Speaker 1: How to avoid becoming a victim of ransomware. It's not
Speaker 1: just you. There are a lot of random phrases that
Speaker 1: trigger virtual assistance. Good earbuds for just twenty eight dollars.
Speaker 1: What plus your tech questions answered? What's going on? I'm
Speaker 1: Rich Dmiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast
Speaker 1: where I talk about the tech stuff I think you
Speaker 1: should know about. It's also where I answer the questions
Speaker 1: that you send me. My name is Rich Damiro, tech
Speaker 1: reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Say hello
Speaker 1: to producer Megan. What's up?
Speaker 2: Hello? How's it going?
Speaker 1: It is going well, you know, as well as things
Speaker 1: can go during a major pandemic. I know it's good.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know it's going. Yeah, you were off
Speaker 1: last week, so how did that get Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's I think it's important to at least
Speaker 2: takes a me time, like once a year or you know,
Speaker 2: it was nice to just get a little break. I like,
Speaker 2: didn't go on social media.
Speaker 1: I just that's the See. This is the secret to
Speaker 1: vacation in twenty twenty. Literally just turn off your phone
Speaker 1: and you're on vacation.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you know how tough it is to do that though, Like, so,
Speaker 1: how many times did you sneak on? Because I know
Speaker 1: you did you had to have Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I mean I did sneak on. It was mainly
Speaker 2: like the first five days, I just didn't want to
Speaker 2: like be on it so much, and so I would
Speaker 2: go on it just to see if, like my friend
Speaker 2: sent me something funny, you know, on Instagram, but like
Speaker 2: I didn't scroll, like I just I really just tried
Speaker 2: to like focus on enjoying like having a little bit
Speaker 2: of a break, and I felt like it really helped
Speaker 2: me like really get into like a vacation.
Speaker 1: Yeahcent I. In fact, my phone is still set to
Speaker 1: my annoying vacation mode, which I limited myself to. I
Speaker 1: think it was like thirty minutes a day of Twitter
Speaker 1: and Facebook and Instagram combined. So every wow, every day,
Speaker 1: like right in the morning, I hit that, and then
Speaker 1: the whole rest of the day, I'm doing that thing
Speaker 1: where it says like fifteen more minutes, fifteen more minutes,
Speaker 1: fifteen more minutes, fifty more. I'm like, why am I
Speaker 1: doing fifty more minutes like this? But it's it runs
Speaker 1: out too early. But when I was on vacation, my
Speaker 1: main thing was just not being on social media as
Speaker 1: much as possible, and it really does change, because the
Speaker 1: thing about social media is it never ends. It never
Speaker 1: ever ends, and you can go down down a wormhole
Speaker 1: so quickly and just start researching something like someone says
Speaker 1: something like, oh wait, what is that? And you just
Speaker 1: start researching and you follow it on Instagram, then you
Speaker 1: go to Twitter, and then next thing you know, you're
Speaker 1: looking on Amazon see if you should buy this thing.
Speaker 1: And it's like a whole big thing, and if you're
Speaker 1: just off of it, you kind of forget about it.
Speaker 1: And yes, it just keeps going, but you're not part
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: Well, glad you got some time off. Good to have
Speaker 1: you back, even though I have not seen you now
Speaker 1: in what four months?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, yeah I think it. Did you say
Speaker 2: four months?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's been.
Speaker 1: It's so weird, been enjoyable, just kidding. All right, Let's
Speaker 1: start the first story of the day, mac ransomware. And
Speaker 1: I don't think that this is gonna affect a lot
Speaker 1: of people, but I want people to know about it
Speaker 1: because this article in malware Bites has some really good
Speaker 1: tips on how to avoid malware and let me just
Speaker 1: give you the quick rundown. Most people think that there's
Speaker 1: nothing scary with a Mac. You know, there's no viruses,
Speaker 1: there's no malware, and for the most part, that is
Speaker 1: generally true. But from time to time things do spring up.
Speaker 1: And this one is called thief Quest Thief Quest or
Speaker 1: a written I think it was called Evil Quest. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so researchers are calling it both. But this software has
Speaker 1: the ability to search your system for passwords and cryptocurrency wallets,
Speaker 1: log which you type. And the way people are getting
Speaker 1: it is from downloading pirated software from a torrent website,
Speaker 1: and I don't think many of you are doing that.
Speaker 1: Maybe you are, I don't know. But the other thing
Speaker 1: is that it also has to break through all of
Speaker 1: these warnings on your Mac computer. So with the recent
Speaker 1: Max I think it was the last operating system, they
Speaker 1: started doing this thing where any software you install that's
Speaker 1: not from a trusted developer, you get a lot of
Speaker 1: Windows that basically prohibit you from installing that software unless
Speaker 1: you go into your settings and specifically say I want
Speaker 1: to allow this installation. It's under security setting, Security and Privacy,
Speaker 1: and then you go to general and it says allow
Speaker 1: apps downloaded from and I app Store and identified developers
Speaker 1: is what I have as my default. But if it's
Speaker 1: not one of those identified developers, it basically just stops
Speaker 1: the installation, and you have to know how to go
Speaker 1: in there to actually allow it. And so this stops
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff from getting on your computer. But
Speaker 1: if you ignore all those warnings, which I do because
Speaker 1: I do install software from unidentified developers because I'm testing
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff and just because they're unidentified doesn't
Speaker 1: mean they're bad. It just means that Apple they haven't
Speaker 1: entered into like Apple's software program or whatever. Anyway, the
Speaker 1: point of this article in malware bytes is that malware
Speaker 1: bites will detect this malware and remove it, but if
Speaker 1: your files get encrypted, they're not sure how bad because
Speaker 1: this system also locks up your software and demands ransom,
Speaker 1: so it locks up all your files and then says, hey,
Speaker 1: if you don't pay us, we just you know, will
Speaker 1: delete all your files. And that happens pretty often on
Speaker 1: Windows computers, by the way. So the bottom line to
Speaker 1: this whole thing is that this malware bytes blog post
Speaker 1: says you always want to have two backups of all
Speaker 1: of your important data and one should not be attached
Speaker 1: to your Mac at all times because if you just
Speaker 1: have like a you know, on a Mac, you can
Speaker 1: do that time machine thing. If you just have a
Speaker 1: hard drive connected to your Mac, guess what, the ransomware
Speaker 1: or the malware will also find its way onto that
Speaker 1: hard drive and ruin your backup. So you don't want
Speaker 1: to do that. So this guy from malware Byte says
Speaker 1: he use his time machine to maintain a couple copies,
Speaker 1: then a carbon copy cloner to maintain a couple more,
Speaker 1: and one of the backups is always in a safe
Speaker 1: deposit box at the bank and he swaps them periodically. Okay,
Speaker 1: that seems like a bit much. You could probably just
Speaker 1: keep your hard drive. Like how much I go to
Speaker 1: my bank for my safe deposit box and I also
Speaker 1: count my one hundred dollars bills in there, and then
Speaker 1: I have my hard drive right under them. I don't
Speaker 1: think you need to do that, but I do see
Speaker 1: what he's saying. Keep keep an off site drive, so
Speaker 1: a drive that you back up to and keep it
Speaker 1: on a shelf in your office, and ideally you would
Speaker 1: keep Ideally, what you would do is you'd have an
Speaker 1: online backup and a hard drive and just keep them
Speaker 1: in different places. That's the main thing. And he says,
Speaker 1: if you have a good backup, ransomware is no threat
Speaker 1: because the bottom line is if you're regularly backing up
Speaker 1: your computer. By the way, I said bottom line about
Speaker 1: seventy five times, just now a little rusty. I love
Speaker 1: the bottom line. It's always such a great It's like,
Speaker 1: bottom line, what are we looking at here? You know,
Speaker 1: if you ever go to negotiate a car, it's like
Speaker 1: you go back and forth and back and forth. I
Speaker 1: was like, just give me the bottom line, like what
Speaker 1: is the deal here? How much do you have to
Speaker 1: pay for this thing? They got to go into the
Speaker 1: manager's office and you sit there. Buying a car is
Speaker 1: the worst experience a human adult has to go through.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, one of the worst. So I really, well,
Speaker 1: I have a person that I go to and so
Speaker 1: basically I only buy cars from like one place now
Speaker 1: because I've got a person, And I think people do
Speaker 1: find their guy. You know, I got a guy. But
Speaker 1: once you find them, like this this woman, I know,
Speaker 1: she literally gives me the bottom line price, like out
Speaker 1: the door, what is the price? What am I paying?
