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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Twitter goes premium for three dollars a month. YouTube gets
rid of dislikes, kind of sort of Robinhood gets hacked.
Plus your tech questions answered? What is going on? I'm
Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast
where I talk about the tech stuff I think you
should know about.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's also the place.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Where I answer the questions you send me and yes, yes,
send me a lot of them, keep them coming. I'm
the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.
Welcome to the folks listening on Facebook audio rooms.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
That feature was big.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's funny with these social media platforms they love to
their attention span is very short. So with Facebook, for instance,
they were all about these live audio rooms for like
a month or two, and you know, whenever I would
do one of these, it would promote it across the
board to all my followers, and you know, hundreds of

(01:08):
people would log in to listen because Facebook was pushing
it to as many people as possible because they were
trying to start that feature. Well, now that they don't
care about it as much and they've moved on to
other things, it's not as popular. You don't see it
promoted as much. It's just kind of one of those
features that's there. And I'm seeing the same kind of
thing happen right now on Instagram. And I don't know

(01:29):
if you've noticed, but they've really really ramped up reels.
They've ramped up two things in your feed. Number one reels.
Number two suggested posts. So if you're scrolling through Instagram
and this happens to me, I'm looking at these posts
and I'm like, wait a second, I don't follow that person.
It says, oh, suggested because you follow this person or

(01:50):
that person, and I don't mind it. But a lot
of my feed has become suggested posts. So they're definitely
it's definitely becoming an Instagram that was very different than
the Instagram many of us signed up for. Also, there's
a lot of moving stuff. There's just a lot going
on now.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
The reels.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
I'll tell you why so many people are doing reels
right now is because Facebook is paying bonuses for doing reels.
So I tell you this because I was invited to
the program and basically they said, oh, we'll pay a
whole bunch of money if you do some reels, and
so that is I have not done one, but that's
The reason why you're seeing so many people doing reels

(02:29):
right now because they're trying to reach these bonus amounts
and if they get these bonuses, it could be a
decent amount of money, so I don't know, maybe a
couple hundred bucks or something.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
So that's why you're.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Seeing so many reels in your Instagram feed at this point.
But we are here to talk tech. We're here to
talk about the questions that you send me. And as
you know, I am an open book. I've been talking
about the Tesla on social media that's been going well.
I've been talking about the Pixel six Pro, which I
haven't switched to, but I've been using it alongside my

(03:00):
iPhone for like two weeks now, and I'll tell you
I do love the phone. I mean, they're the Pixel
six I think is just such an incredible device, except
for a few things. Number One, the size is just
I can't Maybe this sounds like a broken record from
last week's podcast, but it's just such a big phone
that you can never get comfortable using it, Like.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
It's just so big.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Maybe if you're used to the size of the iPhone
thirteen Promax, you'd be fine with this, But I don't
think if you have that phone that you'd be switching
to this phone. The other thing is the fingerprint sensor
is just like absolutely one hundred percent like terrible, Like
I've never like it's it's taking a step back maybe
five phone generations. I haven't seen a fingerprint sensor this

(03:45):
bad in many many phones.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Now.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
I do believe in Google, and I think that Google
is very much not hardware oriented but software oriented.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
So they came out and said, yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Well, the reason why our fingerprint sensor is a little
slower than the rest is because it's very It's very secure,
and I think ninety nine point nine percent of people
would be like, well, let me give up like fifty
percent of that security for a fingerprint sensor.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
That actually works in a reasonable.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Amount of time. I've gotten to the point where I
have a fear of unlocking this device. FO fear of
unlocking it FO you, I because I sit there and
I'm like, this is gonna take so long to unlock.
Let me just go to the iPhone and I'll use
that because it's instantly unlocked as soon as you look
at it. Now, there are some rumors that face unlock

(04:36):
will be coming to the iPhone, but I'm not sure
we'll see I mean, I hope so. And by the way,
I did find a good case. I think a good
case really makes this phone. And the Spegan I actually
picked two that I really like. So Spegan sent over
all the cases to test out and I tried them
all on the phones, and I found two that I
really like. Remember I like a thin case, and so

(04:57):
these are thin, but there are also some protection, and
they're also grippy. And the two I like are the
Pixel six Pro Ultra Hybrid from Spegin and then the
Pixel six Pro Liquid Air.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Those are my two picks. But there are you know, maybe.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
A half a dozen cases that if you want more protection,
you have to upgrade to one of those. And you know,
maybe you like that you don't mind the bulk. You know,
some people don't mind the bulk because they don't keep
their phone in.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Their pocket like I do.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
I keep my phone in my pocket, so I want
a thin case and a smaller phone. But this, this
Pixel has won me over for many, many reasons, and
one of them is.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
That I forgot how useful.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
I forgot how much I call it hunting and pecking
you have to do on the iPhone to complete stuff.
So on the iPhone, everything is notifications and apps right,
nothing is integrated into the fabric of the phone unless
it's something that Apple wants, Whereas on Android, apps and
notifications are much more woven into the fabric of the phone,
so when you buy it or when you download an app,

(05:59):
it sort of becomes part of the operating system in
different ways. One example is that I've just keep seeing
over and over is that when you get a notification
on the pixel, there are action steps you can take
right from that notification. So, for instance, if someone you
know texts you something I don't know, there's just so
many little things that you can do directly from the notification.

