April 1, 2025 • 25 mins
(April 01, 2025)
Neil Saavedra fills in for Bill this week. KTLA & KFI tech reporter Rich DeMuro joins the show for ‘Tech Tuesday.’ Today, Rich talks about iOS 18.4 released, the “Carvana of e-bikes,” Facebook bringing back the friends-only feed, and avoiding roaming charges while traveling. The Hill reporter Al Weaver joins the show to talk about Sen. Cory Booker talking through the night in marathon floor speech to protest Trump. Today is April Fool’s Day… some funny tricks and some that went wrong.
Neil Saavedra fills in for Bill this week. KTLA & KFI tech reporter Rich DeMuro joins the show for ‘Tech Tuesday.’ Today, Rich talks about iOS 18.4 released, the “Carvana of e-bikes,” Facebook bringing back the friends-only feed, and avoiding roaming charges while traveling. The Hill reporter Al Weaver joins the show to talk about Sen. Cory Booker talking through the night in marathon floor speech to protest Trump. Today is April Fool’s Day… some funny tricks and some that went wrong.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. Good morning to you, Neil savador in for
Bill Handle today and the rest of the week. Happy
to do it. He'll be back from him. I guess
it's his honeymoon right at this point. It's his honeymoon
(00:23):
and he'll be back next Monday. So stick around for that.
One of my favorite segments here. And if you haven't yet,
you got to get on Rich Demuro's newsletter. It's It's
a great read and incredibly informative. He's kfi's tech guy,
Rich DeMuro. You can hear him live Rich on Tech
every Saturday from eleven am to two pm, which I do.
(00:46):
See him on KTLA, follow him on Instagram at Rich
on Tech. His website website is rich on Tech dot TV.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Good morning Rich, Hey Neil, Good morning to you. Thanks
for the news letter. Plug just passed forty five thousand
people getting that newsletter. Started it a couple of years ago,
so very exciting.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Good on you and no smoke. I really do love
it and you've become a super resource for me and
keeping me up to date with everything and what's going on.
And I enjoyed the show, of course. And you've got
some stuff going on, including iOS, which I've been a
member of for a long time. iOS eighteen point four
(01:28):
came out. I like how you call it that I've
been a member of.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I like that. It's like I have been a member
of the iOS family. A lot of people have, which
is interesting because iOS has slowly changed over the years,
but it's largely remained kind of the same, right, Like
I mean, the iPhone still kind of functions the way
it did when it came out in two thousand and seven,
but with a lot more features. Apparently, by the way,
that's getting totally revamped next month, not next month, in June.
(01:56):
We've got this thing called WWDC coming up, and that's
where Apple usually shows off the new software. And apparently
the rumor mill says that iOS nineteen is going to
be like a complete revamp. So anyway, stay tuned for that.
But today, if you do have an iPhone, they've got
iOS eighteen point four, you might have seen that there's
a software update. So a couple of notable things. Number
(02:16):
one is going to use more AI on your phone,
so you can do this thing called priority notifications, which
I usually do on the weekends already, where it can
kind of figure out which notifications are actually important and
it will just surface those first. Let's see what else
your new omojis, of course, I mean those kind of
come out all the time. In photos this is the
(02:36):
big thing. When they redesigned the Photos app, people had
a lot of problems trying to find their pictures and
things like that. So now they just kind of revamp
that once again to kind of give you some further refinements.
So if you have not done this already and you're
having trouble with your photos and finding them and how
they're organized, open up the Photos app, scroll all the
way way to the bottom and where it says customize
(02:59):
and reorb, tap that and get rid of like almost
everything except the stuff you need. And you can also
re order the stuff. And I think those will be
a nice improvement. And by the way, Neil for you,
Apple News Plus if you're a subscriber, just added this
new food section with all kinds of stuff like recipes
and a step by step cook mode. But you do
(03:20):
have to be a subscriber to get that.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
MNAM, I'm on it. Hey, so I listening to you
before I went to Italy with Handle a couple weeks back,
went and got an e sim through what is it.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Arlo arara low.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, So heard about that on your show and went
ahead and did that, and this helped me avoid roaming
charges while traveling. What are some of your other tips?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So, I mean, I'm getting a lot of questions about
this right now because a lot of people taking trips,
but you know, people don't want to pay. You know,
it used to be you went overseas, you came back
with a huge roaming bill, right, So if you've my
number one tip is call your carrier because a lot
of times you may have days included or even international
(04:13):
data included on your plan. So sometimes if you're on
the priciest plan, like the ninety dollars a month on
limited plan from Verizon or AT and T, they typically
give you like a roaming day per month and you
kind of bank those. So when I went to Europe
last time, I had like twelve days in my bank.
I didn't have to pay to do anything. I just said, okay, cool,
(04:34):
I use these twelve days. So that's my number one tip.
If you want to just keep your plan, keep your
phone number. Make everything the easiest, the simplest is really
just to pay your carrier, and that's at and T's
twelve dollars a day, Verizons twelve dollars a day T Mobile.
Almost every plan has the roaming included, but if you
want faster speeds, you can pay five dollars a day.
(04:56):
Now you mentioned the e SIM I think that's the
most value because you buy it from an app, Like
you said, Aralow is one of them, Gigsky's another, Saley
is another, and you basically activate that from your phone.
