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Speaker 1: twenty five, Well, welcome to the show. I hope you

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Speaker 1: are having a fantastic holiday season. I know this is

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Speaker 5: I have a system that I built based on Asus

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Speaker 5: Toughs Gaming X five seventy plus WiFi motherboard.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's floaded with loaded with Windows ten.

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Speaker 6: Now I want to upgrade, but Windows says that I

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Speaker 6: have to have TPM turned on and I have to

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Speaker 6: have U e F.

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Speaker 4: I turned on. Yes, but when I went to the

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Speaker 4: bias and.

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Speaker 6: Turn those on, it refuses to boot.

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Speaker 7: Oh am, I stuck.

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Speaker 6: I don't want to have to reload the I have

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Speaker 6: about one hundred programs on here.

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Speaker 3: I'd have to go fishing for keys or is there

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Speaker 3: any way I can.

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Speaker 6: Do this without having to reformat the hard drive because

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Speaker 6: then I'd have.

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Speaker 5: To buy the Windows eleven instead of getting it free.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, No, So, yeah, you're right, there are some

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Speaker 1: requirements for Windows eleven on these systems. It sounds like

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Speaker 1: your system. Did you build this yourself?

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Speaker 7: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so it sounds like to me that you've got

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Speaker 1: the requirements, and you know because you built this thing

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Speaker 1: that you have these things that you need. It's basically

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Speaker 1: the security of the system. It's like it's kind of

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Speaker 1: at the base level of the system, this security chip

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Speaker 1: that it requires. It's kind of the same thing with

457
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Speaker 1: Apple too. They did the same thing on their computers,

458
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Speaker 1: but it's you know, it's like base level security, and

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Speaker 1: they want you to have that on your system to

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Speaker 1: be able to install Windows eleven moving forward, just for

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Speaker 1: a lot of reasons. So you're saying you have that

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Speaker 1: on your system. Correct.

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Speaker 5: I have it on the system, but when I turn

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Speaker 5: it on, it no longer boots.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, well that's.

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Speaker 6: Oh apparently it won't boost Windows tan.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, so that's interesting. So yeah, that's a problem.

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Speaker 7: Then.

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Speaker 1: Now there are some blog posts about forcing the Windows

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Speaker 1: eleven upgrade. Have you checked that or tried that?

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Speaker 2: Uh? No?

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So I'm looking at howtogeek dot com

473
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Speaker 1: and this is, uh, you know, how to force the

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Speaker 1: Windows eleven update. Now, this is from last year, so

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Speaker 1: I don't know how current it is, but this is

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Speaker 1: gonna This says that you can force this. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can bypass. I'm just reading through this. It looks

478
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Speaker 1: like it looks like you'll probably be able to do

479
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Speaker 1: it using this guide if you. The problem is you

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Speaker 1: got to download this Windows eleven Installation Assistant, which let's

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Speaker 1: see if they still even have that available, because this

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Speaker 1: was from a y or ago. Looks like they do,

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Speaker 1: so you might do that.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 1: Is your computer fully updated?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the bias is updated.

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Speaker 7: I've got everything up to.

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Speaker 1: One bias beyond.

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Speaker 5: Requirements from Windows eleven.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I don't they'll.

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Speaker 8: Have another window to load, but I think.

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Speaker 5: The bias system that I got in there right now

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Speaker 5: is good to go.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna link this up on the

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Speaker 1: website on the show notes. This this how to geek

496
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Speaker 1: article because it actually it looks like it brings you

497
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Speaker 1: to a pretty good help page for Windows that will

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Speaker 1: help you download this Windows eleven Installation Assistant, and then

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Speaker 1: if you don't want that, you can also create a

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Speaker 1: Windows eleven Installation media and then you can download a

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Speaker 1: disk image as well. So this kind of gives you

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Speaker 1: all the tools that might help you get that on there.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like you know what you're doing, so I

504
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Speaker 1: think that these would be thing that you would be

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Speaker 1: able to figure out if you're going through the standard

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Speaker 1: you know, Windows eleven update through your Windows ten. It

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Speaker 1: may not allow you to do that because, like you said,

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Speaker 1: these things are not turned on. Once you turn it

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Speaker 1: on in the bios, it's not booting up, so it's

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Speaker 1: signaling to the Windows eleven Assistant that hey, this computer

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Speaker 1: is not supported. And we've also seen some articles come

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Speaker 1: out in recent weeks that say you can force this

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Speaker 1: on more computers, although Microsoft ended up coming out and

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Speaker 1: saying no, no, we didn't say that. So I'll link

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Speaker 1: these up on the website rich on Tech dot tv

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Speaker 1: so that you can get an idea of some of

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Speaker 1: these things that you might be able to work around.

518
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Speaker 1: But yeah, you've got about a year to figure this out,

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Speaker 1: so you've got some time. And of course we know

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Speaker 1: Windows eleven they're gonna Windows ten is going to stop

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Speaker 1: being supported as of October of twenty twenty five. But

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Speaker 1: if you want to keep it for that extra year,

523
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Speaker 1: and Spencer, maybe you just want to do this, you

524
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Speaker 1: can pay an extra thirty dollars to keep it for

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Speaker 1: one more year past that deadline, and they will give

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Speaker 1: you all those security updates. Good question, eighty to eight.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. Eighty to eight. Rich one O

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one

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Speaker 1: zero one. Coming up, I've got a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of stuff to talk about, but I'll talk

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Speaker 1: about some chat GBT things. They've got a couple of

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Speaker 1: new things this week, including making search free and there's

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Speaker 1: an eight hundred number to call chat GBT. I'll explain

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Speaker 1: coming up next. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich

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Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple

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Speaker 1: eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four

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Speaker 1: to two four one zero one the website for the

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Speaker 1: show richon tech dot TV. Once you go there, you

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Speaker 1: can get the show notes by hitting the light bulb,

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Speaker 1: or it just might be on the homepage. This is

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Speaker 1: episode one oh two one o two. There you go

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Speaker 1: reading what you submitted to me as what you're thankful

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Speaker 1: for for the tech world, Robin in Anaheim says she

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Speaker 1: is thankful for my ring peephole camera, my dash cam,

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Speaker 1: and my smart watch. Those are three solid things to

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Speaker 1: be thankful for. And this week, did you know you

547
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Speaker 1: can call chat GPT. I know it sounds silly, and

548
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Speaker 1: there's been a lot of chatchybt news lately because they've

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Speaker 1: been doing this like twelve Days of Christmas thing or

550
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: something similar to that, and so every day they've been

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Speaker 1: like releasing new features and so there's been a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff with chat GBT. But this is an eight

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Speaker 1: hundred number. It's literally one eight hundred chat GPT. So

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Speaker 1: you can dial that phone number from any phone and

555
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 1: it will bring you to their AI assistant and you

556
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Speaker 1: can ask a question. You get up to fifteen minutes

557
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Speaker 1: for free each month, because you know they want to

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Speaker 1: make sure everyone can use this. And I thought this

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Speaker 1: was interesting because it sounds silly and it's like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: well don't most people have an app to use chatch

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Speaker 1: ebt through? Well, not everyone. And I love the idea

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Speaker 1: that now this is available through any phone. So you know,

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Speaker 1: you've got someone elderly, you've got a senior in your life,

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Speaker 1: you've got someone that maybe doesn't have a computer, doesn't

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Speaker 1: you know, use a smartphone, they can just call this

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Speaker 1: number and talk to AI. And I think especially for

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Speaker 1: some of the uh, you know, more elder folks out

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Speaker 1: there that may not have a lot of experience with

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Speaker 1: AI to be able to ask about something like in

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Speaker 1: their childhood or history or you know, it's just the

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Speaker 1: amount of information and knowledge that AI has that they

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Speaker 1: can tap into from a traditional phone call. It's pretty wild.

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Speaker 1: So I think this is kind of cool and it

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Speaker 1: reminds me. I was reading The Verge. They have a

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Speaker 1: newsletter called the Installer, and they they kind of reminded

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Speaker 1: me of two other phone numbers back in the day Google.

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Speaker 1: Remember Google had their own eight hundred number for four

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Speaker 1: one one. It was like one eight hundred Google four

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Speaker 1: one one. I think it was yeah, Google four one

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Speaker 1: one and you could literally dial that. And remember back

581
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 1: in the day, four one one used to cost money

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Speaker 1: to get a phone number. Like you would dial that

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Speaker 1: and at the end of the month you'd see your

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Speaker 1: phone bill and be like, oh, I called four one

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Speaker 1: one seven times. It's like you know, at one point,

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Speaker 1: I think it was like a dollar each time you

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Speaker 1: called or something. And remember, I mean this is going

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Speaker 1: way back. Oh wow, oh wow, my Google AI is

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Speaker 1: is activated.

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Speaker 7: There.

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Speaker 1: Back in the day, an operator, like a human being

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Speaker 1: used to answer four one one. I mean, I just

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Speaker 1: I kind of forgot about that until just now. You

594
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: would call and be like hey, they'd be like what

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Speaker 1: city and what city enlisting or somehow. They'd answer the

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00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: phone and you would say, uh, you know Montclair, New Jersey,

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Speaker 1: the AMC theater or whatever movie theater it was back then,

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Speaker 1: and they would be like, Okay, hold on, here's your number,

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Speaker 1: let me connect you. And you like this stuff just

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00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: sounds like why would you ever need that now? But

601
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Speaker 1: sure enough we went through a whole phase with that.

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Speaker 1: And remember this one seven seven seven film. Remember you

603
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: would call a phone number to get the movie times.

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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to moviefone press one for whatever, and

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Speaker 1: you know that was that was a thing that went

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Speaker 1: on for a while. Oh what's that? Oh I don't

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Speaker 1: remember that one. Oh you dial for time? Oh okay, Adam.

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Speaker 1: Adam's on the board today. He's telling me that that

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Speaker 1: wasn't over the air, right, you're just talking to me, okay.

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Speaker 1: And you can't hear him, but I can. He's the

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Speaker 1: voices in my head. He said, you would dial popcorn

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Speaker 1: for the time. I have not heard of that one.

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Speaker 1: Get out of here, Popcorn. Yeah, kqed used to be

614
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Speaker 1: able to call popcorn and get the time. Okay. That

615
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Speaker 1: was apparently in northern California that was based there.

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Speaker 7: There you go.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think anyone could dial it, but maybe there

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Speaker 1: you go the time at the tone, the time is

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Speaker 1: currently eleven fifty three. Whatever it was. We've come a

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00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: long way, baby, that's for sure. Okay, So you got

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Speaker 1: the one eight hundred chat GBT. The other thing chat

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Speaker 1: GBT did this week is they made their search, their

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Speaker 1: web search, their real time web search, free for all users.

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Speaker 1: Now this one kind of annoyed me because I paid

625
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Speaker 1: twenty bucks a month for open Ai for a chat

626
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: GBT for this feature and then they made it free.

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Speaker 1: My kid was using chat GBT and he's like, oh, Dad,

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Speaker 1: I can search the web. Now. I'm like, wait, what

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Speaker 1: are you on my account? He said, no, it's free

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Speaker 1: for everyone, so what So yeah, So now on chat GBT,

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Speaker 1: if you go there, you'll notice in the search bar

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Speaker 1: there's a little globe icon and if you tap that,

633
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Speaker 1: it's going to bring you it's going to kind of

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Speaker 1: search the real time web for information, which is really

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Speaker 1: cool because it's great for travel, it's great for a

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00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: lot of things that require real time data. So you

637
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Speaker 1: can literally anything that's in the news, say give me

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Speaker 1: an update on bitcoin whatever, and it will. And if

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00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: you tap that little globe, it will give you the

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00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 1: latest data on bitcoin based on the articles. And so

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00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: right now it's telling me literally as of this moment,

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00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: exactly what it's trading at, how much its surpassed, and

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00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: all the different things that has contributed to this. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's pretty incredible. And if you just had regular chat

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00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,239
Speaker 1: GBT without the web, it would just give you kind

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Speaker 1: of what I call like a book report on bitcoin.

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Speaker 1: It wouldn't give you that real time information. Uh, let's see,

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Speaker 1: Lido writes in Hey, Rich, I remember an episode of

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Speaker 1: KTLA where you described how to reset instagram suggested content

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Speaker 1: to a factory setting. I haven't been liking the suggestions

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Speaker 1: on my account lately and would love a fresh start.

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Speaker 1: Can you remind me how to do this? Yes, Lido.

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Speaker 1: The worst words in the tech language are rolling out,

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Speaker 1: and when I mentioned something is rolling out, that means

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Speaker 1: it is not available to everyone at the same time.

