Chromecast with Google TV hopes to organize streaming confusion

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Google has a bunch of new gadgets, a rundown of
the new Chrome, cast, Pixel and smart speaker, Facebook Messenger
comes to Instagram, a fun free new Nintendo game, plus
your tech questions answered.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
What's going On?

Speaker 1 (00:27):
I'm Rich Damiro and this is Rich on Tech, the
podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think
you should know about. It's also the place where I
answer the questions that you send me What's going on?
My name is Rich Damiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel
five in Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Did I just say what's going on? Twice in a row?
I must really want to know.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
What's going on? But I do want to know what's
going on because there's a lot going on. I mean,
this is the wildest time in history, right. I mean,
we're all stuck at home, we're working from home. You know,
the news cycle is just like you can't write this stuff.
I mean, it's really pretty wild. But when it comes

(01:08):
to tech, man, oh man, oh man, there have been
so many new gadgets. I can barely keep up. I mean,
we had Google this week, we have I mean, there's
just so many things coming out. We still haven't even
gotten to the main event. Which is the iPhone, the
iPhone twelve. That's still by the time you listen to this,

(01:30):
maybe we'll have heard something about when the event is.
But I mean, we just got through like Apple Watch
and new iPads and now we've got all this Google
stuff and new Samsung. Samsung just keeps coming out with
the phone every week.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
It's a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
I just love seeing the innovation, and it's gotten to
a point where it takes a lot to be innovative
at this point because these gadgets do what we need
and I almost need like a reason to change out
my TV or my internet. Oh yeah, euro came out
the new Internet, the Wi Fi six one. I don't
know if you notice, by the way, I've been doing
some bonus episodes. So my idea with the bonus episodes

(02:07):
is to do interviews with folks that I find interesting
that can you know, add some perspective to the various gadgets,
you know, kind of take a deeper dive into things.
And so you might have seen the or heard the
one with Roku. Also, I did one with the new
Nest audio speaker, so I talked to the head on that.

(02:28):
So I mean it's been really fun. I love that
kind of stuff because if I'm into something, I want
to know. I want to absorb as much information as
I can about that thing. And so when I do
these deep dive interviews. For me, if I have a
Roku or any other gadget, I want to hear what
the people behind that gadget have to say in a
much longer form than just, you know, a SoundBite or

(02:50):
a press release or just you know.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
So anyway, I love doing those.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Let me know what you think of them at rich
on tech on Twitter or Instagram or Facebook or whatever.
But I'm going to keep them coming. You're listening to them,
I mean I could tell because of the numbers, so
that's good. But just tell me what you think of those,
and if you have any ideas for who you want
me to actually talk to. Right now, it's been just
kind of like new gadget people, but I was thinking
of just making it sort of a ten minute interview

(03:13):
every week with someone or something that I find interesting.
So I'll keep doing those until you tell me to stop.
But let's get to the top story of the week.
And Google had their launch night in Google launched a
whole bunch of new products. Was it the most exciting event. No,
definitely not. It was It was almost like just watching

(03:34):
a YouTube.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Video, which was kind of weird.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
The way they shot it, the way they did it,
there was no real cohesive like manner to it. But
that's fine. I mean everyone's trying these things or trying
to be different, trying to do it in their own way,
so I don't fault Google for that. I mean, these
are this is some Really it's different than standing up
on a stage and presenting something when you're you know,
if it's not live, you can do things in different ways.

(03:59):
So anyway, the event was fine. They sent a whole
bunch of stuff to a journalist. It was like a
little box of like stuff to use while you watch
the show, which, by the way, they called it Launch
Night In and it was at eleven and I kept
wondering if it was eleven PM, because why would you
call it Launch night In when it's eleven am. So

(04:19):
that really confused me. But I got there, I was
on time, watched the video, and they sent like a
pair of Google socks. They sent some coffee, they sent
some candy and a candle which actually smells really good.
Hold on, I've got it. Right here smells like a
cozy night in. Oh it's cedar wood. Okay, that's well.
I've decided that I really like the smell of cedar wood.

(04:42):
I had this thing burning in my office yesterday and
my kid came in and he goes, wow, why is
your office smell so good? And I said it's this candle.
They said, oh, wow, your office has got a candle now.
So I anyway, if you like cedarwood, go smell one
of those at your local wherever you buy candles these days. Yes,
it's bed, Bath and Beyond still the thing, or what's

(05:03):
that other one?

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Bath and body works?

Speaker 1 (05:04):
But what's the one in the mall They have the
really good scented candles there. I always like to go,
like once a year, I'll be in the mall and
I'll stop there and I'll just buy like all those
soaps and all the and so for like a couple
months or weeks. In our house, everything smells really good.
The soaps are really like good smelling, and then.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
We forget about it.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Okay, So, I think the most exciting thing about the
Google event was actually not the pixel but the Chrome
cast with Google TV. This is their brand new streaming device.
It's fifty bucks, and it seems to kind of hit
all of the things that I've wanted, which it really

(05:43):
frustrates me. I use an Apple TV on my primary TV,
and I think it's just okay. What I like about
it is that every app is on there. The apps
work really nice. The remote is horrible. I mean it's horrendous.
It gets lost all the time. There's no way to
find it's just the moving around on the touch area

(06:03):
is just terrible. And it's just okay. It's like my
least favorite Apple experience. It's like it just works, you know.
The screen savers are great, but since I don't use
Apple Photos, I don't get my own pictures in there,
so that really annoys me. And so this Chrome Cast
with Google TV is very intriguing because it brings together
two things that I love, the Google Assistant, a watch list,

(06:27):
a remote control, and my own Google Photos as a
screen saver when I'm not using my TV. So this
device is a tiny you know, it's like a Chrome Cast.
It's a dongle that plugs into the back of your
TV and then it has remote control and so it
does four k HDR sixty. It also supports HDMI pass

