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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR.

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Speaker 2: Here again is Larry Minty with the WOR Saturday morning shows.

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Speaker 1: Now let's talk.

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Speaker 2: You're Rich Demiro rich on Tech has heard Sunday nights

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Speaker 2: from eight to eleven pm on WOR. Rich of course

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Speaker 2: is with us every Thursday at this very same time.

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Speaker 2: Also you can follow him on rich on Tech on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: Rich.

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Speaker 2: It seems like everything is leaving the networks and going

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Speaker 2: to streaming, but I didn't see this one coming.

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Speaker 3: This is a wild move. The Oscars, which have been

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Speaker 3: on ABC for so long, are moving to YouTube in

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty nine, so they've been on ABC for more

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Speaker 3: than fifty years. I've been you know, in LA for

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Speaker 3: a long time seeing these and monitoring them, and I

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Speaker 3: actually went to one of the shows back in the day,

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Speaker 3: and it's just wild to see this move to streaming.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, at the same time, you know,

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Speaker 3: we're seeing that Flicks trying to buy Warner Brothers. It's

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Speaker 3: just there's so many changes in Hollywood with the tech world.

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Speaker 3: But I think this is a good one because it's

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Speaker 3: gonna make this show available to two billion YouTube users

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Speaker 3: around the world at the same time, live and free,

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Speaker 3: and people were asking me already, Larry, Hey, am I

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Speaker 3: going to be able to pause this? Am I going

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Speaker 3: to be able to rewind it? Do I have to

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Speaker 3: pay anything to watch it? The answer is yes, you'll

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Speaker 3: be able to rewind. Yes, you'll be able to pause,

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Speaker 3: and know you will not have to pay. Will the

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Speaker 3: ratings be as high?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Streaming is a completely different beast than over the air TV.

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Speaker 2: So it's that time of year now where everybody does

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Speaker 2: the best of the year and what is the best

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Speaker 2: toy of the year, And now they have the best

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Speaker 2: apps of the year.

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Speaker 1: What are they?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, both both Google Play and Apple named their best

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Speaker 3: apps of the year. There's a whole bunch. I'll just

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Speaker 3: highlight some of them. One of them called focus Friend

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Speaker 3: made both lists. This is from YouTuber Hank Green and

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Speaker 3: basically it's a tiny, little playful app that you put

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Speaker 3: on your phone and when you want to focus on something,

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Speaker 3: you just tap the app and it will start counting up.

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Speaker 3: The more that you put your phone down and don't

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Speaker 3: touch it, the more this little animated creature on your

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Speaker 3: phone screen gets to knit and he's happier, and it's

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Speaker 3: just a whole thing. So that's kind of a fun

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Speaker 3: little app. The other one that's interesting is called Temo Tiimo.

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Speaker 1: This is Apple's App of the Year.

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Speaker 3: It's a visual planner that was originally built for the

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Speaker 3: neurodiversion people with ADHD because it helps you plan your day.

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Speaker 3: But I'll be honest, I downloaded it and I was like, oh,

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Speaker 3: this is really.

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Speaker 1: Good, so anyone can use that.

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Speaker 3: Let's see fun game, Candy Crush, Solitaire. I downloaded a

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Speaker 3: playing this. It's a lot of fun. It's like Solitaire,

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Speaker 3: a fun twist on Solitaire. And finally, the game that

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Speaker 3: got on both lists, you know, Pokemon Pokemon TCG Pocket.

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Speaker 3: This is basically a game version on your phone of

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Speaker 3: what people are doing in real life, which is trading

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Speaker 2: Now, what about these metas smart glasses? And I really

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Speaker 2: love this. I'm very interested in this. By the way,

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Speaker 2: my kids, that's all they wander smart glasses. This is

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is and this is what I love about

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Speaker 3: and also smart gadgets. They get better with software updates.

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Speaker 3: software update that basically gives them a feature called conversation Focus.

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Speaker 3: It amplifies the voice of the person you're trying to

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Speaker 3: So this will amplify their audio in your ears so

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Speaker 1: I think this is brilliant, that's perfect.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's gonna love this, and you're gonna walk us through

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Speaker 2: this right, How you can get instant surround sound in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I was talking about the Amazon fireTV. I

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Speaker 3: you can add these echo speakers to it and make

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Speaker 3: They've got two sizes of their speakers, the smaller ones

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Speaker 3: Echo Studio. You can put two or four of those

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Speaker 3: in your living room and I'm not kidding. Instant surround sound,

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Speaker 3: instant upgrades to your sound, and for a whole lot

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Speaker 3: all this different stuff because it's using you know, these

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Speaker 3: simple speakers you can buy on Amazon. I gotta tell you, Larry,

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Speaker 3: sounds great. The smaller speakers don't sound as good as

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Speaker 3: if not cheaper, depending on when these speakers go on sale.

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Speaker 2: Hey, what are the big tech presents this Christmas right now?

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Speaker 1: Do you know? Oh my gosh, so many, so many.

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Speaker 3: I mean air tags if you want something simple, VR headset,

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Speaker 3: watches are always popular. Noise canceling headphones, kindles, the Aora

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Speaker 3: I just mentioned air pods. I mean, you can't go

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Speaker 3: By the way, the CMF buds pro too. I know

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Speaker 3: you've never heard of them. They're about sixty four to

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Speaker 3: sixty dollars. They sound fantastic for the price. If you

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Speaker 3: have an Android person in your life, the or a

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Speaker 3: the Nintendo switch to is one of the hottest gifts

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Speaker 3: this holiday season as well.

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Speaker 2: I was trying to write as fast as I could.

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Speaker 2: I got most of it off to listen back to

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Speaker 2: get it. Rich Demiro from rich on Tech has heard

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