WEBVTT - 025 Rich on Tech Radio Show - June 24, 2023 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.880 The government comes down hard on Amazon once again, this 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:09.719 time for making prime memberships hard to cancel. Rivian adopts 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:16.480 Tesla's charging network. Is Google's tablet any good? Plus your 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:20.560 tech questions answered? Well, what's going on? I'm Rich dmiro 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:23.000 and this is rich on Tech, the show where I 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:25.760 talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about, 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:31.320 and it's the place where I answer your questions about technology. 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.639 I believe the tech should be easy, tech should be helpful, 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.239 and that tech can be while worthy. Phone lines are 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.520 now open at triple eight rich one oh one. That's 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.760 eight eight eight seven four to two, four to one 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.600 zero one. Give me a call if you have a 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:52.839 question about technology. Email is also open. Leader can send 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:57.720 it to hello at Richontech dot TV. Welcome to show 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.520 number twenty five. We got the whole team in place. 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:02.960 We got Kim on phones, we got Bobo on the board, 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:06.040 and we've got Ai breathing down our backs, just watching 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.120 what we do so we can take over everything. So 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.360 this week I was in Nashville. For much of the week. 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:16.800 I was at a conference put on by Dave Ramsey 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:18.720 if you know who that is. So a lot of 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:22.000 fun learning from the best and every time I go 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:23.840 to a city now, I look up and see if 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.360 our show is on there, and yes it is. So 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.160 I want to give a shout out w LAC Talk 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:35.240 Radio ninety eight three fifteen ten, So thanks for listening there, Nashville. 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.440 I didn't really make it into Nashville because this was 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:41.399 like a full on, three days, nine to five kind 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:44.320 of conference, nine to six, nine to seven, and it 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.360 was a lot So we learned all about how, you know, 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:51.160 Dave built his show and how they do things over there, 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.120 a lot of research, a lot of a lot of people. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.080 I think they have like eleven hundred people working all 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.600 from a single radio show. I mean, he's grown it 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.440 into my more than that, but it's it's quite incredible 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.040 what he's built there. But the thing that really got 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.960 me number one, I learned a couple things about myself. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:14.359 Small talk is really really taxing. There was about eighty 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.880 of us invited to this event and it was invitation only, 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:19.560 which was really cool. So it's a bunch of people 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.600 kind of making a difference in the world, doing different 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:25.040 things in social media and radio and TV and all 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.640 this stuff, and you know, you had to get to 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:29.880 know everyone, and it was just kind of like a 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:33.440 lot of time to you know, talk to people, engage 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:37.720 with them, exchange stories, whatever, and two things. Number one 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.680 small talk, So you have to talk to these people. 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:42.560 You got to figure out what they're doing. And I 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:44.680 had to do a lot of that, and I realized 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:46.480 that is a lot of that takes a lot of 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.359 energy for me. So we're gonna have a guest later 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:51.800 on give me some tips on how to be better 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.000 at that and if I'm the only one that it 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.240 takes a lot of energy out of the Other thing 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:58.680 I had to do was a group speaking exercise. This 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:00.880 was just a five minute I had to tell a 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:04.320 story in front of a small group of people, including 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.359 some executives, which made it very nerve wracking. But I'm 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.520 not kidding. I can talk on the radio all day, 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.000 I could talk on TV all day. My heart rate 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.000 was double what it typically is. I'm looking at my 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.600 Apple Watch and I'm just like, what is happening here? 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:22.040 I have never been so nervous. I had cotton mouth. 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.799 I literally could not speak. It was that bad. I'm like, 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:28.160 where's the water here? But I got through it. It 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:31.040 was fun and it made me realize that speaking in 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.400 front of a large or even a small group is 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.600 very different than speaking into a microphone. So now that's 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.280 something I will work on for sure, because I want 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.280 to give I want to start giving some of these 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.560 groups speaking kind of presentations. I've got a lot to say. 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.280 Let me see some of my observations from traveling. I 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.600 always have a lot of thoughts when it comes to traveling. 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:54.360 So first off, scheduling an uber seems to be more 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.920 expensive than just grabbing an uber. I mean, it's nice 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:58.480 that you can schedule an uber so that it comes 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.080 at the right, exact time you want, but it seems 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.040 to be more expensive for that privilege. So just know 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.400 that the other way that I actually figure out when 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:06.760 to leave for the airport. I'm gonna give you my 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.800 little secret here. I look at my boarding pass, I 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.720 see what time I board, and then I backtrack. Now 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.000 I only need about an hour from the time I 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:18.120 get there to the boarding time. You may need more, 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.080 you know, if you're traveling with your kids or you 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:22.960 want more time, sure, just take that extra time. But 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.320 what I do is I use ways. They've got this 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.440 great feature called go later, So if you type in 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.800 where you're going, you can actually say I want to 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.840 arrive at let's say eight am, and it will tell 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.680 you what time you need to leave from your location 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.039 to get there by eight am. It's a very very 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.640 handy feature. I use it on a daily basis. Again, 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:43.600 it's go later, so you type in the address and 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:46.120 then you hit go later, and it should help you 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:50.920 figure out when to go. TSA at Lax had this 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.240 interesting facial recognition system that I guess I've heard of 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.240 but I haven't seen in person. But you slide it's 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.520 all self service. Basically, you slide your ID into this 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.960 reader and then you stand in front of an iPad 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.520 and it takes your picture and it compares the picture 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:08.599 that it just took of you to the picture on 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.920 your ID. And by the way, this took forever. It's 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.760 much faster to have the person just look at you 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.680 and say, okay, you are who you say you are, 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:21.039 and have you come through. But it made me realize 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:23.640 that we are in for a future I believe of 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:28.559 fully automated TSA lines. I do think that's coming where 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.279 kind of like a self checkout system, you have one 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.600 person that's kind of monitoring a lot of different checkouts. 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.200 I think that's what's going to happen with the TSA lines. Hey, 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.159 we got someone that doesn't look like they match their ID, 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:41.960 Come on over to the person and they'll manually check. 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.400 So I'm just saying that right now, let's see. Oh, 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.160 when you're on your flight, this is important. Always connect 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.320 to the in flight Wi Fi, even if you're not 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.480 going to pay for it. You may get free messaging. 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:55.840 A lot of these airlines give you free messaging. If 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:57.520 you're a T Mobile customer, a lot of times you 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:00.920 get free WiFi. But you'll notice you'll also get your notifications. 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.240 For some reason, those seemed to come through on the 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.360 iPhone no matter what, and even on androids. Sometimes, even 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.320 if you're not paying for Wi Fi, you may not 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.440 be able to act on those notifications if you're not 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.159 actually paying, but it's helpful, like you can see what's 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.400 going on with those notifications. Now, I will tell you 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.359 one thing that was a little bit concerning. When I 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.880 landed in Nashville, Okay, I took a ride share to 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.320 the hotel and it was fine. The guy was very 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.919 nice and we get to the area where I'm staying 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.200 and I said, Wow, I'm impressed with this little area 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.599 it's really cute, Like, what's the deal with this area? 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:36.960 And I kid you not. He goes, Oh, I don't know. 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:40.919 I'm just driving for my brother. He's actually in the hospital. 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:47.240 I was like, wait, what hold on? So apparently the 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.080 person who was driving me was not the person in 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:54.599 the app. Now I had never thought of this possibility before, 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.760 but that is a major major issue if that's true, 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.039 If that's what was happening. He said, Oh, no, I 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:01.640 in a different city. I'm just down here for the 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:04.400 weekend while my brother is, you know, doing this thing 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.400 in the hospital, and I'm just helping them out. So 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:08.360 and I was playing it cool because I was like, 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.400 at this point, just get me to the hotel and 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:13.080 let me out of this car. But that's like how 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.440 a murder starts happening, you know, like one of these 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.560 like Netflix murder shows. It's like, oh, yeah, I'm just 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.000 helping them out, and it just makes eye contact with 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.880 you in the rear view mirror and I'm like, oh gosh, 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.520 and then the door's lock. That did not happen, thankfully, 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.080 but it was very concerning. And now I'm wondering do 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.960 these services have a system in place where they verify 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:35.960 the driver is who they say they are. Like, when 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:40.640 you step into your ride share shift, do you have 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.680 to scan your face against the ID and they say, Okay, 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:45.880 you're who you say you are on your ID. It's 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.040 almost like back to that TSA thing. So it was 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.559 all fine. The person was very nice, and I didn't 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.600 want to report this to the ride share company, but 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:58.480 I'm just kind of telling you, maybe check the photo 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:00.920 of the person and kind of look at the person 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:02.760 when you get in the car and just make sure 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.920 those two things look similar. Now in this case, they did, 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:07.520 so I didn't really think. I mean, they're brothers, so 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:11.080 they look similar. But that's kind of concerning that that's 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:15.440 even a thing that could happen. Ah, So that's that 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.240 just might kind of be aware of that. The other 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:19.880 thing that I thought was pretty cool on my flight 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:25.440 back is we were taking off and the pilot gets 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.760 on almost like in an urgent manner, and he's like, hey, 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:29.960 you might want to look outside your right window right now, 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.679 because I was like, what's happening right now? They were 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.760 launching Starlink satellites, and so there's a whole bunch of 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.440 Starlink satellites. There's like twelve in a row. It looked 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.240 like launching up into the air, and I kid you not, 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.719 it looked like Santa and his sleigh. It was all 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:51.600 these twinkly starlight satellites going up into the space. And 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.400 if you're not familiar with starlink, that is Elon Musk's 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:59.400 wireless Internet beam from outer space. And they need like hundreds, 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.680 if not thou of these satellites just orbiting the Earth 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.320 so that you can have Internet on any location you 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.920 can think of, beamed wirelessly. And it's pretty fast compared 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.720 to previous wireless internet from the space. But I thought 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.040 that was pretty neat. And then one more thing I 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.920 want to comment on Southwest. They are running a dark pattern. Now, 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.920 I love I love me some Southwest. Don't get me wrong. 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.000 They will get you from point A to point B. 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.000 It's like a bus. You get on, you find your C. 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.319 You know, it's it's no frills, it's nice. The flight 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.920 attendants are always so nice. But they do run a 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:34.440 little bit of a dark pattern. And I'll tell you 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:36.920 what that is. When you get your little check in 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:40.280 situation where it's a B or C. The way they 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.600 check you in is not like a typical airline that 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.000 assigns you a seat in advance, they give you a 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.000 number and when you get that number, it's either A 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.720 B or C a letter and a number, and then 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.520 it's like A through one through sixty, B one through sixty, 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.080 C one through sixty. And the lower you are on 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:58.120 the totem pole, the less chance you have of getting 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.760 a good seat on that plane. One gets, you know, 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.640 whatever pick they want, A two, the next best seat 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.480 a three, and so on. Well, when you check in, 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:09.120 like I checked in immediately and I still got like 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.920 B twenty five, and so now I'm nervous. I'm like, oh, 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.040 am I gonna have some overhead space? Am I gonna 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:15.880 get a middle seat? Am I gonna have a horrible 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.560 seat in the back? And they say, oh, well, you 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:23.319 can upgrade to a better number for sixty bucks, sixty 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:27.160 dollars to sit in a better seat. Absolutely not my wife. 