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Speaker 1: Samsung's latest gadgets. Google turns every Android into an earthquake detector,

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Speaker 1: Microsoft's biggest gamble yet. Plus Your tech questions answered. What's

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

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

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Speaker 1: think you should know about, and it's also where I

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Speaker 1: answer the questions that you send me. My name is

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Speaker 1: Rich Jamiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.

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Speaker 1: We've got some folks viewing this morning. I don't like

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Speaker 1: we got some folks watching on Facebook, So welcome to you. Welcome,

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Speaker 1: no matter where you are. We had a viewer on

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Speaker 1: Facebook from India. It is interesting. I've had my Facebook

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Speaker 1: page now for about ten years, which I can't believe.

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Speaker 1: I think I think it was July twenty ten that

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Speaker 1: I opened it. No, it couldn't be. No, no, no, sorry,

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Speaker 1: it can't be that that old hold on it says

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Speaker 1: and I can't seem to find that right now. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: I've had it for a while and you'd be surprised.

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Speaker 1: I actually do have a lot of international folks on

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Speaker 1: the Facebook page, people that don't necessarily find me from

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Speaker 1: KTLA here in Los Angeles, but they find me from

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Speaker 1: a various some sort of post I did that goes viral,

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Speaker 1: and I've had a couple of big viral hits, including

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Speaker 1: of people from different countries and always surprises me just

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Speaker 1: how many. But welcome to you as well. I was

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Speaker 1: off last week. I know it's been a little all

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Speaker 1: of questions, where's there's the show? Rich, where's the show?

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Speaker 1: And Everything's okay. I was in Santa Barbara for my

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Speaker 1: anniversary fifteen years, thank you, and my wife and I

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Speaker 1: great weekend. And Santa Barbara is beautiful. If you're not

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Speaker 1: Just beautiful, well kept and oh is that a knock

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Speaker 1: a very beautiful place. I always say, if I could

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Speaker 1: really cool. But anyway, it was beautiful, lots of people,

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to work, and I can't speak highly enough

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Speaker 1: So Samsung is giving a lot of upgrade deals right now,

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Speaker 1: I will say Samsung did a great job in their

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Speaker 1: First question, comes from Janice. Jannis says, I have iPhone ten.

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Speaker 1: I've been trying to get my data under a gigabyte.

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Speaker 1: haven't seen this log in from some random place before.

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Speaker 1: Is this you? We're gonna send you a text message

429
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Speaker 1: just to make sure, and that text comes to your

430
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 1: phone and you can't log in until you put in

431
00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:41,639
Speaker 1: that message. That's number two. Now, if you want a

432
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:43,600
Speaker 1: firewall and all this stuff, and you think people are

433
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:45,360
Speaker 1: trying to hack into your network all day long, which

434
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,040
Speaker 1: are probably not, but if you feel like you want

435
00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,960
Speaker 1: to do that, definitely put up some protections on your

436
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,720
Speaker 1: network and on your computers. Make sure Windows Defender is

437
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,399
Speaker 1: on a Mac. I mean, you know, make sure the

438
00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,280
Speaker 1: basic stuff is enabled that comes with a computer, which

439
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 1: is firewalls, and you know all the ports are not opened.

440
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:08,639
Speaker 1: But that's generally that's generally just done by default. So

441
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:10,439
Speaker 1: what you really need to do is make sure that

442
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 1: you're not being phished. And that's the way most people

443
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,719
Speaker 1: are getting hacked. It's when you get an email and

444
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:17,360
Speaker 1: you click on it and it says, oh, here's your

445
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,919
Speaker 1: Chase bank count. Let's make sure you log in real

446
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,000
Speaker 1: quick and did you do this charge? You say no,

447
00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:23,800
Speaker 1: and you log in and next thing you know, you say,

448
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:26,879
Speaker 1: oh no, that wasn't that wasn't Chase. So you got

449
00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,960
Speaker 1: to protect yourself from yourself. That's really what you need

450
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:31,800
Speaker 1: to do. And those are the things that I would

451
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 1: recommend you do. I don't think you need to pay

452
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 1: all this money. If you have something like an Eero,

453
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 1: for sure, I would pay the I think it's twenty

454
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,760
Speaker 1: bucks a year I paid or thirty dollars a year

455
00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 1: for euro Secure. So if your Wi fi company offers

456
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 1: something like that, I would enable it. I've got that

457
00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: enabled online. I think it's it was forty bucks for

458
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 1: the year. I think, so that'll that'll work for you.

459
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 1: But that's that's what i'd recommend, all right. Microsoft has

460
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:03,120
Speaker 1: an new device that I am unclear if this thing

461
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,880
Speaker 1: is going to be a major hit or a flop.

462
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,479
Speaker 1: Surface Duo is what it's called. It's a mobile device

463
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:14,359
Speaker 1: that sort of looks like two screens put together, kind

464
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:18,680
Speaker 1: of a foldable device, and the Surface Duo is fourteen

465
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. It opens up into an eight point one

466
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 1: inch screen, so imagine like a book or just a

467
00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,720
Speaker 1: foldable device that opens and closes. It is a phone.