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Speaker 1: So I've been checking for this feature on a daily

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Speaker 1: basis because I can't stand the recommendations I'm getting on

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Speaker 1: Instagram right now. But they're going to let you do

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Speaker 1: a master reset of your recommendations, which I think every

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Speaker 1: single app should have this. I think your music app

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Speaker 1: should have this. I think your social media apps should

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Speaker 1: have this, your fitness apps. Every app should just offer

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Speaker 1: you a master reset switch. And maybe it's locked behind

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Speaker 1: like a pin or something so that you don't mistakenly

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Speaker 1: do it. But sometimes you just want a fresh start.

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Speaker 1: Like maybe you're listening to holiday music on whatever music

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Speaker 1: app you're using, and in January, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: those songs come up. Now, I feel like the music

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Speaker 1: app should be smart enough to say, okay, let's not

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Speaker 1: give them holiday songs in January, but you never know.

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Speaker 1: So this feature, if you want to check for it,

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Speaker 1: you tap your profile on Instagram and then you go

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Speaker 1: into the upper right hand corner the three little dots

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Speaker 1: or the three little lines that are the menu, and

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Speaker 1: then you scroll down to where it says content preferences

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Speaker 1: and you tap in there and you're going to see

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Speaker 1: all this stuff interested, not interested, hidden words, sensitive content,

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Speaker 1: political content, hide suggested, reduced by fact checking in. There

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Speaker 1: will be a new option called reset, and it will

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Speaker 1: be there any day. I don't have it yet on

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Speaker 1: any of my devices, but that's where it's going to be.

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Speaker 7: Leado.

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Speaker 1: I cannot wait for that fresh start. Hopefully this comes

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Speaker 1: by the beginning of the year. Eighty to eight Rich

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Speaker 1: one O one rich on tech dot tv coming up

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Speaker 1: more of your calls and questions and what you're thankful for.

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Speaker 1: Right here, Welcome back to rich on tech. Rich Demiro

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Speaker 1: here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple eight

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Speaker 1: rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one, the website for the show

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Speaker 1: richon tech dot TV. There you can watch my TV

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Speaker 1: segments that I do for KTLA Television here in Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles and also assorted TV stations around the US, so

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Speaker 1: you can watch them all right there. I asked you

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Speaker 1: on Instagram at rich on Tech what you're thankful for,

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Speaker 1: got a lot of responses. Alfonso and La Puente said,

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Speaker 1: my Galaxy Watch six. I've made healthier choices as a result.

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Speaker 1: I do think that the smart watches do that. I

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Speaker 1: think they make you more aware of how many, you know,

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Speaker 1: steps you're taking, how many minutes you're getting all that

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Speaker 1: good stuff. So I'm glad you liked that. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, it took me a couple of tries, but

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Speaker 1: I did dial the time and temperature and apparently.

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Speaker 9: Imp cure is coming up after this.

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Speaker 1: So apparently the phone number is still working. But it's uh,

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Speaker 1: it's it's like it says the time and temperature is

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Speaker 1: coming up after this, but then there's like an AD,

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Speaker 1: a long AD, and then it does the time temperature.

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Speaker 1: So I think someone bought that, and I don't did

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Speaker 1: it have an AD back in the day. Probably not,

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Speaker 1: probably just had no just had the time. So anyway,

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Speaker 1: but it didn't work for different area codes except for

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Speaker 1: the San Francisco area code, so I guess that was

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Speaker 1: more of a regional thing. I guess. Let's see, let's

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Speaker 1: go to Brenda in Orange County. Welcome to the holiday party.

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Speaker 7: Hi rich, Yeah, Hi, I'm in much need of your advice.

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Speaker 7: I don't understand much tech. I need to know if

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Speaker 7: I bought the right TV yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Okay, my.

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Speaker 7: Old RCA TV quit working.

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Speaker 1: R How old was it?

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Speaker 7: It was about fifteen years old?

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Speaker 1: Wow, okay, I think you got your money's worth on

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Speaker 1: that one.

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Speaker 7: Yes, yes, it was before you know, the smart TVs existed.

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Speaker 7: I just watched local channels over the air broadcast with

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Speaker 7: my indoor rabbit ears antenna my TV.

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Speaker 1: How much does that costs? How much they charge you

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Speaker 1: for that?

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Speaker 7: Nothing?

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Speaker 1: I was just kidding, that was a trick question.

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Speaker 7: Oh okay, I thought what Okay, Now I don't have

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Speaker 7: internet in my home or Wi Fi, my smart I'm on.

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Speaker 7: I'm on my son in law's AT and T family plan. Okay,

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Speaker 7: so I can I can browse the internet, you know,

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Speaker 7: I paid him for the phone, and I can order

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Speaker 7: online if I wanted to. But I don't now the

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Speaker 7: TV I bought yesterday. I assume it was a hundred

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Speaker 7: and twenty vote. It's an it's a smart TV. It's

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Speaker 7: an LG U h D Okay, and you know, but

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Speaker 7: I don't need all those extras at this time.

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Speaker 2: Maybe in the future.

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Speaker 7: So will this smart TV just work by just plugging it,

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Speaker 7: plugging it in and playing the local channels?

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Speaker 1: Typically? Yes, it depends on the model. So I'm assuming

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Speaker 1: there is an RC like a coax jack on the

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Speaker 1: back for the antenna. Have you checked.

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Speaker 7: I have an open Oh I haven't opened the box.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what's the actual model number of the TV?

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Speaker 2: Do you have that?

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Speaker 7: Okay? On the front of the TV it says four

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Speaker 7: to three to seven zero mm.

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Speaker 1: That's it. Forty three okay, So here it is. So

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Speaker 1: we've got this and we're just this is so this

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Speaker 1: does have LG's smart system, which is called web OS,

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Speaker 1: so it is on there. But all we're looking for is,

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Speaker 1: let's see the inputs here, connector types. Let's see here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I would assume every TV has a jack

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Speaker 1: on the back to connect this antenna, but you never know,

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Speaker 1: you know, it could be that it doesn't let me

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Speaker 1: see uh here, I'm looking trying to find the specs

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Speaker 1: that actually shows me the back of the TV. If

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Speaker 1: you can plug in an antenna on this thing. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I see the back and it interesting. I'm gonna have

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Speaker 1: to I gotta find the specs on here. I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to find the exact Okay, let's see. I would assume

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Speaker 1: that it has a way to plug in the antenna.

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Speaker 1: Let's see. Okay, TV tuner. Yes, it does have a

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Speaker 1: TV tuner, so you are good to go. And so

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Speaker 1: you would just plug in that antenna and you can

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Speaker 1: use it as a regular TV. Now what I would

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Speaker 1: do for the first time you set this up. Do

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Speaker 1: you have the hotspot feature on your phone or no?

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Speaker 7: I do, but I don't understand it. Okay, I have

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Speaker 7: a friend that's going to do V the hookup. He's

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Speaker 7: an IT tech, but he don't even have a TV.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, he's one of those.

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Speaker 7: He just uses his laptop.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Well he's all streaming and all that good stuff.

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Speaker 1: So well, okay, so if he's an IT person, he

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Speaker 1: knows how to activate the hotspot what I would do,

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Speaker 1: and he'll do this, he'll know how to do that,

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Speaker 1: or they'll know how to dis services. They'll know how

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Speaker 1: to do this. But you basically, I would connect this

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Speaker 1: TV to your phone's hotspot the first time, just to

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Speaker 1: get the software up to date on this phone. And

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Speaker 1: it also may download information for the channels. It may

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Speaker 1: download a program guide or just whatever some and and

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Speaker 1: you know, it's some information to go along with those channels.

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Speaker 1: So I would do that the first time, but then

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Speaker 1: I would make sure he turns off the either so

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Speaker 1: I would either turn off the Wi Fi on the TV,

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Speaker 1: or you can just toggle the hot spot off on

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Speaker 1: your phone so that your TV is not always tapping

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Speaker 1: into it. But if you want it to, you can

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Speaker 1: have the TV tap into it just by turning on

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Speaker 1: the hot spot on your phone or turning the Wi

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Speaker 1: Fi on your TV on. I know that sounds very complicated.

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Speaker 1: You don't need any of that stuff. If you don't

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Speaker 1: want to do anything on the web, just use the channels,

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Speaker 1: tune them in. You're fine, You'll be okay, okay.

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Speaker 7: So I really don't have to do the connect to

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Speaker 7: the hot the hot spot.

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Speaker 1: I I would probably just to get the software on

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Speaker 1: the TV up to date. There might be some features

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Speaker 1: or some bug fixes or whatever. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: do that. It's optional, but it may require that on setup.

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Speaker 1: It may it may ask you to do that when

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Speaker 1: you set it up. There may be a way to

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Speaker 1: bypass it, but your friend who's the it guy, they

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Speaker 1: are going to know how to do that. If it

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Speaker 1: says like, hey, you have to connect to internet, there

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Speaker 1: may be a way to bypass and say, hey, just

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Speaker 1: set this up without Internet. But I probably do it

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Speaker 1: just to make sure my TV is up to date

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Speaker 1: and then I disconnect it.

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Speaker 7: Okay, so he's okay to activate that connected to my

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Speaker 7: phone hot spot to update the software on TV.

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Speaker 1: Correct if if he wants to do that, you don't

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Speaker 1: have to. But I think most TVs are assuming that

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Speaker 1: you're connecting to a Wi Fi connection upon startup, so

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Speaker 1: you know they're just because they're all smart TV. So

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Speaker 1: if there may be an option that says on that

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Speaker 1: TV screen like bypass this for now, typically there is

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Speaker 1: you would just bypass all that. If you just want

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Speaker 1: to go to the tuner and you plug in your antenna,

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Speaker 1: you do a scan of the channels. It's gonna remember

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Speaker 1: the channel numbers and the ones you get and that's it.

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Speaker 1: Beyond your merry way.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, oh, thank you so much. Rich. I I was

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Speaker 7: afraid that something that made and why find in the

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Speaker 7: future I may plan to you know, to set that

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Speaker 7: up if I want to do those streamings and stuff.

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Speaker 7: I did buy a searge protector strip and but I

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Speaker 7: don't know, maybe I didn't buy the most the highest

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Speaker 7: volt or jewels that I should have. The one I

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Speaker 7: got it said nine hundred jewels. But I looked online

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Speaker 7: earlier today and it kind of come and maybe a

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Speaker 7: TV needs at least a thousand jewels. Do you know

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Speaker 7: anything about that?

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Speaker 1: I mean not really, but uh, I would say, you're

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Speaker 1: probably gonna be fine. I don't even plug my stuff

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Speaker 1: into a protector, so I think they'll be okay, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I think I think that. Uh yeah, I'd have to

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Speaker 1: do some research on that to see what what you

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Speaker 1: need for it. I'm looking at this nine hundred let's see. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'd have to see like what that's good for. I'll

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Speaker 1: do some research and see and I'll mention on there

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 7: All Right, my home is one hundred and twenty volts,

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Speaker 7: and I presume that that TV is one hundred and.

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Speaker 1: Twenty volt, right, that's the standard AC in the US. Yes,

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Speaker 1: so that should be fine.

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Speaker 7: And the search protector for some reading that says it

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Speaker 7: says use only with one hundred and twenty vote AC power,

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Speaker 7: and then down at the bottom of the package it

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Speaker 7: says ratings one five V.

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Speaker 4: I'm confused.

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Speaker 7: I don't understand. I don't want to be playing something.

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Speaker 1: No, you'll be fine. I wouldn't unless you bought this

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Speaker 1: thing in Europe. You're not really gonna have to worry

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Speaker 1: about that. And most Yeah, everything standardized here in the US,

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Speaker 1: so I think you'll be okay, Brenda, thanks for the call.

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Speaker 1: Do appreciate it. Uh, you're gonna love the new TV.

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Speaker 1: I mean, fifteen years of the old one compared to

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Speaker 1: the new one. I think you're gonna You're gonna be

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Speaker 1: a lot happier with that, So thanks for the call. Appreciated.

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Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four two four one zero one. Speaking of TVs, Amazon

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Speaker 1: added some new accessibility features to their Fire TV. So

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Speaker 1: Amazon Fire TV, after a software update, now has a

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Speaker 1: dual audio function, so users with a compatible as HA

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Speaker 1: enabled here aid can now listen to that hearing aid

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Speaker 1: listen to the audio from the fireTV on their hearing aid,

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Speaker 1: but also the audio can go through the TV speakers,

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Speaker 1: so that means that you can have hearing aids be

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Speaker 1: listening to the programming and someone you're sitting with who

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Speaker 1: doesn't have hearing aids can listen to the programming through

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Speaker 1: the speakers on the TV, so now it's more of

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Speaker 1: a shared viewing experience versus one or the other. So

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Speaker 1: that's a new feature on the Amazon firetvs. They've also

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Speaker 1: expanded some of the support for hearing aids. Looks like

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Speaker 1: it's mostly on the TV sets and the cube, not

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Speaker 1: necessarily the fireTV sticks, so just check if you're hearing

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Speaker 1: aid didn't work with the fireTV before, it may work

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Speaker 1: with it now. And finally, they also put some looks

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Speaker 1: like tactile raised dots on the fireTV packaging so blind

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Speaker 1: and low vision users can easily access set up information.

