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Speaker 1: Jimmy Johns just says no to delivery. Toyota finally gets

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Speaker 1: Plus two new ways to save big on your next

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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Speaker 1: I'm Rich Dmiro. This is Rich on Tech. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show. Amrich Demiro, tech reporter at KTLA five News

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. And this is where I talk about

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Speaker 1: all the stuff that I think you should know about

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Speaker 1: that happened this week in tech, plus maybe the best

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Speaker 1: part of the show, I take your calls and answer

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Speaker 2: So we'll get to.

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Speaker 1: Your calls in just a moment. But first let's start

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Speaker 1: with Apple. Not gonna spend a whole lot of time

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Speaker 1: on this story, because you know the backstory. We pretty

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Speaker 1: They did not tell the Verge how much money they're

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Speaker 1: Interesting part about this whole update, And I guess Apple

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Speaker 1: So now we know there's another vulnerability, but I guess

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Speaker 1: Brian from Fontana, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Rich, how's it going.

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Speaker 2: Everything's great? How are you awesome?

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Speaker 3: Hey? Last week you were talking about Wi Fi extenders.

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Speaker 1: And although I will tell you I have not tried

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's that's pretty typical with these with with

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Speaker 1: Those are those are those are basically the worst. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Now, we used to have those things like boosters and extenders,

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Speaker 1: So these mesh systems actually do take the same signal

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Speaker 1: Brian about Google is that that's not their entire business.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like it's it's a double edged sword, right,

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Speaker 1: But with with Eero, they're literally working on their system

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Speaker 3: Well, one of the things that I was concerned with

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Johns is refusing to use any of those delivery

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Speaker 4: Well kind of complicated question. My phone's hacked? And who

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Speaker 1: Are you seeing any anything else in your life, like

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Speaker 4: I know who's doing it too, but I just can't

439
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Speaker 4: prove it.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I just don't know, you know, So

441
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Speaker 1: when you're typing, what happens sometimes it.

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Speaker 4: Don't, you know, pop up an emoji that I'm never

443
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Speaker 4: not even saying the word too, And so it just

444
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Speaker 4: just weird things pop up, weird words get in in

445
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Speaker 4: the text. Just weird stuff happens to me when I'm

446
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Speaker 4: you know, doing things.

447
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Speaker 1: Well, I'll be honest, Debbie, it sounds pretty typical because

448
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:04,560
Speaker 1: you know, if you heard of this thing called like

449
00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,320
Speaker 1: auto correct, and this is kind of a problem with

450
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Speaker 1: the iPhone and all all smartphones, is I think the

451
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Speaker 1: emoji thing happens with the Apple keyboard or with the

452
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Speaker 1: It depends on the keyboard you're using. If you're using

453
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Speaker 1: the Apple keyboard or the iPhone or the Google keyboard,

454
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Speaker 1: sometimes there will be an emoji that pops up because

455
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Speaker 1: it's basically, if you start typing sushi, it may suggest

456
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Speaker 1: a sushi emoji, and so that way you can.

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Speaker 4: Actually, well I understand that, but no, it's you know,

458
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Speaker 4: on the iPhone itself. But no, I mean I'm texting

459
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Speaker 4: somebody and then I didn't have nothing to do with

460
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Speaker 4: the motorcycle, and motorcycle emoji pops up, you know, just

461
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Speaker 4: stuff like that, the randommeest, weirdest thing that doesn't even

462
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Speaker 4: make sense in the text that I'm.

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Speaker 2: Like going, okay. Well.

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Speaker 1: Also, also one thing to know is that Apple is

465
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Speaker 1: actually scanning what you're typing as you type it to

466
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Speaker 1: suggest things in that upper bar.

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Speaker 2: So those yes.

468
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Speaker 1: That is new, that is new, so it's recent, so

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Speaker 1: that could be it. I think that's what you're seeing now.

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Speaker 1: I believe let's see if there's a way to turn

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Speaker 1: that off. And let's see if there's a way to

472
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Speaker 1: turn it off. I think that would help you feel

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Speaker 1: a little bit better like you're not.

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Speaker 2: Let's see.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna go We're gonna go to keyboard and

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna look and see what this says. So auto capitalization,

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Speaker 1: auto correction, enable capslocks, smart punctuation, character preview, shortcut, predictive.

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Speaker 2: There you go.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So go into your general, go into your settings

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Speaker 1: and then general. All right, sorry, yes, Settings General, and

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Speaker 1: then look under look under the keyboard section, and under

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Speaker 1: the keyboard section all the way down to the bottom.

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Speaker 1: There's something that says predictive. And I think if you

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Speaker 1: turn that off, I want you to call me back

485
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Speaker 1: next time you see me live and let me know

486
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Speaker 1: or email me and let me know if that has

487
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Speaker 1: helped some the the the haunting of Debie's iPhone seven.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll definitely do that. I should appreciate that. But

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Speaker 4: would you happen to know the number and all that

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Speaker 4: you know you call for that instance at all that

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Speaker 4: you feel like you know your phone's been hacked?

