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Speaker 1: My review of Samsung's new foldable phones. Apple makes some

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Speaker 1: Temiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where

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Speaker 1: I talk about the tech stuff I think you should

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Speaker 1: KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Coming to you this time around from Las Vegas. So

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Speaker 1: if it sounds just a little bit different, that is

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Speaker 1: it Park MGM. It's one of those park MGM. So

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting here in the Park MGM, which I have

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Speaker 1: It's a smoke free casino, which is really unique. And

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Speaker 1: end of the day. So if it was a twenty

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Speaker 1: dollars book, I would probably end up with, you know,

430
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Speaker 1: five dollars, which is great because guess what, it's five

431
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Speaker 1: dollars that I didn't have before. And so all of

432
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Speaker 1: those little fees were just kind of the price of

433
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Speaker 1: doing business. And this is what bugs me about businesses

434
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Speaker 1: that charge you an extra four percent to use your

435
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Speaker 1: credit card or debit card or whatever, mostly credit cards,

436
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,720
Speaker 1: because I'm like, well, if I don't spend this money

437
00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,880
Speaker 1: here there, you get no money. And so if I'm

438
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Speaker 1: spending my money here, the four percent that you have

439
00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:33,200
Speaker 1: to pay, or the three percent you got to pay

440
00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,919
Speaker 1: the visa for the interchange fees or whatever, is just

441
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,720
Speaker 1: kind of the cost of doing business, Like you're accepting

442
00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,119
Speaker 1: this convenient way for me to pay. We all know

443
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Speaker 1: that people tend to spend more money when they use

444
00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:47,439
Speaker 1: their their plastic, and so why are we charging me extra?

445
00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 1: Because now I'm gonna use cash, I'm gonna be very

446
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Speaker 1: cognizant of how much I'm spending. I'm gonna have a

447
00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,240
Speaker 1: bad user experience. I'm probably not gonna go back to

448
00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,960
Speaker 1: your business because it's just annoying, and so for all

449
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Speaker 1: those reasons, I'm kind of like, just just take the

450
00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,879
Speaker 1: credit card, don't say a word, and just you know,

451
00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,240
Speaker 1: it's like I got my air conditioning redone. And by

452
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Speaker 1: the way, that's one of those things that I call

453
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,320
Speaker 1: it the the fixes that get you back to where

454
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:13,080
Speaker 1: you were. You know, they fix the air, which, yeah,

455
00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:14,840
Speaker 1: it's a little bit colder, but it's like, you know,

456
00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 1: the guy charged like three percent on top just to

457
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Speaker 1: use a card, which was much more convenient than writing

458
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Speaker 1: a check and this and that. But it's like, you're

459
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Speaker 1: charging me so much for this, Like you really got

460
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Speaker 1: to charge me another three percent? And I get it.

461
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:30,400
Speaker 1: The business margins are very slim. But anyway, I'm going

462
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Speaker 1: off on a tangent here. But so here's what Apple

463
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Speaker 1: says they're going to do. These are like the big

464
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Speaker 1: things that Apple says are going to do. Okay, they

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Speaker 1: are going to give businesses earning less than a million

466
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Speaker 1: a reduced commission. So that's I guess better. Apple has

467
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Speaker 1: agreed to keep search the same way for three years,

468
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Speaker 1: which I don't really understand that that seems like a loss,

469
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Speaker 1: but there you go. And this is like the big

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Speaker 1: change that it's kind of like it sounds good, but

471
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Speaker 1: it's not that good. So Apple is clarifying that developers

472
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Speaker 1: can use can use communications such as email to share

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Speaker 1: information about payment methods outside of their iOS app. So

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Speaker 1: if if let's say I sign up for Spotify through

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Speaker 1: iTunes or through the app store, right, and I pay

476
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Speaker 1: twelve ninety nine a month, and then you know somehow,

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Speaker 1: Now the question is do developers get my email address?

478
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:34,399
Speaker 1: That's the big question. Okay, I don't know if developers

479
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Speaker 1: get the emails from their users. I guess when you

480
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Speaker 1: sign up you probably do anyway, So I guess Spotify

481
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Speaker 1: can now turn around and say, hey, Rich, you know

482
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Speaker 1: that if you sign up through our website you can

483
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Speaker 1: pay nine to ninety nine a month instead of twelve

484
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Speaker 1: ninety nine a month. And I go, oh, that's cool. Now, yes,

485
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 1: there will be some people that do that immediately, but

486
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Speaker 1: some people are just gonna say, ah, that it's more convenient

487
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Speaker 1: just to leave the subscription through through Apple, through the

488
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Speaker 1: app store and just leave it at that. But that's

489
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Speaker 1: the main I'm trying to read through some of the

490
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Speaker 1: uh yeah, some of the comments on this on tech meme,

491
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Speaker 1: and you know, a lot of people are saying the

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Speaker 1: main thing about this is that they're allowing developers to

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Speaker 1: email users and just say, look, you can. I guess

494
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Speaker 1: if you sign up for a service, they're going to

495
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Speaker 1: have your email address if you use like a you know,

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Speaker 1: a real email, So no matter what, And here's the thing,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you realize this, but whenever you

498
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Speaker 1: sign up for a service, a lot of them are

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Speaker 1: a little bit more expensive if you sign up through

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Speaker 1: the app store. So if it's a monthly subscription, it

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Speaker 1: may be you know U for Pandora, Let's say it

502
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Speaker 1: might be six dollars a month if you sign up

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00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:42,919
Speaker 1: through the app Store, but it might be five dollars

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Speaker 1: a month if you went to their website and signed up.

