WEBVTT - Life-saving smartphone tips, Windows 10 extension & privacy-first phone made in USA (127, June 28, 2025) 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.960 Want to keep Window using Windows ten after the deadline. 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:06.560 Now there's a way at and T to pay one 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:10.280 hundred and seventy seven million dollars for data breaches. How 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.520 to claim your cut. A major car rental company is 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:17.720 now using AI to spot damage and they'll bill you 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:22.000 for it. Plus your tech questions answered? What's going on 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.160 rich dmiro And this is Rich on Tech. This is 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:27.600 the show where I talk about the tech stuff I 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.000 think you should know about. It's also the place where 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:33.319 I answer your questions about technology. I believe that tech 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:37.560 should be interesting, useful and fun. Phone lines are open 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.199 at triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:45.160 eight seven four to two four one zero one eight 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.800 eight eight seven four to two four to one zero 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:49.960 one Chemist stand and buy give me a call. If 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.680 you have a question about technology email it's also open. 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.800 Just go to Rich on tech dot tv and hit 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:01.880 contact guests This week mark you. He is the executive 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:04.440 features editor at PC mag. We're gonna have some fun. 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:08.520 He's going to share with Americans really think about tech etiquette, 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:13.160 from snooping on someone else's device to using chat GBT 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.600 to make your texts and emails and then later In 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:20.520 the show, we've got Todd Weaver, founder and CEO of Purism. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.760 He's going to explain how his company is building privacy 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:28.520 first tech products and also they're making a phone in 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:32.960 the USA. We'll ask them how that's going. Well. I 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:36.920 hope you're having a great day. This week. I attended 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.080 a nine to one to one conference and picked up 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.840 a pretty helpful tip. Whenever I learned something, I'm always like, Okay, 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:46.600 I need to share this with other folks. This was 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.960 the NINA nine one one Association. This is like a 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.840 group of basically all the people that work in the 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:57.000 emergency response field when it comes to nine to one one, right, 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.840 the operators, their managers, just all those folks. They gather 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:05.600 once a year and learn and see what new technology 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.240 is available in their world. But one of the folks 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.920 I was interviewing mentioned something just in passing and I 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.760 was like, wait, what was that. It's called smart nine 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.679 one one dot com. Smart nine one one dot com. 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.200 So if you go to this website, you can create 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:24.040 a safety profile that is linked to your phone number, 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:28.720 and you can add information like medical info, allergies, any 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:33.520 household details that might be smart for a dispatcher. To 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.000 see when you call if you ever need to call 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.280 nine one one. Now keep in mind you have to 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:43.360 when you're calling. The dispatch center has to support this technology. 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.520 And there are six thousand, it's nine one one centers 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.639 in the US, and they all have varying levels of technology. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.600 Some are super old school, some are really high tech. 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.000 Obviously depends on the city and the funding and all 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.760 that good stuff. But you can actually go on smart 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:03.760 none I'm on one's website and check to see if 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:07.560 your area is one of those supported. So you can 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:09.400 pop in your zip code and it will tell you. 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:11.760 And i'd give you that website, but that one's a 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:13.160 little bit longer, so you'll have to go to my 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.200 website rich on tech dot tv for the link. But 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.960 once you fill this out, they will see that information 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.600 on your screen in addition to the standard information they 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.240 might see. So I think this is worth setting up 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.320 if you have some sort of medical condition or someone 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:31.440 in your house does some sort of special circumstances. And 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.120 then this got me to thinking in general, it's probably 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.360 a good time to update your phone's emergency settings because 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:42.800 all of these smartphones have emergency settings that can you 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:44.960 know you've got to fill out your information. People can 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:46.520 see this if they ever have you know, if they 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.480 ever find you and you've got your phone on you, 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:53.080 or when you call for help. Your phone can also 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:56.680 send more information and again depending on the call center, 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.480 they can see that information. So number one on the iPhone, 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:04.480 go to settings and there's an entire section called Emergency SOS. 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.480 Look in there, review your emergency contacts. Make sure you 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.840 have that set up. Then you can open up the 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.600 health app on the iPhone, tap your profile and select 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.560 medical ID and you can fill out all of your 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.360 information for your medical ID, any allergies, you might have 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.520 your weight, height, whatever you want people to know if 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.400 they were to find you with your smartphone. And this 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.200 is something that can access from your lock screen even 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:31.000 if your phone is locked, but you have to toggle 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:34.039 on show when locked. And then there's also an option 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.560 to share during emergency call. So again it's kind of 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.799 like that smart nine on one system I was talking about, 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.400 but this comes directly from your phone. That information is 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:45.520 pushed to the nine one one operator if their system 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:50.039 supports it. On Samsung, go into your Settings, there's a 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.400 section called Safety and Emergency. Again, you can fill out 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.560 your medical info and your emergency contacts, and they have 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:00.440 a very similar setting called show on lockscreen and then 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.720 share during emergency calls and texts? Did you know you 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:05.799 could text nine one one in a lot of places? 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:07.919 So I was asking, I was talking to a lot 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.880 of people about texting nine one one. So of course, 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.720 always call, right, you always want to call. Ideally that's 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:16.640 the best way to get in touch with nine one one. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:21.159 But if you are in a situation where texting is better, 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.960 and let's say there's someone unannounced in your home, you're 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.960 in some sort of domestic dispute, you are you know, 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.320 in a closet somewhere hiding, you don't want to make 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.599 a phone call. That's when you would text nine one one. Now, 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:36.640 a lot of these nine one one centers can accept 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.719 that text, but if they can't, it will immediately bounce 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.599 back your text and say, hey, we can't accept this text. 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.880 You got to call. So but it's worth it if 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.200 you're in one of those situations where you cannot call, 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.600 So remember that. Now, if you have a Pixel phone 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:54.600 from Google, they also have a lot of emergency settings 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:58.520 on there. So if you go to settings safety in emergency, 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:02.200 they've got this personal safety app and it is filled 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.040 with all kinds of stuff. Go into your info, fill 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.719 out all your medical info. You can toggle on the 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:11.560 visibility options like I mentioned earlier. But again, just kind 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:13.359 of taking care of this stuff now could make a 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.920 huge difference in a real emergency. So be prepared. Hopefully 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:18.640 you never need to know any of this stuff or 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.120 use any of this stuff. But you know, I've had 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.920 to call nine one one once. I remember one time, 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.640 specifically during an emergency situation with one of my kids, 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:32.479 and your brain goes to jelly. It actually reminded me. 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.520 I know this is silly to make this reference, but 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.120 I was on the prices right many years ago, and 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.320 it was the same exact way my brain felt. My 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:44.479 entire brain was just gobbledy gook up there like it 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:48.360 just like imagine a jello just like floating around like jiggling. 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:50.280 That's what my brain felt like when I called nine 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.520 one one. You are out of body, you are not 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.400 thinking clearly. They're asking you questions you don't even know 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.760 the answers to them. And so being prepared now and 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.400 have that information pushed to nine one one, the more 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:06.680 information the better, and it's it was really interesting to me. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:10.640 We've been trained so long now on TV and movies 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.000 that when you call nine one one, they immediately get 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.480 that lock right on your location. Like it's just like 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.040 this little system like bing bing bing. There they are. 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.200 That's not always the case. A lot of times, depending 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:24.960 on the technology they're using, it may be triangulated from 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.880 the cell phone companies, you know, depending on how exact 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.760 they their systems are. Now the systems have gotten a 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.360 lot better, and our smartphone send a lot of data 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:36.680 to the call center, so that's a great thing. So 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.400 the point is, all of this stuff is really helping 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.080 save a lot of lives, So it's a good thing. 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.040 I'll put all that stuff on my website. Rich on 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:47.080 tech dot TV. Another story, my kid getting ready for 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:51.400 the show today. My kid comes running into my bedroom. Dad, 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.320 did you know that Windows is getting rid of the 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:58.880 blue screen of death? I'm like, Tanner, what, what what 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.080 makes you care about that? He's like, I don't know. 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.880 That thing's iconic. It's been there forever, and he's right, 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.280 it's been. I mean, I can't believe it's been nearly 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:11.760 forty years. But yeah, apparently Microsoft is changing the blue 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.920 screen of death to black in Windows eleven, and the 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.800 new black screen of death will remove the frowning face 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.120 and the QR code. This is being widely reported it'll 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.800 still show some information at the bottom of the screen 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.480 for it professionals, but I guess for us everyday folks. 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:32.319 They're just trying to make Windows easier to troubleshoot simpler. 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:36.360 And this is gonna arrive later this summer with some 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:41.120 sort of new quick machine recovery feature. But you know, 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.560 if you've been using Windows for a long time, you 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.560 might be shocked the first time you see this, because 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:48.600 the blue screen of death has been a staple since 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.920 the eighties. And I personally, I'm one of these people 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.800 that loves seeing any sort of fail screen around town. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.560 So if I am, like, you know, at the fast 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.200 food place or at the airport, and you know, they're 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.200 all running some sort of operating system in the background 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:07.160 on these digital screens. So I have a whole collection 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.679 of my Google photos of all of these. I call 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.400 them fail screens where it's just like some sort of 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:16.160 update window Windows isn't responding. You don't see it too 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.480 much with the Apple stuff, but you know, you do 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.079 see Android screens. But I love that stuff. I don't 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:22.679 know why. It just gives you a little, a little 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.720 behind the scenes into the world of like just nerds 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:27.560 get a kick out of this stuff, right, I don't know. 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:27.880 I do. 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.760 And also this is a big story. This week Windows 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.880 ten users, Microsoft announced a way that you can get 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:38.520 a free year of security updates. So if you are 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.920 dreading that end of life support for Windows ten coming 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:45.480 up in October, you actually can get a free year 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.360 of security updates. And it's very easy to do. I 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.679 will explain what you need to do. You have three 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.760 options that will get you an additional lifeline of one 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.160 year on your Windows so you can plan for a 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.720 new computer in a full year. I'll explain that when 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:04.079 we come back after this eighty eight rich one O 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.880 one eight eight eight seven four to two four to 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.079 one zero one. I see folks that are already on 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:10.640 the phone lines. We'll get to some of those up 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:14.439 next and I'll tell you about that Windows ten extension 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.120 right here on rich On Tech. Welcome back to rich 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.800 On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.880 technology at eight eight eight rich one O one. That's 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.640 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:29.719 Let's go to Rick in Thousand Oaks. Rick, You're on 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.720 with Rich Hi. 