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Speaker 1: I would. I would probably bring it to the Apple store.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think Apple has a number you can

494
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Speaker 1: probably call them, you know, Apple Support, But I would

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Speaker 1: I would bring it to the Apple store because they're

496
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Speaker 1: probably gonna ask you to do that anyway if they

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Speaker 1: want to see that. Now, the other thing you can

498
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Speaker 1: do if you're if you're ready to go nuclear on

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Speaker 1: your phone, you can restart your entire phone, like make

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Speaker 1: it factory fresh. You're gonna have to start over again.

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Speaker 1: But that would basically eradicate anyone that has gotten into

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Speaker 1: your device.

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Speaker 4: Oh so uh okay, so say that again. So just

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Speaker 4: I'd have to restart it. Now, would I lose everything?

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Speaker 4: All my texts and all my everything?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 2: Yes, you would lose everything.

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Speaker 1: So that's that's that's kind of like the the if

509
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Speaker 1: you're really frustrated with this, that's like kind of the

510
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,439
Speaker 1: last line of defense, and you can, you know, you

511
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Speaker 1: can clear everything. So but yeah, there's the I think

512
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Speaker 1: you turn off the predictive first. So again settings General

513
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Speaker 1: keyboard and then scroll to the bottom where it says predictive,

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Speaker 1: turn that off and see what happens.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I should appreciate that. Thank you so much. Rich.

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Speaker 2: All right, Debbie, have a good day.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Pig Here, what is it about these memes on Facebook

519
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:27,159
Speaker 1: that just won't die? So Facebook, I guess is seeing

520
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,400
Speaker 1: so much of that meme about how your posts are

521
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Speaker 1: limited or your newsfeed is limited to posts from just

522
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Speaker 1: twenty six friends. I guess they're seeing this occur so

523
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Speaker 1: much on the social network that they actually had to

524
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Speaker 1: come out with a blog post to say, look, this

525
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Speaker 1: is not true. This has been happening since twenty seventeen,

526
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Speaker 1: and it's twenty nineteen and it still happens.

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Speaker 2: But the claim, and I'm.

528
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Speaker 1: Sure you've seen it, is that someone copies and paste

529
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Speaker 1: or writes something on their newsfeed and posts and says, hey,

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Speaker 1: I noticed that Facebook is only showing my stuff to

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Speaker 1: twenty six people, and I want to make sure that

532
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Speaker 1: you see all my stuff.

533
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Speaker 2: So just make sure you comment on this or go

534
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Speaker 2: comment on your.

535
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,879
Speaker 1: Friend's feeds to make sure that you're gonna see them,

536
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Speaker 1: because that will bypass the system, so.

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Speaker 2: Your posts show up on all of their feeds.

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Speaker 1: And make sure you copy and paste this, by the way,

539
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 1: so that you know this doesn't happen to you. And

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Speaker 1: I love that Facebook has to explain this because it's

541
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Speaker 1: kind of funny. But no, Facebook does not limit your

542
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 1: feed to a certain amount of people. I mean, wouldn't

543
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,359
Speaker 1: that be so dumb? You have five hundred friends on

544
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Speaker 1: Facebook and they're only gonna show you twenty six people.

545
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: That makes no sense because that doesn't even help their business.

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Speaker 1: So a friend that posts about their pregnancy or their

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Speaker 1: new baby is not gonna be shown. Yeah, of course

548
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,639
Speaker 1: it's gonna be shown because everyone's interacting with it. So

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00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:45,679
Speaker 1: you have to understand that the Facebook feed is algorithm based.

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00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 1: It's not done in the order of when those posts

551
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Speaker 1: are made. So what you're gonna see in your feed

552
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,159
Speaker 1: is directly related to who you interact with the most,

553
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Speaker 1: and not just interact with the most. Of course, that's

554
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Speaker 1: just one It's an algorithm. It learns as it goes along,

555
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,680
Speaker 1: so it's not just that. It's not that cut and

556
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 1: dry like, oh, you only talk to these three friends

557
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 1: on Facebook, We're only gonna show you them for the

558
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 1: rest of your life. Yeah, you're gonna see them a

559
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,919
Speaker 1: lot more. But of course, if your friend has a

560
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 1: big life change and they post something and a lot

561
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,440
Speaker 1: of people start commenting on it, Facebook's algorithm says, hey, oh,

562
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,879
Speaker 1: we noticed that a lot of people are interacting with this,

563
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 1: Let's show it to more of their friends.

564
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Speaker 2: And you're gonna see their stuff as well.

565
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Speaker 1: So I like how Facebook in this post actually explains

566
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:31,400
Speaker 1: a little bit so it says that feed feed algorithms

567
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,959
Speaker 1: prioritize posts that are predicted to spark conversations among people,

568
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 1: so that's interesting. Live videos tend to lead to more

569
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:44,119
Speaker 1: discussions than regular videos, so that's interesting. Or the posts

570
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,640
Speaker 1: we're shared by people, groups or pages you interact with frequently,

571
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 1: So they're saying, if you scroll down, you're gonna see

572
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,479
Speaker 1: more posts from a wider group of people. So at

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Speaker 1: the top of your news feed, Yeah, it's kind of

574
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Speaker 1: a narrow feed of like stuff, pecause think about it.

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Speaker 2: Facebook knows. Okay, it's just got on Facebook.