(06:21):
And one of the simplest examples is like for Tesla,
the Tesla app, for example, there's a notification on your
screen that always lets you unlock your car, open the
front trunk, open the rear trunk, and so it's like
little things like that where it's really cool. Or if
you get a notification from Google Maps about a place

(06:41):
that it wants you to review, which I know are
kind of annoying, but it'll say something like not useful
or didn't go there, which you can just in one click,
say I didn't go there, Versus on the iPhone, you'd
have to tap into the notification and then tap into
the experience to figure out where to.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Go to do all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
So it's just little things. I'm not saying one's better
than the other. It's just more of the differences that
I'm pointing out. I still love the iPhone, believe me.
It's a pretty amazing device, and I will say I
think in some cases it's just a better creator device
than the Pixel. I find that I'm more creative when
I'm holding my iPhone than i am with a Pixel.
I just feel like the Pixel is more a smartphone

(07:20):
like it just it kind of anticipates your needs a
little bit better.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Let's get to the first story of the week. Twitter.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
I don't really talk about Twitter too much because I
don't feel like a lot of people use it that
are general, everyday people, And that's kind of who I
imagine listens to this show. But you know, there are
some people that use Twitter that are just regular people.
I feel like it's mostly either people kind of in
industry or you know, it's not like my mom.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Or my dad or something like that. You know, like
the average tech person.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
So I don't talk about it too much, but you know,
they did something interesting this week. They opened up what's
called Twitter Blue, and so for three dollars a month,
you get features that the regular free Twitter users don't get.
Number one, you get some ad free sites. So when
you go to like Washington Post, you open an article
from Twitter, La Times, USA Today, The Atlantic Reuter's, a

(08:13):
couple others A you don't see any ads on those articles.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
So I mean, is that worth three bucks a month?
Probably not.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
The funny thing is that you don't get a subscription
to any of these, So it'd be nice if they
bypass the paywall when you clicked on these things. That's
not happening, so you still if it's a paywalled article,
you're not going to get to see it for free.
Let's see top articles. This is my favorite feature so far.
So this summarizes all of the top articles people are

(08:41):
sharing in your network over the past twenty four hours.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
So that's really really useful.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
But that also used to be free through a website
called Nuzzle, And I'm guessing that did Twitter buy Nuzzle?
I thought I said that on the radio. I'm guessing.
Let's see, yep, Twitter bought Nuzzle.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yep. Okay, so yeah, so that's that's the thing.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Like that website was free and I used it every
day and I loved it, and then Twitter bought it
and they shut it down, and now they're making me
pay for it. You also can customize your experience with
exclusive app icons, So if you want to change your
you know, your navigation icons or the way your Twitter
icon looks on your home screen, you can do that.
I mean, probably not worth three bucks. The undue tweet

(09:26):
is the kind of the big main feature a lot
of people have been talking about, which is fine. It's
not an edit button per se, but it's just a delay.
So if you have this setup in Gmail like I do,
where it delays my email by twenty seconds, so if
I think of something or made a mistake, I can
undo it. Same thing now with Twitter. So the other
thing that's kind of cool, and this is like a
very I don't know, one percent kind of person feature,

(09:47):
but it turns long Twitter threads into like an easy
to read experience, which is also really nice. You can
upload longer videos and that's about it. So I subscribe
just to check it out it's fine.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
I you don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
If I will pay three dollars a month. They would
have to do a couple things for me to keep
paying three dollars. Number one, they would have to take
away the ads.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
I cannot deal with the ads on Twitter. They're so annoying.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
They're after like every other tweet, and so three bucks
a month, one hundred percent. I would be totally down
with paying that just to get rid of the ads.
And if they threw in the rest of these features,
that would be pretty cool too. All right, let's get
to the first question of the day. Ron says, how
can I delete pictures on Facebook Messenger? Ron, what I
would do typically is press and hold. So whenever you

(10:35):
can't find something to do on your phone, it's not
very obvious, there's two things you want to look for.
Number One, just press and hold on whatever you're trying
to manipulate. So if you're trying to like delete a picture,
press and hold it and see if a little menu
comes up that lets you delete the picture. Indeed, I
think that's the case here with Facebook Messenger. You can
do that on your iPhone or Android and it should

(10:56):
bring up a delete button that you can.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Get rid of that picture.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
The other thing to look out for is a menu icon.
So like a menu icon these days, they look like
two things. Number one, three little dots in a row,
up and down. So just three little dots up and down.
Click that or tap that rather, and that should bring
up the what we call an overflow menu that you
know has the other options for whatever you're trying to do.

(11:19):
And then the other thing is the hamburger menu, and
that often will bring up either a slide a slider
menu or I'm saying hamburger and slider in one one sentence.
It's pretty funny, no pun intended, but that's generally what
you do. But in in general with the phones, especially
the way the iPhone was designed, you know, they made

(11:40):
everything very simple. So press and hold and typically that
should bring up what you need to do. Oh also
on Twitter, let's get back to Twitter for just a moment.
There's a new feature on someone's profile if you're on iOS.
So if you're on iOS and you're using Twitter, it's uh,
there's a new little search button on one's profile, and

(12:01):
so just go to their profile, you know, just tap
on their name and go to their profile, which shows
like their bio and how many tweets they've done, and
how many people are following. In the upper right hand corner,
you'll now see a little search icon like a magnifying glass,
and you tap that and then you can type in
a keyword. So if you want to see all the
times in my Twitter world that I've ever mentioned the

(12:22):
word pixel, you can just search for the word pixel.
If you want to see all the times I've ever
mentioned I don't know, chuck E cheese. That'd be a
tough one to type in, but I probably spelled it wrong,
but you know, you can type in Chuck E cheese.
So this is really handy. It's it's always a It's
a feature that's always been around on Twitter. It's just
been way more complicated to use because you'd have to

(12:44):
go and do an advanced search to get this figured out.
So I think that by putting this front and center
on someone's profile, it does make things a lot easier
because if you saw me say something on TV and
you're like, oh, I want to get more information about that,
you can just go to my profile, type in a
keyword from whatever story I did, and there you can
find the tweet that is associated with that story, and

(13:06):
not just a tweet, but a lot of times in
my course of testing stuff out, I will often tweet
as I go. So I'll be tweeting like little features
and little things that I discover, and then I'll put
some of those or all of those into my main
review on TV, and so you can see kind of
my thoughts along the way with the different things that
I talk about and review and go to. So simple,

(13:28):
simple check for the new search icon on the Twitter
profile page of your favorite tweeter.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
All right, Stace.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
I don't know if it's Stace or stay C because
it's STACEE, so that could be Stace, could be Stace.
I have a problem getting rid of tech stuff. I
have a ton of old memory two hundred chips whoo,
as well as cables, motherboards.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Where do I go?

