WEBVTT - Emergency Tech, Best TVs for the Big Game & Real-Life Jurassic Park 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:04.920 Nintendo finally on veils the switch to I'll tell you 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:08.879 what we know about the new console, my review of 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:13.800 the one plus thirteen smartphone. Three new apps to know. 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:17.000 One helps you find the best movies to watch. Another 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:21.439 saves money on airfare, and there's tender but for skiers. 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:25.920 Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.600 Demiro and this is Rich on Tech. This is the 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:31.800 show where I talk about the tech stuff I think 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.159 you should know about. It's also the place where I 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:38.200 answer your questions about technology. I believe the tech should 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:42.880 be interesting, useful, and fun. Let's open up those phone 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:46.919 lines at triple eight rich one oh one, triple eight 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.440 rich one O one. That's eight eight eight seven four 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.920 to two four one zero one. Give me a call. 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:56.640 If you have a question or need some advice about technology. 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.560 Email is also open. Just go to Rich on tech 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:07.199 dot tv and hit contact Guests. This week, we've got 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:11.600 Mike Yurachkoh. He lost everything in the Kincaid fire a 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:15.280 few years ago. He turned his experience into helping others. 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:17.880 He's going to tell us about his free platform that 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:22.480 helps disaster victims rebuild their lives. And if you're looking 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.480 for a new TV before the big game. We've got 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:28.479 Digital Trends Editor at Large and friend of the show, 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.880 Caleb Dennison. He's going to join us with his picks 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:38.119 for every budget. Welcome to another episode of rich On Tech. 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.040 Thanks so much for being here. I really appreciate it. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.959 As you know, here in the LA area, it has 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:49.120 been really really wild because of these fires, and we 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.920 are through the fires thankfully, but I figured it has 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:54.320 kind of been a wake up call for a lot 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:58.760 of people, especially myself, and just thinking about how to 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:03.680 be prepared door an emergency. We've got so much technology 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:06.960 out there in the world. I figured I would go 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:08.680 over some of the things that you might want to 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.960 have at the ready in case anything happens. You know, 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.800 wherever you live, there's we talk about this. No matter 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.840 where you live in the US, there is some sort 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.880 of natural disaster risk. You cannot escape it. You're in 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:28.440 LA it's like everything. It's like floods, it's wildfires, it's earthquakes, 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.440 it's high winds. You know, you're in other places. It 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.680 might be a hurricane, it might be a tornado, it 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.000 might be heavy rains, it might be fog. I mean, 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.400 there's just snow. I mean there's something that affects every 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:44.040 part of this extreme heat. So no matter where you are, 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:45.680 you might want to invest in some of this stuff. 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:47.360 You might have a power outage, you might have a 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.400 time when you're off the grid you have no signal. 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:51.679 These are the things that I think you should take 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.240 a look at. Number one. If you have not bought 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.280 a portable battery pack in a while, the new ones 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:01.280 are much faster at charging than before. If your battery pack, 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:02.799 you know, one of these things you plug your phone 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:04.639 into on the go. If it's got one of those 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:08.799 old USB A ports, that's not good anymore. Get one 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.840 with a USB C. And if you go with a 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.840 wireless charging model, the new ones are what's called G 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:19.520 two and it's spelled weird. It's Qi even though it's 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:24.760 pronounced Chi. But G too. Wireless can recharge your devices faster, 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.720 so fifteen watts instead of the old seven and a 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:31.280 half watts. Go get one of those. I posted one 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:35.440 to my Instagram. People are going bananas over it now. 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.040 Some of these power banks also double as wall chargers, 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.080 so I tested one called the Belkan power Boost. This 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.600 is a wall charger, so you plug your phone in. 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:47.000 But it also is a portable battery bank as well. 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.080 So just by plugging your phone into this and plugging 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.440 this into the wall, it's charged at all times. Even 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.560 if you unplugged it from the wall, you're still going 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.600 to get a little bit of charging for your phone. 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.240 So these all have a number associated with them, a 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:04.040 milliamp hour number. So the lowest is usually about five 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:07.400 thousand milliamps. That's going to charge your smartphone about once. 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:09.960 Then you go up from there ten thousand million amps, 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.920 twenty thousand millionamp hours and there. The higher that number, 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:17.120 the bigger the device is going to be, but also 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.160 the more charges you're going to get out of that device. 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.599 Now keep in mind you want to get USBC in 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.560 and out to charge these things, because if it's just 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.440 USB in to charge it, you're charging still going to 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:31.800 be slow when you go to actually charge your phone. 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.520 Number two a portable power station. This is great for 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.040 sort of either. I mean, these things get giant. You 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.600 can power so many things off of these, and they 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.880 just get bigger and bigger every trade show I go to. 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:47.160 But these are a portable power station. Brands like jackeri 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.680 Ecoflow Blue Eddy, there's so many of them out there, 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.480 so these are think of them as a portable battery 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.360 pack for your phone, but for more like everything else 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.960 in your house, small appliances. It's got an AC out 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.000 lead on it, so you can actually plug in sort 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:06.159 of a standard plug in addition to USB power. It's 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.679 got every port you can imagine. So these are great 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.240 if you want to just have a giant power bank 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:15.120 for your house and when the power goes out, this 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.120 will come in handy. Now also, and if you've gone 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.320 hiking you probably know this, but you can pair these 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.400 with solar panels. So a lot of these devices you 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.160 can get a solar panel, portable solar panel that plugs 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.240 into them, and that will give you more continuous power 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.600 if the power goes out, so you can just continue 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.280 charging these from the sun and it's not going to 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.839 be it's a slower charge. The sun does not charge 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:39.920 things fast, but at least you know you can have 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.400 continuous power over time, and so that's another way to 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:44.840 get these things. And they start at you know, one 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.520 hundred and fifty dollars. They go up to probably one 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.240 thousand dollars if you want, or more depending on how 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:54.919 large they are. Now speaking, of solar charging. I posted 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:56.760 this to my Instagram as well. I talked about it 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:02.760 on last week's show, this silly Ecoflow, which seems silly, 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.320 but the more I think about it, it's not a 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.280 bad idea. If you're going hiking, you are without power, 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.279 you just need a charge. You're at a you know, 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.640 one of those festivals in the desert that's all day 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:15.640 and you want your phone to be juiced up. So 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.960 this is a solar powered hat and you can check 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.080 it out on my Instagram at rich On Tech. It's 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.000 from Ecoflow and it's got a little battery on the underside, 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:24.960 so the top it's like kind of imagine a big 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.560 floppy hat protects you from the sun. It's got SPF protection, 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.359 UV protection, But on the bottom there's a little battery 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.880 pack and it's got a USB c and a USB 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.400 a plug you can plug your charging cable into, so 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.280 you can theoretically just charge your phone all day long 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.080 from your head from this hat. And I know people 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.599 are debating the merits at my Instagram saying, you know, 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:50.839 is this for wicked witches? Like what's the deal with 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.880 this thing? But you know what, hey, if you need it, 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.279 why not next up emergency rate. Oh that's about ninety 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.800 dollars on sale right now. Usually it's about one hundred 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.919 and twent emergency radio. You may be listening to me 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.320 on the radio right now. This is a powerful source 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:11.320 of information. People turn to traditional media when there is 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:15.000 an emergency. So get yourself a crank, a hand crank radio. 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.280 There's a lot of emergency radio brands out there. You 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.960 can search Amazon for these. They've got the AFM bands, 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.520 also the weather bands, so you can get critical information 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.400 when you know, things like streaming or whatever else you 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:32.000 turn to TikTok and that kind of stuff is not working. 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:35.960 And the fact that it's hand crank is nice because 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.760 you can just crank this thing up and listen. And 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.800 speaking of hand crank flashlights, get yourself a nice flashlight 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.640 for my house. I don't know why, but every time 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.360 I need a flashlight, the battery seem to be dead. 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.960 So you can combat that with another hand crank flashlight 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.560 that you know works on just cranking it up. It's 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.760 got a little battery in there, so yes, it will work, 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:58.920 but you can use that hand crank to sort of 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.560 power the battery. And I did have one person email 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.320 me and say, hey, Rich, don't forget to remind your 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.120 listeners that you want to crank these things every so 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.239 often because the battery will go completely dead. And yes, 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:12.640 with all of these things that have a battery, make 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:16.280 sure that you are kind of maintaining that charge every 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.600 couple of months. Just check on these things to make 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:22.040 sure they're still working. But you know, these LED flashlights 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:25.600 these days are brighter, they're more energy efficient, and just 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:29.560 keep those batteries charged, because even if you're using traditional batteries, 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.800 just make sure they're still working because for some reason, 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:34.800 like I said, in my house, they always seem to 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.200 be dead when we need them the most. Now, this 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.520 was a new one satellite internet, so this is kind 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:44.360 of an up and coming way to battle outages. I 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.360 think the cellular companies were pretty good about getting their 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.320 service up and running again in these affected areas, but 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.319 that could take time depending on where you are. And 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.040 you know, if you want to be connected all the time, 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.439 you've got a couple of options right now. Well, one 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.800 main option starlink is fifty dollars a month. They offer 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.520 a backup internet plan, So this is a plan that 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:08.200 you would have theoretically in addition to your regular home internet, 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.080 and then you can just use that when you need 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:14.320 backup internet. And that's fifty dollars a month. It's capped 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.080 I think at fifty gigs a month of data. But 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:21.400 then Amazon is gonna launch their project Kiper later this year, 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.760 so they've got eighty three launches. They're gonna have satellite 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:27.600 internet that they promise is cheaper and more powerful, faster 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.760 than starlink, so competition's good there. Also, I would say 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:36.360 digital backups of your essential documents like IDs, insurance policies, 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.040 medical records. Put them on a flash drive in your 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.960 emergency kit, or put them in a secure cloud folder 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.800 so you can have easy access to this stuff during emergencies. 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:47.520 You know, the last thing you want to do is 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:49.880 be looking around for this stuff when you need it 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.720 the most. And then my pal Jefferson Graham and his 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.920 newsletter today added that maybe a portable car battery or charger, 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.400 so you can get a device that can jumpstart your 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.679 without the need for another vehicle. I have not tried these, 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:09.120 but I've seen them and if they work, which you know, 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.400 why would they not. If people like them, then you 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:13.920 know that's a good idea. I did have some comments 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.440 on my Instagram when I posted all of these tech things, 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:21.160 and some other folks added fire retardant gel, a spryer, 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.760 and a hose. Solar power station is a life saver. 