There is a little caveat if your phone is locked
to your carrier. Sometimes they don't allow you to do
the ESIMP, so you do have to check to see
if your phone is unlocked before or if your carrier
(05:18):
allows that. But that's the most value because you just
activate that and you can basically use it all month
for like thirty dollars, and if you don't want to
make any charges extra on your bill, be sure to
turn off roaming. Be sure to turn off all the
apps that automatically update, like the photo uploads and the
cloud uploads, because you don't want them to gobble up
(05:39):
all of your information. Make sure they're only set to
Wi Fi and of course you can use Wi Fi
hotspots too.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yeah, it worked out nice. So my wife did. She
went through her carrier and did it that way, and
I'm went through having an aim. So we had a
little of both and it kept us. That's what I
did with my wife. Yes, she didn't want to do
anything special. She was like, I just want to stick
to my you know, carrier. And I was like, all right,
that's fine, We'll pay the ten dollars a day for you, you know. Yeah,
So we did a little bit of both in that way.
(06:06):
We always had a signal or always had the ability
to do whatever we needed and hopefully no no major
costs in that. So Rich Gmail turns twenty one. Do
you use Gmail?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I do?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, I've been using it since day one. Yeah, I
love Gmail. I think I think they do an excellent job.
And you know, let's hope that they stick around forever
and ever and ever.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I hope. So I've got forty one gigabytes of stuff
in my Gmail, so I don't know what that is.
That's twenty one year's worth of emails.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Do you still have your Aol account? Somewhere.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I do not have my AOL account. I pretty much was.
I was a I think it was a Yahoo guy
before Gmail. He's always kind of like, you know, a
lot of people were using hot mail at the time. Yeah,
Aol was popular, but they were giving you like a
couple of megabytes of storage and Gmail gave you a
thousand in counting. And yeah, it's been interesting ever since
(07:06):
because it kind of changed the way people saw email.
You just save stuff forever, you don't have to delete it.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Man, I was like ky. They used to call me
boy toy when I was an intern because the male
is because the producer at the time was a female
for the Bill Handle show. I was his intern and
she didn't want a girl. Everyone else was guys on
the team. They wanted a girl, so they would refer
to me as boy toy because she wanted a boy.
(07:32):
And so I think my AOL account might still be around.
It was talkboy six forty from back in ninety something. AnyWho,
what about April Fools today, any tech stuff going on
we should know about.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Well, that's so okay. So the whole Gmail thing, I
don't know if you remember this, but it actually launched
on April Fool's Day, April first, two thousand. I get
over that. That is. Yeah. So a lot of people
thought that it was a joke when it launched because
it was so different than all the email out there,
and it was from Google, you know, kind of an
(08:11):
upstart back then, and so people were like, wait a second,
what is this? Is this real? Is it fake? So
Ever since then, tech companies have gotten a little bit
more and more elaborate. For many years they were doing
all kinds of jokes. This year, I'm not seeing too
many yet, but I not. I didn't fall for one,
but I did get one pitch last night that kind
of like made me go, wait what. So it's a
(08:33):
company called Nothing they make smartphones or based out of London,
and they sent me this email saying, hey, we're coming
out with this pair of beautifully designed wired earphones and
I'm like, that's weird because most phones don't have an
earphone jack anymore, right, the three point five millimeters And
then it went on to say, Neil that it has
a fifty meter cable and I'm like, wait a second,
(08:56):
hold on, I may not be you know, versed in metrics,
but let me ask chat gibt what's going on here?
And they said, oh, that's one hundred and sixty four feet.
I said, oh, mistake in your press release. So I
email the woman who sent it, and I know her
pretty well from the past, you know, ten years of
working with her. Said Jane, I think you got something wrong.
This should be five meters, not fifty. She goes, no, Rich,
(09:19):
it's a joke.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
And that's the only punchline is one hundred foot.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well, it's just what. Yeah, it's like, it's silly. It's like,
who needs one hundred and fifty foot cable? Also they
plug in. It's just you know, look, this is nerd humor, Neil,
this is you know, I'm sure there's food humor, which
I see you post on your Instagram.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
By the way, I'm pretty neure you do love your posts.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I really I do stop on your posts and laugh
every single time.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It's all you know what, there's so much ugliness, as
you know, in the work that we do because we're
surrounded by news. All I'm trying to do is bring
a little levity to things. That's all same, sane, it's
just yeah, so ugly. Okay, So I'm going to do
a Handle real quick, because Handle always makes it about him.
I have been using Apple forever. I came kicking and
(10:06):
screaming in nineteen nineties, maybe even late eighties, when I
was a young designer and artist and they wanted me
to use this machine. And I'm like, what it's like
glorified typesetter. So, needless to say, I've been in the
environment and eco system for a long time. I have
an iMac on my desk at home. It's only a
(10:30):
couple of years old. And when I updated recently to
a newer operating system, not the newest, it started giving
me smart issues, saying that there there, there was their
smart issue, which is tried to predict issues with my
hard drive. Oh what the what?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Interesting? So is that I wonder if you have one
of those fusion drives, which which mixes the standard like
hard drive with the SSD drive, that might be what's
giving you some issues.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I will I put that out because there's nothing on it.
I keep everything you know, on a separate drive, and
I back up and do that so if it did,
God forbid, crap out and I wouldn't lose anything.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, I mean, well, that's the main downside of SSDs.
