Nov 21, 2018
Craig joins Ken and Matt as they talk about Thanksgiving and about the Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals online.
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Airing date: 11/21/2018
Getting High Over The Holidays - Black Friday Cyber Monday Deals Online
Craig Peterson: 0:00
Hey everybody. I hope you're going to have a great Thanksgiving
with hopefully family right Craig Peterson here. If you have face
time on your Apple devices and you've upgraded to the latest iOS
just in time for Thanksgiving, Apple now has group calls with
FaceTime major redesign so you can get together with your family
and friends over the holidays on FaceTime check that out and of
course if you have like an Amazon Echo reach out and and say hi to
everybody this is a great time of year and you'd hate to think that
some poor people in your family or friends that you know just
didn't get the kind of love and attention that maybe they should
have had over the Thanksgiving and Christmas, New Year's, Hanukkah
whatever you celebrate this time of year So reach out we got the
tech today to do it use that tech and be kind be nice. Alright
today and was on with our friends in Maine and I had a chance to
talk to Ken and Matt a little bit about two different tech stories
and a quick summary of all of this stuff you need for Black Friday
including a website that shows you all of the circulars for the
major brick and mortar retailers yeah yeah I know who would have
thought that retailers still existed a in this online world there
are you going to be online shopping or are you going to be going to
retailers I know I'm probably going to be doing 99% of my shopping
online this year by time and I'm not alone and I also think this
year from the stats I've seen we may end up with more online
purchases over this Black Friday Cyber Monday we can long weekend
then purchases in stores physical stores so we'll see what happens
there too but anyways here we go off to Ken and Matt have a great
Thanksgiving Day
Unknown 2:03
Wednesday 738 time for Craig Peterson, our tech talk guru who's
joining us for a special day before Thanksgiving appearance. How
are you doing Craig?
Unknown 2:10
Hey doing well I'm enjoying the whole families getting together and
we're smoking a couple of turkeys
Unknown 2:25
I really thought that's where you're going because you know a pot
is legal in Maine and we just talked to our from soco who clearly
was are protecting this morning yes so
Unknown 2:35
you know I have never tried that back back in the 70s when I was in
college everybody was smoking marijuana hashish
Unknown 2:45
that would be me yeah
Unknown 2:46
yeah and I you know I remember we used to hitchhike back then you
remember that Ken?
Unknown 2:53
we just go out and check we get in anybody's car somebody we didn't
know they were everywhere
Unknown 2:58
yeah well I guess it has change that much because now we'll get
anybody's card will pay them
Unknown 3:05
Uber and Lyft is a little different than
Unknown 3:08
the okay well I remember one time I got a ride from campus and
there was a van one of those members 70s and you know no windows in
the back
Unknown 3:23
it was smoking back there and so I guess maybe I did partake little
bit by accident yeah yeah by osmosis if
Unknown 3:32
you're in good company because Matt Matthew
Unknown 3:36
is not a millennial, but almost has never taken either. I have made
up for both of you. That's all I think. Yes, you've taken that one.
And I have I have pie because I have to do what you guys don't I
just I don't understand what appeals to people about it would you
drink to get but that's a different that's a completely different
thing. And no, I don't really not much how does very sexual it you
know mellows you out I don't want to be mellow by the way if you
have a bad TV show or movie. I get good. All of a sudden makes you
hungry. I don't need to be, you know, fat
Unknown 4:11
ice cream and stuff. golfing and mashed potatoes while you kids.
That's why. So let's talk about the text of Shall we up before be
why is uniquely I mean, Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg was a bad year
for them. Yeah, he saw and but seemed a little defensive. And I
mean, isn't it kind of people to stop using Facebook or my face
face or something like that? I mean,
Unknown 4:36
there
Unknown 4:37
was a huge amount of stock shares. And so I seems like it was
silently quietly selling off some of his stock. Let's go
Unknown 4:47
Well, you'd have to assume that they that he is right. Yeah,
Facebook. It's interesting, right? First of all, all of the younger
kids decided they weren't getting use Facebook does mom and dad
were on it, and so's they don't have this younger, younger
generation coming up. It's the older people. So they they seem to
be kind of now turning the way they're running the business towards
the older crowd. And you look at the latest product. For instance,
I received this portal from Facebook
Unknown 5:20
for now having one is, oh, it's a brand new product of pushing for
this Christmas season. If you haven't seen that yet, you're going
to see ads for this thing. And what it is essentially is an Amazon
Echo that's tied into the Facebook ecosystem. And it allows you to
have face calls with people. How's that for weird contract. So you
can be a you know, you got all your Facebook, friends and family.
And now you can have a video call. It's a standalone unit. We just
look it up online, you'll see a portal from Facebook, and you set
it on the counter or wherever. And kind of you unique thing for
this device, at least for the fancier one is it follows you around
the room, which I don't know, seems kind of creepy. It turns it
follows you zoomed in on your face. But the idea is that they're
trying to make it so that you can have Christmas or Hanukkah or
whatever you're trying to do birthday celebrations with family
dropping on families, which the Amazon Echo has been doing for a
while. And their their motto is, if you can't be there, feel there.
