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Speaker 1: What's going on. I'm Rich DeMuro and this is Rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. This is the show where I talk about

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Speaker 1: also the place where I answer your questions about technology.

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Speaker 1: I believe that tech should be interesting, useful and fun.

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Speaker 1: dot TV. All right, we've got some great guests this week.

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Speaker 1: We've got Lexi Savidi's formerly of cnet. She was at

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Speaker 1: the Samsung event with me. She is gonna help break

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Speaker 1: Kim Cavallo from the Global Day of Unplugging. Are you

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Speaker 1: Could you do it? I did this a couple of

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Speaker 1: talk all about that and how you can help reset

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Speaker 1: your relationship with tech. Well, I just got back from

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Speaker 1: San Francisco, where Samsung held their annual Unpacked event. First

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Speaker 1: time I've been to San Francisco like city proper in

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Speaker 1: So I think that's gonna be a little bit of

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Speaker 1: The fact that you know, one hundred years later, those

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Speaker 1: So of course that's all the perfect backdrop for a

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Speaker 1: twenty six event. Samsung did bring me there, but of course,

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Speaker 1: But this is the Samsung Galaxy S twenty six Ultra

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Speaker 1: the processor and performance. So this has got a Snapdragon

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Speaker 2: Hi.

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Speaker 4: I saw your news letter this morning. Oh great mine,

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Now I don't hear to talk about another smartphone now.

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Speaker 4: I'm currently own a uh California issued uh uh Android

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Speaker 1: Or yeah, yeah, we don't. Yes, it's like a lifeline

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Speaker 1: Oh it's even better. I mean, I if you're asking

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Speaker 4: Which still have many the resources I could you know

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Speaker 1: Well, here's the deal. I will tell you the iPhone

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Speaker 4: it out, and I sink they I no, I don't

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Speaker 1: No, I would just replace the Android with this, so

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Speaker 1: and I would just replace it with this. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: for a long time, so that whatever Android phone they've

433
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Speaker 1: given you for this free government cell phone plan, they're

434
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Speaker 1: just not very good. They're very basic. The screens are

435
00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:53,359
Speaker 1: not very good, the power, you know, the processor is

436
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:57,359
Speaker 1: not very good. Even you'll notice even the reception on

437
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Speaker 1: the iPhone is going to be better than this Android

438
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Speaker 1: phone you have. And I'm not knocking Android. I'm just

439
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 1: saying specifically, the cheap androids that they give out for

440
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 1: these government you know, these government subsidized phone plans are

441
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,639
Speaker 1: just not very good. And that's, you know, it's just

442
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,359
Speaker 1: the way it is. They're not giving you the highest

443
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Speaker 1: end phones. They're not even a name brand. It's like

444
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 1: a brand you haven't even heard of. I know the brand,

445
00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,320
Speaker 1: I've seen them, but they're not like, they're not very common.

446
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Speaker 1: It's not a Samsung, it's not a Pixel. If they

447
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,919
Speaker 1: would just give people a Pixel ten a or a

448
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:29,640
Speaker 1: Pixel nine a, that'd be incredible. But they don't. They

449
00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,800
Speaker 1: give you not a very good phone. Anyway, Vincent, go

450
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Speaker 1: for it, Enjoy. I think you're gonna like it a lot.

451
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Speaker 1: Michelle wrote in on the website, Hey, Rich, I got

452
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Speaker 1: an email about my LGTV account saying I can't log

453
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Speaker 1: in with Amazon anymore and need to use my lg

454
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Speaker 1: account instead. It looks like a phishing email to me.

455
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Speaker 1: Is it legit Michelle, taking a look at this email.

456
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Speaker 1: It is legit, and here's what they're saying. Basically, when

457
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Speaker 1: you first signed into this TV, instead of creating an

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Speaker 1: LG account, or in addition to the LG account, you

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Speaker 1: signed in with Amazon, kind of like when you're browsing

460
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Speaker 1: the web. It says, hey, sign in with Facebook, sign

461
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Speaker 1: in with Google, sign in with Apple. You signed in

462
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Speaker 1: with Amazon, which is not as common, but it's there,

463
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Speaker 1: and so it's not a phishing email. They're just basically

464
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Speaker 1: telling you you need to sign in with your LG

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Speaker 1: email and password from now on. So it doesn't affect

466
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Speaker 1: any of your subscriptions, your Prime Video, any of that

467
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,480
Speaker 1: stuff has nothing to do with that. All they're saying

468
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Speaker 1: is that they're not using that Amazon login anymore. This

469
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Speaker 1: happens a lot when companies just decide they don't want

470
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Speaker 1: to have that log in support it anymore. So all

471
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Speaker 1: you need to know is that you'll either need to

472
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Speaker 1: create an LG account or you already have one, and

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Speaker 1: so that's the way you're going to log in on

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Speaker 1: this TV from now on. Good question, DeBie writes in Hey, Rich,

475
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,480
Speaker 1: years ago, a coworker went to CS and came back

476
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Speaker 1: saying banking apps were easier to hack and we shouldn't

477
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Speaker 1: use them. That was about ten years ago. Because of that,

478
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Speaker 1: I never added my credit card bank to my phone.

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Speaker 1: Has that changed, Debbie? If I told you how many

480
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Speaker 1: credit cards I added to my phone in the past week.

481
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Speaker 1: I've used online accounts and banking for years, if not

482
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Speaker 1: probably since day one since it was available knock on wood,

483
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Speaker 1: I've had no problems. The main thing is, obviously you

484
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Speaker 1: have to use good hygiene, strong unique passwords for all

485
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Speaker 1: of these accounts, two factor authentication, and the banks go

486
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Speaker 1: as far as using new and unique ways to authorize you. So,

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Speaker 1: for instance, I was setting up this Samsung phone and

488
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Speaker 1: I was logging into my Chase app, and I'm not kidding.

489
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,359
Speaker 1: I had my username, my password, and a two factor

490
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Speaker 1: authentication code. And then guess what I've never seen this before.

491
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:50,359
Speaker 1: Is said, now take your credit card out of your

492
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Speaker 1: wallet and tap it to the back of this phone

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Speaker 1: to authorize the use of this app on this phone.

494
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Speaker 1: I said, what, I would have never thought about. That

495
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Speaker 1: a wild thing. And I also saw Amazon did the

496
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,439
Speaker 1: same thing. My mom was trying to buy something and

497
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Speaker 1: it said, hey, you haven't logged in on this phone

498
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 1: before tap your credit card to authorize your account and

499
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Speaker 1: to make this payment. What now that I don't think

500
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,679
Speaker 1: the iPhone does that, but on Android it does. So

501
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: banks use a lot of security, and adding your credit

502
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Speaker 1: card or your debit card to your phone, I would

503
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:25,280
Speaker 1: actually argue is more secure than actually using your credit

504
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Speaker 1: card or debit card in person when possible. Always tap

505
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Speaker 1: to pay, always, always, always, always. Now, if you insert

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Speaker 1: your card with the chip, that is just as secure

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Speaker 1: as tap to pay. They're both the same. But I

508
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Speaker 1: would argue that tap to pay is actually more secure

509
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Speaker 1: because you first have to authorize your phone by unlocking

510
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Speaker 1: it with your fingerprint or your face or your pin

511
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Speaker 1: to authorize that transaction, whereas anyone could pop your card

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Speaker 1: into a slot if they find it and make a

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Speaker 1: payment or make a purchase. Good question, Debbie, Thanks for

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Speaker 1: the email, the website, rich on tech dot TV, the

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Speaker 1: phone line eight eight eight rich one oh one eight

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

517
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Speaker 1: coming up. Oh, we got a lot to tell you.

518
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Speaker 1: Volvo is recalling a bunch of their electric SUVs, and

519
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 1: we've got a new weather app from some notable creators.

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what it does. It does rainbow

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Speaker 1: alerts and sunset notifications. I'll explain coming up right here.

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Speaker 1: I'm Rich on tech. Dave writes in from Colorado, listening

523
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Speaker 1: on six thirty AM. Hey, Rich, I'm worried about dying

524
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: alone in my home and no one knowing. Oh wow,

525
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Speaker 1: we're just getting right into it on this this section

526
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Speaker 1: of the show. I've been trying to find some kind

527
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Speaker 1: of tech solution, kind of like the mortality sensor they

528
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 1: use in wolf tracking callers that alert someone if the

529
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Speaker 1: animal dies. So far, I've had no luck. Do you

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Speaker 1: know of anything like that? Wow, that's an interesting question, Dave.

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Speaker 1: Not really something I've thought about. But actually that's not true.

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Speaker 1: I think about it all the time because I run

533
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: a lot, and I just always think about and I've

534
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:07,960
Speaker 1: talked about this on the show. I know, but like

535
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: me just laying in a ditch, like how long would

536
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Speaker 1: it take for someone to find me and figure out

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Speaker 1: who I am and alert my next of kin. That's

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Speaker 1: why when I run, I typically put like an ID

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00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: in my pocket or like it's so sad. This is

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00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 1: the stuff I think about. But I usually, especially if

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Speaker 1: I'm in like a foreign country, I will put like

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00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: an ID in my wallet. And you know, the iPhone

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00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: also has like that emergency thing if you you know,

544
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,719
Speaker 1: if you're there and someone knows how to access that,

545
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: you should fill that out the medical ID, and so

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00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: does Android, and so does Samsung. But I run with

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Speaker 1: just my watch, so that would not work in my case.

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Speaker 1: So here's my best solution. The Google Pixel Watch has

549
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: a feature called loss of pulse detection, so if your

550
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: heart stops, it will call nine one one for you.

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00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 1: So that's not exactly a wildlife tracking caller, but that's

552
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: probably the closest. Now, on the other flip side, they've

553
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: got the fall detection on the Apple Watch, So I

554
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: would imagine if you drop dead and you fell, your

555
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: Apple Watch would recognize that and call nine one one.

556
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, you know, we've

557
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: all watched the TV shows. It's going to be a

558
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 1: couple of days before someone realizes you're probably you're not

559
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: going to show up to church or to work, or

560
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,480
Speaker 1: to some sort of event that you are scheduled to

561
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 1: be at, and someone's gonna be like, where's Dave. Come

562
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 1: to think of it, I haven't heard from him in

563
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,040
Speaker 1: a while. Let's go to his house and see what's

564
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 1: going on. I hope that doesn't happen. But anyway, those

565
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: are the solutions that I can think of. Maybe, you

566
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: know when it's tricky when you live alone. I mean,

567
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: there's this whole thing in the US where, you know,

568
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: I've heard all these studies that you want someone you

569
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Speaker 1: you want someone to live on their own for as

570
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Speaker 1: long as possible because it makes them live longer. Right,

571
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 1: But if you are never leaving the house, I think

572
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: that's probably not good. Right, Like, if you're living by

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Speaker 1: yourself and no one comes to visit you, and you

574
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: don't leave the house, you don't do anything. I think

575
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: that's a fast lane to your detriment. But if you're

576
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:22,959
Speaker 1: going out with friends and doing things and people are

577
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: coming over, that's fine. But you know, you heard, you

578
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: hear these stories of people as soon as they go

579
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 1: to like assisted living or something like that, it's like

580
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 1: it's the end is near. I'm not an expert in

581
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: this stuff. I'm just telling you stuff i've heard. Let's

582
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Speaker 1: go to Lee in Los Angeles. Hopefully Lee, you can

583
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Speaker 1: brighten us up. Lee. What's up?

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

585
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Speaker 2: It's like ninety degrees out here near Pomona, California.

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Speaker 7: So if that's bright, oh.

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Speaker 1: Well that's hot. We're having like summer weather in Los Angeles.

588
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Speaker 1: But apparently my friends on the East coast, my family

589
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Speaker 1: have told me that it's actually pretty warm there after

590
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Speaker 1: they got a cold spell. So anyway, what can I

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Speaker 1: help you with, Lee?

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00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 2: All my relatives are in Jersey and they can go

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Speaker 2: through the snowstorm, so it's it's kind of bad out

594
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 2: there anyway. First of all, thanks for your tech direcord

595
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Speaker 2: for playing that kind of Crows song. I love that

596
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 2: me too.

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Speaker 1: Have you watched the documentary yet on an HBO Max?

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Speaker 1: Not yet?

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00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 8: Was it good?

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00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: Uh? It wasn't good, but it was okay. I mean

601
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Speaker 1: I watched on a plane. It was about an hour,

602
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: and I enjoyed. What I enjoyed the most is that

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00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 1: they interspersed the music the whole time. I also didn't

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Speaker 1: realize that Adam Durretz dated two of the Friends characters,

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Speaker 1: or I guess cast members Courtney Cox and then Jennifer Aniston,

606
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: Like what who gets to do that? Anyway, go ahead, Lee.

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00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 2: Well it's funny you brought up that dog caror thing

608
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 2: for the old guys. I'm an old guy remember men

609
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Speaker 2: in black.

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Speaker 5: Hey, old guys, I'm on.

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Speaker 2: A California Lifeline. I've had, I guess for eight years now.

612
00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 2: They give you a free phone if you're on food

613
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 2: stachers up like that, and what happens I would safely

614
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 2: currently that's one of the proscribed companies that Lifeline deals with.

615
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 2: And what happens after about a year, your phone stops

616
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 2: working and then you have to call the company and

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00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 2: say why, and they tell you, wait a minute, you've

618
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 2: ben switch to a different company. This has happened three

619
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Speaker 2: times to me in the last two years, and it's

620
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 2: starting to get really, really annoying. Contacted. This is basically fraud.

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Speaker 2: I've called the coupany Lifeline people to do investigation. They

622
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 2: ever get back to me, and all these guys that

623
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 2: hand out the phones in front of the usually there

624
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 2: they get once of people and if you don't qualify

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00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 2: for one, they go, I've seen this happen. Hold on,

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00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 2: wait a minute, and then they get in their little

627
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Speaker 2: files and they find somebody that they gave one to

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Speaker 2: and said, Okay, we got you covered. We're going to

629
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Speaker 2: do this, and their phone starts working and mine's dead.

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Speaker 2: What can we do to stop the fraud in that system.

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Speaker 1: Well, here's the problem. I mean, you're talking about a

632
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 1: lot of things going on here, and I think what

633
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 1: happens is is the companies that hand out these phone

634
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: you know, it's a government program, and then you've got

635
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Speaker 1: the companies that actually distribute the phones, and I think

636
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: they get paid and they get a commission based on

637
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Speaker 1: how many of these phones they can get into people's hands.

638
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: So the problem is once they get them into people's hands,

639
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: guess what, they wipe their hands clean, they collect their

640
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 1: little commission and they don't care. And so that's the

641
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: big problem I think with this program. And so what

642
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: can we do to solve that? I mean, do you

643
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: want the government to actually do it all from start

644
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: to finish and you only deal with them, then the

645
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,239
Speaker 1: program would cost even more. And this is you know,

646
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: you got a lot going on here. It's not cut

647
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Speaker 1: and dry, Lea. But I'm glad you brought some of

648
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: that to the forefront so people can hear what's going

649
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 1: on there. But at least the program's working out for you.

