Biggest announcements from Google I/O

Google shows off latest features at its annual developer's event; Apple TV gets a redesigned remote control and more; Spotify comes to the Apple Watch; Twitter launches verification for everyone; Microsoft retires Internet Explorer and Ford unveils the all-electric F-150 Lightning.Listeners ask about managing social media videos on a smartphone, getting AirPlay on a Samsung TV, best internet solution for a motorhome, best security cameras that record to an SD card and getting photos off an old Kyocera flip phone.Follow Rich on Social Media!https://twitter.com/richontechhttps://www.instagram.com/richontech/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
The biggest takeaways from Google Io twenty twenty one, Apple
TV gets a new remote, Spotify downloads come to the
Apple Watch. Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on?
I'm Rich Dmiro 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

(00:30):
answer the questions you send me. And believe me, you
send me a lot of them. I say it every week.
You do. You never you never failed to surprise me
with how many questions you can send. And they're all
great questions, they really are. My name is Rich Demiro,
tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Thanks
for tuning in to the podcast, thanks for watching on TV,

(00:52):
and just thanks for being there. Ah so much tech
news this week. I think this might take the ward
for twenty twenty one of being the biggest week in
tech news of the year so far. I mean, I'm
just looking at the rundown here. We've got Google Io,
We've got the new Apple TV, We've got Spotify news,

(01:13):
we've got Twitter news, we've got Ford news, We've got
Microsoft news. It's a lot. There's been a lot going
on this week, so we're gonna get through it, and
we're going to talk about the questions that you have
sent me. But man, I you know, I'm always playing
with stuff. I'm always kind of experimenting with different tech
and stuff. And something that kind of bubbled up to

(01:37):
the surface or these electric bikes, you know, And so
a friend sent a thing that said, you gotta do
a story on these electric bikes. I said, no way,
They're way too expensive. I'm not doing that. And then
all of a sudden, I just start seeing more and
more about electric bikes. I mean, everyone's talking. I went
up to Ventura, which is here in California, and I
was on a bike path and just like half the
bikes whizzing past me were electric. And I said, okay,

(02:00):
I got to do something on this. And so one
of the big brands is called van Move, and they're like,
can we send you a bike? And I said no,
I don't want to deal with that, and they said please,
and I said, okay, fine, send me the test bike.
So I got it yesterday. I'm not kidding. I put
this thing together, which was a little little tricky, but
I finally got it working last night. And I am

(02:22):
like one hundred percent sold. I cannot believe this thing
is the Apple. It's the iPhone of electric bikes. And
I'm not ready to do my full review just yet
because I literally just went on it for like two
minutes last night. But it is so amazing. I mean,
it just takes bike. Now I want to commute to
my job with a bike. I'm like, how can I

(02:42):
commute on a bike like you know that last mile
like that? Or just take it and put it in
the bike locker. It's really really fantastic, So expect to
hear more about electric bikes soon. Another thing I've been
playing with is Amazon Music. I've been testing out all
the different music services because I'm just as curious, and
i gotta say, I'm actually quite impressed with what Amazon

(03:04):
Music is all about, because it's simple. It's just easy.
It's like the main thing I went down this rabbit
hole of trying to for some reason, all the maybe
I already mentioned this on the podcast last week, but
all the services on sons when you go to browse
your music services like they're all organized in like this
weird way, except for Amazon Music, where you can you know,
just search by like mood and genre whereas for some reason,

(03:26):
all the other ones want to like surface here's what
we think you should be listening to, because it's five
pm and it's dinner time, and it's you know, or
it's morning on a weekend, and it's just like no, no, no,
just let me pick what I want to pick. So anyway,
I've been truly impressed with Apple, Amazon Music. Oh yeah,
another story they went HD this week. Gosh, more and
more just news coming out. But anyway, let's start with

(03:49):
Google IO. This is the big developers conference from Google
that happens every year up in Mountain View. Last year
they did not do it. This year. It's virtual and
it it was okay. I mean, it was not the
most exciting event. I don't think the announcements were that groundbreaking,
but it was it was nice to see Google doing
kind of a hybrid event. They had, you know, there

(04:09):
are people standing in the middle of campus. It was live,
which I liked, and they had a couple people socially
distanced just kind of watching in the audience, maybe like
ten or fifteen people, and everyone else was just virtual
watching online. But so, you know, the main theme that
I noticed with with Google is Google and Apple could
not be any different. Their approaches to the world are

(04:31):
so different. And you know, these are both very inclusive companies,
like I think they're. You know, Apple is one of
the most diverse and inclusive companies I've ever worked with,
which is amazing. Same goes with Google, but the way
that they approach things in their tech is a little
bit different. Like Apple, when you think about their stuff,
it's very expensive, right, It's it's priced at a certain price.

(04:54):
You got to be in the Apple ecosystem. Everything works
together beautifully, but you got to be on board. You
gotta do what Apple wants you to do and it
will work just fine. Whereas Google, their idea is like,
let's just sort everything out and let's just give you
a lot of options, and a lot of those options
are gonna be inexpensive. We don't really care how you
use them. But we're just gonna give you a lot
of stuff. And you know, whether it's Google Photos, which

(05:15):
works on you know, everything from like a fifty dollars
Android phone, to Google Maps that just you know, can
help you find your way around the world. That that,
to me, is the biggest difference between these two companies.
They're both amazing I'm not knocking either one of them,
but the way, as a reporter who's covered them for
many years, I just see two divergent streams. You know,
they're both going in different directions. Like Apple, the longer

(05:38):
you're with them, the more you're in Apple, right, Whereas
Google is kind of like, hey, we're gonna give you
this stuff, and like I said, you can access it
and use it however you want. Like if you want
to use Google Chrome Cast, fine, but we're also gonna
let you watch your movies on any service, or you
want to use Google Maps on our phone or Pixel fine.
But you know, options are always nice. So that was

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my main takeaway. But Google just continues on their quest
to kind of organize the world's information, make it easier
to access and just simpler. So they announced a whole
bunch of nerdy stuff, like these new like AI powered things,
Like they showed off talking to data sets, which is
just wild. So they showed off like talking to Pluto,
not the animal, but the former planet, and so you're

(06:22):
literally they feed a data set about Pluto into this
thing called Lambda, and now you can converse with it
and be like, hey, what's it like on Pluto? And
Pluto will describe to you what's it like on its surface.
So that's kind of a wild What other things do
they do? So search? You know they did. They didn't
really announce a whole bunch of search, except like, there's
this new feature where you can delete the last fifteen

(06:43):
minutes of your search, so you know, they gave the
example of if you're searching for an engagement ring for
your loved one, you know your significant other and you
don't want them to see it, so you can delete
the last fifteen minutes. So okay, you've got that. Google Photos.
You know, we've got a big thing coming up with
Google Photos on June first, where they're gonna, you know,