Speaker 1 (13:53):
This is a major recycling problem. I'm trying to be sustainable.
I know it's toxic. People need to know that there's
a threat to the environment inside much. People need to know.
Every city is different, but anyone who cares should have
the option.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
You got one.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
Come on, dude, I watch you every day. This is
major important. Did I miss one of your reports I
watch you every day. Thanks Stace or Stacy. Well, Stacy
or Stace, you did miss one of my reports, because
I've talked about this several several times in recent memory.
I've done two major stories on gadget recycling. The first
was with a We visited a gadget recycling I don't know.

(14:29):
It's like a waste place, just locally in the La
Valley and or San Fernando Valley, I guess I should say.
And it's a place where you could The coolest part
about it was that they had this big giant machine
that could chop up your hard drive. So if you
have a hard drive, it would just grind it to
like a million little pieces, and then they would of
course take out the important precious metals and then send
the rest on their way for recycling. But that was

(14:51):
number one, so you can easily go there and bring
all your stuff. I think it was called US.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
Waste Fernando Valley or was it Glendale. Oh gosh, I
can't remember where it was. It might I can't remember.
I'll have to look this up, but I'll put it
in the show notes.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
But it was a nice little place where they you know,
they just had a whole bunch of stuff that people
bring there to recycle, so you can bring that or
there's another website that we did a story with called
Gizmo Gizmo Go, and they will pay you for stuff
that they can pay you for, but this stuff doesn't
sound like anything they would pay for because that's mostly
like phones and old laptops and stuff. This sounds like more.

(15:32):
You just need it recycled. And with that in mind,
you could just send it to them in a big box.
Or better yet, since you're local and they are they're
in Chino Hills, you could just take the box of
your stuff.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
To them and they will recycle.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
Now I would contact them first through their website before
you just bring something over there. But they have a
huge business of recycling this stuff, and yes, they keep
it out of landfills, they keep it from ruining the environment,
and it's a pretty big operation. And there are many
any companies that will do this, and there's also many
what do they call green recycling drives on the weekends.

(16:06):
A lot of times are fundraisers for schools where you
bring all this stuff and they'll take it for free.
But the company that's taking it is actually making money
off of this stuff, because what they do is they
reclaim the precious metals from this stuff. So they will
pay you for some of these things. Maybe the motherboards
might have some value, the memory chips, I'm not sure,
the cable's probably not, but they might pay you, you know,

(16:29):
pay the organizations that's arranging this fundraiser drive just a
little bit of money.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
But that's the way I would do it.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Or they'll take it off your hands and then share
a little bit of the profit with the fundraising place,
but with the nonprofit I should say.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
So that's what you do.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
But look up those two things, Stace, Look up recycling
old gadgets KTLA.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Did I ever tell you how to search?

Speaker 3 (16:51):
You?

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Just look?

Speaker 1 (16:52):
So I've got I've got two. There we go, two stories. Okay,
here's the first story. Got a new gadget over the holidays.
Here's how to dispose? Okay, yeah, this was the place
I went to. We went to a place called e
Waste US Electronics Recycling in North Hollywood. And so they'll

(17:16):
take it. And here's the thing. I mean, you know,
I ever since I did this story on recycling old gadgets,
I have never thrown out a battery ever again, because
I realized in that story how bad they are for
the environment when you just toss them in the trash.
And so I now keep a mason jar and every
battery that I use in my house that's you know,
triple A or whatever kind of thing, I will throw

(17:38):
in to there and then I will go and recycle those.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
So good question and get that stuff recycled.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
YouTube is going to stop showing dislikes.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
This is something that not a lot of people like.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
But boom, boom, I need a bad joke sound for
my soundboard here. So YouTube says they did an experiment
and they got rid of the dislike button, or they
changed it so that you could still have the dislike button,
but the total number of dislikes under a video was
not displayed, and lo and behold, they found that it
actually discourages what they call group dislikes or this group

(18:19):
dislike mentality. So they've noticed when a lot of people
start disliking a video, people sort of start piling on
more dislikes, even though they just do it just to
be funny or something. So they said, you know what,
that's not very good for our creator viewer relationships. And
so we're gonna still let you thumbs down a video,
and we're gonna show the creators the total number of

(18:41):
those thumbs down, but we're no longer gonna make it
a game where you can see how many thumbs downs
this video has compared to how many thumbs up thumbs.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Up they'll still display, So that's basically it.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
You know, this is of course getting met with a
lot of mixed reactions online. Some people say, well, that's
how I can tell if a video is worthless, which
I would agree with, because if you had noticed that
a video has a lot of thumbs down, you might
be like, I'm not gonna watch this. People were disappointed
with it, but I guess you'll just have to go
by viewcount, and that's you know, it's not the best,

(19:14):
So it's going away, you know, rolling out, so it's
not like immediately gone. But if you're a creator, you'll
still be able to see these numbers on the back end.
But if you're a viewer, you'll still be able to
dislike stuff, you just won't be able to see the
total number of dislikes. And on the flip side, you
can still use that dislike button to craft your YouTube experience.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
So the stuff they show you for recommendations.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
When you thumbs up and when you thumbs down, it
will still all go into that recommendation engine that's personalized
just for you. Joe says, Hey, Rich, I'm a SOCW
guy born and raised in a long time KTLA five viewer.
My family relocated to the Kansas City area. I've been
watching Foxford News and today was the first time I

(20:00):
saw your tech Smart segment since we relocated. I'm super
stoked to know you're on my new local channel. Thanks
for keeping us tech smart. Keep up the great work,
Joe Ka. Well, Joe, thank you. That's awesome that you
saw me there. So it's kind of funny. I never
tell people. I don't make a big deal that we

(20:22):
are on and a whole bunch of different markets because
it's just not really that important to the stories that
I tell. You know, like, I'm just doing my segment,
and if you happen to see me in a different city,
that's awesome. Now I get a lot of people that say, Rich,
I saw you in you know, Hawaii or this or that,
and so I love it. I mean it's great, and

(20:42):
so the dirty little it's not a dirty secret. But
the little secret is that, yes, I originate out of KTLA,
and our segment does go out to a whole bunch
of other stations. And so with the company that we're
owned by, Next Star, they have like two hundred stations,

