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Speaker 1: having a fantastic day. We got some big news from

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Speaker 1: Amazon this week. Amazon is making some big changes. The

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Speaker 1: company is cutting sixteen thousand corporate jobs and shutting down

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Speaker 1: over in Europe a couple months ago, and the writing

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: You might be thinking, Rich, this has got to be AI.

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Speaker 1: It's always AI right now. Amazon didn't say that directly

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Speaker 1: in its letter to employees, but you know, they said

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Speaker 1: reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy. Now that happens

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Speaker 1: over time. Amazon. Don't forget many years ago at this

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Speaker 1: point was a startup, very nimble. They move fast. Now

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Speaker 1: they are a huge company. And remember they cut about

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Speaker 1: fourteen thousand jobs last October. Context, of course matters here.

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Speaker 1: Amazon employees about one point five million people worldwide. Now,

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Speaker 1: not all of those people are full time. Obviously, that

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Speaker 1: about two percent of its total workforce. Now here's a

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Speaker 1: Every team will continue to evaluate ownership, speed, and capacity

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Speaker 1: than ever. Now there's your allusion to AI, for sure,

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Speaker 1: but that's Amazon in a nutshell. This is a company

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Speaker 1: when something does not work. Now, I've been covering Amazon

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Speaker 5: It's good to talk to you because I've emailed you

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, well, I feel like I recognize the name.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I want to change my Apple email address.

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Speaker 5: It's hotmail right now. But when I try to and

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Speaker 5: It wants to send to Hotmail, but my main the

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Speaker 5: one I don't want to use that anymore because I

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Speaker 5: don't use that hotmail anymore. So the one I want

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Speaker 5: to change it to is Gmail. I'll try to change it,

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Speaker 5: and it says, well, this Gmail accounts already in use. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 5: because it's mine, but it won't send to Gmail. You

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure it out. Okay, So you you

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Speaker 1: right on that screen it says Apple account and it

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Speaker 1: Okay, So and then you went to the website to

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Speaker 1: try to change that. Where did you go to change this?

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Speaker 5: Oh? Under, so you can go to where on that page?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So you can go to account dot Apple dot

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl is coming up, I know, very exciting for

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Speaker 1: So let's get right into it because I know people

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Speaker 1: love this information that you share. You've been reviewing this

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Speaker 7: It certainly feels like that. Right.

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Speaker 8: Let's first of all clarify that it hasn't happened yet, right.

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Speaker 1: there's always light in the back of it, right.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly. Contrast is the easiest thing for us to

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Speaker 8: get into. Like our eyes love contrast, and OLED has

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Speaker 8: the best contrast there is. The thing is OLED's they

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Speaker 8: get very bright, but they don't get as bright as

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Speaker 8: these q LED TVs. And and that's the great thing

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Speaker 8: about this, this new one from TCL and more TVs

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Speaker 8: that we'll see from them down the road. They're getting

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Speaker 8: closer and closer to old in terms of the blacks

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Speaker 8: and the contrast, to the point where most people are

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Speaker 8: gonna want to save money and get a bigger screen

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Speaker 8: and still get that amazing black level in contrast.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so what features should people be looking for in

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Speaker 1: a good set in twenty twenty six?

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Speaker 8: Honestly, right now, I think searching for a TV that

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Speaker 8: says many led on it is a great indicator of

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Speaker 8: good quality. Right It's like the cheat code used to

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Speaker 8: be you wanted to find one hundred and twenty hertz TV.

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Speaker 8: Well now those are easy to find, and even some

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Speaker 8: sixty hurts TVs are pretty decent.

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Speaker 7: Now. The real magic is.

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Speaker 8: In the backlighting, and if it has mini led backlighting,

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Speaker 8: there's a good chance that it's going to be doing

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Speaker 8: a whole bunch of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well, okay, what about I mean people always put all

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Speaker 1: the stock on like brightness? Is that still like don't they?

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Speaker 1: Does it go? I know, do they still do that?

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Speaker 9: Like?

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Speaker 1: Does people still shop by brightness?

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Speaker 7: Or no? Less than they used to?

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Speaker 8: Less than they used to. TVs across the board have

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Speaker 8: gotten so bright that glare and reflections are less and

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Speaker 8: less an issue. Now I would say that brightness is

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Speaker 8: still important where HDR is concerned. In order to get

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Speaker 8: really good quality HDR, I feel like you need to

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Speaker 8: have a TV that's doing at least seven hundred or

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Speaker 8: eight hundred nits, And if you can find a TV

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Speaker 8: manufacturer that claims how much brightness their TV has, you

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Speaker 8: could use that number.

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Speaker 7: Seven or eight hundred is a great guy to at

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Speaker 7: least that.

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Speaker 8: Otherwise, HDR doesn't really look like a HDR and that

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Speaker 8: means something now because there's so much HDR programming out there.

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Speaker 8: The super Bowl is going to be in HDR whether

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Speaker 8: you get it you know, via cable or satellite or

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Speaker 8: over the air with an antenna. But then of course

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Speaker 8: you've got Netflix and Amazon and HBO and Disney, all

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Speaker 8: of them have tons and tons of HDR content. So yeah,

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Speaker 8: brightness is important, but more for getting the best picture quality,

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Speaker 8: not for just you know, blasting you out of your

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Speaker 8: seat and your home.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, so that's interesting. This is going to be

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Speaker 1: the first time the Super Bowl is in four K

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Speaker 1: eighth Wait, that's not it is.

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Speaker 7: It'll be the first time it's in four K or HDR.

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Speaker 8: It was done in Adobe Vision as a matter of

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Speaker 8: fact last year, but that it's going to be deployed

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Speaker 8: to so many different depending on how you get it right,

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Speaker 8: whether you're watching it on Peacock or you're I think

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Speaker 8: is it on NBC this year?

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Speaker 1: I'm confused? Hold on, I thought the Super Bowl is

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Speaker 1: on Fox last year because they made a big deal

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Speaker 1: with two B and now this year it's on NBC

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Speaker 1: with Peacock.

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Speaker 8: Did I skip a year? I thought it was on

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Speaker 8: Peacock last year.

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Speaker 1: Okay, may I think it was on to me last

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Speaker 1: year because I was I was like so impressed that

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Speaker 1: they put it on free. But maybe I could be wrong.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, so it's on NBC this year on Peacock

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Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, and wow, four K HDR that's wild.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: YouTube TV will have it in HDR. Now understand, they

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Speaker 8: take it. They recorded at ten ADP and they professionally

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Speaker 8: upscale it to four K. But your TV is still

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Speaker 8: getting a great four K signal. And I'm telling you,

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Speaker 8: the Super Bowl in HDR is just next level. When

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Speaker 8: you see the lights gleaming off of their helmets and

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Speaker 8: the depth of the green on the field, it's just undeniable.

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Speaker 7: It looks so good.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well now I'm excited. Okay, so let's get to

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Speaker 1: some of your top picks. I always love getting like

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Speaker 1: actual models that you would recommend. What's your let's start

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Speaker 1: with the budget pick under five hundred bucks.

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Speaker 7: Under five hundred bucks.

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Speaker 8: Okay, Look, I think everybody wants to get at least

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Speaker 8: a sixty five inch TV now or bigger.

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Speaker 7: That's what the numbers say.

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Speaker 8: So I'm gonna say, if you're getting a sixty five

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Speaker 8: or larger under five hundred dollars, the TV to get

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Speaker 8: is the TCLQM five A. There's nothing else I would

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Speaker 8: recommend for a sixty five inch at that price level. Now,

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Speaker 8: if you were going to get something smaller, like at

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Speaker 8: fifty five, you could step up to the QM six

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Speaker 8: K maybe, but QM five K is your model for

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Speaker 8: a sixty five inch TV at Okay.

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Speaker 1: What about the mid range one thousand dollars price point?

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Speaker 1: That seems pretty reasonable for a good TV.

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Speaker 8: Right, So I would say, well, if you wanted to

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Speaker 8: get an eighty five inch at one thousand dollars, that's

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Speaker 8: a great blend of size and.

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Speaker 7: Price.

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Speaker 8: Is the TCL QM six K is right there now

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Speaker 8: at one thousand dollars. You could get higher quality TV

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Speaker 8: at sixty five inches for one thousand dollars, But if

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Speaker 8: you want that blend of price and size, the QM

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Speaker 8: six K again from TCL, is a really good one. Also,

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Speaker 8: look at the High Sense U six. Both of those

542
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Speaker 8: are going to be great. About one thousand dollars for

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Speaker 8: an eighty five incher, which I think satisfies the need

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Speaker 8: for the big TV at the Super Bowl, and great

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Speaker 8: HDR picture.

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Speaker 1: I think two years or three years ago and you

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Speaker 1: were on you mentioned High Sense for the first time,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, all right, and I looked at

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Speaker 1: it and I bought it, and everyone who comes to

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Speaker 1: my house loves it. They're like, what what are you

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Speaker 1: doing with your TV? I'm like, nothing, It just looks

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Speaker 1: as good right out of the box.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 8: I mean, this is a full circle to back to

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Speaker 8: what we were talking about earlier. There was a time

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Speaker 8: when Samsung and LG were the new kids on the

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Speaker 8: block and we're like, who are these guys?

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Speaker 7: Right? And now they're dominant in the TV space.

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Speaker 8: Well, DCL and High Sense have been up in comers

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Speaker 8: for a few years now, and I feel like they've arrived.

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Speaker 7: They're here, they're putting out tier one stuff.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's do the splurge.

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Speaker 7: I mean splurge.

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Speaker 8: Like, I'll just tell you my favorite TV is the

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Speaker 8: Sony Bravia eight Mark two. I know it's an annoying name,

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Speaker 8: Bravia eight Mark two, but that is Sony's very best

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Speaker 8: o led TV. It only goes up to seventy seven inches,

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Speaker 8: which is still a big TV. But the picture is

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Speaker 8: absolutely glorious and there's just nothing better on the market

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Speaker 8: right now in my opinion.

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Speaker 1: And Okay, you said splurge. I mean I'm looking at

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Speaker 1: the price. It's still only two thousand dollars. I mean

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Speaker 1: only I get it. That's a lot. But I was

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Speaker 1: thinking like eight thousand dollars for this TVR Oh.

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Speaker 8: Well, sure, like, I mean, if you wanted to spend

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Speaker 8: that kind of money. The eighty five inch tcl X

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Speaker 8: eleven L that's the super quantum dot ridiculous TV that

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Speaker 8: I right behind me that we were talking about earlier.

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Speaker 8: That's ten thousand dollars for a ninety eight inch or

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Speaker 8: you can get it for eight thousand dollars at the

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Speaker 8: eighty five inch level. That is a huge splurge. It

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Speaker 8: will absolutely knock your freaking socks off.

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Speaker 7: Man.

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Speaker 8: Really, it's brand new technology. It just came out. We've

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Speaker 8: never seen a new TV come out in January before.

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Speaker 8: DCL is kind of the first to do that, so

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Speaker 8: that that is another splurge option. But I mean my

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Speaker 8: personal favorite TV on the market right now still is

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Speaker 8: the Sony Broby eight Mark two old.

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Speaker 1: All right, awesome, We're gonna leave it there, Caleb Dennison,

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Speaker 1: Can you tell folks how to find you online? What

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Speaker 1: should they do?

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Speaker 7: Yep?

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Speaker 8: Just sir, search klibrated on YouTube c A L E

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Speaker 7: Do you just like it sounds? And you can also

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Speaker 7: find me on substack.

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Speaker 1: All right? Oh Substack, I love it. I love Substack.

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Speaker 1: You know I got my newsletter there. Uh now I

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Speaker 1: just subscribe to yours.

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Speaker 7: All right, I'm subscribed to yours, man.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Caleb eighty to eight rich one on one

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

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Speaker 1: Coming up, we'll do more calls and Samsung's Trifold phone

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Speaker 1: is officially on sale. Tell you how much? Coming up next,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech rich DeMuro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology Triple eight rich one O

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Speaker 1: zero one the website. Rich on tech dot TV took

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Speaker 1: the break to uh write down everything that Caleb just

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Speaker 1: told us. So if you're looking for those TV picks,

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Speaker 1: they are all on the website. Rich on tech dot TV.

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Speaker 1: This is episode one fifty nine. That's right, this is

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Speaker 1: your number four of this show. If you can believe it,

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Speaker 1: I can't.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Samsung's Galaxy Z trifold is officially on sale. This is

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Speaker 1: the phone that folds twice. It opens up into a

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Speaker 1: massive ten inch screen, the largest display ever on a

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Speaker 1: Galaxy phone. And it's got a two hundred megapixel camera,

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Speaker 1: custom Snapdragon chip and the biggest battery Samsung is put

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Speaker 1: into its foldable. It's available now at Samsung Experience stores

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Speaker 1: and online. You're ready for the price tag if you're

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Speaker 1: doing anything that requires like your brain, just stop. Twenty

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Speaker 1: nine hundred dollars for a smartphone with a five hundred

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Speaker 1: and twelve gigs of storage, one color, and apparently it's

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Speaker 1: already sold out, like apparently people already. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how many they made of this phone. But now remember

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Speaker 1: if you're into Samsung devices, the new one is coming

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Speaker 1: out next month, So in February at least, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be unveiled next month. That's the rumor. We don't know

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Speaker 1: for sure. Samsung has not said specifically. I think they're

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Speaker 1: getting through the publicity on the trifold. Once that WANs

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Speaker 1: then they'll go to the new phone. But there it is.

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to David in Claremont, California. David,

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Speaker 1: you're on with Rich Rich Good afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Hi.

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Speaker 10: I have a question that I'm just struggling with. Tell

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Speaker 10: them how to fix it, and I figured if anyone

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Speaker 10: knows how to do it.

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Speaker 6: It's going to be you.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well we'll say so.

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Speaker 10: I have this email had for a long time and

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Speaker 10: it says that it's full, and a lot of it

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Speaker 10: was my pictures. I think it asked me to do

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Speaker 10: a takeout through Gmail, and I did, but it still

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Speaker 10: shows that it's completely full. I deleted everything from my

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Speaker 10: trash to my spams. I mean, everything's gone. I have

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Speaker 10: nothing in that Gmail account, but it still reflects as

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Speaker 10: it's ninety seven percent full.

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Speaker 1: Okay. I think what's happening is that you might not

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Speaker 1: have stuff in Gmail, but you might have stuff in

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Speaker 1: other areas of Google. So have you been to the

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Speaker 1: website one dot Google dot com.

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Speaker 10: I'm not sure I have.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, you know if you went there, because I

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Speaker 1: visited frequently to keep tabs on my storage. But this

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Speaker 1: is the best way to see what's going on with

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Speaker 1: this account. So go ahead and go to one dot

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Speaker 1: Google dot com and you'll see right on the home

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Speaker 1: screen if you're paying for Google Storage, it'll tell you, like,

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Speaker 1: right now, I can see I've got seventy six percent

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Speaker 1: used of my storage, and then I've got it says

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Speaker 1: how many devices I've got on there, and then it

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Speaker 1: says clean up space. I've got seven hundred and nineteen

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Speaker 1: gigabytes that I can clean up. So that's the number

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Speaker 1: one place you want to go, because I have a

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Speaker 1: feeling that you may have your storage cleaned up on Gmail.

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Speaker 1: But if you click into the area where it says storage,

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Speaker 1: you will see it breaks it down by service. So

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Speaker 1: I'm using four terabytes of five terabytes, and in Google Drive,

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Speaker 1: I've got about three hundred gigabytes. In Gmail, I've got

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Speaker 1: forty five gigabytes. How do I have forty five gigabytes

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Speaker 1: of emails?

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Speaker 6: Like?

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Speaker 1: Literally, what is an email? Is like one killobyte? Like,

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Speaker 1: how do I have forty five gigabytes? It's the attachments? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I go through the attachments and it's like there's

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Speaker 1: still not that many. You can only send a twenty

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Speaker 1: five megabyte attachment. I think this is just twenty years

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Speaker 1: of email that's just like somehow built up.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, pretty much.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to delete any of it though. Google Photos,

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Speaker 1: I've got three terabytes, so that's where a lot of

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Speaker 1: it is. Family storage. My kids are using up three

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty gigabytes. So David, that's your homework assignment.

