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Speaker 1: and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I

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Speaker 1: It's also the place where I answer the questions that

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Speaker 1: You know, I get it, your home, you got tech issues.

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Speaker 1: There's all kinds of stuff going on. And I'm here.

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Speaker 1: I'm here for you to see me on TV. And

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Speaker 1: I'll take it. My name is Rich Dmiro, tech reporter

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Speaker 1: at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles, coming to you

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Speaker 1: from home as usual. I have now been working from

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Speaker 1: can't believe it. Can you believe it? I can't. Now

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Speaker 1: at this point, I've got myself working from home, I've

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Speaker 1: In fact, I was in Santa Barbara again. I know

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Speaker 1: this whole pandemic, and it is zoom. Zoom is coming

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Speaker 1: Last week I said that I was loving this phone.

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Speaker 1: just a sad affiliates affiliate deals. Well, they went back

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Speaker 1: and they kind of said, you know, what, what can

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Speaker 1: we do to really make this better? And I think

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Speaker 1: they did a good job because I'm looking at it

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00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 1: and it's kind of a cool website. Now. So here's

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Speaker 1: what they did. They are now creating a value engine

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Speaker 1: for every tech product category. So, for example, for laptops,

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Speaker 1: they break them down to their individual components, and then

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Speaker 1: they break those components down into benchmark scores and they

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Speaker 1: convert those scores into a value. Then they compare that

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Speaker 1: value to the actual sale price of a laptop, and

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00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:33,679
Speaker 1: then they order them by that. So what does that

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00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:36,920
Speaker 1: all mean? It means that they break down the components.

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Speaker 1: So maybe a computer that has four gigs of RAM

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Speaker 1: and a one terabyte hard drive is selling for five

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00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,760
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, but a computer with sixteen gigs of memory

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00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 1: and a one terabyte drive is selling for fifty dollars more.

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00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 1: That's actually going to be a better deal because it's

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00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:55,960
Speaker 1: only slightly more expensive, but you're getting a lot more.

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Speaker 1: So if they're doing what they're saying they're doing, which

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Speaker 1: it looks like they are because I'm on Compus Slash

448
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 1: Laptops and their top model right now one hundred percent

449
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,000
Speaker 1: for their amazing deal calculation, and then it gets a

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Speaker 1: little fire, which I'm guessing it means that's hot. This

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Speaker 1: is a Lenovo Idea Pad three fifteen point six inch

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Speaker 1: Windows laptop with an AMD rise In seven, eight gigs

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Speaker 1: of RAM, five twelve gigs of hard drive, and a

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Speaker 1: Vegas seven model for five hundred and forty nine dollars,

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Speaker 1: which I think sounds like a fantastic deal, so I

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Speaker 1: think their little system is working. And then you have

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Speaker 1: the next model on their list. This is from eBay,

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Speaker 1: which I personally wouldn't buy a computer from there, but

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Speaker 1: the next one, and that's from office depot. And the

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Speaker 1: next one is another Idea pad five fifteen point six

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Speaker 1: with a rise in five two fifty six eight gigs

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00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,479
Speaker 1: and it's got that's only four to seventy nine. Anyway,

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00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 1: I think they're doing a good job. So they say

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Speaker 1: that this is highly automated, and some of the deals

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Speaker 1: are getting to their homepage even before places like slick Deals.

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Speaker 1: So you can go here to their homepage and see

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Speaker 1: kind of what their little computers think are the best deals.

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00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 1: And right now some of their top deals are top

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Speaker 1: phone is an iPhone tenns max unlocked sixty four gig

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Speaker 1: for six hundred and twenty dollars, which sounds pretty good.

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Speaker 1: That's an eBay that's somewhere I probably wouldn't well, I

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Speaker 1: guess I would purchase a phone from there. Then they

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Speaker 1: have top products from Amazon. I don't know. I think

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Speaker 1: this is pretty cool, so CompUSA dot com, if you

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Speaker 1: want to check it out, tell me what you think.

