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Speaker 1: Mike Yurachkoh. He lost everything in the Kincaid fire a
Speaker 1: few years ago. He turned his experience into helping others.
Speaker 1: He's going to tell us about his free platform that
Speaker 1: helps disaster victims rebuild their lives. And if you're looking
Speaker 1: for a new TV before the big game. We've got
Speaker 1: Digital Trends Editor at Large and friend of the show,
Speaker 1: Caleb Dennison. He's going to join us with his picks
Speaker 1: for every budget. Welcome to another episode of rich On Tech.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for being here. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: As you know, here in the LA area, it has
Speaker 1: been really really wild because of these fires, and we
Speaker 1: are through the fires thankfully, but I figured it has
Speaker 1: kind of been a wake up call for a lot
Speaker 1: of people, especially myself, and just thinking about how to
Speaker 1: be prepared door an emergency. We've got so much technology
Speaker 1: out there in the world. I figured I would go
Speaker 1: over some of the things that you might want to
Speaker 1: have at the ready in case anything happens. You know,
Speaker 1: wherever you live, there's we talk about this. No matter
Speaker 1: where you live in the US, there is some sort
Speaker 1: of natural disaster risk. You cannot escape it. You're in
Speaker 1: LA it's like everything. It's like floods, it's wildfires, it's earthquakes,
Speaker 1: it's high winds. You know, you're in other places. It
Speaker 1: might be a hurricane, it might be a tornado, it
Speaker 1: might be heavy rains, it might be fog. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's just snow. I mean there's something that affects every
Speaker 1: part of this extreme heat. So no matter where you are,
Speaker 1: you might want to invest in some of this stuff.
Speaker 1: You might have a power outage, you might have a
Speaker 1: time when you're off the grid you have no signal.
Speaker 1: These are the things that I think you should take
Speaker 1: a look at. Number one. If you have not bought
Speaker 1: a portable battery pack in a while, the new ones
Speaker 1: are much faster at charging than before. If your battery pack,
Speaker 1: you know, one of these things you plug your phone
Speaker 1: into on the go. If it's got one of those
Speaker 1: old USB A ports, that's not good anymore. Get one
Speaker 1: with a USB C. And if you go with a
Speaker 1: wireless charging model, the new ones are what's called G
Speaker 1: two and it's spelled weird. It's Qi even though it's
Speaker 1: pronounced Chi. But G too. Wireless can recharge your devices faster,
Speaker 1: so fifteen watts instead of the old seven and a
Speaker 1: half watts. Go get one of those. I posted one
Speaker 1: to my Instagram. People are going bananas over it now.
Speaker 1: Some of these power banks also double as wall chargers,
Speaker 1: so I tested one called the Belkan power Boost. This
Speaker 1: is a wall charger, so you plug your phone in.
Speaker 1: But it also is a portable battery bank as well.
Speaker 1: So just by plugging your phone into this and plugging
Speaker 1: this into the wall, it's charged at all times. Even
Speaker 1: if you unplugged it from the wall, you're still going
Speaker 1: to get a little bit of charging for your phone.
Speaker 1: So these all have a number associated with them, a
Speaker 1: milliamp hour number. So the lowest is usually about five
Speaker 1: thousand milliamps. That's going to charge your smartphone about once.
Speaker 1: Then you go up from there ten thousand million amps,
Speaker 1: twenty thousand millionamp hours and there. The higher that number,
Speaker 1: the bigger the device is going to be, but also
Speaker 1: the more charges you're going to get out of that device.
Speaker 1: Now keep in mind you want to get USBC in
Speaker 1: and out to charge these things, because if it's just
Speaker 1: USB in to charge it, you're charging still going to
Speaker 1: be slow when you go to actually charge your phone.
Speaker 1: Number two a portable power station. This is great for
Speaker 1: sort of either. I mean, these things get giant. You
Speaker 1: can power so many things off of these, and they
Speaker 1: just get bigger and bigger every trade show I go to.
Speaker 1: But these are a portable power station. Brands like jackeri
Speaker 1: Ecoflow Blue Eddy, there's so many of them out there,
Speaker 1: so these are think of them as a portable battery
Speaker 1: pack for your phone, but for more like everything else
Speaker 1: in your house, small appliances. It's got an AC out
Speaker 1: lead on it, so you can actually plug in sort
Speaker 1: of a standard plug in addition to USB power. It's
Speaker 1: got every port you can imagine. So these are great
Speaker 1: if you want to just have a giant power bank
Speaker 1: for your house and when the power goes out, this
Speaker 1: will come in handy. Now also, and if you've gone
Speaker 1: hiking you probably know this, but you can pair these
Speaker 1: with solar panels. So a lot of these devices you
Speaker 1: can get a solar panel, portable solar panel that plugs
Speaker 1: into them, and that will give you more continuous power
Speaker 1: if the power goes out, so you can just continue
Speaker 1: charging these from the sun and it's not going to
Speaker 1: be it's a slower charge. The sun does not charge
Speaker 1: things fast, but at least you know you can have
Speaker 1: continuous power over time, and so that's another way to
Speaker 1: get these things. And they start at you know, one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars. They go up to probably one
Speaker 1: thousand dollars if you want, or more depending on how
Speaker 1: large they are. Now speaking, of solar charging. I posted
Speaker 1: this to my Instagram as well. I talked about it
Speaker 1: on last week's show, this silly Ecoflow, which seems silly,
Speaker 1: but the more I think about it, it's not a
Speaker 1: bad idea. If you're going hiking, you are without power,
Speaker 1: you just need a charge. You're at a you know,
Speaker 1: one of those festivals in the desert that's all day
Speaker 1: and you want your phone to be juiced up. So
Speaker 1: this is a solar powered hat and you can check
Speaker 1: it out on my Instagram at rich On Tech. It's
Speaker 1: from Ecoflow and it's got a little battery on the underside,
Speaker 1: so the top it's like kind of imagine a big
Speaker 1: floppy hat protects you from the sun. It's got SPF protection,
Speaker 1: UV protection, But on the bottom there's a little battery
Speaker 1: pack and it's got a USB c and a USB
Speaker 1: a plug you can plug your charging cable into, so
Speaker 1: you can theoretically just charge your phone all day long
Speaker 1: from your head from this hat. And I know people
Speaker 1: are debating the merits at my Instagram saying, you know,
Speaker 1: is this for wicked witches? Like what's the deal with
Speaker 1: this thing? But you know what, hey, if you need it,
Speaker 1: why not next up emergency rate. Oh that's about ninety
Speaker 1: dollars on sale right now. Usually it's about one hundred
Speaker 1: and twent emergency radio. You may be listening to me
Speaker 1: on the radio right now. This is a powerful source
Speaker 1: of information. People turn to traditional media when there is
Speaker 1: an emergency. So get yourself a crank, a hand crank radio.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of emergency radio brands out there. You
Speaker 1: can search Amazon for these. They've got the AFM bands,
Speaker 1: also the weather bands, so you can get critical information
Speaker 1: when you know, things like streaming or whatever else you
Speaker 1: turn to TikTok and that kind of stuff is not working.
Speaker 1: And the fact that it's hand crank is nice because
Speaker 1: you can just crank this thing up and listen. And
Speaker 1: speaking of hand crank flashlights, get yourself a nice flashlight
Speaker 1: for my house. I don't know why, but every time
Speaker 1: I need a flashlight, the battery seem to be dead.
Speaker 1: So you can combat that with another hand crank flashlight
Speaker 1: that you know works on just cranking it up. It's
Speaker 1: got a little battery in there, so yes, it will work,
Speaker 1: but you can use that hand crank to sort of
Speaker 1: power the battery. And I did have one person email
Speaker 1: me and say, hey, Rich, don't forget to remind your
Speaker 1: listeners that you want to crank these things every so
Speaker 1: often because the battery will go completely dead. And yes,
Speaker 1: with all of these things that have a battery, make
Speaker 1: sure that you are kind of maintaining that charge every
Speaker 1: couple of months. Just check on these things to make
Speaker 1: sure they're still working. But you know, these LED flashlights
Speaker 1: these days are brighter, they're more energy efficient, and just
Speaker 1: keep those batteries charged, because even if you're using traditional batteries,
Speaker 1: just make sure they're still working because for some reason,
Speaker 1: like I said, in my house, they always seem to
Speaker 1: be dead when we need them the most. Now, this
Speaker 1: was a new one satellite internet, so this is kind
Speaker 1: of an up and coming way to battle outages. I
Speaker 1: think the cellular companies were pretty good about getting their
Speaker 1: service up and running again in these affected areas, but
Speaker 1: that could take time depending on where you are. And
Speaker 1: you know, if you want to be connected all the time,
Speaker 1: you've got a couple of options right now. Well, one
Speaker 1: main option starlink is fifty dollars a month. They offer
Speaker 1: a backup internet plan, So this is a plan that
Speaker 1: you would have theoretically in addition to your regular home internet,
Speaker 1: and then you can just use that when you need
Speaker 1: backup internet. And that's fifty dollars a month. It's capped
Speaker 1: I think at fifty gigs a month of data. But
Speaker 1: then Amazon is gonna launch their project Kiper later this year,
Speaker 1: so they've got eighty three launches. They're gonna have satellite
Speaker 1: internet that they promise is cheaper and more powerful, faster
Speaker 1: than starlink, so competition's good there. Also, I would say
Speaker 1: digital backups of your essential documents like IDs, insurance policies,
Speaker 1: medical records. Put them on a flash drive in your
Speaker 1: emergency kit, or put them in a secure cloud folder
Speaker 1: so you can have easy access to this stuff during emergencies.
Speaker 1: You know, the last thing you want to do is
Speaker 1: be looking around for this stuff when you need it
Speaker 1: the most. And then my pal Jefferson Graham and his
Speaker 1: newsletter today added that maybe a portable car battery or charger,
Speaker 1: so you can get a device that can jumpstart your
Speaker 1: without the need for another vehicle. I have not tried these,
Speaker 1: but I've seen them and if they work, which you know,
Speaker 1: why would they not. If people like them, then you
Speaker 1: know that's a good idea. I did have some comments
Speaker 1: on my Instagram when I posted all of these tech things,
Speaker 1: and some other folks added fire retardant gel, a spryer,
Speaker 1: and a hose. Solar power station is a life saver.
Speaker 1: Don't forget headlamps for the family. A pump to draw
Speaker 1: water from the pool and to connect to a sprinkler
Speaker 1: system on the roof is essential. Don't overlook the life
Speaker 1: straw for clean drinking water. Take pictures of every room
Speaker 1: of your house, save them on a flash drive, email
Speaker 1: copies of important documents, keep iodined two percent handy to
Speaker 1: purify water in emergencies. And finally another Steve says guns
Speaker 1: and ammunition could be essential for some All right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna leave it there, rich on tech dot TV. If
Speaker 1: you want more information on any of this emergency tech,
Speaker 1: you can find the link right on my website. All right,
Speaker 1: coming up, we're going to take some of your calls
Speaker 1: eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one or email
Speaker 1: me at the website richon tech dot TV. Coming up,
Speaker 1: I'll have my review of the one plus thirteen smartphone,
Speaker 1: plus your calls right here on rich on Tech Valerie,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.
Speaker 2: Hi, listen, I'm having a hard time. Yes, I did
Speaker 2: go to Wikipedia and I saw the very nice spreadsheeted
Speaker 2: head comparing all the different music streaming services. But my
Speaker 2: question is pretty simple. I want to know if I
Speaker 2: can put in my own playlist. I have a very
Speaker 2: eclectic kind of genre that I like, everything from Luchinolsen
Speaker 2: to Chuck Berry to deaf punk, and I need it
Speaker 2: for a thirty minutes of exercise on the elliptical machine.
Speaker 1: Ah, Valerie, you can. You can do the playlist for
Speaker 1: the show with that eclectic taste. So the answer is yes.
Speaker 1: Almost every one of the streaming services will let you
Speaker 1: make your own playlists. Now you're using their music, so
Speaker 1: if you stop paying, everything will go away. You'll still
Speaker 1: be able to access some of the features, but there
Speaker 1: may be ads depending on which service that you're subscribing to.
Speaker 1: So if it's something like Spotify or YouTube Music or
Speaker 1: Apple Music, all of them lets you make your own
Speaker 1: playlists with their songs. So which one are you leaning towards.
Speaker 2: I'm leaning towards either Pandora or Spotify because I am
Speaker 2: an elderly lady who is still on the elliptical machine
Speaker 2: and working out and very busy, and I need that
Speaker 2: music beat.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I hear you. I like to work
Speaker 1: out on the I went on the treadmill this morning
Speaker 1: and I had some music. Here's the thing, Pandora. I
Speaker 1: guess they do have a plan where you can make
Speaker 1: and share playlists with them, But you know, and what's
Speaker 1: the other one, you said, Spotify? Yeah, okay, I mean Pandora. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Pandora traditionally has been more geared towards them playing
Speaker 1: music for you. So you pick a song and you
Speaker 1: kind of thumbs up stuff, you thumbs down stuff, and
Speaker 1: they will play what they think you will like and
Speaker 1: it gets really good. It's been around forever. Spotify, on
Speaker 1: the other hand, is much more like a music collection,
Speaker 1: like it's it's meant for like someone who wants to,
Speaker 1: you know, explore what's on there. And look at that.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think about the plans that they have.
Speaker 1: So if you look at the plans for Pandora, it's
Speaker 1: ten ninety nine a month if you want that ability
Speaker 1: to make your own playlists. Okay, So Spotify is eleven
Speaker 1: ninety nine a month for individual premium, so twelve dollars.
