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Speaker 1: Channel five in Los Angeles. Still drying off from getting

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, typically known for its sun and fun, but

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Speaker 1: this hour, Alex. Welcome to the show. How can I help? Hello, Alex,

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Speaker 1: here Magic Eraser. This is a feature that is sort

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

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Speaker 1: So this article, I guess my first question is what

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Speaker 5: even things like emoticons and things like that. But Apple's

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Speaker 5: sort of similar you know tool is I Message. So

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Speaker 5: in a sense, Apple was actually just sort of like

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Speaker 5: creating its own technology and releasing it to the iPhone

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Speaker 5: at a time when I Message was superior to SMS,

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Speaker 5: and so that was clever on their part. But what

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Speaker 5: happened is, you know, I sort of like a sort

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Speaker 5: of well, you know, so if you're messaging on I Message,

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Speaker 5: all the messages are blue, just to show you, you know,

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Speaker 5: it's not sort of trying to build a community. It's

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Speaker 5: just telling you that everything's operating through IM message, right,

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Speaker 5: But if you are either sort of on Wi Fi

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Speaker 5: or operating on an Android, it will just show that

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Speaker 5: it's a green that it will show its green purely

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Speaker 5: to indicate that it's a different messaging like default system.

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Speaker 5: Then it's sort of how you and I and teenagers

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Speaker 5: sort of began to feel about that, right. And so

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Speaker 5: what happens is it's not just this aesthetic thing between

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Speaker 5: blue and green bubbles, and I think a lot of

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Speaker 5: people wrongly think that it is. It's that if you

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Speaker 5: have a group of iPhone users and accept into the

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Speaker 5: group chat a single Android user, everybody's message goes green, right,

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Speaker 5: Which is to say that instead of the rich media

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Speaker 5: service I Message, you have SMS, which means that even

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Speaker 5: if you're an iPhone user sending a message to another

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Speaker 5: iPhone user, you're going to have glitchy system where the

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Speaker 5: definition of the video and the pictures that you take

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Speaker 5: and are not as good as they would be with

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Speaker 5: I Message. So I just want to make that clear.

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Speaker 5: It's not an aesthetic thing. And it was so sort

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Speaker 5: of inadvertent on the part of Apple's part, But over

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Speaker 5: the last decade, Apple has begun to understand that this

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Speaker 5: is quite a selling point and that the sort of

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Speaker 5: community elements that they inadvertently built has actually really paid

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Speaker 5: off with them.

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Speaker 1: Now, Google did a big or they tried to do

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Speaker 1: sort of a big campaign last year that was all

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Speaker 1: about kind of shaming Apple into saying, Apple, we've got

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Speaker 1: this RCS, this Rich Communications service, which now you know,

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Speaker 1: you've got I Message, but there's something that works across

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Speaker 1: all phones called RCS, and you're still defaulting to SMS.

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Speaker 1: So Apple, why are you holding your users back and

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Speaker 1: the cross platform exchange back by not enabling this on

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Speaker 1: your smartphones? And basically Apple just ignored this whole campaign,

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Speaker 1: and I think it sort of fell flat with consumers

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Speaker 1: that didn't really resonate. Do you think Apple's to blame

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Speaker 1: here for not including rcs and their phones at this point?

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Speaker 5: I mean, I don't believe there's any technical reason why

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Speaker 5: Apple couldn't adopt OURCS. And the nice thing about this question,

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Speaker 5: act is I think we pretty well know the answer

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Speaker 5: because Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, was directly asked

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Speaker 5: at an event held in Beverly Hills last autumn. And

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Speaker 5: so somebody said, you know, my mom is in we're

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Speaker 5: in South America, and you know, we can't exchange tech

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Speaker 5: messages back and forth and videos back and forth without

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Speaker 5: there being glitchous here and there because I have an iPhone,

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Speaker 5: she is an Android. And Tipcok's answer, with a big laugh,

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Speaker 5: was by your mom and iPhone.

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Speaker 1: Which I don't like that answer. I mean, that's you know,

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Speaker 1: come on, it's like, let's I don't know, I really

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Speaker 1: find an issue with this. Now. I understand that I

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Speaker 1: do like the whole IE message platform, and I do

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Speaker 1: feel a certain way when I'm messaging people on I

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Speaker 1: Message versus Android, because you just feel like you can

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Speaker 1: exchange you know, a video or you know, a picture

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Speaker 1: and it's going to come through at full resolution, and

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Speaker 1: there's been problems like let's say you're at your kids

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Speaker 1: baseball game and you know, you take a video of

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Speaker 1: another kid and he gets a good you know, a

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Speaker 1: good hit or something, and the parents like, oh, you

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Speaker 1: share that with me, and you're like, cool, I'll just

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Speaker 1: air drop it, and you're like, oh, you've got Android.

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Speaker 1: I can't do that. It's a it's a real thing,

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Speaker 1: not just for gen Z. By the way, we're talking

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Speaker 1: to Patrick McGee. He is a tech reporter for the

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Speaker 1: Financial Times, and we're talking about his article about how

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Speaker 1: Apple Basically he believe that sales of Apple products are

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Speaker 1: just going to increase because of gen Z's loyalty to

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Speaker 1: these products. And one of the stats you put in

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Speaker 1: your piece is that globally, for every one hundred iPhones shipped,

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Speaker 1: Apple sells twenty six iPads, seventeen Apple watches, and thirty

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Speaker 1: five AirPods. When it comes to Samsung, for every one

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Speaker 1: hundred smartphones they ship, that leads to fewer than eleven tablets,

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Speaker 1: six smart smart watches, and six wireless earbuds. That's probably

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Speaker 1: because there's much more choice on the other side. I

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Speaker 1: guess right, Oh.

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Speaker 5: I don't know about that. I mean, that's actually that's

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Speaker 5: interesting to ask. I mean, perhaps that's true. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 5: definitely true that if you have any sort of Android device,

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Speaker 5: most of the other adjacent Android products will work for

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Speaker 5: your phone, which is to say, if you have a

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Speaker 5: Pixel phone, you can get you know, Sampung buds and

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Speaker 5: they will be totally fine. So yes, that's true. But

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Speaker 5: I guess the point I'm trying to make is that

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Speaker 5: when you're entrenched in the Apple ecosystem, very likely to

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Speaker 5: buy more Apple products. That is very true true if

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Speaker 5: you're in any of the Android universes.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that Samsung has worked, and I

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Speaker 1: think the last two I would say, the last two

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Speaker 1: events I went to from Samsung, they're really trying to

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Speaker 1: bring that ecosystem closer. And in fact, I would almost argue,

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, when you're using an iPhone, it's it's

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Speaker 1: so seamless to work between a MacBook, an iPad, the

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Speaker 1: air pods, it all works together really well. Apple TV.