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:29.040 The last time we flew Southwest, she's like, can we 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.200 please upgrade so we can sit together? I said, oh no, 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.600 I'm not playing this game. No, no, no, we will 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:36.600 sit apart for two hours if we have to. Yes, 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.920 that's how cheap I am. Sometimes. And so I got 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.600 on board B twenty five. There were so many people 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.400 getting on board this little plane, and sure enough, what 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.760 did I get? I got an exit row seat with 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.360 a ton of extra leg room. Nobody was next to me, 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.360 there was a ton of overhead space, and if I 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.960 would have paid that sixty dollars, I would have felt really, 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:58.760 really dumb. So my point is, Southwest, I love you, 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.200 but you're running a bit of a dark pattern because 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.480 you don't know how many people are actually boarding that plane, 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:06.760 how much luggage they have, and what seats they're going 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.520 to choose. Every single time this has happened to me, 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.200 I've really had a pretty good experience with finding a 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.520 decent seat. You may have to sit in the middle 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:16.439 once in a while, but most of the time you're 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:18.800 gonna find something unless you're in that sea. But if 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:20.360 you're in that sea, you didn't even try to check 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.280 in on time, so you kind of deserve that, all right. 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.000 Coming up on today's show, I'm going to talk about 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.720 why Tesla's charging network is quickly becoming the new standard. 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.559 We've got some great guests this week, see net. Scott 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.280 Stein is going to join us to talk about his 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.960 review of the Google Pixel tablet, best selling author Deborah 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:38.760 Fine is going to join me to talk about how 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:42.280 technology is impacting the art of small talk. And then 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.360 Julie Ramhold, consumer analysts with deal News, is going to 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.920 talk about Amazon Prime Day. We now have a date 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.640 for that next big event. It's also your turn. Your 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.760 calls coming up next at Triple eight Rich one oh one. 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.880 Give me a call if you have a question about technology. 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:01.960 The phone number is eight eight eight four to one 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:05.280 zero one. My name is Rich d'muro and you are 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.240 doing something smart. You are listening to rich on Tech. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.400 Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name is Rich 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:17.280 DeMuro talking technology with you at Triple eight Rich one 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.200 oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.280 four to one zero one, or you can email hello 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:28.520 at Richontech dot tv. You've got lots of your calls, 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.040 We've got lots of your emails. I've got lots of 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.480 news to talk about this week, plus some great interviews. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.440 You can follow me on social media. I am at 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:42.800 rich on Tech on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Let's have 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.400 Tom kick off the show this hour. Tom, you're on riverside. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:47.280 Welcome to the show. 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:50.400 Thanks Rich, Good talk to you. 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:52.640 Hey, thanks for coming on What can I help you 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:54.319 with great. 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.320 So Rich, I've got a couple of daughters, all in 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:01.559 college a couple of years that'll all be getting out 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:07.200 into the job market. And I was trying to figure 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:11.480 out with my oldest some software platforms that she might 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.040 you know, take some classes in or get proficient and 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:19.000 that's gonna help her with that career search. One of 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.720 the ones that we use at my office is Salesforce, 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.839 and you know, the Salesforce administrator at my office is 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:31.240 an absolute godsend. And it dawned on me that it 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.960 is a it's kind of been I don't know if 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.680 it's emerging anymore. It's been around long enough, but it 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.280 seems to have skyrocketed from the day it hit the 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.360 hit the market, and I was just curious if you 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:45.760 had any indications, you know, from where you sit, if 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.240 that skyrocketing is gonna plateau or keep going, or if 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:53.560 that Salesforce administrator position is something that's going to just 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:55.240 thrive for a really long time. 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.840 Great question. How old is your daughter? She's in college? 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:04.120 Yeah, I've got I've got three rich nineteen twenty one 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:04.840 and twenty two. 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.840 Oh man, you got you got a lot of weddings 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:14.560 to pay for intuitions at once in college. Yeah, so 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:16.960 here's the thing, and they do. They all show interest 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:18.800 in doing something in the tech world. 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.320 The oldest for sure. For sure, she's going to graduate 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:27.040 with a computational mathematics and computer science degree. 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:30.720 Wow, smart cookie, you know I. 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:35.960 Yeah, amen, you know, I've got a real good sense 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.440 of the type of worker. She is very task oriented, 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.400 kind of a dog with a bone type of situation. 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:43.680 So it did feel like a pretty decent fit. 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.440 Okay, well, a couple of things. So, first off, I mean, 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:52.480 Salesforce is just one of many many software platforms out there. 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.400 These are software as a service, so that you know, 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.080 it used to be companies would buy software in a 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.320 box installed on a computer and run it. And then 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.720 these companies came out with software that runs in the cloud, 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.800 and Salesforce is an example of that. There are many 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:12.240 others SAP and so it's much more modular. Companies can 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:14.680 expand what they need, they can get rid of what 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:17.240 they don't need, they can add different things to it. 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:22.800 And yes, Salesforce did do very well. They built that giant, 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:27.560 sixty one story skyscraper in San Francisco over a billion 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.080 dollars but here's the thing I don't know. I would 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.560 think for your daughters, they are probably going to show 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.440 some interest in something. I think they should probably dip 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.240 their toes into different classes that do these things. So 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.800 I would look at something like data analytics because that 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.280 is a huge, huge growth area for companies. Every single 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:48.640 company needs data analytics and someone that understands that. If 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.840 they want to do coding, that's a separate world in itself. 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.720 Coding is obviously very popular, but that's something they can 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:56.920 try and see if they like that. It doesn't sound 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:00.760 like that's what your oldest daughter wants to do. Then 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:04.360 you've got stuff like these project management platforms, so companies 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:08.000 need project managers for their different initiatives, and so they 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.440 always need someone that knows how to run the software 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.560 that does project management. And then of course you've got 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.920 cloud computing, which is you know, the Amazon AWS. I 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:18.800 was actually just down in Anaheim. They had a big 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.400 AWS convention and so a lot of smart people there. 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.360 They all look like they were doing very well if 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.560 you ask me, they're all in very nice suits. So 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:29.920 AWS is a huge growing area, and that's just one 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.800 cloud service out there. And of course there's design things 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:37.720 like Adobe, Photoshop and all that stuff. But I think 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.280 AI is also the place where they should start looking too, 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.160 because that is going to have an impact on just 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:46.240 about every single job category that I mentioned. And I 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:48.680 think for your oldest daughter, if she's really getting into 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.800 the job force, I think she looks at some jobs 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.160 that appeal to her and cross reference the skills that 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.840 are inside those job descriptions and then check out some 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.920 classes that have to do with that. Because this stuff 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.720 is rapidly changing. But I think if you have that 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.399 analytical mind, you would want to do something with the 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.600 analytical side of things. If you have the management mind, 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.040 you want to do something with project management or AI 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:14.800 is really going to have an impact on all of 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.920 these different job things. So if you're into that, definitely 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.800 start taking a look at some of those tools. Great question, Tom, 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:22.560 if you have a question. Eight eight to eight Rich 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:28.560 one oh one. You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:32.280 back to rich on Tech, rich Demiro talking technology with 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:36.320 you and joining me now is Scott Stein, editor at 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:42.879 Large at c NEET, to talk about Google's new Pixel tablet. Scott, 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:45.800 thanks so much for joining me today. Hey, thanks Rich, 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:51.880 So let's talk about Google's majestic return to the world 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.359 of tablets. I remember one of my favorite tablets was 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.360 their tiny little It was like an eight inch Nexus 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.120 tablet back in the day. Do you remember that one? 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:00.000 Yeah? 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.199 Yeah, next to seven was great. I think I have 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:05.320 one sitting in a Jerusalem where you know. That was 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:09.359 wonderful and it was affordable. It was before phones got 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:14.480 really big and doubled this tablet and it just feel 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:16.720 like that the ball kip keeps being dropped when it 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:18.879 comes to Android tablets in their progress. 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.560 Yeah, what is the deal? So last week we were 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:27.160 talking about Amazon's fire tablet, which the new Max eleven 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.840 has a really good kind of hardware profile, but the 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:34.800 software is almost unusable. And so now we have a 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:38.199 Pixel tablet which has amazing software, Like, this thing was 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:41.720 really fun. The iPad is amazing, but there are some 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:45.080 things about the the iOS software with the tablet that 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:48.119 is good for apps but bad for sort of other things. 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.679 But anyway, what is your initial thought on this tablet? 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:53.760 This is a four hundred and ninety nine dollars tablet 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:57.040 that has a dock built in are kind of attached 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:58.760 to it, So give me your initial thoughts on this thing. 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.200 Yeah, grew with you. I think the most exciting thing 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:05.439 is Google's focus on software for tablets here, and I 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:09.040 think that it just felt using it at home, it 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:14.480 felt fun, it felt friendly, and I think that's something 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.640 in the Android tablet landscape has been missing. I think 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:21.119 you have a lot of technologically capable tablets, but like 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:23.040 you said, a lot of the software tends to be 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:28.800 very tablets specific or a little bit wonky. And I 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.720 like the fact that this also can be a home hub. 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:34.480 Even though the people have used. 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:36.440 It for the smart on features have said that the 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:40.240 assistant software, the Assistant Voice AI, could be a lot 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:44.000 better there. I think that the idea of it being 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:48.080 dockable is a different use is something that Apple hasn't 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:50.920 done with the iPad. And also the ability to switch 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.879 accounts on Android tablets I really appreciate. 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:56.280 Yeah, that was a recurring That was a recurring theme 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:58.840 across all the reviews that people said, why doesn't the 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:01.359 iPad have a way to have multiple users? 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:05.399 Yes, it's baffling, and so for kids especially, you know, 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:07.639 we share, I mean a lot of people share tablet. 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:08.000 Yeah. 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:11.399 Google is observing in their statistics, and that's what this 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:14.080 is about, is that Hey, whoever wants to pick it 0:20:14.160 --> 0:20:17.680 up can use it, which is fantastic, and I think 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:21.560 that that's great. The split app multitasking worked really well, 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:26.119 although not all apps use it, And that's the question 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:29.439 here is, you know, Google is reinvesting in that idea, 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:32.240 and it looks like it's also the impetus behind what 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:34.879 they're doing with the folding phone. So hopefully there's some 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:36.840 consistency there in app support. 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:39.640 So to your point about the multiple users, I've got 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.520 a tablet set up in the workout area, like on 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:45.760 the workout bike, that has my I message logged in, 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:48.480 and literally my wife is using Peloton the whole time. 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:52.040 She's just seeing all my messages fly by. And I'm like, oh, 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:54.800 that's not that I'm doing anything like weird with the messaging, 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:56.840 but it's just a little strange to have someone watch. 