Speaker 1: So it's a little bit cheaper to go with the Pandora.
Speaker 1: What about Amazon? Have you thought about them?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Can I put in my own playlist?
Speaker 1: You can? And here's the thing. Do you have Amazon Prime?
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 1: Okay, So I think Amazon Music might be a better
Speaker 1: choice because you can traditionally get that for a little
Speaker 1: bit cheaper than some of the other plans out there.
Speaker 1: So maybe Amazon might be something to look into. Plus
Speaker 1: you get audiobooks included, so that might be something that
Speaker 1: you're interested in.
Speaker 2: Okay, So yeah, I'm on my son's Prime.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, if you have Prime, you'll still it'll still
Speaker 1: it should still work. So but you know, I've I've
Speaker 1: used every single one of the music services, and I
Speaker 1: think that overall, I think Spotify does a really good job,
Speaker 1: and I think they have great playlists pre programmed. That
Speaker 1: would probably be my pick overall. I think that Amazon
Speaker 1: is very simple. It's got good playlist, but it's very simple,
Speaker 1: and so you might just want to look at prices,
Speaker 1: and so I think when it comes down to pricing,
Speaker 1: another thing to keep in mind is paying in advance.
Speaker 1: Some of these services let you pay for like a
Speaker 1: full year at the same time, and you'll also save
Speaker 1: money there, so that might be something to look at
Speaker 1: as well. But the individual plan you can get. You
Speaker 1: can try a month for free on Spotify, so maybe
Speaker 1: start with that. You can try two months of free
Speaker 1: on Pandora. So if those are your top two picks,
Speaker 1: maybe just try and for free. Don't build all your
Speaker 1: playlists at once, and then you can decide which one
Speaker 1: you want. But I think that they're all going to
Speaker 1: do what you need. And I just built a playlist today.
Speaker 1: I have YouTube music. I just built a playlist today
Speaker 1: using that and it was super easy. The other thing
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure Pandora does this. I know for
Speaker 1: sure that Spotify does this. I know for sure that
Speaker 1: YouTube music does this. But when you make a playlist,
Speaker 1: and let's say I put four songs on that playlist,
Speaker 1: it will actually it will actually suggest other songs to
Speaker 1: put into that playlist, which is really cool. Now, if
Speaker 1: you're telling me you have a very eclectic taste, you
Speaker 1: may not find that handy. But for some people, you
Speaker 1: start putting in three ninety songs and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it pops up on the bottom here's some suggestions. You're like, Wow,
Speaker 1: you just read my mind. That's incredible. So those are
Speaker 1: my suggestions, Valerie, look at what the pricing is and
Speaker 1: I think that's probably the best way to go about this.
Speaker 1: But I think Spotify probably gonna be one of your
Speaker 1: best choices there. Let's see. Oh that's gonna bring us
Speaker 1: right to break, all right. Coming up, we are going
Speaker 1: to talk to Mike Yurachko. He lost everything in a
Speaker 1: fire himself and he decided to build a platform to
Speaker 1: help others rebuild their lives using everything that he learned.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk to him coming up right here
Speaker 1: on rich On Tech. I'm gonna go through some apps
Speaker 1: real quick before we get to our guests talking about
Speaker 1: the wildfires here in Los Angeles. And this is for
Speaker 1: anyone really, but a couple apps that might help you
Speaker 1: might want to have these on your phone. First off,
Speaker 1: Frontline Wildfire Defense. This is an app that you put
Speaker 1: your address in and it kind of has all these
Speaker 1: real time updates, so you can see weather updates, fire
Speaker 1: danger in your area, and emergency notifications including fire alerts. Plus,
Speaker 1: it can give you checklists and emergency groups for coordinated communication.
Speaker 1: If there is something that affects your home watch duty,
Speaker 1: you probably heard about this one. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: go over that too much, but Watch Duty is really good.
Speaker 1: It's a volunteer led kind of app that has all
Speaker 1: kinds of information on fires, so that that's been a
Speaker 1: lifeline during this time. Pulse Point is a nine to
Speaker 1: one connected mobile app, so people get live alerts about
Speaker 1: incidents being responded to by the fire departments and emergency
Speaker 1: medical services near them. If you know CPR, you can
Speaker 1: also get alerts to help people out near you that
Speaker 1: need CPR. And then first Street dot org. First street
Speaker 1: dot org. This is one where you can pop in
Speaker 1: your home address and it analyzes all kinds of data
Speaker 1: to tell you information on flooding, hurricane winds, wildfires, extreme
Speaker 1: heat and air quality near that address. Again, First Street
Speaker 1: dot org. Now let's bring on Mike, your oach co.
Speaker 1: Mike has a story to tell about what happened to
Speaker 1: him and the Kincaid fire a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: but he used that information to build a free platform
Speaker 1: called low t dot com l O t I dot
Speaker 1: com and this helps victims that have been, you know,
Speaker 1: in a disaster rebuild their lives. Mike, thanks for joining me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks a lot. Rich for having me on Really
Speaker 3: I really appreciate it. And those are some awesome resources
Speaker 3: that that you just outlined for everybody and glad to
Speaker 3: just sort of help be part of the solution down there.
Speaker 1: So low T dot com slash learn, l O t
Speaker 1: I dot com slash learn. That's what you've built. First off,
Speaker 1: tell me about what you know. Well, I guess you
Speaker 1: want to start with your story. Tell me what happened
Speaker 1: to you?
Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, So we were fellow victims.
Speaker 3: So I was burned in the twenty nineteen Kincaid fire
Speaker 3: and just sort of the short version of that story.
Speaker 3: We actually we were out of town and we were
Speaker 3: sent a periscope if you remember that old vlogging platform,
Speaker 3: and we actually watched the fireman battle the fire on
Speaker 3: our home. We lost most of the main property, but
Speaker 3: the main house is actually saved. We had a ton
Speaker 3: of smoke damage, and then a couple of weeks later
Speaker 3: we were then vandalized and looted and folks had moved
Speaker 3: in there for a couple of days and actually pulled
Speaker 3: out copper and plumbing.
Speaker 4: Fixtures and things like that.
Speaker 3: So in short, we had a relatively long traumatic experience
Speaker 3: and then that obviously compounded itself in the ensuing few years,
Speaker 3: and so to your general point overall, I basically have
Speaker 3: dedicated the rest of my life and career to kind
Speaker 3: of helping folks like me that went through this, because
Speaker 3: it is it's just exceptionally aumatizing, and there's there's so
Speaker 3: many things that.
Speaker 4: Are happening at one time, and so what we've.
Speaker 3: Tried to do is provide a what we call it
Speaker 3: just a roadmap to recovery that includes just hundreds of
Speaker 3: free articles and thousands of gloss returns and dozens of
Speaker 3: downloadable documents and stuff.
Speaker 4: So it really tries to help.
Speaker 3: People all the way from the very beginning of even
Speaker 3: before there's an evacuation, just emergency planning that a lot
Speaker 3: of your listeners might might be interested in, and then
Speaker 3: kind of walking through the whole process of finding housing
Speaker 3: and obviously dealing with insurance if we'll talk a bit
Speaker 3: about today, but then also managing construction and replacing personal property,
Speaker 3: and then even coming out the back end what we
Speaker 3: call that kind of life two point zero where sort
Speaker 3: of we want you to recover stronger than you were before,
Speaker 3: just maintenance tips and trying to help prevent small claims
Speaker 3: and what to look for in a new policy the
Speaker 3: next time the same, just to prepare for the future.
Speaker 4: So it's it's really trying to we're trying to.
Speaker 3: Look at the whole kind of responsibility of home ownership
Speaker 3: and you information for wherever step in the process.
Speaker 1: You actually are so wow. So so I imagine that
Speaker 1: dealing with insurance companies. I had to deal with mine
Speaker 1: a couple of times for you know, small auto accidents,
Speaker 1: and then of course our house we had a little flood.
Speaker 1: I say little. Of course it's tens of thousands of
Speaker 1: dollars of damage even for a little flood. But it's
Speaker 1: just a lot of back and forth. And you know,
Speaker 1: the insurance companies. I always say this, the insurance companies
Speaker 1: or whatever company you're dealing with, always has the upper
Speaker 1: hand because they are doing this on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: This is the first time the person is doing it,
Speaker 1: and so it's it's not a level playing field. So
Speaker 1: is that kind of the case with with what you
Speaker 1: you see?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: I mean obviously that you know, there's a there's a
Speaker 3: few things happening on the ground in LA right and
Speaker 3: in terms of housing, and but insurance is a very
Speaker 3: early process or one of the very first things you
Speaker 3: should really do is notify them. And and and to
Speaker 3: your point, it's not a you're not playing with kind
Speaker 3: of a full set of cards relative to what they have, right,
Speaker 3: And I would say that you know, in our experience,
Speaker 3: a lot of the field adjusters and the folks on
Speaker 3: the ground on insurance company side, those aren't bad people, right.
Speaker 3: I mean there they got into insurance generally speaking to
Speaker 3: try to help folks that that type of a thing
Speaker 3: and try to help people recover.
Speaker 4: But but yeah.
Speaker 3: When you really dive into it over the ensuing couple
Speaker 3: three four or five years type of the deal in
Speaker 3: terms of rebuilding, of course, they have a lot more
Speaker 3: resources behind them. They've done this. This is usually the
Speaker 3: first time a homeowner has to go through it. And
Speaker 3: so just even learning simply that the basics around a
Speaker 3: declarations page on an insurance policy is something that's that's
Speaker 3: kind of a little bit of a hill decline and
Speaker 3: then cover. Some insurance companies understand everything about what's going
Speaker 3: on inside of your policy. They have experience across millions
Speaker 3: of clim it's their business, right, So it's a it's
Speaker 3: a very complicated sort of recovery process on that, and
Speaker 3: then from a homeowner's standpoint, even just beyond insurance, there's
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of other stuff that's going on.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: We can talk about insurance and deep dive on it,
Speaker 3: but there are other things that are happening. Relationships with
Speaker 3: your bank and dealing with your mortgage if you have
Speaker 3: one managing construction, rebuilding that and then overlaying those insurance
Speaker 3: terms like depreciation and what is actual cash value of
Speaker 3: my couch?
Speaker 4: You know, just like these.
Speaker 3: Things that become very personal of like how do I
Speaker 3: value you know, my couch or my artwork or whatever
Speaker 3: it is, my collectibles and how you That then kind
Speaker 3: of goes back into that policy and you know, from
Speaker 3: an insurance company standpoint, it's a line item, but for
Speaker 3: a homeowner it's very traumatic and you kind of have
Speaker 3: to but.
Speaker 4: You do have to sort of work your way through it.
Speaker 1: So, so, Mike, what is sort of like, you know,
Speaker 1: I've got a lot here, but what is sort of
Speaker 1: like your bottom line advice you want to give people?
Speaker 1: Like what do you think people should know that are
Speaker 1: dealing with this or they have friends or family, Like
Speaker 1: what do you want them to know? I mean, they
Speaker 1: can go to your site to get all of these
Speaker 1: downloadables and the PDFs and the terms, But what do
Speaker 1: you think they should be thinking about?
Speaker 3: So I think just like a couple things on the ground,
Speaker 3: maybe sort of two different messages. Right, So for the
Speaker 3: folks that are on the ground in LA that you know,
Speaker 3: our early advice in those first few days is really housing, right,
Speaker 3: It wasn't even really about insurance. It's it's actually housing.
Speaker 3: And you can sort of see this demand surge happening.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of a press around price gouging and
Speaker 3: things like that, but that general theme of demand surg
Speaker 3: is actually going to happen more or less throughout the
Speaker 3: rest of this process over the next few years. Everything
Speaker 3: from kind of getting contractors and labor pools, materials, getting
Speaker 3: permits and inspections. The whole community is going to be
Speaker 3: overwhelmed throughout this whole process. So I would say preaching patients,
Speaker 3: but then also really being informed through the process. Right,
Speaker 3: And so right now you know we've kind of moved,
Speaker 3: we're in that housing sort of area, and then really
Speaker 3: beginning to understand what your insurance actually covers.
Speaker 4: We have a need article.
Speaker 1: It's base.
Speaker 3: It's called a fairy tale, and we try to kind
Speaker 3: of humanize how to read your declarations page. I could
Speaker 3: give it to you for their seconds if you're interested
Speaker 3: about a friendly giant in your house, but basically, really
Speaker 3: you want to kind of understand at least the basics
Speaker 3: of what's going on in your policy, and then for
Speaker 3: the sort of the rest of your listeners, there's trying
Speaker 3: to get ahead of some of this stuff where you
Speaker 3: can actually adjust your policy now or when you're renewing
Speaker 3: your policy, kind.
Speaker 4: Of look out for a few things.
Speaker 3: We do have some recommendations what we call endorsement essentials,
Speaker 3: But an endorsement is kind of like a little rider
Speaker 3: and extra in your policy that goes beyond the I'm
Speaker 3: paying a one thousand dollars premium for a million dollar
Speaker 3: coverage kind of thing. Things like replacement costs of not
Speaker 3: just getting the value of your couch but on that day,
Speaker 3: but having the money to replace the couch at retail is.
Speaker 4: Kind of a big thing.
Speaker 3: Having inflation guards, so obviously we're in a very inflationary environment,
Speaker 3: so being able to protect yourself against those kind of
Speaker 3: market forces is a really really important thing. So I
Speaker 3: think that you know on the grind and you kind
Speaker 3: of have one message where it's like this is everything's overwhelming,
Speaker 3: and you're not trying to overwhelm more.