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:37.480 I'm interested in transferring from paper files for household bills 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:42.880 to digital and but when I look online, everything is 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:47.240 just so complicated that it has scaling capabilities and trends, 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.800 and it's clearly designed for business. And I just want 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.959 to strip down homeowner one. And all I want to 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.920 do is either in part the paperless thing or scan 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.480 in a paper one and then put I wanted an 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.400 ability to edit. I create a box on the document 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:05.760 that I put down the check number of the date. 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:07.760 You know how I paid it, when I paid it, 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:09.960 and how much I paid. So I have a trail 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.520 if there's an issue a year down the road or something. 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:17.319 Yeah, well lost you there. That's pretty easy. I mean, 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.400 this is actually funny because I was at the doctor 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.480 yesterday and I was trying to bring up I scan 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.120 all of my stuff, and I have for a decade now, 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.880 every single paper everything that comes into my house gets 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:34.040 scanned and put into a digital folder and so and 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:37.560 it's really most of the time very easy to search 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.280 through that and find the information you need, especially now 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:44.240 with AI. But yesterday at the doctor and I wanted 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.160 to find some results of a test I had a 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.840 couple of years ago, and for the life of me, 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.640 I could not find anything related to this. And I'm 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.360 sitting there and I was embarrassed, and I'm like, I 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.400 can't believe that this is happening, because I've done all 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.240 my due diligence of scanning these things in and hooding 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.600 them in. And I will tell you, it gets a 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.040 little tricky with the with the keywords. Because let's say 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.760 you use city Bank, right, and you put your city bank, 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.200 every one of your credit card statements or your banking 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.520 statements into this folder, and then you search City Bank 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.480 at the end of the year. That's going to be 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:21.040 tricky to find, you know, the exact statement that you want, 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.960 because there's a million things that are that say City 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:25.920 Bank in there. I will tell you, I think the 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.720 thing that works the best with this is searching for 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.760 the dollar amount in any sort of receipt or something. So, 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.360 for instance, I've got a flex spending account or a 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.760 health saving account, whatever you call it. But basically, if 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:39.520 you go to the doctor, the bill is eighty two 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.560 dollars and seventeen cents you paid on this debit card 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:44.640 that your work gives you and then you might have 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.320 to submit a receipt later on. Well, I've found that 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:50.720 it's really easy once you scan that receipt to search 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.440 for that amount eighty seven thirteen whatever it is, and 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.880 it will come right up. So that works perfectly. To 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.840 answer your question, Rick, I think what you need to 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:03.600 do is just come up with some sort of cloud 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.480 storage that you like and trust. So you can use 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.839 Google Drive, you can use one Drive, you can use Dropbox, 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:13.640 you can use iCloud. And once you do that, you 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.920 establish I do a year system, so I'll do twenty 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.840 twenty five and then I'll just dump everything into twenty 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.480 twenty five and I'm feeling really good about it. I 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.320 will put things in folders inside twenty twenty five, so 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:30.800 like City Bank, Bank of America, American Airlines, you know, 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:34.079 and I'll put every statement inside their individual folders, and 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.520 then each person for my home. And if you want 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.720 some ideas of the folders to come up with, just 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:42.360 ask CHATCHBT say hey, what are some basic folders for 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.800 household organization in my cloud drive, and it will give 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:47.880 you a list of like the suggested folders, and then 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.400 you can work off of that. You can also use 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.960 an app like Evernoe, but that could get kind of 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:56.760 expensive because they do have some great search features and 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.000 they do have some great functionality of getting this stuff 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:02.400 scanned in there. Of course you can annotate it, but 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:07.319 it gets kind of expensive to actually store that long time, 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.520 long term, whereas with something like a one drive iCloud 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.440 your dropbox, you know you're getting some free storage and 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:18.640 also you may be paying for that storage already. When 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:23.280 it comes to annotating the PDFs or whatever you're doing, 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.400 there are some websites that can help you do that. 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.800 You can use something like I Love pdf. You have 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.640 to remember, if you're using sensitive files, you probably want 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.120 to do this locally on your computer. So if you're 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.200 running on a Mac, you can just use the built 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:41.240 in preview PDF viewer on your Mac and just use 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.520 the annotation tools on there. You know, create a textbox 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.800 and just type in, you know, paid paid this bill 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.080 and the date that you paid it. Sometimes I'll just 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.760 write on the bill itself and then scan it after that. 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.320 And yesterday I was doing all of this stuff. So 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:59.760 I have three three files systems in my home. One says, 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:04.280 you know, take action, basically an inbox. The next one 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.440 is to scan, I've already taken action, and the other 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.360 the third is to shred. So basically, anything that comes 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.400 into my home in the mail first goes into that 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.800 top file folder, which which means I need to take action. 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:17.600 That means I need to pay the bill, or I 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:19.800 need to do something with that. If it doesn't need 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.240 any action, I'll put it in that middle folder, which 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.360 is just to scan, or if I'm done with the file, 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.280 I'll put it in there, and then the third one 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.520 is to shred it. So that's sort of my system. 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.280 It works pretty well, except for yesterday when I actually 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.000 needed to find something, but otherwise I find that it 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.480 works really really well. And the good news is you 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.000 can use your phone to scan in these files. If 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:43.440 you open up on the iPhone the files app. It's 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.800 actually really really easy. Open up the files app, go 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.040 into a folder. Tap in the upper right hand corner. 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.920 It says scan documents, and if you just hold your 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.720 phone over paper, or if you just have it on 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.600 a little tripod, you don't even need to do anything. 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.640 It'll automatically scan that paper and then you can just 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:03.040 move the next one in scan it, Move the next 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:04.680 one in scan it, move the next one in it. 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:06.640 You don't even have to like press any buttons or 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.720 do anything. And on the iPhone, on a Samsung they 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.640 also have and on Pixel I would just recommend using 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.520 the built in Google Drive app. They've got a very 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.840 similar system. If you open up the Google Drive app, 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:22.160 there's a little camera icon in the lower right hand corner. 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.520 You tap that and you can easily scan your documents 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.760 using that and it works pretty well. I don't think 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:33.080 the quality is as good as a dedicated scanner, which 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.200 you know, the one that I have. Oh gosh, what 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:40.720 is it the scanner I have, it's the IX Fidjitsu, 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.240 it's the i X. Let's see which one is this. 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.000 It's a little tiny one. It's like a FIDGETSU is 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.560 a main brand that does it. I've got to find 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:53.080 the exact scanner that I have there. But it's a 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.680 it's a very simple scanner and it's handheld and it's 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:57.760 like super easy. But there's a million scanners you can 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:01.240 use your you know, you can use inkjet printer whatever 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.440 you want, but just get these things scanned in and 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.360 uh yeah, the search will help you out. Great question, Rick, 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.080 Thanks for the call. Eight to eight. Rich One O 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.080 one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:14.400 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.640 technology with you at Triple eight Rich one O one 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.480 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:21.479 Uh. 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:25.480 Earlier I was talking about all that information about security 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:27.920 and nine to one one, So I put that all 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:31.320 on the website rich on tech dot TV. All the 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.639 links for what I mentioned is right there rich on 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:35.720 tech dot TV. 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:37.000 UH. 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.400 Windows ten users, Microsoft announced this week you can get 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:44.000 a free year of security updates. So a lot of 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.840 questions on this show about what's called end of life 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:50.240 support for Windows ten, which is ending on October fourteenth, 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:54.240 twenty twenty five. No more security or feature updates after 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:57.280 that date. It's been ten years for Windows ten if 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.119 you can believe it, I can't. It's had a good run. 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.720 But Microsoft is now offering a free year of extended 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.919 security updates. If here's how you can get them. You 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.840 have three ways. Number one, this is the new way 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:13.160 you can use Windows Backup to sync your settings and 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:18.240 files to the cloud. Now I checked this Windows Backup program. Basically, 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.280 it's kind of like it'll just sink the folders, the 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:25.520 desktop folder documents and pictures, your apps, so to remember 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:27.840 the installed apps you have, the ones that you've pinned 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:31.080 to like things like the taskbar. It'll remember your settings 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:35.280 like Wi Fi passwords and things like that. So that 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:37.480 is very simple, and you don't have to put a 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:40.119 bunch of files in the desktop, the documents or the pictures. 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:41.879 You can move them out if you don't want to 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:43.640 take up all of your storage. You get I think 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:47.200 it says five gigs for free, and so let's see here, Yeah, 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.639 five gigabytes for free. I'm using one point nine on 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:53.320 my computer. Now that's a test device, so it's not 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.040 something I'm using day to day. But that's the first 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.040 way and the easiest way to do it. Just all 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.720 you have to do is toggle on Windows backup. Next 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:02.520 thing you can do if you don't want to do that, 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:07.040 is you can redeem one thousand Microsoft Rewards points. And 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.200 you're like, wait, what are rewards points? Well, you might 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:12.720 have them if you've ever searched, bing, or done a 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.520 bunch of stuff with Microsoft, like, for instance, go to 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:20.000 rewards dot bing dot com. I somehow have two nine 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.000 hundred and five points available, so I can do the 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:26.199 one thousand Rewards points to get the extra year, or 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:27.800 if you don't want to do that, you can pay 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:31.000 thirty dollars to enroll manually for that extra year of 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.280 security updates. Now you can't do this just yet. You 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.679 have to wait a little bit. Microsoft just announced this. 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:41.280 They're going to send a notification to computers sometime in 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:44.680 July or mid August for most people, so you've got 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:47.439 some time. But now that you know you can do this, 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:50.040 you can rest a little bit easy. You can know 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:53.000 that you can use Windows ten for another year. Just 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:56.600 by doing these two things, you'll get coverage through October 0:19:56.640 --> 0:20:00.080 twenty twenty six. Again, this is just security updates, no 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:03.280 more features. If your computer can handle Windows eleven, I 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.120 would suggest just updating to that. But if you've got 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:08.200 some sort of special program you run, or you just 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:09.600 have a reason why you don't want to go to 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.800 Windows eleven or your computer can't support it, you can 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:17.080 stick with Windows ten for another year. So again, easy 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:20.880 ways to get this Three easy ways. Use the Windows backup, 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:24.560 redeem a thousand Microsoft Rewards points, or just pay thirty dollars. 