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Speaker 1: Samsung says it won't make a note this year. Zoom

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Speaker 1: you can get one plus your tech questions answered? What's

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Speaker 1: going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech,

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

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Speaker 1: I answer the questions you send me. I'm the tech

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

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Speaker 1: are having a fantastic day. Wow, the summer is coming

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Speaker 1: to a close. I did a story with some kids

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Speaker 1: the other day at a camp and if you can

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Speaker 1: believe it, school starts August sixteenth for a lot of

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Speaker 1: the schools in Los Angeles, which when I was a kid,

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Speaker 1: don't know. It seems so early, Like I'm like, how

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Speaker 1: the Mesh networking system I talked about. That's sixty dollars,

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Speaker 1: and it's always you know, as a tech person, it's

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Speaker 1: new and nobody's ever seen them before, because typically, you know,

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Speaker 1: on time before anyone else. And you know, they have

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Speaker 1: Let's start with Samsung this week. Samsung is having an

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Speaker 1: my own entertainment. How do I do that with efficiency? Thanks?

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Speaker 1: It just search image downloader on Chrome. And you should

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Speaker 1: collection on an MP three player. I want the ability

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Speaker 1: to play by artist, by genre, or by album. What

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Speaker 1: do I buy? Thanks, Mike, Mike, I would recommend an

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Speaker 1: iPod Touch. That's you know, two hundred dollars for an

432
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Speaker 1: iPod Touch. If you don't want to spend that much,

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Speaker 1: then I would look on eBay. I am sure you

434
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Speaker 1: can find an iPod Touch for cheaper than that price

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Speaker 1: if you want to. Yeah, that's all i'd recommend. I

436
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Speaker 1: would not go back further because the iPod like, you know,

437
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Speaker 1: if you go with like an iPod Classic or an

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Speaker 1: iPod you know, clickwheel, whatever, these I forget the little

439
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Speaker 1: one that I have at home, Like it's an old

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Speaker 1: school one that I bought my wife a long time ago,

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Speaker 1: but it's like a really thin one. It's like the

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Speaker 1: solid state drive. I would go with an iPod Touch.

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Speaker 1: And the reason why I would go with that over

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Speaker 1: any other sort of MP three player, I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: a million ways you can do this. But you said

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Speaker 1: you want the ability to play by artists, by genre,

447
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Speaker 1: or by album, and I'm guessing a twenty seventeen Honda

448
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Speaker 1: Pilot probably has some iPods smarts built into it. And

449
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Speaker 1: what I mean by that is that it will interface

450
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Speaker 1: with your iPod to show the the sorting methods that

451
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Speaker 1: you want, which is artists, genre, or album, and so

452
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Speaker 1: I think that is probably the best way to do it.

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Speaker 1: You can easily hook it up into your car. You

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Speaker 1: probably you probably have a USB pour in there. I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to think my old car. Oh, yeah, I think

456
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Speaker 1: that'll Yeah, you'll be fine. Twenty seventeen is not even

457
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Speaker 1: that old, so I think you'll be okay. But yeah,

458
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Speaker 1: you can get just a standard Apple lightning connector you

459
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Speaker 1: pop it into the bottom of the iPod Touch and

460
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Speaker 1: now you've got your whole collection. You can throw the

461
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Speaker 1: iPod touch and your you know, run that wire nice

462
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Speaker 1: so it looks nice and clean, and you know, put

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Speaker 1: the thing in your compartment or something, or just you know,

464
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Speaker 1: stow it out of out of view. And you can

465
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Speaker 1: do that now if you want me to recommend some apps.

466
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Speaker 1: So for the CD player, you know, you can still

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Speaker 1: rip CDs using iTunes, I believe. I mean, I don't

468
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Speaker 1: think they took that out of there, but if you can't,

469
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of yeah, well, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: they still do this. Let's see on iTunes on PC.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that Mac does it anymore. Ooh, that

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Speaker 1: could be a problem. I don't see anything on the uh,

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Speaker 1: let's see iTunes Mac. Oh you know what, let me say,

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Speaker 1: let me just see something because this says Windows. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's so weird. I don't know if you can do

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Speaker 1: it on a Mac anymore. I know they've got finder

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Speaker 1: how to rip. Yeah, okay, let's see this was updated.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yes, of course you can. Okay, yeah, so

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Speaker 1: you can do it. Oh, use the music app on

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Speaker 1: your Mac. Choose music preferences in general. When a CD

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Speaker 1: is inserted, choose the option import CD, and you import

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Speaker 1: the CD into your library and then you can put

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Speaker 1: it onto your iPod. The other thing you can do,

484
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Speaker 1: if you want to just a one off kind of

485
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Speaker 1: thing or just a dragon drop, is a program called

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Speaker 1: Walter wa lt R. And that's a great dragon drop option.

487
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 1: Walter Pro just transfers pretty much any file onto your

488
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Speaker 1: iPhone or iPad. It's thirty bucks and it's really easy,

489
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Speaker 1: and it puts it in the right place. So it'll

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Speaker 1: put like a book into the booksapp, it'll put the

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Speaker 1: MP three's into your music app, it'll put photos into

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Speaker 1: the photos app, so it's really really smart and very easy.

