Speaker 1: Google's new self destruct mode goes live. Amazon announces a
Speaker 1: new way to avoid porch pirates. Verizon sweetens the deal
Speaker 1: on their forty dollars unlimited plan. A new website for
Speaker 1: travel lovers, Plus your tech questions. What's going on. I'm
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro. This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where
Speaker 1: I talk about this stuff I think you should know
Speaker 1: about in the tech world. Plus, as always I answer
Speaker 1: your tech questions. Joining me is producer Megan. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: Hello, how are you.
Speaker 1: I am good. You know that I went to Sedona, Yes, Arizona.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been? No, never Sdona. I just realized
Speaker 1: that rhyme Sedona.
Speaker 2: Arizona, Sedona, Arizona.
Speaker 1: And I kept saying to my brother, who I went
Speaker 1: with my little brother and we did like a hiking trip,
Speaker 1: and I kept saying my Sedona in the sound of
Speaker 1: my Sharona And he didn't get that reference. Do you
Speaker 1: know that?
Speaker 2: So I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm an older thingna. Anyway, it was really nice. Highly
Speaker 1: recommend that place. We went hiking for like eight hour,
Speaker 1: not eight hours, seven miles. We went on another little hike.
Speaker 1: We went to a vortex, which I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've heard of these vortexes. No, but it's like five
Speaker 1: places there that are identified as having like a super
Speaker 1: spiritual magnetic field or something. Oh wow, I didn't really
Speaker 1: feel anything, I'll be honest, but I did get a
Speaker 1: little giddy while I was up there, so maybe I
Speaker 1: did feel a little.
Speaker 2: Something that that's really cool that makes me want to
Speaker 2: go there, to be honest.
Speaker 1: It is a fantastic weekend trip. Highly recommend it. It
Speaker 1: is a place that's it's sort of easy to get to.
Speaker 1: You have to fly to well, depending on where you're
Speaker 1: coming from, but you fly into Phoenix, you drive up
Speaker 1: two hours. Yeah, beautiful. It was. It reminded me a
Speaker 1: little bit of Utah. It had a lot of different
Speaker 1: things going on. So really cool place, Sedona, good job.
Speaker 1: The only thing that happened is that I bought a
Speaker 1: shirt that was too small for my kid, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to go back.
Speaker 2: Good excuse.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, let's get to some of these stories.
Speaker 1: One of the big stories this week is Google's new
Speaker 1: controls for letting you turn automatically delete things like your
Speaker 1: search history are now live. You are able to actually
Speaker 1: turn these things on. So let me explain what this is.
Speaker 1: All about. Google calls them auto delete controls, and they
Speaker 1: are inside the easiest way to find them is inside
Speaker 1: the Google App. So, if you have the Google app
Speaker 1: on either your iPhone or your Android, all you have
Speaker 1: to do is open up the Google App super simple.
Speaker 1: In the upper right hand corner. There's a little profile
Speaker 1: picture of yourself. You've seen that. It it looks like
Speaker 1: your little profile pick. You hit that and it says
Speaker 1: search activity. You tap search activity and the next thing
Speaker 1: you know, it says choose to delete automatically under Web
Speaker 1: and app activity. Then it gives you three options. The default,
Speaker 1: which has been the option forever, is keep until I
Speaker 1: delete manually. Then the next option, which is new, is
Speaker 1: keep for eighteen months, then delete automatically. And then the
Speaker 1: next option is keep for three months, then delete automatically.
Speaker 1: So why would you want to have Google automatically delete
Speaker 1: your search history? Well, first off, you have to understand
Speaker 1: what the search history is all about. So let's say
Speaker 1: you're planning. I use the example of planning a vacation
Speaker 1: in Hawaii. You research some restaurants. Clearly, Google goes into
Speaker 1: mode of saying, oh, we know that Megan wants to
Speaker 1: go to Hawaii. Let's start showing her stuff related to Hawaii.
Speaker 1: Hawaii ads for airfare, Hawaii hotel deals. They know when
Speaker 1: you start searching the letter h they might put Honolulu
Speaker 1: at the top of the search autocomplete instead of something
Speaker 1: else because it all goes back to the search history.
Speaker 1: So that's why they want to keep it, because it
Speaker 1: makes things easier. You type something into Google Maps an address,
Speaker 1: and then the next time you go to like kind
Speaker 1: of search for that address, it already kind of pops
Speaker 1: up at the beginning at the top. Why would you
Speaker 1: not want it? People don't want their search history. They
Speaker 1: feel like their entire world is kind of up for
Speaker 1: grabs on Google. They think that what they're searching is
Speaker 1: being used by Google and selling that and of course
Speaker 1: selling ads across that, which is kind of true. So personally,
Speaker 1: I'm not turning this off. I like to have my
Speaker 1: search history because two reasons. Number one, I kind of
Speaker 1: like a record of everything, like I just think it's
Speaker 1: better to have that for the years. The second thing
Speaker 1: is that it does help make Google products smarter. So
Speaker 1: if you think about it, Google always seems really smart,
Speaker 1: and it's like, how do they know what I'm predicted
Speaker 1: or that they always seem to be able to predict
Speaker 1: everything that you want to know before you even start
Speaker 1: typing it. And that's part of the magic. That's the
Speaker 1: autohistory and the search history is why that magic happens.
Speaker 1: So if you do want to change it, and everyone's different,
Speaker 1: if you want to turn that off again, you can
Speaker 1: do that. I did make a video about this, so
Speaker 1: you can go to what's the easiest way to find that,
Speaker 1: I guess rich on tech dot tv and just look
Speaker 1: for my video on how to automatically delete your web
Speaker 1: and app activity. And that's the funny thing that Google
Speaker 1: calls it the web and app activity, which is so confusing.
Speaker 1: Just say search history.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's your history.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's more to it than just your search history.
Speaker 1: But come on, like that's what people are really interested in,
Speaker 1: right Megan? Cool?
Speaker 2: All right, So our first question comes from Facebook. John
Speaker 2: Weaver basically is asking about Harry Potter, the Harry Potter
Speaker 2: game that came out last week, and he's concerned because
Speaker 2: his older phone won't work on it, he says, so
Speaker 2: they have to be up to date phones. The most
Speaker 2: expensive phones, the ones that common people can't afford to
Speaker 2: have fun with the game. He has a Samsung Galaxy
Speaker 2: J two. He obviously doesn't want to update and get
Speaker 2: a newer phone just to play the Harry Potter game.