0:20:24.600 --> 0:20:27.639 This is for consumers only. Just remember that businesses have 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:30.240 a whole separate program. But this is a really nice 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:33.520 lifeline for folks that don't want to deal with getting 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:35.439 a new computer or don't want to deal with the update. 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:38.360 But I will tell you this. You have one year 0:20:38.400 --> 0:20:42.360 now from October. Start planning for a new computer. Right, 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:44.679 don't wait until October of next year to buy the 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:48.679 new computer. Start planning for that new computer. Let's go 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:52.280 to Paul a Newport Beach. Paul bought the Kindle color 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:56.119 Soft and he's got a review. Paul, welcome to the show. 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:57.520 Why, thank you? Rich? 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:00.320 Hey, So you love your Kindle? Which one did you 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:01.600 have before this? The Oasis? 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:01.840 Right? 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:04.639 I've had Kindles since twenty twelve. 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:05.280 Wow. 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:08.520 I started with the Kindle e Reader, then the paper White, 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:12.679 and when the Oasis came out, I liked the bigger screen, 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:14.880 so I went to the bigger screen and the page 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:18.680 turning buttons, which I really liked. And my Oasis was 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:20.560 getting a little long in the tooth. I was having 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:22.400 to charge it every other day. 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:25.360 Oh that's like mine right now. My battery is kind 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:27.040 of shot on it. It's like every time I want 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:28.000 to use it, it's like dead. 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:33.679 Yeah. Yeah. And the of course it has the micro 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:38.160 plug for the USB and that's old fashioned too. 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:40.320 The last of its kind in my house. That's the 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:40.679 only thing. 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:44.600 When the color Soft came out, I immediately ordered it. 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:49.280 It was two hundred and eighty dollars. That's more than 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:51.520 the Kindle Paper White, which runs from one hundred and 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:55.680 sixty to two hundred dollars if you want the signature edition. Basically, 0:21:55.760 --> 0:22:00.160 what I've discovered is that the Colorsoft is essentially a 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:04.560 paper white signature edition, paper white with a color screen. 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:09.280 So what does that mean. It means that you can 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:12.119 get your the cover of your book if you have 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:17.399 the cover preview, and the books that you've read on 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:19.959 the home screen and books that are suggested for you 0:22:20.000 --> 0:22:21.280 on the home screen in color. 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:23.360 So it looks a little more modern overall. 0:22:23.400 --> 0:22:27.520 I would say, right, yeah, it looks modern, But I 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:31.560 only read regular books. I don't read, you know, Japanese 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:34.520 cartoon books or anything like that, so I don't really 0:22:34.680 --> 0:22:37.159 get a chance to take advantage of the color screen 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:39.359 because all the prints in black and white, like. 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:43.320 The graphic novels and all that, I don't read those. Okay, 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:44.480 so if you've. 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:49.040 Read I'm mostly into just print text. But what I 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:51.520 do like is the battery life is incredible. I mean 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:53.760 I can go an entire week without having to charge 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:56.000 a thing, and I probably could go longer than that. 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:57.440 And I use it two hours a day. 0:22:57.640 --> 0:22:58.200 Oh wow. 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:02.080 The other thing I love about it is that it's 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:06.520 it has a wireless charger, and mine came with the 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:10.240 wireless charger. Is that included in the price? 0:23:10.600 --> 0:23:10.919 Okay? 0:23:10.960 --> 0:23:12.720 And I wasn't really sure I was going to use 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:16.399 a wireless charger, but boy is it nice. The paper 0:23:16.440 --> 0:23:19.879 white signature edition does not come with a wireless charger, 0:23:19.880 --> 0:23:22.919 but it only runs about twenty eight bucks. And I 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:25.920 would suggest that I also got mine with a leather 0:23:26.040 --> 0:23:28.920 cover because I found that the leather actually lasts longer 0:23:29.280 --> 0:23:34.639 than the other covers for it. Okay, So overall, I 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:38.920 love the thing, particularly the battery life. It's got a 0:23:38.960 --> 0:23:42.680 little smaller footprint than the Oasis because although it's got 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:45.639 a seven inch screen, it doesn't have the page turning 0:23:45.640 --> 0:23:46.679 buttons on the side. 0:23:46.880 --> 0:23:48.640 Yeah, but no Kindle does anymore. 0:23:49.160 --> 0:23:51.720 Yeah, no Kindle. Basically, like I said, this is a 0:23:51.760 --> 0:23:54.280 signature edition, paper white with a color screen. 0:23:54.320 --> 0:23:57.040 Okay, but here's my question. Here's my question about it 0:23:57.080 --> 0:23:59.640 because I've seen it in person, but I haven't spent 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:02.600 a long amount of time with it. The text on 0:24:02.640 --> 0:24:06.960 the screen. Is it just as readable as the non 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:08.800 color kindles. 0:24:10.640 --> 0:24:13.240 That's a tough question because I haven't put them side 0:24:13.240 --> 0:24:18.639 by side. I think it certainly works for me. Okay, 0:24:18.960 --> 0:24:22.840 the background of the page isn't exactly white. It's kind 0:24:22.880 --> 0:24:26.439 of a semi cream color, so I don't care for 0:24:26.520 --> 0:24:30.320 that quite as much, but I find it very readable. 0:24:32.040 --> 0:24:35.359 I guess the big question is would you rather just 0:24:35.440 --> 0:24:38.520 have a paper white signature edition or spend an extra 0:24:39.480 --> 0:24:43.199 eighty to one hundred dollars for having a couple of 0:24:43.200 --> 0:24:45.679 color features right and having. 0:24:45.440 --> 0:24:47.440 That color book on the front the cover. I mean, 0:24:47.440 --> 0:24:51.159 it's nice. It's not necessary per se, but certainly not 0:24:51.359 --> 0:24:53.600 and if you read anything like a comic book or 0:24:53.640 --> 0:24:57.159 a graphic novel, this would definitely be a good choice. 0:24:57.200 --> 0:25:00.359 But it sounds like you're pretty happy with it, reading 0:25:00.359 --> 0:25:01.040 two hours a day. 0:25:01.040 --> 0:25:04.359 I'm very happy with it. I like every time a 0:25:04.440 --> 0:25:07.240 new kindle comes out, except for this scribe. It didn't 0:25:07.240 --> 0:25:11.000 buy that too big a screen, and I wasn't planning 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:14.520 on writing anything on it. But I buy the latest 0:25:14.520 --> 0:25:16.800 thing that comes out, and then I give my old kindle, 0:25:16.880 --> 0:25:19.960 usually to my wife, but she's got a paper white, 0:25:19.960 --> 0:25:21.320 and she's perfectly happy with it. 0:25:21.680 --> 0:25:25.120 Yeah, okay, and I'm looking at the pricing, so right now, 0:25:25.160 --> 0:25:28.280 it's at two hundred and seventy nine dollars according to 0:25:28.359 --> 0:25:31.920 Camel Camel Camel. The cheapest it's been is two hundred 0:25:31.920 --> 0:25:35.199 and twenty five dollars. So my advice don't buy this 0:25:35.359 --> 0:25:38.320 right now because Prime Day is coming up on July eighth. 0:25:38.680 --> 0:25:41.960 Put it in your car and I can guarantee well, 0:25:42.040 --> 0:25:44.280 I can't guarantee you, but I can imagine that this 0:25:44.320 --> 0:25:47.560 will probably go on sale. The target price we're looking 0:25:47.600 --> 0:25:49.919 at is two hundred and twenty five dollars or less, 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:51.960 which would be pretty good. 0:25:52.400 --> 0:25:53.520 That's a very good suggestion. 0:25:53.720 --> 0:25:55.960 Yeah, but you know the kindle paper white will also 0:25:56.080 --> 0:25:59.440 be on sale as well. I'm guessing that's that's at 0:25:59.480 --> 0:26:02.880 one fifty nine right now. And let's see how much 0:26:02.920 --> 0:26:06.200 it's gone down to according to this Camel Camel Camel, Well. 0:26:06.200 --> 0:26:09.200 The one fifty nine ninety nine is the basic model. Oh, 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:12.600 the one nine ninety nine is a signat tradition, and 0:26:12.600 --> 0:26:14.880 what that has is that has wireless charging. 0:26:15.240 --> 0:26:17.680 Okay, and that's also with ads. So if you want 0:26:17.960 --> 0:26:21.920 no locksdown, you don't want the ad another twenty bucks, 0:26:22.200 --> 0:26:26.080 but that has gone down to as low as one thirty. 0:26:26.480 --> 0:26:29.520 So again, Oh, these things do go on sale. Of course, 0:26:29.600 --> 0:26:31.720 it's Amazon. It's Prime Day. They're going to put their 0:26:31.760 --> 0:26:35.240 own products on sale. Typically they put the older products 0:26:35.280 --> 0:26:37.600 on sale, like maybe the last generation of these things. 0:26:37.640 --> 0:26:39.959 But we'll see. I mean they sell a lot of kindles, 0:26:40.359 --> 0:26:42.320 all right, Paul. What kind of books do you like 0:26:42.400 --> 0:26:42.720 to read? 0:26:43.400 --> 0:26:49.560 I have a wide variety, everything from nonfiction to fiction, 0:26:49.760 --> 0:26:53.120 mostly fiction I got. I got started in twenty thirteen 0:26:53.160 --> 0:26:55.159 when I spent a good deal of time in the 0:26:55.200 --> 0:26:59.800 hospital after a dog bite, and I asked some of 0:26:59.800 --> 0:27:02.639 my younger friends what should I do. I can't stand 0:27:02.680 --> 0:27:06.280 daytime television, so they said, get yourself a paper white 0:27:06.320 --> 0:27:09.600 and read The Hunger Games. I've been hooked ever since. 0:27:09.600 --> 0:27:10.879 I've read hundreds of books on it. 0:27:10.960 --> 0:27:12.240 Oh my god, that's amazing. 0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:18.040 I like young adult fiction. I like science fiction. My 0:27:18.160 --> 0:27:21.920 favorite book of all time is probably Where the Crawdads Sing? 0:27:22.359 --> 0:27:22.760 Oh Wow? 0:27:22.840 --> 0:27:24.320 Did you watch the Netflix movie? 0:27:24.760 --> 0:27:26.800 I did not. I don't watch the movies after I 0:27:26.840 --> 0:27:27.439 read the books. 0:27:27.520 --> 0:27:30.280 Okay, Well, the book is always better, as they say, 0:27:30.760 --> 0:27:33.080 it always is, all right, Paul, Thanks so much for 0:27:33.119 --> 0:27:36.480 the Kindle Oasis review. I do appreciate it. 0:27:37.080 --> 0:27:37.639 You're welcome. 0:27:37.720 --> 0:27:41.520 Rich All right, get back to reading. I love to 0:27:41.520 --> 0:27:43.520 read on my kindle as well, I really do. My 0:27:43.600 --> 0:27:46.360 only issue is when I go to read at night 0:27:46.480 --> 0:27:49.480 and my kindle is dead, and then, of course what 0:27:49.520 --> 0:27:51.720 do I do. I just doom scroll on my iPhone 0:27:51.840 --> 0:27:54.320 and it's just like ugh or my phone. It just 0:27:54.320 --> 0:27:56.880 just depends on the phone. I'm using eighty eight rich 0:27:56.920 --> 0:27:59.440 one on one, eighty eight seven four to two, four 0:27:59.480 --> 0:28:03.280 to one zero one, rich on tech dot TV. Coming up, 0:28:03.720 --> 0:28:06.800 I'll tell you about the anchor, a new recall on 0:28:06.880 --> 0:28:11.240 anchor products. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Let's go 0:28:11.320 --> 0:28:16.560 to uh, let's go to Jim Jim in Prescott Valley, Arizona. Jim. 0:28:16.640 --> 0:28:18.040 Is this the Jim? 0:28:18.400 --> 0:28:20.720 Yeah, this is the Jim. Is this the rich? 0:28:20.840 --> 0:28:24.160 This is the Rich? Oh my gosh, Jim Jim has 0:28:24.240 --> 0:28:27.159 been Oh my gosh. We actually we shot a story 0:28:27.160 --> 0:28:30.040 with Jim a couple of years ago, back when you 0:28:30.080 --> 0:28:34.240 lived in LA and anyway, friend of the show. Welcome, Jim. 0:28:34.240 --> 0:28:35.359 This is your first time calling. 0:28:36.160 --> 0:28:41.040 Yeah, first time caller, longtime listener. Welcome. You were talking 0:28:41.040 --> 0:28:43.960 about Microsoft reward points. I use those and I can 0:28:44.000 --> 0:28:46.520 vert them the Amazon gift cards. Yeah, Mike, you don't 0:28:46.520 --> 0:28:46.760 need it. 0:28:46.920 --> 0:28:49.000 Yeah, okay. 0:28:49.560 --> 0:28:52.760 Anyways, my question was, I'll be driving around in. 0:28:52.720 --> 0:28:53.240 The car. 0:28:55.200 --> 0:28:57.320 I want to remember, or I'll be listening to a 0:28:57.480 --> 0:29:01.440 cast or something, and I don't want to pick up 0:29:01.480 --> 0:29:04.040 the phone to send myself a reminder and sworn if 0:29:04.040 --> 0:29:07.320 you knew of an Apple Car Play app, or if 0:29:07.320 --> 0:29:10.400 I could text myself. If there's some way that without 0:29:10.480 --> 0:29:12.480 picking up my phone to send myself a. 0:29:12.400 --> 0:29:14.840 Message, Yes, there is, And I do this all the 0:29:14.920 --> 0:29:16.640 time the way that I do it. Now, do you 0:29:16.640 --> 0:29:17.640 wear an Apple Watch or no? 0:29:18.440 --> 0:29:18.680 I do? 0:29:18.840 --> 0:29:20.840 Now? Oh you do? Okay, well, okay, I'll tell you 0:29:20.880 --> 0:29:26.320 the absolute best way. It is called Whisper memos. And 0:29:26.800 --> 0:29:29.640 I've got this downloaded to my phone and then it's 0:29:29.640 --> 0:29:32.600 got a little tiny they call them a complication on 0:29:32.640 --> 0:29:35.960 your Apple Watch. And when I'm in the car, you 0:29:35.960 --> 0:29:38.360 know I do not I advocate against using your phone 0:29:38.360 --> 0:29:41.480 in the car. This is just one tap on your 0:29:41.600 --> 0:29:44.640 wrist when you're safe, and you tap it and it 0:29:44.680 --> 0:29:49.880 starts recording and it uses AI to figure out what 0:29:49.920 --> 0:29:52.320 you're saying and so on the way over here, I 0:29:52.360 --> 0:29:54.560 always think of things that I want to say on 0:29:54.600 --> 0:29:57.160 the show, and so I will tap it, and I'm 0:29:57.200 --> 0:30:02.960 not kidding. It is so good, so good that so 0:30:03.080 --> 0:30:03.320 you just. 0:30:03.320 --> 0:30:05.680 Tapped a little thing on the side, or you tap 0:30:05.720 --> 0:30:06.280 the face. 0:30:06.080 --> 0:30:08.880 Of it, or you tap you add what's called the complication, 0:30:09.040 --> 0:30:11.200 so it'll be it looks like a little almost like 0:30:11.240 --> 0:30:13.800 a little wave form on your watch, and so you 0:30:13.880 --> 0:30:16.080 tap that, it will it will bring up the app 0:30:16.120 --> 0:30:18.680 and immediately start recording. That's the trick of this whole 0:30:18.680 --> 0:30:21.680 thing is that it's one tap. You're not sitting there fumbling, 0:30:21.720 --> 0:30:24.200 you're not trying to do voice commands. And then what 0:30:24.320 --> 0:30:27.120 happens is, this is the best part. Whatever you say 0:30:27.520 --> 0:30:31.160 gets transcribed and then email to you. So half the time, 0:30:31.280 --> 0:30:33.720 but by the time I'm done driving home or whatever 0:30:33.760 --> 0:30:36.000 I'm doing, I've forgotten that I even took a note. 0:30:36.040 --> 0:30:39.120 And then I get home, I go, oh, there's my note. 0:30:40.080 --> 0:30:41.640 And then the other thing, Jim, if you're listening to 0:30:41.680 --> 0:30:44.720 the radio or a podcast or an audiobook, you can 0:30:44.840 --> 0:30:49.040 use it to remember little tidbits from those things. And 0:30:49.120 --> 0:30:51.200 so I've got a whole bunch of things, Like I'm 0:30:51.200 --> 0:30:54.640 listening to a book right now, This person says something interesting, 0:30:55.000 --> 0:30:57.400 I'll just rewind for a second and then record on 0:30:57.440 --> 0:31:00.600 my watch and again it's all it's all very safe 0:31:00.640 --> 0:31:02.880 because it's it's just one tap on your watch and 0:31:02.880 --> 0:31:06.400 you're not really distracted in that in that movement obviously you. 0:31:06.960 --> 0:31:10.000 So it'll just listen to whatever audio is going on 0:31:10.000 --> 0:31:12.840 in the car, be it me or the podcast or whatever. 0:31:13.120 --> 0:31:16.280 Yeah, and it's it's really good, like it is. It 0:31:16.360 --> 0:31:18.880 is probably like, honestly, I don't even want to share 0:31:18.920 --> 0:31:21.920 it with you because it's that good. It's my secret weapon. 0:31:21.960 --> 0:31:25.000 Like I'm not kidding. It's it's like my wife's grandma 0:31:25.120 --> 0:31:26.920 used to have. I don't know if you remember this, 0:31:27.000 --> 0:31:28.560 but they used to have like a notepad that would 0:31:28.560 --> 0:31:31.520 like suction cup to the windshield and you can like 0:31:31.560 --> 0:31:33.840 write down notes while you're driving, because that's the kind 0:31:33.880 --> 0:31:37.800 of people they were. It's the digital version of that. 0:31:38.080 --> 0:31:41.320 And it's so good that I just feel like I'm 0:31:41.360 --> 0:31:43.240 like living in the future because I'm like, this is 0:31:43.320 --> 0:31:45.520 so like I didn't have this a couple of years ago, 0:31:45.560 --> 0:31:47.120 and now I do. Now. 0:31:47.200 --> 0:31:49.120 That sounds perfect because that's what I end up pulling 0:31:49.160 --> 0:31:51.120 over sometimes or I'll try to remember and I'll email 0:31:51.200 --> 0:31:52.520 myself or whatever. 0:31:52.880 --> 0:31:55.320 Yeah, so if it does it that magically, Yeah, there 0:31:55.800 --> 0:31:58.120 is a you know, you can also do the thing 0:31:58.160 --> 0:32:00.280 with Siri. You can say, you know, take a note 0:32:00.520 --> 0:32:02.640 or create a note, or you can say a reminder. 0:32:02.640 --> 0:32:05.920 But the problem is twofold number one. That's going to 0:32:06.000 --> 0:32:07.960 go into your reminders, into your notes. You're going to 0:32:08.000 --> 0:32:11.040 forget about it immediately. That's number one. Number two, Siri 0:32:11.160 --> 0:32:14.920 is not very good at transcribing things, especially when it's complicated. 