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Speaker 1 (00:10):
The app that invests in the companies that you do
business with. Last Pass makes some big changes and not
everyone's gonna like them. New Samsung features come to last
year's phones. Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on?
I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the
podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think
you should know about. It's also the place where I

(00:33):
answer the questions you send me. My name is Rich Dmiro,
tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Hope
you are having a wonderful, wonderful day. I know, I
know not the best of circumstances in our world right
now with this whole pandemic, but you know, people are
getting vaccinated and the numbers are coming down, which is nice.

(00:54):
It feels good. It feels like we're getting to a
place where there is some light at the end of
the tunnel, and I am excited for that. So thanks
for doing your part. Ten years at KTLA, That's what
I'm celebrating this week. Ten years at KTLA. I can't
believe it. I truly cannot believe that I have been

(01:17):
at this TV station for ten years. So just to
give you some perspective, when I joined KTLA, I had
no kids, now I have two. Probably had a lot
less wrinkles. Let's see what else. Oh, gosh, it probably
went through two different cars, three different cars, perhaps, God.

(01:37):
I mean just so many things. I mean, so much
has changed in ten years. But I will say one
thing is, oh, two different studios, I mean, you know,
different producers. I mean, it's really been interesting because when
you're doing something for that long, it doesn't feel like
that long. Like I can remember the day that I

(01:58):
walked into KTLA, literally can remember the day. I could
remember my first story. I could remember my first interactions
with people I'll never forget. I wrote down everyone's name
that I met in in an ever not note so
that I could like go back and memorize names of
all the producers and all these people. And so I
wonder if I could find that note because I had
everyone's name, because I wanted to like make sure that

(02:18):
I was doing the right thing. This was a big
jump for me. And one thing that has not changed
is really, you know, just well, I guess it has.
I guess it's evolved the way that I do things,
the way that I do my stories. I mean, I
you know, I didn't really know what I was doing
when I came into there. You know, I knew that
I wanted to do tech, but I wasn't sure. And

(02:39):
now I think the biggest change is that I am
so honed in on my stories and what I think
a story on TV should be and who I think
it should be for. And a lot of it comes
down to just helping people like this podcast. Like I
take for granted that I cover tech news twenty four
to seven. It's all I think about. It's all on

(03:01):
you know, saturated with every day, day in, day out.
And then I talk to a regular person and I
realize that the stuff that I am just immersed with,
they have no clue, and it's like wow. So this
is why people like to watch the segment, because I
am sitting here taking all this information in about the

(03:21):
tech world and distilling it into something that you need
to know about. And that's for me too. I mean
I do the same thing with people that I read
and people that I look up to that you know,
do nutrition or you know, like I've talked about this
guy that I follow on YouTube, flave City, and he's
the guy that I look to to find things in
target that are good and healthy for you when you shop.

(03:42):
And I don't know about that stuff, but he does
because he's sitting there taking the time to go through
it all. And so again it's like this circle that
you know, I cover this stuff and keep track of
it so that you don't have to. And if you're
a tech enthusiast, of course you're a little bit more involved.
But most of the people that are watching on KTLA
and our other partner stations are just I call them

(04:03):
drive by techies. They're just watching the news and all
of a sudden, my segment comes on and I explain,
you know, the new Clubhouse app and they're like, oh, interesting,
I haven't heard of that before. But then all of
a sudden they're at a you know, a little get
together with their with their niece or nephew or whatever,
and someone's like, oh, I'm using Clubhouse, and like, I
know what that is. I heard it on the news

(04:26):
and that's what it's all about. So thank you for
ten great years. It's it's been awesome. I'm not going
anywhere anytime soon, so I'll be here for another couple
of years, you know. I mean, it's just continues on
and I will continue to grow the product, grow what
I do, and just continue to reach people in new ways.

(04:46):
So thank you for being a part of it. All. Right,
let's get started with the first story of the week.
This is always interesting to me, so Samsung. Not a
huge story, but Samsung this week announced that the features
from the Galaxy twenty one are coming to the Galaxy
S twenty and not every feature, but a lot of them.
And what I think is funny about this is that

(05:07):
they don't really say this information at the beginning when
they're selling the S twenty one because they don't want
to give you that information. They want you to wonder, hmmm,
is this new object eraser coming to other phones? I
don't know. I guess I'll just have to buy the
new one. And so it's like clockwork that we see

(05:28):
as soon as the initial marketing push is over, and
it's been about four weeks for the Samsung Galaxy S
twenty one series, now they're like, oh, oh, by the way,
if you didn't buy one, we're just gonna give you
some of those features and some of the features coming
to the Let's see, it's the S twenty, S twenty
plus S twenty Ultra S twenty FE which was a
huge seller last year, Galaxy Note twenty series and the

(05:50):
Galaxy Z foll two and the Z Flip. So here's
the update which is rolling out right now. It's called
one UI three point one. You'll get an improved single take.
I'm not a huge fan of the single take feature.
I think it takes a lot of unnecessary pictures. But
I could see how it could be useful in certain circumstances,
like if your kid is jumping off, like, you know,

(06:11):
a rock into the water or something, which why would
your kid be doing that, you know, like they'd probably
be a teenager. Actually, I don't want anyone jumping off
any rocks anytime. I see that. And I grew up
going to lakes. Believe me, I've seen plenty of people
jump off rocks into the lake. I just wasn't one
of them. I'm just too like, I can't do it,
you know, it's just not my thing. So bad example,
But let's say they're blowing out birthday cake candles, then

(06:33):
this is where you'd want the single take because with
one shutter hit or you know, click of the shutter,
it will take some pictures. It will take some videos,
it will take some white angles, black and white color whatever,
and so you get all these variety of pictures with
a variety of lenses all at once, and it's cool.
But I find that you just get a lot of
stuff that you don't really need. But there are definitely

(06:54):
some circumstances where that would be cool. Object Eraser, which
I think is just amazing. If you haven't watched my
YouTube video on it, please go to YouTube and search
rich on Tech object Eraser Samsung. It's so cool. You
take a picture, you go to object Eraser, you tap
the thing you don't want in the picture, and it
removes it pretty amazingly and effortlessly improved touch auto focus

(07:15):
and auto exposure controller. I wasn't really aware of that one,
but it's there. And then multi mic recording, which in
pro video mode you can record audio through your phone
and a connected Bluetooth device, so that's really cool. I
Comfort Shield, which is with blue light. And then Private Share,
which I think is a very very great feature. So
when you're sharing a photo from the gallery, you know

(07:37):
this is from the native gallery, not like Google Photos.
But if you share a photo, it will say there
will be an option to include the location. And I
think that's really smart because, you know, especially if you're
just sending a picture to you know, Craigslist or something
or I don't know, whatever people do with pictures, you
don't always want your private information in there because it
shows exactly where you took that picture. So those are

(08:00):
the features from the S twenty one coming to the
S twenty So if you have one of those phones,
definitely check for an update. Those are rolling out right now.
All right, let's get to the first question of the day. Hey, rich, First,
thank you for all your help to all of us.