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Speaker 1: That's a Dragon drop method. Good question. I know it's

494
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Speaker 1: been a while. I mean, I used to have this

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Speaker 1: car that I really wanted. I'm trying to remember what

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Speaker 1: the deal was. It was an old BMW and I'm

497
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Speaker 1: trying to remember what the deal with this car was.

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Speaker 1: It was gosh, there were some there. It had like

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Speaker 1: support for the iPod but it was very like limited,

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Speaker 1: but I wanted to use like a streaming service, but

501
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,240
Speaker 1: I wanted I don't know anyway, I can't really remember

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Speaker 1: what the story was. But anyway, I got rid of it.

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Speaker 1: And you know, now my new car is car Play,

504
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Speaker 1: so it's all good. It wasn't my car anyway. It

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Speaker 1: was my wife's car, so I never I never had it.

506
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:26,119
Speaker 1: I would just drive it once in a while, and

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Speaker 1: it did drive very nice. I have to say, all right,

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Speaker 1: PlayStation five, let's see. PlayStation five now has surpassed ten

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Speaker 1: million units sold, and Sony says it's their fastest selling

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Speaker 1: console in history. It is outpaced to PlayStation four, So

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Speaker 1: I don't think this means that it's sold more than

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Speaker 1: the PlayStation four, because clearly that's probably sold a lot.

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Speaker 1: This is the fastest selling console. So there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of ways to mix, you know, in slice and dice

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00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 1: numbers and present them in a way that makes things

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00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 1: look very successful. But the reality is this has sold

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Speaker 1: more units in a short amount of time. But here

518
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Speaker 1: is what the interesting part about this is. To me,

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Speaker 1: I find it fascinating that this is so hard to get.

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Speaker 1: So the fact that they've sold ten million. If you

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Speaker 1: were able to get this device, how many would they

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Speaker 1: have sold? So that's what I find interesting about this.

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Speaker 1: And Sony does acknowledge in this little post about the shortages,

524
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Speaker 1: because this has been really bad. I mean, the PlayStation

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Speaker 1: five launched on November what was it, November twelfth, twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: Hard to believe it's been you know, seven almost eight

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Speaker 1: months now. I mean we're almost coming up to another

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Speaker 1: holiday season where this thing is still going to be

529
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Speaker 1: you know, could be potentially tricky to get. Apple and

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Speaker 1: their earnings call this week said that the iPhone could

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Speaker 1: be tough to get because there's some little pieces in

532
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: there that are are getting held up on the supply chain.

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00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: So again we're seeing these shortages for everything, and Apple

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Speaker 1: gave a little hit that the iPhone could be a problem.

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Speaker 1: Now I don't. I don't know if a lot of

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Speaker 1: people are gonna be upgrading this time around, because the

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00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: iPhone twelve was so good, but and I think they

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Speaker 1: called it like a super cycle or whatever. It was

539
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: like a big upgrade for a lot of people. But

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Speaker 1: I think that who knows, I mean people up to me.

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Speaker 1: People just upgrade their phone when they need a new

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00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 1: one after three four years, so it's no longer a

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Speaker 1: yearly thing except for the real enthusiasts. So anyway, just

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Speaker 1: be prepared if anything gets a little tight with the

545
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Speaker 1: iPhone supply. But Sony does say we have a lot

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Speaker 1: of work ahead for us as demand for PS five

547
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: continues to outstrip supply. I want gamers to know that

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Speaker 1: while we continue to face unique challenges throughout the world

549
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 1: that affect our industry, improving inventory levels remains a top

550
00:29:50,120 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: priority for Sie Sony Interactive Entertainment. All right, next question

551
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Speaker 1: here from Bernadette. Hey, I'm working on a book about

552
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Speaker 1: my one hundred and one year old mom. Wow. Mom

553
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Speaker 1: has a lot of tape recordings that are that are

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Speaker 1: that after trying to write down and then input into

555
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Speaker 1: word has turned into a logistical nightmare. Working on a

556
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Speaker 1: PC with Windows ten. I was told Dragon was a possibility,

557
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: but as you know, there's no refund policy once purchasing software.

558
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: Another plan B was recommending hiring someone recommended it was

559
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Speaker 1: hiring a freelance stenographer. However, at a rate of two

560
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: twenty five an hour, that's a little too rich. No

561
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Speaker 1: pun intended for my almost empty pocket, FYI a proceed.

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Speaker 1: A portion of the proceeds will be donated to nonprofit charities.

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00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. Bernadette, Well, Bernadette, I

564
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Speaker 1: have just a solution, and it's so dang easy. It

565
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 1: is already on your computer. Or let's see. Uh, did

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Speaker 1: you say you're using Word? Yes? You did, Okay, so

567
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 1: you've already got Word if you have a subscription to

568
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 1: Office three sixty five, which is like seven bucks a month.

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Speaker 1: I know you said you've got an only almost empty pocket,

570
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: but this is about your cheapest solution. You can upload

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Speaker 1: these audio recordings into Word and it will transcribe them automatically,

572
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: and it's amazing. I've done this before. It I think

573
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 1: it's unlimited. I've uploaded like an entire podcast episode and

574
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 1: I did get the entire transcript and it's pretty pretty good.

