How an Apple Watch Saved This Man's Life

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we're going to talk to a guy named Peter Moore.

(01:04):
He is a former gaming industry executive and he says
the Apple Watch saved his life. He will explain then
later on in the show, we've got Ken Coleman, work expert.
He's gonna discuss AI's impact on the job industry and
how you can best prepare for the upcoming changes. Well,

(01:26):
thanks for tuning in once again. My name is Rich DeMuro.
Glad to have you here. I wanted to talk this
week a little bit about air tags and Apple's network
versus Google's new network. So air tags came out a
couple of years ago. These are little devices that help
you track your stuff. You can put them on your luggage,
you can put them on your keys, you can put

(01:48):
them inside your wallet. But now Google has their own
network called the Find My Device Network. So Apples is
called the Find My Network. Google's is called the Find
My Device Network. Now they're very similar, but they do
have some differences. So they're both crowdsourced. Apple's network uses
hundreds of millions of nearby Apple devices to help you

(02:10):
find your stuff. So basically, when an air tag is
near an Apple device, it says, oh, I see that
air tag noted, we know its location, And when the
owner of that air tag tries to look it up,
it says, yeah, we remember, this thing's right over here,
and that's how you find it. So it's all anonymous,
it's all anonymous, it's all crowdsourced, but that's how it works.
So some people were asking when I presented this on TV,

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they said, wait a second, like, how far away can
you be from these devices and still find them. There's
no built in GPS on these devices. It's all crowdsourced,
and it's pretty brilliant because there's so many Apple devices
in our world. Anytime one of these air tags or
accessories comes near one, the location is updated.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
So that's how it works.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
The Google network is very similar. It uses Bluetooth technology
and it uses over a billion Android devices to help
help you find your little tags. Now, the interesting thing
you need to know is that these two networks are
not interchangeable. So an air tag does not work with
Google's network. Anything that works with Google's find My network

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does not work with Apple's network, not yet.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Now.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Maybe there will be some devices in the future that
work with both. That'd be a good idea, but right
now they are individual. So air tags were the first,
but there are many more. And when it comes to Google,
it's been kind of a rough start for that network
because it was delayed to begin with, and then the
devices that are coming out and the network are all
being delayed.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
For some reason.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
So a lot of these things were announced back in May,
and now we're looking at the end of August for
the ship date for a lot of these. But I
have tested some of them, and I'm going to go
over some of these different devices that I think you
should take a look at. The main thing to know
about these two networks is that they do work together
to identify unknown trackers near you, no matter what network

(03:58):
they're on. Let me give you an example. Let's say
you were an Android and your significant other had an
iPhone and let's say on their key tag they had
an air tag. So for after a couple of days,
your phone might say, hey, there's this and they're with
you all the time. It might say, hey, we've noticed
that this tracker is following you, and you might get

(04:20):
that alert on your Android phone because this air tag
is near you and traveling with you. I've seen that
happen with me and my wife before. It's kind of annoying,
and I think they're gonna There's got to be a
way to sort of set an allow list, which means
you can say, hey, this air tag is going to
be traveling with me a lot, please ignore that. I
don't need you to send me a notification every time

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you see that. But this sort of unknown tracker alert
is obviously an addition to this network or both of
these networks because of stalking and you know people using
these to track people that don't realize it, so that
is built in as well. But how do you use
these networks? You basically put these little devices on on
your stuff, and then when you need to find them,

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you open up the app on your phone. On a
Apple it is the find my app. On Google, it's
the find my Device app, which you do have to download.
It's not pre installed on Android phones just yet. You
open it up and it will show you where your
little devices are, and then of course you can ring
make them make a sound. A lot of these things
have built in audio alerts, so you can say, okay,

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ring my device and it will help you locate it
that way. Other times you can use what's called precision finding.
If you have a newer iPhone, it actually will lead
you right to the device as well. That's another way.
But there's you know the basics of these devices are
all the same. They use crowdsourcing to find them. The

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battery life lasts about a year, sometimes two years. And
the main thing to know is that some of these
devices have a replaceable battery, which is great, some of
them have a rechargeable battery, which is even better, and
some of them do not have a user replaceable battery
at all. So these are all things to kind of
consider when you're looking for one of these devices. So

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let me go over some of the devices and accessories
that I've tested out that I think are pretty cool.
Number one the classic air tag. This has been around
for a couple of years now. People are very familiar
with them. It's a small device, you attach it to
your stuff and then you can find it using the
iPhone or another Apple device. Let's see what else about
the air tag. It's water resistant, you can replace the battery,

(06:26):
it lasts for about a year. You can engrave them
if you want put your initials on them. That is
twenty nine dollars. Probably best to get the four pack,
which is a better deal, and they often go on sale,
so I would not pay full price for these. These
are one of the few Apple products that regularly is discounted,
not through Apple, but typically through a third party retailer
like a best Buy or an Amazon so look for

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them when they're on sale, buy the four pack, put
them on your stuff, your luggage, your keychain. And the
thing you need to know about the air tags. Apple
was very smart. Apple loves their accessories. So the air
tag does not come with a built in way to
attach it to anthing, So you have to either buy
a little holster for it or some sort of key
ring accessory and you can put it in there and
attach it to stuff. Now, if you want to put

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one of these things on your kids or pet, they
do make obviously a lot of pet callers and things
like that, but for kids, there's something called Taga moles.
Taga moles from a company named Speck. They make a
lot of cases, and these are fun little characters. You
pop an air tag in and then they attached to
your child's backpack or sneakers. So Taga moles don't work
by themselves to track things, but you put an air

(07:30):
tag inside the Taga mole and you can put this
on your child's sneaker or their backpack. They're kind of
like fun little characters, animal characters, and a four pack
is thirty five dollars. Those are great for back to school. Again,
keep in mind, all this relies on crowdsourcing, so it's
not like you can track your child in real time
using these. It relies on someone's iPhone being nearby them

(07:51):
to help you find them, but chances are there's going
to be an iPhone nearby. I've been testing this wallet
called the Groove Smart Wallet. This is really really cool
and it's from a company called Groove Life, and it's
this Groove Smart Wallet Trace. It's one hundred and twenty
five dollars, so it is very expensive, but it's got

(08:13):
the built in tracker for Apple's fine My network, so
you don't have to add any tracker to this. The
battery lasts for about two years. You've got RFID protection,
so your cards you're not gonna automatically pay for stuff
when you're in near a checkout counter. It's got a
clip for cash, which is really great. It holds about
six cards and I love how this thing works. I've
been using this for about six weeks now, maybe more

(08:35):
than that, and it's just fantastic. Comes with a ninety
four year warranty on the wallet, so if anything happens
to this thing, you can get a replacement, which is
really really cool. Again, that's the Groove Smart Wallet Trace
No mad. This is a great company to make a
lot of great accessories. They have a wireless tracker that
you can put in your own wallet. It's really thin,
it's about the thickness of about two credit cards. It's

(08:57):
compatible with apples find my Network. The battery on that
when lasts about five months. This is forty dollars and
you slip it into your current wallet so you can
track your wallet. And the neat thing about this is
that it's wirelessly rechargeable, so you can put it on
any chi charger and it will juice up. Okay, Now,
when it comes to the Android side of things, if
you're on a Samsung, you can use what's called the

(09:19):
Galaxy Smart tag too. Now, the thing to know about
this is it has more features, but it's not compatible
with Google's Fine mye network. See how this gets confusing.
So Samsung's kind of doing their own thing. It uses
all the Samsung phones to find it and it's a
great little tracker, but you have to realize that it
is limited by the Samsung devices. The good news is

(09:39):
there's a lot of Samsung devices out there, so you'll
probably be okay. Again with the smart tag, it's NFC enabled,
so someone else can tap it and they can see
the owner info. So you can set like your phone number,
your email address, and they can just see that. AirTag
has a similar feature as well. Samsung phones. You can
double press the button on this smart tag to find

(09:59):
your phone. So if your phone is lost, you can
just press the button on the device and it will
ring your phone. This is a thirty dollars device and
that's a great way to go as well. Now when
it comes to the Google devices for your Android, Chipolo
makes the device that I tested out.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
They make two of them.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
One is called the Point it has a built in
hole for your keyring. The other one's called the card Point.
This is one that's thin enough to put inside your wallet,
and they both function very similar to the air tags.
Battery life lasts up to two years. The price starts
at about twenty eight dollars, and again Chipolo makes them.
And then Motorola just came out with what's called the
Moto Tag. This looks just like an air tag. It's

(10:40):
expected to ship later in August. And the neat thing
about these Moto tags not only do they work with
the fine my network on the Android side. But they
also have the same kind of size and shape as
an air tag, which means all of those air tag
accessories that you use to hold them will also hold.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
This Moto tag.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
So that means there's a whole bunch of built in
accessories that work from day one. All right, if you
want more information on all of these tags, you can
go to my website rich on Tech dot TV.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Coming up, I'm gonna tell you how you can.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
Free up space on your iPhone and Android really really fast.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
But first it is your turn. Give me a call.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Eighty to eight rich one O one eight eight eight
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(11:38):
zero one. The website for the show rich on Tech
dot TV. So my guest DJ today is my mom.
She is in town. Uh and so uh. She has
picked all of the songs in today's show, or at
least a majority of them, I think, so. Thanks Mom
for the recommendations. She handwrote the note and sent it

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to me, so she still has great handwriting. I don't
know how that's possible, because the new generation, like I
can't write at all, Like my writing is so bad
that it's just like undecipherable.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
And I'm not not even a doctor.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
I'm gonna tell you how to free up space on
your iPhone very quickly. So I'll tell you that in
just a moment. For first, let's go to h Let's
go to James and Pomona. James, you're on with Rich. Hello, Hello,
welcome to the show.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Thank you, thank you for giving my call.

Speaker 5 (12:30):
Basically, I'm shocking for your compact camera. And I've done
a little bit of a research and yea, so many
people out there. Good, we've used bad, We've used this one.
The focus doesn't work, you know, and it's kind of
driving me a little bit crazy. So you know what,
I decided, let me go ahead and talk to the expert.
So basically that's what I'm shopping for.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
So you're looking for a point and shoot camera. What's
the reason for the point and shoot?

Speaker 4 (12:57):
Just you know, like tike tick pictures, like parchical tits,
just you know, general, i'd tackle pictures.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
And you don't you don't want to use your smartphone.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
No, I prefer because the line of work ime in.
You know, I don't want to sometimes you know, evidence
and stuff like that. I don't want to use my
personal form because they could be subina and then you know,
see it's your girlfriend. Oyay, I come you guys hanging
out over there. You know, so I want something kind
of a separate from that.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Okay, what what line of work are you in? Okay,
got it. You don't want you don't want to mix
the the the work and the play, got it exactly.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Well, so it's been a while since I've used a
point and shoot because most of the people I know
have switched over to UH to UH, the smartphone taking
over everything. In fact, the last holdout, one of the
last holdouts was my father in law. He's a big,
big camera guy, and he was going to like Europe
or something a couple of years ago, and like, why
why even taking your big camera, Just take your take

(13:59):
your smartphone. You've got an iPhone, it'll be great, And
he did it. It took a lot for him to
not take his phone. So a couple places to look
for the recommendations that you're looking for. The website's DP review.
That's a very popular photography website. This was actually gonna
shut down. Amazon took them over, and then another company

(14:22):
actually bought them and kept them going. So they've got
you can go into their reviews for their cameras and
you can order by rating. So that's what I would
do number one, and so you can see like this,
this nkon Z eight is like their number one camera. Now,
the problem with that camera is that it is very
expensive and you probably don't want that one. It's way

(14:44):
more than you need. So I think you're gonna have
to go through this list and see which one of
these phones, or which one of these phones, which one
of these these cameras fit your budget. And I think
that's a big part of the process heres is finding
one that fits your budget. Do you want to get
lenses on these things or do you just literally want
like a point and shoot camera. So that's the second

(15:05):
place to look, or the first place to look. Second
place I would look Wirecutter obviously recommend them a lot.
They've got their top five point and shoot cameras. This
was updated in May, and so their top pick is
a camera that a lot of folks like, the Sony
RX one hundred. They're up to the five six seventh

(15:26):
generation of that. That's the one that I That was
probably the last point in shoot camera that I used,
and I think I used the original version of it,
so that was many many years ago, probably seven years
ago at this point.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
That is a thirteen dollars camera.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
Then they've got the Panasonic Lumix and this is a
five hundred dollars camera, looks like you it may come
with a lens. I'm not sure on that one. They've
got a Rico on their list, which is really good.
And then a Fujifilm. Now the Fujifilm. I'll tell you,
everyone's been going nuts over this new Fujifilm camera and
it's the the X one hundred and six. It looks

(16:01):
like and the YouTubers and the vloggers and everyone just
seems to love this camera. So that that might be
the first place. But I've heard it's tough to get too,
so that might be a tricky one to get. But
that's those are the two places I would look, and
I would cross reference to reviews there. You can also
look on Amazon at the top selling cameras there as well.

