March 18, 2022 • 56 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Starbucks goes electric, Samsung unveils its answer to the iPhone
se Netflix might make freeloaders pay plus your tech questions answered?
What's going on? I'm Rich Damiro 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 answer the questions you send me, and
(00:31):
Boyd has send me those questions. I'm the tech reporter
at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome to the
folks watching on the live Instagram stream. I did this
last week, and you know what, I thought, it brought
like a pretty nice energy to the show. So I
felt like I was getting instant reactions. I felt like
(00:51):
people were asking questions. I felt like half the people
were like, who is this person I'm following? And why
is he doing this thing? What? Rich has a podcast,
So all of the are totally valid. So welcome to
the show. Thanks for joining me. Got a lot to
talk about this week, way too much actually, so I'm
gonna have to go through some of these stories pretty fast.
But I just got back from Palm Springs, California, which
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I know a lot a lot of my followers are
in California, but a lot of them are in or
a lot of you or in other places. And I
just have to say that Palm Springs. There is so
much going on in California. And I'm not just talking
about the problems. I'm talking about the good stuff too.
I mean, California is such a beautiful state. I almost
called it a country because it kind of is. It's
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so big that you like, I grew up on the
East Coast in New Jersey, and you know, when we
went on road trips, we literally went all over the
East coast. You know, we went to Maine, we went
to New Hampshire, we went to New York, we went
to Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania begrudgingly, but we went all over.
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We went to different places. Just kidding. If you're in Pennsylvania,
it was just a really long drive across. But the
reality is in California, you know, there are so many
places to go that you don't even have to leave California.
I mean, it's and it's so beautiful and it's so varied.
That's the thing. It took me many many years to
realize this, Like I took it all for granted, and
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now I just get it, Like you want to go
to the mountains. That weekend, go to the mountains. You
want to go to the ocean. The next weekend you
go to the ocean. You want to go to the snow.
One weekend you go to the snow. You want the desert,
You've got the desert. You want amazing cities like San Francisco,
uh that are still you know, recovering from the pandemic,
you can go there. But I mean Wine Country. There
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is just so much. And I guess maybe it's now
that I have kids that I'm kind of going to
all these places and looking for things. But anyway, I
tell you all this because I was in Palm Springs
for this Volvo Drive event and it you know, it's
basically an event. They invite the media and you go
and you drive the cars. And I'm telling you, Palm
up in there so many times, but mostly Palm Desert,
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and it's just such a fun little place. There's just
so like so much energy there. It's something about the
mountains in the distance that are just like they ground
you in this world. I don't know what it is,
but I just get this like re energized feeling when
I go to Palm Springs and Palm Desert and it's
just such a fun place. So anyway, if you haven't been,
if you haven't been lately, go And yeah, I've got
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commenters talking about the taxes and taxes and the high
gas prices, and yes, there are a million and one
things about California that make it a kind of a
wild place to live. But at the end of the day,
we enjoy a lifestyle here that is so far ahead
and beyond what so many people experience in this world
and in the US even, and we take it for granted,
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and sometimes you just kind of have to remember that, like,
this is such a magical place. So anyway, I know
it got really really tough during the pandemic with all
of the mandates and things, but we're finally getting out
of that, and yeah, it is worth it. As Ryan said, anyway,
So I was talking about the Volvo. I drove Valvo's
first all electric car. This is the C forty. This
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is Valvo's first pure electric car. And I didn't even
realize that they didn't have a pure electric yet. They
had you know, half and half whatever hybrid kind of thing,
but this is their first pure electric gets about two
hundred miles to the fill up and I was very impressed.
In fact, you know, as you listen to me, you
know I have a Tesla. This made me a little jealous.
I was like, did I jump the gun on the
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Tesla situation and get that a little bit too early
with all of these cool cars coming out. And I
will still say that the Tesla, the advantage that it
has is not only the technology of the car. And
there's a lot of downsides to the Tesla. Don't get
me wrong. I think the fit and finish is just
pretty horrible. But the beauty is the driving every day.
And also the charging situation is just unsurpassed. With the Tesla.
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You can go anywhere California, West Coast, pretty much across
the US, and you're gonna be fine with charging. That
cannot be said for these other cars. And so as
much as I love the Volvo, unless you're using it
just to commute, it's definitely it's gonna be a challenge
still to find those those charging stations that are not
only I mean you can find them, they may not
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be the fastest charging stations. And that's the other part
of this is you have to have fast charging to
really get the most used out of these cars on
a road trip. If you just drive into work and
to school and to you know, fun around town, you're
gonna be just fine. Charging at home, charging at work,
it's going to be just fine. It's really on those
road trips that that Tesla infrastructure rocks. So with that
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in mind, I will have My review of the C forty.
I mean, top line review is that it's an excellent car.
In fact, I would definitely recommend it, and I think
that the Volvo is a fantastic ev I love the
Google inside. In fact, there wasn't anything I didn't like
about it. The price is a little high, it's sixty grand,
but it does qualify for all the tax rebates, which
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could be up to like, you know, ten thousand bucks
depending on where you live, and so you know, that's nice.
The other thing is that the Starbucks and Volvo are
collaborating to build chargers at Starbucks, which of course makes
a lot of sense, right, I mean, Starbucks are everywhere.
They've got a lot of this extra space at their stations,
you know, at their at their places that have parking
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lots and stuff like that. So you can easily convert
one of those into a charger. So they're gonna do
fifteen Starbucks locations for starters, and it's gonna be a
thirteen hundred and fifty mile route from Do you say
route or route? I always say route, paper like I
had a paper route when I was a kid, paper
route when I was a kid. I say route. I
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think you can say it either way, but anyway, They're
gonna go from Seattle to Denver with this pilot program,
which is a location about every one hundred miles. And
so people are you know, and I asked Valvo. I said, hey,
I'd really like to drive this road trip later this
year when these things are in place, and so they said,
oh yeah, yeah, sure, But you know, they'll say anything
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in the moment, but who knows, we'll see, but I'm excited.
Volvo drivers will get access for free. And this should
be the test, Like pilot will be completed by twenty
twenty two, so they will have these stations in place,
and it's just one of these things where we're going
to see more and more. Like Ryan is saying, Sonic
really needs to get in on EV charging. That would
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actually be a great one. The ev charging at Sonic
would be perfect because you don't have to leave your car.
Can you imagine if you order at the screen and
you actually say, can you also plug in my car?
And this is another thing I wanted to mention that
a lot of people don't talk about with the evs
is that and this. I almost feel guilty mentioning this
right now because because of the high gas prices in
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California and the US at large. But I mean, there
are so many opportunities to charge evs for free. That
is kind of a small secret right now, where yes,
it's getting maybe less places, but like you know, the
hotel I stayed at in Palm Springs, I just they
didn't advertise it or anything. I just I always ask
when I get to a hotel, like, hey, can you
charge my car? And I will say, the last four
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or five places I've stayed at or six have all
had a place to charge, so and by the way,
that charging is free. So it was kind of nice
driving back knowing that it was like a free ride. Basically,
still wear and tear in your car obviously, Marcus says,
can I have a pair of those? These these are
like real, like you guys don't really see me doing
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the podcast with these headphones on. But I love these
headphones because I'm a I'm a person that moves a
lot when I talk, and so these these headphones can
move with me. It's basically one of those like Monday
night football, like the sports headphones. So I've got the
two side cups and then the microphone right in front
of my mouth. But it's great and I love the
I've used these since day one on the podcast because
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they're just so easy. All right, let's get to the
first question of the show. Good morning. I enjoy your
insights on many products would have. Do you have any
recommendations for a reliable fax app that's compatible with my
scanner that's listed or a free app that doesn't require
a subscription. I am home based. Thanks for your time
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and help if you're able to, Sincerely, Valerie. Valerie, I
don't think there is a free Maybe there's a free
facts situation out there. I honestly I don't know if. Well, okay,
so there's something I just searched for free facts. It's
called facts zero. I mean, I guess you can do that.
(09:36):
It's a maximum of three pages plus a cover five
factxes per day. So if you want to just send
something for freefactszero dot com, Now, I personally, if you're
using this for business, I think that you're going to
have to step up a little bit and pay. Because
number one, anything that's free, you have to wonder about
the security of that. You know, it may not be
(09:58):
as secure as a paid as a paid thing something
that doesn't require a subscription, So I think, I mean,
I'll just tell you my favorite. So my favorite is
it's called Hellofax Hellofax dot com and I've used them
for many, many years anytime I have to sign any
kind of contract, paperwork whatever hello fax it is. And honestly,
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I've never had to pay, so I'm not sure if
they have some sort of free level of service where
you get like one or two or three facts is
a month. I think maybe I did have to pay
ninety nine cents once to send one, but it was
so minimal that I was like, all right, that's fine,
I could I could do that. I think I went
to a Kinkos once and it was like seven or
eight bucks to send a FAXT, So I think you'll
be fine. But that's what I would recommend. I would
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recommend Hello Fax and see if if you know the
free facts works, try it. Hellofax is the other one,
and there are others out my my, eating my words,
there are others out there, like efacts dot Com is
pretty much the gold standard in faxing. It's been around forever.
I like HELLOFACTX. I think it's more modern. It works
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really well. And they were purchased by Dropbox, so I
don't know how long they're going to be around, but
they are still around and they always work for me,
and it always seems great, all right. T Mobile this
week unveiled its answer to the to the iPhone SE,
the new iPhone SE. I talked about it last week
on the show. It is the five G iPhone that
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kind of looks like an iPhone eight. It's still got
the home button, but it's got upgraded cameras and a
better processor. And Samsung their's is called the Galaxy A
fifty three five G. I mean, oh, isn't that a
winning name? Consumers are just going to roll into Best
Buy and be like, hey, can I please get the
Galaxy Samsung Galaxy A fifty three five G. I mean, Samsung,
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come on, like, let's just make these phones with names
that people can roll off the you know, off the tongue.
I mean, you know, how about just the Galaxy Triple
A or something. You know, four hundred and forty nine dollars.
Don't pay that price. Samsung phones are always discounted, So
if you're paying four hundred and forty nine dollars, you're
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doing something wrong. I guarantee you there's a discount on
this phone already, Samsung A fifty three. So the advantages
over the iPhone SC It's got more cameras, so it's
got the It's got a quad camera system, so I
assume that's three cameras on the back and a camera
on the front, so you're getting like the wide angle
and all that stuff, and the zoom, so that's a
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little bit better. It's got AI power to capture clear
pictures in all lighting conditions. Is also got the photo
remaster which will take a photo make it look better,
and object eraser, which is kind of fun. It's got
now they say two day battery life. I have not
tested this phone just yet, so I can't tell you
if it has to day. They did tell me that
the S twenty two Ultra had two day and I
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don't know if that's the case. Maybe if you don't
use it as much as I do, but you know
you're gonna get long battery life. I think Samsung has
done a really good job with the battery life. Also
super fast charging and a six point five inch display
edge to edge. So a lot of people with the
with the iPhone S the new one, you know, and
by the way, that's a four hundred and twenty nine dollars,
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So this one's a little bit more, but like I said,
it's gonna be discounted. A lot of people are giving
the iPhone SE that came out in twenty twenty two
a hard time because it's it's got a very old design.
Now some people might like that because it's comfortable, it's
what they're used to, and really, who they're appealing to
here is not the most cutting edge person with either
of these phones. These are phones that are basic smartphones
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that will do the job, but also are really good.
I mean, these inexpensive and I'm putting up my air
quotes here, these inexpensive smartphones in twenty twenty two are
still pretty amazing. And so if you like Samsung, if
you like the Android side of things. Then I would
definitely consider this a fifty three to five G. I
think that the S twenty two, if you can jump
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up to the S twenty two, I think that would
be a better phone over all if you care about
like the maximum everything, But if you just care about
having a nice smartphone that that just works and it's
it's going to be a better deal. I would reckon reckon,
who says reckon, I would reckon to say that this
is probably gonna be one hundred dollars off minimum, So
I'd say one hundred dollars, so three hundred and fifty
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bucks for this phone. So I think that's that's that's
a pretty good deal. So Samsung Galaxy A fifty three
five G. Let's get to the next question of the show.