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00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 1: And again it goes back to that charging a little

506
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Speaker 1: bit of a premium. The developers charge a premium because

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Speaker 1: they have to pay Apple thirty percent or whatever, h

508
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,879
Speaker 1: fifteen to thirty percent forever on that subscription. So they're like, well,

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Speaker 1: if you have to do that, let's just charge people

510
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Speaker 1: a little bit more for that convenience. So now I

511
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Speaker 1: guess the big thing is that Pandora can now email

512
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Speaker 1: me and say, hey, you do have some other options

513
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Speaker 1: for subscriptions. Do you want to put your credit card

514
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Speaker 1: in on our website and get a little cheaper rate?

515
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 1: And I see both sides. It's like, you know, it

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Speaker 1: opens up a lot of things where you can now

517
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Speaker 1: accept bitcoin for your payment, you can accept PayPal, you

518
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 1: can accept you know, whatever you want. That makes it

519
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Speaker 1: easy for the customers instead of just the you know,

520
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Speaker 1: Apple payment. So it's not a huge huge change, but

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Speaker 1: I do think that it will help developers in a

522
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Speaker 1: little bit, just to just to expand and give people

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Speaker 1: some options. All right, Again, I don't have my little sound,

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Speaker 1: you know, my little sound I make. But let's go

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Speaker 1: to the next question. Michael says, Rich, I'm in the

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Speaker 1: market for a new tablet for my seven year old daughter.

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Speaker 1: Is there a tablet you recommend for her? Also? She

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Speaker 1: is a heavy Roadblocks user. Any information you can share

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Speaker 1: will be appreciated. Mike, Mike, if I had my buzzer,

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Speaker 1: I would say to Roadblocks because it is banned in

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Speaker 1: my house. I don't like it. I feel like it's

532
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 1: a lot of nonsense, and it's just it's one of

533
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Speaker 1: those games that every kid is playing. It's easy, it's convenient,

534
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 1: there's so much on there. It's free, and the reality

535
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Speaker 1: is they're just getting you on the back end, because

536
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Speaker 1: what kids do is after a while of playing roadblocks,

537
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: what do they want? They just want parents to buy

538
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,679
Speaker 1: the Roebucks and also some of the games on there.

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00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 1: I just don't like anyway. For that reason, it is

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Speaker 1: banned in my house. It has been banned for a

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Speaker 1: long time. My kids begged me to play it. Not

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Speaker 1: so much my older kid, but my younger kid, you know,

543
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Speaker 1: begs me pretty much every day, please, guy, have an hour, please,

544
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 1: And I'm so mean, I just say no. But I

545
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Speaker 1: feel like I'm protecting him from something that's just nonsense.

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Speaker 1: You know. It's just like, you don't really need this.

547
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,879
Speaker 1: The problem is a lot of kids are playing it,

548
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Speaker 1: and so you kind of take that out of the works.

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00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,240
Speaker 1: Where my kid is very social and he's fine, he

550
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,359
Speaker 1: has other things to talk about with his friends, but

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00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 1: he said, you know, it's like, oh, this is what

552
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,000
Speaker 1: the kids talk about in class. And so I understand

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Speaker 1: that it's tough and I don't know, it's just one

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00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,440
Speaker 1: of these things. But anyway, So the tablet I would

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Speaker 1: recommend that I always recommend for every child is the iPad,

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00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 1: and it used to be the iPad Mini, but they're

557
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 1: not really updating that as much. So definitely the standard iPad.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, it sells for three twenty nine and

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00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:22,159
Speaker 1: I would go find the deals, so search on Google

560
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 1: iPad deals or deal and then hit the news tab

561
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,719
Speaker 1: and then you will find all of the people that

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00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 1: are blogging about the deals on this on this iPad,

563
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 1: so you can find it typically for you know, anywhere

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Speaker 1: from thirty to fifty dollars off, sometimes more. So that's

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Speaker 1: what I would recommend. I did test the I know,

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Speaker 1: the Amazon Fire Kids tab is very compelling because it's

567
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:52,119
Speaker 1: so inexpensive, but the reality is I just can't recommend

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00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 1: that in good faith because the iPad is going to

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Speaker 1: last you four years minimum, whereas the tablet from Amazon

570
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:05,360
Speaker 1: on out of the box is laggy, it's slow, it's cumbersome.

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Speaker 1: It's just not a good experience. And that's on day one.

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00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 1: So imagine three years in your kid's going to be

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Speaker 1: pulling their hair out. Now. I get it that it's cheaper,

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Speaker 1: but when you do the math over the three years,

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Speaker 1: the three hundred dollars that you're gonna spend on the

576
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: iPad is well well worth it. And also there's much

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00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:25,639
Speaker 1: there's just so much better accessories, so many better accessories,

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00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: I should say, if I'm using the English language properly,

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Speaker 1: there's so many better accessories, there's so many better apps,

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Speaker 1: And it's just one of those things that it's like

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00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 1: when you're looking for a case, you're just gonna find

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00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 1: a better case. When you're looking, you know you want

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00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: to use the Apple pencil, you can use that. You

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00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: know you're looking for apps, and you know you might

585
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 1: even have an iPhone Mic so it'll work nicely with that.

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00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 1: But those are all the reasons that I recommend that

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Speaker 1: I can't recommend any other tablet. In fact, my kids,

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00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: when they tested the Amazon Fire Kids tablet, basically gave

589
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 1: up on it because they could not get roadblocks to

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00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: work on it properly. And I don't know if it

591
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: was a defective tablet that I got, but I agree

592
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: it was just a nightmare of getting it to work,

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00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: and so I just can't recommend it for that. So

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00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: go for the standard iPad. If you were really being really,

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00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: really good, I would recommend the bump up to the

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Speaker 1: one twenty eight gigs. My father in law had just

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00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: helped him buy a new iPad for his trip overseas,

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00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: and we sat there and we purchased it online. And

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00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 1: excuse me, it was you know, you had a thirty

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00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: two gig model or the one twenty eight. I think

601
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: it's hundred dollars more for the one twenty eight. I

602
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 1: don't think you necessarily need that for your child, but

603
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: for him. You know, if you're traveling you want to

