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Speaker 1: Google goes after Ring TikTok takes flight plus your tech

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Speaker 1: questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich Dmiro and this

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

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Speaker 1: the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's

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Speaker 1: also the place where I answer the questions you send me.

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Speaker 1: My name is Rich Dmiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel

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Speaker 1: five in Los Angeles. Thanks so much for tuning into

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Speaker 1: the show. I gotta say, I don't know what happened

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Speaker 1: last week. Was it the title of the show.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Most downloads ever for an episode of this show in

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Speaker 1: one week, I mean, I don't know. It was double

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Speaker 1: what it typically was. So the only change I could

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Speaker 1: discern is that Facebook's little podcast thing started to kick in,

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Speaker 1: where basically I put my RSS feed on to my

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Speaker 1: Facebook page and every time I publish a new episode,

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Speaker 1: Facebook imports it and then lets it be playable through

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Speaker 1: my Facebook page. And I've got a lot of people

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Speaker 1: on my Facebook page, so perhaps that boosted things up,

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Speaker 1: but I don't know. So anyway, whatever it is, if

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Speaker 1: you're new to the show, welcome, Thank you. We'll see

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Speaker 1: if that was just a fluke next week. But I

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Speaker 1: enjoyed seeing the increase in numbers. That was kind of fun.

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Speaker 1: One thing that was kind of ironic about last week

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Speaker 1: is that I actually did a little experiment. So I

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Speaker 1: have been spending a lot of time on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter,

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Speaker 1: all these things, and I decided to try deleting them

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Speaker 1: from my phone to see what would happen with my life.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm on TV, and of course I am in

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Speaker 1: the public eye all the time, always the pressure to

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Speaker 1: post and to kind of share things that are happening

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Speaker 1: in my life. And I enjoyed doing it, don't get

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Speaker 1: me wrong, but it become a thing where I am,

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Speaker 1: you know, always looking at this. I'm always on it.

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Speaker 1: I'm getting messages twenty four to seven from folks, and

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Speaker 1: so I just figured, okay, let me just see what

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Speaker 1: life is like without these, and I will tell you,

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it is very interesting. It is very

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Speaker 1: freeing because I did not feel pressure in any way,

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Speaker 1: shape or form to be on my phone, to check

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Speaker 1: my phone, to post on my phone, to check what

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Speaker 1: people are saying about what I posted. And it was

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Speaker 1: very very i don't know, like it made me become

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Speaker 1: more in the moment. And I've got them back on

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Speaker 1: my phone at this point. But I don't know what

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Speaker 1: the solution is because I don't have my notifications turned on.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sitting there, you know, every time someone texts

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Speaker 2: So I'm not really sure what the answer is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it's just a way to figure

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Speaker 1: out how to limit yourself to checking, you know, once

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Speaker 1: or twice or three times a day or certain times

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Speaker 1: into a world where you are just you know, you're

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Speaker 1: keeping up with people, but you're not. You're keeping up

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Speaker 1: of these things where when I look around at people

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Speaker 1: the Boardwalk Fun Place by the way. It was really nice,

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Speaker 1: I get it, you're in line, so what are you

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Speaker 1: Anyway, I'm not gonna stop posting, I'm not gonna stop

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Speaker 1: being there, but I just like to see, you know,

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Speaker 1: story of the week. New from Google Nest. They've got

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Speaker 2: A direct attack at Ring Ring.

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Speaker 1: I always have talked about on the show doing really

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Speaker 1: Then they've got a Google Nest Cam with a floodlight

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Speaker 1: And so the alerts now can discern between people, animals, vehicles,

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Speaker 1: And that's a big deal. It may sound like, ah, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I guess they've got some internal memory on these things,

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Speaker 1: power goes out. So anyway, cheaper prices, more features, more

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Speaker 1: I think that it's it's competitive. I think that for

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Speaker 1: me personally, Google is just all over the place when

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Speaker 1: it comes with their with their gadgets. So I feel

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Speaker 1: like Ring is much more focused in here's what we're doing,

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Speaker 1: here's what we deliver, Here's you know, our old stuff,

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Speaker 1: here's our new stuff. It all works together. Whereas Google,

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Speaker 1: you know you can invest in this stuff. And I've

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Speaker 1: had a nestcam at my house for years now. It's fine,

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Speaker 1: But is it my favorite and is it the best?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think that my Ring stuff is better. So anyway,

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Speaker 1: it's a personal choice depending on the ecosystem you're already in.

