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May 28, 2021 • 59 mins
Apple sets a date for another virtual WWDC; Instagram lets you hike likes; Amazon buys MGM; Google offers tools to help clear out your online storage; how to stop annoying spam calls; OnePlus' wellbeing wallpaper.Viewers ask about making cellular calls in a dead zone, reliable wireless service, a USB hub for a Mac laptop, a service to automatically download bank statements to the cloud, best flight search tool and the pitfalls of cheap cell phone carriers.Follow Rich on Social Media!https://twitter.com/richontechhttps://www.instagram.com/richontech/
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Apple sets a date to show off new features coming
soon to the iPhone. Instagram now lets you hide likes,
how to stop those annoying spam calls. Plus your tech
questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich Dmiro and this
is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk about
the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's
also the place where I answer the questions you send me.

(00:34):
And as I say every week, you sure do send
those questions along. You're not shy. I'm the tech reporter
at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. I get it.
You see me on TV. You say, I'm gonna ask
that guy a question, and you know what. That's what
this podcast is all about. So thanks for sending him in,
because if you didn't, I wouldn't be able to do
this show. Well, I want to say thank you for

(00:54):
something that happened to me. You know, I post stuff
on Instagram and I never you know, you never know
what the reaction is going to be, right, and so
you know, last night before bed, I was going through
some of my memories on Google Photos as I sometimes do,
and I came across a picture of me that I
was like, what is that? And it said, thirteen years ago,

(01:16):
and it was my headshot from when I started at
another TV station here in Los Angeles called k CAL nine.
And I'll just tell you the story because I didn't
I didn't tell the whole story on Instagram, but I
kind of told a little bit of it. But I'll
give you the kind of the cliffs notes version. But basically,
you know, I was doing my job at CNET. I

(01:37):
was working at CNET in New York City, and I'd
been a reporter in other places, but I was now
working for a website and I thought I had the
best job ever. I mean, I would have stayed at
c NET for the rest of my life. I worked
in New York City. My team was awesome. Everyone there
was just amazing. And this was like in the early
days of video and tech and all that stuff. And

(01:58):
I'm just doing my job and lobby blah blah blah.
I get a call from someone in Los Angeles at
CA CAW and They're like, hey, can you do what
you're doing over there here? And I'm like what, And
I mean, this is Los Angeles. My wife is from
LA She had been kind of itching to get back
a little bit, and so I was like, well, I
think so, and so they fly me out to La

(02:20):
me I think they flew me out. I can't really remember.
But anyway, so I get out there, I get the
job at CA CAL. Everything's fine, you know, I do
my job for a year. My contract's up and no renewal.
It's just like you're done. You're like, oh, okay, see you.
So my wife and I, you know, we go home
and I'm sitting there. And this was, by the way,
two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, when like
the entire economy collapsed and so there was no jobs

(02:41):
to be had out there, and so it was like, okay,
but I made a decision. I you know, we'd moved
around several times in the world to you know, be
a reporter, and I'd lived in Washington State, Louisiana. We'd
actually moved to LA another time before I moved back
to New York for CNET, and so I was kind
of done moving, and I said, you know what, but
do you just want to like stick it out here

(03:02):
and we'll just stay put in LA and just kind
of see what happens. And she was like sure, And
she had a job at the time, and so we did.
We just stayed put. We stayed put in our little apartment.
We just kept on going and I did some other things.
I worked for a website called tech Meme. I worked
at CANBC as a producer, and all of a sudden,
I get a call from the same person that called

(03:24):
me the first time at k CAL, who is now
working at KTLA, and said, hey, can we try this again?
Can you do what you're doing again again? And I said, okay,
but I have a good job again. So you know,
by this time, I actually had a full time job
at CANBC as a producer and it was a pretty
decent job. And I said, oh gosh, I don't know.

(03:44):
I'm a little scared this time, and he said, no,
it's going to be great. And so sure enough, it's
been ten plus years since that conversation and it has
been great, and I just want to say thank you.
I posted the picture to Instagram and I don't even
think most people knew I was on k CAL well,
but the comments have just been pouring in, and I
really I sometimes forget how many people kind of see

(04:07):
what I do on TV, and it makes it very
clear that you're watching, you're listening, and the things that
I do do have an impact on you. So thank you.
I just want to say thanks. That's that's it. So
all right, let's get to the first question or the
first story of the week. Apple. Apple Apple. I know,

(04:28):
of Rich you're such an Apple lover, Oh my gosh,
but you know, Apple kind of commands everything. But Apple
announced their Worldwide Developers Conference is going to be held
on June seventh. Official invites went out to the media,
including myself. Keno is at ten am on June seventh

(04:49):
Pacific time, which is nice. I mean Samsung when they
do theirs, it's like seven am Pacific. Why, I mean,
I guess they're more New York centric, But seven am
or ten am on June seventh WWDC. This will be
the second virtual WWDC, maybe the third. I don't even
know now. Twenty nineteen was live, twenty twenty was in virtual,

(05:10):
twenty twenty one was virtual or is going to be virtual?
So what are they going to announce? Well, of course
we always get to see kind of what's next with
the iPhone, and for my purposes, I think that's one
of the biggest things is you know, the iPhone is
kind of like the biggest product from Apple. So when
we see the new features coming to like it's either
going to be iOS fifteen perhaps or you know, maybe

(05:33):
another version of iOS fourteen. Usually they go to the fifteen.
But I mean, can you believe we're getting into like
fifteen major versions of iOS. I mean, it's just unbelievable.
But it's not just iOS. There's also mac os. There's
also iPad os, there's also tvOS, there's also watch os.
So we get to see all the new features that
are coming to all the different Apple products. They don't

(05:55):
come overnight, but you know, we get a little glimpse
into the future, and generally the new software launches, you know,
sometime later in the year September October when the new
devices launch. But anyway, I find it really fun. It's
it's usually a pretty pretty good keynote to get some
some insight on new features, and it always really I

(06:16):
was thinking about this, which keynote gets me the most
amped up about their products, and it's it's a war
between Apple and Google, because Google always gets me really
excited for this idea that like Google is trying to sell.
I think I talked about this, but may did I
leave my last podcast with this. I hope I didn't. Uh,
maybe this was announced last week. No, No, it was

(06:38):
Google that I talked about. That's right, Okay, it was
Google i OWE and I kind of mentioned this, but
I said, you know, Google, IOWE and Apple, they always
get me so excited. It's like a very like positive,
bright outlook on the future. I know, say what you
will about privacy and all the issues with these tech
companies and how they're monopolies and whatever antitrust, but at
the end of the day, they do affect our lives