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And when it comes to features, I mean, obviously any
of these are going to be fine for a point
and shoot. I think it really comes down to how
much do you want to pay? That is the most
important part of the equation. Are you really looking to
get something that's over one thousand dollars with different lenses
and things like that, because once you start getting into that,
that is like professional photography versus just what you said originally,

(16:43):
point and shoot. So thanks for the question, James in Pomona.
Appreciate your your service with the law enforcement there. Do
appreciate you keeping us safe and thanks for the call.
Eighty eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven
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Speaker 1 (17:27):
After the break, I'll tell you how to free up
space on your iPhone and Android fast. Welcome back to
rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here, I'll be honest. Guest mom,
guest DJ's mom today. And I did not know this.
I've heard this song obviously it's familiar, but I didn't
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This became an international hit. It's a good song, stumbling
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Speaker 2 (17:57):
All right.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
So I got a seemingly simple question this week from
someone at my work who said, hey, Rich, I just
need to free up space on my iPhone. Should I
get a new phone? I said, no, you shouldn't get
a new phone, just free up the space. Or he
said he's out of space. Should I get a new phone?
I said, no, just free up the space. How oh,
let me think about that, because there are apps that

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can do this, but they're not very straightforward.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
A lot of them are. You know, you got to
pay money.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
So I wanted to find a free solution. So I said,
give me a couple of minutes, let me go check
out my phone and let me come back to you.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
And so here's what I found.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
If you want to free up storage very fast on
your iPhone, the best way to do it is to
delete a couple of large video files taking up space
on your phone. So how do you find those files
on iPhone? You can't just sort by largest video file,
which would make a lot of sense, right, No, Apple
doesn't let you do that. So how do you find
the largest video files? You go into Settings, then you

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go into General, then you go into iPhone Storage and
then you tap photos and then in there it will
tell you how much your photos are taking up and
it will say something at the bottom a suggestion that
says review your videos, and you tap that and it
will show you the largest files on your system. So
delete a couple of the big files that you don't need,

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the large video files, and your space will be freed up.
Keep in mind, because whatever's on your phone is also
sync to iCloud. If you delete one of those large
video files, it will also be deleted from iCloud. So
only delete a file that you no longer need, or
if it's backed up somewhere else, like in my instance,
everything's backed up to Google Photos, so that's fine. So

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it's a little tricky to find, but I will put
the instructions on the website, Rich on tech dot tv.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
And here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
It's just it's more, it's more work than you would
think to do this, and it's easy once it's there.
Some people told me that this review, your videos option
is not in that area. So I think if that
is not there, you don't have enough big videos on
your phone to free up in Apple's not sure triggering
that little suggestion, and so.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
The video situation is really easy.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
So do this before you have like a big event,
like I've been to countless kids plays and performances and
recitals and whatever where I'm seeing parents and that message
on their phone in front of me literally says you're
out of space on your iPhone. Don't let that happen
to you before you go to one of these events.
Free up a couple of gigabytes by deleting a large

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video or two. Now you might be saying, Rich, what
about Android. It's much easier on Android, much much easier
on Android. So on the Samsung devices, and actually this
is for any any device that's on Android. All you
have to do is download the Google I know. I said,
I want to do this without an extra app, but
Google makes it so easy with this files app.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
So if you download the Google Files app, it's free.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
You'll just see as soon as you download it and
open it up, it says all your categories downloads, images, videos, audio,
documents apps go into videos, and then you can just
sort by there. It is largest first, so largest video first.
I've got a video here that's one point five to
seven gigabytes. It even shows me how big the gigabytes

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are on my device. I can tap that video and
then I can go ahead and move to trash and
it is going to be gone now. Again, android's a
little bit different than the iPhone, so if you're using
something like Google Photos, even if you delete that source
file off your phone, it's still going to stay inside
Google Photos, which is I kind of like that about

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Google Photos, but just an easy way to do that.
If you have a Samsung you don't want to delete,
if you don't want to download anything extra, you can
actually use the My Files app to do the same thing.
It's a little a little bit less straightforward, but it's
pretty much the same thing. You open up the My
Files app, you tap videos, and then there's a little
in the upper right hand corner. You can sort by

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size and then just make the arrow so that it's
pointing down so the largest file will be at the top.
What I like about Google Files versus the Samsung files
is that Google Files shows you how big that file
is right on the thumbnail, so you can get an
idea of just how big that file is when you
delete it.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Again.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
These instructions on the website. Rich on tech dot TV.
Let's go to Steven in Los Angeles. Steven, you're on
with Rich.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
Hi.

Speaker 6 (22:23):
Rich, this is a call regarding the test the vehicle,
since I know you've had a good experience with one
for over the years. I bought the new twenty four
Highland and I have to use the auto drive quite often.
Ninety percent of the time. It works very well, but
some minor errors could sometimes occur, and I want to

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know if you ever know a way to correct those errors.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
Oh, that's a great question.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
I've been because I've been using these self driving like
almost exclusively now for like ninety percent of my driving.
But it does make errors. It does make errors, and
especially and this is something I've noticed. I'm not sure
if you have, but on one of my drives that
I do very often. It wants to take an exit
that I would not take for that drive, Like it

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wants to exit let's say two exits before the street
that I would take, and I have not figured out
a way to program it and say, please do not
take this exit, take this exit. And you would think
after driving it every day, it would learn from your
pattern of like turning off the autopilot and then taking
that exit. But it doesn't seem to learn from that.

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So I think at this point, the only thing that
you can do.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
I don't know if you've.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
Noticed, but if you take it out of autopilot, it
will give you a message that says, hey, we just
noticed you took your car out of autopilot. Do you
want to send us a message to our engineers to
tell us why. And I think that's your opportunity to say, hey,
this car tried to drive on a left, tried to
make a left in front of traffic that was coming
at me, Like, hey, fix that.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
But that's the only thing that I've seen.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
There's no real way to like kind of manually change
the way the car noticed.

Speaker 6 (24:09):
That kind of message. But yesterday, on a next to
a cyber truck. It got so scared of it. It
started onking and beeping and stuff, and it was just
I don't know what happened, but I rely on it
in ninety percent of the time. As I said, it's
it's very good, especially on a freeways. Oh yeah, changes

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and yeah, that's incredible.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Yeah, and it's gotten a lot, it's gotten a lot better.
I'll be honest, when I'm next to a cyber truck,
I'm just as scared.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
So I don't know.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
I mean, those things are imposing, they're big, They've got
that big light in front, and you know that's a
statement car. If you're driving the cyber truck, you are
making a statement in this world, and more power to you.
But I will say I think that you know, I
did my kind of a review of the self driving
on the Tesla when it first came out, and I
kind of knocked it and I said it was horrible.
And now I will take that back, and I will say,

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I think ninety five percent of the time it is incredible.
It takes a lot of the stress off of driving,
especially in a city like Los Angeles where it's like
a lot of stop and go, and even on like
city streets and side streets. It does a good job.
It's not perfect, but I think that the momentum we're
seeing with the progression of this technology is really good,

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and they keep coming out with software updates to make
it better.

Speaker 6 (25:30):
So yeah, those updates, I've noticed that they're incredibly useful
and they do make a difference. And one question I
have do you normally sit your speed at speed limit
of the streets in the highways or do you go
more or less? Or how do you manage yours?

Speaker 1 (25:49):
You know, I usually so, I'm actually a very kind
of slow, methodical driver, and so I kind of like that.
If anything, I might set it to go a couple
miles over the speed limit. But I've also noticed, I
don't know if you've seen this, but the Tesla will
automatically speed up based on the flow of traffic. So
if you're in an area where people are going a

(26:10):
lot faster than the typical they will also it will
also notice that and speed up. So okay, but look,
you know my advice to you, Steven, how long have
you had the car since April?

Speaker 6 (26:23):
Believe it or not. I was waiting for the twenty
fourth to come out and new body and all that.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
So yeah, it's it's nice. How do you like the shifting,
because I know they took away the stalk.

Speaker 6 (26:32):
You you get used to it, and it's just a
matter of getting used to it, that's all. And initially
it was like where's my gears?

Speaker 1 (26:41):
Yeah, yeah, I've got the old version, so I'm not
you know, and I'm not up for a new one
anytime soon, so I'm sticking with the old waiting for
that model why Refresh to come out, and that will
be probably next year sometime and maybe.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Maybe I'll take a look at that. Steven, thanks for
the call today.

Speaker 6 (26:58):
Thank you appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Enjoy I always think that the Teslas, and I'm not
I'm surprised they haven't figured this out, but I feel
like they should talk to each other. Since they're kind
of like the main self driving cars on the road
right now, they should have some sort of like communication.
Like that cyber truck that was getting near or too
close to Steven's Tesla. It'd be cool if the if
his Tesla can kind of send a message saying, hey,

(27:20):
get back in your lane or whatever. But maybe that
car wasn't on autopilot. Great question today, eighty to eight
rich one one eight eight eight seven four to two
four one zero one. Website for the show rich on
Tech dot TV. We'll get some more of your calls
in a moment. Plus, I'm gonna tell you why new
software for the iPhone is coming out in September. And

(27:41):
guess who's the most excited about it. It is Google.
I'll explain why coming up right here on rich on Tech.
Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
out with you at Triple eight rich one O one
eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
If you have a question about technology, give me a
call eight eight eight rich one oh one.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
The website rich on Tech dot TV.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
We were talking about cars just before the break, and
Ford is doing something interesting which we've seen before, but
I think we're going to see this more and more
with the new Mustang mock E. This is their electric car.
You can get an extra one hundred pound don't know
how you say that, one hundred pound feet of torque
for an extra thousand bucks. So this is a software

(28:30):
upgrade that unlocks more performance on your car. How wild
is that? So the car can apparently do this, but
it's just software locked, so the upgrade reduces the zero
to sixty times from three point eight seconds to three
point three seconds. And the upgrade can be just purchased,
you know, when you're buying the car or through the app.

(28:53):
But this is this is becoming more and more common
that cars are. They have features that are there, the
hardware there, you just have to pay to unlock it.
So for a thousand bucks you can make your Mustang
Machi EV even faster.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
That's pretty wild.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
I know on the Tesla you can upgrade a couple
things like obviously the self driving but that's not a
performance based thing, but things like heated seats, and I
remember BMW had that as well. And I think that
this is just going to be something we see more
and more because they want to make a car with
all these features, but they want everyone wants these subscriptions,
and they want the add ons and they want the unlocks.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
So we're going to see that more and more.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Mentioned that the new software for the iPhones coming out
in September iOS eighteen, and who do you think is
most excited for this?