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:58.600 She's like, hey, I'm just watching you text back and 0:20:58.640 --> 0:20:59.400 forth the whole day. 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:02.880 Yeah, there should be a really easy way without having 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:05.160 to log out and you know, add another ye club. 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:07.240 There should be a way to quickly switch profiles like 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:10.640 we do with game consoles and you know, pretty much 0:21:10.680 --> 0:21:14.879 everything else, but the iPad it makes it really difficult. 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:17.560 So I think I wish the price on the Pixel 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:19.720 tablet were a little bit lower, Yeah, because I think 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:23.880 that five hundred is not expensive, but it's not an 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:27.560 impulse purchase. And so I think a lot of tablets 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.800 for families and kids, people want to get the most 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:33.800 affordable thing possible. That there's a cheaper iPad than that, 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:36.919 even though it's older. There's the Kindle, you know, the 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:40.199 fire tablets. So that's one thing I think is you know, 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:42.040 would be on a wish list for me. 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:43.840 Yeah, it kind of turns people off to see that 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:46.880 high price point because now if you really break it down, 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:48.719 I know there's some people that are kind of arguing 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:52.160 this point. But it comes with a tablet, and then 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:55.400 it also comes with a dock, and the dock sells 0:21:55.440 --> 0:21:57.320 for what one hundred and twenty nine dollars on its. 0:21:57.200 --> 0:21:59.959 Own, Yeah, so exactly. 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:02.200 I think that's that's where they sort of talk about 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:05.399 the value for it. For me, I looked at it like, 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:08.320 you know, I love the case that that Google is 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:12.000 making for this, a nice kickstandcase, but that's eighty dollars, 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:16.399 so you know, that's expensive and kind of iPad case territory, 0:22:17.280 --> 0:22:20.760 and that that plus getting an extra amount of storage 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:23.159 for one hundred dollars more. These can ramp it up. 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:26.600 I almost would have maybe thought about throwing in a 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:31.040 case or something else in lieu of the of the dock, 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:33.640 or having a different price equation. Yeah, I mean that's 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:34.520 an interesting question. 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:37.120 But the good news is the doc is actually kind 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:39.080 of genius. And I will tell you this. So number one, 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:41.359 I so let me just kind of paint the picture 0:22:41.359 --> 0:22:43.639 of what this tablet looks like. So it's a it's 0:22:43.680 --> 0:22:46.000 a really nicely designed it almost looks like a big 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:50.240 pixel phone. And then it magnetically attaches to this little 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:52.840 dock that looks like you can just pull the front 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:56.840 off of a Google Nest Hub, so it almost looks 0:22:56.880 --> 0:22:59.440 like when you're when it's docked, that it's a Nest Hub, 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:01.920 you know, like when those Google Smart Home kind of devices. 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:05.280 And so the genius of it is that it's always charged, 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:07.959 and then when you're not using it, it's a screen 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:10.119 saver for whatever you want. So I have my Google 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:13.440 Photos collection on there. It can show the weather, all 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:15.760 these different types of things. Plus you can ask it things, 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:19.120 you know, the voice commands and what I thought would 0:23:19.160 --> 0:23:21.359 happen and it did is I started playing music on 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:23.919 the tablet and then I magnetically attached it to the 0:23:23.960 --> 0:23:28.360 DOC and the music just magically transferred to the DOC speaker, 0:23:28.400 --> 0:23:31.119 which is much louder and richer. And so it's a 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:33.960 really smart idea that you always have this tablet that's 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:37.400 ready to go. But not everyone wants to spend five 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:39.040 hundred dollars on a tablet, and I think that's going 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:40.439 to keep them from getting this. 0:23:41.840 --> 0:23:44.120 Yeah, I think on the flip side, if you think, 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:46.080 you know, if you're using a lot of stuff in 0:23:46.119 --> 0:23:49.080 Google ecosystem and you don't want to get it phone 0:23:49.160 --> 0:23:52.040 another phone or you know, something like that, that's not 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:54.439 a lot to spend. And I think that the idea 0:23:54.440 --> 0:23:56.159 that it can be a home hub, You're right, is 0:23:56.160 --> 0:24:00.199 a huge advantage. The speaker sounded nice. You know, we 0:24:00.240 --> 0:24:02.520 got really into just somebody playing music or even just 0:24:02.520 --> 0:24:05.440 playing YouTube video. You know, we started to just kind 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:07.639 of gather around and the kids started gathering around it, 0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:10.880 and I said, you could detach the tablet, but there's 0:24:11.080 --> 0:24:13.680 you know, it's definitely a kitchen counter friendly type thing. 0:24:14.640 --> 0:24:16.560 Who were kind of hovers off the dock, so it's 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:20.159 not touching the counter and I think that there's a 0:24:20.200 --> 0:24:23.600 lot of ways that it could be useful in that regard. 0:24:24.760 --> 0:24:26.320 So so yeah, I think that there's like a lot, 0:24:26.400 --> 0:24:27.240 a lot of plus to it. 0:24:27.560 --> 0:24:29.560 And what do you think of the cameras. I'm I'm 0:24:29.600 --> 0:24:33.159 loving this feature on Google Meat that it's like the 0:24:33.240 --> 0:24:36.080 backgrounds on Google Meat are so good, like these three 0:24:36.160 --> 0:24:39.160 sixty backgrounds, Like they're moving like I have mindset as 0:24:39.200 --> 0:24:42.560 like this castle and like a medieval castle with like 0:24:42.560 --> 0:24:45.480 a dragon like flap, you know, flap flapping his wings 0:24:45.480 --> 0:24:47.840 behind me. And the cameras I thought were pretty good. 0:24:47.880 --> 0:24:49.600 And I thought that experience was pretty good. What do 0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:50.119 you make of it? 0:24:50.880 --> 0:24:53.760 Yeah, me too. It seemed a tiny bit betterund Meat 0:24:53.760 --> 0:24:55.679 than on Zoom, but maybe it was just when I 0:24:55.720 --> 0:24:57.480 was running it. But the you know, I was looking 0:24:57.520 --> 0:25:00.280 at this pre release, the camera quality looks really good. 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:02.639 It's positioned on the right spot, which is you know, 0:25:02.760 --> 0:25:04.800 when you dock it, it's going to be centered like 0:25:04.840 --> 0:25:07.439 Apple started doing with their with their I've had in 0:25:07.480 --> 0:25:11.800 the fall. Yeah, it's it's very convenient. I even think 0:25:11.840 --> 0:25:14.480 on the dock it was a pretty easy one to 0:25:14.600 --> 0:25:18.600 use for for for quick spontaneous video chats with people, 0:25:19.040 --> 0:25:22.199 and I know I used other types of devices like 0:25:22.240 --> 0:25:25.600 that in the past, you know, portally that I'm playing 0:25:25.640 --> 0:25:29.200 around with, and I think there, it's really convenient, and 0:25:29.280 --> 0:25:31.280 so I thought that was a lot of fun and 0:25:31.400 --> 0:25:33.520 definitely the way that I'd want to use this. 0:25:34.359 --> 0:25:36.760 And the only thing I thought was kind of interesting too, 0:25:36.800 --> 0:25:38.800 is I I found myself trying to figure out and 0:25:38.840 --> 0:25:41.040 maybe this is just muscle memory for using it. After 0:25:41.160 --> 0:25:44.159 using it for a while, i'd be more comfortable. But 0:25:44.200 --> 0:25:46.000 I was trying to figure out like where the fingerprint 0:25:46.040 --> 0:25:48.359 sensor was, like on the power button, because sometimes they 0:25:48.440 --> 0:25:50.520 just pick it up and not really know because it's 0:25:50.520 --> 0:25:52.640 so symmetrical. Did you have that issue at all? 0:25:53.400 --> 0:25:55.440 Yeah, a little bit that I told myself, Okay, right 0:25:55.480 --> 0:25:58.560 finger on top corner is good, but yeah, you know 0:25:58.640 --> 0:26:01.160 that's the thing is, depending on which you're holding it, 0:26:01.480 --> 0:26:03.440 you might start fumbling around for that. 0:26:03.560 --> 0:26:03.760 I mean. 0:26:03.800 --> 0:26:05.879 The good news of the fingerprints sensor was really fast, 0:26:06.280 --> 0:26:08.359 and I found it was just like instant log in, 0:26:08.680 --> 0:26:12.160 and then again with the guest accounts and the other modes, 0:26:12.400 --> 0:26:14.439 you can bypass that. So I found that was a 0:26:14.440 --> 0:26:18.440 really nice solution. Sometimes I don't like the face log 0:26:18.480 --> 0:26:21.399 and stuff at all. I find that it gets in 0:26:21.400 --> 0:26:23.679 the way of the flow and sometimes doesn't register. So 0:26:24.520 --> 0:26:27.480 I'm glad that this had that. I do wish the 0:26:27.520 --> 0:26:30.160 whole thing had a keyboard though. That's that's one thing 0:26:30.200 --> 0:26:33.440 that I'm regretting that Google left out. 0:26:33.680 --> 0:26:35.879 I just wonder if you're trying, like I feel like 0:26:35.880 --> 0:26:38.679 they're not really positioning this as a productivity device, you know, 0:26:38.680 --> 0:26:41.600 which is funny because the Amazon Fire Max is and 0:26:41.640 --> 0:26:44.600 it's like anything but and this could be because it's 0:26:44.600 --> 0:26:47.200 got such clean software. It's got all the Google products 0:26:47.200 --> 0:26:49.560 and services on it, So it could be a really 0:26:49.640 --> 0:26:51.119 nice little email machine. 0:26:52.040 --> 0:26:54.400 It really could. And more like it's it's a very 0:26:54.440 --> 0:26:59.000 capable processor. The multitasking works really well, waste dictation worked great, 0:26:59.680 --> 0:27:02.560 similar to how well it works on Pixel phones. And 0:27:03.480 --> 0:27:06.720 you know, at Google had focused on this productivity a 0:27:06.800 --> 0:27:09.000 thing the last time with the Pixel Slate, which was 0:27:09.000 --> 0:27:11.440 a failed product but I thought was interesting, kind of 0:27:11.480 --> 0:27:14.719 like a chromebook mett Android tablet back in twenty eighteen, 0:27:14.800 --> 0:27:18.040 twenty nineteen, And now they move completely in the opposite direction, 0:27:18.359 --> 0:27:23.280 nailing so much of the everyday casual tablet use. But 0:27:23.720 --> 0:27:25.760 I think with kids, a lot of them, you know, 0:27:25.880 --> 0:27:29.080 my kids work on things or write things, and they'll 0:27:29.080 --> 0:27:31.199 set up a keyboards. I think it can work with 0:27:31.240 --> 0:27:34.000 other keyboards, but I think there's a big opportunity there. 0:27:34.840 --> 0:27:37.520 I would think to enable this for that and just 0:27:37.560 --> 0:27:38.280 add to abuse. 0:27:38.480 --> 0:27:40.439 Yeah, well hopefully they're working on that, Scott. We're going 0:27:40.480 --> 0:27:43.639 to leave it there, Scott Stein of cnet telp Folks. 0:27:43.720 --> 0:27:45.679 How they can find you online? 0:27:46.400 --> 0:27:46.680 Sure? 0:27:46.720 --> 0:27:48.680 Well, you can find me a Twitter jet Scott. You 0:27:48.720 --> 0:27:51.720 can also find me mastadon and blue Sky, and you 0:27:51.760 --> 0:27:53.760 can also find me and Seema dot com. I have 0:27:53.800 --> 0:27:54.920 an author profile there. 0:27:55.240 --> 0:27:57.400 Awesome. Thanks so much for joining me today. Appreciate it. 0:27:58.040 --> 0:27:58.600 Hey, thank you. 0:27:59.480 --> 0:28:01.480 All right, Coming up, I'm gonna tell you why the 0:28:01.560 --> 0:28:05.520 FTC is mad at Amazon again. Plus more of your 0:28:05.520 --> 0:28:08.240 calls at Triple eight rich one O one. You are 0:28:08.320 --> 0:28:14.680 listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. 0:28:15.320 --> 0:28:19.680 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 0:28:19.720 --> 0:28:22.280 triple eight rich one O one. That's eight eight eight 0:28:22.520 --> 0:28:28.520 seven four to two four one zero one. Let's see. 0:28:28.640 --> 0:28:34.160 Let's go to uh stan Stan is in Bettsville, Ohio. 0:28:34.400 --> 0:28:35.640 Stand you're on with rich. 0:28:36.320 --> 0:28:41.880 Hello rich On Tech. Hello, Hey, my outlook Microsoft Outlook 0:28:41.960 --> 0:28:45.160 has gone rogue on me or something. It was operating 0:28:45.240 --> 0:28:48.720 fine for the longest time, but recently seems like the 0:28:48.800 --> 0:28:51.840 highest percentage of my outgoing mails come back to me 0:28:52.440 --> 0:28:55.440 with an air message that couldn't be delivered to such 0:28:55.440 --> 0:29:00.280 and such address for some cryptic reason. So, long story short, 0:29:00.320 --> 0:29:03.800 I'm thinking about reinstalling Outlook, but I read somewhere or 0:29:03.920 --> 0:29:07.680 thought I did that I need to reinstall Microsoft three 0:29:07.800 --> 0:29:10.600 sixty five entirely, not just Outlook. 0:29:11.040 --> 0:29:11.680 What are your. 0:29:11.560 --> 0:29:12.200 Thoughts on that. 0:29:13.440 --> 0:29:15.160 Are You're on a Windows machine, I'm. 0:29:15.000 --> 0:29:17.360 Taking it, yeh, Windows ten. 0:29:17.440 --> 0:29:20.320 I'm running okay. And when you go to the list 0:29:20.360 --> 0:29:23.840 of programs, is Outlook listed separately or is it not? 0:29:26.720 --> 0:29:31.000 I believe it's listed separately. I'm almost positive, okay. 0:29:31.400 --> 0:29:33.400 And have you tried to just say uninstall that? 0:29:35.000 --> 0:29:38.480 No, because I was afraid I'd lose past emails and 0:29:39.200 --> 0:29:41.520 folders and all of that anything. 0:29:41.640 --> 0:29:41.920 Yeah. 0:29:42.040 --> 0:29:44.360 Yeah, It depends on how your account is set up 0:29:44.360 --> 0:29:46.239 if you're going to lose those folders and things. So 0:29:46.280 --> 0:29:50.400 if your account is set up locally where you're downloading everything, 0:29:50.560 --> 0:29:53.240 then yes, you would lose anything that you've set up. 0:29:54.160 --> 0:29:56.720 If it's set up, if it's set up as an IMAP, 0:29:56.840 --> 0:30:00.200 or if it's just mirroring the server, then any thing 0:30:00.240 --> 0:30:02.400 that you've set up on the server side will just 0:30:02.640 --> 0:30:05.040 mirror over once it comes back down. Do you know 0:30:05.080 --> 0:30:07.360 what type of email address you're using? I mean I 0:30:07.560 --> 0:30:08.080 assume you do. 0:30:10.120 --> 0:30:12.640 Yeah, it's a website that I set up, and the 0:30:12.720 --> 0:30:17.120 email address is the my email address is the website name. 0:30:17.800 --> 0:30:20.600 Okay, And so when you set that up on that 0:30:20.840 --> 0:30:23.320 email is it an IMAP or is it a POP three? 0:30:23.440 --> 0:30:23.800 Do you know? 0:30:24.920 --> 0:30:25.200 Boy? 0:30:25.320 --> 0:30:28.360 I'm familiar with what you're asking, but I don't know. 0:30:28.440 --> 0:30:31.400 But now I'm in front of my PC again, maybe 0:30:31.400 --> 0:30:33.520 I can find out real quick. 0:30:33.800 --> 0:30:36.000 Well, So I would do some research on that and 0:30:36.080 --> 0:30:39.320 just see if the email address how your provider sets 0:30:39.320 --> 0:30:41.600 it up. Most of the time, I mean, it depends 0:30:41.640 --> 0:30:43.800 with with your own website. A lot of the times 0:30:43.800 --> 0:30:48.000 it could be POP, but IMAP is pretty common as well, 0:30:48.040 --> 0:30:49.800 so it sort of depends. But I think that's going 0:30:49.880 --> 0:30:52.080 to determine how much you're going to going to lose. 0:30:52.720 --> 0:30:54.920 So what I would do is I would do a 0:30:54.960 --> 0:30:59.239 backup of your data before you do anything, and then 0:30:59.280 --> 0:31:02.040 try to uninstall all Outlook if you can't uninstall it 0:31:02.080 --> 0:31:05.240 by itself, which it may be linked to the three 0:31:05.320 --> 0:31:09.440 sixty five the whole suite. Then you know you're gonna 0:31:09.440 --> 0:31:13.280 have to uninstall that and reinstall. Is there what caused 0:31:13.280 --> 0:31:13.920 this problem? 0:31:15.200 --> 0:31:19.920 I don't know. It happened, oh several weeks ago, and 0:31:21.120 --> 0:31:23.959 I've tried to work around it, and it's just seems 0:31:24.000 --> 0:31:27.840 to be getting worse. Doesn't make sense to me. But 0:31:28.600 --> 0:31:30.520 have you have no idea what caused it? But I 0:31:30.560 --> 0:31:33.360 get all these bounce backs saying that it can't deliver 0:31:33.480 --> 0:31:35.800 to SO and Sol's address, and it gives me a 0:31:35.840 --> 0:31:37.720 reason that is like hieroglyphics. 0:31:37.760 --> 0:31:38.200 It doesn't. 0:31:38.400 --> 0:31:42.800 Yeah, probably doesn't make much sense. Have you installed any 0:31:42.800 --> 0:31:45.160 plugins on this program that would cause this? 0:31:46.280 --> 0:31:46.680 No? 0:31:46.720 --> 0:31:48.760 Not, No, I don't believe I have ever. 0:31:49.000 --> 0:31:51.840 Okay, well I would. I would try to do the 0:31:51.920 --> 0:31:55.480 uninstalled and see if that works. It seems like an 0:31:55.520 --> 0:31:58.720 odd problem to just start happening out of nowhere. The 0:31:58.760 --> 0:32:01.280 other thing the other thing can try to do is 0:32:02.000 --> 0:32:04.360 have you tried, like downloading the Outlook app to your 0:32:04.360 --> 0:32:05.480 phone or anything like that. 0:32:07.440 --> 0:32:09.880 I have, and I've had difficulty and right now I 0:32:09.920 --> 0:32:12.240 can't get it downloaded to my phone. 0:32:12.520 --> 0:32:16.000 Oh that's interesting. What are using iPhone or Android? Android 0:32:16.080 --> 0:32:19.360 boone and it just won't download. Interesting, well, that should 0:32:19.400 --> 0:32:22.480 be available in the in the Google Play Store, but 0:32:22.600 --> 0:32:25.560 you might try to log in and see if your 0:32:25.600 --> 0:32:29.360 information is there, if it's storing it in the cloud, 0:32:29.400 --> 0:32:31.440 and it may just carry down through there. So that's 0:32:31.440 --> 0:32:32.120 another way. 0:32:31.920 --> 0:32:32.320 To do it. 0:32:32.960 --> 0:32:36.400 And did you suggest that to back up outlook first? 0:32:36.760 --> 0:32:36.920 Oh? 0:32:37.000 --> 0:32:39.840 Yeah, I would. I would. I would export everything and 0:32:39.960 --> 0:32:42.320 just you know, save that file in case you can't 0:32:42.320 --> 0:32:44.320 get things back. And then that way, at least you 0:32:44.320 --> 0:32:46.320 have a backup that you can you can bring back 0:32:46.360 --> 0:32:49.480 to you know, bring back to life in a little 0:32:49.480 --> 0:32:51.400 bit of a way. So do you pay for Office 0:32:51.400 --> 0:32:53.680 three sixty five or no? Did you? How are you 0:32:53.720 --> 0:32:54.600 getting this program? 0:32:55.280 --> 0:32:58.400 I went in to try and find that out. I 0:32:58.440 --> 0:33:00.560 think I did, and I think I said a very 0:33:00.600 --> 0:33:04.680 nominal amount. But I can't see in my CRM package 0:33:04.880 --> 0:33:06.840 where I'm paying for it or not. I don't know. 0:33:07.080 --> 0:33:09.160 Okay, yeah, usually it's only you know, it's a couple 0:33:09.240 --> 0:33:11.080 like under ten dollars a month for that, or you 0:33:11.120 --> 0:33:13.720 can pay for the hard gear in advance, but that 0:33:13.760 --> 0:33:17.120 would give you access to downloading the app itself. It 0:33:17.240 --> 0:33:22.560 seems like the app is part of the Suite on Windows, 0:33:22.600 --> 0:33:25.040 but on a Mac, I know they just came out 0:33:25.080 --> 0:33:29.560 with a standalone office or an outlook rather, So if 0:33:29.600 --> 0:33:31.720 you have a Mac, you can try logging in there 0:33:31.760 --> 0:33:33.800 as well and seeing but I know you can download 0:33:33.840 --> 0:33:35.959 that on there as well because I played with it. 0:33:36.080 --> 0:33:38.959 So those are some things to try and see if 0:33:39.000 --> 0:33:41.480 they work. But that is frustrating when your email is 0:33:41.520 --> 0:33:44.560 coming back. If you're like me, you just forget to 0:33:44.560 --> 0:33:47.280 actually send your email. So I will set up an 0:33:47.280 --> 0:33:49.520 email and I will get distracted at work and I 0:33:49.600 --> 0:33:51.600 literally forget to hit send and next thing you know, 0:33:51.880 --> 0:33:53.920 people are like, hey, Rich, where's that email. It's like 0:33:55.120 --> 0:33:58.040 I thought I sent it, but I didn't. And sometimes 0:33:58.080 --> 0:33:59.880 that will happen as well. So thanks for the call, 0:34:00.000 --> 0:34:04.440 appreciate it. Let me tell you why the FTC is 0:34:04.560 --> 0:34:08.360 mad at Amazon once again. A couple weeks ago they 0:34:08.400 --> 0:34:11.400 had to pay like thirty million bucks for some issues 0:34:11.400 --> 0:34:15.240 with Ring and some other privacy issues. Now they're saying 0:34:16.200 --> 0:34:19.839 that Amazon makes it tough for consumers to cancel their 0:34:19.880 --> 0:34:24.480 subscriptions to Prime. They filed a complaint that says Amazon 0:34:24.480 --> 0:34:28.480 has knowingly duped millions of consumers into unknowingly and rolling 0:34:28.520 --> 0:34:31.440 into Amazon Prime. Now, I've had Amazon Prime for a 0:34:31.480 --> 0:34:33.520 long time, but I think what they're talking about is 0:34:33.520 --> 0:34:36.080 when you check out, if you don't have Prime, there's 0:34:36.120 --> 0:34:39.200 probably a little tiny checkbox that says include a free 0:34:39.200 --> 0:34:42.120 trial of Amazon Prime for overnight shipping or free shipping, 0:34:42.880 --> 0:34:45.200 and people do that, and then all of a sudden 0:34:45.239 --> 0:34:47.520 they see that credit card charge for fourteen ninety nine 0:34:47.560 --> 0:34:49.400 and they say, wait a second, what I thought I 0:34:49.480 --> 0:34:51.520 was just signed up for a free trial, or I 0:34:51.560 --> 0:34:54.080 forgot that I signed up for a free trial. And 0:34:54.120 --> 0:34:58.600 then the FTC alleges that they make it really tough 0:34:58.760 --> 0:35:04.000 to cancel the subscription. Now that's the part that I'm 0:35:04.040 --> 0:35:07.040 not sure I agree with, because I feel like if 0:35:07.080 --> 0:35:10.000 you would chat with Amazon, you could cancel that pretty easily. 