Diana says, I saw your infomercial this morning. I love
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when people call my stories on TV infomercials or advertisements.
We call them segments because they are not No one
pays us to do these things, so it's not an infomercial.
It's not an advertisement. I get it. It's different than
the standard news because it's like, okay, it goes from
like fire, you know, murder. This That to me which
(15:03):
is like smiling and you know, telling you something fun,
but it's not. It's not an infomercial, it is just
a segment. So anyway, I saw your infomercial this morning
on tracking points through a ward wallet and point me.
But when I look them up, it seems they want
me to provide passwords to my accounts, which concern me.
Could you clarify how these two sites work? Thank you, Diana. Diana,
(15:25):
this is a excellent question and I'm so glad you
asked it because you should always be critical of any
website that wants you to hand over your passwords. Now,
when I do these the research on these sites, a
ward wallet has been around forever. Point me as brand new.
Point me doesn't ask for your your your login info,
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but a ward wallet definitely does, and so does the
points guy, the point skuy app that I also mentioned,
and so a ward wallet the way it works, and
I've grown to love this app and just a few
weeks of using it. But you log in with your email,
and I know it's a lot to give up your email,
you know, your email account to these these systems. Now,
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the way they authenticate it, you're not actually giving them
your password they're just getting a one time token from Google.
But at the end of the day, they can read
your email, and so you have to be comfortable with
a website if you're giving it this level of access. Now,
on the flip side, the reason why I give it
that level of access is because it is looking for
emails that come from any sort of travel company or reservation.
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And so what I love about a ward wallet is
that I now have this list of every single reservation
I have ever made, and I can tell you in
seven days, I'm going out to dinner, and a couple
of days after that, I might be checking into a
hotel that I might be going to a lunch, and
then I'm you know, it's just all these things and
they're all in a row with my confirmation number front
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and center. It's all stuff that's in my email. But
guess what, when I want to check into that Hilton,
I have to go and search in my email for
the conformation number. And it's kind of similar to what
uh trip it is it trip it trip it does?
Uh trip it costs. I think it's like fifty bucks
a year. Your company might give it you for free,
but again, it's just it makes life a little bit easier.
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So I'm giving up a little bit of control to
make my life easier and to organize my life because
if this saves me from one, you know, penalty of
a cancelation or something that I forget to do, that's
a big deal and that that's very worth it to me,
or you know, looking at my thing and saying, wait,
what's this United flight? Like what what's I didn't I
don't remember that. Oh yeah, I have that coming up,
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so I need to you know, it just it just
helps you. And so it's one tool. But again you
have to be very critical of any website that asks
for your login information. And Points Guy again I trust them,
and a lot of these companies use kind of third parties,
like I don't know if Points Guy does, but no,
I think you log in with your actual stuff. But
you have to remember now, if you ever want to
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revoke access, you all need to learn how to do that.
And so typically it's called third party permissions. So if
you just Google, like let's say you want to look
at all the companies or the websites that you've authorized
your Google login, just type in Google and then third
party what I say, third party permissions. Okay, So I'm
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googling that and it comes up to sign into your
Google account, and now I can see all the apps
that have access to my account and I can revoke access.
So and it also will tell you what those apps
have access to. So, for instance, Amazon A you know
what I'm talking about, has some account access a ward
while it has access to Gmail. That's a red flag.
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I'm like, Okay, I want to make sure I trust that.
Let's see macOS has access to my Gmail, my Google calendar,
my Google Contacts. Let's see, Samsung has some account access.
Trip it has access to my Gmail. Now I don't
have a Trippet account anymore. I don't think I do.
That's active, and so I would probably go through and
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revoke access because they still have access to my email
and I don't want them to have access. So you
can do that with Instagram, you can do it, with
the Twitter, you can do it Facebook, Google, any company
that you can log in with, you can revoke those
third party permissions. So great question, Diane, And yes, always, always,
always be critical of anything that you're giving your permission to.
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But at the same time, it can be very it
can be very advantageous to do that as well if
you trust the program. All right, iOS fifteen point four
is now available, so if you have an iPhone or
an iPad or a Mac there they launched all of
their new software this week, so if you want the
latest and greatest software, you can go ahead and get that.
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I was not even aware that my MacBook had new
software until I was doing research for the show and
I was like, oh, I should probably download that. I
used to be one of these people that was downloading
the software like immediately, and you know, I'd press refresh
a million times to get the new software, and then
I got burned. And so now I don't put as
much of an emphasis on it, but I do like
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to be up to date for security reasons and also
to test this stuff out. Now. I was running the
beta of iOS fifteen point four for a long time now,
so I've already been familiar with the new features, like
the ability I mean, this came out in January for me,
but the ability to I mean, the new features are
the ability to wear a mask while you uh use
face ID, which in Los Angeles we don't need anymore,
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so it's cool that you still have it, Like if
you're a nurse or something great or doctor or whatever,
but yeah, you don't need that. And then the other
new emoji, I mean, I don't you know, I don't
care about the new emojis. And then let's see the
other thing is a new Seri voice and so and
the Seri voice is let's see, I don't did I
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feel like it was selected on my on my phone.
But there's let's see the new series voice. There were
some news about the new Seri voice. Uh, yeah, it's
gender neutral. I was trying to think of what the
term was for this new Serie voice, but gender neutral.
And so it's a less gendered voice. And so again options.
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Siri has gotten many many options over the past couple
of years, and so this is just one more of them.
So if you have an iOS device, definitely download the
software if you like to be on the cutting edge.
And if you have a macOS device like a MacBook,
do that as well. One of the big features a
lot of people are talking about is this new Universal
Control and so The Verge says that it's Apple's most
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impressive new feature in years. Now. What it does is,
once you have both of these devices like a Mac
computer and an iPad running the latest software. You can
literally put the iPad next to the Mac computer. It
will find them. It will find you know, the link
up and then you can use your mac's keyboard and
(22:00):
to control the iPad. Kind of cool. I wish I
had my iPad, or I should. I don't. I don't
have them updated yet, but I got to try this
out and I'll talk about it more. But you basically
just move your mouse over to the right and it
will follow onto the other screen or to the left
wherever you have it set up or maybe up, and
you can use your keyboard as well. I'm trying to
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figure out how this is different than sidecar, because that's
what I was using before. I know, you can drag
and drop files too, which is actually really cool. So
if you have a picture on your Mac, you can
just drag and drop it onto your iPad by just
bringing it to the next screen. I mean, that's pretty cool.
And so again we're just getting it always. All this
stuff reminds me of that the movies, like the sci
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fi movies that are always like send that to my
screen and literally the person just like goes like and
swiped it from their screen. To the person's screen. Air
Drop is kind of like that. I mean, it's like
it's very sci fi. But I always joke. I've made
that joke about one hundred and fifty times to people
like out and about all my stories, and no one
gets it. Like everyone just looks at me like what
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do you talk? Are are you talking? You want me
a text to air drop or nearby Share? Oh? This
was great. So I was testing the Samsung Galaxy S
twenty two the other day out in you know, in
the world, and I was taking pictures with it, and
someone wanted me to share the picture with them, and
I was like, oh, yeah, I could do that, just
(23:26):
turn on your nearby Share And they're like what And
I was like, yeah, cause I notice, say an Android phone,
and I've never been able to use the nearby share
with anyone. I call it in the wild. And so
this person was like, oh, okay, how do I do that?
And I was like and I never I never touched
people's phones when I'm helping them because I'd rather them
learn how to do it. So I always say, okay,
swipe down from the top, let's find where nearby Share is. Okay,
(23:49):
it's not there. So swipe over there it is, turn
it on and then boom the phone lit up and said, hey,
we see Rich's phone over here. And I said, okay,
now tap that to accept and now I'm gonna send
it your way. And the picture came to his phone
and he was so impressed, and I said, I I
don't think I tweeted, but I literally was so impressed
that I was able to use I get that that
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iPhone users are so used to Android are so used
to air drop, and I get it. It's like no
one's business. Everyone knows airdrop, but on Android, the nearby
share feature, which has been built into phones for so
many years now, I don't think anyone knows about it
because we're such an iPhone centric country in the US
that typically the problem with sharing is sharing from Android
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to iPhone or iPhone to Android. So it's not necessarily
the Android to Android sharing, it's the not necessarily the
iPhone to iPhone sharing. It's all about sharing cross platform,
and we still don't have a very good system of that.
And I don't want to get into the I don't
want to get into that because it's just you get
me going. And yeah, so anyway, it was really cool
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to see it in person, so I thought that was
pretty great. Okay, where are we at? I just to
us a story. Is it time for another question? I
was gonna go off on a tangent about something, but
I forgot what I was gonna talk about, so okay,
Oh wow, this is a long one. Hey, rich I
really enjoy your weekly podcast. I first learned of you
when you hosted for Leo's Tech Guys show Leo Laporte.
(25:15):
I was listening to your podcast last week and noticing
that you were discussing using a credit versus debit card
to avoid fraudulent charges. I had the same problem a
couple times when my cards were stolen. I found a solution,
and that is my bank in the Eastern US Regions Bank,
which might be offered by other banks. It's called a
debit card called now card. It's not directly tied to
my checking It's kind of like a reloadable gift card.
(25:38):
But in the online banking or mobile app, I can
transfer money from my checking to the now card. If
I'm handing my card to someone or swiping. As you say,
I almost always use the now card since it's not
tied to my checking account or running up a credit balance.
I only keep about one hundred dollars in the card
at any time. If the car gets stolen, I would
only be out that money, and they have no connection
to my bank. I can transfer money to my now
card as often as I needed. I've not had car
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card stolen in nearly five years. Thought you might want
to mention this in your future podcast. Thanks Wes. Wes. Yes,
your system is very very similar to mine. So I
don't know if I mentioned this in my last podcast,
but I do what's called a reverse credit card. And
so I know I'm weird because I'm weirdly against credit cards,
and so I try not to use my credit card
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at any Like I paid my credit card bill today,
I'm like, how is it that much? Like I didn't
use it for anything last week, and it's still just
like it just adds up because you just forget like
a couple bucks here, a couple bucks there. And so
that's why I like to use debit, because I can
see my balance. So what I do is I have
a separate debit card that I load up every week
with money. And so just like what you're talking about exactly,
(26:44):
but I have budgeted out kind of what I spent
on food, what I spend on you know, whatever uber
going out, and that money I put like every week
on my debit card, and that's my spending money. I
call it fun money, and so it's not really fun
because buying groceries is not fun, Buying gas is not fun.
My wife buys gas on the card. But we've called
it fun money for so many years. But it's really
(27:06):
just our budgeted money for that week. So anyway, it's
very similar and I use that system. I'm still hesitant
to hand that card over to people because it is
still kind of there is my money for the week
on that card. So I guess you're right, it wouldn't
be too bad. It's not really connected to my main account,
so that's probably fine. I also looked into another card
(27:30):
called the point point card, and I think I talked
about this on the website, but it's called point dot
app and it's basically a debit card that you can
get points for and it's the same thing, but you
reload it and so you have the money on the
card before we spend it. The difference here is that
(27:51):
it's very tech forward. But what I didn't like about
it is that I got a lot of emails from
them about acquiring points, like they would say this week,
fifteen times points on ordering a pizza, and I don't
the whole thing of I don't want to get into
this too much, but it's the psychology of points that
I really like. I love points just as much as
(28:12):
the next person. But it's that psychology of points where
you feel really good when you're getting points, and so
I don't want to feel good when I'm spending my money.
