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Speaker 1: the solar electric car. Well, this was a big week

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Speaker 1: for Google, and not in a good way. A federal

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Speaker 1: judge ruled that Google illegally maintained a monopoly in online search. Now,

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Speaker 1: usually when you hear about monopoly, you're thinking about the game.

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Speaker 1: This is no game, this is real. Now, Google, we

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Speaker 1: all know they have a lot of products. Google is

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Speaker 1: the modern Internet era. The last time this happened was

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Speaker 1: That was a major turning point for Microsoft, to major

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Speaker 1: many ways. But this is an interesting one with Google,

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Speaker 1: and here is where the judge had a big problem.

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Speaker 1: Google pays billions of dollars to be the default search

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Speaker 1: and many other devices. Google has paid those companies many

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Speaker 1: And Google knows that, and so they charge as much

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Speaker 1: We love Google. But yeah, if you've ever done a search,

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Speaker 1: have better results somewhere else. Maybe you could go to Yelp,

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Speaker 1: It's even responding to what I'm saying right now here

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's just kind of that's just a way

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, they my. Google just keeps telling me

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Speaker 1: So here is the question. There's two things I see here.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, big news for Google this week. We will see

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Speaker 1: It's not as crazy as it sounds, I'll explain. But

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

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Speaker 1: I particularly like is it tells you how old the

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Speaker 1: and it not only tells you how old the plane is,

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Speaker 1: it now tells you the name of the airplane. So

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Speaker 1: It also tells you if you've ever been on that

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Speaker 1: and if you've ever been on that specific aircraft. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's really quite incredible. It gives you a list of

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Speaker 1: all the different flights that you've been on in the past.

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Speaker 1: You can share your flight information with a friend, you

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Speaker 1: can share it to your social media, and it's just

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Speaker 1: it's so beautifully done that I keep telling the developer,

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Speaker 1: I said, can you please make this for Android as well?

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Speaker 1: So Android folks can enjoy this beautiful flight tracking app.

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Speaker 1: And they're just doing so well on iPhone that they

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Speaker 1: just they don't even have they're just not considering it

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Speaker 1: Android right now. But last he said maybe a couple

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Speaker 1: of years, but that is part of their paid they

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Speaker 1: do have like a pro which is four dollars a

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Speaker 1: week or forty eight dollars a year. Right now, this

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Speaker 1: works on iPhone only if you are Android and you

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Speaker 1: want something. The closest I've found is an app called

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Speaker 1: App in the Air and that's but again not as beautiful,

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Speaker 1: not as well designed. The notifications don't come in as fast,

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Speaker 1: but it is it is a nice app to have.

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Speaker 1: So again, if you're flying a lot, you know, these

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Speaker 1: apps really do help, so check it out, Flighty.

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Speaker 2: I'll put a link on the website. Rich on tech

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Speaker 2: dot tv.

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Speaker 1: Also this week, you might have gotten an email from

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Speaker 1: Cash App saying you're eligible for a settlement. This is

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Speaker 1: related to a data breach in twenty twenty two and

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Is a fifteen million dollars settlement. Eligible

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Speaker 1: class members are current and former Cash app customers that

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Speaker 1: were affected between August twenty third, twenty eighteen, and August twentieth,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. So you use the Cash app in

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Speaker 1: those years, you may get up to twenty five hundred

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Speaker 1: this is not one of those things where you just

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Speaker 1: get money because you're using the app. I've been using

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Speaker 1: cash App since day one. I did not get an

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Speaker 1: email about this, so I'm curious what makes you qualify

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Speaker 1: For the email from them, maybe they know that your

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Speaker 1: information was out there and you had some sort of loss.

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Speaker 1: But the compensation will cover credit costs, bank fees, travel expenses,

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Speaker 1: and up to three hours of lost time at twenty

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Speaker 1: five dollars an hour, so that you could probably claim

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Speaker 1: without sort of any receipts or anything. Say, yeah, this

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Speaker 1: cost me a couple hours surfing the web seventy five bucks.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're eligible, you might as well claim.

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Speaker 1: For filing is November eighteenth, twenty twenty four. You do

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Speaker 1: have to have documentation of losses, so again this is

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Speaker 1: not one of those like automatic things. But if you

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Speaker 1: get an email, and again be careful because what happens

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Speaker 1: is this is real. But scammers will capitalize on this,

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Speaker 1: and so they will email you saying, hey, use the

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Speaker 1: cash app here claim your money. So don't just like

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Speaker 1: start typing in your information when you get something like that.

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Speaker 1: Go to the official website Cashappsecuritysettlement dot com Cashappsecurity Settlement

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Speaker 1: dot com. That is the official website and you can

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Speaker 1: see more information about this. But again, fifteen million dollars

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Speaker 1: settlement for cash App for data breaches in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two and twenty twenty three. All right, eight eight eight

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

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Coming up on the show,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you about Samsung. They're announcing a recall.

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Speaker 1: If you have a stove from them, you might want

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Speaker 1: And the website for the show rich on Tech dot tv.

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Speaker 1: Can find me online on social media at rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: And coming up later, I'm gonna have a guest that's

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Speaker 1: with your points. You are listening to Rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Miro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you talking technology at triple eight rich one

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Speaker 1: oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two

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Speaker 1: four one zero one. Let's go to Paul in Columbus, Ohio. Paul,

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Speaker 1: you're on with rich.

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Speaker 5: Very great, Rich. Thanks, how you're doing today?

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Speaker 2: I am doing fantastic. Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 5: Good thank you.

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Speaker 6: Okay, I've got an older iMac the Night twenty fifteen

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Speaker 6: model as a twenty seven inch great screen, and all

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Speaker 6: won't be able to use it anymore. But bottom line,

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Speaker 6: it's kind of pooping out. Wanted to consider another Mac,

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Speaker 6: but concerned about.

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Speaker 5: The ability to run Windows. I know right now the

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Speaker 5: only way you can do it is with Parallels, which

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Speaker 5: isn't the most economical way. But is there anything coming

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Speaker 5: down the line where we'd be able to with the

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Speaker 5: newer M chips be able to run Windows?

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Speaker 2: Great question? Yeah, so I know I was. Let's see.

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Speaker 1: So boot Camp is what Apple offers for free to

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Speaker 1: install Windows on Mac computers, but like you said, that

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Speaker 1: only works on the old Intel based computers. I don't

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Speaker 1: see anything on their website about the you know, the

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Speaker 1: new Apple Silicon, so like the M chips. Basically, let's

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Speaker 1: see if they say anything about that. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: see anything about that, so it doesn't seem like they're

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Speaker 1: bringing that back anytime soon. So, yes, you would need

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Speaker 1: an older computer to do it that way. And you

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Speaker 1: also mentioned Parallels, which of course is a very popular

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Speaker 1: way to run Windows on a Mac computer virtually, But

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Speaker 1: have you heard of VMware Fusion Pro. So I actually

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Speaker 1: mentioned this on the show. I think, gosh, it might

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Speaker 1: have been a couple of months ago, but they made

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Speaker 1: this free. So this is a program that's typically two

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars, and if you're using it for personal use,

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Speaker 1: you can download this for free and emulate Windows on

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Speaker 1: your Mac computer. So that would probably work for you.

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Speaker 1: And it does work on the the M class chips,

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Speaker 1: so I think that's probably your best bet, Paul, is

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Speaker 1: to download this program if you get a new computer.

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Speaker 1: Ironically or incidentally, I literally just got a new MacBook

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Speaker 1: today using it for the first time. I had the

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Speaker 1: old not old, it was only a year old or

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Speaker 1: two years old, but it was the MacBook Pro and

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Speaker 1: I bought the thirteen inch and it was just I

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Speaker 1: could not deal with the screen size.

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Speaker 2: It was so small.

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Speaker 1: And I put up with it, I think, for two years,

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Speaker 1: and I finally said, Okay, I've got to get a

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Speaker 1: fifteen inch MacBook Air. And because I wanted a lighter computer,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's why I went, not with the sixteen

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Speaker 1: inch Pro. But anyway, I got it today. I I

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Speaker 1: could not be happier with it. It is incredible and

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Speaker 1: I don't run Windows on it. But maybe I'll try

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Speaker 1: it with this you know this Fusion Pro thirteen, but

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Speaker 1: again VMware Fusion Pro thirteen it's free for personal use.

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Speaker 1: Used to be one hundred and ninety nine bucks, and

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Speaker 1: that would let you run the Windows on your new

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Speaker 1: Mac computer even if it has the newer chip. And

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Speaker 1: I highly recommend if you're going to get a Mac

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Speaker 1: at this point, going with the newer chips because Apple

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Speaker 1: has really outdone themselves with this. They have done just

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Speaker 1: such a great job in optimizing those chips.

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Speaker 2: So there you have it.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the call today from Columbus, Ohio. Appreciate it,

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Speaker 1: and let's go to AJ in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: You're on with Rich.

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Speaker 7: Hey Jay Rich, good morning, how are you.

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Speaker 2: I am doing well, Good morning.

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Speaker 4: Hi.

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Speaker 8: Question.

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Speaker 7: I heard your little blurb about the app that allows

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Speaker 7: you great editing on TikTok. I'm a former cio Cto

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Speaker 7: Technology all my lives decades. Love it, love it, love it.

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Speaker 7: But I'm wondering about your take on the security issues

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Speaker 7: around the use of TikTok just in general. Have heard

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Speaker 7: lots of you know, pro cons about it, but wondering

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Speaker 7: what the latest and greatest is from your perspective.

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Speaker 1: All right, hold on, let me pour a drink here,

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Speaker 1: let me turn on the fireplace. I gotta gotta get

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Speaker 1: comfortable here in my lazy boy before I talk about this.

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Speaker 2: I totally yeah, you know, it's funny.

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Speaker 1: I knew when I mentioned that that there would be

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Speaker 1: some people like raising an eyebrow, be like interesting.

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Speaker 2: So I'll start with this.

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Speaker 1: Number one. I do not have TikTok on my phone.

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Speaker 1: I think TikTok is pretty horrible. And it's not because

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Speaker 1: of the data. It's actually because of what you see

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Speaker 1: on there. And you know, for me, as a journalist,

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Speaker 1: I deal in facts and I deal in stuff that

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Speaker 1: when I put something on social media, I have fact

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Speaker 1: check it. I fact checked it, I have vetted it.

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Speaker 1: I have made sure that what I'm telling people is

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Speaker 1: right and is truthful. And I feel like all of

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Speaker 1: that is thrown away on TikTok. And not just that

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Speaker 1: when you start watching something on TikTok, what does it do?

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Speaker 1: It puts you down a rabbit hole of that exact

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Speaker 1: content over and over in a thousand different ways. Not

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Speaker 1: to mention that I just can't stand poor, poor quality

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Speaker 1: of videos where people you know they do these things

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Speaker 1: where they hold the microphone in front of their mouth.

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Speaker 1: For some reason, I don't understand that they put the

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Speaker 1: screen screen where it's like not fully green screened out.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand that. Maybe I'm just old and curmudgeonly

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Speaker 1: and I, you know, don't really know what the kids

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Speaker 1: are doing on there. But my concerns with it is

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Speaker 1: more that now, when it comes to data, I think

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Speaker 1: that there is a lot of people out there concerned

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Speaker 1: with how TikTok is using their data. And of course

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Speaker 1: what I was talking about, which is cap cut, the

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Speaker 1: most popular editing app on mobile, and it also has

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Speaker 1: a desktop version as well. And I would be lying

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Speaker 1: if when I installed a cap cut on my old computer,

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Speaker 1: I did not think about the rampifications of China perhaps

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Speaker 1: having some sort of access to data on my computer.

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Speaker 1: And I'll be honest, I did not install it on

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Speaker 1: my new desktop when I got it, because I said,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I feel comfortable with it on my phone.

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why I feel comfortable with TikTok

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Speaker 1: and even cap cut on my phone. It's because Apple

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Speaker 1: is the one that is allowing that app on the phone,

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Speaker 1: and Apple does not fool around with privacy and safety

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Speaker 1: and security. So the information that TikTok can gather from

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Speaker 1: your smartphone, and I'm talking iPhone only at this point

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Speaker 1: is limited to what Apple allows every other app in

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Speaker 1: the world to collect. So can they get the information

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Speaker 1: and the maximum information they want out of there, Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: but it's limited by what Apple does. And Apple has

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Speaker 1: done a great thing with iOS where they put everything

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Speaker 1: in these little compartments, and apps are not necessarily allowed

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Speaker 1: to snoop those different compartments. So I do think that

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Speaker 1: a lot of the privacy claims are they're way over sold.

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Speaker 1: When it comes to TikTok Now and Android, I think

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Speaker 1: there's a little bit more concern because the Android operating

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Speaker 1: system does have a little bit more freedom with the

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Speaker 1: apps to kind of snoop around in things that's getting

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Speaker 1: closed up as well.

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Speaker 2: I think Google is doing a much better job.

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Speaker 1: But what I think is everything comes down to what

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Speaker 1: you're comfortable with and the information you're giving out. So

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Speaker 1: I think that you need to be careful with any

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Speaker 1: app and anytime you're sharing personal information. Does TikTok have

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Speaker 1: the location of every person that's using the app? Probably

654
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Speaker 1: are they collecting data on their web surfing habits and

655
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Speaker 1: things like that. Yeah, if you give them access to that,

656
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Speaker 1: But I don't think it goes above and beyond what

657
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Speaker 1: other apps are collecting. But I think, no matter what,

658
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Speaker 1: you have to remain critical about any time you are

659
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Speaker 1: installing an app, and anytime you're giving your information anywhere,

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Speaker 1: whether it's on your phone, the web, and no matter

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Speaker 1: what you're doing. Thanks for the call, Aja, Do you

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Speaker 1: appreciate you listening? This is rich on Tech. Welcome back

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

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Speaker 1: talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one. That's

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

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Speaker 1: The website for the show rich on Tech dot TV.

