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Speaker 1: this first. Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on?

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Speaker 1: I'm Rich dmiro and this is Rich on Tech, the

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Speaker 1: podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think

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Speaker 1: at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Hope you are

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Speaker 1: having a fantastic day, week, month, year. Can you believe

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Speaker 1: that we are more than six months into the year.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why I said that. I just looked

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Speaker 1: Like, wait a second, We're like, we're more like eight

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Speaker 2: But here's the deal I was.

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Speaker 1: But the reality is, in my world, we just had

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Speaker 1: I'm almost exclusively using Google Maps to research almost everything

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00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:44,320
Speaker 1: about my trip. And quite honestly, it is I would

436
00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:46,800
Speaker 1: say it's right ninety nine percent of the time.

437
00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:48,080
Speaker 2: Like this stuff that it tells me.

438
00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:51,720
Speaker 1: I'll like, they sort of nail it, and the locations

439
00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 1: of things, the proximity of things. It's all very very good.

440
00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,320
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm and I love making the lists. So

441
00:20:58,400 --> 00:20:59,920
Speaker 1: I make a list for a city before I go,

442
00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:01,719
Speaker 1: and I do it all on Google Maps. That to

443
00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:04,359
Speaker 1: do is all in there. I mean, it's really really phenomenal.

444
00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:09,920
Speaker 1: How much information's in there. So good question, Paul, And yeah,

445
00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,560
Speaker 1: let's they should bring it back. All right, Let's get

446
00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:16,119
Speaker 1: to some sad news. Visible was one of the best

447
00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:19,320
Speaker 1: deals in wireless. They had a plan that was forty

448
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,960
Speaker 1: dollars all in and they run on Verizon, so it's

449
00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,640
Speaker 1: a really good network. But they had this thing called

450
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,760
Speaker 1: party pay, and party pay if you got I think

451
00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:29,840
Speaker 1: it was like three or four people on your plan,

452
00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:31,520
Speaker 1: not a family plan, but all you had to do

453
00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,920
Speaker 1: was link up with them. You could then pay twenty

454
00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,560
Speaker 1: five dollars a month for unlimited service on Verizon. I'm

455
00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:43,679
Speaker 1: talking unlimited calls, texts, and data. And it was a

456
00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:48,000
Speaker 1: really really good deal. But now that deal is gone

457
00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:51,639
Speaker 1: because Visible has raised their prices. Well they actually lowered

458
00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:53,320
Speaker 1: they you know, these all these companies kind of use

459
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,920
Speaker 1: a little bit of trickery, but they they lowered some prices,

460
00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,160
Speaker 1: but they raised their base price of their main plan

461
00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,720
Speaker 1: is now forty five dollars. It includes a bunch of

462
00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,880
Speaker 1: stuff that it didn't before, and then the cheaper plan

463
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,199
Speaker 1: is now thirty dollars. They kind of split the difference

464
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:07,640
Speaker 1: between twenty five and forty.

465
00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:08,840
Speaker 2: So for thirty.

466
00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,959
Speaker 1: Dollars you still get a pretty good plan. Okay, pretty

467
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,320
Speaker 1: pretty pretty good. You get unlimited talk, text and data

468
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:19,200
Speaker 1: five G and four four G. You get unlimited mobile hotspot.

469
00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:23,920
Speaker 1: Obviously the hotspot is limited to a certain megabits per second.

470
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:24,600
Speaker 2: I think it's five.

471
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 1: And then you get the extras which is unlimited talking

472
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Speaker 1: text to Canada, Canada, Mexico and Canada. That's thirty dollars

473
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 1: a month, which is still really good. Now they have

474
00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:38,159
Speaker 1: Visible Plus which is forty five dollars a month, and

475
00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,800
Speaker 1: this gives you the same data, but you also get

476
00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,919
Speaker 1: five g UW which is you know, Verizon's super duper

477
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,480
Speaker 1: fast stuff. And then a premium network experience whatever that means,

478
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:52,560
Speaker 1: unlimited mobile hotspot. And then you get the extras include

479
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 1: the unlimited talking text to Mexico and Canada, unlimited talking

480
00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:59,800
Speaker 1: text and data roaming in Mexico and Canada, international calling

481
00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,399
Speaker 1: from the US to thirty countries, international texting from the

482
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 1: US to two hundred countries. So and you can add

483
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,479
Speaker 1: a smart watch for five dollars. So again, if you

484
00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,119
Speaker 1: if you have the Party play, it's not going away

485
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:14,120
Speaker 1: for you, you are grandfathered in. But for new customers,

486
00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: it's going away. Let's see when is it going away on?

487
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,119
Speaker 1: It doesn't really say when it's going away, but you

488
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:27,440
Speaker 1: are you can let's see. You can now refer new

489
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:31,160
Speaker 1: customers and receive twenty dollars off your next month of service.

490
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 1: You can bank up to twelve months at a time,

491
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,159
Speaker 1: so if you refer twelve friends, you can get two

492
00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:39,120
Speaker 1: hundred and forty dollars off your bill for the year.

493
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 1: So twenty dollars off of thirty is really actually cheaper.

494
00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 2: So that's ten dollars.

495
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,080
Speaker 1: You just have to bring someone in every month, which

496
00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 1: is kind of a lot.

497
00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:49,720
Speaker 2: So let's see when does this go away.

498
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Speaker 1: I don't know when it goes away, but basically, you

499
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 1: can't sign up for a new Visible plan at the

500
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Speaker 1: twenty five dollars. And the whole trick of the twenty

501
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:58,960
Speaker 1: five dollars party play our party pay is that you

502
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,439
Speaker 1: didn't have to sign up up with your friends. You

503
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 1: could literally go on Reddit or any you know, anywhere,

504
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 1: find a link to a party plan and just join in.

