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Speaker 1 (00:08):
What's going on.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Rich Zmuro here, rich on Tech and welcome to rich
on Tech Live. This is the podcast where I help
you get the most out of your gadgets, answering your
tech questions live, talking about some of the cool things
that happened in technology over the past week. But most importantly,
I take your phone calls where you can talk to me.
The phone number is three one zero five to nine

(00:31):
four three zero zero three, three one zero five to
nine four three zero zero three. I'll take your calls
in just a bit, So think about what you need
to know when it comes to your tech world. There's
a lot going on, and this week was all about
the Samsung Galaxy S nine. All the reviews came out

(00:51):
for the S nine, and uh, here's the general consensus
about the Samsung Galaxy S nine. It's a great device.
They really did a nice job of fixing all the
problems that anyone had with the S eight, which mainly
was the fingerprint reader. That was it, and they fix
that and that's it.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Story closed. I mean, the book is done.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
It's there's not much more to say about this device.
Is that if you're looking for an Android device. Ninety
nine point nine percent of people are going to buy
the Samsung Galaxy. They're gonna buy the S eight, the
S seven, D S nine, one of those three phones.
If you're an Apple person, you're gonna buy the iPhone. Now,
I will say this will probably be the phone that

(01:37):
causes some iPhone folks to want to come over and
jump over to the Android side. And I think that's
not a bad idea. The problem is people that are
on iPhone have become accustomed to several things, one of
those things being FaceTime, which you can get around they all,
they all, they have these these apps that work on
both platforms. But I'm just saying people are used to it.

(02:00):
And the other thing that people are used to is
really I Message, and I Message of course, only works
on iOS devices. You don't need I Message. It's nice
to have, but it's not a necessity. So I think
that this phone will get the interest of some people
that are on iPhone. So let me just go through

(02:20):
some of the headlines that some of the writers had.
My thought on the phone is that anyone who buys
this is gonna be very happy. It's snappy, it's fast,
the camera's really nice. Isn't the best camera in the world. No,
the Google Pixel has the best camera in the world,
But does that really matter? Probably not now, I will
say the only thing I did notice with the camera
that I was a little unhappy about is when I

(02:43):
was taking pictures of my kids with this camera, I
got a lot of blurred movement. And I'm not sure
what the reason for that is. I don't notice that
on my other phones. When I take pictures with the
iPhone ten, I do not notice that, Nor do I
notice that when I take pictures with the Pixel. It

(03:04):
only happens on the Samsung right now, and so I'm
wondering if that's like a software update or if something
is a little off. I don't know what that is,
but that's the only thing that concerned me was that
I was noticing a lot more blurry pictures and a
lot more blurry parts, like not really blurry pictures, but
just like this, Like you know, if their hand was
moving a little bit. On my other phones, it would

(03:24):
kind of capture that and just be fine, But on
this you saw a little bit of a blur low light.
I think the s nine is going to do a
really nice job. I also my other downside of the
S nine is really the selfie camera. It's just not
very good. I notice a lot of blurry pictures on
that as well, and very your face looks sort of
blurred out, and I think a lot of people will

(03:47):
like that because it doesn't show a lot of your
wrinkles or anything like that.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
But it's just a weird kind of look.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
It doesn't look as natural as the iPhone or the Pixel.
But other than that, I really have no problem with
the S nine. I think it is a fantastic device.
I think that those two things that I'm talking about
are very nitpicky, and I don't think a lot of
people will even have a problem with those things.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
I'm just saying.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
I noticed a little bit of a lag when I
press the shutter button compared to the Pixel and the iPhone,
a little bit more blur.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
And on the front facing camera.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
I noticed that it's just a little bit out of focus.
Sometimes it doesn't kind of snap into focus as fast
as you'd like. But that's it. Otherwise, I think that
this is a very solid device. I think that Samsung
did an amazing job. I will recommend if you purchase
this phone that you need a case because it's really
thin on both sides, which makes it kind of tough
to hold. I found that I love the size. The

(04:37):
form factor is way better than the pixel, and I
actually like it better than the iPhone too because it's
just a little bit bigger.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
But it's just it's not easy to hold.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
They are not easy to I guess grip because it.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Feels like it's gonna fall out of your hand.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
All right, So some of the reviews that are in
let's see, let's see what they say. Android Central says
a fantastic phone for the mass is not an exciting phone.
This doesn't need to be an exciting phone. It's the
top device out there for Samsung. They don't need to
make it crazy. It just needs to do a lot
of good stuff. Wall Street Journal says it's impressive and infuriating,

(05:13):
and he's talking about the software. Everyone everyone gets all
mad about the Samsung software. I don't get that mad
about it. I think that, yes, there is a lot
of stuff on there you may not need. But when
you're talking about the average person, they're not buying a pixel.
A Google Pixel is for the super duper nerd like
myself who wants to have the pure Google experience. And

(05:34):
then add every little feature in that I want. When
you buy a Samsung or an iPhone, you're getting all
the features. You don't have to download that much software
to get a lot of these features. And I think
that's what these reviewers forget, is that the average person,
like my mom or just the random Joe, they're not
sitting there thinking about what markup tool they want to
use on their photos. They just want to press edit

(05:56):
and use their finger to write on the picture. They
don't have to go to the app store and figure
out which one of these apps is going to be
best for doing that.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Now I like to do that.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
They don't want to have to do that same thing
when you're scanning in a business card or a picture
of a you know, or a PDF or something like that.
They don't want to sit there and go through the
app store and download fifteen different apps like Office Lens
or Scannable or.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Google Drive and see which one works the best.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
They just want to go, hey, let me scan a
document for my phone, and that's it. It works.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
That's the reality of these things.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
So I think these reviewers kind of lose touch just
a little bit when they talk about what they're doing
now I feel like i'm because I do TV on
a very broad level for people that aren't necessarily techies.
I think that that's why I have a better understanding,
because I get emails every single day from you guys
basically asking me questions that are you know, that are

(06:49):
things that I might take for granted. But I'm like, huh,
that's interesting. I didn't think of that perspective. Whereas if
you're writing for Wired or the Wall Street Journal, you're
just assuming a lot of these people that are reading
the tech section are very tech savvy and smart about tech,
which I get it. So that's why you're sort of
forgetting the fact that there's a whole bunch of people
out there that just kind of, you know, use their
gadget and they're not sitting there trying to be crazy

(07:12):
about it. Let's see what else. Yeah, I mean, all
the reviews are pretty darn good. People are saying that
it's not necessarily the best camera in the world, but
it's definitely an improvement over the S eight and the
fingerprint readers in the right place. So and by the way,
it also has a headphone jack, which I really like.
So I've been talking a lot so I kind of