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Speaker 1: There you can get my newsletter. There's a new issue

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Speaker 1: today packed with all kinds of good information. Uh, just

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Speaker 1: looking at some of the feedback so far on the show.

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Speaker 1: We got an email from Gary in Burbank. He said

671
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Speaker 1: the Flighty app is now also available on Android.

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Speaker 2: Check it out.

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Speaker 1: He searched the playstore and sure enough, if you do

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Speaker 1: search the Playstore for flight Y, there is an app.

675
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Speaker 1: It says Flighty app flight tracker with five thousand downloads.

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Speaker 1: Do not download that. Well, I mean unless you want

677
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Speaker 1: that app. But that is not the app I'm talking about.

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00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: And in fact, it looks like a third grader made

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00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 1: this app and just they're playing on the name. So

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00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 1: they're playing on the fact that you are searching for

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Speaker 1: Flighty and it's not in it and it comes up

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Speaker 1: as this that's not the same app. So let's see

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Speaker 1: do they have any other apps? Now they have a

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Speaker 1: couple apps, but yeah, so it's only got five thousand downloads.

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Speaker 1: Flighty is not available for Android. I'm looking on the

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Speaker 1: website right now, the official website flightyapp dot com. Be careful,

687
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 1: you got it. This is one of the biggest issues

688
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Speaker 1: with app names is that there are so many companies

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Speaker 1: that prey upon people just searching and using you know,

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Speaker 1: the name and or a variation of the name, or

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Speaker 1: they use a sponsored ad with the name, and it's

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Speaker 1: just you got to be very very careful. That's why

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Speaker 1: I always try to give like official links for things.

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Speaker 1: Over on Twitter, David said, I just got a new

695
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Speaker 1: Roku device two weeks ago, no credit card needed, so

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Speaker 1: do a little searching online and it seems like it's

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Speaker 1: kind of a debate of whether you can set up

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Speaker 1: a Roku account with a credit card or not. One

699
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,760
Speaker 1: of the posts I saw said that you can skip

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Speaker 1: it at the bottom of the screen. It's got like

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00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,800
Speaker 1: a tiny little thing where you can bypass the credit card.

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Speaker 1: Back in twenty twenty, someone posted a link to a

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Speaker 1: forum for Roku where if you go into myrocud my

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Speaker 1: dot Roku dot com slash sign up slash no CC,

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Speaker 1: it will apparently not ask you for the credit card.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know if that's true or not, but

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Speaker 1: there you go. So kind of divided on that. But

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Speaker 1: all these companies, you know, nowadays, all these companies want

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Speaker 1: a credit card because they want you. They want to

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Speaker 1: be able to make the purchase process as seamless as possible.

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Speaker 1: They want you to say, oh, I want to rent

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Speaker 1: a movie, and next thing you know, oh, I already

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Speaker 1: have my credit card in there. Cool, I'll just rent

714
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: it other than trying to find your card and input

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Speaker 1: it at that time, And that gives you time to

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Speaker 1: think and then you say never mind. Jay wrote in said,

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Speaker 1: my Samsung phone fell in water. Is now done? Can

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Speaker 1: I recycle it best Buy? Since I cannot reset it

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Speaker 1: to factory setting. Is it possible for someone to access

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Speaker 1: the data or is there any other option? Thanks, you

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Speaker 1: could recycle it best buy. Best Buy says, and you

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Speaker 1: can go to best Buy or Staples and recycle this.

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Speaker 1: They both say that they dispose of these things properly,

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Speaker 1: so you know, that means that they're not supposed to

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Speaker 1: have their employees kind of looking at these things. And

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Speaker 1: you know, and everyone I've talked to that recycles electronics,

727
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: like the companies, if they're reputable, they go through and

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Speaker 1: they make sure that these things are wiped before they

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Speaker 1: actually recycle them, so you can feel comfortable. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's really how comfortable you feel with putting this phone.

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Speaker 1: If it does indeed have all of your data, then

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Speaker 1: you know there is a risk. But the reality is

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Speaker 1: your phone is probably protected with a passcode, so I

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Speaker 1: think that even if someone got access to this phone,

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Speaker 1: they would likely not get access to your information. So

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Speaker 1: what they're going to do is when they get this phone,

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Speaker 1: they're going to test it. They're going to see if

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Speaker 1: it turns on. If it doesn't, then they're just gonna

739
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Speaker 1: scrap it for parts. If it does, they're gonna put

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Speaker 1: it on a machine that's gonna wipe it clean and

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Speaker 1: then sort of get it set up again for recycling

742
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Speaker 1: or for resale or whatever they do with these things.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes they sell them, sometimes they scrap them, sometimes they

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00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: get the little parts out of them. But I think

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Speaker 1: you should be comfortable bringing it to Best Buy because

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Speaker 1: they do pledge that they recycle these things in a

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Speaker 1: safe manner.

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Speaker 2: So there you have it.

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Speaker 1: Let's see Solomon says, I've searched for all of your

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Speaker 1: links trying to find the website for cash App. Where

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Speaker 1: do you post the links to your show notes? Yes, sorry,

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Speaker 1: I didn't mention I typically mentioned where you can find

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Speaker 1: the links for the show notes. It is rich on

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Speaker 1: tech dot TV. You hit the light bulb up at

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00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 1: the top of the page and that will bring you

756
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: to the show wiki. And the show wiki is basically

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00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: just a list of all of the previous shows by date.

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Speaker 1: This is show number eighty four. Click that and that

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Speaker 1: will give you a list to all the links in

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Speaker 1: real time. So you specifically were looking for that cash

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Speaker 1: app settlement link, it is. It is on there because

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Speaker 1: I keep very good notes, So thank you for that.

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

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

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Speaker 1: Michael in Huntington Beach.

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Speaker 2: Michael, you're on with.

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Speaker 8: Rich Hey, Rich Hey, I got a couple of problems

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Speaker 8: with my almost new Samsung TV. It's the eight thousand series,

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Speaker 8: is left twelve, three years old, and half of the

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Speaker 8: screen is darker than the other half. And it started

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Speaker 8: kind of noticeable, but it's like right smack down the

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Speaker 8: middle on the left side where it's darker than the

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Speaker 8: other half.

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Speaker 2: And how can I help? What are you trying to

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Speaker 2: figure out? What you can do? Huh?

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Speaker 8: Yeah? I mean, is it fix the ball? Is it?

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Speaker 8: Why is that happening after we had the worst luck

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Speaker 8: with these TVs with I mean, it's only three years

779
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,720
Speaker 8: old and it's I think it's getting worse.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it sounds like it's one of the panels

781
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Speaker 1: is going bad, like one of the one of the

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Speaker 1: back light panels. That's what it sounds like to me.

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Speaker 1: And that could just be that, you know, you got

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Speaker 1: a bad set. It could be something loose in there

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00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: that you know your TV is obviously out of warranty

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Speaker 1: at this point of course, right, Yeah, So I mean

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Speaker 1: your options are, what do you want to do? Do

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Speaker 1: you want to get a new TV? Do you want

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Speaker 1: to try to fix this TV. You know, did they

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Speaker 1: even have people that come to houses anymore to look

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Speaker 1: at TVs like this?

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Speaker 8: Because but I did find a guy like an hour

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Speaker 8: away that said he could probably fix it for a

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Speaker 8: couple of hundred dollars, but there's no guarantee.

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Speaker 1: Is that worth it? Though a couple hundred bucks? I

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Speaker 1: mean a new TV? You know, my last TV I

797
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: bought was like under a thousand bucks, So I don't

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Speaker 1: know if a couple of hundred.

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Speaker 2: How much did you spend on this TV?

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Speaker 8: It was four fifty and they're still for fifty, so.

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Speaker 2: It's four hundred and fifty bucks. Yeah. I would not

802
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 2: fix it for a couple hundred that's for sure. I would.

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00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: What I would do personally is I would email Samsung.

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00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 1: Have you done that yet?

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00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 8: No?

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00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,720
Speaker 1: Okay, So what I would do is fire up chat EBT.

807
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 1: Write out your story, like everything that's happening with this thing.

808
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: Say you know, I've got the panel. It looks like

809
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: the back light panel is going dead. I've had this

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Speaker 1: for three years. I don't know if you're a good

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Speaker 1: customer of Samsung or not. You can throw that in

812
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 1: if you are, help it craft an email like explain

813
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 1: what you want, I would like someone to come repair this.

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Speaker 1: I think Samsung does have their own repair so they

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Speaker 1: may just send someone there. I don't know if that's

816
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 1: just for their mobile stuff, but I have seen vans

817
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: around town. I mean it says, let's see benefits. I mean,

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00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 1: yeah they do. Yeah, they do have TV repair technicians,

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Speaker 1: so they've got a Samsung has a large network of

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Speaker 1: TV repair So if you go to Samsung dot Com,

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Speaker 1: slash US, Slash Support, slash Service, you can request to repair.

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00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: That way, I would at least try to get a

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Speaker 1: free repair and see what happens.

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00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:08,839
Speaker 8: Why not?

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00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly why not. But at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: you know you may have to get a new TV,

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Speaker 1: but you know you might as well go through the

828
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Speaker 1: motions of trying to get what you can from Samsung.

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Speaker 1: They're a big company. This does not cost them a lot,

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Speaker 1: and it's a learning lesson, like why is this TV

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00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: only lasting three years? That should not be the case.

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00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 1: I've had TVs last a decade or more so for them,

833
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: you know, by them giving you another model and taking

834
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:34,359
Speaker 1: back this one, they can analyze it and see what

835
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:35,720
Speaker 1: went wrong with that TV.

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Speaker 2: So I think it's beneficial to them.

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Speaker 8: Speaking of TVs having a long time, I had a

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00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 8: Sony plasma that lasted me fifteen years. Oh yeah, the

839
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 8: most beautiful picture you've ever seen in your life. I

840
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,479
Speaker 8: wish there were still plasmas you could buy.

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00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,880
Speaker 1: Oh you know, Yeah, I have a Sony plasma and

842
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: it is it is like the single. It's the thing

843
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 1: must weigh ten thousand pounds, the problem. But it is

844
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:06,720
Speaker 1: absolutely the most beautiful picture. And it's not just beautiful,

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00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:08,719
Speaker 1: it's like got a filmic quality to it, like it

846
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: just it looks like if I was like a filmmaker,

847
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: this would be the TV that I would watch a

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00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: movie on because it's so good. I don't use yes, yes,

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00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 1: I mean that's plasma, you know, versus h you know,

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Speaker 1: LED and all these new you know, I mean, unless

851
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: you have an old lead. Obviously those are very expensive,

852
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:27,880
Speaker 1: but they you know, I've got the black contrast and

853
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,800
Speaker 1: that that's much better than the LEDs. But the LEDs

854
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: have come a long way. When I first switched to mine,

855
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: I got a new TV. Recently, I bought a High

856
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 1: Sense and it at first, yeah, and at first I

857
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 1: was I was a little bit skeptical. I got it in,

858
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 1: I got it installed, and I was like, ugh, I

859
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: don't know if I like this as much. And within

860
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks we now I love it. I

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00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: think it's fantastic for the price. I think it was,

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00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: like I said, I think it was about maybe twelve

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00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: hundred with tacks and all that good stuff.

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Speaker 2: But wow, it was. It was pretty good.

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Speaker 8: I asked you one more quick sung question.

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Speaker 2: I've got thirty seconds, so make it quick.

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Speaker 8: Okay. I've got this thing that happens. It's not a jutter.

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Speaker 8: It's like a jitter on the screen. It's like it's

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Speaker 8: it also happens on UH antenna.

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Speaker 2: Is this on?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 2: This is on your TV?

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Speaker 8: It's on the Samsung, same Samsung TV. I've got two

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Speaker 8: hundred up download, great wireless connection, and I can't figure

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think it sounds like you got

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Speaker 1: a lemon there, Michael. I think you gotta press them

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Speaker 1: hard and tell them, look, you know this is not

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Speaker 1: you know you got to you gotta do something here,

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Speaker 1: at least come out and look at it and tell

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Speaker 1: me what's going on, because two things wrong. That's telling

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Speaker 1: me that this thing could be a lemon eighty eight

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Speaker 1: cost them a lot to help you out. It costs

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Speaker 1: you a lot because it's your money. Does not cost

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Speaker 1: them a lot. Press them, press them, press them. You're

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

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

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Speaker 1: triple eight rich one oh one, that is eight eight

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Speaker 1: Website also an option. Just go to rich on Tech

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Speaker 1: dot tv hit contact. You can send an email. That's

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Speaker 1: what Steve did in reference to the Samsung TV. He said,

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Speaker 1: what about an extended warranty from a credit card that's

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Speaker 1: usually included? And uh, I did think of that, but

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Speaker 1: three years old, most of the cards I would say

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Speaker 1: match like a year now. I should have said if

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Speaker 1: if Michael bought it from Costco, because I believe you

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Speaker 1: can return things pretty much, not forever, but I think

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Speaker 1: some in some case as you can. I think for

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Speaker 1: some of the electronics, I know you got to check

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Speaker 1: it out, but Costco has a very lenient return.