Speaker 4: Right, It's just like, hey, let's let's start with the
Speaker 4: basics on insurance and.
Speaker 3: Housing and then we're going to get to the next step, right,
Speaker 3: and then I think for the rest of the listeners
Speaker 3: that just have a obviously really care about what's going
Speaker 3: on and and field for these folks. So you know,
Speaker 3: take a look in your policy, see try to understand
Speaker 3: kind of the basics.
Speaker 4: Maybe take some pictures of your house for the future.
Speaker 3: Just you have an under a working understanding of what's
Speaker 3: in there and how you want to stay protected long term.
Speaker 1: So all right, Mike, this is all great advice. We're
Speaker 1: going to leave it there. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: joining me. The website is low Ti l o TI
Speaker 1: dot com slash learn. So many downloadable documents, all kinds
Speaker 1: of articles covering everything from I mean just so much here.
Speaker 1: It's you sent me this website or someone sent me
Speaker 1: this website, and I just said, this is really good
Speaker 1: information stuff that you can download. It's just such a
Speaker 1: great help. So again, l O T I do slash learn.
Speaker 1: Mike thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 4: Thanks a ton Richard, thanks for everything else that you're
Speaker 4: doing too.
Speaker 3: Just appreciate the time here and thanks for getting all
Speaker 3: the rest of this information out in the folks hands.
Speaker 4: It's needed and it's a desperate time, so thank you.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that. All right, coming up here, we're going to
Speaker 1: get to more of your questions. I see on hold
Speaker 1: there so eight eight eight rich one O one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: The website if you want to link to what we
Speaker 1: just talked about is rich on tech dot TV. It
Speaker 1: will be linked up there. This is episode one oh five.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Is it too early to talk
Speaker 1: about the TikTok band I don't even care about this.
Speaker 1: I hate to even say that, but I don't have TikTok.
Speaker 1: I don't use TikTok. I do know that is a
Speaker 1: popular social media app. One hundred and seventy million people
Speaker 1: use it apparently. Yes, I've been on there. Yes I've
Speaker 1: posted on there in the past, but it's just, you know,
Speaker 1: just not for me. I say that now, play that
Speaker 1: in a couple of years, if this thing is still around.
Speaker 1: But anyway, here's where we stand with the TikTok band.
Speaker 1: So depending on when you listen to this show, it
Speaker 1: may already be unbanned or not banned, or still operating
Speaker 1: or whatever. That's why I don't want to spend too
Speaker 1: much time on it. But apparently the Supreme Court did
Speaker 1: uphold the ban. This would be the first, you know,
Speaker 1: major social media app shut down in US history. Apparently
Speaker 1: twenty billion dollars in revenue would be at stake here.
Speaker 1: Apparently also Biden's administration said they will not enforce any penalty,
Speaker 1: but you know, that's only for one day until Trump
Speaker 1: takes over. And then apparently the TikTok CEO is attending
Speaker 1: his inauguration. There's people that might want to buy it,
Speaker 1: including Elon Musk. So there's just a lot going on here.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you've heard about this, but
Speaker 1: the one of the number one on apps in the
Speaker 1: App Store this week was an app called Red Note.
Speaker 1: This was an app out of China that's kind of
Speaker 1: like an Instagram for them, And so people are protesting
Speaker 1: by downloading that app, saying, hey, you know you're worried
Speaker 1: about this app from China, We're gonna download even a
Speaker 1: more Chinese app that's not even meant for the US citizens,
Speaker 1: and so it's just a whole mess with this stuff.
Speaker 1: But I think at the end of the day, I
Speaker 1: don't want to predict the future here, but I think
Speaker 1: TikTok is going to be around. I really do. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Pete in Fullerton. Pete, you're on with Rich
Speaker 1: It is going fantastic. What's up with you?
Speaker 5: I enjoy your segment every morning on Channel five. I
Speaker 5: watch you every morning nine am nine am.
Speaker 1: Thank you, appreciate that.
Speaker 5: I've got three really quick ones for you. Ice three
Speaker 5: you could handle. I heard you last week and after
Speaker 5: that first, and I hadn't heard that name in a
Speaker 5: long time. It's funny because on KFI they've been advertising
Speaker 5: all this week with their business phones. Oh interesting, really,
Speaker 5: if you've used it, or if you know anybody has,
Speaker 5: and what's the what do people think of the quality?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 1: Well, I used it in the past. I've not used
Speaker 1: it recently, but I had. I had a phone line
Speaker 1: from them in the past for many years, and the
Speaker 1: quality is fine. So every phone call that we have
Speaker 1: nowadays goes over a voiceover IP anyway, so it's all
Speaker 1: the same uma they have their own technology they call
Speaker 1: pure Voice HD, so they say that it actually captures
Speaker 1: twice the information as traditional phone lines or landlines. I
Speaker 1: think that the idea of the kind of HD quality
Speaker 1: phone call it's there, and it's it's going to be
Speaker 1: just fine. Do you have a reason why you need
Speaker 1: super specific high quality calls or are you just making
Speaker 1: sure it's not going to sound like garbage.
Speaker 5: I'm just fun to finally set up with AT and
Speaker 5: t's landline service, paying seventy some.
Speaker 1: Bugs jump back, No, get rid of that. Get rid
Speaker 1: of that. Get uma. It's you can pay as little
Speaker 1: as zero a month. Just pay the taxes and fees.
Speaker 1: I think it's like it comes out to like ten dollars.
Speaker 1: But you'll be perfectly fine, are you. I mean, I
Speaker 1: can't imagine that you're not going to be happy with
Speaker 1: the quality of the service on this on UMA, So
Speaker 1: I would definitely go with that. What what are the
Speaker 1: other two questions we charge? After the first?
Speaker 6: What would you.
Speaker 5: Recommend for a cheap, reliable carrier?
Speaker 2: I own?
Speaker 5: And the other one is about a basic phone not
Speaker 5: non ample for an emergency. I'm looking for a phone
Speaker 5: and a cheap carrier and just a basic phone that
Speaker 5: you is it's reliable.
Speaker 1: For basic carrier. I would do one of the super
Speaker 1: cheapies that you can pay in advance for like a year,
Speaker 1: so you know. The one I like. I think that's
Speaker 1: that's really cheap if you just want to pay like
Speaker 1: four bucks a month is Mobile X, so if you're
Speaker 1: familiar with them. There's also tell O T E l
Speaker 1: l O. And that what's great about them is you
Speaker 1: can build your own plans, so if you just want calling,
Speaker 1: I think their plans started like nine bucks a month,
Speaker 1: so you can really just like coordinate, like how much
Speaker 1: do you want just just a phone line, some texting,
Speaker 1: maybe like a tiny bit of data on there, but
Speaker 1: it's all customizable. That's tell O T E l l
Speaker 1: O dot Com. The other one I said is Mobile X.
Speaker 1: They have a great plan that starts at three forty
Speaker 1: eight a month or under. I think it's like four
Speaker 1: dollars a month, whatever it is. It's pretty inexpensive. I
Speaker 1: like Mint Mobile, but I know they were purchased by
Speaker 1: T Mobile, so you know, now they've gone corporate. That's
Speaker 1: another way to go, and you can pay the whole
Speaker 1: year in advance on that, so I like that because
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about the bill, right, Or
Speaker 1: you can just go to something like a Walmart and
Speaker 1: just buy like a cheap plan that they have there
Speaker 1: and just get a prepaid card that lasts for a year,
Speaker 1: and you can do that. That's like, what's that? It's
Speaker 1: not smart Talk. That's another one. The straight talk is
Speaker 1: one of them that they have there, but that one's
Speaker 1: kind of expensive. But yeah, that's another way to go.
Speaker 1: As for the phone, I would just go with a
Speaker 1: super cheap kind of flip phone. So there's a website
Speaker 1: dumb Wireless dot com. They have all of the super
Speaker 1: cheap flip phones. They've got a Nokia twenty seven to
Speaker 1: eighty for eighty eight bucks. You know, why not just
Speaker 1: get that. That's that's going to do exactly what you
Speaker 1: need there, Pete. So yeah, that's what I would do,
Speaker 1: is just go to their website and check it out.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. I can't believe you answered three
Speaker 1: three questions. How long do I have before I got
Speaker 1: a break here?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Ninety seconds? Perfect? Okay, Well we'll do a question from email.
Speaker 1: Jannis from Seemi Valley rights in I have an iPhone
Speaker 1: and I use Yahoo email even though I block scam emails,
Speaker 1: they just keep coming from different addresses. I don't feel
Speaker 1: safe unsubscribing from these fake emails, so I just block
Speaker 1: and delete them. But the problem doesn't stop. Is there
Speaker 1: a better way to reduce the number of these fake emails?
Speaker 1: My spam and junk folders catch some, but I'd rather
Speaker 1: not see them so often. Thank you, Jennis, I will
Speaker 1: give you my advice for getting rid of spam email, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, is impossible. I still get them. I
Speaker 1: use Gmail and yes, every once in a while you
Speaker 1: get some spam emails through. They do go to the
Speaker 1: spam folder, which is great. Don't worry about the ones
Speaker 1: that go there. That means the email service is doing
Speaker 1: its job. But number one, delete these emails without opening them.
Speaker 1: That's my best advice. Do not interact these emails. They
Speaker 1: have little trackers in them that when you open them,
Speaker 1: it says, oh, we got someone that's opening these, let's
Speaker 1: send them more emails. So number one, do not do that.
Speaker 1: Go in, make sure you have the best spam protection
Speaker 1: settings turned on, and then do not unsubscribe to any
Speaker 1: of these spam emails. You can unsubscribe safely from emails
Speaker 1: from like Macy's or Home Depot, those are going to
Speaker 1: honor your requests, but all these other ones, when you
Speaker 1: hit on subscribe just gives you more. The other thing
Speaker 1: you could do is turn off remote image loading. That
Speaker 1: way they can't track you if your email service supports that.
Speaker 1: Eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Let's talk about a new
Speaker 1: smartphone that is now available on the market. It is
Speaker 1: the one plus thirteen, so one plus. I'll just tell
Speaker 1: you my story to set this up. I will never forget.
Speaker 1: I was in the backseat of a cab or I
Speaker 1: think it was an uber in San Francisco and probably
Speaker 1: ten years now at this point, and I saw this
Speaker 1: phone and I, you know, I used to be a
Speaker 1: real Android enthusiast, like really love Android, and I still do.
Speaker 1: I just most of the time we're using an iPhone,
Speaker 1: but I have Androids as well. But anyway, but I
Speaker 1: saw this phone, and I was always looking for like
Speaker 1: the best Android phone. And I saw this phone that
Speaker 1: this driver had, and I was like, what phone is that?
Speaker 1: To him? And you know, San Francisco is kind of
Speaker 1: a very cutting edge place, so he was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's the new one plus. It's like one plus what
Speaker 1: is that? And it just looked like the coolest smartphone
Speaker 1: I had ever seen. Anyway, got a lot of experience
Speaker 1: with one plus over the years. I can't believe they're
Speaker 1: up to thirteen. But the thing about one plus to
Speaker 1: know is that they're always sort of challenging the status quo, right,
Speaker 1: Like they give you a lot for your money, and
Speaker 1: that was kind of their their value proposition in the beginning,
Speaker 1: and then they sort of got away from that, where
Speaker 1: the prices got high and the features got low, and
Speaker 1: then people will like gave them a hard time. And
Speaker 1: now I feel like they're back, and it's like a
Speaker 1: it's been the ship has been righted right, the steering
Speaker 1: wheel is now going the correct way. And so these phones,
Speaker 1: this latest the one plus thirteen is really really incredible.
Speaker 1: So I've been playing with this for the past couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. It's got all the top specs you can imagine.
Speaker 1: So the latest Snapdragon eight Elite processor, up to sixteen
Speaker 1: gigabytes of RAM, a triple fifty megapixel camera system with
Speaker 1: Hasselblod which is their partner, and their sort of the
Speaker 1: look of their photos, A six thousand millionam hour battery
Speaker 1: with new technology inside. I don't even know what this is.
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna explain because it's just like what,
Speaker 1: But it's apparently the battery on this thing, in my experience,
Speaker 1: is like unkillable. You cannot deplete the battery. Six thousand
Speaker 1: million hours, by the way, is really high. Like most
Speaker 1: phones topped out at four thousand a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: and now they're at five thousand, and this one six thousand.
Speaker 1: And it's got a great display. It's got IP sixty
Speaker 1: nine water resistance, so that means that this thing is
Speaker 1: more water resistant than any phone out there on the marketplace.
Speaker 1: I put this thing in a hot tub, no problem.
