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Speaker 1 (00:07):
The FBI warns about smart TVs, the mattress hackers, top
apps of twenty nineteen, plus Your tech questions answered.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
What's going on? I'm Rich damiro.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
about the tech stuff I think you should know about
and answer the questions that you send me.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Joining me is producer Megan. There you are, Oh, here
you are.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Sorry, my Mike wasn't.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
I feel like I'm back at the radio station pressing
buttons that I don't know what they do. We did, Man,
the questions are at an all time high, Megan, I
will tell you this, I'm getting so many. Yesterday I
spent two hours just in the afternoon going through excited
like a backlog from before Thanksgiving. Oh and I felt
back as some people were like kind of asking me
about their Cyber Monday and Black Friday shopping and I

(00:55):
couldn't get to all of them.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
I just couldn't. So some people were like, thanks, Rich,
I already bought whatever I asked you about.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
I was like, sorry, but we had a great time.
We did four hours on the radio on KFI in
Los Angeles, So thanks to KFI for letting me do
that and Megan was there and we had a great time.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah, it was really fun. Felt like one hour.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
What was your highlight of that. I know, your cousin
or your.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Uncle, Maddie, that was probably the highlight.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
I got my uncle we call him crazy Uncle Matt,
and he called in and he wasn't that crazy on air.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
But he was pretty good though.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
I could see you could feel that, yes, I could.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
I could see. He was like an onion. There was
a lot of layers.

Speaker 4 (01:33):
He's from New York and he wears shorts to like Christmas,
Eve and Thanksgiving. He really doesn't really he doesn't care
much about looking super fancy.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
And he's really fun and hysterical.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
And I called my sister, who is like a vegan
and she's a health nut and it's so funny.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
I got so many emails about that too. They were like,
I love your sister. She's so great. I have a
brother that's vegan or whatever, and like, I love the
back and forth.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
She should get a podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
I gave her a hard time about, you know, her
eating and stuff, because it's just it's just interesting to me,
Like I try to eat healthy, but it's like really
very healthy. I just had four peanut butter chocolate oreos
in the newsroom.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Like four donuts.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
No, I wish. I'm really trying to stay off the
donuts at this point.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
But anyway, so she you know, so like I try,
but she actually delivers, like she really does eat healthy
like and the stuff that she eats, it's like I
can't imagine, Like to me, like if I eat a
healthy lunch, I immediately go to the cabinet and get
like a whole bag of M and ms and eCos. Yes,
like I punctuate all healthy meals with like something really bad.
I'm the same, and it's just weird.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
I don't know why I have.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
To do that oat meal. Then I'm like, okay, you
can have hot cheetos now, right.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
So anyway, uh so we got lots of questions. You
have some queued up for the show?

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, I do. I have a lot.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Actually, well we'll get to those in a moment. But
first let's start with this a new rumor about the
next iPhone. Maybe it might be completely wireless. So first
they remove the headphone jack everyone's talking about. Maybe they're
going to take the lightning off and put on a USBC.
But ming chi quo, this noted analyst that always seems
to get it right, says that he thinks the highest

(03:09):
end model in the twenty twenty one lineup is going
to be completely wireless. Now, by the way, that's not
next year, that's the next year, So we do have
a year to like.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Get used to this idea.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
But if you look at Apple's past, and you look
at the computer I'm on right now, there's no CD drive,
there's no DVD drive, there's there is a headphone jack,
there's no micro SD cards.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Saw.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
All these things that we used to have on laptops
are all gone. Yeah, And every time they went away,
people cried. And now I've been using this like this
for years and I still cry when I.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
Do, I still cry.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
I do cry because it is annoying.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Sometimes they just simplify.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
They simplify, but to a level that like we're not
like the average person's not ready yet.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
I mean I missed the headphone jack.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Sometimes there are just times when you want to plug
in a headphone. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
So the twenty twenty lineup, according to this prediction, is
a four point seven inch LCD screen, which will be
the kind of part of the iPhone se like that
small one a five point four inch OLED screen. Oh,
they're going all O lead now except for that tiny one,
a six point one inch O lead, another six point

(04:15):
one inch O lead, and then another six point seven
inch O lead, which is kind of like the flagship
with triple cameras. So it looks like kind of the
main thing is for next year. It doesn't look like
there's gonna be that much difference, except for the fact
that they might use a USB.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
C on the bottom of the phone.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
But otherwise it seems like the triple camera is kind
of gonna stay. Triple camera is gonna move to like,
you know, the top of the end phones, or stay
on the top of end phones, but there's gonna be
more on the bottom end, so it seems like the
lower end there'll be more to choose from. Okay, and
the lower end continues to get better because the screens are.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Better, right, So that's great.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, I mean it just continues to kind of go along.
The iPhone is now at this point where it's tough
to innovate within a big way, like because we have
pretty much everything we want on it, and I think
there's more that people can always want, like battery. But
I mean, if you think about my phone, like my
iPhone eleven Pro Max, I would say five nights out
of the week, I am going to bed and this

(05:14):
is at like seventy to eighty percent battery.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Wait what, I'm a whole from not trickle charging.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Well, I do charge.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
I would say probably once throughout the day, like when
I'm driving in my car.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
But that's it.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
And I'm talking I've gone through a whole day, and
like even on like days where I'm using my phone
a ton. I mean, the battery on this thing is
crazy good.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
It really just is.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
That's amazing.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Anyway, let's get to your first question, Megan.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
All right, so this first question comes from Paul and
he actually wrote this on your Facebook page, which is
Facebook dot com slash rich on Tech looks like Apple
slash Goldman Sachs just started reporting to credit agencies today,
prompting all the credit monitoring companies I employ to report