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00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: So for my Larry David fans out there, I'd say

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00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: it's pretty pretty pretty good. Bad bad impression, but yeah,

577
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: so I mean that's what I would do now. I

578
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 1: think the biggest challenge here reading your question is I

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Speaker 1: have a lot of tape recordings, so I don't know

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Speaker 1: what format these tape recordings are in. But that is

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00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: what you're gonna have to do. You're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: get those into a digital format to get those into Word.

583
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: So you got to figure out how to do that.

584
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: You might need some help with that. An easy way

585
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: to do that is just to buy a cable on

586
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: Amazon which is like a you know, a standard headphone

587
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,440
Speaker 1: jack cable, but it has two headphone jacks on either end.

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00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: You plug one into the device that plays the tape,

589
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: you plug the other into the input jack on your computer,

590
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 1: and you use whatever recording app that's on your computer

591
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Speaker 1: to record these into a digital format. Then you take

592
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: that digital file and you upload it to Microsoft Word.

593
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: How do you upload it to Microsoft Word? Well, I

594
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Speaker 1: need I need to go into let's see, let me

595
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 1: look in Microsoft Word. Because if you're listening and you're like, rich,

596
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: that's a cool feature. How do I do it, and

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00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: I don't really tell you how to do it. That's

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00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: not very useful, now, is it. So you open up

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Speaker 1: a new Word document and we just happen to have

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00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: a subscription to Word through our com company. There is

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Speaker 1: a dictate button on the toolbar there should be, and

602
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: the I'm talking this is the web version of Microsoft Word. Okay,

603
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: so you have to use that. Now. Next to that

604
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: dictate it looks like a little microphone. There is a

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00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:19,719
Speaker 1: down arrow or a carrot pointing down. You press that

606
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: and then it reveals a transcribe button and yes, I know,

607
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 1: I say button weird, and it says generate a transcript

608
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: by uploading your audio data, which can be a wavefile,

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Speaker 1: an MP four, an M four A, or an MP

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Speaker 1: three to start a recording and or start a recording.

611
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: So you can upload audio. Oh wow, you can just

612
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Speaker 1: start a recording. You can do it right from there.

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Speaker 1: But I would just upload the audio and you can

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Speaker 1: do three hundred minutes a month, so you may, you know,

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Speaker 1: depending on how long these things are that I think

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Speaker 1: is new but maybe not interesting. I've never seen the

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Speaker 1: three hundred minutes a month, but okay, well, three hundred

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00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: minutes a month is definitely a bummer, but that might

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Speaker 1: depend on your subscription minds of corporate. I don't know

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00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: what the deal is. So the other thing you can

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Speaker 1: do is use what's called descript de script descript dot com.

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00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,439
Speaker 1: And this is gonna cost you a little bit. Again,

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Speaker 1: it's none of these things are free. When things, when

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00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,359
Speaker 1: things are truly useful, they are not free. And I've

625
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 1: noticed this over and over. If you want real software

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00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 1: that does and solves real problems, it's gonna cost you.

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00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: And so let's see. You can do three hours of

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Speaker 1: transcription one time for free twelve dollars. You can do

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Speaker 1: ten hours a month. So basically you're looking at if

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Speaker 1: you don't want to do the word thing, you can

631
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Speaker 1: just use descript and it would be twelve dollars for

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Speaker 1: a month of ten hours. So depends on how much

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Speaker 1: you got. I mean, I don't really know how many

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Speaker 1: recordings you have, but the ten dollars a month might

635
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Speaker 1: be fine. Now, if you want to go twenty four

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Speaker 1: dollars a month, you can go thirty hours of transcription,

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00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:06,919
Speaker 1: So maybe that's it. Maybe all you need is one month,

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00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: And I would do, believe me, if I pay the

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Speaker 1: twenty four dollars. You definitely definitely want to go and

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Speaker 1: use the entire thirty hours. Do not split that job up,

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00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 1: like make it your your job every day to do that.

642
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: So thanks for the question. Verizon has some new mobile

643
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: hotspot plans, and I'm getting a lot of questions about

644
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: mobile hotspots because people are still really hip on this

645
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 1: whole work from wherever thing. And I understand. I mean,

646
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: I came back to work and we had, you know,

647
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: no masks on, and next thing, you know, a week later,

648
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:47,320
Speaker 1: all this is changing, and it's very it's very dynamic

649
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,240
Speaker 1: right now. When just when I thought things were getting

650
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 1: a little bit better, all of a sudden, it's like, nope,

651
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 1: put on those brakes. I'll keep my thoughts about that

652
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: to myself, but you know, nonetheless, this is what we

653
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: find ourselves in. And so we are in a world where,

654
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: you know, businesses continue to delay people going back to

655
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: the office and for some people they really like that.

656
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 1: And you know, a mobile hotspot is a way to

657
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: get a nice solid internet connection wherever you are. Now.

658
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: Of course your phone can do that, but you know,

659
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: a dedicated hot spot definitely has its advantages. So the

660
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: new plans Essential twenty bucks a month for Verizon customers,

661
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: and that is that's going to give you fifteen gigs

662
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 1: of data. Forty dollars a month for Verizon customers, gives

663
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,760
Speaker 1: you five g and fifty gigs. Sixty dollars for Verizon

664
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: customers will give you five g and one hundred gigs.

