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Speaker 1: number twenty five. We got the whole team in place.
Speaker 1: We got Kim on phones, we got Bobo on the board,
Speaker 1: and we've got Ai breathing down our backs, just watching
Speaker 1: what we do so we can take over everything. So
Speaker 1: this week I was in Nashville. For much of the week.
Speaker 1: I was at a conference put on by Dave Ramsey
Speaker 1: if you know who that is. So a lot of
Speaker 1: fun learning from the best and every time I go
Speaker 1: to a city now, I look up and see if
Speaker 1: our show is on there, and yes it is. So
Speaker 1: I want to give a shout out w LAC Talk
Speaker 1: Radio ninety eight three fifteen ten, So thanks for listening there, Nashville.
Speaker 1: I didn't really make it into Nashville because this was
Speaker 1: like a full on, three days, nine to five kind
Speaker 1: of conference, nine to six, nine to seven, and it
Speaker 1: was a lot So we learned all about how, you know,
Speaker 1: Dave built his show and how they do things over there,
Speaker 1: a lot of research, a lot of a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I think they have like eleven hundred people working all
Speaker 1: from a single radio show. I mean, he's grown it
Speaker 1: into my more than that, but it's it's quite incredible
Speaker 1: what he's built there. But the thing that really got
Speaker 1: me number one, I learned a couple things about myself.
Speaker 1: Small talk is really really taxing. There was about eighty
Speaker 1: of us invited to this event and it was invitation only,
Speaker 1: which was really cool. So it's a bunch of people
Speaker 1: kind of making a difference in the world, doing different
Speaker 1: things in social media and radio and TV and all
Speaker 1: this stuff, and you know, you had to get to
Speaker 1: know everyone, and it was just kind of like a
Speaker 1: lot of time to you know, talk to people, engage
Speaker 1: with them, exchange stories, whatever, and two things. Number one
Speaker 1: small talk, So you have to talk to these people.
Speaker 1: You got to figure out what they're doing. And I
Speaker 1: had to do a lot of that, and I realized
Speaker 1: that is a lot of that takes a lot of
Speaker 1: energy for me. So we're gonna have a guest later
Speaker 1: on give me some tips on how to be better
Speaker 1: at that and if I'm the only one that it
Speaker 1: takes a lot of energy out of the Other thing
Speaker 1: I had to do was a group speaking exercise. This
Speaker 1: was just a five minute I had to tell a
Speaker 1: story in front of a small group of people, including
Speaker 1: some executives, which made it very nerve wracking. But I'm
Speaker 1: not kidding. I can talk on the radio all day,
Speaker 1: I could talk on TV all day. My heart rate
Speaker 1: was double what it typically is. I'm looking at my
Speaker 1: Apple Watch and I'm just like, what is happening here?
Speaker 1: I have never been so nervous. I had cotton mouth.
Speaker 1: I literally could not speak. It was that bad. I'm like,
Speaker 1: where's the water here? But I got through it. It
Speaker 1: was fun and it made me realize that speaking in
Speaker 1: front of a large or even a small group is
Speaker 1: very different than speaking into a microphone. So now that's
Speaker 1: something I will work on for sure, because I want
Speaker 1: to give I want to start giving some of these
Speaker 1: groups speaking kind of presentations. I've got a lot to say.
Speaker 1: Let me see some of my observations from traveling. I
Speaker 1: always have a lot of thoughts when it comes to traveling.
Speaker 1: So first off, scheduling an uber seems to be more
Speaker 1: expensive than just grabbing an uber. I mean, it's nice
Speaker 1: that you can schedule an uber so that it comes
Speaker 1: at the right, exact time you want, but it seems
Speaker 1: to be more expensive for that privilege. So just know
Speaker 1: that the other way that I actually figure out when
Speaker 1: to leave for the airport. I'm gonna give you my
Speaker 1: little secret here. I look at my boarding pass, I
Speaker 1: see what time I board, and then I backtrack. Now
Speaker 1: I only need about an hour from the time I
Speaker 1: get there to the boarding time. You may need more,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're traveling with your kids or you
Speaker 1: want more time, sure, just take that extra time. But
Speaker 1: what I do is I use ways. They've got this
Speaker 1: great feature called go later, So if you type in
Speaker 1: where you're going, you can actually say I want to
Speaker 1: arrive at let's say eight am, and it will tell
Speaker 1: you what time you need to leave from your location
Speaker 1: to get there by eight am. It's a very very
Speaker 1: handy feature. I use it on a daily basis. Again,
Speaker 1: it's go later, so you type in the address and
Speaker 1: then you hit go later, and it should help you
Speaker 1: figure out when to go. TSA at Lax had this
Speaker 1: interesting facial recognition system that I guess I've heard of
Speaker 1: but I haven't seen in person. But you slide it's
Speaker 1: all self service. Basically, you slide your ID into this
Speaker 1: reader and then you stand in front of an iPad
Speaker 1: and it takes your picture and it compares the picture
Speaker 1: that it just took of you to the picture on
Speaker 1: your ID. And by the way, this took forever. It's
Speaker 1: much faster to have the person just look at you
Speaker 1: and say, okay, you are who you say you are,
Speaker 1: and have you come through. But it made me realize
Speaker 1: that we are in for a future I believe of
Speaker 1: fully automated TSA lines. I do think that's coming where
Speaker 1: kind of like a self checkout system, you have one
Speaker 1: person that's kind of monitoring a lot of different checkouts.
Speaker 1: I think that's what's going to happen with the TSA lines. Hey,
Speaker 1: we got someone that doesn't look like they match their ID,
Speaker 1: Come on over to the person and they'll manually check.
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying that right now, let's see. Oh,
Speaker 1: when you're on your flight, this is important. Always connect
Speaker 1: to the in flight Wi Fi, even if you're not
Speaker 1: going to pay for it. You may get free messaging.
Speaker 1: A lot of these airlines give you free messaging. If
Speaker 1: you're a T Mobile customer, a lot of times you
Speaker 1: get free WiFi. But you'll notice you'll also get your notifications.
Speaker 1: For some reason, those seemed to come through on the
Speaker 1: iPhone no matter what, and even on androids. Sometimes, even
Speaker 1: if you're not paying for Wi Fi, you may not
Speaker 1: be able to act on those notifications if you're not
Speaker 1: actually paying, but it's helpful, like you can see what's
Speaker 1: going on with those notifications. Now, I will tell you
Speaker 1: one thing that was a little bit concerning. When I
Speaker 1: landed in Nashville, Okay, I took a ride share to
Speaker 1: the hotel and it was fine. The guy was very
Speaker 1: nice and we get to the area where I'm staying
Speaker 1: and I said, Wow, I'm impressed with this little area
Speaker 1: it's really cute, Like, what's the deal with this area?
Speaker 1: And I kid you not. He goes, Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm just driving for my brother. He's actually in the hospital.
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, what hold on? So apparently the
Speaker 1: person who was driving me was not the person in
Speaker 1: the app. Now I had never thought of this possibility before,
Speaker 1: but that is a major major issue if that's true,
Speaker 1: If that's what was happening. He said, Oh, no, I
Speaker 1: in a different city. I'm just down here for the
Speaker 1: weekend while my brother is, you know, doing this thing
Speaker 1: in the hospital, and I'm just helping them out. So
Speaker 1: and I was playing it cool because I was like,
Speaker 1: at this point, just get me to the hotel and
Speaker 1: let me out of this car. But that's like how
Speaker 1: a murder starts happening, you know, like one of these
Speaker 1: like Netflix murder shows. It's like, oh, yeah, I'm just
Speaker 1: helping them out, and it just makes eye contact with
Speaker 1: you in the rear view mirror and I'm like, oh gosh,
Speaker 1: and then the door's lock. That did not happen, thankfully,
Speaker 1: but it was very concerning. And now I'm wondering do
Speaker 1: these services have a system in place where they verify
Speaker 1: the driver is who they say they are. Like, when
Speaker 1: you step into your ride share shift, do you have
Speaker 1: to scan your face against the ID and they say, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're who you say you are on your ID. It's
Speaker 1: almost like back to that TSA thing. So it was
Speaker 1: all fine. The person was very nice, and I didn't
Speaker 1: want to report this to the ride share company, but
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of telling you, maybe check the photo
Speaker 1: of the person and kind of look at the person
Speaker 1: when you get in the car and just make sure
Speaker 1: those two things look similar. Now in this case, they did,
Speaker 1: so I didn't really think. I mean, they're brothers, so
Speaker 1: they look similar. But that's kind of concerning that that's
Speaker 1: even a thing that could happen. Ah, So that's that
Speaker 1: just might kind of be aware of that. The other
Speaker 1: thing that I thought was pretty cool on my flight
Speaker 1: back is we were taking off and the pilot gets
Speaker 1: on almost like in an urgent manner, and he's like, hey,
Speaker 1: you might want to look outside your right window right now,
Speaker 1: because I was like, what's happening right now? They were
Speaker 1: launching Starlink satellites, and so there's a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: Starlink satellites. There's like twelve in a row. It looked
Speaker 1: like launching up into the air, and I kid you not,
Speaker 1: it looked like Santa and his sleigh. It was all
Speaker 1: these twinkly starlight satellites going up into the space. And
Speaker 1: if you're not familiar with starlink, that is Elon Musk's
Speaker 1: wireless Internet beam from outer space. And they need like hundreds,
Speaker 1: if not thou of these satellites just orbiting the Earth
Speaker 1: so that you can have Internet on any location you
Speaker 1: can think of, beamed wirelessly. And it's pretty fast compared
Speaker 1: to previous wireless internet from the space. But I thought
Speaker 1: that was pretty neat. And then one more thing I
Speaker 1: want to comment on Southwest. They are running a dark pattern. Now,
Speaker 1: I love I love me some Southwest. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: They will get you from point A to point B.
Speaker 1: It's like a bus. You get on, you find your C.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's no frills, it's nice. The flight
Speaker 1: attendants are always so nice. But they do run a
Speaker 1: little bit of a dark pattern. And I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what that is. When you get your little check in
Speaker 1: situation where it's a B or C. The way they
Speaker 1: check you in is not like a typical airline that
Speaker 1: assigns you a seat in advance, they give you a
Speaker 1: number and when you get that number, it's either A
Speaker 1: B or C a letter and a number, and then
Speaker 1: it's like A through one through sixty, B one through sixty,
Speaker 1: C one through sixty. And the lower you are on
Speaker 1: the totem pole, the less chance you have of getting
Speaker 1: a good seat on that plane. One gets, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever pick they want, A two, the next best seat
Speaker 1: a three, and so on. Well, when you check in,
Speaker 1: like I checked in immediately and I still got like
Speaker 1: B twenty five, and so now I'm nervous. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: am I gonna have some overhead space? Am I gonna
Speaker 1: get a middle seat? Am I gonna have a horrible
Speaker 1: seat in the back? And they say, oh, well, you
Speaker 1: can upgrade to a better number for sixty bucks, sixty
Speaker 1: dollars to sit in a better seat. Absolutely not my wife.
Speaker 1: The last time we flew Southwest, she's like, can we
Speaker 1: please upgrade so we can sit together? I said, oh no,
Speaker 1: I'm not playing this game. No, no, no, we will
Speaker 1: sit apart for two hours if we have to. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's how cheap I am. Sometimes. And so I got
Speaker 1: on board B twenty five. There were so many people
Speaker 1: getting on board this little plane, and sure enough, what
Speaker 1: did I get? I got an exit row seat with
Speaker 1: a ton of extra leg room. Nobody was next to me,
Speaker 1: there was a ton of overhead space, and if I
Speaker 1: would have paid that sixty dollars, I would have felt really,
Speaker 1: really dumb. So my point is, Southwest, I love you,
Speaker 1: but you're running a bit of a dark pattern because
Speaker 1: you don't know how many people are actually boarding that plane,
Speaker 1: how much luggage they have, and what seats they're going
Speaker 1: to choose. Every single time this has happened to me,
Speaker 1: I've really had a pretty good experience with finding a
Speaker 1: decent seat. You may have to sit in the middle
Speaker 1: once in a while, but most of the time you're
Speaker 1: gonna find something unless you're in that sea. But if
Speaker 1: you're in that sea, you didn't even try to check
Speaker 1: in on time, so you kind of deserve that, all right.
Speaker 1: Coming up on today's show, I'm going to talk about
Speaker 1: why Tesla's charging network is quickly becoming the new standard.
Speaker 1: We've got some great guests this week, see net. Scott
Speaker 1: Stein is going to join us to talk about his
Speaker 1: review of the Google Pixel tablet, best selling author Deborah
Speaker 1: Fine is going to join me to talk about how
Speaker 1: technology is impacting the art of small talk. And then
Speaker 1: Julie Ramhold, consumer analysts with deal News, is going to
Speaker 1: talk about Amazon Prime Day. We now have a date
Speaker 1: for that next big event. It's also your turn. Your
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Speaker 1: Tom kick off the show this hour. Tom, you're on riverside.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Thanks Rich, Good talk to you.
Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for coming on What can I help you
Speaker 1: with great.
Speaker 2: So Rich, I've got a couple of daughters, all in
Speaker 2: college a couple of years that'll all be getting out
Speaker 2: into the job market. And I was trying to figure
Speaker 2: out with my oldest some software platforms that she might
Speaker 2: you know, take some classes in or get proficient and
Speaker 2: that's gonna help her with that career search. One of
Speaker 2: the ones that we use at my office is Salesforce,
Speaker 2: and you know, the Salesforce administrator at my office is
Speaker 2: an absolute godsend. And it dawned on me that it
Speaker 2: is a it's kind of been I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's emerging anymore. It's been around long enough, but it
Speaker 2: seems to have skyrocketed from the day it hit the
Speaker 2: hit the market, and I was just curious if you
Speaker 2: had any indications, you know, from where you sit, if
Speaker 2: that skyrocketing is gonna plateau or keep going, or if
Speaker 2: that Salesforce administrator position is something that's going to just
Speaker 2: thrive for a really long time.
Speaker 1: Great question. How old is your daughter? She's in college?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got I've got three rich nineteen twenty one
Speaker 2: and twenty two.
