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Speaker 1: I was off last week, so thanks for tuned in.

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Speaker 1: This week. I went to Las Vegas over the weekend

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Speaker 1: and wow, Wow, Wow, what a fun trip. It was

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Speaker 1: really really amazing. We ate, we drank, we played. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was just so great. We went to this place

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Speaker 1: I happen to get a pitch for this like interactive exhibit.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you want to call it, but

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Speaker 1: I said, all right, let me check it out, and

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Speaker 1: so we went there. Just thankfully I scheduled it for

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Speaker 1: a lot of time here and I won't go into

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Speaker 1: all of it, but it's kind of like an immersive

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Speaker 1: interactive art experience. And thankfully we had a pr person

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Speaker 1: not have known what to do. So on the surface,

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Speaker 1: it's this really interesting grocery store where everything is just

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Speaker 1: not exactly right, like all the names of the products

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Speaker 1: cereals is like simply not spiders or something like that.

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Speaker 1: And there's just all this stuff and the products are real,

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Speaker 1: by the way, a lot of them. In fact, you

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Speaker 1: pretty fast slide. There's like three of them, so be

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Speaker 1: interesting and they actually it took me a while to

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Speaker 1: these names are just wild. They explain the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: what did I just experience? So it's at a place

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Speaker 1: what amounts to like an Italian fish market. Inside. You

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Speaker 1: But let's start with the first story of the week.

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Speaker 1: This is a big, big shift in the way that

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Speaker 1: what do they call it? Remote Remote Access? I think

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Speaker 1: It only exists on the cloud. And what's really neat

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Speaker 1: about this is that you can use any computer you want.

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Speaker 1: which I would never ever do, because the one thing

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Speaker 1: this could change that because think about it, if you

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Speaker 1: So Windows ten, Windows eleven will be on this instant

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Speaker 1: getting ahead of myself, how Netflix has optimized that to

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Speaker 1: get to the first question. Uh, Zora Aida Da Zora

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Speaker 1: Aida says, Hey, Rich, glad to see you back on

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Speaker 1: the set at KTLA. Yes, that was exciting. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for always enlightening us with your tech wisdom. Question for you.

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Speaker 1: We have older cars with no Bluetooth, but it has

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Speaker 1: an oxport. I just noticed some ox to Bluetooth adapters

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Speaker 1: Zor Aida. Uh, well, I'm actually gonna defer to my

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Speaker 1: It's called Airfly, and that is the one that I'd

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Speaker 1: be a great way to do it. You could also

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Speaker 1: from a device, But Airfly duo I think is the

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Speaker 1: you get. In my place, it's not that big, but

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Speaker 1: it's you know, it's an older place, so the walls

431
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 1: are thick whatever, and it's just like Internet does not

432
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Speaker 1: like to go through the walls here. So for me,

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Speaker 1: I use a three system and I do not have

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Speaker 1: a forty five square foot home full disclosure, and the

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Speaker 1: three seems to work for me. That's it. I mean,

436
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Speaker 1: I would take a look at this review. I'm gonna

437
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,840
Speaker 1: put show notes in the shows. I got an email

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Speaker 1: from a viewer or a listener rather and they said, Rich,

439
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,879
Speaker 1: you know, I love the show, but you're killing me.

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00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,520
Speaker 1: Smalls said, you're killing me by not having the show

441
00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,040
Speaker 1: notes anymore. And I said, all right, I agree. Like

442
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Speaker 1: I'm doing a show that's purportedly for the average tech

443
00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:29,000
Speaker 1: person and I don't include links in my show notes.

444
00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:33,080
Speaker 1: Like that's that's a big. Uh, that's a big on

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00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,440
Speaker 1: my part. So I'm going to bring back the show notes.

446
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:37,600
Speaker 1: If you've been missing them, look in the show notes,

447
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 1: because I do talk about a lot of stuff that's

448
00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,520
Speaker 1: that's quite useful and interesting, and I definitely need the

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Speaker 1: show notes to go along with them. So anyway, that's

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Speaker 1: the Villo router. I'll put it in the show notes,

451
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Speaker 1: So look for it, and if you have any questions

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Speaker 1: about it, let me know. All right, D says or

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Speaker 1: Denise says. Thanks for all your good tips. You've helped

454
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Speaker 1: me out a lot. Right now, I'm trying to guess

455
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Speaker 1: when Apple will release the iPad twenty twenty one, not

456
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Speaker 1: the pro. I want a Wi Fi plus cellular. I'll

457
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,679
Speaker 1: probably get an eighth generation if it's too long for

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty one. I can't find any links or

459
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Speaker 1: any leaks. I trust to see when it will happen.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a good guess? Also, what do you

461
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,040
Speaker 1: think of the mini versus the regular? I'd probably use

462
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,160
Speaker 1: the device on cellular when I go out of the house.

463
00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 1: I don't trust public Wi Fi. The size is tempting.