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Speaker 1: You got to go in there and see. Because storage.

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Speaker 1: If you're using Gmail, your storage is actually shared across

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Speaker 1: all these different Google properties, Google Photos, Google Drive, Recorder, Gmail,

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Speaker 1: and so anything that you have stored in Google Photos,

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Speaker 1: even if you did a takeout, it's still in there.

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Speaker 1: A Google takeout does not get rid of the files.

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Speaker 1: It just gives you a copy of them to download.

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Speaker 1: So what you'd have to do is, if you want

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Speaker 1: to really clear this up, you'd probably be best to

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Speaker 1: either tap one of these things. It'll just say clean

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Speaker 1: up space, and it gives you suggested ways to do that.

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Speaker 1: Large photos and vide large drive files. Emails with large attachments,

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Speaker 1: so bobo to your question or your comment. I've got

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Speaker 1: seven gigabytes of emails with large attachments, which is not

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Speaker 1: that much I mean over twenty years, and then I've

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Speaker 1: got files in trash two and forty nine megabytes, So

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Speaker 1: I guess that's another big question of is does the

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Speaker 1: files in your trash take up the space on Google?

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Speaker 1: And it looks like I'm guessing the answer might be yes,

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Speaker 1: because why would it say cleanup suggested items and show

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Speaker 1: me my trash if that wasn't actively taking up storage.

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Speaker 1: So I can try emptying my trash, but I don't

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Speaker 1: want to do that right now because I want to

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Speaker 1: see But those are the places to look, so go

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Speaker 1: into again. It's one. If you've got Google storage and

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Speaker 1: you're struggling with your phone saying you're out of storage,

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Speaker 1: go to one dot Google dot com and just explore

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Speaker 1: that page. They don't really advertise it that much because

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Speaker 1: think about it, why would they want to. The more

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Speaker 1: you've got in this storage and the more you don't

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Speaker 1: understand it, the more you're paying Google. And what's the

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Speaker 1: fastest growth area of Google, Amazon and Apple right now?

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Speaker 1: It's called services, and that's cloud storage. That's where they're

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Speaker 1: making their money. So I know, for me, I'm paying

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Speaker 1: you know already I think twenty five dollars a month.

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Speaker 1: But Yeah, before we go to break here, Yahoo is back.

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Speaker 1: They've got a new AI search tool. It's called Yahoo Scout.

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Speaker 1: You can go to scout dot Yahoo dot com. It's

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Speaker 1: an AI answer engine, so instead of just like a

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Speaker 1: bunch of those blue links, it's going to give you

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Speaker 1: direct answers, kind of like you know, all these other

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Speaker 1: AI services we're seeing out there. Yahoo says they are

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Speaker 1: bringing thirty years of experience with search plus stuff they

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Speaker 1: know about you, plus information from across the web, and

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Speaker 1: they're going to roll this out to all of their products.

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Speaker 1: So you're gonna start seeing Yahoo Scout in Yahoo Mail,

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Speaker 1: Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo's Sports, Yahoo's shopping. I know,

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Speaker 1: we discount Yahoo because that's a brand that's kind of

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Speaker 1: gone away, but they still run some pretty popular properties

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Speaker 1: on the web. So be on the lookout for Yahoo

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Speaker 1: Scout or go to the website and you can check

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Speaker 1: it out yourself. Rich on Tech dot TV eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. This

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Speaker 1: is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology at

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

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Phone lines are open,

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Speaker 1: you've got the feedback, We've got the website. This is

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Speaker 1: episode one five nine, so if you're looking for something

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Speaker 1: that I mentioned, it's all on the website. There, don't forget.

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Speaker 1: If you like listening to the show, subscribe to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: It is free. We're on all the main podcast services,

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Speaker 1: so you can listen to whatever you might not catch

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Speaker 1: catch the first time around. There's a new air tag

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Speaker 1: this week. Apple launched it without a lot of fanfare,

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00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 1: but you know, you know, how do you improve on

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Speaker 1: a device that's already being used by millions of people

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Speaker 1: around the world. It's the best selling item finder. Apple

755
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: announce that, and now there's a new version. It's got

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Speaker 1: better range and louder sound. So it's got a new

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Speaker 1: ultra wide bandschip, letting you use that precision finding from

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Speaker 1: up to fifty percent further away. Now this is a

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Speaker 1: little confusing for people because there's two ways you can

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Speaker 1: use an AirTag. You can just see the location on

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Speaker 1: your phone at any time, no matter where it is

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Speaker 1: in the world. But you can also use your phone

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Speaker 1: if you have a recent model iPhone, to lead you

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Speaker 1: right to the air tag. So if it's in your house,

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Speaker 1: you lost your keys. You can turn on this precision

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Speaker 1: finding mode and your phone will literally direct you left,

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Speaker 1: right forward backwards to the device. Now that range is longer.

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Speaker 1: In my testing, I was able to find the old

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Speaker 1: one up to a range of about fifty feet away.

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Speaker 1: With the new one, I was able to go about

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty feet. But I imagine there's lots of

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Speaker 1: different reasons why that might be longer, depending what else.

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Speaker 1: The speaker is about fifty percent louder, so it makes

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Speaker 1: it easier to hear when something's lost nearby, or if

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Speaker 1: it's like under a couch cushion. And for the first time,

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Speaker 1: you can use precision finding on newer Apple Watches to

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Speaker 1: locate the air tag right from your wrist. So if

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Speaker 1: you've got your air tag on your keys, you can

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Speaker 1: use your Apple Watch to find where your keys are.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, I didn't even know this I

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Speaker 1: was setting up the new air tag. You know, you

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Speaker 1: can edit that like little pop up screen on the

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Speaker 1: Apple Watch when you press the flat button. There's like

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Speaker 1: the airplane mode, the Wi Fi, the battery percentage. You

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Speaker 1: can edit those tiles if you scroll all the way down.

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Speaker 1: And now I've set one as the air tag that

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Speaker 1: I'm about to let you hear. Okay, so here's the

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Speaker 1: audio on the old air tag. The new one sounds

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Speaker 1: slightly different. You're ready, So here's the old one. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna press up play sound. Okay, so you're pretty familiar

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Speaker 1: with that sound if you've ever used an air tag.

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Speaker 1: That's the old one. Now the new one I'm putting

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Speaker 1: in this same length away from the mic. Let's hear

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Speaker 1: what that one sounds like. Ready, there we go. So

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Speaker 1: it's a higher pitch sound, right, and it's also a

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00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: louder sound as well, so you're gonna be able to

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Speaker 1: find things easier. Hopefully, design is the same. They didn't

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Speaker 1: change that, which thank you Apple for doing that. They

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Speaker 1: could have changed it and made accessory makers a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of new money because you would have to buy

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00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: everything new. No old accessory. Existing accessories will still work

802
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: and you don't need to run out and upgrade your

803
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: air attacks. They still work. You can replace the battery

804
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: when they go dead. You just this is moving forward.

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00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: If you want something that's louder, you want something with

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Speaker 1: more range, you want to use your Apple Watch on it,

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00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 1: now you can with the new one. Same price twenty

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Speaker 1: nine dollars for the one pack, ninety nine dollars for

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Speaker 1: the four pack, same as before. How do you tell

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Speaker 1: the difference? There is one way to tell the difference

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Speaker 1: on these. My kids are in studio. Can you tell

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Speaker 1: the difference on the back? What's the difference I'm showing Parker,

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Speaker 1: Can you tell what's the difference? At first glance, I

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Speaker 1: will reveal the letters on the old air tag are

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Speaker 1: upper lower case. The letters on the new air tag

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Speaker 1: are all in upper case. So there's no visible way

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Speaker 1: to tell except for that. So now you know, all right,

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Beth in Cyprus, California. Beth on line

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Speaker 1: four you're on with.

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Speaker 9: Rich Her there. I have a credit freeze with experience,

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Speaker 9: and I want to temporarily lift it, and so I

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Speaker 9: want to know what your thoughts are the safest method

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Speaker 9: to lift it because you can't call and do it anymore,

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Speaker 9: just online as I understand it, or the mail. And

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Speaker 9: I've had numerous data breaches, so I'm really cautious because

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Speaker 9: you have to give a lot of precise information.

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Speaker 1: How did you do the freeze?

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Speaker 9: I did it? Let's see, I'm kind to think I

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Speaker 9: did it by calling.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you called them up. Okay. Interesting. So you

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Speaker 1: don't have an Experience online account? No, okay, well that

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Speaker 1: is the easiest way to do it. I have one.

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00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: I have my credit frozen on there. Actually, let me

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Speaker 1: make sure, because I did unfreeze it recently to get something.

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Speaker 1: Let's see. So if I go, now, here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: They actually kind of trick you a little bit because

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Speaker 1: they try to get you to sign up for this,

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Speaker 1: like they're yeah, exactly, and then you have to kind

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Speaker 1: of look behind that. Okay, so here it is applying

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Speaker 1: for credit unfreeze your credit file. So mine actually is

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Speaker 1: frozen right now. So yeah, so if you go online, Beth,

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Speaker 1: and I know you're a little concerned about the online stuff,

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Speaker 1: they won't. Did you call in now? Yeah, here's the

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Speaker 1: reason why I think they won't let you do it

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Speaker 1: by calling in, because think about it, there's not too

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Speaker 1: much identifying information anymore these days, and someone could easily

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Speaker 1: call in and just say I'm Beth, and here's all

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Speaker 1: my info. Let's say your data was out there in

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Speaker 1: a breach, and then they can unfreeze and then get

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Speaker 1: more stuff. That's probably why they're doing it. I would say,

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Speaker 1: it's relatively safe to do. To sign up on Experience

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Speaker 1: dot com, the number one thing you need to do

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00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 1: is make sure you're on the right website. Their website

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Speaker 1: is Experience dot com. Number one. Don't don't go to

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Speaker 1: like a you know, imitation website.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: They are going to ask for your social when you join.

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Speaker 1: I mean obviously they need that because you're signing up,

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Speaker 1: and so I would make sure that you're on a

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Speaker 1: web browser that is current. I would make sure that

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Speaker 1: you're on Wi Fi that you trust, or you can

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Speaker 1: do this from your smartphone on a cellular connection if

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Speaker 1: you really want to be private. But those are the things.

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Speaker 1: Then sign up obviously with a strong password, unique password,

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Speaker 1: and then I would lock down this account if you can.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they do two factor authentication. Let

867
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Speaker 1: me see here. Yeah they do, okay, so I would

868
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: lock lock down with two factor and I just looked

869
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 1: at my account. I need to do that actually. So

870
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: those are the things to do. And then once you're

871
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 1: in there, you can do the freeze right from there

872
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 1: and it should show that you're frozen. Now here's the

873
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 1: here's the rub here. I I don't know if they're

874
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: gonna let you sign in because your account is froz

875
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like you may not be

876
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: able to sign up fresh because your account's frozen, so

877
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: that you may run into a scenario where you try

878
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: to log in and they say, sorry, your account was frozen.

879
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: We're not gonna let you log in. But I'm not

880
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 1: sure that's the case, because you could do other things

881
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 1: on this website than just unfreeze your account.

882
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 9: I see, Yeah, because I just want to do it

883
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 9: temporarily because I because I want to apply for a

884
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 9: credit card that's has zero interests. Okay, So that's why

885
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 9: I wanted to do it temporarily. You know, I definitely

886
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 9: want to put it back on. But the other two

887
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 9: credit bureaus, I mean I had it with them and

888
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 9: that you could just call and they took care of it.

889
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 11: You know.

890
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: I was going to say, do you know that the

891
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:41,400
Speaker 1: credit card you're applying for is using Experience as their credit?

892
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:43,399
Speaker 1: You know that's the credit they check.

893
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 9: I know they do, because I totally forgot that I

894
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 9: had that on when I when I applied for that

895
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 9: at my bank. Yeah, me too, And they said we

896
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:57,239
Speaker 9: can't get the information because your credits frozen. Oh my gosh,

897
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 9: I forgot that I had that on because I had

898
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 9: that on for I.

899
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: Did the same thing. I applied for the Amazon credit

900
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: card during the holidays when it was they were giving

901
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: like two hundred and fifty dollars cash back or something.

902
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, fine, I'll do that and

903
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: I'll cancel it right away. And sure enough, as soon

904
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 1: as I submitted my information, it was like, sorry, you're frozen.

905
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 1: You can't do anything. I was like, oh, And then

906
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 1: I never got it because I was like, you know what, Okay,

907
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:23,359
Speaker 1: this was a sign from the gods. I'll just not

908
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,719
Speaker 1: get this card. But yeah, So the main thing to

909
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: do when you go on there after you sign up,

910
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,760
Speaker 1: if you want to unfreeze it, remember to freeze it again.

911
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 1: You can. Oh, interesting, it says you can schedule a thaw.

912
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: Let's see what that does. Okay, schedule a thaw before

913
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 1: you apply. So if you do a thaw, which will

914
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 1: allow access to your experience credit file, and I guess

915
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: maybe they freeze it again. So in case you forget

916
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: that's interesting. Oh yeah, set a date range. Okay. That's

917
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: so you can set a range if you're applying, like

918
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: you go on a bender and just like apply for

919
00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: like ten cards at once. You're not gonna do that,

920
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 1: right best, No.

921
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 9: No, I'm just doing the one thing I don't need anymore. Now.

922
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 9: This is just for to the bank and you know,

923
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 9: for a major project that.

924
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 12: I want to do.

925
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 9: Okay, for payments, that's easier.

926
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: Okay. Well, just just know that if you're good, if

927
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 1: you go to the if you go on there, just

928
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:20,399
Speaker 1: and this is for everyone you know that's listening, that's uh,

929
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:22,839
Speaker 1: you know, may do this. Just remember that they have

930
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: like two products. One is like a paid freeze product

931
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: to the other is the actual free security freeze. And

932
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: if you go to the bottom of their website, that's

933
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: where you can see where it actually says security freeze

934
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 1: and that's the free one.

935
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 9: So okay, security freeze. Okay, great, Oh.

936
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: Thank you all right, good luck, Beth, Thank you so much.

937
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: All right, thanks for calling. In eighty eight rich one

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

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00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: one zero one, Richard writes in from Connecticut, I keep

940
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:55,799
Speaker 1: seeing ads for a device called blank Player. I'm not

941
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: even gonna give the name of these things that promises

942
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: unlimited entertainment With those subscriptions are monthly fees have you

943
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: heard of it? And is it actually legit? Yes, it's

944
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 1: called YouTube. No, I know what you're talking about. You're

945
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 1: talking about a black box.

946
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:11,359
Speaker 2: Uh.

947
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 1: There's tons of them on the market. Many of them

948
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: operate in a gray area at best, illegal at worst.

949
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:20,720
Speaker 1: I cannot recommend these. I know a lot of people

950
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,399
Speaker 1: have them. I cannot vouch for them. I can't say

951
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,720
Speaker 1: that you should get one because A I work in media,

952
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I respect people that are making

953
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 1: a living selling their movies and music and things like that.

954
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: So you also have to be aware of malware. You

955
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 1: may not be able to update this thing. Anything could

956
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:40,879
Speaker 1: break along the lines, So please stick to fire TV,

957
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 1: Apple TV, Google TV, Roku, and you're gonna have to

958
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: pay for those subscriptions like everyone else. Richard eighty eight

959
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961
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962
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:02,960
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Speaker 1: rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to

964
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965
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966
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:16,560
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967
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:18,359
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968
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,640
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00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:04,200
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982
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 1: this one I like. If you want to watch the

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00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:09,320
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984
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989
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,560
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990
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:31,160
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991
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:34,680
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992
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:40,640
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993
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:42,960
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994
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,400
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995
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996
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:49,680
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997
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,319
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998
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999
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:58,759
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1000
00:48:58,760 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.

1001
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 2: Hi.

1002
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:05,240
Speaker 6: Hi, I like to show a lot and your website.

1003
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:07,479
Speaker 1: Oh thank you Rich on tech dot TV.

1004
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 7: That's it.