They're a lot faster, but if they crap out, they're done.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, there's nothing you can do. Hard drive you might
be able to recover, but that thro that weirdness. You
remember all that you put it in a freezer and
see if you could get the information back on the
old spinning drives.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I don't remember that, you don't.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah, you would be able to get like on some
of the older drives. Man, but I go way back
with all this stuff where if you put them in
the freezer and you can take them out and maybe
get some information off that just weird, well stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Just too quickly, I know we got to go. But
to bookend your whole change to uh to Mac or
making you use a Mac. I remember when I switched
and it was such a big deal because I was
Windows my whole life and I bought a MacBook at
a place called the Good Guys. I don't remember that
electronics store. I think it was called the Good Guys
in LA and it was like it was a transformative
moment in my life. So like, I don't know what
(12:11):
I'm doing, but I'm trying this thing because I heard
it's better for video editing. Yeah, and I've been Mac
ever since for my laptop and it's it's been great.
And of course now I use both because I get
a lot of questions on the show about Windows.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Me too. I'm a dual platform here at the station
and at home. And funny enough, going way back, Rich,
I was, I headed up the computer department and the
graphics for Kinkos for seven or eight locations back in
the day. So I was, Oh, I was doing all
the everything back when you have to do everything yourself
and figure out what was going on in computers. Yes,
(12:45):
so this is one of the I love that old
school name, ugh Kinkos. Yes, it has a It was
a fabulous place to work. It's sad that doesn't exist
in its original form. All right, Rich DeMuro. Hear him
every single Saturday from eleven am to two pm. Get
his new letter. It's a wealth of information, and check
him out on KTLA and of course Instagram, rich on
(13:06):
Tech and his website rich on Tech dot Tv. Thanks Rich,
nice talking with you, buddy. Thanks Neil, have a great
day you as well. It's Neil Savadra in for mister
Bill Handled today from the Hill, bringing onto the show
Al Weaver. Al, Welcome to the show. Good morning, thank you,
thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Neil.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
So what a marathon. Senator Corey Booker from New Jersey's
talked through the night. I think it was probably four
o'clock our time here in California that he started yesterday,
and although there was someone else at the podium, he's
still talking now, right.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
He's still going, He's still going. There's no end in
sight at this point.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Okay, this isn't a filibuster really, because he's not preventing
a you know, the law being signed or anything. There's
not what is he is? This just a protest.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
It's kind of a messaging exercise, I think of how
I put it. Yeah, I mean, obviously this is a
big week up here with Senat trying to get through
the budget resolution. That Democrats do this as a time
for them to make hay and try to mixcourse some
points on the board, even if they really can't do
much to stop the bill itself because Republicans can pass
it unilaterally. So they view this as a week for
(14:16):
them to be vocal talk out against potential Medicaid cuts.
Bookers talking about their security cuts. Some Republicans insist they're
not going to go for that. We aren't going to
touch those security but then we're got to talk about
that anyway. And they also want to talk a lot
about the Trump administration and what they're doing and how
they're handling the federal workforce. So that's those type of things.
(14:37):
So they view this as a way for them to
kind of put some points on the board and kind
of make good with their with their voters and the
supporters who want them to be vocal and active.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
That's the thing that I think that's confusing me. What
points and what board? And when you're talking about paper
tigers or in this case, paper issues, like you said,
social security isn't on the board, and how does that
help your cause to make up concerns and then talk
about them for thirteen hours fourteen on whatever we are
(15:09):
right now?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Look, well, a couple of things, well, I would say
is a couple of weeks ago. They're Democrats are a
really tough week with the old continuing resolution, the whole
government sending exercise. Chuck Shimer, you know the first time
we really had anyone really had questions about his job
with the standing and within the conference. And you know
that what Democrats kind of realize is we need to talk.
We need to listen more to our base. We need
(15:32):
to listen more to the active folks on the ground,
and what they want to see is action. And while
they know that they can't really do a whole lot
on the floor, they can't do a whole lot in
a very different ways. This is one of the things
they can do is they can show to their base
that hey, we're listening to you, we're trying to be responsive,
and this is how this is the best we can
(15:52):
do at this point, because again, there's not a whole
lot they can do. They can't stop this bill, they
can't stop most bills. But this is a chance for
them to kind of go out and sort their way
to round on the floor a little bit. And how
much of all matters is obviously, you know, a little
bit of an open answer, a bit of a different question.
But now that's kind of the viewpoint from Democrats at
(16:13):
this point.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
And I mean he's a good speaker. I mean, you know,
he he's you know, spending the time, he's not sitting
there going uh. He's even read some letters at times
from constituents that have been affected by action of this administration.
So that's spending time. I just it sounds like you're
equally as boggled. I guess as to what this ends
(16:38):
up doing, not to mention as a student of logic,
and somebody who you know, questions these things the straw
man angle, I how I hear so many he could
he might, he like, I don't feel anybody's really attacking
specifics necessarily with Trump. And I'm personally not a huge
(17:00):
Trump fan by any stretch of the imagination. But I
find that that ends up hurting Democrats more than it
could be helpful. And I don't know what these exercises
are supposed to. You know, how do you know if
it's a win? I guess at the end of the day,
whenever he his body gives out or whatever.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
He said, Well, that's I mean, that's a good question itself,
as I mean, and we don't know that right now.