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Speaker 1: But those are the new the new offerings from Nest. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's get to the first question from Let's take a

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Speaker 1: question from Instagram. Marianne via Instagram at richon Tech says, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I keep seeing ads for pogo where you get cash

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure it's safe you link it to all

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Speaker 1: of your credit and debit cards. The website is earnwipogo

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Speaker 1: many times. There's an app folk featured called drop and

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Speaker 1: want it to spread, and so they will look at

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Speaker 1: these images, do a machine learning scan on your phone

434
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:32,480
Speaker 1: as they're uploaded to iCloud, and anything that is potentially

435
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 1: a problem will be identified and notified. So there are

436
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Speaker 1: some ways that they're going to notify people. Let's see,

437
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,320
Speaker 1: so they're going to scan on device, they're going to

438
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Speaker 1: compare them against images provided by child safety organizations, and

439
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:50,920
Speaker 1: then there's going to be what's called a voucher that's

440
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Speaker 1: uploaded to iCloud along with the image.

441
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Speaker 2: And so.

442
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's really it's it's very complicated. Is going

443
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 1: to eventually manually review the image, and then if there's

444
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,320
Speaker 1: a match, they will disable the user's account and send

445
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:12,959
Speaker 1: a report to the NCMEC, which is the gosh, what

446
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 1: is that? The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

447
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 1: So again, Apple is dancing here. They promote themselves on privacy,

448
00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,439
Speaker 1: and you know, you do understand if you're using an iPhone,

449
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:27,119
Speaker 1: everything is very private. But I feel like they've come

450
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,680
Speaker 1: up with a system that takes the public interest into

451
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:34,160
Speaker 1: account by giving up a little bit of that privacy,

452
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Speaker 1: especially when you're uploading things to the cloud. So I

453
00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:39,080
Speaker 1: think they've done a pretty good job here. It's way

454
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Speaker 1: too complicated for me to fully understand. But I think

455
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, what Apple's trying to

456
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:48,160
Speaker 1: do is, you know, anytime it comes to scanning photos

457
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,119
Speaker 1: or looking for things in photos, there's going to be

458
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Speaker 1: a bit of controversy, but I think that the way

459
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 1: Apple has decided to do this is a win win

460
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,400
Speaker 1: situation because it will stop the spread of a lot

461
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Speaker 1: of this material. All right, let's get to another question.

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00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,479
Speaker 1: Donna via Instagram. All right, I'll just do a lot

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Speaker 1: via Instagram today. We'll start out with those.

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Speaker 2: She says, just.

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Speaker 1: Wondering if you can help me on the differences between

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Speaker 1: the Apple watches. I have an Apple iPhone eight. I'm

467
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 1: not very tech savvy, nor am I into having the

468
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Speaker 1: latest and greatest, but I need to watch and I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking about getting an Apple Watch. And honestly, Donna, it's

470
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Speaker 1: been a while since I kind of compared these watches.

471
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Speaker 1: And the main thing to know about these watches is

472
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:34,960
Speaker 1: that you have the iPhone S and then the sorry,

473
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:40,040
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch S, and then the Apple Watch six

474
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 1: is the latest version. Now, the Apple Watch six is

475
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Speaker 1: going to be the one that basically has all the

476
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Speaker 1: latest and greatest features, and not just the latest and

477
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Speaker 1: greatest features, but also the always on display. And it

478
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Speaker 1: has what's called an altimeter, which means it can show

479
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Speaker 1: you how high you are walking or hi looking at

480
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Speaker 1: that you know, exact moment. It also has the let's see,

481
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Speaker 1: it has the blood oxygen level, and it has the

482
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 1: what it has the EKG as well. Now you can

483
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Speaker 1: go for the the SE. I think that one is

484
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,199
Speaker 1: going to be the best solution for you because you

485
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Speaker 1: said you don't need the latest and greatest, and realistically,

486
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Speaker 1: when you're looking at these things, you probably don't need

487
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,359
Speaker 1: all those top of the line features. And so again

488
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Speaker 1: let me go over the differences. The blood oxygen sensor

489
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:36,399
Speaker 1: is in the Apple Watch six. The biggest difference is

490
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Speaker 1: and this is according to an article I wrote for KTLA,

491
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 1: the SE does not have the always on display, it

492
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:44,360
Speaker 1: doesn't have the blood oxygen and it doesn't have the ECG. Now,

493
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,280
Speaker 1: both watches are going to give you GPS, they're going

494
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Speaker 1: to give you the heart rate sensor, the speaker, the microphone,

495
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 1: and fall detection. So at the end of the day,

496
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Speaker 1: you're going to save about one hundred and twenty dollars

497
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Speaker 1: if not more, by going with the SE. So I

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Speaker 1: would say the Apple Watch SE is the device that

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Speaker 1: you should go with.