Speaker 1: You could put in a washing machine, dishwasher. It will survive.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's it's that wild comes in a couple
Speaker 1: of colors, Midnight Ocean. That's the one they sent me
Speaker 1: to test out. It's a really cool blue color, Arctic
Speaker 1: dawn and black eclipse. So let's see some of the
Speaker 1: features on this thing. Works with wet hands and gloves,
Speaker 1: so you can actually have you know, the screen could
Speaker 1: be wet and still works nicely. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you ever used a screen on your phone when it's wet,
Speaker 1: but it's like it jump all over the place because
Speaker 1: the water droplets like mess it up. Oh so the
Speaker 1: magnetic charging this is kind of weird. It doesn't have
Speaker 1: magnetic charging built in, but it's built into the case,
Speaker 1: so you do get that magnetic support for accessories, which
Speaker 1: is really nice. It's got Circle to Search, It's got
Speaker 1: Google Wallet pass scanning, which, by the way, if you
Speaker 1: have any Android this is such a cool feature. I
Speaker 1: did it this morning. So if you have an Android
Speaker 1: phone and let's say you get a QR code for
Speaker 1: a barcode or something, maybe not like a ticket Master ticket,
Speaker 1: but almost anything else. I go to a lot of events,
Speaker 1: they give you these barcodes that you got to you know,
Speaker 1: scan to get in. You can go to Google Wallet
Speaker 1: and it says add anything and you just put in
Speaker 1: a screenshot of that barcode and it will create a
Speaker 1: pass for you. So if you have a gym membership
Speaker 1: or something that you want to create a pass for,
Speaker 1: you can do it that way. Let's see four years
Speaker 1: of software updates, six years of security patches, a couple
Speaker 1: of unique connectivity features I've identified. It's got this iPhone
Speaker 1: file sharing capability because they're trying to like get around
Speaker 1: the whole air drop thing. But it does require the
Speaker 1: iPhone person to download a separate app, which good luck
Speaker 1: getting an iPhone user to do that. That's not going
Speaker 1: to happen. It's got this neat Bluetooth walkie talkie function,
Speaker 1: so even if you're off the grid, you've got no cellular,
Speaker 1: you can still use Bluetooth to walkie talkie to another phone,
Speaker 1: but it has to be another one plus, which again
Speaker 1: kind of a downside, and upcoming support for photos and messages,
Speaker 1: so that's kind of cool. So they're gonna but again
Speaker 1: the other person has to have a OnePlus, so it's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be pretty rare that you're going to use
Speaker 1: that in real life. Now, I will tell you this
Speaker 1: is the best Android smartphone I have ever tested ever
Speaker 1: when it comes to the way it works, the sort
Speaker 1: of the feel of it, the look of it, the style,
Speaker 1: the size, the software, the speed, everything is just so good.
Speaker 1: But now I'm going to get to the downside, and
Speaker 1: that is the camera. So this camera is just fine.
Speaker 1: Like if you are not a camera person, you don't
Speaker 1: care about the camera. This phone is going to be
Speaker 1: incredible because it charges fast, the battery last forever. It's fast.
Speaker 1: The software is awesome. The camera is going to be
Speaker 1: just fine. Like you can take a look at some
Speaker 1: of the pictures I took. They're fine. It's just not
Speaker 1: as good as what you get from the pixels of
Speaker 1: the world, the Samsungs of the world, and the iPhones
Speaker 1: of the world. That is my experience. And the selfie camera,
Speaker 1: which you know I'm partial to because I take a
Speaker 1: lot of selfies. I'm on TV. I'm saying, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: on TV, come watch. The selfies are particularly bad in
Speaker 1: my experience. So where do we stand with the one
Speaker 1: plus thirteen. I think if the camera is not your
Speaker 1: primary kind of concern, this is going to be an
Speaker 1: amazing phone for you. And it's nine hundred dollars, by
Speaker 1: the way starting price, which is pretty good. And they've
Speaker 1: got some like trade in deals and all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff on their website, so I checked that out.
Speaker 1: Before you get it, that's going to get to you.
Speaker 1: The twelve gigabytes of RAM and two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: six gigabytes of storage model if you want the top
Speaker 1: of the line, which is sixteen gigabytes of RAM and
Speaker 1: five hundred and twelve gigs of storage. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: nine ninety nine. Now take a look at that compared
Speaker 1: to you know, the Pixel of the World or the Samsung's,
Speaker 1: the high end phones, they're gonna be you know, over
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars. So the fact that this is nine
Speaker 1: hundred is pretty darn good. So that is my review
Speaker 1: of the one plus thirteen. I've got it right here,
Speaker 1: and it is. It's just I will say it's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite phones so far of the year. But
Speaker 1: we're only eighteen days into the year, so a lot
Speaker 1: can change, a lot can happen. But for me, the
Speaker 1: only downside of this phone that keeps me from wanting
Speaker 1: to use this as my daily driver is really the camera.
Speaker 1: Like I can't really I get better video and pictures
Speaker 1: out of some of my other phones, including the iPhone
Speaker 1: and some of the androids I use. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go to Stanley in Bettsville, Ohio. I know you've been
Speaker 1: waiting for a while. Stanley, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 6: Hello, Rich love hearing your tech tips. They really help
Speaker 6: a lot.
Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you, I love doing them. What's up?
Speaker 6: I'm way past cutting the cable cord and now this
Speaker 6: past week when I got hit with an increase on
Speaker 6: I don't know if you want me to say brand names.
Speaker 1: Oh sure, whatever, Well.
Speaker 6: The old YouTube TV A lot of people I'm deciding
Speaker 6: to go or think I want to go. We have
Speaker 6: as our ISP Spectrum provides internet service to the thous
Speaker 6: and I have Spectrum TV as part of the bundled package. Well,
Speaker 6: this week, when I thought I was going to cut
Speaker 6: YouTube TV, I started looking at Spectrum and realized that
Speaker 6: with my Spectrum TV I can watch nearly everything I
Speaker 6: can with my YouTube TV account.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wait, you were paying for Spectrum and YouTube Yeah. Oh man,
Speaker 1: Well I'm not going to call you stupid, but you
Speaker 1: know you're paying double.
Speaker 6: Well I bet I'm not the only person listening right now.
Speaker 6: But anyway, here's my quandary. One thing we loved with
Speaker 6: YouTube TV was the ability to record and store in
Speaker 6: the cloud. And I'm looking for the best option to
Speaker 6: record and store to hopefully a cloud DBR with Spectrum. Now.
Speaker 6: I just recently came across ZOOMU Zumo Xumo, Yeah, which
Speaker 6: I think can be used with my Spectrum TV app.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's theirs. So Zumo was a startup that charter purchased,
Speaker 1: and so that is their answer. So if you want
Speaker 1: to streamline things and just go with what they offer,
Speaker 1: I've tested this thing out. I don't think it's the
Speaker 1: most powerful streaming box out there, but I think if
Speaker 1: you want that integration with with your spectrum, I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be a great fit. The main thing
Speaker 1: to know is that you have your beholden to the
Speaker 1: apps that they offer on there, so you can't there's
Speaker 1: no like app store on this device where you say, oh,
Speaker 1: there's a cool app I want. They have the apps
Speaker 1: already built in and they've got all the main ones covered.
Speaker 1: You can go on their website and make sure that
Speaker 1: the apps that you want are on there. But that
Speaker 1: is the main downside is that it's not as like
Speaker 1: it's not as big of a platform as like the
Speaker 1: fire TVs of the world or the Rokus of the world.
Speaker 1: But yes, if you want to just use this and
Speaker 1: have that cloud DVR, that's probably going to be your
Speaker 1: best bet at this point. Anything else I recommend to
Speaker 1: you is going to require third party service antenna or
Speaker 1: a subscription to another service like a YouTube TV or
Speaker 1: a Sling TV. So Xumo Zumo I think they offer
Speaker 1: like usually a first six months free or something like that.
Speaker 1: But Stanley, I think that's the way to go for now.
Speaker 6: Okay. My other situation is we also have I know
Speaker 6: this is really dumb, probably a Roku box. We use
Speaker 6: Roku and and Spectrum TV and YouTube or that's what
Speaker 6: I've been using. Can I record using the Roku box.
Speaker 1: If you have the Spectrum app on there, so I
Speaker 1: would download. What I would do is on your main TV,
Speaker 1: get the zoom O box, record on your on your
Speaker 1: satellite TV. On your secondary TV, I would get the
Speaker 1: Spectrum app on your Roku box, and I believe that's
Speaker 1: been a while since I used it, but I think
Speaker 1: your recordings might be on there as well, so I
Speaker 1: would check with that, maybe call Spectrum and just see.
Speaker 1: But the Spectrum app I believe is on the Roku
Speaker 1: TV platform. So that's the way I do it. Go
Speaker 1: Zoomo for the primary TV, Roku for your secondary TV,
Speaker 1: download that Spectrum app. That's that way, Stanley. You're paying
Speaker 1: one price, you're getting your content all the places that
Speaker 1: you want it, and it's something that you're familiar with.
Speaker 1: Great questions today, Thanks for calling today in Bettsville, Ohio
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Speaker 1: up for that. Just got an email from Edwin. He
Speaker 1: says he is a senior Spectrum tech. Just heard the
Speaker 1: caller mentioned Roku and Spectrum. Yes, you can record from
Speaker 1: a Roku, but you have to be signed up for
Speaker 1: Cloud DVR with Spectrum. So there you go. You got
Speaker 1: the answer. That's what I love about this show. You
Speaker 1: can see me as sort of the information clearing house,
Speaker 1: right Like I am like a train station. He's all
Speaker 1: this information just flowing through me. I may not know
Speaker 1: it all, but at least someone out there is listening
Speaker 1: and says, hey, Rich, here here's a little Birdie told me.
Speaker 1: Here's what you need to know. All right, let me
Speaker 1: tell you about three apps that I think you should
Speaker 1: know about. These are three new apps this week. Number
Speaker 1: one Watchworthy. This is an app that previously did TV
Speaker 1: recommendations based on your likes. Now they're expanding into movie recommendations.
Speaker 1: So I downloaded the app. You basically go through a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of movies. You say, I like it, I
Speaker 1: love it, I'm not interested. I didn't like it. You
Speaker 1: rate a whole bunch, and then eventually it will learn
Speaker 1: your tastes and give you personalized movie suggestions along with
Speaker 1: what's called a watch a Worthy score, so it tells
Speaker 1: you how much you're likely to like that movie. This
Speaker 1: is all based on ranker dot Com did a story
Speaker 1: with them years ago. They rank everything. If you go
Speaker 1: to ranker dot com, let's see, they pretty much rank
Speaker 1: like anything in the world, like whatever you can think of.
Speaker 1: There's some sort of like list on let's see here,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to see, like what give me some lists?
Speaker 1: Oh eleven medieval ghost stories that No, anyway, they've everything's
Speaker 1: ranked on that website. But anyway, this is movie stuff,
Speaker 1: so you can see where the movies are playing on Netflix,
Speaker 1: Disney Plus, HBO, Max, Apple TV plus. You can put
Speaker 1: in all the services you have just to see movies
Speaker 1: from there. Of course, you can browse by genre and filter.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I used this last night. Actually watchworthy dot app,
Speaker 1: watchworthy dot app for that. Then this is kind of cool.
Speaker 1: Tinder meets the Slopes. A new app called Shredder is
Speaker 1: basically helping you find ski buddies. So the app is
Speaker 1: called Shredder and it tracks your performance data like your speed,
Speaker 1: your vertical drop, and your distance, and then it uses
Speaker 1: these stats to match you with compatible writing partners. So
Speaker 1: if you want someone to hit the slopes with this
Speaker 1: is you know, it's not a dating app, but hey
Speaker 1: may turn into that. Who knows. It can also help
Speaker 1: you do other stuff like coordinate your carpools, plan ski meetups,
Speaker 1: share your stats with other riders. It's free, it's on
Speaker 1: Apple devices, and it was crafted by ski enthusiast Alfred Arnaud,
Speaker 1: who built it after struggling to find writing partners at
Speaker 1: his ski level. So Instagram, dot com, slash try Shredder
Speaker 1: is the website if you want to download that app,
Speaker 1: and then this is a web app. It's not necessarily
Speaker 1: a downloadable app. Maybe it will be in the future.
Speaker 1: But it's called Autopilot, and I've seen this in the past.
Speaker 1: This is a new app that's trying to do this
Speaker 1: once again, but Autopilot. Once you sign up, it's got
Speaker 1: this Lowest Fare Guarantee LFG, so it monitors the flight
Speaker 1: tickets that you purchase for price drops and if it
Speaker 1: drops more than twenty five dollars. It will secure an
Speaker 1: airline credit for the difference. I think it's twenty five dollars.
Speaker 1: There's a minimum on what they will they will do,
Speaker 1: so you link up your email. It imports the flight
Speaker 1: reservations as soon as you make them. It tracks those
Speaker 1: price those ticket prices in real time. It'll go to
Speaker 1: the airline get that price credit when the price drops.
Speaker 1: And they don't charge you a a monthly fee. They
Speaker 1: just charge a commission. So anything they save you they
Speaker 1: charge you twenty five percent. So let's say you get
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars price drop, one hundred dollars credit, they
Speaker 1: will charge you twenty five dollars. They say they can
Speaker 1: get the average flyer. They say the average flyer overpays
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars annually on flights. I think this would
Speaker 1: have to be someone that flies a lot to really
Speaker 1: get some noticeable credits here. It works with the major
Speaker 1: airlines Delta, United and American, that is with autopilot dot Com.
Speaker 1: With autopilot dot Com, I will link up all those
Speaker 1: apps on my website. Rich on tech dot tv All right,
Speaker 1: coming up, you think about a new TV for the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, This is a good time to buy one,
Speaker 1: we will have Digital Trends Editor at Large Caleb Denison
Speaker 1: to talk about his picks for every budget. I'm very
Speaker 1: excited to bring on my next guest. Caleb Denison is
Speaker 1: with Digital Trends. He is the guy that is reviewing
Speaker 1: every TV out there and always gives us some great picks.
Speaker 1: He has been on the show before, and I figured,
Speaker 1: since super Bowl's coming up and this is one of
Speaker 1: the best times to buy a new TV, let's get
Speaker 1: some refreshed picks. Caleb, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 7: Hey Rich, thanks for having me and it's great to
Speaker 7: be back.
Speaker 1: Before we get to the TVs, tell me about your
Speaker 1: extracurricular stuff that you do. I know you. I follow
Speaker 1: you on Instagram and all of a sudden I saw
Speaker 1: you like playing in a band or something. So explain
Speaker 1: what you do in addition to these reviews. Yeah, or
Speaker 1: is this a secret?
