WEBVTT - Twitter Tests Its Own Version of Instagram Stories 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:13.399 Twitter gets in on stories. At and T puts a 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:17.400 high tech spin on old school cable TV, our police 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:23.800 departments testing terminator style facial recognition, plus your tech questions answered? 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:26.000 What is going on? I'm Rich Dmiro and this is 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.840 Rich on Tech, the podcast where we talk about the 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:31.760 tech stuff I think you should know about and I 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:34.720 answer the questions that you send me. My name is 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:38.080 Rich Demiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.080 Producer Megan cannot be here today, so joining me is 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.199 producer Bobby Hello. 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:47.480 Who has his own podcast. Yeah, I do here at KTLA. 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.519 I'm producing all the podcasts here. Jason's my own. 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.959 Yours is called Spoken Dreams Dreams. Yeah, it's a very 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:56.279 exciting podcast. We're going to tell folks more about it 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.120 a little bit later on in the show. But Bobby, 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:01.280 thank you so much for doing this. You are gonna 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:03.480 read the questions that people have submitted to me. 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:05.680 I am, I'm really excited to be here. I know 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.520 Megan is like some big shoes to fill on this show. 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.360 So I'm I'm I'm I'm thrilled. 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.240 What do you think is so? Why do you think 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.960 people love podcasts so much? Because you're the podcast producer here. 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.600 Why do you think they've taken America by storm or 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.000 the world really when they've been around for so long. 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:26.000 Yeah, I think it's. Uh. I think a lot of 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.640 things in media are cyclical. Is podcasting me is almost 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:33.040 a return to like radio and that kind of intimacy 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.560 that you have with radio, Especially when people are listening 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.200 to podcasts through headphones and on their drive to work 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.640 and on their drive home from work. I think it's 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.120 it's kind of an intimate moment. It almost feels like 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:46.760 you're spending time with friends when you're putting on your 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:48.000 favorite podcast week to week. 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.640 So I think that's kind of in my case, those 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.360 are my only friends. I just imagine I'm like, oh, 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.720 the guy who does who's the guy that's married to 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.520 Kirsten Bell that does like the Big Deck che Yeah, 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.320 Like I feel like him and I are friends. I'm like, 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:03.320 I know DEKs Shepherd, I know Conan O'Brien, all these 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.080 people that I listened to on a daily basis, Like 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:06.880 I just feel like I know, and then I'll tweet 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.160 them and they'll never tweet me back exactly. 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.440 It's like my real life friends as well too. It's 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.400 this podcast is like the only opportunity I have to 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:16.400 talk to people, and people talk back. 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.760 It's a one way street though, unfortunately. But here is 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.080 the thing. And people that have emailed me know this. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.040 When you email me on the rich on Tech podcast, 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.440 I will actually email you back. So people email me 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.040 all the time and I respond within thirty seconds because 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.600 I'm not doing anything else, and they're always surprised. I'm like, 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:35.280 why are you surprised? What else do you think I'm 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:36.040 doing in my life? 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.400 Your go go go. It's almost like like a second 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.080 job for you. Is you you come into KTLA, you 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.160 do your work here, and then you go home and 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:46.240 you're still working and you're talking to people, and that's it. 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.320 No one else will talk to me. My friends don't care. 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.640 My wife like she doesn't want anything to do with me. 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:51.880 It's like the more time away. 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.160 Yeah, she's she gets home, she's got you know, got 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:57.760 stuff to do. The kids they're playing minecraft. Ah. But 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:00.639 we digress. Let's talk about coronavirus because it is the 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:04.280 number one topic in the world right now. And I'm 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.080 not gonna go crazy over coronavirus except to say that 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:11.040 I did go to a couple stores yesterday because I 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:12.880 was like, let's see if this is really a thing, 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.760 and sure enough it is really. Everything was sold out. 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:17.320 I'm two different stores. 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:20.080 It's crazy. I've been seeing stuff like online and Facebook too, 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.960 people going to Costco and Target and like no water, 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.639 no wipes, no toilet paper, paper towels. 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:28.960 Crazy. I don't really understand the toilet paper and paper towels, 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:30.560 but I mean, I guess you need that stuff. Like 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:32.280 generally you're like, well, if I'm getting all the hand 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:33.960 sanitizer in the world, I might as well get this. 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.240 But yeah, I went to a grocery store. People were 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.200 pulling the Lysol wipes they just got a shipment in. 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:42.720 As they were putting them on the shelf, people were 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.160 just pulling them off. Then I went to Target entire shelves, 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.640 like entire aisles, empty, Wild, which was wild. And then 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:51.920 on Amazon. I mean, when have you ever lived in 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.600 a time when you cannot order something you want in Amazon? 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:56.320 It's like literally out of stock. 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:57.920 I did not know it extended to Amazon. 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.960 Yes, you cannot buy hand sanitizer on Amazon right now. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.480 I knew it started with the masks. Everybody was trying 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:07.120 to get the masks, and now it's it's like end 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:10.480 of days, like everyone's crawling into their bomb shelter trying 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:11.640 to stock up on things. 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.080 It's very odd. I mean, I get that it's a concern, 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:15.960 but it is I've never seen anything like this. So 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.839 it's affecting the tech world as well. Major tech conferences 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:25.400 have been canceled, including Google, Io, Facebook's F eight event, 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.919 Mobile World Congress. This is the one that started it 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:32.320 all back in February. This was in Barcelona, and according 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:36.000 to estimates from the website Recode, they linked up with 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.320 a company called predict hq. It's so far costs the 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:43.120 tech industry five hundred million dollars. And you know, you 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:48.320 think about the travel, the restaurants, all these things, the hotels, airlines, 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.880 so this was the losses to airlines, hotels, restaurants, and 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.920 transportation providers. So that's not just like what the other 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:57.279 what the companies make on these things. Let's see what 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.240 else did they mention that was interesting? The games develop 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.760 the Game Developers Conference. This was scheduled for March, so 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.160 that's been postponed, not one hundred percent canceled. And things 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.320 that might be on the chopping block are things like 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.640 south By Southwest, which is happening in Austin. A lot 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.800 of the big companies have pulled out of that conference, 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:16.760 but they still say they're having it. By the time 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:19.440 you listen to this, that could be canceled. And then 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.840 there's one a little bit down the line. But here 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.480 in Los Angeles they do what's called E three, which 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.600 is the big video games conference that is now kind 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.760 of up in the air. And Sony, which is a 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.320 big company, they've pulled out of that a long time 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.120 ago just because they don't agree with the way the 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.320 show is going, so they're not going to be there. 