Social Media Issues, AR Glasses & Helpful Money Apps

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Samsung has a new premium phone at a more accessible price,
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make its way to my inbox. We've got some great
guests this week. C Nets Scott Stein will compare Meta's
Quest three, their new ray band, smart glasses upgrades, and
their new AR prototype glasses. They call them O'Ryan. Remember

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last week I told you about Snap Spectacles. Well, I
can't remember if I actually told you about him or not,
but I know I saw him and he's going to
compare in contrast because he's actually warned both of them.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
And how does this.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Sound to take an air taxi high above traffic. We're
going to talk to Jobe Aviation's Eric Allison about their
new all electric air taxi. I saw this this week
and I have high hopes no pun intended. And later
we're going to talk to Parent Collective founder Samuel Chapman.
He's going to talk about social media safety and the

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recent impact of all the those school phone bands on
student well being. Well, before we start, I do want
to say a warm happy birthday to my mom. Mom,
Happy birthday. It is her birthday today. I did call
her and she had a great night last night with
the family. I am not there in New Jersey to
celebrate with you this year, but I will be out

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there soon. So thanks as always for listening to this show,
and have a great birthday today.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
My mom has taught me so much.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
She had five kids, by the way, that is that
is no easy feat and she's still smiling, so that's
a good thing.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Anyway. Happy birthday, Mom.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Let me tell you about how I got in trouble
for trying to help you out.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
This is just wild and it.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Really just goes to show why I started a newsletter,
why that I am on this show and trying to
do things to you know. Like I say in the beginning,
I talk about the tech stuff I think you should
know about. So let me tell you about my recent
experience on Instagram. My Instagram is ruined at this point,
and I'll tell you why.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
So.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
I don't know if you saw this.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
I'm sure you did for a while, but there was
this thing going around on Instagram that said goodbye Meta
AI and attorney has advised us to put this on.
Failure to do so may result in legal consequences.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
You have to post this statement.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
If you don't post, you're okay with them using your
information and photos. I don't give Meta or anyone else's
permission to use any of my personal data, profile information,
or photos. This went around for a couple of days
and it spread like wildfire. Now give me a break.
This is not real. It's a fake legal warning, like
you can't just post something on your Instagram stories or

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your Facebook and expect to change the relationship the legal
terms and conditions between you and Facebook. It doesn't work
that way. No attorney told people to do this. Now,
I don't know why people do this. They like to
spread this stuff and it's just funny. It's like a
chain letter back in the day. This has been going
on since the beginning of the internet, right, these fake
warnings and things that people say.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Copy and paste, post and tell your friends.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
So I saw this, and I saw a bunch of
people emailing me about it, asking me if it was real.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
I said, all right, I got a post about this.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
So I take the post, I screenshot it, and I
put like a big bogus over it, and then I
posted it with an explanation of why it's not real
and all this stuff. Well, I could tell that Instagram
was not showing it to a lot of people because
you can see kind of like the likes and the comments,
and they really weren't coming in. I was like, ah,
that's interesting. They probably think I'm spreading this, as you know, misinformation. Well,

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sure enough, I wake up the next morning and I
get a couple stern warnings from Instagram saying we.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Have marked your post as false.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
You should not be spreading false information and misinformation, and
we had to take your post down. And they showed
me like a picture of the post where it was like,
this is false, it's been debunked, it's fake.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
And I was like, you've got to be kidding me,
like this is it's scanned.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
You know, AI is always scanning the stuff that you
upload to these social media networks and trying to figure.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Out what you're uploading, if it's real or if it's fake.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
And of course they've heightened all of this stuff in
recent years with the advent of all this fake news
and things like that. And so my post that clearly
any human being in the world could understand was factual
and helpful and true, but their AI didn't. And so
then not only that, not only did they take my
post down and send me all these warnings, they said, oh,

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by the way, we've we've flagged your account now because
you're spreading misinformation. So now your account quality has been lowered,
So your stuff that you post will now be shown lower.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
In people's feeds.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
So if I post something important in the future, you
probably won't see it because face face, Instagram says, now
this guy's spreading false information. Also, you know, if I
monetized my account in a big way, you no longer
eligible for monetization. Instagram used to these things where like
they get influencers to post and they give them like bonuses.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
They don't really.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
So it's funny because when reels first started, Instagram was
paying people to post reels because they wanted to take
over TikTok, and so they give you like a bonus
if you reached like twenty thousand views on reels.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
And what happened.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
All the influencers went to post those things, and yes,
I got a little money myself, and I tried it
out and okay, sure, But then all of a sudden,
as soon as reel's got popular, I guess what they did. Oh,
they pulled back the reins on that, and nobody gets
it now. Now they're doing the same thing with threads.
I'm not eligible for that. But yes, if you're noticing
people posting on threads, that's why, because they're getting a kickback. Anyway,

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I tell you all that because my Instagram is ruined
now because not only is my stuff not being shown
to people as much, but also when I go on Instagram,
I don't know how this happened, but now it's not
showing me posts from people. So when I go on
to Instagram, now it shows me one post from someone
I follow and it says you've seen all of your
new posts from the past three days, move on, and

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then it goes into like suggestions. My point is, look,
you got I was trying to do the right thing.
It did not work, and I think that anyone Now
I don't have a huge following on these platforms. So
some people make like an actual living on Instagram, on Facebook,
on Twitter, on YouTube, and can you imagine losing that
overnight your entire platform? And so you got to be

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careful with this stuff and think about it. Facebook is
really controlling a lot of things out there. Instagram, Facebook,
and now threads. And people are all about threads because
we know what happened with Twitter, and people are kind of,
you know, moving away from that in certain circles, and
so they're moving to threads because it's seen as a
better alternative.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
But guess what, Now you've.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Got three major information platforms all controlled by one company.
You do something wrong, your loggin gets hacked and boom.
It affects all three of these things. So that brings
me my second part of this, which is the most
common thing that people email me. They say, hey, my
social media account was hacked, whether it's Facebook or Instagram,

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and they say, rich, can you help me get it back?
And I really can There's not much I can do.
I mean, yes, I did a story once where we
reached out to Facebook and they did help a woman
get her account back, but they don't do that on
a regular basis for me, especially not with the amount
of emails I'm getting. So let me just explain really
quickly how this happens, okay, and what you can do
about it. Number one, What typically happens is you get

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an email or a notification that says there's been a
problem with your account and you need to log in
here and fix it. And you go, oh, no, I
don't want to lose all my pictures from that I
posted over the past ten years. You log in and
all of a sudden you realize that was totally bogus.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
And so what you just.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Did was hand over your username and your password to hackers.
And what do they do. They immediately go and take
over your account. They change your email address, they change
your password, they might even change other information on your account.
They start sending out scams messages to all of your
followers trying to get them into crypto scams, whatever, and
you can't get back in. So the official way to

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get back in if this ever happens to you is
Instagram slash hacked and Facebook dot com slash hacked. That
doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna work. It's a frustrating process.
I've talked to many people who go through it, and
it takes a long time.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
I'm not kidding. It's almost like you are.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
A one of those you know, if you're hijacked or whatever,
Like if you're yes, like you're a hostage. You have
to literally hold up like a newspaper with like your
ID and the date today's date, to like have them
prove that it's you to get your account back. It's
pretty wild. So I'm telling you all of this because
I need you to set up two factor authentication two

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day for both your Instagram and your Facebook accounts that
will protect you because let's say you mistakenly clicked one
of these links and you hand over your username and password,
they will get this thing that says, oh, now give
us that two factor code, and you're gonna get a
message that says, hey, did you just log in from Russia?
And you're gonna go no, and then you'll be like, oh, okay,

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I just totally got taken. And the thing is it
will save you in that moment. Now you need to
go and change your password and all that stuff, but
at least you'll be saved from your account getting hacked.
So do that today. And do not use the same
password on different accounts.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Please.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
I've said this over and over, and the reason I'm
telling you this is because what they're gonna do is
they're going to take that password and use their name.
You just hand it over, and they're going to try
on all the other popular accounts out there. So now
you're gonna get hacked across other accounts because you reuse
that password. Please use a password manager, set up two
factor authentication. If you take nothing else away from me today.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
On this show.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Those are the two most important things, because all of
this frustration can be solved so easily. And I'm not
saying these situations are perfect. These protections, but in ninety
nine percent of the circumstances. They will protect you. So
try it out. Please set it up, and please do
not reuse the same passwords. Apple has a new passwords
app and iosaighteen Bitwarden is free, and I also like

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dash Lane as well. Use one of those to set
up your passwords and your two factors, and you will
be a much happier person and you don't have to
deal with all this stuff now.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
I don't know. For me, I don't know what I'm
gonna do.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Hopefully one day my account will come back to one
hundred percent, but right now it's kind of sad.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
All right.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Coming up on today's show, I'm gonna tell you about
Samsung's new affordable smartphone. I'll tell you about that, and
we're gonna take your calls. You're up next at eighty
eight rich one O one that's eight eight eight seven
four to two four one zero one. Give me a
call if you have a question about technology. My name
is rich d'muro and you are listening to rich on Tech.

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Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
out with you talking technology at triple eight rich one
O one eight eight eight seven four to two four
one zero one. Producer Adam came up with the term
for those things that people share online, the bogus uh
you know, disclaimers, misclaimers. It's like a combination of misinformation

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and disclaimer smart uh.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Rich on tech dot.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Tv is the website to go to if you haven't
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get all the stuff that Facebook and Instagram.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Won't show you. Let's go to Arnold in Rancho Kukumonga
Arnold drawn.

Speaker 5 (12:08):
With Rich good One. Hey, I recently added about six
or seven apps to my phone, and all of a
suddenly I'm getting this. When I try to take a
picture or do I just log in, I get this,
A game pops up or an AD pops up, and
I can't stop it, killing me, driving me crazy.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
That is that is really annoying. Okay, so a couple
of things. What did you want to install the apps?

Speaker 5 (12:33):
I've tried to uninstall a few of them, but I
haven't done them all yet. And I saw some instruction
on the internet about going into safe mode and uninstalling
them first or something. But you know what, yeah, and
you know, you know, you know, I tried Google setting settings.
I just have had no success.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Now the other thing is are these coming up from
apps or are they coming up as Chrome notifications, because
that's that could be a difference. Like if they're popping
up if it's a Chrome kind of browser, that could
be a an app that you said, yes, i'll take
notifications when you're browsing the web, and next thing you know,
it's sending you all these notifications that look like, so
what does the screen look like?

Speaker 2 (13:08):
That's that's popping up.

Speaker 5 (13:10):
The game will come up like you know, the last
you want to install it, or just will be an
advertisement for what you know, just just advertising whatever, financial hotels, travel, whatever.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
So frustrating when I.