1005
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 6: Got a question for you. I have Facebook. Been on

1006
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 6: Facebook a long time, and about a week ago I

1007
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:17,440
Speaker 6: kept getting notices You're going to be on professional mode

1008
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 6: on the twenty ninth of the month, which was two

1009
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 6: days ago. And two days ago it says you're now

1010
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,960
Speaker 6: in professional mode. To keep your public followers, Facebook is

1011
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 6: simplifying settings. Your main profile can no longer have public followers.

1012
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 6: We've turned on professional mode for your profile so you

1013
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 6: can keep followers.

1014
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 2: I have no idea.

1015
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 6: I tried to find information as what it meant. You

1016
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 6: can click here, but it went on and on and

1017
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:45,359
Speaker 6: I could make no sense of it.

1018
00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:48,239
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, it's very confusing. So do you have a

1019
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: large following.

1020
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:52,439
Speaker 6: I have no idea what that means. I'm looking at

1021
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 6: what it rode up because it says now you're on

1022
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 6: professional and it says now I'm a digital creator.

1023
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:00,720
Speaker 1: Oh wow, are you creating?

1024
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 2: All I do is.

1025
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,399
Speaker 6: I post things, you know, like a joke or a

1026
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:10,000
Speaker 6: photograph that I may have taken on you know, comment,

1027
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 6: you know, on entering. That's what I do for a day,

1028
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 6: so you know, my photographs or you know, joke's that

1029
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:17,439
Speaker 6: sort of thing.

1030
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: So just typical Facebook creator. No, okay, this.

1031
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 6: Is it said you can turn it off, but I

1032
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 6: don't know what it even means. Although if I look

1033
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 6: at the top of the screen on Facebook, yeah, you know,

1034
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:33,799
Speaker 6: you have the three lines and then you'd have the

1035
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:39,880
Speaker 6: house home page this cefter. But now there's an entry

1036
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:43,720
Speaker 6: on the far right of my photograph which i'd had

1037
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:46,880
Speaker 6: in a circle. And when I click on the circle.

1038
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 6: That's what it says. Polls up for six hundred and

1039
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 6: sixty eight followers, two hundred and thirty seven following a

1040
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 6: digital creator and it goes from there. And I have

1041
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 6: no idea what that means.

1042
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not sure why they turned professional mode. The

1043
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 1: only thing I can think of is because you have

1044
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: a combination of friends and followers, they kind of merged

1045
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:13,720
Speaker 1: them all into one place. And I think that's what's happening.

1046
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 1: Is professional mode means that I think that you Okay,

1047
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 1: so I'm looking up online because my mindsets professional mode

1048
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:25,479
Speaker 1: as well. Now you must have this professional dashboard, which

1049
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:27,880
Speaker 1: gives you. The main thing that this gives you is

1050
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of insights into your account, so you

1051
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 1: can see when people are looking at your stuff, how

1052
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:38,319
Speaker 1: your content did. You might be eligible for like monetization

1053
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:41,319
Speaker 1: things like that. It's odd because it's not like you

1054
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:44,279
Speaker 1: have a huge following. Like this typically happens with people

1055
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 1: that may have reached a limit of like five thousand

1056
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: friends on Facebook back in the day, and they would say, oh,

1057
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 1: clearly you're doing something that's more of a public facing account,

1058
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:56,239
Speaker 1: so let's switch this on for various reasons because you

1059
00:51:56,239 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: probably want to see but for you, was there an

1060
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:00,800
Speaker 1: option to turn this off?

1061
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 6: It says yes, but I don't know what. I don't

1062
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:06,439
Speaker 6: know what professional is and it sounded like it would

1063
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 6: delete people from seeing me if I kept it in

1064
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:10,800
Speaker 6: professional mode friends and family.

1065
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 2: That's sort of okay.

1066
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 1: The main thing, I think The main thing that that

1067
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:18,440
Speaker 1: when you have professional mode on that I'm looking for

1068
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:21,320
Speaker 1: that I'm looking at here is says who can follow

1069
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 1: me will be set to public. That means that basically

1070
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 1: anyone can follow you on the on Facebook versus you

1071
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 1: accepting a friend. That's what that's I think the biggest

1072
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 1: difference here.

1073
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:36,439
Speaker 6: That's what professional mode is. Is that what the standard mode is.

1074
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:39,839
Speaker 1: Correct, that's professional mode. So if you're okay with that,

1075
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:43,319
Speaker 1: then I would just leave this on if you you know,

1076
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:46,279
Speaker 1: if you're if you want that feature, but if you don't,

1077
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: then you can turn it off. And that means you

1078
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 1: can now say who can follow you is just friends.

1079
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,360
Speaker 1: You're not going to lose any followers who are not

1080
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:57,799
Speaker 1: your friends, but you can allow public followers again once

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Speaker 1: you turn on professional mode. This all sounds very confusing.

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Speaker 6: What's that turn on or turn off professional.

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Speaker 1: If you turn it on again, you would have those

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Speaker 1: public followers. Basically at this point, anyone can follow you.

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Speaker 1: That's that's on Facebook versus you kind of accepting them

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Speaker 1: as a friend. That's what it sounds like to me.

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Speaker 6: That's a professional mode, is.

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Speaker 1: Correct, and you get all those insights.

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Speaker 6: Okay, it's just digital creator. I would you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it sounds like, are you ready to take

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Speaker 1: on a new career as a digital creator?

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Speaker 6: But I never knew what. I couldn't find the definition

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Speaker 6: for digital creator. I just post photographs that I came.

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Speaker 6: For instance, I posted, uh, I joke orange you glad.

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Speaker 6: I live in South California and I have family in

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Speaker 6: the Midwest, and so on the nineteenth or sixteenth, it

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Speaker 6: was eighty.

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Speaker 1: Three degrees in yes, and it was freezing.

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Speaker 6: And then I had pictures of orange, an orange globe tree.

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Speaker 6: So get it altering you, glad.

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Speaker 1: I see why you're content creator, Bob. I got a run.

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Speaker 1: They're playing me off. Thanks for the call today, rich

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

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Speaker 1: one zero one. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich

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

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

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Speaker 1: to two four one zero one phone lines are open.

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Speaker 1: Kim is standing by, uh ready to get you on

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Speaker 1: the air here, and we'll get back to those lines

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Speaker 1: in just a moment. Kim did mention that the air

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Speaker 1: tags are on sale on Amazon for seventy bucks for

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Speaker 1: a four pack. And then here's the thing that you

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Speaker 1: need to know, because I mentioned that they have new

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Speaker 1: air tags, so you're gonna see a delineation first generation

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Speaker 1: versus second generation. So the second generation are also at Costco,

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Speaker 1: but they're selling for one hundred dollars for a four pack,

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Speaker 1: so you're probably gonna see I would say even more

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Speaker 1: discounts on the first generation air tags as retailers sort

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Speaker 1: of clear them out whatever stock they have. The big

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Speaker 1: thing is do you need to get the old or

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Speaker 1: the new. If you're interested in that precision feature, like

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Speaker 1: if you need that longer range or if you need

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Speaker 1: the louder speaker, go with the new ones. But if

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Speaker 1: you don't, the old ones are going to be just fine.

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Speaker 1: Everything else is like completely the same, all right. Sharon

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Speaker 1: guys on the line. She is an AI expert and

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Speaker 1: former Ali Baba strategist and author of the upcoming book,

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Speaker 1: How to Do More with Less future Proofing yourself in

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Speaker 1: an AI driven economy. That is a hot topic these days. Sharon,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining me.

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Speaker 13: Hey, Rich, how's it going.

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Speaker 1: Everything's good. So this is a very hot topic that

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Speaker 1: people are always wondering about. They hear AI, they feel scared,

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Speaker 1: they're overwhelmed. So what do you make of the current

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Speaker 1: situation with AI and work right now?

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Speaker 13: Yeah, I totally echo the fear and anxiety with it.

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Speaker 11: The biggest thing is, I think it's really unevenly distributed

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Speaker 11: when it comes to the US in.

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Speaker 13: General, but just around the world.

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Speaker 11: You know, you have founders in San Francisco, for instance.

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Speaker 11: You pick anybody off the street if you visit that city,

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Speaker 11: they're probably building multi agent systems automating a lot of

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Speaker 11: parts of their life. And then you go to another

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Speaker 11: city somewhere else. The other day, was on a flight

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Speaker 11: and this woman next to me was on a business trip,

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Speaker 11: and you know, I was talking about what I do

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Speaker 11: in terms of keynoting and talking about AI.

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Speaker 13: And she said, oh, chat shipt, I've heard of that.

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Speaker 11: So it's just it just runs such the gamut, and

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Speaker 11: I think.

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Speaker 13: For those who are sort of in that AI bubble.

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Speaker 11: You know, the algorithm is constantly serving you up things

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Speaker 11: that could cause fear and anxiety.

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Speaker 13: And then there's so many of us who's just barely

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Speaker 13: tried it yet.

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Speaker 11: And so hopefully that the new book that I've written

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Speaker 11: is it levels the playing field for everyone so that

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Speaker 11: it brings everyone in the same conversation at least.

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Speaker 1: It is wild because they're like when I go home

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Speaker 1: to like, you know, my family, and I say, oh

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Speaker 1: at chat Ebt, this Ai, this, Gemini, this Claude that,

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Speaker 1: and they're like, wait, hold on, what, Like how do

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Speaker 1: I even go to these websites? Right? And so it's

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Speaker 1: like there are people that are using this on a

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Speaker 1: daily basis and really getting familiar with it, and there

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Speaker 1: are people who have not even begun to scratch the

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Speaker 1: surface with it. Do you think people should be using

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Speaker 1: this to see what it's all about?

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Speaker 13: Absolutely?

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Speaker 5: You can.

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Speaker 11: You know in the future that I predict there's probably

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Speaker 11: going to be a decent group of people who's opposed

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Speaker 11: to everything.

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Speaker 13: That's that's happening in the ANI space.

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Speaker 11: Because it will come so fast and it's gonna change

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Speaker 11: so many things. So there's going to be a group

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Speaker 11: of people that's you know anti AI, there's you're already

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Speaker 11: hearing the protests and whatnot that's starting to happen with

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Speaker 11: A taking away their jobs and agency. So there will

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Speaker 11: be that growing number of people. But at least try

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Speaker 11: it to see how and just a nalidate for yourself

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Speaker 11: whether it's right for your life. Personally, I think it's

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Speaker 11: it's made a huge shift and the way that I work,

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Speaker 11: the way that I think about things, the way that

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Speaker 11: I live my life. You know, the Internet get paved

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Speaker 11: way for this burst of information to just be at

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Speaker 11: our fingertips, and I think AI just makes it even

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Speaker 11: faster that that information is not just exploded, it's hyper

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Speaker 11: exploded in front of us.

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Speaker 1: I know people worry that this is going to take

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Speaker 1: their jobs. Has that started to happen yet? And do

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Speaker 1: you think there are some jobs that are safe from

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Speaker 1: AI in the future or is everyone going to be

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Speaker 1: affected in some way?

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Speaker 13: Everyone is going to be infected. And so I think

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Speaker 13: the way that.

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Speaker 14: I that I metaphor it is it's similar to you know,

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Speaker 14: when the electric motor was created in eighteen nineties and

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Speaker 14: when we just when we designed our factories back in

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Speaker 14: the day, it was a very vertical design.

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Speaker 11: With the steam power in all factories, and then the

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Speaker 11: electric motor was created, and then all we did in

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Speaker 11: our factories was changed the steam to electric motors without

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Speaker 11: ever redesigning the entire factory, so not really designing our

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Speaker 11: entire workflow around it. And I think that's what's happening

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Speaker 11: with AI. You know, if you've seen the reports of

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Speaker 11: MIT says there's an MIT study that says ninety five

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Speaker 11: percent of AI projects have failed so far, and so

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Speaker 11: we're in that reckoning where there's a lot of things

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Speaker 11: that's not working in the ANI space, but that's just

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Speaker 11: a temporary hold before things start before product to before

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Speaker 11: productivity actually has that uptick. So for the in terms

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Speaker 11: of jobs, you see a lot of entry level work

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Speaker 11: being displaced right now. So if you are you know,

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Speaker 11: maybe twenty two just graduated, the things that you know

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Speaker 11: is not really based on experience because you don't have

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Speaker 11: experience yet, and so if your job is quite junior,

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Speaker 11: that's the exact layer of roles that we're seeing being affected.

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Speaker 13: There's a lot of text CEOs that.

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Speaker 11: Overblow it a bit, I think, where you know, they're

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Speaker 11: saying that unemployment is going to rise to twenty thirty percent.

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Speaker 13: I actually don't.

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Speaker 11: Think that will happen because I have a lot more

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Speaker 11: faith in people in that. You know, because if you

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Speaker 11: are displaced from a job, that you're agile enough to

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Speaker 11: learn some sort of new skill that that has openings

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Speaker 11: and has jobs, and you reorient yourself that way. I

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Speaker 11: think there's I think we don't give ourselves enough credit. Also,

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Speaker 11: we underestimate our ability to adapt to change. In previous

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Speaker 11: times of you know, when the Internet age or when internet,

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Speaker 11: when the Internet emerged, jobs were displaced too. We used

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Speaker 11: to have a lot of people that were type this,

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Speaker 11: and that was their job is to be a type

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Speaker 11: this or a secretary of some sort, or like travel

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Speaker 11: agent of some sort, where your job was to book tickets,

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Speaker 11: book plane tickets for people. And then Expedia I came

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Speaker 11: and then we didn't really need those people anymore. So

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Speaker 11: I think change is just part of life, and I

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Speaker 11: think we don't give ourselves enough credit sometimes with our

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Speaker 11: humans natural ability to adapt to change.

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Speaker 1: Well, And you mentioned travel. Whenever I travel, I always

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Speaker 1: joke with my wife about how many jobs I do

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Speaker 1: as I travel, so like it's like you park your

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Speaker 1: own car at the parking lot. I mean obviously that's

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Speaker 1: pretty standard. But you get there. You like, like at

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Speaker 1: one point, I'm like tagging my own baggage. Now, like

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Speaker 1: you can literally print out your own tags. You're like

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Speaker 1: sticking them to your luggage. You get on the plane,

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Speaker 1: you're like literally cleaning You're a little area on the

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Speaker 1: plane with that little wipe they give you. So I'm

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Speaker 1: like cleaning the plane now I'm not flying the plane. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: checking into the hotel. You're doing that from your phone.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's just so many things that we've taken

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Speaker 1: on the duties for. Like you said, there's people that

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Speaker 1: used to do these jobs, but you know, it's not

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Speaker 1: as if you go to these places there's no one there,

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Speaker 1: there's less people, but there's definitely you know, people have

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Speaker 1: been displaced in various ways and they find new things

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Speaker 1: to do. I think this analogy you give in the

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Speaker 1: book about this this busy bees. If you're drowning in

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Speaker 1: meetings notes and repetitive data entry that leaves you burnt

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Speaker 1: out by five pm, what's your advice there? That's kind

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Speaker 1: of interesting.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, So on the book cover, it's a bee, and

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Speaker 11: if you know anything about this animal, it's a very

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Speaker 11: interesting little bug and so bees, you know, are very

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Speaker 11: narrow in the way that they operate, but when they

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Speaker 11: come together as a whole hive, they can find the

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Speaker 11: next flower to pollinate, they can adjust temperature, they build

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Speaker 11: structures that protect themselves.

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Speaker 13: And so the whole promise.

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Speaker 11: Of the book is it's just like us where you know,

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Speaker 11: I went through a traditional four year college and I

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Speaker 11: entered the corporate world, climb the corporate ladder, hope for

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Speaker 11: a time to fifteen percent salary increase every single.

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Speaker 13: Year, and my getting I felt like.

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Speaker 1: Which part I never I don't think I've ever seen

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Speaker 1: that in my job career.

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Speaker 2: I was.

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Speaker 13: I was aiming, okay.

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Speaker 1: Because every company I've ever worked for they say the

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Speaker 1: same thing. They make billions of dollars, and when it

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Speaker 1: comes time to do any kind of contract, like we

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Speaker 1: have no money, where does all the money go? Anyway?

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Speaker 11: I think yeah, and I think I think you know

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Speaker 11: a lot of people went that very traditional path and

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Speaker 11: started checking those boxes.