576
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 1: He's only going to be here for twenty six point

577
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,360
Speaker 1: seven seconds. We need to show him some really good

578
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: stuff that he's going to interact with immediately, right, Not

579
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 1: going to show the post for my long lost friend

580
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,959
Speaker 1: that you posted some article from the New York Times,

581
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,199
Speaker 1: you know, twenty minutes ago. Not going to show that

582
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 1: to me because I never interact with that person, so

583
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: why would I do it, and nobody else commented on it,

584
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,639
Speaker 1: nobody else cares that he posted it. They're going to

585
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 1: show me the stuff that's interesting that people have interacted with,

586
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 1: so hopefully I interact with it, and now I spend

587
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 1: thirty five point seven seconds on Twitter or on Facebook.

588
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 1: But so here's the other thing they say. Okay, when

589
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:36,880
Speaker 1: leaving a single comment on a post won't suddenly unblock

590
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: you from showing up in your friend's feed. There is

591
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,159
Speaker 1: some truth there, because if you frequently trade comments with

592
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: a friend, their posts are likely to be shown higher

593
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 1: in your news feed than post with someone you never

594
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: interact with. So again, there is a little bit of

595
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 1: truth to this, but it makes sense. So I think

596
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 1: why this meme has persisted is that people see that

597
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 1: it works, so they copy and paste this thing number one,

598
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: a lot of friends comment on it.

599
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 2: Number two.

600
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: Then they go and they comment on a couple of friends'

601
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: newsfeeds that they haven't seen from in a while, and

602
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, those friends start showing up

603
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,400
Speaker 1: in their news feed and they're like, oh, it must

604
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 1: have worked. But no, you're just kind of messing with

605
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: the algorithm because you're commenting on someone's feed. So they

606
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 1: assume if you start commenting on someone's feed, you want

607
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:21,159
Speaker 1: to interact with them. So that's the deal with this

608
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 1: twenty six friends myth. I can't believe it's still going on.

609
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: Believe me, you're not stupid for thinking this, but I mean,

610
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 1: I get it. It's one of these things where maybe

611
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: Facebook did do this, and you want to get to

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00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: the bottom of it. And we understand that there's a

613
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: problem with figuring out what's real and what's not on Facebook.

614
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 1: So when you see these things, I think it's kind

615
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 1: of crazy that they get shared a lot. But I

616
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: understand if you're busy, you're working, you're not really looking

617
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: at the underlying method of how Facebook tweaks their algorithm

618
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: like I am. And so you might think, oh, yeah,

619
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen my friend Bob from fifth grade in

620
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: a long time. Let me go post on his wall,

621
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Speaker 1: and next thing you know, Bob's posts show up and

622
00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: you said, oh, oh, okay, I.

623
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Speaker 2: Guess that is true. Go copy and paste that.

624
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: So now you know Facebook's a little twenty six friends

625
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: myth understandable that you might fall for something like that,

626
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: but it's just not true. One more story on Facebook.

627
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: You can now remove messages on Messenger. So if you

628
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 1: ever had this happen to you where you send a

629
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: message to someone you realize, oh no, that was not

630
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: the person that was supposed to go to. Well, now

631
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: you can remove a message that you send to someone

632
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: from their phone. So all you have to do from

633
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 1: your phone is tap on the message you want to remove,

634
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: and there's a new option called remove for everyone, and

635
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 1: you tap that and magically your message will disappear from

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00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 1: the recipient's phone. But here's the thing that I think is.

637
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 2: Kind of weird.

638
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: Facebook's gonna send them a message or replace that message

639
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 1: with some text saying the conversation was removed, So it's

640
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: gonna be like this conversation was removed. So you only

641
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 1: have ten minutes to do this remove a message after

642
00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 1: it's sent, which is plenty of time because most of

643
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: the time you realize right after you send something you

644
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: press send, you go, oh, shoot, that did not show

645
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: up in the right thread, and of course there's not

646
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 1: much you can.

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00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:03,959
Speaker 2: Do about it.

648
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: So this is a feature that would be great for

649
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: something like I message. They could definitely pull this off

650
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 1: an I message. The way I message is structured that

651
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 1: that's a possibility because all these messages are being served

652
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: up from a server that's displaying them. Now, with text

653
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: Messaging Standard Text Messaging SMS, this would not be possible

654
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,239
Speaker 1: because what happens when you send a text is it

655
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: is physically sent to that person's phone like it's delivered,

656
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Speaker 1: Like you deliver mail to someone's house, you would not

657
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Speaker 1: be able to recall that mail from your house, right.

658
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: But again, this is a feature that we need. Hopefully

659
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Speaker 1: it'll spread to other things. I get why they've been

660
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Speaker 1: hesitant to have stuff like this in the past, but

661
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Speaker 1: it's a feature that we need, and again, try it.

662
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: It's called remove for you. If you're still using Facebook Messenger,

663
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 1: check it out. Sad little Instagram TV, nobody's watching it.