Speaker 1: I don't want to have to deal with.
Speaker 2: Well, then it shouldn't be the worst experience.
Speaker 1: It hasn't been. But in my past experience, Megan, I've
Speaker 1: bought several cars and it's always been the worst. And
Speaker 1: so my next car I will definitely be buying. Remember Carvana,
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna go with that thing, like one of
Speaker 1: those kind of things you know, where you just go
Speaker 1: online and you buy. It's probably might I'm saving up
Speaker 1: for a Tesla, so I mean that will be I
Speaker 1: don't think they fool around because I've looked at their
Speaker 1: website and there's no fooling around there.
Speaker 2: Anyway, You'll know what you want with Tesla. It'll be
Speaker 2: very straightforward.
Speaker 1: Yes, keep backups of your stuff and keep them in
Speaker 1: different places and you should be okay. All right, now,
Speaker 1: let's see that's you there.
Speaker 2: You are all right. This first question comes from John.
Speaker 2: Do you happen to know when iOS fourteen public beta
Speaker 2: will be released?
Speaker 1: Hmmm, million dollar question, John. I think any day now.
Speaker 1: So from everything that I've experienced on the I did
Speaker 1: the developer one on a backup phone and it is fantastic.
Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of changes in iOS fourteen.
Speaker 1: If there's ever time for a new iOS book. This
Speaker 1: would be the time because there are megan so many
Speaker 1: changes you will not believe it. And a lot of
Speaker 1: them are kind of small things, but they're very useful.
Speaker 1: And you know, they said when iOS thirteen came out,
Speaker 1: they said they were on like kind of a TikTok schedule.
Speaker 1: Where iOS twelve would be a big update, iOS thirteen
Speaker 1: would not. Now iOS fourteen is a big, big update.
Speaker 1: So not only do we get the widgets on the
Speaker 1: home screen, but we also get the app library, which
Speaker 1: is basically an organized list of all your apps. But
Speaker 1: it's amazing and it's very it's been solid, solid, rock
Speaker 1: solid on by the way, my primary phone, which you're
Speaker 1: not supposed to do and I do not recommend doing
Speaker 1: even with the public beta. Don't install it on your
Speaker 1: public on your main device because it could just go wrong.
Speaker 1: Like my phone last night, I had my first crash
Speaker 1: where it's just the whole thing just like it didn't
Speaker 1: erase anything, but you know, and there's little things here
Speaker 1: and there, and the battery life is really bad. So
Speaker 1: I used to never care about battery life. My phone
Speaker 1: is going dead, you know, three quarters of the way
Speaker 1: through the day or towards the end of the day.
Speaker 1: So it's definitely not something you want to install on
Speaker 1: your main device. I'm a tech guy for a living,
Speaker 1: so I will take that risk for you. But to
Speaker 1: answer John's question, I would say probably any day now
Speaker 1: because the developer beta is so solid. I think Apple,
Speaker 1: after a couple of weeks of getting the feedback, is
Speaker 1: going to be like, all right, we can launch this
Speaker 1: to the public as a beta. Don't forget, this is
Speaker 1: not the final software. Final iOS fourteen will come out
Speaker 1: in September. That's when you should download it. But if
Speaker 1: you're tech in client, that's the safest. It's just here's
Speaker 1: the main thing you don't want to happen. You don't
Speaker 1: want to be in an emergency situation where you need
Speaker 1: to call nine one one and your phone crashes and
Speaker 1: it does not work. That's kind of like the worst
Speaker 1: case scenario. Yeah, Instagram not working or you know. But
Speaker 1: there's little things like Instagram may come up with an
Speaker 1: app update during the beta and it breaks the functionality
Speaker 1: of Instagram because they're not thinking about the beta. They're
Speaker 1: thinking about the average person and that's running the final software.
Speaker 1: So these are the things you have to think about
Speaker 1: what I did was I did a encrypted backup through
Speaker 1: iTunes on my computer, and so I have that so
Speaker 1: if my phone totally goes could put then I can
Speaker 1: just restore it. But that's still a pain. Believe me,
Speaker 1: you don't. You don't want to do this.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, you don't want to.
Speaker 1: Do this, Let me do it. Let let the tech
Speaker 1: folks in your life do it, and then you just
Speaker 1: let do it. Yeah, all right. So so this is
Speaker 1: interesting and it's something that happens all the time. If
Speaker 1: you have an Alexa or a Siri or a Google
Speaker 1: Assistant nearby. Eight yep, okay, you you can't hear that.
Speaker 1: But something just activated in my office here.