Speaker 2: So you know, he's just commenting on the fact that
Speaker 2: it's frustrating and he wants to be able to play
Speaker 2: the game, but he can't because he's an older phone.
Speaker 1: So so he's saying that the new Harry Potter Wizards
Speaker 1: Unit game does not work on his phone because it's
Speaker 1: a Samsung Joah, that is a basic smartphone, and he's
Speaker 1: onto something, and he kind of he has a good point.
Speaker 1: So we take for granted if you have an iPhone,
Speaker 1: a new iPhone, if you have a new Samsung, if
Speaker 1: you have one of these newer phones, you take for
Speaker 1: granted that everything works really nicely on there. He has
Speaker 1: what we would call a basic or a budget phone
Speaker 1: without all the bells and whistles of your typical smartphone.
Speaker 1: And in this case, it is proving to not be
Speaker 1: so good because the Harry Potter game uses a lot
Speaker 1: of horsepower. I even noticed I tried it on two
Speaker 1: different phones. I tried it on my Samsung and then
Speaker 1: the Pixel, and I noticed on the pixel it was
Speaker 1: a little bit slower, Samsung a little bit faster. So
Speaker 1: he has a valid point. And I'm guilty of this,
Speaker 1: and I think all tech people are guilty of this,
Speaker 1: but I feel like I'm guilty of it in less
Speaker 1: or so of a fashion because because I'm on TV
Speaker 1: and because the people that are generally watching me are
Speaker 1: not always the enthusiast tech person. I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: better connected to what the average person deals with on
Speaker 1: a daily basis because of the emails I get like this,
Speaker 1: Whereas if you are writing for a major tech website
Speaker 1: where people go to see what the latest tech is
Speaker 1: and they're interested and they're ready to buy it, that's
Speaker 1: totally different than my viewer. The viewer on KTLA is
Speaker 1: someone who's watching the news and I happen to pop
Speaker 1: up and tell you about something that is in the
Speaker 1: tech world. So I do think there's a delineation there,
Speaker 1: and I think that tech people do take for granted
Speaker 1: that everyone has the latest, greatest, and I don't take
Speaker 1: that for granted because I do and I've always been
Speaker 1: like that. I just love the latest technology. I always
Speaker 1: want to get the latest thing, the newest software update,
Speaker 1: the newest phone, the newest computer the day it comes out.
Speaker 1: Not everyone's like that. I totally understand it, and I
Speaker 1: get where he's coming from. I don't know what a
Speaker 1: solution is. Ye, if he really wants to play this game,
Speaker 1: that's a tough one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is frustrating, especially if you're a fan and
Speaker 2: you want to take part in like this exciting new game.
Speaker 1: You know, but that's always been the case with a
Speaker 1: lot of technology, where if you want the latest, greatest,
Speaker 1: newest game something like that, you have to get the latest,
Speaker 1: greatest hardware that can handle it. Yeah, that's been going
Speaker 1: on for a while. But good, good point to bring
Speaker 1: up there, for sure. Let me tell you about Amazon,
Speaker 1: and I feel like we talk about Amazon so much.
Speaker 1: I said this to you this morning. I say, I
Speaker 1: feel like we're like the Amazon spokespeople, because it's there's
Speaker 1: Amazon news at this point, almost on a regular basis,
Speaker 1: almost on a daily basis. But I do think this
Speaker 1: is interesting. They are launching something called counter So if
Speaker 1: you're familiar with the concept of Amazon lockers where you
Speaker 1: can get your stuff delivered personally, I've never done that
Speaker 1: because I don't see the point I have a house,
Speaker 1: leave my package at the house if it gets stolen,
Speaker 1: so be it.
Speaker 2: You have cameras, What am I gonna do?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So, but I understand that there could be a
Speaker 1: use case scenario for the lockers, and I also understand
Speaker 1: that this is kind of ending upon that. So this
Speaker 1: is called counter and it's just like the lockers, except
Speaker 1: it's with people. So it's a staffed point where you
Speaker 1: can get your package delivered. And specifically this is going
Speaker 1: to be inside right aid stores, which I'm amazed at
Speaker 1: Amazon being able to convince all these companies like Cohal's
Speaker 1: and Write Aid that they're killing on one end, but
Speaker 1: then they're like, hey, do you mind if we build
Speaker 1: a little side shop inside your store? As we kind
Speaker 1: of it's just like I feel like it's a pack
Speaker 1: of like wild wolves chewing one end of the business up.
Speaker 1: On the other end, they're like helping them run away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And they're trying to appeal obviously to like a
Speaker 2: ride aid customer. Maybe it's an older person that like
Speaker 2: doesn't shop on Amazon and now we'll start shopping on Amazon.
Speaker 1: And maybe they're worried about their packages being stolen. Because totally,
Speaker 1: to me, this is really a play for like porch
Speaker 1: pirates and the way right, AID is in on it is.
Speaker 1: They're saying, okay, well, if we have people picking up
Speaker 1: packages in the store, what happens. You see a pack
Speaker 1: of gum that you want to buy, you need a
Speaker 1: new shampoo. You go in there and you buy end
Speaker 1: up spending twenty thirty bucks just because you walked in
Speaker 1: to pick up your business on package. So I understand
Speaker 1: how it can work out for these companies. The bottom line,
Speaker 1: you get your stuff delivered right to write AID. When
Speaker 1: they get it in their store, they will send you
Speaker 1: a text message and then you have fourteen days to
Speaker 1: pick it up. You've got a little QR code on
Speaker 1: your phone. They scan the QR code, they give you
Speaker 1: the package, and boom, you're on your lovely way. That's
Speaker 1: in one hundred stores right now. They say they're going
Speaker 1: to roll it out to fifteen hundred stores by the
Speaker 1: end of the year.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of stores. Yeah. I like having the options. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't really want my stuff now. I will tell
Speaker 1: you I also have a PO box. I get a
Speaker 1: lot of tech stuff delivered that I don't want sitting
Speaker 1: outside my house. So I do have that. So maybe
Speaker 1: I you know what I'm probably coming from a different
Speaker 1: angle because anything I get that's expensive, I'll have shipped
Speaker 1: there anyway. So I guess that makes sense. And so
Speaker 1: this is sort of a free peo box for someone.
Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about porch pirates and you
Speaker 1: get your stuff delivered for free through there. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think it's definitely a great it's a good option.
Speaker 1: Good option. I saw one. One person tweeted Dave Zat's
Speaker 1: he said that, Okay, so I've got this right. You
Speaker 1: pick up your stuff at right A, then you return
Speaker 1: it at Kohle's. Because those are the two things that
Speaker 1: they're doing. So good tweet there.