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Speaker 1: Instagram can't get people to watch it, and they just

665
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Speaker 1: keep trying new things. Well, now immediately you're gonna start

666
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Speaker 1: seeing it Instagram TV previews in your primary feed. So

667
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: we saw this happen with Instagram Stories, and when you're

668
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: scrolling through your feed on Instagram, you'll see like a

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Speaker 1: little thumbnail of the story that someone has shared on

670
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 1: their Instagram Stories to get you to kind of like

671
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Speaker 1: be interested, like, oh, what does that look like? Let

672
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Speaker 1: me go click that, let me watch their story. So

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Speaker 1: I guess that's working for Stories, and so now they're

674
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Speaker 1: going to try that with Instagram TV. And if you're

675
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Speaker 1: not familiar with Instagram TV, it's kind of Instagram's answer

676
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 1: to YouTube or you know, yeah, basically YouTube, but with

677
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Speaker 1: only ten minutes in lengths, so you're limited to ten

678
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Speaker 1: minutes and the video has to be vertical. Now a

679
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: lot of people, including myself, have gotten around that by

680
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Speaker 1: just uploading a vertical version of horizontal video and you

681
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Speaker 1: have to actually rotate your phone to watch it. I've

682
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Speaker 1: been putting my stories on there, and you know, my

683
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: segments from TV it's hit or miss. I mean, some

684
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Speaker 1: of them will do a couple thousands, some will do nothing.

685
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Speaker 1: But I just don't think people think of Instagram TV

686
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: in a very you know, they don't.

687
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Speaker 2: It doesn't come to.

688
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Speaker 1: Mind when you're thinking of stuff to watch on the internet.

689
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: So you know, YouTube comes to mind if you want

690
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: to watch something longer, and so does Facebook. And then

691
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Speaker 1: on Instagram with the regular feed, you've got only a minute.

692
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: So those are just snackable little things that you can watch.

693
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Speaker 1: So I am convinced that when people are on Instagram,

694
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Speaker 1: it's very short bursts. I'm at Starbucks, I watch them

695
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: and they're flipping through their stories like crazy.

696
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 2: And I just.

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Speaker 1: Don't think that people associate Instagram with longer form content.

698
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: And I know they're trying to change that because obviously

699
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 1: that's what they want to do. But IGTV. If you

700
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Speaker 1: see this now in your feed and you're wondering what

701
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: the heck is this, Yeah, that's what it is. So

702
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Speaker 1: apparently they can also, let's see, according to Variety, creators

703
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: can now share a one minute preview of their video

704
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Speaker 1: on their profile when they upload a new Instagram TV video.

705
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Speaker 1: So I haven't seen that part yet, but again, Instagram

706
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: just trying to grow Instagram TV, so don't be alarmed

707
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Speaker 1: if you see a little install TV preview in your

708
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Speaker 1: news feed. Jason from Sacramento, you're on with Rich. How

709
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Speaker 1: can I help you?

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Speaker 5: Hey, Rich, I've been using a system called Plex where

711
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Speaker 5: I can access my DVDs from anywhere with my phone

712
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Speaker 5: and my pad. I'm just kind of curious. I've been

713
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Speaker 5: using DVDs to burn onto us. Do you know of

714
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Speaker 5: a way I can do a dishally like sink something?

715
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Speaker 1: So I'm explained to me again, you're using Plex. You've

716
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,840
Speaker 1: got your DVD you're trying to get it onto Plex.

717
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've burned my DVDs onto the PLEX system so

718
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 5: I can watch them anywhere. Okay, So I'm tired of

719
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 5: buying DVDs and having the physical DVD and burn it on.

720
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Speaker 5: There is there a different system where I can actually

721
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Speaker 5: buy something online and load that movie onto Plex.

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Speaker 2: Do you know, Oh, I see what you're saying.

723
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Speaker 1: You want to get a digital file of the movie

724
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Speaker 1: and bring that into Plex, correct, instead of having to

725
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Speaker 1: go the roundabout way of buying the DVDs you have

726
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: the physical media and then ripping that and then putting

727
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Speaker 1: it digitally onto Plex.

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Speaker 5: Exactly, I've got a ton of collection in DVDs now.

729
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, there's not I mean, look, there are ways

730
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Speaker 1: of getting some of these digital files from something like

731
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Speaker 1: iTunes and getting it into Plex by removing the DRM.

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Speaker 1: I can't really recommend that you do that, but I

733
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Speaker 1: know that there are apps out there that do that.

734
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Speaker 1: They don't always work, you know, you might be I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're not, they're on the This is sort of a

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Speaker 1: gray market.

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Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: So I don't really have a good answer because the

739
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Speaker 1: system is set up so all these files that you

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Speaker 1: buy nowadays, like from iTunes and from you know, basically,

741
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Speaker 1: I think iTunes the only one that even allows you

742
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:36,760
Speaker 1: to download the digital file.

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Speaker 2: Most of the other ones just stream them, right.

744
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I tried that with iTunes. I got two movies

745
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Speaker 5: and it does say it's got a DRM, and I

746
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 5: wasn't exactly sure what that was meaning.

747
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 1: Okay, so DRM means digital rights management, which means if

748
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: you get that file, you think, oh, I can just

749
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Speaker 1: throw this onto any device and it will play.

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Speaker 2: It will not.

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00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 1: It will play on something like an Apple TV, it

752
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 1: will play on something like an iPhone, but as soon

753
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:01,760
Speaker 1: as you try to put it on something like a PLEX.

754
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: It's basically a copyright protection that's digitally encoded into it.