505
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,640
Speaker 1: And so some of these plans had like twenty five

506
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 1: hundred people on them that didn't know each other, but

507
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 1: they were all paying twenty five dollars, and so this

508
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,160
Speaker 1: was something that you sort of needed to know how

509
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,680
Speaker 1: to do to get it. And I asked Visible when

510
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:24,159
Speaker 1: I did a story on this, I said, Hey, this

511
00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 1: is this legit, Like, are you guys okay with this?

512
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: And they said, eah, we're sure, we're fine with that.

513
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 1: But I guess now they're saying, our members love the discounts,

514
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,159
Speaker 1: but not the hoops they had to jump through to

515
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 1: get it. So okay, I mean hoops they had to

516
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 1: jump through, they had to sign up one time. I mean,

517
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:41,360
Speaker 1: that's not that.

518
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 2: Big of a deal.

519
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,479
Speaker 1: By the way, existing members, if you have Visible, if

520
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 1: you want to move to one of these new plans,

521
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 1: you can do so, but you have to get a

522
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,719
Speaker 1: new sim because Visible's network is expanding and evolving with

523
00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 1: these new plans, which should provide you with improved speeds

524
00:24:55,880 --> 00:25:00,439
Speaker 1: and latency. So Visible is still fantastic. I have been

525
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 1: testing out Boost Wireless Boost Mobile with their new twenty

526
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 1: five dollars unlimited plan, and it's been really, really good.

527
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 1: I only had one problem with it at the beach

528
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,440
Speaker 1: where I've really had like zero signal, and it was

529
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 1: kind of a problem, like I couldn't use my phone

530
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 1: at all, Like it was just really really bad. And

531
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,399
Speaker 1: that's the only place that I've had an issue. But

532
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 1: the beach historically has, you know, depending on your carrier,

533
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:26,640
Speaker 1: has connection issues anyway, because there's not that many cell

534
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,920
Speaker 1: towers on a beach, and so it's not like I'm

535
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:30,600
Speaker 1: not gonna.

536
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 2: Give Boost a total like f because of that.

537
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,399
Speaker 1: So far, I've been very impressed with their service, and

538
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,879
Speaker 1: for twenty five dollars unlimited everything, I'm pretty impressed with

539
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:44,600
Speaker 1: that as well. So it just depends what you want.

540
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,159
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the next question of the show.

541
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 1: This comes from Bob says, Hey, Rich, which is the

542
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 1: best streaming device, Roku or Fire? Thank you, Bob, Ooh wow,

543
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 1: you're really trying to ask me the tough questions here.

544
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 1: So I think this is really a matter of personal preference,

545
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 1: and it also kind of depends on your setup. So

546
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: if you have one of the TCL series TVs that

547
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,679
Speaker 1: has Roku built in, which I highly recommend the TCL

548
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: six series, go with Roku.

549
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 2: It's built into the TV. It's gonna be great, you know.

550
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: Less cables, less fuss, it starts right up, you know,

551
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 1: it gets pretty decent software updates, I would assume, and

552
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 1: the apps are nice and updated because they're all Roku apps.

553
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:32,400
Speaker 1: So and Roku has pretty much every app available. I'm

554
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 1: not sure that there's an app that's not available a

555
00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 1: popular streaming apps that's not available on Roku. So what

556
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 1: I don't like about Roku is pretty much, you know,

557
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 1: the maybe the presentation. There's a lot of ads on

558
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 1: the screen, and that's basically it. I mean otherwise, I

559
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 1: think Roku's fantastic. I think people that have it, they

560
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,240
Speaker 1: love it. I've yet to meet a person who doesn't

561
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 1: like their Roku. So Roku's great. And they've got the

562
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 1: you know, the free stuff. I mean, they've got a

563
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 1: lot of stuff on there. I think at one point

564
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: Roku had everything represented on theirs when some others did not.

565
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 1: But now I think the streamers pretty much all have.

566
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 2: The same stuff available.

567
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: But okay, so then when it comes to fire TV,

568
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 1: now this, you know, some people might have a problem

569
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:23,439
Speaker 1: with it because it's Amazon, and not everyone wants to

570
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 1: support Amazon or likes Amazon. I'll be honest, I love Amazon,

571
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: but I'm noticing that a lot of my income is

572
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:35,199
Speaker 1: going to Amazon, and it's a little scary. Like the

573
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:39,159
Speaker 1: other night, we were eating Amazon pizza, opening up an

574
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 1: Amazon package, watching an Amazon movie, buying stuff from the

575
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 1: Amazon website, and it just gets a little weird.

576
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 2: Drink in Amazon water.

577
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 1: Now, I kind of joke we weren't doing all those

578
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: things at the same time, but it's kind of a

579
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: reality in my house when I look around I'm like,

580
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: there's a lot of Amazon, and when you factor in

581
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,159
Speaker 1: the Amazon Fresh, like their grocery service, if you're buying

582
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: like their brand, it's called a Plenty, which is, by

583
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 1: the way, fantastic. It's a really great brand. But it's

584
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 1: just weird that you're eating like Amazon pizza. Like we

585
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 1: had an Amazon Truffle mushroom pizza the other night and

586
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 1: it was delicious. But I'm sitting there like this is weird.

