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Speaker 1: protect your email. Should Netflix show emergency alerts? Plus your

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Speaker 1: tech questions answered? What is going on? I'm Rich Demiro.

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Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk

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

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Speaker 1: reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Well, I

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Speaker 1: think the last time I talked to you, I was

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Speaker 1: on the Facebook Audio rooms, which welcome to everyone listening

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Speaker 1: on the Facebook Audio rooms, you you are awesome for

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Speaker 1: on their TV screens, and guess what, it never happened. Now,

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00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,880
Speaker 1: if you ask me, Netflix should do this because They've

430
00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:20,720
Speaker 1: got everything in place to be able to do this.

431
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,000
Speaker 1: They know what you're watching, they know when you're watching,

432
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 1: they can sync it up with their app, they can

433
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,160
Speaker 1: put it in the app, they can I mean, they

434
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,000
Speaker 1: just have the ability to do this. So do the

435
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:36,200
Speaker 1: other online streaming services too, but Netflix especially, nobody's done

436
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 1: it really as far as I know. I'm sure there's

437
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,280
Speaker 1: some apps that can help, but I think the closest

438
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,560
Speaker 1: thing that you might be able to use is Google

439
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 1: Lens and or Amazon. They can let you take a

440
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 1: snapshot and scan the picture for what people are wearing

441
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 1: that picture. Now, maybe not the exact brand, but you know,

442
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 1: maybe similar to what they're wearing. So that's what I

443
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 1: would write. Commend downloading and see if you can if

444
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 1: you can identify some of that stuff. So yeah, really

445
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,199
Speaker 1: really cool. It would be cool. But to me, a

446
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 1: lot of this stuff is, you know, if they don't

447
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:14,640
Speaker 1: have a deal with it, they don't want to sell it.

448
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 1: There's a lot of reasons why this hasn't happened, not

449
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 1: just the fact that it's not. It's definitely doable, that's

450
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:23,560
Speaker 1: for sure, all right. There's been a lot of talk

451
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 1: this week about Apple's new mag Safe battery pack. A

452
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 1: lot of people have been emailing me about this. I

453
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,680
Speaker 1: just discounted it immediately, like I do with a lot

454
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 1: of stuff. I don't know why, and then you know,

455
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 1: as more you know reviews or people chatter about it

456
00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:40,120
Speaker 1: or people email me about it, then I give things

457
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 1: a second look. But sometimes I'm just like, ah, do

458
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 1: you really need a mag Safe battery pack? Like mag

459
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:49,280
Speaker 1: Safe has been I would say underwhelming at most. I

460
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,639
Speaker 1: think it has a lot of potential, but I don't

461
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,480
Speaker 1: think we're fully seeing that potential realized. And I use

462
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,639
Speaker 1: myself as an example. I mean, I've had mag Safe

463
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:01,159
Speaker 1: for a year now, or almost a year, and I

464
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 1: don't have any mag Safe accessories. I wanted to buy some,

465
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,119
Speaker 1: but I just, you know, it's like every time I

466
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: want to get them, I'm like, Eh, do I really

467
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:13,480
Speaker 1: need that? And so I have been hesitant. I tried

468
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,200
Speaker 1: one in my car. I talked about it last week.

469
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 1: I got it. It didn't really work. It was like

470
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 1: a holder for my phone. A battery pack is, I

471
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 1: guess good for travel, but I haven't been traveling very much,

472
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 1: so I've not really seen myself in a place where

473
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 1: I need the extended battery pack maybe at CES this year.

474
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 1: If it actually happens in person, I'll need this. But nonetheless,

475
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 1: I think I will do a segment on these things

476
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,359
Speaker 1: because I got so many emails about them, so I

477
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 1: guess people do have a use for them, and I

478
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:42,879
Speaker 1: have to remember sometimes it's not always all about me.

479
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's about other folks. But anyway, i'more has a

480
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:50,640
Speaker 1: great review on this thing, and so this is Christine

481
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,640
Speaker 1: Chan who wrote the review. And they looked at it

482
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,720
Speaker 1: and said that, you know, it took ten months for

483
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,160
Speaker 1: Apple to make one of these things. It's ninety nine dollars.

484
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 1: It comes to in one color white. It is not made

485
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:07,160
Speaker 1: of silicone like you thought the old smart battery cases

486
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 1: before it. It's actually a hard plastic more like the

487
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 1: MacBook from two thousand and six, so that's interesting. There

488
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,120
Speaker 1: is a single lightning port at the bottom, as well

489
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:18,919
Speaker 1: as an LED status indicator. And of course, if you

490
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,159
Speaker 1: just like to stay in the Apple ecosystem, this is

491
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 1: the one you want to get, no matter what. Now.

492
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,280
Speaker 1: The reviewer said they were surprised at how strong the

493
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 1: magnetic attachment is, although it's not as strong as the

494
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:33,160
Speaker 1: pop sockets pop grip which is funny because I've also

495
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 1: wanted to get a pop sockets pop grip for mag Safe,

496
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 1: which I've been dragging my feet on as well. Maybe

497
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:43,199
Speaker 1: I should just order all this mag stuff stuff. But

498
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 1: the ones people are comparing it against are the Anchor

499
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 1: and the Mofi, so maybe those are the two I'll get.