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Speaker 2: Policy, let's put it that way.

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Speaker 1: And these credit cards, I just looked up on the

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Speaker 1: points guy dot com. So USAA matches up to a

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Speaker 1: year Visa infinite, one year visa signature, up to a

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Speaker 1: year chase, up to a year, American Express one year,

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Speaker 1: City two years. Wow, that's impressive. So and it's up

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Speaker 1: to ten thousand dollars per claim for most of these. Now,

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Speaker 1: in my experience, I don't think I've don't think I've

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Speaker 1: ever maybe I tried to do this once and like

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Speaker 1: it's just a nightmare.

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Speaker 2: These these these credit cards.

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Speaker 1: You know, they post all of these benefits, but when

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Speaker 1: you go to actually use them, it could be a

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Speaker 2: So I don't know, maybe that's just me.

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Speaker 1: If you've used one of these like warranty extension things,

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Speaker 1: let me know, But I kind of just imagine that

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Speaker 1: they just they advertise them well, but then when people

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Speaker 1: go to use them, it's like you got to jump.

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Speaker 2: Through hoops to use them. But good suggestion there, Steve.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for that.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to David in Fontana. David, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 9: Hey, mister Rich, how you doing.

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Speaker 1: I am doing excellent. Thanks for asking. What can I

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Speaker 1: help with?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 9: You see, I bought a new iPhone fifteen titanium, okay,

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Speaker 9: And I am a truck driver and I've been using

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Speaker 9: iPhone for several years now, and I use a headset,

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Speaker 9: a blue parrot headset to talk on the phone. Okay,

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Speaker 9: And ever since I bought this new iPhone titanium, everything

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Speaker 9: is just went paywire.

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Speaker 7: It doesn't work the.

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Speaker 9: I pull into it. It works fine. When I'm driving

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Speaker 9: down the freeway, everything works fine. But as you like,

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Speaker 9: pull into a business, it seems like their Wi Fi

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Speaker 9: or something just blocks everything out.

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Speaker 4: And I have a lot of network issues, connection issues

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Speaker 4: with the new iPhone fifteen.

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Speaker 9: So I don't know if it's go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, David.

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Speaker 1: When you set this phone up, did you set it

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Speaker 1: up fresh or did you copy everything over from your

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Speaker 1: old device?

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Speaker 9: I copied everything over from my old device.

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Speaker 5: It is.

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Speaker 9: I don't know how Team mobile. I brought it from

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Speaker 9: T Mobile.

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Speaker 8: I don't know.

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Speaker 9: I did say everything like you said, yes.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so they oh, they did it for you. They

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Speaker 1: copied it over. Yeah, oh gosh, Okay, that's that's probably

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Speaker 1: what's happening here. So I think what's happening here is

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Speaker 1: that it just was not the cleanest copy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're trying to get you out of there as soon

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Speaker 1: as humanly possible, and so maybe they just did, you know,

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Speaker 1: the simplest, quickest, easiest way. So I, personally, when I

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Speaker 1: set up a new device, you just spent a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of money on a brand new, awesome iPhone fifteen titanium,

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Speaker 1: and so I want to set that up the way

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Speaker 1: I want to set it up, and I want it

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Speaker 1: to be nice and fresh. I don't know what phone

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Speaker 1: you came from, but you know there are some settings

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Speaker 1: and things that were copied over that just might not

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Speaker 1: really work very well on this new device. So what

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Speaker 1: I would do, personally, what I would do if you're

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Speaker 1: having all these problems, I would one hundred percent just

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Speaker 1: format this phone and start fresh. So that means erase

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Speaker 1: all content in settings and literally start over fresh. That's

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Speaker 1: what I would do personally if I was having these issues.

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Speaker 1: If you don't want to go that far, you can

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Speaker 1: kind of reset things without going that far. So if

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Speaker 1: you go into settings and then general, scroll all the

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Speaker 1: way down and it will say transfer or reset iPhone.

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Speaker 2: You tap there.

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Speaker 1: I know it sounds scary, but you still have a

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Speaker 1: lot of options before you actually do anything. And then

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Speaker 1: it says reset. You tap reset, and then you get

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of options. It says reset all settings,

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Speaker 1: reset network settings, delete all sims, reset keyboard, reset homescreen,

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Speaker 1: reset location. What I personally might do is start with

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Speaker 1: reset network settings. And what that's gonna do is clear

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Speaker 1: out all of your Bluetooth and Wi Fi and cellular

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Speaker 1: settings on this phone, and it will get them back

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Speaker 1: to factory. And what that means is you're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to reconnect Wi Fi, You're gonna have to reconnect Bluetooth,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna have to restart your phone to get the

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Speaker 1: cellular going again. But it's all gonna work. And I

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Speaker 1: think that you're you know, you're gonna have to reconnect

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Speaker 1: your Bluetooth headset. But I think what's happening here is

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Speaker 1: that some of these old Wi Fi networks that you've

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Speaker 1: connected to. You said you're a truck driver, maybe at

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Speaker 1: some of these like truck stops, your phone is trying

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Speaker 1: to reach out to them and connect to them. And

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Speaker 1: the Wi Fi signal is not very strong in your

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Speaker 1: cab or wherever you are, and it's kind of like

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00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: teetering between cellular and that, and so it's kind of

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00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 1: having trouble keeping that connection. There's also another connection, another

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00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: cellular set that you can go to inside there used

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00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 1: to be inside the cellular. Let me see if it's

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00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 1: still there. Yeah, inside cellular. If you go to setting cellular,

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Speaker 1: says Wi Fi Assist, it will automatically use cellular data.

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Speaker 1: When Wi Fi connectivity is poor, you can turn that

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Speaker 1: on and it will automatically use cellular if it's trying

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Speaker 1: to get a Wi Fi signal. That can anyway, David,

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00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:22,960
Speaker 1: hopefully get that phone back up and running. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: the call.

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Speaker 2: Today. Coming up, I'm.

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Speaker 1: Gonna tell you how to use your points to plan

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Speaker 1: your travel. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to

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

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Speaker 1: talking technology. The phone lines open at eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four

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

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Speaker 1: them in just a moment. But very excited for my

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Speaker 1: next guest, do you do it for the points. Well,

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Speaker 1: if you do, you probably have a lot of them

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Speaker 1: saved up, and you wonder how can you use them effectively?

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of blogs out there talking about this stuff,

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00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:02,359
Speaker 1: but sometimes you just want to figure out, like, how

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Speaker 1: can I use all these points from all these different

1029
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Speaker 1: programs And there is a website that can help. Bart

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Speaker 1: Welch is CEO and co founder of a website called

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Speaker 1: points Yeah dot com This helps you use your points

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Speaker 1: to plan travel. Bart, thanks for joining me today.

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Speaker 10: Hey, thanks for having us on. Really excited to talk

1034
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 10: about Pointsdid dot com and nerd out a bit in

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Speaker 10: this space because it's a space that a lot of

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00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 10: people have their fingers in but don't really know how

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Speaker 10: to utilize.

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, you can rack up points pretty easily nowadays.

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00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:37,759
Speaker 1: I know many people are driven by that, but the

1041
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Speaker 1: most important part is using them and using them effectively.

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Speaker 2: So what made you start this website?

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Speaker 10: Yes, if I take a look back at the past

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Speaker 10: decade or even a little bit longer than that, the

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Speaker 10: points business used to be a lot simpler in a way.

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00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 10: It wasn't as lucrative, but it was simpler. You knew

1047
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Speaker 10: that you had to save up twenty five thousand miles

1048
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:02,799
Speaker 10: to you know, use a get a round trip metic

1049
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 10: economy ticket. These days, most the airlines have moved to

1050
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 10: dynamic pricing. Most credit card companies have their own points

1051
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 10: programs as well. There are proprietary portals, and you can

1052
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:15,080
Speaker 10: also transfer your credit card points into airlines, and so

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00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 10: it's just become a really complicated, complicated place. And so

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Speaker 10: my co founder and I, we've been in this this

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Speaker 10: party industry for quite some time. More on the earning

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00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:29,600
Speaker 10: point side, we said, hey, let's just make something that's

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Speaker 10: simpler so that people just have to use one website

1058
00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 10: to see you know, let's say you've got miles in

1059
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 10: two or three different airline programs or two or three

1060
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Speaker 10: different credit card programs, rather than having to have multiple

1061
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 10: tabs open and you know, opening up all these other

1062
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 10: online travel websites, just one website, and so that's points

1063
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:49,920
Speaker 10: dot com. So you can basically search twenty different airline

1064
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:54,560
Speaker 10: loyalty program six bank programs, and five online travel agencies

1065
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Speaker 10: all in one click. So it makes your life a

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Speaker 10: heck of a lot easier.

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Speaker 1: Instead of helping, so I see American Expresses on here,

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Speaker 1: Built Rewards Capital One, Chase City Bank, Wells Fargo and

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00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: the airline programs. I mean it looks like all of

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Speaker 1: the major airlines, plus some of the international airlines, Jet Blue.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's a lot.

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00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 1: So you put in your information, you know where you

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Speaker 1: want to go, and then it searches in real time.

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Speaker 1: What do you get for free versus pakes? I know

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Speaker 1: there's a paid aspect, so explain what people get for free?

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00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:30,399
Speaker 10: Yeah, So basically the majority of the website is free,

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Speaker 10: and I'd encourage people just to go to Points dot

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Speaker 10: com check it out.

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Speaker 2: Register.

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Speaker 10: If you register for free, you can do searches for flights,

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00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:40,319
Speaker 10: for hotels, for all kinds of other things. We do

1082
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 10: have a paid model, which is just shied ninety dollars

1083
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 10: a year. It's still one of the cheapest out there

1084
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 10: in the markets. That opens up additional alerts, you know,

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Speaker 10: additional being able to search more dates at one time.

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Speaker 10: But the core features are totally free and that's been

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Speaker 10: a huge part of our success. And you know, I'm

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Speaker 10: really proud to say in the last month we've actually

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Speaker 10: become the number one Points planning website on the globe.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow, congratulations.

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Speaker 1: I Mean, the real magic of this is, like you said,

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Speaker 1: it used to be very simple. You got a certain

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Speaker 1: amount of points, you had a free flight. Now what

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Speaker 1: it really comes down to is how can I get

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Speaker 1: a free flight for the cheapest use or the most

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Speaker 1: effective use of my points?

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Speaker 2: Is that kind of right?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 10: I mean you can play that quite a few different ways,

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Speaker 10: because let's say you've only got miles and points with

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Speaker 10: one in one program or one airline. Even within that program,

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Speaker 10: on any given day or given week, you might see

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Speaker 10: the same exact flight for five thousand miles or one

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Speaker 10: hundred thousand miles, because it's tied much more to the

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Speaker 10: price of the actual picket now than it used to be.

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Speaker 10: So that's kind of point number one. Point number two

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Speaker 10: is that you know, if you happen to have miles

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Speaker 10: across multiple programs, you know these programs are competing with

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Speaker 10: each other now on pricing when it comes to miles

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Speaker 10: and points. Miles and points effectively have become a cash currency.

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Speaker 10: In fact, my mom called me up recently. I was like, Hey,

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Speaker 10: I know, you've got a bunch of miles and points,

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Speaker 10: and I was like, Mom, you're basically asking me for money,

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Speaker 10: because you know, loyalty currency is money at this at

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Speaker 10: this stage, of the game, and I always recommend to

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Speaker 10: people it's generally depreciating asset, so you should get on

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Speaker 10: points dot com and use those miles and points.

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Speaker 1: Oh so you're saying that you shouldn't just like keep

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Speaker 1: them forever.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that's that's the worst strategy ever. Actually,

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Speaker 10: over time, the value of mile end point has gone down,

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Speaker 10: and these days, with interest rates being pretty decent and

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Speaker 10: inflation being high, you should be using those miles and

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Speaker 10: points because otherwise it's really a depreciating asset.

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Speaker 1: So I got an alert that my Highatt points were expiring,

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Speaker 1: which I was like, oh wow, I didn't even know that,

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Speaker 1: and so I felt so proud of myself. I had

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Speaker 1: booked a hotel for an upcoming stay paid and then

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I wonder if there's a Hyatt

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Speaker 1: in there. And I was able to transfer a couple

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Speaker 1: just like a tiny amount of points into my Higatt

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Speaker 1: program and now I got a completely free hotel room

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Speaker 1: on points that we're going to expire. And I didn't

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Speaker 1: even realize I had them, and they weren't that many points.

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Speaker 1: I guess Hyatt points are worth like kind of a lot,

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Speaker 1: even if you have a little so it was like

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Speaker 1: one room was like fifteen thousand points or something.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, Hyatt's a great program. I think most you know,

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Speaker 10: most of the hotel chains have great programs, and a

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Speaker 10: lot of these loyalty programs these is they technically don't

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Speaker 10: expire if you've got some kind of activity. That activity

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Speaker 10: could literally be like earn one mile on a credit

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Speaker 10: card or you know, do a redemption for a hotel

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Speaker 10: or a flight. And one thing that we love is

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Speaker 10: that on points dot com you can actually check hotel

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Speaker 10: awards as well. Most websites just focus on flights, but

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Speaker 10: on us, let's say you want to go to New

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Speaker 10: York or Las Vegas or whoever you type in the city.