Right now, what Democrats are trying to animate the base
as best as they can. They want to keep stoke
this anger. I mean, that's why you hear a lot
of Democrats, for example, talk about Elon Musk. Elon Musk's
approval ratings are down the tubes right now. That's part
of the reason why they keep talking about him and
(17:39):
talking about the actions that Doge is doing throughout the
federal government obviously Trump, but yeah, they're trying to try
to crown the size of the government largely and so
that those other things are successful. But yeah, again, the
Social Security thing, you know, it's it's it's I want
to say, fear mongering, but it gets getting there, you know,
and Medicaid cuts them a Republicans have talked about medicate
cuts to a degree. I mean they have. The House
(18:01):
Budget Resolution had one point five trillion dollars in cuts,
and you're not getting there without cutting a substantial part
of Medicaid. It's just the math doesn't add up otherwise.
So that's kind of where Democrats are. They need to
they need to kind of use the moment to animate
the base, and they do this as kind of a moment,
and they need to kind of get some momentum going
a little bit. To a degree, it's not not what's
(18:21):
going to happen up here, it's just gonna happen across
the country. We're see to a couple of these special elections,
with the one Florida tonight, So that's kind of what
they have their eye On.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Well, I will tell you. I know you dodged saying
fear mongering, but you can't help. But it doesn't seem hyperbolic, uh,
to say fe're mongering when you've got people all across
the nation keying and running things into Tesla vehicles that
aren't that are no longer owned by Elon Musk my dad,
(18:50):
you know, so just regular person. You don't even know
what their politics are anyways. And you wrote about this
on the Hill?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Yees did earlier this morning?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yep, okay, did not st minute by minute countdown.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Yeah, we we have a voter we have a voter
Arama coming up layer in the week. We're all going
to be up until four in the morning one night's
we knew that there was no need to stay up
twice Yes.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Al Weaver from the Hill. You can go there and
check out his article on this very thing. Al, thanks
for taking the time to come on today. Thank you,
Thank you. All right. Senator Corey Booker continuing to talk
through the night into this morning. Marathon floor speech not
really a filibuster. It's just a protest of sorts. And uh,
(19:36):
I just was curious if anybody had any idea as
to what the end game was and what was going
to be done. Looks like nothing all right? Tonight the
Dodgers take on the Braves at seven. Listen to the
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(19:57):
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Oh okay, So it's April Fool's Day, and I you know,
I guess as kids, it's fun. I don't know my son,
I'm looking forward to him doing some sort of daddy
I don't love you April Fools, Like, well, and you're
(20:22):
gonna have to pay for your own house? How about that?
Not April Fools. But sometimes they go awry, and it's
usually the public ones that are trying really hard. I
know a lot of food ones come out and the like.
Some of these go back into the history of stupidity,
one of which Elon Musk, who is in the news
(20:44):
if you haven't been listening. Back in March of twenty eighteen,
as it crept up on April first, he joked that
Tesla was totally bankrupt, which obviously caused a lot of problem.
Now there were a couple of signs. He tweeted that
(21:05):
despite the last ditch effort of selling Easter eggs, Tesla
had to file for every chapter of bankruptcy, including Chapter
fourteen and a half, the worst one. So if you
were focusing, you might be able to tell that it
was just a waka waka waka. But the social media
(21:28):
situation went nuts on the prank, investors weren't last laughing
at all. Tesla's shares dropped another five percent, according to
The Washington Post. At the time, business experts openly questioned
Marks Musks the ability to lead the multi billion dollar company. Well,
I'll have you know they're still questioning that today. This
(21:50):
was a California radio station in Bakersfield back in the
early two thousands. I always hated these I always hated
these stupid kind of gags that radio stations would do.
Oh you got those great fans, it's gonna be good.
And what they did is they said they were gonna
(22:12):
award a winner a new Hummer, and this lucky winner
would be someone who guessed the correct mileage of the
company's own hummer eight sheet two. So that makes it
even worse. So they have their own hummers they're probably
their their vehicles they take to events or what have you.
They drive them around town and then they do this contest.
So two people who guessed correctly one hundred and three
(22:35):
point nine miles, Well that's the frequency of the radio station.
I was gonna I was not gonna tell that. But anyways,
they gave them a toy vehicle like a little Hummer car,
little toy truck. Sixty thousand dollars vehicle they did not get,
so they were sued. It's no good. Now in the
(22:58):
same stupid category, you had a Florida waitress at a
Hooters restaurant. Wow, second time this week. Hooters are coming
up in Panama City was thrilled because she learned that
she won the grand prize in this competition to reward
whoever could sell the most beer on April first, and
(23:20):
the winner would get a Toyota. And you know what,
she got a toy Yoda that Yoda star wars Yoda. So,
needless to say, she was pissed off. She sued, and
her attorney know of this, said they didn't disclose how
much money she made, but they did say that she
(23:43):
received enough compensation to pick out whatever type of toyota
she wants. And finally Google had to issue an apology
back in the day for maybe in twenty sixteen, for
what they called their mic drop prank. So they said
they were gonna build in this emoji so you could
(24:05):
get the last word in like a mic drop. And
it was.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
This.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
It was an image of one of the Minion characters,
which are adorbed Balls by the way, from the animated
series and movies Despicable Me. And it's this little guy
dropping a microphone. But there was a coding error rather
from Google's programmers, and it caused the mic drop to
appear on emails unintentionally, and someone had to go in
(24:35):
and automatically turn this thing off or by hand turn
this thing off because it was going everywhere. But I'm bomp,
but I'm bomp. Keep your keep your April fool's jokes
in the arena where they don't hurt anybody. Come on,
we don't need any new pain. Can you imagine poor
Kono thinking he got a hummer a big smile on
(24:58):
his face for some reason. All righty, thanks for hanging out,
Neil Savedra will be back. That's me while I'm talking
about myself in this third person, don't know any who.