500
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: I'll compare these. But from other places I've read, apparently

501
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 1: this doesn't charge your phone with a full charge if

502
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 1: you have an iPhone twelve Pro. I don't know, but

503
00:26:58,080 --> 00:26:59,720
Speaker 1: if you have an iPhone twelve, it's the only reason

504
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: you really get this because the otherwise, you know, I'm

505
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: talking all the pro all the iPhone twelves, like whether

506
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 1: it's the twelve, the twelve Pro, twelve Pro Max, because

507
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: those are the only iPhones so far the have mag Safe.

508
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: It fits on the iPhone twelve Mini as well. Now

509
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 1: here's the thing that I immediately discounted. The charging rate

510
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,919
Speaker 1: is only five watts, and you can go up to

511
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:28,479
Speaker 1: fifteen watts with wireless on an iPhone with a different charger,

512
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: and so it's like, ah, this is a real trickle

513
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 1: charge for this thing. But one thing that this review says,

514
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:36,959
Speaker 1: if you plug the mag Safe battery pack in with

515
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,640
Speaker 1: a lightning cable. Then it acts like a regular mag

516
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,439
Speaker 1: safe charger with a full fifteen watts of charging output.

517
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: So here's the scenario. I see. You bring your lightning cable,

518
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 1: you bring this charger, and this is now the bedside

519
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,919
Speaker 1: charger for when you travel, but you get the added

520
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: benefit of having a full battery pack for you know,

521
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: taken on the go. So let me give you the

522
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 1: full scenario. You get to the hotel room, you plug

523
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,160
Speaker 1: this battery pack in, you lay your phone on top.

524
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 1: It charges your phone and it also charges that battery.

525
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: Then when you leave the hotel room, you take your

526
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,159
Speaker 1: phone and this mag say fully charged battery pack, and

527
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 1: that should definitely get you throughout the day to be

528
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 1: charged up and ready to go until you make it

529
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 1: back to the hotel room later on in the day.

530
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,679
Speaker 1: So that would be the scenario that I would see

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00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:27,120
Speaker 1: working pretty well. But the conclusion is, let's see, what's

532
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 1: the conclusion of this review. The conclusion is that, let's see,

533
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: it's expensive, it doesn't have the greatest capacity, the battery

534
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: can wiggle when it's attached, it can feel bulky, and

535
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 1: it's only available in that one color. But again, if

536
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: you need it, and you want it, and you like

537
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: the Apple stuff and you want to stay in the ecosystem,

538
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: then I think it looks pretty cool. I was originally

539
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: going to get it, and then I was kind of

540
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: like eh. When I saw the five Watch charging, I

541
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 1: was like, Eh, that's kind of a non starter. But

542
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: I do like the idea of having an extra battery

543
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: pack with me when I travel. So if it's one

544
00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: that magnetically attaches to the back of my phone for ease,

545
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,479
Speaker 1: then that does make life easier. Plus I can use

546
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 1: it as a charger. But I'm going to compare it

547
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: against these other two battery packs and see which one

548
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 1: I think works for me. All right, let's get to

549
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: the next question. Bruce says, good morning, Rich, I have

550
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: a question on the iPhone eleven. How come when you

551
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,160
Speaker 1: receive text messages you don't know the time they were

552
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: sent or received. I always see the time I send them,

553
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: but not the other way around. Thank you for your time,

554
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: Bruce and Michigan Bruce Bruce, Bruce, Bruce, you didn't read

555
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: my book. I know, I know this was This was

556
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: one of the biggest tips in my original book one

557
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: hundred and one well, the original book, let's see iPhone book.

558
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: I got to look up my own book because it's

559
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 1: been so long, I can't remember that it was. The

560
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: original book was one hundred and one Handy Tech Tips

561
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: for the iPhone, and then it was one hundred and

562
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: one iPhone Tips and Tricks. But this original book was

563
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: you know, I had my original one hundred and one tips.

564
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 1: I just thought everyone should know. And by the way,

565
00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: this was a best seller on Amazon. It did really

566
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 1: really well. I did a second version of it and

567
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: it still has four and a half stars, which is amazing.

568
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: The second book has also four and a half stars,

569
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: which is really really our four point six stars on Amazon.

570
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 1: I mean, that's really really tough to get. So people

571
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: love these books I wrote. I stopped at iOS thirteen,

572
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,719
Speaker 1: and to be completely honest, we had a new company

573
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: come in and I was unsure about whether I was

574
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: allowed to sell my book with my contract, you know,

575
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 1: here at the station, and I guess I'm getting into

576
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 1: a little bit of inside baseball maybe confidential stuff, but

577
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: I was just unsure, and so I was treading lightly.

