April 10, 2020 • 42 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's a special edition of the rich on Tech podcast
What's going On? I'm Rich DeMuro and this is rich
on Tech, the podcast where we talk about the tech
stuff I think you should know about and I answer
the questions that you send me. My name is Richdmiro,
tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Joining
me via zoom is producer Megan.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
How are you? How's it going?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Oh, live in the dream, quarantined in my home. I
think we're going on week number three.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
It feels like week number ten.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Oh my gosh, this is this is I just I
think I say this every podcast, but this is the
most insane thing I have ever experienced in my life.
I'm actually asking every day to go back to work,
and work is saying no, you can't, Like you cannot
come to work. I mean, when do you ever have
a job that says that.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I know, it's it is the craziest thing that's ever happened,
and in many and like everyone's lifetime, Like it's just
it's insane.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I keep saying, I cannot wait till the history book
is written on coronavirus, because I can't wait to read it.
I'm just so curious like what went right, what went wrong?
What did we do right? What did we do wrong?
And you know how the city's reacted. I mean, it's
a really wild thing. And you know, I'm glad a
lot of people out there are safe, you know, and
(01:27):
I know people that have been affected. I know, I
know personally several people that actually got coronavirus, which is
also crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I mean, it's just this wild thing that's happening. My
mom is is you know, she's by herself, which is
really tricky. You know, It's just it's just a very
odd thing. So anyway, everything's been fine here. I've been
going to the grocery store the most out of any
person I know, because I'm the designated survivor in my
house to like go out and do things. So okay,
if anyone's at most risk here, it's me. But so far,
(01:58):
so good. I did order some masks and wait for those.
But anyway, if you're tuning in on the Facebook Live,
thanks for joining us. We do appreciate it. This is
going to be a little different, you guys know that
I've experimented. It's very it looks like it's easy to
go live on Facebook doing all this stuff, But it's
not because what I'm trying to do is get a
quality recording of the broadcast for the podcast, but also
(02:23):
go live, and so it's a lot of little tricky
things to do that. And so if you're watching on Facebook,
thanks for doing that. If you ditch out, that's fine,
but we do appreciate you joining us. This version of
the podcast is going to be all questions. So let
me see if we have our sound effects. Megan, let's
see if they work. Oh nope, that's not it. Do
you hear that?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I hear it.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So we got the sound effects. So let's here we go.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Can they hear the sound effects?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I don't know. We'll find out.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Oh, okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Our first question comes from Nancy and she wrote on
your Facebook page. She asked, have you ever reviewed blue
Tooth microphones for the iPad? We are doing a lot
of zooming, but need a microphone for people to hear
us better.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That is a good question, and it's something that yeah,
everyone's been doing, is these You know, people are connecting
their zooms to the big screen because you can just
go ahead and chrome cast it to your big screen
or you can use airplay and reflect it to your
big screen. I love doing that and I've done that
several times, and I think it's a really good way
(03:28):
of doing it. But what she's saying is she's connecting
it via a cable, and so the difference is is
that her iPad is really close to the TV, whereas
she's not doing airplay. So that's the difference, and that's
why her setup is a little trickier because I actually
had to email her for some clarification on this question.
And so what she needs to do, and what I
(03:50):
think is the best recommendation for her, is to get
a portable Bluetooth speaker and she can connect that Bluetooth
speaker to her iPad, put that in front of her.
Like at my house, of the couch, then we have
like an automan and then the TV on the wall.
So if the if the iPad was near the TV screen,
then I would put the little speaker in front of me.
And if you look on Amazon, they have a bunch
(04:11):
of these little Bluetooth speakers. I personally would just go
Amazon Basics and let me just search here right now. Oh, now,
did you guys hear that? I hope you didn't. Did
you hear that?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah? I did.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, so I hope you guys don't hear my computer
sound effects. Now, if I go on Amazon and I
get an Amazon Bluetooth speaker, it is twenty five dollars
and that has a microphone built in for hands free calling,
and that's super easy. So I love that. Twenty five
dollars will solve all of her problems. Now here's the
(04:44):
bigger problem that she's going to run into. Oh, free
delivery on Tuesday. So nevermind. I was gonna say a
lot of these you know, Amazon, we've talked about this
where you can't get a lot of stuff, but apparently
this is one of those things that you can get delivered.
So that's the solution you can use. If you want
to go more expensive, you can just get a pair
of Bluetooth headphones, and I bet you Amazon Basics has
(05:06):
those two. But the problem with the headphones is that
your family can't listen in and you want your whole
family to Yeah, do that.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I was going to say air pods, but that does
not work.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Oh really well because it just to you. Yeah exactly,
nobody heard except you. But well, okay, good question. Oh
I guess we just keep doing that because it's more questions.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Okay, this next question comes from deb Hi Rich. I
was wondering if you could tell me if all the
worry about five G towers and phones are true, will
they be super bad for our bodies?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
And what's this talk about?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
What's this talk about going around that they would want
to put a chip implanted for protection against the bag?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Oh wow? This is like some men in black stuff
whose this is like really yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Oh wow, any input on these subjects would be appreciated.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Okay, so they're asking in your body. Wow, that's what
I haven't heard.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, And I also haven't heard a lot about this
five G, like the five G theory.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I just okay, I have. So what happens is, here's
a couple of things are happening. So five G is
the new advanced wireless, right like there we have four G,
we had three G, we had two G that they
didn't really call two G at the time, but now
we have five G, and so five G is like
this super fast wireless. The problem is with the super
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fast wireless is that people think that it's connected to
all these problems with COVID, And I just don't see
that happening. So uh, And the bigger problem is just like.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Trying to see the connection.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, the big the bigger problem is that over in
Europe they are burning down these five G towers because
or they're setting fire to them apparently. And I guess
a lot of it was connected to like celebrities tweeting
about it, like saying like these towers are evil. There's
been a bunch of conspiracy theory videos on YouTube and
on Facebook, and so there's a lot going on. Now.
(07:21):
I am not an expert in wireless communication, so can
I say for certain that there's no connection. I feel
like I actually am concerned sometimes about all the wireless
frequencies around US. I work in a TV station where
there's a lot of wireless frequencies, so I'm concerned. I mean,
I'm not an exp But am I saying there's a
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connection between COVID and five G. I don't think so,
And nor do I think you should believe that, And
nor do I think we should stop advancement of RF
and wireless frequency because of a new technology. I think
it's just they're packing the radio waves in a different way.
I mean, there's millions of radio waves all around us
every day, no matter where you are, And I think
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that's actually the most fascinating thing, the fact that think
about this. When you're walking through like your street, they're
like everything is being broadcast. They're like every radio station,
every TV station, like it's all like in the air.
Like don't you think that's crazy?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
That is crazy?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And I never think about that, And now, like that's
pretty trippy.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And also, like most people, I mean, I sleep with
my phone like, yes, literally a foot away from.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
My head, and like I've heard you're not supposed to
do that, but you know, now I'm kind of like,
is there some weird stic Further.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Dick, I have my phone next to my bed wirelessly charging,
and so I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm getting like
a one two punch of like my phone radiation plus
the wireless charging radiation. And again, we're told that these
things are safe, and I do believe that they are safe.
But I also think that as a human you have
to you know, you have to have a a little
(08:57):
bit of not skepticism, but you have to be smart.
And for a while, I didn't charge my phone wirelessly
next to me because I thought that wired charging was safer.
And the other thing I didn't like is that my
Apple Watch has LTE connected to it. And I thought
that it's a little bit weird because if you think
about it, it's on your wrist at all times. So
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the LTE connection is one on your wrist all day long, weird.
Whereas a phone you have it in your pocket, you
have it on your desk, it's in different places. But
this is literally on my body at all times. Now
I sound like one of the crazy conspiracy theory people.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I mean, it's really easy to go down that rabbit hole,
it is.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
And yeah, so I don't think I don't. I still
don't know where she's getting the microchip from.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
But yeah, wait, so they're going to put chips in
people's bodies to protect them against the bad I.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Mean, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, that one. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
But what I don't know about? Uh Okay, that was
a great question, And look at this, it's time for another.
I don't I hope you have enough question for a
whole show we have.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
We actually have a lot of questions. We might be good. Okay,
so this next question, Yes.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
We can also take some questions from the Facebook folks
if they put them on there. So if you guys
want to put a question in the chat, I can.
I don't think you can see those, but I can.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
So okay, okay. So this next question comes from TJ.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
The subject is video call with Grandma rich My ninety
seven year old grandma is quarantined in the nursing home
and she's getting lonely. We bought an iPad and I
set up FaceTime and Google Duo for the family to
call her. I have disabled all security, so when a
call comes in, all she would have to do is
slide to accept. This works perfectly on FaceTime, However, she
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would have to press another button to start video on
Duo after the slide to accept. Is there a way
to have video enabled automatically when accepting a Google Duo
call on iPad?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
That's okay, so no, I actually tested this, and the
problem is the way that and I think it's great.