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Speaker 1: So Amazon doing a couple things for accessibility always a

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Speaker 1: good thing to make products more inclusive. Eighty eight rich

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Speaker 1: one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two

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Speaker 1: four one zero one website for the show Richontech dot

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Speaker 1: TV coming up. Got a question about saving money on

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00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:18,439
Speaker 1: a cable bill and finding where to watch a show.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that plus more of what you are

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Speaker 1: thankful for right here on rich on Tech talking about

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Speaker 1: things people are thankful for. You submitted these on my

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Speaker 1: Instagram at rich On Tech, Yvonne in El Centro, California said,

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Speaker 1: I'm grateful for One Note. I use it as a

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Speaker 1: manual and use it every day. Yeah, one Note. I

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00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: was talking about Obsidian earlier. One Note is pretty much

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00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:48,800
Speaker 1: very similar to that. The only problem I have with

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Speaker 1: One Note. And I think it's a great, great program,

904
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Speaker 1: and it's the only problem I have with it. And

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Speaker 1: you can use it for free if you use your

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Speaker 1: included you know, storage space from micros. But the only

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Speaker 1: problem I have with it is the infinite canvas. I'm

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Speaker 1: not a fan of that because it's like you can

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Speaker 1: paste anything anywhere in one note, which I'm sure a

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Speaker 1: lot of people that use it like that. For me,

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00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 1: I'm too much of a neat freak. I like everything aligned,

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Speaker 1: and so it's like I can't use it because of

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Speaker 1: that reason. And also there's no real print option for

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Speaker 1: some reason. There is, but it's like it prints all

915
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Speaker 1: over the page, like it's not format it anyway. Again,

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Speaker 1: I'm too much of a neat freak. So I need

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Speaker 1: the Obsidian, I need the order. I need order in

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Speaker 1: my note keeping app all right. Earlier, we had a

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Speaker 1: caller that asked about jewels and a surge protector. And

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Speaker 1: I had to read up on this a little bit,

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Speaker 1: and so basically jewels are basically how much energy a

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Speaker 1: surge protector can absorb. So it's kind of like a

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Speaker 1: buffer between you, your electronics and a surge that comes in.

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Speaker 1: So if there's like an electrical storm or something or

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Speaker 1: whatever happens and a surge of electricity comes through your

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Speaker 1: your power outlets, these jewels would kind of absorb that

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Speaker 1: searche So the more jewels you have, I guess, the

928
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Speaker 1: more can absorb. So a thousand basic protections small electronics

929
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Speaker 1: like lamps and phone chargers. A thousand up to two

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Speaker 1: thousand good for home office setups like computers, monitors, printers.

931
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Speaker 1: Over two thousand is for high end electronics like a

932
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Speaker 1: gaming PC, home theater, something like that. So I would

933
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Speaker 1: probably say for a TV, you probably need a thousand

934
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Speaker 1: to two thousand. So that nine hundred that she had

935
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Speaker 1: probably wasn't very good. But that's the deal with search protectors.

936
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Speaker 1: I don't even know if I have a search protector

937
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Speaker 1: on my stuff. I think I need to look into that. Maybe, yeah,

938
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Speaker 1: but I've never really had a problem knock on wood

939
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Speaker 1: in all these years, but I guess it's probably a

940
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Speaker 1: good idea to have it. And they do wear out

941
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Speaker 1: apparently over time, so if you have one that's really old,

942
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Speaker 1: maybe get a new one. So think about that. All right,

943
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Speaker 1: let's see here, let's go to Kirk in is it Atlanto, Lano, California. Kirk,

944
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. What's up?

945
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 6: Yeah, Well, the question is I had taken some pictures

946
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Speaker 6: on a microscope about four years ago, and I ran

947
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Speaker 6: them through an app. I was searching for doing some

948
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Speaker 6: research on parasites, and I ran pictures through an app

949
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Speaker 6: called parasite ie on through my Chromebook. So I just

950
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Speaker 6: had a small Chromebook that I used with with an

951
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Speaker 6: email address, and I'm trying to retrieve the pictures but

952
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,840
Speaker 6: I'm not sure exactly how to do that. The email

953
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Speaker 6: is still active, but the phone I'm having trouble getting

954
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Speaker 6: into the I'm having trouble getting into the email account

955
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Speaker 6: because the phone that I had that number is out

956
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Speaker 6: to read and I got a new phone. And when

957
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:54,360
Speaker 6: I got the new phone, I set up a typical

958
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 6: email because that email was basically just for the parasite ideas,

959
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Speaker 6: and so I'm having trouble getting ratification.

960
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Speaker 1: So you've got you've you've got these pictures somehow stored

961
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Speaker 1: in your Google account, but you can't access the Google account.

962
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so they're on a jpeg.

963
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Speaker 7: Got it?

964
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Speaker 6: And I was wondering if if the camera that I

965
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Speaker 6: used for my microscope would possibly have a connection to

966
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Speaker 6: the jpeg picture because it was do they identify the camera?

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Speaker 1: You still have the camera?

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Speaker 6: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Can you connect it to your computer with USB?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's how it doesn't take it's yeah, that's how.

971
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Speaker 6: That's the only way you can take a picture is

972
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Speaker 6: with USB. Doesn't have a cards or anything.

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Speaker 7: It's just the camera.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, so so your computer acts as the recording device,

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Speaker 1: like the computer captures the photo.

976
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Speaker 6: Right, and then the camera is just the camera and the.

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Speaker 1: Computer is acting as right right, the computers that is

978
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Speaker 1: where everything is happening. Okay, So how can I help you?

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Speaker 1: You're trying to figure out how to get into your

980
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Speaker 1: Gmail account.

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Speaker 6: That would help because then I'd be able to go

982
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:06,440
Speaker 6: with curse that idea and just pull up pull it

983
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 6: all from there because I have an account. I'm lot

984
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Speaker 6: getting there.

985
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Speaker 1: Oh god, but you can't. But you don't know that

986
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:14,880
Speaker 1: one either. You can't get in there either, right.

987
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 6: Because I don't know the g You can't get in

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00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 6: the Gmail.

989
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 1: Got it all?

990
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 6: Right?

991
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 1: Well, Google has a help page that will will help

992
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:26,480
Speaker 1: will kind of guide you through the process of recovering

993
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 1: your account. And a lot of people they set up

994
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:31,360
Speaker 1: these phone numbers as the account recovery and then they

995
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:32,800
Speaker 1: get rid of the phone or they get rid of

996
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 1: the phone number. So you have to go to this

997
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:39,960
Speaker 1: special Google account recovery page and it's at account dot

998
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 1: Google dot com, slash sign in, slash recovery. And before

999
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 1: you do that, I'm going to link up these pages

1000
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: on the on my show notes read through. You want

1001
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 1: to use familiar device and location. You want to use,

1002
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 1: you know, an email connected to your account. So there's

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00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 1: a lot of things that Google says to do to

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00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,719
Speaker 1: make sure you get this right. This is rich on

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Speaker 1: Tech mentioning what you're thankful for. I asked you on

1006
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 1: Instagram at rich on Tech, what are you thankful for

1007
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:14,919
Speaker 1: in the tech world? And Daniel in Granada Hills said

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Speaker 1: he is thankful for slick Deals. Daniel, you're speaking my language.

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00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 1: I check slickdeals dot net every single day of my life.

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00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: And if there is a deal out there. I'm actually

1011
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:28,360
Speaker 1: looking at these the deal on the front page, just

1012
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 1: for these little cookies that I actually bought off this

1013
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 1: well during the prime season Prime Day they had all

1014
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 1: these like things on sale. I ordered like a giant

1015
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 1: box of like baked lays, like you know, chips, like

1016
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of My wife's like what is this?

1017
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: Are you bringing these to the kids school? I'm like, no,

1018
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 1: these are just for us. And then these like little

1019
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:50,920
Speaker 1: they're called rip van I don't know what rip van winkle.

1020
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 1: What are they called rip van wafers? These are little

1021
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: wafers you eat like cookie that you eat with your coffee.

1022
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 1: It's like a I don't know, it's good anyway. So

1023
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:00,760
Speaker 1: I have a whole box of those from slick Deals.

1024
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 1: Slick deals dot net great place to find deals. If

1025
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 1: there is a deal on the internet, they have it

1026
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 1: all right Now. On the show, welcoming Marcia Collier, author

1027
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 1: of Androids Smartphones for Seniors for Dummies, brand new book

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00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:20,160
Speaker 1: Heating up the Charts on Amazon. Marcia, Welcome to the show.

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00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 8: Hi, it's so great to talk to you. Rich. Yeah,

1030
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:27,480
Speaker 8: it's the second edition. There's a first edition that Amazon's

1031
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 8: still trying to push. But I saw that this is

1032
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 8: the second edition. Yeah, it led me to the first

1033
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:35,359
Speaker 8: and it said it did say there's a newer version.

1034
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 8: So I was like, okay, good because you know, you

1035
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 8: can still buy the first, but the second edition is

1036
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:44,879
Speaker 8: the one that's most up to date. So, Marcia, you've

1037
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 8: been on the show before talking about ebays, you've written

1038
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:50,279
Speaker 8: books before, you've written how to guides. What made you

1039
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:54,160
Speaker 8: want to tackle Android, especially for seniors. Well, you know,

1040
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 8: this is, as I said, the second edition, and I

1041
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 8: write in the for Dummy series over forty books, seniors

1042
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:06,279
Speaker 8: feel left out. Seniors often don't want to ask questions

1043
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:11,959
Speaker 8: of their children. They don't want to feel stupid. Let's

1044
00:53:12,040 --> 00:53:13,759
Speaker 8: just say that they don't want to hear all the

1045
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:16,759
Speaker 8: fluff you just mentioned slick deals. There's a whole thing

1046
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 8: in the book about websites like slick Deals, and I

1047
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 8: mentioned a bunch of others, you know, like Woot and

1048
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 8: Bradsteals and all that. Yeah, and they don't know about

1049
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 8: those things. So I try to bring the information that

1050
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 8: is not common knowledge. For example, an unlocked phone. What

1051
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:37,320
Speaker 8: is an unlocked phone?

1052
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:37,840
Speaker 7: And I don't know.

1053
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:40,760
Speaker 8: Yeah, Well, if you look in the book, it'll explain

1054
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:43,880
Speaker 8: to you why and why an unlocked phone is the

1055
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 8: best phone for you.

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Speaker 1: Ooh, I would agree with that. It's funny you said

1057
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:50,560
Speaker 1: the thing about that I didn't want to ask you

1058
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:53,320
Speaker 1: because you have no idea how many times my family

1059
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:56,560
Speaker 1: members will make a major tech decision. And I'm like, wait,

1060
00:53:56,640 --> 00:53:58,799
Speaker 1: why don't you ask me? I could have told you, right,

1061
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 1: I didn't want to ask you. I didn't want to

1062
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,759
Speaker 1: bother you. You can bother me. I do a radio

1063
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: show every week. People bother me. I get emails every day.

1064
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:06,960
Speaker 1: People bother me. It's not bothering, it's what I do.

1065
00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:09,319
Speaker 1: I'm trying to help and so do.

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Speaker 8: I and I get emails from people all the time too.

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Speaker 8: So you know, after writing the first edition, I got

1068
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 8: a lot of new queries, which gave me some information

1069
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 8: as to extra things to include. Like even in the book,

1070
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 8: you know, if somebody has placed an air tag on you,

1071
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 8: you know, the Apple air tag, to track you or

1072
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 8: whatever reason. It's great for luggage, but it has been

1073
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 8: used for nefarious reasons. You can get a notice on

1074
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,360
Speaker 8: your phone letting you know you're being tracked. And in

1075
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Speaker 8: the book I tell you how to go in to

1076
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 8: Apple to find the last three digits of the phone

1077
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Speaker 8: number that are tracking you. Oh wow, so yeah, I

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Speaker 8: give those things that people don't know even exists.

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Speaker 1: So what what do you think like writing this book?

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Speaker 1: I mean, what do you think are some of the

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Speaker 1: common shalut beside it's not asking for help? What do

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Speaker 1: you think some of the common challenges senior's face when

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Speaker 1: using androids? And also, I mean, before we get into

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Speaker 1: that hold on Android versus iPhone, I know you've been

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Speaker 1: a longtime Android person, right, so what makes you gravitate

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Speaker 1: towards this platform?

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Speaker 8: My husband is an iPhone. I've had iPhones in the past.

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Speaker 8: I used to have iPod, you know, up until the

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Speaker 8: most latest iPod that I still run on Wi Fi

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Speaker 8: in the house.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 8: Now we talk about Wi Fi calling in the book too.