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Speaker 13: And then one day I just realized that that box

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Speaker 13: checking idea.

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Speaker 11: Doesn't really farewell, and it doesn't farewell, especially in this

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Speaker 11: current age.

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Speaker 13: So I felt like a busy bee when I.

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Speaker 11: Was working in those roles where my to do lists

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Speaker 11: were endless, and it was meeting after meeting, and there

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Speaker 11: were so many things. And for anyone that kind of

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Speaker 11: works in a corporate space, maybe that you know, like

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Speaker 11: are you we needed on this call? Like this whole

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Speaker 11: thing is going to take an hour long and you

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Speaker 11: want me to spend.

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Speaker 13: My entire human hour here with you doing whatever? You're tire?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 11: So I think a lot of us feel that way,

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Speaker 11: and that's what leads to the burnout. That's what leads

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Speaker 11: to When it's Sunday, why is it that it's Sunday evening?

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Speaker 13: We grow because we know that work is going to

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Speaker 13: start on Monday. But when it's Friday afternoon, we're so

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Speaker 13: happy that the weekends about Like I think.

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Speaker 11: That grown and that expression of happiness shouldn't happen in

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Speaker 11: those times, Like we should be happy, hopefully throughout the

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Speaker 11: whole seven days, and so work shouldn't be something where

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Speaker 11: it feels like it's a waste of our time. And

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Speaker 11: so that's the whole premise of the book is how

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Speaker 11: do you use AI, especially for those who maybe you

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Speaker 11: haven't tried it yet or haven't tapped into its potential.

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Speaker 11: How do we remove some of that drudgery from our

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Speaker 11: work so that we don't have to grown on the

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Speaker 11: Sunday evening going into work.

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Speaker 13: And so that's why there's a bet on the cover.

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Speaker 11: It's the hope is that you can transform yourself from

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Speaker 11: a busy beat to it ultimately a bee keeper, so

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Speaker 11: a keeper of those AI agents that will work for you,

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Speaker 11: that will take some away some of those tasks that

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Speaker 11: was meant.

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Speaker 13: For a machine to do. Anyway.

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Speaker 11: So there's a quote in the book which is spending

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Speaker 11: human hours on human necessary tasks because human hours is

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Speaker 11: very precious, and so I think too many of us

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Speaker 11: spend much time spending our human hours on not human

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Speaker 11: necessary things. And that's part of again going back to

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Speaker 11: that the factory metaphor, that's redesigning our factory. Because the

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Speaker 11: way that we were looked at work previously, it was

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Speaker 11: going through a lot of checkboxes. It wasn't thinking more

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Speaker 11: strategically about where should I better spend my time on.

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Speaker 11: And I think once we start to do that too,

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Speaker 11: we start to excavate our own human potential. We can

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Speaker 11: realize there's more creative things that actually need our time

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Speaker 11: and attention that we can actually make an impact towards

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Speaker 11: versus spending our time in something that's not worth.

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Speaker 1: All right, good advice. The book is how to do

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Speaker 1: More with Less, future proofing yourself and an AI driven economy.

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Speaker 1: Sharon Guy, thanks so much for joining me today.

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Speaker 13: Thanks so much.

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Speaker 11: Rich.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up more of your calls at Triple

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

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one, and I'll tell you what's

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Speaker 1: changed with Chrome. Coming up next. Welcome back to Rich

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Speaker 1: on tech Rich DeMuro. Here, let's go to line three.

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Speaker 1: Line three is Bob and Woodland Hills. You're on with Rich.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, Rich, thank you so much for taking my call.

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Speaker 2: I do enjoy you on Channel five as I watch

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Speaker 2: you guys every morning.

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Speaker 1: Oh thank you.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: I enjoy being there for sure.

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Speaker 2: Now you guys do a great job, and I like

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Speaker 2: the anchors as well. Sure, I'll try to make this

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Speaker 2: a sinct. Here's what my issue is. I at home,

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Speaker 2: I have Internet with DSL extremes. So exactly one week ago,

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Speaker 2: last Suday night, it goes down on me, and so

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Speaker 2: I do all the fixes that we know to do. Right,

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Speaker 2: instead of getting the green light, I'm getting a blinking yellow.

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Speaker 2: So we disconnect and connect. Wait a couple of minutes,

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Speaker 2: you know, do all the obvious things that sure fix it.

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Speaker 2: DSL Extreme is not open on the weekend, so I'm

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Speaker 2: not happy. I'm watching TV on a out of rabbit

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Speaker 2: ears last weekend. But anyway, come Monday morning, I called them.

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Speaker 2: They I'm on the phone with them. They tell me

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Speaker 2: that everything appears to be fine, the signals coming out.

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Speaker 2: I'm but they say they have to contact AT and T. Well,

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Speaker 2: fast forward the story. On Wednesday, I get I talked

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Speaker 2: to DSL and they tell me that AT and T

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Speaker 2: says there's a serious wiring issue at my building and

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Speaker 2: it may not be fixed until wait for it, February

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Speaker 2: twenty fourth. I'm about I'm going about insane right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, even a minute without internet, I go insane.

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Speaker 2: Correct. So now it's been a week. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm watching TV on rabbit ears. I'm watching

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Speaker 2: the Internet on my phone. I mean, it's just you know,

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Speaker 2: through cellular data. It's just not it's horrible.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, the question, okay, what do.

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Speaker 2: You think, my what do you given that answer that

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Speaker 2: there's a wiring issue at my building that AT and

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Speaker 2: T has to come out and fix and may take

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Speaker 2: till February twenty four. Do I have other options that

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Speaker 2: I can I don't understand this stuff very well.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'll tell you what's going on here. So, so

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Speaker 1: DSL Extreme does not operate their own infrastructure, So they

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Speaker 1: don't That's that's what was revealed to you when they said, hey,

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Speaker 1: we got to call AT and T. It's actually a

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Speaker 1: problem with their lines. They just ride on top of

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Speaker 1: other providers that are in your area, and they service

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Speaker 1: a bunch of different areas. So they have partnerships with

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Speaker 1: like you know, an AT and T, a Verizon wherever

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Speaker 1: they can, wherever they have their service. Their whole deal

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Speaker 1: proposition is that I'm guessing you're either getting a better

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Speaker 1: price or a better service by using this company. How

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01:09:23,760 --> 01:09:25,479
Speaker 1: much you paying them a month for your Internet?

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Speaker 2: I think it's like sixty.

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Speaker 1: Okay, sixty bucks and you're getting them Guessing what speed

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Speaker 1: are you getting?

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Speaker 2: I don't know the answer to that to give you.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So a couple options. Number one, how much do

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Speaker 1: you love DSL Extreme, Like, are you willing to switch?

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Speaker 2: And I am I'm ready to switch.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So a couple of things you can do. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at providers in your area. So AT and

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Speaker 1: T fiber is in your area, that's the network. I'm

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Speaker 1: guessing that they're riding on top. Okay, that's the one

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Speaker 1: that's having the problem. That's a fantastic network. But it's

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Speaker 1: you know, if there's some issue in you're building, maybe

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Speaker 1: a rat chewed through a cable or something, they need

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Speaker 1: to figure out. Do you have neighbors that have a

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Speaker 1: problem too.

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Speaker 2: It's funny, I have an ass, but I was wondering that. Yeah,

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01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:17,920
Speaker 2: I said, wow, I wonder if my neighbors have an

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Speaker 2: issue too. I have an ass, but I will ask.

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Speaker 1: I would do that because otherwise, you know, you want

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Speaker 1: to figure out like how you know, I had a

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Speaker 1: problem with AT and T and they came out and

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Speaker 1: really did a number on my place, and they did

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Speaker 1: a great job and they fixed it. I was not

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Speaker 1: sure they were going to be able to fix it

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Speaker 1: because it's one of these problems that like, we don't

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Speaker 1: know what's going on here and so, but they came

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Speaker 1: out and they they worked on it, and they figured

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Speaker 1: it out, and people had to go up on the

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Speaker 1: poll and all this stuff that like I never wanted

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Speaker 1: to do. It did not take a month. I will

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Speaker 1: tell you that it is actually way faster than I

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Speaker 1: thought because I was almost in the same place where

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Speaker 1: my internet was going in and out, and so I

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Speaker 1: was like kind of going nutty because I was like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is crazy. Every day at three pm my internet

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Speaker 1: goes out. How's that happen? They ended up figuring out

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Speaker 1: what the problem was, and it's a whole long story,

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Speaker 1: but anyway, you also have Spectrum in your area. Those

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Speaker 1: are the two wired services that you have. Okay, Spectrum

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01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:13,240
Speaker 1: can usually come out like pretty quickly, like almost the

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Speaker 1: next day or the same day to get you installed

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Speaker 1: at and T as well. So I would if I

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Speaker 1: were you personally, unless you're in love with this company

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Speaker 1: that you're working with, I would I would call up

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01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:26,760
Speaker 1: Spectrum or go online and see how quick they can

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01:11:26,800 --> 01:11:30,960
Speaker 1: come to install internet. That's number one. Then you've got

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Speaker 1: these wireless providers. So if you want to save a

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Speaker 1: ton of money and you have a good signal at

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Speaker 1: your place, like from T Mobile or Mint Mobile or Verizon,

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Speaker 1: you can switch to home internet and it's significantly cheaper

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Speaker 1: than usually the wired internet, and it's you know, depending

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Speaker 1: on what you're doing like if you're just doing basic

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Speaker 1: stuff like watching TV and surfing the web, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: be just fine and you're gonna save a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: Who's your cell phone provider?

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Speaker 2: My cell phone provider? Mobile?

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01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:03,840
Speaker 1: Okay, so they have TEA Mobile five. If do you

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Speaker 1: get a good signal in your house with T Mobile?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so that might be an option because they're they

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Speaker 1: they have pretty good, like aggressive plans right now, and

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Speaker 1: they and this is like self installed, so it's like

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Speaker 1: fifty dollars a month for your internet. Oh wow, they've

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Speaker 1: raised price a little bit. But yeah, basically you get

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Speaker 1: unlimited data and you'd get a discount with your plan,

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Speaker 1: so that you know, that'll bring the price down a

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Speaker 1: little bit more. But I would look into those two

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Speaker 1: things and see, you know, if you want to stick

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Speaker 1: with see if you sorry, see if you want to

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Speaker 1: stick with this provider, or if you're willing to switch.

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Speaker 1: If you're willing to switch, I would just cut ties

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Speaker 1: and say I don't want to wait until, you know,

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Speaker 1: three more weeks for this, and you can get internet

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Speaker 1: installed at your house, you know, as quick as tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Good question, Bob. In the In the meantime, try your

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Speaker 1: hot spot on your phone if you have it for

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Speaker 1: connecting your devices, that'll at least keep you connected in

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Speaker 1: the meantime. Eighty eight rich one oh one back after this,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rich on tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology, triple eight rich one on

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight rich one on one. If you're

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Speaker 1: one of these Strava users. They have added a new feature,

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Speaker 1: turn by turn navigation to the Apple Watch, so directly

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Speaker 1: on the Apple Watch, starting in beta, you can now

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Speaker 1: follow pre loaded routes, see your elevation, and get directions

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Speaker 1: right on your wrist. That means you no longer need

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Speaker 1: your iPhone if you're out running, biking, or hiking. Runners

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Speaker 1: and cyclists are saying this is a big upgrade they've

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Speaker 1: been waiting for. Some people say both free and paid

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Speaker 1: users have access at least during the beta. But this

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Speaker 1: does make the Apple Watch much better if you use Strava.

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Speaker 1: So if you Usetrava, if you use the Apple Watch app,

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Speaker 1: check it out if you haven't looked at it in

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Speaker 1: a while, because apparently they got some new features that

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Speaker 1: are quite helpful. And if you like candy Crush, I

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Speaker 1: told you that I love that new ca Andy Crush

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Speaker 1: Solitaire game. It's just fun, Like Candy Crush has a

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Speaker 1: cool thing going on. They have a new game called

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Speaker 1: Crushable and this is kind of a quick once a

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Speaker 1: day game instead of like a long ongoing game. And

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Speaker 1: it's exclusively on Yahoo Games in the US. One new

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Speaker 1: puzzle every day, and the goal is kind of like

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Speaker 1: to replace sort of supplement. They notice a lot of

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Speaker 1: people are doing like wordle in the morning or a

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Speaker 1: quick crossword puzzle or Sodoku. This is kind of along

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Speaker 1: those lines where you just you kind of knock it

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Speaker 1: out in the morning with your coffee or with your breakfast.

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Speaker 1: And it's again at Yahoo Games. It's called Candy Crush Crushable.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Brian and West Hollywood line too. Brian said,

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01:14:45,400 --> 01:14:49,439
Speaker 1: he sounds like something going on with DSL Extreme as well.

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01:14:49,439 --> 01:14:53,200
Speaker 12: Brian, I was listening to one of your callers just

1511
01:14:53,240 --> 01:14:56,479
Speaker 12: a few minutes ago, and I happen to be a subscriber.

1512
01:14:56,600 --> 01:15:00,719
Speaker 12: I was experiencing very similar issues with down load speed

1513
01:15:01,280 --> 01:15:05,559
Speaker 12: lower than they supposed to support. So AT and T

1514
01:15:05,720 --> 01:15:10,280
Speaker 12: reviewed it and they indicated that the line where I

1515
01:15:10,320 --> 01:15:14,160
Speaker 12: am is too far away from their central tower and

1516
01:15:14,240 --> 01:15:16,480
Speaker 12: therefore it's not fixable.

1517
01:15:17,160 --> 01:15:18,000
Speaker 1: Oh interesting.

1518
01:15:18,520 --> 01:15:20,760
Speaker 12: Yeah, they told me that that is an issue, and

1519
01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:26,840
Speaker 12: I talked to Dazel Extreme. They offered me an option

1520
01:15:26,920 --> 01:15:32,559
Speaker 12: to terminate if I wish to, So that was a

1521
01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:36,639
Speaker 12: good choice if I want to. I didn't. As of now,

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01:15:36,960 --> 01:15:41,120
Speaker 12: I had an opportunity to speak with Spectrum. They have

1523
01:15:41,200 --> 01:15:44,519
Speaker 12: a very good program from what I read about them

1524
01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:49,000
Speaker 12: on the internet. Whereas a homeowner or apartment renter does

1525
01:15:49,080 --> 01:15:54,000
Speaker 12: not have to have a fiber cable, they don't. It's

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01:15:54,040 --> 01:15:57,280
Speaker 12: not required in order to use Spectrum.

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01:15:57,600 --> 01:16:00,600
Speaker 1: Well they they they well they have their lines. I

1528
01:16:00,600 --> 01:16:02,920
Speaker 1: mean it depends on the type of network you're talking about,

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01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:07,000
Speaker 1: And there's wireless, there's fiber, and then there's like there's coax.

1530
01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:10,400
Speaker 1: Yeah from like which which is what Spectrum uses use.

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01:16:10,560 --> 01:16:13,760
Speaker 12: I use a wired Ethernet case okay, all right, and

1532
01:16:13,760 --> 01:16:19,759
Speaker 12: and Spectrum orfers fiber powered instead of one hundred right.

1533
01:16:19,720 --> 01:16:23,400
Speaker 1: So yeah, so they do basically their network is fiber,

1534
01:16:23,520 --> 01:16:26,599
Speaker 1: but the end line to your house is the standard

1535
01:16:26,640 --> 01:16:29,200
Speaker 1: kind of like you know, coax cable that they use

1536
01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:32,360
Speaker 1: for that, which is fine. I mean, look, I mean Spectrum,

1537
01:16:32,400 --> 01:16:34,200
Speaker 1: they you know, they're local, so they have like a

1538
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:39,320
Speaker 1: great presence in southern California. They run their own network,

1539
01:16:39,400 --> 01:16:41,400
Speaker 1: they're easy to get a hold of. I mean, obviously

1540
01:16:41,439 --> 01:16:43,760
Speaker 1: there's some benefits there, and they're you know, that's their

1541
01:16:43,800 --> 01:16:46,720
Speaker 1: main business too, so obviously that's that's a good thing there.