Speaker 5 (13:23):
First check in, you know that I'm trying to take
a quick quota.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
They said, yeah, okay, well, first thing you do, I'll
tell you. I'll tell you all the steps that I
would do. Okay, So first things first, you got to
go through and uninstall all these apps that you install
to get rid of them. And you don't need to
do it in safe mode. You should be fine with
just uninstalling them. So go into Google Play or just
find the apps in your in your drawer and just uninstalled.
Or actually I would just you know, just go into

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Google Play and look at a list of all of
your apps and then uninstall them from there, or or
go into your app drawer, whatever you want to do.
Once you do that, restart your phone see if it
happens again. If it's still happening, then something else got installed.
So make sure you're looking for all the apps on
your phone that maybe it's side installed another app. And
then you probably want to go into Chrome and if

(14:10):
it's served up from Chrome, I would clear all of
your browsing data. So go into Chrome, go into your settings.
It says delete browsing data, and I would do you know,
all time, and I would.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Just get rid of all that.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
So that will get rid of it'll reset all the cookies,
the cash, everything, the history, any of those pop ups
that are happening, and that should that should fix it.
But if it doesn't again. Once you're done with all
these steps, restart your phone after each step. Then the
next thing I would do is go into your settings.
On the Samsung, they've actually have a malware scanner built in,

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so go into the settings and then under Device care,
scroll all the way down. It says, let's see whereas
I say app protection and then it says turn on
app protection to stay safe from malware and other suspicious activity.
Turn that you can turn that on and it's going
to scan for any issues, and if it doesn't find anything,

(15:06):
the next thing I would like you to do is
to download an app called malware Bytes. Malware Bytes does
have a malware scanner in it as well, and you
can do that. But I think between those steps you
don't need to do all of those steps. I would
just do them in the order I mentioned them, and
once you do them in that order, one of those
things should take care of it.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
I have a feeling this is.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Being served up by a rogue website that you visited
on Chrome and it is now delivering Chrome notification pop
ups at that look like ads, and I think that's
what's happening. So thanks for the call today, Arnold. Very
very frustrating trying to take a picture and it's just
not really cooperating. Speaking of Samsung, they've got a new phone.

(15:48):
It's called the S twenty four FE. This used to
be short for Fan Edition, so basically this is kind
of a full featured Samsung Galaxy, but at a cheaper price,
so more expensive this year it's six hundred and fifty dollars,
but don't buy it at that price.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Do not buy it at that price.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
It will go on sale, So do not pay six
hundred and fifty dollars to this phone. But it's got
great feature It's got a six point seven inch screen,
it's got a bigger battery than last year. It's got
a fifty megapixel wide angle lens, got an eight megapixel
telephoto with three times optical. It's got an ultra wide
and a ten megapixel selfie. The big thing that Samsung
is promoting on this phone is that it's got AI

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built in from day one. We all know that the
AI features on the newest iPhones are delayed, so Samsung
is using that to their advantage, saying, hey, we've.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Got AI right now.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
And I did take this phone out last night take
some pictures at the pumpkin patch, and I am impressed
with the pictures. I thought the pictures were actually pretty good.
So if you're looking for a relatively inexpensive phone compared
to some of the ultras out there, the Samsung Galaxy
fe not a bad deal.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Check it out brand new. I'm not even sure what
day it's shipping.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Let's see beginning of over third eighty eight rich one
on one eight eight eight seven four to two four
one zero one. Coming up, we're gonna talk to Scott
Stein of c neet about augmented reality glasses.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
This is rich on Tech.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
out with you, talking technology. So this week, U meta man,
we're talking a lot about Facebook. This week they had
their event called Meta Connect. This is when they show
off all of their new products and features and things
like that. And uh, the big headline was that they
came out with these augmented reality glasses they call Oriyan.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
You can't buy them.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
They cost anywhere from like a thousand to ten thousand dollars.
They are prototype, but they showed a whole bunch of
people put them on and it's almost like a holographic
display when you look through them. So I think what's
interesting here is that Snapchat came out with augmented reality
glasses last week and now Meta this week. And when
we see two major companies doing stuff like this, we

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realize that this is happening. Here to talk about it
is Scott Stein from CNET. He covers this stuff for
a living there. So tell me first about these Orion glasses, like,
was it the future or what?

Speaker 4 (18:16):
Well, it's the future where.

Speaker 6 (18:17):
I think things need to go. You know, it's basically
like the convergence point. So yes, but it reminded me
a bit of vision pro in the sense that you
see a lot of pieces coming together from the landscape,
but not necessarily in the form that it needs to be.
Vision Pro, I think is in terms of size and
the bulkiness, but Orion is in terms of just even

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producing it. You know, that's the right size, but the
cost and the software and even the resolution aren't there yet.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
And what were you able to do? Like what was
the demo that you saw?

Speaker 6 (18:52):
Yeah, so I got through about forty five minutes of stuff,
and a lot of it kind of felt some of
us felt like vision pro in the sense that you've
never used that before, where there's a grid of apps
and I used eye tracking to locate the app. But
what was interesting is to do pinch gestures to open
the apps. I didn't use any cameras in front of me.
I used a wristband that I wore that used EMG,

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which is a type of neural input sensor that can
check electrical impulses and turn them into gesture awareness. So
I would tap it to open the app. Then I
would look, you know, look at a simulated incoming call
that I would answer that they set up in the
room where somebody was actually talking to me, but it
wasn't you know, like live and out there in the world.
And watch some videos. I got to play some games

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that were kind of like VR games where I tilted
my head and use my eyes to control where the
ship was shooting and use my fingers to shoot. And
played the three D ping pong where we were standing
across the table and I was, you know, playing with
someone else, one of the other team members, using my
hand to hit the paddle. And you know, those are
kind of like VR, kind of like AR mixed reality

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things that have been out there, but the fact that
they're happening on wireless glasses that are that small, uh,
with a with a really good viewing area and that
type of wristband that's really new.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
So and just a quick refresher explain what augmented reality
is versus virtual reality.

Speaker 6 (20:15):
Yeah, so virtual reality is something where the whole world
is blocked off and you're inside a three D you
know landscape like a like an Oculus quest Meta quest
that's out there, and augmented reality is the idea of
putting that into the real world and seeing things that
exist in overlaid or you know, three D or hovering
into the real world. And some of that's already available now.

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When you see mixed reality headsets like the vision pro
requests three, they use cameras that show you the real
world and then layer it. What these glasses do and
AR headsets do is they actually have transparent lenses, so
you are seeing the real world, but it's giving this
ghostly layer of what you know when Bark Zuckerberg called holograms,

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but they're basically that you know, three D display tech,
but without blocking out the real world.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Okay, so that's interesting because you know Zuckerberg used this
holographic description Snapchat. I don't believe said the word holographic.
I was at that event and I tried those on
and you did as well. What did you think the
difference was?

Speaker 7 (21:17):
Like?

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Was the you know who did this better?

Speaker 6 (21:20):
Totally similar concept. The difference is in a lot of
the nuances, you know, Snapchat viewing area is much narrower.
You probably know it is like you can see areas
of your viewing area where the three D effects you know,
kind of cut off.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, it's like a postage stamp in the middle of
the screen. Like it's like postage stamp in the middle
of the screen. Imagine that's where the overlay area is. Yeah,
it's like tall but very narrow. Med is is much better.

Speaker 6 (21:49):
You did not see those edges, although also Metta had
demos that you know, cleverly show things that are you know,
in your area and not trying to overlap, almost like
the original Apple watchspases. You know that we're designed well,
you don't see the border as much, but you know
still it's wide seventy degrees, which.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
Is what it is.

Speaker 6 (22:09):
Is actually less wide than what you have on a
VR headset, which already feels a bit like a scuba mask.
So it's not that it's your entire area, but it's
close enough that you don't see that cutoff point. And
the resolution was actually a little bit lower than stuff
I've been used to, and Meta admitted that, you know,
it was totally fine for icons and videos and stuff,

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but nowhere near where you'd want to watch a movie
in it, you know, like something like Apple Vision pro
is like a cinema quality experience. This is not that
it's not even aiming to be. Well, it is aiming
to be, but it's not there yet. They're talking about
having to improve the resolution, but it.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Will get there.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
And I think at this point, and you can you
can tell me what you think, but I think we've
reached the tipping point now where, like I said, we
have two major companies working on this and getting it
to a really great demo in a small kind of
form factor. The technology is just going to continue to evolve.
So I do believe that we will be walking down

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the street with sunglasses or glasses that do have the
heads up display that tell us you know, who's calling
in the corner, the music that you're playing, what you're
listening to, identify that plant that you're looking at.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Do you think that's going to be a reality.

Speaker 6 (23:18):
Yeah, I think so. I think it's only a matter
of whether you choose to have it personally, kind of
like when smart watches came out, some people wanted them,
some people didn't. Or the battery life, you know, the
battery life and the power and how you connect to
it met is using this processor puck kind of like
a little computer. It's kind of like a stand in
for a phone, you know, but phones, to me, that's

(23:40):
what it is. Phones right now, you know, already have
lower battery life than many would like. And you want
to think about connecting something like glasses, but there's no protocol,
there's no system for that yet from either Google or Apple.
And I feel like we're seeing these glasses trying to
figure it out before maybe in the future we have
phones that are more powerful that are able to handle that.

(24:03):
And yeah, but I think it's I've seen it for years,
so I kind of I've always believed that it's possible.
But you're right, we're seeing now that it is happening,
and I think that's that's a real turning point where
they're putting it together. They're showing all the pieces and yeah,
we didn't think we'd wear wireless eyebuds, all of us,
and we didn't think we'd wear smart watches and that
happened too.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yeah, and it is interesting because you mentioned the protocol, like, yeah,
of course Google, Android, Apple, they would love to have
a way for these glasses to interact so they can
run all the processing on the phone and the glasses
are just sort of a display. But of course these
tech companies like Meta especially would love to have this takeover,

(24:43):
you know, independent of something like iOS or Android, because
that would be a win for them.

Speaker 6 (24:49):
Yeah, and I see a similarity there between Snap Spectacles
and Meta Orion and that they're both companies will you
know that have phone apps that have that don't have
their own over the OS ecosystem, but are trying to
find ways to drive stuff. Met is a lot bigger
and has a lot more pieces to that puzzle. But yeah,
that's exactly it. And I feel like that still needs

(25:11):
to be solved, like you know, use vision pro or
questadsets and things at home because they can't be phones.
They can't go around outside for a variety of reasons.
And Orian the demo was indoors. It was all on
a self contained network. But in the future, when you
wear it around, it will have to be like a phone,
or it'll have to learn how to navigate that same

(25:33):
you know landscape. Qualcomm's been trying to solve those things too,
you know, in the weeds lurking around through all of
these products, and that's been a sign of you know
those aspirations.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
All right, Scott, we're gonna leave it there.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Thanks so much for joining me today, Scott Stein at cnet.
He's been covering VR and AR for a while now,
so if you want to read up on all that stuff,
jets Scott on social media. Scott, thanks so much for
joining me today. Hey, thank you, rich all right, great day.
And by the way, little little trivia, me and Scott.
I think we went to the same magic store growing up, right,

(26:05):
the mecha magic?

Speaker 6 (26:08):
Did you I know about the one I did go?
Where was mecha magic?

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Mecha Magic? I think it was like in like somewhere
in New Jersey. I feel like that's for anyway it was.
It was a while ago, amazing. I went to Ron
Joe's and I went to Tannin's. But now I'm gonna
have to look out for look up, to look up
for yours, look up Mecha Magic. I think it was
in Bloomfield, New Jersey. I think anyway here and oh
my god.

Speaker 6 (26:26):
Wish it was still open. Oh no, I never went there.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Okay, that's a shame.

Speaker 6 (26:29):
I wish I had.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Thanks, Scott, appreciate it all right.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven
four to two four one zero one. I knew Scott
was into magic. I had a feeling because he's in
New Jersey that we went to the same but I
guess not eighty eight rich one on one eight eight
eight seven four to two four one zero one.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
More of your calls right up next, Let's go to
Diana in Torrance. What can I help you with?

Speaker 8 (26:55):
Thank you so much for taking my call. And I
had called in a while back to your show with
a question about how to log in remotely and screenshare
from my Max to other computers, and you helped me
with a great suggestion, which was team viewer.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Great.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
We'll leave the call right there. Thank you, No says kidding.
Now you're having a problem with it.