(08:21):
I've been shopping for a computer for my mom. She
just needs it for email, web search, and YouTube. Do
you think this is legitimate? See the link? Have you
heard of these guys? Seems too good to be true?
What do you think? Thank you? Michael and Michael sent
this long link from a thing called I'm not you
know what. Maybe I won't say the name of the company,

(08:41):
but it's just some random thing that I've never heard of.
The domain endzine dot top and you click it and
let's see redirecting you to a MacBook Pro website I've
never seen before. One hundred and forty nine ninety five
for an Apple sixteen inch MacBook Pro with touchbar, ninth Gen,
eighth core, Intel two point four gigaherts, sixty four gigs

(09:05):
of RAM. Oh my god, this thing is maxed out
four terabytes SSD drive for one hundred and fifty bucks. Now,
if you got this computer on Apple dot com, it
would be about four thousand dollars, and this is one
hundred and forty nine ninety five. Let's see add to
Karte and let's check out, and let's see what the
scam is here, because this is definitely a scam. So

(09:27):
an order, an item you ordered is in very high demand,
no worries. We have reserved your order so it doesn't
run out of stock. Before checkout, you have nine minutes
and forty eight seconds, and they have a sixty day
satisfaction guarantee over thirty two hundred and forty five successfully
shipped orders, and you place your order, and I don't

(09:49):
even understand what the scam is here. I mean, you're
just basically getting scammed as soon as you check out here,
You're not getting a four thousand dollars computer for one
hundred and forty nine ninety five. There's just no way.
So I get it, and I think, you know, let's
see what was it, Brian Michael. I think Michael was
pretty smart in having his spidey sense saying something doesn't

(10:12):
seem right here. So this is just totally now Here's
how we figure out if this store is legit. Okay,
Number one. You go to the page that this MacBook
is on, okay, and I'm looking for anything. If you
scroll down, I mean, it's got a screenshot of the

(10:33):
Apple website as the description. Then it's got random pictures
of this computer that seem like they're from random people.
You scroll all the way down to the bottom of
the website and there's literally nothing, no contact information, no nothing.
If you go to about us, congrats you found a
place with the coolest items. We have spent years searching

(10:53):
for creative, smart, and useful products around the world. No
contact information, no social media information, know nothing. This is
a totally bogus website that if you try to purchase
this MacBook from Number one, your credit card is probably
off to some marketplace that people will be purchasing your

(11:15):
number in seconds and you will never see this computer.
So Michael, good job. If it seems too good to
be true. It is. I see this stuff all the time.
In fact, whenever I do a story on a product,
people send me screenshots of those products and they say,
is this a good place to buy it? I found
it cheaper? No, it is not. If you're not buying

(11:36):
from Amazon, best Buy, you know these main retailers that
you've heard of, it's probably not a good idea, especially
if the price is too good to be true. I'm
not saying you can't buy from a mom and pop,
but you have to make sure it's legitimate. Look for
the contact information, look for the return policy, look for
a physical address, look for you know, social media links

(11:56):
to their Instagram and Twitter. If they don't have any
of that stuff, stay away, all right. Good? First question,
by the way, Michael, I would recommend a chromebook for
your mom because if she is just doing email, web search,
and YouTube, why does she need more than a chromebook.
So I would specifically recommend the new Samsung Chromebook because

(12:18):
they are coming out with a brand new chromebook. I
think it's the Chromek Samsung Chromebook two. Let me see
computing and sal a Galaxy Chromebook two. It's five hundred
and fifty bucks and it's a great chromebook. It's got
all day battery life. You know, it's light, it's thin.
I mean, this might be too much for mom, but

(12:39):
it's just a really nice, brand new chromebook that I
think Mom would like. And it's you know, the good
news about this with Mom is that you don't have
to worry about any sort of Oh it also folds
back as a tablet. That's even better. Yeah, five hundred
and forty nine dollars Intel Celeron with US sixty four
gigs of RAM and or sixty four gigs of storage

(12:59):
and four giga by RAM. So you can get it
in Fiesta red or Mercury gray. And you could even
trade in a phone or an old tablet. So if
you have an old tablet that you can trade in,
let's say you have an old iPad, let's see iPad
air eighty bucks off or an older iPad one hundred
bucks off. So do that. Speaking of chromebooks, according to

(13:22):
geek Wire, chromebooks outsold max worldwide in twenty twenty, and
this was at the expense of Windows computers. And this
makes a ton of sense because the pandemic had everyone
rushing to get a chromebook. People as I saw. I mean,
many people are rushing to get some sort of mobile
computing device for their kids or themselves. If you work

(13:43):
for a company, clearly they're probably going to supply that
for you. But there's a lot of other people out there,
and especially kids, and chromebooks really were the way to
go for kids. There's a lot of very bad chromebooks
out there, and I think people experience that. But I think,
like I said, with this Samsung Chromebook, pay a little
extra and get a better, proper chromebook. Don't don't spend
one hundred and fifty bucks in a chromebook. It's going

(14:04):
to be horrible. It's gonna last you less than a year,
and do the math. Spend a little bit more and
get something that's gonna last you a couple of years,
and that's going to not make you want to pull
your hair out because it's so slow and so terrible.
So let's see, Windows was down year over year five
points from eighty five percent to eighty percent in twenty

(14:25):
twenty market share. So Windows, when you think Windows, oh
so sad Microsoft nobody uses them anymore? Not true. Lots
of people use Windows. Chrome up four point four percent,
Chrome OS four point four points rather so six percent
market share to eleven percent market share in twenty twenty.
So when you think about Chrome Os, wow, it has

(14:48):
a ways to go. And you look at mac Os
up less than a point from six point seven percent
market share in twenty nineteen to seven point five percent.
So right now we've got Windows at eighty percent, chro
Home at eleven percent, or let's round these up. Windows
at eighty one percent, Chrome at eleven percent, and mac
Os at eight percent. This is according to IDC. And