Speaker 2 (29:41):
It's actually Google.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
They put out an ad this week, a video saying
we can't wait for ourcs RCS support coming to the
new iPhone, well the iPhone software. So what does that mean.
RCS is rich Communication Service and that means that the
iPhone and the Android messaging is finally going to be
a level playing field.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
So when you text someone.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
From an Android or an iPhone or vice versa, you
can text high resolution photos and videos.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
They will no longer look like a postage stamp.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Improved group chat so you can add people, people can
leave the group chats whether they're on Android or iPhone.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
That's a huge deal.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Then there's also read receipts and typing indicators, so when
your friend is on Android or iPhone or vice versa,
you'll be able to see when they're typing and when
they've read stuff. This is a huge deal. Beta users
already have access. I have tried this out. It is great,
and the message bubble on Android is still going to
be green if you're looking at it on an iPhone.
But you know what, I think this is a huge

(30:44):
win for the Android side of things, and I think
that's why Google's so excited, because Apple was holding this back,
and they held it back for a reason. The reason
is that it makes androids seem oh, they're not as
bad as we thought they are. So I think think
by having people be able to message each other in
this same way, it will finally take that stigma away

(31:06):
from the Android side of things. Now, I will tell you,
when it comes to young folks, they still are all
about the iPhone and it's all because of the messaging,
the group chats, the blue bubble. Apple has really doubled
down on this, like you have to be in it
to win it, with the I message situation, and it's
something that I really fault them for because I think

(31:28):
that technology should be should create a level playing field
and technology, the best technology works across various brands and manufacturers,
and Apple has continually built this ecosystem up of their
own stuff, and so it's kind of it's everything benefits Apple.
And if you look at the other things in the
world that you know, especially Android and Windows and all

(31:50):
that stuff, it's you know, there's various manufacturers making stuff,
and Apple some of the reason why their stuff works
so well is because they control it all from start
to finish, from the software to the hardware. But again
they kind of control that methodology of hey, you got
to have everything.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
Apple you got to have everything.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
iPhone got to have, you know, the AirPods and the
iPhone and the Apple Watch and the iPad for it
to all work perfectly. Whereas if you're on an Android
you can choose. You can pick and choose from a
bunch of different manufacturers. You may have headphones from one company,
you may have a smart watch from another company. You
may have a tablet from another company, and your phone
from Google, Samsung or someone else. So anyway, that's exciting.

(32:29):
I think for the messaging side of things, that's going
to be really great. Let's go to Robert in Michigan.
Robert in Michigan, you're on.

Speaker 7 (32:35):
With Rich Rich on Tech.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Hey, welcome to the show.

Speaker 7 (32:39):
I saw my eyesight five years ago and I bought
an iPhone success us voiceover and it's worked really good,
no problems, except for when you get to a website
doesn't navigate real well, I don't have anybody here to
help show me you know what am I missing? But
here's my beast who's going to use voiceover but a

(33:01):
blind person. So what happens is things pop up on
the screen, you touch it, and then it shuts off.
So what does a blind guy do with a phone
that he doesn't talk anymore. I mean you would think
an engineer would say, well, if you're going to put
on voiceover, don't let these things pop up and you
touch it and it goes off.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
What do you mean pop up?

Speaker 1 (33:23):
What do you mean by that pop up? Like like
a website pop up or something on the phone?

Speaker 7 (33:27):
No, like things like you know, like things to help
you navigate the phone. And you know, they got things
like the screen curtain and if you don't know the
little trick to get it back on, you know, stuff
like that. Well, personally, once you put voiceover, who's going
to use voiceover? And unless they're blind, I mean, I'm
sure there might be another use. But so once that

(33:49):
voiceover is on, they should just put a little line
in there says once this is on, other things might
not work or shouldn't work, because you're like sitting in
dead the water. If you touch something in your home
alone and your voiceover shuts off, and I've had it happen,
it's you know, it's so that's the only beat. But
otherwise it works really good.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
And has it got personal?

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Has it gotten better in the time you've used it?
You said you've had this. How many years have been
have you been using it?

Speaker 8 (34:14):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (34:15):
I've been using it for five years?

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Oh wow? And has it gotten better over the years
or has it kind of stayed the same.

Speaker 7 (34:20):
Well, it's happened like maybe three times over the year,
three or four times. But it's not like it's a
big deal. But when you can't see and this is
your holding phone and it shuts it off, you know,
you know what I mean, You're like, what do you
do if you touch it and nothing? You know, the
only way you know how to use it? And if
you touch it and it tells.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
You, and so what do you do in that situation?

Speaker 7 (34:42):
I wait, somebody comes over, push it, try to you know,
if you Usually I gotta wait till someone comes over
and so they can see the screen and push the
right button and turn voiceover back on. I've asked. I've
asked Theiri a number of times. Can you turn voiceover on?
I can't do that. But then again, I've I've tried

(35:03):
to send some funny emails, you know, a little joke,
and she'll come back and say that's not very nice.

Speaker 9 (35:08):
Yes, well I'm making a joke.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Hey, no judging me, Siri. If I want to send
a joke. I want to send a joke.

Speaker 7 (35:16):
But well, listen, I was at a store.

Speaker 10 (35:18):
I called in AI.

Speaker 7 (35:19):
I'm going round and round. So when I finally got
to somebody, I said, hey, just whoever is concerned? AI.
You know what, I don't like it. I mean, it's good, God,
it's places, it's wonderful, but you're going round and round
and I want to just talk to somebody. You're asking
the questions and it's coming up. Yeah, asked K you No,

(35:39):
I don't want to ask K. I just need that
the guy you have this and time. But anyway, I
don't want to complain. I'm I'm actually a luddite. I
got rid of Wi Fi and all that when I
lost my eyes. I don't know if it's psychological.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
And I'm not on the computer, aid hob I gotta
I gotta run, Robert, we're taking all right. Hey, they're teaching.
You're taking me to break. Thanks for the call today.

Speaker 7 (36:00):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
I love the the.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
I love the endorsement. You're listening to rich on Tech.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Tomuro here hanging
out with you, talking technology. Welcome to the show the
website Rich on tech dot TV. The phone number eight
eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven
four two four one zero one. Get those questions about
technology in right now. We'll get to the phone lines

(36:34):
in just a moment. Coming up in this hour Peter Moore,
a former gaming industry executive. He is gonna explain how
the Apple Watch saved his life. It is a wild story.
And uh, after you hear it, you might want to
get a wearable because it really did, really did change
things for him. The hidden cost of cell phone plans.

(36:56):
Oh sorry, so many, so many emails coming in. Let's
see here. Let me get to this. Brian first said, Hey, Rich,
I'm a regular listener. The music today is great. Your
mother rocks stumbling in. I haven't heard that one for
a long time. Hire her, thank you, Brian. I don't
think we have the budget to hire her, but if
we did, yes, she'd be hired. Mark says the cyber

(37:18):
truck has no autopilot or full self driving just yet,
supposedly pending a software update.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Oh wow, that's interesting. Didn't realize that.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
And let's see here, and let's see Steve says, in
response to the caller, who was losing speech on his
iPhone and no way to turn voiceover back on. I
just wanted to mention that Android has a way to
do this on Android phones, go into accessibility and enable
the shortcut to turn on or off talkback. I have
mindset to toggle this when I hold down both volume keys,

(37:48):
so talkback is kind of like the Android version of
the voiceover feature on the iPhone. It is really incredible
the amount of effort to these companies put into accessibility
features on the iPhone and Android. If you go into
that section of the phone, there are so many helpful features,
no matter what you know is going on with you,
whether it's a physical disability or I don't think they

(38:13):
have it for mental disabilities just yet, but maybe that's
coming in the future we may need that. But anyway,
thanks for the email. Steven in Durham, North Carolina. Appreciate that,
all right. The hidden cost of cell phone plans people
are spending. Americans are overspending by fifteen hundred dollars annually.

(38:34):
New survey from whistleout dot com, this website that helps
you kind of compare the different carrier plans. They said
the average American spends one hundred and fifty seven dollars
a month on a plan from a major carrier. But
if you have an mv and O plan one of
those mobile virtual network operators, those cost around thirty dollars
a month on average, so the average person could save

(38:55):
about fifteen hundred dollars a year by switching. But fifty
three percent of consumer have a cell phone plan through
one of the big three Verizon, T Mobile or AT
and T. Forty seven percent are now on an MV
and O. Seventy six percent of consumers have an unlimited
phone plan, but sixty three percent of people use less
than fifteen gigabytes of data per month, and a majority

(39:17):
of people with unlimited data plans are on Wi Fi
most of the time. So when you hear all this,
you would say, well, why don't people switch? Why don't
they switch to a smaller cell phone carrier? Brand loyalty? Okay,
I mean, what do these companies do for you except
raise your bill?

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Nothing.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
Americans are overspending by two hundred and eleven billion dollars
every year, and they take it out over a lifetime.
If you switch to one of these MV and o's
eighty five thousand dollars you'd save over your lifetime. So
here's the deal. What's the deal with these mv and os?
People always ask like, should I switch to one? The
main ones that come to mind are Visible that's owned

(39:56):
by Verizon, Mint Mobile that.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Was owned by Ryan Reynolds.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
Now it's owned by T Mobile, AT and T owns Cricket,
And there's a whole bunch of other ones out there.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
So why would you switch? I think you should.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
If you have a bill that is very expensive and
you don't want to spend that much, go with one
of these mv and o's. The coverage is the same.
It's it's Verizon, it's they all ride on one of
these big networks, whether it's Verizon, T Mobile, or AT
and T. And if you're curious which one they work on,
just google it and just say, like, you know, what
what network is Visible on? What network is Mint Mobile on?

(40:32):
What network is Cricket on? What network is Mobile Xon?
And they will they will reveal that usually in Wikipedia.
I did this for my wife. I switched her to
one of the mv and o's a couple months ago.
It took exactly twenty minutes, saved us about forty five
dollars a month on her bill. The coverage is pretty
much the same, no complaints. And the main thing to

(40:54):
know about these plans is that not all of the
mv and o's support a smart watch. So if you
have a smart watch with a data connection, like a
cellular Apple Watch or an LTE Android Watch, a lot
of the mv and os do not support that, so
you have to be careful if you're switching. Oh wait,
my Apple Watch isn't gonna have cellular anymore, no, so

(41:16):
check that before. The other thing you don't get is
you don't get some of these perks like the Netflix,
you know, and all these different things like the music,
free music, whatever. But I think the savings are worth it.
So if you're considering a switch, I say go for it.
You can always switch back. It's very easy. They make
it a little scary because you have to figure out
you know your your pin number for your account, you

(41:38):
have to enter your information if you want to pour
it over your phone number. But it literally took me
twenty minutes my wife's phone number. It went from one
carrier to the other carrier within twenty minutes, and we
saved forty five dollars a month. The other thing that's
interesting is a lot of these carriers that are the
smaller mv and os, they'll let you pay by credit card,
whereas all these like main carriers, the T Mobiles, the Verizons,

(42:02):
the AT and T's, they're all pushing people to pay
through their checking accounts. And the reason I don't like
that is because their bills can can fluctuate. You get
a big roaming charge. Next thing you know, your bill
could be more. And with the with the mv and
O is there's really no there's really no surprise charges
with them because it's it's kind of an all on

(42:22):
one thing. So there you go. Just got another email
from Nancy. Nancy says, I love Mom's music too. Wow,
I guess Bobo, we got to hire Mom. Let's go too.
Do we have time to take a call. Let's see, Yeah,
I think we do. Let's go to Carmen Carmen in
Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Carmen, you're all with Rich. Welcome to the show.