Speaker 1: Oh man, you got you got a lot of weddings
Speaker 1: to pay for intuitions at once in college. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: here's the thing, and they do. They all show interest
Speaker 1: in doing something in the tech world.
Speaker 2: The oldest for sure. For sure, she's going to graduate
Speaker 2: with a computational mathematics and computer science degree.
Speaker 1: Wow, smart cookie, you know I.
Speaker 2: Yeah, amen, you know, I've got a real good sense
Speaker 2: of the type of worker. She is very task oriented,
Speaker 2: kind of a dog with a bone type of situation.
Speaker 2: So it did feel like a pretty decent fit.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, a couple of things. So, first off, I mean,
Speaker 1: Salesforce is just one of many many software platforms out there.
Speaker 1: These are software as a service, so that you know,
Speaker 1: it used to be companies would buy software in a
Speaker 1: box installed on a computer and run it. And then
Speaker 1: these companies came out with software that runs in the cloud,
Speaker 1: and Salesforce is an example of that. There are many
Speaker 1: others SAP and so it's much more modular. Companies can
Speaker 1: expand what they need, they can get rid of what
Speaker 1: they don't need, they can add different things to it.
Speaker 1: And yes, Salesforce did do very well. They built that giant,
Speaker 1: sixty one story skyscraper in San Francisco over a billion
Speaker 1: dollars but here's the thing I don't know. I would
Speaker 1: think for your daughters, they are probably going to show
Speaker 1: some interest in something. I think they should probably dip
Speaker 1: their toes into different classes that do these things. So
Speaker 1: I would look at something like data analytics because that
Speaker 1: is a huge, huge growth area for companies. Every single
Speaker 1: company needs data analytics and someone that understands that. If
Speaker 1: they want to do coding, that's a separate world in itself.
Speaker 1: Coding is obviously very popular, but that's something they can
Speaker 1: try and see if they like that. It doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like that's what your oldest daughter wants to do. Then
Speaker 1: you've got stuff like these project management platforms, so companies
Speaker 1: need project managers for their different initiatives, and so they
Speaker 1: always need someone that knows how to run the software
Speaker 1: that does project management. And then of course you've got
Speaker 1: cloud computing, which is you know, the Amazon AWS. I
Speaker 1: was actually just down in Anaheim. They had a big
Speaker 1: AWS convention and so a lot of smart people there.
Speaker 1: They all look like they were doing very well if
Speaker 1: you ask me, they're all in very nice suits. So
Speaker 1: AWS is a huge growing area, and that's just one
Speaker 1: cloud service out there. And of course there's design things
Speaker 1: like Adobe, Photoshop and all that stuff. But I think
Speaker 1: AI is also the place where they should start looking too,
Speaker 1: because that is going to have an impact on just
Speaker 1: about every single job category that I mentioned. And I
Speaker 1: think for your oldest daughter, if she's really getting into
Speaker 1: the job force, I think she looks at some jobs
Speaker 1: that appeal to her and cross reference the skills that
Speaker 1: are inside those job descriptions and then check out some
Speaker 1: classes that have to do with that. Because this stuff
Speaker 1: is rapidly changing. But I think if you have that
Speaker 1: analytical mind, you would want to do something with the
Speaker 1: analytical side of things. If you have the management mind,
Speaker 1: you want to do something with project management or AI
Speaker 1: is really going to have an impact on all of
Speaker 1: these different job things. So if you're into that, definitely
Speaker 1: start taking a look at some of those tools. Great question, Tom,
Speaker 1: if you have a question. Eight eight to eight Rich
Speaker 1: one oh one. You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech, rich Demiro talking technology with
Speaker 1: you and joining me now is Scott Stein, editor at
Speaker 1: Large at c NEET, to talk about Google's new Pixel tablet. Scott,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining me today. Hey, thanks Rich,
Speaker 1: So let's talk about Google's majestic return to the world
Speaker 1: of tablets. I remember one of my favorite tablets was
Speaker 1: their tiny little It was like an eight inch Nexus
Speaker 1: tablet back in the day. Do you remember that one?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, next to seven was great. I think I have
Speaker 4: one sitting in a Jerusalem where you know. That was
Speaker 4: wonderful and it was affordable. It was before phones got
Speaker 4: really big and doubled this tablet and it just feel
Speaker 4: like that the ball kip keeps being dropped when it
Speaker 4: comes to Android tablets in their progress.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what is the deal? So last week we were
Speaker 1: talking about Amazon's fire tablet, which the new Max eleven
Speaker 1: has a really good kind of hardware profile, but the
Speaker 1: software is almost unusable. And so now we have a
Speaker 1: Pixel tablet which has amazing software, Like, this thing was
Speaker 1: really fun. The iPad is amazing, but there are some
Speaker 1: things about the the iOS software with the tablet that
Speaker 1: is good for apps but bad for sort of other things.
Speaker 1: But anyway, what is your initial thought on this tablet?
Speaker 1: This is a four hundred and ninety nine dollars tablet
Speaker 1: that has a dock built in are kind of attached
Speaker 1: to it, So give me your initial thoughts on this thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, grew with you. I think the most exciting thing
Speaker 4: is Google's focus on software for tablets here, and I
Speaker 4: think that it just felt using it at home, it
Speaker 4: felt fun, it felt friendly, and I think that's something
Speaker 4: in the Android tablet landscape has been missing. I think
Speaker 4: you have a lot of technologically capable tablets, but like
Speaker 4: you said, a lot of the software tends to be
Speaker 4: very tablets specific or a little bit wonky. And I
Speaker 4: like the fact that this also can be a home hub.
Speaker 2: Even though the people have used.
Speaker 4: It for the smart on features have said that the
Speaker 4: assistant software, the Assistant Voice AI, could be a lot
Speaker 4: better there. I think that the idea of it being
Speaker 4: dockable is a different use is something that Apple hasn't
Speaker 4: done with the iPad. And also the ability to switch
Speaker 4: accounts on Android tablets I really appreciate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a recurring That was a recurring theme
Speaker 1: across all the reviews that people said, why doesn't the
Speaker 1: iPad have a way to have multiple users?
Speaker 4: Yes, it's baffling, and so for kids especially, you know,
Speaker 4: we share, I mean a lot of people share tablet.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Google is observing in their statistics, and that's what this
Speaker 4: is about, is that Hey, whoever wants to pick it
Speaker 4: up can use it, which is fantastic, and I think
Speaker 4: that that's great. The split app multitasking worked really well,
Speaker 4: although not all apps use it, And that's the question
Speaker 4: here is, you know, Google is reinvesting in that idea,
Speaker 4: and it looks like it's also the impetus behind what
Speaker 4: they're doing with the folding phone. So hopefully there's some
Speaker 4: consistency there in app support.
Speaker 1: So to your point about the multiple users, I've got
Speaker 1: a tablet set up in the workout area, like on
Speaker 1: the workout bike, that has my I message logged in,
Speaker 1: and literally my wife is using Peloton the whole time.
Speaker 1: She's just seeing all my messages fly by. And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's not that I'm doing anything like weird with the messaging,
Speaker 1: but it's just a little strange to have someone watch.
Speaker 1: She's like, hey, I'm just watching you text back and
Speaker 1: forth the whole day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there should be a really easy way without having
Speaker 4: to log out and you know, add another ye club.
Speaker 4: There should be a way to quickly switch profiles like
Speaker 4: we do with game consoles and you know, pretty much
Speaker 4: everything else, but the iPad it makes it really difficult.
Speaker 4: So I think I wish the price on the Pixel
Speaker 4: tablet were a little bit lower, Yeah, because I think
Speaker 4: that five hundred is not expensive, but it's not an
Speaker 4: impulse purchase. And so I think a lot of tablets
Speaker 4: for families and kids, people want to get the most
Speaker 4: affordable thing possible. That there's a cheaper iPad than that,
Speaker 4: even though it's older. There's the Kindle, you know, the
Speaker 4: fire tablets. So that's one thing I think is you know,
Speaker 4: would be on a wish list for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it kind of turns people off to see that
Speaker 1: high price point because now if you really break it down,
Speaker 1: I know there's some people that are kind of arguing
Speaker 1: this point. But it comes with a tablet, and then
Speaker 1: it also comes with a dock, and the dock sells
Speaker 1: for what one hundred and twenty nine dollars on its.
Speaker 5: Own, Yeah, so exactly.
Speaker 4: I think that's that's where they sort of talk about
Speaker 4: the value for it. For me, I looked at it like,
Speaker 4: you know, I love the case that that Google is
Speaker 4: making for this, a nice kickstandcase, but that's eighty dollars,
Speaker 4: so you know, that's expensive and kind of iPad case territory,
Speaker 4: and that that plus getting an extra amount of storage
Speaker 4: for one hundred dollars more. These can ramp it up.
Speaker 4: I almost would have maybe thought about throwing in a
Speaker 4: case or something else in lieu of the of the dock,
Speaker 4: or having a different price equation. Yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 4: an interesting question.
Speaker 1: But the good news is the doc is actually kind
Speaker 1: of genius. And I will tell you this. So number one,
Speaker 1: I so let me just kind of paint the picture
Speaker 1: of what this tablet looks like. So it's a it's
Speaker 1: a really nicely designed it almost looks like a big
Speaker 1: pixel phone. And then it magnetically attaches to this little
Speaker 1: dock that looks like you can just pull the front
Speaker 1: off of a Google Nest Hub, so it almost looks
Speaker 1: like when you're when it's docked, that it's a Nest Hub,
Speaker 1: you know, like when those Google Smart Home kind of devices.
Speaker 1: And so the genius of it is that it's always charged,
Speaker 1: and then when you're not using it, it's a screen
Speaker 1: saver for whatever you want. So I have my Google
Speaker 1: Photos collection on there. It can show the weather, all
Speaker 1: these different types of things. Plus you can ask it things,
Speaker 1: you know, the voice commands and what I thought would
Speaker 1: happen and it did is I started playing music on
Speaker 1: the tablet and then I magnetically attached it to the
Speaker 1: DOC and the music just magically transferred to the DOC speaker,
Speaker 1: which is much louder and richer. And so it's a
Speaker 1: really smart idea that you always have this tablet that's
Speaker 1: ready to go. But not everyone wants to spend five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars on a tablet, and I think that's going
Speaker 1: to keep them from getting this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think on the flip side, if you think,
Speaker 4: you know, if you're using a lot of stuff in
Speaker 4: Google ecosystem and you don't want to get it phone
Speaker 4: another phone or you know, something like that, that's not
Speaker 4: a lot to spend. And I think that the idea
Speaker 4: that it can be a home hub, You're right, is
Speaker 4: a huge advantage. The speaker sounded nice. You know, we
Speaker 4: got really into just somebody playing music or even just
Speaker 4: playing YouTube video. You know, we started to just kind
Speaker 4: of gather around and the kids started gathering around it,
Speaker 4: and I said, you could detach the tablet, but there's
Speaker 4: you know, it's definitely a kitchen counter friendly type thing.
Speaker 4: Who were kind of hovers off the dock, so it's
Speaker 4: not touching the counter and I think that there's a
Speaker 4: lot of ways that it could be useful in that regard.
Speaker 4: So so yeah, I think that there's like a lot,
Speaker 4: a lot of plus to it.
Speaker 1: And what do you think of the cameras. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: loving this feature on Google Meat that it's like the
Speaker 1: backgrounds on Google Meat are so good, like these three
Speaker 1: sixty backgrounds, Like they're moving like I have mindset as
Speaker 1: like this castle and like a medieval castle with like
Speaker 1: a dragon like flap, you know, flap flapping his wings
Speaker 1: behind me. And the cameras I thought were pretty good.
Speaker 1: And I thought that experience was pretty good. What do
Speaker 1: you make of it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, me too. It seemed a tiny bit betterund Meat
Speaker 4: than on Zoom, but maybe it was just when I
Speaker 4: was running it. But the you know, I was looking
Speaker 4: at this pre release, the camera quality looks really good.
Speaker 4: It's positioned on the right spot, which is you know,
Speaker 4: when you dock it, it's going to be centered like
Speaker 4: Apple started doing with their with their I've had in
Speaker 4: the fall. Yeah, it's it's very convenient. I even think
Speaker 4: on the dock it was a pretty easy one to
Speaker 4: use for for for quick spontaneous video chats with people,
Speaker 4: and I know I used other types of devices like
Speaker 4: that in the past, you know, portally that I'm playing
Speaker 4: around with, and I think there, it's really convenient, and
Speaker 4: so I thought that was a lot of fun and
Speaker 4: definitely the way that I'd want to use this.
Speaker 1: And the only thing I thought was kind of interesting too,
Speaker 1: is I I found myself trying to figure out and
Speaker 1: maybe this is just muscle memory for using it. After
Speaker 1: using it for a while, i'd be more comfortable. But
Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out like where the fingerprint
Speaker 1: sensor was, like on the power button, because sometimes they
Speaker 1: just pick it up and not really know because it's
Speaker 1: so symmetrical. Did you have that issue at all?
Speaker 4: Yeah, a little bit that I told myself, Okay, right
Speaker 4: finger on top corner is good, but yeah, you know
Speaker 4: that's the thing is, depending on which you're holding it,
Speaker 4: you might start fumbling around for that.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 4: The good news of the fingerprints sensor was really fast,
Speaker 4: and I found it was just like instant log in,
Speaker 4: and then again with the guest accounts and the other modes,
Speaker 4: you can bypass that. So I found that was a
Speaker 4: really nice solution. Sometimes I don't like the face log
Speaker 4: and stuff at all. I find that it gets in
Speaker 4: the way of the flow and sometimes doesn't register. So
Speaker 4: I'm glad that this had that. I do wish the
Speaker 4: whole thing had a keyboard though. That's that's one thing
Speaker 4: that I'm regretting that Google left out.
Speaker 1: I just wonder if you're trying, like I feel like
Speaker 1: they're not really positioning this as a productivity device, you know,
Speaker 1: which is funny because the Amazon Fire Max is and
Speaker 1: it's like anything but and this could be because it's
Speaker 1: got such clean software. It's got all the Google products
Speaker 1: and services on it, So it could be a really
Speaker 1: nice little email machine.