I want to feel like I'm spending money because that
makes me spend less money. So when you're getting points,
especially ten times points, twenty times points, it's very psychological
in making you feel good for spending your money. And
(28:32):
I'm not believe me, I get it. I love points
just as much as the next person. I booked a
couple flights with points the other day. I do acquire points,
but I used to really play the points game and
actively try to acquire points, and at this point I
don't because I'd rather save my money and not get
the points, then spend the money and get points that
are worth a fraction of what your money's worth. And
(28:55):
so it's a personal preference. I know it's not for everyone,
but it's just the way I do it. The other
advantage of the Point Card is that the money transfers instantly.
So there are many many debit cards you can get
out there, like a Green Daw or a you know,
there's so many of them that can let you transfer
money from your checking account. But the trick is it
(29:16):
usually takes two to three days unless you're doing direct deposit.
But with Point Card, they actually let you transfer money instantly,
which is a huge advantage with that card, And so
that's kind of cool. But anyway, Wes, great, great addition
to the show. Thanks for sharing. And I love the
fact that we are both kind of on that debit
card train. It's not there's nothing sexy about using a
debit card. It's like the boringest thing you can do.
(29:39):
It's my debit card is not even a good looking card,
and it's like one of these things where I just
I use it and it's like the only reason I
use it is because it makes me feel that money
when you pay cash for something, have you ever tried
to just try this just the same thing that you
purchase typically, right, Like, whether it's a groceries for the week,
whether it's coffee at Starbucks. Just go to the ATM,
(30:02):
take out cash, and hand over that cash to someone.
And for your thing. The more expensive the better, like
if it's like a fifty dollars thing or one hundred
dollars thing, like your groceries, and just see what it
feels like. It literally, like when someone is taking cash
out of my hand, it's like this, like they have
to like kind of pull it because my hand has
not released it. And I'm like, okay, here you go.
(30:23):
When it's my debit card or my you know, especially
a credit card, like I'll swipe with my foot, like
I'll put it between my toes and swipe that way,
like I'll swipe behind my back. Like it's all like fun.
It's all fun and games with the credit card. And
so it's just it feels fun to spend on it
because you're getting all those points on the back end
and then you're getting free travel and all this stuff.
So anyway, I'm not gonna try to take down the
(30:44):
marketing departments at all these credit card companies that are
way smarter than my tiny brain. But believe me, they
spend millions of dollars on this stuff, and I'm just
and I'm just like you know, I'm here for the ride.
And by the way, a lot of these thoughts are
not mine. They are derived from Dave Ramsey, which I
am a big follower of, and so these are not
my original ideas. A lot of these things are from
(31:06):
listening to his show and his point of view and
doing my own research. So anyway, oh no, we're not
on that. Okay, let's talk speaking of money, Netflix. Netflix
is now gonna ask subscribers in certain places when they
try to share their account with someone outside their house, like, hey,
can you pay for that by any chance? And the
(31:28):
answer probably is going to be a resounding no. Now,
Netflix has been notoriously lax about letting people share their accounts.
They know Netflix is not stupid. They know when someone
is streaming my account is in California. I live in California,
in Los Angeles. They know when people are streaming in
(31:50):
other cities across the nation that are in my profile
and household but don't live with me. They know that
they're allowing that to happen. Now, there are reasons for this,
because it is really tough to tell if your kid
is in college, and so if I say, oh, that
account that's streaming in New Jersey, that's my son in college.
Wank wink, And they can't do What are they gonna say, Oh,
(32:12):
we need you to send a transcript, We need you
to send the IP address of his dorm room computer.
Like no, they just Okay, not much we can do
about that. But they do feel like maybe, you know,
people are sharing this with their friends, getting a little
money on the back end. Who knows. So this is
a variety exclusive, saying that in Chile, Costa Rica and
(32:32):
Peru they are going to prompt members that want to
share their account to pay for those accounts, and it
will be called the ad an extra member feature. They'll
be out able to add up to two people that
don't live with them, and those people will get their
own profile, their own personalized recommendations, their own login, their
(32:53):
own password for less than the cost of a standalone
Netflix plan. How much you ask, Oh, funny, you should
ask two dollars and ninety nine cents. That's US dollars
the other ones. And let's see in Peru it's seven
point nine seven point nine pe n to US d
(33:13):
Let's see that's two dollars and nine cents, and then
in Chile it is going to be twenty three eighty
twenty three eighty CLP to USD. I'm just doing a
quick Google search here and that's about three dollars. So
it's about three dollars to add a person. Now unless
you are unless you are collecting that money from that
(33:36):
person on the other end, it's like, why would you
ever do this? And so I'm guessing that Netflix knows
that people are going to feel guilty about this and say, look,
you know, whoever they're sharing it with, will you pay
that extra three bucks? And will all be legitimate? You've
got your own profile, you've got your own login, all
this good stuff. The other thing that they're going to
do is let people transfer over whatever they had going on.
(34:00):
So if you had a profile, they will let you
transfer it, because that's the big thing. Once you've built
this profile on Netflix, you don't really want to get
rid of it, and so you know they're gonna let
you transfer that right over. All, Right, let's get to
the next question of the podcast. Hey, rich I recently
(34:20):
bought an iPhone for the first time. I was wondering
how you switch your contacts and photos from Android to iPhone.
I was hoping you can help me with this, and
I'm a huge fan of your podcast. I've been there
since day one. Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks Gabe, Gabe,
thanks for listening to the podcast since day one. If
you've listened since day one, you know that this podcast
has gone through more changes than a If I knew
(34:42):
phrases like that, I would have used it, but I don't.
But you know what I'm saying. What goes through a
lot of more changes than a than a Google messaging service.
I need those drums to do. So it's very simple,
very easy. Apple makes an app called move to iOS
(35:03):
and it will transfer your messages, your photos, your contacts,
and more. And specifically the more is your calendar, so
not much more, but it will do it. So those
are all the basics, your messages, your contacts, your calendar,
your Google account, and your camera roll. So that's it.
You'll get your web bookmarks as well. So the review
(35:29):
on this app. Reviews on this app are not very good.
When was the last time this app was updated? It
was updated on March eighteenth, so today, so they are
actively updating this app, So that is what you want
to do. It's got faster Wi Fi, faster data transfer. Now,
it's got improved Wi Fi and support for Android twelve.
So install that app on your Android phone and then
(35:50):
when you want to switch over, it will just have
both phones with you and it will just prompt you
through the prompts. If it's like the Samsung I have
not used this one personally, I should do it just
to test it out. But if it's like the Samsung one,
Samsung's is excellent. It just basically kind of takes the
information from one phone, moves it to the other phone,
and in a very simple way. Oh, the name of
(36:12):
the app is moved to iOS. So all right, you
know what I'm gonna do. Since I do have viewers
on the Instagram stream, if you have a question for me,
get it in now and I will do a kind
of a quick round robin of some of those questions
while I read the next story here right after the story.
All right, Hulu, if you have Hulu, You've got unlimited
(36:34):
DVR coming to all Hulu Plus Live TV subscribers at
no additional cost. So starting April thirteenth, you will get
free Hulu DVR unlimited for all eighty channels in the lineup. Previously,
if you wanted more than fifty hours of storage, you
had to pay ten dollars a month or even fifteen
(36:55):
dollars a month. So if you are paying for one
of those enhanced DVR plan you will see a reduction
in your monthly bill. So that's pretty awesome. They have
to do this to compete better with Google TV or sorry,
YouTube TV, because they they have offered unlimited DVR since
day one, and now Hulu will have that feature, and
(37:18):
it's I think that's pretty cool. I feel like maybe
people are dvring less and that's why they're doing it.
They're like, ah, we see our data and it's not
really going to be that big of a deal to
offer it to everyone. But your your stuff is saved
for nine months, I believe, so it's not like it's forever,
but your stuff will see this same Where did I
get that nine months from? I thought I've read that somewhere,
(37:39):
but I'm pretty sure it's nine months that your Hulu
stuff will stay safe. So if you haven't watched the
show in nine months, then you know you probably don't
need to. Lily says on the live stream, what are
the pros and cons on the new iPhone twenty twenty two?
I assume you're talking about the iPhone se twenty twenty two.
The pros or that it's inexpensive. It's four hundred and
twenty nine, and unlike I said with Samsung, it's not
(38:03):
particularly gonna go on sale. You might find it at
three ninety nine if someone is really wild, but I
don't think so. But the pro is that it's simple,
it's easy. It's uh, it's simple, it's easy, and uh,
hold on here, I lost my live stream for a second.
It's simple, it's easy, and it it works, and it's familiar,
(38:23):
and it's got that home button. The downside is and
the other pro is that you're getting the best processor
that Apple has to offer right now in a phone,
which is the A fifteen Bionic, which is really really cool.
The downside is that the design is a little tired,
the screen is a little small, bigger than before. And
let's see what are the other downsides. It doesn't have
(38:45):
mag safe and I think that's it. I mean, that's
really the downsides. I mean, I think it's a it's
a solid phone. If you want just a basic iPhone.
The other downside I think is the is this is
the storage? I think on the base model it's uh,
it's not well. I gotta check that. I don't don't
quote me on that, but Justin says, what headset are
(39:05):
you using? I got a look hold on this is.
This is an Audio Technica headset, and I can get
the exact model number. I've got to I'd have to
search my Amazon history. I bought it on Amazon many
many years ago. I'm not even sure they still sell it,
but it was like two hundred dollars audio. Let's see
if it yep here it is the BPHS one Audio
(39:30):
Technica bp HS one Broadcast Stereo headset with dynamic CARDIOID
boom mic adjustable, purchased on June seventeenth, twenty nineteen. So
I've got a pretty good use out of this thing.
One hundred and ninety nine bucks. That's the exact price
I paid. It's still still the same price. Let's see.
What are some other questions here? Can you share calafees?
(39:54):
Can you share how to connect my home pod to
my iPhone? It keeps saying not on the same Wi Fi.
That's interesting well, you need to go through and make
sure that your iPhone before you set it up is
on the right WiFi that you want. So, I mean,
if you're what I would do is go into the
Home app on your on your home Pod and do
(40:18):
a reset of the whole home Pod and then set
it up again fresh and it will work. You might
also want to update the software on there, but you
can do that all through the Home app and it's
it's apples like built into the iPhone, But I would
do that. Do you prefer and then reconnect them? Santigue
eight says, do you prefer the Google Home or Amazon Echo?
(40:39):
That is a great question. I used to prefer the
Google Home, and I still do for answers, I actually
run both at my house. But Amazon Echo I'm very
impressed with. I think it does a great job and
I think that it's excellent. I think it just depends.
You kind of have to be in one of those
if you're with like Ring products and you're with all
(41:00):
the Amazon Like Amazon has a great line of home products,
like the stuff that works with Alexa. Oh, they just
trigger everyone's stuff and so if you're shopping for those
things online, they're very inexpensive, and they work really well
and very simply, and so for that reason, I do
like kind of their home architecture system a little bit
better than the Google Home. I think Google Home is
(41:20):
excellent for displaying your Google photos and also controlling those
devices that do work with Google. I think the voice
commands aret it just understands everything, which I think is
really cool. Brooklyn girl says, Hey, Rich, I love watching
you Ring or Google Nest or Arlow cameras. I would
(41:40):
go with Ring anytime of the day. I think that
Ring is the most dedicated to the space. Arlow is
also very dedicated, and I think they're great. I just
don't have that much experience with them. And they're also
less about the cloud and more about the local storage.
So if you prefer that, then I think that that's
a good thing. But I just like Ring because they've
got a great comment donation of products. They keep coming
(42:02):
out with new stuff. Their security system is excellent, their
cameras are excellent. Their doorbell kind of brings it all together.