587
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 1: But is it weird that I'm eating a Kroger pizza

588
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 1: or a Walmart pizza? Which maybe I would need a

589
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 1: Walmart pizza, But you know, like there's these different brands

590
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 1: out there, all the companies, all the grocery stores have

591
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,639
Speaker 1: their own house brand. So what's the difference, you know,

592
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,679
Speaker 1: if I'm eating a Target pop tart, you know, versus

593
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 1: a pop Tart pop tart, which probably is better, by

594
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: the way, although I haven't had a pop tart in

595
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: many years. It's one of those things that I really

596
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 1: really want. But I have to draw the line somewhere

597
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: with like junk food, Like this morning, I had a

598
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: pumpkin spice donut and it was fantastic. It was just

599
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: so good, But you know, someone brought them into work

600
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: and I ate it and I didn't even know it

601
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 1: was pumpkin spice.

602
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 2: It just picked it out because it looked good and.

603
00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 1: I took a bite and I'm like, oh, first pump

604
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: can spice products or the season. It was delicious. But

605
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: you know, again, I wouldn't have I would like to

606
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: seek that out, but for health reasons. I would rather

607
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: be presented with a donu and say, oh, how can

608
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: I resist this, Dona?

609
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 2: I mean you brought them into work, thank you, So

610
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 2: that's what I did. But at home, if.

611
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 1: I'm buying stuff, I'm trying to buy the healthier version

612
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: of stuff, so which is why I don't have pop

613
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: darts anyway. How does that have anything to do with

614
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: Roku and Amazon? Let me remember so Amazon. Yeah, people

615
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: might take, you know, take a problem or have a

616
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: problem with the fact that it's Amazon, and they're like,

617
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: I don't want to support Amazon. So that's fine, that's

618
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: within your right. What I like about Amazon is I

619
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: think their firesticks are pretty good for the price, and

620
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: the software is updated on a regular basis.

621
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:45,959
Speaker 2: I like the presentation.

622
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,760
Speaker 1: Amazon keeps trying to tweak their presentation because you know,

623
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: Amazon is riding this fine line kind of like Roku.

624
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: Of you know, they get paid for a lot of

625
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: the placements on that screen, like whether it's an ad,

626
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: whether it's a movie, whether it's a service, so they

627
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: want to make it useful, but they also want to

628
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: introduce stuff that you wouldn't typically see otherwise because they

629
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: want you to click it and they want you to

630
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: watch it. Same thing with Roku. Apple TV does not

631
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 1: do that. They don't have any sort of ads on

632
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 1: the home screen, and it's very much like it. Once

633
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: you set it up, if you never go in the

634
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: app store again, you may never discover anything ever again

635
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,560
Speaker 1: on that thing. So it's just a different way of

636
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: doing things. But I like the movie selection. I think

637
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: the Amazon is fast. It's got Alexa or the A

638
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: word built in, so if you need that a assistant

639
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 1: that's built in, so if you're used to that, that's

640
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: kind of cool.

641
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:38,719
Speaker 2: I just like it.

642
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 1: That's my personal preference. I use a combination of Apple

643
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: TV and fire TV. I do not actively have a

644
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 1: Roku set up. I have in the past and it's fine.

645
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: Throughout the pandemic, I had one set up and I

646
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 1: was watching it every single day to monitor the newscast

647
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 1: while I was on.

648
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 2: Air, and it was fine. I mean, it works.

649
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 1: The only thing I didn't like was that it didn't

650
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Speaker 1: have a photo slide show. And I think that they

651
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: have fixed that. I think we talked about it on

652
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: this podcast that they fixed it. So, Bob, I can't

653
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 1: make your decision for you, but I hope that those

654
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 1: little differences help you make your own decision. Oh, speaking

655
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: of Walmart, Walmart, if you are a Walmart Plus subscriber,

656
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 1: this is sort of their answer to Amazon Prime. You

657
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: probably want to activate this new perk. It's Paramount Plus.

658
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: So they're giving Walmart Plus subscribers Paramount Plus for free.

659
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 1: Say that ten times fast. So Walmart Plus is, you know,

660
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: like I said, their answer to Amazon Prime. It's ninety

661
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 1: eight dollars a year or thirteen dollars a month, and

662
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: a lot of people, by the way, pay for these

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00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: things monthly. So I feel like, if you're thinking you're

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00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 1: gonna stick with it, honestly, I just just try to

665
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,719
Speaker 1: pay it yearly because twelve ninety five a month.

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00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 2: Let's just do the math. So that's thirteen times twelve.

667
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, that's a lot of money.

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00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: More Okay, do not pay for Walmart plus month to

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Speaker 1: month twelve ninety five a month or ninety eight dollars

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00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: for the year. So if you're paying by the month,

671
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 1: you are paying an extra fifty eight dollars a year.

672
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: That's more than fifty percent. So I would not pay

673
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: for this monthly. Now I know that Amazon also does

674
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: a monthly plan and it's I think it's up to

675
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: is it fifteen dollars a month? Now fifteen dollars a

676
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: month or one thirty nine a year, So if you're

677
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 1: paying fifteen times twelve, that's eighty So it's thirty dollars

678
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: more to pay it by month. So let's divide that

679
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 1: by month or sorry, oneint eighty minus one thirty nine

680
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: forty one dollars more. Okay, so it's not as big

681
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: of a deal there, but it's still three dollars and

682
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: forty one cents extra a month.

683
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 2: And that may not seem like a big.

684
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: Deal, but that's a third of Spotify, that's half of Hulu.

685
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you can put that money towards other things.

686
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: So this is not a financial podcast. I'm not telling

687
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: you how to run your financial life. But you know,

688
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: if you're sticking with things in the long term, Like,

689
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 1: for instance, I was paying for Google Cloud Storage by

690
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: the month. It was twenty five dollars a month for

691
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 1: five terabytes, And the two hundred and fifty dollars was

692
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: really scary because I was like, that's a lot of

693
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: money all at once to pay in one fell swoop

694
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: for this cloud stage. But I'm like, rich, you're paying

695
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: this every month no matter what I get that two

696
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 1: fifty is a lot scarier than twenty five, but you're

697
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 1: wasting money every month, Like you're going to spend that money.