Speaker 2: That's nice.
Speaker 1: Before we move on, just want to talk about Prime Day.
Speaker 1: This is the extravaganza for Amazon every year where they
Speaker 1: have their best deals. I will tell you last year,
Speaker 1: I did not even spend one dime on Prime Day.
Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of a you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: nothing nothing too exciting for me. With that said, Amazon
Speaker 1: sells a lot of stuff on Prime Day. And so
Speaker 1: here's my thing for Prime Day. And since we have
Speaker 1: about two weeks before Prime Day starts, here's my advice.
Speaker 1: Anything that you want to buy on Amazon that's not
Speaker 1: your standard, like you know, something that's you know, like
Speaker 1: a like a pack of like for me, it would
Speaker 1: be like a pack of snack bags for the kids,
Speaker 1: right that you can buy today. Okay, anything else, like
Speaker 1: if you're getting something for your bad you're interested in
Speaker 1: a new bag, anything, go ahead, add it to your
Speaker 1: Amazon shopping cart and let it sit there. And that way,
Speaker 1: when Prime Day comes along, you can see if the
Speaker 1: price changes for the things you actually want, instead of
Speaker 1: doing what Amazon wants you to do, which is impulse
Speaker 1: by the ten deals they put on your homepage that day. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's my theory.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So when is Prime Day? Monday July fifteenth, starting at midnight,
Speaker 1: and for the first time ever, it will run for
Speaker 1: forty eight hours. Wow. I think the first year it
Speaker 1: was twenty four hours. Then they did like six twenty
Speaker 1: four plus another twelve, and now they're doing the full
Speaker 1: two days, so forty eight hours July fifteenth, July sixteenth. Again,
Speaker 1: Amazon says you'll find your best deals on the you
Speaker 1: know a devices, the Echo. I don't want to say
Speaker 1: the word yeah, so I don't want to activate her,
Speaker 1: but if you ask her for the best deals, she'll
Speaker 1: give you the best Prime Day deals, and right now
Speaker 1: they do have a deal that's actually pretty decent. It's
Speaker 1: a Tshiba HD forty three inch fire TV addition Smart
Speaker 1: TV say that ten times fast for one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty dollars.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: And I looked and they still have them available. This
Speaker 1: is the deal that's going on through June thirtieth, So
Speaker 1: depending on when you're listening to this, it might be
Speaker 1: gone by the time you listen. But if you need
Speaker 1: a secondary TV and like a kitchen or something, one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty bucks not bad. Forty three inch forty
Speaker 1: three It is not four K though. This is not
Speaker 1: ok okay anyway, but still not bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not bad at all.
Speaker 1: All right. One thing I want to mention about Prime Day,
Speaker 1: and I found this interesting in the USA Today article
Speaker 1: I read about it, is that the number one thing
Speaker 1: that Amazon gets out of Prime Day besides the sales
Speaker 1: is new Prime members. A lot of people are signed
Speaker 1: up just because of this, and by the way, they
Speaker 1: have one hundred million Prime members. One hundred million people
Speaker 1: are paying Amazon one hundred and twenty dollars a year for.
Speaker 2: Amazons, basically ten dollars a month.
Speaker 1: If you pay monthly. It's actually more.
Speaker 2: Oh, I just pay for the year.
Speaker 1: Okay. So if you if you do pay monthly, which
Speaker 1: they offer, it's you pay more. So yeah, the best
Speaker 1: bet is to pay the one twenty yearly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do the math on one hundred
Speaker 1: million times one hundred and twenty. It's a lot. It
Speaker 1: is a lot because I don't even know how many
Speaker 1: zeros I need to put in there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Jeff, I'm not worried about Jeff.
Speaker 1: No, Jeff's doing it, okay.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this next question is from your Instagram account.
Speaker 1: Twelve billion dollars. Oh wow, twelve billion dollars a year
Speaker 1: in revenue just from Prime, just from Prime, just from
Speaker 1: the membership.
Speaker 2: Okay. So this next question is from Oscar Umana one
Speaker 2: seventy eight. He asks, Hey, Rich, I'm in the market
Speaker 2: for a new drone. Any recommendations. Will use it mostly
Speaker 2: for family vacations. Thank you?
Speaker 1: What was the name Oscar? Oscar? Okay, So my recommendation
Speaker 1: if you're getting a drone is Dji. They are the
Speaker 1: market leader. They make the best stuff there. The most popular.
Speaker 1: Dji is where it's at when it comes to the drones.
Speaker 1: They have a couple that are really popular. They've got
Speaker 1: little tiny drones, which are probably the ones that you want.
Speaker 1: So I would say something like, let's see the spark.
Speaker 1: Perhaps is a is a mini drone which is really fun.
Speaker 1: That's like a tiny.
Speaker 2: How much is that?
Speaker 1: Let's see how much that is? Wow? Look at that
Speaker 1: this spark that looks really cool. So that's that one is.
Speaker 1: Let's see, oh, out of stock, three hundred ninety nine dollars,
Speaker 1: so four hundred dollars for that drone. Then they have
Speaker 1: a bunch of other ones. But I will tell you
Speaker 1: my bigger advice to you is you probably don't need one.
Speaker 1: Let's be honest. I mean, yeah, what I think look.
Speaker 2: Cool, shots to happen amazing.
Speaker 1: But how many times are you actually going to use
Speaker 1: this for four hundred dollars? And I think that's my
Speaker 1: biggest problem with all this stuff that's not your phone.
Speaker 1: This is why we're seeing the phones get three lenses,
Speaker 1: four lenses, wide angle, super slow motion, hyper lapse because
Speaker 1: it's in your pocket, it's charged, it's working at all times,
Speaker 1: and it's easy to share. I've noticed personally, when I
Speaker 1: shoot any sort of video on a device that's not
Speaker 1: connected to the Internet, the video sits on there for
Speaker 1: a while.
Speaker 2: I'm yeah, a canon. Yeah, no, it's very true. I
Speaker 2: wonder is there a drone that you can put an
Speaker 2: iPhone on?
Speaker 1: And like, they're probably I don't want to do that
Speaker 1: because I just if you crash it, you lose the
Speaker 1: drone and your iPhone. Now, they do have things like
Speaker 1: the app where you can link up the app with
Speaker 1: the drone and capture the video and share it quicker
Speaker 1: that way. In my experience, I'm just saying that I
Speaker 1: find unless you have a very specific use case for
Speaker 1: this stuff, you probably don't need it. And he's saying
Speaker 1: that he wants it for family vacations, which is great,
Speaker 1: but how many times you actually going to do that?
