021 Rich on Tech Radio Show - May 27, 2023 - Rich On Tech

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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is a show number, let me get it here, twenty one,
so look for the show notes for show twenty one.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
It is Memorial Day weekend.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
I want to say thank you to the brave men
and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
And special guest in the studio today, my son Parker.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Can we hear Parker? Is he there? Park Hey?

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Hey there you are everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
How are you doing today?

Speaker 3 (01:18):
I'm doing well. How about you.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
I am doing fantastic. Well, you tell me. You know
how I'm doing. You live with me, So am I.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Always doing good?

Speaker 4 (01:26):
It's a nice weekend. Yeah, I have to say it's
really nice. I think the sun's starting to pop out.
It's been a cold week.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yes, and you're here to talk about Final Cut pro
on the iPad?

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yes, I actually am.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
You've been playing with that? Huh, yeah I have.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
I've been playing with it for a couple of days
because I always wanted to. You know, I'm into editing
for my dad and h Parker.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
You'll take the stuff that I shoot and then you'll
edit and we do like a little edit competition where
you'll see, you know, if you can edit better than
I can. But we've been very impressed with this, so
we will talk about that in a little bit. Parker's
going to be hanging out for the whole show, so
I may bring them on from now and then. So
my goal if you listen to this show is to

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make it the most useful thing that you listen to.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
That is always my goal.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
So when I talk about stuff, when I choose the topics,
when I discuss things, it is all for you. And
so yeah, I'm not going to get to everything that
happens in the tech world.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
In fact, I say it in the beginning of.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
The show, I say, this is the show where I
talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about.
It's the stuff that I believe is important for your
life because we are modern tech animals. We are people
that are using technology, sometimes against our will. We all
have a phone, we all have a computer, a tablet,

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or you know, a combination of some of those things,
and sometimes we just have to use them to survive
in this world. And so I figured today would be
a good day to share some of the apps that
I use on my phones that I love. And I
say phones because I typically carry an iPhone with me
and then I'm typically testing an Android. And it used
to be the other way around. I used to carry

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an Android and then test on the iPhone. But I've
sort of flipped, and I flip flop every once in
a while. But when I wrote a book about the
iPhone that really kind of solidified. I started using it
every day and just kind of started, you know, getting
used to it. So let me go ahead and give
you some of the apps that I really like. So
number one, you have to write all these down. I'm
gonna put them down on the notes on the website.
So Number one, email me. This is probably what I

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use the most on a daily basis. This is a
very handy little app that lives on my iPhone home
screen and it allows me to email myself anything I need. Now,
I've tried all the to do lists and all that
stuff and the notes, and I do use those apps.
But to me, email me is so easy because my
email inbox is sort of my ongoing to do list,

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and so I can just email myself a note, an article,
someone's phone number, whatever, and then it's in my inbox
and then when I sit down to my computer, I
can deal with it. Now on Android, there is not
the same app, but the most similar app I've found
is called Boomerang, and that one works in kind of.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Like the same way. So those are my two handiest apps.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
After that, I have an app called Pocket, and this
is an app that allows me to read something later.
So I surf the web all day and I find
an article that I like, and I will save it
in Pocket to read it later. Ninety nine point nine
percent of the time, as soon as an article goes
into pocket. It is guaranteed I will never read it
ever again in my lifetime. I don't know why that happens,
it's just the way it is. So I need to

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get better about actually reading the articles. Most of the time,
when I'm on the plane and I'm bored, I will say, oh,
let me, let me try this, and I'll read something
in my pocket. Google Photos is my preferred photo app.
I love Google Photos because I've been taking photos everywhere
I've gone for ten fifteen years. Now they're all in
Google Photos. I wish I had more from the early days.

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I've digitized a bunch. But what I love about Google
Photos is the ability to find any photo I've ever
taken anywhere with just a keyworder two. It is incredible
and my collection continues to grow in there. Microsoft to Do,
I've tried all the to do lists. Microsoft to Do
is my absolute favorite. The reason it just works. It
works cross platform. It works on all my computers and devices,

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and you can add files to your to do list,
which is really handy. If it's like a document or
something that you need to like email someone or whatever,
you can just throw it into the to do list,
into the actual item and it works. One of the
newer apps that I've been testing that I really like
is called my Mind. And what's cool about this is
it's sort of like a bookmarking app, but it's a

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place to remember all of your notes, images, quotes, highlights, whatever.
And it's a really neat app because what it does
is it automatically tags the things that you put in there,
So if you put an article in there or a quote,
it will actually look at that item and come up
with a whole bunch of tag so that later on
you can say, oh, I remember that book I wanted
to read, and it will. You can just search book

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and it will find all the books that you've bookmarked,
or all the movies, or if you want to say
it was a movie about baseball, it will find anything
about baseball, So that's really handy. When it comes to hiking.
All Trails is one of my favorites. This is really
cool because it finds trails everywhere around the world and
it gives you information about them. Artifact is a new
one that I really like. This is from the creators

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of Instagram, or at least one of them, and it's
just a new spin on a news app, and it's
got some really really handy features and it learns as
you read articles on it what you like and tries
to present more of those. Now I think it's a
little heavy handed in that because I feel like I
see a lot of the same stuff over and over.
But again, it's learning and it's evolving.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
When it comes to.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Travel, a ward wallet is my absolute favorite app for
keeping track of everything that I'm doing. All of my reservations,
it organizes them and it puts it into this really
neat timeline called my Trips, and it's just fantastic. Anything
I've done, any hotel I'm staying at, any tickets I
have for anything, it's all in this main list.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
I can find it so easily.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Backdrops This is one of my favorites because it helps
me find wallpapers for all of my devices and they're
just really cool slick.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think there's a paid version of this app.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
I don't think I've ever paid for it, but it's
really handy and it's just great, great backgrounds for all
of my devices, and it's called back Drops and it
works on iOS and Android. When it comes to editing,
Splice is my absolute favorite editing app. It works on iPhone,
it works on Android. So far, I've paid for it
on iPhone, but somehow I can't figure out how to

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get my paid subscription on Androids, So that's definitely a downside.
But I really like that app for editing. I don't
think it gets much better on your phone than Splice.
What three Words This is a really interesting app. I
love what they've done. They have sliced up the entire
world into these ten by ten squares. So if you

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want to give someone your exact location. Let's say you
want them to meet you at the back door entrance
to a restaurant or something that's just an example, or
a specific entrance to a park, you can narrow it
down and give them directions to that exact area. Unlike
Google Maps that'll just kind of bring you to the park,
this will give you that ten by ten square that
is precise. So if you want someone to meet you

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in a precise place, What three Words is such a
great app for that. When it comes to journaling, I
really like Day one. It's a fantastic app for keeping notes.
Fig is a really good app. Fig If you have
someone with an allergy in your family, this lets you
scan a barcode and it will tell you if that
allergen is in that barcode. It's a really really handy app.

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Flighty is, of course an app we've talked about on
this show, which is an app that will help you
track all of your flights. Flip is an app flipp
This categorizes all of the flyers that these companies put out,
like Target and Best Buy. And if you want to
search for an item on sale. Let's say you love
your face toothpaste, but you want to find it on
sale somewhere, search it and flip and you can see

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exactly where it's on sale. Gemini is my favorite app
for finding duplicate photos on my camera roll.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
This one is iOS only.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
It also may be paid for like eventually, but it's
a really handy app for finding duplicates. I Exit is
also one of my favorites for road trips. For when
you're looking for a specific fast food up ahead. You
can see everything by exit up ahead. Plus they have
gas prices and all that stuff. But I Exit is
really good. All right, I think that's gonna do it

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for these apps right now. I'll put some more on
my list at richontech Dot TV because I'm gonna tell
you what's coming up on the show here. But Media
or met e O R is my favorite speed test app.
So those are just a couple of apps that I use.
If you have an app that you like, tweet me
on Twitter at rich on Tech and I will include
some of those as well.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
All right, coming up on.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Today's show, I'm gonna explain why Netflix wants you to
pay up if you're sharing your password.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
We've got some great guests this week.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Daniel Rubino is going to join me to talk about
Microsoft's latest AI announcements.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Jim Steier is.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Going to talk about the Surgeon General's warning about social
media and teens, and later we'll talk about Ford and
Tesla with the editor at clean Fleet Report. All right,
first up, it's your turn. Your calls coming up at
triple eight rich one oh one. I'm rich Demiro, and
you are listening to rich on Tech again, phone number

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triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
four to two four one zero one. I know I
gave you a lot of apps before, and there's a
lot of good ones in there. I'm doing my best
to put all the notes on the website. Rich On
tech dot TV. Look for the show notes for the
radio show for show number twenty one, and you should
find most of the links. I'm almost done. Let's go

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to uh Elam Elam in La Ellam. You're on with Rich.

Speaker 5 (10:54):
Hi Rich, this is Elam.

Speaker 6 (10:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (10:58):
I have a quick question. My stepmother is selling her
house and selling the content of the house, and with it,
she sold her computer. She just called me and said, oh,
someone's trying to change the phone number on my hers
her Apple account. So I'm like, oh, shoot, so I'm

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going to go over there in about two hours to
go deny that request because obviously someone's trying to maybe
change her user name.

Speaker 8 (11:30):
Access her account.

Speaker 7 (11:32):
It's that I don't even know. She's logged out of
her Okay on their computer.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Okay, So okay, So this is a good lesson for
any time you sell something, obviously you want to sign
out on that device. On Android, iPhone, Windows, Mac, it
makes it very easy. You can go into the settings
and basically do a factory reset and get everything back
to the standard operating you know, the factory conditions now

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on the iPhone, on your on your does your mom
have an iPhone? No she doesn't, So what does she
use for her phone?

Speaker 7 (12:09):
I think it was the other one Android, Yes.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Okay, So I think what you're going to have to
do is go into the settings on iCloud dot com.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Does she have any other Apple device?

Speaker 8 (12:28):
I know she has a tab that she uses.

Speaker 7 (12:30):
I don't know what.

Speaker 9 (12:32):
I don't know that she has an Apple account.

Speaker 7 (12:35):
I don't know what it is that's telling her that.
So I'm gonna go there later and look at that.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Okay, Well, I would go into her Apple her iPhone
and go into the iCloud settings and then and then
you can basically go into the device's tab on the
Apple ID and then see the device that you want
to sign out of and say sign up out, And
that way that computer would no longer be on the

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you know, it won't be on the account anymore.

Speaker 7 (13:06):
So concerned about their bank account, I'm hoping that account
was not left open on the No.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Those those usually time out after a minute or two
or a couple of minutes, So you're gonna be fine there.
So I think that, I mean, this could be a
targeted thing where someone is literally trying to access your
mom's stuff, or it could just be an innocent thing
where they're just trying to reset up this computer and
they came across this thing and they typed in the
password and they were just trying to figure it out.
I don't know why you do that if it was innocent.

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But but again, go to you know, go to the
Apple you know, iCloud website, sign in, look for the
devices tab, and then find the device that your mom
was on and click sign out on there. So I
would do this right now live. But the problem is
it's like a whole two factor authentication thing to sign
into my computer, so it's not going to let me

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do it easily. But that's what i'd recommend and in
the future, or no matter what, before you sell something,
this is just a really good reminder that you have
to just sign out of everything on there. So no
matter what sign out of Google, you know, but on
the big picture, you want to sign out on the
whole computer.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
So there's ways of you know, what I would do
is look at the item.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
So whether it's a chromebook, whether it's a Mac computer,
whether it's a tablet, just look at factory reset and
then that just Google that and it should give you
the step by step instructions on how to do that
everything's a little bit different. But I do this all
the time because I'm always testing gadgets and then sending
them back to the company, and I always have to
do a factory reset. But there's other ways of especially

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with Google and Apple, of signing out of the devices,
even if you're basically revoking access to that device from
the web, saying like I don't have this anymore, but
don't let this thing log in anymore.

