Speaker 1: Samsung is ready to show off its newest phones, A
Speaker 1: cool tool for Instagram stories, a review of Amazon's inexpensive
Speaker 1: new fire tablets, plus your tech questions answered.
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: I'm Rich d'miro and this is Rich on Tech, the
Speaker 1: podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think
Speaker 1: you should know about. It's also the place where I
Speaker 1: answer the questions that you send me, and yes, you
Speaker 1: send me a lot of them. My name is Rich dmiro,
Speaker 1: tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Say
Speaker 1: hello to producer Megan.
Speaker 3: Hello, how's it going?
Speaker 2: It is going well. How are you doing?
Speaker 3: I'm good, I'm doing well.
Speaker 1: You sound fantastic this morning, so I think, oh, good,
Speaker 1: all right. Whenever we record this, you know, it's podcasting,
Speaker 1: there's not necessarily a time, so I try not to really,
Speaker 1: you know, harp on the day or the date or
Speaker 1: the time, because a lot of the stuff we talk
Speaker 1: about in this show is actually pretty evergreen. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's the news of the week, but it's much more
Speaker 1: consumer focused than a lot of the shows. So how
Speaker 1: have you been making the most of your time lately?
Speaker 3: Lately? You know, a lot of working out and just
Speaker 3: you know, I mean lots of iron. No, No, I mean,
Speaker 3: like I like to go on my walks. That's like
Speaker 3: my favorite thing. Like just put on a podcast and
Speaker 3: like walk around the neighborhood. That's what I like to do.
Speaker 1: So that's interesting to you listen to podcasts while you walk.
Speaker 1: I the last time I did that was when I
Speaker 1: had my first son. I had a whole list of
Speaker 1: podcasts and I would take him on like an hour
Speaker 1: long walk every day and just listen to podcasts. But
Speaker 1: I haven't done that since that was nine years ago.
Speaker 3: Really, so I that's how I listened to most of
Speaker 3: my podcasts. I just pop one in and I go
Speaker 3: for a walk.
Speaker 1: It's interesting I have not listened to a podcast in
Speaker 1: basically almost the whole quarantine a little bit. Like So
Speaker 1: yesterday I had to drive to a story. It was
Speaker 1: like an over an hour away and I was My
Speaker 1: wife is like, oh my god, this so far, and
Speaker 1: I said, no, I can't wait to drive for an
Speaker 1: hour like it.
Speaker 2: This is amazing.
Speaker 1: Like I every story, it's it's like here in my
Speaker 1: house and with Skype and with zoom and to get
Speaker 1: to go somewhere to do something. But I will admit
Speaker 1: I kind of forget how to drive a little bit,
Speaker 1: Like I've noticed some like much more nervous on the road.
Speaker 2: Have you been driving at all?
Speaker 3: Only to go like produce a story? So but I
Speaker 3: do like look forward to like go and get out.
Speaker 3: It's definitely it's nice to like, you know, take a
Speaker 3: break from being inside all the time.
Speaker 1: It almost feels like it's wrong too, right, like just
Speaker 1: being anywhere, like today I have to go to the
Speaker 1: grocery store, and its just anytime I'm out, anytime I'm
Speaker 1: not in my home, something feels weird.
Speaker 2: I'm just like, this is not the way it's supposed
Speaker 2: to be right now.
Speaker 1: So yeah, anyway, all right, Well, good to hear. Everything's
Speaker 1: going well on your end. Everything's good over here. Let's
Speaker 1: start with the story of the week, and that is
Speaker 1: that Samsung has told us when they will unveil their
Speaker 1: next smartphones and this is going to happen on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: August fifth, twenty twenty. Well, I think you knew that,
Speaker 1: and this is the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked twenty twenty. It
Speaker 1: is going to be a virtual event. Now you've gone
Speaker 1: to at least two Samsung events.
Speaker 2: With me, right, yes, and right? And what one or
Speaker 2: two Apple events, I think one app one Apple event.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you've been to these events, they're pretty grand events.
Speaker 1: There's usually food, there's a lot of journalists, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of to do, there's a hands on area. None
Speaker 1: of that stuff will be happening, you know, with this event,
Speaker 1: because it's happening virtually. It will be live streamed on
Speaker 1: Samsung dot com and I'm hoping YouTube live at ten
Speaker 1: am Eastern, which I also think is an interesting choice
Speaker 1: that they did ten am because US folks out here
Speaker 1: on the West Coast now have to watch this at
Speaker 1: seven am, which I think is kind of weird. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're but I know, but if it's live on, if
Speaker 1: it's a live stream, why not just you know, just
Speaker 1: do it at one pm so that, you know, the
Speaker 1: East Coast and West Coast can equally be awake.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I agree, I don't know that's.
Speaker 1: How they decided to do it. So what are we
Speaker 1: going to see at this event? We are going to
Speaker 1: see the new Note twenty that's what they're calling it,
Speaker 1: or that's what the rumors are calling it. And then
Speaker 1: also a Galaxy Fold smartphone. Also, I would say probably
Speaker 1: a new smart watch when I think about what we're
Speaker 1: going to see at these events. I just go back
Speaker 1: in my head to last year's event and what did
Speaker 1: they launch their you know, a watch.
Speaker 2: A phone, and the foldable.
Speaker 1: So we'll get the second version of the foldable and
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see how Samsung does it. I
Speaker 1: think Apple set the bar pretty high, but for their WWDC,
Speaker 1: which was their Worldwide Developers Conference. It's the big difference
Speaker 1: between these two events. This is sort of I feel
Speaker 1: like it's the first virtual event where products are being
Speaker 1: unveiled that normally journalists would go hands on with, and
Speaker 1: they're not going to be able to do that, so
Speaker 1: that's kind of different.
Speaker 3: And yeah, now.
Speaker 1: Samsung is also a little bit different than Apple, So
Speaker 1: I could see a scenario where Samsung sends some devices
Speaker 1: to select YouTubers and journalists beforehand so that they can
Speaker 1: time their coverage with this. I probably am not one
Speaker 1: of those journalists. I would assume. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm usually in like that B list
Speaker 1: of journalists.
Speaker 3: That's not true. Wait, couldn't they do like a hands
Speaker 3: on where you know, it's like an appointment kind of
Speaker 3: thing where you go in at like your time and
Speaker 3: then they clean everything and then you get what you need.
Speaker 3: Like I feel like they could have figured it out
Speaker 3: so that at least, yes, for someone like you, you could,
Speaker 3: but think.
Speaker 2: About it, it's not just me.
Speaker 1: So now you have everyone has to fly somewhere, you
Speaker 1: have to go into this room. You have to you know,
Speaker 1: the people from Samsung have to be there for eight
Speaker 1: hours for us to come in. So I get that idea,
Speaker 1: but it's still when you really kind of think it through, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's still tough. It's like not in the spirit. Like
Speaker 1: I feel like the spirit of today is don't be
Speaker 1: with anyone, don't do anything, don't be anywhere.
Speaker 2: Don't hang out. You know.
Speaker 1: It's it's like, yeah, you can't do all those things forever.
Speaker 1: But that's kind of the spirit of today.
Speaker 2: You know. It's like, as much as possible, just stay home.