468
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 1: You can do Microsoft stuff on it. It runs Android.

469
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 1: You can have the Kindle app to read it like

470
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Speaker 1: a book. You can put it like a tent and

471
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 1: watch a video hands free. That's awesome. If we're flying again.

472
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Speaker 1: You compare it with a Bluetooth controller to play Xbox

473
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 1: Game Pass Ultimate. You can take notes with a little

474
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,600
Speaker 1: slim pen that sold separately. It sounds really cool. I

475
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,960
Speaker 1: saw this in New York City in October at the

476
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Speaker 1: Microsoft event, but only a non working model was I

477
00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:55,919
Speaker 1: able to see. I don't even think they let me

478
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 1: hold it, but I saw the working Model demo do

479
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,080
Speaker 1: on stage. It looks cool, but it's one of the

480
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,479
Speaker 1: these things that could prove to be very very small

481
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 1: audience of enthusiasts or people that you know want to

482
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 1: get something that's different and cool, and I just don't

483
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 1: know what the mass appeal of this is going to be. Now.

484
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 1: In the future, yeah, I think we'll have stuff like this,

485
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,360
Speaker 1: but right now, I think it's a really tough sell

486
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,400
Speaker 1: because we're just not there yet, and it's very expensive

487
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 1: for something that doesn't do very much. Maybe it does

488
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,439
Speaker 1: a lot, but it's just not like if you had

489
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,120
Speaker 1: fourteen hundred dollars to spend, I'd rather see you spend

490
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Speaker 1: it on a laptop or a tablet that has a

491
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,679
Speaker 1: much larger screen, because most of us have our phone,

492
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: and I'm just not sure we want to carry this

493
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 1: around as our phone. Now. I could be wrong, And

494
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,080
Speaker 1: here's why I'm not just saying this to say it.

495
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 1: When I and the blog that Panos Piney wrote for

496
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,360
Speaker 1: Microsoft refers to this, and I remember we had him

497
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: at KTLA seven years ago when the first surface came

498
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 1: out and he showed it to me, and instantly I

499
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: saw that and I saw the potential. I saw this

500
00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 1: device that worked as a PC but also a tablet

501
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 1: that she had a touch screen, and I saw the potential.

502
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 1: I did not poop poo it. So I'm I'm poop

503
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 1: poohing the duo a little bit more because I'm just

504
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:14,399
Speaker 1: not really sure that it's gonna be as you know,

505
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: as great, but we'll see. So anyway, I'm getting blasted

506
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 1: right now for my photographer. You probably can't hear. I

507
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:22,879
Speaker 1: always think it's funny. I listened to a lot of

508
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 1: podcasts and they always reference things that are happening to

509
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 1: them in their room. But because these microphones were using

510
00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 1: are so good, you rarely hear what's going on around us,

511
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,479
Speaker 1: but we reference it. So I was listening to a

512
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 1: podcast the other day and the host kept saying how

513
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:40,639
Speaker 1: her cat was rubbing up against the mic, or was

514
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 1: meowing whatever. I couldn't hear it at all, but you know,

515
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 1: to her it was in her room and happening, and

516
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 1: you know she could hear it, so she referenced it.

517
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,359
Speaker 1: So I do that often, and I'm probably you probably

518
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 1: can't hear it. Maybe you heard one notification. My phones

519
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 1: are buzzing over here, but that's the Surface duo. It's

520
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 1: available for pre order right now. It's going to be

521
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 1: available September tenth, and it's going to work on AT

522
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:07,919
Speaker 1: and T, T Mobile and Verizon. And again, it's not

523
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: something that I personally need in my life, but I

524
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,159
Speaker 1: think that if it appeals to you to have a

525
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 1: device that does a lot of stuff and business stuff, maybe,

526
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 1: but I still feel like people are not even sold

527
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: on the tablet as being a productive device for work

528
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: more so than a laptop. I feel like it's tough

529
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: to even sell something that's a phone, and this tiny

530
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:35,240
Speaker 1: mobile phone with two screens. But again, I'm not a

531
00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: predictor of all things great tech. I think I have

532
00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 1: a pretty good eye, but I think that this will

533
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 1: be one of those things that time will tell, and

534
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: of course iterations. I would not recommend getting the first

535
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,560
Speaker 1: version of this thing unless you just have money to burn.

536
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,120
Speaker 1: But I think that over iterations, we will see if

537
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: this ends up to be a great device that people

538
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 1: end up relying on. I think the Microsoft Surface has

539
00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:01,159
Speaker 1: proved to be a fantastic device for a lot of people,

540
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:06,720
Speaker 1: and we'll see if the duo follow suit. Let's get

541
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:12,879
Speaker 1: to the next question from Luciana Luciana, Luciana, maybe just Lucy.

542
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 1: We'll call her Lucy. Hey, Rich, I wanted to know

543
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 1: how he can help have my son have his own internet.