650
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Speaker 1: That's that's the good news. Thanks for the call today,

651
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Speaker 1: eight to eight Rich one oh one eighty eight seven

652
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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Coming up this hour,

653
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk more about the Samsung event. I'm gonna

654
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: discuss with tech journalist Lexi Savid's. She's gonna talk about

655
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,720
Speaker 1: what she thinks of the phone and we'll compare notes.

656
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: And then later next hour we've got Kim Cavallo from

657
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 1: the Global Day of Unplugging. You know, it was in

658
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 1: San Francisco this week and they've got those Weimo cars everywhere,

659
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 1: like everywhere is a WAIM like. I don't think I

660
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: saw a regular taxi ubers sure, but I will tell

661
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Speaker 1: you I had a thought about this. Remember when you

662
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 1: get to a town and you jump in a taxi,

663
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: what's the first thing you do when you get in

664
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:43,839
Speaker 1: that taxi? You would ask the person, Hey, what's cool

665
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: around here? What's a good restaurant, what's a good place?

666
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 1: Where do people hang out? What do people do here?

667
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: When you're in an autonomous car, there is no soul,

668
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: no more soul, not to the car, not to the city.

669
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Speaker 1: It is literally just a transactional agree between you and

670
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: that car to get you to where you're going, and

671
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: it navigates those streets, but it doesn't know what's opened,

672
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: what's closed in a couple of recent years, doesn't know

673
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 1: the hot spots. I mean, I guess it does because

674
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 1: it drops people off there. That's just big data. But

675
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: it just it made me realize that we are slowly

676
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: eroding kind of the heart and soul of humanity with

677
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 1: all this technology that's automated that I love, by the way,

678
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 1: but it's like it's just slowly but surely changing the

679
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 1: fabric of how we interact as humans. Autonomous cars, that's

680
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:36,799
Speaker 1: just the tip of the iceberg. What about the fact

681
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: that every single person you know is on a different track,

682
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: every single person. You're watching one show, they're watching another show.

683
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,360
Speaker 1: You're listening to one thing, they're listening to other. Remember

684
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 1: back in the day, everyone everyone was tuned into the

685
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 1: same thing on the TV, on the radio. It was

686
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,240
Speaker 1: all the same. We would talk about it the next

687
00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:00,680
Speaker 1: morning at work or at school. What happened last night?

688
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,800
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously Who Shot Jr? Is probably the most

689
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: prominent example of that, But for everything American Idol in

690
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: recent years, all who won last Night? You know, award shows,

691
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:13,800
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff is the only stuff we have nowadays.

692
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 1: Anything that's live, whether it's an award show or it

693
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:22,399
Speaker 1: is sports. That's basically it. Everything else. You talk to someone, Hey,

694
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,839
Speaker 1: what are you watching, The last five movies they watch

695
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 1: are completely different than the last five movies you watched.

696
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: Where when I grew up, a movie open on a

697
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 1: weekend and you either saw it or you didn't, and

698
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 1: that was it, and you talked about it, and that

699
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: went for everything, every single thing that was interesting in

700
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Speaker 1: the world. We all did it and experienced it at

701
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 1: the same time. Now it's anyone's guess, and it's an algorithm,

702
00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: by the way, that's directing ninety nine percent of what

703
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:52,439
Speaker 1: people are seeing, what they're feeling, what they're thinking. It's

704
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: all driven by technology. Now, you know, I love technology,

705
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,839
Speaker 1: but this really makes me sad, the fact that there

706
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 1: is almost zero shared experience in our world today. That's

707
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Speaker 1: why I think that in person, being with someone, being

708
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: at dinner with someone, being at lunch with someone, being

709
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: out with someone, that's really the only way that we

710
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: can connect anymore with other people. Because you go to

711
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: work and it's like, oh, I haven't seen that show. Sorry,

712
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: I don't talk to me about it. Please. You know, you

713
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,800
Speaker 1: can comment online, you can feel like you're part of something,

714
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 1: but are you really now in some ways, it's amazing.

715
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: You know, you have a certain you know, disease or

716
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 1: a certain ailment, or you know, something afflicting you, and

717
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: you can go online and find people that have the

718
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 1: same exact thing and discuss it with them, or even

719
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: you know, problem with your technology whatever. That's amazing. I

720
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 1: think that's incredible. The connecting ability of technology is great.

721
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: But have you ever seen, you know, someone that you

722
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: you follow, one of your friends that you follow on Instagram,

723
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: You see what they're up to, but then you talk

724
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: to them for like five minutes in real life and

725
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: you really get caught up with them. That to me

726
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 1: is interesting. Anyway. I don't know why I brought that

727
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: all up. It's just you know, when I go running,

728
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 1: I think of these things. Let's see what else new

729
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: app this week. It's called acme Weather. I know, funny name.

730
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: It's like reminds me the old cartoons, cartoon characters Actmewather

731
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: is from the creators of Dark Sky. This was a

732
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: fan favorite app that was available on I believe iPhone

733
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: and Android back in the day, and then Apple bought

734
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: them in twenty twenty immediately shut them down and just

735
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:36,399
Speaker 1: integrated their technology into the Apple Weather app. People went

736
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: nuts when this happened, as you know people do, and

737
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 1: then they forget. But their main thing that they invented

738
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: with dark Sky was you know how you get those

739
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 1: notifications on your iPhone that says it's gonna rain in

740
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: your area in one minute and you look outside and

741
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 1: actually didn't, and then sometimes it does and you're like,

742
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,240
Speaker 1: oh wow, that actually worked. That was their claim to fame.

743
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: So now this new app, Actme Weather. There's a couple

744
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 1: of unique things about it. Number one, they say, look,

745
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: forecasts are not perfect, so we actually show multiple alternate

746
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,720
Speaker 1: forecast lines, so you can kind of see like, instead

747
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: of just one trend of oh the weather's gonna be

748
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: like this, now you can see various takes on what

749
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,839
Speaker 1: the weather might be. So that's number one. And then

750
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 1: they do all kinds of crowdsourcing of what the weather

751
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: is by you locally, so you can get hyper local alerts.

752
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: There's of course doing the minute by minute precipitation notifications.

753
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: They're bringing that back severe weather warnings. But here's the

754
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 1: fun stuff. Rainbow alerts. When there's a rainbow in your neighborhood,

755
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: you can run outside and ghost check it out Adams laughing, Oh,

756
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: come on, who doesn't see a rainbow and immediately takes

757
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:49,879
Speaker 1: out their phone. They're like, oh my gosh. And I'd

758
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:51,399
Speaker 1: be lying if I said I didn't try to find

759
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,280
Speaker 1: the end of it, not for the pot of gold,

760
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: but just to see where it ends. How come we

761
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: can ever see that? And then sunset notifications, so if

762
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: there's an amazing sunset, you can get a notification for

763
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 1: that as well. Let's see, it's only iPhone right now.

764
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: Android version is planned, and here's the deal. It's not free,

765
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars a year, two week free trials, so

766
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: try it out. I downloaded it. It's cool. I mean,

767
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 1: I don't know if it'll replace my I don't know

768
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: if I'm willing to pay twenty five dollars right now

769
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: for a weather app, but yeah, I mean they're doing

770
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 1: some cool stuff. By the way, I was in this

771
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 1: is the thing. I was telling Adam this. Adam's in

772
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 1: for Bobo today doing the board, and I was telling

773
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:29,759
Speaker 1: him saying, you know, half the fun of going to

774
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,800
Speaker 1: all these events, these tech events are actually just chatting

775
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: with other tech people. And so there's this one tech

776
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: person I know and She's always posting these great pictures

777
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 1: on her Instagram and they're like these old school looking pictures,

778
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 1: you know, like these they look like a retro camera, right,

779
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: but it's a digital picture. And so I saw her

780
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 1: and I'm like, hey, tell me what the app you

781
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 1: use to take these amazing pictures. And she's like, what pictures.

782
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, all your pictures on Instagram they

783
00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: have this great look to them, and she's like, oh,

784
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 1: the best staff for that is called Dispo Dispo Dispo

785
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 1: dot Fun. And again I tell you this, I think

786
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: because I remember because this this app is like twenty

787
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,360
Speaker 1: five twenty dollars a year, but I will say I

788
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,160
Speaker 1: took like two pictures with it, and you have it's

789
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: one of these apps that you have to wait to

790
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 1: get your pictures. They don't They don't show your pictures immediately.

791
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: Maybe if you pay the twenty dollars you can. We

792
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:21,320
Speaker 1: have to wait like twenty four hours or something for

793
00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 1: them to quote unquote develop. But I will tell you

794
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:25,800
Speaker 1: I took two pictures with this app, and I was like, Okay,

795
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: they do look pretty good. And I've tried so many

796
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: of these little retro picture apps, but that one is

797
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: really good, So Dispo dot fun if you want to

798
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: check it out again. iPhone only. You know all these developers,

799
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 1: they develop iPhone first and then I mean Dispo. I

800
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 1: feel like it's been out for a while, and then

801
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 1: they forget about androids somehow. There's a lot of Android

802
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: users out there that want fun stuff like this. And

803
00:41:48,719 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 1: Volvo is recalling forty thousand electric SUVs due to a

804
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: battery fire risk the EX thirty. Have I test driven

805
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:02,399
Speaker 1: this EX thirty? Let's see I've driven some of these.

806
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 1: Let's see Doug DeMuro has. Everyone always asks if me

807
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,319
Speaker 1: and Doug DeMuro, the car reviewer are related. We are not,

808
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: but we have spoken about it. We've said a hair

809
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:18,840
Speaker 1: Are we related? Okay? EX thirty recall effects twenty twenty

810
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 1: four through twenty twenty six model year Volvo EX thirty

811
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,720
Speaker 1: specifically the single motor extended range and the twin motor

812
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 1: performance battery modules supplied by a joint venture linked to

813
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,799
Speaker 1: Volvo's parent company, Jili. Is it Geely or Gilie? I

814
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: forget cells could short circuit or overheat. No widespread incidents,

815
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: but they're proactively doing this because the batteries could be

816
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:45,359
Speaker 1: a fire hazard. Until repairs are completed. Here's the important part.

817
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 1: Owners are being told to limit charging to seventy percent.

818
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 1: Oh and just avoid parking or charging your vehicle in

819
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 1: your buildings or enclosed spaces. Oh, that's easy to do.

820
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: Just don't park your car near anyone else because your

821
00:42:56,719 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 1: car might blow up. Oh okay, cool. Permanent fix involves replacing

822
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: affected battery modules free of charge. Analysts estimate the recall

823
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 1: could cost Volvo two hundred million dollars. Two hundred million dollars. Crazy.

824
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: So you bought one of these cars. You thought you're

825
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 1: doing something cool, and now you can't park your car

826
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 1: near anyone because it might just burst into flames. But

827
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 1: these things are relatively safe in general, the evs. I

828
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I talked about my car accident.

829
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about this until later, but you know,

830
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:35,879
Speaker 1: it was a pretty bad accident, and my car did

831
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: not light on fire. It felt safe. But there are like,

832
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 1: you know, if you look at like these electric cars,

833
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: there's like directions on them because you can't cut them

834
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 1: open with the jaws of life because they're electrified. So

835
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 1: you gotta be like, I guess these emergency people are

836
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 1: trained and like where they can actually cut these things open.

837
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: You do not want to cut in the wrong place.

838
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:56,959
Speaker 1: But I guess gas cars. I mean they're filled with gas.

839
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: So what's you know? It's all dangerous. We surround ourselves

840
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: some danger as humans, and we live to talk about it.

841
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 1: Eighty eight Rich one O one eighty eight seven four

842
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Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. We'll get to the

843
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 1: calls coming up right after this. Craig has been patiently

844
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: waiting in Iowa. Craig, you're on with Rich. How you're going, man,

845
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. Welcome back to the show.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

847
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Speaker 5: I just went blind about three months ago. I used

848
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Speaker 5: to call you about my new I I sixteen.

849
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Speaker 1: Oh, sorry to hear that, but.

850
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I got glad phone, my fell and finally went

851
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Speaker 9: out my only eye.

852
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, Sorry.

853
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 5: What I want to ask you?

854
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Speaker 9: I had to out you ask somebody to delete my

855
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Speaker 9: dot ification, delete my incoming outgoing, delete my test maggine.

856
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Speaker 4: Any way I could.

857
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 5: Do that on a phone by boy, I use my phone.

858
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: My voice, okay, sure, it can't be the clean You're

859
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: talking an iPhone.

860
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,399
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have an I sixteen, you know, okay?

861
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 2: Yeah?

862
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well I remember you you switched I believe right.

863
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 5: You got it to the Ice sixteen.

864
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, a year and.

865
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:11,839
Speaker 5: A half ago.

866
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 1: So the good news is, and how you like in

867
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: that phone overall?

868
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 9: I if I want to download that, I had to

869
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 9: have some I do. It can't degree and all that.

870
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 9: If I call you or anybody or play KFI.

871
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 5: Uh they on KF I oh by you.

872
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: Know, yeah, it'll it'll do a lot of those things.

873
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: Yeah by my voice. Yep. Well here's the deal. And

874
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 1: you may have to have someone help you kind of

875
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 1: toggle these things on. But the good news about the

876
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 1: iPhone is that it's got a lot a lot of

877
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: great accessibility uh features. Apple has put a ton of

878
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 1: thought into accessibility. And once I talk about this, I'm

879
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: sure there are people that that will call that will say, hey, Rich,

880
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 1: there's this feature. There's that feature. But built into the

881
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 1: iPhone under accessibility, they've got a section dedicated to vision

882
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: for people, you know, with any sort of vision issues.

883
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 1: So there's a couple of features there that might be

884
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:15,760
Speaker 1: important for you. Number one is voiceover, and voiceover will

885
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: speak items on the screen, so you can tap once

886
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 1: to select an item, double tap to activate the select item.

887
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 1: And that's number one. So if you look at this,

888
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 1: I mean, there's just so many I don't even understand

889
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 1: all the settings in here because there's so many. But

890
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 1: what I would do, Craig, is I probably get I know,

891
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,880
Speaker 1: there's a good institute, like you know, maybe like a

892
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: institute for the blind or something in your area that

893
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 1: can maybe give you some guidance on how to set

894
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: these things up and sit there with you and get

895
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 1: them set up. But that's probably what I would do,

896
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: because you've got to figure out what you need exactly.

897
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:57,440
Speaker 1: But I think voiceover is probably a good place to start.

898
00:46:57,840 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: Siri is also going to be your friend because SERI

899
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 1: can do a lot of things on the phone and

900
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,479
Speaker 1: perform a lot of functionality like you've already figured out.

901
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 1: And then you've got let's see here, read and speak,

902
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 1: so you've got an accessibility reader that can read things.

903
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 1: Speak screens you can swipe down. This might be a

904
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:19,399
Speaker 1: good one. There's speak screen, so you can swipe down

905
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 1: with two fingers from the top of the screen to

906
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:23,640
Speaker 1: hear the content of the screen. So that's a good one.