I think that the way that Apple has done they've
implemented these things is great, but it's also oh wow,
I just realized that I can make this bigger on
the screen for everyone. So okay, So what he's asking is,
(11:19):
can you make it so that when you slide to
answer a call on Duo when it's coming in to
just go write to video. And I tested this on
my iPhone and here's what happens. You can slide to
answer the call, but then you also have to do
one more button press to start the video. And I'm
not sure if that's an Apple thing or a security thing,
(11:41):
but that's the way it is, and there's no way
around it as far as I could tell. Now on
Android it's different. You just swipe up and boom, it
starts the video. And Google actually Duo has this cool
feature which is called knock Knock, So when you're using
Google Duo, it actually shows the person if you allow
of video of you, like a preview. Have you seen
(12:02):
that ever?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
We test this out, Yeah, you said you. We tested
it the other day, but I didn't see the preview.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I think because on iPhone, I don't think you see
the preview.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It's only on androids, so yeah, so but that's cool.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, it is cool. And I'm trying to trying to
see if I have any phones that I'm testing that
are out that I can't show.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Oh gosh, no, I don't, okay, just making sure, uh,
so yeah, you can't do that, but I I totally
what was the guy's name again, TJ TJ.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I totally identify with him because I am all about
getting the literally the simplest possible way of getting like
these things to friends and family, Like I want to
make it so that they can just swipe and boom,
it's done. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna do a question
from the screen, so I'll do this ready, that'll be
(13:00):
the question from the street. Sylvia says, Megan's microphone looks awesome.
Can you share what type it is and where one
may purchase it? So, Megan, do you want to give
us some details on that microphone? Let me see, it
is a I know what it is. It's a blue snowball.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And so it's a blue snowball.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Blue. Yeah, blue.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Oh, the brand is called blue.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Okay, the brand is called Blue, and it's a snowball microphone.
And I actually looked this up the other day because
I was recommending it to someone and they have a
couple of different levels, I guess because it used to
have just one, I think, which was like eighty bucks,
and now I think they have like one for fifty dollars,
but I think there might be different.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Can Yeah, that's what I see.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
What you have the seventy dollars one.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I don't know which one I have because I got
it from work, but it looks like this.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
The fifty dollars one.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Well, the fifty dollars I'm wondering if the fifty dollars
doesn't have one of the connections, like maybe it doesn't
have like a certain connection maybe me. I don't know,
but I do know that Blue is owned by Logitech
now and Blue microphones have been forever like the best
microphone for podcasting because they're so simple, they're so easy. Uh,
(14:13):
there's a snowball ice, and I wonder that's that's what
I have. That's the fifty dollars one. No, I think
you have the the other one?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Is this one snowball ice on the side.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Oh it says ice. Oh well, then there we go.
So I don't know what the other one is. Then
that's interesting. The snowball is classic. Who knows anyway, So
you got the fifty you got the cheap one fifty bucks.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I have the cheap one. But it sounds good. That's good. Sorry,
I just like messed.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Up oh great, So now we have no no stand Sylvia.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
No, I mean I just have to okay.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It's all good.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Get lower. Yeah, all right, should.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
We go to your question?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Okay, So this next question comes from Michael Hi Rich.
I'm hoping you will call out the internet providers that
are supplying slower than advertised speeds for the same price.
I understand it may be due to everyone being at
home during the coronavirus, but as auto insurance companies have
cut insurance for people that are driving less, internet providers
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that are unable to provide their advertised speeds advertised prices
should reduce their prices during this time. I'm working during
this time, so my usage has not increased on their system.
I have Spectrum in Santa Clarita, and I pay seventy
dollars a month for four hundred megabytes with a guarantee
(15:40):
minimum of two hundred and I guess the last few
days he's been getting between twenty two and fifty megabytes max.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Okay, so little formality thing. By the way, the way
they measure internet speed, and this is for everyone, is
megabits per second. So when someone says I have a
a twenty five connection, that's twenty five megabits per second.
And to be honest, I'm not really sure why that
is versus megabytes, but that's how they measure it. And
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so when he says, like, for me personally, I have
a two hundred megabit connection, and if you go into fiber,
which is like the fastest, it's one gig. So one
gig gig connection. That's one gigabits per second, I believe.
But anyway, so when people have Internet connections, like back
in the day, they used to be closer to like
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twenty five and now they're closer to you know, one hundred,
two hundred. Some people have much more than that. But
that's kind of like the little lesson on those. But
with that said, I don't know what to say. I mean,
this is the reality of everyone working from home. Megan.
You can talk about your Internet connection. It's it's terrible, right,
(16:53):
I mean, it's like it's good sometimes.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
And I have Spectrum too.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
We had to get Google Wi Fi to like make
the connection like go like stronger throughout the house.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Network.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, and that helped.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Google Wi Fi definitely helped. But yeah, like yesterday it
just like went out for an hour and we don't
really know why. But two weeks ago, right when everyone
started working from home, like it was horrible, but now
it's a lot better.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I think it's a lot better.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
So it's better because of Google Wi Fi or because
of I think.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I think, I think Google Wi Fi.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
And I also think that Spectrum like figured out some issues.
I don't know, but my mom actually stopped a Spectrum
van last week.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
She like stopped the card and.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
We need help, and not we need help, but like
was like, you know, stopped him. He stopped, and she
was like, we just got Google Wi Fi, Like what's
wrong with Spectrum?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
And the guy said, we'll keep Google Wi Fi.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
He said Google Wi Fi is great because we thought
it was Google Wi Fi because we were still having issues.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
He was like, Google Wi Fi is great.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
But yeah, no, Spectrum is obviously over capacity because everyone,
everyone in the house is using the internet.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
So it's just I think it's just going to take
a little bit of time, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah, but maybe Michael needs a router.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Well that's the thing. So my question is because he
said he was getting twenty five. It's a lot of
times when people come to me and say their internet
is really bad. It's not necessarily their Internet. It's actually
it's the router that they're using, Like the Wi Fi
connection that they're using in their home is just not
very good. And then the other thing is where you're
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testing your connection. So you know that when you're using
Wi Fi on your laptop, your connection is probably about
half of the speed that's coming in at the router.
So most of the time now unless you have one
of these new systems, like Megan, have you done a
speed test on your Wi Fi from where you are
right now, like compared to where they because I assume
when the Spectrum guy came there, he was kind of like,
(19:06):
let me test the Internet at the source, right, is
that kind of what happened? Yeah, And he's probably like
you're getting your full speed right.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah, Well so we have someone come the guy the
car that just went by that was.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Just like okay, speaking of internet.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
By the way, the one coming to our house for us,
that was someone.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Speaking of internet. Megan, your your connection just literally went
out of internet. Yeah, like it's just it went out
so badly, just now stopped. So anyway, Megan, I just got.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
A thing saying your internet connection is unstable.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
So yeah, oh my gosh, yeah, this is what happens
with the whole internet a little bit. Just keep just
stay on it. It'll come back. It just takes a
little bit. I'll just I'll just talk, I'll read some
of the comments online. But uh so and and see
one of the commenters said, uh, where did I see that? Okay,
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Michael said your picture was flipped the wrong way, So
I did fix that. And then let's see here. I
thought someone said, no, I don't know. I thought someone
said that it depends on the time of day as well.
But oh yeah, Jason James said the time of day
impacts the speed and reliability as well. And that's very
true because it depends like at night. It's really it
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slows down during the day. Actually, it used to be
at night when it would slow down. Lindsey would always
complain to me because she would say, rich, every time
I watched TV at night, like the streaming like Netflix
would like slow to a crawl. And I said, no way,
I use the Internet all afternoon and it's totally fine.
And then next thing you know, I was watching a
show at night and I'm like, sure enough, that's the
way it is. Your your video is frozen now Megan,
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you're you're time.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I don't know what to do or.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Literally just dragged down. Now it's it's back. Now it's
a little bit, but anyway, it's back.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Okay. It says I have forty five megabytes per second.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah, so that's good. So I mean now your internet
that you're getting at your source is probably two hundred.
George says it's best to keep the router towards the
ceiling for a larger coverage of the area, and that
is true. A lot of people put their routers like
on the ground especially, that's a really bad place for them.
So you want them as close to the center of
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the room as well. Okay, And Jason James says for him,
it's six thirty to eight pm when I guess it's
like the worst time. All right, Megan, we'll try try again.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I just dropped my mic. Okay, okay. This next question
comes from Bill hi Rich.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Do you know about smile dot Amazon dot com. You
sign in with your username and password and get to
pick a charity like feed America and Saint Jude's Children's Research.
