June 20, 2019 • 44 mins
Facebook takes on crypto with its own currency; Apple teams with Best Buy for official repairs; Walmart lets you upgrade your phone online; Ring's new peephole cam; Avoiding hack attacks; Instagram's new way to help you recover your hacked account; playing the new Harry Potter Pokemon Go style game. Listeners ask about Venmo privacy, Apple Watch vs Fitbit, Kids tracking app for Android and a good reverse phone number lookup website.Follow Rich: https://twitter.com/richdemuro Follow Producer Meghan: https://twitter.com/producermeghan Rich's Book: 101 Handy Tech Tips for the iPhone https://www.amazon.com/101-Handy-Tech-Tips-iPhone/dp/1731457944See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Ring has a new camera for your front door. There
are more places to get your iPhone repaired. Why you
should log into your apps every once in a while.
Plus we're playing the new Harry Potter game. What's going on?
I'm Rich Demiro. This is Rich on Tech, the podcast
where I talk about the stuff I think you should
know about happening in the tech world. Plus we're answering
your tech questions. Joining me is producer Megan Welcome to
(00:27):
the show.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Hello, how are you?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I am doing fantastic.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I do want to start with an apology though, because
we had last week's show that we did from China,
which was great. I mean, I thought it was really
interesting the content, but the actual quality of the podcast
was not up to par. And you know us, we
are sicklers on quality. Oh yeah, so every I feel
like every podcast we've done so far has sounded different.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
But that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Podcasting is still emerging, right, and you know, even though
it's I was doing podcasting at Sina about fifteen years ago, but.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It's still new, right. It's new to a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
But I think our mistake last week was trying a
new mobile setup when we went to China. We tried
new microphones, we tried everything was different how we recorded
the show, and if we were total pros, like with audio, we.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Would find that would be fine. But we're not.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, and so we were talking into the wrong end
of the microphone. I don't know, we might have been
so long story short. If you listen to the podcast,
which a lot of you did, thank you. That's not
our that's not our main like, we're not that's not us.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Now, if this one sounds really bad, we are trying
new equipment again.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Then we're going to be really sad.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Then we'll just give up.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
But let's start with the story. Maybe this is the
biggest story of the week. It's probably the most complicated
story of the week for most people. But I do
think it could have potential impact. So we've heard a
lot about bitcoin, we've heard a lot about cryptocurrency. Nobody
has been able to make it work in a big,
meaningful way just yet. And now some people might fight
me on that, but the reality is, are you using crypto?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Am I No, We're two kind of normal people.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I do have okay, full disclosure, I do have twenty
five dollars worth of cryptocurrency.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
To my name something. So it's like, you know, then
I have invested.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Well so, and it's funny that you call an investment
because when I bought that, I did it as a
test to see. I bought it through the square cash app,
and it went down and down and down, and I
just checked it and it actually is back up to
twenty four dollars and sixty cents. So over the past
like year or two, I've only lost like.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Forty forty cents and it still can go up.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So I'm hoping that by the time I retire, I
just forget about that. And it's like, oh, no, oh,
what's this? A million bucks just sitting there in crypto.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I don't think it grows like that.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
No, probably not so uh.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Facebook is basically pioneering the charge for a new type
of simple global currency called Libra, and this is backed.
It's interesting because they're backing it by the blockchain.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Which is you know, technology for a digital currency basically.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
But there's a lot of companies on board here, so
if anyone can make this happen, it could be Facebook.
And what they would want you to do is use
this cryptocurrency to it would be integrated into the Facebook
App into WhatsApp into Facebook Messenger. So basically, if I
owed you twenty bucks, I could pay you right through there,
kind of like what you do with Venmo. But the
way Venmo works is it's all backed by your checking
(03:27):
account or your bank account or.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Your credit card.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Right, this would be backed by none of those things.
You would basically just have this currency like it would
be its own thing. So, I know, doesn't that sound complicated?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So complicated, So you'd have to.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Buy it somehow, and then once you buy it, that
is your currency. So the idea is is that of
enough people and places accept the currency, it then takes off.
So think about visa MasterCard for example.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
The only reason those work they're not really a currency.
They're just a way to pay right. So you still
have to pay the bill with real money at the
end of the month, right or you know, depending portion
of the bill, right, Yeah, hopefully you're.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Paying the whole thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But the reality is the reason why vis a master
card are so like I will take it from you,
you'll take it from me, whatever, or a business takes
it is because it's accepted everywhere, right, and people have
established that, like, Okay, these are true, these are real,
like we take it. So with Libra and this whole
new cryptocurrency, if enough people take it, it's like, okay,
well I can use my Libra at.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Starbucks exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Or but where I get confused is so then you
would pay at the end of the month libra.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
See, that's where it gets kind of weird. It's just
you just kind of keep your money in there. That's
the weird thing. It's like it's just becomes your money.
So yeah, and so what they're doing and there's it's
also even more weird because there's another thing. It's called
let's see, it's like libra, there's I don't even know
if I'm saying it right.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I truly want to understand how this works.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
So well, I'm not going to be the one to
explain it. No, I know, I know understand by the way.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I've had like five people try to explain it to me.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And I've had when I did the crypto story, like cryptocurrency,
we did like crypto one on one again like the
creator Yeah, no, we had like a guy who's a
good crypto guy, and I have a friend that does
crypto stuff. But I still it's like you don't really
understand it. It's a currency that's like kind of made
out of thin air. Right now, this one will be
backed by actual currency, which is making it more stable,
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which makes it more appealing to people. Anyway, long story short,
that's what you need to know is that Facebook might
take over the whole world when it comes to money.
But the other companies that are on board with this,
and this is why it might work. Listen to these names, MasterCard, PayPal, Stripe, Visa, eBay, Lift, Spotify, Uber.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And a whole bunch of others.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So what that tells me is that at the very least,
you'll be able to use this currency among all those things.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And if you think about those things, that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
So now you can, let's say, you can use your
Libra currency to pay your master Card account at the
end of the month.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
So again, it's getting real and getting real. It's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So anyway, we'll just have to keep on kind of
up to date on everything that Facebook's doing with that.
It's not going to happen overnight, but it probably will
happen soon.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So you would use like some of your twenty five dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
To buy a Starbucks exactly right, like I would instead
of like right now that that bitcoin that I have
exists inside that app, I can't do anything with it
except pay other people who like use bitcoin.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
But let's say Starbucks I want to buy like a
ten dollars gift card and they're like, oh, we accept
this bitcoin.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I just use it.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
And same thing with this new one from Facebook. It's
like if I can use it to pay you back
for you know whatever, like you go out and run
get a coffee, I can be like, oh, here's three dollars,
you know, through my app.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Got it? So interesting?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
All right, So let's let's start with the first question.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I love this next question. It's from Lily Alala and
she wrote on your Facebook page, Hey, Rich, thank you
for all of the useful information you provide during your
segment on Katley News. I have a question. Do you
have any suggestions or can you recommend a good Android
app for locating or keeping track of my kids? I
(07:12):
have twelve year old twins, they both have phones. I
need peace of mind. Please let me know.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Okay, And what was the name again?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Lily?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Lily?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So this is a question I get all the time.
People want to be able to track their kids. And
it makes sense if they have a cell phone, you
want to be able to track them. Why not, right,
So there are tools that are built into iOS. And
she didn't really mention what kind of phones her kids have.
I feel like she would have mentioned if if they
had iPhones.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Movie. Yeah, but she says she has an Android.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Oh, she has an Android.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
She set a good Android app.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Oh, so there you go, she wants Android. Okay. So
on iPhone, obviously they have the app called find My.
They changed it. It used to be called find my iPhone.
Now it's just called find My.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
So that would work on the iPhone side of things.
But if you're a mixed family and you have like
Android and you have iOS in the family, you want
an app that works across both of those things. And
so the app that I recommend to most people is
called Life three sixty.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Have you heard of this?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
So it's kind of the most popular one out there
that basically at the bottom line kind of thing is
it tracks you. You know, you sign it up on
your phones and you can see where your kids are
on a map. That's the basic thing. Now, that's free,
But if you really want to get the most use
out of it, you're gonna have to pay because what
I found when I tested.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
It is that the free stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Is fine, but the location's not updated as much as
you want. It's not real time, Like there's a little
caveats that you after using it for like two days,
you're like, this would be better if I paid for it.
So with that in mind, you know, try it out,
start it out, see how it works, and I think
it's going to do exactly what you need. They have
a lot of features in there, like I mean, there's
so many features. You can get a text when your
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kid gets to school, you can get a text when
your kid leaves school. You can get see how fast
they're going on a map, Like if they're driving, you
can get a crash detection. So if they crash, god forbid,
you'll get it. Hopefully it's a fender bender, you'll get
alert about that. So again, they've built pretty much the
app that parents want to be able to track their kids. Obviously,
(09:08):
you know your kids have to be on board because
they can uninstall it or whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
You can probably password protect it, but.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Again, once you use it, so like with the free
it's zero, with plus it's three dollars a month, and
with driver Protect all those driver features, it's seven to
ninety nine a month. So I, as a parent, small
price to pay. When I'm ready to do this with
my kids, I think three dollars a month is just fine.
So again, like little things that they change, So place
alerts with free, you only get two with the free,
(09:35):
plus you get unlimited history. You only get two days
with the free. You get thirty days with unlimited crime reports.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I don't know, I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
But again, so really it comes down to how much
of the location do you get with the free versus
the paid. So but Lily, that's going to do it
for you Life three sixty dot com and it works
on you know, various apps, iOS and Android cool. So
speaking of Apple is partnering with Best Buy for expanded
repair service. So in the past, if you wanted to
(10:07):
get your iPhone repaired, you could do it at a
bunch of places, but Apple likes when you do it
at their place because it keeps your phone in warranty
right and also if you have Apple Care, it will
be included in your Apple Care price. If you go
to an Apple store or one of their authorized retailers,
which you know, in a city like LA, we have
a lot of these little like Mac stores, right, you know,
(10:28):
like I think there's like Melrose Mac and stuff like that.
But if you live in like the middle of nowhere,
you don't really have access to a lot of places,
including the Apple store.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You might have a best Buy in your city, but
not an Apple store. Well, now best Buy is an
official repair place for Apple. And what does that mean?