(07:32):
missed a lot of what you guys are saying on here.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
But let's see here.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Catherine says, I've had the Samsung S six the edge.
Now I'm thinking of S eight or S nine. Catherine,
I'd probably say go with the S nine if he can.
I would see how much the trade in is for
the S six. I think you're gonnaet one hundred and
fifty bucks for that, but definitely checked it out. And
this thing, just this thing does not you know, next time,
I'm gonna make an hour long one.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Of these, because this just does not want to repeat.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
It doesn't like my U doesn't like my repeat. So
let's see what's better, uhat Shrevath Strevrath says, which one
is better? S nine or S nine plus Samsung camera
versus iPhone ten. I think the camera on the S nine, well,
the cameras are the same on the S nine and

(08:21):
the S nine plus. The big difference that the S
nine plus has at dual camera setup. So if you
like zooming in, you know, like getting double the image,
like double closeness, then go with the S nine plus.
But otherwise they have the same main camera versus the
iPhone ten. You know, I think they both have their
pros and cons. The iPhone ten is a really solid

(08:41):
camera overall. I find that the Samsung kind of looks
a little bit more poppy, like the colors are more
saturated on there. So you know, it really comes down
to a matter of preference. I find that the iPhone
ten has a much darker look to all the pictures.
And if you want to see this, you can go
on my website rich on tech dot TV. I took
a bunch of pictures with the iPhone, the Samsung, and

(09:03):
also the Pixel, so you can compare them and see
what you think. All right, the phone lines are open
if you want to call in three one zero five
nine four three zero zero three three one zero five
nine four three zero zero three call in with your
tech questions. Let me know what's going on, and you know,
we'll get some of your questions answered. Roberto says, I'm

(09:24):
so happy with my Google Pixel. It is awesome, and yeah,
I agree. The Google Pixel is one of my favorite devices.
Talk about boring though, I mean, it really is a
boring device, and that's what people love about it. It's
very simple, it has the base software that Google gives you,
and then you can add on and do whatever you want.
And people like that simplicity, especially when you're kind of

(09:44):
like a super user. You don't want anything extra on
your device that you have not installed. That's always the
way I've been with everything, and the iPhone is kind
of like that as well, except it does have a
lot of features built in.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Let's see where else are we going here?

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Every week?

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Oh, MARTA's getting onto.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
MARTA's saying, every week there's an update on the iPhone
or iOS eleven on the iPad. What's going on?

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Why so many updates?

Speaker 2 (10:12):
And every time I device malfunctions after each update? I agree.
I was just talking to my mom about this and
she agrees. She's like, why is there have to be
an update every single day for all this stuff? I mean,
really do we need this many updates? And the answer
is yeah, apparently you do because they're always fixing little
things like the software, the the viruses, like all these

(10:35):
little bugs that they find they just fix and that's
why we have all these updates now. I will say
that iPhone used to have updates very few and far between,
especially when it was between iOS launches. It was like
maybe once a year. Or twice a year. Now, it's like,
literally just so many times. It's kind of insane how
many times. Let's see here, man, we have a lot

(10:59):
of Melanireene says for us simple minded folks, what is
the best phone for the book? A more all around simple,
yet reliable. Uh. If I was gonna say what the
best phone is for you guys that don't really care
about all the craziness, I'm gonna go with the Moto
G five plus. And the reason why I like this

(11:20):
device is because, first off, it's unlocked, so you can
buy it right from Amazon. And it's one hundred and
Oh my gosh, what they do they got rid of it?
Oh no? Uh oh, I guess that means a new
one's coming out. Oh shoot, they must have I think

(11:42):
they got rid of that. Or they guess they're coming
out with some new phones. So oh, here we go.
Here it is Moto G five plus. I guess they
came up with the wrong one, but here it is
two hundred and fifty nine bucks and it's a lot cheaper. Oh,
if you're Amazon Prime, it's two fifty nine sixty four gigabyte.
You can get a thirty two gigabyte for a lot
cheaper two hundred and four bucks, So two hundred and

(12:04):
five dollars for the Moto G Plus, and it has
everything you need. Plus it's unlocked, so that means all
you have to do is bring it to your carrier.
It's right here, it says you can see it says
AT and T, T Mobile, Sprint and Verizon fully compatible.
And I like this phone because there's not a lot
of junk installed on it. Now, the camera's not gonna
be the best in the world. It's not gonna be

(12:25):
like an iPhone camera, but it's gonna be a nice
little device that just sort of works. And you can
get your calls, you can take calls, you can send
your text. It runs a nice version of Android. So
you're gonna be just fine with this and you're talking,
you're out the door. Two hundred and five dollars. That's
a pretty good deal. And it's got a fingerprint sensor
as well, so that to me is a very high quality,

(12:48):
kind of good all around device if you're looking for
something like that. So a good question, because I always
I always get that question. I always recommend that phone. Now,
if you want to take a little step up, I
would recommend this the one plus five T, but this
is going to be a little bit more expensive, and
the one plus five T is a really nice device,

(13:09):
but it's five hundred bucks, so now you're getting kind
of like half the price of one of these main phones.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
But this is like, this is a serious device.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
This is really really nice, and you're gonna get a
very high quality device. There three one zero five nine
four three zero zero three three one zero five nine
four three zero zero three.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Don't be shy.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
You can call in and have your your question answered
on air.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
So give me a call. Eight oh five.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
You're on with Rich Really Wow, Hello.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
Hi Rich, this is Michael. I'm from Seamy Valley.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Michael, what's going on?

Speaker 3 (13:48):
You picked up really quick, so I was like thrown off.
I was expecting to hear dead music or something.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
No, it's just me.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
It's a one man show, so it's just pick.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
It up and you're on.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Great. Well, I have a couple of ques sincetoria. First
of all, I just dumped direct TV, cut the chord,
I guess, and got DirecTV. Now, okay, congrat which for
the most part, I'm happy with a couple of questions
about that, Sure, First of all, I'm kind of upset
that they don't make it very clear that it does

(14:18):
not output any kind of five point one sound. Oh yeah,
and that's kind of a drag, because there's some great
shows on that. You know, this surround is a great
effect to that. Do you know of any live TV
services that do output five point one?