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:37.880 So maybe it might be a good chance for them 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:39.560 to just be like, you know what, let's just regroup 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.279 next year. And of course, all these major companies like 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:46.320 Twitter and Square and Amazon have told either their folks 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:50.680 to work at home or to not work at all. No, yeah, right, 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:52.960 you know what, just don't work. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:54.200 Just don't work, don't come in. 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.960 All right, producer Bobby, that is your cue. Oh, those 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:01.920 are people typing in, typing in emails to us. Ah, 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:05.400 And so that's your cue that it's your turn. The question. 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.800 We have some emails that have come through. This first 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:12.000 one is from David. David is a huge fan of 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.479 the podcast and you and producer Megan, So sorry, David, 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.600 you're stuck with me today, but I will pass a 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.799 message along to Megan. He's got a question about pixel 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.680 book and MacBook Air. So he's got a daughter. She's 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.599 starting high school in the fall. She really wants the 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:32.280 MacBook Air, but the school is Google based. So now 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:36.320 he's been looking at the Google pixel Book Go and 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.640 he wants to get her a good computer that maybe 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.000 will last a couple of years, maybe her entire high 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:45.080 school career. But he comes from an iPhone family and 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.960 Apple family, but with everything at the school being Google based, 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.960 he thinks that might work out better. So he's trying 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.560 to figure out what he should do here. And he 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.080 also mentions that price is no option. 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.880 Oh wow wow from a good family. 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:02.880 Yes, so about a difference of one hundred and fifty 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.640 two hundred bucks. So he says it's not a huge kud. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.720 That's interesting because it's not. I feel like pixel books 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:08.320 are way cheaper. Maybe he's looking at a high end 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.800 pixel book. Does he mention if this is for college 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.520 or high school, because he says, my daughter's just starting school. Yes, 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:16.040 he says high school. High school. Okay, so she'll be 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:20.280 there for four years. So my feeling here, here's what 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.480 I think we should do. I think that maybe since 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.640 the school is Google based. Now, it depends what he says. 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.520 He's saying Google based, Like does that mean they use 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.520 Gmail and you know, the Google Suite of Apps? 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:35.160 Because yeah, that wasn't that wasn't particularly specified. But that's 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:39.040 what I was wondering too, And I I don't know. 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.000 I mean, I when I was in school, there was nothing. 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:46.120 There was like slates. They had a slab that you 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:47.240 rode on with chalk. 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:48.360 Yeah, it was like a chalkboard. 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:50.920 So you're way younger. The term Google. 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.720 Based school, I'm not too sure. But my guess my 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:58.080 interpretation was that maybe they're using like Google Suite of yeah, 0:07:58.120 --> 0:07:59.080 like all the docs. 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.080 Yeah, which it's fine. You can do that on a 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.680 MacBook and you know, and a lot of these schools 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:08.280 use chromebooks because they're inexpensive, and so that's why many 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:11.640 schools have taken to the whole chromebook thing and what 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:13.560 you're running on. You know, if they are running a 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.480 Google Suite of Apps, you can do that on a MacBook, 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:17.760 no problem. So I would Here's what I would do. 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.320 I would I would see what your daughter wants. Number one, 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.960 because some people are more creative, Like, if she's at 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.120 all inclined to be creative, you probably want to go MacBook. 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.080 Because if she's going to be editing video or working 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.160 with her pictures in a bigger way than just Google photos, 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:35.959 I think that that lends itself to having a MacBook. 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:38.160 And also maybe she wants to listen to podcasts, or 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.320 maybe she wants to manage her music. There's many more 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.240 things you can do on a MacBook than you can 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.760 do on a pixel book. Pixel book is great if 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.959 she is only writing papers, if she's only surfing the web, 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:51.839 only going on YouTube to watch videos, and that's pretty 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:52.120 much it. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:52.240 Now. 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.120 If you're creating videos for YouTube, go with the MacBook. 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:59.160 But that's my recommendation. My bigger plan would be this, 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.360 if she's not at all inclined to create stuff, then 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.080 I say go with the pixel book for the four 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:07.360 years she's in high school. Then maybe graduate to a 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.400 MacBook for the four years of college, and that way 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.320 you kind of get the best of both worlds, and 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.280 then she can decide what she sort of likes going forward. 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:20.160 Pixel Books are generally a little bit underpowered and very basic, 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:24.760 so it's not as flexible as a full fledged computer. Personally, 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.200 I go with a MacBook. I love the pixel books, 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:31.480 but being a creative type or thinking I'm creative type, 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.480 I like to have the ability to work with files 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.360 and work with audio and work with video, and that's 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.440 kind of what you get when it comes to the 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:43.000 pixel Book versus the Chrome, or sorry, the Chromebook versus 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:46.480 the versus the MacBooks. Good first question, Yeah, what about 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:50.640 longevity that they both pretty solid? I think, I mean 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.000 a MacBook you could easily get four years out of 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.760 a pixel Book actually has an expiration date. So if 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:01.840 you google a Chromebook end of life, there's actually for 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:05.400 every Chromebook that comes out, Google gives you a date 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.120 as to when they're gonna serve the last software update, 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.280 so pretty much a death date for that device. And 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.080 so you can look for any device like let's say 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.520 you get an a Sus Chromebit C S ten, the 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:20.600 auto update expiration date is November twenty twenty. If you 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.479 get a Chromebook tablet CEE T one hundred from Asus 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.280 August twenty twenty three, you have Intel. Now does it 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.600 mean it's gonna stop working after that. No, but it's 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.640 just gonna it may actually I don't even know, but 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:35.560 it definitely stops getting any software updates anyway. Good first question, 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:40.679 Let's talk about Twitter now, Bobby, You're on Twitter. Everyone's 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:42.520 kind of like bailed on Twitter. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:44.160 Yeah, for the podcast, that's it. 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.840 It doesn't. It just doesn't resonate as much as a 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:48.800 lot of other things. It depends on what you're doing. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.280 You know, some people their only platform is Twitter, some 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.480 people their only platform is Instagram. But it seems to 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.960 me the bell of the ball right now is Instagram. 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:02.040 Everyone sort of loves Instagram. Facebook used to have that territory, 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.800 and Facebook still has the most users. But I see, 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.960 just you know, in my own data and just from 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.600 what me and my wife do, we're on Facebook to 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:13.719 a much lesser extent, whereas if I'm at the line 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.920 at Starbucks, every single person is on Instagram and especially 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.200 Instagram Stories, which is why Twitter is now testing a 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:25.160 new feature called Fleets. These are their brand of Instagram Stories, 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.200 and so it's kind of a story that deletes after 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.800 twenty four hours. And the best way to describe this 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.760 is it is an Instagram story, except It lives on 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.600 the Twitter platform, which is great if you're not a 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:41.440 big adopter of Instagram and you want to use more Twitter, 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:43.040 if you're all on, Like we have a guy here, 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.040 Chris Shawl, one of our anchors. He only uses Twitter 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:47.880 and so this would be perfect for him, because you 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.840 don't want to post necessarily everything to Twitter because it 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.439 lasts forever. But this is a twenty four hour thing. 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.640 It's ephemeral, it goes away. You can be funnier, you 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.120 can be short lived, you can be quirkier, you can 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.480 post what you're eating, and it doesn't really matter. Now, 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.440 this does not mean that it's never you know, people 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.560 can't screenshot it. It can still be screenshot and all 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:10.880 that stuff. And the other thing is that people cannot 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.400 kind of retweet these just like a story. They can't 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.240 like it. All they can do is reply via direct 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:20.800 message if you have that feature turned on. And Twitter 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:25.240 is testing fleets in Brazil. First, I don't know why 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.880 they test so many things in Brazil. Happens all the time. 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:32.080 They must have a large user base of people that 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.880 are open to new things. In Brazil. They're like, oh, sure, 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.559 we'll try this new feature. I think this sounds like 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.200 a winner though, because it gives more flexibility to the 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.760 Twitter platform. And I've actually thought about this myself. I 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.920 actually think Twitter is the perfect social media platform because 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:49.520 if you think about what you can do on Twitter, 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.680 minus the limitations of how long your tweet can be, 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.240 you can send links, you can put videos up there, 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.160 you can put pictures, you can do things that are 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.720 kind of fun and stupid, you can do things long form. 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.560 It's a great conduit. And by adding the stories it 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.920 makes it even more robust. The downside to Twitter is 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.480 the user base. There just aren't that many users. 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.600 Yeah, I was thinking too, like why this late in 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.000 the game. This seems like something that you know, Snapchat 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.080 was doing for a long time, and then Instagram was 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.000 doing for a long time, and then Facebook adopted it. 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:19.880 Why why not? 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.719 I think it's money, It's it's can we get more 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.200 people to use this platform? And I think that the 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.480 biggest problem with Twitter is it's stalled. It kind of 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:30.839 you have your Twitter users, and a lot of it 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:35.800 is journalists, political media. But the average person if you 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.600 go to a high school and you say, hey, are 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:42.120 you guys using Twitter? Not really, They're using Instagram or Snapchat. Yeah, 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:43.800 and so that's a problem for Twitter. They need to 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.760 grow the next generation of tweeters. 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:52.200 Yeah, tweeties, tweetyes, tweetees, tweety birds. Okay, I guess that 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:56.160 means we get a new question coming in here. This 0:13:56.240 --> 0:14:00.960 is another one regarding a MacBook Pro. This is from Joni. 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.880 Joni is another fan of your podcast. She says, I'm 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.920 getting a new MacBook Pro laptop this week after drenching 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:09.480 my MacBook Air with water. 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:11.640 Ouch. Isn't it an opportunity? 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.880 Yeah? Yeah, she's got two of the four elements there 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:15.840 water air. 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:16.920 She just needs fireing her. 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.280 Is it an opportunity to start from scratch and install 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:24.320 all my apps and settings manually rather than load the 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:28.080 backup from time Machine. I haven't had any real issues 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.080 with the computer, but after seven years, I'm sure there 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.160 is some garbage on the backup that I don't need 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:33.480 or want. What do you. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.880 Think I think she hit upon exactly what my advice 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.000 is going to be here. She has the time Machine backup, 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.560 which is fantastic. Always have a backup of your computer. 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.600 But the reality is she's been using this computer for 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.840 seven years. Time Machine on Mac does an amazing job 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.440 of connecting that device to your new computer, carrying everything 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.440 over all your files, all your stuff. But like she said, 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.120 it also brings over all the garbage. So those are 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.640 little fragments of apps that you've deleted and files that 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.560 you no longer need, and just settings that you might 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.120 have changed at one point that maybe you want a 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.120 fresh start. I personally, when I get a new computer, 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.920 always do a fresh start because it just feels good. 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.840 It's like spring cleaning. It is frustrating in certain aspects 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:20.600 because you do have to go through and think about, oh, man, 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:22.760 my wife, I always connected to that network. Now you 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.320 get to type it in again, or I always had 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.640 that setting, my computer always changed to dark mode at 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.040 six pm. Oh I got to go back in and 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.720 all these things that you've kind of tweaked over seven 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.160 years that have built up, they will all be gone. 