(07:04):
start charging for the storage. Where you know, it's a
little misleading, but basically, your fifteen gigs or your fifteen gigs,
whether you do high quality or full quality, it doesn't matter.
It's fifteen gigs. And so now a lot of people
are gonna be above that and they're gonna have to
pay for that. But I love Google Photos. I'm still
gonna pay. I upgraded mine to the fifty dollars a

(07:24):
month plan, which is just it's a lot, but you
know what It's just taken a weight off my shoulders
to know that I can just take these four K
videos and just keep uploading them and not really think,
and one day I will organize my Google Photos, get
rid of all the duplicates in the big files, and
you know, hopefully by then data is so cheap that
it will be like twenty bucks a month. Again, Google
Photos now stores four trillion photos and videos. They're gonna

(07:47):
do a little locker on your phone so you can
keep selected photos private. But a lot of people are
saying this is not very exciting because it doesn't upload
them to the cloud. So it's like, what's the point.
You can't really safeguard these pictures. Or you can safeguard them,
but you can't really save them. So I get it.
It doesn't make sense, but it's kind of what how
they're doing it. Yeah, privacy was a big was a

(08:10):
big thing with Google, and I think they're reacting to
kind of Apple's entire push with privacy because Google's like, hey,
we're private too. I mean, it just takes a little
bit more for you to you know, be private with Google,
but you can be. And they showed off Android twelve,
which i've been playing with on the pixel it's like
the only the best way I can describe it is
candy colored and sugarcoated. That's just the way. It's like bubblegum.

(08:32):
Everything's like poppy and beautiful and like big and bold
and like a little bit simpler, like and I don't
want to disrespect anyone, but it feels like it's an
operating system that they're like, Okay, we get it. There's
a lot of non techies that use our devices, so
let's make it a little bit easier for them, right,
Let's make everything a little bit bigger. The button's a

(08:53):
little bit brighter. Let's you know, when you when you
swipe down for your notifications shade, Let's label those things
like not everyone knows what a Wi Fi symbol is
or I guess that one you do it, but the
rest of them maybe not. So let's label those make
them easier to select and de select. So there's a
lot of stuff like that. What else, they did this
really cool thing project Starline, which is basically three D

(09:17):
video chat. Imagine you step into a video booth and
you see the person on the other side that you're
video chatting with, but they look like they're there, and
this is not a new idea. I did a story
with Senet, you know, going on fifteen years ago. With Cisco,
they had something I think it was called like telepresence.
I forget what their term was, that the brand name,
but I did something. I went into a studio and
saw this and it just looked like people were across

(09:39):
the table from you on a flat screen. But this
is kind of bringing them to life in a three
D way. So I am all about that. I as
family with family that lives on the other side of
the country. I would love to just sit down and
hang out with my family in a way that they
look like they're actually there. That'd be so cool. What else,

(09:59):
I mean, they're improving their password manager. I think that's
basically it for the main stuff. I mean, that's that's
kind of like my takeaway from Google Io. It's cool.
Google just continues to like do cool stuff and organize
the world's information. And if I ever worked for Google,
I would do things a little bit differently, Like I'd
have some ideas for like Google Photos and Android, and

(10:22):
you know, like believe me, I'd come to the I'd
come to the table with a lot of ideas about
the smart home about you know, I'd do the same
thing if I worked for Apple. I mean I would.
I'd have actually any company, I'd have a lot of ideas.
I'm like that person that comes to the first day
of work with like a folder, like all the papers
flying out of it, and I'm like, hey, hey over here,
what about this? And I'm like, yeah, dude, slow your role,

(10:44):
We've figured out, We've talked about a lot of this stuff.
You're you're new to this, so just just hang on anyway.
So Google Io, I'm looking forward to being there in
person next year. It will be in person next year,
Google Io twenty twenty two. It is an exciting event.
It's kind of like Coachella but for programmers. And it
is fun to be up in Mountain View two experience
at firsthand. All right, let's get to the first question. Hey,

(11:10):
Rich First off, I'm not sure you take emails about
specific items. I felt like I saw in one of
your earlier posts you did mention something about dropping you
an email, So I hope you don't mind this. No,
I do not. I recently started an Instagram page for
my diy stuff. Now I've been using my Samsung Note
phone to record all the videos then edit the videos
on the phone. It works great, but I've completely maximized

(11:30):
my storage both internally and on an SD card. I
figured with all the posts and videos you make, you
probably would be a great resource to ask what kind
of camera you use and how you edit your photos
your videos. Thank you for taking the time and all
the information. I'm a big fan and love seeing you
on KTLA. Best Jeff. All right, Well, Jeff clearly not

(11:51):
a listener to the podcast, which is fine. Not everyone
that emails me or gets in touch as a listener
of the podcast, but you so, yes, you can totally
email me your questions and I'm happy to answer this.
So and by the way, the questions I picked for
the podcast, I generally picked them based on the broad
appeal to other people, like Jeff is probably not the
only person that's doing stuff on his phone and posting

(12:14):
it in maxim ount maximizing his storage. I'll give you
a funny story which is so embarrassing. I was on
a shoot yesterday or the day before the day before,
and I'm not no joke, I'm recording something and I
actually handed my phone to someone else to like record me,
and he hands it back and he goes, uh, I
don't think that was recording the whole time. I said what,

(12:37):
because yeah, it was just zero's at the end. I said,
wait oh, and I knew what happened. My phone has
been at the at the end of its storage, like
it's it's it's maxed out. It's at like, you know,
one hundred percent, and so it ran out of storage
while I was recording this video. And I'm sitting there
like the person that I always say don't be, like,
don't be the person at your kids uh, you know,

(12:59):
play at school that is deleting. That's literally I've seen
this happen. You're at your kids holiday performance and the
person in front of you is taking a picture or
video and up pops that message on their iPhone that
says out of storage merm. And you're like, oh my gosh,
I'm so embarrassed for you, Like, dude, clean out your
phone before you go to your kids recital. And here

(13:21):
I am on a shoot and it's the same thing.
And this guy probably like dude, this is the tech guy,
Like are you kidding me? This guy is like a
total rookie. And I was so I'm sitting there like
going through the iPhone storage, like deleting big videos. Now,
I will tell you I do record everything in four
K to try to future proof my videos, and also
they're easier to zoom in on that if you want

(13:43):
to crop something. So I do record in large files
and it gobbles up my memory. So anyway, I'm not
giving you excuses, but so Jeff, to answer your question,
you got to offload these things. You know, I use
my phone to record and edit the stuff. I use
Adobe Rush to edit, which will work on the note.
Just fine. Get a bigger SD card if you can