Thousand Best Buys across the US will now provide expert
service and repairs for Apple products.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
So that means if you have Apple Care, you can
bring your phone in there.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
They'll do all the stuff under warranty, which is really nice,
and it's also backed by Apple. So if there's a
problem with the repair down the line, they're not like, well,
where'd you bring this, You're like, oh, best Buy. They're like, sorry,
we can't do anything because they've ruined your phone. Now
that repair is still covered under Apple.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
So that's cool.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
It is cool, and especially you.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Know, again, this is a story for the rest of
the US, not Los Angeles per se, because in LA
you've got a million.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Apple stores there.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
It's like, you know, probably ten of them in like
a five mile radius. But if you're in somewhere like
they mentioned a couple cities Yuma, Arizona, Sioux City, Iowa,
Twin Falls, Idaho, Casper, Wyoming, Bismarck, North Dakota. Those all
have Best Buys, but they didn't have an Apple store.
So now in those places you can easily go and
get your phone fixed or any Apple product.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Walman. On the subject of phones, let me talk about Walmart.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
They are expanding Walmart dot Com to let you fully
upgrade your phone online. So before you had to do
this in store. And this is not like a huge deal,
but it's kind of big. Walmart is big, right, A
lot of people know Walmart for better prices and a
lot of times Walmart sells cell phones at a discount.
So now you can do the entire upgrade process online
(12:05):
if you have AT and T, so right now they're
just starting with AT and T. But you go to
Walmart dot Com, you choose your you know your plan,
your device, your payment plan. They handle all that stuff
just like you would if you were at the store.
But you can do it online. You get the device
within two days and you activate it and it's done.
So why would you want to choose Walmart dot Com
over AT and T or anyplace else, well they might
(12:27):
have a better deal, Sony. You can shop around, right,
So historically, if you were with AT and T, you'd
probably be able to go to AT and T dot
com to upgrade your phone, or you can go into
a store, or you can go to best Buy. But
I don't think best Buy does it online. Maybe they do,
but I don't think they do. But now you can
go to Walmart dot com and like just check the prices.
And so what I've seen is they say phones are
(12:49):
up to two hundred dollars less, so you could get
a discount on that. They're offering the iPhone ten at
three hundred dollars off, So it's five hundred dollars for
the sixty four gigabyte model, which is good. That's the ten,
not the ten s right. But again, so what I
saw is that the price has worked out to about
eight dollars a month less than if you did this
(13:10):
straight up through AT and T. So eight bucks a month,
I mean I call that free Spotify, yeah, even though
Spotify is ten.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Spotify free Hulu right, yeah, true?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
All right, Megan, you're up okay.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
So your next question comes from actually a top fan
on Facebook. Her name is mom slogo slug o gone. Okay, okay, anyways,
question on reverse phone look up. I can't seem to
find a legit free have some information when looking up
(13:42):
phone numbers. Cannot find a website where it shows if
the number is a scammer or not. Can you help?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
So there are a lot of websites that do this,
but most of them are total bogus, Like you don't
want to go down those websites because what happens is
you've seen it.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
What's the one that you mentioned earlier, Spocho, Yes, Spokyo.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
So there's like a whole bunch of these like Spoko
and like my Life and my Way and all these.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Weird like people search websites.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, that generally give you just enough information, but then
they're like, oh, pay fifty dollars to get more information
about this person or whatever it is. And it's really
like it gets you in because there is publicly available
information that they scrape and they put on there, so
you're like, oh, they must have it, but then it's
like it's just it's not very well done. So long
(14:33):
story short, what I would recommend, very simple is whitepages
dot com. So I've been using this for a while.
I used to have this app on my phone. I
don't know if they still do an app or not,
but I used to have it on my Android where
it would just when I got a phone call, it
would just show me the name, which was super easy.
Now with spam and robo calls, you know, I don't
know how many phone how many phone numbers you're looking up?
(14:55):
You know, yeah, and I'd say the name Slugo or
whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
But it's like, you know, the White Pages.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
So I just did a quick search and it does
have some good information on phone numbers. A lot of times,
they want you to pay about two dollars and fifty
cents a month for twenty lookups. So again all this information, like,
I don't really know of a free place anymore to
look up a phone number. You can try googling a
lot of times what I do. And yeah, if it's
if it's a business phone number, it's going to show
up in Google.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
If it's not a business phone number, it's not going
to show up, you know. But like a lot of times,
and if it's a scam phone number, a lot of
times it'll say like known scammer or something like that.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
So it really depends.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
But if you're looking to manually look up numbers online,
I think whitepages dot com is probably going to be
like the most legit place to do that. I'm trying
to see who owns them at this point it's owned
by I don't know who it's owned by. It's just
white Pages, I guess.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
So anyway, good question about us. Let's see what they say.
But they all do this.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah, White Pages was found in nineteen ninety seven, so
Wow's that's like that's old for.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
The web, twenty two years old. Wow?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
All right, speaking of I always say that.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Speaking of speaking of I'm not going to speak of it.
But Ring has a new camera you're familiar with Ring
that goes the Ring video doorbell that kind of made
the first video doorbell and made that product very popular. Well,
they've been adding slowly but surely a lot of different
products their lineup.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The latest is called.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
The Ring Door Ring Door View Cam.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
And this is a it's basically they call it what
are they call it, like a peepole right on your door.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
This replaces the people with a camera, so it's super
easy to install. No screws, no installation, no wires, no nothing.
You charge this thing up, you pop out your old peopole,
and you push this thing in. So the way it
looks is it looks like a ring video doorbell, but
a little bit smaller, with.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Kind of like a pipe at the end, imagine that,
or like a hollow tube that pushes through your door.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
So it's held onto your door on the backside with
like some sort of you know, mounting or whatever. Okay,
and then on the front it just sits on the
front of your door flush.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
So you have to screw through your door well where
the people.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
You should have an opening through your door where the
people were, so you remove that and then you push
this thing through your door and just attach it. So
the reviewer for cnet said that it was a little
flimsy feeling because you know, there is really no mounting hardware.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
It just kind of pops onto your door.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
But she said that's not really a deal breaker, although
she does think that one hundred and ninety nine dollars
is a little expensive for this, because it seems a
little bit cheaper than their typical doorbell that you know,
you put on the side of the door, that you
you know, comes with a bunch of mounting screws and it's.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
A little bit more official.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
But at the same time, I love this idea because
ring Ring is basically trying to put a camera on
every home in America.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
However they can do it right.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, and this this is really aimed at sort of apartment.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I was going to say, it's for like apartments probably,
and a lot of apartments.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Like I'm trying to think my old apartment if we
had we did have a I feel like we did
have a peep hole.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
But I feel like it must be.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
A standardized size, right, because if they're selling this product,
maybe it comes with some adapters and stuff, but to
make it that easy to attach your door, it must
just be a standardized peopole size that they drill through
and like put this little mounting hardware on, Which makes sense.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
That's a good question for Google.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Is there a standard people size?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, so that's the deal. So the only downside of
this device, according to c net, is that it's a
little bit expensive, and you also have to pay three
dollars a month if you want any cloud storage at all.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
So the way all.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Ring devices work, they can live stream the video, which
is fine. If someone rings your doorbell, you can view
the person on your phone say hi, yes, and.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
No to them. But as soon as you disconnect.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
That call, it's like boom, that's gone. So if you
want a record of anything, you have to pay.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
And so I pay. I think it's thirty dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Maybe I think they've raised that price because if she's
saying three dollars a month, that's thirty six dollars a year.
So and the reason why she really doesn't like that
payment is because Apple announced that their last event that
if video cameras like security cameras, enable home Kit, which
is their smart home platform, you'll get ten.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Days of free clip storage. So that's in ten days.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Is all you really need is like two or three days,
right right, Because it's like if someone came to your
house and robbed it, you're not going to find out
two weeks later, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Unless you're on vacation, yes, but.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
When you still know though, you still know you because
you get an alert to your phone, unless you're on
a remote vacation where you don't check your email or
text messages or anything.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You don't have neighbors, Yeah, pay attention.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Which is probably true, like neighbors probably don't yea true
true neighbors these days. I mean they're just like like
they look away, right.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I did. By the way, google what is the standard
peep hole size? Okay, and the only thing I can
find is just like the height. Okay, So it says
the average height is between four and five and a
half feet from the ground.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Oh oh, that's weird.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
That's okay, I see four and five feet.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
No, that's standard, that's standard.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, because you don't want it like super high.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Yeah, forty three inches above the floor. That's the standard,
I guess.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
But there must be a standard like drill size that like,
you know, because if you're making peep holes, he it
must be a standard piece of hardware that you know.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Anyway, that makes the people, yes, that makes it stay
to your sounds like people.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Okay, all right, okay, So next question comes from Devin.
It's about Venmo sharing. So he says, I enjoy watching
your segments on KTLA, and I just saw a piece
on this morning show about Venmo transaction sharing. Isn't the
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sharing a primary component of the app. My friends and
I have ours set to public because it's always been
that way, and I just assumed that was part of
the social aspect for the app. Typically there aren't very
many details. The amount or banking info is never included.
It's typically just an emoji of food or tickets and
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then to the person who you paid to. Are there
additional details that are shared that we may not know about?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
All right? So you know I'm a big Venmo hater.
I refuse to use Venmo. So here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
I lease it all the time, I know, and everyone does.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
We talked about this on TV and the reason the
reason the story came up that this researcher because Venmo
most a majority of Venmo payments are public because by default,
when you make a payment, it's public. They don't by default,
when you make a payment on Venmo, it's it's the
details republic.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Right. Well, I always actually do I do private.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Right, but you change it? But the default is public, right?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
But right there's when you think about a default, a
lot of people don't change the default. So this researcher said, hey,
look we scraped like seven thousand transactions. We found that
people are paying for drugs. We found all people put
things in the memo line.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
That they don't even pay drugs.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah, well, or maybe a drug emoji. I mean there's
a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Out there right an they're drug Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Well, I mean, Megan, maybe you're not paying for drugs
through Venmo, but some people are.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yes. I guess yeah, you obviously aren't because you don't
use venmo so or drugs.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
So I guess that's a good thing for me. I don't.