(06:49):
through of Dolby audio content. It has that remote control,
which has the buttons you need. It's got the volume buttons,
it's got the input buttons, it's got the void assistant button.
It's got YouTube and Netflix, which I don't like. I
don't like how they're pulling a Roku on me by
giving me two branded buttons.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
And I get it.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Netflix, Okay, everyone watches Netflix.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
YouTube.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
It's probably not something I would have wanted on there
because my kids are like addicted to YouTube and that's
of course what they're going to go to. So I
hope I can set some restrictions on that. But you know,
give us the old Google would have given us two
buttons that we could have programmed in. But you know,
the new Google and all these other tech companies are
all about deals. And you know that they got money

(07:34):
from Netflix or there's some sort of deal signed and YouTube.
You know there's some sort of deal there. Obviously they
own it, but you know it's like, come on, why
does everyone It's not one size fits all Google, and
you know that this is not the Google that we
used to know. That's something that Apple would probably do
or something that you know Roku pioneered, but Google, come on,

(07:55):
But that's that's the world we live in now. So
what's unique about this service is that they're trying to
make a watch list that works across all of your
streaming services. So you know how frustrating it is when
you sit down. I go into Hulu and I pop
through there and see what's on there. I go into
Amazon Prime and I pop into there and see what's
playing on there. I go into Netflix, see what's playing

(08:16):
on there. It's a very frustrating and really slow process
to find something to watch.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Well, this is.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Doing much more broad categories like horror movies. It'll show
you movies across all the different services on the home screen.
And I'm just making that up, but that's kind of
what their idea is. So that's really cool. So it'd
be like Halloween and by the way, at the bottom
it'll say HBO Max, Oh cool, I have that, let
me pop in there. So that's really neat. It works
with a bunch of apps. YouTube, Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu,

(08:43):
HBO Max Prime Video are the ones they mentioned. Those
are the pretty popular big ones. The one I noticed.
I don't think it's gonna work for right off the
bat is Apple TV. Now I've only watched one show
on there, which was The Morning Show, so I'm not
too worried about that losing that if I switched to this,
which I probably am this weekend, so you know, maybe
I'll just have to watch like I was gonna watch

(09:03):
Greyhound and I went to Bookmarket on the new Google
TV app on my watch list and I couldn't. And
that's the other cool thing about this. They're making a
universal watch list. So now I used to use that
app called real Good or I use that app called
real Good, and that works, you know, across everything, but
you still have to go in and like look at
it and then go to your device and find it.

(09:23):
But with this, you can use the Google TV app
on your phone or just Google add things to your
watch list and they show up on your TV screen.
So I think this sounds really, really awesome. You've got
the slideshow of your Google photos when you're not using
the device, which is really awesome for me because I
love that feature. You can also do Google Meet on

(09:44):
Chrome Cast, which is kind of cool, and of course
it just works as a Chrome cast as well.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
This is fifty dollars.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
I think, and according to some of the early reviews,
they did not send me a review unit, but some
of the early reviews are really saying this thing is awesome.
Not as customizable as you'd like for the home screen,
but you know again, I ordered mine from best Buy.
I'm getting it today, I'm setting it up immediately. I'm
a switch. Of course, my whole family over to this.
They're gonna hate me for it, but I am very

(10:12):
excited for this device. I think that it's Google's best
chance at kind of making some sense out of the
streaming TV landscape, and if anyone can do that, it
is Google. Now, don't forget. Apple TV has a very
similar feature with their what is it? What do they
call it? Like Apple TV up next I think is

(10:33):
what they call it. The problem is not many people
use Apple TV up next requires the use of an
Apple device to add stuff to it. It's not perfect,
and in my case, I've never really used it because
it just doesn't really work for my workflow. But this
Google watch list will really work for me. And plus
you have Google Assistant, you can just say what should

(10:54):
I watch? So I think that this is like I
don't know, I have very very high hopes for this
Google TV, and I'll have more about that as I
test it. All Right, let's get to the first question,
and just FYI little housekeeping note. It will be me

(11:15):
doing the questions from now on or a special guest.
I'm not gonna do the computer thing. I didn't like
that last week. I decided it was kind of gross.
But it will be me going forward doing the questions.
I may have folks start sending in voicemails for the questions,
or I was thinking I might branch the podcast to
where I just talk about the tech stuff and then

(11:35):
I do like an hour or two on Facebook Live
and then cut that down into a podcast where I
actually can talk back and forth with people. So I'm
trying to figure out the new direction of where to go.
You can let me know what you think, but it's
at rich on Tech. But it will be me going forward.
So that's kind of like the news is that it's

(11:59):
either gonna be me or special guest, a rotating special
guest to do the questions. So let's get to the
first question from Joyce. Joyce subject Lin says, kids phone
or watch? Have you ever tested anything for children to
keep in touch with them or know where they're at.
I'm talking younger kids. Nine years old granddaughter takes her
scooter to play at a friend's house, then takes off
to another friend's house. Thank you, Joyce, Joyce. I am

(12:21):
going to recommend the Apple Watch SE. Now, I know
this is an expensive way to keep in touch with
the kids, but I think it is the best way.
And the reason I think it's the best way is
because you're going to spend a little bit more buying
this Apple Watch. But I'm telling you it's going to
be leaps and bounds ahead of any other solution you're

(12:45):
gonna find there. And here's what people do. They ask
me for my opinion, and then they go out and
they buy the five dollars a month smart watch at
the mall and they say, real just things sucks, it's
not that good. And I say, well, I told you
to get the Apple Watch. So the thing about the
Apple Watch is that you can use with family. It's
they have that new thing called family set up. So

(13:06):
Apple Watch Family setup works with the Apple Watch Series
four and up, but you need a cellular version. It
also works works with the Apple Watch SE. So if
you have a series four and up on cellular. You
can maybe find one of those on eBay, or maybe
a family member has it, or you can purchase the

(13:27):
new Apple Watch se with cellular, and when you purchase
it with cellular, it starts at two seventy nine, but
then when you add cellular, it brings it up to
three hundred and twenty nine dollars. I don't think that's
that terrible of a price point to have your kid connected.
Now you do have to set up a service plan
with your child once you have this watch, so yes,