(15:09):
so when you think about it now, I live in
Los Angeles, a very very MacBook centric town. You go
to any meeting, what are people clickity clocking on the MacBooks?
But they're only seven eight percent of the share, Chrome
books eleven percent, Windows eighty one percent. So still Windows
has the lion's share. And it just depends what you need,

(15:31):
you know. For me, I use Mac because I like
to edit and the programs I use are on here
and Windows is fine. I think it's I think what
Windows is doing is really good, especially with the touch screens.
I think that's amazing. When I use my MacBook, it's
and my kid, one of my kids has a Windows computer.
One has a MacBook and one with the windows, with

(15:51):
the you know, the ability to touch the screen is
just amazing, whereas the one that doesn't. He is always
trying to touch the screen, and there's so many times
when that would come in hand and we just don't
have it. So I think that touch screen is definitely
a feature that Apple needs to integrate into their laptops.
I don't know if it's gonna happen because they've got
the iPad thing going on, but it definitely, it definitely

(16:13):
helps in many many circumstances. All right, let's see here
we have got let's see Sherry, Hey, Rich, I received
two voicemails today and an email telling me not to
use my Apple device until I contact Apple. Is this

(16:35):
some kind of a hoax? Stay thank you and stay safe, Sherry. Sherry,
You're right, it is some kind of hoax. And I
see this stuff all the time, and it's so exhausting
because these scammers are just never ending. And good example,
I put on my Facebook page Facebook dot com slash

(16:56):
Rich on tech I had another woman email me saying, hey, Rich,
is this jit? I don't think it is, but just
tell me if you think it is. And it was
a screenshot of you know, an Apple case ID. Hello.
Due to a problem with the payment method, we couldn't
charge your account for your case and this, you know,
goes on with this long case number that you know
they just made up. If you don't update your information

(17:17):
in twenty four hours, your Apple idea will be permanently locked.
Oh my gosh. To unlock Apple ID, please visit this
link to log in with your Apple ID and update
your billing information, and it gives you an Apple Apple
dot com slash update slash billing which I asked the
person who originally sent this to me to send me
the actual screen, you know, the email, so I can

(17:41):
click the link. And I don't recommend that you click links,
but if you're going to click links to see what
they're all about, what you do on the iPhone is
you press and hold the link. You don't actually tap it.
If you press and hold, it will bring up a
preview of that link, and then on that preview you
can see in the upper left hand corner what the
actual link is. Because just because a link says appleid

(18:03):
dot com, that doesn't actually mean it brings you to
appleid dot com. What they do is they use that
as the URL, and then they hide the actual link
under that URL, and so when you click it, it's
a totally different link, and it's usually bogus. And so
in this case, the actual link when I pressed and
held it to see the preview, is an ninety one
dash S eight F four U five three sp dot

(18:26):
uc dns dot org. That does not sound like an
Apple website to me. And Apple is not sending these
urgent emails to you. Oh my gosh, you need to
update your your credit card information where we freeze your
account forever. No, they don't do that. I mean, all
I know is I get no emails from Apple. I
just get my credit card and actually, okay, so here's

(18:48):
what was happening, truthfully, is that I, you know, I
have all these little things that get purchased on my
Apple ID, and it goes to an old email address.
I can't seem to change my Apple ID to like
my current emails, so I have to use this old
email address I never use, which I guess in some
ways is more secure. But I really was trying to
figure out, like I get these charges on my credit
card or debit card for nine ninety nine two ninety nine,

(19:10):
a dollar ninety nine, two ninety nine, a dollar ninety nine.
It just keeps going, and I'm like, what are these
charges for? Like, shouldn't Apple send an email to me
letting me know what these charges are? Sure enough, they do,
but they were all going to spam in my old
email address. So I created a filter on that old
email to make them not go to spam and also
forward to my current email address. And so now I'm

(19:31):
getting all these emails from Apple and yeah, they just
charge you. And you know they're not going to send
you an email that says your account's going to be
permanently disabled. I mean, that just doesn't happen. They're not
going to call you to tell you anything. That's just
not how these tech companies operate. So if these things
happen to you, and if you're listening to this podcast,
you're a little bit ahead of the curve. So this
is the kind of stuff you need to tell your

(19:52):
family members and just make sure they're aware. Because I
had this thing where my mom sent me a message
on LinkedIn and it said, hey, Rich, just saying hi,
And I was like, what, my mom is not on LinkedIn?
So I text her and I because I was like, oh,
she must have gotten hacked. I text her, I said, Mom,
did you text me through LinkedIn? Like did you send

(20:14):
me a message? Because yeah, I just found my password,
so I figured I just send you a message and
I'm like, what, okay. But the good news is that
I actually did not sort of interact with her or
do anything or you know, I wanted to warn her, like, hey,
you got hacked, but I wanted to make sure so
when in doubt, do a little research, check things out
and uh, you know, find the source before you just
hand over your information. Because these people are are really

(20:37):
really just ugh, they just they never never end, all right.
Last Pass is speaking of passwords. Last Pass is a
free or was a good free option for password saving,
and now it is no longer because there basically is
still a free option, but it's it's kind of worthless

(20:58):
for the average person. And I say this because last
Pass is now changing the way they do business for
their free users, and it's kind of sad because so
many people probably chose Last Pass because of this free
option that is now going away. And yes, you can
still get a free option from last Pass, but it
is so so cobbled that you're not going to want

(21:20):
to use it because it just doesn't. You'd be better
off paying for a service that actually works than this. Okay,
so this is their blog post saying each week millions
of last Pass users add millions of passwords and blah
blah blah blah for more than twenty million users. They
have twenty million users, and they have a free offering.
But they're making some changes. And here's the free offering change.