Speaker 4: It really could. And more like it's it's a very
Speaker 4: capable processor. The multitasking works really well, waste dictation worked great,
Speaker 4: similar to how well it works on Pixel phones. And
Speaker 4: you know, at Google had focused on this productivity a
Speaker 4: thing the last time with the Pixel Slate, which was
Speaker 4: a failed product but I thought was interesting, kind of
Speaker 4: like a chromebook mett Android tablet back in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 4: twenty nineteen, And now they move completely in the opposite direction,
Speaker 4: nailing so much of the everyday casual tablet use. But
Speaker 4: I think with kids, a lot of them, you know,
Speaker 4: my kids work on things or write things, and they'll
Speaker 4: set up a keyboards. I think it can work with
Speaker 4: other keyboards, but I think there's a big opportunity there.
Speaker 4: I would think to enable this for that and just
Speaker 4: add to abuse.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well hopefully they're working on that, Scott. We're going
Speaker 1: to leave it there, Scott Stein of cnet telp Folks.
Speaker 1: How they can find you online?
Speaker 5: Sure?
Speaker 4: Well, you can find me a Twitter jet Scott. You
Speaker 4: can also find me mastadon and blue Sky, and you
Speaker 4: can also find me and Seema dot com. I have
Speaker 4: an author profile there.
Speaker 1: Awesome. Thanks so much for joining me today. Appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Hey, thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, Coming up, I'm gonna tell you why the
Speaker 1: FTC is mad at Amazon again. Plus more of your
Speaker 1: calls at Triple eight rich one O one. You are
Speaker 1: listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at
Speaker 1: triple eight rich one O one. That's eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. Let's see.
Speaker 1: Let's go to uh stan Stan is in Bettsville, Ohio.
Speaker 1: Stand you're on with rich.
Speaker 5: Hello rich On Tech. Hello, Hey, my outlook Microsoft Outlook
Speaker 5: has gone rogue on me or something. It was operating
Speaker 5: fine for the longest time, but recently seems like the
Speaker 5: highest percentage of my outgoing mails come back to me
Speaker 5: with an air message that couldn't be delivered to such
Speaker 5: and such address for some cryptic reason. So, long story short,
Speaker 5: I'm thinking about reinstalling Outlook, but I read somewhere or
Speaker 5: thought I did that I need to reinstall Microsoft three
Speaker 5: sixty five entirely, not just Outlook.
Speaker 6: What are your.
Speaker 5: Thoughts on that.
Speaker 1: Are You're on a Windows machine, I'm.
Speaker 5: Taking it, yeh, Windows ten.
Speaker 1: I'm running okay. And when you go to the list
Speaker 1: of programs, is Outlook listed separately or is it not?
Speaker 5: I believe it's listed separately. I'm almost positive, okay.
Speaker 1: And have you tried to just say uninstall that?
Speaker 5: No, because I was afraid I'd lose past emails and
Speaker 5: folders and all of that anything.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, It depends on how your account is set up
Speaker 1: if you're going to lose those folders and things. So
Speaker 1: if your account is set up locally where you're downloading everything,
Speaker 1: then yes, you would lose anything that you've set up.
Speaker 1: If it's set up, if it's set up as an IMAP,
Speaker 1: or if it's just mirroring the server, then any thing
Speaker 1: that you've set up on the server side will just
Speaker 1: mirror over once it comes back down. Do you know
Speaker 1: what type of email address you're using? I mean I
Speaker 1: assume you do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a website that I set up, and the
Speaker 5: email address is the my email address is the website name.
Speaker 1: Okay, And so when you set that up on that
Speaker 1: email is it an IMAP or is it a POP three?
Speaker 1: Do you know?
Speaker 7: Boy?
Speaker 5: I'm familiar with what you're asking, but I don't know.
Speaker 5: But now I'm in front of my PC again, maybe
Speaker 5: I can find out real quick.
Speaker 1: Well, So I would do some research on that and
Speaker 1: just see if the email address how your provider sets
Speaker 1: it up. Most of the time, I mean, it depends
Speaker 1: with with your own website. A lot of the times
Speaker 1: it could be POP, but IMAP is pretty common as well,
Speaker 1: so it sort of depends. But I think that's going
Speaker 1: to determine how much you're going to going to lose.
Speaker 1: So what I would do is I would do a
Speaker 1: backup of your data before you do anything, and then
Speaker 1: try to uninstall all Outlook if you can't uninstall it
Speaker 1: by itself, which it may be linked to the three
Speaker 1: sixty five the whole suite. Then you know you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to uninstall that and reinstall. Is there what caused
Speaker 1: this problem?
Speaker 5: I don't know. It happened, oh several weeks ago, and
Speaker 5: I've tried to work around it, and it's just seems
Speaker 5: to be getting worse. Doesn't make sense to me. But
Speaker 5: have you have no idea what caused it? But I
Speaker 5: get all these bounce backs saying that it can't deliver
Speaker 5: to SO and Sol's address, and it gives me a
Speaker 5: reason that is like hieroglyphics.
Speaker 6: It doesn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably doesn't make much sense. Have you installed any
Speaker 1: plugins on this program that would cause this?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: Not, No, I don't believe I have ever.
Speaker 1: Okay, well I would. I would try to do the
Speaker 1: uninstalled and see if that works. It seems like an
Speaker 1: odd problem to just start happening out of nowhere. The
Speaker 1: other thing the other thing can try to do is
Speaker 1: have you tried, like downloading the Outlook app to your
Speaker 1: phone or anything like that.
Speaker 5: I have, and I've had difficulty and right now I
Speaker 5: can't get it downloaded to my phone.
Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting. What are using iPhone or Android? Android
Speaker 1: boone and it just won't download. Interesting, well, that should
Speaker 1: be available in the in the Google Play Store, but
Speaker 1: you might try to log in and see if your
Speaker 1: information is there, if it's storing it in the cloud,
Speaker 1: and it may just carry down through there. So that's
Speaker 1: another way.
Speaker 4: To do it.
Speaker 5: And did you suggest that to back up outlook first?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would. I would. I would export everything and
Speaker 1: just you know, save that file in case you can't
Speaker 1: get things back. And then that way, at least you
Speaker 1: have a backup that you can you can bring back
Speaker 1: to you know, bring back to life in a little
Speaker 1: bit of a way. So do you pay for Office
Speaker 1: three sixty five or no? Did you? How are you
Speaker 1: getting this program?
Speaker 5: I went in to try and find that out. I
Speaker 5: think I did, and I think I said a very
Speaker 5: nominal amount. But I can't see in my CRM package
Speaker 5: where I'm paying for it or not. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, usually it's only you know, it's a couple
Speaker 1: like under ten dollars a month for that, or you
Speaker 1: can pay for the hard gear in advance, but that
Speaker 1: would give you access to downloading the app itself. It
Speaker 1: seems like the app is part of the Suite on Windows,
Speaker 1: but on a Mac, I know they just came out
Speaker 1: with a standalone office or an outlook rather, So if
Speaker 1: you have a Mac, you can try logging in there
Speaker 1: as well and seeing but I know you can download
Speaker 1: that on there as well because I played with it.
Speaker 1: So those are some things to try and see if
Speaker 1: they work. But that is frustrating when your email is
Speaker 1: coming back. If you're like me, you just forget to
Speaker 1: actually send your email. So I will set up an
Speaker 1: email and I will get distracted at work and I
Speaker 1: literally forget to hit send and next thing you know,
Speaker 1: people are like, hey, Rich, where's that email. It's like
Speaker 1: I thought I sent it, but I didn't. And sometimes
Speaker 1: that will happen as well. So thanks for the call,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Let me tell you why the FTC is
Speaker 1: mad at Amazon once again. A couple weeks ago they
Speaker 1: had to pay like thirty million bucks for some issues
Speaker 1: with Ring and some other privacy issues. Now they're saying
Speaker 1: that Amazon makes it tough for consumers to cancel their
Speaker 1: subscriptions to Prime. They filed a complaint that says Amazon
Speaker 1: has knowingly duped millions of consumers into unknowingly and rolling
Speaker 1: into Amazon Prime. Now, I've had Amazon Prime for a
Speaker 1: long time, but I think what they're talking about is
Speaker 1: when you check out, if you don't have Prime, there's
Speaker 1: probably a little tiny checkbox that says include a free
Speaker 1: trial of Amazon Prime for overnight shipping or free shipping,
Speaker 1: and people do that, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they see that credit card charge for fourteen ninety nine
Speaker 1: and they say, wait a second, what I thought I
Speaker 1: was just signed up for a free trial, or I
Speaker 1: forgot that I signed up for a free trial. And
Speaker 1: then the FTC alleges that they make it really tough
Speaker 1: to cancel the subscription. Now that's the part that I'm
Speaker 1: not sure I agree with, because I feel like if
Speaker 1: you would chat with Amazon, you could cancel that pretty easily.
Speaker 1: But they say that, you know, this is a dark
Speaker 1: pattern that Amazon is using, and it really made it
Speaker 1: tough for consumers. I'm trying to figure out where they
Speaker 1: say this. Oh, Consumers who attempted to cancel Prime were
Speaker 1: faced with multiple steps to actually accomplish the task of canceling.
Speaker 1: According to the complaint, they had to locate the cancelation flow,
Speaker 1: which Amazon of course hid. Then once they located it,
Speaker 1: they were redirected to multiple pages that presented offers to
Speaker 1: continue the subscription at a discounted price, or to turn
Speaker 1: off the auto renew feature, or to decide not to cancel,
Speaker 1: And then after clicking through all these pages, consumers could
Speaker 1: finally cancel the service. That seems to be pretty common
Speaker 1: though online if you try to cancel anything. And so,
Speaker 1: I know the FTC is really singling out Amazon here,
Speaker 1: but I feel like a lot of companies do that.
Speaker 1: So if you felt like you were wronged by Amazon
Speaker 1: Prime Government, it's got You're back, rich tamiro here. You
Speaker 1: are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Rich Tamuro here talking technology with you at
Speaker 1: triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
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Speaker 1: very good notes about what we talk about here, So
Speaker 1: if you're looking for a link to something I mentioned,
Speaker 1: chances are it's in there because I try to get
Speaker 1: it all. We've got best selling author Deborah Fine joining
Speaker 1: me this hour. She's going to talk about technology and
Speaker 1: how it's impacting the art of small talk. Because I
Speaker 1: don't know about you, but it's much easier in a
Speaker 1: crowd of folks to just kind of, you know, retreat
Speaker 1: to your smartphone and that endless scroll than it is
Speaker 1: to actually have that human connection with folks. And it's tough.
Speaker 1: It's not easy to talk to strangers. But we're going
Speaker 1: to see what Debra says about that. All right, let's
Speaker 1: kick off this hour with Julio in Los Angeles. Julio,
Speaker 1: you're on with Wretch. I'm fantastic. How are you?
Speaker 8: Ah, very good. I have a challenging question for you.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 8: I have Moscilla District okay, oh, sorry for nights okay,
Speaker 8: And I've been living with it for many years and
Speaker 8: I will for forty years into counting a problem. But
Speaker 8: the problem is this, I have a I have a
Speaker 8: cell phone, you know where I versus my wife had
Speaker 8: en a plit phone, and we have a problem because
Speaker 8: she suffers the same, you know, and when we put
Speaker 8: it in a front pocket, I'll must start to hurt.
Speaker 8: I got to he's very share the expicient phone that
Speaker 8: I buy for it.
Speaker 1: Okay, so when you put your phone in your front pocket,
Speaker 1: you're saying your body aches from it. Okay, Well there
Speaker 1: is a solution. And now, look, I don't know if
Speaker 1: there's a correlation. I mean, you're telling me this. I
Speaker 1: don't know if other people are experiencing this, but there
Speaker 1: are you know, there obviously are frequencies that are emitted
Speaker 1: by your phone. You've got a flip phone, so I
Speaker 1: feel like that's not as high powered as some of
Speaker 1: the other smartphones out there. And all of the phones,
Speaker 1: by the way, have this little rating. They've got this
Speaker 1: like radiation rating, so you can look it up by phone.
Speaker 1: It's like measured I think in microns. But different phones
Speaker 1: definitely have different sort of radiation levels that they emit.
Speaker 1: So you can check that out if you search online
Speaker 1: for the model number, and you know, there's a I'm
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what the let me see if
Speaker 1: I can find out iPhone radius level and let's see
Speaker 1: if they have the number. Um yeah, it's like yes,
Speaker 1: So there's like a little like wattage number. Oh there
Speaker 1: it is. It's like, uh yeah, RF exposure information, So
Speaker 1: they all have SAR. SAAR value is what they call it,
Speaker 1: so you can look up the name of your phone
Speaker 1: plus SAR and specific absorption rate is what they call it.
Speaker 1: The rate to which the body absorbs RF energy radio
Speaker 1: frequency energy. The SAR limit on the iPhone twelve pro,
Speaker 1: for example, is one point six watts per kilogram in
Speaker 1: countries that set the limit averaged over one gram of
Speaker 1: tissue and two watts per kilogram WOWS. This is a
Speaker 1: lot if you want to read about this, This is
Speaker 1: like you can go down a rabbit hole with all
Speaker 1: this stuff. But basically, they do test phones for this stuff,
Speaker 1: and they do tell you what the different levels are
Speaker 1: that come out of these phones, and they are very different.
Speaker 1: So if you want to check your phone, just google
Speaker 1: whatever phone model you have plus SAR and it will
Speaker 1: tell you what that number is for the head and
Speaker 1: the body. So with all of that said, there are
Speaker 1: cases that can block these in and out radio waves.
Speaker 1: But here's the deal. They're often called a Faraday bag.
Speaker 1: It's going to block all signals, so you are not
Speaker 1: going to be able to get a signal from this phone.
Speaker 1: It is not going to ring when it's in this bag.
Speaker 1: If it's in your pocket. So if you're okay with that,
Speaker 1: you can check out these different companies that make these things.