(13:50):
it gets a little bit more expensive. When I went
to set this up on my phone for some reason,
and I'm not sure, it's said that it was zero
dollars a month on my Verizon plan. I don't know
if that was some sort of special I didn't actually
set it up because I'm still testing this feature, but
that was interesting. But usually phones are about ten dollars
a month extra. I'm not sure what the pricing is

(14:12):
on this whole family setup thing, but that's what i'd recommend.
The only other thing that I found that even comes
close is a watch called the Dimo smart Watch. What
it or is it Dino? Sorry, it was the Dino
Dino Smartwatch from cool Pad. I'm not even sure if
they're still supporting this thing, but that was the one

(14:34):
that I tested and I thought was actually pretty cool.
It's from Coolpad Dino Kids dot Com. This one is
sixty dollars and you of course have to buy the
plan with that as well. It runs on the T
Mobile network. But I thought this one was pretty cool.
It's just the software that kind of is not very good.
And this is what I'm saying. With Apple, You're gonna
get fantastic software, fantastic support, every app. You can imagine

(14:59):
features that are written for this device that Apple has
thought of for a child, and so you'll be able
to keep track of them, You'll be able to see
where they go, you'll be able to call them, message them.
I think it's the absolute best solution you can think of,
and that's what I would go with.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Joyce.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
You want my opinion, you're gonna get it here on
the rich On Tech Show. All right, let's move on
to the second most important. It's funny because the things
I think people are gonna buy the most of at
the Google announcement are the speaker and the phone and
the Chrome cast. But I'll go with the phone because
I do think this is a big announcement in the

(15:36):
scheme of things. So they announced two new phones, the
Pixel five and the Pixel four to a with five
and both of these have five G. So let's go.
Let's go over the Pixel five. This is kind of
their top of the line Google phone. Five G connectivity,
water resistant, wireless, charging, four thousand million our battery.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Which is not that good.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Because we know that the battery life on the last
Pixel was horrendous, so let's hope that this one lasts.
It's got eight gigabytes of RAM one, twenty eight gigs
of storage, a six inch full HD plus o LED
smooth display, which that means it's got ability to go
ninety hertz refresh rate. It's got this qualcump Snapdragon seven

(16:22):
to sixty five G, which is not the top of
the line. The top of the line is the what
I said, the eight sixty five or the whatever it is.
It's something in the eights and it's that's the main chip.
This is a lower end chip, which I'm not gonna
fault them Ford just yet. And then it's got the
rear camera. It's got twelve megapixels, and then a sixteen
megapixel ultra wide, so yes, we finally got an ultra

(16:45):
wide on the Pixel. And then it's got night Site
Live HDR plus, which they said they improved, a cinematic
pan feature, which is a video feature that makes your
videos look more Hollywood style with like nice panning, like
pretty much what Apple does on the iPhone, Like when
you take video on that phone, it.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Just looks like it just looks beautiful.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
And then you've got the ultra wide, portrait light, stereo speakers,
and USB C and the interesting thing on the Pixel
four A with five g you drop down to a
small a bigger screen, actually the same processor. You still
get the ultra wide and you get a three point
five millimeters audio jack. So what don't you get with

(17:26):
the four A? Uh, you get let's see, you don't
get the ninety hurts. You still get the same Oh
it's six gigs, a RAM, one hundred and twenty eight
gigs of storage, a smaller battery.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
But here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
I think the four A is probably gonna be best
for most people because it's got that audio jack and
you know, most of the features you need. The Pixel five,
which I kind of want to be my next phone,
I think I'm gonna switch. I think I've got this
crazy plan. Okay, I'll tell you what my plan is.
Because my plan is to activate my Apple Watch because

(17:59):
I can't live without that on my wife's phone under
family setup, and then use the Pixel five as my phone. Now,
what I'm not gonna get are my text messages and
notifications as many to the watch, but I'll still have
my running and my music on there. But I'll still
get the Pixel five day to day. Now, if I

(18:20):
try this Pixel five and I find that it's super
not fast like the Pixel four.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Is, just it's not.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
It just doesn't keep up with like the main phones
out there, like I'm using all these phones that are
so good.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
So anyways, that's my plan.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
This thing is, by the way, six hundred and ninety
nine dollars for the Pixel five, the Pixel four A.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
For a five G is let's see how much that
one is? They did?

Speaker 1 (18:49):
They say the price on that that is two hundred
dollars less, so five hundred bucks, five hundred dollars. That
is going to be the for most people.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Right there.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
You get the five G, you get the amazing camera
set up, and I think that Google, and this is
what a lot of people are saying, not just me,
but Google has kind of given up that that top
of the line.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
If you want top of the line at this point, you.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Got to go with one of the Samsung Ultras or
the iPhone you know pro that's those are the top
of the line phones. That's that's the bottom line. This
is for everyone else. And I'll be honest, I don't
think ninety nine percent of people need the two phones
I just mentioned. Nobody needs this Samsung Ultra unless you're
an influencer or an early adopter or got to have

(19:35):
the latest, greatest, best.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Thing out there.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
Most people need just a nice phone, and I think
what Google has done with the Pixel four A with
five gs made a really nice phone. Now, given I
have not tested it, I need to test this thing
out and see if it works day to day, but
I think it will for someone that just wants a
really nice experience and a good camera. Same thing with
the Samsung. I'll talk about this in a moment, but

(20:01):
the Samsung S twenty f it was fe fan edition.
That's a really nice phone and that. But I honestly,
I think that the Pixel four A with five G
is gonna be better than that, or better choice, or
the Pixel five for the same price.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
So again, unless.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
You're an influencer you make a living making videos all
this good stuff, these phones are gonna be pretty awesome
for you. Oh that was a big pop pop I
thought this had a pop thing in it.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
I thought this.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
I thought I didn't need a pop screen. I thought
this Mike pop pop pop pop pop. Maybe it's just
when I do a certain thing. Uh okay, what else
do you need to know about these phones? Pixel five
has IP sixty eight water and dust resistance. They don't
mention that with the Pixel four A, So I'm wondering
if that doesn't have it. Mmm, that would be not

