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Speaker 1: Big Mobile sells out to T Mobile, YouTube TV hikes prices,

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Speaker 1: the FCC fights to stop robotexts, plus your tech questions answered.

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Speaker 2: What's going on.

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Speaker 1: I'm Rich Dmiro and this is Rich on Tech, the

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Speaker 1: I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Phone lines are now open one

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Speaker 2: A big news this week.

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Speaker 1: Two big stories, actually a lot of big stories, but

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Speaker 1: two that really resonated on my Twitter, and that's usually

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Speaker 1: where I figure out what people care about, for better

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Speaker 1: or for worse. But T Mobile is buying mint Mobile,

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Speaker 1: which the irony is so strong here because Mint Mobile

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Speaker 1: was for folks who wanted to stick it to the

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Speaker 1: man by not subscribing to a big wireless company. And

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Speaker 1: now Mint Mobile sells out to the man. So Mint Mobile,

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Speaker 1: which you know, you know them for their quirky advertising.

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Speaker 1: Ryan Reynolds is an owner. They had these plans that

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Speaker 1: were kind of like Costco. The more you bought in advance,

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Speaker 1: the cheaper it was. So if you bought three months

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Speaker 1: of service, six months of service, you paid for a

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Speaker 1: year in advance. That's how you saved money. They had

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Speaker 1: plans as low as fifteen bucks a month. It was

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Speaker 1: a good value. In fact, I have a Mint line

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Speaker 1: as a tester line, not my main line, and I've

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Speaker 1: got a family member that has been on Mint for

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Speaker 1: many years. And they would tell a lot of people

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Speaker 1: about Mint saying I pay fifteen bucks a month, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I get everything I need And people would

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Speaker 1: be like, how do you do that? I don't understand.

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Speaker 1: That's of course with some limited data. But T Mobile

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Speaker 1: why did they buy Mint Mobile? Well, they want their marketing.

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Speaker 1: They want the way that they market things. That's really

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Speaker 1: what they purchased here for oh a cool one point

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Speaker 1: three five billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: So Ryan Reynolds made out in this deal.

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Speaker 1: They also get two other companies that this two other

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Speaker 1: brands that this company owns. Kayena Corporation is the is

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Speaker 1: the parent company. They get Mint Mobile, Ultramobile, and then

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Speaker 1: a wholesaler called Plum. So this is the quote that

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Speaker 1: really stuck with me over the long term will benefit

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Speaker 1: from applying the marketing formula Mint has become famous for

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Speaker 1: across more parts of T Mobile, so that's what they want.

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Speaker 1: They want the marketing, they want the way that Mint

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Speaker 1: Mobile does business, and they're going to keep the Mint

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Speaker 1: Mobile brands around. But realistically, the way I see this

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Speaker 1: not good for consumers. It's never good for consumers when

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Speaker 1: a big company gobbles up a competitor, small company because

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Speaker 1: people went to that small company. They didn't want to

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Speaker 1: be with the big company, and now they have no choice.

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Speaker 1: They are folded into them, and many people probably wondering

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Speaker 1: do I stick with Mint Mobile. Nothing's going to change overnight,

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Speaker 1: but over time realistically T Mobile are they going to

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Speaker 1: compete with themselves? I mean, these are two different kind

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Speaker 1: of segments. T Mobile trying to push the ultra premium

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Speaker 1: you know, eighty dollars a month plans for unlimited everything,

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Speaker 1: whereas Mint Mobile is pushing the lower end plans for

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Speaker 1: the value oriented consumer. So, if you're with Mint Mobile,

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Speaker 1: do you need to switch right now? Probably not, but

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Speaker 1: you might have your eye on a different carrier, a

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Speaker 1: more independent brand. Even though we all know that all

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Speaker 1: one of three networks in America, which is T Mobile,

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Speaker 1: Verizon or AT and T. I've got a guest coming

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Speaker 1: on the show from whistle Out, Sherry Riggs.

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Speaker 2: She is going to talk more about this. It's not

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Speaker 2: really a merger.

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Speaker 1: I guess it's a purchase and some of the alternative

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Speaker 1: so we'll hear what she has to say. The other

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Speaker 1: big story is a price increase, and we've gotten a

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Speaker 1: I'm a subscriber there as well, and it was very

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Speaker 1: we take the bad. Eight extra dollars a month not

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Speaker 1: make or break for a lot of folks, but it's

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Speaker 1: the principle of things, you're getting more and are you

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Speaker 1: Current subscribers will see this new update on April eighteenth.

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Speaker 1: That's when the price change kicks in to soften the

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Speaker 1: is only nine to ninety nine now. So realistically, if

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Speaker 1: you're subscribing to YouTube TV, you're now paying seventy three

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Speaker 1: They just gave you the new feature where I can

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Speaker 2: So it's cool, but is it worth seventy three dollars

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Speaker 1: I mean, we all canceled cable because we wanted to

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Speaker 1: Companies love bundling because math is hard for us. We

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Speaker 1: they add up really fast. See, you get more money

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Speaker 1: don't need. For example, the Triple Play. How many people

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Speaker 1: I don't need YouTube music. I already pay for another

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Speaker 1: I get like, a, oh, there's so many things Apple

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Speaker 1: Oh, Apple TV. My wife watches one show on there,

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Speaker 1: so we get that Apple Arcade. My kids used to

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Speaker 1: I subscribe to Disney plus, Hulu plus, ESPN plus, so

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Speaker 1: many pluses in these things. It's cheaper to get them

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Speaker 1: You go to a fast food place. It's cheaper to

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Speaker 1: and sinker. So YouTube TV, yes, what I like to

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Speaker 1: We'll see if those are gonna work. I've got three

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Speaker 1: great guests this week. Ben Parr is gonna join us.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna talk AI and the impact on your job. Yes,

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Speaker 1: affect everyone this week alone, Microsoft, Google, and Chat GPT

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Speaker 1: Like I mentioned, Sherry Riggs from Whistle Out, She's gonna

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Speaker 1: That's eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one.

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Speaker 1: Gilda is in La Mesa, California. Gilda, you are on

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Speaker 1: with Rich How you doing?

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Speaker 4: Excuse me? Hi, Thank you for taking my call. I

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Speaker 4: need to purchase a new modem, and I'm wondering if

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Speaker 4: if you could recommend a brand to me?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So what company are you going?

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Speaker 4: Cox? From my internet service?

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Speaker 1: And so they offer you, pardon me, they offer you

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Speaker 4: I buy my own?

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Speaker 4: No, I don't have to, but I prefer to buy

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Speaker 4: Did send me a list of all the compatible products

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, why do you want to buy your own?

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Speaker 2: I'm just curious.

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Speaker 4: Mine is about fifteen years old and it's been kind

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Speaker 4: I have Roku, right.

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Speaker 4: Oh, my router, I mean my modem is about fifteen,

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Speaker 4: but I've been with cos for probably like twenty five years.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, So, and do they charge a rental fee?

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, at fifteen dollars a month, you should probably

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Speaker 1: Next, we're going to talk to Ben Parr about AI

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Speaker 1: and the impact on your job. Plus your calls triple

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Speaker 1: eight Rich one oh one. You are listening to Rich

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Speaker 1: Rich on tech. My name is Rich DeMuro and another

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Speaker 1: week in the tech world, and just another major announcement

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Speaker 1: And congratulations, I heard that you just got engaged, faccurate.

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Speaker 1: So congrats on that. Let's talk about AI. So these

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Speaker 7: So GPT four is a fundamental change to the large

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Speaker 7: generated or at least partially AI generated. You're going to

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Speaker 7: see a whole different way in which people are doing productivity.

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Speaker 7: I saw, for example, somebody earlier this week who asked

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Speaker 7: GPT four or advice on how to make the most

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Speaker 7: money possible and started following it's advice and started making money.

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Speaker 7: I'm actually going to ask it to tell me how

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Speaker 7: to triple my newsletter subscribers, and it gave really good advice.

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Speaker 7: There's like a lot of crazy things that are happening

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Speaker 7: all at once.

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Speaker 1: What's wild about this is it's so much more natural

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Speaker 1: than the previous way of searching. Right if you wanted

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Speaker 1: to look to see how to increase your newsletter subscribers,

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Speaker 1: there's a million websites that can tell you little tips

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Speaker 1: and things. But the way that this sort of summarizes

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Speaker 1: and just makes it so clear is really what's most

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Speaker 1: interesting to me. Like, for instance, i wanted to cook

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Speaker 1: a dinner, a corn beef dinner right for Saint Patrick's Day,

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Speaker 1: and I just asked the chat GPT and also being AI,

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to try them both. I said, hey,

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Speaker 1: make me a shopping list for a traditional corn beef dinner,

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Speaker 1: and sure enough, they both did it in different ways.

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Speaker 1: But it's just that kind of idea of just asking

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Speaker 1: the results that we're kind of looking for very quickly

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Speaker 1: and easily.

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Speaker 7: The chat is the most natural interface that we are

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Speaker 7: used to and that we as humans used, and so

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Speaker 7: it makes sense to have this go give me back

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Speaker 7: and forth in chat, and I kind of think of

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Speaker 7: chat GPT and some of the AI to was kind

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Speaker 7: of like a brainstorming buddy, somebody who is not going

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Speaker 7: to judge you, somebody who has access to the Internet

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Speaker 7: and can give you lots of advice, will not always

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Speaker 7: be right, but will often be correct. And I think

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Speaker 7: that's how a lot more people are starting to use

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Speaker 7: it to boot too as well. It's just really smart

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Speaker 7: at a lot of things. So GPT three point five

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Speaker 7: it tested in the Mottom ten percent of test takers

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Speaker 7: for the bar exam, GPT four tested in the top

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Speaker 7: ten percent. That's how quickly this technology is advancing month

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Speaker 7: by month.

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Speaker 1: It can also do ap calculus. According to your newsletter,

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Speaker 1: the Social analyst. It can do AP calculus, AP chemistry,

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Speaker 1: AP physics better. Like you said, it does the visual inputs,

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Speaker 1: So now you can pop a picture into this and

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Speaker 1: it can describe what's happening in that picture. My kid

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Speaker 1: watched the video about Google Docs and how it was

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Speaker 1: doing AI in there, and he was like, this is incredible, Dad,

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Speaker 1: this is just wild what it's going to be able

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Speaker 1: to do. So what I've been saying is the first

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Speaker 1: draft is pretty much always going to be AI at

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Speaker 1: this point, and then we're going to be, as humans

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Speaker 1: the ones to to sort of figure out, you know,

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Speaker 1: how do we polish this, Which brings me to the

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Speaker 1: job situation.

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Speaker 2: What is the impact on jobs when it comes to AI.

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Speaker 7: This is one of the big debates that we are

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Speaker 7: all having right now. And the founder of Open AI,

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Speaker 7: his name is Sam Maltman. He also founded an incubator

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Speaker 7: called by Combinator. He's said before that he believes when

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Speaker 7: there's this thing called AGI artificial general intelligence basically an

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Speaker 7: AI where you could it's like a human, that the

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Speaker 7: idea of capitalism itself will will be obsolete. I'm not

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Speaker 7: sure where I fall on that debate, but what I

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Speaker 7: will say is that you can be two or four

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Speaker 7: times as productive as you were before as a writer

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Speaker 7: or a presentation maker or as an artist with AI.

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Speaker 7: And the results may very well be that, while we're

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Speaker 7: not going to eliminate all jaw that a company could

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Speaker 7: be built with a lot less people, it's entirely plausible

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Speaker 7: that someone builds a billion dollar company with just a

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Speaker 7: small handful of people as a result of AI. So

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Speaker 7: there's real questions to be asked. Politicians and epsids are

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Speaker 7: asking those questions. It's not like past times, in my opinion,

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Speaker 7: where we were able to immediately find a whole brand

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Speaker 7: new set of jobs.

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Speaker 8: We are going to.

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Speaker 7: Be navigating this in real time. It's going to be both.

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Speaker 7: I was writing this in my newsletter. It's both bogs

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Speaker 7: firing and a little scary.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's scary.

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Speaker 1: It's also scary how fast it's all changed and how

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Speaker 1: and how right on it is. So, just for one example,

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Speaker 1: so I write scripts for TV. I write like my

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Speaker 1: little script of my we call it a package. It's

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Speaker 1: a story that I air on TV, and it's written

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Speaker 1: in a certain way for TV. Right, it's short, it's sweet,

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Speaker 1: it's got sound bites. And then I asked chat ebt

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Speaker 1: or rewrite this as a blog post yesterday, because then

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Speaker 1: I post it to the website. But you know, you

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Speaker 1: can't write a script on the website because it's just

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Speaker 1: it's not the way you read stuff. And so I

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Speaker 1: was much more a blog post, and it was It

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Speaker 1: was interesting to me because I'm sitting there going hmmm,

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Speaker 1: this is like ready to go, but I didn't feel

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Speaker 1: right using it because the AI wrote it. And so

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Speaker 1: it's like these little questions we're going to have along

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Speaker 1: the way of how do we navigate this new landscape?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, and look, you know, the AI does not understand

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Speaker 7: human condition. There are certain things like writing the you know,

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Speaker 7: a super amazing script that people will love that the

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Speaker 7: AI probably can't get to. It's still too generic, but

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Speaker 7: it's getting more advanced, and if someone really knows how

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Speaker 7: to talk to an AI like chow ChiPT, they can

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Speaker 7: get a really strong first result and start moving from there.

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Speaker 7: And yes, transforming content from one type to another is

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Speaker 7: a real strength of AI. I feel like in the

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Speaker 7: next year, the idea that you would build a presentation

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Speaker 7: from scratch, like a PowerPoint will not exist anymore. You

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Speaker 7: will literally just type in some notes in a doc,

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Speaker 7: ask it to translate into a presentation, and it's going

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Speaker 7: to make that. And that's in the next couple months

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Speaker 7: with both Microsoft and Google. Who knows what will happened

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Speaker 7: three months from now.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely well, I think we're gonna leave it there.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people will be happy to

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Speaker 1: not have to do a presentation ever. Again, well, this

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Speaker 1: still have to make the presentation, they just won't have

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Speaker 1: to build it. Ben Par, thanks so much for joining

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Speaker 1: me today. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 7: Thank you and everyone.

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Speaker 8: It will be only right, I promise.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad we need that reassurance, all right, Benpar dot

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Speaker 1: substack dot com. The newsletter is the Social Analyst. I'll

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Speaker 2: All right, coming up.

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Speaker 1: up here. You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro hanging out with

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Speaker 1: you here talking technology. Let's see we got Ryan and

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Speaker 1: North Hollywood. Ryan, you have a comment about the T

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Speaker 1: mobile acquisition.

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Speaker 9: All right, Well, I'm a met Mobile customer and I'm

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Speaker 9: gonna keep using online prepaid through October of twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 5: But I'm on Apple now.

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Speaker 9: But I kind of soured on them for security reasons

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Speaker 9: about a month ago. Based on the custom APN. They

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Speaker 9: have Android users user, they direct Android users use.

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Speaker 2: Oh what, well, what, what's what's wrong with that?