0:32:15.360 --> 0:32:17.760 So you're just not going to get the quality experience 0:32:17.800 --> 0:32:20.120 that you're going to get with this app. So again, 0:32:20.160 --> 0:32:24.680 it's called whispermeemos dot com. There will be I think 0:32:24.720 --> 0:32:26.800 there's a free level of service, but you'll probably have 0:32:26.800 --> 0:32:28.400 to pay. I think I pay thirty dollars a year 0:32:28.440 --> 0:32:31.200 for this. But when I tell you this is completely 0:32:31.240 --> 0:32:33.680 worth it is one hundred percent worth it. 0:32:33.720 --> 0:32:36.280 The other service, I've tried the notes thing and like, 0:32:36.320 --> 0:32:38.400 you get third in there and I forget about it. 0:32:38.920 --> 0:32:41.280 Yes, it's lost. The other thing I'll tell you since 0:32:41.320 --> 0:32:43.240 we're talking about this, is the other one I like 0:32:43.320 --> 0:32:47.840 is called email me, and it does have a it 0:32:47.840 --> 0:32:52.280 does have an Apple Watch complication as well. But the 0:32:52.360 --> 0:32:55.120 difference with that is I mean, I guess you could 0:32:55.200 --> 0:32:56.640 use it in the same way. I just feel like 0:32:56.640 --> 0:32:58.840 it's a little bit more complicated to use on the go. 0:32:59.440 --> 0:33:01.040 So on your phone, I do have it on my 0:33:01.080 --> 0:33:04.080 home screen, but on my watch, I prefer the Whisper 0:33:04.160 --> 0:33:07.959 Memos just because it's so good that I just try it. 0:33:08.040 --> 0:33:09.080 Just download it and try it. 0:33:09.480 --> 0:33:10.200 No, I will. 0:33:10.360 --> 0:33:10.520 Yeah. 0:33:10.520 --> 0:33:12.400 I switched from the Fitted to the Apple Watch a 0:33:12.480 --> 0:33:14.840 couple of months ago, so I'm still learning it. And 0:33:14.880 --> 0:33:17.040 I don't know anything about the complications, so that's something 0:33:17.040 --> 0:33:17.960 else I should beget to it. 0:33:18.040 --> 0:33:19.920 Yeah, So if you just go into your watch app 0:33:19.960 --> 0:33:22.400 on your phone, you can you know, you can find 0:33:22.400 --> 0:33:25.000 those complications. 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I will tell you how to 0:35:30.160 --> 0:35:32.920 identify those and what to look for and what you 0:35:33.000 --> 0:35:35.600 get if you have one eighty eight rich one O 0:35:35.719 --> 0:35:37.960 one eighty eight seven four to two four to one 0:35:38.040 --> 0:35:41.600 zero one back after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:35:41.719 --> 0:35:47.239 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology at 0:35:47.280 --> 0:35:49.399 eight eight eight Rich one O one eight eight eight 0:35:49.560 --> 0:35:52.520 seven four to two four one zero one. We'll get 0:35:52.520 --> 0:35:54.400 to the phone lines in just a second, but I 0:35:54.440 --> 0:35:56.680 want to get you up to date on this new 0:35:56.800 --> 0:36:00.160 Anchor recall, and the first one annoyed me, and this 0:36:00.239 --> 0:36:04.560 one is now disappointing me because many many tech folks, 0:36:04.600 --> 0:36:08.640 including myself have recommended Anchor products over the years, and 0:36:08.719 --> 0:36:12.400 now they're recalling an additional five power banks in addition 0:36:12.560 --> 0:36:14.319 to the one I told you about last week. So 0:36:14.440 --> 0:36:16.200 if you have one of these, do not use it. 0:36:17.320 --> 0:36:20.239 They say it's a small risk of fire or overheating, 0:36:20.280 --> 0:36:22.320 but it's still a risk, and this is a global 0:36:22.520 --> 0:36:29.160 voluntary recall. Five models the Anchor power Bank Model A one, two, 0:36:29.280 --> 0:36:33.920 five seven, the Anchor Power Bank with built in USBC 0:36:34.120 --> 0:36:40.200 cable Model A sixteen forty seven, Anchor Mago Power Bank, 0:36:40.880 --> 0:36:46.080 Model A sixteen fifty two, Anchor Zolo Power Bank Model 0:36:46.120 --> 0:36:51.040 A sixteen eighty one, Anchor Zolo Power Bank with built 0:36:51.080 --> 0:36:55.560 in USBC cable Model A sixteen eighty nine. If you 0:36:55.600 --> 0:36:58.000 have one of these, you got to check the model 0:36:58.080 --> 0:36:59.960 number on the back or the side of your device. 0:37:00.480 --> 0:37:03.200 Then you can verify the serial number online. Anchor is 0:37:03.239 --> 0:37:05.799 offering a replacement or a gift card if your unit 0:37:05.880 --> 0:37:08.600 is affected. You can go to the website rich on 0:37:08.680 --> 0:37:11.759 Tech dot tv for the link. It is Anchor dot 0:37:11.800 --> 0:37:16.040 com slash r C two five o six. Anchor dot 0:37:16.040 --> 0:37:20.200 Com slash r C two five o six. Make sure 0:37:20.200 --> 0:37:22.560 that you check the serial number if you have an 0:37:22.600 --> 0:37:28.480 anchor power bank they want you to bring. You can't 0:37:28.520 --> 0:37:29.840 just throw this in the trash. By the way, I 0:37:37.520 --> 0:37:41.880 keep adding a tea to that Household Hazardous Waste Center. 0:37:43.000 --> 0:37:44.640 And I know that's a lot of information, a lot 0:37:44.640 --> 0:37:47.239 of recalls. I will put that on the website. Rich 0:37:47.280 --> 0:37:51.239 on tech dot TV. Uh, let's see Naomi is at 0:37:51.280 --> 0:37:53.600 our wits end with Yahoo. What's happened in Naomi? 0:37:54.120 --> 0:37:55.040 Oh my god? 0:37:55.160 --> 0:38:00.640 A few months ago, I guess Yahoo did did a update? 0:38:00.880 --> 0:38:03.440 Yes, And all. 0:38:03.280 --> 0:38:07.960 Of a sudden, the email is all mixed up. We're 0:38:08.000 --> 0:38:12.799 not getting things in email, I mean, and then sometimes 0:38:12.840 --> 0:38:15.000 things people will say, oh, but you know, I sent 0:38:15.080 --> 0:38:18.239 that like three days ago, and then sometimes it will 0:38:18.280 --> 0:38:23.200 eventually show up, but mostly it doesn't. I'm looking at 0:38:23.239 --> 0:38:28.760 the at the email now, so we've got June twenty seventh, 0:38:29.000 --> 0:38:32.800 but I know that things have been sent today, not received. 0:38:32.800 --> 0:38:37.520 There's nothing there. And it goes back from from yesterday 0:38:37.760 --> 0:38:41.439 to June fourteenth. Then all of a sudden, it goes 0:38:41.480 --> 0:38:44.480 back to September of twenty four then. 0:38:44.960 --> 0:38:47.760 Hang on, hang on twenty three. What are you using 0:38:47.800 --> 0:38:49.200 to access this email? 0:38:51.840 --> 0:38:51.920 Me? 0:38:52.480 --> 0:38:57.359 Yahoo like mail dot Yahoo dot com. Yeah, okay, And 0:38:57.840 --> 0:39:00.879 so you're saying, are you out of storage by any 0:39:00.960 --> 0:39:02.360 chance on this email? 0:39:05.080 --> 0:39:08.080 I don't think so, because it's not just a matter 0:39:08.280 --> 0:39:14.200 of not getting anything but the things then some things 0:39:14.200 --> 0:39:16.560 have ended up in the trash that were never put 0:39:16.560 --> 0:39:20.120 in the trash, things that were sent, you know, like 0:39:20.200 --> 0:39:24.680 somebody sends something. Instead of it going into the inbox, 0:39:25.000 --> 0:39:26.600 it goes into the trash. 0:39:26.960 --> 0:39:29.960 Okay, Well, okay, well that's it's just. 0:39:30.000 --> 0:39:30.920 It's a mess. 0:39:30.920 --> 0:39:31.879 It's all mixed up. 0:39:32.080 --> 0:39:32.480 Okay. 0:39:32.520 --> 0:39:36.560 And it says if you scroll down to the end, 0:39:36.640 --> 0:39:40.919 it says, looking for older messages, try checking the old tab. Yeah, 0:39:40.920 --> 0:39:45.640 I've done that. It makes no difference. Well there, we're 0:39:45.680 --> 0:39:47.680 not getting nothing's coming through. 0:39:47.840 --> 0:39:51.240 So if I send you an email, you're not receiving it. Correct, Okay, 0:39:51.560 --> 0:39:54.680 all right. It sounds to me that it sounds like 0:39:54.760 --> 0:39:58.000 you have reached your storage limit. Perhaps on your email 0:39:58.120 --> 0:40:01.640 it looks like okay, So what I would do is 0:40:01.840 --> 0:40:05.239 in Yahoo Mail click settings more settings, and then it'll 0:40:05.239 --> 0:40:07.520 show you how much storage you're using on the bottom 0:40:07.600 --> 0:40:10.560 left side of the settings page. That is what I 0:40:10.560 --> 0:40:14.880 would check Number one first. Now, the file of the 0:40:15.000 --> 0:40:18.640 emails not being sent or received. That's a problem because obviously, 0:40:19.000 --> 0:40:21.200 if you're using the web version of Yahoo Mail, there 0:40:21.200 --> 0:40:23.320 shouldn't be any reason why that would be happening except 0:40:23.320 --> 0:40:25.279 for the fact that you're over your storage and it's 0:40:25.360 --> 0:40:28.359 just stopped working. That's the only thing I can think 0:40:28.400 --> 0:40:30.719 of on that aspect of things. When it comes to 0:40:30.800 --> 0:40:35.680 things going into different folders or the trash or spam, 0:40:35.800 --> 0:40:38.279 I mean, that's pretty common. I would check to see 0:40:38.280 --> 0:40:41.440 if you have any filters set up on your Yahoo 0:40:41.520 --> 0:40:45.040 Mail that would be routing that email into the trash. 0:40:45.080 --> 0:40:46.920 It could be coming from someone that you blocked at 0:40:46.920 --> 0:40:49.400 some point. It could be you set up a filter 0:40:49.680 --> 0:40:52.080 and it's now just finding that email and it's going 0:40:52.120 --> 0:40:54.799 into that area. So I would check the filters as well. 0:40:55.719 --> 0:40:57.919 I would also go through and just look for big 0:40:57.960 --> 0:41:01.040 attachments on your emails, and you can delete a couple 0:41:01.040 --> 0:41:03.759 of those and hopefully free up some storage space. But 0:41:03.800 --> 0:41:08.600 I have not heard of a widespread Yahoo Email issue 0:41:08.800 --> 0:41:11.480 with it not working. I mean, millions upon millions of 0:41:11.480 --> 0:41:14.520 people use Yahoo Mail. I know it's not perfect. Believe me, 0:41:14.560 --> 0:41:16.520 I'm not sitting there. I'm not sitting here, you know, 0:41:16.640 --> 0:41:19.799 defending them. And they did do a giant redesign of 0:41:19.840 --> 0:41:23.240 their mail, and they're also doing AI now in their email, 0:41:23.360 --> 0:41:26.040 and so all of these things could be coming together 0:41:26.120 --> 0:41:28.880 for a perfect storm, Naomi, and that's what's causing some 0:41:28.920 --> 0:41:31.680 of these little issues. But it sounds like the things 0:41:31.680 --> 0:41:34.120 that you're describing, a lot of it may have to 0:41:34.160 --> 0:41:37.040 do with the storage, a lot of it may have 0:41:37.120 --> 0:41:39.200 to do with filters, a lot of it may have 0:41:39.239 --> 0:41:41.839 to do with the spam filtering. And so I think 0:41:41.880 --> 0:41:43.799 at the end of the day, the main thing that 0:41:43.840 --> 0:41:45.719 you want to work on your email is that when 0:41:45.719 --> 0:41:48.279 you send me an email, it goes through, and when 0:41:48.280 --> 0:41:50.480 I send you an email, it goes through. So you 0:41:50.520 --> 0:41:53.560 need to figure out why that aspect of your Yahoo 0:41:53.600 --> 0:41:56.000 mail is not working. And that is the number one 0:41:56.000 --> 0:41:58.239 priority right now. So I check the storage, see if 0:41:58.280 --> 0:42:01.160 you're over your limit that number one, and then you 0:42:01.200 --> 0:42:04.080 can begin to figure out all these other little pieces. 0:42:04.120 --> 0:42:07.360 But I feel your frustration. I get it. I understand 0:42:07.760 --> 0:42:12.520 sometimes these things seem really tricky and tough, but then 0:42:12.600 --> 0:42:15.600 it's something that's very simple that is happening. And believe me, 0:42:15.680 --> 0:42:18.279 I've found. I go into my spam now on a 0:42:18.320 --> 0:42:21.840 regular basis, I'm on Gmail and I go in my 0:42:21.880 --> 0:42:26.440 spam all the time. And I'm right here actually looking 0:42:26.440 --> 0:42:29.200 at my spam and someone that just heard us talking 0:42:29.200 --> 0:42:32.160 about something on the show sent me an email and 0:42:32.239 --> 0:42:34.000 it just went right to my spam. And by the way, 0:42:34.600 --> 0:42:37.000 it came from a Yahoo email address. So I don't know. 0:42:37.080 --> 0:42:41.439 Maybe there's some conspiracy theory, but that's the way. That's 0:42:41.480 --> 0:42:45.279 the way it happens sometimes. Good question. Hopefully you get 0:42:45.280 --> 0:42:47.319 that figured out, Naomi, keep me posted, send me an 0:42:47.320 --> 0:42:50.760 email if you can, and tell me if it works. 0:42:55.239 --> 0:42:57.200 We may not have Bobo for the rest of the show. 0:42:57.320 --> 0:43:02.000 I think he just just lost it. I'm being serious, 0:43:02.120 --> 0:43:03.560 you know. If she can send me an email here 0:43:03.600 --> 0:43:06.840 hello at richontech dot TV. If it doesn't come through, Naomi, 0:43:07.400 --> 0:43:09.040 I will check on you in a couple of days. 0:43:10.800 --> 0:43:15.560 Was dirty one am I favor? Hey, rich I'm having 0:43:15.560 --> 0:43:17.560 a problem with my email. I can't send my email. Well, 0:43:17.600 --> 0:43:19.040 send me an email. Let me know how it's going. 0:43:19.560 --> 0:43:22.319 What's she gonna do? Send me a smoke signal? I mean, 0:43:22.400 --> 0:43:24.600 come on, she's got to send an email. Go to 0:43:24.640 --> 0:43:26.640 the website. Rich On tech dot TV. You can submit. 0:43:27.080 --> 0:43:29.000 That's why I give people options on the website. They 0:43:29.040 --> 0:43:31.560 can send a direct email or maybe if your email 0:43:31.600 --> 0:43:35.480 is not working, you can use the form. Samsung getting 0:43:35.520 --> 0:43:39.640 ready to show off their foldables July ninth, that's when 0:43:39.680 --> 0:43:42.440 we are going to see the new foldables that they 0:43:42.480 --> 0:43:44.279 have in store. I cannot believe it's been a year 0:43:44.320 --> 0:43:46.200 since I went to Paris last year and saw the 0:43:46.239 --> 0:43:50.920 last foldables. Now we've got the fold seven, expected to 0:43:50.960 --> 0:43:56.359 be thinner than last year, external screen wider, thankfully, that's 0:43:56.440 --> 0:43:59.640 the main thing. This needed camera could get an upgrade 0:43:59.640 --> 0:44:03.000 to two hundred megapixels, a first for a foldable. Then 0:44:03.040 --> 0:44:06.319 you've got the z Flip seven, larger three point six 0:44:06.360 --> 0:44:10.759 inch cover display outside wrapped around the camera lens. And 0:44:11.080 --> 0:44:13.320 you know, the big thing about these is that Samsung 0:44:13.400 --> 0:44:17.759 keeps keeps teasing the idea of this ultra foldable. So 0:44:17.800 --> 0:44:20.160 they came out with that Galaxy Edge, which had the 0:44:20.280 --> 0:44:23.160 ultra kind of camera, right that two hundred megapixel camera. 0:44:23.600 --> 0:44:26.719 Now they're hinting at an ultra foldable. They're really getting 0:44:26.719 --> 0:44:28.800 a lot of mileage out of this two hundred megapixel 0:44:28.840 --> 0:44:32.560 camera lens, that's for sure. But the idea is that, look, 0:44:32.600 --> 0:44:36.200 you don't have to make sacrifices. You choose the form 0:44:36.280 --> 0:44:38.960 factor that you want, and you can still have a 0:44:39.080 --> 0:44:43.880 really good experience on this phone. So again, foldables have 0:44:44.000 --> 0:44:46.400 not gotten a ton of traction. Here in the US, 0:44:47.320 --> 0:44:50.160 it's growing, but it's a very small percentage of what 0:44:50.200 --> 0:44:53.439 Samsung does. And in the rest of the world they're 0:44:53.480 --> 0:44:55.839 pretty popular because you've got so many options from all 0:44:55.840 --> 0:44:57.839 these different brands. But here in the US, you've got 0:44:57.840 --> 0:45:01.160 either Google or Samsung. That's it. And the Samsung ones 0:45:01.160 --> 0:45:04.400 have been good, but they haven't been great as an alternative. 0:45:04.440 --> 0:45:06.560 Like if you're someone like me who wants a lot 0:45:06.600 --> 0:45:09.640 out of their phone, the foldable is great, but only 0:45:09.640 --> 0:45:12.600 in a couple of aspects, not all aspects. And so 0:45:13.560 --> 0:45:16.360 we'll see what happens July ninth. This is happening in Brooklyn, 0:45:16.800 --> 0:45:21.000 New York. And you know these are gonna be expensive. 0:45:21.160 --> 0:45:24.440 Foldables are still very, very pricey. That's the main drawback 0:45:24.480 --> 0:45:28.359 to them is that they are not cheap. We're going 0:45:28.360 --> 0:45:31.960 to break. I got a okay, we're gonna we're gonna Okay, 0:45:32.360 --> 0:45:33.879 before we go to break, let me tell you about 0:45:33.920 --> 0:45:38.600 this real quick spectrum raising prices on TV and internet, 0:45:38.640 --> 0:45:43.720 according to Cordcuttersnews dot com, two dollars a month price 0:45:43.760 --> 0:45:47.760 hike for Legacy Internet plans, five dollars a month increase 0:45:47.840 --> 0:45:52.400 on Spectrum select TV plans. Spectrum says rising costs and 0:45:52.480 --> 0:45:56.440 infrastructure and network maintenance is what they need to pay for. 0:45:56.800 --> 0:46:00.320 That's why. Let's see they had a three dollar apparently 0:46:00.400 --> 0:46:02.959 monthly price increase earlier this year. I don't know about 0:46:02.960 --> 0:46:04.359 that one. I can't remember that one. 0:46:05.120 --> 0:46:05.239 Uh. 0:46:05.320 --> 0:46:08.399 But they also added a new perk Hulu, so I'll 0:46:08.400 --> 0:46:10.080 tell you about that when we come up after break, 0:46:10.080 --> 0:46:13.959 but price changes take effect after July twenty twenty five. 0:46:14.239 --> 0:46:16.640 Don't be surprised if you see that two dollars five 0:46:16.719 --> 0:46:19.839 dollars on your bill. Eighty eight rich one O one 0:46:19.920 --> 0:46:23.120 eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:46:23.120 --> 0:46:25.000 More rich on Tech coming your way right after this. 0:46:28.719 --> 0:46:31.719 Welcome back to rich on Tech, rich DeMuro here hang 0:46:31.800 --> 0:46:35.120 out with you talking technology at triple eight rich one 0:46:35.160 --> 0:46:37.400 on one eighty eight seven four to two, four to 0:46:37.440 --> 0:46:39.920 one zero one. If you're not following me on social 0:46:39.960 --> 0:46:44.840 media at rich on Tech on Instagram, I'm about to 0:46:44.960 --> 0:46:50.640 post a new scam email that Steve listener Steve sent 0:46:50.680 --> 0:46:53.600 me these things are wild. I am seeing more and 0:46:53.640 --> 0:46:57.279 more now of these scam emails that you click a 0:46:57.320 --> 0:47:00.319 link and it doesn't just bring you to a malicious website, 0:47:00.760 --> 0:47:04.960 It actually downloads a malicious file to your computer directly. 0:47:05.000 --> 0:47:06.920 I mean, that is wild. That is something that I've 0:47:06.960 --> 0:47:11.200 only seen once before. But this is really really scary stuff. 0:47:11.239 --> 0:47:14.000 So I'll post that to my Instagram at rich on Tech. 0:47:14.040 --> 0:47:21.400 I'm hitting post right about now. There it is. Let's 0:47:21.400 --> 0:47:25.759 go to Bonnie in Charleston, South Carolina. Bonnie, what's up? 0:47:27.480 --> 0:47:28.520 Rich I need to. 0:47:28.560 --> 0:47:31.600 Know if you can help me or I need to 0:47:31.719 --> 0:47:32.959 call an exorcist. 0:47:33.320 --> 0:47:35.760 Oh my gosh, I love it already. What's happening? 0:47:36.480 --> 0:47:36.840 Okay? 0:47:37.160 --> 0:47:40.920 So I am in an Alexa freak. I listened to 0:47:41.120 --> 0:47:46.120 all my radio you, especially on my Alexak the other day. 0:47:47.120 --> 0:47:50.960 All of a sudden, she starts talking to me in 0:47:51.000 --> 0:47:55.239 a very low voice. I had to put my ear 0:47:55.520 --> 0:48:01.120 close to the echo to hear her. It was some 0:48:01.280 --> 0:48:05.640 woman who was doing some writing. She was talking about 0:48:05.680 --> 0:48:08.279 what she was going to write and how she was 0:48:08.320 --> 0:48:12.479 going to punctuate it, and I tried to listen. Of course, 0:48:12.520 --> 0:48:14.880 I called my husband over. He thought it might have 0:48:14.960 --> 0:48:17.040 been the lady that might have died in the house 0:48:17.080 --> 0:48:24.200 before we bought it off. And I'm wondering, had you 0:48:24.400 --> 0:48:30.800 ever heard of these alexas maybe picking up some bluetooths 0:48:30.800 --> 0:48:37.680 stuff from someone else's home, or information of somebody else talking. 0:48:38.920 --> 0:48:41.560 I have not looking up hold on, I got to 0:48:41.719 --> 0:48:48.600 search how to exorcist an alexa? You know this is 0:48:48.640 --> 0:48:50.840 a new one to me. Now here's the thing. I 0:48:50.920 --> 0:48:55.200 have heard stories about these echo speakers going a little 0:48:55.280 --> 0:48:59.239 nutty and people hearing things from them. How certain are 0:48:59.280 --> 0:49:01.320 you that you heard or something coming out of the 0:49:01.360 --> 0:49:04.960 speaker and not somewhere else around the house or another source. 0:49:07.640 --> 0:49:10.719 You know, this is very weird, Rich, because now I'm 0:49:10.840 --> 0:49:13.520 losing you. So now I'm really scared. 0:49:14.080 --> 0:49:16.680 Oh my gosh, how long have you had this echo? 0:49:17.880 --> 0:49:18.280 Oh? 0:49:18.560 --> 0:49:21.400 This is an old one. I've had this one probably 0:49:21.520 --> 0:49:26.560 for maybe eight or nine years. I've got all the 0:49:26.640 --> 0:49:29.200 new ones too, but this is the old tower one, 0:49:29.200 --> 0:49:32.400 the very first one that I got, and and so 0:49:32.640 --> 0:49:34.160 it's been it's been a while. 