(21:44):
In a nutshell. You now have to choose what types
of devices you want to access your free passwords on.
You can only choose one. You can choose either computers
or mobile devices, but not both at the same time.
So why is that a problem? Let me give you
a scenario you have. You've got a computer and a
smartphone and they both have last Pass installed in them,

(22:05):
the free last Pass. Now, all of a sudden, you
only get that option on one. So you go on
your mobile device, you choose that and you make a
new password, and of course, because you're using last Pass,
you're making a really strong password for this new website
that you're signing up for. Well, now you want to
log into that website on your desktop computer well, guess what.
You can't just go to last Pass and have it

(22:25):
automatically fill that password in on your browser, nor can
you copy and paste. You have to go to your
phone look at that password, and you know, bring it
and type it in on your computer and it's going
to be twenty seven characters long and it's going to
be a pain. So now you're just frustrated and you say, oh,
I'll just break down and purchase last Pass premium, which
is what they're trying to make you do. Now, if

(22:46):
you have a Mac computer and an iPhone, yes you
can say, rich, can't you just copy the password on
your iPhone and use handoff to paste it onto your MacBook?
Yes you can, which would work. But if you're using
both of those services, then you know you can use
my next solution, which is just to use iCloud Keychain,
which is built in It's a it's a password manager

(23:08):
that's built into the iOS and well the Apple ecosystem,
and if you have all Apple products, that's what I
recommend you use because it's free. I mean, you're already
paying the price by being in the app Apple ecosystem,
which is not a cheap thing to be in so
you might as well use it, and it's great. It's
integrated into Safari. Now you're not going to get the
robust features that a independent third party password management software

(23:33):
will give you. But if you're just on Apple and
you want a free solution, it works great. And yes,
it works very nicely. So Last Past changing the way
they do it. You got to choose one or the other.
You can see and you know, use your passwords on
mobile devices or computers as of March sixteenth, So this
is gonna have a lot of people either upgrading, you know,

(23:54):
and paying for the premium, which is not that expensive.
It's it's if you build annually. It's two twenty five
a month. Twenty five times twelve is twenty seven dollars
for the year. No big deal, but it's more of
a it's more of like a kick in the shin. Right,
you signed up for this thing because it was free,
and they kind of got rid of that trust because

(24:15):
now it's like, I mean, there's still trustworthy business and
I still think last Pass is good. And it's yes
to twenty seven dollars a year. It's fine. I pay
for password software and it's you know, it's fine. I've
been paying for it for a long time and it's
great and I get my use out of it. But
I'm just saying that I think a lot of people
signed up for this because they didn't have to pay.
And this is why when people always ask me, hey, Rich,

(24:37):
what do you recommend for password software? I would always
give them a couple options because I want them to
choose the best option for them. So in general, what
I would tell people is, and if you've listened to
this podcast, you've heard this, I say, a lot of
people like last Pass because it's free or they have
a free option. A lot of people like dash Lane,
a lot of people like one password. And now the

(24:58):
new one that a lot of people are using, and
I might actually do a story with them, is called bitwarden.
And this one is an open source password manager. And
of course I think they still have plans and pricing.
So free is personal plans, free is zero, So I

(25:19):
mean you can get that for zero and that includes
two people. That's pretty good. Actually, oh that's business plans. Sorry,
personal plans free. Okay, it's free, all right, So that's
probably where you want to go. Now, let's see hold on, Yeah,
Bitwarden is free across all devices, So there you go.

(25:40):
If you're looking to switch now, I have switched these
in the past and it will hold on. I'm going
through these. Yeah, we need to do a story on
bitwarden because this is pretty good. So max users for
free is one access to the apps, item storage, unlimited
sync across all your devices is. Yes, you cannot share things,

(26:02):
so you have to have a family account for that
secure password generator. You can't attach a gig of files
that you have to pay for encrypted export so you
can do that. So what I was saying is these
password management programs usually have an export feature where you
can export and then import your password to another one.
So if you're thinking of leaving last pass, I would
take a good look at bitwarden. I have not used

(26:24):
it personally, but it looks pretty strong and I like
that it's open source, two step log in. It supports that.
Now it doesn't support let's see. Yeah, so I think
Bitwarden sounds pretty good. Otherwise, it's ten dollars a year
for the premium and forty dollars a year for the family,
So I think this sounds like a great alternative. I've

(26:46):
gotten so many people on Twitter to tell me that
they're using Bitwarden. And by the way, you know, I
struggle with this privacy stuff. I don't think it's a
great idea to advertise which password manager you're using. Now,
I get it, you're you're not you know on TV.
You're not a major, you know, celebrity or someone that

(27:06):
you know whatever. My point is, I think that it's
fine to telp your friends and family, but I wouldn't
post it on social media because why give the bad
guys one extra step to figuring out where to target you? Right,
So that's my advice. And you know you're you're listening
to the rich On Tech show, so that means it's

(27:28):
my advice on this show. I'm just telling you what
I think, and that's what I think. So there you
have it, Sandy says Hi. I used to watch you
all the time. Unfortunately we moved to Bakersfield. I stream occasionally.
What website do you recommend to find the cheapest flight?
Also our Tuesday's cheaper round trip. I need to fly

(27:52):
from lax to Dallas Fort Worth tomorrow. Any suggestions, Sandy? Well, Sandy,
this is a great question, and you know I use
to fly a lot. I haven't. I've only flown once
in the last year, which is just wild to me.
I can't wait to get back up there. But I
only use one website, and that one website is Google Flights,

(28:12):
and that's flights dot Google dot com. I don't think
you need another website to search for flights. And the
reason I think that is because Google is the best
when it comes to finding the cheapest flights, the way
you can slice and dice flights, even just popping in
a place and searching and finding suggestions on where to

(28:36):
go that are cheap. So right now, if I look
from Los Angeles and I want to let's I just
want to do a one way ticket somewhere, you know,
in the next six months. Let's just say in March,
I can now look at an entire map of the US,
and let's say I want to go NonStop. I only
want to go NonStop. This map continues to change with

(28:58):
all of the information that I'm putting in. Let's say
I just want to look at skiing. Now it changes
to skiing, and I see that I can go to
Aspen for three hundred and thirty five dollars. On Wednesday,
March seventeenth, or I can go to Reno on Wednesday,
March seventeenth for thirty nine dollars, or I can go
to Portland for sixty nine bucks. Let's say I don't
want skiing. Let's say I only want to fly on

(29:20):
a certain airline because I am with Star Alliance. Now
I can see just those flights. So I think Google
Flights is just the best. It is so amazing, it's
so easy. It's the only thing I've used to search
for flights for as long as it's been around. Now
I have actually booked a flight through Google Flights. But
most of the time it links you right to the

(29:41):
specific carrier, and in some ways it'll even find you
cheaper flights because they call these hacker fares, which hacker
fares are fares that maybe leave on one airline and
come back on another airline, and so that's on there.
I mean, it really is good. So check out Google Flights,
and to answer your question, I probably missed your flight