Speaker 2: So we will see. We'll see what Samsung has to
Speaker 2: do and how they do it. And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean people people want the hands on time from
Speaker 1: journalists so that we know what these things are gonna
Speaker 1: be like before you purchase them.
Speaker 2: That's kind of the main thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Okay, now I've forgotten where your music is so hang on, okay,
Speaker 1: Oh no, I gotta, I gotta. I switched everything around
Speaker 1: and now I don't know. So I'm just gonna have
Speaker 1: to see Let's I can go here.
Speaker 2: Oh here it is. You are right there?
Speaker 3: Perfect? Okay. This first question comes from Alfonso. Hey, Rich,
Speaker 3: I appreciate your recommendations. Just picked up the Let's Fit
Speaker 3: smart watch. My wife and I are looking for a good,
Speaker 3: easy to manage mobile spycam to post up when our
Speaker 3: kids are playing in the back or other rooms. Any suggestions, Oh, wow, spycam.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 3: I was like, I thought he was going to ask
Speaker 3: a question about something with the Let's Fit, but yeah,
Speaker 3: looks like he needs a spy camp for his kids.
Speaker 1: I think we talked about the Let's Fit either last
Speaker 1: week or the week before. That is the inexpensive smart
Speaker 1: watch and by the way, a lot of people got those.
Speaker 1: And it's always nerve racking to me as a reviewer
Speaker 1: when I give something pretty high praise. And in that case,
Speaker 1: I gave the smart watch a it's okay for the money.
Speaker 1: I gave the earbuds up. They're pretty good for the money,
Speaker 1: and the earbuds are like twenty eight. The watch was
Speaker 1: about thirty six. But I will say, Megan, I got
Speaker 1: a lot of emails and tweets and Facebook messages and
Speaker 1: instagrams from people that said they bought it and they're
Speaker 1: actually very happy with it.
Speaker 2: So to me, that's good.
Speaker 3: Oh that's awesome. Yeah, okay, you know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: So to answer his question, wife and I are looking for,
Speaker 1: you said mobile spycam. It's funny that they say spycam
Speaker 1: and they're just looking for a little camera that they
Speaker 1: can have to watch their kids. And I've thought about this,
Speaker 1: like our kids are sometimes my wife and I are
Speaker 1: inside having dinner and the kids are playing outside in
Speaker 1: the backyard, and you just want to keep an eye
Speaker 1: on them, or you know, if something happened to them,
Speaker 1: like where they fell, you want to kind of like
Speaker 1: recreate and see instead of asking them how.
Speaker 2: They got hurt. So I would probably.
Speaker 1: Recommend the wisecam outdoor, which has not come out yet.
Speaker 1: But the reason I would recommend that is because it
Speaker 1: has everything you need. It has a battery, it has
Speaker 1: Wi Fi, it's you know, you just put it. Oh wait, no,
Speaker 1: it doesn't have a battery. Hold on who, sorry, it
Speaker 1: does not have a battery. Oh, oh, no, it does
Speaker 1: not have a battery, so I might actually change my
Speaker 1: thoughts on this. Hold on, Yes it does have a
Speaker 1: bad Yes it does. Oh my god, I'm clearly it's clearly.
Speaker 3: It hasn't come out yet, so you just thank you.
Speaker 1: You know, I haven't played with it yet, so it's tough. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, look how many people order this thing?
Speaker 2: So far?
Speaker 1: Eighty three thousand have ordered my camera. This is a
Speaker 1: fifty dollars camera. It comes with the camera, which is wireless,
Speaker 1: and it is it does have a battery, and it
Speaker 1: is water resistant, so you could theoretically just pop this
Speaker 1: in your backyard somewhere if you had. If you wanted
Speaker 1: to mount it back there, you can do that as
Speaker 1: well for fifty dollars. When these things come out, I'm
Speaker 1: probably gonna buy four of them for the corners of
Speaker 1: my home, right.
Speaker 2: I don't see why it wouldn't.
Speaker 1: But the only different, the only problem with these kind
Speaker 1: of cameras is that you have to charge the battery
Speaker 1: every three to six months.
Speaker 2: And I do have another.
Speaker 1: My ring doorbell is like that, and I have to
Speaker 1: charge the battery every so often.
Speaker 2: Feels like nowadays it's more often.
Speaker 1: Than it was before before it had all these features,
Speaker 1: but still it's something that keep you know, keep in mind.
Speaker 1: I do have other cameras that are plugged in, and
Speaker 1: they's so much easier because they just always work. But
Speaker 1: I would recommend for outdoor cam for the kids, super simple,
Speaker 1: fifty bucks. You can't get it today, so you have
Speaker 1: to kind of right now it says sold out. They're
Speaker 1: not even taking new orders, so that could be a problem. Otherwise,
Speaker 1: what I'd recommend is what's called the ring stick up cam,
Speaker 1: and the battery version of that is pretty simple.
Speaker 2: Now that's going to be more expensive.
Speaker 1: That is going to be stick up cam. Battery is
Speaker 1: going to be ninety nine ninety nine, and that's going
Speaker 1: to do everything you need and it's Ring. So the
Speaker 1: only difference with that one is that if you want
Speaker 1: it to record, you're going to have to pay the
Speaker 1: yearly fee for the recording, so you can only access
Speaker 1: it live for that one hundred dollars. And if you want,
Speaker 1: like let's say your kids came in crying because they
Speaker 1: fell off the swing set, you wanted to see how
Speaker 1: they fell off, you would not be able to do
Speaker 1: that unless you were paying the monitoring fee. Right, So
Speaker 1: these are little delineations that you kind of have to
Speaker 1: you know, you have to kind of remember because all
Speaker 1: these cameras are different. Now there is one more that
Speaker 1: I would say, and Blink is now owned by Amazon,
Speaker 1: and I would say they make an outdoor cam as well.
Speaker 1: And let's see Blink outdoor.
Speaker 2: Let's see where there's is.
Speaker 1: Anyway I can't find it right now. Oh here it
Speaker 1: is Blink x two outdoor camera. So if you get
Speaker 1: one of those, which is ninety nine ninety nine, that
Speaker 1: includes cloud storage, so maybe split the difference and do that,
Speaker 1: and that one's the same thing. It's a two year
Speaker 1: battery life by the way, which remember this at CS.
Speaker 3: Remember that, I think so yeah from this year.
Speaker 2: I think it was last year.
Speaker 1: It's the first year you went and it was super
Speaker 1: like we couldn't believe that you can get two years
Speaker 1: of battery life on some double A batteries.
Speaker 2: Anyway, good question. Moving on.
Speaker 1: iOS fourteen beta. We talked about this last week. It
Speaker 1: is available now as a public beta. So if you
Speaker 1: want to try out iOS fourteen like I've been doing
Speaker 1: for the past couple of weeks, you are free to
Speaker 1: do that. I recommend you do it, but not on
Speaker 1: your primary phone or iPad, because you don't want to
Speaker 1: do that. I got an email from someone that said, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: I'm going on a I'm going on to make.
Speaker 2: Sure I'm recording here. Oh yeah, that's always important.