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Speaker 5: Well, there's stop instructions directly to an APN where if

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Speaker 5: like if you just pop the sin cardon and go,

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Speaker 5: or if you're using Apple that you know Apple's walled

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Speaker 5: garden doesn't let you do that. But T Mobile by

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Speaker 5: default forces you to connect using IBV six and the

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Speaker 5: mobile custom APM has a i TV four connections that

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Speaker 5: it shoots you to almost every time. And if you

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Speaker 5: check like your IP address using third party site, that

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Speaker 5: shows the carrier. But if you look on internal Android settings,

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Speaker 5: that APN redirects to IP addresses that four out of

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Speaker 5: five times will show up as the Department of the Fense,

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Speaker 5: and like that fifth or sixth time will show up

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Speaker 5: as a Ministry.

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Speaker 3: Of Defense in the UK.

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Speaker 9: And if you who is query those IP addresses, like

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Speaker 9: mornings come up saying you're not allowed to query this

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Speaker 9: except for certain legal reasons. And I think it's because

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Speaker 9: all these MVNOs there, a lot of them are sold

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Speaker 9: to people traveling to the US that are not registering

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Speaker 9: them or therefore GPS tracking the quip more alarm systems.

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Speaker 9: But from a security standpoint, I don't think it's good.

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Speaker 9: I think, you know, I'm not overly word. I'm going

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Speaker 9: to keep using them. I have private d DNS, I

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Speaker 9: use encrypted chat, I'm on Apple.

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Speaker 8: You know, I feel.

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Speaker 9: Okay about it, but I think ultimately and the enos

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Speaker 9: are not a good way to go forward with the.

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Speaker 1: Consumer Interesting, all right, well, that's uh, you got a

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Speaker 1: lot packed in there, and I see wow. I mean

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Speaker 1: there's a little bit of a conspiracy theory in there.

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Speaker 1: I understand that, and I think that for most people

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Speaker 1: it's probably you know, maybe not a consideration, but I

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Speaker 1: would agree that if you feel like this is redirecting

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Speaker 1: to places that may be monitoring your traffic. Then yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would definitely use a VPN or use some sort

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Speaker 1: of cloaking mechanism if you're worried about that. But that's

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Speaker 1: that's an interesting point, Ryan, and thank you for bringing

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Speaker 1: that up. Just one more thing to think about when

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Speaker 1: we when we make these decisions. All right, let's go

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Speaker 1: to Dennis in Marina del Rey. Dennis, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Rich, I appreciate your program. You're doing a great job,

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Speaker 3: my friend.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Hey. I've got a Windows ten machine. It's a desktop machine,

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Speaker 3: and it's a four K monitor, an LG monitor, and

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Speaker 3: I but older guys seventy eight head cataract surgery, so

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Speaker 3: I don't see things quite as clearly, even with corrective classes.

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Speaker 3: But when I go in and I see the list.

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Speaker 3: In other words, if I open a drive, I see

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Speaker 3: the list of everything on the left hand side, and

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Speaker 3: then if I click on a folder on the left

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Speaker 3: can adjust the size from small icons the larger icons

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Speaker 3: to a list. That's not a problem. How do I

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Speaker 3: adjust the list on the left hand side so that

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Speaker 3: it's much larger.

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Speaker 1: So you're talking when you're inside a folder, right Okay,

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Speaker 1: well I think at this point you so, have you

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Speaker 1: gone through the standard kind of right click the desktop

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Speaker 1: going into view.

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Speaker 2: Have you done that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I have it, and it will work on the

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Speaker 3: right hand side. It'll make the folders larger. But the

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Speaker 3: list on the left hand side, the list all of

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Speaker 3: the files on the drive, it's just too small.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like this point you might want to go

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Speaker 1: into the accessibility settings.

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Speaker 2: Have you gone into there? Okay?

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Speaker 1: So, uh, Windows Icon plus, set Windows icon settings, and

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Speaker 1: Uh you know the Windows key right, the little one

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Speaker 1: next to the keyboard. So that is where you're going

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Speaker 1: to find all of the bigger I should say, the

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Speaker 1: deeper settings for specifically for accessibility. So we're talking ways

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Speaker 1: to make the text bigger across everything, make everything bigger.

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Speaker 1: If you just want to make everything bigger on the screen,

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Speaker 1: you can do that. If you want to change the

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Speaker 1: size of the mouse pointer, the colors, the contrast, all

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Speaker 1: that stuff. The main settings that you're seeing when you

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Speaker 1: you know, do you want your icons bigger, smaller, whatever.

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Speaker 1: But accessibility is really where you're going to get those

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Speaker 1: those fine controls, and I think that's what you're looking

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Speaker 1: for at this point because that's going to make everything

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Speaker 1: bigger on the screen, which is what you're saying right

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Speaker 1: you need you need right now.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate that. And a great shout out to your

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Speaker 3: screender at Kim chapter. She's still there, so she's doing

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Speaker 3: a great job for you. Really love your program. Just

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Speaker 3: wish you guys growing on Sunday too. I miss you on.

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Speaker 1: Sunday, man, I know, but you know I do work

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Speaker 1: five days a week at my other job. So as

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Speaker 1: much as my wife was excited to have me gone

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Speaker 1: both days on the weekend, I said, I think one

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Speaker 1: day is enough for three hours.

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Speaker 3: So absolutely all righty God bless you have a great day.

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Speaker 1: All right, Dennis, appreciate the call, Thank you, and thanks

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Speaker 1: for the kind words.

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Speaker 2: So many things.

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Speaker 1: So what I love about this show is the unique

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Speaker 1: aspect of what everyone everyone has different sort of like

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Speaker 1: wants and needs when it comes to tech, and that's

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Speaker 1: you know, we all come from this certain perspective that

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Speaker 1: we have in our world. Because let's be honest, our

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Speaker 1: world revolves around us. And so what I love, and

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Speaker 1: I also love this as a journalist is I get

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Speaker 1: to see the world from so many different perspectives, and

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Speaker 1: I love that aspect of things because if you're just

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Speaker 1: involved in yourself, there's a whole nother world out there.

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Speaker 1: Believe me, it's not just all about you. I mean

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Speaker 1: sometimes it feels like it is, and in your life

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Speaker 1: it is, but there's so much more out there. All right,

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Speaker 1: let me tell you about this story, the Samsungs and

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Speaker 1: the Pixels. Okay, so there is a security issue that

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Speaker 1: some have not. So if you have a Google Pixel

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a problem. Hackers could take over

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Speaker 1: your phone without you knowing. So there's a couple of vulnerabilities.

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Speaker 1: If you have a Samsung device S twenty two, the

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Speaker 1: uses the Xenos Auto T five to one twenty three chipset.

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Speaker 1: This is a motem inside the phone. Now, this bug

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Speaker 1: lets hackers take over your phone. Pixel seven series already

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Speaker 1: got thisecurity update to fix it. That's the March security update.

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Speaker 1: Pixel six series doesn't have it yet. Google says if

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Speaker 1: you have that phone, you should disable voice over LTE

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Speaker 1: and void and Wi Fi calling. So do that for

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Speaker 1: the time being until you get your security updates. And

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Speaker 1: do your security updates. This is why we do them.

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Speaker 1: We don't want hackers to take over our phone, all right,

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Speaker 1: That's eight eight eight seven four to two four to

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Speaker 1: one zero one. You are listening to Rich on tech

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Speaker 1: more after this, Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich

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Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you. Uh our number two

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Speaker 1: You know I love telling you about when I find

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Speaker 1: good new apps, right, so I'm gonna go over a

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Speaker 1: couple of apps.

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Speaker 2: Kind of thought about this.

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Speaker 1: Last weekend was the Academy Awards, And I've talked about

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Speaker 1: this before, but it's really tough to find things to watch,

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Speaker 1: even if you subscribe to a bunch of streaming services.

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Speaker 1: It's really really tricky because what you end up doing

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Speaker 1: is going to Netflix checking to see if there's anything

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Speaker 1: on there. Then you go to Hulu you see if

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Speaker 1: there's anything on there. Then you go to HBO you

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Speaker 1: see if there's anything on there. And I hate that method.

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Speaker 1: I hate like sitting down with you know, at the

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Speaker 1: TV and trying to figure out something to watch at

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Speaker 1: that moment. I want to have this all figured out before.

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Speaker 1: So with that in mind, I did find my new

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Speaker 1: absolute favorite, but I'm gonna save that for the last one.

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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell you all the different solutions that

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Speaker 1: you have. Okay, So number one and by the way,

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Speaker 1: this all comes down to like making the most out

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Speaker 1: of the streaming services that you already pay for.

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Speaker 2: That's what it's really about.

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Speaker 1: So the app that I've liked in the past that

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Speaker 1: I've used is called Real Good ore e E l

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Speaker 1: g oo D Real Good Get It Movie, Real Real Good.

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Speaker 1: So what I like about this one is it's clean,

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Speaker 1: it's modern, it's up to date. It works with over

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Speaker 1: three hundred streaming services according to them. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: hope you don't pay for that many, but it's really

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Speaker 1: nice because you can keep a watch list and it

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Speaker 1: divides your watch list into two things, stuff that's on

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Speaker 1: your streaming services and stuff that's not on them, and

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Speaker 1: anything that becomes available, they'll move it to the other one.

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Speaker 1: So what I like about that is you can save

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Speaker 1: any movie, whether it's on your streaming services or not,

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Speaker 1: and then when it comes time to watch a movie,

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Speaker 1: you just go to this little list you have and

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Speaker 1: the ones that you want to watch that are on

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Speaker 1: your services are at the top, and then you can

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Speaker 1: sort them. You can sort them by your favor you know,

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Speaker 1: the top rated, the most popular, however you want to sort.

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Speaker 1: I usually do either top rated or most popular, and

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Speaker 1: then you can decide what to watch. And of course

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Speaker 1: the movie that pops up at the top is never

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Speaker 1: the thing I want to watch when when I sit

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Speaker 1: down on the couch and watch TV. So that's real good.

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Speaker 1: That's available for iOS and Android. Next up is this

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Speaker 1: service called just Watch, and just Watch is another one

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Speaker 1: that I've used in the past that's pretty good. What's

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Speaker 1: neat about this one is it shows you this matrix

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Speaker 1: of streaming, rental and purchase options, so you can see

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Speaker 1: how much this movie rents or is available for purchase

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Speaker 1: on different services. So it's almost like buying a plane ticket,

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Speaker 1: you know the dates and everything, but it shows you

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Speaker 1: the price. So what I've noticed is most of the

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Speaker 1: time the prices these days are the same, but sometimes

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Speaker 1: they could be different, like it might be on sale

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Speaker 1: on YouTube or on sale and iTunes whatever. So that's

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Speaker 1: just watch that's also available for iOS and Android. The

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Speaker 1: neat thing about this, if you have caught up to

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Speaker 1: all of your different services, you can see a timeline

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Speaker 1: of new releases, so it literally shows you as you

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Speaker 1: scroll down. Yesterday, these three movies were released on Netflix.

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Speaker 1: These two movies were released on HBO Max, and so

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Speaker 1: if you really want to up to this stuff, you

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Speaker 1: can see that timeline. It also tracks sports if you're

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Speaker 1: into that. There's this app called ydeo y idio. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is one of the early apps that track the

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Speaker 1: streaming stuff, and I used to use it. When I

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Speaker 1: revisited it for this comparison, not so great. The neat

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Speaker 1: thing about this it does have preset filter, so if

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Speaker 1: you're searching for the same sort of thing over and over,

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Speaker 1: you can save that as a filter and then you

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Speaker 1: can just tap that filter and.

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Speaker 2: It will show you those items.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to see new movies that are

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Speaker 1: streaming on Netflix that are you know, indie films that

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Speaker 1: are thrillers. You can save that and then you can

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Speaker 1: just tap and see what's new in that preset filter.

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Speaker 1: I feel like the interface on this app is a

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Speaker 1: little confusing, so not the best one. I gave that

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Speaker 1: one two stars out of five. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: I put all of this on my Instagram at rich

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Speaker 1: On Tech. I did a little swipe through, so you

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Speaker 1: can go to my Instagram profile and look for the

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Speaker 1: movie Night, Popcorn and all these apps I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: are there all right?

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Speaker 2: Apple TV app.

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Speaker 1: You might not realize, but you can actually use the

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Speaker 1: Apple TV app to not only see where things are streaming,

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Speaker 1: but also save those items in sort of a watch list. Now,

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Speaker 1: of course this is Apple, so it only works on

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Speaker 1: Apple devices, and it works best if you have an

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Speaker 1: Apple TV as well. So Apple is really confusing at

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Speaker 1: this point with the streaming because you've got the Apple

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Speaker 1: TV box, which has been around forever. Then you have

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Speaker 1: and the tablets that they have. But then you have

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Speaker 1: Apple TV Plus, which is a streaming service, and that's

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Speaker 1: available across a whole bunch of different platforms, not just

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Speaker 1: Apple devices. Gets really really confusing with Apple. They need

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Speaker 1: to sort of figure this stuff out. About the Apple

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Speaker 1: TV app is, if you're totally invested in the Apple ecosystem,

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Speaker 1: this is going to be a great way to keep

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Speaker 1: track of things that you want to watch because you

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Speaker 1: can go on your phone. It's beautifully designed, as many

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Speaker 1: Apple things are, and it will show you where that

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Speaker 1: item is playing. So if you search for a movie

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Speaker 1: in the Apple TV app, it'll tell you, oh, this

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Speaker 1: is streaming on HBO Max and you can just open

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Speaker 1: it up in HBO. The only streaming service that is

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Speaker 1: really not there is Netflix, and that's a pretty big one.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know what the war is between Apple

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Speaker 1: and Netflix, but it seems like it's Apple against the world.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's like, Okay, you're either going to do it

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Speaker 1: our way or you're not included in this. And Netflix

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Speaker 1: has been out of this process since day one, so clearly,

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00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: again frenemies, this is iOS only. So the Apple TV

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Speaker 1: app is pretty handy. And the other cool thing is

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Speaker 1: that if you add something to your what's called it

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Speaker 1: up next list, which is sort of your watch list

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Speaker 1: when you sit down at your Apple TV. On your

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Speaker 1: Apple TV home screen, you'll see the stuff that you

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Speaker 1: want to watch and you can just click into it

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Speaker 1: and watch it. Then you've got Google TV. Their app

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Speaker 1: is very similar to Apple TV, except it's available across

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Speaker 1: iOS and Android. It is one of the few apps

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Speaker 1: that includes Rotten Tomatoes scores, so if you live and

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Speaker 1: die by Rotten Tomatoes scores, which a lot of people like,

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Speaker 1: those are included in the Google TV ratings, which is

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Speaker 1: kind of cool. Obviously it's Google. It's going to give

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Speaker 1: you really good personalized recommendations. It's very easy to see

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Speaker 1: what's free and what's paid. One more time, Netflix is

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Speaker 1: notably absent, So I guess maybe it's not Apple. I

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Speaker 1: take it back, it's really Netflix. That is kind of

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Speaker 1: the person that's the problem here. What is a Taylor

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Speaker 1: Swift song?

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Speaker 2: It's me? No, wait, what is it? It's me? It's

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Speaker 2: no whatever, I can it's me. You, I'm the problem.

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Speaker 2: It's me. That's it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so Netflix should be singing that song from Taylor.

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Speaker 1: And then the cool thing about this, kind of like Apple,

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Speaker 1: the watch list sinks with chrome casts, so if you're

876
00:43:57,880 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 1: a big chrome cast person, you can see.

877
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:00,160
Speaker 2: All the stuff there.

878
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: Then of course Roku has their own app, so this

879
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:08,320
Speaker 1: is a great companion to Roku hardware. Their interface is okay,

880
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,720
Speaker 1: it's really focused on just getting you to watch stuff fast.