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.640 So that's the downside. The positive side is that you 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:42.080 get a fast computer. There's nothing extra there, there's nothing 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.840 running in the background that you haven't specifically kind of 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.320 thought about. Because you're going to now install all your 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.360 programs again. You're going to drag over just the files 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:53.760 that you need, and you're going to start with settings 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:55.520 that are fresh, so you have a chance to kind 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.720 of see what Apple is presenting you, and you have 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.680 a chance to kind of lead your computer in the 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:03.760 way that you want to and kind of give up 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.640 that seven years of whatever you picked. You know, in 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.360 the moment, you now have kind of a fresh, fresh 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.200 look at everything. I will say, the one thing that 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.120 I change every single time when I first get a 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.400 brand new Mac or restart it or whatever, you know, 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:19.080 refresh it is the way that Apple tries to force 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.920 you to when you pull two fingers down on your trackpad, 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:25.840 it actually is reverse. So when you're scrolling, they call 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:29.200 it natural scroll. Yeah, and I just for some reason, 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.760 I've always scrolled with pulling two fingers down like they 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:33.880 want to do opposite. Like, okay, I get it. If 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.280 you're pushing two fingers up, it's pushing the page up, 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.440 and if you're pulling them down, it's pulling. It's just reverse. 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:43.360 To me, it's it's anyway. So I always change that setting, 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:45.600 literally the first thing I ever do when I get 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:47.240 a Mac. And then when I go to someone else's 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:51.440 computer that has not changed that setting. For instance, producer 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.840 Megan I was on her computer the other day secretly 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.200 looking at stuff when she left. Yeah, yeah, we all. 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:57.960 Do that, right of course. 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.640 And I went to use her track pad and I 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.560 was like, I can't do this. It's like it's totally different, 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.239 and I wanted to change it for her, but then 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:06.520 I was like, nah, I don't think I'm it's not 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:06.840 my right. 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.600 Maybe she does it as like an added security measure. Yeah, 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.280 like they got in my computer, but now I'm not 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:12.960 gonna be able to Now they're not gonna be able 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:13.800 to navigate. 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.480 Rich will not be able to figure out how to scroll. 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.080 So I think it's great that she's getting a new computer. 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:20.840 And I love the fact that she was backing up 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.919 her old one because that's very important. But I like 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:26.200 the idea of just taking the taking the Saturday morning, 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:27.960 grab a cup of coffee, and just you know, start 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:30.000 fresh with this thing. It's a brand new computer. It's 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.000 it's always it's always good to have a fresh start. 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:36.720 Bobby at and T is putting a new spin on 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:41.480 the classic cable TV service you know and hate. They 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.600 have a new service called AT and T TV, and 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:48.480 it's actually not a bad service because it lands squarely 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:52.960 between cord cutting and the holdouts of standard cable. When 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.800 people cut the cord, they all of a sudden go 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:58.520 into this frenzy of like some people are fine, like obviously, 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:00.879 like some people like I know what I'm doing, it's great. Whatever. 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.000 Then you have a lot of other people who kind 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:05.960 of like my parents, who are like, well, I do 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.000 watch the Food Network. How do I get that? Now? 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.520 It's like, ooh, you wanted that, Well, you don't have 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:12.679 that anymore. I wanted my local channels. How do you 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:14.760 get that? Oh I can't. You can't really get those 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.280 with you know, some of the streaming services do have them, 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.159 or all these random cable channels. I like to watch Bravo, 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.919 I like to watch, you know, my news, you know, 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.920 cable news. Okay, So what AT and T is doing 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:29.520 is they are now giving you cable TV service that 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:33.320 actually streams through the Internet. But it's not your typical 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:35.800 streaming app like YouTube TV or all these things. It's 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.480 called AT and T TV, And when you sign up, 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.680 they will send you an Android powered box, a cable box, 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:46.080 a cable box of the future, let's say, which actually 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.959 uses kind of Google Android on the back end, and 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.840 so you get your live channels which are now streaming 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:54.320 over the Internet, So you plug it into your high 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.320 speed Internet and you get your live channels just like 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.000 you would. It looks like a program grid everything, except 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.879 instead of the channels being delivered through Cox Cable the 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:03.800 way they used to do, they're just coming over your Internet. 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.960 So it looks the same, but it performs the same, 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.320 but it's delivered different It's delivered over IP Internet protocol. 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.440 But here's the other part that I think some people 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.879 will like. You also have your apps on the same 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:18.919 exact platform, so where you have your local channels and 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.160 your cable channels. Then all of a sudden, with one 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.160 hit of the remote, now you can be watching Netflix. 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:26.920 And when it comes to a lot of these other systems, 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:29.080 you know, if you have a cable box plus an 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.439 Apple TV, let's say you have to switch inputs to 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.040 flip flop between those two. Now, there's been a lot 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:36.199 of effort made to kind of bridge that gap, and 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:38.640 I think that AT and T is doing something here 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:40.520 to kind of rescue a portion of their business that 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.000 they know is going away. And it does appeal to 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:45.160 a lot of different people like my parents who may 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:47.440 not be ready. My mom cut the cord, my dad 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:50.159 cannot do it, but someone like him this might be 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:52.680 good for because the price is going to be better 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:55.080 than what you get with classic cable, but not by much. 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.440 So here is the catch to this whole thing, because 0:19:57.480 --> 0:19:59.600 you're going to be seeing advertising like crazy for this 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:03.119 at TV is the price is really cheap when you 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:07.760 start out, and just like regular cable, and especially if 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:11.399 you had like Direct TV, it was super cheap to start. 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:14.399 In that second year, the prices went crazy up, and 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:16.919 that's what happens with this. So your first year, you 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:21.239 can get your TV for thirty nine to ninety nine 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:23.560 a month for twelve months, and then you can get 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:26.600 high speed internet bundle it for thirty nine ninety nine 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:28.679 a month, which sounds amazing eighty bucks a month for 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:31.960 TV and internet. I pay seventy for just internet and 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:34.800 it's way slower than this. But in the second year 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:39.040 the prices jump up like crazy, So the first bundle 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.639 goes up to ninety three dollars a month instead of 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:46.359 fifty dollars a month. Pikes, so it you know, and 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:48.600 I actually did the math on this to see because 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:51.240 it's really tricky. Like I went on their website and 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:53.320 I kind of put all my information in there, which 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:55.199 you know, it kind of took a little bit, and 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:57.159 I did, like the whole thing soup to nuts, and 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:58.840 I figured out, like, how much is this going to 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:00.920 cost me over to you, because then you can divide 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:02.719 it by twenty four months and see how much it 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:05.040 actually costs. And if I haven't made this clear, you 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:07.000 do have to sign a to year contract. Oh so 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:09.440 that's why you can't just jump out after the first year. Yeah. 