I mean, talk about a trojan horse. You have this
doorbell that they started it all with, and now they've
been able to expand into a billion dollar business because
of one great idea, So I give them a lot
of credit. Robert says, what's your favorite infomercial? Oh, my gosh,
(42:24):
I used to I used to love infomercials as a kid. Oh,
we're getting some some random questions. Jack says, but my
favorite the slap Chop, and I still use that is
one of mine. Set it and forget it is a
great one. Jack says, do you eat frozen pizza? What's
your favorite? Jack? We eat pizza every Monday night, and
(42:44):
typically we alternate between frozen and then we order and
then we also make fresh. But my frozen favorites I
actually it's kind of a random one. But it might
be the Annie's the Annie's Organic. It's I know it's
a it's kind of off brand, but it's I really
like those. I just I don't know. I think they're
really good. And I also like the Whole Foods Basic
(43:04):
three sixty five. I know, I'm so boring. Let's see,
how do I prevent my iPhone from being hacked? Shana says,
how do I prevent my iPhone from being hacked? My
job keeps hacking my phone? What can I do? Uh? Oh,
if your job is hacking your phone, I would find
a new job because they should not be doing that.
(43:27):
But iPhones are very tough to hack, like extremely tough
to hack. So pretty much the only way I know
of hacking an iPhone is through a plug in which
you can plug. You know, if you're plugging your iPhone
into random charging ports, that could be a problem, but
the iPhone has gotten so sophisticated that even if you
do that, it's still you would have to say trust
(43:47):
this device when it popped up, and you would be like, wait,
why am I trusting a computer when I'm plugging it
into charge. The other way is by clicking a link
in an I message that could be malicious and install
malicious software on your phone. That's you know. The other
way is that if your company is using a VPN
to monitor you, there is software that can monitor your phone.
(44:08):
So those are the three main ways that I know.
But typically iPhones are very tough to hack. They're very
secure unless you are giving someone guided access to them
or some sort of access to them. Happy Friday, set
it and forget it as classic. What's your favorite food? Oh? Easy?
Favorite food is? I mean, pizza is definitely my favorite food.
(44:28):
Any sort of Italian food chicken parmesan. I mean those
are like those are those are right up there. I
mean most of the food I like that's my favorite
is actually well, popcorn is also my favorite snack. But
most of my favorite foods are the worst foods for you.
You know. Steak is also one of my favorites, but
they're all like, you know, they're not the best for you.
But I'll eat other stuff. I mean, I try to
(44:50):
eat healthy, like ninety percent of the time or eighty percent,
and then the rest of the time I'll eat my stuff.
I like Lucy says, I cut the cord, butught an
inside into Should I put it upstairs TV or downstairs?
I would put it in the TV that's closest to
a window or some sort of exterior because you're gonna
want to be able to get the best signal on
(45:11):
that antenna. But you probably, I mean, you don't really
need that. Uh oh. We got a listener from We
got a listener from from Bill Handle on KFI asking
Alejandro says, botox filler or no botox filler? Uh no
botox filler for me. But you know what, I don't judge.
If you want to have botox filler. I was, Uh,
(45:35):
let's just say, I'm you know, my friends are becoming
of a certain age, and especially the women, and so
apparently it's a thing in Los Angeles. I didn't realize
it was so prevalent, but it is a thing. So
if you think someone just happens to have a really
nice forehead that has no lines on it, I think again,
it's probably botox. Oh gosh, Boogie's asking, uh, Android or iPhone?
(46:00):
This has been an ongoing argument for years. I'm not
going to add to that argument. I think it's a
matter of personal preference. I love Android for the way
it's so customizable, but I love iPhone because it just
it helps me just do the things that I want
to do. It really helps me accomplish so much that
the Android is great, and I just love Android. I've
(46:20):
always loved Android, but the iPhone is just it's so solid.
It's like rock solid when it comes to content creation.
Like I said, I mean, I could go out to
a anywhere in the world, drop me anywhere with an iPhone,
and I will create a story. I can create something
for TV, I can do social media. I can do
so much. Not that you can't do those things on Android.
(46:42):
The apps are there, it's just a little trickier and
it's not as smooth. But when it comes to making
your phone your own, one hundred percent like Android, the
fact that I can click the this is how I
describe an iPhone. It's almost like a minefield, right because
you're literally like, there are certain things I know not
to click. It's like, I don't want to click an
(47:04):
address that's highlighted because it's going to take me to
Apple Maps, and I'm like, oh, I don't use Apple Maps.
I know it's not gonna take me to Google Maps
because you can't have a default map program. It's gotten
a little bit better with that respect because they do
have default email now and they've got default web browser,
but it's still not perfect. A lot of apps are
not necessarily coded to handle the third party web browsers,
(47:27):
and so it does cause some problems. They also used
to have a problem with logging into Google across apps
that now works, So iPhones come a long way. It's
somewhat customizable, but the way I see it, it's always,
at the end of the day, it's always pushing you
towards what Apple offers. And you can argue that all
you want, but that's the reality of the iPhone. It
is iPhone is Apple first, it's Apple dominant, it's Apple prevalent.
(47:51):
And whereas on Android, you can choose the way you
want your phone to run on day one and it
will run like that over and over and over. Coop says,
recommend a computer for job searching. Any computer with a
web browser, just any computer you can find. You do
not need anything special. Get your resume, make it in
Google docs, use a resume helper to help you do it,
(48:12):
Get on LinkedIn, get on the job boards. You do
not need anything special to do that. All right, thanks
for the questions. We're gonna wrap up soon. But le
let's talk another story. T Mobile powers America's first five
G connected car, The BMW twenty twenty two IX and
I four are powered by T Mobile's new Baingenta drive
(48:35):
for BMW unlimited voice calling and unlimited data. To BMW's
twenty bucks a month, it can turn your car into
a mobile Wi Fi hotspot. You can connect your devices.
It looks like you can share your personal cell phone number.
So it's saying don't leave you know you could leave
your phone behind. But let's be honest, who has ever
gotten into their car without their phone? I don't think anyone.
I mean, so that's not really This whole idea of
(48:57):
having the hot spot in your car I think is
great if you kids, But again, it's gotten so good
with sharing your your hot spot from your iPhone or
even from your Android with your kids like they know
how to connect. I mean, do you really need to
pay an extra twenty bucks a month? I think this
is cool, but it seems like another way for automakers
(49:17):
and cellular companies just make more money on us. I
think that the hot spot in the car is obviously
gonna be stronger, it's gonna have a better antenna than
your phone. It's gonna it's gonna pull in a stronger signal,
maybe be faster. But do you really need this? Probably not,
I mean unless you're unless you're on the go, and
then it's a nice option. So if you are, you know,
(49:38):
a road warrior and you're always on the road and
you want to just have that standard, that solid connection
all the time, then great, I think that's awesome. It's
just nice to have options, right, But I also when
I got this story, so when I saw the history.
It just made me so sad because I already know
that here on March eighteenth, twenty twenty, and it's here's
the announcement for five G in a BMW, And I'm
(50:01):
already looking forward to ten years from now or fifteen
years when they're saying five G in BMW is going away.
Five G networks are being sunseted, just like we're seeing
with the three G networks. So it's bound to happen,
That's for sure. It's bound to happen. All right, I
think I can get one more question in here and
then we're gonna have to all right, let's see here.
(50:24):
Uh hello, Hope all is well going well with this craziness.
My question is most of my family of iPhones, I'm
the one that has a Samsung Note nine, Yes, an
older phone. They liked you. Was there a Note nine,
I guess, so there was one that blew up. I
think it was a seven. They like to use FaceTime
and I can't, at least I don't think I could
until I heard you talk about it on KTLAS last year.
(50:44):
The fact is you said there is a way to
do it. Could I trouble you? For the steps or
instructions on how to FaceTime from an iPhone to a
Samsung Slash Android. This would be appreciated and very helpful.
Thanks so much for your help. Regards, Judy, Judy, very
very simple. All you have to do is you cannot
initiate it from Android, but you can receive it. So
you have to be on the receiving end of this
(51:04):
FaceTime call one of your family members. All they have
to do is generate a link, so they start a
FaceTime call, generate the link, send that link to you,
text it to you, You open it up in your
web browser, and voila, you are able to FaceTime with
your family. I would say take it a step further
and get your family to install something like Google Duo
(51:25):
and stop with this madness of the stuff that doesn't
work cross platform. I cannot stand apps that don't work
cross platform. Every single app that I use, with the
exception of I Message, works across every single platform, and
I want it that way because that's the way tech
should be. Tech should not be exclusive, it should be
inclusive of everyone. I hate the fact that when you
(51:48):
text someone from an Android phone to an iPhone it
comes up green. Why Apple, it should not be happening.
Why should you delineate your friends? Why are you helping
me delineate my friends from one another. Let's just make
this even right, Let's make it equal, make it nice
for everyone that's not happening in our world. Okay, I
go off, sorry about that. Okay. Finally, one last story.
(52:09):
Chipotle is testing a robot in the kitchen called Chippy.
Chippy is the latest autonomous kitchen assistant that is from
Miso Robotics. The same guy, the same people behind Flippy
the robot are the burger Flipper and Flippy. Okay, So
Chippy is going to be making the chips at Chipotle,
(52:32):
and so I love stories like this, and this is
the best part about it. Chippy was programmed to make
the chips like a human would make the chips. So
it's going to mix up the chips with salt, it's
going to cook them in sunflower oil. It's going to
then dust them with salt and finish with a hint
(52:54):
of lime juice. And they actually programmed Chippy to make
it so that these are not going to be perfect chips.
Every single time. There's going to be a variation of
the chip. And I did not realize this until reading
this story, that when I go to Chipotle, what do
I look forward to the most that chip that has
like the extra seasoning on it and the extra lime
(53:15):
juice on it, like that extra little kick a lime.
And I didn't realize that they program for that. So
now they're programming, they're artificial intelligence to do these things
like that. Now, yes, I have put in a request
to Chipotle to go test this out because I love
Chipotle chips. And yes, it's just one of these things
(53:35):
where it's gonna happen. And you know, I'm already seeing
the messages of people saying, Rich, there goes more jobs.
I don't know what to say about it. I cover
this stuff. It's just the reality of the food industry.
The food industry is at a very very tough crossroads
right now because labor is very expensive at restaurants and
the technology is getting to a place where it can
(53:57):
automate certain tasks that humans used to do. And the
only thing I can say on the plus side is
that I know these companies tell me that, oh, yeah, Rich,
we're gonna put more people in the uh, you know,
interfacing with guests. And I can say to that yeah, right.
Have you been to it a target lately? Have you
seen the self checkouts? There used to be a person
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when self checkouts first started, there used to be a
person standing there for everyone that was self checking out. Now,
good luck finding that person. They're just not there. You're
self checking out, and it's just the way of the world.
The only thing I can say on the on the
backside is that there are a lot of smart, very
well paid people that that will make a lot of
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money programming these robots and maintaining them and working on them,
so that, I guess is the silver lining. I know
it's not. It's not the you know, the job that
the the young kid that's in high school or whatever
can just go run in and get and make the
chips at Chipotle. But it's just we're a changing world
and these companies are going to do anything they can
to increase profit. It's just the reality of it. If
(55:01):
that involves I'm making this sound bad for Chipotle. I
think it's awesome. I'm excited about it. I think it's
really cool. I can't wait to test it out. But
I'm just explaining to you that our world is changing
and robots are a very big part of that world.
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Starbucks goes electric, Samsung unveils its answer to the iPhone
se Netflix might make freeloaders pay plus your tech questions answered?
What's going on? I'm Rich Damiro 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 answer the questions you send me, and
(00:31):
Boyd has send me those questions. I'm the tech reporter
at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome to the
folks watching on the live Instagram stream. I did this
last week, and you know what, I thought, it brought
like a pretty nice energy to the show. So I
felt like I was getting instant reactions. I felt like
(00:51):
people were asking questions. I felt like half the people
were like, who is this person I'm following? And why
is he doing this thing? What? Rich has a podcast,
So all of the are totally valid. So welcome to
the show. Thanks for joining me. Got a lot to
talk about this week, way too much actually, so I'm
gonna have to go through some of these stories pretty fast.