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Speaker 1: I am going to add this to my list of

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Speaker 1: sort of places where I check for deals on a

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Speaker 1: daily basis because I love seeing deals like Microsoft Xbox

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Speaker 1: one wireless controller forty six eighty eight, and I know

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Speaker 1: that's a good deal because I paid sixty dollars for that,

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Speaker 1: so I can hook it up to my Apple TV.

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Speaker 1: And let's see one more thing. I just want to

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Speaker 1: make sure that when I actually click the deal it

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Speaker 1: is working. Oh, it even gives you a little when

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Speaker 1: you go to the deal, it tells you how much

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Speaker 1: it's it's priced at various sites. So I can see

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Speaker 1: that it's four seven bucks at Amazon, sixty at BNH,

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00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 1: and at a stock at best Buy. Now let's just

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00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,639
Speaker 1: double check those because sometimes these sites, when you go

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00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 1: to the website, it's not real and yep, hmmm, well

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00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,120
Speaker 1: they probably sold out. But it does say at Amazon.

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00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: See when you go there, the price is not really there.

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00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:27,119
Speaker 1: It's still sixty bucks, and BNH is sixty bucks, and

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00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 1: so it's actually not the price that it says it is.

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00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'll have to do some more research and

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Speaker 1: kind of just follow that for a little bit. But

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00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 1: I do love my deal sites for sure, and so

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Speaker 1: I will be checking that out, and you know, if

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Speaker 1: you find a good deal on it, hey, not everything's

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Speaker 1: gonna work. And I'm not saying that this is something

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Speaker 1: that I should discount, because even if I go to

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00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 1: the best sites out any aggregator site right now. Sometimes

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00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: when you go there, the price is just gone. And

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00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,199
Speaker 1: that happens with Honey with all their price comparisons. That

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Speaker 1: happen sometimes with not so much Slick Deal because they're

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00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: pretty good. But some of the other websites, it's just

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00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 1: you go there and the deal is gone, and that's

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00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 1: just the way it is. So anyway, all right, let's

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Speaker 1: do another question. Oh, there's the sound question from Greg.

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00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: Greg says, hi, Rich, hope you and yours are well.

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00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: Quick question? Is there a way to not use the

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Speaker 1: mail that comes installed on iPhone? When I click on

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00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: an email link on a website, it sends me to

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00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 1: the mail app. I wonder if it's possible to link

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Speaker 1: to my Gmail app. Thanks in advance for your help, Greg, Greg. No,

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00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: there's not a way to do that, not right now,

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00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 1: at least in iOS fourteen. There will be a way.

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00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 1: In iOS fourteen you will be able to set a

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00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,679
Speaker 1: default email app and also a default browser app, and

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00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 1: that's going to be pretty handy. I wish they would

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Speaker 1: have done fault. What was the other one? I want? Oh?

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00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 1: Default maps that they need to do for sure, but

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00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:10,159
Speaker 1: it's a start. So in iOS fourteen, which will probably

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Speaker 1: launch in let's see September October, you'll be able to

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Speaker 1: do that, and so far, even on the betas, I

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00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 1: haven't seen anyone that this feature hasn't rolled out yet

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00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,360
Speaker 1: on the betas, but it's a start and I'm curious

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00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 1: to see. I mean, I don't really click a lot

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00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: of email link I guess it would help if you're

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00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: trying to go from an anyway, so you'll be able

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Speaker 1: to do it soon. Let's put it that way right now.

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00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: The best way if you want to do this is

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Speaker 1: you'd have to download the Chrome browser on your iPhone,

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00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: and I think if you clicked a link in Chrome browser.

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00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: Google has gotten really good with what's called deep linking.

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00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: So if you're using Gmail, Chrome, and Google Maps on

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00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 1: your iPhone, pretty much it's a seamless experience between those

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00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 1: apps to boomerang you between them. So if you click

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00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 1: a link in Gmail, it will bring you it will

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00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: open that link in Chrome if you click I'm assuming

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00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 1: if you click an email link in Chrome, it'll bring

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00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: you to Gmail. And same thing with Maps. If you

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00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: click any sort of mapping link in Chrome or Gmail,

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00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 1: it will bring you to Google Maps. Versus Apple Maps,

545
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: but that's where they're starting iOS fourteen defaults, so you

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00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: be able to do the browser and again the browser

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00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 1: and mail. I think they really need to do that

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00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: with the navigation app, especially because right now on iOS

549
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: you can't say, you know, navigate to wherever on the

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00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 1: maps app, It'll just bring you to Google Maps. And

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00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: also music will also just bring you to Apple Music.

