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Speaker 1: Demiro And this is rich on Tech, the show where

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Speaker 1: richon Tech dot TV. Well hello there from Austin, Texas. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: here for the Iheartcountry Festival. This is a concert that

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Speaker 1: What I love about the world of Instagram and social

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Speaker 1: I got lots of good suggestions, and so of course

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Speaker 1: So we picked our barbecue place last night based on

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Speaker 1: you and it was excellent. It was exactly what I want,

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a very lively city and I've been

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Speaker 1: start with that seven A. So this is the five

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars kind of entry level Pixel phone. They made

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Speaker 1: some improvements this year, things like face unlock, it's got

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Speaker 1: a little bit more ram, it's got a better display.

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Speaker 1: But this is a I think, from everything I've heard

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Speaker 1: from everyone talking about it, a really solid choice for

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Speaker 1: an entry level phone, even though it is fifty dollars

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Speaker 1: more than it was, you know, in years past.

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Speaker 2: So what do you make of this phone?

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Speaker 5: Well, I think it's a proper flagship for five hundred dollars,

446
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Speaker 5: which is quite the feat. You know. I think that

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Speaker 5: the Pixel A series with this seven as finally gone

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Speaker 5: from you know, a mid ranges phone with some flagship

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Speaker 5: features to a proper flagship and fifty dollars more. For that,

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Speaker 5: I think it's worth it. But it tells me another story,

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Speaker 5: and the story is that, you know, Google's try to

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Speaker 5: simplify a little bit all those new products include the

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Speaker 5: same new ten Sergy two chip that came with the

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Speaker 5: Pixel seven and seven Pro in the fall, so they're

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Speaker 5: using a flagship chip on everything. And in addition to that,

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Speaker 5: you know, we're seeing these this this Pixel seven A

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Speaker 5: gaining things like high refresh rate niney hertz display, like

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Speaker 5: wireless charging. So that tells me the Pixel eight right

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Speaker 5: that is going to replace the seven which is right

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Speaker 5: now only one hundred dollars more than this new seven

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Speaker 5: A is probably going to cost more and might have

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Speaker 5: more features, because it would be nice to space them

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Speaker 5: two hundred dollars apart right now. You know, the seven

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Speaker 5: A starts at five hundred, then you had six hundred,

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Speaker 5: you got the seven which is you know, almost identical really,

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Speaker 5: and then you know, like the nine hundred dollars you

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Speaker 5: have the seven Pro and that's a big jump, right,

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Speaker 5: So I'm thinking two hundred dollars apart once they eight

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Speaker 5: and eight pro land in October. But for now, I

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Speaker 5: think this is a killer phone if you can, you know,

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Speaker 5: kind of pry yourself away from Apple or Samsung, which

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Speaker 5: are the two dominant phonemakers in North America and the

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Speaker 5: US in particular. I would say, this is a killer

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Speaker 5: package for the money. It has absolutely everything you need.

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Speaker 1: It is the phone that I trust my mom with,

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Speaker 1: so I get her the Google the kind of the

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Speaker 1: A or one of the pixels.

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Speaker 2: Every year or not every year, every.

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Speaker 1: Time she upgrades, and it's always it's always a fantastic device,

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Speaker 1: and people are always saying like, how are your pictures

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Speaker 1: so good?

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Speaker 2: How are your pictures so good?

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Speaker 1: The thing that she doesn't get is the like you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: the whole I message world, which you know, Apple has

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Speaker 1: been really really good about keeping that exclusive to their products,

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Speaker 1: and it makes sense because it keeps a lot of

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Speaker 1: people on their devices. All right now, this pixel fold

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Speaker 1: this is an eighteen hundred dollars device. This is not

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Speaker 1: going to be for everyone, but it's actually pretty good.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sitting here like, could this be my

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Speaker 1: next phone? Because I'm ready. I'm kind of bored with

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Speaker 1: the standard phones at this point. I've tested all of them,

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Speaker 1: and this one is really unique because it opens up

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Speaker 1: to a giant seven point six inch screen, so that's

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Speaker 1: kind of like a tablet size. On the outside of

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Speaker 1: the phone, you get a nice I think it's a

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Speaker 1: five point eight in screen that's actually usable, unlike the

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Speaker 1: Samsung one.

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Speaker 2: So tell me your thoughts about this phone.

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Speaker 5: Well, you know, I'm a pixel user. I have a

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Speaker 5: Pixel seven pro, so obviously very interested in a folding pixel.

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Speaker 2: This is it.

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Speaker 5: There are obviously some things that could be better, but overall,

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Speaker 5: I think this is a proper competitor to Samsung's Galaxy

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Speaker 5: z Fold four, which will be soon, you know, be

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Speaker 5: followed by a z Fold five. So let's see what

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Speaker 5: happens there. But I think, as you kind of nailed it,

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Speaker 5: the thing that really matters here is the form factor.

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Speaker 5: Right abroad in China and other countries in Europe, there's

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Speaker 5: a company named Oppo, and they make a folding phone

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Speaker 5: that has a similar form factor, more like a passport

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Speaker 5: so basically shorter height, a little wider rather than that

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Speaker 5: super skinny form factor that Samsung has been using with

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Speaker 5: the z fold series. And personally, I think this is

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Speaker 5: a better form factor because you can use it one

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Speaker 5: handed when it's shut, and then you can up to

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Speaker 5: this huge tablet experience I mean usual relatively speaking for

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Speaker 5: something that unfolds, and I think that's going to differentiate

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Speaker 5: this phone. And it's about the same price as the

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Speaker 5: Galaxy Z Fold. So you know, in that sense, I

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Speaker 5: think it's it's a pretty good competitor. You know, the pixel,

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Speaker 5: the tensor G two chip, the chip that runs the

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Speaker 5: show here is not as powerful as what Qualcom and

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Speaker 5: Media Tech can deliver these days, or even Apple with

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Speaker 5: their chips. So there's a bit of that, but I

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Speaker 5: think it mostly reflects in terms of battery life. So

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Speaker 5: we'll see in our reviews how battery life folds up.

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Speaker 5: We know the cameras are going to be killer, and

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Speaker 5: then you know, there's the other thing that I think

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Speaker 5: could be improved is the charging speed. Twenty one wht

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Speaker 5: is a little slow these days in the flagship space,

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Speaker 5: but look for a first try. It's one of the

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Speaker 5: thinnest falling phones you can buy six millimeters or something

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Speaker 5: slightly thicker than the Champion, which is a phone out

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Speaker 5: of China called the Chami Mi Mix to fold. And

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Speaker 5: so you know, like you can complain. I think Google

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Speaker 5: did their homework and it does everything, has it does

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Speaker 5: have everything, and the kitchen sink.

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Speaker 2: So so the fold.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of funny because it's eighteen hundred dollars, but

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Speaker 1: they're giving you this this watch with it right, the

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Speaker 1: Pixel Watch, which is like three hundred and fifty to

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Speaker 1: four hundred dollars. So a lot of people are saying,

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Speaker 1: why don't you just not give me the watch and

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Speaker 1: take four hundred dollars off the price of this phone,

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Speaker 1: because fourteen hundred dollars seems a lot better. That's like

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Speaker 1: much more achievable if you really want something that's high end.

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Speaker 5: Well, you know, that's the thing that's been happening. A

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Speaker 5: lot of people are buying these flagship phones, whether they're

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Speaker 5: Pixels or Samsung or Apple even iPhones, you know, with

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Speaker 5: trade ins and getting deals right, and that they have

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Speaker 5: a lot of Pixel watches sitting around. It hasn't been

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Speaker 5: a super popular product, even though it's a great android

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Speaker 5: to watch right. So I think they're probably like, this

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Speaker 5: is a great way to kind of satisfy people without

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Speaker 5: you know, having to drop the price. And if you

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Speaker 5: look at the Pixel seven A, there's some great deals too.

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Speaker 5: If you get it directly from Google, you can get

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Speaker 5: a custom color called Coral, which is this orange superb color,

560
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Speaker 5: and then you can get a pair of Pixel buds

561
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Speaker 5: a for free. And I think if you buy it

562
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Speaker 5: from best Buy, you get a fifty dollars rebate like

563
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Speaker 5: a card you can use. So I think this is

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Speaker 5: kind of part for the course. I don't think this

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Speaker 5: watch thing is you know, a replacement for selling this.

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Speaker 5: That fourteen hundred is just kind of like, well, let's

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Speaker 5: sweeten the deal. But we I think they're not making

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Speaker 5: any money on this phone. There's no way, you know.

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Speaker 1: And I really fell in love with the Samsung by

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Speaker 1: the way, except for that tiny outside screen. I was

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Speaker 1: doing everything on the Fold. I was doing you know,

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Speaker 1: I was reading, like I used it as a kindle.

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Speaker 1: It was great because you can watch movies and videos

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Speaker 1: on it on the plane without any sort of like

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Speaker 1: extra you know, accessories, And it was just that outside

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Speaker 1: screen was so small. So the fact that Google made

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Speaker 1: this outside screen usable and it feels great in your hand,

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Speaker 1: like it's easy to hold, I think this phone is

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Speaker 1: actually an early winner. It's just the price point is

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Speaker 1: going to turn off so many people.

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Speaker 5: But then again, the price point turns off a lot

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Speaker 5: of people from the Galaxy Fold, you know. So I

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Speaker 5: think I think it's it's more it's harder to you know,

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Speaker 5: to accept that price when you know it's a pixel, right.

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Speaker 5: I think that's the problem. I think we're conditioned to

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Speaker 5: take whatever pricing Apple and Samsung gives us, and I

587
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Speaker 5: think this is something we should revisit because Google has

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Speaker 5: to make money. They can't just be completely losing money,

589
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Speaker 5: although I'm pretty sure they are not making money on this,

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Speaker 5: at least not much. I have used that Apple Find

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Speaker 5: and End two that has the same form factor as

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Speaker 5: the pixel and I tell you it's a much better

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Speaker 5: form factor than the Z fold from Samsung. So I'm

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Speaker 5: very excited about the pixel fold having this new form

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Speaker 5: factor because I think for some you know, everybody's got

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Speaker 5: a different thing. Some people will prefer the fold, no doubt,

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Speaker 5: but for me, this is a better form factor for sure.

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Speaker 1: we recommend a forty dollars tip. So in addition, we'll

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Speaker 1: make introductions to job boards that can provide jobs with

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Speaker 1: titles you're looking for. So that's that's it. Lead Resumes

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Speaker 1: L E. E. Tmes dot com is the website.

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Speaker 2: Check it out.

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Speaker 1: I have not personally used this because I have not

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Speaker 1: written a resume in a long time, and I'm sure chat,

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Speaker 1: GPT and all these things can help you write it,

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Speaker 1: but it's kind of nice to have a human actually

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Speaker 1: help you write a resume, because it's just you need

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Speaker 1: that human touch every once in a while. A new

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Speaker 1: Chrome update error attack. I got to tell you about

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Speaker 1: this one because I'm looking at my Chrome right now

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Speaker 1: on my computer and it says update in the upper

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Speaker 1: right hand corner. And the way that Chrome updates is

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Speaker 1: it downloads the software in the background, the update to

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Speaker 1: the to the Chrome web browser, and then it gives

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Speaker 1: you this little message that says update, and then you

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Speaker 1: just relaunch Chrome to update it. It's very simple process.

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Speaker 1: It's very easy. Well well, well, of course, the scam

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Speaker 1: artists have figured out a way to socially engineer the

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Speaker 1: Chrome updates. And here's what happens. This is according to

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Speaker 1: trend Micro, the new attack campaign distributes malware by posing

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Speaker 1: as a Chrome update error message. It started a couple

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Speaker 1: of months ago and it's impacting a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: The message displayed reads update exception and error occurred in

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Speaker 1: Chrome Automatic update. And you say, oh, interesting, Okay, I

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Speaker 1: know Chrome updates automatically, but there's an error. I better

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Speaker 1: spring into action. It says, please update, Please install the

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Speaker 1: update package manually later or wait for the next automatic update.

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Speaker 1: And then a link is provided at the bottom of

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Speaker 1: this fake error message that takes the user to a

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Speaker 1: what's misrepresented as a link that will help you do

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Speaker 1: a Chrome manual update, But that link downloads file that

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Speaker 1: will put malware on your system that might degrade your performance,

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Speaker 1: but it can also potentially compromise your sensitive information potentially

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Speaker 1: the way that you log into websites. Now this is

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Speaker 1: installed on your computer. Now here's what's so brilliant about

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Speaker 1: this campaign, and this is what all of these socially

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Speaker 1: engineered phishing attacks, smishing attacks, all these little scams that

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Speaker 1: are going around, they all play to something that is

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Speaker 1: somewhat true. We know that if we use Chrome, it

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Speaker 1: needs to update every once in a while, and typically

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Speaker 1: it works just fine. It's a very simple process. But

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Speaker 1: this one is a little error message that says, oh,

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Speaker 1: something went wrong with the automatic update. Here, manually do it,

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Speaker 1: and you don't want to be unprotected on your computer,

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Speaker 1: so you go ahead and do it.

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Speaker 2: So why this is.

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Speaker 1: So effective is because it's it looks routine, it looks

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Speaker 1: like it's innocent. There's no big threat window. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: blank red like some of these ransomware attacks. It just says, hey,

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Speaker 1: your update failed. Here, go ahead and install it. And

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Speaker 1: then there you go. You install it and it really

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Speaker 1: messes up your computer. So the reality is we can

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Speaker 1: never be off our guard when it comes to any

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Speaker 1: sort of thing that we are doing on our computer,

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Speaker 1: whether we.

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Speaker 2: Are installing software.

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Speaker 1: Don't, like I say, do not just go through those

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Speaker 1: whenever you're installing something. Don't just go through the motions

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Speaker 1: of pressing go, go, go, go go, because that will

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Speaker 1: get you into trouble. That will be a major problem.

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Speaker 2: Don't do it. That's that's the issue that I talk about,

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Speaker 2: because you just it's not good.

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Speaker 1: So again, if you're looking at Chrome and you see

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Speaker 1: this thing, just be sure you're on guard all right.

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Speaker 2: Phone number by the way, triple.

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Speaker 1: Eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four

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Speaker 1: to two four to one zero one I'll get to

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Speaker 1: some of your calls in just a moment here, But

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Speaker 1: first I watched this this Apple movie.