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Speaker 8: But the point is I get a little lost, and

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Speaker 8: when I wasn't close to being a senior, I get

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Speaker 8: a little lost on Apple to find out all the

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Speaker 8: things I exactly wanted to do. And you can get

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Speaker 8: lost on an Android phone as well, but with this book,

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Speaker 8: it tells you where did I use six different phones

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Speaker 8: to write the book, So I'm checking from phone from

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Speaker 8: brand to brand to brand, because each brand is like

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Speaker 8: a different phone, but they're all based on Android, and

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Speaker 8: Android is the heart of the operating system that is

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Speaker 8: common to all these devices. And once you learn the basics,

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Speaker 8: you can switch to any phone, any brand, OnePlus, Google, Samsung.

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Speaker 8: It's all explained in the book. But the difference is

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Speaker 8: between the each one.

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Speaker 1: Which one do you think has the best sort of

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Speaker 1: skin for most people? Like I mean, because you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a big debate, like do you like the clean

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Speaker 1: of the pixel? Do you like all the features of

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Speaker 1: the Samsung the one plus has you know, one plus

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Speaker 1: is kind of morphed into being much more iphony.

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Speaker 8: Right exactly. I'm I became a pixel fan. Google had

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Speaker 8: sent me a couple of pixels to write, you know,

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Speaker 8: to use for my research in the book, and I

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Speaker 8: have to tell you, I find that the cleanness of

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Speaker 8: the pixel is a whole lot less confused and without

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Speaker 8: the skin without having to join somebody's club and sign

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Speaker 8: up sign up for this, and sign up for that,

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Speaker 8: You've got an Android phone, which is straight technology, and

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Speaker 8: on a Pixel phone, you get everything first. Now, whether

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Speaker 8: they continue the feature or not, this is another question,

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Speaker 8: but you get to have everything first, So if you

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Speaker 8: hear the slightest bit about how okay the iPhone can

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Speaker 8: do this oddside that's been downloaded to your Android phone

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Speaker 8: and you've got it already.

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Speaker 1: That is so true. It's so when I use the Pixel,

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's actually to me, the Pixel is

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Speaker 1: the smartest smartphone on the market. Like just the home

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Speaker 1: screen where and I know you can set widgets on

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Speaker 1: the iPhone, but like just the home screen on the Pixel,

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Speaker 1: it just kind of like it looks in your Gmail

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Speaker 1: for information and Rice surfaces it and like stuff you're

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Speaker 1: not even thinking about. Like the other day, something popped

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Speaker 1: up and I was like, whoa wait, Oh was a

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Speaker 1: package delivery or something. I'm like, oh, I don't even

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Speaker 1: know I've had a package delivery today exactly.

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Speaker 8: And when we had recently the strike with the Amazon,

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Speaker 8: I had packages that I was expecting and I could

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Speaker 8: get that notification and it said which delivery center it

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Speaker 8: was coming from. Oh, so that really helped me know

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Speaker 8: that I would get my package.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So what give me some tips from

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Speaker 1: the book. What do you think is a great tip

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Speaker 1: that you want to share?

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Speaker 8: Well, first thing I mentioned is buying an unlocked phone.

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Speaker 8: Everybody thinks, oh, I need to go into this the

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Speaker 8: T Mobile store, and they're going to set it up

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Speaker 8: for me. Now, I like T Mobile, I use T

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Speaker 8: Mobile myself, So this is not a diss on them,

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Speaker 8: but any at and T any phone store. Those people

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Speaker 8: who work there are salespeople. They have a talent for

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Speaker 8: working the phones. Yes they understand, but remember there's a

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Speaker 8: commission on everything that they sell you. It is kind

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Speaker 8: of like buying a car old style.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm, I saw phones, I know, right, yeah.

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Speaker 8: Right, it's it's and those who didn't like the old

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Speaker 8: car buying experience or walking into a dealership with the

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Speaker 8: finance guy and this and that. That is what you're

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Speaker 8: dealing with in a phone store. If you need help

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Speaker 8: with your phone, You've got my books, You've got Rich

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00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 8: on Tech, you've got my podcast. There are a billion places,

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Speaker 8: and I talk about it in the book because you

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Speaker 8: need to get it, and not necessarily from reviewers. Now,

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Speaker 8: Rich you and I both know. We go to cees,

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Speaker 8: we get technology, we look at it, and they would

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Speaker 8: like us to write a review on a phone immediately.

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Speaker 8: Now we all know you need to run a phone

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Speaker 8: for a couple of months to know exactly what's going on.

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Speaker 8: I mean, anybody can copy a press release with many

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Speaker 8: people do. But I worked all of these phones, Samsung,

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Speaker 8: Pixel and OnePlus, and I found out any flaws, anythings,

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Speaker 8: any whatever changes made over time, and little tips and

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Speaker 8: tricks that make those phones work better for you in

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Speaker 8: the long run. So never just buy, in my opinion,

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Speaker 8: a phone on all the reviews you see so so

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Speaker 8: many of them are sponsored.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a whole other conversation. Right now, I'm looking

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Speaker 1: through the book and it's very thorough. It's in full color.

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Speaker 1: You've got lots of illustrations, lots of screenshots, which I

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Speaker 1: know probably took a while painstakingly to collect. But you've

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Speaker 1: got everything that you can imagine that you need to

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Speaker 1: learn about with your Android phone. It is all in here.

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Speaker 1: It's all lined up, and it's useful, helpful information, especially

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Speaker 1: if you are trying to I love this. Oh, you've

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Speaker 1: got the must do You've got Marcia's let's see here.

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Speaker 1: I like this part Marcia's Must Do Things for your Phone,

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Speaker 1: Chapter sixteen. You've got all the basics, screenshot, do not disturb,

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Speaker 1: Wi Fi, VPN, wireless charging, emergency calls. Okay, that's great.

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Speaker 1: So there you have it. The phone is called Android

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Speaker 1: Smartphone for Seniors for Dummies. Second edition available on Amazon.

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Speaker 1: Makes a great gift for someone or yourself. Malci Collier,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining me today.

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Speaker 8: Thank you Rich. Happy holidays and yeah, it's a great book.

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Speaker 1: Really, I promise thanks for sending it along. Happy holidays

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Speaker 1: to you and very exciting. I will probably see you

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Speaker 1: a sc yes, all right eight eight eight rich one

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Speaker 1: O one eight eight eight seven four to two four

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Speaker 1: one zero one. The website you want to link to

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Speaker 1: the book, just go to rich on tech dot TV.

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Speaker 1: It's all right there. Coming up, the FTC is eliminating

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Speaker 1: some junk fees. We'll explain about that or I guess yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about that. And how do you find a

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Speaker 1: show that you want to watch on the right service.

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Speaker 1: I'll answer that coming up right here. I'm rich on tech.

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Speaker 1: What are you thankful for? Many of you replied, Patty said,

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Speaker 1: tile tracker. We have them on our keys, backpack, luggage

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Speaker 1: and camera bag. So I know that the air tag

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Speaker 1: gets all the publicity. This is me talking now, not Patty.

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Speaker 1: But the tile is still a formidable tracker. And when

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Speaker 1: I like about the tile, I did review the latest

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Speaker 1: tile trackers this year, they just came out with brand

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Speaker 1: new ones. Tile was purchased by a company called Life

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Speaker 1: three sixty. They make a popular app, a family tracking app,

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Speaker 1: so it makes sense that the family tracking app would

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Speaker 1: also have family trackers and tracking devices built in. They've

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Speaker 1: got one for your remote control. It's like a little

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Speaker 1: sticker you put on the back of your remote so

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Speaker 1: you can find that with a sound. They've got a

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Speaker 1: pro tracker, they've got a standard tracker with less distance,

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Speaker 1: and then they've got a tracker that slips into your wallet.

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Speaker 1: And so again, actually let's see here, if I type

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Speaker 1: in into my website tile trackers, there it is. You

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Speaker 1: can search for that on my website as well and

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Speaker 1: see all my review on the new tile trackers. Look

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Speaker 1: at that the tile Mate twenty five bucks, Tile Pro

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Speaker 1: thirty five dollars, Tile Slim is the one that goes

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Speaker 1: in your wallet. That's thirty bucks, and then tile Sticker

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Speaker 1: is twenty five and some of them have a replaceable battery.

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Speaker 1: So the Pro I think is the best one because

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Speaker 1: it's got a five hundred foot range that's Bluetooth, and

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Speaker 1: then it's got a one year replaceable battery. Oh sorry, wait,

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Speaker 1: that one is yeah, yeah, replaceable, so you can replace

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Speaker 1: the battery in that. So if you have the tile

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Speaker 1: mate is a little bit cheaper. It's got a shorter range,

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01:03:27,040 --> 01:03:29,919
Speaker 1: but a three year non replaceable battery. And of course

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Speaker 1: when I talk range on these things, there's two things happening.

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Speaker 1: You've got bluetooth. So let's say that this tile tracker

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Speaker 1: is in your backyard at your house. Your phone would

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Speaker 1: help you lead to it based on the bluetooth because

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01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:45,920
Speaker 1: it can go five hundred feet. But if let's say

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Speaker 1: you leave this a purse with a tracker in it

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Speaker 1: at the airport, Now that tracker relies on a crowdsource

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01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:55,880
Speaker 1: tracking network. So all the other people that have the

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Speaker 1: tile app installed on their phone, they are now helping

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Speaker 1: you locate your tile tracker. So again it's bluetooth for

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01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:06,120
Speaker 1: the local stuff, and then for the worldwide stuff, it's

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Speaker 1: everyone that has the tile app installed on their phone.

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Speaker 1: Let's see. The FTC this week introduced some new regulations

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01:04:15,720 --> 01:04:18,760
Speaker 1: that go into effect in April twenty twenty five that

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01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 1: say certain businesses have to display the total purchase cost

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Speaker 1: of your products, including mandatory fees and the two businesses

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Speaker 1: they targeted. Here are hotels and live event tickets, so

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Speaker 1: you know who I'm talking about, ticket Master, all those

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Speaker 1: different ticketing services. Let's say you go to buy a

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Speaker 1: ticket for your basketball game. Oh, it's twenty five dollars.

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Speaker 1: By the time you get to check out that same

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Speaker 1: ticket with all the fees and all these different things

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Speaker 1: they add on, is more like eighty five bucks. And

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Speaker 1: by the way, you're probably not even finding a ticket

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Speaker 1: for that cheap these days. Hotel same thing. You get

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Speaker 1: the hotel price. And it's all about the search engines,

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01:04:57,240 --> 01:04:59,880
Speaker 1: because what people do is they put I want to

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Speaker 1: s stay in a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, and the

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Speaker 1: hotel search engine, like a Kayak or a Google Hotels,

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01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:11,640
Speaker 1: they put all that information in a list and people

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Speaker 1: sort by the cheapest and so if this hotel comes

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Speaker 1: up to the cheapest, you select it. And then by

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Speaker 1: the time you put all your information and it says, oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, you've got parking for thirty five dollars,

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Speaker 1: you've got the resort fee for fifty dollars, which includes

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Speaker 1: long distance phone calls. And then by the time you

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Speaker 1: get to the end, your hotel nightly fee is way

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Speaker 1: more than it was in that first page. So now

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Speaker 1: they got to put everything up front. Convenience fees, service fees,

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Speaker 1: resort fees all have to be up there. FTC estimates

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Speaker 1: this will save consumers up to fifty three million hours

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Speaker 1: annually that would otherwise be spent searching for total prices. Now,

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Speaker 1: the one industry they did not put in here, which

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Speaker 1: is a big, big offender, is the airline industry. So

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Speaker 1: it is my biggest pet peeve when you go on

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01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:01,840
Speaker 1: Google Flights and you're looking for a flight somewhere and

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01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:04,360
Speaker 1: a super cheap flight comes up from one of these

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01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:07,960
Speaker 1: carriers that you know, they're fine, And yes, if you're

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01:06:08,080 --> 01:06:10,080
Speaker 1: just a college student or someone who just wants to

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Speaker 1: get somewhere for fifty three dollars and not pack a

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Speaker 1: bag or have a carry on or drink of water

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Speaker 1: on the flight, sure it's amazing that we have that ability.

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Speaker 1: But if you've got a family of four like myself,

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Speaker 1: you got luggage you got to carry on. You know,

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Speaker 1: back in the day we had strollers and all this stuff.

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Speaker 1: You know, you want to see what that total prices.

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Speaker 1: You can compare it against the other airlines, and a

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Speaker 1: lot of these these low cost carriers. You've got to

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Speaker 1: go through the entire flow before you can see how

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Speaker 1: much it's going to cost you for your bag. And

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Speaker 1: so the FTC did not mandate that airlines have to

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Speaker 1: do this, which I think is a major miss. But

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Speaker 1: I get it. It's all about competing on price and

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Speaker 1: that's what these things do. So junk fees, they're still

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Speaker 1: gonna be there, just gonna be a little bit more transparent.

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Speaker 1: Anonymous rites in Rich, Happy holidays, Thanks for all your insights.