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00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 1: But there is a way around it. You can say,

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00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: h SERI play Taylor Swift on YouTube Music. You have

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00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: to say that at the end, and I find it's

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00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: not very good, but it's still it is there, So

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00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: you can say on Spotify, on Google Music or YouTube Music.

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00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 1: You just can't set a default wor it'll just do

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Speaker 1: that automatically. All right, let's talk about another story, bundling.

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00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do two stories in one because these bundles

560
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: are just getting out of control. And the reason why

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00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: these big companies like you to bundle is because they

562
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 1: think we're dumb, and we kind of are because it's

563
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: really tough to keep track of bundles, and bundles make

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Speaker 1: things very sticky. For instance, I have a bundle with

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Speaker 1: my Verizon account of Disney Plus and also Apple Music,

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Speaker 1: so I get those for free. Disney Plus was only

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00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 1: for twelve months, but that's changing. And everyone has a bundle.

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Speaker 1: I mean AT and T does Spotify and HBO Max.

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Speaker 1: You've got let's see, T Mobile does Quibi and Netflix

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00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 1: they kind of started it, Sprint did Title, Hulu, and

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00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: I don't know what else, so they're all doing it.

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00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 1: And then you've got the bundles from everything else, so

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00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: you know, does your There's just so many bundles to

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00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 1: keep track of. But they do that because it's confusing

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00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 1: and it also keeps you subscribe to these things because

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Speaker 1: I'll give I'll give you an example. When I sign

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00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: up for my Internet they switched my my HBO Max

578
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,239
Speaker 1: from me paying for it to now I got it

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00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 1: for free. But I was very hesitant to do anything

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00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: with my HBO Max account because I didn't know how

581
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: it work. I was like, ah, if I switched it over,

582
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: like do I have to sign up for a new account?

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00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: And they actually AT and T was pretty good about

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00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 1: my email address. As soon as I popped it in,

585
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: they said, oh, we noticed you already have an account.

586
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: We're just going to cancel that and now give it

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00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: you for free with the same email so they were

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00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: pretty good. But with some of these other things, I

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00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: don't know, like right now with Hulu. So let me

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00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 1: give you the news and then i'll explain. So now

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00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: on these Verizon plans, they now include Disney plus Hulu

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00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: and ESPN plus Forever and that's a Disney bundle and

593
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 1: this is in the Play More and Get More Unlimited,

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00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: and they also ditched the ten dollars monthly fee for

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00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: access to five G But the problem is on their

596
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: plans they show four lines, so the Get More Unlimited

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00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: for four lines is fifty five dollars a month, but

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00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 1: realistically it's eighty dollars. Like for me, I have two lines,

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00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: so it's eighty dollars each. They should really show the

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00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: different line prices, not just four, because fifty five is like,

601
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, that's amazing. No, it's not fifty five.

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00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: That's if you have four lines, fifty five times four

603
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 1: is two hundred and twenty bucks, right, do I do

604
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: my math? Right? So anyway, if you have the bottom

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00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 1: line is if you have a Verizon plan like I do,

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00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: you have to go in and kind of see you

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00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: might as well if you're already on the Get More

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00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 1: unlimited like I am. You might as well get ESPN

609
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,920
Speaker 1: Plus and Hulu included, as well as Disney Plus. The

610
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: problem is, I pay for Hulu with no commercials, so

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00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure how that's gonna work if I

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00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: sign up for this bundle. Do I just have to

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00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: pay extra five bucks a month or whatever it is

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00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: the differential to get the no commercials? I don't know.