1542
01:16:47,120 --> 01:16:50,559
Speaker 1: The only difference is is the speeds when it comes

1543
01:16:50,560 --> 01:16:56,040
Speaker 1: to fiber versus standard cable like cable internet from someone

1544
01:16:56,080 --> 01:16:59,480
Speaker 1: like Spectrum. Is that with fiber, you're upload and download

1545
01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:03,679
Speaker 1: speed the same. So if you have a five hundred

1546
01:17:04,240 --> 01:17:08,000
Speaker 1: megabitz connection with AT and T, that's five hundred up

1547
01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:10,680
Speaker 1: and down. I think they're slowest is actually one gigabit,

1548
01:17:11,720 --> 01:17:14,840
Speaker 1: so that'd be one up and down, Whereas on Spectrum

1549
01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:17,400
Speaker 1: these speeds that they advertise, let's say it's five hundred,

1550
01:17:17,439 --> 01:17:20,599
Speaker 1: three hundred down, whatever it is, your upload speed is

1551
01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:23,800
Speaker 1: usually capped to like thirty five, so your upload is

1552
01:17:23,840 --> 01:17:27,439
Speaker 1: significantly slower. Now for ninety nine point nine percent of people,

1553
01:17:27,520 --> 01:17:29,840
Speaker 1: that is not an issue. Most people are downloading stuff

1554
01:17:29,840 --> 01:17:32,679
Speaker 1: from the Internet instead of uploading stuff to the Internet,

1555
01:17:32,840 --> 01:17:35,080
Speaker 1: unless you're in a creator job like myself where I'm

1556
01:17:35,080 --> 01:17:38,720
Speaker 1: always exchanging large files and things like that. And in California,

1557
01:17:38,840 --> 01:17:42,519
Speaker 1: especially Southern California, a lot of people in the entertainment industry.

1558
01:17:42,560 --> 01:17:44,960
Speaker 1: They are uploading, you know, things that they're editing from

1559
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:47,120
Speaker 1: their homes and stuff like that, so fiber would be

1560
01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:49,960
Speaker 1: a better choice. And then of course you have wireless internet,

1561
01:17:50,120 --> 01:17:52,920
Speaker 1: which is delivered over cellular lines, and that also has

1562
01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:56,599
Speaker 1: its advantage that it's easy and it's inexpensive and there's

1563
01:17:56,600 --> 01:18:00,800
Speaker 1: no wires. I mean there's a wire from I mean

1564
01:18:00,840 --> 01:18:03,160
Speaker 1: really there are no wires because you would just it's

1565
01:18:03,200 --> 01:18:06,519
Speaker 1: just a cellular receptor and then it's just beams out

1566
01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:08,240
Speaker 1: the signal the Wi Fi in your home. So really

1567
01:18:08,280 --> 01:18:10,680
Speaker 1: there's just a plug to plug it in. Thanks for

1568
01:18:10,720 --> 01:18:14,639
Speaker 1: the call, Brian. For what it's worth, DSL Extreme does

1569
01:18:14,680 --> 01:18:18,120
Speaker 1: have a status page that you can check secure dot

1570
01:18:18,200 --> 01:18:22,360
Speaker 1: DSL extreme dot com, Slash support Slash network status and

1571
01:18:22,400 --> 01:18:25,920
Speaker 1: they're saying all their services are normal right now, and

1572
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:28,400
Speaker 1: so that must mean that anything that is happening or

1573
01:18:28,439 --> 01:18:32,040
Speaker 1: that you're experiencing in the area is due to the

1574
01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:35,320
Speaker 1: lines in your local kind of place. And by the way,

1575
01:18:35,320 --> 01:18:41,080
Speaker 1: if you want to see the providers, the internet service

1576
01:18:41,080 --> 01:18:44,160
Speaker 1: providers in your area, you may not realize that there

1577
01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:47,880
Speaker 1: are probably several providers that you can choose from speed

1578
01:18:47,920 --> 01:18:52,240
Speaker 1: test runs a great site. If you go to speed

1579
01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:55,599
Speaker 1: test dot net, I'm trying to see the direct okay,

1580
01:18:56,160 --> 01:19:01,880
Speaker 1: speed test dot net slash performance, speed dot net slash performance.

1581
01:19:01,920 --> 01:19:04,519
Speaker 1: You type in your zip code. I'm gonna put in

1582
01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:07,719
Speaker 1: a West La zip code. It will tell you all

1583
01:19:07,800 --> 01:19:11,200
Speaker 1: of the providers at that zip code, and you may

1584
01:19:11,240 --> 01:19:13,439
Speaker 1: realize there are more than you think. So for instance,

1585
01:19:13,479 --> 01:19:15,160
Speaker 1: this zip code in West La, I just put in

1586
01:19:15,439 --> 01:19:18,600
Speaker 1: You've got Spectrum, You've got Frontier which is soon to

1587
01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:24,040
Speaker 1: be Verizon again, Earthlink Fiber, who knew, Storry that's another

1588
01:19:24,080 --> 01:19:28,439
Speaker 1: wireless internet that's in certain places, T Mobile Wireless Internet,

1589
01:19:28,520 --> 01:19:32,640
Speaker 1: Mint Mobile Wireless Internet, Starlink Satellite Internet at and T

1590
01:19:32,800 --> 01:19:38,439
Speaker 1: Internet Air Wireless Internet, Verizon via sat and Husenet. Now

1591
01:19:38,439 --> 01:19:40,679
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go with the last two unless you're desperate

1592
01:19:40,680 --> 01:19:43,840
Speaker 1: because those are you know, old school kind of satellite technologies.

1593
01:19:44,280 --> 01:19:46,840
Speaker 1: But that's a lot of providers, So shop around if

1594
01:19:46,840 --> 01:19:50,559
Speaker 1: you and it'll tell you the actual speed of your area.

1595
01:19:50,640 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 1: This is a great website, so it tells you all

1596
01:19:53,120 --> 01:19:56,240
Speaker 1: these different providers and what the actual speeds are that

1597
01:19:56,280 --> 01:20:00,920
Speaker 1: people are getting from those providers. So that is a

1598
01:20:01,080 --> 01:20:06,160
Speaker 1: really good resource. Speed test dot net slash Performance and

1599
01:20:06,240 --> 01:20:09,920
Speaker 1: type in your zip code and you'll see and it'll

1600
01:20:09,920 --> 01:20:13,320
Speaker 1: tell you explains everything. The speeds that you're getting historical,

1601
01:20:14,720 --> 01:20:18,000
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. I've lived in the LA area for a

1602
01:20:18,000 --> 01:20:20,760
Speaker 1: long time and the Internet has changed so much. I

1603
01:20:20,760 --> 01:20:24,599
Speaker 1: remember getting my first cable internet line and thinking it

1604
01:20:24,640 --> 01:20:27,400
Speaker 1: was the coolest thing ever compared to just standard dial up.

1605
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:29,960
Speaker 1: And I remember bringing my friend into the room and

1606
01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:32,120
Speaker 1: I said, check this out. Look at this. This is

1607
01:20:32,160 --> 01:20:35,280
Speaker 1: the future of Internet. And I was playing a video.

1608
01:20:35,560 --> 01:20:38,000
Speaker 1: It was a music video and I'm not kidding. It

1609
01:20:38,040 --> 01:20:40,799
Speaker 1: was the size of a postage stamp on my screen,

1610
01:20:41,479 --> 01:20:43,960
Speaker 1: and he was laughing so hard. He's like, that's the future.

1611
01:20:45,400 --> 01:20:47,160
Speaker 1: I mean, now we just take for granted you're getting

1612
01:20:47,479 --> 01:20:51,000
Speaker 1: all your stuff through the Internet. I mean, it's just wild.

1613
01:20:52,280 --> 01:20:54,920
Speaker 1: Samsung is coming out with their new Galaxy S twenty

1614
01:20:54,960 --> 01:20:58,360
Speaker 1: six lineup. I mentioned this earlier in the show Coming Out.

1615
01:20:58,760 --> 01:21:02,320
Speaker 1: The rumor is the end of February is when they're

1616
01:21:02,320 --> 01:21:04,840
Speaker 1: gonna have their event. They usually call them Galaxy Unpacked,

1617
01:21:05,640 --> 01:21:07,719
Speaker 1: and they've always done them in like different places around

1618
01:21:07,760 --> 01:21:10,760
Speaker 1: the world, so we'll see where that's gonna be. But

1619
01:21:10,800 --> 01:21:13,559
Speaker 1: they have a new feature they are promoting they haven't

1620
01:21:13,600 --> 01:21:17,120
Speaker 1: revealed exactly how it works or specifics, but it is

1621
01:21:17,439 --> 01:21:21,360
Speaker 1: a privacy feature, so it looks like in the videos

1622
01:21:21,360 --> 01:21:23,560
Speaker 1: that they've shown off that don't exactly show it on

1623
01:21:23,640 --> 01:21:26,799
Speaker 1: the screen. It's almost like one of those privacy screens

1624
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:29,679
Speaker 1: on your phone, but built into the hardware of the phone.

1625
01:21:30,320 --> 01:21:34,799
Speaker 1: And not only does it kind of blur out certain

1626
01:21:34,880 --> 01:21:37,120
Speaker 1: parts of the screen, but it's like if you get

1627
01:21:37,160 --> 01:21:40,880
Speaker 1: a notification, you could say, any notification from telegram. I

1628
01:21:40,880 --> 01:21:42,599
Speaker 1: don't want people to be able to see it from

1629
01:21:42,640 --> 01:21:45,400
Speaker 1: off angles, and when someone's looking at your phone from

1630
01:21:45,439 --> 01:21:47,280
Speaker 1: like the sides, you can't see it. I mean, it's

1631
01:21:47,360 --> 01:21:50,640
Speaker 1: really interesting. So I'm not sure how this works. But

1632
01:21:50,720 --> 01:21:53,280
Speaker 1: Samsung does say it is a hardware feature. It's not

1633
01:21:53,360 --> 01:21:57,960
Speaker 1: just software, so it's built into the display itself. And

1634
01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:00,200
Speaker 1: the way to think about it is that people on

1635
01:22:00,240 --> 01:22:02,519
Speaker 1: the sides of your phone can't see what you see

1636
01:22:02,560 --> 01:22:07,200
Speaker 1: on the screen, and you'll be able to literally customize

1637
01:22:07,200 --> 01:22:09,680
Speaker 1: this to your choosing. So if you say, anytime I

1638
01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:11,400
Speaker 1: open up YouTube, I don't want people to be able

1639
01:22:11,439 --> 01:22:14,080
Speaker 1: to see it. Only you'll be able to see it. Now, again,

1640
01:22:14,120 --> 01:22:15,680
Speaker 1: I don't know how this works in real life. We're

1641
01:22:15,680 --> 01:22:18,040
Speaker 1: gonna have to see this in person, which I will

1642
01:22:18,040 --> 01:22:22,040
Speaker 1: be there. But I'm very curious because cell phones have

1643
01:22:22,120 --> 01:22:25,040
Speaker 1: become so standardized over the years. They all have the

1644
01:22:25,040 --> 01:22:27,960
Speaker 1: same features at this point, so we need something besides

1645
01:22:27,960 --> 01:22:31,080
Speaker 1: a foldable that sets them apart. And if Samsung says, hey,

1646
01:22:31,320 --> 01:22:33,080
Speaker 1: when you're on your phone in public, on a train

1647
01:22:33,240 --> 01:22:35,760
Speaker 1: or at this sports event or whatever, nobody could see

1648
01:22:35,800 --> 01:22:39,840
Speaker 1: what you're looking at on your screen without a privacy

1649
01:22:39,880 --> 01:22:44,599
Speaker 1: screen protector, that's a pretty cool thing. Let's see here,

1650
01:22:44,720 --> 01:22:49,040
Speaker 1: We've got a new voice to text app for Windows.

1651
01:22:49,920 --> 01:22:53,600
Speaker 1: Willow Voice is now available on Windows. So you know

1652
01:22:53,680 --> 01:22:57,120
Speaker 1: my favorite whisper Flow. I've also talked about type lists.

1653
01:22:58,360 --> 01:23:02,240
Speaker 1: Willow Voice now has an app for Windows. So all

1654
01:23:02,280 --> 01:23:04,320
Speaker 1: you have to do is speak where you'd normally type,

1655
01:23:04,320 --> 01:23:06,840
Speaker 1: and it will turn your voice into clean formatted text.

1656
01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:10,559
Speaker 1: It removes filler words, fixes grammar, learns how you write

1657
01:23:10,600 --> 01:23:12,920
Speaker 1: over the time. There is a free plan, so no

1658
01:23:13,000 --> 01:23:15,479
Speaker 1: credit card required. You get about two thousand free words

1659
01:23:15,479 --> 01:23:17,719
Speaker 1: per week to try it out. Then it's about twelve

1660
01:23:17,720 --> 01:23:20,479
Speaker 1: dollars a month. But if you have been wanting to

1661
01:23:20,520 --> 01:23:22,320
Speaker 1: try this out, I've been talking about this on my

1662
01:23:22,360 --> 01:23:24,599
Speaker 1: show for so long. I love it. The only way

1663
01:23:24,600 --> 01:23:27,679
Speaker 1: I type now on my computer is with my voice.

1664
01:23:28,120 --> 01:23:30,639
Speaker 1: And it's not just voice dictation. It's not the same

1665
01:23:30,640 --> 01:23:32,120
Speaker 1: thing that we used to have back in the day

1666
01:23:32,360 --> 01:23:35,240
Speaker 1: where it's just transcribing word for word. This is understanding

1667
01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:41,800
Speaker 1: what you're saying. So the website is willow Voice dot com.

1668
01:23:41,960 --> 01:23:46,840
Speaker 1: Willow Voice dot com. This is Once you try this,

1669
01:23:46,920 --> 01:23:49,080
Speaker 1: you will never go back. I'm not kidding. It's so

1670
01:23:49,200 --> 01:23:53,960
Speaker 1: much better. W I l l Ow Willow Voice dot com.

1671
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:56,120
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech dot tv is a website. I'll put

1672
01:23:56,120 --> 01:23:57,800
Speaker 1: a link there. Mortgage on Tech come in your way

1673
01:23:58,200 --> 01:24:05,080
Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich

1674
01:24:05,120 --> 01:24:09,160
Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology triple eight

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01:24:09,320 --> 01:24:11,880
Speaker 1: rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to

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01:24:11,920 --> 01:24:14,200
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. The website for the show

1677
01:24:14,439 --> 01:24:16,920
Speaker 1: is rich on tech dot tv. All the stuff that

1678
01:24:16,960 --> 01:24:20,280
Speaker 1: I mentioned is on the show notes. People often ask

1679
01:24:20,400 --> 01:24:22,400
Speaker 1: me on a weekly basis, like, hey, how do I

1680
01:24:22,439 --> 01:24:24,680
Speaker 1: find what you mentioned on the show. It's all on

1681
01:24:24,720 --> 01:24:28,080
Speaker 1: the website rich on Tech dot tv. If you tap radio,

1682
01:24:28,840 --> 01:24:30,760
Speaker 1: it will bring you to the show notes for not

1683
01:24:30,840 --> 01:24:33,360
Speaker 1: only this show, but every show I've ever done here

1684
01:24:33,800 --> 01:24:36,000
Speaker 1: and there's even a little search icon so you can

1685
01:24:36,040 --> 01:24:39,760
Speaker 1: search for a keyword something you remember. So I just

1686
01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:44,720
Speaker 1: mentioned that really handy website from speed test that's on there.

1687
01:24:45,280 --> 01:24:48,920
Speaker 1: The new voice to tech stapp is on there, which

1688
01:24:48,960 --> 01:24:53,040
Speaker 1: is Willow. My kid Parker has downloaded it and he's

1689
01:24:53,040 --> 01:24:57,120
Speaker 1: testing it as we speak. How's how's it so far?

1690
01:24:58,479 --> 01:24:59,280
Speaker 1: So far? So good?

1691
01:24:59,520 --> 01:25:03,439
Speaker 4: Well, download process right now is pretty good, smooth UI

1692
01:25:03,800 --> 01:25:06,439
Speaker 4: which is like the look of the website. You like that,

1693
01:25:06,560 --> 01:25:09,760
Speaker 4: and just how it works right now. Haven't fully tested it,

1694
01:25:09,800 --> 01:25:12,040
Speaker 4: but I will report back in a couple of minutes.