I will be back tomorrow morning for Bill Handle through
the rest of the week. Coming up now is Gary
and Shannon, so go know where. This is KFI and
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(25:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:55):
Good morning Rich, Hey Neil, Good morning to you. Thanks
for the news letter. Plug just passed forty five thousand
people getting that newsletter. Started it a couple of years ago,
so very exciting.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Good on you and no smoke. I really do love
it and you've become a super resource for me and
keeping me up to date with everything and what's going on.
And I enjoyed the show, of course. And you've got
some stuff going on, including iOS, which I've been a
member of for a long time. iOS eighteen point four
(01:28):
came out. I like how you call it that I've
been a member of.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I like that. It's like I have been a member
of the iOS family. A lot of people have, which
is interesting because iOS has slowly changed over the years,
but it's largely remained kind of the same, right, Like
I mean, the iPhone still kind of functions the way
it did when it came out in two thousand and seven,
but with a lot more features. Apparently, by the way,
that's getting totally revamped next month, not next month, in June.
(01:56):
We've got this thing called WWDC coming up, and that's
where Apple usually shows off the new software. And apparently
the rumor mill says that iOS nineteen is going to
be like a complete revamp. So anyway, stay tuned for that.
But today, if you do have an iPhone, they've got
iOS eighteen point four, you might have seen that there's
a software update. So a couple of notable things. Number
(02:16):
one is going to use more AI on your phone,
so you can do this thing called priority notifications, which
I usually do on the weekends already, where it can
kind of figure out which notifications are actually important and
it will just surface those first. Let's see what else
your new omojis, of course, I mean those kind of
come out all the time. In photos this is the
(02:36):
big thing. When they redesigned the Photos app, people had
a lot of problems trying to find their pictures and
things like that. So now they just kind of revamp
that once again to kind of give you some further refinements.
So if you have not done this already and you're
having trouble with your photos and finding them and how
they're organized, open up the Photos app, scroll all the
way way to the bottom and where it says customize
(02:59):
and reorb, tap that and get rid of like almost
everything except the stuff you need. And you can also
re order the stuff. And I think those will be
a nice improvement. And by the way, Neil for you,
Apple News Plus if you're a subscriber, just added this
new food section with all kinds of stuff like recipes
and a step by step cook mode. But you do
(03:20):
have to be a subscriber to get that.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
MNAM, I'm on it. Hey, so I listening to you
before I went to Italy with Handle a couple weeks back,
went and got an e sim through what is it.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Arlo arara low.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, So heard about that on your show and went
ahead and did that, and this helped me avoid roaming
charges while traveling. What are some of your other tips?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
So, I mean, I'm getting a lot of questions about
this right now because a lot of people taking trips,
but you know, people don't want to pay. You know,
it used to be you went overseas, you came back
with a huge roaming bill, right, So if you've my
number one tip is call your carrier because a lot
of times you may have days included or even international
(04:13):
data included on your plan. So sometimes if you're on
the priciest plan, like the ninety dollars a month on
limited plan from Verizon or AT and T, they typically
give you like a roaming day per month and you
kind of bank those. So when I went to Europe
last time, I had like twelve days in my bank.
I didn't have to pay to do anything. I just said, okay, cool,
(04:34):
I use these twelve days. So that's my number one tip.
If you want to just keep your plan, keep your
phone number. Make everything the easiest, the simplest is really
just to pay your carrier, and that's at and T's
twelve dollars a day, Verizons twelve dollars a day T Mobile.
Almost every plan has the roaming included, but if you
want faster speeds, you can pay five dollars a day.
(04:56):
Now you mentioned the e SIM I think that's the
most value because you buy it from an app, Like
you said, Aralow is one of them, Gigsky's another, Saley
is another, and you basically activate that from your phone.
There is a little caveat if your phone is locked
to your carrier. Sometimes they don't allow you to do
the ESIMP, so you do have to check to see
if your phone is unlocked before or if your carrier
(05:18):
allows that. But that's the most value because you just
activate that and you can basically use it all month
for like thirty dollars, and if you don't want to
make any charges extra on your bill, be sure to
turn off roaming. Be sure to turn off all the
apps that automatically update, like the photo uploads and the
cloud uploads, because you don't want them to gobble up
(05:39):
all of your information. Make sure they're only set to
Wi Fi and of course you can use Wi Fi
hotspots too.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yeah, it worked out nice. So my wife did. She
went through her carrier and did it that way, and
I'm went through having an aim. So we had a
little of both and it kept us. That's what I
did with my wife. Yes, she didn't want to do
anything special. She was like, I just want to stick
to my you know, carrier. And I was like, all right,
that's fine, We'll pay the ten dollars a day for you, you know. Yeah,
So we did a little bit of both in that way.