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Speaker 1: I went to purchase an app on my Apple TV

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Speaker 1: last night and it said, hey, just authorize this on

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Speaker 1: the iPhone, and I thought, oh, that was really cool.

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Speaker 1: You just kind of click and use your face ID.

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Speaker 1: But Samsung is really doing a lot of this now

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Speaker 1: with sort of Windows and the other side of things,

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Speaker 1: Like they're going more towards like okay, well you've got

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Speaker 1: the Apple stuff, we'll do the Windows stuff. And so

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Speaker 1: I think that that Samsung is making progress in that

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Speaker 1: area too.

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Speaker 5: So they absolutely are. But this is what I would say,

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Speaker 5: They're never going to be able to do as good

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Speaker 5: a job as Apple. And the clear reason why is

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Speaker 5: you're mentioning Windows. Who on Windows it's not Samsung, right, right,

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Speaker 5: So from the ground up, like literally from the chip

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Speaker 5: level and software level, you know, on up, Apple designs

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Speaker 5: its phones and systems in such a way that working

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Speaker 5: together is not some sort of afterthought that's recrofitted into

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Speaker 5: the system, right, It's just from the ground level. Samsung

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Speaker 5: just not gonna be able to do that if they're

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Speaker 5: still working on Android, which is the well, actually, you know,

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Speaker 5: I'll come back to that in a second. They're not

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Speaker 5: going to be able to do that if they're working

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Speaker 5: with with you know, Windows on computers. But the point

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Speaker 5: I was just about to make that I sort of

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Speaker 5: corrected myself on is when it comes to owning the ecosystem,

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Speaker 5: just on Android. The problem isn't that they can't make

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Speaker 5: things work together. The problem is it doesn't have any

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Speaker 5: walls in the garden, right, which is to say, things

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Speaker 5: can work pretty well between Samsung devices, but any other

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Speaker 5: Android maker can basically make that make the same push. Right.

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Speaker 5: So with Apple, you're sort of locked in as a consumer, right.

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Speaker 5: I know other computers that's going to run iOS. That's

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Speaker 5: just not true, which.

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Speaker 1: Is why with Andrew right, which is why Apple loves

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Speaker 1: the walled garden of I message, which is very popular

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Speaker 1: here in the US, But you talk to other folks

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Speaker 1: outside the US, they're not as enthralled. Patrick, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: have to leave it there. Thank you so much. I'll

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Speaker 1: put a link to you on your Twitter on my website.

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Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot TV. Patrick McGee with Financial Times,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining me today.

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Speaker 5: Cheers, Rich, that was great.

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Speaker 1: Thanks all right. Coming up in the show, more of

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Speaker 1: out with you here talking technology. Got a couple of

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Speaker 1: about it. Let's tell you about PlayStation VR two. So

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Speaker 1: you're probably familiar with the idea of virtual reality. You've

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Speaker 1: got the Oculus well Sony has had another headset called

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Speaker 1: the PlayStation VR and they're on their second generation of it.

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Speaker 1: So the PlayStation VR two launched this week and it

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Speaker 1: of the other VR headsets out there. Now, I saw

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Speaker 1: this at CS, I did not try it out at CS,

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Speaker 1: so I can't give you my personal opinion of this

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Speaker 1: other than I think all of these products are very

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Speaker 1: early stage. Unless you are an early adopter and you

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Speaker 1: just love this stuff, I don't know if they're one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent ready for prime time just yet, especially due

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Speaker 1: to the price tags. These things are very expensive. This

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Speaker 1: headset is five hundred and fifty dollars and that does

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Speaker 1: not include the PlayStation five that you need to use

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Speaker 1: this headset. But with all that said, it's got controllers

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Speaker 1: with haptic feedback, so you can feel what's happening in

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Speaker 1: the game, like Sony gave the example of whether you're

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Speaker 1: pulling a bow string or you know, the vibration effects

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Speaker 1: during an epic boss battle. It also knows where your

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Speaker 1: Then the headset itself has feedback. They're not calling it

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Speaker 1: haptic feedback, but there's some vibrations that add an element

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Speaker 1: of tactileness, so you can feel things like, you know,

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Speaker 1: if something passes by your head, you can feel that,

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Speaker 1: or if a you know, car whizz is by. You

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Speaker 1: can feel that as well. Three D audio is also

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Speaker 1: built in. Three D audio is a really cool feature

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Speaker 1: which lets you hear audio all around you from coming

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Speaker 1: from different angles. Kind of like when you're in the

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Speaker 1: like what's happening with earbuds right now, the high end earbuds.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of audio, there's no audio built into this headset.

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Speaker 1: You do need to use earbuds with this headset that

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Speaker 1: are you know, built in as well, but it's not

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Speaker 1: a speaker like many of the VR headsets. There's also

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Speaker 1: eye tracking, so the headset knows where you're looking. It

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Speaker 1: offers a display up to four k HDR, so pretty

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Speaker 1: high resolution. That's one of the problems I have with

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Speaker 1: the Oculus is the current Oculus. The resolution is not

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Speaker 1: that great. You can definitely see the pixels for sure.

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Speaker 1: Some of the games that launch include Horizon, Call of

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Speaker 1: the Mountain, Grand Turismo, Star Wars, Resident Evil Village, and

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Speaker 1: one I can't wait for Tetris Effect. I would play this,

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Speaker 1: that's for sure. Again, you do need a PS five

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Speaker 1: for the PlayStation VR two headset, and the reviews I'm

647
00:32:58,240 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 1: reading are sort of mixed on whether this thing is

648
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Speaker 1: comfortable or not so, but most everyone agrees it is

649
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Speaker 1: a big upgrade from the first model. All right, now,

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Speaker 1: let's go to Suzanne. Suzanne, you're on with Rich Are

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Speaker 1: you there?

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Speaker 6: I'm doing great?

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Speaker 1: How are you? I'm doing great? Okay, I don't know

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Speaker 1: what happened there, but welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: How can I that's all right?

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Speaker 2: Good morning or afternoon.

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Speaker 7: I need a new internet company. I love, love, love

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Speaker 7: my current internet company, and I will give them a

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Speaker 7: shout out if you want. They're phenomenal their service and

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Speaker 7: that knowledge is great. However, my phone lines, which are

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00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 7: owned by AG and T, are abysmal and will not

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Speaker 7: be upgraded, so I have unreliable internet. The company that

663
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Speaker 7: I pay is so great at responding, but if I

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Speaker 7: can't rely on it, then it's you know, even it's

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Speaker 7: just frustrating.

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Speaker 2: I can't use cable.

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Speaker 7: I wouldn't use my local cable company if they're the

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Speaker 7: last thing in the world. I'd rather have nothing than that.