0:49:34.600 --> 0:49:36.760 So you would you would consider it an old soul? 0:49:40.840 --> 0:49:41.000 Uh? 0:49:41.040 --> 0:49:44.600 Oh, do we lose her? Do we lose Bonnie? Well, 0:49:44.600 --> 0:49:50.480 here's the deal. Bonnie I'm concerned. I am if your 0:49:50.560 --> 0:49:53.560 if your device is kind of acting a little odd. 0:49:53.960 --> 0:49:57.600 I mean, I guess my solution would be to do 0:49:57.640 --> 0:50:01.480 a factory reset. But personally, I mean, I mean, unless 0:50:01.480 --> 0:50:03.200 you're not scared of this thing, I would I would 0:50:03.239 --> 0:50:06.919 see if it happens again. And you know, I will 0:50:06.960 --> 0:50:10.200 tell you these speakers that listen all the time, they 0:50:10.239 --> 0:50:14.319 do kind of have some interesting and odd reactions to 0:50:14.400 --> 0:50:18.719 things that happen in your home. So the sort of 0:50:18.840 --> 0:50:23.000 sane solution, or I guess explanation would be that it 0:50:23.080 --> 0:50:26.240 heard it thought it heard a keyword, you know, like alexa, 0:50:26.719 --> 0:50:30.560 and it activated and it played something that was some 0:50:30.600 --> 0:50:33.040 sort of audio that you heard, whether it was a podcast, 0:50:33.120 --> 0:50:35.239 whether it was a radio show, whether it was some 0:50:35.360 --> 0:50:39.520 piece of audio or information. That is my guess. Maybe 0:50:39.520 --> 0:50:41.680 you were talking about ghost stories in your home. Maybe 0:50:41.680 --> 0:50:44.920 you're talking about something related, and it fired up a 0:50:44.960 --> 0:50:47.600 podcast about that, and people on that podcast were talking 0:50:48.040 --> 0:50:52.319 very quietly about that. That's sort of the logical explanation. 0:50:53.560 --> 0:50:57.000 The other side of me says, get this thing out 0:50:57.000 --> 0:51:01.360 of your house with a long stick and and literally 0:51:01.440 --> 0:51:05.880 bury it. That's that's that's the other side of me 0:51:05.960 --> 0:51:08.040 telling you I mean like make sure, like pull the 0:51:08.080 --> 0:51:11.960 power plug. I would pull out the insides. Whatever you 0:51:11.960 --> 0:51:13.600 can do to make sure this thing does not come 0:51:13.640 --> 0:51:15.719 back to life. You've had it for nine years. I 0:51:15.719 --> 0:51:20.880 think that's a pretty long run. But yeah, I mean 0:51:20.920 --> 0:51:22.080 the other thing you do is just see if it 0:51:22.120 --> 0:51:24.000 happens again. You know, you don't have to do you 0:51:24.080 --> 0:51:25.480 have to go that extreme. You just see if it 0:51:25.520 --> 0:51:31.280 happens again. Oh my gosh, what's happening here? What is 0:51:31.440 --> 0:51:38.759 what is? Oh my gosh? Okay eight to eight rich 0:51:38.880 --> 0:51:41.000 one on one eight eight eight seven four to two 0:51:41.160 --> 0:51:44.480 four one zero one. Yeah, these things, I'm telling you 0:51:44.520 --> 0:51:47.680 these speakers last night house. Actually, I was trying to 0:51:48.560 --> 0:51:50.640 use my Google you know, I was like, hey Google, 0:51:51.160 --> 0:51:53.239 and it kept I had my phone right in front 0:51:53.280 --> 0:51:56.520 of me, and it kept firing the speaker that was 0:51:56.560 --> 0:51:59.560 like ten twenty feet away, and so I kept getting 0:51:59.560 --> 0:52:02.200 closer closer to my phone. I'm like, hey Google, and 0:52:02.239 --> 0:52:05.239 it just kept doing the speaker for the response. I'm like, 0:52:05.280 --> 0:52:08.680 this is insane, like what is happening here? But I 0:52:08.719 --> 0:52:11.200 did something kind of wild. I pulled out an old 0:52:11.760 --> 0:52:16.319 Pixel eight pro which has been sitting collecting dust for 0:52:16.520 --> 0:52:18.200 you know, probably a year and a half. Now, let's 0:52:18.200 --> 0:52:21.680 see when did that? When did Pixel Pixel eight pro 0:52:22.200 --> 0:52:25.200 launch date? Release dates? Let's see when that came out 0:52:25.520 --> 0:52:29.279 October twelfth, twenty twenty three. Fired it up, turned it on, 0:52:29.719 --> 0:52:33.759 did the software update? The thing still works perfectly. Don't 0:52:33.760 --> 0:52:35.840 get rid of your old phone unless you have a 0:52:35.880 --> 0:52:39.160 reason to upgrade. These things last for effort. All right, 0:52:39.160 --> 0:52:40.400 coming up, we're going to talk about some of the 0:52:40.440 --> 0:52:45.040 most annoying things people do online and with technology. Right here, 0:52:45.040 --> 0:52:48.239 I'm rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:52:48.360 --> 0:52:52.360 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Just 0:52:52.360 --> 0:52:56.920 taking a look at the emails we're getting today. Not 0:52:57.040 --> 0:52:59.720 one from Naomi yet, but I think she's still working 0:52:59.760 --> 0:53:04.400 on that. We've we've heard of exorcists. I mean apparently 0:53:04.480 --> 0:53:08.799 exorcists is like there's stuff taking over email, stuff taking 0:53:08.840 --> 0:53:11.200 over the Alexas. I don't know what's happening here today, 0:53:11.680 --> 0:53:14.359 but we have a fun topic right now. We've got 0:53:14.360 --> 0:53:19.839 Mark yarn from executive features editor for PC mag Mark, 0:53:19.920 --> 0:53:20.680 Welcome to the show. 0:53:21.480 --> 0:53:22.800 Thanks Rich thanks for having me on. 0:53:22.880 --> 0:53:26.959 Appreciate it. So you recently wrote an article about tech etiquette, 0:53:27.360 --> 0:53:29.719 and this is one of my biggest pet peeves. I've 0:53:29.760 --> 0:53:32.600 been covering technology for a long time. I'm sure some 0:53:32.640 --> 0:53:35.360 people think that I'm rude sometimes I'm looking at my 0:53:35.400 --> 0:53:37.640 phone whatever, But I've got a lot of thoughts on 0:53:37.680 --> 0:53:40.800 what other people do. And what was your biggest finding 0:53:41.080 --> 0:53:45.200 about Number one, device snooping, Well. 0:53:45.040 --> 0:53:51.400 Device snooping was interestingly, we surveyed two thousand adults in 0:53:51.440 --> 0:53:54.600 the US, and ninety two percent of them said it 0:53:54.640 --> 0:53:57.440 was unacceptable to snoop on a friend or a family 0:53:57.480 --> 0:54:00.960 member's device. But that goes down to eighty four percent 0:54:01.440 --> 0:54:04.799 when you're talking about a partner's device. So there's there's 0:54:04.800 --> 0:54:08.279 obviously slightly different sets of rules for some people when 0:54:08.280 --> 0:54:11.800 it when it comes to a lover as opposed to 0:54:11.800 --> 0:54:15.480 a loved one, I suppose, and then even more granular, 0:54:15.760 --> 0:54:18.879 one in four millennials think it's acceptable to snoop through 0:54:18.880 --> 0:54:21.279 a partner's device. So that's like, you know, twenty five 0:54:21.320 --> 0:54:23.960 percent of millennials think it's okay, oh wow. 0:54:24.000 --> 0:54:26.960 So that yeah, they so basically all if you're what 0:54:27.080 --> 0:54:28.680 is a millennial, I don't even know, is that like 0:54:28.880 --> 0:54:29.960 what what ages? 0:54:30.280 --> 0:54:33.440 Let's say slightly yeah, they're probably in their thirty slightly 0:54:33.520 --> 0:54:37.000 older than I'm Gen X, But they're slightly older than 0:54:37.600 --> 0:54:40.960 when gen Z, so they're the generation up. 0:54:41.480 --> 0:54:45.960 So oh thank you, thank you. 0:54:46.040 --> 0:54:50.600 Yes, so right in that things that would be acceptable, 0:54:50.680 --> 0:54:54.880 right like okay, answer my phone, do this whatever, airing 0:54:55.080 --> 0:54:58.080 like your pin code with your you know, your spouse 0:54:58.200 --> 0:55:00.640 or whatever. I think I think you are giving up 0:55:00.680 --> 0:55:04.160 a level of privacy because you know that they can 0:55:04.440 --> 0:55:07.719 access your phone. But I think the assumption for some 0:55:07.880 --> 0:55:10.520 people would be that you're only going to use that 0:55:10.680 --> 0:55:13.320 for the things that would be acceptable, right like okay, 0:55:13.440 --> 0:55:16.399 answer my phone, do this whatever, not just like full 0:55:16.440 --> 0:55:17.520 on look through my phone. 0:55:18.680 --> 0:55:20.520 I mean I would I would guess that would be 0:55:20.560 --> 0:55:24.640 the hopeful arrangement between two people to two adults. 0:55:24.680 --> 0:55:26.360 But you never know, you never know. 0:55:26.480 --> 0:55:30.080 I mean, I think some of it speaks to I mean, 0:55:30.200 --> 0:55:32.120 you know, I talked to a couple of etiquette experts 0:55:32.120 --> 0:55:35.000 for this article that was based on the survey we 0:55:35.080 --> 0:55:37.839 did and which you can be at a PC mag 0:55:37.880 --> 0:55:41.440 dot com and what people are you know. What the 0:55:41.520 --> 0:55:44.640 etiquette experts seem to say was that you know, I mean, 0:55:44.680 --> 0:55:48.239 obviously you probably your family and friends, you've known them 0:55:48.239 --> 0:55:50.880 for a lot longer, perhaps than you're your current person 0:55:50.920 --> 0:55:54.560 you're dating, so they're a little more sacrosanct as far 0:55:54.600 --> 0:55:57.439 as looking through their device. You know, we've all heard 0:55:57.440 --> 0:56:01.440 the horror dating horror stories and people having you know, 0:56:01.920 --> 0:56:06.080 cheating and having multiple partners you know which is which 0:56:06.120 --> 0:56:09.400 is fine, but not in a non consenting way. So 0:56:10.680 --> 0:56:12.920 you know, I think there's a level and a plus. 0:56:12.960 --> 0:56:14.640 This is somebody you don't know. 0:56:15.400 --> 0:56:17.520 What about kids though, I mean, if you have a kid, 0:56:17.560 --> 0:56:19.160 don't you think it's tell. 0:56:18.920 --> 0:56:21.080 Them, Oh, you're not gonna tell. 0:56:21.080 --> 0:56:23.879 No when I'm home alone. Oh my gosh, when I'm 0:56:23.920 --> 0:56:29.600 home alone all day long. My kids iPads. My kids, 0:56:29.640 --> 0:56:32.040 as long as they're under my roof, is his old 0:56:32.080 --> 0:56:34.479 man to Hero. Now you're under my roof, you're under 0:56:34.480 --> 0:56:35.040 my rules. 0:56:36.040 --> 0:56:41.239 Okay, Well, as long as there's that understanding, I tell them, Oh, 0:56:41.280 --> 0:56:42.240 you're not gonna tell. 0:56:42.160 --> 0:56:45.000 No when I'm home alone. Oh my gosh, when I'm 0:56:45.040 --> 0:56:49.360 home alone all day long. My kids iPads are going 0:56:49.520 --> 0:56:51.839 off with all these texts they're in. You know, these 0:56:51.920 --> 0:56:55.200 kids are in group chats with their entire class at school. 0:56:55.920 --> 0:56:59.040 I mean, it's it's a whole different world than when 0:56:59.080 --> 0:57:01.680 I was growing up, right Like for me, I was 0:57:01.719 --> 0:57:03.799 just wondering what all the cool kids were doing. Now 0:57:03.800 --> 0:57:05.719 they're all texting in a group chat. 0:57:06.200 --> 0:57:11.680 For half, about fifty of US adults say that sending 0:57:11.680 --> 0:57:14.800 and receiving a text or email written by chat gypt 0:57:15.040 --> 0:57:19.600 or another generative AI is unacceptable. So that's about you know, 0:57:19.600 --> 0:57:24.160 a little over half. But millennials and Gen z are 0:57:24.240 --> 0:57:27.760 far more accepting that. They're a little more than half 0:57:27.800 --> 0:57:31.760 of them think that it is okay. We're using chat 0:57:31.880 --> 0:57:34.400 ept and you know text. 0:57:37.320 --> 0:57:37.760 By chat. 0:57:38.080 --> 0:57:38.800 Uh. 0:57:38.920 --> 0:57:40.240 They've they've latched. 0:57:39.920 --> 0:57:42.960 Onto it, especially since their school age, and probably can 0:57:43.000 --> 0:57:46.200 get away with, you know, or maybe not get away 0:57:46.200 --> 0:57:47.200 with writing their papers. 0:57:47.920 --> 0:57:50.400 Let's let's don't write your papers with that. So I 0:57:50.400 --> 0:57:54.080 I've started doing this, So I use chatch ebt as 0:57:54.120 --> 0:57:56.360 my co pilot for a lot of things, and I 0:57:56.400 --> 0:57:58.920 get a lot of emails from people. But what I 0:57:59.120 --> 0:58:03.200 found is I can say, I use like voice to text, 0:58:03.280 --> 0:58:05.240 and I will say what I want to as my 0:58:05.600 --> 0:58:08.760 high and then chat chip just polishes it up and 0:58:08.800 --> 0:58:11.440 it like makes it sound a lot nicer than me 0:58:11.520 --> 0:58:15.040 saying yeah, toggle that switch off on your computer. Like 0:58:15.080 --> 0:58:17.360 I can just say that, and chat chibt will say, 0:58:17.360 --> 0:58:19.720 like thanks for writing, and then it'll say what I 0:58:19.800 --> 0:58:22.400 said and just put it into a nicer format. So 0:58:22.480 --> 0:58:25.120 to me, it's just polishing. It's just like a better 0:58:25.240 --> 0:58:27.960 version of me, right, Like, I'm sure quick. 0:58:27.840 --> 0:58:29.560 You're outsourcing your plate. 0:58:29.320 --> 0:58:32.680 In this basically yeah, pretty much. When it gets too flowery, 0:58:33.200 --> 0:58:35.320 When it gets too flowery, I'm like, no, chat chi 0:58:35.480 --> 0:58:42.040 t Like, let's make that I'm not that nice bobo nos, Okay, then. 0:58:42.400 --> 0:58:44.720 What about I'm sorry, I just wanted to add. But 0:58:44.760 --> 0:58:47.440 the thing with this is obviously we've only you know, 0:58:47.560 --> 0:58:50.680 had generative AI really in the popular conscioustes for a 0:58:50.720 --> 0:58:54.920 couple of years. Now in within you know, five years, 0:58:55.040 --> 0:58:57.960 ten years, you know this this could be skewed, Like 0:58:58.520 --> 0:59:01.840 you know, eighty percent people think it's okay. I mean 0:59:01.880 --> 0:59:04.760 if if you're like on the run and something and 0:59:04.800 --> 0:59:07.200 I get it, well, I would object. I'm a writer, 0:59:07.360 --> 0:59:11.680 so I object to anyone using chat GPT to pump 0:59:11.760 --> 0:59:12.440 up your prose. 0:59:12.480 --> 0:59:15.880 But Mark, I ran your article through through our CHATCHYBT 0:59:16.080 --> 0:59:18.760 checker and it was like nine percent CHATTYBT. No, I'm 0:59:18.800 --> 0:59:23.240 just kidding. Oh my god, but you heard that story 0:59:23.280 --> 0:59:25.640 of that writer who you know, so many writers are 0:59:25.760 --> 0:59:27.920 using this that they're not fact checking, and it's like 0:59:27.960 --> 0:59:31.400 it's a problem. I mean, CHATBT says things that are 0:59:31.480 --> 0:59:35.160 true and not true in the same exact way, and you, 0:59:35.240 --> 0:59:38.000 if you don't know any better, take it as truth. 0:59:38.040 --> 0:59:39.680 And that's the problem with all these things. So you 0:59:39.720 --> 0:59:42.840 got to be very careful. All right, phone, you story 0:59:42.840 --> 0:59:46.040 in a conversation? What about that? Like you know, I 0:59:46.080 --> 0:59:48.480 see this all the time, someone's telling a story and 0:59:48.520 --> 0:59:49.840 the person just looking at their phone. 0:59:50.520 --> 0:59:51.560 Right, are you looking at your phone? 0:59:51.680 --> 0:59:55.360 I can't see you, Okay, looking at you consideration. 0:59:55.480 --> 0:59:58.480 I appreciate that. Well, oh there you are. 0:59:59.200 --> 1:00:03.920 So seventy five percent of US adults say this is unacceptable, 1:00:04.080 --> 1:00:10.480 but as you would expect, gen Z find it is okay. 1:00:10.520 --> 1:00:12.960 And that's because they're like digital natives. This is like 1:00:13.040 --> 1:00:16.320 digital first, like you know, obviously, and I don't like 1:00:16.360 --> 1:00:20.040 to paint gen Z with a broadbrush or anything, but 1:00:20.200 --> 1:00:23.080 you know, they're generation infamous for not like wanting to 1:00:23.120 --> 1:00:25.680 actually pick up the phone and talk to anyone. So 1:00:25.840 --> 1:00:27.800 texting is like a more immediate way of that. 1:00:28.040 --> 1:00:28.720 Yeah, but I'm. 1:00:28.600 --> 1:00:31.440 Talking to someone. This is when they're talking to someone. 1:00:31.440 --> 1:00:33.400 So if you're at dinner, yeah, you're. 1:00:33.240 --> 1:00:37.360 At dinner and you're texting, that's ridiculous. Like I I've 1:00:37.400 --> 1:00:39.560 probably been guilty of that one. I'm not gen z, 1:00:39.680 --> 1:00:41.640 but I've been guilty of that one myself, with much 1:00:41.680 --> 1:00:42.800 to the chagran in my wife. 1:00:43.320 --> 1:00:47.720 But yeah, okay, here's here's here's another side of this. 1:00:47.720 --> 1:00:50.720 This is my biggest pet peeve. When I'm talking to 1:00:50.760 --> 1:00:53.760 someone and I understand we have smart watches, but it's 1:00:53.800 --> 1:00:56.320 like you're literally getting a message on your smart watch 1:00:56.360 --> 1:00:58.720 and you're looking at it the whole time, like every 1:00:58.800 --> 1:01:01.280 ten seconds while I'm talking you. I'm sorry, but if 1:01:01.280 --> 1:01:04.200 I'm talking to you, I want your attention. That's the bottom. 1:01:04.320 --> 1:01:06.640 N No, I don't blame you. I don't blame you. 1:01:07.640 --> 1:01:08.280 The watch thing. 1:01:08.440 --> 1:01:12.000 Yeah, that's like you can do it like more immediately, 1:01:12.080 --> 1:01:15.080 and mean I wouldn't say surreptitiously because it's pretty obvious 1:01:15.120 --> 1:01:18.880 what you're doing. But there's less, there's less I have 1:01:18.960 --> 1:01:21.040 to at least pick up the phone from the table, 1:01:21.240 --> 1:01:23.080 and you know, with the wrist, I just I can 1:01:23.200 --> 1:01:25.360 just flick it and then there it is. 1:01:25.400 --> 1:01:28.880 So what I do is I just say to the oh, yeah, 1:01:28.920 --> 1:01:31.400 I'll just say I'll wait, That's what I say. I 1:01:31.440 --> 1:01:32.680 just look at them right in the eyes, I go, 1:01:32.720 --> 1:01:35.640 oh wait, and it's you know, it's just I mean, 1:01:35.680 --> 1:01:37.760 obviously depends who it is. I probably wouldn't do that 1:01:37.800 --> 1:01:39.560 with my boss, but like you know what I mean, 1:01:39.600 --> 1:01:41.040 like it, it depends who the person is if you 1:01:41.040 --> 1:01:43.080 have a good relationship with them. And here's the thing. 1:01:43.320 --> 1:01:46.120 We are human. We are supposed to connect as humans, 1:01:46.120 --> 1:01:48.640 and I really believe that, especially in this world of 1:01:48.680 --> 1:01:52.280 like oversaturation with social media and flipping through TikTok and 1:01:52.320 --> 1:01:54.640 all this nonsense that people do on a daily basis, 1:01:54.760 --> 1:01:57.480 when you are with another human, give that human the 1:01:57.560 --> 1:02:00.840 respect of being there with them, because that is probably 1:02:00.880 --> 1:02:03.040 the most magical part of life we have left. Like 1:02:03.040 --> 1:02:06.120 everything else is just like you know, AI generated stuff 1:02:06.160 --> 1:02:09.080 everywhere you go. So when you're with a human, give 1:02:09.120 --> 1:02:12.680 the respect to that human. All right. Finally, speakerphone usage. 1:02:12.720 --> 1:02:15.600 This is another one. You see people talking on their 1:02:15.640 --> 1:02:19.080 phone or listening to music just out and about. 1:02:20.080 --> 1:02:23.560 Yeah, I mean, eighty two percent of people find that 1:02:23.680 --> 1:02:27.200 playing music out loud without headphones such should be the 1:02:27.520 --> 1:02:31.400 point we make here, which is just rude, you know, 1:02:31.640 --> 1:02:34.400 is unacceptable. I mean I live in New York City. 1:02:34.760 --> 1:02:37.160 I take the subway. There are people doing this all 1:02:37.320 --> 1:02:40.880 the time, you know, just keeping that. I mean, the 1:02:40.920 --> 1:02:42.880 subway is probably not the harst or you've heard on 1:02:42.960 --> 1:02:46.400 the on the local news, but it's it can definitely 1:02:46.400 --> 1:02:49.600 be irritating with somebody who's listening or speaking on speakerphone 1:02:49.880 --> 1:02:52.040 and about like you know, three quarters of people find 1:02:52.040 --> 1:02:56.200 this unacceptable for like doing FaceTime or a phone call 1:02:56.240 --> 1:03:00.560 on speakerphone and like the in the growth three store 1:03:00.640 --> 1:03:03.440 or something. I find it highly annoying, but you know 1:03:03.520 --> 1:03:05.360 a quarter of the people don't see them to have 1:03:05.360 --> 1:03:08.360 a problem. I mean, obviously the rules are always changing 1:03:08.400 --> 1:03:10.960 when you're the one doing the action usually, so like 1:03:11.120 --> 1:03:13.440 if you do it, you might be annoyed by other 1:03:13.480 --> 1:03:17.120 people doing it, but when you know you're the one, 1:03:17.280 --> 1:03:19.320 you know, it's just a minor inconvenience. 1:03:19.360 --> 1:03:23.000 But for else around me, I've I've seen, like when 1:03:23.040 --> 1:03:24.560 I'm out on a run, like some people will be 1:03:24.600 --> 1:03:27.000 driving by on their bike or riding by in their bike. 1:03:27.040 --> 1:03:28.720 They'll have like a boom box like on their bike, 1:03:28.800 --> 1:03:30.360 or they're on a hike and they just listen to 1:03:30.400 --> 1:03:33.400 their music out loud, and I'm kind of like, you know, 1:03:33.400 --> 1:03:35.400 if you're just passing me, it's fine, but if we're 1:03:35.440 --> 1:03:39.080 like together the whole time, that's definitely not ideal. Mark. 1:03:39.120 --> 1:03:43.080 We're gonna leave it there. Mark y Arm at PCMag 1:03:43.200 --> 1:03:46.120 dot com. The article is gen z and boomers agree 1:03:46.160 --> 1:03:48.280 this is the rudest thing you can do with your smartphone. 1:03:48.640 --> 1:03:50.680 Check it out on a screen near you. Thanks for 1:03:50.720 --> 1:03:52.760 joining me today, Mark, Thanks so much. 1:03:52.840 --> 1:03:54.000 Rich stay off your phone. 1:03:54.120 --> 1:03:54.520 All right. 