(20:51):
so nice. But you know who's dunking their phone anyway?
How many times do you get your phone wet? I mean,
it's nice to have, but uh okay. The other feature
they have on these phone is called hold for Me.
It's a cool feature Google Assistant. You know they're building
all these smarts into it, but Google Assistant, if you're
on hold with a company, it will say, hey, we
hear hold music, Can we jump in, and we'll the

(21:13):
assistant will hold on the line for you listen for
the person to pick up, and when they pick up,
it'll say hey, hey, hurry up, get over here, get
to your phone, and you can do that.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Now.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Is that much different than just leaving your phone on speakerphone?
I don't know. I mean, what's the difference to me?
That's what I do if I ever have to wait
on hold. But you know, it's Google's way of doing things.
And we'll see if it's any better. I think the assistant,
I guess we'll maybe talk to the person, maybe do
a little like pitter patter, be like, hey.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
I'm the Google assistant. I'm just I'm just here until
the you know, hold on, Hey Jim, get over here.
You got the person just picked up.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
So maybe that's what I'll do, all right, So let's
go into Bob's question. Bob says, I just saw this
phone because I got an email from slick Deals.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Is it worth it? Is it a good phone?

Speaker 1 (22:05):
I think I can trade in my Galaxy S seven
and get a good deal. I'd love your thoughts, Bob,
and he sent a link along with the Samsung unveils
Galaxy S twenty fe for every fan. So Bob, to
answer your question, I have been using the Samsung Galaxy
S twenty fan addition, and last in the last podcast,

(22:26):
I talked about how this could be my perfect phone,
and I'll be honest, it is a fantastic little device.
In fact, I think Samsung did a great job in
this device. And I can't really find any major issues
with this device.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
It's got.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
It's a six hundred and niney nine dollars device, which
it's already been on sale for five ninety nine and
like you said, Bob, you saw it for a two
hundred dollars trade in offer, and so this is a
mid range device. It's got a great screen, it's got
a nice refresh ratest, good battery life. I did test
the battery a little bit more. It's working very nicely.
I'm very happy with this device. The only thing I'm

(23:07):
missing on it is a nice case. And I think
this device is actually so good you can use it
without a case, but who wants to risk that, right,
It's got a nice grip to it, It's got a
nice feel. The camera is excellent. Is it an iPhone camera? No?

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Is it the best camera? No? But is it a
really good camera? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (23:27):
I'm loving the pictures I'm taking on this thing. I'm
not sitting there wanting more. I mean, I'm looking through
some of these shots I took at the beach and
they look fantastic. In fact, I need to tweet some
of these out.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Is it the pixel? No? And I think that many.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
People would be better served with a pixel, But I
don't think you're gonna get that same deal you're gonna
get from the pixel that you get for this phone.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Like, Samsung likes.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
To make things a certain price, and then the carriers
take over and they discount these things and they kind
of run with it. Hundred dollar six nine becomes a
three ninety nine phone, or, like you said, a one
ninety nine. So I can I can definitely one hundred
percent recommend the Galaxy S twenty Fan Edition. I think
it is a perfectly great phone for every fan, not

(24:15):
just every fan, and it's it's really a phone for
the every person. So it's just a great phone for
the every day user, and I can definitely recommend it.
All right, let's get to the next item of the week.
This is a big announcement from Facebook and they are

(24:35):
just integrating their services a little bit more. Facebook is
effectively building Facebook Messenger into Instagram. Let that sink in
for a moment. Facebook is building Facebook Messenger into Instagram.
Why are they doing this? Well, it makes a lot
of sense. It expands their reach. Let's let's be honest here,

(24:59):
there's been a a little pushback on Facebook from the
younger generation. They are not so much on Facebook anymore.
Maybe their parents are, but they're not. They're on Instagram
and they love Instagram even though they don't necessarily care
about Facebook. And what does this mean for Facebook? It
means hmmm, well, that's kind of frustrating because if let's

(25:21):
say you're on Instagram and your mom's on Facebook, well
that kind of sucks that you can't text her through Instagram.
Why don't we make these things work together? And so
that's exactly what they're doing. So you can now chat
with folks cross platforms, so to say, or cross app
so to say. So here's what's happening. You open up

(25:44):
your Instagram app, it'll say, hey, do you want messenger
inside Instagram? And you say sure, And once you do that,
there's no going back. Beware, you cannot go back to
the old Instagram experience of DMS and boringness. Once you
up grade now. Once you upgrade to Messenger, it is
a party inside Instagram. You're gonna get all kinds of

(26:06):
new features, including watch together so you can watch a
little videos together. You're gonna get disappearing messages if you
want to turn that mode on, selfie stickers, emojis, animated
message effects, gradient colors for your texts, all kinds of stuff.
It's a little circus inside your Instagram and it's gonna

(26:26):
be fun. Because Instagram was pretty boring for messaging. I
think this is awesome. I know I'm probably in a
smaller minority of opinion there, but the reason I think
it's awesome is because whatever makes it easier for me
to message folks and break away from I Message, I
am all for it. Every single person in the US

(26:51):
seems to have Instagram installed on their phone, so if
I can now message them through Instagram in a way
that seems like texting, I am all for that, and
I love I Message, but I'll be honest, it's really
frustrating that the American's reliance on I Message is just
so annoying, Like, oh, you're trying to send me a

(27:13):
picture and it comes through one tiny half megapixel because
you're sending it from an Android to my iPhone.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Or a video.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Do you ever have someone try to send a video
from an iPhone to an android? I mean, try watching that.
So if I can say, oh, I can just send
you that full res picture or a nice resolution picture
through Instagram and it's actually sent through Messenger, Oh I
can do that, that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
So I am a huge fan of this.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
I know that there's a lot of talk about Facebook
trying to wrap itself up into a tighter bundle so
that the antitrust folks can't get through to them. But
let's be honest here. Is Facebook Messenger really a dominant
messaging platform. No, No one's saying, hey, use Facebook Messenger
to message. Nobody's saying that you can only get I