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Speaker 10: You can even put in your preferred program and then

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Speaker 10: we'll show you, you know, how many points that hotel

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Speaker 10: had cost if you're using miles or points. But then

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Speaker 10: also let's say you don't have enough miles or points.

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Speaker 10: You want to actually pay cash or book on one

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Speaker 10: of the airline reward portals, so we show you all

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Speaker 10: those different options. Really, the purpose offpointsid dot com is

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Speaker 10: to consolidate all these bits and pieces of information that

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Speaker 10: are all over the Internet into one spot, so you

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Speaker 10: don't have to have twenty five tabs open, don't have

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Speaker 10: to have a Google sheet open when you're supposed to

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Speaker 10: be really enjoying the fact that you've earned these rewards.

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Speaker 1: Now, I always get the indication that these airlines and

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Speaker 1: hotels they don't want you to use these points. They

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Speaker 1: make it really tough, like you said, to compare and

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Speaker 1: contrast and also figure out your transfer partners. And so

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Speaker 1: how do you get the information behind this? Like do

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Speaker 1: the airlines like let you tap into their systems? Like

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Speaker 1: how do you know when American Airlines has a flight

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Speaker 1: for these twenty five thousand points or whatever you know.

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Speaker 10: About I think it was just shive a decade ago.

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Speaker 10: There is some change in legislation in the US where

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Speaker 10: miles and points used to be considered a liability on

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Speaker 10: balance sheets, and now that's considered deferred revenue. And so actually,

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Speaker 10: most these loyalty programs now do have an incentive to

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Speaker 10: get the points off the books because they get to

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Speaker 10: recognize the revenue, and so they have you know, even

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Speaker 10: on their own websites. Made it more transparent and easier.

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Speaker 10: But at the end of the day, these are the

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Speaker 10: companies that are you know, trying to sell flights, trying

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Speaker 10: to sell hotel rooms for you know, the primary focus

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Speaker 10: of their business. So the quality of those tools aren't

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Speaker 10: always the best, and so companies like ours have been

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Speaker 10: able to build tools that effectively create that transparency and

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01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 10: create that ease of ease of information. Like one example,

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Speaker 10: on our website, we have this feature called Daydream Explorer,

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Speaker 10: and it's honest to god, I've been in this industry

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Speaker 10: for a long time. It's the coolest thing ever. Where

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Speaker 10: I can put in I'm based in Chicago. I can

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Speaker 10: put in Chicago and I want to go to Asia

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Speaker 10: over these two months. This is the These are the

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Speaker 10: airline programs I'm part of. These are the credit card

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Speaker 10: cards that I have, and it will literally show me

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Speaker 10: all of the options in one go, Whereas that used

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Speaker 10: to take me probably an entire weekend of sitting on

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Speaker 10: my couch trying to figure out, you know, how can

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Speaker 10: I use these miles and points?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when I I just went to this page, and

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Speaker 1: I can tell you guys are true nerds by looking

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Speaker 1: at this page, because it is it is literally every

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Speaker 1: option that you would want, as like a real traveler

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Speaker 1: like I can see you can choose your cabin, the program,

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Speaker 1: the number of seats, how many stops, how many points

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Speaker 1: you want to use, you know, whether you want to

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Speaker 1: go to the beach, family fishing golf. I mean it's

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Speaker 1: really very very thorough, and so you're thinking like in

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Speaker 1: advance of how people would think when they search for

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Speaker 1: this kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: It is very very handy.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 10: What to be rich honestly is we're trying to appeal

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Speaker 10: to like the nerd qualities that myself and my co

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Speaker 10: founder have because we've been in this space for a

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Speaker 10: long time, but then also democratize it for people who

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Speaker 10: don't necessarily understand what a cabin is or cabin frequency is.

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Speaker 10: You know, my mom being the great EXAs, she's got

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Speaker 10: Capital one Point, she's got Southwest Points, she's got American

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Speaker 10: Airlines miles, and she's always reaching out to me saying, hey, Bart,

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Speaker 10: how can I use my miles and points? I said, hey,

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Speaker 10: just go on go on points dot com. You don't

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Speaker 10: need to ask me anymore. It's gonna save me phone

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Speaker 10: calls from mom.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: I've heard that before actually from a lot of great

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Speaker 1: ideas come from saving phone calls from parents. And you

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Speaker 1: can focus on actually just chatting with them instead of

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Speaker 1: providing tech support or the Points travel stuff. Bart Welch,

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Speaker 1: CEO and co founder of points Yeah dot com. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna leave it there. Thanks so much for joining me.

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Speaker 2: Thanks rich for.

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Speaker 10: Having me, and please check out the website if you

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Speaker 10: haven't yet. It's pretty much free.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, very very cool. I'll put the link on my website.

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Speaker 1: Go to rich on tech dot tv. If you want

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Speaker 1: to plan travel using and maximizing your Points, just go

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Speaker 1: to rich on tech dot tv. Hit that light bulb

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Speaker 1: icon up at the top.

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Speaker 2: This is show number eighty four. You can get a

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Speaker 2: link to Points. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Coming up, I'll tell you why Google is killing the

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Speaker 1: Chrome cast in my Roku is getting into sports. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out

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Speaker 1: with you talking technology at triple A Rich one on one.

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Speaker 1: That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one

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Speaker 1: zero one. I just want to bring up Jonathan from

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Speaker 1: a Fountain Valley. You had a comment about the TV warranty.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I've used the Costco one before. Yeah, the Costco

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Speaker 7: one is very cheap and inexpensive and it works.

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Speaker 2: You're talking to the extended warranty.

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Speaker 7: The extended warranty and their credit card one too. And

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Speaker 7: I had I had an issue with with the I

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Speaker 7: think it's all state that handles it, and they want

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Speaker 7: to give me a lower grade television because it had

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Speaker 7: to be replaced.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and what.

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Speaker 7: Ended up happening is talking with the management of Costco.

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Speaker 7: They got on the phone with with with All eight

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Speaker 7: and they got it resolved and they got me They

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Speaker 7: they couldn't replace the exact TV, but what they did

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Speaker 7: is they gave me the amount of money I paid

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Speaker 7: for the TV, which at that point in time was

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Speaker 7: nine hundred and ninety nine dollars and the Coppable TV

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Speaker 7: was like eight hundred dollars.

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Speaker 2: Now, oh well, going.

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Speaker 7: Through Costco, it was just absolutely perfect.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Well, they just really take take good care of you.

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Speaker 7: So and they're and they're extended warranty, so you can

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Speaker 7: get five years a warranty for like one hundred and

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Speaker 7: fifty to two hundred dollars total.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm looking at their website, so you're right. It's

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Speaker 1: all state protection plans that they do. And then Costco

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Speaker 1: says it extends the manufacturer's warranty on the following items

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Speaker 1: from up to two years from the date of warehouse purchase,

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Speaker 1: so televisions, projectors, computers, and major appliances. So if you're

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Speaker 1: saying they extend the man if they're saying they extend

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Speaker 1: the manufacturers warrant you, Let's say you get a year

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Speaker 1: from the manufacturer, so they'll extend that for another for

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Speaker 1: another year, or for up.

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Speaker 7: To another year, another year, the year, or it could

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Speaker 7: be two If I think if you use their credit card,

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Speaker 7: I think it's two years. If you're doing it paying

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Speaker 7: cash forward, then I think it's only one year. But

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Speaker 7: I think if you're using their credit card, it's it's

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Speaker 7: two years. Yeah, but you can get total up to

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Speaker 7: like five years, five years of warranty on the television.

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Speaker 1: Well, it sounds like you made out in your in

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Speaker 1: your experience there with getting more than you actually paid

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Speaker 1: for the TV or what you paid for the TV.

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Speaker 1: Then you could buy the new TV for cheaper. Of course,

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Speaker 1: you paid for the extended warranty, so that might have

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Speaker 1: been taken out of that there. But thanks for the call, Jonathan,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. I'm typically not an extended warranty person, and

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I've I've I've talked about this before,

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Speaker 1: but even with my MacBooks. I know, I know Apple,

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Speaker 1: like a lot of their business is apple Care, right,

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Speaker 1: and I get it. They have all these stores everywhere.

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Speaker 1: It's very easy, but I think you have to kind of,

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Speaker 1: you know, do the math on things and see if

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Speaker 1: to put a price on that, you know, it's part

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Speaker 1: of what makes you feel like, Okay, this is great.

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Speaker 1: I remember one time I was in an Apple store.

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Speaker 1: apple Care on this phone. This was many years ago,

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Speaker 1: and I think the Apple Care was like, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: absolutely no, I don't do extended warranties. And then five

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Speaker 1: not by the case, but anyway, I thought that was funny,

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Speaker 1: you know. It's one of those things. By the way,

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Speaker 1: I didn't realize I was kicking a bee's nest last weekend,

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Speaker 1: I went to Costco after the show and I posted

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Speaker 1: on X that I had never seen this before, but

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Speaker 1: Costco is now asking folks to scan their membership card

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Speaker 1: at the door, and I'd never seen that before, and

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Speaker 1: so I took a picture. I posted it to X

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Speaker 1: and next thing, you know, that was like a top

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Speaker 1: story this week because I guess they rolled that out

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Speaker 1: to a bunch of stores all at once, and it's

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Speaker 1: to crack down on you know, membership bandits, so folks

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Speaker 1: that are either using expired cards or folks that are

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Speaker 1: freeloading and using a friend's card. So now they're checking

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Speaker 1: your picture against the picture on the account, making sure

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Speaker 1: that it's you. And it does work with the app,

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Speaker 1: So if you're using the Costco app, which I highly

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Speaker 1: recommend by the way, if you have a Costco card,

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Speaker 1: stop using the actual physical card. Just add the card

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Speaker 1: to the Costco app, so much easier. The only thing

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Speaker 1: I've noticed is that it's a little bit different. Now

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Speaker 1: this is probably not a big issue for most people.

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Speaker 1: It is for me since I switch phones so often,

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Speaker 1: But if you are using the Costco app on your phone,

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Speaker 1: you can only have it linked to like one phone

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Speaker 1: at a time, So just be aware of that limitation

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Speaker 1: because they don't want you installing it on ten different

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Speaker 1: phones because it is an issue anyway. Eighty to eight

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

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Speaker 1: one is the phone number for the show. So chrome

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Speaker 1: Cast ending production after eleven years. This is one of

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Speaker 1: Google's most successful devices and they are getting rid of it.

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Speaker 1: After eleven years, they sold over one hundred million devices.

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Speaker 1: Now I know this sounds wild. You're like, wait a second,

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Speaker 1: I have a chrome Cast. No, you're gonna be fine.

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Speaker 1: Number one. They're going to continue to provide software and

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Speaker 1: security updates for existing chrome Cast devices for at least

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Speaker 1: a while, and if you have one, you're going to

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Speaker 1: be okay.

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Speaker 2: But here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: What's really happening here is that Google is understanding that

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Speaker 1: chrome Cast had a great place in time in history.

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Speaker 1: When it first came out in twenty thirteen. This was

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Speaker 1: a small kind of stick that plugged into the back

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Speaker 1: of a TV. And what it did was it allowed

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Speaker 1: you to cast content from your phone, your tablet, or

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Speaker 1: your computer. And this was at a time before TVs

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Speaker 1: were truly smart, and so it was a cheap, simple

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Speaker 1: way to get things from your phone to your TV.

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Speaker 1: And nowadays, of course, this technology is built into a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of other devices, so smart TVs, you know,

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Speaker 1: you have a streaming stick that you can use. So

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Speaker 1: it's just kind of a sign of the times that

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Speaker 1: we may no longer need to have this Chrome dongle.

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Speaker 1: You can still do it, because it's going to be

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Speaker 1: now now it's all about casting from your device to

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Speaker 1: a TV, you know, using kind of an app or

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Speaker 1: something that's built into the TV. So the good news

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Speaker 1: is that the Chrome cast is going away, but I

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Speaker 1: think the Chrome cast technology is going to stay. And

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Speaker 1: now they kind of call it Google Cast. It's built

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Speaker 1: into many TVs. It's kind of the equivalent of airplay

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Speaker 1: on you know, the Apple devices. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: this week also Google came out with a new Google

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Speaker 1: TV streamer and this is a set top box, So

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Speaker 1: again changing times. They're going from sort of that dongle

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Speaker 1: that lets you add content to your TV in a cheap, fast,

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Speaker 1: simple way to now saying, you know what, I think

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Speaker 1: the streaming box is the wave of the future. Remember

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Speaker 1: Chrome cast when it was a dongle, your phone was

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Speaker 1: the remote control. And now of course we've all moved

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Speaker 1: to kind of either a smart TV or a streaming box.

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Speaker 1: But if you have one of these things plugged into

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Speaker 1: your phone, you'll still be okay. Plugged into your TV,

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Speaker 1: you'll still be okay. Eighty eight Rich one O one

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

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Speaker 1: Website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. Coming

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Speaker 1: up in the next hour. I got so much feedback

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Speaker 1: about last week's story about the guy who said his

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Speaker 1: Apple Watch saved his life. I'm gonna read so many

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Speaker 1: stories or a bunch of the stories that I got

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Speaker 1: about this, and uh, explain more about it. Eighty eight

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Speaker 1: rich one O one. This is rich on Tech. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out

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Speaker 1: with you, talking technology. The website for the show rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech dot TV. If you want links to think

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Speaker 1: I mentioned, hit the light bulb. If you want to

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Speaker 1: get in touch, just hit contact and yeah, Roku's got

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Speaker 1: a new twenty four to seven free sports channel. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you, these free channels are all the rage right now.