(05:56):
suspicious activity on my account. When I called gold Sacks,
they said people had been calling about the credit alerts
all day, no email warning or anything.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
This is interesting because so you know the Apple card,
this is Apple's credit card that they issued with Goldman Sacks.
And the thing is they kind of thought differently from
like your standard credit card. But I guess in the
beginning they were not. They were not reporting to credit
agencies your activity on this card, which for some people's good,
some people it's bad. So for the good, it's basically,

(06:27):
you know, if you're late on a payment or something like,
I guess it wouldn't really matter. I don't really I mean,
there's no late payments on that card, so I don't
really know how that would impact you. But now that
they're reporting and or on the flip side, the bad
part of that is that if you're trying to build credit,
you wouldn't be building it with that card because they're
not reporting. You'd be spending a whole bunch of money

(06:48):
every month and doing everything right, and your credit report
doesn't reflect that because Apple wasn't reporting it, or I
guess Goldman Sacks.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
So now it started.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Now they just started, So I guess this guy has
all of his alerts from all these different credit reporting
agencies saying like, hey, make sure you tell me when
something goes on my credit report, and he's like.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Bing, mgm mming. So I guess that's probably a good
thing and it was inevitable.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
We know, why did they do that just to get
people to.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Be like, oh, you know what, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
I think maybe it was just a system they you know.
Maybe I don't know like why they did it. Maybe
they just wanted they just didn't care at the beginning.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
Oh here that they didn't warn anyone.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, it did something.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Well I think you knew.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
I think if look, if you if you read the
terms and conditions when you signed up, I guarantee you
In there it says we will begin reporting to the
credit agencies or we have the right to report to
their credit agency. So I'm sure it was in there somewhere.
But now that it started, be warned. So if you
are late with a payment, they might not charge you
for that lateness, but they might actually report.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
That yeah, and your credit could be affected.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Have you ever been late on a payment?

Speaker 3 (07:55):
No? No, I haven't.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
I was late on a payment this month for the
first time and I think almost a decade, so I
actually totally forgot to pay my water bill, my water
and electricity, and so all of a sudden on Thanksgiving Day,
I get I think it was a text.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Or an email from like Element Automatic. No, I don't
do any automatic bills. Oh you don't know. I don't
do anything.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
The only automatic bills I do are like Netflix, the
things that are required to be automatic. But anything else,
like any bill I have, I always pay manually because
I want the right to have the option. Like with
my water bill, especially it could be hundreds of dollars.
I want to make sure it's okay, and even if
it isn't, like what am I gonna do? It'll be
like I think I use five gallons instead of a
thousand that you said.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Anyway, So I got a text during Thanksgiving dinner. I'm
like looking at my phone, like this thing comes in.
It's like, we are disconnecting your service within like five
days if you don't pay your bill.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
I'm like, what do you get charged to it? They
did not charge me, I guess cause my first time
or whatever.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
But so I went on and I paid like immediately,
but I was like, I literally just totally forgot, Like
I got the bill in the mail and I just
totally forgot.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
So it can happen.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
I mean for my credit cards, I have it on automatic,
but I still manually want to go in and do
it myself because I want to like see what's going
on versus just like completely forgetting about it.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
You know.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, Yeah, it's nice. It's nice to have.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
A little manual control because then you're more kind of
in control of what happens, right, Yeah, I guess that's
the main thing anyway. Good to know I don't have
the Apple credit card.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
I don't either, so.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
I don't have that.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
I don't know why I wanted it when it first
came out, because it just like seemed cool and then I.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
Was like, yeah, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
My thing about it is that I do have one
credit card. I actually don't have it linked up to
Apple Pay. I use my debit card with that. But
there's no difference, Like to me, it's like I already
have a card in Apple Pay. There's what's the difference
between having the Apple card or my other card? Like
it's to me, it's literally the same thing except my
other card. The money comes out of my bank account immediately,

(09:51):
so don't have to think about it. Like it's I
know that I have the money to spend, Like I'm
a big like I want to make sure I have
the money to spend before I buy stuff.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Yeah, and so if I'm good, yeah, it is.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
It's that's very smart.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Well, it took me a lot of learning to figure
that out, because back in the day, I would when
it's a credit card, it's a swipe and it just
goes through and oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Worry about the bill later. And believe me, that only
worked out for a.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Few years for me.

Speaker 5 (10:14):
It catches up to definitely caught up to me. Yeah,
so but I'm good now, Yeah, I know you're chilling. No,
I'm okay, but back, oh my gosh, not so good.
Uh for a while.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Actually, there's a point when I couldn't get a credit
card because that's how bad my credit was.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Oh no, but you have a house now, yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Now I have a house. Oh look it all worked out. Well.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
I feel like if you have bad credit, like you
never can get out.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
No, it was it was so he did I did?
I think it was like seven years wait, not like
I had bankruptcy, but it was just like so bad
that literally the only company that would give me a
credit card was Capital One, and it gave me a
five hundred dollars credit line out of every company. So
I should have a Capital one credit card to this
day because they were so kind and like, yeah, helping
me out back in the day when nobody else would give.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Me a card.

Speaker 4 (10:56):
That's a that's a good like uh, what's it called?