578
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: I took you know, I didn't take it down for sale,

579
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: but I just didn't really advertise it anymore. And so

580
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 1: I feel like at this point, I don't think my

581
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 1: company would be not allowing me to do this to

582
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: sell this book. So I'm seriously looking into a way

583
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: of bringing this back and updating it for the new

584
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: iOS because iOS fifteen actually has a lot of new

585
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: features and so and honestly, a lot of these things

586
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: are just tried and true tricks on the iPhone that

587
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 1: people just don't know. And so you just keep this

588
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: book on your coffee table and you kind of just

589
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: look at it and refer to it. And so anyway,

590
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: long story short, you can still buy the books on Amazon,

591
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: and yes, they will still help you. You just might

592
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: run into a scenario where it's not completely up to

593
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: date for the latest operating system and that you know

594
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen with all the tips, but it

595
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: can happen with some of the tips. But anyway, to

596
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 1: answer your question, Bruce, the solution is to just look

597
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 1: in the message list. And I'm not talking the main

598
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: message list. I'm saying, like, go into a conversation of

599
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: messages and just put your finger on the right side

600
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: of the screen and swipe to the left, and that

601
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 1: will reveal the time stamps for all of the messages,

602
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: and that is the easiest way to see when messages

603
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: were sent and received. Yes, your iPhone kind of time

604
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: stamps things like in the center of the screen at

605
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: random times. I don't know how they decide, maybe it's

606
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 1: every day whatever. But if you want to see all

607
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: the exact time stamps, yeah, just swipe from the right

608
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: to the left and that's it. That will bring you

609
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: to it. Let's talk about Venmo, my favorite app that

610
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: I used to hate. Now I kind of like it.

611
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: I told you I played poker at my friend's house

612
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: last Friday night and we did something different. We all

613
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: used Venmo to pay for the the buy in and

614
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: then we got cashed out with Venmo. And by the way,

615
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 1: my friend Bald Brian Brian Bishop, he's on the Krolla show.

616
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: He told me that everyone's self reported winnings, like their

617
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: final count of their chips was actually exactly right, which

618
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: thumbs up for honesty with my friends, So that was

619
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 1: pretty cool. I actually won, so that was kind of fun.

620
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: Not a lot of money, but I did win and

621
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: I got my payout via Venmo, which was cool. So anyway,

622
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: I like Venmo as long as you don't. You know,

623
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: I feel like it's good for simple things, but not

624
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. But anyway, I'll talk about that too.

625
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 1: But they revealed an updated look to the Venmo app.

626
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: So at some point you will open your Venmo app

627
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: and it's going to look completely different and you'll smile

628
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: to yourself and say, oh, yeah, Rich, talk about this.

629
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: It hasn't happened on my app just yet. These companies

630
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: typically roll these things out. They take time, but a

631
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: couple of things are changing. Number one gone is the

632
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:38,479
Speaker 1: Global Feed. The Global feed has been a source of

633
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 1: contention and entertainment for folks and also people that don't

634
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: realize that if you don't change the privacy settings, it

635
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: shows whatever you do on Venmo to everyone in the world.

636
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: I hated that about Venmo. I just thought that that

637
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: was so dumb, and I always changed my privacy settings

638
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: immediately so that it was just private among me and

639
00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 1: my not even me and my friends, just private among

640
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: me and the person I'm transacting with. A lot of

641
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,959
Speaker 1: people like the feed among their friends because they can

642
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: it's just fun, you see. You know, oh, Rich played

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00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 1: poker with these folks, and you know, you see that

644
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 1: on there, and it's fun and there's a little fomo

645
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 1: involved and whatever. But I don't even do that. But

646
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: I'm fine if you leave that aspect open, as long

647
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,879
Speaker 1: as you know that it's open. But anyway, Venmo's getting

648
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: rid of the global feed. They said that it no

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00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: longer serves their seventy million users because it's not meaningful

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00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 1: anymore to them, which I get that's totally true. But

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00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: they did it because there's just, you know, this emphasis

652
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: on privacy. There's gonna be a much bigger focus on

653
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: the Venmo credit card, the debit card, the crypto. All

654
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 1: that is more front and center. Now. The privacy controls

655
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: they already introduced, we talked about them. This allows you

656
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: to control your friend list so that people can't creep

657
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: on your friend list. You can lock that down in

658
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: the settings as well, so you can select public, friends

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00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: only or private for your friend's list. And you can

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00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 1: also choose how you want your profile to appear if

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00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: you appear on other people's friends lists. So that could

662
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 1: get interesting, you know, like you could someone could potentially

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00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: be looking through someone's friend list and see you, and

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Speaker 1: they're like, oh, that's interesting. Rich interacts with this person. Hmm, okay,

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00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:10,919
Speaker 1: I'll just keep that in the back of my head.