Speaker 7 (14:51):
Right, okay, all right, sounds good. Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
All right, elim, thank you for calling today, and hopefully
it gets all sorted out. And if not, just you know,
give me an email and and we'll figure out another
solution here.

Speaker 9 (15:03):
Sounds good. You have a great day, all right.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Have a great day.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, really, you know one of these things where it's
a good idea in general, and I always do this.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
There's also something.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Called third party access to your account. So if you
look at if you Google like third party access, Google
you can manage the third party apps and services that
have access to your account. And what that means is
that sometimes when you sign in, it's easier to sign
in with your Google account or your Facebook account, or
your Twitter or your Apple account. And sometimes you want

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to revoke access. So if you look at what's called
these sometimes are referred to as permissions or third party
account access, it's a good idea to go through your
accounts and see what's on there. And I did this
with Google the other day, where I kind of went
through and saw the old phones and things that were
on my account, and I just said, revoke access to
those things, because you don't want a lot of stuff

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having access to your accounts. All right, Coming up, we're
going to talk to Daniel Robino. This week was a
Microsoft bill. This is their Developer's conference. They had a
whole bunch of new announcements when it comes to AI,
which of course everyone is talking about nowadays, when it
comes to BING, when it comes to this thing called
co pilot for businesses. So we're going to talk to

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Daniel Robino. He is the editor in chief of Windows Central.
He's going to talk about all of that stuff. Later on,
we're going to talk to Jim Steyer. He's the founder
and CEO of Common Sense Media. He's going to join
me to discuss the Surgeon General's warning about the impact
on social media and teens, which I know is a
Big One and then later John Faulkner. He is the

(16:42):
road test editor at clean Fleet Report. He's going to
join me to talk about the vin Fast EV and
we'll get his take on the Ford Tesla deal.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Also, your call is.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Triple eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven
four to two four to one zero one. I'm Rich Demiro.
You are listening to Rich on Tech. Joining me now
is Daniel Rubino.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
He is the.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Editor in chief of Windows Central. All right, so let's
talk about Built. What is Microsoft Built? What is that
so much shop?

Speaker 10 (17:21):
Build is their annual developer conference, and it's been going
out for many years.

Speaker 5 (17:25):
It's sort of changed focus.

Speaker 10 (17:27):
For many years, there was a lot of consumer stuff
there as well, so it was almost like an Apple show,
and then in the last couple of years it pretty
much went all developer, and they did even they stop
in biding press to even attend because it was such
like more high level programming. But this year it's actually
returned and they brought Windows eleven back to the show,
and there was a lot more i would say consumer

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focused announcements for the first time in a long time.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
So let's kind of go through some of those.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
So obviously Microsoft was first out of the gate with
this whole bang integration with chat GPT right, and I
used it. I was one of the people who got
the early access. I downloaded Edge, I was using it,
and I really liked it. Now, of course I have
some other options. But what's the What were the announcements
with the chat GPT on on the BING front.

Speaker 5 (18:13):
Yeah, this is.

Speaker 10 (18:14):
Actually really really good news at least for Microsoft and
open Ai. So their relationship has just basically got closer.
What I mean is chat GPT was trained on Microsoft
some of Microsoft's supercomputers, but it had a limited access
basically the access cut off I believe it was late
twenty twenty one meeting. It didn't have information beyond that date,

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and so you could ask it to do things, but
he'd be asked about, say last night's baseball game, it
could not get that information.

Speaker 5 (18:43):
I had no idea what you're talking about.

Speaker 10 (18:45):
BING, on the other hand, took that and merged it
with a search engine, so you could ask being chat
something it happened five minutes ago and be able to
find the information. What's happening now is open ai is
basically getting that feature from being a plug in, so
it's going to have now access to the Internet, meaning
they're gonna be very similar in how they operate.

Speaker 5 (19:06):
I'd also say the other thing was plugins now.

Speaker 10 (19:09):
Open Ai announced plugins for chat Shipt about six weeks ago,
and then Microsoft announced plug in support for being chat
a few weeks ago as well.

Speaker 9 (19:18):
Well.

Speaker 10 (19:18):
Turned out those plugins are interoperable, which is gonna be
really good for developers, because we were concerned that people
are gonna have developers We're gonna have to choose, all right,
I got to make a plug in. Do I choose
open Ai and chat Gipt, which technically probably has more
users right now?

Speaker 5 (19:33):
Or do I do Bing?

Speaker 2 (19:34):
You know chat You're saying chat Gpt has more users
than Bing.

Speaker 10 (19:38):
It might, I mean, because of the because of the
headlines that chat Schipt has. But we don't really know
the user numbers for all of them, right But I
think being chat Schipt had a million users like within
a couple.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Of weeks, super much. I mean they really.

Speaker 10 (19:54):
And then Microsoft yeah, and Mitchoff hit a million two recently,
so they're probably pretty close. But what's cool is these
plugins developers write once they go anywhere to both systems.
That's good news because it means, you know, people aren't
going to forget about Microsoft's chatbot.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Basically, Okay, so we've got the chatbot, we've got the plugins.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
What about this copilot?

Speaker 1 (20:16):
This got a lot of attention in the press, this
whole idea of Copilot, and it's can you explain what
copilot is because we're going to hear this a lot.

Speaker 10 (20:23):
It sounds like, yeah, so Copilot is basically a digital assistance.
It's being put into their Microsoft Office software like Word
and power Point, but it's also now been announced it's
coming to Windows. We shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.
It may be a surprise how early it's kind of
coming that it really shows that Microsoft had a lot

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of this stuff planned out. It's similar to the way Quartana,
Microsoft's previous digital assistant was sort of integrated into the
operating system. So it's going to slide out from the
right hand side. You'll have a chat panel there. You
can basically access being chat right from that, but it
could do much more. So what makes this Copilot is
it's going to have features to say, control Windows, you

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can actually ask it to do things, that can analyze documents.
It's going to be a lot more integrated into the
operating system. And it's my belief that this is just
the first step. You know, we're hearing rumors that Windows
twelve was coming in late twenty twenty four, and all
the evidence we have so far from our reporting comes
back about and is that that operating system is going

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to really take AI to the next level in terms
of integrating into the operating system to make it even
more helpful and proactive for users.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
And what's really neat about that is the fact that
these you know, Windows, there's a lot of features built
in and I would say people probably use you know,
five ten percent of them at the most.

Speaker 11 (21:43):
Right.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
So if you can ask for something you want to do, Hey,
show me all the documents that are larger than one
hundred megabytes that haven't looked at in a year, you know, yep,
easily clean out your hard drive like little things like that.
That just it's just like this whole idea of natural
language is finally coming to fruition in a big way,
and I think that's a good thing for the for

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the average user too.

Speaker 10 (22:06):
Yeah, digital systems up until now have been pretty disappointing.
They were cool at first, but they just did not
evolve as quickly as we were all hoping to. So
they had to memorize a lot of commands, which is
a fantathetical to like user adoptions, right, because who's going
to go memorize certain commands to do certain tasks? You
have to have for knowledge that even exists, and that's

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gonna be a difficult thing. That's you know, thankfully, it's
gonna be overcome now.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
And I think it's also like not just the commands,
but it was only programmed to do certain things. And
so this I feel like this whole new generation of
like this you know, all this AI is that you
like don't really know what it can do, but it
doesn't matter because you just ask and see what it
does and what it's capable of, and then you kind
of like adapt from there.

Speaker 5 (22:49):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (22:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (22:50):
And there's only a whole subgenre of people that are
that's coming out of people who are basically masters at
commands for these chat systems, because you can really you're right,
I mean, people like started companies using these chat things
basically asking hey, create me a company, design a website
for me, blah blah blah, and they put in all
the specifications that they want, and this thing goes and

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does it, and it's been pretty crazy, and most of
us are just like asking to do like summarize this document,
rewrite this sentence.

Speaker 5 (23:19):
There are people take it to the next level.

Speaker 10 (23:21):
Those people are going to be on the cutting edge
of this technology in terms of I would say knowledge
workers that are going to be hired and demand, because
that type of specialty is really interesting that most of
us currently just don't have.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yeah, they call it like prompting, right, like how do
you prompt these things?

Speaker 5 (23:37):
Exactly?

Speaker 1 (23:38):
So that's wild. I mean it's I did it. There's
this chatbot that I'm using for like travel, and it's
like just so wild that you can give it such
specifics and instead of saying, like, hey, what are the
best things to do in Charleston? You know, like you
can look up that on the web all day, but
it's like, Hey, I have a nine year old a
twelve year old, we like vegan food and we like
outdoor activities. Tell me what to do in Charleston for

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the weekend. And it's like that level of search has
just never been available before in an easy way exactly.

Speaker 5 (24:07):
Yeah, it's going to be really fascinating. To see how
this is, and it's I think people need.

Speaker 10 (24:11):
To understand that this technology is going to expand exponentially.
It's not going to be like where we had SIRIE
a couple of years ago and it got a little
better here and there.

Speaker 5 (24:18):
This is going to rapidly evolve and there will.

Speaker 10 (24:21):
Be some scary moments right to be like, oh my god,
I can't believe this is happening. But it's going to
evolve very very quickly because the more people use it,
the more data collects, the more the machine learning systems
and large language models take effect, the more accurate these
systems become.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
So you're covering this stuff very closely. Anything else that
Microsoft announced that you think is really important to talk about.

Speaker 5 (24:44):
Yeah, I mean just in general.

Speaker 10 (24:45):
Windows eleven is a big focus for them again, right,
so this is post pandemic new workforce out there. Computers
again are super important conferencing video calls, so AI is
going to be important for that.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
Right.

Speaker 10 (24:58):
They're building it already into the operating and where it
can automack you blur your background, auto adjust, you cancel
out noise. NPUs Neural processing units are gonna be really important.
That's gonna be the next step Intel's or we got
those coming out, you're gonna.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
Be built into these laptops.

Speaker 10 (25:15):
So a neural processing unit is a coprocessor whose specific
task is just to handle AI. Currently, what happens is
your CPU or GPU is doing that task. It's fine,
but it's brute force. These systems really weren't meant for that,
and it's going to drain your battery and all that,
which on the laptop is very important. And NPU though,
is specifically focused to do the kind of algorithmic processing

(25:39):
without hitting your CPU and GPU and saving battery life.

Speaker 5 (25:43):
And processing cycles.

Speaker 10 (25:44):
So you guys start to see that integrated into laptops
and desktop PCs, and it's going to allow things like
human presence detection. The monitor I'm using right now is
made by Delves, their new six K. It has a
really nice four K HDR camera and it has sensors
so that it's a text If I'm in front of it,
it's almost like a sonar system. If I walk away
from it, the monitor can then turn off, and when

(26:06):
I walk back in front of it, it turns on.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
I don't have to touch anything. That kind of technology
is going to.

Speaker 10 (26:11):
Be coming to all our computers within the next couple months,
in the next year or so, and it's going to
be basically making all our computers even smarter in ways
we hadn't really thought about before.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
Wow, that is incredible. All right, Daniel, we're going to
leave it there, Editor in chief of Windows Central. How
can folks get in touch with you online?

Speaker 5 (26:29):
Sure?

Speaker 10 (26:29):
I'm on Twitter, Daniel, Underscore, Rabino, r Ubi, and oh
I'm also on Macedon and blue Sky, so you can
follow me if you go to my Twitter profile. They're
listed there, so you can jump on those and choose
your preference. Otherwise, we do our own podcast on Friday's
at one thirty pm Eastern Time, where we recap all
the news for gaming, Microsoft, Windows and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Perfect tune in, all right, Daniel, thanks so much for
joining me today. Coming up, we're going to talk more
about let's see, let's do Amazon. They've got a tablet
that's actually their best yet and it's one you might
want to take a look at. Plus your calls at
triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
four to two for one zero one. If you have
a question about technology, give me a call. You're listening

(27:10):
to Rich on tech rich on tech rich Demiro hanging
out with you talking technology at triple eight Rich one
O one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two

(27:31):
four one zero one. Heidi writes in Hey, Rich, I
have some great pieces of clothing, several with tags never
warn that I'm considering selling online. I've researched to different websites,
watched YouTube videos and tutorials, but I'm still not sure
what the best platform is for me. I would like
to be able to make some fun money and have
the time to do it. Any suggestions, I appreciate you.