(14:04):
max that out. I think on your note, depending on
what model you have, you could either go five twelve
or a terabyte. Get the biggest one you can, and
you could either swap those out and save them, or
you can offload some of your videos to like something
like if you don't want to use a cloud, which
I would recommend Google Photos, but if you don't want
to use that. I did a story this week on

(14:24):
USB drives that you can stick into your phone, so
you can get what's called the sand disc I expand
flash drive lucks and that will that has USB C
on the bottom, you plug it into your phone, you
download an app called sand Disc Memory Zone, and you
can then back up all the videos from your phone
onto this drive, so you kind of offload them there

(14:47):
and then that will then you can delete them off
your phone. So that's what I would do. I would
use a cloud and then delete them off your phone.
That way they're safe in the cloud. But if you
don't want to pay for that cloud storage, like I
just talked about, get one of these flash drive or
just you can continually swap out the uh you know,
the drives or the mini SD card micro SD card

(15:07):
on your phone. Now, I don't think that's as easy.
I think that's kind of a more complicated solution, or
you know, if you want, because memory cards are so cheap,
you could just kind of keep a little system where
every month you swap it out for a new one
and you keep them in like a little rack. I mean,
there's just lots of ways to do this, but I
think the cloud is the easiest. It's also the most expensive.
Swapping out the SD cards a little bit more complicated,

(15:29):
but it's definitely an easy system. Okay, here's all my
stuff from March. Here's all my stuff from April. Here's
all my stuff from May. And then the other way,
like I said, is the plugging in the USB drive.
If you're on iPhone, you can do the same thing.
By the way, that flash drive I just mentioned, the
sand disc I expand will work with iPhone as well.
Or I tested one called the p n Y Duo Link,

(15:50):
which is thirty five dollars and same thing. You plug
it into the bottom of your phone. It uses special
software to you know, to download the photos from your
phone onto the flash drive. And recommendation, by the way,
always have your pictures in two places no matter what.
And your videos. But Jeff cool, I mean, I'm glad
you're doing a little Instagram page. Yeah, these videos add

(16:12):
up quick, but it's fun. It's rewarding when people start
taking notice and you just have to make sure everything's
backed up and you've got that system down because you
don't want what happened to me. We're you're in the
middle of a shoot and next thing you know, you're
trying to scramble to get stuff off your phone. You
don't want to be in that position because you're gonna
mess something up and kind of mistake something. So there

(16:35):
you have it all right, let's talk about the Apple
TV after almost four years. Basically, the Apple TV has
finally gotten a refresh, goes on sale, or it is
on sale as of this podcast, so it's the Apple
TV four K. I'll have my review of it next
week on TV. But the main takeaway for me, having
used this thing for a little bit now, is that

(16:57):
it does not feel any different than my old Apple
TV four K. Maybe it's faster, but I can't really
notice that. Now you're saying, Okay, Rich, why would I
pay one hundred and eighty dollars for this thing if
it's not any faster. Well, you're paying for another four
years of service through this thing, right, So it may
not be faster today. But we know that apps are
just going to continue to get more processor dependent, especially

(17:20):
games if you do any gaming on it, with Apple
Arcade and just in general, you know, these things are
just they the apps that we're using just continue to
get more space hungry and more process or hungry. And
so that's what you're doing, is you're just you know,
Apple's just upgrading this thing with an A twelve Bionic,
which is you know, an older processor that was found
in a I forget which iPhone. It was a while ago,

(17:43):
but it's still just great. I mean, streaming video clearly
does not take a lot of horsepower, because you know,
I've tested streaming six or twenty five dollars and they
run Netflix just fine. Now, the thing that I think
is the delineation here is how fast apps open. And
I notice on the Cheapo fire Sticks and the cheap
o Rokus the apps take a lot longer to open

(18:05):
than on the Roku Ultra or the you know, the
nice four K version of the Apple of the fire
TV or the you know, they just everything is a
little bit faster when you have a better processor. And
the same thing with the Apple TV. So I don't
think you need to upgrade for that reason. But I
do think the new series remote is much better, and

(18:25):
they've totally redesigned it. I've got the video on my Instagram.
It's got a ClickPad, so it's got okay, how do
I explain this. It's both touch sensitive and it has
clickable four way you know, like clickers whatever you want
to call them, buttons, So it's got like a circular
area but you can click four ways, or you can swipe,

(18:45):
or you can jog, so it's it's a much much
better remote. There's also dedicated power and mute buttons, which
is really nice. I did notice last night, though, there
is one flaw with the remote. The play pause button
should be the last button, like the lowest most button
on the remote, but that's actually the mute button. And
last night my muscle memory just went to play pause

(19:07):
and I just pressed the mute button by accident. I said, oh,
this should be the play pause position, but you know,
maybe you know whatever. That's just my opinion. But anyway,
so the remote is actually being sold by itself for
fifty nine dollars, which I think it it. It does
definitely make me think that that would be a pretty

(19:28):
good upgrade to the current Apple TV. Like, if you
have one of these Apple TVs, it's not a bad idea.
If you think you're perfectly happy with it, you don't
want to spend the one to eighty for a whole
new system. The fifty nine might be a pretty good
upgrade because the remote in my in my experience for
the last one was just lacking and this one is
way better. So that's the Apple TV four K. The

(19:50):
other new feature, by the way, is high frame rate
four K HDR, which is sixty frames per second, which
right now, as I know, there's only one app that
takes advantage, which is the red Bull app. I tested it.
I didn't see any big difference into my eyes for
the quality. But you know, maybe in the future, as
more of these apps take advantage of four K high
fram rate sixty you know whatever, you know, maybe it'll

(20:13):
look better. I don't know. Like I said, I'm just
a tech person. I'm not a you know, an audio
or video file. I'm just kind of like the average
Joe when it comes to tech, all right, except I
just you know, I play with it a little bit
more than the typical person that's just you know, day
to day, like this is my life. Adam says, Hey, Rich,

(20:35):
hope this email finds you well. I'm currently in Florida
visiting my parents and I'm trying to help them screen
mirror their iPad to their Samsung Series seven Smart TV.
The TV is not Airplay compatible, so I'm looking for
a free screen mirroring app to put on their eighth
generation iPad. Can you suggest one? Thanks to your thanks

(20:55):
in advance, best regards, Adam. All right, Adam, so you
say that this TV is not air play compatible. So
the main thing to know is that you can't really
just add airplay compatibility to a TV that's not airplay like,
as far as I know, like it has to be
built into the TV. Maybe there's something that that, Maybe
there's an app that lets you receive airplay on the TV.

