Dec 26, 2018
Craig is on at WGAN with Ken and Matt as they talk about the presents they have received during the holidays as well as the Sonos Echo problems people are experiencing.
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Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.
Airing date: 12/26/2018
Christmas Gifts - Instant Pot - Sonos Echo Problems
Matt Gagnon 0:00
Well we're back again it is 7:38 on the WGAN morning with Ken and
Matt.
Unknown 0:09
we're going to have your calls coming up a little bit later
879-9426. Ken has asked you more than once today what was your you
know best present you plan on taking things back all that fun stuff
so we'll get to those calls coming up so get him writing. 879-9426
it's 946 but Craig is with us right now. Craig How are you sir?
Unknown 0:27
Hey good morning. I don't know what was my best present
Unknown 0:31
what do you know what the tech guru that is? a great question. What
can you you have everything so what I couldn't be tackling like Was
it a tie
Unknown 0:40
well I don't have an Apple watch you know you don't have it
Unknown 0:47
yeah yeah. No, I I'm kind of into the lower tech gift that you know
that's kind of where I'm at now is Yeah, you know a driver but how
old is it now? 40 year old cars on this 40 Yeah, I guess it is but
you know 1980 diesel
Unknown 1:04
kind of that kind of guy one of the things I got to tell you this
is a kind of a newer tech gift and our kids got us a bit of an
upgrade to this and today they're on sale by the way is this
instant pot you guys use these before
Unknown 1:21
what? Instapot? Instantpot?
Unknown 1:24
well I've got 10s of dead I don't don't you just grow with the way
everybody else does I don't instant yeah
Unknown 1:32
yeah the highs like that
Unknown 1:36
No no
Unknown 1:37
I do to edibles so I kind of know what to me I think. But thanks
again.
Unknown 1:43
One direct line there. So what do you know it's this is this is for
cooking. You know we we've had tanners for a long time. And we use
them to do canning every year take things out of the garden. And
you know it sits there with the steam pressure go
Unknown 2:00
to timeout. But okay, I believe that but once it gets to
Unknown 2:03
your movement, we did that. Well. Instant part is a model
Unknown 2:08
of a pressure cooker. And and what this thing does. It just it's
amazing because it has on the front you have all these different
settings. But some do. And some of them also have Bluetooth so that
you can program it right from your phone.
Unknown 2:28
And what does it do? Does it growth it is a fast
Unknown 2:32
Yes. It's a pressure you're using pressure cooker.
Unknown 2:35
I've seen them. I mean, people stopped using pressure cookers
because they used to blow a lot. But
Unknown 2:39
yeah, now they don't details cows. And then the terrorists started
using them. And they start telling them that stores and they went
back and stores know these don't blow up. This is these things are
automated. They're very, very safe. And we can take a meat right
out of our deep freeze and less than an hour. We're later have the
most amazing pot roast or almost you name that made so you just you
throw a right in the Instapot. You throw some vegetables in there
and you're Spicer put the lid on and you program it's a what is it
that you want to do and less than an hour later. It's all done for
you. So think See, you know what we call those things where you let
it cook of the
Unknown 3:28
crockpot. Yeah, exactly. So think of crock pot where it looks all
day long. And how did everything tastes. This is like an instant
crock pot and today right now you can get two three court version
for 70 bucks online. Check out your favorite online stores, they
have a bigger one they have the eight core one which is $50 off of
that 90 bucks and if you have if you'd like to cook if you like
healthy food but you don't have hours and hours hours to get one so
our kids this year they taught us a couple of inserts for the
Instapot because these things so popular right
Unknown 4:09
Isn't it just as easy to just go out to dinner yeah I mean really
at the end of the day of the dead Applebee's you know i mean damn
good pot roast
Unknown 4:20
to true but you know when you have we still have a whole bunch of
kids at home we don't have eight at home anymore thank goodness
Unknown 4:28
man is 17 so sir felt like it over Christmas
Unknown 4:32
Yeah exactly. But it can This is fantastic just like this is a way
to go because it's going to save you some money it makes it really
quick you can cook a lot of stuff and it has less of this puffy you
just basically throw it all in like you look for coffee pot and
minutes later it's all done for yourself the heck look at that
that's what we got that I think our best gifts this year they gave
us these little cookers go into it they give us another little
insert a ceramic one that goes into an instant pot these things are
all great
Unknown 5:09
you know i uh. Craig I had a rough technology weekend because I I
got I got the Echo Dot which is what I want to know is very great
and easy to set up and then I have a Sony Music system which for
some reason my my my internet and my third for library went out and
the whole Sonos system and I was on the phone with this guy I don't
say he's from India but he was five from India not there's anything
wrong with Indians for like an hour trying to get my soul knows to
even what Noel I've got a story to tell you later Can you remind me
okay about talk to Craig about this to to connect and then I tried
to get my Echo to connect to my soul knows and why it shouldn't
just be I mean I'm used to Apple just to push a button in the works
I mean why why why is it so complicated? Tell me why
Unknown 6:03
Alexa Why are you so complicated?
