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Speaker 1: tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich Dmiro and

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Speaker 1: this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk

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Speaker 1: It's also where I answer the questions you send me.

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Speaker 1: And yes, you send a lot of them, and if

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Speaker 1: tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Come

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Speaker 1: in to you today live everywhere on Facebook and the podcast.

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Speaker 1: If you're listening live, thanks for tuning in. If you're

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Speaker 1: listening on the podcast, thanks for tuning in. This is

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Speaker 1: where I just get a little bit more time to

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Speaker 1: complete my thoughts. So you know me from TV on

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Speaker 1: And this week a couple of things happened. Number One,

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Speaker 1: So that's why they did this CS again happening the

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Speaker 1: from Cindy. Cindy says, Hey, Rich, I have a quick question.

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Speaker 1: I can't seem to access my old texts I have

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Speaker 1: you think a few weeks after that, you're thinking October,

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Speaker 1: and we kind of thought that this might be the

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Speaker 1: case mid October. So if you're looking to get the

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Speaker 1: iPhone twelve, if you're thinking about upgrading, it's probably gonna

434
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Speaker 1: be a little bit later than you thought. The good

435
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Speaker 1: news is they're probably won't be aiding waiting in line

436
00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:20,680
Speaker 1: because no one's going to stores right now. I don't

437
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Speaker 1: even know if the Apple stores reopened or not, because

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Speaker 1: I know they opened and then they closed and they

439
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Speaker 1: back opened. But this is the uh, this, this is

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Speaker 1: the reality of pandemic. I mean, a few weeks later

441
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Speaker 1: is not going to make or break anyone. So I

442
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Speaker 1: think you're okay. Don't forget a lot of this stuff

443
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Speaker 1: was planned way in advance. I mean, as soon as

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Speaker 1: they launched the new iPhone, they probably take a week

445
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Speaker 1: off they breathe, they go, and then they go all right,

446
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Speaker 1: time to work on the new one, the next one.

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Speaker 1: So I think what's going to happen in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one is it's going to be a little interesting with

449
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Speaker 1: the tech stuff because how much stuff can you really

450
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Speaker 1: plan while everyone's at home. I don't know, but I

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Speaker 1: guess we'll find out in twenty twenty one. So again,

452
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Speaker 1: that's about it with Apple. I think that, to be honest,

453
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what they can add to the new

454
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Speaker 1: iPhone except for five G that's gonna make it much better.

455
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 1: I think that the I still have my iPhone eleven

456
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Speaker 1: promax that I've reviewed every phone that has come out

457
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Speaker 1: in twenty since this phone, and this is still the

458
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Speaker 1: best phone that I've ever used in my lifetime. And

459
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,040
Speaker 1: believe me, I've tried every single one of them. I

460
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Speaker 1: love the one plus eight Pro for certain things. I

461
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Speaker 1: love the Samsung Galaxy S twenty Ultra, not for the camera,

462
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Speaker 1: but for the screen and some other aspects. It's a powerhouse,

463
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Speaker 1: but they just can get the camera right on that thing.

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Speaker 1: S twenty S twenty plus seem to be better, but

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Speaker 1: the S twenty plus Ultra is just like the camera

466
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Speaker 1: is just not as good as it could be. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying for every shot. Some shots look amazing,

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Speaker 1: it's really when it comes down to particular situations where

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Speaker 1: it just fails miserably. The pixel pixel four XL great camera,

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Speaker 1: but overall that device just isn't as solid as the iPhone,

471
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Speaker 1: and it just to me, I just don't know what

472
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Speaker 1: they could do. The battery life on this thing is

473
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Speaker 1: so good that I don't even think about charging it,

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Speaker 1: except when I was on the beta, which is the

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Speaker 1: whole nother story. When I was on the beta, it

476
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Speaker 1: was pretty bad. I had to go back to the

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Speaker 1: regular software. So again, don't put beta software on your

478
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Speaker 1: daily driver, because it just doesn't work. It just doesn't work.

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Speaker 1: Find a spare phone if you have one. By the way,

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Speaker 1: Apple sold a lot of those iPhone ses, and that's

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Speaker 1: another great phone that I think a lot of people

482
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Speaker 1: went to this year for four hundred dollars to get

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Speaker 1: that iPhone. So again, lots of I just don't know

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Speaker 1: what they could do with the new iPhone. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if it's gonna be incremental five G, I do think

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Speaker 1: it'll be nice to have five G because at and

487
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Speaker 1: T and T Mobile are getting their five G networks

488
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Speaker 1: to a place that looks pretty appealing even to me.

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Speaker 1: So I have Verizon, and I'm actually thinking, I know

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Speaker 1: AT and T's five G is is actually pretty good,

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Speaker 1: and I think that T Mobile is getting there well.

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Speaker 1: And I just kind of, as a tech guy, I

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Speaker 1: kind of want the five G because I'm like, well,

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Speaker 1: I want faster. So Verizon is kind of lagging in

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Speaker 1: that area. But the iPhone, I think only the top

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Speaker 1: of the line iphone' is gonna have five G. Maybe

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Speaker 1: I'm wrong, but anyway, all right, let's get to a

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Speaker 1: new question here. Rich been listening for a while now.

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Speaker 1: I found you through a podcast when you were covering

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Speaker 1: for Leo. I am from Louisiana, so good tie point

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Speaker 1: for us. Yes, I worked in Louisiana for three years

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Speaker 1: KT a l television reporter there consumer I was called

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Speaker 1: the troubleshooter there gu tigers and he spelled it gu

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Speaker 1: g e a u x gau. I always see that

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Speaker 1: as gayu, even though it's go tigers. Louisiana such a

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Speaker 1: fun state, by the way, one of the most fun states.

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Speaker 1: I've actually the most fun state I've ever lived in

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Speaker 1: Those people know how to party. One quick suggestion you

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Speaker 1: can make about the wiscam. I know the manufacturer says

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Speaker 1: not to lee it plugged in, but could but you

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Speaker 1: could use a Wi Fi plug to power the camera.