665
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 1: And then you've got Premium, which is eighty dollars for

666
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: Verizon customers, and that gives you five g and one

667
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty gigs. So if you're really really a

668
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: road warrior, the eighty dollars one hundred and fifty gigs

669
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: will be fine. Now, if you have a Verizon plan,

670
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 1: you know, obviously a lot of these plans come with

671
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,240
Speaker 1: mobile Internet and you can use that, you know, maybe

672
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 1: start with that before you get a dedicated hotspot. So yeah,

673
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: whether you need this is kind of up to you.

674
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: But some of these plans are more expensive if you

675
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 1: don't have a Hoverzon plan. So you know, it all

676
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 1: depends on what you're doing. If you're traveling every month,

677
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: you know, a standalone plan would be nice, you know,

678
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: or standalone sorry I should say standalone hot spot. But

679
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:25,759
Speaker 1: if you're not traveling that much, I mean I find

680
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,399
Speaker 1: that the hotspot on the the phone works pretty well.

681
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: I mean, the dedicated hotspot is just nice because you

682
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 1: can set it up and just leave it there, like

683
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: if you go to a hotel room, you know, and

684
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: I talked about this before on the podcast. It's just

685
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:40,840
Speaker 1: nice to just like kind of leave it there. You know.

686
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: You don't have to really think about it much. When

687
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,919
Speaker 1: you come into the room. It connects, when you get out,

688
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 1: it disconnects, and that's it. So I do like that

689
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 1: aspect of it. All right, Let's get to another question here,

690
00:37:55,160 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 1: speaking of vaccinations, Patricia says digital vaccinated passport. Hey, which

691
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,320
Speaker 1: I don't know if you covered this already, but which

692
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: digital passport is best to use as proof of COVID

693
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 1: nineteen vaccinations? Patricia, Patricia, there is not a one size

694
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: fits all solution for this just yet. I know we've

695
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 1: heard of some of the you know, some of the

696
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 1: companies trying to come up with this, but your best

697
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: bet at this time is really to just download the

698
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 1: app from the company that gave you. I feel like

699
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: I talked about this before, but I think your best

700
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: bet is just to download the app from the company

701
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 1: that gave you. The vaccine. So whether that's you know,

702
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: carbon Health here in Los Angeles or Clarity whatever, just

703
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:41,800
Speaker 1: look into that and see if they have an app.

704
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 1: And sometimes in those apps they have a way to

705
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: sort of integrate the proof of vaccination into you know,

706
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: either Apple Wallet or Google Pay. And actually Google itself

707
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: announced that they are actively working to bring the vaccination

708
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: codes into Google Pay. Now. I don't know what the

709
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: status of that is. It's probably gonna be a while,

710
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,760
Speaker 1: but you know, and it always takes longer than you think.

711
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: But I think the best thing right now is just

712
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: to keep a copy of that of that vaccination card

713
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:18,360
Speaker 1: on your phone and obviously just keep it safe somewhere,

714
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: you know, in your house, you know, but keep a

715
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: snapshot of it. I've the only time it came in

716
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 1: handy for me so far is at Krispy Kreme. When

717
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 1: I was at Krispy Kreme buying a donut and I

718
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,840
Speaker 1: saw a little sign that said if you're vaccinated, you

719
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 1: get a free Krispy Kream, and I said, oh, I

720
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: have this, And sure enough, I showed the card on

721
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: my phone, which I had taken a picture of because

722
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: I was traveling, and they were like, here you go.

723
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: Free Krispy Kreme, and I thought that was great. So

724
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:51,720
Speaker 1: I anyway, I enjoyed that. It was a very delicious donut.

725
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,240
Speaker 1: Krispy Kreme, by the way, seven seconds in the microwave,

726
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: and it tastes just like it would fresh out of

727
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 1: the oven, you know, or if you are been to

728
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: a Krispy Kreme, you know how they do it. They

729
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: do this thing like where they have the the Krispy

730
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: Kreme's hot like they're coming off this like conveyor belt.

731
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 1: And I think back in the day you used to

732
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: be able to ask for one if you came in

733
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 1: there while it was physically making the donuts. You could

734
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 1: be like, hey, can I have a sample, and they

735
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 1: would give you one along with a little hat like

736
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 1: a paper hat. Now I don't know if they still

737
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 1: do that, but I specifically remember doing that when I

738
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:27,399
Speaker 1: was living in Shreveport, Louisiana, when Krispy Kreme came to town,

739
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: it was like a big deal. And Los Angeles, I

740
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 1: don't think they have as many locations, but you know,

741
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 1: it's one of those things. Story from the Associated Press

742
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: says that if you want to keep your phone safe

743
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:44,359
Speaker 1: from hackers, all you have to do is reset it.

744
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 1: And this little article or this I don't know what

745
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: you call it. I don't know where this originated from. Well,

746
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: I guess it says. Let's see, as a member of

747
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:55,760
Speaker 1: the secretive Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Angus King has reason

748
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,280
Speaker 1: to worry about hackers. That a briefing by security staff

749
00:40:58,320 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 1: this year, he said he got some advice and had

750
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: keep his cell phone secure. Turn it on, turn it off.