Speaker 2: That's you heard it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So there you go. And I don't even know
Speaker 1: which one that was. But the point is you have
Speaker 1: these things around and half the time you're just going
Speaker 1: on your merry life. And they say and they respond,
Speaker 1: you're like, what what did I say? I did not
Speaker 1: call you out by your keyword or hot word or whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, they all have their own phrases that you
Speaker 1: have to say. And these computer companies, computer these tech
Speaker 1: companies have designed these keywords in a certain way so
Speaker 1: that we don't say a variation of them very often,
Speaker 1: and so that way, these little assistants can click into
Speaker 1: you know, functionality when they need to, only when they
Speaker 1: need to. But it doesn't always work that way. And
Speaker 1: researchers now say they found over one thousand phrases that
Speaker 1: in correctly trigger these virtual assistants, and they did it
Speaker 1: through TV shows. They they their whole research papers about
Speaker 1: TV shows saying stuff in dialogue that's activating these little
Speaker 1: devices in the background. And here's the interesting part about this.
Speaker 1: These are local triggers. So how these devices work. There's
Speaker 1: it's locally listening for the hot word, right, if you
Speaker 1: have SI r I, it's h SII, or if you
Speaker 1: have Google, it's I can't even say it because if
Speaker 1: I spell it, it's saying it, so it'll it'll trigger it.
Speaker 1: And you know, the A word I can't even say
Speaker 1: because it's just the A word. So if you say
Speaker 1: any of those things, it locally listens and it goes, okay,
Speaker 1: I think I heard that, and then it will send
Speaker 1: that information to the server if it thinks it hurt it,
Speaker 1: and the server will analyze it and say, oh no,
Speaker 1: actually Rich said something else, and then it will just
Speaker 1: it will just die down, but in many cases it
Speaker 1: will still activate. So here's some of the words. For
Speaker 1: the A word, you can say unacceptable, election and a
Speaker 1: letter and it might trigger her. For Google Home, you
Speaker 1: might say okay, cool and okay, who is reading and
Speaker 1: it might trigger that one. For Siri, it's a city,
Speaker 1: and hey Jerry, and for Cortana Montana. So now you
Speaker 1: may try these at home, and they may not work.
Speaker 1: Because here's what the researchers are saying. That these things
Speaker 1: are so smart that they're updated in near real time
Speaker 1: by these tech companies. So once they saw this, they
Speaker 1: probably went in and manually tweaked these things just a
Speaker 1: little bit so they don't respond to these these phrases anymore.
Speaker 1: But they found a lot of phrases, and they haven't
Speaker 1: published their full paper, but the bottom line is they
Speaker 1: say that these voice assistants can intrude on users' privacy
Speaker 1: even when they think their devices are not listening. And
Speaker 1: if you're concerned about this, you might want to keep
Speaker 1: these things unplugged, turned off, or blocked from listening except
Speaker 1: when you actually want to use them, which kind of
Speaker 1: defeats the purpose of how the wakeword because you want
Speaker 1: them listening so that you can use them. Amazon said
Speaker 1: to Ours Technica, which is the writers of this article,
Speaker 1: not the paper, just the article. They said, by design,
Speaker 1: our weakeword detection and speech recognition get better every day
Speaker 1: as customers use their devices, we optimize performance. We continue
Speaker 1: to invest in improving our wakeword detection technology and encourage
Speaker 1: the researchers of this paper to share their methodology so
Speaker 1: we can respond in further detail. So what Amazon's saying
Speaker 1: is like, look, we know this happens, but we are
Speaker 1: constantly It's like a cat and mouse game. They're constantly
Speaker 1: making these things respond in a better way. But it
Speaker 1: does happen, and it happens a lot.
Speaker 2: All right. This next question comes from Tara. Can you
Speaker 2: talk about the COVID tracker on our phones? I would
Speaker 2: like to understand that more.
Speaker 1: Good question, time, very timely because this is our story
Speaker 1: today on KTLA. And and by the way, I'm very
Speaker 1: proud of my graphic that I created for this. Did
Speaker 1: you see the blog post because I'm I'm very proud
Speaker 1: of this graphic. I did it with Adobe Adobe Photoshop camera.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah, Like, if that doesn't
Speaker 1: make you want to click. I don't know what's going
Speaker 1: to So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the reddit.
Speaker 1: It's just so exciting, right, It's like, wait, this is dangerous,
Speaker 1: this is fearful, this is interesting, this is Yes, it's clickbait,
Speaker 1: but in a way of I want you to know
Speaker 1: about this, and and so what happens is I love
Speaker 1: my job because I am on the I know things
Speaker 1: from people before I even know things. Let me explain
Speaker 1: what that means. So I feel like the viewers or
Speaker 1: followers that follow me are kind of like my little
Speaker 1: eyes and ears in the entire world. So even if
Speaker 1: I'm not experiencing something, they are emailing me because they are.
Speaker 1: So if they see something on social media that suspect
Speaker 1: or weird or interesting, they email me. And when I
Speaker 1: get a bunch of these emails, I know something's something's up.
Speaker 1: So with this coronavirus tracking, we had done a story
Speaker 1: on it a while back, and I thought nobody really cared.
Speaker 1: But then during this whole outage with T Mobile a
Speaker 1: couple weeks ago, I guess people timed a social media
Speaker 1: post to say, oh, you know when that outage happened
Speaker 1: on your cell phone, Well, guess what the company secretly
Speaker 1: installed coronavirus tracking software. And of course this goes on
Speaker 1: fire on social media and it spreads and people ask
Speaker 1: me like is this true? And sure enough, it is true.
Speaker 1: The software is on your phone if you have an
Speaker 1: Android or an iPhone, check it out. You can go
Speaker 1: on iPhone to Settings, Privacy, Health and you'll see COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen exposure logging. If you go to Android, it's Settings
Speaker 1: Google COVID nineteen exposure notifications. This is the fastest I've
Speaker 1: ever seen a new feature hit almost every iPhone and
Speaker 1: Android in the world in a matter of months. And
Speaker 1: what it's doing is it's not tracking you, but it's
Speaker 1: framework for tracking systems that states and health authorities are building. Now.
Speaker 1: Have they built any frameworks that actually take advantage of
Speaker 1: Google and Apple system not really so far. The only
Speaker 1: states that have said they are is North Dakota, Alabama,
Speaker 1: and South Carolina. Twenty two countries have also expressed interest.
Speaker 1: But and according to the person I interviewed as well,
Speaker 1: he says that the problem with this system is that
Speaker 1: people don't trust big tech anymore, and it all started
Speaker 1: to unravel with Facebook's Cambridge Analytical Analytica scandal, And so
Speaker 1: the reality is this framework is on your phone, but
Speaker 1: it's not activated, and the only way you can activate
Speaker 1: it is with an app, and right now there are
Speaker 1: no real apps to download. So I know that sounds
Speaker 1: very complicated and people are annoyed that this thing is
Speaker 1: on their phone, which, by the way, I don't think
Speaker 1: you should be, because if we actually had this active,
Speaker 1: it would really help in slowing the spread of coronavirus.
Speaker 1: Because right now, Megan, do you know how this thing
Speaker 1: is spreading.