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Speaker 1: Then when you get a low battery, you could charge

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Speaker 1: it by powering up the plug from the app on

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Speaker 1: your phone. You could also set the Wi Fi plug

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Speaker 1: to come on and off periodically to keep the camera charge.

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00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: Not everyone can do that, but in some cases, I

517
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Speaker 1: have a camera in an attic window, so plugging it

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Speaker 1: in just makes sense. This is how I get around

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Speaker 1: the manufacturer's recommendation not to plug it, not to leave

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Speaker 1: it plugged in. Bert from Cable Busters LLC. Now, I'm

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00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 1: a little confused here because I think we're talking about

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Speaker 1: two kind of different things here. When you talk about

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Speaker 1: the WISE cam, there used to not be an outdoor camera.

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Speaker 1: Now there is. And the outdoor camera is not meant

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Speaker 1: to be plugged in twenty four to seven because it's

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Speaker 1: weather proof, and at this point Wise does not have

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Speaker 1: a weather proof way of plugging that camera in. Now

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00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 1: people get around this in all different ways. They will

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Speaker 1: put a little case around it, a little outdoor weather

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Speaker 1: proof covering, they'll put it under an awning. We live

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Speaker 1: in southern California, so they think, no big deal, it

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00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 1: never rains. But the reality is you are taking a

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Speaker 1: risk if you put a camera that's an outdoor camera,

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00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,120
Speaker 1: it's not meant to be plugged in all the time

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Speaker 1: plugged in. That's a risk. And you are taking another

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Speaker 1: risk if you use one of the wisecam indoors and

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00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,120
Speaker 1: put it outside and keep it plugged in. But either way,

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Speaker 1: I get what he's saying. For his camera, it's in

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00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: the attic, perfectly good way of keeping it charged. You

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Speaker 1: just have this thing toggle on every other I don't know,

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Speaker 1: every other week or something like that. But I'm not

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Speaker 1: really sure why you can't leave the indoor cam plugged

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Speaker 1: in all the time. And I didn't think that was

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Speaker 1: a thing now the outdoor cam, I know, there's kind

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Speaker 1: of like a little rubber flap on the power area,

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Speaker 1: which it's there for a reason because it's there to

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Speaker 1: seal out the outside weather, which is rain, which is dust,

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00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 1: which is you know, all that good stuff here in

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Speaker 1: La smog. So anyway, it's a good solution. I mean,

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00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 1: it's just one of those things to keep in minds,

551
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: like I kind of forget about smart plugs in general.

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00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 1: They can be used to automate a lot of things

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Speaker 1: that you do around the house, and it's just good.

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Speaker 1: It's a good reminder, Burt that you're absolutely right. Why

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Speaker 1: not use that to your advantage. I have a bunch

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Speaker 1: of stuff around my house that comes on turns off

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00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:09,199
Speaker 1: because of them, because of the smart plugs. Have got

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Speaker 1: a lot of lights plugged into those that just pop

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Speaker 1: on at six pm, pop off at six am. So

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00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: it's a good idea. It's a good reminder. So thank

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Speaker 1: you Bert for that little reminder. All right, let's talk

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Speaker 1: about Roadblocks. If you have kids, they are probably playing Roadblocks,

563
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: and Roadblocks just did their big developers conference, probably virtual,

564
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 1: I'm guessing. And if you're not familiar with Roadblocks, it's

565
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Speaker 1: a gaming platform where kids play games on it, but

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00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: people also build the game. So Roadblocks literally just came

567
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: up with the platform and people develop games for this

568
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Speaker 1: platform and they're doing it a lot. Because Roadblocks developers

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Speaker 1: are on track to earn two hundred and fifty million

570
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: dollars in twenty twenty, up from one hundred and ten

571
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Speaker 1: million dollars in twenty nineteen, so they have more than

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Speaker 1: doubled their payouts to developers, which shows you that this

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Speaker 1: is growing at a very fast clip. And I'm going

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00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 1: to tell you why I don't like roadblocks in a moment.

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00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: So if you're a parent that's listening, hear me out,

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00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: because I'm not a fan of roadblocks. Roadblocks. Monthly average

577
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: users active users one hundred and fifty million, and this

578
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: is mostly kids from age nine to probably fourteen fifteen.

579
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, but my kids are even younger. My kid

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00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: is five and he's playing this, And I'll tell you

581
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: again why I don't like this premium payouts. They did that.

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00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: Let's see, they launched a music label deal to bring

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00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: fifty plus tracks and roadblocks. Developers posted huge milestones in

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Speaker 1: the first part of the year, with Adopt Me reaching

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00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: one point six million concurrence. That means one point six

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00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: million kids sitting at home on their iPads and tablets

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00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: playing this game all the same time. And my kids

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00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: play Adopt Me. I actually think Adopt Me is okay,

589
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 1: but again I will tell you I don't like it.

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00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: And then there's a game called Piggy. Oh Piggy sounds

591
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 1: so nice, which was launched in January twenty twenty now

592
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 1: has close to five billion visits. Let me tell you

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Speaker 1: why I do not like the game Piggy, and why

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00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,959
Speaker 1: I don't like a lot of the games on Roadblocks.

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00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 1: And the reason I don't like them is because some

596
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:18,520
Speaker 1: of them are just downright evil if you ask me.

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00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: And I don't think most parents realize that when they

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Speaker 1: see Roadblocks, it looks so cute and innocent and sweet.

599
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 1: And the games these kids are playing on there are horrible.

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Speaker 1: Some of them, like Piggy, for instance. The goal of

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00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: Piggy is to run away from this maniacal pig that

602
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: is trying to kill you. And I just watched a

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00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 1: video about it on YouTube, and yeah, like my kid

604
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: would tell me, oh, there's blood on the screen. I

605
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 1: get splattered by Piggy. I'm running away. It's like it's

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00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 1: like one of those like fear and horror movies come

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00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: to life for your kids. And Jimmy's asking, what about Minecraft?