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:12.720 So I did the math and here's what I came 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.680 up with. So the TV was forty dollars times twelve 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:17.600 months for the first year, then the Internet was fifty 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:19.760 times twelve. Have to pay ten dollars service fee for 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:23.080 your box rental. That's six hundred dollars plus four to 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:25.359 eighty in the first year. Then the second year the 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:28.439 TV jumps to ninety three dollars minimum times twelve, and 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:32.200 then Internet jumps to seventy times twelve, so eight forty. 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:34.439 So the total you spend over the two years is 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:38.120 two thousand and thirty six dollars man not including any taxes, 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:40.840 fees or regional sports fees, which is another nine dollars 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:43.080 a month. So it came out to about eighty five 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:44.800 dollars a month before all those taxes and feet, which 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:46.520 I'm guessing is really about one hundred bucks a month. 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:51.359 So again I'm paying seventy so I'm actually, if you 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:53.240 look at it that way, you're paying thirty more dollars 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:55.800 for TV, which I don't pay for TV right now. 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:58.320 I have I cut the cord, so I have antenna 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:02.159 and that's free. So again, this is really geared towards 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:05.600 those I would call them hesitant cord cutters. They want 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:07.000 to see what's on the other side, but they're not 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:09.040 ready to give up their cable. This is a good 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:09.600 middle ground. 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:11.520 I see. That's good. 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:14.520 All right. 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:18.760 We have another viewer question here. This is from Gabby. 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:21.760 She posted this to your Facebook. She says, Rich, I'm 0:22:21.800 --> 0:22:24.879 computer illiterate. I am a computer illiterate lady looking for 0:22:25.040 --> 0:22:28.959 a type of photostick to upload all my photos. I'm 0:22:29.000 --> 0:22:32.119 looking at various types. I see one photostick for mobile phones, 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:35.159 another for PC. Is there one for both? Or do 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:37.159 I need to get two different sticks. I don't want 0:22:37.200 --> 0:22:39.119 to have to upload to my PC because it's on 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:42.919 its last leg, and they PC and phone have entirely 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:45.560 different photos. I just want to load all my photos 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:50.480 from both hmm, okay, so photosticks, photo sticks. 0:22:50.560 --> 0:22:52.320 This is a tricky one. I get this question a lot, 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:54.920 and it's kind of confusing to me because I really 0:22:54.960 --> 0:22:58.639 like to back up all my stuff, like either to 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:02.639 iCloud or to Google Photos. But I guess there's a 0:23:02.640 --> 0:23:04.680 certain element of folks out there who do not like 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:07.639 their stuff living in the cloud. They don't trust the cloud, 0:23:07.840 --> 0:23:11.240 they just don't like it, and I think this falls 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:13.600 under that. And so a lot of times I recommend 0:23:13.640 --> 0:23:15.680 a device, and I think there's a lot of these 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:21.040 little photosticks advertised on Facebook and on Instagram. I don't 0:23:21.040 --> 0:23:23.439 recommend the one that's advertised whatever it is. I forget 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:26.640 what the big name is, but it's it looks very scammy. 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:28.480 You go to their website, it starts a timer of 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:30.600 like you only have ten minutes to get this perfect 0:23:30.600 --> 0:23:33.399 price or whatever. Two dollars. Yeah, and then you know, 0:23:33.600 --> 0:23:35.800 I tried emailing the company. They never email me back, 0:23:35.840 --> 0:23:37.600 which is a bad sign. As a journalist. You know 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:39.399 they should at least say, hey, we're not interested in 0:23:39.960 --> 0:23:41.399 talking to you or sending you a sample so you 0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:43.360 can try it out. So I want to try it, sure, 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:46.119 because if it's fine, I don't mind recommending it. It 0:23:46.119 --> 0:23:47.679 doesn't have to be from a big name company for 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:50.359 me to recommend it. But with all that said, the 0:23:50.400 --> 0:23:53.080 product that I do like is from a company named 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:57.440 sand Disk and it's called the i Expand IXPA n 0:23:57.560 --> 0:24:01.480 D and I have tested this out. It works. It's 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:03.760 not perfect, but the reality is it looks like a 0:24:03.760 --> 0:24:07.520 flash drive. One end plugs into the port on your phone, 0:24:08.119 --> 0:24:10.120 and in this case she would get the Android version 0:24:10.160 --> 0:24:12.159 that would plug into the bottom of her phone. The 0:24:12.240 --> 0:24:16.080 other side plugs into her computer, which is a standard 0:24:16.160 --> 0:24:18.240 USB or if you have an iPhone and be a 0:24:18.320 --> 0:24:21.200 lightning and then USB. So the ideas you plug it 0:24:21.240 --> 0:24:23.600 into your phone, it takes all the pictures off, puts 0:24:23.600 --> 0:24:25.000 it on the sole drive, and then you can plug 0:24:25.040 --> 0:24:26.800 it in your computer, back them up whatever, put them 0:24:26.800 --> 0:24:28.840 on your computer, or you can take photos from your computer, 0:24:28.840 --> 0:24:31.280 put them on the drive, consolidate them all. It's a 0:24:31.359 --> 0:24:33.960 very I feel like it's a very messy process. It's 0:24:34.000 --> 0:24:36.680 not the best thing to do, but if that's what 0:24:36.720 --> 0:24:39.640 you want to do, it works. So again i'd recommend 0:24:39.640 --> 0:24:42.359 the i expand flash drive. And I'm looking for like 0:24:42.440 --> 0:24:45.960 a secondary product that I could also recommend that might 0:24:46.040 --> 0:24:51.960 work similarly. And this actually looks really cool from leaf 0:24:52.280 --> 0:24:57.240 L E e F. They have a access C micro 0:24:57.560 --> 0:25:00.720 SD reader for USB C, which means it's kind of 0:25:00.760 --> 0:25:03.399 like a little flash a little card reader that plugs 0:25:03.440 --> 0:25:06.080 into the bottom of your phone, and then you can 0:25:06.119 --> 0:25:09.840 plug a card into it like a micro SD card, 0:25:10.720 --> 0:25:12.080 which is kind of cool, and then you give us 0:25:12.080 --> 0:25:14.280 copy all your pictures that way. The only problem with 0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:18.119 this is she's saying she's computer alliterate. It is not 0:25:18.280 --> 0:25:20.719 that easy on an Android phone to just copy all 0:25:20.720 --> 0:25:23.320 your pictures onto this directory without knowing what you're doing. 0:25:23.400 --> 0:25:25.720 I'd be able to do it, but someone that's not 0:25:25.840 --> 0:25:27.800 as computer savvy is not gonna be able to do that, 0:25:28.160 --> 0:25:30.960 which is why I go back to the sand disc. 0:25:31.040 --> 0:25:33.440 Their software will actually help you do that. You download 0:25:33.480 --> 0:25:34.840 an app and it says, hey, do you want to 0:25:34.840 --> 0:25:37.160 back up your pictures, and it will help you do that. Now, 0:25:37.200 --> 0:25:39.680 with all that said, I think your best case scenario 0:25:39.800 --> 0:25:43.199 is just download Google Photos on your phone, download it 0:25:43.240 --> 0:25:45.800 on your computer, have it back up all the photos 0:25:45.800 --> 0:25:48.280 that it finds on both places, and put them into 0:25:48.280 --> 0:25:50.359 one big library. And I think that's a lot easier 0:25:50.400 --> 0:25:50.920 and it's free. 0:25:51.080 --> 0:25:53.640 Sure, so definitely all. 0:25:53.600 --> 0:25:56.480 Right, Speaking of the iPhone, Apple is going to pay 0:25:56.720 --> 0:25:59.359 up to five hundred million dollars to settle a US 0:25:59.440 --> 0:26:04.760 lawsuit over slow phones. This is coming from Reuters. Uh, 0:26:04.920 --> 0:26:07.400 this is all over that whole thing where they slowed 0:26:07.400 --> 0:26:09.800 down phones. Remember this whole thing where it was like 0:26:09.840 --> 0:26:12.479 they throttled the battery. And Apple made me really mad 0:26:12.520 --> 0:26:14.560 about this because people would always say to me, Rich, 0:26:14.920 --> 0:26:17.000 I feel like my phone is slowing down over the years, 0:26:17.000 --> 0:26:19.240 and I always be like, no, it's not your phone 0:26:19.240 --> 0:26:22.640 that's slowing down. It's actually the software that's getting more complicated. 0:26:22.080 --> 0:26:24.320 And it's making older phones can't keep up. 