698
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: You're going to spend a year with Google Cloud service,

699
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: So why are you doing this? And so I did.

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00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: I ended up just you know, I ended up just

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Speaker 1: paying for the two fifty and you know, I haven't

702
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 1: looked back, and it's it's much better because you know,

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00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: I don't want to do the math again and bore

704
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 1: you with math on the show.

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Speaker 2: But it's a better deal. So anyway, ninety eight.

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00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: Dollars a year paramount plus you're getting the Essential plan,

707
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: which is fifty They say it's fifty.

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00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 2: Nine dollars a year.

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00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that's the case because paramount, I know

710
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: you can prepay for the year and I think it's fifty.

711
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: So realistically, no matter what, it's still a pretty good

712
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: deal because you're paying ninety eight and you're getting a

713
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: fifty dollars item right off the bat, So really you're

714
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: paying forty eight dollars for this, So that's pretty good

715
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 1: if if you need Paramount Plus, I wouldn't join Walmart

716
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: Plus four Paramount Plus, But if you're thinking of it,

717
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, well I get uh and what else

718
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: do you get? By the way, you get savings at

719
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: the gas pump, and if you're filling up at Walmart,

720
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:23,400
Speaker 1: you get faster delivery, you get this grocery delivery service,

721
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,799
Speaker 1: and also six months free of Spotify, So there are

722
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: some perks. I don't live near a Walmart, so it's

723
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 1: tough for me to have a Walmart Plus subscription. I

724
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: know that American expressed the Platinum card, which is very expensive,

725
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 1: just added it, which.

726
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't you know.

727
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: I feel like that's like it's so weird to me

728
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: because the AMEX Platinum has a credit for Equinox, which

729
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: is the most expensive gym in your entire life, Like

730
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Speaker 1: you don't even want to look up how much that

731
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,839
Speaker 1: gym costs you can't find anywhere online because they don't

732
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 1: want to publish the prices because they're so expensive. It's

733
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Speaker 1: like two hundred and something dollars a month for that gym. Yeah,

734
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's more expensive gyms, but it's it's insane.

735
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 1: And I can say that because I was.

736
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Speaker 2: A member for a while.

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Speaker 1: Uh and you know much, you know for a while,

738
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: and it's like, once you realize just how expensive that is,

739
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,720
Speaker 1: you're just like, Okay, never mind, I can't.

740
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a very nice gym, don't get me wrong.

741
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 2: But on the one.

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Speaker 1: Side, you know, the Platinum card from Amex has an

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00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: Equinox membership, you know, or an Equinox twenty five dollars

744
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,399
Speaker 1: a month credit. On the on the other side, they've

745
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 1: got Walmart plus a free membership to that. So it's

746
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,280
Speaker 1: kind of weird. It's like it's like two extremes Walmart

747
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: an Equinox. I don't see those two brands in the

748
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:32,879
Speaker 1: same place, but they're both. I I like them both.

749
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Speaker 1: I mean, Equinox is amazing, and I personally I love Walmart.

750
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 1: If I'm if I'm near a Walmart, I'm going in.

751
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: My wife she's always like ugh, do we have to.

752
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, I love Walmart's. When you're in a Walmart,

753
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: the price is going there's no fooling around.

754
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 2: The price you.

755
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:50,760
Speaker 1: See is going to be the cheapest price for that item.

756
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:52,399
Speaker 1: It's just that's the way it is. That's the way

757
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 1: it's always been. Whereas when you're in Target, and I

758
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: love Target, but you can tell that they're playing with

759
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: the prices. Some things are really expensive, some things are

760
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: really cheap, some things are in the middle, some things

761
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: are like a dollar or two more, so they.

762
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 2: They kind of fiddle with the prices a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: Whereas Walmart, no matter what you're getting, it's going to

764
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: be the cheapest. And that's what I appreciate about it

765
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 1: because they don't fool around, and I feel like they

766
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: respect me with their pricing, and that's that's something that

767
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: builds loyalty for me.

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Speaker 2: All Right, Janet says, good evening.

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Speaker 1: I have a question. I've always been an Android user.

770
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: I have the Samsung Galaxy S twenty two Ultra. My

771
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 1: grandson is trying to talk me into an iPhone. In

772
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: your opinion, which is better? I take lots of pictures.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Janet.

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00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:44,320
Speaker 1: Oh Janet another million dollar question. Why is everyone asking

775
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 1: me a million these these really really deep tech questions?

776
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 2: What's next? Mac versus PC? So here's the thing.

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00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: The Samsung Galaxy S twenty two Ultra is an amazing phone.

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00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 1: It's my favorite Android phone of the year. It is

779
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: the best Android phone, yes, even over the pixel because

780
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: the pixel is great, the software is amazing, but the

781
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,320
Speaker 1: full package leaves at a little bit to be desired.

782
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,399
Speaker 2: Whereas the Samsung S twenty two Ultra.

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Speaker 1: My biggest downside is I just wish they made it

784
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 1: in a handheld size. The S twenty two Ultra is

785
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: so big that it's like I don't even want to

786
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 1: put a screen protector in a case on it because

787
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 1: it's like it's just gonna make it bigger. But I

788
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: wish they would make this in a in different models

789
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: like the iPhone this year came out in the iPhone

790
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: thirteen Pro and Pro Max identical hardware specs. I mean,

791
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,680
Speaker 1: minus the battery obviously, minus the screen size obviously. But

792
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 1: you know, the cameras are the same, the processor is

793
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: the same, everything's the same except the size. One of

794
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: them is a lot easier to hold than the other.