Speaker 8 (42:42):
Hi, thank you. I have a problem with Google. I
have a pham where I don't use it with the
service I'm only using to work on docs and emails.
But now I'm being blocking from Google because I have
no manor storage. I kept throwing away videos, pictures, and

(43:04):
a lot of gmails, but I still don't have a space.
They are saying that I should buy it or empty.
But if I'm being empty and empty and empty and
I don't and I still don't get it, do I
have a nail? The option? How to do dogs on
my phone without Google? Or without how to pay Google?

Speaker 2 (43:28):
What kind of phone do you have?

Speaker 1 (43:30):
Okay, so you've got your your Google comes with fifteen
gigabytes of free storage, and you're saying that's completely filled up. Okay,
Well this is their plan. By the way, I mean,
why do you think they give free Gmail, free Google Photos,
free Google Docs. The whole idea is to get you
to put all your stuff inside their cloud storage. They

(43:51):
know one day that cloud storage is gonna, you know,
be full, and now they say, oh, for two more
bucks a month, you can now have one hundred gigs
versus fifteen.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
So that's the plan.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Many people, you know, they don't mind paying because they
have all their stuff in there. But once you're invested
in these cloud storage you know you want to stick
with them for a long time. And that's what Google knows.
So you said you cleared out some files and things.
Have you gone to the website one dot Google dot com. Okay,
that's where I want you to go, So tell me okay,

(44:23):
O n E dot Google dot com.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
Okay. And so when you.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
Go there, it will show you on that page how
much storage you're using. So, for instance, I'm using sixty
four sixty four percent of my five terabytes that I
pay for, so that's a lot. And so I'm at
sixty four percent, and then it says clean up space,
and it says to me, I've got five hundred and
fifty five gigabytes that I can clean up. So you

(44:51):
tap that and it will show you all of the breakdown.
So I can see that I've got three terabytes in
Google Photos, I've got one hundred and fifty gigabytes in
Google will Drive, I've got forty gigabytes of Gmail, I've
got a nine hundred and fifty two megabytes in recorder,
and then my family's using some stuff as well. So
once you go into there, you can clean up by service,

(45:15):
So you can clean up by Google Photos, Google Drive,
and Gmail. So for instance, if I tap Gmail, it
will show me all of my emails with the biggest attachments,
and I can just in one fell swoop select those
all and get rid of them. And then you can
also empty your trash, because sometimes this trash does take

(45:36):
up the storage on your depends on the cloud service.
Sometimes it will take up storage, sometimes it will not.
But in general you probably want to empty the trash
as well, because even though you've thrown this stuff away,
you can recover that space quickly by emptying the trash.
And so for me, it says I can empty my
trash in Gmail, I can empty some files that I

(45:56):
have in trash from my Google Docs, spam email I
can get rid of. But this is where you want
to go. You want to go to one dot Google
dot com. And I think everyone should do this because
it's a handy way of seeing like, oh wait a second,
I've got, you know, two terabytes or whatever. You have
one hundred gigabytes of stuff and trash, Like, let me
get rid of that. That's the way to do it, Carmen,

(46:19):
to reclaim some of that space. Fifteen gigabytes is not
all that much. Apple gives folks five. Google gives people fifteen.
If you're looking for a place to sort of offload
some stuff. There are some ways to get some free
storage online. You can move some stuff to one Drive,
which is Microsoft's. They give you fifteen gigabytes for free.

(46:39):
So maybe you could take some of your files from
Google Drive, move them over to one Drive, and then
that way you can free up that space on Google.
I think Google Docs is fantastic. I use it, I
love it, and so I would consider I would still
recommend using that, but you do have to find a
way to get rid of some of those files that
you've got stored in there. If you don't want to
pay the next The next payment is two bucks a

(47:02):
month if you want to get I think it's one
hundred gigabytes, which you know, in the scheme of things,
is really not that bad for uh, for you know,
for using documents and all that stuff. Thanks for the call, Karmen,
appreciate it. Good luck getting that all figured out. Eighty
eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four
to two four one zero one. Coming up, we'll take
some more of your calls the website rich on tech

(47:25):
dot tv. Plus I'm gonna tell you how you can
use chat GPT to digitize your handwritten notes. It's super fast,
it's super easy, it's super handy. You are listening to
rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The phone
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(47:47):
eight seven four to two four one zero one sha
bozi on your radio. That yes, that was selected by
my mom. My mom has. When I told her the
select the songs for the show, she goes, do they
have to be old songs? They said, no, select whatever
you like and she she's like, I really like.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
This shaboozy song. Everyone does. I mean, what's not to like?

Speaker 11 (48:14):
Right?

Speaker 1 (48:16):
It's just amazing how sometimes these songs come out and
they just take over the world, like that one. And anyway,
thanks for the song. So I want to tell you
I mentioned how chat gpt can digitize your notes.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
This is pretty cool. This is what my mom used.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
She wrote out all the songs for the show today
and I took a picture of them and I uploaded
it to chat gpt and it spit out the everything
perfectly written. And so here's how you can do it.
And you can probably use any any of the AI
tools to do this. But if you've got a handwritten note,
maybe a letter from back in the day or something

(48:57):
like that, or if you still have good handwriting, you
can just write a note, take a picture with your phone,
upload it to chat GPT or even claude dot AI
and it will basically extract the text from that image
and convert the handwriting to text. And it's very simple.

(49:18):
It's very easy. If it doesn't do it without you asking,
like you probably just all you have to do is
upload the photo. But if it doesn't do it with
just uploading, just say hey, can you please? Can you
please extract the text from this image? And it will.
Now I did that with the song. Then I said, hey,
can you actually give me a line about each song?
And so it did that very easily. I use Claude

(49:39):
to do that, but chat GBT will do it as well.
This was from zd net. Got to give Sabrina over
at zd net the props for this little tip because
she came up with it. But I thought that was
pretty cool. I mean, I can't write in my handwriting
anymore because it just looks so horrible. But if you
can and it still looks legible, yeah, you can use
AI to transform it. Comment on the MV and O plans.

(50:03):
We're getting a lot let's see, I don't have a
person's name here, but they said something else as important
as international travel. Absolutely, I meant to mention that a
lot of the MV and o's do not support international roaming.
So again you're not going to get hit with these
roaming bills. But at the same time, you may not
be able to use that phone number to roam overseas.
If they support the Wi Fi calling and texting, that

(50:24):
might work.

Speaker 7 (50:26):
I know.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Mint Mobile just added the international plans to their.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
Plans, so you can buy like International when you go
out of the country. And they also said Visible supports
Apple Watch. Yes, Visible is one that does support Apple Watch.
Looks like we got another question. Gary and Laguna Niguel. Gary,
you're on with Rich We hell Rich.

Speaker 10 (50:48):
Oh, by the way, I noticed she still has some
of the old Leo laporttunes. Also, that tune is great.
I usually hear that right between eleven thirty and twelve
thirty and always get some motivation going.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
Is that the which one is? That is that's going
to break what we.

Speaker 7 (51:05):
Do?

Speaker 10 (51:05):
It's where he plays it. It's one of Leo's old
old songs that he leads into his show when he
would start at eleven o'clock on Saturday mornings.

Speaker 1 (51:16):
Okay, I think, yeah, I gotta listen now closely. Maybe
I mostly focus on the intro and I gotta now,
I gotta listen. Oh okay, Kim. Kim says, it's the
network bumper music.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Got it?

Speaker 1 (51:27):
Okay, So I don't get it. I may not hear
it here, Okay, I do, Okay, got it?

Speaker 3 (51:32):
Gary?

Speaker 2 (51:32):
What can I help you with?

Speaker 10 (51:33):
Well, the question I asked you Rich is all the
budget carriers that you hear advertising on talk radio and
so on. They always seem that they have AT and
T and T mobile service carriers, but Verison. I'd like
to know which are the budget carriers carry Verison?

Speaker 1 (51:50):
Great question, and so yes, I would say a majority.
I would say ninety percent of them run on T Mobile,
maybe ten percent run on AT and T, and then
Verizon has like a tiny percent, but it's growing. So
number one Verizon owns Visible and they run on Verizon's network.

(52:10):
The other one is red Pocket, which I've tested. They
run on Verizon as well, and so you can get
that US Mobile. They have an option for Verizon, but
you have to kind of choose. They've got a choice
of Verizon or I think it's might be AT and
t Issue Mobile. But US Mobile is another one and
they're kind of a smaller carrier that really they don't

(52:32):
you don't hear much about them, but they are on there.
And then I believe Spectrum and Exfinity are also on there.
So those are kind of through your cable company and
you have to have your cable obviously your Internet through them,
but you get a good deal there. And then the
latest one to use Verizon is Mobile X. We talked
about them on the show a couple months ago. Mobile

(52:53):
X uses Verizon's network. I have tested them and they
are great. And then Verizon has another one called Total
by Verizon, and this is their prepaid. So basically Verizon
runs Total Wireless and also Visible Wireless, and Total Wireless
is sort of a prepaid whereas Visible is like you know,
you just jump on that plan. But yeah, great question,

(53:16):
and a lot of times if you go to that
whistle out site that I mentioned, they can reveal which
Envy and Zo is on which carrier network. But again
there's only like really three networks. I think there's a
fourth coming up from Dish Network, which I have not
tested yet, but apparently they've built their own network in
the US, so we're going to see a lot more
advertising from Dish, I think, when that's ready to go

(53:37):
in a much bigger way than it is right now.
Thanks for the question, Gary, and I'm glad we figured
out the music.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
You're right glad. We've got Kim here to tell us
that stuff.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
All right.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
Coming up, we're going to talk to a guy who
says the Apple Watch has saved his life. He'll explain
coming up right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back
to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking technology. Lines
are open at eight eight eight rich one oh one.
That's eight eight eight seven four to.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
Two four one zero one.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
Lots of you going to the website today rich on
Tech dot tv to send me an email. You can
hit contact up at the top of the website to
send me an email. I'll try to get to some
of those, but I've got a kind of quite a
big backlog today. And if you want something that's mentioned
on the show, just go to the website rich on
Tech dot TV and hit the light bulb and there

(54:29):
you can find the show notes in real time.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
This is show number eighty three. All right.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
So recently I spoke with a guy named Peter Moore.
This is a quite a successful business person. He's had
big jobs at EA, Microsoft, Sega, and Rebok. He's here
in California, and he told me the story of how
his Apple Watch saved his life. And uh, you know what,
I'm just gonna let him tell the story. Let's hear
from Peter Moore.

Speaker 12 (54:55):
It's actually two weeks ago today. I was going to
buy my business as normal. My eldest daughter, who works
for Rea, was flying in for a couple of days.
I was heading to Santa Barbara Airport. I felt a
little light headed and a little faint, and like a
typical mail I.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
Thought, I'll go to Starbucks.

Speaker 12 (55:09):
That'll fix it totally. And so I went on the
way to Santa Barbara Airport and grabbed a latte. I
sat in the cell phone parking lot. It still felt
a little faint, but I thought it would pass. My
phone started to ping and said low heart rate, which
I've never seen before, and so I looked at it

(55:29):
and then my heart rate had dropped to thirty two
and it was insistent in its notifications that something wasn't
right with the linkage to your phone. I looked on
the health app in my phone and I saw that
my heart rate was vacillating at that time from thirty
to one hundred and one, and so I had this
bright red line.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
Going up and down.

Speaker 12 (55:50):
I thought this is probably not good, so swallowed my
mail pride sent a photograph to my wife of the
low heart rate.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
Note of it.

Speaker 12 (56:00):
She said, don't move, I'm coming right there, pick me up.
I was in Santa Barbara Coottish Hospital. Within ten minutes,
Triagnur sees me, looks at me, looks at my pulse,
goes a little pale, which I didn't think was a
good thing. The reaction not at all now and gets
a wheelchair.