But I just got back from Palm Springs, California, which
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I know a lot a lot of my followers are
in California, but a lot of them are in or
a lot of you or in other places. And I
just have to say that Palm Springs. There is so
much going on in California. And I'm not just talking
about the problems. I'm talking about the good stuff too.
I mean, California is such a beautiful state. I almost
called it a country because it kind of is. It's
(01:38):
so big that you like, I grew up on the
East Coast in New Jersey, and you know, when we
went on road trips, we literally went all over the
East coast. You know, we went to Maine, we went
to New Hampshire, we went to New York, we went
to Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania begrudgingly, but we went all over.
(02:00):
We went to different places. Just kidding. If you're in Pennsylvania,
it was just a really long drive across. But the
reality is in California, you know, there are so many
places to go that you don't even have to leave California.
I mean, it's and it's so beautiful and it's so varied.
That's the thing. It took me many many years to
realize this, Like I took it all for granted, and
(02:21):
now I just get it, Like you want to go
to the mountains. That weekend, go to the mountains. You
want to go to the ocean. The next weekend you
go to the ocean. You want to go to the snow.
One weekend you go to the snow. You want the desert,
You've got the desert. You want amazing cities like San Francisco,
uh that are still you know, recovering from the pandemic,
you can go there. But I mean Wine Country. There
(02:42):
is just so much. And I guess maybe it's now
that I have kids that I'm kind of going to
all these places and looking for things. But anyway, I
tell you all this because I was in Palm Springs
for this Volvo Drive event and it you know, it's
basically an event. They invite the media and you go
and you drive the cars. And I'm telling you, Palm
up in there so many times, but mostly Palm Desert,
(03:03):
and it's just such a fun little place. There's just
so like so much energy there. It's something about the
mountains in the distance that are just like they ground
you in this world. I don't know what it is,
but I just get this like re energized feeling when
I go to Palm Springs and Palm Desert and it's
just such a fun place. So anyway, if you haven't been,
if you haven't been lately, go And yeah, I've got
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commenters talking about the taxes and taxes and the high
gas prices, and yes, there are a million and one
things about California that make it a kind of a
wild place to live. But at the end of the day,
we enjoy a lifestyle here that is so far ahead
and beyond what so many people experience in this world
and in the US even, and we take it for granted,
(03:48):
and sometimes you just kind of have to remember that, like,
this is such a magical place. So anyway, I know
it got really really tough during the pandemic with all
of the mandates and things, but we're finally getting out
of that, and yeah, it is worth it. As Ryan said, anyway,
So I was talking about the Volvo. I drove Valvo's
first all electric car. This is the C forty. This
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is Valvo's first pure electric car. And I didn't even
realize that they didn't have a pure electric yet. They
had you know, half and half whatever hybrid kind of thing,
but this is their first pure electric gets about two
hundred miles to the fill up and I was very impressed.
In fact, you know, as you listen to me, you
know I have a Tesla. This made me a little jealous.
I was like, did I jump the gun on the
(04:30):
Tesla situation and get that a little bit too early
with all of these cool cars coming out. And I
will still say that the Tesla, the advantage that it
has is not only the technology of the car. And
there's a lot of downsides to the Tesla. Don't get
me wrong. I think the fit and finish is just
pretty horrible. But the beauty is the driving every day.
And also the charging situation is just unsurpassed. With the Tesla.
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You can go anywhere California, West Coast, pretty much across
the US, and you're gonna be fine with charging. That
cannot be said for these other cars. And so as
much as I love the Volvo, unless you're using it
just to commute, it's definitely it's gonna be a challenge
still to find those those charging stations that are not
only I mean you can find them, they may not
(05:16):
be the fastest charging stations. And that's the other part
of this is you have to have fast charging to
really get the most used out of these cars on
a road trip. If you just drive into work and
to school and to you know, fun around town, you're
gonna be just fine. Charging at home, charging at work,
it's going to be just fine. It's really on those
road trips that that Tesla infrastructure rocks. So with that
(05:38):
in mind, I will have My review of the C forty.
I mean, top line review is that it's an excellent car.
In fact, I would definitely recommend it, and I think
that the Volvo is a fantastic ev I love the
Google inside. In fact, there wasn't anything I didn't like
about it. The price is a little high, it's sixty grand,
but it does qualify for all the tax rebates, which
(05:59):
could be up to like, you know, ten thousand bucks
depending on where you live, and so you know, that's nice.
The other thing is that the Starbucks and Volvo are
collaborating to build chargers at Starbucks, which of course makes
a lot of sense, right, I mean, Starbucks are everywhere.
They've got a lot of this extra space at their stations,
you know, at their at their places that have parking
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lots and stuff like that. So you can easily convert
one of those into a charger. So they're gonna do
fifteen Starbucks locations for starters, and it's gonna be a
thirteen hundred and fifty mile route from Do you say
route or route? I always say route, paper like I
had a paper route when I was a kid, paper
route when I was a kid. I say route. I
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think you can say it either way, but anyway, They're
gonna go from Seattle to Denver with this pilot program,
which is a location about every one hundred miles. And
so people are you know, and I asked Valvo. I said, hey,
I'd really like to drive this road trip later this
year when these things are in place, and so they said,
oh yeah, yeah, sure, But you know, they'll say anything
(07:03):
in the moment, but who knows, we'll see, but I'm excited.
Volvo drivers will get access for free. And this should
be the test, Like pilot will be completed by twenty
twenty two, so they will have these stations in place,
and it's just one of these things where we're going
to see more and more. Like Ryan is saying, Sonic
really needs to get in on EV charging. That would
(07:25):
actually be a great one. The ev charging at Sonic
would be perfect because you don't have to leave your car.
Can you imagine if you order at the screen and
you actually say, can you also plug in my car?
And this is another thing I wanted to mention that
a lot of people don't talk about with the evs
is that and this. I almost feel guilty mentioning this
right now because because of the high gas prices in
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California and the US at large. But I mean, there
are so many opportunities to charge evs for free. That
is kind of a small secret right now, where yes,
it's getting maybe less places, but like you know, the
hotel I stayed at in Palm Springs, I just they
didn't advertise it or anything. I just I always ask
when I get to a hotel, like, hey, can you
charge my car? And I will say, the last four
(08:08):
or five places I've stayed at or six have all
had a place to charge, so and by the way,
that charging is free. So it was kind of nice
driving back knowing that it was like a free ride. Basically,
still wear and tear in your car obviously, Marcus says,
can I have a pair of those? These these are
like real, like you guys don't really see me doing
(08:31):
the podcast with these headphones on. But I love these
headphones because I'm a I'm a person that moves a
lot when I talk, and so these these headphones can
move with me. It's basically one of those like Monday
night football, like the sports headphones. So I've got the
two side cups and then the microphone right in front
of my mouth. But it's great and I love the
I've used these since day one on the podcast because
(08:52):
they're just so easy. All right, let's get to the
first question of the show. Good morning. I enjoy your
insights on many products would have. Do you have any
recommendations for a reliable fax app that's compatible with my
scanner that's listed or a free app that doesn't require
a subscription. I am home based. Thanks for your time
(09:15):
and help if you're able to, Sincerely, Valerie. Valerie, I
don't think there is a free Maybe there's a free
facts situation out there. I honestly I don't know if. Well, okay,
so there's something I just searched for free facts. It's
called facts zero. I mean, I guess you can do that.
(09:36):
It's a maximum of three pages plus a cover five
factxes per day. So if you want to just send
something for freefactszero dot com, Now, I personally, if you're
using this for business, I think that you're going to
have to step up a little bit and pay. Because
number one, anything that's free, you have to wonder about
the security of that. You know, it may not be
(09:58):
as secure as a paid as a paid thing something
that doesn't require a subscription, So I think, I mean,
I'll just tell you my favorite. So my favorite is
it's called Hellofax Hellofax dot com and I've used them
for many, many years anytime I have to sign any
kind of contract, paperwork whatever hello fax it is. And honestly,
(10:19):
I've never had to pay, so I'm not sure if
they have some sort of free level of service where
you get like one or two or three facts is
a month. I think maybe I did have to pay
ninety nine cents once to send one, but it was
so minimal that I was like, all right, that's fine,
I could I could do that. I think I went
to a Kinkos once and it was like seven or
eight bucks to send a FAXT, So I think you'll
be fine. But that's what I would recommend. I would
(10:40):
recommend Hello Fax and see if if you know the
free facts works, try it. Hellofax is the other one,
and there are others out my my, eating my words,
there are others out there, like efacts dot Com is
pretty much the gold standard in faxing. It's been around forever.
I like HELLOFACTX. I think it's more modern. It works
(11:01):
really well. And they were purchased by Dropbox, so I
don't know how long they're going to be around, but
they are still around and they always work for me,
and it always seems great, all right. T Mobile this
week unveiled its answer to the to the iPhone SE,
the new iPhone SE. I talked about it last week
on the show. It is the five G iPhone that
(11:22):
kind of looks like an iPhone eight. It's still got
the home button, but it's got upgraded cameras and a
better processor. And Samsung their's is called the Galaxy A
fifty three five G. I mean, oh, isn't that a
winning name? Consumers are just going to roll into Best
Buy and be like, hey, can I please get the
Galaxy Samsung Galaxy A fifty three five G. I mean, Samsung,
(11:48):
come on, like, let's just make these phones with names
that people can roll off the you know, off the tongue.
I mean, you know, how about just the Galaxy Triple
A or something. You know, four hundred and forty nine dollars.
Don't pay that price. Samsung phones are always discounted, So
if you're paying four hundred and forty nine dollars, you're
(12:08):
doing something wrong. I guarantee you there's a discount on
this phone already, Samsung A fifty three. So the advantages
over the iPhone SC It's got more cameras, so it's
got the It's got a quad camera system, so I
assume that's three cameras on the back and a camera
on the front, so you're getting like the wide angle
and all that stuff, and the zoom, so that's a
(12:29):
little bit better. It's got AI power to capture clear
pictures in all lighting conditions. Is also got the photo
remaster which will take a photo make it look better,
and object eraser, which is kind of fun. It's got
now they say two day battery life. I have not
tested this phone just yet, so I can't tell you
if it has to day. They did tell me that
the S twenty two Ultra had two day and I
(12:50):
don't know if that's the case. Maybe if you don't
use it as much as I do, but you know
you're gonna get long battery life. I think Samsung has
done a really good job with the battery life. Also
super fast charging and a six point five inch display
edge to edge. So a lot of people with the
with the iPhone S the new one, you know, and
by the way, that's a four hundred and twenty nine dollars,
(13:12):
So this one's a little bit more, but like I said,
it's gonna be discounted. A lot of people are giving
the iPhone SE that came out in twenty twenty two
a hard time because it's it's got a very old design.
Now some people might like that because it's comfortable, it's
what they're used to, and really, who they're appealing to
here is not the most cutting edge person with either
of these phones. These are phones that are basic smartphones
(13:34):
that will do the job, but also are really good.
I mean, these inexpensive and I'm putting up my air
quotes here, these inexpensive smartphones in twenty twenty two are
still pretty amazing. And so if you like Samsung, if
you like the Android side of things. Then I would
definitely consider this a fifty three to five G. I
think that the S twenty two, if you can jump
(13:56):
up to the S twenty two, I think that would
be a better phone over all if you care about
like the maximum everything, But if you just care about
having a nice smartphone that that just works and it's
it's going to be a better deal. I would reckon reckon,
who says reckon, I would reckon to say that this
is probably gonna be one hundred dollars off minimum, So
I'd say one hundred dollars, so three hundred and fifty
(14:19):
bucks for this phone. So I think that's that's that's
a pretty good deal. So Samsung Galaxy A fifty three
five G. Let's get to the next question of the show.