Speaker 1: One of them is called Silent Pocket. I guess they've
Speaker 1: just kind of rebranded as Silent now. And their website
Speaker 1: is SLNT dot com Silent slnt dot com, and they
Speaker 1: make a whole bunch of different Faraday bags, everything from
Speaker 1: sleeves for your keys, for your laptop, for your credit cards,
Speaker 1: and also your phone. And I have one of their
Speaker 1: phone bags, and yeah, when you put your phone in there,
Speaker 1: it is it immediately cuts off all signals to and
Speaker 1: from that phone. The other company, and I'm not as
Speaker 1: familiar with their products, I haven't used them, but I
Speaker 1: know they make them is called off grid O F
Speaker 1: F g R I D dot c O and off
Speaker 1: grid is I believe they're based on and I think
Speaker 1: both these companies are like San Diego area. But these
Speaker 1: they make a wallet, they make a bag, they make
Speaker 1: a little cell phone case, they make a duffel bag,
Speaker 1: they make a backpack. Let's see what else here, a
Speaker 1: window kit whatever that is. But these are these are
Speaker 1: some ways of kind of blocking all signals to and
Speaker 1: from your phone. So this could be used for security.
Speaker 1: It could also be used for something like you're talking about, Julio.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that would help. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you want to do that, but that is the
Speaker 1: solution that I can think of otherwise maybe. And I've
Speaker 1: thought about this before. Believe me, I'm not one of
Speaker 1: these like you know, you know, tin hat kind of guys.
Speaker 1: But I have thought about, because I've kept my phone
Speaker 1: in my pocket for so long, I have thought about,
Speaker 1: maybe it's time to switch where I keep my phone
Speaker 1: and not keep it, you know, near the the groin
Speaker 1: area so much, and maybe have some sort of holster
Speaker 1: on my ankle area. And I know it sounds crazy,
Speaker 1: but it's like, you know, I don't know. I've had
Speaker 1: a cell phone in my pocket now for twenty years
Speaker 1: and it seems to be okay, but you don't want
Speaker 1: to find out the hard way that it's not so good. Call, Julio.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for asking that interesting, interesting question. Let's see,
Speaker 1: should we go to Do I have time for another call?
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to let's see. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: so many calls today.
Speaker 4: Karen.
Speaker 1: Karen is in Thousand Oaks.
Speaker 3: Karen, You're on with Rich Hi there, thanks for taking
Speaker 3: my call.
Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for calling.
Speaker 4: Sure.
Speaker 3: I have an iPhone. I've had one since two thousand
Speaker 3: and seven and I have it backed up with iclouds
Speaker 3: and my daughter got married and I decided that it
Speaker 3: would be a great idea to back up the photos
Speaker 3: somewhere else. Absolutely decided, Yeah, easy to do it on
Speaker 3: Google Photos. So I started the process downloading it on
Speaker 3: my phone, and it ran out a memory really fast
Speaker 3: because it was backing up all my photos from my
Speaker 3: phone and I had a lot, and so I stopped
Speaker 3: the I stopped it, and I so I started playing
Speaker 3: around a little bit and I deleted a photo and
Speaker 3: it said, okay, we're going to delete the photo from iPhoto.
Speaker 8: So I stopped.
Speaker 3: I didn't delete anymore. But then it it took all
Speaker 3: like on Google Photo. It was completely full, and it
Speaker 3: wanted more money so to back up everything another ten
Speaker 3: bucks a month. So now I feel like I'm being
Speaker 3: held hostage by them, and so I stopped all the
Speaker 3: access to photos from my iPhone to Google. Sure it's
Speaker 3: just fine, but now it says that I can't get
Speaker 3: my email or Google.
Speaker 1: Because our account is maxed out and they're connected exactly yeah. Okay.
Speaker 1: So with Google you get fifteen gigs of storage I believe.
Speaker 3: Like included right right, But I'm I already pay.
Speaker 1: But you pay for iCloud.
Speaker 3: I do, can dog because I have twenty thousand photos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So here's the dilemma. So you've got these
Speaker 1: basically you're kind of okay, So two things I guess
Speaker 1: two part question here are you you're not going to
Speaker 1: use Google anymore for this?
Speaker 3: Correct?
Speaker 1: Okay, so we can get those photos out of there.
Speaker 1: The other thing is do you are you an Amazon
Speaker 1: Prime member?
Speaker 3: I am?
Speaker 1: Okay, So have you heard of Amazon Photos?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Have you used it?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Okay? So I would recommend since you're an Amazon Prime
Speaker 1: member and you're using this as your secondary backup, so
Speaker 1: your photos are basically in they're almost in two places there.
Speaker 1: Some of them are on your phone. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if your phone carries all twenty thousand physically on your device.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you have that much storage on
Speaker 1: your phone. It may or may not. But they are
Speaker 1: backed up in iCloud. So that's one place they're backed up,
Speaker 1: and of course you want them backed up in a
Speaker 1: second place, which would be one of these cloud apps.
Speaker 1: So since since you're already paying for Amazon, I would
Speaker 1: say install the Amazon Photos app and let your photos
Speaker 1: back up there, and that way you have a secondary copy.
Speaker 1: Because I don't think icloud's going away anytime soon. I
Speaker 1: don't think you're gonna have an issue with that, but
Speaker 1: just in case, you will have a pretty sizeable backup
Speaker 1: of your photos, especially as you take new ones on
Speaker 1: your Amazon account as well. Now that will take care
Speaker 1: of moving forward. So to get rid of these photos
Speaker 1: out of Google, I would just go ahead delete the
Speaker 1: Google Photos app off of your iPhone. You don't need
Speaker 1: to do anything first before you do that, Just go
Speaker 1: ahead and delete it.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 1: Then I would go to photos dot Google dot com
Speaker 1: on your computer and you can go ahead and select
Speaker 1: photos in there and delete them. And I believe once
Speaker 1: you go in there, let me try this real quick.
Speaker 1: If you select like one photo, you you should be
Speaker 1: able to select a bunch at a time and just
Speaker 1: go ahead and delete those. And when you delete them
Speaker 1: from the web interface, they're not going to delete off
Speaker 1: your iPhone at the same time because it can't talk
Speaker 1: to your your iCloud anymore. Does that make sense?
Speaker 8: I think?
Speaker 3: So, let me just one other thing I have in iMac,
Speaker 3: and I don't have iCloud on my Mac because I
Speaker 3: didn't want them if I took if I deleted them
Speaker 3: off on my phone, I didn't want them to delete
Speaker 3: them off my computer.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, the way that iCloud works is it's a
Speaker 1: it's a everything syncs to iCloud. So if you're looking
Speaker 1: at your photo collection on your Mac, it's going to
Speaker 1: be the same exact collection that's on your phone. That's
Speaker 1: if you go to iCloud dot com, it's all the same.
Speaker 1: And it's very confusing for people because they think because
Speaker 1: it's on an app on their phone, it's different than
Speaker 1: what's in the cloud or what's on you know, their
Speaker 1: computer if they're syncing it. So that is a little confusing.
Speaker 1: But my main point here is that if you're if
Speaker 1: you're not wanting to use the Google Photos aspect of anything,
Speaker 1: just go to the Google Photos website and that anything
Speaker 1: you do there will not connect through to iCloud. So
Speaker 1: if you go through and delete all these pictures on
Speaker 1: Google Photos, they will only delete on the Google Photos
Speaker 1: cloud and it's not going to redelete them off of
Speaker 1: your iCloud photo collection. Okay, So, and you can go
Speaker 1: through and you know, try to bulk delete. I think
Speaker 1: you can select a thousand at once or something like that.
Speaker 1: But you can just go through and kind of delete
Speaker 1: as many as possible. And I believe you can just
Speaker 1: kind of click in the corner of the photo and
Speaker 1: then drag over to kind of select multiple photos at
Speaker 1: once and that then then just go ahead and delete them.
Speaker 1: Then you can empty the trash and you should see
Speaker 1: your storage kind of clean up there. So, uh, good question, Karen.
Speaker 1: I know it's confusing. This phot cloud collection stuff is
Speaker 1: really not easy, especially when you start using multiple different providers.
Speaker 1: So good question there, and get that stuff cleaned up.
Speaker 1: So your Gmail works again because it is connected, all right.
Speaker 1: If you have a call, give me a or if
Speaker 1: you have a question, give me a call. It's triple
Speaker 1: eight rich one O one. That's eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four to one zero one. My name
Speaker 1: is rich Dmuro and you are listening to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology at triple eight rich one
Speaker 1: O one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one. If you've got an iPhone, you want
Speaker 1: to update your software immediately. Apple issued an emergency patch
Speaker 1: this week UH to address alleged spyware vulnerability. So the
Speaker 1: actual the allegers in this case is Russia. Their intelligence
Speaker 1: service said that Apple was intentionally leaving this hole open
Speaker 1: in their software so that people can spy on Russia
Speaker 1: through it, which I mean take that claim with a
Speaker 1: grain of salt. But there is a vulnerability on the
Speaker 1: iPhone that should definitely be patched. So if you go
Speaker 1: into your settings, so if you if you don't know
Speaker 1: how to do this, sometimes it'll pop up on your
Speaker 1: screen to tell you. But if it doesn't, you just
Speaker 1: go into settings, you go into General and then software
Speaker 1: update and you should be on iOS sixteen point five
Speaker 1: point one again sixteen point five point one if you
Speaker 1: want to be on the latest software. That's if you're
Speaker 1: not running any betas, which you could be, but I don't,
Speaker 1: but anyway, do that for sure. Researchers with the cyber
Speaker 1: security firm Kaspersky, which is headquartered in Moscow, said that
Speaker 1: they found the exploit while monitoring the network traffic of
Speaker 1: their own corporate Wi Fi network dedicated for mobile devices.
Speaker 1: So Apple did patch this of course they denied the
Speaker 1: claims that they are intentionally leaving this flaw in iOS.
Speaker 1: So the NSA and other US security agencies could compromise
Speaker 1: phones in Russia. But who knows. It'd be more interesting
Speaker 1: if they were doing that, right, but I don't think
Speaker 1: they were so anyway, update your software. If you have
Speaker 1: an iPhone, let's see if you have an a SOUS router,
Speaker 1: update your firmware. Welcome to the update your software show
Speaker 1: my home. My name is Rich DeMuro, but this is important.
Speaker 1: I don't do all software updates, but I you know,
Speaker 1: if these are like critical vulnerabilities, you need to do this.
Speaker 1: And your router in your house is you know, that's
Speaker 1: the the endpoint. You know, that's the place where someone
Speaker 1: could get in. So you want to make sure it's
Speaker 1: up to date. And we don't often think about updating
Speaker 1: our routers unless you have one of these new mesh
Speaker 1: systems that does it automatically. So if you have a
Speaker 1: a SUS RT GTSZN WI FI and TUF router TUF,
Speaker 1: that just sounds bad. I don't know what that means,
Speaker 1: but that sounds bad. Yeah, if you have a tough router,
Speaker 1: check for a firmware update as soon as possible. The
Speaker 1: company released a security patch of resolving nine vulnerabilities that
Speaker 1: could harm you. Someone could execute some remote code and
Speaker 1: take over your network at your house. You don't want
Speaker 1: that to happen. So if you don't know how to
Speaker 1: do this, these these routers go back to twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: by the way, So you log into your router a
Speaker 1: lot of times it's on the bottom of your router,
Speaker 1: your router's IP address. I know this gets a little complicated,
Speaker 1: but look on the bottom of your router and there's
Speaker 1: a there's usually an address you can put in, and
Speaker 1: you type that in, it'll bring you to your router's
Speaker 1: interface and then you can update the software from there.
Speaker 1: If you don't know how to find the IP address,
Speaker 1: as US has a device to discoverutility, you can download that
Speaker 1: or go to the website for that. And then once
Speaker 1: you go to the website for your router, you'll see
Speaker 1: a notification up here in the top right corner that
Speaker 1: says a firmware update is available. Click firmware upgrade to
Speaker 1: download install the patch and that should take just a
Speaker 1: few minutes. But if you have an a SOUS router,
Speaker 1: again definitely want to do the firmware update. If you
Speaker 1: don't know how to do this yourself, find a kid
Speaker 1: in your neighborhood that's good at tech and ask them
Speaker 1: to help you do it. And I'm sure they'll be
Speaker 1: happy to do that. All right, I don't think we
Speaker 1: have enough time for a question, so let's do this.
Speaker 1: Let's do an email question since we only have a minute. Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: we're allowing our grandson to use our car to get
Speaker 1: to and from school in a part time job. Is
Speaker 1: there a tracking device that can be covertly attached to
Speaker 1: the vehicle in order to see if he's making any
Speaker 1: side trips? Well, we have to pay a monthly monitoring fee.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Roger. Roger, I cannot say that you should
Speaker 1: track anyone. It is your car, so it's your progative.
Speaker 1: But I don't think you should secretly track anyone. I
Speaker 1: think that you should to talk to your grandson, tell
Speaker 1: them that you want to track them, and that should
Speaker 1: probably stop the side trips in general, like pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: But there are some highly rated devices. There's a company
Speaker 1: you could look into called Logistimatics Logistimatics dot com. And
Speaker 1: then two highly rated products. One is called Bouncy bo
Speaker 1: u n cie. That's under one hundred dollars. Plus you
Speaker 1: have to pay eight bucks a month for the tracker
Speaker 1: part and then track track you dot Com is thirty
Speaker 1: dollars and that also has GPS, but keep in mind
Speaker 1: you will need to pay a monthly fee. All right.
Speaker 1: Coming up next, best selling author Deborah Fine is going
Speaker 1: to tell us about the Fine Art of small talk.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology, which I can do pretty well,
Speaker 1: but when it comes to small talk, man, I feel
Speaker 1: like I am just not good at that. And I
Speaker 1: was at this conference over the weekend or over the
Speaker 1: week i should say, and it was three days of
Speaker 1: non stop small talk. So they would do kind of
Speaker 1: like you know, a breakfast small talk. Then they do
Speaker 1: a talk on stage, break out small talk while you
Speaker 1: wait for the next session, do another session on stage
Speaker 1: small talk again, small talk during cocktail hour, small talk everywhere.
Speaker 1: Joining me now is author Deborah Fine. She wrote the
Speaker 1: book on small talk, The Fine Art of Small Talk,
Speaker 1: And Deborah, thanks for joining me today. Is it your
Speaker 1: birthday today?
Speaker 8: Rich?
Speaker 9: It's my birthday today.