(28:06):
Message if you have an Apple product.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
It only works to other Apple products.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Apple has not done anything to open up I Message
in any way to any other platform besides their own,
and it has a strong armhold on us users here
who are on the iPhone, and they love their I Message.
In fact, I would venture to say that people would
switch to an Android if they weren't so wrapped up

(28:33):
in I Message.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yes, it is the truth.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
But I also just see the bigger picture of things
in that they have built a force to be reckoned
with with I Message, and nobody can touch that here
in the US. At least outside the US, people don't
understand it. They say, why are you so obsessed with
I message? I Message? I Message? We use WhatsApp, we
use line. In Japan, we use we Chat. In China,

(28:58):
we use SMS, we use Snapchat, we use Facebook Messenger,
we use WhatsApp, we use Instagram, But no everyone here
uses I message anyway.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Just be on the lookout for that.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Was that about the Okay, I don't know where I
am right now, mine a new question, I think I am.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Let's go to Amanda.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Amanda says, I moved into an older relative's house. She
does want me to install cable right now.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
I'm assuming you mean doesn't.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
What Wi Fi product could I purchase that doesn't cost
an arm and a leg and gives me unlimited data
that you could recommend? Would appreciate any suggestions. I am
new at this.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Thanks.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Well, if she doesn't want you installing anything, you're probably
gonna have to go with a mobile hotspot. So when
it comes to mobile hotspots. I recently recently reviewed one
called the Zte max Connect. And what I like about
this device is it's unlocked. It's ninety dollars for an
unlocked device. And what this Wi Fi hotspot does is

(30:02):
it allows you to put in pretty much any SIM
card and then it will spit out a Wi Fi network.
And so ninety dollars gets you this device. Then you
have to buy the SIM and the service, and you
can do that in a few ways. You can buy
a prepaid SIM and pop it in there. What I
would do. Oh and by the way, the SIM networks
that it supports is T Mobile, metro by T Mobile, Sprint,

(30:25):
gen Mobile, Boost Mobile, Simple Mobile, Ultramobile, Red Pocket. Haven't
heard of that one, Republic Wireless, and other GSM networks.
So I mean, just find a plan that you like
that's cheap, you pop in the SIM card and there
you go, You've got WiFi. That's what I would do.
Your other option is to sign up for a mobile

(30:47):
hotspot from a carrier, But why would you do that
when you can buy this for ninety dollars unlocked and
there's no contract. You can even just go buy a
prepaid card. Even if you want to try it out,
buy the router for ninety bucks. They actually, I don't
know if they're still coming with the free plan. It
was coming with three gigs of data to try it out.
I'm not sure if it's still doing that thirty days

(31:10):
of no contract service from Gen Mobile. Maybe it does
come with that still, I'm not sure. But anyway, you know,
try it out and just see how it works.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Again.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
It's called the Zte max Connect Unlocked Mobile Wi Fi
Hotspot four g lt E GSM router MF nine two
eight up to one hundred and fifty megabits download speed,
connect up to ten devices, create a wirewland anywhere bundle.
So just search that on Google and you should find it. No,

(31:37):
you can find a link in the show notes. By
the way, do you know I link up everything in
the show notes.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
I hope you know that.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
I hope you're looking at those links because I have
no way of knowing if you're clicking those, tapping those
or whatever.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
All right, more Google News.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Let's move on to the Nest Audio speaker. Google was
kind enough to send me one of these to try out,
and uh, I can't really say my review yet. Apparently
reviews are embargoed until Monday, but I will say that
it is a very nice looking speaker. Oh well, I
guess Google search for me. It's a nice looking speaker,

(32:14):
and it replaces the original Google Home, which was just
when that thing came out. I remember going up to
that event in San Francisco when the Google Home speaker
came out.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
It blew my mind.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Because here you are Google Assistant built into a speaker
that can do all kinds of stuff. We never had
anything like that before except Alexa, but this was Google,
so I was more intrigued.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
And what do you get with this new one?

Speaker 1 (32:38):
You get better hardware, better software, a better design, whole
home audio, faster Google Assistant. They say that all these
things sound better on this. They've got this ambient IQ feature,
which means when you're using like a you know, toothbrush
or the water's running, Google a system's automatically gonna sound louder,
so you don't have to like sit there and oh

(32:59):
do I have to just the volume again because I'm
like the dishwashers running no media. IQ automatically changes the
equalization depending on what you're listening to, whether it's the
voice music or podcast music. Recommendations. You can just say
hey G, hey G, recommend some music and it will
speaker groups, which is intriguing me at this point. I'll

(33:21):
be honest, you know, I built this Sonos. I built
this Sonos world in my house over the past many years,
and I have a Sonos in pretty much every room.
And I love Sonos but and I love the one
speaker that I bought recently, which is the Go Anywhere.
It's like the it's four hundred dollars, it's like rechargeable.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
It's just great.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
But I'll be honest, and I have this Sonos Bar
which hooks up to my TV, and then I've got
the two speakers paired behind that for stereo sound. But
I am really intrigued with kind of using these these
Google speakers throughout my house because I feel like it's
more fun at this point. And I've got almost all
these speakers in rooms too, and between the Mini and

(34:04):
then this new one, which is one hundred dollars by
the way, and then you've got the Max and then
you've got the Smart displays, you can build a pretty
good whole home audio system using these things. And the
cool thing is you get voice control, which unlike my
so nos, I don't really have voice control. Technically, it's
there because of the one speaker I have that has

(34:24):
it the uh what's that one called the move? But
I've never used that because it just seems too cumbersome.
But with this, you can say h or no not HG,
hey G, move the music into this room and boom
your music stream moves into this room. Or eight, hey G,
put the play music in all my rooms. That is

(34:45):
pretty compelling to me. Or I keep forgetting what the
syntax is, hey G, play music in my living room.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
So I may set up these speakers across my entire
house and just see how I like it. But I
kind of think this might be overtaking my sonos. The
one thing it's not gonna do I need to test
this out is I've got my sons hooked up to
my TV. But I'm thinking if I can somehow pair
these speakers in my living room, but I don't know.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
I think that's where it's gonna end.