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Like tip? Yeah, if you're a part for credit.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
Check because they helped you out, I should but I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
But look at me, I didn't. I don't have them
anymore my wallet.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
So Also, there's another podcast that I was listening to
like the other day, and she her name is Stossy
from Bravo okay, and she makes a ton of money,
but like recently now she can actually look into getting
houses because her credit has been horrible.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
For like ten years.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Oh wow. Yeah. It definitely like it's all paperwork.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Like it's like literally, it's like it's no matter how
good you are, if something happened, it's like sorry, we're
not Like banks are just not going to take that risk.
All right, let's talk about T Mobile. They are taking
a risk, not really, I guess not first five G
network nationwide five G and it is lit up.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
They've got it all over America.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
They got two hundred million people covered more than a
million square miles and.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
This is it.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
They are first out of the gate with five G
in a very big, meaningful way. Now what does this
mean for you? Because you are gonna be seeing a
lot of commercials, a lot of hype about five G
from T Mobile. Full disclosure, I have not tested this network,
so I cannot tell you if it's good, if it's bad,
if it's somewhere in between. But I will tell you this,

(12:14):
you probably don't need to go out and jump on
this network today. Anything that's brand new, especially when it
comes to technology, you don't necessarily need to be on
there day day one because even though they've built this
out and I'm sure it's fine, it's not gonna be
as robust as the networks that you're used to. And
five G, when you think about it, sounds really fast.

(12:36):
But from what I'm reading, T Mobile decided to go with.
There's two flavors of five G. There's like super fast,
but it doesn't travel very far, and that's called millimeter wave.
And then there's more broad spectrum where it goes further
or it travels further but.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
It's not as fast.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
They went with that kind, so that's how they're able
to get such wide swaths of coverage.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Versus like Verizon.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
If you go and look at their five G maps
for like Chicago or La or LA is non existent.
But like Chicago, it's literally like a park that has
five G or like a street that has five G.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
It's really small areas.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
So if you're outside in that park, you'll get five
G as soon as you go into that building that's
right there, no five G. So there's two phones that
work with T Mobile right now. It is the one
plus seven T Pro five G. McLaren say that five
times fast and this. Yeah, McLaren is the car company.
They do the one plus teams with them to like

(13:32):
make these super fast phones. Basically Samsung Galaxy Note ten
plus five G and those are the two phones. So
they tap into the six hundred megahertz five G spectrum
and they're also capable of using sprints five G spectrum
once the merger closes. So I don't think that it's

(13:52):
that bad. But I don't think there's an impetus to
jump on this right now. I don't think that you
really need to do that. Yeah, if you're not, I
think that the speeds are just fine from what I'm reading.
Let's see c NEET tested it in Maui, I guess
with the five G and.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Let's see uhi. Yeah, so I didn't want to talk
about this. It's a little source subject.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
But basically Qualcom, who makes all the chips and the phones,
they fly out all these journalists, well sorry, not necessarily journalists.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
They fly out.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Tech tech influencers.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, influencers to like Maui every year, tastemakers, taste makers,
and so here's and this is you know, I don't
want to knock them because like I get it, and
we've we've done trips before, like we've done press trips
where a company will host us and so I'm I'm
not sitting here throwing glass you know what is it
rocks in a glasshouse. Yeah, but here's the thing that
is interesting to me with something this big. So they

(14:47):
take out a lot of influence, like a lot of
tech people, right from big publications, small publications, YouTubers, whatever.
They fly them all out to Maui, which is obviously
they're in San Diego, like the company.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
They don't need to go to Maui.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
They could do this insane you go, but they fly
them all out there, put them up at this five
star hotel, very nice. I mean, everything's covered, but and
then they talk about their new chip that's in all
the phones and five G and.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
All the stuff.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
But like I was thinking about this, like if the
news like we're not going there to cover it, and
like I bet nobody else is either, But like if
it was that big, wouldn't tech publications when the New
York Times go there, like wouldn't on their own dime.
I don't know, I don't. I don't even know if
they could take a trip like that. But the point
is it's one of these it's a weird thing. It's

(15:32):
like it's a lot of hype and I'm seeing a
lot of posts from people that I know and love
about this Maui trip, but like it's tough to kind
of like sift through the hype of these people are
excited at a free trip in Maui versus is this
really amazing technology that we shall know about? And that's
kind of like the tough part of it. And so
I'm just keeping it real.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Bought to hype it up.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
I did not say that, but well, I agree, But
those that's the question as.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
A consumer, You're right, that's the question that goes through
your mind.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
But also like I don't know.

Speaker 4 (16:03):
I don't work for this company, but like if it
was company X, like wouldn't you want your new tech
to be on the like actual news.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Or well that's the thing.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
So I don't know on YouTube, like I just I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
It's their audience. Look, and this is the world we
live in. This is the world we live in today.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
And like I said, we've gone on trips like this,
so I can't say that I've never taken a trip
where we went to We went to Disney one time
and they opened up a new ride and they did
a new land and you know, it was a whole
big thing and Disney took care of us. And like, yeah,
it happens, and you disclose it. You make sure that
when you're on a trip like that, you have to
make sure. And you also like to me, I've never

(16:43):
gone on a trip because it's a free trip like
that would be yeah, just not cool.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
No, And believe me, going on the trip, I get
offered a lot of these things. You know it. I
tell you all the time, like hey, this this place
offered to take us and they're all in like Alaska,
I'd go there.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
That would actually be really cool.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
I guess at the bottom line, I'm jealous I wasn't invited.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
I guess that's really a horrible place.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, I would not want to go there. I hear
this is really cold this time of year.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
Yeah, it's raining, actually raining, like nice warm water. Okay,
So this next question comes from Adriana. She asks, I'm
looking for some cool ideas for my husband. I'm assuming
for Christmas or the holidays, and she says, any thoughts
on wireless charging pads versus charging banks.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
So wireless charging pads versus a wireless charging bank, they're
two different things, and they're two different uses. So I'll
just tell you what I do. So I have a
wireless charging pad next to my bed. So wireless charging
is way slower than typical charging. In most cases. It's
just not as fast as plugging in your phone. So
if you need your phone done WI, you know, charged