I think it's worth a mention after you check it out.
And then also so most Walmarts have online ordering and
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you can drive to a special door at your local
Walmart where you call a number and you can pick
up groceries that day. He said that I've done I've
done that with Walmart three times and I've picked up
about one hundred and forty dollars of food.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
That's interesting that he says you can call special number.
I don't that's I don't know about that one.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
He said. You so you order online and then you
drive to.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
A door, yes, door at the Walmart, and then you
can like you look for a call number.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
We actually did a story on this before you joined tech,
and yeah, we went to Walmart and this was kind
of crazy. I'd like to know when that story was
because it felt so long ago and it was like
way before grocery shopping online was like a thing. Which
is really funny because now it seemed like actually, Lindsay
was able my wife was able to get an Amazon
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Prime delivery for today, which is saying because so many
people have been having trouble getting those delivery times and she's.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Been actually not one for today too.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
So maybe today is like the day that they increased
their thing. Because I went to the store yesterday to
buy stuff for Easter, and I wasn't able to get
like anything I needed, Like I had no eggs, no flour,
no vodka. I was kidding. What was the other.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Thing that they.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Didn't have was, oh, the sweet potatoes, like I love.
I don't know if you're what you guys do for
your Easter, but we do like the sweet potato castrole
that my mom has always made. That's like candied sweet
potatoes and with like.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Mark smellow, Yes, yeah, I've had those. Those are so good.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
It's like my absolute favorite thing. And my mom is
like a very She's like a stickler when it comes
to recipes, Like she doesn't like to modify anything. So
when she like made that recipe for the first time,
it was like she had to like there's only like,
you know, like five marshmallows on top, and every time
I'm always like, I want like a thousand marks, Like
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so when I made it one year, I literally dumped
the whole bag of marshmallows. Do I want to be
able to cut through a layer of marshmallows to get
to the candy yams?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Right? Because that's the point.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
And don't get me started on yams. Versus sweet potatoes,
because I'm still not sure what the difference is.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Oh I I when you said yams, I just thought
of sweet.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Potatoes, and I so and I actually so I had
to buy purple sweet potatoes. Like they're I think they're
like Japanese. They're like the purple ones.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Huh yeah, okay, so interesting.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, and I've had them before. They're really good. They
just literally the color is just different. I think they're
a little bit like the consistency maybe is a little
bit thicker, like it's not as maybe they don't get
as mushy as a candy sweet potato. It's not that
big of a deal anyway. So she was able to
get all that stuff on Amazon today. So back to
the whole Amazon and Walmart thing. So we did a
(24:57):
story with Walmart, and my biggest question was, I don't
like other people picking out my fruits and meats.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Oh yeah, that's weird.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Don't you think you're the expert of your own meat
and veggies, Like you're the best at picking out your stuff?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Yeah, Ever, now I would feel weird with someone bringing
me like apples and like chicken.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Actually, I don't think I would care that much. About
the meats, more about the fruits really the vegetables. So yeah,
because they have to touch it, and I don't know, well.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You wash it, but I'm I'm more like certain, like
like if I'm going to shop for your sake, I
don't care, I just pick one of Like you're like,
I want to rib you're.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Picking the bruised apple.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yeah, just like I don't care. Yeah, you don't care.
But so here's what Walmart's answer was. They said they
train all of their people to pick the best. And
on the flip side, what I've noticed with these like
Amazon Fresh and all that, like they now Walmart's little
differ because they're actually picking the stuff from the store floor, right,
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but whereas Amazon Fresh and maybe this is different now
with Whole Foods. Maybe they're going into Whole Foods. I
don't know, but like in the past they would have
like there, it's kind of like no one was in
that grocery store except the people that are picking your
stuff for you. So my theory was that the produce
selection was very good because in a typical grocery store,
(26:20):
how many people's hands are touching those apples and feeling
them and putting them back versus behind the scenes kind
of thing where everything is perfect, right.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Yeah, No, I guess in a sense, it's kind of
more monitored versus like someone goes into pavilions and gets
your food right now, you don't know how many people
have touched it, right, And.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
I'm fine with it with how many, Like I don't
care if a bunch of people touch the food as
long as it's still crispy when I get it, Like,
it's fine, but things do get picked through. I also
think about how much waste is I imagine the produce
section is generates the most waste in a grocery store.
Maybe not, but it just seems it's so like kind
of sad. Like if someone could figure out a perfect
(27:03):
kind of store for you know, like eBay they call
it the perfect store because you have a supply and demand,
like someone bids on something at the exact price that
they want to buy it for. Like if that could
be for produce, like every single apple that ever gets grown,
like it never gets wasted, Like that'd be amazing. That'd
be my dream. Let me read some of the comments
(27:24):
here because we are on Let's see here. Danielle says,
I used to work at Walmart. Not anymore items out
of stock now and there are limited spots available for pickup,
depends on the area. But no luck here. Frank says.
Grocery shopping online was a thing in two thousand. It was,
(27:44):
it's been around for a while. But and let's see,
and daniel says, right, banana's yellow. I want to eat
many right away. That's the other thing, Danielle, You're stumbling
upon a very good thing. When I order bananas, I
would like fifty percent to be green and fifty percent
to be yellow, right, because this is the problem with bananas.
It's like half of them. Yeah, it's every fruit goes
(28:05):
from like amazing to cannot eat instantly.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
You're at a fifty really.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Fast, right, Yeah, they just figure out, well didn't we
do a story?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah we did, And I guess they did figure out
something like that.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
But like that's okay. Yeah, that's another okay.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
And actually I've never been to Walmart because there aren't
many Walmart.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Hold on, say it again, I've never been to Walmart.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Never been to a Walmart in your entire life.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah, Like it's I mean, I've seen commercials. I know
that they're out there, but I've never been. There's not
a Walmart like in LA. I don't think there's any
Walmart in That's why US never always Yeah, I know,
super weird, not culture.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
That is amazing. Well, I will say that I probably
never was in a Walmart until I moved to Louisiana,
and that's when I first or no, actually my first
Walmart was when I moved to Washington State and US
I lived in Yakama and I went to my first
Walmart and and I loved it. I mean, I know
Walmart is kind of like, you know, lover hate kind
(29:11):
of thing, but I I'm all about it.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Isn't it just like Target?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Oh, Target, except like thirty percent cheaper? Like oh wow?
I mean it's you think Target's cheap until you go
into a Walmart and it's Walmart is much. It's you know,
like Target used to. I used to consider Target inexpensive,
and now I don't consider it inexpensive anymore, at least
not the LA locations LA locations. Now here's the other thing.
(29:39):
I talk about this because I've lived in various states,
and I've lived in I've lived in Washington State, I've
lived in Louisiana, New Jersey and La and in Los
Angeles stores are not cheap, Like you don't even realize, Megan,
but the grocery store in Los Angeles is probably forty
to fifty percent more expensive than a grocery store in anywhere,
(30:01):
even even out of like La County, like not Orange County.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Insane.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
You have no idea here is five dollars catch up
in Louisiana's two fifty the same exact bottle. And you
just don't realize that they're building in a bunch of
costs of doing business in Los Angeles. So it's just
a reality. But you don't realize because you're you're doing
business here. And the only reason I know this is
because I've lived in other places and I'll never forget
one time, you know, even ordering pizza. So you order
(30:28):
pizza in Louisiana or you know, North Dakota, a pizza
delivery is going to be fifty percent less than pizza
delivery here. It's just the way it is.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
And it's insane. It's even more expensive though.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
In Hawaii, oh gosh, it goes up like another fifty times.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
From La times square Hawaii, and what's the other one
times square in Alaska. I've never been to Alaska, though.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Alaska it's supposed to be really Oh that makes.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Super expensive up there. Now when I'm in Hawaii, I
do not care.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
I will say whatever it takes, because number one, I
can't imagine how you get that stuff there.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
It all. I can't complain. You can't complain if you're
not allowed to complain.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
But like you know, if you live there, if I
live there, I'd become curmudgeting, like two weeks.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
You'd have to grow your own food, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
A little, a little trivia for you. I am supposed
to be in Hawaii right now. Do I have the
tiniest violin sound on my board here? No? I don't
think I do. I'm supposed to be in Hawaii right now.