Diana says, I saw your infomercial this morning. I love
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when people call my stories on TV infomercials or advertisements.
We call them segments because they are not No one
pays us to do these things, so it's not an infomercial.
It's not an advertisement. I get it. It's different than
the standard news because it's like, okay, it goes from
like fire, you know, murder. This That to me which
(15:03):
is like smiling and you know, telling you something fun,
but it's not. It's not an infomercial, it is just
a segment. So anyway, I saw your infomercial this morning
on tracking points through a ward wallet and point me.
But when I look them up, it seems they want
me to provide passwords to my accounts, which concern me.
Could you clarify how these two sites work? Thank you, Diana. Diana,
(15:25):
this is a excellent question and I'm so glad you
asked it because you should always be critical of any
website that wants you to hand over your passwords. Now,
when I do these the research on these sites, a
ward wallet has been around forever. Point me as brand new.
Point me doesn't ask for your your your login info,
(15:49):
but a ward wallet definitely does, and so does the
points guy, the point skuy app that I also mentioned,
and so a ward wallet the way it works, and
I've grown to love this app and just a few
weeks of using it. But you log in with your email,
and I know it's a lot to give up your email,
you know, your email account to these these systems. Now,
(16:10):
the way they authenticate it, you're not actually giving them
your password they're just getting a one time token from Google.
But at the end of the day, they can read
your email, and so you have to be comfortable with
a website if you're giving it this level of access. Now,
on the flip side, the reason why I give it
that level of access is because it is looking for
emails that come from any sort of travel company or reservation.
(16:31):
And so what I love about a ward wallet is
that I now have this list of every single reservation
I have ever made, and I can tell you in
seven days, I'm going out to dinner, and a couple
of days after that, I might be checking into a
hotel that I might be going to a lunch, and
then I'm you know, it's just all these things and
they're all in a row with my confirmation number front
(16:53):
and center. It's all stuff that's in my email. But
guess what, when I want to check into that Hilton,
I have to go and search in my email for
the conformation number. And it's kind of similar to what
uh trip it is it trip it trip it does?
Uh trip it costs. I think it's like fifty bucks
a year. Your company might give it you for free,
but again, it's just it makes life a little bit easier.
(17:13):
So I'm giving up a little bit of control to
make my life easier and to organize my life because
if this saves me from one, you know, penalty of
a cancelation or something that I forget to do, that's
a big deal and that that's very worth it to me,
or you know, looking at my thing and saying, wait,
what's this United flight? Like what what's I didn't I
don't remember that. Oh yeah, I have that coming up,
(17:36):
so I need to you know, it just it just
helps you. And so it's one tool. But again you
have to be very critical of any website that asks
for your login information. And Points Guy again I trust them,
and a lot of these companies use kind of third parties,
like I don't know if Points Guy does, but no,
I think you log in with your actual stuff. But
you have to remember now, if you ever want to
(17:58):
revoke access, you all need to learn how to do that.
And so typically it's called third party permissions. So if
you just Google, like let's say you want to look
at all the companies or the websites that you've authorized
your Google login, just type in Google and then third
party what I say, third party permissions. Okay, So I'm
(18:21):
googling that and it comes up to sign into your
Google account, and now I can see all the apps
that have access to my account and I can revoke access.
So and it also will tell you what those apps
have access to. So, for instance, Amazon A you know
what I'm talking about, has some account access a ward
while it has access to Gmail. That's a red flag.
(18:42):
I'm like, Okay, I want to make sure I trust that.
Let's see macOS has access to my Gmail, my Google calendar,
my Google Contacts. Let's see, Samsung has some account access.
Trip it has access to my Gmail. Now I don't
have a Trippet account anymore. I don't think I do.
That's active, and so I would probably go through and
(19:03):
revoke access because they still have access to my email
and I don't want them to have access. So you
can do that with Instagram, you can do it, with
the Twitter, you can do it Facebook, Google, any company
that you can log in with, you can revoke those
third party permissions. So great question, Diane, And yes, always, always,
always be critical of anything that you're giving your permission to.
(19:23):
But at the same time, it can be very it
can be very advantageous to do that as well if
you trust the program. All right, iOS fifteen point four
is now available, so if you have an iPhone or
an iPad or a Mac there they launched all of
their new software this week, so if you want the
latest and greatest software, you can go ahead and get that.
(19:46):
I was not even aware that my MacBook had new
software until I was doing research for the show and
I was like, oh, I should probably download that. I
used to be one of these people that was downloading
the software like immediately, and you know, I'd press refresh
a million times to get the new software, and then
I got burned. And so now I don't put as
much of an emphasis on it, but I do like
(20:06):
to be up to date for security reasons and also
to test this stuff out. Now. I was running the
beta of iOS fifteen point four for a long time now,
so I've already been familiar with the new features, like
the ability I mean, this came out in January for me,
but the ability to I mean, the new features are
the ability to wear a mask while you uh use
face ID, which in Los Angeles we don't need anymore,
(20:30):
so it's cool that you still have it, Like if
you're a nurse or something great or doctor or whatever,
but yeah, you don't need that. And then the other
new emoji, I mean, I don't you know, I don't
care about the new emojis. And then let's see the
other thing is a new Seri voice and so and
the Seri voice is let's see, I don't did I
(20:53):
feel like it was selected on my on my phone.
But there's let's see the new series voice. There were
some news about the new Seri voice. Uh, yeah, it's
gender neutral. I was trying to think of what the
term was for this new Serie voice, but gender neutral.
And so it's a less gendered voice. And so again options.
(21:14):
Siri has gotten many many options over the past couple
of years, and so this is just one more of them.
So if you have an iOS device, definitely download the
software if you like to be on the cutting edge.
And if you have a macOS device like a MacBook,
do that as well. One of the big features a
lot of people are talking about is this new Universal
Control and so The Verge says that it's Apple's most
(21:38):
impressive new feature in years. Now. What it does is,
once you have both of these devices like a Mac
computer and an iPad running the latest software. You can
literally put the iPad next to the Mac computer. It
will find them. It will find you know, the link
up and then you can use your mac's keyboard and
(22:00):
to control the iPad. Kind of cool. I wish I
had my iPad, or I should. I don't. I don't
have them updated yet, but I got to try this
out and I'll talk about it more. But you basically
just move your mouse over to the right and it
will follow onto the other screen or to the left
wherever you have it set up or maybe up, and
you can use your keyboard as well. I'm trying to
(22:21):
figure out how this is different than sidecar, because that's
what I was using before. I know, you can drag
and drop files too, which is actually really cool. So
if you have a picture on your Mac, you can
just drag and drop it onto your iPad by just
bringing it to the next screen. I mean, that's pretty cool.
And so again we're just getting it always. All this
stuff reminds me of that the movies, like the sci
(22:44):
fi movies that are always like send that to my
screen and literally the person just like goes like and
swiped it from their screen. To the person's screen. Air
Drop is kind of like that. I mean, it's like
it's very sci fi. But I always joke. I've made
that joke about one hundred and fifty times to people
like out and about all my stories, and no one
gets it. Like everyone just looks at me like what
(23:06):
do you talk? Are are you talking? You want me
a text to air drop or nearby Share? Oh? This
was great. So I was testing the Samsung Galaxy S
twenty two the other day out in you know, in
the world, and I was taking pictures with it, and
someone wanted me to share the picture with them, and
I was like, oh, yeah, I could do that, just
(23:26):
turn on your nearby Share And they're like what And
I was like, yeah, cause I notice, say an Android phone,
and I've never been able to use the nearby share
with anyone. I call it in the wild. And so
this person was like, oh, okay, how do I do that?
And I was like and I never I never touched
people's phones when I'm helping them because I'd rather them
learn how to do it. So I always say, okay,
swipe down from the top, let's find where nearby Share is. Okay,
(23:49):
it's not there. So swipe over there it is, turn
it on and then boom the phone lit up and said, hey,
we see Rich's phone over here. And I said, okay,
now tap that to accept and now I'm gonna send
it your way. And the picture came to his phone
and he was so impressed, and I said, I I
don't think I tweeted, but I literally was so impressed
that I was able to use I get that that
(24:09):
iPhone users are so used to Android are so used
to air drop, and I get it. It's like no
one's business. Everyone knows airdrop, but on Android, the nearby
share feature, which has been built into phones for so
many years now, I don't think anyone knows about it
because we're such an iPhone centric country in the US
that typically the problem with sharing is sharing from Android
(24:31):
to iPhone or iPhone to Android. So it's not necessarily
the Android to Android sharing, it's the not necessarily the
iPhone to iPhone sharing. It's all about sharing cross platform,
and we still don't have a very good system of that.
And I don't want to get into the I don't
want to get into that because it's just you get
me going. And yeah, so anyway, it was really cool
(24:55):
to see it in person, so I thought that was
pretty great. Okay, where are we at? I just to
us a story. Is it time for another question? I
was gonna go off on a tangent about something, but
I forgot what I was gonna talk about, so okay,
Oh wow, this is a long one. Hey, rich I
really enjoy your weekly podcast. I first learned of you
when you hosted for Leo's Tech Guys show Leo Laporte.
(25:15):
I was listening to your podcast last week and noticing
that you were discussing using a credit versus debit card
to avoid fraudulent charges. I had the same problem a
couple times when my cards were stolen. I found a solution,
and that is my bank in the Eastern US Regions Bank,
which might be offered by other banks. It's called a
debit card called now card. It's not directly tied to
my checking It's kind of like a reloadable gift card.
(25:38):
But in the online banking or mobile app, I can
transfer money from my checking to the now card. If
I'm handing my card to someone or swiping. As you say,
I almost always use the now card since it's not
tied to my checking account or running up a credit balance.
I only keep about one hundred dollars in the card
at any time. If the car gets stolen, I would
only be out that money, and they have no connection
to my bank. I can transfer money to my now
card as often as I needed. I've not had car
(26:00):
card stolen in nearly five years. Thought you might want
to mention this in your future podcast. Thanks Wes. Wes. Yes,
your system is very very similar to mine. So I
don't know if I mentioned this in my last podcast,
but I do what's called a reverse credit card. And
so I know I'm weird because I'm weirdly against credit cards,
and so I try not to use my credit card
(26:22):
at any Like I paid my credit card bill today,
I'm like, how is it that much? Like I didn't
use it for anything last week, and it's still just
like it just adds up because you just forget like
a couple bucks here, a couple bucks there. And so
that's why I like to use debit, because I can
see my balance. So what I do is I have
a separate debit card that I load up every week
with money. And so just like what you're talking about exactly,
(26:44):
but I have budgeted out kind of what I spent
on food, what I spend on you know, whatever uber
going out, and that money I put like every week
on my debit card, and that's my spending money. I
call it fun money, and so it's not really fun
because buying groceries is not fun, Buying gas is not fun.
My wife buys gas on the card. But we've called
it fun money for so many years. But it's really
(27:06):
just our budgeted money for that week. So anyway, it's
very similar and I use that system. I'm still hesitant
to hand that card over to people because it is
still kind of there is my money for the week
on that card. So I guess you're right, it wouldn't
be too bad. It's not really connected to my main account,
so that's probably fine. I also looked into another card
(27:30):
called the point point card, and I think I talked
about this on the website, but it's called point dot
app and it's basically a debit card that you can
get points for and it's the same thing, but you
reload it and so you have the money on the
card before we spend it. The difference here is that
(27:51):
it's very tech forward. But what I didn't like about
it is that I got a lot of emails from
them about acquiring points, like they would say this week,
fifteen times points on ordering a pizza, and I don't
the whole thing of I don't want to get into
this too much, but it's the psychology of points that
I really like. I love points just as much as
(28:12):
the next person. But it's that psychology of points where
you feel really good when you're getting points, and so
I don't want to feel good when I'm spending my money.