Speaker 2: By people being around people to have it?
Speaker 1: But like how and where and when? Like we don't
Speaker 1: really now need.
Speaker 2: We need like the data.
Speaker 1: Exactly, And that's what I'm saying. So if you yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll give us data. I am ninety nine percent in
Speaker 1: my home, but there are a few times when I
Speaker 1: leave my home to go to the grocery store or
Speaker 1: go to the gas station or whatever. And so if
Speaker 1: I had this on my phone, and let's say I
Speaker 1: came down with coronavirus, I would or sorry if if
Speaker 1: I no, if I I don't want to say that.
Speaker 1: If I got a notification that said, oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: you were exposed, I'm like, oh what, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I need to go get tested, right now, so now
Speaker 1: I get tested way earlier than I would have until,
Speaker 1: you know, waiting for symptoms to happen or whatever. And
Speaker 1: now I can stay inside my house for fourteen days
Speaker 1: to let it pass and not pass it on to
Speaker 1: anyone in that time. That's why this system slows the spread.
Speaker 1: So we shouldn't really be against it. I get it
Speaker 1: people don't like to be tracked, but every single expert
Speaker 1: that I've spoken to agrees that the system that Google
Speaker 1: and Apple came up with does protech individual privacies. They're
Speaker 1: not using location, they're not using identities. They're simply using
Speaker 1: Bluetooth to measure how close you are to other smartphones.
Speaker 1: And that's it. And when one of those smartphones says
Speaker 1: one of their owners says, oh I got coronavirus, it
Speaker 1: emails or notifies the other phones that you know that
Speaker 1: came into contact with it. I mean, it's really a
Speaker 1: brilliant system. And anyway, it's not active, it's not really there.
Speaker 1: It's not doing anything. But if you want to check
Speaker 1: and see what it's doing on your phone, go ahead,
Speaker 1: take a look. You can't uninstall it, so it's there.
Speaker 1: And I hope that a big state like California or
Speaker 1: New York pledges support for this thing. I don't know
Speaker 1: why they're not. California should have been on board from
Speaker 1: day one. Apple and Google, I'm sure lobbied them, and
Speaker 1: they just I don't know why they didn't want to
Speaker 1: do it. Maybe they just thought privacy. They didn't they
Speaker 1: didn't think it would be a good enough sell to citizens,
Speaker 1: And that could be a very valid thing. But it's
Speaker 1: unfortunate because I do think as a tech person this
Speaker 1: could slow the spread. So okay, yeah, I'll get off
Speaker 1: my soapbox. Let's see. Let's talk about YouTube TV. I
Speaker 1: don't want to spend a whole bunch of time on this,
Speaker 1: but YouTube TV, which is their cable TV offering live
Speaker 1: TV all these channels. They are raising the price again,
Speaker 1: and the price has gone up from when I first
Speaker 1: covered this thing, from thirty five bucks a month now
Speaker 1: it is up to sixty five dollars a month. And
Speaker 1: what do you get, Well, you get eighty five channels,
Speaker 1: which is awesome. They just added all the Viacom channels
Speaker 1: be ET, CMT, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon. And in fact,
Speaker 1: when I first covered this, the reason I did not
Speaker 1: sign up for YouTube TV other than a free trial
Speaker 1: was because they did not have Nick Junior. And what
Speaker 1: was the other one? What's the other kid's channel, Disney Junior.
Speaker 1: I think they might have had one of those. I
Speaker 1: know they didn't have Nick Junior, so I said nah.
Speaker 1: But the problem is everyone's going crazy about the fact
Speaker 1: that this is so expensive, but the reality is this
Speaker 1: is just cable TV, and what do you expect. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna get a you know, Spectrum for you know,
Speaker 1: Spectrum charging ninety dollars a month and then YouTube charging
Speaker 1: twenty and it's the same exact service. It just doesn't
Speaker 1: work that way. These companies that own these channels make
Speaker 1: money based on charging these cable companies a certain amount
Speaker 1: for each channel. So it's just not happening. And as
Speaker 1: YouTube tv continues to add channels, they just hike up
Speaker 1: the price, just like regular cable. So if you're looking
Speaker 1: for an alternative to regular cable, you gotta find an alternative.
Speaker 1: And it's what I've done, which I don't have standard cable.
Speaker 1: I have a bunch of streaming services and I have
Speaker 1: a lot of them, so they all add up to
Speaker 1: about what I was paying for cable. But I like
Speaker 1: the ability to get rid of them when I want
Speaker 1: to sign up when I want to same thing with YouTube.
Speaker 1: With YouTube TV, you can pause it if you don't
Speaker 1: want it, So maybe what you do you pause it
Speaker 1: for six months and then you come back to it.
Speaker 1: But I don't see a big need for a cable
Speaker 1: package in my life anymore because I like to watch
Speaker 1: shows on demand and for my local streaming, I use
Speaker 1: an antenna for KTLA and that's all I need. And
Speaker 1: so it was funny though. Actually on our vacation when
Speaker 1: we went on a road trip, when we were staying
Speaker 1: at the hotel, the kids are not aware of regular
Speaker 1: TV like channels, so the hotel room had direct TV.
Speaker 1: And so I'm not kidding you, Megan. My kids were
Speaker 1: so enthralled with the idea of like Nick Junior. They
Speaker 1: watched it NonStop because they couldn't believe that like shows
Speaker 1: just ran at a certain time. And then the commercials
Speaker 1: they were going nuts over because they had never seen
Speaker 1: commercials before. And so they're sitting there, Well, they don't
Speaker 1: watch TV, they don't watch regular TV, so.
Speaker 2: I know, I just grew up with that, so I like,
Speaker 2: that's so wild to me.
Speaker 1: Every single commercial they they called me into the room, Dad,
Speaker 1: you got you gotta see this thing. And I'm like, kids,
Speaker 1: it's a commercial. And I'm like, okay, that does look
Speaker 1: cool because I don't really see him either. But it's
Speaker 1: like it was just the funniest It's like.
Speaker 2: The commercials were working on them, like they wanted to
Speaker 2: buy everything everything.
Speaker 1: I mean, they were writing things down, they were waiting
Speaker 1: for them. Because the commercials come on over and over,
Speaker 1: so every time it would come on, they call me
Speaker 1: into the room again. And you know, by the way,
Speaker 1: we weren't watching TV on the on the vacation most
Speaker 1: of the time, but you know, at night when my
Speaker 1: wife and I were getting ready for dinner or whatever,
Speaker 1: we'd put on TV for them. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: just for a little portion. But it was just the
Speaker 1: funniest thing because it just it really just made me
Speaker 1: realize how out of the loop they are from like
Speaker 1: the way I grew up watching cartoons on like a
Speaker 1: Saturday morning or after school, where you just tune into
Speaker 1: the channel and you see what's on, and nowadays everything
Speaker 1: is so kind of figured out. But great question about coronavirus.