(06:59):
and pretty amazing ways. And the benefits are there. If
you're if you're a typical consumer, you're you're getting a
lot of benefits from these companies. And so yeah, there's
people out there that say, oh, they're evil, they're they're terrible.
But the reality is when I sit there and do
a lot of the stuff that I do on a
daily basis, I literally sit there and think to myself,

(07:20):
this is quite amazing. What I'm able to do with
my phone right now, what I'm able to do with
my house right now, what I'm able to do on
my TV right now. It's just you know, with fitness,
with with my photos, with my editing with Instagram, with Twitter,
with Facebook. It's just quite amazing anyway. So June seventh,

(07:40):
ten am, can't wait. We will have more info about
what they announce in the next podcast. Let's get to
the first question of the day. All right, Bob says, Hey, Rich,
my wife is a nanny and the parents just move
to a new house in Stevenson's Ranch. That's an area
in Los Angeles. I think it's like a nice area too,

(08:03):
and cannot seem to get coverage for her phone. Do
you possibly know what alternative she has in order to
get a signal to use her iPhone? Thank you, Bob, Bob.
What she needs to do is latch onto their WiFi
and turn on Wi Fi calling. So most of the
carriers offer it. I'm pretty sure that the if she's
a nanny, I'm pretty sure she's either already on their

(08:26):
WiFi or it would be a polite ask to get
on their WiFi. But I think if if there's any
issue with that, you know, if they're like, no, you
cannot have our WiFi, I mean, that would be indicative
of a bigger issue. I think would trust but I
would ask to get on the Wi Fi and then
go into iPhone and turn on Wi Fi calling. So
the way that you do that is, let's see here,

(08:49):
turn on Wi Fi calling. Let's see you open. Oh gosh,
that's for your Mac. You can do that on your Mac.
Let's see iPhone. I know it's in somewhere in your phone. Okay,
settings Phone, No, that's not it. Oh, come on Wi
Fi calling, Apple Support, Okay, Wi Fi calling. Go into

(09:11):
settings phone, Wi Fi calling. That's it. Now. You may
have to once you toggle it on for the first time,
you may have to set up an emergency address. And
so because she's a nanny at this house, and you know,
God forbid she ever had to make a call for
an emergency, I would set their address as my emergency address,
because you know that would help. Now, just so you know,

(09:36):
the Wi Fi calling is going to continue at home,
So there's two options, you know, And if she ever
had to call nine one one from home, it would
deliver that the Stevenson's Ranch address to the nine one
one call or dispatch. So you have to kind of
think about that with the with respect to the address,
but I think because she's a nanny, it's probably more

(09:56):
important to have it go to the address of the
Stevenson ranch. But she could turn on and off Wi
Fi calling, like maybe just make it part of her day.
So every day that she gets to the house, she
turns on Wi Fi calling. When she exits, she just
turns it off. And that's kind of like part of
the routine. So anyway, good question, and it's surprising to
me how many people don't have Wi Fi calling on.

(10:16):
I actually I by default like it off because I'm like,
if I'm paying for my service, right like, if I'm
paying for Verizon, I would like my calls to be
routed through Verizon towers and not freeload on my Wi Fi.
But where my in laws live, there is no cell
phone service on Verizon, and so I have to turn

(10:36):
it on for that And so for that reason, my
calls do go through my Wi Fi at home, so
I can see my phone right now, says Verizon Wi Fi,
which is kind of a misnomer because it's not really
Verizon Wi Fi. It's Verizon and Wi Fi because my
WiFi is not Verizon. But anyway, so anyway, I have
a little you know, I generally if you don't need
Wi Fi calling at home, I would just leave it off.
There's no real benefit except you're just saving your carrier.

(11:00):
And with money, which I mean we pay them enough,
I think they can afford it. So that's my thoughts
on that. All right, let's talk about Instagram now. It's
ironic that the photo I was just talking about on
my Instagram of my old headshot for Kkel is like
one of the most liked photos I've posted in a
long time. And the irony is that I actually turned

(11:22):
off the ability for people to see how many likes
my photos are getting because of a new feature on Instagram.
So Instagram and Facebook have done this, but I think
it's most important. On Instagram. They are giving folks the
ability to hide the like counts on their posts, and
not just that, you can also hide all the like
counts that you see as you scroll through. So I

(11:44):
have turned on the hiding. There's two ways to do this.
You can turn on you know, as you scroll through Instagram,
you don't see any likes. It just says liked by
one of your you know, one random person plus others.
That's what we'll say, instead of liked by you know
someone plus seventy hundred twenty five others. It'll just say others.
So that's the number one thing. And to turn that on,

(12:06):
you go into click your little profile profile icon. Then
you click the three little lines that look like a
well I call it a hamburger, but it's like a menu.
Then you go into settings, and then you go into gosh,
there's a privacy. Then you go into privacy. Then you
go into posts and then it says likes and views,

(12:27):
hide like and view count. I mean, could they have
made that any tougher to find? But they are going
to put like a banner on your home screen as
well that says do you want to hide likes? So okay,
So I did that and now when I scroll through,
I don't see any likes when I'm scrolling through. And
I will tell you, after twenty four hours of this setup,
I really do like it. And I'll tell you why.

(12:49):
It frees my mind. It frees my mind to actually
look at the content and not worry about how popular
this person is. And so when I see a big
account that I know has thousands and hundreds of thousands
of likes that I just feel really, you know, like
insignificant or what's the word. I don't know, you know,
I just feel like I'm not as good, like why

(13:12):
is this person have so many in one minute? But
it doesn't. I don't do that anymore because I don't
have to think about it. So and the best part
is the smaller accounts are now elevated in my head
because it doesn't matter. They're the same. So let me
give you an example. A peloton instructor that gets, you know,
thirty four thousand likes in an hour is now on
the same playing field as an old friend from high

(13:33):
school who might get twenty five likes in an hour.
It doesn't matter. And so now I don't feel bad
like my brain used to just feel bad for the
one person and like a little bit jealous of the
other person, And now my brain doesn't have that knowledge,
so it's like whatever, I just look at the post
and if I like it, I'll like it or a
comment on it. So I think it's actually a really
good thing to turn that on and just test it