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00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 1: I love Minecraft? So Minecraft I am a hundred I

609
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: will buy Okay, I have a rule in my house.

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00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 1: Most of the time I have broken down, but I

611
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 1: have a rule where I refuse to buy my kids

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00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 1: roebucks roebucks. So That's my other reason why I don't

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00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 1: like my Robock roadblocks is because the entire point of

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00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: Roebucks is to get your kids to bug you to

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00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: buy them roebucks. And what does Roebucks do It lets

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00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 1: them buy a little InApp digital purchases and these games

617
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: could be anything, and I don't like that. And I

618
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: know I'm sounding like an old man right now, but

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Speaker 1: I just hear me out. I'm not sure what the

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00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: point of these games they're playing are. To me, the

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00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: point of Adopt Me seems like it's only to buy

622
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: little critters that you can then trade with other people.

623
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: And I get it, it's fun, it's games, it's kids,

624
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: it's innocent, it's sweet. But to me, I want my

625
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: kids to do a little bit more with their lives,

626
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: and the Piggy game especially, I just don't see the

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00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 1: point of Adopt Me. It's cute, but in reality, and

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00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 1: if you have kids that are playing this, they're just

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00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: sitting on these things for hours on it, and they

630
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:00,040
Speaker 1: could sit My kid could sit and play Adopt Me

631
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 1: for the entire day, literally without interruption. That's a problem.

632
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 1: So I don't like it for that reason. Minecraft they're

633
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: building stuff, I really like what they're doing in Minecraft.

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00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: It's cool, it's I'm blown away. And I've said this

635
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: on the podcast before. Just ask your kids to show

636
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: you what they're doing to Minecraft, and it blows me away.

637
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: The stuff that they build, I mean, it's quite amazing. Roadblocks,

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00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: I keep getting confused between Roebucks and roadblocks roadblocks. I

639
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: just don't get it, Like I'm just watching it and

640
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: it just seems like, eh, I don't really care for it.

641
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: So anyway, my idea with roadblocks is to kind of

642
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Speaker 1: smoke them out, which is to refuse to buy roebucks

643
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: because without it, they don't really care to play as

644
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: much because they can't really do all the stuff they

645
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: want to do. And most parents they sit there it's

646
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: like it's ten dollars for a bunch of roebucks. Who cares.

647
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: That's not that much money, right, But it just kind

648
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: of feeds into this world of like nonsense that I believe.

649
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: And I don't want to knock developers out there. I

650
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: don't want to knock people that are playing this. And

651
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: don't feel bad if you're and your kids playing this.

652
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: My kid's played every day, don't get me wrong. I'm

653
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: just saying, I don't see the point, and I think

654
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: there's better things to do with your life, and Minecraft

655
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 1: is one of them. So I think it's amazing that

656
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: Roadblocks has built this platform. I personally just don't get it.

657
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 1: Jonathan asks, what do I think about Lego? I love Lego.

658
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Speaker 1: Lego's amazing. Anything that actually has your kids kind of

659
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: doing something that's using their brain, I really like. I

660
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 1: just don't understand the Adopt Me stuff, and I especially

661
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: don't understand the Piggy stuff and the games of these kids. Oh.

662
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: By the way, and here's my advice on Roadblocks if

663
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 1: you're a parent, go into the settings and turn on

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Speaker 1: restricted mode if your kid is younger, because it will

665
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Speaker 1: block out some of these games that are not very

666
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: not very good for little kids to be playing, like

667
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Speaker 1: the Piggy game. And my kids they got so angry,

668
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: they got so annoyed with me. But guess what they

669
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: found other games that they've played, like Adopt Me and

670
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: this pizza making game and this house game that are

671
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: much and much more innocent and not so violent. So anyway,

672
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 1: that's it. That's my thought on Roadblocks. I you know,

673
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Speaker 1: I that's my opinion. By the way, so that is

674
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Speaker 1: my opinion. I am a parent. Every parent has different opinions,

675
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 1: and I'm just giving you mine. You listen to the

676
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,280
Speaker 1: rich on Tech podcast, You're gonna get my opinion on stuff.

677
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,399
Speaker 1: I am very open to hearing your opinion. And if

678
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 1: you want to write to me and explain why you

679
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: think roadblocks is just fine, let me know. Hello at

680
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Speaker 1: richontech dot TV. All right, another question, here we go.

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Speaker 1: Ruth says, I follow you and enjoy your posts very much.

682
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 1: I read them every day. I've never asked you a

683
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Speaker 1: question before, so I wonder if you're up for it.

684
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Speaker 1: It's a problem on my LGX Power three. When I

685
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 1: tap Playstore, I get no results found. This might be

686
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: because I've removed Google play Services by mistake. I've tried

687
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Speaker 1: everything to get it back. I've downloaded a version of

688
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: Google Play Services from the web, but that's didn't help.

689
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 1: The result is that I can't download any new apps. Ruth. Okay,

690
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Speaker 1: number one, Ruth, why did you delete Google Play Services.

691
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,360
Speaker 1: You need that to run anything that's Google on a

692
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 1: Google phone. That is the backbone of all Google So

693
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 1: you gotta you got it. I don't even know how

694
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 1: you deleted it. I don't know. I didn't even know

695
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:24,319
Speaker 1: you could delete Google Play Services. Google Play Services is

696
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,240
Speaker 1: the framework that powers the Google Play Store and everything

697
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 1: on your Android phone. Android and iOS are a little

698
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: bit different in the way their operating systems work. If

699
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,399
Speaker 1: you have an iPhone, you know that you get these

700
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 1: updates all the time from Apple that upgrade and add

701
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 1: new features to your iPhone and also update the built

702
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: in apps on the iPhone. Android is very different Android.

703
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: Every manufacturer has their own operating system that they update independently.

