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Speaker 1: Ring cameras can now help you find a lost dog.

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Speaker 1: Amazon and Google are in a battle for smart home supremacy.

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Speaker 1: Meta isn't listening to your phone, but they will start

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Speaker 1: that and later in the show. Mark Vina, CEO and

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Speaker 1: principal analyst at Smart Tech Research, always a guy that

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk gadgets. We're going to see what

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Speaker 1: he likes these days. All right, this was a big

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Speaker 1: week for Amazon and Google. The two companies are locked

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Speaker 1: in a battle for smart home supremacy. So on one side,

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Speaker 1: you've got Echo speakers, You've got Ring cameras, and Alexa Plus.

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Speaker 1: Mute that right now because we're going to be hearing

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Speaker 1: it a lot. On the other side, you've got Google,

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Speaker 1: Nest cameras, Thermostats, Home Speed, and Gemini. So which one

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Speaker 1: is gonna win? You've probably got some of these gadgets

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Speaker 1: in your house. Let's start with Amazon. They held an

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Speaker 2: Yes, I was invited, No, I did not go.

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Speaker 1: I was celebrating my kid's birthday this week, and I

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Speaker 1: I do what I can. But Amazon's game is to

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Speaker 1: what sticks. Usually they have pretty good prices on their

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Speaker 1: tech stuff, and this is what they came out with

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Speaker 1: new this time around, So new Kindle Scribes. These are

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Speaker 1: That's one trend we're seeing with all these screens is

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Speaker 1: The scribe starts at five hundred bucks, the color version

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Speaker 1: It's pretty wild to think that Ring can scour so

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Speaker 2: Be anything new about this year's Prime Day.

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Speaker 5: So around Prime Day, Amazon will launch special things on

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Speaker 5: it's totally worth it because we do see these other

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Speaker 5: retailers having sales as well. So it's good to use

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Speaker 5: a tool like Yahoo Shopping or Google Shopping. Enter the

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Speaker 5: name of the item that you're interested in, and then

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Speaker 5: you'll see where it's being sold in how much. PayPal

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Speaker 5: Honey has a historical pricing feature, as does a tool

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Speaker 5: called Camel Camel Camel, which is specific to Amazon, and

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Speaker 5: they will give you a sense of whether it's a

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Speaker 5: good deal right now or not. And I think it's

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Speaker 5: really good to use one or two of those tools

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Speaker 5: just to really get a sense of if this is

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Speaker 5: a great deal, it's the very best deal, and if

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Speaker 5: you should make.

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Speaker 2: Your move now. There's been so many Prime Days over

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Speaker 2: the years, and now twice a year, are we getting

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Speaker 2: Is there any sense of Prime Day fatigue among consumers?

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Speaker 5: So that's an interesting question. I mean, Amazon experimented in

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Speaker 5: July with a four day Prime Day, and from what

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Speaker 5: I could hear, people didn't need four days to shop

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Speaker 5: on Amazon. So they've pulled back and now they're at

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Speaker 5: two days. Again, I don't necessarily think there's fatigue. I

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Speaker 5: think that these Amazon Prime sales have created a shopping

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Speaker 5: moment one in July and one October. So I don't

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Speaker 5: think there's fatigue necessarily. But it's really important for Amazon

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Speaker 5: and these other retailers to keep things fresh and exciting,

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Speaker 5: because then, of course you do risk that fatigue if

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Speaker 5: it becomes kind of the same old, same old.

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Speaker 2: And what do you make about all this, anything that

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Speaker 2: people ask you about Prime Day or any observations on

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Speaker 2: this as someone who's covered shopping for a long time now, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean.

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Speaker 5: The main thing that question, the main question that comes

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Speaker 5: to me, and it's usually by DM. It's like what

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Speaker 5: should I buy?

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Speaker 6: What should I skip?

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Speaker 5: So I'm always trying to share that information in my

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Speaker 5: segments and on Instagram. I think that's a big question.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 5: Obviously we have those brands that Amazon owns where you

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Speaker 5: can really find those deep discounts. But then we do

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Speaker 5: see discounts on things like Apple products. I mean, that's

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Speaker 5: very exciting and that doesn't happen too much. The way

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Speaker 5: I like to approach Amazon Prime Day is what are

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Speaker 5: the things that I need maybe from my home, what

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Speaker 5: are the things that I'm maybe thinking of buying for

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Speaker 5: holiday gifts and then kind of approach it that way,

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Speaker 5: and I'm looking for deals. I'm only buying things that

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Speaker 5: are on sale on Amazon Prime Day because otherwise I

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Speaker 5: could just get.

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Speaker 2: Them another time. All right, there you have it.

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Speaker 1: Trey Bodge from Truetrey dot com Amazon Prime Day. My

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Speaker 1: advice every year is to put the items you want

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Speaker 1: in your like, stop buying stuff right now in Amazon

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Speaker 1: and just put the stuff you want in your cart,

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Speaker 1: and that way you can watch for price drops over

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Speaker 1: the next couple of days, because pretty much everything goes

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Speaker 1: on sale.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for that interview. That was great.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Hank in South Michigan. Hank Southeast Michigan.

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Speaker 7: You're on with Rich Southeast Michigan. I got you on

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Speaker 7: nine to ten am on my drive to work. This

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Speaker 7: is Saturday afternoon.

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Speaker 6: Love it Rich.

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Speaker 7: Rich. I just bought a brand new Gateway computer Windows

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Speaker 7: eleven unit because my ten year old Ace Windows ten.

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Speaker 7: Actually it was a Windows eight point one that I

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Speaker 7: upgraded at ten, but it's not upgradeable to eleven. So

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Speaker 7: I bought the eleven unit and I got it all

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Speaker 7: set up Microsoft of cloud one drive, transfer all my

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Speaker 7: settings and everything to the new computer. But I don't

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Speaker 7: know how to get my local files for my seed drive,

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Speaker 7: all my documents and photos that weren't on one drive,

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Speaker 7: and that to my new computer without you know. My

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Speaker 7: missile thought was just and I just did a USD

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Speaker 7: cord and and find the seed drive and transfer that.

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Speaker 7: But I don't want to clone it because I don't

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Speaker 7: want the operating No.

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Speaker 1: So what, there's a couple. I mean there's many many

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Speaker 1: ways you can do this. You can use a program.

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Speaker 1: But how I mean? Are we talking.

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Speaker 7: Without?

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Speaker 8: You know?

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Speaker 7: My missile thought was just and I just did a

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Speaker 7: USD cord and and find the seed drive and transfer that.

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Speaker 7: But I don't want to clone it because I don't

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Speaker 7: want the operating No.

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Speaker 1: So what, there's a couple. I mean, there's many many

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Speaker 1: ways you can do this. You can use a program.

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Speaker 1: But how I mean? Are we talking like terabytes of files?

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Speaker 1: Are we talking thousands of files?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 7: No, no, no, no. The the SSD on the new

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Speaker 7: computer is five to twelve okay, and the seed drive

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Speaker 7: on the old computer was one terabyte. But I think

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Speaker 7: I've only got I didn't look at it today but

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Speaker 7: I think there's maybe three hundred gigs total.

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Speaker 1: Do you have do you have a good well okay, do.

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Speaker 2: You have a good Internet connection?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I mean you've already got one drive. Is

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Speaker 1: one drive built into your old computer? Yes, okay, So

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Speaker 1: you can just create a folder on one drive as

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Speaker 1: long as you have some space there and just drag

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Speaker 1: all the files into there. And it's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a clim which I think is good anyway,

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Speaker 1: because you probably have a lot of stuff to accumulated

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Speaker 1: on that old computer.

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Speaker 2: But just go ahead and drag all the stuff that

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Speaker 2: you want.

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Speaker 1: And if you don't want to deal with it all,

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Speaker 1: as long as you have enough storage and one drive,

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Speaker 1: I think they give you like five gigs. As long

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Speaker 1: as you have enough in there, you can put in

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Speaker 1: all your files and there may you know, if you're

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Speaker 1: if you're talking a lot of videos and photos, then

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Speaker 1: you may have to get a USB drive like a

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Speaker 1: flash drive or a hard drive.

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Speaker 7: Okay, but that was my thought too. Get a couple

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Speaker 7: of decent size flash drives and just move those files

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Speaker 7: out of that and then plug it into the new computer.

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Speaker 1: And well, so here's here's how I attack this, Hank.

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Speaker 1: It all depends on how much you have to transfer.

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Speaker 1: So if it's a couple of gigabytes, go with the cloud.

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Speaker 2: It's easy.

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Speaker 1: You drop the files in on the one computer, they'll

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Speaker 1: show up on the other computer. If we're talking hundreds

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Speaker 1: of gigabytes, you may be able to get a flash drive,

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Speaker 1: but those get kind of expensive, you know, so and

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Speaker 1: they top out. You know, you can get one for

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Speaker 1: like one terabyte, two terabytes, but those are going to

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Speaker 1: be a lot more expensive than something like one hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty eight gigs. So Elf, my advice to you there,

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Speaker 1: to anyone listening when you're cleaning up your cloud drive,

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Speaker 1: slowly but surely, because I made the mistake of trying

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Speaker 1: to move like hundreds of gigabytes of stuff all at once.

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Speaker 1: It really messes up your computer. So slowly but surely

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Speaker 1: clean this stuff up. But Hank, I'm glad you got

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Speaker 1: onto the Windows eleven I know it's a big thing

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Speaker 1: with this Windows ten end of support. So glad you're

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Speaker 1: on the right page there and getting those old files

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Speaker 1: over again. Cloud drive, flash drive, hard drive, depending on

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Speaker 1: how much you have, easiest way to do it.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for the call.

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Speaker 1: Today. Appreciate you listening there on nine ten am in

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Speaker 1: Southeast Michigan eight eight eight rich one oh one eight

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

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Speaker 1: Coming up, We're going to take some more of your calls.

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Speaker 1: Plus I still have to promise you the the Google

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Speaker 1: stuff I'm going to talk about. Google came out with

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Speaker 1: the whole bunch of smart home stuff. Bobo producer Bobo's

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Speaker 1: talking about the rice increases from Microsoft on the game Pass.

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Speaker 1: We also have some price increases from Peloton. A lot

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Speaker 1: going on in the tech world. We'll talk about all

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Speaker 1: of it coming up right here.

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Speaker 2: I'm rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology at Triple A rich one

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Speaker 2: I see we've got a caller.

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Speaker 1: Carla wants to talk about the Taylor Swift film last night.

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Speaker 1: I guess they they screened it in the movie theaters,

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Speaker 1: like if you're a real diehard. So we'll see if

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Speaker 1: we can get to her in just a bit.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: But first Tim writes in, I've been listening to you

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Speaker 1: for years. I love the weekend show on the Radio.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Tim. I usually buy otter box to protect

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Speaker 1: my phone, but I just purchased the new iPhone seventeen Promax.

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Speaker 1: Nice going. Do you have any cases you recommend? Oh,

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Speaker 1: my gosh, of course. You know how many cases I

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Speaker 1: get sent when a new phone comes out. It's so

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Speaker 1: many that I can't even Literally, I'm sitting there just

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Speaker 1: trying them all on my phone to see what which

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Speaker 1: one I like. I'll tell you the ones I like,

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Speaker 1: over and over and over. And by the way, I

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Speaker 1: did drop my iPhone seventeen Pro Max and it did

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Speaker 1: suffer some damage even with a case on. And that's

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Speaker 1: not a case I'm going to recommend, So that's not

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Speaker 1: None of the recommendations I'm about to.

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Speaker 2: Give you were the one that was on when I

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Speaker 1: But if you want something, I like something that's thin

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Speaker 1: and simple and usually clear to show off the color

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Speaker 1: of the phone. So if you like that outer box

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Speaker 1: symmetry you mentioned, outter box auto box symmetry I think

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Speaker 1: is great. It's simple, it's clean, it's clear. I love

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Speaker 1: that and it's a great great protection for your phone.

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Speaker 1: UAG if you've heard of them urban armor gear, that's

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Speaker 1: what it stands for. They make really rugged styles, so

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Speaker 1: some of their cases I think can are drop tested

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Speaker 1: up to like eighteen feet, so it all sort of depends.

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Speaker 1: And they have some cool it's just cool looks. They

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Speaker 1: do less of the clear stuff, but they do a

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Speaker 1: lot of like looking cases. And then if you just

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Speaker 1: want the case that I put on every single one

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Speaker 1: of my test phones as soon as I get it,

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Speaker 1: except this new one, I like the Spegan Ultra Hybrid,

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Speaker 1: which is just a simple clear case has got the

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Speaker 1: charging ring on the back, and it's like dirt cheap.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can get those on Amazon for under

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Speaker 1: twenty five bucks usually and it works. I've dropped many

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Speaker 1: phones with that on there and it just works perfectly.

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Speaker 1: So those are my choices. There are many many others

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Speaker 1: out there, but those are the ones that I really

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Speaker 1: Newest wireless charging standard. It's faster than it was before.

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Speaker 1: not your cable. The USBC is still fine, but this

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Speaker 1: you on Amazon. I think it's about twenty five bucks. Anyway.

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Speaker 1: Gear of the Week, thanks to shop Back. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to Let's go to Carla. Let's hear Carla. How was

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Speaker 1: the Taylor Swift film last night?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 9: Hi, Rich, thank you for talking with me today.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, how was it?

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Speaker 9: Well, you know, I want to we heard you talking

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Speaker 9: about Taylor Swift and your reaction. We feel it was

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Speaker 9: a little muted her because your boys went a little

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Speaker 9: higher when you said it was good.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I mean, look, yeah, go ahead, keep going.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: So, my daughter and I, you know, I'm a moderate

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Speaker 10: adult swiftie and my daughter, she's thirty, and we went

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Speaker 10: to you know, I bought tickets last week and we

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Speaker 10: head down to Century City to watch.

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Speaker 11: The film.

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Speaker 9: And we had to leave because we started laughing because

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Speaker 9: our expectations were completely different from what we were seeing

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Speaker 9: on the screen.

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Speaker 2: What was on the screen.

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Speaker 9: Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how old your

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Speaker 9: kids are, but I would say a seventh or eighth

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Speaker 9: grader would have probably been able to produce a film

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Speaker 9: that was just higher quality than I would expect from

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Speaker 9: this list.

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, Okay, that's not right.

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Speaker 10: And I'll tell you I'm a little nervous because I

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Speaker 10: feel like we're not going to get honest reviews.

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Speaker 1: Well, we got one from you, we got I got

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Speaker 1: a run. But sounds like, look, as with anything in

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Speaker 1: pop culture, reviews are going to be mixed. Eight to

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Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one back after this. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology at

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

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Show notes are

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Speaker 1: up at the website. Just go to rich on tech

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Speaker 1: dot tv. This is episode one forty Show notes are

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Speaker 1: up at the website. Just go to rich on tech

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Speaker 1: dot tv. This is episode one forty two. And if

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Speaker 1: the email listening on KOA, Hey, Rich, I love the show.

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Speaker 1: My question is the al one of to switch or

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Speaker 1: not to switch from a Samsung S twenty two plus

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Speaker 1: to an iPhone. The reason is aging mom and mother

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Speaker 1: in law both live independently and have new medical issues.

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Speaker 1: I want to track them FaceTime with them and their

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Speaker 1: medical teams. Additional factors out of state daughter is also

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Speaker 1: an iPhone. Most important feature beyond beyond what I stated

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Speaker 1: above is photo quality. I do consider myself tech savy

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Speaker 1: thoughts suggestions, thanks Laura. Yes, well, okay, She says she

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Speaker 1: used a Microsoft Surface and a Samsung tablet, which is

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Speaker 1: mostly used for reading.

