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Speaker 1: rich one on one. Well, I hope you had a

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Speaker 1: fantastic Halloween. We had all the kids over at our house.

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Speaker 1: of course, there's a lot going on not just Halloween.

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Speaker 1: As fun as that was, but did you hear about

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Speaker 1: What no laws were made during that time. Microsoft says

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Speaker 1: And it's cool what they've done with this robot, and

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Speaker 1: Anyway, Neo is sixty six pounds, can carry up to

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Speaker 3: Oh great, Hi. I heard three or four weeks ago

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Speaker 3: you were talking about portable battery rechargers for their iPhone. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: talking about Belka, and you talked about anchor. Anchor failed,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, so you're talking about the million hours.

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Speaker 1: It has about four thousand million hours in it. So

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Speaker 3: Well, my wife has a medical condition and she needs

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Speaker 1: Easily go on Amazon and buy this thing. Just the

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Speaker 1: They also have ones that magnetically attached to the back,

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Speaker 3: All right, I think that answers it for me. Just

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can do it there too, Dennis, Thanks for

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Speaker 1: We've seen so many issues on flights for people's batteries

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Speaker 1: Now here's the weird thing. When they when they pitched

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Speaker 1: Ron writes in from California. My iPhone fifteen plus is

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Speaker 1: shows iOS twenty six as an option at the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the software update screen. Apple told me it's because

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Speaker 1: they're finishing updates to iOS eighteen. I love when people

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Speaker 1: email me and they tell me stuff that they hear

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Speaker 1: the place, like no, Apple is not finishing updates to

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Speaker 1: iOS eighteen. iOS eighteen is done, iOS twenty six is done.

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Speaker 1: But here's what's happening, Okay, So let me just read

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Speaker 1: the rest of the email. I've heard about battery drain

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Speaker 1: and other problems with iOS twenty six, including from my

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Speaker 1: son who's having issues on his iPhone sixteen pro. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to mess up my phone. What's the truth here.

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Speaker 1: The truth is ron you have two options. So what

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Speaker 1: Apple has done in years past is they have given

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Speaker 1: people the option to stick with their current iOS if

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Speaker 1: they want, at least for a while, because it still works.

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Speaker 1: Not everyone likes the change, and you don't have to

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Speaker 1: update if you don't want to. And what they've done

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Speaker 1: is they've separated the full iOS update from security updates.

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Speaker 1: So iOS eighteen is not getting any new improvements, it's

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Speaker 1: just getting security updates. So if you want to keep

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Speaker 1: doing the security updates, that's fine, and that's why it's

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Speaker 1: showing you iOS eighteen point seven point one and whatever

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Speaker 1: new updates may come for that. But iOS twenty six

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Speaker 1: is at the bottom that completely refreshes your entire system,

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Speaker 1: and you have the option of updating to that. It's

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Speaker 1: going to change everything because it gives you that new

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Speaker 1: liquid glass, it's going to change all the feature it's

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Speaker 1: going to add new apps. So not everyone wants to

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Speaker 1: do that because they're happy with what they've got. And

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Speaker 1: Apple is allowing you the choice of Okay, you can

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Speaker 1: stick with iOS eighteen, we're just going to give you

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Speaker 1: security updates, or you can move to iOS twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Now both have their pros and cons. Is iOS twenty

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Speaker 1: six perfect?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: Is it pretty darn good? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: The only problem I have with it right now is

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Speaker 1: when I unlock my phone, it's got this weird like

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Speaker 1: jumpy animation where it's just not completely all there, and

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Speaker 1: so you know, some things need to be smoothed out,

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Speaker 1: but overall it's pretty good. So with the battery drain issues,

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Speaker 1: Apple has acknowledged that anytime you update to a new

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Speaker 1: operating system, there's going to be battery issues. And what's

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Speaker 1: happening is your system is optimizing things in the background.

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Speaker 1: It's going through all of its indexes, it's making everything work.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of polishing and smoothing everything. So that's why

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Speaker 1: they say for the first couple of days, you're going

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Speaker 1: to see your battery is not going to be as

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Speaker 1: great as it is after that time. So I have

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Speaker 1: zero battery issues whatsoever with my phone with iOS twenty six,

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Speaker 1: it is running really smooth, and I think it's the

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Speaker 1: best battery life I've ever ever actually had on an iPhone.

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Speaker 2: This is with the new iPhone too.

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Speaker 1: Now, if you want to go in and just check

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Speaker 1: to see how your battery is doing in general, you

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Speaker 1: can go to settings, tap battery and it will give

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Speaker 1: your battery health. And so if you're running an older

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Speaker 1: phone that's a couple of years old, like your son,

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Speaker 1: what is your running iPhone sixteen, so it's a year old.

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Speaker 1: My maximum capacity right now is one hundred percent, but

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Speaker 1: depending on how you charge your phone, you may see

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Speaker 1: that number could be anywhere from eighty five to ninety

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Speaker 1: something percent. That means that your phone is not going

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Speaker 1: to carry the same life level of charge as it

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Speaker 1: was when it was new. It's kind of like getting older,

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Speaker 1: right you fill your body, it's not working the same

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Speaker 1: way it used to when you were a spring chicken

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Speaker 1: at seventeen. That's just the reality of getting older. Same

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Speaker 1: thing with your phone, and especially if you're really charging it,

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Speaker 1: you know, one hundred percent, running it down to zero

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Speaker 1: and just you know, running it hot, it could affect

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Speaker 1: the battery. So that's probably what's happening. But uh Ron,

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Speaker 1: I'd say go ahead, update, You're gonna be just fine.

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Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 2: Phone right here, on rich on Tech. Welcome back to

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Speaker 2: rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology triple

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Speaker 1: eight Rich one on one eight eight eight seven four

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Speaker 1: Rancho Cucamonga. You're on with Rich.

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Speaker 4: You're Rich. Hi.

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Speaker 5: So I've been using the topic outlets and suddenly I've.

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Speaker 1: Been I'm losing your signal here. I can barely make

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Speaker 1: you out. Can you move to a better area where

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Speaker 1: you might have a better signal? Let me hear you again.

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Speaker 5: Is that better?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Much better? We can hear you about that.

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Speaker 5: Well. I've been using Classic you know, several eons, and

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Speaker 5: suddenly I was having issues with my outbox and my

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Speaker 5: calendar invites. I was unable to reschedule calendar invites or

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Speaker 5: cancel inst of having a slew of issues. And I

584
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 5: switched to the new outlook and those issues went away. However,

585
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Speaker 5: I get hundreds of emails a day, and the way

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Speaker 5: for me to stay organized is to sort by subject.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I'm really losing your here. So you're you're

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Speaker 1: you're trying to sort by subject. I can't really hear

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Speaker 1: the end of the question, but you're is this new

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Speaker 1: version of Outlook not a allowing you.

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Speaker 3: To do that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not allowed.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm looking I'm Bovo. You guys, you can't all

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Speaker 1: hear what Bobo says to me in my ear while

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Speaker 1: while you're talking. But here's the deal I'm looking at.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the new Outlook on both my PC

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Speaker 1: and Mac, and it gives you.

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Speaker 2: It gives me the option to sort by subject on both.

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Speaker 1: So is there something that I'm missing here because I'm okay,

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Speaker 1: hold on, I'm looking, hold on, hold on, Okay, I'm

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Speaker 1: looking here. Short by date, yes, short by subject. It's

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Speaker 1: on both of these things.

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Speaker 5: So, well, you know how you have a header of

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Speaker 5: you know, at the top in your classic outlok where

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Speaker 5: you can click subject and it will whatever message you're on,

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Speaker 5: it'll sort it by that subject. That doesn't happen in

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Speaker 5: the new outlet. I can't select a message and then

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Speaker 5: click that subject header and then see all the messages

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Speaker 5: relating to that email.

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Speaker 2: Got it?

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Speaker 1: Okay, that that makes a bit more sense, Okay, because

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Speaker 1: you can Yeah, you can sort.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think they did change a lot in this version

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Speaker 1: of Outlook, and I think some of it is I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to see here. Okay, so there's a find related

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Speaker 1: and then there's okay, I don't see. So typically you

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Speaker 1: just write click on something and then and then say

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Speaker 1: find all subjects that are like that. Now, what about

620
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Speaker 1: grouping your messages because are you looking for me?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm doing that now I've got I've got it grouped.

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Speaker 5: And so it's a different process, you know, to kind

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Speaker 5: of go through and make sure you've read all of

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Speaker 5: the string of related emails. But it's just not as

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Speaker 5: user friendly. It's not as I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I and I agree.

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Speaker 1: I think that the Outlook, I mean, I use it

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Speaker 1: for my corporate email and I'm not a fan of

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Speaker 1: typically you know all the different things it does. But

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Speaker 1: with that said, so you don't want to go back

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Speaker 1: to classic Outlook because you're going to get the same

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Speaker 1: problems you had before.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I've tried to revert and it's same issues. It's

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Speaker 5: for some reason, it's just not working. Like I know,

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Speaker 5: they're trying to phase it out, and yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'm not really working on it. Yeah, I mean the

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Speaker 1: best I can say. And what about a third party

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Speaker 1: email app? Like, what do you think about switching or

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Speaker 1: you using are you what, like, who's this email with?

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Speaker 4: Is it?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so they want you several.

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Speaker 5: Different companies and this is the only company where I'm

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Speaker 5: having this issue outlooks. I'm on the classic on my

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Speaker 5: other companies.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, it could be that, you know, the corporate

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Speaker 1: rules or structure that they have, they're not allowing certain

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Speaker 1: features or things like that with this outlook. So that

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Speaker 1: could be another side of it. So you might you

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Speaker 1: might talk to the IT folks and see if they

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Speaker 1: have something that they're you know, holding back on here.

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Speaker 2: That could be it.

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Speaker 1: But I would say in general, I mean, it's just

654
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: it might be without seeing like exactly what you're trying

655
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: to do here, it's kind of tough for me to

656
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 1: like envision that. But I think that in general, it

657
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:51,720
Speaker 1: might just come up with you know, you might have

658
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 1: to just use like different rules or something. But I

659
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: can see you can definitely sort by subject in general,

660
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: but that there may be another aspect to this that

661
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: I'm not truly understanding. But Melinda, I do understand that

662
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: frustration for sure, when you're trying to do something that

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Speaker 1: you can't do and so I when you're using it

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Speaker 1: before and it did it and now it doesn't. That's

665
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Speaker 1: that's really frustrating. And this is why people a lot

666
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: of times don't want to update their software because they've

667
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: got their system in place, they know how to work it,

668
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 1: and when the new system comes, it's like, oh, you

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00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: made all these changes that are great for whatever you're

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00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 1: trying to push, whether it's AI or you know, whatever

671
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 1: the new Outlook is trying to do, but it breaks

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Speaker 1: all these little functionalities that I rely on on a

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Speaker 1: daily basis. And so that's the hesitation from a lot

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Speaker 1: of folks. Now you can revert to the old the

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00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: old Outlook if you're not liking the new Outlook. If

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00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: you look in the menu, it says Legacy Outlook. And

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00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: so if you're using the new Outlook and you don't

678
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: like the way it works, you can go back to

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Speaker 1: the old one. I ended up just using Outlook on

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00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: the web because there's one feature I need on Outlook

681
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 1: that does not work on my app for some reason,

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00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: and that's my group of people that I email on

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00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: a regular basis. I have, like a group I created,

684
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 1: and it just for some reason will not My distribution

685
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: list will not work when I'm on the app, but

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00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,760
Speaker 1: it'll work when I'm on the web. I don't understand

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00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 1: what the reason is for that, but anyway, so it

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Speaker 1: happens to the best of us. Thanks for the call, Melnda.

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00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: Hopefully you get that sorted out. No pun intended there.

690
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: Samsung did show off its first trifold phone. It's a prototype,

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Speaker 1: but it's a start. They showed it off at the

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Speaker 1: APEC CEO summit in South Korea, home of Samsung. So

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Speaker 1: the device folds twice. There are three screens on this device.

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Speaker 1: So we've seen the foldable phones that have two screens.

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Speaker 1: Imagine just three screens now two hinges. So when it's

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00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 1: fully open, it's a ten inch display, but when it

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Speaker 1: closes down it's a six point five inch phone size,

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Speaker 1: so it's kind of like a standard sized phone. But

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00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: when you open it up, you've got a nice ten

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Speaker 1: inch display, so it's almost like a tablet. No name

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Speaker 1: for this expected to launch soon, we'll see. I think

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00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 1: it's interesting because Samsung foldables are still kind of not struggling,

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Speaker 1: but they're still trying to find their space here in

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Speaker 1: the US, and I think next year when Apple launches

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00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 1: there foldable, it's probably going to do a lot for

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00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: this genre. Of phones, but we do know that they

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00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,440
Speaker 1: are very popular in other parts of the world. So

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Speaker 1: Huawei's got one called the mate xt which folds in

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Speaker 1: a Z shape, and my friend was using that when

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00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: I was in Mexico. He loves that thing, loves that

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00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: form factor. But a lot of people love the Samsung

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00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,240
Speaker 1: Fold seven because it's just such a great small device

713
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,359
Speaker 1: but opens up pretty big anyway. This prototype was shown

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Speaker 1: behind glass. Expected to cost more than two thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: We'll see eighty eight rich one oh one eighty eight

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Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one coming up.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about how AI is affecting the job market

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Speaker 1: and what some of the best jobs are and some

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Speaker 1: of the worst jobs are because of it. This is

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich

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Speaker 1: Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Triple eight

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Speaker 1: rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Did you know you can

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00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: listen to this show as a podcast. Obviously live is

725
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 1: always the best way, but if you miss an episode,

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00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: you can listen later. Just search rich on Tech in

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00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: your favorite audio app. I know some of you are

728
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,720
Speaker 1: doing without Disney channels right now. If you've got YouTube TV.

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00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:42,320
Speaker 1: The two big companies are in a spat. This seems

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Speaker 1: to happen a lot. It's a contract renewal. Obviously, YouTube

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Speaker 1: doesn't want. You know, the prices for these streaming services

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Speaker 1: have gone up so much, and of course you know,

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Speaker 1: Disney's probably asking for more money. YouTube doesn't want to

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Speaker 1: do it because they know inevitably they're going to pass

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Speaker 1: along those costs to their subscribers. And so right now,

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Speaker 1: all Disney channels are blacked out on YouTube TV. This

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Speaker 1: is ESPN, ABC, FX.

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Speaker 2: Notat go.

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Speaker 1: I mean a lot of channels. If you look at it,

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00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: it's a laundry list of stuff. Now what do you

741
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:19,240
Speaker 1: do in the meantime? You could try a free trial

742
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: from a competing service. The problem is they're not very good,

743
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,800
Speaker 1: so depending on how long this goes on. I mean, Fubo,

744
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: which will give you all those channels, only offers you

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00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 1: one day of free trial, so that's not really going

746
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: to get you very far. DirecTV is probably your best bet.

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00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: You can sign up for DirecTV stream that'll give you

748
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: five days. So, I mean, you know these things in

749
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: recent memory, these things have not gone on that long.

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Speaker 2: Who knows how long this is going to go on.

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00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 2: YouTube says it will give.

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00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:52,280
Speaker 1: It its subscribers a twenty dollars credit if the blackout

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00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 1: continues for a long time. The other thing you could do,

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00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: there's this thing called Sling Weekend Pass and that's ten

755
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: dollars and that gives you Sling for the whole weekend

756
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,959
Speaker 1: with like no strings attached. The only thing there is

757
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,280
Speaker 1: is it depends on the channel. Like, if you want ESPN,

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00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 1: it looks like it's there. Trying to see the channels

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00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: that are here, Okay, so yeah, they've got ESPN, CNNTNT, TBS,

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Speaker 1: Food Network, History, basically all the espns. So if you

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00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: just have something you want to watch on ESPN, you

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00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:25,240
Speaker 1: could do it that way. Disney channels on there, but yeah,

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00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 1: I mean it's not really all the channels that you want,

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Speaker 1: So you're kind.