0:35:10.480 --> 0:35:13.439 But they say that, you know, this is a dark 0:35:13.480 --> 0:35:16.560 pattern that Amazon is using, and it really made it 0:35:16.640 --> 0:35:19.400 tough for consumers. I'm trying to figure out where they 0:35:19.440 --> 0:35:22.399 say this. Oh, Consumers who attempted to cancel Prime were 0:35:22.400 --> 0:35:26.160 faced with multiple steps to actually accomplish the task of canceling. 0:35:26.480 --> 0:35:29.279 According to the complaint, they had to locate the cancelation flow, 0:35:29.280 --> 0:35:32.200 which Amazon of course hid. Then once they located it, 0:35:32.239 --> 0:35:35.200 they were redirected to multiple pages that presented offers to 0:35:35.200 --> 0:35:38.160 continue the subscription at a discounted price, or to turn 0:35:38.160 --> 0:35:41.760 off the auto renew feature, or to decide not to cancel, 0:35:42.040 --> 0:35:44.719 And then after clicking through all these pages, consumers could 0:35:44.719 --> 0:35:47.680 finally cancel the service. That seems to be pretty common 0:35:47.719 --> 0:35:50.480 though online if you try to cancel anything. And so, 0:35:50.719 --> 0:35:53.680 I know the FTC is really singling out Amazon here, 0:35:53.680 --> 0:35:55.640 but I feel like a lot of companies do that. 0:35:55.840 --> 0:35:58.600 So if you felt like you were wronged by Amazon 0:35:58.640 --> 0:36:02.440 Prime Government, it's got You're back, rich tamiro here. You 0:36:02.560 --> 0:36:08.200 are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 0:36:08.280 --> 0:36:13.200 on Tech. Rich Tamuro here talking technology with you at 0:36:13.239 --> 0:36:16.120 triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight 0:36:16.760 --> 0:36:20.520 seven four to two four one zero one. I hope 0:36:20.520 --> 0:36:22.719 you're having a fantastic day. Did you know that you 0:36:22.800 --> 0:36:26.400 can listen to this show as a podcast. Just search 0:36:26.480 --> 0:36:28.759 rich on Tech in your favorite audio app and be 0:36:28.840 --> 0:36:32.200 sure to subscribe. Then you can go to rich on 0:36:32.320 --> 0:36:36.279 Tech dot tv to find the show notes. I take 0:36:36.400 --> 0:36:38.239 very good notes about what we talk about here, So 0:36:38.239 --> 0:36:41.160 if you're looking for a link to something I mentioned, 0:36:42.239 --> 0:36:44.799 chances are it's in there because I try to get 0:36:44.840 --> 0:36:48.760 it all. We've got best selling author Deborah Fine joining 0:36:48.800 --> 0:36:52.880 me this hour. She's going to talk about technology and 0:36:52.920 --> 0:36:55.080 how it's impacting the art of small talk. Because I 0:36:55.080 --> 0:36:57.759 don't know about you, but it's much easier in a 0:36:57.800 --> 0:37:00.920 crowd of folks to just kind of, you know, retreat 0:37:00.920 --> 0:37:03.520 to your smartphone and that endless scroll than it is 0:37:03.520 --> 0:37:07.879 to actually have that human connection with folks. And it's tough. 0:37:08.000 --> 0:37:10.040 It's not easy to talk to strangers. But we're going 0:37:10.080 --> 0:37:12.759 to see what Debra says about that. All right, let's 0:37:12.840 --> 0:37:16.520 kick off this hour with Julio in Los Angeles. Julio, 0:37:16.600 --> 0:37:20.839 you're on with Wretch. I'm fantastic. How are you? 0:37:21.719 --> 0:37:24.840 Ah, very good. I have a challenging question for you. 0:37:24.880 --> 0:37:25.160 Sure. 0:37:26.080 --> 0:37:31.640 I have Moscilla District okay, oh, sorry for nights okay, 0:37:31.680 --> 0:37:34.719 And I've been living with it for many years and 0:37:34.840 --> 0:37:37.680 I will for forty years into counting a problem. But 0:37:37.800 --> 0:37:41.480 the problem is this, I have a I have a 0:37:41.560 --> 0:37:44.040 cell phone, you know where I versus my wife had 0:37:44.360 --> 0:37:47.160 en a plit phone, and we have a problem because 0:37:47.160 --> 0:37:50.560 she suffers the same, you know, and when we put 0:37:50.600 --> 0:37:56.160 it in a front pocket, I'll must start to hurt. 0:37:58.600 --> 0:38:03.360 I got to he's very share the expicient phone that 0:38:03.440 --> 0:38:04.600 I buy for it. 0:38:05.640 --> 0:38:08.160 Okay, so when you put your phone in your front pocket, 0:38:08.640 --> 0:38:14.399 you're saying your body aches from it. Okay, Well there 0:38:14.520 --> 0:38:17.560 is a solution. And now, look, I don't know if 0:38:17.560 --> 0:38:19.640 there's a correlation. I mean, you're telling me this. I 0:38:19.640 --> 0:38:22.960 don't know if other people are experiencing this, but there 0:38:23.000 --> 0:38:26.640 are you know, there obviously are frequencies that are emitted 0:38:26.719 --> 0:38:30.279 by your phone. You've got a flip phone, so I 0:38:30.640 --> 0:38:33.920 feel like that's not as high powered as some of 0:38:33.920 --> 0:38:36.920 the other smartphones out there. And all of the phones, 0:38:36.920 --> 0:38:38.920 by the way, have this little rating. They've got this 0:38:39.040 --> 0:38:42.760 like radiation rating, so you can look it up by phone. 0:38:42.760 --> 0:38:46.440 It's like measured I think in microns. But different phones 0:38:46.560 --> 0:38:50.120 definitely have different sort of radiation levels that they emit. 0:38:50.320 --> 0:38:52.800 So you can check that out if you search online 0:38:52.800 --> 0:38:55.680 for the model number, and you know, there's a I'm 0:38:55.719 --> 0:38:57.560 trying to figure out what the let me see if 0:38:57.560 --> 0:39:01.040 I can find out iPhone radius level and let's see 0:39:01.040 --> 0:39:05.279 if they have the number. Um yeah, it's like yes, 0:39:05.360 --> 0:39:07.480 So there's like a little like wattage number. Oh there 0:39:07.520 --> 0:39:12.279 it is. It's like, uh yeah, RF exposure information, So 0:39:12.320 --> 0:39:16.440 they all have SAR. SAAR value is what they call it, 0:39:16.480 --> 0:39:19.080 so you can look up the name of your phone 0:39:19.160 --> 0:39:23.920 plus SAR and specific absorption rate is what they call it. 0:39:24.560 --> 0:39:28.560 The rate to which the body absorbs RF energy radio 0:39:28.600 --> 0:39:32.000 frequency energy. The SAR limit on the iPhone twelve pro, 0:39:32.120 --> 0:39:35.120 for example, is one point six watts per kilogram in 0:39:35.200 --> 0:39:38.920 countries that set the limit averaged over one gram of 0:39:38.960 --> 0:39:44.080 tissue and two watts per kilogram WOWS. This is a 0:39:44.120 --> 0:39:45.840 lot if you want to read about this, This is 0:39:45.880 --> 0:39:47.680 like you can go down a rabbit hole with all 0:39:47.719 --> 0:39:50.920 this stuff. But basically, they do test phones for this stuff, 0:39:50.960 --> 0:39:53.600 and they do tell you what the different levels are 0:39:53.640 --> 0:39:55.640 that come out of these phones, and they are very different. 0:39:55.680 --> 0:39:58.040 So if you want to check your phone, just google 0:39:58.640 --> 0:40:01.120 whatever phone model you have plus SAR and it will 0:40:01.160 --> 0:40:04.120 tell you what that number is for the head and 0:40:04.200 --> 0:40:06.839 the body. So with all of that said, there are 0:40:07.000 --> 0:40:11.160 cases that can block these in and out radio waves. 0:40:11.440 --> 0:40:13.920 But here's the deal. They're often called a Faraday bag. 0:40:15.480 --> 0:40:17.480 It's going to block all signals, so you are not 0:40:17.520 --> 0:40:19.760 going to be able to get a signal from this phone. 0:40:19.800 --> 0:40:22.120 It is not going to ring when it's in this bag. 0:40:22.160 --> 0:40:24.839 If it's in your pocket. So if you're okay with that, 0:40:25.320 --> 0:40:28.959 you can check out these different companies that make these things. 0:40:29.000 --> 0:40:33.359 One of them is called Silent Pocket. I guess they've 0:40:33.360 --> 0:40:36.600 just kind of rebranded as Silent now. And their website 0:40:36.640 --> 0:40:43.000 is SLNT dot com Silent slnt dot com, and they 0:40:43.040 --> 0:40:47.080 make a whole bunch of different Faraday bags, everything from 0:40:47.360 --> 0:40:50.920 sleeves for your keys, for your laptop, for your credit cards, 0:40:50.960 --> 0:40:53.279 and also your phone. And I have one of their 0:40:53.320 --> 0:40:55.359 phone bags, and yeah, when you put your phone in there, 0:40:55.520 --> 0:40:59.360 it is it immediately cuts off all signals to and 0:40:59.480 --> 0:41:03.319 from that phone. The other company, and I'm not as 0:41:03.360 --> 0:41:05.640 familiar with their products, I haven't used them, but I 0:41:05.680 --> 0:41:08.960 know they make them is called off grid O F 0:41:09.120 --> 0:41:13.080 F g R I D dot c O and off 0:41:13.120 --> 0:41:15.719 grid is I believe they're based on and I think 0:41:15.800 --> 0:41:19.120 both these companies are like San Diego area. But these 0:41:19.400 --> 0:41:21.839 they make a wallet, they make a bag, they make 0:41:21.880 --> 0:41:25.200 a little cell phone case, they make a duffel bag, 0:41:25.600 --> 0:41:29.279 they make a backpack. Let's see what else here, a 0:41:29.400 --> 0:41:33.000 window kit whatever that is. But these are these are 0:41:33.040 --> 0:41:36.880 some ways of kind of blocking all signals to and 0:41:36.920 --> 0:41:39.560 from your phone. So this could be used for security. 0:41:39.640 --> 0:41:42.240 It could also be used for something like you're talking about, Julio. 0:41:42.920 --> 0:41:44.279 I don't know if that would help. I don't know 0:41:44.280 --> 0:41:46.279 if you want to do that, but that is the 0:41:46.280 --> 0:41:50.880 solution that I can think of otherwise maybe. And I've 0:41:50.880 --> 0:41:53.640 thought about this before. Believe me, I'm not one of 0:41:53.680 --> 0:41:57.200 these like you know, you know, tin hat kind of guys. 0:41:57.560 --> 0:41:59.680 But I have thought about, because I've kept my phone 0:41:59.719 --> 0:42:02.320 in my pocket for so long, I have thought about, 0:42:02.719 --> 0:42:05.640 maybe it's time to switch where I keep my phone 0:42:05.760 --> 0:42:07.920 and not keep it, you know, near the the groin 0:42:08.000 --> 0:42:11.720 area so much, and maybe have some sort of holster 0:42:11.840 --> 0:42:15.800 on my ankle area. And I know it sounds crazy, 0:42:15.840 --> 0:42:18.160 but it's like, you know, I don't know. I've had 0:42:18.160 --> 0:42:20.320 a cell phone in my pocket now for twenty years 0:42:20.360 --> 0:42:23.279 and it seems to be okay, but you don't want 0:42:23.320 --> 0:42:26.680 to find out the hard way that it's not so good. Call, Julio. 0:42:26.719 --> 0:42:32.279 Thanks so much for asking that interesting, interesting question. Let's see, 0:42:32.280 --> 0:42:33.839 should we go to Do I have time for another call? 0:42:34.040 --> 0:42:36.399 All right, let's go to let's see. Oh my gosh, 0:42:36.480 --> 0:42:37.279 so many calls today. 0:42:37.360 --> 0:42:37.720 Karen. 0:42:38.760 --> 0:42:39.959 Karen is in Thousand Oaks. 0:42:40.040 --> 0:42:42.840 Karen, You're on with Rich Hi there, thanks for taking 0:42:42.840 --> 0:42:43.200 my call. 0:42:43.320 --> 0:42:44.200 Hey, thanks for calling. 0:42:44.840 --> 0:42:45.160 Sure. 0:42:45.360 --> 0:42:47.800 I have an iPhone. I've had one since two thousand 0:42:47.800 --> 0:42:50.720 and seven and I have it backed up with iclouds 0:42:51.480 --> 0:42:54.360 and my daughter got married and I decided that it 0:42:54.400 --> 0:42:57.000 would be a great idea to back up the photos 0:42:57.320 --> 0:43:03.880 somewhere else. Absolutely decided, Yeah, easy to do it on 0:43:04.000 --> 0:43:08.440 Google Photos. So I started the process downloading it on 0:43:08.480 --> 0:43:13.520 my phone, and it ran out a memory really fast 0:43:13.680 --> 0:43:15.920 because it was backing up all my photos from my 0:43:16.000 --> 0:43:19.800 phone and I had a lot, and so I stopped 0:43:19.800 --> 0:43:23.080 the I stopped it, and I so I started playing 0:43:23.080 --> 0:43:26.960 around a little bit and I deleted a photo and 0:43:27.160 --> 0:43:30.080 it said, okay, we're going to delete the photo from iPhoto. 0:43:30.440 --> 0:43:31.480 So I stopped. 0:43:31.520 --> 0:43:37.640 I didn't delete anymore. But then it it took all 0:43:38.040 --> 0:43:42.520 like on Google Photo. It was completely full, and it 0:43:42.560 --> 0:43:46.960 wanted more money so to back up everything another ten 0:43:47.000 --> 0:43:49.520 bucks a month. So now I feel like I'm being 0:43:49.520 --> 0:43:53.360 held hostage by them, and so I stopped all the 0:43:54.040 --> 0:44:00.160 access to photos from my iPhone to Google. Sure it's 0:44:00.200 --> 0:44:03.080 just fine, but now it says that I can't get 0:44:03.120 --> 0:44:06.360 my email or Google. 0:44:07.160 --> 0:44:11.400 Because our account is maxed out and they're connected exactly yeah. Okay. 0:44:11.440 --> 0:44:15.279 So with Google you get fifteen gigs of storage I believe. 0:44:16.440 --> 0:44:20.680 Like included right right, But I'm I already pay. 0:44:21.520 --> 0:44:22.600 But you pay for iCloud. 0:44:23.200 --> 0:44:25.960 I do, can dog because I have twenty thousand photos. 0:44:26.040 --> 0:44:29.319 Yeah, okay, So here's the dilemma. So you've got these 0:44:29.360 --> 0:44:32.200 basically you're kind of okay, So two things I guess 0:44:32.480 --> 0:44:34.400 two part question here are you you're not going to 0:44:34.520 --> 0:44:35.719 use Google anymore for this? 0:44:36.480 --> 0:44:36.800 Correct? 0:44:36.840 --> 0:44:40.000 Okay, so we can get those photos out of there. 0:44:40.200 --> 0:44:42.280 The other thing is do you are you an Amazon 0:44:42.320 --> 0:44:42.920 Prime member? 0:44:43.680 --> 0:44:44.040 I am? 0:44:44.160 --> 0:44:46.240 Okay, So have you heard of Amazon Photos? 0:44:47.239 --> 0:44:47.640 Yes? 0:44:47.840 --> 0:44:48.719 Have you used it? 0:44:49.360 --> 0:44:49.480 No? 0:44:49.719 --> 0:44:52.239 Okay? So I would recommend since you're an Amazon Prime 0:44:52.280 --> 0:44:55.759 member and you're using this as your secondary backup, so 0:44:55.800 --> 0:45:00.000 your photos are basically in they're almost in two places there. 0:45:00.200 --> 0:45:01.640 Some of them are on your phone. I'm not sure 0:45:01.680 --> 0:45:04.920 if your phone carries all twenty thousand physically on your device. 0:45:05.000 --> 0:45:06.480 I don't know if you have that much storage on 0:45:06.520 --> 0:45:09.160 your phone. It may or may not. But they are 0:45:09.200 --> 0:45:11.680 backed up in iCloud. So that's one place they're backed up, 0:45:11.880 --> 0:45:13.400 and of course you want them backed up in a 0:45:13.400 --> 0:45:16.320 second place, which would be one of these cloud apps. 0:45:16.719 --> 0:45:20.160 So since since you're already paying for Amazon, I would 0:45:20.200 --> 0:45:23.560 say install the Amazon Photos app and let your photos 0:45:23.560 --> 0:45:27.000 back up there, and that way you have a secondary copy. 0:45:27.000 --> 0:45:30.000 Because I don't think icloud's going away anytime soon. I 0:45:30.040 --> 0:45:31.719 don't think you're gonna have an issue with that, but 0:45:31.960 --> 0:45:35.080 just in case, you will have a pretty sizeable backup 0:45:35.120 --> 0:45:37.960 of your photos, especially as you take new ones on 0:45:38.320 --> 0:45:42.120 your Amazon account as well. Now that will take care 0:45:42.200 --> 0:45:45.719 of moving forward. So to get rid of these photos 0:45:45.800 --> 0:45:49.120 out of Google, I would just go ahead delete the 0:45:49.360 --> 0:45:51.520 Google Photos app off of your iPhone. You don't need 0:45:51.560 --> 0:45:53.360 to do anything first before you do that, Just go 0:45:53.360 --> 0:45:54.120 ahead and delete it. 0:45:54.719 --> 0:45:55.000 Okay. 0:45:55.239 --> 0:45:59.800 Then I would go to photos dot Google dot com 0:45:59.840 --> 0:46:03.480 on your computer and you can go ahead and select 0:46:03.600 --> 0:46:07.520 photos in there and delete them. And I believe once 0:46:07.560 --> 0:46:09.120 you go in there, let me try this real quick. 0:46:09.760 --> 0:46:12.880 If you select like one photo, you you should be 0:46:12.920 --> 0:46:15.160 able to select a bunch at a time and just 0:46:15.200 --> 0:46:16.960 go ahead and delete those. And when you delete them 0:46:16.960 --> 0:46:19.560 from the web interface, they're not going to delete off 0:46:19.640 --> 0:46:22.359 your iPhone at the same time because it can't talk 0:46:22.400 --> 0:46:24.880 to your your iCloud anymore. Does that make sense? 0:46:26.200 --> 0:46:26.480 I think? 0:46:26.600 --> 0:46:29.760 So, let me just one other thing I have in iMac, 0:46:30.440 --> 0:46:34.120 and I don't have iCloud on my Mac because I 0:46:34.160 --> 0:46:37.319 didn't want them if I took if I deleted them 0:46:37.360 --> 0:46:39.960 off on my phone, I didn't want them to delete 0:46:39.960 --> 0:46:40.880 them off my computer. 0:46:41.400 --> 0:46:46.080 Okay, Well, the way that iCloud works is it's a 0:46:46.200 --> 0:46:49.520 it's a everything syncs to iCloud. So if you're looking 0:46:49.560 --> 0:46:52.120 at your photo collection on your Mac, it's going to 0:46:52.160 --> 0:46:54.640 be the same exact collection that's on your phone. That's 0:46:54.680 --> 0:46:57.080 if you go to iCloud dot com, it's all the same. 0:46:57.120 --> 0:46:59.960 And it's very confusing for people because they think because 0:47:00.040 --> 0:47:02.000 it's on an app on their phone, it's different than 0:47:02.040 --> 0:47:04.640 what's in the cloud or what's on you know, their 0:47:04.680 --> 0:47:07.840 computer if they're syncing it. So that is a little confusing. 0:47:07.880 --> 0:47:10.880 But my main point here is that if you're if 0:47:10.920 --> 0:47:14.120 you're not wanting to use the Google Photos aspect of anything, 0:47:14.640 --> 0:47:17.880 just go to the Google Photos website and that anything 0:47:17.920 --> 0:47:21.719 you do there will not connect through to iCloud. So 0:47:21.800 --> 0:47:24.120 if you go through and delete all these pictures on 0:47:24.160 --> 0:47:27.720 Google Photos, they will only delete on the Google Photos 0:47:27.760 --> 0:47:30.799 cloud and it's not going to redelete them off of 0:47:30.840 --> 0:47:34.520 your iCloud photo collection. Okay, So, and you can go 0:47:34.600 --> 0:47:37.520 through and you know, try to bulk delete. I think 0:47:37.560 --> 0:47:39.919 you can select a thousand at once or something like that. 0:47:39.960 --> 0:47:41.720 But you can just go through and kind of delete 0:47:41.719 --> 0:47:45.279 as many as possible. And I believe you can just 0:47:45.360 --> 0:47:47.080 kind of click in the corner of the photo and 0:47:47.120 --> 0:47:49.839 then drag over to kind of select multiple photos at 0:47:49.880 --> 0:47:52.680 once and that then then just go ahead and delete them. 0:47:52.719 --> 0:47:54.520 Then you can empty the trash and you should see 0:47:54.520 --> 0:47:58.600 your storage kind of clean up there. So, uh, good question, Karen. 0:47:58.680 --> 0:48:01.840 I know it's confusing. This phot cloud collection stuff is 0:48:02.000 --> 0:48:06.400 really not easy, especially when you start using multiple different providers. 0:48:06.400 --> 0:48:08.560 So good question there, and get that stuff cleaned up. 0:48:08.600 --> 0:48:11.600 So your Gmail works again because it is connected, all right. 0:48:11.600 --> 0:48:13.200 If you have a call, give me a or if 0:48:13.239 --> 0:48:15.120 you have a question, give me a call. It's triple 0:48:15.160 --> 0:48:17.479 eight rich one O one. That's eight eight eight seven 0:48:17.560 --> 0:48:20.680 four to two four to one zero one. My name 0:48:20.719 --> 0:48:24.239 is rich Dmuro and you are listening to rich on Tech. 0:48:25.760 --> 0:48:28.719 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:48:28.760 --> 0:48:33.480 out with you talking technology at triple eight rich one 0:48:33.480 --> 0:48:37.120 O one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:48:37.480 --> 0:48:44.200 one zero one. If you've got an iPhone, you want 0:48:44.239 --> 0:48:49.440 to update your software immediately. Apple issued an emergency patch 0:48:49.760 --> 0:48:56.200 this week UH to address alleged spyware vulnerability. So the 0:48:56.239 --> 0:49:01.160 actual the allegers in this case is Russia. Their intelligence 0:49:01.200 --> 0:49:06.600 service said that Apple was intentionally leaving this hole open 0:49:06.760 --> 0:49:10.880 in their software so that people can spy on Russia 0:49:10.920 --> 0:49:13.920 through it, which I mean take that claim with a 0:49:13.920 --> 0:49:18.600 grain of salt. But there is a vulnerability on the 0:49:18.640 --> 0:49:22.000 iPhone that should definitely be patched. So if you go 0:49:22.120 --> 0:49:24.840 into your settings, so if you if you don't know 0:49:24.880 --> 0:49:26.400 how to do this, sometimes it'll pop up on your 0:49:26.440 --> 0:49:28.040 screen to tell you. But if it doesn't, you just 0:49:28.080 --> 0:49:31.800 go into settings, you go into General and then software 0:49:31.880 --> 0:49:36.080 update and you should be on iOS sixteen point five 0:49:36.440 --> 0:49:41.000 point one again sixteen point five point one if you 0:49:41.040 --> 0:49:43.279 want to be on the latest software. That's if you're 0:49:43.280 --> 0:49:47.440 not running any betas, which you could be, but I don't, 0:49:48.640 --> 0:49:53.320 but anyway, do that for sure. Researchers with the cyber 0:49:53.800 --> 0:49:57.880 security firm Kaspersky, which is headquartered in Moscow, said that 0:49:58.960 --> 0:50:01.799 they found the exploit while monitoring the network traffic of 0:50:01.840 --> 0:50:04.960 their own corporate Wi Fi network dedicated for mobile devices. 