Speaker 2 (14:38):
You know, it's not something you hear about very often.
I have not heard that. Let's see now, so I'm
looking at I'm looking at an article. It looks like
it is five point one on certain channels with DirecTV Now.
So there's a great website called chord Cutter's News, and
they I think they're based actually in LA I always

(14:59):
follow them.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
But let's see.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
According to some readers who are beta testers for DirecTV Now,
five point one audio is being offered on some channels,
including MTV, but not all channels, so so, I mean,
unless you're watching a lot of MTV. But so, I
think it sounds like it's on a case by case basis.
I think what's happening, Michael, with all these services is
there they're still very much in their infancy, you know,

(15:22):
they're just trying to get the basics down right, now,
which when I go on DirecTV Now, which I have,
I've had it since day one, by the way, and
it's still it's still not there all the time, Like
there are times that I'm watching, like the other night
when I was watching the what was on the oscars,
I actually had to switch to my antenna because I
was getting a lot of kind of like the picture
was going in and out kind of thing. And so

(15:45):
I find that that happens now. I switched my mom
to it as well. She loves it. She cut the cord.
But I again, I think that these five point one
and this kind of stuff, the four K video is
really like maybe down the line because DirecTV Now doesn't
even have a DVR fund yet, so they're still trying
to work on that, and they've promised a lot of stuff.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
I saw something today that it looks like they're working
on something as far as the DVR.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
Yeah, they've been working on it for a long time.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
They promised it a long time ago, and it's just
it's been I don't know what the problem is if
they're just having a lot of issues with it, but
I know I'm trying to get on the beta testing list,
but they won't put me on because I'm a journalist
and they don't want me kind of seeing it before
TV because I asked them they don't want Yeah, exactly.
But that's the big thing. So what uh, what I mean,

(16:33):
what have you noticed? What's the biggest difference between direct
TV now and kind.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
Of your your old cable. What did you have before
you had direct TV?

Speaker 3 (16:41):
I had regular direct TV?

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, okay, it's not that much difference.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Well, no, and actually it looks great for the most part,
but I did not this last night. You know, some
shimmering going on, you know, that digital kind of effect
that that isn't so pretty. It's especially noticeable on my
sixty inch LCD. I have a thirty two inch LCD

(17:09):
in the kitchen that uses Roku. And yeah, so I've
got Roku and Firestick and Apple TV in the house now,
so yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
You've got more s than I do.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
But uh, what was I saying? Oh, on the sixty
inches it's really noticeable.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah, well, and that's that's a good point you bring
up when people are like, why do we need? People
keep asking, you know, you hear about four K and
then you hear about eight K, and people keep asking
why do we need these clear you know, four K,
eight K kind of stuff. Like DVDs were just fine.
HD is great. But the difference is and this is
what you kind of noticed, is that when you get

(17:48):
into those bigger screen sizes, that's when you start to
notice the quality of the picture going down.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Because well, especially like if you.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
Look at a DVD quality, you know, four to eighty
on a sixty inch TV, you it looks it looked terrible.
And that's kind of what we're realizing is people keep
upgrading their TVs. Right now, the sweet spot is about
fifty five inches, but now people are pushing into that
sixty sixty five because prices are coming down, and you're
going to notice that. You will notice a slight difference

(18:16):
in HD on a sixty inch versus you know, a
forty inch that we all started.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
Out well, most definitely the imperfections become more noticeable the
bigger they get. Yeah, most definitely. Yeah. I go to
seeees every year or so, Oh you do I seen
I've seen AK. I thought AKS five six years ago.
Sharp was showing it and you know on an eighty

(18:39):
inch screen and you can get you can put your
face right up to it and you can see the
details and the little tiny bricks and in the streets
and everything.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
It's amazing.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
It's pretty awesome.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
It's really amazing. I think that the four K and
the eight K is going to take a lot longer
to kind of come down the line, just because broadcasters
paid so much to upgrade to HD just recently. You
know how many how many years ago was that ten whatever?
I know, So I think they're all kind of in
a they're like just holding out as long as humanly
possible for the four K stuff. And you know, now

(19:09):
with these streaming services, you know they're really I mean
the four K on there. I mean you're talking much
more bandwidth, many more issues with people saying like, hey,
I'm paying for four K, but I'm not getting it
because my internet's not fast enough. So all these services,
I mean Netflix obviously and and Amazon have a lot
of four K content. I mean Netflix, all the new
shows are in four K. And it does look pretty

(19:30):
good if you have a.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
Four really good. So I do, and it looks really
really good. I have one other question for sir. I'm
in seeing you now. I'll go with my direct TV now,
So how do I get short of mirroring. You know,
I can stream it on my phone and mirror it
to my Apple TV, but I don't have Apple TV
in the kitchen where I'm at at five o'clock in

(19:53):
the morning, so.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
I know it's it's a problem.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
I had to get an antenna to see because I
cord cut as well, so I have an antenna that
does the channel five KTLA is the only channel just
for the folks watching and listening that's not on any
of these streaming services right now. Now, do I think
that's gonna change? Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Do I know when?

Speaker 2 (20:10):
No, But I think if I had to guess, I
think that we're gonna be there, like just literally it
will happen overnight. It'll just be like I mean, they're
working on it, I think because they know they understand
that we're not there. But these things take time for
our company, you know, we're you know, the other companies,
a lot of them are like the Fox affiliates, the
NBC affiliates, the CBS affiliates. They do sort of a

(20:33):
package deal with like NBC to say, hey, we're gonna
have all of our affiliates. We're different because we're independent
and we're not an NBC or CBS affiliate. So that's
why it's kind of taken a little bit longer, I think,
but we're gonna be there.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
But antenda.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
The only other thing I can say, Michael, is the
other kind of hack you can do is you can
watch the live stream on Apple on a fire TV
through the web browser. So that's what a lot of
people have been doing a video on my face.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
Page about that.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
So it's not perfect, but it's there, you know.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
Yeah, like I said, I Michigan, hopefully it'll come to
But funny thing is, you guys were the first ones
to broadcast in HD when you did the Rose Parade
way back when.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
I know, the first and the first and HD. But
then you know, it's one of these things. Believe me,
I'm in I'm in the office every day asking so
I am. I am always like when are we? When
are we going to be on? Because that's I get
the most emails every single It used to be the
number one email I got was what cell phone do
I get? And now it's when is KTLA going to
be on the streaming services? And I really don't have
an answer. I ask every day and I don't think

(21:37):
that anyone's going to know until it happens. So all right, Michael,
thanks so much for calling in. Enjoy that direct TV now,
thank you, all right, have a good day. Uh, there
you have it. Three one zero five nine four three
zero zero three. So Jill says on that line, which
antenna to get? And I'm actually going to do a

(22:00):
segment on these. But the one that I like the best,
and I feel like I've mentioned this before is the
Moho Leaf Glide. So the Mohu Leaf is pretty simple.
That's a really cheap one. I think it starts at
like forty bucks. But the Glide is going to give
you a better, better signal for sure, but it's gonna
be a little bit more expensive. You're talking ninety dollars. Now,

(22:22):
that's expensive. But let me just see how much it
is on Amazon. I'm curious. Maybe it's the same price,
maybe it's a little cheaper. The Glide is eighty seven
eighty seven bucks, and let me just see how much
the leaf is. The Mohu Leaf is eighteen bucks. If
you want to get the premium on just just look
at Mohumhu and see what antennas they have. They all

(22:44):
their antennas are really phenomenal. They just really are. They
do a really nice job, and they kind of are
inside your house as well.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
All right, let's see who else do we have here.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Duke looks like he's back to the question of the
Samsung S eight versus the Note eight. I think that
they're basically the same when it comes to the camera.
The Say Plus supposedly it's a little bit better due
to the memory and the software, but the Note eight
kind of has the same camera setup. So if you
want the big phone with the stylist, go at the essay.