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.680 Don't forget headlamps for the family. A pump to draw 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.200 water from the pool and to connect to a sprinkler 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.240 system on the roof is essential. Don't overlook the life 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:36.640 straw for clean drinking water. Take pictures of every room 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.320 of your house, save them on a flash drive, email 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:43.560 copies of important documents, keep iodined two percent handy to 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:47.600 purify water in emergencies. And finally another Steve says guns 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.800 and ammunition could be essential for some All right, we're 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.440 gonna leave it there, rich on tech dot TV. If 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.800 you want more information on any of this emergency tech, 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.920 you can find the link right on my website. All right, 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:01.760 coming up, we're going to take some of your calls 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.720 eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:08.120 seven four to two four one zero one or email 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.920 me at the website richon tech dot TV. Coming up, 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.760 I'll have my review of the one plus thirteen smartphone, 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:23.640 plus your calls right here on rich on Tech Valerie, 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:24.640 you're on with Rich. 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.280 Hi, listen, I'm having a hard time. Yes, I did 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.479 go to Wikipedia and I saw the very nice spreadsheeted 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:37.120 head comparing all the different music streaming services. But my 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.720 question is pretty simple. I want to know if I 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.959 can put in my own playlist. I have a very 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:48.720 eclectic kind of genre that I like, everything from Luchinolsen 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.280 to Chuck Berry to deaf punk, and I need it 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:56.880 for a thirty minutes of exercise on the elliptical machine. 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.920 Ah, Valerie, you can. You can do the playlist for 0:11:59.920 --> 0:12:04.360 the show with that eclectic taste. So the answer is yes. 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:08.360 Almost every one of the streaming services will let you 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.160 make your own playlists. Now you're using their music, so 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:15.079 if you stop paying, everything will go away. You'll still 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.280 be able to access some of the features, but there 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.319 may be ads depending on which service that you're subscribing to. 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:26.480 So if it's something like Spotify or YouTube Music or 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.840 Apple Music, all of them lets you make your own 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:35.920 playlists with their songs. So which one are you leaning towards. 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:41.839 I'm leaning towards either Pandora or Spotify because I am 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:45.840 an elderly lady who is still on the elliptical machine 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:49.080 and working out and very busy, and I need that 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:51.520 music beat. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.480 So yeah, yeah, I hear you. I like to work 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.240 out on the I went on the treadmill this morning 0:12:56.280 --> 0:13:02.040 and I had some music. Here's the thing, Pandora. I 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.600 guess they do have a plan where you can make 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:08.480 and share playlists with them, But you know, and what's 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:13.600 the other one, you said, Spotify? Yeah, okay, I mean Pandora. Okay, 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:17.840 So Pandora traditionally has been more geared towards them playing 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.600 music for you. So you pick a song and you 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.080 kind of thumbs up stuff, you thumbs down stuff, and 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.520 they will play what they think you will like and 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:29.559 it gets really good. It's been around forever. Spotify, on 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:33.440 the other hand, is much more like a music collection, 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.040 like it's it's meant for like someone who wants to, 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.280 you know, explore what's on there. And look at that. 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.280 I'm trying to think about the plans that they have. 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:47.840 So if you look at the plans for Pandora, it's 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.439 ten ninety nine a month if you want that ability 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:56.040 to make your own playlists. Okay, So Spotify is eleven 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.760 ninety nine a month for individual premium, so twelve dollars. 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:04.560 So it's a little bit cheaper to go with the Pandora. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:08.720 What about Amazon? Have you thought about them? 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.280 I don't know. Can I put in my own playlist? 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.200 You can? And here's the thing. Do you have Amazon Prime? 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:15.360 I do? 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.439 Okay, So I think Amazon Music might be a better 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.120 choice because you can traditionally get that for a little 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:25.240 bit cheaper than some of the other plans out there. 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:29.040 So maybe Amazon might be something to look into. Plus 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.960 you get audiobooks included, so that might be something that 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:32.800 you're interested in. 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.160 Okay, So yeah, I'm on my son's Prime. 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.840 Okay, Well, if you have Prime, you'll still it'll still 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:44.040 it should still work. So but you know, I've I've 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.560 used every single one of the music services, and I 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:50.560 think that overall, I think Spotify does a really good job, 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:54.040 and I think they have great playlists pre programmed. That 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:58.320 would probably be my pick overall. I think that Amazon 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.400 is very simple. It's got good playlist, but it's very simple, 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.600 and so you might just want to look at prices, 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.280 and so I think when it comes down to pricing, 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.000 another thing to keep in mind is paying in advance. 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:12.960 Some of these services let you pay for like a 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.320 full year at the same time, and you'll also save 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:19.800 money there, so that might be something to look at 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:23.000 as well. But the individual plan you can get. You 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:27.520 can try a month for free on Spotify, so maybe 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.200 start with that. You can try two months of free 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.760 on Pandora. So if those are your top two picks, 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.600 maybe just try and for free. Don't build all your 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.560 playlists at once, and then you can decide which one 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:42.000 you want. But I think that they're all going to 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.760 do what you need. And I just built a playlist today. 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:47.120 I have YouTube music. I just built a playlist today 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.480 using that and it was super easy. The other thing 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.520 and I'm not sure Pandora does this. I know for 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.800 sure that Spotify does this. I know for sure that 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.960 YouTube music does this. But when you make a playlist, 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.160 and let's say I put four songs on that playlist, 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:05.000 it will actually it will actually suggest other songs to 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.400 put into that playlist, which is really cool. Now, if 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.160 you're telling me you have a very eclectic taste, you 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.400 may not find that handy. But for some people, you 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.160 start putting in three ninety songs and all of a sudden, 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.400 it pops up on the bottom here's some suggestions. You're like, Wow, 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.480 you just read my mind. That's incredible. So those are 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:25.680 my suggestions, Valerie, look at what the pricing is and 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.640 I think that's probably the best way to go about this. 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:30.880 But I think Spotify probably gonna be one of your 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:35.360 best choices there. Let's see. Oh that's gonna bring us 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:37.640 right to break, all right. Coming up, we are going 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:41.960 to talk to Mike Yurachko. He lost everything in a 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.160 fire himself and he decided to build a platform to 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.680 help others rebuild their lives using everything that he learned. 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.080 We're going to talk to him coming up right here 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:58.200 on rich On Tech. I'm gonna go through some apps 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.120 real quick before we get to our guests talking about 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.960 the wildfires here in Los Angeles. And this is for 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:06.560 anyone really, but a couple apps that might help you 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:08.480 might want to have these on your phone. First off, 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.960 Frontline Wildfire Defense. This is an app that you put 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.160 your address in and it kind of has all these 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.920 real time updates, so you can see weather updates, fire 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:22.280 danger in your area, and emergency notifications including fire alerts. Plus, 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:27.439 it can give you checklists and emergency groups for coordinated communication. 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:31.160 If there is something that affects your home watch duty, 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:32.840 you probably heard about this one. I'm not going to 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.280 go over that too much, but Watch Duty is really good. 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:38.480 It's a volunteer led kind of app that has all 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:41.479 kinds of information on fires, so that that's been a 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:44.639 lifeline during this time. Pulse Point is a nine to 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.720 one connected mobile app, so people get live alerts about 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.919 incidents being responded to by the fire departments and emergency 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:54.000 medical services near them. If you know CPR, you can 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.800 also get alerts to help people out near you that 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:01.080 need CPR. And then first Street dot org. First street 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.960 dot org. This is one where you can pop in 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.320 your home address and it analyzes all kinds of data 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:13.640 to tell you information on flooding, hurricane winds, wildfires, extreme 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.560 heat and air quality near that address. Again, First Street 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:21.240 dot org. Now let's bring on Mike, your oach co. 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:24.960 Mike has a story to tell about what happened to 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:27.400 him and the Kincaid fire a couple of years ago, 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.639 but he used that information to build a free platform 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:34.320 called low t dot com l O t I dot 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:39.040 com and this helps victims that have been, you know, 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:42.000 in a disaster rebuild their lives. Mike, thanks for joining me. 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:44.720 Yeah, thanks a lot. Rich for having me on Really 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:47.520 I really appreciate it. And those are some awesome resources 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:51.000 that that you just outlined for everybody and glad to 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:53.600 just sort of help be part of the solution down there. 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:57.199 So low T dot com slash learn, l O t 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:00.439 I dot com slash learn. That's what you've built. First off, 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:02.439 tell me about what you know. Well, I guess you 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:04.080 want to start with your story. Tell me what happened 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:04.280 to you? 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.240 Sure, yeah, So we were fellow victims. 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:10.639 So I was burned in the twenty nineteen Kincaid fire 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.080 and just sort of the short version of that story. 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:16.320 We actually we were out of town and we were 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.000 sent a periscope if you remember that old vlogging platform, 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:23.280 and we actually watched the fireman battle the fire on 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.679 our home. We lost most of the main property, but 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:28.800 the main house is actually saved. We had a ton 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:31.320 of smoke damage, and then a couple of weeks later 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:34.359 we were then vandalized and looted and folks had moved 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.120 in there for a couple of days and actually pulled 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:37.600 out copper and plumbing. 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:38.440 Fixtures and things like that. 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:43.399 So in short, we had a relatively long traumatic experience 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:48.240 and then that obviously compounded itself in the ensuing few years, 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:51.760 and so to your general point overall, I basically have 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:54.320 dedicated the rest of my life and career to kind 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:58.720 of helping folks like me that went through this, because 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:01.399 it is it's just exceptionally aumatizing, and there's there's so 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:02.240 many things that. 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:05.200 Are happening at one time, and so what we've. 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.560 Tried to do is provide a what we call it 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:11.800 just a roadmap to recovery that includes just hundreds of 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:15.480 free articles and thousands of gloss returns and dozens of 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:16.760 downloadable documents and stuff. 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:18.400 So it really tries to help. 