Speaker 2: Could you imagine if all of your family vacation video
Speaker 2: was just taken on a drone, so it was just
Speaker 2: shots from.
Speaker 1: From just see everything the whole time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of that would get boring.
Speaker 1: So last year I told you about something called Visible.
Speaker 1: This is a company that's owned by Verizon, but they
Speaker 1: offer unlimited talk, text, data, and hotspot for just forty
Speaker 1: dollars a month. It sounds too good to be true,
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying that you can't get cell phone
Speaker 1: service for forty dollars a month. But this is cell
Speaker 1: phone service that's truly unlimited, and it's on Verizon's network, which,
Speaker 1: in my humble opinion, offers the best network out there.
Speaker 1: I know AT and T has a good network. T
Speaker 1: Mobile is good in certain ways, but when you think
Speaker 1: about overall, in my experience over the past ten years
Speaker 1: of using cell phones, well probably more than that, I
Speaker 1: feel like Verizon is really really good, and my advice
Speaker 1: is anyway. So what's happening with the whole Visible thing
Speaker 1: is that they are when I told you about them
Speaker 1: the first time, I said, there is one caveat to
Speaker 1: the service, and that's the fact that they had a
Speaker 1: five megabit speed cap. So if you were trying to
Speaker 1: download something, you were capped at five megabits. Even if
Speaker 1: the Verizon network in that area was faster than five,
Speaker 1: which most of the time it is. Most of the time,
Speaker 1: you're getting anywhere from twenty to eighty on your download speeds.
Speaker 1: Visible would always make it just five using throttling technology.
Speaker 1: So now Visible is saying, you know what, forget you
Speaker 1: ever heard about that we are for a limited time
Speaker 1: going to uncap the speeds, which means for forty dollars
Speaker 1: a month, now you are getting Verizon's full network. Wow,
Speaker 1: without any caps on the speed.
Speaker 2: That's incredible.
Speaker 1: Now, I think you just started. When we did the
Speaker 1: visible speed test, and remember we were outside. We tried YouTube,
Speaker 1: we tried Facebook, we tried Snapchat.
Speaker 2: I totally remember this. Yeah, and it all was the same.
Speaker 2: I mean like it was fast, and it wasn't anything
Speaker 2: super noticeable, right, It wasn't like.
Speaker 1: It was buffering forever and hover. So now you do
Speaker 1: get the whole speed and you get the whole network.
Speaker 1: So I think this is a fantastic deal. I'm doing
Speaker 1: the research to see if I should switch my wife
Speaker 1: because we're on a family plan, so I need to do.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing that I've noticed that's a little bit
Speaker 1: tricky about the family plank, cause I was going to
Speaker 1: switch over immediately. We have Verizon. I pay like I
Speaker 1: think it's like one hundred and eighty bucks a month
Speaker 1: for the two lines. I was like, okay, that's ninety each.
Speaker 1: So I was like, okay, if I split her off
Speaker 1: to forty a month, well, hold on, now she loses
Speaker 1: Apple Music, which is ten dollars a month. And also
Speaker 1: I don't know if my bill goes up for just
Speaker 1: you now, right because now it's not a family plan.
Speaker 1: So I got to see what spread is on. Are
Speaker 1: we really saving fifty dollars a month? Or are we
Speaker 1: saving like ten dollars a month? So I need to
Speaker 1: look at that.
Speaker 2: Can she keep her number?
Speaker 1: You can keep your number? Oh wow, Okay, everything kind
Speaker 1: of follows over suit.
Speaker 2: Right because it is under Verizon at the end.
Speaker 1: Even if it wasn't, you would still be able to
Speaker 1: bring your number to another carrier. It's called porting and
Speaker 1: it's super easy. Oh but bottom line on Visible is
Speaker 1: I thought it was a fantastic deal to begin with. Personally,
Speaker 1: I can't switch because I have an Apple Watch with
Speaker 1: a cellular plan. They don't offer that. So again, who's
Speaker 1: this for? I think this is if you're single, you
Speaker 1: have one line, you don't have an Apple Watch with cellular,
Speaker 1: and you don't need international roaming. Those are the kind
Speaker 1: of the main caveats that I think you don't get
Speaker 1: with Visible, other than that they don't have stores. You
Speaker 1: have to do it all online. You have to activate
Speaker 1: your phone online, they send you a SIM card. You
Speaker 1: gotta be able to put that into your phone, and
Speaker 1: you have to do everything on your phone. Their customer
Speaker 1: services everything is through chat. So got it? Okay, and
Speaker 1: if they need to get in touch with you, they'll
Speaker 1: call you. But so great, great deal, honestly, yeah, great deal.
Speaker 2: All right. Time for the next question, also from Instagram.
Speaker 2: It's from Ryan Bay. Hi, Rich, I was wondering if
Speaker 2: you knew of an app or site that will run
Speaker 2: your email address to see which accounts you may have
Speaker 2: created over the years, and what might even allow you
Speaker 2: to delete them. I love your show and all your
Speaker 2: helpful tips. Thanks for the help.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. I don't know of a site.
Speaker 1: I do know there are some sites, and I used
Speaker 1: to have one. I'm trying to look forward on my
Speaker 1: bookmarks that would if you had a username that you liked.
Speaker 1: Let's say mine is rich DeMuro or rich on tech.
Speaker 1: Let's say I would put that into this website and
Speaker 1: it would show me all the popular sites and whether
Speaker 1: that's registered. I don't know where that is in my bookmarks,
Speaker 1: but that's kind of what he's talking about, Okay, but
Speaker 1: he's talking about if he's actually registered the appropriate username. Now,
Speaker 1: I think for security reasons, sites are not really willing
Speaker 1: to give out that information.
Speaker 2: That makes sense.