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Speaker 2: I would say switch because.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna find that it's going to be easier to

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Speaker 1: keep in touch with these folks because of the FaceTime situation.

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Speaker 1: As much as I hate that whole FaceTime thing, like

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Speaker 1: the fact that it's a you know, yes, you can

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Speaker 1: FaceTime someone on Android, but it's not very easy.

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Speaker 2: You gotta sent them a link and all this stuff.

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Speaker 2: Like Apple, please just.

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Speaker 1: Come out with an app make these things independent where

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Speaker 1: you can use face time on an Android. You can

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Speaker 1: use I message on an Android, just please make these apps.

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Speaker 1: Why are we dividing folks, Let's bring them together. So anyway,

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Speaker 1: until that happens, you do have to switch. And I

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Speaker 1: would say switch because the medical stuff that you're talking about,

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Speaker 1: a lot of those things work better with the iPhone.

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Speaker 1: The tracking you can all be on find my FaceTime

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Speaker 1: is simple, medical teams. It's just a lot easier when

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Speaker 1: you're all on the same page. So for that reason,

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Speaker 1: i'd say switch. Otherwise, I typically tell people stick with

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Speaker 1: what you like, but I think it sounds like in

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Speaker 1: this situation it might be a better fit. Now let's

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Speaker 1: go to the other side of things. Debbie is wondering

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Speaker 1: about Debbie and Murieta. You're worrying about Gemini.

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Speaker 2: What's up?

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Speaker 12: Yes, Hi, Rich, thank you for your show. First of all,

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Speaker 12: great information.

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Speaker 2: Happy to do it. Thank you.

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Speaker 12: Yes, I have a question for you about Gemini on

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Speaker 12: the cell phone. And I just bought a new samsong

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Speaker 12: a sixteen to five g okay, a cell phone, Okay,

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Speaker 12: So I was using it. I started to use it.

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Speaker 12: Everything's going fine, nobody said anything about Gemini whatever. I

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Speaker 12: had it for about two days and then all of

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Speaker 12: a sudden, a screen came up and a prompt and

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Speaker 12: it said, would you like Gemini something like this, would

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Speaker 12: you like Gemini loaded? To load Gemini on your phone

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Speaker 12: for efficiency or something like that, better use see your phone.

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Speaker 12: I'm a senior. I'm kind of reluctant about that. I

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Speaker 12: didn't want that option. So I was like, oh, no, no, no,

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Speaker 12: I don't want this. And before I could even do anything,

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Speaker 12: I swear I didn't phone. It's all there, all of

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Speaker 12: a sudden, I've got Gemini, Well my phone?

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Speaker 2: What what are you worried about? What don't what don't

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Speaker 2: you want about? It? Is it the AI aspect?

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Speaker 12: Okay? Rich It's it's like I feel like it's taking

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Speaker 12: over my phone. It started doing things. It changed things

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Speaker 12: on my phone immediately, like it went to a dark

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Speaker 12: screen for better efficiency of the battery or whatever. I

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Speaker 12: don't want a dark screen. I don't want that. So

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Speaker 12: it started doing that, and then the other thing, I'm

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Speaker 12: having trouble shutting it off, and then it constantly is

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Speaker 12: giving me these prompts about AI. Do you want as.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I think I think I know what's happening.

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Speaker 1: So I think that a simple reassignment of the power

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Speaker 1: button might help.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So basically, once you have AI, the side button turns

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Speaker 1: into the Google Assistant.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So I think if you go into your settings okay,

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Speaker 1: and I think this, I think that's gonna this is

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Speaker 1: gonna make you a lot happier.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you.

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Speaker 1: Yes, uh, you go go into your settings and you

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Speaker 1: go into Advanced Features and underside button and I will

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Speaker 1: I will tell you how to find this in a second.

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Speaker 1: But under side button right now, your long press. If

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Speaker 1: you press your side button, like if you want to

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Speaker 1: turn off your phone, it's bringing up Google Assistant, which

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Speaker 1: is Gemini, right, and it's like.

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Speaker 2: Saying all this UF.

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Speaker 13: You don't want that, that's right.

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Speaker 14: You want to go.

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Speaker 1: Back to the old school method of powering off your phone.

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Speaker 2: You press the power button.

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Speaker 1: So all you have to do is go into that

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Speaker 1: long press menu and it says Google Assistant, Bixby or

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Speaker 1: power off menu. Once you select power off menu. Now

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Speaker 1: when you press your power button, your phone will actually

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Speaker 1: turn off. Oh my gosh, there's an idea. People spend

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Speaker 1: hours trying to figure out how to turn off their

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Speaker 1: phone because the side button's been reassigned to all those things.

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Speaker 12: So, yes, I talked to other people. It's a common process.

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Speaker 1: It is a common problem just in the future, and

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Speaker 1: I'm testing this right now in the future. I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out how to There is a way to

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Speaker 1: turn off your phone like manually. If you swipe down

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Speaker 1: from the upper right hand there's a little power button.

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Speaker 13: But I tried that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, anyway, so here's so here's I got to find

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Speaker 1: out how to how to get to this advanced features.

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Speaker 1: So if you go into your settings, uh, and then uh,

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Speaker 1: let's see here advanced features. Okay, Okay, got that, and

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Speaker 1: then we're going to go to side button to see that.

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Speaker 2: Right now, you see where it says long press digital assistant.

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Speaker 12: Okay, I'm just I'm taking notes on back and I'll.

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Speaker 2: Put these in the show notes as well.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, you press as long as you tap words

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Speaker 1: says long press, and you switch it from where it

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Speaker 1: says digital assistant to power off menu and Debbie, I

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00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: think that's going to save you a lot of headaches

877
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: over the time. Now, Google Assistant, when you want to

878
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: call it up, if you want to, you can always

879
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: just open up the Gemini app to activate it. You

880
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 1: could also say hey Google to your phone that may

881
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 1: activate it. But I think just having that power button

882
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 1: reassigned to the actual power is going to make a

883
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: big difference.

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00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 12: Okay, Rich, Still that's one problem with so turn up.

885
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 12: But let me ask you this second part question.

886
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 2: Sorry, but how do I charge for the second?

887
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 12: I want to get gem Andi like off my phone.

888
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 12: It's on my phone now, and I went into the

889
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,479
Speaker 12: carrier store and even they don't know how to shut

890
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:56,839
Speaker 12: it down.

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00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 1: There you can't, you can't. I've looked into it.

892
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 2: There really not all.

893
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: There's not a way, not an easy way that I

894
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: know of, to disable it. But here's the thing, Debbie,

895
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 1: embrace it. Embrace the AI. Have some fun with it,

896
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 1: ask it, some fun questions.

897
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 2: Ask it.

898
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: Here's what's what I think gets people when you can

899
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: ask it a really complex question, maybe something from your childhood,

900
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: maybe a movie that you love.

901
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 2: Like it.

902
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 12: It's true, I've already done that. I do like it

903
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 12: for that, but I don't want it loaded on my phone.

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00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 14: I like when you have.

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00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 12: Old style and it says AI answer to that, yes

906
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 12: that you're right. It's great, it's great. But I so

907
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 12: there's no way to once it's loaded, No no getting at.

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00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 1: All there's not an easy way. I will I will

909
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 1: look into an easier way, but there's not like a switch.

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00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: Let's put it that way, because these things, you know,

911
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: these companies are making. You know, this is the future

912
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 1: of Google and and Apple, and they all want to

913
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 1: put this stuff on us. And right now they're not

914
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: giving us the off switch. But the other thing you're

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00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:56,919
Speaker 1: talking about, and thanks for the call, by the way,

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00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: is the dark mode I think you were talking about.

917
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: You're just dark mode went on on your screen, So

918
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 1: you can go into your display settings and turn that

919
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: feature off. So if you want your phone to you know,

920
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: like my phone goes into dark mode at night and

921
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:12,359
Speaker 1: then in the morning and then it comes into the

922
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: standard mode throughout the day. But you can go into

923
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: display and you'll see it says dark mode settings and

924
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: you may have turn on as scheduled. You can just

925
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,840
Speaker 1: toggle that switch off and you can also see the

926
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 1: setting to go dark or light. Thanks for the call,

927
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: Debbie and Mirietta really appreciate it. I know this stuff.

928
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 1: These companies like to change stuff, and it's kind of

929
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 1: their way or the highway a lot of the times,

930
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: and they're like, you know, we're changing this.

931
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 2: You have to deal with it.

932
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 1: And you know, millions of people are using these devices,

933
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 1: and so when something changes substantially, it affects a lot

934
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 1: of people all at once.

935
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 2: What do we have about two minutes? Two minutes?

936
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna try to get through this this Google stuff.

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00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: So Google, you know, we talked about the Gemini stuff.

938
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:58,879
Speaker 1: Google had their own hardware announcements this week. No fancy event,

939
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 1: just pressure releases. But the the main thing to know,

940
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 1: as we just spoke, is that Gemini is going to

941
00:45:04,280 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 1: replace Google Assistant on your smart home speakers.

942
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:08,400
Speaker 2: That is rolling out right now.

943
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 6: Now.

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00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: I know that deb was not a fan of Gemini,

945
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:13,759
Speaker 1: you know, being forced on her phone, but I think

946
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 1: it's actually pretty good on the speakers because it's going

947
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:18,320
Speaker 1: to be much more helpful. It's going to be a

948
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,959
Speaker 1: lot smarter. It can answer complex questions. You can also

949
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 1: have natural conversations, so that means you'll be able to

950
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:28,840
Speaker 1: control your smart home more easily. The other thing, another change.

951
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 1: The Google Home app is getting a big redesign. You

952
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 1: might have already seen it. It just hit mine yesterday.

953
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:36,800
Speaker 1: It looks a little bit different, some things are moved around,

954
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:38,840
Speaker 1: but I think I can get used to that. The

955
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: big new feature is called Ask Home. This means you

956
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,919
Speaker 1: can use AI to ask questions about things that your

957
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 1: camera sees. You can say, hey, find the red bicycle

958
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 1: that went in front of my house yesterday, and it

959
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: will find that footage on your camera. The other nice

960
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: thing is that if you're paying for Google One, So

961
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: if you're paying for AI or storage through Google, you're

962
00:45:57,640 --> 00:46:00,359
Speaker 1: now going to get more premium features included in your

963
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 1: Google Home products, like your cameras and your Nest So

964
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:08,399
Speaker 1: you might have more features and included now, like more

965
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 1: recording history. And by the way, Gemini is going to

966
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: go on all Google Home devices and Nest devices shipped

967
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 1: in the past decades, So if you have one of

968
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 1: these things in home, you're probably going to be hearing

969
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: a new Gemini voice that's going to be a little perkier,

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00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: a little more excited to talk to you than Google

971
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:26,360
Speaker 1: Assistant was.

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00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 2: They also have a couple.

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00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 1: Of new cameras and doorbells, so those are getting better,

974
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: and then they're going to start selling Google cameras at Walmart,

975
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: So twenty three dollars for an indoor camera at Walmart

976
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: for their on brand, and then fifty dollars for a

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00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 1: wired doorbell. Of course, all through Google as well. The

978
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: name of the game is AI. Again, we just talked

979
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 1: about it. If you have Google or Amazon, everything is

980
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: getting these smart upgrades. Apple, where are you? We're still

981
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,399
Speaker 1: waiting on your smart home strategy. What's going on there?

982
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:59,319
Speaker 1: They've been kind of a slow go. All right, good conversations,

983
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:01,319
Speaker 1: good calls. We'll take more of them after this. Eight

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

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. My name is Richdimiro,

986
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:09,280
Speaker 1: and you are doing something smart for yourself.

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00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 2: You are listening to rich on tech. Welcome back to

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00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:17,800
Speaker 2: rich on tech.

989
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 1: Meta is going to start using your chats with AI

990
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:28,760
Speaker 1: to personalize the ads that you see on Facebook and Instagram.

991
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:33,880
Speaker 1: Yes you heard me right, So anything you say canon

992
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:35,359
Speaker 1: will be used.

993
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 2: To show you ads. Uh so.

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00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: This is with Meta AI. So if you are chatting

995
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 1: with Meta AI. Uh So, for example, if you ask

996
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 1: about hiking, you're asking about trails. Whatever your vacation, you

997
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 1: may start seeing ads for hiking trail. Uh you know,

998
00:47:55,920 --> 00:48:00,080
Speaker 1: hiking boots, you may see ads for anything related to that.

999
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 1: Or let's say you say you're going to Hawaii, you

1000
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: might see ads for Hawaii hotels. You're going to start

1001
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 1: getting notifications about this this week and then changes. So

1002
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:16,760
Speaker 1: this will take effect on December sixteenth. So until then,

1003
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: anything you say will be fine, won't It won't be

1004
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 1: used for this new ad gathering, but after December sixteenth,

1005
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: it will be. Meta says more than a billion people

1006
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 1: use Meta ai every month, and this is everything else

1007
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 1: that you know. This goes into everything else that Meta

1008
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 1: collects about you, your likes, your comments.

1009
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 2: Who you follow.

1010
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 1: That all shapes the things that you see on Instagram.

1011
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 1: People are always saying, oh, Instagram's listening, Facebook's listening to

1012
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:46,720
Speaker 1: my phone. They're not listening to your phone. You're doing

1013
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:49,360
Speaker 1: all these things on your phone that they are noticing.

1014
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:54,360
Speaker 1: So when you like an artist because they just posted

1015
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: something to Instagram, they're going to show you ads for

1016
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: that artist concert coming up.

1017
00:48:58,280 --> 00:48:59,240
Speaker 2: That's how this works.

1018
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 1: This is this is very sophisticated and there's a lot

1019
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:07,399
Speaker 1: of signals that go into the ads that you see,

1020
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 1: and that's why they're so good. Meta might be the

1021
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 1: best at ads because we give it the information, we

1022
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 1: feed it where we're going, what we're doing, and by

1023
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: the way, they have the location of our phone at

1024
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:21,760
Speaker 1: all times, so when you're on vacation in another state,

1025
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 1: they can start serving you ads for that too. In

1026
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 1: addition to everything else you've looked up over the past,

1027
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 1: you know, twenty five years of using Instagram. Meta says

1028
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 1: sensitive topics like political, health, religion, all the fun stuff

1029
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 1: to talk about around the dinner table, that's all off off,

1030
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:44,720
Speaker 1: off limits for AI ads. They're not going to use that, thankfully.

1031
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 1: You cannot turn off. You can't opt out of this.

1032
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 1: You can adjust what you see, but you can't entirely

1033
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: turn off this anyway. So just remember anything you say

1034
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: to AI on Meta is going to be used for

1035
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 1: ads on Facebook and Instagram or Messenger. Speaking of wild stuff,

1036
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:09,360
Speaker 1: open ai released this new app called Sora, and it

1037
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:11,240
Speaker 1: is basically a deep fake.

1038
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 2: Version of Instagram.

1039
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 1: And if you want to see an example, go to

1040
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 1: my Instagram average on tech I posted a video that

1041
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 1: I created of myself.

1042
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:20,560
Speaker 2: It's a deep fake video. It's a fake video of me.

1043
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: Now they call it something nice, they call it a cameo,

1044
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 1: so it sounds nice and sweet and you know, not dangerous,

1045
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 1: but it's really a deep fake. It's a fake version

1046
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: of you saying something. By the way, So Sora is

1047
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 1: Sora too is open Ay's new audio and video model.