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Speaker 7: Oh wow, I do need I do need an internet,

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Speaker 7: and I do need landline. So I'm wondering what.

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Speaker 2: I'm in Orange County, California.

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Speaker 7: I have access to a lot of things. So I'm

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Speaker 7: wondering what my options are at this point in the

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Speaker 7: technology world.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, okay, if you don't why why do

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Speaker 1: you not like the local and I have a feeling

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Speaker 1: I know which local company you're talking about? Does it

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Speaker 1: start with an F that's.

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Speaker 7: An as, like Suze my first name.

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Speaker 1: Oh it starts with an AS. Oh wow? Okay, Well,

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Speaker 1: I guess I could have guessed anything. Because people hate

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Speaker 1: all the all the cable companies for some reason. I

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Speaker 1: don't know why. I mean, I guess it's one of

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Speaker 1: these things that you set up once and you know,

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Speaker 1: you just kind of go with it. So if you're

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Speaker 1: not willing to go with them, there's a couple of

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Speaker 1: things you can do. I don't I thought you were

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Speaker 1: in the middle of nowhere and you needed like a

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Speaker 1: satellite provider. You know, that's very slow and not very expensive,

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Speaker 1: and that's probably not your best bet, although you know,

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Speaker 1: you could look into Starlink if you have a backyard.

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Speaker 1: That's Elon Musk's you know, satellite internet, which I think

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Speaker 1: is overkill. You live in a you know, a populated area,

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Speaker 1: So the website that I would check out is allconnect

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Speaker 1: dot com a L l C O n n ECT

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Speaker 1: all connect dot com, and that is a website that

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Speaker 1: sort of helps you figure out which providers are in

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Speaker 1: your area, and so if you know if there's a

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Speaker 1: provider that may you know. Sometimes these providers provide Internet

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Speaker 1: in an area that are a smaller company, but they

701
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Speaker 1: maybe use the lines of a different company. So you're

702
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Speaker 1: still getting the nice, unique service that you want, and

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Speaker 1: it sounds like you want that kind of hands on service,

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Speaker 1: but it's being delivered through a line that maybe AT

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Speaker 1: and T operates or Frontier Spectrum or who knows. But

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Speaker 1: that's probably the best place to look is all connect

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Speaker 1: dot com. If that doesn't work, I would maybe talk

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Speaker 1: to some neighbors and see what they have, see if

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Speaker 1: there's some local companies. Sometimes there's some companies that are

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Speaker 1: just small businesses that serve There's one more company called

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Speaker 1: Starry Internet. I don't know if they're by you, and

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00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 1: I think they're having some trouble as well, but Storry

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Speaker 1: Internet delivers internet wirelessly. You can check to see if

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Speaker 1: they're available in your neighborhood. That's story dot com. But

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Speaker 1: those are the best places to go. You know, I

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Speaker 1: think starlink is overkill for you, But if you refuse

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Speaker 1: to use your local provider, there's not many There's just

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Speaker 1: not many options right now. Until we get more satellite

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Speaker 1: internet options, Susanne, it's just not gonna be a thing.

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Speaker 1: Coming up on the show, we're gonna talk about the

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Speaker 1: startup that helps you make money doing other people's dirty laundry.

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Speaker 1: Plus i'm gonna tell you about the new Chrome features

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Speaker 1: that will save your battery and maybe even make Chrome

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Speaker 1: run faster. Plus your calls at triple eight Rich one

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

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Speaker 1: four one zero one. You're listening to Rich on tech Michael.

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Speaker 1: You are on with uh, I'm gonna call myself technical

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Speaker 1: difficulties Rich today. How you doing pretty good?

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Speaker 4: Thanks for taking my call. I'm an Android user, so

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Speaker 4: I have the Amazon Prime app on my tablet in

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Speaker 4: my phone for watching video for watching my movies. When

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Speaker 4: I purchase a movie now on the app, it doesn't

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Speaker 4: allow me to do that. It tells me I have

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Speaker 4: to go to the the you know, go to their

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Speaker 4: website to purchase the movie now. So I'm no longer

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Speaker 4: able to purchase the movie through the app.

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Speaker 1: I'm my Android, and you used to be able to exactly.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I like the app, it's more convenient, but now

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Speaker 4: I have to go to www dot Amazon, Prime Video

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Speaker 4: dot com to purchase an app. Now, if it's a

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Speaker 4: free if it's a free movie, it starts up no

742
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 4: problem on the app, right.

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Speaker 1: But if it's something like that, like a movie that

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00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: you have to pay to rent or to purchase, you

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00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 1: can't do it through the app anymore.

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Speaker 4: Right, exactly. And I'm gonnaccount with them, So I'm not

747
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 4: sure why that changed, or a contract that.

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Speaker 1: Was canceled or Yeah, it's frustrating. And I'll explain what's

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Speaker 1: going on here. And this is this is a change

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Speaker 1: that we're seeing across the internet. And the big, the

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00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: big thing that's happening here is that Amazon does not

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00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 1: want to pay tax to Google. So both Google and

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00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 1: Apple they charge companies that process any sort of digital

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Speaker 1: transaction through their platform. They charge them a percentage of that. Now,

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Speaker 1: there are different things, like if you're ordering DoorDash, usually

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00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: they don't get a cut of that. But when it

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Speaker 1: comes to digital goods, whether you are buying, you know,

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Speaker 1: a subscription to a music service or a movie or

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Speaker 1: pretty much anything an app for ninety nine cents. They

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Speaker 1: are taking a cut of that. Whether it's you know, depends.

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Speaker 1: Typically it's about thirty percent, sometimes could be fifteen, depending

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Speaker 1: on that. So this comes into play. This is horrible

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Speaker 1: for consumers, by the way, because I experienced this when

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Speaker 1: I wrote my book and I sold it as an

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Speaker 1: ebook and people were telling me, hey, Rich, I can't

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Speaker 1: buy it through the Amazon app, And I said, wait, why,

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Speaker 1: what do you mean you can't buy it on iPhone.

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Speaker 1: Now this back when I did my book a couple

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Speaker 1: of years ago, it was different. On Android, you could

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Speaker 1: buy the book through the Amazon app, but on iPhone

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Speaker 1: you couldn't. But because the book was called one hundred

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Speaker 1: and one Handy Tech Tips for the iPhone, people are

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Speaker 1: buying it for the iPhone, so they wanted to buy

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Speaker 1: it through the iPhone. Well, when you went to the

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00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 1: Amazon app on iPhone, what it's say this this book

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00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 1: is not available for purchase through the Amazon app, and

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00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 1: people will be like, wait, why not? But it didn't

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Speaker 1: give any explanation as to how you can purchase it.