Speaker 3 (56:18):
Rich.

Speaker 12 (56:18):
Within five minutes, I'm in the emergency room. Crash team
descends on me, defibrillator pads, ivy blood samples EKG, and
they're running the EKG and doctor kind of theoretically runs
in and said, this is not good.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
This is not good.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
You need a.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Pacemaker right now.

Speaker 12 (56:36):
You are in complete heart blockage, which is an electrical
issue where the top part of the heart the atrier
and the bottom heart ventricle aren't talking to each other anymore,
and so what happens is your top part of the
backup systems. I'm triggered and the atria is doing all
the work, but the ventricles are doing nothing, and so
my heartbeat. Then I'm on the monitors. I'm looking my heartbeat.

(56:57):
Then is twenty four. Doctor comes in, looks at me,
goes why are you still awake? Type thing, And their
goal was to get me into the operating theater as
the fast that they possibly could to install the pacemaker,
and all they were waiting for was a bed postop recovery.
Within two and a half hours, I was in the
operating theater. I was awake, somewhat sedated, but fascinated by

(57:21):
the process, surrounded by data screens and talking to the
technician from Abbot Labs, who have this duel chamber pacemaker
that I'm now the proud owner of, and he's pacing.
In other words, he's in control of my heart. And
what they're doing is setting the voltage levels, making sure
the pacemaker is obviously working properly, and stitch me up

(57:43):
and I'm out of there and spent the night in
the wonderful Cottage Hospital. Dr Omid Yosefian was the surgeon
who immediately came saw me, operated on me, and I
think fundamentally saved my life. I think the real issue
would have been if I left left it, I would
have collapsed at some point. And my real fear was
I'd be driving with my daughter on the one oh

(58:05):
one freeway and that would have been disastrous. For the
implications of that I can't even be to think of.
So finally I paid attention to the data that was there,
and my male stubbornness was overcome by listening to the
data and reading the data. And of course your wife
will take over in these situations, and uh, you know,
and the wonderful people, as I say, son Ababa Cottage

(58:26):
Hospital had me from entry to with a working pacemaker
within four and a half hours.

Speaker 3 (58:32):
Wow, you said you felt lightheaded.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
Yeah, people feel different ways all throughout their life.

Speaker 3 (58:37):
Oh totally.

Speaker 1 (58:37):
But with that alert when you got it on your watch,
was that the like hold on something is definitely not right.

Speaker 3 (58:43):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 12 (58:43):
I mean, you go, I mean every now and again,
and even you you know, you stand up quickly, you
go whoo for a second, and I in a typical male,
stubborn pig headedness.

Speaker 8 (58:53):
Thought.

Speaker 3 (58:53):
You know, it'll go away, you know.

Speaker 12 (58:55):
And so if it hadn't a been for these notifications,
I would have just tried to write it through. I
had a lot going on and picking my daughter up
on to be there for her, and again the consequences
of that, as the doctor explained to me, he said,
look at twenty four bpm, you're going to collapse.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
You're either going to collapse at the wheel.

Speaker 12 (59:14):
And again the implications of that and the ramifications of
that horrific. Or we see a lot because it's a
total collapse, people smash their head and so he said that,
and then you're dealing with internal bleeding and all of
those things. So fortunately you came in. We caught you
whilst I was on the monitor. I flat lined twice
in that thirty minutes. And again I'm thinking back connection right,

(59:36):
you know, and my wife's looking it just went to
zero and then the heart kicked in again.

Speaker 3 (59:41):
But here I am two weeks later. Fine, how do
you feel now? I feel great?

Speaker 12 (59:47):
Yeah, you know it's funny when you even the moment
as we're insurging the device that then he brought my
heart to sixty five bpm. They're calibrating the bpm. I
felt better immediately that the blood was flowing as it
should be again because it's an electrical issue. My plumbing
is just fine. But the pacemaker is always on device

(01:00:10):
for me because my electrical system has collapsed. So it's working.
It keeps me alive all day I keep pointing here,
that's where it is. But it keeps me alive all
day long. And check in in a year. And the
battery life maybe ten years. And the only thing I
think I have to worry about is go get a
new battery in ten years.

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
So the watch. Do you have a new found respect
for the Apple Watch?

Speaker 10 (01:00:32):
I do?

Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
I do.

Speaker 12 (01:00:32):
I mean, it's always been useful for me. You know,
I've been in tech for twenty odd years president of Sega.
I ran Xbox, so I'm used to technology, and I've
watched the video game industry go from when I joined
Sega dreamcast days of dial up to now relying on
data every minute of every day to interact with gamers

(01:00:55):
and to build the business. And so when my personal
feelings one thing, but when I see data like that,
particularly the way that Apple does it, which is low
heart rate like that and actually shows you the data
in there. Then I reacted to that, and I can't
thank Apple and all the other smart watchmakers that are
makings I think a little bit more kind of informed

(01:01:19):
about our health. Somebody somebody said the other day, it
turns the invisible into visible, and you know, and I'm
blessed to have a pacemaker. As the docs fifty years ago,
I would just be dead because the technology, which I
find amazing, of this little device in there that's firing
every you know, point eight of a second is just incredible.

(01:01:42):
And the way that Abbott the company said a year ago,
you wouldn't have been as well off as youah today
because those are the advances bringing. You know, we can
do updates, we can do firmware and what you have.
And people who have a pacemaker know that you have
a little device that sits by your bed that interacts
with your pacemaker at nights data to their central servers

(01:02:02):
and if they see anything untoward, they'll give you a call.
But as they say, ninety nine percent of the time
it's just there as a monitoring device. So it's interacting
through I guess RFID or something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
So with all of this lesson learned. What is your
advice to others? Yeah, get yourself a smart watch.

Speaker 12 (01:02:20):
I mean the health thing is important to me now
times ten, obviously, but all the other things you can
do that I've learned over the last few years that
I never dreamt of.

Speaker 3 (01:02:30):
You know, when I was a kid.

Speaker 12 (01:02:31):
This is kind of a George Jetson thing, right, a
Maxwell smart type device. But now I think that the
wearable market in particular for the value it provides not
just in your daily life, but literally informing you about
your health in real time. And in my instance, I
think saving my life. And I wouldn't be here if

(01:02:51):
it wasn't for this little device.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
What a story. What a guy, by the way, what
an incredible person. Peter is done so many great things
in his life. And just to have that experience of
thinking you're going to go get a coffee and everything
is going to be fine, and realizing that your watch
is saying, uh uh, we're figuring something else is a
little wrong here. So, like you said, I think that

(01:03:15):
if you know, if you get one of these devices,
whether it's a Fitbit, whether it's an Apple Watch, whether
it's a Samsung watch. Definitely check the specs and see
what it can do. What he was talking about was
the high and low heart rate notifications. You can check
some of your ECG stats on these things as well,
depending on the model. There's a lot of stats that

(01:03:35):
you can find. But don't over rely on these things
because there are certain things they cannot do. And the
doctor I interviewed for my story on Katla said these
things do not predict a heart attack or can they
sense one, So keep that in mind with there are
limits to what these can do. But between the fall
detection the crash detection, I mean, there really are so

(01:03:56):
many benefits to these wearables and Peter is example of that.
So thanks for sharing the story there. We're gonna get
to more calls and just a bit here eighty eight
rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to
two four one zero one, and the comments are coming
in about the mb and os. I'll share more of
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can follow me on social media at rich on Tech.
There you go. We we have hit AB's nest. We
could do an entire show on mv and o's. I
did not realize this, but the comments keep coming in.
Ed says, if you switch from Verizon cell service to
Verizon prepaid and Auto fifteen gigabytes is thirty five dollars

(01:05:02):
a month, same service, half the price. Jim says, I
like saving money, but a few reasons. I haven't switched
to an mv and O. A few friends switched to
Mint and they've had trouble sending SMS messages for some reason.
Their messages take hours to arrive. They don't send your
name to people with caller ID, so you don't see

(01:05:24):
caller ID on incoming calls either.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
No international roaming.

Speaker 1 (01:05:28):
He travels a lot, needs to receive calls and messages
anywhere in the world. Deprioritization. I've tried mv and o's.
When I'm in a crowded place, I find my data
won't flow even though I have a strong signal. For me,
it hasn't been worth the twenty eight dollars a month
I would save.

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
And then let's see.

Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
Glenn here wrote in and said MV and o's do
not have the same access to cell sites. I've worked
for two of the major carriers for over three years,
and I can tell you the MV and o's are
fine for normal, everyday communication, but in an emergency like earthquakes, fires,
or severe weather, the subscribers to the main carrier will
have first access to a congested cell tower, just below

(01:06:09):
police and fire.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
MV and o's are at the bottom of the priority.

Speaker 1 (01:06:14):
These are all probably valid things, yes, but again they
are all sort of edge scenarios. So it all depends
on what you need out of it, right. So if
I'm saying, you know, if it's a good idea to switch,
I think you have to weigh what you want for
me personally. I have not switched because I need certain things.

(01:06:36):
I need access to the most premium data, the most
premium priority on the network as I am uploading and
downloading tons of stuff on a daily basis with my jobs,
and so for me, that is what works now. My
secondary line, Yes, it's an envy and O. And my
wife who literally when you look at her data usage
is like less than two gigs a month. She does

(01:06:58):
not need an unlimited plan ninety dollars a month. She
does not need the extra you know, whatever it is
that these companies offer. And she told she's been on
a couple MV and ohs, and she's told her friends
about it, and they don't trust her.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
They don't believe her. They say, well, I don't know
what am I missing out on? Nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
It works, Yes, there are some downsides, but it depends
what you need. And I think that is the beauty
of listening to a show like this and doing your
research is that you understand what you're getting into, so
you're not surprised when you say, wait my apple watch
Wait hold on, I can't get cellular, or wait, I've
got to travel internationally. I don't have international So you

(01:07:35):
have to remember all of that stuff. Let's go to
Tom in San Diego. Tom, you're on with Rich. Welcome
to the show.

Speaker 13 (01:07:44):
Hey, Rich, I know you've touched on this a few
times obviously, and you're touching on it right now again.
But so I have a cabin that my parents built,
you know, fifty years ago. That's out in the middle
of Sambordino Desert. It does have electricity, it's been broken
into a few times. So I'm thinking, well, I should
put some cameras up or something that could tell me

(01:08:05):
if something was going on. There is no ISP service
out there. So I've been looking at, you know, either
cellular game cameras or other things, or doing something like
a MYPI with Wi Fi cameras and just trying to
find a plan that isn't going to break me to have,

(01:08:25):
you know, some security footage and video footage. I don't
even have an idea of how much data I would
need or something like that, and just wondering what your
recommendations were. I know you were talking about a whole
bunch of different carriers a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 1 (01:08:40):
Yeah, well I would actually I would just go with
a I would just go with a cellular security camera
in general, like skip the Wi Fi hotspot because that's
going to be that's not going to be the most
reliable connection for these cameras, so if it depending on
how many need, but I would say just go with
one that has built in cellular and there are a
couple out there. I have personally not tested one with

(01:09:04):
the cellular built in, but they do come from a
couple of reputable brands. Now there are many out there.
You can go on Amazon and probably find one for
fifty bucks, but I probably I mean, you can try it,
but I think if you want something that's reliable. The
thing that separates a lot of these security cameras between
the really cheap ones that you can find on Amazon

(01:09:25):
and the companies that have made a business on security cameras,
like the Rings of the World and you know the
Ufe's of the World is the software that you get
and maybe sometimes the support. So I would personally go
with a camera that just has cellular built in and
a couple of the brands that make a camera that
are pretty reasonable price wise, and the brands that I

(01:09:46):
know for cameras that people like UFI, eu f Y,
They've got a whole bunch of cellular security cameras and
they actually will tell you how much data. So, by
the way, there's something else to think about here. Some
of the cameras may want you to use their data connection, right,
like you have to buy the data from them, which
of course is going to be it's going to limit

(01:10:07):
you in some ways. Some say, hey, just put a
put a simcard in and you're good to go, as
long as you have a network. This this UFEE says
it's got a three and one SIM card compatible with
AT and T, T Mobile and Verizon. It selects the
most stable network to optimize connectivity and ensure uninterrupted viewing.
I would also look for a camera that has a

(01:10:28):
solar attachment as well, So the UFI one looks pretty good.
This one's two hundred and fifty bucks for a four
g LTE. There's then Real Link r EO l I
n K. Real Link is. They're not as well known,
but they do make decent cameras, and they have one
that is battery and solar powered. It's got a four

(01:10:49):
g lt E. It's two hundred and twenty dollars and
it tells you your estimated data usage here on the website,
so you can go on there and see how much
data it's exped to use and it will tell you that.
Let's see in the facts, how much data does a
camera use? One hour of live feed and ten ADP
will use about one gigabyte of data, so that's live

(01:11:12):
feed if you're you know, if you're streaming NonStop, this
will you'll probably want a camera that records clips to
the cloud when something moves so that that won't use
as much data. And then finally, the other brand is
r Low a R l O. People really like the
R Low cameras. This has Wi Fi or LTE and
that camera is one hundred and ninety nine two hundred

(01:11:32):
bucks basically, and they've got four different versions, a T
Mobile of Verizon, a US Cellular, and a cell coom
which I haven't heard of, but you can use that
as well.