I don't have it all. Yeah, just cross it. I
don't have a use for either.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
But but I have seen people put like little wine glasses,
you know, like I because a lot of people will
get drinks at a bar and they'll split the payment.
You know, I'll venmo you the ten dollars for that
drink or whatever. So you'd you know, a little cocktail
glass or whatever, little shamps so anyway, so I little
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finger foods. Yeah, so pooh poop latter. So my point
is I said I didn't like Venmo for a couple
of reasons, and I have not used Venmo in many years,
even though everyone every it always comes up whenever my
wife is like, oh we got to pay this person
for this at school or whatever, and I'm like, I'm
not doing it. I'm not signing up for Venmo because
I did sign up when when I first had my
kids in school. I, of course, you know, got on
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the Venmo train and I noticed three things. Number one,
the public aspect. I made a couple of payments and
all of a sudden, more commenting on the payment. So
I'm like, wait, what these are public?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
People can see these? Why why does anyone need to
know my business?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Still comments on the payment?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Isn't that a thing? Mean like like them? Right?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, Like if you send it to someone, they might
the person you send it to you might like it.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Yeah what I'm saying, No, you can like and comment on.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I never write on people I know.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
We're clearly you're abnormal. You're an abnormal Venmo user. So
that was the number one thing I noticed. The second
thing I noticed is that back in the day, and
I think this has changed, you had to link your
bank account and not necessarily a debit card. Right, So
I'm fine with linking my debit card, although I don't
necessarily I'd rather link a credit card. So it's kind
of like that buffer between the payment and my bank account.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Right, but a debit card is a little step closer.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
And my bank account number is like, no, thank you,
I'm not giving that to anyone.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
So that's the second thing I didn't like is that
it had to interface with my bank and I didn't
like that.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I wanted to use my credit card. That was the
second thing.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Third thing was when I had a balance of Let's
say I had a balance of fifty dollars and I
make a payment to you of twenty five dollars for
some apps. It took the payment out of my checking
account once again, instead of out of my Venmo balance.
I think that might be a default thing.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah, I always thought that it would. I mean that
obviously happens. Still, I just don't get that, Like, why
doesn't it get taken out of the current balance.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Because Venmo is collecting interest on millions of users balances
without them realizing that every time they make a new payment,
they're collecting a new payment from your bank account. And
that's the third thing I did not like about this.
And so again, these are the reasons why I don't
like Venmo, and these are also the reasons why I
really like Square Cash, which is kind of the competitor
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that has never taken off, you know, Square Square Cash.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I've been talking about it for years.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
It just cares.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
No one cares. They're not using it.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
So if I venmo someone twenty dollars from my debit card,
because if I did it for my credit card, I
would get charged in.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
You get charged a percentage, right like Venmo will.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Be like twenty two or twenty one or whatever. So
if I've them with someone twenty dollars, like, where my
being charged interest from.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
My joh, They're they're getting interest. Venmo is basically like
by them from.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Wells Fargo or well from America.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Whoever they have their account with. They're like, let's say
Venmo has a million dollars in their little bank account.
They're collecting interest on that money as people use their service. Now,
to be fair, Venmo is losing a ton of money.
There's a crazy article about how venmo is, Like it
was in the Wall Street Journal. If I can find
it would be so great.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Wall Street Journal Venmo.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Maybe I'll just google that.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
So Venmo has forty million users and literally they cannot
turn a profit. So uh, this story, let's see Oh
my gosh, it was just an insane story ads on that.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Ads on venmo.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Interesting Anyway, long story short, you know they I just
don't like venmo, so that's it. I don't use it.
I will use anything else. The thing that I do use,
and I ask everyone to set it up when I
need to do a payment, it's called Zell and Zell
is built into your bank so there's no sign up.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Use that sometimes it's like in your bank account app.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
It's amazing and the money goes in instantly. It Yeah,
there's no like middleman.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
There's not. It's just done, straight up done.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
But so are additional details shared, like.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Well, the details that are shared are no. The details
that are shared.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Are just what's there is that I can see is your.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Name, how much you paid someone, and also what it
was for Pai. No, you don't see how much you paid.
You just see that you paid someone. So anyway, Uh,
that's my that's my rant on venmo. So I'm not
judging you. If you use it, it's fine. It's a
personal preference for me. And also security thing with the
whole debit card thing. Okay, speaking of security, since I
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always say speaking of now whenever I transition to a
new story, So I'll just have to stop doing that.
But this is this is fascinating and something that I
think is very important and something that I've kind of
known for a while, but I've never seen an actual
report on it. Cyberscoop dot Com says that when you
stop using an app, or you kind of let an
app like dormant, you're more likely to have that app
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broken into.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
By a hacker.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
And this makes a ton of sense because think about it,
you haven't used an app in a while. All of
a sudden you get an email and it's like, oh,
your account was you know, logged into. You're like, wait,
what haven't used that in forever? Well, here's the reason
why it's okay, let me give you the details. Number
one sixty five percent accounts that experience an account take
over an attack. Basically, when someone logs in with your
username and password, like your legit stuff, they just figured
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it out they have not been Those accounts have usually
not been accessed by their true owner in more than
ninety days. So basically, when an account is dormant for
a while, it's easier for a crook to get in,
and they also steal stuff from you. So a lot
of times they'll do this with like loyalty points like
your you know, United points, your Southwest points, because a
lot of times people don't check those all the time. Yeah,
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so by the time you notice that your points are gone,
it's like too late. It's like, oh my gosh, what happened.
It might steal money from like a.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Bank account that you don't log into a lot.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
So here's why this is a problem. So when you
log into your accounts, like you log into your bank account,
I'm assuming like, you know, a couple times a week, right, Yeah,
well every time you do that ten times a day, Yeah,
ten times a day you're waiting for those Venmo payments
to clear your bank account.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Takes time.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
So every time you log in, your bank gets a
little record of which device you used to log in,
where you logged in from, how you logged in, time
of day.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
It builds a little kind of log of who Megan
is and when she logs in and how she logs in.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
That's why when someone from Russia logs in, they go
hold on, Megan's never logged in from Russia, Like, what's
going on here? We know that the last thirty five
times she logged in from the Hollywood area. We're gonna
block that Russia log in. Well, if you don't log
in for a long time, guess what happens the system exactly,
it doesn't have much to go on. So if you
log in from Tampa, Florida, or New Jersey or Colorado,
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it's like, well, we don't really know, so they just
let it proceed. So, you know, obviously depending on the
level of sophistication with their pro you know, with their security.
So that's why you should log into your apps, you know,
every you know, month or so.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
You're talking about banks, right or anything?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Oh, I mean anything anything that could be taken over
your email address, your bank, your loyalty points, any account
that you have that is you you know, if you
have an old Instagram account, let's say, you know, if
you don't log in, these computers, these fraud detection systems
don't really have much to go on. So again that's
I thought that was really fascinating because it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Oh yeah. Also, let me just I.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Thought this was also interesting in this article. So you
always wonder how do these people break into your account? Right, Like,
where do they get my password. So two common techniques
for getting into people's accounts. Number one is credential stuffing.
This is when scammers take the credentials that they've found online,
like when services get hacked, it's like twenty five million
user name and passwords were leaked online. They'll take those
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and they will just literally try them in as many
services as possible, Like they have a a an app
that will literally a program that will just automate that,
and they'll try every combination in Yahoo and Google and whatever, whatever, whatep.
The next one is called password spraying. This is a
little bit more imprecise, and they just use scripted bots
to basically test commonly used passwords against random user names.
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So that's not gonna work. So basically they can go
through like John John Doe, John Doe one two three,
and then they'll try like password one, password two, password
one two three.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
And that's why they say them.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
See, this is the thing about all this security stuff.
Many times it does, yeah, but not all the time. Yeah,
And so a lot of times what these hackers are
doing is they're praying on systems that are a little
bit unsophisticated. Yeah, and so that's why I always say,
you don't want to use the same password across a
bunch of sites because you might use your password for Gmail,
which has very sophisticated log in, you know, hacker detection,
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but you might use that same password at your random
you know whatever account. Yeah, and next thing, you know,
it's like that account is hacked, and now they just
take that password and they use it at Gmail.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
That's why you don't want to use the same bad
password at two different places. Because I'm not worried about
Gmail getting hacked necessarily, I'm worried about the random account
that you set up with, you know, Michael's flowershop dot com,
and now using that same password on Gmail, and Michael's
flower Shop gets hacked, and now the hackers try that
password and use her name across a whole bunch of
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other bigger websites, and.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
In that case, they just have your stuff.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
So Google is going to let that go through because
unless they figure out it seems suspicious.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Right. That's why I love the fingerprint thing.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Fingerprint's great. I mean, that's that's also good.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
But a lot of times she has to be backed
up by your password, you know. So Instagram along these
lines is testing a new way. You ever hear about
people that get locked out of their Instagram accounts, like
this happened to my cousin the other day. She basically
sent me a text or my brother did, saying, hey,
she's locked out of her account because someone just stole
her stuff and now she can't get back in because
they changed her email and phone number, and so now
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she can't get any of her recovery stuff. You know,
you go on you say I need my recovery. Instagram
is finally kind of getting hip to this and saying,
you know what, We're gonna make it a little bit
easier for you to regain access to your hacked account.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
So here's how they're doing it.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
If you put your password in a whole bunch of
times and it doesn't work, and they recognize that because
they notice that you're logging in from like the same
phone that you normally log in from, but it's not working,
they will now give you a link to basically enter
the email address and phone number that you use to
sign up when you are used to sign up to Instagram,
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so their system remembers this stuff, of course, right right,
And so once you verify that, they will send a
six digit code.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
To your phone.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Okay, good like Twitter.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yeah, and lets you log in basically, that's good.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
So again they're using sophisticated algorithms to figure out like
Megan logged in twenty five times from this iPhone from
this area from these IP addresses KTLA her house. All
of a sudden, we at this random log in from Russia.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I use Russia again, Yes, because obviously China they can't
even get on.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yes, China they're not trying to. Yeah, we don't have
to worry about them and know what it is. They
can't even get to those IP addresses.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
So again Russia.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
They go wait a second, and then all of a sudden,
this IP, this random IP account from Russia changed her
password and her phone number.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
That's kind of weird.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, now we see little old Megan trying to log
in from Hollywood again from Okay, young Meghan, it's.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Okay, little old Megan, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
So logging in from her iPhone again from the same
place she's normally logged into one hundred times and she
can't get in. Now we're gonna throw herr bone. We're
gonna give her this one time code and we're gonna say, look,
go ahead, get into your account, and then they also
freeze the username so that you you know, it's like
because a lot of times these hackers will take you
and then they'll take your username and they'll sell it
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them the black mark or whatever they're they're going to
freeze that.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I know, there's a lot that goes on, Megan, It's
lot to keep up with.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
It's such a scary world, especially if you're on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Geez okay, So our next question comes from Vincent Reyes
Apple Watch or Fitbit. I know, I feel like we
talk about the Apple Watch in every podcast, but he
wants to know. Basically, his wife's birthday is coming up
and he's been debating if he wants to get his
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wife an Apple Watch or the fitbit versa. He has
an Apple Watch and the battery life is what makes
him dislike the purchase, and unless they made significant strides
in longer battery life, he doesn't want to purchase another
Apple Watch for his wife. And then he says he
likes the fipbit because of the battery life, but not
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sure if his wife would prefer the Apple Watch. I
would like your thoughts as to why lean one way
or the other.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Okay, so you probably know my answer. Yes, right, So
I'm gonna recommend the Apple Watch. Here's why I've I've
had the Fitbit Versa. I bought that and I used
it for like a year, I think maybe six months
a year, and I loved it because I'm a big runner.