795
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: Samsung Galaxy S twenty two Ultra is an amazing device,

796
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: but they make you pick do you want the most

797
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: amazing phone Samsung has to offer, or do you want

798
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: a more pocketable phone, which is the S twenty two

799
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: Plus or the S twenty two, which are not as good.

800
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 2: They're not the same phone.

801
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: It's not the same phone across the lineup, and so

802
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: it's just one of those things that makes life just

803
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: a little bit trickier. So, with all that said, do

804
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 1: you get a new iPhone and switch from the S

805
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: twenty two Ultra. So I don't really feel like you

806
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:15,399
Speaker 1: need to unless there's something that's lacking in your relationship

807
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: with this phone. So if everyone you text is a

808
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: blue bubble and you feel like you're being left out

809
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: and you feel like you want to be on that

810
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 1: train and people are giving you a hard time, okay,

811
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 1: maybe you want to switch. I hate that peer pressure,

812
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,840
Speaker 1: and so I don't think that's a good reason because

813
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 1: that's sort of an Apple manufactured reason, And I don't

814
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 1: think you should. You should, you know, I don't think

815
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 1: that should make you go over to the other side.

816
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 2: Camera.

817
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: I think the camera on the S twenty two Ultra

818
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 1: is excellent I think that the video on the iPhone

819
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: is is a little bit better, maybe maybe even more better,

820
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 1: maybe even a little bit better than better, Like I

821
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: like to me, it's tough to trust any other video

822
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:01,240
Speaker 1: on any other phone, but this Samsung is excellent. The pictures,

823
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,919
Speaker 1: I would say, are both on par with each other.

824
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: I think that the iPhone is maybe a little bit

825
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: easier sometimes because there's less features, But there are so

826
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: many cool features about the S twenty two Ultra, like

827
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:15,320
Speaker 1: the customization. Everything that you're used to as an Android user.

828
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: A lot of that stuff goes away when you're an

829
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,839
Speaker 1: iPhone user because iPhone you're not able to customize as much.

830
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: So it's just the way the phone works and taking

831
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 1: pictures of let's see your grandson. So if you take

832
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: a lot of pictures, it depends are you're taking pictures

833
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 1: of people? Are you taking pictures of things? So I

834
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 1: think that it sort of depends. It's just how do

835
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: you feel. Do you feel like you're ready for something new?

836
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 1: Do you feel like you want to stick with what

837
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 1: you got? You've got the newest, latest, greatest Android, so

838
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 1: you're in a pretty good position if you feel like

839
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 1: you're taking pictures and you know, fifty percent of them

840
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: are not very good, then maybe you switch over and

841
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 1: see what the deal is on the other side with

842
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 1: the iPhone. But good question, Thanks for asking it, Janet.

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00:39:56,640 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 1: All right, speaking of iOS, if you're using of VPN

844
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,880
Speaker 1: on iOS and I get a lot of questions about VPNs,

845
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: you know, VPNs are basically small software applications that tunnel

846
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 1: your Internet connection through them to hide your activity from

847
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: other people, like anyone that might be on the line,

848
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 1: which is pretty rare, but if you're on a Wi

849
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: Fi network, perhaps that can happen. Or maybe you know

850
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: you want to access a website and you don't want

851
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,439
Speaker 1: your ISP, your Internet service provider to see that. That

852
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: is how a VPN can protect you. And you know

853
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:39,280
Speaker 1: VPNs for work, they help you access your corporate servers

854
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 1: from a regular consumer device. And the way that does

855
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,280
Speaker 1: that is that it kind of fakes the connection. Imagine

856
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: you took a long Ethernet cable from your workplace and

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00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 1: dragged it to your house, like, stretched it all the

858
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:52,760
Speaker 1: way to your house and then plugged it into your phone.

859
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:56,359
Speaker 1: That's basically what your work VPN does, except it does

860
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: it wirelessly.

861
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 2: It kind of creates that secure.

862
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: One to one connection with your work computers that allow

863
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,320
Speaker 1: you to access things you can't access on the open web.

864
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: And it's kind of the same thing with just websites.

865
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: So if you're going to websites, nobody else can see

866
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: what you're doing. Now the caveat is if you're using

867
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: your corporate VPN, I would not use that for personal

868
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: because your work can see everything that you do on there.

869
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 1: So when it comes to a VPN, you want to

870
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,399
Speaker 1: choose one that is a no log VPN and don't

871
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 1: use the free ones. They're not very good as far

872
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 1: as many of the researchers have told me. So with

873
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: all of that said, a security reacher has said that

874
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: Apple's iOS devices don't really work that well when it

875
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:40,240
Speaker 1: comes to VPNs, So there could be a potential security

876
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: issue because you would think when you activate the VPN,

877
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: all of your connections would now go through that VPN,

878
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:50,720
Speaker 1: But it turns out, due to iOS architecture, some connections

879
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: to apps and websites and things they sort of stay

880
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 1: persistent and they aren't rerouted through the VPN when you

881
00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: activate it, which is kind of a surprise. You would

882
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 1: think that wouldn't happen. Oh, the solution apparently by the way,

883
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: it's been going on since May twenty twenty. Solution and

884
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:10,400
Speaker 1: it's pretty effective, is that you want to open up

885
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:14,400
Speaker 1: your VPN, then you want to turn on airplane mode

886
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 1: and then turn it off and then that should you know,

887
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 1: like basically switch airplane mode on and off and that

888
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,800
Speaker 1: should help. Now here's the caveat to all this. Do

889
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:27,840
Speaker 1: not use the airplane mode that is in your control center.