(17:53):
up fast, always plugging it in is going to be faster.
Wireless has gotten better at this, but it's still not
as fast as wired as far as I know.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
So that's so I'd recommend the wireless charging for two
places bedside overnight, so.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
You put your phone there and it charges slowly throughout
the night and you wake up and it's done.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
Or at work, when you're just sitting there and your
phone is next to your desk, you can have it
trickle charging all day. You just kind of lay your
phone down there. Anyway, most people lay their phone on
their desk, might as well lay it on a charging pad,
wireless charging pad. Those are the two places. Now with
the bedside thing, I will tell you there have been
many nights where if you don't place it just right,
you wake up in the morning and your phone has
not been charged. Now I will tell you that happened

(18:32):
to me this week. My phone was still at seventy
three percent. So the iPhone, like I said, it's like, is.

Speaker 4 (18:37):
It one of those things where you're just supposed to
really like look and see that you put it down
and you hear it go.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yes, you have to. You have to check every single time.

Speaker 5 (18:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
And sometimes I'll like go to sleep and I'll like
open an eye, I'm like, oh, I really, let me
check again, and you have to look and make sure.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
So that's number one. The power bank is different.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
That's when you need portable power, right, And so I
would recommend a company named Anchor. They make fantastic portable
battery packs.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Go on Amazon. You can get a great pack.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
The higher the number, they're usually in milliamp hours, so
ten thousand, so about I'll just give it to you
this way. iPhone battery is about three thousand million amp hours.
Let's just say that. Okay, if you get one of
these power banks, let's say it's three thousand million powers,
how many times does that charge your iPhone once? Yes,
if it's about five thousand, you might get twice. If

(19:26):
it's ten thousand, you might get three times. So again,
the higher you get, the more charges you're gonna get.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
And it's not a perfect science.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
And you get wireless charging banks that charge.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
It faster, yes you can.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
And in fact, there are actually power banks that are
wireless as well, like Mophi Mate Turn where you sit
it on top of it. Yeah, so there are Yeah,
that's the sound. So there's a lot of things to do.
But I mean, I think he's gonna be happy with
something from Mophy for the wireless charging and then something
from Anchor for the regular charging power bank.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
All right, this was my head scratcher of the week.
Oregon FBI. Do you know that I used to say
Oregon when I came from New Jersey.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (20:09):
Really soon?

Speaker 2 (20:11):
What's that?

Speaker 3 (20:12):
Oh isn't that a character from Lord of the Rings.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Oh I don't know. Okay, I never saw that.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Uh, Oregon, now it's now I'm getting confused. It's Oregon,
It's Orgon Okay, so Oregon. FBI out with a press
release this week that says you must secure your smart TV.
So a lot of people are getting these smart TVs,
especially during Black Friday Cyber Monday, a lot of people
picked up TVs, and they're warning about the microphones in

(20:44):
these TVs that could potentially be used to.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Spy on you.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
But also they say a number of the newer TVs
also have built in cameras. Now this is where I
find their advice to be kind of strange, because here
in the US, we have not seen a large number
of TVs with cameras in them. In fact, I have
yet to find one model that's been sold in the US.
I did find some that were sold overseas, Asia and India. Okay,

(21:10):
so this is definitely a thing. And of course in
the future, like I personally would love to have a
camera in the TV because video chatting would be a
lot easier.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Anyway, so their article is going through all the things
that like, they're basically saying that you just need to
keep in mind that your smart TV could be spying
on you with the camera and the microphone, so just
be aware of that. And so my advice is twofold
number one. If you don't use the smart side of
your TV, like the apps, then just disconnect it from
Wi Fi. Some TVs you can't do that, so that's

(21:39):
maybe never logged into the Wi Fi.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
I don't know. They also recommend that if you do
have a camera, you can put a piece of black
tape over it as a basic option for like privacy.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
I see a lot of people putting tape over the
camera on their laptop.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah. They make those little slider things too.

Speaker 1 (21:54):
I have one on my computer, but it just kind
of interrupted the close ability, like the it didn't sit flat,
and it really just annoyed me. Yeah, and it's just
annoyed the aesthetic of you.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
I really think someone's watching.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
I don't think someone's watching, but I definitely think there
is a potential for that.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
I mean, but here's the thing we've carried phones around
now for ten years, and they have cameras, and they
have cameras and microphones, and we have yet to see
a wide spread issue of like someone tapping into a
lot of phones and monitoring people. And we also have
these speakers in our homes from Google and elect and
Echo you know Amazon, the Echo, Yeah, that also have microphones.

(22:30):
And we have cameras, like we have Nest cameras, we
have ring cameras.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
So no matter what your TV is, just like the
least your worries.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, there's cameras and microphones everywhere nowadays, and we're putting
them there. Yeah, and so if someone was able to
figure out and exploit it could be pretty bad. But
most of the time what happens ninety nine point nine
percent of the time, your password is very weak and
that's how they crack into these things. And so if
you and I think like a lot of these companies

(22:57):
are doing better at making you choose a strong pasth
like the Nests of the World and stuff. But if
you get one of these, especially a cheap kind of
IP camera off of Amazon, the best thing you.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Can do is change the password immediately. Just don't use
the default password.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
And in general, just be very very cognizant of how
these things can affect you and just remember that. Like,
you know, you want to set it up really fast
and get the camera running, but like, think about the
implications of using the same password that you use for
everything for the past ten years on your security camera
or your ring doorbell. Like, just think about that. Like
you want it to be something unique and safe and

(23:33):
a little bit uncrackable.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Producer Megan.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
Okay, so our next question comes from Sherry Can Yeah,
that's how she wants you to say it.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
I was just listening to four Seasons yesterday in the
car after we talked about them.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
So Sherry asked, can you recommend a good flip phone
for seniors?