604
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: download movies on this thing. Your kid's probably gonna be

605
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 1: streaming most of the time anyway, so it's probably not

606
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 1: that big of a deal. But you know, if you

607
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 1: if money was, you know, if you had the budget

608
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 1: for it, I'd say go for the higher one. But

609
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: you don't have to anyway. But by the time we

610
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:52,239
Speaker 1: set it all up, it was kind of cool. They

611
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 1: actually come to you, at least in LA and help

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00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 1: you set up the tablet, so they literally give you

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00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: an appointment, and it was couple days later they bring

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00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 1: the iPad to you and they will sit there and

615
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: help you set up all of your stuff. And he said,

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00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: it was a fantastic experience and it's just one of

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00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 1: those magical things that only Apple does, and this is

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00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: why they are so on top with things, all right,

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Speaker 1: a little bit of news here from Fitbit. I won't

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00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: spend too much time on it, but they have a

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Speaker 1: new Fitbit Charge five, and Google says this is their

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00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 1: most advanced health and fitness tracker, and it's got all

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Speaker 1: kinds of things. So it's thinner, it's sleeker, it's got

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00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: a brighter touch screen. It's got up to seven days

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00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,440
Speaker 1: of battery life, which is really nice. And so far

626
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 1: we haven't seen a real, real strong alternative to the

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00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: Apple Watch, but we've seen a lot of alternatives, and

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00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: so I think that this new Fitbit Charge five is

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Speaker 1: definitely if you're on the Android side of things, I

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00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 1: think that this is something that could fit the bill.

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00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: I have not tested it, but it looks really cool.

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00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 1: And if I end up switching to the Pixel six

633
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 1: later this year, I'll see if I can stay on

634
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch, which would be ideal, but I might

635
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: have to switch to this. But the one thing that

636
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: they're really pushing on this is this new Fitbit Premium,

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00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: which seems like if it's really ten dollars a month,

638
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 1: that seems like a lot to pay for like a

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00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: fitness I mean, I know Apple has Apple Fitness plus,

640
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 1: but that's a lot. Yeah, ten dollars a month. I

641
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 1: don't know, like I mean, I know they have like

642
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: all kinds of like little workout plans and you get

643
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,160
Speaker 1: all this like insights, but that's a tall order ten

644
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: dollars a month. But anyway, so you get six months,

645
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: six months of that included. But a couple of features

646
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: is that you get this new This is kind of

647
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: interesting and I think a lot of the news people

648
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: picked up on this. But you get a fitness fatigue Okay,

649
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: So you get a workout readiness score, so it'll tell

650
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 1: you if your body is ready for a workout or

651
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 1: if you should prioritize recovery, which means just sitting on

652
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: the couch. So in the morning, you're gonna get a

653
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: score based on your fitness activity, so how much you

654
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 1: did the day before, I guess your heart rate variability

655
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: and your recent sleep and so you will see it.

656
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: It'll be like, yeah, you used to work out. Yeah

657
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: you shouldn't work out today, which is important because recovery

658
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: is a big part of working out. Right, You got

659
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 1: to give your body that rest so it can otherwise

660
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: sometimes you feel really tired during your next workout or

661
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: feel like you have no energy. It also gives you

662
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: recommended target active zone minutes a goal, which is pretty

663
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,440
Speaker 1: much the only thing that I look at on the

664
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 1: Apple Watch is if I'm meeting my goal for the

665
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: active minutes that I should have. So I don't care

666
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: about steps, I don't care about you know the standing.

667
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: All I care about is that I my heart rate

668
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: reached a certain point for a certain amount of minutes

669
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: every day, and for me, that's thirty minutes of I

670
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 1: don't know what the rate is, but it's you know,

671
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: it's elevated heart rate. And so as long as I

672
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 1: get that, I feel like I'm I'm doing a good thing.

673
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 1: Some days are more than others, but I do try

674
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: to hit that thirty minutes a day. And then it

675
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: also has built in GPS. It's got twenty exercise modes,

676
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: automatic exercise recognition, it can recognize your oxygen. Let's see

677
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: what else. You get a stress management score, which is

678
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: kind of cool. I think that we are definitely going

679
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 1: to see more of an emphasis on total well being. Right.

680
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: It used to be if you know, you had a

681
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: six pack, or you had good you know, biceps, big arms, whatever,

682
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: or if you were thin you know, that was fine,

683
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: but nowadays it's I think that physical health is way

684
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: more than just those things. It is really how you

685
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: feel on a daily basis. It's you know, it's how

686
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: you the stress levels that you have. You know, it's

687
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: your mood, it's your anxiety, it's it's a lot of things,

688
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: not just do you look physically fit. And so I

689
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 1: think we're gonna see a lot more emphasis on kind

690
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: of you know, like I said, kind of a holistic

691
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 1: view of well being. So you've got a lot of

692
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: different things, like just so many things that you know,

693
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 1: the sleep, Like I said, sleep, Like people are just

694
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: kind of putting this big emphasis on sleep, which we

695
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: always knew was important, but now we're realizing, like this

696
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,439
Speaker 1: whole idea of getting no sleep is just not good

697
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: for you, not healthy. And it's funny because I never

698
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 1: really cared about sleep. I've always been not a light sleeper,

699
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 1: but I've always been kind of an early riser, and

700
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: obviously with my current job, I'm you know, always waking

701
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: up very early. But I never really cared about, you know,

702
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: the hours I slept until I met my wife, and

703
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: she's very much into, like I need my eight or

704
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,799
Speaker 1: nine hours. I'm like, wow, that's a lot. I think

705
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 1: I personally need closer to six or seven hours to

706
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,439
Speaker 1: function pretty well. And honestly, like even on a little

707
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: bit of sleep, I can still function. So a lot

708
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: of people if they get only a couple hours like

709
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 1: I can, I'm just not available to do anything. I

710
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 1: don't typically feel like that. It all depends, like you

711
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,319
Speaker 1: know what the situation is. Anyway, Charge five gonna be

712
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 1: available for one hundred and eighty dollars. That includes six

713
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: months of the premium membership, and it's going to be

714
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 1: available this fall. Looking forward to checking that one out.