(13:54):
with yourself and see, I think it's good for the mind.
The second thing you can do so is even if
someone doesn't turn off the ability to see likes and
view counts, you can turn them off on your posts.
So every time that you make a post, there's now
an option to hide the like count, So you can
do that while you post, or you can do it

(14:16):
after you post by going to one of your posts
hitting the three little dots and it says hide like count.
And so that's a really nice way to do it
as well. So I don't know, I'm testing it out.
I'm gonna see how it works, but so far, I'm
kind of digging it, and I think that it's a
good thing for people to at least test this. I
think especially you know, my wife and I were debating

(14:38):
this last night, like is it good for teenagers? And
you know, she said it was, but they're not going
to do it, And I said, well, I think it's
good for adults too, because I think that no matter
what the way that our brain works as a human,
that's just programmed a certain way. You look at the
picture and then you immediately look at the likes. It's
just the way we've been programmed, because that's what the

(14:58):
app is all about. So the fact that you don't
have to do that anymore, I think really frees up
your brain to do other stuff. All right, let's get
to another question Sean, with the subject line, Android says,
how about a wireless service that actually works and reliable?

(15:21):
They are all horrible. Okay, Well, I don't necessarily agree
with that. I mean, I've been around the world with
varying wireless services, mostly at and T and Verizon, and
I am actually quite amazed at where I've been in

(15:42):
the world and have a cell phone signal, and so
just to kind of just say a blanket statement that
they're all horrible, I just can't agree with. I actually
think it's quite magical that it's getting harder and harder
to escape from the connected world that we live in,

(16:02):
and so these services are quite amazing. They connect people,
they help people. You know, there's there was a story
about and I forget but there was like a car
that had crashed, and you know, these cars have like
there's a couple of ways that it can do it.
Like you know, your Apple Watch can help respond. Now

(16:24):
your car can have like on Star on the pixel.
They've got the the crash feature where if you're you know,
you crash, it'll call for help. And all of those
things rely on sort of a signal. And so if
you don't have a signal, that's going to be a problem.
And and most of the time there is a signal
now and yes, in some of the rural areas there

(16:44):
it's spotty. I mentioned where my in laws live, they
don't have a signal there. But the funny thing is
they actually so for many many years they didn't have
a signal. But now T Mobile works one hundred percent there,
and at and T works I think pretty well like
ninety percent. And Verizon works if you stand in like

(17:05):
a certain place, but only a little tiny bit like
you might get a notification. So yeah, Verizon, you know,
is the odd man out there. But the reality is
it just can you know, it's continued to get better
over the years. You know, in the past ten years,
I've seen that it's gotten better. And now when it
comes to these new five G networks, like yeah, people say,
oh they're not that fast, it's not that great. But yeah,
if you get like if you capture one of those

(17:27):
like five G ultra wideband signals from Verizon, I mean,
it's it's like lightning in a bottle, it's so fast.
And so you know, and again I've I've been all
over the place. I've been all over the place, and
I would say ninety nine point nine percent of the
time there's a signal. Now, calls used to drop back

(17:48):
in the day, like yes, of course I used to,
you know, even driving over the four or five, like,
there used to be one spot where every single time
the call would drop, and that's been patched. I mean,
so it's you know, these carriers, say what you will.
I mean, I think we pay too much for some
of this cell service unless you're you know, on a
on a smaller carrier or on a smaller plan. I
think the it's expensive, but you know, the service are

(18:12):
providing I think has gotten better over the years, and
I think that you know, you could debate me on that,
but just you know, send in your info. What do
you think, I mean, send in your your thoughts. Has
service gotten better at your house? Has there been a
place where you used to drop out? Or you don't?
You know. So I don't think they're all horrible. Now,
I will say, I do think that Verizon and AT

(18:33):
and T are are really good. I think a T
mobile is coming up, but you know, the uh, it's
just one of these things. Well, I guess T Mobile
now they have Sprint. I mean, it's probably even getting
better and it's funny because most of the test lines
that you know, when they send me a phone to test,
generally they send like a you know, thirty days of
service or something so you can test out the phone,

(18:53):
and a lot of times, I would say nine out
of ten it's T Mobile. So if I'm testing a phone,
I'm using like the Tea Mobile network, and I will admit,
I mean, I'm just gonna be honest, I do notice
that my Verizon or AT and T signals are better,
Like the latency I've noticed the latency, the availability of
a good signal, and the latency on and the speed

(19:14):
some most of the time is just a little bit
better on the two historic carriers. But then again, a
lot of times T Mobile charge less than the two
biggest and so you know, it's it's one of these
things that's trade off. Not everyone needs like the best, latest,
greatest everything. So I'm not knocking T Mobile in any way.
I actually, if I had my preference for how I

(19:35):
like a company run, T Mobile actually kind of I
really like how they run their company, like the way
that they kind of approach their customers and their customer
service and the way they do things. I really do like.
So it's all good, and I you know, I just anyway,
that's a that's a long answer for a kind of
a one line question, but or a one line statement,

(19:56):
I should say. But there you have it. You're listening
to the Rich on Tech show. Oh so you're gonna
get rich on tech. All right, let's talk about one
of the big, big, big stories of the week, Amazon
acquiring MGM. I mean, this is just wild. It's just
the fact that we have these tech companies. And I

(20:18):
tweeted about this, you know, I said that here we are.
It's just wild to me that literally tech is just
eating through Hollywood. I mean, think about what they've done
over the years. They totally changed the way music is.
They totally changed the way movies are delivered. They totally

(20:39):
changed the way movies are made. I mean, Netflix just
took everything and just abended it. Now by the way,
they did it twice. They did it the first time
with the whole DVD situation. Then they did it again
with the way they produce things, the way they distribute things.
Who you can't put movies out on a streaming service first, Oh,
now HBO Max does it too, Now Disney does too.

(21:00):
I mean it's it's pretty wild to watch how tech
has just chumped through Hollywood. And when you really think
about it, none, almost. I can't think of one example
where the innovation that that we are living with today
when it comes to entertainment has anything to do with
a historic company that was started in Hollywood. Nothing almost nothing.