0:50:05.680 --> 0:50:07.960 So Apple did patch this of course they denied the 0:50:07.960 --> 0:50:12.200 claims that they are intentionally leaving this flaw in iOS. 0:50:12.239 --> 0:50:18.120 So the NSA and other US security agencies could compromise 0:50:18.200 --> 0:50:21.600 phones in Russia. But who knows. It'd be more interesting 0:50:21.640 --> 0:50:24.239 if they were doing that, right, but I don't think 0:50:24.239 --> 0:50:26.960 they were so anyway, update your software. If you have 0:50:26.960 --> 0:50:30.600 an iPhone, let's see if you have an a SOUS router, 0:50:31.520 --> 0:50:35.600 update your firmware. Welcome to the update your software show 0:50:35.800 --> 0:50:38.840 my home. My name is Rich DeMuro, but this is important. 0:50:38.840 --> 0:50:40.880 I don't do all software updates, but I you know, 0:50:40.920 --> 0:50:43.640 if these are like critical vulnerabilities, you need to do this. 0:50:44.080 --> 0:50:46.560 And your router in your house is you know, that's 0:50:46.640 --> 0:50:50.080 the the endpoint. You know, that's the place where someone 0:50:50.080 --> 0:50:51.799 could get in. So you want to make sure it's 0:50:51.840 --> 0:50:54.000 up to date. And we don't often think about updating 0:50:54.000 --> 0:50:56.160 our routers unless you have one of these new mesh 0:50:56.200 --> 0:50:58.840 systems that does it automatically. So if you have a 0:50:58.840 --> 0:51:05.400 a SUS RT GTSZN WI FI and TUF router TUF, 0:51:07.480 --> 0:51:09.440 that just sounds bad. I don't know what that means, 0:51:09.440 --> 0:51:12.479 but that sounds bad. Yeah, if you have a tough router, 0:51:13.360 --> 0:51:16.560 check for a firmware update as soon as possible. The 0:51:16.600 --> 0:51:23.480 company released a security patch of resolving nine vulnerabilities that 0:51:22.440 --> 0:51:26.680 could harm you. Someone could execute some remote code and 0:51:26.760 --> 0:51:28.520 take over your network at your house. You don't want 0:51:28.560 --> 0:51:30.920 that to happen. So if you don't know how to 0:51:30.960 --> 0:51:34.520 do this, these these routers go back to twenty eighteen, 0:51:34.600 --> 0:51:38.000 by the way, So you log into your router a 0:51:38.080 --> 0:51:39.919 lot of times it's on the bottom of your router, 0:51:40.040 --> 0:51:43.319 your router's IP address. I know this gets a little complicated, 0:51:43.680 --> 0:51:45.959 but look on the bottom of your router and there's 0:51:45.960 --> 0:51:48.560 a there's usually an address you can put in, and 0:51:48.600 --> 0:51:50.640 you type that in, it'll bring you to your router's 0:51:50.719 --> 0:51:55.040 interface and then you can update the software from there. 0:51:55.880 --> 0:51:58.360 If you don't know how to find the IP address, 0:51:58.440 --> 0:52:01.520 as US has a device to discoverutility, you can download that 0:52:01.920 --> 0:52:04.200 or go to the website for that. And then once 0:52:04.239 --> 0:52:06.319 you go to the website for your router, you'll see 0:52:06.320 --> 0:52:08.239 a notification up here in the top right corner that 0:52:08.280 --> 0:52:12.239 says a firmware update is available. Click firmware upgrade to 0:52:12.680 --> 0:52:14.680 download install the patch and that should take just a 0:52:14.719 --> 0:52:16.399 few minutes. But if you have an a SOUS router, 0:52:16.520 --> 0:52:19.279 again definitely want to do the firmware update. If you 0:52:19.320 --> 0:52:22.120 don't know how to do this yourself, find a kid 0:52:22.160 --> 0:52:24.440 in your neighborhood that's good at tech and ask them 0:52:24.480 --> 0:52:26.279 to help you do it. And I'm sure they'll be 0:52:27.000 --> 0:52:30.279 happy to do that. All right, I don't think we 0:52:30.320 --> 0:52:33.719 have enough time for a question, so let's do this. 0:52:35.000 --> 0:52:38.040 Let's do an email question since we only have a minute. Hey, Rich, 0:52:38.040 --> 0:52:40.160 we're allowing our grandson to use our car to get 0:52:40.200 --> 0:52:42.360 to and from school in a part time job. Is 0:52:42.400 --> 0:52:44.719 there a tracking device that can be covertly attached to 0:52:44.800 --> 0:52:47.080 the vehicle in order to see if he's making any 0:52:47.160 --> 0:52:50.480 side trips? Well, we have to pay a monthly monitoring fee. 0:52:50.480 --> 0:52:54.200 Thank you, Roger. Roger, I cannot say that you should 0:52:54.200 --> 0:52:57.240 track anyone. It is your car, so it's your progative. 0:52:57.239 --> 0:52:59.360 But I don't think you should secretly track anyone. I 0:52:59.360 --> 0:53:02.040 think that you should to talk to your grandson, tell 0:53:02.080 --> 0:53:03.920 them that you want to track them, and that should 0:53:03.920 --> 0:53:06.960 probably stop the side trips in general, like pretty quickly. 0:53:07.520 --> 0:53:10.280 But there are some highly rated devices. There's a company 0:53:10.280 --> 0:53:15.680 you could look into called Logistimatics Logistimatics dot com. And 0:53:15.719 --> 0:53:19.239 then two highly rated products. One is called Bouncy bo 0:53:19.480 --> 0:53:22.040 u n cie. That's under one hundred dollars. Plus you 0:53:22.040 --> 0:53:23.880 have to pay eight bucks a month for the tracker 0:53:24.160 --> 0:53:28.320 part and then track track you dot Com is thirty 0:53:28.360 --> 0:53:30.680 dollars and that also has GPS, but keep in mind 0:53:30.719 --> 0:53:32.840 you will need to pay a monthly fee. All right. 0:53:32.880 --> 0:53:35.000 Coming up next, best selling author Deborah Fine is going 0:53:35.040 --> 0:53:37.279 to tell us about the Fine Art of small talk. 0:53:42.000 --> 0:53:45.160 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 0:53:45.200 --> 0:53:50.600 out with you talking technology, which I can do pretty well, 0:53:51.280 --> 0:53:54.640 but when it comes to small talk, man, I feel 0:53:54.640 --> 0:53:58.080 like I am just not good at that. And I 0:53:58.120 --> 0:54:00.400 was at this conference over the weekend or over the 0:54:00.400 --> 0:54:03.279 week i should say, and it was three days of 0:54:03.520 --> 0:54:06.080 non stop small talk. So they would do kind of 0:54:06.120 --> 0:54:08.920 like you know, a breakfast small talk. Then they do 0:54:09.000 --> 0:54:11.960 a talk on stage, break out small talk while you 0:54:12.000 --> 0:54:14.799 wait for the next session, do another session on stage 0:54:15.000 --> 0:54:19.480 small talk again, small talk during cocktail hour, small talk everywhere. 0:54:20.719 --> 0:54:24.360 Joining me now is author Deborah Fine. She wrote the 0:54:24.360 --> 0:54:27.239 book on small talk, The Fine Art of Small Talk, 0:54:27.960 --> 0:54:30.200 And Deborah, thanks for joining me today. Is it your 0:54:30.239 --> 0:54:31.080 birthday today? 0:54:31.520 --> 0:54:31.719 Rich? 0:54:31.800 --> 0:54:32.960 It's my birthday today. 0:54:33.120 --> 0:54:37.120 Happy day. Hey, that's a that's a great way to 0:54:37.160 --> 0:54:40.200 start small talk. Hey it's your birthday, Happy birthday. 0:54:40.920 --> 0:54:43.319 So you can't use that a good one as an icebreaker, 0:54:43.719 --> 0:54:46.400 and it's pretty self centered. I just use that to 0:54:46.400 --> 0:54:47.240 tweet out today. 0:54:47.400 --> 0:54:50.400 Okay, So so already I'm self centered. See this is 0:54:50.440 --> 0:54:50.960 my problem. 0:54:51.880 --> 0:54:54.400 Well I do that, then I'm self centered. It's all 0:54:54.400 --> 0:54:56.200 about you right now, rich Okay, Well. 0:54:56.040 --> 0:54:59.719 Here's my first question for you. Right am I abnormal 0:54:59.800 --> 0:55:01.960 in the fact that I feel like small talk can 0:55:02.000 --> 0:55:04.040 be really tricky sometimes. 0:55:04.120 --> 0:55:06.480 Well not only tricky, but as I listened to you 0:55:06.520 --> 0:55:10.560 describe your week, I was exhausted, But everyone listening was 0:55:10.719 --> 0:55:12.880 just as exhausted, unless they're an extrovert, of course, or 0:55:12.920 --> 0:55:16.000 unless they had more than one cocktail or five cocktails, 0:55:16.000 --> 0:55:17.480 and it's not as exhausting, of course. 0:55:17.520 --> 0:55:20.960 But then you get then you run into like you know, 0:55:21.040 --> 0:55:22.560 you don't want to do that either. 0:55:22.680 --> 0:55:25.719 You know, of course not. So here's here's the trick 0:55:25.800 --> 0:55:28.680 to small talker, I mean, the many tricks. Number one 0:55:29.000 --> 0:55:31.239 is to you decide how much time you're going to 0:55:31.320 --> 0:55:33.040 invest in the energy you're going to invest. But then 0:55:33.080 --> 0:55:35.200 you've got to do it right. So what I mean 0:55:35.200 --> 0:55:37.759 by right is I turn it into a task. I'm 0:55:37.760 --> 0:55:40.319 an introvert by nature. Who I hope sounds like an 0:55:40.360 --> 0:55:44.200 extrovert right now. So when I walk into a networking event, 0:55:44.360 --> 0:55:47.319 or that coffee break, or the reception before the dinner 0:55:47.440 --> 0:55:48.960 or the awards or whatever you had to go through 0:55:48.960 --> 0:55:51.279 this week, we're sitting in the auditorium waiting for the 0:55:51.320 --> 0:55:55.720 next speaker, I approach that as a task. Here's the task. 0:55:56.320 --> 0:55:58.200 Meet the person I right, meet the person on my left, 0:55:58.400 --> 0:56:00.800 don't wait for them to introduce themselves. Walk into a 0:56:00.840 --> 0:56:03.960 hospitality suite. Tell myself, I'm going to meet two new people. 0:56:04.040 --> 0:56:05.960 I'm going to meet four new people. One new person. 0:56:06.000 --> 0:56:08.759 I get to decide the task, and then when my 0:56:08.880 --> 0:56:11.680 task is done, then I get to In my case, 0:56:11.719 --> 0:56:13.440 I do like to drink, so I'll go and drink 0:56:13.560 --> 0:56:16.680 or I'll leave early. How great would that be? So 0:56:16.880 --> 0:56:19.640 small talk it sounds like a waste of saliva to 0:56:19.680 --> 0:56:23.800 most people because it most of us think it's sports 0:56:23.960 --> 0:56:27.000 or the weather. But what small talk really is, I believe, 0:56:27.120 --> 0:56:30.439 is the appetizer to a relationship. In your case, because 0:56:30.480 --> 0:56:34.239 you're at a business industry conference, it was the appetiser 0:56:34.239 --> 0:56:38.719 to business relationships. Although anything else is possible. But anytime 0:56:38.920 --> 0:56:41.520 we invest time in getting to know people or just 0:56:41.600 --> 0:56:45.240 frame conversations with small talk. So think about this before 0:56:45.440 --> 0:56:50.480 or after the picture frame of a business conversation, let's say, 0:56:50.760 --> 0:56:53.600 the provision of a service, the negotiation of a contract, 0:56:53.760 --> 0:56:58.040 the evaluation of a candidate, before or after. If we 0:56:58.160 --> 0:57:02.400 use small talk, then we develop these business friendship, business 0:57:02.440 --> 0:57:05.640 relationships and all things, you know, being equal people do 0:57:05.760 --> 0:57:08.239 business with their friends and all things not being so equal, 0:57:08.280 --> 0:57:10.880 people still do business with their friends. So it is 0:57:10.920 --> 0:57:13.920 a good investment of our time just to do it 0:57:14.000 --> 0:57:16.200 in a quality way when we choose to do it, 0:57:16.240 --> 0:57:19.440 and when we're spent exhausted done that, we should just 0:57:19.520 --> 0:57:22.280 tune out or go sit in the reception area, plan 0:57:22.400 --> 0:57:24.000 your device for a while, then come back in. 0:57:24.520 --> 0:57:27.200 Okay, you mentioned the device. So I feel like I'm 0:57:27.240 --> 0:57:29.000 seeing when I go because I go to a lot 0:57:29.040 --> 0:57:31.880 of I basically come home on a weekly basis and 0:57:32.000 --> 0:57:35.280 explain to my wife how how many events I have 0:57:35.320 --> 0:57:37.200 to go to where you really have to put yourself 0:57:37.200 --> 0:57:39.480 out there, where you have to make these small talks. 0:57:39.520 --> 0:57:42.040 You have to meet people, you have to introduce yourself, 0:57:42.080 --> 0:57:45.320 ask people what they do. All this good stuff and 0:57:45.400 --> 0:57:48.080 I find that there are an element of folks who 0:57:48.120 --> 0:57:50.640 sort of retreat into their phone because now it used 0:57:50.680 --> 0:57:52.600 to be you know, let's say you're in a standard 0:57:52.840 --> 0:57:55.360 kind of cocktail reception kind of thing. There's a couple 0:57:55.400 --> 0:57:58.080 tables set up, some people already kind of paired off, 0:57:58.120 --> 0:58:01.120 they know someone whatever, and then other people might just 0:58:01.120 --> 0:58:03.360 stand there and stare at their phone. So do you 0:58:03.360 --> 0:58:05.200 feel like we're seeing more of a trend of that 0:58:05.320 --> 0:58:08.920 happening or has that always happened? And you know, is 0:58:08.960 --> 0:58:11.240 that okay to do or no? Should you really just 0:58:11.320 --> 0:58:11.920 not do that? 0:58:12.520 --> 0:58:16.520 I think I'm not positive of this, but I believe 0:58:16.720 --> 0:58:19.160 that people have that crutch of their phone that we 0:58:19.200 --> 0:58:21.920 can view. But in the past, because I was one 0:58:21.960 --> 0:58:25.440 of those people. You know, I was an engineer originally 0:58:25.920 --> 0:58:29.520 in my profession, and I was an INTROVERTI shy person. 0:58:29.560 --> 0:58:32.640 I stood over in the corner by myself, and you know, 0:58:32.680 --> 0:58:34.600 I joked about drinking. I was not a drinker at 0:58:34.600 --> 0:58:36.560 that time. But I do believe people would huddle at 0:58:36.600 --> 0:58:38.880 the bar because they didn't have a device to look 0:58:38.920 --> 0:58:42.200 down at. There were a million crutches, rich, It's just 0:58:42.240 --> 0:58:44.000 that the crutch right now is a device. Do I 0:58:44.000 --> 0:58:47.600 think it's wrong. Absolutely, your device should not be out 0:58:47.680 --> 0:58:49.760 and about, even at a if I sit down with 0:58:49.800 --> 0:58:51.680 you to dine, it should not be out and about 0:58:51.680 --> 0:58:53.560 on the table. It should either be in a pocket, 0:58:54.400 --> 0:58:56.920 a handback, whatever it may be. It certainly should be 0:58:56.920 --> 0:59:00.160 facing down and turned off. And if you wear an 0:59:00.200 --> 0:59:02.439 Apple Watch on your rist, please stop it, just because 0:59:02.440 --> 0:59:05.880 you're driving me nuts and I just really I cannot 0:59:05.920 --> 0:59:11.040 stand it, So for rich let me and people have 0:59:11.080 --> 0:59:14.960 forgotten this. A phone has a phone feature. I know 0:59:15.000 --> 0:59:17.280 we've forgotten this, but wouldn't it be grand. It's like 0:59:17.560 --> 0:59:19.600 as recently as yesterday, I got an inquiry in my 0:59:19.680 --> 0:59:22.960 business and instead of replying the email that's how it 0:59:23.040 --> 0:59:25.480 was delivered, I picked up the phone and used the 0:59:25.520 --> 0:59:27.760 phone feature. Now asked me if she answered no. She 0:59:27.800 --> 0:59:29.600 did not, but I left a phone message and said 0:59:29.600 --> 0:59:31.800 I follow up by email. You know, we need to 0:59:31.800 --> 0:59:34.160 have this space to face interaction or this where I 0:59:34.160 --> 0:59:36.440 can just hearing your voice right now. I don't know you. 0:59:36.480 --> 0:59:38.959 Now you're in a you originally asked me a question 0:59:39.040 --> 0:59:42.120 about going to these functions, et cetera. You're at a 0:59:42.160 --> 0:59:45.560 disadvantage because I'm guessing this. I don't know you, we've 0:59:45.560 --> 0:59:47.360 never talked. I didn't even know who you were two 0:59:47.400 --> 0:59:49.240 days ago. Sorry because I don't live in LA. 0:59:49.320 --> 0:59:52.840 But no offense. 0:59:54.080 --> 0:59:56.400 Yeah, well those of us who are living Denver, who 0:59:56.440 --> 1:00:00.560 are home of the NBA champion Denver Nuggets, everyone didn't 1:00:00.560 --> 1:00:04.320 even exist, mister Laker fan. But nonetheless I move on. 1:00:04.800 --> 1:00:05.760 So I. 1:00:07.240 --> 1:00:09.919 Think you're probably recognizable. So you're at a disadvantage because 1:00:09.920 --> 1:00:12.240 people must come around you, and so you're almost like 1:00:12.320 --> 1:00:13.880 have to come up with small tuck more than. 1:00:13.800 --> 1:00:14.360 The rest of us. 1:00:14.360 --> 1:00:17.520 But I would say to people to walk in prepared, 1:00:17.600 --> 1:00:19.360 come up with two to three things to talk about 1:00:19.400 --> 1:00:22.160 when you walk into the situations at least that Riches 1:00:22.240 --> 1:00:25.600 does describe. So, for instance, I call it free information. 1:00:25.720 --> 1:00:27.760 So free information is the information that's free to all 1:00:27.800 --> 1:00:30.400 of us. It's sort of a commonality. So if I'm 1:00:30.400 --> 1:00:32.480 at a conference, I can say to anybody that I 1:00:32.520 --> 1:00:34.920 introduce myself, say, so, is this your first time at 1:00:35.160 --> 1:00:38.160 this conference, or what was your number one takeaway from 1:00:38.200 --> 1:00:41.400 the speaker this morning? Or what other conferences do you attend. 1:00:41.720 --> 1:00:44.800 The free information I have is that you're at this conference, right, 1:00:44.840 --> 1:00:47.040 and so am I You know, what did you see 1:00:47.080 --> 1:00:49.880 the exhibit hall that caught your eye. So if I'm 1:00:49.880 --> 1:00:52.320 at a fundraiser, what got you involved in this fundraiser? 1:00:52.320 --> 1:00:54.520 How are you connected? If I'm at your party at 1:00:54.520 --> 1:00:56.600 your house, you just disclosed that you're married. By the way, 1:00:56.600 --> 1:00:59.840 everyone listening, don't ask people if they're married. Don't ask them. 1:00:59.840 --> 1:01:02.800 If I found out Rich is married because he disclosed it, 1:01:03.240 --> 1:01:04.920 I am not going to ask him do you have 1:01:04.960 --> 1:01:08.360 any kids? Because folks, they either don't and you're headed 1:01:08.400 --> 1:01:11.400 down a rabbit hole, or they do and they won't 1:01:11.400 --> 1:01:11.800 shut up. 1:01:12.160 --> 1:01:14.920 But I made that faux pas yesterday. I asked someone, 1:01:15.080 --> 1:01:16.560 I said, oh, do you have kids? And as soon 1:01:16.560 --> 1:01:19.240 as I asked it, and I realized because when I 1:01:19.280 --> 1:01:23.040 looked up this person on their Instagram, their entire mo 1:01:23.320 --> 1:01:26.040 is sort of like, uh, I don't need a man, 1:01:26.280 --> 1:01:27.800 and the like I make my own money, this and that, 1:01:27.840 --> 1:01:30.400 and I was like, oh wow, I really kind of 1:01:30.920 --> 1:01:33.520 I really stepped into a bee's nest there. 1:01:33.560 --> 1:01:35.440 So want me to tell you my favorite way to 1:01:35.440 --> 1:01:38.080 get to know someone with's out asking those kinds of questions. 1:01:38.160 --> 1:01:40.200 Yes, give us the tips because I. 1:01:41.040 --> 1:01:43.880 Sounded like I was joking around, but I'm not. I 1:01:43.880 --> 1:01:45.880 don't think it's cool to ask people, are you married? 1:01:46.200 --> 1:01:46.480 I don't. 1:01:46.520 --> 1:01:49.600 Even if I'm in an industry conference, I'll ask you, 1:01:49.600 --> 1:01:51.040 you know, what kind of work you do, because then 1:01:51.080 --> 1:01:53.760 it's it's appropriate. But if I'm outside of an industry 1:01:53.760 --> 1:01:56.320 conference or a work function, I don't. I'm not going 1:01:56.400 --> 1:01:58.200 to start a conversation with what do you do? 1:01:58.440 --> 1:01:58.640 Rich? 1:01:59.120 --> 1:02:01.240 So my favorite way to get to know someone without 1:02:01.320 --> 1:02:03.480 asking questions that you might put your foot in your 1:02:03.520 --> 1:02:07.720 mouth or cause them any awkwardness or discomfort, is to say, like, 1:02:07.800 --> 1:02:10.960 to you, Rich, I know enough about you professionally. I 1:02:11.040 --> 1:02:12.760 happen to just learn you how to wife. But let's 1:02:12.760 --> 1:02:14.880 put that aside for a second. My favorite way to 1:02:14.880 --> 1:02:17.640 get to know you is to say, outside of work, Rich, 1:02:17.800 --> 1:02:20.360 what keeps you busy? One day, I meet you at 1:02:20.760 --> 1:02:23.480 a fundraiser, outside of you know, working on behalf of 1:02:23.520 --> 1:02:26.360 this food bank? What keeps you busy? So I meet 1:02:26.400 --> 1:02:29.440 you at back to school night with the kids. So 1:02:29.600 --> 1:02:31.960 outside of the kids, what keeps you busy? It's my 1:02:32.120 --> 1:02:34.280 favorite way to get to know somebody. They can disclose 1:02:34.840 --> 1:02:38.520 you know, I do yoga, I like to jog, I'm 1:02:39.200 --> 1:02:41.360 I'm in a book club, I have three kids, I 1:02:42.000 --> 1:02:45.320 like to travel. Whatever they disclose is now what you 1:02:45.360 --> 1:02:46.439 get to talk about with them? 1:02:46.560 --> 1:02:48.600 Oh I love that, And that is such a little 1:02:48.640 --> 1:02:52.439 secret weapon right there. So now I know, outside of 1:02:52.880 --> 1:02:54.920 you know, helping people with you know, let's say I 1:02:54.960 --> 1:02:57.440 meet another tech person, outside of helping people with technology, 1:02:58.080 --> 1:03:00.520 what keeps you busy? It's such an easy way to 1:03:00.520 --> 1:03:01.840 get them to open out to function. 1:03:02.000 --> 1:03:03.880 Let's say your wife is there, so I don't know 1:03:03.920 --> 1:03:06.320 her either, obviously, but I don't want to dismiss her. 1:03:06.560 --> 1:03:09.240 Often people when I'm with my husband, who I don't 1:03:09.240 --> 1:03:11.320 share his last name, and he happens to be a doctor, 1:03:11.360 --> 1:03:14.000 so he gets all that energy. Right, You're fine. I 1:03:14.000 --> 1:03:15.400 don't need to tell you what I do for a living. 