(27:53):
Thanks for your help, Heidi. Well, Heidi, I think that
there's a couple of ways you can do this. Obviously,
eBay is the kind of the old school method at
this point, but there's so many other ways of selling
things online, especially clothes. I mean, just the offer up
is the one that comes. I think we did a

(28:14):
story a couple of years ago and offer up was
really the one that kind of was picked as the best.
But for clothes specifically, there's just so many and I
don't really have a lot of experience selling clothes online,
but I mean Facebook, Marketplace is obviously another one. Thread
Up is one Mrcari. That's another one that people like,

(28:35):
and then isn't Poshmark. I'm not really sure what that
one's all about, but I know Poshmark a lot of
people like.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
But here's the thing. I mean, I think no.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Matter which one of these you choose, it really comes
down to, don't get scammed because there are just so
many people ready to prey on you when it comes
to these online marketplaces. And that's really what I think
the most important lesson is no matter which one of
these you use, because I think what you do is
what I would do, is just put the same item

(29:05):
on a couple of them and see what my experience is,
see which one feels the best, is the simplest, is
the easiest, and then I'd go with that one. But
I think that a lot of these things, you know,
you put something on there and immediately you get spammed
with a lot of people trying to buy stuff, and
a lot of them are just kind of like, not
really someone you want to deal with. So that's what

(29:25):
I would do. But I think that's the main lesson
I sold. The last time I sold something, it was
on offer up and it was a great experience. I mean,
you know, you chat back and forth with the person.
You know, it was cash deal. So they came to
my house, they picked up the chair that I sold,
and it was it was very easy. I think I
sold like a chair that I bought for a couple
hundred bucks for like twenty bucks. But it was interesting
because the person wanted to complete their their chair. They

(29:48):
had another one, the same exact one I had. They
wanted to complete that and it wasn't being sold at
the retailer anymore. So they, you know, it was a
great deal for them and for me. It just got
this big giant chair out of my garage, so it
was perfect. That's what I would do is just be
very aware of these transactions because but you know, people
have a great time selling this stuff online and really
enjoying it.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
All right, let's talk about the Amazon tablet that launched
this week. It's called the fire Max eleven. This is
Amazon's biggest and most powerful tablet yet, and this might
give the iPad a run for its money if you're
looking for a budget tablet. I still think that the
iPad is the best tablet out there, but this is
the fire Max eleven. Amazon says it's fifty percent more

(30:33):
powerful than its next best tablet, which tells you something
that means it's pretty good. It's got an eleven inch screen.
The price is two hundred and twenty nine dollars, which
is a great price. I know it's more expensive than
most of their tablets, but this is a premium tablet.
It's got a good display, it's got a fingerprint sensor
for the first time. It's got super fast Wi Fi
six connectivity, fourteen hours of battery life. It even has

(30:57):
an available stylust and a keyboard, which they've had them
in the past, not the stylist, but they've had the
keyboard in the past for the Amazon tablets, and it's
you know, it's been kind of like eh, but you know,
this even has a three month trial of Microsoft three
sixty five for access to all those apps. So they're
really positioning this as something that, you know, could be productive.

(31:19):
I think that this would be a good tablet if
you don't want an iPad and you don't want one
of the really cheap fire tablets, you want something that's
a little bit more premium. I have not tested this yet.
I have not gotten a test review of this thing,
so it comes out in June again. It's called the
fire Max eleven. My advice with any Amazon device is

(31:40):
to wait for it to go on sale because Amazon
always puts their stuff on sale, especially around Prime Day
or throughout the year. So just put this in your
shopping cart and just keep an eye. Use something like
honey to keep an eye on the price because it
will drop again. Firemax eleven two hundred and thirty dollars
coming out in June. If you want to get the
bundle with the case and the keyboard and the stylus

(32:02):
is three hundred and thirty dollars, so not too bad.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
All right. That's the Amazon Fire Max eleven coming soon.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
All right, coming up to the show, we still got
a lot to talk about, including your calls at Triple
eight rich one on one.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
That's eight eight eight seven.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
Four to two, four to one zero one. We'll alts
talk about the newest streamer in town called Max. You're
listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

(32:40):
Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology at
triple eight Rich one O one. That's eight eight eight
seven four to two four one zero one. Let's go
to Neon. Neon is in Norwalk, California.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Neon. You're on with Rich.

Speaker 11 (32:58):
Hi had to is it Parker your son? You had
to him?

Speaker 2 (33:03):
Parker's right here, Say hello Parker.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
Hello, Parker is fine?

Speaker 11 (33:08):
Thank you? Oh my god, that's so great. So anyway,
let's go. I know you have to much time, So
I want to buy Amazon echoes so I can talk
to it and you know, and and ask him to
give me information. Uh, would you answer all the all
the information that I that I asked for it as for.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Hm hmm, well, like you mean like smart question like
just questions.

Speaker 11 (33:37):
Let's let's say who was Napoleon? Let's say whatever, who
was this?

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, I think it'll get the basics right on that
kind of stuff. I think that if you want the
best answers, I really think that and Parker can answer this.
You what do you think would be better for answers
like A I like, well AI?

Speaker 4 (34:00):
Well, I would say, yeah, the probably I would say, like,
if you're using.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
AI, probably barred, right, But he wants to do voice assistant, oh,
voice distant.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
Yeah, then I would probably say Google, uh, the Google
Home because like, yeah, I mean it's really it's like
it's It's really good.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
It's like top notch.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
Uh. Next one would be Alexa. Alexa is still pretty good.
Uh yeah, and then we have Theory, which I think
Theory is probably third, and then alexas second, and Google
Home is first.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
I would recommend Google Home.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
But yeah, you're so smart.

Speaker 11 (34:39):
Okay, So so what if I say, Alexa to YouTube,
I want to listen to YouTube?

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Well, I see again, you're you're kind of calling out
some Google products here, and I think that Google would
probably be a better, better solution there because Google has
that direct connection to YouTube. Now, I think the Echo show,
you know, it can do some of these things, but
again it's a little bit more limited in the scope
of what it can do. It can work with a
lot of third party items and you know, smart home things,

(35:15):
but YouTube specifically, are you trying to watch YouTube videos
or are you trying to listen to YouTube music?

Speaker 11 (35:22):
Listen? Yeah, listen, listen to YouTube. Because it is a
speaker doesn't have a screen, right.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Well, it depends on the one you get. So when
it comes to I mean both Amazon and Google, they
both have both. So some of the Amazon devices, like
the Echo they're called the Echo shows, those have a screen,
and then the Echo does not have a screen, that's
just a speaker. So if you're going Echo show screen,
Echo no screen. And then if you want on Google side,

(35:53):
there are Google Home speakers, and then there's the Google
Nest hubs and those have displays.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
So either way you'll be able to do that.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
But if if you want the Echo show, it supports
a lot of variety of services, I mean, there's a
lot of things that it supports. I'm just going to
the website here to see. I mean, you know, it's
it's like a lot of third party things that you
can get.

Speaker 11 (36:15):
Another question, is Internet or count Internet is connected by
itself to the Internet.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
No, you will need Internet, so you're gonna have to
connect either one of these to Wi Fi. So, and
I'm just looking at some of the supported services on
the Echo Show. You've got Amazon Music, You've got Apple Music, Spotify,
Prime Video, Netflix, Hulu, Food Network, Kitchen, Headspace, Audible, NPR,
Amazon Photos, and a couple others. So, and you know,

(36:46):
it's one of these things where Amazon's always adding new features.
But it's just you know, you kind of have to
decide if you want to if you want YouTube specifically,
I think that the Google is going to be better
for you because it's just it's just it's made by
the same company and kind of just work together really well.

Speaker 11 (37:02):
Okay, say thank you to Parker and you Okay, thank
you so much.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
All right, Neil, thanks for calling in today. I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Phone number triple eight rich one on one eight eight
eight seven four to two four one zero one. So, uh,
it's Memorial Day weekend, obviously a lot of people having
folks over to the house, So what do we do
clean up the backyard for the first time? And you know,
all season, what is it? What is the deal with
when people are coming over? It makes you clean the

(37:33):
house right like you never like you always want to
do this, but you don't do it until someone's coming
to the house and you say, okay, we should probably
clean up outside. But then by the time you get
to that level of something, you're always so frustrated that
it's gotten to that level that you're just like, why
is our backyard so dirty? And why is the outside
so messy? And why is the inside And then you

(37:53):
get on this whole big you know, not ramp, but
you're just like you're on this mission to like fix everything,
and you're doing it on the day people are coming over.
So that happened to us today before the show. We're
sitting there going through everything. We're like rearranging stuff, cleaning stuff,
wiping down stuff. I don't know why why do we
decide to do it today of all days? We should

(38:14):
if you do a little bit every weekend, it's like
you'll keep things in order. But no, it's when I
grew up, it was the same thing. My parents would
do the same stuff. We'd have a party. Inevitably you'd
be like touching up the paint on the side of
the house, or you'd be like, you know, replanting the
flowers or something. So I don't know why we decide
to do all this stuff on the days where you
need to have people over and you should be relaxing.

(38:36):
But it's just the way we work. So maybe that's
just everyone all right. You can follow me on social media.
I am at rich on Tech, on Instagram, on Facebook,
on Twitter. Typically I go through what I've posted on
Instagram for the week at rich on Tech. This week
was a big one. Anytime I go to like one
of these big events, there's always like something really interesting

(38:57):
at these events and visual So this week, let's see,
I went to this place called Lake Hollywood where they
have this great view of the Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles.
I've lived in the area for many years, never been
and it was incredible.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
So I just took my phone out.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
I made a little Instagram reel of that, and it's
just if you have people coming to Los Angeles. If
you ever visit Los Angeles, look up a place called
Lake Hollywood Park. It is probably the best place in
the world to take a picture of the Hollywood Sign.
My picture is not very good, but the video I
took gives you an idea of just how nice this is.
Then I went to this thing called the Display Week,

(39:35):
which is put on by the Society for Information Display.
This is like a trade group, but this was probably
one of the most visual shows I've ever been to
outside of CS So I did a video of this
sixty five inch eight K foldable o LED display. And

(39:55):
it's not something that they're going to make today. You've
seen foldable phones, imagine that, but giant sixty five inch screen.
This thing is enormous. It folds up into a little box.
Why would you need it? I have no idea. Now
people are debating on my Instagram. Why do you need
a TV that folds up into a little box?

Speaker 2 (40:15):
I don't know. But maybe you have an RV I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Maybe you have like a small space, maybe you have
a little apartment that doesn't fit a lot of stuff.
So it just these companies like to flex a little
bit and show off what is possible. And if they didn't,
that'd be a bad thing, right because we wouldn't have
the innovations that lead to things that are actually useful.
But this TV sixty five inch o lad screen, it's

(40:39):
pretty incredible. It's from TCL and it's not a TV.
I guess it's just a display, so that's on there
as well. And then ugh, this is really cool. It's
called a micro display. These are displays that are going
to be powering our VR and AR headsets. And a
lot of people are talking about this stuff right now
because Apple is holding their next big event on June fifth,

(41:02):
which I'll be at, and they are widely expected to
show off a new augmented reality headset. And so the
reality is this is something that people have been talking
about with Apple for so long, so long, and it's
finally coming to fruition supposedly, so these little displays, and

(41:23):
all the people at the event were like, they didn't
want to say it was because of Apple, but they're like,
these are going to be very important, very soon. But
I look through this little and I have this video
on my Instagram at Richon Tech.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
You have to take a look.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
It looks like a peephole on a door, but you
look through and there is a giant it almost looks
like a giant screen inside. And what this is is
it is a one point three inch four K micro
o led display one point three inches but you look
through this magnifying glass and it looks like an entire

(41:55):
world inside.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
And just the way I shot it.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
It kind of like zooms in it and you like
look almost like you're peering into it and you just
see this whole thing.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
It's quite incredible. So that's on there as well.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
But those were two things that sort of went not viral,
but you know, definitely a lot of interest. The other
thing is this idea called a living vehicle. It's kind
of like an RV, but it's a self sustainable, I
don't know, a living vehicle, and it's got solar on
the top. It's also pulls water in from thin air,
and people are like, Rich, this is called an RV.