(23:19):
I think that's gonna work. Colin says, Oh, Michael says,
I forgot to mention we can't get any signal in
Seemi Valley.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
Oh well, then that's a problem.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
You're gonna yeah, that's this. Someone's got to come up
with a solution for this whole KTLA thing not being on.
Colin says, I worked on test shoots with four K
cameras about twelve years ago.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
It will probably be another six to twelve.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Years before everything is broadcasted in four K. Wow, so
that's a yeah, six to twelve years, So I would agree.
I bet you it's probably gonna be at least five
years before four K takes off on the broadcast level
three one zero five.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Nine four three zero zero three. So I'm going green.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
By the way, with my iPad here, I'm trying to
I usually print out all the stories I want to
talk about, but this time I put them all on
my iPad so I can not have to waste all
this paper. So let's see which one that I want
to talk about next. Let's talk about Netflix. So Netflix,

(24:19):
this is an interesting little study. I guess. They revealed
some data to journalists and at recode they talked about
people watching Netflix. So and this is not really it's
not stuff that you wouldn't think basically, it's kind of
a no brainer. But basically what they're saying is most
people sign up for Netflix from their computer, Okay forty

(24:40):
percent of sign ups, and then the phone is thirty percent.
But guess where they end up watching Netflix the most?

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Their TV?

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Seventy percent of streams end up on connected TVs instead
of phones, tablets, or PCs.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
And why is this interesting? Well, it's interesting.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Because the whole point of Netflix and all these kind
of services that work everywhere on all your devices is
that at the end of the day, people are still
sitting down on their couch in their living room and
they're watching Netflix on the best screen in the house.
So seventy percent of Netflix is consumed on TV screens.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
And you might find that kind of interesting.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
With all the people out there with smartphones and tablets
and travelers and this and that and all to talk
about having TV everywhere, at the end of the day,
people still just want their TV on their TV, even
with Netflix, where you can watch on literally anything. Now,
do I think it's awesome that you can use Netflix everywhere? Yes,
And that's part of the reason why I cut the cord.

(25:37):
It wasn't about the money I was paying to Direct
TV and before that at and T, but it was
really about the flexibility of my signal. I can watch
direct TV now from anywhere I want, and that is
what I think is really cool about it. And I
think that's cool about all the services like Sling TV
and YouTube TV, is that you get TV on your terms.
And that's really kind of what's going on here, and

(26:00):
it's kind of funny. The ironic part is that most
people are just watching Netflix on their regular TV. Let
me talk about this. This is another thing related to Netflix,
they have more parntal controls now, so they basically made
it so that you can control what your kids are
watching on the TV. Now here's the deal. Netflix is

(26:21):
not very good when it comes to all these printal controls.
I feel like they're just stumbling their way through, like
all their growth, but they are realizing that parents want
a little bit more control. I did a blog post
about how I wanted to turn off auto play for
the next episode for my kids. I turned it off
from my account because it gives me so much stress
when I don't binge watch. So I'm sitting there watching
a show and next thing you know, it's like counting

(26:42):
down ten seconds, and I feel like the time for
between shows has gotten so short. It's like it used
to be like thirty seconds. Now it's like eight seconds
before the next one just starts playing. I don't want that.
I guess I'm in the minority here because a lot
of you commented on my Facebook page that you know
you like that, so you can binge watch stuff I
don't personally, so I figured out how to turn it
off for myself. Then when I went to look for

(27:03):
my kids, I was like, this is not very easy.
So it took me a little slew thing, but I
figured it out. And the deal is, I wrote the whole.
I wrote the whole like blog post. But the bottom
line is you basically have to go into your profiles,
edit them, turn off your kids profile so it basically
becomes an adult profile for a little bit, go into
their account, turn off auto play, and then turn it

(27:25):
back into a kid's profile.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
I know, who lots of work to do that.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Netflix, Come on, we got to have like a master
thing where I can change all the profiles. One other
thing they added that's kind of cool too with the
pin is that you can now block specific titles. So
for a long time, I would not let my kid
watch SpongeBob. That's all he wanted to watch, even as
like a two year old, and I was like, no,
you're not watching this. I don't even know anything about
this show. So I want to make sure that this
show is okay. Well, now, but every time you'd see

(27:51):
it on Netflix, you click it. Well, now you can
go in and take certain titles out, so it will
literally not let your kid play those titles. And one
more thing, and this I think is actually brilliant on
Netflix's part. They are now showing you the rating of
a program when you press the play button. So that
means that, like every time my kids were watching like

(28:11):
a new show on Netflix, I'm like, what is this show?

Speaker 1 (28:13):
How'd you find it?

Speaker 2 (28:14):
What's the rating on it? And I have to go
back like eight screens to find the rating. Now, when
you press the play button, it will show you the
rating right off the bat. And now it doesn't say
exactly if like you pause the show and you press
play again, if it shows the rating again. I hope
that's how they did it, because that would make it
much easier for parents and say, hey, let me see something. Pause,
see the rating, press play and the rating comes up,

(28:34):
and then you can let their kids be on their
merry way. So yeah, there you go. Three one zero
five nine four three zero zero three. Don't be shy
three one zero five to nine four three zero zero three.
If you have a question for me, go ahead and
let me know what your question is. And Nicole says,
that has been there for at least the past two years.

(28:56):
I've had a pin up my kids stuff for the
last two years. Yes, that is true, has been there,
but now they give you much more finer control with
that pin, so you can actually, you know, like I said,
do the blocking of specific shows, and you can also
block certain maturity levels which you couldn't do before. So yes,
the pin has been there, but they did do some

(29:17):
more work with that as well. Let's see here, Mel says,
do you know if there's gonna be anything with our
technology that promotes youth to go to their local libraries
and pick up a book?

Speaker 1 (29:28):
You know, that's a that's a good question.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
I mean do they have to? I don't know. I mean,
I'm all into technology and I still love my books,
So I think that really comes down to personal preference. Now,
with kids and the Internet and Wikipedia and all that
good stuff, do they need to go to the library
to do as much research?

Speaker 1 (29:47):
I don't know, but that's a good question.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
I mean it's I think that we've been in this
technology stuff for so short right now that we don't
know what the effect is, and I think that's all
kind of evolving.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Six sund with Rich.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
Hi, Rich, this is Laura calling from Pasadena.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Hey Laura, how are you doing good?