(21:16):
I'm not aware of that, and I also think that
that's probably not the best way to do it anyway.
So what I think is TV probably does have built
in is Chrome cast, which is the ability to cast
your screen from the iPad. Now, when you say mirror
the screen, most people aren't mirroring the screen anyway these days,
Like you don't. There's not really a need for that
unless you have a specific use case. But what most

(21:38):
people are doing is using the iPad to play Netflix
and then tossing that Netflix up on the TV screen
by casting it. So I think maybe that's and if
your parents, you know, I think that's probably what they
would be doing as well. So my advice is to
use the casting option, And most of the major apps
have that built in. Whether it's Netflix, whether it's HBO Max,

(22:02):
whether it's whatever. All the apps pretty much support airplay
and casting. So I would look, you know, make sure
that your iPad is on the same Wi Fi network
as the TV, make sure that casting is turned on
on the TV, and it's on, it might be a
different input for the casting, and then you just you
open up the Netflix app. You look for the little
cast icon which should pop up if it's on the

(22:24):
same network, and it identifies a cast receiver, and you
just tap it and it should throw whatever you're watching
on the iPad screen onto the TV. Now, again, most
people don't need to mirror their iPad screen, so it's
most of the time you're watching something on the iPad
that you want to see on the TV. Now. The
one exception to that is when it comes to something

(22:47):
like your photos. If you want to show off the
photos from your iPad to the Samsung you wouldn't be
able to do that without airplay unless you used a
different app, which you know, there is an app called
like all cast I used to use and all cast
may let you do it. Yeah, all casts, So I

(23:09):
would look at I don't know how old this app,
if it's still even like being updated. Let me look
and see. Let's see all cast iOS. Let's just see.
Let's see when this was last Oh, yeah it was.
It was last updated in in Uh let's see what
I say, January Virgin History. Yeah, January sixteenth. Okay, well

(23:35):
but that's not the one though. Oh that's weird. That's
a different one. Okay, we Anyway, my computer does this
thing sometimes when I try to, you know, look at
an app on the App Store, it wants to open
up iTunes, which is kind of annoying because I don't
really want that. Okay, well, all casts may not be
supported anymore, but there's there might be another, a different app.
But you can also use Google Photos on your parents' TV.

(23:56):
But that's the way I would do it, Adam, I
think that's gonna be a little bit cleaner, a little
bit easier, and a little bit simpler for your parents.
Good question. Let me know what they end up doing.
All right. This is a big announcement from Spotify. I
cannot believe this actually happened. I am so impressed that
we finally got this feature. It's only taken six generations

(24:20):
of the Apple Watch, but now here we go. I
wish I had a drum roll, please, but you can
now download Spotify to your Apple Watch. Huge, huge win
for Spotify premium users. And again I said Spotify Premium,
this is not something that anyone can do. You have
to be paying for Spotify, and that makes sense because

(24:42):
it's a paid feature. Downloads are a paid feature. I'm
not even sure you can download to Spotify on the
mobile app without paying to download. Now. I subscribe to
most of the major music services, Spotify is not one
of them. But honestly, at this point, I'm thinking I
may and I hate I love Apple Music, but you know,
the main reason I started with Apple Music is because

(25:03):
it's compatible with the Apple Watch, and that's the only
one that really lets you download to the Apple Watch
except for I think Pandora does. But the fact that
I can use Spotify now, I don't know. I'm gonna
have to test Spotify now because I want to see
how it works on my Sono system and now on
the Apple Watch, because I do go running with my

(25:23):
Apple Watch by itself without the phone, and so the
whole ability to basically download playlist to your Apple Watch
for offline use, so you don't have to have your
phone nearby to listen to these playlists, and that's a
huge deal again for premium users. If you're not a

(25:44):
premium user, this doesn't really matter, and you can still
use Spotify with your watch nearby. That's still you know,
that's always been a thing. But it's pulling from your watch,
I mean from your phone, not from the watch. This
the downloads are actually stored on your watch itself, which
is a huge win for people that just want to
go out with their watch and nothing else. All right.

(26:06):
The thing to know about this feature, though, it is
rolling out, and those are my biggest dreaded words in
the tech world. Rolling out to me means yeah, we'll
get to it sometime on your app, we'll roll it
out one day. I mean that means that, like I
can't just open up Spotify and it's there. It means
it may be there tomorrow, it may be their next week,

(26:27):
it may be they're like who knows when. But I
can't stand when companies say we're rolling out, because I
get why they do it. They want to make sure
everything's working before they get you know, thousands and millions
of people on board. But it's just like, to me,
rolling out is like just when when do I get it?
Just tell me when I get it, and I don't know.
Maybe it's here today, maybe it's in a week, maybe

(26:48):
it's in a month, who knows. But now you can
download your favorite playlist two to your Apple Watch. I'm
just reading about this. Let Siri with Siri support and
Apple Watch, all users, oh can say yeah, hey, h Siri,
followed by your favorite playlist. But you have to say

(27:11):
on Spotify, so h Siri, play my Discover weekly playlist
on Spotify. And of course that's you know, if if
Apple was really nice, they would give us the ability
to set a default. Of course they don't. We know
it's possible, but they you know, slowly but surely, we're
seeing these kind of defaults come to the uh the

(27:33):
iOS operating system. You know, we do have default browser,
we do have default mail app, but we do not
have default maps. We don't have default music, we don't
have default podcasts. So it's it's your iPhone. It's just
not it's just not your It's not exactly how you
want it, you know what I mean, Like you still

(27:54):
gotta you still gotta jump through a couple of hoops
to get things the way you want it when you're
using an Apple product. And look, I know this because
I use an iPhone and I'm sitting there and my kids.
Half the time, you're like, Dad, why using Apple Maps.
I'm like, you know what, because sometimes it's just easier
to say navigate too and the place, and I'll have
to sit there and open up Google Maps, and I don't.

(28:15):
I just it's easier to use your voice when you're
in the car and when you're using your phone, and
you just can't do that with the iPhone if you
want to use the services that you want to use
without using a qualifier, like who says play Tailor Swift
on Spotify? Like who wants to remember that? No, you
just want to play Tailor Swift, play Taylor Swift, play
play you know, imagine dragons, play the latest song. I

(28:38):
said the other day, play the latest song from the
Counting Crows. And you know what I mean. It's like
one of these things where you know it default. I
was listening to Amazon Music and next thing, you know,
it just defaults to Apple Music. And it's just the
way it is, you know so, And believe me, there's
a lot of benefits of using the iPhone. It's a
great platform, but it's just those little things do do

(28:59):
bug me? All right, Tamra writes in I recently, recently
recently purchased a motorhome. I feel like I'm in like
a fifties movie. Okay, so recently purchased a motorhome. Okay,
well you say that. Okay, what do you say about it? Yes?
Say what do you say? What do you suggest for
internet on the motor home while I'm traveling? Oh? Dimension MANK.