Speaker 7: No, it's not a secret.
Speaker 8: I put it out on Instagram for anyone to see,
Speaker 8: although I don't do a ton of posting with the
Speaker 8: bands that I play with.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I'm.
Speaker 8: A professional trumpet player, have been since just out of college.
Speaker 8: Actually worked on cruise ships for a little while, playing
Speaker 8: trumpet and gathered a lot of experiences and stories there.
Speaker 8: But yeah, when I'm not reviewing TV, usually on the weekends,
Speaker 8: I'm out there playing a lot of weddings, special events
Speaker 8: and festivals.
Speaker 1: That is so cool, very very fun. I just the
Speaker 1: reason it brought to my attentions because you were playing
Speaker 1: at a place that I went to a wedding at
Speaker 1: and I was like, wait a second, what's he doing there? Anyway, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's talk TVs. And first off, you went to CS
Speaker 1: and what was a trend this year with TVs?
Speaker 8: Yeah, if I had to come up with a theme
Speaker 8: for CES this year, it would be bigger, brighter, better,
Speaker 8: but for less. And that's what we saw across the board.
Speaker 8: We saw a lot of large screen displays. We saw
Speaker 8: you know, aggressive brightness, just more beautiful than we've seen
Speaker 8: before a lot of really high end technologies that are
Speaker 8: just coming out for us to kind of wrap our
Speaker 8: heads around. But you know, those TVs tend to be
Speaker 8: the super aspirational type television right there.
Speaker 7: They're likely to be very.
Speaker 8: Expensive when they do come out, and probably you know,
Speaker 8: most of us are not going to be buying that
Speaker 8: kind of TV. But when we see that kind of technology,
Speaker 8: I like to talk about. How about the trickle down
Speaker 8: tech theory. You know, the more advanced these new technologies become,
Speaker 8: the more what used to be cutting edge technology starts
Speaker 8: trickling down into televisions that you know everybody can afford.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's always a good thing. Any new terms that
Speaker 1: we should be aware of this year, Oh.
Speaker 8: So many new terms, rich, I mean, CEES is a
Speaker 8: great place to go if you want to have your
Speaker 8: mind just boggled with acronyms.
Speaker 7: Right, So we have.
Speaker 8: QD mini led, we saw tri chroma or RGB mini led,
Speaker 8: a lot of different ways of approaching TV technology tweaks
Speaker 8: on on what we've had before that you know, attempts
Speaker 8: to make them better, and you know there's a lot
Speaker 8: of them, and you know we'd be here all day
Speaker 8: if we tried to cover them on your show. Certainly
Speaker 8: couldn't fig fitted in this segment. But you know that's
Speaker 8: why you want to go to Digital Trends and specifically
Speaker 8: visit our YouTube channel, you know, because over the course
Speaker 8: of the year, I'm going to go through each and
Speaker 8: every one of these and explain what they actually mean
Speaker 8: to comment folks.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, let's get to some actual factual recommendations, because
Speaker 1: that's what people actually want. I mean, do you want
Speaker 1: to start the under five hundred.
Speaker 8: I will get to the under five hundred. But before
Speaker 8: I do that, I wanted to let you and your
Speaker 8: listeners in on a little bit of a secret. Now there,
Speaker 8: I have to stay away from mentioning specifics. You know,
Speaker 8: your in tech yourself, and you understand sometimes news is
Speaker 8: shared with us ahead of its official announcement, but it's
Speaker 8: under embargo, which is to say that we're not allowed
Speaker 8: to talk about it until a certain date or time.
Speaker 7: With that said, I have heard that there are.
Speaker 8: Going to be some aggressive Super Bowl TV sales, particularly
Speaker 8: from TCL, that are going to launch tomorrow, the nineteenth
Speaker 8: of January. And I've got to tell you I've seen
Speaker 8: the prices, and I'm not overstating things when I say
Speaker 8: that they are the best sale prices on TVs that
Speaker 8: we've seen, maybe ever, certainly since Black Friday. And so
Speaker 8: I am going to read off some TVs that I recommend,
Speaker 8: but I would like everyone to know that as of tomorrow,
Speaker 8: you should see some pretty incredible sales on TVs. And
Speaker 8: you're right, super Bowl is a time, a great time
Speaker 8: to buy a TV because we're you.
Speaker 7: Know, we're nearing the end of the model year.
Speaker 8: The twenty four TVs need to be cleared out for
Speaker 8: the twenty twenty five TVs, and so you know, there
Speaker 8: are always great sales right around this time of year,
Speaker 8: and so beyond, it's just exciting to get a new
Speaker 8: TV for the Super Bowl. Let's remember, we keep these
Speaker 8: TVs for a while, right, and we want.
Speaker 7: To get something that we're going to enjoy for a
Speaker 7: long time.
Speaker 8: And it's just wonderful that there are these huge sales
Speaker 8: coming right up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I would say maybe spend a little bit extra,
Speaker 1: Like if you're looking at a TV that's three hundred
Speaker 1: or four hundred, go with the four hundred, just because
Speaker 1: you know, you do keep this thing for like a decade.
Speaker 1: I mean at least I do. So, I mean, one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars over ten years is really not that much,
Speaker 1: all right, So what do you recommend this year?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 8: Well, let's remember that when you have a strict budget
Speaker 8: for a TV, So when we talk about under five
Speaker 8: hundred or under one thousand, usually have to make a
Speaker 8: little bit of a decision. Do you want to get
Speaker 8: the biggest screen possible? With maybe not the most amazing
Speaker 8: picture quality, or are you happier with maybe a not
Speaker 8: a huge screen with you know, extra special picture quality.
Speaker 8: So I'm going to give a couple of different sizes
Speaker 8: is in each category, and I guess we'll start with
Speaker 8: the under five hundred. Like you said, my pick for
Speaker 8: the best fifty five inch TV under five hundred dollars
Speaker 8: would be the High Sense U six N. And it's
Speaker 8: got all the technology that you want in it. It's
Speaker 8: got many led back lights, it's got quantum dots for
Speaker 8: you know, really vivid expressive color. It runs the Google
Speaker 8: TV operating system, which happens to me my favorite built
Speaker 8: in TV operating system. And it's just you're gonna hear
Speaker 8: me mention High Sense in TCL a lot here because
Speaker 8: these two brands are offering extremely amazing bang for your buck.
Speaker 8: And for somebody who hasn't bought a TV recently, maybe
Speaker 8: those aren't as familiar brands, but I'm here to tell
Speaker 8: you they've been around for a while now, they've really
Speaker 8: up their game. Their quality control is very good now
Speaker 8: and they've become very reliable TVs.
Speaker 1: So I can tell you last time we talked to you,
Speaker 1: you recommended the High Sense and I bought it and
Speaker 1: I love it, so it's been fantastic.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm not going to give a recommendation. I can't
Speaker 8: stand behind you know, it'll come back to me. But
Speaker 8: if you want to go a little bit bigger under
Speaker 8: five hundred dollars, I would recommend the sixty five inch
Speaker 8: TCL Q sixty five. Write that down Q sixty five.
Speaker 8: It's a wonderful TV at the most popular size right now.
Speaker 8: Sixty five inches also runs Google TV, has a lot
Speaker 8: of the similar technology that I just described in the
Speaker 8: High Sense, and I think you'd be pretty happy with
Speaker 8: that as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, what about a little bit more expensive.
Speaker 8: Right if we want to go under one thousand, my
Speaker 8: favorite TV under one thousand dollars right now would be
Speaker 8: the sixty five inch Sony X ninety L. Sony, you know,
Speaker 8: they've been in the game a long time and their
Speaker 8: top tier when it comes to processing, and so when
Speaker 8: you're maybe not watching four K content, you're just watching
Speaker 8: cable or satellite or you know, lower quality streaming stuff,
Speaker 8: you know, just your basic YouTube stuff. Sony processing really
Speaker 8: cleans up that image and makes it look absolutely gorgeous.
Speaker 7: With that said, I'm also a big fan of the
Speaker 7: High Sense.
Speaker 8: You eight and a couple of steps above that U
Speaker 8: six I mentioned before also available sixty five inches. Well,
Speaker 8: well under one thousand dollars. I think it's hanging out
Speaker 8: around seven hundred right now. But if you do want
Speaker 8: to go bigger under one thousand, you can use that
Speaker 8: U six and I recommended earlier and get that in
Speaker 8: a seventy five inch version. That's that's what happens if
Speaker 8: you spend a little bit more money on that same
Speaker 8: model to get a bigger size.
Speaker 1: All right, we've got about a minute left, so give
Speaker 1: me your best to the best.
Speaker 8: The splurge, well, I'm going to say it's Super Bowl.
Speaker 7: We want to go big for a splurge.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna say real big, right, I'm talking about a
Speaker 8: ninety eight inch TV. I would say, look at the
Speaker 8: High Sense. I'm sorry, the tcl Q six at ninety
Speaker 8: eight inches. Check the internet tomorrow, ninety eight inch TCLQ six.
Speaker 7: You will be shocked at the price.
Speaker 8: I can't tell you what it is, but it's well
Speaker 8: under two thousand dollars. It's under sixteen hundred dollars as
Speaker 8: a matter of fact.
Speaker 1: Wow, Well, when you get that specific, you might as
Speaker 1: well just say, what is no IgE kidding? I'm actually
Speaker 1: looking at the email. I looked it up from TCL
Speaker 1: and yes, it is a very aggressive price for a
Speaker 1: ninety eight inch TV. I hope you have room for
Speaker 1: it in your living room. Caleb Dennison, what's the best
Speaker 1: place people can find your reviews about TVs?
Speaker 8: Well, if you want to read them, you can go
Speaker 8: to Digitaltrends dot com our website, or you can go
Speaker 8: to YouTube. Just type in Digital Trends and you'll see
Speaker 8: my face.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me. Appreciate it. You got
Speaker 1: a gig this weekend?
Speaker 9: Or what?
Speaker 7: No gig this weekend?
Speaker 8: Unless you call golf a gig, in which case I
Speaker 8: have a few gigs.
Speaker 1: There we go. Thanks so much for joining me, Caleb,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Rich on tech dot Tv, I will put
Speaker 1: all of his suggestions on the website. Episode one oh five,
Speaker 1: look for the show notes there. Coming up, we're gonna
Speaker 1: talking Nintendo switch to plus dji making some changes to
Speaker 1: its drone restrictions. Plus your calls, I see you, I
Speaker 1: feel you. We're gonna take your calls. Coming up next
Speaker 1: eight eight eight Rich one O one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. And by aphilia,
Speaker 1: I mean I know you've been waiting for a long time.
Speaker 1: We'll get you on. Welcome back to Rich on tech.
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Let's
Speaker 1: go to uh Evan in Anaheim, California. Evan, you're on
Speaker 1: with Rich?
Speaker 9: Yeah, hein' no.
Speaker 6: Rich.
Speaker 9: I was calling today because I've been looking into the
Speaker 9: ninja woodfire electric barbecues that have like little pellets that
Speaker 9: you use to to smoke things or just add that
Speaker 9: smoky barbecue flavor. And I find there a really good
Speaker 9: alternative to guess or charcoal barbecues because a lot of
Speaker 9: us in apartments aren't allowed to use one.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So I've heard some good things. I've heard some bad
Speaker 9: things in reviews, but nobody really elaborates on the bad.
Speaker 9: And I am on the fence with this thing in
Speaker 9: my cost Co shopping cart for two ninety nine for
Speaker 9: the smaller version. They don't offer the larger version there.
Speaker 9: And I just wanted to know what your take was
Speaker 9: on those.
Speaker 4: If you had one.
Speaker 1: I don't have one. I do have an I do
Speaker 1: have other ninja stuff that I do like I think
Speaker 1: Ninja's kind of a good up and coming brand with
Speaker 1: all these kitchen appliances and just various things they make.
Speaker 1: I did try pizza from this woodfire oven over in Berlin,
Speaker 1: Germany last year at the IFA show. So I did
Speaker 1: try pizza. It smelled good, it looked good. I mean,
Speaker 1: everything worked for us, but of course someone else was
Speaker 1: cooking on this. What are you comparing this to, like,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna smoke stuff? Or are you just
Speaker 1: looking for an electric grill?
Speaker 9: You know, a little bit of both grill and smoke.
Speaker 9: And they actually it's funny because Ninja just has so many,
Speaker 9: so many products. Oh yeah, the oven is actually different
Speaker 9: than the grill, even they have a specific grill. And
Speaker 9: the reviews that I saw is that the oven is
Speaker 9: good at being an If you want to grill, get
Speaker 9: the grill. But if you want a oven, if you
Speaker 9: want a grill in the oven, don't get the oven. Right,
Speaker 9: it didn't do both well. Yeah, but they have like
Speaker 9: a regular sized grill for two ninety nine at Costco,
Speaker 9: and I think they have a larger middle of the
Speaker 9: medium size. Yeah, if I can throw xcel with like
Speaker 9: a connect and I think they haven't even have a
Speaker 9: larger one that's closer to a grand that's way out.
Speaker 6: Of my budget.
Speaker 9: I was looking at the smaller the medium.
Speaker 6: I noticed the medium.
Speaker 9: Has like temperature probes and whatnot that you can use
Speaker 9: with it. But I'm a big fan of the meter probe.
Speaker 9: I don't know if you like them, but they're a
Speaker 9: wonderful probe. It meets every time.