(30:02):
that you needed, but you know this is what I
look at, and you can save your trips, you can
watch trips, you can. I mean, it's just so full
featured that I love it. I just and you wonder
where is Google get this information? Many years ago, they
bought a site or I don't know, it was a
company called I think it was called it Google Ita
or is it x I think it was Google Ita

(30:25):
Ita software Matrix by Google. So Matrix is from ITA
and they bought this a long time ago and it's
basically the software that all the travel agents used to use,
and now Google has it. And of course the best
thing about Google is that the the information around the
flights is not just one thing. They're using so many
signals to help you figure out these flights that I

(30:47):
just think it's brilliant. And I know I love Google,
but this is just one of those examples of how
big data just really wins for the consumer when it
comes to booking these things. And yeah, there's some ads
and stuff, but the way that you can slice and
dice the fly data is just so amazing to me.
I don't you know, Kayak does a good job too,
But I think there's a lot of there's a lot
of like noise on these other websites, and I think

(31:11):
that Google Flights is just kind of the cleanest and
the easiest for me to understand. So that's the only
one that I look at. And my personal favorite feature
is if you are flexible with your flights, look at
the calendar view. So if I type in the flight
that I always do, which is LAX to EWR, and
then I put round trip one person, first class, of course,

(31:31):
just kidding, I wish, but you know, you can put
in economy, premium, economy, business, or first and then you
just click instead of choosing a date, you just click
and wait a second, and the calendar populates with green
numbers showing the cheapest days to fly. And if you
just pick those two days, so if I want to
fly there right now, I would go, Okay, March first

(31:54):
is out. Second, Okay, I gotta go to March ninth,
which is ninety five dollars. Oh ooh, March tenth was
even cheaper, So I'm gonna reset the calendar. Let's go
to March tenth. And then I wait a second on
the calendar and I wait for the return dates to
light up green, and the cheapest return date is the fourteenth,
and I can go round trip for seventy nine dollars.

(32:17):
Oh my gosh, seventy nine dollars for round trip to
Newark Okay, Now this is on Spirit Airlines with one
stop in Florida. I am not gonna do that, so
I'm gonna change it to NonStop, which is again. And
now I can go back to my calendar and check
for the cheapest dates. Press reset one more time, and
I'm looking at all the dates and the cheapest is

(32:37):
one ninety seven. And if I go on March fourth
to March seventh, eighth, I can go for the whole
week if I want fifth through seventh, and there we
go one hundred ninety seven bucks round trip. So that
is how I search for flights, and you gotta be
a little flexible to get those cheapest dates. But I
just love how they show you all this information, So
check it out. That's the way I do it, and

(33:00):
I hope you love it. All right, what should we
talk about next? All right? I talked about this a
little bit last week. I'm not going to spend too
much time, but I got a question about do you
install antivirus software on your iPhone? And on this podcast
for many years, I've been saying no, no, no, you
don't need it, and I got to thinking, oh gosh,
what if I'm giving people the wrong information all this time, right, Like,

(33:21):
what if I'm totally wrong about this? So what I did?
I went to a cybersecurity expert, Kevin Tatavosian. He runs
a company called cyber Duo here in Los Angeles, and
I said, Kevin, what is the deal with antivirus software
on your iPhone? And my heart was like a little

(33:42):
bit shaky because I was like, oh my gosh, what's
his answer going to be? Have I been giving out
the wrong advice all the time? And he said, after
a little bit of like one little breath, he said,
you don't really need it, and here's why. And I said, oh, okay,
I've been giving people the right information. Here's why, and
it's exactactly what I have been saying. He said. His

(34:02):
term was that apps on the iPhone live in separate containers,
which makes them secure. The way I've been explaining it
is that each app is sort of sandbox. And if
you think about a sandbox, think about a sandbox with
really high sides. The sand isn't going anywhere. You can
plain that sandbox as much as you want throw the
sand around, but as long as those sides are high,
you're not gonna get the sand outside that box. And

(34:26):
this is the way you can think of of iPhone apps.
They are sandbox, which means they've got really high sides,
which even if they're getting all wild and crazy inside
that sandbox, they're not going to affect other apps because
the way iOS is is engineered, it's everything is sandboxed
on its own, so one app can't reach out of
that sandbox and grab onto another app the way it
can on a Windows machine or even a Mac computer.

(34:49):
And so that's why I've said, you don't really need
this stuff on your phone, and you especially don't need
to pay for it. So that's that. Now. The other
thing you did say is on Android, and I've been
saying on Android, I was a little bit waffly. I
don't really think you need it, but there's definitely more
potential for apps to interact with each other on Android,
and that's what he agreed with. So on Android, I

(35:10):
probably would recommend if you are, you know, someone who
may click a link that's bad, or someone who may
be downloading stuff that's bad. Not bad, I mean, like mau,
you know it could be potentially bad, like you just
don't know, like if you're setting up your phone for
a family member that is less than tech inclient, you
might want to put antivirus on there because it might

(35:31):
click a link in one of these text messages that
is less than smart to click. And so there's a
website called what is it called avtest dot dot org
that kind of ranks all of these antivirus software for
both the laptop and the or you know, desktops and laptops.
And why is it coming up in German? Weird? Okay,

(35:57):
let me get that English. So anyway, they I recommend
a VAST and AVEG, which I would concur with. I've
heard good things about them. I did install them on
my Android phone. The only thing I don't like about
them is I don't know if this is an Android thing,
but they have to have a persistent notification to work
all the time, and I hate that. I hate persistent
notifications on my Androids. And what that means is it's

(36:19):
a notification that never goes away. It just stays there forever,
and it's like a vast is running and protecting you.
And I'm like, okay, I get it. Can I just
get rid of that? I don't want you there. But
I think because of the way this operating system is engineered.
They have to have that notification so that it can
run all the time and basically take over in a

(36:40):
heartbeat if you click a link that it needs to scan.
So I think that's why. But there's other antivirus apps
out there. You can check the av testavdash test dot
org if you want to see what's good for you.
And I think my Windows computer, you know, my advice
for that stands as well, which is, you know, if
you have a Windows computer, just update your software. They've

(37:02):
got Windows Defender built in, so you know, use that.
And uh they recommend this website called on Lab a
h N lab. I've never heard of that, but that's
what they recommend. And then a VAST and AVG so
I would go with one of those. They actually rank okay,
so they rank Microsoft Defender way down. They rank it. Yeah,

(37:25):
it's like tenth on the list. So maybe you want
to put, you know, one of these other ones on
your Windows computer. They're free, so you know, it should
it should help. But anyway, that that's the advice on
the the iPhone antivirus. Don't worry about it an iPhone
if you have an Android probably and if you have
a Windows computer, you might want to look into it.
And if you have a Mac, I don't really think
you need it on the Mac just yet, but that

(37:45):
could change as max continue to get more popular. All right,
Raymond sent a very cryptic email. All it said was
how to save data and numbers. That's it, And I'm
guessing he means he's switching to a new phone. Oh oh,

(38:07):
his subject line did say upgrade phone. Okay, so upgrade phone,
how to change, how to save data and numbers. So
I get it. You're switching phones. You want to save
and it says sent from Inxfinity Connect application. So my advice,
if you have a phone on iPhone, you can just
back everything up to the iCloud. So if you have
an iPhone, back everything up to iCloud, you can use that.