(42:27):
We've had RVs forever. Well, RVs don't necessarily have solar
and pull water from the air, so you can live anywhere.
That was on my Facebook page and people are debating
that as well. So lots of things always being posted.
I love going to these events because I just get
to see all this cool stuff, and of course I'm
sharing it with you.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
That's you know.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
I do this stuff for TV, but I put on
my Instagram as well, and it's just a lot of
fun to do it all right. Coming up this week,
the Surgeon General said that social media has a definite
impact on teenagers. So we're going to talk Jim Steyer
of Common Sense Media. He's gonna tell us some thoughts
on that whole situation. We've got your calls at Triple

(43:07):
eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four
to two four to one zero one. You can also
email hello at richon tech dot TV. My name is
Rich Dimiro. You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome
back to rich on Tech. This is the show where
I talk about the tech stuff. I think you should
know about. It's also the place where I answer your

(43:30):
questions about technology. The phone lines are open. Kim is
standing by to take your call and get you on
the show at Triple eight rich one oh one. That's
eight eight eight seven four to two, four to one
zero one to a party in the studio here. I've
got my son Parker, got Adam on the board, and

(43:52):
we've got Paully Ann calling in from Arcadia.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
Paully Anne, welcome to the show.

Speaker 12 (43:58):
Oh, thank you. I'm in Temple City now. I was
driving home from the market.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
Yeah, so you've shifted locations.

Speaker 12 (44:06):
Yes, here's my problem I have. Maybe it's an iPhone
ten or eleven. I charge it every night while I'm
in bed, and this morning I woke up to take
a look at my phone and it was dead.

Speaker 6 (44:24):
And I've been.

Speaker 12 (44:25):
Trying to revive it. And you're probably my last call
before I call AT and T to figure out what next, because,
thank goodness, I have a watch. Okay, I cannot say
enough about the Apple Watch because at least I have
this watch in which I'm speaking to you.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Now you're calling me. Hold on, you're calling me from
your watch. Yes, this is incredible. This is a first
for the show.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
I think I can't.

Speaker 12 (44:55):
Say enough about the Apple Watch. It's not even a
new fancy one, but it's great.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
I got to say.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
It sounds excellent. It sounds really really good. And in fact,
when Apple launched the Apple Watch, they had a person
in the middle of a lake on a on a
one of those things called not a canoe, the paddle board.
She was on a paddle board and she she called
live on the stage when they were demoing this capability

(45:23):
the call quality of the Apple Watch, and it was excellent,
and so I'm very impressed.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Anyway. Okay, so you have this phone. Do you know
which model number it is?

Speaker 12 (45:35):
I think it's the ten or eleven. Okay, one of
the first ones that have the there's no home button.

Speaker 8 (45:41):
You know, it's goods.

Speaker 12 (45:42):
Just swipe the screen. I'm wondering if it's just dark
and I'm not seeing it.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
No, no, no, they're okay. So here's what I want
you to do.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
So there is most people now you've probably tried holding
down the home button and it doesn't do anything right correct,
like the side button. Okay, So there is a little
trick with the iPhone that is not widely known but
it's a can we call it kind of a hard
restart or a force restart, and this should just should
kind of snap it into action. So let's try this together.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
So it's it's kind of like the old days of
like abba, you gotta press. So here's here's the what
you have to do. So you press and release the
volume up. Don't do this just yet, so it's pressure
release volume up, pressure release volume down, and then you
press and hold the side button until the Apple logo appears.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
So, okay, have you tried this yet?

Speaker 12 (46:31):
I have, but I am willing to try it again.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
You got to limber up the fingers, so kind of
do a little stretch with them, you know, get them going,
and then up volume up, volume down, and then press
and hold the side button until the Apple logo appears.

Speaker 12 (46:49):
Okay, I am pressing and holding this side button and
I'm thinking happy.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Thoughts and you gotta It might take a bit because it's.

Speaker 12 (46:56):
Like, you know, it's yes, I understand, you know, it.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
Tells it tells the phone like, hey, stop fooling around.
Let's uh, let's you know, get down to business here,
and let's let's actually force restart this thing now. Are
you positive that it charged overnight?

Speaker 12 (47:13):
Yeah, it was plugged in. I've tested that cord with
other devices. You know, it lights up other devices I've tried.
I mean, I woke up at like seven o'clock, so
I've been trying to pull it in and charge it
for all this time.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Okay, So now when you okay, now that same exact charger.
Did you try and this is kind of like the
troubleshooting steps. I would take it home. Did you try
plugging that into like another device and watching it say charging?

Speaker 11 (47:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (47:42):
And it does, so you confirm that. Now the other
thing is that so this isn't working. It sounds like
this would have come up by now, okay, like you
you didn't see the Apple logo come up? Nope, okay,
So if that didn't happen, it sounds like your phone
is dead. So I would what I would do personally
is I would look in the port, have you do
you have a wireless charger available.

Speaker 12 (48:04):
To you now?

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Because what I would do is I would try putting
it on a wireless charger and see if that brings
it to life, and then that might mean that you
have something stuck in the bottom of this phone. That's
causing it to not charge. So when you plug it in,
do you hear anything? No, no sound to let it
wait wait.

Speaker 12 (48:21):
Wait it just I don't see that Apple logo, but
I see it looks like a little screen that it
looks like a computer.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
It looks like okay.

Speaker 12 (48:32):
Rectangle like, hey charge this.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
Okay, Well that's a good sign. So it sounds like.

Speaker 12 (48:37):
It's okay restore Okay, this is this is hopeful.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
Okay, you have the magic.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
Well it sounds like it's coming back to life, slowly
but surely. So I would just continue on whatever it's
saying on the screen. Just see what it's kind of saying.
If it's uh, you know, selling you to restart it,
or is it saying restore.

Speaker 12 (48:56):
It's support dot Apple dot com or slash iPhone forward,
slash store, and it's saying, hey.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Plug it, plug it into plug it into a computer.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
Okay, so that into Yeah, so I would plug it
into your computer and see hopefully have a backup that
could be. But I would at this point, since you've
gotten it to come alive, does it does it show
the battery icon?

Speaker 12 (49:19):
No, it doesn't. It's just showing like it's showing like
the little.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Yeah, it's showing that it's saying like basically, plug me
into a computer to kind of go to the next step.
So I guess you can try that and see what happens.
Or you can try restarting it again one more time
with that force restart. Now that it's kind of come
to life, you might try one more time to just
restart it or maybe hold down the side button and
see if that will do it. So, but that's uh,

(49:45):
that's kind of like the main thing to do. But
I think it sounds like it's starting to come back
to life.

Speaker 12 (49:50):
So that's the kin very I'm very hopeful, So thank
you so much. I've been watching you ONLA five and
without any other resources, I heard you on the radio.
I'm like, okay, let's.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
Try this well, try it out and email me hello
at rich on tech dot tv to let me know
if your phone in fact comes back to life. The
iPhone is this weird thing because there's not many buttons,
there's not many instructions, so when it's something, it usually works.
When it doesn't, it's kind of like, okay, now what
do I do. But the good news is Apple has
built some things into the iPhone that help you get
it back to working, even if it seems like it's

(50:26):
gone terribly wrong. But it sounds like her phone is
kind of there's some life still breathing into it. So
I think we're going to have a happy ending for
that one, Paullyan, So thanks for thanks for calling in
today at triple eight rich one on one. Coming up next,
we're going to talk to the founder and CEO of
Common Sense. He is going to discuss the Surgeon General's
warning about the impact of social media on teens. You're

(50:48):
listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Rich DeMuro here talking technology with you at triple eight
rich one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two,
four to one zero one. This week, the Surgeon General

(51:08):
issued a public warning about the risks of social media
to young people, saying basically that we don't really know
the impact of this stuff, so we've got to be
on guard. And I think that's where I'll bring in
Jim Steier. He is the founder and CEO of Common
Sense Media. Jim, welcome to the show.

Speaker 6 (51:31):
Good to be here.

Speaker 9 (51:31):
Rich.

Speaker 6 (51:32):
Hey, So about the Surgeon General.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
Yeah, let's talk about this.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
So first off, just kind of give me your What
did the Surgeon General say, is it? I kind of
summarized it very quickly, but he basically just said that, like, look,
we don't really know what's going on here, so we
need to be aware of this, and kind.

Speaker 6 (51:47):
Of no, I actually rich he went much further than
First of all, the surgeon General, doctor Badak Murphy is
one of the best leaders in the United States. He
was Surgeon General under President Obama and then he was
reappointed by President Biden. He's one of the great medical
and public health expersts in the United States and the
a parent, by the way, And he actually went a

(52:07):
lot farther than you said. He said, we believe that
social media is hazardous to the mental health of young people,
period full stop. And he said there are a number
of different elements of this, but the evidence is now
quite clear that social media, used unwisely by tens of
millions of kids in the United States has a very

(52:28):
delagorious impact on their health and mental health, on issues
like addiction and tension, distraction, on issues like body image
and eating disorders, on issues regarding suicide and self harmed.
So he actually went much farther. It's quite similar to
what the Surgeon General of the United States did fifty

(52:49):
years ago or so when they put the warning label
on the package of cigarettes that said tobacco smoking is
hazardous your health. So this is a landmark moment for
the Surgeon General and he did it on his own.
The White House newe was going to come out with it.
But it's really a statement by doctor Murphy. And I
think for everyone in your audience, every parent, every educator,

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and every young person, they should listen loud and clear
to what doctor Murphy had to say.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Wow, that's really impactful.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
And I okay, so I guess breaking it down, what
do you think we do from here? So now we're
saying like, yeah, there's a problem, we know there's a problem.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
What is the solution? I mean what you know?

Speaker 1 (53:29):
Because tech companies, like any company, they don't want to
be regulated. They don't want anyone to step in and say, hey,
here's what you should do, so they come up with
their own. You know, Instagram has a little warning that
says you bring on for an hour and kids just
click through it. It's really a wild West when it
comes to these programs, isn't it.

Speaker 6 (53:46):
That's right? And they've clearly failed let's be just blunt
about it. So Rich you did and introduce me as
the head of Common Sense Media and the founder. But
we are, you know, far and away the largest shall
advoacy and kids media and tech group in the United
States and globally. So what has to be done is
multiple things. First and foremost, they absolutely need to be regulated,
and they actually are in certain places. For example, in

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twenty eighteen, we passed a major privacy law in California,
which is essentially the law of the land in the
United States now, which protects everyone's privacy, including adults, but
it particularly protects the privacy of young people. That doesn't
mean that social media platforms necessarily always follow every guideline
in that law, but that was a big issue around privacy,

(54:29):
and last year in California we passed a major piece
of legislation called the Age Appropriate Design Code, which actually
holds platforms like Instagram and snapchats and TikTok et cetera
a liable for the design flaws that will addict young
people to the platforms.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
Like gambling. Even for adults.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
When you log on to Instagram and see those little
hearts that pop up in the comments, that's like gambling.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
It's like, oh, I got something.

Speaker 6 (54:58):
Very good acknology, very good announce because it's addictive and
it leads to compulsive behavior, just like gambling does. And
by the way, you're right, the efforts by the companies
like Instagram are pathetic. They are not really serious. They're
just sort of fig leaves in order to try to
make like they're make it look like they're doing something.
So there's number one. The solution is clear and bold regulation.