Speaker 1: Happy day. Hey, that's a that's a great way to
Speaker 1: start small talk. Hey it's your birthday, Happy birthday.
Speaker 9: So you can't use that a good one as an icebreaker,
Speaker 9: and it's pretty self centered. I just use that to
Speaker 9: tweet out today.
Speaker 1: Okay, So so already I'm self centered. See this is
Speaker 1: my problem.
Speaker 9: Well I do that, then I'm self centered. It's all
Speaker 9: about you right now, rich Okay, Well.
Speaker 1: Here's my first question for you. Right am I abnormal
Speaker 1: in the fact that I feel like small talk can
Speaker 1: be really tricky sometimes.
Speaker 9: Well not only tricky, but as I listened to you
Speaker 9: describe your week, I was exhausted, But everyone listening was
Speaker 9: just as exhausted, unless they're an extrovert, of course, or
Speaker 9: unless they had more than one cocktail or five cocktails,
Speaker 9: and it's not as exhausting, of course.
Speaker 1: But then you get then you run into like you know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to do that either.
Speaker 9: You know, of course not. So here's here's the trick
Speaker 9: to small talker, I mean, the many tricks. Number one
Speaker 9: is to you decide how much time you're going to
Speaker 9: invest in the energy you're going to invest. But then
Speaker 9: you've got to do it right. So what I mean
Speaker 9: by right is I turn it into a task. I'm
Speaker 9: an introvert by nature. Who I hope sounds like an
Speaker 9: extrovert right now. So when I walk into a networking event,
Speaker 9: or that coffee break, or the reception before the dinner
Speaker 9: or the awards or whatever you had to go through
Speaker 9: this week, we're sitting in the auditorium waiting for the
Speaker 9: next speaker, I approach that as a task. Here's the task.
Speaker 9: Meet the person I right, meet the person on my left,
Speaker 9: don't wait for them to introduce themselves. Walk into a
Speaker 9: hospitality suite. Tell myself, I'm going to meet two new people.
Speaker 9: I'm going to meet four new people. One new person.
Speaker 9: I get to decide the task, and then when my
Speaker 9: task is done, then I get to In my case,
Speaker 9: I do like to drink, so I'll go and drink
Speaker 9: or I'll leave early. How great would that be? So
Speaker 9: small talk it sounds like a waste of saliva to
Speaker 9: most people because it most of us think it's sports
Speaker 9: or the weather. But what small talk really is, I believe,
Speaker 9: is the appetizer to a relationship. In your case, because
Speaker 9: you're at a business industry conference, it was the appetiser
Speaker 9: to business relationships. Although anything else is possible. But anytime
Speaker 9: we invest time in getting to know people or just
Speaker 9: frame conversations with small talk. So think about this before
Speaker 9: or after the picture frame of a business conversation, let's say,
Speaker 9: the provision of a service, the negotiation of a contract,
Speaker 9: the evaluation of a candidate, before or after. If we
Speaker 9: use small talk, then we develop these business friendship, business
Speaker 9: relationships and all things, you know, being equal people do
Speaker 9: business with their friends and all things not being so equal,
Speaker 9: people still do business with their friends. So it is
Speaker 9: a good investment of our time just to do it
Speaker 9: in a quality way when we choose to do it,
Speaker 9: and when we're spent exhausted done that, we should just
Speaker 9: tune out or go sit in the reception area, plan
Speaker 9: your device for a while, then come back in.
Speaker 1: Okay, you mentioned the device. So I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: seeing when I go because I go to a lot
Speaker 1: of I basically come home on a weekly basis and
Speaker 1: explain to my wife how how many events I have
Speaker 1: to go to where you really have to put yourself
Speaker 1: out there, where you have to make these small talks.
Speaker 1: You have to meet people, you have to introduce yourself,
Speaker 1: ask people what they do. All this good stuff and
Speaker 1: I find that there are an element of folks who
Speaker 1: sort of retreat into their phone because now it used
Speaker 1: to be you know, let's say you're in a standard
Speaker 1: kind of cocktail reception kind of thing. There's a couple
Speaker 1: tables set up, some people already kind of paired off,
Speaker 1: they know someone whatever, and then other people might just
Speaker 1: stand there and stare at their phone. So do you
Speaker 1: feel like we're seeing more of a trend of that
Speaker 1: happening or has that always happened? And you know, is
Speaker 1: that okay to do or no? Should you really just
Speaker 1: not do that?
Speaker 9: I think I'm not positive of this, but I believe
Speaker 9: that people have that crutch of their phone that we
Speaker 9: can view. But in the past, because I was one
Speaker 9: of those people. You know, I was an engineer originally
Speaker 9: in my profession, and I was an INTROVERTI shy person.
Speaker 9: I stood over in the corner by myself, and you know,
Speaker 9: I joked about drinking. I was not a drinker at
Speaker 9: that time. But I do believe people would huddle at
Speaker 9: the bar because they didn't have a device to look
Speaker 9: down at. There were a million crutches, rich, It's just
Speaker 9: that the crutch right now is a device. Do I
Speaker 9: think it's wrong. Absolutely, your device should not be out
Speaker 9: and about, even at a if I sit down with
Speaker 9: you to dine, it should not be out and about
Speaker 9: on the table. It should either be in a pocket,
Speaker 9: a handback, whatever it may be. It certainly should be
Speaker 9: facing down and turned off. And if you wear an
Speaker 9: Apple Watch on your rist, please stop it, just because
Speaker 9: you're driving me nuts and I just really I cannot
Speaker 9: stand it, So for rich let me and people have
Speaker 9: forgotten this. A phone has a phone feature. I know
Speaker 9: we've forgotten this, but wouldn't it be grand. It's like
Speaker 9: as recently as yesterday, I got an inquiry in my
Speaker 9: business and instead of replying the email that's how it
Speaker 9: was delivered, I picked up the phone and used the
Speaker 9: phone feature. Now asked me if she answered no. She
Speaker 9: did not, but I left a phone message and said
Speaker 9: I follow up by email. You know, we need to
Speaker 9: have this space to face interaction or this where I
Speaker 9: can just hearing your voice right now. I don't know you.
Speaker 9: Now you're in a you originally asked me a question
Speaker 9: about going to these functions, et cetera. You're at a
Speaker 9: disadvantage because I'm guessing this. I don't know you, we've
Speaker 9: never talked. I didn't even know who you were two
Speaker 9: days ago. Sorry because I don't live in LA.
Speaker 1: But no offense.
Speaker 9: Yeah, well those of us who are living Denver, who
Speaker 9: are home of the NBA champion Denver Nuggets, everyone didn't
Speaker 9: even exist, mister Laker fan. But nonetheless I move on.
Speaker 1: So I.
Speaker 9: Think you're probably recognizable. So you're at a disadvantage because
Speaker 9: people must come around you, and so you're almost like
Speaker 9: have to come up with small tuck more than.
Speaker 5: The rest of us.
Speaker 9: But I would say to people to walk in prepared,
Speaker 9: come up with two to three things to talk about
Speaker 9: when you walk into the situations at least that Riches
Speaker 9: does describe. So, for instance, I call it free information.
Speaker 9: So free information is the information that's free to all
Speaker 9: of us. It's sort of a commonality. So if I'm
Speaker 9: at a conference, I can say to anybody that I
Speaker 9: introduce myself, say, so, is this your first time at
Speaker 9: this conference, or what was your number one takeaway from
Speaker 9: the speaker this morning? Or what other conferences do you attend.
Speaker 9: The free information I have is that you're at this conference, right,
Speaker 9: and so am I You know, what did you see
Speaker 9: the exhibit hall that caught your eye. So if I'm
Speaker 9: at a fundraiser, what got you involved in this fundraiser?
Speaker 9: How are you connected? If I'm at your party at
Speaker 9: your house, you just disclosed that you're married. By the way,
Speaker 9: everyone listening, don't ask people if they're married. Don't ask them.
Speaker 9: If I found out Rich is married because he disclosed it,
Speaker 9: I am not going to ask him do you have
Speaker 9: any kids? Because folks, they either don't and you're headed
Speaker 9: down a rabbit hole, or they do and they won't
Speaker 9: shut up.
Speaker 1: But I made that faux pas yesterday. I asked someone,
Speaker 1: I said, oh, do you have kids? And as soon
Speaker 1: as I asked it, and I realized because when I
Speaker 1: looked up this person on their Instagram, their entire mo
Speaker 1: is sort of like, uh, I don't need a man,
Speaker 1: and the like I make my own money, this and that,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh wow, I really kind of
Speaker 1: I really stepped into a bee's nest there.
Speaker 9: So want me to tell you my favorite way to
Speaker 9: get to know someone with's out asking those kinds of questions.
Speaker 1: Yes, give us the tips because I.
Speaker 9: Sounded like I was joking around, but I'm not. I
Speaker 9: don't think it's cool to ask people, are you married?
Speaker 10: I don't.
Speaker 9: Even if I'm in an industry conference, I'll ask you,
Speaker 9: you know, what kind of work you do, because then
Speaker 9: it's it's appropriate. But if I'm outside of an industry
Speaker 9: conference or a work function, I don't. I'm not going
Speaker 9: to start a conversation with what do you do?
Speaker 7: Rich?
Speaker 9: So my favorite way to get to know someone without
Speaker 9: asking questions that you might put your foot in your
Speaker 9: mouth or cause them any awkwardness or discomfort, is to say, like,
Speaker 9: to you, Rich, I know enough about you professionally. I
Speaker 9: happen to just learn you how to wife. But let's
Speaker 9: put that aside for a second. My favorite way to
Speaker 9: get to know you is to say, outside of work, Rich,
Speaker 9: what keeps you busy? One day, I meet you at
Speaker 9: a fundraiser, outside of you know, working on behalf of
Speaker 9: this food bank? What keeps you busy? So I meet
Speaker 9: you at back to school night with the kids. So
Speaker 9: outside of the kids, what keeps you busy? It's my
Speaker 9: favorite way to get to know somebody. They can disclose
Speaker 9: you know, I do yoga, I like to jog, I'm
Speaker 9: I'm in a book club, I have three kids, I
Speaker 9: like to travel. Whatever they disclose is now what you
Speaker 9: get to talk about with them?
Speaker 1: Oh I love that, And that is such a little
Speaker 1: secret weapon right there. So now I know, outside of
Speaker 1: you know, helping people with you know, let's say I
Speaker 1: meet another tech person, outside of helping people with technology,
Speaker 1: what keeps you busy? It's such an easy way to
Speaker 1: get them to open out to function.
Speaker 9: Let's say your wife is there, so I don't know
Speaker 9: her either, obviously, but I don't want to dismiss her.
Speaker 9: Often people when I'm with my husband, who I don't
Speaker 9: share his last name, and he happens to be a doctor,
Speaker 9: so he gets all that energy. Right, You're fine. I
Speaker 9: don't need to tell you what I do for a living.
Speaker 9: That's all great. But what I observe is people never
Speaker 9: say to me. They don't want to say what do
Speaker 9: you do because they're worried I don't do anything? Okay,
Speaker 9: So but if I had that wonderful opportunity to meet
Speaker 9: your wife, I would say, what keeps you busy? Outside
Speaker 9: of being dragged to these events with your husband?
Speaker 1: I love it. See, look at I just got two
Speaker 1: things that I wish I knew all week long.
Speaker 9: Thank you Rich.
Speaker 1: Okay, Deborah, we're going to leave it there. Deborah Fine,
Speaker 1: author of the Fine Art of Small Talk. How to
Speaker 1: start a conversation, keep it going, build networking skills, and
Speaker 1: leave a positive impression. It was recently updated this year,
Speaker 1: so go ahead and check it out on Amazon. I
Speaker 1: think we got some great takeaways from this conversation, Deborah,
Speaker 1: and now I cannot wait from a next event.
Speaker 9: Thanks for finding me, Rich all right er, thanks.
Speaker 1: For being on todayppreciate it. Even though you knock to
Speaker 1: the Lakers, that's okay, we won't hold it again.
Speaker 9: You guys, just you have no shame out there. The
Speaker 9: NBA champions Okay, we're done.
Speaker 1: Okay, thanks Deva, appreciate it. Thank you, oh Deva Fine
Speaker 1: on Amazon. My pretty sure said they have one championship.
Speaker 1: This is not sports talk, so you know I'm I'm
Speaker 1: already above my pay grade here. All right, coming up,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take more of your calls at Triple eight
Speaker 1: rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to two,
Speaker 1: four to one zero one. Remember that takeaway outside of
Speaker 1: what brings you here? What keeps you busy? I love
Speaker 1: that you. We're listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology with
Speaker 1: you at Triple eight Rich one on one eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. I
Speaker 1: feel like our conversation, our small talk conversation went off
Speaker 1: the rails the end there, So uh, Deborah was a
Speaker 1: good sport. All right, let's go to Angel in Gardena, California. Angel.
Speaker 1: You're Ama Fritch, Thank you Rich, big fan of yours question.
Speaker 10: And my wife works as a factory where it's really noisy.
Speaker 10: She uses airphones to get this stress level down, just
Speaker 10: to listen to music. But recently they told all the
Speaker 10: workers not to use their phones are at work to
Speaker 10: make calls while they're working. So they told her not
Speaker 10: to use airphones anymore unless they are only for music.
Speaker 10: I've been looking for bluetooth airphones that don't have a phone,
Speaker 10: and I haven't been able to find anything that connects
Speaker 10: to and Android phone. Is there any help you can
Speaker 10: give me?
Speaker 1: That's a good question. Most people want the uh want
Speaker 1: the microphone.
Speaker 10: Yes, I know, but you know they want to get
Speaker 10: intro so yeah, no, I understand that.
Speaker 1: And she doesn't want to use a wired one either, right, No, no.