Speaker 4 (30:07):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (30:07):
I'm doing great? What's on your mind?

Speaker 4 (30:09):
Watch you every day?

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Thank you?

Speaker 4 (30:11):
Because I went to take advantage of the new battery
for the iPhone the offer, and my existing battery was
at eighty percent and they said it was time to
replace it.

Speaker 5 (30:22):
Is that true?

Speaker 1 (30:25):
I mean it's well, what phone do you have?

Speaker 5 (30:30):
Six s?

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Okay, you have the success I would probably replace it.
I mean, eighty percent is actually pretty good for a
phone that's you know, you're talking what three to two
and a half two years old? Two and a half
years old?

Speaker 3 (30:43):
Yees?

Speaker 4 (30:43):
Two years old?

Speaker 1 (30:44):
So two years old. I mean I don't think you.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
I don't think it's a Have you noticed that your
phone's slowing down a lot?

Speaker 4 (30:50):
It did slow It was slowing down.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
Yes, Okay, here's the thing. You could do two things.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
So there's gonna be an update for for iOS coming
out in the next type probably say six months, if
not earlier, iOS eleven point three. That's going to give
you the ability to turn off the slowdown on your iPhone,
so even though your battery has been degrading. And this
whole thing for people that are listening is that Apple said, look,

(31:17):
we know that batteries go bad over the years, So
what we want to do is we kind of throttle
your phone back a little bit. So that the battery
doesn't shut off the phone unexpectedly, or you don't get
an unexpected restart, or apps don't crash, So we slow
your phone down just a little bit because we want
to make sure the battery can handle that speed. So
what they're saying is in the next version of iOS,

(31:38):
they're going to give that option to the user to say,
you know what, I'll deal with the occasional crash, the
occasional app not working, but I'd rather have my full
speed phone even if my battery is kind of degraded.
So you can wait for that and kind of go
through that. But it's I mean, how.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Much do they ask you for the battery to be replaced?

Speaker 2 (31:55):
Thirty bucks?

Speaker 4 (31:56):
Yeah, thirty bucks.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Yeah. So if you just want to do it, because
this is a time where you know, they don't usually
offer that. Usually it's eighty dollars to do this, and
you have the thirty dollars and it makes you feel better,
then maybe do it and you you will see an
improvement in your phone.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
But again, you could wait for that software too.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
Okay, thanks a lot. I appreciate it, all.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Right, Laura, that's good word.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
Okay, thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Thanks for watching.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
I appreciate it all right.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Uh five oh nine.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
You're on with Rich.

Speaker 6 (32:25):
Hi, Rich, This is Glenda.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Glenda, what's going on?

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Where are you calling from Washington? Oh? My gosh, I
used to live up in Yakama.

Speaker 6 (32:35):
I know.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
Oh okay, what's going on?

Speaker 6 (32:40):
So we ordered my husband ordered the Galaxy S nine plus. Okay,
so work, I'm excited to get it.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Oh you're gonna love it?

Speaker 6 (32:52):
Really, no, I think.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
So what do you want right now?

Speaker 6 (32:56):
The S eight plus?

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Oh wow, so you're you're already doing the upgrade.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
That's a You've got a great husband.

Speaker 6 (33:04):
That's like, uh, well I didn't get anything for Valentine's
Day and our anniversary, our seventeen anniversary is coming up.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
So okay, well that's a good gift I have that.
That's uh, that's a quick upgrade. Now what are you
gonna do with the old phone? You're trading it in?

Speaker 1 (33:17):
What's happening with that?

Speaker 6 (33:19):
Trading in?

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (33:20):
So trading it in? So what can I help you with?

Speaker 6 (33:24):
So are there anything that you can tell me that
is going to be more than the S eight plus?
And then what cases do you recommend?

Speaker 2 (33:40):
Okay? So the S eight plus versus the S nine plus.
You're gonna you're not going to see a huge difference.
You're gonna you're gonna be like, Okay, this is great. Obviously,
the software is going to be newer. You have a new,
you know, new version of Android on there. The you know,
everything got kind of a little tiny makeover with the
soft for you know this little refinements here and there.

(34:02):
The camera has been improved with the software and some
of the extra processing they do on it. So this
camera's going to take more pictures, especially in low light,
and it's gonna make them look better. So your low
light pictures, you're definitely gonna notice a difference. You're also
gonna notice they added this gets a little bit crazy,
but in low light it lets a lot more it

(34:23):
lets a lot more light in, and so that's something
they've added as well. And then they've also added new
dual speakers, so you're gonna have stereo sound for the
first time through your phone. So it's gonna just sound better, louder, clear,
But the screen's gonna look great.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
It's gonna kind of be similar to what you have.
The other thing.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
I think you're gonna notice that you're really gonna like
is the the fingerprint reader is in a much easier
to access place. And I'm sure if you've been using
the say Plus over the past year, you've kind of
gotten used to where the fingerprint reader is. But I
think you're gonna realize that this is in a much
better place and it's going to be so much easier
to sort of unlock. So I think you're really gonna

(35:05):
like it. And I think that it's a it's I mean,
it's one of the best Android phones out there. There's
not really a better Android phone. The pixel might take
better pictures in certain circumstances, but I think overall, this
is probably this is the device I'll be recommending most
to people that want the best Android device out there.
So you did a good job. The other thing is

(35:25):
you asked about a case, So.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
It's tough. I think a case is a very personal thing.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
Do do you want something that offers a lot of
protection on the phone or something that looks good or something.

Speaker 6 (35:37):
That's thin, protection and fashion?

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Okay, protection and fashion. So I'll tell you the number
one selling case in the world is this one. It's
a let's see, it's like the gosh, it's the cell
iris like sparkle case, which I think you've probably seen
a lot of people have. I'm trying to find it,
but it's just the funny. It's like literally the it's

(36:04):
the case that has like the liquid in the back
with the little sparkles and I'm trying to find a picture. Okay,
but that's like I went into the Verizon store when
I was doing a segment with them, and I said, Hey,
what's the top selling you know case overall, And that's
the one. They said, let's see. I'm just there we go. Casemate.
That's it, Casemate sparkle case. Oh there it is, Okay,

(36:25):
let me show you guys on the live stream. So
this is it. This is the top selling case in America. Basically,
this is it. So it's got like the liquid in
the back and the little sparkles that move around. It's
called the Casemate. I don't know if they say with
the like specific name, but there's a rhinestone version and
then there's a sparkle version. But those are the ones
that people love. Yeah, it's a glitter in the back,

(36:48):
someone's saying on the live chat. Now, my personal favorite
case overall is this case, which is the spec Presidio
grip and this case I think is just fantastic. So
it's a it's been they've been making it forever. Speck
kind of made their brand name on this case, and

(37:09):
it's just it's the most standard case they make. It's
got these great grips. You will never drop your phone
with this case on it. But it's it's bulky. It's
gotten less bulky because they made it about twenty percent
thinner this time around. But it's a big case. But
I think that's the case. If I was getting a
case for the SS nine plus, that's the case I
would get because I really like it. And it comes

(37:31):
to a bunch of different colors you can get. You
don't have to get black like I would get. You
can get some other more fun colors as well. But
those are my two. The other cases I would look
at are Tech twenty one. I really like that brand.
I think they make some really fantastic cases and that's
kind of my picks that I have now.