464
00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:27,879
Speaker 1: I trust you. Can you please advise? Thank you Denise

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Speaker 1: for trusting me. Number one, the regular iPad typically comes

466
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Speaker 1: out in October, so that's when historically comes out. But

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Speaker 1: don't take my word for it. There's a place that

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Speaker 1: I look and it's called Buyer's Guide dot MacRumors dot com,

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Speaker 1: and what they do is they have every single iPad

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Speaker 1: cataloged and it will tell you exactly when the last

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Speaker 1: one came out. So to answer your question about the

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Speaker 1: standard iPad, if you tup, if you look at the

473
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Speaker 1: iPad right now, it's neutral. It's been three hundred and

474
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Speaker 1: four days since they last released one, and the typical

475
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Speaker 1: release cycle is five hundred and seventy nine days, which

476
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Speaker 1: leads me to believe that we're not going to see

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Speaker 1: another one for another three hundred days. So now it

478
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Speaker 1: just sort of depends with the iPad. So I would say,

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Speaker 1: right now they're recommending a neutral, which means you could

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Speaker 1: buy it and take a chance, or you can just wait.

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Speaker 1: So I personally would just I'd probably just get it

482
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Speaker 1: because I feel like it's been I feel like the

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Speaker 1: one that they have right now is just fine, or

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Speaker 1: you can wait, you know, you can wait for a

485
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Speaker 1: little bit longer. Now. With respect to the Mini, that

486
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Speaker 1: is a whole different beast. The Mini they always seem

487
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Speaker 1: to give up on, and the average for the Mini

488
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Speaker 1: is about five hundred days. Right now, it's been eight

489
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty one day since the last release, so

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Speaker 1: it has been a long time. I believe I bought

491
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Speaker 1: my kids the last iPad Mini and it was a

492
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Speaker 1: long time ago, so actually it might have been the

493
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Speaker 1: one before this. So with the mini, definitely don't buy,

494
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Speaker 1: and you can wait for a new one. I would

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Speaker 1: hope that they would come out with a new one

496
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Speaker 1: because I think that is a perfect size. But again

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Speaker 1: it's it's really I would not get the current one,

498
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Speaker 1: and you can wait for a new one, but there's

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Speaker 1: no guarantee that the new one's going to be there.

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Speaker 1: So bottom line, check out buyers Guide dot MacRumors dot

501
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 1: com for your true insight. But you have to decide

502
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:28,480
Speaker 1: with respect to the whole cellular situation. I think you're

503
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Speaker 1: right in not trusting public Wi Fi, But to be

504
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 1: totally honest, I think it's fine. I mean, you're unless

505
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Speaker 1: you're connecting to really sketchy Wi Fi networks. Most of

506
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: the Wi Fi these days is pretty well locked down.

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00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 1: I think you'll be just fine on it if you're

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Speaker 1: you know, using Hotel Wi Fi, Starbucks WiFi, whatever, Especially

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Speaker 1: on an iPad. I mean, iPad is not a computer.

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Speaker 1: Even if someone were to get into your iPad, there's

511
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Speaker 1: almost nothing they can do. And yes they can deliver malware,

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Speaker 1: but it would be it would have to be a

513
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Speaker 1: pretty big hack for them to ruin your iPad if

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Speaker 1: you're just like a casual person connecting to you know,

515
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Speaker 1: trusted public networks, And yes, there's always a chance. And

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Speaker 1: I think it's good that you're you're being critical of

517
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Speaker 1: these networks, and I think that's very smart. But I

518
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Speaker 1: think you'll be okay for the most part. But with

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Speaker 1: that said, if you have the money to go cellular

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00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 1: and you like the this security of cellular, yeah go

521
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 1: cellular for sure. I always prefer cellular over Wi Fi

522
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 1: when possible, and so that is definitely something I'm not

523
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Speaker 1: going to not recommend. But I think if in general,

524
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Speaker 1: you're probably going to be safe a majority of the time.

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Speaker 1: All Right, speaking of security and encryption, RING is now

526
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,679
Speaker 1: giving end to end encryption to everyone. I believe this

527
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,120
Speaker 1: was something they had a while ago, but I guess

528
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 1: maybe I never really covered it. But the reason I

529
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 1: would look the end to end encryption thing is great.

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00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 1: So what Ring, What that means is that no one

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Speaker 1: can see your video, not even RING, not even anyone

532
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: like It's it's really once you set this up. Your

533
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 1: your video is pretty safe from your camera, like someone's

534
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,479
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to get in and hack it

535
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 1: and view your videos now. By default, Ring says that

536
00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,200
Speaker 1: they encrypt customer videos when they're uploaded to the cloud,

537
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: which means in transit and when they're stored, and that's

538
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: at rest. But you can now have opt into end

539
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:28,280
Speaker 1: to end encryption, which means only you can view the

540
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 1: videos on your enrolled mobile device. And so you go

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00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 1: into the control center in the Ring app and you

542
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: can turn this on. Now. Once you turn this on,

543
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 1: because it is such high security, you do lose a

544
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,679
Speaker 1: whole bunch of features. And some of those features include

545
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 1: viewing it on an Echo device. So if you're used

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00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 1: to viewing your your doorbell when someone rings it on

547
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,280
Speaker 1: your Echo device, that is not possible. There's a whole

548
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: bunch of other things that you lose as well. There

549
00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: is a web page that explains it all. This is

550
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: a big deal, you know, if you're gonna, if you're

551
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 1: gonna enable this, there's definitely some drawbacks. Now, if you

552
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,919
Speaker 1: have a battery powered video doorbell, it's a non starter.