Speaker 8 (27:18):
Well, it worked, you know. I figured it out without
too much trouble, and I got it working, and it
was working great for a while, like maybe a month
or two, and then all of a sudden, one day
it started just logging me out after five minutes with
seemingly no explanation, and so I couldn't see I thought

(27:39):
it just became like glitchy or flaky. And then I
have different devices, different computers and iPhones, and iPads that
I used to do this, and then I caught, like
on one of the devices a message that said something like, oh,
you're using too much, which I'm not. I'm just using

(27:59):
it either sometimes they do some streaming or else I'm
helping my parents troubleshoot their computers. And so since I'm
trying to use the free license, I don't even begin
to know how to get help for this, or how
to how or why my account got flagged like this.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
So, so the way that Team Viewer works is it is,
you know, it's kind of a freemium thing, so they
do have you know, their main business is obviously selling
this to people who pay them, right, and that's how
they make it and survive and all that good stuff.
But then they give away a free version for personal use.
Now I think, you know what happens is there must

(28:44):
be a limit on the free use because they don't
want people that run companies using this for their company,
because then why pay for it. Ever, so I think
that they must have some sort of algorithm in place
that tells them, Okay, we see this person logged in
every day or every you know whatever, and we're using
it this much and so we will flag those accounts.

(29:05):
It's probably an automatic thing that happens just to kind
of protect the business model. So you could try to
I don't know what the service is like through them,
to get in touch with them and say, hey, you know,
I'm using this personally.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
How many hours a day are you using this? You think.

Speaker 8 (29:22):
It was well, not not a regular not consistently in
a long period of time every day, but some on
some days I might use it for quite a while,
and then it might be you know, days in between
when I use it, So it's not it was not
on a consistent basis or anything.

Speaker 5 (29:44):
Okay, but I but I did have.

Speaker 8 (29:45):
Like various different devices I would try to connect to.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, and you know, so I think I think what's
happening is you're just flagging their systems. So you can
try to get in touch with them and appeal and say, hey, look,
you know, i'm personal I'm just using this to do
this and whatever. The other thing you can do is
try a different program, which is uh, it's see. The
problem is, I think it's a little bit more complicated
to set this up. There's one called rust Desk, and

(30:13):
it is completely free, but I think that this is
a little bit more complicated because it looks like you
have to self host with like your own server, which
I think is is way too complicated for you know,
the average person set up. I think that's what you know,
that's that's the problem with all of these systems is
that there needs to be like a conduit for it
to go through. And I think that that, you know,

(30:34):
there is a cost involved for this company anytime you're
on it. So the other thing you can do is,
depending on what you're trying to do, there is Chrome
Remote Desktop, and so that one is a lot easier.
It's basically a very quick, easy installation, So I think
that might be a good place to just check and
see if that works for you. Because this is free

(30:55):
and it basically lets you access your computer, you know,
through a phone, a tablet or another computer. So that
is another thing that I would look at. And it's
pretty simple. It works on iOS or Android, and it's
like very very simple. That's called Google Chrome Remote Desktop
and there are no I don't even think they have
a paid plan for that one. I think it's just

(31:16):
completely free. So I would check those Diana and otherwise,
So again start with appealing like go on the customer
service with Team Viewer. See what they say, like, hey, okay,
your account got flag. Explain to them if you can
do it might be like a ticket like an email system.
That's what I'm guessing. And then if that doesn't work,
you can't really get that to work again.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
The alternative is rust desk.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
You might also want to pay, like there's so many
companies like go to my PC and all these other
companies that you know, you can pay for any desk.
I mean, there's many many paid services here. You might
even pay for Team Viewer if you feel like it's
worth it. But those are some of the big ones.
But Chrome Remote Desktop is another alternative that you may
want to look into. Thanks for call Diana, appreciate it.

(32:01):
In torrents today, let's see oh lgtvs ads on the screen.
Oh my gosh, we cannot escape advertising. It's everywhere on
our smart devices. So now LG Premium O led TVs
are showing people ads screen full screen screensaver ads on
their smart TVs. The ad appears before the typical screen

(32:25):
saver starts. The ads are for various things, could be
LG zoned services, other partners You could disable this by
going into the TV settings. There's a little switch that
says don't show screensaver ads, but we are seeing these
everywhere Amazon, Google, Roku, Apple TV is really the last
place where there's not a lot of home screen ads.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Worst comes to worst. You can also just pull your TV.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Out from the internet if you don't need that smart
TV functionality, you know, turn off that Wi Fi or
take it out of the internet. Eighty eight rich one
o one eight eight eight seven four two four one
zero one. We're Rich on Tech right after this. Welcome
back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out
with you, talking technology.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Welcome back to the show.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Phone lines are open at eight eight eight rich one
oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two
four one zero one. Coming up in the show, We've
still got some great guests. We're gonna talk about flying
air taxis. I don't know if you watched The Jetsons
like I did when I was a kid, but I've
dreamed of a flying car of course, back to the future.

(33:31):
I mean, who doesn't want this, Well, probably a lot
of people, but I do. I mean, how many times
have I been stuck in traffic and I'm just like
I would love to fly over this. Uh, that reality
is actually getting closer than you might think. We're going
to talk to a guest about that. Uh, and later
in the show, we're gonna talk about social media and

(33:51):
kids and all the issues that they have with that.
You know, I'm always testing something, by the way, this
week a couple of new products. It's honey, I you know,
I do my job at KTLA, so I'm a tech
reporter here in Los Angeles on the rate on the
TV station, and then when I go home, it's like
all these boxes to open and like, you know, test
out these products, set them up this and that. So

(34:12):
this week a couple of products I was testing. First off,
the new Google TV streaming box. So you know you've
got streaming boxes from Roku, You've got Apple TV, You've
got Fire TV is that it Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV,
and then you've got all the smart TVs. But then
Google used to have like a Chrome cast and the
streaming boxes or streaming dongles. Now they've got like a

(34:33):
streaming box. It's a hundred bucks and it's pretty cool.
It looks just like Google TV. If you've been using that,
I know, my TV has Google TV built in, but
this is like in a box that's supposed to be
a little bit more powerful, a little bit better. But
I thought was so funny when I set this thing up. Well,
number one, there's no HDMI cable. First thing I noticed,
I'm like, where's the HMI cable. I can't connect this

(34:53):
thing to the TV. So I had to pull the
HDMI cable for my Apple TV, which is black, and
the the little Google TV is like a cream color,
so it just completely does not match. Like Google, you
should have included if you're gonna make a device that's
not like a standard color like, you should include the
HDMI cable. So people like me, I could see this

(35:14):
box and it like really bugs me that one of
the cables coming out of the back is black and
one is white, and so it's just like this weird
kind of like it needs to you know, it needs
to blend in anyway. But I'm not the only person
that noticed it didn't come with an HDMI cable. A
lot of people are commenting about that online. But the
thing that I thought was really interesting is that you
go through all this hassle of getting like a streamer,

(35:36):
like a streaming box, and then what do I find
on it? They've got this new thing called Google TV
free Play, and it's like one hundred and fifty channels
of like free stuff you can watch. But the best
part is that's nothing new. The best part is they've
made it so you can flip through the channels, just
like an old school TV. So we've come completely full
circle of you know how you sit in front of

(35:56):
your TV and you can't find anything to watch. You
go through all this hassle of getting like a streamer,
like a streaming box, and then what do I find
on it?

Speaker 2 (36:05):
They've got this new thing called Google TV.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Free Play, and it's like one hundred and fifty channels
of like free stuff you can watch. But the best
part is that's nothing new. The best part is they've
made it so you can flip through the channels, just
like an old school TV. So we've come completely full
circle of you know how you sit in front of
your TV and you can't find anything to watch, and
you don't want to start stuff on Netflix because then

(36:28):
it goes into that little bar of like, oh you
just watch this, like continue watching You're like, no, I didn't,
I just just chose like to watch a trailer for that.
So sometimes you just want stuff playing in the background.
Just like old school TV, right when you got home,
used to just turn on the TV. It played stuff.
It just played forever, whether it was a news or
you know, yeah see Adam knows. But with this streaming stuff,

(36:52):
you can't just come home and like turn on the TV.
You have to like use that brain power to like
select what do I want to watch? And you're not
gonna put like your Netflix show that you're binging on
in the background. You want something like news or sports
or whatever just like playing. And now anyway, so now
you can do that. So it's got all these channels
and I was flipping through and it was just so

(37:12):
cool because I was like, you can press up and
down on the remote and just flip through all these
they're streaming, they're not coming in through an antenna or cable.
They're just free. And so what did I land on?
Supermarket Sweep? I was watching a Supermarket Sweep from like
I don't know how many twenty years ago when was
that show on?

Speaker 2 (37:28):
But as a kid, that show was so fun.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
You know, they're running through that grocery store, pulling all
these I always wondered there must have been a rule
in that show where you couldn't just like sweep the
stuff off the shelf into your cart, like with a
big scoop of a hand, because people didn't do that.
They like pick stuff off the shelves and like put
it in the basket, So there must have been a
rule for that. But the thing is that these old
shows have like a new life because people just want

(37:51):
stuff on in the background, and so they've got like
channels that show like, you know, all the old you know,
late night TV shows, Johnny Carson. They have shows channels
that just show like crime dramas the whole time. So
it's pretty interesting.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
That's called Google TV free Play. It's really I mean,
this box is fine. I think that the Google stuff
is really cool. Apparently two hundred and seventy million people
use Google TV every month. So if you're looking for
a new kind of like streaming streaming box that's a
little different from the Apple TV, the Roku, the fire TV,
this is a nice alternative.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Also.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
The other thing I liked is it has a find
my Remote button on the back, so you lose the
remote and the seat cushions, you go up to the
actual streaming box.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
Theer's a button on the back of it.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
You press it and the remote makes a sound, which
you know, some of the other things do that as well,
but that's that's the other cool feature. I thought you
could also make screen art with AI. It's really good
at like finding movies and stuff with AI. So if
you want like a really cutting edge kind of like
I don't know, streaming system, I think Google's doing a
good job. The other thing I'm testing, we often will

(38:54):
get a cat as a foster, and so I said, look,
we usually get kittens that if like nor and they're
messy and they take over your whole house, and there's
usually like a couple of them, like two three kittens
that you're getting at a time. Well, this company, Nakasa
Nia Casa. I've always been fascinated with this idea because
I don't really want a cat, but I like the

(39:14):
idea of cats, and my kids love cats. But the
litter box is always like such an issue, right you
got because who's end up who ends up cleaning the
litter box?

Speaker 3 (39:22):
Like me?

Speaker 1 (39:22):
Whenever we have these you're really on with this uh
things today? Yes, Okay, Adam doesn't talk to me. He
only talks me through the ringing of that bell.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
So I've been I've had this thing to set up
for like a couple of months now, and I've been
waiting for the right opportunity to test out this self
cleaning litter box.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
And maybe you've seen them.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
They have some that like you put the litter in
and they rotate around to scoop out, you know, whatever
the cat does in there. This one actually kind of
sits flat, like an open which they say the cats
like better because they can see around the box when
they're going to the bathroom. And then as soon as
they're done, you know, it kind of feels the weight
of the cat jump in there, and a couple of
minutes later, it kind of turns upwards, almost like those

(40:07):
like rides at the carnival, like those boats, you know,
like go back and forth. It does that, and it
gets all the droppings like into this little catch area
like a little tray, and so you can go like
two weeks without cleaning the kitty.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Letter.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
I mean, we'll see, I'm testing it, we'll see, But
already the cat used it once today and as soon
as the cat jumped out, the litter cleaned itself. You
could hear a little stuff like falling into the bottom.
I thought that was pretty cool. Not cheap this one is.
It looks like it's currently on sale for about five
hundred bucks. So that's probably what keeps most people from saying, oh,
this would be a great thing to have in my house.