Speaker 1: They said, Rich, I'm going on a road trip and
Speaker 1: I want to install iOS beta on my iPhone. Like
Speaker 1: what do you think, blah blah blah, is it gonna work?
Speaker 1: I said, don't, don't do it. Do not if you're
Speaker 1: going on a road trip for the next month. I
Speaker 1: think it was a long road trip. You do not
Speaker 1: want to have a beta version of software. And he
Speaker 1: specifically mentioned that he wanted to use Maps. I was like,
Speaker 1: uh no, because yes, the beta version has been really solid,
Speaker 1: but it's not one hundred percent. And number one, I
Speaker 1: told you this last week. My battery life is horrendous.
Speaker 1: And there's also little things that just don't work. Like
Speaker 1: the other day yesterday when I was driving, I was
Speaker 1: trying to get my Apple Maps and or my Google
Speaker 1: Maps to work, and it just would not work for
Speaker 1: a while, and it was just kind of like and
Speaker 1: then my cellular signal was out for a little bit.
Speaker 1: So all these little things, these little bugs need to
Speaker 1: be worked out, So do not put this on your
Speaker 1: primary device.
Speaker 2: But if you have an iPhone.
Speaker 1: Or an old iPad laying around that you don't really
Speaker 1: care about, all you have to do is go to
Speaker 1: Apple's public beta website. You click on iOS fourteen, You
Speaker 1: download this profile it's called and this little profile instructs
Speaker 1: your phone to then download the beta software. And once
Speaker 1: you do that your phone, it takes you an hour
Speaker 1: or so to download everything, install it, and then when
Speaker 1: your phone restarts, boom, You've got the beta.
Speaker 2: You can do the widgets and I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1: Yes, there's a lot of little things that you can
Speaker 1: do on the beta, but do you need it right now?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Left, Folks who are you know, are doing this for
Speaker 1: a living like myself, or doing this with an extra phone,
Speaker 1: figure this stuff out and make it better. I want
Speaker 1: to be the guinea pig, you know, So I mean
Speaker 1: unless Look, I'm not going to say don't do it
Speaker 1: because I'm a nerd and of course I want to
Speaker 1: do this, But with your primary phone, there is always
Speaker 1: there's always a potential for there to be a problem.
Speaker 1: So that's what you need to keep in mind. But
Speaker 1: that's what you need to do if you want iOS
Speaker 1: fourteen on your device. So are you ready for iOS fourteen?
Speaker 2: Megan? Are you excited for?
Speaker 3: You know, I'm actually probably more excited for the next
Speaker 3: iPhone to come out because I'm definitely going to get
Speaker 3: the newer phone.
Speaker 4: So I mean, yeah, I mean, I, oh, you're still.
Speaker 2: On that's right, you're on like an eight plus or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just figured I get a new phone. And
Speaker 3: then I was like, you know what, like, might as well,
Speaker 3: you know, get the newer iPhone when it comes out,
Speaker 3: although three months I would.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's fine, you've waited this long, but like
Speaker 1: the reality is, I can't imagine what the next phone
Speaker 1: is going to have that's going to be much better
Speaker 1: than this one.
Speaker 2: It's the iPhone is so good that what more could they?
Speaker 1: I mean, just maybe slightly better performance because I've noticed
Speaker 1: that it's gotten a little laggy, like a little just
Speaker 1: I mean just a teensy bit, not enough where it's
Speaker 1: a big deal, but it's I've noticed it's not as
Speaker 1: snappy as it was when I first got it. That's
Speaker 1: just because apps continue to like, you know, try to
Speaker 1: do more with.
Speaker 2: The with the thing.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I think you'd be perfectly happy with the eleven.
Speaker 1: But at this point I think, yeah, since you, do
Speaker 1: you think.
Speaker 3: That they'll keep the eleven or do you think that
Speaker 3: they'll get rid of it? I'm curious because.
Speaker 1: Now I'm like, well, yeah, they've been playing games like
Speaker 1: that lately. You're right, Like, they'll keep like the like
Speaker 1: an older version, but not like the most recent. And
Speaker 1: then they'll do you know, because they force you to
Speaker 1: get the new one or like an older one.
Speaker 3: But exactly.
Speaker 2: No, that's a good question. I don't know that you
Speaker 2: stumped me on my own show.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm just curious. Okay, So the next question comes
Speaker 3: from Christina. I'm a full time Southern California preschool teacher
Speaker 3: who's looking for other ways to make some extra money
Speaker 3: on the side. These days, there are so many online
Speaker 3: job listing sites as well as people posting articles of
Speaker 3: their own listings of places they think are good places
Speaker 3: to look for side jobs. With so many listings article sites,
Speaker 3: it's so hard to know which of these are indeed
Speaker 3: legitimate and trustworthy.
Speaker 4: I thought she was dropping the name in the indeed
Speaker 4: job site. Would you happen to know or have any
Speaker 4: listings of any legitimate online sites that are offering online
Speaker 4: slash remote work for preschool teaching positions as well as
Speaker 4: other remote fun, part time, no experience needed remote side jobs.
Speaker 2: I agree, it is.
Speaker 1: It is really tough, and it's been it's been a
Speaker 1: while since I've looked for a job, to be honest,
Speaker 1: because I was supposed to be a KTLA for like,
Speaker 1: I don't know a year, and I've been there ten
Speaker 1: so I don't even know year well. To be honest,
Speaker 1: my initial this is probably too inside baseball, but my
Speaker 1: initial offer from them was like literally I think it
Speaker 1: was ninety days, like to test me out and so,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I can't. I had like a
Speaker 1: good job like that I was leaving. I was like,
Speaker 1: I can't like leave my job for a ninety day trial.
Speaker 1: And so, you know, we went back and forth and
Speaker 1: it became, you know, a year. So I don't know
Speaker 1: what it was, but anyway, it's it's been. Yeah, now
Speaker 1: it's been ten years. But believe me, I've looked for
Speaker 1: jobs many many times in my life, like before that,
Speaker 1: and it is tough, like especially with these aggregators. What
Speaker 1: they do is they just look around the web, scrape
Speaker 1: up all the jobs that they find and put them
Speaker 1: in their search engine, and it's really tough to tell
Speaker 1: if it's new, if it's fresh, if it's good, if
Speaker 1: it's bad, if it's a recopy.
Speaker 2: Of an old job.
Speaker 1: So I would say the best way to do it
Speaker 1: the probably the overall best ways to go directly to
Speaker 1: the companies that you want to get jobs at and
Speaker 1: see the listings directly. Well, the number one best way
Speaker 1: to get any job is to.
Speaker 2: Talk to friends. That's yeah, number one.
Speaker 1: I mean they have the inside scoop, they know what's
Speaker 1: going on, they know who to talk to, they know
Speaker 1: the hiring manager. That's not always possible in every job circumstance.
Speaker 2: But with that said, I would.