544
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 1: We have Spectrum at home as our cable with internet,

545
00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: but we use links this as our router. It just

546
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. My son is in his room and his

547
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,679
Speaker 1: Internet does not work. I've tried to find something that

548
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 1: can make sense and work for him. Now he's on

549
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: virtual school. Besides going crazy setting them up, you up

550
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:33,400
Speaker 1: three kids through different schools, I have to hear him

551
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: complaining about the internet. Help me? Is there anything I

552
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: can install in this house to have him have his

553
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: own Internet without messing up the one we already have.

554
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: I've gotten this internet question so many times over the

555
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,840
Speaker 1: past couple of weeks. I cannot believe it. Internet in

556
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 1: people's homes is so bad. Nobody has realized until the

557
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: pandemic because everyone's working and schooling from home. I will

558
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 1: say it. I've said it on this podcast. I've said

559
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: it again. All you have to do is get a

560
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: mesh network. Your Internet from Spectrum is just fine. It

561
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:12,120
Speaker 1: works fantastically. It works as it works for three devices

562
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 1: with three different schools and three different kids and mom

563
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 1: working and potentially dad working at the same time. In fact,

564
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 1: it'll work for a whole bunch of stuff. It's just

565
00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 1: the problem is that lynxis router you have. The signal

566
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: is terrible. It's not reaching where you need it to go,

567
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 1: and it's just not getting to all the different rooms.

568
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: And it's no fault of lynxis. When these routers came out,

569
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: these original routers, we just didn't think about needing all

570
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: of these devices connecting to them at the same time.

571
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: So that's what's happening. You need to get an ERO,

572
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 1: You need to get a Google Wi Fi or Google

573
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: Nest Wi Fi, or an Orby or just look up

574
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: Mesh network, take your pick. They will all work perfectly

575
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 1: to get your network into all rooms of your house. Now,

576
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: I will tell you personally, I recently upgraded to a

577
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: gigabit Internet, which is one thousand down one thousand up,

578
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: and I will tell you that I have had some

579
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 1: trouble with my Mesh network because it turns out that

580
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 1: the euro doesn't necessarily like such high speeds. So your

581
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: ERO and your typical Mesh networks are gonna be good

582
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: up to about four hundred megabits per second, which spectrum

583
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: is two hundred down that's their standard and about ten

584
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: up maybe twenty up that's gonna be your standard. It's

585
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: gonna be just fine for that. Now with me with

586
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 1: the thousand. When I first did my speed test, I'm like, wait,

587
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: what turns out there's two different types of mesh networks.

588
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 1: There's tryband and there is dual band. And if you

589
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,800
Speaker 1: have super fast internet like gigabit, you want to go

590
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: with a tryband, and that adds an extra antenna onto

591
00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: your devices which helps get you faster, even faster speeds

592
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 1: throughout your house. You do not need that. If you

593
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: just have standard Internet one hundred, two hundred, three hundred

594
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 1: four hundred, you just need a regular euro You gotta

595
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: go pro. If you want the tryband, look for the

596
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: word tryband on your mesh network. If you have super

597
00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: fast internet, I am having trouble securing the third node

598
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: I need here. I was able to buy an extra one,

599
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: and so I'm not there just yet. So my Internet's

600
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: good and I'm getting the speeds at the hub, but

601
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: I'm not getting them throughout everywhere in my house like

602
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: I used to. So that's my recommendation. If you have

603
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: bad Wi Fi. Look for something called a Mesh network.

604
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: Just pick one, look at the reviews, go with it.

605
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: They're all pretty good. But again, what we're realizing is

606
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: that all of our Wi Fi networks were just never

607
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: equipped to handle so many people doing so many things

608
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: from home, all at the same time. So you got

609
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: to go with the Mesh network to make that possible.

610
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 1: This next story, I think is just so cool. This

611
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: is Google doing what Google does best, and this is

612
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: Google being amazing. And yes, you can talk about Google

613
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: being a big evil company that just wants to collect

614
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,920
Speaker 1: our data, but they do some incredible stuff and this

615
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,959
Speaker 1: is one of those things. First, they are taking on

616
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 1: earthquakes and how they're doing this is twofold number one.

617
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 1: In California, they're gonna start sending earthquake alerts to Android devices.

618
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: And you may have an earthquake app on your phone.

619
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: This is separate from that. You do not need an

620
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: earthquake gap anymore in California if you have an Android device,

621
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,239
Speaker 1: Google is going to send these out sort of like

622
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: Amber alerts. They're handling them like an alert you would

623
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: get from the government. And they did this. They teamed

624
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: up with the USGS and they're tapping into their seismometers

625
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 1: installed across the state and their shake alert system. So

626
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: over the next couple of weeks it's gonna be I

627
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: think they said several weeks, this will be enabled on

628
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: all Android devices, Android five point zero up. What does

629
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: that mean? If you have an Android device from twenty

630
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: I think fifteen and older and newer, I should say,

631
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: you're gonna get these these alerts on your phone, so

632
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: you'll be surprised. The next time we have an earthquake,

633
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: you will get an alert. Hopefully you'll get the early alert,

634
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: and that's number one. And if you want to turn

635
00:32:58,320 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 1: these off, you can turn them off like you would