751
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 1: That's it, And this is actually some decent advice. The

752
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 1: reasoning that this that they give for turning the phone

753
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: on and off is the fact that a lot of

754
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 1: what Apple and Google have done is protected kind of

755
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: the core base of your phone. So if a hacker

756
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:24,959
Speaker 1: is trying to get into it, they can't really get

757
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: into like the deep dive of your device where they

758
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: would need to really kind of do whatever they want,

759
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 1: like wreck havoc on your phone. Now, especially with the iPhone,

760
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: this is the case, and you know it's happening more

761
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: and more with the androids as well. But the iPhone,

762
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:41,399
Speaker 1: you know, I always talk about this idea of things

763
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 1: being sandboxed, right, so when you have an app, it

764
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:48,360
Speaker 1: only kind of works with itself. It doesn't really interface

765
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 1: with other apps, and if it does, it only does

766
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 1: it in a way that Apple allows. We're on Android.

767
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: There's definitely more leniency. But is that a word leniency

768
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: more lenience? I don't know, but it you know, it

769
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 1: does more, but it's you know, they're tightening things too

770
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,879
Speaker 1: over there. But anyway, the reality is how a lot

771
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,399
Speaker 1: of these hacks now work is you know, they're called

772
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: zero day exploits, where it's kind of like a hole

773
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 1: that they find that they exploit very quickly. And so

774
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,400
Speaker 1: for that reason, a lot of these things run in

775
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 1: like the main memory, like the quick memory, not the

776
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 1: deeper memory that stores all the info on your phone.

777
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: And so if this idea of restarting your phone is right,

778
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: what would happen is when you restart, the phone kind

779
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: of takes stock of what's running in the local memory

780
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 1: and it basically doesn't allow anything it doesn't recognize to

781
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: run because it's highly secure. So, yes, is there a

782
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,799
Speaker 1: way around that? Of course there always is, you know,

783
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: hackers will find a way. But this is saying to

784
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 1: restart your phone about once a week if you really

785
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 1: want to protect your privacy. I mean, I can't say

786
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: not to do that. I probably restart my phone. Now,

787
00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 1: when I'm on Android, I restart much more often than

788
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 1: iPhone iPhone. It could probably go a couple I mean,

789
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 1: probably a month without restarting, But sometimes I will restart

790
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: just to kind of clean things up, clear things out,

791
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: do whatever you do to, you know, to get the

792
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 1: phone kind of back to you know, a fresh restart

793
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 1: kind of situation. But that's the idea of this, of

794
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 1: this turn your phone, turn your phone on and off

795
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 1: once a week. I don't know. I'm not gonna not

796
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: recommend doing it. It's definitely an interesting take on the

797
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:30,720
Speaker 1: whole hack your phone thing, I would say, and I'm

798
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 1: I'm loath to say this, but I feel like most

799
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 1: people's phones are not really at risk of hacking. I

800
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: think that there are much bigger concerns out there, and

801
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:44,280
Speaker 1: I think that clicking on nefarious links is a big concern.

802
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:48,319
Speaker 1: I think that you know, subscriptions that you subscribe to

803
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 1: that you forget about and you get charged twenty bucks

804
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 1: and sometimes even more. I think that's a problem. I

805
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of other things, you know, stealing

806
00:43:56,600 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 1: your personal information willingly like handing it over. So I

807
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:01,839
Speaker 1: think that there are a lot of things that happen

808
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 1: on smartphones that are pretty bad. I think that a

809
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 1: lot of these high level, you know, hack attacks that

810
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: we hear about, you know, for the average person, if

811
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: you're not a journalist or you're not someone that's you know,

812
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: government agent, you know, regular person, you know, is it

813
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,880
Speaker 1: going to happen to you? It could. Chances are you

814
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 1: know that you're not the target, but you could be

815
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: in a drive by. I don't know, it just it

816
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:27,399
Speaker 1: just sort of depends. But anyway, I would say, think

817
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 1: about it. At least you know about it. But I

818
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 1: think that it's one of those things that if you

819
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 1: don't do it, it's not like it's not like you

820
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:35,800
Speaker 1: have to sit there and set a time or to

821
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 1: restart your phone once a week. But it's not gonna

822
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 1: hurt if you do it, just for the mere fact

823
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: that it's a nice thing to do. Anyway. But it's

824
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 1: an interesting thought, and it's one that I hadn't really

825
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 1: heard before. I've interviewed a lot of security people, and

826
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:50,399
Speaker 1: I've never really heard this take. So whenever I haven't

827
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: heard something before, it's always like, Okay, that's that's interesting,

828
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: and I can see why they recommend it. But I

829
00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: don't necessarily know if I'm going to adopt that practice,

830
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:01,800
Speaker 1: even though I probably do it anyway. I mean, I

831
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:04,240
Speaker 1: do turn my phone on and off once in a while,

832
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 1: maybe not once a week, but anyway, Now when you

833
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:09,319
Speaker 1: think about turning on and off your phone, you think

834
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 1: about making it more secure, and so maybe you'll do

835
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 1: it more often. All right, Bob writes in and says

836
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,760
Speaker 1: I did get an Euro router, but I've had connection

837
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: problems with my Canary. I'm told by Canary that Canary

838
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:28,880
Speaker 1: will not work with mesh routers. All other connections are fine, regards, Bob. Yeah, Bob,

839
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:31,399
Speaker 1: you bring up a point that we hear every once

840
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 1: in a while, This whole idea of these mesh routers

841
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 1: not playing nice with some of these IoT devices, Internet

842
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: of things, and the Canary that you're talking about, if

843
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 1: you're not familiar, if you're listening, is a it's kind

844
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:50,040
Speaker 1: of an all in one security camera slash security system.