Speaker 1: Look at places like Indeed, So Indeed is probably. I
Speaker 1: think it's the biggest job posting board out there, but
Speaker 1: again I think some of it is direct posts and
Speaker 1: other stuff they find online. So Indeed is good, But
Speaker 1: is it the best I don't know. The other one
Speaker 1: I like is I think LinkedIn is really really good
Speaker 1: for job searches these days. And I think the reason
Speaker 1: why you can do that is because you can, you know,
Speaker 1: search for things. A lot of companies are posting stuff
Speaker 1: you can see you're connected with, so you can get
Speaker 1: in there, you can research companies, so that's a really
Speaker 1: good look. That's a really good place as well. And
Speaker 1: then zip recruiter, I know is really popular because a
Speaker 1: lot of companies use zip recruiter to post their jobs,
Speaker 1: so they have kind of like direct jobs. The other
Speaker 1: little way to do it is if you search the
Speaker 1: kind of jobs you want, so work from home jobs.
Speaker 1: Let's see what happens in Google up at the top.
Speaker 1: They are now aggregating jobs and you'll see a box
Speaker 1: in blue.
Speaker 2: Do you see that?
Speaker 4: I can.
Speaker 3: Let's see, so.
Speaker 1: You'll see jobs there that they've aggregated and you can
Speaker 1: really narrow down. You see, it's like a little special
Speaker 1: blue box. You can't bring it up. You can't go
Speaker 1: to like jobs dot Google dot com to bring it up.
Speaker 1: You literally have to search whatever you want plus the
Speaker 1: word jobs, and that will bring up that blue box.
Speaker 1: Then once you're in that blue box, now you can
Speaker 1: start to look for stuff. And what was one of
Speaker 1: the jobs she asked about?
Speaker 2: What does she say?
Speaker 3: So she's looking for like remote preschool teaching positions. So
Speaker 3: I feel like even for that she should just like
Speaker 3: look online at like whatever the popular preschool online sites are,
Speaker 3: you know, like I'm sure, yeah, they must be like
Speaker 3: either already a thing or soon to be a thing,
Speaker 3: or maybe she should just reach in with all the
Speaker 3: pair and she knows through you know, the students she's
Speaker 3: taught and just be like I'm going to do this
Speaker 3: on the side, like tutoring or whatever. And I look
Speaker 3: at be done through zoom.
Speaker 1: I'm looking, Yeah, that's that's actually a really good idea.
Speaker 1: And I know a lot of a lot of families
Speaker 1: are actually banding together to hire teachers themselves because the
Speaker 1: education system here in Los Angeles is like very unknown
Speaker 1: for next year, and a lot of kids are, you know,
Speaker 1: including my It's just like.
Speaker 2: What's going to happen next year? We don't know.
Speaker 1: It's like it's so unknown that people are just trying
Speaker 1: to do their own thing, like tutors especially. But I
Speaker 1: did look up remote preschool teaching on the Google job site,
Speaker 1: and there are a bunch of jobs.
Speaker 2: Glassdoor. I would my thing the one that.
Speaker 1: I don't like and I hate to like call out names,
Speaker 1: but I feel like career builder, like I don't know,
Speaker 1: is that one really that good?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, I think they all serve like different purposes.
Speaker 3: Like glassdoor is kind of nice if you want to
Speaker 3: like look at reviews from employees, Yeah, to see like
Speaker 3: what employees say about the company.
Speaker 2: But don't forget reviews.
Speaker 1: Most people only go to review something to complain, so
Speaker 1: on glass store. No matter what, you just have to
Speaker 1: take this all with.
Speaker 2: A grain of salt.
Speaker 1: It's always going to trend towards negativity, just because if
Speaker 1: you're like I've worked at KTLA for ten years, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't sit there like it never occurred to me like
Speaker 1: put like a positive job review for KTLA anywhere, you know.
Speaker 3: Right, it's only when you've been like, you know, negatively affected,
Speaker 3: they kind of want to like write a bad review.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, here's why.
Speaker 1: Help producer Megan on what what my boss is a jerk?
Speaker 2: Wait? What is that? This can't be right? Is there
Speaker 2: another producer? Megan?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, where do you see that?
Speaker 2: Thousands of these? Wow, you've been yelp? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: oh god, oh god, you looked on yell. I assume
Speaker 2: that's for someone else, not me.
Speaker 3: Just don't go to Reddit.
Speaker 1: All right, let's uh, let's talk about speaking of Zoom.
Speaker 1: Microsoft has a new feature in their Teams. I feel
Speaker 1: really bad for Teams because I call it the Zoom
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't say want to be, but like
Speaker 1: it's their answer to Zoom. And I think Zoom is
Speaker 1: just like it's everyone wants to do zoom. Everyone knows zoom.
Speaker 2: It's easy, it's simple, it just works.
Speaker 1: And Teams, I feel like, is great and it's Microsoft
Speaker 1: and very smart people work there.
Speaker 2: But I feel like Teams is.
Speaker 1: Kind of the thing that people are forced to use,
Speaker 1: and so they're just kind of like, eh, it's teams.
Speaker 2: They're not excited about it.
Speaker 1: But with that said, Microsoft has been adding a lot
Speaker 1: of new features to teams because they definitely see the
Speaker 1: future in video chat.
Speaker 2: And one of their new features is called together Mode.
Speaker 1: And this basically cuts you out of your background and
Speaker 1: places you in a room with other people, like seats
Speaker 1: in a classroom, theater, or seats in a meeting room.
Speaker 2: You saw the video on it.
Speaker 3: I think it's so funny. I mean, it looks interesting,
Speaker 3: it's creative.
Speaker 2: It is creative.
Speaker 1: And my kids when they take their classes online on Zoom,
Speaker 1: I think it would be cute to see them all
Speaker 1: like in their seats in the classroom virtually.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of cool. So it's called together Mode
Speaker 2: it you know, that's it.
Speaker 1: It's just they say it makes meetings more engaging by
Speaker 1: helping you focus on other people's faces and body language.
Speaker 1: It's good for brainstorms, roundtable discussions. And it's auditorium view
Speaker 1: is rolling out now. It will be generally available in August,
Speaker 1: which means most people won't have access to this until August,
Speaker 1: and they say they're going to bring more views to
Speaker 1: together Mode in the future. It's just a cool little
Speaker 1: feature that I love to see. Like people were so
Speaker 1: hip on the virtual backgrounds with Zoom, this kind of
Speaker 1: takes that to a bigger.
Speaker 2: Much bigger level.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, This next question comes from Kim and looking
Speaker 3: for the best roque Who you suggest I need one
Speaker 3: for a four K and a non four K TV.
Speaker 3: My goal is to stream Disney plus Amazon and Netflix,
Speaker 3: easy install and remote working without Roku device having to
Speaker 3: be in site lines to work.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a that's a yeah, that's a big, a
Speaker 1: big thing, the whole site lines. So that means that
Speaker 1: you need, you know, you need a certain type of
Speaker 1: remote control for that, which means it's a RF remote
Speaker 1: versus an IR. RF means radio frequency, which means you
Speaker 1: can have the remote just in your hand pointed anywhere.
Speaker 1: IR means infrared, which means you have to have a
Speaker 1: direct line of sight to your TV.
Speaker 2: So the the.
Speaker 1: Roku that I would recommend it that does all these things.
Speaker 1: And of course I'm trying to find the cheapest one
Speaker 1: that does all these things, and I believe.
Speaker 2: Is the uh IS. It's got to be the Ultra
Speaker 2: because let's see here.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking right now at this uh what were
Speaker 1: her wants?