636
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: an amber alert. And the way they're doing this and

637
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: they're getting it too all the Android phones and why

638
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 1: you don't need an app is they're updating on something

639
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: on your phone called Google Play Services. So it's not

640
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 1: even an operating system update. It's literally an update to

641
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 1: the core of Android. And this is the same thing

642
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Speaker 1: that they did for the alerts for COVID, the what

643
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: they call exposure notification. Google I think is getting really

644
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: smart about how they're approaching Android updates. They have realized

645
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 1: that the carriers and the manufacturers cannot get system updates

646
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: to devices in a meaningful timely manner, unlike iOS, where

647
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 1: Apple every couple of months every year at least, they

648
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 1: come up with a new iOS, you know, iOS eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,

649
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: and every couple of weeks or whenever they feel necessary,

650
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: they do an update to the iOS and it goes

651
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: to every iPhone. Android can't do that with the way

652
00:33:55,680 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 1: Android is built. Android gives Apple or sorry, Google gives

653
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: a software to all these manufacturers and they do whatever

654
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: they want and they put the software on their phone

655
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,399
Speaker 1: and then they're responsible for updating it. Google really can't

656
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,520
Speaker 1: update these things in their own way except when it

657
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: comes to Google Play services. And so that's what they've

658
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 1: ended up doing. And it's so smart. Okay, So that's

659
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: the first thing. Second thing they're doing, and this is

660
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: where I get really excited as a nerd. They are

661
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 1: using all of Android phones across the world to detect earthquakes.

662
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 1: So they're using the little sensors in them. They specifically

663
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: accelerometers that can sense when your phone is moving and shaking,

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Speaker 1: and specifically when your phone is plugged in and motionless

665
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden it's jarred. It's going to

666
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: take that information and send it to Google for analysis,

667
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,320
Speaker 1: and Google's going to use their super smart engineers and

668
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 1: they're super smart algorithms to figure out what was this

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Speaker 1: an earthquake. And the way they describe it in their

670
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: system here is they say that they are racing against

671
00:34:56,120 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: the speed of light. And so eventually, when all these

672
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:04,839
Speaker 1: phones are online and they are sensing an earthquake, they're

673
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:06,800
Speaker 1: going to send all the data to Google, and Google's

674
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: going to analyze it real quick and then hopefully be

675
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: able to send out even more alerts under this system.

676
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: I think that is just incredible. It is such a

677
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: good use of good use of technology. We have Android

678
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: phones around the world, So imagine that that first California

679
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: had to in you know, all these different seismologists had

680
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: to build these little seismographs. Is that what they're called?

681
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: No seisometer size? Oh my gosh, seismometers across the state.

682
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 1: How expensive are those things? They're super expensive. We only

683
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: have seven hundred of them. Imagine millions, if not billions,

684
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 1: of Android phones around the world that can do the

685
00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: same thing. Next question comes from Angela. Hey, Rich, do

686
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:53,840
Speaker 1: you review indoor cycling bikes that are paired with interactive apps.

687
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: I'm an avid Spin enthusiast and will not be first

688
00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 1: in line at my local place when it opens. I've

689
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:01,840
Speaker 1: been looking at Spin bikes from my home gym. I

690
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,440
Speaker 1: don't want to pay the cost of Peloton bikes, so

691
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: I've been looking at alternatives referenced in the subject line.

692
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: Oh what was the subject line? Reportedly they are compatible

693
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: with the Peloton app, but I trust your judgment. I

694
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 1: am requesting your help as I believe there are some

695
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: drawbacks that I'm missing. Okay, So she let me see

696
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: here Peloton. Okay, so she's looking at the uh oh,

697
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: the bike. I have the Boflex C six and also,

698
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: let's see here the Shwin I see four. Okay, so funny.

699
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,879
Speaker 1: I actually have the Bowflex C six bike, which I love.

700
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: It's been a absolute lifesaver through the pandemic because I

701
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 1: ordered it when I saw it at CS. I was

702
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: at CES in January, back when you can, you know,

703
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: go to something and see other people and be in

704
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: a room with other people, and I fell in love

705
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: with this bike because I thought it just came to me,

706
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: like I thought the Peloton was cool, but not for

707
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: twenty five hundred and you know, fifty sixty bucks a

708
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 1: month whatever they charge. But when I saw this bike,

709
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:08,359
Speaker 1: it was about I think nine hundred dollars and it

710
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: just worked with an iPad. And I said, why would

711
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: I not do that? What am I not getting from

712
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: this bike? And they said, well, you don't get the

713
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: leaderboard from Peloton. You don't get the so you get

714
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: to use the Peloton app, but you also get to

715
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: have your own bike. And I like the idea that

716
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: this bike was compatible with a whole bunch of apps,

717
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,240
Speaker 1: because what if in a year, Peloton, you know, falls

718
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: out of favor and there's something better that comes along.

719
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 1: And so that's why I bought it, and I love

720
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 1: it. It's great, it's fantastic. What you don't get through Peloton

721
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,920
Speaker 1: is the leaderboard and some of the social aspects of Peloton,

722
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: which I'm sure people love. I personally don't care if

723
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 1: I finish first in the class or two hundred in

724
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 1: the class. I really don't care. I'm not that competitive.