Speaker 10: Because there's type of work it's better for her to
Speaker 10: use wireless Okay.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to find a couple of headphones. Now
Speaker 1: I don't have experience with these headphones, so I can't
Speaker 1: tell you if they're good or not. Some of them
Speaker 1: do have good ratings, but most of the time, and
Speaker 1: I will, I will pull a friend that I have
Speaker 1: that knows more about this than I do, because they
Speaker 1: test all the different earbuds. So I will, I will
Speaker 1: mention that and get get to you with that. But uh,
Speaker 1: for now, the the ones that are coming up, because
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of earbuds have a microphone, especially the
Speaker 1: wireless ones, and I think wired, you're gonna easily be
Speaker 1: able to find a pair of wired earbuds. Like if
Speaker 1: you want something that's super cheap, Moondrop Quarks. These are
Speaker 1: highly rated, and these have no microphone for thirteen bucks.
Speaker 1: The problem is most phones like you alluded to, don't
Speaker 1: have a headphone jack anymore. So if she wants one
Speaker 1: with a headphone jack and just wants a wired pair
Speaker 1: of earbuds, Moondrop Quarks, they are thirteen bucks, highly rated,
Speaker 1: no microphone on those whatsoever. Now, when it comes to Bluetooth,
Speaker 1: I found let's see here, I found two pairs, one
Speaker 1: I'm trying to see if this one has a microphone
Speaker 1: or not. This one, I think does not have a microphone.
Speaker 1: It looks like it's twenty bucks and it's a company
Speaker 1: called Ja Rabbit and it looks like they're sold at Walmart,
Speaker 1: so that could be an option. But the one that
Speaker 1: is a little bit more well known ISO tunes and
Speaker 1: these are called free two point zero listen only, but
Speaker 1: these are expensive. These are one hundred and twenty dollars.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to find from some of the companies
Speaker 1: that I know, like Belkin that makes earbuds Monoprice, if
Speaker 1: they make a solution without the microphone built in, and
Speaker 1: I'm just not finding them. So I see the frustration
Speaker 1: here because these are not easy to find. But here's
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna pull my friend. She
Speaker 1: reviews all of the earbuds for Wirecutter, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to see what she comes up with, because I guarantee
Speaker 1: she's got something and I will mention it on next
Speaker 1: week's show. Angel or actually you know what, have Kim,
Speaker 1: get your phone number and your text or your email
Speaker 1: and I will definitely get in touch with you directly,
Speaker 1: and if you are listening, and you have a suggestion
Speaker 1: of earbuds that are Bluetooth that you love that do
Speaker 1: not have a microphone. Let me know hello at richon
Speaker 1: tech dot TV and I'll get it into the feedback
Speaker 1: section of the show. Good question. That's a tricky one.
Speaker 1: That's a very complicated one, something that you know takes
Speaker 1: a little research to find out. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: about Rivian.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: Rivian is the company that makes electric cars. They came
Speaker 1: out with an electric pickup truck first, and then they
Speaker 1: came out with an electric suv. They're very popular, but
Speaker 1: they are very expensive. I've test driven them. These are
Speaker 1: sort of like rugged vehicles. Amazon's a big investor in
Speaker 1: this company, and they're very, very nice, and I've seen
Speaker 1: more and more of them on the roads, at least
Speaker 1: here in the California area. But they are now saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, we are going to use Tesla's supercharger network.
Speaker 1: So they signed an agreement this week to provide Rivian
Speaker 1: drivers access to Tesla's super charger network. That's a huge deal.
Speaker 1: Now they say they're going to continue to expand their
Speaker 1: own what they call Adventure network. But last I checked,
Speaker 1: they did not have a lot of chargers with that network,
Speaker 1: and they're putting them mostly in places like national parks
Speaker 1: and things like that. So here's the deal. The folks
Speaker 1: that already have a Rivian R one T and an
Speaker 1: R one S that's their truck R one, get it
Speaker 1: our Rivian one truck, Rivian one suv. They will be
Speaker 1: able to get an adapter to charge on Tesla's supercharger
Speaker 1: network as early as spring twenty twenty four, and then
Speaker 1: starting with their twenty twenty five vehicles, they are going
Speaker 1: to have the Tesla charger built in, so you know,
Speaker 1: the charging port is going to be Tesla's, so if
Speaker 1: you pop this thing open, it's going to look like
Speaker 1: a Tesla charger. It's called the North American Charging Standard,
Speaker 1: which I find so ironic that Tesla came up with
Speaker 1: that name way way long ago, and now it actually
Speaker 1: is becoming the North American Charging Standard. Why because in
Speaker 1: recent weeks we had GM was the first to say,
Speaker 1: you know what, we're just going to go ahead and
Speaker 1: use Tesla's charging infrastructure and their charge report, and then
Speaker 1: Ford said, you know what, that's a good idea. We're
Speaker 1: going to do the same exact thing. So now We've
Speaker 1: got two three companies that are all using Tesla's supercharger network,
Speaker 1: which I know some Tesla owners are probably not too
Speaker 1: happy about that because now they're thinking, oh, great, does
Speaker 1: this mean these chargers are going to be a lot
Speaker 1: more crowded. Yeah. Probably, but this is going to be
Speaker 1: a slow process. But what we're seeing here is, at
Speaker 1: least in the US, the Tesla charging standard is becoming
Speaker 1: the standard. So Tesla is winning the format war when
Speaker 1: it comes to how we are going to charge our
Speaker 1: cars in the future. And the fact that three major
Speaker 1: companies are now going to use these chargers in their
Speaker 1: car and that they can access that supercharger network, who's
Speaker 1: going to be next? I guarantee other companies will fall
Speaker 1: in line with this, because you don't want to be
Speaker 1: left out at this point. And now, if you're choosing
Speaker 1: a car, yeah, you probably want that ease of charging.
Speaker 1: All right. If you have a question, give me a
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Speaker 6: Uh?
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Speaker 1: let's kick off this hour with uh, let's see Barbara
Speaker 1: in Manta Bello. Barbara, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Rich, Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 1: Thanks for calling in.
Speaker 7: This will be regarding the victrola stream Onyx record player
Speaker 7: that is supposed to work well with soos. Yes, yes,
Speaker 7: I'm interested in purchasing it, but I do want to
Speaker 7: know does it work uninterrupted excuse me, with unwired speakers
Speaker 7: or do I have to actually wire solo speakers to it?
Speaker 1: Oh? Good question. So do you do you not have
Speaker 1: a Sono system or do you expect to set.
Speaker 6: One up with us if I have quite a system already,
Speaker 6: and based on you lucking it so much, I tried
Speaker 6: my first SOS and I've been hooked ever since.
Speaker 1: Oh it's such a great system, So this will work.
Speaker 1: Now when you say wired versus wireless, what do you
Speaker 1: mean exactly?
Speaker 7: Well, I've read that. Say, for instance, I could just
Speaker 7: play it without hooking it up to any actual SOS.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as far as I understand, that's the way it works.
Speaker 1: So when I was given the demo of this at CES,
Speaker 1: they is completely wireless, so it will connect to your
Speaker 1: son speakers via Wi Fi and all you have to
Speaker 1: have is one. You probably need a recent Do you
Speaker 1: have a recent Sono speaker? Yeah, okay, so if you
Speaker 1: have a recent son No speaker, it should be just fine.
Speaker 1: It will connect over Wi Fi. And that's why this
Speaker 1: is a little bit more expensive than similar record players.
Speaker 1: But this is completely wireless, and the fact that it
Speaker 1: works with sons, it is certified, so it's not like
Speaker 1: a you know, kind of where they're just kind of
Speaker 1: shoehorning it in. This is actually made to work with Sonos.
Speaker 1: So I think this would be a great addition to
Speaker 1: your collection if you don't mind spending the six hundred
Speaker 1: dollars to buy it.
Speaker 6: Well, actually they have one that's a little bit less now,
Speaker 6: the onyx or. I'm hoping with Amazon sale, maybe I
Speaker 6: can pick one up.
Speaker 1: Ah, that's a good I like. I like how you think. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: there are two versions of this, but there is a
Speaker 1: difference between them. So let me see. I need to
Speaker 1: look and refresh myself with this whole situation. So there
Speaker 1: is the carbon and then okay, the carbon is the
Speaker 1: more expensive one, and then the stream is the less expense.
Speaker 1: I've got it. Okay, so the carbon is a little
Speaker 1: bit more, little fancier, but for six hundred dollars. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this thing. I've been tracking the price on this for
Speaker 1: a while. It has not gone down, so I hope
Speaker 1: that you're right. The only thing I did see when
Speaker 1: I went to the website is there isn't a ten
Speaker 1: percent off if you put your email address into the website.
Speaker 1: So if worse comes to worse, if you can't get
Speaker 1: this thing on sale during Prime Day, you can put
Speaker 1: the email address and get ten percent off, which will
Speaker 1: take sixty dollars off. But we do know the ways
Speaker 1: to track Amazon purchases, so if you want if you
Speaker 1: haven't your eye on something on Amazon. We'll probably talk
Speaker 1: about this a little bit later because we're going to
Speaker 1: talk about Prime Day. But what I do is I
Speaker 1: either add it to my cart to be able to
Speaker 1: watch the price over the time, or you can there's
Speaker 1: actually a couple of ways. There's an extent called Honey
Speaker 1: which you can add things to your wish list on
Speaker 1: there and it will give you an email when the
Speaker 1: price drops. Then there's something called Camel Camel, I know,
Speaker 1: such a weird name, but you can put a price
Speaker 1: in there an Amazon like a link to an Amazon product,
Speaker 1: and it will send you an alert when that price changes.
Speaker 1: And then finally Google, actually, if you're using Google Chrome,
Speaker 1: they have a feature where they will track prices as well,
Speaker 1: so you can track prices on Google Chrome itself. I
Speaker 1: find that that is a little bit hit or miss.
Speaker 1: Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes a little price
Speaker 1: tracker shows up, other times it doesn't. So right now,
Speaker 1: if I click on this Victrola stream ONYX, if I
Speaker 1: click up in the URL, I'll see a little bell
Speaker 1: that says track price. So now if I click that,
Speaker 1: it says you're tracking this product. This page is saved
Speaker 1: in other bookmarks, and it will alert you on your
Speaker 1: phone or in Chrome if that price drops. So those
Speaker 1: are a couple different ways of doing it. But Barbara,
Speaker 1: you know I have my eye on this thing. So
Speaker 1: now I'm tracking the price. Now I'm wondering if this
Speaker 1: is going to go on sale for Prime. The only
Speaker 1: thing I said about my whole record experience was that
Speaker 1: I didn't like how they only last for like twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: I'm so used to just unlimited music all day long.
Speaker 1: So great question there. All right, if you have Visible,
Speaker 1: this is kind of an issue. If you have Visible, they,
Speaker 1: according to nine to five, Google, are disabling auto pay
Speaker 1: if you're on one of these older plans. So for
Speaker 1: about a year now, Visible, which is owed by Verizon,
Speaker 1: has been transitioning to two new plans that apparently give
Speaker 1: you better five G coverage, but you have to switch
Speaker 1: your simcard out. So you've probably gotten some emails about this.
Speaker 1: Maybe you've had to figure this out and do it.
Speaker 1: But the price that you have to uh the plan
Speaker 1: that you have to switch to also has a higher price.
Speaker 1: It's about five dollars more a month. So it used
Speaker 1: to be twenty five, now it's thirty all, oh, they're
Speaker 1: giving you a temporary five dollars discount, so couple of things.
Speaker 1: And I guess the author of this article uses Visible,
Speaker 1: so that's why they're interested in this. But I thought
Speaker 1: it was interesting because a lot of people do use Visible,
Speaker 1: but their messaging has gotten more urgent, telling customers through
Speaker 1: texts and emails that your service is going to be disconnected.
Speaker 1: So the most dramatic part of this whole thing is
Speaker 1: that Visible's website now gives you a notification that autopay
Speaker 1: will be disabled as part of this switch. So basically,
Speaker 1: they're forcing you to take notice because you will have
Speaker 1: to log into the website to pay your bill. So
Speaker 1: any payment due on or after July one, twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: if you're still on this old plan, must be made manually.
Speaker 1: And because autopay payments are processed two days before, autopay
Speaker 1: will be disabled as of June twenty ninth, which means
Speaker 1: if you don't pay your auto pay, you're not going
Speaker 1: to have your service. So they're trying to force you
Speaker 1: into doing this. Now, here's the thing. If you're on
Speaker 1: this original plan, you have to do something by September
Speaker 1: because this old plan I guess this network will be
Speaker 1: shut down in September. What network are they talking about?
Speaker 1: Because Visible uses five G and four G. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's kind of an odd thing, but the reality is,
Speaker 1: if you are using Visible and you're getting all of
Speaker 1: these messages, it's probably best to just go ahead and
Speaker 1: do the switchover. So if you have to get a
Speaker 1: new SIM card, tell them, hey, you know, I'll take
Speaker 1: the new SIM. You pop it in your phone and
Speaker 1: it works. If your phone supports eSIM, it's probably easier
Speaker 1: just to access the eSIM and just upgrade that way.
Speaker 1: But Visible could be hit or miss. I mean, I
Speaker 1: really like the pricing, but they've made a lot of
Speaker 1: changes in recent years to you know, it's good. It's
Speaker 1: a good option, but I know reviews are hit or
Speaker 1: miss on this thing. And then United doing something cool.
Speaker 1: United has a new mobile app feature that will be
Speaker 1: a lot more useful if your travel plans are disrupted.
Speaker 1: So starting now, if you've ever been on a flight
Speaker 1: that is changed or delayed, you have to go in
Speaker 1: this giant line to help you get options for delays
Speaker 1: and cancelations, and you have to stand there with a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of people who are also delayed and or canceled,
Speaker 1: and they may give you a voucher, they may give
Speaker 1: you a different flight, they may rebook you. But now,
Speaker 1: and I don't know why this wasn't a thing before,
Speaker 1: you'll get a text notification if you're on one of
Speaker 1: these flights that is interrupted, and it will bring you
Speaker 1: to the mobile app Orunited dot com and if your
Speaker 1: reservation is impacted, you will get the ability to rebook
Speaker 1: your flight or get a new flight, track your bag,
Speaker 1: see where they are, or you'll get a voucher. And
Speaker 1: this is the big important part is that they will
Speaker 1: now give you vouchers through the app, so you can
Speaker 1: get a hotel, meal or ride share voucher if you're eligible.