(21:03):
you know, they all have the potential of running it.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Do all of them run it every day? No, but
a lot of them do.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
And so it's funny because I didn't know unbeknownst to me,
but these there are tracking systems that track the number
of times that your story is shown in different places,
and PR people use these to see when you do
a story that mentions them or one of their you know,
whether it's a product, whether it's good or bad. They
want to know, and so they want to see the
clip to see exactly what she said. And I was

(21:30):
fascinated because someone that I know that does PR actually
sent me a copy of this because they said, Rich,
we had no idea that your segment airs in so
many different places, and said, yeah, I don't really tell
a lot of people about that, but it does. And
so they ended up I said, well, send me a list,
let me.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
See where it airs. And so let me just go
through some of the places so.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, d C, Houston, Texas, Cleveland, Ohio, Sacramento,
Saint Louis, Indianapolis, San Diego, Salt Lake City, Can City, Columbus, Ohio,
Las Vegas, Oklahoma City, Greensboro, North Carolina, Albuquerque, New Mexico,
New Orleans, Fresno, Little Rock, Des Moines, Iowa, Champagne, Illinois, Harlington, Texas, Harlingen, Harlingen, Texas,

(22:15):
El Paso, Texas, Baton Rouge, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Tyler, Texas, Peoria, Illinois,
Sioux City, Iowa, Terry, terre Hote, Indiana, and Dothan, Alabama.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
So pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
And that's just one story, and that's just happens to
be in, you know, in a small period of time.
But it's kind of neat to know that you're airing now.
We used to do a round robin with a lot
of these stations, so I used to know specifically where
I did live shots for these places.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
But we've changed it up just a little bit.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
So that's that's that's kind of a system that we're
not We're basically sending out the story where stations can
air it whenever they want, and so it's a little
bit different these days, but the reality is they're still
airing it and it's still fun and it's great when
you see me in a different place.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
And especially when.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
I show up in place like Hawaii and like Las Vegas,
I'm like, can I go there?

Speaker 2 (23:10):
Like that? Is that an acceptable business expense.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
To go visit these places that I air in, because
I've got to see what they look like, right Like,
I need another look at Honolulu just to make sure
that you know this is what it looks like. Anyway,
thanks for finding me there, and Joe, tell your friends
in Kansas City that you watch and tell them to
get tech smart. Robin Hood was hacked, and I don't

(23:33):
want to spend too much time on this because it's
one of these stories you're like, blah blah blah, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
isn't everything hacked? Well, it's kind of scary when this happens.
And so on November three, Robin Hood said someone got
access to their to personal information on a whole bunch
of people. Now they said, no soci security numbers, no
bank account numbers, no debit card numbers were exposed and

(23:55):
nobody's nobody lost money as a result of this like,
not directly at.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Least, so that's that's good.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
But the odd thing is that this was a pretty big,
big hack. This was a socially engineered hack, and social
engineering means that they didn't really have to guess a
password or break into the system. They basically tricked someone
into giving them access. They don't say how they did that,
but that's kind of scary. So h A customer said,

(24:21):
the unauthorized party socially engineered a customer support employee by
phone and obtained access to certain customer support systems. So
what I'm guessing happened here is that this was not
a customer who called in and said, hey, can you
give me the password to your back end systems? This
person probably discovered the back end systems or how to
get access to those, or how to how to see

(24:43):
where they live on a server, and then called an
employee by phone and said, hey, Jim, it's a it's
Robin over Robin, it's uh, it's it's Tanya over here
in in accounts department. Can you give me that password
real quick? Or what's the what's the pin code to
get in? I got to do some work on the
back end real quick. And the person was probably taken
off guard and just gave the information over. Now I'm
making that up, I don't know, but that's what I'm saying.

(25:05):
That's kind of the idea of a social engineering attack,
is that you kind of trick someone into handing over
some information that you need that helps you hack a system.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
That's scary.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
And I saw some screenshots I think they were obtained
by motherboard of these systems, and it was you know,
some behind the scenes stuff. So anyway, what did they get.
They got full email addresses for five million people, full
names for two million people, and then for about three
hundred people they got names, dates of birth, zip code,
and ten people had even more information revealed. So what

(25:37):
I think happened here is that for the you know,
the five million and the two million, it was really easy.
They just ran some sort of script that extracted like
simple stuff. But then to get the like, the real information,
they probably had to work a little bit harder, which
is why they were only able to get three hundred
and you know, twenty people's information on a deeper level.
So anyway, what I would recommend is number one, it's

(25:58):
the same security cautions every single podcast.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Number one.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Use a unique, separate password for every website that you visit,
that you create a login for. Do not reuse passwords.
Do not use variations of passwords. Do not use the
same password for two websites. Do not keep a list
of those passwords.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
You know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Well, you can keep a list somewhere, but as long
as it's safe. But I would recommend using a password manager.
And yes I am guilty of this too. When you're
signing up for a website, you want it to be
the fastest possible experience. Ever, take the extra one minute
to go into your password manager, generate a password, save
the log in, and then copy and paste it into

(26:47):
this new website. I know it's especially tricky on your
smartphone to do this unless you're using you know, one
of the built in kind of you know, like Apple's
iCloud password manager or something that's the android, the smart
lock or whatever they call it an android.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
But if you're using sort of a.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Third party one, which you know, I would probably recommend
for most people, like a dash lane, or like a bitwarden,
or a last pass or a one password. I mean,
there's so many to choose from. Just pick one that
you like, that you think is fair. Bitwarden is totally
free for the regular user, so maybe that's where you start.