881
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: Their search is good, it'll go across all the different

882
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 1: providers and tell you where something is streaming, but they

883
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: don't have many filters to narrow down all. Right, Now

884
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 1: we get to the one that I've discovered doing this research,

885
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 1: and I absolutely love it and this is my new favorite.

886
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,920
Speaker 1: It is not an app, it's only a website, but

887
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 1: it is called flick Metrics flick me t Rix, and

888
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: this is I'm giving five stars to this website. It

889
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 1: is the best that I've seen. What's great about this

890
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 1: website is that it is fast, it's simple, it's easy,

891
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: and it works across all the major providers, all the

892
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:56,400
Speaker 1: big ones Netflix, Amazon, Disney Plus, BritBox, Hulu, Paramount, Peacock,

893
00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 1: Showtime Stars, Hbo, iTunes, Apple TV, and Movie. And what's

894
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 1: great about this is it's just very simple. You can

895
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:10,080
Speaker 1: choose you want movies, you want TV shows. You can

896
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:13,400
Speaker 1: do the different categories, so if you want action, adventure,

897
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 1: documentary and then so basically there's three things to do.

898
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:19,959
Speaker 1: You choose what you want to watch, then you choose

899
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 1: the services that you want it on, and then you

900
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:25,399
Speaker 1: can choose the year and the rating, and it does

901
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 1: an average rating among Metacritic, IMDb, Letterboxed, and critics and

902
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:36,439
Speaker 1: so it is super easy. It has found so many

903
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 1: great movies on the services that I subscribe to. You

904
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: can also do a list like a watch list if

905
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 1: you want. You can favorite things, you can mark things.

906
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:45,840
Speaker 1: This scene doesn't really give recommendations as far as I

907
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 1: can tell, but you don't need them because now you

908
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,879
Speaker 1: can just sort by like all the stuff you want

909
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: to watch again. The website is flick Metrics flick met

910
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 1: ri i X. So far this has served me up

911
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:01,719
Speaker 1: two really good good movies. Well, i'd say one and

912
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: a half. My wife didn't like the movie you watched

913
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 1: last night.

914
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 2: It was weird.

915
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: She's not really into weird movies. It was called Black

916
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: Bear and it's starring what's her name. I keep forgetting

917
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: her name, even though we've watched so many things with her.

918
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 1: Aubrey Plaza. She's the actress from White Lotus and of

919
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: course Parks and rec back in the day. But she

920
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: was in this movie that was pretty quirky, very odd,

921
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:29,799
Speaker 1: and it's one of those movies that you kind of

922
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 1: like you're watching and it's kind of like White Lotus

923
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 1: where you're just you're watching because you're not sure if

924
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: it's gonna get good. It's like, but then you've gone

925
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: the whole movie and you're like, Okay, I just watched

926
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 1: that whole movie. I'm not sure if that's good, even

927
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: though I watched the whole thing. So but the other

928
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 1: movie it helped me find was called Vengeance, and this

929
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 1: was a movie Oh gosh, how do you say it?

930
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:54,800
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, how you say it? Maybe it's maybe it's not. Anyway,

931
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 1: it was. It takes place in Texas and it stars

932
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 1: the guy from bj Novak, which is you know, from

933
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: the office. And I thought this was a great movie

934
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: and I hadn't known about it, and this flick metrics

935
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: helped me find it. Anyway, flick metrics is that my

936
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 1: new top pick for finding movies. I think you'll like it.

937
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: Let me know if you find a movie that you like.

938
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 1: Through it again on Instagram at rich on Tech. Look

939
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: for the movie logo on my profile and you can

940
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 1: swipe through all those movie services that I just mentioned

941
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 1: I'm all about finding the stuff that I'm paying for.

942
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 1: My kids are like, Dad, will you rent a movie?

943
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 1: I said, no, I'm paying for all these services. I'm

944
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: not paying six ninety nine to rent a movie. I

945
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 1: barely want to go to the movie theater because I'm

946
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,880
Speaker 1: paying so much for these streaming services that when I

947
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 1: when I watch a movie on one of these services,

948
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 1: even if I watched just one a month, I am

949
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: happy that.

950
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 2: I'm totally good.

951
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: Like if I got one good movie out of these

952
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:49,479
Speaker 1: services I pay for, I'm like, Okay, I'm good.

953
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 2: I made it.

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Speaker 1: Triple eight rich one oh one phone number to call

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

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Speaker 1: zero one. Coming up, we're going to talk to Sherry

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Speaker 1: Riggs of Allout. She's going to talk about some of

958
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: the alternatives to mint Mobile and just kind of some

959
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 1: of these low cost carriers in general, the pros, the cons,

960
00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 1: all that good stuff. Plus more of your calls. I'm

961
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 1: gonna tell you about ways's new feature. If you have

962
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: an EV you'll probably like it. You're listening to rich

963
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. There's the

964
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 1: song I was trying to think of the lyrics to

965
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 1: how do I not know anti hero? My kids are

966
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: singing this NonStop. My wife is singing it. I mean,

967
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:37,360
Speaker 1: if I admit it, I yes, I'm going to the

968
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift concert. You know, look, what can I say?

969
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 1: My wife's a fan. I mean, I don't mind the music.

970
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say.

971
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:46,759
Speaker 4: No.

972
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 1: I think my wife wasted like two hours at work

973
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 1: getting those tickets. You know, is that day when everyone

974
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:54,440
Speaker 1: was having trouble with ticket masters, somehow she got in.

975
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 1: She only got two tickets, and then my kids are like, oh,

976
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:00,360
Speaker 1: we're not going. She's like, no, I didn't of you.

977
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: When you have kids, everything is more expensive. It's like

978
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 1: times four. Like when I used to fly by myself

979
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:10,359
Speaker 1: back home to New Jersey, it was like one ticket. Sure,

980
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 1: it's you know, a couple hundred bucks. Now it's like

981
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:15,839
Speaker 1: anywhere I go it is times that by four. And

982
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: that's just the price of admission for anything. Yeah, kids

983
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 1: are expensive. Eight eight eight rich one o one eight

984
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Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four to one zero one.

985
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:30,919
Speaker 1: Michael is in Livermore, California. You didn't call to hear

986
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 1: me complain, did you?

987
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 4: No? No, I didn't.

988
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 2: Well, how can I help?

989
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 8: I'm having an issue logging into my mode. I put

990
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 8: in the user name, I put in the password, and

991
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 8: when whenever I clicked the login button or even the

992
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 8: enter button on my keyboard, it adds three extra characters

993
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 8: to the password.

994
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 1: M like little asterisk or what? Okay, yeah, because it's

995
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: it's not showing you what you're typing right.

996
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:01,839
Speaker 7: Right?

997
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 1: So what why are you trying to log in just

998
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 1: out of curiosity? Trying to change some settings or something?

999
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 8: The IP address on my devices?

1000
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 2: Okay?

1001
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:15,439
Speaker 1: So, uh, there's apps that can do that, by the way,

1002
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:17,479
Speaker 1: that can help. I can't remember the one I used

1003
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:18,799
Speaker 1: off the top of my head, but there are some

1004
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 1: apps that can do that, like a network kind of

1005
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 1: sniffer app. Okay, So have you set the password on

1006
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 1: this modem or using the one that's built in?

1007
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 8: I believe this one that's built in. It's been a

1008
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 8: long time since I've logged in. I don't think I've

1009
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:38,080
Speaker 8: changed it from the basic one.

1010
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,280
Speaker 1: And is the motive is the password on the bottom

1011
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 1: of the modem and that's the one that you're trying

1012
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 1: to type in right. Interesting, now, when you type on

1013
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:53,759
Speaker 1: your computer in general, are there extra characters kind of

1014
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 1: happening anywhere else.

1015
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 8: No, And the thing is even if I've tried it

1016
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 8: on my phone also and it does the same thing.

1017
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: Now, the password that you're entering, is it a small

1018
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 1: number of characters?

1019
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 2: Like, is it like only like five digits or something.

1020
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 8: Well, it's it's a Motorola modem and the password is Motorola.

1021
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: Oh well, that's that's a great password.

1022
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:20,879
Speaker 2: Okay.

1023
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,839
Speaker 1: So what I would do in this case, and it's

1024
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:27,440
Speaker 1: probably not I mean, it's probably not the easiest thing

1025
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: to do, But are you okay with trying to reset

1026
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: this modem to factory?

1027
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,240
Speaker 8: That wouldn't involve me having to call up my provider

1028
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:36,720
Speaker 8: or anything.

1029
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,840
Speaker 1: No. There there's basically a little tiny pinhole on the

1030
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:41,719
Speaker 1: back that you can press, you know, put like a

1031
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,760
Speaker 1: paper clip into and press and hold for like thirty seconds,

1032
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 1: and it would bring it back to factory. That's probably

1033
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 1: the thing that I would do with this situation, because

1034
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:52,919
Speaker 1: there's only so many times I could enter the same

1035
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:55,680
Speaker 1: exact password and it's not working, and it just keeps

1036
00:51:55,719 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 1: giving me this page. Have you tried a different web browser?

1037
00:51:58,520 --> 00:51:59,760
Speaker 1: You said you try it on your phone?

1038
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,280
Speaker 3: I have, Yes, I have yet.

1039
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:04,360
Speaker 2: And the same thing every time. Huh.

1040
00:52:05,280 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 4: Yep.

1041
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:07,400
Speaker 2: That's really frustrating. Hmm.

1042
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1043
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 2: And were you ever able to log into this when

1044
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:13,800
Speaker 2: I first got it.

1045
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 8: I've had it for probably close to two years now.

1046
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 2: Hm.

1047
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 1: Now the other I mean, because the problem is once

1048
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 1: you reset this to factory, now, have you changed the

1049
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 1: the Wi Fi network that this puts out? Have you

1050
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: changed that to it's something custom?

1051
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:35,880
Speaker 2: Okay? You haven't, Okay. So the good news is when you.

1052
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,399
Speaker 1: Reset this fact to factory, it's going to put out

1053
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 1: the same Wi Fi password like SSI D and password

1054
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:44,360
Speaker 1: for your for your devices, so those are going to.

1055
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 2: Still connect to this.

1056
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:47,399
Speaker 1: So that's what I would do, and I would see

1057
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:49,399
Speaker 1: if that works, because it seems like there's something going

1058
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 1: on here. Once you do that, by the way, and

1059
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:53,879
Speaker 1: once you log in, I would also look to see

1060
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:57,279
Speaker 1: if there's a software update for this modem because it

1061
00:52:57,360 --> 00:52:59,480
Speaker 1: might be that there's some sort of security thing going

1062
00:52:59,520 --> 00:52:59,879
Speaker 1: on here.

1063
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 2: All right, Michael, all right, keep me posted.

1064
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 1: Let me know, all right, thanks, alrighty, all right, Uh,

1065
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,200
Speaker 1: that's that's an odd one. I've seen that I've seen

1066
00:53:13,239 --> 00:53:15,839
Speaker 1: that happen when I copy and paste a password into

1067
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:18,360
Speaker 1: a field, and I've seen where I copy and paste

1068
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,200
Speaker 1: one thing, but then it becomes like much longer and

1069
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:24,360
Speaker 1: clearly whenever that happens, there's something wrong. The other thing, Michael,

1070
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:26,920
Speaker 1: you might want to try, and this could this could

1071
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:30,399
Speaker 1: be a solution to to try is try typing out

1072
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 1: motorola on a on a website, like on a different page,

1073
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 1: copy it and then paste it into that field and

1074
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 1: see if that works. And maybe the act of pasting

1075
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 1: it will will work to get that password in it

1076
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:47,839
Speaker 1: correctly and kind of trigger things to to log you in.

1077
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:50,319
Speaker 1: All right, I said, I was gonna mention this new

1078
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:53,040
Speaker 1: feature on Ways, pretty simple feature but one that if

1079
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:55,359
Speaker 1: you drive an EV you're gonna love. You can now

1080
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:58,080
Speaker 1: put in your EV car type and plug type into

1081
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:01,720
Speaker 1: the Ways app and it will find EV charging stations

1082
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:04,359
Speaker 1: along your route that are compatible with your car. Now,

1083
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 1: you may not have this feature immediately. It is rolling out,

1084
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 1: which are my two most hated words in the tech world,

1085
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:12,799
Speaker 1: because you never know when you're gonna get it. But

1086
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:16,839
Speaker 1: Ways is crowdsourced, so they're saying the information in there

1087
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 1: hopefully is more up to date, more comprehensive. And if

1088
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: you drive a non Tesla EV, the whole thing is

1089
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:27,280
Speaker 1: that you want to find compatible charging stations along your route,

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Speaker 1: which is different than just finding one somewhere that's where

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Speaker 1: eight rich one on one and we're gonna talk to

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Speaker 1: Sherry Riggs of whistle Out about cheap cell phone provider plans.

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Speaker 2: Coming up next.

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

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Speaker 1: out with you talking technology. Phone lines are open Triple

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

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Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. My next guest is

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Speaker 1: Sherry Riggs. She works for a website called whistle Out.

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Speaker 1: This is a great website if you are looking to

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Speaker 1: compare cell phone plans, internet plans, all that good stuff.

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Speaker 2: Sherry, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 6: Hi, Yeah, I'm happy to be here.

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Speaker 1: So the mint Mobile news this week. It did you

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00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 1: see that coming? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know it.

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Speaker 6: There had been whispers of it, and I think it

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Speaker 6: was only a matter of time before T Mobile was like, Ah,

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Speaker 6: these guys are getting too big. We need to help them.

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Speaker 1: I mean, isn't it frustrating for folks that picked mint

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Speaker 1: Mobile as an alternative to the big mobile companies and

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Speaker 1: then they get purchased by the big mobile company even

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Speaker 1: though the service always ran on the big mobile companies network, right.

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Speaker 6: So it's kind of a complicated relationship, I would say,

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Speaker 6: because yeah, mint Mobile was a separate entity although it

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Speaker 6: ran on T mobiles infrastructure. And I think the big

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Speaker 6: worry for most people is that, Okay, now that one

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Speaker 6: of the big three has acquired mint Mobile.

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Speaker 7: What's going to change?

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Speaker 6: And don't I don't think much is going to change.

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Speaker 6: I think T Mobile is just still going to give

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Speaker 6: the reins, mainly to mint Mobile to handle everything, and

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Speaker 6: I think T Mobile just wanted a piece of the pie, really.

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Speaker 1: So explain the concept of an mv and O. This

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Speaker 1: is what mint Mobile is pretty much. If you're not

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Speaker 1: using T Mobile, Verizon or AT and T, if you

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Speaker 1: have another company that's providing your service, it's an mv

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Speaker 1: and O. Because we only have three networks here in

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Speaker 1: the US. I think Dish is building their own, right.

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Speaker 6: Dish is trying, and you know, if that works out,

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Speaker 6: then we'll have four again. But but yeah, So an

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Speaker 6: MVNA is a mobile virtual network operator, basically meaning a

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Speaker 6: smaller carrier rent space on a major carrier network. So

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Speaker 6: mobile is a perfect example of that kind of because

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Speaker 6: they aren't T Mobile. And then Visible Mobile is another

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Speaker 6: good example of an MVNL and they rent space on

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Speaker 6: Verizons network. So yeah, it's really like buying a generic

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Speaker 6: cereal at a grocery store or something like that.