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.560 People all the way from the very beginning of even 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:24.080 before there's an evacuation, just emergency planning that a lot 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:26.320 of your listeners might might be interested in, and then 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:29.880 kind of walking through the whole process of finding housing 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:32.520 and obviously dealing with insurance if we'll talk a bit 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:37.360 about today, but then also managing construction and replacing personal property, 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:39.399 and then even coming out the back end what we 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:41.720 call that kind of life two point zero where sort 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:43.879 of we want you to recover stronger than you were before, 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:48.240 just maintenance tips and trying to help prevent small claims 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:50.439 and what to look for in a new policy the 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:52.639 next time the same, just to prepare for the future. 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:55.560 So it's it's really trying to we're trying to. 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:58.760 Look at the whole kind of responsibility of home ownership 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.919 and you information for wherever step in the process. 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:06.159 You actually are so wow. So so I imagine that 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:08.359 dealing with insurance companies. I had to deal with mine 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:11.600 a couple of times for you know, small auto accidents, 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:14.040 and then of course our house we had a little flood. 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:16.800 I say little. Of course it's tens of thousands of 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.800 dollars of damage even for a little flood. But it's 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:24.080 just a lot of back and forth. And you know, 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:26.520 the insurance companies. I always say this, the insurance companies 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:28.520 or whatever company you're dealing with, always has the upper 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:30.920 hand because they are doing this on a daily basis. 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:34.000 This is the first time the person is doing it, 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:36.919 and so it's it's not a level playing field. So 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:39.919 is that kind of the case with with what you 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:40.480 you see? 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:41.720 Yeah, that's right. 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:43.720 I mean obviously that you know, there's a there's a 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:45.840 few things happening on the ground in LA right and 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:48.320 in terms of housing, and but insurance is a very 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:50.720 early process or one of the very first things you 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:53.199 should really do is notify them. And and and to 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:56.040 your point, it's not a you're not playing with kind 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:58.920 of a full set of cards relative to what they have, right, 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:01.520 And I would say that you know, in our experience, 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:03.840 a lot of the field adjusters and the folks on 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:07.920 the ground on insurance company side, those aren't bad people, right. 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:10.840 I mean there they got into insurance generally speaking to 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:13.760 try to help folks that that type of a thing 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:15.240 and try to help people recover. 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:16.560 But but yeah. 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:19.359 When you really dive into it over the ensuing couple 0:22:19.440 --> 0:22:22.119 three four or five years type of the deal in 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:25.600 terms of rebuilding, of course, they have a lot more 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:29.159 resources behind them. They've done this. This is usually the 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:31.359 first time a homeowner has to go through it. And 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:34.440 so just even learning simply that the basics around a 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:37.840 declarations page on an insurance policy is something that's that's 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:40.679 kind of a little bit of a hill decline and 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:43.880 then cover. Some insurance companies understand everything about what's going 0:22:43.880 --> 0:22:46.200 on inside of your policy. They have experience across millions 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:50.520 of clim it's their business, right, So it's a it's 0:22:50.560 --> 0:22:54.080 a very complicated sort of recovery process on that, and 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:57.840 then from a homeowner's standpoint, even just beyond insurance, there's 0:22:57.840 --> 0:22:59.440 a whole bunch of other stuff that's going on. 0:22:59.680 --> 0:22:59.840 Right. 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:02.560 We can talk about insurance and deep dive on it, 0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:05.119 but there are other things that are happening. Relationships with 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:07.040 your bank and dealing with your mortgage if you have 0:23:07.080 --> 0:23:12.280 one managing construction, rebuilding that and then overlaying those insurance 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:16.560 terms like depreciation and what is actual cash value of 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:17.520 my couch? 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:19.040 You know, just like these. 0:23:18.840 --> 0:23:21.919 Things that become very personal of like how do I 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:25.159 value you know, my couch or my artwork or whatever 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:28.320 it is, my collectibles and how you That then kind 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:30.399 of goes back into that policy and you know, from 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:32.840 an insurance company standpoint, it's a line item, but for 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:34.960 a homeowner it's very traumatic and you kind of have 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:35.280 to but. 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:36.720 You do have to sort of work your way through it. 0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:40.359 So, so, Mike, what is sort of like, you know, 0:23:40.560 --> 0:23:42.479 I've got a lot here, but what is sort of 0:23:42.480 --> 0:23:44.600 like your bottom line advice you want to give people? 0:23:44.640 --> 0:23:46.880 Like what do you think people should know that are 0:23:46.880 --> 0:23:49.199 dealing with this or they have friends or family, Like 0:23:49.240 --> 0:23:50.800 what do you want them to know? I mean, they 0:23:50.800 --> 0:23:52.280 can go to your site to get all of these 0:23:52.280 --> 0:23:54.960 downloadables and the PDFs and the terms, But what do 0:23:55.000 --> 0:23:57.160 you think they should be thinking about? 0:23:57.440 --> 0:24:00.000 So I think just like a couple things on the ground, 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:02.080 maybe sort of two different messages. Right, So for the 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:04.399 folks that are on the ground in LA that you know, 0:24:04.680 --> 0:24:08.760 our early advice in those first few days is really housing, right, 0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:11.199 It wasn't even really about insurance. It's it's actually housing. 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:13.480 And you can sort of see this demand surge happening. 0:24:13.840 --> 0:24:16.560 There's a lot of a press around price gouging and 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:20.760 things like that, but that general theme of demand surg 0:24:20.920 --> 0:24:23.160 is actually going to happen more or less throughout the 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:26.400 rest of this process over the next few years. Everything 0:24:26.440 --> 0:24:30.560 from kind of getting contractors and labor pools, materials, getting 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:34.680 permits and inspections. The whole community is going to be 0:24:34.720 --> 0:24:38.480 overwhelmed throughout this whole process. So I would say preaching patients, 0:24:39.080 --> 0:24:42.240 but then also really being informed through the process. Right, 0:24:42.320 --> 0:24:44.840 And so right now you know we've kind of moved, 0:24:45.040 --> 0:24:48.000 we're in that housing sort of area, and then really 0:24:48.040 --> 0:24:50.960 beginning to understand what your insurance actually covers. 0:24:52.040 --> 0:24:52.960 We have a need article. 0:24:52.960 --> 0:24:53.440 It's base. 0:24:53.520 --> 0:24:55.640 It's called a fairy tale, and we try to kind 0:24:55.640 --> 0:24:59.320 of humanize how to read your declarations page. I could 0:24:59.320 --> 0:25:01.080 give it to you for their seconds if you're interested 0:25:01.240 --> 0:25:04.600 about a friendly giant in your house, but basically, really 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:07.359 you want to kind of understand at least the basics 0:25:07.640 --> 0:25:10.239 of what's going on in your policy, and then for 0:25:10.280 --> 0:25:12.800 the sort of the rest of your listeners, there's trying 0:25:12.840 --> 0:25:15.879 to get ahead of some of this stuff where you 0:25:15.920 --> 0:25:19.479 can actually adjust your policy now or when you're renewing 0:25:19.480 --> 0:25:20.480 your policy, kind. 0:25:20.400 --> 0:25:21.560 Of look out for a few things. 0:25:22.200 --> 0:25:25.600 We do have some recommendations what we call endorsement essentials, 0:25:25.920 --> 0:25:28.240 But an endorsement is kind of like a little rider 0:25:28.280 --> 0:25:32.000 and extra in your policy that goes beyond the I'm 0:25:32.000 --> 0:25:34.440 paying a one thousand dollars premium for a million dollar 0:25:34.680 --> 0:25:39.400 coverage kind of thing. Things like replacement costs of not 0:25:39.480 --> 0:25:42.720 just getting the value of your couch but on that day, 0:25:43.080 --> 0:25:46.320 but having the money to replace the couch at retail is. 0:25:46.359 --> 0:25:47.160 Kind of a big thing. 0:25:47.640 --> 0:25:52.080 Having inflation guards, so obviously we're in a very inflationary environment, 0:25:52.200 --> 0:25:54.760 so being able to protect yourself against those kind of 0:25:54.800 --> 0:25:58.719 market forces is a really really important thing. So I 0:25:58.760 --> 0:26:00.440 think that you know on the grind and you kind 0:26:00.480 --> 0:26:04.080 of have one message where it's like this is everything's overwhelming, 0:26:04.080 --> 0:26:05.840 and you're not trying to overwhelm more. 0:26:06.119 --> 0:26:07.639 Right, It's just like, hey, let's let's start with the 0:26:07.680 --> 0:26:08.800 basics on insurance and. 0:26:08.760 --> 0:26:11.200 Housing and then we're going to get to the next step, right, 0:26:11.880 --> 0:26:13.800 and then I think for the rest of the listeners 0:26:13.800 --> 0:26:16.360 that just have a obviously really care about what's going 0:26:16.440 --> 0:26:19.000 on and and field for these folks. So you know, 0:26:19.920 --> 0:26:22.680 take a look in your policy, see try to understand 0:26:22.800 --> 0:26:23.680 kind of the basics. 0:26:23.760 --> 0:26:26.080 Maybe take some pictures of your house for the future. 0:26:26.520 --> 0:26:28.640 Just you have an under a working understanding of what's 0:26:28.680 --> 0:26:31.600 in there and how you want to stay protected long term. 0:26:31.720 --> 0:26:34.360 So all right, Mike, this is all great advice. We're 0:26:34.400 --> 0:26:36.320 going to leave it there. Thank you so much for 0:26:36.400 --> 0:26:40.200 joining me. The website is low Ti l o TI 0:26:40.400 --> 0:26:45.520 dot com slash learn. So many downloadable documents, all kinds 0:26:45.600 --> 0:26:49.800 of articles covering everything from I mean just so much here. 0:26:49.840 --> 0:26:52.040 It's you sent me this website or someone sent me 0:26:52.080 --> 0:26:54.040 this website, and I just said, this is really good 0:26:54.160 --> 0:26:57.600 information stuff that you can download. It's just such a 0:26:57.640 --> 0:27:01.240 great help. So again, l O T I do slash learn. 0:27:01.760 --> 0:27:04.040 Mike thanks so much for joining me today. 0:27:04.720 --> 0:27:06.760 Thanks a ton Richard, thanks for everything else that you're 0:27:06.800 --> 0:27:07.200 doing too. 0:27:07.320 --> 0:27:10.399 Just appreciate the time here and thanks for getting all 0:27:10.440 --> 0:27:12.480 the rest of this information out in the folks hands. 0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:14.639 It's needed and it's a desperate time, so thank you. 0:27:14.960 --> 0:27:18.200 Appreciate that. All right, coming up here, we're going to 0:27:18.280 --> 0:27:20.800 get to more of your questions. I see on hold 0:27:20.840 --> 0:27:23.280 there so eight eight eight rich one O one eight 0:27:23.359 --> 0:27:26.399 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:27:26.720 --> 0:27:28.639 The website if you want to link to what we 0:27:28.760 --> 0:27:32.480 just talked about is rich on tech dot TV. It 0:27:32.520 --> 0:27:35.240 will be linked up there. This is episode one oh five. 0:27:36.000 --> 0:27:43.360 We'll be right back. Is it too early to talk 0:27:43.359 --> 0:27:46.120 about the TikTok band I don't even care about this. 0:27:46.200 --> 0:27:49.120 I hate to even say that, but I don't have TikTok. 0:27:49.160 --> 0:27:52.000 I don't use TikTok. I do know that is a 0:27:52.080 --> 0:27:55.200 popular social media app. One hundred and seventy million people 0:27:55.320 --> 0:27:58.600 use it apparently. Yes, I've been on there. Yes I've 0:27:58.640 --> 0:28:02.480 posted on there in the past, but it's just, you know, 0:28:03.920 --> 0:28:07.240 just not for me. I say that now, play that 0:28:07.280 --> 0:28:09.280 in a couple of years, if this thing is still around. 0:28:09.320 --> 0:28:12.680 But anyway, here's where we stand with the TikTok band. 0:28:13.280 --> 0:28:15.840 So depending on when you listen to this show, it 0:28:15.880 --> 0:28:18.760 may already be unbanned or not banned, or still operating 0:28:18.840 --> 0:28:20.520 or whatever. That's why I don't want to spend too 0:28:20.600 --> 0:28:23.680 much time on it. But apparently the Supreme Court did 0:28:23.880 --> 0:28:27.359 uphold the ban. This would be the first, you know, 0:28:27.440 --> 0:28:31.200 major social media app shut down in US history. Apparently 0:28:31.320 --> 0:28:35.119 twenty billion dollars in revenue would be at stake here. 0:28:36.359 --> 0:28:41.600 Apparently also Biden's administration said they will not enforce any penalty, 0:28:42.240 --> 0:28:44.920 but you know, that's only for one day until Trump 0:28:45.040 --> 0:28:49.320 takes over. And then apparently the TikTok CEO is attending 0:28:49.400 --> 0:28:52.760 his inauguration. There's people that might want to buy it, 0:28:52.840 --> 0:28:56.880 including Elon Musk. So there's just a lot going on here. 0:28:57.000 --> 0:28:58.360 And I don't know if you've heard about this, but 0:28:58.600 --> 0:29:01.080 the one of the number one on apps in the 0:29:01.120 --> 0:29:03.600 App Store this week was an app called Red Note. 0:29:04.120 --> 0:29:05.960 This was an app out of China that's kind of 0:29:06.000 --> 0:29:09.160 like an Instagram for them, And so people are protesting 0:29:09.200 --> 0:29:12.120 by downloading that app, saying, hey, you know you're worried 0:29:12.120 --> 0:29:15.960 about this app from China, We're gonna download even a 0:29:16.040 --> 0:29:20.160 more Chinese app that's not even meant for the US citizens, 0:29:20.200 --> 0:29:23.080 and so it's just a whole mess with this stuff. 0:29:23.080 --> 0:29:25.560 But I think at the end of the day, I 0:29:25.600 --> 0:29:27.520 don't want to predict the future here, but I think 0:29:27.560 --> 0:29:30.400 TikTok is going to be around. I really do. Let's 0:29:30.480 --> 0:29:35.360 go to Pete in Fullerton. Pete, you're on with Rich 0:29:35.640 --> 0:29:37.960 It is going fantastic. What's up with you? 0:29:38.160 --> 0:29:40.680 I enjoy your segment every morning on Channel five. I 0:29:40.760 --> 0:29:43.120 watch you every morning nine am nine am. 0:29:43.240 --> 0:29:44.520 Thank you, appreciate that. 0:29:45.480 --> 0:29:48.080 I've got three really quick ones for you. Ice three 0:29:48.200 --> 0:29:51.920 you could handle. I heard you last week and after 0:29:52.000 --> 0:29:55.520 that first, and I hadn't heard that name in a 0:29:55.560 --> 0:29:59.160 long time. It's funny because on KFI they've been advertising 0:29:59.200 --> 0:30:04.240 all this week with their business phones. Oh interesting, really, 0:30:05.080 --> 0:30:07.960 if you've used it, or if you know anybody has, 0:30:08.120 --> 0:30:11.120 and what's the what do people think of the quality? 0:30:11.880 --> 0:30:12.160 Uh? 0:30:12.200 --> 0:30:14.240 Well, I used it in the past. I've not used 0:30:14.280 --> 0:30:16.280 it recently, but I had. I had a phone line 0:30:16.280 --> 0:30:18.280 from them in the past for many years, and the 0:30:18.360 --> 0:30:22.239 quality is fine. So every phone call that we have 0:30:22.360 --> 0:30:25.920 nowadays goes over a voiceover IP anyway, so it's all 0:30:25.960 --> 0:30:29.920 the same uma they have their own technology they call 0:30:30.000 --> 0:30:33.560 pure Voice HD, so they say that it actually captures 0:30:33.600 --> 0:30:38.360 twice the information as traditional phone lines or landlines. I 0:30:38.400 --> 0:30:42.160 think that the idea of the kind of HD quality 0:30:42.200 --> 0:30:46.400 phone call it's there, and it's it's going to be 0:30:46.520 --> 0:30:48.800 just fine. Do you have a reason why you need 0:30:48.920 --> 0:30:51.800 super specific high quality calls or are you just making 0:30:51.800 --> 0:30:53.160 sure it's not going to sound like garbage. 0:30:53.560 --> 0:30:55.680 I'm just fun to finally set up with AT and 0:30:55.720 --> 0:30:57.880 t's landline service, paying seventy some. 0:30:57.920 --> 0:31:01.360 Bugs jump back, No, get rid of that. Get rid 0:31:01.400 --> 0:31:03.720 of that. Get uma. It's you can pay as little 0:31:03.720 --> 0:31:06.040 as zero a month. Just pay the taxes and fees. 0:31:06.080 --> 0:31:07.960 I think it's like it comes out to like ten dollars. 0:31:08.320 --> 0:31:10.760 But you'll be perfectly fine, are you. I mean, I 0:31:11.160 --> 0:31:13.160 can't imagine that you're not going to be happy with 0:31:13.200 --> 0:31:16.920 the quality of the service on this on UMA, So 0:31:17.120 --> 0:31:19.800 I would definitely go with that. What what are the 0:31:19.800 --> 0:31:21.480 other two questions we charge? After the first? 0:31:22.600 --> 0:31:23.240 What would you. 0:31:23.200 --> 0:31:25.720 Recommend for a cheap, reliable carrier? 0:31:26.280 --> 0:31:27.040 I own? 0:31:27.560 --> 0:31:30.120 And the other one is about a basic phone not 0:31:30.440 --> 0:31:33.960 non ample for an emergency. I'm looking for a phone 0:31:34.040 --> 0:31:38.040 and a cheap carrier and just a basic phone that 0:31:38.120 --> 0:31:40.560 you is it's reliable. 