Speaker 3 (01:11:42):
So those are the.

Speaker 1 (01:11:43):
Brands that I would recommend taking a look at tom
and see which one works the best, and you know,
just depends on the features you need the price you
want to pay. The other thing you can look at
is a trail camera. Some of those have cellular as well,
and those are mostly meant for far off places that
don't have a connection. Those can also record to an
SD card as well. Great question. Have fun out there

(01:12:06):
in the cabin? I wish I had a cabin in
the desert. Get away from it all right, enjoy. I
got to take my kids to see that like a
dark sky area with all the stars in the sky.

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
We don't get that in LA eighty eight.

Speaker 1 (01:12:17):
Rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to
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on Tech dot tv. You can hit contact to send
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Speaker 6 (01:12:44):
Today.

Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
You're sending a lot of messages today. I will get
through them at some point. I can't get through to
all of them today, but we'll get some of those
comments and questions and things on the show. Let's see
here familiarity. By the way, my mom is playing DJ
this weekend for the show, so she has chosen all

(01:13:06):
the songs we're playing. And Kim, I think call screen
er Kim put it best. She said, your mom is
the epitome of jack FM, just playing what we want right,
She's just all over the place.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
Familiarity. Let's see if we can say this word. So
people are familiar with AI, but people still have concerns
about it. This is a study from Parks Associates. Forty
seven percent of US households say they are familiar with
at least one AI technology. Forty percent of them are
actually using them regularly for personal, professional, or educational purposes.

(01:13:45):
But sixty nine percent of consumers are concerned with the
data and privacy implications of AI. And I totally understand
that because when you type something into AI, when you
feed it something, you have no idea how the AI
is using it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:59):
Are they trained on that?

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
Are they going to take your picture that you upload
and make it into a selfie for someone else who
knows No one's reading the terms of service. But the
bottom line, companies and individuals who do not start experimenting
with AI risk being left behind by those that do.
And I thought that was really interesting as kind of
a tease for my interview later in the show with

(01:14:22):
work expert Ken Coleman. He talks about the impact that
AI has on the job market, we'll have on your
job and what you can do to best prepare yourself
for this new future where AI is a reality. So
you won't want to miss that that's coming up later
in the show, and if you want to get your
email in for the feedback. I will be reading some

(01:14:45):
of those later on in the show as well.

Speaker 2 (01:14:48):
Let's go to Fabrice in Newport Beach. You're on with Rich.

Speaker 9 (01:14:55):
Hell Rich, I am on speaker.

Speaker 11 (01:14:57):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
I can hear you? Great?

Speaker 11 (01:15:00):
Which honey, got to talk to you. I listen to
your show.

Speaker 13 (01:15:04):
Once on Saturday. It's great. Here's the thing I love.
I have actually an HP.

Speaker 11 (01:15:13):
This HP is a Core five, so it's an older one,
but I love it. I love my HP because he
has three function it has. It has about sixteen gigs,
it has the illimited key board, and it's a touch screen.

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
I love it. Okay, glad you love it. Don't don't
change a good thing.

Speaker 11 (01:15:31):
Yes, however, it's an old one.

Speaker 1 (01:15:33):
There.

Speaker 11 (01:15:33):
I was told it's a Core five, so I need
to update it or maybe get.

Speaker 13 (01:15:40):
Another model.

Speaker 11 (01:15:42):
I have. Also on my toolbar, I have three browsers.
I have Google Chrome, I have Firefox which is Mozilla,
and I have Internet Explorer. Do I need all those
three browsers and what's the difference between those three?

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Great question.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
Well, for Internet Explorer, you can cross off the list
because that is no longer supported. That is that's dead,
So don't do not use Internet Explorer. It is not
in any way, shape or form supported by Microsoft anymore.
So you're not getting security updates. You're not getting you
just don't want to use that. So you can easily
uninstall that or safely uninstall that, and don't worry about

(01:16:21):
that one. Now, when it comes to the other two,
Chrome or Firefox, you know, it really comes down to
a matter of personal preference. I would say that Firefox
is going to be more private than Chrome because Chrome
is owned by Google and I love Chrome. That's what
I personally use, and I think it's incredible and it's
gotten a lot better over the years. It turned out

(01:16:42):
to be a kind of a resource hog on computers
for a long time, but I've gotten it to a
place and I think Google has where it works really well.
It has the features I need, and personally I really
enjoy it. So it's really what you want to use.
So Firefox, you know, if you look at this, let
me look at their website and see how they're advertising Firefox. Yeah,

(01:17:05):
they say the it's the browser that puts your privacy first.
So because Firefox is open source and because Firefox is
known kind of as a privacy company, they are going
to put your privacy first with this browser. So if
you're concerned about your privacy and you don't want Google
to know every single thing about you as you're browsing
the web, then maybe you want to pick Firefox as

(01:17:28):
your preferred browser. According to their website, it says it
automatically blocks two thousand plus online trackers from collecting information
about what you do online. Now, these browsers talk a
big game with that. Personally, what I've done on Chrome
is I have disabled third party cookies, So when I'm
browsing the web, websites are not exchanging information about me.

(01:17:50):
They're not allowed to because I've blocked those third party cookies.
Sounds like Firefox is probably just doing that out of
the box by themselves. And there is actually a little
compare browsers on here on their website, so you can
compare the different things that Mozilla does versus Google. So
if they're number one thing we block trackers by default,

(01:18:11):
let's see, and basically that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
That's kind of their main thing.

Speaker 1 (01:18:15):
So I would say that you could probably get ninety
percent of what Firefox is doing by blocking the third
party cookies. And you can do that by going into
your settings and going into more tools or sorry settings,
and then let's see here, where is it privacy? Oh wow,

(01:18:36):
they changed it's all privacy and security. Here we go
privacy and security. And then it says third party cookies,
and so you can block third party cookies and that
should take care of a lot of that kind of
information that's being exchanged about you across websites. But that
doesn't keep Google itself from collecting all the data it

(01:18:57):
wants about you, which of course that's what they want
to do because one of the biggest advertising networks in
the world. So at the end of the day, Fabrice,
I think it comes down to what you're comfortable with personally.
I'm sticking with fire I'm sticking with Chrome right now.
But Firefox is a perfectly reasonable use of a browser
as well, so hopefully that helps. And you know, with

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that computer, you probably got some life left out of it.
I don't know, it must be kind of old if
you've got the Internet Explorer still installed on there.

Speaker 2 (01:19:27):
But great question today. Thanks a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
Question here via email from Let's See, Michelle says, hey, Rich,
I'm being required to download an app that has GPS
tracking on my personal device, my iPhone for my job.
I'm a crossing guard and the company wants me to
sign in remotely when I get to my post and
when I leave. I'm very concerned about this on my
personal device. I'm not tech savvy. Is there any way
tracking can still occur when the app is off? Also,

(01:19:54):
when I look at the developer's description, it said something
about having access to my data. Of course, I feel
completely this is out of line requiring this app to
be on my personal phone. But I live in California.
I could be fired at any reason at all. I'm
thinking of getting an entirely separate phone to install the
app on, not affiliated with my current phone. Please give
me your thoughts advice. I want to keep my job.

(01:20:15):
Thank you, and I really enjoy your show on KFI.

Speaker 2 (01:20:17):
Michelle.

Speaker 1 (01:20:18):
Michelle, the good news is you're using an iPhone and
so I think with this app, what I would do
is if it sounds like something you need to check
in with.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
It says you have to.

Speaker 1 (01:20:31):
Sign in remotely when I get to my post and
when I leave. So there is a setting on so
number one, when you set up this app, I would
not give it access to your data, your location, at
all times. So usually when you first open up an
app that wants to track your location, it says do
you want to give your precise or exact location? And
then it also says do you want to allow this

(01:20:51):
all the time or just when the app is open
or just when you're using the app? So what I
would say is try saying just while using the app. Now,
if they want to track your whereabouts twenty four to seven,
then that's a different story. So there is a way
around it, though it takes a little bit of work.
But what you'd have to do is you'd have to
take away the app's permissions every day. So I don't

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know how many days you're working as a crossing guard,
but basically you would have to go in. So let's
say I'm going into an app here. If I go
into my settings on my iPhone and then I tap
an app, so for instance, all Trails is an app
that uses my location, Okay, so if I tap in there,
it says location. If I tap one more time, it
says allow location access. Never ask next time or when

(01:21:37):
I share while using the app or always. So what
I would do is set this to while using the app,
and that will enable you to open up that app,
they will see that you are indeed in the location
that you should be at. With the GPS, it will
ping the towers and send your location. And then when
you close out that app, it will no longer get

(01:22:00):
your location. And then when you open it up again,
it will have access to your location for you to
check out of your job and to move on with life. Now,
if you want to be super super secure and safe,
you can once you log out of your job and
you're done working for the day, you can go back
into settings and then the app and then tap never
or I would say ask next time or when I share,

(01:22:22):
and then the next time you open the app, it'll say, hey,
do you want to share your location? But it's a
little bit of a it's kind of a process, especially
if you're doing that five days a week. I would
ask the company and say, hey, are you tracking my
location at all times with this app? Or is it
just getting my location when I check into my job
and when I check out of my job? Those are

(01:22:44):
two very different things. And so I think at the
end of the day, if if the company wants to
track you twenty four to seven, they should probably supply
the phone that they are tracking you on, so that
you have the ability to decide when you want to
be tracked and when you don't want to be tracked.
But yeah, this is pretty common nowadays with company issued equipment.

(01:23:05):
If you have a company issued computer, if you have
a company issued phone, company issued car, your company is
tracking you. They are seeing what you're doing, they are
seeing where you're going, and they are totally within their
rights to do that because it is their equipment. And
you probably when you signed on saw a little piece
of text that said, hey, by the way, our company,
we can do whatever we want monitoring this system. You

(01:23:27):
probably didn't read it, you probably didn't even see it,
but it's somewhere there. Because these big companies, guess what,
they employ big lawyers and so they know what they're doing,
and they're covering their butts and you need to cover
yours as well. Eight to eight rich one oh one
eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Coming up, I'll tell you about the next state to
adopt a digital license.

Speaker 2 (01:23:49):
You can now add to your iPhone.