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Speaker 2: It's called Ghosted. You know, it's funny.

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Speaker 1: With all the reviews and ratings and things out there,

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Speaker 1: it's it's very tricky because you want to watch something

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Speaker 1: that's highly reviewed, highly regarded, highly rated, and sometimes you

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Speaker 1: just want something that's fun. So every time I opened

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Speaker 1: up Apple TV Plus on my computer or on my TV,

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Speaker 1: I would see this ad for a movie called Ghosted.

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Speaker 2: And I never heard of it. I never knew what

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Speaker 2: it was.

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Speaker 1: It just looks like an action kind of you know,

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Speaker 1: romantic action movie, whatever that means. And so I was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: this looks interesting. Of course, all the app all the

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Speaker 1: reviews for it are not very good, but I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I'll give it a try because it just looked like

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Speaker 1: something I want something that was kind of like no

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Speaker 1: brainer movie.

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Speaker 2: Right, Well, this is an Apple show. So this is

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Speaker 2: an Apple movie.

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Speaker 1: And every time you watch something on Apple TV plus,

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Speaker 1: any of the original programming from Apple.

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Speaker 2: It features a heavy dose of Apple products.

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Speaker 1: I mean they just give these producers like here, take

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Speaker 1: an iPad, take a an iMac, take a take ten iPhones,

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Speaker 1: everything happens with these Apple products in these Apple movies,

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Speaker 1: which is kind of distracting, but I get it. It's synergy.

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Speaker 1: It's like if someone on an Amazon movie was shopping

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Speaker 1: on you know.

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Speaker 2: Best buy dot com. It wouldn't really wouldn't feel right.

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Speaker 1: Well, anyway, every Apple movie is an ad for all

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Speaker 1: things Apple, except when it's not in their favor. And

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Speaker 1: on this Ghosted movie, what do they use for the

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00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: tracking device? It's a tile, It's not an air tag,

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Speaker 1: because they didn't want to seem like their products were

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Speaker 1: being put in a bad light. So I just thought

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Speaker 1: that was really funny. So if you watch the movie Ghosted,

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Speaker 1: I recommend it. I thought it was pretty good. But

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Speaker 1: just notice that. Notice that little quirk. Why didn't they

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Speaker 1: use an air tag? Didn't fall in Apple's favor. You're

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Speaker 1: listening to rich on Tech. More of your calls up

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Speaker 1: next at Triple eight.

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Speaker 2: Rich one O one.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking

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Speaker 1: technology with you at Triple eight rich one on one.

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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. The show coming to you today from Austin, Texas,

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Speaker 1: site of the iHeart Country Fest, which I will be attending.

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited for that. Also excited for barbecue. You

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Speaker 1: can't have enough barbecue when you're here, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: The only question is what kind of sauce you want

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Speaker 1: on it?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get into like a big barbecue debate.

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Speaker 1: I know there's like dry I mean, barbecue people are

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Speaker 1: very very serious about their craft, and I don't tend.

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Speaker 2: To be a barbecue expert.

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Speaker 1: All I know is that I will eat the brisket

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Speaker 1: with some sort of barbecue sauce slathered on it, and

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Speaker 1: I will be a very happy person. All right, enough

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Speaker 1: about me, Let's go to Pat in Laguna Hills. Pat,

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Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 2: Pat? Are you there? Pat? And Laguna Hills?

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Speaker 1: Okay, I can't hear you, Pat, but okay, maybe we'll

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Speaker 1: get you on in a second. Here, let's talk while

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Speaker 1: we're waiting for Pat. Oh, there you are, Hello, Pat, Welcome.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what happened.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're you know there's the show is if

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Speaker 1: you if you knew the technology behind this show, it's

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Speaker 1: quite impressive. We've got people in all corners of the

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Speaker 1: US today. We've got Kim up in near San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: We've got Bobo producing the show in Los Angeles, and

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Speaker 1: we've got myself sitting in Austin. And then somehow, you know,

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Speaker 1: the show goes up to a satellite somewhere it comes

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Speaker 1: back down through the road.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, because you're in auction. Yeah, I imagine.

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Speaker 2: We'll believe it on Texas. What's up?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Okay. I have a Chromebook since twenty fifteen. I bought

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Speaker 4: another one last year because I have one upstairs and

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Speaker 4: one downstairs. I want to give my twenty fifteen Chromebook

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Speaker 4: to a friend to practice on and in buying a

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Speaker 4: new one. I see this. There's two hard drives, an

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Speaker 4: SSD and an eMMC if in fact, that is a

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Speaker 4: hard drive e m MC. And I do banking on

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Speaker 4: this CHLME book, and I prefer the chrome book only

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Speaker 4: because I think it's safer with all the updates. Yes,

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Speaker 4: and I only use the one that's updated, not the

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Speaker 4: other one for banking so or paying bills and stuff.

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Speaker 4: So that's that's my question. I don't know what to.

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Speaker 1: Buy now, Okay, Well, good question. I like that you're

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Speaker 1: thinking about safety and security with this device, and I

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Speaker 1: would agree that it is a safe device, because there's

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Speaker 1: not I don't think there's any viruses for a chromebook

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Speaker 1: at this point, So I mean, you could still get

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Speaker 1: caught into phishing emails and all that stuff. So you

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Speaker 1: still have to be on cars.

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Speaker 4: And thank you for what you said before about I

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Speaker 4: didn't know about the era, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Look, these people are tricky. They will figure out

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Speaker 1: ways of I mean a lot of these ninety nine

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Speaker 1: percent of the attacks that I hear about are either

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Speaker 1: your password you didn't have two factor authentication, or you

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Speaker 1: hand over your password with some sort of social engineering

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Speaker 1: attack where you're logging into a website that looks legitimate

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Speaker 1: and you just don't realize anyway, onto these chromebooks. So, okay,

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Speaker 1: there's two different things you're talking about here, eMMC and

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Speaker 1: also SSD. So these are in fact they are a

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Speaker 1: hard drive in a colloquial term like it is a

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Speaker 1: storage device. But these are both sort of solid state

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Speaker 1: flash you know, they're both solid state drives. There's no

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Speaker 1: moving parts on these. eMMC is a type of flash memory,

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Speaker 1: whereas an SSD is a solid state drive. It's also memory,

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Speaker 1: but these things don't move, not like the old hard

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Speaker 1: drives that's spun right. eMMC is going to be a

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

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Speaker 1: bit cheaper, And there's also some size limitations there, so

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Speaker 1: you may not get a drive that's as big, whereas

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Speaker 1: SSD is kind of like you know, it's a much

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Speaker 1: higher end technology that is in much higher end devices.

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Speaker 1: So if you're comparing these two chromebooks, I'm guessing that

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Speaker 1: the SSD is more expensive.

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Speaker 2: Is that true?

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Speaker 4: But is one more secure than the other? That's really

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Speaker 4: what I want to know.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't think that one is more secure than

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Speaker 1: the other because at the end of the day, these

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Speaker 1: are just storing your data, and so you know, when

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Speaker 1: it comes to storing data, that's pretty much going to

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Speaker 1: function in the same way. So I don't think you're

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Speaker 1: gonna have a problem with this with the security of

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Speaker 1: these two devices. I think it's really comes down to

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Speaker 1: what you want out of a price and what you

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Speaker 1: want out of the performance. So I think that the

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Speaker 1: SSD overall is going to be a better choice. If

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Speaker 1: you have the money and it's in your budget and

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Speaker 1: you're comparing two things, the SSD I think is going.

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Speaker 2: To be better. But if you're just not really caring.

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Speaker 1: You just want this thing to log onto your bank

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Speaker 1: account and pay your bills and all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: In the standard eMMC, it's going to be just fine.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that one is more secure than the other.

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Speaker 4: Okay, And what about using the Chrome browser? Should I

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Speaker 4: use a different browser?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: I think the Chrome browser is a great browser to use.

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Speaker 1: Keep it up to date, just keep away from those

871
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: issues that I was talking about. And also when it

872
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: comes to the extensions, if you're installing extensions on the

873
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:57,839
Speaker 1: Chrome browser, that's you know, those are the potential for

874
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: you know, leaking information or putting.

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00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:00,839
Speaker 2: Something on there.

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00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 4: Meaning what extension.

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00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: Extensions are little browser add ons that you can get

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00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: that kind of help your browser do different things. For instance,

879
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: I have one that will help me print a page

880
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:15,760
Speaker 1: or save something to the kindle.

881
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 4: I don't use them every time I do a banking transaction.

882
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,480
Speaker 4: I get out of it and shut it down and

883
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 4: come back. Okay, that's how secure and the other very skeptical.

884
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,440
Speaker 1: The other thing that I would recommend when it comes

885
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,720
Speaker 1: to doing the banking on the computer is I always

886
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: try to keep that limited to at home or on

887
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: a simular connection if you're out of that. So I

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00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,280
Speaker 1: wouldn't do that on like a public Wi Fi connection.

889
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: That's kind of my rule of thumb with it.

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00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 4: Definitely not. And I just have one little question, what

891
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 4: about a tablet? Is banking secure on a tablet since

892
00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:03,439
Speaker 4: you're using a different you're using a cell uh yes,

893
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:07,359
Speaker 4: and a Wi Fi you're using the cell cell thing, right.

894
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 1: Well, it depends, I mean yeah on the table Well,

895
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:12,319
Speaker 1: on the tablet, you can use a hot spot or

896
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: you can use Wi Fi, depending on where you are.

897
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're at your house, you might just

898
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 1: use Wi Fi, but you can. You know a lot

899
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 1: of people when they're out and about, they're just connecting

900
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 1: their tablet to their phone. I think that's that's very

901
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 1: secure as well. Again number one, I mean we have

902
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:28,320
Speaker 1: we have millions and millions of people that are doing

903
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:31,439
Speaker 1: their online banking on a daily basis, and so these

904
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: banks have gotten really good at trying to keep people secure.

905
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 1: I think the online banking is not the the insecure part.

906
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: It's really these money apps that are that are leaking

907
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 1: money because people get requests and they send money to

908
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 1: someone that's not the right person or the right phone number.

909
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: So I think in that case, you need to be

910
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 1: really careful with with sending money.

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00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 4: To connect those too. I don't use zill and I

912
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 4: don't I might do them though, I don't know. I

913
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 4: have to research. But Zell is out.

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00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 2: Okay.

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00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 1: I used to really like zel and I I came

916
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 1: to not like it as much because the problem with

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00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: Zell is it's a one way street. So if there's

918
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 1: a problem, it's these banks have really shown over and

919
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: over that they're not really interested in getting your money

920
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: back to you if you send it to the wrong person,

921
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: or if there's a problem or if you you know,

922
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: if you get some sort of scam attack and you

923
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: send money to someone that you shouldn't have and you

924
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,160
Speaker 1: realize that it's it's really tough to get that money back.

925
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: With VENMO, I feel like there's a little bit more

926
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 1: of a there's a little bit more of a barrier,

927
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,279
Speaker 1: almost like using a credit card versus a debit card.

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00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 4: Agreed, Okay, all right, I I totally agree with you. Then,

929
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:48,399
Speaker 4: so uh so, Yeah, I still don't want to send

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00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 4: big amounts of money through them all.

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00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 6: I still write checks and send.

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00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 4: Them credit return, receive credit.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Smart, Well, Pat, you sound You sound like the perfect

935
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: listener for the rich On Tech Radio show because you

936
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:03,879
Speaker 1: said you agree with everything I said, so I like that.

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00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 1: Thumbs up to you, Pat, Thanks so much for listening

938
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:10,399
Speaker 1: today in Laguna Hills. Coming up, we've got a lot

939
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: more to talk about. Apple is bringing Final Cut Pro

940
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,839
Speaker 1: and Logic Pro to the iPad, and later on.

941
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about projects Starline.

942
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 1: This is Google's version of Zoom, but in a holographic way.

943
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:26,879
Speaker 2: I call it holographic.

944
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,919
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that that's the exact technology they're using,

945
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:34,200
Speaker 1: but we've got Sherylyn Low from ngadget. She actually experienced

946
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:36,839
Speaker 1: this up at Google Io and she's going to talk

947
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 1: to us about that as well, so stay tuned for that.

948
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: But I wanted to mention this real quick before we

949
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: go to break Peloton recalling two million of its exercise bikes.

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00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: This company cannot catch a pass. They just really can't.

951
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: So this Peloton bike, if you have one model PLO

952
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:57,600
Speaker 1: one that's pretty much the original one, the bike's seat

953
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 1: post assembly can break during use, posing fall and injury hazards.

954
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, Think you're on a bike seat and you're pedaling along,

956
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 1: and if this thing has a problem. Yeah, you don't

957
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 1: want to be on that bike seat when this happens.

958
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: So they've got a repair as an issue to help

959
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:19,920
Speaker 1: you get that fixed. Recall two point two million of

960
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: these Pelotons and so far they say consumers should immediately

961
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 1: stop using the exercise bikes and contact Peloton for a

962
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 1: free repair. They'll give you a new seat post that

963
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: can be self installed, and thirty five reports of the

964
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:36,759
Speaker 1: seat post breaking and detaching from the bike during use,

965
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 1: thirteen reports of injuries, including a fractured wrist, lacerations and

966
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:44,480
Speaker 1: bruises due to falling from the bike. These were sold

967
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: from January twenty eighteen to May twenty twenty three, pretty

968
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:50,800
Speaker 1: much the entire time during the pandemic. They were sold

969
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 1: through Peloton, Amazon, and Dick Sporting Goods nationwide for about

970
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 1: fourteen hundred dollars. Ah, this is not good for Peloton

971
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 1: because we've seen, you know, Peloton was was flying high

972
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 1: during the pandemic and then after the pandemic things didn't

973
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:07,400
Speaker 1: go so well for them. And I still love Peloton,

974
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but if you got one of

975
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 1: these bikes, definitely check to make sure if your model

976
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 1: number pl zero one and you've been using this thing.

977
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:17,239
Speaker 1: You want to get this free repair because I'm know

978
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: about you. I don't want to be on a bike

979
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: seat and have that thing break and there's a bar

980
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:25,800
Speaker 1: there that can really hurt you. So my wife and

981
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 1: I were debating this last night. She said, well, only

982
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 1: thirty five people. I said, do you want to be

983
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:31,360
Speaker 1: one of those thirty five people that got hurt on

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00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 1: this thing?