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00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,399
Speaker 1: Same thing with this Android. Now you're saying that it's

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Speaker 1: telling you to go to the website to actually purchase

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Speaker 1: the movie, which is a good thing because it's saying like,

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Speaker 1: here's what you have to do. But on Apple's rules,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the times you can't tell the customer

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Speaker 1: that they need to go somewhere else. So let's say

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Speaker 1: you want to subscribe to something inside an app, and

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Speaker 1: that app maker doesn't want to pay the thirty percent

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Speaker 1: to Apple. All they can say is, we're sorry, you

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00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 1: can't subscribe through this app. That's it. They can't say, hey,

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Speaker 1: please go to www dot whatever dot com to subscribe.

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00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: They can't say that because that's against Apple's rules. So

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Speaker 1: this really comes into play with movies, with ebooks, with

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Speaker 1: anything that is sort of a digital good that you're

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Speaker 1: buying on your phone that's not happening through a web browser.

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Speaker 1: If you're going through a web browser, it's fine, but

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Speaker 1: most of the time people are buying things through apps,

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Speaker 1: and that's what you're experiencing. So, Michael, what's changed here

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Speaker 1: is that Amazon has said, you know what, we don't

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Speaker 1: really feel like paying this tax anymore, so we're not

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Speaker 1: going to let you you know, we're not going to

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Speaker 1: let you buy these things through this app. We're going

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Speaker 1: to make you go to the Apple or the Amazon

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Speaker 1: website and I'm trying to look here on you know,

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Speaker 1: Let's say, if I want to that movie Megan, which

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00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:40,240
Speaker 1: I know is available for rent or for purchase here. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So if I go to Megan on the app here,

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Speaker 1: the Prime app says available to buy, how do I

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Speaker 1: watch this? And I click that it says how do

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Speaker 1: I watch this rent or buy at Amazon dot com

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Speaker 1: to watch in the Prime Video app? Now, if I

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Speaker 1: go to the let's see, do I have the Prime

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Speaker 1: Video app on my iPhone? I don't, so I have

812
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:02,399
Speaker 1: to download that to see what it says on there.

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Speaker 1: But the reality is I just encountered this the other

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Speaker 1: day with Spotify, and I actually took a screenshot because

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Speaker 1: I was so I couldn't believe how this stuff happens

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Speaker 1: and how it's so bad for consumers that just don't

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Speaker 1: know any better, Like they just go, wait, I can't

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00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 1: subscribe to Spotify through the iPhone. So if you go

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Speaker 1: on the iPhone and try to subscribe to Spotify, it

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00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 1: says missing premium, you're in luck, and it tells you

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Speaker 1: what you can do, and it says you can't upgrade

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Speaker 1: to premium in the app. We know it's not ideal,

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00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,919
Speaker 1: and that's it. Spotify cannot say anything else about how

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00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: you can actually go to subscribe, which is just really

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00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: really poor. If you go over to the Android side

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Speaker 1: of things, it's a little bit better. You can subscribe

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00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 1: inside the app and it says how do you want

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Speaker 1: to pay? You can pay for premium directly through Spotify

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00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: or using your Google Play account. Now, sometimes this is

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Speaker 1: another thing that happens, and actually it's this is such

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Speaker 1: a great question, Michael. If you are subscribing to a

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Speaker 1: service through the app on iOS, oftentimes you will pay

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Speaker 1: more for that service just because you're subscribing through the app. So,

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Speaker 1: for instance, I'm trying to think of a good example,

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Speaker 1: if you subscribe through Hulu through the iOS app, right,

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Speaker 1: it will sometimes charge you a little bit more than

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Speaker 1: you would pay if you just subscribe to Hulu through

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Speaker 1: Hulu dot Com. You might pay a dollar, two dollars,

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Speaker 1: three dollars more for that. So I don't even know

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Speaker 1: if you can subscribe to Hulu anymore through iOS if

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00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 1: you want. But the reality is this is a real,

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00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 1: real problem, and I understand. Look, Apple came up with

843
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: this incredible platform right, and Android has this incredible platform

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Speaker 1: with so many customers that come through these doors because

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00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 1: they're on Android or they're on the iPhone. So I

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00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 1: understand why these companies believe that they deserve a cut

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00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 1: of that money. At the same time, it does make

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00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 1: it very tricky for consumers to not even understand what's

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00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,879
Speaker 1: happening here. Why can't I subscribe on my phone? Why

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00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,240
Speaker 1: can't I buy this ebook on my phone? Why can't

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00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 1: I rent this movie on my phone unless it's through

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00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 1: Apple or unless it's through Google Play, you can, you know,

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00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: shop till you drop on those things. Another good example

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00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: is on if you have YouTube TV, you know, if

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00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: you're on Android, you can upgrade right through the app.

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00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 1: If you're on iOS you can't. So there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of different ways that this comes into play, and you

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00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: just have to realize that these are big companies. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of money at stake. Thirty percent of a

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Speaker 1: dollar times millions upon millions of people really adds up

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Speaker 1: fighting this whole thing. But it's just really tough to

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Speaker 1: the fact that things are just not easy for them

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Speaker 1: to do that you think would be simple. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you want to purchase through your phone or you

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Speaker 1: want to purchase through your computer, it should be the

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Speaker 1: same thing. But it's just not. And it all really

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Speaker 1: comes down to these rules. All right. Coming up on

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Speaker 1: the show, we are going to talk to the startup

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Speaker 1: that lets you make money doing other people's dirty laundry.

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Speaker 1: Later in the show, podcasts are coming to another place,

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Speaker 1: So I'll tell you the app that will soon have

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Speaker 1: like this plus more of your questions At triple eight

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Speaker 1: Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four

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Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. You are listening to

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

881
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Speaker 1: on Tech. There are a lot of ways to work

882
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Speaker 1: from home, but this gig is pretty unique. It's called

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Speaker 1: Sudshare and it's the uber of laundry. Basically, you're picking

884
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Speaker 1: up other people's laundry. You wash it at your house,

885
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: then fold it and return it within twenty four hours.

886
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Speaker 1: Then you get paid. Recently, I spoke with Sudshare CEO

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Speaker 1: Mort Fertel about the company. My first question, how do

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Speaker 1: you come up with the idea?

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00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 8: Actually, my wife, they came up with it. One comment

890
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Speaker 8: she made in twenty seventeen started the whole thing. She

891
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 8: was home with our five kids, buried in laundry, and

892
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 8: she's like, this is crazy. I can tap an app

893
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 8: and get to the airport FaceTime some on the other

894
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:22,920
Speaker 8: side of the world, but I'm still doing laundry like

895
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Speaker 8: my grandmother. And as always she was right. Technologies made

896
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Speaker 8: everything so fast and easy, except for this chore that

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Speaker 8: takes the longest that we hate the most, laundry. It's

898
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 8: actually shocking if you think about it, that there's been

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Speaker 8: We're in the midst of this technological revolution, and yet

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Speaker 8: there's been no innovation in this space since the washer

901
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 8: and dryer almost a century ago. And as a result,

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Speaker 8: in America, we're spending thirteen billion hours and seventy five

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Speaker 8: billion dollars a year doing something that literally no one

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Speaker 8: wants to spend any time and money doing. There just

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Speaker 8: hasn't been a good alternative. We like to say that

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Speaker 8: there are three things certain in life, death, taxes and laundry.