Speaker 6 (37:49):
Yeah, Tech twenty one.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
Yeah, I mean if you like that, I mean, what
do you think of that one?

Speaker 6 (37:56):
I've had it for a little almost well quite a year,
and I haven't changed cases. My other one I had,
I had like, oh.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Wow, you're you're as bad as me.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
I'm like changing cases every day now if if you
really want to get crazy now and don't. I don't
recommend this for most people, but this is my One
of my favorite cases is called Peel, and this is.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Basically super duper thin.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
It's like almost like putting a like plastic wrap on
your phone, that's how thin it is. It's just a
tiny sleeve you put on there and it only prevents
scratches on your phone, like when you put it on
the table or something like that. Yeah, that's uh, that's
a really thin case. I always buy one of those
from my phones because they look they do not protect
your phone at all. But I'm just telling you about
different cases. Peel is one of my favorites as well,

(38:46):
and a lot of people are chiming in on on
the the chat saying about all the cases they like,
and Peter says, or there's some super cheap but good
cases out there. Yes, the one that I always order
that's super cheap is Speagan uh S P I G
E N. And those you can get on Amazon for

(39:07):
like less than ten bucks, and they're they're pretty cheap,
but they're good. They're good quality, so I like those
as well.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
So does that answer your question, Glinda?

Speaker 6 (39:17):
It definitely does.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
All right.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
And by the way, if you will what's.

Speaker 6 (39:21):
That, I'll be able to watch this act so I
can look at what cases you recommended.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yes, absolutely, this will be once the show is over.
There's like a live replay. You can watch that or
you can download the podcast, subscribe in your podcasting app
and you can listen that way.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
So either way, all right, all right, thanks so much
for calling in.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
Appreciate it. Enjoy the new phone.

Speaker 6 (39:41):
All right, thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Bye bye. All right, six sixth one, you're on with
Rich sixty sixth one. You're on with Rich.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
Hello, Oh who's this?

Speaker 2 (39:58):
This is Ah. This is Triman Travis. What's up, Travis.
I'm fantastic. Where are you calling from?

Speaker 4 (40:08):
Quartz Hill?

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Quartz Hill?

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Okay, I'd be lying if I said I know where
that is, but I assume that's somewhere in Los Angeles. Rights, Lancaster, Okay,
got it, Lancaster.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
All right, awesome, So what's what question?

Speaker 2 (40:21):
Is your mom? Your mom is too embarrassed to go
on the live show, so you're calling in for I
love it. Okay, she's driving. Okay, well, in that case,
I love it even more because she's being safe and
that is smart, so awesome. So what what's the question?

Speaker 5 (40:36):
Her question is she's trying to divorce our cable company,
and she was wondering, what's.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Our best options for an internet provider? Oh, what's the
best option for internet? Now you're in Lancaster, you probably
don't have that many options. That's the problem, and that's
the problem for pretty much everyone in America.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Is that we usually have one to two choices.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
For internet in our homes and our apartments as are
sometimes even worse, sometimes you only have one choice.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
So that's the problem. Who do you have right now?

Speaker 2 (41:08):
Yes, Spectrum? Okay?

Speaker 1 (41:09):
And what don't you like about Spectrum?

Speaker 2 (41:10):
Are you trying to get rid of cable or cable
internet or both? Pretty much?

Speaker 3 (41:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (41:16):
Pretty much everything?

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Yeah, they are getting expensive. Here's the thing. Okay, So
the website, I recommend you got to look up this
website to see what's available in your area.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
Okay, So that's the first thing you have to do.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
And the website is called all connect dot com A
L L C O N N E C T Allconnect
dot com You pop in your address and it will
tell you all the providers that are in your area,
or most of them. It's not always perfect, but most
of the time it gets it right. So that's the
main thing you have to do. And then you're going
to find that you probably only have a choice of

(41:53):
either the internet, the cable company, or the T or
the phone company.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
And you know, if the.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Phone company is good, if it's decent, if it's AT
and T or something or FiOS, that's probably better. But
with Spectrum, you're probably that's probably gonna be your best bet.
You just have to figure out when you cancel cable
with them, they're gonna be they're gonna.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
Want to charge you more for your Internet. That's really
how it works.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
So that's.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
How much are they asking for?

Speaker 3 (42:24):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (42:24):
They won eighty dollars for just the internet service?

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Yeah, that's a lot.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
That's that's eighty bucks a month is a lot for
just internet. Now, I will say their average, if you're
not on a promotion, is about sixty a month. So
I would say, here's what you need to do with
with Spectrum. Have you called and asked for the Have
you called and said I want to cancel I get.

Speaker 4 (42:47):
I did, Yes, I did.

Speaker 5 (42:49):
But that's what they said.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
If you want to cancel, cancel because the thing is
that we used to be the other cable company. What
Time Warner.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Yeah, it's done.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
How they have me underd Time Warner Expectrum and my
rate right now with them just for TV and cables
one hundred and fifty dollars.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
Let's stop, right, that's all great, that's a lot. Yeah. Boy.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
I called them and I say, hey, I need to
cancel this. It's not working for me. You know, it's
too much money. So they said, if I want to
cancel a kind cable, they will charge me eighty dollars
for you.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
Okay, yeah, Internet, Yes, and that is true. They will
do that. But here's the deal. Did you ever get
transferred to a different department. No, okay, so that's what
you need to do. So I just did this. I
just went through this with my mom and she was
doing the same thing. I called up the first time
and they said, yeah, just you're gonna pay eighty bucks
a month whatever it was ninety dollars a month, and

(43:47):
I said, okay, well then we'd like to cancel. And
that's when they transfer you to the person that can
actually cut you a deal. So that's my recommendation is
to call in again and you can either ask directly
for the re tension department or you can say, Hi,
I'd like to cancel my service. Can you please transfer
me to the operator. The normal operators that are answering
are not the people that cancel your service. They want

(44:08):
to give you one last deal before you go, So
that's what you need to do. And yeah, ask for
the retention department, and I think you're going to get
a better deal.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Aim for that sixty.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
Dollars a month factor if you get If you can
get fifty, that'd be amazing. But really you're probably gonna
end up paying about sixty bucks a month for internet.
That's that's kind of the going rate these cable companies.
And thanks so much for the call. These cable companies
are realizing that people are cutting the cord. So what
do you think They're not going to sort of say, oh,
no problem, we're gonna let you cut the cord and

(44:37):
you know, no big deal. No, they really want to
make sure that they're getting their money's worth out of you.
So if you cut the cord for cable, they're just
going to charge you a little bit more for the
internet three one zero five nine four three zero zero three.
And by the way, I'm in that same boat right now.
I've got I was paying about forty five a month
for my spectrum and now it's gone up to sixty.