(21:23):
I mean think about it, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, all
the ways were entertained Netflix. They were all invented by
tech companies, not by the historic companies. What does that
tell you? It tells you that these people made a
lot of money and they get comfortable and they just
really can't innovate because guess what, when you're printing DVDs

(21:46):
and you're selling them for twenty bucks a pop, it's
really tough to give that up. And I totally understand that.
And I feel like this with my job. You know,
I've been at my job for ten years now at KTLA,
and I feel like, I, Hey, I'm sure there are
people out there that are looking at me saying, ugh,
this guy does the same been doing the same thing
for ten years, doesn't know anything new, doesn't care to

(22:08):
try anything different, And honestly, like that's my biggest fear
is I don't want to become that because I want
to be. I constantly want to be innovating, and I
want to be you know, even to this day trying
new ways of reporting or new ways of gathering my
reports are coming up with reports or the even the
reports I do. I mean, I really like. This is

(22:29):
why when people are always like, oh, you did a
report on a beer brewery, how's that tech, It's like, well,
that's the thing. Like I like to challenge myself and
find the tech in different places. Yes, it's easy to
find tech in a smartphone. I can do that every
day of the week. But when I can get out
there and really find novel ways of telling tech stories
that don't involve a smartphone, that's really fun and that

(22:52):
you know, it gets me going. And So anyway, Amazon
acquiring MGM for eight and a half billion dollars, according
to CNBC's second largest acquisition since it paid nearly fourteen
billion dollars for Whole Foods in twenty seventeen. I can't
believe that MGM is worth that much. I mean, this
is a historic company. What they're really getting here, according

(23:14):
to what Amazon is saying, is the IP which is
the intellectual property, and they've got a lot of it.
I mean movies like Basic Instinct, James Bond, Legally Blonde,
Poulter Guy, RoboCop, Rocky, Silence of the Lamb, Stargate, Thelma Luis,
tomb Raider, Pink Panther, Thomas Crown Affair. Along with seventeen

(23:37):
thousand shows, four thousand films. They also own Fargo, Handsmade
Tale and Handmade Handmaid's Tale and Vikings, So every one
of those things I just mentioned. Imagine there's going to
be a reboot. I mean just it's going to be done, reboot,
TV show whatever, and a lot of these movies will

(24:00):
probably show up on Amazon Prime, which is really really
good for the customer that's paying the one hundred and
twenty bucks a year for Amazon Prime, which yeah, we'll
probably see a price increase for that this year, I think,
especially through the pandemic where Amazon had a little bit
of struggles, but they came out on top. You know,
they're they're really doing a fantastic job. Like the delivery

(24:21):
is so unbelievably reliable. And I talked about this in
my last episode about ordering the soap from Doctor Squatch
and it took you know, three weeks to get it,
and I just couldn't believe it. Whereas I ordered something
on Amazon yesterday morning at ten am and I got
it by seven pm. And by the way, it's still
sitting in my mailbox, which is really sad. So but

(24:43):
I need it for today because I'm gonna start testing
something and you know, I just needed that part. But anyway,
so I predict a little bit of a price increase,
maybe five bucks this year on Amazon Prime memberships, just
because they're firing on all cylinders here. Amazon is just
not slow going down, and you know, they've got a
lot of cash, but they also need a lot of

(25:04):
cash because they are they just continue to like, oh
my gosh, there's no stopping in sight with this company.
All right, let's see here. Uh, okay, okay, where am
I here? Sandy says, Hey, Rich, you helped me before
with your great advice and recommendations. I need a USB
three point zero port hub plus USB C cable for

(25:27):
my new MacBook Air. I'm sure you're aware this laptop
only has two ports and that's not enough to support
my external devices. Thank you, Sandy from Culver City, Sandy
super easy. You need you need a USB C hub,
and you can. There's a million of these things. I've
been using one from Vava va v A. They sent

(25:50):
this over to me to test, and it's been great.
It's super simple. It's got HDMI output, it's got uh,
let's see what else does I have. It's got three
USB three point zero ports, it's got an SD card reader,
it's got everything you need. So you just plug this
into your computer and you get three USB slots as well,

(26:13):
and so I say go with that. It's twenty five bucks.
Looks like they even have it cheaper. But there's so
many of these things. I mean, you can get them,
you know, just just search USB three hub on Amazon
and you can just you know, there's so many. But
you know, the Vava is very popular. It depends how
many ports you need. You can get one as cheap
as fifteen bucks. I'm looking at this one from Anchor,

(26:35):
but that is not a USB C Nope, you don't
want that one. You got to look for one that
has a USB C connector that goes into your computer.
So that's what you need. That's like the magical part.
And so I have another one that I bought just
a random one on Amazon. I don't even know the
name of it, but that's that's what you're looking for
USB C hub and just go with the Vava one.

(26:56):
That one's that one's pretty simple, they work great, and
they're they're pretty good twenty five bucks. And yes, I
am well aware. I had the before my current computer,
I had the MacBook Pro that only I think it
only had two yeah, because my new one has four,
two on each side. And actually I gave that one
to my son and I was plugging it in the

(27:16):
other day and I was like, wait, you only have
two things on here, and they're both on one side.
I'm like, ah, or maybe they're on I forget. I
can't go over there and look. But anyway, Yes, Apple
is known for really being a little skimpy on the
ports on their computers and on their devices. They've over
the years, if you think about it, Apple has just
continually gotten rid of every single way to plug things

(27:38):
into their devices. And you can argue that that's to
drive everything to the cloud, drive everything to their situation
where you connect with their stuff, but the reality is
it's it's kind of annoying, especially as as a quasi creator.
I call myself. I mean, I'm not really a creator.
I mean, I guess I am. I create stuff, not
in a YouTube sense, but more on a I mean,

(27:58):
I guess I do stuff for social media. So but
I'm not like a standard creator like an I Justine,
you know, where she's you know, she's a creator. They
term themselves that, where they're creating content on a daily basis.
For I mean, I guess I am. I consider myself
more like a journalist, you know, that's what historically you
know as or a reporter, you know, but all the
all the lines are blurred and you know how people

(28:20):
see you nowadays. All right, let's talk about speaking of creating.
You know, my whole journey with Google Photos, and I'm
now paying fifty dollars a month for ten terabytes of storage,
which is fine. I mean, yeah, it's a lot, but
it's one of these things where you know, when you
look at the tools you need to do your job.
I need this tool and I'm not going to sit
there and try to figure out a way to hack

(28:41):
together you know, a situation and all this stuff just
to you know, save you know, what might amount to
you know, thirty bucks a month or something. You know,
don't forget. It wasn't. I was already paying ten so
and you're like, rich, well that's forty. But I get
I get it. I get it. I know. It's one
of these things. But here's the deal. It's I already paid.
It's already been a month. I've already paid twice, I think,

(29:04):
and so it's been fine. You know. It's just one
of these things where when I look at my storage
now I'm just I breathe a sigh of relief. I'm like, ah, Okay,
my stuff is in there. It's okay. Now my next
thing is actually backing up all that stuff, and I
have a whole plan for that, but I won't get
into that right now. But you know, Google Photos, and
this is how this all kind of started. Google Photos

(29:25):
is no longer it's no longer an unlimited free ride,
right so you still get fifteen gigabytes of free storage,
and for a lot of people that's gonna be fine,
but now they're gonna start charging above that. Even there
used to be an option in Google Photos to upload
your photos in a compressed what they called high quality version,
which would be unlimited and free forever. And yeah, that's

(29:46):
not the case anymore. As of June first, even in
that unlimited or I'm sorry, even that compressed high quality format,
it is still counting against your storage quota. Now the
trick is everything you uploaded before June first, in that
high quality format is still free. It's very confusing, very
very confusing. But anyway, I'm above it no matter what.