553
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: Those don't even support end to end encryption, and I

554
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 1: believe the reason for that is probably because the battery

555
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 1: this thing, it probably probably requires more power to do this,

556
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: And so it looks like only the wired video doorbells

557
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: and security cameras support this. So if you're doing strictly,

558
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,719
Speaker 1: you know, anything that is not wired, it's not going

559
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: to work. So the any or sorry, anything battery powered

560
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: is just not going to work. So if you go

561
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: into your Ring app, you go into control center and

562
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 1: you tab video Management, Advanced settings and to end encryption

563
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 1: and got it, and that's it, and you have to

564
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: enroll your mobile device. It's a whole big thing. So

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00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean, this is it's you know,

566
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: for some people it might be overkilled. For others, you

567
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: might think it's the most secure way of using your camera.

568
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 1: But if you're only using a wired device and maybe

569
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Speaker 1: one smartphone, I'm unclear if you can use it with

570
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: multiple smartphones, but if you're only using one, I would

571
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: probably enable it, you know, for the most security, Like

572
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: why not, there's no downside, doesn't cost you any extra,

573
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: so I'd probably do it and you know, enjoy those

574
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: benefits of feeling and had encryption is always going to

575
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: be the most secure, No matter what you're using, whether

576
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: it's messaging, whether it's a video product, whether it's you

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00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: know anything, all right, Next question from Kim. She says,

578
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: quick tech question. We live on a very social street

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Speaker 1: and we've had a group text going over the past

580
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 1: couple of years. COVID pushed a lot of people here

581
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: working from home. More new homes are being built and

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00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 1: more people are moving to our street. Needless to say,

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00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: our text group has maxed out, so we consider going

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00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: to WhatsApp. Are there any other user friendly group text

585
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: apps that we should consider having everyone use? Let me

586
00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: know your thoughts. We have one person who acts as

587
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: our admit I Straighter and they add and delete names

588
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 1: and phone numbers as needed. Thanks in advance, Kim. Uh. Kim, Well,

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00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 1: I would WhatsApp is a good option. I mean, so

590
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: what you're saying is you have a bunch of people

591
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 1: in your in your neighborhood on a private group text chat.

592
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: So that's good and I think that's a great thing

593
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 1: to do. Uh. The app that I'd recommend, WhatsApp is fine,

594
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 1: but some here's the problem when you start like shopping apps.

595
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: Everyone has a problem with every app. If if you

596
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: talk about signal way too secure. It's like overkill. It's yeah,

597
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: it's end to end encrypted and it's like super secure,

598
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: but like getting everyone on that is gonna be kind

599
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: of tough, and basically it would be a lesson in

600
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: just convincing people to do it. So that's that's out.

601
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: Facebook Messenger. Yeah, everyone has Facebook, but a lot of

602
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: people don't and they feel like Facebook is you know,

603
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 1: for some reason or not, they don't like it. So

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00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 1: Facebook messengers out. WhatsApp is owned by Facebook, and of

605
00:30:57,960 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: course they had that big thing with all the chain

606
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: in their privacy policy, so people got a little skittish

607
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: around Facebook or WhatsApp Messenger, so they don't want to

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00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: use that. So the one that I would recommend is

609
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 1: is Telegram, and that's what I use for my big

610
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: group text chatting, and it has been great. I got

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00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 1: my entire family on board and we've been using it

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00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 1: for a couple of years now and it's fantastic. Now

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00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 1: the rest of the world has seemed in the meantime

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00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: to discover Telegram, and so I see every single day

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00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: people signing up for it and I get a new

616
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: a message, Oh you you know your friend, this person,

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00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: this person, anyone in my address book has signed up

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00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: for Telegram, and so clearly people like it. It's easy.

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Speaker 1: I think it has all the features that you need.

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00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: You can add people, you can delete people. It's kind

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00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: of like and if you're asking me, Rich, why not

622
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: just recommend I Message? Well, I Message doesn't work across platforms,

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00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: so there's gonna be a lot of people left out

624
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 1: if you use something like I Message. And that's why

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00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: I always always prefer using a third party app over

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00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: something like I Message, because I Message is easy, it's slick.

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00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 1: I know you've got all your ie message groups going on,

628
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 1: but personally, when I get into those groups, it makes

629
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: me feel sad because I do not like things that

630
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: are not cross platform because technology should work across everything,

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00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: and in this world that we're building, a lot of

632
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: the stuff is starting to work and only, uh, only

633
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: this works with this, and only that works with that,

634
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: and only That's not the way tech was supposed to be.

635
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 1: Tech was supposed to be universal. And the more silos

636
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: that you go down, the more one way streets that

637
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: you go down. Yeah, everything works so nicely, but there's

638
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 1: a price to be paid for that, and the price

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00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: is that people are left out. And so just for example,

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00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: I've got one group that's a group text on I

641
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: message that you know, everyone is on iPhone and it

642
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Speaker 1: works so beautifully. And then I've got another one where

643
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,959
Speaker 1: we've got a couple people that are on Android and

644
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: it just doesn't work as nicely. When people like the message,

645
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: it says Ranch liked your you know, whatever the message was,

646
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: you know, like spell it out. And so that's why

647
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: I like I love Telegram because it works the same

648
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: no matter what device you're using. I don't have to

649
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: ask my friends, oh, are you on Android or iPhone

650
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: because it determines how this group is gonna work. No,

651
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: you're on Telegram, You're on Telegram. Everything works the same.

