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: mention that AT and T is a sponsor of my

812
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: KTLA segment. They had nothing to do with me mentioning

813
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 1: it here. They don't. I mean, you know, I barely

814
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: talk to them like maybe once or twice a year

815
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 1: about stuff, and you know it's believe me. So there

816
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: you go. Okay. Uh Mamy says, Hey, Rich, I wonder

817
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:46,799
Speaker 1: do you have a suggestion on how I can block

818
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: spam text These texts are getting on my nerves. Some

819
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 1: are in groups, some are not. They mostly are about sex.

820
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 1: I hate them. They text me all day. Help. Thanks,

821
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: you know, Mami, I've talked about this on the podcast before.

822
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 1: These these spam come and go. Depends if you've gotten

823
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: on a list. It depends if the hackers or the

824
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 1: spammers have gotten a fresh list of email or you know,

825
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: phone numbers, and then they just they spam the heck

826
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: out of them and then they move on. So the

827
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: best thing I would say to do is, if you

828
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:22,439
Speaker 1: want to, you can turn on the filter unknown Senders

829
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:25,959
Speaker 1: setting in your I messages and so if you turn

830
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: that on, what they do is they will filter any

831
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: messages that are from people that are not in your

832
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: address book into a separate little area. Now, personally, I

833
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: don't like that because I always forget to check that

834
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 1: other area and some legitimate email text can go in

835
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: there as well. So what I've done is I just

836
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,359
Speaker 1: deal with them. This week, in particular, the past two weeks,

837
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 1: I've gotten a whole bunch of spam texts. They're all

838
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:52,479
Speaker 1: the same format, they're all kind of the same thing,

839
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 1: and it's just one of those things where I know,

840
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: it's just it's gonna come and go, and so next

841
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:00,040
Speaker 1: week it'll probably be a little bit better, and so

842
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 1: I just kind of deal with it. You delete them.

843
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: I mean, it's I mean, unless they're waking you up

844
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 1: at night, which you shove your phone on, do not

845
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:08,720
Speaker 1: disturb anyway. I mean, it's really like, you get a text,

846
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 1: you look at it, it's like, okay, come on now.

847
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 1: If you're getting a lot, like you said, you're getting

848
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 1: all day, that's kind of annoying, and blocking them or

849
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:18,359
Speaker 1: whatever is probably not going to do anything unless they're

850
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,840
Speaker 1: coming from the same number. So maybe turn that on

851
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 1: for the next week or so and see see if

852
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 1: that helps. All right, next story, you know, I love

853
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 1: my Tesla. I actually got my first repair done on

854
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:33,400
Speaker 1: the Tesla. I think I mentioned this, but my Tesla

855
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: when it rained here in Los Angeles, the rear tail

856
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: light filled up with water. I mean, come on, Tesla,

857
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 1: you gotta do better than that. And it's funny. My

858
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 1: last two cars I've had a problem with the rear

859
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 1: light filling up with water. So I was in the

860
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 1: car wash with my son and he was like with

861
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 1: my last car and he's like, Dad, the car is

862
00:43:57,760 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: the car wash is dripping on me. And I was like, oh, no,

863
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: I love window open. I said, no, I didn't leave

864
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 1: a windo open. What's going on? I look in the

865
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: back and sure enough, from the roof of my car

866
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 1: it's dripping in, And I said, what is going on?

867
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: So I brought my car to the dealer and they're like, oh,

868
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: I always see this a lot. Yeah, it's just the

869
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,760
Speaker 1: way they seated the uh the uh the rubber gasket

870
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: on the back of here. We'll replace it. Like, oh, okay,

871
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 1: let's I have a car, a brand new car that

872
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,399
Speaker 1: the water just comes in from the roof, Like, isn't

873
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: that like Car one oh one? That that doesn't happen anyway,

874
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 1: So it happened in my last car. Then it happens

875
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:29,840
Speaker 1: on the Tesla, which you know, it's kind of annoying.