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Speaker 8: So sud share solves laundry. It's incredibly simple. You just

908
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Speaker 8: tap the app and it's done, wash, dry, fold, pick

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Speaker 8: up and delivery. We call it Life Without Laundry, and

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Speaker 8: it's powered by this nationwide network of over two hundred

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Speaker 8: thousand professional launderers.

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Speaker 1: Next, I wanted to know how does sueddshare work. Exactly.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's very simple. So as a customer, you simply

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Speaker 8: create an account on the app, you tap do my laundry.

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Speaker 8: You take your laundry, you put it at your designated

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Speaker 8: pickup location, for example your back door or your front porch,

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Speaker 8: and you're done. You go on with your day. You

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Speaker 8: enjoy your life, You go out on a date, you

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Speaker 8: go exercise and spend time with your kids. You do

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Speaker 8: what you really want to do, which is not laundry.

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Speaker 8: Somebody comes, when of our launderers comes, they pick it up,

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Speaker 8: they wash it, dry it, fold it and return it

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Speaker 8: to you the next day.

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Speaker 1: So who are these people that are doing my laundry?

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Speaker 8: Such share is offering the first ever man annual labor

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Speaker 8: work from home gig in the world. There's a lot

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Speaker 8: of people that want to work from home, but they

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Speaker 8: don't want to do it being tied to a desk.

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Speaker 8: They want to be more active, or maybe they don't

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Speaker 8: have the skills to sit behind a desk and work

931
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Speaker 8: from home, but they want to work from home nonetheless.

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Speaker 8: So this is the first ever manual labor work from

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Speaker 8: home gig in the world where people take their laundry

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Speaker 8: room and basically turn it into a work from home gig.

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Speaker 8: We have a lot of for example, a lot of

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Speaker 8: stay at home moms that need to keep an eye

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Speaker 8: on their kids and they want a little they want

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Speaker 8: to earn some extra income while they're doing it.

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Speaker 1: This is the interesting part. Apparently you can make some

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Speaker 1: decent money doing other people's dirty laundry.

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Speaker 8: Our top ten sudsters are earning over five thousand dollars

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Speaker 8: a month, the top one hundred launderers are earning over

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Speaker 8: twenty one hundred dollars a month. And then we have

944
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Speaker 8: thousands of sudstters that are doing it part time just

945
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Speaker 8: to pay a bill or earn a little extra money.

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Speaker 8: It's totally flexible. It's gigwork. You can work when you want,

947
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Speaker 8: as much as you want, to make as much as

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Speaker 8: you want.

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Speaker 1: Once again, we're hearing from more Furtel CEO of a

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Speaker 1: company called sud Share. They call themselves the Uber of Laundry.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to know more about the people doing my laundry.

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Speaker 1: Are they trained or vetted in any way?

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Speaker 8: Yes, so they are vetted very carefully. They go through

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Speaker 8: an ID check, they go through a background check, They

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Speaker 8: also go through They also go through a series of

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Speaker 8: articles and videos that explains best practices and explains also

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Speaker 8: what customer expectations are, so they know exactly how to

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Speaker 8: do the laundry, when is pick up, when is delivery,

959
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Speaker 8: how you're supposed to fold it, how you're supposed to

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Speaker 8: deliver it, how you're supposed to communicate with customers. And

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Speaker 8: then we have also an algorithm that is rating the

962
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Speaker 8: performance of the launderers on dozens of different factors, and

963
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Speaker 8: the highest rated launderers get ranked the highest and get

964
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Speaker 8: access to most of the orders. So we actually have

965
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Speaker 8: about twenty percent of the launderers doing eighty percent of

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Speaker 8: the of the orders, So the vast majority of our

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Speaker 8: customers are serviced by the most experienced in best launderers.

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Speaker 1: Fluff and folds have been around forever, so I was

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Speaker 1: curious how sudshare compares themselves, So.

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Speaker 8: Sudshare, you really can't compare it to a local laundry service.

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Speaker 8: I'man a local laundry service. First of all, many of

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Speaker 8: them don't pick up and deliver. You actually have to

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Speaker 8: take it there. And you know, the whole point of

974
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Speaker 8: this is for it to be convenient. So the beautiful

975
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Speaker 8: thing about sudshare is you just tap the app, put

976
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Speaker 8: the laundry at your pickup location, like your front door,

977
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Speaker 8: and you're done. Everything is included, pick up delivery, wash,

978
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Speaker 8: drive fold. All you have to do is get dressed,

979
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 8: whereas with a local wash and fold, generally speaking, pick

980
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:50,799
Speaker 8: up and delivery is not included. And even if it is.

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00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:56,320
Speaker 8: We're a tech company, and so it's this seamless, frictionless

982
00:49:56,360 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 8: experience on the app that makes everything so simple. And

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00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 8: certainly your local fluff and fold company is not doesn't

984
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:09,239
Speaker 8: have that. You know that that tech experience. Next is

985
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Speaker 8: such share conserviace sheeting no matter where you are, so

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Speaker 8: it's not just when you're home, but it's when you

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Speaker 8: go on vacation, when you travel for business. We're in

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Speaker 8: five hundred markets nationwide, So as long as you've got

989
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Speaker 8: your phone with you and you've got the app on

990
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 8: your phone. You've got a such Share account and you

991
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:30,359
Speaker 8: can and you can place the laundry service order. So

992
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 8: we have lots of people now that are traveling for

993
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Speaker 8: business that are packing much lighter than they ever packed

994
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:39,720
Speaker 8: before because they're just using a laundry service while they're gone.

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Speaker 1: And along those lines, I wanted to know what can

996
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: I get laundered? This is not a dry cleaning service.

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00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:49,239
Speaker 8: We don't do dry clean but we launder everything. We

998
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:53,959
Speaker 8: don't do ironing, So if you have shirts that need

999
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 8: to be ironed, you know, we can wash them and

1000
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:58,279
Speaker 8: dry them and fold them, but we don't iron them.

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Speaker 8: But beside besides that, you can get anything that you

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Speaker 8: would normally put in your washer and dryer. You save

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Speaker 8: yourself the time and aggravation and give it the suid Share.

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Speaker 1: And if there's a problem like a rip or a

1005
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 1: stain that wasn't there before, what happens then yeah.

