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Speaker 1: Facebook under fire for its data sharing practices, the best

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Speaker 1: smart speaker, the one plus sixty, gets high marks for

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Speaker 1: its cameras, and Twitter now reveals more about you when

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Speaker 1: you tweet what's going on. I'm Rich Dimiro. This is

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Speaker 1: Rich on Tech, the longer form version of the podcast

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Speaker 1: where I talk about all the stuff I think you

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Speaker 1: should know about this week in technology. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: going on, and this is not everything that happened in tech.

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Speaker 1: It's just kind of like the little things that I

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Speaker 1: think you should know about. And last week I talked

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Speaker 1: about how someone had texted me on Instagram and told

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Speaker 1: me they had an idea for the name of this show,

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Speaker 1: and I finally found that little message that was sent

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Speaker 1: to me by Bob Hardy. Bob Hardy twenty seven on

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Speaker 1: Instagram said Hey, Rich, I have an idea for what

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Speaker 1: you can call your extended podcast show on Fridays. He says,

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Speaker 1: call it Richer on Tech, and I wholeheartedly agree. I

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Speaker 1: love the name. Don't know if that's going to be

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Speaker 1: the full name, but he says too much Apple stuff

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Speaker 1: for my liking, lol, but still love the show. Prefer

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Speaker 1: more Android stuff. And Bob, I hear you. The thing

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Speaker 1: about Apple versus Android. Here's the deal. So Apple gets

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Speaker 1: all of the attention in the press for one big reason.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of people out there that have iPhones,

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Speaker 1: and not just that, there's a lot of people out

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Speaker 1: there that don't understand how to use the iPhone. There's

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Speaker 1: just so many little features on there, and Android's kind

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Speaker 1: of the same way. But here's the big difference Android.

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Speaker 1: There are so many different manufacturers, there are so many

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Speaker 1: different types of phones out there that one news story

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Speaker 1: cannot fit all. Even like my tips, I did the

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Speaker 1: book one hundred and one Handy Tech Tips for the iPhone.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's asking, Rich, where's the Android version? Well, you can't

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Speaker 1: do an Android version like that because there is no

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Speaker 1: that said, Samsung did just recently change up their user interface.

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Speaker 1: I've been testing this out on the Note nine. It's

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Speaker 1: just maybe I'm not promising anything here. Maybe I will

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Speaker 1: do something on Android. But folks, I love Android, don't

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Speaker 1: with Facebook this week, because Facebook, uh man, they just

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Speaker 1: this is a company that just wants twenty eighteen to

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Speaker 1: under fire this week because the New York Times did

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Speaker 1: an article saying, Hey, Facebook, why are you sharing all

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Speaker 1: this personal data that folks post with All these companies

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Speaker 1: including Apple, BlackBerry, Yahoo, Netflix, New York Times, Pandora, Spotify,

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Speaker 1: and Facebook came out with the blog post and said, look,

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Speaker 1: what they explained is that number one, these were older

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Speaker 1: And I'm not defending Facebook here. They're trying to appeal

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Speaker 1: You can still post your pictures there, but you just

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Speaker 1: always that potential and always that possibility. And Facebook is

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Speaker 1: not here for our health. Facebook is here to market

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Speaker 1: That's what's happening here, folks. So just remember that, keep

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Speaker 1: Speaking of data privacy, this one's great Amazon Alexa user

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Speaker 1: And so the person did, and he listened to another

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Speaker 1: these recordings. But guess what, Amazon says, it may degrade

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Speaker 1: Nobody wants to think that the recordings that they made

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Speaker 1: someone else. And Amazon says this was a one time error,

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Speaker 1: eye opening because you hear exactly what you sounded like,

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Speaker 1: to get to. Wow, there's a lot of stuff to

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Speaker 1: to Google Account. Okay, there it is now at the top.

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Speaker 1: Tap data and personalization. There it is. I see that

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Speaker 1: under activity and timeline. Type my activity or tap my activity. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Under the search bar, tap filter by date and product.