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Speaker 1: I have a quick question. I just bought a new

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Speaker 1: iPhone sixteen Promax and updated it to iOS eighteen. Maybe

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Speaker 1: I'm crazy, but sometimes it feels like the camera is

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Speaker 1: being turned on remotely. Is there a way to lock

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Speaker 1: the camera? I don't know of a way to completely

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Speaker 1: disable the camera on the iPhone, but you can manage

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Speaker 1: which apps can access it. So go to Settings, Privacy

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Speaker 1: and Security and Camera and you'll see a list of

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Speaker 1: all the apps that have accessed your camera recently, and

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Speaker 1: you can turn off camera access for any or all apps,

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Speaker 1: so you can do that. I don't think there's on

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Speaker 1: the Android side of things. On Pixel there is a way,

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Speaker 1: maybe on Samsung as well, but I know on pixel. Specifically,

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Speaker 1: you can turn off the camera globally so that no

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Speaker 1: app can access it. The other thing you can do

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Speaker 1: is look for a case that has a physical slider

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Speaker 1: for both the front and back cameras. So I was

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Speaker 1: looking up online. You can find one. Spyfi is one

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Speaker 1: brand that has it. Spy dash Fi fy so a

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Speaker 1: case that has a built in slider to physical block

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Speaker 1: the camera. Eight eight eight rich one O one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

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Speaker 1: What's a massage from a robot like? That's coming up next?

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here with

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Speaker 1: you hanging out talking technology. Phone lines open at eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. You can also

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Speaker 1: email me. Just go to the website richon Tech dot

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Speaker 1: tv and uh you can hit contact there. Jerry, I've

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Speaker 1: been asking folks what they're thankful for in technology. I

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Speaker 1: asked on my Instagram at rich on Tech. Jerry wrote

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Speaker 1: in my GPS golf watch, I'll never lose it. Accurate,

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Speaker 1: rechargeable and reliable. But does it improve your golf game?

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Speaker 7: Jerry?

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Speaker 1: I bet it does. It's amazing how all these tech

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Speaker 1: products have helped in so many different fields, right, Like

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Speaker 1: you almost feel like you're cheating, Like golf, tennis. They

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Speaker 1: actually have an app for tennis that will like record

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Speaker 1: your swing. I think it's called swing Vision. Yeah, oh,

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Speaker 1: AI stats for tennis and pickleball, So I'll give you.

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Speaker 1: It'll process your video in real time to track the

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Speaker 1: ball trajectory and player movements. Probably help you, you know,

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Speaker 1: become a better player. But it's just all the stuff

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Speaker 1: that like you just didn't have and now you have it.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, it's all through the phone, or

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Speaker 1: it's all through GPS, it's all through your smart watch.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. All right, let's go to Monica in

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Speaker 1: u Upland, California. Monica, you're on with Rich Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 7: My question is very simple. I would like to know

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Speaker 7: if I could use AI to write my will.

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Speaker 1: Oh, why such a dark question. Now, I'm just kidding.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I'm old and I'm getting there, so I

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Speaker 6: better be prepared.

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Speaker 2: And the lawyers are very expensive.

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Speaker 1: Yes. Well, I am actually very proud of you for

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Speaker 1: thinking of this because so many people do not have

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Speaker 1: a will, and it is very important to have a will,

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Speaker 1: even if it's a simple one, because why do you

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Speaker 1: want the state having to fit you know, your loved ones,

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Speaker 1: Why do you want to have to have them figuring

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Speaker 1: out with a state? You know, like it's just to me,

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Speaker 1: it's like, just get a will. I know we don't

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Speaker 1: want to think about this stuff, but it is very important.

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Speaker 1: So here's the thing. I think that AI can one

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Speaker 1: write your will. Do I want you to use that

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Speaker 1: as your will? Probably not, So I think that the

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Speaker 1: AI can come up with a rough draft. I think

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Speaker 1: the AI can give you some things to think about

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Speaker 1: when it comes to your will. And I'm sure if

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Speaker 1: you ask chat GBT to write a will for you,

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Speaker 1: it probably could. But I think that it may not

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Speaker 1: be the best way. Now. I'm not a lawyer and

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the legal requirements are for a will.

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Speaker 1: I believe that you probably just need something in writing

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Speaker 1: and have a witness to that. I'm not sure, but

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Speaker 1: I know that there are many many companies out there

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Speaker 1: like legal Zoom that can walk you through a process

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Speaker 1: to create your own will, and they do it every day,

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Speaker 1: all day long, and so I would say that's probably

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Speaker 1: a better way of doing it, just because you want

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Speaker 1: to be sure that this is done properly on the

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Speaker 1: up and up, and I'm looking at legal Zoom. It's

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Speaker 1: ninety nine bucks for a standard will that include your

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Speaker 1: last will and testament, healthcare directive, financial power of attorney,

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Speaker 1: hipA authorization, thirty days of revisions, printing and shipping of

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Speaker 1: one set of documents. So now I could be wrong.

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Speaker 1: I know people may email me after I say this

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Speaker 1: and say, Rich, of course use AI.

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Speaker 7: Why not?

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Speaker 1: Now I will tell you, Monica that I have used

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Speaker 1: AI to look at every single contract I sign or

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Speaker 1: deal or document, and I have it analyze everything, and

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Speaker 1: so there is no shortage of information that AI has.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna ask chat GPT. I'm just gonna say,

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Speaker 1: can you help me create a will? And let's see

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Speaker 1: what it says. Yes, I can help you draft a will.

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Speaker 1: It's important to note that while I can provide a

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Speaker 1: structured template, legal requirements for wills vary by jurisdic addiction.

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Speaker 1: For a legally valid will, you should consult with an

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Speaker 1: attorney or use a legal service tailored to your area.

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Speaker 1: Here's a general outline to get you started. Title, declaration,

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Speaker 1: appointment of executor, exidor executor. Oh oh yeah, hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: Good reading Rich. See, this is how you know I'm

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Speaker 1: human because I still make mistakes. You know, you get

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Speaker 1: my newsletter, there's always like a misspelling in there, like

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Speaker 1: a little like you're like, that doesn't make sense, or

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Speaker 1: I leave out a word. This is how you know

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Speaker 1: that there's an actual human behind the stuff that I do.

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Speaker 1: There you go, uh yeah, the executor. It's a totally

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Speaker 1: different thing. Oh, distribution of ass guardianship for miners, other instructions, signatures,

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Speaker 1: and witnesses. Example of a witness statement, self proving affidavit.

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Speaker 1: So I bet you in this world there are probably

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Speaker 1: many many people that have been using AI to create

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Speaker 1: a will, and it probably works if you're hitting all

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Speaker 1: the right you know, dotting all the crossing all the

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Speaker 1: t's and dotting the i's like you, probably it probably works.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know if I want to leave it

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Speaker 1: to that chance just yet. So i'd probably have someone

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Speaker 1: look at this, or I wouldn't even have someone look

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Speaker 1: at it, because Monica, if you're trying to save money

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Speaker 1: and not pay an attorney, then I would probably just

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Speaker 1: do something like the legal zoom. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: there are many there are many other products like legal

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Speaker 1: Zoom you can type in on interesting on Google. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure if you just type in on Google last

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Speaker 1: Will and Testament, it'll probably have a million companies that

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Speaker 1: are willing to take your money to do this. Rocket Lawyer,

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Speaker 1: Free Will, law Depot, so many trust and Will. I

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Speaker 1: mean there are companies that just specialized in this. I

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Speaker 1: think you could probably get a pretty good deal. And uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, look for a promo code. I bet you.

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Speaker 1: I bet your legal Zoom probably has some sort of

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Speaker 1: promo code that'll save you even more. So that's what

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Speaker 1: I would do, Monica, just to be sure. But I guess.

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Speaker 1: I mean, theoretically, if you make this thing on AI

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Speaker 1: and you go, you're not really gonna have to worry

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Speaker 1: about what the implications are, right, I mean, you don't

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Speaker 1: know any better. It's someone else is gonna have to

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Speaker 1: worry about it, you know. Anyway, Thanks for the question.

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Speaker 1: That's that's an interesting one. I do love AI for

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Speaker 1: all this stuff though, and it is it is changing

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01:14:41,520 --> 01:14:44,680
Speaker 1: the way we do stuff like emails and stuff like.

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Speaker 1: I can tell half the email pitches I'm getting now

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Speaker 1: are all AI. It's all just like Okay, let's let's

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Speaker 1: summarize this. Let's bullet point it, let's put emojis, let's

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Speaker 1: use these words like furthermore and lastly. And conversely, Ai

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Speaker 1: has a way of writing that is just a little

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Speaker 1: bit unhuman, and it always ends with a waffling statement

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Speaker 1: at the end. While some people like this, others find that.

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Speaker 1: And it always says it at the end, and then

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Speaker 1: at the beginning it always says something kind of flowery

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Speaker 1: as well. So I love it, but it's it's got

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Speaker 1: a little ways to go. Okay, So Craig writes in

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Speaker 1: I've got a smart TV, Internet and local HDTV, but

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Speaker 1: I don't want one hundred dollars cable bill just to

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Speaker 1: watch Alaska the Last Frontier on Discovery Channel. I'm retired

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Speaker 1: and willing to pay five to ten dollars a month

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Speaker 1: any affordable options, So Craig, I'm not familiar with this show,

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Speaker 1: but it sounds good, Alaska the Last Frontier. So what

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Speaker 1: I would do is pop this into Google. And Google

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Speaker 1: has a feature that says where to watch upper right

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Speaker 1: hand corner. And I'm looking at this and the different

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Speaker 1: services come up. You've got Filo Max, YouTube TV, Apple TV,

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Speaker 1: Discovery Plus, YouTube, Hulu, so it's on a lot of

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Speaker 1: these things because I think it's a TV show. Looks

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Speaker 1: like it's a TV show on Discovery Channel. So I

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Speaker 1: think what's happening is if you've had Filo, I bet

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Speaker 1: you they have Discovery Channel so you can watch it.

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Speaker 1: If you got Max, do they include Discovery? Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: because Max is part of that as well, so yeah,

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Speaker 1: they probably have it. So what I would do is

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Speaker 1: look at these subscription services and see which one is

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Speaker 1: the cheapest and subscribe there. I'm guessing it is Discovery Plus.

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Speaker 1: And so if I go to the third let's see

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Speaker 1: the second second listing on Google Alaska, the last Frontier

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Speaker 1: is on Discovery so it looks like a Discovery Channel show.

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Speaker 1: I would say Discovery Plus is going to be your

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Speaker 1: best bet. Let's see what is this show about? The

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Speaker 1: Kitcher The Kilture family works together to survive on a

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Speaker 1: homeland in Alaska. Stream now, So if you click that

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Speaker 1: Discovery Plus this show is on there, it confirms that.

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Speaker 1: And then you just have to see how much Discovery

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Speaker 1: Plus costs. Sign up now and let's see, Okay, Discovery

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Speaker 1: Plus four ninety nine a month AD free eight ninety nine,

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Speaker 1: where's our bell? That is correct? Craig you can do

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Speaker 1: this for five to ten dollars a month. Discovery Plus

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Speaker 1: is your friend. Now there are other apps that do this.

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Speaker 1: There you go, there's another. There's other apps that do this.

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Speaker 1: There's an app called Real Good Our E E L

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Speaker 1: g oo D. You can type in the service in there,

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Speaker 1: or just watch. Just watch is another one. And these

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Speaker 1: are apps that you can put on your phone. And

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Speaker 1: this goes for anything, anything that you want to watch.

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Speaker 1: These apps will help you find where that is. So

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put this into just Watch. What's the show

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Speaker 1: called Alaska the Last Front Tier there it is. The

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Speaker 1: show has been going on since twenty eleven. It's got

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Speaker 1: eleven seasons, so Craig, you can catch up on some seasons.

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Speaker 1: So I'm looking at this and it's telling me the

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Speaker 1: different ways to watch it, and if I want to

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Speaker 1: do it's, uh yeah, you've got Max, You've got Discovery Plus.

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Speaker 1: Those are the pretty much the ways to do it.

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Speaker 1: Those are the main ways, and then of course you've

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Speaker 1: got the show on other ways. But that's for any

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Speaker 1: movie or TV show. If you want to figure out

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Speaker 1: where to watch it, Google is a good first stop.

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Speaker 1: They've got all that data. But Real Good and just

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Speaker 1: watch her. Also two great ways to do that eight

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Speaker 1: A eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. The website for

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Speaker 1: the show rich on Tech dot TV. Coming up this hour,

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01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:39,559
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk to mind over Tech founder Jonathan Garner.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna explain how to develop a healthier relationship with technology,

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Speaker 1: and coming up right after the break, I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 1: you what it's like to get a massage from a robot. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: stick stay stick around for that. Well, become back to

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to uh Mark in Los Angeles. Mark, you're

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Speaker 1: on with Rich.