And not only that, but my calendar still shows me
all the restaurant reservations I had for every single night,
(31:39):
And so every night this week I have gone to
my wife and I'm like, we're supposed to be at
you know, of a restaurant tonight.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
It's so depressing, it is depressing.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
So yeah, I had I was supposed to be in
Italy last week, and I had like a bunch of
tours like set up on my calendar and so I
didn't delete those, but it was like Vatican Tour, Colisseum Tour, and.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I was just like, I, this is sad.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
And then all the nightclubs down below, yeah, polic the
disco Teca, day Roma.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
That's all I remember about going to Europe when I
was a kid, was like the disco Teca's right.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
The disco tecas?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Isn't that like the thing? Okay?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
All right, all right?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
This next question comes from Melissa. With the increasing demand
for wireless signal at home due to an increase in
working from home and more devices, what router do you
recommend for high residential usage for the carrier Verizon or
Frontier and a three thousand square foot home?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
So what am I recommending for those? Out of those two? Yeah,
I think they're both going to be fine. But oh
my gosh, my watch, I'm like, where is this? Where
this come from? What the siri? Quiet? Now? I missed
(33:11):
the question? So what was the question again? So basically,
they have a house three thousand square foot and they
want to get internet and they're trying to decide if
Spectrum or FiOS is going to be better.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
No no, no, no no. So I didn't hear anything asking
what router do you recommend? They have? Verizon slash Frontier.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Used to be used to be Verise and now it's
Frontier FiOS.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Yeah, okay, okay, so so yeah, So basically Google Wi
Fi or Ero is what you're going to say.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Megan already knows all my answers because I just have
the same answers every time.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Some of these questions we like, I've asked so many
times that.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
I just here's the thing. Now, people don't listen to
everything I'm saying. They're not like, like I'm keeping track
of everything I say because it's come out of my mouth.
But you know, there aren't people sitting there like listening
to every single thing I say on every podcast, on
every news clip, on every kfi thing. But I say
these things over and over.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
The reality, well, which one do you like better?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Google Wi Fi or Hero? Well?
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I have I personally have Eero and I've had no
problems with it whatsoever. But I think that Google Wi
Fi is good. I think it really comes down to
price and what you need. So if you go and
you look at EO and they only have a three
pack and you just need a two pack. Like Google
Wi Fi I think has a bit more options. I
think the standard Google Wi Fi is just one node
(34:27):
and then like one access point, so one one and
or you can even just get one thing, and they
say that covers a pretty large house. So it kind
of depends on what you need. And I think it
in what's on sale. So if you go online and
you see that Google wi fis or Google Nest WiFi
is on sale at a really great price, then go
with that, right Or if you see that ero is
(34:50):
having some sort of sale, go with that. So I
have no preference in the game. I think that all
and in fact, I really have no preference among all
of the mesh networks as they call them. I think
that they're all fantastic and they're going to be way
better than what you have typically, which is the typical
setup is what you get from your Internet service provider,
and that Wi Fi is going to cover about a
(35:11):
you know, three square foot area around your router and
that's it. So and Alma is asking on on the
live chat, what do you think of Orby? And I
think Orby is great too, I haven't tested Orby personally,
but it gets a lot of great reviews and that's
Netgear's product and it's perfect. Are yeah, that's Neckgear Orby right?
(35:33):
Or is it links to Orby? I think it's Neckgear.
I'm like scared to do anything on my computer because
I don't know what shows up. Oh you know, I
don't know what you see. But yeah, Orby is from Neckgear,
So yeah, I think that one's great too, So I
think any of them are going to be perfect for sure.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
All right, Okay, this next question comes from Larry. Is
it worth the money for Phone Soap three? And if so,
how much is it worth buying for?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Ooh, well, I will tell you Phone Soap. Let me
explain what it is. It's a it's a sanitizer for
your phone and it's also a charger as well. So
we interviewed the CEO of the company. And I never
used my Phone Soap. I got one for Christmas. I
think it was a year ago or two years ago,
(36:27):
and I never plugged it in until coronavirus. And now
I have it on my bedside and I put my
phone in there, not every day, but definitely after I
visit the grocery store. I pop it in there and
probably every you know, two or three days, I'll throw
it in there, and it's a UV light, so it
kind of closes up over it. It splashes your phone
with UV light and there's no water. That's the bad,
(36:50):
bad word to use.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
It was gonna be like what no, but it puts.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
It bathes your phone in UV light, and UV light
is proven to kill bacteria and viruses on the surface,
and so it kind of renders anything on your phone
that's a virus or bacteria useless. And so for that reason,
I like it. Now. I will tell you what I
learned from another infection specialist that told me that they
(37:19):
believe that the germs and stuff on your phone are
not that harmful to you because ninety nine percent of
the time they are our own germs. So I thought
that was interesting, and it kind of makes sense because
you would think people would be getting sick from their
phones all the time because we're carrying them everywhere. But
if you think about it, most of the time, it's
(37:39):
just you handling your phone. Now, people hand me their
phone all the time to do things. I generally don't
like to touch them because they're very dirty, and I
think that's where you get that cross contamination is when
you touch something else that's not yours. But most of
the time, so the argument being is that you're probably
more at risk of getting sick by touching someone else's phone,
(38:01):
or someone else's desk or on the you know, an airplane,
like the tray table that's dirty from the last person,
you know, anything, you're you're getting other people's germs. So
our homes are probably filled with germs, but they're mostly ours,
and that's why people think they get sick more when
they travel or they go out somewhere, you know whatever.
(38:21):
With all that said, I think that the I don't
think it can hurt to have a phone soap it's
eighty bucks for this device, and he's asking how much
do I think it's worth? Probably because the devices are
sold out everywhere, and so maybe he's looking at it
on eBay and that's why how much is it worth?
(38:41):
But I think it's worth it, And I don't know,
do you have one of these things? I think also
with a phone. With a phone, ever since Apple said
that you can use a liceol wipe on it, I
think it'll be just just as well served with a
lice al wipe.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
You can buy liceol wipes. They're literally like I found
available Lifesol wipes and Clorox wipes yesterday and they were
gone in a second.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Did you order on Amazon? No, they were gone.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
So you were watching the websites that tell you about
the Yeah, yep, yeah, yeah. I find most of the
time those things are just sold out instantly and that's it.
They're there. They keep going in stock. But yeah, they're
really tough to get. But if you can, and my
only advice with those when you're using them on your
phone is to ring them out a little bit, Like
you don't want like a sopping wet lice all wipe
on your phone because it's no, it's just a little
(39:29):
bit too wet. I think if you ring it out
just a little bit, you don't want to get rid
of everything. But then you use that and that'll clean
your phone. And I've been using them on my phone
in my computer now and it's great, so nice. All right,
I think we have time for one more question, Megan.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Okay, this next question comes from Sally. We tried having
a virtual dance birthday party for our friend's birthday last night, but.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Everyone could barely hear the music.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Is there an app we can use in which everyone
in the group can hear the music at the same time?
Any other suggestions.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
On how to do this?
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Did she say how she did the party? Did she
say she did it on Zoom? No? Okay, Now, I'd
probably just recommend Zoom. And the way I would recommend
it is you can do a couple of things. If
you have like another like another, like I would Here's
what I would do. I would personally either share my
screen and have YouTube up on the screen, and that
(40:27):
is my audio. So YouTube is basically one of the participants.
So I think that that's probably the best way of
doing it, and then you have the audio is sort
of piped in from your computer into Zoom. The other
way you can do it is if you want, you
can connect your phone to your computer. But the thing
(40:49):
is you want to have the music as a participant
on your Zoom. That's the best way of doing it.
So I would use my phone to connect for me
to show my face, and then on my I would
be a participant and share my screen, but I would
have YouTube on the computer and that would be piping
in the audio, and that way everyone hears the audio
nice and clean. I can play DJ on YouTube and
(41:12):
we can all be participating from our phones. That would
probably be the best way to do it.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
I like that it's a little bit of set up
and you need two devices. But I would say a
lot of people have a computer and a phone, so
or access to that.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
And also parties take a little bit of setup in general.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
So yeah, like you wouldn't expect a DJ to just
come to your party and like play music off his
smartphone speaker. Right, you gotta pipe into something.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
You gotta put some effort into it.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Got anything in life, if you want it to be good,
you gotta put a little effort into it. So that's
that's my life advice for you. Can you believe it, Megan,
that's going to take us to the end of this show.
That's going to do it for this episode, I would say,
if you want links to what we talk about, take
a look at the show notes. But we really don't
have links to what we talked about because we just
talked about a lot of stuff. But if you want
(42:02):
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Speaker 2 (42:16):
I'm on Twitter at producer.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
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Speaker 2 (42:40):
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Speaker 1 (42:43):
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What's going On? I'm Rich DeMuro and this is rich
on Tech, the podcast where we talk about the tech
stuff I think you should know about and I answer
the questions that you send me. My name is Richdmiro,
tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Joining
me via zoom is producer Megan.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
How are you? How's it going?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Oh, live in the dream, quarantined in my home. I
think we're going on week number three.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
It feels like week number ten.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Oh my gosh, this is this is I just I
think I say this every podcast, but this is the
most insane thing I have ever experienced in my life.