Speaker 1: And that's really important because I remember my son and
Speaker 1: I were delayed, delayed, delayed, delayed, And this is for
Speaker 1: flights that are delayed I think more than sixty minutes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when a flight is delayed by more than sixty minutes
Speaker 1: or canceled, this is when you're going to automatically see
Speaker 1: this new option for delaying cancelations inside the United app.
Speaker 1: But my son and I were delayed, and this was
Speaker 1: before this obviously, and he was like four at the time,
Speaker 1: I think, long story short, it just kept getting more
Speaker 1: and more delayed. It was so annoying. We ended up
Speaker 1: getting on the plane. We had to get off the
Speaker 1: plane because like something happened with the airplane. And I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, enough is enough? I called in. Everyone
Speaker 1: was lining up. I called in and I said, you
Speaker 1: know what, you got to book us on a different flight,
Speaker 1: and by the way, i'd like first class. And I'm
Speaker 1: not kidding. I actually got disconnected from the agent on
Speaker 1: this call, which was ironic, but I'm not kidding. When
Speaker 1: I looked at my app, I miraculously saw that our
Speaker 1: itinerary had been refreshed and my ticket was rebooked and
Speaker 1: we were in first class. And that is probably one
Speaker 1: of my favorite stories. And that person will never get
Speaker 1: a thank you because I don't know who they were
Speaker 1: or their name or anything like that. And they didn't
Speaker 1: even tell me that they did this. But it was
Speaker 1: such a nice gesture because I asked for it. They
Speaker 1: didn't really fight me on it, and we actually got disconnected.
Speaker 1: They could have just literally waited till I called back,
Speaker 1: and they didn't. They proactively gave us what I asked
Speaker 1: for without even telling me and then when I got
Speaker 1: on the plane, I was pleasantly surprised. And my kid
Speaker 1: will never stop talking about that. By the way, he said, hey, Dad,
Speaker 1: can we get the every time we fly now? Can
Speaker 1: we get that seat where you get the free chicken?
Speaker 1: Remember we got that free chicken that whole meal. I said, yes, son,
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen very often. That was a fluke anyway,
Speaker 1: United thanks for making it easier when folks are delayed
Speaker 1: or canceled. All right, coming up next in this hour,
Speaker 1: we are going to talk to Julie Ramhold. She is
Speaker 1: the consumer analyst with Deal News. She's going to talk
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime Day Plus. We have time for some more
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Speaker 1: to uh Gary, Gary's in Redondo Beach. Gary, you're on with.
Speaker 11: Rich Hey, Rich, Hey, love show.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 11: Checking out the new Max book Air fifteen inch okay,
Speaker 11: and that friend of mine I was saying, oh, this
Speaker 11: sounds good, I should get it, and a friend of
Speaker 11: mine said that it's the fifteen inches new.
Speaker 8: But the M.
Speaker 11: Two chip is it's going to be outdated soon by
Speaker 11: the M three or whatever chip they're working on next.
Speaker 11: So I wonder what your thought is about that.
Speaker 1: Well, that is true. But here's the thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: what are you doing on this computer?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 11: Just zoom meaning nothing big, nothing, you know, earth shattering,
Speaker 11: just personal use. I just like Apple products better than
Speaker 11: than the PC's or Microsoft.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the M two chip was released on June sixth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, so that is over a year old.
Speaker 1: It is in this new MacBook Air. And it's a
Speaker 1: little confusing because I think number one, this MacBook Air
Speaker 1: has gotten incredible reviews. So I think there is absolutely
Speaker 1: no reason and not to get this. And the problem
Speaker 1: is your your friend is right, and you know the
Speaker 1: M two chip is is your friend? Do they happen
Speaker 1: to not like Apple in general?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: No, they have all Apple Okay, so they're kind of
Speaker 1: an Apple expert. I mean. So the thing is, it's
Speaker 1: tough to say that you shouldn't get this because when
Speaker 1: they come out with the new MacBook Air fifteen inch
Speaker 1: next year, they're probably going to use a chip that
Speaker 1: is older as well. Because the whole reason they're able
Speaker 1: to offer this at this price is because they're using
Speaker 1: a chip that has been around for a bit. Now,
Speaker 1: if we look at the facts, Number one, they didn't
Speaker 1: announce an M three this year, so we don't have
Speaker 1: an idea that they're going to come out with an
Speaker 1: M three MacBook next year. Now, they could do that,
Speaker 1: and you may buy this, and you may be frustrated
Speaker 1: and say, Rich you led me astray, like why'd you
Speaker 1: do that? But I think that for what you need
Speaker 1: out of this computer, this computer is going to serve
Speaker 1: you pretty well. If you're doing something like if you
Speaker 1: told me to video edit or something like that, I
Speaker 1: would definitely recommend that you move up to a pro
Speaker 1: system which definitely has the newer chips. So, for instance,
Speaker 1: I've got the MacBook Pro fourteen inch, which I immediately
Speaker 1: regretted because this is too small, but it has a
Speaker 1: M two pro chip which came out a little bit later,
Speaker 1: and it came out in this notebook. So but the
Speaker 1: fifteen inch MacBook Air, I know it has some of
Speaker 1: the older chips in it, but these chips are still
Speaker 1: really good. And when you look at what Apple does
Speaker 1: from start to finish with their software and their power
Speaker 1: efficiency and these chips, I mean, this is going to
Speaker 1: be a really good system for the price that they're
Speaker 1: asking for. Have you decided on how much memory you
Speaker 1: would get in this thing, because that's kind of the
Speaker 1: big question.
Speaker 11: I wanted to get one parabyte.
Speaker 1: And what about the RAM Okay, So I think that's
Speaker 1: a good decision. I think the because I think the
Speaker 1: base is eight right right, yeah, So I think the
Speaker 1: sixteen is probably going to help keep this thing faster
Speaker 1: longer than getting the base storage on the Apple always
Speaker 1: does this weird thing where they've got a good price
Speaker 1: at the beginning, you know, the entry level device, but
Speaker 1: if you pay just a little bit more, you're going
Speaker 1: to get a lot more out of that device. So
Speaker 1: I think that's smart. So I say, Gary, go for it.
Speaker 1: I understand that it's a little bit older technology inside,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean it's bad technology, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: mean it's outdated technology. So for what you're using it for,
Speaker 1: I think you'll be pretty happy.
Speaker 11: I really appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: All right, Gary, I appreciate you calling in today. Have
Speaker 1: a great day you too, all right. Yeah, that's always
Speaker 1: a tough thing with Apple products, is the timing of things.
Speaker 1: When do you get it? You know, I always think
Speaker 1: of Apple products as like you kind of have to
Speaker 1: get it like the first day it comes out, because
Speaker 1: they've got a time frame on them of like a
Speaker 1: year before they come out with the new version of it.
Speaker 1: So the website that I like to go to and
Speaker 1: for Gary, this could probably be helpful too, even though
Speaker 1: the fifteen inch mac Book Air is sort of in
Speaker 1: a class of its own. But the website I like
Speaker 1: is called Buyer's Guide by MacRumors, So if you go
Speaker 1: to buyers Guide dot MacRumors dot com, they have listed
Speaker 1: every single product that Apple makes and they tell you
Speaker 1: buy now, caution, don't buy, or neutral. So if you're
Speaker 1: looking at maccomputers, for instance, the fifteen inch MacBook Air
Speaker 1: since it just came out, is buy now. The thirteen
Speaker 1: inch MacBook Air is caution. And the reason why it's
Speaker 1: caution is because you can look at the release dates
Speaker 1: of this product in the past March twenty fifteen, June
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, October twenty eighteen, July twenty nineteen, March twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: November twenty twenty, and it does an average of how
Speaker 1: many days between those releases, which is four hundred and
Speaker 1: forty six days between new thirteen inch back MacBook Airs,
Speaker 1: and right now it's been three hundred and fifty one days,
Speaker 1: So that tells you that in another one hundred days
Speaker 1: they're would be a new thirteen inch MacBook Air. Is
Speaker 1: it always perfect, Absolutely not, But it's a good kind
Speaker 1: of gauge to see if you should spend your money
Speaker 1: on something, and if you are going to spend your
Speaker 1: money on something, perhaps it should be a little bit discounted. So,
Speaker 1: for instance, if you look at the new home pod
Speaker 1: buy now HomePod Mini Neutral. It's been nine hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty four days since they released the home Pod Mini,
Speaker 1: so I think that one is up for a refresh,
Speaker 1: even though we have no history to go by, because
Speaker 1: that's the first product in that cycle. So anyway, the
Speaker 1: website is Buyer's Guide dot MacRumors dot com. Again, I
Speaker 1: put all of these notes on my website. Rich Ontech
Speaker 1: dot tv is the place to go.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we're gonna talk Amazon Prime Day. Amazon Prime
Speaker 1: Day is back on July eleventh and twelfth. Are you ready?
Speaker 1: Is your wallet ready? Julie Ramhold, consumer analysts with dealnews
Speaker 1: dot com. We'll join me next to talk Amazon Prime
Speaker 1: Day twenty twenty three. You're listening to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. Amazon Prime Day coming back
Speaker 1: July eleventh and twelfth, Amazon says, will we be big
Speaker 1: savings Amazon exclusive deals and celebrity product launches. Who doesn't
Speaker 1: love a good celebrity product launch. Joining me now to
Speaker 1: talk about this is Julie Ramhold, consumer analysts with dealnews
Speaker 1: dot com. Julie, thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 12: About Prime Day.
Speaker 1: Yes, so Prime Day is this? Is this in the
Speaker 1: cadence of sort of past Prime Days? I feel like
Speaker 1: it's in It's been in like July and October, right
Speaker 1: pretty much.
Speaker 12: It's been in July for the most part.
Speaker 13: In twenty twenty it shifted to October because of the pandemic,
Speaker 13: and then.
Speaker 12: In twenty twenty one it was in June and October.
Speaker 13: In June, I want to say, the reasoning was because
Speaker 13: of the Olympics that year, so they were trying to
Speaker 13: not compete with that, and then they had a second
Speaker 13: Prime Day event in October.
Speaker 1: So what do we think of the Prime Day event?
Speaker 1: I know it's a you know, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of people that shop on it. Do you feel like
Speaker 1: it's delivered in recent years to you know, be this
Speaker 1: big shopping day or what.
Speaker 12: I honestly think it has.
Speaker 13: I mean, every year we tend to see people complaining
Speaker 13: that it seems like a garage sale, but also every
Speaker 13: year Amazon manages to knock it out of the park
Speaker 13: and have record profits and record shopping.
Speaker 12: So obviously people are still attracted to it. They're still
Speaker 12: finding good deals, and I think part of.
Speaker 13: The problem with people who may not be really familiar
Speaker 13: with Prime Day is they go in expecting it to
Speaker 13: be sort of like an early Black Friday preview, and
Speaker 13: it can be, but it's also just its own So
Speaker 13: you end up with people expecting to see tons of
Speaker 13: TVs on sale, and then they're disappointed that the selection
Speaker 13: isn't as big as they hoped for, or a lot
Speaker 13: of the deals seem to be in the home.
Speaker 12: And garden categories because that seems to be what dominates
Speaker 12: for Prime Day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, everyone wants what they want to be
Speaker 1: fifty percent off, and that's just not the case. I mean,
Speaker 1: they couldn't do that. But I did get that TV.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was last year, the year
Speaker 1: before the TV that was like ninety nine bucks the
Speaker 1: forty three inch or whatever it was. I did get that.
Speaker 1: I nabbed it and I was so proud of myself.
Speaker 1: But my followers on social media were not happy because
Speaker 1: they're like, how did you get it? And we didn't.
Speaker 1: I said, well, I'm on my computer all day.
Speaker 13: They're bringing that back again this year, but the problem
Speaker 13: is they're also introducing invite only deals and that's one
Speaker 13: of them. So it's looking like this Prime Day, while
Speaker 13: very similar to past ones, is also.
Speaker 12: Going to shake things up a bit.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what does that mean? What's this? I already
Speaker 1: signed up for the invite only Prime deal on that TV.
Speaker 1: But what does that mean? Like, are they do I guarantee?
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like what does that mean exactly?
Speaker 13: We're honestly kind of waiting to see what it means ourselves.
Speaker 13: As Amazon puts it, you know, if you're a Prime member,
Speaker 13: then you can sign up for an invitation, and if
Speaker 13: you're selected on Prime Day, you'll receive an email with
Speaker 13: a special link that you can click and shop the
Speaker 13: deal from there. But signing up for an invitation isn't
Speaker 13: a guarantee, and we don't know what their selection process
Speaker 13: is going to look like. So it could be that
Speaker 13: they have a limited number of deals that they're you know,
Speaker 13: willing to sell at this price, and by having people
Speaker 13: sign up for invitations, it's on a first come, first
Speaker 13: serve thing, or it could be some other way that
Speaker 13: we just haven't even fathomed yet.
Speaker 1: So they could just put everything into like a hopper
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, we're going to select one hundred people
Speaker 1: to buy this and then once you get that, you
Speaker 1: can purchase it, and if they don't purchase it, and
Speaker 1: within that, we don't know how it's going to work exactly.
Speaker 1: But the the invite only deals are seventy five percent
Speaker 1: off an Amazon Fire TV forty three inch, sixty percent
Speaker 1: off this watch, fifty five percent off these JBL Live
Speaker 1: noise canceling headphones, and fifty percent off a four yo
Speaker 1: Luna three facial cleansing brush, which I know sounds funny,
Speaker 1: but my wife actually needs a new one of those,
Speaker 1: So I need to sign up for that invite only.
Speaker 12: It was hard to see that one on there.
Speaker 13: I gotta be honest, like, I know those are cult
Speaker 13: favorites for a lot of people, and I.
Speaker 12: Was like, oh, fifty percent off, that sounds good.
Speaker 13: And then I saw the original price and I was like, man,
Speaker 13: you better jump home.
Speaker 12: Fifty percent off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was one hundred and twenty dollars
Speaker 1: when I purchased the first one. I think those things
Speaker 1: are not cheap. Okay, So we know this happens July eleventh,
Speaker 1: at starting starting at three am. Oh wow, that's early
Speaker 1: three am Eastern.
Speaker 12: That's the way Amazon does Prime Day.