Speaker 1: I think I answered most of it. So if I didn't. Well,
Speaker 1: look at the story at Katila dot com, slash tech,
Speaker 1: or just go to rich on Tech dot tv and
Speaker 1: look for coronavirus tracking. All right, this was really cool.
Speaker 1: I'm always on the lookout for a new poker app,
Speaker 1: and easy Poker seems like a real promising app. And
Speaker 1: I know I've mentioned other poker apps in the past
Speaker 1: to help you host a virtual game because of the
Speaker 1: whole stay at home situation, but easy Poker works for that.
Speaker 1: But the reality is the guys are the team behind
Speaker 1: this devised this as an actual replacement for cards and chips.
Speaker 1: So even if you were having a game in your home,
Speaker 1: which right now we're not really doing, but if you
Speaker 1: could this, you would still use this because everyone's got
Speaker 1: a smartphone and it just kind of takes care of
Speaker 1: all the I guess, let's it inefficiencies in a standard game,
Speaker 1: which is cards, counting, chips whatever. Now, personally, I don't
Speaker 1: really want to replace my poker games with my friends
Speaker 1: with the chips and everything. I don't want to replace
Speaker 1: that experience. I like that, and so I don't think
Speaker 1: it's going to replace it. But I think it is
Speaker 1: a fun concept, and the concept is you can play
Speaker 1: poker at any time with your friends and you can
Speaker 1: all be anywhere. So Easy Poker a couple of things
Speaker 1: that they did to make it cool. Number one, you
Speaker 1: don't have to install like a credit card. You don't
Speaker 1: have to register with like a credit card, because all
Speaker 1: these like poker apps they want you like a credit
Speaker 1: card immediately. Most of them are played horizontally, but you
Speaker 1: hold your cards vertically, so you hold your phone vertically,
Speaker 1: which is a small thing but it's actually quite important.
Speaker 1: And then also you can hide your cards, so you
Speaker 1: tap to kind of look at your cards, and then
Speaker 1: you can just put your phone down and your cards
Speaker 1: you're hidden. It automatically hides those. So again, this was
Speaker 1: created by real poker players to emulate what a real
Speaker 1: game would be like. It just so happens they launched
Speaker 1: it at the perfect time where it also works for
Speaker 1: a virtual game. And I kind of tested this out
Speaker 1: just a little bit, where you sign up for a
Speaker 1: game and then you just text the link to your friends.
Speaker 1: They have to download the app and sign up, but
Speaker 1: that's it. It doesn't ask them for a credit card or anything,
Speaker 1: which I'm wondering what it means for the money, Like
Speaker 1: how you would settle out if you're actually trying to
Speaker 1: play with real money. Anyway, the website is easy dot Poker,
Speaker 1: so I think it's really cool. I want to check
Speaker 1: it out with my friends. So far, my friends have
Speaker 1: hosted a bunch of these virtual poker games. I have
Speaker 1: not played any of them, but I am gonna do
Speaker 1: one with this, and I think they're all gonna be
Speaker 1: blown away at just how easy and fun this is.
Speaker 1: I think it looks really cool anyway. If you want
Speaker 1: the real experience, by the way, which gives you the
Speaker 1: most out of the app, you're gonna the host is
Speaker 1: gonna have to pay forty bucks a year for the membership,
Speaker 1: or you can pay six dollars a month, but forty
Speaker 1: dollars a year is a way better deal. Pay for
Speaker 1: it once, and then you get up to twelve players
Speaker 1: and you can customize your game. If you just do
Speaker 1: the four players free game, you don't get to really
Speaker 1: customize stuff. And there's no video chat on this one.
Speaker 1: There's only audio chat, which is probably just fine, so
Speaker 1: you can audio chat with your friends while you do this,
Speaker 1: or you just fire up Zoom on a separate computer.
Speaker 1: You're all on Zoom and you're just playing together. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's I think it's such a cool little app I
Speaker 1: can't wait to play.
Speaker 2: So that is really cool. Maybe I'll try it. Even
Speaker 2: though I've never played poker.
Speaker 1: You never played poker? No, never, Well, Lindsay used to play.
Speaker 1: We played a lot in college with my friends, like
Speaker 1: pretty much like all the time. And so Lindsay used
Speaker 1: to play with us, my wife, and it was funny
Speaker 1: because she got good. You know, she got good after
Speaker 1: a while. But I don't. I don't think she's played
Speaker 1: in a long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like it's a good skill to have.
Speaker 1: It's fun, all right, what's up?
Speaker 2: Okay? Next question comes from Brenda hi Rich was wondering
Speaker 2: if you could give me any feedback on how the
Speaker 2: Ring security system works. What is the service like? And
Speaker 2: I see they have different prices for plans for the monitoring.
Speaker 2: I am looking at the apartment. People one my doorbell
Speaker 2: would would let's see, my doorbell from what I can see,
Speaker 2: will not catch anything. Do you also know if I
Speaker 2: have a have to provide permission to install the leasing office?
Speaker 1: All right, let's break some of this down. So she
Speaker 1: wants to know number one the ring, So the Ring
Speaker 1: works this way. You install the ring on your door,
Speaker 1: and when someone walks past it, it will start recording.
Speaker 1: It will send you a notification, it will save that clip,
Speaker 1: and boom, you're good. Now. To get that feature and
Speaker 1: that functionality, you do have to pay for a subscription plan,
Speaker 1: and so their basic subscription plan is three dollars a
Speaker 1: month or thirty dollars a year. I would always pay
Speaker 1: for the thirty dollars a year because you're gonna save
Speaker 1: and believe me, you're doing this thing over and over.
Speaker 1: You're in, you're out. So I know it doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like a lot to save six dollars a year, but
Speaker 1: if you do it for five years, that's now an
Speaker 1: extra year that you've saved. So I would do that.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing about ring doorbells that people don't realize.
Speaker 1: If you don't pay for a subscription, they will still
Speaker 1: work and you can still look in on your doorbell
Speaker 1: or your camera. The difference is that it will not
Speaker 1: re cord the clips for you and save them. So
Speaker 1: that's the big difference is that you don't get the history.
Speaker 1: So what does that mean. It means that if you
Speaker 1: were not looking through your door at the moment that
Speaker 1: someone walked by, Well, you're not going to capture them,
Speaker 1: You're not going to see them, so you definitely It's
Speaker 1: kind of one of these things where you kind of
Speaker 1: have to pay for it for it to actually work.