845
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 1: And the reason I think it's not working with it

846
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 1: is because Canary probably works on a two point four gigahertz,

847
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 1: whereas the Euro is spitting out a five gigahertz, and

848
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: they do this thing where it kind of they call

849
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 1: it band steering. It tries to get the devices to

850
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: connect to the five G because that's the better signal.

851
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 1: Now it's not always the better signal. So there's two

852
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:20,919
Speaker 1: signals typically put out by a Wi Fi router five

853
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 1: g five gigaherts and then two point four gigarherts. Two

854
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 1: point four gigahertz travels further, but it's not as fast.

855
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: Five gigaherts doesn't travel as far, but it is faster.

856
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 1: It's a faster connection. So that's why a lot of

857
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 1: the new gadgets that you're using, like your iPhone and

858
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 1: your you know, your laptop, are using mostly five gigahertz connections.

859
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 1: It's a lot of these Internet of things that use

860
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: just a two point four and a lot of times

861
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: it's fine, but I've definitely run into situations myself now, Bob.

862
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: What I would recommend is on the Euroo app, there

863
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 1: is a little setting in there that will temporarily disable

864
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: five gigahertz connections, and it's pretty smart how euro did this.

865
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 1: So what they did is they give you kind of

866
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 1: a timed option. So if you go into the app,

867
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: you go into i think it's like Advanced Settings, and

868
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: it says you know, force something to the effect of

869
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: force two point four or you know whatever, and you

870
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: click it and next thing, you know, the router will reset.

871
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 1: It'll reset into just two point four, and that's when

872
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 1: you can set up your canary. And then once your

873
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:34,399
Speaker 1: canary is on board with a two point four, it's

874
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,240
Speaker 1: gonna stick there, it's gonna stay there, and then you can,

875
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 1: you know, just continue to use it and the rest

876
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 1: of your network will actually the EURO will then restart

877
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,919
Speaker 1: and it will still continue doing dual band two point

878
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:47,360
Speaker 1: four and five. I know this is very tricky, but

879
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 1: it's a smart way of Eero to get around this

880
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:52,399
Speaker 1: problem of something's not connecting. Now, it doesn't always work,

881
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:57,800
Speaker 1: because I was testing a plug like an outdoor plug,

882
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 1: and it would only connect to two point four and

883
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: I could not get it to connect to my EURO

884
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 1: no matter what, it just would not do it. It

885
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:08,320
Speaker 1: was actually a wise plug. And it was quite embarrassing actually,

886
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:10,879
Speaker 1: because I was on a Facebook or an Instagram live

887
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: trying to show people how easy it is to set

888
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 1: up a plug, a smart plug outside and it just

889
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 1: would not connect. And I'm like, all right, let me

890
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: take a pause here, let me try this again, and

891
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: I probably spent an hour on that thing trying to

892
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,839
Speaker 1: get it to work. I emailed whys and they were

893
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: not really aware of the issue. They said it it

894
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 1: shouldn't have happened. So I ended up buying just another

895
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: another plug, a smart plug from Greenie or is it

896
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 1: Greeny or Genie. I forget, but it's one of the

897
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:41,840
Speaker 1: cheaper brands on Amazon, and it works just fine. It

898
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:47,160
Speaker 1: was like eighteen bucks still working. So now the Villo

899
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 1: that I mentioned earlier, that's a sixty dollars meshrouter. The

900
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: interesting thing about that is that they're well aware of

901
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 1: this issue, just like ero Is, but they made it

902
00:48:56,320 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: even easier. They they basically set up the router so

903
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 1: it automatically figures this out and it will just kind

904
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 1: of help these devices connect to the two point four.

905
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:10,680
Speaker 1: So what I'm guessing they do is they must ping

906
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: the device say okay, can you accept a five gigahertz connection? No? Okay,

907
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 1: Well here's the other one we can do. And so

908
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 1: I think that's what they're doing, just to make that

909
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 1: a little bit easier and make people have less issues

910
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 1: with these with these things connecting. So Dell is this

911
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 1: is an article out of the Register. I don't know

912
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 1: if you know this, but I used to edit this

913
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,439
Speaker 1: website called tech Meme tech meme dot com. It's still

914
00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:38,280
Speaker 1: my favorite tech website of all times. And they actually

915
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:42,360
Speaker 1: don't write tech stories. They do write headlines. But the

916
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 1: way this website works is the person who started it,

917
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: Gabe Rivera, He basically programmed in an algorithm that kind

918
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 1: of takes into consideration all these different tech websites, so

919
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: they get fed into this entire system, and then it

920
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:04,360
Speaker 1: kind of figures out the way of laying out stories

921
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 1: on a web page that are popular and what people

922
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,720
Speaker 1: are clicking, what people are reading, and not just one story.