(06:06):
We always had a signal or always had the ability
to do whatever we needed and hopefully no no major
costs in that. So Rich Gmail turns twenty one. Do
you use Gmail?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I do?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yeah, I've been using it since day one. Yeah, I
love Gmail. I think I think they do an excellent job.
And you know, let's hope that they stick around forever
and ever and ever.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
I hope. So I've got forty one gigabytes of stuff
in my Gmail, so I don't know what that is.
That's twenty one year's worth of emails.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Do you still have your Aol account? Somewhere.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I do not have my AOL account. I pretty much was.
I was a I think it was a Yahoo guy
before Gmail. He's always kind of like, you know, a
lot of people were using hot mail at the time. Yeah,
Aol was popular, but they were giving you like a
couple of megabytes of storage and Gmail gave you a
thousand in counting. And yeah, it's been interesting ever since
(07:06):
because it kind of changed the way people saw email.
You just save stuff forever, you don't have to delete it.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Man, I was like ky. They used to call me
boy toy when I was an intern because the male
is because the producer at the time was a female
for the Bill Handle show. I was his intern and
she didn't want a girl. Everyone else was guys on
the team. They wanted a girl, so they would refer
to me as boy toy because she wanted a boy.
(07:32):
And so I think my AOL account might still be around.
It was talkboy six forty from back in ninety something. AnyWho,
what about April Fools today, any tech stuff going on
we should know about.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Well, that's so okay. So the whole Gmail thing, I
don't know if you remember this, but it actually launched
on April Fool's Day, April first, two thousand. I get
over that. That is. Yeah. So a lot of people
thought that it was a joke when it launched because
it was so different than all the email out there,
and it was from Google, you know, kind of an
(08:11):
upstart back then, and so people were like, wait a second,
what is this? Is this real? Is it fake? So
Ever since then, tech companies have gotten a little bit
more and more elaborate. For many years they were doing
all kinds of jokes. This year, I'm not seeing too
many yet, but I not. I didn't fall for one,
but I did get one pitch last night that kind
of like made me go, wait what. So it's a
(08:33):
company called Nothing they make smartphones or based out of London,
and they sent me this email saying, hey, we're coming
out with this pair of beautifully designed wired earphones and
I'm like, that's weird because most phones don't have an
earphone jack anymore, right, the three point five millimeters And
then it went on to say, Neil that it has
a fifty meter cable and I'm like, wait a second,
(08:56):
hold on, I may not be you know, versed in metrics,
but let me ask chat gibt what's going on here?
And they said, oh, that's one hundred and sixty four feet.
I said, oh, mistake in your press release. So I
email the woman who sent it, and I know her
pretty well from the past, you know, ten years of
working with her. Said Jane, I think you got something wrong.
This should be five meters, not fifty. She goes, no, Rich,
(09:19):
it's a joke.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
And that's the only punchline is one hundred foot.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Well, it's just what. Yeah, it's like, it's silly. It's like,
who needs one hundred and fifty foot cable? Also they
plug in. It's just you know, look, this is nerd humor, Neil,
this is you know, I'm sure there's food humor, which
I see you post on your Instagram.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
By the way, I'm pretty neure you do love your posts.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I really I do stop on your posts and laugh
every single time.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It's all you know what, there's so much ugliness, as
you know, in the work that we do because we're
surrounded by news. All I'm trying to do is bring
a little levity to things. That's all same, sane, it's
just yeah, so ugly. Okay, So I'm going to do
a Handle real quick, because Handle always makes it about him.
I have been using Apple forever. I came kicking and
(10:06):
screaming in nineteen nineties, maybe even late eighties, when I
was a young designer and artist and they wanted me
to use this machine. And I'm like, what it's like
glorified typesetter. So, needless to say, I've been in the
environment and eco system for a long time. I have
an iMac on my desk at home. It's only a
(10:30):
couple of years old. And when I updated recently to
a newer operating system, not the newest, it started giving
me smart issues, saying that there there, there was their
smart issue, which is tried to predict issues with my
hard drive. Oh what the what?
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Interesting? So is that I wonder if you have one
of those fusion drives, which which mixes the standard like
hard drive with the SSD drive, that might be what's
giving you some issues.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I will I put that out because there's nothing on it.
I keep everything you know, on a separate drive, and
I back up and do that so if it did,
God forbid, crap out and I wouldn't lose anything.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, I mean, well, that's the main downside of SSDs.
They're a lot faster, but if they crap out, they're done.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, there's nothing you can do. Hard drive you might
be able to recover, but that thro that weirdness. You
remember all that you put it in a freezer and
see if you could get the information back on the
old spinning drives.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I don't remember that, you don't.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yeah, you would be able to get like on some
of the older drives. Man, but I go way back
with all this stuff where if you put them in
the freezer and you can take them out and maybe
get some information off that just weird, well stuff.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Just too quickly, I know we got to go. But
to bookend your whole change to uh to Mac or
making you use a Mac. I remember when I switched
and it was such a big deal because I was
Windows my whole life and I bought a MacBook at
a place called the Good Guys. I don't remember that
electronics store. I think it was called the Good Guys
in LA and it was like it was a transformative
moment in my life. So like, I don't know what
(12:11):
I'm doing, but I'm trying this thing because I heard
it's better for video editing. Yeah, and I've been Mac
ever since for my laptop and it's it's been great.