1048
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:41,280
Speaker 1: It's much more realistic at making things than before videos.

1049
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 1: And then they came out with this app that uses

1050
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:46,240
Speaker 1: Sora on the back end, and it's also called Sora.

1051
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 1: It's a iPhone only. It's invite only right now, so

1052
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: you have to know someone to get it. But basically,

1053
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:55,080
Speaker 1: you take a little video of yourself in the app.

1054
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: It only takes about ten seconds. You record yourself, you

1055
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 1: look you left, you look left, you look right, and

1056
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:03,399
Speaker 1: you say a couple numbers to the phone and then

1057
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 1: it uses that to make videos of you, and you

1058
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:09,360
Speaker 1: make the videos, or your friends can also make videos

1059
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 1: of you, including you.

1060
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is just wild.

1061
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 1: I mean it's really like, I'm actually surprised that open

1062
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 1: ay launched this so easily without a lot of uproar.

1063
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:20,360
Speaker 2: Maybe there is a lot of uproar.

1064
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:26,120
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but it's pretty much they've put guardrails

1065
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 1: in place so you can't make things that are you know,

1066
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:32,319
Speaker 1: political videos, this kind of stuff. You know, it's kind

1067
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 1: of fun videos like you could say, put me riding

1068
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:37,320
Speaker 1: a roller coaster, a wild roller coaster through flames or

1069
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:38,879
Speaker 1: whatever and they'll do that, but they won't do other

1070
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: stuff that might be a little bit dicey. Anyway, Sora

1071
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 1: is pretty popular already in the app store, and I

1072
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:48,799
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm like blown away that this is a

1073
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: thing right now. It's just one of those things that

1074
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 1: you see and you're like okay now. And by the way,

1075
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:57,360
Speaker 1: the Sora app itself is pretty much a version of Instagram,

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00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:00,279
Speaker 1: but filled with all these fake videos of people of

1077
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 1: your friends, so it's like interesting. Like you see your friend,

1078
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: like you know, as a farmer or something, you know,

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00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:10,240
Speaker 1: and they're doing something wild and you're like, Okay, that's crazy.

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00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 1: And then you see another crazy video and another crazy video.

1081
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:14,319
Speaker 1: And if you see a crazy video that you like,

1082
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: you can remix that with yourself in that video.

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00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 2: It's just anyway, check it out. It's called Sora.

1084
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 1: I'm on there at rich On Tech if you want

1085
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 1: to see me, but you can also see the video

1086
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: that I posted. You can download these videos that it

1087
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 1: generates and put them on your Instagram or other places.

1088
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 1: So I put out on my Instagram at rich On Tech.

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00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: I said, does it give me the prompt of what

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Speaker 1: I said to make you can basically prompt it with anything.

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Speaker 2: But I said, uh, let's see. Does it give?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I said, how about a video of me saying

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Speaker 1: you should listen to my radio show in a cool

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Speaker 1: radio studio, futuristic, high above the city scape.

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Speaker 2: And that's what it came up with. So you can

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Speaker 2: see what that looks like. Uh, you said, two minutes?

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Speaker 2: Oh see here?

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Speaker 1: Oh one? Now, oh my god. By the time I

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Speaker 1: get to a call, it'll be zero. All right, I'll

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00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:02,279
Speaker 1: do an email because a little bit simpler to get

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Speaker 1: to here. Sherry writes in We've had Verizon for mobile

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Speaker 1: and Spectrum for internet, but Spectrum just raised our bill

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00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:10,880
Speaker 1: by twenty five dollars a month after telling us our

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00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 1: rate was locked. When I called, the rep actually said

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00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 1: it's a game. Wait until your bill closes, then threaten

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Speaker 1: to leave. I told her it's not a game, and

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Speaker 1: we're canceling. So my question is, viewer fifty five, who

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00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 1: would you pick for home internet? Maybe bundled with mobile?

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Speaker 1: I work from home sometimes, so reliability is huge. Do

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Speaker 1: any providers not raise prices after the first year? The

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Speaker 1: price hikes are a part of this world. Sadly they've

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00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: been going on forever, And yes it is somewhat of

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00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:41,359
Speaker 1: a game. Some companies will play with you and kind

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Speaker 1: of give you a better deal if you say I'm leaving.

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00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:45,919
Speaker 1: Some won't. Last time I called my company was like, Nope,

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Speaker 1: we don't care.

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Speaker 2: You can leave.

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Speaker 1: We don't change prices. Spectrum, I think may play ball

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Speaker 1: a little bit more. If you can get fiber in

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00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 1: your area, that's always my first pick. It's the fastest

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00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 1: and most reliable. You can also look into wireless home

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00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 1: options from T Mobile or they have good prices right now.

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Speaker 1: Just make sure you have a good signal and good speed.

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Speaker 1: Do a speed test on your phone or a friend's

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Speaker 1: phone before you sign up. All right, coming up, we're

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Speaker 1: going to talk all things Apple and smart home and

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Speaker 1: shortcuts and all things Apple coming up next right here

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

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

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Speaker 1: Triple eight Rich one O one. That's eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. Joining me

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Speaker 1: now is Steven Roblez. He is a tech journalist and

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00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:38,880
Speaker 1: content creator, and he had a shortcut go viral recently

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Speaker 1: that would basically help you locate your stolen iPhone.

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Speaker 2: Steven, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks so much for having me. So first off,

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Speaker 1: give me the website. Where do you post all your stuff?

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Speaker 3: I mean you can go to beardfm. That's my website

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00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:58,319
Speaker 3: and have links to my YouTube channel where most of

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00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:00,760
Speaker 3: my content is. And yeah, find on my up there.

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Speaker 2: And beard fm.

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Speaker 1: So I must have gotten The reason I got in

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Speaker 1: touch with you is because I must have gotten like

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00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:09,319
Speaker 1: twenty people that sent me your real about this shortcut

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Speaker 1: that you know does all these things if your iPhone

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Speaker 1: gets stolen. So explain to me, first off, what do

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00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:17,040
Speaker 1: you do typically, Like what do you cover most of

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00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:18,560
Speaker 1: the time, Like, what do you focus on?

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Speaker 2: And then tell me about this shortcut how it came

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Speaker 2: to be.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll to cover a lot of iPhone tips, Apple software,

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00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:27,359
Speaker 3: I'll do hardware reviews as well, but a big part

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00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:29,759
Speaker 3: of my content is Shortcuts, which is an app that's

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00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 3: on every iPhone, iPad and the mech And what's really

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00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:35,560
Speaker 3: powerful is you can automate a ton of stuff everything

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00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 3: from being as simple as when my battery falls below

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Speaker 3: twenty percent, turn on low power mode automatically. That's just

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00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:44,400
Speaker 3: simple one that a lot of people could probably benefit from.

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Speaker 3: But you can create more complex shortcuts that are also

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Speaker 3: triggered via automations. And so I actually seen someone post about, oh,

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Speaker 3: here's some shortcut things you can do when someone steals

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Speaker 3: your phone, and I kind of wanted to take it

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Speaker 3: to the end degree. What can you do? And basically

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Speaker 3: one of the triggers can be when someone texts you

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Speaker 3: with a certain phrase, it can fire off a shortcut,

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Speaker 3: and a shortcut can do a number of things like

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Speaker 3: turn on low power mode so your battery will last longer.

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Speaker 3: It can take a picture from the front facing or

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Speaker 3: rear facing camera and then automatically texted back to the

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Speaker 3: number that texted the phone. It can play a sound

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Speaker 3: like this phone is stolen out loud of the out

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Speaker 3: of the speaker, and you can even disable silent mode

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Speaker 3: and turn the volume all the way up. All of

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Speaker 3: those you can do inside of a shortcut action. And

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Speaker 3: that's the one I created that you can download. I

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Speaker 3: think it's a beard dot FM slash stolen and you

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Speaker 3: can just download that shortcut and run it yourself.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe that the iPhones, you can text the

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Speaker 1: phone and the shortcut app is like sort of monitoring

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Speaker 1: the text for that whatever you say, that keyword is well,

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Speaker 1: and Shortcuts.

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Speaker 3: Is built by Apple. Apple it's Apple's application, and so

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Speaker 3: it is access to the phone you're you know, it

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Speaker 3: can be triggered by emails that come into your phone

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Speaker 3: to text messages. And I've actually had a lot of

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Speaker 3: my followers and community ask for those text automated responses

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00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:03,680
Speaker 3: for people who have clients and businesses because they want

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Speaker 3: to when they're on vacation to be able to auto

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Speaker 3: respond to texts but not have to do it themselves.

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Speaker 3: And so I have helped people create where if someone

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Speaker 3: texts you that's not in your context, or if it's

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Speaker 3: anyone besides these two or three people like your family,

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Speaker 3: that it's going to fire off an auto response that says, hey,

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Speaker 3: I'm on vacation. And so that's not something you can

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Speaker 3: do in the text message by default. You can do

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Speaker 3: it for your email. But a lot of contractors and

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Speaker 3: people who work in like that kind of field, they

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Speaker 3: get a lot of texts, and so little automations like

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Speaker 3: that for texts emails they can be really useful for people.

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Speaker 2: That's really interesting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure you're aware of this app, but you know,

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Speaker 1: I used to be an Android guy, like through and

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Speaker 1: through and I what I liked about it is because

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Speaker 1: it lets you tinker with things more than the iPhone.

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Speaker 1: And they had this app called Tasker and that was

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Speaker 1: like it, but it was so nerdy. I mean like

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Speaker 1: like shortcuts is nerdy, but it's like you can, you know,

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Speaker 1: the average person can kind of see and create a

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Speaker 1: couple of simple things on their own. Tasker was like really,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's like you have to really take a

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Speaker 1: deep dive into like all these automation things, but you

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Speaker 1: could do make your phone do whatever you want. And

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Speaker 1: so I was very surprised when Apple brought shortcuts to

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Speaker 1: the iPhone because it's really like it's simple but very powerful.

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Speaker 3: One it's powerful because one I've I have Android phones

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Speaker 3: and I use Tasker because I have tried to use it.

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Speaker 3: It's actually not as powerful as shortcuts, because every one

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Speaker 3: of my YouTube videos where I talk about shortcuts, someone

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Speaker 3: will inadvertently comment, oh, Tasker for Android does all this.

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Speaker 3: It actually does not have as many actions and capabilities

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Speaker 3: as shortcuts. With shortcuts, you can use APIs from third

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Speaker 3: party websites and developers. So I have a shortcut that

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Speaker 3: uses the movie database API, where I can search for

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Speaker 3: a movie find out where to stream it, get the

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Speaker 3: link exactly to stream it, and then add that information

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Speaker 3: to my Apple Notes. And that's something I can do

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Speaker 3: all within shortcuts, and you can build upon that with

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Speaker 3: external sources. Make dot com is another great resource that

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Speaker 3: can integrate with shortcuts using some of those web hooks.

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Speaker 3: But Apple Intelligence actually just came out with io was

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Speaker 3: twenty six built into shortcuts, and not a lot of

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Speaker 3: people know about this because shortcuts still struggling to get mainstream,

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Speaker 3: but those Apple Intelligence actions are actually really powerful. And

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Speaker 3: another reel that went viral was actually to save recipes

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Speaker 3: that you see in incogram reels two notes, and I

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00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 3: actually created a shortcut that uses Apple Intelligence to pull

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Speaker 3: the caption. So if the creator put the ingredients and

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00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 3: the steps in the caption, it will get the raw HTML,

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Speaker 3: it will pull those ingredients out, format it nicely, format

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Speaker 3: the steps, and then create an Apple note with that

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00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:32,360
Speaker 3: recipe and a link back to the reel. And that'll

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00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 3: also one viral. You can get that one at beard

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00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 3: dot fm slash recipe. Oh my, I mean you just

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Speaker 3: sold me on that one. That's that's an incredible thing.

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Speaker 3: I was just literally.

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Speaker 1: Saving a recipe from Instagram yesterday and I was like

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00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 1: copying and pasting and like all this time. I put

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00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:51,760
Speaker 1: into chat ebt to like, you know, hey, clean this up,

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Speaker 1: like all this stuff, but this is great. I mean,

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00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 1: so you've got okay, So she had the stolen one

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Speaker 1: go viral, you had the the AI recipe to notes

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Speaker 1: go viral. What really resonates with your followers?

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Speaker 3: You know, it's all about everyone has very specific needs,

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01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 3: and so a lot of my content is just tweaking

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Speaker 3: shortcuts to be specific to certain people. And so like

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Speaker 3: I've had airline pilots reach out to me and say,

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Speaker 3: can you create a shortcut that when I run it,

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Speaker 3: I will run it at the hotel that I arrive at.

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Speaker 3: I can put my room number in and it finds

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Speaker 3: restaurants near me, and then when I run it again,

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Speaker 3: it'll get me walking directions back to the hotel and

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Speaker 3: remind me of my room number. And so just that

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01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:32,280
Speaker 3: simple thing, which a lot of people could use it

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Speaker 3: if you travel a lot to go on vacation. But

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Speaker 3: when people realize that you can tailor shortcuts to really

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01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 3: meet your specific need and ease your workflows, that's when

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Speaker 3: it really starts becoming powerful and resonates with people, and

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Speaker 3: I could not create the amount of content I do

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Speaker 3: without shortcuts. I have shortcuts that pulls news from RSS

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01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:52,960
Speaker 3: feeds from popular websites, runs those articles through chat GPT,

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Speaker 3: summarizes them and turns them into a podcast, a script

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Speaker 3: for a daily news show, and I can do it

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Speaker 3: all with one click and it happens in the background.

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Speaker 3: And even as simple as like well, I create a

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01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:04,400
Speaker 3: daily journal and I just want to be able to

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Speaker 3: create a note with today's date, a couple headings, and

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Speaker 3: I don't want to have to type or copy and

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Speaker 3: paste that every day. Well, a shortcut can do that.

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Speaker 3: And I created a shortcut that when you tap it,

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01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:15,360
Speaker 3: it creates an Apple note, says today's date up at

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Speaker 3: the top, a couple headings, and prompts some questions and

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01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:19,480
Speaker 3: then people can get off writing. And so just a

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01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:22,240
Speaker 3: little simple like that just takes one shortcut that you

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01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:24,720
Speaker 3: could use every day, and it starts you on the

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Speaker 3: rabbit's trail of finding some great ones.

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Speaker 1: Again, we're talking with Steven Roblez at Beard dot Fm.

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01:01:31,960 --> 01:01:36,080
Speaker 1: He does YouTube videos reels and he primarily talks about

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Speaker 1: the Apple ecosystem and especially shortcuts on your phone making

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Speaker 1: your phone do all these cool things. The app, if

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01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:44,640
Speaker 1: you want to find it on your phone, it's pre

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01:01:44,720 --> 01:01:47,480
Speaker 1: installed on the iPhone. It's called Shortcuts, and you can

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01:01:47,520 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 1: go in there and just see some of the things

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01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:51,080
Speaker 1: that you're able to do that are kind of pre loaded.

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Speaker 1: But then you can also create your own or you

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01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 1: can import these from other places. So if you go

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Speaker 1: to Steven's website and you find something you like, like

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Speaker 1: you just mentioned this stolen phone one the recipes shortcut,

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Speaker 1: you can just bring those into your system kind of

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Speaker 1: like someone else did the programming for you. So that's

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Speaker 1: another fun thing about this community is that people come

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Speaker 1: up with these and they share the shortcuts that work.

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Speaker 1: Is there any danger in downloading a shortcut that you

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Speaker 1: find online that could do something nefarious to your phone?