725
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 1: I just want my workout and I'm done. So to

726
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 1: answer your question, what don't you get that? That's what

727
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: you don't get. The other thing is that the cadence.

728
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:57,879
Speaker 1: It does match up with the app, so it does

729
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: bluetooth from your bike to show how. I guess how.

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00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 1: I don't know what cadence means. I think it's how

731
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: fast your legs are moving. But the instructors will call

732
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 1: out the cadence and say your cadence should be an

733
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: eighty five right now, and you will see that on screen,

734
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: so you do get that. The other thing you get

735
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:16,319
Speaker 1: is the resistance levels. The instructors will call out, Okay,

736
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:17,959
Speaker 1: you should be at a thirty right now, or okay,

737
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: let's pump it up to forty to fifty. And the

738
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,800
Speaker 1: numbers on the Bowflex do match up. So I can't

739
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 1: speak for the Shwin because I don't have that, but

740
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: I think it's basically the same bike because they're made

741
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,840
Speaker 1: by the same company. But I highly recommend them. I

742
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: think they're amazing and I love Peloton, and perhaps if

743
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,320
Speaker 1: I was willing to spend that much money on a bike,

744
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: and more importantly, that much money monthly on their membership,

745
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,879
Speaker 1: I would get that next time. But right now I'm

746
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: perfectly happy and I love the flexibility of the bike

747
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: that I have, so that yeah, go ahead and get it.

748
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,839
Speaker 1: You're gonna love it all. Right. Next story here, You've

749
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: probably seen this on Instagram and I don't know, I'm

750
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,240
Speaker 1: just kind of annoyed by it. Uh, And it's funny.

751
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 1: I guess the older I get, the grumpier I get

752
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 1: with things. But Instagram reels is the new TikTok competitor

753
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: in Instagram. And you've probably seen these already. They are

754
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: these I don't want to say dumb, but there there's

755
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,720
Speaker 1: little videos that you see that just look kind of silly.

756
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: There's the video sped up, it's fast. People are doing

757
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 1: dumb things in them, jumping off of things and singing

758
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: and dancing. So this is this is a blatant ripoff

759
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 1: of TikTok. And perhaps Instagram and Facebook are capitalizing on

760
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: the fact that, you know, the fate of TikTok lays

761
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 1: in a you know, a long distance I don't know whatever.

762
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: You know what's going on with TikTok. It's uh, you know,

763
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,360
Speaker 1: the it's the future. Look, TikTok is going to be

764
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,319
Speaker 1: around in the US. There's no doubt about that. In

765
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 1: my mind. It's just very political right now and it's

766
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: very much you know, there could be I don't know

767
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:01,800
Speaker 1: what to say about TikTok. It's going to be around.

768
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: Microsoft probably gonna buy it, and that's what's gonna happen there.

769
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,720
Speaker 1: But it's not going anywhere. It's going to be around

770
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 1: in the US. But Instagram is famous for copying things.

771
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 1: They did that with Stories, and I love Instagram and

772
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 1: I love Stories. I think they did a great job.

773
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: But of course Snapchat started stories and Instagram just perfected them.

774
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: And so now they're doing the same thing with reels

775
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 1: and reels lets you add audio. It lets you add

776
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:30,280
Speaker 1: augmented reality effects, timers and countdowns so you can record

777
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: your clips hand free. You can align, so it means

778
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 1: that you can, you know, change your outfit. You know,

779
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 1: you see those people they go like this, like and

780
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:43,280
Speaker 1: they change your outfit three times, and that's an a TikTok.

781
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: Now it could be an Instagram reels speed You can

782
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:50,759
Speaker 1: slow up, slow down or speed up video and it's

783
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:54,880
Speaker 1: just look, it's fun, it's cool, and yes, well I

784
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,960
Speaker 1: probably ever do it. Yeah, I probably will, but I

785
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 1: have not yet. And I'm really really holding off because

786
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: I see why Instagram wants this to take off, and

787
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:07,919
Speaker 1: they're putting a lot of energy into it and They're

788
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 1: putting a lot of promotion into it, and I see

789
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: my friends doing it and they're great and it's fun.

790
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: But it just feels like TikTok came up with something

791
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 1: very unique, and now Instagram's just copying it and trying

792
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: to capitalize on this whole this whole situation with TikTok

793
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 1: and China and you know, being banned potentially. But I think, look,

794
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,800
Speaker 1: there's probably a place for both of them. But I

795
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 1: personally will say I may, I may start it, and

796
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,439
Speaker 1: who knows, maybe I will not ever do it. I'd

797
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 1: like to try to never do it, but I don't

798
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:43,919
Speaker 1: know if I'll be able to keep myself from never

799
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: doing a reels. But now you know about it, Now

800
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 1: you know what that is. You can tell it's a

801
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,800
Speaker 1: reels when it's got that little it looks like a

802
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 1: little film clip in the lower left hand corner. So okay,

803
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: let's get to another question before this show is over.