907
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,840
Speaker 1: Speak selection. A speak button will appear when you select

908
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: text Let's see she got that, And then you've got

909
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 1: audio descriptions when available, automatically play audio descriptions, so I

910
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:38,720
Speaker 1: guess that will do something there. But there's a lot

911
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: of these a lot of these features in here. There's

912
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: just so many. But I would look into that that's

913
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: going to help you. I don't know. Let's see if

914
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:52,480
Speaker 1: we go to voiceover on iPhone, so it's a voiceover

915
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:56,760
Speaker 1: is a gesture based screen reader that enables navigation without

916
00:47:56,800 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 1: seeing the screen by providing audible descriptions. So the good

917
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 1: news is there's a bunch of there's a way to

918
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 1: like help you practice doing this, and you can even

919
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:10,319
Speaker 1: ask serious. You can say turn on voiceover and it

920
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: will it will turn that on for you, Craig. So

921
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 1: that's actually interesting. So you don't have to go in

922
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 1: there and figure out where this is. You can just

923
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: ask Siria to turn it on. And then once you

924
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 1: have it turned on, there is a tutorial in there

925
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: as well. So the thing is you have to you're

926
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:28,399
Speaker 1: probably going to need some instruction to kind of get

927
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: the you know, get the hang of all these things

928
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: because it's not pure just like voice. But we're getting

929
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 1: closer to that. And I think that the AI is

930
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:39,839
Speaker 1: really I know, AI AI AI. But I think AI

931
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: is probably going to be a huge benefit to the

932
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: accessibility community because we're finally going to be able to

933
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: interact with our gadgets in a natural language way. And

934
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 1: we're getting close to that, you know, Gemini and this that.

935
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:58,759
Speaker 1: But but so far Siri is not necessarily there. And

936
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: we've heard the trials and relations of Apple trying to

937
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:04,879
Speaker 1: make Siri better with AI. It has not worked just yet.

938
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 1: But I would say by the end of this year,

939
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 1: when Siri gets her smart upgrade to you know, to

940
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:16,800
Speaker 1: be more AI, it's going to be a huge benefit

941
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:20,720
Speaker 1: to people because you'll be able to say, like, hey, Siri, whoops,

942
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: I just said it. You know, do this, do that,

943
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 1: check this app. It's a lot of the stuff that

944
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: you can do on AI apps like Chat, GBT and

945
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 1: with Gemini, but it's just not there on the phone

946
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: just yet. Now Gemini on the Android side of things,

947
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:37,320
Speaker 1: it's it's gotten a lot better. And like I mentioned earlier,

948
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: with Samsung specifically and also Pixel, they're doing this agentic

949
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:46,319
Speaker 1: AI and that means you literally tell AI what you

950
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: want to do and it will do it. And so

951
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 1: on Samsung, what they what they said and what they're

952
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:56,799
Speaker 1: introducing is you can say, hey, Google, call me an Uber,

953
00:49:57,360 --> 00:49:59,879
Speaker 1: and the AI is smart enough to figure out where

954
00:49:59,920 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 1: you are Noepe and now it's telling me I can't

955
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 1: book rides directly. Yeah. Like I said, I haven't been

956
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:06,600
Speaker 1: able to figure out how to use it yet, but

957
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:09,919
Speaker 1: it's coming out in the next couple weeks. But you'll say,

958
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:11,799
Speaker 1: get me a Nuber to the airport and it will

959
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: literally open up. You'll you can watch your screen and

960
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:18,319
Speaker 1: AI takes over. It opens up the Uber app, It

961
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: selects the IT types in the name of where you

962
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 1: are and where you want to go, and then it

963
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 1: brings you to the final page and it gives you

964
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 1: an alert and says, hey, go ahead, make sure this

965
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,279
Speaker 1: is okay. And I guess you could say, you know,

966
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 1: just do it, and then you can do the same

967
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 1: thing with ordering food. All these things pretty amazing. Eighty

968
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:39,840
Speaker 1: eight rich one O one eighty eight seven four to

969
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Coming up, we'll talk more

970
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 1: about the Samsung event right after this. Welcome back to

971
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,

972
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: talking technology. I've been talking a lot about the Samsung event,

973
00:50:56,920 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 1: and I've been playing with the phone since, uh, think

974
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 1: about I don't know about it, maybe maybe three four

975
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 1: days now, and so far I'm impressed. It's tough to

976
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: tell from the outside because it kind of looks very

977
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 1: similar to last year's model, but it definitely feels smaller

978
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: in the hand, more manageable, and thinner. Of course, all

979
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 1: that's canceled out when you put on a case, so,

980
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 1: you know whatever. But here to talk about it is

981
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 1: Lexi Savids, formerly of Seen It, now on your own

982
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:26,760
Speaker 1: doing your own YouTube channel. Welcome to the show.

983
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 10: Thanks for having me Rich, It's great to be here.

984
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:31,360
Speaker 1: How is it being your own boss?

985
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:33,480
Speaker 10: It's a lot of fun.

986
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,359
Speaker 11: I got to say, you know, I get to put

987
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 11: on multiple hats and get to talk to myself in

988
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:39,320
Speaker 11: sterne voices to say.

989
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:40,839
Speaker 10: Why haven't you met your deadline?

990
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:44,759
Speaker 11: It's fun, it's a great it's a nice change.

991
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 1: And we were up in San Francisco, so just general impression.

992
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:50,319
Speaker 1: I mean, it's you know, Samsung brings a lot of

993
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: people into their events and basically it's like a who's

994
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 1: who of you know, from around the world of tech people,

995
00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:58,879
Speaker 1: and so it's always to me. I was talking about

996
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 1: this on the show earlier it's always fun to like

997
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 1: kind of just talk with other people that are doing

998
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 1: what you're doing, you know, because a lot of times

999
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:07,439
Speaker 1: we're doing what we're doing on our own. So would

1000
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 1: you like, do you enjoy that aspect of it?

1001
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 11: I love it because, you know, as you say, the

1002
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 11: camaraderie is very nice to be in a room with

1003
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 11: people who are you know, like minded tech enthusiasts.

1004
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 10: I love doing it. But also a lot of us.

1005
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:23,720
Speaker 11: Are doing this either independently or you know, working remotely

1006
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 11: if you're working for a larger corporation, and so this

1007
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 11: is a chance to actually just get to see people

1008
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:32,279
Speaker 11: and get to meet actual fans of the device as well.

1009
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 11: So it's not just tech journalists and media, it's also

1010
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:39,279
Speaker 11: like really hardcore enthusiasts of the brand that sometimes the

1011
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:42,160
Speaker 11: brand in this case Samsung invites out and you get

1012
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 11: to talk to people about, you know, the matter, the

1013
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 11: things that actually really matter to a lot of users

1014
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 11: that maybe you and I might not necessarily pick up

1015
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 11: on immediately.

1016
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:52,400
Speaker 10: It's just so nice to have these different perspectives.

1017
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:54,239
Speaker 11: And it always just makes me think a lot more

1018
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:55,799
Speaker 11: about these devices too.

1019
00:52:56,320 --> 00:53:00,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, and also the world wide implications, you know, or

1020
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:03,239
Speaker 1: so US centric, and you know, the city that we

1021
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: live in, the place that we live in. But when

1022
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:07,239
Speaker 1: you think about the whole world, you know, there's so

1023
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:09,839
Speaker 1: many people out there, and so many people use these

1024
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:12,839
Speaker 1: devices for different reasons and in different regions, and you know,

1025
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 1: these companies have to appeal to all of that. So

1026
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:17,239
Speaker 1: that's always interesting to me as well. So what do

1027
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:19,160
Speaker 1: you think of the the S twenty six Ultra. You've

1028
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:20,400
Speaker 1: been using it for a couple of days, Like me,

1029
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:21,880
Speaker 1: what's your initial impression?

1030
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,720
Speaker 10: The same as you. I am impressed with this device.

1031
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:28,360
Speaker 11: So I was using the S twenty five Ultra pretty

1032
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 11: much the entire entirety of last year is kind of

1033
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 11: alternating obviously between all of the review bus the review

1034
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:37,760
Speaker 11: devices that I use. But this phone is does definitely

1035
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,799
Speaker 11: feel different, And it's interesting that you say that, yes,

1036
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 11: it's not that much thinner and lighter on paper in

1037
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,920
Speaker 11: terms of the spex. You know, it's only four grams

1038
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 11: lighter than the S twenty five Ultra when you look

1039
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 11: at the spex, but that four grams makes a huge

1040
00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:56,840
Speaker 11: difference because of the material. Because we've moved from titanium

1041
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,759
Speaker 11: on the S twenty five Ultra to the aluminum or

1042
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 11: the minimum as I say, on the S twenty six Ultra,

1043
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:05,839
Speaker 11: and it just does feel a lot lighter in the hand.

1044
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 11: It sounds ridiculous when you say it's four grams on paper,

1045
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 11: but it really does make a difference to me. But

1046
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 11: as you say, the case can kind of negate that

1047
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 11: it depends. Samsung gave at least one of my review

1048
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 11: units came with the thinnest Samsung case with magnets. I

1049
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:22,160
Speaker 11: don't know if you've got the same one, but if

1050
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 11: you're not using a first party case, that thickness can

1051
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:27,439
Speaker 11: start to add up pretty quickly when you have those

1052
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 11: extra cases on there.

1053
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was sent a bunch of cases to try out,

1054
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:32,799
Speaker 1: and so I put them all on when I first

1055
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 1: got them. And honestly, my favorite case is this case

1056
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 1: to Fi case, and it's it's the thickest case, but

1057
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:44,000
Speaker 1: I love it because it's super rubbery and grippy, and

1058
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:46,440
Speaker 1: so for me, it's all about a case has to

1059
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:49,359
Speaker 1: add a lot of grip because these phones are so

1060
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:51,360
Speaker 1: slippery when you use them without and I you know,

1061
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 1: I like to throw my phone around. I use it

1062
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:54,439
Speaker 1: all the time, and you know, put in my back

1063
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 1: pocket whatever. But this casey is the thickest of all

1064
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:00,360
Speaker 1: of them that I put on, but I really love it.

1065
00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 1: And it's funny because it's the exact same case that

1066
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:06,719
Speaker 1: I have on my iPhone as well. So now I

1067
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 1: should tell you what it's called, but I can't remember.

1068
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 1: It's like the case to FI. I think it's clear

1069
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 1: or something, but it's I'll link it up on the

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Speaker 1: show notes. But what I love about it, Lexi is

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Speaker 1: that it has and you can see this because we're

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Speaker 1: video chatting, It's got this little stand built into the

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Speaker 1: camera ring. So I love that because you can just

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Speaker 1: prop up your phone. What do you think of the

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Speaker 1: privacy screen? What do you make of that?

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Speaker 11: Well, this is a big new feature and I really

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Speaker 11: think that this is something that is hopefully going to

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Speaker 11: be seen on a lot more phones going forward. You know,

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Speaker 11: Samsung said that they were working on this technology for

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Speaker 11: five years, and it was originally supposed to be in

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Speaker 11: the S twenty five Ultra, but it just I guess

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00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:47,879
Speaker 11: it took that long to kind of get this implementation right.

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00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:52,360
Speaker 11: I think it's such an interesting technology because for so

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00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:55,840
Speaker 11: many years we've been looking at phones and talking about

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00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 11: how great it is to have wide viewing angles, so

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00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 11: you can see it from all sorts of different angles

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00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 11: from the sides, maximum peak brightness and things like that.

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Speaker 11: And now we're kind of going in the opposite direction

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00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:08,399
Speaker 11: in terms of privacy. We don't want to be able

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Speaker 11: to see things from the side and so on, at

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Speaker 11: least other people. So the privacy display is actually turning

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Speaker 11: off individual pixels depending on what you, as the user choose.

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00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:20,960
Speaker 11: So there's kind of two types of pixels. Are the

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Speaker 11: ones that are sort of facing forward that you can see,

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00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 11: and then there's a wide angle pixels. So when you

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Speaker 11: turn on the privacy display, it's these wide angle pixels

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Speaker 11: that are actually turned off. And there's a couple of

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Speaker 11: different levels as well. You can do it either on

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Speaker 11: a peru basis. You can block kind of individual parts

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Speaker 11: of the screen such as password input. You can block

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Speaker 11: different apps so just like specifically a banking up, or

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Speaker 11: you can kind of go the maximum privacy display mode,

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Speaker 11: which is a really extra layer, I guess you would say,

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Speaker 11: and it makes the screen look a little bit different

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00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:54,080
Speaker 11: as a result, but so.

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Speaker 1: Far that's the thing. It's like that, so this is

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Speaker 1: not something that I want on all the time because

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Speaker 1: it's definitely the screen. It definitely looks different. You know,

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00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 1: it's tough to explain what it looks like, but it's

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00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:06,800
Speaker 1: almost like washed out a little bit, but it's still

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00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:09,640
Speaker 1: you can see it head on. But especially when you

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Speaker 1: have that maximum on, which gives you the maximum protection

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Speaker 1: from the sides, it's a very different looking screen. And

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Speaker 1: it's funny because I was like taking a selfie the

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00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 1: other day with the protection on and it was like

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Speaker 1: I was trying to I couldn't see the screen from

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Speaker 1: like this side. I was like cracking up. I was like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that makes it a little bit tougher.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, it does. It's kind of funny, I kind of

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Speaker 10: call it.

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Speaker 11: When you have the maximum brightness on it, it kind of

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00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 11: basically washes out all of the colors. It really emphasizes

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Speaker 11: the grays and kind of turns off the blacks completely.

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Speaker 10: It kind of crushes the blacks all together.

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Speaker 11: So you just have this kind of effect that really

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Speaker 11: does look reminiscent of if you have like an actual

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Speaker 11: physical privacy screen.

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Speaker 10: Display on there. So it's really going to depend on

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Speaker 10: the application.

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Speaker 11: You're not going to have this maximum mode on all

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00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 11: the time, at least I don't I'm definitely playing around

1132
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Speaker 11: with kind of working out if I'm going to set

1133
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 11: it to have, like, say, for example, a routine so

1134
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:04,560
Speaker 11: when I get when I leave the house, for example,

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00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:06,440
Speaker 11: I can turn it on so I only have the

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Speaker 11: privacy display on outside, like if I'm commuting and things

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Speaker 11: like that, and then turning it off completely when I'm

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Speaker 11: at home, because I'm not that worried about people looking

1139
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Speaker 11: over my shoulder and seeing what's on my screen when

1140
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Speaker 11: I'm on my pouch, for example.

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Speaker 1: I've always been suspect of people that have the privacy

1142
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: film protector anyway. I mean just in general, let's be honest, Now,

1143
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:29,520
Speaker 1: I get it, there's a million reasons why people would

1144
00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 1: want that on there, and I'm kind of kidding, but

1145
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 1: I've never had one on because of the fact that

1146
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 1: when you look through it, it does change the way

1147
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:39,760
Speaker 1: your screen looks in general, and you know, it's for me,

1148
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:43,920
Speaker 1: like a Samsung, a Samsung screen, an iPhone screen, I mean,

1149
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 1: they have gotten so nice in recent years. I mean

1150
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Speaker 1: they are just beautiful screens. So my concern is that

1151
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 1: this screen was kind of taking a little bit of

1152
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:55,720
Speaker 1: a step back because of this new technology. But I

1153
00:58:55,760 --> 00:58:57,920
Speaker 1: think in general, like, just looking at it without it on,

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00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:00,960
Speaker 1: it's fine, and it's funny every time notification comes in

1155
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:03,640
Speaker 1: because I have mindset to just black out the notifications,

1156
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 1: and it's it's kind of cool because I look at

1157
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 1: the notification from the side and I can't see it.