(40:41):
But when you do that math over time, I mean,
this is like a this is like again the stuff
that we imagined right that would be in the future,
like your litter box would clean itself. We actually have
that now. But a lot of this stuff is just
you know, it's so prohibitively expensive for most people that
they don't get it. But I do know people that have,
like I think the whisker is the other one, the

(41:03):
one that rotates, and people who have.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
These things absolutely love them.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
So anyway, the cat we got, by the way, is
an adult cat, and it was like a stray that
they found, and they're like, be very gentle with it.
It's gonna be you know, skittish and this and that.
This cat is like it's like a dog. It follows
you around the house and it just literally is just
like the happiest little cat I've ever seen. And by
the way, it's like small, it's like fully grown, but
it's small. So my entire family are cat people. They

(41:30):
we literally we have a Telegram family group chat, and
ninety nine percent of the telegram messages are just my
family taking pictures of their cats doing stuff. And I'm like,
really anyway, and it's cute, but you know, you have
to be into that stuff. If you woke up and
you found that your Kespersky anti virus on your computer
was replaced with a new program called ultra AV, well

(41:52):
you're not alone.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
All of a sudden.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Earlier this month, people found that this program just changed names.
The Kespersky uninstalled itself and installed this new program called
ultra AV, and people were like what they were concerned.
They were confused, as many people are in general, wondering
if this was malware. And sure enough, Ultra av purchased

(42:17):
the business from Kespersky. Because I don't if you remember,
we talked about this on the show a while back,
the US banned Kespersky because of its Russian origins. I
guess it's based over in Russia, and they said, no,
they can't have that on us.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Computers.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
I mean, we saw what happened with CrowdStrike, you know
where that was a mistake, and look how many computers
it took down. Imagine if a company wanted to take
down computers in the US. And you know, I'm not
saying that Kespersky is nefarious in any way, shape or form,
but if they wanted to be, they could because they're
on a lot of computers.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
A lot of programs could do that.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
So anyway, so this was purchased by a company called
Pango Group. They have VPN brands as well, and people
were like, well, you never told us you were going
to do this, and Pango.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Said, yeah, we did.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
We notified you like September fifth, starting via email, in
app alerts, website notices, and of course what do you do.
You ignore all that stuff until you know this happens.
And they're like, wait a second. What So if you
have ultra av I can't vouch for it. I can't
tell you if it's good or bad. But if you
had a subscription with Kesperski, that's what happened, and your

(43:22):
subscription will follow over, so you will get charged by
this new company when your subscription is up.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
What I personally would do is ditch it all together.
You know, let your.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
Subscription go, like just cancel it and then you know,
let the let the subscription run out, and then you know,
most people say you can pretty much use the Windows
Defender built into Windows Microsoft Defender and that should be
just fine. As long as you keep that up to
date inactive, you should be okay. The bigger issue these
days is really phishing. I mean viruses in malware and ransomware.

(43:53):
Of course, have a backup of your computer, but the
main way people are tricked these days is really through
phishing emails, text messages. So that's what you need to
be on the lookout for to not get tricked. Eighty
eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four
to two four one zero one. When we come back,
I'll take some more of your calls, some of your emails,

(44:14):
and I'll tell you why Disney the Free Ride is over,
Disney Plus cracking down on password sharing. I'll explain how
they're doing it and if your college student will be
able to watch outside your household.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
This is rich On Tech. Let's go to Robert in Alhambra. Robert,
you're on with.

Speaker 9 (44:34):
Rich Hey, thanks you kicking to that call, Rich, I'm
looking for a new phone. I'd like something that can
open and close apps with the voice commands and make
phone calls.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
Okay, so you're you're interested in all the in the
voice command aspect.

Speaker 9 (44:52):
Yes, I'm visually impairied.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Okay, what do you have right now?

Speaker 9 (44:56):
Sam sum?

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Okay? And what don't you like about? It doesn't and
not have the features and.

Speaker 9 (45:02):
The opening closing the apps is not very good.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
I mean, I know you know the answer that I
have is going to be pretty stereotypical. But I think
the iPhone does a great job with the with the
accessibility features.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
I really do. Have you looked into that?

Speaker 4 (45:20):
No?

Speaker 8 (45:20):
Really?

Speaker 1 (45:21):
Yeah, I mean I I think that the They've got
a feature called like voiceover, which can read pretty much
anything on your screen. They've got Siri and you can
you can basically program this thing to do whatever you
need it to do. When it comes to accessibility, Like
if you go into the accessibility section of the iPhone,
there are just so many features.

Speaker 4 (45:41):
Now.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
I think the pixel is pretty good too. I think
Google is doing a good job. But I really think
that Apple is kind of like a leader in this area.
I mean, I'm looking okay. So for vision, you said,
visually impaired vision's got. They've got voiceover, which will pretty
much read anything on your screen. They've also got live recognition,
so it will literally detect what you're pointing your phone at,

(46:05):
so it'll tell you like what you're you know, if
that's a door, if that's a you know, walkway, whatever
it is. I mean, just there's so many options just
in this one voiceover area, speech, Braille recognition, audio commands,
rotor activities, typing, navigation style, navigate images, large cursor. I mean,

(46:26):
there's so many that's just voiceover.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Then you've got.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Zoom to make the screen a lot bigger display in
text size, and it's got I mean, Robert, I'm telling
you the the options you have in here, I really
think are gonna help you out motion. You can reduce
motion spoken content, you can speak pretty much anything that's
on the screen. Then you've got eye tracking that's a
brand new feature in iOS eighteen, so you can actually,

(46:50):
if your mobility impaired, you can actually use your eyes
to control the screen without touching the screen. That is
a feature that you know, people accessibility worlds have been
talking about and working on for years and it's just
now built into the iPhone. That's pretty amazing. There's hearing,
there's all kinds of sound recognition. So if you want

(47:12):
your phone to tell you when you know there is
a smoke alarm going off or some sort of other
sound that it can recognize, it will tell you that
with a visual notification on there. So I think that
the iPhone is probably going to be the best way
to go now the model number. If you're just using
this for kind of day to day stuff, I don't

(47:32):
think you necessarily need the iPhone sixteen. They do sell
other versions of this phone right now, officially from Apple.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
You can get the iPhone SE, the iPhone fourteen, fifteen,
and sixteen.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
So I would say, if you're just needing like a
basic phone, the iPhone fourteen is going to be fine.
It's a couple of years old, and it's going to be,
you know, just a little bit cheaper than the current phone.
Let's see how much are they selling that for. Uh,
it's going to be six hundred dollars for the iPhone fourteen.
So if you want to, I wouldn't go with the
iPhone SE right now. That's kind of the one that

(48:05):
still has the home button on it. The problem with
the iPhone se is that it's kind of aging out
of the software updates, so it's not going to get
a software update after probably not after this year, I'm guessing.
So it's not going to last you very long. So
I would go with the fourteen six hundred dollars. I
think Robert set up those features. If you need someone
to kind of help you set up those features, I

(48:27):
really think it's going to be a way better situation
than what you've got right now.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
So and I think Samsung does a good job.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
I just I think that from what I see and
hear from Apple, Like when I go to Apple events,
they actually make a point of talking about the accessibility features.
Like they make a point of saying, here's what we
are actively doing to make these devices easier for people
of all abilities to use. And they're always thinking about

(48:55):
this stuff. I mean the the not just the iPhone,
but the Apple Watch and the I mean they just
added the ability to use air pods as hearing aids,
the air pods pros two.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
So I mean, imagine all the people.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
That already have AirPods out there that can now just
turn them into hearing aids when this software update hits.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
It has not hit just yet.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
I mean, these are really incredible things that're they're pushing forward.
And I think that Google, I think, does a lot
of stuff for accessibility.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
I don't hear about it as much through Google, but.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
I think that when I go to their events, it's
definitely a topic that they are. You know, it's prevalent
at the events as well, Like they've had people on
stage that talk about it. They've had special guests, and
they do show how they're helping along people, you know, varying.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
Abilities use their devices as well. But I think the.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
iPhone is going to have the widest ranging features and
also if you need help, you can go to an
Apple store and they will be happy to help you
walk you through some of these features. Thanks for the
call today, Robert eighty to eight rich one oh one
eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Coming up, we're going to talk to some from Joby Aviation.

(50:01):
They are creating an electric air taxi. Hear all about
how you can soar over traffic coming soon right here. Next,
here's a topic I've been thinking about ever since I
watched The Jetsons as a kid flying cars. Now, we're
not there just yet, but a new flying air taxi

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might be the next best thing. A startup named Jobi
is working on a four seater vertical takeoff and landing
aircraft that source above traffic. Recently, it was on display
in LA and I talked to their chief product officer,
Eric Allison about it.

Speaker 10 (50:36):
So Joby is a company that's developing a vertical takeoff
and landing all electric air taxi and also developing a
service that will be able to deliver that air taxi
to you anywhere you.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
Want to an app on your iPhone. Okay, well let's
break it down. So first off, yeah, give me the
idea of this kind of aircraft versus a typical plane
or helicopter.

Speaker 10 (50:56):
So our aircraft is uses new technology, the technology of batteries,
electric motors, high performance electronics to be able to take
up and land vertically like a helicopter, but then transition
to forward flight like a regular airplane. So but that
gets us the flexibility of a helicopter with the efficiency
of an airplane. Then what it lets you do as
well is do all that with low noise. So we

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bring all that together basically to have high efficiency, have
low noise, great operating costs. To make air taxis something
that people have wanted to do for a really long
time actually possible in the very near term.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
So what is the benefit of an air taxi?

Speaker 10 (51:34):
So our air taxi lets you wherever you are. You
can open up your phone in with one of our
partners like Uber or Delta, select where you are, and
then basically get a ride to where you want to go.
But instead of being stuck in traffic, which I know
that consumers in LA get stuck on average to what
like one hundred hours I think of traffic per year

(51:55):
you're sitting in you can just fly through the air
at up to two hundred.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
Miles an hour.

Speaker 10 (52:00):
So a trip that might take an hour and a
half to go from someplace like downtown LA to lax
could take seven or eight minutes and set so freeze
you from the traffic in a way that you just
can't right now with any other technology.

Speaker 9 (52:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (52:14):
So there will be landing designated takeoff and landing areas,
so we call them skyports or verteports, basically places where
the aircraft can take off and land just kind of
like a heliport would be with the old technology of helicopters,
And what we'll do is use rideshare to connect you
with wherever you are to those verteports, and then from

(52:34):
wherever the kind of remote vertiport is to where you
want to be. So it's an end to end journey,
but it's going to be through a couple of different
vehicles depending on how close you are. If you can
walk or bike or something to that verteport.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
And so tell them about the aircraft itself. I mean,
you said it's electric, you said it's quiet. What else
do we need to know? It looks pretty simple.

Speaker 10 (52:51):
Yeah, So it's four seats, so four passenger seats and
one pilot, so it's operated by a commercially rated pilot.
It can take off and land vert just like a helicopter.
Right here in this configuration, the propellers are pointed up,
but once it takes off, it transitions forward and those
propellers come down and point forward just like a regular aircraft.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
It can fly really quietly.

Speaker 10 (53:12):
So if it was flying over here at about one
thousand feet, which is like low even for a helicopter,
it basical would be silent. You wouldn't hear it as
it flies over and in takeoff and landing, we could
have this conversation if the aircraft was three hundred feet
away and we wouldn't have to raise our voices.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
We did a demonstration flight last year in New York City.