715
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 1: All right, let's get on to the next question. Let's see, Cindy,

716
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: let's let's see. I'm trying to find a good question here. Okay,

717
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: here's one from Ray. Ray says, hey, Rich, thanks for

718
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 1: the oh thanks for continuing links in your podcast. Okay, thanks.

719
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,879
Speaker 1: I did put back the links in case you haven't

720
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 1: noticed in the Great Google Search segment. This is a

721
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 1: segment I did on KTLA and I mentioned it on

722
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: the podcast about how to search better. I learned some

723
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: good things PDF and versus. The one thing I want, though,

724
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 1: is default is a default search timeframe? Why would I

725
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: want results from three years ago, and why do I

726
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: have to pre select the time one year every time

727
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 1: I initiate a search. Is there a default mode on

728
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 1: Google or my new favorite Neva cheers. Good question. So

729
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: what you're referring to, Ray is the when you do

730
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:58,919
Speaker 1: a search on Google, if you look to the right

731
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,319
Speaker 1: of the search, it says tools, and then you can

732
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 1: drill down and you can choose a time frame for

733
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: your results. And that timeframe could be you know, a week,

734
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,240
Speaker 1: it could be a day, it could be a year.

735
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a day. Let's let me try.

736
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 1: Let's try Rich, I'll just search myself and tools. Okay,

737
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,439
Speaker 1: So you can do anytime past oh, past hour? Wow,

738
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: I can see if people mentioned me in the past

739
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 1: hour and yeah, wow, twenty three minutes ago, kfi. Okay,

740
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,879
Speaker 1: so you can do past hour, you can do oh wow,

741
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: oh interesting. You can do past twenty four hours, past week,

742
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 1: past month, past year, and then custom range. So Ray,

743
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 1: to answer your question, I don't see a way of

744
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,759
Speaker 1: selecting a default for that. I agree. I think that

745
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: would be good, but you would also be missing out

746
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:56,439
Speaker 1: on some very relevant results that may not be from

747
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 1: a year ago. Or three months ago or whatever. Like.

748
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: They may be older results, but it's like the most

749
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 1: relevant results. So I understand why Google's not necessarily snapping

750
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: to like whatever you last choose. But I also do

751
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: think that if you know the limitations of that search

752
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 1: that you know and you set it, that should be fine.

753
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: So I don't see this as a default with Google,

754
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure that Neva does it as well.

755
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: But I think there might be a you know, like

756
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 1: a power Let's see if there's like a power Google

757
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: Chrome extension. Oh, here we go, power up Google. So

758
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: there might be let's see, what does it do ensures

759
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:41,720
Speaker 1: that video animations and gifts embedded in your Oh no, no,

760
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 1: that's not it. So you know, there might be like

761
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: an extension that helps you change kind of the default

762
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: settings on Chrome or on Google to the way you

763
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 1: want them. But I haven't. I have not found it

764
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 1: in just a quick but I would look for something

765
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: like Google Settings extension on Chrome or like you know,

766
00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 1: power user on Chrome. I don't know. I mean it's

767
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 1: it's I don't know, but it's not clearly it's not

768
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: something that's there and easily doable. But that is a

769
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: good question, and I wish it, yeah, but I'm glad

770
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: you learned from the Google segment that was That was

771
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:15,839
Speaker 1: one of the most popular segments this year. Actually the

772
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: most popular segment this year so far is the digital

773
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,479
Speaker 1: vaccination card for your phone and so I talked about

774
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 1: that on the last podcast. But oh, Google search tips

775
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:29,399
Speaker 1: is a close second, okay. So, and then refurbished tech

776
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: deals was popular. My Orange Chicken beyond Orange Chicken Taste

777
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 1: test was very popular. The Wi Fi system, the Villo

778
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: was really popular. The gadgets to track your kids was

779
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: really popular. And the only way I know if segments

780
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: are popular, there's only two ways I know if you're

781
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: watching my segments. Number one is if you click on

782
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 1: my rich on tech dot Tv, I get like a

783
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 1: you know, it'll say how many people clicked on the link,

784
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: so I can see that. And then on KTLA they

785
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: will send out like the links every day so I

786
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: can see that. I can see the top videos. And

787
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: then of course I can just tell the interest on

788
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,919
Speaker 1: Instagram and Facebook and Twitter, if you know, if you're

789
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 1: you know, sharing a lot or commenting a lot, that's

790
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: another way that I can see what you're into. But

791
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: it's tough. I mean, since we're not fully fully digital

792
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: and like all this stuff is kind of fragmented. You know,

793
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: I'm kind of I go into this stuff, like, you know,

794
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 1: just with a gut feeling of Hey, do I think

795
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 1: people will really like this? Or do I think this

796
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: is a story that people will like? All right, Cindy,

797
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 1: let's go to another question. Cindy says, is there a

798
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:38,320
Speaker 1: way to retrieve text messages and photos deleted from an iPhone? Twelve?