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00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: But again, it's like it takes brain power, and it

616
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 1: takes time, and it takes research, and it takes effort,

617
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: and you got to log in and so these things

618
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: sound great, but it's for the consumer. It's just a

619
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: lot of work. But if you do it right, you

620
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 1: can get things for free. The only thing they did

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Speaker 1: change was Apple Music is now not necessarily included with

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00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: every plan. Some of them I think drop down to

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00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: just six months. So if you have Apple Music included,

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00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: you might want to just be careful before you sign

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00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: up for one of these new plans. You may not

626
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: get that included anymore unlimited like I do forever. It

627
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: might just be for six months, which would not be good.

628
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: The other thing is Apple TV Plus now has a

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Speaker 1: bundle if you subscribe to Apple TV Plus, which I'm

630
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: not sure there's any paying subscribers out there. I think

631
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: everyone's still on a free plan like I am, because

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00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: I bought the iPhone last October, so mine's coming up

633
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 1: in October. Probably. Be honest, I'm probably not going to

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00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,719
Speaker 1: pay the five bucks a month for this because I

635
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 1: don't have a show on Apple TV Plus that I'm

636
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: liking right now when I was watching Morning Show. Fine,

637
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 1: but I don't know. We'll say, but if you have

638
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: Apple TV Plus, you can now get a bundle including

639
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:10,240
Speaker 1: CBS All Access and Showtime for cheaper than you would.

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00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,280
Speaker 1: It's kind of two and one. So CBS All Access

641
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: is ten dollars a month, and that includes, by the way,

642
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 1: the no commercial version, which is kind of cool, and

643
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: then Showtime is eleven, so that'd be twenty one dollars

644
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,800
Speaker 1: if you purchase these separately. If you subscribe through Apple

645
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: TV Plus, it would only be ten dollars a month,

646
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,399
Speaker 1: so you would save if you have both of these

647
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: ten dollars. But again with that caveat that, you have

648
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 1: to be an Apple TV Plus subscriber, and you also

649
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: have to figure out how to log in. It looks

650
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,800
Speaker 1: like you can log in using your Apple TV account

651
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: on let's see iPhone iPad. I don't know. You gotta

652
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: log in through Apple TV, the Apple TV app, which

653
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 1: is available on certain devices like Samsung and LG Smart TVs, Rokus,

654
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: and Amazon fireTV devices. Apple TV app is launching on

655
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: Sony and Visio later this summer. See how complicated this

656
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: all is. It's like just keeping track of all this

657
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 1: stuff is a lot for me. And again, if you

658
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 1: are on that bundle, you're saying to yourself, well, that's

659
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 1: a pretty good bundle. I'm not gonna cancel Apple TV Plus,

660
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: but do you really need the five dollars a month

661
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:25,800
Speaker 1: for Apple TV Plus? I don't know. Next question from Mark.

662
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 1: Mark says, hello, Rich, I'm still working during this pandemic,

663
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: except I am in my home office. My adventurous side

664
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: wants to hit the road still knowing I can open

665
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 1: my laptop in places that don't that typically don't have

666
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: cell phone service. Is there a device that would provide

667
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,800
Speaker 1: me data or Wi Fi in places like a national

668
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: forest that typically a signal that typically cannot catch a signal.

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00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: I don't think so. If you're you know, my immediate

670
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: thought was, oh, just get a hot spot and I

671
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: will tell you about a hot spot that I recently

672
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 1: featured on KTLA, which I think is really it's called

673
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 1: the I don't know if I mentioned this last week

674
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:08,320
Speaker 1: on the show, but it's called the ZTE max Connect.

675
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: And what I like about this hotspot is that it's unlocked,

676
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: so you just buy this hot spot and you just

677
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 1: pop a SIM card, prepaid whatever, as long as it's

678
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 1: a GSM. I think I did mention this, and you

679
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: can pop it in and it you know, you can

680
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: use wireless internet from this provider, and you don't have

681
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 1: to have a contract per se. That's called the ZTE

682
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 1: max Connect. Now that was my initial thought as an

683
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 1: answer to this question, but he's saying he wants like

684
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 1: a national forest that you can't get a signal, and

685
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 1: now there's not really gonna be a way to get

686
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: a signal outside of a cell phone signal. In the future, yes,