876
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: And so it took me a while to submit a

877
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 1: ticket for the repair because I just didn't know how

878
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 1: the repairs worked. I figured I had to go to

879
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:40,439
Speaker 1: the Tesla place. I gotta take my car. It's gonna

880
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: take forever. I got to get a loaner if they

881
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 1: even offer that. Well, it turns out you do it

882
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:47,839
Speaker 1: all through the app and they immediately give you a day.

883
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 1: You know, you pick a day in a time right

884
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: through the app and they come right to your house

885
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 1: and they fix it. And by the way, it took

886
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,240
Speaker 1: two weeks for the appointment, but then it took literally

887
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 1: three minutes for the repair. And I was like, oh,

888
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: do you see this a lot? I always this, This

889
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: is a key question to ask anyone that's fixing anything

890
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 1: that you have. Always ask do you see this a lot?

891
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: And you'll be surprised at their answers, because ninety nine

892
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:13,240
Speaker 1: percent of the time your problem is very, very common,

893
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 1: and they'll never tell you that. They'll never offer that up.

894
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 1: Like the repair guy for the Tesla's not going to

895
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 1: come over and say, oh, I just did five repairs

896
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: like this today. They never say that. But if you

897
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: ask that direct question, it comes from my background as

898
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: a journalist. If you ask that direct question, hey, do

899
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,359
Speaker 1: you see a lot of this issue? You'll see their

900
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: response is just light up their face them like, oh yeah,

901
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 1: we see this all the time. Like the guy was

902
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 1: telling me, Yeah, we had a you know, a faulty

903
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 1: par and now it's been you know, they updated the

904
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 1: par and now it's much better and blah blah blah.

905
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, okay, so I'd be the person to

906
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:46,359
Speaker 1: deal with this. And so anyway, I tell you all

907
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: that because there is a new faster way to get

908
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 1: into a Tesla. A startup named Autonomy has a Tesla

909
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 1: Model three subscription program. This is a startup out of

910
00:45:56,719 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 1: Santa Monica and it lets you subscribe to a Tesla.

911
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: It's a month to month contract. You have to do

912
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 1: a three month minimum. You can order your vehicle in

913
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: about ten minutes on their website or on the app,

914
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:10,800
Speaker 1: and that's it. Now. I don't know how long it

915
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: takes to get one of these cars. They say they

916
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,919
Speaker 1: have about five hundred orders placed right now and they're

917
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 1: hoping for ten thousand by the end of the year.

918
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: But they have low mileage Tesla threes available. Later they're

919
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: going to do other teslas. The subscriptions include maintenance and

920
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,280
Speaker 1: roadside assistance, which I thought that the Tesla included anyway,

921
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: but whatever. And you can do your payments from five

922
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 1: to fifty a month with a fifty five hundred dollars

923
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:37,439
Speaker 1: start fee or up to one thousand dollars a month

924
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 1: with the start fee of one thousand dollars. And you

925
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,360
Speaker 1: need also to put down a five hundred dollars security deposit.

926
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 1: There's a reservation deposit of one hundred bucks. And the

927
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: term is month to month with three months minimum. Right now,

928
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: it's only in California. New markets opening soon. So this

929
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: is an interesting twist because already it's pretty easy to

930
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: like lease a Tesla from Tesla. But you're talking if

931
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 1: you're gonna lease, you're you're looking at you know, a minimum.

932
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: I think, you know, whatever their term is. I think

933
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 1: it's three years, four years, five years, whatever it is.

934
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:07,719
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe they have twelve month leases, but

935
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: with this it's month to month. So maybe you're just

936
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 1: tiptoeing into an ev. Maybe you just want to get

937
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: a taste for it. Maybe you're in town for a

938
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: year for a new job or something. Maybe you just

939
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 1: have gobs of money. Because I'm not getting into the

940
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 1: financial aspect of this, I'm not sure it's the most

941
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 1: financially sound decision. But then again, you know, there's a

942
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:28,600
Speaker 1: lot of people out there that have a lot of

943
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: discretionary cash and they don't care. I mean, to me,

944
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 1: you know, this is just like it's kind of like

945
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 1: a twist on a lease, except with no you know,

946
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: there's no contract. So maybe people like that idea. I mean,

947
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 1: I know that the you know, there's a whole generation

948
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: coming up that likes everything on demand and they like

949
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:52,280
Speaker 1: everything month to month. They like everything to be a payment,

950
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 1: and they like everything to be understandable and the expectation

951
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 1: of regularity. I guess that's sounds really weird. I need

952
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:04,959
Speaker 1: I need a toilet flush sound when I say that word.