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Speaker 2: Of, you know, stuck right now. If you've got YouTube

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Speaker 2: TV like I do.

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00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 1: Thankfully the World Series is not on ABC, that would

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Speaker 1: be a bad time for that.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: Let's see here, let's go to Debra in this Candido.

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Speaker 6: Debra, you're on with rich Why d thank you for

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Speaker 6: taking my call?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what's up?

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Speaker 6: So I'm a longtime user with Apple excuse me. With

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00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 6: Google's Contact manager, and recently, I've been having a problem

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00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:11,359
Speaker 6: when I go in bring up the contact list, and

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00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 6: I go into the search bar, I search out the

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Speaker 6: contact I'm looking for.

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Speaker 7: It'll bring it up.

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Speaker 6: I tap on it, but it won't open up the contact.

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00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 6: I have to literally scroll through all my contacts alphabetically

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Speaker 6: to find the contact. I've kind of googled to try

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Speaker 6: and fix that problem. I've tried thinking, and I'm kind

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Speaker 6: of at a loss on what to do.

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Speaker 2: Where are you doing this on your computer? On your phone?

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Speaker 5: On my computer?

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Speaker 1: Okay, a new computer with Windows eleven, Okay, it sounds

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Speaker 1: like this is a browser issue. It sounds like something's

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Speaker 1: blocking the JavaScript from working on here or some sort

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Speaker 1: of whatever they're using to run this, because I just

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Speaker 1: did it on my computer and it opens it up

792
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 1: just fine. So it sounds like there's something that's blocking

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Speaker 1: the function on your browser. What browser are you using.

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Speaker 6: I'm using.

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Speaker 7: The Google Chrome as well, and.

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Speaker 6: I've h and I've gone in and cleared my cash

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Speaker 6: or that.

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Speaker 1: Hasn't okay, So what I would do is just this

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Speaker 1: is a very easy easy thing to see if it's uh,

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Speaker 1: if it's just your browser. I would go to a

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Speaker 1: different browser, like if you're using Windows eleven, like you said,

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Speaker 1: open this up in Edge and you may have to

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Speaker 1: sign into Google, which I know is a pain, but

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Speaker 1: you know, just do that, go to contacts dot Google

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Speaker 1: dot com and see if it's happening there, and at

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00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:37,959
Speaker 1: least that lets you know if it's a bigger problem

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00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: on your computer or if it's just in your browser.

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00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 1: Now I think it's just your browser. So what I

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00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,839
Speaker 1: would do is I would go through your browser and

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Speaker 1: look at all the extensions that you have and get

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Speaker 1: rid of any extensions or disable them that you don't need,

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Speaker 1: especially for this page, especially if it's an AD blocker,

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00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: because that could be messing with the you know what

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Speaker 1: the page wants to do.

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Speaker 2: So that that's number one.

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Speaker 1: The second thing I would do is when you're on

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Speaker 1: this page, just go to the where it says contacts

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Speaker 1: dot Google dot com. Up at the top in the

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Speaker 1: address bar. There's two little lines they look like settings.

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Speaker 1: Tap that it's called site information and it says cookies

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Speaker 1: and site data. Just go ahead and where it says

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Speaker 1: manage on device site data. Just delete all those cookies

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00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,800
Speaker 1: right there that may log you out. Of your Google account,

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00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 1: because you know that's part of the cookies that gets

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00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 1: you in here. But then I would restart your web browser,

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Speaker 1: make sure you do all the secure all the software updates.

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Speaker 1: So if you don't know how to do that, you

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00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: go to your menu, you go to settings, and then

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Speaker 1: you go to about Chrome. And right now I'm going

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00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:45,799
Speaker 1: to about Chrome and it's saying updating Chrome. So there

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Speaker 1: was an update for Chrome that I didn't even know about,

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Speaker 1: and so I would make sure you do that, and

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00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: then I would restart, close out Chrome completely, open it

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Speaker 1: back up, go into that website and see if you

835
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 1: still get the same issue. My instinct is telling me

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Speaker 1: that it is something that's interfering with that website, and

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Speaker 1: so it's not the website itself, because like I said,

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00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: I just tested it out and it's working fine. So

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Speaker 1: it's something on your browser and it's probably one of

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00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: your extensions that's interfering with that page. So try a

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00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 1: different browser. That's the number one thing, and then do

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00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:22,800
Speaker 1: with all the other things I mentioned and hopefully that

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00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 1: should help you out. Thanks a lot, Debra appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Funny funny story about Escondido real quick. So I was

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Speaker 1: I was substitute reporting down in San Diego for a

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Speaker 1: TV station. And this was back in the day, this

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00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 1: was before I was doing technology stuff, and I'll never

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Speaker 1: forget they said, you were reporting from Escondido, and for

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Speaker 1: some reason I called it Escondito. And so but my

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00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 1: family down there was watching. They live down there, like

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Speaker 1: some family members, and to this day they never let

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Speaker 1: me live it down the way I said it. And

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00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 1: I every time they see me, how's Escondito, And I'm like,

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00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: I know I said it wrong once on TV, but

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Speaker 1: it's you know, look, when you have this happens all

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Speaker 1: the time, like reporters that are in these little cities

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00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 1: like across America.

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00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 2: Not that San Diego is a little city, but you.

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00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 1: Know, these reporters that are on TV, they come from

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Speaker 1: different places and then they they set up shop in

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Speaker 1: your city, you know, whatever city you're in. You know,

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00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: there's different markets for the whole US, for the broadcast markets,

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00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: whether it's radio or TV, and these people usually start

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Speaker 1: out in a smaller market and so they're not familiar

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Speaker 1: with all the ways that you say things in those markets.

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Speaker 1: So I lived in Louisiana, for instance, and that's a

867
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 1: very tricky place to say things because it's got a

868
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 1: lot of French in Creole influence, and so a lot

869
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 1: of the names. People would just Butcher and Texas.

870
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 2: Same thing. There was this I'm trying to remember this.

871
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 1: There was this like there's this city in Texas that

872
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:58,880
Speaker 1: we had to say, and it was like, if you

873
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: didn't know how to say it, you would pronounce it wrong.

874
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 2: If you just read the way it was what it

875
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 2: looked like it would, you'd say it wrong every time.

876
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:07,919
Speaker 1: Same thing here in Los Angeles there's a museum called

877
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: the Broad Museum and it's Eli Broade, but people call

878
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 1: the Broad Museum all the time because that's the way

879
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: it looks like it's written. So again, I mean, look,

880
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 1: no one's perfect in this world, and no one's an expert.

881
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 2: I get it.

882
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 1: There are some people that pronounce everything perfectly. I'm not

883
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 1: one of those people. I'll be honest, Like I grew

884
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: up in New Jersey. If you when I got to USC,

885
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. I spoke so poorly as a person

886
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: who wants to go into broadcast journalism, I spoke so poorly.

887
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: I will never forget this. I was sitting in my

888
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:42,200
Speaker 1: dorm freshman year and everyone was just sitting around me

889
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 1: in a circle, like I was in the middle of

890
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: the circle, and they were just like, pronounce this word.

891
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: And they would literally just have me pronounce words because

892
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: I was so bad at pronouncing things. Like they'd be like,

893
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 1: what's the thing that you pull out of your dresser.

894
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: I'd be like, a draw. It's not a draw, it's

895
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: a drawer. But I grew up thinking it was a mirror.

896
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,359
Speaker 1: It was a draw. I mean I I just had

897
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: this Jersey accent.

898
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 2: Oregon.

899
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 1: That was how you said Oregon. I mean, it was

900
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:10,560
Speaker 1: just these are the things. And I My kid was

901
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: asking me the other day, He's like, Dad, do you

902
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:14,880
Speaker 1: do you always pronounce things right? I said no, I

903
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 1: used to have a terrible speech. Anyway, I'll never forget that.

904
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 1: I felt like I was a little science experiment. I

905
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 1: also had never heard of a casadia till I came

906
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles, and I'll never forget my uh you know,

907
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 1: one of the people at my dorm they said, here's

908
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 1: how you make a very very quick casadia. It was

909
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: a it was a tortilla with a slice of American

910
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 1: cheese and they just put it in the microwave.

911
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:38,399
Speaker 2: I said, what is this?

912
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,320
Speaker 1: They're like, it's kind of like a grilled cheese, except

913
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 1: you know casadia and you know, no, I love Yeah,

914
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 1: it's it's definitely a different version of a casidia, that's

915
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: for sure. Uh, but you know I still make case idias.

916
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,799
Speaker 1: It's like one of our staples now like that, not

917
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: like that. My kid does like a casadia in the microwave.

918
00:45:58,320 --> 00:45:59,839
Speaker 1: So he does, like we asked him, do you want

919
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 1: to Frisby or do you want mushy Mushy's in the microwave?

920
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 1: And mom and dad secretly like that because it takes

921
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: like ten seconds to make versus like, you know, a

922
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:13,840
Speaker 1: couple of minutes on the S condito, S condito. I

923
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 1: don't know why I pronounced it that way. I got

924
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:17,880
Speaker 1: married there, did you? So you know, how do you

925
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: pronounce it? Let's get the bobo Bobo pronounces s condido?

926
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 2: How do you say it condido? Okay, I know how

927
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 2: to say it. I'm from here.

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00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you know, oh so you were just born

929
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 1: with the god given right of knowing how to pronounce

930
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 1: everything in in California.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Art, It's like, uh, when people come here from

932
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:42,719
Speaker 8: out of town, they don't say supolvita they sayelvita oh

933
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 8: or las sienga. Yeah.

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00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 2: I mean, but here's the thing.

935
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 1: If you look at these things and here we have

936
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 1: a lot of Spanish influence in the names. Not everyone

937
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: grew up with that. So you look at these things,

938
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:54,839
Speaker 1: you're like, I don't know how to say that. Yeah,

939
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:57,600
Speaker 1: will Shire, will Shire Boulevard. I mean, there's so many,

940
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 1: It's it's kind of fun. And look, you know, La

941
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: is a place where there's a lot of people from

942
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:06,240
Speaker 1: different places, and so it's very accepting of various people

943
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,359
Speaker 1: coming here and pronouncing these things wrong. And I don't

944
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:11,759
Speaker 1: think anyone really gets judged for it, but we do

945
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: get a kick out of.

946
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 2: It, and you get left at yeah, but in a

947
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:15,399
Speaker 2: fun way.

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Speaker 1: Eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight

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951
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:26,919
Speaker 1: AI coach. We've still got AI jobs. People are still

952
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 1: using AI to make fake receipts for expense reports. We'll

953
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:32,879
Speaker 1: talk about that plus your questions. This is rich on Tech.

954
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

955
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960
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 1: You can read it. The title is breaking up with

961
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:02,319
Speaker 1: my credit card. After nine years, I got rid of

962
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:07,439
Speaker 1: my pricey, pricey, pricey credit card. They added all these

963
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:09,399
Speaker 1: perks and I looked at them. I said, I don't

964
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: want any of those. They're all it's like a coupon

965
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:14,560
Speaker 1: book now and it was just and they raised the

966
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 1: price and so I called in and no big deal.

967
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 1: The guy said, Okay, anything else I can do for you?

968
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: After nine years could care less, didn't try to keep

969
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 1: me in any way, shape or form. So now I'm

970
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 1: just using a run of the mill card. And I

971
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: explained my kind of rule for credit and debit. You know,

972
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:36,399
Speaker 1: I don't play the points game necessarily, so I will

973
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 1: get points when I can, but I'm not going out

974
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 1: of my way to get points. And I think that

975
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 1: doing that makes you spend more money. And I know

976
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:48,799
Speaker 1: those are fighting words. Everyone loves their points. Everyone I

977
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:52,240
Speaker 1: know travels for free. Nobody pays for vacations. Everyone's traveling

978
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:55,359
Speaker 1: for free on points. But somebody's got to spend all

979
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 1: that money to get those points.

980
00:48:57,440 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 2: And I get it.

981
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,080
Speaker 1: If you have a big corporate job, or you're traveling

982
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,720
Speaker 1: a lot for work, and you're racking up the points,

983
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:06,399
Speaker 1: you know, during your corporate job, and then you're using

984
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 1: them for your personal stuff, that's great. And you know,

985
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 1: I've been in that place back in the day, I

986
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 1: had a job where I was traveling all the time.

987
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I still travel a lot, but you know

988
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm actively trying to travel less to be

989
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:24,400
Speaker 1: more with my family. But how about this, Speaking of travel,

990
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: expense report firms say that AI generated fake receipts are

991
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:34,440
Speaker 1: becoming a major fraud issue. So employees are literally creating

992
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 1: fake receipts using AI and putting them in their expense reports. Now,

993
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 1: maybe some of them are recreations, you know, maybe they

994
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 1: forgot to get a receipt and they need one. But

995
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 1: Appsen says AI fakes now make up fourteen percent of

996
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:53,839
Speaker 1: expense fraud attempts. Ramp, another one of these software firms,

997
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:57,320
Speaker 1: flagged over a million dollars in fake receipts in ninety days.

998
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:03,799
Speaker 1: What fake receipts can now include realistic wrinkles itemize details

999
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:07,880
Speaker 1: and signatures, making them hard to detect by I. Sap

1000
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 1: can cur which runs eighty million compliance checks a month,

1001
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:16,239
Speaker 1: Warren's clients don't trust your eyes. Companies are now using

1002
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 1: AI to scan AI to make sure that you know,

1003
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:26,120
Speaker 1: people aren't generating fake receipts. But the problem is, you know,

1004
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: users that submit these can erase the metadata just by

1005
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 1: taking a screenshot, so it's like they'll generate it with

1006
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:34,840
Speaker 1: chat GBT. They know that that file has like metadata

1007
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 1: that says this was created with AI, so let's just

1008
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:39,319
Speaker 1: take a screenshot of it, because that metadata doesn't carry through.

1009
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 1: But here's what I think it's funny about sap can Curve.

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00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: That was the company We don't I don't think we

1011
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 1: use them anymore for expense reports.

1012
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 2: But we used to, or maybe we still do.

1013
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: But anyway, they you know, they do all these checks

1014
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 1: on your expense reports, like a lot of it's automated,

1015
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 1: but they kind of make your life a little bit

1016
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: difficult because it used to be back in the day,

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00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,760
Speaker 1: you'd submit expense reports pretty simple. You know, your boss

1018
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:02,399
Speaker 1: would look at it and say, all right, everything was good,

1019
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:04,920
Speaker 1: and they'd send the payment now it's like all this

1020
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 1: automated AI stuff and these systems and they check everything

1021
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 1: and it's got to be in there perfectly. And so

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00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:13,920
Speaker 1: I remember I was in Mexico on vacation and the

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00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 1: whole resort was rented out by SAP or maybe back

1024
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 1: then it was just called Concur. And I remember, you know,

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Speaker 1: after maybe after you know, happy hour, going up to

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00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 1: one of the people at Concur. I was like, hey,

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00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:27,719
Speaker 1: you know, you make your you know, you make the

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00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 1: lives very difficult for many many people out there with

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00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 1: your expense you know checks, and they were like laughing.

1030
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 1: But I was just cracking up because here it is,

1031
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:39,439
Speaker 1: this whole company was on vacation with this like big

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00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: old party. I was like, who's footing the bill for this?

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00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: All the all of us expense report? People like, what's

1034
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 1: happening here? I don't know why I told you that.