(38:29):
Or if you have one of these third party apps,
like if you have like Verizon or like AT and
T and maybe T Mobile has one as well. They
have like these cloud apps that come included usually with
like a you know, the higher end subscription plans, like
an unlimited plan, and you get like a little maybe
a little bit of cloud space on there, but like

(38:51):
there's like a Verizon backup Assistant app. Okay, so if
you yeah, how to use backup assistant, so they call
it Verizon Cloud Slash Backup Assistant. So most of them
haven't installed. If not, you can install it by you know,
searching for backup Assistant. So I wonder if they have
backup Assistant for iPhone. Let's see iPhone. I don't know

(39:14):
if they do. They may, it looks like it might
be just Android. But anyway, so the point is you
can you can use one of those, but I think
your best bet on iPhone is just to use iicloud.
Make sure everything's backed up into I Cloud. Doesn't cost
you much if you're just doing data in numbers. You
can also use Google. So on Android you can download

(39:35):
the Google one app. And so if you download Google one,
even if you're not as paying subscriber, you still get
fifteen gigs of storage for Google. And the Google one
app has really upped the anti lately because it will
it will save the things that you need, which are
your contacts and your I think it does. Let's see

(39:56):
what does it do? Let me see Google one. Oh
on Android or iPhone? So on iPhone it will back
up your contacts, calendar, photos, and videos. So if you
just have a couple of things, you can back up
all that stuff, which is really cool. So you have
this on iPhone and Android, and it does the same
on Android. So I would use Google One. It's an
app and Google Play and also on the App Store

(40:19):
for Apple and you get fifteen gigs. That's probably the
easiest because you can just back up your contacts, you
back up your calendar, back up your photos, your videos,
and boom, it's all there. It's in Google. It's safe.
And then when you get your new phone, download that
Google One app and just bring it back to you.
Now this is a little confusing because it also if
you're signed into Google, you can back up all your

(40:41):
contacts and stuff to Google, and of course your calendar.
But I think that this makes it a little bit
clearer that you are backed up, and I think that
that's an easy way to do it, and especially if
you're helping migrate like a friend or a family member,
that's an easy way to do it as well. So
I think people forget about these apps, but they are
out there, so just search for them. And then there's
of course third party apps, which you know you have

(41:03):
to be a little bit wary about those, because you know,
you are talking about your calendar and your contacts and
giving access to the items on your phone. So just
be a little bit more aware. If it's like a
random app that you're, you know, downloading to back up
your contacts, you want to use a trusted source in
that case, because these are your contacts, all right. Quick

(41:25):
housekeeping note, Apple TV is now Apple TV app is
now available on chrome Cast with Google TV. And when
I posted this on my Facebook page, I was like,
I don't even know how to explain this because here,
let's let's break this down for a second. The Apple
TV app, which includes Apple Plus, is now available on

(41:46):
chrome Cast, but only chrome Cast with Google TV. Do
you see how many things are mixed in there. It's like,
I don't know what you're talking about, Rich, So breaking
it down, Google TV is the chrome cast that came out.
I think it's called Chrome Cast with Google TV. This
is the fifty dollars chrome cast that came out. I

(42:07):
think it was last year, maybe October and maybe earlier,
but I bought one immediately. It has the best way
I can describe it. It's the only chrome cast that
has a remote control, so that's the way I describe it.
If your Chrome Cast has a remote control, that's the
one that is sort of an all in one system
that I think is a great streaming device. And in fact,

(42:29):
this was the one app that was not available on
chrome Cast with Google TV that I wanted, and I
ended up going back to my Apple TV. But now
I may go back to this because I really like
this device for various reasons. It continues to get better.
The thing I did not like about it is that
the apps take a little bit longer to load than
I would like. It doesn't seem to be as snappy

(42:52):
as Apple TV for loading apps. And my wife she
noticed that too. She's like, oh, Netflix takes a long
time to load. And so you know, if you're not
getting access to those those racy scenes in Bridgerton like
right away, I mean, you know, people get a little
oh my gosh, what's going on. I need need to
get my Bridgerton fixed, right if you watch Bridgerton, which

(43:14):
I didn't, I'm just joking because I know that there's
a joke because it's like the racist show apparently on Netflix. Anyway.
So Apple TV app now available on Chromecast with Google
TV and The reason I say this is because it
includes Apple TV Plus. So the first thing you could
do with the Apple TV app is access all the

(43:35):
items that you've purchased over the years on Apple TV
or i should say on iTunes. So all the movies
that you had, like if you're building a collection, you
can now finally access them through this Apple TV app.
But more importantly I think for more people is the
Apple TV Plus of ability to you know, ability to
access those items, which those are TV shows like ted Lasso,

(43:58):
the morning show Greyhound, which I did watch with Tom Hanks.
It was a pretty good movie Palmer starring Justin Timberlake.
I did not watch, but I've heard it's decent, and
there's a lot of random stuff like for the kids
on there, like the Snoopy show, which my kid I'm
trying to get him to watch that, but they're so
obsessed with Minecraft that it's like tough to take their
eyes off anything said Minecraft. I did. I did successfully

(44:21):
get rid of Roadblocks, though I will tell you that
in my home Roadblocks is limited to one hour on
a Saturday night and it's worked out. It's it's amazing
these these kids, the resiliency when they don't have something,
they don't really miss it, and yeah, I get a little,
you know, a little whining here and there. Oh, my
friends are playing roadblocks. Well yeah, and guess what. When