I'm actually asking every day to go back to work,
and work is saying no, you can't, Like you cannot
come to work. I mean, when do you ever have
a job that says that.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I know, it's it is the craziest thing that's ever happened,
and in many and like everyone's lifetime, Like it's just
it's insane.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I keep saying, I cannot wait till the history book
is written on coronavirus, because I can't wait to read it.
I'm just so curious like what went right, what went wrong?
What did we do right? What did we do wrong?
And you know how the city's reacted. I mean, it's
a really wild thing. And you know, I'm glad a
lot of people out there are safe, you know, and
(01:27):
I know people that have been affected. I know, I
know personally several people that actually got coronavirus, which is
also crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I mean, it's just this wild thing that's happening. My
mom is is you know, she's by herself, which is
really tricky. You know, It's just it's just a very
odd thing. So anyway, everything's been fine here. I've been
going to the grocery store the most out of any
person I know, because I'm the designated survivor in my
house to like go out and do things. So okay,
if anyone's at most risk here, it's me. But so far,
(01:58):
so good. I did order some masks and wait for those.
But anyway, if you're tuning in on the Facebook Live,
thanks for joining us. We do appreciate it. This is
going to be a little different, you guys know that
I've experimented. It's very it looks like it's easy to
go live on Facebook doing all this stuff, But it's
not because what I'm trying to do is get a
quality recording of the broadcast for the podcast, but also
(02:23):
go live, and so it's a lot of little tricky
things to do that. And so if you're watching on Facebook,
thanks for doing that. If you ditch out, that's fine,
but we do appreciate you joining us. This version of
the podcast is going to be all questions. So let
me see if we have our sound effects. Megan, let's
see if they work. Oh nope, that's not it. Do
you hear that?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I hear it.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
So we got the sound effects. So let's here we go.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Can they hear the sound effects?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I don't know. We'll find out.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Oh, okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Our first question comes from Nancy and she wrote on
your Facebook page. She asked, have you ever reviewed blue
Tooth microphones for the iPad? We are doing a lot
of zooming, but need a microphone for people to hear
us better.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
That is a good question, and it's something that yeah,
everyone's been doing, is these You know, people are connecting
their zooms to the big screen because you can just
go ahead and chrome cast it to your big screen
or you can use airplay and reflect it to your
big screen. I love doing that and I've done that
several times, and I think it's a really good way
(03:28):
of doing it. But what she's saying is she's connecting
it via a cable, and so the difference is is
that her iPad is really close to the TV, whereas
she's not doing airplay. So that's the difference, and that's
why her setup is a little trickier because I actually
had to email her for some clarification on this question.
And so what she needs to do, and what I
(03:50):
think is the best recommendation for her, is to get
a portable Bluetooth speaker and she can connect that Bluetooth
speaker to her iPad, put that in front of her.
Like at my house, of the couch, then we have
like an automan and then the TV on the wall.
So if the if the iPad was near the TV screen,
then I would put the little speaker in front of me.
And if you look on Amazon, they have a bunch
(04:11):
of these little Bluetooth speakers. I personally would just go
Amazon Basics and let me just search here right now. Oh, now,
did you guys hear that? I hope you didn't. Did
you hear that?
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Yeah? I did.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Yeah, so I hope you guys don't hear my computer
sound effects. Now, if I go on Amazon and I
get an Amazon Bluetooth speaker, it is twenty five dollars
and that has a microphone built in for hands free calling,
and that's super easy. So I love that. Twenty five
dollars will solve all of her problems. Now here's the
(04:44):
bigger problem that she's going to run into. Oh, free
delivery on Tuesday. So nevermind. I was gonna say a
lot of these you know, Amazon, we've talked about this
where you can't get a lot of stuff, but apparently
this is one of those things that you can get delivered.
So that's the solution you can use. If you want
to go more expensive, you can just get a pair
of Bluetooth headphones, and I bet you Amazon Basics has
(05:06):
those two. But the problem with the headphones is that
your family can't listen in and you want your whole
family to Yeah, do that.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
I was going to say air pods, but that does
not work.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Oh really well because it just to you. Yeah exactly,
nobody heard except you. But well, okay, good question. Oh
I guess we just keep doing that because it's more questions.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Okay, this next question comes from deb Hi Rich. I
was wondering if you could tell me if all the
worry about five G towers and phones are true, will
they be super bad for our bodies?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
And what's this talk about?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
What's this talk about going around that they would want
to put a chip implanted for protection against the bag?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Oh wow? This is like some men in black stuff
whose this is like really yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Oh wow, any input on these subjects would be appreciated.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Okay, so they're asking in your body. Wow, that's what
I haven't heard.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, And I also haven't heard a lot about this
five G, like the five G theory.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
I just okay, I have. So what happens is, here's
a couple of things are happening. So five G is
the new advanced wireless, right like there we have four G,
we had three G, we had two G that they
didn't really call two G at the time, but now
we have five G, and so five G is like
this super fast wireless. The problem is with the super
(06:41):
fast wireless is that people think that it's connected to
all these problems with COVID, And I just don't see
that happening. So uh, And the bigger problem is just like.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Trying to see the connection.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, the big the bigger problem is that over in
Europe they are burning down these five G towers because
or they're setting fire to them apparently. And I guess
a lot of it was connected to like celebrities tweeting
about it, like saying like these towers are evil. There's
been a bunch of conspiracy theory videos on YouTube and
on Facebook, and so there's a lot going on. Now.
(07:21):
I am not an expert in wireless communication, so can
I say for certain that there's no connection. I feel
like I actually am concerned sometimes about all the wireless
frequencies around US. I work in a TV station where
there's a lot of wireless frequencies, so I'm concerned. I mean,
I'm not an exp But am I saying there's a
(07:42):
connection between COVID and five G. I don't think so,
And nor do I think you should believe that, And
nor do I think we should stop advancement of RF
and wireless frequency because of a new technology. I think
it's just they're packing the radio waves in a different way.
I mean, there's millions of radio waves all around us
every day, no matter where you are, And I think
(08:03):
that's actually the most fascinating thing, the fact that think
about this. When you're walking through like your street, they're
like everything is being broadcast. They're like every radio station,
every TV station, like it's all like in the air.
Like don't you think that's crazy?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
That is crazy?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
And I never think about that, And now, like that's
pretty trippy.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And also, like most people, I mean, I sleep with
my phone like, yes, literally a foot away from.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
My head, and like I've heard you're not supposed to
do that, but you know, now I'm kind of like,
is there some weird stic Further.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Dick, I have my phone next to my bed wirelessly charging,
and so I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm getting like
a one two punch of like my phone radiation plus
the wireless charging radiation. And again, we're told that these
things are safe, and I do believe that they are safe.
But I also think that as a human you have
to you know, you have to have a a little
(08:57):
bit of not skepticism, but you have to be smart.
And for a while, I didn't charge my phone wirelessly
next to me because I thought that wired charging was safer.
And the other thing I didn't like is that my
Apple Watch has LTE connected to it. And I thought
that it's a little bit weird because if you think
about it, it's on your wrist at all times. So
(09:19):
the LTE connection is one on your wrist all day long, weird.
Whereas a phone you have it in your pocket, you
have it on your desk, it's in different places. But
this is literally on my body at all times. Now
I sound like one of the crazy conspiracy theory people.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I mean, it's really easy to go down that rabbit hole,
it is.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
And yeah, so I don't think I don't. I still
don't know where she's getting the microchip from.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
But yeah, wait, so they're going to put chips in
people's bodies to protect them against the bad I.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Mean, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, that one. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
But what I don't know about? Uh Okay, that was
a great question, And look at this, it's time for another.
I don't I hope you have enough question for a
whole show we have.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
We actually have a lot of questions. We might be good. Okay,
so this next question, Yes.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
We can also take some questions from the Facebook folks
if they put them on there. So if you guys
want to put a question in the chat, I can.
I don't think you can see those, but I can.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
So okay, okay. So this next question comes from TJ.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
The subject is video call with Grandma rich My ninety
seven year old grandma is quarantined in the nursing home
and she's getting lonely. We bought an iPad and I
set up FaceTime and Google Duo for the family to
call her. I have disabled all security, so when a
call comes in, all she would have to do is
slide to accept. This works perfectly on FaceTime, However, she
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would have to press another button to start video on
Duo after the slide to accept. Is there a way
to have video enabled automatically when accepting a Google Duo
call on iPad?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
That's okay, so no, I actually tested this, and the
problem is the way that and I think it's great.