(29:23):
By the way, what a great movie. I think I
mentioned that in the podcast One of the Oh is
such a perfect movie. Two movies that really really impressed
me on Netflix, MANC and The Irishman two of my
just favorite experiences in a movie. Just oh so good. Anyway,
I digress. What do you suggest for internet on the

(29:45):
motor home while I'm traveling? And what do you suggest
is the best way to watch TV while traveling? Well,
let's see what do I want to Let's see I
would say the motor home. I think you go. You
could do this coupleways, depending on how much you're traveling.
You just use your smartphone as a hotspot, So just

(30:08):
check with your carrier see how much hot spot data
you get. And you know, like, if it's me, I
think on mine, I get thirty gigs a month, so
you know, you can see I would start with that
and see how far that takes you. That may take
you one week of the motor home traveling. That may
take you a whole month. I don't know. It depends
on what you're watching and how much it's consuming. When
it comes to data. The other thing you can do

(30:29):
is you can purchase a hot spot like and this
is probably the best solution. You purchase a dedicated hot
spot from your wireless carrier. So go to you know,
Verizon or AT and T or T Mobile and say, hey,
I've got a motor home. You know I need a
five G hotspot. You probably want five G because that's
the latest, greatest. Get a five G hotspot. You add
the plan. Now, the downside of this is that you're

(30:51):
going to be charged for a monthly plan and I'm
not sure how much data you get on that plan.
You have to kind of shop around and see what
their what their hot spot plans are. And that's the
second way. And the ney thing about the hotspot is
you can leave it plugged in, you can leave it
turned on at all times and it will always be
spitting out a Wi Fi signal that's easy to connect to,
and you can also kind of like velcrow it or

(31:11):
whatever you want to mount it. I would mount it
to like a window on the on the van or
the motor home so that it gets the best signal. Now,
if you really want to get fancy a lot of
these mobile hotspots, you can run a wired antenna. You
could do that like up to the roof, and that
way you could pull in a better signal, especially if
you're in the middle of nowhere, which is where I'd
want to be if I had a motor home, just
like outside in the middle of nowhere looking at the stars. Ah,

(31:33):
that's like my dream. And what do you suggest? Oh.
The third thing you can do is there is a
there is a hot spot from ZTE that is unlocked.
And this is a uh gosh, I've got I've got
a segment on it. Let's see ZTE hot spot ktla DeMuro.

(31:54):
That's how I search for anything that I've ever mentioned
by the way ZTE z max connect. So that is unlocked,
which means you can just buy a SIM card prepaid
and if you find a SIM card that has like
a whole bunch of data on it, you can just
use that and pop it into this thing. Now, some
of them may work, some of them may not because

(32:15):
you know, depending on how they treat mobile data. It
just depends, Like you want to look for a mobile
data card right versus a cellular plan with data because
mobile hotspot is a little bit different than a cell
phone signal. But you can do that and you know
that way, you can just pay as you go. But again,
lots of options for doing this. It just depends how

(32:36):
much data you're using while you're traveling. Now, the best
way to watch TV, I think is, you know, just
get one of these streaming sticks, plug it into the
back of a TV, and off you go. But that's
only going to give you Netflix and you know, HBO
Max and Hulu and all those things. But if you
want to watch live TV, I would suggest you have

(32:57):
to get an antenna. And I'm sure they make antenna
that are specific for motor homes and I would look
at Antenna's Direct for that, A N T E, n
NAS direct, Antenna's Direct. We'll we'll definitely have a motor
home antenna. I would look for one of those, and
I'm looking yep, RV Antenna's they've got them right here,

(33:17):
and let's see how much that's going to cost you.
Our website's kind of freaking out here. Rv Antenna's oh
does not want to let me click this? There we go.
Let's see a hundred bucks sixty miles range. Oh, it's
just one. So there you have it, hundred bucks. So
I would start with the streaming first. If you really
need live TV, then get the antenna that's of course

(33:39):
going to be free and does not need data. But
those are the things that I would recommend for your situation.
All right, thanks so much for the question. Tammy and
our Tamra and oh Tammy, Yeah you did say Tammy
at the end. Let me know when I can take
a ride in your motor home, because it's my dream
just to I was on a on an event one
time for Ford. We took them Mustang out to the

(34:01):
desert and they brought us to the middle of nowhere.
It was I bookmarked it, but it was like, I
don't know, twenty nine palms or something I think it
was called, and it was just Okay, there's been two
times I think I've already said this story. I feel
like I've told every story on the podcast, but whatever.
I feel like, not everyone listens to every podcast, so
I'll just tell them again. I'm like, I'm like my

(34:23):
grandfather back in the day, Like you know, they tell
you like a story like twice or three times, like Grandpa,
we've already heard this. Now it's getting to be my parents.
But uh, it's like we There's two times in my
life and I remember looking up at the sky and
just being one hundred percent completely just blown away by
the stars that I saw in the sky. And one

(34:43):
time was up in Lake George, New York, where we
have a summer home, and growing up, we always used
to go there, and I just remember my dad got
a telescope and you know, we aimed it at the
sky and I just I could still see it looking
up right now. I could still remember exactly where I
was outside of our house and looking up at the sky,
not even through the telescope, just looking up and just

(35:04):
being like, wow, this is amazing, like just the amount
of stuff you can see in the sky right now.
The second time that's happened to me was in twenty
nine Palms and we were in the middle of nowhere
at this little hotel and or motel whatever it was
and just in the middle of the desert and it
was just I looked up and it was like, this
is amazing, like just so and I want to recreate

(35:26):
that experience. I just this, I don't know, the COVID thing,
like it's just been tough to travel with all that,
you know. Anyway, I have not really seen that any
other place. I'm sure there's other places they call them
like dark skies or something, but I need to do
that with my kids because it's just it was such
an awe inspiring experience. And just seeing the sky like
that is like you just don't get that in Los Angeles,

(35:48):
Like there's just when you look up, it's like, oh,
I is that Is that a star or satellite? Oh No,
that's just a cell phone tower with a light on it.
I mean it's just that's you know, you live in
a big city and that's just the way it is.
You gotta get a little bit further out to see
the stars. Anyway, I digress, as I typically do. Where
were we another story? Let's do another story. Twitter is

(36:10):
letting anyone get verified, So I know people love this
blue check mark next to them, and I get it.
It brings a little gravitas. Is that the word gravitas?
Is that how you say it? Let's hear is that
how you say gravitas? Gravitas? Gravitas. It brings a little

(36:32):
gravitas to the you know, to your Twitter profile. And
I've had it for many years. Okay, big deal. I'm
not bragging. It's not that big of a deal. But okay,
I've had it. But it's always this mysterious thing about
how to get verified, right, and so it was a
lot of journalists, a lot of like, hey, send me
your email and I'll get you verified kind of thing.