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And by the way, there's a major bill in California
right now, SB two eighty seven that's authored by Senator
Nancy Skinner and endorsed by the Attorney General Rob Bonta,
which would hold social media platforms legally liable for harms
they do to young people under the age of eighteen.
So that's a very important bill. By the way, that's

(55:40):
right in Sacramento. Now you might ask why I'm talking
about Sacramento versus Washington, d C. Well, the reason is
because the Congress has been missing in action since Mark
Zuckerberg was in diapers. They literally have not passed any
regulatory structure for social media or the tech industry writ
large since the late nineties. So in the period of

(56:02):
massive change where everyone now is affected by the Internet
and social media and big tech platforms. Congress has been
completely missing in action and has failed the American public pathetically,
partly because the tech companies have lobbied so much against it.
So California has essentially become the place in the United
States that regulate tech companies, but Europe also does as well.

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So one issue is regulation, but the second thing is
you really have to educate young people about all of this,
and so we have a program in one hundred and
ten thousand schools. Collegen's a big organization about digital literacy
and citizenship, and some of that's about basic how to
protect your identity, how to keep your privacy, how to
not compare yourself to everybody on the internet on platforms

(56:48):
like Instagram, But some of it's now increasingly about mental
health issues. And that's why the Surgeon General released this
warning this past week because he's really concerned that we,
which we do, have a mental health crisis in this country,
and it's clear that social media is one of the
major contributing factors. So there's an education alternate solution to

(57:08):
and then they're finally holding the tech industry accountable not
just through legislation, but quite frankly through shaming them when
they do stuff that tazards the help of young people.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
Now, some of these suggestions in the report where create boundaries,
limit the use of phones, tablets, computers for at least
one hour before bedtime, you know, keep meal times and
in person gatherings, device free, engage in two way conversations,
connect with people in person, make unplugged interactions a daily priority.
And then some of the stuff you mentioned, be cautious

(57:39):
about what you share. And then they get into don't
keep harassment or abuse a secret when and that comes to,
you know, cyber bullying and all those kind of things.
But here's what I notice, as you know, a spectator
in not only having kids but also sure, what I
see is that this thing is a babysitter. It is simple,

(58:00):
it's easy, it's it works everywhere. It allows parents to
enjoy their dinner. And I don't think that there's a
lot of impetus by parents or kids to think about
some of this stuff. So how do we change that
part of it?

Speaker 6 (58:16):
So that's a really good question, rich and honestly, again,
running the biggest organization in the country on these issues.
I would tell you that there's more awareness than you
just suggested about this. But you're right, it's an updill battle.
So if the onus were only on parents and young
people themselves to follow all those suggestions that you just
listed from the surgeon in general, right, that would probably
not be sufficient alone. Although I would tell you, having

(58:39):
run common Sense now for nearly twenty years, there's been
a sea change in understanding of thing. But for example,
I'm the father or four kids. Rich I don't know
how many kids.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
You have, but I've got two. I've got one in
studio with me today, my eleven year old.

Speaker 6 (58:50):
There you go, Well, you should ask your kid in
the studio what rules they followed, But I will, but put.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
Me on the spot. Believe met it put them on
the spot.

Speaker 6 (58:57):
But anyway, the doctor Bentsy is totally correctly. Look, you
shouldn't go to bed with your phone. You should put
it away or your tablet. And so that's a rule
that parents can enforce, but they have to also be
a role model. One thing that we say, we have
one hundred and fifty million users that common Sense media annually,
so we tell parents all the time by the way
I'm a parent myself, and no one's perfect is you know,

(59:17):
you've got to practice what you preach. So if you
want to have device free dinner, we ran a whole
campaign a few years ago for two years where Will
Ferrell was the star of some incredibly fun commercials. It
was basically, put your phone away and pay attention to
your family. And so a lot of the suggestions you're
referring to are very practical and should be done, and
it's not shouldn't be lost on you that common sense.

(59:38):
As one hundred and fifty million regular users, that's an
incredible number and it does mean that parents and young
people are listening. But you're also right at that alone.
First of all, that it's really hard because we live
in this twenty four to seven addictive, compulsive digital world
where your phone is always pinging you with alerts, et cetera.
So you have to change habits, and habits change is hard.

(01:00:01):
It's why you need regulation and legislation, and it's why
you need holding the tech industry accountable and an ongoing
public awareness effort, including conversations like when you and I
are having this Saturday, which is this is a discussion
that has to be happening every home, every school, and
quite frankly, we need legislative solutions as well. It is
a full court press in order to deal with some

(01:00:23):
of the downsides of tech, because we all know that
there are also benefits from technology and from social media
and common senses is the name says that all. We're
very fair in the way we look at this, but
these issues are only going to get bigger by the
way now with AI. So if you look at the
advent of chat, GPT and bard and some of the
other platforms that are now beginning to emerge, it's going

(01:00:45):
to increase some of the impact of social media platforms.
AI will and.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Well, think about it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
When your AI knows you so well and it feels
like it's a friend that you can ask almost anything to,
you're going to spend even more time with it, and
you're going to want to spend more time. And by
the way, this can all be more personalized for who
you are and what you're into. I mean, we think
TikTok serves up videos that we like. Imagine in this AI,
you know hones in that's.

Speaker 6 (01:01:10):
Right, and you know rich what it will do, particularly
with vulnerable kids. Look, forty percent of teenager who in
the United States report that they feel depressed have felt
depressed montret That's just a phenomenal number. Forty percent. I
hope that's not true for your kids or my kids
or folks in the audience, but that means nearly half
of all children experience some form of depression. And that's
that's not even including some of the more serious cases

(01:01:32):
of self harmed, suicidal ideation, et cetera. So, look, this
is a public health crisis, a mental health crisis, and
so we have to take it very seriously, and we
have to have an ongoing conversation. And by the way,
you've got two kids, rich, you do have to have
we do, We all do have to have these conversations
with our kids and be honest and open and listen

(01:01:52):
to what they're experiencing. Also, know that they love platforms
like YouTube and TikTok and snapchats and scroll through Instagram
endlessly looking at photos of other people thinking that they
don't look as good or you know, they're not as
pretty or as smart, et cetera. So this is a
really complicated issue, but it's very important that the Surgeon
General came out with this warning, and it's very important

(01:02:15):
that each and every one of us uses common sense
takes advantage of some of the practical recommendations, but ultimately
we've got a whole the tech industry accountable, period.

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
All right, Jim, we're going to leave it there, Jim
Styre of common Sense Media. Commonsense dot org is the website.
And we didn't even get into the fact that we're
talking about teens here, but a lot of this stuff
affects adults as well in a big way. So maybe
we'll have to have you back on and talk about
that hole.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Yeah, next check me about adults. Rich, that'd be great,
one hundred percent. All right, Jim, appreciate it. Jim Syre
of Commonsense dot org. Look it up.

Speaker 1 (01:02:51):
It's a great resource, and we really really need to
think about this stuff because it is having an impact
on our families, our kids, and like I said, even
adult It is a real thing. So just think think
about even this weekend when you're hanging out with friends
and family.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
Just put the phone away.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
For a little bit, all right, Rich DeMuro here Rich
on Tech. More of your calls at triple eight Rich
one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to
two four.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
One zero one.

Speaker 1 (01:03:18):
Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking
technology with you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
What a great guest.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
We just had on to talk about the impact of
social media on teens, and I mentioned it's not just teens.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
I mean it's adults too, Believe me.

Speaker 1 (01:03:33):
And look, I'm not sitting here saying that I'm better
or you know, I.

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
Know how to do all this stuff, because I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
I think we are all in this together when it
comes to the implications of this stuff. We just take
for granted. We've got our phones. You download the main apps,
which is you know, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and we're just
humans these companies are they engineer these apps to make
us want to use them. You would never make an

(01:04:02):
app that people don't want to use. Why would you
do that? You engineer it so that people use it.
They call it engagement, they call it stickiness. They want
you to open up that app as much as humanly possible,
even though they sometimes say, you know, we're putting in
this and that it's all kind of I mean, who
really uses a lot of those.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
Features on their phone?

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
Like I had the thing where it tells me on
Instagram have you been on for an hour today, like
time to you know, stop using this and you press
okay and you forget about it and that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
TikTok has a thing where it tells teens that they,
you know, have been on too long and you know,
all you have to do is click okay and move
on with your life. So it's one of these things
where I don't have the answers. I don't think anyone does.
And I understand that, you know, regulation and all this
stuff is sometimes you know, it might just be what
we need to get through.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
Some of this.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
I don't know, because certainly we are not equipped as
humans to do it ourselves. We're up against lots of
smart people that are programming these things to make us
use them.

Speaker 2 (01:05:01):
And it's great.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
If you've ever been on vacation you're looking for a
cool spot or a nice picture place or a good restaurant,
all these things are incredibly useful. Or if you've connected
with someone on Instagram that you used to go to
school with, or you know, you get to watch their
kids grow up, it's great. But there's also that that
other side of it. Let's go to Jan Jan in Upland, California,

(01:05:23):
you're on with Rich Jan.

Speaker 13 (01:05:24):
How you doing, Hey, Rich, I'm great. Is it okay
to have.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
You on speaker as long as everything sounds okay? So far,
so good?

Speaker 13 (01:05:33):
Yeah, great, that sounds wonderful. I like to have you
on Speakret because my husband's here too, and he understands
tech stuff just a bit better than I do. So
I'm hoping that between us will get what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
Okay, Well, what's going on?

Speaker 13 (01:05:50):
Well, it's great to hear you on KFI and your
well spoken son.

Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
Oh, thank you, thank you. He's going to take over
the show one day, hopefully.

Speaker 12 (01:06:00):
Now I'm just going to He's going to give you
a run for your money.

Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
Man, I'm sure these kids are way ahead of where
I was at their age. But all right, let's see
what you got going on. What's happening?

Speaker 13 (01:06:10):
Yeah, you've got so. I just thought a Microsoft US
prom To tablet. It's the first tablet I've had specifically
for traveling, so I could download things onto it so
that i'd have things to do on the plane when
I didn't have Li Fi and such. So I'm having

(01:06:30):
difficulty with it though, and it was pretty useless. On
my last trip. I tried to download a few typical
you know, brain games and things like that onto it
before my travels, and everything loaded onto my cell phone instead,
even though I was downloading it on my tablet.

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
And the okay I know, okay, so you were downloading
items from Google Play to your on your tablet basically, yes, exactly, Okay,
Well here's what's happening. So that's okay. So what's happening
is when you go to if let's say you want
to download like, you know, candy Crush, right, and it
brings you to the Google Play app. It says like

(01:07:12):
apps on Google Play, so that when you press install,
that is actually installing on your Do you have an
Android phone? I'm guessing yes, okay, so that is actually
installing on your Android phone. So that is the you know,
Android lets you install remotely from a website. Now here's
what I think you need to do on this device

(01:07:35):
is that you need to go into the Windows Store
to download what you want. So down at the bottom,
type in store and that should bring you to the
Windows you know, their version of the App Store, and
that way you can go and find the apps you
want there and that will install them on that tablet.

(01:07:56):
Does that make sense. Can you find that?

Speaker 13 (01:07:58):
Yeah, we're up in port right now.

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
And so if you if you type in store, that
is you know, so basically you've got three things going
on here. You've got Windows, You've got Android, and you've
got iOS. All of them have their own stores for apps.
And they call them stores because some apps, you know,
even though they're free, they sell stuff. You know, some
apps might be paid, some might be free. But that

(01:08:23):
is how you get apps to that device. Now, this
is a surface device, so it's going to run both
you know, Windows apps, and it's going to run stuff
from the Microsoft Store. And so that's where you need
to be downloading these apps. And did you find it? Yeah, okay,
there you go. So that's where you want to download them,

(01:08:44):
and that's how you're going to get those apps onto
that device.