Speaker 1: It makes a lot of sense that you would not
Speaker 1: just be able to put in your user name and
Speaker 1: then see, oh she has a Skype, she has this,
Speaker 1: because then be easy to hack you totally. So I
Speaker 1: don't think anyone's doing that. But what I will say
Speaker 1: is if you want to check and get rid of
Speaker 1: some of these old accounts, which a lot of people do,
Speaker 1: there are two websites that I am looking them up
Speaker 1: right now, but one is called account Killer account killer
Speaker 1: dot com and the other one is called just the
Speaker 1: Leap Me. So if you go to account Killer, you
Speaker 1: can type in Skype and it will give you the
Speaker 1: directions on how to get rid of your Skype account
Speaker 1: or how to get rid of your Facebook account. It's
Speaker 1: super easy and they have a lot of stuff. Let's
Speaker 1: see if we just like want to get rid of
Speaker 1: Yahoo because you know, we don't use them anymore. Although
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't know what happened here? What's
Speaker 1: going on here? Why is Yahoo not coming up? That
Speaker 1: scares me? There? It is how to delete your Yaho account. Okay,
Speaker 1: so it's got Yahoo, so it's got all the different
Speaker 1: websites you pop them in and next thing you know,
Speaker 1: you can get rid of all the things that you
Speaker 1: don't use anymore. And by the way, it's a good
Speaker 1: idea to get rid of those totally because the more
Speaker 1: sites that you keep open in kind of the background
Speaker 1: that you're not using. We talked about this last week,
Speaker 1: it opens you up to hacking. So close down those
Speaker 1: old sites. You're not using them anymore. If you're not
Speaker 1: using Yahoo, if you're not using I'm just looking through
Speaker 1: some of these things about me.
Speaker 2: Is there a way, I mean, I feel like the
Speaker 2: answers know, but is there a way to go through
Speaker 2: your email and see what you've signed up for? Don't
Speaker 2: you think that that should be a thing, like you
Speaker 2: go through your email and see what.
Speaker 1: You've Yeah, it's kind of tough.
Speaker 2: I mean your account too.
Speaker 1: You could you can see, I guess you can look
Speaker 1: for like one sign up mail, but every every email
Speaker 1: is different. Like if I sign up for one website,
Speaker 1: the way that they welcome me to their website, you
Speaker 1: might just look up for welcome and maybe you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: usually a lot of websites say welcome to Yahoo or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's an interesting one. But yeah, good to get
Speaker 1: rid of those whole things. Speaking of websites, I love
Speaker 1: this site. I found this site. I believe it was
Speaker 1: through life Hacker, and I'm obsessed. It's called flights from
Speaker 1: dot Com. And you know, I'm a travel junkie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm no Johnny Jet, but I love my travel. And
Speaker 1: this site is so great because I have this airport
Speaker 1: called Burbank in the LA Area, which is this tiny
Speaker 1: little airport that I resisted going to for so long
Speaker 1: because I thought it was rinky dink, And now I'm
Speaker 1: sort of liking it because it's so much easier than that.
Speaker 1: At Okay, see, like forever she's loved it. I was
Speaker 1: kind of a Burbank hater for probably twenty and now
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't even want to tweet when I
Speaker 1: go from there because like people I know will be like, oh,
Speaker 1: now you're flying out of there.
Speaker 2: Huh oh Okay.
Speaker 1: This website, flightsfrom dot Com, is really simple, but it's
Speaker 1: really cool if you like data about flying and websites.
Speaker 1: It The main thing that it does is that you
Speaker 1: can pop in a website or an airport and it
Speaker 1: will give you all the direct flights from that airport.
Speaker 1: So for Burbank. For instance, if I'm planning a spring
Speaker 1: break and I want to see where are the places
Speaker 1: I can easily travel from Burbank on a direct flight
Speaker 1: to hop in Burbank and boom, I get a list
Speaker 1: of the destinations from Burbank and it's more than I thought.
Speaker 1: But it shows you because you don't have to like,
Speaker 1: how would you find that information otherwise?
Speaker 2: Right, I have no idea.
Speaker 1: How tricky. Yeah, you can go to Burbank's airport or
Speaker 1: their website and kind of look around and see if
Speaker 1: they list. This just makes it super simple. Plus it
Speaker 1: gives you a lot of data about the airport. It's
Speaker 1: like really nerdy stuff that's just like highly they they
Speaker 1: take all the data and make it easy to digest.
Speaker 1: So let's say I put in Burbank here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to know, and I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: Some of the data that they're giving me. Okay, So
Speaker 1: immediately it starts with destinations and flights. The route with
Speaker 1: the most route with the most departures is to San Jose,
Speaker 1: which I go to all the time. Yeah, eighty seven
Speaker 1: flights from Burbank, which is fourteen percent. The two longest
Speaker 1: flights are Burbank to JFK, which takes five hours, and
Speaker 1: Burbank to Boston with five hours twenty eight minutes. Southwest
Speaker 1: Airlines is the most is the largest airline here by
Speaker 1: the number of departures, with three hundred ninet nine scheduled
Speaker 1: takeoffs every week. That's six times as many as the
Speaker 1: second biggest airline, Alaska the most interest. The aircraft with
Speaker 1: the most scheduled flights are Boeing seven thirty seven and
Speaker 1: embry are nineteen. The longest flight is to Boston or
Speaker 1: do that and then it has the most popular destinations
Speaker 1: San Jose, Oakland, San Francisco, Phoenix, Las Vegas. Biggest airlines Southwest, Alaska,
Speaker 1: United American, top aircraft types. It's just fun, really information.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and now, like I mean, if you know you're
Speaker 2: going to New York, would you fly to Burbank?
Speaker 1: Well, they go to JFK and I usually fly to
Speaker 1: New York. Sokay Burbank. You hear me? Right now, let's
Speaker 1: do some uh b U R T E W L. Yes,
Speaker 1: that would be a dream. Yeah, that would be.
Speaker 2: I know, Burbank's great and it's really small, so you
Speaker 2: can like move around there like you go to Lax
Speaker 2: and it's like a city.
Speaker 1: I go from my car to the terminal past security
Speaker 1: and I've timed it like seven minutes.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, amazing. Okay, So this next question came in
Speaker 2: an email from Jose M Alvarez. He asks, I would
Speaker 2: like to ask about routers. Are routers with d d
Speaker 2: w RT firmwhere safe, secure and as good as enterprise routers.
Speaker 2: Keep up the good work. Love your podcast, Jose and Olivarez.
Speaker 1: Jose, Sorry, hold on, Jose, you get the for the
Speaker 1: nerdiest question so far on the rich on Tech podcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't understand this.
Speaker 1: This is so this is my gosh, the funny thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: where do I even start? D Okay, So all routers
Speaker 1: you know that help you get your Internet throughout your house. Yes,
Speaker 1: usually on wy Fi. Nowadays they have software on them
Speaker 1: which generally the manufacturer delivers to your router. It comes
Speaker 1: on the thing. You know. You don't have to do anything,
Speaker 1: it's just installed. Well, some people like to take things
Speaker 1: up a notch and install this secondary software that replaces
Speaker 1: the original called DDWRT. And this is open source and
Speaker 1: it's works on a bunch of different routers. And what
Speaker 1: is the reason why you want this at this point,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. But back in the day, when I
Speaker 1: install this on one of my routers, yes I'm a nerd.