Speaker 1 (35:17):
So that means I have to use my sonas setup
for the living room, just for the TV, and then
the rest for everything else. That's not very good. That
doesn't sound very clean. I want to clean setup. But
I will say the Sonos app has been lacking. I've
got I'm on that gross s one app, which is
like the old version. Now it's got the yucky icon
and it's kind of slow these days, it doesn't work
very well. I just feel like Sons is at this point.

(35:41):
It's too high end, it's too expensive, and I just
feel like Google with these speakers, had one hundred dollars.
You could put a speaker in every room so easily,
compared to a Sonos speaker that's way more expensive. I
think their minimum is two hundred. But I do love
my Sonos, so I'm not I'm not totally trashing them.
I just feel like this seems more compelling to me

(36:02):
at this point, and I will see if I need
to switch to this this new Google setup. Anyway, that
speaker launches, probably by the time you hear this, it'll
be launching.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
I'm sending one.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
I'm purchasing one for my sister. She's building a little
home gym. She's a personal trainer, so she was She
asked me, she said, hey, Rich, can you recommend a
Bluetooth speaker?

Speaker 2 (36:24):
And I was thinking about it and I like the
UI boom.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
So then as I thought, I'm like, whoa hold on,
stop the presses here. Why would I not just get
you a Google Nest audio speaker. I mean, doesn't that
make sense? And so that's what I'm buying her. I'm
gifting her this speaker, not the one that Google sent me. No,
that doesn't doesn't work that way. I'm gonna buy her

(36:48):
one on the website and have it shipped to her.
I ask her, ask her which color she wanted. It
comes in these five cool colors, and she chose the uh,
the black, which is like, okay, can we be any
more boring? I mean it's nice. I think that it's
charcoal is the the official color. But they've got like charcoal,

(37:09):
They've got this sky, they've got this green, They've got
just some really nice colors gray, I've got the sky
blue that they sent me. But you know, it's like, okay,
I guess you want to be boring and go with
the most basic of all tech colors. But anyway, I
think she's gonna love it. And I asked her, I said,
you have a streaming service, like for music. She does

(37:30):
not subscribe. But the cool thing about this is. There's
so many services you can use. I just tested iHeartRadio
with it and it sounds fantastic. You can just you know,
she can use her phone with the iHeartRadio app and
cast it to there, or she can just like call
up a radio station. Or you can use Spotify for free,
or you can use the ad supported YouTube music. I mean,
there's so many options versus just the standard Bluetooth speaker

(37:53):
that needs to be you know, bluetoothing from your phone
the whole day.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Which is gonna, you know, be annoying.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
You walk out of the gym and you got to
walk upstairs to do something and your music stops. So anyway,
I think she's gonna love it, and I am more
than happy to spend the one hundred dollars on her
to get her that speaker. That's the kind of person
I am.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
I love.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
I love buying people technology, Like my niece. I bought
her the new iPad because it's like, this is awesome stuff.
And since I get to test it, I know that
it works awesomely, and of course I share it with
you too, I share the info. Oh, speaking of iHeart Radio, Oh,
do I have another question? Well, let me just do
this real quick. iHeartRadio now has a standalone Apple Watch app,

(38:34):
which is really neat.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
iHeartRadio.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
I don't know if you realize, but they have a
really good service going. And I'm not just saying that
because I do. I do things for KFI. You know,
I'm on there with Bill Handle and Jennifer Jones Lee
every week. But I think what iHeartRadio does is pretty awesome.
They've got all these radio stations, which you know, you
can listen to in the iHeartRadio app, but they also

(38:57):
have kind of like their equivalent of like serious stations.
So there's a station called like hit Nation. There's a
station that's like hit Nation for kids, which is like
a kid friendly hit Nation. There's a hit Nation Top twenty.
There's an iHeartRadio Country. I mean, they have really good stations,
and what I like about it is that they do
blend in the DJs, and yeah, it's kind of like

(39:20):
you know, it's look, it's DJs.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Sometimes they're fun.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
Sometimes it's like nonsense, but I kind of like having
the person telling me what that song is, right. I
already went through this with with Apple Music Country and
Serious XM. Serrius XM has made it a thing to
have DJs on their stations. They don't need to have them,
but it differentiates them from something like Spotify. And as
I get older, I and I've always loved radio DJs.

(39:46):
I like the perspective, Hey, here's the latest song from
you know what was it Carly Pierce. The other day
they gave like a little introduction as to like, you know,
she just broke up with her husband, and it's like,
here's the song she wrote MM pretty much about him.
And so it's that little bit of perspective that I
think radio DJs have always offered when it comes to
new music. When I'm listening to Spotify, a song comes

(40:08):
on and I've said this before, I have no clue
is that song brand new or was it done ten
years ago? And it just happens to show up in
my playlist because of AI. So that's why I like
iHeartRadio because you get that perspective from the DJ. So anyway,
if you have an Apple Watch, you've got the iHeartRadio app.
You can listen like I tried this on my run
the other day, where I can just listen to the

(40:31):
station streaming live. And so yeah, you have to have
a data connection to do that or Wi Fi. But
it's kind of cool because there's one more way to
kind of free up your Apple Watch from the iPhone.
And it did not work in my case, I'll be honest.
I was on the Santa Monica bike path and signal
is notoriously terrible along that bike path for me on Verizon.