(36:54):
But now they're doing it for everyone, so they're making it,
you know, more accessible to everyone. Now here's what you
need to do. You can do it right through the app.
You can do it through the Twitter app. You look
under account settings, and it's rolling out, rolling out, so
you might see it over the next few weeks. If

(37:15):
you don't see it, don't worry. We're gradually rolling it
out to everyone. Worst words in tech. You know, you
want immediate gratification in this world, we don't. You know,
you order from Amazon, you get it the same day
or the next day. Oh, by the way, so this
is why I order from Amazon. No joke to ordering experiences. Okay.
The first I ordered a speaker from Sonos had to

(37:37):
replace a play five in my house because it was
getting kind of old and it didn't work. So I
go on on their website, and it was the best
to order it from the website because they give you
a little deal if you upgrade through them, give you
like thirty percent off. And so I order it there
and it's an expensive speaker, and so, you know, like
hemden Haud kept it in my in my shopping cart
for a long time, but you know, every time I

(37:58):
went on there, it would say it was more delayed,
like it was back ordered, and so I just kept
putting it off. I'm like, eh, well, if it's back
order till May eighteenth, whatever, I'll order it next month.
And then it was back ordered the next time till
like June twentieth, and I'm like, oh my gosh, okay,
let me just order this. So at least I'm in
the queue to like get it. I order it and
two days later it's like, oh, you're order shipped out.
It'll be there in a day. I'm like, what, Okay, Well,

(38:19):
clearly your little back order system is not very good.
So anyway, I'm excited to get my speaker so I
don't have to wait another month, which is nice. And
now the next one I want to order is the Rome,
which is their little new Bluetooth one, which will be
great for the summer for taking around even though I
have the move But anyway, I love the Sona stuff.
It just works, It's great whatever. But the second thing

(38:40):
I ordered, I ordered soap from this doctor Squatch. Have
you heard of it? I made fun of it. It
was a big advertisement during the Super Bowl. So I
ordered one of their bars of soap after I was
home and my little nephew said that he loves it,
and I was like, oh, okay, I'll try it. He's
my sister's like he's obsessed. I'm like, all right, Well,
you know, I kind of switched to bar soap over
the This is Tea, but I switched to bar soap

(39:01):
over the COVID because it's just like, I don't know,
like the whole liquid soap thing, like, eh, just use
bar last longer. So anyway, I don't know what my
point of telling you the story is, except for the
fact is I ordered my first bar of Doctor Squatch
on Amazon, but it was limited selection. You can only
get like one flavor. I got bay Rum, you know,
which is like an old school flavor, and it was

(39:23):
there the next day. I used it. I loved it,
but I ran out and I was like, Okay, next time,
I'm going to order from doctor Squatch because I will
order a bunch of it. It will be free shipping,
and I can get like the newest, latest, greatest flavors
or whatever you call them scents. And they've got like
moon Rock and just like all these really funny scents
for soaps that you have no idea what they really
small like, but they just it's like I got like

(39:45):
Mars Area fifty one and moon Rock and space dust whatever.
Maybe that was a beer. I don't know, but I
ordered it and no joke. They're like it'll be ten
to twelve days shipping. I'm like, no, nothing's ten to
twelve days shipping anymore. Like, give me a break. Remember
the old days when it was six to eight weeks
for shipping plus postage in handling. It's like, wait, what

(40:06):
you'd mail off for something and it would arrive like
when you totally forgot about it three months later. Well,
that's what doctor Squatch has turned into. I cannot believe
how long it has taken me to get my stuff.
And no joke, doctor Squatch, I will tell you. Here's
my order. I ordered it on May tenth. Okay, as

(40:27):
I record this, it is May twenty first, and I
did get a I did get a shipping notification after
I kept checking the mail every day thinking that, you know, okay,
I'm gonna get this thing, and here's my package. I'm
tracking it right now as I speak this, it says
it's arriving in three to five more days, so estimated

(40:48):
delivery May twenty fourth through twenty six. So by the
time I get this May fifteenth to May twenty fourth
through twenty six, you're talking eleven ten, nine to you
know whatever days, nine to twelve days. That is wild.
So I love you, doctor Squatch, but my gosh, I mean,

(41:11):
you gotta figure out this shipping situation. I just could not.
I didn't believe it when I you know, when I
order online, and I always tell my wife this, whenever
you see a company that's like trying to push you
to upgrade your shipping to like a faster shipping, don't
do it, because ninety nine percent of the time the
stuff arrives like the next day, and they're just trying
to like get more shipping fees out of you. So

(41:33):
don't do it. And this is the first time that
my advice actually totally backfired because doctor Squatch was like,
do you want three to five shipping or three to
five days or one to two days. I'm like, no,
I never pay for that, Give me a break, and
clearly they they stick to like their ten to twelve
days of shipping. So again, doctor Squatch, I love you,
but gime on, you gotta you gotta catch up with

(41:54):
Amazon with your shipping. So anyway, where was I let's
talk about getting verified? Who's Who's eligible for verification? Don't
you love this podcast where I just jump around who's
eligible for verification? On Twitter? To be eligible, you must
fit one of the six categories government, companies, brands and organizations,
news organizations and journalists, entertainment, sports and gaming activists, organizers,

(42:19):
and other influential individuals, which basically means anyone can get verified.
All you have to do is look in the account
settings tab and you'll see an application. You apply online
and they get your request and next thing you know,
you will get a decision. This could take a few days,
they say, so if you want that blue check mark,

(42:41):
And I suggest if you if you're a regular person,
you don't really need it per se. But I think
it's good for jobs and good for you know, if
you're posting anything on Twitter that you want sort of
like to be linked to you in an official way,
I think that it's probably a good idea to get
verified so people know that you are who you say
you are. All right, Paul says, Hey, Rich, I hope

(43:10):
this isn't something you've done in the past and I
missed it, But do you have any suggestions for quote
unquote nanny cams that could unobtrusively put in areas that
where workers are working at my home. I'm not looking
for live monitoring, but rather something that might record on
an SD card for possible later review. Thanks Paul, Paul, Yes,

(43:32):
I have covered this, and I always get, you know
a little bit like, Okay, Paul, I don't know what
you're doing here, what your angle is, but yes, okay,
we can talk about this because it is out there
and there are legitimate uses of this stuff if it's
in your house. Yeah, I mean, do I recommend putt
hidden cameras in your bedroom? No? Do I recommend putting
cameras hidden if you got an airbnb. Do I recommend

(43:55):
putting hidden cameras in your house even if you do
have a nanny. I don't know. I mean, I'm not
an expert, but I think that it's nice to tell
people that you have cameras in my house. The cameras
are very visible. You can see them. I don't hide them,
and I don't put them in places that people would
consider private. So with that said, yes, you can absolutely

(44:15):
do this. It's your house. You can do whatever you want.
And the cameras that I recommend are wysecams. Wyze wisecams
are very inexpensive. They're on their third version. They are fantastic.
They do the trick. They work every time. It's the
Wysecam V three. Right now, they're not available, so as

(44:36):
I say this, they're not available. Which wisecams, for some reason,
are so mysterious. I don't know what the problem is
why they're always out of stock. But a wisecam will
do this just fine. Because a wysecam it is available
on Amazon for thirty dollars and sixty five cents free
Prime one day, so get it on Amazon thirty dollars

(44:57):
sixty five cents. You can bundle a thirty two gigabyte
SD card for forty three dollars and sixty cents, although
check the price on the SD card for a thirty
two gig now. The one limitation of these cameras is
that the SD card, I believe is limited to thirty
two gigabytes. And the way this works is there's a
setting in the settings once you put the SD card

(45:18):
in this camera poll it says record twenty four to
seven to the SD card and you can do that
and it will just record as long as it can
until it flips around and it's done, and it will
just start recording over the earliest part of the recording.
So it just records in a big loop. And that's
why I have some of mind set up to do.