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Speaker 2: This is kind of fun.

501
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: Airlines kind of interesting these days if you're keeping track

502
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 1: of the news. Seems like it's just they're all over

503
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 1: the place. You know, you've got a lot of people

504
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 1: flying right now, You've got a lot of people who

505
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 1: haven't flown in a while. I've had no problems on

506
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,399
Speaker 1: my flights. I've taken four or five or six of

507
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: them since coronavirus, or probably eight at this point, and

508
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: I've had nothing but smooth sailing. So that's the good news.

509
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: But the reality is, these things are packed tight. There

510
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,159
Speaker 1: are no open seats on flights right now, and flights

511
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 1: are canceled if there are, and so you got to

512
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: stay safe up there. There's a lot of people, a

513
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 1: lot of drinking up there. I saw people on my

514
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 1: last flight bringing their own alcohol onto the plane. So

515
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,119
Speaker 1: everyone deals with this kind of stuff differently, and so

516
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 1: I'm cognizant of that. But also, you know, there used

517
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 1: to be a certain demeanor that you would have in

518
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 1: the skies. You know, maybe you were friendly, maybe you

519
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 1: were respectful of others. Sometimes that is being lost these days,

520
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 1: and that's being lost in a lot of different places

521
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: across our society.

522
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,280
Speaker 2: And so I don't condone any of that.

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00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 1: I try to be a nice person no matter what

524
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,639
Speaker 1: the situation is, respectful, but you know, that's the way

525
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: I was raised, so maybe not everyone was raised like that. Anyway,

526
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,919
Speaker 1: I digress. I tell you all that because this is

527
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 1: kind of fun. But American Airlines, and maybe I said

528
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,679
Speaker 1: all that because maybe this will take people's minds off

529
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: of the in flight in the situation the sardines that

530
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: they feel like sometimes on those flights. But American Airlines

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Speaker 1: giving passengers free access to TikTok and so you can

532
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 1: get free in flight access. Of course, this is a

533
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 1: promotion which means it could go away at any time,

534
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,159
Speaker 1: but as of right now, as of this recording, American

535
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: Airlines is using this to promote the fact that they

536
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: have the fastest Wi Fi on more aircraft than any

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00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: other US carrier. Now I'm not able to test that.

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00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 1: When I'm on planes, I do not purchase the Wi

539
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: Fi unless I absolutely have to for work, because I

540
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 1: think it is a complete ripoff to pay fifty dollars

541
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Speaker 1: for a cross country flight or even eight dollars for

542
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 1: an hour. I know Jet Blue has free Wi Fi.

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00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 1: I have never flown Jet Blue, so I don't know

544
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 1: anything about that. I'm on United most of the time,

545
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 1: and the Wi Fi situation has been fine. The times

546
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,159
Speaker 1: I've purchased it, but my kids always give me a

547
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: hard time because I will not purchase the unlimited Wi

548
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,119
Speaker 1: Fi for the flight, because I refuse to pay the

549
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 1: forty eight or fifty bucks for cross country flights some

550
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: typically on So but I do like this, and yeah,

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00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,919
Speaker 1: a lot of these, a lot of these airplanes, they

552
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: will offer certain things for free, like I know that

553
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: what is it Alaska airlines, Like they all give you

554
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 1: like little certain things for free.

555
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 2: And so anyway, TikTok is now free on.

556
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: American airlines for half an hour, and you don't need

557
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 1: to purchase the in flight Wi Fi to access this.

558
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: I know, Southwest you can access live TV. I think

559
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: it's still for free. They also give you free I

560
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: messaging on your phone. So it's one of these things

561
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: where it definitely benefits you to look up what is

562
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: free on the Wi Fi before you take flight, because,

563
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: for instance, my mom flew out here on Jet Blue

564
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 1: and she had no idea that the WiFi was free.

565
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, we could have been chatting the whole time.

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00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 1: And so just take a look, go to the you know,

567
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: whatever airline you're flying, just search you know, let's say

568
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: Southwest WiFi and just see what the procedures are, because, yeah,

569
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 1: for the standard Internet, you're typically going to have to

570
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 1: pay on most of the airlines, but they also offer

571
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: a lot of little things for free. So it might

572
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 1: be I Message, it could be Facebook Messenger, it could

573
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: be TikTok it could be whatever the other thing is.