(40:52):
I'm not sure if it's like that with other carriers,
but it's really bad and it just it could not
keep the signal, and so I ended up listening to
my my music that was saved on my Apple Watch
because I just couldn't just kept going out.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
It just would wouldn't do it.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
So I'm not sure if there's a way to save
stuff to your Apple Watch from the iHeartRadio app. I'll
play around with it a little bit more, but I
think it's something you should have on there if you
like to run with your watch. I mean, they've got
I did a cool running workout. Let's see what do
I have on here? They have Let's see what do
I have iHeartRadio. Let's see come on, where's my so

(41:27):
my library is, Let's see my stations. I've got the
twenty four hour Cardio mix and I think that's from
twenty four hour Fitness Country Workout Radio, Hit Nation, Junior
Hit Nation, iHeart Country Radio KFI.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
Of course, iHeart.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
Christmas, which is a fantastic station, Dave Ramsey Channel, Rich
Demiro's Favorites KTLA five. You know you can listen to
that on iHeartRadio, American Top forty, Today's Mix again, one
of their kind of satellite radio stations, Eclectic Rock, which
is just fantastic. My favorite radio stations on iHeart, and
then Coffee Shop Radio, which I'm listening to on the weekends.

(42:05):
So anyway, check it out. I can't speak highly enough
and it's totally free, and I'll be honest, I don't
pay for the iHeartRadio stuff and I still rarely rarely hear.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
Commercials on there.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
So all right, another question here, Tim says, Hi, Rich,
I watch your segments all the time. I was asked
by a new client for an e business card, but
I've never heard of them. Can you suggest an app
or give me an idea on how to create one?

Speaker 2 (42:35):
Thanks? Tim?

Speaker 1 (42:36):
Yes, I will so. I first saw this at the
Toy Fair in New York City and it was like
mind boggling. So this guy, I can't remember his name,
but he tapped this business card to my iPhone and
next thing, you know, his contact information was right on
my phone. I was like, what did you just do?
And he's like, isn't that cool? And I forget what

(42:58):
the specific name of the card he had. I I
think I took a picture of it, but he's like, oh,
it's coming out. It was like thirty five dollars. But anyway,
they have a couple of these things. So the first
one I've been testing out is called I think I
don't know how you pronounce it, but it's a big
ad ont on a TikTok. It's called Popole pop l
dot co. And this is kind of for the young kids,

(43:18):
but you can use it, you know, no matter what age.
These are fifteen, fifteen to twenty dollars little dots that
stick on the back.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
Of your phone.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
And the main thing here is that it's an NFC
dot and you stick it on your phone and then
you tap this to a friend's phone and the NFC
takes over and it leads you to a website with
your popoll profile. And so that's that's basically it. And
on your propol profile you have your Instagram, your TikTok,

(43:48):
text messaging, Snapchat, Venmo, Spotify, whatever you want. You can
you know, you can have it open to a one thing.
You can have it open right to your Instagram if
that's how you want to share, or you can have
it open up right to your VCF. You're you know,
is that what it's called? The card file? VCF file?
I think so, no v card. I don't know v card.

(44:09):
I think it's a v card. Yeah, VCRD file v card.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
I thought it was VCF. Maybe it's not.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Yeah, VCF virtual contact file. You can have it open
up to that. So this is really cool. That's an
easy solution. And it sticks on the back of your phone.
I don't like anything stuck to the back of my phone,
including remember you know those pop sockets everyone loves. I
just can't have anything stuck to my phone. I like
a clean phone experience. So I have this thing stuck

(44:37):
to the back of my computer. But it doesn't really
do much good there anyway, poppol is really cool. I'm
gonna do a story on them. These are some UCLA
students that started this, and I want to do a story.
But the problem is, you know, we're not really supposed
to be, you know, socially meeting random people right now.
So it's kind of tough to recommend a product where

(44:58):
you're meeting a whole bunch of random people and popping
your phones together, right So anyway, I'll do that when
the time is right. But the other one is Blue
Social And this might have been the card that the
guy tapped. I'm not sure, but it's the same thing.
It's just in a business card form and it has
that little NFC chip in it, and you know, you
tap it to someone's phone and it brings it up.

(45:21):
Just tim what I'd look for is NFC business card.
I'd probably recommend the Poppol honestly, because there's a most
momentum behind them, and I think they're They're look and
feel is pretty clean, so I think i'd go with
that one. And they've got a bunch of different styles
you can choose from, so they look really cool, from
like glittery.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
To just standard.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
That's what I'd probably go for. The other way you
can do this is just a QR code. Now that
people are finally clued into QR codes because of all
these menus everywhere, you know, the contactless menus at restaurants.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
People are figuring out.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
Oh, what is this QR code That's been around forever,
but people are finally figuring out that we can use them,
and thankfully because QR codes are great. Every other country
in the world uses QR codes except America. Why is
America so strange when it comes to their adoption of technology? Like,
I mean, what is up with that? QR codes were

(46:14):
just like standard fair everywhere else, NFC standard fair everywhere else.
But it took Apple Pay for that to become popular.
You know, Tap to pay was popular everywhere, but like
all of a sudden, Apple does it, and now it's like,
oh yes, uh NFC is amazing. All right, I do
want to get through a couple other things. I know
I'm going along here, but let's see that's not that exciting.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Let's talk about this.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
If you want a free Nintendo game Super Mario Brothers
thirty five, this is kind of cool. It's it's kind
of like inspired by you know, Mario Super Mario Brothers,
but it's a it's a thirty five player twist on it,
so it's a it's a it's like a Fortnite kind
of thing, right, A Battle Royale thirty five players. They

(46:59):
all start at the same time and they compete in
this gameplay.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Now. I have not played this yet. I downloaded it
to my kids.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
I got my kid for his birthday Nintendo Switch Light,
and he loves it. But I've got to get the
games on there, so I downloaded this one and it
looks awesome. I'm gonna play it this weekend and I'm excited.
So it's kind of like that idea of playing online
with friends. So you need the thing you need here
is a membership to Nintendo Switch Online. That's twenty bucks

(47:27):
a year. If you don't have it, you do need
that to play this game. And this game is only
available until March thirty first, twenty twenty one, digital only,
so go download it. It looks really fun and it
kind of you know what I like about. My kids
love Rodblocks, which I hate. You know that I've talked
about it. They like Minecraft, which I think is fine,

(47:47):
but I personally would love if they played the Switch
more because to me, the Switch is like good old
fashioned gaming. The games have a start, a middle, they
have an end. They're fun, They're created by people that
are you know, their entire world is gaming, like Nintendo people,
and so I really really like that, and I like

(48:09):
the idea of them playing that. So anyway, and it
reminds me of my childhood. You know, you'd get sick
of stuff and you'd play this game until you beat
it and then you'd be sick of it or whatever.
So anyway, that's a quick game. Again, it's called if
you want to download it? Why did I put this
over here? It's called the Super Mario Brothers thirty five.