755
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 1: And there are systems, there are little programs that will

756
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 1: remove that copyright protection, but again, like I said, they're

757
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 1: on the gray market, they're not official. Obviously, you may

758
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: get one and you may pay fifty bucks for that program,

759
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,240
Speaker 1: and the next thing you know, it will stop working

760
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: the next day because Apple updates iTunes and now it

761
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Speaker 1: won't work. So I don't really recommend that. I think

762
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Speaker 1: what you're doing is probably the best method right now,

763
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Speaker 1: because you've got that physical media, which is basically you're

764
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Speaker 1: making a backup, and you're also kind of using you know,

765
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Speaker 1: you're basically making a digital backup of something that you own,

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Speaker 1: and also time shifting how you can watch that, right, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I know with my kids, like with CDs and DVDs,

768
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: they don't really understand that they're fragile, so they will

769
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: just like scrape them on the floor, like you know,

770
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 1: wipe down a window with them, you know, use them

771
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Speaker 1: as like sliders for their hands. So I understand why

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Speaker 1: it's nice to have those digitized as well.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and it gives me a nice little collection of

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Speaker 5: like hobbies to look at.

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Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, yeah, yeah, the collection is kind of a

776
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 1: lost art with all this media because with digital media,

777
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 1: I just kind of forget what I have, you know,

778
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: so exactly. But yeah, that's that's the best answer I

779
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: got for you, Jason. I think until things change, that's

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Speaker 1: pretty much what you got to do at this point.

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Speaker 5: All right, great, thank you very much.

782
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Speaker 2: All right, thanks for calling in. Bye bye.

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Speaker 1: Well sad for Google Fiber. It is leaving the city

784
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:31,399
Speaker 1: of Louisville, Kentucky. So this is really sad because there

785
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Speaker 1: was a time when getting fiber in your city and

786
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: it still is, getting fiber in your neighborhood was pretty

787
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 1: awesome and Google kind of led the charge because like

788
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Speaker 1: Google likes to do. They like to lead the charge

789
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Speaker 1: on things and then hopefully push other companies to kind

790
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: of pick it up. And that's what they did with

791
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Speaker 1: all these cities. They launched it in some high profile

792
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: cities to get these standard companies to like up their game.

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Speaker 1: So I remember there was a big war in a

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Speaker 1: lot of these cities where you know, number one, the

795
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Speaker 1: cable companies and the AT and t's of the world

796
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 1: and all the other telcos didn't want to give them

797
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,320
Speaker 1: rights of way to lay their fiber lines. But Google

798
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: was like, look, we're doing this. We want to move

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Speaker 1: Internet ahead. And fiber is super fast. It's one thousand

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Speaker 1: speed versus the one hundred or the twenty five or

801
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 1: the forty that a lot of us are used to.

802
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: So if you have a thousand in your neighborhood, you're

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00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: getting really really really really really really really fast Internet.

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00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 2: So that's why they did it.

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Speaker 1: And Louisville was one of the first back in October

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. Actually sorry, that wasn't one of their first,

807
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 1: never mind verses in twenty twelve. And Kansas City, Oh

808
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 1: my gosh. I went there for a wedding and I

809
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 1: remember thinking, oh, my gosh, I need to move here

810
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: because they have Google Fiber. Then in twenty fourteen they

811
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: did Austin and Provo, and that's where I went. I

812
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: went to Austin because there was a big war between

813
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 1: Google and AT and T in Austin, where as soon

814
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Speaker 1: as Google started laying their lines, guests who started laying

815
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Speaker 1: their stuff AT and T then came Charlotte, Atlanta, Orange County,

816
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:03,800
Speaker 1: Salt Lake City, Durham, Nashville, and then okay, so twenty

817
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 1: seventeen was Louisville. But apparently what they did is because

818
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 1: they're closing this down. I guess they tried a new

819
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Speaker 1: type of construction where they placed fiber in much shallower

820
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Speaker 1: trenches than elsewhere. So I don't know what's happened. Maybe

821
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Speaker 1: a lot of these, you know, they'd put it so

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Speaker 1: shallow in the ground that like cars or anything would

823
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Speaker 1: like roll over it and it would ruin the whole,

824
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: you know, the whole setup there, and then it would

825
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: mess up the service. So Google says that the service

826
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Speaker 1: was not living up to the high standards and they

827
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Speaker 1: basically need to rebuild the entire network in Louisville to

828
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Speaker 1: get good service, and they just don't want to do

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Speaker 1: that because obviously it's very expensive. So if I lived

830
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Speaker 1: in Louisville, which by the way, I did visit Louisville

831
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: several times a couple of years ago. I did a

832
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: freelance job there, and great little city, by the way,

833
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 1: and it's just one of these things where if I

834
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 1: lived there and that was my only option, and I

835
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 1: was like so excited that I got fiber all of

836
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: a sudden, who takes it.

837
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 2: Away from me? I would be very upset. But it's happening,

838
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 2: and that's that.

839
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's not much we can do about it,

840
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,359
Speaker 1: but hopefully if you have fiber in your neighborhood, it's

841
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 1: a good thing generally. I mean it's usually expensive, probably

842
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: like seventy two one hundred bucks a month, but you

843
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:18,760
Speaker 1: get really really nice internet service. There are two brand

844
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 1: new ways to save big on your next hotel room.