(44:58):
And the first person I call was like, yeah, that's
just the deal. You can't get another deal. So I'm
gonna keep calling back until I do. Well, we'll get
it in there one of these days, let's see, uh
before I take well, I'll take one more call before
the show ends because we've been on for man how
long we've been on? Oh fifty minutes? Okay, but let

(45:19):
me just talk about Zagit really quick. It was a
gat whatever you want to call it. But you know,
this was a brand that when I came to LA
for the first time, zagit was like it you when
you went to a restaurant you checked the zagut rating, right,
I mean, you just knew it had those three ratings.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
It was like out of thirty.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
It was like, you know, service decor I forget what
the three things work. But it was like, you know
those three little terms.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
One was service, one.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
Was food, and I forget what the other one was
Ambiance maybe, but that company, you know, as we got
Yelp in the Internet, they kind of got you know,
passed over. And then Google bought them back in twenty
eleven and one hundred and fifty one million dollars, and
they thought, oh, this is gonna be great. They're gonna
bring zagit into the digital age. Of course you have

(46:03):
Google Maps, you can mix it in. They did all
that stuff. Nothing happened. Is no one talks about zagut
ratings anymore, sadly, because I still think they're really fun.
Like I always loved them. I love the way they
wrote them. I always loved everything about them. Well, now
Google is selling it, is selling it. I don't know
how much they sold it for.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
It doesn't really say.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
But they passed it on to a new owner, an
upstart restaurant review company called The Infatuation. And they said
they were very excited about this because zagit was started
in nineteen seventy nine as a kind of a way
to help friends find the best restaurants, and similarly, the
Infatuation was built in two thousand and nine to help

(46:43):
people find the best restaurants.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
So now they're going to own them. It's called the Infatuation.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
Let's see what their website looks like, because I've never
heard of that, the infatuation. So here's the thing that's
kind of annoying though, is that the infatuation is gonna
run zagit separately. So that's kind of weird. It's like,
why can't you just run it, like, let's mix this up,
let's get it. Okay, So here's the article on it

(47:08):
that they're getting zagat So maybe it's a gap, I
don't know, but anyway, let's just find Let's see if
I put in Los Angeles, let's see what this says
for the restaurants. Okay, so it's got the greatest hits list.
Oh you guys, sorry, I forgot to switch this thing.
The best new restaurants in Los Angeles, the best sushi
and rest the best sushi. Let's see the best sushi

(47:30):
is thirty one. Best sushi places, let's see everyday sushi kiro. Interesting.
I'm definitely not a sushi aficionado, so I don't really know.
I know, like one sushi place and that's it.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
But this is interesting. Okay, So they do kind of like.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
A rating as well, eight point four. But we'll see.
So I don't know. I'm I have a lot of
nostalgia for Zagit because I always had the book and
I would always look up restaurants and that was the
way to go to restaurants in Los Angeles for so
many years. And it just you know, now it's it's
totally kind of gone down. Back to our last conversation,

(48:06):
Irwin says, I called Spectrum last week and I asked
for the retention department and they cut my bill down
to twenty dollars less a month. Look at that.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
Whoo Because we talked about it.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
On the last podcast, which was two weeks ago, and
I talked about the retention department and yeah, that's what
everyone's That's what everyone did. So that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
Let's see here, what else do we have we've got?

Speaker 2 (48:30):
Oh, Grace says, I was able to lower my Spectrum
Internet down to fifty two a month, all right, so
there's hope. So it looks like fifty two is good, okay,
And Anastasia, I'm jumping around a lot today. Anastasia says,
I never checked that rating. Always look at yelp. Now
I know we all look at YELP. Let me give
you my little way, I search Yelp because I do

(48:52):
it a little bit differently than everyone else. So when
I'm in an area, I go to Yelp and I search,
you know, restaurants, and then I do so sort by
most reviewed.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
So the most.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Reviewed restaurant basically gives you, kind of, wherever you are,
the restaurant that the most people are going to. It's
not always the best or the finest, or the most
expensive or the best food, but it kind of usually
is known for something. So if you're it's just kind
of a fun thing I do because I'm in that area,
I want to know the restaurant that everyone's sort of
going to. But I will tell you one time this
kind of backfired on me. I was doing a sometimes

(49:27):
I fill in for Leo Laporte, the tech guy, on
his show, his syndicated radio show, which I'll be doing,
by the way in April. But I was up there
in Sonoma County. I think it's Sonoma. Petaluma is where
they do it. I think it's Sonoma County. And of
course I looked at Yelp to I was there for
you know, the two nights I do the show, and
I wanted to find a good restaurant, and so I

(49:48):
looked in the first restaurant that came up with some
random place. It's called Garlic Joe's or something like that,
whatever it was. I'm like, I'm not going there. And
I realized after I left, because it had like three
thousand ratings everything else had like, you know, a hundre
or two hundred. I realized that the restaurant is the
Guy Fierre restaurant. And so I was like, Oh, it
didn't hit me till like six months later that it's

(50:08):
I've let's see what's what's his restaurant called Guy Fiery
And uh, let's see Garlic Garlic.

Speaker 4 (50:16):
Uh, I don't.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
I don't know. Maybe he did, Maybe he doesn't have
Johnny Garlics. Oh he ditched it. Never mind, I guess
he Uh, I guess he's out. Okay, he's out at
Johnny Garlics and text with Sabby, So I guess he's
not an owner anymore. But anyway, I had a lot
of reviews and I didn't end up going to it.
But uh, that's I guess that's why. Anyway. So that's

(50:39):
my point is that's the way I like to search yelp.
It's just kind of fun. I mean, everyone has a
different way of searching yelp. But yeah, all right, let's
get some comments before. Lorraine says, when are you filling
in for Leo? I think it's public knowledge because someone
texted me, tweeted me about it, and I guess he
must have mentioned it on his show.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
But it's gonna be the uh, it's gonna be the
end of April.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
I'll be up there so I'll have more details when
when I can share them. I guess when I know
I can share them. I hope I didn't, and let's see.
Michael Moffett says, I look for the most reviewed, realizing
that people will go out of their way to complain
if they've had a bad experience, then those who will
rave That is very true.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Darryl says, great show, Thank you, Daryl.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
Uh Dushawn says, Rich You're awesome, love your tips. Thank you,
and uh Leo Laporte, Yeah, you guys.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
I did this once before.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
I feel actually I filled in for him twice, once
on the local level here just for KFI, and then
once up at the national level for a syndicated show.
And then they asked me back.