Speaker 1: And nest cameras are the same way. Now, whyse cameras
Speaker 1: are not that way? Why's the little cheap twenty dollars
Speaker 1: security cameras? They will record clips for fourteen days on
Speaker 1: a rolling basis, So if someone came up to your
Speaker 1: camera in within fourteen days, that clip will be saved
Speaker 1: to your account for free. So you know, but you
Speaker 1: have to know these little delineations. The Pepole camera is
Speaker 1: one that they specifically created for people that live in
Speaker 1: apartments or condos. It's on sale right now eighty bucks.
Speaker 1: That's a fantastic deal. It's very simple to install. I
Speaker 1: have not dead up myself, but all you have to
Speaker 1: do is remove the existing people, which I imagine you
Speaker 1: just unscrew it and then put this in at it's
Speaker 1: in the same hole, and then you just screw it
Speaker 1: back on and boom. I don't think there's any damage
Speaker 1: to the door. There's no drilling of new holes, so
Speaker 1: I don't think personally that you need to get permission
Speaker 1: from your apartment manager. Of course I'm not your leasing manager,
Speaker 1: but I would think that as long as you're not
Speaker 1: damaging your building, it should be fine. By the way,
Speaker 1: this is a fourth of July sale. This is a great deal.
Speaker 1: Fifty bucks off. Wow, that's really good. Wow, so wow,
Speaker 1: that's oh wow. It ends on well by the time
Speaker 1: a lot of people listen to this, it might be ended.
Speaker 1: It's July sixth, But that's a great deal eighty bucks
Speaker 1: for this thing. So I would jump on it. And
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be a fantastic solution for
Speaker 1: a home. When I lived in an apartment, this would
Speaker 1: have been a great little solution for my door because
Speaker 1: you know, if someone tone up to your door, that's
Speaker 1: that's the point of entry for an apartment is your door.
Speaker 1: So if you've got a little ring thing on there,
Speaker 1: and yes, someone can pull it off or break it,
Speaker 1: but I mean, what are you gonna do? That's the
Speaker 1: risk you take. So I would say, go for it.
Speaker 1: Good question. Do I answer everything in the question she
Speaker 1: wanted to know? Yeah? He did. This was really fun
Speaker 1: this week, and I love dinosaurs. Jurassic Park is one
Speaker 1: of my all time favorite movies, if not my favorite movie.
Speaker 1: I have not watched it with my kids just yet,
Speaker 1: but I love that movie. I've watched it many times,
Speaker 1: and it's just something about the idea of bringing back
Speaker 1: dinosaurs and the way they presented it in that movie
Speaker 1: was so realistic of like, wow, we might like the
Speaker 1: idea of just extracting DNA and kind of rebuilding. It
Speaker 1: was to me like very feasible as a kid. So
Speaker 1: I loved it, and I was so sad to see
Speaker 1: the whole thing kind of come tumbling down. Spoiler alert.
Speaker 1: But you can now bring to life ten dinosaurs from
Speaker 1: Jurassic World on Google. All you have to do is
Speaker 1: search for a dinosaur name on Google on your phone
Speaker 1: and just you'll see a little box that says view
Speaker 1: in three D and then it will bring up the
Speaker 1: dinosaur and you can put it in your backyard. It
Speaker 1: kind of so what it does is it uses a
Speaker 1: camera on your phone so you can see your surroundings,
Speaker 1: but it places the dinosaur in augmented reality in those surroundings.
Speaker 1: It's so cool, it's so much fun. I did a
Speaker 1: little video about this on my Instagram at rich on
Speaker 1: Tech and people went nuts. People went nuts on Facebook.
Speaker 1: I always love when I think something's really cool and
Speaker 1: then I post it and people think it's really cool.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, I was justified in spending an hour
Speaker 1: doing this video. And then sometimes I post stuff and
Speaker 1: it's like, uh, crickets, which is fine too. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not always right with what I think people would
Speaker 1: find interesting, but a lot of times I am. You
Speaker 1: were right about the what was the thing we did
Speaker 1: that went viral? The uh the pizza of the pizza
Speaker 1: oven went viral? The uh Megan Meghan's actually a secret
Speaker 1: viral sense sense What is it? Sensei? Sensey? You you
Speaker 1: have a knack for for figuring out things that would
Speaker 1: go viral. Because we've done that other thing.
Speaker 2: I feel like I haven't had that much. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: The other one was the the rain thing. That was
Speaker 1: the first one, the ring thing, remember the rain, the rain,
Speaker 1: the umbrella things, the rain.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was me.
Speaker 1: That's still you know, that's that's still one of our
Speaker 1: all time greatest hits.
Speaker 2: So I know, but I was, I was. I was
Speaker 2: there for the folding, mate, but I didn't shoot that.
Speaker 2: That was you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you, but you were you were instrumental in
Speaker 1: that because we would we would sit there and we
Speaker 1: would do we would run by like the captions. You know,
Speaker 1: because a lot of things, when they go viral, I
Speaker 1: hate to say a lot of it's the caption. It's
Speaker 1: got to be it's got to be quick. It's got
Speaker 1: to encapsulate what you're gonna experience. It can't give everything away.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can never figure out when something is
Speaker 1: going to go viral. But in my history of being
Speaker 1: a KTLA, and you know, really I didn't, I've had
Speaker 1: a couple of these hits. But like the thing is,
Speaker 1: there's always like some sort of surprise or some sort
Speaker 1: of payoff that's like really interesting that you want to
Speaker 1: share with your friends. That's kind of what I've noticed.
Speaker 1: So anyway, the dinosaur thing didn't go viral, but it
Speaker 1: definitely did well. And all you have to do is,
Speaker 1: like I said, search for one of these names. It
Speaker 1: works with Tyrannosaurus, Rex, Velociraptor, Triceratops, Spinosaurus, Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus, and
Speaker 1: Cleosaurus die oh my gosh, Dihosaurus, petrodon and parasse I
Speaker 1: stopped at like tyranne.
Speaker 2: Part of dinosaurs what's that The names are the best part.
Speaker 1: I now, if you want to get really geeky, it
Speaker 1: does work on Android. It does work on iOS, but
Speaker 1: only on certain devices, specifically in ar core enabled device
Speaker 1: on Android. But just try it and see if it works.
Speaker 1: The one thing that I did not know when I
Speaker 1: posted the video that I now know is and this
Speaker 1: is really sly on Android's part or Google's part, These sounds,
Speaker 1: which are probably the best part of this other than
Speaker 1: the dinosaur, only work on Android. So a lot of
Speaker 1: these people are emailing me and saying, Rich, I can't
Speaker 1: hear the sounds on my iPhone. I'm telling them how
Speaker 1: to turn up the volume and change the settings, and
Speaker 1: it turns out after further reading that they only enable
Speaker 1: the sounds in Google on Android. I'm guessing that's for
Speaker 1: some technical reason that the iPhone doesn't offer. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It seems like they just did that as a you know,
Speaker 1: we gotcha, Yeah, iPhone, ain't that great?