799
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:43,280
Speaker 1: Thanks Cindy sent for my iPhone. Cindy, you would think

800
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: that it would be easy to do this. Now. I

801
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:49,720
Speaker 1: know you said photos, but you said text message in photos,

802
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: so it's not like photos. There is a way to

803
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: retrieve those if you go into your if you go

804
00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: into the photos app and you deleted something, you can

805
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 1: go into your albums and all the way at the

806
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: bottom it says recently deleted. So if I was a

807
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 1: sleuth on someone's iPhone and I was kind of snooping around,

808
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,799
Speaker 1: that'd be the first place I look for what they

809
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 1: recently deleted. But I'm just saying you can also empty

810
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 1: that out as well. But when it comes to text messages,

811
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: there's no trash on the text messages so when you

812
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 1: delete something, it is gone, and the only way to

813
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 1: get that back would be to dig through a recent

814
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,760
Speaker 1: backup of your I messages. And guess what, the average

815
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 1: person is never going to be able to do that

816
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 1: because it's just so complicated. You would think that you'd

817
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: be able, and I talk about this all the time

818
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 1: on the podcast. You think that you'd be able to

819
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: go onto iCloud dot com and just download, you know,

820
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 1: or just sift through your trash on your messages, but

821
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: you can't. You think on your iPhone you might have

822
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 1: a messages trash, but you don't. And I don't know

823
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 1: why they don't have that. I don't know what the

824
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 1: reasoning was for that, because you would think it would

825
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: make sense, like on Gmail you have a trash. Now

826
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 1: maybe I'm completely wrong. Maybe you're listening to this right

827
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: now and you're saying, Rich, what are you talking about.

828
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 1: The trash is at the bottom of the messages pile

829
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: or something like that, But I don't think it is.

830
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: I think when you delete a message, there's just no

831
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 1: way to get it back as far as I know,

832
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: except for it says would you like to delete this conversation?

833
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 1: This conversation will be deleted from all of your devices.

834
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,359
Speaker 1: Delete boom, It's gone, and I have no way of

835
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 1: seeing that again. So the only way is if your

836
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,399
Speaker 1: phone was backed up the night before and you can

837
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: get into that backup. And the only way that I

838
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 1: know how to do that is with an app called

839
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 1: i Amazing or something similar Imazing dot com. There's a

840
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: bunch of these apps. There's also one called doctor Phone

841
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: Doctor fone, and this is kind of like a recovery

842
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 1: solution for iPhone. But both of them require you to

843
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 1: have a backup of your iPhone on your computer, and

844
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of tricky. Now you might say, well,

845
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: can I use a third party to sort of import

846
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: my mesa, you know, on a daily basis from the iPhone,

847
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: And no, you can't. Apple just doesn't allow that kind

848
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: of stuff. And maybe it's a security reason, but you know,

849
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 1: an Android, you could back up your text messages no problem,

850
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: using an app like SMS backup and restore. You know,

851
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,400
Speaker 1: they're backed up in various places, so you can do

852
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 1: that quite easily. But on on iPhone it's just not easy.

853
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:24,800
Speaker 1: And again I talked about this in the last podcast.

854
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 1: I hate the fact that we put so much emphasis,

855
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,399
Speaker 1: and so many of our communications are done through text

856
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: messages because it's such a it's such a terrible way

857
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 1: to have messages, and it's such a it's not a

858
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: platform that was made for what we're using it for now. Yes,

859
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: I Message is amazing, but it's because it's Apple. It's

860
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 1: so limited in the way that they let you do

861
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:51,320
Speaker 1: anything with your data. And I just wish that I wish.

862
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 1: I mean, I use Telegram and I love it. And

863
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 1: it was funny because my kid was scrolling through one

864
00:42:56,120 --> 00:43:01,839
Speaker 1: of my message threads with my photographer Luis, and he

865
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 1: was scrolling and he scrolled up and up and up,

866
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,319
Speaker 1: and he said, oh my gosh, you guys chat so much.

867
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: And I said, yes, I have all my chats in

868
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: here for two or three years with this guy, so

869
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:13,839
Speaker 1: I can go back to like anything. I can also

870
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: sort through all the files we sent, all the music

871
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: we transferred, all the voice files, all the links, all

872
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 1: the gifts, anything that we mentioned in here, and I

873
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 1: can also search. So I mean, it's just such a

874
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: to me, a beautiful way. And by the way, if

875
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 1: I ever want to export that, I can into a

876
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: format that I can then read in other programs, whereas

877
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 1: all those things I just mentioned are like nearly impossible

878
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: on I Message, except yes, you can go into your

879
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 1: I message and search, and yes you can go and

880
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 1: look at like the pictures that you exchange with someone

881
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 1: over the times, but it's just not easy anyway. So

882
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: that's my long drawn out answer to what you asked.

883
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: But it's just one of those things that the iPhone

884
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: just does not make it very easy. All right, let's

885
00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 1: get to the next question. Kay says Rich. If you

886
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 1: have any advice on computer backups, external backup or online service,

887
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: it would be for both personal computer and small business computer.

888
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 1: Both are laptops, Thank you, Ka. So I would recommend

889
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: the service that I actually recommended a few weeks back

890
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 1: for the picture backup, and it's called I Drive. And

891
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,399
Speaker 1: the reason why I like I Drive there's a couple

892
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: of them out there. So you've got eye Drive, you've

893
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 1: got Carbonite, you've got crash Plan, you've got Backblaze. You know,

894
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:35,280
Speaker 1: you can also use like iCloud, Google Drive. But because

895
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 1: you're saying you have, you're basically trying to back up

896
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: your entire computer, and so something like Google Drive it

897
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: will back up your whole computer. But it's not really,

898
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,760
Speaker 1: it's I don't think it's the best for that iCloud.

899
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 1: It's probably fine, but it's not. Again, it's not the best.

900
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: Something like a back Blaze or crash Plan or Carbonite

901
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: or an eye drive is actually meant to back up

902
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 1: your entire computer. So they have software that pretty much

903
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:03,240
Speaker 1: backs it up and if you ever have a problem,

904
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: you can get it back. So the reason I like

905
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,320
Speaker 1: I Drive is mostly because I met with them in person.

906
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:10,279
Speaker 1: So whenever I meet with someone in person, I like

907
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: the company because I get to know them and I

908
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 1: get to see that there's like an actual person. I

909
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: get to kind of quiz them on things and ask

910
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,359
Speaker 1: them questions. And I did all that with Iedrive, and

911
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 1: I like them. Now, the other competition you have there

912
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: is something like, let's say, I think like a backblaze

913
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 1: or crash Plan or kind of two of the most popular.