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00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: You always want to download that company's app. So whatever

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00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: you know, if you're on United, download the United app,

576
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 1: download the American Airlines app, download the jet Blue app.

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00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: Because a lot of these planes, if they don't have

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00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 1: the seatback screens, they will let you stream the stuff

579
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: through your phone using their app. But a lot of

580
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 1: times you have to have the app before you get

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00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: on the plane because the Wi Fi does not allow

582
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: the app to be downloaded. But I thought this was interesting.

583
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: American says that, so to enable this, you want to

584
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: go to the in flight signal, then you're redirected to

585
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: aainflight dot com and then simply click on the TikTok

586
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: ad for free access to the platform. And if you

587
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 1: don't have TikTok you can connect to AA in flight

588
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 1: to download the app without having to pay for Wi Fi.

589
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: And that's actually quite different than the way United says,

590
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 1: they make you download the app before you take off,

591
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: because once you're in the air, you cannot access the app. Now,

592
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: once you have the app you can download, you can

593
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 1: access the United website. So if you want to book

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00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 1: a flight while you're in flight, you're free to do that.

595
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: I've also noticed that some of my notifications come through

596
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: every once in a while.

597
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 2: I forget what app I was on.

598
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: It was like Apple News or something, but like everything

599
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: was working even though I didn't pay. So there are

600
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 1: some little things like that anyway, So definitely check the

601
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: inflight Wi Fi situation before you fly. And for me personally,

602
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:03,959
Speaker 1: I'm trying to stay off a plane as much as

603
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: possible right now because I just, you know, I just

604
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 1: think there's been too many incidents and people are getting

605
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: a little unruly up there, and so I'm gonna wait

606
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: till things calm down before I get that travel bug

607
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: once again.

608
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 2: Jr. Says, Hey, Rich, you're the best at what you do.

609
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: I've helped, You've helped with questions I've sent you before.

610
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: Here is the latest. I just got this message on

611
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 1: my iPhone ten R. Have you heard of this any

612
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: ideas on how to delete or stop this I've only

613
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: had the phone for two months. Thanks for everything. He

614
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 1: sent along a screenshot that says, calendar notifications, scan your

615
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: device for viruses today at five twenty pm, security alert,

616
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: you may have a virus on your phone. Scan your

617
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: phone now to fix the problem. And I'm guessing there's

618
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 1: a link to scan the phone for viruses. Then says calendar,

619
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: do you want to continue receiving notifications?

620
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 2: Yes? Or no?

621
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 1: And I'm guessing when you click yes, it gives the

622
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: spammers a access to your calendar. This is called calendar spam.

623
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: It's been going on for a while. It's basically kind

624
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: of the newest scam to hit phones, and.

625
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 2: It's very very smart.

626
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: This is a very smart way of getting spammers and

627
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: scams in front of your face.

628
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 2: And so how do they do it.

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00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: Well, you could have accidentally subscribed to a spam calendar,

630
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: or you could just have a spammer that is including

631
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: a calendar invite in your email, and those often show

632
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: up on your calendar automatically. So they've gotten very very,

633
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: very very smart about this. So, according to Apple, here's

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00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 1: how you get rid of this. On iOS fourteen point six,

635
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: you open the calendars app, you tap the unwanted calendar

636
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: event and you say unsubscribed to this calendar at the

637
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: bottom of the screen. Now you can do that. If

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00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: you're in an earlier version of iOS, you can open

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00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: the calendars app at the bottom of the screen, tap calendars,

640
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: look for a calendar you don't recognize, and then tap

641
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 1: to lete calendar.

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00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 2: Now that is.

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00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: That is not necessarily going to get rid of all

644
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 1: this stuff, because these these scammers have gotten so smart

645
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: where they basically include your email a calendar invite in

646
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 1: your email and that will follow through to especially Gmail

647
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: calendars or Google Calendars, and also if you have that

648
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 1: linked up, that's going to follow through to your phone

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00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: as well.

650
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Speaker 2: So in that case.

651
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: Google calendar spam, you just have to report those basically

652
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: delete them, ignore them, and then you can you know,

653
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: basically block that person from inviting you to things. Now,

654
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: you can also go into your Google Calendar settings and

655
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: there is a way that will take those out of there.