0:31:40.560 --> 0:31:42.720 For basic carrier. I would do one of the super 0:31:42.840 --> 0:31:45.520 cheapies that you can pay in advance for like a year, 0:31:46.040 --> 0:31:48.880 so you know. The one I like. I think that's 0:31:48.960 --> 0:31:50.760 that's really cheap if you just want to pay like 0:31:50.800 --> 0:31:53.560 four bucks a month is Mobile X, so if you're 0:31:53.560 --> 0:31:56.480 familiar with them. There's also tell O T E l 0:31:56.680 --> 0:31:58.840 l O. And that what's great about them is you 0:31:58.880 --> 0:32:01.400 can build your own plans, so if you just want calling, 0:32:01.880 --> 0:32:04.000 I think their plans started like nine bucks a month, 0:32:04.440 --> 0:32:07.480 so you can really just like coordinate, like how much 0:32:07.520 --> 0:32:10.200 do you want just just a phone line, some texting, 0:32:11.120 --> 0:32:13.040 maybe like a tiny bit of data on there, but 0:32:13.080 --> 0:32:15.720 it's all customizable. That's tell O T E l l 0:32:15.840 --> 0:32:19.640 O dot Com. The other one I said is Mobile X. 0:32:19.720 --> 0:32:21.880 They have a great plan that starts at three forty 0:32:21.920 --> 0:32:23.960 eight a month or under. I think it's like four 0:32:24.000 --> 0:32:27.000 dollars a month, whatever it is. It's pretty inexpensive. I 0:32:27.120 --> 0:32:29.600 like Mint Mobile, but I know they were purchased by 0:32:29.840 --> 0:32:34.400 T Mobile, so you know, now they've gone corporate. That's 0:32:34.440 --> 0:32:36.080 another way to go, and you can pay the whole 0:32:36.160 --> 0:32:38.120 year in advance on that, so I like that because 0:32:38.120 --> 0:32:40.360 you don't have to worry about the bill, right, Or 0:32:40.400 --> 0:32:42.600 you can just go to something like a Walmart and 0:32:42.680 --> 0:32:45.880 just buy like a cheap plan that they have there 0:32:46.240 --> 0:32:48.920 and just get a prepaid card that lasts for a year, 0:32:48.960 --> 0:32:52.240 and you can do that. That's like, what's that? It's 0:32:52.240 --> 0:32:56.800 not smart Talk. That's another one. The straight talk is 0:32:56.800 --> 0:32:58.440 one of them that they have there, but that one's 0:32:58.520 --> 0:33:02.640 kind of expensive. But yeah, that's another way to go. 0:33:03.080 --> 0:33:06.360 As for the phone, I would just go with a 0:33:06.840 --> 0:33:09.640 super cheap kind of flip phone. So there's a website 0:33:09.720 --> 0:33:13.920 dumb Wireless dot com. They have all of the super 0:33:14.000 --> 0:33:16.240 cheap flip phones. They've got a Nokia twenty seven to 0:33:16.320 --> 0:33:19.320 eighty for eighty eight bucks. You know, why not just 0:33:19.360 --> 0:33:22.400 get that. That's that's going to do exactly what you 0:33:22.480 --> 0:33:25.960 need there, Pete. So yeah, that's what I would do, 0:33:26.080 --> 0:33:27.600 is just go to their website and check it out. 0:33:28.040 --> 0:33:30.040 Thanks for the call. I can't believe you answered three 0:33:30.520 --> 0:33:33.320 three questions. How long do I have before I got 0:33:33.360 --> 0:33:34.080 a break here? 0:33:34.760 --> 0:33:34.960 Oh? 0:33:35.040 --> 0:33:38.320 Ninety seconds? Perfect? Okay, Well we'll do a question from email. 0:33:38.360 --> 0:33:41.000 Jannis from Seemi Valley rights in I have an iPhone 0:33:41.000 --> 0:33:43.800 and I use Yahoo email even though I block scam emails, 0:33:43.800 --> 0:33:46.880 they just keep coming from different addresses. I don't feel 0:33:46.920 --> 0:33:49.640 safe unsubscribing from these fake emails, so I just block 0:33:49.680 --> 0:33:51.880 and delete them. But the problem doesn't stop. Is there 0:33:51.880 --> 0:33:54.560 a better way to reduce the number of these fake emails? 0:33:55.040 --> 0:33:57.360 My spam and junk folders catch some, but I'd rather 0:33:57.400 --> 0:34:01.120 not see them so often. Thank you, Jennis, I will 0:34:01.120 --> 0:34:04.680 give you my advice for getting rid of spam email, which, 0:34:04.720 --> 0:34:07.400 by the way, is impossible. I still get them. I 0:34:07.520 --> 0:34:09.960 use Gmail and yes, every once in a while you 0:34:10.000 --> 0:34:13.680 get some spam emails through. They do go to the 0:34:13.719 --> 0:34:15.920 spam folder, which is great. Don't worry about the ones 0:34:15.960 --> 0:34:18.160 that go there. That means the email service is doing 0:34:18.160 --> 0:34:22.239 its job. But number one, delete these emails without opening them. 0:34:22.280 --> 0:34:25.440 That's my best advice. Do not interact these emails. They 0:34:25.440 --> 0:34:27.440 have little trackers in them that when you open them, 0:34:27.520 --> 0:34:29.919 it says, oh, we got someone that's opening these, let's 0:34:29.960 --> 0:34:32.520 send them more emails. So number one, do not do that. 0:34:33.360 --> 0:34:35.520 Go in, make sure you have the best spam protection 0:34:35.640 --> 0:34:40.280 settings turned on, and then do not unsubscribe to any 0:34:40.400 --> 0:34:45.240 of these spam emails. You can unsubscribe safely from emails 0:34:45.239 --> 0:34:47.480 from like Macy's or Home Depot, those are going to 0:34:47.560 --> 0:34:49.600 honor your requests, but all these other ones, when you 0:34:49.640 --> 0:34:52.680 hit on subscribe just gives you more. The other thing 0:34:52.719 --> 0:34:55.680 you could do is turn off remote image loading. That 0:34:55.719 --> 0:34:59.279 way they can't track you if your email service supports that. 0:35:00.000 --> 0:35:02.600 Eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven four to 0:35:02.600 --> 0:35:08.000 two four one zero one. Let's talk about a new 0:35:08.120 --> 0:35:12.440 smartphone that is now available on the market. It is 0:35:12.520 --> 0:35:16.640 the one plus thirteen, so one plus. I'll just tell 0:35:16.640 --> 0:35:18.800 you my story to set this up. I will never forget. 0:35:18.880 --> 0:35:22.239 I was in the backseat of a cab or I 0:35:22.239 --> 0:35:25.320 think it was an uber in San Francisco and probably 0:35:25.360 --> 0:35:27.920 ten years now at this point, and I saw this 0:35:28.040 --> 0:35:30.000 phone and I, you know, I used to be a 0:35:30.040 --> 0:35:33.399 real Android enthusiast, like really love Android, and I still do. 0:35:33.880 --> 0:35:35.920 I just most of the time we're using an iPhone, 0:35:35.920 --> 0:35:38.840 but I have Androids as well. But anyway, but I 0:35:38.880 --> 0:35:40.560 saw this phone, and I was always looking for like 0:35:40.600 --> 0:35:43.080 the best Android phone. And I saw this phone that 0:35:43.200 --> 0:35:45.719 this driver had, and I was like, what phone is that? 0:35:45.920 --> 0:35:48.400 To him? And you know, San Francisco is kind of 0:35:48.400 --> 0:35:50.279 a very cutting edge place, so he was like, oh, 0:35:50.320 --> 0:35:52.279 that's the new one plus. It's like one plus what 0:35:52.480 --> 0:35:56.200 is that? And it just looked like the coolest smartphone 0:35:56.200 --> 0:35:59.680 I had ever seen. Anyway, got a lot of experience 0:35:59.719 --> 0:36:01.439 with one plus over the years. I can't believe they're 0:36:01.480 --> 0:36:03.840 up to thirteen. But the thing about one plus to 0:36:03.960 --> 0:36:07.719 know is that they're always sort of challenging the status quo, right, 0:36:07.800 --> 0:36:09.600 Like they give you a lot for your money, and 0:36:09.640 --> 0:36:13.120 that was kind of their their value proposition in the beginning, 0:36:13.480 --> 0:36:15.239 and then they sort of got away from that, where 0:36:15.280 --> 0:36:17.920 the prices got high and the features got low, and 0:36:17.960 --> 0:36:19.480 then people will like gave them a hard time. And 0:36:19.520 --> 0:36:21.239 now I feel like they're back, and it's like a 0:36:21.320 --> 0:36:24.320 it's been the ship has been righted right, the steering 0:36:24.400 --> 0:36:28.720 wheel is now going the correct way. And so these phones, 0:36:29.040 --> 0:36:32.080 this latest the one plus thirteen is really really incredible. 0:36:32.120 --> 0:36:33.680 So I've been playing with this for the past couple 0:36:33.719 --> 0:36:36.800 of weeks. It's got all the top specs you can imagine. 0:36:36.800 --> 0:36:41.120 So the latest Snapdragon eight Elite processor, up to sixteen 0:36:41.120 --> 0:36:45.279 gigabytes of RAM, a triple fifty megapixel camera system with 0:36:45.360 --> 0:36:49.040 Hasselblod which is their partner, and their sort of the 0:36:49.080 --> 0:36:53.680 look of their photos, A six thousand millionam hour battery 0:36:53.760 --> 0:36:58.360 with new technology inside. I don't even know what this is. 0:36:59.080 --> 0:37:01.120 I'm not even gonna explain because it's just like what, 0:37:01.560 --> 0:37:05.520 But it's apparently the battery on this thing, in my experience, 0:37:05.640 --> 0:37:09.600 is like unkillable. You cannot deplete the battery. Six thousand 0:37:09.600 --> 0:37:12.120 million hours, by the way, is really high. Like most 0:37:12.120 --> 0:37:15.279 phones topped out at four thousand a couple of years ago, 0:37:15.320 --> 0:37:18.200 and now they're at five thousand, and this one six thousand. 0:37:19.000 --> 0:37:22.240 And it's got a great display. It's got IP sixty 0:37:22.360 --> 0:37:27.080 nine water resistance, so that means that this thing is 0:37:27.360 --> 0:37:30.719 more water resistant than any phone out there on the marketplace. 0:37:30.960 --> 0:37:32.880 I put this thing in a hot tub, no problem. 0:37:32.960 --> 0:37:35.760 You could put in a washing machine, dishwasher. It will survive. 0:37:35.880 --> 0:37:38.399 I mean, that's it's that wild comes in a couple 0:37:38.400 --> 0:37:40.480 of colors, Midnight Ocean. That's the one they sent me 0:37:40.520 --> 0:37:43.560 to test out. It's a really cool blue color, Arctic 0:37:43.680 --> 0:37:49.960 dawn and black eclipse. So let's see some of the 0:37:50.000 --> 0:37:52.880 features on this thing. Works with wet hands and gloves, 0:37:52.880 --> 0:37:54.759 so you can actually have you know, the screen could 0:37:54.800 --> 0:37:56.640 be wet and still works nicely. I don't know if 0:37:56.640 --> 0:37:58.520 you ever used a screen on your phone when it's wet, 0:37:58.560 --> 0:38:01.120 but it's like it jump all over the place because 0:38:01.120 --> 0:38:05.080 the water droplets like mess it up. Oh so the 0:38:05.160 --> 0:38:07.360 magnetic charging this is kind of weird. It doesn't have 0:38:07.440 --> 0:38:10.440 magnetic charging built in, but it's built into the case, 0:38:10.480 --> 0:38:13.560 so you do get that magnetic support for accessories, which 0:38:13.600 --> 0:38:16.080 is really nice. It's got Circle to Search, It's got 0:38:16.080 --> 0:38:19.400 Google Wallet pass scanning, which, by the way, if you 0:38:19.440 --> 0:38:21.840 have any Android this is such a cool feature. I 0:38:21.880 --> 0:38:24.240 did it this morning. So if you have an Android 0:38:24.280 --> 0:38:26.640 phone and let's say you get a QR code for 0:38:26.680 --> 0:38:29.680 a barcode or something, maybe not like a ticket Master ticket, 0:38:29.719 --> 0:38:31.680 but almost anything else. I go to a lot of events, 0:38:31.680 --> 0:38:33.600 they give you these barcodes that you got to you know, 0:38:33.640 --> 0:38:36.040 scan to get in. You can go to Google Wallet 0:38:36.080 --> 0:38:39.560 and it says add anything and you just put in 0:38:39.600 --> 0:38:41.799 a screenshot of that barcode and it will create a 0:38:41.840 --> 0:38:43.640 pass for you. So if you have a gym membership 0:38:43.719 --> 0:38:45.080 or something that you want to create a pass for, 0:38:45.239 --> 0:38:48.160 you can do it that way. Let's see four years 0:38:48.160 --> 0:38:52.400 of software updates, six years of security patches, a couple 0:38:52.400 --> 0:38:56.799 of unique connectivity features I've identified. It's got this iPhone 0:38:56.840 --> 0:39:00.240 file sharing capability because they're trying to like get around 0:39:00.280 --> 0:39:02.880 the whole air drop thing. But it does require the 0:39:02.920 --> 0:39:06.279 iPhone person to download a separate app, which good luck 0:39:06.280 --> 0:39:08.200 getting an iPhone user to do that. That's not going 0:39:08.280 --> 0:39:11.360 to happen. It's got this neat Bluetooth walkie talkie function, 0:39:11.480 --> 0:39:13.960 so even if you're off the grid, you've got no cellular, 0:39:14.840 --> 0:39:18.320 you can still use Bluetooth to walkie talkie to another phone, 0:39:18.320 --> 0:39:20.560 but it has to be another one plus, which again 0:39:20.960 --> 0:39:25.560 kind of a downside, and upcoming support for photos and messages, 0:39:25.640 --> 0:39:27.720 so that's kind of cool. So they're gonna but again 0:39:28.160 --> 0:39:31.359 the other person has to have a OnePlus, so it's 0:39:31.440 --> 0:39:33.200 probably gonna be pretty rare that you're going to use 0:39:33.200 --> 0:39:37.120 that in real life. Now, I will tell you this 0:39:37.360 --> 0:39:40.719 is the best Android smartphone I have ever tested ever 0:39:41.640 --> 0:39:45.560 when it comes to the way it works, the sort 0:39:45.600 --> 0:39:48.480 of the feel of it, the look of it, the style, 0:39:49.280 --> 0:39:54.680 the size, the software, the speed, everything is just so good. 0:39:55.080 --> 0:39:57.520 But now I'm going to get to the downside, and 0:39:57.600 --> 0:40:01.760 that is the camera. So this camera is just fine. 0:40:02.040 --> 0:40:04.799 Like if you are not a camera person, you don't 0:40:04.840 --> 0:40:06.800 care about the camera. This phone is going to be 0:40:06.840 --> 0:40:10.160 incredible because it charges fast, the battery last forever. It's fast. 0:40:10.200 --> 0:40:13.120 The software is awesome. The camera is going to be 0:40:13.320 --> 0:40:14.840 just fine. Like you can take a look at some 0:40:14.840 --> 0:40:17.600 of the pictures I took. They're fine. It's just not 0:40:17.960 --> 0:40:21.360 as good as what you get from the pixels of 0:40:21.400 --> 0:40:24.120 the world, the Samsungs of the world, and the iPhones 0:40:24.160 --> 0:40:27.440 of the world. That is my experience. And the selfie camera, 0:40:27.960 --> 0:40:29.800 which you know I'm partial to because I take a 0:40:29.840 --> 0:40:31.920 lot of selfies. I'm on TV. I'm saying, hey, I'm 0:40:31.960 --> 0:40:35.960 on TV, come watch. The selfies are particularly bad in 0:40:36.000 --> 0:40:39.480 my experience. So where do we stand with the one 0:40:39.480 --> 0:40:42.479 plus thirteen. I think if the camera is not your 0:40:42.680 --> 0:40:46.440 primary kind of concern, this is going to be an 0:40:46.480 --> 0:40:49.799 amazing phone for you. And it's nine hundred dollars, by 0:40:49.800 --> 0:40:52.759 the way starting price, which is pretty good. And they've 0:40:52.760 --> 0:40:54.799 got some like trade in deals and all that kind 0:40:54.800 --> 0:40:56.520 of stuff on their website, so I checked that out. 0:40:56.560 --> 0:40:58.279 Before you get it, that's going to get to you. 0:40:58.360 --> 0:41:00.680 The twelve gigabytes of RAM and two hundred and fifty 0:41:00.719 --> 0:41:03.399 six gigabytes of storage model if you want the top 0:41:03.440 --> 0:41:05.640 of the line, which is sixteen gigabytes of RAM and 0:41:05.680 --> 0:41:08.080 five hundred and twelve gigs of storage. That's gonna be 0:41:08.160 --> 0:41:10.600 nine ninety nine. Now take a look at that compared 0:41:10.600 --> 0:41:14.040 to you know, the Pixel of the World or the Samsung's, 0:41:14.160 --> 0:41:16.080 the high end phones, they're gonna be you know, over 0:41:16.120 --> 0:41:18.719 one thousand dollars. So the fact that this is nine 0:41:18.840 --> 0:41:22.600 hundred is pretty darn good. So that is my review 0:41:22.640 --> 0:41:24.680 of the one plus thirteen. I've got it right here, 0:41:25.239 --> 0:41:28.200 and it is. It's just I will say it's one 0:41:28.239 --> 0:41:30.960 of my favorite phones so far of the year. But 0:41:31.040 --> 0:41:34.560 we're only eighteen days into the year, so a lot 0:41:34.600 --> 0:41:38.640 can change, a lot can happen. But for me, the 0:41:38.680 --> 0:41:40.959 only downside of this phone that keeps me from wanting 0:41:41.000 --> 0:41:43.200 to use this as my daily driver is really the camera. 0:41:43.320 --> 0:41:47.040 Like I can't really I get better video and pictures 0:41:47.080 --> 0:41:50.120 out of some of my other phones, including the iPhone 0:41:50.120 --> 0:41:53.120 and some of the androids I use. All right, let's 0:41:53.320 --> 0:41:57.719 go to Stanley in Bettsville, Ohio. I know you've been 0:41:57.760 --> 0:41:59.760 waiting for a while. Stanley, Welcome to the show. 0:42:00.680 --> 0:42:03.839 Hello, Rich love hearing your tech tips. They really help 0:42:03.880 --> 0:42:04.200 a lot. 0:42:04.400 --> 0:42:06.680 Oh well, thank you, I love doing them. What's up? 0:42:07.960 --> 0:42:12.200 I'm way past cutting the cable cord and now this 0:42:12.320 --> 0:42:14.759 past week when I got hit with an increase on 0:42:15.560 --> 0:42:17.640 I don't know if you want me to say brand names. 0:42:17.840 --> 0:42:20.840 Oh sure, whatever, Well. 0:42:20.680 --> 0:42:25.360 The old YouTube TV A lot of people I'm deciding 0:42:25.400 --> 0:42:28.600 to go or think I want to go. We have 0:42:29.400 --> 0:42:34.200 as our ISP Spectrum provides internet service to the thous 0:42:34.239 --> 0:42:38.399 and I have Spectrum TV as part of the bundled package. Well, 0:42:38.440 --> 0:42:40.960 this week, when I thought I was going to cut 0:42:41.080 --> 0:42:45.080 YouTube TV, I started looking at Spectrum and realized that 0:42:45.280 --> 0:42:48.920 with my Spectrum TV I can watch nearly everything I 0:42:49.000 --> 0:42:52.080 can with my YouTube TV account. 0:42:53.160 --> 0:42:53.359 Yeah. 0:42:53.440 --> 0:42:57.640 Wait, you were paying for Spectrum and YouTube Yeah. Oh man, 0:42:58.680 --> 0:43:00.319 Well I'm not going to call you stupid, but you 0:43:00.320 --> 0:43:01.600 know you're paying double. 0:43:02.640 --> 0:43:05.160 Well I bet I'm not the only person listening right now. 0:43:05.680 --> 0:43:09.520 But anyway, here's my quandary. One thing we loved with 0:43:09.640 --> 0:43:13.719 YouTube TV was the ability to record and store in 0:43:13.800 --> 0:43:17.560 the cloud. And I'm looking for the best option to 0:43:17.920 --> 0:43:23.319 record and store to hopefully a cloud DBR with Spectrum. Now. 0:43:23.360 --> 0:43:29.319 I just recently came across ZOOMU Zumo Xumo, Yeah, which 0:43:29.840 --> 0:43:32.800 I think can be used with my Spectrum TV app. 0:43:32.960 --> 0:43:37.759 Yeah, that's theirs. So Zumo was a startup that charter purchased, 0:43:37.800 --> 0:43:40.800 and so that is their answer. So if you want 0:43:40.840 --> 0:43:45.080 to streamline things and just go with what they offer, 0:43:45.520 --> 0:43:48.080 I've tested this thing out. I don't think it's the 0:43:48.080 --> 0:43:52.000 most powerful streaming box out there, but I think if 0:43:52.040 --> 0:43:55.080 you want that integration with with your spectrum, I think 0:43:55.080 --> 0:43:57.160 it's going to be a great fit. The main thing 0:43:57.239 --> 0:44:00.319 to know is that you have your beholden to the 0:44:00.360 --> 0:44:03.160 apps that they offer on there, so you can't there's 0:44:03.200 --> 0:44:05.640 no like app store on this device where you say, oh, 0:44:05.640 --> 0:44:08.320 there's a cool app I want. They have the apps 0:44:08.400 --> 0:44:12.000 already built in and they've got all the main ones covered. 0:44:12.000 --> 0:44:13.719 You can go on their website and make sure that 0:44:13.760 --> 0:44:16.120 the apps that you want are on there. But that 0:44:16.280 --> 0:44:18.279 is the main downside is that it's not as like 0:44:19.040 --> 0:44:20.960 it's not as big of a platform as like the 0:44:21.000 --> 0:44:23.600 fire TVs of the world or the Rokus of the world. 0:44:23.960 --> 0:44:26.359 But yes, if you want to just use this and 0:44:26.440 --> 0:44:29.399 have that cloud DVR, that's probably going to be your 0:44:29.400 --> 0:44:31.520 best bet at this point. Anything else I recommend to 0:44:31.560 --> 0:44:36.480 you is going to require third party service antenna or 0:44:36.520 --> 0:44:39.480 a subscription to another service like a YouTube TV or 0:44:39.480 --> 0:44:43.919 a Sling TV. So Xumo Zumo I think they offer 0:44:44.040 --> 0:44:46.839 like usually a first six months free or something like that. 0:44:47.560 --> 0:44:50.279 But Stanley, I think that's the way to go for now. 0:44:51.160 --> 0:44:54.359 Okay. My other situation is we also have I know 0:44:54.440 --> 0:44:58.239 this is really dumb, probably a Roku box. We use 0:44:58.440 --> 0:45:02.640 Roku and and Spectrum TV and YouTube or that's what 0:45:02.680 --> 0:45:08.760 I've been using. Can I record using the Roku box. 0:45:08.880 --> 0:45:11.319 If you have the Spectrum app on there, so I 0:45:11.360 --> 0:45:13.960 would download. What I would do is on your main TV, 0:45:14.480 --> 0:45:17.839 get the zoom O box, record on your on your 0:45:17.880 --> 0:45:21.040 satellite TV. On your secondary TV, I would get the 0:45:21.160 --> 0:45:26.359 Spectrum app on your Roku box, and I believe that's 0:45:26.400 --> 0:45:28.360 been a while since I used it, but I think 0:45:28.440 --> 0:45:31.719 your recordings might be on there as well, so I 0:45:31.719 --> 0:45:34.200 would check with that, maybe call Spectrum and just see. 0:45:34.520 --> 0:45:38.360 But the Spectrum app I believe is on the Roku 0:45:38.480 --> 0:45:42.080 TV platform. So that's the way I do it. Go 0:45:42.360 --> 0:45:45.600 Zoomo for the primary TV, Roku for your secondary TV, 0:45:45.800 --> 0:45:49.000 download that Spectrum app. That's that way, Stanley. You're paying 0:45:49.040 --> 0:45:52.200 one price, you're getting your content all the places that 0:45:52.239 --> 0:45:54.879 you want it, and it's something that you're familiar with. 0:45:55.320 --> 0:45:58.640 Great questions today, Thanks for calling today in Bettsville, Ohio 0:45:58.760 --> 0:46:01.640 eighty to eight rich one one eight eight eight seven 0:46:01.800 --> 0:46:04.960 four to two four one zero one again the website 0:46:05.000 --> 0:46:08.600 for the show Richontech dot TV. Follow me on social media. 