687
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:45,360
Speaker 1: maybe we'll have the laser or sorry the yeah, is

688
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: it laser delivered satellite I don't know, satellite delivered laser

689
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: internet Maybe in the future, but right now, no, if

690
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: you can't get a data signal, you're not gonna be

691
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: able to get data as far as I know. If

692
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: someone knows anything different that I don't. I mean, yes,

693
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: there's via SAT, but I don't think you can have

694
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 1: you know you could do that, Okay, all right, I

695
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: guess you could do it if you had an RV

696
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 1: with a satellite that got the signal via SAT. But

697
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 1: I don't think. I mean, I guess you could do that.

698
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 1: Let me see viasat if you had how let's see internet.

699
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 1: I guess if you had one of these on your

700
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: there's probably is home or there probably is RV satellite Internet.

701
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just google that that you could install on

702
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 1: your RV and then you could use that as a

703
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:42,879
Speaker 1: hot spot. But again, it's expensive. I'm sure it's very Yeah.

704
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 1: The first line of this this website I brought up,

705
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: getting satellite internet with a mobile satellite dish for your

706
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 1: RV is not a simple process. It's possible, but you're

707
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,879
Speaker 1: looking at thousands of dollars in equipment and a long

708
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: term contract with up to four hundred dollars a month

709
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 1: or more and subpart internet. So I don't think this

710
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: is the way to do it. They do have some

711
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 1: various ways of getting it. But the other thing I

712
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 1: would recommend in this article satellite Internet dot Com recommends

713
00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: it as well. Is from a company called we Boost.

714
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: I thought it was, yeah, we Boost, which makes cell

715
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: phone boosters we Boost, and I thought it was called

716
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: Wilson Internet Booster. Maybe it is we Boost. No, Wilson's

717
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: signal Booster. So check out those as well. Yeah, Wilson

718
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: Signal User, uh Booster. So those are the ways that

719
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: I think you can probably get around that. So yeah,

720
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 1: I mean it's not Look, it's not gonna be expensive.

721
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be cheap. It's gonna be expensive, and

722
00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 1: it's gonna be too much work. And I get it.

723
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: You have this idea of driving around anywhere and just

724
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: picking up a signal. But look, you know, if you're

725
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 1: in the National Forest, enjoy the national forest, and when

726
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 1: you get out of the National Forest, find a Starbucks

727
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: and work from outside there if you need a signal

728
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: or you know, I went to Zion months ago and

729
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:06,400
Speaker 1: the signal was fantastic everywhere, including pretty much even in

730
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: the forest. I mean there's it's pretty rare these days

731
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,720
Speaker 1: that you don't have a signal. I mean, you really

732
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: have to be out there to not have a signal.

733
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: So that's what I'd recommend all right, let's see what

734
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,319
Speaker 1: we want to talk about next. I'll talk about this

735
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,280
Speaker 1: because I thought this is kind of fun. Another Apple story.

736
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: Apple renamed. They introduced two new radio stations and they

737
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,919
Speaker 1: renamed their Beats One. I don't know if you listen

738
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,839
Speaker 1: to Beats one. I'm guessing you don't, because they say

739
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 1: it's very popular. Maybe people do listen to it. It's

740
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: really cool and they have a great guy that does it,

741
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 1: Zane Low is like their main I don't know if

742
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: you call him a DJ or personality, but it's really

743
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,160
Speaker 1: cool and they do a great job. I mean, this

744
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: guy knows everyone in the industry, and you know, he

745
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 1: calls them up on FaceTime. Of course because it's Apple,

746
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: I messages them, so he's connected. And they do a

747
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 1: great job. Apple Music are Beats one broadcast you know, live,

748
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:01,840
Speaker 1: and they really do a good job of getting behind

749
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: the music. Well that's gonna be renamed Apple Music One.