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00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 1: The other big thing that they kind of hit, of course,

667
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,840
Speaker 1: in their blog post, but this week they are rolling

668
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: out a new toggle switch when you make a transaction

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Speaker 1: that says, hey, by the way, did you pay for

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Speaker 1: goods or services with this with this transaction? And if

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00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 1: you toggle that on, the seller is going to pay

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00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 1: a fee and you're going to be covered by a

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00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 1: purchase protection. Now, as a user, and I talked about

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00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 1: this in my last podcast, I like this because if

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00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: I'm paying someone for something as a business transaction, I

676
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: want to be protected in case something goes wrong, and

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00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,280
Speaker 1: whether that's I don't get my goods, the service is bad, whatever,

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00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 1: I want to be able to have that little bit

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00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: of protection between me and my money. And if you

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00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: do this as a personal transaction, and yeah, there's some

681
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 1: protections built in, but not really and you're kind of

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Speaker 1: out of luck. So if you toggle this switch, which

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00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: Venmo thinks people will do, the seller's gonna have to

684
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 1: pay some money. Already. Sellers are complaining about this, which

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00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,319
Speaker 1: I understand. Who wants to pay more than you have to?

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00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: But I see it as kind of a cost of

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Speaker 1: doing business. And I get it. Business is expensive. It's

688
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: not cheap. When I sold my book, I talked about this,

689
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: it was very expensive. I had to give you know,

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Speaker 1: ten percent here, thirty percent here, you know, up to

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Speaker 1: fifty percent to other places to you know, sell what

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Speaker 1: I wrote, which is mine. But I couldn't have done

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00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: it without these services, these platforms, and so for that reason,

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Speaker 1: I was very happy to hand over my money and

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00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:43,359
Speaker 1: take the portion that I was welcome to. So you're

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00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 1: not going to see it immediately. But again, let's say

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00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: you go get a haircut with someone, and you know,

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00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: you put it in there as a private, you know,

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00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 1: person a person transaction. Now you might toggle it as

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Speaker 1: a service or a good and you might not think

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00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: twice about doing it, and next thing you know, they're

702
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 1: gonna pay a little percentage on top of that. So

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00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: just something to be aware of, something to know. And

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00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: I think it's good that they're doing this because Venmo

705
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,919
Speaker 1: has become way more than just a way to pay

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00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 1: friends and divvy up tabs and stuff like that. It

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00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 1: has become a force in payments and so they are

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00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,880
Speaker 1: recognizing that, and of course they want to cut as well.

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Speaker 1: Of more of this money. Because if you if you

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00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: use vemo as a personal payment service and just wait

711
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:29,360
Speaker 1: for the money to take its its little time to

712
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 1: get into your account, you could use venmo forever without

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00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: paying a dime. And of course they don't want that.

714
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: They want you to pay. They want you to pay,

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00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 1: and so that's what these services nudge you to do.

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Speaker 1: All right. Just want to say thanks to the folks

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Speaker 1: in the front row on the Facebook. It's still a

718
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Speaker 1: lot of the same folks, Stanley, JC, sock Jinhang and

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Speaker 1: yogash Thanks for being in the front row and sending

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Speaker 1: those stars. And thanks to everyone else that's listening and

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00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:02,399
Speaker 1: giving me those thumbs up up to keep going thumbs up.

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Speaker 1: I love it. It's such a fun thing I've done

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Speaker 1: in my time as a tech reporter. I've done so

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00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,919
Speaker 1: many different variations of live and I like the live

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00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: on camera stuff, but the live audio is such a

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00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,280
Speaker 1: fun thing, especially when I could eventually bring people on board.

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Speaker 1: Still figuring out the best way to do that, AJ

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Speaker 1: says best video download Hey Rich, what's the best video downloader?

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00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:29,800
Speaker 1: And social media apps to manage multiple accounts? Thanks aj,

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00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: aj best social media downloader I know of is called

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Speaker 1: the soft O Reno YouTube Converter too. It works with

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00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: a lot of different services YouTube, Instagram, Facebook. You can

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Speaker 1: download videos from that, hopefully they're your own, because I can't.

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00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:51,839
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't condone downloading videos that you don't own.

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00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 1: But there's another one called Twitter Video Downloader dot com,

736
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: which I also like for downloading your own Twitter videos

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00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 1: off of Twitter, because you never download someone else's, right.

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Speaker 1: But those are the Those are the websites that I

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Speaker 1: would recommend or the services that I would recommend for

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Speaker 1: those super easy. Soft Reno is going to cost some money,

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Speaker 1: maybe twenty bucks, thirty bucks, I can't remember how much

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00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: it costs. I bought it so long ago or I

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00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: got it so long ago, i should say. And it

744
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 1: just works really really great. It's not there's no spyware

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Speaker 1: on it. There's no there's no you know, ads and

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Speaker 1: all this other stuff. So it's a it's a legitimate

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00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: software that works really really well. So good question, all right,

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00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: Uh should Netflix air emergency alerts? That is the question

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00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,280
Speaker 1: posed by the Hollywood Reporter And they have a great

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00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: guy that that covers all things like legal when it

751
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: comes to I guess legal politics, whatever, when it comes

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00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 1: to entertainment. His name's Eric Gardner, and he said that

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00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:02,720
Speaker 1: they're talking Congress is talking about the feasibility of making

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Speaker 1: streaming services have to air these emergency alert system notifications.