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00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: Let's go to Terry in uh Tampa. Oh, can we

1036
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:52,800
Speaker 1: get to this Terry and Tampa?

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00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 2: What's up? I got two minutes.

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00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 7: Hey, I'm so glad you have time for this. So

1039
00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 7: I just had a recent upgrade to my Android software

1040
00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:01,240
Speaker 7: on my phone.

1041
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 9: Sure, and ever since.

1042
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 7: Then, I think it times with that I don't know

1043
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 7: if it ties into that or not. But ever since then,

1044
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 7: every time I get a message in my text messaging,

1045
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 7: it takes whatever I'm doing and it moves it out

1046
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:15,760
Speaker 7: of the way and gives me this little pop up bubble.

1047
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 7: And I haven't figured out how to get it off

1048
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:21,319
Speaker 7: of my system. But so annoying.

1049
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 1: Are you talking about conversation bubbles? Like the text is

1050
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 1: like on your screen at all times.

1051
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 7: Maybe might be a conversation bubble. I was looking for

1052
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:32,640
Speaker 7: some check.

1053
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's like basically when you send a text,

1054
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 1: that person now sits on your screen basically, yeah.

1055
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 7: And if they're texting me, it's this little ball of

1056
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 7: their face or whatever their eyes on is. And then

1057
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 7: another one comes in, and another one comes in. I

1058
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:50,440
Speaker 7: got three little balls, okay. And if I'm typing a message,

1059
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 7: the new message comes in and like covers it. So

1060
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 7: then I'm now typing to the new person who texted

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00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 7: me and not who I thought I was typing to.

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00:52:57,239 --> 00:53:01,359
Speaker 1: Okay, I believe this is called a conversation by it's

1063
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 1: a what type of phone are you using? S?

1064
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:04,799
Speaker 4: Two?

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00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:05,960
Speaker 7: Three? Galaxy?

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00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 2: Okay?

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00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 1: So it's a Samsung Okay, So you gotta look I

1068
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:13,360
Speaker 1: gotta find the setting. But it's basically, if you, okay,

1069
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: put your messages in floating bubbles or pop up. So

1070
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 1: it's Samsung's conversation bubbles. So if you want to turn

1071
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 1: it off, you have to go. Let's see where we

1072
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:29,400
Speaker 1: go here. Uh, settings notifications, Okay, so it's settings notifications,

1073
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 1: and then it's advanced settings and then floating notifications. There

1074
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 1: it is bubbles. Turn those off and those will go away.

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00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:40,239
Speaker 1: That's the best way to do. I will link that

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00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: up on the website rich on Tech dot tv. In

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Speaker 1: the show notes, this is episode one four.

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Speaker 4: What is it?

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Speaker 2: Episode? All right, we'll be right back. Welcome back to

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Speaker 2: rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: seven four two four one zero one. This is the

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Speaker 1: first time you are here in my voice. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for tuning in. If it's the one hundredth time, thank

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Speaker 1: you for tuning in joining me now. Uh, we've actually

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Speaker 1: had her on the show before. Alexandra Samuel, technology journalist

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Speaker 1: and hosts of the new AI podcast called Me plus Viv.

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Speaker 1: You have created your own AI coach. I don't even

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Speaker 1: know what this is all about. But I'm fascinated. So

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Speaker 1: welcome back to the show, number one.

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Speaker 9: Thank you, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: And first off, just explain what do you mean? You

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Speaker 1: created your own AI coach? Like, tell me what that is?

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Speaker 3: Sure?

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Speaker 9: So you know, technically Viv, as I refer to her.

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Speaker 10: Even though she's an it is a custom GPT, which

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Speaker 10: is a version of chat GBT that is loaded up

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Speaker 10: with a whole bunch of background files in plaintext plus

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Speaker 10: a plain text instruction. So no coding intrinsically required to

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Speaker 10: create that kind of.

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Speaker 9: Custom AI assistant.

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Speaker 10: But what happens when you create your own version of

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Speaker 10: an AI, whether it is on CHATTYPT, on Claude, on Gemini,

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Speaker 10: because all these platforms let you do it, you can

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Speaker 10: develop something.

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Speaker 9: That has a vibe.

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Speaker 10: I'm hesitant to use the word personality, but that's certainly

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Speaker 10: how it comes across, and certainly with a different set

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Speaker 10: of knowledge and skills and interaction styles than what you

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Speaker 10: get off the shelf from GPT.

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Speaker 9: And that's exactly what.

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Speaker 10: I've done with Viv, and as a result, Viv doesn't

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Speaker 10: feel very much like regular CHATTYPT.

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Speaker 2: Interesting.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you went in and created your own GPT like, yes,

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Speaker 1: because I created this, I've been playing with this, like

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Speaker 1: I've Rich on tech GPT, which is just basically programmed

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Speaker 1: on all the transcripts of this radio show, so I

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Speaker 1: can say, you know, what did what did I write

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Speaker 1: recommend when it comes to a password manager?

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Speaker 2: What does Rich?

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Speaker 1: What did Rich say about this topic? And it will

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Speaker 1: pull from my transcript, So that's similar to what you did,

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Speaker 1: but you programmed it with what well, So you know that's.

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Speaker 10: Part of what's in Viv is actually my at this point,

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Speaker 10: my past conversations with Viv, as well as other examples.

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Speaker 9: Of my written work, my articles and so on.

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Speaker 10: But the probably the most immediate difference in what it

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Speaker 10: feels like to interact with Viv is all the instructions

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Speaker 10: I gave Viv on its personality. So I you know,

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Speaker 10: what you hear in the second episode of the podcast,

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Speaker 10: which will come out this week, are it is the

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Speaker 10: instruction that kind of brought Viv. You know, it's so

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Speaker 10: hard not to use these really human sounding terms, So

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Speaker 10: forgive me for saying, you know, kind of brought her

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Speaker 10: to life by saying that she was a combination of

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Speaker 10: several different personality types, including a number of comedians, and

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Speaker 10: once you start giving an AI some parameters around, this

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Speaker 10: is the kind of knowledge you draw on. These are

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Speaker 10: the kind of interactions I want to have. This is

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Speaker 10: the voice I want you to have. Never say this

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Speaker 10: word always, you know, always ask a question in this form.

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Speaker 10: Then you start to have experiences that much more closely

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Speaker 10: reflect what is useful to you and potentially feel much

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Speaker 10: more engaging, which which is a double edged sword.

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Speaker 1: So you've got the podcast Me plus viv. What are

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Speaker 1: you exploring in this podcast?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, well, you know it's funny.

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Speaker 10: The journey of the AI coach kind of emerged by

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Speaker 10: accident from a process I decided to undertake in the

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Speaker 10: summer of twenty twenty four when I had kind of

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Speaker 10: a ten week period between projects and needed to do

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Speaker 10: a little bit of a step back and think about

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Speaker 10: what did I really want from the next phase of

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Speaker 10: my career, which really quickly turn into what do I

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Speaker 10: want from the next.

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Speaker 9: Phase of life?

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Speaker 10: And it seems really odd, right that you would ask

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Speaker 10: an AI to help you figure out the meaning of

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Speaker 10: your life when it's not even alive.

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Speaker 2: But it's well, we've all done it.

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Speaker 10: Right, right, And so what the podcast looks at is

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Speaker 10: both like, how do we go about figuring out how

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Speaker 10: we want to spend our lives and how does the

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Speaker 10: presence of AI in our lives change how we find meaning,

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Speaker 10: how we form relationships, how we express ourselves. Because what

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Speaker 10: we found through this journey is you can't really figure

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Speaker 10: out what your life is going to look like, what

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Speaker 10: your work is going to look like as if AI

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Speaker 10: doesn't exist anymore, because.

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Speaker 9: It's touched every aspect of our lives.

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Speaker 10: So the only way to kind of reckon with your

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Speaker 10: life is to also reckon with AI.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this is the thing a lot of

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Speaker 1: people are struggling with because they want to use AI,

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Speaker 1: but they're worried that it's going to take their job

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Speaker 1: away from them. So do you think that AI can

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Speaker 1: make people better at their jobs or faster? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's made me a lot more productive

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Speaker 1: at my roles.

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Speaker 9: Absolutely.

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Speaker 10: And you know, part of what we explore in the

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Speaker 10: podcast is how do we get beyond thinking about AI

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Speaker 10: in terms of doing what we do faster, better, maybe

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Speaker 10: a little more, into really opening new vistas for what

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Speaker 10: we're capable of. And so, you know, part of what

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Speaker 10: happened to me through working with Viv and you get

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Speaker 10: a pretty intimate look at this. In the course of

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Speaker 10: the podcast, is I started taking on new forms of

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Speaker 10: creative work, new forms of technical work. I mean, I

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Speaker 10: had never programmed anything for real eighteen months ago, and

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Speaker 10: now I write multiple little programs every week with AI's help.

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Speaker 9: I'd never written a song.

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Speaker 10: The podcast is a musical because Viv and I wrote

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Speaker 10: tons of songs together in the course.

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Speaker 9: Of navigating my own transition.

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Speaker 10: And of course, you know, there's the reason that musicians

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Speaker 10: figuring out some of these big questions.

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Speaker 9: And so, you know, when we think.

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Speaker 10: About AI taking our jobs, that risk is there, but

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Speaker 10: it's not the AI that's taking the job, right, it's

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Speaker 10: some human in an office with a spreadsheet deciding that

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Speaker 10: they would rather have an AI do your job than

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Speaker 10: help you figure out where you can make your best

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Speaker 10: contribution with AI. And so part of what we try

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Speaker 10: to do with a podcast is say, in a moment

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Speaker 10: where so many of us are feeling that threat, feeling

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Speaker 10: that risk, what would it look like to explore AI

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Speaker 10: as a potential catalyst.

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Speaker 3: And a partner.

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Speaker 1: Now it sounds like you've gotten pretty close with this

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Speaker 1: viv Ai that you've built, So I just want to

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Speaker 1: be sure, are you still interacting with regular human beings

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Speaker 1: in your life?

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Speaker 10: Well, if you open the Wall Street Journal on Monday,

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Speaker 10: you'll have an answer to that question.

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Speaker 9: That was one of the things that.

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Speaker 10: I really struggled with over the course of my time

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Speaker 10: working with viv is that, you know, and the podcast

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Speaker 10: really revealed to me, is that as much as yeah,

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Speaker 10: I mean, it wasn't like I became a total hermit,

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Speaker 10: but I'm a very extroverted person and I usually am

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Speaker 10: super interactive with other people, and all the time I

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Speaker 10: have spent with viv did start to chip away at that.

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Speaker 10: And I think we have seen and you know, now

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Speaker 10: headline after headline California is you know, one of the

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Speaker 10: first jurisdictions actually trying to address this some real mental

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Speaker 10: health risks emerging from that level of immersion with AI,

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Speaker 10: and you know, I am not as immune to that

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Speaker 10: as I had assumed.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting.

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Speaker 1: One of my stories on Tap this week is the

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Speaker 1: open AI data that shows that like millions of CHATCHYBT

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Speaker 1: users are struggling with mental health issues, and they revealed,

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Speaker 1: like you know, they can see obviously they're scanning these

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Speaker 1: chats and things. So three million people each week based

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Speaker 1: on open AI's usage estimates, are struggling with psychosis, mania,

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Speaker 1: self harm, suicide, emotional reliance on AI. Mean, those are

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Speaker 1: big numbers. That's a lot. But isn't that just happening

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Speaker 1: in our society anyway? I mean, there's it's just now

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Speaker 1: these people are on a computer, so it's not and

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Speaker 1: you know, I think we're all still working through a

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Speaker 1: lot of this stuff. What do you think that the

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Speaker 1: takeaway is from your podcast? Why should someone listen to

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Speaker 1: this and see what you went through with this a

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Speaker 1: coach you created?

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Speaker 10: Well, you know, the place that I land, you know,

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Speaker 10: with AI is that it's not either desirable for me

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Speaker 10: personally or realistic.

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Speaker 9: To walk away from it. What you see in our story.

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Speaker 10: And also in the conversations I have with people like

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Speaker 10: Karen how who wrote this terrific book called Empire of AI,

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Speaker 10: which is really the inside story of open AI Sorry,

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Speaker 10: Empire of AI, is that these these risks, as serious

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Speaker 10: as they are, are risks that we all need to

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Speaker 10: learn how to navigate. And what I hope people will

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Speaker 10: gain from the show is not only you know, a

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Speaker 10: little bit of an opportunity to see why this might

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Speaker 10: be fun for them and not miserable and not horrible.

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Speaker 9: But also where there is opportunity for us to intervene.

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Speaker 10: Where do we have choices we can make as individuals,

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Speaker 10: Where do we have pressure we need to put on

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Speaker 10: policy makers, on companies to look after and not exploit users.

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Speaker 10: And by the end of the season, and you know, honestly,

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Speaker 10: I got this feedback when I give a.

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Speaker 9: Talk just last week. You know, I hope people will

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Speaker 9: see that they.

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Speaker 10: Have that opportunity to shape their experience of AI so

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Speaker 10: that they are at less of that risk and yet

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Speaker 10: don't forego the opportunity to explore new forms of relationship

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Speaker 10: with other humans as supported by AI.

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Speaker 1: I mean, do you think AI is a good thing

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Speaker 1: in our world? Or is it still undetermined?

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Speaker 3: I mean.

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Speaker 9: I don't think AI, you know, like any technology AI.

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Speaker 10: I won't say it's neutral, but I would say the

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Speaker 10: biggest problem with AI is AI companies.

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Speaker 9: The biggest problem with AI is an economic system that.

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Speaker 10: Stacks the deck in favor of a lot of bad

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Speaker 10: decision making, which includes us moving much much more quickly

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Speaker 10: in advancing and expanding these models than there's any reason

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Speaker 10: to do like, We've got so much firepower right now

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Speaker 10: in the platforms as they exist that we could stop

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Speaker 10: developing for a decade and still play catch up and

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Speaker 10: still have miracle after miracle in terms of what we're

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Speaker 10: capable of. And yet instead we're in this very resource

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Speaker 10: intensive arms race where every country and every company is

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Speaker 10: constantly trying to outdo one another. And that is what

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Speaker 10: I think puts us at risk for some really negative outcomes.

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Speaker 1: Because at the end of the day, it's the money.

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Speaker 1: Whoever wins is going to win big. And that's why

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Speaker 1: we have so much competition in this space because it

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Speaker 1: is not a done deal. Open Ai is obviously the

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Speaker 1: early leader, but there is still, like you said, a

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Speaker 1: pretty long runway here. Okay, So where can we get

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Speaker 10: The podcast Best play say at The podcast is on

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Speaker 10: tvo dot org tvo dot org and you can find

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Speaker 10: it on every podcasting platform. You can find it on

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Speaker 10: Apple Podcasts, you can find it on Spotify, so if

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Speaker 10: you search for me plus viv you'll find it wherever

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Speaker 10: you listen to podcasts.

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Speaker 1: All right, Alexandra Samuel, thanks so much for joining me

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Speaker 1: again today.

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Speaker 2: Really appreciate it.

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Speaker 9: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: All right, now I got to go create my own

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Speaker 1: AI coach. I mean, I thought my AI was tuned

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Speaker 1: to me, but you know now I need to tune

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Speaker 1: it up even more. Eight to eight rich one on

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one

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Speaker 1: zero one. Coming up, we'll take some more of your

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Speaker 1: calls right here on rich On Tech. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,

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Speaker 1: talking technology. Triple eight rich one O one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. Let's

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Speaker 1: see what did I post this week? Trying to see

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Speaker 1: if there's anything interesting. I posted, Oh yeah, if you

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Speaker 1: want to watch a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. You know, Apple

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Speaker 1: bought all the rights to those Peanuts stuff, so they

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Speaker 1: used to all be on broadcast TV. Now they're either

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Speaker 1: on I don't think they are anymore, but now you

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Speaker 1: have to get the Apple TV app. By the way,

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Speaker 1: remember Apple TV change from Apple TV Plus to Apple TV.