Speaker 3: She needs one for a four K and a non
Speaker 3: four K TV easy install.
Speaker 2: Oh, she wants to remote finder or.
Speaker 3: No remote working without Roku device having to be sidelined.
Speaker 1: OK, it's interesting that they don't mention that on their
Speaker 1: It's kind of weird they don't mention it. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the like little comparison of the Rokus on their website,
Speaker 1: and so there's there's one, two, three, four, five, six
Speaker 1: seven Rokus to choose from, and that is confusing.
Speaker 2: They have the Roku.
Speaker 1: Express, Roku Express plus, Roku Premiere, Roku Streaming Stick plus
Speaker 1: Roku Streaming Stick plus h E, Roku Ultra LT, and
Speaker 1: then the Roku Ultra, and so it is. This is
Speaker 1: very intimidating for people to figure this out. But I
Speaker 1: would say, if she wants the best one, I would
Speaker 1: go with the Roku Ultra for the four K TV
Speaker 1: and then for the non four K. I wonder if
Speaker 1: she needs the remote, because I don't think you get
Speaker 1: the best remote when it comes to the you know,
Speaker 1: like the lesser one, the Express Yeah, like the one
Speaker 1: of the express ones or the Streaming Stick Plus.
Speaker 2: But I can't really tell it on here.
Speaker 1: But I do know for a fact that the Roku
Speaker 1: Ultra will do four K and it will do the remote.
Speaker 1: But I wonder if they should They should really say
Speaker 1: if the remote requires line of sight, that should be
Speaker 1: like a spec on here that I would expect. It's
Speaker 1: kind of weird that it doesn't. Let's see remote doesn't
Speaker 1: say anything about the remote.
Speaker 2: It's so weird.
Speaker 1: Like to me, that's like a okay, tech specs. Let's
Speaker 1: see audio features, remote control, enhanced voice remote with TV power,
Speaker 1: volume and mute buttons, plus headphone jack for private listening. Now, okay,
Speaker 1: so that's on the Roku Streaming Stick Plus. Now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go to the other one, like the Ultra LT
Speaker 1: and see how they describe their remote, and then that'll
Speaker 1: give me an idea. If they describe it differently, then
Speaker 1: I know that it's a better remote.
Speaker 2: Right, So let's see what they say here remote control.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does not say I find that odd.
Speaker 3: That is odd, So.
Speaker 2: That should be a big thing.
Speaker 1: Maybe they all work RF Maybe they're all like that
Speaker 1: and that's just the way that they work. So I
Speaker 1: mean it could be, but I'd have to search a
Speaker 1: little bit more, but I think the Ultra is probably
Speaker 1: the one she wants. Uh wow, expected to ship July sixteenth.
Speaker 1: Everything Megan is back ordered.
Speaker 2: Isn't this crazy?
Speaker 3: No? I know, I know it's so like I try
Speaker 3: not to get frustrated by it, but I'm like, okay,
Speaker 3: I thought Amazon Prime, but like within I don't know.
Speaker 3: Two days, yeah, not a week, not a.
Speaker 2: Week or not.
Speaker 1: Like I'm looking for, I'm doing like the backyard projector thing.
Speaker 2: So I'm actually doing two things.
Speaker 1: So I want it for myself personally, but I'm also
Speaker 1: going to do a story. Since I'm shopping for one,
Speaker 1: I want to compare like the top three and so
Speaker 1: I can't explain.
Speaker 3: So that's what my mom wants too. That is a
Speaker 3: good story. I feel like everyone's getting one.
Speaker 1: They are, which is why they're all sold out. So
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find a projector screen outdoor, like an
Speaker 1: outdoor one, and it's impossible to get on Amazon, and
Speaker 1: so my friend is lending me one. I've got one
Speaker 1: of the devices coming today, so I'm gonna try to
Speaker 1: set that up over the weekend. And the other two
Speaker 1: I emailed them to see if I can get a
Speaker 1: review unit, but they haven't gotten back to me, so
Speaker 1: I'll probably just order them on Amazon. But I looked
Speaker 1: at like, you know, three different levels, like ones the
Speaker 1: super cheap one, ones like the mid range, and then
Speaker 1: one's like a bit pricier, and I'm curious, like what
Speaker 1: do you get for those prices?
Speaker 2: And so I think it'll be a great story on
Speaker 2: KTLA soon. So I love that anyway.
Speaker 1: So I think we I kind of think we answered
Speaker 1: the question with the remote control, but I would go
Speaker 1: with the just those are the main things you have
Speaker 1: to look out for, is what kind of remote control,
Speaker 1: But go with the cheapest that you can find. Go
Speaker 1: to their website Roku dot com, slash Products, slash compare
Speaker 1: and just see, like which one is cheapest, that offers
Speaker 1: what you need, and I just wish they would write
Speaker 1: what the remote deal was, which would it makes sense
Speaker 1: for them to do it, but they just don't. So Okay,
Speaker 1: is it my turn? I think I have a review.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk about the Amazon Fire HD eight tablets.
Speaker 1: These are tablets that I have not recommended in the
Speaker 1: past because I just thought they were so cheap and
Speaker 1: just so useless that I just didn't really see.
Speaker 2: A place for them.
Speaker 1: But now I do, and they updated their tablets. This
Speaker 1: is the Fire HD eight from Amazon. They started ninety dollars.
Speaker 1: Here's what they've upgraded. They gave a little bit of
Speaker 1: extra RAM which makes it a little bit faster. They
Speaker 1: have an eight inch touchscreen. They have expandable memory up
Speaker 1: to a terabyte, so you can pop a memory card
Speaker 1: in there. And a terabyte that's a lot basis thirty two,
Speaker 1: which they've doubled. It used to be sixteen gigabytes. And
Speaker 1: then you can now get wireless, So I would recommend
Speaker 1: doing that because not only do you get wireless for
Speaker 1: twenty dollars extra the Plus model, but you also get
Speaker 1: a faster wired charger in the box, and if you
Speaker 1: have kids. You know that they're burning through the battery
Speaker 1: on these things playing games, and so you want to
Speaker 1: be able to charge it faster.
Speaker 2: If you're using an old.
Speaker 1: Charger that you have laying around the house, you're doing
Speaker 1: yourself a disservice because it's going to charge these things
Speaker 1: really slow. They do also have a new USB C connector,
Speaker 1: which is kind of the new modern connector that a
Speaker 1: lot of things have, and so that's really nice. For
Speaker 1: many years these had micro USB and it was just garbage.
Speaker 1: The hardware on these tablets. Okay, they're not the best,
Speaker 1: but it's it's fine for playing games. It's fine for
Speaker 1: playing games, it's fine for watching movies, it's fine for
Speaker 1: reading books. I call this a consumption device. You're not
Speaker 1: going to be doing your work email on here. In fact,
Speaker 1: even web surfing is just okay. The screen is not
Speaker 1: the clearest. This is not an iPad. There's no Google
Speaker 1: play stores. You have to get all your stuff from
Speaker 1: the Kindle app Store or the Amazon App Store. So
Speaker 1: you can't get Google Maps, you can't get Gmail, you
Speaker 1: can't get YouTube. When I say that, I mean you
Speaker 1: can't get the apps. You can always access these things
Speaker 1: via the website, which is just fine. And there are
Speaker 1: popular apps inside Amazon's app store, including Disney Plus, Facebook, Netflix, Roadblocks, Minecraft,
Speaker 1: Instagram somehow, and I did check Zoom. So I got
Speaker 1: a question from a couple of viewers yesterday saying, wait,
Speaker 1: can I use this as a Zoom device? And sure
Speaker 1: enough I tested it out with Zoom.