953
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:12,359
Speaker 1: But anyway, so that's it Autonomy Tesla three subscription. There

954
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: you go. And I guess this is the same guy

955
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: who started Gosh, what was it? I think it was

956
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: True Car, True Car and cars Direct. Same people, So

957
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 1: there you go, all right, Valerie says, why does this

958
00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 1: keep coming up when I'm trying to go to Etsy

959
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 1: dot com. This loads instead of the Etsy dot com

960
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 1: home page. And she sent me a big old link

961
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: that is join Honey. And if you look at this,

962
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 1: it is a big link that is all about getting

963
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 1: you to sign up for Honey. So what's happening on

964
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:51,760
Speaker 1: your computer, Valerie, is that you have malware on your computer,

965
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: some sort of program. It could be a browser hijacker,

966
00:48:56,040 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: a redirect, something is causing this this page to redirect

967
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 1: to this Honey advertisement. It could be another extension on

968
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:08,919
Speaker 1: your computer. It could be malware on your computer at large. Sorry,

969
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 1: it could be an extension on your Chrome browser. It

970
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:15,279
Speaker 1: could be malware at large. A lot of times. A

971
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: lot of times this comes from third party software that

972
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 1: you install on your computer. That may be what's called

973
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 1: a browser helper. So that's what i'd look for. I

974
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: would go through all of your extensions on Chrome. And

975
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 1: if you want to do that, if you look in

976
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: the upper right hand corner of Chrome, there's like a

977
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,120
Speaker 1: little puzzle piece that will show you all of your

978
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 1: extensions and get rid of the ones you don't want.

979
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 1: You can click the three little dots and say remove

980
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 1: from Chrome. And I would go through there. I go

981
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:42,799
Speaker 1: through mine all the time to make sure that I

982
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: don't have any on there that I don't need, and

983
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:48,239
Speaker 1: so you know, be brutal, just remove stuff. If you

984
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 1: see one on there, you're like, what is this? Just

985
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,439
Speaker 1: get rid of it. You're not going to ruin your browser. Now.

986
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 1: On your computer, I would do a scan with malware bytes,

987
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 1: and you know they have a free offering, so just

988
00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: ignore all the overtures to subscribe. But I would just

989
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 1: do that and get that and scan your computer and

990
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: see if you have any programs on there that are

991
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 1: not supposed to be there, or just go through your

992
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:11,760
Speaker 1: list of applications and uninstall anything that you don't need

993
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 1: that may look suspicious. I see this all the time

994
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:17,319
Speaker 1: on people's computers that I'm trying to help out. They've

995
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 1: got some sort of software on there that's that's purportedly

996
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:23,839
Speaker 1: to help them, but in reality it does not help

997
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 1: them at all. So that's that's what it's all about.

998
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: All right. Let's get to the next story here. FTC

999
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 1: says US consumers lost seven hundred and seventy million dollars

1000
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 1: in social media scams in twenty twenty one. That's up

1001
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:44,280
Speaker 1: eighteen times from twenty seventeen. That's the headline from tech Crunch.

1002
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: And the reason I mentioned this is because you think

1003
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 1: that only old people are susceptible to these scams, right.

1004
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:53,719
Speaker 1: I used to do these stories all the time when

1005
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 1: I was called the troubleshooter over at KTAL Channel six

1006
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:02,839
Speaker 1: in Shreveport, Louisiana. And there's always some elderly person that

1007
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 1: was got a phone call and next thing you know,

1008
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 1: they're giving their credit card number over the phone, or

1009
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 1: their bank account or they got a letter in the

1010
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 1: mail and they were totally scammed. This happened all the time.