0:46:08.680 --> 0:46:12.400 I am at rich on Tech. Coming up, you know, 0:46:12.480 --> 0:46:14.400 I'm gonna tell you about three new apps to know. 0:46:14.800 --> 0:46:18.760 Three new apps to know, save you on travel, Tinder 0:46:18.800 --> 0:46:21.560 for skiers, and an app that can help you find 0:46:21.600 --> 0:46:24.200 good movies to watch right here, coming up next on 0:46:24.360 --> 0:46:31.319 rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich 0:46:31.360 --> 0:46:35.120 Demiro here hanging out with you, celebrating, by the way, 0:46:35.800 --> 0:46:40.759 a milestone my newsletter which I started, I don't know, 0:46:40.760 --> 0:46:42.480 maybe a year ago. Well, I started a couple of 0:46:42.520 --> 0:46:44.279 years ago, but I got serious about it maybe a 0:46:44.360 --> 0:46:48.160 year ago. And sure enough we have cross the threshold 0:46:48.200 --> 0:46:52.800 of forty thousand subscribers. So forty thousand people every week 0:46:53.320 --> 0:46:56.600 welcome me into their inboxes and thank you for that. 0:46:56.760 --> 0:46:58.200 So if you want to sign up for that is 0:46:58.280 --> 0:47:02.280 completely free, go to the website rich on Tech dot tv. 0:47:02.920 --> 0:47:05.200 Now the question you might be wondering, well, how many 0:47:05.200 --> 0:47:09.440 people actually open the email? Because that's always you know, 0:47:09.920 --> 0:47:11.799 people get these things, you delete it. I'm on so 0:47:11.840 --> 0:47:14.719 many mailing lists and I just delete them, but I'm 0:47:14.719 --> 0:47:16.719 happy to say we have about a fifty percent open rate, 0:47:16.880 --> 0:47:20.880 so that's pretty good. I'm I'm good with that anyway. 0:47:21.000 --> 0:47:23.960 Rich on tech dot TV, go to the website sign 0:47:24.040 --> 0:47:28.680 up for that. Just got an email from Edwin. He 0:47:28.719 --> 0:47:32.080 says he is a senior Spectrum tech. Just heard the 0:47:32.080 --> 0:47:34.719 caller mentioned Roku and Spectrum. Yes, you can record from 0:47:34.719 --> 0:47:36.279 a Roku, but you have to be signed up for 0:47:36.400 --> 0:47:40.239 Cloud DVR with Spectrum. So there you go. You got 0:47:40.239 --> 0:47:42.680 the answer. That's what I love about this show. You 0:47:42.719 --> 0:47:45.920 can see me as sort of the information clearing house, 0:47:46.000 --> 0:47:48.400 right Like I am like a train station. He's all 0:47:48.440 --> 0:47:50.799 this information just flowing through me. I may not know 0:47:50.880 --> 0:47:53.080 it all, but at least someone out there is listening 0:47:53.080 --> 0:47:55.319 and says, hey, Rich, here here's a little Birdie told me. 0:47:55.760 --> 0:47:57.880 Here's what you need to know. All right, let me 0:47:57.920 --> 0:47:59.640 tell you about three apps that I think you should 0:47:59.640 --> 0:48:02.280 know about. These are three new apps this week. Number 0:48:02.280 --> 0:48:06.800 one Watchworthy. This is an app that previously did TV 0:48:06.920 --> 0:48:12.360 recommendations based on your likes. Now they're expanding into movie recommendations. 0:48:12.920 --> 0:48:15.719 So I downloaded the app. You basically go through a 0:48:15.719 --> 0:48:18.239 whole bunch of movies. You say, I like it, I 0:48:18.280 --> 0:48:20.920 love it, I'm not interested. I didn't like it. You 0:48:21.040 --> 0:48:23.560 rate a whole bunch, and then eventually it will learn 0:48:23.800 --> 0:48:28.359 your tastes and give you personalized movie suggestions along with 0:48:28.400 --> 0:48:31.600 what's called a watch a Worthy score, so it tells 0:48:31.640 --> 0:48:35.000 you how much you're likely to like that movie. This 0:48:35.040 --> 0:48:37.960 is all based on ranker dot Com did a story 0:48:38.000 --> 0:48:40.680 with them years ago. They rank everything. If you go 0:48:40.719 --> 0:48:43.719 to ranker dot com, let's see, they pretty much rank 0:48:43.840 --> 0:48:46.680 like anything in the world, like whatever you can think of. 0:48:47.080 --> 0:48:50.880 There's some sort of like list on let's see here, 0:48:50.920 --> 0:48:53.520 I'm trying to see, like what give me some lists? 0:48:53.600 --> 0:48:58.520 Oh eleven medieval ghost stories that No, anyway, they've everything's 0:48:58.600 --> 0:49:00.960 ranked on that website. But anyway, this is movie stuff, 0:49:01.600 --> 0:49:03.640 so you can see where the movies are playing on Netflix, 0:49:03.719 --> 0:49:07.399 Disney Plus, HBO, Max, Apple TV plus. You can put 0:49:07.440 --> 0:49:09.680 in all the services you have just to see movies 0:49:09.680 --> 0:49:13.200 from there. Of course, you can browse by genre and filter. 0:49:13.640 --> 0:49:18.680 So yeah, I used this last night. Actually watchworthy dot app, 0:49:18.880 --> 0:49:23.240 watchworthy dot app for that. Then this is kind of cool. 0:49:23.320 --> 0:49:27.840 Tinder meets the Slopes. A new app called Shredder is 0:49:27.920 --> 0:49:32.000 basically helping you find ski buddies. So the app is 0:49:32.040 --> 0:49:36.640 called Shredder and it tracks your performance data like your speed, 0:49:36.680 --> 0:49:39.040 your vertical drop, and your distance, and then it uses 0:49:39.120 --> 0:49:42.719 these stats to match you with compatible writing partners. So 0:49:42.719 --> 0:49:44.680 if you want someone to hit the slopes with this 0:49:44.719 --> 0:49:46.919 is you know, it's not a dating app, but hey 0:49:47.000 --> 0:49:50.200 may turn into that. Who knows. It can also help 0:49:50.239 --> 0:49:53.360 you do other stuff like coordinate your carpools, plan ski meetups, 0:49:53.360 --> 0:49:56.160 share your stats with other riders. It's free, it's on 0:49:56.239 --> 0:50:01.160 Apple devices, and it was crafted by ski enthusiast Alfred Arnaud, 0:50:01.600 --> 0:50:04.319 who built it after struggling to find writing partners at 0:50:04.320 --> 0:50:08.520 his ski level. So Instagram, dot com, slash try Shredder 0:50:09.160 --> 0:50:11.040 is the website if you want to download that app, 0:50:11.960 --> 0:50:14.560 and then this is a web app. It's not necessarily 0:50:14.600 --> 0:50:16.920 a downloadable app. Maybe it will be in the future. 0:50:17.080 --> 0:50:20.560 But it's called Autopilot, and I've seen this in the past. 0:50:20.640 --> 0:50:22.560 This is a new app that's trying to do this 0:50:23.040 --> 0:50:26.200 once again, but Autopilot. Once you sign up, it's got 0:50:26.200 --> 0:50:31.560 this Lowest Fare Guarantee LFG, so it monitors the flight 0:50:31.640 --> 0:50:34.480 tickets that you purchase for price drops and if it 0:50:34.600 --> 0:50:38.400 drops more than twenty five dollars. It will secure an 0:50:38.440 --> 0:50:42.240 airline credit for the difference. I think it's twenty five dollars. 0:50:42.560 --> 0:50:45.000 There's a minimum on what they will they will do, 0:50:45.600 --> 0:50:48.959 so you link up your email. It imports the flight 0:50:49.000 --> 0:50:51.120 reservations as soon as you make them. It tracks those 0:50:51.160 --> 0:50:54.200 price those ticket prices in real time. It'll go to 0:50:54.239 --> 0:50:57.560 the airline get that price credit when the price drops. 0:50:58.040 --> 0:51:01.120 And they don't charge you a a monthly fee. They 0:51:01.160 --> 0:51:04.239 just charge a commission. So anything they save you they 0:51:04.320 --> 0:51:07.239 charge you twenty five percent. So let's say you get 0:51:07.239 --> 0:51:09.480 one hundred dollars price drop, one hundred dollars credit, they 0:51:09.520 --> 0:51:12.560 will charge you twenty five dollars. They say they can 0:51:12.640 --> 0:51:15.880 get the average flyer. They say the average flyer overpays 0:51:15.920 --> 0:51:19.200 five hundred dollars annually on flights. I think this would 0:51:19.239 --> 0:51:21.600 have to be someone that flies a lot to really 0:51:22.200 --> 0:51:26.080 get some noticeable credits here. It works with the major 0:51:26.080 --> 0:51:31.680 airlines Delta, United and American, that is with autopilot dot Com. 0:51:31.719 --> 0:51:34.080 With autopilot dot Com, I will link up all those 0:51:34.120 --> 0:51:38.640 apps on my website. Rich on tech dot tv All right, 0:51:38.680 --> 0:51:40.920 coming up, you think about a new TV for the 0:51:40.920 --> 0:51:42.680 Super Bowl, This is a good time to buy one, 0:51:42.719 --> 0:51:46.680 we will have Digital Trends Editor at Large Caleb Denison 0:51:46.840 --> 0:51:53.680 to talk about his picks for every budget. I'm very 0:51:53.719 --> 0:51:57.319 excited to bring on my next guest. Caleb Denison is 0:51:57.400 --> 0:52:00.840 with Digital Trends. He is the guy that is reviewing 0:52:01.080 --> 0:52:05.280 every TV out there and always gives us some great picks. 0:52:05.320 --> 0:52:07.840 He has been on the show before, and I figured, 0:52:07.920 --> 0:52:10.000 since super Bowl's coming up and this is one of 0:52:10.040 --> 0:52:12.759 the best times to buy a new TV, let's get 0:52:12.760 --> 0:52:15.120 some refreshed picks. Caleb, Welcome to the show. 0:52:15.920 --> 0:52:17.840 Hey Rich, thanks for having me and it's great to 0:52:17.880 --> 0:52:18.239 be back. 0:52:19.120 --> 0:52:22.319 Before we get to the TVs, tell me about your 0:52:22.440 --> 0:52:25.880 extracurricular stuff that you do. I know you. I follow 0:52:25.880 --> 0:52:27.799 you on Instagram and all of a sudden I saw 0:52:27.800 --> 0:52:30.000 you like playing in a band or something. So explain 0:52:30.040 --> 0:52:33.560 what you do in addition to these reviews. Yeah, or 0:52:34.239 --> 0:52:35.040 is this a secret? 0:52:35.800 --> 0:52:36.960 No, it's not a secret. 0:52:37.920 --> 0:52:40.439 I put it out on Instagram for anyone to see, 0:52:40.480 --> 0:52:43.200 although I don't do a ton of posting with the 0:52:43.200 --> 0:52:44.160 bands that I play with. 0:52:44.200 --> 0:52:46.000 But yeah, I'm. 0:52:45.400 --> 0:52:49.800 A professional trumpet player, have been since just out of college. 0:52:50.320 --> 0:52:53.480 Actually worked on cruise ships for a little while, playing 0:52:53.800 --> 0:52:57.200 trumpet and gathered a lot of experiences and stories there. 0:52:57.239 --> 0:53:01.120 But yeah, when I'm not reviewing TV, usually on the weekends, 0:53:01.120 --> 0:53:04.120 I'm out there playing a lot of weddings, special events 0:53:04.160 --> 0:53:05.000 and festivals. 0:53:05.320 --> 0:53:08.279 That is so cool, very very fun. I just the 0:53:08.520 --> 0:53:11.000 reason it brought to my attentions because you were playing 0:53:11.000 --> 0:53:12.560 at a place that I went to a wedding at 0:53:12.600 --> 0:53:15.880 and I was like, wait a second, what's he doing there? Anyway, Okay, 0:53:16.000 --> 0:53:20.480 let's talk TVs. And first off, you went to CS 0:53:20.520 --> 0:53:23.680 and what was a trend this year with TVs? 0:53:24.440 --> 0:53:26.200 Yeah, if I had to come up with a theme 0:53:26.400 --> 0:53:31.440 for CES this year, it would be bigger, brighter, better, 0:53:32.160 --> 0:53:35.760 but for less. And that's what we saw across the board. 0:53:35.800 --> 0:53:39.880 We saw a lot of large screen displays. We saw 0:53:40.440 --> 0:53:44.799 you know, aggressive brightness, just more beautiful than we've seen 0:53:44.840 --> 0:53:49.080 before a lot of really high end technologies that are 0:53:49.239 --> 0:53:51.759 just coming out for us to kind of wrap our 0:53:51.840 --> 0:53:56.279 heads around. But you know, those TVs tend to be 0:53:56.440 --> 0:54:00.720 the super aspirational type television right there. 0:54:00.880 --> 0:54:02.520 They're likely to be very. 0:54:02.320 --> 0:54:05.920 Expensive when they do come out, and probably you know, 0:54:06.800 --> 0:54:09.080 most of us are not going to be buying that 0:54:09.200 --> 0:54:12.400 kind of TV. But when we see that kind of technology, 0:54:12.440 --> 0:54:16.040 I like to talk about. How about the trickle down 0:54:16.160 --> 0:54:20.880 tech theory. You know, the more advanced these new technologies become, 0:54:21.400 --> 0:54:25.360 the more what used to be cutting edge technology starts 0:54:25.400 --> 0:54:29.400 trickling down into televisions that you know everybody can afford. 0:54:29.840 --> 0:54:33.160 Yeah, that's always a good thing. Any new terms that 0:54:33.200 --> 0:54:35.720 we should be aware of this year, Oh. 0:54:35.760 --> 0:54:39.080 So many new terms, rich, I mean, CEES is a 0:54:39.080 --> 0:54:41.480 great place to go if you want to have your 0:54:41.520 --> 0:54:44.120 mind just boggled with acronyms. 0:54:44.320 --> 0:54:45.839 Right, So we have. 0:54:47.440 --> 0:54:53.640 QD mini led, we saw tri chroma or RGB mini led, 0:54:55.120 --> 0:54:59.760 a lot of different ways of approaching TV technology tweaks 0:54:59.800 --> 0:55:02.960 on on what we've had before that you know, attempts 0:55:02.960 --> 0:55:06.120 to make them better, and you know there's a lot 0:55:06.120 --> 0:55:08.200 of them, and you know we'd be here all day 0:55:08.239 --> 0:55:10.600 if we tried to cover them on your show. Certainly 0:55:10.600 --> 0:55:13.480 couldn't fig fitted in this segment. But you know that's 0:55:13.480 --> 0:55:16.000 why you want to go to Digital Trends and specifically 0:55:16.120 --> 0:55:18.839 visit our YouTube channel, you know, because over the course 0:55:18.880 --> 0:55:20.360 of the year, I'm going to go through each and 0:55:20.480 --> 0:55:24.040 every one of these and explain what they actually mean 0:55:24.760 --> 0:55:25.720 to comment folks. 0:55:25.880 --> 0:55:30.839 Okay, well, let's get to some actual factual recommendations, because 0:55:30.840 --> 0:55:34.719 that's what people actually want. I mean, do you want 0:55:34.719 --> 0:55:36.000 to start the under five hundred. 0:55:37.560 --> 0:55:40.400 I will get to the under five hundred. But before 0:55:40.400 --> 0:55:42.359 I do that, I wanted to let you and your 0:55:42.400 --> 0:55:47.680 listeners in on a little bit of a secret. Now there, 0:55:47.760 --> 0:55:50.520 I have to stay away from mentioning specifics. You know, 0:55:50.719 --> 0:55:53.960 your in tech yourself, and you understand sometimes news is 0:55:54.000 --> 0:55:58.040 shared with us ahead of its official announcement, but it's 0:55:58.160 --> 0:56:00.680 under embargo, which is to say that we're not allowed 0:56:00.719 --> 0:56:03.840 to talk about it until a certain date or time. 0:56:04.239 --> 0:56:08.680 With that said, I have heard that there are. 0:56:08.640 --> 0:56:13.600 Going to be some aggressive Super Bowl TV sales, particularly 0:56:13.760 --> 0:56:19.080 from TCL, that are going to launch tomorrow, the nineteenth 0:56:19.200 --> 0:56:22.200 of January. And I've got to tell you I've seen 0:56:22.239 --> 0:56:26.440 the prices, and I'm not overstating things when I say 0:56:26.480 --> 0:56:29.799 that they are the best sale prices on TVs that 0:56:29.840 --> 0:56:35.680 we've seen, maybe ever, certainly since Black Friday. And so 0:56:35.920 --> 0:56:38.640 I am going to read off some TVs that I recommend, 0:56:39.160 --> 0:56:42.400 but I would like everyone to know that as of tomorrow, 0:56:43.200 --> 0:56:47.719 you should see some pretty incredible sales on TVs. And 0:56:48.040 --> 0:56:50.839 you're right, super Bowl is a time, a great time 0:56:50.880 --> 0:56:52.839 to buy a TV because we're you. 0:56:52.800 --> 0:56:55.080 Know, we're nearing the end of the model year. 0:56:55.160 --> 0:56:58.080 The twenty four TVs need to be cleared out for 0:56:58.120 --> 0:57:01.040 the twenty twenty five TVs, and so you know, there 0:57:01.080 --> 0:57:03.719 are always great sales right around this time of year, 0:57:04.560 --> 0:57:07.160 and so beyond, it's just exciting to get a new 0:57:07.200 --> 0:57:09.399 TV for the Super Bowl. Let's remember, we keep these 0:57:09.440 --> 0:57:11.960 TVs for a while, right, and we want. 0:57:11.840 --> 0:57:13.520 To get something that we're going to enjoy for a 0:57:13.560 --> 0:57:14.040 long time. 0:57:14.080 --> 0:57:16.360 And it's just wonderful that there are these huge sales 0:57:16.400 --> 0:57:17.040 coming right up. 0:57:17.280 --> 0:57:19.840 Yeah, so I would say maybe spend a little bit extra, 0:57:19.960 --> 0:57:21.720 Like if you're looking at a TV that's three hundred 0:57:21.760 --> 0:57:24.160 or four hundred, go with the four hundred, just because 0:57:24.200 --> 0:57:26.280 you know, you do keep this thing for like a decade. 0:57:26.320 --> 0:57:29.480 I mean at least I do. So, I mean, one 0:57:29.520 --> 0:57:31.840 hundred dollars over ten years is really not that much, 0:57:32.080 --> 0:57:33.680 all right, So what do you recommend this year? 0:57:34.360 --> 0:57:34.720 All right? 0:57:34.800 --> 0:57:38.200 Well, let's remember that when you have a strict budget 0:57:38.240 --> 0:57:40.520 for a TV, So when we talk about under five 0:57:40.640 --> 0:57:43.400 hundred or under one thousand, usually have to make a 0:57:43.400 --> 0:57:45.880 little bit of a decision. Do you want to get 0:57:46.000 --> 0:57:49.960 the biggest screen possible? With maybe not the most amazing 0:57:50.040 --> 0:57:53.400 picture quality, or are you happier with maybe a not 0:57:53.520 --> 0:57:57.680 a huge screen with you know, extra special picture quality. 0:57:57.760 --> 0:57:59.960 So I'm going to give a couple of different sizes 0:58:00.120 --> 0:58:02.320 is in each category, and I guess we'll start with 0:58:02.320 --> 0:58:05.320 the under five hundred. Like you said, my pick for 0:58:05.400 --> 0:58:09.160 the best fifty five inch TV under five hundred dollars 0:58:09.240 --> 0:58:13.439 would be the High Sense U six N. And it's 0:58:13.480 --> 0:58:16.880 got all the technology that you want in it. It's 0:58:16.920 --> 0:58:20.120 got many led back lights, it's got quantum dots for 0:58:20.560 --> 0:58:24.040 you know, really vivid expressive color. It runs the Google 0:58:24.080 --> 0:58:28.160 TV operating system, which happens to me my favorite built 0:58:28.160 --> 0:58:32.320 in TV operating system. And it's just you're gonna hear 0:58:32.360 --> 0:58:34.800 me mention High Sense in TCL a lot here because 0:58:34.840 --> 0:58:39.400 these two brands are offering extremely amazing bang for your buck. 0:58:39.640 --> 0:58:43.400 And for somebody who hasn't bought a TV recently, maybe 0:58:43.400 --> 0:58:45.760 those aren't as familiar brands, but I'm here to tell 0:58:45.800 --> 0:58:48.240 you they've been around for a while now, they've really 0:58:48.320 --> 0:58:51.000 up their game. Their quality control is very good now 0:58:51.000 --> 0:58:53.320 and they've become very reliable TVs. 0:58:53.400 --> 0:58:55.680 So I can tell you last time we talked to you, 0:58:55.680 --> 0:58:57.600 you recommended the High Sense and I bought it and 0:58:57.640 --> 0:58:59.920 I love it, so it's been fantastic. 0:59:00.760 --> 0:59:03.320 Yeah, I'm not going to give a recommendation. I can't 0:59:03.360 --> 0:59:06.320 stand behind you know, it'll come back to me. But 0:59:06.480 --> 0:59:08.160 if you want to go a little bit bigger under 0:59:08.160 --> 0:59:11.800 five hundred dollars, I would recommend the sixty five inch 0:59:12.360 --> 0:59:16.360 TCL Q sixty five. Write that down Q sixty five. 0:59:16.440 --> 0:59:20.360 It's a wonderful TV at the most popular size right now. 0:59:20.400 --> 0:59:23.400 Sixty five inches also runs Google TV, has a lot 0:59:23.400 --> 0:59:26.240 of the similar technology that I just described in the 0:59:26.280 --> 0:59:28.320 High Sense, and I think you'd be pretty happy with 0:59:28.360 --> 0:59:29.040 that as well. 0:59:29.280 --> 0:59:32.480 Okay, what about a little bit more expensive. 0:59:32.760 --> 0:59:35.240 Right if we want to go under one thousand, my 0:59:35.480 --> 0:59:39.800 favorite TV under one thousand dollars right now would be 0:59:39.840 --> 0:59:44.840 the sixty five inch Sony X ninety L. Sony, you know, 0:59:44.880 --> 0:59:47.040 they've been in the game a long time and their 0:59:47.520 --> 0:59:50.200 top tier when it comes to processing, and so when 0:59:50.280 --> 0:59:53.080 you're maybe not watching four K content, you're just watching 0:59:53.120 --> 0:59:57.000 cable or satellite or you know, lower quality streaming stuff, 0:59:57.120 --> 1:00:01.360 you know, just your basic YouTube stuff. Sony processing really 1:00:01.360 --> 1:00:04.520 cleans up that image and makes it look absolutely gorgeous. 1:00:05.160 --> 1:00:07.720 With that said, I'm also a big fan of the 1:00:07.840 --> 1:00:08.360 High Sense. 