1:03:54.560 --> 1:03:57.080 Coming up, we're going to talk about a major car 1:03:57.120 --> 1:04:00.360 rental company using AI to bill you for even the 1:04:00.400 --> 1:04:03.680 tiniest scratches. That's coming up right here are rich on Tech. 1:04:05.960 --> 1:04:09.120 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Eight eight eight rich 1:04:09.280 --> 1:04:12.520 one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two 1:04:12.560 --> 1:04:16.200 four one zero one. If you have a question about technology, 1:04:16.320 --> 1:04:21.120 give me a call. Lines are open. Let's go to 1:04:21.160 --> 1:04:25.800 Susie in Temecula. Susie, what's up? You're on with Rich Goody? 1:04:26.280 --> 1:04:30.320 So, Wendy are going to be traveling around in our 1:04:30.920 --> 1:04:35.520 fifth will My boyfriend still works, but we need some 1:04:35.560 --> 1:04:39.200 sort of a mobile internet that can go with us, 1:04:38.960 --> 1:04:42.560 that has more power than your regular phone hot spot. 1:04:42.880 --> 1:04:48.360 Okay, whoa, oh, what's happening there? So you want you 1:04:48.400 --> 1:04:50.440 basically want a way to keep in touch in the 1:04:50.800 --> 1:04:51.800 fifth wheel. 1:04:52.200 --> 1:04:52.920 With the computer. 1:04:53.240 --> 1:04:55.520 Okay, but you don't you don't want to use your 1:04:55.520 --> 1:04:58.520 phone's hot spot because I mean, it just it's not 1:04:58.600 --> 1:04:58.840 going to. 1:04:58.880 --> 1:04:59.680 Be enough power. 1:05:00.040 --> 1:05:02.920 Okay, I don't know what the wording is, but we 1:05:03.040 --> 1:05:04.160 need something a little stronger. 1:05:04.480 --> 1:05:06.760 Okay, Now what are you going to be doing with this? 1:05:09.240 --> 1:05:10.760 What are you going to be doing with the internet. 1:05:12.160 --> 1:05:16.200 He's going to be working online on his work program. 1:05:16.480 --> 1:05:19.880 Okay, all right, well, look there's I mean, your hot spot. 1:05:20.600 --> 1:05:22.680 Ninety nine percent of the time. If you're looking for 1:05:22.720 --> 1:05:24.440 the cheapest way to do this, hot spot is going 1:05:24.480 --> 1:05:26.200 to be the cheapest, easiest way to do it. If 1:05:26.240 --> 1:05:28.720 you don't want to use that, and I would say, 1:05:29.160 --> 1:05:32.720 you know, I would say try the hot spot because 1:05:32.760 --> 1:05:37.560 you'd be surprised how well they work nowadays, especially with 1:05:37.920 --> 1:05:40.440 you know that the networks are really good, the signals 1:05:40.440 --> 1:05:43.240 are really good, the speeds are really good. So I 1:05:43.240 --> 1:05:46.560 would say, if you upgraded your plan on Verizon or 1:05:46.600 --> 1:05:48.600 T Mobile AT and T to give you the most 1:05:48.600 --> 1:05:52.520 hot spot, like one hundred gigs, usually it's pretty good. 1:05:52.760 --> 1:05:54.520 It works really well. Now, if you don't want to 1:05:54.520 --> 1:05:57.560 do that, what I'd recommend as an alternative is one 1:05:57.600 --> 1:06:01.400 of these five g home systems. So the two that 1:06:01.440 --> 1:06:05.840 I would look AT is from Verizon and also T Mobile. 1:06:06.520 --> 1:06:10.400 So Verizon is called five G Home Internet. T Mobile 1:06:10.920 --> 1:06:13.160 is Let's see, let's see what there's is called home 1:06:13.160 --> 1:06:17.160 Internet five G very simple similar. So what you do 1:06:17.280 --> 1:06:20.120 is you buy this little box. It's basically a more 1:06:20.200 --> 1:06:23.360 powerful hot spot, so it grabs the cellular signal in 1:06:23.440 --> 1:06:26.120 from the air and then it broadcasts it out as 1:06:26.160 --> 1:06:30.720 a Wi Fi signal. So Verizon is you know, they're 1:06:30.760 --> 1:06:34.280 advertising pretty good prices on these things, and so you 1:06:34.280 --> 1:06:37.480 can get a really good price based on where you 1:06:37.560 --> 1:06:39.880 are and what you're doing, and there's no contracts or 1:06:39.920 --> 1:06:43.280 anything like that. So I would check to see Verizon. 1:06:43.640 --> 1:06:45.240 You have to check it at your home address see 1:06:45.280 --> 1:06:47.240 if they offer it, and then you also have to 1:06:47.320 --> 1:06:50.200 check to see if you can use it in a 1:06:50.240 --> 1:06:53.240 mobile setting. Back in the day, they weren't really allowing 1:06:53.280 --> 1:06:56.880 people to do that. I think it's that's been lifted 1:06:56.920 --> 1:06:59.240 a little bit. But just call them to make sure 1:06:59.520 --> 1:07:02.000 that if you using this around town and in different places, 1:07:02.000 --> 1:07:05.240 they're not going to cut you off. But you've got 1:07:05.480 --> 1:07:09.520 basically very similar services. AT and T offers one. But 1:07:09.640 --> 1:07:12.360 I would not recommend even looking into that because theirs 1:07:12.440 --> 1:07:16.040 is in very very limited areas. T Mobile and Verizon 1:07:16.440 --> 1:07:18.640 T Mobiles in the most. I would say Verizon's in 1:07:18.640 --> 1:07:20.600 the second most, and then AT and T is like 1:07:21.360 --> 1:07:24.000 just barely there. So that for some reason they're only 1:07:24.000 --> 1:07:27.760 offering it really where they don't have fiber Internet or 1:07:27.880 --> 1:07:30.040 in places where they just I don't know why they're 1:07:30.160 --> 1:07:32.640 not just offering it everywhere, but I would look at 1:07:32.680 --> 1:07:34.400 those two, So you can go to T Mobile five 1:07:34.440 --> 1:07:37.720 G Home Internet, Verizon five G Home Internet. And then 1:07:37.800 --> 1:07:43.160 the third way obviously is Starlink, and that is satellite Internet. 1:07:43.440 --> 1:07:46.240 So Starlink is going to give you a connection no 1:07:46.280 --> 1:07:48.000 matter where you are in the US, as long as 1:07:48.000 --> 1:07:51.040 you have a clear view of the sky. It's probably 1:07:51.040 --> 1:07:53.480 going to be your most expensive option out of all 1:07:53.520 --> 1:07:56.640 of these. But they do have a new one called Rome, 1:07:57.320 --> 1:08:00.440 which is you know, you can connect anywhere while traveling. 1:08:01.040 --> 1:08:03.760 And so let's let's see how much that is. So 1:08:03.800 --> 1:08:07.200 if I go on their website, Yeah, so the the 1:08:07.520 --> 1:08:09.880 just to get the equipment is going to be four 1:08:09.960 --> 1:08:14.480 hundred dollars plus taxes, and then you're gonna pay Let's see, 1:08:15.560 --> 1:08:18.480 looks like it's about fifty dollars a month for fifty gigabytes. 1:08:18.520 --> 1:08:20.519 If you want unlimited, it's one hundred and sixty five 1:08:20.560 --> 1:08:23.240 a month, so you're talking four hundred dollars for the 1:08:23.280 --> 1:08:27.839 actual starlink Starlink Minikit fifty dollars a month for the service, 1:08:28.360 --> 1:08:30.439 So that's the most expensive option, but it's gonna be 1:08:30.520 --> 1:08:32.959 the most thorough, and it's gonna get you signal everywhere, 1:08:33.479 --> 1:08:39.000 and it's probably gonna be the fastest. So again, just options, many, 1:08:39.040 --> 1:08:42.120 many options here. Those are the three that i'd recommend hotspot. 1:08:42.200 --> 1:08:44.960 Try that first. You'd be surprised. You'd be surprised if 1:08:45.000 --> 1:08:49.519 the hotspot works. The downside of all these things is 1:08:49.640 --> 1:08:52.400 let's see here, can I think of a downside? Not really. 1:08:52.760 --> 1:08:54.360 As long as they allow you to go on the 1:08:54.520 --> 1:08:56.840 on the road with these things, you'll be fine and 1:08:56.880 --> 1:09:00.000 you can get that connection. The other thing is Amazon 1:09:00.120 --> 1:09:04.120 On is set to start their satellite internet later this year. 1:09:04.520 --> 1:09:06.160 So at some point they said it's going to be 1:09:06.200 --> 1:09:07.880 by the end of the year. Now what does that 1:09:07.960 --> 1:09:11.000 mean exactly, We don't know. It could be one one 1:09:11.080 --> 1:09:13.960 plan by December, but I wouldn't look into that. But 1:09:14.000 --> 1:09:16.960 that's going to be called Project Kuiper, and that's going 1:09:17.040 --> 1:09:18.600 to be launching later this year, so there's gonna be 1:09:18.640 --> 1:09:21.640 a little little competition for Starlink towards the end of 1:09:21.680 --> 1:09:24.040 the year. Susie and Temecula, thanks so much for the 1:09:24.080 --> 1:09:25.720 call today. I appreciate it. I hope you have fun. 1:09:25.760 --> 1:09:30.840 They're out on the road Hurts now using AI to 1:09:31.000 --> 1:09:35.360 scan your car for scratches. They've got AI damage scanners 1:09:35.360 --> 1:09:37.880 at over one hundred major airports this year. They're rolling 1:09:37.920 --> 1:09:40.840 them out starting with Atlanta. This is from the blog 1:09:40.960 --> 1:09:44.200 view from the wing. Cars get scanned at return using 1:09:44.280 --> 1:09:47.920 high tech UVI portals kind of like an MRI, but 1:09:48.000 --> 1:09:53.559 for vehicles. Detects tiny issues, uneven tire wear, windshield hairline cracks, 1:09:53.600 --> 1:09:56.479 small scuffs, so I think this is probably for the 1:09:56.479 --> 1:09:59.559 benefit of the car maintenance, but also they can bill 1:09:59.600 --> 1:10:02.400 you if there's an issue. One customer got a four 1:10:02.479 --> 1:10:04.919 hundred and forty dollars bill for a one inch scuff, 1:10:05.439 --> 1:10:07.599 two hundred and fifty dollars for repairs, one hundred ninety 1:10:07.600 --> 1:10:12.040 dollars in fees. Uh wow. Hertz is offering a small 1:10:12.040 --> 1:10:14.519 discount if you pay first, but if you dispute the charge, 1:10:15.000 --> 1:10:19.760 the clock keeps tipping ticking. That's amazing. Customers are being 1:10:19.760 --> 1:10:22.880 caught off guard. Best advice take photos or video of 1:10:22.920 --> 1:10:24.519 your rental when you pick it up and you drop 1:10:24.560 --> 1:10:27.080 it off. That is great advice. Eighty eight rich one 1:10:27.120 --> 1:10:29.519 O one eighty eight seven four to two four one 1:10:29.760 --> 1:10:35.200 zero one. Get those calls in. Welcome back to rich 1:10:35.280 --> 1:10:38.719 on Tech Rich DeMuro here hang out with you talking 1:10:38.800 --> 1:10:42.240 technology at triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight 1:10:42.280 --> 1:10:46.360 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:10:48.000 --> 1:10:52.120 Coming up this hour, we've got Todd Weaver, founder and 1:10:52.320 --> 1:10:58.000 CEO of Purism. They are a mobile phone company that's 1:10:58.040 --> 1:11:01.400 making privacy first phones and they also make a phone 1:11:01.479 --> 1:11:04.880 completely in the US, so it'd be an interesting conversation 1:11:05.000 --> 1:11:08.960 with Todd. Notice there was a Wall Street Journal article 1:11:08.960 --> 1:11:11.760 about him as well, So making the rounds right now. 1:11:12.320 --> 1:11:14.280 This was really interesting. I'll get to the phone lines 1:11:14.320 --> 1:11:16.599 in just a second here, but this was really interesting 1:11:16.640 --> 1:11:19.320 and I think it's a reason why you got to 1:11:19.360 --> 1:11:24.680 be very careful about your phone. The spark Kitty is 1:11:25.080 --> 1:11:30.760 malware that quietly steals photos from iPhones and Android devices. 1:11:31.520 --> 1:11:35.040 It was delivered via malicious apps in Google Play, Apple 1:11:35.080 --> 1:11:39.680 App Store, and trojanized versions of TikTok. Now here's the 1:11:39.720 --> 1:11:42.920 thing on Android, it used hidden code in apps on 1:11:42.960 --> 1:11:45.680 iOS because you might be thinking, rich doesn't iOS have 1:11:45.720 --> 1:11:48.320 a closed, you know, app store that you know you 1:11:48.360 --> 1:11:51.160 can't just install anything on there. They went around that. 1:11:51.640 --> 1:11:54.719 So if your company you can get there's these little 1:11:54.760 --> 1:11:58.160 there's a way that you can install apps on your employees' 1:11:58.160 --> 1:12:03.280 iPhones enterprise pro system, and they snuck that in through there. 1:12:03.880 --> 1:12:07.920 So I mean the point is these hackers will figure 1:12:07.960 --> 1:12:11.320 out ways of getting around all of the rules. And 1:12:11.400 --> 1:12:13.519 so the reason I tell you this because I don't 1:12:13.560 --> 1:12:17.120 think you have this on your phone, but this software, 1:12:17.200 --> 1:12:21.760 once it got on people's phones, it seeked out screenshots 1:12:22.439 --> 1:12:27.320 basically of anything that might be important sensitive information, financial information, 1:12:28.040 --> 1:12:32.519 especially crypto wallet seed phrases. These are basically the backup 1:12:32.600 --> 1:12:35.439 phrase that you use to get into your crypto wallet 1:12:36.280 --> 1:12:38.320 and you have to save that in a safe place. 1:12:38.320 --> 1:12:41.040 What do most people do They take a screenshot of it. Well, 1:12:41.040 --> 1:12:43.160 who would have thought that this app would come through 1:12:43.240 --> 1:12:46.719 and look through all your pictures to try to find 1:12:46.760 --> 1:12:51.960 any of this information. So number one, only download apps 1:12:51.960 --> 1:12:54.120 from trust to developers. Now, if you know what you're 1:12:54.120 --> 1:12:57.679 doing on Android, you know that you can sideload apps 1:12:57.720 --> 1:13:01.080 on there. You can sideload what's called an ape. I 1:13:01.200 --> 1:13:03.360 do it. I know other people do it, but it's 1:13:03.360 --> 1:13:05.040 something that you have to be very careful about if 1:13:05.040 --> 1:13:07.160 you don't know what you're doing. On iPhone, it's very 1:13:07.200 --> 1:13:09.599 tough to install an app that's outside the app store. 1:13:09.880 --> 1:13:12.280 But we've seen examples of apps in the app store 1:13:12.320 --> 1:13:14.720 that are not so good. So be careful and then 1:13:14.800 --> 1:13:18.320 review permissions carefully. And this is why your phone says this. 1:13:18.400 --> 1:13:21.240 If you've noticed on both iPhone and Android, when you 1:13:21.280 --> 1:13:24.559 install an app that wants access to your photo library, 1:13:24.640 --> 1:13:28.200 it now says access to all photos or access to 1:13:28.280 --> 1:13:32.360 limited photos. Now I get it. If you say limited photos, 1:13:32.400 --> 1:13:34.120 it's a pain. Every time you want to feed a 1:13:34.160 --> 1:13:37.000 photo into that app, you have to press the photo 1:13:37.080 --> 1:13:39.519 and select it. Versus some apps. You know, if you're 1:13:39.560 --> 1:13:41.960 using a cloud backup back app, of course you want 1:13:42.000 --> 1:13:44.559 to have access to all your photos. But the point 1:13:44.680 --> 1:13:47.000 is if you're using a random app. Let's say you 1:13:47.080 --> 1:13:50.559 download an app like an AI app that turns your 1:13:50.600 --> 1:13:52.800 photo like it takes a picture of you and turns 1:13:52.800 --> 1:13:54.840 it into like a clown or whatever you want. Right 1:13:55.479 --> 1:13:58.519 for that app, would I would use the option that 1:13:58.560 --> 1:14:01.880 says allow limited app access to my photo library. You 1:14:01.880 --> 1:14:03.920 don't want it to have access to every picture in 1:14:03.960 --> 1:14:06.240 your photo library. That's what these things can do. They 1:14:06.320 --> 1:14:08.759 can scan all of them. And we've heard about apps 1:14:08.760 --> 1:14:12.879 scanning photo libraries for things like metadata and using that information. 1:14:13.360 --> 1:14:16.559 So you have to be very, very careful about the 1:14:16.600 --> 1:14:18.519 permissions you give on your phone. It used to be 1:14:18.520 --> 1:14:20.639 when an app was downloaded, it just had carte blanche. 1:14:20.640 --> 1:14:23.160 It could do whatever it wanted. Now, if you notice, 1:14:23.200 --> 1:14:26.200 the operating systems are locking down apps more and more 1:14:26.680 --> 1:14:30.479 to just be able to do certain things. Get your location, oh, 1:14:30.640 --> 1:14:36.000 precise location, approximate location, location all the time, just sometimes photos, 1:14:36.040 --> 1:14:40.840 all photos, some photos, so all contacts, some contacts. There's 1:14:40.880 --> 1:14:44.040 a reason behind the madness for all of this stuff. 1:14:45.000 --> 1:14:49.479 Let's go to Mary in Winchester. Marry your on with rich. 1:14:50.200 --> 1:14:53.760 On Highrich thanks for taking my call. I hope that 1:14:53.880 --> 1:14:55.439 you don't have to done this down too much for me. 1:14:55.479 --> 1:14:58.320 I'm not super tech savvy, but I'm having an issue. 1:14:59.000 --> 1:15:03.160 I just from an iPhone eight to the iPhone sixteen 1:15:04.240 --> 1:15:07.760 and ever since then, I can't seem to connect the 1:15:07.800 --> 1:15:08.439 car play. 1:15:08.760 --> 1:15:12.600 Okay, Apple car Play in my car? What are you 1:15:12.680 --> 1:15:14.960 using the same cable that you used to use. 1:15:16.120 --> 1:15:18.760 Yes, okay, well I no, I take that back. I'm 1:15:18.840 --> 1:15:21.639 using the cable that now I don't have the lightning anymore. 1:15:21.760 --> 1:15:24.519 I used the one that goes to the sixteen. 1:15:24.920 --> 1:15:28.639 Okay. So you're the USB c correct? And where did 1:15:28.640 --> 1:15:32.120 you get the cable from Apple? Okay? So the one 1:15:32.120 --> 1:15:33.400 that came in the box. 1:15:33.560 --> 1:15:36.040 That iPhone, I mean, yeah, it's a phone, okay. 1:15:36.360 --> 1:15:39.519 So and your car supports USBC. So you have a 1:15:39.600 --> 1:15:41.960 USBC on like the tiny one on one end, the 1:15:42.000 --> 1:15:43.400 tiny one on the other end. 1:15:44.320 --> 1:15:47.240 No, it's a us USB on one end, and then 1:15:47.320 --> 1:15:49.880 the tiny USBC. 1:15:49.640 --> 1:15:50.280 On the Okay. 1:15:50.520 --> 1:15:53.320 Now that didn't come with the phone though, Oh. 1:15:53.280 --> 1:15:55.960 Okay, well it's one. It's one that I had on 1:15:56.000 --> 1:15:58.559 my back. Okay, so my iPad and staff. 1:15:58.640 --> 1:16:00.400 That's what I wanted to know, Mary. So that is 1:16:00.439 --> 1:16:05.280 the problem. So in my experience, it is it's really 1:16:05.600 --> 1:16:09.400 what year's your car? Just out of curiosity, that's twenty one, okay. 1:16:09.800 --> 1:16:11.920 So here's what's happening. And I noticed this with my 1:16:12.000 --> 1:16:15.320 wife's car and a couple other folks, a couple actually 1:16:15.360 --> 1:16:16.840 a bunch of people, a bunch of my friends and 1:16:16.880 --> 1:16:18.679 family members all came to me, said Rich, I can't 1:16:18.680 --> 1:16:21.040 get car play to work. And I said, hold on, 1:16:21.439 --> 1:16:23.920 let me let me swap out the cable. And the 1:16:24.000 --> 1:16:28.680 reason is the cars were created years ago before USBC, 1:16:28.840 --> 1:16:32.760 so they're using USBA and then the phones are using USBC. Now, 1:16:32.760 --> 1:16:35.479 typically you would think that that would work, no problem, 1:16:35.560 --> 1:16:40.360 but for some reason, only certain cables work with these 1:16:40.640 --> 1:16:43.800 with this connection. So a couple of recommendations. If you 1:16:43.840 --> 1:16:48.120 don't mind spending let's see how much is it nineteen dollars, 1:16:48.760 --> 1:16:53.400 you can buy the official Beat USBA to USBC cable 1:16:53.600 --> 1:16:56.679 and that will almost ninety nine point nine percent work 1:16:56.800 --> 1:17:01.320 in this situation. Okay, that's okay. From Apple, it's the 1:17:01.360 --> 1:17:07.280 Beats USBC USBA to USBC woven short cable eight inches. 1:17:07.400 --> 1:17:08.960 It's basically meant for CarPlay. 1:17:09.000 --> 1:17:13.960 Okay, okay, So that's apparently that's not what I've been using. 1:17:14.200 --> 1:17:15.800 Is that certain brand. 1:17:16.000 --> 1:17:19.120 Right, you've just been using? The problem is, what I've 1:17:19.160 --> 1:17:23.479 noticed is the cable matters. When you're going USBA to 1:17:23.680 --> 1:17:27.240 USBC for CarPlay, the cable makes a difference. I don't 1:17:27.240 --> 1:17:29.639 know what the deal is, but I can take five 1:17:29.720 --> 1:17:32.879 cables into your car and out of all those five cables. 1:17:32.920 --> 1:17:35.400 Even though they all do the same thing, only two 1:17:35.560 --> 1:17:36.960 will actually power CarPlay. 1:17:37.880 --> 1:17:40.400 And so that is so going to the Apple store 1:17:40.439 --> 1:17:42.360 and getting that cable will help me. 1:17:42.840 --> 1:17:45.320 I think that'll solve your problems. I already know from 1:17:45.600 --> 1:17:48.519 a listener that called in and had the same problem, 1:17:48.600 --> 1:17:51.680 or actually someone emailed me. We did a couple of troubleshooting. 1:17:51.720 --> 1:17:53.680 They had the same issue. And if you don't want 1:17:53.720 --> 1:17:55.640 to go into the store, I've got a cable on 1:17:55.680 --> 1:17:58.760 Amazon that will do the same thing. It's sixteen ninety 1:17:58.840 --> 1:18:03.559 nine and it's USBC to USBA and it's a coiled cable, 1:18:04.760 --> 1:18:07.320 but you get two in that in that price. So 1:18:07.760 --> 1:18:10.000 I would say personally, if you have an Apple store nearby, 1:18:10.120 --> 1:18:11.800 you could just easily go in and get this one. 1:18:11.880 --> 1:18:14.240 It's it's gonna work. If it doesn't work, you can 1:18:14.280 --> 1:18:17.320 return it, no big deal. You've got fourteen days. But 1:18:17.439 --> 1:18:19.439 that is that's the problem, Mary, and I think it's 1:18:19.479 --> 1:18:21.960 going to solve all your problems. Well not all, I 1:18:22.000 --> 1:18:29.559 mean just the car Play problems. Does that work for you? Okay? 1:18:29.680 --> 1:18:32.120 Well I think we I think well, I think my 1:18:32.320 --> 1:18:34.640 job is done. What are the chances that we have 1:18:34.680 --> 1:18:38.639 two people from Winchester California. Right now, we have another 1:18:38.880 --> 1:18:43.360 caller from Winchester. Anyway, this is the thing. So with this, 1:18:43.720 --> 1:18:48.160 with this whole USBA to USBC transition. If you got 1:18:48.200 --> 1:18:50.160 a car, car play has been working just fine. You 1:18:50.160 --> 1:18:52.240 get the new iPhone. You try the same cable, it 1:18:52.280 --> 1:18:55.200 doesn't work. You're sitting there pulling your hair out. It's 1:18:55.240 --> 1:18:57.519 a different cable. Go to your house, look at all 1:18:57.560 --> 1:18:59.920 the cables you have that are USBA to USB c 1:19:00.560 --> 1:19:03.479 and try them. If none of them work, you might 1:19:03.520 --> 1:19:05.439 have to buy a new cable. But that is really 1:19:05.520 --> 1:19:08.360 it's just this weird thing that some of the older 1:19:08.360 --> 1:19:11.479 cars just don't like to play friendly with these new phones. 