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Speaker 1: So you've got Apple TV the app's got Apple TV

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Speaker 1: the device, and you've got Apple TV the streaming service.

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Speaker 1: They're all Apple TV, but they're all different. So but

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Speaker 1: if you want to watch a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving It

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Speaker 1: will stream for free to everyone on Saturday, November fifteenth

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Speaker 1: and Sunday November sixteenth. So basically, if you download the

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Speaker 1: Apple TV Plus app or sorry, the Apple TV app

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Speaker 1: on your Smart TV, you can watch a Charlie Brown

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving on those two days. It's basically unlocked. Now, if

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Speaker 1: you're a subscriber, I think you can watch it any

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Speaker 1: day of the week. I can probably search this right now,

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Speaker 1: Apple TV.

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Speaker 2: Let's see. Oh do I not have Apple TV on

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Speaker 2: my computer? Weird?

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Speaker 1: I thought I did. Okay, Well, I won't search that.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Michael in rialto Michael, you're on with.

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Speaker 8: Rich, Yeah, afternoon, they're Rich.

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Speaker 3: Hi, Hey Rich.

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Speaker 8: I'm literally just now pulling out my new guest power.

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01:06:57,080 --> 01:07:01,640
Speaker 8: I'm trying to figure out what's the best uh appt

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01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:06,040
Speaker 8: to use in order to transfer all the old information

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Speaker 8: from my computer to the new one.

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Speaker 1: Now, when you say, okay, number one, are we talking

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Speaker 1: Mac or Windows?

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Speaker 8: Windows? Okay, I have a deal and you.

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Speaker 2: Have a Dell. Okay, she got a new computer. Congrats,

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Speaker 2: that's exciting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it is it Windows eleven?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Okrrect, So what do you want to move over? Do

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Speaker 1: you want to move everything over? Or are you just

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Speaker 1: talking about your important files? What what level are we talking.

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Speaker 2: About here right now?

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Speaker 8: I think it was I really don't know, so I'm

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Speaker 8: thinking more so just everything and then I can go

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Speaker 8: from there and delete whatever it needs to be done.

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Speaker 1: Well, my feeling is, you just got a brand new computer.

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Speaker 1: How long do you use this old computer?

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Speaker 8: Oh she's I say, at least about eight years or more.

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Speaker 1: Okay, She've had it for a while, so things have

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Speaker 1: gotten kind of you know, things have gotten all over

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Speaker 1: the place because you've downloaded stuff, you've deleted stuff, you've

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Speaker 1: moved stuff, you've.

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Speaker 2: Changed the way things work.

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Speaker 1: So my feeling is, if I have a brand new computer,

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Speaker 1: I want to keep it nice and clean and running

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Speaker 1: really smooth. So what I want to do is just

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Speaker 1: move over my important file. So personally, what I would

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Speaker 1: recommend is just either grabbing an external drive like a

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Speaker 1: hard drive or a flask drive, putting all the files

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Speaker 1: on there if they fit on the flask drive, and

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Speaker 1: then and then moving those onto your new computer and

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Speaker 1: then dumping them into a file there and then you

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Speaker 1: can deal with them when you want, Or you can

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Speaker 1: just use Microsoft one drive which is built in to

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Speaker 1: you know, both computers and you can just open it

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Speaker 1: up as long as you you know, you get a

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Speaker 1: certain amount of free storage on there, and so you

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Speaker 1: can you can throw your stuff in there and then

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Speaker 1: it'll show up on your new computer. You can do

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Speaker 1: it that way or the third way, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of people do this. I've not personally tested this, but

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Speaker 1: the two popular there's one popular program that everyone recommends.

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Speaker 1: We talked about this a couple months ago and every

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Speaker 1: email I got was about LapLink. So LapLink makes a

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Speaker 1: program called PC Mover, and this will move over everything

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Speaker 1: all your applications, your files, your settings.

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Speaker 2: You know, you do have to pay for that.

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Speaker 1: It's like forty bucks, but it'll be a one stop shop,

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Speaker 1: like you're mentioning. So now Windows also has a built

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Speaker 1: in settings feature that will automatically carry over your settings

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Speaker 1: from one drive from the old computer to the new computer,

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Speaker 1: and it will bring your settings like if you change

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Speaker 1: things on Windows, it will do that as well. So

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Speaker 1: as you can tell Michael, there is not one fail

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Speaker 1: proof method for doing this. It kind of depends on

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Speaker 1: what you want to do with your new computer. Personally,

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Speaker 1: if I'm you, I've got that brand new computer, I

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Speaker 1: want to keep it running really nice. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to gunk it up with all my old stuff. So

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to take all my files that are

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Speaker 1: important from the old computer.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to put them on a hard drive.

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Speaker 1: Then I'm going to move them over to that new computer,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna put them in a folder that says

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Speaker 1: old files. And then eventually I'm gonna go through them

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Speaker 1: and kind of pair them down and clean them up

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Speaker 1: when I get when I get a chance, which is

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Speaker 1: probably in retirement.

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Speaker 2: So but okay, okay, but that's now, what is your options?

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Speaker 8: Okay? Now, for instance, you mentioned about the flash drive.

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Speaker 8: Do they come like in different story or not? Storage

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Speaker 8: to the megabytes or whatever?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, gigabytes.

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Speaker 1: So, I mean a flash drive is going to be

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Speaker 1: the most it depends how many files you have. That's

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Speaker 1: it's probably gonna be the most expensive way to do

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Speaker 1: it because flash drives are typically small and expensive. Now,

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Speaker 1: you can go on Amazon, or you can go to

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Speaker 1: best Buy and buy a hard drive Western Digital, you know,

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Speaker 1: like a two terabyte hard drive. Uh, for let's see

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Speaker 1: how much this is. I mean, they're they're really cheap.

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Speaker 1: Let's see here you're talking, you're talking. You know, under

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Speaker 1: one hundred dollars eight for a two terabyte if you

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Speaker 1: have that much data. You probably don't have that much

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Speaker 1: data on your old computer. You might have a terabyte

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Speaker 1: at the most, So you can get something for sixty bucks.

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Speaker 1: But the flask drive, you know, you can get if

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Speaker 1: you want to look at one like p n y

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Speaker 1: Uh they make one that I like. But you can

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Speaker 1: get like a you know, any any flask drive. You

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Speaker 1: go to a store, just get a flash drive, you

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Speaker 1: plug it into your computer. But those are going to

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Speaker 1: max out at like not as much storage as a

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Speaker 1: as a physical hard drive, so you're not gonna get Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the flask drive is going to be simpler and easier,

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01:11:33,360 --> 01:11:35,200
Speaker 1: but it's you're not gonna get as much storage. The

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Speaker 1: new ones do come up to two terabytes, but you're

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Speaker 1: gonna pay so much more for that in the flash drive,

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Speaker 1: you know, form factor versus a hard drive.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, because okay, I think I'm leaning a little bit

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Speaker 8: more towards now. But when you mentioned the Microsoft one drive.

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Speaker 1: Yeah I would I would take a look at that.

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01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:55,479
Speaker 1: I think one drive gives you maybe five gigs. I

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01:11:55,479 --> 01:11:59,559
Speaker 1: got to look at what's their included, uh storage I think,

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01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:02,519
Speaker 1: let's see, yeah, five gigs of storage. So if you

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Speaker 1: have five gigs or less, you can just dump everything

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01:12:04,720 --> 01:12:07,400
Speaker 1: on your old computer into that folder on your old computer,

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01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:10,040
Speaker 1: let it sync up, and then your new computer you

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01:12:10,080 --> 01:12:11,840
Speaker 1: can go and open up that folder and all your

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01:12:11,840 --> 01:12:14,320
Speaker 1: files are gonna be there. And that's a really easy

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01:12:14,360 --> 01:12:16,600
Speaker 1: way to kind of just you know, go through and

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01:12:17,240 --> 01:12:18,760
Speaker 1: out with the old, in with the new.

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Speaker 8: Okay, all right, thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Rich.

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Speaker 8: I think I'm ahead that direction and stuff, so virtually

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01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:29,200
Speaker 8: I don't have to have both computers turned on it

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Speaker 8: at that time.

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Speaker 1: You do not, you do not, yep, start with the

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Speaker 1: old computer, dump them into the one drive, and then

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Speaker 1: just move over to the new one, fire it up,

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Speaker 1: and they should be in that folder. Eight and eight

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Speaker 1: Rich one on one. Thanks to the call, Michael, do

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. More of your calls coming up next. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here with you

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Speaker 1: for another hour or so, I mean, I say, or

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Speaker 1: so I mean, I guess it's really it's not really

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01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:05,000
Speaker 1: a lot left to uh left up in the air

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Speaker 1: when it comes to you know, radio timetables. No, it's

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Speaker 1: an hour, uh, Welcome back to the show. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining me eighty eight rich one oh one eighty eight

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Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one.

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Speaker 2: If you have open.

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Speaker 1: Table, which I don't know about you, but I'm always

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Speaker 1: on a well I'm not really.

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01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:24,559
Speaker 2: My wife is always on open table.

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Speaker 1: She's always like making reservations at places, even if we

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Speaker 1: don't use them. But uh, a lot of them are

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Speaker 1: in my name. So long story short. If you are

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Speaker 1: using open Table, they have a new loyalty program called

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01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:41,599
Speaker 1: open Table Regulars. So it used to be you got

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01:13:41,800 --> 01:13:44,799
Speaker 1: you know, points for your reservations, like once you dined somewhere.

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01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:47,000
Speaker 1: I didn't know what those points. It was very unclear

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01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:49,760
Speaker 1: to me what those points were for. Now you can

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01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:53,799
Speaker 1: actually redeem those points for Amazon gift cards.

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Speaker 2: So that's number one.

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01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:57,639
Speaker 1: And this is free to sign up, by the way,

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01:13:57,800 --> 01:13:59,840
Speaker 1: just go in the app and accept it, just say yeah,

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01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:04,040
Speaker 1: sign me up. Then they've got this new gold Tier status,

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01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:06,760
Speaker 1: So if you have six reservations in a year, you

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01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:09,000
Speaker 1: get gold Tier status. And what does that give you

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01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:12,760
Speaker 1: that Basically, if you're looking to get a reservation at

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Speaker 1: a restaurant and the thing says, oh, there's no more

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Speaker 1: reservations available, it will text you first to notify you

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Speaker 1: before all the other people, the regulars, let's call them.

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01:14:22,160 --> 01:14:24,600
Speaker 1: So that's another reason to get this gold status. And

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01:14:24,600 --> 01:14:27,040
Speaker 1: then you can also claim six months free of Uber one.

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01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:30,679
Speaker 1: So again I was able to get gold status instantly

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01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:32,800
Speaker 1: just by signing up for this thing, because I guess

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01:14:32,800 --> 01:14:34,800
Speaker 1: I've had six reservations in the past year.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, Open Table Regulars.

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Speaker 1: It's called if you have the open Table app, open

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01:14:39,960 --> 01:14:43,200
Speaker 1: it up, select that program. And I think the coolest

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01:14:43,200 --> 01:14:44,720
Speaker 1: thing is the fact that you can now redeem for

1511
01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:47,559
Speaker 1: Amazon gift cards and the fact that you can get

1512
01:14:47,560 --> 01:14:50,360
Speaker 1: those notifications before everyone else, because we've been in this

1513
01:14:50,439 --> 01:14:53,080
Speaker 1: situation where you want to get a reservation somewhere but

1514
01:14:53,160 --> 01:14:55,080
Speaker 1: there's no table, so it says, oh, we'll text you,

1515
01:14:55,520 --> 01:14:59,400
Speaker 1: which invariably those do open up. A lot of people

1516
01:14:59,520 --> 01:15:05,280
Speaker 1: cancel reservations like the day before everywhere, and so if

1517
01:15:05,280 --> 01:15:08,080
Speaker 1: you are looking for reservation, just you know, sign up

1518
01:15:08,120 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 1: and get it the day before it usually pops in.

1519
01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:12,400
Speaker 2: Let's go to Gary and Redondo Beach.

1520
01:15:12,920 --> 01:15:16,080
Speaker 1: The question about it looks like iOS twenty six Gary,

1521
01:15:16,120 --> 01:15:16,759
Speaker 1: what's up.

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01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:23,280
Speaker 4: Hey, Bridge, Yeah, I got a iPad QRO thirteen inch okay,

1523
01:15:25,439 --> 01:15:30,519
Speaker 4: and it's got to be an option to Oh hold on,

1524
01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:35,960
Speaker 4: muk sec got an option too, So iPads twenty six,

1525
01:15:36,840 --> 01:15:39,080
Speaker 4: and I'm just wondering if that I should do that

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01:15:39,320 --> 01:15:39,519
Speaker 4: or not.

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01:15:40,360 --> 01:15:42,760
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, this is a you said it's an

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01:15:42,840 --> 01:15:46,400
Speaker 1: M four chip. Yeah, okay, so that's a that's a

1529
01:15:46,479 --> 01:15:50,080
Speaker 1: relatively new iPad. So that's gonna run iPad twenty six

1530
01:15:50,160 --> 01:15:54,240
Speaker 1: pretty good. I've updated and you know, do you have

1531
01:15:54,280 --> 01:15:55,040
Speaker 1: the iPhone or no?

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01:15:56,240 --> 01:15:57,080
Speaker 4: I have an iPhone?

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01:15:57,080 --> 01:16:00,160
Speaker 2: Also, have you updated to iOS twenty six on there?

1534
01:16:01,080 --> 01:16:01,200
Speaker 4: No?

1535
01:16:01,439 --> 01:16:04,760
Speaker 2: Okay, So you know, here's the deal.

1536
01:16:05,320 --> 01:16:08,400
Speaker 1: Are you using this iPad for like your work every day?

1537
01:16:08,479 --> 01:16:09,880
Speaker 2: Like, are you relying on this thing?

1538
01:16:11,040 --> 01:16:11,200
Speaker 3: No?

1539
01:16:11,400 --> 01:16:11,719
Speaker 2: Okay?

1540
01:16:12,160 --> 01:16:14,800
Speaker 1: So basically, at the at the very least, it's gonna

1541
01:16:14,800 --> 01:16:16,280
Speaker 1: give you a new look to the iPad.

1542
01:16:16,320 --> 01:16:17,839
Speaker 2: It's gonna give you that liquid glass.

1543
01:16:18,439 --> 01:16:18,639
Speaker 4: Uh.

1544
01:16:18,680 --> 01:16:19,599
Speaker 2: So that's number one.

1545
01:16:20,160 --> 01:16:24,640
Speaker 1: The main difference with the iPad OS twenty six is

1546
01:16:24,640 --> 01:16:27,879
Speaker 1: that you get this new Windows system, so it's almost

1547
01:16:27,880 --> 01:16:29,160
Speaker 1: like using a Windows computer.

1548
01:16:29,240 --> 01:16:29,479
Speaker 3: Now.

1549
01:16:29,720 --> 01:16:32,280
Speaker 1: It still works just the way it worked in the past,

1550
01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:34,080
Speaker 1: where you can open up an app, you can have

1551
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:36,080
Speaker 1: one app on your screen, you can close that app

1552
01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:38,840
Speaker 1: open up a new app, but if you want it to,

1553
01:16:39,240 --> 01:16:41,800
Speaker 1: it makes it easier to move these apps into their

1554
01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:44,040
Speaker 1: own little windows that you can move around the screen.