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:27.840 Exactly. Now, that is still true, but it was also 0:26:27.880 --> 0:26:30.960 true that Apple was slowing down the phones because not 0:26:31.200 --> 0:26:33.800 to get you. The lawsuit says it's to get you 0:26:33.840 --> 0:26:37.280 to buy a replacement phone or a replacement battery, but 0:26:37.480 --> 0:26:39.840 in reality, it was really to make sure that your 0:26:39.840 --> 0:26:43.280 phone would still perform smoothly. Because Apple's known for this 0:26:43.359 --> 0:26:46.479 kind of buttery experience, and so they realized early on, 0:26:46.560 --> 0:26:49.560 like hold on Facebook, app is like nearing like four 0:26:49.640 --> 0:26:52.120 hundred megabytes or whatever, like if you've got if you're rocking, 0:26:52.119 --> 0:26:54.399 like an iPhone six. It's gonna be really tough for 0:26:54.440 --> 0:26:57.359 your phone to run that app without crashing crashing, So 0:26:58.760 --> 0:27:01.760 let's let's let's smooth out the experience on this phone 0:27:01.800 --> 0:27:04.800 so that that app runs better. It might close out 0:27:04.840 --> 0:27:06.480 some of your other apps in the background, it might 0:27:06.520 --> 0:27:09.240 slow down things like the touch response, but you'll still 0:27:09.280 --> 0:27:11.000 feel like as an end user that your phone is 0:27:11.040 --> 0:27:14.840 working nicely even though things are a little slower. Well, 0:27:15.119 --> 0:27:16.800 Apple got in a little bit of trouble for that 0:27:16.880 --> 0:27:18.560 took a little heat, so they lowered the price of 0:27:18.600 --> 0:27:21.520 a battery replacement to like for a while, they were 0:27:21.560 --> 0:27:22.520 doing them for free. 0:27:22.600 --> 0:27:24.600 I think I remember that. It was kind of like 0:27:24.640 --> 0:27:27.240 when they got when they kind of caught caught quote 0:27:27.280 --> 0:27:28.879 unquote cot Yeah, they're like, we'll just bring it in, 0:27:28.920 --> 0:27:30.560 we'll swap it out for free from yeah. 0:27:30.640 --> 0:27:33.520 Oh yeah. I don't say anything to anyone, but the 0:27:33.560 --> 0:27:36.080 batteries used to be eighty bucks to replace. Now they're thirty. 0:27:36.080 --> 0:27:37.760 But I do believe when I was writing my first 0:27:37.760 --> 0:27:39.520 book that I did write in there that they were 0:27:39.600 --> 0:27:41.800 it was totally free, and then the price was going 0:27:41.880 --> 0:27:44.639 up to thirty you know, after that free grace period 0:27:44.720 --> 0:27:49.000 or whatever. But your phone had to qualify. Long story short, Apple, 0:27:49.240 --> 0:27:51.639 is it looks like you may have twenty five dollars 0:27:51.720 --> 0:27:54.800 coming your way if you bought an iPhone six six plus, 0:27:55.040 --> 0:27:58.159 you know, any iPhone six basically, any iPhone seven or 0:27:58.200 --> 0:28:01.040 an iPhone s did you. 0:28:01.040 --> 0:28:02.600 That I think I do? I think I had a 0:28:02.680 --> 0:28:05.320 six or a success. I know I had a seven 0:28:05.359 --> 0:28:08.240 in I had one somewhere. But how do they verify this? 0:28:08.320 --> 0:28:11.120 Do they just kind of like know who their uses are? 0:28:11.200 --> 0:28:13.720 And you know it may be where Apple supplies them 0:28:13.760 --> 0:28:15.640 with a list or maybe one of those things where 0:28:15.640 --> 0:28:17.480 you have to like you'll get like an email and 0:28:17.480 --> 0:28:19.320 then you have to like sign up, and then three 0:28:19.400 --> 0:28:22.399 years later, you know you're you're literally ready to like 0:28:22.440 --> 0:28:24.040 pack up and move out of LA and then it's 0:28:24.040 --> 0:28:25.280 like you get this twenty five dollars check. 0:28:25.320 --> 0:28:27.720 You're like, yeah, I can eat for another week. 0:28:29.920 --> 0:28:31.520 So anyway, don't hold your breath for that one. But 0:28:31.600 --> 0:28:37.240 that is what's happening with the the iPhone. Bobby Producer, Bobby. 0:28:38.080 --> 0:28:41.080 We've got another question here from Sherry. This is on 0:28:41.080 --> 0:28:43.880 your Facebook. She wants to know about the mirror. She says, 0:28:44.000 --> 0:28:47.400 have you seen the mirror? I have and I hate 0:28:47.440 --> 0:28:48.600 what I see in it every day. 0:28:50.000 --> 0:28:51.680 Oh, you're talking about just your personal year. 0:28:52.000 --> 0:28:54.520 No, but yeah, she's actually talking about the mirror you 0:28:54.520 --> 0:28:55.960 put up on the wall and it's like a live 0:28:56.040 --> 0:29:00.200 personal trainer and an exercise Yeah, you use for exercise. She 0:29:00.200 --> 0:29:01.200 wants to know your thoughts on that. 0:29:01.280 --> 0:29:02.800 Well, there's a couple of these things. This is so 0:29:02.880 --> 0:29:05.520 you know Peloton, right, Yes, So they kind of unleash 0:29:05.600 --> 0:29:08.040 the beast of like all like, oh my gosh, people 0:29:08.040 --> 0:29:10.160 are into fitness at home. Let's figure out what we 0:29:10.160 --> 0:29:12.400 can do with technology and make everything in the world. 0:29:12.840 --> 0:29:15.160 So the mirror was one that kind of went viral 0:29:15.400 --> 0:29:19.000 online and it basically showed a mirror on your wall, 0:29:19.240 --> 0:29:21.520 but like a magical mirror that shows you how to 0:29:21.560 --> 0:29:23.560 work out, and it will give you feedback and like 0:29:23.640 --> 0:29:28.000 if you're stretching wrong or whatever. It's cool. I have 0:29:28.120 --> 0:29:30.320 not personally tested this, so I can't tell you whether 0:29:30.360 --> 0:29:33.320 it's cool or not. What I can tell you is 0:29:33.400 --> 0:29:35.719 that I think that a lot of these things are 0:29:35.760 --> 0:29:37.800 going to shake out over the years. Do I think 0:29:37.840 --> 0:29:39.960 we're gonna have magic mirrors in the future that will 0:29:40.000 --> 0:29:42.280 help us work out? Absolutely, it makes sense have a 0:29:42.320 --> 0:29:44.719 giant screen in your house. You got a trainer on there. 0:29:44.840 --> 0:29:46.400 They just help you lead you through a workout, they 0:29:46.480 --> 0:29:48.959 give you some response. We did a story with a 0:29:48.960 --> 0:29:51.760 website called open fit, which is an app uses your 0:29:51.760 --> 0:29:55.600 iPhone and the trainer can actually look through your camera. 0:29:55.960 --> 0:29:59.880 I heard about this and watch you and give you feedback. Now, 0:30:00.000 --> 0:30:02.760 well that's probably gonna be what's built into this mirror 0:30:02.800 --> 0:30:05.440 thing as well. So if not, if it's not already, 0:30:05.480 --> 0:30:07.480 I mean it may be, but I'm looking at the 0:30:07.480 --> 0:30:12.320 mirror online. It's at minimum fifteen hundred bucks. That's a lot. Now, 0:30:12.680 --> 0:30:15.240 if you have an expensive gym membership, maybe that sounds cheaper. 0:30:15.560 --> 0:30:17.560 But and the peloton is twenty five hundred bucks, so 0:30:17.560 --> 0:30:20.600 it's cheaper than that. But let's be honest right now, 0:30:20.640 --> 0:30:24.440 this is a first gen product. I can't imagine it's 0:30:24.720 --> 0:30:26.920 probably slick, and I'm sure the viral video was great, 0:30:27.240 --> 0:30:29.360 but I can imagine that it's going to be that 0:30:29.520 --> 0:30:31.960 great first out of the gate, even in the first 0:30:32.080 --> 0:30:34.400 couple of years out of the gate. This is an 0:30:34.400 --> 0:30:36.440 expensive product. You're gonna put it on your wall. I 0:30:36.480 --> 0:30:38.160 mean you have to mount it, you got to keep 0:30:38.160 --> 0:30:42.040 it up to date. It probably comes with a monthly fee. 0:30:42.040 --> 0:30:43.840 That you have to pay, and so by the time 0:30:43.880 --> 0:30:45.600 you add all these things up. I think that this 0:30:45.720 --> 0:30:48.920 is right now, probably best for the early adopters, the 0:30:49.320 --> 0:30:53.840 really super techie types, and maybe someone who's sharing this with, 0:30:54.160 --> 0:30:55.720 you know, if they have a little fitness duty or 0:30:55.760 --> 0:30:57.560 something they just want to try it out and whatever. 0:30:57.760 --> 0:30:59.600 But I think for the average person it's probably not 0:30:59.640 --> 0:31:01.640 best to invest in this technology just yet. 0:31:02.080 --> 0:31:04.680 Just buy a mirror from the store for like fifteen 0:31:04.720 --> 0:31:07.640 bucks and watch YouTube videos and then you can exercise 0:31:07.640 --> 0:31:08.280 in front of the mirror for. 0:31:08.280 --> 0:31:10.280 Fat But that's the thing. And I think that there's 0:31:10.280 --> 0:31:13.240 one called Tonal, which I did not actually go and 0:31:13.280 --> 0:31:17.000 test that, but Megan producer Megan did and she came 0:31:17.040 --> 0:31:19.480 away impressed. And I have seen this in different places. 0:31:20.040 --> 0:31:22.880 And so again you have a lot of these new 0:31:22.880 --> 0:31:25.240 technologies that are kind of vuying for attention. It's gonna 0:31:25.280 --> 0:31:28.120 shake out. You know, they may be acquired. You know, 0:31:28.520 --> 0:31:31.479 if you're a large company that's a big fitness company, 0:31:31.640 --> 0:31:33.080 you're not gonna let all this stuff go by it. 0:31:33.080 --> 0:31:34.760 You know, you're not gonna let it go like you're 0:31:34.800 --> 0:31:37.240 if you're life cycle or whatever, you're probably doing stuff 0:31:37.280 --> 0:31:39.440 like this and you're you know you're you're probably buying 0:31:39.480 --> 0:31:42.560 some of this. I actually purchased. I saw this at 0:31:42.600 --> 0:31:45.920 c Yes, and I went and bought it, the Bowflex 0:31:46.640 --> 0:31:49.720 version of the Peloton, okay, And the reason I bought 0:31:49.760 --> 0:31:52.640 it is because the Peloton's twenty five hundred bucks. The 0:31:52.840 --> 0:31:56.160 Bowflex one. Gosh, I forget how much it is total, 0:31:56.200 --> 0:31:57.920 but it was like, you know, you have to I pay, like, 0:31:57.960 --> 0:32:00.640 you know, the extra service fee for like installation and whatever. 0:32:00.840 --> 0:32:03.800 But it was like half the price of the Peloton. 0:32:04.360 --> 0:32:05.720 And the reason why I got it is because there's 0:32:05.720 --> 0:32:08.120 no service fee. Every month, you actually put your own 0:32:08.240 --> 0:32:12.000 iPad where the Peloton screen would be. I see, so 0:32:12.040 --> 0:32:13.480 you don't have to pay for that giant screen. You 0:32:13.480 --> 0:32:15.120 don't have to pay for the Peloton. And I thought 0:32:15.200 --> 0:32:17.720 this was just a great thing at half the price 0:32:17.840 --> 0:32:20.040 or less than half to have it home because now 0:32:20.080 --> 0:32:22.320 I can do like a twenty minute thirty minute workout. Now. 0:32:22.440 --> 0:32:24.400 I bought that like two months ago, and I still 0:32:24.400 --> 0:32:26.000 haven't gotten it, so I don't know what's going on. 0:32:26.400 --> 0:32:27.720 But they did tell me they said it was so 0:32:27.760 --> 0:32:29.440 popular that it's actually sold out. They said it was 0:32:29.600 --> 0:32:32.320 sold out for at least forty five days. So I've 0:32:32.440 --> 0:32:34.720 just been waiting to get this thing, and it shows 0:32:34.720 --> 0:32:38.320 that people do have an interest in alternatives. But again, 0:32:38.440 --> 0:32:40.360 to answer the question, I think that you kind of 0:32:40.360 --> 0:32:42.360 wait on a lot of this stuff. The bike that 0:32:42.440 --> 0:32:45.160 I bought is a standard spin bike, except you have 0:32:45.160 --> 0:32:48.280 a place for an iPad, so it's not very high tech, 0:32:48.320 --> 0:32:51.160 it's not very crazy. But if you look at Flywheel, 0:32:51.360 --> 0:32:54.440 that was an alternative to Peloton, and they went out 0:32:54.480 --> 0:32:57.600 of business, or at least or biked it whatever happened, 0:32:57.600 --> 0:33:01.040 they're now Peloton I think sued them and they're giving 0:33:01.080 --> 0:33:03.240 those people a Peltm bike. So if you invested in 0:33:03.240 --> 0:33:05.640 one of these flywheels, it's okay because you're getting the 0:33:05.640 --> 0:33:08.120 other bike. But still it just goes to show that 0:33:08.160 --> 0:33:11.240 all these new technologies, when they're especially big and expensive. 0:33:10.840 --> 0:33:13.760 Everyone kind of jumps in and then you get cheaper 0:33:13.840 --> 0:33:16.760 versions and versions that don't last, and so it's best 0:33:16.800 --> 0:33:18.520 to bide your time, exactly. 0:33:18.720 --> 0:33:20.640 And I'm an early adopter of a lot of stuff, 0:33:20.960 --> 0:33:23.120 but when it comes to a fifteen hundred dollars one 0:33:23.160 --> 0:33:25.600 trick pony mirror that you put on your wall, you 0:33:25.720 --> 0:33:27.520 probably want to wait a little bit. And like you said, 0:33:27.720 --> 0:33:30.120 go to YouTube. Go to Apple TV, buy an Apple TV 0:33:30.160 --> 0:33:32.240 for two hundred bucks, set it up on your TV, 0:33:32.520 --> 0:33:35.719 and watch videos from YouTube, and you'll probably be okay 0:33:36.960 --> 0:33:40.040 for now. Or just hire a personal trainer. Yeah, I mean, 0:33:40.160 --> 0:33:40.880 aren't they cheap? 