(27:23):
But just use these things and then set up two
factor authentication. I went in to my Robinhood account and
I noticed that I did not have two factor authentication
turned on. And so as soon as I saw this hack,
I said, Okay, let me go turn that on. So
I've turned that on and now that's just one more
one more barrier between you and someone that's trying to
get into your account. Is it going to stop them

(27:44):
every single time? Absolutely not. If you listen to the
last podcast, they talked about how they're getting around. They're
social engineering the two factor authentication codes, and so you
just have to do the best you can do to
keep yourself protected. And that's all you can do. All right,

(28:06):
Let's get to the next question of the show. Ellie says,
good morning, peace to you and your lovely family.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Sir. I know you could help me. I work.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Let's see, it looks like you work at a church,
two different churches, and I need to update past Google
files that I have on Google slides and Google sheets,
but I can't because of space. So this Saturday I
followed the link on my Gmail account. Bottom line, I
got charged for a year's charge of nineteen ninety nine,
but through Apple. I'm confused because my Gmail and Google
apps are still saying I'm out of space. I'm so confused.

(28:39):
I'm fifty. I can't afford to be confused. Can you
please help me explain what I did wrong and what
are the norms I do work? But you can call me.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
Call me.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
I think I added my credit card to my iPhone wallet.
I want I don't want my credit cards on anything
on the iPhone. Ellia, Okay, so things just breaking this down.
Number one, I don't think that this is a Google
storage issue with Google slides and Google sheets. Editing a
Google slide or a Google sheet unless these things are

(29:12):
dozens and dozens of gigabytes big, there's no way that
you're out of space and not able to manipulate those
Google slides and Google sheets. So that's number one. I
think it sounds like maybe you are out of space
on your on your iPhone and then the year's charge
of nineteen ninety nine. I'm not even sure where that

(29:35):
comes from, because like on Google, for instance, if we
go to storage, the plans. I'm trying to see if
I can downgrade. Can they don't even give me the
option to downgrade my storage. Wow, I don't even know
if they have a plan. That's twenty dollars for the year.

(29:58):
So anyway, bottom line, I think number one do this.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
So go to.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Go to one dot Google dot com. Okay, So once
you're there, this will help you manage your Google Drive plan.
So I want you to go there. On the left
hand side, it says storage. I want you to see
how much storage you're using. So, for instance, I have
five terabytes of storage. It's telling me I'm using two
point one of my five terabytes. And breaking it down further,

(30:25):
I've got one hundred and twenty five gigs in Google Drive,
thirty three gigs in Gmail, which is an outrageous amount
that needs to be lessened. Then I have two terabytes
in Google Photos and three ge a third of a
gigabyte in my recorder app. So if you scroll down
a little bit, it says free up account storage, and
now you can go through and free up some of

(30:46):
the account storage that you have. And what I would
do especially is empty the trash where it says deleted
files in your Google drive. I would empty that trash.
Now that will give you enough storage to work through
these Google slides and Google sheets. Now you have to
figure out where this twenty dollars went. So I think
it went to iCloud storage, if I had to guess,

(31:08):
But I'm not even sure they have a twenty dollars
yearly plan.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
I'm not really sure.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
But you can go into your subscriptions on the iPhone
and to get there, just go into your settings and
then your iCloud, which is up at the top, and
then it should say subscriptions and see if you have
any active subscriptions, and if you need to, you can
cancel those. But it sounds like you've got a couple
of things going on here, and I know you're saying
you're confused, and I totally understand this because cloud storage

(31:34):
is one of these things where it is the trickiest
thing that I deal with myself, personally, other people, family members,
because think about it. You've got your phone, which has
a number a certain number of gigabytes. Then you've got
cloud storage, which has a certain number of gigabytes. But
then you have to work to maintain both of those

(31:56):
storage mediums, so that let's say you have an iphe
that has a sixty four gigabyte limit, but then your
Google Drive or your iCloud has you know, two fifty six,
and you're like, well, I still have storage. I don't understand,
well that storage is living in the cloud and anything
that's on your phone is still taking up kind of
both those places depending on how you have it set up.

(32:16):
And so that's why you kind of have to go
to the source on these things. I think iCloud is
really really tricky with storage because they don't really give you,
from what I can tell, a very good way of
managing it. But you know, you just have to go
through and just kind of go through and see what's
taking up the storage on your phone and then in
your in your cloud drives, and then that way you

(32:36):
can kind of organize things and get them to a
place where you're not overpaying. Right now, I'm overpaying every
single month, even though it's you know whatever, it is,
three bucks a month, But there's no reason for me
to pay that.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
I'm paying twenty five.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Dollars for Google Cloud storage for five terabytes. There's no
reason why I need another two hundred on my iPhone.
But somehow, I do because if I want to back
up my iPhone, I need that storage across for the
two iPhones in my house. So it's very tricky, and
I totally understand that you're having trouble with it, and
I don't think that you are. You know, you're lesser

(33:12):
in any way because of this Elia, because believe me,
it is something that is I think. I don't want
to say they make it confusing, but it's confusing, and
I get it. Twenty bucks a year not that much.
But the reality is, why should we have to pay
for anything if we don't need it, or if it's extra,
or if it's duplicated. So good question, and hopefully you
get that figured out.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Let's see here this is a iCloud for Windows.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
According to nine to five Mac, the app has been
updated with a password generator and then support for two
formats from the iPhone pro raw and pro res. So
previously you could use the iCloud utility on your PC
to copy and paste passwords that you created on your iPhone.

(33:58):
Well now you can actually use it to generate passwords,
and so that's kind of cool. I I mean, I
guess this is a step towards using iCloud password manager
or whatever they call it on the iPhone and also
with a Windows computer. But personally, if I was doing that,
I would go with a third party, non platforms specific

(34:20):
app like I said earlier, Bitwarden, or a dash lane
or a last pass these also, these all work nicely
on both platforms. Now, like I said, nine to five,
Mac is reporting that the iCloud utility for Windows is
getting better at helping.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
You use this feature on Windows.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
But again with Apple stuff, almost everything besides their own
ecosystem is sort of an afterthought. And so if you
look at storing your your photos in iCloud, which is great.
iCloud is nice. It's your photos are on your phone,
but it's only good if you use an iPhone only.
So that's why I use Google Photos because I like

(34:57):
to see my photos on any device that I log into,
and the same goes for Amazon Photos. You can use
that on iPhone, you can use it on Apple, you
can use it on your certain TVs, just depends which one.
But you know, Apple stuff is mostly geared towards Apple users,
and yes they throw your bone every once in a
while like this, but it's not ideal and Anyway, what