890
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: So that's the one that you pull down from the

891
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: upper right hand corner of your phone and then you

892
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:32,839
Speaker 1: press a little airplane icon.

893
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 2: If you do.

894
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 1: That, that does not necessarily turn off all of your

895
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: connections because it typically leaves Bluetooth.

896
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 2: And Wi Fi on.

897
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 1: So that you can continue connecting the things. Depending on

898
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: the situation, like if you're on an airplane, sometimes airplane

899
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: mode will actually leave Wi Fi on or bluetooths that

900
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 1: you can continue listening to your headphones or you can

901
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: connect to the Wi Fi on the plane. So what

902
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: you want to do is go into settings and once

903
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,439
Speaker 1: you go in the settings, you can activate airplane mode

904
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: there and that actually turns off the Wi Fi. Oh well,

905
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:09,400
Speaker 1: it left Bluetooth on, so what do I know? Okay,

906
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: that's odd. So it left that's weird. So that's strange.

907
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:15,320
Speaker 1: Why would it do that? Why would it leave the

908
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: bluetooth on? So I guess it turned off Wi Fi

909
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,240
Speaker 1: and cellular, which are the two important ones for the VPN.

910
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 1: But that's what I would do if you're using a

911
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 1: VPN as just kind of flip the airplane mode on

912
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 1: and off, and that should give you a little bit

913
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: more security. And it's not foolproof, but hopefully it should

914
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 1: be pretty effective. All right, let's see Octavio says, hey,

915
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: Rich for iPhone thirteen, do we even need a phone

916
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 1: protecting case anymore?

917
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 2: Have you seen their video? Yes?

918
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 1: I have, And I know that Apple came out with

919
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: a commercial that is saying that the iPhone is super durable.

920
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 1: I think it falls falls over and it you know,

921
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:05,320
Speaker 1: it's like this great thing, you know, falls off the table.

922
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:09,839
Speaker 1: But the reality is I still think that you need Look,

923
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:11,399
Speaker 1: I can't tell you what to do with your phone.

924
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: I will tell you what I like.

925
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 2: And I like my.

926
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,879
Speaker 1: Phone after a year of use to look like new

927
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 1: and so for that reason, and I hate cracks on

928
00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: my phone. I hate scuffs on my phone. I don't

929
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 1: want any of that stuff on my phone at all,

930
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: because if I ever have a rough edge on my phone,

931
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 1: what does my hand do all day on that edge?

932
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:32,799
Speaker 1: It feels the rough edge I bought Oh my gosh,

933
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 1: it was so long ago, but I bought the They

934
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:39,839
Speaker 1: used to come out with these oh gosh, I can't

935
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: even remember what they called it, but it was like

936
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 1: a basically a pixel version before it was called the

937
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: Pixel of the Samsung phones. And so they would come

938
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: out with the Samsung but then I know, this is

939
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: so wild to think about, but they would come out

940
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 1: with another version that is it was completely a Google

941
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: kind of you know, I think they call it ASoP,

942
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 1: which it's just like the Android that is not affected,

943
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 1: Like there's kind of the pixel as we know it

944
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 1: like just a standard operating system where it's not you know,

945
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 1: there's nothing you know, flavored about it. You know, they

946
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 1: don't put any software on it, they don't put any

947
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:13,360
Speaker 1: extra apps.

948
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 2: It's just like the Plaine Vanilla Android. Right.

949
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 1: And so I bought that phone one time from Samsung

950
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,319
Speaker 1: and it was like, you know, whatever it was back then,

951
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 1: six hundred bucks and like literally day two, I'm putting

952
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: it in my pocket, and then you know that little

953
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: like that little gene like that little what's it like

954
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: that little metal piece on your jeans, like on the

955
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 1: pocket that I don't know what it does, like a mallet.

956
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 1: I don't know what they call it, but it kind

957
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: of holds your genes together. I guess it's like almost

958
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,359
Speaker 1: like a giant ring kind of staple. I know there's

959
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:43,839
Speaker 1: a term for it. I just can't think of it.

960
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: But I scratched the screen on there like the second day,

961
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 1: and I was so annoyed because there's nothing I could do.

962
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,359
Speaker 1: I hadn't put on a screen protector, and it just

963
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: like that was it, And so I ended up calling Samsung.

964
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: I forget if I went through like some sort of

965
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,439
Speaker 1: I went through I think my credit card protection, which

966
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,879
Speaker 1: of course it was like sorry, no help there. It's

967
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: like whatever it was. Maybe I was out of my room.

968
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't day two, maybe it was day sixty.

969
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 2: I don't know, but it was. It just was annoying.

970
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 2: And anyway, I tell you this because I like to

971
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 2: put a screen protector on my phone.

972
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: I like to put a nice case on there because

973
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: I think that these phones can last a long time.

974
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 1: And I see a lot of people walking around with

975
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: damaged screens and damaged cases on their phone, like damaged backs,

976
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 1: and so you get that if you carry your phone naked,

977
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:34,320
Speaker 1: and yes, I get it. It feels great, it's beautiful.

978
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 1: It's such a nice device. But why put yourself through

979
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 1: all that stress of always worrying about dropping your phone

980
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:42,720
Speaker 1: or always worrying about cracking your phone.

981
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 2: I don't know, Maybe do the math. Maybe instead of buying.

982
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 1: A fifty dollars case, put that fifty bucks in a

983
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 1: little envelope, and then you know, when you need a repair,

984
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: just take that fifty dollars and put it towards it.