0:33:41.080 --> 0:33:42.880 I don't know, never used one. 0:33:44.000 --> 0:33:46.040 I actually did when I was in college and doing 0:33:46.080 --> 0:33:49.120 the whole like stupid credit card debt thing. I you know, 0:33:49.160 --> 0:33:51.640 when I had give you car credit cards and like, 0:33:51.680 --> 0:33:54.760 of course you're stupid, like seventeen whatever, You're like, oh, 0:33:54.800 --> 0:33:56.880 I have all this money. Yeah, like whatever limit you 0:33:56.920 --> 0:33:59.200 got in that card that was, now how much money 0:33:59.240 --> 0:34:00.360 you had, right, you know? 0:34:00.600 --> 0:34:00.800 Yeah? 0:34:00.960 --> 0:34:03.160 And so I went to twenty four Hour Fitness and 0:34:03.200 --> 0:34:07.520 I literally bought a package of like personal training things 0:34:07.600 --> 0:34:10.719 for like it probably was like two hundred and eighty 0:34:10.719 --> 0:34:12.839 dollars at the time, but now that I think about it, 0:34:12.840 --> 0:34:15.120 it's it felt like it was probably like one thousand dollars, 0:34:15.120 --> 0:34:17.200 you know, but I have no idea how much it was. Yeah, 0:34:17.200 --> 0:34:19.360 but it was more than I could afford on personal training. 0:34:19.560 --> 0:34:21.480 And I go there and I had this personal trainer 0:34:21.480 --> 0:34:23.600 that was like an actor, you know, and so he 0:34:23.640 --> 0:34:25.920 would literally be like he didn't care about what he 0:34:26.000 --> 0:34:27.960 was doing. What I was doing. He'd be like, all right, 0:34:27.960 --> 0:34:29.520 go on the bike for five minutes to warm up. 0:34:29.560 --> 0:34:31.680 I'm like, all right, And I literally did only one 0:34:31.760 --> 0:34:34.799 of the classes or maybe two, and that was it, 0:34:34.840 --> 0:34:37.120 and I was so I wasted all this money. Anyway, 0:34:37.120 --> 0:34:40.440 that's my only experience of the Personal Trainer. So anyway, 0:34:41.440 --> 0:34:45.759 all right, let's talk a little personal assistance, Google Assistant 0:34:46.000 --> 0:34:48.360 and Alexa. A couple of new features I want to 0:34:48.360 --> 0:34:50.960 tell you about. So two on Alexa that are are 0:34:51.040 --> 0:34:54.680 pretty cool. The first I think is really convenient is 0:34:54.760 --> 0:34:58.880 now you can ask a I'll say, a tell me 0:34:58.920 --> 0:35:02.640 when there's a severe weather alert, and when there's a 0:35:02.680 --> 0:35:05.759 weather alert in your area, she will chime in and 0:35:05.800 --> 0:35:08.840 tell you. I think that is an amazing feature because 0:35:08.840 --> 0:35:10.120 if you think about it, I mean, we do have 0:35:10.160 --> 0:35:13.000 our phones with us all the time, but I don't know. 0:35:13.080 --> 0:35:14.560 I mean, I think that's kind of cool that just 0:35:14.640 --> 0:35:16.919 you're in your house and I get it. In Los 0:35:16.920 --> 0:35:18.600 Angeles we don't really have this. But I used to 0:35:18.600 --> 0:35:22.759 live in Shreveport, Louisiana, where severe weather were alerts were 0:35:22.840 --> 0:35:25.200 actually a thing where you might have a flash flood, 0:35:25.719 --> 0:35:29.479 or you might have or a tornado. Yeah, or like heavy, 0:35:29.560 --> 0:35:32.120 heavy rain that just comes out of nowhere. Yeah, And 0:35:32.200 --> 0:35:33.759 so to have that in your living room and all 0:35:33.760 --> 0:35:35.440 of a sudden you're watching TV or maybe you know, 0:35:35.680 --> 0:35:37.759 your wife is commuting home and you're like, you know, 0:35:37.880 --> 0:35:39.560 just waiting there, and all of a sudden you hear 0:35:39.600 --> 0:35:41.279 this thing like, oh, let me, let me tell them. 0:35:41.560 --> 0:35:43.319 I mean there, it is really cool. Or in a 0:35:43.360 --> 0:35:45.000 case of tornado, like take cover. 0:35:45.239 --> 0:35:48.480 Yeah, And we just had that big tornado in Nashville 0:35:48.480 --> 0:35:52.720 that yes, created a bunch of it was a station. 0:35:52.840 --> 0:35:54.920 Yeah, I mean, it was like at least nine deaths 0:35:54.920 --> 0:35:55.920 when I saw which. 0:35:55.840 --> 0:35:58.080 Is it's grown up, it's I think it's in the twenties. 0:35:58.160 --> 0:36:00.680 Oh my, I mean, it's it's crazy to think that happens. 0:36:00.680 --> 0:36:03.080 But like I remember, And here's the thing, Like some 0:36:03.120 --> 0:36:04.799 people were discussing like, well, how do they not know 0:36:04.880 --> 0:36:07.759 that this thing was approaching? You don't know with tornadoes, 0:36:07.800 --> 0:36:09.680 you know, there may be there could be one in 0:36:09.719 --> 0:36:12.279 your area. You have no idea where it's gonna touch down. 0:36:12.400 --> 0:36:14.040 You have no idea the path, and you have no 0:36:14.120 --> 0:36:17.040 idea the destruction. They can predict as much as they want, 0:36:17.040 --> 0:36:19.480 but the reality is it's really tricky. Yeah, And I 0:36:19.520 --> 0:36:22.600 saw this firsthand because like I remember going through, you know, 0:36:22.680 --> 0:36:24.359 as a reporter and shre report. We'd go through these 0:36:24.400 --> 0:36:27.080 neighborhoods that were, you know, where there's a tornado that 0:36:27.120 --> 0:36:30.440 came through, and you couldn't know with certainty. Now, with 0:36:30.480 --> 0:36:32.560 all the cell phones, you probably would know more than 0:36:32.640 --> 0:36:34.880 be forks or so many cameras everywhere, but back in 0:36:34.880 --> 0:36:36.680 the day, it's like, oh, this area and you could 0:36:36.719 --> 0:36:38.880 just tell by the way the trees were twisted. Oh wow, 0:36:38.920 --> 0:36:41.440 if it was actually a twister, yeah, you know, call 0:36:41.520 --> 0:36:44.720 them anyway. So that's the Alexa one, which I thought 0:36:44.760 --> 0:36:46.960 was really cool. So set that up and see how 0:36:46.960 --> 0:36:49.040 it is. I don't know how well it works, but 0:36:49.160 --> 0:36:52.799 it's kind of cool. And Google Assistant meanwhile on Android 0:36:53.080 --> 0:36:55.120 has a really cool new feature that can read any 0:36:55.160 --> 0:36:58.040 web page. And I tried this this morning and it 0:36:58.160 --> 0:37:00.600 is just one of those features that is just it's brilliant. 0:37:01.040 --> 0:37:03.239 And I personally don't really have a need for this 0:37:03.280 --> 0:37:06.719 per se, but I think for as an assistive technology, 0:37:06.800 --> 0:37:09.120 if you have low vision, or if you're losing your 0:37:09.200 --> 0:37:12.040 vision or any sort of disability. When it comes to that, 0:37:12.160 --> 0:37:15.239 I think that this is amazing. All you have to 0:37:15.239 --> 0:37:17.880 say when you're on a web page, is h Google 0:37:18.920 --> 0:37:22.200 read this page, and Google Assistant springs into action and 0:37:22.239 --> 0:37:24.120 it starts reading the whole page. It'll be like from 0:37:24.160 --> 0:37:26.120 the New York Times. It'll say the title and it'll 0:37:26.160 --> 0:37:28.200 just start reading the page, and it reads it in 0:37:28.239 --> 0:37:31.640 a voice that is pretty impressive, like you would think 0:37:31.760 --> 0:37:34.640 it's a robot. Overlord, how good this thing can? It 0:37:34.640 --> 0:37:36.359 can read better than I can. Let's put it out way. 0:37:36.760 --> 0:37:39.279 I mean, seriously, it really sounds really good. 0:37:39.560 --> 0:37:41.760 I mean, we've come such a long way from remember 0:37:41.760 --> 0:37:45.400 on the old PCs the text to speech and you 0:37:45.400 --> 0:37:48.279 could type in something and then yes, it would read 0:37:48.440 --> 0:37:50.680 it back in a weird voice. But now it's like 0:37:50.719 --> 0:37:52.919 you can't almost not even tell it's actual. 0:37:53.040 --> 0:37:54.000 Let me hear here we go. 0:37:55.120 --> 0:37:59.240 This is the one plus. We'll now repair your device 0:37:59.280 --> 0:38:03.000 on your doorstep, but only in India by Damian Wilde. 0:38:03.160 --> 0:38:04.360 One plus is really. 0:38:04.160 --> 0:38:07.719 Pumping resources and investment into the Indian market with exclusive 0:38:07.760 --> 0:38:10.799 features for fans and device owners in the region. So 0:38:10.880 --> 0:38:13.359 that's it. Reading cool. Okay, Now here's another feature that's 0:38:13.440 --> 0:38:15.360 really cool. And I show this off on my Twitter 0:38:15.440 --> 0:38:18.440 at Rich DeMuro. If you are looking at a web page, 0:38:18.480 --> 0:38:22.440 say in Spanish. Oh, by the way, it will just 0:38:22.560 --> 0:38:29.160 read it in English two to zero colo colo of 0:38:29.200 --> 0:38:31.160 Chile on data. So this is some sort of step 0:38:31.960 --> 0:38:34.560 football match and it's written in a different language. I 0:38:34.560 --> 0:38:38.160 think it's Spanish translating, and she's just reading it in 0:38:38.280 --> 0:38:40.240 English in real time, and you can choose what language 0:38:40.239 --> 0:38:42.360 you want to be read in. I mean, talk about 0:38:42.680 --> 0:38:45.120 the idea of you stumble upon and Google Chrome has 0:38:45.120 --> 0:38:46.799 done this for a long time, but you stumble upon 0:38:46.800 --> 0:38:49.040 a web page that's written in a different language, and 0:38:49.080 --> 0:38:50.719 you know how it says, would we like to translate? 0:38:51.040 --> 0:38:53.719 Just that feature is amazing on your desktop. But now 0:38:53.760 --> 0:38:56.480 the fact that anyone can just be on a web 0:38:56.480 --> 0:38:58.879 page and had the and have it read to them 0:38:58.920 --> 0:39:01.920 in their language is just This is the kind of 0:39:01.920 --> 0:39:05.680 stuff that just is truly amazing. And Google continues to 0:39:05.680 --> 0:39:08.399 push the envelope with this artificial intelligence and the way 0:39:08.440 --> 0:39:11.240 that it parses the article. I mean, it read the title, 0:39:11.480 --> 0:39:13.439 it read who it was from, and then it read 0:39:13.440 --> 0:39:15.600 the article. Now I did notice it kind of stumbled 0:39:15.600 --> 0:39:17.480 when there was an embedded tweet in the article. It 0:39:17.520 --> 0:39:19.760 kind of read the tweet, which you would do anyway, 0:39:19.800 --> 0:39:21.600 as a human, but it just kind of it didn't 0:39:21.600 --> 0:39:26.160 really get there's a difference between there. I guess see exactly. Okay, 0:39:26.560 --> 0:39:28.759 Producer Bobby, I think this is your last question. Oh 0:39:28.840 --> 0:39:30.759 last question. Let's make it make it a good one. 0:39:30.840 --> 0:39:38.799 Let's see how about this one from Kim Kim is 0:39:38.880 --> 0:39:42.680 asking about job apps. She says there's an increasing issue 0:39:42.680 --> 0:39:46.120 with finding legit jobs on sites and apps. She keeps 0:39:46.120 --> 0:39:49.160 getting contacted by people in other countries. She sends her resume, 0:39:49.320 --> 0:39:52.600 they never contact her. She's an independent contractor. She works 0:39:52.640 --> 0:39:57.480 in IT fieldwork like migrations, imaging, and installation, and she 0:39:57.560 --> 0:40:00.400 doesn't think it should be this hard. So she's wondering 0:40:00.440 --> 0:40:03.960 about any legitimate job apps where she'll have luck and 0:40:04.120 --> 0:40:08.719 not get weird spammy calls from this is she really 0:40:08.800 --> 0:40:12.239 stumbled upon a very good point here. And I don't 0:40:12.239 --> 0:40:14.560 know if this happens to you with the because you 0:40:14.600 --> 0:40:17.120 manage the podcasts, and every podcast has like an email 0:40:17.120 --> 0:40:19.600 address on like iTunes that's associated. Do you get like 0:40:19.600 --> 0:40:21.440 a bunch of random emails from time to time? I do? 0:40:21.480 --> 0:40:24.120 From time to time, I do. I get a lot 0:40:24.160 --> 0:40:26.960 of weird It's it's tough to tell because because my 0:40:27.280 --> 0:40:29.680 podcasts are linked to my work email, and even through 0:40:29.680 --> 0:40:34.080 our work emails sometimes we get just like weird, weird emails, 0:40:35.200 --> 0:40:36.879 but yeah, I do. I did kind of notice an 0:40:36.880 --> 0:40:38.920 increase of just strange. 0:40:39.160 --> 0:40:41.160 It's just strange, and it's tough because we have to 0:40:41.239 --> 0:40:43.400 kind of go through them and figure out is this legit? 0:40:43.880 --> 0:40:45.600 Is this not legit? I got I got a couple. 