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Speaker 3: You know, you do need to be careful. It is

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Speaker 3: possible not for shortcuts to like install viruses or get

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Speaker 3: your information. But you know, you can create a shortcut

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Speaker 3: that automatically emails some information or like pulls your device

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Speaker 3: infoe and then text to someone. But what's great is

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Speaker 3: it's always going to warn you before you download the shortcut.

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Speaker 3: You can always go in and see the actions and

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Speaker 3: if you see one that looks too complicated, then just

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Speaker 3: don't install it. You know, you don't have to put

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Speaker 3: it on your phone before previewing.

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Speaker 13: Just tap.

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Speaker 3: When you tap a shortcut link, you just have a

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Speaker 3: little three dots and you can kind of see how

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Speaker 3: it's built. Get them from a trusted source. Of course,

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Speaker 3: there's actually an amazing Reddit community are slash shortcuts that

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Speaker 3: build shortcut It's there, and that's why I also created

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Speaker 3: a private community where we just talk about shortcuts. I

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Speaker 3: share some that I don't put in videos, and I

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Speaker 3: just put one there and I'll just I can't actually

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Speaker 3: share share this one on YouTube because it's against their

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Speaker 3: community guidelines, but I'll share it on your show with

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Speaker 3: no guidelines. Well, the reason why video Yes, okay, yes,

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Speaker 3: it's to download YouTube video, but more so to be

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Speaker 3: able to do it through shortcuts in your phone. And

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Speaker 3: what I've done is I created this Rube Goldberg machine

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Speaker 3: where I use an app on my iPhone called Transloader.

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Speaker 3: So if I'm on YouTube on my phone, I tap Transloader,

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Speaker 3: it actually sends that link to a Mac at my house.

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Speaker 3: That Mac can open that link in an app called downy,

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Speaker 3: which can download any Internet video. Could be YouTube and Instagram,

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Speaker 3: rail TikTok or video on a website. Download that video

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Speaker 3: and now with mac os Tahoe, the latest software, it

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Speaker 3: can actually take a video, transcribe it, summarize it with

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Speaker 3: Apple Intelligence, create an Apple note with that information, and

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Speaker 3: then I can move that video file to my Plex

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Speaker 3: server or so in just a few seconds after I

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Speaker 3: tap that button on my phone, I can watch that

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Speaker 3: video from my Plex server either from my phone. My kids,

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Speaker 3: you know, they can watch videos. That's how we do

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Speaker 3: a lot of video stuff. They just use the Plex

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Speaker 3: app on their iPads. And so that one I can't

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Speaker 3: put on YouTube because you can't put how to download

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Speaker 3: videos there. But you can go to create beard dot fm.

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Speaker 3: That's my shortcuts community and that's actually what I shared

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Speaker 3: for my paying supporters directly, and so that's you can

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Speaker 3: find that there.

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Speaker 2: That's wild. I love the stuff that.

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Speaker 1: Now can your kids and other people in your house

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Speaker 1: figure out all these automations that you do, because that's

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Speaker 1: the important part.

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Speaker 2: That's when you know you have a winner.

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Speaker 3: They do, and we've helped them create little automations like

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Speaker 3: you can have an automation that whenever you open an app,

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Speaker 3: something happens. And so for my middle son who struggled

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Speaker 3: to have all his tasks done, but there's apps that

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Speaker 3: he always opened, whether it's a game or whatever, admit

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Speaker 3: a little shortcut that says, when this app opens, pop

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Speaker 3: up this pdf which is his schedule for the school day.

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Speaker 3: So when every open of that app, it pops up.

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Speaker 3: And so you can do things like that a simple

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Speaker 3: Another simple one is you could set up yourself if

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Speaker 3: you ever lock the orientation on your iPhone, you know

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Speaker 3: how to make sure so it stops rotating when you

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Speaker 3: turn it, which is great unless you want to look

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Speaker 3: at the photos and the photos app and then that

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Speaker 3: rotation is locked. Well, with shortcuts, you can go to

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Speaker 3: the automations tab, tap new automation and when an app

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Speaker 3: is opened, and you can choose photos and say, when

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Speaker 3: photos is opened, unlock my orientation. So when you open

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Speaker 3: the photos app, now you can rotate it the photo rotates,

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Speaker 3: and then you can create another automation that says when

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Speaker 3: I close the photos app, meaning when you swipe to

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Speaker 3: go home, it locks the orientation back up. Now. I

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Speaker 3: just share that on my Instagram reels and just a

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Speaker 3: simple little orientation like that is a little quality of

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Speaker 3: life improvement every day. You multiply that by creating dozens

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Speaker 3: of shortcusts for yourself. They're really powerful.

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Speaker 1: All right, this is fun Beard dot FM, Steven Roblez,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining me. I have realized from

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Speaker 1: this conversation that most of us are using about one

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Speaker 1: percent of the capacity of our iPhones.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining me today.

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Speaker 1: Eight eight eight rich one on one eighty eight seven

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Speaker 1: four two four one zero one. Rich on tech dot TV.

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Speaker 1: I'll put a link to Steven's website back after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rich on tech Rich DeMuro here hanging

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

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

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Cheryl in Phoenix, Arizona. Cheryl, you're on

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Speaker 1: with Rich. Welcome to the show. Hi Rich, thanks for

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Speaker 1: taking my call absolutely.

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Speaker 2: What's up?

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Speaker 4: I have a question about the subscription service delete me

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Speaker 4: dot com. Okay, I've been told that if they search

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Speaker 4: the web, the Dark Web, the Purple Web, the white

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Speaker 4: webs and find your information on data brokers and they

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Speaker 4: remove that and you get a month they report it's

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Speaker 4: especially nine dollars a month. Do you have any insight

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Speaker 4: on this, So.

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Speaker 1: You're okay, well, number one, I mean the dark web.

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Speaker 1: No one can remove stuff from the dark Web. So

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Speaker 1: if you're looking for that, that's not worth it. Now

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01:07:05,760 --> 01:07:09,960
Speaker 1: what these what these data of removal services typically do

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Speaker 1: is they remove your personal data from websites that display

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Speaker 1: it and also data brokers that sell it. So if

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Speaker 1: you're looking to do that, these can do a lot

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Speaker 1: of that stuff. And there's there's you know, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of them out there. Not just delete me. There's

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Speaker 1: a bunch of there's a bunch of others. I've other

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Speaker 1: Well okay, well, let me give you a a great

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Speaker 1: tip that this will work for pretty much anything that

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Speaker 1: you're you're looking for in the future. So if you

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Speaker 1: go to Google, do you use Google or use something else.

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Speaker 4: I use Safari on the phone, but I can sign

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Speaker 4: on to Google.

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Speaker 1: So if you just type in something and you say

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Speaker 1: delete me versus, okay, this is I love. This is

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite searches in the world. You type

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Speaker 1: in delete me versus and you will see Google automatically

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Speaker 1: gives you every single competitor to that company. So you've

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Speaker 1: got Incogniti, one rep or a optery privacy, be cloaked, LifeLock,

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Speaker 1: and you now have a lot of options to choose from.

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Speaker 1: So where do you go? So Consumer Reports did a study.

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Speaker 1: They found that some of these are worth it, some

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Speaker 1: of them are not. And the two that they liked

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Speaker 1: the best is called easy opt Outs and optery. Now

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Speaker 1: that was a year ago, but you know, I'll put

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Speaker 1: this in the show notes as well. There is a

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Speaker 1: place that you can start for free, and it's called

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Speaker 1: Google Results About You. So you can go there and

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Speaker 1: Google will actually find a lot of the personal information

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Speaker 1: that's in the search results. So if you search your name,

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Speaker 1: you know, Ryl and Phoenix and it comes up with

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Speaker 1: your home address, you can actually remove some of those

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Speaker 1: results from Google. It doesn't remove the website, it just

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Speaker 1: removes the Google results. So you know, okay, it's gonna be.

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Speaker 1: So it's there's a there's a varied prong approach. Now

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Speaker 1: there's a couple of things that I've done in the past.

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Speaker 1: I have done this manually. So there's a website called

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Speaker 1: joindelete me dot com and they have a bunch of

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Speaker 1: opt out guides that are DIY. So you can go

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Speaker 1: to all these websites and you can find the little

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Speaker 1: tiny thing at the bottom of the website and say,

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Speaker 1: you know, hey, you know, can you take me off

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Speaker 1: your page? I don't want my information there, And so

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Speaker 1: you can do that manually. It just takes a lot longer.

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Speaker 1: And my experience with these data brokers personally, I use Incognate.

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Speaker 1: It's a sponsor of my newsletter, and I I have

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Speaker 1: found great a great response with that, Like it works

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Speaker 1: really well, and so it's not going to get rid

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Speaker 1: of everything, and I think you have to be realistic

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Speaker 1: about what it can remove. But they do go through

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Speaker 1: and on their own, they'll just remove hundreds of sites

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Speaker 1: that they know. They can just go and send an

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Speaker 1: email on your behalf and they've remove it. Some you

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Speaker 1: are a lot tougher to remove. But this is you know,

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Speaker 1: this is a very popular thing on the Internet because

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Speaker 1: there's so many companies at this point that are trying

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Speaker 1: to profit off of our personal information.

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Speaker 2: And it's kind of scary too.

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Speaker 1: Like the other day, a website popped up on my

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Speaker 1: dashboard and had all of my information about my house

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Speaker 1: and pictures and all this stuff, and you know, I

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Speaker 1: didn't want that there, and so I submitted the link

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Speaker 1: and got it removed, and so it can be done.

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Speaker 1: It's just not and it's not gonna be overnight. By

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Speaker 1: the way, it's a game. I always say this, it's

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Speaker 1: a game of whack a mole. So one, you know,

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Speaker 1: you may get rid of one of these websites. Two

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Speaker 1: more pop up.

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Speaker 4: Okay, well it sounds like it as the thing to

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Speaker 4: start working on, thank you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would check it out.

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Speaker 1: Do your research, see which see which one of these

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Speaker 1: services appeals to you the most, which one has the

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Speaker 1: best deal for you, which one seems to do the.

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Speaker 2: Most for what you want.

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Speaker 1: So they all kind of approach it a little bit differently,

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Speaker 1: but you know, they all at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: they try to do the same thing, which is really

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Speaker 1: just remove as much as your information from the Internet

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Speaker 1: as possible. Just keep in mind none of them can

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Speaker 1: remove information from the dark web. The dark web is

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Speaker 1: not a business. It is not professional. It is people

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Speaker 1: moving large amounts of your information amongst each other and

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Speaker 1: selling that information in a way that is not regulated

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Speaker 1: or you know, it's not official. And so those websites,

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Speaker 1: they're not posted anywhere. You can't visit a dark web

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Speaker 1: website on your own and just say hey, can you

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Speaker 1: get rid of my information? So when we have these

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Speaker 1: data breaches, these AT and T data breaches, these big

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Speaker 1: data breaches that have your social and your passwords and

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Speaker 1: your user names, that's the stuff that really, once it's

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Speaker 1: out there, can never come back down. And so that's

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Speaker 1: why I always recommend you have to use a unique password,

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Speaker 1: you have to use a two factor authentication because you know,

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Speaker 1: let's just say you're secure on your end, but AT

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Speaker 1: and T gets breached and you know they have your social,

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Speaker 1: they've got your data birth, they've got your password.

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Speaker 2: All that stuff is going to go out in the web.

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Speaker 1: And now that they've got that password, let's say you're

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Speaker 1: using it at five different websites.

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Speaker 2: The hackers know that, and they're.

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Speaker 1: Going to these other websites trying that same exact username

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Speaker 1: and password. And now, by the way, they've got your

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Speaker 1: data birth and your social. So you have to be

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Speaker 1: very careful. There's only so much you can do to

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Speaker 1: protect your information. And when it comes to your social specifically,

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Speaker 1: do not give it out unless you absolutely must.

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01:12:29,240 --> 01:12:31,320
Speaker 2: Every time someone asks you for that, just say do

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01:12:31,360 --> 01:12:33,160
Speaker 2: you need this? Do you do? I have to give that.

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Speaker 1: Most of the time you do not unless it's something

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Speaker 1: like a mortgage or something. Eighty to eight Rich one

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Speaker 1: on one back after this, Welcome back to rich on tech.

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01:12:44,720 --> 01:12:47,840
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Eighty

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01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:51,880
Speaker 1: to eight Rich one oh one. Two quick price hikes

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01:12:51,920 --> 01:12:54,280
Speaker 1: to tell you about before we get back to the calls. Uh,

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01:12:54,760 --> 01:12:57,080
Speaker 1: let's start with Microsoft. I know Bobo was interested in

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01:12:57,080 --> 01:13:01,240
Speaker 1: this one. Microsoft Xbox Game Pass Ultimate going up to

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01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:06,760
Speaker 1: thirty dollars a month. Okay, he's getting his mic ready,

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01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:09,160
Speaker 1: he's ready, he's like ready to pounce. What do you

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01:13:09,200 --> 01:13:11,160
Speaker 1: want to say about this? Are you excited to pay

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01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:12,120
Speaker 1: fifty percent more?

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01:13:12,360 --> 01:13:12,559
Speaker 7: No?

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01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:18,000
Speaker 1: Going up from twenty dollars a month to thirty a month. Now,

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01:13:18,200 --> 01:13:22,040
Speaker 1: what they're saying is that you're getting more value. Four

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01:13:22,120 --> 01:13:28,240
Speaker 1: hundred titles available, seventy five day one releases up fifty percent.

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01:13:28,400 --> 01:13:31,679
Speaker 1: She'll get more games you'd be soft plus classics included.

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01:13:31,680 --> 01:13:37,439
Speaker 2: You're gonna play those, maybe Fortnite crew Membership. That's where

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01:13:37,439 --> 01:13:37,880
Speaker 2: they get you.

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01:13:38,040 --> 01:13:41,000
Speaker 1: Battle bucks battle Pass one thousand V bucks monthly.

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01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:42,200
Speaker 2: How much is a thousand V bucks?

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01:13:42,360 --> 01:13:45,760
Speaker 15: So when you look at it like that, So right now,

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01:13:45,840 --> 01:13:48,720
Speaker 15: if you're playing Xbox Ultimate, I pay nineteen ninety nine

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01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:49,080
Speaker 15: a month.

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01:13:49,320 --> 01:13:51,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, so if you add.

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01:13:50,760 --> 01:13:54,080
Speaker 15: In Fortnite Crue, you're paying eleven ninety nine.

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01:13:53,960 --> 01:13:54,559
Speaker 2: A month for that.

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01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:57,320
Speaker 15: Okay, so if you add them together, you're paying about

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01:13:57,320 --> 01:13:59,320
Speaker 15: thirty one to thirty two bucks a month.

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01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:01,240
Speaker 2: Actually drops it two.

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01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:03,200
Speaker 1: Bucks only if you're playing that game. Only if you're

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01:14:03,200 --> 01:14:06,080
Speaker 1: playing four and you have both subscriptions. Yeah, not everyone's

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01:14:06,080 --> 01:14:08,640
Speaker 1: gonna have both exactly, So but if you do, I mean,

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01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:11,400
Speaker 1: it's it's like, okay, fine, I just I'm almost saving

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01:14:11,400 --> 01:14:13,600
Speaker 1: a dollar a month or two almost, But you know,

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01:14:13,920 --> 01:14:16,280
Speaker 1: you're still now you're locked into paying this every month

1552
01:14:16,280 --> 01:14:17,559
Speaker 1: for yeah, you know, and.