1158
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Speaker 1: I'm like, Oh, that's the privacy screen. What's your early

1159
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:14,320
Speaker 1: advice to folks. I mean, I feel like this is

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Speaker 1: the best phone that Samsung has made in a couple

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Speaker 1: of years. What do you think?

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Speaker 11: I think the privacy display is truly an innovation, and

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Speaker 11: it's something that actually makes me excited again about talking

1164
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Speaker 11: about phones, because I think a lot of the excitement

1165
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 11: in innovation has come in the foldable realm, and obviously,

1166
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Speaker 11: as you know, Samsung has really been kind of doing

1167
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 11: a lot there with the Fold seven and obviously the

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00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:38,479
Speaker 11: Trifol that came out in the US earlier in the year,

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00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 11: but obviously wildly expensive, like near mortals like you and

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00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 11: I like not really going to be able to afford that.

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Speaker 11: At least my bank ballance says, no trifle for you, Lexi.

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Speaker 11: So it's nice to sort of see something genuinely different

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Speaker 11: on I guess the candy bar or the slab style phone.

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Speaker 11: Whether or not people really kind of latch onto it

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Speaker 11: is another thing because I think, as you were saying about, yes,

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Speaker 11: you can definitely tell the difference when that privacy display

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Speaker 11: is on, but I think unless you're looking at it

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Speaker 11: directly against a previous phone or another device that maybe

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01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 11: a friend has, you probably are not going to really

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Speaker 11: tell the difference. But you know, you and I, I guess

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Speaker 11: we kind of like do a little bit of pixel peeping,

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01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:21,760
Speaker 11: a little bit at least I do. I put phone

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01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:25,000
Speaker 11: side by side and I'm constantly comparing them back and forth.

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Speaker 10: As you can see. I mean we're on video chat.

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Speaker 11: As you said, I'm holding up the two phones here

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01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 11: and I'm looking at them side by side, and with

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Speaker 11: the privacy display off on the S twenty six Ultra

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01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:37,920
Speaker 11: and obviously no privacy display on the S twenty five Ultra,

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Speaker 11: I can notice a difference in the off axis viewing angles,

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Speaker 11: and also a little bit in terms of just like

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Speaker 11: that anti reflective coding as well. So there are going

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Speaker 11: to be those subtle nuances. And again I'm just interested

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Speaker 11: to see if this really resonates with people who aren't

1194
01:00:54,960 --> 01:00:57,760
Speaker 11: tech journalists, people who aren't covering this day to day

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01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 11: to see if it's something that is actually some thing

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Speaker 11: that you know you would upgrade for specifically this feature,

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Speaker 11: or it's just because you are due to upgrade to

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Speaker 11: a new train anyway.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gonna be interesting. And I feel like I

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Speaker 1: feel like ninety nine percent of people that I speak to,

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01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 1: and I talk to a lot of consumers, the upgrade

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01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 1: cycle now is why tell me why I need a

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Speaker 1: new phone. It's not like the old days where every

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01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:22,480
Speaker 1: time you got a new phone you got something amazing

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01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:24,360
Speaker 1: like this. You know, you got touch ID, you got

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Speaker 1: face ID, you got Retina display, you got all you

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01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:30,120
Speaker 1: know USBC, there was five G. There were so many

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01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 1: like new features that came along in the past ten years.

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01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:35,479
Speaker 1: Every time you got a new phone, you got entrade

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01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 1: of those features. Nowadays, people are like, Okay, my phone

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01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:41,520
Speaker 1: does everything I need it to do. You tell me,

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01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:44,160
Speaker 1: you convince me why I need a new one. You can't,

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01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:46,880
Speaker 1: and so I will just upgrade when when my phone

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01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:50,080
Speaker 1: dies or when the screen breaks or whatever happens. So

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Speaker 1: it's a very different world at this point until we

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01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:54,880
Speaker 1: get that holographic display that pops up out of your

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Speaker 1: phone like Star Wars style. We're gonna leave it there, Lexi.

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Speaker 1: How do people find you online? How do they follow

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Speaker 1: your channel?

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Speaker 11: I'd love for you to follow me on YouTube. You

1221
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:08,720
Speaker 11: can subscribe at Lexi savds is my channel name. I'm

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01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:12,040
Speaker 11: also on Instagram and we'd love to love to see there.

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Speaker 11: I make down to Earth tech videos for the real world.

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Speaker 1: All right, Lexi savides s a vv I d ees

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Speaker 1: finder on YouTube and subscribe. Lexi, thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: coming on the show.

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Speaker 10: Thanks again, Rich, it was a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: All right. Coming up, we'll go back to the phone

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Speaker 1: lines eighty eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one, and I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you the new features that YouTube Premium Light is getting.

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Speaker 1: Got two new features that make it a little bit

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Speaker 1: more useful. That's coming up right here on rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Jerry in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. Hello, Rich, Hey Jerry,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the show.

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Speaker 8: Thank you. I'm going to go through a PSA for

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01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:04,040
Speaker 8: your listener. Now, are you aware of the new next

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Speaker 8: gen TV coming out?

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01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:09,360
Speaker 1: I am, Well, I've seen the boosts and the.

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Speaker 8: Okay, well I've been there's a guy on uh on

1241
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:16,919
Speaker 8: YouTube lawn dot TV. He tells you all about it,

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01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 8: how they how they want to encryptos the signal in

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01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:24,919
Speaker 8: order to charge you for watching over the air TV

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01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:29,720
Speaker 8: with your antenna.

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01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:31,680
Speaker 1: I mean I've heard talk of it, but nobody's done

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01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:32,240
Speaker 1: that yet.

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01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 8: Well that's because they can't. Uh they went to TV

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01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:40,040
Speaker 8: plugged into the internet too, so it's an authorized received

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01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:40,640
Speaker 8: the signal.

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Speaker 1: Right, well, yes, I mean, I mean this is.

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Speaker 8: But but the TV is coming out of the next

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01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:50,440
Speaker 8: general the A at SC three point oh as they are.

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Speaker 8: It seems there's a big boone doggle where the broadcasters

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01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:55,760
Speaker 8: want to make more money. They're going to put more

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01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:59,080
Speaker 8: channels on the air, but they're going on the crypto

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01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:04,520
Speaker 8: huddons in order to charge you money. Wow this yeah,

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Speaker 8: hell lawn dot TV on YouTube and uh, the the

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Speaker 8: seconds and the last one they put up there will

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Speaker 8: give you more in depth about it. I think it's

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Speaker 8: really a ripoff. And the FCC is allowing the people,

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Speaker 8: the broadcasters that make up their own regulations about this.

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Speaker 1: Well, look, I mean number one, I mean we are

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Speaker 1: in a changing time, that's number one. And we understand

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01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:33,440
Speaker 1: that now now broadcast TV, broadcast radio, you know, these

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01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 1: are amazing things and they're they're a public service number one,

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Speaker 1: and so they are a public license. But the thing is,

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Speaker 1: you know, these broadcasters, they they want. They're competing now

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Speaker 1: with streaming and that is no easy feat. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you've looked at Netflix lately, or YouTube or

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Speaker 1: Instagram or TikTok, it's just and you just mentioned a

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel. I mean, so the content is just there,

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01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:04,440
Speaker 1: tons of it, unlimited, and this is what these broadcasters

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01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:07,840
Speaker 1: are now competing with. So I think what what ATSC

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01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:10,800
Speaker 1: and what you call next gen TV? That is their

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01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:16,720
Speaker 1: way of better competing with digital streaming services. And the

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Speaker 1: reason why is because this gives them a lot of

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01:05:20,040 --> 01:05:24,000
Speaker 1: the same tools that the streamers have. So as I

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01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:27,200
Speaker 1: understand it, you can send out that signal, it's the

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01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:30,160
Speaker 1: same signal that you typically would send out, but it

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Speaker 1: is much more identifiable. They can tell how many people

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Speaker 1: are watching it, they can get data back, they can

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Speaker 1: offer data. I mean, there's a whole bunch of stuff

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Speaker 1: that they can do with this thing, and what you said,

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Speaker 1: a lot of it is things that have been talked about,

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Speaker 1: nothing has been I mean, yes, you can. You can

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Speaker 1: go on to the website. By the way, if you

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Speaker 1: want to try this next watchnextgentv dot com and kind

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Speaker 1: of see which channels are available in your area. It'll

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Speaker 1: tell you. But here's the thing. Not a lot of

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Speaker 1: people have the technology to decode these channels. It might

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Speaker 1: be built into your TV, it may not be. Most

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01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:12,880
Speaker 1: people are using many people are using now some sort

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Speaker 1: of streaming service to get their TV channels, and unless

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01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:20,240
Speaker 1: you're using an antenna, you would not really tap into this.

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01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:21,840
Speaker 1: So you have to figure out if you're using an

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Speaker 1: antenna number one, number two, if your TV can decode

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Speaker 1: these signals, or you may need a third party box.

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Speaker 1: Remember when we went from the analog TV signals to

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Speaker 1: the digital signals. Everyone needed that in between little box

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01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:36,880
Speaker 1: that were given away for free for a while to

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Speaker 1: change an analog TV to accept digital channels. But some

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Speaker 1: of the features of next gen TV, what does it offer?

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Speaker 1: Better picture quality? Supports up to four K resolution and HDR,

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Speaker 1: so that means better picture quality. Obviously improves sounds, so

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Speaker 1: better audio. That makes dialogue easier to hear, which of

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Speaker 1: course people want more consistent volume between the TV programming commercials.

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Speaker 1: Let's see what else. Interactive features so on screen things

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01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:09,680
Speaker 1: like stats, polls, like your your news channel could say, hey,

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Speaker 1: vote in our poll right now, and they'll show you

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Speaker 1: the live results right on TV. I guess they've been

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Speaker 1: able to do that, but you'd be able to do

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Speaker 1: it with your remote right, not a third party device.

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Speaker 1: Bonus content personalized program guides the Internet connection that you

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Speaker 1: were talking about, So you can get all this with

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Speaker 1: just an antenna, but if you connect to the internet,

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Speaker 1: you can get more content, more features. It's still free.

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Speaker 1: They're still saying no subscriptions uses that regular antenna. But again,

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Speaker 1: like you were talking, the ideas that they could offer

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Speaker 1: more and yes, some of those channels might be a

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Speaker 1: paid you know, a premium plus service or something like that.

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01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:52,120
Speaker 1: But again, all this stuff has just been talked about.

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01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:54,200
Speaker 1: A lot of these things, a lot of the stuff

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Speaker 1: that you see right now. If you actually tune into

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Speaker 1: one of these channels, they're just doing kind of the basics.

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Speaker 1: You know, they've got the channel there, they've got the

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Speaker 1: channel broadcasting. They're adding a couple other things. Cause I

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01:08:04,360 --> 01:08:07,360
Speaker 1: don't think that many people are taking advantage of this

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01:08:07,560 --> 01:08:13,000
Speaker 1: just yet. But if you go to that watchnextgentv dot com,

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01:08:13,080 --> 01:08:15,960
Speaker 1: you can check to see in your area if these

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Speaker 1: channels are which channels over the air have this next

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Speaker 1: gen technology? And it looks like a lot of a

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Speaker 1: lot of markets already are adopting it. Eighty eight Rich

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Speaker 1: one on one eighty eight seven four to two for

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Speaker 1: one zero one more Rich on Tech coming your way

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Speaker 1: right after this. All right, let's go to uh Devin

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Speaker 1: in u so Cal has a question about the new

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Speaker 1: Samsung you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 7: Hey, thank you for picking on my phone, Rich, longtime listener,

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Speaker 7: first time.

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Speaker 1: College Well, welcome, thank you.

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Speaker 7: How are you doing today?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic, no complaints?

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Speaker 7: All right. Well, I've been wrapping an iPhone fifteen pro

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01:08:58,360 --> 01:09:01,800
Speaker 7: Macs and I've been hearing the privacy thing about this

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01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:07,479
Speaker 7: Samsung from your show. And my question is why can't

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Speaker 7: they make a screen protector that does the same thing?

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Speaker 1: Good question, That is a great question. And uh here okay,

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Speaker 1: So it goes back to the way that they designed

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01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:21,960
Speaker 1: this new screen. So what you know, we mentioned they

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01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:24,880
Speaker 1: have two types of pixels now, so a typical screen

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01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:28,439
Speaker 1: has what's called wide pixels. Right, the light shines in

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01:09:28,560 --> 01:09:32,000
Speaker 1: all directions, front sides, you know, you can see it

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01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:35,759
Speaker 1: from every angle. The new innovation is that they built

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01:09:35,840 --> 01:09:39,679
Speaker 1: two types of pixels into this phone screen, wide pixels,

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Speaker 1: which are your regular ones, and then the narrow pixels.

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01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:48,040
Speaker 1: So when they're activating that privacy feature, they're only turning

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Speaker 1: on those narrow pixels, and that way you can have

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Speaker 1: the whole screen Matt. Let's just say the screen was white, right, like,

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01:09:55,040 --> 01:09:57,679
Speaker 1: the whole screen was white, but right in the middle

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01:09:57,960 --> 01:10:00,880
Speaker 1: there was a box like a window. That box could

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Speaker 1: be blacked out from the sides because they're only lighting

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01:10:04,240 --> 01:10:06,719
Speaker 1: up that part of the screen with the narrow pixels,

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01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:09,439
Speaker 1: so you could see it head on, but people on

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Speaker 1: the sides you can't. And so for that reason, when

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01:10:12,040 --> 01:10:14,520
Speaker 1: you look at a screen protector that does the privacy,

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01:10:15,040 --> 01:10:20,240
Speaker 1: the film is basically is kind of blocking light from

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Speaker 1: the sides, and so head on you can see it,

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01:10:22,880 --> 01:10:24,600
Speaker 1: but from the sides you can't. There's no way to

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01:10:24,760 --> 01:10:28,040
Speaker 1: change that or effect that, or to individually light up

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01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:30,800
Speaker 1: pixels on that screen to do just the top of

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Speaker 1: the screen, just the bottom of the screen, just when

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Speaker 1: you activate certain apps. So that is the big difference here,

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01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:40,640
Speaker 1: and that's the innovation is that Samsung came up with

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01:10:40,720 --> 01:10:43,320
Speaker 1: not just a filter on the screen, they came up

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Speaker 1: with a way to light up just parts of the

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01:10:45,439 --> 01:10:50,440
Speaker 1: screen with those narrow pixels. That effectively makes them invisible

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01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:53,599
Speaker 1: from the sides. And so that is a fantastic question.

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01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:56,479
Speaker 1: But that is the innovation. And again we were kind

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Speaker 1: of discussing does that innovation change the look of the

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01:10:59,479 --> 01:11:01,720
Speaker 1: screen at all. Well, you know, if you're looking at

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Speaker 1: the screen by itself, I don't really see a big difference.

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01:11:04,160 --> 01:11:05,800
Speaker 1: I have to now look at it side by side

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01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:08,080
Speaker 1: with the S twenty five to see. But you can

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01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:10,640
Speaker 1: definitely tell the difference when you toggle this feature on.