1695
01:25:12,080 --> 01:25:16,840
Speaker 1: Okay. See speaking of voice to text, to doist has

1696
01:25:16,960 --> 01:25:18,800
Speaker 1: a this is that to do app that a lot

1697
01:25:18,800 --> 01:25:21,519
Speaker 1: of people like. They added a feature called Ramble, which

1698
01:25:21,520 --> 01:25:24,600
Speaker 1: is actually pretty smart. It's a voice powered kind of

1699
01:25:24,640 --> 01:25:27,000
Speaker 1: brain dump for your to do list. So all you

1700
01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:29,599
Speaker 1: have to do is like ramble to this thing and say, Hey,

1701
01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:31,680
Speaker 1: coming up today, I need to do this, I need

1702
01:25:31,680 --> 01:25:33,120
Speaker 1: to take out the trash, I need to remember to

1703
01:25:33,160 --> 01:25:35,799
Speaker 1: call my mom. I need to also send that TPS

1704
01:25:35,840 --> 01:25:38,519
Speaker 1: report whatever it is, and then it will put it

1705
01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:42,200
Speaker 1: all into your tasks in an organized way. So that's

1706
01:25:42,240 --> 01:25:46,720
Speaker 1: pretty smart. Again, this is called to doist Ramble. To

1707
01:25:46,840 --> 01:25:50,040
Speaker 1: doist Ramble it's really tough to type and talk, by

1708
01:25:50,080 --> 01:25:53,080
Speaker 1: the way. And I'm looking at this and yeah, it's

1709
01:25:53,080 --> 01:25:55,720
Speaker 1: a new feature that you know AI is I am

1710
01:25:55,760 --> 01:25:58,720
Speaker 1: obviously I'm guessing it's AI featured, but I you know,

1711
01:25:58,760 --> 01:26:00,519
Speaker 1: this week, and I talk about this in my newsletter,

1712
01:26:00,560 --> 01:26:03,320
Speaker 1: I found a new I'm on a quest for the

1713
01:26:03,360 --> 01:26:06,120
Speaker 1: perfect note taking app, and so I'm always testing a

1714
01:26:06,160 --> 01:26:08,519
Speaker 1: new one upsidy and it's kind of like my go to,

1715
01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:11,639
Speaker 1: but I'll be honest, this one I found this week

1716
01:26:11,760 --> 01:26:14,920
Speaker 1: is called Craft is actually pretty good and it's got

1717
01:26:14,960 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 1: this beautiful design. And it's funny because I've downloaded so

1718
01:26:18,360 --> 01:26:21,200
Speaker 1: many of these apps over the years. This one, when

1719
01:26:21,200 --> 01:26:22,559
Speaker 1: I went to log in, it was like, oh, that

1720
01:26:22,680 --> 01:26:25,000
Speaker 1: emails already in use. I'm like, oh, okay, I must

1721
01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:27,160
Speaker 1: have logged in and tested this app, and I remembered

1722
01:26:27,160 --> 01:26:29,040
Speaker 1: what I didn't like about it. It was because it

1723
01:26:29,080 --> 01:26:31,519
Speaker 1: was only on Mac back in the day. But now

1724
01:26:31,520 --> 01:26:34,640
Speaker 1: they came out with an Android app as well, so

1725
01:26:34,840 --> 01:26:37,280
Speaker 1: it was on Mac and iOS, but it wasn't on Android.

1726
01:26:37,280 --> 01:26:39,439
Speaker 1: Now it's on all of them, so now I can

1727
01:26:39,479 --> 01:26:41,519
Speaker 1: look at it because, if you know me, a couple

1728
01:26:41,520 --> 01:26:43,240
Speaker 1: of things I want out of my note taking app

1729
01:26:43,520 --> 01:26:46,519
Speaker 1: has to be cross platform, got to have the ability

1730
01:26:46,560 --> 01:26:50,200
Speaker 1: to take nice notes, got to have folders, I got

1731
01:26:50,200 --> 01:26:52,759
Speaker 1: to have the ability to print. I want the ability

1732
01:26:52,760 --> 01:26:55,720
Speaker 1: to export, and it has to work on all my platforms.

1733
01:26:56,240 --> 01:26:59,120
Speaker 1: So this one is pretty good. And what I like

1734
01:26:59,200 --> 01:27:03,080
Speaker 1: about it is it integrates not only the calendar but

1735
01:27:03,160 --> 01:27:06,599
Speaker 1: also your tasks. And something I also liked about another

1736
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:11,080
Speaker 1: note taping taking app, it actually lets you put notes

1737
01:27:11,160 --> 01:27:14,800
Speaker 1: in your days. So let's say, for today, I just

1738
01:27:14,840 --> 01:27:17,000
Speaker 1: wanted to take a note and remember something, almost like

1739
01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:18,720
Speaker 1: a journal. You can just put that in there and

1740
01:27:18,720 --> 01:27:20,320
Speaker 1: it's linked to that day and you can just keep

1741
01:27:20,400 --> 01:27:22,559
Speaker 1: flipping between your days, so if you want. I mean,

1742
01:27:22,560 --> 01:27:26,280
Speaker 1: it's just really well done. So they have a free level,

1743
01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:29,280
Speaker 1: the paid levels one hundred dollars, which I always look

1744
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:30,640
Speaker 1: at because I know I'm gonna be paying that in

1745
01:27:30,680 --> 01:27:32,760
Speaker 1: the future. So one hundred bucks a year is a

1746
01:27:32,800 --> 01:27:35,840
Speaker 1: lot for your notes, but you know, if you're getting

1747
01:27:35,920 --> 01:27:37,880
Speaker 1: value out of it. For me, I'm always planning my

1748
01:27:37,960 --> 01:27:41,639
Speaker 1: radio show, my TV segments, and my newsletter in this app,

1749
01:27:41,960 --> 01:27:45,680
Speaker 1: and this one does a lot, so I'm actually I'm

1750
01:27:45,760 --> 01:27:47,479
Speaker 1: kind of sold, but not yet. You know, it takes

1751
01:27:47,520 --> 01:27:48,960
Speaker 1: me a while to figure this stuff out to see

1752
01:27:48,960 --> 01:27:53,800
Speaker 1: if I actually like it. Vincent in Linnwood writes in

1753
01:27:53,960 --> 01:27:56,120
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of chromebooks because they're easy to

1754
01:27:56,240 --> 01:27:59,880
Speaker 1: use and usually pretty affordable. I'm seeing some newer models

1755
01:27:59,840 --> 01:28:02,960
Speaker 1: advertise for under two hundred dollars, and I'm wondering which

1756
01:28:03,000 --> 01:28:05,880
Speaker 1: of the current chromebooks are actually the best bargains right now.

1757
01:28:06,760 --> 01:28:10,639
Speaker 1: So Vincent, I would say, yes, two hundred dollars chromebooks exist,

1758
01:28:11,120 --> 01:28:14,280
Speaker 1: but I'd say they're best for very light use, so

1759
01:28:14,320 --> 01:28:18,800
Speaker 1: we're talking basic web browsing email. I would say, if

1760
01:28:18,840 --> 01:28:21,080
Speaker 1: you want to get a chromebook, I would probably look

1761
01:28:21,120 --> 01:28:24,400
Speaker 1: at the Chromebook plus models. They're going to cost a

1762
01:28:24,439 --> 01:28:26,520
Speaker 1: little bit more, but you're going to get the best performance,

1763
01:28:26,600 --> 01:28:29,439
Speaker 1: more memory, bigger screens, or better screens. I should say,

1764
01:28:30,400 --> 01:28:32,280
Speaker 1: which I do think makes the difference. The place I

1765
01:28:32,320 --> 01:28:36,200
Speaker 1: would say to look is slick Deals. They have a

1766
01:28:36,800 --> 01:28:39,880
Speaker 1: laptop section, and if you go in there and you

1767
01:28:39,920 --> 01:28:43,120
Speaker 1: type in chromebook, you'll see the different chromebooks that people

1768
01:28:43,160 --> 01:28:45,840
Speaker 1: have voted up. So right now, there's a refurbished a

1769
01:28:45,960 --> 01:28:48,880
Speaker 1: SUS for one hundred and twenty five dollars typically four

1770
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:54,120
Speaker 1: hundred on eBay. There's another a sous flip ninety dollars

1771
01:28:54,120 --> 01:28:57,360
Speaker 1: on eBay. Those are the two that are coming up

1772
01:28:57,400 --> 01:28:59,720
Speaker 1: right now. But you can also type in chromebook and

1773
01:28:59,760 --> 01:29:02,840
Speaker 1: see But I would go the Chromebook plus. Oh yeah,

1774
01:29:02,960 --> 01:29:08,880
Speaker 1: Parker found one HP fifteen inch Chromebook for eight gigs

1775
01:29:08,880 --> 01:29:11,320
Speaker 1: of memory sixty four gigs, one hundred and seventy nine dollars.

1776
01:29:11,520 --> 01:29:13,600
Speaker 1: But now see that one doesn't have as many thumbs up.

1777
01:29:13,680 --> 01:29:15,400
Speaker 1: I'm looking for stuff that has a lot of thumbs

1778
01:29:15,479 --> 01:29:17,920
Speaker 1: up because that means that people on the web have,

1779
01:29:18,200 --> 01:29:21,240
Speaker 1: you know, said it's good. Yeah, there's bobo the thumbs up. Oh,

1780
01:29:21,280 --> 01:29:24,799
Speaker 1: Tanner wants to read a message. Okay, go ahead, Tanner,

1781
01:29:25,120 --> 01:29:31,440
Speaker 1: you can read the one for car message storage. Go ahead, Dennis.

1782
01:29:31,840 --> 01:29:34,320
Speaker 15: I keep a two hundred and fifty six gig thumb

1783
01:29:34,360 --> 01:29:37,559
Speaker 15: drive plugged into my car to listen to music. But

1784
01:29:37,640 --> 01:29:40,120
Speaker 15: I've got more than two terror bytes of music saved

1785
01:29:40,120 --> 01:29:43,040
Speaker 15: on my main PC. I want to copy that music

1786
01:29:43,080 --> 01:29:46,880
Speaker 15: to a larger external drive, something like one or two terrbytes,

1787
01:29:47,120 --> 01:29:50,479
Speaker 15: and plug it into my car's USB port. I tried

1788
01:29:50,560 --> 01:29:53,640
Speaker 15: using a WD passport drive, but it didn't work. Is

1789
01:29:53,640 --> 01:29:56,559
Speaker 15: there a portable drive that will work reliably in a vehicle?

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01:29:57,160 --> 01:30:01,320
Speaker 1: Good? Question, Dennis. I think the the reality here is

1791
01:30:01,320 --> 01:30:03,479
Speaker 1: that it's not the drive that's not working. It's probably

1792
01:30:03,479 --> 01:30:06,479
Speaker 1: not formatted properly for your car. So you need to

1793
01:30:06,479 --> 01:30:10,519
Speaker 1: figure out what format your car's USB system supports and

1794
01:30:10,560 --> 01:30:14,439
Speaker 1: then format the drive with that with that system. So

1795
01:30:14,479 --> 01:30:16,439
Speaker 1: a lot of them are either what's called FAT thirty

1796
01:30:16,439 --> 01:30:19,360
Speaker 1: two or x FAT, and also a lot of the

1797
01:30:19,479 --> 01:30:22,120
Speaker 1: vehicles are Some vehicles may have a limit to the

1798
01:30:22,240 --> 01:30:25,200
Speaker 1: drive size, so if it's like a two terabyte drive,

1799
01:30:25,240 --> 01:30:28,040
Speaker 1: your car may not support two terabytes. So what I

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01:30:28,080 --> 01:30:31,799
Speaker 1: would recommend is going on your manufacturer's website and checking

1801
01:30:31,840 --> 01:30:34,040
Speaker 1: to see what the specs are for your car's US

1802
01:30:34,120 --> 01:30:37,800
Speaker 1: be poor. So if your drive isn't formatted properly, it's

1803
01:30:37,800 --> 01:30:39,519
Speaker 1: not gonna work, or if it's too big, it's not

1804
01:30:39,560 --> 01:30:41,599
Speaker 1: gonna work. So those are the two things I would check.

1805
01:30:41,640 --> 01:30:44,719
Speaker 1: Great question. All right, Coming up, we're gonna talk about

1806
01:30:44,800 --> 01:30:48,120
Speaker 1: why people are not just ditching their phones in the

1807
01:30:48,160 --> 01:30:51,120
Speaker 1: new year, but trying to actively use them less, even

1808
01:30:51,160 --> 01:30:54,280
Speaker 1: with a piece of hardware that keeps you from physically

1809
01:30:54,400 --> 01:30:57,200
Speaker 1: using your phone. We'll explain coming up next right here

1810
01:30:57,240 --> 01:31:03,200
Speaker 1: on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

1811
01:31:03,280 --> 01:31:07,600
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology. You know,

1812
01:31:07,720 --> 01:31:10,680
Speaker 1: I love technology, but also you got to take a

1813
01:31:10,680 --> 01:31:13,080
Speaker 1: break from this stuff at some point. I'm not kidding.

1814
01:31:14,040 --> 01:31:16,639
Speaker 1: One of my favorite pastimes is just watching how people

1815
01:31:16,680 --> 01:31:19,720
Speaker 1: interact with their devices. And I am telling you America

1816
01:31:20,360 --> 01:31:24,200
Speaker 1: is addicted. They are. People cannot get enough of their

1817
01:31:24,280 --> 01:31:27,559
Speaker 1: screens and it's been an amazing thing. Right, Like this

1818
01:31:27,600 --> 01:31:30,519
Speaker 1: little phone can do so many things. You can travel

1819
01:31:30,600 --> 01:31:33,840
Speaker 1: around the world with just your smartphone. Well, let me

1820
01:31:33,880 --> 01:31:36,680
Speaker 1: think about that. You might need a passport in some

1821
01:31:36,840 --> 01:31:40,120
Speaker 1: place anyway, but you get my idea. You could almost

1822
01:31:40,200 --> 01:31:42,640
Speaker 1: go anywhere with just your phone and that's it, and

1823
01:31:42,680 --> 01:31:46,880
Speaker 1: you'll be fine, like survivor like you'll survive. But the

1824
01:31:46,960 --> 01:31:50,439
Speaker 1: problem is it's a flip side of These things also

1825
01:31:50,760 --> 01:31:53,960
Speaker 1: keep us scrolling. People are unhappy. It's a whole thing.

1826
01:31:54,880 --> 01:31:57,960
Speaker 1: Here to talk about. This is Julia Pugachevski. She is

1827
01:31:58,040 --> 01:32:01,800
Speaker 1: the senior health reporter at Business Insider, and recently she

1828
01:32:01,840 --> 01:32:04,360
Speaker 1: did a little experiment. She used this device called brick

1829
01:32:05,439 --> 01:32:08,160
Speaker 1: to brick her phone. Julia, is that is that what

1830
01:32:08,240 --> 01:32:11,679
Speaker 1: it's called? Is it called brick? Yeah? Okay, so welcome

1831
01:32:11,720 --> 01:32:12,160
Speaker 1: to the show.

1832
01:32:13,200 --> 01:32:13,880
Speaker 13: Thank you so much.

1833
01:32:13,880 --> 01:32:14,720
Speaker 16: Thank you for having me.

1834
01:32:15,160 --> 01:32:18,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for being on. So give me. Let's set

1835
01:32:18,000 --> 01:32:19,880
Speaker 1: this up first. Like I just kind of gave my

1836
01:32:20,120 --> 01:32:23,200
Speaker 1: soliloquy about all what's happening with our phones? Do you

1837
01:32:23,200 --> 01:32:24,840
Speaker 1: agree with all that? Do you think that phones are

1838
01:32:24,840 --> 01:32:25,360
Speaker 1: good and bad?

1839
01:32:26,200 --> 01:32:26,519
Speaker 2: Yes?

1840
01:32:26,640 --> 01:32:27,280
Speaker 13: Absolutely?