I love having that data of running. And I thought,
I think when it comes to smart devices, I think
the Fitbit Versa and the Apple Watch, and probably the
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Galaxy the new one, the Galaxy you Watch Active or
whatever it's called, are probably the three best at this point.
But here's why I like the Apple Watch the best.
You say, your wife has an iPhone, it's going to
work the best with iPhone. I am sitting here when
I look at my Apple Watch, like there are little
things that pop up on the screen that just amaze me.
It's like, literally it kind of has learned when I
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work out during the day, so all of a sudden,
I'll just get like a little button that says start
a workout, and it's like, oh, I don't have to
like go through the settings any of that stuff. Obviously,
and the verse I believe does this as well. But
when you start a workout, and I know that the
Samsung devices do this. It automatically recognizes that. So when
I start running with you know for and normally I
do start the workout before I start running. But a
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lot of time, if you're just doing something physically active,
like if you're hiking or whatever, or you're taking a
long walk, all of a sudden, it will say, hey,
we notice that you're doing something active.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Do you want to record that workout?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
And it will back time so it remembers like if
you hop on your bike and start taking a long
bike ride, it will go back to the first minute
that it noticed that you started biking.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Yeah, so that's kind of fun. I know you want
one of these now, So I like that aspect.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Now, the battery life is definitely the biggest downside of
the Apple Watch. But what I've just gotten a customer
doing is at night, before you go to sleep, you
take off your Apple Watch, you put it on the charger.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
So what is the battery life to me?
Speaker 3 (36:34):
I don't even know, Like it's just it's a day.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
I mean, it's it as it ever died only when you.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Do crazy exercise. So like yesterday, I didn't really do
that much exercise. My battery was at ten percent right
when I was going to sleep. Okay, it's just kind
of weird because that doesn't normally happen. Some nights it's
at like you know, I don't even look. I don't
look because it doesn't matter. I use it for the day.
It gets through the day. Now some people may say
it gets through a day and a half, maybe two days.
But what I notice if you do any sort of
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physical activity for like a half an hour or longer,
especially an hour, that's going to drain your battery significantly
because it's using the GPS and all the sensors in
your watch. So it's taking your heart rate more, it's
doing more GPS.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
That's why the battery goes.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
That's what about playing music and like Bluetooth, that doesn't really.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Not as much.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I mean it will, it will affect it, but not
as much as the workouts. When your workout is on,
it's firing every sensor in that phone to get the
most accurate data about your workout.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
So that's why it's taking up the battery more.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Right, So the fipbit versa, the biggest benefit is basically
I think you need to ask your wife in a
sly way because you don't want her to know because
it's a birthday present. Just be like, is sleep tracking
important to you? So that's the main advantage of the
fitbit versa is two things. Number one sleep tracking. You
can track your sleep and I love that data. But
it's one of those things that you sort of have
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to give up if you're on an Apple Watch.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
It's kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
The fitbit will tell you exactly how long you slept,
when you tossed and turned, when you had deep sleep,
when you woke up, when you went to bed.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
It's really cool. You also get about four days of
battery life.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
With that one.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
I was going to say, how do you charge it?
Speaker 1 (38:07):
So you basically with that one, you just kind of
charge it like whenever you feel like it. So yeah,
I mean, I think for a lot of people, the
routine is before you get into the shower, just put
it on the charger.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Oh, so got it.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
That's you know, twenty minutes here or there. Oh for space,
I mean it depends how lot you're spending an hour,
an hour or two here, yeah, whatever, your bath, yeah yeah,
take a bath, put it on the thing. So oh
my gosh, we have so many more things to get through.
So we played the uh wizarding with the new Harry
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Potter game. This is called Harry Potter Wizards Unit. I
went to an event at Universal Studios in Hollywood on
Tuesday night.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
It was a lot of fun. It was. It was
a lot of like YouTube.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Influencers, a lot of people I didn't recognize, you know,
like sometimes it's like tech journalists sometimes you know, it
depends on the event, right, this one was a lot
of like it was like a mixed crowd of like YouTubers,
print people, game video game people. But you know what
I mean. It wasn't like I was anyway. So long
story short, we got to play the new game. And
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this is a game that is very similar to what
Pokemon Go is, except with Harry Potter. It's made by
the same company Niantic. It's also made by a company
called WB Games, which I guess is part of Warner Brothers.
I'm assuming, but you are a new recruit in working
within the Statue of Secrecy Task Force. Does that make
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any sense any that? No, you're helping solve the mystery
of the calamity. Does that make any sense?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
No, Okay, Well, I'm not a Harry Potter.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
You're not. I thought you were a Harry Potter.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Has No I watched I watched all the.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Moviesay, and you don't know what the calamity is? Did
you watch them with your eyes closed?
Speaker 2 (39:50):
I didn't take notes.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Let's just okay.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
So players will be able to explore their real world
neighborhoods and cities to discover mysterious artifacts, cast spells and
counter fantastic beast and iconic characters. So I am not
a Harry Potter person. I read the first the first
half of the first book, and I found it very interesting.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
I actually really liked it. I just never really got
into it.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Right, Yeah, so again there this is like there's like muggles,
like people throw around all these A muggle is like
a regular person today.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
No, I knew that, Yes I did. I knew that
there's muggles.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
So your job the beauty of this game, and I
here's my thoughts on the game. If you are just
kind of an average gamer that finds things really interesting
and technology really interesting, I think you'll find this interesting
because it uses augmented reality, so it puts the game
in the world around you. So when you're in your neighborhood,
you see the streets on a map of your neighborhood,
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and you walk around and find stuff and find these
little challenges. And what I understand the challenges to be
is I saw like some kid that was like entrapped
in thorns, and I had to wave my magic wand
to like free him, and then I collect that kid,
and that's like kind of like I won like that
little part of the game, right. And then I saw
like a slug that was in like this big massive
like moving like you know, yucky bowlb or whatever, right,
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and I had to like wave my wand and like, yeah,
cast a spell on.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
That slug to like the wand your phone.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Your wand is your finger on the phone screen, Okay,
And every spell you have to trace like a little
spell on the screen. Maybe that's just for the beginner
part of the game. Maybe towards the end you have
to like figure.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Out the spell. I don't know. Interesting, Yeah, I mean I.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Only did like four or five of these little things.
But I will say a couple things. Number One, all
the people in the little Harry Potter world that we
were in, like we're obsessed with the game. Watching me
play it, they're like, what is that?
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Now?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
They're Harry Potter fans, So maybe that's not telling right.
But I think that this will be an interesting game
because it's available Friday, June twenty first on iOS and Android.
It's free to download. Of course there will be in
app purchases, But I think this will be interesting because
here's the thing. When Pokemon Go came out, it had
a built in audience of video game nerds, right. People
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were very familiar with the Pokemon video games that played
Pokemon Go and it became this huge sensation. It brought
in other people as well, people that like mobile games
with Harry Potter. The Harry Potter fan base might be
bigger than Pokemon, but a lot of those people just
know it from the books and the movies. They're not
necessarily video game players, right. And I think that's the
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challenge this game might have is it could be super popular,
it could eclipse Pokemon Go, or it might not be
as popular because the muggles that play, is that what
they're called?
Speaker 3 (42:28):
Yeah, the regular people that play.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
But I feel like the people that are into it
don't want to be called No, they.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Don't want to be a Muggle. They think they're enough.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
Ye see all these weird bletherin.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
Oh what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Oh Lytherin, You're going to hurt people's feeling.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
I do like the butter beer. I tried that. Yeah,
I did go on two rides.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
I have a question about game. So if you have it,
So if I get the game and I'm like walking around, well,
I get notifications when like there's.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
Something I think, so I don't.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
That was the Pokemon Go. That's how Pokemon Go like
became so popular, is like people would literally walk to
like parts of La or whatever just to like get
that special dinosaur or whatever they were called.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
Absolutely, and I think that's all part of it.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
That is part of Niantics set on stage that a
big part of the game is helping you explore your
world around you, gotcha, So you know, it gets you
out and about and like you might go to a
park in La that like everyone says this Muggle dwarf
is at that park with the bench and you're like, oh,
I gotta go Buggle pick up there. And so I
think that's a big part of the game. Or yeah,
so that's it. That's going to do it for the show.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
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Today, it was fun. What by fast?
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Do you think the audio is going to be better
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Oh?
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Yeah?
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And have you recovered from your jet lag. I don't
think so, no, I know it took a while.
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This time.
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It's hard to like go to sleep because I'm so
used to staying up all night because that was China
for us, because it was like at five pm in China.