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01:14:17,680 --> 01:14:19,600
Speaker 15: Before you used to be able to go to a

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01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:22,160
Speaker 15: game stop or a Target or a Best Buy and

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01:14:22,280 --> 01:14:24,240
Speaker 15: buy an Xbox Live subscription card.

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01:14:24,360 --> 01:14:25,280
Speaker 2: You can't do it, dude.

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01:14:25,400 --> 01:14:28,559
Speaker 15: No, they're all getting rid of those because they're thirty

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01:14:28,600 --> 01:14:29,280
Speaker 15: bucks a month.

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01:14:29,360 --> 01:14:32,080
Speaker 2: It's a pretty penny just to play video.

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01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:35,000
Speaker 15: Games, not including you buying games, right and all the

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01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:36,160
Speaker 15: stuff you buy in the games.

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01:14:36,240 --> 01:14:38,040
Speaker 1: But you know, here's the deal. All these prices are

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01:14:38,080 --> 01:14:39,800
Speaker 1: going up. Everything just keeps going up. People are just

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01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:41,760
Speaker 1: gonna have to choose, like do I want this to

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01:14:41,880 --> 01:14:45,080
Speaker 1: want to keep it? Let's see what else PC game Pass,

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01:14:45,120 --> 01:14:47,479
Speaker 1: if you're on that, that's twelve bucks to seven almost

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01:14:47,520 --> 01:14:51,519
Speaker 1: seventeen dollars a month. So and apparently I guess is

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01:14:51,680 --> 01:14:54,439
Speaker 1: Xbox Series X console prices raising this week too.

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Speaker 2: They raised fifty bucks, just like PlayStation did.

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Speaker 1: Gosh, all right, yeah, Peloton also raising prices. I got

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01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:05,960
Speaker 1: this email, so you're all access. So if you have

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01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:08,240
Speaker 1: a Peloton machine, you were paying forty four dollars a

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01:15:08,280 --> 01:15:11,040
Speaker 1: month for your monthly, that's going up to fifty a month.

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01:15:11,439 --> 01:15:13,680
Speaker 1: If you're using just the app like I was or

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01:15:13,680 --> 01:15:16,639
Speaker 1: I am, that's going up from twenty four to twenty nine.

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01:15:17,439 --> 01:15:19,560
Speaker 1: And if you're on the cheapest app plan, which was

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01:15:19,600 --> 01:15:22,400
Speaker 1: thirteen dollars, didn't give you access to everything, that's going

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01:15:22,479 --> 01:15:25,240
Speaker 1: up to sixteen. All the bike prices are going up,

1579
01:15:25,760 --> 01:15:28,320
Speaker 1: but they're adding AI to this stuff, and you know, look,

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01:15:29,320 --> 01:15:34,320
Speaker 1: it's just these streaming services. I say, the free ride

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01:15:34,439 --> 01:15:34,760
Speaker 1: is over.

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01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:36,160
Speaker 2: It's just it's.

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01:15:36,080 --> 01:15:38,800
Speaker 1: They're no longer doing this for their you know, for

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01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:41,799
Speaker 1: your benefit. It is now for their benefit. They started

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01:15:41,840 --> 01:15:44,320
Speaker 1: all these during the pandemic. They needed to build as

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01:15:44,400 --> 01:15:47,519
Speaker 1: many subscribers as possible, and now it is like nope,

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01:15:47,600 --> 01:15:49,840
Speaker 1: we've got to have a business here. People are you know,

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01:15:50,479 --> 01:15:52,760
Speaker 1: people are buying less physical games, so what do you

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01:15:52,760 --> 01:15:54,320
Speaker 1: have to do? They're they're renting them now, so you

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01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:57,360
Speaker 1: got to make the rental price higher. It's just that's

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01:15:57,439 --> 01:15:59,840
Speaker 1: what's happening. And I've just continued to report on all

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01:15:59,840 --> 01:16:02,599
Speaker 1: of these price hikes. It's getting wild. I mean when

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01:16:02,640 --> 01:16:04,400
Speaker 1: you compare it to what we used to pay, like

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01:16:04,479 --> 01:16:07,040
Speaker 1: one movie ticket used to be, you know, it's probably

1595
01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:09,519
Speaker 1: still is thirty bucks twenty five dollars depending on where

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01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:11,479
Speaker 1: you live. So it's like, okay, well I get all

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01:16:11,520 --> 01:16:13,439
Speaker 1: the gaming I want for thirty dollars a month, or

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01:16:13,720 --> 01:16:16,200
Speaker 1: Peloton you know, you can't get a gym membership for

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01:16:16,400 --> 01:16:18,120
Speaker 1: I guess you can for fifty dollars a month. I

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01:16:18,160 --> 01:16:20,559
Speaker 1: mean it's just look, if you got these things, you're

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01:16:20,560 --> 01:16:24,759
Speaker 1: paying more. Let's see, let's go too. Oh my gosh,

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01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:28,840
Speaker 1: the phone lines are Let's go to Bob and Denver.

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01:16:29,840 --> 01:16:32,760
Speaker 1: Are we on more stations? Like every calls from a

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01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:35,880
Speaker 1: different state right now? Bob, you're on with Rich.

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01:16:37,200 --> 01:16:39,000
Speaker 13: Hey Rich, it's good to talk to you.

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01:16:39,400 --> 01:16:40,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 13: I have a Mac computer and an iPhone and both

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01:16:49,360 --> 01:16:55,040
Speaker 13: have music on them. There's at one time there was

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01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:59,599
Speaker 13: the same things on both the computer and the phone,

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01:16:59,720 --> 01:17:05,960
Speaker 13: and over time and software updates and stuff, I've lost

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01:17:06,120 --> 01:17:12,240
Speaker 13: a lot of the music songs from the computer. And

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01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:17,840
Speaker 13: in talking to Apple Tech, they say you can transfer

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01:17:18,479 --> 01:17:23,800
Speaker 13: from the Apple to the Mac, I mean to the iPhone,

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01:17:24,040 --> 01:17:28,479
Speaker 13: but iPhone's the one that's complete. Yeah, So if I

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01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:31,200
Speaker 13: did that, I'd lose stuff there.

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01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:32,959
Speaker 2: I know, Oh, I need.

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01:17:32,720 --> 01:17:38,120
Speaker 13: To transfer from the iPhone back to the Mac or something.

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01:17:38,400 --> 01:17:40,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, And Apple does not give you a way to

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01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:43,360
Speaker 1: do that. There's there's always been a one way transfer.

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01:17:43,520 --> 01:17:46,240
Speaker 1: So when they say sync, it's always been we want

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01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:49,080
Speaker 1: to go from your computer to your phone. And these

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01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:51,559
Speaker 1: people have figured out with their iPod they've got all

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01:17:51,600 --> 01:17:54,120
Speaker 1: this music on there from forever and they go, oh,

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01:17:54,160 --> 01:17:55,639
Speaker 1: let me just transfer it back to my computer.

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01:17:55,840 --> 01:17:56,360
Speaker 2: You can't.

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01:17:56,439 --> 01:17:59,360
Speaker 1: There's no way that Apple gives you officially to do this,

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01:17:59,560 --> 01:18:03,120
Speaker 1: no easy way. The good news is, Bob, there are

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01:18:03,200 --> 01:18:05,599
Speaker 1: third party programs. The bad news is you're probably gonna

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01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:07,519
Speaker 1: have to spend a little bit to buy them. So

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01:18:07,640 --> 01:18:09,680
Speaker 1: a couple programs I'll give you the names that I know.

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01:18:09,920 --> 01:18:13,640
Speaker 1: Work number one I Amazing. They make a program that

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01:18:14,160 --> 01:18:17,479
Speaker 1: basically is kind of like the Swiss army knife that

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01:18:17,479 --> 01:18:18,680
Speaker 1: Apple does not give you.

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01:18:19,120 --> 01:18:20,839
Speaker 2: So it allows you to do all these.

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01:18:20,680 --> 01:18:23,040
Speaker 1: Things on your phone, back up your text messages, print

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01:18:23,040 --> 01:18:25,519
Speaker 1: them out, back up. I mean basically anything that you've

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01:18:25,520 --> 01:18:27,040
Speaker 1: wanted to do on your phone where you're like, oh,

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01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:29,800
Speaker 1: I should be able to do that, and Apple's just like, Nope,

1639
01:18:29,800 --> 01:18:31,920
Speaker 1: you can't do that. This lets you do it, so

1640
01:18:32,920 --> 01:18:36,840
Speaker 1: you know, again, download your I messages, transfer photos and

1641
01:18:36,960 --> 01:18:41,000
Speaker 1: videos between Mac and PC, transfer your music back and

1642
01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:45,080
Speaker 1: forth between those things, local backups, anything you want to do.

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01:18:45,200 --> 01:18:48,000
Speaker 1: I Amazing will do it. Let's say I'm trying to

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01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:48,719
Speaker 1: find a price.

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01:18:49,200 --> 01:18:50,760
Speaker 2: They don't. Let's see do they put the.

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01:18:50,720 --> 01:18:56,360
Speaker 1: Price subscription five devices for one year's fifty bucks, So

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01:18:56,400 --> 01:19:00,280
Speaker 1: it looks like they're doing the whole subscription thing there. Okay,

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01:19:00,280 --> 01:19:02,640
Speaker 1: so that's number one. Then you've got one. I've not

1649
01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:05,760
Speaker 1: tested this one. I've tested the I Amazing. I've not

1650
01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:07,760
Speaker 1: tested this one, but it's recommended. It is called touch

1651
01:19:07,840 --> 01:19:12,960
Speaker 1: copy and this is similar. But I have not tested

1652
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:14,679
Speaker 1: this one, but it says it does the same thing.

1653
01:19:14,800 --> 01:19:17,160
Speaker 1: So that's another one that is. Let's see how much

1654
01:19:17,160 --> 01:19:20,880
Speaker 1: this one is. Lifetime license seventy bucks six months thirty

1655
01:19:20,920 --> 01:19:24,840
Speaker 1: dollars twelve months forty dollars, So you can get that one.

1656
01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 1: And then the other one, which I have tested, is

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01:19:28,120 --> 01:19:32,400
Speaker 1: called alt tunes. This is for Windows, all right. Do

1658
01:19:32,400 --> 01:19:33,800
Speaker 1: they have it for Mac too? Oh, they do have

1659
01:19:33,880 --> 01:19:35,880
Speaker 1: it for Mac. Okay, it started on Windows. I guess

1660
01:19:35,920 --> 01:19:39,040
Speaker 1: it came to Mac. But alt tunes lets you back

1661
01:19:39,120 --> 01:19:41,680
Speaker 1: up your iPhone transfer any file from your iPhone to

1662
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:45,479
Speaker 1: a Windows PC. Oh it is Windows. Okay, I'm very

1663
01:19:45,479 --> 01:19:48,599
Speaker 1: confused here. I thought this was Windows. But anyway, so

1664
01:19:48,600 --> 01:19:50,240
Speaker 1: that's another one you can do as well. So you

1665
01:19:50,320 --> 01:19:53,360
Speaker 1: mentioned you have a Mac, so I'd probably recommend the

1666
01:19:53,400 --> 01:19:55,919
Speaker 1: ie amazing. But if you're listening and you have Windows

1667
01:19:55,920 --> 01:19:58,160
Speaker 1: and you've been trying to, you know, pull your hair

1668
01:19:58,200 --> 01:19:59,479
Speaker 1: out of your head, trying to figure out how to

1669
01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:03,200
Speaker 1: get files from your phone to your computer, all tunes

1670
01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:04,680
Speaker 1: can help you do that. And it can help you

1671
01:20:04,720 --> 01:20:07,120
Speaker 1: do the other stuff too. You can get your messages,

1672
01:20:07,240 --> 01:20:10,280
Speaker 1: your call history, your photos, your music backups, all that

1673
01:20:10,320 --> 01:20:13,519
Speaker 1: good stuff. And it comes from a company called soft Areno,

1674
01:20:13,640 --> 01:20:15,799
Speaker 1: which they just make great apps.

1675
01:20:15,880 --> 01:20:16,479
Speaker 2: In general.

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01:20:16,640 --> 01:20:18,799
Speaker 1: I rely on a lot of them on a daily basis,

1677
01:20:19,160 --> 01:20:22,439
Speaker 1: so check them out. Company out of Ukraine actually so

1678
01:20:23,439 --> 01:20:25,479
Speaker 1: we've talked to them about what's going on over there

1679
01:20:25,520 --> 01:20:29,040
Speaker 1: in the past, and we're thinking of them as well. Anyway, Bob,

1680
01:20:29,080 --> 01:20:30,360
Speaker 1: that's the way to do it. You got to get

1681
01:20:30,400 --> 01:20:34,080
Speaker 1: that third party software. Unfortunately, that's really the best way

1682
01:20:34,080 --> 01:20:39,760
Speaker 1: to handle that task. Let's go to Mark in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Mark,

1683
01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:40,439
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.

1684
01:20:41,760 --> 01:20:43,320
Speaker 11: Yeah, Hi, Rich, Thank you for taking my call.

1685
01:20:43,560 --> 01:20:44,280
Speaker 2: Absolutely.

1686
01:20:44,800 --> 01:20:50,559
Speaker 11: I just recently retired and I was looking to get

1687
01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:54,160
Speaker 11: a new laptop of some sort to Windows eleven, and

1688
01:20:54,240 --> 01:20:59,160
Speaker 11: I didn't know whether or not I needed like Microsoft

1689
01:20:59,200 --> 01:21:02,479
Speaker 11: Office all those kind of add ons, or go with

1690
01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:03,479
Speaker 11: something like a Chromebook.

1691
01:21:04,640 --> 01:21:06,000
Speaker 2: What are you going to be doing on the computer?

1692
01:21:07,840 --> 01:21:12,320
Speaker 11: Just basic every day surfing, you know, taking care of bills,

1693
01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:14,639
Speaker 11: those type of things. I'm not going to be doing

1694
01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:18,920
Speaker 11: anything in spreadsheets or word documents or anything. I know,

1695
01:21:19,040 --> 01:21:21,120
Speaker 11: I can do that through Chrome, you know, I can

1696
01:21:21,200 --> 01:21:24,680
Speaker 11: use their little suite they have. But I just just

1697
01:21:24,680 --> 01:21:26,559
Speaker 11: trying to figure out which would be the better way

1698
01:21:26,600 --> 01:21:30,439
Speaker 11: to go as far as is it necessary to to

1699
01:21:30,479 --> 01:21:34,320
Speaker 11: buy something with a licensed product suite like Office, and I.

1700
01:21:34,320 --> 01:21:34,840
Speaker 2: Don't think so.

1701
01:21:35,160 --> 01:21:38,759
Speaker 1: I've I've worked for twenty five years now without paying

1702
01:21:38,800 --> 01:21:41,360
Speaker 1: for Office because I just don't need it, and I,

1703
01:21:41,400 --> 01:21:44,599
Speaker 1: you know, I actually think Google Docs is a superior product.

1704
01:21:45,080 --> 01:21:47,120
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, those are some fighting words right there.

1705
01:21:47,880 --> 01:21:50,599
Speaker 1: But it's just it's more flexible, it's easy, it's always

1706
01:21:50,680 --> 01:21:52,800
Speaker 1: up to date. It has never failed me, and I've

1707
01:21:52,840 --> 01:21:55,200
Speaker 1: been like I said, I've been using it since day one.