985
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,240
Speaker 1: And if you get if you're gonna get two cases

986
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: over two years.

987
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 2: But the extra fifty bucks in the envelope. Again, I

988
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 2: don't know.

989
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: Maybe most people have Apple Care and they just don't

990
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 1: even care about this stuff. But I personally just like

991
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 1: the phone to physically be nice and clean and and

992
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: and just not messy, like not all you know, mucked up,

993
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:15,320
Speaker 1: And so it just feels nicer to have the case

994
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 1: on there. I'm using my phone in all kinds of

995
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:19,719
Speaker 1: different places, all kinds of different shoots and stuff, and

996
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: it's just nice to know that if it drops or

997
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:24,400
Speaker 1: if it falls like yesterday, it fell to the gym

998
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:26,800
Speaker 1: and you know, you do that thing where it falls

999
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: face first and you kind of lifted up slowly to

1000
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 1: see if the screen shattered, and it didn't.

1001
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:33,879
Speaker 2: But it's just I feel better that way.

1002
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: So all right, what should we talk about next.

1003
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the Jamba robot.

1004
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 1: So I went to Jamba, or I went to UCLA

1005
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: at their campus in West Los Angeles, and there's this

1006
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 1: Jamba robot. So it's actually a company called Blended b

1007
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 1: L E N D I D. This is a startup

1008
00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:00,280
Speaker 1: that is making a SMOOTHI robot. Now they're actually making

1009
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 1: just food like AI food robots, but I guess this

1010
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: is one of them, or maybe their first I don't know,

1011
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 1: but anyway, this is our flagship product. But it's a

1012
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: self contained, fully automated kiosk. It requires just like eight

1013
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 1: by eight to operate, so it's a small area. It

1014
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:19,319
Speaker 1: holds up to twenty ingredients, and it just requires a

1015
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: few hours of restocking a day. So they someone told

1016
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 1: me there that they only need two hours a day

1017
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: kind of to get this thing up and running in

1018
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 1: the morning and just make sure it's maintained obviously there's

1019
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:31,720
Speaker 1: someone nearby in case something goes wrong, Like I'm talking

1020
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 1: a person nearby for all of the locations, not like

1021
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 1: just sitting there by the smoothie. This is like or

1022
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:41,359
Speaker 1: buy the machine. This is self contained. I'm sure if

1023
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,399
Speaker 1: something goes wrong it would text someone to come over.

1024
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 1: The robot uses artificial intelligence and hardware to fulfill orders

1025
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 1: on demand. You can order a phone or a tablet

1026
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 1: on the kiosk. You can slide to customize your ingredients.

1027
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 1: You can choose your ad ins, like if you want

1028
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 1: like the energy powder or the protein powder. The robot

1029
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:02,000
Speaker 1: has nine cameras so it can see the ingredients, and

1030
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 1: the mechanical arm works on multiple smoothies at once, so

1031
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: it can work on nine smoothies at the same time.

1032
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:10,800
Speaker 1: It also, you know, puts some of them under the spencers.

1033
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 1: It's washing other ones, it's serving other ones. I mean,

1034
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:15,839
Speaker 1: it's pretty wild to watch this thing. And when it's

1035
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:17,320
Speaker 1: not in use, it makes a little dance, which is

1036
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: kind of cool. The only thing I thought was really

1037
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: kind of ironic about this whole situation. And by the way,

1038
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: there was so many students. I mean, this thing was

1039
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: busy the entire time I was at it. There was

1040
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 1: not a moment. There was one moment where it was

1041
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 1: had some downtime. That's when it did the little celebration dance.

1042
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:36,880
Speaker 1: But I'm not kidding. It was a steady flow of

1043
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 1: students and they weren't even classesn't even in session yet.

1044
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 1: These are just like summer school students and campers and.

1045
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:43,879
Speaker 2: Stuff like that.

1046
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,839
Speaker 1: So I thought that this was pretty wild because the

1047
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:51,959
Speaker 1: ironic part is that the blending actually takes place out

1048
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:55,200
Speaker 1: of view. And I asked one of the employees and

1049
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 1: I was like, what's the deal with that, because wouldn't

1050
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: that be the most fun to see the smoothies being

1051
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: you know, sort of swirled up. And he said, well,

1052
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:03,799
Speaker 1: it's kind of the messiest part of the process. We'd

1053
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: rather keep it out of sight. So I don't know,

1054
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: I think that's a little bit of a misstep. Like

1055
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:11,720
Speaker 1: I think that the blending is actually the best part.

1056
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,439
Speaker 1: But whatever, I mean, it's not my robot. So they've

1057
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: got a half a dozen of these robots operating at

1058
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 1: college campuses, malls, and even a Walmart. And then they

1059
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:20,919
Speaker 1: also have this cool little feature at the end where

1060
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:24,480
Speaker 1: they've got these magnetic sliders it's tough to describe. But

1061
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,360
Speaker 1: when the robot is done pouring the drink, instead of

1062
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 1: the robot sort of sliding the drink, they have these

1063
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 1: two pickup windows because the whole thing is enclosed in

1064
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 1: like a plexiglass.

1065
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 2: So they have these two pickup windows.

1066
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 1: And you know, they rotate kind of like a bank

1067
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:41,240
Speaker 1: teller window that rotates open and closed. But it slides

1068
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:43,239
Speaker 1: the smoothie into this pickup window. But it's not the

1069
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:46,400
Speaker 1: robot arm that's doing it. It's two little like magnetic

1070
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:49,840
Speaker 1: sliders on the table that they remind me of. I

1071
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:53,319
Speaker 1: think it's called thing from the Adams family, you know,

1072
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:55,879
Speaker 1: a little hand. It almost reminds me of that because

1073
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 1: it's just moving the cup by itself. And it was anyway,

1074
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:02,759
Speaker 1: it was really cool. So this smoothie robot, I get it.