Speaker 1: It's funny. They sent me a meter when it first
Speaker 1: came out. I think it might have started as a kickstarter,
Speaker 1: but they sent me one. I used it once. I
Speaker 1: hated it and I never used it again. And I
Speaker 1: literally think it was like a prototype that they sent me.
Speaker 1: And I felt so bad because now people love this thing.
Speaker 1: I ended up seeing them at a trade show and
Speaker 1: I said, ah, I feel bad because I you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of hate on this thing for so long.
Speaker 1: They gave me a new one. I have not used it,
Speaker 1: but I I'm a big fan of thermometers with cooking meat,
Speaker 1: you know, on the grill. But I just have an
Speaker 1: instant read, so I don't use the probe. But I
Speaker 1: know the probe is easier because you could just put
Speaker 1: a try tip on there and next thing you know,
Speaker 1: it just tells you when it's ready to go instead
Speaker 1: of checking it every you know, five minutes. So I
Speaker 1: will test that. That's in my in my list of
Speaker 1: things to test. When it comes to this, this Ninja
Speaker 1: woodfire grill. Have you looked at the Have you considered
Speaker 1: the Weber?
Speaker 9: I didn't even know Weber made one? Why did I
Speaker 9: count them out?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So, I mean I was at a Weber event
Speaker 1: where they had all of the different grills and I
Speaker 1: was not I didn't even know they had wood, pellet
Speaker 1: or electric or any of these things. They even make
Speaker 1: a blackstone type grill. They make their own version of that.
Speaker 1: And my last Weber lasted ten years. So I just
Speaker 1: bought a new one recently. But my last one, I
Speaker 1: mean it was I only bought a new one because
Speaker 1: I felt like I had to. I was like, well,
Speaker 1: this thing's so old, it must be going bad. But
Speaker 1: it was perfectly fine. But I would compare. I don't
Speaker 1: think the price is going to be as in expense.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at their cheapest electric grill looks like it's
Speaker 1: about three ninety nine. I don't know if they discount
Speaker 1: them at all. I guess my advice on the Ninja
Speaker 1: is I think the quality you're gonna get out of
Speaker 1: it is kind of like it's gonna be maybe not
Speaker 1: top tier quality, but kind of like right underneath that.
Speaker 1: So if you're okay with that, I think you'll be fine.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna have the best. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna rival what you can get out of
Speaker 1: a dedicated kind of wood pellet, you know, grill' that's
Speaker 1: you know, truly gas fired or whatever. But the good
Speaker 1: news is, Evan, is that you said you were looking
Speaker 1: at a Costco. Can't you return anything to Costco?
Speaker 9: That's kind of what I was thinking of, is even
Speaker 9: if it was made of Chinese and I don't have
Speaker 9: a problem returning it.
Speaker 1: So I say you just go ahead, buy the grill,
Speaker 1: try it out. Make you know, don't make just one thing,
Speaker 1: make two or three things. See what it's like. You know,
Speaker 1: if it works, it's great. I mean it's it's a
Speaker 1: good price, that's for sure. And if it's not, bring it.
Speaker 1: But either way, I want you to report back. Okay.
Speaker 1: That's my ask is that you report back in a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks what you think of this thing.
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, I will. I'll try around some proteins and
Speaker 9: some sausage links and I'll let you know what I think.
Speaker 1: All right, Evan, you know where to find me, Send
Speaker 1: me an invite. I'll be there to try some of
Speaker 1: that great question. You know, I am a big griller.
Speaker 1: I love grilling, and I you know, you may not know,
Speaker 1: but I'm actually a big cook in general. Like I'm
Speaker 1: the one that cooks in my home almost every night.
Speaker 1: And so my wife, oh my gosh, she's gonna be
Speaker 1: really embarrassed I tell the story. But when I met
Speaker 1: my wife, I'm not kidding. Oh gosh, I even tell
Speaker 1: this story. This is so bad. When I met my wife,
Speaker 1: I went to her parents' house, and I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: On the stove on a stove, there's a tiny pillow
Speaker 1: that said for dinner, I make reservations a pillow on
Speaker 1: the stove. Who puts a pillow on a stove? I
Speaker 1: was so taken aback because I grew up in a
Speaker 1: house my parents had five kids. My mom would cook
Speaker 1: every single night. I'm talking to dinner for seven people,
Speaker 1: do you know how much? And this was back in
Speaker 1: the day when they didn't have shredded cheese in a bag,
Speaker 1: and they didn't have these things that were like already
Speaker 1: ready to go, and like she prepped food like the
Speaker 1: old fashioned way, Like I'm not kidding. You'd get a
Speaker 1: one pound brick of muzzerella cheese. Yes we're Italian. We
Speaker 1: had mozzerella cheese and just sit there and like grate
Speaker 1: it for like an hour, and like prep these pepper
Speaker 1: steaks and all the stuff that she would make on
Speaker 1: a nightly basis. And so we'd have dinner, and then
Speaker 1: we'd have the threat of just wait till your father
Speaker 1: gets home, because I'm telling them everything you kids did
Speaker 1: today and all the stuff you said and all the
Speaker 1: things did. Yeah, remember those days you were scared when
Speaker 1: dad got home. Oh my gosh, all right, uh. Dji
Speaker 1: making some big changes to its drone software Starting now,
Speaker 1: Dji is changing how their drones handle restricted areas. So
Speaker 1: instead of hard no fly zones, you'll now see enhanced
Speaker 1: warning zones that match up with official FAA airspace rules.
Speaker 1: So basically before you had to go through a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff, now all you have to do is
Speaker 1: update the app, and when you hit one of these zones,
Speaker 1: it'll just say, oh, you can't really fly here, and
Speaker 1: you go okay, and then you can fly anyway. So
Speaker 1: it's really putting this on the honor of the pilots
Speaker 1: instead of the drone automatically stopping you. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: get alerts. But this is a big shift. DJI introduced
Speaker 1: their old system back in twenty thirteen, so they're really
Speaker 1: strict for the past ten years or so. Now they
Speaker 1: say more people know about drones and understand the ramifications,
Speaker 1: that's why they're making the change. But this is a big,
Speaker 1: big change, so you maybe see more drones in more
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Speaker 1: Selena from Walnut Creek, California. Rights and I'm interested in
Speaker 1: finding out if there are better options than comcasts for business, internet, phone,
Speaker 1: and TV at my office location in Walnut Creek. What
Speaker 1: are my options? Let's see, Selena. I think a great
Speaker 1: starting point is to check which companies offer availability. Now
Speaker 1: this may be a little bit different because you're talking
Speaker 1: about business versus personal, but speed tests speed test dot net,
Speaker 1: that's the website that people go to to check the
Speaker 1: speed of their Internet. Well, they do something that's kind
Speaker 1: of cool on the back end, the kind of catalog
Speaker 1: all that. And they have this feature called speed Test
Speaker 1: Performance Directory. And so if you go to the website
Speaker 1: and it's speed test dot net slash performance and you
Speaker 1: type in your zip code, I'm just going to type
Speaker 1: in one that I know nine two eight, and that
Speaker 1: will give you all of the different providers in that
Speaker 1: area and the pricing. So this is typically, you know,
Speaker 1: meant for residential, but a lot of these companies have
Speaker 1: business as well, so that'll give you an idea of
Speaker 1: what who has the lines in your area. But that's
Speaker 1: where I would start. Let's see that there used to
Speaker 1: be another one that I don't know if this has business.
Speaker 1: Let's see here. This is all Connect all connect dot com.
Speaker 1: They've been around for a while, but I think that
Speaker 1: one is a little bit more paid about our providers
Speaker 1: so works individually providers. So yeah, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: you could just look for look for those two websites
Speaker 1: all Connect and then the other one again is speed
Speaker 1: test dot net, and I would I would check there.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to uh George in Laguna. Igel George,
Speaker 1: You're on with Rich.
Speaker 10: Hello Rich, Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1: Thanks for calling. What can I help with?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 10: On Black Friday, I bought a cheap Toshiba seventy five
Speaker 10: inch Fire TV, and you're right, the prices have gotten.
Speaker 6: A lot better.
Speaker 1: How much you pay for that?
Speaker 10: I beg your pardon?
Speaker 1: How much you pay?
Speaker 10: Oh about four hundred and fifty nine something?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that is wild. Four hundred and fifty nine
Speaker 1: bucks for how many seventy five a.
Speaker 10: Seventy five inch Toshiba Fire TV off of Amazon through
Speaker 10: best Buy?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's a lot. That's complicated. But okay, so
Speaker 1: what what what's your question?
Speaker 10: Okay, So I've always had a provider, so either Hulu
Speaker 10: or Fling that I was using YouTube when I got
Speaker 10: this new TV.
Speaker 2: But this new TV is a.
Speaker 10: Fire TV, so there's no stick. It's all built in.
Speaker 10: Ye Do I need am I double dipping my that
Speaker 10: guy a few calls ago? Do I need to have
Speaker 10: YouTube if I have a fire TV?
Speaker 1: The Well, it depends what you want to want. So
Speaker 1: there is a ton of free content, and Amazon has
Speaker 1: a lot of free content on Fire. They've got like
Speaker 1: a whole section all these providers, like whether it is Roku,
Speaker 1: whether it's Amazon with Fire, whether it's Google, they all
Speaker 1: are really into these free channels that are that are
Speaker 1: ADS supported. So if you look on like the Google
Speaker 1: TV or the Fire TV, they've got all these sections
Speaker 1: of like sports and news and you know whatever. You know,
Speaker 1: Amazon had this thing called free V I think that's
Speaker 1: now been blended into their standard Amazon Prime, so you
Speaker 1: can watch a bunch of stuff for free. The question is, George,
Speaker 1: it comes down to what you want to watch, if
Speaker 1: you want to watch, it just really comes down to that,
Speaker 1: and that's that's it. So if you want to watch ESPN,
Speaker 1: let's say you're not going to find that for free,
Speaker 1: the linear channel that you want to watch right now.
Speaker 1: If you want to watch something like let's just say
Speaker 1: KTLA like, of course, you can download the Ktla plus
Speaker 1: app and you can stream our news for free. If
Speaker 1: you want to watch random old movies or just random movies,
Speaker 1: you can watch those. If you want to watch news
Speaker 1: clips from all the different news to you know, news outlets,
Speaker 1: NBC News, they all have a streaming service that they
Speaker 1: now offer for free, you can watch all of that stuff.
Speaker 1: So the short answer is, if you don't want to
Speaker 1: pay a nickel for anything on this device, you don't
Speaker 1: have to, and you can just deal with what you've
Speaker 1: gotten for free. And there's also services like Pluto TV,
Speaker 1: There's two b Tubi. They all offer everything for free
Speaker 1: as well. So again it comes down to if you
Speaker 1: want to watch like Bravo or something like that, like
Speaker 1: a channel, you're not going to find that channel streaming
Speaker 1: for free. Might you find some of their content out there, sure,
Speaker 1: but if it depends on what you want to watch,
Speaker 1: does that make sense?
Speaker 6: It does?
Speaker 10: So I think the difference mechanically is if I want
Speaker 10: to continue with YouTube, then I have a home channel,
Speaker 10: I have a DVR, and I have live TV, and
Speaker 10: I can go through and see all the channel live exactly. Look,
Speaker 10: but if I'm going to go ahead and use the
Speaker 10: fire TV, that I have to download the individual apps
Speaker 10: because the apps substitute for channel.
Speaker 1: Yes and no, because fire tv does have its own
Speaker 1: level of kind of like streaming content just kind of
Speaker 1: built in at the ground level, and you'll find that
Speaker 1: where there's like I think it's called news or there's
Speaker 1: just you know, they keep they keep putting those new
Speaker 1: tiles on the screen that say, like just watch stuff
Speaker 1: for free. So but I think it really comes down
Speaker 1: to do you want to watch like standard cable channels
Speaker 1: that you can DVR at your own leisure and specific
Speaker 1: shows that you DVR. That's really the experience you're getting
Speaker 1: from a YouTube TV and of course live TV and
Speaker 1: live sports and things like that. But I think you've
Speaker 1: touched upon a really kind of an interesting nuance of
Speaker 1: TV viewing these days. With streaming is that it's all
Speaker 1: over the place, and a lot of this stuff is
Speaker 1: repeated in different places, and it's you know, there's bits
Speaker 1: and pieces of it all over the place. But if
Speaker 1: you want that traditional cable TV experience with your channels
Speaker 1: that you know and you understand that are streaming linearly,
Speaker 1: which means you know, you're tuning in live just like
Speaker 1: everyone else at the same time, that's going to be
Speaker 1: something like Hulu, Live TV Now, Fubo or whatever, the
Speaker 1: YouTube TVs of the world, the sling TVs of the world,
Speaker 1: that's what you need to subscribe to. But if you
Speaker 1: just want to watch content and just find stuff that's
Speaker 1: that's streaming or watching, you know, you just want to
Speaker 1: watch stuff, you're going to be just fine just picking
Speaker 1: through the stuff that's on the fire TV device. And
Speaker 1: of course downloading some apps as well. Hope that helps
Speaker 1: George appreciate the call. Let's go to Lynn in Riverside. Linn,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich. Hi.
Speaker 11: Oh, thank you so much for taking Michael. Be patient
Speaker 11: with me. I'm seventy nine years old, and what I
Speaker 11: wanted to know is since I'm not really a whole
Speaker 11: day in a computer, it's only once in a while,
Speaker 11: and also because I do voluntary work low income and
Speaker 11: especially seniors like me. Now, last Tuesday, all of a sudden,
Speaker 11: I had problem with my features. So I went, as always,
Speaker 11: check my email first, and then I googled the brand
Speaker 11: and the model number. Well I was on it. Something
Speaker 11: on the page went on tap and it started like shouting,
Speaker 11: don't touch me, don't turn me off. Your computer is compromise,
Speaker 11: it will be black. Call this number, call this number repeatedly,
Speaker 11: and I got so nervous, and it stupid me. I
Speaker 11: feel so hypocrite because that's exactly what I'm telling some
Speaker 11: singers not to call. And I called the number.