1011
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,280
Speaker 1: People get their bank accounts cleared out. And you might think, Haha,

1012
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:18,160
Speaker 1: that's only for the olds. No, no, no, it happens

1013
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:20,960
Speaker 1: to young people. In fact, I would say that young

1014
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 1: people are even more susceptible at this point. And some

1015
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:26,879
Speaker 1: of this research from the FTC supports that because young

1016
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 1: people guess what's happening to them? They're getting defrauded on

1017
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:35,320
Speaker 1: social media platforms. And so what's happening is because social

1018
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:37,799
Speaker 1: media has built this little world of like, you know,

1019
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: people to people kind of transactions, you can get scammed

1020
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:43,359
Speaker 1: a lot easier because things look like they're coming from

1021
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:46,719
Speaker 1: your friends. Your friends post something and you fall prey

1022
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:49,440
Speaker 1: to it. I see, I've gotten many, many, many of

1023
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 1: these emails about cryptocurrency scams where somehow they take over

1024
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: someone's Instagram and then they post a story that says, oh,

1025
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 1: I just got you know, one hundred and fifty dollars

1026
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 1: for free through this new app, like sign up with

1027
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: my link below, and your friends see that and go,

1028
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,360
Speaker 1: oh that's cool, and they sign up and now they're defrauded.

1029
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:11,279
Speaker 1: And it's defrauded even a word. I don't even know,

1030
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 1: but anyway, that's what I would say. And this stuff.

1031
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:17,319
Speaker 1: There's this whole article on tech crunches I'll link up

1032
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:19,280
Speaker 1: in the show notes, but it goes through all this stuff.

1033
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 1: But you just need to know that this is still happening,

1034
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 1: and just because you think you're smarter than the average bear,

1035
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 1: it does not necessarily make you immune from all these

1036
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: scams that are going around out there. So, for instance, myself,

1037
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: I was checking my email this morning, I got an

1038
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:38,320
Speaker 1: email from the IRS saying, oh, this didn't work. This

1039
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: itn there's a taxpayer number, like, here's a pdf, check

1040
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 1: it out now. I was tempted to click it immediately

1041
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: and see what the deal was. And I was like, wait,

1042
00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 1: hold on, what email address are they sending this to?

1043
00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 1: And why is the IRS sending me an email? And

1044
00:52:52,200 --> 00:53:01,320
Speaker 1: so again I kind of like, you know, immediately again

1045
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:05,240
Speaker 1: I immediately went and checked and saw that that was happening.

1046
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:09,279
Speaker 1: And so anyway, Wow, I'm really embarrassed right now. I'm

1047
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: pretty sure that I had I'm pretty sure that I

1048
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: had the microphone off the entire time while I was

1049
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: while I was broadcasting to Twitter this entire time. I

1050
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 1: can't believe it. Oh wow, Okay, well you live and

1051
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:27,520
Speaker 1: you learn rich. That was a big old, big old mistake. Anyway,

1052
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 1: I'll learn for next time anyway. So my point is

1053
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: just just be aware, just always, always, always if it's

1054
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:36,520
Speaker 1: something that seems like it's like a Amazon thing or

1055
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 1: like I had someone come into my office the other

1056
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 1: day saying, hey, I placed an order for an iPhone

1057
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:43,759
Speaker 1: and then I got this message from Apple that says, hey,

1058
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 1: you need to call about your order. And that's kind

1059
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: of odd. And I looked at the email. Looked very legit,

1060
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 1: it looked like it came from Apple. It had the

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Speaker 1: person's order number on it, and I couldn't tell. I said, look,

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Speaker 1: I said, here's what I would do, And if you're wondering,

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Speaker 1: just take a cool off period twenty four hours. Let

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Speaker 1: cool off, you know what I mean. If this is

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Speaker 1: something that's real, most likely they're going to email you again.