923
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:12,040
Speaker 1: You can see all the sources of these stories. So

924
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:15,760
Speaker 1: what's really powerful about tech Meme is, like, let's say

925
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:20,120
Speaker 1: pretty much every story out there except for reviews, has

926
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:23,880
Speaker 1: one source, and then all the blogs rewrite that story

927
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 1: just citing that source, or sometimes they don't cite it

928
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 1: at all. But what tech Meme does is it brings

929
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 1: them all together. And then the magic part is that

930
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: it figures out who had the original story. And when

931
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:38,719
Speaker 1: it figures out who had the original story, it generally

932
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 1: puts that as the main link and all the other

933
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: ones below it. Now it doesn't always put that as

934
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 1: the main link because sometimes it's trying to, you know,

935
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: show stories that are you know, a little bit more

936
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 1: easy to read. Like there's a lot I don't know,

937
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,080
Speaker 1: there's a magic sauce to it that I'm not at

938
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 1: liberty to explain, but you know, there's definitely a rhyme

939
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: and reason to the way things are laid out on

940
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: this website. But anyway, it's a great website. And they

941
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:09,359
Speaker 1: have an article from the Register that talks about how

942
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:12,520
Speaker 1: if you're trying to buy a high powered gaming PC,

943
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: well you better not be shipping it to California and

944
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:21,400
Speaker 1: five other states that include Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington.

945
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 1: And so specifically it's this alien ware Aurora Rise in

946
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:28,360
Speaker 1: addition R ten Gaming desktop. And if you go to

947
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:31,360
Speaker 1: the website, which I did, it's literally like a big

948
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: giant warning label that says, if you try to let me,

949
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: let me read you exactly what it says, this configuration

950
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: cannot be shipped to California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont or

951
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 1: Washington due to power consumption regulations. Any orders bound for

952
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: those states will be canceled. And so this computer is

953
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:54,799
Speaker 1: so you know, power hungry that you can't you can't

954
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 1: have it in California. I mean, it's pretty wild with

955
00:51:57,600 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: you know, you think, okay, I've got a computer my

956
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 1: house and it's like it's using too much energy for

957
00:52:02,200 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 1: the state of California. It's pretty wild. Next thing that's

958
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:10,959
Speaker 1: going to happen is on let's see December ninth. They're

959
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 1: going to target computers with high speed networking capability, multi

960
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:17,839
Speaker 1: screen notebooks, and computers with cyclical behavior whatever that is,

961
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:21,279
Speaker 1: and also monitors with high refresh rates. Those are gonna

962
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:24,319
Speaker 1: be covered by these rules as well. So you know,

963
00:52:24,400 --> 00:52:26,359
Speaker 1: it's one of those things that you kind of it's

964
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:28,839
Speaker 1: like a little bit of a head scratcher. But you know,

965
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:31,879
Speaker 1: we've heard how bitcoin computers can really use a lot

966
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 1: of energy. I guess gaming computers do too, But in general,

967
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,760
Speaker 1: I guess my takeaway is if you have a computer

968
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 1: and it's not going to sleep or the you know,

969
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 1: the monitors not going off, it's probably best to go

970
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: into your power settings and make sure that that thing

971
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:48,920
Speaker 1: shuts off or goes to sleep after a certain amount

972
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 1: of time. If you have a laptop, most of the

973
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,680
Speaker 1: time they do that anyway. But I've walked past plenty

974
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:55,960
Speaker 1: of computers in my lifetime. They're just on like twenty

975
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,840
Speaker 1: four to seven like all the time, and so you

976
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 1: don't want to be contributing to that problem. So because

977
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 1: maybe if we you know, if we do this right,

978
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: we won't have to ban these energy hungry PCs. Valerie emails.

979
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: I get this email every probably every other day. Valerie says, Rich,

980
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:19,920
Speaker 1: have you heard of the bolts Pro charger? What do

981
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 1: you think about it? Thanks? Valerie. I hope I didn't

982
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 1: answer this in my last Did I answer this in

983
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 1: my last one? Let me say I might have answered

984
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 1: this question in my last podcast, but I'll just say

985
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:35,400
Speaker 1: I'll give it. I'll give the answer again because I

986
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:40,799
Speaker 1: get this email so often. Clearly, boltz Pro is advertising

987
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:46,880
Speaker 1: on social media. Clearly, it's just unbelievably amazing what it does. Clearly,

988
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:52,320
Speaker 1: the first ad is for boltz Pro. And if you

989
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,879
Speaker 1: look at all the reviews, I'm looking at one, two, three,

990
00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 1: the first four websites. Now, typically if there was a

991
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:03,839
Speaker 1: big review on this thing, it would you know, it'd

992
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 1: be pretty clear. I'm looking at this and yeah, the

993
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 1: first review that I see is from a website called

994
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:18,680
Speaker 1: the Signal Santa Clarita Valley, Santa Clarita Valley's number one

995
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 1: local news source. And this is totally advertorial because it's

996
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 1: not talking about the charger as a review. It's literally