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00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:32,480
Speaker 2: I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: All right, more of your calls a triple eight rich

987
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 1: one on one eight eight eight seven four to two

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00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: four one zero one. You are listening to rich on

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Speaker 1: Tech pull in. Welcome back to rich on Tech, rich DeMuro.

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00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:46,919
Speaker 4: Here.

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00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:51,800
Speaker 1: You can find me online at richon Tech dot tv.

992
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 1: You can find me on all the social media networks

993
00:48:56,120 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 1: at rich on Tech. I posted a video this week

994
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 1: on my Instagram, actually a couple a couple of videos

995
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:10,280
Speaker 1: this week on my Instagram. First is this little flick

996
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:14,839
Speaker 1: flick smart button. This was really cool testing this thing out.

997
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: And it's a little smart button that you can program

998
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 1: to do a whole bunch of different things. So think

999
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: of it as like a almost like a light switch,

1000
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 1: but it's a smart button, so you can make it

1001
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:23,840
Speaker 1: turn on and off lights.

1002
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:25,720
Speaker 2: You can make it ring your phone.

1003
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: You can make it play your sons, play a special playlist, whatever,

1004
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:33,400
Speaker 1: all by programming it through your phone. I also posted

1005
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:37,800
Speaker 1: the automated pancake maker at my hotel up in San Francisco.

1006
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 1: I never saw this before, and I thought it was

1007
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: so neat. You just press a button and it pops

1008
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 1: out too fresh pancakes that it kind of makes on

1009
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: a griddle that's inside this little robotic mechanism, So you

1010
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: can watch that on my Instagram. And then I got

1011
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 1: this security tracker from u fee that's the size of

1012
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 1: a credit card, so it's basically an air tag but

1013
00:49:58,480 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: the size of a credit card.

1014
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:00,760
Speaker 2: You can it in your wallet.

1015
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:03,799
Speaker 1: I have another one from Chippolo already in use, but

1016
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 1: this was on sale on Amazon for sixteen ninety nine,

1017
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 1: and I get so many questions about these things. I

1018
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 1: ordered it came the next day. It's very very.

1019
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 2: Simple when I like about it.

1020
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 1: It uses the Apple Find My network, so you can

1021
00:50:17,239 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: find this thing on a map pretty much anywhere in

1022
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,440
Speaker 1: the world because it uses all the other iPhone devices

1023
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 1: to locate it, so you can find those all on

1024
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 1: my Instagram at Richon Tech, and I got a lot

1025
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 1: of questions about the trackers because people are saying, Hey, Rich,

1026
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 1: you know, I want a tracker for Android. My advice

1027
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: in the Android tracker situation is just to wait. Because Google,

1028
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:37,880
Speaker 1: we talked about this last week or the week before.

1029
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: Google and Apple are working together to come up with

1030
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:42,279
Speaker 1: a common framework.

1031
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:45,240
Speaker 2: So very soon there is going to be a whole bunch.

1032
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:48,879
Speaker 1: Of air tag style devices on the market that will

1033
00:50:48,920 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: work with both iPhone and Android much better than they

1034
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:54,760
Speaker 1: do right now. Google at their annual event, the Io Event,

1035
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 1: announced that they're going to make the find My network

1036
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 1: use all of the Android phones to help you look

1037
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:04,880
Speaker 1: devices from a wide variety of manufacturers, so Samsung, Tile, Chipolo,

1038
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 1: so you have the air tag for the iPhone. That's

1039
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 1: been about a couple of years now. Now everyone's going

1040
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 1: to have access to this same technology. So that's really

1041
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:16,919
Speaker 1: really cool. Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight

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00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,319
Speaker 1: eight seven four two four to one zero one. Ron

1043
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: is in Arizona.

1044
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 2: Ron. You're on with Rich.

1045
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 7: Hey, Rich, can you hear me?

1046
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:26,839
Speaker 2: I can hear you? What's up?

1047
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:34,320
Speaker 7: Our church has Wi Fi right now, but it's sketchy

1048
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 7: in some parts of the church. We have basically, you know,

1049
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:45,160
Speaker 7: one router and then they they use some of those extenders.

1050
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:47,479
Speaker 7: And I have a Mesh network. I have a Mesh

1051
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 7: network at home and it works really well to our house.

1052
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:53,840
Speaker 7: Our house is not real big though, it's about nineteen

1053
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:59,680
Speaker 7: hundred square feet. So I'm wondering the size of the building.

1054
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:02,760
Speaker 7: That foundation size of our church building is about thirteen

1055
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 7: thousand square feet. Can you take you know, just your

1056
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 7: standard Mesh network like a Google or something, and just

1057
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 7: add more modules to it to extend me because most

1058
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 7: of the time they talk about covering you know, forty

1059
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,439
Speaker 7: five hundred, five thousand square feet something like that.

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00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:23,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean typically with something that big, you'd want

1061
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:26,960
Speaker 1: more of a corporate you know, more of a professional solution.

1062
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: This may be somewhere in the middle. So if you go,

1063
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:33,360
Speaker 1: which one do you have at home? Which which system?

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00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 5: The Google?

1065
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 4: Oh?

1066
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:39,280
Speaker 2: You have the Google? Okay, So you know, it's interesting.

1067
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 1: I think that you know, if you look at like

1068
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: euro which is kind of like the they kind of

1069
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 1: started this whole thing with the mesh networking systems for

1070
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 1: the home. You know, this might have been going on

1071
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 1: in the corporate kind of world for much longer. But

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00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: if you look on Euro's website, you know, because I've

1073
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:55,840
Speaker 1: got euro and I was wondering, like how many of

1074
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:56,760
Speaker 1: these things can you add?

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00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 2: You know, just how large?

1076
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: This says that you can add as many beacons or

1077
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 1: euros to your house as you'd like. Now they always

1078
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 1: say home, so they don't ever mention that this is

1079
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 1: for corporate now, you know, I think you can use

1080
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:11,799
Speaker 1: it at a church if it's just something you want

1081
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: to try. The good news is this is all sort

1082
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:15,719
Speaker 1: of off the shelf. You can buy it, you can

1083
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:19,719
Speaker 1: set it up, and if it works, that's great. You know,

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00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:22,800
Speaker 1: some homes are probably I don't know about thirteen thousand

1085
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:24,360
Speaker 1: square feet, but I'm you know, I'm sure there's some

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Speaker 1: pretty big homes that have you know, these mesh networks

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Speaker 1: in them and it works. I think the problem with

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Speaker 1: the church is that it, you know, the what's the foundation,

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Speaker 1: Like what's the you know, is it a lot of

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Speaker 1: concrete and brick and stone and things like that.

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Speaker 7: We've got one really large room where the services take place,

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Speaker 7: and then we have a couple of like classrooms for

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Speaker 7: the Sunday school, and then there's a an upstairs balcony

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Speaker 7: where the sound equipment is and the you know, the

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Speaker 7: computer for running the slide during the service and stuff

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Speaker 7: like that, So we'd really like to reach all of

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Speaker 7: those areas fairly well. So I just kind of walked

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Speaker 7: off the foundation just to see, well, how big, how

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Speaker 7: big is the building itself, not just the total square

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Speaker 7: footage like a realtor would estimate it right, right, And

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Speaker 7: that's where I came up with that thirteen thousand.

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Speaker 1: Well I would recommend I mean, look you can you

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Speaker 1: can kind of investigate the euro situation and see. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I would use Google because that's a

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Speaker 1: much more consumer device. Ero kind of is in the

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Speaker 1: middle there. They do a lot of like pro stuff

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Speaker 1: as well. But I would also look at something like Ubiquity.

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Speaker 1: Have you heard of that?

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Speaker 7: The name sounds familiar, so that.

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Speaker 1: Is sort of a it's more of a prosumer kind

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Speaker 1: of model. And I'm looking on their website for the

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Speaker 1: different devices that they have, and it seems like it

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Speaker 1: would be much more suited. And it's not that expensive, so,

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Speaker 1: I mean, these devices are anywhere from one hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: to two hundred and seventy nine dollars for each device,

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Speaker 1: depending on which one you want. So they've got a

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Speaker 1: light a long range of professional and enterprise and then

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Speaker 1: the mesh hub. So I think that that's probably something

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Speaker 1: to look at, and it's going to give you more

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Speaker 1: a professional installation than something like an euro which is

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Speaker 1: really meant for the home. This will give you some

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Speaker 1: enterprise grade access tools and things, especially when you have

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Speaker 1: a lot of people using it, including visitors, it might

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00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 1: give you more of the tools that you need to

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Speaker 1: manage that. So that's at UI dot Com. I would

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Speaker 1: check that out. Of course, the big one that comes

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00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,319
Speaker 1: to mind is a Ruba networks that is a much

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Speaker 1: more corporate industrial solution as well. So I would check

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Speaker 1: those two things out. And Ron great question. I know

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Speaker 1: we've become so accustomed to these mesh networks. We need

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Speaker 1: them everywhere, all right. Coming up, we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: to Sherlyn Lowe about projects Starline, Google's new video chat

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Speaker 1: that is just wild. You're listening to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking

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Speaker 1: technology with you at triple eight rich one oh 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 can also email me hello at rich on Tech

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Speaker 1: dot tv. Maybe a little shy on the phone and

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00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:07,800
Speaker 1: you'd rather email, or maybe it's just something that's easier

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00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:10,759
Speaker 1: to email than call, but either way, Triple eight Rich

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Speaker 1: one on one or Hello at Rich on tech dot TV.

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Speaker 1: So there's this really cool demo up at Google Io

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00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:18,960
Speaker 1: that I did not get to do.

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00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:23,040
Speaker 2: But it's Project star Line.

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Speaker 1: So this is a video conferencing sort of I don't

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00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:29,440
Speaker 1: know what you call it, like contraption that Google has

1147
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 1: come up with that makes it look like the person

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00:56:32,239 --> 00:56:34,359
Speaker 1: is sitting in front of you and you can talk

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Speaker 1: to them. So I'll just bring on Sharlen Lowe from

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Speaker 1: n Gadget. She actually got to experience this. Charlyn, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the show.

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Speaker 8: Hey, rich thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so can you explain Project Starline better than I can,

1154
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 1: because you got to try this out and I just

1155
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:52,360
Speaker 1: feel like it's holographic video conferencing, like this stuff you

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00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 1: imagine would be around when I was a kid, Like,

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00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,360
Speaker 1: you know, talking face to face to someone that's not

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00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 1: really there is that kind of it's accurate.

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Speaker 8: You're basically sitting in front of what's really big TV,

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00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:06,360
Speaker 8: like a forty ish inch TV, but instead of a

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Speaker 8: regular screen is a light field display and that allows

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Speaker 8: the sort of holographic projection to up here like a

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Speaker 8: person is really there in three D in front of you.

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Speaker 8: They're protruding out of the screen kind of Oh.

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Speaker 1: So it is Okay, I've been saying this is holographic.

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Speaker 1: It is actually holographic. Okay, cool, all right, so I

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Speaker 1: got something right. So you wrote all about this, uh

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Speaker 1: in your experience with it, So take me from start

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Speaker 1: to finish.

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Speaker 2: You walk in here in what happens?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, so I walked. These are a hush hush displays. Okay,

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Speaker 8: they're not letting us teak photos or videos because it's

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Speaker 8: hard to capture on camera, so we're gonna have to

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Speaker 8: verbally describe it as best as we can. You walk into

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Speaker 8: a room. There's this long office table or desk in

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Speaker 8: front of the setup, the prototype. The news at schole

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Speaker 8: i OWE this year is that there's newer prototypes.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 8: Project styling was first and down about two years ago,

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Speaker 8: and since then the prototypes have gone from requiring an

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Speaker 8: entire room of space to being somewhat portable. I mean

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Speaker 8: the take up more like a whiteboard amount of the

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Speaker 8: space now. So I went in through my friend the chair,

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Speaker 8: the office chair in front of the table and then

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Speaker 8: the other person on the other side of the call,

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Speaker 8: who themselves is sitting in front of another Project Starline prototype,

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Speaker 8: steps into frame. And when they're sitting down and I'm saying, now,

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Speaker 8: we're both kind of like facing the screen dead on.

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Speaker 8: There's no real sense that this is anything extra special.

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Speaker 8: They look life size, They're like, you know, not like

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Speaker 8: a little laptop size of a video call. But without

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Speaker 8: kind of looking around, you don't get the sense that

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Speaker 8: this is protruding. But everything changed when this person, the

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Speaker 8: Google executive on the other side of the call, picked

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Speaker 8: up an apple on his end and kind of reached

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Speaker 8: it through the screen in front of his face. It

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Speaker 8: looked like it was coming right at me. It looked

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Speaker 8: like I could grab it from his hand, because that's

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Speaker 8: really what you felt, the spatial distance kind of change.

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Speaker 8: And that's what's really different with Project Starline as opposed

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Speaker 8: to your typical video conference is the holographic thing. This

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Speaker 8: is supposed uh, more realistic, more in person experience way

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Speaker 8: of communicating. It's just really different. We tried other things tough,

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Speaker 8: We tried high fiving, we tried fist bumping, and you know, again,

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Speaker 8: this is Overcaul, He's not actually there. So I didn't

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Speaker 8: actually grab his fist or touch his palm or whatever,

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Speaker 8: but it felt like I could. I actually made virtual contact,

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Speaker 8: my real palm sort of overlaid on top of his

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Speaker 8: his virtual one, if that make sense.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I was gonna I was wondering about that, like

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Speaker 1: when you put the apple out, like, did you go

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Speaker 1: to reach for it and what hit him? Does it

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Speaker 1: just feels like there's nothing there? Like does it does

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Speaker 1: it break up the image?

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Speaker 2: Like what is?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: So when I when I went to grab it, and

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Speaker 8: when you know, he hadn't outstretched his uh hand that

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Speaker 8: far yet, I just was kind of grabbing it and

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Speaker 8: it wasn't The image wasn't breaking at all. What was

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Speaker 8: happening was uh as you wouldn't realize when you cover something,

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Speaker 8: it kind of like you block it from your vision, right,

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Speaker 8: and it was happening here except when my hand wasn't

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Speaker 8: grabbing anything with such a space. So it's kind of strange.