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Speaker 1: But the interesting thing is that Visible has always been

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Speaker 1: owned by Verizon. And then you've got Cricket, which is

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Speaker 1: I think AT and T purchased them, right, They weren't

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Speaker 1: always AT and T.

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Speaker 6: Right, right, Yeah, Cricket was purchased by AT and T

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Speaker 6: most recently. But yeah, so I think what's happening is

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Speaker 6: the major carriers are seeing how much success can come

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Speaker 6: with these smaller carriers offering lower prices, and they still

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Speaker 6: just want a little bit more money, so they're they're

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Speaker 6: dishing out and buying up these smaller guys and hopes

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Speaker 6: of pumping up their own numbers.

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Speaker 1: So why do people go with one of these alternative

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Speaker 1: carriers versus the big carriers?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so, I.

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Speaker 6: Think mainly it is its costs. So all of these

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Speaker 6: smaller carriers come at a cheaper price, and that's mainly.

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Speaker 6: They offer the same service as the main carriers. It's

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Speaker 6: the exact same coverage, So how do they keep it

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Speaker 6: lower while with smaller carriers come less a customer service

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Speaker 6: and potentially less help if you run into a problem.

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Speaker 6: Most of these smaller guys all of it's run online

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Speaker 6: and you kind of have to troubleshoot yourself if you

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Speaker 6: run into problems. So that's where you pay more money

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Speaker 6: is generally the customer service with the big carriers, and

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Speaker 6: even that doesn't go well people.

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Speaker 1: So the fact that I can walk into a Verizon

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Speaker 1: store is to justifying the extra fifty bucks a month

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Speaker 1: that you pay for a Verizon plan pretty much.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that.

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Speaker 6: And generally the main carriers offer a bit more in

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Speaker 6: terms of turks, like Verizon will give you the Disney

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Speaker 6: Bundle and then T Mobile will offer Netflix, and so

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Speaker 6: you do get a few other per along with those

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Speaker 6: bigger cell phone plans. But but yeah, the big, in

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Speaker 6: my opinion, the really big difference here is a is

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Speaker 6: a brick and mortar store, a person to talk to.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a big when I did a story.

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Speaker 1: So the first like MV and O that I did

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Speaker 1: a story with at KTLA was Visible, and I mean

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Speaker 1: I'd heard of them, but Visible was very appealing because

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Speaker 1: it was so cheap, and it was on Verizon's network,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, and it was unlimited. So I'm like, wait,

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Speaker 1: what's the catch here? And sure enough that you know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of people did switch after our story. But

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Speaker 1: the biggest feedback I got is that when they had

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Speaker 1: any sort of problem, it was tough to you know,

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Speaker 1: you couldn't walk into a store. You had to do

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Speaker 1: you had to troubleshoot everything, either online on the phone

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Speaker 1: or through chat that you know which people if you're

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Speaker 1: used to that hands on service at like a Verizon store,

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Speaker 1: at and T store, it's like, uh, sorry.

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Speaker 2: Can't go. You can't get help with that inside the store.

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm looking at I'm looking at some of

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Speaker 1: these whistle Out expert picks on the website. So can

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Speaker 1: you explain what whistle out does, by the way, like

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Speaker 1: how the website works.

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, So the best way to describe it is whistle

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Speaker 6: Out compares cell phone plans and internet plans like Expedia

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Speaker 6: can compare flights. So you can put in all of

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Speaker 6: the requirements you want in a cell phone plan, and

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Speaker 6: we have a database that will list out every single

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Speaker 6: option for you, and you can sort it by price.

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Speaker 6: You can sort it by carrier. It really helps simplify

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Speaker 6: the process of either switching carriers or finding a new carrier.

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Speaker 1: Whistleout dot com is the website, so I'm going through

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Speaker 1: some of your expert picture. Best unlimited phone plan is

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Speaker 1: Visible by Verizon. Why does whistle out like that one?

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Speaker 6: So this is a new one. We recently changed this one,

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Speaker 6: but we do love Visible because a it runs on

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Speaker 6: Verizon's network and they have the most for GLT coverage

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Speaker 6: in the country, so you'll pretty much always have coverage

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Speaker 6: wherever you are. And then Visible's new cell phone plan

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Speaker 6: options of Visible Plus offers some incredible perks in terms

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Speaker 6: of data allotments and a gig a hotspot alignment as well,

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Speaker 6: so you get a lot for the cost which is

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Speaker 6: really low. I believe thirty five dollars a month.

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Speaker 2: Now, this one the best cheap phone plan. US Mobile.

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Speaker 1: I actually really like this company because it's all online.

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Speaker 1: Obviously they rent from Verizon and T Mobile, but it's

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Speaker 1: really good and it's like very customizable. So for five

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Speaker 1: gigs of data it's just ten bucks a month. That's

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Speaker 1: I mean, should we feel concerned going to US Mobile

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Speaker 1: because we haven't heard of them before?

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Speaker 6: No, not at all. You know, US Mobile is one

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Speaker 6: of those hidden gems. I like to call it. It's

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Speaker 6: a unicorn cell phone carrier because their prices are so

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Speaker 6: low and incredibly customizable, and on top of that, you

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Speaker 6: get to choose which carrier you want to be with,

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Speaker 6: either T Mobile or Verizon, and it's the same price

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Speaker 6: across the board. So yeah, it can be scary going

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Speaker 6: with a name you don't know, but it doesn't take

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Speaker 6: away from how good they are as a carrier, and.

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Speaker 1: I've personally tested them and they were excellent. I've talked

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Speaker 1: to the CEO of this company and it's just one

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Speaker 1: of those companies that literally I never heard of because

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Speaker 1: they don't advertise as far as I can tell, maybe

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Speaker 1: online or something that I just haven't seen.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they don't do a whole lot of advertising, I

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Speaker 6: think mainly because the proof is in the pudding, as

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Speaker 6: they say, once you've tested it out and looked at

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Speaker 6: the prices and you make the switch, it's it's pretty

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Speaker 6: incredible to see how much money you can save and

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Speaker 6: still get incredible quality service. And in fact, US mobiles

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Speaker 6: new Unlimited plan is one of my favorites at forty

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Speaker 6: five dollars a month. You get premium data at one

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Speaker 6: hundred gigabytes, a giant hotspot, a lotminut fifty and it's

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Speaker 6: one of the best deals out there. It's quickly going

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Speaker 6: to the top of my list as most recommended unlimited plan.

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Speaker 1: Wow, okay, best fan plan. Reach Mobile. I've never heard

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Speaker 1: of them.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Reach is a small one, but Reach does some

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Speaker 6: really great work. And they also have family pricing, which

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01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:14,200
Speaker 6: is which is awesome, and you don't often get that

1254
01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:19,160
Speaker 6: with MBN out so keeping that in mind, you don't

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Speaker 6: with the major carriers. You generally get a discount for

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Speaker 6: multiple lines. With many nbnos they don't do multi line discounts,

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Speaker 6: but some do and that is an awesome perk.

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Speaker 1: And finally, the best prepaid phone plan, Mint Mobile, still

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Speaker 1: has it right now, unlimited data. So I have a

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Speaker 1: family member that has Mint and they've been telling all

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Speaker 1: their friends about it because they've had it for years.

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Speaker 1: And they pay once a year, so it's a one

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Speaker 1: time fee. They pay for the whole year at once,

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Speaker 1: and they love it because they don't have to think

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Speaker 1: about their bill.

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Speaker 2: And people are like, I don't believe you.

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Speaker 1: I don't see how you can have the same service

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Speaker 1: that I have for paying one bill a month, it's

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Speaker 1: like three hundred bucks or whatever it is.

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Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, it's there. That can be an upside and

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01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 6: a downside. Right, paying for service for one year might

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01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:04,520
Speaker 6: seem like a big bill at one point, but it

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Speaker 6: is incredibly cheap. And once you just pay it, you

1274
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Speaker 6: set it aside for one year and you're good to go.

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Speaker 6: That's one of the best things that I appreciate about

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Speaker 6: mint Mobile is that you are able to buy in

1277
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Speaker 6: bulk and so far in advance, and if you love

1278
01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:21,200
Speaker 6: the service, it makes it that much easier and that

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Speaker 6: much better.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I got an email for I have a

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Speaker 1: mint Mobile test line, and I've got an email today.

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01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:30,160
Speaker 1: How funny is this that my three months? I guess

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01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:32,320
Speaker 1: I had three months that I bought and I got

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Speaker 1: three months free and today is the anniversary of that date.

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Speaker 10: I don't know, so funny.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, so exciting.

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Speaker 1: And I've used an average of three point nine gigs

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Speaker 1: a month on this test line, so anyway, Wow, I know,

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Speaker 1: all right, Cherry, tell folks how they can find you.

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Speaker 1: I know you do a lot of YouTube videos. Tell

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Speaker 1: folks how they can find you on there?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so we're on YouTube on the internet. You just

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Speaker 6: need to search whistle Out USA and you will find

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Speaker 6: us and you will hopefully find a better deal than

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Speaker 6: you have right now. I promise we'se save you some money.

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Speaker 1: All right, Sherry Riggs of whistle Out, thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for joining me today on the show.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: All right, Coming up, I'm gonna tell you about a

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Speaker 1: new podcast app that I really like. Plus, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to dive into that Verizon deal where they're giving you

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Speaker 1: like a free year of Netflix. I'm gonna explain what

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Speaker 1: the catch is there, and we'll have more of your calls.

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Speaker 2: Give me a call.

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Speaker 1: Phone lines are opens triple eight rich one O one

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

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. Rich Timuro here hanging out with you, talking technology.

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Speaker 1: I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: All right, DK Wrights, Hey, Rich, I hope you read this.

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Speaker 1: My niece accidentally deleted all thirteen thousand pictures on her phone.

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Speaker 1: She has a Galaxy S twenty two Ultra. She has

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Speaker 1: tried everything she can to restore the photos. They were

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Speaker 1: backed up to Google one eighteen hours ago, but when

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Speaker 1: she checked there was nothing there. I'm hoping you might

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Speaker 1: be able to help. Would greatly appreciate any suggestion. Thank

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Speaker 1: you kindly, Debbie Huh. Okay, So first off, I'm very

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Speaker 1: curious how thirteen thousand pictures were deleted because you got

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Speaker 1: to work really hard to delete that many pictures off

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Speaker 1: of your phone, and also it takes a while to

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Speaker 1: delete thirteen thousand pictures. So my first question is how

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Speaker 1: did this happen because that's nearly impossible to I mean

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Speaker 1: on the iPhone, you know, and all these phones, you

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Speaker 1: basically have to go in, select all your photos and

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Speaker 1: then say delete all. And there's like a couple of

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Speaker 1: steps to do that. It doesn't just say like delete everything.

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Speaker 1: So okay, that aside, I'm just curious about that. So

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Speaker 1: what I would do is a couple of places. Number One,

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Speaker 1: you said that they were backed up in Google one.

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Speaker 1: The good news about it an Android phone is that

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Speaker 1: typically things are backed up automatically like it's it's pretty

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Speaker 1: rare that they're not. So the first place I would

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Speaker 1: go is one dot Google dot com, and once you

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Speaker 1: go there, you can check to see your different devices.

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Speaker 1: So go to storage and you have different It says

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Speaker 1: your device backups and you should see the Galaxy S

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Speaker 1: twenty two Ultra in there, and mine says backup incomplete.

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Speaker 1: So if you see backup incomplete, that means that things

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Speaker 1: are not.

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Speaker 2: Backed up properly.

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Speaker 1: So that's the first place I'd look and see if

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Speaker 1: that backup is in there, and then you can click

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Speaker 1: see details and it will show you photos and videos.

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Speaker 1: In my case, it says they're in Google Photos. Now

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Speaker 1: on the Samsungs, they have a thing where they also

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Speaker 1: sync to one drive. Samsung has a deal with Microsoft,

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Speaker 1: so your photos may be in one drive, and so

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Speaker 1: that's what I would check as well, and look in

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Speaker 1: one drive and see if your photo's there.

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Speaker 2: And that's one edrive.

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Speaker 1: Dot Microsoft dot com and you can log in there

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Speaker 1: and it might be your Samsung log in. You might

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Speaker 1: have a link to your Microsoft login, so check there.

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Speaker 1: The other thing I would do is go to photos

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Speaker 1: dot Google dot com and if these were backing up

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Speaker 1: to Google Photos, they should still be in there, because

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Speaker 1: even if you deleted them, they would be in the trash.

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Speaker 1: And so you can go to photos dot Google dot com,

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Speaker 1: click the trash and items in the trash are deleted

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Speaker 1: after sixty days, so all these thirteen thousand pictures should

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Speaker 1: be in there now. If she went through and emptied

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Speaker 1: the trash, that's a whole nother problem. And again, you know,

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Speaker 1: these tech companies try to do their best to protect

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Speaker 1: us from ourselves. And again there's a lot of steps

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Speaker 1: involved in deleting thirteen thousand pictures. That process physically takes

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Speaker 1: a little bit of time. So hopefully it's in one

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Speaker 1: of those places, Debbie. And once you find these pictures

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Speaker 1: and recover them, please back up your photos. I know

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of confusion when it comes to photos,

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Speaker 1: but I'm just gonna give you my advice. On your phone,

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Speaker 1: you want your photos backed up somewhere, choose a program

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Speaker 1: to back them up. If you're on the iPhone, you

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Speaker 1: can use iCloud. It's not my favorite, but you can

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Speaker 1: use it. And just remember, if you delete a picture

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Speaker 1: off your phone on your iPhone, it mirrors iicloud, so

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Speaker 1: it will delete it off iCloud as well. I personally

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Speaker 1: like Google Photos. I think it's the best easiest way

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Speaker 1: to figure out where your photos are. Yes, you might

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Speaker 1: have to pay for a little bit of storage, but

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Speaker 1: that to me is the best one. The other thing

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Speaker 1: you can do is if you're an Amazon Prime member,

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Speaker 1: you can use this as a secondary backup Amazon Photos.

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Speaker 1: Download it, sign in with your Amazon account. As long

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Speaker 1: as you have an Amazon membership, that's a secondary place

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Speaker 1: to do it. The only thing is on the iPhone,

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Speaker 1: if you're using Amazon Photos, it doesn't automatically back up

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Speaker 1: in the background necessarily. You do have to you open

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Speaker 1: up the app every once in a while to back

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Speaker 1: it up. Just remember that on the iPhone you have

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Speaker 1: to open up the app. You can use one drive.

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Speaker 1: I don't care if you use, you know, whatever app

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Speaker 1: you want to use. Just make sure that you open

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Speaker 1: it up and check to make sure your stuff is

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Speaker 1: backed up every once in a while.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: I said that Verizon was giving away a free year

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Speaker 1: of Netflix Premium twenty dollars a month value if you

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Speaker 1: have a Verizon Unlimited plan. They're trying to promote this

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Speaker 1: new Verizon Plus Play program that they have, which is

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Speaker 1: a hub for all of your streaming subscriptions. So if

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Speaker 1: you want to get free Netflix, the catch is that

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Speaker 1: you have to subscribe to some other service. Those services

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Speaker 1: include AMC Plus, Stars, Paramount Peloton. Subscribe to one of

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Speaker 1: those services, you'll get Netflix for free. The tricky part

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Speaker 1: is the timing getting it all right. But if you

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Speaker 1: want to save two hundred and forty bucks a year

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Speaker 1: on Netflix, try it out. Go to the website. If

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Speaker 1: you've got one of these other services anyway, you might

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Speaker 1: as well. I'm gonna try it out. We'll see I

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Speaker 1: do Peloton all right. Eight eight eight rich one on

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

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Speaker 1: one zero one. Give me a call if you got

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Speaker 1: a tech question. More of your calls coming up next.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech Rich DeMuro hanging out

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Speaker 1: with you, talking technology. Eight eight eight rich one oh

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Speaker 1: zero one. Got a couple of guests coming up later

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Speaker 1: this hour. Xavier Journ again. This is a really cool interview.