I want to feel like I'm spending money because that
makes me spend less money. So when you're getting points,
especially ten times points, twenty times points, it's very psychological
in making you feel good for spending your money. And
(28:32):
I'm not believe me, I get it. I love points
just as much as the next person. I booked a
couple flights with points the other day. I do acquire points,
but I used to really play the points game and
actively try to acquire points, and at this point I
don't because I'd rather save my money and not get
the points, then spend the money and get points that
are worth a fraction of what your money's worth. And
(28:55):
so it's a personal preference. I know it's not for everyone,
but it's just the way I do it. The other
advantage of the Point Card is that the money transfers instantly.
So there are many many debit cards you can get
out there, like a Green Daw or a you know,
there's so many of them that can let you transfer
money from your checking account. But the trick is it
(29:16):
usually takes two to three days unless you're doing direct deposit.
But with Point Card, they actually let you transfer money instantly,
which is a huge advantage with that card, And so
that's kind of cool. But anyway, Wes, great, great addition
to the show. Thanks for sharing. And I love the
fact that we are both kind of on that debit
card train. It's not there's nothing sexy about using a
debit card. It's like the boringest thing you can do.
(29:39):
It's my debit card is not even a good looking card,
and it's like one of these things where I just
I use it and it's like the only reason I
use it is because it makes me feel that money
when you pay cash for something, have you ever tried
to just try this just the same thing that you
purchase typically, right, Like, whether it's a groceries for the week,
whether it's coffee at Starbucks. Just go to the ATM,
(30:02):
take out cash, and hand over that cash to someone.
And for your thing. The more expensive the better, like
if it's like a fifty dollars thing or one hundred
dollars thing, like your groceries, and just see what it
feels like. It literally, like when someone is taking cash
out of my hand, it's like this, like they have
to like kind of pull it because my hand has
not released it. And I'm like, okay, here you go.
(30:23):
When it's my debit card or my you know, especially
a credit card, like I'll swipe with my foot, like
I'll put it between my toes and swipe that way,
like I'll swipe behind my back. Like it's all like fun.
It's all fun and games with the credit card. And
so it's just it feels fun to spend on it
because you're getting all those points on the back end
and then you're getting free travel and all this stuff.
So anyway, I'm not gonna try to take down the
(30:44):
marketing departments at all these credit card companies that are
way smarter than my tiny brain. But believe me, they
spend millions of dollars on this stuff, and I'm just
and I'm just like you know, I'm here for the ride.
And by the way, a lot of these thoughts are
not mine. They are derived from Dave Ramsey, which I
am a big follower of, and so these are not
my original ideas. A lot of these things are from
(31:06):
listening to his show and his point of view and
doing my own research. So anyway, oh no, we're not
on that. Okay, let's talk speaking of money, Netflix. Netflix
is now gonna ask subscribers in certain places when they
try to share their account with someone outside their house, like, hey,
can you pay for that by any chance? And the
(31:28):
answer probably is going to be a resounding no. Now,
Netflix has been notoriously lax about letting people share their accounts.
They know Netflix is not stupid. They know when someone
is streaming my account is in California. I live in California,
in Los Angeles. They know when people are streaming in
(31:50):
other cities across the nation that are in my profile
and household but don't live with me. They know that
they're allowing that to happen. Now, there are reasons for this,
because it is really tough to tell if your kid
is in college, and so if I say, oh, that
account that's streaming in New Jersey, that's my son in college.
Wank wink, And they can't do What are they gonna say, Oh,
(32:12):
we need you to send a transcript, We need you
to send the IP address of his dorm room computer.
Like no, they just Okay, not much we can do
about that. But they do feel like maybe, you know,
people are sharing this with their friends, getting a little
money on the back end. Who knows. So this is
a variety exclusive, saying that in Chile, Costa Rica and
(32:32):
Peru they are going to prompt members that want to
share their account to pay for those accounts, and it
will be called the ad an extra member feature. They'll
be out able to add up to two people that
don't live with them, and those people will get their
own profile, their own personalized recommendations, their own login, their
(32:53):
own password for less than the cost of a standalone
Netflix plan. How much you ask, Oh, funny, you should
ask two dollars and ninety nine cents. That's US dollars
the other ones. And let's see in Peru it's seven
point nine seven point nine pe n to US d
(33:13):
Let's see that's two dollars and nine cents, and then
in Chile it is going to be twenty three eighty
twenty three eighty CLP to USD. I'm just doing a
quick Google search here and that's about three dollars. So
it's about three dollars to add a person. Now unless
you are unless you are collecting that money from that
(33:36):
person on the other end, it's like, why would you
ever do this? And so I'm guessing that Netflix knows
that people are going to feel guilty about this and say, look,
you know, whoever they're sharing it with, will you pay
that extra three bucks? And will all be legitimate? You've
got your own profile, you've got your own login, all
this good stuff. The other thing that they're going to
do is let people transfer over whatever they had going on.
(34:00):
So if you had a profile, they will let you
transfer it, because that's the big thing. Once you've built
this profile on Netflix, you don't really want to get
rid of it, and so you know they're gonna let
you transfer that right over. All, Right, let's get to
the next question of the podcast. Hey, rich I recently
(34:20):
bought an iPhone for the first time. I was wondering
how you switch your contacts and photos from Android to iPhone.
I was hoping you can help me with this, and
I'm a huge fan of your podcast. I've been there
since day one. Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks Gabe, Gabe,
thanks for listening to the podcast since day one. If
you've listened since day one, you know that this podcast
has gone through more changes than a If I knew
(34:42):
phrases like that, I would have used it, but I don't.
But you know what I'm saying. What goes through a
lot of more changes than a than a Google messaging service.
I need those drums to do. So it's very simple,
very easy. Apple makes an app called move to iOS
(35:03):
and it will transfer your messages, your photos, your contacts,
and more. And specifically the more is your calendar, so
not much more, but it will do it. So those
are all the basics, your messages, your contacts, your calendar,
your Google account, and your camera roll. So that's it.
You'll get your web bookmarks as well. So the review
(35:29):
on this app. Reviews on this app are not very good.
When was the last time this app was updated? It
was updated on March eighteenth, so today, so they are
actively updating this app, So that is what you want
to do. It's got faster Wi Fi, faster data transfer. Now,
it's got improved Wi Fi and support for Android twelve.
So install that app on your Android phone and then
(35:50):
when you want to switch over, it will just have
both phones with you and it will just prompt you
through the prompts. If it's like the Samsung I have
not used this one personally, I should do it just
to test it out. But if it's like the Samsung one,
Samsung's is excellent. It just basically kind of takes the
information from one phone, moves it to the other phone,
and in a very simple way. Oh, the name of
(36:12):
the app is moved to iOS. So all right, you
know what I'm gonna do. Since I do have viewers
on the Instagram stream, if you have a question for me,
get it in now and I will do a kind
of a quick round robin of some of those questions
while I read the next story here right after the story.
All right, Hulu, if you have Hulu, You've got unlimited
(36:34):
DVR coming to all Hulu Plus Live TV subscribers at
no additional cost. So starting April thirteenth, you will get
free Hulu DVR unlimited for all eighty channels in the lineup. Previously,
if you wanted more than fifty hours of storage, you
had to pay ten dollars a month or even fifteen
(36:55):
dollars a month. So if you are paying for one
of those enhanced DVR plan you will see a reduction
in your monthly bill. So that's pretty awesome. They have
to do this to compete better with Google TV or sorry,
YouTube TV, because they they have offered unlimited DVR since
day one, and now Hulu will have that feature, and
(37:18):
it's I think that's pretty cool. I feel like maybe
people are dvring less and that's why they're doing it.
They're like, ah, we see our data and it's not
really going to be that big of a deal to
offer it to everyone. But your your stuff is saved
for nine months, I believe, so it's not like it's forever,
but your stuff will see this same Where did I
get that nine months from? I thought I've read that somewhere,
(37:39):
but I'm pretty sure it's nine months that your Hulu
stuff will stay safe. So if you haven't watched the
show in nine months, then you know you probably don't
need to. Lily says on the live stream, what are
the pros and cons on the new iPhone twenty twenty two?
I assume you're talking about the iPhone se twenty twenty two.
The pros or that it's inexpensive. It's four hundred and
twenty nine, and unlike I said with Samsung, it's not
(38:03):
particularly gonna go on sale. You might find it at
three ninety nine if someone is really wild, but I
don't think so. But the pro is that it's simple,
it's easy. It's uh, it's simple, it's easy, and uh,
hold on here, I lost my live stream for a second.
It's simple, it's easy, and it it works, and it's familiar,
(38:23):
and it's got that home button. The downside is and
the other pro is that you're getting the best processor
that Apple has to offer right now in a phone,
which is the A fifteen Bionic, which is really really cool.
The downside is that the design is a little tired,
the screen is a little small, bigger than before. And
let's see what are the other downsides. It doesn't have
(38:45):
mag safe and I think that's it. I mean, that's
really the downsides. I mean, I think it's a it's
a solid phone. If you want just a basic iPhone.
The other downside I think is the is this is
the storage? I think on the base model it's uh,
it's not well. I gotta check that. I don't don't
quote me on that, but Justin says, what headset are
(39:05):
you using? I got a look hold on this is.
This is an Audio Technica headset, and I can get
the exact model number. I've got to I'd have to
search my Amazon history. I bought it on Amazon many
many years ago. I'm not even sure they still sell it,
but it was like two hundred dollars audio. Let's see
if it yep here it is the BPHS one Audio
(39:30):
Technica bp HS one Broadcast Stereo headset with dynamic CARDIOID
boom mic adjustable, purchased on June seventeenth, twenty nineteen. So
I've got a pretty good use out of this thing.
One hundred and ninety nine bucks. That's the exact price
I paid. It's still still the same price. Let's see.
What are some other questions here? Can you share calafees?
(39:54):
Can you share how to connect my home pod to
my iPhone? It keeps saying not on the same Wi Fi.
That's interesting well, you need to go through and make
sure that your iPhone before you set it up is
on the right WiFi that you want. So, I mean,
if you're what I would do is go into the
Home app on your on your home Pod and do
(40:18):
a reset of the whole home Pod and then set
it up again fresh and it will work. You might
also want to update the software on there, but you
can do that all through the Home app and it's
it's apples like built into the iPhone, But I would
do that. Do you prefer and then reconnect them? Santigue
eight says, do you prefer the Google Home or Amazon Echo?
(40:39):
That is a great question. I used to prefer the
Google Home, and I still do for answers, I actually
run both at my house. But Amazon Echo I'm very
impressed with. I think it does a great job and
I think that it's excellent. I think it just depends.
You kind of have to be in one of those
if you're with like Ring products and you're with all
(41:00):
the Amazon Like Amazon has a great line of home products,
like the stuff that works with Alexa. Oh, they just
trigger everyone's stuff and so if you're shopping for those
things online, they're very inexpensive, and they work really well
and very simply, and so for that reason, I do
like kind of their home architecture system a little bit
better than the Google Home. I think Google Home is
(41:20):
excellent for displaying your Google photos and also controlling those
devices that do work with Google. I think the voice
commands aret it just understands everything, which I think is
really cool. Brooklyn girl says, Hey, Rich, I love watching
you Ring or Google Nest or Arlow cameras. I would
(41:40):
go with Ring anytime of the day. I think that
Ring is the most dedicated to the space. Arlow is
also very dedicated, and I think they're great. I just
don't have that much experience with them. And they're also
less about the cloud and more about the local storage.
So if you prefer that, then I think that that's
a good thing. But I just like Ring because they've
got a great comment donation of products. They keep coming
(42:02):
out with new stuff. Their security system is excellent, their
cameras are excellent. Their doorbell kind of brings it all together.