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Speaker 8: I think my brain didn't really process it, right. I

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Speaker 8: will say that when he the caller, did outstretched his

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Speaker 8: hand a little further, it would start to hit boundaries

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Speaker 8: and it would his face would term blue, like as

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Speaker 8: if you were hitting an outer limit and it gained

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Speaker 8: you Oh wow, yeah, that's sort of feel. And also

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Speaker 8: when I when I sat in my seat and I

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Speaker 8: would move my body from side to side to kind

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Speaker 8: of like you know, see him from the profile and

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Speaker 8: stuff like that to see if it was more three D.

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Speaker 8: It wasn't. Indeed, more like a three D experience was

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01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:34,520
Speaker 8: protruding more, but you would get messages on screen that

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01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:36,840
Speaker 8: would tell you hate remain centered in the frame. Stop

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Speaker 8: moving around your tea so much, because, uh, the experience

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01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 8: is really tailored for a specific position because they're you know,

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Speaker 8: a life of this way is you know, projecting all

1242
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 8: the themes to your eye, so it's kind of needing

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Speaker 8: your perspective to be within a controllable area.

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Speaker 1: We're talking with Sharlen Lowe, editor at n Gadget about

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Speaker 1: Project Starline. This is Google's holographic video conferencing exproment, which

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01:01:00,520 --> 01:01:03,720
Speaker 1: they showed off at Google Io in a very private way.

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01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:05,280
Speaker 1: This was something that you kind of had to sign

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01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:07,160
Speaker 1: up for and it was a you know, it was

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01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:10,680
Speaker 1: an appointment only kind of thing. So what do you

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01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:14,120
Speaker 1: think is the implication of this. I imagine it's very expensive,

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Speaker 1: it's very early technology. Google says that they've done several

1252
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Speaker 1: thousand hours of testing with this, but what do you

1253
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Speaker 1: think the impact of this is? Do we need this

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Speaker 1: in our world?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: So what's happening too is alongside the new prototype, Google

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Speaker 8: also announced that some of these new prototypes have been

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Speaker 8: shared with exclusive access partners like T Mobile. We work

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Speaker 8: in salesforce and they're trying to see, you know, gather

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Speaker 8: real world feedback to see how these work. In what

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Speaker 8: they're saying, are distributed a workforce or work workplaces. Right, So,

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Speaker 8: I think the idea is that now that we're doing

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Speaker 8: so much hybrid and remote work, that some sort of

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Speaker 8: bridge between the video an alternative solution to the traditional

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01:01:57,760 --> 01:02:00,760
Speaker 8: video conferencing is necessary and their wholefully or they're thinking

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01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:04,400
Speaker 8: that this might provide them of that in person experience

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01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:08,040
Speaker 8: without really you know, short of teleporting, someone is giving

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01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:11,920
Speaker 8: you sort of that experience. My take though, I'm not

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01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:14,920
Speaker 8: quite sure. I think, yeah, sure, it felt like a

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01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:16,800
Speaker 8: person was kind of in front of me, only their

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01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:19,520
Speaker 8: top half though, And yes, you can get more non

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Speaker 8: verbal cues from a person if you have you know,

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01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:24,320
Speaker 8: I was making direct eye contact with the person that

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01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:26,640
Speaker 8: felt like you know, every little smirk, every little frown,

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Speaker 8: you could really tell because it's just so much more

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01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:32,320
Speaker 8: detail in this experience. I don't know that we're still

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Speaker 8: going to be able to fully replace in person call

1278
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:37,959
Speaker 8: or in person in chat with this. It might be

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Speaker 8: better than a laptop call by quite a lot. It

1280
01:02:42,280 --> 01:02:44,720
Speaker 8: never has been a substitute the real real thing, you know.

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01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:46,400
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 1: I talked to someone else about this, and they said

1283
01:02:48,520 --> 01:02:51,200
Speaker 1: up at Google Io after they tested out, they said

1284
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:53,320
Speaker 1: that it was like almost a little eerie to like

1285
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 1: look them in the eye, the other person, and so

1286
01:02:55,240 --> 01:02:57,080
Speaker 1: they had to look away at some point because it

1287
01:02:57,120 --> 01:02:58,640
Speaker 1: was like too much, it was too intense.

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01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 8: I think I think that was the demo person. They think.

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01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:03,760
Speaker 8: They were really trying to hammer home the point that

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01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:06,680
Speaker 8: I can make eye contact with you, you don't have to, right,

1291
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 8: But there is an uncanny Valley sort of aspect to this,

1292
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:12,520
Speaker 8: because during my demo there were a little, you know,

1293
01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:15,440
Speaker 8: a few glitches here and there, your typical tech support

1294
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:17,960
Speaker 8: technical era stuff, right like if we were both talking

1295
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:19,600
Speaker 8: at the same time, I could tell if you couldn't

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Speaker 8: hear anything.

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Speaker 1: I was saying.

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Speaker 8: And some of these issues can be talked up to

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Speaker 8: the WI Fi at the event, which was very spotty.

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Speaker 8: As you and I were both there, we know the

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Speaker 8: Wi Fi struggled. And this to be clear, it is

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Speaker 8: the cameras around the screen are gathering your data and

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Speaker 8: then they're sending that information to the cloud, where it's

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Speaker 8: then generating a three D model of you and the

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Speaker 8: caller on the other side, and then beating that back

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Speaker 8: down to your respective light field display. So it's a

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Speaker 8: lot of bandis that's necessary, a lot of processing that's happening,

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Speaker 8: So some hiccups are understandable at the moment, I understand that.

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Speaker 8: You know, there's going to be some sort of feriness

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Speaker 8: or uncanny valley going on, and I don't think that

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Speaker 8: that's ever going to go away, really.

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Speaker 2: Do you think? Well?

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Speaker 1: And by the way, I mentioned a story earlier about

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Speaker 1: how when I was sending my video back for editing

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Speaker 1: back to Los Angeles, it was so slow. Like Google

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Speaker 1: is known for really good Wi Fi, and this year,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what happened, but the Wi Fi was

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Speaker 1: just really bad at the event that remember the first

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Speaker 1: year they had like they had like one gigabit connections

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Speaker 1: at like every seat.

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Speaker 2: At one point.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, do you think we're gonna have something like

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Speaker 1: Project Starline in our homes at some point, and you

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Speaker 1: could just I mean, as someone who lives far away

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Speaker 1: from their family myself, like my parents live in New Jersey,

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Speaker 1: I live in LA it'd be really cool to just

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Speaker 1: like hop into this Project star Line and chat with

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Speaker 1: them on a Saturday. Do you think we would ever

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Speaker 1: have this in our homes?

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Speaker 8: I think one day. I think that that's Google's goal perhaps,

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Speaker 8: but it is going to be a long way as

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Speaker 8: the way. I think the over rich people will have

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Speaker 8: them within the next three years, but regular your average

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Speaker 8: people probably another I don't.

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't.

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Speaker 8: I wouldn't use the crime to do like a decade.

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Speaker 8: And even then, you know, like it doesn't really take

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Speaker 8: off because again, you don't if people want to be

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Speaker 8: around other people, and this so far feels like a

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Speaker 8: one person at a time experience, and you know, there's

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Speaker 8: there's just something about social gatherings in person that technology

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Speaker 8: can't fully replicate.

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Speaker 9: You just can't.

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Speaker 1: I agree, And I also mentioned that about Io, because

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Speaker 1: half of it is just seeing the people that you

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Speaker 1: see on Twitter, and it's like, you know, it's funny

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Speaker 1: because even with the advent of social media, you feel

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Speaker 1: like you know all of your friends and what they're

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Speaker 1: up to. But even just spending ten minutes with someone

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Speaker 1: in real life, you are caught up in a way

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Speaker 1: that Instagram and Twitter and all these things can never

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Speaker 1: catch you up.

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Speaker 8: I agree absolutely, and I have so much fun at IO.

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Speaker 8: I mean, I think you and I met what for

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Speaker 8: the first ish time there in person, and then you know,

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Speaker 8: I got to see all my friends. I got to

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Speaker 8: within like the said ten minutes, I met such a

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Speaker 8: gamut of people at once without and getting to know

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Speaker 8: them and getting the sense I pick up on vibes

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Speaker 8: like to say, oh yeah, I.

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Speaker 2: Have everyone you know absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Sherlin Low, deputy editor at n Gadget. How can folks

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Speaker 1: follow you online?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: I am on Twitter still at c h e r

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Speaker 8: l y n n l O W or my Instagram

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Speaker 8: at c h r l i n N at t

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Speaker 8: h e r e M.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me today. I love the qualification, the

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Speaker 1: qualifier with Twitter. I'm still on Twitter, I know, so

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Speaker 1: am I yeah for now till anything changes, all right,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining me today.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 7: Sherylyn, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 6: Betthew Saturday all.

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Speaker 2: Right, yes, you too. All right.

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Speaker 1: Coming up on the show, we are going to talk

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Speaker 1: about Oh gosh, we have so much to talk about.

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Speaker 2: Still speak, you know me? Speaking of Twitter.

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Speaker 1: Twitter's got a new CEO, Linda Jacharino. That's really all

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Speaker 1: there is to mention about that. Linda came from NBC Universal.

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Speaker 1: She was advertising chief there and now in a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks she will take over as CEO of Twitter.

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Speaker 2: We'll see what changes happened there.

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Speaker 1: Coming up, I'll talk about Apple bringing Final Cut Pro

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Speaker 1: to the iPad.

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Speaker 2: Finally, welcome back to Rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology, listening

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Speaker 1: to some country music because the show is originating from Austin,

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Speaker 1: Texas this weekend. Yep, I'm here for a country fest.

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Speaker 1: iHeart country fest. Triple eight Rich one oh one eight

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

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Speaker 1: I've been to Austin many times for South by Southwest.

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Speaker 1: This is the big music and interactive and what was

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Speaker 1: it music, film and interactive.

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Speaker 2: I always went for the tech part.

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Speaker 1: And they've launched a lot of apps here, a lot

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Speaker 1: of a lot of big apps launched here. I believe

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Speaker 1: Twitter's square like a lot of these things originally started

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Speaker 1: at south By Southwest where they showed them off to

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Speaker 1: the world. Let's go to Sam in Hemmett, California. Sam,

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Speaker 1: you're on with rich Sam?

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Speaker 2: Are you there?

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Speaker 6: Yes?

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Speaker 9: I am, sir. Thanks for taking my call.

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Speaker 2: Well, thanks for calling in. What can I help you with?

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Speaker 6: Okay?

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Speaker 9: I have an old phone that I'm about ready to

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Speaker 9: just get rid of, but there are some games on

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Speaker 9: there that I would like to save the progress on.

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Speaker 9: They just cannot be attached to anything like Facebook or Twitter.

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Speaker 9: I'm curious if I can if I put them onto

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Speaker 9: a micro s D card, could I transfer them from

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Speaker 9: the old device to a new one?

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Speaker 1: Well potentially, so, I mean the way that I mean,

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Speaker 1: you'd have to get all the data along with the game,

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Speaker 1: right and can you do that?

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Speaker 2: Are you sure you can?

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Speaker 1: You can move the game data and like the actual

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Speaker 1: they call it on Android and APK, but can you

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Speaker 1: grab that along with the data?

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Speaker 2: Do you know if you're able to do that?

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Speaker 9: I'm not a real tip savvy person, and so the

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Speaker 9: best I could do is just tell you a little

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Speaker 9: bit about each of the phones. The old one that

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Speaker 9: I want the data off of I use in much

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Speaker 9: the same way a person would use a tablet computer

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Speaker 9: and it is a Samsung Galaxy a ten E on

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Speaker 9: a three G system, and I want to move it

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Speaker 9: from and I want to move it to a Google

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Speaker 9: Pixel that's on five G.

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Speaker 2: Okay, And are you trying to what are you trying

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Speaker 2: to do? Exactly? What's you know? Because you can you

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Speaker 2: want to keep the game.

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Speaker 9: From Yeah, I want to keep my games and the

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Speaker 9: progress through those games, okay, and take them from the

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Speaker 9: Samsung and put them into the Google Pixel.

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Speaker 2: Okay. So now number one, A lot of this depends.

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Speaker 1: So if you you've tried to have you tried to

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Speaker 1: install the game on the new phone and see if

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Speaker 1: it picks up where you left.

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Speaker 9: Off, Yes, and it won't do it.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: I was wondering that because some games, you know, it

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Speaker 1: depends on the game's If it's a game that's relying

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01:10:07,320 --> 01:10:10,240
Speaker 1: on a cloud sync, it's going to just pick up

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Speaker 1: where you left off. For instance, I've got the Pokemon

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01:10:13,840 --> 01:10:16,960
Speaker 1: all right. Sorry, the Paradot game installed on two phones

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01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:19,800
Speaker 1: and it's pretty much synked between the two phones. But

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01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:22,479
Speaker 1: that's a newer game. So these obviously, since these are

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01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:24,960
Speaker 1: on an old three G phone, these are much older games.

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Speaker 1: I doubt that they have any sort of cloud sinking

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01:10:29,120 --> 01:10:33,599
Speaker 1: involved in these things. So I would say, try there's

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01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:36,559
Speaker 1: a there's an app. Gosh, I've used it so long ago,

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01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:38,880
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure it's still around, but it's like

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01:10:38,920 --> 01:10:40,880
Speaker 1: a backup app. There's a couple of them on the

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Speaker 1: Google Play Store. One of them is that I used

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Speaker 1: to use as Titanium backup, and I'm just not sure

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Speaker 1: it's been updated recently, because a lot of these things

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Speaker 1: are so like you just don't need them anymore.

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Speaker 2: But that's what I was. Yeah, the last time.

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Speaker 1: This was updated, Oh gosh, this shows you how old

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Speaker 1: this thing is November twenty four, twenty nineteen. But there

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Speaker 1: are some apps that will help you back up from

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Speaker 1: Google Play or from one phone to another. So I

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Speaker 1: would try one of those and see if you can

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Speaker 1: just grab the you know, go into the app. It

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Speaker 1: should give you a list of all of the different

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Speaker 1: apps installed in that phone, and then you select the

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Speaker 1: app that you want to transfer over.

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Speaker 2: It will either upload it to.

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Speaker 1: The cloud, or you can transfer it, like you said,

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Speaker 1: to a little flash drive at the bottom of the

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Speaker 1: phone and then plug it into the new phone and

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Speaker 1: carry that over.