Speaker 1 (01:23:50):
And Google's AI photo editing tools are available to everyone.
I'll explain right here on rich on Tech Welcome back
to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology the
website rich On Tech Dot TV special thanks to my
mom this week.

Speaker 2 (01:24:09):
Who's in town. She is the guest.

Speaker 1 (01:24:12):
DJ Greg says Canton, Ohio says, your mom needs to
produce the intro music segments every week. Man, everyone's making
me and Bobo feel bad here because you know, usually
I pick the music Bobo, but clearly my mom has uh,
she's got a knack for this, So thanks mom. Ohio
driver's licenses and IDs can now be added to Apple Wallet,

(01:24:37):
so you can if you live in Ohio, you can
add your driver's license or state ID to Apple Wallet
for use quote select businesses apps and TSA apps and
TSA security checkpoints, so basically businesses. This is what's really
cool about And I'm I know it sounds scary to
not carry your ID, but I'm I can't wait for

(01:24:58):
this to happen widely because it's one less thing I'll
have to.

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
Carry and it's actually more secure.

Speaker 1 (01:25:04):
So they put out this free age verification app for
Ohio businesses. It's called Ohio Mobile ID check. So what's
neat about this is that right now, when you give
your ID to a clerk right at target or whatever,
when you're buying alcohol or something, they type in your
data birth right, and they see it, and they see
all your information where you live.

Speaker 2 (01:25:25):
They can look at your entire ID.

Speaker 1 (01:25:28):
When you're using a digital driver's license, what you do
is you tap, and so what happens is only the
information that's need to verify you is exchanged, and in
many cases no one sees the actual information. So just
to very much simplify it, let's say that you are
buying booze right and it needs to say if you're

(01:25:49):
twenty one or not. You would tap your phone on
a special reader. The reader would verify that you're twenty
one because of your ID stored on your phone, and
it would say green or red, you know, depending on
whether you're twenty one or not. And maybe your picture
would come up so they can verify that it is
you on that ID. But again, the clerk or whoever's
looking at this wouldn't see all of your personal information.

(01:26:12):
So what I like about this whole digital ID kind
of future is that it will be much more secure,
So kind of cool. We're seeing a lot of this
kind of happening, but it's not widespread just yet, only
five states do this. Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, and Georgia are
the five states that actually take these digital driver's licenses

(01:26:34):
or allow you to add them to your Apple Wallet.
Some cases it's Google Wallet as well. In California we
have which is kind of ironic, the you know, the
tech capital of the world. Basically we still don't have this,
but we do have a digital California has like a
weird DM like they basically made their own app that

(01:26:55):
I tried, I downloaded, I got my license digital, but
it's like it's only accepted in a few places and
it's not part of Apple Wallet or Samsung or Google.
So I think the idea here is that this should
be universal and all phones should have that. Google Photos
AI photo editing tools are coming to all phones already
popped up on my iPhone with all of these different features.

(01:27:17):
So you get Magic Eraser, Magic Editor, Photo Unblur, portrait light.
They are all available to all users without a subscription
and if you have an old photo. I just did
this yesterday to test it out. The photo unblur feature
is just magical. So I had an old picture of
my kid. He was completely blurry. I put it into
photo unblur and you could not believe it. They really

(01:27:39):
just use AI to make it look clear. So again
this is for Android and iOS devices. So if you
want to try out Google Photos AI features, all you
have to do is download Google Photos to your device.
And of course, again this is all to get you
to use Google Photos, right, I mean, that's the whole
point here is to get you to use that. So

(01:27:59):
I do want to get to Jerry. I've got just
two minutes, So Jerry, welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (01:28:04):
You're on with Rich.

Speaker 9 (01:28:06):
All right, thank you. So my question is my grandson
uses a continuous glucose monitor and he's sends that signal
to his iPhone and so his parents could monitor his

(01:28:26):
blood sugar. The phone he uses is it looks to
me be pretty big. It is an iPhone. I don't
know what the model it is, and since he's ten
years old, he does a lot of sports and he
has to keep that phone basically very close.

Speaker 1 (01:28:47):
So you're looking for something that's that's similar but not
the phone.

Speaker 9 (01:28:53):
Yeah, either either another phone with a smaller format or
some of their device.

Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
Well here's the deal.

Speaker 1 (01:29:02):
So this is sort of this is sort of an
area where things are progressing quickly, but right now it
is still a little bit old school, but the phone
is still probably the best way. They just approved the
dex Com G seven to connect directly to the Apple Watch.
I'm not sure which monitor your grandson is using, but

(01:29:23):
it would require that Dexcom G seven. But it's the
first time you're able to pair that directly with a wearable,
so I do think that that probably would be a
better way to go if he's using the dex Com
G seven. Otherwise, the only thing I could recommend is
with the phone, maybe a smaller iPhone if he does
have to have that nearby at all times, maybe look

(01:29:44):
for an iPhone Mini from a couple of years ago
that is much much smaller. Apple doesn't make him anymore,
but you can find him on the third party marketplace,
so that would be our recommendation, either the Apple Watch
or the Mini.

Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
Thanks for the call, Jerry.

Speaker 1 (01:30:01):
Welcome back to rich on Tech Rich DeMuro here hanging
out with you, talking technology. The website for the show
richon Tech dot TV. We're gonna do the feedback segment
in just a moment, so if you want to get
your comments in, go to the website.

Speaker 2 (01:30:16):
And hit contact and perhaps I will read them on
the show.

Speaker 1 (01:30:19):
Joining me now is Ken Coleman, bestselling author, speaker, and
host of The Ken Coleman Show. Ken likes to help
people discover their true calling and turn their dream jobs
into reality. We talked about the impact of AI on
the job market and the changing landscape of work. Ken
shares his expert advice on navigating these new challenges and

(01:30:40):
embracing new opportunities thanks to AI. First, I wanted to
know where we stand with the job market.

Speaker 3 (01:30:48):
Where does it stand? The great resignation is over.

Speaker 14 (01:30:51):
Companies aren't hiring us quickly and as a result, people
are staying put. I think we're in this general let's
wait and see, and we have a very very topsy
turvy election season that we're going through as well. So
I think weight hold is the response of companies, and
I think employees are a little bit reticent to jump

(01:31:12):
out and go to something new or look for something new.

Speaker 3 (01:31:15):
What's been the impact of AI?

Speaker 1 (01:31:17):
Have we seen an impact on jobs immediately or is
it still happening?

Speaker 3 (01:31:21):
Not yet.

Speaker 14 (01:31:22):
What we're seeing is the impact of the coming storm,
and people are paying attention to it. It is a
scary proposition for a lot of people. The headlines are
saying things like AI is going to eliminate your job.
And so what we're seeing is AI being adopted in
the workplace.

Speaker 3 (01:31:39):
Chat GPT comes on the.

Speaker 14 (01:31:41):
Scene, Lawyers are using it, of course, writers, content people,
and so we're beginning to see the adoption of it.
But are we seeing wholescale changes Not yet, but those
are coming.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
And to that in I think you're going to see.

Speaker 2 (01:31:54):
A lot of.

Speaker 14 (01:31:56):
Let's just call it, administrative working that can be handled
through a checklist at AI handles. I think those jobs
are in trouble. But what we need to understand is
that AI is just another man made technology, just like
the Internet, cell phones that I can go on and
on and on that have spun off jobs. So I

(01:32:17):
don't see it as this big scary job eater. I
think it's going to be a job creator.

Speaker 3 (01:32:21):
Before we get to the jobs it's going to create.

Speaker 1 (01:32:23):
Tell me about those jobs you think are going to
be most impacted by AI.

Speaker 14 (01:32:27):
People that are in content heavy jobs, again, a lot
of administrative paperwork. I think those jobs will be impacted
for the better, in other words, more customer focused work.

Speaker 3 (01:32:39):
But again, as I just.

Speaker 14 (01:32:40):
Said, I think you're going to see a lot of
administrative receptionist, secretarial type jobs, support jobs that are more administrative.
Those jobs could be really affected. And then I think
on the front line of the service industry, I think
you're going to see in New York. For instance, I've
seen a McDonald's in New York just recently, or I
walk by it and we're talking just a couple of

(01:33:02):
blocks from Times Square, and I didn't see one human
in there other than a customer. Now, someone was cooking
in the back, but everything else that front of house,
point of service was all AI.

Speaker 3 (01:33:13):
And so those jobs.

Speaker 14 (01:33:14):
Will be impacted as well, because that's where we're seeing
the biggest crunch with the minimum wage. We haven't had
a legal change, a national change, but there's been this pressure.
As you remember during the pandemic, I target Walmart to
raise wages.

Speaker 3 (01:33:28):
Well, guess what happens.

Speaker 14 (01:33:29):
You want to lower the cost of a burger king combo, Well,
what do you have to do? You have to lower
your cost to make the combo. So I think you're
going to see small businesses and restaurants move to AI
to help with that human cost.

Speaker 3 (01:33:41):
On the point of service.

Speaker 2 (01:33:43):
You're always going to need humans to do certain things?

Speaker 3 (01:33:45):
What do you think humans are still good for?

Speaker 14 (01:33:47):
Yeah, well, I love that you asked this question, because
I think AI is going to put a premium on
the face to face, the voice to voice, the eyeball
to eyeball. I think it's going to usher in I
believe a new level of service, and I think it's
going to accentuate our humanness because once machines and machine
interaction becomes commonplace, we will appreciate the convenience of it,

(01:34:11):
but we will absolutely crave.

Speaker 3 (01:34:14):
The human element. And so I think it's going to
take customer service to the next level.

Speaker 14 (01:34:17):
I think the companies and the workers who figure out
how to be adept and use AI to make your
job more proficient, to make your results results more excellent,
I think they're.

Speaker 3 (01:34:30):
Going to win.

Speaker 14 (01:34:30):
But I think companies that say, all right, we're going
to use machines to be better at service, but it's
going to allow us to be more personal. I think
you're going to see those kinds of reactions in the marketplace.

Speaker 3 (01:34:43):
Everybody says we can.

Speaker 14 (01:34:44):
Do more of that, my pleasure, unbelievable customer service because
you can be more human in the interaction and let
machines do a lot of the execution.

Speaker 1 (01:34:54):
What does the average person need to know about AI
and learning those skills to themselves.

Speaker 14 (01:35:00):
A great question. First of all, what's available for you
and your role? So let's take you and I. We're
in the media space, so we need to immediately go, Okay,
how can I use AI in my role to be
excellent and be efficient? So you start looking at all
the different AI tools and they're sprouting up all over
the place. So see what's available and what's applicable to

(01:35:22):
your actual roles. So you know, if you again you're
a lawyer, you know what can be done here on
the stuff I have to do that's paperwork focused, and
can I enhance through AI my ability to get that
done so I can be more carrying, more present with
my clients and take my human service up the next level.
So whatever the industry you're in, you need to be

(01:35:44):
researching and by the way, the answers are out there.

Speaker 3 (01:35:46):
Here's how you can use.

Speaker 14 (01:35:47):
AI in your role and get skilled, get skilled and
get experienced. Because I don't think AI is going to
replace your job. I think someone who uses AI better
than you will replace you. I think that's our challenge.
You go, Okay, am I skilled? Am I experienced? And
it's just like any other technology.

Speaker 1 (01:36:07):
Imagine right now, not knowing how to use a computer, Yeah,
same thing or typing.

Speaker 3 (01:36:12):
I mean back in the day it was typing. Now
nobody learns how to type. But still yeah, but there
are skills that you it.

Speaker 1 (01:36:17):
Basically back in the day, you'd put your skills on
your resume, right, whether you're good at word, whether you're
good at spreadsheets. And now it's the same thing with aiact.

Speaker 3 (01:36:25):
I love the spreadsheet example. You know, can you use Excel?
And what's excel?