704
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 1: Google Play Services is sort of a backbone framework that

705
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: Google says, hey, we we like some things on your

706
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 1: phone that should be kind of like that help things

707
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 1: work on the back end, but you can do whatever

708
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 1: you want on the front end, and so Apple Google

709
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: has now relied more on Google Play Services to sort

710
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: of update Android phones in a more timely manner with

711
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 1: certain things like this recent COVID tracing stuff. Again, they

712
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,719
Speaker 1: did that through Google Play Services because Google doesn't necessarily

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00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: have a way to just add new features to your

714
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 1: phone by themselves. It's usually up to the manufacturer to

715
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 1: do that, and anyway, that's beside the point. But anyway,

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00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,839
Speaker 1: since you removed Google Play services, which I'm not sure

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00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: how you did it, and I don't even understand how

718
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: you downloaded a version of it from the web. I mean,

719
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,359
Speaker 1: if you're talking about downloading like an APK, maybe that's

720
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 1: what you found and you tried installing that, like it's

721
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:44,959
Speaker 1: pretty cool, but Ruth, don't do that. You could really

722
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,359
Speaker 1: harm your phone by doing that. So my advice is

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Speaker 1: to format your phone and start over and that should rea.

724
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: That should definitely put well it will. It will put

725
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: Google Play services back on your phone. So it's an

726
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Speaker 1: LGX Power three. I've not heard of this particular model,

727
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:05,319
Speaker 1: but usually go into the settings and you can just

728
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: it says factory restart, like factory format, factory refresh, factory

729
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 1: format reset to factory settings, one of those variations on

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00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: that term. Do that. It's going to erase everything on

731
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: your phone. So let's go back to what I was

732
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: talking about in the beginning. Make sure everything's backed up

733
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: now an Android, most things are backed up except for

734
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: your photos. Make sure that you're rocking Google Photos to

735
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: get your photos backed up or something similar. Once everything's

736
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 1: backed up, factory reset, and boom, everything's gonna be back

737
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 1: to the day you bought the phone, reinstall it all,

738
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,840
Speaker 1: and you should be up and running. That's that's an

739
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: interesting one because I don't hear people doing that too much.

740
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 1: All right, speaking of phones and speaking of Google, I

741
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: always say that, I always say, speaking of speaking of

742
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: speaking out, Can I think of a better transition than

743
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: just speaking of Uh. Google is teasing the Pixel for

744
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:58,760
Speaker 1: a unveil on August third, and that's all the news

745
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: I have. So the Pixel four A, which has been

746
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 1: delayed apparently for a long time this year, is Google's

747
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: mid range phone, and quite frankly, I think that this

748
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: the last one. The three A was a really good

749
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 1: move for Google because Google has the Pixel, which is

750
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: the best camera you can get in a smartphone. But

751
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: the problem is it's too expensive and it's not good

752
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: enough for people to seek it out versus a Samsung,

753
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: versus an LG, versus A one plus which to a

754
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: lesser extent, and versus an iPhone. And the bottom line is,

755
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: just because the camera's great, people see it and they go, wait,

756
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: that's nine hundred bucks. I'm not buying that, Like, I'll

757
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 1: get an iPhone. And so they came up with this

758
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 1: idea of having a mid range phone, which isn't as fast,

759
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: which isn't as slick, doesn't have the top specs, but

760
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:50,799
Speaker 1: it still has that great camera and so people say, oh,

761
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,879
Speaker 1: and by the way, it's only four hundred bucks. Oh well,

762
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: now you're talking. So that was pretty successful for Google

763
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: last year. This is the follow up to that, the

764
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: Pixel four A. I think the problem with this phone

765
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: they need to make it cheaper. So if this phone

766
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: is not three hundred dollars, they're gonna have a problem.

767
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: It's just not gonna sell. And the reason it's not

768
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: gonna sell is because you've got the iPhone se at

769
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 1: four hundred dollars. And overall, I will argue that is

770
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: a better device than the Pixel four A. Pixel four

771
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 1: A is a one trick pony. It's gonna give you

772
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: a great camera. But guess what. That's it. You're not

773
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 1: gonna have one thousand cases to choose from. You're not

774
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 1: gonna have a million accessories to choose from. You're not

775
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: gonna have the best app store in the world to

776
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 1: choose apps from. You're not gonna have the Apple Watch

777
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: to go along with it. You are getting a good

778
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 1: camera on the Google Pixel four A, and that's it.

779
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 1: And that's a problem. So where do you compete. You

780
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: compete on price. They can make this thing one hundred

781
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: and ninety nine dollars would be amazing. Oh thank you Google.

782
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 1: I'm glad you found that. But you can't compete on

783
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 1: a three ninety nine to three ninety nine. The iPhone

784
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: is just better than the Pixel four A at three

785
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 1: hundred ninety nine dollars. That's the bottom line. So they

786
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 1: need to make this thing one hundred dollars cheaper. I

787
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 1: hope they do, but we will find out on August third.

788
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:13,359
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say much more than that, because you know,

789
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 1: that's it. That's all. We don't know anything else. Everything

790
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,399
Speaker 1: else is speculation at this point. But it's gonna have

791
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: the Pixel four features, just in a cheaper price, point

792
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 1: lesser processor, lesser display. Everything's gonna be lesser except the

793
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,279
Speaker 1: camera is still gonna be quite good. So that's that

794
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 1: all right. Next question? Okay, oh speaking, I'm saying I

795
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:41,959
Speaker 1: caught myself. Stop it. Rich Sean says, hey, Rich, thanks

796
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 1: for all the tips and email letters that have been

797
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Speaker 1: subscribed since the start. By the way, I am doing

798
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Speaker 1: my email newsletter again, so if you're not subscribed, go

799
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 1: to Rich on tech dot TV and look for subscribe

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Speaker 1: to my email newsletter. It's free and you get I'm

801
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:00,439
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do it every other week now because

802
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: every week just got to be too much. But I

803
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: got so many people asking me Rich, where's your newsletter?

804
00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: That I finally started it again, and I want to

805
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:08,960
Speaker 1: do the newsletter. It was just a matter of like

806
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 1: working it into my schedule, and every week was just

807
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:13,840
Speaker 1: too much. Every other week, I think I can handle.