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
I know it must have been. You must have been like, wait,
what is happening here?

Speaker 1 (01:08:49):
I'm pressing installed and all of a sudden, this thing's
shown up on my phone.

Speaker 13 (01:08:53):
Yeah, I wasn't sure what happened. I got Kindle, I
bought a book and I can't find the book anywhere.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
Well you go, now you've got rich on tech. It
sounds like you found it so Jan, thanks so much
for calling in today. I appreciate it, and hopefully that
tablet slash surface is much more useful on your next vacation.
All right, that's gonna wrap up our number two of
the show. It goes by fast. I can't believe it.
More of your calls coming up. We've got triple eight.

(01:09:22):
Rich one on one is the phone number eight eight
eight seven four to two, four to one zero one.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
I've got my son Parker in the studio here.

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
We're going to talk about final Cut pro on the
iPad and just a little bit and whatever else you have.

Speaker 2 (01:09:37):
On your mind.

Speaker 1 (01:09:38):
My name is rich Dmiro. You are listening to rich
on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro
hanging out with you on this Memorial Day weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
Eighty eight.

Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
Rich one on one is the number eight eight eight
seven four to two for to one zero one. I've
got my son Parker hanging out here in studio.

Speaker 3 (01:10:06):
Hello.

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
I guess it's take.

Speaker 1 (01:10:07):
Your kids to work day sometimes in the show, right yeah, yeah,
We've got Adam on the board. We've got Kim picking
up the phone lines which are just lighting up right now.
This is usually the third hour of the show is
when y'all calm down with the phone calls, and I'm
sitting here trying to, you know, get through all the
things I want to tell you about. And now I've
got We've got full phone line. So I guess let's

(01:10:29):
take a call with Wendy in Arizona. Whndy you're on
with rich.

Speaker 8 (01:10:35):
Hey, Brick, I'm glad you brought your son to work.
It's important that the kids know what you do all day.
I think they think we're just out having fun.

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
They also think money grows on trees, right, this is true.

Speaker 8 (01:10:49):
I'm eighty two years old, very proud, great great grandmother
and my grandchildren have kept me up to speed on
Techi stock, but they re lee have moved further away
with jobs and work different schedules. So I need to
ask you a question about my iPhone. I'm absolutely hooked

(01:11:10):
on KFI radio. Listened to it for years in California
and was thrilled to find that through her heart radio
I could get it here in Arizona. I love to
hear that my phone overnight because I'm handicapped and I
need it right next to my bed. Promised my daughter
I would do that smart and I charge it also

(01:11:32):
while it's beside my bed, and occasionally I cannot get
iHeartRadio because of Internet problems on my echo, so I
listened to it on my phone. Sure, is that hurting
my phone that I'm charging it and listening to iHeartRadio
all night?

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
I don't think so. I think, you know, maybe in
the past it might be putting a little bit more.
Are you Is it all night long for like eight hours?

Speaker 8 (01:11:59):
And oh yeah, Usually I plug it in when I
go to sleep, charge it and if I can't get
iHeartRadio on the internet, and we often have Internet problems
off and on.

Speaker 2 (01:12:11):
Why are you having internet problems? Oh, I'm curious.

Speaker 8 (01:12:14):
Well, because it's a rural area with less than perfect
service and it's getting better, okay, but it's not there yet.

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
How long have you had the iPhone?

Speaker 8 (01:12:25):
I've had the iPhone about three years. It's a se twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
And you've been doing this for a while with the phone?

Speaker 8 (01:12:33):
Oh yeah, okay, So I've been doing it whenever I
either lose internet service or if I travel and don't
have internet service. Here's we're in a motel somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:12:41):
Here's what I want you to check. Are you on
the phone right now, I am. Okay, So you're gonna
have to wait till we get off the phone. But
if you go into these settings, okay, you go into
settings and then you click battery and then it says
battery health and charging, and it will tell you the
maximum capacity of your battery. Now, mine is at ninety

(01:13:03):
six percent. I've had this phone since the day it
came out. This is only a year old, so it's
gone down about four percent in the maximum capacity of
the battery. You can check in there and see what
your battery's at, and you can see if it's you know,
if it's at a good percentage, you know, ninety percent.
You know, that's telling you. When this battery came from
the factory, it was at one hundred percent capacity. Like,

(01:13:25):
this battery is perfect. And as you use it, the battery,
of course wears down a little bit. And some things
will cause it to wear down more than others, like
maybe using it in really hot temperature, maybe using like
not a very good charging cable or something. You know,
it just depends. But I will tell you I am
a power power power user. I run my phone into

(01:13:45):
the ground. I charge it as much as humanly possible.
I charge it every night. It is always going and
I've gone down four percent in about, you know, almost
a year. So it just goes to show that, yes,
the things you do on your phone absolutely have an
impact on the battery health. But I think the fact
that you can look in there and see kind of

(01:14:05):
like what's happening with your battery, that can give you
a better idea. So what I would do for the
next six months write down the number that you're at today,
and then in six months, check the number that you
have there in the maximum capacity, and if it's going
down by a lot, lot lot like ten percent twenty percent,
which I don't think it will be, then you know,
maybe you rethink what you're doing here, but I think

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that you're going to be just fine. I've used phones
over the years, and realistically, you know, I think it
more comes down to the way that you run the
battery in the heat. That might have more of an
impact on it than anything else. But I think that
listening to the streaming what's happening is your phone is
basically the battery is trickle charging while it's depleting a

(01:14:49):
little bit, So it's just kind of always charging and
battery tech has gotten a lot better where it's not
like it used to be where it's super impacted by
memory and all this stuff. So I think think you're
doing okay, Wendy. Thanks for listening all day long. Appreciate it,
and thanks for listening to me especially. And I'm glad
that your kids know that you're keeping your phone bedside

(01:15:10):
so that if you ever need them, you can get
in touch with them easily. So thanks for calling today, Wendy.
Appreciate it. All right, Parker, you're here. We're going to
talk about Final Cut Pro on the iPad. So Final
Cut Pro is a program that I use pretty much,
I think, every day of my life now for fifteen years.
I've used this since I started at CNET. I remember

(01:15:33):
they said you got to learn how to use Final
Cut and I said what They said, Yeah, you're going
to be editing videos.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
I said, all right, So they taught me a little
bit of how to use it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:41):
It was very basic, but I've learned over the years
and this thing has become my everything. I use this
program every day. It's why I typically use a Mac
computer and it is my program of choice for editing
on a physical computer. Now they just came out with
Final Cut Pro for iPad. It is five dollars a

(01:16:02):
month or fifty dollars for the year, which is a
little bit controversial because not everyone likes to pay for
something Like I paid for my Final Cut one time.
It was three hundred dollars many many years ago and
it still works now. Final Cut on the iPad is
really cool for a couple of reasons. Number one, you
can use a touch interface, so you can use just
your fingers to do this, or you can use the

(01:16:22):
Apple pencil, which which is really fun. It is, yeah,
And the other cool thing is that you can write
on the screen and make graphics.

Speaker 4 (01:16:31):
That is that's one of the best parts. I think,
like it's basically.

Speaker 3 (01:16:34):
Kind of like animating.

Speaker 4 (01:16:35):
You can't really animate on there, but like if you're
like I kind of want something to be like animating,
then that's the way to go.

Speaker 1 (01:16:42):
And it's super easy because you're just writing. Okay, so
you've been using this on the iPad pro. And the
other caveat is that you have to have an iPad
with an M one processor. This is the Apple's, you know,
their own chip, and so they have the M one
and the M two and there's some differences if you
have them. There's some features you may not be able
to use. If you have the M two, obviously you

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can use them all. So park what's your your impression
of this? Because I think it's quite incredible.

Speaker 3 (01:17:09):
I think it's incredible too.

Speaker 4 (01:17:11):
I mean, like it's insane if you think about it,
like an insane editing software on an iPad.

Speaker 3 (01:17:18):
That's pretty amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:17:20):
When I first saw my dad maybe editing on this,
I was like, oh no, never, I mean maybe one
day I'll learn this, Like it looks hard, maybe I
take some classes or like literally I just spend hours
in my dad working. But since it like I heard
him talk about it actually on the radio about this
that I tried it.

Speaker 3 (01:17:41):
Yeah, and I tried it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
So what Parker will do is he will he will
ask me when I come home from an event, He'll say, hey, Dad,
can you air drop me the video files from that event?
And I will air drop him and he will make
his own little edit of that program. And you did
this for the display thing that I went to, and
I was very impressed with what you were able to do.

Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
See how easy was it to learn how to use this?

Speaker 3 (01:18:03):
I actually thought it wasn't super hard.

Speaker 4 (01:18:05):
Some of the things, though, I feel like are harder
than others, which I think there's gonna have to be,
Like maybe later on they'll be like videos of how
to use it. Like right now it's not a lot
because it's brand new, but I think it should be
more noticeable for some things than others.

Speaker 2 (01:18:23):
Like some things you were able to pick up very easily.

Speaker 4 (01:18:25):
Yeah, like uh, one of them are just like drag
and drop the uh the videos and uh stuff, and
but some hard things were like split the clip.

Speaker 1 (01:18:36):
And all that stuff that I would say that's the
trickiest because it's the trickiest. I would say splitting the
clip is probably the most common way of editing on
the desktop.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
You just you can use like the blade tool like
b or whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:18:48):
Yeah, that's what I did actually because uh, i've the
Apple keyboard, and I actually learned that if you press
command be at once it ain't like while holding the clip,
it will actually split it.

Speaker 3 (01:18:59):
And then that's how you do it.

Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
But I actually want to know how to do it
without the keyboard.

Speaker 1 (01:19:03):
Some people don't know it's in the lower right hand corner.
I discovered it. So when you tap a clip. It's
in the lower right hand, but.

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
You needble yes, and.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
I think they're going to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:19:12):
So I think they're going to figure out how to
make that more more visible because it's one of the
things that I kept cutting the entire clip, and so
I just get rid of it. It felt like the
way to do it. But overall, I will say it's
it's really good. It's for out of the gate. I
think for someone who is coming up in the industry,
like a you know, like my kid here that is

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just getting started with editing. It has become now where
the iPad finally is nearly a replacement for a desktop
computer that is more versatile because you have the beauty
of an iPad and everything that you could do on
a computer.

Speaker 4 (01:19:48):
Basically, I would say, if you want to get rid
of your laptop and uh get rid like yeah, get
rid of your laptop, then I would say you'd have
to probably go with the Apple keyboard with it because
it's like a lot easier. But I think the Apple
pencil still has most of the features.

Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
Yeah, the Apple pencil being able to pencil is.

Speaker 3 (01:20:06):
So I think it's worth it for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:20:08):
Yeah, So like you, so you'd say Apple pencil. So
if you're doing final cut pro editing on the iPad,
you've got to get the Apple pencil.

Speaker 4 (01:20:15):
And I agree, I don't think you you don't need to.

Speaker 3 (01:20:17):
It's not acquired.

Speaker 4 (01:20:18):
I would say it is worth it. It's worth the.

Speaker 2 (01:20:22):
Yeah, I tweeted this yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:20:24):
I said I felt like Picasso when I was editing
on this thing yesterday because it's the combination of just
holding this flat device in your lap. You're editing, but
you're using your hand on the screen to select stuff,
and then I'm using the pencil on the other hand.
It felt so easy and fluid and natural that I
really think that Apple did a really incredible job of

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getting this into more hands. And I think more people
are just going to start editing on the iPad and
we're going to have the whole a whole new generation
of Well, of course it's going to be like TikTokers
and YouTubers, but maybe the next directors of like movies
and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (01:21:01):
Yeah, that'd be awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:21:02):
It's also just simple and easy to learn, so if
you want to learn it, I would go on ahead
and try.

Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
So all right, Well, thank you Parker for giving your
your and Parker and I usually do these little edit
offs where he'll edit the same thing that I edit,
and then we compare notes and we'll see who I.