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00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 1: So if you have ever watched TV and growing up

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00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,720
Speaker 1: as a kid, you know, eighties nineties, like you always

757
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: heard these things on TV that you know that sound right,

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00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 1: and you technically you can't even play it on TV

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00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 1: without breaking some sort of rule, like you're not allowed

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00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 1: to play this on the radio or TV. I'm sure

761
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 1: I could play it in a podcast because that's not

762
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 1: regulated by the FCC, but I don't have the audio,

763
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: but you know, the sounds like it, and it's like

764
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: it plays that sound that we all know. And then

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00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 1: it says this has been a warning test of the

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00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 1: emergency alert system. Had this been a real test, this

767
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 1: would be followed by instructions to you know, stop, drop

768
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 1: and roll or whatever. In the nineteen sixties, according to

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00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: this article, this was established to warren Americans to get

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Speaker 1: into bomb shelters in the event of a nuclear attack

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00:40:56,320 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: by the Soviet Union. Later, all broadcast stations and cable

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00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 1: and satellite operators were required to install and maintain the system. Now,

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00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: the trick here is that cable satellite a little bit

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00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: different from broadcast, but I guess they still fell under

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00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: some of those same regulations because you had to use

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00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:17,320
Speaker 1: a cable and blah whatever. But when it comes to streaming,

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00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: they are not currently regulated by anyone. And if you've

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00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 1: watched some of these shows on Netflix, you know that

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00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:24,359
Speaker 1: they can show whatever they want and they can say

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00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 1: whatever they want, and so the idea that they would

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00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 1: have to show these emergency alerts makes sense because a

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00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 1: lot of times your TV is on these streaming services

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00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:41,240
Speaker 1: and not on a standard broadcast or cable or satellite channel.

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00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: But on the flip side, the proposed the people on

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00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 1: the other side say, you know what, We've all got

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00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: cell phones, and if you've gotten one of these alerts

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00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 1: on your cell phone, you know they've made their way there.

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00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 1: And so why do we need this on our streaming services?

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00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 1: And not to mention it would be it'd be kind

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00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: of tricky for Netflix and all these services to in

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00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: to make this work. I'm sure they could do it,

792
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: but it definitely would be a little tricky. I don't

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00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:08,359
Speaker 1: know where I stand on this. I think that it's

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00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: one of these things where we have so much access

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Speaker 1: to information these days and very quick access. I'm not

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00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 1: sure we need it through Netflix, but I would almost

797
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:18,759
Speaker 1: argue it'd be better to serve it up through the

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00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: TV itself, because then it could just go overlay the

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Speaker 1: screen no matter what you're on, whether you're on cable TV, whatever.

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Speaker 1: And most TVs are connected to the Internet these days,

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00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 1: so they could technically do that, but not every TV

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Speaker 1: is connected to the Internet at all times, so it's

803
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 1: definitely a tricky situation. But anyway, it's one of the

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Speaker 1: things are considering. I thought it was fascinating because it

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00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,399
Speaker 1: just goes to show our world is evolving in such

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Speaker 1: a unique way. You know, when you're whether you're just

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Speaker 1: everything when it comes to cars, when it comes to

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Speaker 1: the way we do things, you know, cellular like data,

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Speaker 1: like it used to be like phone calls went through

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Speaker 1: a certain type of antenna, but now they're all served

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Speaker 1: through through data and they're like literally not even going

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00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 1: through a standard like I don't even know what they

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00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 1: went through before, but it was definitely not data. It

814
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 1: was like a antenna. It was like an RF signal

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00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: at some point, right and now it's just a digital

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00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: bits of ones and zeros that it converts your voice into.

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00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: So as we evolve with tech, these laws and these regulations,

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00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 1: they all have to catch up to the way that

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00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,040
Speaker 1: we're doing things. And I just find that fascinating because

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00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:33,839
Speaker 1: it leaves a lot of things open for new interpretations. Now,

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00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: by the way, you can comment on the Facebook audio.

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Speaker 1: I just don't see those for some reason while it's live.

823
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,359
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but it just they are there.

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Speaker 1: Jennifer says good morning, And I always joke that people

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00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 1: say good morning when they email me because they always

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Speaker 1: see me on TV and they go, oh, let me

827
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Speaker 1: email him. I just saw him on TV, and then

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Speaker 1: they email me like right after they saw me on TV,

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Speaker 1: so they always say good morning. With Uber and Lyft prices,

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Speaker 1: skyrot rocketing, is there an app to use for taxis

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Speaker 1: in Ocla County? Thank you, Jennifer. Jennifer, I had to

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Speaker 1: go back into the depths of my memory to remember

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Speaker 1: what the app was that I used to use. It

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Speaker 1: used to be called Taxi Magic. When Uber and Lyft

835
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Speaker 1: first started, and I've told this story a million times,