656
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: So if you go into calendar app, you know in

657
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: the web so calendar dot Google dot com, click settings

658
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: and then for event settings, and then there's a setting

659
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: that says automatically add invitations and so that means that

660
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: any invitation you get in your Gmail will not automatically

661
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,320
Speaker 1: follow through to your calendar. Now that's a problem because

662
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,840
Speaker 1: for me personally, I get a lot of legitimate invitations

663
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 1: from people for meetings and events and things that I

664
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 1: can't turn this off. And it's been a while since

665
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,399
Speaker 1: I've actually seen one of these calendar spams. But that's

666
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: how you do it, and so you can manually add

667
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: these things to your calendar if you need it.

668
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 2: But good question, JR.

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00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:35,839
Speaker 1: It's one of those things where, no matter what, these

670
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 1: spammers spend all day trying to figure out the best

671
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,320
Speaker 1: ways to attack us, and they do a pretty good job.

672
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: Because you get one of these things in your calendar

673
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: and the first time you see it, you're like, oh wow, okay,

674
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: let me scan, let me scan. That must be a

675
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 1: notification from Apple, and so you scan. The real scam

676
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: here is that whatever link is in these calendar events

677
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 1: is the actual problem, the thing that they're trying to

678
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,399
Speaker 1: target you with. So it could be a website that's

679
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: trying to steal your information, you know, trying to get

680
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: you to log in. Whatever it is, don't fall for

681
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: it and always be skeptical. Just that's the bottom line.

682
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 1: You have to be very, very skeptical no matter what

683
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: you see online. Just be just be on your guard,

684
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 1: because that's that's the main thing you need to know.

685
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 2: The crime gap.

686
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: Citizen has a new offering called Citizen Protect, and I

687
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 1: have a love hate relationship with Citizen. I've probably talked

688
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: about it on the podcast. I think it's pretty darn cool.

689
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 1: How you know, they tell you what's happening in your neighborhood,

690
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: and this has been very handy many times now.

691
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 2: Obviously there's a lot of fluff.

692
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 1: Obviously, sometimes they kind of pump up the notifications just

693
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: to scare you or just to get you to interact

694
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:50,839
Speaker 1: with the app. But I do think that overall they

695
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 1: do a pretty nice job of alerting you to things

696
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: that could be important in your neighborhood and just keeping

697
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: you up to date on what's happened in your neighborhoods.

698
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: As opposed to this is something like Nextdoor that I

699
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:05,239
Speaker 1: do not like at all. There's a lot of there's

700
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: a lot of speculation, let's call it on Nextdoor about

701
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 1: what's happening, and I don't think that that's very useful,

702
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:18,320
Speaker 1: Whereas what Citizen is doing is they are actually listening

703
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 1: to police scanners in the area and using AI to

704
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 1: figure out what's happening and then send you notifications based

705
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: on that. Now they could be doing more at this

706
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 1: point because Citizen has grown a lot in the five

707
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: years since I covered them when they launched. But that

708
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:37,319
Speaker 1: was the idea back in the days that they would

709
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 1: use artificial intelligence to listen to police scanners, parse out

710
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 1: kind of the important stuff, geolocated all and send out

711
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: notifications to the affected users in the area, versus the

712
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: typical way that things work, where you would just see

713
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: something happening in town that's not really near you, so

714
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: it doesn't really affect you as much. Of course, it

715
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,839
Speaker 1: affects you on a certain level, but when it comes

716
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,360
Speaker 1: to your neighborhood, that's really where you're interested.

717
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 2: In the goings on, especially when it comes to crime.

718
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:06,720
Speaker 1: So now they have this new service called Citizen Protect,

719
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:11,280
Speaker 1: and this is on demand personalized protection from their mobile

720
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 1: app that gives you twenty four to seven access to

721
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: a highly trained team of Protect agents and whenever you

722
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 1: need one of these agents, you can activate them in

723
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,360
Speaker 1: different ways. So it's twenty dollars a month, which I

724
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: think is way, way, way too much for a service

725
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: like this, But then again, I don't know. Maybe if

726
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 1: you need it, maybe if you're walking home late at night,

727
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 1: you'd like to have it. But here's how it works

728
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,360
Speaker 1: several different ways. So you have it on the app.

729
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:41,320
Speaker 1: You can have emergency responders come to your exact location.

730
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 1: So if you need help, these agents can get nine

731
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: one one to you because they'll basically call them. They

732
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 1: can notify your loved ones if you need help. It

733
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: can guide you to a safe place if you're feeling

734
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,439
Speaker 1: unwell or unsafe. They can give you peace of mind.

735
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 1: So if you just want someone to sort of virtually

736
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: walk with you as you walk home from a dark place,

737
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: they can do that. They can also alert nearby citizen

738
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: users if your situation meets an alert criteria, which is

739
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: you know, they don't describe what that criteria is, but.