804
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 1: I usually go longer on these shows when when I'm

805
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:05,919
Speaker 1: doing them by myself, but we'll see it's so hot

806
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: in here. I don't know if I can Marty says Rich.

807
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,479
Speaker 1: What is the search engine that is the safest, most

808
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 1: secure I'm a senior who likes to learn and look

809
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: things up. With all the issues I hear regarding privacy,

810
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 1: I get concerned that I could be hacked or my

811
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:24,320
Speaker 1: information stolen when I'm on Google or Yahoo. Well, Marty,

812
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're looking up, but I'm assuming

813
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 1: it's you know, various things that you know you just

814
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 1: don't want in your history. I don't know what that

815
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 1: could be, but I will tell you what is safest

816
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: and most secure. So I think when it comes to

817
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: this situation, there's there's three things that you have to

818
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 1: look at. Number One, your ISP, your Internet service brider

819
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 1: is going to know what you're looking at no matter what,

820
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: no matter what you use, they're gonna know. So even

821
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: if you use Chrome in a incognito browsing mode or

822
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: some sort of private browsing mode, they are still able

823
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: to see the website that you're visiting. So that's number one.

824
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: If you want to get around that, you have to

825
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: use what's called a VPN, and a VPN will will

826
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: shroud what you're viewing from your Internet service provider if

827
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: you want to go that far. Now, if you just

828
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,840
Speaker 1: don't really want an AD following you around forever because

829
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: you looked up, you know, something that you wanted to buy,

830
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 1: and next thing you know, you're getting ads for it.

831
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:26,439
Speaker 1: Like for me, I was researching those photo sticks and

832
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: next thing you know, all the ads on my Instagram

833
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: are for these photo sticks. And so if you don't

834
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 1: want that happening, you can use a private browsing window

835
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 1: to look and that will be just fine, and it

836
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,360
Speaker 1: won't record your history in Google or you know, whatever

837
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: search engine you're using. And to do a private browser

838
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,320
Speaker 1: you just do new incognito window. So you want to

839
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: look up an incognito tab on your mobile phone, you

840
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 1: can use something like Firefox. By the way, Okay, so

841
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: while we're still on search engines, if you want to

842
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,319
Speaker 1: get if you want to do something more private with

843
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 1: your search engine, you can do you start page dot

844
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 1: com and startpage dot com is a provider that will

845
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 1: not keep anything on record, so you can just type

846
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 1: in anything you want on there and it will not

847
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:16,799
Speaker 1: keep it on record, it doesn't link it to you,

848
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: and that's pretty private. They also have this really cool

849
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: thing called anonymous view, so you can visit a website

850
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 1: without anyone, including your ISP, knowing that you visited that website.

851
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: So that's another way you can do it, and that's

852
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 1: to kind of explain that in quick terms. They're kind

853
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: of using what's called a proxy or almost like a VPN,

854
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 1: just for that visit. So that startpage dot com is

855
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 1: really good for that. If you want to remain anonymous,

856
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 1: there's also duc dot Go. People know about that one.

857
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: And if you really want to up the ante, you

858
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: can use an entire web browser built around privacy, something

859
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: like Brave dot com, and you have to download that

860
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:59,919
Speaker 1: to your computer and they really protect your privacy as well.

861
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: On your mobile, you can download that as well, or

862
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:07,359
Speaker 1: you can use a website or a browser called Firefox

863
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: Focus on mobile. So I have this on my iPhone.

864
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: Anytime I look up anything medical related, I use Firefox

865
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:19,880
Speaker 1: Focus because I don't really want, you know, just because

866
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 1: you look up something what happened in my time or here,

867
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: just because you look up something, you know, you think

868
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: that you're you know that whatever's on your toe is.

869
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: You know, it's like these medical things I just don't

870
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 1: want in my Google record, you know, so you just

871
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: look them up in Firefox Focus and you don't have

872
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,800
Speaker 1: to worry about being tracked that way. So that's the

873
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: best way to do it on your mobile device. I

874
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:45,319
Speaker 1: hope that answers your question. Speaking of being tracked, this

875
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 1: is actually a perfect segue into my next story, how

876
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 1: the NSA keeps phones safe from tracking. Wired has an

877
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 1: article that says the National Security Agency shared a three

878
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: page primer on how to limit your location data exposure.

879
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: And here's the things you need to do on your

880
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,640
Speaker 1: phone if you don't want to be tracked, according to

881
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 1: the NSA. Number one, turn off Bluetooth and Wi Fi

882
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:10,919
Speaker 1: when you're not using them. Then turn on airplane mode

883
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: whenever you're not using your phone. Okay, well, how you're

884
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:17,799
Speaker 1: gonna get calls? Turn off or decline location sharing permissions

885
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:20,879
Speaker 1: for apps, including your browser. And this is a smart one.