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01:11:11,160 --> 01:11:13,479
Speaker 1: And it is a cool feature, and I you know,

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01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:16,959
Speaker 1: it's one of those things I think consumers will decide

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01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:20,600
Speaker 1: is this something they want or not. And if I

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01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:22,479
Speaker 1: look at my phone screen right now head on, I

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01:11:22,479 --> 01:11:26,120
Speaker 1: could see everything. If I turn it up or to

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01:11:26,200 --> 01:11:29,519
Speaker 1: the side, it looks completely blacked out. So again, those

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Speaker 1: those narrow pixels are activated on my entire screen right now.

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01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:35,880
Speaker 1: You can have them turn on for just notifications, just

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01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:40,439
Speaker 1: when you open up a certain app. It's really quite interesting.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, Devin, appreciate it. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: let's see here, let's go to William in Santa Clarita. William,

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Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 12: Hi, Rich, thanks for taking my call.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I have a question.

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Speaker 12: I've got both my iPhone and I've got a Mac

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01:11:58,840 --> 01:12:03,840
Speaker 12: computer as well. I'm looking at either a VPN or

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01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:07,960
Speaker 12: something on there because my phone, I get so many

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01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:10,879
Speaker 12: spam calls. I'm tired of that, and then my computer,

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01:12:10,960 --> 01:12:13,360
Speaker 12: I just want to protect that. I've noticed there's several

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01:12:13,400 --> 01:12:16,439
Speaker 12: different companies out there, like web Root I think it is,

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01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:21,400
Speaker 12: and Nord VPN and they all do similar things. But

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01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:25,720
Speaker 12: I'm wondering, what is there any company you recommend or

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01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:27,680
Speaker 12: any product you recommend?

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01:12:28,120 --> 01:12:30,960
Speaker 1: Well, I can I can tell you this. So there

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01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:35,160
Speaker 1: are a couple. There's the one I use, and there's

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01:12:35,280 --> 01:12:36,720
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of other ones. But I

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01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:38,960
Speaker 1: think you could. I can tell you what to look for, right,

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01:12:39,040 --> 01:12:42,240
Speaker 1: I think that's probably the most important part here, And

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01:12:42,360 --> 01:12:44,479
Speaker 1: uh hold on, let me. I'm bringing up my article

1414
01:12:44,560 --> 01:12:48,639
Speaker 1: what to look for in a good VPN. I did

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01:12:48,640 --> 01:12:52,800
Speaker 1: a story on this for KTLA, And you know the

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01:12:52,880 --> 01:12:56,240
Speaker 1: main thing is that I think number one, you want

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01:12:56,240 --> 01:12:58,840
Speaker 1: this to work on all your devices. So now you

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01:12:58,880 --> 01:13:01,200
Speaker 1: mentioned the spam call and stuff like that, A VPN

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01:13:01,280 --> 01:13:02,960
Speaker 1: is not really going to cut down on that. So

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Speaker 1: to me, what I like the VPN for is a

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Speaker 1: couple of things Number one if you want. So the

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01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:11,040
Speaker 1: other day I was shopping for luggage and I was

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Speaker 1: not using the VPN, and literally every single ad on

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01:13:15,120 --> 01:13:17,960
Speaker 1: my phone, any website I went to, any social media,

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01:13:18,320 --> 01:13:21,880
Speaker 1: it all turned to luggage ads. Now that's fine because

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01:13:21,880 --> 01:13:23,400
Speaker 1: I was looking for luggage, and of course that's what

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01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:25,000
Speaker 1: they want to do. They want to market me luggage

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01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:27,599
Speaker 1: they know I'm buying. So if you want, a VPN

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01:13:27,680 --> 01:13:30,719
Speaker 1: could help you kind of avoid some of that because

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01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:33,240
Speaker 1: it anonymizes some of your searches. Now, it doesn't make

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01:13:33,240 --> 01:13:36,400
Speaker 1: you anonymous. And there's a lot of debate over, you know,

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01:13:36,439 --> 01:13:38,800
Speaker 1: how these things work and whether you can you know,

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01:13:38,880 --> 01:13:40,519
Speaker 1: you can't just sit there and like think that you're

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01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:42,240
Speaker 1: going to be invisible on the web because you're using

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01:13:42,320 --> 01:13:45,519
Speaker 1: VPN and people use them for various reasons. But it

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01:13:45,560 --> 01:13:49,479
Speaker 1: does confuse the computers because you may be connecting in

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01:13:49,520 --> 01:13:52,880
Speaker 1: a different area from a different type of connection. And

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01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:56,240
Speaker 1: so you know, on my computer, I've got where I

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01:13:56,360 --> 01:13:59,240
Speaker 1: connect to a VPN. I don't use it all the time,

1440
01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:01,400
Speaker 1: but I will use it sometimes if I'm trying to

1441
01:14:01,439 --> 01:14:06,120
Speaker 1: do something special or whatever, or on my phone. I

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01:14:06,240 --> 01:14:08,120
Speaker 1: do use it a lot for and the number one

1443
01:14:08,160 --> 01:14:10,000
Speaker 1: reason I use on my phone is because it blocks

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01:14:10,040 --> 01:14:13,759
Speaker 1: all the ads across my phone and it also blocks threats.

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01:14:14,439 --> 01:14:18,280
Speaker 1: So the one I'm using is nord and it has

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01:14:18,320 --> 01:14:21,680
Speaker 1: this thing called threat protection, and so I love it

1447
01:14:21,720 --> 01:14:25,320
Speaker 1: because when I activate that, everything across my phone, not

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01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:29,240
Speaker 1: only the ads are eliminated, but also any dangerous websites

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01:14:29,280 --> 01:14:32,080
Speaker 1: that you might visit. They're kind of their VPN is

1450
01:14:32,080 --> 01:14:34,719
Speaker 1: looking at that and saying, Okay, this is a malicious website.

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01:14:34,720 --> 01:14:37,439
Speaker 1: Don't allow him to go there. And so that's really

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01:14:37,439 --> 01:14:41,479
Speaker 1: good too. So that's you know, those are the main reasons.

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01:14:41,479 --> 01:14:42,920
Speaker 1: The other reason I love it is because when you

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01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:45,760
Speaker 1: travel to a different country, you can just connect to

1455
01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:49,120
Speaker 1: a server back home in the US and your entire

1456
01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:52,320
Speaker 1: phone and computer will work the way they work in

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01:14:52,360 --> 01:14:55,400
Speaker 1: the US. I'm not sure if you've traveled internationally, but

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01:14:55,400 --> 01:14:58,439
Speaker 1: when you travel internationally, your phone and your computer all

1459
01:14:58,479 --> 01:15:01,160
Speaker 1: of a sudden take on, you know, whatever country you're in.

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01:15:01,479 --> 01:15:04,000
Speaker 1: So if you're in Mexico, Mexico City, I was in,

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, my computer's showing all, you know,

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01:15:06,360 --> 01:15:08,840
Speaker 1: results from the web that are different, and you know,

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01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:11,920
Speaker 1: different language whatever. So if you connect to a VPN,

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01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:14,120
Speaker 1: you avoid all that and you just it just says,

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01:15:14,120 --> 01:15:16,040
Speaker 1: oh Rich is connecting from the US, so let's just

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01:15:16,080 --> 01:15:19,840
Speaker 1: show him everything from the US. So what to look

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Speaker 1: for in a VPN. Number one, I think that it

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01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:25,200
Speaker 1: should work on all of your different devices, So make

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01:15:25,200 --> 01:15:28,040
Speaker 1: sure that it works on your phone, make sure it

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01:15:28,120 --> 01:15:31,679
Speaker 1: works on your computer, make sure it works on your tablet,

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Speaker 1: and that's number one. Number two, you want to look

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01:15:36,240 --> 01:15:40,800
Speaker 1: for audit results, independent audit results. So people use these

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01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:43,320
Speaker 1: to make their connections more private, and so you want

1474
01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:47,120
Speaker 1: to make sure that VPNs are auditing their connections to

1475
01:15:47,200 --> 01:15:51,360
Speaker 1: make sure that they are private, and so that's really important.

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01:15:52,320 --> 01:15:54,920
Speaker 1: VPNs can also slow down your connection, so you want

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01:15:54,920 --> 01:15:58,160
Speaker 1: to look for one that supports the WireGuard protocol, which

1478
01:15:58,200 --> 01:16:01,720
Speaker 1: is faster than the open VPN proto call. Look for

1479
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:04,840
Speaker 1: one that has lots of servers, no bandwidth caps. And

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Speaker 1: so what are the experts recommend. Molevad is one that

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01:16:09,760 --> 01:16:12,720
Speaker 1: a lot of experts like because if you in LA,

1482
01:16:12,800 --> 01:16:15,680
Speaker 1: they've got ads all over the US or ads all

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01:16:15,720 --> 01:16:19,000
Speaker 1: over LA from molevad m U L l V A

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01:16:19,160 --> 01:16:23,519
Speaker 1: D and they're very straightforward with their pricing. They explain

1485
01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:25,760
Speaker 1: everything and if you want to see like why they

1486
01:16:25,800 --> 01:16:27,559
Speaker 1: think they're the best, you can read all about it

1487
01:16:27,560 --> 01:16:29,840
Speaker 1: on their website. And they basically do a really good

1488
01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:32,200
Speaker 1: job of like saying, hey, this is why we think

1489
01:16:32,200 --> 01:16:34,599
Speaker 1: we're the best. And they don't fool around the pricing

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01:16:34,640 --> 01:16:37,160
Speaker 1: at all. So it's basically like some people don't like

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01:16:37,200 --> 01:16:39,360
Speaker 1: that because you can't buy like three years in advance.

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01:16:39,439 --> 01:16:41,519
Speaker 1: It's just you know, you can just buy. It's like

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01:16:41,560 --> 01:16:44,760
Speaker 1: five bucks a month, basically, all right, I guess, yeah,

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01:16:44,840 --> 01:16:48,479
Speaker 1: let's see. The other one is surf Shark. Surf Sharks

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01:16:48,520 --> 01:16:52,840
Speaker 1: another one that people like and they always rank really high.

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01:16:52,960 --> 01:16:56,360
Speaker 1: And then the one I mentioned, nord VPN. I really like. Disclaimer,

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01:16:56,800 --> 01:16:59,760
Speaker 1: some of these have sponsored my newsletter, so just FYI,

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01:17:00,120 --> 01:17:02,439
Speaker 1: but I don't let things sponsor unless I really enjoy

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01:17:02,520 --> 01:17:04,880
Speaker 1: them and use them and try them out first, so

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Speaker 1: just be aware. When I tried nord VPN, I really

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01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:10,519
Speaker 1: really did like what they do. But again, there are

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01:17:10,520 --> 01:17:13,519
Speaker 1: many out there. I think that these a lot of

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01:17:13,560 --> 01:17:17,120
Speaker 1: these VPNs are selling a promise that you know, hey,

1504
01:17:17,120 --> 01:17:19,439
Speaker 1: this is going to change everything about your Internet. I

1505
01:17:19,479 --> 01:17:21,639
Speaker 1: don't know, if you want to always serve for the VPN.

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01:17:21,720 --> 01:17:23,320
Speaker 1: I mean, some people do, I guess if they really

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01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:26,240
Speaker 1: want to protect their privacy, But there are some downsides,

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01:17:26,280 --> 01:17:29,639
Speaker 1: and especially when you visit websites, they may not always

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01:17:29,720 --> 01:17:33,519
Speaker 1: be localized for you because your VPN may be connecting

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01:17:33,560 --> 01:17:35,599
Speaker 1: to a server in a different area, and so these

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01:17:35,600 --> 01:17:38,760
Speaker 1: websites get confused. And then also they may see a

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01:17:38,800 --> 01:17:43,479
Speaker 1: lot of traffic coming to that server from that VPN,

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01:17:43,560 --> 01:17:46,040
Speaker 1: and so they question if you're a human. And so

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01:17:46,120 --> 01:17:48,000
Speaker 1: when you're using a VPN, you're going to see a

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01:17:48,040 --> 01:17:52,240
Speaker 1: lot of these things, these captures that are like, hey,

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01:17:52,280 --> 01:17:54,720
Speaker 1: confirm your human or hey, we've seen a lot of

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01:17:55,160 --> 01:17:58,080
Speaker 1: unusual activity from your IP address, so we just want to,

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01:17:58,400 --> 01:18:00,240
Speaker 1: you know, make sure that you are human or make

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01:18:00,240 --> 01:18:02,479
Speaker 1: sure you're real. And so if you get those and

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01:18:02,520 --> 01:18:06,439
Speaker 1: you encounter those, that's because you're on a VPN. But overall,

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01:18:06,479 --> 01:18:08,559
Speaker 1: I will tell you I've been using it more and

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01:18:08,640 --> 01:18:11,760
Speaker 1: more because I kind of like the protection. I kind

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01:18:11,800 --> 01:18:13,960
Speaker 1: of like the way it blocks ads. I kind of

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01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:16,240
Speaker 1: like the way it anonymizes or makes it a little

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01:18:16,240 --> 01:18:18,639
Speaker 1: bit more confusing to marketers as to who I am.

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01:18:19,120 --> 01:18:20,559
Speaker 1: And so I think that's why we're seeing a lot

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01:18:20,600 --> 01:18:23,360
Speaker 1: more people use them. They started out back in the day.

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01:18:23,400 --> 01:18:25,759
Speaker 1: People just wanted to watch their sports in different places,

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01:18:26,400 --> 01:18:28,799
Speaker 1: or they're you know, programming on Netflix from a different

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01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:31,080
Speaker 1: country or something. But so much of this stuff has

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01:18:31,080 --> 01:18:33,439
Speaker 1: gotten a lot easier. You don't necessarily need that anymore.

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01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:35,559
Speaker 1: But believe me, there are a lot of people that

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01:18:35,680 --> 01:18:39,080
Speaker 1: love using a VPN. William, great question. I will link

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01:18:39,160 --> 01:18:41,600
Speaker 1: up some of those VPNs on the website. Rich on

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01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:46,799
Speaker 1: tech dot TV. Okay, we got to go to break

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01:18:47,600 --> 01:18:50,280
Speaker 1: eighty eight rich one on one eighty eight seven four

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01:18:50,320 --> 01:18:53,519
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. Coming up, I'll tell

1538
01:18:53,520 --> 01:18:56,559
Speaker 1: you about the new Instagram alerts if teens need help,

1539
01:18:57,439 --> 01:19:00,040
Speaker 1: YouTube Premium Light, I'll tell you what they added, and

1540
01:19:00,320 --> 01:19:02,800
Speaker 1: this new app that alerts you if someone nearby is

1541
01:19:02,840 --> 01:19:05,160
Speaker 1: wearing smart glasses. That's all coming up right here. I'm

1542
01:19:05,240 --> 01:19:13,640
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. I got to tell you I was

1543
01:19:13,680 --> 01:19:16,559
Speaker 1: hanging out and I've said this now three times during

1544
01:19:16,600 --> 01:19:18,960
Speaker 1: the show, but like half the fun of going to

1545
01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:22,120
Speaker 1: these tech events is really talking with the other people

1546
01:19:22,120 --> 01:19:25,559
Speaker 1: there and exchanging ideas and knowledge and all this stuff.