1841
01:32:28,680 --> 01:32:31,920
Speaker 1: What aspect I mean, you know, like I you know,

1842
01:32:32,439 --> 01:32:34,200
Speaker 1: it's like it's tough because I want to take a

1843
01:32:34,240 --> 01:32:36,599
Speaker 1: break at some point. But there are times when I'm like, okay,

1844
01:32:36,680 --> 01:32:38,320
Speaker 1: well I need my phone for just about everything.

1845
01:32:38,320 --> 01:32:38,439
Speaker 7: Now.

1846
01:32:38,640 --> 01:32:41,599
Speaker 1: Like let's say you're cooking in your kitchen and you're like, okay,

1847
01:32:41,640 --> 01:32:43,719
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be off my phone. I'm doing something that's physical,

1848
01:32:43,800 --> 01:32:45,640
Speaker 1: not you know, virtual, It's like, oh, hold on, I

1849
01:32:45,680 --> 01:32:47,400
Speaker 1: gotta ask Google this question. I gotta do that. It's

1850
01:32:47,400 --> 01:32:49,479
Speaker 1: like they're so intertwined in our lives now.

1851
01:32:50,360 --> 01:32:50,679
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1852
01:32:50,720 --> 01:32:51,280
Speaker 13: Absolutely.

1853
01:32:51,320 --> 01:32:54,240
Speaker 16: I think that's been a big reason that I got

1854
01:32:54,280 --> 01:32:57,240
Speaker 16: the brick device, because I you know, some people get

1855
01:32:57,280 --> 01:33:01,519
Speaker 16: flip phones or they call them phones or phones without

1856
01:33:01,560 --> 01:33:06,920
Speaker 16: internet or apps as a way to really set boundaries

1857
01:33:06,960 --> 01:33:11,040
Speaker 16: with with being online. But the problem is for depending

1858
01:33:11,040 --> 01:33:13,720
Speaker 16: on your profession or your lifestyle, that's a very that

1859
01:33:13,760 --> 01:33:14,120
Speaker 16: could be a.

1860
01:33:14,160 --> 01:33:17,280
Speaker 13: Very hard change. Because smartphones have maps, or they have.

1861
01:33:18,560 --> 01:33:22,280
Speaker 16: You know, you need to two factor authentication like all

1862
01:33:22,320 --> 01:33:26,320
Speaker 16: these pieces, you know, ride share apps that you really

1863
01:33:26,560 --> 01:33:29,639
Speaker 16: it's hard to live. It's not impossible, but it's quite

1864
01:33:29,720 --> 01:33:33,160
Speaker 16: challenging to live life without a smartphone. So but a

1865
01:33:33,240 --> 01:33:36,040
Speaker 16: break I found was a very nice in between for that.

1866
01:33:36,439 --> 01:33:38,479
Speaker 1: Now, did you do this on your own accord or

1867
01:33:38,560 --> 01:33:40,240
Speaker 1: for research or kind of both or what?

1868
01:33:41,920 --> 01:33:45,000
Speaker 16: On my own accord? But it was inspired by research.

1869
01:33:45,160 --> 01:33:50,080
Speaker 16: I wrote a story about this growing appstinence movement, particularly

1870
01:33:50,120 --> 01:33:51,680
Speaker 16: among Gen Zers.

1871
01:33:51,240 --> 01:33:53,000
Speaker 13: And some millennials as well.

1872
01:33:53,200 --> 01:33:56,000
Speaker 16: And after writing it and speaking to a lot of

1873
01:33:56,040 --> 01:34:01,160
Speaker 16: these young people who are really considering stronger boundaries with

1874
01:34:01,280 --> 01:34:04,639
Speaker 16: their smartphones with social media, I was looking into waste

1875
01:34:04,680 --> 01:34:08,599
Speaker 16: to curb my own social media use. And forget exactly

1876
01:34:08,640 --> 01:34:11,240
Speaker 16: how my husband and I both were looking. Actually, I

1877
01:34:11,240 --> 01:34:15,240
Speaker 16: think he found brick first and then I immediately bought it,

1878
01:34:15,280 --> 01:34:17,320
Speaker 16: So I guess I was kind of an earlier adopter.

1879
01:34:17,880 --> 01:34:21,479
Speaker 16: I bought it last year, and yeah, I've been using

1880
01:34:21,479 --> 01:34:24,599
Speaker 16: it since and it's been the most effective thing I've

1881
01:34:24,600 --> 01:34:25,919
Speaker 16: done for myself personally.

1882
01:34:26,040 --> 01:34:28,240
Speaker 1: Oh wow, So you wrote an article called Bricking your

1883
01:34:28,280 --> 01:34:31,759
Speaker 1: Phone is a New Dry January. Explain what the brick

1884
01:34:32,000 --> 01:34:34,240
Speaker 1: is because this is a physical device, Like, how does

1885
01:34:34,280 --> 01:34:34,679
Speaker 1: it work?

1886
01:34:35,360 --> 01:34:37,960
Speaker 16: Yes, I have it with me. I promise they don't

1887
01:34:37,960 --> 01:34:41,200
Speaker 16: pay me. I'm just a big fan. So it's just

1888
01:34:41,320 --> 01:34:43,320
Speaker 16: you can stick it on your fridge. It's a little magnet.

1889
01:34:43,800 --> 01:34:46,200
Speaker 16: And then there is a separate Brick app that you

1890
01:34:46,320 --> 01:34:48,800
Speaker 16: just download on your phone. It's free once you buy

1891
01:34:48,840 --> 01:34:53,960
Speaker 16: the Brick device, and you can choose different modes. So

1892
01:34:54,040 --> 01:34:56,400
Speaker 16: essentially you can choose which apps you want to block.

1893
01:34:57,360 --> 01:34:59,519
Speaker 16: You can set like you have one for walking the

1894
01:34:59,560 --> 01:35:02,200
Speaker 16: dog for example, versus one where you're trying to unwind.

1895
01:35:02,200 --> 01:35:05,400
Speaker 16: If you want some variety in which apps you're blocking.

1896
01:35:05,439 --> 01:35:09,839
Speaker 16: But you know, I block the Internet and email for example,

1897
01:35:10,400 --> 01:35:14,760
Speaker 16: And you just take your phone and then you want

1898
01:35:14,840 --> 01:35:17,160
Speaker 16: to tap it to the Brick device and then until

1899
01:35:17,200 --> 01:35:19,960
Speaker 16: you untap it, all your apps are blocked.

1900
01:35:19,640 --> 01:35:23,879
Speaker 13: And there's nothing you can do. It's quite effective.

1901
01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:26,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, So people might be listening and saying, well, rich,

1902
01:35:26,520 --> 01:35:29,000
Speaker 1: can't you just do that with screen time? What's the

1903
01:35:29,040 --> 01:35:29,679
Speaker 1: difference here?

1904
01:35:31,120 --> 01:35:33,400
Speaker 16: As someone has used screen time and I've tried, I

1905
01:35:33,439 --> 01:35:36,799
Speaker 16: forget which apps before.

1906
01:35:35,520 --> 01:35:39,600
Speaker 1: There's opal, there's there's be present, there's freedom. I mean,

1907
01:35:39,600 --> 01:35:41,559
Speaker 1: there's so many like of these apps that like help

1908
01:35:41,600 --> 01:35:45,639
Speaker 1: you take control of your phone. But it's very complicated actually,

1909
01:35:45,680 --> 01:35:47,280
Speaker 1: like that, you know, setting up these apps, and then

1910
01:35:47,280 --> 01:35:49,880
Speaker 1: sometimes you need a you need to use your phone,

1911
01:35:49,920 --> 01:35:52,000
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, hold on, I gotta get through this app.

1912
01:35:52,160 --> 01:35:54,719
Speaker 1: But yeah, this is a physical kind of solution versus

1913
01:35:54,800 --> 01:35:55,839
Speaker 1: the app solution.

1914
01:35:56,760 --> 01:36:00,439
Speaker 16: Yeah, I think with apps again, I don't I don't

1915
01:36:00,439 --> 01:36:02,439
Speaker 16: even remember which ones I've tried, and I know the

1916
01:36:02,479 --> 01:36:05,720
Speaker 16: founders had also mentioned this. It's just that it's kind

1917
01:36:05,720 --> 01:36:08,839
Speaker 16: of easy to passively bypass those apps. You can quickly.

1918
01:36:09,040 --> 01:36:10,920
Speaker 16: Usually they'll have some sort of option, I know, the

1919
01:36:10,960 --> 01:36:13,599
Speaker 16: screen time option, you know, that's almost like a reminder,

1920
01:36:13,640 --> 01:36:16,880
Speaker 16: but you can easily toggle that off if in the

1921
01:36:16,920 --> 01:36:19,960
Speaker 16: split second you decide you want to access TikTok again.

1922
01:36:20,840 --> 01:36:24,280
Speaker 16: So it's it's quite easy to not really use it

1923
01:36:24,320 --> 01:36:26,719
Speaker 16: then versus the brick.

1924
01:36:26,800 --> 01:36:27,200
Speaker 13: I don't know.

1925
01:36:27,280 --> 01:36:31,280
Speaker 16: I find it personally humiliating to have to go get

1926
01:36:31,400 --> 01:36:34,040
Speaker 16: up tap my phone just because I want to check,

1927
01:36:34,320 --> 01:36:36,640
Speaker 16: like I want to google an actor's name, you know.

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Speaker 16: So for me, that's that's been like a big factor.

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Speaker 16: Like there's something about having to physically get up tap

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Speaker 16: your phone, both when you're tapping it and untapping it

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Speaker 16: that kind of almost snaps you out of that spell

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Speaker 16: that you're in when you're on your phone.

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Speaker 1: I think, so the brick is a device, and I

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Speaker 1: think it's what about sixty dollars something like that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so it's a physic device, and you set up on

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Speaker 1: your phone. You know this, you know all the comes

1937
01:37:05,560 --> 01:37:07,840
Speaker 1: with software. You set up on the phone, and then

1938
01:37:07,880 --> 01:37:11,040
Speaker 1: basically you tap the brick to your phone and that

1939
01:37:11,200 --> 01:37:13,880
Speaker 1: locks out all your apps that you've predecided I don't

1940
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Speaker 1: want to deal with, and then to get back to it,

1941
01:37:16,400 --> 01:37:19,160
Speaker 1: you have to tap again or I guess there's a

1942
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Speaker 1: timer that runs out or something. I'm not sure how

1943
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Speaker 1: that works. But I was out at an event and

1944
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Speaker 1: this person I was talking with said, oh, I can't

1945
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Speaker 1: use my phone right now because it's bricked. And I

1946
01:37:28,880 --> 01:37:32,400
Speaker 1: said what, and she said, oh yeah, and I can't

1947
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Speaker 1: on brick it unless I tap this device. And I've

1948
01:37:35,400 --> 01:37:37,960
Speaker 1: left it at my house, so you can leave. People

1949
01:37:38,080 --> 01:37:40,599
Speaker 1: leave this device in other places so they physically can't

1950
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Speaker 1: unbrick their phone.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, it's then there's no timer.

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Speaker 16: Also, it's for however long I've I've bricked my phone

1954
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Speaker 16: kind of unknowingly because you get used to it for

1955
01:37:51,200 --> 01:37:55,479
Speaker 16: two three days before and it just continues working until

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Speaker 16: you tap it again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So what do you think your advice for folks

1958
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Speaker 1: listening thinking I'm using my phone too much? Maybe they're

1959
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Speaker 1: not a gen z or maybe they're like, well, I'm not,

1960
01:38:04,680 --> 01:38:07,280
Speaker 1: I'm not you know a young kid that's on TikTok

1961
01:38:07,360 --> 01:38:09,760
Speaker 1: too much? Why should I do this? Do you think

1962
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Speaker 1: that this applies to everyone or just people that feel

1963
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Speaker 1: like they have an issue?

1964
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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 13: It's tough to say.

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Speaker 16: I think for me personally, I know people of all

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Speaker 16: ages who struggle with using their phones too much might

1968
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Speaker 16: just be different apps, right, Like if you're older, it

1969
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Speaker 16: might be YouTube instead of TikTok, for example, or Facebook

1970
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Speaker 16: instead of Instagram. But there's similar things they're they're designed

1971
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Speaker 16: in similar ways, and it's for you to keep going

1972
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Speaker 16: back and to, you know, at the expense of your

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Speaker 16: real life relationships and you know, anything else that you

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Speaker 16: could be doing with your time. That for me, I

1975
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Speaker 16: found it very helpful to Like, I tap my brick

1976
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Speaker 16: at night and then I tap it again in the morning,

1977
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Speaker 16: so you know, I go to bed without scrolling my phone.

1978
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Speaker 16: I read a lot more, I'm more present with my

1979
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Speaker 16: husband or with if I'm hanging out with my friends.

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Speaker 16: And then in the morning, I I go to the

1981
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Speaker 16: gym on time. I used to get to the gym's

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Speaker 16: like two seconds to fair if that, or even late.

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Speaker 16: And I've never been late because I there's nothing keeping

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Speaker 16: me and I'm just up and I'm ready to go.

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Speaker 16: And it's just I think it's very hard to realize

1986
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Speaker 16: when you're in it how much time social media and

1987
01:39:20,520 --> 01:39:24,280
Speaker 16: the Internet and news and everything takes up in your life.

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Speaker 1: Like it really is.

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Speaker 16: Kind of this perpetual time suck that I think we're

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Speaker 16: not always conscious of.

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Speaker 1: I was just reading an article about car scrolling. Have

1992
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Speaker 1: you heard of this new term?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, And I realize that I am so guilty

1995
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Speaker 1: of this. I come home and I sit in my

1996
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Speaker 1: car for like a minute or two, and I have

1997
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Speaker 1: my you know, my phone is on do not disturb

1998
01:39:47,520 --> 01:39:49,559
Speaker 1: when I drive like automatically, so when I you know,

1999
01:39:49,680 --> 01:39:52,160
Speaker 1: to be fair. When I get to my driveway and

2000
01:39:52,240 --> 01:39:54,160
Speaker 1: I turn off my car, there are a lot of

2001
01:39:54,200 --> 01:39:56,840
Speaker 1: notifications that come through and I see them, but I

2002
01:39:56,840 --> 01:39:59,080
Speaker 1: sit there and I scroll. But it's it is like

2003
01:39:59,160 --> 01:40:01,360
Speaker 1: kind of a spreeing moment because I've got two kids,

2004
01:40:01,400 --> 01:40:03,800
Speaker 1: my wife, they're all inside like waiting for me. But

2005
01:40:03,840 --> 01:40:05,600
Speaker 1: it's like you feel a little guilty, but you're also like,

2006
01:40:05,600 --> 01:40:08,599
Speaker 1: this is me time, Like, but I'm not the only one.

2007
01:40:08,640 --> 01:40:11,479
Speaker 1: I just read this article where apparently people do this

2008
01:40:11,600 --> 01:40:13,800
Speaker 1: and they sit and they you know, get home from

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Speaker 1: work and they scroll on their phone for a little bit.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, I think I used to do that.

2011
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Speaker 16: I don't drive, but I would come home and my

2012
01:40:21,600 --> 01:40:23,400
Speaker 16: friends actually used to make fun of me for this.

2013
01:40:23,520 --> 01:40:25,479
Speaker 16: They called it my bench. So I would get home,

2014
01:40:25,640 --> 01:40:27,519
Speaker 16: I would just like and have like a little bench

2015
01:40:27,560 --> 01:40:29,439
Speaker 16: in the doorway, and I would just sit on this

2016
01:40:29,560 --> 01:40:32,360
Speaker 16: bench looking at Instagram and get lost in it for

2017
01:40:32,400 --> 01:40:36,280
Speaker 16: twenty minutes. It was just like a known thing. And yeah,

2018
01:40:36,320 --> 01:40:38,640
Speaker 16: I'm needless to say, I don't do that anymore. But

2019
01:40:38,840 --> 01:40:42,200
Speaker 16: it's funny that I think it's almost like you're transitioning

2020
01:40:42,240 --> 01:40:46,320
Speaker 16: from one task to another, and maybe you're resisting it,

2021
01:40:46,439 --> 01:40:48,040
Speaker 16: or you know, you come home, you have all these

2022
01:40:48,040 --> 01:40:49,760
Speaker 16: other things you have to do, so then it's this

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01:40:50,200 --> 01:40:51,280
Speaker 16: like a cigarette break.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that's exactly what it is. Julia Puchevski,

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Speaker 1: We are going to leave it there. Thanks so much,

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Speaker 1: for joining me today. Business Inside check her out. She

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01:41:01,200 --> 01:41:05,559
Speaker 1: writes all about health at Business Insider. By the way,

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Speaker 1: I love Business Insider. You guys do a great job.