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Speaker 4: All right, Rich, how you do it?

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Speaker 5: Have the very Christmas seconds?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely same to you. What can I help you with?

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Speaker 5: I have a quick question. I've seen these translating earbuds,

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Speaker 5: and I've had no good luck with the earbuds, you know,

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01:19:23,400 --> 01:19:26,920
Speaker 5: regular ones, but these translating ones. I'd see him all

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Speaker 5: over the internet and I've seen them from ten dollars

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Speaker 5: on up to one hundred and fifty dollars, and I mean,

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Speaker 5: I don't if they do the same thing. I'm just

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Speaker 5: trying to find out which one's a good one and

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Speaker 5: what do you based it on? And if you have

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Speaker 5: any idea where to go and how to you know

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Speaker 5: which ones to do?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so this, uh, these must be advertised everywhere because

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Speaker 1: I get this question so often, and I guess they

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Speaker 1: must be on a lot of Facebook ads. That's what

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing. Are you seeing these like online?

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Speaker 5: I'm not on Facebook anymore. Okay, They're all over the internet.

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Speaker 5: And I told somebody.

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Speaker 6: I told somebody about them.

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Speaker 4: She had no idea about them. She was flipping in

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Speaker 4: the air. She couldn't believe they had them.

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Speaker 7: And I said, yeah, I've seen them.

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Speaker 4: I was when COVID hit.

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Speaker 5: I was, I was on the I was on the

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Speaker 5: web and I saw a pair company that was in

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Speaker 5: New York and they I couldn't get a hold of anybody.

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Speaker 5: I could just they would just do it by email.

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Speaker 5: And I contacted them again. And I don't if I

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Speaker 5: can't talk to somebody, I don't know if I want

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Speaker 5: to buy them.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a that's a great tip, right there. Absolutely.

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01:20:21,800 --> 01:20:24,400
Speaker 1: I always checked for the UH. Always check for the

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Speaker 1: contact information and the customer service information before you make

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Speaker 1: a purchase. But to answer your question, so yes, there

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Speaker 1: are many, many claims of translating earbuds, but there's a

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Speaker 1: couple of brands and services that I think I would trust,

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Speaker 1: and I've I've seen these things. I've tried them to

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Speaker 1: a certain extent, but I don't know if there's like

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Speaker 1: one killer kind of brand out there just yet. I

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Speaker 1: think the one that comes up over and over with

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Speaker 1: the best reviews is the time Kettle. So I have

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Speaker 1: not personally tested these, but those, you know, it's sort

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Speaker 1: of like they're business and so they do, you know,

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Speaker 1: translating earbuds, and that's kind of like what their entire

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Speaker 1: world is. So I probably look to those. Number One,

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Speaker 1: let's see how much they are. So they've got the

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Speaker 1: latest W four pro. Let's see how much these things are.

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Speaker 1: Four hundred Oh wow, those are expensive, four hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty bucks. So I think that that's, you know, one option.

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Speaker 1: It looks like they have a whole bunch of different

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Speaker 1: options under their website Time Kettle. But I will tell

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Speaker 1: you that I think this is going to be a

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Speaker 1: something that will be tackled in twenty twenty five by

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Speaker 1: a lot of companies, and I'm already seeing the trend.

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Speaker 1: So Number one, Samsung earbuds. This year, they came out

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Speaker 1: with something called Interpreter Mode, So that is something that

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Speaker 1: you can get on Samsung devices with these earbuds, and

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Speaker 1: in real time, you can hear what someone's saying in

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Speaker 1: a different language. So that's number one. You have to

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Speaker 1: have a Samsung phone for that. Pixel pixel buds do that.

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Speaker 1: So these I don't know if you need the pixel phone,

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Speaker 1: but I know you need the pixel buds to do this.

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Speaker 1: But the Pixel buds also have a feature where they

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Speaker 1: can translate in real time, and obviously it's Google, so

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be good at it. Then you've got the

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Speaker 1: ray Band Meta smart glasses. They just came out with

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Speaker 1: a software update that will let you hear what someone's

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Speaker 1: saying through these glasses in a different language. So if

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Speaker 1: someone speaking French, Italian or Spanish, it will translate that

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Speaker 1: into English that you can understand it, and it's done

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Speaker 1: all in the glasses. And I think that AI is

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Speaker 1: a big part of this. I think that AI is

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Speaker 1: going to be a huge win for this sort of situation.

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Speaker 1: But that's why i'd look for something that is maybe

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Speaker 1: not super duper cheap, but I would look for something

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Speaker 1: like the Time kettle I think is pretty well known.

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Speaker 1: This other brand keeps coming up, but I have not

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Speaker 1: heard of it. Yeah, I'm I don't know if I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna mention that one because I'm not really sure. This

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Speaker 1: brand is called and Fear a n F I E

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Speaker 1: er and they have the M three offline, So that's

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Speaker 1: the other thing depends if these are online or offline.

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Speaker 1: Offline is obviously going to be easier because you don't

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Speaker 1: need to be connected to the internet. Those are one

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Speaker 1: hundred bucks. They get three and a half stars on Amazon,

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Speaker 1: so I'd be a little cautious with those. Let's see

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Speaker 1: what their M six get. Those get a little bit better.

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Speaker 1: Those get four and a half stars. Those are ninety bucks.

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Speaker 1: So a couple of options there. Mark choose wisely, all right.

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Speaker 1: So this week I got a massage from a robot.

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Speaker 1: Yes it is quite weird. It's called Escape, but this

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Speaker 1: is the future. So this is a basically a robotic

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Speaker 1: massage table. You lay down, you put on this spandex suit.

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Speaker 1: There's no oil, so you put on this tight fitting

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Speaker 1: body suit so these arms can move over you and

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Speaker 1: you kind of choose what you want to do. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of like an uber of massages, So you book

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Speaker 1: it all online through the app. You go to one

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Speaker 1: of these places and it's pretty much self serve, except

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01:23:58,080 --> 01:23:59,599
Speaker 1: for the first time you go. Someone's going to tell

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Speaker 1: you how to do it, and you know, help you,

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01:24:01,760 --> 01:24:04,080
Speaker 1: you know, pick out this suit to put on that

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Speaker 1: they will provide to you. So you put on the suit,

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Speaker 1: you lay down, you press start, and next thing you know,

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Speaker 1: the thing uses cameras to scan your body. I'm told

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Speaker 1: the cameras don't actually take pictures. They just kind of

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Speaker 1: use like topography map kind of thing of your body,

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Speaker 1: of your back and uses AI to come up with

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Speaker 1: a program. And once it does that not only takes

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Speaker 1: like a minute or so, and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: this thing gets to work and these arms come down

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Speaker 1: and they start moving on your back and kind of

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Speaker 1: massaging you. And it reminded me of sort of what

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Speaker 1: Peloton did for cycling. This is not going to replace

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Speaker 1: people going out on bikes, not going to replace the

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01:24:40,520 --> 01:24:43,680
Speaker 1: human you know therapists out there massage therapists. But I

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01:24:43,720 --> 01:24:46,120
Speaker 1: think it's just going to give people another option. So

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01:24:46,240 --> 01:24:48,320
Speaker 1: it felt good. It was a little scary the first

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01:24:48,360 --> 01:24:50,599
Speaker 1: time those arms hit my back. I was like, oh gosh,

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01:24:50,640 --> 01:24:53,120
Speaker 1: are these things gonna crush me to death? They didn't.

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01:24:53,439 --> 01:24:55,760
Speaker 1: There is an emergency button if you need it, but

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01:24:56,000 --> 01:24:58,200
Speaker 1: I didn't have to use that. And if the power

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01:24:58,320 --> 01:25:00,400
Speaker 1: goes out or whatever, you can just push these off

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01:25:00,400 --> 01:25:01,760
Speaker 1: of you. It's not a big deal. It's not like

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01:25:01,840 --> 01:25:05,679
Speaker 1: they're big and heavy. But again, the company is escape

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01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:09,240
Speaker 1: a e Scape. They're putting them in at the rich

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Speaker 1: Carlton Equinox. You can see the level of clientele they're

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Speaker 1: going for. I went to a place called Pause in

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Speaker 1: Studio City, California. It's kind of like a wellness clinic.

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01:25:19,720 --> 01:25:21,439
Speaker 1: And again, I think this is just going to give

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01:25:21,479 --> 01:25:24,760
Speaker 1: people one more option for a massage, someone who may

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01:25:24,800 --> 01:25:27,559
Speaker 1: not be comfortable going to a traditional massage, or someone

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Speaker 1: who just wants a little more tech forward of an experience.

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Speaker 1: I try it. You can check the video on the

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Speaker 1: website rich on Tech dot TV. Coming up, we're going

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01:25:35,800 --> 01:25:39,480
Speaker 1: to talk about developing a healthier relationship with your technology.

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Speaker 1: Right here on rich on Tech. Jerry wrote in and

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01:25:46,880 --> 01:25:50,400
Speaker 1: says what he's thankful for my new AirPod pro twos

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01:25:51,080 --> 01:25:54,599
Speaker 1: for my loss of hearing. Such a blessing. I asked

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01:25:54,640 --> 01:25:56,479
Speaker 1: you on my Instagram what you're thankful for. And that's

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01:25:56,520 --> 01:25:59,320
Speaker 1: a good one, Jerry. That's a new feature. Definitely check

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01:25:59,360 --> 01:26:01,920
Speaker 1: it out if you have not if you are hearing,

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01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:04,080
Speaker 1: if you have any sort of hearing issue, it can

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Speaker 1: really help with a wide range of those. All right,

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Speaker 1: joining me now is a mind Over tech founder Jonathan Garner.

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01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:13,000
Speaker 1: He's got a new book coming out next year and

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01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:16,640
Speaker 1: he's going to explain how to develop a healthier relationship

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Speaker 1: with technology. Jonathan, thanks for joining me today.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, very welcome. You're mentioning time.

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Speaker 9: It's ten thirteen evening here in Berlin where I'm based. Yeah,

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01:26:25,680 --> 01:26:28,439
Speaker 9: see that's what it's definitely definitely code outside.

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Speaker 1: You know. I actually did a show from Berlin and

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01:26:32,520 --> 01:26:34,960
Speaker 1: it was The show was I think it was from

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01:26:35,080 --> 01:26:37,800
Speaker 1: eight to eleven at night and I was in a

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01:26:37,840 --> 01:26:40,200
Speaker 1: hotel room but some for some reason, I didn't realize

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01:26:40,240 --> 01:26:42,800
Speaker 1: there was like a lounge club underneath the room I

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01:26:42,920 --> 01:26:44,920
Speaker 1: was staying in, and all of a sudden at night

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01:26:44,960 --> 01:26:48,080
Speaker 1: it was just like the music, the drums, the singing,

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01:26:48,200 --> 01:26:49,560
Speaker 1: and it was I don't think you could hear on

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01:26:49,600 --> 01:26:52,280
Speaker 1: the radio, but it was pretty wild. So what do

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Speaker 1: you think our relationship is with technology? What do you

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01:26:54,760 --> 01:26:56,559
Speaker 1: think the problem, Well, what do you think the problem

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01:26:56,680 --> 01:26:58,560
Speaker 1: is with our relationship with technology?

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Speaker 9: I think the problem is that it's just very complicated.

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01:27:03,280 --> 01:27:06,719
Speaker 9: At the same time, technology brings us so many incredible benefits,

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01:27:07,360 --> 01:27:10,559
Speaker 9: and at the same time, I think anyone be lying

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01:27:10,600 --> 01:27:12,280
Speaker 9: if they didn't say that there were things they wanted

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01:27:12,320 --> 01:27:15,360
Speaker 9: to improve about their relationship with tech or that quite

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01:27:15,360 --> 01:27:17,439
Speaker 9: a lot of the time they felt like they didn't

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01:27:17,439 --> 01:27:20,040
Speaker 9: actually have full control over the way they.

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01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:20,560
Speaker 4: Were using it.

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01:27:21,640 --> 01:27:24,080
Speaker 9: So I think, yeah, there's like a deep love hate

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01:27:24,120 --> 01:27:26,160
Speaker 9: relationship involved in that.

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01:27:26,640 --> 01:27:29,639
Speaker 1: I can understand that. So you have an organization mind

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01:27:29,680 --> 01:27:31,280
Speaker 1: over Tech. What is that all about?

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01:27:33,040 --> 01:27:34,720
Speaker 4: That's right? So, yeah, mind over Tech.

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01:27:34,840 --> 01:27:38,680
Speaker 9: We work with organizations to help people look into their

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01:27:38,720 --> 01:27:42,160
Speaker 9: relationship with technology, but specifically we work with people on

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01:27:42,280 --> 01:27:45,639
Speaker 9: the behavior level, looking at their digital habits. So basically

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01:27:45,720 --> 01:27:48,599
Speaker 9: the moment to moment kind of interactions with our digital

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01:27:48,680 --> 01:27:52,200
Speaker 9: devices every day, and we do that to create space

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01:27:52,280 --> 01:27:56,080
Speaker 9: for people to actually be more intentional with how they

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01:27:56,200 --> 01:27:58,680
Speaker 9: use their technology. So trying to turn it from a

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Speaker 9: toul distracts us into a tool which actually aligns with

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Speaker 9: our kind of professional and personal goals as well.