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Speaker 1: So let's tap filter out. There we go, and now

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Speaker 1: there comes some recordings. Okay, oh wow, this is great.

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Speaker 1: So here's the stuff it said. Okay, so let's see

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Speaker 1: is a great social media app that helps you schedule

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Speaker 1: some of your tweets. So what happens is I don't

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Speaker 1: Like I don't like to have like twenty five tweets

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Speaker 1: go out at once, because you know, they're kind of ephemeral, right,

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Speaker 1: out through the day. So if it's not something that

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Speaker 1: use Buffer. So when you look at my tweets, if

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Speaker 1: you see something that comes from buffer, chances are i'd

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Speaker 1: schedule that out from a while back. Sometimes. Also, I

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Speaker 1: like four to nine AM, so rather than just send

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Speaker 1: everything out during those hours, I'll kind of space it

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Speaker 1: out throughout the day. Everyone has a different theory on

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Speaker 1: this stuff, but that's kind of how I do it.

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Speaker 1: And let's talk about this NASA engineer. We talked about

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Speaker 1: the YouTube video, but it was a glitter bomb. It

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Speaker 1: outfitted with all these special electronics. When you take the package,

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Speaker 1: when you steal it, it follow They follow you home

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Speaker 1: with GPS, they can see where you were, and when

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Speaker 1: you open the package, it explodes with all this glitter.

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Speaker 1: So I had this debate with my producer. I was like,

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Speaker 1: In fact, when I showed the video on TV, it

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Speaker 1: So the package wasn't fake, but the payoff was. Was

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Speaker 1: there anyone who actually stole this package and they tracked

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Speaker 1: back to their house? Don't I don't know. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem like it. Two of the so called thieves were

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Speaker 1: package on their porch, and Rober said, I'm really sorry

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Speaker 1: my channel. I should have done more. I can vouch

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Speaker 1: So Mark Rober is He's done a lot of great

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Speaker 1: videos for YouTube. They're often a mix of sort of

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Speaker 1: I'm willing to let this video be on YouTube. No,

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't take away from the fact that he

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Speaker 1: would open up in your house. So great idea, but

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Speaker 1: not necessarily real. And by the way I said, I

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Speaker 1: He was a JPL NASA guy, and he came to

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Speaker 1: prominence doing these shirts for Halloween. They were like costumes

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Speaker 1: on your iPod video right, iPod I guess video what

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Speaker 1: was it called? iPod touch had the video. So you

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Speaker 1: got to give him. You got to give him credit.

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Speaker 1: The guy has done a lot of cool stuff in

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Speaker 1: his career, and he's a smart guy. Clearly. I think

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Speaker 1: put that in the comments or the description. It would

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Speaker 1: have been just fine. Let's talk about my book one

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Speaker 1: and one handy tech tips for the iPhone. I gotta say,

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Speaker 1: I cannot believe the response to this. It is now

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Speaker 1: currently on at least oh my gosh, almost a two

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Speaker 1: week wait on Amazon, which is really unfortunate because a

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Speaker 1: lot of people were ordering it for the holidays. If

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Speaker 1: you got it in early, hopefully you got it in

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Speaker 1: time for the holidays. But if you're trying to order now,

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Speaker 1: reason for that is that I self published through Amazon,

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Speaker 1: probably when I've first launched, you know, maybe print a

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Speaker 1: coming in, which we're in the thousands every day, they

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden realize, oh, oh no, we got

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Speaker 1: takes a long time to print a book. I think

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Speaker 1: I know the ones that I ordered. I ordered some

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Speaker 1: press copies for myself, they call them author copies, and

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Speaker 1: I can order those in bulk, and it was taking

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Speaker 1: like two to three weeks to get those things delivered

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Speaker 1: to me. So it takes Amazon a while. And I

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Speaker 1: don't think they care about me as much because I