740
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 2: That's the way you do it.

741
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 1: Now, how do you get these agents? While there's a

742
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 1: button on the phone, you can connect instantly. There's a

743
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: protect mode if you have that on, you shake your

744
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 1: phone and you can be connected to an agent. And

745
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: then there's distress detection, and so this is letting your

746
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:35,959
Speaker 1: letting citizen monitor your the audio from your phone using

747
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: AI and if they notice distress, they will then connect

748
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: you to an agent and if you don't respond within

749
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 1: ten seconds, they'll they'll connect to UH they'll basically send

750
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: emergency help your way. Let's see, it's only available on

751
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 1: iOS right now, the protect mode, but they will be

752
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: adding functionality for Android. Now, this is something that's not

753
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: necessarily new. Now they're using. The AI is kind of new,

754
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 1: but it's also it's funny because the stuff that I,

755
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: you know, covering this stuff for so long, I've seen

756
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 1: different iterations of this stuff, so nothing I see is

757
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 1: completely new all the time. So the AI portion of

758
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 1: this is something that a company called Deep Centennial or

759
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 1: is it Deep Sentinel, is using and they are a

760
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,399
Speaker 1: company started by one of the founders of Redfinn and

761
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 1: they have security cameras they install it your house, and

762
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:28,280
Speaker 1: they're using AI to monitor what's happening in those security cameras,

763
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: kind of like what I was talking about with Google

764
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,919
Speaker 1: earlier in the podcast, but this is much more real

765
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: time and much more connected to a human being.

766
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 2: So if the.

767
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: Camera notices that someone is kind of looking suspicious around

768
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 1: your house checking the windows, it will escalate that to

769
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: a trained agent who will then go on your camera's

770
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: microphone and say or speaker and say, hey, can I

771
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: help you? Why are you looking through the mail? Can

772
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: I help you with that? That's a federal crime or whatever.

773
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: I don't know if that is, but you know what

774
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: I mean. Now, this is also something the second side

775
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 1: of this, the personal agent is something that we saw

776
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,240
Speaker 1: with an app called Bond and we did a story

777
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 1: on this. It's called the Bond Security App and it

778
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 1: looks like it's still around, but this is a personal

779
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,719
Speaker 1: security app and same thing where you basically subscribe to

780
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:22,720
Speaker 1: personal security agents. And so these personal security agents will

781
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: monitor over you, listen to your phone while you're walking,

782
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: or help you out, and then they will actually speak

783
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,879
Speaker 1: to someone that might be you know, I don't know,

784
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: intruding on your space or whatever, and they will intervene.

785
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 1: So again, these are all different ways of kind of

786
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: doing the same thing. But I mark my words right now,

787
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: we are going to see a lot more use of

788
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: artificial intelligence in security because there's no way that if

789
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: you're trying to start a company, you can scale someone

790
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 1: watching over cameras or phones twenty four to seven. But

791
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,359
Speaker 1: you can have AI listen for certain things that would

792
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 1: that would reveal distress and that AI can now kick

793
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 1: that that stream up the ladder, so to say to

794
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 1: an agent who can then take take control and kind

795
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: of look at what's happening, assess the situation from a

796
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 1: human standpoint, and figure out what needs to be done.

797
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: All right, let's see what else do we want to

798
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:29,320
Speaker 1: talk about here, Sandra says, help. I downloaded the latest

799
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:32,760
Speaker 1: version on my iPhone and I lost one whole page

800
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: of icons for apps that I use. They are there

801
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 1: because I asked SyRI and she'll open them. The page

802
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 1: of icons I used all the time. We're on that page.

803
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,359
Speaker 1: Thanks in advance for your help. I know you will

804
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: find the answer. I went on Apple's page and I

805
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:49,800
Speaker 1: didn't understand what they said. Sandy, Uh, Sandy, Sandra, here's

806
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: the thing. I think what happened is that your your

807
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: layout of your home screen got reset. And I think

808
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 1: that's what happened. So there's a couple things you can check.

809
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 1: Number one, you can there's a couple of things I

810
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: would look into. So number one, you can look at

811
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:07,959
Speaker 1: your home screen and you can swipe to the right,

812
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 1: and if you swipe to the right, you'll notice there's

813
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 1: an app library, which is in the latest version. Now,

814
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: if you want to see what's going on, I would

815
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,320
Speaker 1: tap a hold on my screen and now everything's wiggling,

816
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: and if you look down at the center, there's actually

817
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 1: towards the bottom there's like a little highlighted area with

818
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: some dots. If you tap that, it will actually show

819
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 1: you all of the home screen pages on your iPhone.