Speaker 2: All right? This next question comes from Lorrain. Reviews on
Speaker 2: a cell phone holder for car in Indiana take effect.
Speaker 2: Let's see what reviews on cell phone holder? Oh, she
Speaker 2: just wants to know about a cell phone holder for
Speaker 2: a car. I guess there's a lot that takes effect
Speaker 2: on July first, that you cannot hold your phone in
Speaker 2: your hand while you drive in Indiana.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Indiana getting on board a little bit late.
Speaker 1: We've had that ruling, California. How many years have we
Speaker 1: had that? Wow?
Speaker 2: Forever?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay, but you know, this is the beauty of America.
Speaker 1: Every state makes its own rules, and Indiana felt like
Speaker 1: they didn't need oneuntil now. I am so surprised at that.
Speaker 1: By the way, that's wild. It is interesting when I
Speaker 1: travel to different states, though, like how much of a
Speaker 1: difference there is in different states. And that's part of
Speaker 1: what's cool about America is that each state does what's
Speaker 1: best for themselves. But it's also really weird when you
Speaker 1: travel a lot, because it's just like one big law,
Speaker 1: Like okay, in Los Angeles, like you can't drink walking
Speaker 1: down the street, but in Las Vegas, like bh whatever,
Speaker 1: just go ahead, have a giant you know, margarita and
Speaker 1: one of those like giant Margarita things like down the street.
Speaker 1: It's like what or like New Jersey. It's like I
Speaker 1: got out of my car to start pumping gas and
Speaker 1: I was like getting yelled at from the guy and
Speaker 1: he's like, no pumping gas. And I should have remembered
Speaker 1: because I grew up in Jersey, where you can't pump
Speaker 1: your own gas. But I'm so used to it in
Speaker 1: California that would just go home. I just forget. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Or when I moved up to Washington State and I
Speaker 1: went to buy we were making Oh my gosh, this
Speaker 1: is how this is how dated this is. I was
Speaker 1: making apple teenis, remember those when those were like hot?
Speaker 1: No you don't because you're so young, but apple teenis
Speaker 1: were like the hottest drink going for a little bit.
Speaker 1: And so I was trying to find the stuff to
Speaker 1: make an apple teeny and I go to like a
Speaker 1: liquor store on it. By the way, in California they
Speaker 1: sell wine and everything inside like a Ralph's in other
Speaker 1: states not the case. Uh, Like you go to these
Speaker 1: states and you have to go to like a state
Speaker 1: they call it like a package store in some states,
Speaker 1: or like a you know a state, like what was
Speaker 1: the state? I think it was Washington State. You had
Speaker 1: to go to a state liquor store, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: we're closed on certain days like a Sunday. So I
Speaker 1: mean it's really interesting, just the difference. A lot of
Speaker 1: it has to do with booze. Megan. Okay, I know
Speaker 1: you know so much. I'm sort of an expert. So
Speaker 1: my recommendation for the clip for your car. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: When I lived in Louisiana, you could drive through and
Speaker 1: get a daker through a drive through Daquerri store. Now, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: and by the way, before I got there, right before
Speaker 1: they they shut down the fact that the passenger could
Speaker 1: drink the dakri while you were driving them. But they
Speaker 1: shut that down because they said, you know what, it's
Speaker 1: probably safer if nobody in the car is drinking. But
Speaker 1: what they would do when you got your dakriy is
Speaker 1: they would tape down the straw. And that was a
Speaker 1: universal sign to an officer that pulled you over there,
Speaker 1: like I've not been drinking this. It's the straw is taped.
Speaker 1: Do you see the tape? Yeah? I mean is insane,
Speaker 1: so wild. All right, let me just tell you about
Speaker 1: this what my recommendations are for the clips. If you want,
Speaker 1: since it's new to you and you probably want to
Speaker 1: spend a little bit of money on a nice clip
Speaker 1: for your car, My absolute favorite is called PROCLIPUSA dot
Speaker 1: com and you will find a custom solution for your car.
Speaker 1: So if you have a you know, whatever car you have,
Speaker 1: they've gone into it and they have looked and seen
Speaker 1: where the best placement is for a holder for your phone,
Speaker 1: and it's all custom. It fits perfectly, your phone snaps in.
Speaker 1: They even have great things where like if you have
Speaker 1: an iPhone, it just snaps right into the charging cradle
Speaker 1: so that your phone is always charging. It's really slick.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit more expensive, probably about ninety dollars
Speaker 1: for that solution, but I'm telling you it is the best,
Speaker 1: and that's what I'd recommend if you want a cheap solution.
Speaker 1: I like what's called the key New Airframe and so
Speaker 1: just look up the airframe. That's really good, but it's
Speaker 1: super easy, super cheap. And then the other one I
Speaker 1: like that I've not tested, but I see commercials for
Speaker 1: it and it looks really cool is the weather Tech
Speaker 1: cup phone. And it's like a you put it in
Speaker 1: your cup holder and it holds your phone, and I
Speaker 1: like that. It looks really cool. To me. I would
Speaker 1: not want to use up one of my cup holders
Speaker 1: because I value my cup holders. But if you don't mind,
Speaker 1: then go ahead.
Speaker 2: That's a really funny comment after your whole feel about
Speaker 2: Yeah's true.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's move on. This is this ranks is one
Speaker 1: of the all time most popular stories I've done at KTLA,
Speaker 1: and I'm seeing a trend. The Wy's camera was one,
Speaker 1: but I think this actually beat out the Wyse camera.
Speaker 1: I did a story on a twenty eight dollars pair
Speaker 1: of wireless earbuds and a thirty six dollars smart watch
Speaker 1: from a company called Let's Fit, and people really like
Speaker 1: these things. People are buying them. They're telling me that
Speaker 1: they bought them, and I will tell you the watch
Speaker 1: I'm not as hot on as the wireless earbuds. The
Speaker 1: wireless earbuds for twenty eight dollars I was very impressed with.
Speaker 1: In fact, I saw them go down to as cheap
Speaker 1: as twenty dollars on Amazon. But even at twenty eight dollars,
Speaker 1: I thought they were fine. They have a USBC charging cable,
Speaker 1: which I thought was great. They come in a little
Speaker 1: charging case, you get six hours of playback. I tried
Speaker 1: them on my spin bike. I try them with some
Speaker 1: runs and they stay in my ears for the most part.