1:19:12.960 --> 1:19:16.360 Let's see here, we got an email from Paul says, Hey, Rich, 1:19:16.400 --> 1:19:18.760 I really enjoyed the podcast. Can you please tell me 1:19:18.800 --> 1:19:23.080 what model High Sense TV you have? Thanks Paul, Paul, 1:19:23.240 --> 1:19:25.240 I have I have to check in my email here. 1:19:25.840 --> 1:19:30.080 I have the High Sense you eight and I will 1:19:30.080 --> 1:19:31.680 tell you how much I paid for it if I 1:19:31.720 --> 1:19:35.040 can find that email. High Sense U E. I'm not kidding. 1:19:35.040 --> 1:19:39.040 I ordered this thing off Best Buy in an afternoon 1:19:39.680 --> 1:19:43.559 and it was in my house set up within two hours. 1:19:44.240 --> 1:19:47.920 I mean, I could not believe how fast. This was 1:19:48.360 --> 1:19:51.840 since se and you know how tough it is to 1:19:51.880 --> 1:19:53.360 type and talk on the radio at the same time. 1:19:53.400 --> 1:19:56.240 It is impossible. Let me just see if I can 1:19:56.280 --> 1:19:59.920 find it High Sense Okay, trying to find my order 1:20:00.000 --> 1:20:02.360 from Best Buy. Okay, here it is. I ordered it. Oh, 1:20:02.400 --> 1:20:06.360 I ordered it for Super Bowl Sunday. How stereotypical of me. Yeah, 1:20:06.400 --> 1:20:08.280 I got it in time for Super Bowl Sunday. High 1:20:08.280 --> 1:20:10.920 Sense UA looks like I paid what I paid, eight 1:20:11.000 --> 1:20:13.639 hundred and ninety nine bucks for this thing, So it's 1:20:13.640 --> 1:20:17.080 still on sale. It's right now ninety nine. That may 1:20:17.120 --> 1:20:19.120 be cheaper over Prime Day. You can get it in 1:20:19.120 --> 1:20:21.040 a whole bunch of sizes. I went with sixty five, 1:20:21.080 --> 1:20:23.840 you can go seventy five. But apparently they have a 1:20:23.880 --> 1:20:26.840 newer version of this TV, so Paul, if you're looking 1:20:26.840 --> 1:20:28.559 to buy this, you might want to look into the 1:20:28.560 --> 1:20:32.920 new version, which is the High Sense UA N What 1:20:32.960 --> 1:20:38.840 does END stand for New, New and improved? But the 1:20:38.880 --> 1:20:40.960 one I have is just perfect. In fact, last night 1:20:40.960 --> 1:20:44.360 when we sat down to watch TV, it runs Google TV, 1:20:44.479 --> 1:20:47.280 which I really like, and it said, oh, you got 1:20:47.280 --> 1:20:50.679 a software update all these new features. So even a phone, 1:20:51.320 --> 1:20:53.960 a TV that's a year old still getting new features, 1:20:54.000 --> 1:20:58.080 which is pretty cool. And the Google software it's good 1:20:58.160 --> 1:21:01.559 enough for IM not running a separate streaming device with 1:21:01.640 --> 1:21:04.200 this TV, so it's pretty good. And they just added 1:21:04.200 --> 1:21:05.760 a whole bunch of new stuff which makes it even 1:21:05.800 --> 1:21:09.720 better anyway. High Sense you eight is the one that 1:21:09.760 --> 1:21:12.680 I have. Eighty eight rich one on one eighty eight 1:21:12.720 --> 1:21:14.720 seven four to two four one zero one coming up. 1:21:14.760 --> 1:21:16.120 Let's tell you how you can listen to the radio 1:21:16.200 --> 1:21:20.920 on smart glasses. Right here, I'm rich on Tech. Welcome 1:21:20.920 --> 1:21:23.960 back to rich on Tech, rich DeMuro here hanging out 1:21:24.000 --> 1:21:30.360 with you, talking technology. iHeartRadio now streaming on ray Ban 1:21:30.720 --> 1:21:34.320 Meta glasses, So if you want to hear me through 1:21:34.360 --> 1:21:39.240 your glasses, just update them. You can listen to live 1:21:39.360 --> 1:21:43.240 local stations, playlists, podcasts, all hands free, all on the go. 1:21:44.160 --> 1:21:47.240 Works on iOS and Android. You just have to make 1:21:47.280 --> 1:21:49.839 sure that you update your glasses and do a quick setup. 1:21:50.600 --> 1:21:52.320 You have to go into the options and make sure 1:21:52.400 --> 1:21:56.440 iHeart is your default app for music and radio voice searches. 1:21:57.080 --> 1:21:59.479 So kind of cool. I have not tested this just yet. 1:21:59.520 --> 1:22:02.280 I've got my ray bandmetas to test it out. But 1:22:02.600 --> 1:22:05.160 it's the only audio app. There's a bunch of audio 1:22:05.160 --> 1:22:08.000 apps available on the ray bandmetas like you can use 1:22:08.000 --> 1:22:10.920 Spotify or Amazon Music or whatever, but this is the 1:22:10.920 --> 1:22:13.960 only one that gives you live radio stations. So kind 1:22:13.960 --> 1:22:17.160 of cool, kind of awesome. These glasses are, I would say, 1:22:17.160 --> 1:22:19.880 the sleeper hit of twenty twenty four or wait, what 1:22:20.040 --> 1:22:23.320 year is it? No, twenty twenty five, twenty twenty five? 1:22:23.880 --> 1:22:27.200 Where am I? And they just did Oakley So now 1:22:27.240 --> 1:22:30.200 they have the Oakley's and the Metas. But I was 1:22:30.240 --> 1:22:34.160 in Mexico and at that electronics show I was talking 1:22:34.160 --> 1:22:36.640 to this guy who makes another brand of these glasses. 1:22:38.600 --> 1:22:41.240 Oh gosh, I gotta remember the name of them, but 1:22:41.320 --> 1:22:44.719 they I think they were called It's a funny name. 1:22:45.520 --> 1:22:49.160 I get D dot com. I get D dot com 1:22:49.200 --> 1:22:52.880 and they're get D glasses. But they basically have a 1:22:52.880 --> 1:22:55.400 lot of these features in them, a lot of the 1:22:55.560 --> 1:22:57.880 CHATCHYBT and stuff like that built in. They don't have 1:22:57.920 --> 1:23:00.120 a camera. But he's telling me he's selling four four 1:23:00.200 --> 1:23:02.599 hundred pairs of them a day in the Mexico market, 1:23:02.640 --> 1:23:05.639 four hundred a day, So people, these smart glasses are 1:23:05.720 --> 1:23:09.240 really really They're hot. All right. Now, let's go to 1:23:09.280 --> 1:23:11.559 Oscar and Winchester. Oscar you've got a bone to pick 1:23:11.600 --> 1:23:11.840 with me. 1:23:11.960 --> 1:23:14.680 Huh, well sort of. 1:23:16.600 --> 1:23:16.880 Uh. 1:23:17.479 --> 1:23:20.760 First thing, do you have a phone number for Microsoft 1:23:21.200 --> 1:23:26.599 like support? Oh gosh, that I can get help with 1:23:26.600 --> 1:23:27.559 without Look. 1:23:29.560 --> 1:23:31.639 I mean there are there are. Let's see if they 1:23:31.680 --> 1:23:35.400 have a I mean it says contact, but it looks 1:23:35.439 --> 1:23:37.000 like I don't have it. I don't think they put 1:23:37.000 --> 1:23:39.040 a phone number on their website per se that I 1:23:39.080 --> 1:23:44.639 can find really quickly. Yeah, I'm looking, but I don't. 1:23:44.680 --> 1:23:46.240 I don't see that it's like one of these. 1:23:46.600 --> 1:23:50.479 If I contact them through those contacts, it would probably 1:23:50.479 --> 1:23:53.640 they would probably send me an email response. 1:23:53.840 --> 1:23:54.040 Yeah. 1:23:54.040 --> 1:23:55.720 I don't really see a phone number. And you got 1:23:55.720 --> 1:23:59.360 to be very careful because all those Tech support phone numbers, 1:23:59.360 --> 1:24:01.280 like if you just go will that you would get 1:24:01.280 --> 1:24:02.960 a whole bunch of phone numbers. You do not want 1:24:03.000 --> 1:24:04.200 to call those numbers. 1:24:03.840 --> 1:24:05.160 So get to the wrong play. 1:24:05.280 --> 1:24:07.760 I know that they will scam you. 1:24:07.840 --> 1:24:12.919 Let me update you on on the revo On install 1:24:13.080 --> 1:24:16.720 that you gave me last week to remove the Outlook 1:24:16.760 --> 1:24:21.120 from my Windows ten system. Yes, uh, it didn't. It 1:24:21.160 --> 1:24:21.840 didn't find. 1:24:21.880 --> 1:24:22.720 It didn't find. 1:24:22.760 --> 1:24:27.200 It didn't find the outlook. It found even in the 1:24:27.240 --> 1:24:32.080 Windows part of revo On installer. It pulled up all 1:24:32.120 --> 1:24:36.800 those Windows files, but no Outlook. Interesting okay, but all 1:24:36.840 --> 1:24:39.400 the all the apps that are there, it pulled all 1:24:39.439 --> 1:24:40.280 that stuff up. 1:24:40.960 --> 1:24:42.679 No Outlook now. 1:24:42.880 --> 1:24:47.120 I even I even used it on install co pilot, 1:24:47.560 --> 1:24:50.720 which was one of the things I saw in my 1:24:50.720 --> 1:24:55.240 my Outlook, and I figured I don't need co pilot 1:24:56.000 --> 1:25:00.920 on install. That still didn't help. But what is happening? 1:25:01.920 --> 1:25:10.080 The fonts on my Outlook are really large? And a 1:25:10.200 --> 1:25:17.519 Microsoft page has come up, a notification page saying your 1:25:17.560 --> 1:25:21.920 privacy matters, and it's you know, something to do that 1:25:22.040 --> 1:25:25.880 You've got to respond or click something on it. The 1:25:25.920 --> 1:25:28.519 whole page is not show, it's but half the page. 1:25:28.560 --> 1:25:32.640 It might screen, yeah, and so it covers all the information. 1:25:32.880 --> 1:25:40.280 If I refresh the screen, it goes away, but within 1:25:40.920 --> 1:25:44.680 three four seconds it comes right back up before you 1:25:44.720 --> 1:25:46.200 could do anything on the screen. 1:25:46.439 --> 1:25:48.559 Okay, so a couple of things we actually I actually 1:25:48.680 --> 1:25:54.800 got an email about your problem from James in north Chesterfield. 1:25:55.320 --> 1:25:58.200 He said, for the listener having issues with large fonts 1:25:58.240 --> 1:26:02.040 and Outlook before uninstalling anything, I would suggest closing Outlook 1:26:02.680 --> 1:26:07.000 launch it in safe mode by typing Outlook dot ex 1:26:07.439 --> 1:26:10.559 slash safe into the start box, and then if the 1:26:10.640 --> 1:26:15.520 issue is resolved, reset reset outlook to default within the program, 1:26:16.200 --> 1:26:19.639 And if you're inside the program, you can go into 1:26:19.960 --> 1:26:24.200 UH view and it says reset view and if you're 1:26:24.240 --> 1:26:27.840 using the newer outlook, it says advanced options and then 1:26:28.120 --> 1:26:31.000 reset under Windows setting. So that's number one. So I 1:26:31.000 --> 1:26:34.040 would try that to see if that works. If you 1:26:34.080 --> 1:26:36.680 want to uninstall this and reinstall it, I actually have 1:26:36.720 --> 1:26:38.000 a new suggestion for you. 1:26:38.800 --> 1:26:39.040 UH. 1:26:39.080 --> 1:26:43.080 The app is called b c Uninstaller. And now, because 1:26:43.120 --> 1:26:46.000 the first the revo didn't find it, I can't guarantee 1:26:46.080 --> 1:26:48.400 that this is going to find this app because it 1:26:48.479 --> 1:26:50.760 sounds like it's it's part of something bigger on your 1:26:50.800 --> 1:26:56.080 system or I'm just not sure. But this BC uninstaller 1:26:56.120 --> 1:26:59.040 dot com is a way to remove all kinds of 1:26:59.160 --> 1:27:03.240 unwanted applications quickly. So and this says it can uninstall 1:27:03.800 --> 1:27:09.679 basically everything, normally registered programs, hidden protected, all kinds of stuff. 1:27:09.720 --> 1:27:11.839 And by the way, this all comes from an article 1:27:11.880 --> 1:27:14.840 that I highly recommend you go to the website to 1:27:14.840 --> 1:27:17.400 get the link for. It's from tech Spot. It's called 1:27:17.520 --> 1:27:21.599 essential Apps to Install on Windows and mac Os. They've 1:27:21.640 --> 1:27:27.160 got everything from web browsers password Manager, Productivity Alfred on 1:27:27.320 --> 1:27:32.880 Mac to everything for Windows, screenshot apps, how to back 1:27:32.960 --> 1:27:36.600 up well, they recommend back Blaze image editing if you 1:27:36.600 --> 1:27:39.000 want to see what's eating up your disk space, whiz 1:27:39.080 --> 1:27:42.679 Tree on Windows, Daisy Mac on Mac, Daisy Disc on Mac, 1:27:43.760 --> 1:27:48.080 Remote Desktop, Russ desk. Is it a good alternative to 1:27:48.120 --> 1:27:51.360 team viewer? And then to keep systems clean? Windows users 1:27:51.439 --> 1:27:55.719 can try bc uninstaller or portable CC Cleaner. Mac users 1:27:55.760 --> 1:27:58.479 can install app Cleaner. I'll put that link on my 1:27:58.520 --> 1:28:01.680 website rich on tech dot tv. Coming up, we're going 1:28:01.760 --> 1:28:04.480 to talk to Todd Weaver, founder and CEO of Purism, 1:28:05.000 --> 1:28:09.479 making a privacy centric phone. Welcome back to rich on 1:28:09.600 --> 1:28:12.840 Tech rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. 1:28:13.160 --> 1:28:17.920 The website for the show is rich on tech dot tv. 1:28:18.040 --> 1:28:20.200 There you can get links to everything I have talked 1:28:20.200 --> 1:28:25.280 about on today's show, including the Windows and Microso sorry, 1:28:25.479 --> 1:28:27.800 the Windows and Mac apps that I mentioned in that 1:28:28.160 --> 1:28:31.280 great tech spot list. I've got that on the website 1:28:31.320 --> 1:28:34.200 rich on tech dot tv. This is episode one seven, 1:28:34.320 --> 1:28:36.919 so if you just want to type in that keyword, 1:28:36.960 --> 1:28:39.960 it'll be bring up the show notes for everything I mentioned. 1:28:40.200 --> 1:28:44.960 Joining me now is Todd Weaver, founder and CEO of Purism. 1:28:45.520 --> 1:28:50.320 They are a company making phones and other devices that 1:28:50.400 --> 1:28:53.400 are privacy centric, and they also have a phone that's 1:28:53.600 --> 1:28:55.680 made in the USA, which I know is a hot 1:28:55.720 --> 1:28:58.120 topic right now. Todd, thanks for joining me. 1:28:58.720 --> 1:28:59.679 Hey, thanks for having me. 1:29:00.080 --> 1:29:03.599 So what's your background? What made you start this company? Oh? 1:29:03.680 --> 1:29:06.040 Man, A lot of things, but technology is a big thing. 1:29:06.479 --> 1:29:10.120 But then also you know, I really looked at digital 1:29:10.200 --> 1:29:12.559 rights and sort of where the trend lines were going 1:29:12.600 --> 1:29:14.639 with big tech, and so I actually built my entire 1:29:14.680 --> 1:29:18.160 company to avoid everything from the big tech companies. And 1:29:18.200 --> 1:29:21.799 you can imagine in today's world that that's a significant challenge. 1:29:21.880 --> 1:29:25.920 So from laptops, tablets, mini PCs to phones, and then 1:29:25.920 --> 1:29:29.240 I even you know, doing our electronic manufacturing here in 1:29:29.439 --> 1:29:33.320 the US for our Liberty phone, also including the operating 1:29:33.320 --> 1:29:35.519 system that's not Android. So these are a lot of 1:29:35.600 --> 1:29:38.600 challenges and so it's just you know, a passion and 1:29:38.640 --> 1:29:42.360 then also a care for your individual digital rights. 1:29:42.760 --> 1:29:45.519 So before we get into all these things that you're doing, 1:29:46.000 --> 1:29:48.080 what do you think is the problem with the big 1:29:48.120 --> 1:29:50.439 tech companies and what you know? You've got iPhone. I 1:29:50.479 --> 1:29:53.600 mean I feel like Apple is probably better than Android, 1:29:53.600 --> 1:29:55.759 but I'm not sure, but you tell me your thoughts 1:29:55.760 --> 1:29:57.559 and all that stuff, like, are we really just being 1:29:57.600 --> 1:29:58.519 tracked with everything? 1:29:59.280 --> 1:29:59.479 Oh? 1:29:59.560 --> 1:29:59.960 For sure? 1:30:00.600 --> 1:30:02.559 I mean I think that the majority of people can 1:30:02.600 --> 1:30:06.200 appreciate that their digital footprint is something that is being 1:30:06.240 --> 1:30:09.840 tracked by big tech and monetized. Right, So this isn't 1:30:09.920 --> 1:30:13.000 something is fringe. The majority of people recognize this to 1:30:13.000 --> 1:30:15.080 be the case. It's just that there isn't a convenient 1:30:15.120 --> 1:30:17.599 alternative that doesn't do those yet. And that's the thing 1:30:17.640 --> 1:30:21.839 that we're building. But when you're looking at Apple or Google, 1:30:21.880 --> 1:30:24.200 Apple just happens to have a better marketing, but they 1:30:24.200 --> 1:30:28.360 don't actually really solve the systemic problem of your data 1:30:28.439 --> 1:30:30.759 should be yours and you should be in complete control 1:30:30.840 --> 1:30:35.200 of it, and so all big tech companies are incentivized 1:30:35.439 --> 1:30:39.360 to track everything from your phone. Here's as a simple analogy. 1:30:39.360 --> 1:30:41.920 If you have an iPhone or any Android phone, and 1:30:41.960 --> 1:30:44.040 then you put our phone next to it, those first 1:30:44.040 --> 1:30:48.080 two in every major carrier and every major phone manufacturer, 1:30:48.240 --> 1:30:50.680 they leak about three to four gig of data in 1:30:50.680 --> 1:30:56.480 twenty four hours. It's all your personal information, your GPS, camera, role, microphone, calls, contacts, 1:30:56.880 --> 1:30:59.680 and our phone. It's exactly zero bits. So you're in 1:30:59.720 --> 1:31:02.800 co leak control of the entire device, which is why 1:31:02.840 --> 1:31:06.639 we had to start with manufacturing the hardware and authoring 1:31:06.680 --> 1:31:09.400 an entire operating system that's not attached to andle it. 1:31:09.640 --> 1:31:13.240 That's wild. And so your operating system is called pure OS. 1:31:13.640 --> 1:31:14.519 What does that run on? 1:31:15.400 --> 1:31:16.599 So it is a Linux kernel. 1:31:16.640 --> 1:31:18.360 And then this is sort of built on a you know, 1:31:19.000 --> 1:31:22.240 decades of the entire industry. We've just invested tens of 1:31:22.280 --> 1:31:26.759 millions of dollars into that to create the entire mobile environment. 1:31:27.000 --> 1:31:29.200 And so it's the same operating system that runs on 1:31:29.240 --> 1:31:34.000 our laptop, our tablet or MINIPC. And then we ported 1:31:34.040 --> 1:31:35.680 all of that to the phone so that we can 1:31:35.720 --> 1:31:38.920 actually provide a phone in that using the same operating system. 1:31:39.080 --> 1:31:41.639 Oh wow, Okay, so you've got a bunch of different devices, 1:31:41.640 --> 1:31:44.920 but specifically you have one phone, the Liberty phone, that 1:31:45.080 --> 1:31:46.920 is made in the USA. I know this has been 1:31:46.920 --> 1:31:49.120 a hot topic. It's been a lot of talk about 1:31:49.160 --> 1:31:52.759 whether they can manufacture an iPhone here in the US. 1:31:53.160 --> 1:31:55.800 You're doing it. Has it been a challenge? 1:31:56.320 --> 1:31:57.879 Oh, it's an unbelievable challenge. 1:31:58.360 --> 1:31:58.439 Right. 1:31:58.560 --> 1:32:00.200 Also, the other thing is that we actually of a 1:32:00.280 --> 1:32:03.840 qualified claim, So the FTC has very strict guidelines on 1:32:03.920 --> 1:32:06.560 what made in USA can be and what assembled in 1:32:06.560 --> 1:32:08.360 the US they can be. And so you think of 1:32:08.400 --> 1:32:10.360 this as these three tiers. So for us, we actually 1:32:10.400 --> 1:32:13.040 do made in USA electronics. That means that the entire 1:32:13.479 --> 1:32:17.840 inside electronics, the main board, all the components that go 1:32:17.920 --> 1:32:21.600 into it are of US supply, and then we manufacture 1:32:21.640 --> 1:32:25.000 that at our facility. But actually for us, the journey 1:32:25.080 --> 1:32:28.280 was kind of it was multi years, six years from 1:32:28.320 --> 1:32:30.880 start to finish. And for us, what we actually had 1:32:30.880 --> 1:32:32.920 to do was we did the our designs. These are 1:32:33.000 --> 1:32:37.640 we called the ODM Original Design Manufacturer whereas Purism designs. 1:32:37.960 --> 1:32:40.760 Then we actually went to we did our dev kit 1:32:41.240 --> 1:32:45.280 first at our same facility just north of San Diego. 1:32:45.680 --> 1:32:48.040 Then we actually flew to China to do the initial 1:32:48.080 --> 1:32:51.360 contract manufacturing of a phone because that's where all phones 1:32:51.400 --> 1:32:54.439 are made, and that's called our Librung five and we 1:32:54.479 --> 1:32:57.880 put that out about twenty nineteen. Then we brought all 1:32:57.920 --> 1:33:00.479 that back to the US and then we did on 1:33:00.520 --> 1:33:05.200 our own SMT line that we can produce the actual 1:33:05.240 --> 1:33:08.360 electronics and then we do all the assembly. We do 1:33:08.439 --> 1:33:11.400 that at our facility and then we ship those out 1:33:11.479 --> 1:33:13.880 to you know, any customers who's buying direct. 1:33:14.120 --> 1:33:15.320 So that's a completely made in. 1:33:15.280 --> 1:33:18.439 The USA electronics because we still have to source some 1:33:18.479 --> 1:33:22.120 components outside of the US, but those are in small quantities. 1:33:22.120 --> 1:33:24.760 If you're looking at like a thousand total parts that 1:33:24.800 --> 1:33:27.840 go into a phone, you know, maybe ten percent are 1:33:27.880 --> 1:33:31.200 outside the US, with the super majority our components that 1:33:31.240 --> 1:33:32.920 are done in the US and we do all the 1:33:32.920 --> 1:33:34.320 manufacturing ourselves. 