Speaker 3 (23:56):
We are on T Mobile.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Oh my gosh, I know it. You're I have it.
Oh no, because.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
We're gonna do a story on this and I have
tested it and it's great. It's called the Alcatel Go
Flip three. It is a flip phone in all its glory.
But here's the beauty of it. It has access to
Google Maps, YouTube, and Google Assistant. So you have this
little phone that's kind of a dumb phone. It's a

(24:23):
flip phone, but it has just enough smarts to get
you through the day.

Speaker 4 (24:27):
Are they called dumb phone, like a pretty much.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Kind of smart Yeah, dumb phone, yeah, if you think
about it.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
And this is available on T Mobile.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
I think it's like a hundred bucks maybe with a
contract or whatever, you know, like you sign up or whatever.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
But that, I mean, what more do you need?

Speaker 3 (24:42):
So the YouTube videos play on that small screen?

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah, well this one inside it has a small screen
on the outside and then a big screen on the inside.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Which is still small.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
It's really interesting.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
It's a flip phone. What did you think. I was
gonna say the Motorola one.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
Well, but then I realized that Motorola is only Verizon,
yes for the Razor. Yeah, And and she didn't say smartphone.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
And that's a smartphone, right, So it's like, it looks
like a dumb phone, but it's actually pretty smart.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
It actually looks pretty slick. But this is it.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
I think this is fantastic, and I actually wish I
get a lot of emails about a very simple flip
phone that people want. And there's actually another phone I
could recommend too, but it's almost too simple to recommend
for most people. But it's called I should have brought
in here. It's called the light phone, okay, and they
sent it to me to test. We're gonna include it.
I'm doing a story, all right. Since you're listening to
the podcast, you just get to know like things ahead

(25:28):
of time. But we're working on a story that's called
three Unique Phones. Yeah, and one of them is the
light phone.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Which is this. It almost does. I show it to you.
It has the screen like a kindle No oh my.
When you see it, you won't believe. It's so simple.
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
It's literally just a phone. It's a tiny phone like this.
It just dials numbers and gets texts and that's it.
And it's super simple. It doesn't have it has a
black and white display.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Oh yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
I'll show you that. That's a little bit more expensive.
And it also really I mean, it's good for seniors,
I guess because it's you know, it doesn't do any thing.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah, but no internet, no internet.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
No nothing, no camera, no camera.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Does have a headphone jack, which I don't think it
could play music right now, but it does have a headphone.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Jack for late calls and stuff. Maybe yeah, maybe for calls.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
To and then the Go the Go Flip three is
the other one, and then there's one more. It's the
LGG eight X. I think it's a dual.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Screen kind of smartphone android. It's kind of funky, oh cool.

Speaker 4 (26:25):
So anyway, that'll be that's in like two.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Weeks supposedly, I'm trying to get that story done before
the end of the year.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
But we are filling up fast stories, a.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
Lot of stories because good stories.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
It's happening on Channel five. You can watch us there.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, if you if you don't watch us there, you
know we're on you know, I know, you know it's
from the podcast, but we are also on TV and
you are, well you're on sometimes too. Oh but yeah,
you'll see Megan and my stories.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
But we are.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
I am on at five am, five point thirty five,
generally seven fifty am, and then in the nine am hour,
I usually say, because we switch around there a lot, right,
So if you want to watch KTLA or Channel five,
you know that's that's where I am. Google Photos I
love one of my favorites, although I will say on
the desktop it has gotten slower and slower and slower,

(27:11):
and it's really annoying me. So I hope that they
are fixing that, but it's still the best way to
store and organize your photos because they do it all
for you and search for pictures when people ask me.
It's gotten to the point where I was on the
radio on the Leo Laporte show filling in, and I
was telling a story about how I dropped my smartphone
at at a hotel in where was it, San Clementy,

(27:36):
And I remember dropping it off the balcony of my
hotel room.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
I was on the phone.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
I don't think you ever told me the story.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Okay, well I dropped it off.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
I saw the tweet and.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
I was like, yes, okay, so I dropped my I
was on my phone where you kind of have it
up to your ear like this.

Speaker 4 (27:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
I was talking to I think it was my mom
or Lindsay one or the other, and all of a sudden,
it just fell out of my you know when you.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Move around, it just like slipped out.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Yeah, it just fell right into the downstairs. I was
one floor up, fell onto their patio which had a
fire going like a fire.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
Pit, and it fell into the fire.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
It popped onto the like just on the side, didn't
fall into the fire. Popped on there and then it
popped off to the side and this.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
Is like like heard surface.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
It was a concrete surface and crack. So I'll tell you.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
So, it actually took a picture as it hit the ground.
Somehow it got the camera got activated. So I had
this great picture once I retrieved it of the fire
and it falling into the fire.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
I don't know how it took the picture. Anyway. I
was telling this story to Johnny Jet on the Leo Laporte.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Show and he's like, oh my god, what a fantastic
picture I was able to While I was telling him,
I was like, oh, I wish I could find it.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
I searched in my email.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
I either searched San Clemente or fire or something, and
I was able to find the picture in about two seconds.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Thanks Google Photos. Anyway, it's amazing.