(30:10):
So what I'm trying to tell you here is that
Google is very aware of this. They're not trying to
be evil, They're just realizing that there's four trillion photos
in Google Photos. And yes, was Google Photos promised at
inception as a free, unlimited storage place forever. Yeah, they
probably never used the word forever, but they kind of
insinuated it, and so yes, I'm a little annoyed. But

(30:31):
at the same time, at this point, there's really no
free unlimited storage anywhere. It's like any of these companies
they used to hand out free storage like candy, and
now it's like, nope, now we've got the cavities to fill.
That sounded pretty good. That didn't make any sense, but hey,
you know, it kind of worked. So what I'm trying
to tell you is you now have some new tools

(30:53):
like Google is like you know, look, we understand we're
kind of being a little bratty with this whole situation,
but we're gonna help you. We're gonna help you kind
of get rid of some of the fluff in your account.
So now if you go into your Google Photos, you've
got several new tools. You tap your little profile picture,
then you tap account storage, and it brings you to

(31:14):
this new page that tells you a couple things. Number one,
it tells you how many years you have left before
your storage is going to be used up, and I
have four years. Apparently I'm using about just under I'm
using just under two terabytes of my ten and then
it breaks it down, I'm using one point seventy five
terabytes in Google Photos, and then one hundred and fifty
gigabytes in Google Drive, Gmail and more. Then it tells

(31:38):
me how I can clear up some of this stuff.
So you have four new options, large photos and videos,
other apps, screen shots, and blurry photos. Blurry photos is
the easiest one to start with. Just go in there
and just delete blurry photos. You're not gonna save a
ton of space, but you know you will save some
space because some of my blurry photos, you know, they
could be pretty big. Now the screenshot, I've got a

(32:01):
gigabyte of screenshots, which may not seem like a lot
with ten terabytes used, But if you're in fifteen gigs
of storage and you free up a gigabyte of screen shots,
that's pretty good. And now some of these screenshots, I
need a lot of screenshots to save. But a lot
of my screen shots were like ten megabytes, so those
are significantly pretty big. Other apps, I'm not really sure

(32:26):
how they delineate like what was from other apps, but
it looks like all the videos that I've uploaded to Instagram.
Somehow I identifies those I don't know. And then large
photos and videos, and that's a big one. Now I've
got my first my first like ten videos. First one
is nine gigs, second one is seven gigs, six gigs,
five gigs, four five five five I guess five. And

(32:49):
I can't really get rid of those because you know,
they're all like my raw footage from like you know,
different shoots and stuff. So but you can go through there,
and it's a nice easy way to kind of just
clean out your Google Drive Google photos and reclaim some
space that you may need to either keep you under
that fifteen gigabytes for free, or maybe you bumped up

(33:10):
to one hundred gigabytes for like two bucks a month.
You want to stand er that. Or maybe you bumped
up to the two terabytes for ten bucks a month.
You want to stander that. Or maybe you're like me
and you just gave up on the world and now
you're paying fifty dollars a month to Google for storage.
All right? Next question, Greg says, Hey, Rich, I really

(33:31):
enjoy your show. Is there a way to easily download
monthly bills and bank and credit card statements without going
to each site, logging on, navigating to where the statement is,
downloading it, and finally organizing each statement into its proper folder.
Oh you make this sound so tough. Right now, I
received paper statements which I can scan, but I would
like to avoid wasting all that paper. Thank you, Greg.

(33:52):
Good question, And it's funny this is I actually kind
of gave up on downloading all this stuff. I used
to do it, and it's kind of you know, it's
one of these things where the companies, a lot of them,
will only keep like a certain amount of back statements,
So if you really need to go back, you may

(34:13):
not be able to. I've noticed on some of mine
they're like a year and a half, summer, two years,
some are like unlimited, some are like six months. So
it probably isn't your best interest to download these statements.
But then again, I don't know. I mean, it's it's
kind of up to you. I look over my stuff
and kind of like, I don't know. Sometimes I download them,
sometimes I forget too. But I agree it would be

(34:35):
nice if there was a system that can do all this.
But originally I was doing some research and I remember
someone had emailed me about a website that does justice
and they said they love it, and there may be
different ones, but the one that I found was called
file this, And originally I said that it had shut
down because when I searched for it, it said file
this pro or is going away, and it gave a

(34:57):
list of alternatives. But now that I take a little
bit of a closer look, it looks like that was
just the pro version. It seems like the consumer version
is still up and running and it does exactly what
you say. It will log into all your different bills,
you know, Fidelity, PayPal, Chase, Comcast, American Express, Target, At

(35:17):
and T, Amazon, says it connects with over seven hundred
and fifty different institutions and it will download those and
file them for you. And if you look at their plans,
it's free for up to six connections and five hundred
gigs of five hundred megabytes of storage. You can pay
two dollars a month or five dollars a month. My
only concern this seems to do everything you need, and

(35:38):
I actually think this looks really cool. I wish Google
would buy this and just integrate it into clod Google Drive.
But the only thing that concerns me is, like everything
seems to be locked in, like twenty fifteen, like the
entire website. Like if I look at like their Facebook, Okay,
the last time they Facebook was twenty seventeen, Twitter, twenty

(35:59):
eight teen, Google Plus. They have a link to which
come on that's not been around forever. LinkedIn is not
even available YouTube. The last time I uploaded a video
was six years ago. So I think that you know,
it may do what you need, and I guess I
can test it out, but I'd just be a little concerned.
I'm like, is this company still going? I did check
their iOS app and it was updated in twenty twenty