808
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: It's Friday as I record this. I'm going to get

809
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,959
Speaker 1: up tomorrow and do it. And I'm very excited because

810
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: the response is amazing. I mean, there's twelve thousand of

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00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: you that are subscribed to it, which is great. I

812
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 1: love that and not. Okay, so twelve thousand is great,

813
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,120
Speaker 1: but guess how many people actually open it? Which I'll

814
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 1: tell you. So the last newsletter went out on July nineteenth,

815
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Speaker 1: and a substack, which is what I used to do.

816
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: The newsletter tells me how many people open it, and

817
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 1: the last one, Oh okay, now you don't want to

818
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:51,800
Speaker 1: work substack, Okay, whatever? Over twelve thousand. Wow, Well, anyway,

819
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:53,840
Speaker 1: it gives me a little subscriber like how many people

820
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: actually opened it, which I thought was pretty cool. So

821
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to find that anyway, while it's loading that

822
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: I've been to my super high speed internet. Come on, hey,

823
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: Rich My question is are there add on lenses for

824
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: the camera on the Android S ten plus that you

825
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,839
Speaker 1: would recommend? Thank you again, Sean sent by Blue Mail

826
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: for Android. I haven't heard of BlueMail. That's an email app,

827
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 1: I guess, so I would recommend a lens called the

828
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: Moment lens mm e NT Moment lens S ten Oh

829
00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: did you ask for lens or case? What do you

830
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: ask for? Uh, let's see add on lenses. Yeah. So

831
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: the way moment lens works is remember the So the

832
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 1: number one lens that was out there was the Olo

833
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 1: clip and funny story, I'll go through it real quick,

834
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 1: but it's the first email I ever got as a

835
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: tech reporter at KTLA. You're talking ten years ago, and

836
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:57,280
Speaker 1: the email said local boy does good by inventing Should

837
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: I look it up oloclip? And this was back. I

838
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 1: still have the email. I will sell here. It is

839
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: local Boy invents cool new iPhone four lens system that

840
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: Hollywood and soccer moms alike will love. May ninth, twenty eleven,

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00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 1: sent to me by one Patrick O'Neill. Now, when I

842
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: saw that, I just kind of I was like, Eh,

843
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 1: what does that mean? Give me a break. I did

844
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: not even respond to this email sent May ninth, twenty eleven, Monday,

845
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Speaker 1: nine fifty eight am. He said, I'm Patrick O'Neil from

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Speaker 1: Huntington Beach and we watch you on KTLA. I invented

847
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 1: the oloquip oloclip quick change lens system for the iPhone four.

848
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: It has fishy, wide angle and macro all in a

849
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 1: package that easily fits in your pocket. And it's only

850
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: forty five dollars. Wow. Why did I not respond to

851
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:50,040
Speaker 1: this email? How naive was I to say, Oh, because

852
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: you're a local inventor, this can't be good. And it

853
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: was amazing by the way. I interviewed Patrick many years

854
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 1: later when I finally came to my senses, and the

855
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:02,839
Speaker 1: guy is amazing. He did very well with oloclip. They

856
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: are the top seller. He has since sold the business,

857
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: but he did really well with that little tiny idea

858
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 1: of the local boy who invented the cool new iPhone

859
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,319
Speaker 1: four lens. Yeah, he did a pretty good job with that.

860
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,920
Speaker 1: Millions of dollars later. Anyway, I don't know if Oloclip

861
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: makes one for the Patrick was a very much iPhone guy,

862
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: so everything was iPhone. He I think came up His

863
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: main thing when I asked him why he didn't come

864
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,720
Speaker 1: up with Samsung versions of these lenses is because Samsung

865
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 1: changes their phone design every year in such a big

866
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 1: way that it's too tough to keep up. Whereas the iPhone,

867
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: he most of the time had two years to keep

868
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,799
Speaker 1: the lens because the way it snapped on had to

869
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 1: be figured out by the iPhone because it was very

870
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 1: slick how it snapped onto the iPhone. But oh wow,

871
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: you're actually in luck. They do make a case a

872
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,879
Speaker 1: lens for the Galaxy S ten, so I would say

873
00:44:56,040 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: check out the oloclip o Llo Cli Clip or the

874
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: other one that makes a lot for Android. I guess

875
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:08,240
Speaker 1: they make them for iPhone as well. Is Moment shopmoment

876
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 1: dot com and just compare see which each one of

877
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: those offer, and I think both of them are going

878
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: to be great. You have the Android S ten plus,

879
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 1: which I thought had a wide angle lens, so I'm

880
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: not sure why you need the add on lens, but

881
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: you know, maybe you want Macro, maybe you want whatever.

882
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: But it's funny because these add on lenses were such

883
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: a big deal and now we're seeing the trend of

884
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 1: the manufacturers just kind of building them into the phones themselves,

885
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: and we're just seeing more and more and that's cool.

886
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 1: It's a great, great thing that they're doing. All right,

887
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 1: good question. Let's talk about Swimply. This was a story

888
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 1: we did on Ktla, and this is a website that's

889
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:48,359
Speaker 1: kind of like Airbnb, but for private pools. And of course,

890
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 1: as you might expect, it caused quite the controversy on

891
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: my Facebook page because people are debating would they use this,

892
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: would they not. Let me tell you the story and

893
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 1: then you can think about whether you would use it

894
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,840
Speaker 1: or not. But it's kind of like airbing, except instead

895
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:02,879
Speaker 1: of renting out an entire place, you just rent out

896
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 1: someone's private pool. And this goes both ways. If you

897
00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 1: have a pool in your backyard, you can rent it

898
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 1: to random strangers. And if you want a pool you

899
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,280
Speaker 1: want to take a dip, find a pool that's nearby,

900
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 1: You drive there, you pay your thirty bucks whatever it is,

901
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 1: forty five bucks for the hour, and you take a

902
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: dip in someone else's pool. Sounds interesting. I personally probably

903
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 1: would not do this, but I have access to a pool.