I think that the way that Apple has done they've
implemented these things is great, but it's also oh wow,
I just realized that I can make this bigger on
the screen for everyone. So okay, So what he's asking is,
(11:19):
can you make it so that when you slide to
answer a call on Duo when it's coming in to
just go write to video. And I tested this on
my iPhone and here's what happens. You can slide to
answer the call, but then you also have to do
one more button press to start the video. And I'm
not sure if that's an Apple thing or a security thing,
(11:41):
but that's the way it is, and there's no way
around it as far as I could tell. Now on
Android it's different. You just swipe up and boom, it
starts the video. And Google actually Duo has this cool
feature which is called knock Knock, So when you're using
Google Duo, it actually shows the person if you allow
of video of you, like a preview. Have you seen
(12:02):
that ever?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
We test this out, Yeah, you said you. We tested
it the other day, but I didn't see the preview.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I think because on iPhone, I don't think you see
the preview.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It's only on androids, so yeah, so but that's cool.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, it is cool. And I'm trying to trying to
see if I have any phones that I'm testing that
are out that I can't show.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Oh gosh, no, I don't, okay, just making sure, uh,
so yeah, you can't do that, but I I totally
what was the guy's name again, TJ TJ.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I totally identify with him because I am all about
getting the literally the simplest possible way of getting like
these things to friends and family, Like I want to
make it so that they can just swipe and boom,
it's done. Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna do a question
from the screen, so I'll do this ready, that'll be
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the question from the street. Sylvia says, Megan's microphone looks awesome.
Can you share what type it is and where one
may purchase it? So, Megan, do you want to give
us some details on that microphone? Let me see, it
is a I know what it is. It's a blue snowball.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And so it's a blue snowball.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Blue. Yeah, blue.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Oh, the brand is called blue.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Okay, the brand is called Blue, and it's a snowball microphone.
And I actually looked this up the other day because
I was recommending it to someone and they have a
couple of different levels, I guess because it used to
have just one, I think, which was like eighty bucks,
and now I think they have like one for fifty dollars,
but I think there might be different.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Can Yeah, that's what I see.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
What you have the seventy dollars one.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I don't know which one I have because I got
it from work, but it looks like this.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
The fifty dollars one.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Well, the fifty dollars I'm wondering if the fifty dollars
doesn't have one of the connections, like maybe it doesn't
have like a certain connection maybe me. I don't know,
but I do know that Blue is owned by Logitech
now and Blue microphones have been forever like the best
microphone for podcasting because they're so simple, they're so easy. Uh,
(14:13):
there's a snowball ice, and I wonder that's that's what
I have. That's the fifty dollars one. No, I think
you have the the other one?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Is this one snowball ice on the side.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Oh it says ice. Oh well, then there we go.
So I don't know what the other one is. Then
that's interesting. The snowball is classic. Who knows anyway, So
you got the fifty you got the cheap one fifty bucks.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I have the cheap one. But it sounds good. That's good. Sorry,
I just like messed.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Up oh great, So now we have no no stand Sylvia.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
No, I mean I just have to okay.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
It's all good.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Get lower. Yeah, all right, should.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
We go to your question?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Okay, So this next question comes from Michael Hi Rich.
I'm hoping you will call out the internet providers that
are supplying slower than advertised speeds for the same price.
I understand it may be due to everyone being at
home during the coronavirus, but as auto insurance companies have
cut insurance for people that are driving less, internet providers
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that are unable to provide their advertised speeds advertised prices
should reduce their prices during this time. I'm working during
this time, so my usage has not increased on their system.
I have Spectrum in Santa Clarita, and I pay seventy
dollars a month for four hundred megabytes with a guarantee
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minimum of two hundred and I guess the last few
days he's been getting between twenty two and fifty megabytes max.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Okay, so little formality thing. By the way, the way
they measure internet speed, and this is for everyone, is
megabits per second. So when someone says I have a
a twenty five connection, that's twenty five megabits per second.
And to be honest, I'm not really sure why that
is versus megabytes, but that's how they measure it. And
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so when he says, like, for me personally, I have
a two hundred megabit connection, and if you go into fiber,
which is like the fastest, it's one gig. So one
gig gig connection. That's one gigabits per second, I believe.
But anyway, so when people have Internet connections, like back
in the day, they used to be closer to like
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twenty five and now they're closer to you know, one hundred,
two hundred. Some people have much more than that. But
that's kind of like the little lesson on those. But
with that said, I don't know what to say. I mean,
this is the reality of everyone working from home. Megan.
You can talk about your Internet connection. It's it's terrible, right,
(16:53):
I mean, it's like it's good sometimes.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
And I have Spectrum too.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
We had to get Google Wi Fi to like make
the connection like go like stronger throughout the house.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Network.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, and that helped.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Google Wi Fi definitely helped. But yeah, like yesterday it
just like went out for an hour and we don't
really know why. But two weeks ago, right when everyone
started working from home, like it was horrible, but now
it's a lot better.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I think it's a lot better.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
So it's better because of Google Wi Fi or because
of I think.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
I think, I think Google Wi Fi.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
And I also think that Spectrum like figured out some issues.
I don't know, but my mom actually stopped a Spectrum
van last week.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
She like stopped the card and.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
We need help, and not we need help, but like
was like, you know, stopped him. He stopped, and she
was like, we just got Google Wi Fi, Like what's
wrong with Spectrum?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
And the guy said, we'll keep Google Wi Fi.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
He said Google Wi Fi is great because we thought
it was Google Wi Fi because we were still having issues.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
He was like, Google Wi Fi is great.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
But yeah, no, Spectrum is obviously over capacity because everyone,
everyone in the house is using the internet.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
So it's just I think it's just going to take
a little bit of time, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Yeah, but maybe Michael needs a router.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Well that's the thing. So my question is because he
said he was getting twenty five. It's a lot of
times when people come to me and say their internet
is really bad. It's not necessarily their Internet. It's actually
it's the router that they're using, Like the Wi Fi
connection that they're using in their home is just not
very good. And then the other thing is where you're
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testing your connection. So you know that when you're using
Wi Fi on your laptop, your connection is probably about
half of the speed that's coming in at the router.
So most of the time now unless you have one
of these new systems, like Megan, have you done a
speed test on your Wi Fi from where you are
right now, like compared to where they because I assume
when the Spectrum guy came there, he was kind of like,
(19:06):
let me test the Internet at the source, right, is
that kind of what happened? Yeah, And he's probably like
you're getting your full speed right.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah, Well so we have someone come the guy the
car that just went by that was.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Just like okay, speaking of internet.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
By the way, the one coming to our house for us,
that was someone.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Speaking of internet. Megan, your your connection just literally went
out of internet. Yeah, like it's just it went out
so badly, just now stopped. So anyway, Megan, I just got.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
A thing saying your internet connection is unstable.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
So yeah, oh my gosh, yeah, this is what happens
with the whole internet a little bit. Just keep just
stay on it. It'll come back. It just takes a
little bit. I'll just I'll just talk, I'll read some
of the comments online. But uh so and and see
one of the commenters said, uh, where did I see that? Okay,
(20:06):
Michael said your picture was flipped the wrong way, So
I did fix that. And then let's see here. I
thought someone said, no, I don't know. I thought someone
said that it depends on the time of day as well.
But oh yeah, Jason James said the time of day
impacts the speed and reliability as well. And that's very
true because it depends like at night. It's really it
(20:29):
slows down during the day. Actually, it used to be
at night when it would slow down. Lindsey would always
complain to me because she would say, rich, every time
I watched TV at night, like the streaming like Netflix
would like slow to a crawl. And I said, no way,
I use the Internet all afternoon and it's totally fine.
And then next thing you know, I was watching a
show at night and I'm like, sure enough, that's the
way it is. Your your video is frozen now Megan,
(20:53):
you're you're time.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
I don't know what to do or.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Literally just dragged down. Now it's it's back. Now it's
a little bit, but anyway, it's back.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Okay. It says I have forty five megabytes per second.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah, so that's good. So I mean now your internet
that you're getting at your source is probably two hundred.
George says it's best to keep the router towards the
ceiling for a larger coverage of the area, and that
is true. A lot of people put their routers like
on the ground especially, that's a really bad place for them.
So you want them as close to the center of
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the room as well. Okay, And Jason James says for him,
it's six thirty to eight pm when I guess it's
like the worst time. All right, Megan, we'll try try again.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I just dropped my mic. Okay, okay. This next question
comes from Bill hi Rich.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Do you know about smile dot Amazon dot com. You
sign in with your username and password and get to
pick a charity like feed America and Saint Jude's Children's Research.
I think it's worth a mention after you check it out.