(36:24):
in June, so you know, that's a year ago. That's
a little, you know, a little respectable. But anyway, again,
the website is called file this, and it sounds like
it does exactly what you need. Check it out, see
if you're comfortable with it. But again, since it hasn't
really done much in a couple of years, I'd be
a little concerned linking up all my bank accounts. But

(36:45):
maybe just test it with one that you don't care
about as much and see how it works. All right,
let's talk about spam calls. I know so many people
get them. I get them. They're a nuisance. I don't
get as many as I think I would get, but
I do get them, and they're annoying. And you know
when you get them, when you pick up the phone,
even though you see the number and you're like, is
this a number in my area? It kind of looks

(37:06):
like a doctor, kind of looks like the school. I
just pick it up, and you pick it up and
you say hello, and immediately you know that you made
a mistake because there's no one on the other end
for like twenty seconds. And what's happening in that twenty
seconds is the computer as it's dialing thousands and thousands
of numbers, it's like we got one, we got one,
we got some of that picked up. And then they

(37:29):
they forward that call to like some person that's sitting
there with their laptop to go ahead and scam you
or do whatever they do or sales pitch you or whatever.
So and then by that time, I'm already like so
compassionate for these people and I feel so bad that
I can't just hang up on them. So they're like okay,
They're like, like the other one the other day I
picked up. It was like, hi, sir, you your Amazon.

(37:53):
We're just confirming your Amazon order. And I'm like, oh, yes,
please confirm. And they're like did you order a you know,
two thousand dollars camera? And I'm like oh, yes, yes,
like oh, and that of course threw them off because
they want you to be like, no, stop this. Let
me give you all my information so you can stop this.
And so I said yes I did, and they said, oh,

(38:15):
did you send it to a Michael Blue Block And
I'm like yes, I did. In fact, like oh uh
do you know a Michael Blue Block? And I'm like
yes I do. And it's just totally tripped them up
and they hung up on me. Gotta have some fun anyway,
So I consulted the privacy and security editor at Wirecutter,

(38:37):
who wrote an article about stopping the calls. And the
basic takeaway from this is that you have to download
the free app that your wireless carrier provides. So they
all have one. So on AT and T it's called
AT and T Call Protect. They've got it for iOS
and Android. On Verizon it's called Verizon Call Filter, and
on T Mobile it's called T Mobile Scam Shield. And

(38:59):
those are the three apps that you should be downloading.
I mean, just download the one that corresponds with your
carrier and activate it, and they will try to upsell you.
All these apps, almost all of them try to upsell
you into more, and just say no, just just ignore it.
You don't need more. It'll just work, you know, It'll
just work the way it is now. There's a couple

(39:21):
other things you can do. If you have a landline,
there's a service called Nomo Robo, and that's nothing new,
it's been around forever. It is free for landlines only,
not for phones. You can get it for phones like
cell phones, but it's gonna cost you. On Android, you
could do another thing, and this is kind of cool.
So on Android you can download the basically replace your

(39:42):
dialer app with Google's dialer and it has caller ID
and spam protection built in and it's free. And when
I downloaded it to test it, I had to turn
on the caller ID and spam protection. So you can
do that in the settings. Now. If you're on Samsung,
their dialer also has as a built in caller or
you know, caller ID and spam protection, but it may

(40:05):
not be turned on, so you have to turn it
on and activate it. And that's one of the things
I love the most about Android versus iPhone is that
for some reason there's no like maybe I can't maybe
I have to pay for it on on iOS, but
I can't figure out a way to get like caller
ID on iOS runs on Android, like all the phones
have it. I mean when you when I when I'm
testing a Samsung and someone calls me, it's like, oh,

(40:27):
whatever company it is, it like shows up on the thing. Now.
One thing they have on iOS that I love that
doesn't on Android is you know, iOS sirie looks through
all your emails and your text messages to look for
names and phone numbers, and so if someone ever calls
you and they put their phone number in their in
their signature of their email, it'll say maybe it's this

(40:48):
person you know on your caller ID, which I think
is just amazing one of my favorite features on the
iPhone for sure. Uh Okay, there's another option for blocking
these calls, and this is of course a very drastic option,
and this is blocking all unknown callers. You can do
that on iPhone and on Samsung. They both have. On

(41:09):
iPhone it's called Silence Unknown Callers. On Samsung it's called
block Unknown Callers, and that's inside the dialer in iOS,
it's inside the settings. Now, the problem with this situation is, yeah,
I mean, if you're if you don't have kids, maybe
that's fine. If you don't have loved ones that you
need to like, you know, worry about or something, you know,
if it just depends on your spot in life, right like,

(41:31):
if you're not worried about, you know, being like the
emergency contact for anyone, sure turn it on. The problem
is if you are, then it's going to be a
problem because if you ever get an emergency call, it's
not going to come through, and you know, so you've
got that going on, and you've got the whole situation

(41:51):
of let's say DoorDash, you order something from door dash
and uh, you know, they call you to say, hey,
we're outside, and it's just not going to go through.
You're not gonna get it. And so there are a
couple of little situations where calls need to come through
that are not in your address book or you haven't
interacted with recently, and those may just not work. So
just be aware of that and otherwise, you know, those

(42:13):
are the best ways to get rid of these spam
calls for now. The one other thing to know and
I kind of knew this and the Thorin let's say
Thorin Klosowski, who I interviewed at Wirecutter, he said, the
same thing, which is basically blocking the individual numbers, is
not going to work. Like unless it's a particular like

(42:33):
biller or someone that's calling you incessantly, like a car
dealership for follow up, Like, yeah, blocking that number will work.
But if it's just like blocking random spam numbers, it's
not going to do anything. Because they use this technology
that they basically change the number every time they call,
so it doesn't they're not calling from the same number
twice like almost ever. So that's what you need to
know about blocking spam calls. Hope it helps you all, right,

(43:00):
Next question, let's see here, Mary says, airline flights. Hey, Rich,
searching all your posts and finally found some posts where
they were old and no longer contained information I needed. Okay,
I guess that's a Can you please send me some
apps info on how to find the best price for
air flights? Want to treat my son to Vegas for

(43:21):
his fiftieth surprise birthday party. Oh I hope, hope he's
not listening and I'm paying for his kid's airline flights. Wow,
what a nice does she say her son? Okay, Wow,
what a nice mom. It's all happening in October, but
with things finally getting back to normal, I don't want
to wait until last minute and prices get out of
control or reach. If you could provide some apps info,