Speaker 4 (01:21:18):
Time did that in a car, like a really long
car drive.

Speaker 3 (01:21:20):
We did that for fun.

Speaker 4 (01:21:22):
Yeah, yeah, it's fun. So I'd recommend if you can
try it out.

Speaker 1 (01:21:27):
So yeah, final cut pro on the iPad. Thanks for
joining me today, Parker, appreciate it. We're gonna still stick
around for the rest of the show. Coming up, we're
going to talk I've got so many things talk about.
I want to talk about this Peloton price increase, but
they put a good spin on it, so they're making
you feel like you're getting more. I've got a website
that you can check if you're getting scammed. We're going
to talk about Max, the new streaming service, and I've

(01:21:48):
got a guest and plus your calls. It's all happening
here rich On Tech, Triple eight, rich one on one.
Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
out with you talking technology. Did you know that you
can get this show as a podcast. Just go to
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(01:22:12):
there's show notes to everything I mentioned. So if you
want show notes, you can see what I talk about
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of fun. So go to Rich on tech dot tv
and look for the as seen on TV. All Right,

(01:22:33):
a couple of things I want to get through. So
first off, let's see what do we want to start
with here. Let's do Max because this is an easy one.
So HBO Max became Max and it now is the
home of all kinds of stuff. So they launched this
week thirty five thousand hours of content, more than twice
that of HBO Max for the same price. Okay, all

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these companies like to put a little spin on things.
They say it's the same price, but if you want
the same features, you have to pay a little bit more.
I'll explain that in a second. So what do you
get with Max? You get HBO, you get Max Originals,
which is all their new stuff. Then you get Warner
Brothers Films, DC Universe, Harry Potter, HGTV, Food Network, Discovery Channel,

(01:23:17):
TLC ID and more because Warner Brothers, I don't know
if they merged or bought Discovery, whatever it is. It's
very complicated, but it's all now like one company. So
Warner Brothers, Discovery, HBO Max all the same stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:23:31):
And the new app is called Max.

Speaker 1 (01:23:32):
If you have access to HBO Max, you have access
to Max. So go on your device, whether it's Apple, TV, fireTV, Roku,
iPhone and download the Max app. You can log in
with your HBO Max credentials. I know this all sounds
so wild, but this is what it is. There's also
better kids stuff on here, so it has like a

(01:23:54):
default kids profile, and there's more four K stuff so
and this is where it gets a little t So
there's gonna be a lot more four K content and
there's gonna be an average of forty new titles every month,
which is wild.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
Now here's the pricing.

Speaker 1 (01:24:09):
Max with ADS is nine ninety nine a month or
one hundred bucks a year, and that will give you
no offline downloads, so if you travel, that's a no go.
Mad Ax Max AD free is sixteen dollars a month
or one hundred and fifty dollars a year. That will
give you thirty offline downloads and HD quality now if

(01:24:30):
you want. And this is where it gets where they said, oh,
we're giving you, you know, the same for the same price.

Speaker 2 (01:24:35):
Not really.

Speaker 1 (01:24:36):
So MAX Ultimate AD Free is twenty dollars a month
or two hundred dollars a year, and that will give
you four K resolution, one hundred download downloads, offline downloads,
and Dolby at moosts. So basically, if you are paying
sixteen dollars a month before and you want four K
in the future, you're gonna have to pay twenty dollars

(01:24:56):
because existing HBO Max subscribers will have access to MAX
at the same price, but only for about well same
features for six months. So if you have four K
right now, like I do on my plan, I'm only
going to get to keep that for six more months,
so well, I say, at least six months. So they
haven't really said how they're going to change, But the
bottom line is we know how these tech companies do it.

(01:25:18):
They launch something and then when people forget about it,
they slowly change things and of course make it a
little bit more expensive. So that's that speaking a more
expensive peloton. Peloton put a nice spin on their increase
of prices. So they've relaunched their app with a free level. Okay,
that's great, So you can take free classes on their app.

(01:25:40):
It's limited, but it's free and that's nice, and that's
the headline that they got a lot of people to
talk about. And it's great, you know, but there's a
lot of free fitness options out there, and I think
Peloton has always sort of been linked to the device
or like myself, I use a third party bike, but
I use the Peloton app. So for people like me,
the price is actually doubling. So it used to be

(01:26:02):
twelve ninety nine a month, now it's going to be
twenty four dollars a month because the twelve ninety nine
no longer includes unlimited hardware based classes.

Speaker 2 (01:26:11):
What does that mean?

Speaker 1 (01:26:12):
The cycling classes, the treadmill classes, the rowing classes, you
only get three of those now used to be unlimited
for twelve ninety nine. Now you only get three a month.
And they know that that's their bread and butter, even
though in this entire release they talk about how you know,
these are the most popular things that people do.

Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:26:31):
So if you have the Peloton app, if you have
a Peloton bike, nothing's really changing. Like, if you pay
that forty five dollars a month or whatever it is,
you're fine. But if you're using the app just for
the classes and you use like a treadmill or a
different bike, you're gonna have to pay twenty four dollars
a month if you want to continue with unlimited classes.
This goes into effect on Tuesday, December fifth, so you

(01:26:52):
have some time. But look, I get it. It's it's
twenty four bucks a month for all these classes, and
Peloton has very very good classes. But still you saw
the spin and you know, they said, hey, we got
a free tier, but they kind of left out the
fact that their best customers like myself are now going
to be paying double if they want to continue with
what they have.

Speaker 2 (01:27:13):
So there you go all these companies.

Speaker 1 (01:27:15):
I mean, the amount of price increases we have seen
on these streaming apps has just been incredible. I think
that every single streaming app in the past year and
a half has gotten a price increase or some sort
of change where you have to make a decision do
I want to continue with this price or do I
want to get the feature as I was getting before
and pay a little bit of a higher price.

Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:27:38):
Coming up next, we've got John Faulkner of Clean Fleet Report.
He's going to join me to talk about the vin
Fast EV and we're going to get his take on
the whole new Ford and Tesla deal. Rich tamiro here,
Rich on Tech More show coming up next. Welcome back
to Rich on Tech Rich DeMuro here talking technology and

(01:28:00):
evs are a big part of the tech world right now.
And one of the companies that's looking to make a
stake is called vin Fast. And also so we've got
those cars now on the roads, and we've also got
this deal this week with Ford and Tesla, two unlikely
characters coming together. So starting early next year, Ford EV

(01:28:23):
customers will have access to more than twelve thousand Tesla
superchargers in the US and Canada.

Speaker 2 (01:28:29):
This is a huge, huge deal. So to talk about this.

Speaker 1 (01:28:32):
News and more, make sure I get the right button here,
we've got John Faulkner from Clean Fleet Report. John, thanks
for being on the show again. Welcome, Hello, Hello, Rich,
with you you too. All right, let's start you want
to where do you want to start? You want to
start with your review of the vin Fast.

Speaker 9 (01:28:49):
Or what Yeah, let's get that one out of the
way out of the way.

Speaker 1 (01:28:52):
Oh that doesn't that doesn't sound promising. So let me
just set this up. So we were at the my
son is here with us. Remember we my son was
excited about the vin Fast. We saw it at the
mall in Santa Monica, right huh.

Speaker 4 (01:29:05):
And I mean the design looked good, but I mean
it's hard to get a car out there.

Speaker 3 (01:29:10):
I mean it's hard.

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
So this is a Vietnamese company. Tell me about the
vin Fast, John Okay.

Speaker 9 (01:29:19):
Vin Fast was formed only in twenty seventeen by its
parent company, vin Group, which is Vietnam's largest company. Twenty nineteen,
they started with gasoline powered cars in their own country.
Twenty twenty one, they introduced an electric bus. In twenty
twenty one, they had three electric vehicles that they introduced
but didn't release. They just announced them then at CES

(01:29:43):
in twenty twenty two. Vin Fast was there. In the
fall of twenty twenty two, their first models were shipped
to America and opened their retail stores and mall like
you experienced. They have twenty eight United States and ten
in Canada, and all the ones the United States are
in tel Alifornia.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
Oh.

Speaker 9 (01:30:01):
Then, and then in twenty twenty two, they signed an
agreement to open a manufacturing plant in North Carolina, with
production to begin with the capacity of one hundred fifty thousand
vehicles in twenty twenty five. And then they delivered their
first cars for people to drive home in early this year.
So what you can see is going from never having

(01:30:24):
built an automobile of any type in twenty seventeen and
in twenty twenty three, this is this is unheard of.

Speaker 1 (01:30:32):
Oh wait, this company, this Vin Group, they weren't oh wow, okay,
focuses on real estate, retail and services and healthcare. Right,
oh wow, So they really shifted. Okay, so they saw
some opportunity. Here's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 9 (01:30:45):
Yeah, and so let me go ahead and just tell
the one what we did. In early May, then Fast
tilled their first ever drive opportunity.

Speaker 11 (01:30:53):
For the MOTED media.

Speaker 9 (01:30:55):
After a product briefing by Kievan Fast staff, which included
their CEO. We were turned loose and we drove to
ignore the San Diego County. So the vehicles that we
were driving were the were the then Fast VF eight
City and this is their this is their lowest range
mid size suv. And so I had a driving partner

(01:31:18):
with me, and we took off and we we immediately
noticed that there were things about the vehicle that were
not up to par or equal with other evs that
we have driven by other brands. And and so we

(01:31:39):
got back after our drive, we sat down with the
DEAT executives and we told them the things that we noticed.
And I don't think anything we told them was surprising.
They'd probably known this already. And and so the the
the bottom line for this thing is that in my opinion,

(01:32:01):
that they are rushing into the north North American market
and if the v fate that we drove the media,
just not myself or my partner, but all the journalists
there that we drove is what they're selling to people.
People are not going to be buying it. And the

(01:32:22):
reason is pretty understandable. They're only launching this vehicle in California,
and they say they want to be here because the
charging system is the most robust in the whole country,
and people understand electric vehicles well, they do, but that
cuts both ways. Californians are EV savvy and they are

(01:32:43):
going to do many, many hours of research online before
and do wort of mouth before they will actually go
out and buy an EV and once they test drive
any of the more established evs that compete against the
v fate, they will they will probably not be buying it,
don't They're going to wait on that vehicle. And there

(01:33:04):
are and there are some challenges them. It has a
relatively low driving range two hundred and seven.

Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
Miles maximum oh wow. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:33:15):
Yeah, And the pricing is including the twelve hundred dollars
delivery fee. The base one is fifty thy two hundred
and the plus model of fifty seven to two hundred.
The problem with that is that they don't qualify for
any federal or California JAST rebates of credits. So therefore

(01:33:37):
they are they're going against they're going against cars that
are getting one hundred miles or more range they are
getting they're getting vehicles that are well established. Yeah, and
so they're offering the most robust warranty ten years, one
hundred and ten thousand miles. The question, though, is, as

(01:34:00):
a new company from a country that has no history
of building automobiles, will they be around in ten years?

Speaker 7 (01:34:08):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:34:08):
So will they be there to support it?

Speaker 11 (01:34:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:34:11):
Exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:34:12):
It sounds like it sounds like this is one of
the let's wait and see. And here's what's happened in
the EV world. And you know this is that it
started out, you know, you had Tesla, they kind of
set the standard, and then now we've seen in the
past couple of years so many great options and they
just continue to get better. So it is it continues
to get more and more competitive and tougher to really,

(01:34:35):
like you're saying, cut corners here and deliver a product
that is like, Okay, it's got two hundred miles range,
which is fine if you're just commuting, big deal, but
you know, the price is a little bit high, the
features might not be up to speed. So I think
when it comes to vin Fast, from what I'm hearing
from you is we kind of wait and see on
that one.