845
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 1: One of them is the app called Ernie. And if

846
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: you've been following me for a while, you know I've

847
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 1: talked about Ernie in the past. This started out as

848
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: an app that would link up with your let's see

849
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 1: your credit card, Amazon and also your email account. So

850
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: whenever you got a receipt from one of these major retailers,

851
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: and they worked with like thirty of them not worked with,

852
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 1: but they worked the service worked with them. It would

853
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: notice what you got in that email, so it'd say, Okay,

854
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 1: Rich just ordered some razors from Gillette on Amazon, and

855
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: would watch that price of those razors. And they'd have

856
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: these bots that they built that would well, they still

857
00:39:57,600 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: do it. That watched the price of those razors and

858
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 1: the price came down, Well, Amazon's not giving you a refund,

859
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 1: but your credit card will. So they would enlist the

860
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 1: price protection policy on your credit card. So I would

861
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 1: get these checks for like a dollar twenty seven to

862
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 1: twenty four and it was pretty much all automatic. But

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00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 1: over the years I noticed things got tougher and tougher.

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Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, my credit card was asking me

865
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Speaker 1: to verify charges. Next thing, you know, I had to

866
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Speaker 1: sign in with to Ernie with my credit card and

867
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Speaker 1: hand over my you know, my statements and they had

868
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Speaker 1: to automatically verify things. So it got a little bit

869
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Speaker 1: more complicated. My credit card, specifically a Chase card, kind

870
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Speaker 1: of did away with price protection. I don't even know

871
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 1: if they have it anymore, but there are some cards

872
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: that still offer it. I think the City Bank cards

873
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 1: still have it, but they It's funny. These credit cards

874
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: had these programs that they promote to you, Oh we've

875
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: got price protection for ninety days. But guess what when

876
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: you try to use it, Oh, never mind, we're gonna

877
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: shut that down because we didn't actually want people to

878
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 1: use it.

879
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 2: We just thought it was a great selling point.

880
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 1: So Ernie definitely found the Achilles heel with those services,

881
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: and it's it's still a great service. I mean, it

882
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: still works, it's just a little bit more. It's a

883
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,399
Speaker 1: little tougher to use than it was before because there's

884
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: a lot more going on. The companies have gotten very

885
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:12,320
Speaker 1: hip to this anyway. With that said, they're now starting

886
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 1: a new thing called Ernie Hotels. So now if you

887
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: have the Ernie app, it's the same app. You basically

888
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: let it follow your emails and it will find whenever

889
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 1: you book a hotel room from any of the hotel chains,

890
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: it will note the price of your hotel room, and

891
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: then it will start looking for a cheaper price, and

892
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: if it finds a cheaper price, it will email you.

893
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: You first book the cheaper room through Ernie, and then

894
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 1: you go back and you cancel your other room and

895
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: that's it you save. You know, a lot of times

896
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 1: these room prices fall and you don't realize it because

897
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: who checks. Who rechecks the room price before they go

898
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: to the place. Nobody does that. But again, Ernie found

899
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 1: another sort of loophole where a lot of these hotels

900
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,799
Speaker 1: don't require a You know, you get the best deal

901
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,399
Speaker 1: if you book a non refundable room. Personally, I never

902
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: do that. I always I always want to be flexible,

903
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: and hotel rooms are one of the final things you

904
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 1: can do where you can cancel it if there's a change, right,

905
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: So they take advantage of that. So I've seen with

906
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:11,320
Speaker 1: the big chains their cancelation policy has gotten more restrictive.

907
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: So now a lot of times it's three days before

908
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 1: you check in, or maybe a week before you check in.

909
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 1: So I've noticed that, and I'm sure that they might

910
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:22,760
Speaker 1: extend those even longer now that Ernie's doing this. But

911
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 1: the reality is it's kind of cool to have I

912
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: have it now hooked up to my account. The only

913
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:31,400
Speaker 1: thing you need to know about Ernie is that, Okay,

914
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: so you have to give it access to your email account,

915
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: and what that means is you log in through your

916
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: email with Ernie. So Ernie, you know, has your emails,

917
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: and I've talked to the company at length. Their bots

918
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,240
Speaker 1: are instructed to only look at emails with certain hooks.

919
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 2: And one of those hooks well, if.

920
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: It comes from Hilton dot com, or if it comes

921
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: from Expedia dot com, or if it comes from hotels

922
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: dot com, whatever it is, right, So they're not going

923
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 1: through your personal emails. Now, does that mean they never

924
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: come across a personal email. I can't say for certain

925
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: that they don't. But they also tell me that their

926
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 1: employees can't look at the emails. They can't just like

927
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: bring up your inbox basically. So the way it works

928
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 1: is you know that the bots look through the emails,

929
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: they find the email, they shoot it to another bot,

930
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: and then that bot searches, keeps note, looks for the

931
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 1: cheaper hotel room, and then they alert you when it drops.

932
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 1: So it's one of these things. It's data and this

933
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: is a free service. So if you don't feel comfortable

934
00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 1: using it, don't use it. But the reality is it

935
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 1: could save you money. It could save you a hundred bucks,

936
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: could save you. They say it's going to save an

937
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: average of seventy five dollars on a two night booking.