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Speaker 4: Okay, we work with yeah, sorry, go on.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm just I mean, okay. So here's like, so

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Speaker 1: this is what happens with me personally, is that I'm like, okay,

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01:28:15,120 --> 01:28:17,360
Speaker 1: I'm going to be less on my phone, I'm going

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01:28:17,439 --> 01:28:19,280
Speaker 1: to be with my kids. I'm going to be present,

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01:28:20,000 --> 01:28:21,479
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, it's like, oh, what time's

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01:28:21,520 --> 01:28:23,320
Speaker 1: that movie playing? Well, where do you have to go

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01:28:23,400 --> 01:28:24,840
Speaker 1: for that? You got to go to your phone? Oh

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01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:26,400
Speaker 1: let me see how long does it take to drive

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01:28:26,439 --> 01:28:27,960
Speaker 1: to that place? Oh? You got to go to your phone.

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01:28:28,640 --> 01:28:31,240
Speaker 1: Did someone call me or leave a message or text

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01:28:31,320 --> 01:28:33,519
Speaker 1: me or whatever? I mean, it's like, you know, or

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01:28:33,760 --> 01:28:36,000
Speaker 1: your wife is you know, still out in your home,

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01:28:36,120 --> 01:28:37,799
Speaker 1: and it's like you want to make sure you're available

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01:28:37,840 --> 01:28:39,880
Speaker 1: for a phone call or your kid's school. So I

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01:28:39,960 --> 01:28:44,000
Speaker 1: feel like this the smartphone specifically, is like this really

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01:28:44,200 --> 01:28:46,800
Speaker 1: interesting tool that, like you said earlier, it gives us

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01:28:46,840 --> 01:28:49,840
Speaker 1: so many benefits and it does so many things, but

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01:28:50,120 --> 01:28:52,680
Speaker 1: at the same time, it's like to disconnect from it

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01:28:52,800 --> 01:28:54,639
Speaker 1: is really tough because of all those reasons.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, And you know, like the reason why that's

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01:28:59,240 --> 01:29:02,640
Speaker 9: so incredible because you know, your smartphone particularly is this

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01:29:02,880 --> 01:29:06,519
Speaker 9: portal which allows you to do almost anything, which is

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01:29:06,600 --> 01:29:09,439
Speaker 9: incredibly liberating and fereing to live these kind of very

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01:29:10,120 --> 01:29:12,640
Speaker 9: complex lives that we live these days. But on the

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01:29:12,680 --> 01:29:15,400
Speaker 9: flip side of that, as you're pointing out, there was

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01:29:15,560 --> 01:29:18,280
Speaker 9: very little boundaries set within those devices.

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01:29:18,320 --> 01:29:21,879
Speaker 4: They're very slippery. So actually, like for me, I'll.

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Speaker 9: Often go to pick up my friends to check the

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01:29:23,320 --> 01:29:26,120
Speaker 9: time and then suddenly I'm lost down some rabbit hole

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01:29:26,240 --> 01:29:29,559
Speaker 9: somewhere completely forgetting to check the time in the first place.

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01:29:29,600 --> 01:29:31,920
Speaker 9: And I think that a lot of this problem stems

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01:29:31,960 --> 01:29:35,360
Speaker 9: from the fact that actually most of us use our

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01:29:35,439 --> 01:29:39,160
Speaker 9: technology with the default settings. Maybe not listeners of your

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01:29:39,200 --> 01:29:41,200
Speaker 9: show people that kind of get eeky about Peck, But

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01:29:41,920 --> 01:29:45,840
Speaker 9: actually there was a really interesting study looking into how

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01:29:45,920 --> 01:29:49,599
Speaker 9: people use Microsoft Word, so perhaps not the most kind

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01:29:49,600 --> 01:29:52,680
Speaker 9: of kind of current piece of technology, but interestingly there

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01:29:53,000 --> 01:29:55,719
Speaker 9: they found that ninety five percent of people never changed

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01:29:55,720 --> 01:30:00,559
Speaker 9: the default settings of using Word. And I think extrape

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01:30:00,560 --> 01:30:02,200
Speaker 9: it out that that's true for most of us with

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01:30:02,320 --> 01:30:06,120
Speaker 9: most of our technology. And whilst technology is amazing, actually

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01:30:06,240 --> 01:30:09,679
Speaker 9: the default settings don't often work for everybody. It really

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01:30:09,760 --> 01:30:12,479
Speaker 9: takes time kind of pays off to take the time

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01:30:12,560 --> 01:30:14,880
Speaker 9: to dig in a little bit and set your technology

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01:30:15,000 --> 01:30:18,240
Speaker 9: up in a way that really works for you, and

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01:30:18,439 --> 01:30:21,080
Speaker 9: that's you know, working with your digital habits. The book

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01:30:21,160 --> 01:30:23,640
Speaker 9: that I've written is called Your Best Digital Life, and

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01:30:23,800 --> 01:30:26,479
Speaker 9: that's really about looking into Okay, what can you do

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01:30:27,040 --> 01:30:30,680
Speaker 9: to actually dig it a bit deeper, reflect on how

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01:30:30,720 --> 01:30:33,680
Speaker 9: you use your technology and change those settings so that

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01:30:33,760 --> 01:30:37,360
Speaker 9: it becomes a power tool to really align with your goals.

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Speaker 1: So true, like go into those settings. You're not going

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01:30:39,920 --> 01:30:42,320
Speaker 1: to break anything. And people think like, oh, if I

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01:30:42,439 --> 01:30:44,559
Speaker 1: turn this off, it's going to like ruin my phone,

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01:30:44,640 --> 01:30:46,800
Speaker 1: Like you can always change it back. My brother and

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01:30:46,840 --> 01:30:48,840
Speaker 1: I were talking about this yesterday because you said, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm getting like thirty notifications a day from this app.

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01:30:52,000 --> 01:30:53,680
Speaker 1: And I call it for some of these apps like

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Speaker 1: notification abuse because let me get an example of a

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01:30:57,920 --> 01:31:01,600
Speaker 1: delivery app, right, Like an app delivers food, right, So

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01:31:02,400 --> 01:31:04,960
Speaker 1: you need to keep those notifications on for that app

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01:31:04,960 --> 01:31:06,919
Speaker 1: because you want to know when your food's getting delivered,

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01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:09,439
Speaker 1: an update if there's a problem. But what that app

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01:31:09,479 --> 01:31:12,080
Speaker 1: does in the off time is spam you with a

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01:31:12,200 --> 01:31:14,880
Speaker 1: hundred different things like hey, you're I noticed you looked

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01:31:14,880 --> 01:31:16,680
Speaker 1: at an Enchilada today, do you want to order that?

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01:31:16,960 --> 01:31:19,280
Speaker 1: Or I saw you checked out Chipotle? Do you want

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01:31:19,320 --> 01:31:21,400
Speaker 1: to order your ball from there, So it's like they're

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01:31:21,439 --> 01:31:24,360
Speaker 1: abusing you with like all these other things, but yet

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01:31:24,439 --> 01:31:28,840
Speaker 1: you need to leave that on for the important notifications

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01:31:28,880 --> 01:31:31,840
Speaker 1: that you need to get. So that's just one tiny example.

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Speaker 9: Absolutely, And the thing is that we all know that

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01:31:35,160 --> 01:31:39,360
Speaker 9: we could improve that situation by changing our notification settings,

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01:31:40,240 --> 01:31:43,200
Speaker 9: but the reality is that most of us never actually

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01:31:43,240 --> 01:31:45,080
Speaker 9: get around to doing it. So a lot of what

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01:31:45,200 --> 01:31:47,519
Speaker 9: we teach at mind O of Tech is not things

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01:31:47,560 --> 01:31:50,240
Speaker 9: that people haven't heard of before, but actually saying, how

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01:31:50,280 --> 01:31:52,120
Speaker 9: can you create a system which allows you to move

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01:31:52,200 --> 01:31:55,000
Speaker 9: from this being something that's you know, a nice to

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01:31:55,080 --> 01:31:55,880
Speaker 9: have to something that you.

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01:31:55,960 --> 01:31:57,360
Speaker 4: Actually regularly practice.

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Speaker 9: And we actually created a number of years ago a

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01:32:00,680 --> 01:32:02,200
Speaker 9: resource called the Digital Habit Lab.

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Speaker 4: I've got it here.

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Speaker 9: It's like a deck of fifty experiment cards and actually,

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01:32:06,320 --> 01:32:08,200
Speaker 9: to your point, one of the experiments in there is

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01:32:08,680 --> 01:32:13,559
Speaker 9: have a notification strategy. So this is a basically encouraging

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01:32:13,600 --> 01:32:17,280
Speaker 9: people to spend ten minutes digging into those notification settings

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01:32:17,320 --> 01:32:21,160
Speaker 9: to understand how they work to filter out those useful

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01:32:21,640 --> 01:32:24,920
Speaker 9: notifications from the unuseful ones. But the whole point here

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Speaker 9: is actually everyone's need from technology is different. Some people

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Speaker 9: don't need any notifications at all. Others may need to

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01:32:31,800 --> 01:32:34,760
Speaker 9: be alerted straight away when loved ones need assistance. Like,

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01:32:35,439 --> 01:32:39,080
Speaker 9: there's an infinite spectrum of needs. And our belief is

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01:32:39,120 --> 01:32:42,040
Speaker 9: that by regularly running experiments like the one I just mentioned,

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01:32:42,439 --> 01:32:45,000
Speaker 9: it allows you to actually understand what you need on

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01:32:45,080 --> 01:32:48,599
Speaker 9: your own terms and start to shift your behavior about

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01:32:48,640 --> 01:32:50,920
Speaker 9: how you use your technology, so it is aligning more

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01:32:51,000 --> 01:32:52,080
Speaker 9: with your goals.

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Speaker 1: Well, speaking of I know we're kind of getting fixated

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01:32:54,600 --> 01:32:57,960
Speaker 1: on notifications, but speaking of that good good tip on

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01:32:58,040 --> 01:33:00,200
Speaker 1: the iPhone is that when you get a notification from

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01:33:00,240 --> 01:33:02,639
Speaker 1: an app and you don't need a notification from them anymore,

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01:33:03,120 --> 01:33:07,000
Speaker 1: instead of just swiping it away, slow swipe it from

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01:33:07,080 --> 01:33:09,080
Speaker 1: the right to the left and you'll reveal this new

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01:33:09,200 --> 01:33:12,240
Speaker 1: options button and you can tap that and you can

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01:33:12,360 --> 01:33:15,880
Speaker 1: turn off those notifications all together, or you can mute

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01:33:15,920 --> 01:33:18,320
Speaker 1: them for an hour or for the day. But it's

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01:33:18,360 --> 01:33:20,080
Speaker 1: something that I do all the time. I'll just clean

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01:33:20,160 --> 01:33:21,920
Speaker 1: up my notifications when I get one from an app.

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01:33:21,960 --> 01:33:23,400
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't need to. You know, you sign

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01:33:23,520 --> 01:33:25,360
Speaker 1: up for like one of these store apps to get

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01:33:25,400 --> 01:33:27,519
Speaker 1: a discount the first time you use it, and all

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01:33:27,560 --> 01:33:29,200
Speaker 1: of a sudden they just start spamming you with all

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01:33:29,280 --> 01:33:30,840
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. It's all right, I already use the

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01:33:30,880 --> 01:33:33,320
Speaker 1: ten percent off coupon. Let me just swipe over and

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01:33:33,439 --> 01:33:36,559
Speaker 1: turn off these notifications and you don't need them. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So you've got the book, You've got the book coming out,

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01:33:38,800 --> 01:33:41,360
Speaker 1: and we've got about a minute left. What do you

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01:33:41,400 --> 01:33:45,600
Speaker 1: think when people say they're addicted to their phone? What

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01:33:45,680 --> 01:33:47,519
Speaker 1: do you think the real issue is there? What do

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01:33:47,560 --> 01:33:47,840
Speaker 1: you think?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, so I think I mean smartphone addictions possible, but

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01:33:51,960 --> 01:33:53,799
Speaker 9: most of the time it's quite uncommon.

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01:33:54,520 --> 01:33:56,800
Speaker 4: And because the thing is addiction creates.