1708
01:21:56,200 --> 01:21:58,920
Speaker 1: There is a version of Office on the web. They

1709
01:21:58,920 --> 01:22:03,800
Speaker 1: have their their answer to Google Docs, and if you

1710
01:22:03,920 --> 01:22:06,760
Speaker 1: go on, let's see, I got it. They hide the

1711
01:22:06,800 --> 01:22:10,320
Speaker 1: link because they don't want people to know about this.

1712
01:22:10,479 --> 01:22:13,880
Speaker 1: But yes, you can access a free version of word

1713
01:22:14,080 --> 01:22:18,320
Speaker 1: Excel and power Point on the web for free. You

1714
01:22:18,320 --> 01:22:20,160
Speaker 1: don't have to download anything. You can use it just

1715
01:22:20,200 --> 01:22:23,559
Speaker 1: like you can Google Docs and the website. I don't

1716
01:22:23,560 --> 01:22:26,160
Speaker 1: have like a simple website to find it on, but

1717
01:22:26,280 --> 01:22:29,400
Speaker 1: if you Google, it's so funny, like the website is.

1718
01:22:29,439 --> 01:22:30,920
Speaker 1: I can't even read it on the air because it's

1719
01:22:30,960 --> 01:22:33,599
Speaker 1: just so long. But yes, use Microsoft three sixty five

1720
01:22:33,640 --> 01:22:36,080
Speaker 1: apps for free on the web. Get free access to

1721
01:22:36,120 --> 01:22:38,920
Speaker 1: word Excel and PowerPoint using Microsoft three sixty five for

1722
01:22:38,960 --> 01:22:41,760
Speaker 1: the Web formerly Office sign in and that's it.

1723
01:22:42,080 --> 01:22:42,200
Speaker 14: Now.

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01:22:42,240 --> 01:22:44,320
Speaker 1: There are some things you can't do on the free

1725
01:22:44,400 --> 01:22:48,360
Speaker 1: version versus the paid but you can do pretty much

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Speaker 1: anything you need the basics. So how much you want

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Speaker 1: to spend on this computer?

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Speaker 13: Three?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 1: In that range a couple options. I would say a

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01:22:58,600 --> 01:23:01,160
Speaker 1: chromebook will probably serve you well. The problem is chromebooks

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Speaker 1: are traditionally very underpowered, so at the very least I

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Speaker 1: would look at a chromebook. Plus those have the better

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Speaker 1: specs compared to the standard chromebooks. So if you're going

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Speaker 1: to get a chromebook, go that route, which I think

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Speaker 1: is fine for what you're doing. I just think look

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01:23:17,040 --> 01:23:19,840
Speaker 1: for a high quality screen. That to me is the key,

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01:23:19,880 --> 01:23:23,519
Speaker 1: because typically chromebook screens are just not very good compared

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Speaker 1: to the traditional computers.

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Speaker 2: Otherwise.

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Speaker 1: The other computer to look into, which are expert recommended

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01:23:29,200 --> 01:23:33,360
Speaker 1: the other day, is the Lenovo Idea Pad Slim. This

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01:23:33,439 --> 01:23:36,120
Speaker 1: has got the new Snapdragon X processor, which means the

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01:23:36,160 --> 01:23:38,559
Speaker 1: battery is going to last a really long time. It's

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01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:40,599
Speaker 1: got a nice fifteen inch screen. This thing is only

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01:23:40,680 --> 01:23:43,920
Speaker 1: five hundred bucks. That is an incredible deal, and it's

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01:23:43,920 --> 01:23:48,080
Speaker 1: got great specs. It's got that snap Dragon processor which

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01:23:48,120 --> 01:23:50,000
Speaker 1: is kind of a mobile processor, which means its going

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01:23:50,040 --> 01:23:53,439
Speaker 1: to be very power efficient. Sixteen gigs a RAM one

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01:23:53,560 --> 01:23:57,840
Speaker 1: terabyte hard drive, it runs Windows eleven. It's got an

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01:23:57,920 --> 01:24:00,240
Speaker 1: SD card reader. I mean, I don't see a album

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01:24:00,280 --> 01:24:04,200
Speaker 1: with this computer at all. Lenovo Idea Pad Slim. I'm

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01:24:04,240 --> 01:24:07,639
Speaker 1: looking at the micro center website. Fifteen inch laptops typically

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01:24:07,960 --> 01:24:10,240
Speaker 1: seven hundred and thirty dollars. It's on sale for five

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01:24:10,320 --> 01:24:13,080
Speaker 1: hundred that I think is going to be a great

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01:24:13,160 --> 01:24:16,519
Speaker 1: option for you there as well. So good question Mark,

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01:24:16,560 --> 01:24:19,559
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for the call today. Enjoy retirement. Thanks

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01:24:19,560 --> 01:24:21,160
Speaker 1: for getting in touch today.

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01:24:21,680 --> 01:24:22,479
Speaker 2: Eighty to eight. Rich.

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01:24:22,560 --> 01:24:24,200
Speaker 1: I shouldn't even give out the number. We don't even

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01:24:24,200 --> 01:24:25,479
Speaker 1: know if we can get to more calls. Eighty to

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01:24:25,479 --> 01:24:28,400
Speaker 1: eight Rich one O one rich on tech dot TV.

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01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:29,400
Speaker 2: We'll be back after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on tech rich on tech dot TV.

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01:24:37,960 --> 01:24:40,800
Speaker 1: During the breaks, you know, I am busy, I am

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Speaker 1: taking show notes, So they're all on the website rich

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Speaker 1: on tech dot TV. Look under where it says radio

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01:24:49,439 --> 01:24:53,080
Speaker 1: show and this is episode one, and so if you

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Speaker 1: click that, you will get the links to everything I mentioned,

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Speaker 1: including all those software apps that we just mentioned, any

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01:24:59,840 --> 01:25:02,640
Speaker 1: of the the articles I mentioned, and I'm putting up

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Speaker 1: the computers that I mentioned as well. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: let's see here, line four, Kelly in Quartz Hill, California.

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Speaker 2: You're on with Rich.

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01:25:14,720 --> 01:25:14,880
Speaker 4: Hi.

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Speaker 16: Rich, I've been watching you on KTLA for years. I'm

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01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:19,720
Speaker 16: so glad you're on KFI now.

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01:25:20,040 --> 01:25:22,400
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. General here too.

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Speaker 16: I generally prefer using Safari on my iMac and it

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01:25:29,120 --> 01:25:32,519
Speaker 16: doesn't work quite often on banking and other websites, and

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Speaker 16: so I have to go to Google and open up Chrome,

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Speaker 16: and for some reason, it takes forever to switch, because

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01:25:40,439 --> 01:25:43,280
Speaker 16: you know, I close down Safari and then I open

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01:25:43,360 --> 01:25:45,719
Speaker 16: up Chrome and it just takes forever.

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Speaker 14: Is there an easier way to go back and forth.

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Speaker 1: Between the two, Well, it sounds like your computer might

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01:25:53,760 --> 01:25:56,920
Speaker 1: be low on something like RAM or you know, the

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01:25:56,960 --> 01:25:59,000
Speaker 1: memory on the computer, and that's what's causing it to

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01:25:59,400 --> 01:26:01,679
Speaker 1: take a while, because when you open and close apps,

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01:26:02,120 --> 01:26:05,479
Speaker 1: that's pretty much the most effort your computer is putting out,

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01:26:05,600 --> 01:26:07,599
Speaker 1: and so that's probably what's.

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01:26:07,439 --> 01:26:08,200
Speaker 2: Going on here.

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01:26:08,439 --> 01:26:10,920
Speaker 1: So basically, when how many apps do you have opened

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01:26:10,920 --> 01:26:12,759
Speaker 1: when you're doing this? Do you just have the browser?

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01:26:12,800 --> 01:26:14,280
Speaker 1: And what kind of computer are we talking here?

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Speaker 16: I have an IMAX, but it's a twenty.

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01:26:17,760 --> 01:26:20,960
Speaker 2: Eighteen, okay, so it's older. Yeah, it is older.

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01:26:21,360 --> 01:26:24,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's probably feeling the it's probably feeling the

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Speaker 1: way of these You know, the computer doesn't slow down,

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Speaker 1: it's the apps just keep getting more and more complex.

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01:26:30,040 --> 01:26:32,840
Speaker 1: So when you open up these apps, they're just demanding

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01:26:32,880 --> 01:26:35,840
Speaker 1: a lot of resources from this computer. And that's I think,

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01:26:35,880 --> 01:26:36,720
Speaker 1: what's happening here.

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01:26:37,760 --> 01:26:41,080
Speaker 17: Okay, okay, that makes sense. I was just thinking maybe

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01:26:41,280 --> 01:26:43,639
Speaker 17: I could have them both on a tag or something.

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01:26:44,280 --> 01:26:46,479
Speaker 1: Well, you can leave them both open. You can leave

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01:26:46,600 --> 01:26:50,200
Speaker 1: Chrome and Safari open at the same time. Does your

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Speaker 1: computer allow that?

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Speaker 14: I don't know. I guess I've never tried it.

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01:26:56,160 --> 01:26:59,639
Speaker 2: I mean, so you're saying that would probably drain my computer.

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01:27:00,080 --> 01:27:01,520
Speaker 14: Well, when I'm both open.

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Speaker 1: I actually think it's easier to leave them open once.

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01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:06,439
Speaker 1: It really depends on how your computer's running. Are you

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01:27:06,479 --> 01:27:08,960
Speaker 1: when you're running these programs? Are they Is everything kind

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01:27:09,000 --> 01:27:11,280
Speaker 1: of fine for what you're trying to do?

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01:27:12,360 --> 01:27:13,519
Speaker 12: Yeah, it works pretty good.

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01:27:13,640 --> 01:27:16,559
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, here's what I would do, and in general,

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Speaker 1: since you've had your computer so long, in general, what

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01:27:19,760 --> 01:27:21,080
Speaker 1: I would do is kind of a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a spring cleaning on this computer. So I would go

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01:27:24,520 --> 01:27:26,920
Speaker 1: through and you know, make sure you're not maxed out

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01:27:26,920 --> 01:27:28,599
Speaker 1: on your hard drive. So go through and just kind

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01:27:28,600 --> 01:27:30,559
Speaker 1: of delete some of the files you no longer need.

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01:27:30,920 --> 01:27:32,320
Speaker 1: I would go through and get rid of some of

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01:27:32,320 --> 01:27:34,759
Speaker 1: the apps that you no longer use or need, because

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01:27:35,200 --> 01:27:37,920
Speaker 1: you know that's those could be hogging some resources.

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01:27:38,400 --> 01:27:39,519
Speaker 2: I would also go to.

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01:27:41,000 --> 01:27:45,160
Speaker 1: Your your section of your settings where there's a section

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01:27:45,320 --> 01:27:48,960
Speaker 1: called open at login and that's something that like a

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01:27:48,960 --> 01:27:51,160
Speaker 1: lot of apps will try to creep in there because

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01:27:51,560 --> 01:27:54,040
Speaker 1: it's their benefit to always be open and running on

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01:27:54,080 --> 01:27:56,040
Speaker 1: your system, so they can be doing things like looking

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01:27:56,120 --> 01:27:58,639
Speaker 1: in the background for software updates and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: But you can go through and actually delete some of

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01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:04,439
Speaker 1: the apps that are trying to open up at startup.

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01:28:04,720 --> 01:28:06,920
Speaker 1: That means every time you turn on your computer, these

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Speaker 1: apps are using a little bit of resources in the

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Speaker 1: background to do things. And I just found one that

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Speaker 1: I can delete because I don't need that opening every

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Speaker 1: single time I turn on my computer.

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Speaker 14: So that okay, that's a great idea. I've seen that before.

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01:28:19,840 --> 01:28:23,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, So go to open at login. It's called Login

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01:28:23,600 --> 01:28:27,519
Speaker 1: Items and Extensions. And then when you're on your computer.

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01:28:28,760 --> 01:28:30,880
Speaker 1: You know, with these two apps, I would try leaving

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01:28:30,920 --> 01:28:32,840
Speaker 1: them running at the same time. You can easily do that.

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01:28:32,880 --> 01:28:35,120
Speaker 1: It's not going to hurt what's going on in one

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01:28:35,200 --> 01:28:36,920
Speaker 1: or the other. They don't talk to each other that way.

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01:28:37,920 --> 01:28:39,880
Speaker 1: But you also might want to close out other apps

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01:28:39,920 --> 01:28:42,960
Speaker 1: that you're not using. So I'm always using different apps

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01:28:42,960 --> 01:28:45,360
Speaker 1: on my computer, but when I'm not using them for

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01:28:45,400 --> 01:28:47,519
Speaker 1: a while, I will close them out from time to

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01:28:47,560 --> 01:28:50,320
Speaker 1: time just to kind of free up some resources.

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01:28:50,520 --> 01:28:53,200
Speaker 17: Okay, I do try and do that, close them out

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01:28:53,280 --> 01:28:54,719
Speaker 17: red then keep them all open.

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Speaker 14: But that's a good idea.

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01:28:56,439 --> 01:28:59,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I would say, see what your computer can.

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01:28:59,680 --> 01:29:02,960
Speaker 1: Hell, this is definitely an older machine, so you know,

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01:29:03,040 --> 01:29:05,479
Speaker 1: like anyone that's gotten a little older in their years.

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01:29:05,520 --> 01:29:08,600
Speaker 1: You know, it's a little more sophisticated and refined, but

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01:29:08,640 --> 01:29:11,280
Speaker 1: it also needs a little, very true, a little coddling

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01:29:11,320 --> 01:29:12,599
Speaker 1: every once in a while, you know what I mean.

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01:29:13,640 --> 01:29:16,880
Speaker 14: Yes, yes, actually has lasted this long. I'm surprised. It's

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01:29:16,880 --> 01:29:17,839
Speaker 14: been a great computer.

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01:29:18,000 --> 01:29:21,000
Speaker 16: But the only reason I haven't switched it is because

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Speaker 16: I have the old twenty seven inch the whole computer.

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01:29:25,000 --> 01:29:26,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, the all in one.

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01:29:26,320 --> 01:29:29,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean look, yeah, again, if it's working for you,

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01:29:29,160 --> 01:29:30,880
Speaker 1: you don't need to change it. And they do make

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01:29:31,200 --> 01:29:32,479
Speaker 1: I don't know if they make a twenty seven I

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01:29:32,479 --> 01:29:33,280
Speaker 1: know they make a twenty four.

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01:29:33,320 --> 01:29:34,839
Speaker 2: I don't if they do the twenty seven anymore.

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01:29:34,880 --> 01:29:38,360
Speaker 1: But you know, if a computer's working for you, as

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01:29:38,360 --> 01:29:39,960
Speaker 1: long as your software is up to date, as long

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01:29:40,000 --> 01:29:43,080
Speaker 1: as your security, you know you're secure in that aspect.

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01:29:43,240 --> 01:29:44,960
Speaker 1: I have no problem with keeping up a computer for

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01:29:45,000 --> 01:29:48,080
Speaker 1: as long as you possibly can. And that's a testament

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01:29:48,120 --> 01:29:50,000
Speaker 1: to Apple and how they build these things that they

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01:29:50,080 --> 01:29:51,519
Speaker 1: last a very long time.

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01:29:52,160 --> 01:29:54,599
Speaker 17: So yes, Apple is the best for sure. I mean

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01:29:54,640 --> 01:29:58,639
Speaker 17: I've found just great results and it doesn't crash.

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Speaker 14: I don't have problems like that.

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01:30:00,479 --> 01:30:03,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, and no virus issues usually ninety nine point nine

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01:30:03,920 --> 01:30:06,280
Speaker 1: percent of the time. All right, Kelly, they're playing us off.