Speaker 4 (28:50):
You can also search fire in photos on your I
phone on your eyes. Yeah, like I always searched dog
to find like pictures of my dog.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yes, you can search you can. Yeah, you do that
every day every day. Let's see. So this new feature
in Google Photos.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
It's I know that you take for granted since you
have an iPhone that it's super easy to send people
pictures on I Message, right, yeah, But when you're an Android,
it's not that easy because if you're sending a picture
via text on Android, it comes through small, and if
you're sending a video, don't even think about it.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
It's terrible. You can't. Have you ever gotten a video
for an Android squares? Yes?

Speaker 3 (29:25):
Yeah, it's really bad. It's really bad.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
So Google Photos is tackling this problem by letting you
send kind of your own photos through Google Photos. Now,
you've always been able to do that, but they're now
making it more like a chat, so it feels like
you're sending a text. But in Google Photos they're kind
of going around the whole texting system because it's so
messed up here in the US because there's no one
platform that everyone's using that can guarantee when you go

(29:50):
out somewhere and someone says, hey, can you send me
that picture you just took? And if I'm Android and
I text it to you on an iPhone, it looks terrible.
If your iPhone, you text me a picture to my Android,
it looks to arrible. Only iPhone to iPhone works out
right now, wow, And Android to android's getting better with
what they call rcs, but I still don't have it
on my androids, so clearly other people don't either. Yeah,

(30:10):
but what they're doing is you can just now chat
inside Google Photos and send pictures their full resolution. And
it's kind of like I always think about, like my mom,
like she doesn't know the difference. Someone's like, hey, I
just texted to you inside Google Photos, and she can
go in there. She knows Google Photos because she uses it,
goes in there, sees my text looks like a text message,
sees the picture, can save it to her camera, roll

(30:31):
or out gallery whatever, it's full resolution.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
She can do like iPhone to Android through Google Photos exactly.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Or Android to Android, Android to iPhone, iPhone to Android,
Android to iPhone, whatever wherever has Google Photos, you can
finally send pictures as if it's a text. Yeah, so
look for that feature in Google Photos. I do not
have it yet on my Google Photos, but it is
rolling out to Android iOS and the web without any
image loss from the photos you've backed up, and it's

(31:01):
gradually rolling out over the next week, so it'll be
there any day now.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
Okay, So the next question is from Nicole rich Help.
I listened to you on Kfi from Houston. I bought
your iPhone.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Book last year for my hobby.

Speaker 4 (31:15):
You know it all, so I know you'll have my answer.
I'm getting mixed answers on this. I want an Apple
Watch to listen to my music at the gym. I
want to leave my phone in the locker floor above
where I'll be working out. Well the signal reach on
a Series three. I need to be able to get
texts and calls, just in case my boys' school calls.

(31:35):
I'd love to buy the cheaper Series three, but do
I need the Series five through.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
With cellular five? Series five though with cellular thanks.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
Okay, A couple things going on here. So she wants
to be able to use She wants to be able
to get her texts and calls on her watch when
she's at the gym. Now, if your watch is in
the locker and you're on Wi Fi at the gym, right,
which she could be. I don't know what her gym deals,
but a lot of gyms have Wi Fi, right, so
if she has Wi Fi and the so let's say

(32:06):
you sign into Wi Fi on your iPhone, it usually
transfers that Wi Fi over to your Apple Watch, like
it will share the credentials, so it works sometimes, sometimes
it doesn't. Most of the time it works. So if
she's close enough to her Apple iPhone and she's on
her Apple Watch. Let's say she's on the treadmill downstairs,
the watch, the phone is upstairs in her locker. If
that kind of signal reaches, it should work to send

(32:28):
her messages and calls. But I don't think that's a
good way to do it because it's not guaranteed, so
I don't recommend that, like if she wants to rely
on making sure she can get a call on her phone,
like I'm in my house sometimes and my watch is
on Wi Fi and I answer it and it still doesn't.
It's like transferring the call from my phone doesn't work
half the time.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
And it doesn't matter if it's a Series three or
Series five.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
That's both. She number one, you only need. If she's
looking to save money, she only needs a Series three.
They both offer cellular.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
The difference is some of the other features on the
Series five, which always on screen, fall protection and a compass.
She doesn't eat any of that stuff, So I don't
know if she sounds young right, she's kids.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
She did not say her age.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
But well, I mean if you're.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
She has kids, she has sounds like she has young kids.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Yeah, if you're at an age where you think you
might be at risk for falling, then you might want
to look into the series five. Yeah, that's kind of
what I'm getting at there. But with the music situation,
so I would number one for her recommend cellular.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
You got to get cellular.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Yeah, ten dollars a month. It's a necessary evil. It's
one hundred and twenty bucks a year. Look, you know you
get It opens up a lot of functionality on the
Apple Watch. Number two music, So two things with music.
Number one, if you have Apple Music, it automatically can
transfer music to your Watch, and so you can listen
to anything without a cellular connection. But if she's getting cellular,

(33:48):
she can really use any music apps that she wants
that supports the Apple Watch.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
So you can't download music on like Spotify on the
Apple Water.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Spotify, I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
But Pandora, I believe, is the only one that's first
out of the gate besides Apple.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Music to let you download some music.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Now, I could be wrong there, And if you're listening
and you think I'm wrong, let me know. But as
far as I know, I don't think that you have
Spotify on the Apple Watch. I feel like I would
have heard about this and so far. Yeah, so what
I'm seeing if you're a Spotify subscriber, you can play

(34:23):
pause and skip music and podcasts, control the volume, get
info about what's playing. Nowhere to to say that you
can listen to music offline, okay, which is what you
want it to. You want to transfer music from your
phone to your watch, and I think the only things
that do that are Apple Music right now and Pandora,
and you know, so pick one of those two things. Anyway,
it's a very complicated thing. I believe it was my

(34:46):
sister who got an Apple Watch. She was so excited
to use her Spotify on it, and I felt bad
breaking it to her. I was like, oh, it doesn't
work with Apple Watch, Like you can't. You would just
think that your music would just carry over. I thought, yeah, no,
So I actually have Apple Music on my watch, and
I just have all my playlists or a couple, mostly
my workout.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Playlists like sync. So it's just like it's just like
Cardio music or like workout beast mode. Duh.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
I mean, I think beast Mode is a Spotify playlist?