(48:31):
So maybe I'll get on there and I'll tell you
my username and we can all play it, all right.
One last question from Pam. Pam says, what what your suggestion?
People write me really fast. I think because these questions
like what your suggestion of good car play wireless adapter
like CarPlay to Air? I think what Pam is saying

(48:54):
is what do you think of or do you have
a suggestion of a good car play wireless adapter like
car Play to Air? And my answer is no, do
not get a wireless car play adapter. I don't care
how sexy they look on YouTube.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Don't get one. I'll tell you why you don't.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
Okay, so give you some background. I just finally tried
out wireless car play for myself. Apple gave me a
demo of it a couple of years ago, but it
was only in like a high end BMW. It was
very limited, but I tested. I recently did a test
drive of the Nissan Rogue, which has wireless car play
in its Platinum edition, and so I got to try it.
You know, when Apple did it, they sort of you know,

(49:35):
they held the ball. They they did it. They showed me,
they led me through it. I wasn't able to play
around with it in this car. I was able to
play around, and it is awesome. Let me tell you.
Wireless car play is seriously, seriously cool, and it solves
a lot of problems. It solves a problem of when
I get when I'm doing errands around the how or
around the neighborhood, I'm getting into my car and getting

(49:55):
out a bunch of times I don't want to. I
end up not plugging in my phone after the first
time because it's too much work to plug it in
every time. So I get why they came up with
wireless CarPlay, and it's really cool. In the Rogue, it
worked phenomenal. It was so cool, it's slick, it's the
you do one one time kind of like set up,
and then after you get in your car boom, you

(50:16):
just put your phone wherever it is and it just
shows up on the screen. So it's streaming CarPlay from
your phone. It's actually using like a Wi Fi direct
connection to do it. I think maybe it's blending at
with Bluetooth but to get the signal or whatever, or
to kind of get the connection. But it's literally like
chrome casting your phone screen or what's happening on your

(50:37):
phone to the screen.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
But it works the same way.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
It's great and anyway, so these Wi Fi you know,
CarPlay adapters. I looked at this one that she mentioned,
this CarPlay to air and it's one hundred and thirty
dollars number one. That's expensive for an adapter that very unproven, right.
I looked at their YouTube video. They spelled the word
chord wrong. They said, oh, you got lots of chords.
It was spelled hrd. Another red flag. They didn't have

(51:02):
social media on their website, which again is another red
flag and the biggest thing I think you need if
you're going to do wireless car play, Otherwise it defeats
the purpose. You need a wireless charger in your car,
and so if you're adding wireless car Play to your car,
you probably don't have a wireless charger. Now, my car
is a couple of years old, and I actually do

(51:23):
have a wireless charger like a CHI charger, which is
one of the things I wanted. I never use it,
and I do have car Play, and I could potentially
use the wireless car Play and then pop my phone
in the Chi charger to wirelessly charge, but that's all
too much work. I can just plug it in. So anyway,
my advice to you, Pam is just to deal with
wired CarPlay for now, because I'm not sure how good

(51:45):
these wireless adapters are. And I think that, you know,
just let technology evolution take its course, which when you
get a new car, eventually wireless CarPlay will be there.
And right now we're just starting to see it come
up on the you know, higher end additions of certain cars.
You know, like with the Rogue it was a platinum

(52:06):
edition and it wasn't available in the other or maybe
it was in the lower options, but like as an option,
but it comes with the platinum, or maybe you have
to get the platinum. I think you have to. I
gotta check on that. But anyway, so just kind of
just plug in. It's not that big of a deal.
I know it's kind of a pain, but when everything's
wireless these days. But I will say it is awesome,
and I'm really looking forward to wireless car play when

(52:29):
I can fully take advantage of it. But if I
switch that Pixel five, I don't know, I'm gonna have
to use wireless Android auto.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
I don't know how's that gonna work.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
Oh my gosh, so complicated with all this stuff, I mean,
isn't it.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
Oh my gosh, what is that to hear? Is that
the music?

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
Oh no, it is the music. You know what that means?
They're playing me off. I'm being played off my own show.
How rude? Remember that on a full house?

Speaker 2 (53:01):
How rude? What was that? What was that girl's name?
How rude? I think she's stolen the new one.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
All right, that's gonna do it for this episode of
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Speaker 2 (53:59):
Love it. Oh my gosh, this let me read one.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
Let's see happy years, says this young man has turned
tech sharing into an art. Stay blessed, rich Thank you art.
I love it, And if you leave a review like that,
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(54:26):
Don't forget to look at my website every once in
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post all the good stuff I'm doing on KTLA and
other places. You know, You've got me doing a lot
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other TV stations and places like we just added Las Vegas.
We're on in San Diego, Sacramento, Cleveland, gosh, all over

(54:47):
the nation and also this new show called News Nation,
which my company's doing, and that's a nightly newscast on
WG in America, so look for that. Also this new
show called la on scripted. So I am working hard.
So if I don't respond to your email on the
first day, I know it's tough. I'm working, but I'm there.
My name is Richard Meiel. Thanks so much for listening.

(55:08):
Stay safe, I'll talk to you real soon.

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