Speaker 10 (53:30):
Actually we flew off of the Lower Manhattan Heliport within
a mayor press conference with the mayor there and just
kind of did a little circuit around over the river.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
And it was amazing that to.

Speaker 10 (53:41):
See people's response because helicopter noises a real problem, and
when places that actually have an option to use helicopters
in a regular basis, people don't like.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
The racket all right.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
So I know the question that is on a lot
of people's minds is safety.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
How safe is something like this?

Speaker 10 (53:56):
So that's what's really incredible about this new technology. So
that what we've done is taken a new approach to
how we design and build aircraft that actually lets us
add in kind of unprecedented levels of redundancy and kind
of architecture that really makes this kind of a remarkable machine.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
So I'll give you an example of this.

Speaker 10 (54:17):
So in our aircraft, there's not just one battery, there's
four batteries, and each of those four batteries are completely independent,
and they're hooked up to different motors in such a
way that if you had a failure of one of
those batteries during flight, you could still operate safely. And
then in the motors themselves, each motor is actually two
motors that are combined together, and each of those two

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motors are driven by two different sets of electronics, and
those electronics are driven by different battery.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
When are we going to see something like this in
a city like Los Angeles?

Speaker 3 (54:46):
So we are hard at work.

Speaker 10 (54:48):
We've got almost two thousand people at JOBI, the vast
majority of which are.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
Working on FA certifications.

Speaker 10 (54:52):
So in order to launch commercially in the US, we
have to be certified with the FAA, just.

Speaker 3 (54:57):
Like any other commercially operated aircraft. We're working hard at that.

Speaker 10 (55:01):
We publish a quarterly update basically on how we're doing
relative to all the steps and certification.

Speaker 3 (55:07):
It's a very long process.

Speaker 10 (55:08):
That has a really high bar and so you know,
we're we're happy to be going through it, but it's
a lot of work.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
Cost Obviously, you're not selling this to the general public,
you're operating it.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
But what can someone expect to pay for a ride in.

Speaker 10 (55:20):
This so we think that we can launch at something
like Uber black pricing per seat.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
So that's our goal is to launch kind of in
that range.

Speaker 10 (55:28):
So kind of it's a you know, like a premium ride,
so kind of for a depending on the trip, right,
so kind of on a per mile basis, kind of
Uber black like pricing per seat.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
We think that as we are able to develop.

Speaker 10 (55:40):
That network, get more verteports installed, kind of have more
efficiency overall, and how we get filled more seats on demand,
we'll be able to drive that price down more towards
Uber x like pricing on a per seat basis as
we get more and more volume of people using these
types of aircraft for air taxis on a regular basis.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
What's the range on this aircraft often? How long does
it take to recharge?

Speaker 10 (56:02):
So we are able to service flights for up to
one hundred miles, so that's kind of the target max
distance that will serve in terms of our flights. And
then we actually have designed it to be rechargeable during
the loading and off loading period of when we have
this air taxi service operating, so you know, when it
lands at the vertiport, whoever is in it will get out,

(56:24):
and then more people will get in the pilot will
do their checks before they take off again. And we've
designed an open specification actually that we call GEEKS, which
is the Global Electric Aircraft System, that charging system actually
that is actually a charging system designed explicitly for electric aircraft.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
They're in an air taxi operation.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
And if these were everywhere, what do you think the
impact is on transportation?

Speaker 10 (56:51):
So I think that's one of the most exciting things
that if we think about just even taking starting to
take a small dent out of the amount of traffic.
You know, studies have shown that you just take a
few percent of cars off the road, particularly during peak times,
you actually start to see an overall benefit to the
overall system.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
I'm over and over and over again.

Speaker 10 (57:09):
I think that for me, like the idea of being
able to go to work, you know, go out for
dinner and not be stuck in traffic. I mean, even
in the best case scenario, if you matter how much
you want to pay for ground transportation, if you're you know,
going from here to Dodger Stadium or something on a
Thursday evening, it's just going to take a really long time.
And to have an option that I can do that

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in seven minutes or eight minutes instead of an hour
and a half.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
That's that's amazing.

Speaker 10 (57:36):
And I think that it starts to change our relationship
with mobility. It starts to change about how we think
about moving around our cities, and I think it makes
a world a better place.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
So I'm really excited to see us launch.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
You've taken test flights, I imagine.

Speaker 10 (57:48):
Yeah, so we actually have flown I think it's over
ten thousand miles of test flying so far on our prototype.
So we have several prototypes that our facility up up
in near Monterey, California. Marina is the airport that we
fly out of for our test flights. We actually have
one of our airplanes up at Edwards Air Force Base
just north of Palmdale, right here in the LA Region,
where we're working with the Air Force on under an

(58:09):
innovative program doing some test flying of one of our
aircraft up there to show some of the utility for
this new type of technology and a logistics context for
the Air Force on a military base as well.

Speaker 3 (58:22):
Have you flown in it? I have not.

Speaker 10 (58:24):
All of our flights so far either remote a test
pilot so far and I'm not a test pilot.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
How would you describe How would they describe what it
feels like? Does it feel like a helicopters? It feel
like floating, It feels different than a helicopter.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
It's just like a different type of a machine.

Speaker 10 (58:39):
And so they love it, they want They are very
excited to do lots more flying and we're really excited
to have more people experience this as our system matures
and as we move through that testing with the FAA
to get to our full commercial launch.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
Once again, that was Eric Allison of Joby giving us
a glimpse into the future of urban transportation. The company
is targeting a launch next year. And a bit of
trivia for you. Joby Aviation was started by the same
guy who created Joby Gorilla pods, those flexible mobile tripods
for smartphones. I'm Rich Deimiro more Rich on Tech coming
your way right after this, Jeff, you're on with Rich.

Speaker 4 (59:20):
Yeah, thanks for taking the call. The reason I'm calling
is we have a couple of us with several Apple
iOS devices in our household. One set of them on
my account actually doesn't have any problems like the other
one does, but my wife's account on both of iPhone

(59:43):
and the iPad constantly need We've tried a lot of
different things, but ultimately the only fix for our problem
is to get the email to sync from Yahoo gmails okay,
Icloud's okay, but constantly and battling why the the emails

(01:00:04):
on the Yahoo emails on her iOS and Apple iPad
and iPhone not always together, but at least one of
them will just not sink.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
So delete, So delete an email from one of those
devices and that's not deleted on the other one, or
what's the problem.

Speaker 4 (01:00:24):
Yeah, that as well as we just don't have the
current you know, emails come through. It might be a
day or two with the last one showing when we
know that there's been other emails.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
That's weird.

Speaker 4 (01:00:34):
OK. The only thing for that is we've found so
far as we go in to the settings for mail,
delete the Yahoo account at it back in and then
it's okay for a period of time, maybe a day
or two, maybe a week or two. But we constantly
have to do that, and I never have the problem
she does. She has more read emails than I that

(01:00:59):
are in I don't know if that's the reason, you know,
I tend to delete them you know, read them to
do something with them and delete them. But that's the
only real difference. We both had the same model iPads,
iPhones and kind of you know, subscription or is this
a whatever service we have with Yahoo?

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Is this a Yahoo email address through Yahoo? Or is
it through like cops or something like that.

Speaker 4 (01:01:23):
No, through through Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
Yeah, okay, Well look, I mean, you know, I was
going to suggest deleting the emails and uh and readding them.
That's usually the way that's going to work because sometimes
these accounts, if they're they've been added a long time ago,
you know, the protocol was different.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
But it sounds like she's done that. When was the
last time you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
Did that across Have you deleted them across all the
different devices and then readded them?

Speaker 4 (01:01:48):
Well, yeah, I just did last night, went through and
deleted the Yahoo account from the iOS mail on the phone,
and then about a half hour later did it to
the iPad. So they're all thinking now right and then
I stop, you know, okay, well look it will it'll
eventually stop. It hasn't stopped thinking yet, but it seems

(01:02:09):
like it will.

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
If I had a dollar for every time someone had
a problem with Yahoo email, I don't know what the
deal is, and they just revamped it and it's supposed
to be better. I mean, I remember when Yahoo email
is like, you know, it's really good, and now people
just complain about it for some reason.

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
But look, I think the easiest thing to do here
in this situation, if you're not if it's not sinking properly,
is to use the Yahoo app to to check the email.
Is there a reason that she doesn't want to do that,
because that would make it work for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:02:36):
Well, we can except that the r that she uses
both Gmail and the Yahoo as well as I do,
and it's in one list that it's something with your calendar,
and it's all in one list. And if you want
to just say creative, you know, invite someone sends you
an invite into Yahoo, it's a little more. I don't
know if it's easier, but it's least consistent the way

(01:02:58):
you do it, you know. Yeah, and it is the Gmail.
But yeah, that's we realize that's the possibility too, because
going into the app, it's it's all we think.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
So yeah, so the only other thing you could do
is perhaps, I mean, I'm really trying to I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
There's no reason why this should not work.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
I mean, if she's using the only other thing I
can think of is that the way that her her
mail is set up on the device. Are these recent devices?
Are they older devices?

Speaker 4 (01:03:23):
No, We've had them both for year or two.

Speaker 2 (01:03:25):
Okay, so it's a recent yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:27):
And the only thing I can think of is the
background sinking is not working, like when she deletes an email,
like the the mail app is just not like updating somehow,
and that's you know, it's not sending the signal to
Yahoo to say, hey, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
Get rid of this email or put this in this
fold or whatever. Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
That's the only thing I can think of the other
The only other thing I might say is if you
can go into your Yahoo account and check to see
if if there's like signed in devices or anything like
that and get rid of any of those devices. And
I'm trying to sign into my Yahoo account, I can't
seem to get the code that I need. But I

(01:04:04):
would go into the like your Yahoo account and see
if there's anything under like authorized devices, authorized applications, whatever
it is you sometimes they call it permissions, third you know,
third party permissions whatever, and just get rid of those
devices and see if that's messing it up. So there
might be a section just go through all like kind

(01:04:25):
of the settings on the Yahoo account and see if
there's anything where you can get rid of old phones,
get rid of old connected devices, and just see if
that helps if you remove those, because one of those
might be messing it up as well. So otherwise, I mean,
I would just suggest using the Yahoo mail account or
the email app and seeing if that works, because there's

(01:04:45):
no reason why this shouldn't sync to the email app
on the iPhone or iOS devices. I mean, it's pretty
straightforward imapp connection. The only other thing I would do
is once you delete it off of all of the devices,
like you said that, you have to delete it and reauthorize,
maybe restart the device and then at it again. That's

(01:05:07):
the only other thing I can think of, But that's
a that's an interesting one. And the good thing about
the show, if someone else is happening that issue, they
can email me and let me know Rich on tech
dot tv hit contact Jeff.

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
Hopefully you figure that out.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
But again, the backup is to use the Yahoo email app,
and you know that's gonna work for sure, So that
might be I know it's not ideal because it's nice
to have all the emails in one list and all
that stuff, but that's a surefire away around this issue.
Let's go to Paully in uh Michigan. Polly, you're on
with Rich.

Speaker 11 (01:05:41):
Hey, Rich, you made me laugh about old school TV,
and I was thinking, you don't have an old school
television channel changer until you need vice scripts.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
Oh my gosh, that's what like the the old like
rotary knob. Are you talking like that used to pop
off the TV?

Speaker 11 (01:05:58):
Yeah, because the that's always frolks.