904
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:25,959
Speaker 1: My in laws have a pool. But if you didn't

905
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:28,479
Speaker 1: have access and you just wanted to go somewhere, why

906
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: not in La I'd probably go to the beach. But

907
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, but the beauty of ideas

908
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: is that there are so many people in this world,

909
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:38,799
Speaker 1: and there are lots of people who either want this

910
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 1: or need this, or are willing to use it or

911
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:44,399
Speaker 1: willing to put their pool up. And so the guy

912
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:48,959
Speaker 1: we interviewed, Asher Weinberger, who co founder, said we thought

913
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 1: in the beginning that swimplely would help pay for help

914
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: people pay for their pool cost. So that was his ideas, like, hey,

915
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 1: people are maintaining their pools, they're not being used like

916
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:58,839
Speaker 1: hours every day. Why don't we just have other people

917
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:02,359
Speaker 1: use those pools and help pay for the maintenance at least, well,

918
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: guess what it's paying for people's entire mortgages. Because the

919
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 1: couple we talked to, they said they made seven thousand

920
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 1: dollars so far renting out their pool, which pretty good money. Now,

921
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:16,359
Speaker 1: the founder said that he made twenty five thousand dollars

922
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 1: in five weeks and I did the math on that,

923
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 1: and that would come out to about two hundred dollars

924
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: an hour for twenty four hours a day, seven days

925
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: a week for the past five weeks. I don't know

926
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 1: how he came up with that, but he must have

927
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 1: a really nice pool that rents for a lot of money,

928
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 1: and he probably does so, I don't know. I think

929
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: it's a cool idea. I think that the liability factor

930
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 1: to me as a homeowner would be a little scary,

931
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I love the sharing economy.

932
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 1: You've got this pool in your backyard that's so expensive,

933
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 1: so costly. It's sitting there unused for twelve hours a day.

934
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: I'm not including the night time hours. But you use

935
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 1: it your kids going for an hour or two, okay,

936
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 1: and then that's it. Same thing with a car. This

937
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 1: is why Uber was brilliant. Same thing with uh what else? Airbnb.

938
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 1: You've got a rental house, you use it for one

939
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:05,879
Speaker 1: weekend out of the month. The rest it's just sitting there.

940
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 1: Now you can rent it out, so it's it is

941
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 1: an amazing sharing economy we have. This is taking it

942
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 1: to levels of extreme that are pretty crazy, and I

943
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 1: think it's a great idea, and I think that people

944
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:23,839
Speaker 1: are using it clearly because the website's around. My only

945
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: concern with this website is that I'm a little bit

946
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 1: concerned with Airbnb. What keeps them from instantly flipping a

947
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 1: switch and turning this feature on overnight? And now they've

948
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:38,759
Speaker 1: got the whole Airbnb platform, and you've got everyone that's

949
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 1: on Airbnb and saying, hey, just here, rent my pool out.

950
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: Now you can make that argument for almost any company

951
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,399
Speaker 1: out there, So it's not necessarily just an Airbnb thing.

952
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,879
Speaker 1: But you know, I guess it's scary anytime you start

953
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: a company and you've got these big tech companies, bohemoths, bohemoths, behemoths,

954
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,319
Speaker 1: and you've got these big tech companies that could just

955
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:00,360
Speaker 1: take you over in like a second. And I'm not

956
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: saying buy you out. I'm saying, flip on a switch

957
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 1: and start the same feature we saw. It happened with

958
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 1: Instagram Stories. I mean that was basically Snapchat, and more

959
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:12,839
Speaker 1: people are using Instagram Stories in Snapchat. All right, let's

960
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: see next question. Okay, this is a good one from Maureen.

961
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 1: I'm a kindergarten teacher about to start the school year online.

962
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,720
Speaker 1: Good luck. I currently own an iPad pro and an iPad.

963
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 1: I also have two boys who are going to be online.

964
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: That's going to be an interesting household. Huh. Got a

965
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 1: teacher trying to teach with two kids that are going

966
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:35,960
Speaker 1: to be online for school. Yeah, see the problems here.

967
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 1: I am currently looking for something for me to zoom.

968
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:41,360
Speaker 1: I import a lot of videos and interactive activities to

969
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:44,480
Speaker 1: keep my kinders engaged. It also needs to work easily

970
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:47,799
Speaker 1: with Google, Classroom, seesaw and all the other educational websites.

971
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,799
Speaker 1: Long story short, I wanted to know which is better. Oh,

972
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:55,959
Speaker 1: I forgot to do this. I wanted to know which

973
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: is better an iPad or a surface for what I

974
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: need keeping my mind. And I'm a Catholic school teacher

975
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:04,399
Speaker 1: who teaches in a low income school. Needless to say,

976
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:09,400
Speaker 1: the budget is limited. Thank you in advance for your advice. Okay,

977
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 1: so you got a lot of things going on here now.

978
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 1: Because you said I import a lot of videos and

979
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: interactive activities, that is leading me to go, oh, what's

980
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 1: better iPad or surface? I would say a surface is

981
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 1: going to be better. You already have two iPads, so

982
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 1: you're covered there. You need something that you can actually

983
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 1: do work on and yes, you can do work on

984
00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:35,439
Speaker 1: an iPad, but I still believe you can do more

985
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 1: work and accomplish more things on a laptop, and the

986
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: surface is going to do both. It's going to have

987
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:43,440
Speaker 1: a touch screen, it's going to have a keyboard if

988
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 1: you get that, but and it's going to let you

989
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 1: run Windows apps. So I think personally that a surface

990
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:52,919
Speaker 1: is going to be a better solution for you and

991
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 1: low income school limited budget. I don't know what to

992
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:59,320
Speaker 1: say about that. I've gotten so many emails from teachers

993
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:01,160
Speaker 1: and my heart goes out to all of you because

994
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 1: you're scrambling to try to teach kids in a way

995
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 1: that you've never taught them before from your house, on camera,

996
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 1: with equipment, and it is just a recipe for disaster.

997
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:14,319
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it can't be done, but this is

998
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:16,080
Speaker 1: just not the way we've done things in the past.