886
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 1: So if you're start. If you download an app and

887
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 1: asks for a location, just say no if it doesn't

888
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 1: need your location. Most apps don't need your location unless

889
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: there's a good reason for it. Make sure you at

890
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: least limit their ability to check your location to only

891
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 1: when you have the app open. That's something new on

892
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 1: iOS thirteen. It says, you know, hey, only allow while

893
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:44,839
Speaker 1: you're using the app. That's a really good thing to do.

894
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 1: I would definitely recommend that reset your phone's advertising ID

895
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: at least weekly. Okay, you can do this on both

896
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: I believe on Android. I know you can do it

897
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 1: on iPhone. And what that is is when these advertising

898
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 1: networks tap into your phone, they get this advertising ID

899
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:05,320
Speaker 1: that identifies you across all the different networks and across

900
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: all the different websites. And if you reset that regularly,

901
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 1: it's tougher to track you. Don't use iOS or androids

902
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 1: Find my Device features, Yeah, because that's tracking you and

903
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 1: keeping a you know, a record of all the places

904
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:23,320
Speaker 1: you've gone. And consider using a trusted VPN provider. I

905
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: always get questions about trusted VPNs. I don't necessarily have

906
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:28,879
Speaker 1: one that I use, so I can't really say which

907
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:31,359
Speaker 1: VPN that I like. But there's a lot of them

908
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: out there, and I think you want to look at

909
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:35,840
Speaker 1: ones that have There's a lot of articles dedicated to

910
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 1: finding a good VPN. So I'll let you just Google

911
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 1: for trusted VPNs and you know, scroll past the ads

912
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 1: and look for good articles on that, maybe from like

913
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 1: the Wirecutter, from PC magazine, from you know, trusted blogs

914
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 1: that don't don't find blogs that are just advertising shrouded

915
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:57,760
Speaker 1: as a you know blog. You want to find trusted

916
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 1: websites like the vergs recommending them, Wirecutter or you know,

917
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: you know, look for trusted sources when you look up

918
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:10,520
Speaker 1: these blog these VPNs that are really good. Do we

919
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:16,360
Speaker 1: have time for one more question? Let's see, let's see. Okay,

920
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just gonna do two more things I

921
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 1: thought were interesting real quick. So I thought this was

922
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:25,879
Speaker 1: really smart. This is in Google, in Google Search, they

923
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: are doing something that I think is brilliant and I

924
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:31,359
Speaker 1: can't believe it hasn't been there before. But now when

925
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: you search on Google where to watch live sports, it

926
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:37,680
Speaker 1: will tell you. And they're starting this with MLB and

927
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:42,240
Speaker 1: NBA games. And it's funny because I don't have standard cable.

928
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:44,319
Speaker 1: I just use streaming for everything, and I have an

929
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:47,359
Speaker 1: antenna and so whenever I need to watch a sporting event,

930
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: which is pretty rare, but when I do, I do

931
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: watch some sports, sometimes I will search, you know, USC

932
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: game streaming. And it always surprised me that Google didn't

933
00:48:57,600 --> 00:48:59,640
Speaker 1: just give me like where it's streaming and how to

934
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:03,800
Speaker 1: into that. And I'm not talking about these illegal streams,

935
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: so I'm talking about like actual ways of streaming it,

936
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 1: like it's on you know, channel four, or it's on

937
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 1: channel five, or it's on channel seven whatever, or it's

938
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 1: on Fuboo with the Fox Sports app. That's what I'm

939
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: talking about, and that's what Google is now doing. So

940
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: now you can search for MLB and NBA games, where

941
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: to watch the Clippers game, or how to watch the

942
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:24,959
Speaker 1: A's game, and it will tell you how to tune

943
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: in across a variety of services where it's available. And

944
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 1: you can also do live TV options, so it'll tell

945
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 1: you which live TV is showing the game on the day,

946
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:39,959
Speaker 1: so it'll say live on you know, channel five, live

947
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,919
Speaker 1: on channel seven, live on channel two. I love this,

948
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:46,280
Speaker 1: and if you it's sad for the blogs because every

949
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: sports blog does a blog post that says how to watch,

950
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 1: because it's gotten so complicated to tune into a sports

951
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,440
Speaker 1: game because so many people have different ways of doing it,

952
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 1: and so now they say how to watch, and there's

953
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:01,239
Speaker 1: literally blog posts for every game that's says, Okay, here's

954
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: how you watch it on linear TV Channel four, Here's

955
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: how you watch it on the app NBC Sports App.

956
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 1: Here's how you watch it on streaming NBC Sports app.

957
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: On you know, fire TV. Here's how you watch it on.

958
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:16,320
Speaker 1: I mean, it's all these different things, and so now

959
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: it will tell you, you know, Sling TV has it

960
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: on this channel. But that's really cool. It's rolling. Everything

961
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:26,000
Speaker 1: with Google rolls out. So if you try this right

962
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:28,400
Speaker 1: when you hear it from me talking about it, you

963
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: may not get it that first minute. Everything with Google

964
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: kind of takes a little time because I tried this

965
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 1: on my phone and I didn't have it just yet.