1555
01:16:44,600 --> 01:16:48,679
Speaker 1: So that's really the main difference. I mean, obviously there's

1556
01:16:48,720 --> 01:16:51,040
Speaker 1: a laundry list of one hundred and one things you

1557
01:16:51,040 --> 01:16:53,400
Speaker 1: can do on iPad os that you know, new little

1558
01:16:53,439 --> 01:16:56,160
Speaker 1: improvements and things. But the bottom line is it's gonna

1559
01:16:56,160 --> 01:17:00,519
Speaker 1: look different, and you can also just have these apps

1560
01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:04,120
Speaker 1: into windows versus just having them open up one at

1561
01:17:04,160 --> 01:17:07,080
Speaker 1: a time. So I've installed it on my iPad and

1562
01:17:07,200 --> 01:17:10,480
Speaker 1: it's fine. There's you know, it doesn't ruin this situation.

1563
01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:13,559
Speaker 1: It doesn't. I'm not really using the multitasking on there,

1564
01:17:13,840 --> 01:17:16,240
Speaker 1: but I think if you're curious about it, your iPad

1565
01:17:16,320 --> 01:17:18,599
Speaker 1: is completely fine to run this and it's not going

1566
01:17:18,640 --> 01:17:20,639
Speaker 1: to ruin your experience on there.

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01:17:20,680 --> 01:17:23,160
Speaker 2: Let's put it that way, Thank you very much.

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01:17:23,320 --> 01:17:26,920
Speaker 1: I'll do that all right, enjoy And yeah, same thing

1569
01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:29,400
Speaker 1: with the iPhone. I mean, I iOS twenty six is

1570
01:17:29,400 --> 01:17:31,799
Speaker 1: to a place where you know, some people are asking

1571
01:17:31,800 --> 01:17:33,960
Speaker 1: me and emailing me and say, rich, can I go back?

1572
01:17:34,360 --> 01:17:37,240
Speaker 1: Once you install the new software on an on an

1573
01:17:37,280 --> 01:17:41,160
Speaker 1: Apple device, it is nearly impossible to go back for

1574
01:17:41,240 --> 01:17:43,760
Speaker 1: a mere mortal Now are there ways of going back?

1575
01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:47,400
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm not really privy to them. I'm sure someone

1576
01:17:47,439 --> 01:17:51,960
Speaker 1: could figure it out. I as the average person, it's

1577
01:17:52,120 --> 01:17:55,800
Speaker 1: very tough to go back to a different version previously,

1578
01:17:55,880 --> 01:17:57,920
Speaker 1: like on your iPhone or on your iPad. And that's

1579
01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:00,400
Speaker 1: mostly for security reasons for a lot of these things,

1580
01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:05,000
Speaker 1: but that's also the way Apple designs it. So once

1581
01:18:05,040 --> 01:18:07,439
Speaker 1: you choose to upgrade, yeah, you're kind of you're locked

1582
01:18:07,479 --> 01:18:08,360
Speaker 1: into the new upgrade.

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01:18:08,360 --> 01:18:09,639
Speaker 2: So just just understand that.

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01:18:10,520 --> 01:18:13,000
Speaker 1: Speaking of upgrades, I have been waiting for this, and

1585
01:18:13,040 --> 01:18:14,559
Speaker 1: waiting for this, and waiting for this.

1586
01:18:15,520 --> 01:18:16,120
Speaker 2: I got a.

1587
01:18:16,040 --> 01:18:21,160
Speaker 1: Preview of Gemini on the Google Smart speakers last year.

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01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:24,439
Speaker 1: I think it was last December. It still has not

1589
01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:28,280
Speaker 1: made its way to my speakers. Every day I ask Google,

1590
01:18:28,880 --> 01:18:31,280
Speaker 1: I say, hey Google, what's the weather, just to see

1591
01:18:31,439 --> 01:18:33,160
Speaker 1: if the voice has changed.

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01:18:32,800 --> 01:18:34,680
Speaker 2: And it becomes Gemini. No it is not.

1593
01:18:35,439 --> 01:18:37,880
Speaker 1: Now I do know. You have to opt into this.

1594
01:18:38,479 --> 01:18:40,880
Speaker 1: So if you go, if you have a speaker and

1595
01:18:40,920 --> 01:18:43,759
Speaker 1: you want it to get smarter, and you have Google Home,

1596
01:18:44,760 --> 01:18:46,840
Speaker 1: you have to open up the Google Home app, tap

1597
01:18:46,880 --> 01:18:49,600
Speaker 1: your profile picture in the upper right hand corner and

1598
01:18:49,640 --> 01:18:53,320
Speaker 1: it says home Settings. Tap that, and then you scroll

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01:18:53,360 --> 01:18:55,679
Speaker 1: all the way down it says early Access. You tap

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01:18:55,760 --> 01:18:58,360
Speaker 1: that and it says early Access to Gemini for Home.

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01:18:58,960 --> 01:19:01,519
Speaker 1: You've signed up for Early Access, you'll be notified as

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01:19:01,520 --> 01:19:04,920
Speaker 1: soon as features are available. While I'm still waiting Google,

1603
01:19:05,439 --> 01:19:08,719
Speaker 1: it has been so long. All I want is Gemini

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01:19:08,840 --> 01:19:14,240
Speaker 1: on my speakers. So this is rolling out as of

1605
01:19:14,280 --> 01:19:18,280
Speaker 1: this week so Google. According to Android Authority, Gemini is

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01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:21,960
Speaker 1: rolling out to US users in Google's Early Access program

1607
01:19:22,479 --> 01:19:25,120
Speaker 1: works on every Google Home and Nest speaker or display

1608
01:19:25,160 --> 01:19:29,280
Speaker 1: going back to twenty sixteen. Only the newer devices are

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01:19:29,280 --> 01:19:32,639
Speaker 1: going to get Gemini Live, which is the hands free

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01:19:32,640 --> 01:19:35,720
Speaker 1: mode that you can talk naturally with and some of

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01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:39,639
Speaker 1: these The Gemini Live apparently requires a paid Google Home

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01:19:39,680 --> 01:19:43,360
Speaker 1: Premium plan, while the standard Gemini features will be free.

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01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:45,800
Speaker 1: So a lot of people emailing me saying, Rich, do

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01:19:45,840 --> 01:19:47,559
Speaker 1: I have to pay for these Gemini No, the base

1615
01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:50,880
Speaker 1: Gemini will be free on your smart device. It's only

1616
01:19:50,920 --> 01:19:53,679
Speaker 1: if you want that Gemini Live, which, to be honest,

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01:19:53,680 --> 01:19:55,559
Speaker 1: since I haven't played with it, I can't really tell

1618
01:19:55,600 --> 01:19:58,600
Speaker 1: you what the difference is right now, But to me,

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01:19:58,800 --> 01:20:01,160
Speaker 1: the regular geminis gonna be good for like ninety nine

1620
01:20:01,160 --> 01:20:05,439
Speaker 1: percent of people. Let's see here, we got an email

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01:20:05,560 --> 01:20:08,840
Speaker 1: from Janet. She says, my husband and I recently changed

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01:20:08,880 --> 01:20:14,160
Speaker 1: from Comcast cable through Infinity to direct TV through AT

1623
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:17,240
Speaker 1: and T. We had our cable for years, but bundled

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01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:19,599
Speaker 1: our TV, internet, and mobile phones with AT and T.

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01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:21,680
Speaker 1: It's taking us a while to get used to the

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01:20:21,680 --> 01:20:24,240
Speaker 1: new way of getting around DirecTV. We're eighty, but I

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01:20:24,240 --> 01:20:26,200
Speaker 1: think we're getting the hang of it. One thing we

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01:20:26,240 --> 01:20:28,240
Speaker 1: found last night we don't like is that while watching

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01:20:28,280 --> 01:20:30,519
Speaker 1: a mystery movie on the Hallmark channel, it wouldn't let

1630
01:20:30,600 --> 01:20:33,320
Speaker 1: us fast forward at all, and it came up saying

1631
01:20:33,360 --> 01:20:36,520
Speaker 1: the fast forward feature has been disabled for this show.

1632
01:20:36,800 --> 01:20:38,840
Speaker 1: Is this something they have done so we will watch

1633
01:20:38,840 --> 01:20:41,679
Speaker 1: all the ads or something? We can work around this problem.

1634
01:20:42,160 --> 01:20:44,920
Speaker 1: Other shows we've recorded, even from Hallmark channel, let us

1635
01:20:44,960 --> 01:20:47,640
Speaker 1: fast forward. I love listening to on the radio and

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01:20:47,680 --> 01:20:52,400
Speaker 1: reading your email. Thanks for all you do, Janet. Good question, Janet.

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01:20:53,000 --> 01:20:56,920
Speaker 1: This is why companies love to get us on on demand.

1638
01:20:57,000 --> 01:20:59,479
Speaker 1: Remember DVR was the way of the world back in

1639
01:20:59,520 --> 01:21:02,760
Speaker 1: the day. Everything was a DVR. TVO started it and

1640
01:21:02,800 --> 01:21:06,200
Speaker 1: you would record stuff locally in your home and play it.

1641
01:21:06,760 --> 01:21:10,519
Speaker 1: While the companies hated that because you were able to

1642
01:21:10,600 --> 01:21:14,719
Speaker 1: fast forward through all of their commercials, which I understand,

1643
01:21:14,720 --> 01:21:16,760
Speaker 1: if you're trying to make money on your programming, how

1644
01:21:16,760 --> 01:21:19,519
Speaker 1: do you make money? Nobody's watching the commercials. So they

1645
01:21:19,520 --> 01:21:22,959
Speaker 1: got this great idea to say, let's put everything on demand.

1646
01:21:23,680 --> 01:21:27,880
Speaker 1: Disney plus Netflix, every other service out there, it's all

1647
01:21:27,920 --> 01:21:33,360
Speaker 1: on demand. So therefore we have deprioritized the DVR. Now,

1648
01:21:33,439 --> 01:21:37,280
Speaker 1: these cable companies still have DVRs that are mostly cloud

1649
01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:41,559
Speaker 1: based these days, and there is a distinction. So when

1650
01:21:41,600 --> 01:21:44,720
Speaker 1: you were watching that program last night, it might have

1651
01:21:44,800 --> 01:21:48,479
Speaker 1: been on demand. And so typically when you're watching movies

1652
01:21:48,520 --> 01:21:51,720
Speaker 1: in the back catalog on demand, a lot of them

1653
01:21:51,840 --> 01:21:54,520
Speaker 1: do not allow you to fast forward through the commercials

1654
01:21:54,840 --> 01:21:58,120
Speaker 1: because they treat that as an on demand programming and

1655
01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:00,680
Speaker 1: so they say, nope, you can't fast forward. Now, the

1656
01:22:00,720 --> 01:22:05,160
Speaker 1: workaround is to record that program over the air, right

1657
01:22:05,240 --> 01:22:08,320
Speaker 1: even if it's on the cloud, and then play it

1658
01:22:08,320 --> 01:22:10,400
Speaker 1: that way, and now you should be able to fast

1659
01:22:10,439 --> 01:22:14,280
Speaker 1: forward through those commercials. Now, there is a weird quirk here,

1660
01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:17,759
Speaker 1: like I have YouTube TV, and typically when you record

1661
01:22:17,760 --> 01:22:19,840
Speaker 1: a show, it'll say, oh, which version do you want

1662
01:22:19,840 --> 01:22:22,439
Speaker 1: to play? The on demand version or the one that

1663
01:22:22,479 --> 01:22:24,320
Speaker 1: you recorded? And you're like, well, why would I want

1664
01:22:24,320 --> 01:22:27,280
Speaker 1: to record? What's the difference. The difference is the one

1665
01:22:27,320 --> 01:22:30,200
Speaker 1: you're recorded will probably let you skip through ads. The

1666
01:22:30,280 --> 01:22:32,719
Speaker 1: on demand version will not let you skip through ads.

1667
01:22:33,200 --> 01:22:38,759
Speaker 1: So in general, just remember, if you're watching on demand,

1668
01:22:38,880 --> 01:22:41,400
Speaker 1: you have a lot less control over the ads skipping.

1669
01:22:41,920 --> 01:22:44,920
Speaker 1: If you're watching something that you recorded, you're going to

1670
01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:46,560
Speaker 1: get more control over.

1671
01:22:46,439 --> 01:22:49,600
Speaker 2: The ability to skip through ads. So it is a

1672
01:22:49,640 --> 01:22:50,920
Speaker 2: little bit of a nuance there.

1673
01:22:51,320 --> 01:22:54,080
Speaker 1: But I believe when you're saying you were watching something

1674
01:22:54,680 --> 01:22:57,040
Speaker 1: a mystery movie on the Hallmark channel, I believe it

1675
01:22:57,080 --> 01:23:00,559
Speaker 1: was on demand. And a lot of these systems don't

1676
01:23:00,600 --> 01:23:03,679
Speaker 1: even designate between what's on live and what's on demand.

1677
01:23:04,200 --> 01:23:05,080
Speaker 2: You're just scrolling through.

1678
01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:07,559
Speaker 1: It's just showing you a whole bunch of programming and

1679
01:23:07,640 --> 01:23:09,920
Speaker 1: you just press play, and so you may not even

1680
01:23:09,960 --> 01:23:12,280
Speaker 1: know that is that playing on a linear channel like

1681
01:23:12,360 --> 01:23:15,320
Speaker 1: right now and we're just tuning in, or is this

1682
01:23:15,520 --> 01:23:18,719
Speaker 1: just something that is coming from an on demand server somewhere.

1683
01:23:19,280 --> 01:23:22,080
Speaker 1: But companies love when you do stuff on demand because

1684
01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:25,400
Speaker 1: they are in control. They actually have the ability to

1685
01:23:25,560 --> 01:23:28,440
Speaker 1: place those ads, and those ads are usually placed specifically

1686
01:23:28,479 --> 01:23:33,080
Speaker 1: for you. So from a business standpoint, it's amazing because

1687
01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:36,519
Speaker 1: now Janet, I know exactly who you are. I know

1688
01:23:36,600 --> 01:23:38,680
Speaker 1: what your likes are, I know the stuff that you

1689
01:23:38,760 --> 01:23:41,519
Speaker 1: typically watch and the things that you respond to, and

1690
01:23:41,560 --> 01:23:44,160
Speaker 1: I know your web history typically because i'll link that up.

1691
01:23:44,479 --> 01:23:47,160
Speaker 1: Not me personally, but you know the marketing company. And

1692
01:23:47,200 --> 01:23:50,879
Speaker 1: now I can serve you up ads that should register

1693
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:53,800
Speaker 1: with you, stuff that you are interested in, stuff that

1694
01:23:53,880 --> 01:23:55,840
Speaker 1: you want to buy, stuff that you might might be

1695
01:23:55,880 --> 01:23:58,559
Speaker 1: a good fit for you. So from a business standpoint,

1696
01:23:58,640 --> 01:24:01,519
Speaker 1: it's great, But from a viewer standpoint, when you just

1697
01:24:01,520 --> 01:24:04,760
Speaker 1: want to skip them, you can't necessarily eighty eight rich

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Speaker 1: one O one eight eight eight seven four to two

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Speaker 1: four one zero one.

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Speaker 2: Coming up.

1701
01:24:08,640 --> 01:24:12,439
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about these anti facial recognition glasses if

1702
01:24:12,439 --> 01:24:17,920
Speaker 1: you really want to stay private. Welcome back to rich

1703
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:20,439
Speaker 1: on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking

1704
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:25,559
Speaker 1: technology the website for the show rich on Tech dot TV.