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Speaker 1: So thank you, thank you, thanks for joining uh brick.

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Speaker 1: The website is get brick dot app. If you're curious

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01:41:15,040 --> 01:41:17,599
Speaker 1: about it, get brick dot app. I'll put a link

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Speaker 1: on my website. Rich on Tech dot tv coming up.

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Speaker 1: It is that time the feedback We're about to open

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Speaker 1: it coming up next right here on rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. I remember exactly where

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01:41:34,280 --> 01:41:38,320
Speaker 1: I was when I heard this song. I was applying

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01:41:38,360 --> 01:41:42,920
Speaker 1: for a job at Bob's Bob's clothing store. It was

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01:41:42,960 --> 01:41:45,519
Speaker 1: a it was a chain back on the East Coast,

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01:41:46,439 --> 01:41:48,360
Speaker 1: and I was applying for a job and the store

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01:41:48,400 --> 01:41:50,120
Speaker 1: wasn't even built yet, so I was in like some

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01:41:50,240 --> 01:41:53,599
Speaker 1: you know, temporary place. But this song played on the radio.

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01:41:54,160 --> 01:41:55,840
Speaker 1: I thought it was so cool. You should tell the

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01:41:55,840 --> 01:41:58,439
Speaker 1: people what song it is on a podcast roll to me.

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01:41:58,920 --> 01:42:02,439
Speaker 1: It's by Delemitrie and it was one hit. Wonder I believe.

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01:42:02,439 --> 01:42:04,920
Speaker 1: I don't think they had another. You know, back in

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01:42:04,960 --> 01:42:06,439
Speaker 1: the day, you know, you'd buy a whole you'd hear

2047
01:42:06,439 --> 01:42:08,400
Speaker 1: a song on the radio. You'd buy the whole CD

2048
01:42:08,840 --> 01:42:10,880
Speaker 1: and you'd be like, wait, that's the only good song?

2049
01:42:11,240 --> 01:42:14,280
Speaker 1: What I just spent eighteen dollars for this? All right,

2050
01:42:14,800 --> 01:42:17,799
Speaker 1: let's get to the feedback. These are the comments, the questions,

2051
01:42:17,840 --> 01:42:20,840
Speaker 1: the emails that you send me, and yes, you like

2052
01:42:20,920 --> 01:42:23,439
Speaker 1: to send me a lot of them. I try to

2053
01:42:23,479 --> 01:42:25,000
Speaker 1: reply to a lot of them. I can't get to

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01:42:25,040 --> 01:42:27,240
Speaker 1: all of them, but sometimes it makes it to the feedback.

2055
01:42:27,320 --> 01:42:30,479
Speaker 1: Sometimes it makes it to the show, the newsletter without

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01:42:30,520 --> 01:42:32,120
Speaker 1: further ado, let's just get right into it. I got

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01:42:32,160 --> 01:42:34,200
Speaker 1: my two kids here, they each have one to read.

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01:42:34,680 --> 01:42:37,800
Speaker 1: So you want me to start or Tanner? Tanner wants

2059
01:42:37,800 --> 01:42:40,120
Speaker 1: to start, Yeah, you can start, I can start, Okay.

2060
01:42:40,320 --> 01:42:45,280
Speaker 1: Ed Ed, listening on WHCU and Ithaca New York, says

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01:42:45,560 --> 01:42:47,840
Speaker 1: Rich you talked about the privacy risks of TikTok and

2062
01:42:47,840 --> 01:42:50,040
Speaker 1: its ties to China, which I agree with, But then

2063
01:42:50,040 --> 01:42:52,439
Speaker 1: I heard you recommending TCL TVs, and that made me

2064
01:42:52,479 --> 01:42:55,840
Speaker 1: pause since TCL is also a Chinese company. Most smart

2065
01:42:55,840 --> 01:42:57,760
Speaker 1: TVs are connected to home networks all the time, so

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01:42:57,760 --> 01:43:00,519
Speaker 1: I worry about data collection. I personally still with LG

2067
01:43:00,680 --> 01:43:02,960
Speaker 1: or Samsung. I know they collect data too, but I'm

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01:43:03,000 --> 01:43:05,400
Speaker 1: just more comfortable with those brands. Just some food for thought.

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01:43:06,240 --> 01:43:08,519
Speaker 1: You are right ed. TCL is a Chinese company. I

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01:43:08,600 --> 01:43:11,320
Speaker 1: am aware of that. You know, the big difference is

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01:43:11,320 --> 01:43:14,679
Speaker 1: twofold number one. I mean, unless your TV has a

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01:43:15,160 --> 01:43:17,280
Speaker 1: mic or a camera, which a lot of them do

2073
01:43:18,000 --> 01:43:19,960
Speaker 1: you know, those are concerns. But I think for the

2074
01:43:20,280 --> 01:43:23,080
Speaker 1: information that TVs are collecting, it's not like your real

2075
01:43:23,120 --> 01:43:26,719
Speaker 1: time location per se. But you can also just easy fix.

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01:43:26,800 --> 01:43:28,400
Speaker 1: By the way, just don't connect it to Wi Fi.

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01:43:28,560 --> 01:43:30,439
Speaker 1: I know most of them are smart TVs, but just

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01:43:30,479 --> 01:43:32,640
Speaker 1: if you're worried, like for mine, I just don't have

2079
01:43:32,680 --> 01:43:38,160
Speaker 1: my connected to Wi Fi. Tanner, You're up, Kathy.

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01:43:38,160 --> 01:43:40,080
Speaker 15: I thought I could get AM in my radio.

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01:43:40,439 --> 01:43:42,280
Speaker 1: I think it's Kathy. Oh, Kathy.

2082
01:43:42,680 --> 01:43:45,120
Speaker 15: I thought I couldn't get AM radio in my Tesla,

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01:43:45,439 --> 01:43:48,840
Speaker 15: including KFI, but I found a workaround. If you tuned

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01:43:48,880 --> 01:43:52,840
Speaker 15: to Coast H two HD two, it carries the same

2085
01:43:53,000 --> 01:43:56,240
Speaker 15: talk programming as KFI. I tried it in my Tesla

2086
01:43:56,280 --> 01:43:59,040
Speaker 15: and it works, so I'm still still able to listen

2087
01:43:59,120 --> 01:43:59,800
Speaker 15: even with how AM.

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01:44:00,720 --> 01:44:04,480
Speaker 1: Yes, good job, Kathy. That is a digital radio subchannel.

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01:44:04,840 --> 01:44:07,000
Speaker 1: So if you have like HD radio in your car,

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01:44:07,040 --> 01:44:10,160
Speaker 1: A lot of times there's like subchannels and Yes Coast

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01:44:10,240 --> 01:44:14,560
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles one of three point five they simulcast

2092
01:44:14,640 --> 01:44:18,400
Speaker 1: KFI and you actually hear it in HD as well.

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01:44:18,439 --> 01:44:20,400
Speaker 1: So I'm glad you found that it's a good workaround

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01:44:20,400 --> 01:44:23,479
Speaker 1: for Tesla not having AM radio. Shame on you, Tesla.

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01:44:23,600 --> 01:44:24,760
Speaker 1: All right, Parker, you're up.

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Speaker 4: Tom from Los Angeles, a KFI AM six forty listener

2097
01:44:32,840 --> 01:44:36,000
Speaker 4: writes in, Hey, Rich, I heard you on bill Handle

2098
01:44:36,080 --> 01:44:38,519
Speaker 4: talking about how a lot of us are leaving money

2099
01:44:38,760 --> 01:44:42,479
Speaker 4: on the table by not comparing Uber and Lyft before

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01:44:42,520 --> 01:44:45,719
Speaker 4: booking a ride. I tried it and saved over twenty

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01:44:45,840 --> 01:44:49,559
Speaker 4: dollars by choosing Lyft instead. That meant more money in

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01:44:49,640 --> 01:44:52,200
Speaker 4: my pocket and more for the driver's tip. Thanks for

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01:44:52,240 --> 01:44:53,679
Speaker 4: the advice, it really worked.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I love it. What was his name again?

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01:44:56,520 --> 01:44:59,439
Speaker 4: His name was Tom to Los Angeles.

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01:44:59,160 --> 01:45:02,599
Speaker 1: Tom, Great A great point. Yes, I mentioned that if

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01:45:02,640 --> 01:45:04,400
Speaker 1: you open up Uber and Lyft, you should be checking

2108
01:45:04,400 --> 01:45:06,200
Speaker 1: their prices because a lot of times they are different.

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01:45:06,600 --> 01:45:08,599
Speaker 1: I did this on my trip to Seattle this week,

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01:45:08,680 --> 01:45:12,040
Speaker 1: and I'm not kidding. It was amazing. It saved me,

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01:45:12,160 --> 01:45:14,680
Speaker 1: like I think at least twenty or thirty dollars on

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01:45:15,200 --> 01:45:18,680
Speaker 1: each way and I opened up Uber first, and then

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01:45:18,680 --> 01:45:20,519
Speaker 1: I opened up Lift and I just said, okay, which

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01:45:20,520 --> 01:45:22,960
Speaker 1: one's cheaper for the same type of ride, And sure

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01:45:23,040 --> 01:45:24,880
Speaker 1: enough it was Lift both ways and it was a

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01:45:24,960 --> 01:45:29,400
Speaker 1: significant difference. So definitely open up both apps. If you

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01:45:29,439 --> 01:45:33,720
Speaker 1: are taking ride Shairs, go ahead, Tanner, Okay, Leo, oh wait,

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01:45:33,760 --> 01:45:37,120
Speaker 1: I think it's my turn. Alan in New Jersey. If

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Speaker 1: you are someone in your house has trouble hearing the TV,

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01:45:40,320 --> 01:45:43,400
Speaker 1: I've got a solution that finally worked for me. These

2121
01:45:43,479 --> 01:45:46,640
Speaker 1: are the Insignia RF wireless headphones from Best Buy. I

2122
01:45:46,680 --> 01:45:50,519
Speaker 1: tried everything before this, including Bluetooth. Most options were clunky

2123
01:45:50,600 --> 01:45:53,040
Speaker 1: or had annoying lag. These just work. I now own

2124
01:45:53,120 --> 01:45:55,840
Speaker 1: four pairs. They're plug and play, easy to set up.

2125
01:45:55,840 --> 01:45:58,280
Speaker 1: You control the volume right on the headphones so everyone

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01:45:58,280 --> 01:46:00,439
Speaker 1: else can keep the TV at a normal level. And

2127
01:46:00,520 --> 01:46:04,040
Speaker 1: because they use RF instead of Bluetooth, there's zero audio delay.

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01:46:04,400 --> 01:46:07,840
Speaker 1: The sound stays in sync perfectly. They're usually around ninety dollars.

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01:46:07,840 --> 01:46:10,719
Speaker 1: I've seen them drop as low as fifty dollars. They've

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01:46:10,720 --> 01:46:14,240
Speaker 1: got four point four stars and thousands of reviews. Rock solid,

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01:46:14,640 --> 01:46:17,400
Speaker 1: and yes, right now they're ninety nine dollars. The Insignia

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01:46:17,560 --> 01:46:20,439
Speaker 1: RF wireless over the ear headphones. I'll link them up

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01:46:20,479 --> 01:46:24,439
Speaker 1: on the website. But watch those price drops. Like Allan said, great,

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01:46:24,920 --> 01:46:27,479
Speaker 1: great tip, Allen's a lot of people are asking about that.

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01:46:27,560 --> 01:46:29,120
Speaker 1: All right, Tanner, now your turn, All right.

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Speaker 15: Now it's my turn.

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Speaker 5: Leo.

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Speaker 15: I wanted to add a few notes to your last show,

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01:46:34,439 --> 01:46:39,200
Speaker 15: especially about watching TV when one person here is hearing impaired. First,

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Speaker 15: on TV audio, most TVs only let you use one

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Speaker 15: audio output at a time. On my TCLTV, you have

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Speaker 15: to choose between the internal speakers HDMI, optical or Bluetooth.

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Speaker 15: You usually cannot choose, usually cannot use Bluetooth and TV

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Speaker 15: speakers at the same time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a problem. A lot of people say yeah.

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Speaker 15: Because of that, one of the one of the best

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Speaker 15: solutions is using a Bluetooth transmitter like the a van

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Speaker 15: try you mentioned, plugging it, plugging it into the optical output.

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Speaker 15: Thatt's one or two people listen on Bluetooth headphones while

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Speaker 15: someone else can still listen through the TV speakers or

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Speaker 15: a soundbar. I've also found that unless someone.

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Speaker 1: Writing a book here, yeah, keep going, No, we love you, Leo.

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Speaker 15: I've also found that unless someone has very severe hearing loss.

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Speaker 15: Earbuds can work just as well as hearing aids for

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Speaker 15: TV watching. The key is independent volume control. The hearing

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Speaker 15: impaired person can turn their earbuds way up while their

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Speaker 15: partner listens at a normal volume through the TV bottom line.

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Speaker 15: Earbuds or Bluetooth headphones paired through a transmitter are often

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Speaker 15: the most simple and flexible solution.

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Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. Leo listens to every show and

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Speaker 1: he writes me notes to tell me like what I

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Speaker 1: got right, when I got wrong. Not not the Leo

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Speaker 1: you're thinking of. It's another it's another Leo, unrelated to

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Speaker 1: the previous Leo. Tim writes in I heard you talking

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Speaker 1: about power adages. Wanted to share tip for our listeners.

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Speaker 1: It really helps have at least one ups battery backup

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Speaker 1: plugged in around the house. Even a small one can

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Speaker 1: keep phones and other portable devices charged when the power

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Speaker 1: goes out. I might be a little over the top,

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Speaker 1: but I've got ten of them around my house. If

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Speaker 1: the power goes out overnight, I've got lights to turn on,

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Speaker 1: and it lets me shut down my computers properly. I'm

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Speaker 1: a big fan of APC ups units. About every three years.

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Speaker 1: I take them to Batteries Plus to replace the batteries

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Speaker 1: instead of buying new ones with my account. It costs

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Speaker 1: around twenty two dollars each, which is way cheaper than

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Speaker 1: replacing the whole ups. Good, good idea ups. But also

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Speaker 1: one of these power banks, these giant power banks. All right,

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Speaker 1: park weet less than a minute, so you gotta be

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Speaker 1: very quick.

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Speaker 4: Janis writes in about laptop letters fix, responding to the

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Speaker 4: caller whose HP laptop letters disappeared almost immediately. Same thing

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Speaker 4: happened to me. I bought stick on letters from Amazon

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Speaker 4: and they've been on for months. It's been an awesome

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Speaker 4: solution in works.

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Speaker 1: All right, there you have it. I'll do one final

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Speaker 1: one Joe and Palms, California. I love your newsletters, but

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Speaker 1: those early alerts are a little rough. Five in the

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Speaker 1: morning is a bit early for me. I'd be happy

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Speaker 1: to read it when I actually wake up. Joe, turn

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Speaker 1: off your notifications for random emails like mine. Come on,

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Speaker 1: everybody has something to read with me. I feel lift out.

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Speaker 1: Oh Bobo, we'll give you one next week. I yeah,

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Speaker 1: we got to have the whole family do it. Uh,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it. For this episode of the show.

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Speaker 1: You can find links everything I mentioned on the website

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech dot tv. I'm on social media at

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Next week fun guests the Computer Exorcist

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Speaker 1: will join us. Thanks so much for listening. There are

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Speaker 1: so many ways you can spend your time. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you spending it right here with me. Thanks to everyone

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Speaker 1: who makes the show possible. Bobo Parker Tanner say hi ye,

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Speaker 1: thank you. By My name is Richdmiro. I will talk

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Speaker 1: to you real soon