966
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: But it will eventually get there. All right, I'm gonna

967
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 1: do one more question, a bonus question, because I feel

968
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: so good today. Clark says, my name is Clark. I've

969
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 1: been a big fan of yours on KTLA channel five

970
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 1: and also your flash briefing on my Echo show. I

971
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:54,200
Speaker 1: like that I need some help. My granddaughter is thirteen.

972
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 1: She's a great is a great kid. We're giving her

973
00:50:57,480 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 1: some more freedom. We want to set up a free

974
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 1: app that allows us to track her from home in

975
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:03,799
Speaker 1: school and notified if she goes out out of a

976
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:06,839
Speaker 1: pre arranged area. We don't need homework helpers, website or

977
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 1: text message monitoring. What can we use? Is there a

978
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 1: free option? Or am I expecting too much? My granddaughter

979
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:18,839
Speaker 1: has an iPhone six plus Clark. Yes, there is a

980
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: free option. I would recommend there's a couple ways you

981
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: can do this, and yes, you can use the built

982
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:26,920
Speaker 1: in find my feature on iPhone, but I don't know

983
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: what kind of phone you have, and I don't know

984
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 1: how many people are trying to track this granddaughter. But

985
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 1: I would recommend what's called Life three sixty and Life

986
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:37,640
Speaker 1: three sixty dot com is kind of the gold standard

987
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:40,760
Speaker 1: when it comes for tracking families. It is the probably

988
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: the best family tracker out there. And the reason you

989
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: can say, Rich, why aren't you recommending what's already free

990
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 1: on iPhone? Because not everyone has an iPhone, Not everyone

991
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 1: has the same exact platform. And I like things that

992
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:58,400
Speaker 1: are cross platform. I like products that work across everything.

993
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:00,760
Speaker 1: So whether you want to log in via the website,

994
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: whether you want to log in on your Android, whether

995
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: your grandma has an Android, grandpa has an iPhone, the

996
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 1: granddaughter has Linux, whatever it is, well, maybe not Linux,

997
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 1: but it's gonna work across all these things. And that's

998
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 1: why I always like products that work across platforms. It's

999
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 1: the reason why I message is the bane of my existence.

1000
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:24,719
Speaker 1: I hate it because it's so great, but guess what,

1001
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:27,799
Speaker 1: it only works if everyone using it has an iPhone.

1002
00:52:28,040 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 1: Airdrop is so amazing, but guess what, it only works

1003
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:34,759
Speaker 1: if you're using all Apple products. I like cross platform

1004
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 1: stuff because I see a world where technology should work

1005
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 1: for every person, not just people that subscribe to one

1006
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 1: specific thing. And so this is why i'd set up

1007
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 1: and get started with something like Life through sixty. Now, look,

1008
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:54,360
Speaker 1: if your family's all Apple and you only care about Apple,

1009
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:56,359
Speaker 1: and you love Apple products and you're never gonna buy

1010
00:52:56,360 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 1: anything else, then sure go with the fine feature. But

1011
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:02,720
Speaker 1: I think you should be going with Life three sixty

1012
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:06,880
Speaker 1: because it works across everything. And that is my soapbox

1013
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 1: for the day. Thanks so much for listening to the

1014
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 1: show that is going to do it for today's show.

1015
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:16,800
Speaker 1: If you'd like to submit a question for me to answer,

1016
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Speaker 1: just go to Rich on tech dot tv and hit

1017
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Speaker 1: the email button. They used to say button from New

1018
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Speaker 1: Jersey button at the bottom bottom of the page. Do

1019
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:32,480
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1020
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 1: I say button live with it. We'd also love it

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1022
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Speaker 1: but I can't right now. Just go to rate this

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Speaker 1: that you listen to this, and there's a lot of

1026
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 1: you that listen to this. Thank you so much. We've

1027
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 1: had Surprisingly, the listenership is up over the pandemic. So

1028
00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 1: you guys must be really bored if you are sitting

1029
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:04,719
Speaker 1: there listening to my podcast for an hour. No, I'm

1030
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:06,920
Speaker 1: just kidding, and you're not driving a work but thank you.

1031
00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:10,280
Speaker 1: I do appreciate it. I feel like I give good information.

1032
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:13,440
Speaker 1: The numbers are up, so I know you're listening. Just

1033
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Speaker 1: leave that review, please. I'm just gonna beg you, beg you.

1034
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 1: Because when people see lots of good reviews on the

1035
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 1: Apple iTunes or whatever program using, they're like, oh, people

1036
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 1: must like this show, let's listen. They can't see how

1037
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:30,279
Speaker 1: many people listen to it. They can only see that

1038
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 1: people review it. So that's why it helps. You can

1039
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:36,600
Speaker 1: find me at rich on Tech on all platforms. As

1040
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 1: you know, I've been pumping it up, pumping out the

1041
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 1: output on all these different platforms. I'm running on fumes. Wait, no,

1042
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Speaker 1: I don't know what the term is, but I'm doing

1043
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Speaker 1: a lot I'm posting much more so Rich on Tech.

1044
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 1: Whether you're on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter, I'm Rich demiro

1045
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 1: On behalf of everyone that gets this show to your ears.

1046
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. Stay safe, We'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you real