And then also so most Walmarts have online ordering and
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you can drive to a special door at your local
Walmart where you call a number and you can pick
up groceries that day. He said that I've done I've
done that with Walmart three times and I've picked up
about one hundred and forty dollars of food.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
That's interesting that he says you can call special number.
I don't that's I don't know about that one.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
He said. You so you order online and then you
drive to.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
A door, yes, door at the Walmart, and then you
can like you look for a call number.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
We actually did a story on this before you joined tech,
and yeah, we went to Walmart and this was kind
of crazy. I'd like to know when that story was
because it felt so long ago and it was like
way before grocery shopping online was like a thing. Which
is really funny because now it seemed like actually, Lindsay
was able my wife was able to get an Amazon
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Prime delivery for today, which is saying because so many
people have been having trouble getting those delivery times and she's.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Been actually not one for today too.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
So maybe today is like the day that they increased
their thing. Because I went to the store yesterday to
buy stuff for Easter, and I wasn't able to get
like anything I needed, Like I had no eggs, no flour,
no vodka. I was kidding. What was the other.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Thing that they.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Didn't have was, oh, the sweet potatoes, like I love.
I don't know if you're what you guys do for
your Easter, but we do like the sweet potato castrole
that my mom has always made. That's like candied sweet
potatoes and with like.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Mark smellow, Yes, yeah, I've had those. Those are so good.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
It's like my absolute favorite thing. And my mom is
like a very She's like a stickler when it comes
to recipes, Like she doesn't like to modify anything. So
when she like made that recipe for the first time,
it was like she had to like there's only like,
you know, like five marshmallows on top, and every time
I'm always like, I want like a thousand marks, Like
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so when I made it one year, I literally dumped
the whole bag of marshmallows. Do I want to be
able to cut through a layer of marshmallows to get
to the candy yams?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Right? Because that's the point.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
And don't get me started on yams. Versus sweet potatoes,
because I'm still not sure what the difference is.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Oh I I when you said yams, I just thought
of sweet.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Potatoes, and I so and I actually so I had
to buy purple sweet potatoes. Like they're I think they're
like Japanese. They're like the purple ones.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Huh yeah, okay, so interesting.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, and I've had them before. They're really good. They
just literally the color is just different. I think they're
a little bit like the consistency maybe is a little
bit thicker, like it's not as maybe they don't get
as mushy as a candy sweet potato. It's not that
big of a deal anyway. So she was able to
get all that stuff on Amazon today. So back to
the whole Amazon and Walmart thing. So we did a
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story with Walmart, and my biggest question was, I don't
like other people picking out my fruits and meats.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Oh yeah, that's weird.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Don't you think you're the expert of your own meat
and veggies, Like you're the best at picking out your stuff?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Yeah, Ever, now I would feel weird with someone bringing
me like apples and like chicken.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Actually, I don't think I would care that much. About
the meats, more about the fruits really the vegetables. So yeah,
because they have to touch it, and I don't know, well.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You wash it, but I'm I'm more like certain, like
like if I'm going to shop for your sake, I
don't care, I just pick one of Like you're like,
I want to rib you're.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Picking the bruised apple.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yeah, just like I don't care. Yeah, you don't care.
But so here's what Walmart's answer was. They said they
train all of their people to pick the best. And
on the flip side, what I've noticed with these like
Amazon Fresh and all that, like they now Walmart's little
differ because they're actually picking the stuff from the store floor, right,
(25:58):
but whereas Amazon Fresh and maybe this is different now
with Whole Foods. Maybe they're going into Whole Foods. I
don't know, but like in the past they would have
like there, it's kind of like no one was in
that grocery store except the people that are picking your
stuff for you. So my theory was that the produce
selection was very good because in a typical grocery store,
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how many people's hands are touching those apples and feeling
them and putting them back versus behind the scenes kind
of thing where everything is perfect, right.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Yeah, No, I guess in a sense, it's kind of
more monitored versus like someone goes into pavilions and gets
your food right now, you don't know how many people
have touched it, right, And.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
I'm fine with it with how many, Like I don't
care if a bunch of people touch the food as
long as it's still crispy when I get it, Like,
it's fine, but things do get picked through. I also
think about how much waste is I imagine the produce
section is generates the most waste in a grocery store.
Maybe not, but it just seems it's so like kind
of sad. Like if someone could figure out a perfect
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kind of store for you know, like eBay they call
it the perfect store because you have a supply and demand,
like someone bids on something at the exact price that
they want to buy it for. Like if that could
be for produce, like every single apple that ever gets grown,
like it never gets wasted, Like that'd be amazing. That'd
be my dream. Let me read some of the comments
(27:24):
here because we are on Let's see here. Danielle says,
I used to work at Walmart. Not anymore items out
of stock now and there are limited spots available for pickup,
depends on the area. But no luck here. Frank says.
Grocery shopping online was a thing in two thousand. It was,
(27:44):
it's been around for a while. But and let's see,
and daniel says, right, banana's yellow. I want to eat
many right away. That's the other thing, Danielle, You're stumbling
upon a very good thing. When I order bananas, I
would like fifty percent to be green and fifty percent
to be yellow, right, because this is the problem with bananas.
It's like half of them. Yeah, it's every fruit goes
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from like amazing to cannot eat instantly.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
You're at a fifty really.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Fast, right, Yeah, they just figure out, well didn't we
do a story?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah we did, And I guess they did figure out
something like that.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
But like that's okay. Yeah, that's another okay.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
And actually I've never been to Walmart because there aren't
many Walmart.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Hold on, say it again, I've never been to Walmart.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Never been to a Walmart in your entire life.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah, Like it's I mean, I've seen commercials. I know
that they're out there, but I've never been. There's not
a Walmart like in LA. I don't think there's any
Walmart in That's why US never always Yeah, I know,
super weird, not culture.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
That is amazing. Well, I will say that I probably
never was in a Walmart until I moved to Louisiana,
and that's when I first or no, actually my first
Walmart was when I moved to Washington State and US
I lived in Yakama and I went to my first
Walmart and and I loved it. I mean, I know
Walmart is kind of like, you know, lover hate kind
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of thing, but I I'm all about it.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Isn't it just like Target?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Oh, Target, except like thirty percent cheaper? Like oh wow?
I mean it's you think Target's cheap until you go
into a Walmart and it's Walmart is much. It's you know,
like Target used to. I used to consider Target inexpensive,
and now I don't consider it inexpensive anymore, at least
not the LA locations LA locations. Now here's the other thing.
(29:39):
I talk about this because I've lived in various states,
and I've lived in I've lived in Washington State, I've
lived in Louisiana, New Jersey and La and in Los
Angeles stores are not cheap, Like you don't even realize, Megan,
but the grocery store in Los Angeles is probably forty
to fifty percent more expensive than a grocery store in anywhere,
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even even out of like La County, like not Orange County.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Insane.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
You have no idea here is five dollars catch up
in Louisiana's two fifty the same exact bottle. And you
just don't realize that they're building in a bunch of
costs of doing business in Los Angeles. So it's just
a reality. But you don't realize because you're you're doing
business here. And the only reason I know this is
because I've lived in other places and I'll never forget
one time, you know, even ordering pizza. So you order
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pizza in Louisiana or you know, North Dakota, a pizza
delivery is going to be fifty percent less than pizza
delivery here. It's just the way it is.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
And it's insane. It's even more expensive though.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
In Hawaii, oh gosh, it goes up like another fifty times.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
From La times square Hawaii, and what's the other one
times square in Alaska. I've never been to Alaska, though.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Alaska it's supposed to be really Oh that makes.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Super expensive up there. Now when I'm in Hawaii, I
do not care.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
I will say whatever it takes, because number one, I
can't imagine how you get that stuff there.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
It all. I can't complain. You can't complain if you're
not allowed to complain.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
But like you know, if you live there, if I
live there, I'd become curmudgeting, like two weeks.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
You'd have to grow your own food, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
A little, a little trivia for you. I am supposed
to be in Hawaii right now. Do I have the
tiniest violin sound on my board here? No? I don't
think I do. I'm supposed to be in Hawaii right now.
And not only that, but my calendar still shows me
all the restaurant reservations I had for every single night,
(31:39):
And so every night this week I have gone to
my wife and I'm like, we're supposed to be at
you know, of a restaurant tonight.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
It's so depressing, it is depressing.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
So yeah, I had I was supposed to be in
Italy last week, and I had like a bunch of
tours like set up on my calendar and so I
didn't delete those, but it was like Vatican Tour, Colisseum Tour, and.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
I was just like, I, this is sad.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
And then all the nightclubs down below, yeah, polic the
disco Teca, day Roma.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Yeah, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
That's all I remember about going to Europe when I
was a kid, was like the disco Teca's right.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
The disco tecas?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Isn't that like the thing? Okay?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
All right, all right?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
This next question comes from Melissa. With the increasing demand
for wireless signal at home due to an increase in
working from home and more devices, what router do you
recommend for high residential usage for the carrier Verizon or
Frontier and a three thousand square foot home?