(45:40):
And it's fine. It works. You set it, you forget
it. It does the trick. If you ever need to look back,
you just go and look on the timeline in the
app and you can download the video clip it whatever
you want to do with it. But that's what you
want to do. And if you want a live monitor.
You can do that too, but that's the way I
would do it. I think WHYSE is kind of the
best camera for that. Yes, there's a million solutions, and

(46:00):
if you had another tech person talking here, they might
recommend something else, but this is rich on tech and
that's my recommendation because I love what Wise is doing.
I love what Wise is doing, I love what Ring
is doing. The difference with Ring is that they don't
have internal memory, so they're not going to be recording
to the camera itself. And there's a bunch of cheapy
cameras on Amazon that will do this, probably for even cheaper.

(46:24):
But I know Wise, and I like Wise, and I
trust Wise, and so that's the one that I would use. Okay,
good question, Paul. That was a good one, and hopefully
you figure out what you need there. Have you noticed
the fees on Airbnb? Now, I am not a big
Airbnb guy, and I know it's kind of weird. I

(46:45):
like my hotels. I like staying in hotels. I like
that hotels are standardized. I like that they are cleaned
in a certain way. I like that they're you know,
I like that there's services at them, and I get it.
I think at this point, I'm in a minority of
opinion with the airbnb versus hotel. It seems like most

(47:05):
people I know love Airbnbs, and I don't know why.
I just I've never really taken to them. And I
want to be the kind of person that loves finding
the cool Airbnb on the beach and just hanging out
and it's great. And I have stayed in Airbnb once
in Passo Robles and it was great, except for when
they tried to hit me with a two hundred and

(47:25):
fifty dollars fee when I checked out because they said
I broke the garbage disposal, which I don't think we did.
But again, what do you do? I mean, it's like,
so I, you know, had to like dispute this thing,
and like, you know, you're back and forth with the person.
And some people like that. I mean, some people like
the fact that you know as soon as you book this,
like you don't know where it is until you book it,
which is like the first weird thing. You don't know

(47:46):
the address of where you're staying until you actually book it.
And I'm like, I want to Google map. I want
to look at like satellite view. I want to see
like exactly where this is in comparison to other things,
and maybe you know, you can email the host and
ask them, but like, you know, then you could just
you know, then you could just do the transaction outside
of Airbnb, which is probably why they don't do that.
So I look, I'm not knocking it. I know people

(48:07):
love it, and I think it's an amazing thing that
we have. But options, you know, hotels are great and
Airbnbs are great. I just personally stay in more hotels
and hotels are not innocent when it comes to what
I'm gonna talk about, which is the fees. The fees
have gotten out of control. It started in Las Vegas

(48:27):
with resort fees and now it has gotten to every
hotel I've ever stayed in the past, you know, five years.
The fees are out of control. And the reason why
hotels love fees is because fees are tougher to show
up on comparison websites. So when you search for a

(48:48):
three or four star hotel in Las Vegas, you get
a list of hotels and oh, that one's ninety nine,
Oh that one's one ninety nine. That's easy to tell
which one's more expensive. The one ninety nine, but the
ninety nine might charge you fifty dollars a night for
a resort fee, and that's not necessarily necessarily reflected in
these comparison websites. And so that's why hotels love fees.

(49:11):
They love nickel and diming you to death for parking,
for daily resort fee, for an occupancy fee, for a
fee to flush the toilet. I mean, the fees have
gotten so out of control it's become a joke. So
my wife and I when we check into a hotel,
we sit there and we go, oh, did you use

(49:31):
your free USA Today newspaper today included your resort fee?
Did you get your two faxes in that you're faxing
to people for your daily resort fee? Did you use
the uh uh whatever it is. I mean, these fees
that they if you go on the websites of these
hotels and you see what the resort fee goes to,
it's like such a joke. It's all stuff that people

(49:51):
don't use anyway. So Airbnb apparently has gotten just as
bad with the cleaning fees and the occupancy fee, and
the taxes and fees and the service fees, and it
got so bad that Airbnb actually had to make a
blog post on the web about their fees and they said, look,
we've heard from guests about fees on Airbnbs, and we

(50:13):
get it. There's you know, they didn't say there's a
lot of them. But here's what we're going to do.
They said that hosts set their own cleaning fees, and
they made a good point that look, if it's you know,
you don't know what the situation is with the cleaning,
like the host may you know if they clean in
between each person they hire someone they're hiring a cleaning
crew for a hundred bucks, Like they've got to charge

(50:33):
you one hundred dollars for that. Now, I think it
should be blended into the fee to rent the place.
That's just my personal opinion, but again, it makes it
look cheaper to not see the cleaning fee until you
go to check out and all the service fees for Airbnb,
I think that you should be able to see a
nightly fee that reflects what the actual nightly fee is, right,
But that's not the way it works. So Airbnb said

(50:55):
that their fees are typically so cleaning fees typically cost
less than ten percent of the total reservation, and then
their fee typically comes out to about fourteen percent for
the service fee. So they said that they are going
to look into the fee structure and how fees are charged.
But the reality is, as consumers we are this is

(51:17):
just beginning. Everything that you do at a hotel used
to be included in the price of the nightly rate,
and now everything is parsed out. I was at a
hotel and it on the TV screen when you turned
it on, is said, oh, if you want late checkout,
seventy five bucks extra. And it used to be one
of those things where you can just call up and say, hey,

(51:38):
can I get late checkout? I'm a great guest, I please,
and they would look at their computers and they would say, okay,
we can see that we're we're not really that full tomorrow,
so we'll give it to you. Now it's just like, no,
it's seventy five bucks for late checkout. Oh you want
early checkout, that's going to be or sorry, early check in,
that's going to be fifty bucks. Oh you want to
use the lounge chair at the pool, that's fifteen teen dollars.