Speaker 1: Oh you call the number. Oh, I'm sorry. Did you
Speaker 1: did you get did you get scammed out of anything? Uh?
Speaker 11: Now I checked my bank and I also called my
Speaker 11: bank to tell them and it's okay, it's just I
Speaker 11: don't know the first one he was saying. He was
Speaker 11: quite nice, and I thought he is really, because he's
Speaker 11: telling me whatever he's doing. Yeah, he told me to
Speaker 11: our type on the shirts on the lower part of
Speaker 11: the laptop. Uh, ultra of you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they want to get they want to get software
Speaker 1: on your computer where they can access and remote access
Speaker 1: into your computer. Did you do that? Did you?
Speaker 11: He was doing something. He clicked off all my open windows.
Speaker 11: And afterwards he said, like he will put security Microsoft.
Speaker 11: I don't have to pay it, but I need he
Speaker 11: needs my name, I address, you know, Etcheter. And that's
Speaker 11: when like I woke up, and I just politely because
Speaker 11: I didn't want him to get mad and then do
Speaker 11: more harm. I just said, I have to talk to
Speaker 11: my kids because I cannot decide on my own.
Speaker 6: Please.
Speaker 11: Please. He gave me his name, his id NUM, his
Speaker 11: employee id number, Etchetera, Ejettera. But still, you know, I
Speaker 11: just said no, And finally he said, okay, then just
Speaker 11: call me, you know. And then I deleted the oldtra
Speaker 11: view that he downloaded. And then the next day I
Speaker 11: called Microsoft and and and and then I told them
Speaker 11: from A to Z. That first guy said, oh okay,
Speaker 11: let's download that will review again, you know.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you called the numbers.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I talked to Microsoft because it always gets in
Speaker 11: the middle cut off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're not actually talking to Microsoft. That's another scam
Speaker 1: artist that you're talking to. So let's do this. No
Speaker 1: more calling numbers because most of these people do not
Speaker 1: offer tech support on your computer, so they are If
Speaker 1: you're googling a number for tech support or calling a
Speaker 1: number that they gave you, those are also scam artists.
Speaker 1: So the thing that you need to do. Did you
Speaker 1: give them any of your personal information? Do you give
Speaker 1: them your bank account numbers? No? Okay? Did you give
Speaker 1: your social on my on my file?
Speaker 11: The only thing is that now I cannot when I
Speaker 11: turn on the laptop. Uh, it's an old HP and
Speaker 11: I want to see my files.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okaylynn. What I would do is we got we
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta go to break but I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: you on hold here and we're gonna we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: to you off the air. But I think the main
Speaker 1: thing you need to do is I think you should
Speaker 1: probably get some outside help on this computer. So if
Speaker 1: you can uh. I would let's see you're in Riverside.
Speaker 1: There are there are some companies that can help you
Speaker 1: with this. I would take a look maybe at like
Speaker 1: Hello Tech that's just one company, or maybe just bring
Speaker 1: it to the best buy in your area, get the
Speaker 1: geek squad to help you out. But you need a
Speaker 1: trusted person to kind of look at this computer, make
Speaker 1: sure that their software is off of your computer. If
Speaker 1: you know how to do it yourself, you can go
Speaker 1: in uninstall it. But it sounds like you got to
Speaker 1: get the software off your computer, and it seems like
Speaker 1: you might have dodged some of the personal information, which
Speaker 1: is good. So the good news is you can reset
Speaker 1: the computer. Microsoft has a way to reset the computer,
Speaker 1: clean everything off, but keep your files. I'm sorry this
Speaker 1: happened to you. It happens every day and it is
Speaker 1: the worst people. These scam artists are just literally out
Speaker 1: to get you every single day. Sorry about that. Rich
Speaker 1: on tech dot TV. I'll talk to to Lynn off
Speaker 1: the air. Here, let's take a break and we'll be
Speaker 1: right back. Ah Man, we are off the air with Lynn.
Speaker 1: Sounds like she has a trusted friend that may be
Speaker 1: able to help her with that computer. So sounds like
Speaker 1: it's hopefully gonna have a good ending there. Jody writes
Speaker 1: in my thirteen year old daughter recently switched from Android
Speaker 1: to iPhone. I can't track her location anymore. For her
Speaker 1: safety and my peace of mind, I used to rely
Speaker 1: on parental controls when she had Android, but now I'm
Speaker 1: at a loss. I worry about her walking home from
Speaker 1: work while I'm at work. Please help. I love watching
Speaker 1: you on KTLA and I've learned so much, Jody. Best
Speaker 1: app for this, I believe, is Life three sixty. It
Speaker 1: is completely free. Obviously, it's like everything else these days.
Speaker 1: It's a freemium, so you can use the basics for free,
Speaker 1: but install it on both your phones and you will
Speaker 1: be able to track where she goes. She could probably
Speaker 1: even see where you go if you allow that on
Speaker 1: your end too. But to take this a step further,
Speaker 1: I would also put a tile tracker on her backpack
Speaker 1: or her purse and you can. That works hand in
Speaker 1: hand with Life three sixty because they purchase tile. So
Speaker 1: that's what I would do Life three sixty Tile tracker.
Speaker 1: That's going to be the best way cross platform. You're
Speaker 1: asking Android to iPhone, iPhone to Android if it's Android,
Speaker 1: Android iPhone iPhone, I'd probably give a different you know,
Speaker 1: iPhone air tag or find my but that's what I
Speaker 1: would recommend for that cross platform functionality. Thanks for the question,
Speaker 1: Tony writes in, Hey, Rich, I've been hearing about scammers
Speaker 1: using scanners and crowded air is to steal credit card
Speaker 1: and personal information from wallets and purses. Do you think
Speaker 1: it's worth investing in a safe wallet or a safe card?
Speaker 1: I trust your opinion, and I don't want to fall
Speaker 1: victim from a scam from these companies selling a product
Speaker 1: that they're ineffective. All right, so many people sent me
Speaker 1: it must have been a video going viral on TikTok
Speaker 1: or Instagram about these people. They get close to your
Speaker 1: wallet and they steal your credit card number. It ain't happening.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you that the new credit cards, yes
Speaker 1: they have RFID on them, Yes they can be activated
Speaker 1: to check out closer further than you think. But nobody's
Speaker 1: walking by you and stealing your card information. I just
Speaker 1: don't think that's happening. Should you get an RFID blocking
Speaker 1: sleeve or a wallet?
Speaker 6: Sure?
Speaker 1: I don't think you need it. I don't think you
Speaker 1: need it. Modern credit cards have all kinds of encryption
Speaker 1: built into them. You think Chase is gonna give credit
Speaker 1: cards someone can walk by your wallet and just grab
Speaker 1: your number. No, not gonna happen. Okay, coming up, We've
Speaker 1: got a great guest, the real Jurassic Park. Someone's trying it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: sounds interesting. We'll talk about it coming up next right
Speaker 1: here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The
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Speaker 1: Browse the stories I do for TV. I'm excited for
Speaker 1: my next guest because Jurassic Park is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite movies, and I'm sure there are many similarities drawn
Speaker 1: between what the Colossal Biosciences is trying to do and
Speaker 1: that movie. But let's hear from the man himself, CEO
Speaker 1: Ben Lamb, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 12: Yeah, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 1: So you're trying to bring extinct species back to life? Explain?
Speaker 13: Yeah, so we decided, George, I who's arguably the father
Speaker 13: of synthetic biology, decided that we wanted to start a
Speaker 13: company that's focused on first the extinction and then second
Speaker 13: species preservation. And we have this mission to bring back
Speaker 13: some of these iconic species, put them back into the wild,
Speaker 13: and partnerships with governments and indigenous people groups and conservation groups,
Speaker 13: and then take a lot of those technologies on the
Speaker 13: path of the extinction and apply them to conservation and
Speaker 13: make them free to the world.
Speaker 1: What could possibly go wrong? I'm sure you've heard that before.
Speaker 1: So what species are you talking about here?
Speaker 13: Yeah, so there's three iconic species or flagship species that
Speaker 13: we're working on.
Speaker 12: One is the woy mammoth.
Speaker 13: The second is the thighlacine also known as the Tasmanian tiger,
Speaker 13: and then the Dodo bird, which is arguably the symbol
Speaker 13: of human cause extinction.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've worked with a couple of Dodo
Speaker 1: birds over the years, but I don't think that's the
Speaker 1: same thing.
Speaker 12: So what intinct?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 1: Okay? I mean? So did you watch Drassic Park and
Speaker 1: get this idea? Like where did this all come from?
Speaker 1: And where do you start?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 13: So what's funny about that is people always ask, you know,
Speaker 13: this is really George Church's vision, and I just feel
Speaker 13: like I'm lucky enough to be partners with George and
Speaker 13: be the steward.
Speaker 12: Of his vision.
Speaker 13: And people often ask, you know, was George inspired, because
Speaker 13: he's been talking about doing the Mammoth you know for
Speaker 13: years before I came around, and uh, and then we
Speaker 13: built it into a company, and people always ask, you know,
Speaker 13: was George inspired Briant Jurassic Park.
Speaker 12: But if you actually go back to Michael Crichton's book.
Speaker 13: In Michael Crichton's book, there's actually a DNA sequence and
Speaker 13: early on in the book that's actually George's work from
Speaker 13: the seventies. Oh wow, you know, George will joke and
Speaker 13: say I kind of think that, you know, Michael Kriichten
Speaker 13: was inspired, you know by George.
Speaker 12: Given the fact that.
Speaker 13: It's you know, almost statistically impossible for it to be
Speaker 13: nearly the same code.
Speaker 1: That's wild. So oh, he wasn't credited in the book.
Speaker 1: I see, it was just part of what he had.
Speaker 1: So how close are you to doing this? And how
Speaker 1: are you doing it?
Speaker 11: Are you?
Speaker 1: Are you taking the DNA from the the the amber,
Speaker 1: the mosquito in the amber?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 13: So not that we've tried. But amber is not the best,
Speaker 13: uh you know, vault for DNA for the years. It's
Speaker 13: very porous. It doesn't hold DNA pretty well. So we
Speaker 13: actually work with a lot of different samples from all
Speaker 13: over the world, some from museums, from from some from
Speaker 13: fields studies, some from actually working directly with our seventeen
Speaker 13: academic partners around the world. And ancient DNA is highly degraded,
Speaker 13: it's highly fragmented, so you actually have to put a
Speaker 13: lot of ancient DNA together. It's kind of build that
Speaker 13: reference genome in the high level process is you know,
Speaker 13: we use about sixty five mammoth genomes ranging from about
Speaker 13: three thousand years to seven hundred thousand years old. We
Speaker 13: assemble that and we compare it to its closest living relative.
Speaker 13: In this case, it's the Asian elephant, which is ninety
Speaker 13: nine point.
Speaker 4: Six percent the same. They're actually closer.
Speaker 13: Mammas are closer related to Asian elephants than Asian elephants
Speaker 13: are to African Elephant's always.
Speaker 12: Kind of blows people's mind.
Speaker 13: And then you use a I and computers and some
Speaker 13: of these algorithms that we've built to do comparative genomics
Speaker 13: to really understand what genes have been lost to time
Speaker 13: that really made a mammoth of mammoth, because a Nation
Speaker 13: elephant is you know, basically a nodly, non coal tolerant mammoth.
Speaker 13: And then we identify those genes and we engineer those
Speaker 13: genes into an Asian elephant south. So you mentioned Jurassic Park,
Speaker 13: it's almost like reverse Jurassic Park, where they were trying
Speaker 13: to fill in the holes of ancient of the in
Speaker 13: the dino in the quote unquote dino DNA with that
Speaker 13: of frogs and other things. We start the other way.
Speaker 13: We start with the frog and then we understand what
Speaker 13: made a dinasaur diasord then and plug it in. Only
Speaker 13: it's in the case of the mammoth.
Speaker 12: And you know, we're pretty far.
Speaker 13: We're in the editing phase, meaning that we've done all
Speaker 13: that competitional analysis, we've done all that ancient DNA work,
Speaker 13: and we're in the editing phase for both the Tasmanian
Speaker 13: tiger and the mammoth, and hopefully by in the next
Speaker 13: six months we'll move into editing for the dodo as well.
Speaker 1: And then how do you go from the DNA to
Speaker 1: actually creating an animal.
Speaker 12: Yeah, so you're at being these live cells.
Speaker 13: So you create a mortalized cell lines with the closest
Speaker 13: living relative as I mentioned with the mammoth is the
Speaker 13: Asian elephant. You then start to edit the individual cell
Speaker 13: lines themselves. And then once you get to the point
Speaker 13: where you've done all your molecular and functional and all
Speaker 13: your tests in the lab or maybe in some cases
Speaker 13: in animal models like mice and others, you actually start
Speaker 13: to identify you know, are our traits working, are they
Speaker 13: being expressed or the right way? And then once you
Speaker 13: feel confident about it, you go through a process called
Speaker 13: somatic cell nuclear transfer better known as ploning. Is kind
Speaker 13: of like what Dolly made famous in the nineties, only
Speaker 13: the technologies come a long way.
Speaker 12: Since since the nineties.