914
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 1: But the thing is the big downside to like backblaze.

915
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: Let's say, so it's sixty dollars a year for eye Drive,

916
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 1: but this is for unlimited computers and smartphones, So that means,

917
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: if you know, if you're on a business plant, it's

918
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:51,400
Speaker 1: a little bit more expensive, but you get several computers.

919
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 1: So you said you wanted to back up two computers,

920
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 1: whereas on something like backblaze, you're only going to be

921
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 1: able to back up one computer at that price. If

922
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: you want to do another computer, you have to pay more.

923
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 1: And so that's number one, and I think that's the

924
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:08,879
Speaker 1: big delineation. Let's look at yeah again, crash Plan, same thing.

925
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: So if you're subscribing to crash Plan, you're gonna have

926
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,400
Speaker 1: to pay more if you want to back up more

927
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: than one computer. So I would just look at iDrive

928
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: dot com. It's anywhere. It's you know, sixty bucks for

929
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: the first year, but it's like eighty dollars after that,

930
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: and either maybe one hundred dollars for business plans. But

931
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:27,959
Speaker 1: I don't think you need the business plan per se.

932
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: I think you just need the personal plan, and you

933
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:33,799
Speaker 1: can back up both computers. Now, it is capped at

934
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:35,839
Speaker 1: a five terabyte backup, so if you have more than

935
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 1: five terabytes between those two computers, you might have to go,

936
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 1: you know, you might have to go with a bigger plan.

937
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: But in general, those are the two i'd recommend. I

938
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 1: used to do this. I used to back up my

939
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: whole computer using one of these services. But now because

940
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: I store so much in the cloud, like all of

941
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:57,399
Speaker 1: my photos are in Google Photos, I use Google Drive,

942
00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: I use drop Box, you know, I use a combination

943
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,400
Speaker 1: of these. I use iCloud, So I use a combination

944
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:06,920
Speaker 1: of these cloud services. So I don't necessarily need one

945
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 1: kind of big backup of my computer. In fact, I

946
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: don't want to restore. I don't want to restore my

947
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 1: computer from a one backup. Now, if you are a business, yes,

948
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,399
Speaker 1: you probably want to do this, because in the case

949
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,839
Speaker 1: of ransomware, you probably want to just restore your entire

950
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: computer so that you're you don't skip a beat. But me,

951
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 1: with my personal computer, I don't have a lot of

952
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,800
Speaker 1: stuff on here that can't just be reinstalled and then

953
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: linked to the cloud. And so that's kind of how

954
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:36,720
Speaker 1: I do things. But it just depends on your situation.

955
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: So for me, if you know, if my computer was

956
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: ever you know, if the you know, hard drive crashes,

957
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: I would just go ahead and install all the programs

958
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 1: that I use again, and a lot of my stuff

959
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: is just in the cloud. And in fact, the way

960
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: that Google Drive works now they just kind of updated

961
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:56,240
Speaker 1: their app. They don't really download anything to your computer anymore.

962
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: It's like all stream. They call it like drive stream

963
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 1: or something, and they basically just you know, when you

964
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 1: need a file, they download it to your computer on demand,

965
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: kind of the way Dropbox. I use it that way

966
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 1: as well. It's a little bit, you know, you have

967
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:12,399
Speaker 1: to have a fast Internet connection because if you need

968
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:14,799
Speaker 1: like a two gigabyte file, it does take a little

969
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:16,839
Speaker 1: bit for that to come down to your computer, but

970
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 1: it works, and it works pretty well. So that's the

971
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 1: way I use Dropbox an the other ones. All right,

972
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 1: let's go to another question. I'm trying to figure out

973
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:27,919
Speaker 1: if I talked about all the tech stuff I wanted

974
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: to talk about this week, because there wasn't two, it

975
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: wasn't a whole whole lot. So I figured I'd do

976
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 1: more questions on this on this podcast since I'm also

977
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: on the road anyway. All right, let's get to Diane.

978
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,320
Speaker 1: Hey Rich, wondering if you know anything about the Samsung

979
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 1: Galaxy A thirty two. Do you know if it's a

980
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 1: good quality phone to replace my Samsung S six. Thanks

981
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 1: for any information you can supply me with, Sincerely, Diane. Diane,

982
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: the A thirty two is pretty much Samsung's I think

983
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:02,279
Speaker 1: it's like their most inexpensive phone. In fact, I requested

984
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:04,799
Speaker 1: this phone from them to test, and they ended up

985
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 1: sending me the A fifty two, which is a little

986
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:12,319
Speaker 1: bit higher end. I think that one's four ninety nine.

987
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 1: This one you can get for a little bit cheaper.

988
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 1: I'm seeing it for as cheap as I think it.

989
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 1: I think that the price was like two point fifty

990
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: when it came out, maybe a little bit more. Let

991
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: me see by now, Samsung when they put their prices,

992
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: they only put them with a trade in. It's like

993
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:31,880
Speaker 1: you can't even you got to like click around to

994
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 1: see how much this costs without a trade in. So

995
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: let's do no trade in. Okay, so no trade in?