999
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:19,920
Speaker 1: And every teacher is scrambling. My kids. Teachers were reading

1000
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:22,280
Speaker 1: books on their iPhone recording it. You gotta have a tripod,

1001
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: you gotta have a microphone, you gotta have It's crazy.

1002
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 1: It's so much work for you teachers in a job

1003
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: that is already so tough. And I know It's tough

1004
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:33,319
Speaker 1: because I was sitting here with my kids watching them

1005
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: learn and teaching them as well, and it is not

1006
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 1: easy to teach kids. You have to be This is

1007
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 1: why they say the heart of a teacher. I love

1008
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: Dave Ramsey and he always talks about having the heart

1009
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 1: of a teacher, and yeah, you have to have a

1010
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 1: heart of a teacher, which means patience, understanding, and I

1011
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:52,879
Speaker 1: don't have any of those things. So it's really tough

1012
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:54,320
Speaker 1: for me when I sit there with my kids and

1013
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: I'm trying to teach them stuff and I'm just not patient,

1014
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:01,359
Speaker 1: and I'm like, it's so anyway, So throw in all

1015
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 1: the distance learning stuff, and it's really tricky. So I

1016
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:07,839
Speaker 1: would say probably a surface over an iPad. iPad only

1017
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 1: runs iPad apps. Surface is much more flexible with what

1018
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:14,239
Speaker 1: you can install, and ideally I think the best would

1019
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 1: be maybe a MacBook Pro thirteen, which I think would

1020
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 1: help you do more with your videos if you're creating

1021
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: videos and editing videos. But again, that is that's tricky.

1022
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 1: That's a tricky situation. And believe me, teachers, if you

1023
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 1: know a teachers, give them a hug for me, because

1024
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:34,719
Speaker 1: the only thing I feel worse for our parents who

1025
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:36,279
Speaker 1: have to have their kids at home while they're trying

1026
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 1: to work. But teachers, it's just not the natural way

1027
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 1: of teaching kids. They're in a classroom. It's just being

1028
00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 1: from home is just not the same. All right, I'm

1029
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: running out of time here on the podcast. Let's see.

1030
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:51,959
Speaker 1: I want to get this website in because I thought

1031
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:58,359
Speaker 1: this website was pretty cool. It's called now I gotta

1032
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 1: find it twice. Come on read Okay, here it is.

1033
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:06,799
Speaker 1: The website is called read this twice dot com. If

1034
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: you follow me on Twitter, you know that I am

1035
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 1: always looking for a good book to read. I believe

1036
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:17,920
Speaker 1: in consumption of books, and I think that you should

1037
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 1: be reading as much as humanly possible. And a lot

1038
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 1: of my audience does read. I'm very very clear on

1039
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 1: that because I see when I ask for book recommendations

1040
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 1: on Twitter that a lot of people responded very quickly.

1041
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 1: So kudos to you for reading a lot. I have

1042
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: put all those book recommendations, by the way, in my

1043
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 1: ever note. So I've got the books Just Mercy by

1044
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 1: Brian Stevenson Olivia recommended. I've Got Barbarian Days by Craig

1045
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 1: nine two eight two one Oh, I'm guessing that's your

1046
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 1: zip code. I've got Katherine Graham's autobiography by Stephanie George.

1047
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:57,799
Speaker 1: I've got let's see, I've got I'll Be Gone in

1048
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:02,799
Speaker 1: the Dark from Monty's recommended that. I've got The Innovators

1049
00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 1: by Jay He recommended that. So I've got a whole

1050
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 1: laundry list of books. Lacey recommended everything by Hugh Howley,

1051
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:12,799
Speaker 1: which I can't wait. I think those are those look

1052
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 1: really good because they're sci fi and I love sci

1053
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 1: fi books. I'm reading right now, I'm reading, so I

1054
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:19,279
Speaker 1: settled on one called Dark Matter right now, and I

1055
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:22,800
Speaker 1: love that anyway. So the book recommendation site that I

1056
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 1: know everyone knows Goodreads and but the book this is

1057
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 1: kind of cool because it's called read This Twice. And

1058
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 1: what they do is they just scour all the mentions

1059
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:34,640
Speaker 1: that famous people put on their social media or in

1060
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 1: interviews about books they're reading or books they've liked, and

1061
00:54:37,680 --> 00:54:41,319
Speaker 1: they organize it. So, for instance, you can go to

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Speaker 1: let's see Emma Watson. Let's pick someone kind of random,

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Speaker 1: but she mentioned she's an actress, and she recommended Harry

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Speaker 1: potter Man search for meaning, let's see what else a

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Speaker 1: thousand splendid sons which I read. The other one by

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Speaker 1: this guy, which was the that was a fantastic book,

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Speaker 1: Tiny Beautiful Things, half of this guy. And they tell

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Speaker 1: you the book, not only the book, but they also

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Speaker 1: tell you the source. So where did she mention it?

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Speaker 1: And if I click this one book, she mentioned this book,

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Speaker 1: let's say on Twitter, and I love that you can

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Speaker 1: just see the tweet as she mentioned this book. It's

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Speaker 1: been less than three weeks and I devoured Tiny Torch,

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Speaker 1: Tiny Beautiful Things, And while thank you Reese Witherspoon and

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Speaker 1: Cheryl Straight straight ed. So I just love this idea.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's a simple thing. But it's just if

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Speaker 1: you care about what celebrities your favorite personality thinks about books,

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Speaker 1: you can see what they're recommending, and you know you

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Speaker 1: can do everyone from Mark Cuban to Anna Kendrick to

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Speaker 1: Anthony Bourdain, Rest in Peace, Joe Rogan, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you want to go there, Jack Dorsey. And it's

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00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 1: just a great way of slicing and dicing books. So again,

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Speaker 1: read this twice dot com and already I found just

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Speaker 1: looking through Elon Musk's recommendations, I found about six sci

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Speaker 1: fi books I want to read all ready, so it's

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00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 1: just a neat way of seeing. You can get recommendation

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Speaker 1: from friends and family, but sometimes you want something a

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Speaker 1: little bit different, so check it out. Read this twice

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Speaker 1: dot com. All right, Do I have time for one

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Speaker 1: more question before I go? Sure? Rosio Oh? Rosio asks, Hey, rich,

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Speaker 1: I would like to purchase a portable charger to charge

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Speaker 1: my phone and my husband's phone for the most part,

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Speaker 1: preferably twenty k to thirty k mh million hours. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Good that you knew that whoop's wrong? One Uh? Can

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Speaker 1: you send us a list of some different brands that

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00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 1: you would recommend, or if you've not tested, can you

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00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 1: review a few portable chargers and then your future We

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00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 1: would like your input before purchasing. And I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: tell you a whole bunch. I'm just gonna recommend a

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Speaker 1: one brand Anchor. Anchor I think makes fantastic portable chargers.