1:03:15.520 --> 1:03:18.240 That's all great. But what I observe is people never 1:03:18.280 --> 1:03:20.280 say to me. They don't want to say what do 1:03:20.320 --> 1:03:22.880 you do because they're worried I don't do anything? Okay, 1:03:23.000 --> 1:03:26.040 So but if I had that wonderful opportunity to meet 1:03:26.040 --> 1:03:28.440 your wife, I would say, what keeps you busy? Outside 1:03:28.480 --> 1:03:30.560 of being dragged to these events with your husband? 1:03:30.640 --> 1:03:33.000 I love it. See, look at I just got two 1:03:33.040 --> 1:03:34.919 things that I wish I knew all week long. 1:03:35.280 --> 1:03:36.160 Thank you Rich. 1:03:36.400 --> 1:03:38.880 Okay, Deborah, we're going to leave it there. Deborah Fine, 1:03:38.920 --> 1:03:41.640 author of the Fine Art of Small Talk. How to 1:03:41.680 --> 1:03:44.760 start a conversation, keep it going, build networking skills, and 1:03:45.000 --> 1:03:48.680 leave a positive impression. It was recently updated this year, 1:03:48.840 --> 1:03:50.920 so go ahead and check it out on Amazon. I 1:03:50.960 --> 1:03:53.880 think we got some great takeaways from this conversation, Deborah, 1:03:53.960 --> 1:03:56.520 and now I cannot wait from a next event. 1:03:56.920 --> 1:03:59.320 Thanks for finding me, Rich all right er, thanks. 1:03:59.160 --> 1:04:01.560 For being on todayppreciate it. Even though you knock to 1:04:01.600 --> 1:04:03.360 the Lakers, that's okay, we won't hold it again. 1:04:06.640 --> 1:04:10.880 You guys, just you have no shame out there. The 1:04:11.040 --> 1:04:12.600 NBA champions Okay, we're done. 1:04:12.680 --> 1:04:17.440 Okay, thanks Deva, appreciate it. Thank you, oh Deva Fine 1:04:18.120 --> 1:04:21.600 on Amazon. My pretty sure said they have one championship. 1:04:21.800 --> 1:04:24.160 This is not sports talk, so you know I'm I'm 1:04:24.320 --> 1:04:27.440 already above my pay grade here. All right, coming up, 1:04:27.480 --> 1:04:29.080 we're gonna take more of your calls at Triple eight 1:04:29.160 --> 1:04:31.760 rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to two, 1:04:31.800 --> 1:04:35.440 four to one zero one. Remember that takeaway outside of 1:04:35.440 --> 1:04:38.040 what brings you here? What keeps you busy? I love 1:04:38.080 --> 1:04:45.560 that you. We're listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back 1:04:45.600 --> 1:04:48.960 to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology with 1:04:49.040 --> 1:04:51.439 you at Triple eight Rich one on one eight eight 1:04:51.520 --> 1:04:56.880 eight seven four to two four one zero one. I 1:04:56.880 --> 1:04:59.520 feel like our conversation, our small talk conversation went off 1:04:59.560 --> 1:05:03.520 the rails the end there, So uh, Deborah was a 1:05:03.520 --> 1:05:08.360 good sport. All right, let's go to Angel in Gardena, California. Angel. 1:05:08.840 --> 1:05:16.200 You're Ama Fritch, Thank you Rich, big fan of yours question. 1:05:16.760 --> 1:05:22.560 And my wife works as a factory where it's really noisy. 1:05:22.800 --> 1:05:28.960 She uses airphones to get this stress level down, just 1:05:29.000 --> 1:05:36.240 to listen to music. But recently they told all the 1:05:36.320 --> 1:05:42.240 workers not to use their phones are at work to 1:05:42.280 --> 1:05:47.760 make calls while they're working. So they told her not 1:05:47.840 --> 1:05:52.240 to use airphones anymore unless they are only for music. 1:05:53.800 --> 1:06:00.840 I've been looking for bluetooth airphones that don't have a phone, 1:06:01.240 --> 1:06:04.440 and I haven't been able to find anything that connects 1:06:04.480 --> 1:06:09.160 to and Android phone. Is there any help you can 1:06:09.920 --> 1:06:10.280 give me? 1:06:11.400 --> 1:06:14.720 That's a good question. Most people want the uh want 1:06:14.720 --> 1:06:16.160 the microphone. 1:06:16.440 --> 1:06:20.080 Yes, I know, but you know they want to get 1:06:19.760 --> 1:06:21.880 intro so yeah, no, I understand that. 1:06:21.960 --> 1:06:25.840 And she doesn't want to use a wired one either, right, No, no. 1:06:25.680 --> 1:06:31.160 Because there's type of work it's better for her to 1:06:31.240 --> 1:06:32.920 use wireless Okay. 1:06:32.600 --> 1:06:36.840 So I'm trying to find a couple of headphones. Now 1:06:36.880 --> 1:06:39.080 I don't have experience with these headphones, so I can't 1:06:39.080 --> 1:06:41.800 tell you if they're good or not. Some of them 1:06:41.840 --> 1:06:46.960 do have good ratings, but most of the time, and 1:06:47.000 --> 1:06:48.760 I will, I will pull a friend that I have 1:06:48.880 --> 1:06:51.520 that knows more about this than I do, because they 1:06:51.560 --> 1:06:54.000 test all the different earbuds. So I will, I will 1:06:54.080 --> 1:06:57.360 mention that and get get to you with that. But uh, 1:06:57.520 --> 1:07:01.760 for now, the the ones that are coming up, because 1:07:01.800 --> 1:07:04.640 ninety nine percent of earbuds have a microphone, especially the 1:07:04.640 --> 1:07:08.080 wireless ones, and I think wired, you're gonna easily be 1:07:08.080 --> 1:07:11.480 able to find a pair of wired earbuds. Like if 1:07:11.480 --> 1:07:18.160 you want something that's super cheap, Moondrop Quarks. These are 1:07:18.240 --> 1:07:23.440 highly rated, and these have no microphone for thirteen bucks. 1:07:23.800 --> 1:07:27.240 The problem is most phones like you alluded to, don't 1:07:27.280 --> 1:07:31.919 have a headphone jack anymore. So if she wants one 1:07:32.080 --> 1:07:34.000 with a headphone jack and just wants a wired pair 1:07:34.000 --> 1:07:38.520 of earbuds, Moondrop Quarks, they are thirteen bucks, highly rated, 1:07:38.720 --> 1:07:42.560 no microphone on those whatsoever. Now, when it comes to Bluetooth, 1:07:43.080 --> 1:07:47.680 I found let's see here, I found two pairs, one 1:07:47.720 --> 1:07:49.720 I'm trying to see if this one has a microphone 1:07:49.800 --> 1:07:53.640 or not. This one, I think does not have a microphone. 1:07:54.200 --> 1:07:58.880 It looks like it's twenty bucks and it's a company 1:07:58.880 --> 1:08:01.840 called Ja Rabbit and it looks like they're sold at Walmart, 1:08:01.960 --> 1:08:04.880 so that could be an option. But the one that 1:08:05.240 --> 1:08:09.920 is a little bit more well known ISO tunes and 1:08:09.960 --> 1:08:13.720 these are called free two point zero listen only, but 1:08:13.880 --> 1:08:16.400 these are expensive. These are one hundred and twenty dollars. 1:08:17.120 --> 1:08:19.519 So I'm trying to find from some of the companies 1:08:19.520 --> 1:08:24.040 that I know, like Belkin that makes earbuds Monoprice, if 1:08:24.040 --> 1:08:28.760 they make a solution without the microphone built in, and 1:08:28.760 --> 1:08:31.360 I'm just not finding them. So I see the frustration 1:08:31.520 --> 1:08:35.360 here because these are not easy to find. But here's 1:08:35.360 --> 1:08:37.519 what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna pull my friend. She 1:08:37.680 --> 1:08:41.640 reviews all of the earbuds for Wirecutter, and I'm going 1:08:41.680 --> 1:08:43.520 to see what she comes up with, because I guarantee 1:08:43.520 --> 1:08:46.840 she's got something and I will mention it on next 1:08:46.880 --> 1:08:49.639 week's show. Angel or actually you know what, have Kim, 1:08:50.200 --> 1:08:52.840 get your phone number and your text or your email 1:08:52.880 --> 1:08:55.080 and I will definitely get in touch with you directly, 1:08:55.360 --> 1:08:57.679 and if you are listening, and you have a suggestion 1:08:57.920 --> 1:09:01.720 of earbuds that are Bluetooth that you love that do 1:09:01.840 --> 1:09:04.439 not have a microphone. Let me know hello at richon 1:09:04.560 --> 1:09:07.920 tech dot TV and I'll get it into the feedback 1:09:08.000 --> 1:09:11.880 section of the show. Good question. That's a tricky one. 1:09:11.920 --> 1:09:16.120 That's a very complicated one, something that you know takes 1:09:16.120 --> 1:09:19.519 a little research to find out. Let me tell you 1:09:19.520 --> 1:09:20.200 about Rivian. 1:09:20.760 --> 1:09:20.960 You know. 1:09:21.080 --> 1:09:25.639 Rivian is the company that makes electric cars. They came 1:09:25.680 --> 1:09:29.080 out with an electric pickup truck first, and then they 1:09:29.160 --> 1:09:32.720 came out with an electric suv. They're very popular, but 1:09:32.720 --> 1:09:34.800 they are very expensive. I've test driven them. These are 1:09:34.800 --> 1:09:37.960 sort of like rugged vehicles. Amazon's a big investor in 1:09:37.960 --> 1:09:41.280 this company, and they're very, very nice, and I've seen 1:09:41.320 --> 1:09:43.280 more and more of them on the roads, at least 1:09:43.280 --> 1:09:49.839 here in the California area. But they are now saying, 1:09:49.880 --> 1:09:54.240 you know what, we are going to use Tesla's supercharger network. 1:09:54.280 --> 1:09:57.559 So they signed an agreement this week to provide Rivian 1:09:57.640 --> 1:10:01.840 drivers access to Tesla's super charger network. That's a huge deal. 1:10:02.760 --> 1:10:05.439 Now they say they're going to continue to expand their 1:10:05.479 --> 1:10:08.559 own what they call Adventure network. But last I checked, 1:10:08.560 --> 1:10:11.639 they did not have a lot of chargers with that network, 1:10:11.680 --> 1:10:14.160 and they're putting them mostly in places like national parks 1:10:14.240 --> 1:10:18.080 and things like that. So here's the deal. The folks 1:10:18.080 --> 1:10:20.640 that already have a Rivian R one T and an 1:10:20.760 --> 1:10:23.559 R one S that's their truck R one, get it 1:10:24.200 --> 1:10:27.840 our Rivian one truck, Rivian one suv. They will be 1:10:27.840 --> 1:10:31.760 able to get an adapter to charge on Tesla's supercharger 1:10:31.800 --> 1:10:35.200 network as early as spring twenty twenty four, and then 1:10:35.320 --> 1:10:38.960 starting with their twenty twenty five vehicles, they are going 1:10:39.000 --> 1:10:42.840 to have the Tesla charger built in, so you know, 1:10:42.880 --> 1:10:45.479 the charging port is going to be Tesla's, so if 1:10:45.479 --> 1:10:47.040 you pop this thing open, it's going to look like 1:10:47.080 --> 1:10:50.200 a Tesla charger. It's called the North American Charging Standard, 1:10:50.240 --> 1:10:53.200 which I find so ironic that Tesla came up with 1:10:53.240 --> 1:10:56.719 that name way way long ago, and now it actually 1:10:56.800 --> 1:11:00.400 is becoming the North American Charging Standard. Why because in 1:11:00.479 --> 1:11:03.880 recent weeks we had GM was the first to say, 1:11:03.880 --> 1:11:06.080 you know what, we're just going to go ahead and 1:11:06.320 --> 1:11:10.760 use Tesla's charging infrastructure and their charge report, and then 1:11:10.840 --> 1:11:13.320 Ford said, you know what, that's a good idea. We're 1:11:13.320 --> 1:11:15.760 going to do the same exact thing. So now We've 1:11:15.800 --> 1:11:21.000 got two three companies that are all using Tesla's supercharger network, 1:11:21.040 --> 1:11:24.840 which I know some Tesla owners are probably not too 1:11:24.840 --> 1:11:27.320 happy about that because now they're thinking, oh, great, does 1:11:27.360 --> 1:11:28.840 this mean these chargers are going to be a lot 1:11:28.880 --> 1:11:31.200 more crowded. Yeah. Probably, but this is going to be 1:11:31.240 --> 1:11:34.559 a slow process. But what we're seeing here is, at 1:11:34.640 --> 1:11:38.240 least in the US, the Tesla charging standard is becoming 1:11:38.840 --> 1:11:42.760 the standard. So Tesla is winning the format war when 1:11:42.800 --> 1:11:45.000 it comes to how we are going to charge our 1:11:45.000 --> 1:11:47.639 cars in the future. And the fact that three major 1:11:47.680 --> 1:11:50.599 companies are now going to use these chargers in their 1:11:50.640 --> 1:11:53.639 car and that they can access that supercharger network, who's 1:11:53.680 --> 1:11:56.559 going to be next? I guarantee other companies will fall 1:11:56.560 --> 1:11:58.200 in line with this, because you don't want to be 1:11:58.280 --> 1:12:01.439 left out at this point. And now, if you're choosing 1:12:01.479 --> 1:12:03.880 a car, yeah, you probably want that ease of charging. 1:12:04.560 --> 1:12:05.760 All right. If you have a question, give me a 1:12:05.760 --> 1:12:09.200 call Triple eight rich one on one eighty eight seven 1:12:09.240 --> 1:12:12.280 four to two four one zero one. You're listening to 1:12:12.720 --> 1:12:17.360 rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich 1:12:17.400 --> 1:12:22.280 DeMuro here hanging out talking technology with you at Triple 1:12:22.280 --> 1:12:26.599 eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four 1:12:26.640 --> 1:12:31.760 to two four one zero one. You are lighting up 1:12:31.760 --> 1:12:34.640 the phone lines today. Do appreciate that? 1:12:35.560 --> 1:12:35.640 Uh? 1:12:35.720 --> 1:12:37.640 You know, I'm on TV as well, So if you 1:12:37.680 --> 1:12:39.800 want to check out my TV segments where I cover 1:12:39.880 --> 1:12:43.479 a variety of tech topics, just go to Rich on 1:12:43.920 --> 1:12:46.960 tech dot TV. While you're there, you good follow me 1:12:47.040 --> 1:12:50.920 on social media. I'm on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. What 1:12:51.040 --> 1:12:54.280 did I post this week? Uh? Let's see, Well, not much. 1:12:54.360 --> 1:12:56.400 I guess I was on kind of out of town, 1:12:56.520 --> 1:12:59.240 so I did post a lot of stories, so you 1:12:59.240 --> 1:13:02.120 can check those out while you're on my Instagram. All right, 1:13:02.160 --> 1:13:05.280 let's kick off this hour with uh, let's see Barbara 1:13:06.240 --> 1:13:09.240 in Manta Bello. Barbara, you're on with Rich. 1:13:09.680 --> 1:13:11.599 Thank you, Rich, Thank you for taking my call. 1:13:11.800 --> 1:13:12.680 Thanks for calling in. 1:13:13.120 --> 1:13:16.759 This will be regarding the victrola stream Onyx record player 1:13:16.840 --> 1:13:20.120 that is supposed to work well with soos. Yes, yes, 1:13:20.160 --> 1:13:22.640 I'm interested in purchasing it, but I do want to 1:13:22.720 --> 1:13:26.960 know does it work uninterrupted excuse me, with unwired speakers 1:13:27.160 --> 1:13:29.640 or do I have to actually wire solo speakers to it? 1:13:30.320 --> 1:13:32.519 Oh? Good question. So do you do you not have 1:13:32.560 --> 1:13:34.400 a Sono system or do you expect to set. 1:13:34.240 --> 1:13:36.559 One up with us if I have quite a system already, 1:13:36.600 --> 1:13:39.840 and based on you lucking it so much, I tried 1:13:39.880 --> 1:13:42.040 my first SOS and I've been hooked ever since. 1:13:42.120 --> 1:13:45.040 Oh it's such a great system, So this will work. 1:13:46.600 --> 1:13:49.200 Now when you say wired versus wireless, what do you 1:13:49.240 --> 1:13:49.839 mean exactly? 1:13:50.240 --> 1:13:52.960 Well, I've read that. Say, for instance, I could just 1:13:53.040 --> 1:13:57.080 play it without hooking it up to any actual SOS. 1:13:59.560 --> 1:14:02.040 Yeah, as far as I understand, that's the way it works. 1:14:02.280 --> 1:14:05.400 So when I was given the demo of this at CES, 1:14:05.520 --> 1:14:09.760 they is completely wireless, so it will connect to your 1:14:09.760 --> 1:14:12.360 son speakers via Wi Fi and all you have to 1:14:12.400 --> 1:14:15.240 have is one. You probably need a recent Do you 1:14:15.320 --> 1:14:18.439 have a recent Sono speaker? Yeah, okay, so if you 1:14:18.439 --> 1:14:20.479 have a recent son No speaker, it should be just fine. 1:14:20.520 --> 1:14:23.320 It will connect over Wi Fi. And that's why this 1:14:23.400 --> 1:14:26.599 is a little bit more expensive than similar record players. 1:14:27.120 --> 1:14:29.720 But this is completely wireless, and the fact that it 1:14:29.760 --> 1:14:33.200 works with sons, it is certified, so it's not like 1:14:33.240 --> 1:14:35.040 a you know, kind of where they're just kind of 1:14:35.560 --> 1:14:38.559 shoehorning it in. This is actually made to work with Sonos. 1:14:38.640 --> 1:14:40.640 So I think this would be a great addition to 1:14:40.640 --> 1:14:43.200 your collection if you don't mind spending the six hundred 1:14:43.240 --> 1:14:43.920 dollars to buy it. 1:14:44.320 --> 1:14:46.439 Well, actually they have one that's a little bit less now, 1:14:46.520 --> 1:14:49.840 the onyx or. I'm hoping with Amazon sale, maybe I 1:14:49.880 --> 1:14:50.920 can pick one up. 1:14:51.320 --> 1:14:54.679 Ah, that's a good I like. I like how you think. So, yeah, 1:14:54.680 --> 1:14:56.559 there are two versions of this, but there is a 1:14:56.600 --> 1:15:00.720 difference between them. So let me see. I need to 1:15:00.760 --> 1:15:05.360 look and refresh myself with this whole situation. So there 1:15:05.479 --> 1:15:09.600 is the carbon and then okay, the carbon is the 1:15:09.640 --> 1:15:11.719 more expensive one, and then the stream is the less expense. 1:15:11.720 --> 1:15:13.519 I've got it. Okay, so the carbon is a little 1:15:13.560 --> 1:15:17.679 bit more, little fancier, but for six hundred dollars. Yeah, 1:15:17.880 --> 1:15:19.760 this thing. I've been tracking the price on this for 1:15:19.800 --> 1:15:22.200 a while. It has not gone down, so I hope 1:15:22.200 --> 1:15:24.280 that you're right. The only thing I did see when 1:15:24.320 --> 1:15:26.720 I went to the website is there isn't a ten 1:15:26.760 --> 1:15:29.960 percent off if you put your email address into the website. 1:15:30.000 --> 1:15:32.800 So if worse comes to worse, if you can't get 1:15:32.800 --> 1:15:36.000 this thing on sale during Prime Day, you can put 1:15:36.000 --> 1:15:37.840 the email address and get ten percent off, which will 1:15:37.880 --> 1:15:40.599 take sixty dollars off. But we do know the ways 1:15:40.640 --> 1:15:45.559 to track Amazon purchases, so if you want if you 1:15:45.560 --> 1:15:47.760 haven't your eye on something on Amazon. We'll probably talk 1:15:47.800 --> 1:15:49.120 about this a little bit later because we're going to 1:15:49.120 --> 1:15:51.600 talk about Prime Day. But what I do is I 1:15:51.640 --> 1:15:53.760 either add it to my cart to be able to 1:15:53.800 --> 1:15:57.479 watch the price over the time, or you can there's 1:15:57.520 --> 1:16:00.960 actually a couple of ways. There's an extent called Honey 1:16:01.400 --> 1:16:03.640 which you can add things to your wish list on 1:16:03.720 --> 1:16:05.479 there and it will give you an email when the 1:16:05.520 --> 1:16:09.400 price drops. Then there's something called Camel Camel, I know, 1:16:09.479 --> 1:16:12.280 such a weird name, but you can put a price 1:16:12.320 --> 1:16:16.960 in there an Amazon like a link to an Amazon product, 1:16:16.960 --> 1:16:19.080 and it will send you an alert when that price changes. 1:16:19.680 --> 1:16:23.080 And then finally Google, actually, if you're using Google Chrome, 1:16:23.680 --> 1:16:27.479 they have a feature where they will track prices as well, 1:16:27.520 --> 1:16:30.680 so you can track prices on Google Chrome itself. I 1:16:30.800 --> 1:16:32.679 find that that is a little bit hit or miss. 1:16:33.040 --> 1:16:37.200 Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes a little price 1:16:37.280 --> 1:16:40.920 tracker shows up, other times it doesn't. So right now, 1:16:41.160 --> 1:16:47.080 if I click on this Victrola stream ONYX, if I 1:16:47.200 --> 1:16:50.400 click up in the URL, I'll see a little bell 1:16:50.479 --> 1:16:53.160 that says track price. So now if I click that, 1:16:53.400 --> 1:16:55.880 it says you're tracking this product. This page is saved 1:16:55.920 --> 1:16:59.479 in other bookmarks, and it will alert you on your 1:16:59.520 --> 1:17:02.640 phone or in Chrome if that price drops. So those 1:17:02.640 --> 1:17:05.599 are a couple different ways of doing it. But Barbara, 1:17:05.640 --> 1:17:07.760 you know I have my eye on this thing. So 1:17:07.840 --> 1:17:09.920 now I'm tracking the price. Now I'm wondering if this 1:17:09.960 --> 1:17:11.920 is going to go on sale for Prime. The only 1:17:11.960 --> 1:17:14.920 thing I said about my whole record experience was that 1:17:15.360 --> 1:17:18.160 I didn't like how they only last for like twenty minutes. 1:17:18.560 --> 1:17:21.200 I'm so used to just unlimited music all day long. 1:17:21.320 --> 1:17:25.919 So great question there. All right, if you have Visible, 1:17:26.720 --> 1:17:31.400 this is kind of an issue. If you have Visible, they, 1:17:31.479 --> 1:17:34.519 according to nine to five, Google, are disabling auto pay 1:17:34.600 --> 1:17:37.439 if you're on one of these older plans. So for 1:17:37.439 --> 1:17:40.000 about a year now, Visible, which is owed by Verizon, 1:17:40.280 --> 1:17:43.559 has been transitioning to two new plans that apparently give 1:17:43.560 --> 1:17:45.800 you better five G coverage, but you have to switch 1:17:45.800 --> 1:17:48.280 your simcard out. So you've probably gotten some emails about this. 1:17:48.360 --> 1:17:50.519 Maybe you've had to figure this out and do it. 1:17:51.080 --> 1:17:52.760 But the price that you have to uh the plan 1:17:52.800 --> 1:17:54.759 that you have to switch to also has a higher price. 1:17:54.760 --> 1:17:58.360 It's about five dollars more a month. So it used 1:17:58.360 --> 1:18:01.439 to be twenty five, now it's thirty all, oh, they're 1:18:01.439 --> 1:18:05.240 giving you a temporary five dollars discount, so couple of things. 1:18:05.280 --> 1:18:08.280 And I guess the author of this article uses Visible, 1:18:08.320 --> 1:18:10.240 so that's why they're interested in this. But I thought 1:18:10.240 --> 1:18:12.360 it was interesting because a lot of people do use Visible, 1:18:13.080 --> 1:18:17.160 but their messaging has gotten more urgent, telling customers through 1:18:17.200 --> 1:18:20.240 texts and emails that your service is going to be disconnected. 1:18:21.160 --> 1:18:24.519 So the most dramatic part of this whole thing is 1:18:24.560 --> 1:18:29.080 that Visible's website now gives you a notification that autopay 1:18:29.120 --> 1:18:32.280 will be disabled as part of this switch. So basically, 1:18:32.280 --> 1:18:35.280 they're forcing you to take notice because you will have 1:18:35.320 --> 1:18:38.360 to log into the website to pay your bill. So 1:18:38.400 --> 1:18:41.880 any payment due on or after July one, twenty twenty three, 1:18:41.920 --> 1:18:45.240 if you're still on this old plan, must be made manually. 