996
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: It is two hundred, Yeah, it was two hundred and

997
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: fifty bucks, so or two eighty and then it's really

998
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 1: they're selling it for like two forty unlocked. So do

999
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:48,439
Speaker 1: I recommend this phone? I mean, I think this phone

1000
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:51,320
Speaker 1: will be fine. And I think you know the price

1001
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,880
Speaker 1: that you're you're asking, you know you're you're looking at

1002
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 1: a very inexpensive price point. So at this price point,

1003
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: I think this phone is going to be okay. I

1004
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: would say, if you can if you can if you

1005
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 1: can squeeze out an extra two hundred dollars, which I

1006
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 1: know is a lot when you're looking at a two

1007
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars phone, and I'm now recommending a

1008
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty dollars phone, But I would look

1009
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:13,960
Speaker 1: at the pixel five A. I mean, I just think

1010
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: that you're gonna get better software, You're gonna get a

1011
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: way better camera, You're gonna get a better experience. It's

1012
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 1: gonna last longer, it's gonna have less hassle. It's just

1013
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:26,799
Speaker 1: gonna overall, I think, be a better experience. And some

1014
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:31,439
Speaker 1: of these cheapy Galaxy phones, they just, you know, it's

1015
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:34,160
Speaker 1: not the best experience. And I just I feel like

1016
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: at the top of the line Samsung, if you have

1017
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 1: a lot of RAM on it and you've got a

1018
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: lot of storage, it's it's fine and the software is good.

1019
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 1: But when you get to these little, less expensive phones,

1020
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 1: it's just the experience is just not as good. It

1021
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: has five G it's got a you know, it's got

1022
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 1: a camera, it's got you know, good cameras. But it's

1023
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 1: just one of these things where I just feel like

1024
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: the experience is just not gonna be like, let's see

1025
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 1: what's the screen. So it's gonna point five inch screen.

1026
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 1: It doesn't really say what type of screen it is,

1027
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 1: but anyway, so I think this is fine. The other

1028
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:11,319
Speaker 1: phone I would look at is the TCL. They make

1029
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:16,920
Speaker 1: a twenty series and it's the twenty. It's let's see TCL.

1030
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 1: It's uh, let's see there's there's a high end and

1031
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 1: there's a low end. So let's see mobile phones. They've

1032
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:26,799
Speaker 1: got the okay, so they've got the twenty pro five G.

1033
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:29,880
Speaker 1: They've got the twenty S, and they've got the twenty S.

1034
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 1: So I would perhaps look at one of these phones

1035
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:37,719
Speaker 1: as well, because the tcl's so the twenty S is

1036
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty dollars. And then let's see what

1037
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: the SE is. And I reviewed the last model, the ten,

1038
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: and it was I actually found it to be really

1039
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: good for the price, so I was very impressed with

1040
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:52,839
Speaker 1: what they did. The camera is fine, it's not the best,

1041
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 1: but yeah, the twenty se is only one eighty nine,

1042
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 1: So I would look I would compare. I would look

1043
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: at three device. I would look at the Pixel five A.

1044
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:03,919
Speaker 1: That would be my top pick. And then I also

1045
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 1: like this TCL, the twenty s. I would look at

1046
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: that phone and see what you think about that, because

1047
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:12,280
Speaker 1: I think it's it's a little bit of a better

1048
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 1: I think it's a better device because of the software.

1049
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:17,399
Speaker 1: It's like a little bit cleaner, and it's a little

1050
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 1: bit more expensive two fifty. But I think you'll be

1051
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 1: okay with the Samsung if you if you're comfortable with it.

1052
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 1: But it is going to be a little step back

1053
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 1: because you're on the Galaxy S series and this is

1054
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: the Galaxy A series, which is a little bit lesser

1055
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 1: SPECX wise than in performance wise than the phone that

1056
00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 1: you've been used to. But your phone is old, so

1057
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: maybe you know it wouldn't be as bad, all right.

1058
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:43,839
Speaker 1: Pamela says, Hey, Rich, hope you and your family are

1059
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: doing well. Thinking you know what, Actually, let's go to

1060
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: Let's go to Gene. Gene in Pasadena says I'm an

1061
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: old geezer seventy six that's not too much into tech stuff,

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Speaker 1: so please bear with me. I have a sand disc

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Speaker 1: MP three clip jam Wow, which I use while walking.

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Speaker 1: Is there a table model MP three player which I

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00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 1: can plug in a flash drive like I do in

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00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 1: my car to listen to music in my home. I

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Speaker 1: have a speaker system that's hooked up to my Denin

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Speaker 1: stereo components. It would be nice if the denin unit

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00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 1: had a flash drive port, but it's a few years old.

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Speaker 1: We bought at Pacific Stereo, which has long ceased to operate.

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Speaker 1: I thought Pacific Stereo was built inside best Buy. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for any suggestions for your continued informative segments on

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Speaker 1: the KTLA five News Gene and Pasadena Gene. Here's a

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00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 1: solution I think you should do. I think that your denin,

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00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:38,399
Speaker 1: even this old stereo has either an audio like an

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00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:44,400
Speaker 1: RCA input left and right, or a standard headphone jack input,

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Speaker 1: you know, like a stereo what is it? A quarter

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00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:50,759
Speaker 1: inch stereo input is an eighth inch? I don't know

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Speaker 1: if it's an eighth or oh gosh, this is where

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what is what is it? Is it

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Speaker 1: a quarter or an eighth inch? I think it's a

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00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:03,319
Speaker 1: quarter into and it's it's just a standard headphone jack,

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00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, stand oh Google, no standard headphone jack size. Okay,

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Speaker 1: three point five inch, three point five millimeter, so whatever

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Speaker 1: that is? So three point five millimeter, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about. It's like the standard you know headphone jack, right,

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Speaker 1: So I would say that I think that your stereo

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00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:28,560
Speaker 1: receiver is going to have a standard headphone jack input,

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Speaker 1: and so what I would do is look for that

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00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 1: input and then I would just get an iPod Touch

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00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 1: and you can use that as your music player. And

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00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,680
Speaker 1: if you really want to be wild, you can just

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00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:42,920
Speaker 1: subscribe to Apple Music if it's available on there, and

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00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:46,440
Speaker 1: now you can have your music unlimited on that device,

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00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: or you can use Spotify, or you can whatever you want.