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Speaker 1: Xavier is the Spotify's first AI DJ. So if you've

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Speaker 1: got Spotify, you might have seen this new little feature.

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Speaker 1: It's an AI DJ. It's a DJ that's personalized just

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Speaker 1: for you. Kind of interesting. So I talked to him

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Speaker 1: about being that voice and what's that like and how

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Speaker 1: they do it. Then I've got Clay Alexander He is

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Speaker 1: the CEO and founder of Ember. You might know Ember

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Speaker 1: as the company that the temperature controlled mug keeps your

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Speaker 1: coffee or your tea at the same temperature the whole time. Well,

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Speaker 1: now they have a new product. It's for babies, a

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Speaker 1: baby bottle. So I'll talk about that. Ember, by the way,

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Speaker 1: Westlake Village, California company.

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Speaker 2: They just moved to new offices and.

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Speaker 1: Wow, it reminded me of that movie or that TV

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Speaker 1: show Severance on Apple TV.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw it.

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Speaker 1: Very like futuristic like it just it looked like the

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Speaker 1: headquarters of a tech company. It was just really cool

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Speaker 1: lines and stuff. I put out my Instagram at rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech if you want to see it. Apple this

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Speaker 1: week introduced a new feature called Specialist Shop with a

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Speaker 1: Specialist over Video. Say that ten times fast Shop with

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Speaker 1: a Specialist over Video. This is a feature that's kind

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Speaker 1: of like a video chat, but it's a one way

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Speaker 1: video chat. They can't see you, but you can see them.

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Speaker 1: So the idea is you're on the Apple website or

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Speaker 1: on your phone and you want to shop for a

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Speaker 1: new phone. You don't feel like going into the store,

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Speaker 1: so you can fire up one of these retail specialists.

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Speaker 1: Their video pops up on your screen while you're browsing

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Speaker 1: the website. It's a one way video shopping session. You

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Speaker 1: can ask them to do things like, Hey, can you

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Speaker 1: show me the difference between the iPhone fourteen and the

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Speaker 1: fourteen plus? Hey? Can you show me the different colors

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Speaker 1: of the phones? Can I see them in hand so

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Speaker 1: I can decide which one I want?

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Speaker 3: Hey?

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Speaker 1: Can you tell me about trade and offers different deals?

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Speaker 1: And it's interesting A lot of people don't realize this,

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Speaker 1: but you can go to the Apple Store and they

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Speaker 1: can help you no matter which carrier you have, whether

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Speaker 1: you have AT and T, Verizon, T Mobile, whatever. They

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Speaker 1: can help you switch plans, switch to a new phone.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to go to your carrier store. My

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Speaker 1: sister was shopping for a phone and I told her that.

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Speaker 1: She's like, wait, what, I don't have to go to

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Speaker 1: whatever come because she has so Yeah, you could just

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Speaker 1: go to the Apple Store. And I think it's almost

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Speaker 1: better because their retail associates kind of know the different

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Speaker 1: plans and the different deals from all the different carriers,

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Speaker 1: so they might be able to help you. So this

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Speaker 1: shop with a specialist over video is available to customers

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Speaker 1: in the US seven am to seven pm Pacific every day. Again,

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Speaker 1: they can't see you, you can see them, and it's

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Speaker 1: all about just making things.

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Speaker 2: Easier to shop. It's interesting.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I wonder. I asked them, I said, hey,

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Speaker 1: were these people located? Like where are they in the stores?

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Speaker 1: And they didn't really answer the question. But it seems

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Speaker 1: like it's a It seems like the retail associates are

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Speaker 1: in stores and they're just you know, hey, can you go?

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Speaker 3: Man?

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Speaker 1: The website phone calls for an hour, but I guess

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Speaker 1: video calls in this case. Minecraft is coming to the Chromebook.

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Speaker 1: This is a long time coming for kids that have

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Speaker 1: a Chrome Book, and this is an early access version

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Speaker 1: of Minecraft. Minecraft is available in a lot of different places,

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Speaker 1: but the Chromebook is not one of them historically. So

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Speaker 1: the Minecraft Bedrock Edition releasing on Chromebook. It'll give you

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Speaker 1: access to cross device play with friends, the Minecraft marketplace,

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Speaker 1: the ability to play on realms, and it's not going

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Speaker 1: to be on all the chromebooks. I did check on

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Speaker 1: my kids chromebook and it was available, so he's going

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Speaker 1: to test it out for me. You can go to

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Speaker 1: the Google Play Store and type in Minecraft. If you

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Speaker 1: have a Chromebook and it will let you know if

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Speaker 1: it's available to you. It has to have a certain

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Speaker 1: spec count on your Chromebook, so it's not all of them,

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Speaker 1: and you can go to the Minecraft website and tell

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Speaker 1: you it'll tell you exactly what.

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Speaker 2: The requirements are.

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Speaker 1: Let me look them up here, Chrome OS one eleven

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Speaker 1: sixty four bit system architecture. You've got to have a

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Speaker 1: certain process or Intel cleron Media Tech Qualcom, four gigs

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Speaker 1: of RAM and one gig for game installation. So I

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Speaker 1: know that doesn't sound like very high end specs, but

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Speaker 1: chromebooks are known for having notoriously low end specs. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't make them a bad machine. It's just chromebooks don't

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Speaker 1: require too much to run, but you do need four

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Speaker 1: I mean, those specs aren't totally wild, but you do

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Speaker 1: need those to run this. And the whole idea here

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Speaker 1: is that they're going to test to see how the

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Speaker 1: game performs on the chromebooks before they expand it to more.

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Speaker 2: So expect some bugs.

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Speaker 1: But if your kid is a fan of Minecraft and

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Speaker 1: so far they have not been able to play it

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01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:43,120
Speaker 1: on their chromebook, it's kind of cool and some of

1516
01:16:43,160 --> 01:16:45,160
Speaker 1: the kids like having the keyboard because it's easier to

1517
01:16:45,200 --> 01:16:48,680
Speaker 1: play these games with a keyboard versus just having the

1518
01:16:48,720 --> 01:16:53,840
Speaker 1: touch screen on the iPad. So there you go. And

1519
01:16:53,880 --> 01:16:56,240
Speaker 1: then I told you that I found a new podcast

1520
01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:59,559
Speaker 1: app that's kind of cool. It's called Wonder This is

1521
01:16:59,600 --> 01:17:05,000
Speaker 1: from a of newsletter called Wonder Tools, and I suggest

1522
01:17:05,040 --> 01:17:08,679
Speaker 1: you subscribe to it. It's really good. It's a substack snipped.

1523
01:17:08,720 --> 01:17:14,679
Speaker 1: It's called snipd snipd. What's cool about this podcast app

1524
01:17:14,880 --> 01:17:19,000
Speaker 1: is that it allows you to snip little interesting parts

1525
01:17:19,080 --> 01:17:21,120
Speaker 1: of the shows that you watch and either save them

1526
01:17:21,160 --> 01:17:23,719
Speaker 1: for later or you can share them out to social

1527
01:17:23,760 --> 01:17:26,320
Speaker 1: media so you can build. And I always love this

1528
01:17:26,400 --> 01:17:28,320
Speaker 1: idea because when I'm listening in my car to like

1529
01:17:28,400 --> 01:17:32,040
Speaker 1: an audiobook or something, sometimes I want to bookmark a

1530
01:17:32,120 --> 01:17:34,799
Speaker 1: place for later to like listen, and it's really tricky.

1531
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:36,840
Speaker 1: On the audiobook apps, you can do it, but it's

1532
01:17:36,880 --> 01:17:39,800
Speaker 1: not very easy. So same thing with podcasts. Like you

1533
01:17:39,840 --> 01:17:41,879
Speaker 1: hear something interesting, you're like, oh, I want to bookmark

1534
01:17:41,920 --> 01:17:43,000
Speaker 1: that for later, you can't.

1535
01:17:43,560 --> 01:17:46,479
Speaker 2: Well, this lets you do it. So the app is

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01:17:46,520 --> 01:17:47,680
Speaker 2: called snipd.

1537
01:17:48,400 --> 01:17:52,680
Speaker 1: What's also neat is that it actually does a transcript

1538
01:17:52,680 --> 01:17:55,240
Speaker 1: of the podcast, so you can kind of scour around

1539
01:17:55,880 --> 01:17:59,280
Speaker 1: and see if there's something interesting that the person talked

1540
01:17:59,280 --> 01:18:02,840
Speaker 1: about in the pot. So it seems to be free.

1541
01:18:03,360 --> 01:18:05,479
Speaker 1: I didn't take a deep dive into it, but I

1542
01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:07,760
Speaker 1: just kind of looked at it and tried it out

1543
01:18:07,760 --> 01:18:12,040
Speaker 1: and it was pretty cool. So SNIPD is the podcast.

1544
01:18:13,160 --> 01:18:17,519
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to a question here. Tom writes

1545
01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:20,519
Speaker 1: in hey Rich, I'm looking to buy a Windows eleven

1546
01:18:20,680 --> 01:18:23,720
Speaker 1: Dell XPS laptop and wondering if it's better to buy

1547
01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:26,800
Speaker 1: it without the bloatwear for an additional charge or just

1548
01:18:26,880 --> 01:18:31,280
Speaker 1: remove it once I get it. Mainly it's the av software, Norton, etc.

1549
01:18:31,600 --> 01:18:32,479
Speaker 2: That I do not need.

1550
01:18:32,680 --> 01:18:37,800
Speaker 1: Thank you, good question. And the bloatwear on computers is

1551
01:18:37,840 --> 01:18:41,799
Speaker 1: out of control. I remember when I did a story

1552
01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:44,559
Speaker 1: with the Microsoft Store. They said, hey, by the way,

1553
01:18:44,600 --> 01:18:47,680
Speaker 1: you know, if you buy a computer here, we do

1554
01:18:47,800 --> 01:18:51,519
Speaker 1: not allow bloatwear to be pre installed. So if you

1555
01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:53,719
Speaker 1: want a good place to buy a computer, it's probably

1556
01:18:53,760 --> 01:18:55,280
Speaker 1: best to buy it for the Microsoft Store.

1557
01:18:55,280 --> 01:18:56,439
Speaker 2: I said, wow, that's interesting.

1558
01:18:57,600 --> 01:19:01,080
Speaker 1: And so the Microsoft stores, of course, have mostly gone

1559
01:19:01,120 --> 01:19:03,760
Speaker 1: out of business. They mostly just do their stuff online. Now.

1560
01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:05,759
Speaker 1: They might have a couple of them here and there,

1561
01:19:05,920 --> 01:19:08,840
Speaker 1: but they're not as elaborate as they used to be

1562
01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:12,840
Speaker 1: with their locations. So would I pay extra to get

1563
01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:16,800
Speaker 1: rid of the stuff I don't need? Absolutely, so I

1564
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:18,240
Speaker 1: don't know how much. I didn't even know this was

1565
01:19:18,240 --> 01:19:20,479
Speaker 1: an option on Dell that you can say, hey, I

1566
01:19:20,479 --> 01:19:23,040
Speaker 1: don't want all this garbage on my computer. I mean,

1567
01:19:23,840 --> 01:19:27,679
Speaker 1: that's interesting if they even give you that option. It's

1568
01:19:27,720 --> 01:19:30,000
Speaker 1: sad that all this stuff is included on these computers.

1569
01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:32,720
Speaker 1: Sometimes people might call it helpful, but no. This was

1570
01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:35,040
Speaker 1: a big problem on cell phones as well, especially the

1571
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:39,080
Speaker 1: Samsungs of the world. They would come pre installed. Not

1572
01:19:39,120 --> 01:19:41,519
Speaker 1: just Samsung, almost every phone except the Pixel would come

1573
01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:44,519
Speaker 1: pre installed with all this junkie software that you didn't need.

1574
01:19:45,120 --> 01:19:48,479
Speaker 1: Why because these companies pay to put it on there.

1575
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:51,120
Speaker 1: So Facebook at some point would be pre installed on

1576
01:19:51,160 --> 01:19:56,880
Speaker 1: the Samsungs, they'd have LinkedIn Microsoft apps, whatever. And it's

1577
01:19:56,920 --> 01:20:01,120
Speaker 1: all because these companies pay for that placement, and as

1578
01:20:01,160 --> 01:20:04,360
Speaker 1: the end user, you're left with disabling it or trying

1579
01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:07,360
Speaker 1: to uninstall it. With the Samsung, I've noticed a lot

1580
01:20:07,400 --> 01:20:10,479
Speaker 1: of it's easily uninstalled nowadays. In fact, I don't think

1581
01:20:10,520 --> 01:20:12,000
Speaker 1: that there's a lot that comes on there if you

1582
01:20:12,040 --> 01:20:14,040
Speaker 1: get it from your carrier. Yeah, there's probably a lot

1583
01:20:14,040 --> 01:20:17,439
Speaker 1: of like AT and T, T Mobile Verizon software that

1584
01:20:17,479 --> 01:20:19,760
Speaker 1: comes pre installed that they do deals to get this

1585
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:21,760
Speaker 1: stuff on there, but most of the time you can

1586
01:20:21,840 --> 01:20:24,920
Speaker 1: uninstall it. But yes, I would pay the extra money

1587
01:20:25,320 --> 01:20:29,479
Speaker 1: to not have this stuff pre installed. There's a feature

1588
01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:34,040
Speaker 1: on Windows machines called fresh Start that will let you

1589
01:20:34,160 --> 01:20:39,200
Speaker 1: reset your computer and do a clean installation of Windows.

1590
01:20:40,080 --> 01:20:42,960
Speaker 1: But do you really want to do that right when

1591
01:20:42,960 --> 01:20:43,879
Speaker 1: you get your computer.

1592
01:20:44,080 --> 01:20:44,479
Speaker 2: I don't know.

1593
01:20:44,520 --> 01:20:47,880
Speaker 1: It seems like a lot, so it will get rid

1594
01:20:47,920 --> 01:20:50,040
Speaker 1: of most of the stuff on your computer that's not

1595
01:20:50,080 --> 01:20:53,200
Speaker 1: supposed to be there. If you do this clean Start,

1596
01:20:53,439 --> 01:20:58,120
Speaker 1: it's basically inside Windows eleven, Windows ten you can go

1597
01:20:58,160 --> 01:21:03,880
Speaker 1: to settings, System Recovery and reset the PC. But I

1598
01:21:03,920 --> 01:21:06,040
Speaker 1: don't know that that's like icky to have to do

1599
01:21:06,080 --> 01:21:08,760
Speaker 1: that right when you get a new computer. So if

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01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:11,240
Speaker 1: Delle's giving you the option, yeah, I would say definitely

1601
01:21:11,240 --> 01:21:14,640
Speaker 1: take the option, because that's the other thing about the

1602
01:21:14,680 --> 01:21:17,759
Speaker 1: Chromebooks that people like is that they don't come installed.