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Speaker 2: But I'm not sure if all that data is going

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Speaker 2: to come over.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's it's you know, it really sort of

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Speaker 1: depends on how that game is architected and figured out.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 9: Among them is the Bejewel game series.

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Speaker 2: M that's okay, yeah, what else are you playing there?

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Speaker 9: There's Checkers, Solitaire, Mageong, yacht Ti.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So it sounds like you have a whole bunch of

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Speaker 2: these things.

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Speaker 1: So if if these if these games are linked to

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Speaker 1: Google Play, if you can go into the settings and

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Speaker 1: link them to any sort of account, I think that

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Speaker 1: they would transfer over something like Bejeweled, especially because that's

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Speaker 1: a that's a very popular game. And these these whether

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Speaker 1: you're on Android or Apple, they both have these sort

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Speaker 1: of game center things. And if you ever launch a

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Speaker 1: game and it says like game center.

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Speaker 9: Okay, they're both. They're both Android phones. I prefer Android

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Speaker 9: to Apple. Apple I think is more overrated than it

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Speaker 9: really is. Okay, well that's to me, it's a better one.

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Speaker 1: It's funny I've been using I went to the Google

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Speaker 1: event this week and I kind of retook a look

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Speaker 1: at the Google Pixel seven. So I've been using that

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Speaker 1: for a couple of days, and the difference between these

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Speaker 1: operating systems is so apparent. And the best way I

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Speaker 1: can put it is this Apple really and Apple's great.

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Speaker 1: I think, look, there's Apple is a amazing A lot

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Speaker 1: of people use Apple products and iPhones. It's it's kind

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Speaker 1: of like a standard issue here in America. But everything

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Speaker 1: on Apple sort of pushes you to use Apple stuff

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Speaker 1: right the way that Apple wants you to do things.

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Speaker 1: And I've noticed with Google just using the last couple

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Speaker 1: of days again from a fresh start, by the way,

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Speaker 1: that it really just gives you a lot of options

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Speaker 1: on how to do things and it doesn't necessarily push

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Speaker 1: you to one particular way of doing things. And so

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Speaker 1: I can understand that some people may like that, and

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01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:32,920
Speaker 1: you know, may like that approach a little bit better

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01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:35,760
Speaker 1: than the Apple approach. Apple stuff works, and it works

1517
01:13:35,800 --> 01:13:37,840
Speaker 1: really well, and it's very simple because of that.

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01:13:38,360 --> 01:13:39,400
Speaker 2: But a lot of times they.

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01:13:39,360 --> 01:13:42,120
Speaker 1: Will just sort of push you towards their products, you know,

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01:13:42,120 --> 01:13:45,240
Speaker 1: whether it's Apple Maps, whether it's Safari, whether it's you know,

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01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:47,640
Speaker 1: Apple Mail. People just use the default apps that are

1522
01:13:47,640 --> 01:13:49,840
Speaker 1: built into the phone, and you know, they may stray

1523
01:13:49,920 --> 01:13:53,240
Speaker 1: if they if they feel like they know something better

1524
01:13:53,320 --> 01:13:54,960
Speaker 1: or they know how to do it better, but otherwise

1525
01:13:54,960 --> 01:13:57,120
Speaker 1: they just kind of build it in. But Sam, to

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01:13:57,120 --> 01:13:59,080
Speaker 1: answer your question, I think that it's a matter of

1527
01:13:59,160 --> 01:14:03,960
Speaker 1: trying this download if you haven't downloaded this already. There's

1528
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:07,840
Speaker 1: an app on Google called the Google Play Games app.

1529
01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:10,559
Speaker 1: Install that on the old phone and the new phone,

1530
01:14:10,960 --> 01:14:12,960
Speaker 1: and that may help save some.

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01:14:12,920 --> 01:14:15,439
Speaker 2: Of your progress in these games. But that's that's what

1532
01:14:15,479 --> 01:14:15,920
Speaker 2: I would do.

1533
01:14:16,600 --> 01:14:19,840
Speaker 1: And you can try one of these backup utilities, like

1534
01:14:19,880 --> 01:14:22,759
Speaker 1: a Titanium backup or some sort of backup and restore

1535
01:14:23,320 --> 01:14:26,280
Speaker 1: utility to see if that can get the game from

1536
01:14:26,360 --> 01:14:27,400
Speaker 1: one phone to another.

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01:14:27,880 --> 01:14:30,760
Speaker 2: But I don't know. I haven't done that before. And

1538
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:31,840
Speaker 2: most of the games that.

1539
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:35,120
Speaker 1: I've played are just sort of cloud based and pretty casual,

1540
01:14:35,240 --> 01:14:38,360
Speaker 1: so and I'm not a big gamer on these casual

1541
01:14:38,400 --> 01:14:40,160
Speaker 1: games to begin with, so that's not even something that

1542
01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:43,600
Speaker 1: I'm totally doing all the time. But great question, Sam,

1543
01:14:43,640 --> 01:14:46,559
Speaker 1: And congrats on the new Pixel. That's a fantastic phone,

1544
01:14:46,920 --> 01:14:49,240
Speaker 1: one of my favorites. All right, coming up, we'll talk

1545
01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:52,120
Speaker 1: about oh Apple bringing Final Cut Pro to the iPad,

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01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:54,360
Speaker 1: plus more of your calls at Triple eight rich one

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01:14:54,360 --> 01:14:57,400
Speaker 1: on one eight eight eight seven four to two four

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01:14:57,439 --> 01:15:01,120
Speaker 1: to one zero one three of rich On Tech.

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01:15:01,160 --> 01:15:01,760
Speaker 2: Come in your way.

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01:15:04,680 --> 01:15:07,960
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking

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01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:12,479
Speaker 1: technology at Triple eight rich one oh one eight eight

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01:15:12,600 --> 01:15:17,840
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. Coming

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01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:21,519
Speaker 1: to you today from Austin, Texas. Welcome to our number

1554
01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 1: three of the show. I mentioned earlier in the show

1555
01:15:24,840 --> 01:15:27,719
Speaker 1: that one of the cool things about the hotel room

1556
01:15:27,800 --> 01:15:30,760
Speaker 1: I'm staying in is that it has a record player,

1557
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:31,800
Speaker 1: which I thought was kind of neat.

1558
01:15:31,840 --> 01:15:34,639
Speaker 2: And they've got a little record not a.

1559
01:15:34,520 --> 01:15:37,240
Speaker 1: Store, but almost like a record library where you can

1560
01:15:37,320 --> 01:15:39,679
Speaker 1: check out some cool records, and they have a curator

1561
01:15:39,680 --> 01:15:41,400
Speaker 1: there that can help you pick out some stuff. So

1562
01:15:41,439 --> 01:15:44,479
Speaker 1: we did this, but I will tell you last night

1563
01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:48,600
Speaker 1: it was raining. It was raining really hard here in Austin, Texas,

1564
01:15:48,760 --> 01:15:52,840
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of dripping sounds outside the room. Well,

1565
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:55,160
Speaker 1: there was sort of this clicking sound all night long,

1566
01:15:55,800 --> 01:15:59,559
Speaker 1: and at one point I thought it was the dripping

1567
01:15:59,600 --> 01:16:01,559
Speaker 1: of the rain outside. And at one point it just

1568
01:16:01,560 --> 01:16:04,479
Speaker 1: seemed way too like regular to be dripping of rain,

1569
01:16:04,520 --> 01:16:06,200
Speaker 1: and it just seemed to go on way too long,

1570
01:16:07,040 --> 01:16:10,439
Speaker 1: and it occurred to me that the record player was

1571
01:16:10,479 --> 01:16:13,600
Speaker 1: still on, so I had you forget and it just

1572
01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:15,719
Speaker 1: happened to me again, which is why I'm telling the story.

1573
01:16:16,640 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 2: The record player.

1574
01:16:17,520 --> 01:16:20,240
Speaker 1: When it's done playing the I guess the needle just

1575
01:16:20,240 --> 01:16:22,599
Speaker 1: goes to the middle and it just stays there and

1576
01:16:22,640 --> 01:16:24,920
Speaker 1: just like kind of clicks and just you know, I

1577
01:16:24,960 --> 01:16:27,120
Speaker 1: don't know anyway, So last night, in the middle of

1578
01:16:27,160 --> 01:16:29,400
Speaker 1: the night, I was like, Oh my gosh, this this

1579
01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:32,599
Speaker 1: record player has been on for hours, just kind of

1580
01:16:32,640 --> 01:16:35,479
Speaker 1: circling around and clicking and clicking and clicking.

1581
01:16:35,600 --> 01:16:37,320
Speaker 2: So I guess that's one.

1582
01:16:37,160 --> 01:16:40,760
Speaker 1: Of the uh analog technology a little bit different than

1583
01:16:41,360 --> 01:16:43,800
Speaker 1: you know, the new digital options we have out there.

1584
01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:46,120
Speaker 1: So that threw me for a loop last night. But

1585
01:16:46,200 --> 01:16:48,439
Speaker 1: I'm still all in on the record situation. I think

1586
01:16:48,439 --> 01:16:49,120
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool.

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01:16:50,479 --> 01:16:55,360
Speaker 2: Let's go to Rich in Carol Stream, Illinois. Rich. You're

1588
01:16:55,400 --> 01:16:56,360
Speaker 2: on with Rich.

1589
01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:01,519
Speaker 3: Rich. Thank you paying well. I really do appreciate your show.

1590
01:17:02,479 --> 01:17:03,719
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening.

1591
01:17:04,840 --> 01:17:07,719
Speaker 3: I've got a strange question. I wasn't trying to word

1592
01:17:07,720 --> 01:17:12,479
Speaker 3: it properly. I've got all my music files that you'll record,

1593
01:17:12,560 --> 01:17:13,880
Speaker 3: my CDs recorded.

1594
01:17:13,560 --> 01:17:14,639
Speaker 6: To my PC.

1595
01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:18,639
Speaker 3: I've got at least ten thousand to ten to eleven

1596
01:17:18,680 --> 01:17:22,480
Speaker 3: thousand songs on my PC and that was the iPad.

1597
01:17:22,920 --> 01:17:26,639
Speaker 3: I mean the iPod is discontinued, I believe, or it's

1598
01:17:26,680 --> 01:17:32,559
Speaker 3: no longer and the use is there a because I'm wondering,

1599
01:17:32,680 --> 01:17:34,760
Speaker 3: is there a way for me to listen to my

1600
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:39,960
Speaker 3: music without anything relying on my PC? Because to port

1601
01:17:40,080 --> 01:17:42,600
Speaker 3: you know, to enjoy these songs on the go, like

1602
01:17:43,760 --> 01:17:46,080
Speaker 3: take them, you know, you know, take them as a portable.

1603
01:17:46,320 --> 01:17:49,640
Speaker 3: Is there like a replacement for an iPod that I

1604
01:17:49,640 --> 01:17:55,519
Speaker 3: could maybe perhaps consider transfer these files to the device

1605
01:17:56,240 --> 01:17:56,920
Speaker 3: of some sort.

1606
01:17:57,640 --> 01:18:00,000
Speaker 2: Oh good question. Now what do you mean what kind

1607
01:18:00,120 --> 01:18:01,680
Speaker 2: of device like your iPhone.

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01:18:01,360 --> 01:18:04,519
Speaker 3: Or what well I want to use or if.

1609
01:18:04,439 --> 01:18:07,040
Speaker 2: You want to use the files that you have somewhere else.

1610
01:18:07,160 --> 01:18:12,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, the files on my PC, my Windows PC.

1611
01:18:13,120 --> 01:18:15,879
Speaker 3: But I don't I just I don't have an iPhone.

1612
01:18:15,920 --> 01:18:23,200
Speaker 3: I just have my my my S twenty one Galaxy.

1613
01:18:23,240 --> 01:18:26,840
Speaker 2: But what about just loading them directly onto the phone?

1614
01:18:29,479 --> 01:18:33,519
Speaker 3: Like what ten thousand songs really don't I'm not really

1615
01:18:33,560 --> 01:18:37,080
Speaker 3: well versed in terms of I may tarms of what

1616
01:18:37,240 --> 01:18:39,200
Speaker 3: ten thousand songs can eat up a lot of memory

1617
01:18:39,280 --> 01:18:41,360
Speaker 3: on a on an Android phone.

1618
01:18:42,280 --> 01:18:44,519
Speaker 1: Uh well, I mean if you have an S twenty one,

1619
01:18:45,439 --> 01:18:47,320
Speaker 1: you know you've got a bunch of storage on there.

1620
01:18:47,360 --> 01:18:49,640
Speaker 1: You can put a subset of those songs. I mean,

1621
01:18:49,680 --> 01:18:51,920
Speaker 1: if each MP three is about you know, let's say

1622
01:18:51,920 --> 01:18:56,040
Speaker 1: it's three megabytes, four megabytes. If you got ten thousand,

1623
01:18:56,080 --> 01:18:59,000
Speaker 1: you want to put all ten thousand times four, that's

1624
01:18:59,200 --> 01:19:03,240
Speaker 1: forty thousand megabytes. You know, that's a couple gigs right there.

1625
01:19:03,240 --> 01:19:05,519
Speaker 1: That's not too bad. I mean, that's that's something that's

1626
01:19:05,640 --> 01:19:10,439
Speaker 1: that's doable. There are there were in the past. Google

1627
01:19:11,040 --> 01:19:14,400
Speaker 1: had a system where you could upload your songs into

1628
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:18,200
Speaker 1: something like Google Music Manager I think it was called,

1629
01:19:19,160 --> 01:19:22,000
Speaker 1: and you could you could upload all of your songs

1630
01:19:22,040 --> 01:19:25,320
Speaker 1: into there and then you can play them from any device.

1631
01:19:25,560 --> 01:19:29,160
Speaker 1: But I'm not sure that that's around anymore. Yeah, it

1632
01:19:29,160 --> 01:19:33,439
Speaker 1: looks like it was. Uh, looks like it was discontinued. Yeah, Google.

1633
01:19:33,479 --> 01:19:36,400
Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, I think that was gone. H Google

1634
01:19:36,439 --> 01:19:39,720
Speaker 1: play music Cloud. Yeah, this is something that you know,

1635
01:19:39,720 --> 01:19:41,800
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this article. It's like from ten years ago.