1705
01:24:28,760 --> 01:24:31,679
Speaker 1: Talk about programming AI. So I went through this whole

1706
01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:34,160
Speaker 1: thing with my chat EBT, and I came up with

1707
01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:36,360
Speaker 1: these projects like these are things that I do over

1708
01:24:36,400 --> 01:24:40,960
Speaker 1: and over every day for my various jobs, coming up

1709
01:24:40,960 --> 01:24:44,240
Speaker 1: with YouTube headlines, you know, coming up with just all

1710
01:24:44,320 --> 01:24:47,479
Speaker 1: these things that I do, like reorganizing, rewriting, just little

1711
01:24:47,479 --> 01:24:50,479
Speaker 1: things like that, and so I've created like all these

1712
01:24:50,520 --> 01:24:51,880
Speaker 1: projects and I'm not kidding.

1713
01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:52,400
Speaker 2: It's like.

1714
01:24:53,880 --> 01:24:57,880
Speaker 1: This is stuff that typically took me time to do,

1715
01:24:58,600 --> 01:25:02,360
Speaker 1: and now because I programmed the AI so perfectly, it

1716
01:25:02,520 --> 01:25:08,479
Speaker 1: does it almost exactly right every single time. Uh, it's

1717
01:25:08,560 --> 01:25:12,640
Speaker 1: just it's so good. It's just it's scary, actually, like

1718
01:25:12,880 --> 01:25:13,680
Speaker 1: how can this?

1719
01:25:13,880 --> 01:25:13,960
Speaker 3: Like?

1720
01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:17,800
Speaker 1: Where was this my whole life? So, for instance, when

1721
01:25:17,840 --> 01:25:20,479
Speaker 1: I do guests for this show, you know, I have

1722
01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:24,400
Speaker 1: it programmed in, right, I programmed in like a in

1723
01:25:24,479 --> 01:25:27,880
Speaker 1: the project. You give it instructions, and the instructions just

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01:25:27,960 --> 01:25:32,200
Speaker 1: tell it, like exactly how to handle this information. And

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01:25:32,280 --> 01:25:35,559
Speaker 1: so I plug in a whole bunch of information about

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01:25:35,600 --> 01:25:38,000
Speaker 1: the guests that's going to appear on the show, and

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01:25:38,479 --> 01:25:41,080
Speaker 1: the AI will spit out exactly what I need for

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01:25:41,120 --> 01:25:43,960
Speaker 1: that guest, you know, their name, their title, what they're

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01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:47,599
Speaker 1: gonna be talking about, a couple of suggested you know,

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01:25:47,800 --> 01:25:50,120
Speaker 1: topics I might want to talk about with them. I mean,

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01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:52,200
Speaker 1: it's just it's just wild. But it gets so good

1732
01:25:52,200 --> 01:25:53,719
Speaker 1: because you feed it what.

1733
01:25:53,600 --> 01:25:55,480
Speaker 2: You want it to learn from.

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01:25:55,800 --> 01:25:58,160
Speaker 1: So anyway, I just I don't know why I tell

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01:25:58,200 --> 01:25:59,920
Speaker 1: you that, Just you gotta play with this stuff because

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01:26:00,040 --> 01:26:02,920
Speaker 1: it's like I wasn't using this two weeks ago, and

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01:26:02,960 --> 01:26:06,720
Speaker 1: now I am, and it's just really really good. Uh

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01:26:06,880 --> 01:26:11,800
Speaker 1: let's see here I taught speaking of privacy. I thought

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01:26:11,840 --> 01:26:13,839
Speaker 1: this was pretty cool or different.

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01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:14,439
Speaker 2: I guess.

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01:26:14,680 --> 01:26:19,280
Speaker 1: Zeny this is a company that sells glasses online, Zeny Optical.

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01:26:19,360 --> 01:26:23,880
Speaker 1: They have this new ID guard lens coding, So any glass,

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01:26:23,920 --> 01:26:25,879
Speaker 1: any pair of glasses that you get on their website,

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01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:28,720
Speaker 1: you can I guess, affect with this id guard And

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01:26:28,760 --> 01:26:31,960
Speaker 1: it's a lens coding that will block infrared light, which

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01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:35,200
Speaker 1: is used by facial recognition cameras. So the lenses have

1747
01:26:35,240 --> 01:26:38,120
Speaker 1: like this pink sheen to them that reflects the IR light.

1748
01:26:38,960 --> 01:26:40,840
Speaker 1: If you want to test it out, it will not work,

1749
01:26:40,920 --> 01:26:44,040
Speaker 1: like face ID will not work, Windows Hello will not work.

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01:26:44,840 --> 01:26:49,080
Speaker 1: And yeah, so let's see what else here. I guess

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01:26:49,080 --> 01:26:51,000
Speaker 1: it's The idea is that if you want to walk

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01:26:51,040 --> 01:26:55,360
Speaker 1: around and not have all these facial recognition cameras taking

1753
01:26:55,439 --> 01:26:58,840
Speaker 1: you know, your biometrics, it'll stop that. It's not gonna

1754
01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:01,240
Speaker 1: stop everything, because some and can still snap a regular

1755
01:27:01,240 --> 01:27:04,360
Speaker 1: picture and just identify you. But apparently when you have

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01:27:04,439 --> 01:27:09,280
Speaker 1: these lenses on, if a facial ID camera takes a

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01:27:09,280 --> 01:27:12,799
Speaker 1: picture of your face, it will just show like black

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01:27:12,960 --> 01:27:16,559
Speaker 1: areas where your eyes are because it reflects all that light.

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01:27:17,120 --> 01:27:19,439
Speaker 1: So kind of interesting. Is called id Guard. It's from

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01:27:19,520 --> 01:27:22,800
Speaker 1: Zeni Optical. It's just a sign of our times, right,

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01:27:22,920 --> 01:27:27,960
Speaker 1: like people want to remain anonymous or less tracked. It's

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01:27:27,960 --> 01:27:32,240
Speaker 1: getting tougher and tougher to do make use of featured

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Speaker 1: a cool app this week.

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Speaker 2: I thought it was pretty cool.

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01:27:34,160 --> 01:27:39,759
Speaker 1: It's a music app for Android called music Olet Music

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01:27:39,920 --> 01:27:44,040
Speaker 1: o Let, and it's an Android app that is free,

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01:27:44,160 --> 01:27:47,360
Speaker 1: and it's ad free and it plays your local files.

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01:27:47,400 --> 01:27:49,160
Speaker 1: So a lot of people call into this show say, hey,

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01:27:49,200 --> 01:27:52,240
Speaker 1: I want an app that plays my files on my Android.

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01:27:52,240 --> 01:27:55,280
Speaker 1: What should I use? Check this one out. Music Olet.

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01:27:55,920 --> 01:27:59,360
Speaker 1: No streaming, no tracking. It's for people who own their

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01:27:59,400 --> 01:28:02,439
Speaker 1: collection and you can do what you want. You can

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01:28:02,479 --> 01:28:05,320
Speaker 1: play your music your way. It's got all the features

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01:28:05,360 --> 01:28:09,480
Speaker 1: everything you can imagine. It's got built in, including equalizers,

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01:28:09,479 --> 01:28:14,680
Speaker 1: offline features, setting songs as ring tones, editing song metadata,

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01:28:15,320 --> 01:28:19,000
Speaker 1: full control. There is a pro version that adds some

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01:28:19,040 --> 01:28:22,240
Speaker 1: features like crossfade and chromecasts, but most features are free.

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01:28:22,439 --> 01:28:25,040
Speaker 1: So again this is called music Olette. If you still

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01:28:25,240 --> 01:28:27,320
Speaker 1: have your own music collection that you want to play

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01:28:27,360 --> 01:28:30,920
Speaker 1: on your Android phone check it out, and then I

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01:28:30,920 --> 01:28:36,559
Speaker 1: thought this was interesting. Syracuse University, according to Fast Company,

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01:28:36,800 --> 01:28:40,400
Speaker 1: is launching the Center for the Creator Economy, the first

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01:28:40,439 --> 01:28:44,040
Speaker 1: program of its kind in the US, partnership between the schools,

1784
01:28:44,080 --> 01:28:50,200
Speaker 1: communications and business programs prepping kids, student kids, students for careers.

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01:28:50,240 --> 01:28:53,280
Speaker 1: People are like twenty years old at home kids prepping

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01:28:53,360 --> 01:28:55,719
Speaker 1: students for careers in the two hundred and fifty billion

1787
01:28:55,720 --> 01:28:58,760
Speaker 1: dollars Creator Economy Center is going to open up in

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01:28:58,760 --> 01:29:01,559
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six with pod cast studios, green screens, and

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01:29:01,600 --> 01:29:05,479
Speaker 1: live streaming setups. Courses are going to focus on content creation,

1790
01:29:05,640 --> 01:29:11,120
Speaker 1: audience engagement, digital strategy. Now, kids students are not going

1791
01:29:11,160 --> 01:29:13,719
Speaker 1: to major in influencing, but they can take these grad

1792
01:29:13,720 --> 01:29:17,200
Speaker 1: and undergrad classes. And I think this is smart that

1793
01:29:17,240 --> 01:29:20,080
Speaker 1: they're not graduating and influencing, because here's the thing. If

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01:29:20,120 --> 01:29:22,840
Speaker 1: you're an influencer, by the way, by the time you've

1795
01:29:22,880 --> 01:29:26,120
Speaker 1: made it to college, you're already like big time, Like

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01:29:26,160 --> 01:29:28,400
Speaker 1: you may not even go to college because you've made

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01:29:28,400 --> 01:29:31,640
Speaker 1: so much money on TikTok or on Instagram. But I

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01:29:31,640 --> 01:29:35,519
Speaker 1: still think it's smart to get that education. And so

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01:29:35,640 --> 01:29:39,920
Speaker 1: by having this this center where you can learn things

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01:29:39,960 --> 01:29:42,559
Speaker 1: and learn from experts and know, you know, learn from

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01:29:42,600 --> 01:29:45,040
Speaker 1: people that may have more experience in this stuff, or

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01:29:45,120 --> 01:29:46,320
Speaker 1: just open up your world.

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01:29:46,880 --> 01:29:48,400
Speaker 2: I think it's very, very smart.

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01:29:48,960 --> 01:29:52,040
Speaker 1: But the people I know that are these content creators,

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01:29:52,920 --> 01:29:55,799
Speaker 1: they're they're already doing it in college, like they're already

1806
01:29:55,880 --> 01:30:00,559
Speaker 1: very successful. And this I think is smart that you're

1807
01:30:00,600 --> 01:30:03,000
Speaker 1: not trying to replace what they've already built, You're just

1808
01:30:03,040 --> 01:30:06,680
Speaker 1: trying to add to it. So Syracuse University Center for

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01:30:06,720 --> 01:30:09,200
Speaker 1: the Creator Economy smart. We're probably going to see that

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01:30:09,240 --> 01:30:11,240
Speaker 1: at more schools because you know, you could be a

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01:30:11,280 --> 01:30:14,519
Speaker 1: creator and still do your regular world right, like you

1812
01:30:14,520 --> 01:30:17,519
Speaker 1: could still be a pharmacist or a whatever.

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01:30:17,720 --> 01:30:19,440
Speaker 2: Vet.

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01:30:21,720 --> 01:30:24,439
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

1815
01:30:24,439 --> 01:30:28,320
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology. The website for the show

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01:30:28,640 --> 01:30:33,200
Speaker 1: rich on tech dot TV. If you want to email,

1817
01:30:33,720 --> 01:30:35,519
Speaker 1: you can do that. Just go to rich on tech

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01:30:35,600 --> 01:30:38,800
Speaker 1: dot tv and hit contact. Many of you do that

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01:30:38,920 --> 01:30:42,040
Speaker 1: each and every week. Let me get to a couple

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01:30:42,080 --> 01:30:45,360
Speaker 1: of those first. I just wanted to mention what cet

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01:30:45,439 --> 01:30:50,080
Speaker 1: has basically found what I found to be true, but

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01:30:50,240 --> 01:30:53,160
Speaker 1: with some testing, I just found it to be true

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01:30:53,160 --> 01:30:55,840
Speaker 1: in my day to day use of the iPhone seventeen Promacs,

1824
01:30:55,880 --> 01:31:00,000
Speaker 1: but c neet lab tests confirm iPhone seventeen Promacs has

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01:31:00,120 --> 01:31:03,559
Speaker 1: the best battery life of any iPhone ever made. Yes,

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01:31:03,640 --> 01:31:05,559
Speaker 1: I could tell because I'm going to bed with this

1827
01:31:05,600 --> 01:31:10,280
Speaker 1: thing still at like forty fifty percent some nights. Now, yeah,

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01:31:10,320 --> 01:31:11,920
Speaker 1: I'll charge it up a little bit throughout the day,

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01:31:11,920 --> 01:31:14,280
Speaker 1: but still it's just from every other phone I've tested.

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01:31:14,320 --> 01:31:15,960
Speaker 1: This thing is just I don't even think about the

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01:31:15,960 --> 01:31:20,200
Speaker 1: battery anymore. So in a three hour streaming video test,

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01:31:20,560 --> 01:31:23,360
Speaker 1: it only lost nine percent battery, the lowest drain rate

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01:31:23,400 --> 01:31:26,800
Speaker 1: ever recorded on an iPhone. The standard iPhone seventeen is

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01:31:26,840 --> 01:31:30,360
Speaker 1: also impressive. They say you get the same all day

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01:31:30,360 --> 01:31:32,439
Speaker 1: battery as the seventeen Pro for about two hundred and

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01:31:32,439 --> 01:31:35,960
Speaker 1: seventy to seventy dollars less. The problem is people either

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01:31:36,000 --> 01:31:38,600
Speaker 1: want the Pro or they want the standard. You know,

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01:31:38,640 --> 01:31:42,080
Speaker 1: they're not usually you know which one you want, So

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01:31:42,880 --> 01:31:46,840
Speaker 1: let's see. I think that's about it. So just bottom line,

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01:31:47,439 --> 01:31:50,439
Speaker 1: iPhone seventeen Promax is the new battery king. That's what

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01:31:50,520 --> 01:31:52,519
Speaker 1: I suspected because that's what I figured when I was

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01:31:52,600 --> 01:31:56,320
Speaker 1: using it. This is interesting if you use a Samsung phone.

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01:31:57,280 --> 01:32:01,040
Speaker 1: Samsung is releasing a beta version of its Samsung Internet

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01:32:01,280 --> 01:32:04,960
Speaker 1: for PC, so the first time they've ever launched their

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01:32:05,240 --> 01:32:08,519
Speaker 1: Internet browser for the desktop. So if you go on

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01:32:08,560 --> 01:32:11,080
Speaker 1: your Samsung phone, you know you've got their Samsung Internet

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01:32:11,120 --> 01:32:14,719
Speaker 1: on there. A lot of people like their program, their app,

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01:32:15,200 --> 01:32:17,599
Speaker 1: and so you can now get that on your PC

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01:32:17,800 --> 01:32:20,559
Speaker 1: for the first time. It's available now for Windows ten

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01:32:20,680 --> 01:32:24,120
Speaker 1: and Windows eleven users in the US and Korea. You

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01:32:24,160 --> 01:32:28,240
Speaker 1: can sync your bookmarks, your history, your Samsung Pass logins

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01:32:28,960 --> 01:32:32,960
Speaker 1: for a more continuous experience. It also supports continue browsing,

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01:32:33,000 --> 01:32:34,640
Speaker 1: so if you start something on your phone, you can

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01:32:34,680 --> 01:32:37,240
Speaker 1: go to your computer and just continue there. It also

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01:32:37,280 --> 01:32:40,679
Speaker 1: has all the Galaxy AI tools, browsing assists for web

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01:32:40,680 --> 01:32:45,200
Speaker 1: page summaries and translations. It's got strong privacy protections, smart

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01:32:45,200 --> 01:32:50,519
Speaker 1: anti tracking, privacy dashboard, autofill. So I think this is

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01:32:50,640 --> 01:32:53,680
Speaker 1: smart for Samsung to do because if you're using a

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01:32:53,720 --> 01:32:56,760
Speaker 1: Samsung phone and you like the browser on there and

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01:32:56,840 --> 01:32:59,920
Speaker 1: you use a desktop before, you couldn't kind of carry over.