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01:30:06,320 --> 01:30:08,280
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for the call today. I really appreciate it.

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01:30:10,320 --> 01:30:14,559
Speaker 1: Oh oh that was cold. Oh my gosh, that was bobo.

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01:30:15,600 --> 01:30:18,880
Speaker 2: What back after this?

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

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01:30:24,080 --> 01:30:26,360
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology. We had a great call

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01:30:26,400 --> 01:30:29,519
Speaker 1: from a Mark in Saint Petersburg. He was asking about

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01:30:29,880 --> 01:30:31,760
Speaker 1: if he should buy Word and I mentioned that you

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01:30:31,800 --> 01:30:36,320
Speaker 1: can access Excel, Word and PowerPoint for free on the

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01:30:36,360 --> 01:30:40,080
Speaker 1: web and I just signed in with my Microsoft account.

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01:30:40,120 --> 01:30:42,479
Speaker 1: I'm not paid on anything on there. It's not a

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01:30:42,479 --> 01:30:44,840
Speaker 1: corporate account, just my personal account, and sure enough, here

1895
01:30:44,840 --> 01:30:49,040
Speaker 1: I am typing in Microsoft Word on the web, and

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01:30:49,040 --> 01:30:53,680
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out what's not included here. I

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01:30:53,800 --> 01:30:56,519
Speaker 1: don't see anything that I can't do. There must be

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01:30:56,600 --> 01:30:59,679
Speaker 1: some sort of limitation. But I just downloaded my document

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01:30:59,680 --> 01:31:02,960
Speaker 1: as a maybe let's see, can you download it? Okay,

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01:31:03,760 --> 01:31:06,799
Speaker 1: maybe that's the catch. So I wonder if you can't

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01:31:06,880 --> 01:31:11,839
Speaker 1: download it. Okay, you could download his pdf, oh, export

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01:31:11,840 --> 01:31:14,280
Speaker 1: to Kindle, but maybe you can't download it as a

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01:31:14,320 --> 01:31:18,799
Speaker 1: word document. Okay, maybe that's the catch. But I mean, okay,

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01:31:18,840 --> 01:31:21,040
Speaker 1: there you go. So pdf is the way you have

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01:31:21,080 --> 01:31:23,080
Speaker 1: to download it, looks like. But I put the link

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01:31:23,120 --> 01:31:26,880
Speaker 1: on the website rich on tech dot tv, So if

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01:31:26,880 --> 01:31:30,200
Speaker 1: you want to access those, test them out. Google docs

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01:31:30,240 --> 01:31:32,680
Speaker 1: is gonna be just fine too. But this is another way.

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01:31:32,680 --> 01:31:34,840
Speaker 1: If you're used to word and you want to check

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01:31:34,880 --> 01:31:38,160
Speaker 1: it out, it's all there. Let's bring on Mark Vina.

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01:31:38,280 --> 01:31:42,120
Speaker 1: He is CEO and principal analyst at Smart Tech Research.

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01:31:42,880 --> 01:31:44,000
Speaker 2: Mark, Welcome to the show.

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01:31:45,120 --> 01:31:46,559
Speaker 6: Hey, how you doing.

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01:31:46,880 --> 01:31:50,639
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. We often chat at these tech events.

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01:31:50,680 --> 01:31:52,920
Speaker 1: We're often sitting next to each other and near each other.

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01:31:54,120 --> 01:31:56,200
Speaker 1: How are things going in your world? As an analyst.

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01:31:56,240 --> 01:31:58,320
Speaker 1: Explain what an analyst does, by the way, because I

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01:31:58,320 --> 01:32:00,160
Speaker 1: feel like your job is kind of like mine as

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01:32:00,160 --> 01:32:02,360
Speaker 1: a journalist, but maybe more fun.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure.

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01:32:04,520 --> 01:32:06,679
Speaker 6: Oh well, I think they both have the pluses and minuses.

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01:32:06,840 --> 01:32:08,400
Speaker 8: I think the big plus is that you can't, you

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01:32:08,400 --> 01:32:10,439
Speaker 8: know what the work that I do maybe a little

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01:32:10,439 --> 01:32:11,160
Speaker 8: bit different from you.

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01:32:11,160 --> 01:32:11,519
Speaker 6: You have an.

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01:32:11,479 --> 01:32:15,320
Speaker 8: Obligation to cover, you know, work with most clients are

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01:32:15,920 --> 01:32:18,680
Speaker 8: you don't really call them clients. You're covering businesses that

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01:32:18,760 --> 01:32:22,000
Speaker 8: are announcing new products, whereas I, you know, cover them

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01:32:22,000 --> 01:32:25,600
Speaker 8: from an from a market analysis standpoint. Do they have

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Speaker 8: really good products? Do they are they write for the marketplace?

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01:32:29,000 --> 01:32:31,759
Speaker 8: Is there a market for them? I mean, you broadly

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01:32:31,840 --> 01:32:34,960
Speaker 8: can apply that principle to everything. But the nice thing

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01:32:35,040 --> 01:32:37,760
Speaker 8: is sometimes I get your customers that come to me, Hey, Mark,

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01:32:37,800 --> 01:32:39,800
Speaker 8: I've got the greatest product in the world. Please tell

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01:32:39,800 --> 01:32:41,400
Speaker 8: me that it's going to take over the world, and

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01:32:41,439 --> 01:32:44,400
Speaker 8: you politely tell them, well, it's really not the next iPhone.

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01:32:45,000 --> 01:32:47,320
Speaker 8: So but if you know, I've got a podcast, as

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01:32:47,320 --> 01:32:49,240
Speaker 8: you know, I write quite a bit. If you don't

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01:32:49,320 --> 01:32:51,400
Speaker 8: like writing, you don't want to be a marketing a

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Speaker 8: market analyst.

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Speaker 6: So that's what I kind of tell people.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I imagine you're just writing a lot of reports

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Speaker 1: about stuff, like, you know, company comes to you and says, hey,

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Speaker 1: here's our new product, give me a whole rep on

1945
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Speaker 1: the you know, the marketplace for this product. And but

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Speaker 1: now you can just use AI to write all that.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 8: Well, I mean, I'm not going to say that that

1949
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Speaker 8: using Chatchipt or Gemini is not helpful, but it gets

1950
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Speaker 8: you you might be sixty percent down the field.

1951
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Speaker 6: And then you have to customize the content.

1952
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Speaker 8: You're going to make sure the content is accurate, because

1953
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Speaker 8: despite what you may think, a lot of the AI

1954
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Speaker 8: content that's generated is not always accurate.

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Speaker 6: So you've got to make sure that it's it's consistent

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Speaker 6: with whatever was announced.

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Speaker 8: And you know, most of the time, you know, uh,

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Speaker 8: depending on how you use AI, it's not going to

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Speaker 8: give you a point of view.

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Speaker 6: The point of view is in your head.

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Speaker 8: So again, I think it's helpful, But at the end

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Speaker 8: of the day, it's all about you.

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Speaker 2: Who's winning right now? In AI? To you?

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Speaker 6: I you know, I have.

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Speaker 8: The open eye and I think Google now with Gemini

1966
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Speaker 8: Gemini has been huge improvements.

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Speaker 6: They've done some incredible anime.

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Speaker 8: I mean, people kind of associate with AI with you know,

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Speaker 8: chatchipt and you know, conjure up an article for me

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Speaker 8: about this topic. Some of the things that they've added

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Speaker 8: to the list iterations of chatch ept and Gemini AI

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Speaker 8: is pretty remarkable. I mean, you can go into Gemini

1973
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Speaker 8: and say, make a nineteen eighty six baseball card for me,

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Speaker 8: and here's a picture of my brother for the New

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Speaker 8: York Mets, and it will create a unbelievable not just

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Speaker 8: front but back baseball card with fake statistics, with fun

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Speaker 8: facts that will blow you away.

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Speaker 6: Now that's kind of a goofy thing to do, but.

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Speaker 2: People do it.

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Speaker 11: Why not.

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Speaker 1: You've got a birthday party coming up, You've got an

1982
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Speaker 1: anniversary you want to do. I mean, this is the thing,

1983
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Speaker 1: Like I feel like people need ideas for how to

1984
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Speaker 1: use this stuff because it's all there, like the stuff

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Speaker 1: that Gemini can do and open AI with chat GBT.

1986
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Speaker 1: Most people are only scratching the surf when you're saying

1987
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Speaker 1: what's the best place to go on vacation this summer?

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Speaker 1: That is like a no brainer question for these ais.

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Speaker 1: But what you can really do is analyze things, and

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Speaker 1: especially with Google's AI mode, that is incredible in fact,

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Speaker 1: now prompts you right on there, says please ask complex

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Speaker 1: questions because that's when you're going to get the best answer.

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Speaker 2: So where should I go on vacation.

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Speaker 1: In July with two kids eleven and thirteen who don't

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Speaker 1: like to do this, that and the other thing, and

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Speaker 1: we also like nice restaurants and you know, outdoor activities.

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Speaker 1: Then you get an answer that AI can bring you.

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Speaker 8: No, I think you're right, because for the last twenty

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Speaker 8: five years we've been trained to use Google and kind

2000
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Speaker 8: of just a declarative one question. It's not even a question,

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Speaker 8: it's really you know, searching on whatever phrase you put

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01:35:33,439 --> 01:35:36,760
Speaker 8: in there. But the idea of complexity and a prompt

2003
01:35:36,920 --> 01:35:39,320
Speaker 8: where you can ask for multiple things at the same time,

2004
01:35:39,920 --> 01:35:42,479
Speaker 8: it's pretty amazing. I mean, I'll be very honest with you,

2005
01:35:42,560 --> 01:35:45,160
Speaker 8: I don't Google anything anymore. When I have a question

2006
01:35:45,160 --> 01:35:47,639
Speaker 8: about a product, you know, how do I do this feature?

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01:35:47,960 --> 01:35:50,760
Speaker 8: I'll ask that a fairly complex question, and I will

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01:35:50,760 --> 01:35:55,040
Speaker 8: get a very detailed answer that will say the twenty

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01:35:55,080 --> 01:35:57,280
Speaker 8: five steps if I were doing things the old fashioned way.

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Speaker 8: So it's really amazing, and I'll go one step. What

2011
01:36:00,880 --> 01:36:04,240
Speaker 8: we haven't seen, at least with the mainstream and it's

2012
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Speaker 8: gonna happen very soon. Is that the ability to use

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Speaker 8: video and create video using AI but doing some really

2014
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Speaker 8: interesting things. I mean, I'm seeing some demos under the

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Speaker 8: coverage with tools like, right, let's say I do a video.

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Speaker 6: Of one of your kids at a birthday party, and in.

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Speaker 8: The back of it, it's a thirty second clip, and

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Speaker 8: maybe let's say the garbage fan is in the backyard

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Speaker 8: and he's walking around the back and it's making the

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Speaker 8: clip look bad. Now, in the old days, you could

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01:36:32,120 --> 01:36:33,760
Speaker 8: go into a video, you know, you'd have to be

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Speaker 8: a pretty good video video editing person to remove that artifict.

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Speaker 6: That those tools did exist. But now you'll be able

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Speaker 6: to use a prompt with some of.

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Speaker 8: These tools, say please use the moving object in the back,

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Speaker 8: and it will, you know, emulate what a studio could

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Speaker 8: do twenty five years ago. So I think the video

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Speaker 8: implications they are going to be unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: We're just just starting that. I mean, because just we

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Speaker 1: saw at the Pixel event in New York City when

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01:36:59,000 --> 01:37:03,360
Speaker 1: they released Ask to Edit, you know, like basically instead

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Speaker 1: of you doing edits to your photos on the Pixel phones.

2033
01:37:06,280 --> 01:37:08,919
Speaker 1: And now they've expanded this to Google Photos on Android,

2034
01:37:08,960 --> 01:37:11,559
Speaker 1: I believe only. But you can just ask for the

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Speaker 1: edits you want. So, like you just said, remove the

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Speaker 1: person in the background, make this a better background, or

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01:37:17,439 --> 01:37:20,400
Speaker 1: brighten up my picture, or just reframe my picture so

2038
01:37:20,439 --> 01:37:22,519
Speaker 1: it looks better. It'll do all those things without you

2039
01:37:22,680 --> 01:37:26,280
Speaker 1: having to actually move the sliders around. That is probably

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01:37:26,320 --> 01:37:29,679
Speaker 1: coming for video, you know, we have. We've just scratched

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Speaker 1: the surface with video.

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Speaker 6: No, and the quality is so unbelievable.

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Speaker 8: I did the thing the other day with my after

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Speaker 8: the Yankees won the other night, I took a picture

2045
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Speaker 8: with my dog and simply say, hey, put this picture

2046
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Speaker 8: that as if I'm at Yankee Stadium celebrating. Now, I

2047
01:37:45,960 --> 01:37:48,840
Speaker 8: clearly wasn't at the game. I wasn't dressed for it.

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01:37:48,960 --> 01:37:51,640
Speaker 8: You know, most people didn't pick it up. Once I

2049
01:37:51,720 --> 01:37:54,719
Speaker 8: put that on Facebook. I must have gotten twenty five people.

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Speaker 8: They allowed you to have a dog in the stadium.

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Speaker 6: Why, Oh, it's crazy, crazy stuff.

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Speaker 1: So this week, and we'll get to we're going to

2053
01:38:03,800 --> 01:38:06,880
Speaker 1: talk about some of the gadgets that Mark likes right now.

2054
01:38:07,080 --> 01:38:11,960
Speaker 1: But the Gemini Google posted on their Instagram an idea

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Speaker 1: of how to use this nano banana thing. They basically said,

2056
01:38:15,640 --> 01:38:18,240
Speaker 1: you can make a picture of you with your parent

2057
01:38:18,680 --> 01:38:21,840
Speaker 1: that never existed. So they gave the exact kind of

2058
01:38:22,640 --> 01:38:25,960
Speaker 1: phrasing you should use, where you upload a selfie of yourself,

2059
01:38:26,000 --> 01:38:28,439
Speaker 1: a selfie of your picture of your parent, and then

2060
01:38:28,479 --> 01:38:31,559
Speaker 1: you tell it to create this picture of you two

2061
01:38:31,560 --> 01:38:34,960
Speaker 1: together like a polaroid. I mean, it's just the stuff

2062
01:38:35,000 --> 01:38:37,920
Speaker 1: that's happening here. And nano Banana is what Google's doing

2063
01:38:37,920 --> 01:38:40,719
Speaker 1: with their image generation. It's just it's a fancy name

2064
01:38:40,800 --> 01:38:44,880
Speaker 1: for like very high end AI. It's really good, like

2065
01:38:45,160 --> 01:38:47,400
Speaker 1: scary good. Like you were just mentioning, all right, So

2066
01:38:48,040 --> 01:38:50,600
Speaker 1: you came to the table with a couple gadgets. You like,

2067
01:38:51,040 --> 01:38:52,960
Speaker 1: every time we go to these events, we always compare

2068
01:38:53,600 --> 01:38:55,960
Speaker 1: the gadgets that we're carrying. But you have a couple

2069
01:38:55,960 --> 01:38:57,880
Speaker 1: that you like for podcasting if you want to start

2070
01:38:57,920 --> 01:38:59,200
Speaker 1: your own podcast.

