Speaker 1: Right now, let's say good morning to the host of
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech on KFI. It's a very own Rich DeMuro.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Rich.
Speaker 2: I thought you were going to say, speaking of underachievers,
Speaker 2: welcome Rich.
Speaker 1: No, no, I don't think you are. I mean, look
Speaker 1: at you. You've got a syndicated radio show, you're right
Speaker 1: here on KFI, You're on KTLA all the time, and
Speaker 1: you give us great advice.
Speaker 2: Well, let's hope we can do some of that today.
Speaker 2: We want to talk about first.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about Amazon Primes new perk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is they announced this. I think it
Speaker 2: was like last year perhaps, but now it's available to
Speaker 2: sign up for. You can now if you're a Prime
Speaker 2: member save ten cents a gallon at about seven thousand BP,
Speaker 2: which I don't think we have around here Amaco, which
Speaker 2: I don't think we have around here, but we do
Speaker 2: have AMPM stations. So basically, if you're a Prime member,
Speaker 2: you go to AMPM, you can now save ten cents
Speaker 2: a gallon. This is an ongoing perk from Amazon, part
Speaker 2: of your Prime account. Amazon says that members, if they
Speaker 2: drive the average national average, they can save up to
Speaker 2: seventy dollars a year, which is half the cost of
Speaker 2: a Prime membership. The thing you have to do is
Speaker 2: go to Amazon dot com slash Fuel Savings and you
Speaker 2: basically just link up your your Prime account to this
Speaker 2: new system and there you go.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's my question. If I have a credit
Speaker 1: card on my Prime account and AMPM gives you that,
Speaker 1: you know, you pay less if you use a debit card.
Speaker 1: Are you using a credit card or can you link
Speaker 1: your debit card to it?
Speaker 2: It looks like you can link any cards so you
Speaker 2: can pay. You can. Actually you have to sign up
Speaker 2: through this app. I've not done it myself, so I
Speaker 2: don't know, but I would guess that whatever card you
Speaker 2: want to use, you can use. Remember when AMPM r
Speaker 2: code didn't take credit cards, like you had to like
Speaker 2: use that weird machine in the middle like anyway. But yeah,
Speaker 2: so a lot of people have been debating the merits
Speaker 2: of this program on my social media, saying, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe Costco is lit a better deal. You know, Ralph's
Speaker 2: has their rewards. So I think the bottom line is like,
Speaker 2: do what's best for you. So I use that upside
Speaker 2: app when i'm you know, when I fill out my
Speaker 2: wife's car at the pump and it does save some
Speaker 2: money cost go. You know, if you don't mind waiting
Speaker 2: in line, you can save money there. So you know,
Speaker 2: it's just another option available.
Speaker 1: I love options. I love options. Okay, So I am
Speaker 1: going to be traveling myself, so I was particularly interested in, uh,
Speaker 1: this one that you had you had offered up, and
Speaker 1: that was that a lot of people are planning their
Speaker 1: vacations for the summer, and some people are going to
Speaker 1: go overseas, and you know, we were just talking about
Speaker 1: this last week. How are we going to avoid massive
Speaker 1: fees on our phones?
Speaker 2: Yes, and it's a lot easier than it used to be.
Speaker 2: This is my popular demand. I guess a lot of
Speaker 2: people are traveling asking me rich, how do I use
Speaker 2: my phone but not pay you know, astronomical roaming charges.
Speaker 2: And so here's the deal. My first, uh, my first
Speaker 2: item of tip is call your carrier. You may have
Speaker 2: what's called travel days banked on your plan. If you're
Speaker 2: paying like the highest plan, the ninety dollars a month
Speaker 2: plan whatever it is for unlimited for your carrier, A
Speaker 2: lot of times you get a travel day every month
Speaker 2: included in your plan. So last time I went to Europe,
Speaker 2: I had like twelve days banked. I was there for
Speaker 2: a couple of days, didn't have to you know, it
Speaker 2: all was free basically, So that's my number one tip.