1636
01:19:41,920 --> 01:19:43,479
Speaker 1: That was back in the day where you could you

1637
01:19:43,520 --> 01:19:47,800
Speaker 1: could physically upload all of your music. The other thing

1638
01:19:47,840 --> 01:19:49,800
Speaker 1: you could do is you could potentially maybe upload it

1639
01:19:49,840 --> 01:19:52,840
Speaker 1: something like Dropbox and then listen to it through there

1640
01:19:52,920 --> 01:19:56,040
Speaker 1: on the on a cloud player on your phone. I

1641
01:19:56,040 --> 01:19:58,000
Speaker 1: should know a better answer to this, because I feel

1642
01:19:58,080 --> 01:20:00,360
Speaker 1: like there's something that's simple that I'm just not thinking

1643
01:20:00,439 --> 01:20:02,760
Speaker 1: about right off the top of my head here. But

1644
01:20:02,920 --> 01:20:04,760
Speaker 1: I know this was something that was popular a couple

1645
01:20:04,800 --> 01:20:06,679
Speaker 1: of years ago, but now, of course, with the advent

1646
01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:10,400
Speaker 1: of these streaming services, there's just not really a lot

1647
01:20:10,400 --> 01:20:11,800
Speaker 1: of other options.

1648
01:20:11,320 --> 01:20:12,120
Speaker 2: That are left.

1649
01:20:13,479 --> 01:20:17,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I would say I would just upload these

1650
01:20:17,640 --> 01:20:19,679
Speaker 1: to your phone and just have them on your phone

1651
01:20:19,720 --> 01:20:21,200
Speaker 1: and maybe make a couple playlists.

1652
01:20:21,200 --> 01:20:23,720
Speaker 2: Maybe don't do all ten thousand. I mean you could

1653
01:20:23,720 --> 01:20:24,000
Speaker 2: see it.

1654
01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:26,439
Speaker 1: I mean, go on their computer and see how much

1655
01:20:26,479 --> 01:20:29,760
Speaker 1: that those ten thousand songs are taking up on the

1656
01:20:29,760 --> 01:20:33,000
Speaker 1: hard drive, and then go to your Android phone, see

1657
01:20:33,000 --> 01:20:36,439
Speaker 1: how much storage you have, and then transfer, you know,

1658
01:20:36,800 --> 01:20:38,800
Speaker 1: a subset of them or all of them if you

1659
01:20:38,840 --> 01:20:43,240
Speaker 1: have enough storage. Now, the S twenty one, Does the

1660
01:20:43,320 --> 01:20:46,880
Speaker 1: S twenty one have an SD card slot or no?

1661
01:20:47,360 --> 01:20:50,080
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember when they discontinued that.

1662
01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:55,839
Speaker 3: I'll be yes, I haven't looked at I have to

1663
01:20:55,360 --> 01:20:56,960
Speaker 3: go to verify that.

1664
01:20:57,600 --> 01:21:00,280
Speaker 1: No, I'm looking at an article and it's the twenty

1665
01:21:00,320 --> 01:21:03,160
Speaker 1: one was when they did away with it, So okay, Yeah,

1666
01:21:03,200 --> 01:21:05,759
Speaker 1: some of the older Samsungs had the SD card slot,

1667
01:21:05,800 --> 01:21:09,280
Speaker 1: but the S twenty one did not. That's yeah, because

1668
01:21:09,280 --> 01:21:10,960
Speaker 1: I would say otherwise you could just put it on

1669
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:14,120
Speaker 1: an SD card and just throw that into your phone.

1670
01:21:14,160 --> 01:21:15,679
Speaker 2: And now you've got all your music on there.

1671
01:21:17,200 --> 01:21:17,639
Speaker 3: I see.

1672
01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:20,360
Speaker 1: I'm coming up with a lot of a lot of

1673
01:21:20,439 --> 01:21:24,000
Speaker 1: dead ends to this. What what kind of music? How

1674
01:21:24,040 --> 01:21:27,400
Speaker 1: did you amass this collection just through the years?

1675
01:21:27,439 --> 01:21:31,840
Speaker 3: I just you know, record you know, just uh copy

1676
01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:35,920
Speaker 3: my CD collections my PC over the years, and yeah,

1677
01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:38,599
Speaker 3: I just saved it over the years from my PC,

1678
01:21:38,800 --> 01:21:42,960
Speaker 3: one PC to another, and and some of my collective CDs.

1679
01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:46,840
Speaker 3: That's it. You'll be bigging from the nineteen eighties, mid

1680
01:21:46,960 --> 01:21:50,080
Speaker 3: nineteen eighties. So I've got to at least ten to

1681
01:21:50,120 --> 01:21:53,519
Speaker 3: eleven thousand songs by now, maybe a few donald. I

1682
01:21:53,520 --> 01:21:56,880
Speaker 3: don't really download it much material. Mostly it's just from

1683
01:21:56,880 --> 01:21:57,719
Speaker 3: the hard copy.

1684
01:21:59,760 --> 01:22:03,000
Speaker 1: I'm looking at some of these alternatives to these things,

1685
01:22:03,040 --> 01:22:07,040
Speaker 1: and I'm just not really finding a ton of things

1686
01:22:07,040 --> 01:22:10,720
Speaker 1: that you can do. Now here's the thing. It's interesting

1687
01:22:10,760 --> 01:22:12,479
Speaker 1: because there is so it used to be that you

1688
01:22:12,520 --> 01:22:17,479
Speaker 1: could upload a bunch of songs into this Google you know,

1689
01:22:17,840 --> 01:22:22,760
Speaker 1: this music manager, and I'm wondering if if Google still

1690
01:22:22,840 --> 01:22:26,439
Speaker 1: lets you do that with their YouTube music which they've

1691
01:22:26,600 --> 01:22:30,320
Speaker 1: they've now switched to, but I'm just not seeing the

1692
01:22:30,439 --> 01:22:31,479
Speaker 1: ability to do that.

1693
01:22:31,640 --> 01:22:34,120
Speaker 2: Oh wait, here we go, hold on, upload music, hold on,

1694
01:22:34,680 --> 01:22:37,479
Speaker 2: Oh we got it. Okay, So here's a solution.

1695
01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:41,759
Speaker 1: They did switch it over music dot YouTube dot com

1696
01:22:42,160 --> 01:22:43,800
Speaker 1: and if you go to your profile on the upper

1697
01:22:43,840 --> 01:22:46,160
Speaker 1: right hand corner, it says upload music. So it looks

1698
01:22:46,160 --> 01:22:48,479
Speaker 1: like you can upload your music there and then use

1699
01:22:48,560 --> 01:22:51,280
Speaker 1: the YouTube music player on your phone to play the

1700
01:22:51,320 --> 01:22:53,840
Speaker 1: songs that you own. So I would go to this

1701
01:22:54,360 --> 01:22:58,400
Speaker 1: music dot YouTube dot com and then sign in. And

1702
01:22:58,479 --> 01:22:59,800
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you have to be paid or

1703
01:22:59,800 --> 01:23:01,720
Speaker 1: not this I am paid on this, so I do

1704
01:23:01,800 --> 01:23:04,000
Speaker 1: have a membership. I'm not sure if that matters or not.

1705
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:07,799
Speaker 1: But you can go and check out hit your profile

1706
01:23:07,800 --> 01:23:10,040
Speaker 1: on the upper right hand corner. It says upload music.

1707
01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:12,439
Speaker 1: Drag a couple of MP threes in there, just to

1708
01:23:12,479 --> 01:23:14,679
Speaker 1: try it out, and then go to your phone, open

1709
01:23:14,760 --> 01:23:16,760
Speaker 1: up the YouTube music app and see if that lets

1710
01:23:16,760 --> 01:23:19,360
Speaker 1: you do it. But it seems like it's still there,

1711
01:23:19,439 --> 01:23:23,599
Speaker 1: at least on my end here, so that's actually pretty cool.

1712
01:23:24,760 --> 01:23:29,880
Speaker 3: I'll go, I'll definitely I'll play with that and see

1713
01:23:29,880 --> 01:23:30,839
Speaker 3: if it works. Solfully.

1714
01:23:31,400 --> 01:23:33,439
Speaker 1: Okay, so you got you got the directions down right.

1715
01:23:33,680 --> 01:23:36,840
Speaker 1: You go to music dot YouTube dot Com, go to

1716
01:23:36,920 --> 01:23:39,240
Speaker 1: the upper right hand corner, tap your profile and it

1717
01:23:39,240 --> 01:23:42,559
Speaker 1: says upload music. Drag a couple of MP threes in there,

1718
01:23:42,760 --> 01:23:44,960
Speaker 1: get them uploaded. And then once you have them on there,

1719
01:23:45,080 --> 01:23:48,360
Speaker 1: open up the YouTube music app on your phone and

1720
01:23:48,600 --> 01:23:50,880
Speaker 1: it should have a section of your own music in

1721
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:54,120
Speaker 1: your library, and press play and see what happens there.

1722
01:23:55,439 --> 01:23:57,439
Speaker 3: I'll give it a shut rich. Thank you so much

1723
01:23:57,479 --> 01:23:57,960
Speaker 3: for your time.

1724
01:23:58,479 --> 01:24:02,080
Speaker 1: All right, I appreciate I've heard of Carol Stream Illinois

1725
01:24:02,120 --> 01:24:04,200
Speaker 1: so many times. What's what are they famous for? Was

1726
01:24:04,200 --> 01:24:06,559
Speaker 1: that like we're like Columbia like music? Like what was

1727
01:24:06,640 --> 01:24:08,559
Speaker 1: What's in Carol Stream Illinois that I know of?

1728
01:24:08,960 --> 01:24:10,519
Speaker 2: Is that like a big customer service.

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Speaker 3: Uh, Billy Corgan went to high school and Carol Streams.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's what I was thinking of,

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Speaker 1: But I love this. I love the Smashing Pumpkins just

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Speaker 1: as much as the next person. But I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: that was what it was.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're a western suburb of Chicago. We're about Miles's Chicago.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's just where I send all the all my

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Speaker 1: bills back in the day to Carroll's.

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Speaker 3: That makes sense because there is a major post office

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Speaker 3: about here, and uh, that's where a lot of bills

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Speaker 3: are being sent and you know, distribute area to the

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Speaker 3: local area.

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Speaker 1: I sent many of my bills there back in the day.

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Speaker 1: All right, Rich, thanks so much for calling in today.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Uh, coming up more of your calls at

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

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Speaker 1: four to four to one zero one. Lots more to

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Speaker 1: talk about on the show. I'm gonna tell you about

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Speaker 1: a major change that Lift is making if you like

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01:25:06,439 --> 01:25:09,639
Speaker 1: to take cheap rides with them. Plus, we've got the

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Speaker 1: best anti virus program, so if you're wondering what the

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Speaker 1: best anti virus program is, we'll talk about that as well. Plus,

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Speaker 1: you can go to the website rich on tech dot

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01:25:19,640 --> 01:25:21,439
Speaker 1: tv if you want to see some of the stuff

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01:25:21,439 --> 01:25:22,479
Speaker 1: that I do for television.

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01:25:22,520 --> 01:25:23,200
Speaker 2: You can watch my.

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01:25:23,160 --> 01:25:26,519
Speaker 1: Stories there, and of course I post the podcast version

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01:25:26,600 --> 01:25:27,479
Speaker 1: of this show there.

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Speaker 2: Once it's done. You're listening to Rich on Tech. My

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Speaker 2: name is Rich Dumurro.

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Speaker 1: Will have more of your calls coming up next and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk Zelda. It's all coming up right here.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here enjoying

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Speaker 1: one of the artists that will be at the iHeart

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Speaker 1: Country Fest, Luke Brian, one of my wife's favorites.

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Speaker 2: You know that she were at breakfast and she said

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Speaker 2: that the thought of meeting Luke.

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Speaker 1: Brian brought tier to her eyes, and I mean literally,

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Speaker 1: like this is someone that she absolutely loves. And I said, well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's gonna happen, But I don't know,

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Speaker 1: do I just like step aside, like what's the what

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Speaker 1: do I do? I don't know because I I tears

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Speaker 1: to her eyes. Wow, that's uh, that's.

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Speaker 2: A lot.

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Speaker 1: Triple eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven four

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. I've met a lot of

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Speaker 1: people in my life, and I don't know if anyone's

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Speaker 1: ever brought tears to my eyes just the idea of

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Speaker 1: meeting them. But I'm in for something, that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: Apple is bringing Final Cut Pro to the iPad. This

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01:26:37,120 --> 01:26:41,000
Speaker 1: is very exciting for mobile creators. This is a brand

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Speaker 1: new version of Final Cut Pro with a touch interface.

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Speaker 1: So it's got this new tool that they call, uh,

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Speaker 1: well it's nothing new. I mean, it's it's a new tool.

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Speaker 2: For final cut.

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Speaker 1: But the idea if it's not new it's a jog wheel,

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01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:57,160
Speaker 1: but it's digital, so that means you can, you know,

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Speaker 1: since there's it's all touch on the editing, you know,

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Speaker 1: this is a way to like kind of fine tune

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Speaker 1: how you're editing things and editing clips. It's got a

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Speaker 1: magnetic timeline. You can move clips around with just a

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Speaker 1: tap of a finger. It's got multi touch. This is

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Speaker 1: the coolest feature though to me, because I've been trying.

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Speaker 1: I was trying to figure out how to do this

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Speaker 1: years ago on the iPad. Use the pencil. It's a

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Speaker 1: feature called live drawing, which lets you use the pencil,

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Speaker 1: the Apple pencil to draw graphics on your video. So

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Speaker 1: let's say you're doing like one of those cool travel vlogs.

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Speaker 1: You know, you can write with the Apple pencil on

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Speaker 1: the sky and then it will be animated exactly how

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Speaker 1: you wrote it. Now, if you have terrible handwriting like myself,

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Speaker 1: it probably wouldn't look very good. But if you have

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Speaker 1: nice handwriting, this is such a cool, unique way to

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Speaker 1: make some animations.

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Speaker 2: And so that's one of the features.

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Speaker 1: The other feature that they talk about is multiicam video,

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01:27:55,000 --> 01:27:57,960
Speaker 1: so they showed a demo where you can shoot multiicam

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Speaker 1: video and just tap your finger to switch between.

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Speaker 2: The cameras, which is really neat.