0:40:45.680 --> 0:40:48.680 I got one yesterday and one today. One yesterday was 0:40:48.719 --> 0:40:51.480 saying that there was an image on my website that hey, 0:40:52.360 --> 0:40:54.320 we love that you're using our image on your website, 0:40:54.320 --> 0:40:56.239 but that's actually ours and she have to pay us 0:40:56.239 --> 0:40:58.560 for that. And I was like, oh, that's interesting because 0:40:58.600 --> 0:41:01.160 I got that image from Google, so like Google sent 0:41:01.200 --> 0:41:03.120 it to me like the press people, and so I 0:41:03.160 --> 0:41:05.080 was like, that's weird, said to a little research, and 0:41:05.080 --> 0:41:08.560 I googled where this email address came from. And it's 0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:12.280 totally a shell blog. It's totally bogus. And I realized, 0:41:12.680 --> 0:41:16.239 think about it. They send that automated email to a 0:41:16.280 --> 0:41:18.680 million people a day, and one person goes, oh my gosh, 0:41:18.719 --> 0:41:20.520 I'm sorry, let me pay or let me take it down, 0:41:20.600 --> 0:41:22.200 or let me, you know, fix that, or send you 0:41:22.239 --> 0:41:26.200 money exactly, and it's just it's such a brilliant scam 0:41:26.280 --> 0:41:28.520 and this is happening. So to get back to her 0:41:28.640 --> 0:41:31.680 question about the jobs, it's really tough. My dad runs 0:41:31.680 --> 0:41:33.799 a small business and so I get his emails for 0:41:33.840 --> 0:41:37.680 a small business, and it is unbelievable how much spam 0:41:37.760 --> 0:41:40.840 he gets from people purporting to be yelp. Hey, let 0:41:40.920 --> 0:41:43.319 me help you get a better YELP rating people being 0:41:43.360 --> 0:41:44.719 on Google. Hey, do you want to be on the 0:41:44.719 --> 0:41:47.920 first search? We work with Google? Yeah, you know, they 0:41:47.960 --> 0:41:50.280 don't necessarily say they are Google. We work with Google. 0:41:50.520 --> 0:41:53.040 Well what does that mean? And for him, he's running 0:41:53.040 --> 0:41:55.560 his business, he's busy. Of course he'd like more calls 0:41:55.640 --> 0:41:57.640 or of course he'd like more clicks to his website. 0:41:57.840 --> 0:42:00.239 So sometimes he'll respond to these people and I'm like, now, 0:42:00.280 --> 0:42:02.680 this is totally bogus. These people are literally just trying 0:42:02.719 --> 0:42:05.000 to get you on pay them, give them a credit 0:42:05.000 --> 0:42:07.520 card fee, whatever it is. And just so it's the 0:42:07.520 --> 0:42:10.200 same thing with its job stuff. It's really tough because 0:42:10.200 --> 0:42:11.799 you've got to put yourself out there and put your 0:42:11.840 --> 0:42:14.839 resume and your information to get these leads, especially as 0:42:14.840 --> 0:42:17.439 an independent contractor. But then you're going to get all 0:42:17.560 --> 0:42:20.120 the garbage as well, people just slamming you with all 0:42:20.200 --> 0:42:22.879 kinds of crap that you don't need to. You know 0:42:23.000 --> 0:42:25.640 that you shouldn't be taxed with going through, but you 0:42:25.760 --> 0:42:28.120 have to. And that's kind of the name of the 0:42:28.120 --> 0:42:29.920 game with the Internet is that you really need to 0:42:29.920 --> 0:42:32.960 be on your toes. And I actually emailed this person 0:42:33.000 --> 0:42:35.359 back and ask them if they read what they were 0:42:35.440 --> 0:42:38.080 using like LinkedIn or you know whatever, and they said, 0:42:38.080 --> 0:42:41.560 it happens across all these sites. So and I'm on 0:42:41.640 --> 0:42:43.920 LinkedIn and I get spammed on there. You know, people 0:42:44.000 --> 0:42:45.840 just hey, we saw your article. Can you do a 0:42:45.840 --> 0:42:48.040 story on this? Now? It looks like it's a pitch, 0:42:48.080 --> 0:42:49.840 but it's really not. It's just like spam most of 0:42:49.840 --> 0:42:52.920 the time. So I don't really have good advice, except 0:42:53.280 --> 0:42:56.600 my main advice is, whenever you're writing your email address 0:42:56.719 --> 0:43:00.560 on these different things, I always write out Rick at 0:43:00.640 --> 0:43:04.319 KTLA dot com, like the word at at and then 0:43:04.440 --> 0:43:07.960 KTLA and then dot com. And the reason I always 0:43:08.000 --> 0:43:10.040 send that whenever I'm typing out my email address to 0:43:10.080 --> 0:43:12.160 someone or putting it on a website or sending it 0:43:12.160 --> 0:43:14.440 through a message, is that if there's a spider out 0:43:14.440 --> 0:43:17.960 there that's that's crawling for email addresses, it's gonna be 0:43:17.960 --> 0:43:20.200 a little bit trickier for them to figure out that 0:43:20.200 --> 0:43:22.600 that's my email address. Good tip, And I don't mind. 0:43:22.600 --> 0:43:24.359 Like I said, I just gave it out on here. 0:43:24.640 --> 0:43:26.840 I don't care if you email me because a human 0:43:26.880 --> 0:43:28.680 has to listen to that now and say, oh, I'm 0:43:28.680 --> 0:43:31.680 gonna email Rich. That's fine. But if it's now, if 0:43:31.680 --> 0:43:34.600 a transcript of this makes it out somewhere, it's gonna say, 0:43:34.640 --> 0:43:39.880 you know Rich at KTLA dot com. And that doesn't 0:43:39.920 --> 0:43:42.320 mean as much to a spider. Right now, these spiders 0:43:42.400 --> 0:43:45.560 might have gotten more sophisticated, and maybe it does mean more. 0:43:45.640 --> 0:43:50.640 And so I just kind of gave oh now, I'm 0:43:50.680 --> 0:43:52.600 just kidding, but I think that's kind of my best 0:43:52.640 --> 0:43:55.040 advice is really just protect your personal information. You have 0:43:55.120 --> 0:43:57.120 to put it out there to be on these sites, 0:43:57.160 --> 0:44:00.239 but just protect it as best you can. So that's 0:44:00.239 --> 0:44:03.480 a that's a good question. Okay, real quick, because I 0:44:03.520 --> 0:44:05.839 did I did tease this and I want to mention 0:44:05.920 --> 0:44:08.800 this story before we go, but this just blew my mind. 0:44:09.000 --> 0:44:14.640 This company, Wolfcom one zero, did an exclusive with the 0:44:15.000 --> 0:44:18.520 kind of showing what they're what technology they are selling 0:44:18.520 --> 0:44:20.840 to police departments and the bottom line is it is 0:44:20.840 --> 0:44:24.279 that terminator technology where when they're looking at someone through 0:44:24.320 --> 0:44:28.600 their police cam, it circles the person's face, scans against 0:44:28.600 --> 0:44:33.440 the database of known offenders, and identifies says like outstanding warrant, 0:44:33.600 --> 0:44:36.879 wanted for felony, missing person, And so you can see 0:44:36.880 --> 0:44:39.120 how this could be good for the missing person thing. 0:44:39.160 --> 0:44:41.560 But if you're the person with the outstanding warrant, you 0:44:42.160 --> 0:44:44.680 wanted felony, I mean, look at that. It's crazy. But 0:44:44.760 --> 0:44:46.839 this is the future. I mean, I have no doubt 0:44:46.880 --> 0:44:49.680 with facial recognition, it is going to be the wild West. 0:44:49.800 --> 0:44:50.759 It's like RoboCop. 0:44:50.880 --> 0:44:54.239 It's like, that's the word. I was RoboCop, not terminator. 0:44:55.040 --> 0:44:56.759 They do too. It's all those kind of. 0:44:57.600 --> 0:44:59.920 But if you look at this, uh, the little video 0:45:00.400 --> 0:45:03.239 is just phenomenal and it's just it's wild, but it's 0:45:03.280 --> 0:45:05.840 the reality of what's happening. It's already happening with license plates. 0:45:06.239 --> 0:45:09.320 As police are driving through cities, their cars are scanning 0:45:09.360 --> 0:45:11.520 license plates and it's like, oh, flag that one, flag, 0:45:11.560 --> 0:45:12.839 that one, that one's a stolen car. 0:45:12.880 --> 0:45:14.680 That there was just a story that we had the 0:45:14.680 --> 0:45:16.920 other day. I don't remember what the crime was, but 0:45:16.960 --> 0:45:20.560 that's how they caught. The guy was just an officer 0:45:20.640 --> 0:45:23.560 driving along in his car. There's a license plate that 0:45:23.600 --> 0:45:24.319 we've been looking for. 0:45:24.680 --> 0:45:28.640 But just extrapolate that onto everything. Yeah, I mean faces 0:45:28.760 --> 0:45:31.960 and just it's just it's so wild. I mean, I 0:45:32.280 --> 0:45:34.799 love it in certain extents because it does make our 0:45:34.840 --> 0:45:38.880 world safer, but it's also really scary because the implications 0:45:38.920 --> 0:45:41.839 of used to be you could evade things a little bit. 0:45:41.840 --> 0:45:43.719 And I'm not saying people should evade the cops if 0:45:43.719 --> 0:45:46.000 they're wanted or whatever, but it used to be like 0:45:46.040 --> 0:45:48.839 there was some work involved. But it always goes back 0:45:48.880 --> 0:45:51.160 to this example that I had as a kid. I 0:45:51.239 --> 0:45:54.200 always thought, in the future, when you sped on a freeway, 0:45:54.560 --> 0:45:57.560 what's going to keep technology from knowing that your car 0:45:57.600 --> 0:46:00.680 is speeding, reporting that to the law enforcement, and outspits 0:46:00.760 --> 0:46:04.759 a ticket from your dashboard? What is keeping us from 0:46:04.840 --> 0:46:07.680 having that? Nothing? Right now, your car knows how fast 0:46:07.680 --> 0:46:09.280 you're going, so does Google Map, so does. 0:46:09.160 --> 0:46:10.200 Your GPS everything. 0:46:11.280 --> 0:46:13.320 So what's the only thing keeping that from happening is 0:46:13.360 --> 0:46:16.319 that nobody's implemented that. Now do we need laws against that? 0:46:16.360 --> 0:46:18.640 I don't know, Because what's the rule about speeding? Is 0:46:18.680 --> 0:46:20.720 it only when you're caught that you get the ticket 0:46:21.280 --> 0:46:23.520 or is it that I don't know. Yeah, I mean 0:46:23.520 --> 0:46:25.839 it's really it's these kind of things that technology will 0:46:25.920 --> 0:46:28.040 enable us to do, but should we do them? 0:46:28.440 --> 0:46:30.280 Science fiction is science reality? 0:46:30.360 --> 0:46:33.000 Now exactly? You said it. You said it very well, 0:46:33.040 --> 0:46:35.399 Producer Bobby. Oh my gosh, can you believe it? That's 0:46:35.440 --> 0:46:37.839 gonna do it for this episode of the show. If 0:46:37.840 --> 0:46:39.279 you want links to what we talked about, you can 0:46:39.280 --> 0:46:41.759 take a look at the show notes, and if you 0:46:41.760 --> 0:46:43.120 have a question for me, you can go to rich 0:46:43.160 --> 0:46:46.520 on Tech dot tv hit that contact button and we 0:46:46.560 --> 0:46:50.799 would appreciate it if you rate and review this podcast. 0:46:51.120 --> 0:46:54.640 It helps other people discover it. Just go to rate 0:46:54.840 --> 0:46:59.640 this podcast dot com, slash rich on tech and just 0:47:00.040 --> 0:47:02.960 put in your little review. Producer Bobby. Tell folks how 0:47:02.960 --> 0:47:05.240 they can find you and your podcast. They can find 0:47:05.280 --> 0:47:08.160 me on Instagram. I'm at sounds like Bobby and all 0:47:08.160 --> 0:47:11.719 our podcasts are at KTLA dot com, slash podcast I 0:47:11.760 --> 0:47:14.840 do Spoken Dreams. You can find that on the website 0:47:15.000 --> 0:47:18.440 or on Apple podcast, Google podcast, Stitcher, everywhere that you 0:47:18.480 --> 0:47:20.960 find this podcast, you can find all our kt l 0:47:20.960 --> 0:47:25.239 A podcasts. And thanks for that. I'm looking at some 0:47:25.280 --> 0:47:28.520 of the reviews and Tony the Great One said, Wow, 0:47:28.560 --> 0:47:30.600 one of the greatest tech guys out there and absolutely 0:47:30.680 --> 0:47:32.799 must listen to, even if you're not tech savvy. He 0:47:32.840 --> 0:47:35.520 explains it in English. Kudos to you, Rich, thanks for 0:47:35.640 --> 0:47:38.160 all that you do. That'll probably be better if you 0:47:38.160 --> 0:47:40.279 read that, Bobby right. 0:47:40.719 --> 0:47:43.560 A little self congratulated, but hey, that's okay. 0:47:44.360 --> 0:47:46.839 Thanks so much for doing this, Bobby, I do appreciate it. 0:47:47.120 --> 0:47:49.520 I'm Richidmiro. Thanks so much for listening. We'll talk to 0:47:49.520 --> 0:47:50.279 you real soon.