And of course now I use both because I get
a lot of questions on the show about Windows.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Me too. I'm a dual platform here at the station
and at home. And funny enough, going way back, Rich,
I was, I headed up the computer department and the
graphics for Kinkos for seven or eight locations back in
the day. So I was, Oh, I was doing all
the everything back when you have to do everything yourself
and figure out what was going on in computers. Yes,
(12:45):
so this is one of the I love that old
school name, ugh Kinkos. Yes, it has a It was
a fabulous place to work. It's sad that doesn't exist
in its original form. All right, Rich DeMuro. Hear him
every single Saturday from eleven am to two pm. Get
his new letter. It's a wealth of information, and check
him out on KTLA and of course Instagram, rich on
(13:06):
Tech and his website rich on Tech dot Tv. Thanks Rich,
nice talking with you, buddy. Thanks Neil, have a great
day you as well. It's Neil Savadra in for mister
Bill Handled today from the Hill, bringing onto the show
Al Weaver. Al, Welcome to the show. Good morning, thank you,
thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Neil.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
So what a marathon. Senator Corey Booker from New Jersey's
talked through the night. I think it was probably four
o'clock our time here in California that he started yesterday,
and although there was someone else at the podium, he's
still talking now, right.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
He's still going, He's still going. There's no end in
sight at this point.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Okay, this isn't a filibuster really, because he's not preventing
a you know, the law being signed or anything. There's
not what is he is? This just a protest.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
It's kind of a messaging exercise, I think of how
I put it. Yeah, I mean, obviously this is a
big week up here with Senat trying to get through
the budget resolution. That Democrats do this as a time
for them to make hay and try to mixcourse some
points on the board, even if they really can't do
much to stop the bill itself because Republicans can pass
it unilaterally. So they view this as a week for
(14:16):
them to be vocal talk out against potential Medicaid cuts.
Bookers talking about their security cuts. Some Republicans insist they're
not going to go for that. We aren't going to
touch those security but then we're got to talk about
that anyway. And they also want to talk a lot
about the Trump administration and what they're doing and how
they're handling the federal workforce. So that's those type of things.
(14:37):
So they view this as a way for them to
kind of put some points on the board and kind
of make good with their with their voters and the
supporters who want them to be vocal and active.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
That's the thing that I think that's confusing me. What
points and what board? And when you're talking about paper
tigers or in this case, paper issues, like you said,
social security isn't on the board, and how does that
help your cause to make up concerns and then talk
about them for thirteen hours fourteen on whatever we are
(15:09):
right now?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Look, well, a couple of things, well, I would say
is a couple of weeks ago. They're Democrats are a
really tough week with the old continuing resolution, the whole
government sending exercise. Chuck Shimer, you know the first time
we really had anyone really had questions about his job
with the standing and within the conference. And you know
that what Democrats kind of realize is we need to talk.
We need to listen more to our base. We need
(15:32):
to listen more to the active folks on the ground,
and what they want to see is action. And while
they know that they can't really do a whole lot
on the floor, they can't do a whole lot in
a very different ways. This is one of the things
they can do is they can show to their base
that hey, we're listening to you, we're trying to be responsive,
and this is how this is the best we can
(15:52):
do at this point, because again, there's not a whole
lot they can do. They can't stop this bill, they
can't stop most bills. But this is a chance for
them to kind of go out and sort their way
to round on the floor a little bit. And how
much of all matters is obviously, you know, a little
bit of an open answer, a bit of a different question.
But now that's kind of the viewpoint from Democrats at
(16:13):
this point.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
And I mean he's a good speaker. I mean, you know,
he he's you know, spending the time, he's not sitting
there going uh. He's even read some letters at times
from constituents that have been affected by action of this administration.
So that's spending time. I just it sounds like you're
equally as boggled. I guess as to what this ends
(16:38):
up doing, not to mention as a student of logic,
and somebody who you know, questions these things the straw
man angle, I how I hear so many he could
he might, he like, I don't feel anybody's really attacking
specifics necessarily with Trump. And I'm personally not a huge
(17:00):
Trump fan by any stretch of the imagination. But I
find that that ends up hurting Democrats more than it
could be helpful. And I don't know what these exercises
are supposed to. You know, how do you know if
it's a win? I guess at the end of the day,
whenever he his body gives out or whatever.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
He said, Well, that's I mean, that's a good question itself,
as I mean, and we don't know that right now.
Right now, what Democrats are trying to animate the base
as best as they can. They want to keep stoke
this anger. I mean, that's why you hear a lot
of Democrats, for example, talk about Elon Musk. Elon Musk's
approval ratings are down the tubes right now. That's part
of the reason why they keep talking about him and
(17:39):
talking about the actions that Doge is doing throughout the
federal government obviously Trump, but yeah, they're trying to try
to crown the size of the government largely and so
that those other things are successful. But yeah, again, the
Social Security thing, you know, it's it's it's I want
to say, fear mongering, but it gets getting there, you know,
and Medicaid cuts them a Republicans have talked about medicate
cuts to a degree. I mean they have. The House
(18:01):
Budget Resolution had one point five trillion dollars in cuts,
and you're not getting there without cutting a substantial part
of Medicaid. It's just the math doesn't add up otherwise.