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00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:17,240
Speaker 8: So it's a dollar propound that includes pick up and delivery,

1007
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 8: and it also includes our famous garment protection plan, so

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Speaker 8: if anything is lost or damaged, you're covered. And that's

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00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 8: the other thing. Another nice thing about dealing with a

1010
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 8: national brand like Sudshare as opposed to your local mom

1011
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:36,759
Speaker 8: and pop fluffing fold as if something happens, we've got

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00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:37,280
Speaker 8: you covered.

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00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 1: And of course, one of the most important questions what

1014
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 1: about scent preferences. I know a lot of people are

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00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 1: fanatical about how their closed smell or they don't want

1016
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 1: any smell at all, And of course the type of

1017
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:48,759
Speaker 1: detergent that's used.

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00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:51,360
Speaker 8: When you place an order, you can enter any special

1019
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 8: instructions you might have and we will follow them. In

1020
00:51:54,280 --> 00:52:01,920
Speaker 8: terms of laundry detergent preferences, you can choose premium, scented, hypoergenic.

1021
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 8: That's for people that have sensitive skin and allergies and

1022
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:07,360
Speaker 8: stuff like that. And then there's a third option also,

1023
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 8: which is provide your own. So if you're really really

1024
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:14,760
Speaker 8: specific about the detergent you want us to use, simply

1025
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:16,839
Speaker 8: include it with your laundry and we'll use it.

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00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 1: Finally, I wanted to know what sudshare has learned in

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00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:21,840
Speaker 1: the several years it's been operating.

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Speaker 8: The most common refrain we hear from people is, oh

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00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:31,840
Speaker 8: my god, I am never doing laundry again. It's like

1030
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:36,279
Speaker 8: when they think about doing this, there's always some hesitation

1031
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:40,279
Speaker 8: because they've never done it before, and it's a new

1032
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:43,279
Speaker 8: way to deal with laundry and what happens if something

1033
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 8: gets lost, their damage and who's going to be doing

1034
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 8: and it's like all these questions, which of course we

1035
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:52,279
Speaker 8: try to answer, but after people have their first experience,

1036
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 8: there's no more questions. It's just like, oh my gosh,

1037
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:58,839
Speaker 8: this was unbelievable. All I have to do is get

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00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:03,799
Speaker 8: dressed and I just freed up like two to three

1039
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 8: hours of my week. It's just this magical experience. And

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Speaker 8: so what I've learned is just to answer your question,

1041
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 8: what I've learned is that this is a real pain

1042
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 8: point for people, and the relief they experience when they

1043
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 8: realize that all they have to do is tap an

1044
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 8: app and it's done is magical.

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Speaker 1: I also interviewed a sudster as they're called, and he

1046
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,319
Speaker 1: told me he's making about two hundred dollars a week

1047
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 1: through the app and he's just doing it part time.

1048
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: At first, his friends and family couldn't believe it, but

1049
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 1: at this point he's actually gotten a few of them

1050
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 1: to sign up for the gig as well. Once again,

1051
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 1: the app is called Sudshare if you're looking to make

1052
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 1: some extra cash or he just wants someone else to

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Speaker 1: do your laundry. Check it out. I've got my KTLA

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Speaker 1: TV segment linked up on my website. Just go to

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Speaker 1: rich on tech dot tv. More of your phone calls

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Speaker 1: at Triple eight Rich one oh one and more rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech show coming up after this. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you

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Speaker 1: with your calls at Triple eight Rich one O one

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

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Speaker 1: Sophia is in Temecula, Sophia, you're on with Rich. How

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Speaker 1: can I help? Y?

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Speaker 5: Rich?

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Speaker 9: I am wondering if there's any way I can uh

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Speaker 9: get internet with that paying sixty two dollars a month

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Speaker 9: to my internet provider. I know there's hot spot and

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Speaker 9: some other ways you can get it, and I don't

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Speaker 9: work from home. I you know, it's just one person

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Speaker 9: in my household, and I really don't need too much

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Speaker 9: internet access, but I need your opinion.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a smartphone?

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Speaker 4: I do?

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Speaker 1: And do you have Have you ever tried the hotspot

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Speaker 1: feature on there?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 8: I have.

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Speaker 9: I haven't because I don't know how it works at.

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Speaker 1: Who's your internet through on your phone? Who's your cellular provider? Mobile. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I would contact T Mobile if you do. You have

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Speaker 1: an iPhone or Android iPhone? Okay, So iPhone has a

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Speaker 1: system called, uh, you know, a personal hotspot, and if

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Speaker 1: you want, you can activate that and it will give

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Speaker 1: you internet, you know, when you need it through your

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Speaker 1: cellular plan. Now you have to see if that's included

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Speaker 1: on your plan. It may or may not be. And

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Speaker 1: also the amount you get maybe limited. But if you're

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Speaker 1: saying you don't need much, this could work. So uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, it has its limitations. You would have to

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Speaker 1: basically reconnect every time. It's not super convenient. And if

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Speaker 1: you're trying to do something like stream TV or something

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Speaker 1: like that through another device, you would have to connect

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Speaker 1: that pretty much every time before you want to use it.

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Speaker 1: The pairing process is once, but actually just making sure

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Speaker 1: that it's connected would would probably take a little bit

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Speaker 1: every time, unlike a typical you know, Wi Fi connection

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Speaker 1: that would just always be there. So this one, this

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Speaker 1: one kind of goes in and out.

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Speaker 9: I don't watch TV.

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Speaker 10: I don't like I said, it's very limited the time

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Speaker 10: I spend on internet, you know. But yeah, so you

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Speaker 10: you said to our call T Mobile.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, call T Mobile. See just ask them, say hey,

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Speaker 1: do I have do I have hot Spot on my

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Speaker 1: cellular plan? And if they say yes, say how much

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Speaker 1: do I get? Like what's my monthly allowance? If they say,

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Speaker 1: you know, ten gigs or twenty gigs or fifty gigs,

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Speaker 1: that's probably enough for what you're talking about. The Other

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Speaker 1: thing you can inquire about if you want something that's

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Speaker 1: cheaper than sixty two dollars a month. There's two things

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Speaker 1: I'd recommend first, and we were talking about this a

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Speaker 1: little bit earlier. T Mobile has something called T Mobile

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Speaker 1: Home Internet and they are advertising pretty inexpensive plans, So

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Speaker 1: that is going to be I believe it starts at

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Speaker 1: fifty dollars a month, so that's going to be a

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Speaker 1: little bit less than what you're paying. So that's twelve

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Speaker 1: dollars right there. Verizon is advertising their home Internet I

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Speaker 1: believe as low as twenty five dollars a month. So

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Speaker 1: I think that's for customers only. It depends, like if

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Speaker 1: you're a Verizon customer, but that may be something to

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Speaker 1: look into. The Other thing you can do. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what your income is, but there is a program

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Speaker 1: through the FCC called the Affordable Connectivity Program so depending

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Speaker 1: on your household income or also your eligibility for other programs.