Speaker 13: And then you move the nucleus from that of a
Speaker 13: germ cell or somatic cell or sorry a somatic cell
Speaker 13: into that of a germ cell or egg cell, and
Speaker 13: then you implant that into a surrogate that will then
Speaker 13: grow your species. And so that is our current process.
Speaker 13: We also have a seventeen person team working on artificial wombs.
Speaker 12: And you know our goal.
Speaker 13: You know, none of our first generation and species will
Speaker 13: be born ex utero, but long term, we hope that
Speaker 13: we can use our artificial wombs for not just the
Speaker 13: extinction of key species, but also for conservation.
Speaker 1: All right, Ben, everything you're telling me right now, my
Speaker 1: brain is literally just like exploded. So how realistic is
Speaker 1: it that you're going to create a dodo bird or
Speaker 1: a wooly mammoth and bring it back.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 13: I we raise bourn and thirty five million dollars a
Speaker 13: day for our company, and then we also raised fifty
Speaker 13: million dollars for our foundation to support our conservation efforts
Speaker 13: around the technologies from the company. You know, we feel
Speaker 13: very confidence at our investors. You know, I think that
Speaker 13: in the next few years we could see Our goal
Speaker 13: is by the end of twenty twenty eight to have
Speaker 13: our first mammoth calvs. We're currently on track. You know,
Speaker 13: these things are hard, so you know, sometimes things can slip.
Speaker 13: We feel very very confident in it. But nam us
Speaker 13: have a twenty two month gestation, so you know, if
Speaker 13: we continue on the current course and speed with some
Speaker 13: of our other projects, I think it's highly likely we
Speaker 13: could see an animal a different species even before the mammoth.
Speaker 13: So I think we are within the next few years
Speaker 13: we will see the world's first extinct species back on
Speaker 13: the planet.
Speaker 1: Is there any danger in doing this?
Speaker 13: You need to be very thoughtful and careful on this
Speaker 13: right And so we work really closely with you, our
Speaker 13: seventeen academic partners around the world, our ninety five scientific advisors,
Speaker 13: we have.
Speaker 12: An Indigenous People Group.
Speaker 3: Board.
Speaker 13: We also have a conservation board. We have forty eight
Speaker 13: conservation partners. So you need to really look at what
Speaker 13: is the ecological benefit of bringing back these species, what
Speaker 13: are the technologies that can be used for sister species?
Speaker 13: So how is bringing back the mammoth helping elephants today?
Speaker 13: How is rewilding the mammoths back into the center helping
Speaker 13: the ecosystem today? And so you have to go through
Speaker 13: this very thoughtful process. And so even though we don't
Speaker 13: have mammis or dots or thio scenes, we've actually already
Speaker 13: built working groups in country that we meet with every
Speaker 13: single quarter. So we have like a Tasmanian Tiger working
Speaker 13: Group in Australia and in Tasmania specifically that we meet
Speaker 13: with every single quarter, giving them updates, doing ecological studies,
Speaker 13: doing scientific peer reviewed studies on what is the ecological
Speaker 13: impact of rewilding or reversing tropic downgrading that's happening there
Speaker 13: through the loss of the thio scene. And so all
Speaker 13: of these species that we're working on when extinct directly
Speaker 13: because of humans or because of other anthropologic effects on
Speaker 13: the ecosystem from human intervention.
Speaker 12: We're trying to undo the sins of the past, if
Speaker 12: you will.
Speaker 1: I mean, but we also have a modern world, so
Speaker 1: it's it's very different than when these animals live the
Speaker 1: first time. Are you are you going to make a
Speaker 1: Parker now?
Speaker 13: So our goal is put all these species back into
Speaker 13: their natural habitat.
Speaker 12: So you know, that process is called rewilding.
Speaker 13: You know, I do think that long term, you know,
Speaker 13: as we get sustainable species back in the wild like
Speaker 13: in Tasmania. You know, we'd love to work with Tasmania
Speaker 13: on you know, ecological preserves where people can actually see
Speaker 13: them back in their natural habitat and hopefully that would
Speaker 13: for ecotura them and make people want to protect the
Speaker 13: land and whatnot.
Speaker 12: And to your point about.
Speaker 13: Ecosystems, you know, the Tasman ecoystem is pretty much the same, uh,
Speaker 13: you know, minus you know, some of the food chain
Speaker 13: a little bit messed up since it's lost its keystone predator.
Speaker 12: Same with Mauritius.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 13: You know, they've had this influx of invasive species that
Speaker 13: actually led to the downfall of the dodo that we're
Speaker 13: working with them to help eradicate. But the tundra, there's
Speaker 13: actually been eight scientific papers that have put out, not
Speaker 13: even by us, that look at if you were to
Speaker 13: rewild Mamus or other cold tolerant large herbivores back into
Speaker 13: that Arctic ecosystem, how the biodiversity and how that ecosystem
Speaker 13: could come back alive. Right, And so what's generally agreed
Speaker 13: on by all scientists is that a healthy, biodiverse ecosystem
Speaker 13: with predators and prey and large herbivores is better at
Speaker 13: sequestering carbon, it's better for food security, it's better for
Speaker 13: how water treatment happens. So it's really really interesting kind
Speaker 13: of the trickle down effect you have when you remove
Speaker 13: a keystone species, whether it's an herb, a large herbivore,
Speaker 13: or a predator from the environment.
Speaker 1: Wow CEO Ben Lamb of Colossal Biosciences, the website Colossal
Speaker 1: dot com. The world is watching, Ben, So thank you
Speaker 1: for that interview. That was really Wow.
Speaker 12: It's just like, yeah, thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 12: As we get closer to animals, we'll come back.
Speaker 1: Okay, sounds good. I want to pet one of these things.
Speaker 12: I'll recommend that, but that's at your own risk.
Speaker 1: Thanks Ben. I'm I'm scared of running into a bear
Speaker 1: in the woods. Now I gotta worry about a wooly mammoth.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, the Dodo bird. I feel like I
Speaker 1: can deal with. I feel like that's something I can
Speaker 1: deal with. All right, Coming up, we are going to
Speaker 1: open up the feedbag. It is as always overflowing with
Speaker 1: your emails and texts and all that good stuff, so
Speaker 1: we will get back to that. Right here, you are
Speaker 1: listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Couple of news items to get through before we get
Speaker 1: to the feedbag, which is flowing over overflowing, flowing, over
Speaker 1: floweth over whatever. Nintendo finally revealed details about the switch
Speaker 1: to the next big gaming console from them. Looks like
Speaker 1: a beefed up version of the original. It's bigger, it's
Speaker 1: got redesigned controllers that seem to snap in instead of
Speaker 1: slide in. It's got a USB sport, it's got a
Speaker 1: headphone jack. It's got a sturdier kickstand. Old games or
Speaker 1: many of them will work, some may not. Also looks
Speaker 1: like they're teasing a new Mario Kart game, but we
Speaker 1: don't have many more details other than that. April second
Speaker 1: is when we're gonna get more details about this. I
Speaker 1: have a hunch that this is probably gonna launch in
Speaker 1: time for the holidays this year. It's definitely launching in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. The first Switch sold nearly one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty million units, so this is a big one.
Speaker 1: And you're also going to get some demos. They're setting
Speaker 1: up in cities including New York, LA and Dallas during April.
Speaker 1: So there you go switch to That's very exciting for
Speaker 1: Nintendo fans. Let's see here. Scan my photos dot Com
Speaker 1: is offering free photo digitization for California wildfire victims. They
Speaker 1: say that some people may have lost their pictures, so
Speaker 1: friends or relatives have duplicate prints or slides. They can
Speaker 1: have them scanned at no cost, and digital copies will
Speaker 1: be uploaded email concierge at scan my photos dot com.
Speaker 1: They've got a team set up to handle these requests
Speaker 1: and it is available now concierge at scan my photos
Speaker 1: dot com. Meanwhile, Drive Savers in Northern California Northern California
Speaker 1: offering free data recovery for Southern California fire victims. So
Speaker 1: they're offering up to million dollars in free service through
Speaker 1: January thirty first. That covers one device per household or
Speaker 1: business for fire and water damage devices including computers, external drives, phones,
Speaker 1: flash drives, and camera cards. They say that extreme heat
Speaker 1: can really make this tough to recover, and you should
Speaker 1: call them immediately. If you think you have a drive
Speaker 1: that they can save, they will send you a free
Speaker 1: shipping label. Drive Savers is the company and this week
Speaker 1: Samsung unveiling their new phones, expecting it to be the
Speaker 1: S twenty five series of smartphones. That's happening on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: January twenty second in San Jose. I will be there.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to it, can't wait. I thought the
Speaker 1: S twenty four Ultra was one of the probably the
Speaker 1: best phone of the year on the Samsung side of things,
Speaker 1: the most powerful, the best cameras, all that good stuff
Speaker 1: in one package. And so we'll see what they have.
Speaker 1: I know they're going to be pushing AI heavily. All right,
Speaker 1: let's open up the feedback. Joe writes in I always
Speaker 1: love your clips. I have the k Tour pocket socket
Speaker 1: for when the external battery dies. It's also a workout.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Oh, oh, I see because it's
Speaker 1: a crank Oh, you crank it up. Okay, this is
Speaker 1: the pocket socket USB one amp it. Yeah, you crank
Speaker 1: it up and it has a little battery there, so
Speaker 1: it's also a workout. There you go. I don't work
Speaker 1: for them. Thanks Joe, appreciate that. Let's see here, Hi, Rich,
Speaker 1: I love your show and I've been a longtime listener.
Speaker 1: My husband teases me because I'm always saying, guess what
Speaker 1: Rich taught me. I'm excited to share something with you
Speaker 1: for a change. I just learned that the iPhone calculator
Speaker 1: can double as a currency converter. Tap the calculator icon
Speaker 1: in the bottom left corner, swipe and turn on convert
Speaker 1: While I'm not traveling anytime soon, I've been using it
Speaker 1: while watching squid Game to figure out the money they're
Speaker 1: talking about. Hope this tip helps your listeners as much
Speaker 1: as your advice has helped me. Thanks for making tech
Speaker 1: accessible to everyone. Take care, Agnes great tip. I just
Speaker 1: learned that myself actually on a YouTube are a short
Speaker 1: on Instagram. So yes, convert right in the calculator, Don
Speaker 1: writes in Already, twenty twenty five has become a difficult
Speaker 1: year with a complex horizon ahead. Your newsletter's opening segment
Speaker 1: caught my attention as it resonated with concerns I've observed
Speaker 1: over the years. Many people, including my children, have quote
Speaker 1: cut the cord, abandoning live television and radio, especially local news.
Speaker 1: They now consume content through streaming, often from a narrow lens,
Speaker 1: which I believe creates a skewed view of reality. Discussing
Speaker 1: a major news event with them is challenging. They're disconnected
Speaker 1: from what I would consider the real world. Your comments
Speaker 1: and the newsletter hinted at a similar concern, highlighting the
Speaker 1: need to stay connected not only to emerging technologies, but
Speaker 1: the pressing issues today. Of today, live TV and real
Speaker 1: journalism are fading, replaced by a fragmented media landscape. This
Speaker 1: is troubling. Yes, I agree, Don, I talk about this
Speaker 1: being in traditional media. People they have their opinions and
Speaker 1: it is backed up by what they watch on social
Speaker 1: media and on YouTube and on Instagram, and it's all
Speaker 1: coordinated for them, so it's not even worth arguing anymore.
Speaker 1: We used to have a public discourse and things and
Speaker 1: talk about stuff, and also used to trust certain news outlets.
Speaker 1: Now people don't even trust the mainstream media outlets. So
Speaker 1: it's all I don't know what's gonna happen, honestly, don
Speaker 1: but that's why I'm here a voice of reason in
Speaker 1: this madness. Let's see here, Auto rights in, Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I heard you mentioned notes programs for cell phones on
Speaker 1: your show. I use my iPhone notes program with my
Speaker 1: Gmail account so I can access my notes on my PC.
Speaker 1: Thanks for doing a great job with your show and
Speaker 1: happy New Year, Auto. That's a great way to do it.
Speaker 1: And Kelly versus via Facebook Rights in love the show. Rich,
Speaker 1: You're the best. I'm not even someone who loves technology,
Speaker 1: but I try to listen to you every Saturday. You're
Speaker 1: such a voice of reason. What I just say, and
Speaker 1: incredibly kind of respectful to everyone who calls in. Thank
Speaker 1: you for what you do. Praying you and your family
Speaker 1: stay safe. Thank you, Ann. Kelly appreciate that I am
Speaker 1: a voice of reason. Are and I just ask my wife?
Speaker 1: Jim writes in Rich longtime listeners, so many great nuggets,
Speaker 1: but honestly, it feels like the whole world is trying
Speaker 1: to mug me online. Makes me want to cancel my internet,
Speaker 1: lock the doors, and never go anywhere. Yeah, I hear you.
Speaker 1: Just like that caller we got earlier with the hacked computer,
Speaker 1: and we got text messages every day that are trying
Speaker 1: to hack us. We've got email scams. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: so much we're up against. Just keep a cool head,
Speaker 1: stay steady, don't fall for this stuff, and just be
Speaker 1: critical of anything that comes your way. You have to
Speaker 1: just imagine that someone's trying to scam you, phone call, scam,
Speaker 1: whatever that's gonna do it. For this episode of the show.
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Speaker 1: rich on tech dot tv. You can find me on
Speaker 1: social media the Voice of Reason. I am at rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Next week, Yes, I will have my thoughts
Speaker 1: on the new Samsung smartphones. Thank you so much for listening.
Speaker 1: I know there are so many ways you can spend
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