1:33:34.880 --> 1:33:37.680 So with this phone, this Liberty phone, it's got you know, 1:33:37.720 --> 1:33:40.719 your operating system on it. So can I download Android 1:33:40.760 --> 1:33:42.960 apps or what? You know? How am I limited in 1:33:43.000 --> 1:33:44.479 the apps that I can use? I see a bunch 1:33:44.479 --> 1:33:46.200 of them on the screen that looks like, you know, 1:33:46.560 --> 1:33:48.479 the stuff you're used to, like a phone dial er 1:33:48.520 --> 1:33:51.040 and a messaging app, Like can I use this like 1:33:51.040 --> 1:33:52.000 a regular phone? 1:33:52.520 --> 1:33:55.040 Yeah, So there's a what we call the app gap. 1:33:55.120 --> 1:33:57.960 So that's something that we're still continuously closing. But when 1:33:57.960 --> 1:34:02.080 you're looking at basic functionality calling, text, browser, calculator, music player, 1:34:02.280 --> 1:34:04.679 those types of things, they all work because we've invested 1:34:04.680 --> 1:34:06.960 the time and energy to make them happen. But when 1:34:06.960 --> 1:34:14.720 you're looking at the branded third party applications Snapchat, you know, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger. 1:34:15.120 --> 1:34:20.519 Those are produced by these big tech companies in and 1:34:20.600 --> 1:34:23.840 their applications clearly run on Android or iOS and they 1:34:23.840 --> 1:34:26.400 don't run in puros. But there's ways for us to 1:34:26.439 --> 1:34:28.759 close that app gap, and one of the primary ways 1:34:29.040 --> 1:34:30.839 is that if you can run it in the browser 1:34:30.960 --> 1:34:34.759 like Uber or LinkedIn or IMDb, those run just fine. 1:34:34.880 --> 1:34:37.439 But when you're getting to these third party name brands 1:34:37.439 --> 1:34:40.559 where they have a lot of functionality built natively in them, 1:34:40.760 --> 1:34:43.920 then we need to emulate those Android applications. And actually 1:34:43.960 --> 1:34:46.520 the way we do it is by running them in isolation, 1:34:46.840 --> 1:34:49.200 so they actually don't penetrate into all the things that 1:34:49.240 --> 1:34:51.639 you don't want them to, right, We sort of cut 1:34:51.640 --> 1:34:54.040 off the creepiness and then we are able to run 1:34:54.080 --> 1:34:56.719 those applications, but we don't have them all yet. That's 1:34:56.800 --> 1:34:59.040 what we call closing the app gap. And so it's 1:34:59.080 --> 1:35:01.920 a process for us. You know, number of apps is 1:35:01.960 --> 1:35:04.400 just momentum and time. We have plenty of momentum, so 1:35:04.400 --> 1:35:06.639 it's just a matter of time before we get those 1:35:06.680 --> 1:35:10.360 applications you need. And that kind of relates to use case. Right, 1:35:10.439 --> 1:35:12.880 there's a hand there's a bunch of people, millions of 1:35:12.880 --> 1:35:15.800 people that would like a basic phone that doesn't spy 1:35:15.880 --> 1:35:21.559 on them, and we already use case yeah, and so 1:35:21.760 --> 1:35:23.080 then and then you have a bunch of people that 1:35:23.120 --> 1:35:24.840 are like, no, I need Snapchat, and I need three 1:35:24.880 --> 1:35:28.160 cameras and I need a GPU for processing my video. 1:35:28.400 --> 1:35:30.240 But you know that's not the audience we're able to 1:35:30.320 --> 1:35:32.240 satisfy today with the hardware or software. 1:35:32.280 --> 1:35:37.920 Yet the price it's a it's starting a ninety nine dollars. 1:35:38.760 --> 1:35:41.439 You know, it's expensive. Do you feel like you can 1:35:41.479 --> 1:35:42.960 get that price down over time? 1:35:43.800 --> 1:35:45.600 Yes, we can. So there's a couple of ways that 1:35:45.640 --> 1:35:48.360 we did this. The first is we actually have a 1:35:48.400 --> 1:35:50.800 lead Rum five that we did our contract manufacturing out 1:35:50.840 --> 1:35:53.360 of China. That's a seven hundred ninety nine dollars phone. 1:35:53.439 --> 1:35:56.200 Our cost of goods is only about six hundred dollars 1:35:56.200 --> 1:35:57.519 for that, so we don't have a lot of margin 1:35:57.600 --> 1:35:59.960 on that, but that's sort of the lower cost version 1:36:00.240 --> 1:36:02.720 of our entire design. And then we brought that to 1:36:02.760 --> 1:36:05.320 the US. We only it's about a ten percent lift 1:36:05.360 --> 1:36:07.280 on our cost of goods, so it's about six hundred 1:36:07.280 --> 1:36:09.840 and fifty dollars to produce the US version. So you 1:36:09.880 --> 1:36:12.360 can see that the price point can come down even 1:36:12.360 --> 1:36:15.920 if we have with even retaining healthy margins. The reason 1:36:15.960 --> 1:36:18.120 that we sell it for nineteen ninety nine is because 1:36:18.120 --> 1:36:20.479 we sell half of it to the U to consumer 1:36:20.560 --> 1:36:23.400 and half to the US government, where we have additional 1:36:23.760 --> 1:36:28.240 layers of benefit, secure supply chain, making sure that all 1:36:28.280 --> 1:36:32.080 those components are able to be verified. We publish our 1:36:32.320 --> 1:36:34.760 bill of materials so that those can be verified. We 1:36:34.800 --> 1:36:37.320 publish all of our source code so that that can 1:36:37.360 --> 1:36:39.280 be verified. You can see with all of those things, 1:36:39.320 --> 1:36:42.280 that adds some overhead that's needed. So we sell at 1:36:42.320 --> 1:36:45.519 that higher price point. Once we get to volume, then 1:36:45.520 --> 1:36:47.479 we're able to lower that price point down. But that's 1:36:47.720 --> 1:36:50.439 the reason that we chose the higher margin play for that. 1:36:50.560 --> 1:36:52.160 And then I guess the last bit is we're the 1:36:52.200 --> 1:36:55.520 only phone where we where the Manu electronics are manufactured 1:36:55.520 --> 1:36:57.840 in the US, right, so that allows us to say, hey, 1:36:57.840 --> 1:37:01.080 we have market exclusivity. Let's put this a reasonable price 1:37:01.280 --> 1:37:03.000 to be able to fund all these other things that 1:37:03.000 --> 1:37:03.439 we're doing. 1:37:03.720 --> 1:37:03.920 Right. 1:37:04.000 --> 1:37:06.439 Okay, so a couple things in the news. Obviously the 1:37:06.920 --> 1:37:08.960 iPhone being made in the US. Do you think that 1:37:09.000 --> 1:37:12.559 could happen? And then Trump came out with Trump Mobile 1:37:13.560 --> 1:37:15.040 saying that they were going to have a phone made 1:37:15.080 --> 1:37:16.960 in the US. I think they've backtracked a little bit 1:37:16.960 --> 1:37:19.839 about that. But do you think those two things are possible? 1:37:21.280 --> 1:37:24.240 So the first one, when you're talking about Apple, I 1:37:24.280 --> 1:37:26.479 do think that, But let's also be clear, when you 1:37:26.479 --> 1:37:29.240 stay made in USA that has a very distinct all 1:37:29.400 --> 1:37:32.880 or virtually all has to be US of US origin now. 1:37:32.920 --> 1:37:34.519 And the other thing is Apple has to move a 1:37:34.640 --> 1:37:37.200 gigantic ball forward. Right, So when we did it, we're 1:37:37.200 --> 1:37:40.040 looking at tens of thousands of devices. When they're looking 1:37:40.040 --> 1:37:41.920 at it, they would be looking at a million per month. 1:37:42.280 --> 1:37:44.479 So to move that forward, they would really have to 1:37:44.520 --> 1:37:49.000 be incentivized significantly and over enough time to actually bring 1:37:49.080 --> 1:37:52.640 that to the US, such as I've even proposed, like 1:37:52.680 --> 1:37:55.240 if the tariffs can be very powerful, and if that's 1:37:55.320 --> 1:37:57.400 used as an incentive, it would have to be something 1:37:57.479 --> 1:38:00.439 like twenty five percent increase every year for ten year years, 1:38:00.720 --> 1:38:02.760 and then they could see, wow, that's something they could 1:38:02.760 --> 1:38:05.559 plan around. So then you can start seeing some of 1:38:05.560 --> 1:38:07.400 that reshorting. But getting to the point of a fully 1:38:07.439 --> 1:38:09.599 made in USA, it's going to take an awful lot 1:38:09.680 --> 1:38:12.160 more effort than just one company looking to move it 1:38:12.240 --> 1:38:16.080 here because the supply chain itself. Of all those components 1:38:16.080 --> 1:38:19.160 have to be done. Here, I'll highlight one point. Every 1:38:19.160 --> 1:38:23.120 phone except ours uses Qualcom or Media Tech chipsets. 1:38:23.439 --> 1:38:24.759 Those are not made in the US. 1:38:25.280 --> 1:38:28.200 The NXP CPU that we put in our phone is 1:38:28.520 --> 1:38:31.760 fabbed in Texas, So that's an example of having to 1:38:31.840 --> 1:38:33.800 choose a different chip set to actually put into a 1:38:33.800 --> 1:38:36.599 phone to make it happen. The last question you brought 1:38:36.680 --> 1:38:39.559 up is the Trump Mobile, which I've spoken quite a 1:38:39.560 --> 1:38:42.559 bit about. That phone in the current specs are Chinese made, 1:38:43.080 --> 1:38:45.640 and by calling them out a number of times on 1:38:45.680 --> 1:38:50.920 this issue, they've backtracked that to they've removed those claims, right, 1:38:52.280 --> 1:38:54.280 and that's wise of them. It would have been wiser 1:38:54.320 --> 1:38:58.559 for them to actually source a US made phone such 1:38:58.600 --> 1:39:00.840 as ours to be able to provide it, as opposed to, 1:39:01.960 --> 1:39:04.360 you know, putting just something up that was clearly going 1:39:04.439 --> 1:39:05.439 to be of Chinese origin. 1:39:05.600 --> 1:39:05.800 Yeah. 1:39:05.800 --> 1:39:07.679 I mean, I could say I'm not a deal maker, 1:39:07.680 --> 1:39:10.240 but I mean I'm saying, like, why not just partner 1:39:10.240 --> 1:39:12.519 with you? All Right, we've got less than a minute. 1:39:12.600 --> 1:39:15.240 How's business fantastic? 1:39:15.479 --> 1:39:18.160 We've actually been growing overall, been ten years in business, 1:39:19.200 --> 1:39:21.360 last two years have been profitable, so we've invested tens 1:39:21.360 --> 1:39:24.360 of millions of dollars thirty million total in revs, and 1:39:24.760 --> 1:39:27.040 you know have healthy margins, so continue to grow. 1:39:27.000 --> 1:39:30.840 All right, Todd Weaver fin very fascinating conversation, Thanks so 1:39:30.920 --> 1:39:34.480 much for coming on the show. Founder and CEO of Purism. 1:39:34.800 --> 1:39:38.920 They are doing privacy centric phones and phones made in 1:39:38.960 --> 1:39:43.120 the USA website p U r I dot SM. I'll 1:39:43.120 --> 1:39:45.920 put the link on my website. Rich on Tech dot 1:39:45.960 --> 1:39:52.519 TV feedback coming up next. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:39:52.920 --> 1:39:54.960 We're going to get right into it because we got 1:39:54.960 --> 1:39:57.920 a lot in the feedback. A couple of stories before 1:39:57.920 --> 1:40:00.720 we get to that. First, off At is going to 1:40:00.720 --> 1:40:03.720 pay one hundred and seventy seven million dollars in a 1:40:03.800 --> 1:40:09.639 data breach settlement. Two major data breaches that exposed customer information. 1:40:09.720 --> 1:40:12.360 The first was in March twenty twenty four, leaked names, 1:40:12.439 --> 1:40:15.639 birth dates, phone numbers, and socials of over seventy million people. 1:40:16.320 --> 1:40:21.000 Second breach involved call metadata. So there's two funds and 1:40:21.160 --> 1:40:24.280 basically you can file for both of them. Up to 1:40:24.320 --> 1:40:28.160 five thousand dollars for documented losses from identity theft for 1:40:28.200 --> 1:40:31.120 the first breach, twenty five hundred dollars for losses from 1:40:31.439 --> 1:40:35.639 the second breach. If you didn't document your losses, you'll 1:40:35.680 --> 1:40:38.920 just get a flat rate cash payment and the highest 1:40:38.920 --> 1:40:44.200 payouts for those folks who have their socials exposed. But yeah, 1:40:44.360 --> 1:40:47.560 there's no reason. Claims have to be submitted by October seventeenth, 1:40:47.680 --> 1:40:50.439 twenty twenty five, and the payout depends on how many 1:40:50.479 --> 1:40:52.840 valid claims. And they still have to finalize it, I 1:40:52.880 --> 1:40:57.080 believe in December, but oh yeah, here it is December sixteenth. 1:40:57.280 --> 1:40:59.920 So if you if you're part of this, notices will 1:40:59.920 --> 1:41:02.360 be sent out this summer. So be on the lookout 1:41:02.400 --> 1:41:04.040 if you get a notice about an AT and T 1:41:04.120 --> 1:41:10.839 settlement from Kroll Settlement Administration. That is legit. Spectrum TV customers, 1:41:10.840 --> 1:41:13.360 if you have Spectrum TV Select, you now get Hulu 1:41:13.400 --> 1:41:16.599 at no extra cost. Hulu with ads is now included 1:41:16.680 --> 1:41:20.599 in Spectrum TV Select. Let's see here, that and that. 1:41:20.680 --> 1:41:24.120 Now they've got so many streaming services included with Spectrum 1:41:24.120 --> 1:41:29.759 TV now Disney Plus, Hulu, Paramount, Max, Peacock, amc Vix. 1:41:30.479 --> 1:41:34.200 So it's all based on that Spectrum TV Select and 1:41:34.240 --> 1:41:36.640 it's all the stuff with ads. But you know, you 1:41:36.640 --> 1:41:39.760 can always upgrade if you don't want the ads. And 1:41:39.800 --> 1:41:43.920 then Ring is adding AI powered video descriptions to its alerts, 1:41:44.280 --> 1:41:46.760 so instead of just saying motion detected, AI is going 1:41:46.800 --> 1:41:48.599 to actually kind of look at the video and give 1:41:48.600 --> 1:41:52.080 you a much better description of what's happening in that alert, 1:41:52.520 --> 1:41:55.760 so you can kind of distinguish urgent things from just 1:41:55.880 --> 1:41:59.920 everyday activity. That's rolling out in beta for paying subscri 1:42:01.000 --> 1:42:03.600 and it works with all current ring cameras and doorbells, 1:42:03.640 --> 1:42:06.120 so no need to upgrade your hardware for that. So 1:42:06.160 --> 1:42:07.960 instead of just saying motion alert, it's going to say 1:42:08.000 --> 1:42:10.280 something like two people are peering into a car in 1:42:10.320 --> 1:42:14.000 the driveway, so very very specific. All right, Time for 1:42:14.040 --> 1:42:16.760 the feedbag. That's your feedback plus the mail bag. These 1:42:16.760 --> 1:42:18.920 are the emails, the comments, questions I get from you. 1:42:19.439 --> 1:42:21.120 If you want to submit, go to Rich on tech 1:42:21.160 --> 1:42:26.280 dot tv hit contact. Let's see Steve from Mission Viajo says, 1:42:26.320 --> 1:42:28.320 I have a Galaxy S twenty two plus and I'm 1:42:28.360 --> 1:42:31.479 thinking about getting a newer model or maybe switching to Apple. 1:42:31.920 --> 1:42:34.040 My wife has an iPhone and iPad. She always says 1:42:34.080 --> 1:42:38.160 I need to get a quote real phone. Help. Well, Steve, 1:42:38.240 --> 1:42:40.879 first off, you have a real phone. It's a Galaxy. 1:42:40.920 --> 1:42:43.200 That's an excellent phone. I don't think you need to 1:42:43.280 --> 1:42:45.479 change anything as long as you're getting software updates, and 1:42:45.520 --> 1:42:48.559 this is still getting security updates. Tell your wife, hey, 1:42:49.479 --> 1:42:52.840 I love you, but my phone is just fine. But 1:42:53.320 --> 1:42:55.360 with that said, if you want to switch to an iPhone, 1:42:55.400 --> 1:42:57.439 it's not a bad idea because she's got one. You 1:42:57.479 --> 1:42:59.840 want to be in the ecosystem and she can help 1:42:59.880 --> 1:43:03.120 you with it. I would check out the iPhone sixteen E. 1:43:03.240 --> 1:43:06.519 It's simple, it's a solid phone, and it's about six 1:43:06.720 --> 1:43:09.200 hundred dollars. But don't feel like you have to give 1:43:09.240 --> 1:43:13.120 into that peer pressure. Candace says, I enjoy your show. 1:43:13.200 --> 1:43:16.000 I received a podcast link by email and I want 1:43:16.000 --> 1:43:18.719 to add it to my Apple Music playlist to listen 1:43:18.720 --> 1:43:20.240 on a plane. What's the best way to do this? 1:43:21.560 --> 1:43:23.400 Not Apple Music. You have to open up the Apple 1:43:23.479 --> 1:43:27.160 Podcasts app on your phone, tap search. You can find 1:43:27.200 --> 1:43:29.880 the show or the episode whatever they sent you. You 1:43:29.880 --> 1:43:33.680 can just search for that and then tap follow and 1:43:33.720 --> 1:43:35.599 then use the three dot menu in the upper right 1:43:35.600 --> 1:43:38.680 hand corner to download the episode. And then once you 1:43:38.720 --> 1:43:40.640 download it, just to be sure before you hop on 1:43:40.640 --> 1:43:43.400 that plane, switch your phone into airplane mode and test 1:43:43.720 --> 1:43:45.519 to make sure that it plays. Because there's so many 1:43:45.600 --> 1:43:47.680 times that I've gotten on an airplane. I think I 1:43:47.760 --> 1:43:50.720 downloaded stuff on Netflix or whatever and there's some sort 1:43:50.760 --> 1:43:52.280 of error and you only figure it out once you 1:43:52.320 --> 1:43:55.000 get up in the sky. So flip your phone into 1:43:55.000 --> 1:43:57.920 airplane mode if you're downloading stuff for the plane, be 1:43:58.080 --> 1:44:01.679 at your house and see if the stuff. That's my tip, 1:44:02.479 --> 1:44:04.560 Eva says. I took my Pixel seven A to the 1:44:04.640 --> 1:44:07.120 Verizon store. They told me it doesn't support eSIMs, even 1:44:07.120 --> 1:44:09.840 though everything I've read says it does. I'm planning to 1:44:09.920 --> 1:44:12.759 go to another store, hoping I just got some bad info. Also, 1:44:12.800 --> 1:44:14.640 I love Google Lens. I used it in Japan and 1:44:14.680 --> 1:44:18.920 Europe and preferred over Google Translate. I love Google Lens too, 1:44:19.000 --> 1:44:20.840 but you have to have a connection for that one 1:44:20.880 --> 1:44:24.800 to work. So Google Translate can work offline because you 1:44:24.800 --> 1:44:27.160 can download the language pack and so that's what I 1:44:27.240 --> 1:44:30.000 like about that. As for the SIM, as far as 1:44:30.040 --> 1:44:32.920 I know, the Pixel seven A does support them. So 1:44:33.120 --> 1:44:36.880 perhaps Verizon was saying that your phone doesn't because it's locked, 1:44:37.439 --> 1:44:40.040 So that could be the problem. You have to have 1:44:40.080 --> 1:44:43.040 an unlocked phone. But if it works, you can install 1:44:43.080 --> 1:44:46.519 it through the aerlow app Ai r Alo. That's the 1:44:46.520 --> 1:44:50.679 one I use a lot. Pine says, band calls about 1:44:50.720 --> 1:44:53.599 printer issues on your show that was rough to listen 1:44:53.600 --> 1:44:57.040 to last week. Lol, Yes they are. That's why I 1:44:57.040 --> 1:45:00.240 say no printer issues guaranteed I can't solve them. Games 1:45:00.240 --> 1:45:02.320 from San Diego says I'm using Chrome on Mac and 1:45:02.360 --> 1:45:04.880 I'm getting a dollar back on each Amazon purchase from 1:45:05.200 --> 1:45:09.040 both simply codes and shop back. That's two dollars per order. 1:45:09.080 --> 1:45:12.320 Thanks for mentioning both. Well, thank you for using both. 1:45:12.360 --> 1:45:14.320 I didn't know you could do both. Double dip in there, 1:45:15.000 --> 1:45:17.439 John and Oklahoma City says I recently found your show 1:45:17.479 --> 1:45:21.920 on KTOK yes home of the OKC Thunder NBA Champs. First, 1:45:21.960 --> 1:45:24.080 let me assure you this message was not written by 1:45:24.120 --> 1:45:26.160 chat GBT. You can tell because it doesn't start with 1:45:26.439 --> 1:45:29.200 I hope this message finds you well now the complaint. 1:45:29.240 --> 1:45:31.600 It is very inconsiderate of you to only do this 1:45:31.640 --> 1:45:34.599 show once a week. I'm disappointed. I've had to figure 1:45:34.600 --> 1:45:36.599 out how to use a podcast app just to listen 1:45:36.680 --> 1:45:39.920 to the older shows. Solution air it every day. But 1:45:40.000 --> 1:45:43.479 if you're really too busy with your KTLA TV stuff, 1:45:43.720 --> 1:45:45.920 I'd be willing to settle for three times a week 1:45:46.320 --> 1:45:48.320 in all seriousness. I love the show. I look forward 1:45:48.360 --> 1:45:50.640 to it. I really appreciate you what you do and 1:45:50.720 --> 1:45:54.760 wanted to share well. Thank you, John. Your email is 1:45:54.800 --> 1:45:56.760 the email of the week that's going to do it 1:45:56.760 --> 1:45:58.560 for this episode. You can find links to everything I 1:45:58.640 --> 1:46:03.160 mentioned on my website. Just let's go to richontech dot tv. 1:46:03.640 --> 1:46:06.519 Find me on social media. I am at rich on tech. 1:46:06.600 --> 1:46:09.759 Instagram is where I mostly hang out. Next week, July 1:46:09.920 --> 1:46:12.839 fourth weekend, I'm gonna be reading a lot of your emails. 1:46:12.920 --> 1:46:14.880 Of course, I'll take your calls as well, but if 1:46:14.880 --> 1:46:17.000 you want to get those emails in with those questions, 1:46:17.400 --> 1:46:20.200 go to rich on tech dot tv, hit contact, or 1:46:20.320 --> 1:46:24.080 just send them to feedback at richontech dot tv. Thanks 1:46:24.080 --> 1:46:26.439 for listening. I appreciate you spending your time with me. 1:46:26.920 --> 1:46:29.599 One reminder, don't text and drive. Whatever it is, it 1:46:29.640 --> 1:46:32.719 can wait. Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible. 1:46:32.840 --> 1:46:35.720 Kim Bobo, my guests, my name is rich Dmiro. I 1:46:35.760 --> 1:46:37.360 will talk to you real soon.