750
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: And then they're also launching two new live streaming radio

751
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: stations called Apple Music Hits and the one that I'm

752
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: excited about called Apple Music Country. And for the past

753
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: couple of days since they launched this, I've been listening

754
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 1: to Apple Music Country NonStop and it's awesome. They're broadcasting

755
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:24,280
Speaker 1: out of Nashville. If you have Serious XM, it reminds

756
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: me a lot of the Highway, but it reminds me

757
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:30,240
Speaker 1: of the Highway yet run by kids in high school

758
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: or college, like almost like a college radio station. Because

759
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: all of the DJs right now are so excited that

760
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: they have this new job with Apple and so it's

761
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: like it's very It's not like the guys you have

762
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 1: on on Serious XM, Stormy Warren and you know these

763
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 1: other guys that are very you know, you know, everyone

764
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: knows them in Nashville, and they're kind of they've been

765
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 1: doing it for a long time. These new folks on

766
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,399
Speaker 1: Apple Music Country are kind of like excited that they're

767
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: there and doing this new cool way of broadcasting. And

768
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: it's not really broadcasting because it's through the iPhone or

769
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,479
Speaker 1: however you have Apple Music. So anyway, I've been listening

770
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: to it. I love it. It's great. I don't know

771
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,280
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna get my wife to switch from the Highway,

772
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: but what I love about this it's also free, so

773
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: you can listen to Apple Music Country, Apple Music Hits,

774
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 1: and of course B to One even If you don't

775
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,440
Speaker 1: have a subscription to Apple Music, you just open the

776
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 1: Apple Music app and you can do it. You can

777
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: also install it on Android, but when I noticed on

778
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: Android when I installed it there is that it does

779
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: look like you have to sign in to be able

780
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 1: to access the stream. So it's free, but it mostly

781
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:41,240
Speaker 1: seems free on Apple devices iPhone, iPad, car play Apple Watch,

782
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:44,279
Speaker 1: Apple TV, Mac HomePod, and you can ask Siri to

783
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,720
Speaker 1: play Apple Music one, Apple Music Hits or Apple Music Country.

784
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:51,839
Speaker 1: I'm a country music fan, so I like that and

785
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 1: I love. What I've realized about listening to playlists is

786
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: I've always loved radio. I'm a radio guy, and I

787
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 1: love DJs. Not the Hey, I'm Jack the Whack and

788
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: we got another set of fifty minutes of NonStop commercial

789
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,399
Speaker 1: for eight meals like coming up. I'm that. I used

790
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:11,959
Speaker 1: to like that, but now what I like is more

791
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,839
Speaker 1: of Hey. Bring me behind this music a little bit.

792
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 1: Tell me about this song, give me an interview with

793
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: this soundwriter or this songwriter. Tell me what the message

794
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: is behind this music. Explain this music a little bit.

795
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 1: My biggest problem when you're listening to these playlists on

796
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 1: Spotify and all the various music services. It's just one

797
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 1: song into the next, and I have no idea if

798
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 1: that's a new song, it's a song that's fifteen years old,

799
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: if it's an experimental song they downloaded off SoundCloud, I

800
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: have no idea. There's no reference point when you're listening

801
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,959
Speaker 1: to a playlist, and so by listening to a live

802
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 1: streaming station with someone behind the microphone, you can actually

803
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 1: get a little bit more information about what you're listening to.

804
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: And maybe it's just getting older, but I like that.

805
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: I want to hear what the story is behind this

806
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 1: song and why I'm listening to it, and so that's

807
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: what Apple Music Country is all about. That's what the

808
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: other stations are about. That's why I do love Sirius XM.

809
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: When I'm in my wife's car, I don't have it

810
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 1: in mind, but she's got it in hers and I

811
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: do like it. I like every time I listen, I

812
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: get a little snippet of something. And that's also why

813
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:24,279
Speaker 1: I like terrestrial radio, because it is that exact thing.