It's a big time yeah, big time change.
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Have a great day. We will talk to you real
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Ring has a new camera for your front door. There
are more places to get your iPhone repaired. Why you
should log into your apps every once in a while.
Plus we're playing the new Harry Potter game. What's going on?
I'm Rich Demiro. This is Rich on Tech, the podcast
where I talk about the stuff I think you should
know about happening in the tech world. Plus we're answering
your tech questions. Joining me is producer Megan Welcome to
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the show.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Hello, how are you?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I am doing fantastic.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I do want to start with an apology though, because
we had last week's show that we did from China,
which was great. I mean, I thought it was really
interesting the content, but the actual quality of the podcast
was not up to par. And you know us, we
are sicklers on quality. Oh yeah, so every I feel
like every podcast we've done so far has sounded different.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
But that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Podcasting is still emerging, right, and you know, even though
it's I was doing podcasting at Sina about fifteen years ago, but.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It's still new, right. It's new to a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
But I think our mistake last week was trying a
new mobile setup when we went to China. We tried
new microphones, we tried everything was different how we recorded
the show, and if we were total pros, like with audio, we.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Would find that would be fine. But we're not.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, and so we were talking into the wrong end
of the microphone. I don't know, we might have been
so long story short. If you listen to the podcast,
which a lot of you did, thank you. That's not
our that's not our main like, we're not that's not us.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Now, if this one sounds really bad, we are trying
new equipment again.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Then we're going to be really sad.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Then we'll just give up.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
But let's start with the story. Maybe this is the
biggest story of the week. It's probably the most complicated
story of the week for most people. But I do
think it could have potential impact. So we've heard a
lot about bitcoin, we've heard a lot about cryptocurrency. Nobody
has been able to make it work in a big,
meaningful way just yet. And now some people might fight
me on that, but the reality is, are you using crypto?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
No?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Am I No, We're two kind of normal people.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I do have okay, full disclosure, I do have twenty
five dollars worth of cryptocurrency.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
To my name something. So it's like, you know, then
I have invested.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Well so, and it's funny that you call an investment
because when I bought that, I did it as a
test to see. I bought it through the square cash app,
and it went down and down and down, and I
just checked it and it actually is back up to
twenty four dollars and sixty cents. So over the past
like year or two, I've only lost like.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Forty forty cents and it still can go up.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
So I'm hoping that by the time I retire, I
just forget about that. And it's like, oh, no, oh,
what's this? A million bucks just sitting there in crypto.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I don't think it grows like that.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
No, probably not so uh.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Facebook is basically pioneering the charge for a new type
of simple global currency called Libra, and this is backed.
It's interesting because they're backing it by the blockchain.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Which is you know, technology for a digital currency basically.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
But there's a lot of companies on board here, so
if anyone can make this happen, it could be Facebook.
And what they would want you to do is use
this cryptocurrency to it would be integrated into the Facebook
App into WhatsApp into Facebook Messenger. So basically, if I
owed you twenty bucks, I could pay you right through there,
kind of like what you do with Venmo. But the
way Venmo works is it's all backed by your checking
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account or your bank account or.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Your credit card.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Right, this would be backed by none of those things.
You would basically just have this currency like it would
be its own thing. So, I know, doesn't that sound complicated?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So complicated, So you'd have to.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Buy it somehow, and then once you buy it, that
is your currency. So the idea is is that of
enough people and places accept the currency, it then takes off.
So think about visa MasterCard for example.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
The only reason those work they're not really a currency.
They're just a way to pay right. So you still
have to pay the bill with real money at the
end of the month, right or you know, depending portion
of the bill, right, Yeah, hopefully you're.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Paying the whole thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But the reality is the reason why vis a master
card are so like I will take it from you,
you'll take it from me, whatever, or a business takes
it is because it's accepted everywhere, right, and people have
established that, like, Okay, these are true, these are real,
like we take it. So with Libra and this whole
new cryptocurrency, if enough people take it, it's like, okay,
well I can use my Libra at.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Starbucks exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Or but where I get confused is so then you
would pay at the end of the month libra.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
See, that's where it gets kind of weird. It's just
you just kind of keep your money in there. That's
the weird thing. It's like it's just becomes your money.
So yeah, and so what they're doing and there's it's
also even more weird because there's another thing. It's called
let's see, it's like libra, there's I don't even know
if I'm saying it right.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I truly want to understand how this works.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
So well, I'm not going to be the one to
explain it. No, I know, I know understand by the way.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I've had like five people try to explain it to me.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
And I've had when I did the crypto story, like cryptocurrency,
we did like crypto one on one again like the
creator Yeah, no, we had like a guy who's a
good crypto guy, and I have a friend that does
crypto stuff. But I still it's like you don't really
understand it. It's a currency that's like kind of made
out of thin air. Right now, this one will be
backed by actual currency, which is making it more stable,
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which makes it more appealing to people. Anyway, long story short,
that's what you need to know is that Facebook might
take over the whole world when it comes to money.
But the other companies that are on board with this,
and this is why it might work. Listen to these names, MasterCard, PayPal, Stripe, Visa, eBay, Lift, Spotify, Uber.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And a whole bunch of others.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
So what that tells me is that at the very least,
you'll be able to use this currency among all those things.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And if you think about those things, that's a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
So now you can, let's say, you can use your
Libra currency to pay your master Card account at the
end of the month.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
So again, it's getting real and getting real. It's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So anyway, we'll just have to keep on kind of
up to date on everything that Facebook's doing with that.
It's not going to happen overnight, but it probably will
happen soon.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So you would use like some of your twenty five dollars.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
To buy a Starbucks exactly right, like I would instead
of like right now that that bitcoin that I have
exists inside that app, I can't do anything with it
except pay other people who like use bitcoin.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
But let's say Starbucks I want to buy like a
ten dollars gift card and they're like, oh, we accept
this bitcoin.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I just use it.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
And same thing with this new one from Facebook. It's
like if I can use it to pay you back
for you know whatever, like you go out and run
get a coffee, I can be like, oh, here's three dollars,
you know, through my app.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Got it? So interesting?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
All right, So let's let's start with the first question.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I love this next question. It's from Lily Alala and
she wrote on your Facebook page, Hey, Rich, thank you
for all of the useful information you provide during your
segment on Katley News. I have a question. Do you
have any suggestions or can you recommend a good Android
app for locating or keeping track of my kids? I
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have twelve year old twins, they both have phones. I
need peace of mind. Please let me know.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Okay, And what was the name again?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Lily?
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Lily?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So this is a question I get all the time.
People want to be able to track their kids. And
it makes sense if they have a cell phone, you
want to be able to track them. Why not, right,
So there are tools that are built into iOS. And
she didn't really mention what kind of phones her kids have.
I feel like she would have mentioned if if they
had iPhones.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Movie. Yeah, but she says she has an Android.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Oh, she has an Android.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
She set a good Android app.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Oh, so there you go, she wants Android. Okay. So
on iPhone, obviously they have the app called find My.
They changed it. It used to be called find my iPhone.
Now it's just called find My.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
So that would work on the iPhone side of things.
But if you're a mixed family and you have like
Android and you have iOS in the family, you want
an app that works across both of those things. And
so the app that I recommend to most people is
called Life three sixty.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Have you heard of this?
Speaker 1 (08:07):
So it's kind of the most popular one out there
that basically at the bottom line kind of thing is
it tracks you. You know, you sign it up on
your phones and you can see where your kids are
on a map. That's the basic thing. Now, that's free,
But if you really want to get the most use
out of it, you're gonna have to pay because what
I found when I tested.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
It is that the free stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Is fine, but the location's not updated as much as
you want. It's not real time, Like there's a little
caveats that you after using it for like two days,
you're like, this would be better if I paid for it.
So with that in mind, you know, try it out,
start it out, see how it works, and I think
it's going to do exactly what you need. They have
a lot of features in there, like I mean, there's
so many features. You can get a text when your
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kid gets to school, you can get a text when
your kid leaves school. You can get see how fast
they're going on a map, Like if they're driving, you
can get a crash detection. So if they crash, god forbid,
you'll get it. Hopefully it's a fender bender, you'll get
alert about that. So again, they've built pretty much the
app that parents want to be able to track their kids. Obviously,
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you know your kids have to be on board because
they can uninstall it or whatever.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
You can probably password protect it, but.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Again, once you use it, so like with the free
it's zero, with plus it's three dollars a month, and
with driver Protect all those driver features, it's seven to
ninety nine a month. So I, as a parent, small
price to pay. When I'm ready to do this with
my kids, I think three dollars a month is just fine.
So again, like little things that they change, So place
alerts with free, you only get two with the free,
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plus you get unlimited history. You only get two days
with the free. You get thirty days with unlimited crime reports.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I don't know, I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
But again, so really it comes down to how much
of the location do you get with the free versus
the paid. So but Lily, that's going to do it
for you Life three sixty dot com and it works
on you know, various apps, iOS and Android cool. So
speaking of Apple is partnering with Best Buy for expanded
repair service. So in the past, if you wanted to
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get your iPhone repaired, you could do it at a
bunch of places, but Apple likes when you do it
at their place because it keeps your phone in warranty
right and also if you have Apple Care, it will
be included in your Apple Care price. If you go
to an Apple store or one of their authorized retailers,
which you know, in a city like LA, we have
a lot of these little like Mac stores, right, you know,
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like I think there's like Melrose Mac and stuff like that.
But if you live in like the middle of nowhere,
you don't really have access to a lot of places,
including the Apple store.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You might have a best Buy in your city, but
not an Apple store. Well, now best Buy is an
official repair place for Apple. And what does that mean?
Thousand Best Buys across the US will now provide expert
service and repairs for Apple products.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
So that means if you have Apple Care, you can
bring your phone in there.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
They'll do all the stuff under warranty, which is really nice,
and it's also backed by Apple. So if there's a
problem with the repair down the line, they're not like, well,
where'd you bring this, You're like, oh, best Buy. They're like, sorry,
we can't do anything because they've ruined your phone. Now
that repair is still covered under Apple.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
So that's cool.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
It is cool, and especially you.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Know, again, this is a story for the rest of
the US, not Los Angeles per se, because in LA
you've got a million.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Apple stores there.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
It's like, you know, probably ten of them in like
a five mile radius. But if you're in somewhere like
they mentioned a couple cities Yuma, Arizona, Sioux City, Iowa,
Twin Falls, Idaho, Casper, Wyoming, Bismarck, North Dakota. Those all
have Best Buys, but they didn't have an Apple store.