1603
01:21:18,400 --> 01:21:21,559
Speaker 1: There's really no malware or viruses or things for these

1604
01:21:21,600 --> 01:21:25,120
Speaker 1: kind of computers because they don't come with stuff pre installed.

1605
01:21:25,120 --> 01:21:28,280
Speaker 1: It's just basically a Chrome web browser. But yeah, My

1606
01:21:28,400 --> 01:21:31,360
Speaker 1: favorite thing to do is a clean install. Mac computers

1607
01:21:31,360 --> 01:21:33,680
Speaker 1: don't really come with a lot of bloatwear. I mean

1608
01:21:33,680 --> 01:21:35,920
Speaker 1: it comes with a lot of Mac software pre installed,

1609
01:21:36,800 --> 01:21:41,280
Speaker 1: like numbers, pages, iMovie, keynote, garage band. I don't really

1610
01:21:41,360 --> 01:21:43,599
Speaker 1: use any of that stuff, news books, I don't use

1611
01:21:43,640 --> 01:21:48,559
Speaker 1: any of that stuff stocks, iMovie. Maybe if you need

1612
01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:53,000
Speaker 1: a video editing program, but anyway, yes, I would do that.

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01:21:53,560 --> 01:21:56,240
Speaker 2: Tom. Probably a good idea to just pay the extra

1614
01:21:56,280 --> 01:21:57,920
Speaker 2: money to do that. All right.

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01:21:57,960 --> 01:22:00,280
Speaker 1: Coming up, we're gonna talk to Xavier Journ again. He's

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01:22:00,320 --> 01:22:03,920
Speaker 1: gonna tell us what it's like to be Spotify's first

1617
01:22:03,960 --> 01:22:07,639
Speaker 1: AI DJ Plus, we'll talk about the new Ember product

1618
01:22:07,640 --> 01:22:12,639
Speaker 1: for babies, and yet another Google product is going away,

1619
01:22:12,720 --> 01:22:15,759
Speaker 1: one that I used personally. I'll tell you which one

1620
01:22:16,080 --> 01:22:20,360
Speaker 1: they're sending to the trash can. Coming up, you got

1621
01:22:20,360 --> 01:22:22,680
Speaker 1: a question, Give me a call Triple eight rich one

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Speaker 1: on one eight eight eight seven four two four one

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Speaker 1: zero one, or give me an email Hello at Richontech

1624
01:22:28,920 --> 01:22:31,280
Speaker 1: dot tv is the email address, or find me on

1625
01:22:31,320 --> 01:22:35,000
Speaker 1: social media at rich on Tech. You are listening to

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01:22:35,479 --> 01:22:38,720
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro Here at

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01:22:38,720 --> 01:22:41,679
Speaker 1: Triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four two four one zero one. Now you know, I'm

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01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:50,200
Speaker 1: a real person sitting behind this microphone. But in the future,

1630
01:22:51,080 --> 01:22:53,880
Speaker 1: you might be listening to someone that is AI inn

1631
01:22:53,920 --> 01:22:58,280
Speaker 1: AI voice. In fact, Spotify recently announced that they have

1632
01:22:58,280 --> 01:23:00,800
Speaker 1: a new feature called ai DJ on their app.

1633
01:23:00,840 --> 01:23:02,400
Speaker 2: I just got access to it this week.

1634
01:23:02,400 --> 01:23:05,360
Speaker 1: And when you press it, the person that comes on

1635
01:23:06,160 --> 01:23:08,720
Speaker 1: sounds like they're talking to you. They say your name,

1636
01:23:09,240 --> 01:23:11,439
Speaker 1: they say, Hey, we know you've been listening to this lately.

1637
01:23:11,520 --> 01:23:14,240
Speaker 1: Let's give you more of this, or let's introduce you

1638
01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:18,479
Speaker 1: to this song. It's all AI. It's an AI voice model.

1639
01:23:19,040 --> 01:23:21,800
Speaker 1: And recently I talked to the person that served as

1640
01:23:21,840 --> 01:23:26,600
Speaker 1: the model for the voice, Xavier x journ Again. He

1641
01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:29,839
Speaker 1: did a podcast and a morning show over at Spotify.

1642
01:23:29,880 --> 01:23:32,960
Speaker 1: He's also the head of Cultural Partnerships there, and he

1643
01:23:33,040 --> 01:23:36,719
Speaker 1: explained all about what it's like to be the voice

1644
01:23:37,200 --> 01:23:38,040
Speaker 1: of AIDJ.

1645
01:23:38,200 --> 01:23:41,040
Speaker 2: Take a listen, So tell me about being the voice

1646
01:23:41,080 --> 01:23:43,479
Speaker 2: of AIDJ. What does that entail?

1647
01:23:43,840 --> 01:23:46,240
Speaker 11: What entails in terms of how it works or how

1648
01:23:46,240 --> 01:23:49,000
Speaker 11: it came together. Let's start with how it came together,

1649
01:23:49,280 --> 01:23:51,080
Speaker 11: the way it came together. I've been at Spotify for

1650
01:23:51,120 --> 01:23:53,320
Speaker 11: six and a half years. I started out as the

1651
01:23:53,360 --> 01:23:55,879
Speaker 11: head of music editorial for play Listening.

1652
01:23:56,040 --> 01:23:58,000
Speaker 10: So I did that for a while and then one day.

1653
01:23:57,840 --> 01:24:00,680
Speaker 11: I got asked to host a podcast. Then that led

1654
01:24:00,720 --> 01:24:03,679
Speaker 11: to me getting as the host internal and external Spotify events,

1655
01:24:04,080 --> 01:24:06,040
Speaker 11: and then this came along and they said you're the

1656
01:24:06,040 --> 01:24:08,559
Speaker 11: perfect voice. It was a list of one they said

1657
01:24:08,600 --> 01:24:11,320
Speaker 11: you're the list, which is super flattering, and they said

1658
01:24:11,320 --> 01:24:14,320
Speaker 11: we're coming out with this thing. It's AIDJ and I

1659
01:24:14,360 --> 01:24:16,880
Speaker 11: had to wrap my mind around it, which was hard

1660
01:24:16,920 --> 01:24:21,439
Speaker 11: to because they're like, it's not voice recordings, it's text

1661
01:24:21,600 --> 01:24:25,280
Speaker 11: to voice and it's going to talk exactly like you.

1662
01:24:25,640 --> 01:24:28,840
Speaker 2: Are you in Yes, Oh, you have a great voice.

1663
01:24:28,920 --> 01:24:30,760
Speaker 10: Thank you. I have heard that for a while.

1664
01:24:30,760 --> 01:24:32,519
Speaker 11: I heard that a few times, but you know what

1665
01:24:32,560 --> 01:24:35,160
Speaker 11: it was like, not just my voice, but my personality

1666
01:24:35,280 --> 01:24:37,839
Speaker 11: and the fact that I'm rooted in the music industry

1667
01:24:37,880 --> 01:24:41,479
Speaker 11: and entertainment. It gave it a sense of authenticity, you

1668
01:24:41,560 --> 01:24:42,960
Speaker 11: know what I mean that I'm really in an industry

1669
01:24:43,000 --> 01:24:44,479
Speaker 11: and not just a voice actor.

1670
01:24:44,880 --> 01:24:46,120
Speaker 10: So it's really about.

1671
01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:49,120
Speaker 11: Going into the booth, training the voice model pow to

1672
01:24:49,160 --> 01:24:51,479
Speaker 11: sound like me. What does a period sound like? What

1673
01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:53,720
Speaker 11: does a comma sound like? What do I sound like?

1674
01:24:53,720 --> 01:24:56,040
Speaker 10: Excited? What I sound like calm.

1675
01:24:56,280 --> 01:24:58,120
Speaker 11: So we had to train it and that was a lot,

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01:24:58,160 --> 01:25:00,000
Speaker 11: you know, a lot of different sessions that we did

1677
01:25:00,160 --> 01:25:02,960
Speaker 11: training the model. They took a lot of audio from

1678
01:25:03,040 --> 01:25:05,160
Speaker 11: other podcasts ideas and then they took all of that

1679
01:25:05,320 --> 01:25:07,599
Speaker 11: they fed it into the voice model and that's how

1680
01:25:07,640 --> 01:25:08,840
Speaker 11: it came into being.

1681
01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:11,080
Speaker 10: And once my mama said it sounded like me, I

1682
01:25:11,160 --> 01:25:11,920
Speaker 10: knew it was legit.

1683
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:15,080
Speaker 2: So okay, your mom said it sounded like you, What

1684
01:25:15,120 --> 01:25:15,759
Speaker 2: do you think?

1685
01:25:15,880 --> 01:25:19,439
Speaker 11: It sounds exactly like me. It blew me away. When

1686
01:25:19,439 --> 01:25:22,120
Speaker 11: we got to the final version, even the first version,

1687
01:25:22,479 --> 01:25:24,920
Speaker 11: we all thought, like everybody was like, don't head your beads,

1688
01:25:25,240 --> 01:25:27,000
Speaker 11: it's gonna be okay.

1689
01:25:27,280 --> 01:25:31,799
Speaker 10: We were like, this is crazy, Like this is unreal.

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01:25:32,320 --> 01:25:35,519
Speaker 1: Okay, So explain to me when you're introduced, Well, first off,

1691
01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:36,880
Speaker 1: what is the DJ doing?

1692
01:25:37,160 --> 01:25:40,479
Speaker 10: Yes, so you get segments of five songs. I'll welcome you.

1693
01:25:40,760 --> 01:25:43,000
Speaker 11: I'm your friend writing along with you. I may be

1694
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:44,760
Speaker 11: slightly cooler than you because I know a little bit

1695
01:25:44,840 --> 01:25:47,200
Speaker 11: like a fun facts, know a little bit about the artists.

1696
01:25:47,240 --> 01:25:49,760
Speaker 11: It was very much built on my personality. So I'm

1697
01:25:49,760 --> 01:25:52,120
Speaker 11: giving you fun facts about the music. I'm giving you

1698
01:25:52,160 --> 01:25:54,800
Speaker 11: fun facts about how you listen. I'm giving you context

1699
01:25:55,080 --> 01:25:58,360
Speaker 11: because Spotify has been great in personalization for a long time.

1700
01:25:58,400 --> 01:26:00,760
Speaker 11: We're known for that. That's one of our hall But

1701
01:26:00,880 --> 01:26:04,240
Speaker 11: now you get the context. This is why you're getting

1702
01:26:04,240 --> 01:26:06,479
Speaker 11: this song. I'm gonna take you back to twenty sixteen. Now,

1703
01:26:06,479 --> 01:26:08,679
Speaker 11: I'm gonna tell you about twenty sixteen and when you're

1704
01:26:08,680 --> 01:26:10,839
Speaker 11: gonna get what you listen to and when that comes together,

1705
01:26:11,520 --> 01:26:14,479
Speaker 11: magic happens. And we also introduce you to new artists,

1706
01:26:14,880 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 11: new music based on your listening habits. So we're gonna

1707
01:26:18,360 --> 01:26:21,200
Speaker 11: introduce you to that with the context, and we know

1708
01:26:21,320 --> 01:26:24,960
Speaker 11: through our data, through our history, when you have that context,

1709
01:26:25,400 --> 01:26:29,040
Speaker 11: you're most likely to check it out, follow that artist,

1710
01:26:29,080 --> 01:26:29,880
Speaker 11: and then become a fan.

1711
01:26:30,240 --> 01:26:31,920
Speaker 1: Do you have to go in every day to say

1712
01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:34,160
Speaker 1: new things? Are you saying these artists names? Are you

1713
01:26:34,160 --> 01:26:36,240
Speaker 1: saying where they grew up, all these cities? You know

1714
01:26:36,400 --> 01:26:38,680
Speaker 1: what they're doing, who they collabed with? Did you have

1715
01:26:38,720 --> 01:26:41,240
Speaker 1: to say ten thousand words for all this suffer? Is

1716
01:26:41,280 --> 01:26:44,559
Speaker 1: it generating this based on new text?

1717
01:26:44,760 --> 01:26:46,680
Speaker 10: That's what it is. It's generating it now.

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01:26:46,720 --> 01:26:49,240
Speaker 11: I said a lot of different words, like when I

1719
01:26:49,280 --> 01:26:51,160
Speaker 11: was training the model, Like we said a lot of

1720
01:26:51,160 --> 01:26:53,440
Speaker 11: the artists names because they had to learn my intonation,

1721
01:26:54,040 --> 01:26:56,840
Speaker 11: my cadence, teach the voice model to learn all of that.

1722
01:26:57,200 --> 01:26:59,639
Speaker 11: But then once they learned it, Nope, it's a whole

1723
01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:02,559
Speaker 11: writer's room. Is generative AI that we use. We put

1724
01:27:02,600 --> 01:27:04,639
Speaker 11: in the hands of our music editors. So we put

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Speaker 11: in the hands of our experts. I'm a part of

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Speaker 11: a writer's room and we write. We have cultural experts,

1727
01:27:09,320 --> 01:27:12,719
Speaker 11: we have data curators, we have a whole ux writing team,

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01:27:12,800 --> 01:27:16,400
Speaker 11: we have actual script writers, and we put that into

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01:27:16,400 --> 01:27:17,240
Speaker 11: the AI as well.

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Speaker 2: And as I get it, I'm just like my mind,

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01:27:20,080 --> 01:27:20,559
Speaker 2: I see it.

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01:27:20,960 --> 01:27:22,959
Speaker 10: I see a lot like you're trying to process.

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01:27:23,160 --> 01:27:25,000
Speaker 1: So have you had to go back in to re

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01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:27,120
Speaker 1: record like let's say a new artist comes out.

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01:27:27,439 --> 01:27:29,000
Speaker 2: No, do you have to re record their name?

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Speaker 7: I do not.

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Speaker 11: We can do it on the back end. The AI

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01:27:32,400 --> 01:27:35,280
Speaker 11: knows how to do it. So if there's something like

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01:27:35,320 --> 01:27:37,240
Speaker 11: we can train it on the back end. Now, so

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01:27:37,280 --> 01:27:40,519
Speaker 11: there's enough data that we put in, okay, and then

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01:27:40,880 --> 01:27:41,240
Speaker 11: so if.

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Speaker 1: A name is pronounced a certain way, it puts the

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01:27:43,600 --> 01:27:45,519
Speaker 1: intonation somewhere else. If they can go in on the

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01:27:45,560 --> 01:27:47,000
Speaker 1: back end and tweak it and say, now that's.

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01:27:46,840 --> 01:27:49,560
Speaker 11: Where you put the intonation that's exactly right, and and

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01:27:49,600 --> 01:27:50,839
Speaker 11: we want to be authentic.

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01:27:50,880 --> 01:27:53,919
Speaker 10: We want to pronounce the names properly.

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Speaker 2: This is really new to a lot of people. They're

1749
01:27:56,960 --> 01:27:58,080
Speaker 2: going to feel like they know you.

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01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:00,200
Speaker 10: Yes, I'm your friends.

1751
01:28:00,280 --> 01:28:03,120
Speaker 11: That's what Like when I was recording, I thought about

1752
01:28:03,160 --> 01:28:05,880
Speaker 11: one person, not a group of people. I'm talking to

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01:28:05,920 --> 01:28:08,200
Speaker 11: one person. I want to connect with that one person.