Speaker 2: It works great.
Speaker 1: So if you want a ninety dollars device that you
Speaker 1: have on your desk just to zoom with perfect I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a pretty cheap way to zoom that doesn't require
Speaker 1: a laptop or inexpensive.
Speaker 3: Actually really smart.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so that's kind of my thing. This is
Speaker 1: I think the bottom line with this device is just
Speaker 1: know what you're getting. You're paying ninety to one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty dollars one hundred and ten dollars. Now, if
Speaker 1: you want the kids version, there is a kid's version
Speaker 1: which is one hundred and forty dollars. It comes with
Speaker 1: a kind of a tough foam rubbery case with also
Speaker 1: a built in stand, and if your kid breaks this
Speaker 1: thing in the first two years, Amazon will send you
Speaker 1: a new one, no questions asked. I would probably recommend
Speaker 1: going that route if you have a kid. My kids
Speaker 1: have been using them around the house without the case
Speaker 1: at all, and they have dropped them once. But you
Speaker 1: don't you really don't want to do that because you're
Speaker 1: gonna You're gonna ruin this thing if you drop it.
Speaker 2: And my kids, by the way, Megan, love these devices.
Speaker 1: Do they Yeah, so they're a little bit faster than
Speaker 1: their old iPad minis, but they like them mainly because
Speaker 1: they did it. They just play Minecraft in Roadblocks and
Speaker 1: they say that they're a little bit faster than their
Speaker 1: iPads and wow.
Speaker 2: But the there's a.
Speaker 1: Very big lack of educational apps on there, I think,
Speaker 1: And so I personally, I am still going to be
Speaker 1: getting them new iPads. But I love the idea of
Speaker 1: just spending ninety bucks. And I think that's what attracts
Speaker 1: a lot of parents to these things, is that they're
Speaker 1: so cheap. It's almost like I can just go out
Speaker 1: and buy it today because it's you know, it's not
Speaker 1: a big investment, but you have to remember, you know,
Speaker 1: it's still ninety dollars. And for the iPad, the iPads
Speaker 1: are right now about two seventy nine on sale iPad deal.
Speaker 1: They've been on sale because the new ones are probably
Speaker 1: coming out. Yeah, two seventy nine. So that's you know,
Speaker 1: you're paying what less than two hundred dollars more for
Speaker 1: a much better device.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. Cool, your turn.
Speaker 3: Okay, This next question comes from Richard, who lives in Hemmett.
Speaker 3: I was talking to my brother who likes to rent
Speaker 3: vacation homes, and I asked him if he ever sweeps
Speaker 3: the houses for cameras and microphones. He said, there aren't
Speaker 3: any apps for that. My question is, are there any
Speaker 3: apps that can do that or any affordable devices that
Speaker 3: can see hidden cameras and or microphones?
Speaker 1: So this rang a bell with me on a segment
Speaker 1: we did a while back. We did not testicle, but
Speaker 1: you remember.
Speaker 2: This right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I had to look it up.
Speaker 1: But it's called the SCOUT Hidden Camera Detector and it's
Speaker 1: a fifty dollars device that you look through and it
Speaker 1: I forget how this thing works, but I think there's
Speaker 1: like IR there's an IR light around the lens and
Speaker 1: when you look through it, that IR light will reflect
Speaker 1: on the lens of these hidden cameras.
Speaker 2: Is that kind of ring a bell?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And that's it. You just kind of look around.
Speaker 1: There's no it's not like a very high tech device,
Speaker 1: but it's just simple and it works and you just
Speaker 1: kind of look through it, kind of aim it around
Speaker 1: the room, and any little lenses will reflect light back
Speaker 1: to you, I think because they have like an ir.
Speaker 2: Like a little like ir thing on.
Speaker 1: The lens, like it it requires that to like see
Speaker 1: I don't know, but light. Oh, light bounces off camera
Speaker 1: lenses and most cameras also have an infrared filter which
Speaker 1: bounces even more light back. So that's how it works.
Speaker 1: And it takes two double A batteries. It's sold on
Speaker 1: a website called spy Guy, and I've actually followed the
Speaker 1: guy who created this thing. I think his name is
Speaker 1: Aaron on Twitter, and he's a fun guy because he
Speaker 1: talks about his business a lot, like how he you know,
Speaker 1: sells these things and stuff. So that's a spy guy
Speaker 1: dot com or just search scout hidden camera Detector. I
Speaker 1: don't stay in a lot of airbnbs, but if I did.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: Look like we've talked about this before, but I do
Speaker 1: like a cursory glance around the room if I'm in
Speaker 1: a hotel or something, especially the greats in the bathroom.
Speaker 1: I always kind of check out, like just to see
Speaker 1: because I'm always I don't think it's a very prevalent thing,
Speaker 1: but it does happen.
Speaker 3: And no, I mean I don't really think about it
Speaker 3: that much, but then like after you know, thinking about it,
Speaker 3: you're like, wait, that totally can be a thing, especially
Speaker 3: in airbnbs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like right.
Speaker 1: Where there where it's owned by a person and not
Speaker 1: a company. Like like let's say you're at a chain hotel.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of different people coming in and out
Speaker 1: of that hotel, like let's say cleaning people, So what
Speaker 1: like not every single cleaning person is gonna like hide
Speaker 1: the fact that there's a hidden camera in five of
Speaker 1: the rooms at this hotel. You know, these people are
Speaker 1: gonna while they're cleaning notice.
Speaker 2: It and be like what's that.
Speaker 1: Whereas an Airbnb, it's much easier to do because it's yours.
Speaker 1: You're the one that's kind of hiring the crews. You're
Speaker 1: the one, you know, let's say between visitors you hide
Speaker 1: this thing and then put it back out. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's a real possibility. I don't think it's a
Speaker 1: very big thing happening, but again, if you're trying to
Speaker 1: protect yourself, then why not be armed with the device
Speaker 1: that you need.
Speaker 2: That's the way I see it. All right, weird question,
Speaker 2: but a good one.
Speaker 3: Kind of weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, so let's see a couple of things
Speaker 2: to get through. I got, Wow, I got a lot
Speaker 2: more stuff. Let's see.
Speaker 1: I did a review of two meal planning apps. One
Speaker 1: is called e Meals, the others called meal Lime so emaals.
Speaker 1: These are these are apps that you know, you've got
Speaker 1: those subscription boxes like my wife and I get hell
Speaker 1: Afresh and each week it comes to the house filled
Speaker 1: with stuff that you just cook. Now, that's one way
Speaker 1: of doing it. The other way is kind of like
Speaker 1: through these apps. And these apps are kind of like mealboxes,
Speaker 1: but that you make yourself.