Speaker 3 (35:15):
Is it also an Apple No?

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Sorry, I was okay, yeah, I was good, good catch
on that. I used to have Spotify.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
Yeah, now that I'm using Apple Music, I kind of
switched over to Apple Music because it's free.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
I get it through Verizon and I have it on
my watch.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
Really nice.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
I resisted it for many years because Spotify is kind
of like the you know, gold standards.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
I just kidding.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
It's so funny that you say that, because I actually
think Apple Music is way better than Spotify.

Speaker 4 (35:38):
Like, oh, I and I'm I feel like I have
no idea because I've never used Apple Music truly, But
I have a friend who had who got Apple Music
because Taylor Swift had her album on there. Well it
was taking off Spotify, Okay, so she switched to Apple
Music and she thinks that she said, Spotify seems so
much cooler.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
Oh really, she has Apple Music.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
So I think I think Spotify has more playlists, but
I think there's more garbage on there, Like it's a
lot of stuff.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
It's like a lot of noise that.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
Because the app is like a different color than no.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
I just think there's too many playlists like anyone can
create a playlist and it's like.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
On there, it's like too much.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Like with Apple Music, it's like you want country music,
it's like there's like five country music playlists and it like,
now there's more than that.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
So Apple Music, don't get mad at me. Yeah, but
I'm just saying.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
And it's organized in a way where it's like the
top one is always called the A list, so it's
like a list, pop A list, country a list, this,
and it's.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Like okay, just easy.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
But see now I'm like, maybe I don't get an
Apple Watch and I continue to wait because I can't
play my Spotify music.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
I will say I think that uh they will. They
will sell a lot of Apple Watches when you can
finally use Spotify on it. Oh, because a lot of
people that have been holding out because they're just kind
of annoyed.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah, we'll be like, oh I can.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Find I didn't know that I would.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
Yeah, all right, so I got let's see, I don't
have time for both stories. Which story do you want
to hear? Do you want to hear the Oh?

Speaker 2 (36:59):
I you know what? I the mattress hackers. I actually
got so okay, really this is Wall Street Journal so uh,
basically the story is that there are people out there.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
I'm calling them mattress hackers. You these all these new
mattresses that come to your home in a box, like
we just bought one, yeah, Lisa and I love it.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
By the way, the Lisa Hybrid. I got the Lisa Hybrid.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Yeah, non not spot hashtag, not sponsored, but it we
actually went with that over the Casper because we went
on well, I went on both. I went into the
mall and I laid on the casper. They have little
rooms at the mall where you can actually schedule a
nap for half an hour oh wow, yeah, and lay
on and take a nap on the casper. It's like
a little house that you should take a nap and

(37:45):
try it out and see because it's a very different feeling.
Like the casper is very like you sink into it
kind of thing. Now they have new versions that like
you don't sink as much. But anyway, so I went
there and then I went to Lisa and Macy's and
I ended up choosing to Lisa. But anyway, you get
a hundred days to have these things in your home,
and apparently people are hacking the system by literally They
tell the story of a guy in New York City

(38:06):
who has been sleeping on five different mattresses over the
course of fifteen months, each one purchased and returned consecutively,
using the free trial policies of dozens of box in
a bed startups.

Speaker 4 (38:20):
How do they figure this out?

Speaker 1 (38:21):
It's actually kind of brilliant. I mean, a hundred days
for how many months?

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Is that? Three months? Yeah, so it sounds like a lot.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
More so how do they figure this out?

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Though? Well, they just you know, all.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
All the mattress companies talk obviously, no if you buy
one from the other one, it's like you just you know,
you go it.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
So they talk about it.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
You got Casper, You've got Tuft and Needle, You've got Liza.
I mean, there's so many When I do the research
on these, there are so many of them.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
That I could see how you can do this.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Personally, I think it's really annoying, Like who wants to
switch out their mattress? Every this thing? Once you unbox it,
it inflates and.

Speaker 4 (38:54):
You get so you basically pay so you pay for
the mattress, you sleep on it for ninety nine days,
then you're like, I want to return this, they'll pay
give you the money back.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
Yeah, which is also kind of weird because I was
wondering about that because I was wondering if they don't
charge you until the hundredth day, You're like.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
What about the thirtieth day? Like why a hundred this
is a long time.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Well, they want to make sure because it's you're buying.
It's a very new way to buy a mattress. So
I actually do appreciate that. And thirty three months kind
of gives you different seasons a little bit, like if
you you know, a mattress in the summer might be hot,
Like a lot of people say that the the these
new mattresses are really hot because they don't displace the
heat as much as a regular mattress.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
So that's something to think about. There's a lot like
when you start doing research on them.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Yeah, there's like it's like a whole thing, like you
never like the last time I bought a mattress, I
literally was at the furniture store and I'm like, oh,
take a mattress.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
This time.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
I was like online, I'm like pouring through all these
websites and like reading about it, and everyone says like
you take.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
Like a personality test.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Yeah, it's crazy take do.