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Speaker 1: they invited me to a party in Santa Monica and

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Speaker 1: they said, we're picking you up in an Uber and

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00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: I said, what is an Uber? And they said, it's

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Speaker 1: a car service that comes to you on demand through

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00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:33,880
Speaker 1: an app. And I said, what, what in the world

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Speaker 1: is that? Because I knew what a car service was,

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Speaker 1: because I'd lived in New York City and I knew

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00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: what a taxi was, but a car service was prohibitively

844
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: expensive for the everyday person like myself. It would be,

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Speaker 1: you know, a minimum of fifty dollars to go anywhere,

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00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 1: and much much more if you're going somewhere. And so

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Speaker 1: I said, wait what And I remember this, this taxi

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00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 1: or this car came to my house. It was like

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00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: a chauffeured car back in the day that you like,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's more of a black car town service,

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00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:04,799
Speaker 1: and it was like twenty three bucks to go to

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Speaker 1: Santa Monica. And I just couldn't believe it. And my

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Speaker 1: wife and I were early adopters of this service. We

854
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 1: tested it out and we took it all over Los

855
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:15,240
Speaker 1: Angeles because it was so cheap and we just couldn't

856
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 1: believe it. I was like, there's no way this is

857
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 1: gonna last. Well, the black car, the town car service definitely,

858
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 1: it lasted, but it's way more expensive. And of course

859
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: you've got things like Uber, x Uber Shared, You've got Lyft,

860
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 1: You've got all these different services. And to take an

861
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,680
Speaker 1: actual town car service at this point, or an Uber

862
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 1: Excel which not xcel, the Uber, they have so many

863
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:39,839
Speaker 1: names for them. They have Premiere, they have Lux, they

864
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: have Suv. But to take any of those high end ones,

865
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: it's definitely very cost prohibitive. But to take the cheap ones,

866
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: it's cheap. But yes, you're right, Jennifer. This is a

867
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 1: long answer to tell you that Uber and Lyft have

868
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: gotten very expensive during the pandemic, and that is due

869
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: to a lot of things, a lot of law changes

870
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:01,320
Speaker 1: in California, a lot of fee, a lot of added fees,

871
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: a lot of surg charges, and also, quite frankly, they

872
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:06,800
Speaker 1: just don't have the people working it like they used to.

873
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 1: So the demand is there, but the supply is just

874
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:14,359
Speaker 1: not there. And so to answer your question, the app

875
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: is called curb c RB. I don't know how good

876
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: they are. I have not used them in many many years.

877
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:23,800
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure where they stand with their app.

878
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: But that is the app that used to kind of

879
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: collate the taxi services into an app. It was definitely

880
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,760
Speaker 1: hit or miss in my tests. Sometimes it worked, sometimes

881
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 1: it didn't. But if you want to compare the prices,

882
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: you can do that. Now. The other way to compare

883
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: prices is to actually use Google Maps. So if you

884
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: put in your address in Google Maps, you can go

885
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: to the top and you know, navigate as you typically would,

886
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: but look at the top. There's a little icon next

887
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 1: to it's like car. It's a car, and then I

888
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,600
Speaker 1: think it's bike and train. And then there's a little

889
00:46:57,640 --> 00:46:59,320
Speaker 1: guy with his hand up or a little person with

890
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 1: their hand up, looks like they're hailing a taxi. I

891
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:03,840
Speaker 1: think they have a suitcase in their hand. If you

892
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:08,280
Speaker 1: tap that, it will let you see how much prices

893
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,399
Speaker 1: are for different car service options. So it can look

894
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:13,919
Speaker 1: at Lyft, it can look at Uber and whatever else

895
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 1: they may have in that service or in that service area.

896
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: And now it may be a paid thing. I don't know,

897
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 1: but at the very least it can help you realize

898
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:26,800
Speaker 1: that sometimes Uber and Lyft could be very different pricing,

899
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 1: and so it's just good to kind of just do

900
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,840
Speaker 1: a quick glance. Maybe you have a preference, maybe you don't.

901
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 1: I was using Lyft for a long time, but then

902
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 1: I recently switched back to Uber. So it just really

903
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 1: depends what service you want to use, or if you're

904
00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:44,320
Speaker 1: service agnostic, you might be able to save five to

905
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: ten you know, even more money depending on which one

906
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: of these services that you use. So good question, good question.