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
Oh my gosh, that's like that's really bringing it back.
That's like, uh, you have to get up to change
the channel, right you did?

Speaker 4 (01:06:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:06:08):
Oh my gosh, that's that's like that's not like almost
probably the beginning of my time.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
Like I think my first memory was like the cable
box like changer like that slid left and right. I
don't remember that. No, anyway, that was really old school
back in New Jersey. Maybe it was a Jersey thing. Anyway,
what can I help you with, Polly.

Speaker 11 (01:06:27):
I have a business and had a YouTube channel, and
the YouTube removed it permanently. I'm just hoping you had
some advice. They said it was dude to spam and
hate speech or something like that, which they would give
me no examples, and I appealed it. They denied it.
I wonder if you had any advice, and they said,

(01:06:48):
I can't have another channel again.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
Oh my gosh, what did you do, Polly? What was
your channel about.

Speaker 11 (01:06:54):
Humming Bird theaters? What so devices?

Speaker 4 (01:06:57):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
Come on, really, really, Polly, that is wild and nobody
at YouTube would would they read your appeal?

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
And they still said no.

Speaker 11 (01:07:09):
It sounded pretty automated when they denied the appeal too.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
Hmm. Interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
Well, the only thing I can think of, so you
log into YouTube and you've got nothing. You can't get in,
got nothing, Okay. The only thing I can think of
is you have to write a letter. Use AI write
a letter, and you've got to send another appeal and
tell them this is your channel, this is the content.
The only thing I can think of is that you
got hacked on this channel somehow and someone else did

(01:07:35):
something on your behalf that you did not know about.
That's the only thing I can think of. But if
you're running a Hummingbird YouTube channel and we're talking about
hummingbird like feeders. You should be okay. You got to
get that channel back, Polly. This is rich on Tech.
out with you for another hour right here on rich

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I've got lots of emails, I've got lots of stories
to talk about, and lots of phone calls. I mean,
I guess it's a good problem to have, but I
can never make it through everything that I want to
in a given week on this show because I try
to prioritize you live callers like Rick in Thousand Oaks.

Speaker 12 (01:08:35):
You're on with Rich Hi, I'm what I'm looking for
is a program or an app that would sync with
my bank so I can see sort of real time
what my bank bounces. I know I could go online
and look, but you know, we do still write checks
and I hope that that, but have some way to

(01:08:56):
manually enter a check in that I write and you know,
the bank doesn't know about it till it hits them.

Speaker 1 (01:09:04):
Oh yeah, like a budgeting Okay, so you're talking like
more like a budgeting program.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
Well, I mean I'll tell you what I do. I
just use a spreadsheet. I mean, that's the easiest way
to do it. That's free and simple.

Speaker 12 (01:09:17):
I mean it's like, you know, I tried that with
Excel all But the problem I'm having is, you know,
between my wife and I, we're making multiple ATM purchases
a day. We just don't seem to use cash. And
you know, you buy gas, you go out to lunch,
you know, go to the doctor, there's cocaine. It's just
and you know, it's just hundreds of dollars over a

(01:09:38):
few days.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what I do.

Speaker 1 (01:09:40):
So there's two ways you could do this, and I
do something kind of different that because I I'm not
a fan of using my credit card, so I want
to spend cash when possible because that way I can
stay within budget.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
And it sounds like that's what you're doing as well.

Speaker 1 (01:09:54):
So what I do is I actually set up a
separate debit card just for all those days to day expenditures.
So I'm sure there's like an average of what you're
spending on this stuff. You can put that into that
debit card every week and then you don't have to
track it as much. And what I do is my
wife and I both we just know the balance every day.
So let's say that I want to buy a new shirt,

(01:10:17):
and I look in this balance on this account, the
special account that we have we call fun money personally,
and if there's only you know, a ten dollars left
in that account and the shirt that I want is thirty, well,
guess what, I can't buy the shirt.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:10:31):
That's just a very simple example. Hopefully we keep enough
in there where it's like you can do the things
that you need to do. But that's what we're doing,
is we're every single transaction. I don't have to monitor
the day to day transactions of the cope at the
doctor's office, the Jersey mics I get for lunch, whatever
it is, because it's all coming out of that account
that we've kind of figured out. You know, I reassess

(01:10:53):
every six months or so, how much do we spend
on you know, eating out, how much do we spend
on clothes, how much do we spend on this? And
then you kind of put that amount in each week
to this account. Now that kind of takes a whole
nother method, but it would definitely solve this problem. And
because you're writing checks and doing all this stuff, that
would be something when you write a check you can
easily use the spreadsheet to take that out of your

(01:11:14):
standard checking. Now that's just one simple way of doing
it that I've come up with because again, none of
the other methods for me would work, which is, I
don't want to come to a giant credit card bill
every month and sit down and be like, okay, now
how do I pay this? So that's what I've done. Now,
there are budgeting apps out there. There are many many

(01:11:34):
budgeting apps out there. I mean that, you know, there's
Every Dollar by Dave Ramsey. There's a winnab which is
you need a budget Rocket Money has I don't think
they can. I don't think Rocket money lets you put
in a check though, but really you need like a
budgeting software. So I would say Every Dollar's probably going
to be something that works for you. But it's like

(01:11:57):
kind of a paid it's like a freemium thing. I've
tried that you need a budget. I don't really, it's
way too complicated for me. And I'll be honest, I
just every time this happens, I just keep going back
to the spreadsheet and that's what I use over and
over the spreadsheet with that the method I just told
you about. I call it a reverse credit card because
basically you're putting money in before you spend it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
But have you heard of any of those programs I mentioned?

Speaker 12 (01:12:22):
I have not, But it's just something I've been frustrated
with and trying to figure out a way. And I thought,
and it hurts me, like you know, if it's sinkd
Very often I would see a really pretty accurate thing,
you know, it's on my phone or something. But then
I'm kind of worried about you know what if I'm
walking into a Starbucks when it starts thinking or something. Yeah,

(01:12:43):
you know that it might be you know a security.

Speaker 2 (01:12:47):
Issue, right, Well, yeah, it's if it's.

Speaker 12 (01:12:50):
On three times a day with my bank, that's a
lot of activity.

Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
Yeah, and it is. And most of these things, don't
you know, they they sink sort of like on demand.
You know, like if I if I go into like
let's say Rocket Money or something like that, it's not
SYNCD in the background. It's like sinking when you open
the app. I think for that reason also, I think
they have to pay. There's like a third party company
like plaid is typically the company that connects your bank
to these apps. And I think that, of course that's

(01:13:16):
not a free service. These these apps have to pay
every time they ping that service. So now, what would
be nice if your bank lets you do this, You know,
if your bank, because that's what most people are doing,
is they're checking their balance on their debit card and
then they spend, right, So it'd be nice if you
can add that check into the the app itself from
your bank and say, hey, look, I spent twenty five

(01:13:37):
dollars on this check, you know, reflect that on my account.
That would make too much sense because banks, obviously, you know,
just being a little bit real here, they probably want
you to overdraft or they probably want you to spend
too much, so they're not going to make it that
easy for you. But that would be a nice feature
for them to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
You know. I like my method. I've used it for
many years.

Speaker 1 (01:13:57):
It works very very well, and it's simple, and again
I only have to worry about that account once a
week or so. And again you get that side, that
side benefit of you're not overspending and you can spend
as you want because you just look at that balance.
If you have five hundred dollars in there, you can
spend up to five hundred dollars, you know, as long
as you have your you know, make sure that you've

(01:14:18):
got all your stuff covered. But I think the every
Dollar app would probably be closest to what you're talking
about because you could do it from your phone and
you could put those transactions in as you go along,
and you can also reconcile. So the paid part of
that app is that it reconciles from your bank is says, okay,
you just had three new transactions come through. Where do
the you know, what are those four?

Speaker 4 (01:14:39):
Like?

Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
Is that for your I don't know, You're you're dining
out fund or whatever it is. So that's that's probably
the best way to do it. I think that budgeting
is not easy. It's it's a very complicated process, even
with all these apps, because if you think about it,
you know, they all want to make money. They want
to have some sort of freemium thing and they want
to make your life easy, but also they have a

(01:15:00):
business to do. So again, I've tried every single one
of these apps, every single money app out there, and
I come back to I've been using a spreadsheet for
fifteen years and every Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:15:11):
Open up the spreadsheet, go through all the stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
I literally have to input every single item into that spreadsheet,
balance it out, and make sure that it's like a checkbook,
you know, make sure that it's all balanced and the
money's there. But with the exception of what I call
that fun money account, I call it a reverse credit card.
So that is money that already goes in there, and
so when you know, let's say you put in you know,
three hundred dollars a week, and that money you can

(01:15:36):
do whatever you want with because you're actually doing your
main bills from your standard checking account. So I know
this gets a little nuanced, but it's a very simple
way of kind of Okay, you know, your electricity bill
is do every month on the eighteenth, you put that
in the budget. That goes in the budget on the spreadsheet,
But you don't know that you're going to go out
to Starbucks after work with a friend and get a
coffee for six dollars and you know, seventy five cents

(01:15:59):
whatever charging nowadays for one of those lattes, And so
that just comes out of the fun money and you
don't have to think about it now.

Speaker 2 (01:16:06):
You just know that balance on fun money.

Speaker 1 (01:16:07):
Is four hundred and ninety three dollars and you've got
that to spend until the next week rolls around, or
payday or whatever you want to do. But that's a
good Another good topic which a lot of people ask
about too, Rick, thanks for the call, is how to
see your net worth on one page? And so there
used to be a great app for this called Mint,

(01:16:28):
which I remember I was working at k CAL News
here in Los Angeles, k CAL nine and Mint came
out and it was like the first app that put
all of your accounts in one place, Like you could
now take your credit card, you know, your car if
you had a car payment, you could put that in there,
your savings account, your four to one K and you
can put it all in one place and it would

(01:16:50):
literally take every transaction, reconcile and show you your net
worth on one page. And this was mind boggling yeah,
this was probably fifteen years ago, and it was so
cool to see everything in one place, all the transactions.
You can make a budget, you could do this, you could.
I mean, it was just so so cool. It was
the first time that I think people saw like their
net worth in one app, and that was great and

(01:17:12):
they had a great run until you know, they got
purchased and it just got run into the ground. And
now it's called credit Karma, I think, which is just
not very good. And I'd say like ninety nine percent
of people who switched to that do not like it.
Uh so they've been looking for a new app to
see all of their net worth on one page. And
I'll just go through these quick. The ones that I like.
I do like Rocket Money, which I think is really

(01:17:33):
really cool, Like I used that yesterday actually to budget
because it shows you on a calendar every single one
of your bills, so you can go through the month
and literally on you know, September first, you have this
bill due September second, and it figures that out by
linking up to all of your accounts, so even if
you forgot that you have a bill coming up, like
a recurring bill like I pay for Dropbox on I
think September thirtieth or something like that. It remembers that

(01:17:56):
even though that's only once a year that I pay
for that, it knows it's on that calend, and you're like,
oh cool, let me put that in the budget. So
Rocket Money's really good. Betterment b E T T E
R M E n T. Betterment is really cool for
seeing all your stuff on one page. The one that
I think is the best and the easiest is called
Empower E M P O W E R. If you

(01:18:18):
just want to see your net worth on one page.
Empower Personal Dashboard. They've got an app for iPhone and Android.
That one's really good. It used to be called Personal Capital.
They change the name, but it's such an easy way
to see that and it's actually, you know what, rick
to answer your question they do on this app, it
does say you can budget, So maybe try that one

(01:18:39):
and see if they let you put your checks in there.