1547
01:19:25,600 --> 01:19:29,160
Speaker 1: That's all, you know, kind of not the main attraction.

1548
01:19:29,320 --> 01:19:31,680
Speaker 1: It's just what happens when you're there, And so you

1549
01:19:31,760 --> 01:19:34,679
Speaker 1: pick people's brains about stuff because there's lots of smart

1550
01:19:34,720 --> 01:19:38,400
Speaker 1: creators and people at these events, and so I'm always

1551
01:19:38,439 --> 01:19:40,080
Speaker 1: asking them like, how do you do this? What do

1552
01:19:40,080 --> 01:19:43,040
Speaker 1: you use for this? But one of the things I

1553
01:19:43,160 --> 01:19:46,280
Speaker 1: was talking about with someone is Gemini, and they were

1554
01:19:46,320 --> 01:19:49,240
Speaker 1: showing me how they coded an app on Gemini to

1555
01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:52,400
Speaker 1: help them compare photos for their camera tests and things

1556
01:19:52,439 --> 01:19:54,680
Speaker 1: like this, and I said, wait, what, I know my

1557
01:19:54,800 --> 01:19:58,080
Speaker 1: son and I have been coding apps on Gemini, but

1558
01:19:58,120 --> 01:20:01,960
Speaker 1: I didn't really think about all the implications. And so

1559
01:20:02,280 --> 01:20:06,680
Speaker 1: I've been trying to create this shortcut to do a

1560
01:20:06,680 --> 01:20:10,559
Speaker 1: couple things with pictures forever on the on the Mac computer,

1561
01:20:10,600 --> 01:20:12,040
Speaker 1: and I could not figure out how to do it.

1562
01:20:12,040 --> 01:20:13,320
Speaker 1: It just would not do it. All I want to

1563
01:20:13,360 --> 01:20:15,400
Speaker 1: do is a couple things. When you take pictures on

1564
01:20:15,439 --> 01:20:17,720
Speaker 1: an iPhone, they come out as ZIP files when you

1565
01:20:17,800 --> 01:20:20,640
Speaker 1: download them from Google Photos, and so I want to

1566
01:20:20,760 --> 01:20:24,240
Speaker 1: I wanted to take that, extract the picture and then

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01:20:24,479 --> 01:20:27,840
Speaker 1: optimize it, you know, kind of make it smaller, compress it,

1568
01:20:28,160 --> 01:20:31,640
Speaker 1: make it four x three, strip the metadata, add a

1569
01:20:31,640 --> 01:20:35,120
Speaker 1: water mark, and also change the file name. That's a

1570
01:20:35,200 --> 01:20:37,160
Speaker 1: lot of things to do, right, and you're sitting there

1571
01:20:37,160 --> 01:20:39,840
Speaker 1: in shortcuts, trying to figure out the flow of all

1572
01:20:39,880 --> 01:20:42,919
Speaker 1: that stuff. I could never get it to work. I

1573
01:20:42,960 --> 01:20:46,439
Speaker 1: put one line of exactly what I wanted to do

1574
01:20:46,520 --> 01:20:48,599
Speaker 1: into Gemini and I said, can you create this app

1575
01:20:48,640 --> 01:20:52,280
Speaker 1: for me? It did it in seconds. Now I have

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01:20:52,400 --> 01:20:57,679
Speaker 1: the rich On Tech Optimizer for photos. Unbelievable. You drag

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01:20:57,720 --> 01:21:01,040
Speaker 1: a photo or a ZIP file in there. It extracts

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01:21:01,040 --> 01:21:03,960
Speaker 1: the picture, It crops it to four x three, It

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01:21:04,120 --> 01:21:07,040
Speaker 1: scans it using AI to come up with keywords that

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01:21:07,080 --> 01:21:10,240
Speaker 1: are relevant in the file name, which is good for SEO,

1581
01:21:10,800 --> 01:21:13,040
Speaker 1: and then it strips the metadata, the exit data and

1582
01:21:13,080 --> 01:21:14,960
Speaker 1: the GPS, and then it puts a rich On Tech

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01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:16,799
Speaker 1: watermark on it. So if you look at my newsletter

1584
01:21:16,840 --> 01:21:20,400
Speaker 1: today rich On Tech dot TV, you'll see all the

1585
01:21:20,439 --> 01:21:24,360
Speaker 1: pictures in there are now formatted because of this AI tool,

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01:21:24,479 --> 01:21:28,439
Speaker 1: this app that I coded in seconds. And then as

1587
01:21:28,479 --> 01:21:31,519
Speaker 1: I go along, if there's something I wanted different, you

1588
01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:34,840
Speaker 1: just chat with the AI and tell it to change it. So,

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01:21:35,000 --> 01:21:37,760
Speaker 1: if you have not played with this, I get it.

1590
01:21:37,840 --> 01:21:41,280
Speaker 1: This is not a tech novice thing, per se. You

1591
01:21:41,320 --> 01:21:44,639
Speaker 1: need a little bit of tech. I guess not really,

1592
01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:47,280
Speaker 1: because I'm not a coder and I made an app

1593
01:21:47,880 --> 01:21:49,840
Speaker 1: literally made the best app I've ever used in my

1594
01:21:49,880 --> 01:21:52,360
Speaker 1: life right now, and it does exactly what I want

1595
01:21:53,240 --> 01:21:55,080
Speaker 1: and you can run it all from Gemini. By the way,

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01:21:55,439 --> 01:21:58,840
Speaker 1: so this feature is called Canvas. So when you go

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01:21:58,880 --> 01:22:01,200
Speaker 1: to Gemini, if you want to try making your own

1598
01:22:01,240 --> 01:22:04,599
Speaker 1: little app, just go to tools and tap canvas and

1599
01:22:04,640 --> 01:22:07,160
Speaker 1: that will give you. I mean, it says what, let's

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01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:10,519
Speaker 1: write or build together. I'm not kidding when I tell

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01:22:10,560 --> 01:22:14,479
Speaker 1: you I've been in technology and working with technology for

1602
01:22:15,200 --> 01:22:18,760
Speaker 1: you know, a couple decades now. This is unbelievable. The

1603
01:22:18,760 --> 01:22:21,080
Speaker 1: fact that I can sit here and create my own

1604
01:22:21,160 --> 01:22:23,479
Speaker 1: app that does exactly what I want it to do

1605
01:22:24,040 --> 01:22:26,280
Speaker 1: is just something that in the history of mankind has

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01:22:26,400 --> 01:22:30,559
Speaker 1: never been available before. It's mind boggling. And by the way,

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01:22:30,640 --> 01:22:33,240
Speaker 1: it's free. So if you've been thinking about something that

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01:22:33,280 --> 01:22:37,840
Speaker 1: you want to do on your computer, code it, try it.

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01:22:38,280 --> 01:22:42,200
Speaker 1: Make it. You got something you do every day? You always,

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01:22:42,439 --> 01:22:44,240
Speaker 1: you know, form out a picture this way, you always

1611
01:22:44,240 --> 01:22:47,200
Speaker 1: do something, whatever it is, music, whatever it is, try it.

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01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:50,400
Speaker 1: I cannot believe how good this is. And I talked

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01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:52,240
Speaker 1: about this a couple of weeks ago. The timer I

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01:22:52,360 --> 01:22:56,280
Speaker 1: use for this show now my kid made My kid

1615
01:22:56,320 --> 01:23:00,000
Speaker 1: is fourteen. He coded a showtimer that takes into account

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01:23:00,120 --> 01:23:04,040
Speaker 1: all the breaks, all the commercial time when we have

1617
01:23:04,120 --> 01:23:07,479
Speaker 1: to stop what we call hard stops, soft stop, what

1618
01:23:07,560 --> 01:23:10,240
Speaker 1: is it heartbreak? Soft break? You know some breaks on

1619
01:23:10,280 --> 01:23:11,920
Speaker 1: this show, I can go a little bit longer and

1620
01:23:12,520 --> 01:23:14,360
Speaker 1: we can still go to break. Some I have to

1621
01:23:14,439 --> 01:23:17,240
Speaker 1: hit at exact certain time. Somehow he got them to

1622
01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:20,600
Speaker 1: time out perfectly on this thing. My point is this

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01:23:20,720 --> 01:23:22,559
Speaker 1: stuff that you can do on AI. And I understand

1624
01:23:22,560 --> 01:23:25,360
Speaker 1: some people are oh, oh my gosh, but the actual

1625
01:23:25,439 --> 01:23:30,280
Speaker 1: benefits to people that we're finding are really incredible. So

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01:23:31,360 --> 01:23:34,360
Speaker 1: that's just one example. Anyway, if you've been trying to

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01:23:34,400 --> 01:23:36,240
Speaker 1: do something, or you know you want to create a

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01:23:36,240 --> 01:23:38,400
Speaker 1: little app. I've got like a couple app ideas that

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01:23:38,400 --> 01:23:41,599
Speaker 1: we created. We made like little prototypes of them. It's

1630
01:23:41,640 --> 01:23:45,720
Speaker 1: just unbelievable what you can do. That's Gemini Gemini dot

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01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:48,920
Speaker 1: Google dot com. And look at the canvas feature and

1632
01:23:49,040 --> 01:23:52,000
Speaker 1: just code your app. See what you can do. Speaking

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01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:54,920
Speaker 1: of apps, there's a new app called Nearby Glasses. This

1634
01:23:54,960 --> 01:23:59,040
Speaker 1: is an Android app that basically can tell you if

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01:23:59,040 --> 01:24:02,840
Speaker 1: someone nearby is wearing smart glasses like the Meta ray

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01:24:02,880 --> 01:24:06,000
Speaker 1: bands or the Snap Spectacles. The app works by scanning

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01:24:06,080 --> 01:24:09,919
Speaker 1: Bluetooth low energy signals. These are little tiny radio beacons.

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01:24:09,960 --> 01:24:12,439
Speaker 1: These smart glasses broadcasts so they can connect to apps

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01:24:12,439 --> 01:24:16,320
Speaker 1: and phones. It'll tell you, hey, someone nearby is wearing

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01:24:16,320 --> 01:24:20,200
Speaker 1: these glasses. The developer says. The goal is awareness, calling

1641
01:24:20,280 --> 01:24:23,559
Speaker 1: the app a small pushback against the growing always on

1642
01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:29,880
Speaker 1: surveillance from wearable cameras. Kind of interesting. I can see

1643
01:24:29,880 --> 01:24:31,519
Speaker 1: this being useful if you're in a job where you

1644
01:24:31,600 --> 01:24:32,839
Speaker 1: might not want to be recorded.

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01:24:33,280 --> 01:24:33,479
Speaker 2: You know.

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01:24:34,080 --> 01:24:35,400
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of job that is, but

1647
01:24:35,479 --> 01:24:38,599
Speaker 1: you know there's jobs like that. YouTube Premium just got

1648
01:24:38,600 --> 01:24:43,280
Speaker 1: two new features Premium Light I should say background playback

1649
01:24:43,360 --> 01:24:46,120
Speaker 1: and offline downloads. So if you're paying eight bucks a month,

1650
01:24:46,560 --> 01:24:49,200
Speaker 1: you now get these two features that were previously locked

1651
01:24:49,200 --> 01:24:51,880
Speaker 1: behind the full premium plan, which costs much more each month,

1652
01:24:51,880 --> 01:24:55,240
Speaker 1: I think thirteen dollars a month, fourteen dollars, so this

1653
01:24:55,280 --> 01:24:57,720
Speaker 1: is eight dollars a month. Premium Light basically takes a

1654
01:24:57,720 --> 01:25:01,120
Speaker 1: lot of ads off of YouTube. It does not take

1655
01:25:01,200 --> 01:25:03,439
Speaker 1: ads off of two places that I watch the most,

1656
01:25:03,479 --> 01:25:07,639
Speaker 1: which is shorts and music videos, so you still see

1657
01:25:07,640 --> 01:25:09,400
Speaker 1: ads there, which you might as well. At that point

1658
01:25:09,439 --> 01:25:12,360
Speaker 1: just pay for the fourteen dollars a month, but Premium

1659
01:25:12,439 --> 01:25:17,000
Speaker 1: Light two new features. All right, coming up, we are

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01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:20,120
Speaker 1: going to talk about the day of on Global Day

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01:25:20,120 --> 01:25:23,360
Speaker 1: of on Plugging, could you give up your phone for

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01:25:23,479 --> 01:25:32,800
Speaker 1: twenty four hours we'll discuss coming up next now on

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01:25:32,840 --> 01:25:36,240
Speaker 1: the show. Kim Cavallo from the Global Day of on Plugging,

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01:25:36,400 --> 01:25:41,599
Speaker 1: happening March sixth through seventh. Kim, welcome to the show.

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01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:43,800
Speaker 10: Thank you, Thank you so much.

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01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:44,160
Speaker 4: Rich.

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01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:48,519
Speaker 13: I just have to say I admire and appreciate so

1668
01:25:48,640 --> 01:25:53,760
Speaker 13: much your show and your community because everyone's looking to

1669
01:25:53,840 --> 01:25:57,360
Speaker 13: you to you tell them about technology, and you cover

1670
01:25:57,479 --> 01:26:01,960
Speaker 13: all the angles from the healthy aspect to maybe some

1671
01:26:02,040 --> 01:26:03,639
Speaker 13: of the things for us to look out for.

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01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:05,599
Speaker 10: So I always appreciate you.

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01:26:05,560 --> 01:26:07,360
Speaker 1: So thank you well, thank you. And you know I

1674
01:26:07,880 --> 01:26:10,840
Speaker 1: am a tech enthusiast for sure, but I also see

1675
01:26:10,880 --> 01:26:12,800
Speaker 1: the downsides of all of this stuff. And that's you know,

1676
01:26:12,920 --> 01:26:16,599
Speaker 1: try to give people a you know, a rounded kind

1677
01:26:16,640 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 1: of look at all this stuff, you know, a well

1678
01:26:18,439 --> 01:26:21,160
Speaker 1: rounded look, because you know, we love this stuff, we

1679
01:26:21,200 --> 01:26:23,519
Speaker 1: all use it, but we also know that like I mean,

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01:26:23,560 --> 01:26:25,680
Speaker 1: I see adults, so many adults that are just so

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01:26:25,840 --> 01:26:28,920
Speaker 1: addicted to their phones. It's like, put down the phone

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01:26:29,040 --> 01:26:32,719
Speaker 1: for one second, please absolutely, And that's what you're saying

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01:26:32,760 --> 01:26:35,840
Speaker 1: to do. So explain what the Global Day of Unplugging

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01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:36,559
Speaker 1: is all about?

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01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:39,280
Speaker 13: Okay, all right, well, the globally of I'm plugging. It's

1686
01:26:39,280 --> 01:26:42,880
Speaker 13: an intentional call to action for people to not only

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01:26:42,920 --> 01:26:47,479
Speaker 13: reflect on their relationship with technology, but to gather together

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01:26:47,640 --> 01:26:51,439
Speaker 13: with other people to with their intentions of experiencing life

1689
01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:53,880
Speaker 13: beyond our screens, which is you know what you've just

1690
01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:56,200
Speaker 13: been talking about. It's always the first weekend of March.