997
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:33,719
Speaker 1: just linking to the charger, so that's bogus. Then we've

998
00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 1: got a Quora website and yeah, people are saying that

999
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:47,480
Speaker 1: it's probably not legitimate there. Then we have the bolts

1000
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:51,359
Speaker 1: Pro Oh wow. Then we have the Kent Reporter and

1001
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:56,719
Speaker 1: it's another sponsored content, so that's definitely. And then we

1002
00:54:56,840 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 1: have the Lifestyle and tech looking blog and written by

1003
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 1: John our resident tech gadget expert. He's an avid gardener

1004
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:08,560
Speaker 1: and has a black belt in karate. And this is

1005
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:11,720
Speaker 1: their actual website, but it looks like a style blog,

1006
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:16,439
Speaker 1: a lifestyle blog, and it says advertorial right at the top.

1007
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:19,480
Speaker 1: And this is just a standard USB charger. This is

1008
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:21,960
Speaker 1: something you can order on Amazon from anchor and you know,

1009
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:26,319
Speaker 1: no big deal, so don't don't buy it. That's that's

1010
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:29,360
Speaker 1: my recommendation. By the way, at the end of the

1011
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 1: website it says this is an advertisement and not an

1012
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 1: actual news article, blog or consumer protection update, so clearly

1013
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:39,960
Speaker 1: you know it's just one of these things that it

1014
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 1: all adds up to just don't just stay away from it.

1015
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 1: I mean, it's so it's so interesting that there's this

1016
00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:50,440
Speaker 1: entire cottage industry of stuff advertised that's just so good

1017
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:54,080
Speaker 1: and so too good to be true that people buy

1018
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 1: it and it's just total like you don't need to

1019
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:58,319
Speaker 1: buy it, like just just go to a website like

1020
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 1: Amazon and buy the real thing. All right, If you

1021
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 1: have SiriusXM, you might want to check into the Platinum

1022
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:09,160
Speaker 1: VIP subscription. This is brand new, and I should qualify

1023
00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:13,279
Speaker 1: that if you have SERIOUSXM in two cars, that's when

1024
00:56:13,320 --> 00:56:16,879
Speaker 1: you should look at this. So Serious XM I think

1025
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 1: with the new Pandora owners is definitely kind of cleaning

1026
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: things up a bit. I've always joked how every year

1027
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: my wife has Serious XM in her car, and every year,

1028
00:56:25,719 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: you know, I call and it's like a three hundred

1029
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:31,239
Speaker 1: and thirty dollars renewal fee, and then I call in

1030
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:33,319
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh no, sir, we can It'll be

1031
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:35,440
Speaker 1: sixty bucks for the year. Oh okay, but you have

1032
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:36,880
Speaker 1: to do that every year. You got to call in.

1033
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 1: Now I've noticed they actually let you do it online.

1034
00:56:40,719 --> 00:56:42,440
Speaker 1: It used to be when you said I want to cancel,

1035
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 1: you had to call in. Now they're giving you some

1036
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 1: offers on the website. Now they may not be as

1037
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 1: good as calling in, but you know, you can still

1038
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:51,920
Speaker 1: kind of do it without any human interaction, which is

1039
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:55,319
Speaker 1: my preferred way of doing things. But the Serious XM

1040
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 1: Platinum VIP gives you up to two cars, so you

1041
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:01,839
Speaker 1: can have a radio in each car, you know, a

1042
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:05,240
Speaker 1: Serious XM login for each as well as special perks

1043
00:57:05,239 --> 00:57:09,640
Speaker 1: including Serious XM events whatever, but nobody cares about that.

1044
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 1: Plus VIP customer service with priority call handling. So it

1045
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 1: says it's thirty five dollars a month. This includes every channel,

1046
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:20,360
Speaker 1: so you get all the channels. It says it's thirty

1047
00:57:20,360 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 1: five dollars a month, which you know, for two cars,

1048
00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 1: it's not too bad. But I guarantee you can get

1049
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 1: it for cheaper. The offer that I saw when I

1050
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 1: logged in was it was either like one hundred bucks

1051
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 1: for six months or one hundred bucks for twelve months,

1052
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 1: which I tried to change for my wife's subscription so

1053
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:37,680
Speaker 1: that I can get it in my car as well.

1054
00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:41,040
Speaker 1: You know, I like to sample what's going on, you know,

1055
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 1: in different mediums and so you know, but it would

1056
00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 1: not let me switch for some reason. It just was

1057
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 1: not having it. So but if you have two cars

1058
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:52,400
Speaker 1: with serious XM and you like what you have there,

1059
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:56,120
Speaker 1: then I would definitely check into the new platinum offering.

1060
00:57:56,760 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 1: Oh well, you know what that sound means? Is going

1061
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:04,920
Speaker 1: to do it for this show? Wow? How does the

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Speaker 1: that's that's a good point. First is just like I

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Speaker 1: love rich I love the podcast. It's such a great podcast,

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Speaker 1: technology station or section. Why is it say station here? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Now I just gave it away that I read this.

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Speaker 1: Scroll out to the technology section and watch all of

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways

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Speaker 1: you can spend an hour of your time. I do

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Speaker 1: appreciate you spending it with me. Stay safe, I'll talk

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