907
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 1: The FTC has voted to enforce right to repair. This

908
00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 1: is a topic that comes up every so often. Now

909
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 1: you might be thinking, well, can't you just bring your

910
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 1: phone in to get it repaired? You know these U

911
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 1: break I fixed places, Yeah, you can, but a lot

912
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:11,319
Speaker 1: of times unless they're an authorized facility, they don't have

913
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: access to all of the goodies that it takes to

914
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 1: help them actually repair these things in a in an

915
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: authorized way. So you bring your phone to a third

916
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:25,360
Speaker 1: party place that does not have an authorized service, and

917
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:28,399
Speaker 1: next thing you know, your warranty is is out and

918
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: anything that goes wrong with your phone you're there. You know,

919
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: you go back to the company, Apple, Samsung, whoever, and

920
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 1: they're like, ah, sorry, you got this thing repaired with

921
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:39,279
Speaker 1: some random dude, and we're not gonna be sorry. We

922
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:41,359
Speaker 1: don't know if you broke this thing when you got

923
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,360
Speaker 1: it repaired, and now you're you're out of luck for

924
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: the next year or two. So Wire talks about the

925
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 1: fact that the FTC is going to clamp down a

926
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 1: little bit on these right to repair laws and I

927
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 1: guess have existed but have not been really enforced, but

928
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: now they're going to enforce them. And this is not

929
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: just for smartphones. This is for things like tractors, cars.

930
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: I mean, we're getting into this place where electronics are

931
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 1: so specialized that just to repair them. I mean, I

932
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:12,239
Speaker 1: watched the guy you break I fix like crack open

933
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 1: an iPhone and I couldn't believe. It's just there's too

934
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:18,840
Speaker 1: much glue in there. There's too many little parts, little screws,

935
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:21,760
Speaker 1: specialized screws that you need a special screwdriver to open

936
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: them with. And I will tell you I opened up

937
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: my iPod. This is going way back. I'm talking at

938
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:34,320
Speaker 1: least ten years ago, probably closer to fifteen years ago,

939
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: when you can open up an iPod and you can

940
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:40,360
Speaker 1: order a kit from Amazon with a new battery. This

941
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: is when the batteries would go dead and so you

942
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,359
Speaker 1: could put it in a fresh battery and boom, you're

943
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:49,280
Speaker 1: on your way and the battery charge would last longer. Again. Well,

944
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 1: the toughest part was really getting the glue off the bottom,

945
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:56,759
Speaker 1: like taking the bottom off without ruining the connection, because

946
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 1: there's a connection that it's all just like glued together

947
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,360
Speaker 1: and really really complicated. So I did it. It worked.

948
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 1: It's tough to get the thing back to normal or

949
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:07,920
Speaker 1: back to the way it was, so a lot of

950
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 1: times they use like a dryer, like a heat a

951
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:12,319
Speaker 1: little bit of a heat source to like to get

952
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:16,280
Speaker 1: the glue to be gummed up a little bit. Anyway,

953
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,719
Speaker 1: it's just one of these things where it should get

954
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:22,440
Speaker 1: a little bit easier. We'll see what happens. But I

955
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:23,880
Speaker 1: think a lot of times this has to do with

956
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 1: farmers too, like farm equipment. I've read a lot of

957
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:29,359
Speaker 1: articles about how like John Deere and all these big

958
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:31,719
Speaker 1: companies that make this farm equipment, like you basically have to,

959
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:36,959
Speaker 1: you know, have an authorized repair or else you're gonna

960
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 1: get on the bad side of the farm folks. It's

961
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:46,360
Speaker 1: just the way it works. So anyway, so they argue

962
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: that that independent repair shops should have the same software,

963
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 1: diagnostic diagnostic tools and all all the things that the

964
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: parts the documentation that authorized shops have. That's the main

965
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:01,840
Speaker 1: thing here. And then the people on the other side

966
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 1: say that it could be dangerous, Like you know, you

967
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:06,879
Speaker 1: replace your own battery and you know some guy down

968
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 1: the street does it for you, and you don't know

969
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:11,440
Speaker 1: what the quality of their work is and there could

970
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:13,239
Speaker 1: be a major problem and your phone could explode in

971
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 1: your pocket. So I do see that side of it,

972
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 1: and I do worry about that stuff with an unauthorized person.

973
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: But you know there are some smart people out there.

974
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: I did a story many many years ago with a

975
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: guy that was called the the iPod Repair Surgeon, and

976
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 1: he was out of his garage in I forget where

977
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 1: he was somewhere in LA. And this guy had a

978
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: line down the street for people to repair their iPods

979
00:51:36,160 --> 00:51:39,320
Speaker 1: and he had a fantastic business. And I don't think

980
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 1: he was an authorized repair and I'm pretty sure people

981
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:44,839
Speaker 1: were very very happy with the repairs that he did

982
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:48,799
Speaker 1: on their products. So Joe Kempy was his name. It's

983
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 1: still around. I just don't think he's doing those repairs anymore.

984
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:55,120
Speaker 1: But he had a great business, the iPods Surgeon. He

985
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 1: told me that I put him on the map with

986
00:51:57,680 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 1: my story I did with him at KKEL nine News.

987
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 1: This is yeah, we're going way back. But him and

988
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: I kept in touch for many years. He was such

989
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 1: a great guy, really, just such a cool little business.

990
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:16,399
Speaker 1: He ran out of his place for that. Darryl says, Hey, Rich,

991
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 1: I have a question. I have an iPhone ten R.

992
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:22,360
Speaker 1: I've been on the Sprint network. They're switching to Tea Mobile.