1:00:08.640 --> 1:00:11.240 You eight and a couple of steps above that U 1:00:11.280 --> 1:00:15.960 six I mentioned before also available sixty five inches. Well, 1:00:16.120 --> 1:00:18.120 well under one thousand dollars. I think it's hanging out 1:00:18.200 --> 1:00:21.280 around seven hundred right now. But if you do want 1:00:21.320 --> 1:00:25.080 to go bigger under one thousand, you can use that 1:00:25.320 --> 1:00:28.040 U six and I recommended earlier and get that in 1:00:28.120 --> 1:00:31.440 a seventy five inch version. That's that's what happens if 1:00:31.480 --> 1:00:33.520 you spend a little bit more money on that same 1:00:33.560 --> 1:00:35.200 model to get a bigger size. 1:00:35.560 --> 1:00:37.880 All right, we've got about a minute left, so give 1:00:37.920 --> 1:00:38.919 me your best to the best. 1:00:38.960 --> 1:00:43.280 The splurge, well, I'm going to say it's Super Bowl. 1:00:43.320 --> 1:00:45.920 We want to go big for a splurge. 1:00:45.920 --> 1:00:48.200 I'm gonna say real big, right, I'm talking about a 1:00:48.320 --> 1:00:52.640 ninety eight inch TV. I would say, look at the 1:00:53.280 --> 1:00:57.680 High Sense. I'm sorry, the tcl Q six at ninety 1:00:57.720 --> 1:01:02.600 eight inches. Check the internet tomorrow, ninety eight inch TCLQ six. 1:01:03.040 --> 1:01:04.720 You will be shocked at the price. 1:01:04.760 --> 1:01:07.280 I can't tell you what it is, but it's well 1:01:07.480 --> 1:01:11.240 under two thousand dollars. It's under sixteen hundred dollars as 1:01:11.280 --> 1:01:11.959 a matter of fact. 1:01:12.160 --> 1:01:13.960 Wow, Well, when you get that specific, you might as 1:01:13.960 --> 1:01:16.280 well just say, what is no IgE kidding? I'm actually 1:01:16.320 --> 1:01:18.320 looking at the email. I looked it up from TCL 1:01:18.440 --> 1:01:21.520 and yes, it is a very aggressive price for a 1:01:21.600 --> 1:01:23.680 ninety eight inch TV. I hope you have room for 1:01:23.720 --> 1:01:26.880 it in your living room. Caleb Dennison, what's the best 1:01:26.880 --> 1:01:29.480 place people can find your reviews about TVs? 1:01:30.040 --> 1:01:31.760 Well, if you want to read them, you can go 1:01:31.840 --> 1:01:35.080 to Digitaltrends dot com our website, or you can go 1:01:35.120 --> 1:01:37.880 to YouTube. Just type in Digital Trends and you'll see 1:01:37.880 --> 1:01:38.320 my face. 1:01:39.040 --> 1:01:41.040 Thanks so much for joining me. Appreciate it. You got 1:01:41.040 --> 1:01:41.880 a gig this weekend? 1:01:41.960 --> 1:01:42.120 Or what? 1:01:43.240 --> 1:01:44.280 No gig this weekend? 1:01:44.360 --> 1:01:46.760 Unless you call golf a gig, in which case I 1:01:46.800 --> 1:01:47.600 have a few gigs. 1:01:47.680 --> 1:01:49.800 There we go. Thanks so much for joining me, Caleb, 1:01:50.160 --> 1:01:53.440 appreciate it. Rich on tech dot Tv, I will put 1:01:53.480 --> 1:01:57.080 all of his suggestions on the website. Episode one oh five, 1:01:57.080 --> 1:02:00.000 look for the show notes there. Coming up, we're gonna 1:02:00.120 --> 1:02:04.680 talking Nintendo switch to plus dji making some changes to 1:02:04.720 --> 1:02:09.760 its drone restrictions. Plus your calls, I see you, I 1:02:09.800 --> 1:02:12.439 feel you. We're gonna take your calls. Coming up next 1:02:12.440 --> 1:02:14.680 eight eight eight Rich one O one eight eight eight 1:02:14.800 --> 1:02:17.760 seven four to two four one zero one. And by aphilia, 1:02:17.760 --> 1:02:19.520 I mean I know you've been waiting for a long time. 1:02:19.520 --> 1:02:26.280 We'll get you on. Welcome back to Rich on tech. 1:02:26.400 --> 1:02:32.040 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Let's 1:02:32.240 --> 1:02:37.120 go to uh Evan in Anaheim, California. Evan, you're on 1:02:37.160 --> 1:02:37.600 with Rich? 1:02:38.360 --> 1:02:38.880 Yeah, hein' no. 1:02:39.040 --> 1:02:39.240 Rich. 1:02:39.680 --> 1:02:41.800 I was calling today because I've been looking into the 1:02:42.160 --> 1:02:45.800 ninja woodfire electric barbecues that have like little pellets that 1:02:45.800 --> 1:02:48.320 you use to to smoke things or just add that 1:02:48.400 --> 1:02:50.800 smoky barbecue flavor. And I find there a really good 1:02:50.800 --> 1:02:53.360 alternative to guess or charcoal barbecues because a lot of 1:02:53.480 --> 1:02:55.760 us in apartments aren't allowed to use one. 1:02:56.000 --> 1:02:56.200 Yeah. 1:02:56.200 --> 1:02:58.520 So I've heard some good things. I've heard some bad 1:02:58.520 --> 1:03:01.240 things in reviews, but nobody really elaborates on the bad. 1:03:01.720 --> 1:03:03.440 And I am on the fence with this thing in 1:03:03.480 --> 1:03:05.720 my cost Co shopping cart for two ninety nine for 1:03:05.800 --> 1:03:08.760 the smaller version. They don't offer the larger version there. 1:03:08.760 --> 1:03:10.280 And I just wanted to know what your take was 1:03:10.320 --> 1:03:10.960 on those. 1:03:10.800 --> 1:03:11.760 If you had one. 1:03:12.560 --> 1:03:14.840 I don't have one. I do have an I do 1:03:14.960 --> 1:03:17.160 have other ninja stuff that I do like I think 1:03:17.240 --> 1:03:19.920 Ninja's kind of a good up and coming brand with 1:03:19.960 --> 1:03:23.240 all these kitchen appliances and just various things they make. 1:03:23.760 --> 1:03:29.520 I did try pizza from this woodfire oven over in Berlin, 1:03:29.640 --> 1:03:32.920 Germany last year at the IFA show. So I did 1:03:32.960 --> 1:03:36.040 try pizza. It smelled good, it looked good. I mean, 1:03:36.080 --> 1:03:38.720 everything worked for us, but of course someone else was 1:03:38.720 --> 1:03:43.040 cooking on this. What are you comparing this to, like, 1:03:43.040 --> 1:03:44.920 what are you gonna smoke stuff? Or are you just 1:03:45.000 --> 1:03:46.160 looking for an electric grill? 1:03:46.800 --> 1:03:49.800 You know, a little bit of both grill and smoke. 1:03:49.920 --> 1:03:52.360 And they actually it's funny because Ninja just has so many, 1:03:52.560 --> 1:03:55.920 so many products. Oh yeah, the oven is actually different 1:03:55.960 --> 1:03:58.840 than the grill, even they have a specific grill. And 1:03:58.880 --> 1:04:01.560 the reviews that I saw is that the oven is 1:04:01.800 --> 1:04:03.840 good at being an If you want to grill, get 1:04:03.840 --> 1:04:06.080 the grill. But if you want a oven, if you 1:04:06.080 --> 1:04:08.280 want a grill in the oven, don't get the oven. Right, 1:04:08.280 --> 1:04:10.680 it didn't do both well. Yeah, but they have like 1:04:11.000 --> 1:04:13.520 a regular sized grill for two ninety nine at Costco, 1:04:13.600 --> 1:04:15.919 and I think they have a larger middle of the 1:04:16.080 --> 1:04:18.920 medium size. Yeah, if I can throw xcel with like 1:04:18.960 --> 1:04:20.480 a connect and I think they haven't even have a 1:04:20.560 --> 1:04:23.440 larger one that's closer to a grand that's way out. 1:04:23.280 --> 1:04:23.840 Of my budget. 1:04:23.880 --> 1:04:25.760 I was looking at the smaller the medium. 1:04:26.240 --> 1:04:27.440 I noticed the medium. 1:04:27.160 --> 1:04:29.240 Has like temperature probes and whatnot that you can use 1:04:29.280 --> 1:04:31.800 with it. But I'm a big fan of the meter probe. 1:04:31.960 --> 1:04:33.720 I don't know if you like them, but they're a 1:04:33.720 --> 1:04:35.680 wonderful probe. It meets every time. 1:04:35.800 --> 1:04:38.400 It's funny. They sent me a meter when it first 1:04:38.440 --> 1:04:40.280 came out. I think it might have started as a kickstarter, 1:04:40.320 --> 1:04:42.320 but they sent me one. I used it once. I 1:04:42.360 --> 1:04:45.960 hated it and I never used it again. And I 1:04:46.000 --> 1:04:47.960 literally think it was like a prototype that they sent me. 1:04:48.360 --> 1:04:50.640 And I felt so bad because now people love this thing. 1:04:51.000 --> 1:04:53.120 I ended up seeing them at a trade show and 1:04:53.120 --> 1:04:54.760 I said, ah, I feel bad because I you know, 1:04:54.960 --> 1:04:56.680 I kind of hate on this thing for so long. 1:04:57.040 --> 1:04:58.919 They gave me a new one. I have not used it, 1:04:58.960 --> 1:05:02.800 but I I'm a big fan of thermometers with cooking meat, 1:05:02.920 --> 1:05:04.760 you know, on the grill. But I just have an 1:05:04.840 --> 1:05:06.600 instant read, so I don't use the probe. But I 1:05:06.640 --> 1:05:08.160 know the probe is easier because you could just put 1:05:08.160 --> 1:05:10.080 a try tip on there and next thing you know, 1:05:10.120 --> 1:05:11.680 it just tells you when it's ready to go instead 1:05:11.680 --> 1:05:14.760 of checking it every you know, five minutes. So I 1:05:14.800 --> 1:05:17.000 will test that. That's in my in my list of 1:05:17.040 --> 1:05:20.600 things to test. When it comes to this, this Ninja 1:05:20.880 --> 1:05:25.080 woodfire grill. Have you looked at the Have you considered 1:05:25.480 --> 1:05:26.000 the Weber? 1:05:27.800 --> 1:05:29.800 I didn't even know Weber made one? Why did I 1:05:29.800 --> 1:05:30.400 count them out? 1:05:30.640 --> 1:05:32.720 Yeah? So, I mean I was at a Weber event 1:05:32.760 --> 1:05:34.840 where they had all of the different grills and I 1:05:34.880 --> 1:05:36.560 was not I didn't even know they had wood, pellet 1:05:36.720 --> 1:05:38.640 or electric or any of these things. They even make 1:05:38.680 --> 1:05:42.240 a blackstone type grill. They make their own version of that. 1:05:43.160 --> 1:05:45.800 And my last Weber lasted ten years. So I just 1:05:45.880 --> 1:05:48.400 bought a new one recently. But my last one, I 1:05:48.400 --> 1:05:50.160 mean it was I only bought a new one because 1:05:50.200 --> 1:05:52.080 I felt like I had to. I was like, well, 1:05:52.080 --> 1:05:53.800 this thing's so old, it must be going bad. But 1:05:53.840 --> 1:05:57.360 it was perfectly fine. But I would compare. I don't 1:05:57.400 --> 1:05:59.920 think the price is going to be as in expense. 1:06:00.680 --> 1:06:04.240 I'm looking at their cheapest electric grill looks like it's 1:06:04.240 --> 1:06:06.320 about three ninety nine. I don't know if they discount 1:06:06.320 --> 1:06:10.200 them at all. I guess my advice on the Ninja 1:06:10.320 --> 1:06:12.200 is I think the quality you're gonna get out of 1:06:12.240 --> 1:06:14.880 it is kind of like it's gonna be maybe not 1:06:15.040 --> 1:06:17.960 top tier quality, but kind of like right underneath that. 1:06:18.280 --> 1:06:21.479 So if you're okay with that, I think you'll be fine. 1:06:21.520 --> 1:06:23.160 I don't think it's gonna have the best. You know, 1:06:23.480 --> 1:06:25.400 it's not gonna rival what you can get out of 1:06:25.400 --> 1:06:30.160 a dedicated kind of wood pellet, you know, grill' that's 1:06:30.240 --> 1:06:34.040 you know, truly gas fired or whatever. But the good 1:06:34.080 --> 1:06:36.160 news is, Evan, is that you said you were looking 1:06:36.160 --> 1:06:38.720 at a Costco. Can't you return anything to Costco? 1:06:39.720 --> 1:06:41.280 That's kind of what I was thinking of, is even 1:06:41.280 --> 1:06:42.840 if it was made of Chinese and I don't have 1:06:42.880 --> 1:06:43.880 a problem returning it. 1:06:45.400 --> 1:06:48.600 So I say you just go ahead, buy the grill, 1:06:49.080 --> 1:06:51.560 try it out. Make you know, don't make just one thing, 1:06:51.640 --> 1:06:55.000 make two or three things. See what it's like. You know, 1:06:55.120 --> 1:06:57.160 if it works, it's great. I mean it's it's a 1:06:57.200 --> 1:07:00.320 good price, that's for sure. And if it's not, bring it. 1:07:00.360 --> 1:07:04.400 But either way, I want you to report back. Okay. 1:07:03.960 --> 1:07:07.480 That's my ask is that you report back in a 1:07:07.480 --> 1:07:09.160 couple of weeks what you think of this thing. 1:07:09.200 --> 1:07:12.720 Okay, yeah, I will. I'll try around some proteins and 1:07:12.760 --> 1:07:14.520 some sausage links and I'll let you know what I think. 1:07:14.680 --> 1:07:16.680 All right, Evan, you know where to find me, Send 1:07:16.680 --> 1:07:18.880 me an invite. I'll be there to try some of 1:07:18.880 --> 1:07:24.200 that great question. You know, I am a big griller. 1:07:24.240 --> 1:07:27.080 I love grilling, and I you know, you may not know, 1:07:27.120 --> 1:07:29.720 but I'm actually a big cook in general. Like I'm 1:07:29.760 --> 1:07:32.360 the one that cooks in my home almost every night. 1:07:32.840 --> 1:07:35.920 And so my wife, oh my gosh, she's gonna be 1:07:35.960 --> 1:07:38.320 really embarrassed I tell the story. But when I met 1:07:38.320 --> 1:07:41.760 my wife, I'm not kidding. Oh gosh, I even tell 1:07:41.800 --> 1:07:44.320 this story. This is so bad. When I met my wife, 1:07:44.400 --> 1:07:47.240 I went to her parents' house, and I'm not kidding. 1:07:47.360 --> 1:07:51.000 On the stove on a stove, there's a tiny pillow 1:07:51.440 --> 1:07:54.760 that said for dinner, I make reservations a pillow on 1:07:54.840 --> 1:07:58.200 the stove. Who puts a pillow on a stove? I 1:07:58.360 --> 1:08:00.200 was so taken aback because I grew up in a 1:08:00.240 --> 1:08:04.280 house my parents had five kids. My mom would cook 1:08:04.400 --> 1:08:07.400 every single night. I'm talking to dinner for seven people, 1:08:08.040 --> 1:08:09.600 do you know how much? And this was back in 1:08:09.640 --> 1:08:13.080 the day when they didn't have shredded cheese in a bag, 1:08:13.320 --> 1:08:15.240 and they didn't have these things that were like already 1:08:15.280 --> 1:08:19.080 ready to go, and like she prepped food like the 1:08:19.120 --> 1:08:21.439 old fashioned way, Like I'm not kidding. You'd get a 1:08:21.520 --> 1:08:24.479 one pound brick of muzzerella cheese. Yes we're Italian. We 1:08:24.479 --> 1:08:27.240 had mozzerella cheese and just sit there and like grate 1:08:27.320 --> 1:08:30.320 it for like an hour, and like prep these pepper 1:08:30.320 --> 1:08:31.760 steaks and all the stuff that she would make on 1:08:31.800 --> 1:08:34.640 a nightly basis. And so we'd have dinner, and then 1:08:34.680 --> 1:08:37.040 we'd have the threat of just wait till your father 1:08:37.120 --> 1:08:39.679 gets home, because I'm telling them everything you kids did 1:08:39.680 --> 1:08:41.640 today and all the stuff you said and all the 1:08:41.640 --> 1:08:45.639 things did. Yeah, remember those days you were scared when 1:08:45.720 --> 1:08:51.480 dad got home. Oh my gosh, all right, uh. Dji 1:08:52.000 --> 1:08:57.120 making some big changes to its drone software Starting now, 1:08:57.800 --> 1:09:01.160 Dji is changing how their drones handle restricted areas. So 1:09:01.200 --> 1:09:04.360 instead of hard no fly zones, you'll now see enhanced 1:09:04.400 --> 1:09:08.920 warning zones that match up with official FAA airspace rules. 1:09:09.560 --> 1:09:12.479 So basically before you had to go through a whole 1:09:12.479 --> 1:09:14.200 bunch of stuff, now all you have to do is 1:09:14.360 --> 1:09:16.519 update the app, and when you hit one of these zones, 1:09:16.560 --> 1:09:18.680 it'll just say, oh, you can't really fly here, and 1:09:18.680 --> 1:09:21.960 you go okay, and then you can fly anyway. So 1:09:22.760 --> 1:09:26.200 it's really putting this on the honor of the pilots 1:09:26.680 --> 1:09:30.000 instead of the drone automatically stopping you. So you're gonna 1:09:30.000 --> 1:09:33.679 get alerts. But this is a big shift. DJI introduced 1:09:33.720 --> 1:09:36.679 their old system back in twenty thirteen, so they're really 1:09:36.720 --> 1:09:39.360 strict for the past ten years or so. Now they 1:09:39.360 --> 1:09:43.080 say more people know about drones and understand the ramifications, 1:09:43.080 --> 1:09:45.360 that's why they're making the change. But this is a big, 1:09:45.479 --> 1:09:48.720 big change, so you maybe see more drones in more 1:09:48.760 --> 1:09:52.760 places on the news given giving people trouble eighty eight 1:09:52.840 --> 1:09:55.320 rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to 1:09:55.320 --> 1:09:58.439 two four one zero one. This is rich on Tech 1:10:01.040 --> 1:10:04.599 Selena from Walnut Creek, California. Rights and I'm interested in 1:10:04.640 --> 1:10:09.240 finding out if there are better options than comcasts for business, internet, phone, 1:10:09.280 --> 1:10:12.760 and TV at my office location in Walnut Creek. What 1:10:12.840 --> 1:10:15.960 are my options? Let's see, Selena. I think a great 1:10:16.000 --> 1:10:20.439 starting point is to check which companies offer availability. Now 1:10:20.479 --> 1:10:22.559 this may be a little bit different because you're talking 1:10:22.600 --> 1:10:29.040 about business versus personal, but speed tests speed test dot net, 1:10:29.479 --> 1:10:31.519 that's the website that people go to to check the 1:10:31.560 --> 1:10:34.439 speed of their Internet. Well, they do something that's kind 1:10:34.439 --> 1:10:37.080 of cool on the back end, the kind of catalog 1:10:37.200 --> 1:10:40.960 all that. And they have this feature called speed Test 1:10:41.040 --> 1:10:44.880 Performance Directory. And so if you go to the website 1:10:45.360 --> 1:10:49.720 and it's speed test dot net slash performance and you 1:10:49.760 --> 1:10:51.559 type in your zip code, I'm just going to type 1:10:51.560 --> 1:10:56.120 in one that I know nine two eight, and that 1:10:56.200 --> 1:10:59.400 will give you all of the different providers in that 1:10:59.560 --> 1:11:05.559 area and the pricing. So this is typically, you know, 1:11:05.680 --> 1:11:08.840 meant for residential, but a lot of these companies have 1:11:09.040 --> 1:11:10.920 business as well, so that'll give you an idea of 1:11:11.000 --> 1:11:14.320 what who has the lines in your area. But that's 1:11:14.360 --> 1:11:17.519 where I would start. Let's see that there used to 1:11:17.600 --> 1:11:22.600 be another one that I don't know if this has business. 1:11:23.760 --> 1:11:27.680 Let's see here. This is all Connect all connect dot com. 1:11:27.720 --> 1:11:30.040 They've been around for a while, but I think that 1:11:30.080 --> 1:11:34.280 one is a little bit more paid about our providers 1:11:34.320 --> 1:11:39.479 so works individually providers. So yeah, I mean, you know, 1:11:39.600 --> 1:11:41.640 you could just look for look for those two websites 1:11:41.680 --> 1:11:44.679 all Connect and then the other one again is speed 1:11:44.720 --> 1:11:48.120 test dot net, and I would I would check there. 1:11:48.479 --> 1:11:53.880 All right, let's go to uh George in Laguna. Igel George, 1:11:53.920 --> 1:11:54.639 You're on with Rich. 1:11:55.920 --> 1:11:58.320 Hello Rich, Thank you for taking my call. 1:11:58.320 --> 1:12:00.160 Thanks for calling. What can I help with? 1:12:01.240 --> 1:12:01.519 Well? 1:12:01.760 --> 1:12:06.080 On Black Friday, I bought a cheap Toshiba seventy five 1:12:06.160 --> 1:12:10.320 inch Fire TV, and you're right, the prices have gotten. 1:12:10.120 --> 1:12:10.679 A lot better. 1:12:10.800 --> 1:12:11.680 How much you pay for that? 1:12:12.960 --> 1:12:13.599 I beg your pardon? 1:12:13.680 --> 1:12:14.400 How much you pay? 1:12:15.240 --> 1:12:18.400 Oh about four hundred and fifty nine something? 1:12:18.640 --> 1:12:21.680 Oh wow, that is wild. Four hundred and fifty nine 1:12:21.720 --> 1:12:24.720 bucks for how many seventy five a. 1:12:24.680 --> 1:12:29.080 Seventy five inch Toshiba Fire TV off of Amazon through 1:12:29.320 --> 1:12:29.880 best Buy? 1:12:30.080 --> 1:12:32.840 Oh wow, that's a lot. That's complicated. But okay, so 1:12:32.920 --> 1:12:35.880 what what what's your question? 1:12:36.960 --> 1:12:40.919 Okay, So I've always had a provider, so either Hulu 1:12:41.040 --> 1:12:43.800 or Fling that I was using YouTube when I got 1:12:43.840 --> 1:12:44.519 this new TV. 1:12:44.920 --> 1:12:46.320 But this new TV is a. 1:12:46.439 --> 1:12:49.240 Fire TV, so there's no stick. It's all built in. 1:12:49.479 --> 1:12:51.800 Ye Do I need am I double dipping my that 1:12:51.920 --> 1:12:53.960 guy a few calls ago? Do I need to have 1:12:54.120 --> 1:12:55.840 YouTube if I have a fire TV? 1:12:57.720 --> 1:13:00.479 The Well, it depends what you want to want. So 1:13:00.520 --> 1:13:04.360 there is a ton of free content, and Amazon has 1:13:04.400 --> 1:13:06.519 a lot of free content on Fire. They've got like 1:13:06.560 --> 1:13:10.479 a whole section all these providers, like whether it is Roku, 1:13:10.680 --> 1:13:15.000 whether it's Amazon with Fire, whether it's Google, they all 1:13:15.160 --> 1:13:18.760 are really into these free channels that are that are 1:13:18.800 --> 1:13:21.120 ADS supported. So if you look on like the Google 1:13:21.200 --> 1:13:23.959 TV or the Fire TV, they've got all these sections 1:13:24.000 --> 1:13:27.479 of like sports and news and you know whatever. You know, 1:13:27.520 --> 1:13:29.599 Amazon had this thing called free V I think that's 1:13:29.640 --> 1:13:34.280 now been blended into their standard Amazon Prime, so you 1:13:34.320 --> 1:13:38.040 can watch a bunch of stuff for free. The question is, George, 1:13:38.080 --> 1:13:40.080 it comes down to what you want to watch, if 1:13:40.120 --> 1:13:43.880 you want to watch, it just really comes down to that, 1:13:44.280 --> 1:13:46.759 and that's that's it. So if you want to watch ESPN, 1:13:46.880 --> 1:13:49.719 let's say you're not going to find that for free, 1:13:50.040 --> 1:13:52.559 the linear channel that you want to watch right now. 1:13:52.600 --> 1:13:54.240 If you want to watch something like let's just say 1:13:54.320 --> 1:13:57.040 KTLA like, of course, you can download the Ktla plus 1:13:57.080 --> 1:14:01.200 app and you can stream our news for free. If 1:14:01.240 --> 1:14:04.160 you want to watch random old movies or just random movies, 1:14:04.200 --> 1:14:05.800 you can watch those. If you want to watch news 1:14:05.800 --> 1:14:08.679 clips from all the different news to you know, news outlets, 1:14:08.800 --> 1:14:11.640 NBC News, they all have a streaming service that they 1:14:11.720 --> 1:14:14.599 now offer for free, you can watch all of that stuff. 