652
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: So long answer short, That's what I would recommend, Kim.

653
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: I think that's the best way to do it. Oh,

654
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:25,800
Speaker 1: speaking of neighborhoods, Verizon has a new feature in their

655
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 1: call filter app. If you're not using a call filter app,

656
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: I highly recommend that you install it on your device.

657
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: If you're on AT and T, there's this called call Protect.

658
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 1: If you're on T Mobile, it's called scam Shield, and

659
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: if you're on Verizon, it's called call Filter. Now, all

660
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 1: three of these apps are free, but like any good

661
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: carrier would do, they are gonna try to upsell you.

662
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:52,600
Speaker 1: They're gonna try to upsell you on a subscription, and

663
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: I don't think you need it. It just adds more

664
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: features that it's it's like, you just don't need to

665
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: just go with the free app. You'll be fine. It'll

666
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: help block calls, but once you install these apps, they

667
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: will cut down on some of the spam calls. Now,

668
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: with that said, there is one thing that's very very

669
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 1: frustrating with spammers right or scam calls, whatever you want

670
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: to call them, and that is the neighborhood call. And

671
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,919
Speaker 1: the way that Verizon describes this is it's called called

672
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 1: neighbor or neighborhood spoofing. They trick you into answering the

673
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: call because these calls have the same area code and

674
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: prefix as yours. Now, it's not coming from your neighbor's house.

675
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: It's coming from some computer where they've just programmed it

676
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 1: to say. Oh, if you're dialing Rich's number and he

677
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: is three one oh five fivey five, make sure that

678
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 1: when you dial, the outgoing number looks like three wine

679
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 1: oh five fixy five one two one two, Because Rich

680
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: is one, two, one three or whatever, right, so it

681
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,560
Speaker 1: makes you think. It just plays a trick on your mind.

682
00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 1: You're saying, oh, wow, this looks a lot like my

683
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,800
Speaker 1: phone number. I should probably answer it. And you answer

684
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 1: it in nine times out of ten, it's nothing. It's bogus,

685
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 1: it's a scammer, it's a call it's a scam artist. Whatever.

686
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 1: So now Verizon, inside this app, there's a little toggle

687
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 1: if you go to call management and other filters, all

688
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: you have to do, okay, So you go to management

689
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,399
Speaker 1: section and then under the block filters app, just look

690
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: for neighborhood filter. You turn it on and it will

691
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 1: block the numbers that are similar to yours. And yes,

692
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: if you have a significant other or a friend that

693
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 1: lives nearby that you both have the same similar number,

694
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:28,360
Speaker 1: you want to make sure they're in your contacts to

695
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,280
Speaker 1: make sure that their phone number does ring your phone

696
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 1: and they come through. But otherwise, this is a great feature.

697
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 1: I turned it on on my phone, and you know,

698
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: we'll say it seems to work. Just know that the

699
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: more of these filters that you turn on, the more

700
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 1: of these spam filters, the more of these unknown caller filters,

701
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:49,399
Speaker 1: the more of these apps that you install, the more

702
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 1: calls that are going to go straight to voicemail. And

703
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:53,280
Speaker 1: so if you're like me and you like to answer

704
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: a lot of random numbers, because I've got a lot

705
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: of random people call me all the time because my

706
00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 1: phone number is sort of out there, got a lot

707
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 1: of peer there are people that call me a lot.

708
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm in the news business. People call me,

709
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 1: you know, And so I do want to keep my

710
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 1: number out there as much as possible because I don't

711
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: I don't want to be unreachable. I mean, yes, I

712
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 1: will not answer a lot of calls if I think

713
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: the number's bogus, or I'll wait for it to you know,

714
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: go to voicemail and then they'll text me whatever. But anyway,

715
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: the more lines of defense you have, the more it's

716
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: going to be tough for people to get a hold

717
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: of you if there was ever sort of an emergency

718
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: or a random number. Like I'll give you an example.

719
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 1: So because I had this feature enabled the just the

720
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: spam filters, I was getting an Uber the other day

721
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: and the Uber driver kept trying to call and I

722
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: think I told this story on the podcast last week,

723
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: but whatever, but I couldn't the call didn't come through

724
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: because it kept going right to voicemail because I was

725
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: somehow that number was identified as a spam number and

726
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,760
Speaker 1: it just you know, kept getting blocked, so the driver

727
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: was not able to get a hold of me. And

728
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: you can't call back some of these numbers, like if

729
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,879
Speaker 1: an uber calls you, it's basically a one way number

730
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: that they use to like call out, but you can't

731
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: call that number back in. So just be aware of

732
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: these limitations, and you know, make sure that your important

733
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 1: contacts are in your address book and that should help

734
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: with a lot, including things like doctors, dentists, all that

735
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:20,280
Speaker 1: good stuff. All right, let's get to the next question.