So that's different, right? And, and because it's always been
online, it was text type messages where you type them and and then
you could have some video chats. But now they're really trying to
make it so that you can be there. I don't know Ken there. I've
heard predictions and Facebook is on its way out. It will be dead,
which of course happens all the time, right? The market leaders end
up falling pies of wayside. They've certainly lost a lot of
people's trust with over 30 million accounts totally hacked.
Apparently, all of that information is for sale on the dark web
right now hack just a few weeks ago. And I think people are just
getting to the point where they're fed up with it. I I know I'm
tired of at that point personally.
Unknown 7:20
And Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us as he always does at one
Wednesdays at this time to take a look at the world of technology.
Craig, you mentioned a moment ago, and Amazon
Unknown 7:29
Echo. So this is an interesting
Unknown 7:32
story that I read a couple days ago about the secret recordings.
This thing is making a view as you walk around your house.
Unknown 7:41
What is
Unknown 7:41
being done with those things?
Unknown 7:44
Yeah, well, this this is an interesting question. And we'll talk a
little bit about frack Black Friday. You're just a sack because
frankly, a lot of people are looking at those actors and and the
Google homes and now those Facebook portals to have for their
houses. The I think what you're referring to, is this double
homicide. That is exactly
Unknown 8:04
what I am referring to. Yes.
Unknown 8:06
Yeah, right next door, New Hampshire. And here's the bottom line on
those. Okay, the first of all, the echo is listening all the time.
And that's true for pretty much every device in your home. But it's
not recording it. And it's not sending it up to the cloud unless
you give it a command. So in the case of this murder investigation,
double homicide of what the police will find on that devices,
nothing because it overrides the last few seconds of what uttered
continually so listen to her few seconds. And it looks for its wake
up word, which would be Alexa address case or, you know, hey,
Google, if you got a Google Home device, and if it listens for that
wake up word. And then it starts sending about third up to 30
seconds of off to the cloud. So they're not going to find anything
on the device unless the murderer woke up and said, Hey, like, how
do I committed double homicide
Unknown 9:12
if there is not going to be realized you just sent a bunch of
Alexa.
Unknown 9:16
Yeah, I know,
Unknown 9:19
including the one that I have
Unknown 9:22
a big event going to have recorded and have it up to the cod.
However, this has happened before, where they the person who was in
the home, use the Alexa beforehand to order pizza, find out what
time it is, what's the weather tomorrow or play my favorite
playlist? That's where they might find the murderers voice on the
device. So if you're thinking about buying one of these for, you
know, the holidays for as a gift, I would say, go ahead. I
certainly have one, I found it to be just really, really helpful.
And I'm done. Worried about the technology in any market when you
mute and Alexa. It has a unique hardware inside and that little,
there's a red light that comes on a big red light. And the hardware
can only do one of two things. It can only power the red light, or
it can turn on the microphone so that red light is on there's no
way within software. Even if the bad guys have hacked your device
remotely. There's no way for them to turn on that microphone. So
it's not so bad, frankly. But they may find stuff it's happened
before. But the last big case with Amazon the Amazon Alexa file was
groups all charges dismissed once the Alexa recordings were given
to the police and the guy that on had previously only Alexa said,
Yeah, please, you can have it Amazon, go ahead and release it
because Amazon was fighting it. But Black Friday really got like a
second or two here. I gotta throw some things in here. If you want
to see the big door busters. There's a website you have to visit.
They'll show you the all of the circulars from all of the big guys
like Walmart, Best Buy target, even Amazon. They have leaked add
that they were able to put up. It's called Black friday.com. You'll
also see some big deals coming up from Apple over Black Friday
weekend. If you're looking for a very cool gift. There is a deal
going on right now. On Amazon on the new Roomba. The room by 960.
It is fun. Domino, you will get $200 off. This thing checks up pet
hair that you didn't even know you had. These things are beautiful.
The Roomba 960 for sale on Amazon. Right? Yeah, so cool.
Unknown 11:56
You'll also see Black Friday deals on things like the new smart
from all apps that are out there. Philips Hue which is a great
lighting system. The Google Pixel book drops by 300 bucks. I've got
all of this up on my website, by the way. So you can see some ideas
there by the probably the best place to go to start. All of this is
black friday.com to find the circulars that are out there right
now. But do be aware of scams. But you know, guys, I think there's
going to be fewer of the hacking of scams that have gone on in
years past this year. A lot of retailers have smarten up. But some
of them still aren't keeping our data safe. So as always be careful
out there guys
Unknown 12:45
joining joining us on tech guru as he joins us every seventh or
eighth grade. You have a great Thanksgiving. We'll talk to you next
week.
Unknown 12:52
Take care guys. Take care of her.
Unknown 12:55
See Craig. All right. Let's toss things back.
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