Speaker 13: They'll they'll start it at around three am Eastern on
Speaker 13: July eleventh, and then it'll run for forty eight hours
Speaker 13: straight and at two fifty nine am Eastern on the thirteenth.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I know deal News is a great website
Speaker 1: for finding sort of every do you guys scour the
Speaker 1: web every day looking for the best stuff, and of
Speaker 1: course you'll do that for Prime Day, But give me
Speaker 1: some what's the methodology, Like, what should I do as
Speaker 1: an average consumer to prepare myself for this and to
Speaker 1: get the best deals.
Speaker 13: Honestly, when it comes to something like Prime Day, it
Speaker 13: can be so overwhelming if you don't go in with
Speaker 13: a plan. So I think it's well worth kind of
Speaker 13: creating a wish list now for Prime Day, figuring out
Speaker 13: what you want to look at, what you want to
Speaker 13: focus on, and then start looking ahead.
Speaker 12: You can go to the Today's.
Speaker 13: Deals section on Amazon's website and start browsing through upcoming
Speaker 13: deals and mark any that you're interested in as watching.
Speaker 13: And I mean you can do this every day. You
Speaker 13: obviously don't have to wait for the Prime Day deals,
Speaker 13: and there are some early Prime Day deals that you
Speaker 13: can take advantage of now, But when it gets.
Speaker 12: Closer to the actual holiday.
Speaker 13: It definitely pays, you know, a day or two in
Speaker 13: advance to start looking through them long before they pop up,
Speaker 13: so you kind of know when you need to be
Speaker 13: aware what you're looking at, what kind of deals you
Speaker 13: can hopefully expect. The biggest thing is when you click
Speaker 13: watching on those deals, you'll be able to receive a
Speaker 13: notification from Amazon just before it goes live, so it
Speaker 13: should give you a leg up and hopefully let you
Speaker 13: get something before it has a chance to sell out.
Speaker 1: Now, everyone wants something different out of this. But one
Speaker 1: thing that is for sure is that Amazon Devices and
Speaker 1: I talk a lot about technology. They often go on
Speaker 1: sale in a very big way, and of course they've
Speaker 1: said some of these things already, like deals starting Oh
Speaker 1: deal starting now, save up to fifty five percent on
Speaker 1: select Alexa enabled devices, including the Echo Show five, the
Speaker 1: Echo Pop sixty three percent off up to on kids devices,
Speaker 1: Echo Glow Ring bundles, euro Wi Fi systems, blink outdoor cameras.
Speaker 1: So I feel like if you have your eye on
Speaker 1: an Amazon product, like a brand, you probably don't want
Speaker 1: to buy that right now.
Speaker 13: No, I would wait unless there is an early Prime
Speaker 13: Day deal going for something like that. Just because they're
Speaker 13: not likely to offer a better deal when the holiday
Speaker 13: itself rolls around. These early deals are kind of meant
Speaker 13: to entice shoppers and get them paying attention. So if
Speaker 13: there's something that you want that's currently on sale labeled
Speaker 13: as an early Prime Day deal, you can probably go
Speaker 13: ahead and safely take advantage of that and not worry
Speaker 13: about seeing a lower price when July eleventh rolls around.
Speaker 13: But that said, don't just restrict yourself to things like
Speaker 13: Ring and Eero and the Blank cameras and the Alexa
Speaker 13: enabled devices, because if it has Amazon's branding on it,
Speaker 13: there's a really good chance we'll see some kind of
Speaker 13: a deal. So if you're looking at a new Kindle,
Speaker 13: it's a really good time to look at things like that,
Speaker 13: And because is for Prime members, it's also a really
Speaker 13: good time to look at Amazon services as well. So
Speaker 13: if you're looking at a new Kindle, it's also a
Speaker 13: good time to try Kindle Unlimited for you know, all
Speaker 13: the reading that you could possibly want, and see if
Speaker 13: you like that service enough to stick with it month
Speaker 13: to month.
Speaker 1: And there's also obviously Alexa can help you with this,
Speaker 1: so it says Prime members can ask Alexa for deal
Speaker 1: notifications on products added to their wish list, So that's
Speaker 1: kind of cool. So you can say, Alexa add whatever
Speaker 1: product to my car and then ask Alexa to notify
Speaker 1: you about the deal when it's live. And you'd also
Speaker 1: ask Alexa for an event reminder, so you can say,
Speaker 1: Alexa set a reminder for Prime Day and that will
Speaker 1: help you. What do we make of the price of
Speaker 1: Prime these days? It's one hundred and thirty nine dollars
Speaker 1: a year or fifteen dollars a month. Is that still
Speaker 1: worth it?
Speaker 13: Julie, It's it's going to be a little hard to say.
Speaker 13: There's no easy way to say, yes, it's worth it. No,
Speaker 13: it's not, because it's going to be subjective based on
Speaker 13: individuals and what they want out of Prime. Basically, if
Speaker 13: you're using everything that Prime offers, I would say it's
Speaker 13: still worth it. But if you're only kind of leaning
Speaker 13: into Amazon for the shopping.
Speaker 12: Capabilities, it's probably good to.
Speaker 13: Have Prime for a month to shop for Prime Day
Speaker 13: or around Black Friday something like that, to take advantage
Speaker 13: of deals and the perks that Prime members get around
Speaker 13: shopping during those times. But other than that, it just
Speaker 13: may not be reasonable to pay one hundred and thirty
Speaker 13: nine dollars a year if you're not also taking advantage
Speaker 13: of the Amazon Music, the Prime Video, all of those
Speaker 13: different parts that you get.
Speaker 1: One thing to keep in mind, if you are on
Speaker 1: government assistance, you can get Prime Access for six ninety
Speaker 1: nine a month at Amazon dot com slash get Prime Access.
Speaker 1: Julie Ramhold with dealnews dot com, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: joining me today. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 12: Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: All right, and deal News is, by the way, one
Speaker 1: of my stops. Every single day, I check it with
Speaker 1: all of my bookmarks to see what deals are out there.
Speaker 1: So they do a great job every day of unearthing deals,
Speaker 1: not just on Prime Day. All right, coming up, it's
Speaker 1: the end of the show. We're gonna do the feedback segment,
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Speaker 1: Steve writes in Hey, Rich, I heard her call on
Speaker 1: your show. The caller asked if Salesforce would be a
Speaker 1: good platform for his college age daughter to learn salesforce
Speaker 1: has changed in recent times. It's one of those career
Speaker 1: things that's been flooded by all the companies offering training
Speaker 1: programs to get people certified as salesforce administrators. Even with certification,
Speaker 1: you're not going to get a job as an administrator
Speaker 1: without several years experience working as an administrator. The training programs,
Speaker 1: of course, won't tell you this, as they're making money
Speaker 1: from selling their training programs. My wife has five Salesforce
Speaker 1: certifications with three years of experience, and it's it was
Speaker 1: still difficult to get a job. Many jobs want more
Speaker 1: than just salesforce. It's not something that just anyone can do,
Speaker 1: as the training programs advertise. Steve. Oh, great advice. Steve,
Speaker 1: appreciate that because that's probably what our caller saw was Salesforce. Well,
Speaker 1: he said he had it at his company. So, but
Speaker 1: good advice. Yeah, these training programs don't necessarily mean you're
Speaker 1: going to get a job. So I think that's why
Speaker 1: for me personally, I would look at jobs that i'd
Speaker 1: want to do and see what the skills are that
Speaker 1: they want. Jim writes in Hey, Rich, I'm looking for
Speaker 1: that Amazon gift card hack that involves Amazon gift card car.
Speaker 1: I was watching KTLA the other morning and the discussion
Speaker 1: was gift card balances. You mentioned a way that you
Speaker 1: can load your Amazon account with your gift cards. How's
Speaker 1: this done? I can't find a way to do this,
Speaker 1: Thanks and advance, Jim. Yes, so this is specifically for
Speaker 1: Amazon gift cards. So if you are sorry Visa gift cards.
Speaker 1: So if you get one of these Visa gift cards,
Speaker 1: let's say it's one hundred dollars, fifty dollars, it's really
Speaker 1: tough to use unless you use that full amount all
Speaker 1: the same time, you're going to be left with some
Speaker 1: weird sort of balance on that card of like five
Speaker 1: dollars and seventeen cents, And how do you use that?
Speaker 1: Because a Visa card, it's not a standard gift card
Speaker 1: like an Amazon card or like a shopping gift card
Speaker 1: that's easy to use at the register. Now, some companies
Speaker 1: will easily figure out how much is on this card
Speaker 1: and let you scan it and use it. But I found, honestly,
Speaker 1: it's much easier to skip that entire process and just
Speaker 1: go to Amazon. And here's what I do. You go
Speaker 1: to Amazon, you set the Visa gift card as a
Speaker 1: payment method, and then you type in and buy a
Speaker 1: reload account. Reload account with an Amazon gift card, okay,
Speaker 1: and then you go to It'll be right at the
Speaker 1: top reload Amazon gift card, and you say exactly how
Speaker 1: much you want, So whatever exact amount is on that
Speaker 1: Visa card, you type it in there and you say
Speaker 1: buy now, and you make sure that you use that
Speaker 1: Visa gift card that you just put in as a
Speaker 1: payment method as the payment method for this new Amazon
Speaker 1: reload and next thing you know, it will shift that
Speaker 1: money from the Visa card to an Amazon gift card.
Speaker 1: And that's much easier to spend because if you're like me,
Speaker 1: you're on Amazon all the time. Now, I found that
Speaker 1: sometimes it takes a little bit of time and it
Speaker 1: may not work instantaneously, so it's not like if you're
Speaker 1: buying a gift card. Sometimes it will it will work fast.
Speaker 1: This may take five to ten minutes, sometimes I've noticed,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it doesn't work at all, depending on the
Speaker 1: brand of the Visa gift card. So again, you take
Speaker 1: the Visa gift card, you set it as a payment method,
Speaker 1: and then you enter that exact amount and buy a
Speaker 1: gift card to reload your Amazon gift card balance and boom,
Speaker 1: you've transferred that balance. So good question there. Hey Rich
Speaker 1: From Paul in Santa Clarita. Quick question, I have many passwords.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on a password manager? If you
Speaker 1: think they're good, can you recommend one? Are they as
Speaker 1: secure as they say they are? Absolutely, Paul, use a
Speaker 1: password manager, get all your passwords in there. I know
Speaker 1: it's tough to get it set up, but definitely definitely
Speaker 1: use when they are secure. Make sure you pick a good,
Speaker 1: strong password for the password manager, and then set up
Speaker 1: two factor authentication for the password manager. If you are
Speaker 1: just using Apple products, you can get away with the
Speaker 1: iCloud keychain. If you're using Apple products and Chrome, then
Speaker 1: I recommend just using the built in Google password manager
Speaker 1: because that'll work on an iPhone And if you're using
Speaker 1: a bunch of different devices than use a cross platform
Speaker 1: password manager. I like bitwarden as a free option, and
Speaker 1: then you can check out one Password and dash Lane.
Speaker 1: Those are two good cross platform password managers, but you
Speaker 1: will have to pay for those typically art rights in Hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: please post the travel carbon monoxide detector. You put it
Speaker 1: on Facebook reels and then it disappeared. There's probably a
Speaker 1: lot of interest for it. Someone mentioned on a work
Speaker 1: call today about getting one for travel, and I told
Speaker 1: them I would send them the info and the one
Speaker 1: you recommended. Yes, I posted this to Facebook my Instagram stories.
Speaker 1: Really sad story about the couple from southern California that
Speaker 1: passed away in a hotel room down in Mexico due
Speaker 1: to carbon monoxide supposedly, so it might be a good
Speaker 1: idea to carry one of these things. So I asked
Speaker 1: my friend Zach Hoenig. He used to work at the Points.
Speaker 1: Guy knows everything about travel, and he recommended this kitty
Speaker 1: carbon monoxide detector that's battery powered and has a low
Speaker 1: battery indicator, which is smart, It's portable, and it's twenty bucks.
Speaker 1: So I'll put that link in the show notes as well.
Speaker 1: Tech dot TV. Let's see Erica says, good morning, Rich,
Speaker 1: I received this weird text. It's probably a scam. Thanks,
Speaker 1: and the text says Hi, I'm Donovan Summerfield, the Walton
Speaker 1: Family Grant Foundation Admin director. Ooh, you are chosen to
Speaker 1: receive ten thousand dollars from the ongoing program aimed at
Speaker 1: touching lives. Kindly text your email for confirmation and delivery
Speaker 1: to this number NOE to receive your payment is free. Yeah, Erica,
Speaker 1: as you suspected, that is definitely a weird text and
Speaker 1: it's most definitely a scam. Please watch out for these
Speaker 1: scam texts. So many my wife got one. Oh gosh,
Speaker 1: they are just They are really really doing a lot
Speaker 1: of scam texts these days, so be aware of those.
Speaker 1: I think we have time for one more. Gale says, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: When you did your KTLA segment on air tags, I
Speaker 1: thought about getting one for a fifteen day vacation. Of
Speaker 1: course I did not end, so my luggage was lost
Speaker 1: for ten days. You mentioned some other products that were
Speaker 1: not as costly as Apple. With another trip in the work,
Speaker 1: I need to purchase AirTags and would appreciate your recommendation.
Speaker 1: Truly enjoy your segments. Gail Gail, listen to the advice
Speaker 1: the first time around, because I'm telling you I get
Speaker 1: emails like this all the time. Just do it when
Speaker 1: you think you don't need it, do it because that's
Speaker 1: when you need it. I would recommend AirTags for sure.
Speaker 1: They are the best solution at this point. Later in
Speaker 1: the year I may change my tune on that when
Speaker 1: there are more standards for these things, but air tags
Speaker 1: are the best. You said sent for my iPhone. Go
Speaker 1: for the air tags. The four pack goes on sale
Speaker 1: from time to time. You've got Prime Day coming up.
Speaker 1: Search Google for AirTag deals and see if you can
Speaker 1: find a deal in that four pack. Sometimes it's discounted,
Speaker 1: and sometimes Costco has them as well. My name is
Speaker 1: rich Demiro. Thanks so much for listening to the show
Speaker 1: that's going to do it for this episode again, this
Speaker 1: is show number twenty five. You can check out the
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