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Speaker 1: Every single service is doing free channels. It's funny because

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Speaker 1: it was all about streaming, you know, these premium like

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Speaker 1: Netflix and all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: But now everyone's doing free.

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Speaker 1: Netflix has yet to jump into that, but I have

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Speaker 1: a feeling that they may because people want choice and

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Speaker 1: they want stuff for free. And so Roku now has

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Speaker 1: a Roku Sports channel launching on August twelfth, that's this

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Speaker 1: week and be available for free on the Roku channel

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Speaker 1: in the US. Programming will have live Major League Baseball games,

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Speaker 1: the Rich Eisen Show, Formula eraces, sports themed Roku originals,

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Speaker 1: classic boxing matches, combat sports, high stakes poker, and then

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Speaker 1: eventually they're gonna have the NBA G League games, which

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Speaker 1: I had to look up. I didn't know what that was,

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Speaker 1: but it's I guess it's like kind of a bobo.

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Speaker 2: You know what that is? NBA G League Have you

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Speaker 2: heard of it.

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Speaker 1: It's like the the developmental league for the NBA teams.

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Speaker 1: So I was looking that up and it's kind of cool.

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Speaker 1: So that'll be on there as well.

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Speaker 11: So pretty much like every team has their own development team,

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Speaker 11: So like the Lakers have the South Bay Lakers, Clippers

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Speaker 11: have another team and it's like the team that they

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Speaker 11: developed to try to hopefully bring to the majors.

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Speaker 2: So are these like high school kids or college kids

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Speaker 2: or just.

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Speaker 1: Anya anyone anyone. Yeah, interesting, very cool. So this will

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Speaker 1: be available through the Roku channels, Live TV guide, and

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Speaker 1: again these free channels. I was on Google TV and

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Speaker 1: they've got like eight hundred free channels and it's just wild.

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Speaker 1: You can watch all kinds of stuff. Some people just

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Speaker 1: like to have the TV running in the background, you know,

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Speaker 1: Like that's how I grew up, just having you know,

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Speaker 1: it's streaming, you have to like decide what you want

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Speaker 1: to watch. But with stream you know, with these fast channels,

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Speaker 1: you can just put them on and they just stay

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Speaker 1: on forever. I mean, Pluto TV's got them and it's

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Speaker 1: really quite interesting to watch this progression. By the way,

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Speaker 1: speaking of streaming, I talked about the Chrome cast going away.

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Speaker 1: Google TV Streamer is what's replacing it. This is a

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Speaker 1: four K box. It's one hundred bucks. It'll be available

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Speaker 1: on September twenty fourth. It's got Ai powered content suggestions,

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Speaker 1: four K HDR, double Vision, Dolby ATMOS. It'll be a

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Speaker 1: matter hub, which means it'll control your smart home devices.

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Speaker 1: It'll have a remote control with a finder button, which

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Speaker 1: means if you lose it in the couch, you can

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Speaker 1: find it.

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Speaker 2: This is coming out very soon.

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Speaker 1: And my excitement for this is that I can finally

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Speaker 1: set Google Photos for my screensaver because I use Apple

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Speaker 1: TV and as much as I love it, it's clean,

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Speaker 1: it's nice, it's just you know, the asking it for

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Speaker 1: stuff like the audio, like the series is just not

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Speaker 1: very good. Last night I asked for John Candy movies

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Speaker 1: and it was like, sorry, don't know what that means.

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Speaker 1: It's like, how do you not know that? And Google

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Speaker 1: their AI for asking it? Like Google as system is

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Speaker 1: really really good, and I imagine it's even better on

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Speaker 1: this new box. So I'm looking forward to trying this

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Speaker 1: out just for my Google Photos, but of course for

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Speaker 1: everything else. Let's see here, Let's go to David in

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Speaker 1: Trabuco Canyon, California.

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Speaker 2: David, you're on with.

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Speaker 7: Rich Ye hopefully I've got a quick question for you.

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Speaker 7: A friend of mine wants to use chat GPT. Okay,

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Speaker 7: she's using Android, Linux and Windows systems. Obviously, the Android

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Speaker 7: and the Linux, it's pretty straightforward app download. Windows can't

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Speaker 7: find one. So is there a way around that? Or

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Speaker 7: is there an alternative.

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Speaker 2: System for chat GPT on the desktop?

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Speaker 8: Yes?

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Speaker 1: I would just use the website chat GBT and go

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Speaker 1: from there. And you know, if you're I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: the website right now, it doesn't look like you can

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Speaker 1: install it as like a progressive web app. But I

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Speaker 1: would just bookmarkt and just have it on your on

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Speaker 1: your browser at all times. There is there is a

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Speaker 1: chat GPT desktop app. Let's see if they have it.

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Speaker 1: I know they have it for Mac. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if they have it for Windows. Let's see, okay, chat

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Speaker 1: g Yes.

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Speaker 4: According to my I people, they said that it would

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Speaker 4: be available for Windows in November of this year.

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Speaker 2: Interesting, I wonder where they're getting that. Maybe it's on there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, they Okay, at the at the very bottom

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Speaker 1: of the screen, it does say coming to Windows later

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Speaker 1: this year, so to me that you know, it doesn't

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Speaker 1: say a specific day, but you know later this year.

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Speaker 1: Since we're already in August, I'm guessing you know, probably

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Speaker 1: November December. But yeah, they do have it for Mac

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Speaker 1: os uh and yeah, the Windows one is coming soon.

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Speaker 1: But I would just personally, I just use it. The

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Speaker 1: only thing is it would be nice if you could

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Speaker 1: install it as, like I said, a progressive web app.

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Speaker 1: It looks like mine on claud you can maybe because

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Speaker 1: I'm not logged into chat ebt. It's not letting me

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Speaker 1: have that option. But yeah, that's the probably the best

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Speaker 1: way to do it.

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Speaker 2: Just keep it with.

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Speaker 7: Nice if you can load it on all the systems.

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Speaker 7: That way, you break off one, you can pick it

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Speaker 7: right up on the other one. So that's the only

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Speaker 7: downside I can see.

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Speaker 1: Well you can do that, I mean it'll it'll still

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Speaker 1: continue with your chats. So I'm looking at my side

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Speaker 1: you know, I've got my sidebar with all my chats here,

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Speaker 1: and they're they're they pick up across systems, So as

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01:16:30,160 --> 01:16:33,080
Speaker 1: long as you're logged in your your chats should be

1511
01:16:33,120 --> 01:16:36,280
Speaker 1: picked up across all the systems. So it sounds like

1512
01:16:36,360 --> 01:16:39,880
Speaker 1: it's just a temporary issue with the Windows situation. I

1513
01:16:39,960 --> 01:16:43,439
Speaker 1: personally just prefer using it as the web app. I

1514
01:16:43,439 --> 01:16:45,639
Speaker 1: don't really know what the advantage is to the desktop app,

1515
01:16:45,680 --> 01:16:47,879
Speaker 1: except you have a shortcut. You can set a shortcut

1516
01:16:47,920 --> 01:16:50,080
Speaker 1: key to trigger it, which is kind of nice. But

1517
01:16:50,160 --> 01:16:51,840
Speaker 1: I did have it install to my Mac for a

1518
01:16:51,840 --> 01:16:54,000
Speaker 1: while and I kind of forgot about it, and I

1519
01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:56,519
Speaker 1: just I just ended up going to the website when

1520
01:16:56,520 --> 01:16:59,040
Speaker 1: I need it. But personally, I use Claude. I'm not

1521
01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:01,120
Speaker 1: using chat ebt as much as Claude, but I know

1522
01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:05,400
Speaker 1: chat GBT is sort of the proprietary eponym. Right now

1523
01:17:05,520 --> 01:17:09,679
Speaker 1: for all this stuff, Let's go to Louis in Let's

1524
01:17:09,680 --> 01:17:10,960
Speaker 1: see as I think.

1525
01:17:10,880 --> 01:17:13,280
Speaker 2: Kim might be on with him. It looks like Louis.

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01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:15,639
Speaker 1: Okay, I think yeah, I think we're still getting info

1527
01:17:15,680 --> 01:17:18,040
Speaker 1: from Louis. All right, well that's happening. I mentioned that

1528
01:17:18,120 --> 01:17:24,360
Speaker 1: Samsung has a recall Samsung voluntary recall for certain slide

1529
01:17:24,400 --> 01:17:29,360
Speaker 1: in electric model ranges. So these are stoves basically that

1530
01:17:29,400 --> 01:17:33,640
Speaker 1: can apparently catch fire because of the knobs might be

1531
01:17:33,760 --> 01:17:38,880
Speaker 1: activated without you realizing it, so voluntary recall. These are

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01:17:38,920 --> 01:17:41,400
Speaker 1: models sold in the US between twenty thirteen and twenty

1533
01:17:41,439 --> 01:17:46,719
Speaker 1: twenty four, so a wide swath of Samsung stoves potential

1534
01:17:46,760 --> 01:17:51,160
Speaker 1: activation of range knobs posing a fire hazard. So Samsung

1535
01:17:51,240 --> 01:17:55,879
Speaker 1: is offering free knoblocks or covers to fix the affected models.

1536
01:17:55,920 --> 01:17:59,040
Speaker 1: Thirty specific model numbers are affected by this recall. I'm

1537
01:17:59,040 --> 01:18:00,439
Speaker 1: not going to read all the numbers, but I'll link

1538
01:18:00,479 --> 01:18:00,840
Speaker 1: them up.

1539
01:18:00,760 --> 01:18:01,560
Speaker 2: On the website.

1540
01:18:02,840 --> 01:18:05,680
Speaker 1: You can continue to use your range while waiting for

1541
01:18:05,720 --> 01:18:09,000
Speaker 1: the free knoblocks or covers. You do need to provide

1542
01:18:09,040 --> 01:18:12,960
Speaker 1: your fifteen digit serial number to get the free fix. Here,

1543
01:18:13,680 --> 01:18:17,160
Speaker 1: Samsung recommends general safety precautions such as not storing items

1544
01:18:17,200 --> 01:18:20,120
Speaker 1: on the range top and keeping children and pets away

1545
01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:24,280
Speaker 1: from the knobs. The knoblocks or covers should arrive within

1546
01:18:24,400 --> 01:18:29,920
Speaker 1: five business days of completing this request. So the recall

1547
01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:34,320
Speaker 1: remedies provided free of charge, regardless of warranty status. So

1548
01:18:34,439 --> 01:18:37,599
Speaker 1: again you can go to there's a website Samsung dot com.

1549
01:18:37,600 --> 01:18:39,800
Speaker 1: But it's kind of complicated, but I will put the

1550
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:43,920
Speaker 1: link on my website. Rich on tech dot tv, just

1551
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:46,080
Speaker 1: hit the light bulb. This is show number eighty four.

1552
01:18:46,520 --> 01:18:49,800
Speaker 1: Look for the Samsung recall information and you can check

1553
01:18:49,840 --> 01:18:53,519
Speaker 1: your model number, see if it's affected, and go from there.

1554
01:18:54,439 --> 01:18:57,519
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one one eight eight eight seven four

1555
01:18:57,560 --> 01:19:00,240
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. I mentioned the fit

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01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:03,680
Speaker 1: Ace LT. This is the smart watch that Google came

1557
01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:06,080
Speaker 1: up with for kids. I think it is excellent. My

1558
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:08,680
Speaker 1: kid has been wearing it and testing it, and I

1559
01:19:08,720 --> 01:19:12,960
Speaker 1: think it's fantastic. I would only say my only downside

1560
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:15,720
Speaker 1: with this smart watch is I don't think it has

1561
01:19:15,800 --> 01:19:19,280
Speaker 1: the strongest antenna for a signal. But I feel like

1562
01:19:19,320 --> 01:19:21,920
Speaker 1: that's a problem with a lot of smart watches, especially

1563
01:19:21,920 --> 01:19:22,679
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch.

1564
01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:24,479
Speaker 2: And this one.

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01:19:24,720 --> 01:19:26,800
Speaker 1: I just maybe they just can't build the same type

1566
01:19:26,800 --> 01:19:28,680
Speaker 1: of antenna that they can on your phone in these

1567
01:19:28,720 --> 01:19:31,120
Speaker 1: smart watches, so I feel like it doesn't pick up

1568
01:19:31,120 --> 01:19:34,160
Speaker 1: a signal as much as some other devices would like

1569
01:19:34,200 --> 01:19:37,200
Speaker 1: a smartphone. But with that said, it does work. It

1570
01:19:37,240 --> 01:19:40,680
Speaker 1: is really nice. It is as advertised, but they have

1571
01:19:40,760 --> 01:19:43,120
Speaker 1: added a couple new features in time for the school year.

1572
01:19:43,960 --> 01:19:47,280
Speaker 1: They did introduce a tap to fay tap to pay feature.