Speaker 1 (32:50):
So what am I recommending for those? Out of those two? Yeah,
I think they're both going to be fine. But oh
my gosh, my watch, I'm like, where is this? Where
this come from? What the siri? Quiet? Now? I missed
(33:11):
the question? So what was the question again? So basically,
they have a house three thousand square foot and they
want to get internet and they're trying to decide if
Spectrum or FiOS is going to be better.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
No no, no, no no. So I didn't hear anything asking
what router do you recommend? They have? Verizon slash Frontier.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Used to be used to be Verise and now it's
Frontier FiOS.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Yeah, okay, okay, so so yeah, So basically Google Wi
Fi or Ero is what you're going to say.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Megan already knows all my answers because I just have
the same answers every time.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Some of these questions we like, I've asked so many
times that.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
I just here's the thing. Now, people don't listen to
everything I'm saying. They're not like, like I'm keeping track
of everything I say because it's come out of my mouth.
But you know, there aren't people sitting there like listening
to every single thing I say on every podcast, on
every news clip, on every kfi thing. But I say
these things over and over.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
The reality, well, which one do you like better?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Google Wi Fi or Hero? Well?
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I have I personally have Eero and I've had no
problems with it whatsoever. But I think that Google Wi
Fi is good. I think it really comes down to
price and what you need. So if you go and
you look at EO and they only have a three
pack and you just need a two pack. Like Google
Wi Fi I think has a bit more options. I
think the standard Google Wi Fi is just one node
(34:27):
and then like one access point, so one one and
or you can even just get one thing, and they
say that covers a pretty large house. So it kind
of depends on what you need. And I think it
in what's on sale. So if you go online and
you see that Google wi fis or Google Nest WiFi
is on sale at a really great price, then go
with that, right Or if you see that ero is
(34:50):
having some sort of sale, go with that. So I
have no preference in the game. I think that all
and in fact, I really have no preference among all
of the mesh networks as they call them. I think
that they're all fantastic and they're going to be way
better than what you have typically, which is the typical
setup is what you get from your Internet service provider,
and that Wi Fi is going to cover about a
(35:11):
you know, three square foot area around your router and
that's it. So and Alma is asking on on the
live chat, what do you think of Orby? And I
think Orby is great too, I haven't tested Orby personally,
but it gets a lot of great reviews and that's
Netgear's product and it's perfect. Are yeah, that's Neckgear Orby right?
(35:33):
Or is it links to Orby? I think it's Neckgear.
I'm like scared to do anything on my computer because
I don't know what shows up. Oh you know, I
don't know what you see. But yeah, Orby is from Neckgear,
So yeah, I think that one's great too, So I
think any of them are going to be perfect for sure.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
All right, Okay, this next question comes from Larry. Is
it worth the money for Phone Soap three? And if so,
how much is it worth buying for?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Ooh, well, I will tell you Phone Soap. Let me
explain what it is. It's a it's a sanitizer for
your phone and it's also a charger as well. So
we interviewed the CEO of the company. And I never
used my Phone Soap. I got one for Christmas. I
think it was a year ago or two years ago,
(36:27):
and I never plugged it in until coronavirus. And now
I have it on my bedside and I put my
phone in there, not every day, but definitely after I
visit the grocery store. I pop it in there and
probably every you know, two or three days, I'll throw
it in there, and it's a UV light, so it
kind of closes up over it. It splashes your phone
with UV light and there's no water. That's the bad,
(36:50):
bad word to use.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
It was gonna be like what no, but it puts.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
It bathes your phone in UV light, and UV light
is proven to kill bacteria and viruses on the surface,
and so it kind of renders anything on your phone
that's a virus or bacteria useless. And so for that reason,
I like it. Now. I will tell you what I
learned from another infection specialist that told me that they
(37:19):
believe that the germs and stuff on your phone are
not that harmful to you because ninety nine percent of
the time they are our own germs. So I thought
that was interesting, and it kind of makes sense because
you would think people would be getting sick from their
phones all the time because we're carrying them everywhere. But
if you think about it, most of the time, it's
(37:39):
just you handling your phone. Now, people hand me their
phone all the time to do things. I generally don't
like to touch them because they're very dirty, and I
think that's where you get that cross contamination is when
you touch something else that's not yours. But most of
the time, so the argument being is that you're probably
more at risk of getting sick by touching someone else's phone,
(38:01):
or someone else's desk or on the you know, an airplane,
like the tray table that's dirty from the last person,
you know, anything, you're you're getting other people's germs. So
our homes are probably filled with germs, but they're mostly ours,
and that's why people think they get sick more when
they travel or they go out somewhere, you know whatever.
(38:21):
With all that said, I think that the I don't
think it can hurt to have a phone soap it's
eighty bucks for this device, and he's asking how much
do I think it's worth? Probably because the devices are
sold out everywhere, and so maybe he's looking at it
on eBay and that's why how much is it worth?
(38:41):
But I think it's worth it, And I don't know,
do you have one of these things? I think also
with a phone. With a phone, ever since Apple said
that you can use a liceol wipe on it, I
think it'll be just just as well served with a
lice al wipe.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
You can buy liceol wipes. They're literally like I found
available Lifesol wipes and Clorox wipes yesterday and they were
gone in a second.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Did you order on Amazon? No, they were gone.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
So you were watching the websites that tell you about
the Yeah, yep, yeah, yeah. I find most of the
time those things are just sold out instantly and that's it.
They're there. They keep going in stock. But yeah, they're
really tough to get. But if you can, and my
only advice with those when you're using them on your
phone is to ring them out a little bit, Like
you don't want like a sopping wet lice all wipe
on your phone because it's no, it's just a little
(39:29):
bit too wet. I think if you ring it out
just a little bit, you don't want to get rid
of everything. But then you use that and that'll clean
your phone. And I've been using them on my phone
in my computer now and it's great, so nice. All right,
I think we have time for one more question, Megan.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Okay, this next question comes from Sally. We tried having
a virtual dance birthday party for our friend's birthday last night, but.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Everyone could barely hear the music.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Is there an app we can use in which everyone
in the group can hear the music at the same time?
Any other suggestions.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
On how to do this?
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Did she say how she did the party? Did she
say she did it on Zoom? No? Okay, Now, I'd
probably just recommend Zoom. And the way I would recommend
it is you can do a couple of things. If
you have like another like another, like I would Here's
what I would do. I would personally either share my
screen and have YouTube up on the screen, and that
(40:27):
is my audio. So YouTube is basically one of the participants.
So I think that that's probably the best way of
doing it, and then you have the audio is sort
of piped in from your computer into Zoom. The other
way you can do it is if you want, you
can connect your phone to your computer. But the thing
(40:49):
is you want to have the music as a participant
on your Zoom. That's the best way of doing it.
So I would use my phone to connect for me
to show my face, and then on my I would
be a participant and share my screen, but I would
have YouTube on the computer and that would be piping
in the audio, and that way everyone hears the audio
nice and clean. I can play DJ on YouTube and
(41:12):
we can all be participating from our phones. That would
probably be the best way to do it.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
I like that it's a little bit of set up
and you need two devices. But I would say a
lot of people have a computer and a phone, so
or access to that.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
And also parties take a little bit of setup in general.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
So yeah, like you wouldn't expect a DJ to just
come to your party and like play music off his
smartphone speaker. Right, you gotta pipe into something.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
You gotta put some effort into it.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Got anything in life, if you want it to be good,
you gotta put a little effort into it. So that's
that's my life advice for you. Can you believe it, Megan,
that's going to take us to the end of this show.
That's going to do it for this episode, I would say,
if you want links to what we talk about, take
a look at the show notes. But we really don't
have links to what we talked about because we just
talked about a lot of stuff. But if you want
(42:02):
to submit a question for me, you can go to
my website. Rich on tech Dot TV. At the bottom
scroll down, there's a little envelope for email. Just tap
that and you can send me a question. Or you
can find me on Instagram. I am at rich on
Tech Megan. How can folks find you?
Speaker 2 (42:16):
I'm on Twitter at producer.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Megan And if you like this podcast, notwithstanding all of
these crazy coronavirus episodes, please rate and review it. Go
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Speaker 2 (42:40):
It helps us. It makes us feel the connection.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
It makes us feel the connection. That's true. I'm rich
to arou on behalf of everyone that gets this show
to your ears. Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you
real soon.
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