Speaker 4 (39:52):
Blood work, like, oh, okay, this is the mattress.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
This is your blood mattress.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
I mean, in ten years, they're probably gonna make you
do your blood test.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
This is your blood mattress. Isn't there that diet? It's like,
oh yeah, yeah, haven't you heard that, like the blood diet.
It's like, no, yeah, I think that's what I thought
you were referencing.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
Oh no, I haven't heard that.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
I'm pretty sure there's like a diet where it's like
it matched up to your blood. Anyway, one quick question
from you, go ahead, Okay.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
I wasn't ready for this.

Speaker 4 (40:18):
Okay, oh, there we go. This is from Ray Rich Hi, Rick, Sorry,
I had.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
To include that.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
I know people love to take.

Speaker 4 (40:26):
Can you recommend a decent duplicate photo finder?

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Oh okay, what's his name?

Speaker 3 (40:35):
His name is Ray?

Speaker 2 (40:36):
Okay, Raw, I knew you were.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Going to do it back Okay, So I know on
on my Mac computer, I know the one I like.
It's called Gemini, and they also have a version of
it for your iPhone. So that's pretty cool. So I
would look into that. Does he say if he has
Mac or PC? No, he doesn't say okay, he just
says duplicate photo Finder. Okay, he says, so I would

(40:58):
say the other one. I did some research on line
found a website that recon So here's how I did
my research. Since I don't really use duplicate filefinder on Windows,
I looked for a website that recommends Gemini, which is
my pick. And then I said, well, if they know Gemini,
they obviously are pretty good and they might know another
good one.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
So softwarehow dot com.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
They have two recommendations for PC Duplicate Cleaner Pro, which
is their main one, and then easy Duplicate Finder. So
those are the recommendations, so go with it as you will.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
Fun Ray isn't that his name?

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Okay, we're not going.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
To get into the story about the top apps of
the year, but I'll just mention two of them because
they're kind of cool. Specter Camera by lux Optics this
is Apple's top app of the year, and what's cool
about it is that it lets you do really cool
things with your photos with artificial intelligence.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Like you could take a.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
Picture of like the Eiffel Tower and get rid of
the whole crowd around it, which would be kind of cool. Yeah,
I need to try that feature because I'm curious how
they do it. How would we do I don't know,
you just have to find some anyway, we'll try it out.
And then the other ones they mentioned our Canva, which
are these are all things like help you with Social
Media Canva, which I've used Unfold, which is really cool
for Instagram stories. Spark Camera I had not heard of,

(42:09):
and it's really cool if you want to do vertical videos.
It's kind of a video camera and an editing software
suite all in one. So if you ever see people
with really slick Instagram stories, that's probably how they're doing them.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
Yea Canva or no. Spark Camera. Spark Camera cool Instagram Stories.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Canva is also good for that, but that's mainly for
like slides, you know what I mean, like still kind
of thing. And then the other one is Over, which
actually I did a panel. I mean I'm talking five
six years ago and they mentioned over like so many
years ago, so that's been around for a while. Over
on Android, tell me about Albow. What happened yesterday with Albo?
When you alow when you tested it? Okay, this is

(42:47):
an app that lets.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
You yes, yes, it was literally that so that was it.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
What happens?

Speaker 1 (42:53):
Okay, So what happens or old Megan had to test
this app yesterday for me, poor little Megan, and what happened.

Speaker 4 (43:02):
So basically, the app has cool graphics, like it shows you,
doesn't show you, but it shows like the US, and
then it takes like this plane and it flies to
like Egypt, and then it's like.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
You're now talking to like this person from Egypt.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
And and I don't know what the person.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
Was, man or a woman.

Speaker 4 (43:21):
Oh well, so Luis tried it on video chat and
he said, so he tried it first because he was like, oh,
I just downloaded it, I'm gonna go try it. And
he said that when he when the video chat started, the.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
Guy that he was video chatting with was it wearing
a shirt?

Speaker 2 (43:35):
Oh okay, you said naked. Okay, that doesn't really count
as naked.

Speaker 4 (43:41):
Okay, Okay, that's he's just so. Then, so then I
tried it when we're shooting the story, and every time
I would say hi to someone.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
I didn't do face chat, but I didn't want to.

Speaker 4 (43:55):
They would just they would.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
Just leave the chat.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
So it's so and then like when I don't know,
so anyway.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
This is this is the Google Best App of twenty nineteen.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
I don't know how you find friends on this because
I tried it for twenty minutes I made no friends.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Well, you know, maybe it's more popular. I don't know.
Maybe they don't like people from the.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
US, honestly, maybe maybe that's it.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
The other app, Google's user choice app is another social
media helper.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
It's called Glitch Video Effects of Android. That was cool.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
It looked like it had a lot of it's the
same one that does that. I think it's called Inshot.
It's like the video editor program, same people.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
And then the Specter app.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
We used it in the newsroom where there were people
and it did get rid of all the like like
if someone walked in front of the camera, it got
rid of it. It would get rid of them, which was cool.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
All right, yeah, well very cool. I like it. All right.
Now you know the top apps, Well, that's going to
do it for the show can you Believe it? Another
show in what do you call it for a podcast
in the can? You can't say in the can because
it's like not really a can.

Speaker 1 (44:51):
Was probably like back in the day when you had
film in the in the digital world, in the digit.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
In the library, in the library, I guess. Let's see.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
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Speaker 1 (45:21):
What?

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Yeah, that's Freeze Megan. How can people get in touch?

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