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01:28:08,280 --> 01:28:10,000
Speaker 11: This is about connection. So I feel the sense of

1755
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:14,280
Speaker 11: purpose in doing this work because if somebody feels this connection,

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01:28:14,320 --> 01:28:17,599
Speaker 11: they'll feel seen, they'll feel value, they'll feel heard, and

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Speaker 11: that's what magic happens. So I feel purpose in it.

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01:28:20,760 --> 01:28:23,840
Speaker 11: It's a little wild because it's so big and like

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01:28:23,840 --> 01:28:27,200
Speaker 11: it's blowing up. But I'm honored and humble to be

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01:28:27,240 --> 01:28:31,200
Speaker 11: the voice like around the World X, Around the World,

1761
01:28:31,920 --> 01:28:33,240
Speaker 11: X around the World.

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01:28:33,320 --> 01:28:33,960
Speaker 10: US and Canada.

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Speaker 2: Start there, you go right.

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Speaker 1: There, you have it, Xavier a Journeygain voice of dj

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01:28:41,840 --> 01:28:47,760
Speaker 1: X on Spotify AI DJs. It's so weird to think

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01:28:47,800 --> 01:28:50,720
Speaker 1: about that that's happening in our world when here I

1767
01:28:50,800 --> 01:28:54,360
Speaker 1: am lending my voice for three hours to this show.

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01:28:54,920 --> 01:28:58,360
Speaker 1: I understand why Spotify is doing it, but as a

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01:28:59,080 --> 01:29:03,960
Speaker 1: radio lover, I really appreciate the sound of someone that's

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01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:08,120
Speaker 1: telling me the songs, the you know, the artists, they're

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01:29:08,160 --> 01:29:10,040
Speaker 1: giving me the background. Like I get that we live

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01:29:10,040 --> 01:29:13,439
Speaker 1: in this world of streaming music where there's just random

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01:29:13,600 --> 01:29:17,519
Speaker 1: songs next to each other that play forever. But there's

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01:29:17,520 --> 01:29:20,799
Speaker 1: something so nice about someone behind the microphone that actually

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01:29:21,280 --> 01:29:24,240
Speaker 1: knows what that song is and introduces it for me.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to rich on Tech. Coming up next, we're

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Speaker 1: going to talk about Ember's new product for babies. Yes,

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01:29:33,200 --> 01:29:37,519
Speaker 1: the world's first self warming baby bottle. You're listening to

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01:29:37,680 --> 01:29:41,000
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. More of your calls and interviews after this.

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here rich on Tech, Welcome back to the show.

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Speaker 2: I'm here in.

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01:29:45,280 --> 01:29:50,640
Speaker 1: Westlake Village, California with Clay Alexander, CEO of Ember. You

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01:29:50,800 --> 01:29:54,800
Speaker 1: may know this company for its temperature controlled mugs, but

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01:29:54,960 --> 01:29:57,839
Speaker 1: now they are branching out into all kinds of temperature

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01:29:57,840 --> 01:30:01,759
Speaker 1: control systems. The latest product is a self warming baby

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Speaker 1: bottle system.

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Speaker 2: Clay, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 12: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 7: Rich.

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01:30:06,040 --> 01:30:08,160
Speaker 2: I'm happy to be here. So a lot of folks

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01:30:08,280 --> 01:30:10,519
Speaker 2: may know Ember for the mugs.

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01:30:11,000 --> 01:30:13,400
Speaker 1: This is the first product that I tried from Ember,

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01:30:13,520 --> 01:30:16,759
Speaker 1: and it's a temperature controlled mug, tell me the idea

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01:30:16,800 --> 01:30:17,360
Speaker 1: behind that.

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01:30:18,400 --> 01:30:22,880
Speaker 12: So actually it started with scrambled eggs.

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Speaker 10: Okay.

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01:30:23,360 --> 01:30:26,679
Speaker 12: So in two thousand and nine, I had just sold

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01:30:26,800 --> 01:30:29,960
Speaker 12: my light bulb to GE. It was the world's large,

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01:30:30,240 --> 01:30:34,280
Speaker 12: brightest led light bulb, and GE had bought the rights

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Speaker 12: to it. And I was sitting there, you know, thinking, Okay,

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01:30:37,120 --> 01:30:39,080
Speaker 12: what am I going to do next with my life?

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01:30:39,200 --> 01:30:39,400
Speaker 7: Right?

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01:30:39,800 --> 01:30:42,640
Speaker 12: And I was eating scrambled eggs with my wife in

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01:30:42,720 --> 01:30:45,640
Speaker 12: the kitchen. I get about halfway through my eggs and

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01:30:45,680 --> 01:30:48,439
Speaker 12: my eggs get cold on my plate. This happens every

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01:30:48,439 --> 01:30:51,280
Speaker 12: time I eat scrambled eggs, so I thought. I remember

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01:30:51,280 --> 01:30:54,640
Speaker 12: looking down and thinking, okay, this is the twenty first century.

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01:30:54,800 --> 01:30:57,040
Speaker 12: At a bare minimum, my dinner plate should be able

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01:30:57,080 --> 01:31:00,320
Speaker 12: to keep my food at a decent eating temperature. So

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01:31:00,439 --> 01:31:03,080
Speaker 12: I've been an inventor since Berth and I thought, okay,

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01:31:03,160 --> 01:31:07,240
Speaker 12: let me make I started strapping RC car batteries and

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01:31:07,320 --> 01:31:10,639
Speaker 12: temperature control circuitry to the bottom of the dinner plates

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01:31:10,640 --> 01:31:11,280
Speaker 12: in my kitchen.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure, I'm sure your wife loved you.

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01:31:13,760 --> 01:31:16,120
Speaker 12: No, I was making a big giant mass in the

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01:31:16,200 --> 01:31:19,439
Speaker 12: kitchen with electronics and wires and benchtop powers supplies and

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01:31:19,439 --> 01:31:21,800
Speaker 12: all that good stuff. So I created the world's first

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Speaker 12: self warming interplay, and I started eating my meals off

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01:31:24,720 --> 01:31:28,360
Speaker 12: of at steaks, salmon, etc. You get halfway through the meal,

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01:31:29,000 --> 01:31:31,800
Speaker 12: thirty minutes later, you're taking your time. You cut into

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01:31:31,840 --> 01:31:35,639
Speaker 12: the salmon, steam still comes out. It's the perfect temperature,

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01:31:35,680 --> 01:31:39,040
Speaker 12: perfect bike. So I had invented this, and I remember

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01:31:39,200 --> 01:31:43,839
Speaker 12: thinking to myself looking around the kitchen going gosh, coffee mugs,

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01:31:44,320 --> 01:31:48,439
Speaker 12: soup bowls, shafing dishes, baby bottles, all the things that

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01:31:48,560 --> 01:31:53,960
Speaker 12: can benefit from temperature control. And the real question was, well,

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01:31:53,960 --> 01:31:56,760
Speaker 12: where do we start right And at that time, this

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01:31:56,840 --> 01:31:59,439
Speaker 12: is back in twenty fourteen fifteen when I was making

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01:31:59,439 --> 01:32:03,240
Speaker 12: this decision, coffee, high end coffee was on the rise

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01:32:03,360 --> 01:32:06,960
Speaker 12: big time. So we created the world's first self warming

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01:32:07,520 --> 01:32:10,799
Speaker 12: coffee cup, and we made prototypes and I remember drinking

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01:32:10,800 --> 01:32:14,040
Speaker 12: out of it, carrying it around town, and it looked

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01:32:14,120 --> 01:32:18,000
Speaker 12: like a crazy invention. It had batteries strapped to the

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01:32:18,080 --> 01:32:21,800
Speaker 12: side and wires and circuitry, but the user experience was

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01:32:21,800 --> 01:32:25,000
Speaker 12: phenomenal because you know, you got thermusigetti and all these others,

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01:32:25,160 --> 01:32:28,720
Speaker 12: and those are dual wall vacuum insulation. The temperature that

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01:32:28,800 --> 01:32:31,680
Speaker 12: you pour in is what it holds it at If

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01:32:31,720 --> 01:32:34,080
Speaker 12: you pour hot coffee, brood coffee comes out at one

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01:32:34,160 --> 01:32:37,960
Speaker 12: hundred and eighty degrees, burns your mouth, or you wait

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01:32:38,000 --> 01:32:40,479
Speaker 12: for a very long period of time for tacool, you

1840
01:32:40,560 --> 01:32:43,200
Speaker 12: get distracted, you go back, and now it's too cool cold.

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01:32:43,360 --> 01:32:45,800
Speaker 12: So I thought, gosh, what if I could What if

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01:32:45,840 --> 01:32:50,520
Speaker 12: we could create technology that actually locks your drinking temperature

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01:32:50,680 --> 01:32:55,960
Speaker 12: in whatever your preferred specific drinking temperature is. You set

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01:32:56,000 --> 01:32:58,880
Speaker 12: it in a number mug one thirty five for instances mine,

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01:32:59,439 --> 01:33:01,800
Speaker 12: and every time I pour a cup of coffee, no

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01:33:01,840 --> 01:33:03,920
Speaker 12: matter where I am, and I poured a number mug,

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01:33:04,000 --> 01:33:06,240
Speaker 12: it goes to one hundred and thirty five degrees on

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01:33:06,400 --> 01:33:10,519
Speaker 12: the nose. And every sip, every sip, no matter where

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01:33:10,520 --> 01:33:13,080
Speaker 12: I go. It's battery powered, carried around the meetings, et cetera.

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Speaker 12: Is at one hundred and thirty five degrees.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's talk about the self warming baby bottle system.

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Speaker 1: This is brand new from Ember, over ten years in

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01:33:21,040 --> 01:33:23,200
Speaker 1: the making. Where did the idea for this come from?

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Speaker 4: Okay, this is a great story.

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Speaker 12: So my beautiful daughter Charlotte was born eleven years ago

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01:33:30,080 --> 01:33:32,960
Speaker 12: and my wife did most of the feedings. Every once

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01:33:32,960 --> 01:33:35,280
Speaker 12: in a while. It was Dad's turn, and I remember

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01:33:35,760 --> 01:33:37,679
Speaker 12: Charlotte waking up in the middle of the night crying,

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01:33:37,840 --> 01:33:42,000
Speaker 12: you know, starving. It's like I'm carrying her downstairs, going

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01:33:42,000 --> 01:33:45,640
Speaker 12: into the kitchen, getting a bowl of water, running the

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01:33:45,680 --> 01:33:48,200
Speaker 12: water in the sink, warming up the water, putting the

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01:33:48,200 --> 01:33:50,880
Speaker 12: baby bottle in the water. It's bobbing around because you know,

1863
01:33:50,920 --> 01:33:53,320
Speaker 12: my wife didn't want me to use the microwave. And

1864
01:33:53,360 --> 01:33:55,960
Speaker 12: then you're like squirting milk on your wrists and you're going,

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01:33:56,400 --> 01:33:58,480
Speaker 12: I'm a new parent, I have all these other anxieties

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01:33:58,520 --> 01:34:01,639
Speaker 12: about parenthood, and I don't know if this temperature is right.

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01:34:01,680 --> 01:34:03,400
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to sense it on my wrist.

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01:34:03,640 --> 01:34:07,320
Speaker 12: So it was a very honestly, the anxiety level was

1869
01:34:07,439 --> 01:34:09,519
Speaker 12: very high at that time for me as a parent,

1870
01:34:09,920 --> 01:34:11,960
Speaker 12: and I thought, there's got to be a better way.

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01:34:12,280 --> 01:34:14,920
Speaker 12: And I thought, gosh, what if the baby bottle could

1872
01:34:15,000 --> 01:34:19,240
Speaker 12: warm the milk itself right up to the perfect body

1873
01:34:19,240 --> 01:34:21,280
Speaker 12: temperature and let you know when it's ready. And that

1874
01:34:21,360 --> 01:34:22,879
Speaker 12: was kind of the origin idea.

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01:34:23,560 --> 01:34:26,000
Speaker 1: And so now we've got the baby bottle. It comes

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01:34:26,000 --> 01:34:29,160
Speaker 1: with this sort of warming puck on the bottom. Can

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01:34:29,200 --> 01:34:30,400
Speaker 1: you explain how it works?

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Speaker 12: There's a puck that you can throw in your back

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Speaker 12: pocket or anywhere, and you can basically throw the bottle

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01:34:36,479 --> 01:34:40,200
Speaker 12: on the puck and it warms milk or formula up

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01:34:40,240 --> 01:34:44,000
Speaker 12: to body temperature within less than five minutes. And part

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01:34:44,040 --> 01:34:45,560
Speaker 12: of the beauty of it is if you want to

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01:34:45,600 --> 01:34:48,160
Speaker 12: keep the milk cold for on the go, we also

1884
01:34:48,280 --> 01:34:50,599
Speaker 12: have that comes in the kit that we just launched,

1885
01:34:50,840 --> 01:34:53,800
Speaker 12: a what we call a thermal dome. So the cold

1886
01:34:53,800 --> 01:34:55,880
Speaker 12: milk comes out of the fridge with the bottle and

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01:34:55,920 --> 01:34:58,000
Speaker 12: you throw it on the puck, you throw the thermal

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01:34:58,040 --> 01:35:01,839
Speaker 12: dome over it. It's all magnetic sucks together. The thermal

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01:35:01,880 --> 01:35:05,800
Speaker 12: dome will keep the milk in the bottle cold for

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01:35:06,000 --> 01:35:08,680
Speaker 12: up to four hours on the go. So you have

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01:35:08,800 --> 01:35:12,000
Speaker 12: this little like we call it like an infant feeding kit,

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01:35:12,280 --> 01:35:14,280
Speaker 12: throw in your diaper bag, throw it in your backpack

1893
01:35:14,640 --> 01:35:18,360
Speaker 12: on the go, and when your baby is hungry, you

1894
01:35:18,439 --> 01:35:20,640
Speaker 12: just open up your iPhone or Android device and you

1895
01:35:20,720 --> 01:35:22,679
Speaker 12: go to the Amber Baby app, you click warm Milk.

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01:35:22,960 --> 01:35:25,479
Speaker 12: It actually warms the milk while the baby bottle is

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01:35:25,560 --> 01:35:29,519
Speaker 12: in your bag, and then it just notifies you when

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01:35:29,560 --> 01:35:32,960
Speaker 12: you're ready on either your connected watch or on your phone.

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01:35:33,280 --> 01:35:35,280
Speaker 1: And if you don't want to necessarily use the app,

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01:35:35,280 --> 01:35:37,160
Speaker 1: which you probably want to because if you have something

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01:35:37,200 --> 01:35:39,559
Speaker 1: like this, you're into apps and phones and stuff. But

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01:35:39,600 --> 01:35:41,840
Speaker 1: there's also a physical button on the bottom of the

1903
01:35:41,880 --> 01:35:42,800
Speaker 1: puck that you can just.

1904
01:35:42,800 --> 01:35:44,160
Speaker 10: Press five lights.

1905
01:35:44,200 --> 01:35:45,920
Speaker 1: When they all light up, it lets you know that

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01:35:45,960 --> 01:35:50,080
Speaker 1: the milk is at the right temperature. The baby bottle

1907
01:35:50,160 --> 01:35:52,759
Speaker 1: is super lightweight, lighter than you would think.

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01:35:53,120 --> 01:35:54,880
Speaker 10: It is all dishwashers safe.

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01:35:54,880 --> 01:35:57,120
Speaker 1: All of the parts that touch the milk the puck

1910
01:35:57,160 --> 01:36:01,320
Speaker 1: obviously is the electronics, and you also the bulk of

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01:36:01,320 --> 01:36:03,720
Speaker 1: the electronics in the bottom, like the Bluetooth is not

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01:36:03,920 --> 01:36:06,040
Speaker 1: near the baby bottle itself.