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01:26:56,400 --> 01:26:59,240
Speaker 13: It's been that way for seventeen years. And as you said,

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01:26:59,240 --> 01:27:04,000
Speaker 13: this year, the official campaign launches at sundown on March sixth,

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01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:05,600
Speaker 13: and at last twenty four hours.

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01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:09,000
Speaker 1: Okay, so how do you participate? Like, what do you

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01:27:09,080 --> 01:27:11,000
Speaker 1: have to do? Is this like an official thing or

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01:27:11,040 --> 01:27:13,080
Speaker 1: is it just a personal thing or is it a mix?

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01:27:13,880 --> 01:27:15,000
Speaker 10: It's really a mix.

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01:27:15,080 --> 01:27:17,880
Speaker 13: I mean obviously, you know, the thought of shutting down

1699
01:27:17,920 --> 01:27:20,599
Speaker 13: devices for twenty four hours can be a total turnoff,

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01:27:21,760 --> 01:27:23,680
Speaker 13: especially right now. You know, so many of us are

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01:27:23,720 --> 01:27:26,080
Speaker 13: gripped by the news of what's happening around the world.

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Speaker 13: I mean, you know, especially even today, and you know,

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Speaker 13: we don't want to turn off our TVs or stop

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01:27:31,720 --> 01:27:35,720
Speaker 13: scrolling because we're so scared, and we understand that at

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01:27:35,720 --> 01:27:38,439
Speaker 13: Global Day of Unplugging. You know, some parts of the world,

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01:27:38,439 --> 01:27:40,479
Speaker 13: for many people, the smartphone and the Wi Fi are

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01:27:40,520 --> 01:27:43,880
Speaker 13: literally a lifeline, so you know, and I'm gonna admit

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01:27:43,920 --> 01:27:47,120
Speaker 13: something here on live Radio. I find it impossible to

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01:27:47,240 --> 01:27:50,040
Speaker 13: unplug unless my phone is out of sight. I have

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01:27:50,120 --> 01:27:53,480
Speaker 13: this horrible habit of picking it up to use the calculator,

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01:27:53,560 --> 01:27:56,120
Speaker 13: and then an hour later, I'm watching episode three about

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01:27:56,120 --> 01:28:00,160
Speaker 13: some celebrity breakup on TikTok, so I need global of

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01:28:00,160 --> 01:28:00,599
Speaker 13: them plugging.

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01:28:00,840 --> 01:28:02,839
Speaker 1: Well, you're not the only one, you, I mean everyone.

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01:28:02,920 --> 01:28:06,080
Speaker 1: This is and this is why notifications are so important

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01:28:06,200 --> 01:28:09,439
Speaker 1: to these these apps, because they get you in, they

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01:28:09,479 --> 01:28:12,479
Speaker 1: get you on your phone. Yes, and I actually have

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01:28:12,520 --> 01:28:16,679
Speaker 1: a term for this notification abuse because let's just let's

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01:28:16,800 --> 01:28:20,360
Speaker 1: for instance, DoorDash right, you want you want to leave

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01:28:20,439 --> 01:28:23,559
Speaker 1: notifications on DoorDash on because you want to know when

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01:28:23,560 --> 01:28:27,439
Speaker 1: your pizza gets delivered. But they abuse that privilege because

1722
01:28:27,439 --> 01:28:30,400
Speaker 1: they'll send you stuff all day long, every day. Hey, rich,

1723
01:28:31,120 --> 01:28:33,320
Speaker 1: these cookies are looking pretty good today. Why don't you

1724
01:28:33,400 --> 01:28:35,920
Speaker 1: order one? It's like I don't need that, that's like it,

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01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:37,920
Speaker 1: you know, And so a lot of apps do that.

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01:28:37,960 --> 01:28:40,439
Speaker 1: They abuse their privileges on our phone and they get

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01:28:40,520 --> 01:28:42,439
Speaker 1: us to look at it, and then we go down

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01:28:42,479 --> 01:28:44,160
Speaker 1: that rabbit hole of looking at other stuff.

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Speaker 13: Yeah yeah, and really what Global Day of them plugging?

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01:28:46,800 --> 01:28:48,599
Speaker 13: I mean, it's for me and thousands of people around

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01:28:48,640 --> 01:28:51,080
Speaker 13: the world. You know, it's a communal moment. It's a

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01:28:51,120 --> 01:28:53,400
Speaker 13: time that everyone could observe in some way. You can

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01:28:53,560 --> 01:28:55,880
Speaker 13: plug for one hour, fifteen minutes, you could do the

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01:28:55,880 --> 01:28:58,920
Speaker 13: full twenty four hours. You can ditch all your devices

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01:28:59,120 --> 01:29:01,080
Speaker 13: or swear off social media for the day. I mean,

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01:29:01,080 --> 01:29:03,679
Speaker 13: it's we have two hundred plus ideas on our website

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01:29:03,680 --> 01:29:05,960
Speaker 13: to support the conversation, and we think of it like

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01:29:06,040 --> 01:29:08,439
Speaker 13: Earth Day. You know, on Earth Day we celebrate and

1739
01:29:08,479 --> 01:29:11,320
Speaker 13: protect the environment. On Global Day of Unplugging, it's our

1740
01:29:11,400 --> 01:29:14,880
Speaker 13: chance to remind each other that the real thing, the

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01:29:14,920 --> 01:29:18,280
Speaker 13: person in front of you, those connections are worth preserving.

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01:29:18,840 --> 01:29:20,960
Speaker 1: Okay, So that makes a lot of sense. So it's

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01:29:21,040 --> 01:29:23,880
Speaker 1: really a way of it's not necessarily saying, Okay, you

1744
01:29:23,960 --> 01:29:26,400
Speaker 1: have to take twenty four hours off your device, but hey,

1745
01:29:26,520 --> 01:29:29,599
Speaker 1: take this time to reflect on your relationship with your

1746
01:29:29,640 --> 01:29:32,800
Speaker 1: technology and how it's affecting you and what it's doing

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01:29:32,800 --> 01:29:35,840
Speaker 1: to your life and also just take that time to figure.

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01:29:35,479 --> 01:29:36,840
Speaker 10: That out exactly.

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01:29:36,960 --> 01:29:39,599
Speaker 1: Okay, that's interesting. I like that aspect because I don't

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01:29:39,640 --> 01:29:41,320
Speaker 1: think we think about this all the time, like how

1751
01:29:41,320 --> 01:29:45,200
Speaker 1: these things affect us. So what about research? I know,

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01:29:45,240 --> 01:29:47,639
Speaker 1: I was just talking about this, these alerts for the parents,

1753
01:29:47,680 --> 01:29:50,479
Speaker 1: you know, the parents from Instagram. What does research tell

1754
01:29:50,560 --> 01:29:55,360
Speaker 1: us about loneliness and connection when it comes to technology.

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01:29:56,400 --> 01:29:59,599
Speaker 13: So we do know that there's a strong correlation between

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01:29:59,640 --> 01:30:03,600
Speaker 13: high scho screen time rates, particularly social media, and increased.

1757
01:30:03,200 --> 01:30:04,240
Speaker 10: Feelings of loneliness.

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01:30:04,280 --> 01:30:07,240
Speaker 13: So if you exceed four plus hours a day scrolling

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01:30:07,280 --> 01:30:09,439
Speaker 13: on social media, I mean, this might seem obvious to

1760
01:30:09,479 --> 01:30:12,680
Speaker 13: some people, but it's strongly linked to increased loneliness and

1761
01:30:12,760 --> 01:30:16,240
Speaker 13: reduced well being for all ages. I'm really excited because

1762
01:30:16,240 --> 01:30:19,000
Speaker 13: after seventeen years, our team and partners are interested in

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01:30:19,080 --> 01:30:22,040
Speaker 13: learning more about the impact of unplug gatherings on a

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01:30:22,080 --> 01:30:26,479
Speaker 13: sense of belongingness. So this year, some participants who attend

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01:30:26,520 --> 01:30:29,719
Speaker 13: gatherings and connection with Global Data Plugging will be invited

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01:30:29,760 --> 01:30:33,599
Speaker 13: to complete a brief research and formed survey shortly after

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01:30:33,600 --> 01:30:35,600
Speaker 13: their event, and then we're going to follow up with

1768
01:30:35,640 --> 01:30:40,080
Speaker 13: a survey several months later. It's led by doctor Tracy

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01:30:40,120 --> 01:30:43,640
Speaker 13: Dennis Tawari from New York, the author of Future Tents,

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01:30:43,840 --> 01:30:46,120
Speaker 13: a book about anxiety. She's also a director of an

1771
01:30:46,160 --> 01:30:50,160
Speaker 13: emotion regulation Lab at the City University of New York.

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01:30:50,840 --> 01:30:55,120
Speaker 13: She's joined by Jamie Caruth, who's a licensed marriage and

1773
01:30:55,120 --> 01:30:59,320
Speaker 13: family therapist and also a data analyst.

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Speaker 10: And so we're really excited.

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01:31:00,920 --> 01:31:03,479
Speaker 13: About this new research project and can't wait to explore

1776
01:31:03,520 --> 01:31:07,680
Speaker 13: what the data story is telling us about unplugged gatherings.

1777
01:31:07,960 --> 01:31:09,320
Speaker 13: So we'll report back to you at the end of

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01:31:09,360 --> 01:31:10,160
Speaker 13: the summer about that.

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01:31:10,280 --> 01:31:13,479
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's as you'll collect data on how people feel,

1780
01:31:14,080 --> 01:31:16,759
Speaker 1: what their thoughts are, and all this stuff from people

1781
01:31:16,760 --> 01:31:19,360
Speaker 1: that are participating in this event. We're talking to Kim

1782
01:31:19,400 --> 01:31:23,640
Speaker 1: Cavallo of the Global Day of Unplugging Global Day of

1783
01:31:23,720 --> 01:31:27,719
Speaker 1: Unplugging dot org. They've got a whole bunch of unplugging ideas,

1784
01:31:27,760 --> 01:31:32,960
Speaker 1: she said, about two hundred plus. Let's see here, create

1785
01:31:32,960 --> 01:31:38,840
Speaker 1: a boredom box. Okay, upcycling, cardboard cars, living history day.

1786
01:31:39,120 --> 01:31:41,080
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, this reminds me of my kid. Last night.

1787
01:31:41,200 --> 01:31:43,800
Speaker 1: He was I said enough time on the iPad and

1788
01:31:43,800 --> 01:31:46,400
Speaker 1: he said, okay, I'm off my screen. Now I get

1789
01:31:46,439 --> 01:31:48,880
Speaker 1: to do. What I really like to do is be creative.

1790
01:31:49,320 --> 01:31:51,600
Speaker 1: And he just went out and he started like doing.

1791
01:31:51,760 --> 01:31:55,479
Speaker 1: It's so funny because you know, left to their own devices, literally,

1792
01:31:55,640 --> 01:31:59,599
Speaker 1: kids will just be glued to the screen forever indefinitely, right, Yes,

1793
01:32:00,120 --> 01:32:02,920
Speaker 1: but if you let them be kids and play, like

1794
01:32:02,960 --> 01:32:05,479
Speaker 1: I tell my kids, you know, go look under rocks,

1795
01:32:05,520 --> 01:32:07,479
Speaker 1: like look for worms, like just go outside like touched

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01:32:07,600 --> 01:32:11,200
Speaker 1: r whatever. Yes, it really like they want to do that.

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01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:14,599
Speaker 1: That's that's also built into their system. It's just who

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01:32:14,600 --> 01:32:17,160
Speaker 1: doesn't want that screen that just has all the world's

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01:32:17,160 --> 01:32:21,040
Speaker 1: information and flashiness and games at all times. I mean

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01:32:21,080 --> 01:32:22,840
Speaker 1: everyone wants that exactly.

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01:32:22,920 --> 01:32:23,000
Speaker 2: No.

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01:32:23,200 --> 01:32:28,360
Speaker 13: Definitely, mobile technology especially it's disrupted childhood, the natural way

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01:32:28,400 --> 01:32:30,800
Speaker 13: that we you know, learn and grow when we're young.

1804
01:32:32,280 --> 01:32:36,200
Speaker 1: How do you gauge success of this global day of unplugging?

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01:32:37,320 --> 01:32:40,759
Speaker 13: So, you know, we we it's hard for us actually,

1806
01:32:41,360 --> 01:32:44,840
Speaker 13: you know, because we have a gathering form on our website,

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01:32:44,880 --> 01:32:47,760
Speaker 13: so we hope that people fill that out and tell

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01:32:47,800 --> 01:32:48,320
Speaker 13: us what their.

1809
01:32:48,200 --> 01:32:50,160
Speaker 10: Plans might be. And your plans might be.

1810
01:32:50,240 --> 01:32:52,759
Speaker 13: I'm going to go out to dinner with one person,

1811
01:32:53,040 --> 01:32:56,680
Speaker 13: or I'm going to plan something for my workplace or

1812
01:32:56,920 --> 01:32:58,600
Speaker 13: my entire school district.

1813
01:32:59,160 --> 01:33:00,400
Speaker 10: So there's a rain it.

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01:33:00,600 --> 01:33:03,200
Speaker 13: So we asked people to fill that out on our

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01:33:03,200 --> 01:33:06,880
Speaker 13: website and then at the end of March we put

1816
01:33:06,920 --> 01:33:09,880
Speaker 13: all that on the website as in forms of a

1817
01:33:09,920 --> 01:33:12,800
Speaker 13: pin so that we can see the impact of that.

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01:33:13,360 --> 01:33:16,519
Speaker 13: But to be honest, we also get you know, Google

1819
01:33:16,560 --> 01:33:19,960
Speaker 13: alert hits in the middle of the year that says

1820
01:33:20,000 --> 01:33:23,719
Speaker 13: that some incredible company had this great way of celebrating

1821
01:33:23,760 --> 01:33:25,760
Speaker 13: Global Day of Unplugging. They never reached out to us,

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01:33:25,800 --> 01:33:28,040
Speaker 13: they never filled out a form, and we didn't know

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01:33:28,080 --> 01:33:31,639
Speaker 13: what happened with it. So yeah, we really do want

1824
01:33:31,720 --> 01:33:34,040
Speaker 13: people to reach out to us and let us know

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01:33:34,080 --> 01:33:34,679
Speaker 13: what they're doing.

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01:33:35,680 --> 01:33:39,320
Speaker 1: All right, Kim Cavallo of a Global Day of Unplugging.

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01:33:39,920 --> 01:33:41,800
Speaker 1: I did it. I did the whole twenty four hour

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01:33:41,880 --> 01:33:45,000
Speaker 1: thing a couple of years ago. It was tough. I imagine

1829
01:33:44,920 --> 01:33:46,800
Speaker 1: it'd be even tougher this time around. But I think

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01:33:46,840 --> 01:33:49,200
Speaker 1: that we're seeing a definite since I've talked to you

1831
01:33:49,240 --> 01:33:51,879
Speaker 1: for a couple of years about this, a definite movement

1832
01:33:52,400 --> 01:33:56,280
Speaker 1: towards people understanding their relationship with tech is not always

1833
01:33:56,320 --> 01:33:59,800
Speaker 1: the healthiest, and I'm seeing more people try to disconnect,

1834
01:34:00,040 --> 01:34:02,400
Speaker 1: try to use retro things, try to stay. You know

1835
01:34:02,520 --> 01:34:05,840
Speaker 1: books this that versus the digital equivalent. So I think

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01:34:05,880 --> 01:34:07,840
Speaker 1: you're getting some you're gaining some ground here.