Speaker 2: So let me explain.
Speaker 1: Like with emals, you sign up and then they have
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of recipes, You pick your recipes. It
Speaker 1: makes a shopping list for you, and then you can
Speaker 1: print out that shopping list or just bring your phone
Speaker 1: to the store, buy those groceries and make the recipes.
Speaker 1: Or what I think is kind of brilliant about these
Speaker 1: apps and how they've evolved over the years is that
Speaker 1: you can transfer your list of stuff to buy too
Speaker 1: an online grocer so like an Amazon Fresh, you can
Speaker 1: just in one click, your whole shopping list goes there
Speaker 1: and boom, now you have all the ingredients you need
Speaker 1: for these dishes. And so e Meals said that the
Speaker 1: average user saves about two thousand dollars in annual grocery spending.
Speaker 1: It's thirty dollars for three months, sixty dollars for twelve months.
Speaker 1: I tried emails twice in the past. My wife doesn't
Speaker 1: like them as much. I think they're fine. It's they're
Speaker 1: just okay for me. So my only consideration if you
Speaker 1: try them with a free trial, which you get a
Speaker 1: two week free trial, sign up up through iTunes or
Speaker 1: Google Play and not their website. If you sign up
Speaker 1: through their website, you have to call in to cancel.
Speaker 1: And I did this myself and now I've I'm in
Speaker 1: my fourteen days and I got to call to cancel, Megan,
Speaker 1: because I know, yeah, which is kind of a pain.
Speaker 2: I'm not a big fan.
Speaker 1: Like that to me is like that's not a modern experience,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Well, it's yeah, exactly, And like it's almost like they
Speaker 3: want to be able to persuade you to not cancel. Oh,
Speaker 3: of course, And that's just they're comfortable, just like, let
Speaker 3: me cancel.
Speaker 1: Right, and so you should you know, I get I
Speaker 1: get why they want me to call in, so they
Speaker 1: get that one last pitch. But as a modern as
Speaker 1: a modern person who wants to do things in a
Speaker 1: modern way, I don't want to do that now. Meal
Speaker 1: lime is very simple, is very similar you, It's very customized,
Speaker 1: and I think you'd like this, Megan for your low carb, vegan,
Speaker 1: keto diet.
Speaker 2: So you can choose, you.
Speaker 1: Can choose from any of these various you know, eating styles,
Speaker 1: and then you can also put in your allergies and
Speaker 1: your dietary restrictions. So for me personally, I don't like
Speaker 1: goat cheese and anything. So I can literally put goat
Speaker 1: cheese and I'll never see a recipe with goat cheese
Speaker 1: in it.
Speaker 2: Isn't that kind of brilliant?
Speaker 3: Yeah? That is brilliant.
Speaker 2: So for you, what would that food be that I
Speaker 2: don't want in? Yeah? Like, do you have a food
Speaker 2: that you hate?
Speaker 3: What do I hate? Not? Really?
Speaker 2: Wows?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Like mine is like I like goat cheese.
Speaker 3: I love goat cheese.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like Cilantro.
Speaker 2: Cilantro is one of those polarizing things as well.
Speaker 3: It is, yeah, yeah it is.
Speaker 1: I actually like most things, but I'm a very again,
Speaker 1: I'm very simple eater. Like I even would just put
Speaker 1: pork on there, like I'm not gonna like make pork
Speaker 1: our fish.
Speaker 3: I don't really eat fish.
Speaker 2: You don't eat fish, you don't eat salmon.
Speaker 3: No never, I know. I just like wasn't raised eating salmon,
Speaker 3: so I and like I'll have it with sushi, but
Speaker 3: I don't love it.
Speaker 2: No, well, I.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't like it sushi either, Yeah, I just I've had
Speaker 1: raw salmon, like sushi not my thing, Like I've eaten
Speaker 1: all I want cooked. Yeah, like I like the only
Speaker 1: sushi is like literally the californiae role.
Speaker 3: I'm so boring fried like California year roll.
Speaker 1: The fried, well not necessarily fried, Like what do you
Speaker 1: mean fry well, there's a yeah, there's like this stuff
Speaker 1: they put on top of it that's like they don't
Speaker 1: actually fry it, but they it's like this fried.
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's just it's what I order sushi.
Speaker 2: I like, I found this one.
Speaker 1: This is gonna sound really funny, but I found this
Speaker 1: one sushi that's my ash absolute favorite.
Speaker 2: But it comes from the Walgreens pharmacy. Okay, have you
Speaker 2: did you know that they sell sushi there?
Speaker 3: No, wait, no.
Speaker 1: On Hollywood Boulevard. Yeah, Hollywood and Sunset are sorry, Sunset
Speaker 1: and Vine. There's a sushi kitchen in the Walgreens right
Speaker 1: by our work, and there's this one sushi that's like
Speaker 1: it's like a California roll, but it has some sort
Speaker 1: of like sauce on it, like.
Speaker 3: A creamy it's sweet sauce.
Speaker 2: It's like almost like creamy. No, I know, the sweet sauce,
Speaker 2: like the eel sauce.
Speaker 1: I really like that, but yeah no, this is like
Speaker 1: almost like a creamy white sauce that's like a little
Speaker 1: bit spicy. And I don't even know what it's called.
Speaker 1: But every time I see it there, I love it.
Speaker 1: But I can never find it at a restaurant, like
Speaker 1: and you know, I tell my wife and she's like,
Speaker 1: nobody really makes that except them.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what, so now I want to try that.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: It's really good, but it feels so funny that it
Speaker 1: comes from a drugstore.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, that's like pretty random.
Speaker 1: Yeah it is, but it's good only in La Walgreen Sushi.
Speaker 2: You gotta try it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Meal Lime, So you start your preferences and
Speaker 1: then now you do the same thing, you pick your
Speaker 1: meals and then it makes you your shopping list, which
Speaker 1: you can of course do yourself or again transfer to Walmart,
Speaker 1: Amazon Fresh, whatever you want.
Speaker 2: Meal Lime. I like their business model. It's totally free.
Speaker 1: Of course, when I used it for free, all the
Speaker 1: best meals like that I wanted of cook were like
Speaker 1: the pro. So you have to go pro for six
Speaker 1: dollars a month if you want to access all the
Speaker 1: recipes and see nutritional information. So if you're trying to
Speaker 1: watch like a certain thing, like you know, sugar intake
Speaker 1: or cholesterol or saturated fat, you want to pay that
Speaker 1: six dollars a month. But the cool thing is that
Speaker 1: you can use it for free if you want or
Speaker 1: and by the way, they don't you can cancel and
Speaker 1: subscribe right through the app like you can on e Meals.
Speaker 1: But as far as I know, that's the only way.
Speaker 1: Like they're not trying to call you. You're not trying. They're
Speaker 1: not trying to make you.
Speaker 2: Call them, So I got it all right. Okay, one
Speaker 2: quick question, do we have a quick one.
Speaker 3: Yes, we have a quick one. This is from Talisha.
Speaker 3: We are searching in Vain to find reliable apps to
Speaker 3: record notes and zoom lectures for Android, cell and iPad air.