938
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,479
Speaker 1: So that's a lot of money. I mean, you book

939
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 1: a hotel room a couple times a year, that's you know,

940
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 1: enough to pay for a premium credit card if you

941
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: know you want to bump up to one of those.

942
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: So anyway, so that's one thing to know. The other

943
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 1: thing to know about Ernie is they also have these members'

944
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,239
Speaker 1: only rates. So if you listen to my podcast back

945
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:55,359
Speaker 1: in the day about the rate parody clause, I did

946
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 1: a whole thing on this. But essentially, hotels cannot undercut themselves.

947
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:02,839
Speaker 1: So they can't have a cheaper rate on Hilton dot

948
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:05,959
Speaker 1: Com than Expedia has because that's not fair, right, because

949
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 1: of course Hilton has all the data. They can just say, hey,

950
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 1: we're going to be five bucks less at all times,

951
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 1: and who would not book through Hilton dot com. So

952
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 1: Hilton has to have the same price that Hotels dot

953
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: com has and Expedia and all that stuff. But if

954
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: it's a member's only site, it can be cheaper. And

955
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,360
Speaker 1: this is why you often find better travel deals on

956
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:27,360
Speaker 1: a site like costco dot com or their travel site

957
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,839
Speaker 1: because it's members only, they don't have to show those

958
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: rates to everyone. And so if the rates are searchable publicly,

959
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:34,879
Speaker 1: they have to be the same. If they're not, then

960
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 1: they could be different. And I will tell you I

961
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,800
Speaker 1: watched Ernie pull up. I watched I went to their offices.

962
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 1: They pulled up a room at the Palazzo in Las

963
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 1: Vegas or the Venetian One or the other, both five

964
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: star hotels, and the room was fifty eight percent off.

965
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: It was like one hundred bucks for normally a two

966
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars room. And I said, all right, well,

967
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: let me hold on, let me pull up Palazo's website.

968
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: I pulled up Palaza's website side by side, and I

969
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 1: kid you not, the cheapest room on there was two

970
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty eight dollars versus the one oh one

971
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 1: on Ernie's app.

972
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 2: So I will tell.

973
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 1: You you it might be worth the price of admission

974
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 1: just to find the member's only hotel deals. And this

975
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:14,840
Speaker 1: is separate from the you know, the tracking tracking is

976
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:16,360
Speaker 1: one thing you can just use your same if you

977
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 1: use hotels dot com. This is kind of separate. This

978
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:22,359
Speaker 1: is like they want you to book through them using

979
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 1: these secret deals, and they are secret, and they are

980
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 1: pretty awesome. Now, the other place to save a lot

981
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: of money on hotel rooms is Google one. And you're

982
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 1: probably thinking yourself, what is Google one. It's a really

983
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 1: weird name for the storage that you buy for Google Drive,

984
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,799
Speaker 1: Gmail and Google Photos, and I get it. People are

985
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,400
Speaker 1: buying storage for all those things in different combinations. So

986
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 1: Google one just means like it's one storage across all

987
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 1: three things. So, for instance, I'm a paying member and

988
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: you have to be a paying member. I'm on the

989
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: two terabyte a month plan, which is ten dollars a month.

990
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 1: They have plans that start as cheap as I think

991
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:56,479
Speaker 1: two dollars a month. But if you go to one

992
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: dot Google dot com, they have this random thing where

993
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 1: you get up to forty percent off hotels. And so

994
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 1: if you go to one dot Google dot com and

995
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 1: then you click you scroll down on that page if

996
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: you're logged in everything and your member, and you'll see

997
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: this little banner that says up to forty percent off hotels,

998
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:15,360
Speaker 1: special rates on select hotels you find in Google Search.

999
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:17,440
Speaker 1: And then there's a button. You press the button, it

1000
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: brings you to the magic Google Hotel Search, and then

1001
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: you put your city in wherever you want to travel

1002
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 1: in the dates and when you find a city. Not

1003
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 1: every city has this. I've noticed like Los Angeles there

1004
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 1: are no special deals.

1005
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 2: But I typed in.

1006
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 1: Orlando and you'll notice on some of the hotels it

1007
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:38,720
Speaker 1: will tell you it's a one member rate. So you'll notice,

1008
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not just like discount. It says one

1009
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,799
Speaker 1: member rate and it's cheaper. Like for this hotel, Crown

1010
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:47,879
Speaker 1: Plaza in Orlando, normally it's one seventy six members only.

1011
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 1: Deal is one hundred and thirty four dollars.

1012
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 2: Now.

1013
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: The other thing that I really like about this search,

1014
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: and you don't have to be a member to get this,

1015
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: is that they will it will show you deals. So

1016
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:02,560
Speaker 1: what I love when I stayed a hotel is when

1017
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 1: I'm getting a deal. So I don't mind if a

1018
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 1: hotel room costs two hundred dollars. If that's a good deal, right,

1019
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: If that's normally three point fifty, I love paying two

1020
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 1: hundred bucks right now. If it's normally five hundred, I'm

1021
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 1: paying five hundred. That's not so fun, right. So this,

1022
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:20,919
Speaker 1: this little search engine from Google, which is not widely publicized,

1023
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:23,840
Speaker 1: will let you sort by just deals. So if I

1024
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 1: go into my filters and I say just deals or

1025
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 1: member prices. You can also search just member prices as well,

1026
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: but if I do just deals, it's really cool because

1027
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: Google is using their smarts to say this hotel is

1028
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:41,240
Speaker 1: nineteen percent less than usual. Because think about it, Google

1029
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: has a travel They bought that travel website a couple

1030
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 1: of years ago. I know it was Ita. I don't

1031
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: know if they did Hotel. But again, they're just monitoring

1032
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:51,840
Speaker 1: this stuff twenty four to seven and using data to

1033
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: your advantage.