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Speaker 1: And because I couldn't really tell, and I didn't want

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Speaker 1: to call the phone number in the email because I

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Speaker 1: didn't know if that phone number was legitimate or not,

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Speaker 1: so I just said, hey, just cool off. If Apple

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Speaker 1: needs to contact you, they'll get in touch with you again,

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Speaker 1: and so, or you can go ahead and call Apple's

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Speaker 1: phone number directly, like if you go to Apple dot com,

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Speaker 1: scroll to the bottom of the website and call the

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Speaker 1: phone number there, that's a better way of doing it

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00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 1: than calling a random phone number that arrives in an email.

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Speaker 1: So just be on guard. No matter what your level

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Speaker 1: of savviness is, it's just always best to just just

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Speaker 1: be a critical thinker with all of this stuff. So

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Speaker 1: let's see, I don't want to end on a bad one. Ah,

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Speaker 1: this person's so mean to me. But ah, okay, I

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Speaker 1: guess I guess I'll just tackle it here we go,

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Speaker 1: all right, Howard says, your spot's on the news. Why

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Speaker 1: do you use music under all of your stories. It's

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00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:55,760
Speaker 1: hard to hear your voice. The story today about Hyatt

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00:54:55,760 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 1: today sure sounds like a paid commercial for Hyatt, was it?

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Speaker 1: Mariott and Hilton have been doing this for years, Howard. So, Howard,

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Speaker 1: let's just break this down. Number One, music under the stories.

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Speaker 1: You know what that's been going on ever since I

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00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: started the Tech Report at KTLA. I actually am not

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Speaker 1: a fan of the music in the stories, and so

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Speaker 1: I have actually said many times I don't want the

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Speaker 1: music because it is distracting, and I think that it's

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Speaker 1: also it's a crutch. Sometimes when we're trying to formulate

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Speaker 1: a story, it's much easier to make almost like a

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00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:29,759
Speaker 1: music video story than it is to actually come up

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Speaker 1: with what we call in the business NAT sounds, And

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Speaker 1: so I personally like building stories using NAT sounds, which

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00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:38,839
Speaker 1: is natural sound, which is like if you're looking at

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00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 1: a boat in the ocean, you would hear the splash

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Speaker 1: of the waves, and you hear the horn there and

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. Whereas if you're just doing a music

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Speaker 1: under your story, you can just have a whole bunch

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00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:49,719
Speaker 1: of montage, you know, a whole bunch of clips of

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00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:52,840
Speaker 1: this story and it just looks great and it sounds great,

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00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:55,280
Speaker 1: but it's a little bit lazier when it comes to editing.

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Speaker 1: But people have gotten so used to music under stories

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00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:01,799
Speaker 1: with things like YouTube, MTV and all these different you know,

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00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 1: news magazines, they all use music, and so yeah, I

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00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: actually don't like the music either, and so I've I've

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Speaker 1: definitely ninety nine point nine percent of the time when

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00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 1: my stories come back to me, I tell the editor

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Speaker 1: please lower the music every single time. And I know

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00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 1: there's a certain level we have the music at every

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Speaker 1: time and it's standardized, but it still feels too loud

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00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:22,880
Speaker 1: to me. So I agree with you on that one.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you that point. Now, the story today about

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00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:27,279
Speaker 1: Hyatt sure sounds like a paid commercial for Hyatt, was it?

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Speaker 1: So I will tell you in my history of KTLA, yes,

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00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:35,440
Speaker 1: we have done sponsored segments and it's all highly coordinated

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Speaker 1: through teams. Now, I will tell you that does not

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00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 1: happen very often. In fact, I can tell you in

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Speaker 1: the past five years, I think we've done two sponsored

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00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: segments and they were very clearly marked that these were

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Speaker 1: sponsored segments. And even when we do those, there's never

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Speaker 1: been any editorial oversight by a third party. I always

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00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 1: have the final say in anything that I put on air,

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00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:00,759
Speaker 1: and so well, okay, the boss is always the final say,

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Speaker 1: if they choose. But my point is, no one is

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00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:04,720
Speaker 1: sitting there telling me what to do, what to write,

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00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:07,560
Speaker 1: how to say it. In any of my pieces, I

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00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 1: am covering tech news when there's new things that are interesting.