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Speaker 1: So I would just do that, and now you have

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00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:54,799
Speaker 1: the iPod Touch is going to be one hundred and

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Speaker 1: ninety nine bucks. You can probably get one cheaper. If

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00:54:57,200 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 1: you want to go old school, you can just buy

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00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 1: one on eBay too, and used one and plug it

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00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: into your stereo system and that's it. Now you've got

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Speaker 1: all the music in the world on your stereo. And

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00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 1: again there's two ways that you can plug this thing in.

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00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:14,720
Speaker 1: On the back of your stereo, you might have RCA input,

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00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 1: So if you look for you know, it's basically the

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00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:24,839
Speaker 1: old school cable. That's RCA Audio cable to three point

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Speaker 1: five millimeter. So if you have the RCA on one

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00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: side and then it's the three point five millimeter jack

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00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 1: on the other side. You can plug the three point

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Speaker 1: five into your iPod Touch and then the other ones

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00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 1: into the back of your stereo. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: that cable is seven dollars and sixty two cents. Now,

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Speaker 1: the iPod Touch, I believe it still has a headphone jack.

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Speaker 1: Let's make sure. If it doesn't, you can just use

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00:55:55,719 --> 00:56:00,840
Speaker 1: the lightning connector. Let's see doesn't have a headphone jack.

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00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 1: Come on audio playback external connectors. Yes, it does have

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00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 1: a three point five millimeter headphone jack. So that is

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00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 1: going to be the simplest way to connect it. If

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00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 1: it if it connects to the back of your receiver,

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00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 1: it's probably like you know AUCS input. Uh. If it's

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00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 1: if it has the three point five millimeter headphone or

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00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 1: input somewhere on there, you can use that cable and

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Speaker 1: that's a three point five milimeter to three point five

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00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 1: millimeter and that is six dollars and ninety cents. So

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Speaker 1: you're looking at if you really want to be you know,

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00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:34,319
Speaker 1: brand new and get the the iPod Touch, it's one

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00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety nine dollars for that plus two dollars,

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00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:39,319
Speaker 1: or you know, it's eight bucks for the cable and

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00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:42,080
Speaker 1: you'll have exactly what you need. Now, if you want

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00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 1: to go even cheaper, you can, uh you know, you

1131
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:46,759
Speaker 1: can go on eBay and get a used iPod Touch,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure that you can find one that's, uh,

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00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:53,879
Speaker 1: you know, considerably cheaper than the one ninety nine new.

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Speaker 1: All you need this thing is to work and to

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Speaker 1: play music, and so I'm seeing them on here for

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00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:02,160
Speaker 1: a pretty cheap But that's what I would recommend. I

1137
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:03,759
Speaker 1: think that that's gonna be the way to do it.

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00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 1: And you know, just because it's an old sound system,

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00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:09,440
Speaker 1: it probably has those standard connectors that are that are

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00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:12,359
Speaker 1: gonna work really, really well. All right, let's do one

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Speaker 1: more question real quick. Chuck Asks in Temple City. Hey, Rich,

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00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:19,000
Speaker 1: thanks for all you do. I'm considering upgrading my one

1143
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 1: plus six T to a one plus nine Pro. But

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00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 1: I'm concerned if it's a good decision because none of

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00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 1: the T Mobile stores carry the phone. What is your

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00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 1: opinion about a phone that no one seems to carry.

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00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it's not selling well, Chuck. I think it's

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00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 1: more of a supply and demand or more of a

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00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 1: supply chain issue. I would say the one plus nine

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00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 1: Pro is one of my favorite phones right now. It's

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00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:43,600
Speaker 1: a great phone. You have the one plus six T

1152
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 1: you know all about the one plus I would say

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00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:48,560
Speaker 1: it's an easy upgrade to the nine Pro. It's a

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00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:51,800
Speaker 1: fantastic phone. It's got the best software out there besides

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00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:54,560
Speaker 1: the pixel. It's got a great camera. I wouldn't say

1156
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 1: it's the best, but it's an excellent camera, very capable.

1157
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:01,280
Speaker 1: And again you're getting a really I spect out phone

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00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 1: with amazing specs. You're getting great software, and I see

1159
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 1: no trouble upgrading. If you're trying to use it on

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00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: T Mobile, obviously you might get an upgrade deal through

1161
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:15,880
Speaker 1: T Mobile. See if you can order it online through them,

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00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:18,200
Speaker 1: See if you can place the order. But I have

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00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 1: no problem recommending the one plus nine Pro at all.

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00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:26,280
Speaker 1: I think it's a fantastic device. So no hesitations whatsoever.

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00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:30,040
Speaker 1: Go ahead and treat yourself. All right. That is going

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00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:32,440
Speaker 1: to do it for this episode of the show. I've

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00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 1: got a flight to catch. If you'd like to submit

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00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:42,640
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1175
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:56,480
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00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:12,400
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened, but we've basically doubled the listenership.

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Speaker 1: So people are gonna start seeing it on those iTunes

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00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:24,439
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00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:26,840
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00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:40,160
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00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:42,160
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Speaker 1: Rich Dmiro. My only decision right now is do I

1198
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:01,680
Speaker 1: spend another twenty dollars in the slot machine before I

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01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 1: head out to my flight. It's like one of those

1200
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:05,920
Speaker 1: things where if I do it, it feels like, Okay,

1201
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 1: I got my last twenty dollars in. I don't really

1202
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:11,480
Speaker 1: gamble too much, but you know, it's like, I'm in Vegas,

1203
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:13,440
Speaker 1: so I might as well rite when in Rome. But

1204
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 1: then I'm like, eh, Then you leave Vegas feeling like

1205
01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:18,200
Speaker 1: I just wasted twenty dollars when I could have purchased

1206
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 1: something that's like two months of Spotify. Anyway, That's what

1207
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 1: I'm dealing with over here. Thanks so much for listening.

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01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 1: There are so many ways you can spend an hour

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01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:29,600
Speaker 1: of your time. I do appreciate it you spending it

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Speaker 1: with me. I will talk to you real soon.