(43:43):
I would greatly appreciate it. Mary. Well, Mary, let me
tell you Number one. I predict that we are going
to see a major increase in airline prices this year,
and I've noticed it just with myself casually booking flight
for the next year, and it's it's just like the
nickel and diming is at an all time high. The

(44:07):
prices are are good if you're on like the most
random days, but if you're if you're on a day
that's you know, an algorithm identified like hot day, you know,
not hot temperature, but like, okay, this is a popular
time to go. The algorithms are really juicing things up.
And the reason is because these companies didn't make money
for a year, and now they're saying, look, we're gonna

(44:29):
start making some money. And we know you guys want
to travel because we know you've been locked up at
home for a year. And so I've noticed. I just
booked a flight for my mom to come out to
LA and it was expensive, and it was just it
just kept going up and we ended up choosing you know,
different days and different times to make it a little
bit more reasonable. But at the end of the day,

(44:50):
some of these flights are getting very very expensive. Now.
I don't know where you're coming from for Vegas, but
the the only website, there's only one websit that I
use to look at flights, and that is are you
ready flights dot Google dot com. I don't think you
need another website at all. Now with that said, I

(45:12):
will tell you why a couple of reasons. Number one
Google is they treat flights the way they treat all
their search information. They take it all in, they process
it using AI, and they spit out the data and
what happens there when you're searching for flights, it will
tell you the cheapest times, the cheapest days. It'll even

(45:32):
tell you, hey, if you leave this day and you
leave that day, it'll be a little bit cheaper. And
there's just not a lot of fluff on the website.
Now you might say, yeah, Kayak does a lot of
that stuff. They've got the hacker fares. But Kayak is
you know, it's good, but it's a little bit like
it's all over the place. You know you're looking. It's
like trying to sell you stuff to every other line

(45:52):
is like an ad for something. And so, you know,
I think Kayak's great, but I just don't think it
has the power of Google. And I just really really look,
I've been booking flights for twenty years and I think
Google is my It's my first stop and pretty much
my only stop. Now let me give you the caveats.
Southwest is not represented with pricing. Now sometimes I've noticed

(46:17):
that Southwest will show up as a line item with
the time the flight takes off, but not the price
of the flight, which is really kind of worthless to me.
I mean, it's nice to know sometimes there's an alternative.
So that's number one. So if you're talking about Southwest,
I would you know, if you're talking about a Southwest
destination and you fly Southwest, I would definitely go directly

(46:40):
to the Southwest website. So and then there's other airlines too,
like these New Breeze and a Veo a lot of times,
or Jet Suite X or I guess they're called JSX.
Now you're not going to find them. Sometimes you may
find them on Google. Sometimes you may not. You know,
the smaller carriers sometimes do their own thing and they
just kind of stick to themselves. So with that said,

(47:04):
in this case, I would probably I would probably go
to Southwest and see and if you're serviced by one
of these new airlines, I would check their websites too
if they're not represented on Google. But for me, my
typical way to book is I will go to the
Google website, you know the flights. I will look at
my preferred days, then I click to see a calendar,

(47:25):
and on the calendar, it will give me the cheapest
days to fly. So I generally see, can I do
those days? If I can, I'll reselect those days, and
then on those days, it'll highlight the cheapest flight times
in green, and I'll try to choose those. But the
best advice I can give you is to book right now.
I don't think these things are going to get any cheaper.
And I think with some of the flexibility the airlines

(47:47):
have given us with the change fees, it's just like,
go ahead and book, and if you really need to,
you can always change it. Now. The trick with the
change is that you're never going to get your money back,
but you will get it as a credit. But those credits,
so it's like it's it's look, these airlines, they've made
things a little bit easier. But believe me, they are
sitting there in their rooms, in there around these conference tables,

(48:09):
just dreaming of new ways to wring this money from
our pockets. And yes, they're so nice that they let
us change our flights now, which to me never made
any sense. Like, why is it a big deal if
I book my flight? Why can't I just change it
to a different flight if I need to? And yeah,
I have to pay the difference, but like, okay, fine,
but I'd be willing to Like why did it take

(48:30):
a pandemic for them to do that? I don't know.
Southwest has had that flexibility forever, and it's like just
such a nice flexibility. It also took away one of
Southwest's biggest selling points, because now all the major airlines
pretty much do that. But then they get people with
these bargain fairs, these you know, economy basics and the
you know, the savier fairs whatever they call them on
the different airlines, and you get in one of those,

(48:50):
and it's gonna be tougher to change and tougher to
get a seat and all this stuff. So and you're
nickel and dying with everything. So again they're just coming
up with the the every time my search a flight,
I'm just amazed at the new ways of I heard
one on KTLA we mentioned this that this new airline
has a nine dollars fee for printing out your boarding
pass or whatever the fee what three dollars whatever it

(49:12):
is but like okay, wow, and I get it, and
maybe there's a larger calling for them, for the for
the environment, and they're saying, hey, look we want you
to use your your phone as your boarding pass and
that doesn't take any paper. But no, they're just trying
to They're just trying to stick it to you and
get a little extra cash at you. Yeah, isn't flying fun.
I was on a flight the other day where they

(49:33):
only took they didn't even take credit cards anymore. You
had to have signed up with your credit card on
the app for them to accept it. And this was
on United and luckily I had my card in the app.
I was able to buy something, but it, yeah, you
couldn't even use you know, cash has been like no

(49:54):
way for a while now. Used to be just cards.
Now it's like not even cards anymore. Now it's like
you already have to have your profile. They look at
your seat number and they say, okay, we're going to
charge this to the card on your profile. And I
was like okay. Now, it was a test, but something
tells me that will probably be next because think about it,
I mean, less handling of things, you know, you number,

(50:15):
you know, the other thing is they have your card
now on file, so it's easier to upsell you in
the air. So and it's it's also that idea of
when you're not using cash or now even using a card,
there's no pain, you know. Oh here, give me, give
me a snack pack and just put it on my
seat and you'll figure it out later. Right. One plus

(50:35):
has a new wallpaper called well Paper, and it kind
of is a visual reminder of your digital well being
and it's pretty cool. I installed it on one of
my devices to test it out, and just imagine your
wallpaper changes throughout the day and it's responding to how

(50:56):
much you're using your phone. So they've got a bunch
of different category lifestyle and communication, entertainment, information, social tools, games,
and they have three different designs. One is radial, one
is glow, and one is tiles. And you know, based
on what you're using throughout the day, the the wallpaper