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00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 1: And again, I think that you guys know a little

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Speaker 1: bit about technology because you said the twenty thousand to

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00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:00,799
Speaker 1: thirty thousand million hours, So good for you for knowing

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00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 1: that term. The higher that number, the more times your

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00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:08,399
Speaker 1: charger is going to recharge your phone. So a lot

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Speaker 1: of these little tiny um a lot of these little

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Speaker 1: tiny uh what is it like? You know, portable chargers,

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00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 1: They don't really charge your phone that much, the smaller

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00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:21,320
Speaker 1: they are. So if you want something that's gonna have

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Speaker 1: a little bit of bulk to it, not bulk, but

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Speaker 1: a little bit of you know, it's gonna charge your

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Speaker 1: phone a couple times, you're not gonna be recharging it

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Speaker 1: all the time. Go with something in the twenty to

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Speaker 1: thirty thousand, ten thousand is pretty typical. The little ones

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Speaker 1: you get, the little freeb's they hand out, maybe not

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00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:36,480
Speaker 1: to you, but to me, Like when I go to

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Speaker 1: like a tech show, they give out little like portable

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Speaker 1: chargers usually like charge your phone once or maybe half

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Speaker 1: a time, and then, by the way, they're really slow.

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Speaker 1: So if you have an Android phone, you want to

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Speaker 1: look for something that's called USB CPD, which is power delivery.

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00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 1: That's gonna charge your phone way faster than the typical USB.

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Speaker 1: If you have a newer iPhone, that's also gonna do

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Speaker 1: your iPhone faster. So look for an iPhone charging cable

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Speaker 1: that looks like this on the end the podcast, folks,

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Speaker 1: But it's USB C to lightning and that's going to

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00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 1: charge your phone usually faster than it will if you

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Speaker 1: have USB regular to the lightning, and then wireless charging

1129
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:15,680
Speaker 1: is still pretty slow, but the USB CPD is going

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Speaker 1: to be the fastest charging at this point for any

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Speaker 1: of your devices. So just keep that in mind. If

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Speaker 1: you're just plugging in an old cable into your iPhone

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00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 1: into one of these chargers, it's going to be really slow,

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Speaker 1: so look for look for that PD. Look for PD

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Speaker 1: power delivery on these devices. These portable chargers are gonna

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Speaker 1: be a little bit more expensive, but it's going to

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Speaker 1: charge your phone and be way less frustrating when you're

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Speaker 1: trying to get a quick charge in a faster way.

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Speaker 1: So again, the brand is Anchor a n K er.

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Speaker 1: I really like their stuff and if you can believe it,

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Speaker 1: that is going to do it for this episode of

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Speaker 1: the show. If you're on Facebook, stick around. I will

1143
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:53,280
Speaker 1: talk to you for a little bit after this, but

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Speaker 1: that's going to do it for the podcast. If you'd

1145
00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: like to submit an answer an answer, if you have answers,

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00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 1: definitely given to me. But if you have a question

1147
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 1: you'd like me to answer, just go to Rich on

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Speaker 1: tech dot TV, hit the email button at the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the page, and I will do my best to

1150
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 1: get your question in a show or at least respond

1151
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 1: to you. Oh, I'm doing something new, Okay, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to do a code word. So because I really value

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Speaker 1: your time as a listener to this show, especially someone

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00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:23,120
Speaker 1: who has listened this far in because let's be honest,

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Speaker 1: it's been an hour and uh snooze alert. If you've

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Speaker 1: made it this far, I'm rewarding you. So I'm going

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Speaker 1: to give you a code word to put in your email.

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00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 1: So if you write me in the next week, put

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Speaker 1: this code word in your email subject line somehow, and

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Speaker 1: I will get to your email faster than everyone else's.

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Speaker 1: And the code word this week is remote remote r

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Speaker 1: E m ote remote, So put remote in caps. It

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00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be caps, but just put that in

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Speaker 1: your subject line and I will get to your email

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Speaker 1: faster than everyone else's because you are listening to this

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Speaker 1: show and I want to reward you for that. So

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Speaker 1: thank you for that. Also, I would love it if

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Speaker 1: you would rate and review this podcast to help other

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01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,720
Speaker 1: people discover it. Just go to rate this podcast dot

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Speaker 1: com slash rich on Tech. You will find me at

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01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:17,280
Speaker 1: rich on tech on all social media. So if you're

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Speaker 1: not following me on Instagram, if you're not following me

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, if you're not following me on Facebook, which

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Speaker 1: Instagram is where it's at for the most part, but

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Speaker 1: Facebook and Twitter, I'm also there. But Instagram, I am

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Speaker 1: trying every day to put good stuff on there. I

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Speaker 1: had someone tell me that she looks forward to what

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Speaker 1: I put on Instagram every day, and I love hearing that.

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Speaker 1: That is so music to my ears because I do

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Speaker 1: sit there and I try to think, like, what would

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Speaker 1: people like to see? What useful information can I impart

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Speaker 1: in their brains today? My name is rich dmiro On

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Speaker 1: behalf of everyone that gets this show to your ears.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. I'll see you on KTLA.

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Speaker 1: Stay safe, I'll talk to you real soon