(35:20):
I'm saying is it's nice that if you started using
the iCloud password system on your iPhone and you were
kind of frustrated with a computer system on your Windows computer,
it does help that now this is available, so update
that app and now you can generate passwords there, all right,

(35:40):
Derek writes in Rich do you recommend doing a complete
factory reset of a Sony TV before giving it away
to a friend? Or is it okay to just sign
out of the Google account, delete my installed apps, and
do a system data reset instead. Have a tremendous day, Derek. Derek,
if you listen to this show at all, you know

(36:01):
what I'm gonna say. You do the complete factory reset.
And the reason I would do that is because why
do you want things lingering any of your personal information?
If you miss something, it can linger now the way
that these TVs are set up, I would I would
venture to say that when you sign out of the
Google account, it would kind of bring it back to
a place where the next person can use it. But

(36:23):
you just don't know, and why are you gonna take
that chance? And also, over the years of having this TV,
you might have changed some settings you might have changed
the way the audio format works, or the output or
the picture or the screen like you might have adjusted
contrast and different color portions or the color What am

(36:44):
I trying to say, you know, like the color sliders right.
You might have adjusted the output, you might have renamed
the HDMI inputs.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Whatever you did, it's nice.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
That you're giving this sony TV away to a friend,
but don't burden them with all of your old settings.
So go ahead, do a complete factory reset, and that
way you know your WiFi is disconnected from it. But
before you do that, I would just check to see
if there's a software update for this TV and that
might save your friends some hassles or headaches when they
go to set it up again, because it'll you know,

(37:14):
it just makes the.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Process a little bit smoother.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
But yes, always, when you're giving a gadget away to anyone,
complete factory reset is the best way to do it.
Make sure that everything is gone and it's back to
that screen that says hello or welcome or whatever it is.
In fact, this is a major issue for myself, who
is constantly going through gadgets with you know, these these

(37:37):
test gadgets that I get you know before I send
them back A lot of times, you know, it's it's
kind of a process to get these things back into
like you know, either the box or either the factory
you know reset, and I have to sit there and
like it takes me on a Saturday, like, you know,
especially if it's an older gadget that I haven't used
in a while, I have to plug it in.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
I've got to charge it.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
I've got to make sure, you know, if it's like
a streaming stick, I got to connect it to the
t make sure that I can you know, you know,
get the HDMI connected and like make sure I can go.
I mean, it's a process sometimes, so I get it.
But in the end, you always want to protect your
personal privacy and so or your personal data and privacy.
So Derek definitely definitely do the complete factory reset. That's

(38:19):
gonna be the best way to do it, all right.
So this is a really cool feature and something that
I'm surprised nobody else has done. But on Prime Video.
According to Amazon, they now have a new clip sharing feature.
And this is very simple. If you see something that

(38:40):
you like in a show, like a funny joke they made,
or a funny just anything, anything that you like, you
can make a thirty second clip of that and share
it out to social media. And this can be done
right from your phone. And this is a Prime Video
exclusive only on iOS right now, and they call it.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Let's see does it have a name.

Speaker 1 (39:03):
With x ray technology, Prime Video customers can now share
their favorite clips from select Amazon original series with friends
and family on social media or via direct message. So
what I'm guessing this does, because I've not tested this myself,
I'm guessing I'm trying to figure out if this actually

(39:23):
gives you like the video. I think it does just
kind of fascinating to me. Like, so they don't mind
if it's a thirty second I guess it's thirty second clip.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
I mean if it gets the name or this show's.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
Name out there, then why not, right? And So it's
funny because I did this the other day with my sister.
I was watching a show and they made a joke
about vegans and my sister's vegan, and so I just
recorded my TV screen. It was just, you know, fifteen
second joke and I sent it to her and this
is exactly what I did. So now I think people

(39:56):
are still going to do that because it's just easier.
But this is kind of nice that for social media purposes.
You know, I probably wouldn't share something that I recorded
off the screen.

Speaker 2 (40:05):
On social media.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Maybe I would, I'm not really sure, but you know,
or if there's like an award show, you can clip it.
But this is thirty seconds, and so all you have
to do once you're on the show, you.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Just hit pause, you hit share a clip.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
It'll make a thirty second clip of what you just watched,
and you can fine tune it so you can say,
you know, I want a couple seconds before, a couple
seconds after, but it's only thirty seconds that you get
so and then it looks like it puts a watermark
of both Prime Video and the name of the show
on the video clip. And then once you're ready to share,
just hit share and you can upload it. Oh so yeah,
it's like a it's a full video. You can upload

(40:39):
it to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, I Message, WhatsApp and more. Now,
this only works for a couple of shows right now.
The Boys, which I haven't seen, The Wild which I
haven't seen, Invincible, which I haven't seen. In Fairfax. With
more original Amazon movies and series to follow. So I
think this is one hundred percent brilliant thinking outside the

(41:00):
by Amazon, and I think that Netflix should steal this
feature immediately because or this should become a standard feature
of any of any streaming service, because there's so many
little shareable moments that are funny or interesting or you
want to say for later or share with your friends,
that this is just a no no brainer way to

(41:22):
let people do this in a way that does not infringe.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
On copyright or you know whatever, whatever whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
That was that was weird. I'm like, ah, copy, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Dan says, hello, Rich, is there a device or app
that can translate foreign language TV shows or films in
that can plug into my TV or install my phone?
My wife is watching a Turkish show and he says
the name which I can't pronounce, and not all shows
episodes have English subtitles in YouTube. Thank you for being
trying to be a hero for my wife. Thank you, Dan, Dan.