1:14:14.960 --> 1:14:18.120 So the short answer is, if you don't want to 1:14:18.160 --> 1:14:21.040 pay a nickel for anything on this device, you don't 1:14:21.080 --> 1:14:23.120 have to, and you can just deal with what you've 1:14:23.160 --> 1:14:26.519 gotten for free. And there's also services like Pluto TV, 1:14:27.600 --> 1:14:31.760 There's two b Tubi. They all offer everything for free 1:14:31.760 --> 1:14:34.720 as well. So again it comes down to if you 1:14:34.760 --> 1:14:37.160 want to watch like Bravo or something like that, like 1:14:37.200 --> 1:14:40.320 a channel, you're not going to find that channel streaming 1:14:40.360 --> 1:14:43.639 for free. Might you find some of their content out there, sure, 1:14:44.160 --> 1:14:46.840 but if it depends on what you want to watch, 1:14:46.920 --> 1:14:47.759 does that make sense? 1:14:49.120 --> 1:14:49.479 It does? 1:14:49.520 --> 1:14:52.160 So I think the difference mechanically is if I want 1:14:52.200 --> 1:14:55.479 to continue with YouTube, then I have a home channel, 1:14:55.560 --> 1:14:57.720 I have a DVR, and I have live TV, and 1:14:57.760 --> 1:15:01.760 I can go through and see all the channel live exactly. Look, 1:15:01.960 --> 1:15:04.000 but if I'm going to go ahead and use the 1:15:04.040 --> 1:15:07.719 fire TV, that I have to download the individual apps 1:15:08.400 --> 1:15:10.160 because the apps substitute for channel. 1:15:10.400 --> 1:15:13.200 Yes and no, because fire tv does have its own 1:15:13.400 --> 1:15:16.040 level of kind of like streaming content just kind of 1:15:16.040 --> 1:15:19.000 built in at the ground level, and you'll find that 1:15:19.040 --> 1:15:21.360 where there's like I think it's called news or there's 1:15:21.400 --> 1:15:23.519 just you know, they keep they keep putting those new 1:15:23.600 --> 1:15:25.960 tiles on the screen that say, like just watch stuff 1:15:26.000 --> 1:15:28.639 for free. So but I think it really comes down 1:15:28.680 --> 1:15:31.280 to do you want to watch like standard cable channels 1:15:31.640 --> 1:15:35.200 that you can DVR at your own leisure and specific 1:15:35.280 --> 1:15:38.719 shows that you DVR. That's really the experience you're getting 1:15:38.720 --> 1:15:41.080 from a YouTube TV and of course live TV and 1:15:41.120 --> 1:15:44.080 live sports and things like that. But I think you've 1:15:44.080 --> 1:15:49.439 touched upon a really kind of an interesting nuance of 1:15:49.680 --> 1:15:52.200 TV viewing these days. With streaming is that it's all 1:15:52.200 --> 1:15:54.519 over the place, and a lot of this stuff is 1:15:54.600 --> 1:15:57.559 repeated in different places, and it's you know, there's bits 1:15:57.600 --> 1:16:00.200 and pieces of it all over the place. But if 1:16:00.240 --> 1:16:04.520 you want that traditional cable TV experience with your channels 1:16:04.920 --> 1:16:09.800 that you know and you understand that are streaming linearly, 1:16:09.880 --> 1:16:12.000 which means you know, you're tuning in live just like 1:16:12.040 --> 1:16:14.479 everyone else at the same time, that's going to be 1:16:14.520 --> 1:16:18.400 something like Hulu, Live TV Now, Fubo or whatever, the 1:16:18.479 --> 1:16:21.519 YouTube TVs of the world, the sling TVs of the world, 1:16:22.080 --> 1:16:23.840 that's what you need to subscribe to. But if you 1:16:24.000 --> 1:16:26.479 just want to watch content and just find stuff that's 1:16:26.640 --> 1:16:29.000 that's streaming or watching, you know, you just want to 1:16:29.040 --> 1:16:32.400 watch stuff, you're going to be just fine just picking 1:16:32.439 --> 1:16:36.479 through the stuff that's on the fire TV device. And 1:16:36.600 --> 1:16:39.960 of course downloading some apps as well. Hope that helps 1:16:40.000 --> 1:16:45.760 George appreciate the call. Let's go to Lynn in Riverside. Linn, 1:16:45.760 --> 1:16:47.840 you're on with Rich. Hi. 1:16:48.760 --> 1:16:52.559 Oh, thank you so much for taking Michael. Be patient 1:16:52.640 --> 1:16:58.320 with me. I'm seventy nine years old, and what I 1:16:58.400 --> 1:17:04.960 wanted to know is since I'm not really a whole 1:17:05.040 --> 1:17:08.400 day in a computer, it's only once in a while, 1:17:08.439 --> 1:17:13.960 and also because I do voluntary work low income and 1:17:14.160 --> 1:17:22.040 especially seniors like me. Now, last Tuesday, all of a sudden, 1:17:23.400 --> 1:17:27.320 I had problem with my features. So I went, as always, 1:17:27.560 --> 1:17:30.839 check my email first, and then I googled the brand 1:17:30.920 --> 1:17:36.280 and the model number. Well I was on it. Something 1:17:36.439 --> 1:17:40.600 on the page went on tap and it started like shouting, 1:17:41.479 --> 1:17:48.000 don't touch me, don't turn me off. Your computer is compromise, 1:17:48.760 --> 1:17:52.880 it will be black. Call this number, call this number repeatedly, 1:17:52.960 --> 1:17:56.400 and I got so nervous, and it stupid me. I 1:17:56.439 --> 1:18:01.240 feel so hypocrite because that's exactly what I'm telling some 1:18:01.560 --> 1:18:04.840 singers not to call. And I called the number. 1:18:05.040 --> 1:18:08.760 Oh you call the number. Oh, I'm sorry. Did you 1:18:08.800 --> 1:18:13.280 did you get did you get scammed out of anything? Uh? 1:18:14.520 --> 1:18:18.200 Now I checked my bank and I also called my 1:18:18.320 --> 1:18:24.760 bank to tell them and it's okay, it's just I 1:18:24.800 --> 1:18:29.280 don't know the first one he was saying. He was 1:18:29.439 --> 1:18:34.200 quite nice, and I thought he is really, because he's 1:18:34.240 --> 1:18:38.000 telling me whatever he's doing. Yeah, he told me to 1:18:38.439 --> 1:18:42.519 our type on the shirts on the lower part of 1:18:42.560 --> 1:18:45.560 the laptop. Uh, ultra of you. 1:18:46.080 --> 1:18:47.920 Yeah, they want to get they want to get software 1:18:47.960 --> 1:18:50.679 on your computer where they can access and remote access 1:18:50.760 --> 1:18:52.640 into your computer. Did you do that? Did you? 1:18:53.680 --> 1:18:58.000 He was doing something. He clicked off all my open windows. 1:18:58.360 --> 1:19:03.080 And afterwards he said, like he will put security Microsoft. 1:19:03.680 --> 1:19:06.000 I don't have to pay it, but I need he 1:19:06.120 --> 1:19:10.360 needs my name, I address, you know, Etcheter. And that's 1:19:10.400 --> 1:19:15.360 when like I woke up, and I just politely because 1:19:15.400 --> 1:19:17.479 I didn't want him to get mad and then do 1:19:17.680 --> 1:19:21.160 more harm. I just said, I have to talk to 1:19:21.240 --> 1:19:28.639 my kids because I cannot decide on my own. 1:19:28.840 --> 1:19:29.200 Please. 1:19:29.360 --> 1:19:33.519 Please. He gave me his name, his id NUM, his 1:19:33.720 --> 1:19:40.000 employee id number, Etchetera, Ejettera. But still, you know, I 1:19:40.120 --> 1:19:43.800 just said no, And finally he said, okay, then just 1:19:43.880 --> 1:19:48.920 call me, you know. And then I deleted the oldtra 1:19:49.000 --> 1:19:53.320 view that he downloaded. And then the next day I 1:19:53.360 --> 1:20:01.920 called Microsoft and and and and then I told them 1:20:01.960 --> 1:20:06.960 from A to Z. That first guy said, oh okay, 1:20:07.200 --> 1:20:09.559 let's download that will review again, you know. 1:20:09.960 --> 1:20:11.920 Okay, so you called the numbers. 1:20:12.560 --> 1:20:17.200 Yeah, I talked to Microsoft because it always gets in 1:20:17.280 --> 1:20:19.880 the middle cut off. 1:20:20.560 --> 1:20:24.040 Yeah, you're not actually talking to Microsoft. That's another scam 1:20:24.120 --> 1:20:27.640 artist that you're talking to. So let's do this. No 1:20:27.720 --> 1:20:31.720 more calling numbers because most of these people do not 1:20:31.880 --> 1:20:35.040 offer tech support on your computer, so they are If 1:20:35.080 --> 1:20:37.720 you're googling a number for tech support or calling a 1:20:37.800 --> 1:20:41.839 number that they gave you, those are also scam artists. 1:20:41.880 --> 1:20:44.880 So the thing that you need to do. Did you 1:20:44.920 --> 1:20:46.840 give them any of your personal information? Do you give 1:20:46.840 --> 1:20:49.800 them your bank account numbers? No? Okay? Did you give 1:20:50.000 --> 1:20:53.519 your social on my on my file? 1:20:54.040 --> 1:20:58.040 The only thing is that now I cannot when I 1:20:58.120 --> 1:21:03.920 turn on the laptop. Uh, it's an old HP and 1:21:03.960 --> 1:21:06.880 I want to see my files. 1:21:07.120 --> 1:21:10.240 Yeah, Okaylynn. What I would do is we got we 1:21:10.240 --> 1:21:12.320 gotta I gotta go to break but I'm gonna put 1:21:12.360 --> 1:21:14.439 you on hold here and we're gonna we're gonna talk 1:21:14.479 --> 1:21:16.400 to you off the air. But I think the main 1:21:16.439 --> 1:21:17.880 thing you need to do is I think you should 1:21:18.000 --> 1:21:23.360 probably get some outside help on this computer. So if 1:21:23.360 --> 1:21:27.360 you can uh. I would let's see you're in Riverside. 1:21:28.360 --> 1:21:30.680 There are there are some companies that can help you 1:21:30.760 --> 1:21:32.760 with this. I would take a look maybe at like 1:21:32.800 --> 1:21:37.280 Hello Tech that's just one company, or maybe just bring 1:21:37.320 --> 1:21:39.280 it to the best buy in your area, get the 1:21:39.320 --> 1:21:41.280 geek squad to help you out. But you need a 1:21:41.280 --> 1:21:44.120 trusted person to kind of look at this computer, make 1:21:44.160 --> 1:21:47.519 sure that their software is off of your computer. If 1:21:47.520 --> 1:21:48.880 you know how to do it yourself, you can go 1:21:48.960 --> 1:21:52.479 in uninstall it. But it sounds like you got to 1:21:52.479 --> 1:21:54.840 get the software off your computer, and it seems like 1:21:54.880 --> 1:21:57.240 you might have dodged some of the personal information, which 1:21:57.280 --> 1:21:59.880 is good. So the good news is you can reset 1:21:59.880 --> 1:22:02.559 the computer. Microsoft has a way to reset the computer, 1:22:02.760 --> 1:22:06.280 clean everything off, but keep your files. I'm sorry this 1:22:06.400 --> 1:22:09.680 happened to you. It happens every day and it is 1:22:10.040 --> 1:22:15.200 the worst people. These scam artists are just literally out 1:22:15.200 --> 1:22:20.760 to get you every single day. Sorry about that. Rich 1:22:20.840 --> 1:22:23.840 on tech dot TV. I'll talk to to Lynn off 1:22:23.880 --> 1:22:25.600 the air. Here, let's take a break and we'll be 1:22:25.680 --> 1:22:32.519 right back. Ah Man, we are off the air with Lynn. 1:22:33.200 --> 1:22:35.640 Sounds like she has a trusted friend that may be 1:22:35.680 --> 1:22:38.559 able to help her with that computer. So sounds like 1:22:38.600 --> 1:22:42.759 it's hopefully gonna have a good ending there. Jody writes 1:22:42.760 --> 1:22:45.519 in my thirteen year old daughter recently switched from Android 1:22:45.560 --> 1:22:48.200 to iPhone. I can't track her location anymore. For her 1:22:48.240 --> 1:22:50.160 safety and my peace of mind, I used to rely 1:22:50.240 --> 1:22:53.040 on parental controls when she had Android, but now I'm 1:22:53.040 --> 1:22:55.240 at a loss. I worry about her walking home from 1:22:55.240 --> 1:22:57.839 work while I'm at work. Please help. I love watching 1:22:57.840 --> 1:23:02.160 you on KTLA and I've learned so much, Jody. Best 1:23:02.160 --> 1:23:05.200 app for this, I believe, is Life three sixty. It 1:23:05.280 --> 1:23:09.160 is completely free. Obviously, it's like everything else these days. 1:23:09.160 --> 1:23:11.920 It's a freemium, so you can use the basics for free, 1:23:12.360 --> 1:23:14.840 but install it on both your phones and you will 1:23:14.880 --> 1:23:18.120 be able to track where she goes. She could probably 1:23:18.120 --> 1:23:20.360 even see where you go if you allow that on 1:23:20.400 --> 1:23:23.479 your end too. But to take this a step further, 1:23:23.960 --> 1:23:27.320 I would also put a tile tracker on her backpack 1:23:27.400 --> 1:23:31.200 or her purse and you can. That works hand in 1:23:31.240 --> 1:23:34.040 hand with Life three sixty because they purchase tile. So 1:23:34.680 --> 1:23:37.479 that's what I would do Life three sixty Tile tracker. 1:23:37.800 --> 1:23:40.599 That's going to be the best way cross platform. You're 1:23:40.640 --> 1:23:44.200 asking Android to iPhone, iPhone to Android if it's Android, 1:23:44.200 --> 1:23:46.920 Android iPhone iPhone, I'd probably give a different you know, 1:23:46.960 --> 1:23:51.120 iPhone air tag or find my but that's what I 1:23:51.120 --> 1:23:55.240 would recommend for that cross platform functionality. Thanks for the question, 1:23:56.080 --> 1:23:58.440 Tony writes in, Hey, Rich, I've been hearing about scammers 1:23:58.520 --> 1:24:01.280 using scanners and crowded air is to steal credit card 1:24:01.280 --> 1:24:03.720 and personal information from wallets and purses. Do you think 1:24:03.760 --> 1:24:06.200 it's worth investing in a safe wallet or a safe card? 1:24:06.560 --> 1:24:08.599 I trust your opinion, and I don't want to fall 1:24:08.960 --> 1:24:11.960 victim from a scam from these companies selling a product 1:24:12.000 --> 1:24:15.479 that they're ineffective. All right, so many people sent me 1:24:15.760 --> 1:24:18.280 it must have been a video going viral on TikTok 1:24:18.360 --> 1:24:21.040 or Instagram about these people. They get close to your 1:24:21.040 --> 1:24:24.200 wallet and they steal your credit card number. It ain't happening. 1:24:24.320 --> 1:24:26.280 Let me tell you that the new credit cards, yes 1:24:26.320 --> 1:24:29.360 they have RFID on them, Yes they can be activated 1:24:29.360 --> 1:24:32.759 to check out closer further than you think. But nobody's 1:24:32.800 --> 1:24:35.479 walking by you and stealing your card information. I just 1:24:35.520 --> 1:24:39.160 don't think that's happening. Should you get an RFID blocking 1:24:39.200 --> 1:24:40.160 sleeve or a wallet? 1:24:40.360 --> 1:24:40.639 Sure? 1:24:41.120 --> 1:24:44.120 I don't think you need it. I don't think you 1:24:44.200 --> 1:24:48.599 need it. Modern credit cards have all kinds of encryption 1:24:48.720 --> 1:24:50.559 built into them. You think Chase is gonna give credit 1:24:50.560 --> 1:24:52.679 cards someone can walk by your wallet and just grab 1:24:52.720 --> 1:24:56.639 your number. No, not gonna happen. Okay, coming up, We've 1:24:56.640 --> 1:25:01.599 got a great guest, the real Jurassic Park. Someone's trying it. Yeah, 1:25:01.800 --> 1:25:04.280 sounds interesting. We'll talk about it coming up next right 1:25:04.320 --> 1:25:11.240 here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:25:11.360 --> 1:25:16.280 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The 1:25:16.320 --> 1:25:19.720 website for the show is richon Tech dot TV. If 1:25:19.720 --> 1:25:21.519 you want links to anything I mentioned, you want to 1:25:21.520 --> 1:25:24.360 follow me on social media at rich on Tech. Sign 1:25:24.439 --> 1:25:27.640 up for the newsletter. It's all right there on the website. 1:25:28.080 --> 1:25:31.120 Browse the stories I do for TV. I'm excited for 1:25:31.160 --> 1:25:34.840 my next guest because Jurassic Park is one of my 1:25:34.920 --> 1:25:40.080 favorite movies, and I'm sure there are many similarities drawn 1:25:40.160 --> 1:25:43.960 between what the Colossal Biosciences is trying to do and 1:25:44.320 --> 1:25:47.479 that movie. But let's hear from the man himself, CEO 1:25:47.600 --> 1:25:49.840 Ben Lamb, Welcome to the show. 1:25:50.520 --> 1:25:51.760 Yeah, thanks so much for having me. 1:25:52.160 --> 1:25:56.920 So you're trying to bring extinct species back to life? Explain? 1:25:58.160 --> 1:26:01.799 Yeah, so we decided, George, I who's arguably the father 1:26:01.880 --> 1:26:05.040 of synthetic biology, decided that we wanted to start a 1:26:05.120 --> 1:26:09.360 company that's focused on first the extinction and then second 1:26:09.439 --> 1:26:12.320 species preservation. And we have this mission to bring back 1:26:12.360 --> 1:26:15.679 some of these iconic species, put them back into the wild, 1:26:15.720 --> 1:26:19.639 and partnerships with governments and indigenous people groups and conservation groups, 1:26:19.880 --> 1:26:21.840 and then take a lot of those technologies on the 1:26:21.840 --> 1:26:24.960 path of the extinction and apply them to conservation and 1:26:25.000 --> 1:26:26.120 make them free to the world. 1:26:26.560 --> 1:26:30.040 What could possibly go wrong? I'm sure you've heard that before. 1:26:30.640 --> 1:26:33.400 So what species are you talking about here? 1:26:33.920 --> 1:26:37.160 Yeah, so there's three iconic species or flagship species that 1:26:37.160 --> 1:26:38.120 we're working on. 1:26:38.120 --> 1:26:39.640 One is the woy mammoth. 1:26:39.439 --> 1:26:42.920 The second is the thighlacine also known as the Tasmanian tiger, 1:26:43.280 --> 1:26:46.960 and then the Dodo bird, which is arguably the symbol 1:26:47.280 --> 1:26:48.479 of human cause extinction. 1:26:49.240 --> 1:26:50.840 I feel like I've worked with a couple of Dodo 1:26:50.840 --> 1:26:52.720 birds over the years, but I don't think that's the 1:26:52.720 --> 1:26:53.200 same thing. 1:26:54.640 --> 1:26:55.920 So what intinct? 1:26:56.960 --> 1:26:57.160 What? 1:26:57.640 --> 1:27:00.479 Okay? I mean? So did you watch Drassic Park and 1:27:00.560 --> 1:27:02.479 get this idea? Like where did this all come from? 1:27:02.840 --> 1:27:04.000 And where do you start? 1:27:04.800 --> 1:27:05.040 Yeah? 1:27:05.120 --> 1:27:07.479 So what's funny about that is people always ask, you know, 1:27:07.560 --> 1:27:09.840 this is really George Church's vision, and I just feel 1:27:09.840 --> 1:27:11.920 like I'm lucky enough to be partners with George and 1:27:11.960 --> 1:27:12.760 be the steward. 1:27:12.479 --> 1:27:13.080 Of his vision. 1:27:13.680 --> 1:27:16.120 And people often ask, you know, was George inspired, because 1:27:16.120 --> 1:27:18.280 he's been talking about doing the Mammoth you know for 1:27:18.479 --> 1:27:21.240 years before I came around, and uh, and then we 1:27:21.360 --> 1:27:24.280 built it into a company, and people always ask, you know, 1:27:24.439 --> 1:27:26.080 was George inspired Briant Jurassic Park. 1:27:26.200 --> 1:27:28.839 But if you actually go back to Michael Crichton's book. 1:27:29.200 --> 1:27:33.760 In Michael Crichton's book, there's actually a DNA sequence and 1:27:33.840 --> 1:27:36.160 early on in the book that's actually George's work from 1:27:36.200 --> 1:27:38.519 the seventies. Oh wow, you know, George will joke and 1:27:38.600 --> 1:27:40.839 say I kind of think that, you know, Michael Kriichten 1:27:40.960 --> 1:27:42.679 was inspired, you know by George. 1:27:42.680 --> 1:27:43.559 Given the fact that. 1:27:43.479 --> 1:27:46.400 It's you know, almost statistically impossible for it to be 1:27:46.720 --> 1:27:47.799 nearly the same code. 1:27:48.040 --> 1:27:51.679 That's wild. So oh, he wasn't credited in the book. 1:27:51.720 --> 1:27:53.639 I see, it was just part of what he had. 1:27:54.760 --> 1:27:57.400 So how close are you to doing this? And how 1:27:57.400 --> 1:27:58.040 are you doing it? 1:27:58.080 --> 1:27:58.320 Are you? 1:27:58.400 --> 1:28:01.519 Are you taking the DNA from the the the amber, 1:28:02.160 --> 1:28:03.439 the mosquito in the amber? 1:28:04.160 --> 1:28:04.360 Yeah? 1:28:04.439 --> 1:28:08.160 So not that we've tried. But amber is not the best, 1:28:08.439 --> 1:28:12.120 uh you know, vault for DNA for the years. It's 1:28:12.200 --> 1:28:15.080 very porous. It doesn't hold DNA pretty well. So we 1:28:15.120 --> 1:28:18.360 actually work with a lot of different samples from all 1:28:18.360 --> 1:28:21.280 over the world, some from museums, from from some from 1:28:21.320 --> 1:28:26.120 fields studies, some from actually working directly with our seventeen 1:28:26.160 --> 1:28:30.040 academic partners around the world. And ancient DNA is highly degraded, 1:28:30.080 --> 1:28:32.559 it's highly fragmented, so you actually have to put a 1:28:32.560 --> 1:28:34.559 lot of ancient DNA together. It's kind of build that 1:28:34.640 --> 1:28:37.120 reference genome in the high level process is you know, 1:28:37.120 --> 1:28:40.000 we use about sixty five mammoth genomes ranging from about 1:28:40.040 --> 1:28:43.080 three thousand years to seven hundred thousand years old. We 1:28:43.800 --> 1:28:46.559 assemble that and we compare it to its closest living relative. 