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Speaker 1: Sure they may look like a commercial because we're featuring

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00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:15,799
Speaker 1: a product or a service or something that's new, but

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Speaker 1: it's me explaining my take on what they're offering. And

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Speaker 1: so with Hyatt specifically, what you're referencing is this new

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00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:26,320
Speaker 1: digital key that they offer through Apple Wallet, and so

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00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 1: it's called room key in Apple Wallet. And yes, it

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00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:32,400
Speaker 1: was a nuanced story, and I will give you that,

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Speaker 1: but the thing was, I tried to explain to my

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00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 1: story many many times why this is different from what

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00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: Mariott and Hilton offer. I've used Mariott and Hilton's offerings

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Speaker 1: as well, and yes, you can use your phone as

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00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:48,760
Speaker 1: a key with both Marriott Hotels and Hilton Hotels, and

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Speaker 1: also MGM Hotels and some other hotel chains. But the

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00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 1: big difference, and I mentioned this in my piece, is

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00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 1: that that requires an app. It requires you to unlock

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00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 1: your phone, open the app, activate the key, and hold

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00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:04,120
Speaker 1: the key near your phone use or near the door

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00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 1: using Bluetooth. Now, the new Apple Wallet system uses NFC

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00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 1: or RFID, I can't remember, but it uses a system

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00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:16,200
Speaker 1: that's a lot easier. You do not have to unlock

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00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 1: your phone, and it's integrated into the base of the

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Speaker 1: phone itself. So once you get this key and Apple Wallet,

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00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 1: you do not have to unlock your phone to use it,

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00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:25,960
Speaker 1: you don't have to open your phone to use it,

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00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: you don't have to open an app to use it,

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00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 1: and it works a heck of a lot faster. I

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00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 1: thought I made that point pretty clear. I know a

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00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:34,800
Speaker 1: lot of people came down on me on Facebook and

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Speaker 1: Twitter and Instagram, or not so much Twitter, but Facebook

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00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:40,920
Speaker 1: and Instagram, saying, oh, Rich, come on, I've used this

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00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 1: feature so many times, and yes, so did I about

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Speaker 1: two weeks before at the MGM hotel in Las Vegas,

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Speaker 1: and I wanted to be forward thinking and tech thinking

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00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 1: and all this stuff, and it was such a pain

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Speaker 1: to use the app as my key the entire time

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00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:00,440
Speaker 1: I was there, because it's just so annoyed of a

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00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:02,920
Speaker 1: process to like activate the key, and when you got

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00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:04,520
Speaker 1: to the elevator, you had to make sure your key

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00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 1: was ready or else the doors were closed by the

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00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:08,240
Speaker 1: time you got to activate, and there's no signal in

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Speaker 1: the elevator, so I couldn't even use the key because

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00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:12,600
Speaker 1: it has to open up the app and get the key.

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00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:15,440
Speaker 1: With this Apple wallet thing, it's all that all that

1175
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 1: stuff is thrown away. The key is physically stored on

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00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,680
Speaker 1: your phone, so it's actually a whole lot better. It

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00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 1: doesn't require a wireless connection like a cellular connection because

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00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:27,880
Speaker 1: the key is embedded into the phone itself, and it

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00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:31,960
Speaker 1: doesn't require it, you know, to open and activate. So anyway, Howard,

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Speaker 1: I understand, I'm always open to any sort of constructive

1181
00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 1: criticism about what I do on TV one hundred percent.

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00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:40,720
Speaker 1: I'm very transparent with what I do, and my end

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00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 1: goal with everything that I do, no matter where I post,

1184
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 1: no matter what I do, is to help people and

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00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:51,160
Speaker 1: to really be as fair as possible in both the

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Speaker 1: process and what I'm posting about. And so I really

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00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:58,640
Speaker 1: truly think that's that's what guides what I do anywhere

1188
00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:02,600
Speaker 1: I do it, whether it's TV instead Facebook, Twitter, now

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01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:04,479
Speaker 1: YouTube shorts, I've been doing a lot more of those

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01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: so anyway, thanks for the email. I do appreciate it,

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Speaker 1: you can spend an hour of your time. I do

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