Speaker 1: I was creating. This was before mesh networks. Now I
Speaker 1: always talk about mesh networks. You get three access points
Speaker 1: throughout your house. It kind of brings the Internet throughout
Speaker 1: your entire house in a great way, like a blanket.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, we didn't have that. So I
Speaker 1: took two routers that I had in my house and
Speaker 1: I linked them together with a wire. But to get
Speaker 1: the second router to work.
Speaker 2: In it with a physical wire, with.
Speaker 1: A physical wire that to run from one room to another.
Speaker 1: But to get the second router to work nicely and
Speaker 1: play nice with my network on my first one, I
Speaker 1: had to install this special firmware that allowed it, which
Speaker 1: was called DDWRT. So, Okay's question is is this safe?
Speaker 1: My answer is, I'm not sure how updated this is
Speaker 1: at this point, and that would tell me how safe
Speaker 1: it is. So what I'm seeing on Wikipedia, which I
Speaker 1: can't really tell, is that it says the last stable
Speaker 1: release was in two thousand and eight, which I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's true. That says ten years ago.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure, interesting.
Speaker 1: But it has support for a bunch of routers. I
Speaker 1: will tell you this generally when it comes to and
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the website and the last thing updated
Speaker 1: was in twenty eighteen. But generally, when it comes to
Speaker 1: open source stuff, it's usually some of the most secure
Speaker 1: stuff because you have a whole bunch of people from
Speaker 1: around the world looking into that software and trying to
Speaker 1: make it better and trying to squash the bugs and
Speaker 1: find the security exploits. So I don't know what you're using.
Speaker 1: Everything could be hacked everything, So I can't say whether
Speaker 1: you know. But at the end of the day, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, if you want to install
Speaker 1: it you have a need for it, go ahead, but
Speaker 1: just do so at your own risk. Good stuff. So
Speaker 1: I we talked about this app this week, and if
Speaker 1: you listened, I tried something new on my podcast this
Speaker 1: week called the rich On Tech Quick Hit, which is
Speaker 1: kind of a bonus episode. So if you like those,
Speaker 1: let me know a lot of you listen to them.
Speaker 1: So that's good news. But I interviewed the CEO of
Speaker 1: a company that makes a product called Firewall. This is
Speaker 1: a new app that is best described as the most
Speaker 1: extreme robocall blocker I've ever seen in my life. And
Speaker 1: the way it works is it blocks all your calls
Speaker 1: unless they're in your address book. And that could sound
Speaker 1: like a dream to a lot of people because you
Speaker 1: might think to yourself, why don't I need anyone else
Speaker 1: to call me unless they're in my address book. Clearly
Speaker 1: people call outside of your address book, so firewall has
Speaker 1: provisions for that. So how this app works, you forward
Speaker 1: all your calls to them. It's four dollars a month.
Speaker 1: By the way you forward all your calls to them,
Speaker 1: they receive the call. They also have a copy of
Speaker 1: your address book, so if the calls in your address book,
Speaker 1: they get one voicemail that says, Hey, this is rich
Speaker 1: what's up? Leave me a message. I'll call you back now.
Speaker 1: If it's in your address book and your phone is on,
Speaker 1: it will just route right to your phone like normal.
Speaker 1: If your phone is off, you know whatever, or if
Speaker 1: it goes to voicemail, it'll get that special voicemail. Secondary.
Speaker 1: If someone is not in your address book, it will
Speaker 1: not ring your phone. It will send them straight to
Speaker 1: voicemail and it's a separate voicemail that you can say
Speaker 1: whatever you want on so on mine, I said, hey,
Speaker 1: this is Rich. I'm screening my calls because you know robocalls,
Speaker 1: So leave me a message, or better yet, send me
Speaker 1: a text, and that will be the secondary message that
Speaker 1: will pretty much stop all of your unwanted robo calls
Speaker 1: because they're not going to leave a message and they
Speaker 1: don't really Maybe they will leave a message, but they
Speaker 1: don't really care. They're not going to text you. Although
Speaker 1: maybe I shouldn't say text me because that might give
Speaker 1: them ideas. Try to text, Hey, Rich, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: text you about this scam. I want you to be
Speaker 1: a part of. So my thoughts on this app is
Speaker 1: it's probably best for someone who is maybe doesn't have kids,
Speaker 1: because if you have kids, you're getting random calls because
Speaker 1: a couple of times my kids have gotten hurt at school.
Speaker 1: It's always a random number and you're like, do I
Speaker 1: answer this? I know it's in my area code, but
Speaker 1: like who is this? And of course you answer it
Speaker 1: using your your intuition as a parent, and it's always
Speaker 1: the worst call you can get. It's like your kids
Speaker 1: just hit their head and it's bleeding. Great, oh gosh, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's see. So it is a cool ideas. It's a
Speaker 1: great way if you are getting a lot of robo
Speaker 1: calls and you can deal with the whole firewall process
Speaker 1: because it is a process. Yeah, and I ended up
Speaker 1: turning it off full disclosure, because I was testing it.
Speaker 1: I want to see what it's like. Personally. I don't
Speaker 1: have a robo call problem, and when I do, I
Speaker 1: can kind of recognize the number. Also, in iOS thirteen,
Speaker 1: they're going to be building in some smarts robo calls.
Speaker 1: They will have a very similar feature where if a
Speaker 1: caller is not in your address book, they can send
Speaker 1: it to voicemail. Also, Google's going to add in some
Speaker 1: smarts where they're going to use Siri to identify things.
Speaker 1: So tell me if this has ever happened to you, Megan,
Speaker 1: where you get a phone call and Siri says maybe,
Speaker 1: and it has the person's name. Where Siri is getting
Speaker 1: that data is from your email. So when people leave
Speaker 1: a signature in their email with their name and phone number,
Speaker 1: Siri remembers that, and then when it sees that phone
Speaker 1: number come up on caller idea, it says, hey, I
Speaker 1: think this is this person.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's where that comes from.
Speaker 1: That's where that comes from. Okay, So clearly I think
Speaker 1: what Apple's going to do. And I haven't downloaded the
Speaker 1: beta of iOS thirteen just yet, but I think they're
Speaker 1: going to use that data. So if you call me,
Speaker 1: even if from your business line, let's say that was
Speaker 1: in your address book.