Speaker 3: Please advise. Thanks.
Speaker 2: Oh this is a good question. Okay.
Speaker 1: Two things otter O t T E R dot Ai.
Speaker 1: Otter ai is really good and I've used this before.
Speaker 1: It basically records the conversation or whatever it is, you know,
Speaker 1: the the whatever you know, like the you know what I'm.
Speaker 2: Saying, yeah, the presentation.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it records it and it transcribes it, and you
Speaker 1: get a certain amount for free every month. I it's amazing.
Speaker 1: It's it's really really good. Plus it's a platform, so
Speaker 1: it's not just a one off kind of thing. It
Speaker 1: actually keeps all your notes. You can search for them.
Speaker 1: It's really really fantastic. The other one is.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, what's it called?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, I can't remember.
Speaker 2: Oh no, this is from the guy who created oh
Speaker 2: my gosh. Oh descript that's what it is.
Speaker 1: D scripta okay, descript if you want to do transcripts
Speaker 1: of Zoom. I'm not sure if otter handles that, but
Speaker 1: I know that Descript can do it, because they sent
Speaker 1: me an email that said something about that. But Descript
Speaker 1: is really cool, but I do believe you have to
Speaker 1: pay for They have a free plan which just gives
Speaker 1: you a one time.
Speaker 2: Trial of three hours.
Speaker 1: So if you really want to do this, you got
Speaker 1: to pay ten dollars a month, which is kind of
Speaker 1: a lot for a student. But it may be worth it,
Speaker 1: you know. I don't know what they're doing, but it's
Speaker 1: it might be worth it.
Speaker 2: But those are the two.
Speaker 1: The one that's totally free that's also really good, but
Speaker 1: it only works on certain phones is Google's recorder app.
Speaker 1: And this only works with certain devices I think primarily
Speaker 1: just Pixel devices. But if you want to search Google
Speaker 1: Recorder in Google Play, see if it works if you
Speaker 1: have an Android. It's only Android, by the way, but
Speaker 1: I think it only works with the Android devices, or sorry,
Speaker 1: with the Pixel devices. I could be wrong about that,
Speaker 1: but that Megan. That one's fantastic because it really does
Speaker 1: a great job.
Speaker 2: It's Google. I mean, they're they're pretty smart.
Speaker 3: They know what they're doing, all right.
Speaker 1: Two little things to do before I go, Before we go,
Speaker 1: and one is that at and T is now giving
Speaker 1: a discount to teachers, nurses, and doctors, so twenty five
Speaker 1: percent savings on their unlimited plans so unlimited, Starter, Extra,
Speaker 1: and Elite. I did the math. It's actually a pretty
Speaker 1: good deal. So if you're a teacher, a nurse, or
Speaker 1: a doctor, definitely look into this. It's for new and
Speaker 1: existing customers twenty five percent off, which is definitely adds up,
Speaker 1: and it's it's not bad. It starts on July tenth,
Speaker 1: and it's AT and T dot com slash appreciation, ATT
Speaker 1: dot com slash appreciation. And of course, people are debating
Speaker 1: the merits of this on my Facebook page, saying that
Speaker 1: you know, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: But whatever, just check it out.
Speaker 3: Whatever they think, it's you.
Speaker 1: Know, they just everyone always has an opinion on things,
Speaker 1: which is fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, check it out, see if it works.
Speaker 1: I mean, my wife and I are considering switching to
Speaker 1: AT and T because it would be a good deal
Speaker 1: for us. It would save us I think, like sixty
Speaker 1: a month.
Speaker 2: So but it's you know, it's.
Speaker 1: A pain to switch providers kind of. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: really not, but it's just it's more like psychological pain.
Speaker 2: You know, you gotta switch things out.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 1: Okay, now, this thing. I think you'll like, Megan, and
Speaker 1: this is kind of.
Speaker 2: This is really cool.
Speaker 1: Actually, this is a thing called two stories dot app
Speaker 1: t O S t O R I E S dot app,
Speaker 1: And if you do anything on Instagram, this is kind
Speaker 1: of your secret new secret weapon. So on Instagram, it's
Speaker 1: always really tricky to share things to the stories because
Speaker 1: you have to go into Instagram.
Speaker 2: To do it.
Speaker 1: Like if you have a picture, you gotta like go
Speaker 1: into Instagram and then do it, and like you know,
Speaker 1: it's just a pain. And if you have video, that's
Speaker 1: even more of a pain because if you have a
Speaker 1: video that's like let's say it's thirty five seconds and
Speaker 1: you only need fifteen seconds. But the way that Instagram
Speaker 1: does it, they split it up. You know, it's like
Speaker 1: fifteen you know, it's.
Speaker 3: Like spin out you're talking about. Yeah, so annoying.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: So this app lets you just share photos and videos
Speaker 1: from any app on your phone. So if you are
Speaker 1: working on a video in some random editing app, you
Speaker 1: can just say share two. It just comes up as
Speaker 1: one of the share options in your share menu, and
Speaker 1: it lets you edit the video so you can like
Speaker 1: check like a pick fifteen seconds and it's a super
Speaker 1: easy slider to do that. You can also affect the
Speaker 1: video so you can change it to like fill the
Speaker 1: whole screen or if you can want it to fit
Speaker 1: the screen, whatever you want. The point is this is
Speaker 1: a feature that should be built into the Instagram app.
Speaker 1: And I imagine that they might even buy this in
Speaker 1: the future so that they can just build this in
Speaker 1: because this should be a feature of the Instagram app.
Speaker 2: It's not. And anyway, it's really cool.
Speaker 1: Two stories dot app t O S t O r
Speaker 1: i ep dot app and it's just a cool, like
Speaker 1: little tool that you have on your iPhone that's like
Speaker 1: very very handy. The other one is called Opener. By
Speaker 1: the way, I use this all the time. It's a
Speaker 1: if you've ever opened like a link in Twitter on
Speaker 1: your iPhone and it like opens in like its own
Speaker 1: little browser, like let's say a YouTube video, it's like YouTube,
Speaker 1: it's not opening in the YouTube app, It's opening like
Speaker 1: in its own little window in Twitter, which is really
Speaker 1: annoying to me.
Speaker 2: So if you use this.
Speaker 1: App called Opener, you just go to your share screen
Speaker 1: and then click Opener and it will say, oh, do
Speaker 1: you want us to open this in YouTube? And you
Speaker 1: go yes, please, thank you so opener. I think it's
Speaker 1: ninety nine cents for that little app. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: that's gonna bring us to the end of the show.
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Speaker 2: I can't every time. It surprises me every time.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I can. It's from tech ee one two four.
Speaker 3: Great content and very useful technical information. Looking forward to
Speaker 3: it every week. Keep up the good work.
Speaker 2: Five stars baby.
Speaker 3: Oh love that.
Speaker 2: Producer, Megan.
Speaker 1: Where can folks find you on social media?
Speaker 3: I'm at producer Megan on Twitter and you can find.
Speaker 2: Me at rich on tech.
Speaker 1: My name is Richard marrea On behalf of everyone that
Speaker 1: gets this show to your ears. Thanks so much for listening.
Speaker 1: Stay safe, We'll talk to you real soon.