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Speaker 9: Actually a sense of pleasure in the brain and removes

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01:33:59,160 --> 01:34:02,320
Speaker 9: the discomfort from cravings, which but actually I think what

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01:34:02,479 --> 01:34:05,519
Speaker 9: most people experience is more of compulsion. So and the

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01:34:05,560 --> 01:34:08,920
Speaker 9: difference there with the compulsion is that actually it kind

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01:34:08,920 --> 01:34:10,599
Speaker 9: of creates the urge to do something, but it doesn't

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01:34:10,600 --> 01:34:13,880
Speaker 9: actually necessarily saytiate your your brain.

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01:34:13,960 --> 01:34:17,479
Speaker 4: So this is really driven by dopamine, I guess.

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Speaker 9: But the interesting thing with dopamine is that we often

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01:34:20,160 --> 01:34:21,840
Speaker 9: think that it's given as a reward at the end,

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01:34:21,960 --> 01:34:24,000
Speaker 9: like I eat ice cream and then I'm rewarded with

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01:34:24,040 --> 01:34:27,120
Speaker 9: that dopamine. But actually the most dopamine has released an

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01:34:27,160 --> 01:34:30,000
Speaker 9: anticipation of a reward. When you hear the ice cream

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01:34:30,040 --> 01:34:33,080
Speaker 9: truck in the distance, your dopamine is released at the

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01:34:33,160 --> 01:34:35,439
Speaker 9: potential of getting a reward there. So actually a lot

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01:34:35,439 --> 01:34:38,640
Speaker 9: of the time we feel addicted, but actually we're just

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01:34:39,000 --> 01:34:42,600
Speaker 9: it's a very deeply ingrained habit from these kind of

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01:34:42,680 --> 01:34:45,439
Speaker 9: dopamine loops, which basically drew us to pick up our

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01:34:45,479 --> 01:34:48,720
Speaker 9: phone because actually, you know, there are good reasons, like

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01:34:48,880 --> 01:34:51,000
Speaker 9: often when you pick up your phone, there's very important

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01:34:51,040 --> 01:34:53,160
Speaker 9: information there, but a lot of the time there isn't.

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01:34:53,280 --> 01:34:57,760
Speaker 4: So our brain secretary is very much geared towards.

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Speaker 9: Compelling us to look at that, and a lot of

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01:35:00,360 --> 01:35:02,520
Speaker 9: what we look at in the book and our methodology

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01:35:02,600 --> 01:35:05,360
Speaker 9: is how can you use a mindful approach to actually

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01:35:05,400 --> 01:35:08,680
Speaker 9: become aware of that behavior, to notice those patterns and

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01:35:08,800 --> 01:35:11,519
Speaker 9: actually start to build behaviors which help you use it

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01:35:11,560 --> 01:35:13,640
Speaker 9: when you want to, but not when you don't, and

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01:35:13,680 --> 01:35:16,080
Speaker 9: therefore help you get more done and feel less anxious.

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Speaker 1: Good information. Mindover tech dot com is the website the

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Speaker 1: book Your Best Digital Life that's coming out in April.

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01:35:25,960 --> 01:35:28,920
Speaker 1: You can pre order that now on Amazon. Jonathan Garner,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining me today.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're welcome.

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Speaker 9: And there's a free chapter one available for danod on

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01:35:35,479 --> 01:35:37,200
Speaker 9: the website, so do check that out.

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Speaker 1: All right, mindover tech dot com download it, see what

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01:35:40,800 --> 01:35:43,040
Speaker 1: the deal is with you and your phone and get

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01:35:43,120 --> 01:35:48,479
Speaker 1: some healthier phone sort of management skills for twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Really appreciate you coming on the show today. Coming up,

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Speaker 1: we are going to open up the feedback. These are

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01:35:54,080 --> 01:35:56,840
Speaker 1: the emails, the comments, the questions that you have sent

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Speaker 1: to me this week. Dare I say it maybe the

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Speaker 1: last one of the year. Wow, rich on Tech dot TV.

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Speaker 1: If you want to get in those last minute comments,

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Speaker 1: will be right back. Welcome back to rich on tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology, sharing

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Speaker 1: some of the things that you wrote in that you

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Speaker 1: are thankful for. Kristin writes in Claude AI Brad from Lakeland,

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Speaker 1: Tennessee rights in perplexity, AI. Karen writes in grammarly let's see,

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Speaker 1: and Matt writes in my Tesla for driving me around town.

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Speaker 1: So AI, very people are very thankful for AI apparently

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Speaker 1: and the Tesla for driving around town. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: open up the feedback. If you listen to the show,

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Speaker 1: you know this is the part of the show where

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Speaker 1: I read your questions, your comments, your emails. I get

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Speaker 1: a lot of them, and I do try to write

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Speaker 1: back to most of your questions, but it is just

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Speaker 1: impossible to get to them all, so I address some

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Speaker 1: of them on the show. So if you write to me,

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01:37:11,560 --> 01:37:14,280
Speaker 1: you may hear your name on the show. That's what

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Speaker 1: happened with Rudy from San Jose, he writes in I

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01:37:16,560 --> 01:37:20,639
Speaker 1: wanted to comment on your recent show. A caller mentioned

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Speaker 1: having issues with an EPSOM printer on AT and T

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Speaker 1: wireless internet, where sometimes it prints and sometimes it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: One thing to note that routers create two networks, a

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Speaker 1: personal network and a guest network. It's possible that the

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Speaker 1: caller's phone or computer is connected to one network and

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Speaker 1: the printer to the other, which would cause them not

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Speaker 1: to see each other. We had a similar issue at

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Speaker 1: home and this was the solution. Love your show, Regards Rudy. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's one option. Always make sure you're connected to the

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Speaker 1: same network as the device that you're trying to connect to,

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Speaker 1: and that is tricky because sometimes people do have a

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Speaker 1: guest network or a separate network, and that's not always

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Speaker 1: the case. Along the same lines, Darren from Walnut writs

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Speaker 1: in Hey, Rich, love your show and never miss it

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Speaker 1: regarding the caller who had trouble connecting as printer using

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Speaker 1: AT and T five G home Internet. I've had a

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Speaker 1: similar experience with T mobile home Internet when I had

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Speaker 1: cable Internet. I did not have the issue with the

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Speaker 1: same setup. I've noticed devices like my iPhone or Dennin

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Speaker 1: av box sometimes take ten minutes to an hour to

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Speaker 1: reconnect after being turned off or restarted. That might explain

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Speaker 1: the caller's problem. If he's turning off his iPad when

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Speaker 1: he's not using it, I suggest he keeps it on

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Speaker 1: or avoid restarting it before printing. Yeah, that's another solution there.

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Speaker 1: It's funny we always make the joke about this show

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Speaker 1: that printer problems are the number one issue. Everyone has

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Speaker 1: a printer issue. In fact, I was printing my stuff

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Speaker 1: for the show today. Yes, I still print out some

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Speaker 1: of these things. I try to say paper whenever possible,

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Speaker 1: like right now I'm reading off of PDFs on my

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Speaker 1: computer screen, so I don't waste paper. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I was printing this morning for some of my show,

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Speaker 1: and the printer it was like sorry, you're not connected.

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Speaker 1: It's like what Sure enough, I go into the office

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Speaker 1: and the printer had been turned off, and you know,

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Speaker 1: turn on the printer. And as soon as I did

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Speaker 1: that took about ten seconds, my computer found it and

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Speaker 1: it went to it. But I will say there's been

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Speaker 1: into sort of a deep sleep, and I feel like

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Speaker 1: that's when you have the connection problems. Like maybe if

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Speaker 1: you're not using it for a long time, it just

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Speaker 1: says sorry, like you need to like tap the screen

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Speaker 1: or something and wake it up. David writes in Hey Rich,

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Speaker 1: big fan of the show and listen to the podcast

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Speaker 1: every week. It's my go to source for tech news

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Speaker 1: and opinions. I really appreciate your insights and the way

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Speaker 1: you introduce listeners to new products and helpful apps. I

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Speaker 1: wanted to share a cool app I recently discovered called

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Speaker 1: local Send. It's a game changer for easily transferring files

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Speaker 1: between Mac, Android, and Windows devices on my home network.

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Speaker 1: The fact that it's open source is a big plus

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Speaker 1: for me. I don't recall hearing you mention it on

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Speaker 1: your show. I thought you might find it interesting. Thanks

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Speaker 1: again for the great content. David. I have mentioned local

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Speaker 1: send on the show and I think it is fantastic

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Speaker 1: and I have used it personally. It's kind of like

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Speaker 1: the best way to describe it is sort of like

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Speaker 1: air drop, but for every device. Keep in mind you

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Speaker 1: do have to be on the same network, so airdrop.

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Speaker 1: What's beautiful about that is that it works ad hoc.

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Speaker 1: So if you are in the forest in the middle

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Speaker 1: of nowhere with no signal, no Wi Fi, and you

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Speaker 1: had an iPhone and your friend had an iPhone, you

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Speaker 1: would be able to send a file from your iPhone

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Speaker 1: to their iPhone without any sort of like cellular network

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Speaker 1: or Wi Fi network. Local send you do need to

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Speaker 1: be on the same network, but it is free, it's

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Speaker 1: open source, it's cross platform. It works really well. There

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Speaker 1: are some other apps like this. One of them is

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Speaker 1: called a pair drop pai r DRP dot net. So

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Speaker 1: if you're ever with someone and you want to exchange

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Speaker 1: something quickly, just have them openpairdrop dot net on their browser.

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Speaker 1: You can open up paardrop dot net on your browser

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Speaker 1: and as long as you're on the same network, you

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Speaker 1: can exchange files, or you can even make a public

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Speaker 1: room and you can exchange stuff like that. So lots

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Speaker 1: of options. Thanks for the suggestion there, David, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Jony from Carmel writes in thanks for your podcast. I

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Speaker 1: almost bought ink on Amazon that looked like HPS, complete

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Speaker 1: with the logo, but the brand was listed as dzeng

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Speaker 1: and raised a red flag. The ninety nine dollars knockoff

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Speaker 1: was even labeled as Amazon's choice. Meanwhile, the real HP Inc.

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Speaker 1: Was twenty five dollars cheaper. How was it legal for

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Speaker 1: sellers to use HP's logo on counterfeit items? Big fail? Amazon.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for letting me vent Merry Christmas to you and

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Speaker 1: your family. Brian writes in great show, Rich, I really

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Speaker 1: appreciated the coinbase guest you had on. Unfortunately, I was

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Speaker 1: a victim of a pig butchering crypto scam, so while

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Speaker 1: the advice came too late for me, I hope it

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Speaker 1: helps stop future targets. I reported the scam to the police,

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Speaker 1: the FBI, and the FTC, but never heard back. It

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Speaker 1: feels like there's very little digital protection, whether for cryptocurrencies

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Speaker 1: or data breaches. I'd love to hear an interview specifically

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Speaker 1: about what happens to companies that get compromised. It seems

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Speaker 1: like consumers end up bearing the brunt. Sorry that that

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Speaker 1: happened to you, Brian. That's why I do interviews like

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Speaker 1: that to help folks be aware of these things that

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Speaker 1: are happening. And yes, you should report things to the

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Speaker 1: IC three. I think it's called IC three Internet Crime

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Speaker 1: Complaint Center, but it does say on there that they

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Speaker 1: will not necessarily respond to your complaint, but they will

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Speaker 1: take it into consideration. Chris writes in I enjoy your program.

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Speaker 1: I am at best tech challenge, but I appreciate learning

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Speaker 1: everything I can. Thanks for providing a great show. Candice

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Speaker 1: from San Diego writes in thank you for all your

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Speaker 1: extremely useful information. You make it easy to understand. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: and Donna writes in thank you for your time. I

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Speaker 1: really enjoy your segments and learn a lot from them.

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Speaker 1: Keep doing the great work you're doing. You're good at

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Speaker 1: your job. Oh, thank you, and I admire you. Wishing

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Speaker 1: you in the KTLA family a safe and wonderful Holidays season.

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Speaker 1: That's going to do it for this episode of the show.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Donna, Thank you everyone who takes the time

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Speaker 1: to write to me. It's been two years of this show.

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Speaker 1: If you can believe it. It is flown by You

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Speaker 1: can find links to anything I mentioned on my website.

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Speaker 1: Just go to Rich on tech dot tv. This is

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Speaker 1: show number one oh two. You can find me on

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Speaker 1: social media. I am at rich on Tech. Instagram is

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Speaker 1: kind of where I hang out the most. Of course,

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Speaker 1: I'm also on x I'm also on Facebook and Blue Sky.

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Speaker 1: Still trying to figure that one out. Have a fantastic holiday,

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Honakah, whatever you celebrate, enjoy,

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Speaker 1: spend some time with friends and family, Relax, recharge. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for listening. That's what I can say.

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Speaker 1: There are so many ways you can spend your time.

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Speaker 1: I really do appreciate you spending it right here with me.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible. Adam in

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Speaker 1: for Bobo today, Kim on Phones, Bill, Julie, the rest

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Speaker 1: of the team. My name is rich Tomuro. I will

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Speaker 1: talk to you real soon.