So now in those places you can easily go and
get your phone fixed or any Apple product.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Walman. On the subject of phones, let me talk about Walmart.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
They are expanding Walmart dot Com to let you fully
upgrade your phone online. So before you had to do
this in store. And this is not like a huge deal,
but it's kind of big. Walmart is big, right, A
lot of people know Walmart for better prices and a
lot of times Walmart sells cell phones at a discount.
So now you can do the entire upgrade process online
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if you have AT and T, so right now they're
just starting with AT and T. But you go to
Walmart dot Com, you choose your you know your plan,
your device, your payment plan. They handle all that stuff
just like you would if you were at the store.
But you can do it online. You get the device
within two days and you activate it and it's done.
So why would you want to choose Walmart dot Com
over AT and T or anyplace else, well they might
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have a better deal, Sony. You can shop around, right,
So historically, if you were with AT and T, you'd
probably be able to go to AT and T dot
com to upgrade your phone, or you can go into
a store, or you can go to best Buy. But
I don't think best Buy does it online. Maybe they do,
but I don't think they do. But now you can
go to Walmart dot com and like just check the prices.
And so what I've seen is they say phones are
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up to two hundred dollars less, so you could get
a discount on that. They're offering the iPhone ten at
three hundred dollars off, So it's five hundred dollars for
the sixty four gigabyte model, which is good. That's the ten,
not the ten s right. But again, so what I
saw is that the price has worked out to about
eight dollars a month less than if you did this
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straight up through AT and T. So eight bucks a month,
I mean I call that free Spotify, yeah, even though
Spotify is ten.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Spotify free Hulu right, yeah, true?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
All right, Megan, you're up okay.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
So your next question comes from actually a top fan
on Facebook. Her name is mom slogo slug o gone. Okay, okay, anyways,
question on reverse phone look up. I can't seem to
find a legit free have some information when looking up
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phone numbers. Cannot find a website where it shows if
the number is a scammer or not. Can you help?
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
So there are a lot of websites that do this,
but most of them are total bogus, Like you don't
want to go down those websites because what happens is
you've seen it.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
What's the one that you mentioned earlier, Spocho, Yes, Spokyo.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
So there's like a whole bunch of these like Spoko
and like my Life and my Way and all these.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Weird like people search websites.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, that generally give you just enough information, but then
they're like, oh, pay fifty dollars to get more information
about this person or whatever it is. And it's really
like it gets you in because there is publicly available
information that they scrape and they put on there, so
you're like, oh, they must have it, but then it's
like it's just it's not very well done. So long
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story short, what I would recommend, very simple is whitepages
dot com. So I've been using this for a while.
I used to have this app on my phone. I
don't know if they still do an app or not,
but I used to have it on my Android where
it would just when I got a phone call, it
would just show me the name, which was super easy.
Now with spam and robo calls, you know, I don't
know how many phone how many phone numbers you're looking up?
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You know, yeah, and I'd say the name Slugo or
whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
But it's like, you know, the White Pages.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
So I just did a quick search and it does
have some good information on phone numbers. A lot of times,
they want you to pay about two dollars and fifty
cents a month for twenty lookups. So again all this information, like,
I don't really know of a free place anymore to
look up a phone number. You can try googling a
lot of times what I do. And yeah, if it's
if it's a business phone number, it's going to show
up in Google.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
If it's not a business phone number, it's not going
to show up, you know. But like a lot of times,
and if it's a scam phone number, a lot of
times it'll say like known scammer or something like that.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
So it really depends.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
But if you're looking to manually look up numbers online,
I think whitepages dot com is probably going to be
like the most legit place to do that. I'm trying
to see who owns them at this point it's owned
by I don't know who it's owned by. It's just
white Pages, I guess.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
So anyway, good question about us. Let's see what they say.
But they all do this.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah, White Pages was found in nineteen ninety seven, so
Wow's that's like that's old for.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
The web, twenty two years old. Wow?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
All right, speaking of I always say that.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Speaking of speaking of I'm not going to speak of it.
But Ring has a new camera you're familiar with Ring
that goes the Ring video doorbell that kind of made
the first video doorbell and made that product very popular. Well,
they've been adding slowly but surely a lot of different
products their lineup.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The latest is called.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
The Ring Door Ring Door View Cam.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
And this is a it's basically they call it what
are they call it, like a peepole right on your door.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
This replaces the people with a camera, so it's super
easy to install. No screws, no installation, no wires, no nothing.
You charge this thing up, you pop out your old peopole,
and you push this thing in. So the way it
looks is it looks like a ring video doorbell, but
a little bit smaller, with.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Kind of like a pipe at the end, imagine that,
or like a hollow tube that pushes through your door.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
So it's held onto your door on the backside with
like some sort of you know, mounting or whatever. Okay,
and then on the front it just sits on the
front of your door flush.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
So you have to screw through your door well where
the people.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
You should have an opening through your door where the
people were, so you remove that and then you push
this thing through your door and just attach it. So
the reviewer for cnet said that it was a little
flimsy feeling because you know, there is really no mounting hardware.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
It just kind of pops onto your door.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
But she said that's not really a deal breaker, although
she does think that one hundred and ninety nine dollars
is a little expensive for this, because it seems a
little bit cheaper than their typical doorbell that you know,
you put on the side of the door, that you
you know, comes with a bunch of mounting screws and it's.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
A little bit more official.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
But at the same time, I love this idea because
ring Ring is basically trying to put a camera on
every home in America.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
However they can do it right.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, and this this is really aimed at sort of apartment.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I was going to say, it's for like apartments probably,
and a lot of apartments.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Like I'm trying to think my old apartment if we
had we did have a I feel like we did
have a peep hole.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
But I feel like it must be.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
A standardized size, right, because if they're selling this product,
maybe it comes with some adapters and stuff, but to
make it that easy to attach your door, it must
just be a standardized peopole size that they drill through
and like put this little mounting hardware on, Which makes sense.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
That's a good question for Google.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Is there a standard people size?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, so that's the deal. So the only downside of
this device, according to c net, is that it's a
little bit expensive, and you also have to pay three
dollars a month if you want any cloud storage at all.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
So the way all.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Ring devices work, they can live stream the video, which
is fine. If someone rings your doorbell, you can view
the person on your phone say hi, yes, and.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
No to them. But as soon as you disconnect.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
That call, it's like boom, that's gone. So if you
want a record of anything, you have to pay.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
And so I pay. I think it's thirty dollars a year.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Maybe I think they've raised that price because if she's
saying three dollars a month, that's thirty six dollars a year.
So and the reason why she really doesn't like that
payment is because Apple announced that their last event that
if video cameras like security cameras, enable home Kit, which
is their smart home platform, you'll get ten.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Days of free clip storage. So that's in ten days.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Is all you really need is like two or three days,
right right, Because it's like if someone came to your
house and robbed it, you're not going to find out
two weeks later, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Unless you're on vacation, yes, but.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
When you still know though, you still know you because
you get an alert to your phone, unless you're on
a remote vacation where you don't check your email or
text messages or anything.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You don't have neighbors, Yeah, pay attention.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Which is probably true, like neighbors probably don't yea true
true neighbors these days. I mean they're just like like
they look away, right.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I did. By the way, google what is the standard
peep hole size? Okay, and the only thing I can
find is just like the height. Okay, So it says
the average height is between four and five and a
half feet from the ground.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Oh oh, that's weird.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
That's okay, I see four and five feet.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
No, that's standard, that's standard.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Yeah, because you don't want it like super high.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Yeah, forty three inches above the floor. That's the standard,
I guess.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
But there must be a standard like drill size that like,
you know, because if you're making peep holes, he it
must be a standard piece of hardware that you know.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Anyway, that makes the people, yes, that makes it stay
to your sounds like people.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Okay, all right, okay, So next question comes from Devin.
It's about Venmo sharing. So he says, I enjoy watching
your segments on KTLA, and I just saw a piece
on this morning show about Venmo transaction sharing. Isn't the
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sharing a primary component of the app. My friends and
I have ours set to public because it's always been
that way, and I just assumed that was part of
the social aspect for the app. Typically there aren't very
many details. The amount or banking info is never included.
It's typically just an emoji of food or tickets and
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then to the person who you paid to. Are there
additional details that are shared that we may not know about?
Speaker 3 (21:08):
All right? So you know I'm a big Venmo hater.
I refuse to use Venmo. So here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
I lease it all the time, I know, and everyone does.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
We talked about this on TV and the reason the
reason the story came up that this researcher because Venmo
most a majority of Venmo payments are public because by default,
when you make a payment, it's public. They don't by default,
when you make a payment on Venmo, it's it's the
details republic.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Right. Well, I always actually do I do private.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Right, but you change it? But the default is public, right?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
But right there's when you think about a default, a
lot of people don't change the default. So this researcher said, hey,
look we scraped like seven thousand transactions. We found that
people are paying for drugs. We found all people put
things in the memo line.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
That they don't even pay drugs.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah, well, or maybe a drug emoji. I mean there's
a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Out there right an they're drug Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Well, I mean, Megan, maybe you're not paying for drugs
through Venmo, but some people are.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yes. I guess yeah, you obviously aren't because you don't
use venmo so or drugs.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
So I guess that's a good thing for me. I don't.
I don't have it all. Yeah, just cross it. I
don't have a use for either.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
But but I have seen people put like little wine glasses,
you know, like I because a lot of people will
get drinks at a bar and they'll split the payment.