1573
01:19:47,320 --> 01:19:49,920
Speaker 1: But here's the weird thing. It's only compatible with green

1574
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:52,680
Speaker 1: Light and Go Henry debit cards. Now, I know those

1575
01:19:52,720 --> 01:19:55,400
Speaker 1: are two popular debit cards for kids, but I'm not

1576
01:19:55,479 --> 01:19:57,360
Speaker 1: sure why they didn't just make it compatible with every

1577
01:19:57,400 --> 01:20:00,160
Speaker 1: debit card. But at start it's compatible with those to

1578
01:20:01,400 --> 01:20:04,519
Speaker 1: It also has two new games they added, plus the

1579
01:20:04,680 --> 01:20:07,960
Speaker 1: school time feature, which kind of disables the watch, not

1580
01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:09,800
Speaker 1: disables it, but it makes it so that it's not

1581
01:20:09,800 --> 01:20:12,400
Speaker 1: going to be distracting during the school day. They added

1582
01:20:12,439 --> 01:20:14,439
Speaker 1: a lunch break option, so if your kid has lunch

1583
01:20:14,439 --> 01:20:17,080
Speaker 1: from like, let's say, eleven thirty to twelve thirty in

1584
01:20:17,120 --> 01:20:19,200
Speaker 1: the morning. By the way, I don't know why kids'

1585
01:20:19,200 --> 01:20:21,760
Speaker 1: school lunches are so early, Like my kids are like, oh.

1586
01:20:21,760 --> 01:20:22,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, lunch.

1587
01:20:22,280 --> 01:20:24,639
Speaker 1: Our lunch is at like ten to fifteen AM. Like what,

1588
01:20:25,560 --> 01:20:28,240
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because you've been at school for so early.

1589
01:20:28,280 --> 01:20:28,680
Speaker 2: I don't know.

1590
01:20:29,720 --> 01:20:32,559
Speaker 1: But they added a lunch break option so that you

1591
01:20:32,600 --> 01:20:37,160
Speaker 1: can have your your phone or your watch available during

1592
01:20:37,280 --> 01:20:40,519
Speaker 1: lunch break. Right now, it's got a thirty dollars discount

1593
01:20:40,520 --> 01:20:43,679
Speaker 1: from August eleventh through twenty fifth on the Google Store.

1594
01:20:44,240 --> 01:20:46,320
Speaker 1: You can also buy it at best Buy and Target

1595
01:20:46,640 --> 01:20:49,080
Speaker 1: online in addition to Amazon. When it came out, it

1596
01:20:49,120 --> 01:20:51,920
Speaker 1: was only sold on Amazon and Google. And they're still

1597
01:20:51,920 --> 01:20:56,160
Speaker 1: doing their fifty percent discount on the annual ACE Data

1598
01:20:56,200 --> 01:20:58,920
Speaker 1: pass if you purchase it before August thirty first, So

1599
01:20:59,360 --> 01:21:01,479
Speaker 1: it's a one hundred twenty bucks for the year for the

1600
01:21:01,560 --> 01:21:04,200
Speaker 1: data for this device. If you buy it right now,

1601
01:21:04,200 --> 01:21:06,360
Speaker 1: you'll get fifty percent off, which is sixty dollars. So

1602
01:21:06,400 --> 01:21:09,439
Speaker 1: the neat thing about this fitbit acelte is it has

1603
01:21:09,479 --> 01:21:12,679
Speaker 1: cellular built in so that you can get in touch

1604
01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:14,639
Speaker 1: with your kid anywhere anytime.

1605
01:21:14,680 --> 01:21:16,200
Speaker 2: You can call and message them.

1606
01:21:16,600 --> 01:21:20,320
Speaker 1: Once again, the biggest downside is that this device is

1607
01:21:20,360 --> 01:21:23,760
Speaker 1: not assigned a traditional phone number, so you cannot just

1608
01:21:23,800 --> 01:21:26,280
Speaker 1: give someone a phone number to call your kid. Let's

1609
01:21:26,280 --> 01:21:28,960
Speaker 1: say Grandma's picking them up from school. Say okay, you

1610
01:21:28,960 --> 01:21:30,760
Speaker 1: can get in touch with Johnny by calling them at

1611
01:21:30,800 --> 01:21:32,840
Speaker 1: their watch. No, you can't do that. They would have

1612
01:21:32,880 --> 01:21:36,000
Speaker 1: to download the fipbit Ace app. You have to add

1613
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:38,519
Speaker 1: them as a contact, and then they can message and

1614
01:21:38,600 --> 01:21:41,439
Speaker 1: call through the app. It's all done voiceover IP, so

1615
01:21:41,720 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 1: it is not a traditional phone number like you would

1616
01:21:43,920 --> 01:21:46,679
Speaker 1: get assigned with the Apple Watch. That is a big

1617
01:21:46,760 --> 01:21:50,439
Speaker 1: delineation between these two devices. Some people may find that

1618
01:21:50,439 --> 01:21:52,880
Speaker 1: that's a good thing because there's no there's no spam

1619
01:21:52,960 --> 01:21:55,040
Speaker 1: because of that. Some people may see that as a

1620
01:21:55,040 --> 01:21:57,840
Speaker 1: downside because it's just a little more hoops to jump

1621
01:21:57,840 --> 01:22:00,439
Speaker 1: through to get in touch with these watches. All right,

1622
01:22:00,479 --> 01:22:03,559
Speaker 1: coming up, a lot of you emailed me about the

1623
01:22:03,720 --> 01:22:07,000
Speaker 1: Apple Watch and the life saving story I shared last week.

1624
01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:09,880
Speaker 1: Coming up, I'm gonna read some of your emails about that.

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01:22:10,400 --> 01:22:14,400
Speaker 1: You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to

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01:22:14,520 --> 01:22:17,040
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you

1627
01:22:17,200 --> 01:22:27,719
Speaker 1: talking Technology website for the show Richontech dot TV. Disney

1628
01:22:27,960 --> 01:22:33,200
Speaker 1: is raising prices once again. They just really must need

1629
01:22:33,240 --> 01:22:36,920
Speaker 1: the money because they have continued to announce price increases

1630
01:22:36,960 --> 01:22:40,880
Speaker 1: for Disney Plus, Hulu and ESPN Plus like clockwork, just

1631
01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:43,160
Speaker 1: like the good old days of cable that everyone was

1632
01:22:43,200 --> 01:22:46,880
Speaker 1: trying to escape. Remember when Disney Plus first launched, it

1633
01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:50,719
Speaker 1: was six ninety nine a month. It was a no brainer,

1634
01:22:50,760 --> 01:22:55,519
Speaker 1: and that included no ads, And that same service now

1635
01:22:56,280 --> 01:23:01,120
Speaker 1: is fifteen ninety nine a month. So prices price increases

1636
01:23:01,240 --> 01:23:03,320
Speaker 1: range from a dollar to six extra dollars a month,

1637
01:23:03,360 --> 01:23:06,519
Speaker 1: depending on what you have. New prices take effect on

1638
01:23:06,680 --> 01:23:12,400
Speaker 1: October seventeenth, and basically Disney Plus with ads is going

1639
01:23:12,439 --> 01:23:14,160
Speaker 1: up two dollars a month. So it used to be eight,

1640
01:23:14,240 --> 01:23:17,120
Speaker 1: now it's ten. Disney Plus without ads is going to

1641
01:23:17,160 --> 01:23:21,600
Speaker 1: increase from fourteen to sixteen dollars a month. Let's see,

1642
01:23:21,720 --> 01:23:23,840
Speaker 1: and just everything just go down the line. If you

1643
01:23:23,840 --> 01:23:26,160
Speaker 1: want to see the full list of price increases, you

1644
01:23:26,200 --> 01:23:29,120
Speaker 1: can go to the show notes. But yeah, I mean,

1645
01:23:29,160 --> 01:23:31,760
Speaker 1: it's just getting to the point where you know, it

1646
01:23:31,880 --> 01:23:34,800
Speaker 1: used to be a no brainer to have these services.

1647
01:23:34,840 --> 01:23:36,760
Speaker 1: Now it's like, Okay, which ones do I want to have?

1648
01:23:37,479 --> 01:23:39,080
Speaker 1: Because I don't know about you, but the last thing

1649
01:23:39,080 --> 01:23:42,719
Speaker 1: I watched on Disney Plus last night was Indiana Jones,

1650
01:23:42,760 --> 01:23:47,960
Speaker 1: the original one from like nineteen eighty something. So they've

1651
01:23:48,040 --> 01:23:50,400
Speaker 1: more than made their money on that and here I

1652
01:23:50,439 --> 01:23:53,720
Speaker 1: am watching it. Oh, I did watch Deadpool and that

1653
01:23:53,880 --> 01:23:59,120
Speaker 1: was pretty good. Bobo likes that. He was that surprised me.

1654
01:23:59,479 --> 01:24:00,519
Speaker 2: It was a it took me.

1655
01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:06,519
Speaker 1: What when did Deadpool come out? Deadpool the first one

1656
01:24:06,600 --> 01:24:09,120
Speaker 1: came out in twenty sixteen, so it took me eight

1657
01:24:09,200 --> 01:24:10,120
Speaker 1: years to watch that.

1658
01:24:10,120 --> 01:24:12,799
Speaker 2: That's not bad. You haven't seen dead Pool overring.

1659
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:15,160
Speaker 1: No, That's what made me want to see it because

1660
01:24:15,160 --> 01:24:17,400
Speaker 1: I'm seeing all the publicity and people love this movie.

1661
01:24:17,439 --> 01:24:19,080
Speaker 1: So I'm like, all right, let me see the original.

1662
01:24:19,280 --> 01:24:21,800
Speaker 1: It's an amazing movie. See what the hype is all about. Hey,

1663
01:24:21,800 --> 01:24:23,639
Speaker 1: you gotta watch part two. I gotta watch part two

1664
01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:26,439
Speaker 1: and I gotta watch So that's probably talk to me

1665
01:24:26,439 --> 01:24:28,000
Speaker 1: in the next like four or five years, and I'll

1666
01:24:28,040 --> 01:24:29,559
Speaker 1: tell you what I think of these things. I don't

1667
01:24:29,640 --> 01:24:34,400
Speaker 1: like you, all right, coming up here, we're going to

1668
01:24:34,479 --> 01:24:38,800
Speaker 1: talk about this. So last week I mentioned we told

1669
01:24:38,840 --> 01:24:42,320
Speaker 1: the story of Peter Moore. This is a guy from Montecito, California,

1670
01:24:42,800 --> 01:24:45,600
Speaker 1: former tech executive. Kind of a big deal actually in

1671
01:24:46,240 --> 01:24:48,920
Speaker 1: the tech world. He was He ran Xbox for a

1672
01:24:48,960 --> 01:24:51,439
Speaker 1: while and a couple other things, but he said that

1673
01:24:51,479 --> 01:24:54,240
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch saved his life. He got this low

1674
01:24:54,400 --> 01:24:57,000
Speaker 1: heart rate notification. Plus he was feeling a little woozy,

1675
01:24:57,040 --> 01:24:58,240
Speaker 1: and he said, you know what, I might want to

1676
01:24:58,240 --> 01:25:00,120
Speaker 1: listen to this thing. His wife brought him to the hospital,

1677
01:25:00,200 --> 01:25:03,559
Speaker 1: got a pacemaker. Within four hours, he had an electrical

1678
01:25:03,600 --> 01:25:07,519
Speaker 1: blockage from his heart, or complete blockage. Anyway, the emails

1679
01:25:07,560 --> 01:25:09,439
Speaker 1: poured in. So I'm going to read some of these

1680
01:25:09,800 --> 01:25:12,840
Speaker 1: emails because so many of you wrote to me. Bev

1681
01:25:12,880 --> 01:25:15,040
Speaker 1: wrote in hey, Rich, I never had one of these devices,

1682
01:25:15,040 --> 01:25:16,920
Speaker 1: but back in March, I took a fall in my garage.

1683
01:25:16,960 --> 01:25:18,679
Speaker 1: I was fortunate that I was able to get myself

1684
01:25:18,720 --> 01:25:21,439
Speaker 1: back in the house. Anyway, after seeing your piece about

1685
01:25:21,439 --> 01:25:24,160
Speaker 1: thirty seconds ago, can you recommend which Apple Watch to get?

1686
01:25:24,200 --> 01:25:24,599
Speaker 2: Thank you.

1687
01:25:25,400 --> 01:25:27,800
Speaker 1: If you want just the basics for fall detection and

1688
01:25:27,880 --> 01:25:31,200
Speaker 1: the heart rate notifications, the Apple Watch se will be

1689
01:25:31,400 --> 01:25:35,160
Speaker 1: just fine. Otherwise you have the Apple Watch Series eight

1690
01:25:35,280 --> 01:25:38,640
Speaker 1: or nine, which add a little bit more like ECG.

1691
01:25:38,960 --> 01:25:41,559
Speaker 1: And then of course you can get the cellular. Only

1692
01:25:41,600 --> 01:25:44,120
Speaker 1: get the cellular if you are not taking your phone

1693
01:25:44,120 --> 01:25:46,479
Speaker 1: with you. So my recommendation with the Apple Watch or

1694
01:25:46,520 --> 01:25:49,760
Speaker 1: any smart watch, you only need the cellular if you

1695
01:25:50,360 --> 01:25:52,320
Speaker 1: do something that does not require your phone.

1696
01:25:52,320 --> 01:25:52,639
Speaker 2: A lot.

1697
01:25:52,720 --> 01:25:55,000
Speaker 1: So, for instance, if you run a lot without your

1698
01:25:55,040 --> 01:25:57,519
Speaker 1: phone and he took a fall while you're on a run,

1699
01:25:57,560 --> 01:25:59,120
Speaker 1: you'd still want your watch to be able to call

1700
01:25:59,280 --> 01:26:02,040
Speaker 1: nine one one, so get the cellular in that case.