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01:33:00,120 --> 01:33:00,719
Speaker 2: Now you can.

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01:33:01,640 --> 01:33:02,880
Speaker 1: So if you want to sign up for this, you

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01:33:02,880 --> 01:33:05,679
Speaker 1: got to go to the Beta browser dot Samsung dot

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01:33:05,680 --> 01:33:10,240
Speaker 1: com slash Beta Browser dot Samsung dot com slash Beta

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01:33:12,000 --> 01:33:16,000
Speaker 1: Horatio in Huntington Beach Rights in I started my home

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01:33:16,040 --> 01:33:19,519
Speaker 1: automation setup with Wemo switches, but I just learned their

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01:33:19,600 --> 01:33:23,439
Speaker 1: ending support for their website and Alexa integration. I've got

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01:33:23,479 --> 01:33:25,880
Speaker 1: thirteen of these switches and I'm wondering if they'll still

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01:33:25,880 --> 01:33:29,440
Speaker 1: work with another smart home platform. I've also tried Hubspace

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01:33:29,479 --> 01:33:32,400
Speaker 1: switches from the home Depot and they actually worked better,

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01:33:32,479 --> 01:33:34,840
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure how reliable that system is long term.

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Speaker 2: Any advice.

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01:33:35,600 --> 01:33:40,360
Speaker 1: Yes, Wemo did mention they are doing end of life

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01:33:40,840 --> 01:33:43,720
Speaker 1: on a bunch of their products, so they have a

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01:33:43,960 --> 01:33:48,960
Speaker 1: support page from Belkan, who runs Wemo. After careful consideration,

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01:33:49,040 --> 01:33:51,639
Speaker 1: we have made the difficult decision to end technical support

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01:33:51,680 --> 01:33:55,880
Speaker 1: for older Wemo products effective January thirty first, twenty twenty six.

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01:33:56,600 --> 01:33:58,960
Speaker 1: After this date, they will no longer be controllable through

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01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:02,559
Speaker 1: the Wemo app. Fatures that rely on cloud, including remote access,

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01:34:02,560 --> 01:34:08,360
Speaker 1: will no longer work and voice so basically there are

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01:34:08,560 --> 01:34:11,519
Speaker 1: They have a list of affected products and non affected products,

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01:34:12,640 --> 01:34:17,080
Speaker 1: so the shutdown does not affect the functionality of Wemo's

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01:34:17,240 --> 01:34:21,000
Speaker 1: thread based products. They will continue to function through HomeKit,

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01:34:21,120 --> 01:34:25,320
Speaker 1: so Horatio, if you're using stuff that's through thread, they

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01:34:25,360 --> 01:34:26,080
Speaker 1: will still work.

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01:34:26,280 --> 01:34:28,400
Speaker 2: But it looks like you're using all access, So yeah,

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01:34:28,439 --> 01:34:29,439
Speaker 2: that's going to stop working.

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01:34:30,479 --> 01:34:35,560
Speaker 1: Sue what to do. The Hubspace stuff is good, but Hubspace,

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01:34:35,640 --> 01:34:42,920
Speaker 1: I believe, is a Home Depot brand. Yeah, Hubspace is

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01:34:43,680 --> 01:34:47,920
Speaker 1: from Home Depot. So will it go on for a

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01:34:47,920 --> 01:34:48,479
Speaker 1: long time?

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01:34:48,600 --> 01:34:51,920
Speaker 2: I think so. I mean, it's like their own thing.

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01:34:52,040 --> 01:34:54,960
Speaker 1: But if I were you personally, I would look for

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01:34:55,000 --> 01:34:59,240
Speaker 1: stuff that is, you know, that works with the major systems.

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01:34:59,320 --> 01:35:01,679
Speaker 2: But this just kind of happens.

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01:35:01,720 --> 01:35:04,000
Speaker 1: You know, we back in the day of smart home stuff,

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01:35:04,000 --> 01:35:06,160
Speaker 1: there's a lot of companies all throwing things at the

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01:35:06,160 --> 01:35:09,040
Speaker 1: wall to see what would stick. Right, So if you

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01:35:09,120 --> 01:35:11,719
Speaker 1: started building stuff, a lot of it worked with Alexa

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01:35:12,000 --> 01:35:16,840
Speaker 1: or Google Home or Google Assistant. And now it's just

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01:35:16,880 --> 01:35:20,720
Speaker 1: like these companies are you know, they're just figuring things out,

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01:35:20,720 --> 01:35:22,240
Speaker 1: what they want to do, what they want to focus

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01:35:22,240 --> 01:35:24,880
Speaker 1: their attention on. And you know, these Wemo switches are

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01:35:24,920 --> 01:35:27,599
Speaker 1: just kind of being phased out. So I think that

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01:35:27,640 --> 01:35:31,000
Speaker 1: the Hubspace stuff is smart, but you know, just kind

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01:35:31,040 --> 01:35:36,320
Speaker 1: of proceed with caution. Addison from North Carolina writes in Hey, Rich,

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01:35:36,360 --> 01:35:37,639
Speaker 1: I'm a newer listener to your show.

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01:35:37,640 --> 01:35:38,280
Speaker 2: I have a question.

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01:35:38,360 --> 01:35:40,479
Speaker 1: How can I save my photos to iCloud on my

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01:35:40,600 --> 01:35:43,519
Speaker 1: iPhone when I'm out of iCloud storage and I can't

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01:35:43,520 --> 01:35:46,599
Speaker 1: afford to buy more. I've deleted a bunch of stuff,

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01:35:46,640 --> 01:35:48,680
Speaker 1: but the photos are taking up all my space and

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01:35:48,760 --> 01:35:50,640
Speaker 1: I don't want to lose them. Any advice for a

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01:35:50,640 --> 01:35:55,960
Speaker 1: broke teenager, Addison, I think you speak for everyone.

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01:35:56,040 --> 01:35:57,519
Speaker 2: So here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: How do I save photos to iCloud my iPhone out

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01:36:01,080 --> 01:36:05,680
Speaker 1: of iCloud storage. So your iCloud storage mimics what's on

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01:36:05,720 --> 01:36:08,880
Speaker 1: your iPhone, So if you want to clear up storage

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01:36:08,880 --> 01:36:12,240
Speaker 1: and iCloud, you have to delete stuff off your iPhone.

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01:36:11,880 --> 01:36:15,360
Speaker 1: They mirror each other. So the app I like to

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01:36:15,360 --> 01:36:19,960
Speaker 1: do this is called Clever Cleaner from Clever Files, And

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01:36:20,439 --> 01:36:25,879
Speaker 1: basically I would say just delete a few large video files.

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01:36:26,360 --> 01:36:28,960
Speaker 1: And if you delete a few large video files, that's

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01:36:29,000 --> 01:36:31,800
Speaker 1: going to be the easiest way to get rid of

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01:36:31,840 --> 01:36:34,320
Speaker 1: those files off of iCloud. You know, delete a few

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01:36:34,320 --> 01:36:38,080
Speaker 1: files that you don't need. So I've deleted a bunch

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01:36:38,120 --> 01:36:40,639
Speaker 1: of stuff, but the photos are taking up all my space.

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01:36:40,680 --> 01:36:41,679
Speaker 2: I don't want to lose them.

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01:36:42,080 --> 01:36:45,280
Speaker 1: So there will come a moment when you are maxed out.

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01:36:45,920 --> 01:36:48,439
Speaker 1: So if you are maxed out in your iCloud. There's

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01:36:48,439 --> 01:36:51,400
Speaker 1: not much you can do except buy more iCloud, and

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Speaker 1: I get it. You said you're a broke teenager, so

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Speaker 1: you can't buy more iCloud. So the only other thing

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01:36:55,320 --> 01:36:59,439
Speaker 1: you can do is offload those files to a flash

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Speaker 1: drive or a third party service. So you can try

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Speaker 1: just putting them on cloud storage. You know you get

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Speaker 1: you get two gigabytes for free on Dropbox.

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Speaker 2: Oh wait, what does Dropbox give these days? Dropbox free

1939
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Speaker 2: storage limit?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, two gigabytes, so you can put them on drop

1941
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Speaker 1: Box two gigabytes.

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Speaker 2: That'll that'll save free up two gigabytes.

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01:37:21,800 --> 01:37:24,000
Speaker 1: You can you know, there's a lot of different file

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01:37:24,040 --> 01:37:28,160
Speaker 1: storage out there, like free cloud storage, so you can

1945
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Speaker 1: maybe just put some of those in different places. Let's

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01:37:32,520 --> 01:37:34,200
Speaker 1: see what are the other options. I mean, you could

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Speaker 1: use one drive, you can put someone in there, Proton drive,

1948
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Speaker 1: you can put some in there. How much do you

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Speaker 1: get there? How much does Proton give you? Probably think

1950
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Speaker 1: one one gigabyte?

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Speaker 2: I think. Let's see here.

1952
01:37:49,200 --> 01:37:51,200
Speaker 1: Why do these companies make it so tough to see

1953
01:37:51,240 --> 01:37:53,600
Speaker 1: how much you get for free? All I want to

1954
01:37:53,600 --> 01:37:55,120
Speaker 1: see is how much you get for free?

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01:37:55,760 --> 01:37:56,400
Speaker 2: So let's see.

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01:37:56,479 --> 01:38:01,640
Speaker 1: I got to type in Proton storage. Uh yeah, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't say, oh, five gigs.

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01:38:05,280 --> 01:38:07,360
Speaker 2: It looks like for free. So there you go.

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Speaker 1: There's another five gigs so you can just kind of

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Speaker 1: piecemell these together.

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Speaker 2: That's you know, that's my best advice.

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Speaker 1: If you can't afford to add more iCloud, just get

1963
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Speaker 1: some other free cloud storage. Chris writes in from Vermont.

1964
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Speaker 1: We live near the New York and Canadian borders, and

1965
01:38:22,560 --> 01:38:25,479
Speaker 1: T mobile service here is terrible. Dropped calls all the time.

1966
01:38:25,960 --> 01:38:28,360
Speaker 1: We'd like to find a better, cheaper option, but aren't

1967
01:38:28,360 --> 01:38:31,479
Speaker 1: sure who's most reliable. We've looked at Mint, Consumer, Cellular,

1968
01:38:31,600 --> 01:38:35,080
Speaker 1: US Mobile, Puretalk, track Phone. We don't use much data,

1969
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Speaker 1: just want a dependable connection. Any suggestions, Well, here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: All there's only three networks in the US, four if

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01:38:43,160 --> 01:38:47,040
Speaker 1: you count the new one. What is it Dish Network?

1972
01:38:47,800 --> 01:38:55,000
Speaker 1: What's theirs called? There's a I guess it's yeah, Dish

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01:38:55,040 --> 01:38:57,960
Speaker 1: network has their own.

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Speaker 2: Was it boost Mobile?

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Speaker 1: I think it's called Boost Mobile have their own network now, yeah,

1976
01:39:02,080 --> 01:39:03,519
Speaker 1: which I've not been able to test.

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01:39:03,520 --> 01:39:05,439
Speaker 2: I keep asking them, can I test this network? I'd

1978
01:39:05,439 --> 01:39:06,760
Speaker 2: like to, but I have not been able to test this,

1979
01:39:06,800 --> 01:39:08,000
Speaker 2: so I can't tell you much about that.

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01:39:07,960 --> 01:39:10,759
Speaker 1: One, but we do know it's AT and T. Verizon

1981
01:39:10,840 --> 01:39:13,519
Speaker 1: and T Mobile run the three main networks in the US.

1982
01:39:14,280 --> 01:39:17,680
Speaker 1: So you have to figure out which network works the

1983
01:39:17,720 --> 01:39:20,519
Speaker 1: best in your area, Chris, So how do you do that?

1984
01:39:20,720 --> 01:39:24,080
Speaker 1: Ask people that live near you, Ask your neighbors, what

1985
01:39:24,120 --> 01:39:27,559
Speaker 1: do you have, what works, what doesn't? Drop calls sounds

1986
01:39:27,560 --> 01:39:29,640
Speaker 1: like you've tried T Mobile that does not work in

1987
01:39:29,640 --> 01:39:31,880
Speaker 1: that area. That doesn't mean it doesn't work everywhere. But

1988
01:39:32,160 --> 01:39:37,040
Speaker 1: each network has its pros and cons in different places.

1989
01:39:37,280 --> 01:39:39,519
Speaker 1: You know, some of them just work better in different areas.

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01:39:40,040 --> 01:39:42,000
Speaker 1: Like you go to the Seattle area where te mobiles

1991
01:39:42,000 --> 01:39:44,840
Speaker 1: started back in the day, what was it called voice

1992
01:39:44,840 --> 01:39:47,360
Speaker 1: stream or something, it was like the best up there

1993
01:39:47,400 --> 01:39:50,559
Speaker 1: because that's where it started. You go to like Central Jersey,

1994
01:39:50,640 --> 01:39:53,000
Speaker 1: it's all about Verizon because that's where Verizon was at

1995
01:39:53,080 --> 01:39:55,880
Speaker 1: and T. You go to Dallas area, it's all you know, Texas.

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01:39:56,320 --> 01:39:59,000
Speaker 1: So you know, they all have their their strong areas.

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01:39:59,439 --> 01:40:01,439
Speaker 1: You just have to figure out which one works by you.

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01:40:02,000 --> 01:40:05,080
Speaker 1: So ask your neighbors and then you can figure out

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01:40:05,160 --> 01:40:08,200
Speaker 1: which MV and O is best for you. You mentioned

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01:40:08,240 --> 01:40:11,080
Speaker 1: all these better cheaper options, so that's called an MV

2001
01:40:11,160 --> 01:40:14,760
Speaker 1: and O Mobile Virtual network Operator. Now MINT I can

2002
01:40:14,800 --> 01:40:17,120
Speaker 1: tell you is owned by T Mobiles, So that's going

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01:40:17,160 --> 01:40:19,400
Speaker 1: to use T Mobiles service. You don't want to go

2004
01:40:19,439 --> 01:40:22,320
Speaker 1: MINT because you said it doesn't work there. So for

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01:40:22,360 --> 01:40:25,800
Speaker 1: the rest of these Consumer Cellular, US Mobile Puretalk track phone,

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01:40:25,800 --> 01:40:27,840
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to look up on something like a

2007
01:40:27,880 --> 01:40:31,519
Speaker 1: Wikipedia to see what is the network behind those. So,

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01:40:31,560 --> 01:40:38,200
Speaker 1: for instance, let's look up Consumer Cellular Network and so

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01:40:38,360 --> 01:40:41,799
Speaker 1: type that in and it's a mobile virtual network operator

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01:40:41,800 --> 01:40:45,760
Speaker 1: that provides services on major carriers, primarily AT and T

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01:40:45,880 --> 01:40:48,720
Speaker 1: and T Mobile. So you'd have to look at that,

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01:40:48,840 --> 01:40:52,080
Speaker 1: though you'd have to kind of check and double check

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01:40:52,160 --> 01:40:56,960
Speaker 1: because sometimes Google's answers that pop up doesn't necessarily tell

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01:40:57,000 --> 01:40:58,839
Speaker 1: you the right answer. Like if you go to Consumer

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01:40:58,880 --> 01:41:02,800
Speaker 1: Cellular's website, they say the network providers we use combine

2016
01:41:03,320 --> 01:41:05,880
Speaker 1: to deliver cellular service to ninety nine percent, they don't

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01:41:05,920 --> 01:41:11,080
Speaker 1: say what cellular providers specifically. Now, if you go to Okay,

2018
01:41:11,680 --> 01:41:14,519
Speaker 1: so Tom's guide back in twenty twenty four says it

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01:41:14,720 --> 01:41:18,200
Speaker 1: piggybacks on AT and T and T Mobile. So again

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01:41:18,800 --> 01:41:21,479
Speaker 1: US Mobile I do have experience with you can choose

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01:41:21,520 --> 01:41:24,559
Speaker 1: which network you want through them, but they rename them.