1034
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 2: So again I'm.

1035
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:56,720
Speaker 1: Seeing that this hotel is a deal because it's nineteen

1036
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 1: percent less than usual. This one's a great deal because

1037
00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:01,360
Speaker 1: it's forty one percent less than usual.

1038
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:02,840
Speaker 2: So it's kind of fun.

1039
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:04,879
Speaker 1: To know that you're getting a really good deal because

1040
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: you're using big data to your advantage. And finally, speaking

1041
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 1: of travel, if you're looking to book some cheap weekend flights,

1042
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 1: great new website.

1043
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 2: Not sure if it's.

1044
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 1: New or this features new or what, but I found

1045
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 1: it on product hun and I thought it was kind

1046
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:20,480
Speaker 1: of cool. It's called travel gam t r A V

1047
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 1: E l g A M. And this is a super

1048
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 1: simple website. So all you have to do is go

1049
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,279
Speaker 1: to travelgam dot com and you put in the dates

1050
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:32,839
Speaker 1: that you want to travel, and the default is a

1051
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:34,360
Speaker 1: Friday through Sunday search.

1052
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:36,760
Speaker 2: So for me, I like to go home to New Jersey.

1053
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: Every once in a while, I would just put lax

1054
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 1: to EWR into the big search box and it would

1055
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: say Friday through Monday.

1056
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:44,880
Speaker 2: And once I do that.

1057
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: The cool thing about this website is that it gives you,

1058
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: let me just get this in here, it gives you

1059
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:56,399
Speaker 1: a calendar of the next two four six eight two

1060
00:48:56,440 --> 00:49:00,120
Speaker 1: four two four six eight months, so you get an

1061
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 1: eight month ahead calendar, and they color code every weekend

1062
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 1: so you can see which weekend is the cheapest to

1063
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 1: fly on. So if I'm looking at February, it's red

1064
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 1: red green or red red orange green, and then it

1065
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,360
Speaker 1: goes green green, green, green, green in March, and then

1066
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 1: last week of March, when spring break starts, it's getting

1067
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: red again. Then it's green.

1068
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 2: So it's a really cool way to just get a really.

1069
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:28,240
Speaker 1: Fast, at a glance look at when the best weekends

1070
00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 1: are to travel. So let's say you know, I want

1071
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:31,799
Speaker 1: to go to Portland one of these weekends. I can

1072
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:34,240
Speaker 1: just look at this map and see the best weekends

1073
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 1: to fly to Portland, and again they only do direct flights,

1074
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 1: that's the default. You can change that, but if you're

1075
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: going for a weekend, you probably want to get there

1076
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 1: pretty fast. And you can also change the time, so

1077
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 1: maybe you have to be out at work until you know,

1078
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: two pm on Friday, so you can just do you know,

1079
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:53,240
Speaker 1: a slider to show the outbound starting at two pm,

1080
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,320
Speaker 1: and then the color coding will change.

1081
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 2: So it's really cool.

1082
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if this is a website that's American

1083
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 1: based or European based, but it works.

1084
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:03,520
Speaker 2: It's cool.

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Speaker 1: You can click one of the prices and it will

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Speaker 1: Well that's going to bring us to the end of

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Speaker 1: the Rich on Tech podcast. Thanks so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: If you could be so kind to tell a friend

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Speaker 2: The podcast on Apple Podcasts. So not sure what that does,

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Speaker 2: but a lot of podcasts like to have a lot

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Speaker 1: We've got a five star right now, so keep up

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Speaker 1: those five star ratings.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for that.

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Speaker 1: But it's just kind of fun. It helps people discover it.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it helps out Apple and their algorithm and

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Speaker 1: serving us up. But tell a friend is the best way.

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Speaker 1: So take a screenshot of this on your phone and

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Speaker 1: on Tech and you're learning something. Because a lot of

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Speaker 1: people are hesitant to listen to tech podcasts because they're

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Speaker 1: too techy, right, But what I can try to do

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Speaker 1: in this podcast is really do a podcast for the

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Speaker 1: average person, not necessarily the super duper high tech person, right,

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Speaker 1: because I want to equip you with the knowledge you

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Speaker 1: need to navigate the tech landscape.

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Speaker 2: And that's my goal in life.

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Speaker 1: So if you want links everything I talk about here,

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Speaker 1: you can look in the show notes. You can go

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Speaker 1: to rich on Tech dot tv. If you're not following

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Speaker 1: me on Instagram, find me there. I am at rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech And if you're in the La area, watch

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Speaker 1: me on KTLA. I'm on every morning around five thirty seven,

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Speaker 1: forty five and nine am hour.

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Speaker 2: I say hour because I never really know.

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Speaker 1: They kind of switch me around that hour, but if

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: I'm rich Demiro rich on tech dot TV.

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