1:18:46.040 --> 1:18:49.719 And because autopay payments are processed two days before, autopay 1:18:49.760 --> 1:18:52.040 will be disabled as of June twenty ninth, which means 1:18:52.040 --> 1:18:54.439 if you don't pay your auto pay, you're not going 1:18:54.479 --> 1:18:56.960 to have your service. So they're trying to force you 1:18:57.040 --> 1:19:00.800 into doing this. Now, here's the thing. If you're on 1:19:00.840 --> 1:19:03.680 this original plan, you have to do something by September 1:19:04.360 --> 1:19:08.479 because this old plan I guess this network will be 1:19:08.479 --> 1:19:11.080 shut down in September. What network are they talking about? 1:19:12.479 --> 1:19:15.320 Because Visible uses five G and four G. I don't know. 1:19:15.360 --> 1:19:18.240 It's kind of an odd thing, but the reality is, 1:19:18.360 --> 1:19:21.400 if you are using Visible and you're getting all of 1:19:21.400 --> 1:19:24.760 these messages, it's probably best to just go ahead and 1:19:25.640 --> 1:19:27.680 do the switchover. So if you have to get a 1:19:27.720 --> 1:19:30.160 new SIM card, tell them, hey, you know, I'll take 1:19:30.200 --> 1:19:31.960 the new SIM. You pop it in your phone and 1:19:32.000 --> 1:19:35.240 it works. If your phone supports eSIM, it's probably easier 1:19:35.280 --> 1:19:38.120 just to access the eSIM and just upgrade that way. 1:19:38.800 --> 1:19:41.040 But Visible could be hit or miss. I mean, I 1:19:41.080 --> 1:19:42.800 really like the pricing, but they've made a lot of 1:19:42.880 --> 1:19:48.559 changes in recent years to you know, it's good. It's 1:19:48.600 --> 1:19:51.080 a good option, but I know reviews are hit or 1:19:51.080 --> 1:19:55.000 miss on this thing. And then United doing something cool. 1:19:55.280 --> 1:19:58.519 United has a new mobile app feature that will be 1:19:58.640 --> 1:20:02.800 a lot more useful if your travel plans are disrupted. 1:20:03.640 --> 1:20:06.240 So starting now, if you've ever been on a flight 1:20:06.840 --> 1:20:11.360 that is changed or delayed, you have to go in 1:20:11.400 --> 1:20:15.839 this giant line to help you get options for delays 1:20:15.840 --> 1:20:18.720 and cancelations, and you have to stand there with a 1:20:18.760 --> 1:20:21.640 whole bunch of people who are also delayed and or canceled, 1:20:21.960 --> 1:20:23.519 and they may give you a voucher, they may give 1:20:23.520 --> 1:20:26.360 you a different flight, they may rebook you. But now, 1:20:26.600 --> 1:20:28.320 and I don't know why this wasn't a thing before, 1:20:28.920 --> 1:20:32.000 you'll get a text notification if you're on one of 1:20:32.000 --> 1:20:34.760 these flights that is interrupted, and it will bring you 1:20:34.800 --> 1:20:38.760 to the mobile app Orunited dot com and if your 1:20:38.760 --> 1:20:43.400 reservation is impacted, you will get the ability to rebook 1:20:43.439 --> 1:20:46.639 your flight or get a new flight, track your bag, 1:20:46.720 --> 1:20:49.240 see where they are, or you'll get a voucher. And 1:20:49.240 --> 1:20:51.080 this is the big important part is that they will 1:20:51.080 --> 1:20:53.640 now give you vouchers through the app, so you can 1:20:53.680 --> 1:20:57.240 get a hotel, meal or ride share voucher if you're eligible. 1:20:58.360 --> 1:21:01.680 And that's really important because I remember my son and 1:21:01.720 --> 1:21:05.840 I were delayed, delayed, delayed, delayed, And this is for 1:21:06.120 --> 1:21:10.800 flights that are delayed I think more than sixty minutes. Yeah, 1:21:10.880 --> 1:21:13.000 when a flight is delayed by more than sixty minutes 1:21:13.120 --> 1:21:15.920 or canceled, this is when you're going to automatically see 1:21:15.920 --> 1:21:18.960 this new option for delaying cancelations inside the United app. 1:21:19.320 --> 1:21:21.040 But my son and I were delayed, and this was 1:21:21.080 --> 1:21:24.120 before this obviously, and he was like four at the time, 1:21:24.160 --> 1:21:27.320 I think, long story short, it just kept getting more 1:21:27.360 --> 1:21:31.080 and more delayed. It was so annoying. We ended up 1:21:31.120 --> 1:21:32.519 getting on the plane. We had to get off the 1:21:32.520 --> 1:21:35.280 plane because like something happened with the airplane. And I said, 1:21:35.280 --> 1:21:38.160 you know what, enough is enough? I called in. Everyone 1:21:38.240 --> 1:21:40.519 was lining up. I called in and I said, you 1:21:40.520 --> 1:21:42.519 know what, you got to book us on a different flight, 1:21:42.600 --> 1:21:45.000 and by the way, i'd like first class. And I'm 1:21:45.000 --> 1:21:47.800 not kidding. I actually got disconnected from the agent on 1:21:47.800 --> 1:21:51.280 this call, which was ironic, but I'm not kidding. When 1:21:51.320 --> 1:21:54.280 I looked at my app, I miraculously saw that our 1:21:55.040 --> 1:21:58.320 itinerary had been refreshed and my ticket was rebooked and 1:21:58.880 --> 1:22:01.880 we were in first class. And that is probably one 1:22:01.920 --> 1:22:04.840 of my favorite stories. And that person will never get 1:22:04.880 --> 1:22:06.639 a thank you because I don't know who they were 1:22:06.880 --> 1:22:08.719 or their name or anything like that. And they didn't 1:22:08.720 --> 1:22:11.519 even tell me that they did this. But it was 1:22:11.560 --> 1:22:14.840 such a nice gesture because I asked for it. They 1:22:14.840 --> 1:22:17.680 didn't really fight me on it, and we actually got disconnected. 1:22:17.720 --> 1:22:19.720 They could have just literally waited till I called back, 1:22:19.760 --> 1:22:22.920 and they didn't. They proactively gave us what I asked 1:22:22.920 --> 1:22:26.080 for without even telling me and then when I got 1:22:26.120 --> 1:22:28.200 on the plane, I was pleasantly surprised. And my kid 1:22:28.240 --> 1:22:31.120 will never stop talking about that. By the way, he said, hey, Dad, 1:22:31.120 --> 1:22:33.280 can we get the every time we fly now? Can 1:22:33.320 --> 1:22:35.920 we get that seat where you get the free chicken? 1:22:36.240 --> 1:22:39.760 Remember we got that free chicken that whole meal. I said, yes, son, 1:22:39.840 --> 1:22:44.080 that doesn't happen very often. That was a fluke anyway, 1:22:44.240 --> 1:22:47.160 United thanks for making it easier when folks are delayed 1:22:47.200 --> 1:22:50.120 or canceled. All right, coming up next in this hour, 1:22:50.160 --> 1:22:53.160 we are going to talk to Julie Ramhold. She is 1:22:53.160 --> 1:22:55.479 the consumer analyst with Deal News. She's going to talk 1:22:55.520 --> 1:22:58.000 Amazon Prime Day Plus. We have time for some more 1:22:58.000 --> 1:23:00.760 of your questions at Triple A rich one on one 1:23:00.920 --> 1:23:03.800 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 1:23:03.840 --> 1:23:06.639 Coming up. You are sitting in the seat that gives 1:23:06.680 --> 1:23:08.920 you a free chicken. You're listening to rich on Tech. 1:23:10.560 --> 1:23:14.080 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here at 1:23:14.120 --> 1:23:17.720 Triple eight rich one on one. That's eight eight eight 1:23:17.880 --> 1:23:22.320 seven four to two, four to one zero one. It's 1:23:22.360 --> 1:23:26.560 been quite the show so far. Let's see if you 1:23:26.640 --> 1:23:29.000 listen to the podcast of this show, which I know 1:23:29.080 --> 1:23:31.479 some of you do, uh do me a favor and 1:23:31.560 --> 1:23:33.759 rate and review it and share it with your friends. 1:23:34.120 --> 1:23:35.960 Let them know that you listen to this show and 1:23:36.000 --> 1:23:38.559 why you listen. If you listen on the radio, take 1:23:38.600 --> 1:23:42.120 a screenshot of you listening or a picture, anything, just 1:23:42.120 --> 1:23:45.639 to let folks know that you do indeed listen and 1:23:45.680 --> 1:23:48.280 that will help grow the show. All right, let's go 1:23:48.360 --> 1:23:53.519 to uh Gary, Gary's in Redondo Beach. Gary, you're on with. 1:23:53.560 --> 1:23:56.719 Rich Hey, Rich, Hey, love show. 1:23:57.080 --> 1:23:57.479 Thank you. 1:23:58.479 --> 1:24:03.080 Checking out the new Max book Air fifteen inch okay, 1:24:03.120 --> 1:24:05.559 and that friend of mine I was saying, oh, this 1:24:05.640 --> 1:24:07.320 sounds good, I should get it, and a friend of 1:24:07.360 --> 1:24:11.080 mine said that it's the fifteen inches new. 1:24:11.160 --> 1:24:11.840 But the M. 1:24:11.840 --> 1:24:15.439 Two chip is it's going to be outdated soon by 1:24:15.439 --> 1:24:19.520 the M three or whatever chip they're working on next. 1:24:19.840 --> 1:24:21.680 So I wonder what your thought is about that. 1:24:22.520 --> 1:24:26.400 Well, that is true. But here's the thing. I mean, 1:24:26.920 --> 1:24:28.120 what are you doing on this computer? 1:24:30.320 --> 1:24:30.479 Oh? 1:24:30.640 --> 1:24:34.640 Just zoom meaning nothing big, nothing, you know, earth shattering, 1:24:35.120 --> 1:24:38.920 just personal use. I just like Apple products better than 1:24:39.520 --> 1:24:41.800 than the PC's or Microsoft. 1:24:42.320 --> 1:24:46.679 Okay, So the M two chip was released on June sixth, 1:24:46.880 --> 1:24:49.960 twenty twenty two, so that is over a year old. 1:24:51.320 --> 1:24:53.080 It is in this new MacBook Air. And it's a 1:24:53.120 --> 1:24:56.000 little confusing because I think number one, this MacBook Air 1:24:56.000 --> 1:24:59.400 has gotten incredible reviews. So I think there is absolutely 1:24:59.479 --> 1:25:03.360 no reason and not to get this. And the problem 1:25:03.479 --> 1:25:05.720 is your your friend is right, and you know the 1:25:05.840 --> 1:25:08.559 M two chip is is your friend? Do they happen 1:25:08.600 --> 1:25:09.920 to not like Apple in general? 1:25:10.800 --> 1:25:10.960 Oh? 1:25:11.000 --> 1:25:13.200 No, they have all Apple Okay, so they're kind of 1:25:13.200 --> 1:25:17.000 an Apple expert. I mean. So the thing is, it's 1:25:17.080 --> 1:25:20.760 tough to say that you shouldn't get this because when 1:25:20.800 --> 1:25:23.280 they come out with the new MacBook Air fifteen inch 1:25:23.360 --> 1:25:26.479 next year, they're probably going to use a chip that 1:25:26.720 --> 1:25:29.559 is older as well. Because the whole reason they're able 1:25:29.600 --> 1:25:32.240 to offer this at this price is because they're using 1:25:32.240 --> 1:25:36.160 a chip that has been around for a bit. Now, 1:25:36.640 --> 1:25:38.719 if we look at the facts, Number one, they didn't 1:25:38.720 --> 1:25:42.080 announce an M three this year, so we don't have 1:25:42.160 --> 1:25:43.400 an idea that they're going to come out with an 1:25:43.479 --> 1:25:45.840 M three MacBook next year. Now, they could do that, 1:25:45.880 --> 1:25:47.600 and you may buy this, and you may be frustrated 1:25:47.640 --> 1:25:50.040 and say, Rich you led me astray, like why'd you 1:25:50.080 --> 1:25:52.920 do that? But I think that for what you need 1:25:53.240 --> 1:25:55.840 out of this computer, this computer is going to serve 1:25:55.880 --> 1:25:59.519 you pretty well. If you're doing something like if you 1:25:59.560 --> 1:26:02.600 told me to video edit or something like that, I 1:26:02.640 --> 1:26:05.000 would definitely recommend that you move up to a pro 1:26:05.080 --> 1:26:08.160 system which definitely has the newer chips. So, for instance, 1:26:08.600 --> 1:26:12.879 I've got the MacBook Pro fourteen inch, which I immediately 1:26:12.960 --> 1:26:15.519 regretted because this is too small, but it has a 1:26:15.800 --> 1:26:18.519 M two pro chip which came out a little bit later, 1:26:18.760 --> 1:26:21.600 and it came out in this notebook. So but the 1:26:21.600 --> 1:26:24.040 fifteen inch MacBook Air, I know it has some of 1:26:24.040 --> 1:26:26.320 the older chips in it, but these chips are still 1:26:26.400 --> 1:26:29.000 really good. And when you look at what Apple does 1:26:29.280 --> 1:26:32.479 from start to finish with their software and their power 1:26:32.680 --> 1:26:35.920 efficiency and these chips, I mean, this is going to 1:26:35.960 --> 1:26:38.439 be a really good system for the price that they're 1:26:38.439 --> 1:26:42.200 asking for. Have you decided on how much memory you 1:26:42.200 --> 1:26:43.800 would get in this thing, because that's kind of the 1:26:43.840 --> 1:26:44.400 big question. 1:26:45.600 --> 1:26:48.200 I wanted to get one parabyte. 1:26:48.120 --> 1:26:52.200 And what about the RAM Okay, So I think that's 1:26:52.240 --> 1:26:54.439 a good decision. I think the because I think the 1:26:54.439 --> 1:26:58.120 base is eight right right, yeah, So I think the 1:26:58.240 --> 1:27:02.080 sixteen is probably going to help keep this thing faster 1:27:02.280 --> 1:27:06.719 longer than getting the base storage on the Apple always 1:27:06.760 --> 1:27:08.639 does this weird thing where they've got a good price 1:27:08.680 --> 1:27:11.680 at the beginning, you know, the entry level device, but 1:27:11.720 --> 1:27:13.800 if you pay just a little bit more, you're going 1:27:13.880 --> 1:27:15.600 to get a lot more out of that device. So 1:27:15.600 --> 1:27:18.880 I think that's smart. So I say, Gary, go for it. 1:27:19.360 --> 1:27:21.639 I understand that it's a little bit older technology inside, 1:27:21.640 --> 1:27:23.840 but it doesn't mean it's bad technology, and it doesn't 1:27:23.840 --> 1:27:27.040 mean it's outdated technology. So for what you're using it for, 1:27:27.080 --> 1:27:28.160 I think you'll be pretty happy. 1:27:29.000 --> 1:27:30.280 I really appreciate it. 1:27:30.320 --> 1:27:31.200 Thank you very much. 1:27:31.240 --> 1:27:33.479 All right, Gary, I appreciate you calling in today. Have 1:27:33.560 --> 1:27:37.840 a great day you too, all right. Yeah, that's always 1:27:37.880 --> 1:27:41.360 a tough thing with Apple products, is the timing of things. 1:27:41.400 --> 1:27:45.680 When do you get it? You know, I always think 1:27:45.720 --> 1:27:47.280 of Apple products as like you kind of have to 1:27:47.320 --> 1:27:49.360 get it like the first day it comes out, because 1:27:49.680 --> 1:27:52.000 they've got a time frame on them of like a 1:27:52.080 --> 1:27:54.000 year before they come out with the new version of it. 1:27:54.280 --> 1:27:56.400 So the website that I like to go to and 1:27:56.960 --> 1:27:59.040 for Gary, this could probably be helpful too, even though 1:27:59.160 --> 1:28:00.760 the fifteen inch mac Book Air is sort of in 1:28:00.760 --> 1:28:03.000 a class of its own. But the website I like 1:28:03.080 --> 1:28:07.400 is called Buyer's Guide by MacRumors, So if you go 1:28:07.439 --> 1:28:11.920 to buyers Guide dot MacRumors dot com, they have listed 1:28:12.000 --> 1:28:15.800 every single product that Apple makes and they tell you 1:28:16.520 --> 1:28:21.280 buy now, caution, don't buy, or neutral. So if you're 1:28:21.280 --> 1:28:24.439 looking at maccomputers, for instance, the fifteen inch MacBook Air 1:28:24.520 --> 1:28:27.679 since it just came out, is buy now. The thirteen 1:28:27.680 --> 1:28:30.400 inch MacBook Air is caution. And the reason why it's 1:28:30.439 --> 1:28:33.439 caution is because you can look at the release dates 1:28:33.479 --> 1:28:37.320 of this product in the past March twenty fifteen, June 1:28:37.360 --> 1:28:41.839 twenty seventeen, October twenty eighteen, July twenty nineteen, March twenty twenty, 1:28:41.880 --> 1:28:44.720 November twenty twenty, and it does an average of how 1:28:44.720 --> 1:28:48.599 many days between those releases, which is four hundred and 1:28:48.600 --> 1:28:52.799 forty six days between new thirteen inch back MacBook Airs, 1:28:53.040 --> 1:28:55.360 and right now it's been three hundred and fifty one days, 1:28:55.400 --> 1:28:59.040 So that tells you that in another one hundred days 1:28:59.280 --> 1:29:02.280 they're would be a new thirteen inch MacBook Air. Is 1:29:02.320 --> 1:29:06.000 it always perfect, Absolutely not, But it's a good kind 1:29:06.040 --> 1:29:08.599 of gauge to see if you should spend your money 1:29:08.680 --> 1:29:10.760 on something, and if you are going to spend your 1:29:10.800 --> 1:29:13.840 money on something, perhaps it should be a little bit discounted. So, 1:29:14.000 --> 1:29:16.840 for instance, if you look at the new home pod 1:29:16.960 --> 1:29:21.200 buy now HomePod Mini Neutral. It's been nine hundred and 1:29:21.280 --> 1:29:25.080 eighty four days since they released the home Pod Mini, 1:29:25.640 --> 1:29:27.839 so I think that one is up for a refresh, 1:29:27.880 --> 1:29:30.479 even though we have no history to go by, because 1:29:30.479 --> 1:29:33.479 that's the first product in that cycle. So anyway, the 1:29:33.520 --> 1:29:37.200 website is Buyer's Guide dot MacRumors dot com. Again, I 1:29:37.240 --> 1:29:41.400 put all of these notes on my website. Rich Ontech 1:29:41.680 --> 1:29:43.880 dot tv is the place to go. 1:29:44.000 --> 1:29:44.280 All right. 1:29:44.320 --> 1:29:47.599 Coming up, we're gonna talk Amazon Prime Day. Amazon Prime 1:29:47.680 --> 1:29:52.080 Day is back on July eleventh and twelfth. Are you ready? 1:29:52.640 --> 1:29:56.520 Is your wallet ready? Julie Ramhold, consumer analysts with dealnews 1:29:56.560 --> 1:29:59.760 dot com. We'll join me next to talk Amazon Prime 1:29:59.840 --> 1:30:03.519 Day twenty twenty three. You're listening to rich on Tech. 1:30:06.880 --> 1:30:10.559 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging 1:30:10.600 --> 1:30:16.400 out with you, talking technology. Amazon Prime Day coming back 1:30:17.479 --> 1:30:22.000 July eleventh and twelfth, Amazon says, will we be big 1:30:22.040 --> 1:30:27.040 savings Amazon exclusive deals and celebrity product launches. Who doesn't 1:30:27.080 --> 1:30:30.280 love a good celebrity product launch. Joining me now to 1:30:30.320 --> 1:30:34.600 talk about this is Julie Ramhold, consumer analysts with dealnews 1:30:34.840 --> 1:30:37.960 dot com. Julie, thanks so much for joining me today. 1:30:40.920 --> 1:30:41.679 About Prime Day. 1:30:42.360 --> 1:30:45.000 Yes, so Prime Day is this? Is this in the 1:30:45.080 --> 1:30:48.280 cadence of sort of past Prime Days? I feel like 1:30:48.320 --> 1:30:50.679 it's in It's been in like July and October, right 1:30:52.040 --> 1:30:52.759 pretty much. 1:30:52.880 --> 1:30:54.840 It's been in July for the most part. 1:30:55.000 --> 1:30:59.320 In twenty twenty it shifted to October because of the pandemic, 1:30:59.800 --> 1:31:00.880 and then. 1:31:00.840 --> 1:31:04.600 In twenty twenty one it was in June and October. 1:31:05.280 --> 1:31:07.960 In June, I want to say, the reasoning was because 1:31:08.000 --> 1:31:10.559 of the Olympics that year, so they were trying to 1:31:10.600 --> 1:31:12.639 not compete with that, and then they had a second 1:31:12.760 --> 1:31:14.160 Prime Day event in October. 1:31:14.720 --> 1:31:16.439 So what do we think of the Prime Day event? 1:31:16.479 --> 1:31:18.760 I know it's a you know, there are a lot 1:31:18.800 --> 1:31:20.560 of people that shop on it. Do you feel like 1:31:20.640 --> 1:31:23.360 it's delivered in recent years to you know, be this 1:31:23.880 --> 1:31:25.200 big shopping day or what. 1:31:27.120 --> 1:31:28.479 I honestly think it has. 1:31:28.600 --> 1:31:31.880 I mean, every year we tend to see people complaining 1:31:31.960 --> 1:31:35.320 that it seems like a garage sale, but also every 1:31:35.400 --> 1:31:37.639 year Amazon manages to knock it out of the park 1:31:37.800 --> 1:31:40.599 and have record profits and record shopping. 1:31:40.800 --> 1:31:44.360 So obviously people are still attracted to it. They're still 1:31:44.360 --> 1:31:47.120 finding good deals, and I think part of. 1:31:47.040 --> 1:31:50.879 The problem with people who may not be really familiar 1:31:50.920 --> 1:31:53.000 with Prime Day is they go in expecting it to 1:31:53.000 --> 1:31:56.439 be sort of like an early Black Friday preview, and 1:31:56.479 --> 1:32:00.760 it can be, but it's also just its own So 1:32:01.040 --> 1:32:04.559 you end up with people expecting to see tons of 1:32:04.600 --> 1:32:07.960 TVs on sale, and then they're disappointed that the selection 1:32:08.120 --> 1:32:10.800 isn't as big as they hoped for, or a lot 1:32:10.840 --> 1:32:13.280 of the deals seem to be in the home. 1:32:13.120 --> 1:32:16.639 And garden categories because that seems to be what dominates 1:32:16.640 --> 1:32:17.280 for Prime Day. 1:32:17.640 --> 1:32:19.880 Yeah, I mean, everyone wants what they want to be 1:32:20.000 --> 1:32:22.200 fifty percent off, and that's just not the case. I mean, 1:32:22.240 --> 1:32:25.320 they couldn't do that. But I did get that TV. 1:32:25.400 --> 1:32:26.800 I don't know if it was last year, the year 1:32:26.800 --> 1:32:29.840 before the TV that was like ninety nine bucks the 1:32:29.880 --> 1:32:32.400 forty three inch or whatever it was. I did get that. 1:32:32.479 --> 1:32:35.000 I nabbed it and I was so proud of myself. 1:32:35.040 --> 1:32:38.280 But my followers on social media were not happy because 1:32:38.280 --> 1:32:39.960 they're like, how did you get it? And we didn't. 1:32:41.160 --> 1:32:43.880 I said, well, I'm on my computer all day. 1:32:43.760 --> 1:32:47.080 They're bringing that back again this year, but the problem 1:32:47.160 --> 1:32:50.960 is they're also introducing invite only deals and that's one 1:32:51.040 --> 1:32:55.280 of them. So it's looking like this Prime Day, while 1:32:55.520 --> 1:32:58.440 very similar to past ones, is also. 1:32:58.240 --> 1:32:59.400 Going to shake things up a bit. 1:32:59.560 --> 1:33:01.840 Okay, so what does that mean? What's this? I already 1:33:01.840 --> 1:33:04.519 signed up for the invite only Prime deal on that TV. 1:33:04.600 --> 1:33:07.200 But what does that mean? Like, are they do I guarantee? 1:33:07.840 --> 1:33:09.639 I don't know, Like what does that mean exactly? 1:33:10.840 --> 1:33:13.640 We're honestly kind of waiting to see what it means ourselves. 1:33:13.760 --> 1:33:16.639 As Amazon puts it, you know, if you're a Prime member, 1:33:16.760 --> 1:33:20.160 then you can sign up for an invitation, and if 1:33:20.200 --> 1:33:23.240 you're selected on Prime Day, you'll receive an email with 1:33:23.280 --> 1:33:26.080 a special link that you can click and shop the 1:33:26.120 --> 1:33:29.400 deal from there. But signing up for an invitation isn't 1:33:29.400 --> 1:33:32.280 a guarantee, and we don't know what their selection process 1:33:32.320 --> 1:33:34.880 is going to look like. So it could be that 1:33:34.960 --> 1:33:37.840 they have a limited number of deals that they're you know, 1:33:37.920 --> 1:33:41.200 willing to sell at this price, and by having people 1:33:41.240 --> 1:33:43.840 sign up for invitations, it's on a first come, first 1:33:43.880 --> 1:33:47.320 serve thing, or it could be some other way that 1:33:47.360 --> 1:33:48.960 we just haven't even fathomed yet. 1:33:49.720 --> 1:33:51.639 So they could just put everything into like a hopper 1:33:51.680 --> 1:33:53.439 and say, Okay, we're going to select one hundred people 1:33:53.520 --> 1:33:55.200 to buy this and then once you get that, you 1:33:55.240 --> 1:33:57.080 can purchase it, and if they don't purchase it, and 1:33:57.120 --> 1:33:59.080 within that, we don't know how it's going to work exactly. 