Speaker 1 (51:37):
So I was that was nice?

Speaker 3 (51:39):
Right?

Speaker 2 (51:40):
All right, let's take one more call here six six one,
you're on with Rich.

Speaker 5 (51:44):
Hey Rich from Davy?

Speaker 2 (51:46):
Hey, Greg, what's up?

Speaker 5 (51:48):
Not much? How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (51:50):
I was wondering if I was going to go a
whole show without one of my regulars calling in.

Speaker 5 (51:55):
I guess I'm the last call.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
You are the last call? What's up today?

Speaker 5 (52:00):
Kind of problem with my iPhone ever since the last update.
You know, when you go into settings and then general,
there's been this one. You know how it as if
there's an update. It's that there's a one in a
red circle. Yes, yes, and I go to software update,
but then it says, you know your software is up

(52:23):
to date, but that one, you know, the the one
is still there.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
Yes, okay, I've.

Speaker 5 (52:29):
Shut it down, I've did a soft reset, but it's
still there.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
It's something to do with the This is funny.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
This actually happened to my my father in law. He
was going crazy over it. And basically you have to
go there's like, you know how they have like those
little settings on iPhone where it's like finished setting up
your phone and all this stuff. Yeah, one of those
is hanging somehow. So I would go back in and
just kind of go through all those menus where basically

(52:59):
you click your Apple I D you can go into
your General and kind of look at software update. Let
it go through there, and I think the main one
you want to go to is your your Apple I
D one at the top and kind of see because
it's trying there's something that like usually when you change
your like your Apple pay or something like that, they

(53:19):
want you to like finish something.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
So there's something that's.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
Hung in there that where where's the I get that
It's on your General settings, right, Yeah, And so when
you go in there, there's nothing, nothing's highlighted in there
at all. No.

Speaker 5 (53:35):
Well, you know how when you go into general, there's
about and then software update right right, That's that's where
the one is. And then when I go into there,
it just says my software is up to date. But
then when I go back the one is still there.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
Interesting, Yeah, it's definitely hung. That's uh, it's kind of
a it's like a little ghost setting right there.

Speaker 1 (53:56):
That's a hmm.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
What if you now you've did a off reset on
your phone, Well, do.

Speaker 5 (54:02):
You know how you like push the power button, then
hold down the the home button. That's all I did.
That was gonna ask if I did a reset, would
that erase all my settings?

Speaker 2 (54:15):
Or there's there's one reset that you can try that
will not mess up a lot of things, and that's
your your your Let's see here, let me go into
the reset. There's a couple Okay, so when you go
into your iPhone, there's a couple of reset options. There's
reset all settings, erase all content in settings, and then
reset network settings. So the two the one that you

(54:36):
can try first is reset network Settings. But keep in
mind that's going to delete all your Wi Fi passwords
and all your Bluetooth connections. So you can try that
if you want. I mean, I've done that before. It's
just kind of a way to reset your phone for
the network. Reset all settings, which I don't want to
proceed too far because I don't really know how much

(54:58):
that's gonna do. But the one that you really want
to stay away from as the erase all content and settings,
because that one wipes your entire phone. Reset all Settings,
I think just brings your phone kind of back to
back to kind of let me just see reset all
settings iPhone. So Yeah, this will reset let's see, keeps
your apps and data, but resets your personal preferences and

(55:20):
network settings. So you can try that. I think that
that's not going to be as bad, but it might
help you. Now, have you tried just closing out that app,
like where you take the settings app and you sort
of close it out by what iPhone?

Speaker 1 (55:37):
Do you have the eight or the ten?

Speaker 2 (55:40):
No?

Speaker 3 (55:40):
The six? Ass?

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Success, So just double click you know, your home button
and then you know, you just wipe away the settings
and that doesn't get get rid of it either, just
get it No until there and so if you go
into okay, here's what I want you to go into.
I think it's an Apple Pay thing. That's that's my thought.
Do you have Apple Pay on this.

Speaker 5 (56:01):
No, I've never set it up, never used it.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
See, I think they want you to set up Apple Pay.
So go into your settings and where it says wallet
and Apple Pay. Click there, yeah, and what.

Speaker 5 (56:11):
Happens, Uh, there's a Apple pay cash that's off at
credit or debit card and double click home button allow excess.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
So now go back and is it still there?

Speaker 3 (56:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (56:28):
Interesting and under your Okay, So now go into your
Apple ID and under the name, phone numbers, and email.
Try that one as well. There's a lot of information
on here. That's a you've stumped me, that's a that's
a great How do you always have the oddest problems?
That's a that's a that's a stumper right there.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
I don't know, that's uh.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
I mean, if it's not doing it with a restart,
I would think you might want to try those two
settings to reset things before you do the reset of
the you know, the main reason, not the full reset,
but the reset your settings. I would just kind of
look at that and see what the deal is with
you know, like just kind of research a little bit.
But I think you'll be okay. You'll just have to
kind of like set up a couple of things here

(57:14):
and there. But I think that's what it needs to
run through, that flow of the setup of the phone,
because it's obviously hung on something and it's a weird one, okay,
Steven says on his mom's phone, it was because she
ran out of iCloud backup space, so that could happen.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
Are you are you using iCloud?

Speaker 2 (57:32):
No.

Speaker 5 (57:32):
I usually just connect my phone to the computer and
download my pictures through there.

Speaker 1 (57:37):
Interesting Yeah, that's weird.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
I know. My it's funny because my father in law
had the same problem and I did like two steps
and I got rid of it, and he was like,
oh my gosh, I've been looking at this thing forever.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
But it had to do with his on Apple pay.

Speaker 2 (57:50):
So I don't know. But all right, Greg, let me
know next week what happens with that if you can
figure it out. If those two settings will help clear
it out.

Speaker 5 (57:59):
Okay, okay, we'll do all right, Greg.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
Thanks, keep things going there in the AE or A
A V A V Y A E. I just combined,
I combine the Antelope Valley and the Inland Valley Empire.

Speaker 5 (58:16):
Yes, all right, have a good day, Greg.

Speaker 2 (58:21):
All right, you do you know, folks, it's a live show.
If I want to combine Antalope Valley and Inland Empire
into the A V. There you have it or the
AE I don't even know what I called it. That's
gonna do it for today's show. Thanks so much for
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