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Speaker 1: For instance, if you are on Medicaid or SNAP or SSI,

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Speaker 1: or you get Federal Housing Assistants, or you have a

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Speaker 1: Lifeline phone line, you can apply for this program which

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Speaker 1: gives you a disc count of up to thirty dollars

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Speaker 1: a month off of your internet service. And again this

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Speaker 1: program is called the Affordable Connectivity Program. It's through the FCC,

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Speaker 1: it's relatively new, and it works for your internet service.

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Speaker 1: So if you're paying sixty two dollars a month and

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Speaker 1: you qualify for this program, you can now pay thirty

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Speaker 1: dollars less a month because you'll work with with your

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Speaker 1: internet provider to give you that credit. So again that's

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Speaker 1: called the FCC Affordable Connectivity Program. If you are eligible

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Speaker 1: for there's a lot. There's a long list of eligibility,

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Speaker 1: but the main ones are if you're on SNAP or

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Speaker 1: Medicaid or WICK you do qualify for this program as well,

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Speaker 1: so that's something that's a little bit new. You can

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Speaker 1: go to Affordableconnectivity dot gov to do your application there,

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Speaker 1: but Sophie, I think the hot spot will work. You

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Speaker 1: can also get a mobile hotspot from T Mobile and

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Speaker 1: even get a pay as you go one. But the

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Speaker 1: problem is with that, it's just it's just a little

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Speaker 1: bit like I feel like you don't really need that

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Speaker 1: because you've already have it on your phone, So I

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Speaker 1: don't really think that you need the separate hotspot, especially

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Speaker 1: with how little you are using the internet according to

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Speaker 1: what you're telling me here. So good question, check it

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Speaker 1: out and hopefully one of those solutions works for you.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Mic in Los Angeles. Mike,

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Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 11: Hello, Rich, thank you for taking my call. Go Daddy

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Speaker 11: is my web host service provider, my web hooster from

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Speaker 11: my business website. It's very simple. They want to charge

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Speaker 11: me for Microsoft three sixty five Essentials. Apparently I got

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Speaker 11: that first year for free. I already paid for a

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Speaker 11: Microsoft Office separately. Do I need that?

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Speaker 1: I don't think. So this is well, do you have

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Speaker 1: an email with them?

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Speaker 9: No?

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Speaker 11: I have a separate email that I've been using for years. Okay,

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Speaker 11: you click on my website and you get to me,

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Speaker 11: but it's not the Microsoft.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 1: So this three sixty five. I know you're calling it essentials.

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Speaker 1: It looks like they call it business Basic Online. It

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Speaker 1: gives you like a fifty gigabyte mailbox with a custom

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Speaker 1: email domain, use three sixty five apps for the web,

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Speaker 1: including Outlook, Word Excel, PowerPoint. In one note, you're telling

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Speaker 1: me you already have that, so you really don't need that.

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Speaker 1: Share files with one terabyte of one drive. You don't

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Speaker 1: need that because you already subscribe. How much are you

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Speaker 1: paying for the Microsoft subscription you have? I think, okay,

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Speaker 1: so you're paying how much did you say a year?

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Speaker 1: I lost you?

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Speaker 4: There?

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Speaker 11: A ninety nine dollars a year for the Microsoft Office

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Speaker 11: got it?

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Speaker 1: Okay? And so that that really includes a lot of

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Speaker 1: the same things here. I don't think you need this.

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Speaker 1: I think that you know, did you use any of

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Speaker 1: the features through GoDaddy at all? Like that they gave

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Speaker 1: you for this? Oh?

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Speaker 4: Okay, not that I know of.

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Speaker 11: I'm an idiot when it comes to this stuff. But no,

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Speaker 11: I don't think I use any of them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would just get rid of it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you're just using the website hosted by GoDaddy, it

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Speaker 1: sounds like this is very separate and this is just

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Speaker 1: an add on that they're trying to get you to

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Speaker 1: pay the You know, how much are they charging you

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Speaker 1: a month for this.

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Speaker 11: How much do they want They wanted like seventy something

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Speaker 11: dollars for the year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, the only thing you can consider is

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Speaker 1: you can I would do a comparison to see what

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Speaker 1: you're paying separately and then seeing what this offers and

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Speaker 1: how much this costs. If it's cheaper for the same product,

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Speaker 1: then maybe it might be worth switching over. But that

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Speaker 1: would be a little bit complicated because all of your

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01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 1: email and everything that you're using is connected to this

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Speaker 1: other account, so that could be a little bit tricky

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Speaker 1: to kind of switch over. So I would say just

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Speaker 1: dump it, and you don't really have to think twice

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Speaker 1: because you're only using GoDaddy for the domain. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think that's the problem here is that you know,

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Speaker 1: someone signs up for the domain, it costs them, you know,

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Speaker 1: twenty thirty bucks for the year. The name of the

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Speaker 1: game is to then upsell those customers to as many

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Speaker 1: other things as possible, and by giving them these free trials,

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Speaker 1: you know, you forget about it, and before you know it,

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Speaker 1: your credit card is charge for the seventy bucks. You're like, now,

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Speaker 1: what's that ah, and you don't feel like calling in,

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Speaker 1: and then they get the money and you'll call next year,

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Speaker 1: and it's a whole you know, it's a whole big thing.

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Speaker 1: This happens all the time.

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Speaker 12: Okay.

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Speaker 11: I was afraid if I didn't renew, people would go

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Speaker 11: to my website and not be able to access a

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Speaker 11: page or something. I didn't how that worked.

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Speaker 1: As long as this is yeah, as long as this

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Speaker 1: is a separate add on, it should not affect your

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Speaker 1: hosting through GoDaddy. I would confirm to see what you

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Speaker 1: pay for your hosting and if it says, you know,

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Speaker 1: go Daddy hosting. Plus the domain, this sounds like it

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Speaker 1: is a separate product that is not related to your

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Speaker 1: actual website. This is an add on, especially with the

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Speaker 1: with the email and the custom domain for the email address,

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Speaker 1: which you know it sounds like you already have through

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Speaker 1: other your other services.

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Speaker 11: Anyway, Yes, great, all right, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it. All right, Mike, good luck with the website.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you calling in today. All right. Uh, podcasts coming

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Speaker 1: to YouTube music. This was kind of a thing that

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Speaker 1: was missing from YouTube music. According to the Hot Pod Summit,

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Speaker 1: which was the on air fest in Brooklyn, New York,

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Speaker 1: they have confirmed that podcasts are coming to YouTube Music. Now,

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Speaker 1: YouTube Music was my preferred music app for so many years.