(52:00):
In Vegas, this is pretty common. You know, you pay
for all the lounge chairs I mean it's it's becoming
a nickel and dime affair. And I get it. You know,
they're they're they're figuring this stuff out. You know it
all it's all because of these search engines that compare
room rates, and so you may not realize that when
you book a hotel in Las Vegas, it's great, but

(52:21):
by the way, to use the pool, it's an extra.
You know, you're going to have to pay to find
a chair or to use a chair. I mean, it's
just the way things are. So I think that these
these aggregators are getting smarter about building fees in We've
seen it with the airlines. Same thing, all the airlines.
Everything's uh, nickel and dime. You know, you want to
bring a carry on, you gotta pay you want to.

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Now airlines are even getting so smart because there was
a little scam with the airlines where you know, if
you you have to check your bag, it's you know,
thirty five dollars but or whatever it is, and then
you can bring it on the plane and you can
just shove it in the overhead for free. Right, So
a lot of people are just bringing their bags and
and knowing that they would have to check these because
they're in group six, right, they board last, the overheads

(53:04):
are going to be filled. And guess what the flight
attendant says, Oh, we'll check that for you for free.
We'll gate They call it gate checking. Well, now, you know,
my wife and I would always joke, why don't you
just bring on your bag every time and if it
doesn't fit, you just gate check it. It's for free,
instead of checking it at the front where it's going
to cost you forty bucks. Well, clearly the airlines caught
onto that. Not that I ever did that, by the way,

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I actually didn't, but a lot of people did. I
notice that there's a lot of people bringing bags on
board that you know, they knew they would not fit,
And so the airlines now will charge you for a
gate check fee if it doesn't fit in the overhead.
So they've gotten very hip. Not all airlines, but I
think it was I think it was American that got
hipped to it first. But you know, don't quote me

(53:47):
on that, but one of them did. And I'm sure
they're all follow suit anyway. But my point is we're
all figuring this out. I get it, all these companies
need to make money, but it's gotten to the point
where as a traveler, and I travel a lot, I
feel like it's become a joke. Like literally, you're taking
my wallet, you're taking it in front of you, and
you're literally ringing out the money, like you're just ringing

(54:08):
out the cash to just for everything. And I get
it when you go to little little store downstairs, it's convenient.
I'm gonna pay a little bit more for a bag
of chips than I would a seven to eleven. But
when you start doing all these things, it's just making
me feel like, oh, come on, do you really value me?
Do you really want me to stay here in the future,
or do you want me to go to Airbnb? And
that's why the airbnb people are complaining, because they started

(54:30):
feeling like, well, I might as well stay to a hotel.
If it's gonna be all these little nickel and dime fees,
I'll just stay at a hotel again, and you know,
get some of the benefits of a hotel, like I
don't have to communicate with the host or you know,
every you know, two minutes over email about how to
get into my room or whatever. So I spent a
lot of time on this topic because it is near
and dear to me, and I just it just it

(54:51):
just irks me that we get taken advantage of as consumers.
When the technology has made things cheaper, it continues to
get more expensive for us to do some of these things. Okay,
let's let's see here. Nancy says, I have a flip
phone Kyo Sarah that has fifteen hundred pictures on it.

(55:14):
I cannot get it on an SD card. It's on
my it's my grandchild and my labs. Do you have
any way I can get them on a flash drive,
then put them on an Android phone and put them
on an SD card. Tom, Oh weird. The email comes
from Nancy, but the Tom maybe they share Tom. A
couple of things I would do. Number one, there is
a program that is I think it's like open source.

(55:36):
But back in the day, a lot of these old
phones like Kyo Sarah used to have a software that
you could use to access what's on the phone, and
so I would. It's called BitPim b I t pim
and it may work for your phone. And I don't
know if it tells you which phones it supports, but

(55:57):
you know, you can kind of see if your phone
is supported now. I would also go on to Kyosara's
website and see if they have any software. Also, I
was just on the freeway the other day and Kyosara
is based in Los Angeles, so it looks like they
have some sort of US based support, So maybe give
them a call and ask them. But the BitPim, I

(56:18):
think BitPim dot org is might be your best ability.
Or you can just google like Kyosera software and the
and the name of your phone, like uh, you know
the model number, and see you might be able to
plug it into your computer to be able to download these,
uh these pictures. So that's the number one thing I do.

(56:39):
Number two thing I would do is bring it to
a store, like you break I fix or even your
carrier whoever, you know, if it's a Verizon phone, bring
it to Verizon A lot of times in the back
they have these tools that they can plug into the
phones to extract the data from them, and so that's
another way of going about it. And then you break
I fix. They're kind of like an Uber you know,
uh fix of phones they have not like the Uber service,

(57:03):
I mean like big big picture. They can work on
a lot of different phones, so you might just bring
it in there and just tell them what's happening and
see if they can extract those photos. But there's definitely
a way to get them off this phone, for sure.
At the very least, if it's bluetooth, you might even
be able to bluetooth these photos to another device. But again,

(57:24):
you might be able to like link this device up
to your Windows computer or a Mac computer and then
browse the file system. But I don't know. I haven't
done this in a long time, but I do remember
doing this for an old, old phone and it did work.
So those are my solutions. That's what I look into
and see if it works all right. Gosh, a couple

(57:44):
of quick things before we go here. F one fifty
lightning all electric F one to fifty pickup truck from Ford.
They unveiled it this week. The cool feature is that
it can power your house. So this car, you basically
plug your house into it if your power goes out,
and it can power your car or your house for
like a couple of days, which is kind of cool.

(58:05):
Now they're saying this car is under forty thousand, but
that's for a commercial version that's probably stripped down the XLT,
which is the mid series. That one is fifty three thousand.
That's probably gonna be the one that most people are.
You know, let's be honest. When you go into a
car place, you know, whatever you see advertised is not
the price that you pay because it's like, oh, you

(58:26):
want windows that roll that are powered, not rolled down. Okay,
that's gonna be an extra two thousand dollars. So this
is gonna be a great truck. I think it's a
cool I mean, it's got a fronk. It's just such
a cool looking. The idea that the biggest kind of
like truck in America d F one fifty is so
like America iconic. Like the fact that that's going electric

(58:48):
is really cool. So, like I said, I'm not a
pickup truck guy, but I told my wife, I was like,
I don't know. I could see myself getting this thing
just because it's so cool, but I probably won't. All right,
let's see here any other questions that I want to address.
I think that's gonna do it for this show. I

(59:10):
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see an hour on my podcast app, I'm like, I
don't want to sit there and listen to a show
for an hour. One more thing. Internet Explore End of
an era. It is being retired on June fifteenth, twenty
twenty two. I don't think anyone listening to this show
is still using Internet Explore. Maybe you are, but I

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