(51:16):
changes so you can see visually, like, okay, let me
give an example. Entertainment is red. So if your whole
phone screen is sort of taken up by red, by
the red color, you've been spending a lot of time
watching YouTube. And so if it's if it's all blue
or purple. I can't really tell what this is. You
know that means or navy. Then your whole day has

(51:38):
been taken up by social media. So it's just kind
of a neat way to visualize and uh, you know,
there's nothing wrong with that. It's kind of cool. I
And the other thing you can do is like tap it.
You can tap your phone screen like tap the wallpaper,
and it will show you like usually there's nothing, there's
no labels, but if you tap, it'll show you labels
of kind of what's going on. So it's called digital

(52:00):
well paper w E L L P A P E R.
I couldn't find it by search in the in the
Google play store. I found it by a link, so
maybe it's on search now. Maybe it just took a
little bit for to like kind of get in there.
But it's it's cool. You know. If you're trying to
like limit the amount of time that you're on these things,
then I think it's a good thing to try. Let's see, Okay,

(52:28):
let's get you another question. Stanley says a comment on
today's segment, Sure a cheaper plan is possible and sounds
great initially as someone who's gone down this route. I'm
familiar with the pitfalls. After all, the savings have come
from somewhere like customer service quality and data QoS. Oh,
after all the savings have to come from somewhere like

(52:49):
customer service quality and data QoS. Under these mv and os,
your data is a lower priority compared to customers with
plans through Verizon AT and T, T Mobile, et cetera.
Good luck even getting competent or time customer service. A
shame these pitfalls weren't mentioned otherwise. I enjoy your segments.
Thank you Stanley for the feedback. This is on a
segment we did on some of the cheaper cell phone

(53:10):
plans out there, like the the US Mobile, the Visible,
the Crickets, the you know what were the other ones? Cricket,
the Mints, the Good to Go and what Stanley is
saying is true. But when you're paying nine dollars a
month for a cell phone plan, I don't think you're

(53:30):
expecting to have the fastest data. I don't think you're
you're worried about customer service as much. I don't think
that you're interested in, you know, data throttling and all
these things. I think you just want to pay nine
bucks a month for a plan, And so I didn't
mention this in the report because what's the point. I mean,

(53:52):
if you're you know, Stanley, you're clearly sounding like someone
who knows this stuff because you use terms like QoS,
MV and OS. You know, I think that you're a
little bit ahead of the crowd when it comes to
kind of some people are just looking to save money,
and there's nothing wrong with that. And yes there are

(54:15):
things like I did mention, you know, you're not going
to get free Netflix. You know, it's not included with
the plan, you know, look out for. I gave the
pitfalls that I think were the most important, which is,
you know, number one, you need to be sure that
your data. You need to know if your plan has
data that's cut off completely or data that's just slowed
down to a crawl. And I mentioned, you know, let's

(54:36):
say you get a three gigabyte data plan and after
that your data's cut off, you can't use data on
your phone. Now, I noticed most of the carriers are
backed away from that because I think it's kind of
a security thing, like you don't want to be trying
to navigate and run out of your plan and next thing,
you know, it's like you can't do anything on your phone.
So I think most of them will at this point
slow down your data. But they slow it down. And

(54:57):
I mentioned this slow so slow that you can't do anything.
I mean I had this happen on one of my
devices and it was like, oh my gosh, I literally
can't do anything right now because it's so slow the data.
But you know, I think I gave the pitfalls I
think were the most important to most people. The fact
that you know your data is a lower priority. I
think you understand that when you're paying nine bucks a

(55:19):
month or ten bucks a month, I think that you
just kind of get that. And yeah, if you're paying
ninety bucks to Verizon AT and T or T Mobile
a month, yeah, you do expect a higher quality of service.
I think that comes with the territory. But when you're
paying twenty five dollars a month for unlimited through Visible,
I think that you're pleasantly surprised every month that you're
paying just twenty five dollars for unlimited service. And yes,

(55:42):
that's what Visible does. And now that you have to
join a party pay plan, but you can join just
anyone's Party Play but a plan. But I'll tell you.
I had a family member that I told about this,
and they switched to the Visible and they switch to
the Party Play for twenty five bucks a month, and
they're impressed that every month they paid twenty five bucks
for unlimited service on Verizon. And I have another family

(56:05):
member that uses Mint Mobile and every month they pay
fifteen dollars a month for their plan, and they can't
believe it. And they're not worried about their data being
deprioritized or this or that or customer service because they're
not expecting anything. They're like, oh my gosh, I can't
believe I'm paying fifteen dollars a month for service. And
when I test out these plans, you know, I've got
a Mint Mobile test plan and it's it's thirty bucks

(56:30):
a month for unlimited, and I sit there and I
use it, and I'm like, this is unbelievable. Now. Is
it as good as my Verizon full paid plan? No?
But is it just as amazing for the price, yes,
if not better. So if I wasn't doing all kinds
of uploads to social media and you know, all this
stuff streaming, I would one hundred percent be on one

(56:51):
of these plans one hundred percent, And would I expect
the same service as one hundred dollars plan from Verizon
or T Mobile or Att Absolutely not. But would I
be pleasantly surprised every month and my service works for
the price I'm paying. Yeah, And I'm totally good with that.
And I you know, this is this is again. You know,
I get I get two minutes a day on TV,

(57:12):
and so you know, when I do write blog posts
are a little bit longer to kind of I don't
know if it's flush things out or flush things out,
whatever the term is, but you know, I try to
like expand on it in the blog to kind of
like you know, and TV, It's like I've got a
limited amount of time to get across my points, and
so I try to make the points that I do
put in there like the most relevant to the most people.

(57:33):
And I think most people, especially since that story that
you're talking about did extremely well, I think most people
are just like, oh wow, I can get service for
this cheap, like okay, sign me up. But and then
they'll go to the blog and kind of see what
the situation is with that service. But anyway, Stanley, Thank
you for writing in and yes you're right what you

(57:55):
what you come to the conclusion is not everything's for everyone,
and you got to do your research no matter what.
Even if you hear tech guy on TV like myself,
or on the radio, or on my Instagram or on
my podcast talk about something, you got to do your
own research and see if it's right for you. Whether
that's a gadget, whether that's switching your service, whether that
is a website I recommend, or anything that I recommend.

(58:18):
You know, there has to be a level of you
got to research it and see if it works for you.
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(59:24):
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(59:46):
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