1701
01:26:04,400 --> 01:26:07,840
Speaker 1: I think it's unag Here in Los Angeles says I

1702
01:26:07,880 --> 01:26:10,080
Speaker 1: saw your piece about the gentleman who's smart watch saved

1703
01:26:10,120 --> 01:26:12,880
Speaker 1: his life leading to a pacemaker implant. I wanted to

1704
01:26:12,920 --> 01:26:15,519
Speaker 1: let you know that a young teen girl experienced something similar.

1705
01:26:15,560 --> 01:26:17,960
Speaker 1: Her parents rushed her to UCLA, where she had a

1706
01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:21,479
Speaker 1: life saving procedure. Interestingly, her father is on the police

1707
01:26:21,479 --> 01:26:24,880
Speaker 1: force and understood the importance of the alert on her phone,

1708
01:26:24,960 --> 01:26:28,760
Speaker 1: making sure she received prompt care. This can make a

1709
01:26:28,760 --> 01:26:31,920
Speaker 1: compelling story, especially highlighting that heart issues aren't just for

1710
01:26:31,960 --> 01:26:37,080
Speaker 1: the aging population. I'm a retired nurse liver transplant coordinator

1711
01:26:37,080 --> 01:26:41,880
Speaker 1: from UCLA and yeah, just amazing a reminder, yes, that

1712
01:26:41,920 --> 01:26:45,479
Speaker 1: these issues don't just happen with the older population. Thanks

1713
01:26:45,520 --> 01:26:47,439
Speaker 1: for that email. Dave from North rich wrote in my

1714
01:26:47,479 --> 01:26:50,200
Speaker 1: Apple watch discovered my a FIBs situation about two and

1715
01:26:50,200 --> 01:26:52,759
Speaker 1: a half years ago. I went to the er immediately

1716
01:26:52,760 --> 01:26:55,000
Speaker 1: spent two days there. My watch showed back to normal

1717
01:26:55,040 --> 01:26:58,080
Speaker 1: at the same time the hospital's monitoring confirmed all was okay.

1718
01:26:58,479 --> 01:27:01,000
Speaker 1: I've been on heart med since I want. I sent

1719
01:27:01,040 --> 01:27:03,799
Speaker 1: a thank you email to Tim Cook and his wonderful

1720
01:27:03,840 --> 01:27:08,080
Speaker 1: reply is hanging on my office wall. Carolyn wrote in

1721
01:27:08,120 --> 01:27:11,559
Speaker 1: this segment with Peter Moore discussing his lightheadedness and life

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Speaker 1: saving smart watch was so compelling, one of those rare

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Speaker 1: radio moments nowadays that stops listeners in their tracks and

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Speaker 1: reminds us why radio, especially AM radio, is to be valued.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Carolyn Ken writes in I saw your show. Apple Watch

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Speaker 1: heart rate data alerted my cardiologist enough to send me

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Speaker 1: to an electro physiologist for a pacemaker. I'm asymptomatic, which

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Speaker 1: caused me not to be concerned. My heart rate rests

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Speaker 1: in the low thirties. I'll have the pacemaker put in shortly.

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Speaker 1: I am a true believer in this device. John from

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Speaker 1: Ladera Ranch writes in I have an Apple Watch an iPhone.

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Speaker 1: I want to get an Apple Watch, especially after hearing

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Speaker 1: the life saving story today. I'm not interested in having

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Speaker 1: cell service with my watch, but I want to use

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Speaker 1: it for blood pressure, steps, heart rate, etc. If I

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Speaker 1: buy an Apple Watch without cell service, we'll it provide

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Speaker 1: those feature.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: I love your radio show. Absolutely it will provide those features.

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Speaker 1: You do not need the cell service again. Only get

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01:28:07,680 --> 01:28:09,640
Speaker 1: the cell service if you want your watch to be

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Speaker 1: able to call for help when your phone is not nearby.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we're going to talk to Aptera

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01:28:18,520 --> 01:28:23,000
Speaker 1: Motors about their solar electric car. This is rich On Tech.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging

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01:28:27,320 --> 01:28:33,840
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology. Are you concerned about your

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01:28:33,920 --> 01:28:38,200
Speaker 1: data privacy? New survey from US News I thought was interesting.

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01:28:38,320 --> 01:28:41,160
Speaker 1: Eighty two percent of Americans concerned about their personal data

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Speaker 1: security online. H Forty two percent use multi factor authentication.

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Speaker 1: That's impressive. I maybe because we're forced to do that

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01:28:49,479 --> 01:28:52,280
Speaker 1: so often, but that seems higher than I would think.

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01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:56,519
Speaker 1: It's only seventeen percent use a password manager. I think

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Speaker 1: that's going to change in a big way with Apple

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01:29:00,120 --> 01:29:04,080
Speaker 1: because they are coming out with a new password app,

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Speaker 1: and I think that that's going to be a big

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Speaker 1: change for that. Eighty nine percent feel confident in creating

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Speaker 1: secure passwords, but only twenty two percent change them regularly.

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Speaker 1: I think if you're creating a secure password, you don't

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Speaker 1: really need to change it. Like at work, I always

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Speaker 1: have to change my password. Why if it's not getting hacked,

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01:29:20,479 --> 01:29:22,920
Speaker 1: if it's unique, if it's secure, why do I have

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Speaker 1: to change it? I think that's kind of an old

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Speaker 1: method that we no longer need to do anymore. Fifty

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01:29:28,439 --> 01:29:32,360
Speaker 1: five percent reuse credentials across social media platforms. I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you if you do take three takeaways from this show today.

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Speaker 1: Number one, use a strong, unique password for every website.

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Speaker 1: Number two, turn on two factor authentication. And number three,

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Speaker 1: go to a website called Google Results about you and

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Speaker 1: turn that on and you can actually take down some

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01:29:51,400 --> 01:29:54,720
Speaker 1: of this personal information for free that's on Google, so

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Speaker 1: that people can't find as much personal data about you.

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Speaker 1: Thanks US News and World Report. All right, joining me

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Speaker 1: now from Apterra. This is a company that is creating

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Speaker 1: a solar car. Solar electric car. Steve, let me turn

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Speaker 1: off my Mike care Steve Fambreau. Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 12: Hey Rich, nice to be on. I a big fan

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Speaker 12: of your show and also KFI for many years.

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Speaker 2: Oh thank you. Now you're in San Diego, I believe.

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Speaker 12: Right, Yeah, Carlsbad just a few miles north.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so explain what Aptera is.

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Speaker 12: First off, Well, Aptera has a very simple mission. We

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01:30:33,640 --> 01:30:36,840
Speaker 12: want to make every journey power by the sun. Right now,

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Speaker 12: we're doing that with our vehicle, the aptera namesake of

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Speaker 12: the company, and it operates like a regular electric vehicle,

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Speaker 12: except it charges itself about forty miles a day just

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Speaker 12: from the sun. So most people with their typical daily

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Speaker 12: commute aren't just gonna they're just not gonna have to

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Speaker 12: plug in the vehicle at all. But you can go

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Speaker 12: up to about four hundred miles on a single charge

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Speaker 12: with the launch version.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, And so where are you at with this car?

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Speaker 1: How far along are you with this?

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Speaker 12: We've raised about one hundred and thirty million dollars, We've

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Speaker 12: taken about fifty thousand pre orders, and we've built a

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Speaker 12: bunch of pre production prototypes and we're starting our validation

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01:31:18,040 --> 01:31:22,960
Speaker 12: builds right now of production intent vehicles. That's happening now

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Speaker 12: through the end of the year, and then starting early

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Speaker 12: next year, we'll be building the first production vehicles in

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Speaker 12: very very low volume, about fifty vehicles before the first

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Speaker 12: half of the year. But some of those will actually

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Speaker 12: be sold to a customer.

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Speaker 2: And what is the price going to be for a

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Speaker 2: car like this?

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Speaker 12: These vehicles are configured with options and full solar, they're

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Speaker 12: running about forty plus thousand dollars. But for that you're

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Speaker 12: getting forty miles of free charging a day, plus about

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Speaker 12: four hundred miles range, a brilliant performance, a very good

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Speaker 12: power to weight ratio, and of course the carbon composite

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Speaker 12: structure that's never going to rust will offer decades of

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Speaker 12: long service.

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Speaker 2: Now, were these two seater four seater?

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Speaker 12: Yes, two seaters side by side with about one thousand

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01:32:09,160 --> 01:32:11,439
Speaker 12: liters of cargo sping. So if you take like my

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01:32:11,479 --> 01:32:14,040
Speaker 12: other ev as a Chevy bolt, So if you fold

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Speaker 12: down the back seats in the bolt, it's like the

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Speaker 12: same size as the Aptera. You know, it's two people

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Speaker 12: can get a bunch of luggage like check luggage and

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Speaker 12: carry on and everything else in the back of it.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting because when I talk about electric cars, and

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Speaker 1: obviously there's a lot of chatter about these things in California.

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Speaker 1: They're very popular. People like them. I drive one. I've

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Speaker 1: had no problems in three years with it. Obviously, you know,

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Speaker 1: there are some trade offs, you know, you have to

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Speaker 1: think about when you take road trips and things like that,

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Speaker 1: Like there is a little bit more planning and you know,

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Speaker 1: but overall it's really really an exciting experience. But people

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Speaker 1: always say, like what about solar? What about solar? So

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Speaker 1: can you capture that much sun from the roof of

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Speaker 1: the car, And what do you have to do to

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Speaker 1: lead event like in the sun. What about people that

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Speaker 1: don't live in a sunny area.

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Speaker 12: These are all great points, especially about electric vehicles in general.

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Speaker 12: You know, even with just to follow on that point,

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Speaker 12: even with gasoline cars, you know that there's no one

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Speaker 12: vehicle that anybody wants. You know, my dad will never

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Speaker 12: give up his diesel pickup truck because he pulls a

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Speaker 12: horse trailer. And so even though he thinks it's cool

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Speaker 12: that the son started a car company and he wants one.

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Speaker 12: But in terms of solar, just putting solar cells on

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Speaker 12: a regular electric vehicles not going to help that much

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01:33:30,320 --> 01:33:34,879
Speaker 12: because those most evs are pretty inefficient by app Terra standards.

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Speaker 12: They're heavy and they have high aerodynamic resistance. Because app

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01:33:39,520 --> 01:33:43,280
Speaker 12: Terra is so efficient, it's so lightweight, such low drag.

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Speaker 12: The solar that we do put on the vehicle can

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Speaker 12: have a meaningful impact because our rate of consumption is

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Speaker 12: about one hundred hours per mile, which is very low.

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Speaker 12: It's lower than anything on the road, but that we

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Speaker 12: collect about four kilo hours over the day, a peak

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Speaker 12: of about seven hundred watts, you know, let's say around noontime,

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01:34:03,520 --> 01:34:06,680
Speaker 12: So over the whole day about four kilod hours. And

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01:34:07,160 --> 01:34:09,880
Speaker 12: part of our intellectual property is, of course, how do

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Speaker 12: you bend and make solar panels that are curved and

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Speaker 12: form the exterior, you know, aero panels to the body,

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Speaker 12: but also the high voltage electronics that have to operate

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Speaker 12: very efficiently to put that energy back into the high

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Speaker 12: voltage battery. So over the period of a day, you'll

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Speaker 12: collect about four kiloded hours, which is about forty miles.

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Speaker 12: Now for those people that don't park in the sun,

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Speaker 12: or they have to park in a garage or something

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Speaker 12: like that, all that means is that they're at Terra

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Speaker 12: is still going to charge faster than a regular EV.

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Speaker 12: You won't have to install a level two charger at home.

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01:34:43,520 --> 01:34:44,880
Speaker 12: You can just plug it in the wall and a

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Speaker 12: regular one to ten socket and you'll get about one

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Speaker 12: hundred and thirty miles overnight. Because a battery pack is

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Speaker 12: so small by comparison, So if you can't park in

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Speaker 12: the sun, yeah, that's unfortunate because we want your journey

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Speaker 12: to be powered by the sun. If you live in

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Speaker 12: a cloud place, you're going to get fewer miles per year.

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Speaker 12: But the solar cell technology is improving every year. The

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Speaker 12: light weightness is getting better in the vehicle, so we think,

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Speaker 12: you know, we're going to go from forty miles to

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Speaker 12: fifty miles to seventy. You know, our goal is to

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Speaker 12: make the whole journey powered by the sun one day.

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Speaker 1: And how you know, is anyone else doing this? Like

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Speaker 1: are you know, we see all these big companies are

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Speaker 1: getting into electric, but it seems like solar is kind

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01:35:25,479 --> 01:35:29,880
Speaker 1: of like a very far off kind of idea. But

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Speaker 1: you guys say you're doing it, Like it's this car powerful?

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Speaker 2: Like is it? You know?

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Speaker 1: Obviously your dad's not going to pull the crate behind

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Speaker 1: it or the horse carriage. But you know what, what's

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01:35:39,880 --> 01:35:41,840
Speaker 1: the deal with this car when it comes to like power? Like,

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01:35:42,040 --> 01:35:43,680
Speaker 1: am I going to give up anything with this?