(42:00):
I would recommend two things. Now, you sent this from
your iPhone, so I would say, on the iPhone, just
use the translate app. So there's a built in translate
app now on iPhone you can try that, and it's
not gonna install on your TV. But what your wife
would do is just kind of prop up her phone
underneath the show and it can listen to what's happening

(42:20):
on TV and translate that in real time. Now, I
haven't had enough experience with the app on the translate
app on the iPhone to actually know if it does
exactly what I'm talking about, but I think on if
you want, you can also try downloading Google's translate app,
and that is available for the iPhone and try the

(42:42):
same thing.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Just leave it open. You know, there's like a mic
button you can leave it open.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
Now.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
I don't know how long these apps are going to
let you translate for free, but that is, you know,
that's the question here. But that's one way of trying
to do it. And maybe if she can just get
some of the show or you know whatever, that will work.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
Now.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
The other thing is there's a feature on Android called
live caption and it actually works in like several languages now,
and that is another option, but you'd have to go.
I think it's just available on the Pixel six or
the or the pixel lineup, I should say, but I'm
not really sure. So that's another option. But that's a,
that's a pretty amazing option. Oh wait, I just thought

(43:20):
of another option. On Chrome. There is an option, oh
but I think it's for English only, But there is
a There is an option under Advanced and Accessibility. Yeah,
it's called live caption. And if you go into Chrome
Options Accessibility and then live Caption, turn that on. This

(43:42):
is pretty powerful and it's pretty amazing. It will live
caption anything any video that is playing on your computer.
And yes, it would work with YouTube videos, but it's
only for English, so it would not work in this
in this setting for a Turkish.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
Let's say, you know they oh gosh, yeah Turkish.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
So I would say, Now, the funny thing is Google
came out with this feature on the Android side of things,
that you know, on the pixel that does support more
languages with that live caption, So I can only I
can only imagine that it's just a matter of time
before this makes its way into more places. The live
caption feature was on Androids for a long time before

(44:27):
it came to Chrome, so I think that it's probably
I would say, another couple months, maybe a year before
this makes it fully to Chrome, where anything you watch
can be translated into any language that you need, so
good question there, and hopefully you are a hero to
your wife no matter what. All right, best and more

(44:47):
states for ev charging. So what can I say? I
have been talking about the Tesla on the podcast, and
I will say I still one hundred percent absolutely infatuated
with this car.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
It's the best car I've ever had. I will say
the fit and finish of the Tesla is definitely not
the best compared to other cars I've had, but it
is overall the experience of driving, of using it, of
not having to go to the gas station is pretty phenomenal.
And it's funny because there's a little debate on Twitter about,

(45:21):
you know, how expensive gas prices are, and people were saying,
you know, why would you ever drive a gas car
when you can get an electric car? And here's the thing,
Like I understand the fact that you do not buy
a brand new electric car to save money on gas
number one, just because you're putting out all this new
money on this new car, that is negating any sort

(45:44):
of savings you might have with electricity. So for instance,
for me, you know, not only was a car expensive,
but then I had to pay it was like total
about fifteen hundred bucks to get the charger installed for
the car, and so right there, if you do the math,
I was not. I mean, was I spending two let's see,

(46:05):
fifteen hundred dollars times divided by twelve months, that's one
hundred and twenty five dollars a month. So yeah, maybe
I was spending that much on gas, but I don't
think I was. I think I was spending closer to
like forty or you'll say, eighty a month on gas
for my car because it was a pretty, you know,
gas sipping vehicle. Maybe not, but the reality is you're
not buying a Tesla or an EV for the savings

(46:29):
right now. In the future, maybe you are, and maybe
you are in the way it works out for your math,
but I think for most people that are buying it,
it is like for me personally, it was it just
felt what it just felt like what I wanted to
do in my life, like the right thing for me.
I just couldn't see myself getting another gas powered car

(46:50):
because I live in Los Angeles mostly I commute. You know,
I don't want to contribute to any problems happening with gas,
Nor did I like the the progress of our gas
prices here in Los Angeles, and so I just said,
you know what, I'm doing it and I'm making the switch.
And did I save any money in the process. I
don't think so. But do I feel great about it?

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Yes? And do I love it? Of course?

Speaker 1 (47:13):
And have I had to pay for charging like a
total of three times only?

Speaker 2 (47:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
So I think that this whole idea of buying an
EV to like, you know, avoid gas prices, maybe in
the long term it is true. I don't know, But
I'm just saying, like, there's always this debate, and I
just don't think it's that.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
I don't think it's that clear cut. For most people.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
They're not going out there to buy an EV and like, oh,
just buy a Tesla and you can avoid gas. Like, No,
most people can't do that. So most people, if they
have their car, they want to stick with it.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
I mean I do.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
I want to stick with my car as long as
possible to save the most money. So anyway, with all
that said, that's kind of a side note to this
next story, the best and worst US states for EV charging.
The reason I say this is because here in California,
EV's are so easy, like it's almost a no brainer,
But if I in a different state, I would probably
have a little bit of pause before I got an EV.

(48:04):
And the reason is because there are some trade offs.
Like so, for instance, we went to San Diego last
weekend and we went to our friend's house, and you know,
I had to check where a charger was near their
friend's house because I knew when we got down there
we'd be on empty.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
And so it turns out.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
There was a supercharger literally at the shopping mall near
their house, and it was so easy to charge.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
It was just it was so simple.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
Now on the flip side, yeah, when you charge your car,
what do you do if it's in one of these
shopping malls. You go in and you spend money. And
I don't like that aspect because we did do that,
and while our car was charging, you know, we went
in and we spent you know, a couple of bucks
at the store.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
And well, it wasn't a couple of bucks. It was
it was like over one hundred bucks.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
And so if I would have just gassed up my car,
we would have maybe spent five bucks on snacks at
the gas station and you'd go. So that's one of
the downsides is that you're always like, you know, you
have this time to burn and what do you do?
You end up going in a store and what are
they doing. They're building a lot of these chargers outside
stores and restaurants just for that reason. So maybe you
have more willpower, maybe you can sit in the car

(49:09):
and watch Netflix.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
I can't.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
I've also have kids, so we walked around whatever anyway.
States with the most electric This is according to Electric
Electric the website, which is a great website for all
stuff ev Let's see number one. States with the most
electric vehicles per public charging port. States with the most
electric vehicles per public charging port is Arizona, Hawaii, Washington State,