So that's kind of where Democrats are. They need to
they need to kind of use the moment to animate
the base, and they do this as kind of a moment,
and they need to kind of get some momentum going
a little bit. To a degree, it's not not what's
(18:21):
going to happen up here, it's just gonna happen across
the country. We're see to a couple of these special elections,
with the one Florida tonight, So that's kind of what
they have their eye On.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Well, I will tell you. I know you dodged saying
fear mongering, but you can't help. But it doesn't seem hyperbolic, uh,
to say fe're mongering when you've got people all across
the nation keying and running things into Tesla vehicles that
aren't that are no longer owned by Elon Musk my dad,
(18:50):
you know, so just regular person. You don't even know
what their politics are anyways. And you wrote about this
on the Hill?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Yees did earlier this morning?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yep, okay, did not st minute by minute countdown.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Yeah, we we have a voter we have a voter
Arama coming up layer in the week. We're all going
to be up until four in the morning one night's
we knew that there was no need to stay up
twice Yes.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Al Weaver from the Hill. You can go there and
check out his article on this very thing. Al, thanks
for taking the time to come on today. Thank you,
Thank you. All right. Senator Corey Booker continuing to talk
through the night into this morning. Marathon floor speech not
really a filibuster. It's just a protest of sorts. And uh,
(19:36):
I just was curious if anybody had any idea as
to what the end game was and what was going
to be done. Looks like nothing all right? Tonight the
Dodgers take on the Braves at seven. Listen to the
action on AM five seventy l A Sports Live from
the Gallpin Motors Broadcast Booth, and stream the game in
(19:57):
HD on the iHeartRadio app word A five seventy LA Sports.
Oh okay, So it's April Fool's Day, and I you know,
I guess as kids, it's fun. I don't know my son,
I'm looking forward to him doing some sort of daddy
I don't love you April Fools, Like, well, and you're
(20:22):
gonna have to pay for your own house? How about that?
Not April Fools. But sometimes they go awry, and it's
usually the public ones that are trying really hard. I
know a lot of food ones come out and the like.
Some of these go back into the history of stupidity,
one of which Elon Musk, who is in the news
(20:44):
if you haven't been listening. Back in March of twenty eighteen,
as it crept up on April first, he joked that
Tesla was totally bankrupt, which obviously caused a lot of problem.
Now there were a couple of signs. He tweeted that
(21:05):
despite the last ditch effort of selling Easter eggs, Tesla
had to file for every chapter of bankruptcy, including Chapter
fourteen and a half, the worst one. So if you
were focusing, you might be able to tell that it
was just a waka waka waka. But the social media
(21:28):
situation went nuts on the prank, investors weren't last laughing
at all. Tesla's shares dropped another five percent, according to
The Washington Post. At the time, business experts openly questioned
Marks Musks the ability to lead the multi billion dollar company. Well,
I'll have you know they're still questioning that today. This
(21:50):
was a California radio station in Bakersfield back in the
early two thousands. I always hated these I always hated
these stupid kind of gags that radio stations would do.
Oh you got those great fans, it's gonna be good.
And what they did is they said they were gonna
(22:12):
award a winner a new Hummer, and this lucky winner
would be someone who guessed the correct mileage of the
company's own hummer eight sheet two. So that makes it
even worse. So they have their own hummers they're probably
their their vehicles they take to events or what have you.
They drive them around town and then they do this contest.
So two people who guessed correctly one hundred and three
(22:35):
point nine miles, Well that's the frequency of the radio station.
I was gonna I was not gonna tell that. But anyways,
they gave them a toy vehicle like a little Hummer car,
little toy truck. Sixty thousand dollars vehicle they did not get,
so they were sued. It's no good. Now in the
(22:58):
same stupid category, you had a Florida waitress at a
Hooters restaurant. Wow, second time this week. Hooters are coming
up in Panama City was thrilled because she learned that
she won the grand prize in this competition to reward
whoever could sell the most beer on April first, and
(23:20):
the winner would get a Toyota. And you know what,
she got a toy Yoda that Yoda star wars Yoda. So,
needless to say, she was pissed off. She sued, and
her attorney know of this, said they didn't disclose how
much money she made, but they did say that she
(23:43):
received enough compensation to pick out whatever type of toyota
she wants. And finally Google had to issue an apology
back in the day for maybe in twenty sixteen, for
what they called their mic drop prank. So they said
they were gonna build in this emoji so you could
(24:05):
get the last word in like a mic drop. And
it was.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
This.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
It was an image of one of the Minion characters,
which are adorbed Balls by the way, from the animated
series and movies Despicable Me. And it's this little guy
dropping a microphone. But there was a coding error rather
from Google's programmers, and it caused the mic drop to
appear on emails unintentionally, and someone had to go in
(24:35):
and automatically turn this thing off or by hand turn
this thing off because it was going everywhere. But I'm bomp,
but I'm bomp. Keep your keep your April fool's jokes
in the arena where they don't hurt anybody. Come on,
we don't need any new pain. Can you imagine poor
Kono thinking he got a hummer a big smile on
(24:58):
his face for some reason. All righty, thanks for hanging out,
Neil Savedra will be back. That's me while I'm talking
about myself in this third person, don't know any who.
I will be back tomorrow morning for Bill Handle through
the rest of the week. Coming up now is Gary
and Shannon, so go know where. This is KFI and
KOSTD two, Los Angeles, Orange County. You've been listening to
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