820
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 1: And I have actually one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,

821
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: eight nine home screen pages, but I only show the

822
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: first one, and you have to show one. But I

823
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: think that's the first place to look. And so if

824
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: you look there, you can see if maybe one of

825
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 1: your home screens has been hidden, and you can tap

826
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 1: the check mark to bring it back. Now that's the

827
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: one way you can do it. The other way is

828
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,399
Speaker 1: that you can just go into your app library, look

829
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 1: for the apps you you want, press and hold one

830
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: and drag it onto a new home screen or your

831
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 1: existing home screen. But those are the two things that

832
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: I think happened. I think you just got reset there.

833
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 2: Now.

834
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: The other way if you ever want to do this,

835
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Speaker 1: and I've done this before on my phone, is I've

836
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:16,960
Speaker 1: actually reset my homescreen. I'm only using one page now

837
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: for my home screen, because I find that it's a

838
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: lot easier just to search for apps. So you can

839
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 1: always pull down from the middle of your screen and

840
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 1: search for an app if you need it.

841
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:26,240
Speaker 2: Or you can use.

842
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: Your settings to reset your screen completely. And so if

843
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: you want to do that, go into your Settings General

844
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,439
Speaker 1: all the way down, scroll to reset and you'll see

845
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: one that says reset home screen layout.

846
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 2: Now.

847
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: Before you do this, just beware, it is going to

848
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 1: reset all of your icons to Apple's defaults, and so

849
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: it'll put all of Apple stuff on the first page,

850
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 1: and then it will put all of your other apps

851
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: in alphabetical order on the rest of your pages. And

852
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: so that's if you ever want your stuff in alphabetical order.

853
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: Of course, prioritizing apples apps as Apple would do at

854
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: the beginning of the page would be the first page.

855
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:02,680
Speaker 1: So anyway, those are my solutions. Hopefully one of those

856
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: works for you. And let's talk about Voodoo. Voodoo has

857
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: become Roku's official movie and TV store as Fandango has

858
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 1: killed off the Fandango brand. This is according to Variety.

859
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 1: That's the headline from Todd Spangler. So the bottom line

860
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: is that you now have Fandango now gone. If you

861
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: had movies in there, you had a collection, everything's going

862
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 1: to be.

863
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 2: Moved over to Voodoo.

864
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:29,759
Speaker 1: And Voodoo used to be owned by Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: Voodoo has had quite the quite the uh the last ten, twelve, thirteen,

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Speaker 1: fourteen years. So I covered Voodoo when it first started,

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Speaker 1: and I'll give you a little history of Voodoo. Voodoo

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Speaker 1: when it first started was a The difference in Voodoo

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Speaker 1: was that they were downloading. It was a box. It

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Speaker 1: was a special box you would get. It was very expensive.

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Speaker 1: You would put this on your TV and it worked

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00:44:56,120 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: with any Internet connection speed. So the magic, the magic

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00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 1: sauce of Voodoo was that they would download portions of

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Speaker 1: popular movies or eventually movies that it figured you might

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Speaker 1: watch to your Voodoo box. And so that way, when

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Speaker 1: you press play on a movie that you want to watch,

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00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 1: it would start faster because some of that movie was

878
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:20,919
Speaker 1: already on an internal hard drive, and so it would

879
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:22,919
Speaker 1: work twenty four to seven when you were not using

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00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 1: the box to download a bunch of stuff. And so

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00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: it would take a slow Internet connection and it wouldn't

882
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 1: really matter. This was before internet connections got really fast

883
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:37,240
Speaker 1: and streaming got really good because half of Netflix's business

884
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 1: is the proprietary way that they can download things super

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Speaker 1: super fast or stream them, I should say on any

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Speaker 1: Internet connection. That's part of you know, Netflix's little magic

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00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 1: sauce inside secret sauce, I should say. Anyway, Voodoo ended

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Speaker 1: up being purchased by Walmart many years later, and now

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00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:04,399
Speaker 1: they're purchased apparently by which I didn't know. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I guess NBC bought Voodoo. I had no idea that

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Speaker 1: they had purchased them, So yeah, I guess. April twentieth,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, NBC Fandango acquiring Voodoo from Walmart.

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00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 2: So they bought Voodoo.

894
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 1: They figured why would we run two separate movie services,

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Speaker 1: and so they went with the Voodoo brand name, which

896
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:28,359
Speaker 1: I guess that makes more sense. Voodoo is a cooler name.