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01:36:05,680 --> 01:36:08,280
Speaker 12: That's right. So in early in the early days, in

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01:36:08,320 --> 01:36:11,040
Speaker 12: our first version of the Umber baby bottle, we put

1915
01:36:11,080 --> 01:36:15,479
Speaker 12: the battery technology and the Bluetooth radio and such in

1916
01:36:15,560 --> 01:36:17,599
Speaker 12: the bottom of the bottle is part of the bottle,

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01:36:18,080 --> 01:36:20,240
Speaker 12: just like an Emmer mug. Right, And in a lot

1918
01:36:20,240 --> 01:36:23,760
Speaker 12: of early focus groups, parents said, you know, I don't

1919
01:36:23,760 --> 01:36:26,280
Speaker 12: really want a Bluetooth radio near my baby's face. I

1920
01:36:26,280 --> 01:36:30,479
Speaker 12: don't really want a batteries. So we pivoted and we

1921
01:36:30,520 --> 01:36:33,080
Speaker 12: re engineered the product so that we put the Bluetooth

1922
01:36:33,160 --> 01:36:34,880
Speaker 12: radio and the batteries and all that stuff into a

1923
01:36:34,920 --> 01:36:37,400
Speaker 12: little kind of hockey puck that you throw in your

1924
01:36:37,400 --> 01:36:40,599
Speaker 12: back pocket that's magnetic to the bottle. That way the bottle.

1925
01:36:40,640 --> 01:36:45,000
Speaker 12: The bottle has you know, a microprocessor, heaters and temperature

1926
01:36:45,000 --> 01:36:48,840
Speaker 12: control sensors all kind of embedded in there safely. But

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01:36:48,920 --> 01:36:51,760
Speaker 12: there's no you know, batteries or bluetooth radio or any

1928
01:36:51,760 --> 01:36:54,160
Speaker 12: of that kind of stuff. So it's it's all solid

1929
01:36:54,200 --> 01:36:55,639
Speaker 12: state electronics in there.

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Speaker 1: And safety for this. This is something that you know,

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01:36:57,880 --> 01:36:59,040
Speaker 1: babies are going to be holding.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, So safety has been a number one priority for

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01:37:03,560 --> 01:37:06,960
Speaker 12: us from the very very beginning. And one of the

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01:37:06,960 --> 01:37:08,880
Speaker 12: things that we really wanted to make sure we got

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01:37:08,960 --> 01:37:10,000
Speaker 12: right is the heating.

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Speaker 10: Right.

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01:37:10,320 --> 01:37:14,000
Speaker 12: We never wanted to be over body temperature, so you know,

1938
01:37:14,120 --> 01:37:16,920
Speaker 12: ninety eight point five degrees in this case. And so

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01:37:17,360 --> 01:37:22,360
Speaker 12: we actually designed the ember Baby bottle with three independent

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Speaker 12: circuits that run inside the bottle. If the first circuit fails, right,

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Speaker 12: if the milk goes up, you know, ninety eight point

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Speaker 12: six boom, the second circuit kicks in senses that it

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Speaker 12: went a point of a degree up and then opens

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Speaker 12: the circuit, essentially killing heating. If the second circuit fails,

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Speaker 12: there is a third circuit that can then catch it,

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Speaker 12: so it is absolutely bomb proof, never go it will

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Speaker 12: never go above that body temperature. And so that took

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Speaker 12: us actually probably almost two years to engineer just what

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Speaker 12: I was saying right there, this triple redundancy.

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Speaker 1: The self forming baby bottle system from ember Cells for

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Speaker 1: four hundred dollars.

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Speaker 2: Some people may balk at that price.

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Speaker 12: So in the future we'll launch less expensive versions that

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Speaker 12: just have maybe one bottle and one puck, but at launch,

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Speaker 12: we want to have an entire system that really takes

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Speaker 12: care of you, and it's an infant feeding system.

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Speaker 2: Any advice for aspiring entrepreneurs.

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Speaker 12: I would say, honestly, grit to go from an idea

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Speaker 12: in your mind to building a global brand. It's definitely

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Speaker 12: the hardest thing I've ever done in my life X ten.

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Speaker 12: And I would just say, you, like, the reason that

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Speaker 12: I like can't sleep at night, work seven days a week,

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Speaker 12: et cetera, is because of my passion of what I'm

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Speaker 12: doing right Like, I'm so excited about every product that

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Speaker 12: we create and launch. And if you don't have that passion,

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Speaker 12: you're not going to have the grit and the determination

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Speaker 12: to actually pull it off. And especially when you go

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Speaker 12: through tough times, you just got to keep pushing that

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Speaker 12: big giant boulder up the hill.

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Speaker 1: Clay Alexander, CEO of EMBER and founder, thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for joining me today.

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Speaker 12: Thank you, Rich It was great to have you all right.

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Speaker 1: If you want to learn more about what Ember's doing,

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Speaker 1: check out the website. Just go to rich on Tech

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Speaker 1: dot TV. I'm rich Tibureau more of rich on Tech

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Speaker 1: after this welcome back to rich on Tech. I mentioned

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Speaker 1: that a feature Google loves to just kill things. Google

1978
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Speaker 1: loves to kill products. Now they've got a new product

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Speaker 1: they're killing Google trip summaries. This is a feature that

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Speaker 1: I really liked. I thought it was kind of a

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Speaker 1: fun hidden feature on Google. And I guess it was

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Speaker 1: too hidden, so either people aren't using it or they

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Speaker 1: just couldn't make money off of it.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but I like it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm looking at my upcoming trip to Nashville,

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Speaker 1: and what's cool about this is Google as long as

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Speaker 1: you're getting your travel itineraries in your Gmail, it kind

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Speaker 1: of parses the information and puts it into an itinerary

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Speaker 1: on Google Travel. So if you go to let's see

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Speaker 1: what the website is here, Google dot com slash travel,

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Speaker 1: and you know, you'll see the different places that you're

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Speaker 1: going to, so I can see my flights here to Nashville,

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Speaker 1: I can see where I'm staying. And then at the

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Speaker 1: end it says discover Nashville. So it's using the you know,

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Speaker 1: the itinerary information to give you ideas and what to

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Speaker 1: see while you're there. And then it gives you what

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Speaker 1: people ask see popular questions from Google search. Is Nashville

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Speaker 1: worth visiting? What's the best best month to visit? What's

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Speaker 1: the number one thing to do? Is three days enough?

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Speaker 1: And then it gives you.

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Speaker 2: Top travel articles.

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Speaker 1: And I thought this was a really cool little feature,

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Speaker 1: but apparently it's just not going to continue.

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Speaker 2: So as of May.

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Speaker 1: First, Google trip summaries are going away, and it's got

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Speaker 1: this little message at the top of the screen that

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Speaker 1: explains it says trip summaries won't be available anymore beginning

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Speaker 1: May first, though, your travel reservations may still appear in

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Speaker 1: other Google services, so that means that, in another word,

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Speaker 1: they're scanning your Gmail travel reservations to still serve up

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Speaker 1: ads based on where you might be going.

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Speaker 2: That's the way I interpret that.

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Speaker 1: To save a trip summary, click or tap on the

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Speaker 1: share button, but you can only do that, by the way,

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Speaker 1: if you put restaurant reservations, car travel, anything, it would

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Speaker 1: just all go into there. It was really really a

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Speaker 1: neat little feature. The other thing I would do, I guess,

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Speaker 1: is just use an app like Tripsy trips Y, the

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Speaker 1: one that I really like that I use. And this

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Speaker 1: is probably why Google's going being done with this is

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Speaker 1: because I switched to a ward wallet. So a ward

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Speaker 1: wallet has this great thing called Timeline and if you

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Speaker 1: give it access to your Gmail, which I know there

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Speaker 1: is a security risk there, but you have to figure

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Speaker 1: out if you want to do that or not. And

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Speaker 1: once you do that, it can scan your Gmail for

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Speaker 1: any confirmations you get and it will put this all

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Speaker 1: on one big timeline. I love this. I even have

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Speaker 1: my ticket Master tickets in here. It'll even find those.

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Speaker 1: It's got hotel rooms, it's got car rentals, it's got

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Speaker 1: car restaurant reservations, everything. Anything that gets sort of a

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01:42:18,320 --> 01:42:22,200
Speaker 1: confirmation email, Award Wallet will suck it up and put

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Speaker 1: it into this great little timeline. It's really really convenient.

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Speaker 1: So it's a good alternative as well. So Tripsy award Wallet,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can use tripe it as well. That'll

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Speaker 1: do the same thing. Amazon this week showed off its

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Speaker 1: new project Kuiper. This is their competition for Starlink. So

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Speaker 1: Amazon is putting into low or orbit orbit orbit orbitbit

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Speaker 1: a satellite network so they will be able to deliver

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Speaker 1: a broadband across the globe. So this is starting now.

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Speaker 1: I mean they're just gonna start kind of working on this.

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Speaker 1: This is not going to happen for another couple of years.

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Speaker 1: First sort of customers looks like twenty twenty four, so

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Speaker 1: next year, so it's not we got a while. But

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Speaker 1: they showed off their satellite I guess receivers for the

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Speaker 1: home and so there's three different ones. Actually it's residential

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Speaker 1: and small business, so there's three different receivers they have.

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Speaker 1: So they've got this really high performance one that's the

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Speaker 1: biggest one. They have five pounds without its bracking mounting bracket.

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Speaker 1: It's one of the most powerful commercially available customer terminals

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Speaker 1: of its size, delivering speeds up to four hundred megabits

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Speaker 1: per second. That's really fast for space internet. Amazon says

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Speaker 1: they're going to produce these terminals for less than four

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars each I don't know if that means they're

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Speaker 1: going to sell it for that price or that's how

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Speaker 1: much's going to cost them. Then they've got this ultra

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Speaker 1: compact design. This is really cool. This is a seven

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Speaker 1: inch square So this is Project Kuiper's smallest and most

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Speaker 1: affordable customer terminal. It weighs just a pound. It will

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Speaker 1: give you speeds up to one hundred megabits per second.

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Speaker 1: It's portability and affordability will create opportunities to serve even

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Speaker 1: more customers around the world. This is for residential customers

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Speaker 1: who want a low cost model.

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Speaker 2: So cool.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you could bring this thing anywhere, get speeds

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Speaker 1: up to one hundred megabits anywhere you can see a satellite.

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Speaker 1: That's really really cool. The fact that it's portable is fun.

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Speaker 1: Then they've got this high bandwidth design. This is the

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Speaker 1: biggest one they have. This measures nineteen inches by thirty inches.

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Speaker 1: It will deliver speeds up to one gigabit per second

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Speaker 1: for space Internet.

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Speaker 2: I love this.

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Speaker 1: I love the fact that Starlink is doing this. I

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Speaker 1: love the fact that now Amazon is doing it, although

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Speaker 1: I'm a little concerned about Amazon's following through with this.

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Speaker 1: You know, Amazon likes to start a lot of things,

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Speaker 1: but maybe not finish them, so I hope that they

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Speaker 1: finished this. I think this is in their best interest

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Speaker 1: because the more people that can get online around the world,

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Speaker 1: the more people that can use Amazon products and services.

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Speaker 1: So it's in their best interest to see this through.

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Speaker 1: And launching satellite internet is not cheap, so once they

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Speaker 1: get those satellites up in space, it's probably something they

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Speaker 1: want to continue doing. Amazon says we have built and

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01:45:18,200 --> 01:45:21,599
Speaker 1: shipped hundreds of millions of devices for customers, including low

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01:45:21,640 --> 01:45:24,439
Speaker 1: cost products like the Echo Dot and the Fire TV stick.

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Speaker 1: Project Kiper is applying that experience to its customer terminal

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Speaker 1: design and production process. They are so excited to build

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Speaker 1: tens of millions of units for customers. I'm excited for this.

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Speaker 1: I mean, at this point, when it comes to home internet,

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Speaker 1: you really have a couple of options. You've got the

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Speaker 1: wired internet from the local providers, then you've got the

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Speaker 1: five G Internet from the cellular providers. That's just sort

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Speaker 1: of starting. It's not even available where I live, and

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Speaker 1: now you're going to have space Internet, and space internet

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01:45:53,080 --> 01:45:55,519
Speaker 1: typically is more expensive, so it's been reserved for people

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Speaker 1: that live in sort of rural areas or underserved areas

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Speaker 1: by tradition means so the fact that now we have

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Speaker 1: Amazon and starlink as an alternative, it's just it's letting

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Speaker 1: more people live wherever they want, and work wherever they want,

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01:46:12,760 --> 01:46:15,080
Speaker 1: and do whatever they want in those places. You're no

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Speaker 1: longer needing to run a line for something that's really cool.

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Speaker 2: So thank you Amazon. All right.

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Speaker 1: Final story Samsung this week, big brew haha about how

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Speaker 1: Samsung phones take really good pictures of the moon, and

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Speaker 1: a Reddit user said, not.

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Speaker 2: So fast, this is fake.

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Speaker 1: So what this user did is they took a picture

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Speaker 1: of a moon picture on their computer screen from across

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Speaker 1: the dark room and lo and behold the moon that

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Speaker 1: they took a picture of looked amazing. All the details

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Speaker 1: were there, even though it was a tiny picture to start,

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Speaker 1: and so this of course made the rounds. Everyone was

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Speaker 1: debating whether the samsungung photos are fake. So Samsum came

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Speaker 1: out with a blog post and they explained how this

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Speaker 1: is happening. They said, okay, ever since the S twenty

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Speaker 1: one series, we've used this scene optimizer to recognize the

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Speaker 1: moon and take a good picture of it. They apply

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Speaker 1: detail enhancement so to explain how it works. They said, look,

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Speaker 1: we take ten images at a twenty five times zoom

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Speaker 1: or higher, and it needs all those images to enhance

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Speaker 1: the clarity and other details. When the moon is recognized,

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Speaker 1: this goes into effect. And they say they built their

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Speaker 1: model on a whole bunch of shapes and sizes of moons,

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Speaker 1: and they will actually at the last line they say,

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Speaker 1: we're going to continue to make this better to reduce

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Speaker 1: any potential confusion that may occur between the act of

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Speaker 1: taking a picture of a real moon and an image

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Speaker 1: of the moon. A reference to that Reddit thing. But yes,

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Speaker 1: these Samsung phones do take really good pictures of the moon.

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Speaker 1: They look very clear and very nice. I've done it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how many images of a moon you need.

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Speaker 1: All Right, that's gonna do it for this episode of

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Speaker 1: the show. Thanks so much for listening. Next week we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk NFTs. I'm headed to the NFT Expo in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. It's NFT LA. It's called Outer Edge LA

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Speaker 1: this year. It's happening this week in Los Angeles. So

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna hear about what the state of affairs is

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Speaker 1: when it comes to NFTs. You can find me on

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Speaker 1: social media. I am at rich on tech my website

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Speaker 1: richontech dot TV. There you can see all the stuff

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Speaker 1: I talked about here, watch my TV segments. Find me

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Speaker 1: on social media. My name is Richdmiro. Thanks so much

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

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01:48:35,680 --> 01:48:38,040
Speaker 1: your time. I do appreciate you spending it right here

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Speaker 1: with me. I'll talk to you real soon.