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Speaker 1: get a little discount on mine when I order them,

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Speaker 1: versus the average person. That's ordering just one copy. Thank

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Speaker 1: you to everyone who has purchased one of these. The

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Speaker 1: reviews are starting to come in, and I would say

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Speaker 1: And for everyone that reviews them on Amazon, I get

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of emails and tweets and texts from

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Speaker 1: people that personally text me and let me know how

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Speaker 1: much they're loving the book. And I think another part

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Speaker 1: a time, and that means that they're sharing them with

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Speaker 1: their friends. They're really liking them, and I love that,

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Speaker 1: so thank you so much to everyone who's ordered one.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to read a few of the reviews.

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Speaker 1: This was from Jeff h. He said, this is a

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Speaker 1: great book with great helpful tips. I bought one for

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Speaker 1: myself and a couple others for gifts. Highly recommend. Thanks again,

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Speaker 1: Rich for all that you'd help us with tech and

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Speaker 1: I think I've read this one before. If you're ever

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Speaker 1: in the Pomona area, you got a free lunch coming

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Speaker 1: your way. I think I read that on the podcast,

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Speaker 1: but I like it, so thank you. Jeff and Let's

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Speaker 1: see Lone Star ten said, I thought I knew everything.

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Speaker 1: I thought I knew a lot about my iPhone ten

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Speaker 1: s until I read Rich's book. This book is filled

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Speaker 1: with tips to help you get the most out of

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Speaker 1: this eleven hundred dollars phone. I would definitely agree. Steve

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Speaker 1: Zweig says this book answered several questions that had been

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Speaker 1: puzzling me for years. Example, app management, which was formally

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Speaker 1: done through iTunes but is now done through the App Store.

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Speaker 1: I had no idea. Lots of other juicy little plums

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Speaker 1: in here. Highly recommended. Steve Zweig. La T. Pavicek said

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Speaker 1: this is perfect, so much information. I gave up the

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Speaker 1: learning new things with this book. Great gift. Wayne Ben says,

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Speaker 1: quite a bit. I learned a lot from it. The

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Speaker 1: tips are very good and will use this as a reference.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much to everyone who has left a review

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Speaker 1: enjoying it, please leave a review on Amazon that will

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Speaker 1: help others discover it and also sort of better understand

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Speaker 1: because if you're living in other parts of the country

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Speaker 1: where you may not know rich on Tech or rich Demiro,

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Speaker 1: you see this book, it's the number one seller as

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Speaker 1: Your review will definitely help more folks purchase it that

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Speaker 1: So thanks in advance for leaving your positive review on Amazon.

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Speaker 1: and Lester's asking on the Facebook Live is there an

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Speaker 1: You can get it on Kindle, so also on Amazon,

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Speaker 1: just grab the Kindle version. And I also got a

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Speaker 1: version works on other places. It said, rich I don't

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Speaker 1: have a Kindle, so I can't listen to it or

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Speaker 1: read it rather on the Kindle, and I said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: so you can get the Kindle version anywhere. And in

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening to the podcast. I really

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Speaker 1: do appreciate it. Everything I talk about here I will

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Speaker 1: put in the show notes, so check it out there,

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Speaker 1: or you can go to rich on Tech dot tv.

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Speaker 1: Follow me on Instagram. I think I'm gonna do more

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Speaker 1: on Instagram in the new year, So Instagram, I am

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Speaker 1: at rich On Tech. Do appreciate you listening. Have a

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Speaker 1: fantastic holiday. I'm not sure if I'm gonna be doing

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Speaker 1: this podcast until the New Year, so I may take

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Speaker 1: a week off next week for the holidays. I've got

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Speaker 1: family in town, so if you don't hear from me,

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Speaker 1: have a fantastic holiday, Christmas, whatever else you celebrate, plus

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Speaker 1: New Year's and happy twenty nineteen. I will see then.

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Speaker 1: I'm Rich Jimiro. I will talk to you real soon