Speaker 9 (01:34:54):
Yeah, and I don't want people to not take a
test drive in it. I want them to take a
test drive. But these are going to be people that
are probably already driven the leaders that compete against this.
So the model why all three from the Hyundai group,
the Ford, Moche, you just all these vehicles, is what's

(01:35:14):
going to sell against this on the whole BMW, the
Audis and they're gonna they're going to look at this
and say, you know something, I don't know anything about
this company. I don't you know, they have no warranty industry,
they have no reliability history. Maybe I'll wait until the
next version comes. Yeah, but yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:35:34):
Okay, so we got we got that the way.

Speaker 1 (01:35:35):
We only have a couple minutes here, So I want
to I want to get into this news with Ford
and Tesla, because this is pretty wild. Ford said they
reached a deal with Tesla to basically allow their customers
to access the superchargers starting in spring twenty twenty four,
and they are going to I guess give adapters to
users of the F one fifty, the Mustang Mochi, the

(01:35:57):
E Transit.

Speaker 2 (01:35:58):
But then later in twenty twenty five, they're going to.

Speaker 1 (01:36:01):
Equip their evs with the port that I guess Tesla
superchargers just work with. So this is a pretty big
step and I think it has very broad implications for
the EV industry, Like basically we're establishing Tesla supercharging network
is sort of the kind of the almost like the
standard now and there's some pros and cons of that.

Speaker 2 (01:36:23):
So give me your thoughts on this.

Speaker 9 (01:36:25):
Well, on Thursday of this week, when this news broke.
It was you're right, you took my you took my
words right on the mouth. This is huge. This is
this is the This is not only the accepting of Tesla,
which when they came out to when they first announced
many many years ago, you know, well less than a
decade ago, that they were coming out with vehicles. All

(01:36:47):
the grandiose plans and all the all the predictions and
all the all the vehicles are going to have they
didn't happen, so people didn't take them seriously. Well, now
Tesla has taken extremely seriously with them with the Model
Y being the most successful, the highest selling vehicle in
the world in this category. I'm talking about any any vehicle, truck, car, anything,

(01:37:12):
it's the number one and in the first quarter of
this year, so they it's and it's just amazing. So
what this is going to do for Ford because Ford
is on a fast track just like our General Motors, Atlantis, ALII, Volkswagen,
the Hundai Group, all of them, they're on this track
that they're they're just going to be releasing vehicle evs

(01:37:33):
like you just can't believe. And of course with the
with the twenty thirty five mandate, coming up in California,
that no new cars could be sold that aren't that
aren't zero mission vehicles. You know, that's that's twelve years
from now, eleven years from now. I mean, these companies,
they they got to get their act together. And what
Ford realized was, Hey, we're going to get in bed

(01:37:56):
with these guys. Ford currently has something called blue Oval.

Speaker 2 (01:38:01):
This this is gonna sell.

Speaker 1 (01:38:02):
This is going to sell a lot of cars, and
it's it's and it puts pressure on the other manufacturers
to do the same thing, which I think, if you,
you know, depending on how you look at it, is
a little scary because now we're letting one company kind of,
you know, rule this entire world of charging for evs,
and like you just said, the market continues to grow
for these things, and so I think that there's some

(01:38:23):
some big implications here.

Speaker 2 (01:38:25):
John.

Speaker 1 (01:38:25):
We got to end it there, because we've talked so much.
Tell folks how they can read all the stuff that
you do, all these great road tests.

Speaker 9 (01:38:34):
Yeah. Our our website is clean fleet report dot com.
And then when you get there, you can either read
the featured stories on the top, or you can the
search bar and type in any any mucle you want
and you can find a review and yeah, so it
is you and I've been on these programs together and
it's uh, it's this is the most exciting time the

(01:38:57):
automotive industry never been anything like.

Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
It's so great.

Speaker 1 (01:39:01):
And I feel like, I mean for myself, like looking
at forward now, you know, because of this, I feel
like I would give them a look for this car
and other cars that are going with this platform because
the ability to drive anywhere in charge is what the
supercharger network brings to the table. But it's also scary because,
like I said, you know, when when companies get too

(01:39:21):
much power, sometimes the prices, you know, they follow. So
all right, we're gonna leave it there, John, thanks so
much for joining me today.

Speaker 2 (01:39:27):
I appreciate it. I'll see you soon, Okay, bye, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:39:30):
Coming up end of the show. I can't believe it.
It is your favorite segment. It's the feedback segment. It's
the time when I will read all of this stuff
that you send me.

Speaker 2 (01:39:39):
You hear it.

Speaker 1 (01:39:40):
It's all right here rich On tech Rich Demiro coming
back at you in just a bit.

Speaker 2 (01:39:44):
Here.

Speaker 1 (01:39:48):
Welcome back to a rich On tech Rich Demiro here
hanging out with you, talking technology, and closing out the
show with what has become one of your favorite segments,
the Feedback. Before I get to the feedback, I've got
ton this week, I want to just tell you about
this Better Business Bureau website that I did a story
on and it's very, very helpful. It's called the Scam

(01:40:10):
Tracker BBB dot org slash scam Tracker, and I will
put this up on my website rich on tech dot
tv in the show notes. But if you think you're
getting scammed, or if a family member is asking you
about a scam, go to this website and just type
in a keyword about what's happening to you, and I
guarantee you you will find some sort of person that

(01:40:30):
has reported this somewhere in the US. We talked to
a woman who was trying to adopt a kitten and
she ended up getting scammed out of about fifteen hundred dollars.
And if she literally would have typed in the word
kitten into this website, she would have read accounts from
all over the US about the same exact scam that
got her. And basically I kept promising her the cat

(01:40:51):
and they just kept asking for more money, and it
turned out to be.

Speaker 2 (01:40:55):
She didn't adopt.

Speaker 1 (01:40:55):
She was trying to go through like a breeder, which
is a whole other can of worms. But anyway, BBB
dot org, slash scam Tracker, Bookmarket, it's a really helpful site.

Speaker 2 (01:41:05):
And I think it can really really help people.

Speaker 1 (01:41:08):
Okay, let's get to the feedback segment, Parker.

Speaker 2 (01:41:11):
You want to read the first one?

Speaker 3 (01:41:13):
Yeah, I will.

Speaker 4 (01:41:14):
So this is from Melinda and she said, there's a
person on Instagram who's offering me thirty thousand dollars on
his Instagram account and Instagram account says he's a Powerball
winner and his purpose is to give donations to people.

Speaker 3 (01:41:30):
Could this you legit? How can I check?

Speaker 4 (01:41:32):
And the person's account was Dave underscored, Johnson underscored giveaway
and plus some other numbers.

Speaker 1 (01:41:41):
So the guys, the guy's account on Instagram is Powerball
Winner want the giveaway. Yeah, that sounds like a scam
to me. So I hope you stay steer clear of that, Melinda,
because that is a that is one hundred percent scam.

Speaker 2 (01:41:54):
I don't know what the scam is.

Speaker 1 (01:41:56):
I'm guessing you have to send him something and then
he'll send you some money or well purport to send
you money, but that's anyone with uh what was his
name again, what was the user name?

Speaker 4 (01:42:05):
It was Dave underscored, Johnson underscored, giveaway and plus some numbers.

Speaker 2 (01:42:10):
Okay, yeah, that's definitely. Yeah. Let's say if I had
an that would be an do not do not go
with that.

Speaker 3 (01:42:16):
Any says giveaway and yeah, that's that's a scam.

Speaker 2 (01:42:20):
Okay, Uh, let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:42:22):
Fred says, Hey, Rich, if you want to record anything
on Windows ten or eleven, all you have to do
is press the Windows key plus all plus R. This
will record anything on the screen, including sound. This was
in response to someone that called in about recording programming
on like Amazon Prime and YouTube. And I tried this
on my Windows and I could not get it to

(01:42:43):
record the sound. And I'm not sure what I was
doing wrong, but I have a feeling that sound may
not be as easy to record. I know on the
Mac it's a separate program that you need to record
the sound. So but Fred, that's a that's a great
way to record stuff on the screen that may not
include sound. Again, Windows key all plus R is a

(01:43:04):
good one. Stu chimed in about our conversation regarding AM radio.
We were talking about how Ford was gonna ditch AM
radio in their cars and a lot of people, a
lot of people are talking about that, and Stu chimed in.
By the way, Ford had a change of heart and

(01:43:24):
they ended up putting the AM back in it. But
Stu said, AM radio died along with civilized talk radio.
NPR was on FM podcast. Put a stake in it.
No loss, Oh, Stu, as someone who's new to AM
radio on the radio, you really stabbed me where it hurts.

Speaker 2 (01:43:45):
Thanks, all right, Parker up next, what's your next one?

Speaker 8 (01:43:48):
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:43:49):
So our next one is Ron And he said, Hey, Rich,
this is Ron from Arizona.

Speaker 3 (01:43:55):
I called you.

Speaker 4 (01:43:56):
I called you show on May thirteenth asking about a
mesh why fight system for our thirteen thousand square foot church.

Speaker 3 (01:44:04):
I went with the EUO Pro six e. Install Installation
was super easy. The system works great. Wi Fi is
strong throughout the entire building.

Speaker 4 (01:44:16):
Our only issues so far as getting are printer connected.
It worked fine with our old connection. We're having multiple
problems with the new system. Oh well, technology, thank you
so much for your help.

Speaker 2 (01:44:29):
I remember this call.

Speaker 1 (01:44:30):
He was trying to get the Wi Fi in the
church and I recommended some systems, so I'm glad so
we went with the consumer system, the EURO Pro. He's
having trouble with the printer. I think the problem with
the printer is that it's probably an older printer that
uses the two point four gigahertz network.

Speaker 2 (01:44:46):
There is a.

Speaker 1 (01:44:46):
Setting in the EURO settings that if you're having trouble
connecting a device, go into the troubleshooting section of the
app and it will actually switch your network over to
just two point four gigaherts for ten minutes to help
you connect some of the those old gadgets that will
then work with the network. But I'm glad to hear
that everything went well. It's is not always good when
you hear some good feedback.

Speaker 3 (01:45:07):
Yeah it is. It is always nice like you.

Speaker 1 (01:45:10):
Now I'm gonna do some mean feedback from Oliver. Oliver
wrote in Good Afternoon, stop in capitals with the what's
going on? You sound like a valley girl. It dumbs
you down. You're an adult now and you really don't
need a catchphrase. And as Colombo says, one more thing,
you are trying too hard to be all things to

(01:45:31):
all people. Historically that does not work. Be careful and
don't jump the shark too soon.

Speaker 2 (01:45:37):
Oliver.

Speaker 1 (01:45:38):
Well, Oliver, you know what, if you've been listening to
my podcast, I've been saying what's going on for about
five years, so I don't think I'm gonna stop just yet.
But I do appreciate the feedback, and you know I'm
open to back.

Speaker 3 (01:45:50):
Is always nice.

Speaker 1 (01:45:51):
But all right, Park, we're gonna have to say goodbye.
Thank you for being on the show today. By the way,
one more piece of feedback. We'll end it on a
nice note. Ruth said, I'm the one that had the
visa card hacked three times in a month.

Speaker 2 (01:46:02):
I followed your advice.

Speaker 1 (01:46:03):
I put on Apple Pay and I got an Apple
card and so far, so good. And Ruth, thank you
so much for listening to the show and following the
I said, used tap to pay when you can, stop
using your credit card or your debit card whatever she
was using.

Speaker 2 (01:46:18):
I think it was a debit card online.

Speaker 1 (01:46:20):
Stop putting that card number in use service whenever you
can that will mask your card number, whether that's Tap
to pay or service like Privacy or even a credit
card will protect you a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (01:46:30):
All right, I'm Richard Simiro.

Speaker 1 (01:46:32):
Thanks so much for listening to the show that's going
to do it for this week. You can find me
on social media at rich on Tech. There are so
many ways you can spend your time. I do appreciate
you spending it with me. Thanks to everyone who makes
this show possible. Bi, we'll talk to you real soon.

Speaker 3 (01:46:47):
Say goodbye bye, Thank you all for listening. Have a
nice day. Bye.

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