You know, I'll venmo you the ten dollars for that
drink or whatever. So you'd you know, a little cocktail
glass or whatever, little shamps so anyway, so I little
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finger foods. Yeah, so pooh poop latter. So my point
is I said I didn't like Venmo for a couple
of reasons, and I have not used Venmo in many years,
even though everyone every it always comes up whenever my
wife is like, oh we got to pay this person
for this at school or whatever, and I'm like, I'm
not doing it. I'm not signing up for Venmo because
I did sign up when when I first had my
kids in school. I, of course, you know, got on
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the Venmo train and I noticed three things. Number one,
the public aspect. I made a couple of payments and
all of a sudden, more commenting on the payment. So
I'm like, wait, what these are public?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
People can see these? Why why does anyone need to
know my business?
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Still comments on the payment?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Isn't that a thing? Mean like like them? Right?
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, Like if you send it to someone, they might
the person you send it to you might like it.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Yeah what I'm saying, No, you can like and comment on.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
I never write on people I know.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
We're clearly you're abnormal. You're an abnormal Venmo user. So
that was the number one thing I noticed. The second
thing I noticed is that back in the day, and
I think this has changed, you had to link your
bank account and not necessarily a debit card. Right, So
I'm fine with linking my debit card, although I don't
necessarily I'd rather link a credit card. So it's kind
of like that buffer between the payment and my bank account.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Right, but a debit card is a little step closer.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
And my bank account number is like, no, thank you,
I'm not giving that to anyone.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
So that's the second thing I didn't like is that
it had to interface with my bank and I didn't
like that.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I wanted to use my credit card. That was the
second thing.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Third thing was when I had a balance of Let's
say I had a balance of fifty dollars and I
make a payment to you of twenty five dollars for
some apps. It took the payment out of my checking
account once again, instead of out of my Venmo balance.
I think that might be a default thing.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah, I always thought that it would. I mean that
obviously happens. Still, I just don't get that, Like, why
doesn't it get taken out of the current balance.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Because Venmo is collecting interest on millions of users balances
without them realizing that every time they make a new payment,
they're collecting a new payment from your bank account. And
that's the third thing I did not like about this.
And so again, these are the reasons why I don't
like Venmo, and these are also the reasons why I
really like Square Cash, which is kind of the competitor
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that has never taken off, you know, Square Square Cash.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I've been talking about it for years.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
It just cares.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
No one cares. They're not using it.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
So if I venmo someone twenty dollars from my debit card,
because if I did it for my credit card, I
would get charged in.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
You get charged a percentage, right like Venmo will.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Be like twenty two or twenty one or whatever. So
if I've them with someone twenty dollars, like, where my
being charged interest from.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
My joh, They're they're getting interest. Venmo is basically like
by them from.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Wells Fargo or well from America.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Whoever they have their account with. They're like, let's say
Venmo has a million dollars in their little bank account.
They're collecting interest on that money as people use their service. Now,
to be fair, Venmo is losing a ton of money.
There's a crazy article about how venmo is, Like it
was in the Wall Street Journal. If I can find
it would be so great.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Wall Street Journal Venmo.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Maybe I'll just google that.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
So Venmo has forty million users and literally they cannot
turn a profit. So uh, this story, let's see Oh
my gosh, it was just an insane story ads on that.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Ads on venmo.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Interesting Anyway, long story short, you know they I just
don't like venmo, so that's it. I don't use it.
I will use anything else. The thing that I do use,
and I ask everyone to set it up when I
need to do a payment, it's called Zell and Zell
is built into your bank so there's no sign up.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Use that sometimes it's like in your bank account app.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
It's amazing and the money goes in instantly. It Yeah,
there's no like middleman.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
There's not. It's just done, straight up done.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
But so are additional details shared, like.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Well, the details that are shared are no. The details
that are shared.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Are just what's there is that I can see is your.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Name, how much you paid someone, and also what it
was for Pai. No, you don't see how much you paid.
You just see that you paid someone. So anyway, Uh,
that's my that's my rant on venmo. So I'm not
judging you. If you use it, it's fine. It's a
personal preference for me. And also security thing with the
whole debit card thing. Okay, speaking of security, since I
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always say speaking of now whenever I transition to a
new story, So I'll just have to stop doing that.
But this is this is fascinating and something that I
think is very important and something that I've kind of
known for a while, but I've never seen an actual
report on it. Cyberscoop dot Com says that when you
stop using an app, or you kind of let an
app like dormant, you're more likely to have that app
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broken into.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
By a hacker.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
And this makes a ton of sense because think about it,
you haven't used an app in a while. All of
a sudden you get an email and it's like, oh,
your account was you know, logged into. You're like, wait,
what haven't used that in forever? Well, here's the reason
why it's okay, let me give you the details. Number
one sixty five percent accounts that experience an account take
over an attack. Basically, when someone logs in with your
username and password, like your legit stuff, they just figured
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it out they have not been Those accounts have usually
not been accessed by their true owner in more than
ninety days. So basically, when an account is dormant for
a while, it's easier for a crook to get in,
and they also steal stuff from you. So a lot
of times they'll do this with like loyalty points like
your you know, United points, your Southwest points, because a
lot of times people don't check those all the time. Yeah,
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so by the time you notice that your points are gone,
it's like too late. It's like, oh my gosh, what happened.
It might steal money from like a.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Bank account that you don't log into a lot.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
So here's why this is a problem. So when you
log into your accounts, like you log into your bank account,
I'm assuming like, you know, a couple times a week, right, Yeah,
well every time you do that ten times a day, Yeah,
ten times a day you're waiting for those Venmo payments
to clear your bank account.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Takes time.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
So every time you log in, your bank gets a
little record of which device you used to log in,
where you logged in from, how you logged in, time
of day.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Right.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
It builds a little kind of log of who Megan
is and when she logs in and how she logs in.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Right.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
That's why when someone from Russia logs in, they go
hold on, Megan's never logged in from Russia, Like, what's
going on here? We know that the last thirty five
times she logged in from the Hollywood area. We're gonna
block that Russia log in. Well, if you don't log
in for a long time, guess what happens the system exactly,
it doesn't have much to go on. So if you
log in from Tampa, Florida, or New Jersey or Colorado,
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it's like, well, we don't really know, so they just
let it proceed. So, you know, obviously depending on the
level of sophistication with their pro you know, with their security.
So that's why you should log into your apps, you know,
every you know, month or so.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
You're talking about banks, right or anything?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Oh, I mean anything anything that could be taken over
your email address, your bank, your loyalty points, any account
that you have that is you you know, if you
have an old Instagram account, let's say, you know, if
you don't log in, these computers, these fraud detection systems
don't really have much to go on. So again that's
I thought that was really fascinating because it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Oh yeah. Also, let me just I.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Thought this was also interesting in this article. So you
always wonder how do these people break into your account? Right, Like,
where do they get my password. So two common techniques
for getting into people's accounts. Number one is credential stuffing.
This is when scammers take the credentials that they've found online,
like when services get hacked, it's like twenty five million
user name and passwords were leaked online. They'll take those
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and they will just literally try them in as many
services as possible, Like they have a a an app
that will literally a program that will just automate that,
and they'll try every combination in Yahoo and Google and whatever, whatever, whatep.
The next one is called password spraying. This is a
little bit more imprecise, and they just use scripted bots
to basically test commonly used passwords against random user names.
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So that's not gonna work. So basically they can go
through like John John Doe, John Doe one two three,
and then they'll try like password one, password two, password
one two three.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
And that's why they say them.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
See, this is the thing about all this security stuff.
Many times it does, yeah, but not all the time. Yeah,
And so a lot of times what these hackers are
doing is they're praying on systems that are a little
bit unsophisticated. Yeah, and so that's why I always say,
you don't want to use the same password across a
bunch of sites because you might use your password for Gmail,
which has very sophisticated log in, you know, hacker detection,
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but you might use that same password at your random
you know whatever account. Yeah, and next thing, you know,
it's like that account is hacked, and now they just
take that password and they use it at Gmail.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
That's why you don't want to use the same bad
password at two different places. Because I'm not worried about
Gmail getting hacked necessarily, I'm worried about the random account
that you set up with, you know, Michael's flowershop dot com,
and now using that same password on Gmail, and Michael's
flower Shop gets hacked, and now the hackers try that
password and use her name across a whole bunch of
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other bigger websites, and.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
In that case, they just have your stuff.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
So Google is going to let that go through because
unless they figure out it seems suspicious.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Right. That's why I love the fingerprint thing.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Fingerprint's great. I mean, that's that's also good.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
But a lot of times she has to be backed
up by your password, you know. So Instagram along these
lines is testing a new way. You ever hear about
people that get locked out of their Instagram accounts, like
this happened to my cousin the other day. She basically
sent me a text or my brother did, saying, hey,
she's locked out of her account because someone just stole
her stuff and now she can't get back in because
they changed her email and phone number, and so now
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she can't get any of her recovery stuff. You know,
you go on you say I need my recovery. Instagram
is finally kind of getting hip to this and saying,
you know what, We're gonna make it a little bit
easier for you to regain access to your hacked account.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
So here's how they're doing it.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
If you put your password in a whole bunch of
times and it doesn't work, and they recognize that because
they notice that you're logging in from like the same
phone that you normally log in from, but it's not working,
they will now give you a link to basically enter
the email address and phone number that you use to
sign up when you are used to sign up to Instagram,
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so their system remembers this stuff, of course, right right,
And so once you verify that, they will send a
six digit code.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
To your phone.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Okay, good like Twitter.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yeah, and lets you log in basically, that's good.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
So again they're using sophisticated algorithms to figure out like
Megan logged in twenty five times from this iPhone from
this area from these IP addresses KTLA her house. All
of a sudden, we at this random log in from Russia.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
I use Russia again, Yes, because obviously China they can't
even get on.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yes, China they're not trying to. Yeah, we don't have
to worry about them and know what it is. They
can't even get to those IP addresses.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
So again Russia.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
They go wait a second, and then all of a sudden,
this IP, this random IP account from Russia changed her
password and her phone number.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
That's kind of weird.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, now we see little old Megan trying to log
in from Hollywood again from Okay, young Meghan, it's.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Okay, little old Megan, that's fine.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
So logging in from her iPhone again from the same
place she's normally logged into one hundred times and she
can't get in. Now we're gonna throw herr bone. We're
gonna give her this one time code and we're gonna say, look,
go ahead, get into your account, and then they also
freeze the username so that you you know, it's like
because a lot of times these hackers will take you
and then they'll take your username and they'll sell it
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them the black mark or whatever they're they're going to
freeze that.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
I know, there's a lot that goes on, Megan, It's
lot to keep up with.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
It's such a scary world, especially if you're on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Geez okay, So our next question comes from Vincent Reyes
Apple Watch or Fitbit. I know, I feel like we
talk about the Apple Watch in every podcast, but he
wants to know. Basically, his wife's birthday is coming up
and he's been debating if he wants to get his
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wife an Apple Watch or the fitbit versa. He has
an Apple Watch and the battery life is what makes
him dislike the purchase, and unless they made significant strides
in longer battery life, he doesn't want to purchase another
Apple Watch for his wife. And then he says he
likes the fipbit because of the battery life, but not
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sure if his wife would prefer the Apple Watch. I
would like your thoughts as to why lean one way
or the other.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Okay, so you probably know my answer. Yes, right, So
I'm gonna recommend the Apple Watch. Here's why I've I've
had the Fitbit Versa. I bought that and I used
it for like a year, I think maybe six months
a year, and I loved it because I'm a big runner.