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00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: Paula says, I recently saw a segment on selling back

737
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 1: electronics and I can't find it. I was wondering if

738
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 1: you could give me the name of that company. I

739
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 1: have a lot of old iPads to sell back. Thank you, Paula. Well,

740
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,839
Speaker 1: the company is Gizmo Go. And I just had someone

741
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: at work actually ask me about this company, local company

742
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: in California. Where were they Chino, I believe, And I went.

743
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: I visited them and I'd never heard of them before

744
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 1: I did the story. So I wanted to check them out.

745
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 1: Actually sent in my kids old iPad mini. I got

746
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: eighty bucks for it. Went through the whole thing, and

747
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,760
Speaker 1: the cool thing is that this company pays you money

748
00:37:56,840 --> 00:38:00,320
Speaker 1: even if your product is damaged. So for my kids iPad,

749
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:04,279
Speaker 1: for example, Apple was offering me thirty dollars and when

750
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 1: I did gizmo gos estimate, it was eighty and I

751
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: was like, oh, that's really good. Fifty dollars more. Sure enough,

752
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: I sent it in. They give you a one of

753
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 1: these prepaid shipping labels. I had a box, you know,

754
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 1: I get all this Amazon stuff, so I just put it,

755
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 1: you know, in an old Amazon box, sent it off

756
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: and a week later I had my eighty dollars via PayPal.

757
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: So it worked really well. It's called gizmogo dot com.

758
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 1: I'll put a link in the show notes, but I

759
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: highly recommend them. Even if you don't get a lot

760
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 1: for your stuff, you should definitely. You know, you can

761
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: send them a box of like your old electronics that

762
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 1: you no longer need, and they'll recycle them properly. Because

763
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: you don't want to throw this stuff out, that's for sure.

764
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 1: But gizmo go is the website, and you know, just

765
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: give them a try. I mean, there's no you know,

766
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 1: you don't have to just because if you if you

767
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 1: get an estimate, doesn't mean you actually have to sell

768
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 1: it to them. But definitely check it out if you

769
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 1: need a box to leave and send you a box,

770
00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: which is also really really cool. So all right, let's

771
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 1: move on to the next story. Amazon, you know what

772
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: do you what do you call the A word? I

773
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 1: don't even know because I don't want to say it

774
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: on here because it activates way too many things. But

775
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 1: do you now have two new voices that you can

776
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:20,920
Speaker 1: use instead of the standard Chalmolexa voice. So they have

777
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: Samuel L. Jackson. I guess was on there at one point.

778
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,280
Speaker 1: I guess he's a top selling digital purchase on Amazon

779
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: the day it launched. Wow, Well now they have two

780
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: new celebrities, Melissa McCarthy and Shaquille O'Neal. And so now

781
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 1: there's three. So you have Samuel L. Jackson, Melissa McCarthy,

782
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,879
Speaker 1: and Shaquille O'Neal. So if you want to switch your

783
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: voice to these personalities, you have to pay five dollars,

784
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: which you know that's kind of a lot, but maybe not.

785
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's kind of cool. If you're a

786
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: fan of these two folks, which why would you not be?

787
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 1: You can pay five dollars and now they could be

788
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: your your voice. This is happening right now, it's available.

789
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: You can ask for the new voice several ways. You

790
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:07,239
Speaker 1: can say a word change your voice, and they'll give

791
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 1: you the new options. But there's also a new wake

792
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 1: word for you know who. And I thought this was

793
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 1: kind of interesting. So I'm not sure if you know this,

794
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:17,840
Speaker 1: but you can change your They call it the wake word,

795
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 1: you know the word that you say to trigger you

796
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: know who. You can change that to computer, Echo, Amazon

797
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:28,359
Speaker 1: and as well as a Lexa. Oh is that going

798
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: to activate it? But you can now select ziggy as well.

799
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: So ziggy is a new word. So I was on

800
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: Twitter kind of talking with a couple of folks and saying, well,

801
00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:39,719
Speaker 1: what's the deal with ziggy? Like is there some pop

802
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 1: culture reference that I don't know about? Like why is

803
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:46,240
Speaker 1: it ziggy? And I was talking with tech with Bratt.

804
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 1: He runs a YouTube channel and he's cool. He does

805
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:52,320
Speaker 1: a lot of smart home stuff, and he was saying,

806
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: I think it's just a word that a lot of

807
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: people don't use. But then my pal Dave Malcoff, another reporter,

808
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: was saying that it might be some reference to something,

809
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 1: so I don't know, But anyway, ziggy, you probably don't

810
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: say ziggy very much right in your house, so I

811
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 1: guess that's a good wake word. The other words too,

812
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 1: you don't really well. Amazon were always saying did you

813
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 1: order that on Amazon? So anyway, it's all available and

814
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 1: it's just you know, the other options for the things.

815
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: I will say, I've been testing out an Echo device

816
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:24,280
Speaker 1: Echo Show five. I am very impressed. I am still

817
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 1: very very impressed. I really wrote off the Amazon service

818
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:30,919
Speaker 1: like for all this smart home stuff for a long

819
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 1: long time, and I'm eating my words because I feel

820
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 1: like they are doing a great job. They have a

821
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,720
Speaker 1: great ecosystem, they have so many products, their stuff does

822
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 1: really well. I think that the voice capabilities have come

823
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 1: a long way, and I've just been very very impressed

824
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:48,839
Speaker 1: with what I've seen and I continue to test it,

825
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:52,080
Speaker 1: and so I don't know, I think it's pretty cool.