Unknown 6:08
So noses? You know, I think that's some great
Unknown 6:13
systems and I have their head of technology on their CTO on my
radio show and we talked a little bit about it
Unknown 6:22
Why is it so if you lose electricity it takes days to try and
reprogram and what the hell's wrong with them?
Unknown 6:29
Yeah they they really news items on your grievances from
Unknown 6:33
festivals Is that what it is
Unknown 6:36
yeah pull away already know what you
Unknown 6:43
know what do they recognize there's a problem there isn't really a
very difficult festival is not
Unknown 6:49
a when did the feats of strength start
Unknown 6:53
coming up
Unknown 6:55
Professor so what did the Savior What did the guy say to you
Unknown 6:58
it's well it's it's very complicated system they haven't done the
kind of updates to what they need to and more recently they added
in this Amazon Echo compatibility I've heard from a few people
about problems with it so I don't know if you're right about Apple
you know, they there's Siri is nowhere near as good if you ask me
as the Alexa is. So how many of those just
Unknown 7:29
Lexus show answer? I mean, I like Alexa in terms of answer. But let
me put it this way. my four year old can get Alexa to do stuff so
if she can understand that. Yeah, that's scary.
Unknown 7:40
And and the new Dot. I assume you got a brand new thought
Unknown 7:43
I got the I got the brand new Echo Dot.
Unknown 7:46
Yeah. Which is the sound on that is really quite good. I read a
prediction that next year, Amazon is going to be the number one
speaker seller in the country. Which doesn't surprise me me at all,
frankly, and companies like Sonos are starting to already see
financial troubles because of what Amazon's been doing Google Home
not so much. You know, the Apple not so much. But it they just
don't have the funds to throw into it. This is me, this is my
opinion. This is some guesses can, based on what I've seen. Sonos
has had some good systems for quite a while but now Amazon with
their brand new speakers a bigger one to have so much better
quality than they used to have and why would you buy just as stupid
speaker when you can get the smart stuff and all the integration
gets complicated. Sonos was never designed to be tied into
something like the Echo system so it's there's bound to be issues
but they'll don't get them straightened out but it'll take them a
little bit
Unknown 8:52
I will tell you that the I did play the echo next of the songs and
I thought the sun was a sound quality was far superior yeah and I
did get it to play and then I tried I tried to hook it into Apple
Music which I have and I know it's compatible because it added up
then it couldn't find it to play it and that's okay but now they
have a they actually have a soul knows Echo Dot combination who
just came out and I was tempted the Bible was like $300
Unknown 9:22
yeah that's when I was just talking about where they're they're
actually integrate those will be a little bit better in the
ecosystem but this year 2019 I'm not sure yet right away they get
Amazon's gonna come up with some absolutely amazing speakers.
Because what they have right now are decent. You know they great
for listening to to you guys on tune in. I do that all the time
because it's just so convenient. But as far as real music is going
to be the year okay to get that quality.
Unknown 9:55
Yeah, you're already I guess putting stuff on our Christmas
shopping list next year already. And it's the day after this
Christmas.
Unknown 10:04
That's the way it should be
Unknown 10:06
right it is. I want to make a quick note to people who upgraded
their phones to iOS to the latest release. Some people are having
some trouble with making cellular calling data calling. There's a
couple of tricks to get it to work again. Basically just go into
your settings turn off the call over Wi Fi but do a search online
it's not all in your mind if your fuel her iPhone isn't making
phone calls as well as you'd like. And guys check it out. Check out
this instant pot. My wife loves it. My kids are even using it now
because it's so quick and so easy. And I know the listeners will
love it. And it's all three sizes are on sale today online. It's
phenomenal little thing.
Unknown 10:50
Okay. Craig Peterson, our tech guru joins us as usual on Wednesdays
appreciate it Craig and we will talk to you again next week
Unknown 10:59
all right Take care guys thanks a lot Merry Christmas sir
Unknown 11:01
all right let's toss it back over to Kirk Dyson in you have an Echo
Dot I do actually don't use it very much though it's a blast and no
real reason I don't really have anything I order from Amazon or
anything like that but you know you can say let's what's that Tom
what it's for know I know that you can use it for a whole bunch of
stuff Yeah, just don't really have any real are using it maybe
funded wiring. Alexa, call current Dyson you have my phone number.
That's weird.
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