1:33:59.439 --> 1:34:03.000 But the the invite only deals are seventy five percent 1:34:03.000 --> 1:34:06.880 off an Amazon Fire TV forty three inch, sixty percent 1:34:06.920 --> 1:34:10.599 off this watch, fifty five percent off these JBL Live 1:34:10.680 --> 1:34:13.839 noise canceling headphones, and fifty percent off a four yo 1:34:13.960 --> 1:34:17.240 Luna three facial cleansing brush, which I know sounds funny, 1:34:17.479 --> 1:34:19.200 but my wife actually needs a new one of those, 1:34:19.240 --> 1:34:21.639 So I need to sign up for that invite only. 1:34:23.040 --> 1:34:24.519 It was hard to see that one on there. 1:34:24.680 --> 1:34:27.360 I gotta be honest, like, I know those are cult 1:34:27.439 --> 1:34:29.479 favorites for a lot of people, and I. 1:34:29.400 --> 1:34:31.160 Was like, oh, fifty percent off, that sounds good. 1:34:31.200 --> 1:34:33.639 And then I saw the original price and I was like, man, 1:34:33.640 --> 1:34:34.479 you better jump home. 1:34:34.520 --> 1:34:35.519 Fifty percent off. 1:34:35.760 --> 1:34:37.439 Yeah, I think it was one hundred and twenty dollars 1:34:37.439 --> 1:34:39.439 when I purchased the first one. I think those things 1:34:39.439 --> 1:34:43.760 are not cheap. Okay, So we know this happens July eleventh, 1:34:43.880 --> 1:34:48.639 at starting starting at three am. Oh wow, that's early 1:34:48.720 --> 1:34:50.519 three am Eastern. 1:34:51.000 --> 1:34:52.920 That's the way Amazon does Prime Day. 1:34:52.960 --> 1:34:56.280 They'll they'll start it at around three am Eastern on 1:34:56.840 --> 1:34:59.439 July eleventh, and then it'll run for forty eight hours 1:34:59.439 --> 1:35:03.760 straight and at two fifty nine am Eastern on the thirteenth. 1:35:04.200 --> 1:35:06.560 Okay, so I know deal News is a great website 1:35:06.560 --> 1:35:09.080 for finding sort of every do you guys scour the 1:35:09.120 --> 1:35:11.040 web every day looking for the best stuff, and of 1:35:11.040 --> 1:35:13.280 course you'll do that for Prime Day, But give me 1:35:13.320 --> 1:35:16.599 some what's the methodology, Like, what should I do as 1:35:16.600 --> 1:35:19.760 an average consumer to prepare myself for this and to 1:35:20.160 --> 1:35:21.320 get the best deals. 1:35:22.760 --> 1:35:25.320 Honestly, when it comes to something like Prime Day, it 1:35:25.360 --> 1:35:28.280 can be so overwhelming if you don't go in with 1:35:28.320 --> 1:35:31.559 a plan. So I think it's well worth kind of 1:35:31.600 --> 1:35:34.280 creating a wish list now for Prime Day, figuring out 1:35:34.360 --> 1:35:35.960 what you want to look at, what you want to 1:35:36.000 --> 1:35:38.880 focus on, and then start looking ahead. 1:35:38.960 --> 1:35:40.800 You can go to the Today's. 1:35:40.360 --> 1:35:44.919 Deals section on Amazon's website and start browsing through upcoming 1:35:44.960 --> 1:35:48.120 deals and mark any that you're interested in as watching. 1:35:48.720 --> 1:35:50.160 And I mean you can do this every day. You 1:35:50.160 --> 1:35:52.120 obviously don't have to wait for the Prime Day deals, 1:35:52.160 --> 1:35:54.559 and there are some early Prime Day deals that you 1:35:54.560 --> 1:35:57.880 can take advantage of now, But when it gets. 1:35:57.600 --> 1:35:59.000 Closer to the actual holiday. 1:35:59.040 --> 1:36:02.000 It definitely pays, you know, a day or two in 1:36:02.040 --> 1:36:05.479 advance to start looking through them long before they pop up, 1:36:05.520 --> 1:36:08.000 so you kind of know when you need to be 1:36:08.080 --> 1:36:12.160 aware what you're looking at, what kind of deals you 1:36:12.200 --> 1:36:15.800 can hopefully expect. The biggest thing is when you click 1:36:15.920 --> 1:36:19.040 watching on those deals, you'll be able to receive a 1:36:19.080 --> 1:36:22.160 notification from Amazon just before it goes live, so it 1:36:22.160 --> 1:36:25.400 should give you a leg up and hopefully let you 1:36:25.400 --> 1:36:27.360 get something before it has a chance to sell out. 1:36:27.840 --> 1:36:30.639 Now, everyone wants something different out of this. But one 1:36:30.640 --> 1:36:34.200 thing that is for sure is that Amazon Devices and 1:36:34.280 --> 1:36:38.400 I talk a lot about technology. They often go on 1:36:38.720 --> 1:36:41.400 sale in a very big way, and of course they've 1:36:41.439 --> 1:36:44.400 said some of these things already, like deals starting Oh 1:36:44.439 --> 1:36:47.120 deal starting now, save up to fifty five percent on 1:36:47.200 --> 1:36:50.800 select Alexa enabled devices, including the Echo Show five, the 1:36:50.880 --> 1:36:55.480 Echo Pop sixty three percent off up to on kids devices, 1:36:55.479 --> 1:37:02.200 Echo Glow Ring bundles, euro Wi Fi systems, blink outdoor cameras. 1:37:03.520 --> 1:37:05.200 So I feel like if you have your eye on 1:37:05.280 --> 1:37:08.639 an Amazon product, like a brand, you probably don't want 1:37:08.640 --> 1:37:09.519 to buy that right now. 1:37:10.840 --> 1:37:14.439 No, I would wait unless there is an early Prime 1:37:14.520 --> 1:37:16.920 Day deal going for something like that. Just because they're 1:37:16.960 --> 1:37:19.599 not likely to offer a better deal when the holiday 1:37:19.600 --> 1:37:22.800 itself rolls around. These early deals are kind of meant 1:37:22.800 --> 1:37:26.360 to entice shoppers and get them paying attention. So if 1:37:26.400 --> 1:37:30.000 there's something that you want that's currently on sale labeled 1:37:30.000 --> 1:37:32.360 as an early Prime Day deal, you can probably go 1:37:32.400 --> 1:37:34.840 ahead and safely take advantage of that and not worry 1:37:34.840 --> 1:37:38.439 about seeing a lower price when July eleventh rolls around. 1:37:39.000 --> 1:37:42.320 But that said, don't just restrict yourself to things like 1:37:42.760 --> 1:37:46.439 Ring and Eero and the Blank cameras and the Alexa 1:37:46.520 --> 1:37:50.240 enabled devices, because if it has Amazon's branding on it, 1:37:50.280 --> 1:37:52.519 there's a really good chance we'll see some kind of 1:37:52.520 --> 1:37:55.240 a deal. So if you're looking at a new Kindle, 1:37:55.680 --> 1:37:57.800 it's a really good time to look at things like that, 1:37:58.400 --> 1:38:03.519 And because is for Prime members, it's also a really 1:38:03.560 --> 1:38:06.280 good time to look at Amazon services as well. So 1:38:07.000 --> 1:38:09.160 if you're looking at a new Kindle, it's also a 1:38:09.160 --> 1:38:13.639 good time to try Kindle Unlimited for you know, all 1:38:13.680 --> 1:38:15.680 the reading that you could possibly want, and see if 1:38:15.680 --> 1:38:17.680 you like that service enough to stick with it month 1:38:17.720 --> 1:38:18.120 to month. 1:38:19.600 --> 1:38:23.680 And there's also obviously Alexa can help you with this, 1:38:23.840 --> 1:38:27.160 so it says Prime members can ask Alexa for deal 1:38:27.200 --> 1:38:29.920 notifications on products added to their wish list, So that's 1:38:29.960 --> 1:38:32.639 kind of cool. So you can say, Alexa add whatever 1:38:32.720 --> 1:38:35.080 product to my car and then ask Alexa to notify 1:38:35.160 --> 1:38:37.320 you about the deal when it's live. And you'd also 1:38:37.400 --> 1:38:40.120 ask Alexa for an event reminder, so you can say, 1:38:40.120 --> 1:38:42.920 Alexa set a reminder for Prime Day and that will 1:38:42.960 --> 1:38:45.240 help you. What do we make of the price of 1:38:45.280 --> 1:38:47.080 Prime these days? It's one hundred and thirty nine dollars 1:38:47.120 --> 1:38:49.479 a year or fifteen dollars a month. Is that still 1:38:49.520 --> 1:38:49.800 worth it? 1:38:49.880 --> 1:38:53.720 Julie, It's it's going to be a little hard to say. 1:38:53.760 --> 1:38:56.080 There's no easy way to say, yes, it's worth it. No, 1:38:56.160 --> 1:38:58.400 it's not, because it's going to be subjective based on 1:38:58.680 --> 1:39:02.320 individuals and what they want out of Prime. Basically, if 1:39:02.320 --> 1:39:06.360 you're using everything that Prime offers, I would say it's 1:39:06.360 --> 1:39:09.000 still worth it. But if you're only kind of leaning 1:39:09.040 --> 1:39:10.920 into Amazon for the shopping. 1:39:10.560 --> 1:39:14.160 Capabilities, it's probably good to. 1:39:14.200 --> 1:39:16.759 Have Prime for a month to shop for Prime Day 1:39:16.920 --> 1:39:20.479 or around Black Friday something like that, to take advantage 1:39:20.479 --> 1:39:23.559 of deals and the perks that Prime members get around 1:39:23.560 --> 1:39:26.439 shopping during those times. But other than that, it just 1:39:26.680 --> 1:39:29.320 may not be reasonable to pay one hundred and thirty 1:39:29.400 --> 1:39:32.439 nine dollars a year if you're not also taking advantage 1:39:32.479 --> 1:39:35.760 of the Amazon Music, the Prime Video, all of those 1:39:35.800 --> 1:39:37.320 different parts that you get. 1:39:37.720 --> 1:39:39.280 One thing to keep in mind, if you are on 1:39:39.400 --> 1:39:43.720 government assistance, you can get Prime Access for six ninety 1:39:43.800 --> 1:39:47.280 nine a month at Amazon dot com slash get Prime Access. 1:39:48.160 --> 1:39:51.840 Julie Ramhold with dealnews dot com, thanks so much for 1:39:51.920 --> 1:39:53.360 joining me today. I really appreciate it. 1:39:54.360 --> 1:39:55.439 Thank you so much for having me. 1:39:55.600 --> 1:39:57.559 All right, and deal News is, by the way, one 1:39:57.600 --> 1:40:00.040 of my stops. Every single day, I check it with 1:40:00.360 --> 1:40:03.000 all of my bookmarks to see what deals are out there. 1:40:03.040 --> 1:40:06.360 So they do a great job every day of unearthing deals, 1:40:06.520 --> 1:40:10.519 not just on Prime Day. All right, coming up, it's 1:40:10.560 --> 1:40:12.639 the end of the show. We're gonna do the feedback segment, 1:40:12.800 --> 1:40:15.280 so we'll do that when we come back next Right here, 1:40:15.680 --> 1:40:19.240 you are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to 1:40:19.600 --> 1:40:24.080 rich on Tech, closing out the show with the feedback segment. 1:40:26.479 --> 1:40:28.800 You love sending these emails to me at Hello at 1:40:28.920 --> 1:40:34.439 Richontech dot tv. We're still looking to help Angel. Angel 1:40:34.520 --> 1:40:38.040 was looking for some earbuds for his wife that do 1:40:38.240 --> 1:40:40.400 not have a microphone. So if you have a good 1:40:40.400 --> 1:40:43.120 pair of these. Let me know. Hello at richontech dot TV. 1:40:43.760 --> 1:40:46.160 I pinged my friend over at Wirecutter. We'll see what 1:40:46.479 --> 1:40:49.799 she has to say about it. Let's see what else. 1:40:50.400 --> 1:40:52.720 Steve writes in Hey, Rich, I heard her call on 1:40:52.760 --> 1:40:55.080 your show. The caller asked if Salesforce would be a 1:40:55.080 --> 1:40:59.760 good platform for his college age daughter to learn salesforce 1:40:59.800 --> 1:41:02.240 has changed in recent times. It's one of those career 1:41:02.280 --> 1:41:04.759 things that's been flooded by all the companies offering training 1:41:04.800 --> 1:41:09.600 programs to get people certified as salesforce administrators. Even with certification, 1:41:09.680 --> 1:41:11.440 you're not going to get a job as an administrator 1:41:11.760 --> 1:41:16.320 without several years experience working as an administrator. The training programs, 1:41:16.360 --> 1:41:18.240 of course, won't tell you this, as they're making money 1:41:18.240 --> 1:41:21.880 from selling their training programs. My wife has five Salesforce 1:41:21.920 --> 1:41:24.960 certifications with three years of experience, and it's it was 1:41:25.000 --> 1:41:27.840 still difficult to get a job. Many jobs want more 1:41:27.880 --> 1:41:30.920 than just salesforce. It's not something that just anyone can do, 1:41:30.960 --> 1:41:34.920 as the training programs advertise. Steve. Oh, great advice. Steve, 1:41:35.320 --> 1:41:41.519 appreciate that because that's probably what our caller saw was Salesforce. Well, 1:41:41.520 --> 1:41:43.640 he said he had it at his company. So, but 1:41:43.720 --> 1:41:46.400 good advice. Yeah, these training programs don't necessarily mean you're 1:41:46.439 --> 1:41:48.479 going to get a job. So I think that's why 1:41:48.560 --> 1:41:50.360 for me personally, I would look at jobs that i'd 1:41:50.360 --> 1:41:52.360 want to do and see what the skills are that 1:41:52.400 --> 1:41:56.280 they want. Jim writes in Hey, Rich, I'm looking for 1:41:56.280 --> 1:42:00.160 that Amazon gift card hack that involves Amazon gift card car. 1:42:00.760 --> 1:42:03.360 I was watching KTLA the other morning and the discussion 1:42:03.400 --> 1:42:05.360 was gift card balances. You mentioned a way that you 1:42:05.360 --> 1:42:07.880 can load your Amazon account with your gift cards. How's 1:42:07.920 --> 1:42:09.519 this done? I can't find a way to do this, 1:42:10.040 --> 1:42:13.439 Thanks and advance, Jim. Yes, so this is specifically for 1:42:13.520 --> 1:42:16.320 Amazon gift cards. So if you are sorry Visa gift cards. 1:42:16.360 --> 1:42:18.080 So if you get one of these Visa gift cards, 1:42:18.479 --> 1:42:21.400 let's say it's one hundred dollars, fifty dollars, it's really 1:42:21.439 --> 1:42:24.040 tough to use unless you use that full amount all 1:42:24.120 --> 1:42:26.360 the same time, you're going to be left with some 1:42:26.439 --> 1:42:29.200 weird sort of balance on that card of like five 1:42:29.280 --> 1:42:31.559 dollars and seventeen cents, And how do you use that? 1:42:31.600 --> 1:42:35.000 Because a Visa card, it's not a standard gift card 1:42:35.040 --> 1:42:37.760 like an Amazon card or like a shopping gift card 1:42:37.760 --> 1:42:41.040 that's easy to use at the register. Now, some companies 1:42:41.080 --> 1:42:43.840 will easily figure out how much is on this card 1:42:43.880 --> 1:42:47.839 and let you scan it and use it. But I found, honestly, 1:42:47.880 --> 1:42:50.760 it's much easier to skip that entire process and just 1:42:50.800 --> 1:42:53.360 go to Amazon. And here's what I do. You go 1:42:53.439 --> 1:42:57.439 to Amazon, you set the Visa gift card as a 1:42:57.439 --> 1:43:01.160 payment method, and then you type in and buy a 1:43:01.479 --> 1:43:05.960 reload account. Reload account with an Amazon gift card, okay, 1:43:06.800 --> 1:43:09.479 and then you go to It'll be right at the 1:43:09.520 --> 1:43:13.760 top reload Amazon gift card, and you say exactly how 1:43:13.840 --> 1:43:15.880 much you want, So whatever exact amount is on that 1:43:15.960 --> 1:43:17.639 Visa card, you type it in there and you say 1:43:17.680 --> 1:43:20.240 buy now, and you make sure that you use that 1:43:20.360 --> 1:43:21.920 Visa gift card that you just put in as a 1:43:21.960 --> 1:43:25.160 payment method as the payment method for this new Amazon 1:43:25.240 --> 1:43:28.800 reload and next thing you know, it will shift that 1:43:28.920 --> 1:43:31.400 money from the Visa card to an Amazon gift card. 1:43:31.560 --> 1:43:33.640 And that's much easier to spend because if you're like me, 1:43:33.720 --> 1:43:36.040 you're on Amazon all the time. Now, I found that 1:43:36.160 --> 1:43:39.000 sometimes it takes a little bit of time and it 1:43:39.040 --> 1:43:42.200 may not work instantaneously, so it's not like if you're 1:43:42.240 --> 1:43:45.360 buying a gift card. Sometimes it will it will work fast. 1:43:45.479 --> 1:43:48.000 This may take five to ten minutes, sometimes I've noticed, 1:43:48.040 --> 1:43:50.360 and sometimes it doesn't work at all, depending on the 1:43:50.400 --> 1:43:54.439 brand of the Visa gift card. So again, you take 1:43:54.479 --> 1:43:57.000 the Visa gift card, you set it as a payment method, 1:43:57.400 --> 1:43:59.720 and then you enter that exact amount and buy a 1:43:59.720 --> 1:44:03.200 gift card to reload your Amazon gift card balance and boom, 1:44:03.280 --> 1:44:07.880 you've transferred that balance. So good question there. Hey Rich 1:44:08.800 --> 1:44:12.080 From Paul in Santa Clarita. Quick question, I have many passwords. 1:44:12.080 --> 1:44:14.840 What are your thoughts on a password manager? If you 1:44:14.960 --> 1:44:17.320 think they're good, can you recommend one? Are they as 1:44:17.360 --> 1:44:20.519 secure as they say they are? Absolutely, Paul, use a 1:44:20.600 --> 1:44:23.920 password manager, get all your passwords in there. I know 1:44:23.960 --> 1:44:26.559 it's tough to get it set up, but definitely definitely 1:44:26.680 --> 1:44:28.880 use when they are secure. Make sure you pick a good, 1:44:28.920 --> 1:44:32.800 strong password for the password manager, and then set up 1:44:32.800 --> 1:44:36.000 two factor authentication for the password manager. If you are 1:44:36.160 --> 1:44:38.559 just using Apple products, you can get away with the 1:44:39.280 --> 1:44:43.760 iCloud keychain. If you're using Apple products and Chrome, then 1:44:43.800 --> 1:44:46.559 I recommend just using the built in Google password manager 1:44:46.880 --> 1:44:49.360 because that'll work on an iPhone And if you're using 1:44:49.400 --> 1:44:52.320 a bunch of different devices than use a cross platform 1:44:52.520 --> 1:44:56.840 password manager. I like bitwarden as a free option, and 1:44:56.880 --> 1:44:59.920 then you can check out one Password and dash Lane. 1:45:00.160 --> 1:45:04.720 Those are two good cross platform password managers, but you 1:45:04.760 --> 1:45:09.320 will have to pay for those typically art rights in Hey, Rich, 1:45:09.400 --> 1:45:13.600 please post the travel carbon monoxide detector. You put it 1:45:13.640 --> 1:45:15.880 on Facebook reels and then it disappeared. There's probably a 1:45:15.920 --> 1:45:19.280 lot of interest for it. Someone mentioned on a work 1:45:19.320 --> 1:45:21.160 call today about getting one for travel, and I told 1:45:21.240 --> 1:45:22.720 them I would send them the info and the one 1:45:22.720 --> 1:45:27.719 you recommended. Yes, I posted this to Facebook my Instagram stories. 1:45:27.800 --> 1:45:31.000 Really sad story about the couple from southern California that 1:45:31.880 --> 1:45:35.160 passed away in a hotel room down in Mexico due 1:45:35.200 --> 1:45:38.920 to carbon monoxide supposedly, so it might be a good 1:45:38.920 --> 1:45:41.439 idea to carry one of these things. So I asked 1:45:41.439 --> 1:45:44.160 my friend Zach Hoenig. He used to work at the Points. 1:45:44.200 --> 1:45:47.719 Guy knows everything about travel, and he recommended this kitty 1:45:47.880 --> 1:45:52.080 carbon monoxide detector that's battery powered and has a low 1:45:52.120 --> 1:45:55.880 battery indicator, which is smart, It's portable, and it's twenty bucks. 1:45:56.439 --> 1:45:59.639 So I'll put that link in the show notes as well. 1:46:00.360 --> 1:46:05.720 Tech dot TV. Let's see Erica says, good morning, Rich, 1:46:05.760 --> 1:46:09.360 I received this weird text. It's probably a scam. Thanks, 1:46:09.720 --> 1:46:12.799 and the text says Hi, I'm Donovan Summerfield, the Walton 1:46:12.920 --> 1:46:17.240 Family Grant Foundation Admin director. Ooh, you are chosen to 1:46:17.320 --> 1:46:20.680 receive ten thousand dollars from the ongoing program aimed at 1:46:20.720 --> 1:46:25.040 touching lives. Kindly text your email for confirmation and delivery 1:46:25.040 --> 1:46:29.759 to this number NOE to receive your payment is free. Yeah, Erica, 1:46:29.840 --> 1:46:32.120 as you suspected, that is definitely a weird text and 1:46:32.160 --> 1:46:35.000 it's most definitely a scam. Please watch out for these 1:46:35.040 --> 1:46:38.559 scam texts. So many my wife got one. Oh gosh, 1:46:38.640 --> 1:46:41.680 they are just They are really really doing a lot 1:46:41.680 --> 1:46:44.240 of scam texts these days, so be aware of those. 1:46:45.000 --> 1:46:47.240 I think we have time for one more. Gale says, hey, Rich, 1:46:47.600 --> 1:46:49.880 When you did your KTLA segment on air tags, I 1:46:49.920 --> 1:46:52.720 thought about getting one for a fifteen day vacation. Of 1:46:52.760 --> 1:46:55.160 course I did not end, so my luggage was lost 1:46:55.200 --> 1:46:58.040 for ten days. You mentioned some other products that were 1:46:58.080 --> 1:47:00.240 not as costly as Apple. With another trip in the work, 1:47:00.320 --> 1:47:03.120 I need to purchase AirTags and would appreciate your recommendation. 1:47:03.520 --> 1:47:07.519 Truly enjoy your segments. Gail Gail, listen to the advice 1:47:07.560 --> 1:47:10.800 the first time around, because I'm telling you I get 1:47:10.800 --> 1:47:12.880 emails like this all the time. Just do it when 1:47:12.960 --> 1:47:15.000 you think you don't need it, do it because that's 1:47:15.040 --> 1:47:18.280 when you need it. I would recommend AirTags for sure. 1:47:18.360 --> 1:47:20.479 They are the best solution at this point. Later in 1:47:20.479 --> 1:47:22.400 the year I may change my tune on that when 1:47:23.040 --> 1:47:25.280 there are more standards for these things, but air tags 1:47:25.320 --> 1:47:27.720 are the best. You said sent for my iPhone. Go 1:47:27.800 --> 1:47:30.040 for the air tags. The four pack goes on sale 1:47:30.080 --> 1:47:32.679 from time to time. You've got Prime Day coming up. 1:47:33.040 --> 1:47:36.320 Search Google for AirTag deals and see if you can 1:47:36.360 --> 1:47:38.760 find a deal in that four pack. Sometimes it's discounted, 1:47:39.000 --> 1:47:42.200 and sometimes Costco has them as well. My name is 1:47:42.280 --> 1:47:45.080 rich Demiro. Thanks so much for listening to the show 1:47:45.120 --> 1:47:46.960 that's going to do it for this episode again, this 1:47:47.000 --> 1:47:49.400 is show number twenty five. You can check out the 1:47:49.400 --> 1:47:52.880 show notes at richon tech dot tv. I put everything 1:47:52.880 --> 1:47:56.400 in there that I mentioned. Send your feedback to hello 1:47:56.600 --> 1:47:58.800 at rich on tech dot tv, and I might just 1:47:58.840 --> 1:48:01.040 read it on the next show. Next week, I'm going 1:48:01.080 --> 1:48:02.920 to tell you about a website that can help you 1:48:03.040 --> 1:48:07.040 rent out your backyard pool. 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