Speaker 2: Then if you just want to keep your current plan
Speaker 2: and roam over there, EIGHTE and T charges twelve dollars
Speaker 2: a day, Verizon twelve dollars a day. T Mobile. Most
Speaker 2: plans include roaming that can add up fast, So I
Speaker 2: only recommend that if you're there for like, you know,
Speaker 2: three four days whatever. If you're there longer, I like
Speaker 2: what's called an e sim and this is basically a
Speaker 2: temporary plan you buy from an app. You don't need
Speaker 2: a physical SIM card. I like the app called Aerlow.
Speaker 2: You can activate that right from your phone. You can
Speaker 2: get like thirty days of usage with thirty gigabytes for
Speaker 2: like thirty dollars. So that's a very cost effective way
Speaker 2: to do it. The problem is your phone has to
Speaker 2: be unlocked usually for that to happen. For you'd be
Speaker 2: able to do that, So check that. And then if
Speaker 2: you don't want to do any of that stuff, just
Speaker 2: turn off your cellular, turn on Wi Fi and just
Speaker 2: look for Wi Fi hotspots. You can use WhatsApp to
Speaker 2: stay connected I message, just make sure that you're calling
Speaker 2: and texting over Wi Fi is activated before you leave
Speaker 2: the US.
Speaker 1: I think that's what I did last time. It was
Speaker 1: so long. I haven't traveled since before the pandemic. I
Speaker 1: think our last trip to Africa, I think we just
Speaker 1: turned off cellular and just texted.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And for most people, look, there's so much Wi
Speaker 2: Fi everywhere, as long as you don't, you know. And
Speaker 2: the other thing I would say is download the maps.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put this in my blog post at richontech
Speaker 2: dot TV. Download the maps for the location you're going to.
Speaker 2: So both Apple Maps and Google Maps let you download
Speaker 2: the entire map for the area you're going to. So
Speaker 2: even if you didn't have cellular, you could still navigate
Speaker 2: around using the offline maps. So that's a good idea too.
Speaker 2: And my other tip, one more tip, because this burned
Speaker 2: me many years ago. I went to China and I
Speaker 2: left my dropbox on and all my pictures uploaded. And
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding, I came back to like a thousand
Speaker 2: dollars bill. I had to, like, I have to negotiate
Speaker 2: with AT and T to like get that down. But yeah,
Speaker 2: turn off automatic backups or make sure they're just on
Speaker 2: Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's great. Great, that's going to be so helpful
Speaker 1: and helpful to lots of you guys who are going
Speaker 1: to be traveling hopefully this summer. One last thing and
Speaker 1: that is good news for parents regarding Roadblocks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I don't think there's any good news at
Speaker 2: all ever with Roadblocks. I'm not a fan, but I
Speaker 2: will I will report on this impartially.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Basically, Roadblocks is working with Google to do these video
Speaker 2: ads that you can watch instead of buying stuff. So
Speaker 2: let's say your kid. You know, if your kid is
Speaker 2: playing Robox, they are always bugging you for something, right,
Speaker 2: some sort of in app purchase. Well, now they can
Speaker 2: watch these ads for thirty seconds and instead of buying
Speaker 2: the item, they will get it gifted for free. So
Speaker 2: it's kind of a cool idea because most parents will
Speaker 2: be like, hey, I'm fine with that, you know, as
Speaker 2: long as the ads are okay, it's going to cost
Speaker 2: them less.
Speaker 1: Okay, but I you know what, when I play games,
Speaker 1: I have to watch ads. So kids should have to
Speaker 1: learn to do that too, unless they want to pay
Speaker 1: for it with their own money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Most of the time, it's mom and dad paying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm such a hard ass, all right. Rich DeMuro
Speaker 1: the host of Rich on Tech right here on KFI
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Speaker 1: Tech dot TV. Thank you so much, Rich, jamiro all.
Speaker 2: Right, Amy, talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: All right.