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01:34:08,320 --> 01:34:08,639
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1838
01:34:08,720 --> 01:34:10,800
Speaker 13: Yeah, You've been so supportive over the years, and I'm

1839
01:34:10,800 --> 01:34:13,519
Speaker 13: glad you've seen that growth and we appreciate it and

1840
01:34:13,600 --> 01:34:14,360
Speaker 13: are so grateful.

1841
01:34:14,880 --> 01:34:17,000
Speaker 1: All right, thanks for joining me today Global Day of

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01:34:17,080 --> 01:34:20,160
Speaker 1: Unplugging dot Org. Check it out, make your plans for

1843
01:34:20,640 --> 01:34:24,920
Speaker 1: March sixth and seventh, connect with friends, do something just

1844
01:34:24,960 --> 01:34:27,240
Speaker 1: to ditch that screen for a little bit. Kim, thanks

1845
01:34:27,280 --> 01:34:28,040
Speaker 1: for joining me today.

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01:34:28,360 --> 01:34:30,080
Speaker 10: Thank you so much. Rich I have a great day.

1847
01:34:30,120 --> 01:34:32,360
Speaker 1: All right. Coming up, we are going to open up

1848
01:34:32,400 --> 01:34:34,719
Speaker 1: the feedbag. Where is it? Oh, we've got a lot

1849
01:34:35,240 --> 01:34:39,040
Speaker 1: here it is? Can you hear that? Lots in the

1850
01:34:39,080 --> 01:34:43,280
Speaker 1: feedbag today? These are your emails, your comments, your questions

1851
01:34:43,280 --> 01:34:44,960
Speaker 1: you send me throughout the week. We will get through

1852
01:34:45,000 --> 01:34:47,240
Speaker 1: as many as we can. Coming up right here on

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01:34:47,400 --> 01:34:56,360
Speaker 1: Rich on tech text Now, we've talked about this company.

1854
01:34:56,360 --> 01:35:01,200
Speaker 1: They offer basically free texting and calling through an app. Well,

1855
01:35:01,200 --> 01:35:04,760
Speaker 1: now they've launched eSIMs, so you can now install this

1856
01:35:04,880 --> 01:35:09,960
Speaker 1: on your phone instantly. So text Now can basically give

1857
01:35:10,000 --> 01:35:14,200
Speaker 1: you their phone line. Is they have a free essential

1858
01:35:14,280 --> 01:35:16,160
Speaker 1: data plan. So in the past you know, you could

1859
01:35:16,200 --> 01:35:18,799
Speaker 1: download their app and you can get free calling, free texting.

1860
01:35:19,200 --> 01:35:21,320
Speaker 1: But they also had this thing called Free Essential Data

1861
01:35:21,600 --> 01:35:23,439
Speaker 1: where you had to get a SIM card. Right, you

1862
01:35:23,439 --> 01:35:25,720
Speaker 1: have to pay them a couple bucks to mail you

1863
01:35:25,760 --> 01:35:27,760
Speaker 1: a SIM card, and then when you put that in

1864
01:35:27,840 --> 01:35:30,800
Speaker 1: your phone, you can get free calling, free texting, and

1865
01:35:30,880 --> 01:35:35,800
Speaker 1: free data for apps like ride shares, maps, banking. But

1866
01:35:36,000 --> 01:35:38,880
Speaker 1: here's the deal. Now, you can just go to their website,

1867
01:35:39,240 --> 01:35:42,360
Speaker 1: scan the QR code, get an eSIM on your phone instantly,

1868
01:35:42,720 --> 01:35:45,160
Speaker 1: and basically have a free phone line, free texting, plus

1869
01:35:45,200 --> 01:35:48,880
Speaker 1: limited data access and if you want more data, you

1870
01:35:48,920 --> 01:35:51,800
Speaker 1: can buy it three dollars for a day, nine dollars

1871
01:35:51,880 --> 01:35:55,040
Speaker 1: for a week, thirty six dollars per monthly unlimited. So

1872
01:35:55,160 --> 01:35:58,280
Speaker 1: again this is for people who are always on, always

1873
01:35:58,320 --> 01:36:01,000
Speaker 1: on Wi Fi, but want a little cellular backup for

1874
01:36:01,040 --> 01:36:03,840
Speaker 1: their you know, their most essential apps, or they just

1875
01:36:03,840 --> 01:36:06,000
Speaker 1: want to buy data. So it's not for everyone, but

1876
01:36:06,120 --> 01:36:08,080
Speaker 1: if you're looking for something like that, or you need

1877
01:36:08,120 --> 01:36:12,000
Speaker 1: something like that, text now check it out. Really interesting

1878
01:36:12,040 --> 01:36:16,080
Speaker 1: what they're doing there. And then this is silly. Spotify

1879
01:36:16,160 --> 01:36:20,720
Speaker 1: teamed up with Liquid Death to create an eternal playlist

1880
01:36:20,840 --> 01:36:24,479
Speaker 1: earn a cremation Earn with a built in Bluetooth speaker,

1881
01:36:24,920 --> 01:36:27,960
Speaker 1: so your music can keep playing after you're gone. Four

1882
01:36:28,080 --> 01:36:30,400
Speaker 1: hundred ninety five dollars, only making one hundred and fifty

1883
01:36:30,400 --> 01:36:32,840
Speaker 1: of them. This is clearly a stunt, but they have

1884
01:36:32,880 --> 01:36:36,960
Speaker 1: a playlist eternal playlist generator where you answer questions about

1885
01:36:37,000 --> 01:36:40,519
Speaker 1: your eternal vibe, and that's what plays on this thing.

1886
01:36:40,640 --> 01:36:45,120
Speaker 1: So I do love my liquid Death drinks, but come on,

1887
01:36:45,200 --> 01:36:48,320
Speaker 1: that's kind of silly. All right, Time for the feedback.

1888
01:36:48,680 --> 01:36:51,719
Speaker 1: That's your feedback plus the mail bag. These are the emails,

1889
01:36:51,720 --> 01:36:54,120
Speaker 1: the comments, and the questions I get from you. If

1890
01:36:54,120 --> 01:36:55,920
Speaker 1: you want to submit yours, go to Rich on tech

1891
01:36:56,040 --> 01:36:59,960
Speaker 1: dot tv and hit contact. All right, First up, Candice,

1892
01:37:00,000 --> 01:37:02,799
Speaker 1: He says, Hey, Rich, after your interview with cybersecurity expert

1893
01:37:02,840 --> 01:37:06,720
Speaker 1: JP Castianos about voice cloning scams, I'm pretty sure that's

1894
01:37:06,760 --> 01:37:09,280
Speaker 1: what happened to my friend's family. They're just regular people,

1895
01:37:09,320 --> 01:37:12,559
Speaker 1: not high profile at all. My friend's dad got a

1896
01:37:12,560 --> 01:37:15,200
Speaker 1: call from someone who sounded exactly like her son, Luke.

1897
01:37:15,680 --> 01:37:18,120
Speaker 1: The caller said he'd been in a car accident in Miami.

1898
01:37:18,160 --> 01:37:20,439
Speaker 1: The woman he hit was pregnant. He needed twelve thousand

1899
01:37:20,439 --> 01:37:23,559
Speaker 1: dollars for bond my friend had warned her parents about

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01:37:23,560 --> 01:37:25,759
Speaker 1: scams like this, but before they hung up, the fake

1901
01:37:25,880 --> 01:37:29,320
Speaker 1: Luke gave them a number for a so called attorney

1902
01:37:29,400 --> 01:37:32,479
Speaker 1: in Dade County. Her dad actually called it, thankfully. The

1903
01:37:32,560 --> 01:37:35,080
Speaker 1: dad felt something was off and called my friend and Luke.

1904
01:37:35,479 --> 01:37:38,080
Speaker 1: While they were all on speaker, the scammers called her

1905
01:37:38,120 --> 01:37:40,920
Speaker 1: mom's phone again. I could hear him clear as day.

1906
01:37:40,960 --> 01:37:44,040
Speaker 1: He sounded exactly like Luke. That's when my friend said,

1907
01:37:44,080 --> 01:37:47,000
Speaker 1: that's not Luke. He's standing right here. The scammers immediately

1908
01:37:47,080 --> 01:37:50,920
Speaker 1: hung up. It was terrifying. Yes, voice cloning scams. That's

1909
01:37:50,920 --> 01:37:53,759
Speaker 1: why I have these very very guests on my show,

1910
01:37:54,200 --> 01:37:56,479
Speaker 1: so you learn about all this stuff that's happening out

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01:37:56,479 --> 01:37:59,320
Speaker 1: there and these voice cloning scams. You might hear it

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Speaker 1: and say, oh, come on, that doesn't really happen. Oh

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Speaker 1: sure does. Look at that. We just got an email

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Speaker 1: about it, Mike and Oneana New York says, I just

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Speaker 1: wanted to say thanks to your latest newsletter. I'm an

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Speaker 1: assistive technology specialist at a university, and on my way

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Speaker 1: to work, I was actually thinking about what voice to

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Speaker 1: text apps might help our students. I open up your newsletter.

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Speaker 1: There's all section on it perfect timing. I've already installed

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Speaker 1: Typeless and I'm testing to see if it's a good

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Speaker 1: fit for our campus. Keep the newsletters coming well, thank you, Mike.

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Speaker 1: Gary says, I bundled my AT and T cell service

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Speaker 1: to save some money, and the rep insisted on giving

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Speaker 1: me a quote free Samsung S twenty five. I told

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Speaker 1: her I didn't need it. The next morning, I got

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Speaker 1: an email saying I'd be charged seven hundred ninety nine

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Speaker 1: dollars in twenty three dot twenty three monthly installments. I

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Speaker 1: spent over two hours on the phone trying to cancel it,

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Speaker 1: and now I have to bring it back to the

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Speaker 1: store to return it. I don't like that part. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you can warn people about this on your show. So yes,

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Speaker 1: the way these free phones work is that you get

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Speaker 1: that charge for seven hundred ninety nine dollars, they credit

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Speaker 1: you back over three years. Basically, they want you to

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Speaker 1: have a phone line active on that device, and you

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Speaker 1: got to keep that phone active for those three years

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Speaker 1: to get that free phone. So yeah, free not always

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Speaker 1: very free. Nick says when people when I hear people

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Speaker 1: say AI can't do this or that, like have consciousness,

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Speaker 1: I think we just need to define our terms more carefully.

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Speaker 1: Every time we say machines will never be able to

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Speaker 1: do something, history proves us wrong. If we avoid metaphysical

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Speaker 1: or theological ideas like having a soul, I suspect AI

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Speaker 1: will eventually meet most definitions we come up with. Even

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Speaker 1: Google now labels some results as thinking before an AI

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Speaker 1: overview appears. I'm sure the wording went through plenty of

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Speaker 1: legal review. AI already has issues and they'll likely grow.

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Speaker 1: I'm just not sure our thinking is keeping pace. Ooh deep,

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Speaker 1: thank you.

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Speaker 7: Nick.

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Speaker 1: Mirian says, one of my AirPods stopped charging. I figured

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Speaker 1: it might be dying and started thinking about replacing it.

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Speaker 1: You told me to grab a Q tip and gently

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Speaker 1: clean the metal contacts on the AirPod and inside the

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Speaker 1: charging case. Well I tried that and guess what it worked.

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Speaker 1: It's charging normally again.

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Speaker 4: Yay.

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Speaker 1: I saved you a bunch of money. Darren. You know

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Speaker 1: what Darren was commenting about the air tags. We had

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Speaker 1: a caller last week that said he put him on

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Speaker 1: his daughter, but he can't they just show that she's

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Speaker 1: at home. Darren says, if he has air tags that

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Speaker 1: say they're home, they probably are. Also if his daughter's

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Speaker 1: keychain has an air tag registered to him. He she

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Speaker 1: would constantly be getting alerts that she's being tracked. My

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Speaker 1: guess is she removed the air tag and it's just

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Speaker 1: sitting at home. David. I heard you talk about Chrome

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Speaker 1: os flex on the show and tried to install it

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Speaker 1: on my Dell Latitude with sixteen gigs of RAM and

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Speaker 1: an I seven. There's nothing this thing can't do. I

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Speaker 1: even installed my full featured money Dance personal finance absence

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Speaker 1: it supports Linux. It works seamlessly with my Microsoft three

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Speaker 1: sixty five apps in email, I use my YouTube music

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Speaker 1: and my wireless headphones without any issue. I can even

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Speaker 1: install different browsers because of the Linux support. You really

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Speaker 1: hit a home run with that advice. This feels like

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Speaker 1: a Chromebook on steroids. Thank you, David. Joseph warns about

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Speaker 1: getting a bill that looked like it was from his

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Speaker 1: gas company. When he tried to click to log in,

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Speaker 1: it says password was invalid. I checked a real bill

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Speaker 1: I had saved and the formats didn't match. They looked similar,

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Speaker 1: but not quite. Just a reminder, these fake utility bills

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Speaker 1: look very convincing. Let's see here, got a couple more

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Speaker 1: here before we have to go Gary and Connecticut, just

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Speaker 1: want to say how much I enjoy your show and

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Speaker 1: the helpful information you share. I heard you talk about

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Speaker 1: AT and t air on the radio here in Connecticut.

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Speaker 1: Since I'm an eighteen tea customer, sounds like a great

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Speaker 1: way for me to save money. Thanks for the tip

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Speaker 1: and keep up the great work AT. In Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: I've been listening to the podcast. Really enjoy the show

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Speaker 1: and Pocket shut down. I was looking for an alternative.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned insta paper, but I actually ended up switching

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Speaker 1: to read Wise. It's been great. You should check it out.

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Speaker 1: And Marta says I love your show. You bring a

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Speaker 1: wealth of information even for those of us who are

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Speaker 1: not very smart about technical gadgets. Thank you for all

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Speaker 1: your knowledge and help Well. Thank you Marta and michel

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Speaker 1: Leane in San Diego. I listen to you every week

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Speaker 1: on your podcast. Your show has become such a pleasant

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Speaker 1: part of my weekend, and I've learned so much from

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Speaker 1: you and your guests that's helped me personally and professionally.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Well, let's end it on that, because that's

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Speaker 1: about as good as you can get. Wow, thank you.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna do it. For this episode of the show.

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Speaker 1: You can find links to everything I mentioned on my website.

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Speaker 1: Just go to rich on tech dot tv. You can

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Speaker 1: find me follow me on social media. I'm on Instagram

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Speaker 1: at rich on tech, so if you're not following me,

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Speaker 1: please follow me there. Next week, we're gonna have all

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Speaker 1: the details from Apple's big events happening in New York

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Speaker 1: and other cities. Thank you so much for listening. There

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Speaker 1: are so many ways you can spend your time. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you spending it right here with me. My name

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Speaker 1: is rich Demiro. I'll talk to you real soon.