826
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: Next question comes from Chris. He says, when I'm working

827
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 1: mobile detailing, I'm using my iPhone too to listen to

828
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 1: Pandora Bluetooth to my headphones. When I get a call

829
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: or message. I have to stop everything. Oh maybe it's

830
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: an iPhone eleven. I have to stop everything to tend

831
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: to the phone. It even messes up my bluetooth. Is

832
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 1: there a setting I can use? I do not like

833
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: to use, like do not disturb or something, because if

834
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: I don't check my phone, it keeps beeping in my

835
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: ears until I do. It's a pain in the rear.

836
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:26,720
Speaker 1: Rich sent for my iPhone, So I'm guessing iPhone eleven maybe,

837
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,439
Speaker 1: But no matter which iPhone you have this, I've never

838
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: really had this problem. Number one, my iPhone is on

839
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: do not Disturb the entire day twenty four to seven.

840
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: I actually never take it off do not disturb. Now.

841
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:44,279
Speaker 1: I work in television. I'm always recording something and I'm

842
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:46,279
Speaker 1: always in a studio, and so I can't have my

843
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: phone ringing or binging at any time. So I've never

844
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: I've never experienced this. Now. I also don't wear headphones

845
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 1: for a long period of time. But when I do,

846
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 1: I'm wearing them when I'm running and my phone goes

847
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: into automatic do not just st mode as soon as

848
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,960
Speaker 1: I start a workout, so and I do get messages

849
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,919
Speaker 1: along the way, And I've never had my phone bing Now.

850
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 1: The only exception to this is when you have a

851
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:13,040
Speaker 1: pair of air pods in and you get a text

852
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 1: message and Siri will read you the text message. So, Chris,

853
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: my advice to you is to turn on do not disturb.

854
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: I would turn on do not disturb. You can also

855
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 1: flip the side switch on your phone. I don't know

856
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: what it's called. There's a little rocker on the side

857
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 1: that basically turns it from audio to silent, and so

858
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,839
Speaker 1: I would flip that as well when you're detailing, and

859
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 1: that way that should take care of it. But I

860
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 1: think that should do it. I mean, like I said,

861
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 1: I've never had this problem with these things binging in

862
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 1: my ears, and so I think that that has to

863
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: do with the fact that I always have my phone

864
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: on do not Disturb. So what I'd recommend is just

865
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:54,280
Speaker 1: keep it on do not disturb and hopefully that will

866
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 1: take care of it. ESPN Plus, speaking of price, ESPN

867
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 1: Plus is going up. It's going up by a buck

868
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: a month, which you know, like like I always say

869
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,360
Speaker 1: in this podcast, not gonna make or break you. But

870
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: now ESPN Plus is gonna rise to six ninety nine

871
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:13,320
Speaker 1: a month, up from five ninety nine, this according to Variety.

872
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 1: And apparently according to Variety, they raised the subscription last

873
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,400
Speaker 1: year from four ninety nine to five ninety nine. So

874
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: this just keeps going up. And this is something that

875
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 1: I've talked about in the podcast over and over. We

876
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: did not switch to streaming services to save money. Maybe

877
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: back in the day, day one, we saved a couple

878
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 1: of bucks by save by switching, But now there is

879
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 1: no money to be saved. In fact, you may be

880
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,319
Speaker 1: approaching what you paid for cable. You may eclipse it.

881
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 1: Like in my case. The big difference is that you

882
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: are in control. You can turn this on, you can

883
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: turn this off, you can start it, you can stop it,

884
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 1: unlike cable. Let's say, how to subscription to HBO. Back

885
00:44:56,680 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: in the day, Yes you could subscribe for six months

886
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: and then call your cable operator and cancel, but realistically,

887
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: who did that? Not many people. So what happened was

888
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: you would always you know, I call it the rounding effect.

889
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 1: You know, you'd have your cable for a little bit

890
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:13,839
Speaker 1: or your subscription for a little bit more than you

891
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: needed it. And that's just the way the game that

892
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,439
Speaker 1: they played. And so now you can't play games now

893
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: if you want to cancel ESPN because they raised it

894
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: a dollar, you can. If you want to start it

895
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: up again when they bring the cricket match that you

896
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 1: like to streaming, then you can. And so all we

897
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: have now at this point is a choice. And these

898
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: things just keep getting more and more expensive. I mean,

899
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: all the prices just keep going up. There's price creep

900
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:41,319
Speaker 1: on these streaming services. Is it causing me to cancel them? No,

901
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 1: although I will say I am not currently subscribed to

902
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,799
Speaker 1: Apple tv Plus. They did not raise their price. It's

903
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,399
Speaker 1: still the launch price of four to ninety nine a month.

904
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 1: But on July first, when they were going to start

905
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: charging me, I said, I just don't need this. There's

906
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: no there's nothing I'm watching on Apple tv Plus right now. Now.