Speaker 1 (01:36:29):
And we all had to learn how to use it?
And I think that wasn't that Excel replaced your job?
They replace you with someone that knows how to use Excel.

Speaker 14 (01:36:36):
That's what I think has to be the warning flag
about AI. Don't be so scared of it that you
stick your head in the sand, because if that happens,
you will get passed up and you will get replaced.

Speaker 1 (01:36:46):
How do you make sure you're not breaking any rules
that your employer may have when it comes to using AI?

Speaker 14 (01:36:51):
And I think again, you're just gonna have to look
at what your company policies are, what do you feel
is right in here? But interesting that you asked this question.
There is a job that is about to become I
think commonplace. Now this is a prediction, sure, but I
think you're gonna see AI ethicists something like that. That
may not be the title, but there will be people

(01:37:12):
who humans like you and I whose job will be
to make sure that AI isn't being used the wrong way,
or that AI itself doesn't do something that's wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:37:21):
That's a whole new and I think you're gonna see
that everywhere, you know, AI watchdogs.

Speaker 1 (01:37:25):
What are some of the side effects of AI beyond
the standard jobs.

Speaker 14 (01:37:30):
I think AI is going to change the workplace. I
see less and less forty hour weeks. I think we're
gonna see a explosion of what is already happening right now,
which is the freelance economy, you know, and and so
I think you're gonna see.

Speaker 3 (01:37:45):
More and more of that.

Speaker 14 (01:37:46):
And I think specialization will happen because it's gonna make
it so much easier. So I think keep your eye
out for that, an explosion of entrepreneurship, especially because you
got gen z. I'm raising three of them, and the
younger willennials they're very tech savvy, and I think they're
very entrepreneurial hungry is how I would label them, So

(01:38:06):
watch out for that. I think we can see an explosion.

Speaker 3 (01:38:08):
Because of AI.

Speaker 1 (01:38:10):
That's Ken Coleman, author, work expert, and host of The
Ken Coleman Show. I think the bottom line is that
AI will forever change the way we work, just like
the Internet itself did. But the key takeaway embrace AI
as a tool to enhance your skills. Focus on what
makes you uniquely human, and continue to develop your skills.

(01:38:31):
Like Ken said, it's probably not AI that's going to
replace you, but someone who knows.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
How to use AI better than you.

Speaker 1 (01:38:37):
I'll put a link to Ken on my website at
rich on Tech dot tv. Mor rich on Tech, come
your way with the feedback right after this. Welcome back
to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you,
talking technology the website for the show richon Tech dot TV.
I'm going to get through a few items here before

(01:38:59):
we get to the feed bag. This AI powered necklace
called Friend got quite the buzz this week. It's a
ninety nine dollars pendant necklace that you wear all day long.
It listens to everything that's happening around you, and it
texts you when it wants to say something to you,
so it's kind of always listening and it's AI powered

(01:39:21):
and the person who created it, a nineteen year old.
Our twenty one year old said it's because he was
lonely and he doesn't want people to be lonely. Ninety
nine bucks and you got to watch the video on this.
If you go to the website Friend Believe it's friend
dot com and it looks like something out of Black Mirror.

Speaker 3 (01:39:38):
It's not a joke.

Speaker 2 (01:39:39):
It's real.

Speaker 1 (01:39:40):
This idea of AI companionship will happen. But it's like
if you're playing a video game or watching a movie,
this thing is listening or having a conversation with your
friend and it will literally text you and be like
that was awkward or whatever. It's pretty wild and you
can talk to it by pressing a button on it.
So yeah, Black Mirror is coming true.

Speaker 7 (01:39:58):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:39:58):
Two other devices that were AI companion kind of powered things,
the Humane and the Rabbit they have they flopped, So
we'll see if this does any better. It's a lot
cheaper for ninety nine bucks. I mean, I'll try it out.
T Mobile is launching a Friday Night five G Lights competition.
This is for small towns to win a two million
dollars high school football field tech makeover. Open to high

(01:40:22):
schools in towns with populations of one hundred and fifty
thousand or less. Grand prize includes a one hundred thousand
dollars cash grant, a new scoreboard, five G network upgrades,
a tailgate party, halftime drone show, and a new workout room.
So the entries open on August first, they close on
September twentieth. The website is Let's see what it is

(01:40:43):
Friday Night FIVEG lights dot Com. Friday Night FIVEG Lights
dot Com. Obviously T Mobile trying to promote the fact
that they are upgrading their five G network in rural areas.

Speaker 2 (01:40:56):
So check it out. I'll put a link on the website.

Speaker 1 (01:40:58):
All right, Let's get to the feedback, the the emails,
the comments, and the questions. Just send me all day long,
every day at Richontech dot tv hit contact. David was
listening to the show and said, very interesting listening to
Peter today. In August last year, I was home watching TV,
not doing anything stressful. I got an alert on my
Apple Watch saying my heart rate was unusually high one

(01:41:18):
eighty eight. I had no physical symptoms. I went to
the er. They confirmed the watches reading. A cardiologist treated me.
If it wasn't for the alert, I would have carried
on watching TV, and according to the cardiologist, I probably
would have had a stroke at some point. I'm a
watch guy, but now I keep my classic time pieces
in a box and I wear my Apple Watch all
the time.

Speaker 2 (01:41:39):
Wow, that's quite the story. Thanks for sharing it, David.

Speaker 1 (01:41:42):
Let's see Joe says, Hey, Rich, I was wondering how
long I should keep my empty electronic boxes because I
just bought a ring outdoor camera and now I have
an empty box.

Speaker 2 (01:41:52):
Should I keep it? And for how long? No real
need to keep it.

Speaker 1 (01:41:55):
The only three reasons I keep something is if I'm
going to return it. So if you think you're going
to return this, I would keep it for at least
the return window. If you're going to resell it, like
if you're ever going to put this thing on eBay
or something like that, you want to keep the original box,
you can do that. Or if you're going to ship
it to someone later, So maybe, for instance, with my computers,
if I give an old computer to a family member.

(01:42:16):
When I get a new one, I will ship them
that old computer. And I like to have the original box,
but otherwise you can safely recycle those boxes. Good question,
Anita writes in says, wow, kind of disappointing. How you
didn't respond to my question. Anita, you know how many
emails I get on a daily basis. If you had
any idea you would you could not believe it. And yes,

(01:42:39):
I do my best to respond to a lot, even
off air. I try to respond to a lot here,
but believe me, there's no way I can get to
everyone's email that emails me. I do my best and
I will try. But yeah, thanks for that. Mary says, hey, Rich,
I'm looking for a portable battery pack that can accommodate USB,
a plug, air compressor, jumper case. My German shepherd and

(01:43:01):
I will be traveling in my van from California.

Speaker 2 (01:43:05):
I live in a van down by the river.

Speaker 4 (01:43:08):
Do you know that.

Speaker 1 (01:43:09):
Reference old Chris Farley reference from California, Ohio. I'll be
living in the van during our trip. I want to
plug in a regular house fan at night. Oh, you
just want this thing to do everything. Mary, the battery
pack should be able to keep it charge for two days.
Any suggestions, thanks in advance. Yes, check out Jackery jack
e r Y. What you want is called a portable

(01:43:31):
power station. Every company in the world makes these. Jackery
was one of the earliest. They're some of the best.
They also make them with solar panels as well. But yeah,
Jackery jack E r Y. There are many many brands,
including Anchor and many others eco Flow that make these,
But I like the Jackery. I just met with them
recently and they've got some good stuff and at cheaper

(01:43:53):
prices too. John from Appleton, I'm guessing that's Wisconsin Rights in.
I volunteer at our local useum. We're considering replacing our
five dollars entry fee with a free will donation system. However,
we're noticing young visitors don't often carry cash. Is there
a quick secure method for accepting digital payments? Maybe a
QR code? Any security concerns? Can you recommend any companies?

(01:44:16):
Should we work with a local bank, we'd like to
minimize our fees, I would recommend a PayPal or a
Venmo QR code or both. So I believe with the
PayPal QR code you could set that up where you
can just say, hey, scan this code and it will
take you to a PayPal web website on their phone
and they can just do the donation there. You can

(01:44:38):
set the suggested as five bucks Venmo. I believe you
would need to have the Venmo app for that to work.
I'm not sure they have like a website where you
can do that through, but I would check out those two.
I think that's the easiest way to do it. Square
might also have it. You might also check out Square
and see if they have it. I know you can
also you Square to tap phones to accept so that

(01:45:02):
might actually you know what that might actually hold on
tap to pay, tap phone to accept payment. I think Square,
ooh if you do that. Yeah, you might just do
that where you have they can actually you just have
an iPhone set up there they can tap their phone
for mobile payment. But I think the QR code might
be easier. It's kind of going to depend because not

(01:45:24):
everyone is set up for mobile payments. Not everyone's comfortable
doing that, but I think people who aren't, you know,
if they're a young person whatever, they probably have Venmo
on their phone.

Speaker 2 (01:45:33):
A lot of people do these days.

Speaker 1 (01:45:34):
But I would look for a solution that does not
require any sort of like sign up for the person.
They can just literally scan the code, use their Apple
pay or Google pay to make the payment, and yeah,
you'll be golden there. Harry from Eden, North Carolina writes
in I've encountered a troubling scam on Facebook. I've reported
to the FCC. Scammers posing as agents are offering fake

(01:45:57):
federal grants of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The
catch you have to buy six hundred dollars worth of
gift cards and give them the code numbers to claim
your winnings. They're friending people out of the blue and
sending links to initiate the scam. I provided as much
as I could to the authorities, but I'm wondering who
can really put a stop to this. Seems like they
might be hacking Facebook. How can we protect ourselves and
others from these increasingly sophisticated social media scams? Harry, thank

(01:46:21):
you so much for being a good guy out there
on the internet, but it is impossible so many scams.
The best way to protect people is to tell your friends,
especially your less tech savvy friends. That is the main thing.
Because we understand it there's a lot of people out
there who do not so share the spread the word.
Victor from Winnipeg writes in, I'm a regular listener wanted

(01:46:44):
to thank you for keeping me entertained on my recent
journey from Pharaoh to Winnipeg, Pharaoh or Fargo after an
air show and during my workdays. I'm impressed with how
your website makes podcast content available to read later. It's
a great feature. Looking forward to more great content in
the weeks to come. Thank you, Victor, and let's see here.

(01:47:04):
I think we have time for one more. Terry from
Arlington Heights, Illinois writes in, I've been a faithful listener
since you took over for Leo, and I never miss
an episode. While I really appreciate the technology you share,
it's your personal approach that makes your show a must listen.
You come across as a genuinely nice person and you
have a great radio presence. Thanks for keeping us informed

(01:47:25):
and entertained. Terry, you get the gold star for the week.
Thanks for making my day. Really really appreciate that. All Right,
there you have it. That's gonna do it for this
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(01:47:45):
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Speaker 2 (01:47:58):
Please do.

Speaker 1 (01:47:58):
It's got a lot of great including stuff that I
mentioned on this show. Thanks so much for listening. There
are so many ways you can spend your time I
really appreciate you spending it right here with me.

Speaker 2 (01:48:08):
Demiro.

Speaker 1 (01:48:09):
Household celebrating a couple of big things this week. My
wife and i's wedding anniversary. So if you looked at Instagram,
you saw that we went out of town for that.
So thanks for the congrats on that. And I have
a teenager in the house. Oh my gosh, my kid
turned thirteen. Oh my gosh, I remember driving him home.

Speaker 3 (01:48:25):
From the hospital.

Speaker 2 (01:48:25):
It feels like yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:48:27):
Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible, Kim Bobo,
my mom for playing DJ.

Speaker 2 (01:48:32):
My name is rich Demiro. I will talk to you
real soon.

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