I love having that data of running. And I thought,
I think when it comes to smart devices, I think
the Fitbit Versa and the Apple Watch, and probably the
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Galaxy the new one, the Galaxy you Watch Active or
whatever it's called, are probably the three best at this point.
But here's why I like the Apple Watch the best.
You say, your wife has an iPhone, it's going to
work the best with iPhone. I am sitting here when
I look at my Apple Watch, like there are little
things that pop up on the screen that just amaze me.
It's like, literally it kind of has learned when I
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work out during the day, so all of a sudden,
I'll just get like a little button that says start
a workout, and it's like, oh, I don't have to
like go through the settings any of that stuff. Obviously,
and the verse I believe does this as well. But
when you start a workout, and I know that the
Samsung devices do this. It automatically recognizes that. So when
I start running with you know for and normally I
do start the workout before I start running. But a
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lot of time, if you're just doing something physically active,
like if you're hiking or whatever, or you're taking a
long walk, all of a sudden, it will say, hey,
we notice that you're doing something active.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
Do you want to record that workout?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
And it will back time so it remembers like if
you hop on your bike and start taking a long
bike ride, it will go back to the first minute
that it noticed that you started biking.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Yeah, so that's kind of fun. I know you want
one of these now, So I like that aspect.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Now, the battery life is definitely the biggest downside of
the Apple Watch. But what I've just gotten a customer
doing is at night, before you go to sleep, you
take off your Apple Watch, you put it on the charger.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
So what is the battery life to me?
Speaker 3 (36:34):
I don't even know, Like it's just it's a day.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
I mean, it's it as it ever died only when you.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Do crazy exercise. So like yesterday, I didn't really do
that much exercise. My battery was at ten percent right
when I was going to sleep. Okay, it's just kind
of weird because that doesn't normally happen. Some nights it's
at like you know, I don't even look. I don't
look because it doesn't matter. I use it for the day.
It gets through the day. Now some people may say
it gets through a day and a half, maybe two days.
But what I notice if you do any sort of
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physical activity for like a half an hour or longer,
especially an hour, that's going to drain your battery significantly
because it's using the GPS and all the sensors in
your watch. So it's taking your heart rate more, it's
doing more GPS.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
That's why the battery goes.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
That's what about playing music and like Bluetooth, that doesn't really.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
Not as much.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I mean it will, it will affect it, but not
as much as the workouts. When your workout is on,
it's firing every sensor in that phone to get the
most accurate data about your workout.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
So that's why it's taking up the battery more.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Right, So the fipbit versa, the biggest benefit is basically
I think you need to ask your wife in a
sly way because you don't want her to know because
it's a birthday present. Just be like, is sleep tracking
important to you? So that's the main advantage of the
fitbit versa is two things. Number one sleep tracking. You
can track your sleep and I love that data. But
it's one of those things that you sort of have
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to give up if you're on an Apple Watch.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
It's kind of fun.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
The fitbit will tell you exactly how long you slept,
when you tossed and turned, when you had deep sleep,
when you woke up, when you went to bed.
Speaker 4 (38:01):
It's really cool. You also get about four days of
battery life.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
With that one.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
I was going to say, how do you charge it?
Speaker 1 (38:07):
So you basically with that one, you just kind of
charge it like whenever you feel like it. So yeah,
I mean, I think for a lot of people, the
routine is before you get into the shower, just put
it on the charger.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Oh, so got it.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
That's you know, twenty minutes here or there. Oh for space,
I mean it depends how lot you're spending an hour,
an hour or two here, yeah, whatever, your bath, yeah yeah,
take a bath, put it on the thing. So oh
my gosh, we have so many more things to get through.
So we played the uh wizarding with the new Harry
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Potter game. This is called Harry Potter Wizards Unit. I
went to an event at Universal Studios in Hollywood on
Tuesday night.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
It was a lot of fun. It was. It was
a lot of like YouTube.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Influencers, a lot of people I didn't recognize, you know,
like sometimes it's like tech journalists sometimes you know, it
depends on the event, right, this one was a lot
of like it was like a mixed crowd of like YouTubers,
print people, game video game people. But you know what
I mean. It wasn't like I was anyway. So long
story short, we got to play the new game. And
(39:10):
this is a game that is very similar to what
Pokemon Go is, except with Harry Potter. It's made by
the same company Niantic. It's also made by a company
called WB Games, which I guess is part of Warner Brothers.
I'm assuming, but you are a new recruit in working
within the Statue of Secrecy Task Force. Does that make
(39:32):
any sense any that? No, you're helping solve the mystery
of the calamity. Does that make any sense?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
No, Okay, Well, I'm not a Harry Potter.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
You're not. I thought you were a Harry Potter.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Has No I watched I watched all the.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Moviesay, and you don't know what the calamity is? Did
you watch them with your eyes closed?
Speaker 2 (39:50):
I didn't take notes.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Let's just okay.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
So players will be able to explore their real world
neighborhoods and cities to discover mysterious artifacts, cast spells and
counter fantastic beast and iconic characters. So I am not
a Harry Potter person. I read the first the first
half of the first book, and I found it very interesting.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
I actually really liked it. I just never really got
into it.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Right, Yeah, so again there this is like there's like muggles,
like people throw around all these A muggle is like
a regular person today.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
No, I knew that, Yes I did. I knew that
there's muggles.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
So your job the beauty of this game, and I
here's my thoughts on the game. If you are just
kind of an average gamer that finds things really interesting
and technology really interesting, I think you'll find this interesting
because it uses augmented reality, so it puts the game
in the world around you. So when you're in your neighborhood,
you see the streets on a map of your neighborhood,
(40:43):
and you walk around and find stuff and find these
little challenges. And what I understand the challenges to be
is I saw like some kid that was like entrapped
in thorns, and I had to wave my magic wand
to like free him, and then I collect that kid,
and that's like kind of like I won like that
little part of the game, right. And then I saw
like a slug that was in like this big massive
like moving like you know, yucky bowlb or whatever, right,
(41:07):
and I had to like wave my wand and like, yeah,
cast a spell on.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
That slug to like the wand your phone.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Your wand is your finger on the phone screen, Okay,
And every spell you have to trace like a little
spell on the screen. Maybe that's just for the beginner
part of the game. Maybe towards the end you have
to like figure.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Out the spell. I don't know. Interesting, Yeah, I mean I.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Only did like four or five of these little things.
But I will say a couple things. Number One, all
the people in the little Harry Potter world that we
were in, like we're obsessed with the game. Watching me
play it, they're like, what is that?
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Now?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
They're Harry Potter fans, So maybe that's not telling right.
But I think that this will be an interesting game
because it's available Friday, June twenty first on iOS and Android.
It's free to download. Of course there will be in
app purchases, But I think this will be interesting because
here's the thing. When Pokemon Go came out, it had
a built in audience of video game nerds, right. People
(41:58):
were very familiar with the Pokemon video games that played
Pokemon Go and it became this huge sensation. It brought
in other people as well, people that like mobile games
with Harry Potter. The Harry Potter fan base might be
bigger than Pokemon, but a lot of those people just
know it from the books and the movies. They're not
necessarily video game players, right. And I think that's the
(42:18):
challenge this game might have is it could be super popular,
it could eclipse Pokemon Go, or it might not be
as popular because the muggles that play, is that what
they're called?
Speaker 3 (42:28):
Yeah, the regular people that play.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
But I feel like the people that are into it
don't want to be called No, they.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Don't want to be a Muggle. They think they're enough.
Speaker 4 (42:35):
Ye see all these weird bletherin.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
Oh what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Oh Lytherin, You're going to hurt people's feeling.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
I do like the butter beer. I tried that. Yeah,
I did go on two rides.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
I have a question about game. So if you have it,
So if I get the game and I'm like walking around, well,
I get notifications when like there's.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
Something I think, so I don't.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
That was the Pokemon Go. That's how Pokemon Go like
became so popular, is like people would literally walk to
like parts of La or whatever just to like get
that special dinosaur or whatever they were called.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
Absolutely, and I think that's all part of it.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
That is part of Niantics set on stage that a
big part of the game is helping you explore your
world around you, gotcha, So you know, it gets you
out and about and like you might go to a
park in La that like everyone says this Muggle dwarf
is at that park with the bench and you're like, oh,
I gotta go Buggle pick up there. And so I
think that's a big part of the game. Or yeah,
so that's it. That's going to do it for the show.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
Yeah, the more is there.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
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Speaker 3 (44:02):
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Speaker 4 (44:22):
Producer, Megan, did you enjoy the show?
Speaker 3 (44:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (44:25):
Today, it was fun. What by fast?
Speaker 1 (44:26):
Do you think the audio is going to be better
than the show from China?
Speaker 3 (44:29):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (44:30):
And have you recovered from your jet lag. I don't
think so, no, I know it took a while.
Speaker 3 (44:34):
This time.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
It's hard to like go to sleep because I'm so
used to staying up all night because that was China
for us, because it was like at five pm in China.
It's a big time yeah, big time change.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
All right, I'm Richdmiro, thanks so much for joining us.
Have a great day. We will talk to you real
soon
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