907
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 1: That will change when the second season of the Morning

908
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: Show comes out. And I know everyone loves ted Lasso.

909
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 1: I have not watched that, but I know people love it,

910
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 1: and so if I was a Ted Lasso fan, which

911
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:13,120
Speaker 1: I think that new season is starting. You know, they

912
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,359
Speaker 1: time these things where they're you know, if there's one

913
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:18,839
Speaker 1: show at any given time, that's all they need, that's

914
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:20,800
Speaker 1: all they need to keep you hooked on these things.

915
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: And it's just the way it is. So again, the

916
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: best way to get Disney Plus or the ESPN Plus

917
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 1: service is realistically to subscribe to Disney this what do

918
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 1: they call it, the Disney Plus. It's like the bundle,

919
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 1: so it's Disney Plus Hulu and also ESPN Plus. That

920
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:43,919
Speaker 1: trio is staying firm at thirteen ninety nine a month,

921
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: so according to Variety, that's thirty percent less than the

922
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: cost of buying all three services individually. Let's get to

923
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 1: another question here. Joanne says, hey, Rich, I received a

924
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: notice from YouTube announcing many of my family videos that

925
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: are currently unlisted will be set to private, thus changing

926
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:07,120
Speaker 1: the URL. I provided my family a copy of the

927
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:09,799
Speaker 1: URLs of these videos. Now I need to change It's

928
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 1: a huge amount of work. I wish I had another

929
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:14,840
Speaker 1: option back then, but YouTube is it? An easier solution

930
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:17,799
Speaker 1: to preserving these precious memories would be to take off

931
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: all my family videos and put them on hard drives

932
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 1: from my family members to copy to their computers with

933
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 1: a drive to keep as a backup. Well, that doesn't

934
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 1: sound easier, but anyway, to each his own. My question

935
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 1: is is there a bulk way to download three hundred

936
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 1: family videos I've uploaded on YouTube, collected over the years

937
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: to preserve on an external hard drive. It did some research.

938
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 1: It looks like you need some special software. There are

939
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 1: so many options, many of which I'm sure not safe.

940
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: I've read about a product called m m MM, which

941
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 1: looks to be legit, but who knows. Uh, Okay, Joe Ane,

942
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: couple things Number one, I don't think that. I mean,

943
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 1: it sounds like you got a big collection here, so

944
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:59,279
Speaker 1: that's definitely an issue. Now. I wonder if once they

945
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 1: change these unlisted URLs to private, if you can just

946
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: make a private playlist and then just share that playlist

947
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 1: with the family members, and then they'd have to log

948
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 1: in to see those videos. I don't know. I didn't

949
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 1: put a lot of I got this same email that

950
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:20,960
Speaker 1: you got. But to me, when I share an unlisted video, like,

951
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: I don't really I'm not expecting it to last very long.

952
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 1: Like that's basically for people to watch for a little bit,

953
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:28,759
Speaker 1: they're not really going back to whatever. So I don't

954
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 1: have the same issue. Even though a lot of my

955
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 1: unlisted videos are family videos, but when they go private,

956
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 1: it's not like my family members are watching them over

957
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 1: and over, so the solution about downloading them to your

958
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: hard drive, you can absolutely do that. That's well within

959
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 1: your rights on YouTube, these are your videos. The number

960
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 1: one way to do that is Google Takeout, And if

961
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 1: you just go to Google Takeout, you can select your

962
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: YouTube videos and they will zip them up and they

963
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 1: will send them to you in an email and you

964
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: can download all of them and put them on a

965
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 1: hard drive. That is one way of doing it. The

966
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 1: other way you can do it is with a video

967
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 1: downloader program, and the one that I like is called

968
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: soft O Reno YouTube Converter too. And You're right, there

969
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 1: is a lot of sketchy software out there that purports

970
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:15,360
Speaker 1: to do this. I'm sure some of it works, but

971
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: the one that I found, soft Reno YouTube Converter two,

972
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 1: works the absolute best. It is dropped it easy, pop

973
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:24,600
Speaker 1: in a URL. All you have to do is copy

974
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 1: and paste it and are actually just copy it and

975
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: the app, as long as it's running on your computer

976
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: will notice the clipboard and it will say, okay, what

977
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:35,759
Speaker 1: format do you want this video in? And you can

978
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:38,919
Speaker 1: convert it to video audio a ring tone. You can

979
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:42,320
Speaker 1: go as high as I think twenty one sixty P.

980
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 1: You can do ten ADP seven to twenty P four

981
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:48,080
Speaker 1: eighty or three sixty and you could save it to

982
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 1: your computer, your phone, your iPod, Apple Music. It's very,

983
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 1: very full featured. It is really fantastic. So that would

984
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: be my recommendation after takeout. If takeout doesn't work for you,

985
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:02,360
Speaker 1: then I would just do it annually with the YouTube converter.

986
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: So good question. Hope that helps all right. Speaking of Apple,

987
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:12,279
Speaker 1: they came out with a mag Safe battery pack for

988
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 1: the iPhone twelve, available now for ninety nine dollars. And

989
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:20,920
Speaker 1: if you've seen these smart battery cases from Apple before,

990
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: this one's a little bit different because it is not

991
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: a case. It is literally just a like a little

992
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:30,279
Speaker 1: bump that magnetically attaches to back to the back of

993
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: your phone if you have a mag Safe phone. Now,

994
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:36,400
Speaker 1: there's been some unofficial mag Safe battery packs for a while.