I mean, talk about a trojan horse. You have this
doorbell that they started it all with, and now they've
been able to expand into a billion dollar business because
of one great idea, So I give them a lot
of credit. Robert says, what's your favorite infomercial? Oh, my gosh,
(42:24):
I used to I used to love infomercials as a kid. Oh,
we're getting some some random questions. Jack says, but my
favorite the slap Chop, and I still use that is
one of mine. Set it and forget it is a
great one. Jack says, do you eat frozen pizza? What's
your favorite? Jack? We eat pizza every Monday night, and
(42:44):
typically we alternate between frozen and then we order and
then we also make fresh. But my frozen favorites I
actually it's kind of a random one. But it might
be the Annie's the Annie's Organic. It's I know it's
a it's kind of off brand, but it's I really
like those. I just I don't know. I think they're
really good. And I also like the Whole Foods Basic
(43:04):
three sixty five. I know, I'm so boring. Let's see,
how do I prevent my iPhone from being hacked? Shana says,
how do I prevent my iPhone from being hacked? My
job keeps hacking my phone? What can I do? Uh? Oh,
if your job is hacking your phone, I would find
a new job because they should not be doing that.
(43:27):
But iPhones are very tough to hack, like extremely tough
to hack. So pretty much the only way I know
of hacking an iPhone is through a plug in which
you can plug. You know, if you're plugging your iPhone
into random charging ports, that could be a problem, but
the iPhone has gotten so sophisticated that even if you
do that, it's still you would have to say trust
(43:47):
this device when it popped up, and you would be like, wait,
why am I trusting a computer when I'm plugging it
into charge. The other way is by clicking a link
in an I message that could be malicious and install
malicious software on your phone. That's you know. The other
way is that if your company is using a VPN
to monitor you, there is software that can monitor your phone.
(44:08):
So those are the three main ways that I know.
But typically iPhones are very tough to hack. They're very
secure unless you are giving someone guided access to them
or some sort of access to them. Happy Friday, set
it and forget it as classic. What's your favorite food? Oh? Easy?
Favorite food is? I mean, pizza is definitely my favorite food.
(44:28):
Any sort of Italian food chicken parmesan. I mean those
are like those are those are right up there. I
mean most of the food I like that's my favorite
is actually well, popcorn is also my favorite snack. But
most of my favorite foods are the worst foods for you.
You know. Steak is also one of my favorites, but
they're all like, you know, they're not the best for you.
But I'll eat other stuff. I mean, I try to
(44:50):
eat healthy, like ninety percent of the time or eighty percent,
and then the rest of the time I'll eat my stuff.
I like Lucy says, I cut the cord, butught an
inside into Should I put it upstairs TV or downstairs?
I would put it in the TV that's closest to
a window or some sort of exterior because you're gonna
want to be able to get the best signal on
(45:11):
that antenna. But you probably, I mean, you don't really
need that. Uh oh. We got a listener from We
got a listener from from Bill Handle on KFI asking
Alejandro says, botox filler or no botox filler? Uh no
botox filler for me. But you know what, I don't judge.
If you want to have botox filler. I was, Uh,
(45:35):
let's just say, I'm you know, my friends are becoming
of a certain age, and especially the women, and so
apparently it's a thing in Los Angeles. I didn't realize
it was so prevalent, but it is a thing. So
if you think someone just happens to have a really
nice forehead that has no lines on it, I think again,
it's probably botox. Oh gosh, Boogie's asking, uh, Android or iPhone?
(46:00):
This has been an ongoing argument for years. I'm not
going to add to that argument. I think it's a
matter of personal preference. I love Android for the way
it's so customizable, but I love iPhone because it just
it helps me just do the things that I want
to do. It really helps me accomplish so much that
the Android is great, and I just love Android. I've
(46:20):
always loved Android, but the iPhone is just it's so solid.
It's like rock solid when it comes to content creation.
Like I said, I mean, I could go out to
a anywhere in the world, drop me anywhere with an iPhone,
and I will create a story. I can create something
for TV, I can do social media. I can do
so much. Not that you can't do those things on Android.
(46:42):
The apps are there, it's just a little trickier and
it's not as smooth. But when it comes to making
your phone your own, one hundred percent like Android, the
fact that I can click the this is how I
describe an iPhone. It's almost like a minefield, right because
you're literally like, there are certain things I know not
to click. It's like, I don't want to click an
(47:04):
address that's highlighted because it's going to take me to
Apple Maps, and I'm like, oh, I don't use Apple Maps.
I know it's not gonna take me to Google Maps
because you can't have a default map program. It's gotten
a little bit better with that respect because they do
have default email now and they've got default web browser,
but it's still not perfect. A lot of apps are
not necessarily coded to handle the third party web browsers,
(47:27):
and so it does cause some problems. They also used
to have a problem with logging into Google across apps
that now works, So iPhones come a long way. It's
somewhat customizable, but the way I see it, it's always,
at the end of the day, it's always pushing you
towards what Apple offers. And you can argue that all
you want, but that's the reality of the iPhone. It
is iPhone is Apple first, it's Apple dominant, it's Apple prevalent.
(47:51):
And whereas on Android, you can choose the way you
want your phone to run on day one and it
will run like that over and over and over. Coop says,
recommend a computer for job searching. Any computer with a
web browser, just any computer you can find. You do
not need anything special. Get your resume, make it in
Google docs, use a resume helper to help you do it,
(48:12):
Get on LinkedIn, get on the job boards. You do
not need anything special to do that. All right, thanks
for the questions. We're gonna wrap up soon. But le
let's talk another story. T Mobile powers America's first five
G connected car, The BMW twenty twenty two IX and
I four are powered by T Mobile's new Baingenta drive
(48:35):
for BMW unlimited voice calling and unlimited data. To BMW's
twenty bucks a month, it can turn your car into
a mobile Wi Fi hotspot. You can connect your devices.
It looks like you can share your personal cell phone number.
So it's saying don't leave you know you could leave
your phone behind. But let's be honest, who has ever
gotten into their car without their phone? I don't think anyone.
I mean, so that's not really This whole idea of
(48:57):
having the hot spot in your car I think is
great if you kids, But again, it's gotten so good
with sharing your your hot spot from your iPhone or
even from your Android with your kids like they know
how to connect. I mean, do you really need to
pay an extra twenty bucks a month? I think this
is cool, but it seems like another way for automakers
(49:17):
and cellular companies just make more money on us. I
think that the hot spot in the car is obviously
gonna be stronger, it's gonna have a better antenna than
your phone. It's gonna it's gonna pull in a stronger signal,
maybe be faster. But do you really need this? Probably not,
I mean unless you're unless you're on the go, and
then it's a nice option. So if you are, you know,
(49:38):
a road warrior and you're always on the road and
you want to just have that standard, that solid connection
all the time, then great, I think that's awesome. It's
just nice to have options, right, But I also when
I got this story, so when I saw the history.
It just made me so sad because I already know
that here on March eighteenth, twenty twenty, and it's here's
the announcement for five G in a BMW, And I'm
(50:01):
already looking forward to ten years from now or fifteen
years when they're saying five G in BMW is going away.
Five G networks are being sunseted, just like we're seeing
with the three G networks. So it's bound to happen,
That's for sure. It's bound to happen. All right, I
think I can get one more question in here and
then we're gonna have to all right, let's see here.
(50:24):
Uh hello, Hope all is well going well with this craziness.
My question is most of my family of iPhones, I'm
the one that has a Samsung Note nine, Yes, an
older phone. They liked you. Was there a Note nine,
I guess, so there was one that blew up. I
think it was a seven. They like to use FaceTime
and I can't, at least I don't think I could
until I heard you talk about it on KTLAS last year.
(50:44):
The fact is you said there is a way to
do it. Could I trouble you? For the steps or
instructions on how to FaceTime from an iPhone to a
Samsung Slash Android. This would be appreciated and very helpful.
Thanks so much for your help. Regards, Judy, Judy, very
very simple. All you have to do is you cannot
initiate it from Android, but you can receive it. So
you have to be on the receiving end of this
(51:04):
FaceTime call one of your family members. All they have
to do is generate a link, so they start a
FaceTime call, generate the link, send that link to you,
text it to you, You open it up in your
web browser, and voila, you are able to FaceTime with
your family. I would say take it a step further
and get your family to install something like Google Duo
(51:25):
and stop with this madness of the stuff that doesn't
work cross platform. I cannot stand apps that don't work
cross platform. Every single app that I use, with the
exception of I Message, works across every single platform, and
I want it that way because that's the way tech
should be. Tech should not be exclusive, it should be
inclusive of everyone. I hate the fact that when you
(51:48):
text someone from an Android phone to an iPhone it
comes up green. Why Apple, it should not be happening.
Why should you delineate your friends? Why are you helping
me delineate my friends from one another. Let's just make
this even right, Let's make it equal, make it nice
for everyone that's not happening in our world. Okay, I
go off, sorry about that. Okay. Finally, one last story.
(52:09):
Chipotle is testing a robot in the kitchen called Chippy.
Chippy is the latest autonomous kitchen assistant that is from
Miso Robotics. The same guy, the same people behind Flippy
the robot are the burger Flipper and Flippy. Okay, So
Chippy is going to be making the chips at Chipotle,
(52:32):
and so I love stories like this, and this is
the best part about it. Chippy was programmed to make
the chips like a human would make the chips. So
it's going to mix up the chips with salt, it's
going to cook them in sunflower oil. It's going to
then dust them with salt and finish with a hint
(52:54):
of lime juice. And they actually programmed Chippy to make
it so that these are not going to be perfect chips.
Every single time. There's going to be a variation of
the chip. And I did not realize this until reading
this story, that when I go to Chipotle, what do
I look forward to the most that chip that has
like the extra seasoning on it and the extra lime
(53:15):
juice on it, like that extra little kick a lime.
And I didn't realize that they program for that. So
now they're programming, they're artificial intelligence to do these things
like that. Now, yes, I have put in a request
to Chipotle to go test this out because I love
Chipotle chips. And yes, it's just one of these things
(53:35):
where it's gonna happen. And you know, I'm already seeing
the messages of people saying, Rich, there goes more jobs.
I don't know what to say about it. I cover
this stuff. It's just the reality of the food industry.
The food industry is at a very very tough crossroads
right now because labor is very expensive at restaurants and
the technology is getting to a place where it can
(53:57):
automate certain tasks that humans used to do. And the
only thing I can say on the plus side is
that I know these companies tell me that, oh, yeah, Rich,
we're gonna put more people in the uh, you know,
interfacing with guests. And I can say to that yeah, right.
Have you been to it a target lately? Have you
seen the self checkouts? There used to be a person
(54:19):
when self checkouts first started, there used to be a
person standing there for everyone that was self checking out. Now,
good luck finding that person. They're just not there. You're
self checking out, and it's just the way of the world.
The only thing I can say on the on the
backside is that there are a lot of smart, very
well paid people that that will make a lot of
(54:39):
money programming these robots and maintaining them and working on them,
so that, I guess is the silver lining. I know
it's not. It's not the you know, the job that
the the young kid that's in high school or whatever
can just go run in and get and make the
chips at Chipotle. But it's just we're a changing world
and these companies are going to do anything they can
to increase profit. It's just the reality of it. If
(55:01):
that involves I'm making this sound bad for Chipotle. I
think it's awesome. I'm excited about it. I think it's
really cool. I can't wait to test it out. But
I'm just explaining to you that our world is changing
and robots are a very big part of that world.
Well that music means that's going to do it for
this episode of the show. If you would like to
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of people watch my stuff, No, I know they do,
so just thank you for doing that. My name is
rich Dedmuro. Thanks so much for listening. Special shout out
to all of the folks that listened on or watched
on Instagram live. I really think we're getting into a
good thing with that. It's kind of fun to have
that live interaction. I know I can't respond to every comment,
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being here. Thank you for that. There are so many
ways you can spend an hour of your time. I
do appreciate you spending it right here with me. My
name is rich Dmiro. I will talk to you real soon.
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