2022
01:41:24,640 --> 01:41:27,599
Speaker 1: It's called like dark Star and light Speed and all

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01:41:27,600 --> 01:41:29,160
Speaker 1: these different things. You have to again, you got to

2024
01:41:29,200 --> 01:41:31,880
Speaker 1: do a little research. But once you figure out which

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01:41:31,960 --> 01:41:34,680
Speaker 1: network works the best, then just look up. Just do

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01:41:34,720 --> 01:41:40,519
Speaker 1: a Google search, say MVNO's using Verizon, and that'll give

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01:41:40,520 --> 01:41:45,400
Speaker 1: you a list of Visible Red Pocket you know, whistleout

2028
01:41:45,439 --> 01:41:47,479
Speaker 1: dot com is a good website to kind of find

2029
01:41:47,520 --> 01:41:51,760
Speaker 1: these things, revealing them so best. Verizon mv and OS

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01:41:51,800 --> 01:41:55,960
Speaker 1: they've got a whole list Visible US Mobile, Spectrum Mobile,

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01:41:56,360 --> 01:41:58,200
Speaker 1: So you can figure that out. So if you want

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01:41:58,200 --> 01:42:00,519
Speaker 1: to go with something cheap, Visible is pretty good for

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01:42:00,960 --> 01:42:06,320
Speaker 1: if you want to go with Verizon track Phone, I'm

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01:42:06,320 --> 01:42:09,280
Speaker 1: not sure what they use. What does track phone run on?

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01:42:12,720 --> 01:42:17,160
Speaker 1: Uh it's own Oh it's owned by Verizon. Well there

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01:42:17,200 --> 01:42:19,160
Speaker 1: you go. Must use Verizon's network. See these are you

2037
01:42:19,200 --> 01:42:21,439
Speaker 1: gotta do a little research to figure these things out.

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01:42:22,160 --> 01:42:23,559
Speaker 2: Uh okay, Coming up, we.

2039
01:42:23,479 --> 01:42:25,880
Speaker 1: Are going to open up the feedback see some more

2040
01:42:25,880 --> 01:42:27,479
Speaker 1: of the emails that you were sending me this week

2041
01:42:27,560 --> 01:42:34,200
Speaker 1: right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich

2042
01:42:34,280 --> 01:42:37,000
Speaker 1: on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking

2043
01:42:37,040 --> 01:42:42,400
Speaker 1: technology so much. We always cover so much ground on

2044
01:42:42,439 --> 01:42:46,679
Speaker 1: the show. I'm literally going through all the feedback here

2045
01:42:49,880 --> 01:42:52,519
Speaker 1: Bobo sees me every week. I've got like so I

2046
01:42:52,640 --> 01:42:54,840
Speaker 1: used to. You know, I do print out a fair

2047
01:42:54,840 --> 01:42:57,400
Speaker 1: amount of stuff for the show. Bobo can attest, but

2048
01:42:57,520 --> 01:43:02,120
Speaker 1: I save the paper just I save it so that

2049
01:43:02,200 --> 01:43:04,280
Speaker 1: if you, let's say, you write me something I don't

2050
01:43:04,280 --> 01:43:06,040
Speaker 1: make it into the show, I will save that for

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01:43:06,080 --> 01:43:08,280
Speaker 1: the next week and maybe get into the next week's show.

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Speaker 1: So all right, without further Ado, let's open up the feedbag.

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01:43:12,320 --> 01:43:15,120
Speaker 1: This is the uh you know, the letters, the emails,

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01:43:15,160 --> 01:43:17,680
Speaker 1: the comments, the questions, all that good stuff that you

2055
01:43:17,720 --> 01:43:21,200
Speaker 1: send me. So we've got a mixed bag today. I'm

2056
01:43:21,200 --> 01:43:22,759
Speaker 1: just going to try to get through as much as possible.

2057
01:43:23,400 --> 01:43:26,280
Speaker 1: Ricky writes in Hey Rich, I'm an avid listener on

2058
01:43:26,720 --> 01:43:31,200
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio KFI on Saturdays. You help me with writing on

2059
01:43:31,240 --> 01:43:34,799
Speaker 1: the back of digital pictures like in the old days. Okay,

2060
01:43:35,080 --> 01:43:37,559
Speaker 1: I'm glad to help. My husband wants a vintage typewriter.

2061
01:43:37,960 --> 01:43:39,400
Speaker 1: And now I'm trying to remember the name of the

2062
01:43:39,400 --> 01:43:41,840
Speaker 1: place you mentioned that restores old things like that.

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01:43:42,479 --> 01:43:42,879
Speaker 4: Ah.

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01:43:42,920 --> 01:43:46,080
Speaker 1: The website you are thinking of is called retro spect

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01:43:46,520 --> 01:43:50,200
Speaker 1: r e t R O s p e K T

2066
01:43:51,200 --> 01:43:55,679
Speaker 1: retro spect So They basically have a whole bunch of stuff,

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01:43:55,720 --> 01:43:59,599
Speaker 1: everything from audio to photography. Vhs. I mean you could

2068
01:43:59,600 --> 01:44:03,360
Speaker 1: buy a v here. Oh they're sold out right now.

2069
01:44:03,960 --> 01:44:06,759
Speaker 1: Oh Polaroids. I mean they've just got so many things

2070
01:44:06,760 --> 01:44:12,040
Speaker 1: on there. Retrospect spe kt. That's a great one for

2071
01:44:12,960 --> 01:44:15,640
Speaker 1: like the holiday season, if you're looking for something.

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01:44:16,400 --> 01:44:18,920
Speaker 2: Laurel writes in all.

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01:44:20,600 --> 01:44:22,439
Speaker 1: All you folks, I'm gonna say it like I think

2074
01:44:22,520 --> 01:44:25,519
Speaker 1: Laura would say, all you folks who spend hours a

2075
01:44:25,640 --> 01:44:28,920
Speaker 1: day scrolling your iPhone screens with your thumbs and index fingers,

2076
01:44:29,000 --> 01:44:31,599
Speaker 1: be careful. You're gonna end up with arthritis and those

2077
01:44:31,640 --> 01:44:36,559
Speaker 1: two digits. That's like yelling from like the Yes, okay,

2078
01:44:36,680 --> 01:44:40,760
Speaker 1: thank you. Laurel val in Los Angeles says, hey, Rich

2079
01:44:40,960 --> 01:44:43,479
Speaker 1: about your tip to take four photos of a rental car.

2080
01:44:43,600 --> 01:44:45,920
Speaker 1: I take it even further, shoot four K video and

2081
01:44:46,120 --> 01:44:48,479
Speaker 1: raw photos, Oh my gosh, of the car before you

2082
01:44:48,640 --> 01:44:49,840
Speaker 1: drive off, inside it out.

2083
01:44:50,320 --> 01:44:51,759
Speaker 2: Here's my biggest piece of advice.

2084
01:44:51,840 --> 01:44:54,320
Speaker 1: Always buy the rental companies insurance, even if you have

2085
01:44:54,400 --> 01:44:59,840
Speaker 1: great personal coverage. I've been in ten ten not a

2086
01:45:00,160 --> 01:45:04,600
Speaker 1: fall accidents in fourteen years. Well, no wonder why you

2087
01:45:04,680 --> 01:45:08,360
Speaker 1: buy the insurance. Val In one rental situation taught me

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01:45:08,439 --> 01:45:10,400
Speaker 1: the hard way. A scammer cut me off, slammed on

2089
01:45:10,439 --> 01:45:12,559
Speaker 1: the brakes, and caused a crash. The prius I rented

2090
01:45:12,640 --> 01:45:15,919
Speaker 1: almost took most of the hit from his steel suburban.

2091
01:45:16,360 --> 01:45:18,760
Speaker 1: Just over one thousand dollars in damage. That's not that's

2092
01:45:18,840 --> 01:45:21,640
Speaker 1: not that much, you you, that's sextually pretty not not

2093
01:45:21,800 --> 01:45:24,719
Speaker 1: much at all. My insurance rates still went up because

2094
01:45:24,720 --> 01:45:26,360
Speaker 1: I didn't buy the rental coverage. If I paid the

2095
01:45:26,400 --> 01:45:29,800
Speaker 1: extra twelve dollars, I wouldn't have touched my personal insurance history.

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01:45:29,880 --> 01:45:30,439
Speaker 2: Lesson learned.

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01:45:30,439 --> 01:45:33,600
Speaker 1: It's worth every penny val I will say, And I

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01:45:33,680 --> 01:45:35,560
Speaker 1: talked about this in my newsletter. The credit card that

2099
01:45:35,640 --> 01:45:39,240
Speaker 1: I still am using. I have primary car rental insurance

2100
01:45:39,280 --> 01:45:42,639
Speaker 1: on because I don't usually get the rental car insurance,

2101
01:45:42,760 --> 01:45:44,920
Speaker 1: but because it can add up. If it's a day

2102
01:45:45,040 --> 01:45:47,320
Speaker 1: or two, fine, but like over a long time, it

2103
01:45:47,360 --> 01:45:50,599
Speaker 1: can add up to a lot. So good advice there. Sorry,

2104
01:45:50,600 --> 01:45:54,200
Speaker 1: you've been in so many accidents. Brian in California, says Rich.

2105
01:45:54,240 --> 01:45:56,200
Speaker 1: A while back, you were talking about photo storage. You

2106
01:45:56,280 --> 01:46:00,519
Speaker 1: mentioned seeing properties converted into neighborhood storage garages. People paying

2107
01:46:00,560 --> 01:46:03,080
Speaker 1: to store stuff they'll probably never look at again. That

2108
01:46:03,280 --> 01:46:05,320
Speaker 1: really stuck with me, and I'd love to hear it again.

2109
01:46:05,400 --> 01:46:07,920
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here refusing to pay Google an extra two

2110
01:46:07,920 --> 01:46:10,559
Speaker 1: dollars a month for more photo storage, yet I'm spending

2111
01:46:10,600 --> 01:46:13,400
Speaker 1: a fortune on physical storage for things I don't even use.

2112
01:46:13,840 --> 01:46:16,400
Speaker 1: I need that reminder to finally clean out those garages.

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Speaker 1: Love your show, thanks Brian. And by the way, you

2114
01:46:19,479 --> 01:46:21,840
Speaker 1: can clean out your Google storage at one dot Google

2115
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Speaker 1: dot com.

2116
01:46:22,320 --> 01:46:24,760
Speaker 2: They've got a great app to every time you say Google,

2117
01:46:24,800 --> 01:46:27,439
Speaker 2: my phone cuts on, Oh does it? Mine's not doing that.

2118
01:46:28,080 --> 01:46:30,760
Speaker 2: You usually have to say, hey Google, Now it really

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01:46:30,880 --> 01:46:31,120
Speaker 2: came on.

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Speaker 1: Kathleen from La says, I'm a musician who plays at

2121
01:46:35,840 --> 01:46:38,040
Speaker 1: weddings and events and wants to warn others about a

2122
01:46:38,160 --> 01:46:41,479
Speaker 1: scam targeting performers. I got an email asking if I

2123
01:46:41,520 --> 01:46:44,160
Speaker 1: could play wedding music, even offering to pay by check

2124
01:46:44,240 --> 01:46:47,960
Speaker 1: and suggesting I perform live, pre recorded, or even via zoom.

2125
01:46:48,080 --> 01:46:50,800
Speaker 1: That seemed odd, so I looked it up and found

2126
01:46:50,880 --> 01:46:53,519
Speaker 1: an explanation online about the same scam. It's basically a

2127
01:46:53,640 --> 01:46:57,360
Speaker 1: fake check scheme where they accidentally overpay you and ask

2128
01:46:57,439 --> 01:46:59,720
Speaker 1: for some of the money back. A friend of mine

2129
01:46:59,760 --> 01:47:01,600
Speaker 1: also got the same email and someone else I know

2130
01:47:01,800 --> 01:47:04,240
Speaker 1: also over sixty recently lost a lot of money to

2131
01:47:04,280 --> 01:47:08,240
Speaker 1: fake product ads using names from famous people like Sanjay

2132
01:47:08,280 --> 01:47:09,320
Speaker 1: Gupta and Oprah.

2133
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Speaker 2: I thought your listeners should know. Thanks.

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01:47:11,600 --> 01:47:14,160
Speaker 1: I really enjoy your show. Yeah, these things are. These

2135
01:47:14,200 --> 01:47:18,360
Speaker 1: scams target everyone. They've got one out for podcasters too,

2136
01:47:18,400 --> 01:47:20,200
Speaker 1: where they say, oh, we'll give you three grand to

2137
01:47:20,280 --> 01:47:22,960
Speaker 1: be on our podcast. Just give us access to your

2138
01:47:23,120 --> 01:47:24,840
Speaker 1: Facebook so we can set it all up, and they

2139
01:47:24,960 --> 01:47:29,360
Speaker 1: steal your Facebook account. Careful Neil from Ohio Rights and

2140
01:47:29,439 --> 01:47:31,280
Speaker 1: I think most people need to get used to the

2141
01:47:31,360 --> 01:47:33,360
Speaker 1: idea that we're doing our taxes online. I used to

2142
01:47:33,360 --> 01:47:35,920
Speaker 1: buy the downloadable software, but the minute I added schedule

2143
01:47:36,080 --> 01:47:38,200
Speaker 1: F for farming, every program wanted me to pay for

2144
01:47:38,240 --> 01:47:40,920
Speaker 1: an upgrade. About four years ago, I switched to a

2145
01:47:40,960 --> 01:47:44,160
Speaker 1: free service called free tax Usa. E files for free,

2146
01:47:44,240 --> 01:47:46,719
Speaker 1: covers a ton of forms and charges just a small fee.

2147
01:47:47,080 --> 01:47:49,400
Speaker 1: It's time to stop paying those big tax companies at

2148
01:47:49,439 --> 01:47:51,160
Speaker 1: lobby to keep filing from being free.

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Speaker 2: Love your show, Rich, you provide a great service. Well,

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Speaker 2: thank you, Neil.

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Speaker 1: O'm gonna just say one minute, Oh my gosh, okay,

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Speaker 1: I guess we'll just do one more. Jack and Illinois

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Speaker 1: I have been listening for years, wanted to say how

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Speaker 1: much I appreciate what you do for us tech troubled folks.

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Speaker 2: Let's see. I think we have one more.

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Speaker 1: A Perva writes in I've been following your KTLA TV

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Speaker 1: segments and newsletters for years. Just want to say thanks

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Speaker 1: for all the helpful information and advice you've shared.

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Speaker 2: Well, thank you.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's going to do it for this episode

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Speaker 1: of the show. You can find links to everything I

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Speaker 1: mentioned on my website. Just go to Rich on tech

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Speaker 1: dot tv. I'm on social media Atage on Tech. Next week,

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Speaker 1: Jamie Simonov, the founder of Ring, is going to talk

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Speaker 1: about his new book Ding Dong, all about Shark Tank

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Speaker 1: and turning his garage startup into a billion dollar Amazon success.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. Please don't drive distracted. Thanks

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Speaker 1: to everyone who makes this show possible. My name is

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Speaker 1: rich Darmiro.

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Speaker 2: I will talk to you real soon