Speaker 2: In the bottom right of my email.
Speaker 1: It will still allow your call. Through some unknown caller
Speaker 1: calls me and it can't find any data on that,
Speaker 1: it will send that to voicemail.
Speaker 2: Oh interesting, I'm smart, right, yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh wait is it? Yeah? It's your turn.
Speaker 2: Okay, so our next question is from Cheryl Lane. I
Speaker 2: think it's Lane, Emma or Lane.
Speaker 1: I love that you have to deal with all these
Speaker 1: user names because it's like reading a license plate. It
Speaker 1: really is.
Speaker 2: Well, it's an Instagram account and so this came to
Speaker 2: you on Instagram. Hi, your opinion, please. My daughter wants
Speaker 2: me to get the Apple Series four for the medical features,
Speaker 2: especially the EKG. I've been with Samsung and I'm an
Speaker 2: Android owner for years. How would you rate the difficult
Speaker 2: level in converting to an iPhone to allow watch full
Speaker 2: feature use?
Speaker 1: Thanks, Marty, Marty, I think that there will be a
Speaker 1: learning curve. She's talking about getting the Apple Watch series four,
Speaker 1: which has the EKG feature. Yes, also the fall detection,
Speaker 1: which I think is just on the flour at this point.
Speaker 1: That's what you have, That's what I have, and I've done.
Speaker 1: It's funny. I just showed my little brother the EKG
Speaker 1: and we were on the Sodona trip. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: was showing him. I'm like, O, look, I could take
Speaker 1: an EKG. Of course, I'm like, oh no, I hope
Speaker 1: it's okay. I hope it comes up okay, as I'm
Speaker 1: like demo ing this thing right, but it did. But
Speaker 1: you can take an EKG on your Apple Watch. And
Speaker 1: I think that's a great feature. It's a really neat feature.
Speaker 1: It's something especially if she has a heart issue, like
Speaker 1: maybe that's why her daughter is telling her to get this,
Speaker 1: so in that case, it's probably really nice to have.
Speaker 1: I love the Apple Watch series four, and I think
Speaker 1: I've said this before.
Speaker 2: I like we say this on every podcast. I feel
Speaker 2: like it's like our constant thing.
Speaker 1: I think I could do without the iPhone, but not
Speaker 1: without the Apple Watch. That's how good it's gotten. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just so key. Although I will say my one
Speaker 1: problem with the Apple Watch when I took my hike
Speaker 1: in Sedona. I was so excited. Exuse my longest hike
Speaker 1: yet was like seven miles. My Apple Watch crapped out.
Speaker 1: The battery died at about forty minutes in. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened. I think if I had to
Speaker 1: guess it charged, it was fully charged overnight. I think
Speaker 1: what happened was I did install an app the night
Speaker 1: before that I had not had on my Apple Watch before,
Speaker 1: and I think that that crashed it in the morning
Speaker 1: as soon as I put it on my wrist, and
Speaker 1: next thing you know, the battery was going crazy, something
Speaker 1: was crashing inside and it died. Because my brother had
Speaker 1: his fitbit on and his lasted the whole time. And
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch I never tested it for a seven
Speaker 1: hour or seven mile hike because it is using GPS
Speaker 1: during that time the whole time, and that does use
Speaker 1: a lot more battery. Yeah, but I still think it's
Speaker 1: supposed to work for that amount of time. So I
Speaker 1: can't really explain what happened because I can't. I got
Speaker 1: to go on another seven mile hike to see if
Speaker 1: it was just the time or but it ran out
Speaker 1: so early in the morning. I'm talking, I got up,
Speaker 1: you know six am. It was dead by like nine,
Speaker 1: so it.
Speaker 2: Was had problem plugged in and it was charging over.
Speaker 1: Now yeah, I mean it started one hundred percent, So
Speaker 1: that's weird.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it must be an app that was I
Speaker 2: think maybe it was fully downloaded.
Speaker 1: That's I think maybe what happens, something just happened where
Speaker 1: it's just it just hung up the watch and just
Speaker 1: ate the whole battery up.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I was so annoyed the whole hike.
Speaker 2: Because you wanted to track your life.
Speaker 1: I wanted my numbers. Like you know, if you if
Speaker 1: you have an Apple Watch, you know that the best
Speaker 1: part of your day is the tracking of what you're
Speaker 1: doing throughout the day. I live for those rings every day.
Speaker 1: I live for my little thirty two minutes or whatever
Speaker 1: it is of exercise that I get to hit every day.
Speaker 1: Live for that. My wife and I that's what we
Speaker 1: discussed every night. She's like, I only got four minutes
Speaker 1: so far today. I'm like, well, you got to do more.
Speaker 1: I'm going in there in the room and I'm doing
Speaker 1: an active I'm going in the room I do I'll
Speaker 1: do like an active workout. I will literally do whatever
Speaker 1: I wan.
Speaker 2: It makes you want to reach your goal. It constantly
Speaker 2: reminds you, like by the way, Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 2: don't have one, as you know, but I think that
Speaker 2: that's the best future.
Speaker 1: Sure, I know what Christmas gift I'm getting you, Megan,
Speaker 1: So don't buy an apple Watch anytime soon. It is anyway.
Speaker 1: So when it comes to our email and the question
Speaker 1: I'm getting, I think that there will be a learning curve,
Speaker 1: especially if she's going from if Samsung to both iPhone
Speaker 1: and Apple Watch. You're gonna have to You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to learn some new stuff.
Speaker 2: Totally.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's impossible to learn, and I think
Speaker 1: that six months in you're gonna be loving it. Here's
Speaker 1: the other beauty of iPhone is that when you switch
Speaker 1: to an iPhone or you have an iPhone, you can
Speaker 1: ask your friends and family because they all have it,
Speaker 1: they know what to do. Sometimes they know how to
Speaker 1: do what you need to do. Sometimes they don't. The
Speaker 1: reality is there's a lot of people around you that
Speaker 1: you can ask me, like, Hey, what's this thing on
Speaker 1: my Apple Watch? Or you can always get a copy
Speaker 1: of my book.
Speaker 2: True, but you don't have a book about the Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: I don't, but I really need to do one because
Speaker 1: I've you should, I know, because there's so many things.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I haven't even explored the.
Speaker 2: Apple Watch, or maybe you do a book about like
Speaker 2: each like Apple watch, computer, and then.
Speaker 1: I sure should I just quit my day.
Speaker 2: I'm just giving you more to do.
Speaker 1: There's no way that I could do all that stuff.