Speaker 2 (01:18:41):
And then there's one from Fidelity.

Speaker 1 (01:18:42):
I've not tried this, but it's called Fidelity Full View,
and same thing. You can see all of your accounts
and uh, you know it's neat because you've got money
in one account, but you know, you've got money in
this account, that account. That account puts it all together
and it does net worth, so it takes all the
accounts and you can actually see what kind of your
final balance is like the stuff you have, the money

(01:19:04):
you have minus the money you owe.

Speaker 2 (01:19:06):
How much is that you know? Leftover? Great question, Rick,
Thanks so much for the call.

Speaker 1 (01:19:10):
Toda eight thousand, oaks eighty eight, rich one o one
eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
My two favorite things, two favorite topics, money and tech
collide here on the rich on Tech Show. Coming up,
speaking of money, Disney, the free ride is over. No
more sharing your password. I'll explain how they're cracking down.

Speaker 2 (01:19:29):
Coming up.

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
out with you, talking technology. The website for the show
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(01:19:55):
That's all on the website. Rich on Tech dot TV
Show number ninety one. Hit the light bulb to get
the show notes. It's all there, very succinct, very clear,
very very handy. Oh, while you're at the website, sign
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hear from me. I put all these little tips and
things in there. By the way, if you're scrolling through

(01:20:15):
Facebook and you see your own picture in AI, like
an AI generated image of you, do not be alarmed.

Speaker 2 (01:20:22):
Yes, you should be alarmed.

Speaker 1 (01:20:24):
So Meta had their Meta connect this week and they
mentioned that they're really pushing AI down the throats of
everyone that uses Facebook. Apparently a lot of people are
actually using their Meta AI. Even though when it first
started people were like, how do I turn this thing off?

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
It's actually quite good.

Speaker 1 (01:20:41):
So if you want to use a completely free version
of AI, metas ai is actually really good. And why
is it good Because it's been training on your posts
for the past twenty years or so, so that's why
it's so good. Well, when did Facebook come out? Let's
see Facebook launch date? Facebook February fourth, twenty two thousand
and four. Oh, can I get a ding that's exactly

(01:21:02):
twenty years? Come on, let's see anyway, Facebook twenty years? Yes,
thank you? So yes, they've been training their AI on
your posts, and so they're trying to get people to
like use this like AI generator called Imagine Yourself. So
they're just going to start generating pictures of you in
like different situations. Like you might be scrolling through Facebook

(01:21:24):
and see you like as like a medieval king or queen,
and you're like, what is that my face? And it'll
get your interest, so you'll click and you'll try using that.
You'll be like, oh cool, I want to see myself
as a surfer on a skateboard, you know, fighting dinosaurs,
and then all of a sudden, next thing, you know,
it boosts their numbers. You might come back and try
it more. The images that you see will not have

(01:21:45):
will not be shared with the public. They're just on
your feed for you to see. So you're not going
to see like your grandma's image on your feed in
AI unless she posts it. But anyway, just beware. Just
giving you the heads up. That's what I do here.
I tell you what's happening. What's going to happen. Disney
Plus cracking down on paid sharing, sorry, cracking down on
password sharing. They call it a paid sharing program. So basically,

(01:22:10):
like I say on this show, the free ride is over.
Disney Plus used to be seven bucks a month all
the Disney movies you could ever watch till your eyes
would bleed out of your head. And it's now expanded
to I think it's I don't know how much it's
up to. It's a lot more than seven bucks a month.
I know I'm paying more. And you can't share. You know,
it used to be you could have your you could

(01:22:31):
have your account with so many people. They't they didn't
even care. But now you can't share it. So you've
got options. If you want to share your account outside
your house, you can add one extra person for seven
to ten dollars a month, and non household members can
also transfer their profile if.

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
They already have one, to their own.

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
And if you're away from your house, like if you're
trying to watch your on vacation, you're probably gonna get
a message that says, hey, hold up, we gotta verify
this as you. So we're gonna send you a text
message or an email with a code and you have
to say, yeah, that's me and pop in that code.

Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
So that helps.

Speaker 1 (01:23:05):
Like someone that let's say you live in California, You've
got your friend sharing your account in Minnesota. They try
to log in, they're gonna have to text you and
be like, hey, can I get that code? And even
then Disney might not allow the log in to proceed
because they might sniff out the fact that all of
your connections are in California except for that one. And
unless that's a college kid, you know that's in your

(01:23:25):
family and your household, they're not going to allow it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
So just be aware. Free ride is over.

Speaker 1 (01:23:31):
Let's go to Kevin in Malibu. Beautiful place. Kevin, you're
on with Rich Rich.

Speaker 7 (01:23:36):
Good afternoon. Good to hear your voice.

Speaker 2 (01:23:38):
Thank you. What's up?

Speaker 4 (01:23:40):
Rich?

Speaker 7 (01:23:40):
I got a big problem here on our iMac in
a contacts program. Yeah, my information is starting to miss
going away. The contacts are missing and dressors are missing.
Notes are missing as simple as well. I use my
mother as an example. I had all her passwords lifted

(01:24:02):
in the notes. I see you there now is her
phone number?

Speaker 1 (01:24:07):
Well that's not good. Don't keep the passwords in the notes.
You've talked about this on the show Highly Insecure.

Speaker 4 (01:24:12):
So well that's the next one.

Speaker 2 (01:24:13):
That's for another day.

Speaker 1 (01:24:14):
But yes, use a password manager iOS eighteen passwords built in.
What are you using? Where are these kept normally? Are
they kept in iCloud? Are they kept in Gmail? Where
are these kept?

Speaker 7 (01:24:23):
Well, what I'm concerned with is the contact app on
my iMac. I'm running high Sierra. I called the Apple
and we looked into it and I told him this
was missing. He looked at my screen and we put
in the time machine and went back and in June
I had all the information on time machine. But now

(01:24:45):
in September on the actual app it's gone.

Speaker 1 (01:24:50):
Okay, And again, how are you sinking these? Are these
stored in eye cloud?

Speaker 7 (01:24:55):
This is just on the iMac, but yes, it is
connected to i cloud.

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:25:00):
So what I would recommend is going to icloudicloud dot
com seeing if the contacts are in there, and that's
the best way. But again you've got to go to
that time machine backup and download them and then re
upload them to this app, and you got to figure
out why they're actually going away every time.

Speaker 2 (01:25:20):
This is rich on Tech.

Speaker 1 (01:25:25):
Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
out with you, talking technology.

Speaker 4 (01:25:30):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:25:30):
Typically on this show, I like to keep things light, fun, interesting, obviously,
always and helpful. And we are seeing a movement here
in the US where people are realizing and by the way,
this is serious conversation. People are realizing that some of
this tech is not always the best for us and
for everyone, especially when it comes to teenagers and even adults.

(01:25:53):
I mean, this stuff affects people in various ways. Joining
me now is Sam Chapman is founder of Parent Collective,
and this is an organization that is working to bring
awareness to things like the dangers of social media. Sam,
thanks so much for joining me today. Thank you for

(01:26:13):
having me so give me the background. I know you
had a tragedy in your family and I would like
you to tell me about that, and this is why
we came to this place to talk.

Speaker 6 (01:26:24):
Huh.

Speaker 13 (01:26:26):
Yes, Well, I'm sort of the cautionary tale. Three and
a half years ago, we were on lockdown and we
thought our children were in the safest place possible in
our home. But it turns out one of the most
dangerous items you can give your kids our cell phone
or laptop, and a dealer on Snapchat, driven by their algorithms,

(01:26:51):
found our son by networking through his school. Other schoolmates
had the quick ad feature on and that as a
drug dealer to network with everyone they're connected to.

Speaker 14 (01:27:04):
A colorful drug menu was.

Speaker 13 (01:27:06):
Offered something free to our son because what was being
offered is addictive if it doesn't kill you, and addictive
for life. So lethal dose of fentanyl was delivered to
our home like a pizza after we were asleep, and
we found our son dead on the floor, tried to

(01:27:28):
resuscitate him and failed. The EMT showed up and tried,
and then the coroners came and we told the police,
let's contact Snapchat and find out about this dealer.

Speaker 14 (01:27:40):
See what the profile says.

Speaker 13 (01:27:42):
And we were in Santa Monica at the time, which
is actually where snap Inc. Is located, and the police
told us that they don't bother calling, that they don't help.

Speaker 14 (01:27:52):
Snap Inc. Doesn't help in these cases.

Speaker 13 (01:27:54):
In fact, we found out later through the DEEA that
snapped chat users were being notified when law enforcement was
looking into their profiles, so in a way, they were
collaborating with these people. And to this day, Snapchat is
an active drug market. My wife likes to say that

(01:28:17):
if you put your kid on social media, it's like
dropping him off in the most dangerous drug filled neighborhood
and hoping they do well for themselves.

Speaker 14 (01:28:26):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:28:27):
Well, I'm sorry to hear that, and I'm glad you're
here to share what you've learned in this situation and
you've been working on Now I know you're working on
something called Sammy's Law.

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
What's the status of that.

Speaker 13 (01:28:42):
Well, Sammy's Law right now is in the House of Representatives.
It's HR five seven seven eight, and we're hoping to
get it passed in the lame duck session coming up.

Speaker 14 (01:28:54):
It's gone pretty far.

Speaker 13 (01:28:55):
It's gone to committee and we've got a bipartisan group
of sponsors and sponsors. It would require third party safety
software on any social media or a gaming platform with children.
And this technology exists today. It stops seventeen school shootings,

(01:29:16):
called the police over a thousand times when there was
imminent harm, and given warnings to parents over a million
times when something dangerous or illegal happened on their children's devices. Unfortunately,
on most of the platforms where our children are frequenting,
they don't allow it, like TikTok, Snapchat, Discord, the gaming

(01:29:38):
platform and the instant messaging platforms of meta. So the
reason is because those companies get rewarded by the stock
market when they announce the number of users every quarter,
and if they do something that would limit the number
of users, including kicking drug dealers off, their stock price

(01:29:58):
would take a hit. And for some of these companies,
like Snap Inc. They've never made a nickel in their
entire existence. The only income they've ever reported is from
the money that Wall Street has given them, the interest
on the money. So stock prices everything to them. User
health is not.

Speaker 2 (01:30:19):
Now, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:30:21):
So let's talk for a minute about this idea of
talking to your kids. How do you think parents should
start a conversation? Were you blindsided by this? And you know,
do you think that you can give parents some ideas
on how to like make sure that something like this
doesn't happen in their home.

Speaker 13 (01:30:39):
So until the law has changed, it's going to be
very hard to stop it. Snapchat, for instance, exists because
the snaps disappear, and so unless you're literally looking over
your child's shoulder if they're on Snapchat, you can't monitor
it without the third party safety software. After our Sun died,
I asked their CEO to put that technology on his platform,

(01:31:03):
and he refused because they keep their data private because
they are selling it to advertisers to target advertising and
get more money for it, and they didn't want it
cycling through another company. Sammy's Law forbids the third party
safety software provider from using the information for commercial purposes.

(01:31:26):
It's only for safety purposes, and you're not allowed to
do things under the bill. You're not allowed to do
things like out LGBTQ plus kids. You're not allowed to
out or give notices to parents about reproductive choices like
abortion or birth control. It's really there to guard against
drug dealing to your child, or firearms sales, or human

(01:31:49):
trafficking which is going on a sexploitation, which is when
someone gets your kids to send a nude pick to
them by sending one to your child and then they
blackmail the child with the picture, threatening to tell the parents.

Speaker 14 (01:32:06):
Or the teacher or their schoolmates.