814
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 1: You're hearing a live person tell you something and you're

815
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: just getting little snippets here and there, and so for

816
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:33,920
Speaker 1: that reason, check it out. I think it's really cool

817
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 1: and hopefully you do too. All right, Let's see if

818
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 1: I can get to one more question. Let's see. Fred says, Hey, Rich,

819
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: I watch your segment on a local station in Sacramento,

820
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: must be Fox forty. And I used to use wonder

821
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 1: List as a two do app. What do you recommend

822
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 1: as an equivalent for personal use on an iPhone? Thanks? Fred,

823
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,800
Speaker 1: I would recommend wonder List went out of fashion because

824
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 1: Microsoft purchased them. They were a fantastic to do app

825
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 1: and I love them and I used to use them

826
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 1: as well. But Microsoft bought them. They kind of, you know,

827
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 1: dismantled it. I think it's gone by now. And they

828
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: actually came up with a really good app that's very

829
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 1: very similar called Microsoft to Do and I love it.

830
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,800
Speaker 1: I use it. I actually write out my to do list.

831
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: But I to Microsoft to Do is the best to

832
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,959
Speaker 1: do list that I've found. And let me explain why

833
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: they don't nickel and dime you. When you download Microsoft

834
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,479
Speaker 1: to Do List, you get all the features without having

835
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: to unlock in app purchases or pay up this or

836
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,919
Speaker 1: do that. I mean, I'm not even sure if there

837
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 1: is a way to get extra features for paid products.

838
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe there is. But I also use

839
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:48,720
Speaker 1: it because I can have my team member team members

840
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 1: on here and I can assign things to them and

841
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,759
Speaker 1: they can see their to do list and complete them

842
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 1: and I don't have to see you know, I can

843
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,399
Speaker 1: remember what I assigned them to do or ask them

844
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: to do, and I can oh yeah, let me let

845
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 1: me ask them about that. So Microsoft to do. It

846
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 1: works on iPhone, it works on Android, it works on

847
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 1: your desktop, MACPC. It's fantastic, highly highly recommended. It recommend it,

848
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: and you can also attach files you can I mean,

849
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:14,839
Speaker 1: there's just so many. The other thing I love about

850
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 1: it they have this feature called my Day. So let's

851
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 1: say you put all in this the way I do

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Speaker 1: my to do list. Let's say you put a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of stuff in your to do list, and then

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Speaker 1: the next day, all that stuff just lingers there. What

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Speaker 1: I love about Microsoft to Do is that they move

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Speaker 1: all that stuff to kind of like your tasks, but

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Speaker 1: then your day is clean again. So it's just a

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Speaker 1: really nice way of kind of remembering the things that

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Speaker 1: you need to do and doing them on a daily basis.

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Speaker 1: It's just really really well done. So Fred that's what

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Speaker 1: I'd recommend, and it's inspired by wonder List. So all right,

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Speaker 1: that's going to do it for the show. Let me

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Speaker 1: just do two more quick little bites here. Instagram rolled

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Speaker 1: out this feature called suggested Posts, which no one likes,

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00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,879
Speaker 1: but I called it on this podcast many months ago.

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Speaker 1: I can't find the clip because I don't really think

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Speaker 1: about these podcasts once I'm done, and I don't do

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Speaker 1: any sort of organization for remembering what I've said. But

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Speaker 1: they have a feature that I called it. I said,

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Speaker 1: Instagram is going to get more like TikTok, where you

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Speaker 1: can just continuously scroll and see a whole bunch of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well that's exactly what they did. So now when you

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Speaker 1: reach the end of your feed, which is the end

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Speaker 1: of all the stuff that you've been look you know,

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Speaker 1: the people that you follow, there are now suggested posts

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Speaker 1: from people you don't follow, but it's in the stuff

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Speaker 1: that you kind of like to look at. So there

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Speaker 1: you go. You can now search. You can now scroll

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Speaker 1: forever on Instagram, which, you know, it's kind of a

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00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 1: weird thing because Instagram used to have this feature and

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00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 1: they still have it that says, hey, you're all caught

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Speaker 1: up at the end of your feed, and that was

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Speaker 1: an idea, you know, that was a feature to keep

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Speaker 1: you less glued to the app. Well they still do

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Speaker 1: that now. After that, they do suggested posts like oh

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Speaker 1: you're all caught up, but here's some other stuff if

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Speaker 1: you want to just keep scrolling forever and waste your

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Speaker 1: life on Instagram, Netflix is testing. Speaking of wasting your life,

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Speaker 1: Netflix is testing a shuffle play button. I mean, really, folks,

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Speaker 1: are you this wasteful with your time that you need

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Speaker 1: to just click a shuffle play button on Netflix? Now?