2071
01:39:00,200 --> 01:39:02,120
Speaker 8: But it's not like you you know, now you're you're

2072
01:39:02,160 --> 01:39:05,240
Speaker 8: a professional journal assignment. You know, I kind of got

2073
01:39:05,280 --> 01:39:07,640
Speaker 8: into this about five or six years ago. And you know,

2074
01:39:07,680 --> 01:39:10,160
Speaker 8: I've got a video, I've got a YouTube podcast. It's

2075
01:39:10,160 --> 01:39:11,760
Speaker 8: got a lot of it's a lot of views, a

2076
01:39:11,760 --> 01:39:14,679
Speaker 8: lot of subscribers. But you know, to me, when people

2077
01:39:14,760 --> 01:39:16,599
Speaker 8: approach me and I get that all the time. Hey, Mark,

2078
01:39:16,640 --> 01:39:19,040
Speaker 8: how do I become a How do I become a podcaster?

2079
01:39:19,640 --> 01:39:22,759
Speaker 8: And I'm really sensitive as I know you are, about

2080
01:39:22,760 --> 01:39:25,320
Speaker 8: avoiding that kind of wing wings world effect the men

2081
01:39:25,400 --> 01:39:27,719
Speaker 8: years ago, Hey, a couple of kids down in their basement.

2082
01:39:27,760 --> 01:39:31,479
Speaker 8: That was that hope, that hope that hold stick on

2083
01:39:31,920 --> 01:39:34,640
Speaker 8: sating it live and it was amateur hour. But the

2084
01:39:34,720 --> 01:39:38,360
Speaker 8: tools that exist today are broadcast quality tools.

2085
01:39:38,520 --> 01:39:39,400
Speaker 6: You know that you don't have.

2086
01:39:39,760 --> 01:39:41,960
Speaker 8: You don't adoperate in the studio, you don't have five

2087
01:39:42,040 --> 01:39:45,519
Speaker 8: or six highly pain trading people. And I find like

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01:39:45,640 --> 01:39:47,639
Speaker 8: one thing that I love that I'm a big, big

2089
01:39:47,680 --> 01:39:50,360
Speaker 8: time on because it's the first thing that will tell

2090
01:39:50,400 --> 01:39:53,639
Speaker 8: people that you're an amateur versus a professional is having

2091
01:39:53,720 --> 01:39:56,960
Speaker 8: really good audio. So I'm a big, big believer in

2092
01:39:57,120 --> 01:40:00,479
Speaker 8: using these. And there's been a whole plaus throw them

2093
01:40:00,479 --> 01:40:04,000
Speaker 8: out there. But the latest DGI Mike three is fantastic.

2094
01:40:04,040 --> 01:40:05,000
Speaker 8: It will support the.

2095
01:40:04,840 --> 01:40:09,120
Speaker 6: Four wireless mics. They're probably as big as maybe a quarter.

2096
01:40:09,720 --> 01:40:11,920
Speaker 6: They have magnets so they can go on discreetly on

2097
01:40:11,960 --> 01:40:14,559
Speaker 6: your clothes. They have a great carrying case and you

2098
01:40:14,600 --> 01:40:15,200
Speaker 6: pop them in.

2099
01:40:15,240 --> 01:40:19,160
Speaker 8: But the fascinating thing is is that up until recently

2100
01:40:19,200 --> 01:40:21,800
Speaker 8: you really only could have two wireless mics with a

2101
01:40:21,800 --> 01:40:25,040
Speaker 8: bluetooth device like an iPhone. And when you're doing, like Rich,

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01:40:25,080 --> 01:40:27,040
Speaker 8: what you and I do, sometimes that's a limitation.

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01:40:27,520 --> 01:40:28,800
Speaker 6: But four is a big deal.

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01:40:29,120 --> 01:40:32,400
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's for you, you know, the conduct conversation with

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01:40:32,439 --> 01:40:33,559
Speaker 8: four people at the same time.

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01:40:33,680 --> 01:40:37,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, without any wires. I mean, that's that's unbelievable. I'm

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01:40:37,040 --> 01:40:39,439
Speaker 1: getting the one minute from my producer here. So we've

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Speaker 1: got two more picks. I'll link these up on the website.

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Speaker 1: By the way, Rich on tech dot tv. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, what's the name of your podcast so folks

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Speaker 1: can find it.

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Speaker 6: It's a smart tech check podcast.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so search that on YouTube and find it. You

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Speaker 1: also have a green screen that you use.

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Speaker 6: I'm a big believer in that. Now I'm not using

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Speaker 6: a green.

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01:40:58,120 --> 01:41:02,360
Speaker 8: Screen right now because I'm using which is tool to participate.

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01:41:02,400 --> 01:41:06,200
Speaker 8: But normally speaking, you know, do yourself a favor is

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Speaker 8: go out these and these.

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Speaker 6: There's a lot of goods green screens out there.

2121
01:41:09,800 --> 01:41:12,280
Speaker 8: This one's really good because you know, you don't have

2122
01:41:12,320 --> 01:41:14,799
Speaker 8: to put it against the wall. It's like a projector

2123
01:41:14,840 --> 01:41:17,040
Speaker 8: that you pull up. You can Stubb it in the closet,

2124
01:41:17,040 --> 01:41:19,080
Speaker 8: which is what I do after I use it, and

2125
01:41:19,120 --> 01:41:21,080
Speaker 8: it will make all the difference in the world in

2126
01:41:21,120 --> 01:41:23,719
Speaker 8: terms of what that artifacting that goes around your head,

2127
01:41:23,840 --> 01:41:26,200
Speaker 8: you know when you're doing it then. So I'm a

2128
01:41:26,200 --> 01:41:28,400
Speaker 8: big believer that if you're getting into the podcast world,

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01:41:28,600 --> 01:41:29,599
Speaker 8: get a green screen.

2130
01:41:29,640 --> 01:41:31,479
Speaker 6: It will be the best one hundred bucks or so

2131
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Speaker 6: you ever spend.

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Speaker 2: And you've got this one E Mark green screen.

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Speaker 1: It's got like a little a little place to like

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Speaker 1: a little projector holder. And then finally this super cage.

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Speaker 8: Now that one is really really cool, and you know this,

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Speaker 8: I can see Witch getting this. This is a really

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01:41:48,000 --> 01:41:50,240
Speaker 8: interesting item in that and it's a bit more on

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01:41:50,280 --> 01:41:54,439
Speaker 8: the professional side. It essentially turns your iPhone or any

2139
01:41:54,520 --> 01:41:57,160
Speaker 8: kind of phone into almost like a port replicator. So

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01:41:57,240 --> 01:42:00,640
Speaker 8: you plug this in, it holds it professionally and it

2141
01:42:00,680 --> 01:42:02,800
Speaker 8: gives you three or four other ports. So when when

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Speaker 8: you're when you really get good at this and you

2143
01:42:04,720 --> 01:42:07,720
Speaker 8: start doing all kinds of advanced stuff, you can you

2144
01:42:07,720 --> 01:42:10,639
Speaker 8: can put an external power plug in one thing. I'm

2145
01:42:10,640 --> 01:42:13,720
Speaker 8: doing more increasingly that when I'm doing podcasts locally, I

2146
01:42:13,760 --> 01:42:16,519
Speaker 8: want to have some type of screen. It's showing the

2147
01:42:16,600 --> 01:42:19,760
Speaker 8: person who's in front of the camera what they're looking at. Again,

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Speaker 8: that's very common in professional setups. This would allow you

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Speaker 8: to do that, and it's just a terrific Godamosi has

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Speaker 8: an SD slot.

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Speaker 6: If you want to put memory. Oh wow, the store

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Speaker 6: big file, very very handy.

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Speaker 1: All right, A couple of good recommendations, Mark Vina, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much. Smart Techresearch dot Net. Check it out, subscribe

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Speaker 1: to the podcast. Always good to see you. See you

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Speaker 1: at the next event.

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Speaker 6: Rich, go yankees our peculatory.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we are going to open up

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Speaker 1: the feedback. These are the emails you sent all week.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that coming up next.

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Speaker 2: Oh now I'm on right.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here I said,

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Speaker 1: we got Rick rolled at the end of the show.

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Speaker 1: Isn't this the Rickroll song?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we got rickrolled. Thanks for rickrolling me.

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Speaker 15: Hey, can I do something?

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Speaker 2: What can I give?

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Speaker 15: A happy birthday shout out to my wife absolutely, Brittany,

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Speaker 15: Happy birthday. I love you so much. Enjoy your day.

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Speaker 2: And have fun today. And I know sorry I'm at work,

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Speaker 2: but I know Bill's got to be paid. It's okay.

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Speaker 1: Bobo's got a nice dinner. We're talking five star dinner

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Speaker 1: plan for tonight, five star dinners.

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Speaker 2: Out on Rich. Thank you, Ron, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 15: Rich is gonna send us to a five star restaurant

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Speaker 15: for your birthday.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's open up the feedback. Happy birthday, Brittany. Anita

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Speaker 1: writes in from California. I bought a Mac desktop last

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Speaker 1: week and at first struggled to get used to everything.

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Speaker 2: I called Microsoft for help. That was frustrating.

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Speaker 1: Little by little, I'm learning how to use the Mac

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Speaker 1: and using the mail app has made things so much easier.

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Speaker 1: I can't say enough how much you taking the time

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Speaker 1: to help me has me. By the way, I heard

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Speaker 1: you were in an accident, So glad you're all right.

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Speaker 1: We need more people who are kind enough to help

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Speaker 1: out A quote old lady, Oh thank you.

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Speaker 2: Anita.

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Speaker 1: Glenn says, I had to switch back from Alexa Plus

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Speaker 1: to what I called dumb Alexa. I got two Echo

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Speaker 1: show fives that I mainly use as clocks. I love

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Speaker 1: the full screen clock that I would customize both Alexa plus.

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Speaker 1: Amazon completely changed the home screen. There's no settings to

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Speaker 1: restore the old view. Their online help bot just kept

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Speaker 1: sending me to menus that did not exist. I bought

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Speaker 1: these devices. I should get to decide how they look

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Speaker 1: and work. Not Amazon funny enough. After the update, they

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Speaker 1: asked me for feedback on Alexa Plus. They should have

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Speaker 1: done that before rolling out the changes. Thanks for your show.

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Speaker 1: I listen all the time, Robbie. I really enjoy your

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Speaker 1: show and learn something new. Every time I was trying

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Speaker 1: to enroll in Windows ten Extended Service updates, couldn't find

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Speaker 1: the option in settings. You told me to make sure

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Speaker 1: all the updates were installed. After switching back to my

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Speaker 1: admin account, changing the password, and running all the original updates,

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Speaker 1: the option finally appeared. A couple clicks later. I was

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Speaker 1: in Thanks for the quick respet rich. I don't know

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Speaker 1: how you find the time to answer individual emails, Robbie,

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Speaker 1: don't tell people I do that. Pat writes in saw

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Speaker 1: your segment on KTLA about updating Windows ten security. I

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Speaker 1: followed your instructions, which were the simple and easy to understand.

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Speaker 1: Now I have Windows ten Protection for another year. Your

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Speaker 1: advice was very helpful. Keep up the good work. Thank you, Pat,

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Speaker 1: Mike love the show. I recently replaced the battery on

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Speaker 1: my Dell XPS fifteen. I bought it directly from Dell.

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Speaker 1: After installing it, the laptop wouldn't power on until I

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Speaker 1: plugged in the charger. Some tutorials online suggested it should

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Speaker 1: start up right away, but I learned that some computer

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Speaker 1: batteries need just a little juice from the charger before

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Speaker 1: they start working. Just a friendly word of encouragement for

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Speaker 1: anyone else swapping a laptop battery.

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Speaker 2: Keep up the good work.

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Speaker 1: Chris writes in my five year old Dell was not

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Speaker 1: eligible for the Windows eleven upgrade. I asked around and

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Speaker 1: people mentioned to work around. Instead, I took it to

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Speaker 1: a local shop for two hundred and twenty bucks. They

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Speaker 1: put in a new hard drive, bypassed the annoying login screen,

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Speaker 1: and installed Windows A. Now my machine runs faster than ever,

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Speaker 1: and I didn't have to copy over all my data

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Speaker 1: to a new computer. Chris Oh He says he's also

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Speaker 1: been watching since the Tech TV days. Oh wow, that

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Speaker 1: was my dream job back in the day Tech TV.

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Speaker 1: That's where I literally hounded them to let me work there.

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Speaker 1: Never got a job there, but anyway, Gary writes in Rich,

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Speaker 1: I love your show and I look forward to it

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Speaker 1: every week. Great advice on taking photos of rental cars.

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Speaker 1: I actually take video when I pick up the car

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Speaker 1: when returning to make sure to include the hood, roof

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Speaker 1: and glass. Recently I got a letter saying out four

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Speaker 1: grand for hail damage on a rental in Phoenix, even

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Speaker 1: though I only had the car a few hours. Luckily

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Speaker 1: I had the video and never heard anything more. Hurts

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Speaker 1: is now doing high resolution cameras at some airport locations

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Speaker 1: to inspect cars for damage. If you don't have proof,

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Speaker 1: you might get stuck paying. Yes, Gary, definitely, I recommend

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Speaker 1: take at least four pictures of the car in the

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Speaker 1: highest resolution that your camera will allow.

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Speaker 2: Scott, I was.

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Speaker 1: Listening to your podcast. I want to call her asks

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Speaker 1: how to get a photo of his daughter off an

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Speaker 1: old Nokia. I found myself yelling at the show. Just

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Speaker 1: bring the picture up on that phone and snap a

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Speaker 1: photo of it with your current phone. Then just run

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Speaker 1: it through an app like Gemini Nano Banana to clean

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Speaker 1: up the graininess. It's fast, free and gets the job done.

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Speaker 1: Mary Anne, Yesterday my computer was taken over by a

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Speaker 1: spam pop up. It told me to call Apple support

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Speaker 1: and not log off with a very loud recording that

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Speaker 1: locked up my computer. I didn't use the number on

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Speaker 1: the screen. Instead, I just looked up Apple Support's real number,

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Speaker 1: just like you always suggest good that you avoided that,

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Speaker 1: Mary Anne, that would have been really bad. And Alan

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Speaker 1: in Deerfield Beach, Florida, I was walking home from the

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Speaker 1: gym listening to your show when you played an Olivia

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Speaker 1: Dean song. I didn't recognize it. I loved it, though,

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Speaker 1: which one was it? I want to make a ring

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Speaker 1: tone from it. I taught electronics and computers for thirty

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Speaker 1: two years and always told my students this was a

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Speaker 1: great field because you'll always be learning. I never once

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Speaker 1: woke up not wanting to go to work. Thanks for listening.

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Speaker 1: That song was Nice to each Other by Olivia Dan.

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Speaker 1: It is on repeat in my house for sure.

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Speaker 2: Let's see we've got kloy. Chloe says.

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Speaker 1: I've never been an alarmist, but when my bankell out

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Speaker 1: in ach on my checking account without confirming it, it

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Speaker 1: was clear financials are going to be a bigger risk

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Speaker 1: going forward. I've also received fake emails from Social Security.

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Speaker 1: I asked my provider how they're slipping through. Their long

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Speaker 1: reply didn't answer the question. There isn't one be careful

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Speaker 1: out there?

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Speaker 2: That's going to do it.

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Speaker 1: For this show, you can find links to what I

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Speaker 1: mentioned on the website rich on tech dot tv. I'm

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Speaker 1: on social media at rich on tech. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for listening. Next week we'll talk about scams. There are

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Speaker 1: so many ways you can spend your time. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you spending it right here with me. Please don't drive distracted,

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Speaker 1: put that phone down. Thanks to everyone who makes this

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Speaker 1: show possible. My name is rich Dedmiro.

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Speaker 2: I will talk to you real soon