995
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:41,799
Speaker 1: I have not tested any of these. In fact, I

996
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 1: I mean I probably should get one, but to be

997
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 1: quite honest, I'm typically in a place where I can

998
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:51,359
Speaker 1: charge my phone at some point during the day, and

999
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 1: if I'm not, like you know, I mean, if I'm

1000
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 1: the only time I really need to recharge my phone

1001
00:50:57,239 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: out and about is when like if I happen to

1002
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:02,280
Speaker 1: be at like a conference like a CS or something,

1003
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: or you know, maybe an maybe maybe an Apple event.

1004
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,359
Speaker 1: But realistically, ninety nine point nine percent of the time,

1005
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 1: I am a power user of my smartphone, and I

1006
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,440
Speaker 1: don't run out of battery because I make sure that

1007
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:17,320
Speaker 1: I am fully charged before I'm getting into that situation

1008
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: where I'm going to be away from a plug for

1009
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: a long period of time. And I mean basically I

1010
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:25,839
Speaker 1: can only imagine. I mean, you have to eat at

1011
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 1: some point. So if you're even if your worst case

1012
00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 1: scenario you get at somewhere at seven am and you

1013
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: go through one pm, I mean that's you know, six hours,

1014
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 1: and your phone maybe would die during that time or

1015
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 1: it's really close to death. But for me, you know,

1016
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,720
Speaker 1: most of the time, I will bring like a portable

1017
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:47,800
Speaker 1: battery pack. I'll plug it in at some point, or

1018
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 1: I'll plug it into a plug in the wall. But anyway,

1019
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 1: if you need one of these things, you just like

1020
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 1: to have a lot of extra juice. Ninety nine bucks

1021
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:56,760
Speaker 1: is it's expensive, it's on the high end of things,

1022
00:51:57,080 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: but it's kind of like, you know, it's from Apple,

1023
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 1: so it's gonna work. Really well. The battery itself charges

1024
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:06,719
Speaker 1: with a lightning cable, which is nice, which means if

1025
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 1: you just carry around an iPhone, you've already got the

1026
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: cable to charge this thing. You can also pass through

1027
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 1: charge your iPhone. This is all according to nine to

1028
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:20,360
Speaker 1: five mac Apple recommends using a twenty watt USBC charger

1029
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 1: to charge this for the fastest charging time. What else,

1030
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:28,400
Speaker 1: The battery pack is really really slow. It's a five

1031
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:33,320
Speaker 1: watt charge, which is I think just about a quarter

1032
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:36,279
Speaker 1: It's about twenty five percent of what you could get

1033
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:39,760
Speaker 1: if you plugged in your phone. So this is another

1034
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: reason why don't like these wireless battery packs. They're just

1035
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:44,799
Speaker 1: too slow. I mean, they're really like there's such a

1036
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 1: trickle that like, it's fine if you have a long

1037
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:51,239
Speaker 1: runway to charge your phone, but you'd you'd probably be

1038
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:53,440
Speaker 1: better just plugging your phone in for twenty minutes and

1039
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 1: just getting the amount of juice that you get during

1040
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 1: that time. The other thing that's kind of cool is

1041
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 1: that the battery percentage for the case will appear in

1042
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 1: the battery widget and on the lock screen, which is

1043
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:07,360
Speaker 1: probably something that gives it a little of a step

1044
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 1: ahead of some of the other battery packs out there.

1045
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:15,239
Speaker 1: That's about it. I don't know. I'm actually tempted to

1046
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:18,440
Speaker 1: buy this, to be honest, because I've been very lax

1047
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 1: on the mag Safe accessories. I haven't even gotten the wallet.

1048
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 1: My wife and I joke every time all I've been

1049
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:26,120
Speaker 1: wanting is one of these mag Safe wallets, and I

1050
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 1: keep not buying it, and I just I should just

1051
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 1: buy one, because every time I'm going out, like tonight,

1052
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:33,439
Speaker 1: I'm going out to my friend's house, and of course

1053
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:35,719
Speaker 1: it's a perfect example. All I need is my ID

1054
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 1: and a credit card. That's it. You know, I'm going

1055
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: to a poker game, and it's like my friend is

1056
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: not accepting cash anymore, so I have to use Venmo.

1057
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 1: So I don't need any things at my phone and

1058
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 1: my credit card and my or my debit card rather

1059
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:53,680
Speaker 1: and my my ID and so all I need is

1060
00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 1: a little mag Safe wallet and that's it, and I'd

1061
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 1: be perfectly fine, but I've yet to purchase one, even

1062
00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 1: though I've wanted one for six months. Anyway, all right, well,

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Speaker 1: So explain, like, hey, I like this show because Rich

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Speaker 1: that would be ideal. You can find me on social media.

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Speaker 1: at and sound like on live TV, but of course

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Speaker 1: record it and play later. I'm Rich Demiro. Thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for listening. There are so many ways you can

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Speaker 1: spending it with me. Stay safe, I will talk to

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