1:28:46.960 --> 1:28:49.880 In this case, it's the Asian elephant, which is ninety 1:28:49.960 --> 1:28:50.519 nine point. 1:28:50.400 --> 1:28:52.520 Six percent the same. They're actually closer. 1:28:52.760 --> 1:28:56.120 Mammas are closer related to Asian elephants than Asian elephants 1:28:56.120 --> 1:28:57.639 are to African Elephant's always. 1:28:57.479 --> 1:28:59.040 Kind of blows people's mind. 1:28:59.240 --> 1:29:01.400 And then you use a I and computers and some 1:29:01.439 --> 1:29:04.679 of these algorithms that we've built to do comparative genomics 1:29:04.680 --> 1:29:08.080 to really understand what genes have been lost to time 1:29:08.439 --> 1:29:10.519 that really made a mammoth of mammoth, because a Nation 1:29:10.560 --> 1:29:14.439 elephant is you know, basically a nodly, non coal tolerant mammoth. 1:29:14.680 --> 1:29:17.639 And then we identify those genes and we engineer those 1:29:17.680 --> 1:29:21.559 genes into an Asian elephant south. So you mentioned Jurassic Park, 1:29:21.720 --> 1:29:24.160 it's almost like reverse Jurassic Park, where they were trying 1:29:24.160 --> 1:29:27.040 to fill in the holes of ancient of the in 1:29:27.080 --> 1:29:29.760 the dino in the quote unquote dino DNA with that 1:29:29.840 --> 1:29:32.479 of frogs and other things. We start the other way. 1:29:32.520 --> 1:29:34.519 We start with the frog and then we understand what 1:29:34.600 --> 1:29:36.800 made a dinasaur diasord then and plug it in. Only 1:29:36.840 --> 1:29:37.960 it's in the case of the mammoth. 1:29:38.040 --> 1:29:39.200 And you know, we're pretty far. 1:29:39.240 --> 1:29:41.439 We're in the editing phase, meaning that we've done all 1:29:41.479 --> 1:29:44.360 that competitional analysis, we've done all that ancient DNA work, 1:29:44.520 --> 1:29:46.839 and we're in the editing phase for both the Tasmanian 1:29:46.960 --> 1:29:50.840 tiger and the mammoth, and hopefully by in the next 1:29:50.880 --> 1:29:53.719 six months we'll move into editing for the dodo as well. 1:29:54.160 --> 1:29:56.760 And then how do you go from the DNA to 1:29:57.000 --> 1:29:58.559 actually creating an animal. 1:29:59.320 --> 1:30:01.360 Yeah, so you're at being these live cells. 1:30:01.360 --> 1:30:03.879 So you create a mortalized cell lines with the closest 1:30:03.920 --> 1:30:05.880 living relative as I mentioned with the mammoth is the 1:30:05.920 --> 1:30:09.240 Asian elephant. You then start to edit the individual cell 1:30:09.320 --> 1:30:11.479 lines themselves. And then once you get to the point 1:30:11.520 --> 1:30:14.599 where you've done all your molecular and functional and all 1:30:14.600 --> 1:30:16.960 your tests in the lab or maybe in some cases 1:30:16.960 --> 1:30:19.760 in animal models like mice and others, you actually start 1:30:19.760 --> 1:30:23.720 to identify you know, are our traits working, are they 1:30:23.720 --> 1:30:26.040 being expressed or the right way? And then once you 1:30:26.040 --> 1:30:28.360 feel confident about it, you go through a process called 1:30:28.400 --> 1:30:31.720 somatic cell nuclear transfer better known as ploning. Is kind 1:30:31.720 --> 1:30:34.280 of like what Dolly made famous in the nineties, only 1:30:34.320 --> 1:30:35.959 the technologies come a long way. 1:30:35.800 --> 1:30:37.000 Since since the nineties. 1:30:37.280 --> 1:30:39.960 And then you move the nucleus from that of a 1:30:40.560 --> 1:30:43.160 germ cell or somatic cell or sorry a somatic cell 1:30:43.200 --> 1:30:45.680 into that of a germ cell or egg cell, and 1:30:45.680 --> 1:30:48.639 then you implant that into a surrogate that will then 1:30:48.680 --> 1:30:52.599 grow your species. And so that is our current process. 1:30:52.680 --> 1:30:56.960 We also have a seventeen person team working on artificial wombs. 1:30:57.280 --> 1:30:58.240 And you know our goal. 1:30:58.439 --> 1:31:00.640 You know, none of our first generation and species will 1:31:00.640 --> 1:31:03.240 be born ex utero, but long term, we hope that 1:31:03.560 --> 1:31:06.040 we can use our artificial wombs for not just the 1:31:06.160 --> 1:31:09.040 extinction of key species, but also for conservation. 1:31:09.280 --> 1:31:11.680 All right, Ben, everything you're telling me right now, my 1:31:11.680 --> 1:31:18.439 brain is literally just like exploded. So how realistic is 1:31:18.520 --> 1:31:20.920 it that you're going to create a dodo bird or 1:31:20.920 --> 1:31:23.400 a wooly mammoth and bring it back. 1:31:24.479 --> 1:31:24.640 You know. 1:31:24.720 --> 1:31:27.320 I we raise bourn and thirty five million dollars a 1:31:27.360 --> 1:31:29.599 day for our company, and then we also raised fifty 1:31:29.600 --> 1:31:32.839 million dollars for our foundation to support our conservation efforts 1:31:32.840 --> 1:31:35.599 around the technologies from the company. You know, we feel 1:31:35.680 --> 1:31:37.920 very confidence at our investors. You know, I think that 1:31:37.960 --> 1:31:41.200 in the next few years we could see Our goal 1:31:41.240 --> 1:31:42.479 is by the end of twenty twenty eight to have 1:31:42.479 --> 1:31:45.360 our first mammoth calvs. We're currently on track. You know, 1:31:45.400 --> 1:31:48.040 these things are hard, so you know, sometimes things can slip. 1:31:48.200 --> 1:31:50.760 We feel very very confident in it. But nam us 1:31:50.800 --> 1:31:53.120 have a twenty two month gestation, so you know, if 1:31:53.120 --> 1:31:55.600 we continue on the current course and speed with some 1:31:55.640 --> 1:31:58.200 of our other projects, I think it's highly likely we 1:31:58.200 --> 1:32:01.839 could see an animal a different species even before the mammoth. 1:32:02.000 --> 1:32:04.719 So I think we are within the next few years 1:32:04.720 --> 1:32:07.080 we will see the world's first extinct species back on 1:32:07.120 --> 1:32:07.639 the planet. 1:32:07.800 --> 1:32:09.559 Is there any danger in doing this? 1:32:10.400 --> 1:32:12.400 You need to be very thoughtful and careful on this 1:32:12.520 --> 1:32:15.479 right And so we work really closely with you, our 1:32:15.960 --> 1:32:20.600 seventeen academic partners around the world, our ninety five scientific advisors, 1:32:20.680 --> 1:32:21.000 we have. 1:32:20.960 --> 1:32:22.520 An Indigenous People Group. 1:32:23.920 --> 1:32:24.240 Board. 1:32:24.280 --> 1:32:27.840 We also have a conservation board. We have forty eight 1:32:27.840 --> 1:32:30.040 conservation partners. So you need to really look at what 1:32:30.240 --> 1:32:33.320 is the ecological benefit of bringing back these species, what 1:32:33.400 --> 1:32:36.360 are the technologies that can be used for sister species? 1:32:36.400 --> 1:32:39.719 So how is bringing back the mammoth helping elephants today? 1:32:40.040 --> 1:32:43.040 How is rewilding the mammoths back into the center helping 1:32:43.080 --> 1:32:45.559 the ecosystem today? And so you have to go through 1:32:45.560 --> 1:32:48.360 this very thoughtful process. And so even though we don't 1:32:48.360 --> 1:32:51.120 have mammis or dots or thio scenes, we've actually already 1:32:51.120 --> 1:32:54.320 built working groups in country that we meet with every 1:32:54.400 --> 1:32:57.000 single quarter. So we have like a Tasmanian Tiger working 1:32:57.040 --> 1:33:00.519 Group in Australia and in Tasmania specifically that we meet 1:33:00.560 --> 1:33:04.400 with every single quarter, giving them updates, doing ecological studies, 1:33:04.600 --> 1:33:07.720 doing scientific peer reviewed studies on what is the ecological 1:33:07.800 --> 1:33:11.920 impact of rewilding or reversing tropic downgrading that's happening there 1:33:12.120 --> 1:33:14.240 through the loss of the thio scene. And so all 1:33:14.240 --> 1:33:18.040 of these species that we're working on when extinct directly 1:33:18.080 --> 1:33:21.880 because of humans or because of other anthropologic effects on 1:33:21.920 --> 1:33:24.919 the ecosystem from human intervention. 1:33:25.880 --> 1:33:27.880 We're trying to undo the sins of the past, if 1:33:27.880 --> 1:33:28.200 you will. 1:33:28.720 --> 1:33:30.800 I mean, but we also have a modern world, so 1:33:30.960 --> 1:33:33.960 it's it's very different than when these animals live the 1:33:33.960 --> 1:33:35.559 first time. Are you are you going to make a 1:33:35.600 --> 1:33:36.240 Parker now? 1:33:37.080 --> 1:33:39.719 So our goal is put all these species back into 1:33:39.800 --> 1:33:40.959 their natural habitat. 1:33:41.040 --> 1:33:44.520 So you know, that process is called rewilding. 1:33:45.120 --> 1:33:47.400 You know, I do think that long term, you know, 1:33:47.880 --> 1:33:50.720 as we get sustainable species back in the wild like 1:33:50.800 --> 1:33:53.520 in Tasmania. You know, we'd love to work with Tasmania 1:33:53.520 --> 1:33:56.360 on you know, ecological preserves where people can actually see 1:33:56.360 --> 1:33:59.200 them back in their natural habitat and hopefully that would 1:33:59.240 --> 1:34:02.040 for ecotura them and make people want to protect the 1:34:02.120 --> 1:34:02.920 land and whatnot. 1:34:03.160 --> 1:34:04.160 And to your point about. 1:34:04.000 --> 1:34:08.559 Ecosystems, you know, the Tasman ecoystem is pretty much the same, uh, 1:34:08.640 --> 1:34:11.240 you know, minus you know, some of the food chain 1:34:11.600 --> 1:34:14.599 a little bit messed up since it's lost its keystone predator. 1:34:15.280 --> 1:34:16.880 Same with Mauritius. 1:34:17.120 --> 1:34:17.240 Uh. 1:34:17.360 --> 1:34:19.960 You know, they've had this influx of invasive species that 1:34:20.000 --> 1:34:22.639 actually led to the downfall of the dodo that we're 1:34:22.680 --> 1:34:25.679 working with them to help eradicate. But the tundra, there's 1:34:25.680 --> 1:34:28.600 actually been eight scientific papers that have put out, not 1:34:28.640 --> 1:34:30.960 even by us, that look at if you were to 1:34:31.040 --> 1:34:36.040 rewild Mamus or other cold tolerant large herbivores back into 1:34:36.040 --> 1:34:40.360 that Arctic ecosystem, how the biodiversity and how that ecosystem 1:34:40.520 --> 1:34:43.920 could come back alive. Right, And so what's generally agreed 1:34:43.960 --> 1:34:47.480 on by all scientists is that a healthy, biodiverse ecosystem 1:34:47.760 --> 1:34:51.760 with predators and prey and large herbivores is better at 1:34:51.800 --> 1:34:56.160 sequestering carbon, it's better for food security, it's better for 1:34:56.360 --> 1:34:59.880 how water treatment happens. So it's really really interesting kind 1:34:59.880 --> 1:35:02.360 of the trickle down effect you have when you remove 1:35:02.920 --> 1:35:06.240 a keystone species, whether it's an herb, a large herbivore, 1:35:06.320 --> 1:35:08.080 or a predator from the environment. 1:35:08.760 --> 1:35:14.680 Wow CEO Ben Lamb of Colossal Biosciences, the website Colossal 1:35:14.920 --> 1:35:20.080 dot com. The world is watching, Ben, So thank you 1:35:20.120 --> 1:35:22.519 for that interview. That was really Wow. 1:35:22.680 --> 1:35:24.760 It's just like, yeah, thanks so much for having me. 1:35:24.800 --> 1:35:26.519 As we get closer to animals, we'll come back. 1:35:26.640 --> 1:35:29.360 Okay, sounds good. I want to pet one of these things. 1:35:30.479 --> 1:35:33.120 I'll recommend that, but that's at your own risk. 1:35:33.479 --> 1:35:35.960 Thanks Ben. I'm I'm scared of running into a bear 1:35:35.960 --> 1:35:38.280 in the woods. Now I gotta worry about a wooly mammoth. 1:35:38.360 --> 1:35:41.280 Oh my gosh, the Dodo bird. I feel like I 1:35:41.320 --> 1:35:43.400 can deal with. I feel like that's something I can 1:35:43.439 --> 1:35:45.920 deal with. All right, Coming up, we are going to 1:35:45.960 --> 1:35:50.840 open up the feedbag. It is as always overflowing with 1:35:50.920 --> 1:35:53.960 your emails and texts and all that good stuff, so 1:35:54.000 --> 1:35:56.400 we will get back to that. Right here, you are 1:35:56.400 --> 1:36:03.320 listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 1:36:03.400 --> 1:36:05.679 Couple of news items to get through before we get 1:36:05.720 --> 1:36:11.200 to the feedbag, which is flowing over overflowing, flowing, over 1:36:11.320 --> 1:36:16.799 floweth over whatever. Nintendo finally revealed details about the switch 1:36:17.080 --> 1:36:20.240 to the next big gaming console from them. Looks like 1:36:20.280 --> 1:36:23.120 a beefed up version of the original. It's bigger, it's 1:36:23.160 --> 1:36:27.280 got redesigned controllers that seem to snap in instead of 1:36:27.360 --> 1:36:30.600 slide in. It's got a USB sport, it's got a 1:36:30.640 --> 1:36:35.040 headphone jack. It's got a sturdier kickstand. Old games or 1:36:35.080 --> 1:36:38.200 many of them will work, some may not. Also looks 1:36:38.200 --> 1:36:41.559 like they're teasing a new Mario Kart game, but we 1:36:41.560 --> 1:36:44.439 don't have many more details other than that. April second 1:36:44.520 --> 1:36:47.120 is when we're gonna get more details about this. I 1:36:47.160 --> 1:36:48.960 have a hunch that this is probably gonna launch in 1:36:49.000 --> 1:36:51.160 time for the holidays this year. It's definitely launching in 1:36:51.200 --> 1:36:54.519 twenty twenty five. The first Switch sold nearly one hundred 1:36:54.560 --> 1:36:58.040 and fifty million units, so this is a big one. 1:36:58.200 --> 1:37:00.880 And you're also going to get some demos. They're setting 1:37:00.920 --> 1:37:04.759 up in cities including New York, LA and Dallas during April. 1:37:05.320 --> 1:37:08.519 So there you go switch to That's very exciting for 1:37:08.600 --> 1:37:13.080 Nintendo fans. Let's see here. Scan my photos dot Com 1:37:13.240 --> 1:37:19.519 is offering free photo digitization for California wildfire victims. They 1:37:19.560 --> 1:37:21.880 say that some people may have lost their pictures, so 1:37:22.040 --> 1:37:25.320 friends or relatives have duplicate prints or slides. 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And so we'll see what they have. 1:38:49.000 --> 1:38:51.439 I know they're going to be pushing AI heavily. All right, 1:38:51.479 --> 1:38:55.160 let's open up the feedback. Joe writes in I always 1:38:55.200 --> 1:38:59.400 love your clips. I have the k Tour pocket socket 1:38:59.560 --> 1:39:04.160 for when the external battery dies. It's also a workout. 1:39:04.160 --> 1:39:07.320 What does that mean? Oh, oh, I see because it's 1:39:07.360 --> 1:39:10.720 a crank Oh, you crank it up. Okay, this is 1:39:10.800 --> 1:39:15.360 the pocket socket USB one amp it. Yeah, you crank 1:39:15.400 --> 1:39:17.280 it up and it has a little battery there, so 1:39:17.640 --> 1:39:20.840 it's also a workout. There you go. I don't work 1:39:20.880 --> 1:39:26.200 for them. Thanks Joe, appreciate that. Let's see here, Hi, Rich, 1:39:26.280 --> 1:39:28.240 I love your show and I've been a longtime listener. 1:39:28.280 --> 1:39:30.640 My husband teases me because I'm always saying, guess what 1:39:30.800 --> 1:39:33.320 Rich taught me. I'm excited to share something with you 1:39:33.360 --> 1:39:36.040 for a change. I just learned that the iPhone calculator 1:39:36.040 --> 1:39:39.599 can double as a currency converter. Tap the calculator icon 1:39:39.680 --> 1:39:42.360 in the bottom left corner, swipe and turn on convert 1:39:42.760 --> 1:39:44.920 While I'm not traveling anytime soon, I've been using it 1:39:44.960 --> 1:39:47.360 while watching squid Game to figure out the money they're 1:39:47.400 --> 1:39:49.920 talking about. Hope this tip helps your listeners as much 1:39:49.920 --> 1:39:52.599 as your advice has helped me. Thanks for making tech 1:39:52.680 --> 1:39:56.960 accessible to everyone. Take care, Agnes great tip. I just 1:39:57.040 --> 1:40:01.880 learned that myself actually on a YouTube are a short 1:40:02.000 --> 1:40:06.200 on Instagram. So yes, convert right in the calculator, Don 1:40:06.280 --> 1:40:08.799 writes in Already, twenty twenty five has become a difficult 1:40:08.840 --> 1:40:11.920 year with a complex horizon ahead. Your newsletter's opening segment 1:40:11.960 --> 1:40:15.440 caught my attention as it resonated with concerns I've observed 1:40:15.520 --> 1:40:18.080 over the years. Many people, including my children, have quote 1:40:18.080 --> 1:40:22.280 cut the cord, abandoning live television and radio, especially local news. 1:40:22.640 --> 1:40:25.759 They now consume content through streaming, often from a narrow lens, 1:40:25.800 --> 1:40:30.200 which I believe creates a skewed view of reality. Discussing 1:40:30.240 --> 1:40:32.720 a major news event with them is challenging. They're disconnected 1:40:32.760 --> 1:40:35.320 from what I would consider the real world. Your comments 1:40:35.320 --> 1:40:37.920 and the newsletter hinted at a similar concern, highlighting the 1:40:37.960 --> 1:40:41.080 need to stay connected not only to emerging technologies, but 1:40:41.120 --> 1:40:45.519 the pressing issues today. Of today, live TV and real 1:40:45.560 --> 1:40:49.280 journalism are fading, replaced by a fragmented media landscape. This 1:40:49.439 --> 1:40:53.320 is troubling. Yes, I agree, Don, I talk about this 1:40:53.400 --> 1:40:58.080 being in traditional media. People they have their opinions and 1:40:58.120 --> 1:41:01.080 it is backed up by what they watch on social 1:41:01.160 --> 1:41:04.320 media and on YouTube and on Instagram, and it's all 1:41:04.600 --> 1:41:08.280 coordinated for them, so it's not even worth arguing anymore. 1:41:08.280 --> 1:41:10.280 We used to have a public discourse and things and 1:41:10.320 --> 1:41:13.519 talk about stuff, and also used to trust certain news outlets. 1:41:13.560 --> 1:41:17.080 Now people don't even trust the mainstream media outlets. So 1:41:17.120 --> 1:41:20.960 it's all I don't know what's gonna happen, honestly, don 1:41:21.320 --> 1:41:23.200 but that's why I'm here a voice of reason in 1:41:23.280 --> 1:41:29.400 this madness. Let's see here, Auto rights in, Hey, Rich, 1:41:29.439 --> 1:41:31.760 I heard you mentioned notes programs for cell phones on 1:41:31.760 --> 1:41:33.920 your show. I use my iPhone notes program with my 1:41:34.000 --> 1:41:36.360 Gmail account so I can access my notes on my PC. 1:41:36.880 --> 1:41:38.800 Thanks for doing a great job with your show and 1:41:38.840 --> 1:41:41.080 happy New Year, Auto. That's a great way to do it. 1:41:42.600 --> 1:41:46.120 And Kelly versus via Facebook Rights in love the show. Rich, 1:41:46.120 --> 1:41:48.240 You're the best. I'm not even someone who loves technology, 1:41:48.240 --> 1:41:50.880 but I try to listen to you every Saturday. You're 1:41:50.920 --> 1:41:53.600 such a voice of reason. What I just say, and 1:41:53.720 --> 1:41:56.720 incredibly kind of respectful to everyone who calls in. Thank 1:41:56.760 --> 1:41:58.759 you for what you do. Praying you and your family 1:41:58.800 --> 1:42:02.400 stay safe. Thank you, Ann. Kelly appreciate that I am 1:42:02.400 --> 1:42:06.560 a voice of reason. Are and I just ask my wife? 1:42:07.560 --> 1:42:10.719 Jim writes in Rich longtime listeners, so many great nuggets, 1:42:10.760 --> 1:42:12.760 but honestly, it feels like the whole world is trying 1:42:12.760 --> 1:42:15.479 to mug me online. Makes me want to cancel my internet, 1:42:15.520 --> 1:42:20.200 lock the doors, and never go anywhere. Yeah, I hear you. 1:42:20.600 --> 1:42:23.960 Just like that caller we got earlier with the hacked computer, 1:42:24.120 --> 1:42:27.240 and we got text messages every day that are trying 1:42:27.280 --> 1:42:30.040 to hack us. We've got email scams. I mean, there's 1:42:30.120 --> 1:42:33.679 so much we're up against. Just keep a cool head, 1:42:34.200 --> 1:42:37.960 stay steady, don't fall for this stuff, and just be 1:42:38.040 --> 1:42:40.720 critical of anything that comes your way. You have to 1:42:40.840 --> 1:42:44.320 just imagine that someone's trying to scam you, phone call, scam, 1:42:44.320 --> 1:42:47.639 whatever that's gonna do it. For this episode of the show. 1:42:47.720 --> 1:42:49.360 Links to everything I mentioned on the website. Go to 1:42:49.439 --> 1:42:52.000 rich on tech dot tv. You can find me on 1:42:52.080 --> 1:42:54.599 social media the Voice of Reason. I am at rich 1:42:54.680 --> 1:42:58.599 on Tech. Next week, Yes, I will have my thoughts 1:42:58.680 --> 1:43:02.880 on the new Samsung smartphones. Thank you so much for listening. 1:43:02.920 --> 1:43:04.559 I know there are so many ways you can spend 1:43:04.560 --> 1:43:07.840 your time. I really do appreciate you spending it right 1:43:07.920 --> 1:43:11.240 here with me. Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible. 1:43:11.280 --> 1:43:15.160 Adam in for Bobo Today. Great job. Kim on phones. 1:43:15.760 --> 1:43:17.880 My name is rich Demiro. I will talk to you 1:43:18.040 --> 1:43:18.599 real soon