1075
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 1: It sort of went a little bit wild on my

1076
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 1: Instagram because people are saying this is you know, this

1077
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: is evil, this is terrible, Like what about jobs for people?

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Speaker 2: And you know, I get it.

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Speaker 1: I mean I understand that we're seeing a lot of

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Speaker 1: automation in food and every person I talk to says

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Speaker 1: people don't want these jobs. Now, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that's true or not, but I can tell you just

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Speaker 1: from me going out and about that every restaurant I

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Speaker 1: go to has a help wanted sign and I asked them,

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Speaker 1: they say, yeah, we can't. We can't hire people for

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Speaker 1: these positions. Nobody wants to do it. And it's I

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Speaker 1: don't know if nobody wants to do it, but it's

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Speaker 1: just one of these things where you know, in California,

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Speaker 1: they're paying more and more for these, you know, entry

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Speaker 1: level jobs at restaurants, but you see that they just

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Speaker 1: still need people. And so a lot of these companies

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Speaker 1: are focused on how do we get around this this

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Speaker 1: employee labor shortage and make these things at a price

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Speaker 1: that's reasonable.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I think some of it is sort of they see

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Speaker 1: the writing on the wall. They want, they want things

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Speaker 1: to be They want costs to go down, and humans

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Speaker 1: are expensive and a robot's expensive initially, but over time

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Speaker 1: I think it brings a lot of the costs down because,

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Speaker 1: like the person we interviewed said, there's no sick days,

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Speaker 1: there's no bad hair days. They can get into little

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Speaker 1: spaces that they couldn't. So if a location they want

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00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:24,840
Speaker 1: only has a tiny little space, they can get in

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Speaker 1: there because this is such a small eight by eight box,

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Speaker 1: so I thought it was pretty cool. You can let

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Speaker 1: me know what you think of it on my website

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Speaker 1: or on my Instagram. It is at rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: All right, final question, Kim Peterson says, Hey, rich thanks

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Speaker 1: for your post about Disney Plus and Hulu bundles. Let's

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Speaker 1: see I lost my question and Hulu ESPN bundles, so

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Speaker 1: I'm wondering if you know of any bundles with just

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Speaker 1: Disney Plus and Hulu, no ESPN.

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Speaker 2: I do not watch sports. Thank you, Kim. Kim, great question.

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Speaker 2: I think you're referring to.

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Speaker 1: Last week because they had, you know, they had a

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Speaker 1: whole situation where Disney is raising prices and so is

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Speaker 1: Hulu and you know whatever. So I don't want to

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Speaker 1: rehash that whole thing. But the bottom line is Disney

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Speaker 1: prices are going up, and I think Hulu and ESPN have.

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Speaker 2: Either gone up or they're going up, but the bundle

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Speaker 2: is not.

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Speaker 1: So the bundle is staying at nineteen ninety nine a month,

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Speaker 1: and I think this is one of those examples of

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Speaker 1: really good marketing a manufactured issue. So they're making all

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Speaker 1: the prices go up of the individual services, which when

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Speaker 1: you do the math, if you add them up, you're like, hmm,

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Speaker 1: shouldn't I just get all three and I'll pay either

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Speaker 1: a little bit more or you know, a little bit

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Speaker 1: less than I'm paying for them separately. Well, the reality

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Speaker 1: is yet, like you said, you don't need ESPN. And

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Speaker 1: this sort of reminds me of the triple play that

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Speaker 1: the cable companies did for a very long time. So

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Speaker 1: many many people, yourself included, might have had a phone

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Speaker 1: line for many years that you just didn't need. But

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Speaker 1: it was cheaper to have the bundle with the phone

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Speaker 1: line than it was to have the bundle with just

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Speaker 1: Internet and TV. And nowadays the Internet is the most

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Speaker 1: important thing to many people, and so it's almost gotten

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Speaker 1: to the point where the Internet is almost as expensive

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Speaker 1: by itself as it was with the Internet and TV

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Speaker 1: as it was with the internet, TV and phone line.

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Speaker 1: So Disney knows this all. Look like I said in

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Speaker 1: the last week's episode, the free ride is over these

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00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 1: streaming services, the delivery services. They are not subsidizing our

1146
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:39,799
Speaker 1: lifestyle and convenience anymore. It's gotten real. They've gotten to

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Speaker 1: a point where the saturation is there. They know the

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Speaker 1: customer base is there. They know people like their shows,

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Speaker 1: they've gotten accustomed to a certain lifestyle, and they just said,

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Speaker 1: you know what, this is what we're doing. We're going

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Speaker 1: to raise the prices because we know that people are

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00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:54,959
Speaker 1: gonna do this. We know that people are gonna stick

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Speaker 1: with it, and if a couple of them don't, it's

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00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:58,960
Speaker 1: fine because they know there's gonna be more people on board.

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Speaker 1: Because what's the alternative, and you know it's the alternative

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Speaker 1: to Netflix is no Netflix?

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Speaker 2: So what are you gonna do?

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00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:10,680
Speaker 1: You're gonna subscribe to cable Again, Probably not so good question,

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Speaker 1: and it's definitely one of those frustrating things where it's

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00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 1: just do you need it? No, but you have it,

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Speaker 1: and then you feel like you got to use it.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna do it for this episode of the show.

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Speaker 1: Rich dmiro. Thanks so much for listening. There are so

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Speaker 1: many ways you can spend an hour of your time.

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Speaker 1: I do appreciate you spending it with me. I'll talk

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