(49:34):
So that means that there's a lot of electric vehicles
per port. States with the least evis per charge port
or sorry, the best states for public charging points based
on mileage is Washington, DC, California, and Hawaii. That's really surprising.
I would not think. Maybe that's I don't know, but

(49:57):
the top three states for chargers are California and New
York and Florida, and of course those are just like
huge states.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
And then.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
California and Florida have the most registered evs. Texas comes
in third. Alaska has the fewest number of EV charging outlets,
followed by the Dakotas. Wyoming and Montana don't have very
much either, but California is pretty much number one in
every category. So if you want to cross the board,

(50:26):
I mean, it's just they're apparently, according to this table,
they've got fourteen million electric cars. And again, this is
another thing that you realize you when you have an
electric car. Right now, it's all very novel, right you
go to the store, you find little charger, you plug
your car in.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
It's so great, you don't have to wait. But as these.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
Things take off, there is going to be a bigger
impact on the grid, on the systems, on the chargers,
on you know all those parking spots right now that
are in the front of the store, because you know,
you got your charger spot, your EV only parking. But
I don't know how far out we are, but it's
it is fun though.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
Right now.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
It's fun, I will that's the best way I can
describe it. It's just fun. It's it's an adventure. And
I tweeted this today, but it kind of reminds me
of when I got the first iPhone because it was
such a departure from every other smartphone I ever had.
Every day using it was an adventure. The way it worked,
the way it sounded, the way you could do things

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on the screen, the way you could read the newspaper
on there, the way you could stream stuff, the way
you could watch media, the way you can make phone calls,
the way it did all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
You could run. Maybe you couldn't run with it at
that point.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
But there's just so many like little easter eggs every
day that you're discovering. And that's the same way I
feel about the electric car. And so it's fun right now,
but there will come a point where it's like the iPhone,
it's like standard issue.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
Everyone has one.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
I mean I say that in a way that you
know a lot of people have smartphones now, and so
it's not so novel when you see someone pull out
a smartphone at a table and you're like, ooh, ooh,
show me the cool features, because it's just we all
know what the deal is.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
Let's see.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
That's it for that story. But I thought that was interesting.
And by the way, the first iPhone, if you had one,
you might remember this, but it was a nightmare nightmare,
mikenightmare for making phone calls.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
It was so bad, so bad, it.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
Dropped every single call and never forgot walking down the
street to my dentist. And I think I mentioned this
on the podcast once before. I was talking to my
best friend and I was saying, you know, I got
the new iPhone. Can you believe it? He goes, Dude,
I can't understand a word you're saying. You're breaking up
so bad. This was back when it was on AT
and t's brand new or I don't know, it was
on some sort of AT and T network.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
It was an exclusive and it was just.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
So bad that it was so horrendous to use as
an actual phone. Everything else was great, but the phone
calls were just so bad. But that's all been fixed now,
all right. Final story of the podcast Peloton. I don't
know if you heard. They were kind of battered in
the last week with their earnings and their projections. This

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is not CNBC, so I'm not going to get into that.
But the bottom line is that, yeah, Peloton had a
moment during the pandemic where people realized they wanted to
work out at home, and demand went through the roof
and popularity went through the roof, and now that people
are going back to the gyms, you know, Peloton is
still doing well. And I still think that Peloton made
a huge impact in our world. But they're just not

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going to sell as many bikes going forward or according
to their projections, nor did they sell that many in
the past couple of months. So do I think that
this means the end of Peloton. Absolutely not. Peloton got
us through through the entire pandemic, even though I used
it on my bowflex. I used the digital classes and
it was amazing, and I still think the instructors are amazing.

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I think what they're building is really cool, and it
might be a little bit slower than what everyone else wants.
I also think they're an acquisition target because you know,
another bigger fitness company might come through and purchase them,
or consolidate a couple of different types of fitness machines
into one. But anyway, so Peloton has a new device
called the Peloton Guide. This is a five hundred dollars

(54:10):
The best way I can describe it is it's a
camera that you put underneath your TV. Kind of looks
like the remote from the Google Chrome Cast TV. It
kind of reminds me of the Microsoft Connect from the Xbox.
And this uses machine learning to track your progress and movements.
So not only does it watch how you exercise and

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give you feedback on that, but it also helps you
figure out which muscles you've worked and recommend other muscle
groups that you need to work. It's voice activated, it's
got a camera on it, but of course there is
the privacy slider so that you can turn it off
at anytime. There's also a heart rate band that goes
along with it. So the thing here is that Peloton

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is trying to create a world where you don't just
follow along on the TV with these workouts, but you're
actively getting artificial intelligence feedback on your workout exactly what
a what a trainer would do in real life. They
would say, rich, you know, you gotta squat a little
bit deeper, or you gotta, you know, do this, move

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your arm this way, or make sure you don't bend
your back, whatever the trainer would say.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
In real life.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
That would be the goal of this new device.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
When is it arriving, I don't know when is it arriving.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
I don't know when it's arriving. In twenty early twenty
twenty two, so that's coming soon.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
I think it's cool.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
Five hundred dollars is very expensive, but we'll see. I mean,
peloton stuff is not cheap. Incidentally to other things about
the fitness stuff. Number one, I tested an app that
was just like this and it's called on how do
you say onx O n y x onyx And it
exactly if you want to try this out, you can

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download this app for your iPhone and you can see
it use the camera to monitor exactly how you're working out,
and it will give you feedback in real time, and
it's actually pretty amazing.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
I'll put it in the show notes.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
And the other thing is that I tested this thing
called climber CLMBR and it's a vertical climbing machine and
it's like a Peloton but for vertical climbing. And I
got to say, all I have to say is ubsessed.
And I told my wife, I'm like, I think I
want to buy one of these, even though it's too expensive.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
It's twenty eight hundred bucks, but I really really want one.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
And it's just the full body workout that I got
from it was just phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
And that's a startup.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
But It's always a little scary to spend twenty eight
hundred bucks on a startups product because you know, are
they going to be around in a year or two
and then this twenty eight hundred dollars product could be
a brick. And I'm not saying that's going to happen
with this company, but you just never know.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
All right, that's going to do it for this episode
of the show.

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