(44:42):
I talk to your friend's parents, they all say the
same thing. My kids are addicted to roadblocks and I
don't like it. And so, you know, it's this, it's
this honeymoon period with roadblocks where parents love it because oh,
my kid is so into this. Oh my gosh, it's
like I can take a little breather here for one hour,
two hours, three hour, four hours, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
unlimited hours because kids can stay on that unlimited. It's

(45:06):
unlike anything I've ever seen in my life, because when
I was a kid, you watched the show and you
couldn't wait to get back outside. Yeah, we were couch
potatoes on certain occasions, but for the most part, we
were outside all the time. And I know him sounding
like old man Rich, but I am. I'm getting older
and I'm realizing that some of this stuff is not

(45:26):
very good for our children. Now. I'm guilty of the
fact that I don't just let my kids go outside
and play for hours without me being out there. But
they can go in the backyard and play and it's like,
come on, you'll survive. My kid the other day told
me when I said go outside, he said there was
cat poop on the lawn somewhere. And we don't have
a cat, but there's some cats that run around the

(45:48):
neighborhood and they leave, you know, the little surprises for
me on the lawn, which is horrendous, but it happens.
And I'm like, really, the entire backyard is ruined because
there's one little area where a cat went to the bathroom. Yeah,
I don't want to step in it. Okay, okay, stay
away from that area because you know, Dad didn't really
feel like going to clean it up. I've had to

(46:09):
do that many times on our on our property. But uh,
you know, anyway, I digress. But the point is, I
don't know what the point was. But Apple TV Plus
is now on Google TV, and yeah you can get
it and limit limit roadblocks time. That's that's my advice.
Limit the time we have they So the funny thing

(46:30):
is now they're playing Minecraft. They get they get I
think it's two hours of Minecraft a day, but they
found this game on Minecraft, which I think looks a
lot like roadblocks called egg Wars, and now they're just
playing nah. So it's like I give up. You know,
It's like they just they just channel their energy into
these little games, and I get it. All the kids
we played games. I used to get a Nintendo thumb

(46:51):
from playing RC What was it RC pro Am? Is
that it was it RC pro Am? Yeah? RC pro Am.
Oh gosh, I'm really dating myself. Oh gosh. RC pro
Am was developed in for Nintendo in February nineteen eighty eight.
Oh god, yeah, but I used to get Nintendo thumb

(47:14):
from playing that. In paper Boy, we used to play
that forever and all these other video games. But you know,
you had to go into the basement and you know,
you came up to go outside. That's what we did anyway.
All right, let's take another question. Enough of my complaining.
Mario says, hello, oh, how appropriate. We just talked about

(47:35):
Nintendo And his name is Mario. Hello. My son is
fourteen years old and loves to sing and likes to
create his own sound slash music and is now combining
it with videos using a light motion app. I don't
know that one, and for making music he's using Soundtrap.
Can I suggest, Can you suggest what I can get
him to expand his interest looking for under three hundred dollars.

(47:55):
We don't have an Apple computer, just an HP Chromebook,
and he has an Apple phone, Mario, So Mario, my
advice is to get him an iPad. And I know, oh, Rich,
you only like Apple stuff. Oh my gosh, we stop
recommending Apple stuff. Well, I mean, look, this is the best.

(48:16):
You're saying you want to spend three hundred bucks. An
iPad is three hundred and thirty dollars usually on sale.
The latest generation is about three hundred and so look
around a little bit from a reputable place. Even Amazon
has it for three hundred. Generally, Google search iPad deals
and click the news and look for the bloggers blogging
about these deals because they like to blog about them

(48:36):
because they get a little cut of the product, and
you know the purchase price, and so you win and
they win, and we all win because they're tracking these
prices for you, and you don't have to go search
in Google for these random places. They'll they'll do the
math for you. So get them an iPad. And just
there are so many amazing apps on iPad that can
work with music and I think garage band is on

(48:57):
there for free, so he can start there. I've never
figured out garage band, but if but he's fourteen, so
he will and you'll find he'll find so many things.
Now he can use the microphone on the iPad to start.
But I would recommend you probably want to get them
a little microphone that he can plug into the iPad.
There are plenty that work with it. You might have
to get an adapter. You might not, but I would say, uh,

(49:21):
you know, they do have a USB to lightning adapter
for the iPad. Get them that and just do some research.
Look at Blue Microphones. They've got some really inexpensive microphones
for starters, and I believe one of them will plug
into the iPad. So if you look at microphones and
you know they've got this snowball mic for fifty bucks,
let's see if that is compatible with the iPad. Because

(49:45):
let's see, uh this is Let's see can you use
it with the iPad features and specs, USB output, plug
and play with Mac and PC. So let me just
google Snowball Snowball mic iPad and let's see if it
works with it. How to use Blue USB microphones with

(50:07):
an iPhone or iPad. And the answer is, it looks
like you can. They confirmed to work with Apple Lightning
to USB and USB C T USB adapters as well
as USB on the go technology. So there you have it.
You can get a little it looks like interesting. You
can connect it to an iPhone. Wow, Okay, there's a

(50:28):
lot of different Yeah, so just get the USB Lightning
to USB adapter and boom you're done. So that's what
I recommend. So you're talking four hundred bucks for a
full setup and he can grow from there. And now,
the microphone that I recently reviewed, which I am just
in love with, is called the Tula mic to Ula
and I'm not saying that you have to get this overnight,

(50:48):
but it's a two hundred dollars microphone that records into itself,
but you can also use it as USB. And I
have not confirmed if it works with I'm sure, yeah,
I'm sure. You can plug it into an iPhone with
the with the adapter as well, So with that he
can record music by itself and then he can bring
the audio files into iPads. So I mean, there's just

(51:10):
a world of possibility here. And I love the fact
that your son is doing this because let him be creative,
let him make stuff, and I think the iPad is
going to be the best way for him to get
started doing that. Eventually, you want to get him a MacBook,
But these these kids, I'm telling you, they are mobile first,
and he may not need a MacBook to do it.
He may be able to do everything he needs to

(51:31):
do on this on this computer, so on this tablet rather.
So that's that's what I re commend. All right, Let's see, uh,
let's see. Let's see what do we want to talk
about next. We got that, We got that, We talked
about that. Okay, let's talk about this one real quick.
In Google Maps, really cool feature. You'll you will be

(51:53):
able to pay for parking meters inside Google Maps. And
this is like a no brainer. I every time I
pull up to a parking meet, it amazes me that
I have to find a quarter in my car and
pay for that parking meter using a quarter. Now, yes,
a lot of the parking meters around here in Los
Angeles do take a credit card or a debit card,
But why do you even need to take that? Why