Speaker 13 (01:32:09):
And believe it or not, this is happening more often
to young boys than to young girls, which is a surprise.
Sammy's law also would be active on the largest gaming platforms,
and those are particularly dangerous because your children are playing
with adults and they don't even know it, and they
think it's one of their best friends. And the adult

(01:32:31):
may be playing with your kid for months before they
set the hook and try and do some harm.

Speaker 2 (01:32:36):
Yeah, I know my kids are.

Speaker 1 (01:32:37):
They're always asking me for something like Discord or you know,
it's interesting because all these games, you know, they try
to have some some precautions built in, right, like filters
and things like that. But the smart people that are
trying to take advantage, they're always telling your kids to Hey,
let's start this conversation on Discord, or let's sign up
on this server, let's use this chatting app.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
And that's the whole point is to get.

Speaker 1 (01:33:00):
Outside of that chat system that they have built into
some of these gaming services like the Roadblocks of the
World and things like that, because they know that it's
limited in what they can get away with in there,
and so rich.

Speaker 13 (01:33:14):
Yeah, so that's exactly it, and that's why we need
a law. We need all of them to protect at once,
so that they don't give up competitive advantage to the
other platforms or allow the kids to just switch from
one platform to the other. It's why the one off
safety features that they announce aren't effective, number one, because
they're mostly pr games, and when they are effective, they

(01:33:37):
just drive the kids to another platform. There was a
congressional hearing coming up, and you may have heard Instagram
decided to change the way they function the day before
that hearing. And that's happened at all the hearings that
we parents have gone to. So they put the default
settings on private for kids, but any kids how to

(01:34:00):
change those default settings in a second, and it really
wasn't a change at all.

Speaker 14 (01:34:06):
It was a PR stunt.

Speaker 1 (01:34:10):
So what do you think about any of the tools
or apps that are available now? Is there anything that
you think parents can do in the meantime? I mean,
the law is obviously something that would you know, it's
going to take a long time to happen, if it
ever happens.

Speaker 2 (01:34:23):
But do you think there's anything parents can do in
the meantime.

Speaker 14 (01:34:27):
Well, a couple of things.

Speaker 13 (01:34:28):
The first thing is I advise, as sort of a
quid pro quo for giving them these devices, that you
require all of the user names and passwords for the
devices and the software that they're using. And that way,
in an emergency you can check or if you have
a problem kid, you can spot check. But like I said,

(01:34:48):
on Snapchat, the snaps disappear, so there's nothing to check.
Of all the platforms, I would say that Google has
the safest ones. They have the most easy to operate
parent device controls.

Speaker 14 (01:35:07):
They don't allow a lot.

Speaker 13 (01:35:09):
Of the curse words and the sexuality and the things
that can be found on the other platforms. So I
would just say that YouTube is the safest of them.

Speaker 14 (01:35:21):
You know, Google seems to.

Speaker 13 (01:35:22):
Take this very seriously. Nothing is perfect. The most important
thing is the longer you can keep them off of
the platforms, the better. The longer you can go without
giving your kid social media, the better. Bark has got

(01:35:42):
the third party software that I was talking about. Their
site is Bark dot us. We have no commercial relationship
with them. They also make a safe phone. So if
your kid's bugging you for a phone, depending on what
age you permit that if you buy one of these
safe Bark phones, you'll be buying yourself an extra year

(01:36:04):
or two.

Speaker 1 (01:36:05):
All Right, we're gonna leave it there, Sam, Thank you
so much. Sam Chapman from the Parent Collective the Web.
Do you have a website or how can people find
more information?

Speaker 14 (01:36:15):
Yesparentcollective dot org.

Speaker 1 (01:36:17):
Okay, Sam Chapman, thanks so much for sharing your story
and sharing those tips.

Speaker 2 (01:36:22):
I really appreciate it. Thank you so much for joining
me today.

Speaker 1 (01:36:26):
Thank you rich All right, coming up, we're gonna have
more rich on tech right here and get into some
of your emails and things that you sent me throughout
the week.

Speaker 2 (01:36:34):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (01:36:38):
out with you, talking technology. The website for the show
rich on Tech dot TV. So Adobe already forecasting a
record breaking twenty twenty four holiday shopping season.

Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
This is all online. Total shopping spending.

Speaker 1 (01:36:59):
Expected to reach two hundred and forty billion, up eight
percent over last year. They're expecting major discounts up to
thirty percent off across a lot of categories. Best days
for discount Thanksgiving days. People shop on Thanksgiving Day. I
guess so toys, appliances, furniture, and sporting goods. Best day

(01:37:21):
to score those deals. Black Friday best day for TV deals.

Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
We know that.

Speaker 1 (01:37:29):
Computers Saturday after Black Friday best day for computer deals.
And if you're looking for electronics and apparel, the best
day is Cyber Monday. Some of the trends social media
influencers driving sales. Yep, that makes a lot of sense.
Some of the top sellers bluey toys, PlayStation, iPhone, and

(01:37:50):
various video games. I think you could read that like
any year. It's like always the same video games, iPhones
and toys and This is interesting. This year, AI tools
gaining traction, so people are using them for research and
also recommendations.

Speaker 2 (01:38:06):
And I will agree to that.

Speaker 1 (01:38:07):
It's my kid's birthday coming up, and my wife and
I were trying to figure out what to get them.

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
I said, let's ask AI. And I'm not kidding.

Speaker 1 (01:38:15):
We got the most thorough list of ideas I've ever
seen in my entire life. No website visit necessary, and
that's what's worried to some of these websites that you
know you do affiliate links and research and things like that.
It's just go to AI and you find all the
information you need succinctly and easily.

Speaker 2 (01:38:32):
All right, let's get to the feedback.

Speaker 1 (01:38:34):
These are your emails, comments, questions that you write in
at the website. Rich on tech dot tv hit Contact.
Christian from Cypress writes in, I have a mother in
law who is in her late seventies and a widow.
She has a partial grasp of modern tech, but luckily
she checks in with me for most of the help.
She was watching Amazon Prime via her Apple TV one day.
The movie she was watching paused and a message came

(01:38:56):
up on the screen that said her account was locked
due to payment, and she needed to call the number
on the screen to unlock and continue watching. She then
proceeded to call and was supposedly speaking with Amazon to
clear it up, but you guess what happened. After getting
contacted by her bank Wells Fargo fraud department, over ten
thousand dollars went missing. She realized that the whole exchange
was a scam and she was swindled out of the money. Afterwards,

(01:39:18):
she took steps to fix the problem, changing her account
number and passwords. She even contacted Amazon, who never heard
of this scam, were thankful for her telling them police
report was filled out and we really want this message
to go out to your audience. Rich I know you
have a vast audience of citizens who need to know
this new and elaborate scam. We hope you can speak
to it and share this turmoil. So this is interesting.

(01:39:40):
I'm really curious how this happened. Because Apple TV is
very secure Amazon Prime, I can't imagine a message coming
up during a movie. So I'm really curious how this happened.
And it may be that things were a little confused.
Maybe the message popped up somewhere else while she was
watching the movie like on her phone. But I do
know there is some scams that are similar, Like there's

(01:40:02):
one going around on Roku where it would say your
account was locked and you have to call this number
to unlock or whatever, and a lot of people fell
for that. So just be aware anytime you see a
message like this and you're calling someone you're the outbound call,
even if they're the inbound call, it's a scam. Ninety
nine point nine percent of the time, Roku's not going
to stop your system from working. They're just going to
literally send you an email say hey, you need to

(01:40:24):
update your credit card.

Speaker 2 (01:40:25):
That's it, not going to call you for your bank
account information.

Speaker 1 (01:40:29):
David writes in I think you should stress the importance
of safekeeping recovery codes for major accounts like Microsoft and
your password authenticators. Sometimes people forget the backup of security
apps doesn't include the underlying security recovery codes, and replacing
them becomes a pain when something when one does something
stupid like wiping an old iPhone when you trade it
in for a new one. I am looking forward to

(01:40:50):
passwordless security becoming the norm. Yes, if you get those
recovery codes when you're setting up an account, especially an
important account. Save those codes that will keep you from
getting a major headache later trying to get access to
that account later on in life. Save those codes, put
them in somewhere very safe. Laurel writes in about the
iPhone reports last or a couple in the past couple weeks.

(01:41:13):
I wouldn't have an iPhone if someone gave me one
for free. It would drive me nuts trying to see
all that information on those tiny screens. I noticed you
didn't mention how much they cost.

Speaker 2 (01:41:21):
Why not? Well, I think I did, But.

Speaker 1 (01:41:24):
You know people have gotten used to those tiny screens, Laurel,
thanks for the comment.

Speaker 2 (01:41:28):
Let's see here, Lisa.

Speaker 1 (01:41:31):
When listening to you broadcasting from Las Vegas, I found
myself wondering, how's that set up? It sure doesn't sound
like you're in a hotel room. Maybe you are. How
do you manage the phone calls, the music? I'd like
a peek behind the curtain. Oh, great and powerful tech dude,
Lisa on the road to SoCal from Surprise, Arizona, Lisa,
you'd be surprised.

Speaker 2 (01:41:48):
How amazing it is. I mean, it's it's a system
that the engineers that are much smarter than me.

Speaker 1 (01:41:54):
Set up, and I bring it around in a suitcase
and somehow we connect in it.

Speaker 2 (01:41:59):
The microphone said, sounds good.

Speaker 1 (01:42:01):
The system connects to our systems here, and it's quite impressive.
I could do that show from anywhere, and you wouldn't
even know if I didn't mention that I was in
Las Vegas. So it's it's incredible, a little more complicated
than doing TV from other places, but TV have live shots,
you know. Same thing. Jim writes in Hey, Rich, you
need to become an honorary Jew so you can pronounce

(01:42:21):
the Yiddish words correctly. Chutzpa is pronounced hutspa.

Speaker 2 (01:42:26):
Did I get that right? Hutspa.

Speaker 1 (01:42:29):
It means having a lot of nerve or a lot
of confidence, or if you're pronouncing it with the Yiddish accent,
you could do ch like a soft k, like the
way some people pronounce hankkah, which, of course most people
pronounce that hankah. Okay, I'm reading this all wrong anyway.
That's the Yiddish lesson for today. I don't actually speak Yiddish,
but my late mother did take care Jim.

Speaker 2 (01:42:47):
Thank you Jim for the Yiddish lesson. I will do.
They have dual lingo for Yiddish.

Speaker 1 (01:42:52):
I don't think so, Shirley writes in, Hey, Rich, thanks
for all of you, Thank you for all the tech
info you TV viewers and radio listeners.

Speaker 2 (01:43:02):
Best to you, Shirley. Thank you, Shirley.

Speaker 1 (01:43:05):
That's a good way to end the show here, if
you could believe it. And every week I say this,
I can't believe how fast this show goes. If you
want three hours of your life to go really fast,
get a radio show, because I'm telling you, it just
flies by. I have so much more to talk about,
so many more things to go through, so many emails, comments, questions,
and it's just not enough time in the day to
do it. Thank you so much. You can follow me

(01:43:27):
on social media. I'm at rich on tech on Instagram, Facebook,
and x You can find everything I mentioned on my
website rich on tech dot TV. Thank you so much
for listening. There are so many ways you can spend
your time. I really do appreciate you spending it right
here with me. Thanks to everyone who makes this show
possible today, Adam, thanks for filling in Kim over on phones,

(01:43:48):
my family who puts up with me testing all this
tech all day long, and most importantly you thank you
for listening.

Speaker 2 (01:43:55):
My name is rich Demiro. I will talk to you
real soon

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