Speaker 2: I think it's time for another story.
Speaker 1: All right, what do you want to hear about? You
Speaker 1: want to hear about ordering food through Google or LinkedIn ordering. Okay,
Speaker 1: this was great because we actually tried this out. Yes, Google,
Speaker 1: now lets you you know the problem. If you've ever
Speaker 1: ordered food through one of those apps. You've got Postmates,
Speaker 1: you've got door Dash, you've got grub Hub, you've got
Speaker 1: Uber Eats. Have you ever done this on a Friday
Speaker 1: night where you just sit there and you like kind
Speaker 1: of surf all the different apps and see like what
Speaker 1: the deals are, what's good, what's bad?
Speaker 2: Like every Friday night.
Speaker 1: Honestly, so Google saw the issue and they said we're
Speaker 1: gonna make this a little bit easier. Now. On Google Search,
Speaker 1: Google Maps, and Google Assistant, you can search for the
Speaker 1: food that you want, whether it's a restaurant specific name
Speaker 1: or a type of food. So in my case, I
Speaker 1: searched for Reuben sandwich and next thing you know, it
Speaker 1: came up with Cantor's Deli and a couple other places
Speaker 1: nearby here in LA And here's the best part. Underneath
Speaker 1: the restaurant, you look for a big button that says
Speaker 1: order online, and you tap it and it now gives
Speaker 1: you all of your options for ordering, whether it is DoorDash, Postmats,
Speaker 1: Delivery dot Com, Slice Chownow, or Zeppler, which I haven't
Speaker 1: heard of, but I think that's sort of on the
Speaker 1: East Coast and central oh Okay. And then you order
Speaker 1: your entire meal right through Google. So if you have
Speaker 1: to have Google Pay set up to do the final transaction,
Speaker 1: which you just add your credit card kind of like
Speaker 1: Apple Pay, and your food is on your way. We
Speaker 1: got a Reuben. It was perfect. It was delicious, by
Speaker 1: the way, and it was so easy because now you
Speaker 1: don't need if you have a restaurant in mind, you
Speaker 1: just search for that restaurant on Google and then tap
Speaker 1: order online and they'll figure out which platform handles the delivery. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't have to sit there and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's not on Postmates, let me go check Grubhub. Oh
Speaker 1: it's not on there. Let me try eat twenty four
Speaker 1: or I think they're grubhub now. But again, Google's just
Speaker 1: making life easier. Of course, Google probably gets a cut
Speaker 1: of the sale. It all goes through them, which they
Speaker 1: gives them more data on what people are ordering. You
Speaker 1: see what I'm getting at?
Speaker 2: Ye right right? Does Amazon have a food delivering So they.
Speaker 1: Did, and they just closed it down. It was called
Speaker 1: Amazon Restaurants and I think they just told everyone that
Speaker 1: it's shutting down.
Speaker 2: So it failed. And I used Google Delivery Friday night
Speaker 2: last week and I just searched like Thai food and
Speaker 2: it was so straightforward and I like had my food
Speaker 2: in like forty five minutes and delivery was just like
Speaker 2: one dollar.
Speaker 1: Were you eating alone?
Speaker 2: No, I eat with my family, Okay, I just.
Speaker 1: Like you and like your sad lights out one little candle.
Speaker 1: My god, I remember Rich talking about this.
Speaker 2: Let me try it, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: I do want to tell you something very exciting though, Megan,
Speaker 1: I did guest host another podcast here in the Tribune
Speaker 1: Audio Network family. It's called The News Director's Office, and
Speaker 1: this is a podcast that's hosted by my boss Jason Ball,
Speaker 1: who has steadily employed me for nearly ten years now.
Speaker 1: So I do have a lot of respect for Jason Ball.
Speaker 1: He found me when I was in New York at
Speaker 1: Sina and brought me over to KKEL and now here
Speaker 1: at KTLA. So I love Jason. He has done a
Speaker 1: fantastic job here at KTLA. He has his own podcast
Speaker 1: where he talks from a news director's perspective about what
Speaker 1: it takes to sort of make it in the US business,
Speaker 1: and he's talked to all kinds of great people. He's
Speaker 1: on vacation, so he said, Rich, would you guest host
Speaker 1: an episode? I said, sure, who would I talk to? Immediately?
Speaker 1: I called Leo Laporte because I thought he would be
Speaker 1: such because me as a tech person, I'm curious about
Speaker 1: what his background was. I know him from his shows
Speaker 1: and this and that, and I've actually filled in for
Speaker 1: him on his radio show, but I didn't really know
Speaker 1: what his story was. And so in the podcast, I
Speaker 1: talked to Leo and he is obviously he started twit,
Speaker 1: which is a big podcast network. He also has a
Speaker 1: syndicated radio show. But I asked him everything how he
Speaker 1: got to start in broadcasting. He explained his idea of
Speaker 1: why he thinks podcasts should be called net casts. He
Speaker 1: also talked about how the landscape for radio and media
Speaker 1: in general has changed. And I felt like Leo really
Speaker 1: did me a solid by doing this job, by doing
Speaker 1: this podcast, because he he did such a great job.
Speaker 1: He just like basically answered my questions, didn't hold anything back,
Speaker 1: found out where he's from, childhood, all that good stuff,
Speaker 1: and it was a great listen. So if you want,
Speaker 1: search for news Director's Office in your favorite podcasting app
Speaker 1: to listen to the episode where I interview Leo Laporte.
Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for this show.
Speaker 2: I'm excited to listen to that.
Speaker 1: By the way, Thank you. And I know your mom
Speaker 1: is too.
Speaker 2: She loves leeas Oh yeah, she's a big fan.
Speaker 1: She's a big fan of Leo. That's gonna do it though,
Speaker 1: for this show. So subscribe if you haven't done so
Speaker 1: already for this the rich on Tech podcast. You can
Speaker 1: find us in your favorite podcast app, which might be
Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, pocket Casts, or overcast. Those are a few
Speaker 1: good ones. Don't forget to sign up for my newsletter
Speaker 1: at richon Tech dot tv. Megan, did you like the
Speaker 1: Thai food? And most importantly, did you like the show.
Speaker 2: I loved the tai food and I thought the show
Speaker 2: was great today.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, that's gonna do it for today. You can
Speaker 1: find producer Megan at.
Speaker 2: Producer Megan on Twitter, Twitter, Twitter dot com, slash producer Megan.
Speaker 1: You can find me at Rich on tech dot tv.
Speaker 1: I'm Rich tomorrow. Have a great day. We'll talk to
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