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Speaker 12: Well, you could give up your license if you get

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Speaker 12: caught because it goes that fast. You know, it's got

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01:35:50,520 --> 01:35:53,280
Speaker 12: one hundred and fifty kilowatt's peak power about two innre

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Speaker 12: horse power, weighs less than two thousand pounds. So it

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Speaker 12: drives like what you would consider a sports car. It's

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01:36:00,960 --> 01:36:05,120
Speaker 12: very very spirited, very fun to drive. Many electric vehicles

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01:36:05,120 --> 01:36:07,400
Speaker 12: are like that today though, Yeah, so this would be

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01:36:07,439 --> 01:36:12,200
Speaker 12: on par with that experience. Sorry, what was your well.

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Speaker 2: I'm curious.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So you know we've seen like even with like

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Speaker 1: Rivan some of these other car companies. You know, people

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01:36:18,160 --> 01:36:22,640
Speaker 1: are hesitant to get these startup cars because repair and like,

1898
01:36:22,720 --> 01:36:24,920
Speaker 1: you know, if you need something done, like how you know,

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01:36:24,960 --> 01:36:29,519
Speaker 1: you've got to build out this huge nationwide infrastructure of

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01:36:29,640 --> 01:36:31,920
Speaker 1: you know, repair places, and how do you know what

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01:36:31,960 --> 01:36:33,080
Speaker 1: happens if something goes wrong?

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01:36:33,200 --> 01:36:35,680
Speaker 2: Like can you address some of that? I'm curious.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, it's a really great point, and I think it's

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01:36:38,680 --> 01:36:41,760
Speaker 12: one of the key differentiators that all electric vehicle companies

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01:36:41,840 --> 01:36:45,799
Speaker 12: are are starting to realize. The dealership model in modern

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01:36:45,800 --> 01:36:49,519
Speaker 12: automotive sales is the revenue model is on service, and

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01:36:49,560 --> 01:36:52,519
Speaker 12: electric vehicles just don't have service. You know, the service

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01:36:52,640 --> 01:36:56,639
Speaker 12: is extremely deminimous compared to a gasoline car. So really,

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Speaker 12: if if you think about it at a high level,

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01:36:59,760 --> 01:37:03,320
Speaker 12: there's no revenue model for any dealership in an electric

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01:37:03,439 --> 01:37:07,080
Speaker 12: vehicle ecosystem. So then what do you do. Well, Luckily,

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01:37:07,120 --> 01:37:11,240
Speaker 12: there are already partner folks out there who have deployed

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01:37:11,479 --> 01:37:15,800
Speaker 12: mobile service quite well, quite successfully for all kinds of vehicles,

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Speaker 12: and we're talking with several of them right now, and

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Speaker 12: we believe our plan is going to involve one of

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01:37:21,200 --> 01:37:24,640
Speaker 12: these existing partners who will, with our materials and with

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Speaker 12: our training and with our parts, be able to go

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01:37:27,240 --> 01:37:30,320
Speaker 12: and do that kind of service on an app terra okay,

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Speaker 12: without us having to build out that network.

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Speaker 2: Got it.

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Speaker 1: And I will say for my car, like the except

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Speaker 1: when someone hit it, which was expensive, that was not

1923
01:37:38,479 --> 01:37:42,680
Speaker 1: my fault, there's been almost zero service charges whatsoever. I

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01:37:42,720 --> 01:37:44,840
Speaker 1: do have to replace the tires, but that's basically it.

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01:37:44,960 --> 01:37:47,960
Speaker 1: I mean, I've only replaced the cabin filter twice over

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Speaker 1: three years.

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Speaker 2: And that's it. This car is going to be. You're

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01:37:52,240 --> 01:37:52,880
Speaker 2: going to have one of.

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Speaker 1: Your prototypes showcased at the Pebble Beach.

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Speaker 2: Tell me about that.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, so that's gamma. That is are it's it's so

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Speaker 12: we have alpha, beta, Gamma, and then production. And we're

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Speaker 12: not really showing the alphas anymore because they're they're long

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Speaker 12: in the tooth, they're smaller, they're not representative. Of what

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Speaker 12: we're making. Gamma is actually a near production interior but

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Speaker 12: on a beta body, so it's a little bit bigger.

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Speaker 12: It's one of our most it's our newest sort of

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Speaker 12: prototype or press vehicle, if you will. Although it's over

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Speaker 12: a year and a half or so old. It's been

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Speaker 12: all over the world. I just got back from the

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Speaker 12: Yaz track in Abu Dhabi. It's it was in Switzerland

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Speaker 12: last year driving around in the snow. That vehicle is

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Speaker 12: going to be at Pebble Beach and it's it's highly

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Speaker 12: representative of the size and interior of the production vehicle.

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Speaker 1: All right, And that's happening during the weekend of August

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Speaker 1: seventeenth and eighteenth. If you want to check it out.

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Speaker 1: What's the website for APTERAF Steve.

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Speaker 8: Attera dot us.

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Speaker 12: You can read everything about us. You can get in

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Speaker 12: the waiting list, so people ahead of you, but you

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Speaker 12: can find everything you want to know there.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: Steve Fambrou from Aptera building a solar car there in Carlsbad.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me today. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 12: Oh my pleasure.

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Speaker 2: Rich, Thank you. All right.

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Speaker 1: This is probably something I would have imagined as a kid,

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Speaker 1: you know, we went from gas to electric solar maybe

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Speaker 1: flying as next.

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Speaker 2: Very very exciting. Good luck there.

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Speaker 1: Coming up, we are going to open up the feedbag

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Speaker 1: and get some more of your emails to the show

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Speaker 1: you are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you,

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Speaker 1: talking technology the website for the show rich on Tech

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Speaker 1: dot TV. Jim Rode in interesting that the ap Terra

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Speaker 1: interview never corrected you to say that Aptera is not

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Speaker 1: a car, it's a three wheeled motorcycle. I'm sure he

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Speaker 1: did that intentionally. People will not be quite as interested

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Speaker 1: in this vehicle and they know it's not a car.

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Speaker 1: He always carefully called it a vehicle and never referred

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Speaker 1: to it as a car to keep things legal, I'm sure. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: great show as always, Jim, Ah, good, good point, Jim.

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Speaker 1: That is uh, yes, that will limit the appeal of

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Speaker 1: this for sure, solar electric vehicle. But then again, you know,

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Speaker 1: I've done a lot of stories with these kind of

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Speaker 1: funky alternative cars and things vehicles. I guess you can

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Speaker 1: call them, and you know, people there was one what

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Speaker 1: was it called the solo that one tried to anyway,

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Speaker 1: people people love the idea of all these things, it takes.

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Speaker 2: A while for them to actually happen. Sometimes.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to the feedback. Rich on tech dot TV

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Speaker 1: hit Contact. John from Newport Beach wrote in about the

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Speaker 1: AI discussion on last week's show, We're already seeing massive

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Speaker 1: job losses and positions being replaced by AI and fields

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Speaker 1: like marketing, sales, content creation, computer programming, and recruiting. AI

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Speaker 1: is consolidating workforces, so instead of having ten people in

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Speaker 1: each of these positions, a company might only need three.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the best workers will master AI, but will

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Speaker 1: need fewer of them. Overall, this is already happening. We

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Speaker 1: haven't even seen the beginning of it. Just wait until

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Speaker 1: AI gets really good. It's still in its early stages.

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Speaker 1: Think about that. Thanks John from Newport Beach. That is

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Speaker 1: very true. We are just in the beginning stages. We

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Speaker 1: had a lot of emails about the MV and O

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Speaker 1: discussion last week. Randolph writes in Rich, great show. Never

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Speaker 1: miss it. When you've covered travel roaming issues. To avoid charges,

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Speaker 1: you always say, turn on airplane mode and turn off roaming.

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Speaker 1: But how do you always add? But you always add

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Speaker 1: make sure your apps do not download upload How do

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Speaker 1: you do that. Do you have to go into each

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Speaker 1: app individually and do something?

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Speaker 2: Thanks? Yeah, that is basically what you have to do

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Speaker 2: at this point.

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Speaker 1: There may be some programs that you can use to

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Speaker 1: restrict maybe on Android, like the upload and download. But

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Speaker 1: if you just go into your main offenders, like the

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Speaker 1: major apps like Netflix, anything that's streaming video, anything that's

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Speaker 1: streaming music, anything that's uploading or backing up, turn that

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Speaker 1: off on cellular. Make sure it's not using cellular to

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Speaker 1: do that, and you should be okay. But yes, it's

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Speaker 1: a manual process. Sean writes in I'm sure you figure

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Speaker 1: it out, but red Pocket actually lets you choose from

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Speaker 1: AT and T, Verizon or T Mobile. You stated it

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Speaker 1: only works on Verizon. Okay, good to know there. Warren

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Speaker 1: writes in, Hey, Rich, I enjoy your show, appreciate your

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Speaker 1: tech assistance. One MV and O I did not hear you.

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Speaker 1: Mention which I've used for many years is ting they

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Speaker 1: can use both Verizon and T Mobile networks. I recommend

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Speaker 1: TING to my friends, but most still go with the

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Speaker 1: main carriers. That's what my mom said last week after

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Speaker 1: she listened to the show, and she said, you know,

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Speaker 1: I tell all my friends about Mint Mobile, and they

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Speaker 1: still want to stick to, you know, their main carriers.

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Speaker 1: They said, you know what, they're lost. They're they're losing

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Speaker 1: the money. Andrea from New Orleans rights in. US Mobile

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Speaker 1: very recently started giving customers the ability to switch between

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Speaker 1: their GSM, T Mobile, Verizon and AT and T networks

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Speaker 1: on the fly as often as you like. It's free

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Speaker 1: for some plans, with a two dollars charge for others, though,

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Speaker 1: I think everyone gets too free switched US Mobile. Don't

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Speaker 1: discount them. They're a great MV and O. I've tested

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Speaker 1: them before, and yes, they give you a choice of networks.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know you can switch on the fly. That's interesting.

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Speaker 1: Joe from Scranton writes in Rich, I heard you give

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Speaker 1: advice to a caller from law enforcement who wanted a

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Speaker 1: point and shoot camera for vacation. I'm wondering why you

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Speaker 1: didn't simply suggest using a spare phone, either iPhone or Galaxy.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't have to be the primary nor does it even

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Speaker 1: need to have service. All they need to do is

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Speaker 1: keep the camera app open and would essentially be point

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Speaker 1: and shoot. Wouldn't that be a good solution? Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: know what, not a bad idea. I actually did not

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Speaker 1: even think about that because he said he wanted a camera,

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Speaker 1: not a phone, and so typically I use that as

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Speaker 1: the queue for my answer. But you're right, just use

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Speaker 1: an old phone, don't hook it up to service, and

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Speaker 1: there you go. Stuart from Poughkeepsie rights in, when you

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Speaker 1: mentioned Firefox, I wanted to share that I use Mozilla

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Speaker 1: Firefox on my Windows XP pro ps. I'm enjoying your

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Speaker 1: three hour program. Well, thank you, Stutu from Poughkeepsie, appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: Jonathan writes in I heard you recommend a Jackerie power

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Speaker 1: station to a listener last week and wanted to point

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Speaker 1: out that the Jackery power stations use lithium ion batteries,

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Speaker 1: which is considered by many to be quote old tech.

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Speaker 1: I would suggest people go with power stations that use

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Speaker 1: life PO four batteries, such as those made by Ecoflow. Jonathan,

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Speaker 1: do you work for Eco Flow? Just making sure. Jonathan

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Speaker 1: Joseph writes in he heard me struggle with torque and

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Speaker 1: he's explaining it. The torque measurement is a two dimensional

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Speaker 1: assessment of engine performance. It's measured in feet for length

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Speaker 1: and pounds for weight to gauge the engine's ability to

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Speaker 1: turn or crank the pistons. The measurement is commonly referred

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Speaker 1: to as torque in foot pounds.

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Speaker 8: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Joseph am Rik am Emeric from Porter Ranch writes in Hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I always try to catch you with Bill handle and

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Speaker 1: on the weekends. Love your show and cool talking points.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for making tech fun and educational. This last weekend,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned how Ford is offering over the air performance

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Speaker 1: upgrades for the Machi. While that's cool, you didn't mention

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Speaker 1: that Tesla's been doing this for several years. Yes, I know, Tesla, Tesla, Tesla.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. You know, sometimes people don't want to

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Speaker 1: hear all the time Tesla this, Tesla that. But yes,

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Speaker 1: they have done over the air upgrades as well. And

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Speaker 1: Carolyn Rode in love the variety of your bumper music

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Speaker 1: last week. Your mom is the best. Never would have

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Speaker 1: expected to hear the intro to Thank You by led Zeppelin,

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Speaker 1: but to put a huge smile on my face. So

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Speaker 1: please thank your mom for including that in the great playlist. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and thanks to Mom again this week for the playlist.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it. That's going to do it for this episode

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Speaker 1: of the show. You can find links to everything I

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Speaker 1: mentioned on my website. Just go to richon Tech dot

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Speaker 1: TV can find me on social media. Be sure to

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Speaker 1: follow me on Instagram X and Facebook at rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Next week I am headed to the Google Pixel Event.

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Speaker 1: I will have all of the updates from Google's latest

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Speaker 1: event with all of their new phones. Very much looking

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Speaker 1: forward to that. Thanks so much for listening. There are

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Speaker 1: so many ways you can spend your time. I do

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Speaker 1: appreciate you spending it right here with me. Thanks to

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Speaker 1: everyone who makes this show possible. Bobo, Kim, Bill, Julie,

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Speaker 1: who else my mom this week, Tanner for the song,

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Speaker 1: and you, of course you you make this all possible.

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Speaker 2: My name is rich Dmiro. I will talk to you

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Speaker 2: real soon