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Speaker 1: It also takes advantage of the Apple Silicon, the really

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Speaker 1: fast processors inside the new iPads. By the way, you

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Speaker 1: need at least an Apple M one chip inside the

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Speaker 1: iPad to use this, and really M two to get

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Speaker 1: like the best use case scenario. But they also have

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Speaker 1: this scene removal mask, so you know how you need

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Speaker 1: a green screen to remove the background typically in something

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01:28:28,920 --> 01:28:31,040
Speaker 1: that you shoot, well you don't even need a green screen.

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01:28:31,080 --> 01:28:33,559
Speaker 1: You can literally just say remove the background, and this

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01:28:33,840 --> 01:28:35,880
Speaker 1: system is so smart that it will be able to

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Speaker 1: figure out what the background is and remove it. That

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Speaker 1: is really cool. There's also an autocrop feature that will

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Speaker 1: adjust your footage for vertical, square or other aspect ratios.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is really cool. It also has professional

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Speaker 1: soundtracks that automatically adjust to the length of a video,

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Speaker 1: and you can start a project on the iPad and

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Speaker 1: then move it to Final cut pro on your computer

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Speaker 1: to finish it.

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Speaker 2: Now I get it.

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Speaker 1: This is mostly for either creative professionals or mobile professionals

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Speaker 1: or influencers, so not necessarily the average person that's going

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01:29:10,600 --> 01:29:13,280
Speaker 1: to be using this, but I think more will because

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01:29:13,560 --> 01:29:17,600
Speaker 1: it's more accessible. A final cut on the desktop was

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01:29:17,600 --> 01:29:20,559
Speaker 1: like a several hundred dollars program. This will be five

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Speaker 1: dollars a month or fifty dollars for the year. And

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Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of people that are asking,

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01:29:26,640 --> 01:29:28,760
Speaker 1: are kind of complaining about the fact that this is

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Speaker 1: now subscription and they don't like that. But the reality is,

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Speaker 1: I think that we've gotten so accustomed to subscriptions. Five

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Speaker 1: dollars a month, free trial for a month. I think

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Speaker 1: it's going to get a lot more people to try

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01:29:40,760 --> 01:29:44,120
Speaker 1: this out. Logic Pro is also coming to iPad, but

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Speaker 1: since I don't really use that, I know it's for

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Speaker 1: more audio editing.

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Speaker 2: I just don't use that.

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Speaker 1: So if you're into that, you'll be excited for that

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Speaker 1: as well. Let's see antivirus programs. So this this is

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01:30:00,320 --> 01:30:05,280
Speaker 1: from this website that I really like called av test.

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Speaker 1: Whenever people ask me, like, hey, Rich, what's the best

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01:30:07,280 --> 01:30:10,759
Speaker 1: antivirus program for my computer? I always say Windows Defender

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01:30:10,840 --> 01:30:13,120
Speaker 1: is pretty good because it's built in. Just activate it,

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01:30:13,200 --> 01:30:15,000
Speaker 1: make sure it's up to date, and that will protect

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Speaker 1: you from most of the big stuff. But av test

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01:30:18,200 --> 01:30:19,920
Speaker 1: is where I send you if you say, well, I

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01:30:19,960 --> 01:30:24,760
Speaker 1: want something else, something different. This is an independent organization

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01:30:25,280 --> 01:30:28,040
Speaker 1: that sort of looks at these different security programs and

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01:30:28,120 --> 01:30:30,679
Speaker 1: comes up with rankings. And they always have a great

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01:30:30,840 --> 01:30:35,440
Speaker 1: list of rankings on their website. It's av test, ava

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01:30:35,920 --> 01:30:39,639
Speaker 1: test dot org. And they do tests for all different systems,

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01:30:39,640 --> 01:30:45,439
Speaker 1: whether it is Mac, PC, Windows, sorry Android. You can

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Speaker 1: see what's top rated. Well, this is interesting because a

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Speaker 1: lot of people use Microsoft Defender. That's great, but it

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Speaker 1: turns out it uses up more system resources than some

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Speaker 1: other popular antivirus programs. So av test test did eighteen

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Speaker 1: different anti virus software for Windows ten. They tested the

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Speaker 1: programs around twelve thousand different malware samples mixed into one

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Speaker 1: point five million files to see which ones did the

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Speaker 1: best between differentiating between something bad and something good. The

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Speaker 1: eighteen security packages were from some big names like on

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Speaker 1: lab a, vast avg Bitdefender, Kespirski, malware Bytes, McAfee, Microsoft Defender, Norton.

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Speaker 1: They gave these things all kinds of different points for

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Speaker 1: their you know how they performed in different categories protection, performance,

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Speaker 1: and usability. So who came out on top, Well, the

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Speaker 1: highest system load in the test was generated by Windows

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Speaker 1: Defender Antivirus, which means this would take up the most

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Speaker 1: resources on your computer.

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01:31:49,280 --> 01:31:51,400
Speaker 2: Maybe use more battery, use more energy. Whatever.

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Speaker 1: The worst score was given to PC Mattic in the

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01:31:55,720 --> 01:31:58,880
Speaker 1: usability section. It got the lowest overall score. It also

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Speaker 1: found two dozen false positives and blocked a bunch of

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Speaker 1: applications that maybe you needed. Six products. Here's the best part.

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Speaker 1: This is the parts you need to know. Six products

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Speaker 1: got a perfect score of eighteen. So if you're looking

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Speaker 1: to install an anti virus program on your computer, these

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01:32:14,160 --> 01:32:19,559
Speaker 1: are the ones that they currently recommend. A Vira, which,

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01:32:19,600 --> 01:32:21,280
Speaker 1: by the way, those two are the same company at

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Speaker 1: this point, Bitdefender, g Data, Kasperski, and trend Micro.

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Speaker 2: So those are the.

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Speaker 1: Top six that got a perfect score of eighteen. And

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Speaker 1: by the way, Microsoft Defender was all the way down

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Speaker 1: to the bottom, almost.

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Speaker 2: Number I guess it came in at sixteen.

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Speaker 1: Norton and McAfee were right in the middle, so a Vastdavira,

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Speaker 1: those are the ones you want to install if you're

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Speaker 1: looking for a free antivirus program.

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01:32:48,760 --> 01:32:50,000
Speaker 2: I'll put the links on the website.

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Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot TV, all right, coming up, we're

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Speaker 1: going to talk Zelda and the new game for the

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Speaker 1: makers of POKEMONO. It's called Paradot. You're listening to rich

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

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Speaker 1: here talking technology with you at triple eight Rich one

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Speaker 1: oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two, four

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Speaker 1: to one zero one. So a couple of games came

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Speaker 1: out this week that are proving.

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Speaker 2: To be very popular. First off, Zelda.

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Speaker 1: This is a brand new Zelda game that is just

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Speaker 1: the highly anticipated sequel to a game that came out

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Speaker 1: many years ago, that launched with the switch in fact,

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01:33:34,040 --> 01:33:37,880
Speaker 1: and so everyone was downloading this at midnight on Thursday

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01:33:38,000 --> 01:33:41,679
Speaker 1: to play all day Friday and of course throughout the weekend.

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Speaker 1: So if you know a gamer in your life, they're

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Speaker 1: probably playing the Zelda game. There's also another game called Paradot,

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Speaker 1: which is from the makers of Pokemon GO, and so

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Speaker 1: that's another new game. Let's see, let's bring up Eric

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Speaker 1: Switcher from the gamer dot com. I'm not sure how

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Speaker 1: we're connecting with Eric, but do we have Eric?

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Speaker 9: I'm here?

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Speaker 2: Oh hey, Eric, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 6: Hi, thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: We're doing the show remote today, so everything is sort

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01:34:10,040 --> 01:34:12,760
Speaker 1: of well, I'm just all over the place. Everyone else

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01:34:12,840 --> 01:34:15,960
Speaker 1: is very professional and calm and cool and collected. But

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Speaker 1: I am I am just you know, it happens anyway.

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Speaker 1: So tell me about the Which game do you want

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Speaker 1: to start with? You want to start with Paradout or Zelda.

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Speaker 6: Let's start with Zelda.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So every single person on my timeline that is any

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Speaker 1: sort of gamer is was very, very excited for this

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Speaker 1: new Zelda game. So why are people so excited for

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Speaker 1: Zelda Tears.

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Speaker 2: Of the Kingdom.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So, like you mentioned, it is a sequel to

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Speaker 6: Breath of the Wild, which came out in twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 6: and Breath of the Wild is a pretty important game

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Speaker 6: in video game history. It's sold thirty million copies. It

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01:34:53,520 --> 01:34:57,360
Speaker 6: launched alongside the Nintendo Switch, so it kind of ushered

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Speaker 6: in the new generation of Nintendo, which has become the

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Speaker 6: biggest Nintendo council of all time. So there was a

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Speaker 6: lot of anticipation for this game, and Nintendo was very

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Speaker 6: secretive about it for the months leading up to it.

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Speaker 6: We really didn't know much about what the game would

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Speaker 6: have to offer. So it's just sort of a perfect

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Speaker 6: storm of coming off of a game that's so popular

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Speaker 6: and on a Council. That's so popular.

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Speaker 1: People were really excited about it, and so it's getting

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Speaker 1: like near perfect reviews.

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Speaker 2: Is that true?

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Speaker 6: Yeah? Yeah, I think the Metacritics score is at a

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Speaker 6: ninety six, which gets it tied for third highest rated

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Speaker 6: game of all time. There's quite a few games that

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Speaker 6: have in ninety six, but it is quite quite high.

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Speaker 2: And why do you think, I mean, what are people

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Speaker 2: saying about it? Why is it so good?

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Speaker 6: So there's a lot of new things that it has

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Speaker 6: coming off of Breath of the Wild. I think that

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Speaker 6: the big new feature that people are so excited about

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Speaker 6: is an ability that the character link has. It's called

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Speaker 6: ultrahand and it seems complicated, but what it really boils

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Speaker 6: down to is that you can take any objects in

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Speaker 6: the world and combine them together to make something new.

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Speaker 6: So it's really really unlocking people's creativity to invent new

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Speaker 6: machines and come up with interesting vehicles, and it helps

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Speaker 6: you to explore the world in creative ways.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's I mean you I love how you

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Speaker 1: said this is really complicated, but you made it sound

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Speaker 1: so easy. I mean you you explained it very well.

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Speaker 1: So that's a good job for explaining it. In that

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Speaker 1: simple way now.

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Speaker 6: And it is so easy to use. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 6: that the genius of it is that, you know, you

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Speaker 6: can make these really complicated vehicles and machines and stuff,

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Speaker 6: but it's a very intuitive and I think that's what

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Speaker 6: people are really grabbing onto.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: This is also the first Switch game that is at

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Speaker 1: a higher price point, right, isn't this this the first

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Speaker 1: seventy dollars game for the Switch?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's correct. That's a trend that the industry has

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Speaker 6: been moving in. PA started doing that with the launch

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Speaker 6: of the PS five. Xbox recently did that a couple

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Speaker 6: of weeks ago with the release of a game called Redfall.

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Speaker 6: So we're going to be seeing games come out at

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Speaker 6: seventy dollars pretty consistently from here on out.

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Speaker 1: But the reality is, if you're listening and you have

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Speaker 1: someone in your life that has a Switch and they

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Speaker 1: like games, do you recommend that they would get this

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Speaker 1: for a birthday gift or some sort of gift for

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Speaker 1: the gamer in their life.

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Speaker 6: Yeah? Absolutely. You know, the beauty of Zelda is the

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Speaker 6: way that it really crosses all ages. It's approachable for kids,

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Speaker 6: and it has so much depth for experienced gamers. Too.

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Speaker 6: It is a wonderful game, and it's also just sort

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Speaker 6: of a cultural moment that I think people want to

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Speaker 6: be a part of.

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Speaker 1: And when do you think we'll see a new Switch?

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Speaker 1: I mean, this thing is going on many, many years old.

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Speaker 1: They've come out with various versions of it throughout the years,

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Speaker 1: but it's all pretty much basically the same.

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Speaker 2: Do you think we're going to see a new Switch?

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Speaker 2: Maybe next year or no.

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Speaker 6: I think that's a pretty reasonable expectation. This has come

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Speaker 6: out to be the longest council generation Nintendo has ever had,

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Speaker 6: where we're coming up on seven years, and we've never

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Speaker 6: had to wait that long for a new Nintendo. So

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Speaker 6: I think it's pretty reasonable to assume we'll be seen

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Speaker 6: a new one next year.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we're talking with Eric Switzer. He is

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Speaker 1: the features editor at the gamer dot com and your

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Speaker 1: bio says that you specialize in Pokemon, So I imagine

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Speaker 1: you are a big Pokemon player. But now that you've

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Speaker 1: got this new game from the makers of Pokemon Go

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Speaker 1: called Paradot, So what can you tell me about this game?

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Speaker 1: Which I've been playing a little bit, but I'm still

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out what it's all about.

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Speaker 6: Okay, cool, Yeah, I've been playing a lot of paradigt too.

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Speaker 6: You know, it's pretty fascinating. Like you said, it's from

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Speaker 6: the creators of Pokemon Go is a company called Iontic

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Speaker 6: looking for their next big mobile game, and this is

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Speaker 6: a I guess you would call it a pet simulator.

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Speaker 6: Your audience might reach member of the Tamagatchi key chains

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Speaker 6: in the nineties, when kids would walk around training their

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Speaker 6: little pets and feeding them and playing with them. This

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Speaker 6: is sort of a modern evolution of that idea. So

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Speaker 6: it's an augmented reality game, which means that you play

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Speaker 6: it on your phone. Through your camera lens, you're looking

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Speaker 6: at the real world, and then the game puts in

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Speaker 6: virtual objects into your frame. So you have a virtual

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Speaker 6: pet that can go on walks with you. You can

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Speaker 6: feed it and play with it, and it's all through

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Speaker 6: the lens of your camera.

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Speaker 1: And it's neat because I was looking at it. Because

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Speaker 1: it's augmented reality, it says it can learn like your couch.

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Speaker 1: It kind of knows the surfaces that it's looking at

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Speaker 1: through your camera, and it kind of interacts with those

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Speaker 1: surfaces in different ways. So it's a really unique spin

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Speaker 1: on sort of the standard, you know, video game that

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Speaker 1: you might play on your phone, because it is using

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Speaker 1: that augmented reality to kind of do different things.

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Speaker 2: In the game.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's some really impressive technology that went into this game.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 6: It recognize the differences between all kinds of different services,

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Speaker 6: so it knows grass, water, concrete, shrubs, and the game

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Speaker 6: will ask you to find certain things for your pet.