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Speaker 1: And so anyway, all the collections are now in Voodoo.

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Speaker 1: Don't be surprised if you see more of Voodoo, because

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00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: that's that's where everything is at this point. So there

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00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,480
Speaker 1: you have it all, right, Before I go, one more

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00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:41,360
Speaker 1: thing I wanted to talk about. I thought this was

902
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: really really cool and I wanted to share it with you.

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00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 1: So I love the channels on SiriusXM. I love some

904
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: of my favorite channels there. They just sort of play

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00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:54,919
Speaker 1: a blend of music that I really don't find anywhere else.

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00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 1: And even with things like Spotify and you know, iHeart

907
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: and all these different there are some my like at

908
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: iHeart as well, but you know, I really have some

909
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 1: of my favorites. My my all time favorite is called

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Speaker 1: Serious XM Chill, which is channel fifty three. And I've

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00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 1: never found a playlist that rivals what they do until now.

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00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 1: And this is a website called xmplaylist dot com and

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00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: a guy named uh, let's see, what's his name, Scott,

914
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: he has, he's got it, he's rigged up. Away that

915
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 1: listens to it must listen to Serious XM channels twenty

916
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:33,879
Speaker 1: four to seven and then catalog what they play. So

917
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: you can go to this website and it tells me

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00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 1: four minutes ago they played Beautiful Mistakes by Maroon five,

919
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: seven minutes ago, it played Deja Vu by Olivia Rodrigo.

920
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 1: Fifteen minutes ago it played Stay by Justin Bieber and

921
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: the kid Leroy. So now that's cool in itself, but

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00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:55,240
Speaker 1: they take it a step further and somehow it actually

923
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 1: makes a playlist on Spotify of the songs that the

924
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 1: these stations are playing, and it's not fully updated because

925
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 1: I'm looking at these stations and the last time it

926
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: was updated, oh, it's three days ago.

927
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 2: Okay, so it was.

928
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 1: Actually they are updated, so they're regularly updated.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think this is so so cool.

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Speaker 1: My mom said, isn't that illegal, because I was playing

931
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:20,839
Speaker 1: with this last night in the house, and I said, no,

932
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 1: it's not illegal. I mean, they're not They're not recording

933
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 1: the songs. They're just basically capturing the data of the

934
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 1: playlist and then you know, repurposing it. And yeah, you

935
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: can have a problem with that and say, well, don't

936
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Speaker 1: you just subscribe to a Serious XM, which, by the way,

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Speaker 1: I do, so I do have a subscription as Serious XM.

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Speaker 2: I do have the app.

939
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Speaker 1: But there's just something fun about having a playlist in

940
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Speaker 1: Spotify that kind of mimics what's happening on my favorite channels.

941
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Speaker 2: Now.

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00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 1: I have tested the Serious XM channel on the Spotify

943
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 1: playlist and it sounds really good. You don't have the DJs,

944
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: you don't have the you know, the stuff they do

945
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: in the middle, like the stingers and stuff. Some people

946
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 1: may like that. I kind of like that stuff, but

947
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:04,319
Speaker 1: you know, you don't get it. The channel I was

948
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: listening to last night in the house is called The Blend,

949
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,760
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, we're listening and a Christmas

950
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 1: song comes up, and so that was a big I

951
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:15,879
Speaker 1: guess these things are not perfect, and I don't know who.

952
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: I think it's all pretty much automated, so I guess

953
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:20,879
Speaker 1: the song has to take a certain amount of time

954
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:24,360
Speaker 1: to fall off, and clearly that Christmas song did not

955
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:24,919
Speaker 1: fall off.

956
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 2: But that was pretty funny.

957
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:28,400
Speaker 1: That threw us off for a loop and we were like, Okay,

958
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: well it's not perfect.

959
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 2: But anyway.

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Speaker 1: The website again, if you want to check it out,

961
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 1: is called xmplaylist dot Com. I think it's really really

962
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: cool and I will continue to explore. But I've got

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00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: on my Sono system. I have all of my favorites

964
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: kind of bookmarks, so I jump around. I love, you know,

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Speaker 1: Sirius XM, the coffee House on the weekends.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:51,880
Speaker 1: I love this station on iHeart that's like a light station,

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00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:55,360
Speaker 1: It's like sunny. There's also another eclectic rock station on

969
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 1: there that I really like. So there's a lot of

970
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: different stations across all these music services. I feel like

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Speaker 1: they all have their pros and cons when it comes

972
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Speaker 1: to that.

973
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