Speaker 1: As you know some of these things. They kind of
Speaker 1: My wife and I were discussing this last night, and
Speaker 1: if you ever use even with your AirPods, Megan, when
Speaker 1: you're working out, don't you feel like you have to
Speaker 1: push them back in once in a while. Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: that's it's just with everything that's like just hanging on
Speaker 1: your ear, you just have to push them back in
Speaker 1: for more secure. So yes, I had to push them
Speaker 1: back in a little bit. But did they fall out.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: I think that these are a fantastic combination of value
Speaker 1: and price. You get the pause on the side, you
Speaker 1: get the play on the side, you get the assistant
Speaker 1: on the side. And so far every person that's ordered,
Speaker 1: not every person, but a lot of people have tweeted
Speaker 1: me and said, Rich, I really like these things, and
Speaker 1: for twenty eight bucks. If you lose them or they
Speaker 1: get damaged or whatever, or you don't even like them,
Speaker 1: I mean, you could return them to Amazon if you
Speaker 1: don't like them that much. But it's like twenty eight bucks.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not out that much, you know. So
Speaker 1: this is a company called Let's Fit. I'll put the
Speaker 1: link if you want to buy them. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to sell them.
Speaker 2: To you.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I'm always to look out for like
Speaker 1: a good value, and this seems to be a pretty
Speaker 1: good value. Don't get me wrong. These are not AirPods,
Speaker 1: and they're not trying to replace AirPods. But you know,
Speaker 1: there's different folks that want different things, and I think
Speaker 1: this is a great little thing to get. The smart
Speaker 1: watch thirty six dollars I thought was fine. I would
Speaker 1: not recommend this as my smart watch, but if you
Speaker 1: want just basic smart watch functionality, I like the fact
Speaker 1: that this thing kind of looks like an Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't look cheap. The software is just fine.
Speaker 1: It's nothing special. But again, for thirty six dollars, if
Speaker 1: you just want a basic watch, that you're saying, hey, rich,
Speaker 1: I don't really want an Apple Watch. I just want
Speaker 1: something simple and cheap. Boom, there you go. All right, Wow,
Speaker 1: we're actually out of time, which I can't believe. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this podcast went really fast. Do you want to do?
Speaker 1: Do you have a quick question.
Speaker 2: Or no, let's see someone asked, this is kind of quick.
Speaker 2: Georgine asked, I listened to quite a few pods, and
Speaker 2: I'm wondering, after you've listened to them, is there a
Speaker 2: way to delete them individually? They're taking a lot of
Speaker 2: taking up a lot of room on my phone, so
Speaker 2: I'd like to get rid of old ones.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, that's funny. I got this question at work
Speaker 1: from Ritchie, our camera guy. He was looking. He was saying,
Speaker 1: because if you just let the podcast app on I'm
Speaker 1: assuming it's iPhone. If you let the podcast app on
Speaker 1: iPhone just do its own thing. When you subscribe, it
Speaker 1: will gobble up all of your memory on your phone
Speaker 1: because it'll just download a whole bunch of episodes, and
Speaker 1: it can take up gigs and gigs, So check for that.
Speaker 1: Number one. But number two. The way you do this
Speaker 1: is just go to your library and then go to
Speaker 1: episodes and swipe from the right to the left on
Speaker 1: a particular episode, and that will delete it off your phone,
Speaker 1: but it will not unsubscribe you. She's saying she doesn't
Speaker 1: want to unsubscribe to the right podcast. Now. Alternatively, you
Speaker 1: can go to library and then shows, and then once
Speaker 1: you're on a show, hit the menu button and then
Speaker 1: delete from library and that will delete all of the
Speaker 1: shows down the episodes at once, but it will keep
Speaker 1: your subscription, so new shows will still come through, and
Speaker 1: I agree with who is It Georgan George Georgia georgane.
Speaker 1: I agree these things can gobble up a lot of memory,
Speaker 1: but it's very The podcast app on iPhone is not
Speaker 1: very intuitive for figuring out what you want to do,
Speaker 1: and so I think that this is something that I've
Speaker 1: run into where I'm like, wait, I just deleted the
Speaker 1: whole show because you think, oh, swipe left to right
Speaker 1: on a show and it's like the whole thing is gone.
Speaker 1: So again, this is the way to do it for
Speaker 1: individual episodes or all of them that you've downloaded real quick.
Speaker 1: I mentioned last week that I talked to a travel vlogger,
Speaker 1: Josh McNair. He runs a website and a YouTube channel
Speaker 1: called California through My Lens. Really nice guy. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to share the secrets he has to planning the
Speaker 1: perfect road trip, which I concur with number one Roadside
Speaker 1: America app. I hope I didn't mention this last week,
Speaker 1: but Roadside America app is fantastic for finding all those
Speaker 1: unique attractions. You know. I feel like I did mention
Speaker 1: this last week, but maybe I didn't. I can't remember.
Speaker 1: You weren't here, so you didn't even know. Atlas Obscura
Speaker 1: is a website that focuses on bigger cities, so it
Speaker 1: helps you find kind of hidden gems in those cities.
Speaker 1: Road Trippers is really cool. It's kind of like Google Maps,
Speaker 1: but it helps you plot out your stops and the distance,
Speaker 1: and not only the distance, but the time between those
Speaker 1: stops because most of the time you say, Okay, I
Speaker 1: want to drive for four hours at a clip, and
Speaker 1: then you know you can plan that out. It will
Speaker 1: even tell you your gas estimates yelp. Now I know
Speaker 1: you know yelp. But he has a really unique way
Speaker 1: of searching it, which is my favorite way of searching
Speaker 1: when you're in a city that you haven't been into.
Speaker 1: Sort by most reviewed, and this will reveal the places
Speaker 1: that people are talking about the most because it has
Speaker 1: the most reviews. And then All Trails app is fantastic.
Speaker 1: Sort by most popular again to find the best hikes.
Speaker 1: I love All Trails Instagram. This is why I said
Speaker 1: Josh and I were travel soulmates, because he searches Instagram
Speaker 1: the same way I do. I always use it as
Speaker 1: a way to kind of peek into the place that
Speaker 1: I'm going before I go, whether that's a restaurant and
Speaker 1: you go to the recent pictures or the stories because
Speaker 1: there's the people that were just there and they're posting
Speaker 1: these things, you know, twenty four hours, forty eight hours
Speaker 1: ago or even that day, and it's like, oh, that
Speaker 1: restaurant is you know, people are wearing masks or not whatever.
Speaker 1: You can see exactly what's happening. His example was, if
Speaker 1: you're looking for waterfalls on your trip, you know that
Speaker 1: the waterfall is running or not. In California, that's kind
Speaker 1: of a big thing because they're not always running. And
Speaker 1: then YouTube. His method for searching YouTube is don't just
Speaker 1: search a city name. Search that city name plus things
Speaker 1: to do or city name plus best restaurants or city
Speaker 1: name plus best hikes, and that kind of gives you
Speaker 1: a visual guide to where you're going. I think those
Speaker 1: are all fantastic little Those are awesome little tips. Can
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