993
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 1: They sent me a new SIM. They told me to

994
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:25,799
Speaker 1: back up my old voicemails before I install it. I

995
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 1: have some voicemails I'd like to keep, but too many

996
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 1: to individually sent. My question is would my voicemails be

997
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 1: saved on the SIM card? Can I retrieve them later?

998
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: Is there an easy way to save those voicemails? I

999
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 1: love your shows, your podcasts, and your sign copy of

1000
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 1: your book. Thanks for helping make us help make sense

1001
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 1: of our electronics. Daryl. Thank you, Daryl. I appreciate the

1002
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: kind words. No, you cannot. The voicemails are not saved

1003
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:53,240
Speaker 1: on the SIM. In fact, when you switch your SIM

1004
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 1: to that new Team Mobile one, you are gonna lose

1005
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 1: all of those voicemails that were saved on the Sprint network.

1006
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 1: So what you need to do is save those voicemails,

1007
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: do not lose them. You can go on the iPhone

1008
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 1: and you say, yeah, iPhone, ten rs. You've got an iPhone.

1009
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:13,399
Speaker 1: On the iPhone, you can save the voicemails by going

1010
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: into your voicemail and there's a little share button and

1011
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 1: when you go share, when you click on a voicemail,

1012
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:22,360
Speaker 1: just save that voicemail. Just download it basically, and I

1013
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 1: would save it to something like Google Drive. You can

1014
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 1: save it to Dropbox, you can save it to iCloud drive,

1015
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 1: whatever you do, or files. Just save it somewhere. You

1016
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 1: can email it to yourself, email the audio. They're usually

1017
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:38,800
Speaker 1: tiny files. But once you finish that, once you switch

1018
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:42,320
Speaker 1: that sim those voicemails are gone. I get so many

1019
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 1: emails from people that say, rich, I had a loved

1020
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:47,400
Speaker 1: one on my voicemail that left me a voicemail and

1021
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 1: they passed away, and is there a way I could

1022
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 1: retrieve their voicemail? I deleted it. No, you cannot, and

1023
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 1: it's really really sad. So at the very least, if

1024
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:59,920
Speaker 1: you cannot figure out any way. If you have an Android,

1025
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 1: you know there might be some programs that can help

1026
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 1: you save those voicemails, but they don't have the same

1027
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:07,960
Speaker 1: like save functionality as the as the iPhone. The ease

1028
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:11,719
Speaker 1: of use but just play the play the voicemail out

1029
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 1: loud and ask a friend to record it on the

1030
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 1: voice recorder on their phone and email it to you.

1031
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 1: No matter what, get these things off your phone. If

1032
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 1: you have a headphone jack, you can connect that to

1033
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 1: your computer's headphone jack and use the record program to

1034
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:27,279
Speaker 1: just record those. Uh. There's many ways of doing this.

1035
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 1: Plug it into your iPhone or your iPod. Plug your

1036
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:34,319
Speaker 1: your Android into a friend's sorry iPad and use the

1037
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:37,480
Speaker 1: recorder app to record if the iPad has a headphone jack,

1038
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: which they typically do. No matter what, just use a

1039
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 1: little recorder app or save these things from your iPhone.

1040
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 1: If you have an important voicemail, save it. That is

1041
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: the only way you can keep it. Uh. Finally, one

1042
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:55,399
Speaker 1: more tip Tony. I know Tony. He is a fan

1043
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:58,280
Speaker 1: of the podcast. He's often tweeting me, So Tony, thanks

1044
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 1: for your uh your tweets, your emails and listening to

1045
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:04,480
Speaker 1: the podcast. He sent in a tech tip for blocking spam.

1046
00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:07,839
Speaker 1: We talked about sam spam calls last week. He says, Hey, Rich,

1047
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:10,160
Speaker 1: I have a number which has an area code in

1048
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 1: another state. That way, if I ever get a call

1049
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:15,879
Speaker 1: from the area code, it is almost always a spam call,

1050
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:18,560
Speaker 1: and that is great advice. I never thought about doing that.

1051
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:22,960
Speaker 1: But my phone number is similar. It's an LA phone number,

1052
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 1: but it's definitely not exactly where I live, but it's

1053
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 1: it's close. So yeah, good, good, good. I don't know

1054
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 1: what I was gonna say. It's getting towards the end

1055
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 1: of the podcast, so I was gonna say, good tip.

1056
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:40,720
Speaker 1: But one more thing I did want to mention. Google

1057
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 1: is simplifying its backup system on Android. Hallelujah. This is

1058
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 1: from Will Saddleberg on Android Police, and basically they are

1059
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 1: I guess they're first reporting nine to five's report that

1060
00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:56,799
Speaker 1: the Google one app is finally getting a little bit

1061
00:55:56,920 --> 00:56:00,200
Speaker 1: more user friendly and they're gonna make it easier to

1062
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 1: see the apps, the photos, the videos, the SMS messages,

1063
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Speaker 1: your call history, and device settings that are on this app.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, they're making it a little bit clearer by

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