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Speaker 6: Your pet will want to go look at a tree

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Speaker 6: so it can scratch on it, and you'll have to

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Speaker 6: go out into the real world and point your camera

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Speaker 6: at a tree, and then you'll get to see your

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Speaker 6: your pet run over dude and scratch on it. It's

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Speaker 6: pretty impressive stuff.

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Speaker 1: I named my paradot. I guess they're called dots, but

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Speaker 1: I named him Spot or them. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it's you know, it's it's what it is, but I

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Speaker 1: named it Spot. And it's very cute, and it's sort

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Speaker 1: of like modeled after various creatures in the real world,

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Speaker 1: but it's it's definitely just a made up being, but

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Speaker 1: it's it is very cute, it's very like affable, and

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Speaker 1: it's just kind of fun. I mean, I don't know

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Speaker 1: what I'm doing in this game, to be honest, But

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Speaker 1: it's it's fun and I like just you know, throwing

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Speaker 1: the ball and having this little creature fetch it and

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Speaker 1: putting the creature in these various places where I am it.

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Speaker 2: Just it looks like it's a part of the world

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Speaker 2: that I'm in.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, in terms of gameplay, it is pretty bare.

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Speaker 6: You can walk with them, you can play with them,

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Speaker 6: and you can see them. But the real hook of

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Speaker 6: the game is the breeding function, because all of these

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Speaker 6: dots that you described, they all have a series of

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Speaker 6: unique traits and really no two dots are the same.

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Speaker 6: So I think that the real hook of the game

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Speaker 6: is finding other dots to mate with to make new

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Speaker 6: dots that have more complex and interesting traits.

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Speaker 1: And I noticed on kind of the sharing aspect is

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Speaker 1: that you can see dots that are nearby, and so I.

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Speaker 2: Was a little bit curious about that too.

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Speaker 1: There's like on a map you can see dots that

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Speaker 1: were either visiting the same area or near the same area.

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Speaker 1: My big question for you, Eric, do you think this

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Speaker 1: will be a blockbuster hit the way that Pokemon Go

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Speaker 1: was and still plays a big role in the mobile

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Speaker 1: gaming world.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a good question, and I'm sure that Niantic

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Speaker 6: is wondering the same thing. You know, Pokemon Go's strength

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Speaker 6: is the Pokemon ip and while I think Pokemon Go

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01:42:09,360 --> 01:42:10,880
Speaker 6: is a great game, it wouldn't be the game it

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Speaker 6: was if the world didn't love Pokemon as much as

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Speaker 6: we do. So Paradox has an uphill battle on that way.

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Speaker 6: I think the tech is really impressive, the characters are

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Speaker 6: super adorable. I think for them, what it's really going

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Speaker 6: to come down to is how fair and reasonable their

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Speaker 6: monetization is. You know, more and more with mobile games,

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Speaker 6: what is attracting players is the approachability aspect, and if

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01:42:33,560 --> 01:42:36,080
Speaker 6: they're asked to pay lots and lots of money to

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Speaker 6: continue playing that game, it's what pushes them away. And

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Speaker 6: I think paradoig is trying to find a way to

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Speaker 6: balance that at the moment with what they're expecting their

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Speaker 6: players to pay for.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Eric Switzer from TheGamer dot Com thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for joining me today. I really appreciate it. So

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Speaker 1: which game are you going to play next? Are you

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Speaker 1: going to play more of Zelda or more of Paradox

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Speaker 1: this weekend?

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Speaker 6: H I am hooked into Zelda. I can't put it down.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's amazing. All right, I've got it loaded up

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Speaker 1: on my switch here. I was not able to download

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01:43:04,840 --> 01:43:06,800
Speaker 1: it at the airport, so I had to wait. But

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01:43:06,840 --> 01:43:08,240
Speaker 1: I've got it on there and I just have to

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01:43:08,280 --> 01:43:11,160
Speaker 1: start playing and any tips you can give me, anything

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Speaker 1: that I could kick off with.

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Speaker 6: There's a lot of big gumball machines that are scattered

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Speaker 6: around the world, and if you interact with those, they'll

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Speaker 6: give you lots and lots of extra parts that you

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Speaker 6: can use to make fun machines. So don't ignore those

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Speaker 6: when you see them, all right.

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Speaker 1: Eric Switzer from TheGamer dot Com, thanks for much for

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Speaker 1: joining me today.

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Speaker 2: Coming up, we're going to close out the show.

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Speaker 1: We're going to do the feedback section, which is one

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Speaker 1: of your favorite sections of the show. I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 1: you about a traffic light that only turns green when

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Speaker 1: you're driving at the right speed. You're listening to Rich

2121
01:43:50,479 --> 01:43:52,360
Speaker 1: Demiro here on rich on Tech.

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Speaker 2: More of the show coming up.

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Speaker 1: Next, Welcome back to Britcha on Tech. Rich Demiro here

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Speaker 1: talking technology with you.

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Speaker 2: We have had it all country line up today.

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Speaker 1: For the most part, it's been a couple other little

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Speaker 1: things sprinkled in here and there, But we got a

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Speaker 1: lot of country in this Austin based show today. Got

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Speaker 1: a couple of things to talk about, and then we'll

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Speaker 1: get to the feedback section. First off, Lift making a

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Speaker 1: lot of changes. Big change they're going to make. They

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Speaker 1: are discontinuing pooled rides. These were the super duper cheap

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Speaker 1: rides that would put you in there with someone else

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Speaker 1: in the car, not just the driver, but a random

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Speaker 1: person that also needed to go somewhere. And yes, I've

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Speaker 1: tried this. I've tried all of the different like Lift

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Speaker 1: and Uber offerings throughout the years, and so I did

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Speaker 1: this lift all I can't remember it was Left or Uber,

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Speaker 1: one of them. But I did like the pool because

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Speaker 1: it was so much cheaper. I was going to I

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Speaker 1: believe it was an Apple event, going from the airport

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Speaker 1: to the Apple of which was being held at like

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Speaker 1: the San Jose Convention Center. And I figured, everyone else

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Speaker 1: that's landing with me right now at the airport must

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01:45:08,240 --> 01:45:10,920
Speaker 1: be going to the same place, So chances are I'm

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Speaker 1: just going to be linked up with someone else that's

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Speaker 1: going to the convention center and my ride is going

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Speaker 1: to be like seven bucks instead of like thirty. And

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Speaker 1: sure enough, it was great, it was fine. We didn't

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Speaker 1: really chat with the person that was I didn't chat

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Speaker 1: with the person in the car.

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Speaker 2: I might have said hi.

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Speaker 1: But ANYWAYT is discontinuing shared rides, they said this week.

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Speaker 1: The reason it takes people out of their way because

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Speaker 1: not every time you're going to be going to the

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Speaker 1: same place as the person in the car with you.

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Speaker 1: I mean they tried to make it to the same area,

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Speaker 1: but not always the same place. Lift started these things

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Speaker 1: back in twenty fourteen. Uber followed with Uber pool. The

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Speaker 1: companies both stopped doing these pooled rides during the pandemic

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Speaker 1: for obvious reasons, and they gradually reintroduced them last year.

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Speaker 1: But now Lift is saying no more. Yes, we'll still

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Speaker 1: do this. If they still do it, I'm not really

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Speaker 1: sure if they do it. But Lift is focusing on

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Speaker 1: boosting their airport rides, which makes up about ten percent

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Speaker 1: of their trips. They want to make it easier for

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Speaker 1: customers to pre book a trip. I noticed that I

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Speaker 1: got a notification on my phone. I guess it was

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Speaker 1: connected to my calendar, and it said, hey, do you

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Speaker 1: want to book a ride to the airport. When I

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Speaker 1: noticed that I was going to the airport. And the

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Speaker 1: thing about these airport scheduled rides with Lift and Stuff

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Speaker 1: and Uber is like, since Uber and Lyft are on demand,

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Speaker 1: I always find.

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Speaker 2: It odd to schedule a ride.

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Speaker 1: It's like, why not just do it on demand because

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Speaker 1: you can get a car most of the time pretty easily.

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Speaker 1: I actually tested out a service called Alto for my

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Speaker 1: ride to the airport this time, and this is super

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Speaker 1: duper fancy stuff.

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Speaker 2: So this Alto situation.

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Speaker 1: Is a company that they have their own fleet of

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Speaker 1: luxury vehicles and all of their drivers are w two employees,

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Speaker 1: so they give them benefits like four oh one k's

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Speaker 1: hourly pay and health benefits. This is operating in Houston, Dallas, LA, Miami, Washington,

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Speaker 1: d C. And San Francisco. And so they have the

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Speaker 1: guy picked me up. It was a scheduled ride. Way

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Speaker 1: more I would say, way more expensive than sort of

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Speaker 1: a Lift or an Uber at their cheapest tier, but

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Speaker 1: maybe on par with an Uber Black or a Lift Lux,

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Speaker 1: you know where it's like the really high end. This

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Speaker 1: is more like a car service if you're familiar with that.

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Speaker 1: So Alto is much more of like a almost like

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Speaker 1: a show first service. I would say women in safety.

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Speaker 1: That's the main reason why people use Alto.

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Speaker 2: To.

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Speaker 1: Fifty five percent of Alto riders are women and Alto

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Speaker 1: drivers eleven Let's see Alto.

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Speaker 2: What am I looking at here? Oh? That I thought

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Speaker 2: this was cool. The Alto vehicles.

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Speaker 1: Come equipped with cameras in real time monitoring, so I

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Speaker 1: thought that was neat, which is linked to a manned

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Speaker 1: Alto dispatch center. They've got two thousand drivers and four

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Speaker 1: hundred vehicles on the road. They have six hundred to

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Speaker 1: hit the road in twenty twenty three. And you have

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Speaker 1: to be a member, by the way, or you don't

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Speaker 1: have to be, but it's cheaper if you're a member,

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Speaker 1: so they say seventy five percent are member. So anyway,

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Speaker 1: Alto if you want an alternative to lift an uber,

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Speaker 1: but just keep in mind it is more expensive, but

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Speaker 1: it's more like a chauffeur. So this is like think fancy, fancy,

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Speaker 1: fancy ride to the airport or fancy fancy ride to

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Speaker 1: pick up someone from the airport. Okay, let's let me

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Speaker 1: tell you about this new light. This traffic light in Quebec.

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Speaker 1: It only turns green for safe drivers. This is in

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Speaker 1: the Canadian city of Brossard. Near Montreal, they have a

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Speaker 1: new traffic light in a school zone that turns green

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Speaker 1: for safe drivers. They call it fred. The light is

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Speaker 1: red by default, but it turns green when the speed

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Speaker 1: camera detects your car going at a speed limit that's

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Speaker 1: under the posted speed. So it's not really a real

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Speaker 1: signal per se, but it just makes you slow down.

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Speaker 2: I guess if you see a red light, you're probably

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Speaker 2: gonna stop. I guess.

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Speaker 1: So. Similar signals have been used in Europe for years.

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Speaker 1: This is on a ninety day trial in a two

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Speaker 1: lane street that runs through a suburban area. The mayor

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Speaker 1: said most vehicles go through that area at twenty five

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Speaker 1: miles an hour, but in the past week average speeds

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Speaker 1: have dropped to eighteen miles an hour. They say it

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Speaker 1: doesn't record any private information. It's just a text that

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Speaker 1: the vehicle is doing the speed it should to kind

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Speaker 1: of help people just slow down in that area.

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Speaker 2: So kind of a smart idea. I like that.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the feedback. Dion says, great

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Speaker 1: show you put out Sunday. I'm listening in Montana. I

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Speaker 1: heard a woman call in wanting to know how to

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Speaker 1: get internet on her radio. I have not found a

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Speaker 1: way to do this either. What I do want to share,

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Speaker 1: I have a transistor radio which continuously picks up plays

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Speaker 1: the weather that has picked.

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Speaker 2: Off picked up off of an FAA wave.

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Speaker 1: It's not Internet, but I'd say it's as close to

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Speaker 1: as she's going to come with a radio device. Got

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Speaker 1: a lot of feedback about the caller last week that

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Speaker 1: was asking for some sort of radio that would pick

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Speaker 1: up Internet radio streaming and also THEAA radio stream. Greg says, hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I heard the segment with a woman that wanted anaa radio.

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Speaker 1: Sporties dot com has some aviation radios. The cheapest one

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Speaker 1: is one hundred and ninety nine dollars. They're kind of expensive.

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Speaker 1: And let's say I think there's one more on this, oh,

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Speaker 1: Neil said, and this is about the Aura frame. The

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Speaker 1: guest we had last week, the digital frame called Aura.

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Speaker 1: He said, when we became grandparents, our daughter gifted us

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Speaker 1: one of these frames. They seem expensive, but they work

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Speaker 1: really well and they have all the features being spot on.

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Speaker 1: Being ten hours away from our kids is balanced by

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Speaker 1: receiving new pictures as grandchild grows. Neil so Neil liked

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Speaker 1: the guest talking about the Aura frames. I love that thing.

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Speaker 1: Great gift. I can't believe that's going to do it

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Speaker 1: for this show. Next week, I'm going to tell you

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Speaker 1: about a website that lets you research and report scams

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01:51:01,080 --> 01:51:04,000
Speaker 1: you don't become a victim of them again. You can

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Speaker 1: find me on social media. I am at rich on tech.

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Speaker 1: The website to go to is richon tech dot tv.

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Speaker 1: You can check it out For notes to what I

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Speaker 1: mentioned here, I also put them in the podcast, so

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Speaker 1: if you're listening to the podcast version, looking the notes

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Speaker 1: for anything that I talk about here on the show.

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Speaker 1: This has been a fantastic show from Austin, Texas.

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Speaker 2: What a cool city.

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Speaker 1: I love traveling because it gives me so much perspective

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Speaker 1: on the world. For instance, I can tell you prices

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Speaker 1: in Austin, Texas are cheaper than prices in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: That's the one thing I've noticed here so far. And

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Speaker 1: people are very friendly. My name is rich Demiel. Thanks

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

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Speaker 1: can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending it

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Speaker 1: right here with me. Thanks to everyone everywhere who makes

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Speaker 1: this show possible. As they say in the South, I'm

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Speaker 1: fixing to talk to you real soon take care

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Speaker 4: And