(52:15):
we all have smartphones. Put a QR code on that
parking meter, bring me to a page that lets me
pay for that meter with Apple Pay instantly, no sign up,
no nothing, nothing, just let me pay. And yeah, there's
a whole bunch of these companies that have set up
these systems that are super complicated where you gotta sign
up and sign in and download an app, and it's

(52:37):
such a pain that every city has a different system.
Just give me a QR code, let me scan it
and let me pay. Let me pay with Google Pay,
let me pay with Apple Pay, let me pay with
Samsung Pay. Is should just come up in the browser.
Oh we see you're at parking meter two seventy five
on North First Street. Would you like an hour of
time or two hours of time and boom you pay?
Maybe that's out there, but it's not out there in

(52:58):
a big enough way. So anyway, I say this because
Google Maps is now letting you pay for parking meters
from inside Google Maps. And so now when you park
at a meter, you can look for a pay for
parking button that appears when you get near your destination.
And this is okay, but I feel like this is
a little bit of an in between technology. We're going
to get there, but Google's trying and What Google's really

(53:20):
good at is like taking you know, because there's so
many of these providers out there that are doing parking.
What they are good at doing is taking all of
them and integrating them into their app and saying, it
doesn't really matter who's doing the back end processing of
this parking meter. We're just going to present a big
pay button to you and you press it and boom,
you're done. And that's basically what they've done. So they're

(53:41):
working right now with up two organizations. One is a
Passport and one is park Mobile. I did a story
with park Mobile many years ago in Hollywood when they
outfitted a whole bunch of meters in Hollywood with the
park mobile technology and it was great. This was at
least probably five, six, maybe seven years ago. And you know,
now Google is just making it easier because how many

(54:03):
people are actually gonna, you know, go to a new
city say, oh, that's cool, they use park Mobile. Let
me let me download the app, let me sign up,
let me sign in. No, half the people don't do
that because it's too much work. So if it's in
Google and they're just using park Mobile's back end network
and then on the front end, it's Google Pay. You're
in Google. It's all signed in with your email address.

(54:25):
You already you already have a you know, Google account. Boom.
It's easy. More people use it. So I think this
is brilliant. I love it. I hope they expand it.
Hopefully Apple Maps will do the same thing, because Apple
Maps is very similar. Both Apple Maps and Google Maps
are understanding that people are using these apps as a
one stop shop for everything, whether it's finding a restaurant

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to eat app. Maybe not so much yet, but it's
it's happening. I get the idea that you type in
Seattle and it gives you everything you need to know
about Seattle. Not just driving directions in Seattle, you get
biking directions, you get transit. So the other thing that
Google is doing in Google Maps is letting you pay
for your transit fares. So they're working with over eighty
transit agencies. Now, going back to my days when I

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lived in New York City, I will tell you that
I could not half the problem of living in New
York City when I was there is there was no
such thing as Apple Maps or Google Maps. There were,
there just wasn't, and so you would have to there
was a website or I think an app called like
Hopper or sub hoop or subway hop or something that
you would before you went somewhere. You go on your

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desktop computer, you type in your destination and you would
print out subway maps like directions to get to the place.
And now when I go to New York City, I
feel like I own that city when I'm on Google
Maps or Apple Maps, because it tells me exactly which
train to take, where the station is, how much time
it's going to take me. And with this new update

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with buses and trains, you can pay for your fare.
So that's the other thing is that, you know, if
I was ever buying like a let's say I went
to San Francisco for the day, you'd you know, it
would tell you you need to take the bar to
this station, and it would tell you how much it is,
six dollars, eighty five cents, whatever it is. And now
you'll be able to tap there and actually buy your

(56:13):
fare right from Google Maps and save that in your
little wallet and just show that or scan it or
whatever that you do for Clipper when you get there. Brilliant.
Same thing, you know, Las Vegas, you take the Monteroail.
It says, oh, you can take the monorail. You buy
your monorail pass right from within Google Maps. Now I'm
not saying, I'm not confirming that those two things are
indeed supported, but I'm just giving you an idea. You

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go to Japan and it's like, oh, I need to
take this train to wherever, and used to need this.
It's called a sweek a card and maybe that's integrated now.
So again it used to tell you how much it
would cost to get there. Now the next level is
to actually let you purchase that fare from right inside
Google Maps. You are so ready, you don't have to

(56:56):
deal with these little payment terminals inside the you know station.
Oh gosh, let me tell you a quick story. Oh
my gosh. I was in Japan once and I don't
know if I took the wrong train or whatever I did,
but I exited the train station and for some reason

(57:16):
I'm trying to remember this story, but I could not
get back into the train station because I did not
have a valid fare card. So whatever I did, I
really screwed up. And I don't know what I did,
but long story short, I ended up. I ended up,
and I thought I was gonna be arrested, And oh
my gosh, this was like the scariest moment because I

(57:38):
had to go through the exit and literally go to
the exit that I came out of. I had to
go the wrong way and buy my fare card, and
like I was like a salmon swimming upstream amongst all
these people, and I had to buy my fare card
to get back into the station so that I could
take the right train that I needed. And I don't

(57:59):
really remember the circumst answers. All I remember is that
it was very complicated and I had no cash, and
I it was like a whole big thing. Because in
Japan it's changed a lot. But back in the day
when I first started visiting the financial system, like they
did not take like American credit or debit cards anywhere
like they do now, like they used to. You know,
now it's gotten a lot better with tap to pay,

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But back in the day, Japan was very advanced and
everything was taped to pay, whereas American credit cards were not,
and it was it was either tap to pay or
like a chip card, I think, and American cards were
swipe and I just you just didn't have anywhere where
you could swipe anywhere. It just didn't. It wasn't a thing,
and so I think that's what the thing was. I
needed cash or I needed a Oh my gosh, And

(58:42):
I'm just thinking about it now because I haven't thought
about the story in so long. But it was so
scary that I just thought I was gonna be thrown
in a jail over there because I went through the
exit and I forget what happened if I ended up
asking one of the people if I could do it
or whatever it was. I did it and it worked
and I'm still here. So but oh my gosh, that

(59:02):
was That was a bad, bad feeling. All right, Do
I have time for one more question? I don't think
I do. I think it's uh. I think it's that time.
I think it's that time when you hear this music.
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