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Speaker 1: If you're saying rich, well you loved it on Hulu. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I loved it on Hulu for Seinfeld and even other

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Speaker 1: shows like Friends, Like I said, they should have an

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Speaker 1: NHBO Max, they should have a shuffle button. Yes. If

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Speaker 1: I love a show like a sitcom and I want

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Speaker 1: to sit down and just waste a half an hour,

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Speaker 1: I want to press shuffle because I don't want have

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Speaker 1: to think about what episode to watch. That works. But

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Speaker 1: Netflix testing it is like, okay, so it can. It's

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00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: a test, so not everyone sees this, but it's on

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Speaker 1: your home screen and it will randomly play content it

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Speaker 1: thinks you like. According to tech Crunch, This could be

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Speaker 1: a movie or a show you're currently watching, something you've

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Speaker 1: saved in your list, or a title that's similar to

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Speaker 1: something you've watched that is too wide of a swath

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Speaker 1: of stuff for me. So just because I bookmarked a documentary,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I'm gonna say shuffle and I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna start watching like an hour and a half documentary.

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Speaker 1: No way, I think this is totally bananas, Like we

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Speaker 1: need to be a little bit more mindful of how

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Speaker 1: we use our time in this world. And a shuffle

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Speaker 1: button just to let Netflix, you know, Carte Blanche play

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Speaker 1: whatever they want in front of my eyes for as

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Speaker 1: much time as they want to take up a mind

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Speaker 1: No way, no, no no, And yes there's a time

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Speaker 1: and a place for all this stuff. But for me personally,

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Speaker 1: I want to be a little bit more directed with

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Speaker 1: my use of time. And so for that reason, give

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Speaker 1: me shuffle on the shows on Netflix. And if you want,

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Speaker 1: maybe even the hour long show is fine. If you

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Speaker 1: have an hour to kill you just want to watch

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Speaker 1: an episode of Law and Order, fine, that makes sense,

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Speaker 1: But don't just shuffle everything on the service. And maybe,

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Speaker 1: since this is a test, they will come up with

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Speaker 1: that situation. But for me, I mean, come on, that's

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Speaker 1: that's like a little bit too much of an abuse

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Speaker 1: of my time. But I see, I see the reasoning

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Speaker 1: for it. I mean, I'm not totally saying it's terrible,

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Speaker 1: but I to me, I want a little bit more direction.

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Speaker 1: So all right, oh wow, oh no, what does that

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Speaker 1: music mean? That music means? It is the end of

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Speaker 1: the show. That went fast and I even went longer

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Speaker 1: than normal. Oh let's see what do I say at

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Speaker 1: this point? That's gonna do it for this episode of

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Speaker 1: the show. If you'd like to submit a question for

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Speaker 1: me to answer, just go to richon tech dot tv

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Speaker 1: and hit the email button at the bottom of the page.

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Speaker 1: And I'd also love it if you rate and review

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Speaker 1: this podcast to help other people discover it. Just go

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Speaker 1: to rate this podcast dot com. Slash rich on Tech

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Speaker 1: What did m Let's see? Mjm Blues two four eight said,

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Speaker 1: I've been listening to rich for a few years, and

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Speaker 1: I love that he talks directly to you, like he

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Speaker 1: wants to help you and not necessarily help promote a product. However,

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Speaker 1: if he's passionate about a product, you will certainly. I

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Speaker 1: haven't read this yet, by the way, he will certainly

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Speaker 1: stand behind it and help you get the most out

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Speaker 1: of it. Well, thank you, Oh a Jersey guy with

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Speaker 1: a world of technical knowledge. Great headline as well. All right,

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Speaker 1: you can find me everywhere at richon Tech. My name

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Speaker 1: is rich damiro On, behalf of everyone that gets this

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Speaker 1: show to your ears. Thanks so much for listening. Stay safe,

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Speaker 1: We will get through this, folks. I feel like we're

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Speaker 1: getting there. I'll talk to you real soon.