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Speaker 1: I loved it because they bought a company, oh gosh,

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Speaker 1: I can't even remember the name of it, but they

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Speaker 1: had this one playlist that I loved. It was called

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Speaker 1: the Blogged fifty and it was like the fifty hottest

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Speaker 1: songs according to bloggers, and that was the reason why

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Speaker 1: I loved YouTube Music. Now I still have a subscription,

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Speaker 1: I don't use it as regularly, but it's one of

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Speaker 1: those things that almost all of the other music apps

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Speaker 1: have podcasts built in, except for YouTube Music. And so

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Speaker 1: now the fact that YouTube Music will be getting podcasts

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Speaker 1: I think is a good thing. It'll help more people

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Speaker 1: discover them, it'll help people have them all in one place.

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Speaker 1: They didn't really say when this is going to happen,

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Speaker 1: but the big question is will you be able to

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Speaker 1: listen to the podcast even when your screen is locked,

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Speaker 1: And according to what they mentioned at this on AirFest

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Speaker 1: in Brooklyn, it sounds like you'll be able to. With YouTube.

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Speaker 1: The problem is if you're not a subscriber to YouTube

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Speaker 1: and you're listening to a podcast that is uploaded to YouTube,

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Speaker 1: if you lock your screen, you're not going to hear it,

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Speaker 1: the audio stops. It doesn't continue in the background unless

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Speaker 1: you're a premium subscriber. And so apparently with YouTube Music,

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Speaker 1: you will get to be able to listen to the

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Speaker 1: podcast even with your screen locked, and this is coming

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Speaker 1: very soon in the US only. At this point, YouTube

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Speaker 1: has been kind of tinkering with the idea of podcasts.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people upload shows like this to YouTube,

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Speaker 1: even if there's no video. They'll just upload the audio

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Speaker 1: and have kind of a waveform or something on there.

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Speaker 1: I've even experimented with this because YouTube is just sort

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Speaker 1: of a place where people listen and watch a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff, and so why not put your podcast up

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Speaker 1: there even though it doesn't have video. So YouTube is

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Speaker 1: kind of warming up to that idea and helping creators

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Speaker 1: have more tools to be able to do that in

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Speaker 1: a more native way than right now, which you have

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Speaker 1: to use a third party tool to kind of create

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Speaker 1: we ate that video file that then uploads to YouTube,

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Speaker 1: because you can't just upload the audio file. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: accept that all right, Coming up on the show, We've

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Speaker 1: got more of your calls at Triple eight rich one

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Speaker 1: oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two,

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Speaker 1: four to one zero one uh. Later in the show,

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk to the founder of the Day

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Speaker 1: of Unplugging. This is a day that's coming up next

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Speaker 1: weekend that wants you to give up your smartphone for

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Speaker 1: a single day, twenty four hours. Could you do it?

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Speaker 1: I did it one year. I'll tell you about my thoughts.

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Speaker 1: Plus how supermarkets. Yes, the supermarket loves your data. They

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Speaker 1: might be worse than Google when it comes to slurping

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Speaker 1: up all of your data. You're listening to Rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: More of your calls and tech news after this. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to Rich on Tech. My name is Rich DeMuro,

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Speaker 1: tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles, hanging

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Speaker 1: out here talking technology, answering your questions at triple eight

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Speaker 1: Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four

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Speaker 1: four to one zero one. Typically in the show, I

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Speaker 1: tell you what I posted to Instagram that week, but

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Speaker 1: let's see this week, not much. I didn't really post

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Speaker 1: anything this week, so I will tell you. I'm Matt

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech, but most of the time I'm posting stories,

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Speaker 1: so sometimes I'll post actual posts. Vicky is in San Diego. Vicky,

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Speaker 1: You're on with Rich. Hello, Vicky, Hi, Rich Hi, Hi.

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Speaker 6: I wanted to ask you a question. I have a

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Speaker 6: place that's in a remote rural area that I use

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Speaker 6: as a seasonal place to go to, and I very

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Speaker 6: very rarely go there in the winter time, and I

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Speaker 6: was wondering if there's some kind of camera I could

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Speaker 6: get because I have animal tracks, and like, I went

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Speaker 6: up there last week and then the RV cover blew

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Speaker 6: over and I just wanted to record auditor. So when

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Speaker 6: I go out there, I kind of have an idea

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Speaker 6: about what happened. But I don't have any Internet service

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Speaker 6: out there.

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Speaker 1: So you want a camera that operates without internet like

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Speaker 1: a So most of the security cameras want internet. Do

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Speaker 1: you want to be able to monitor this at all?

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Speaker 6: Well, I don't need to have it live like a

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Speaker 6: live seat or anything like that. It just for my

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Speaker 6: own comfort level to kind of get an idea about

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Speaker 6: what happened, or if there's some you know, traffic around

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Speaker 6: there that shouldn't be there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm trying to think. I know that there's I

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Speaker 1: mean most of the cameras. Do you have internet at

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Speaker 1: all to set up the camera?

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Speaker 6: I do? I mean I have a phone I could

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Speaker 6: like to try.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I'm thinking most of the cameras, like

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking of the wisecams, the r Low I mean,

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Speaker 1: have you looked at all these to see if they

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Speaker 1: would work with this situation? Have you looked at these brands?

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Speaker 6: No? No, no again?

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Speaker 1: So why's w y ze? Wisecam is the one that

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Speaker 1: first comes to mind?

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Speaker 12: Now?

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Speaker 1: I know the wysecam has an SD card that can

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Speaker 1: record continuously twenty four to seven. But to set up

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Speaker 1: this camera, you typically need internet. Now, there could be

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Speaker 1: there could be a scenario where you might be able

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Speaker 1: to set it up at your home and your WiFi

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Speaker 1: and then bring it over there and set and you know,

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Speaker 1: set it down there. But that's I can't guarantee that

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Speaker 1: camera is going to continue working when it's not connected

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Speaker 1: to Wi Fi. It may, it may for a certain

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Speaker 1: amount of time, but I don't know if it would

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Speaker 1: r Low. I know Arlow has at least one model.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at this. Uh, it's got an LTE model.

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Speaker 1: Would you want a camera that had built in cellular

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Speaker 1: like would that work? Or is there no internet connection?

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Speaker 1: Like no cellular connection in that area?

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Speaker 6: I have absolutely even like starlink or whatever that's called,

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Speaker 6: that's not even out there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so it's really remote, so you're just yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: So I think, honestly, I think the best the best

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Speaker 1: thing to do in this case is probably just go

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Speaker 1: on Amazon and just find have you looked on Amazon

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Speaker 1: for one of these little kind of security cameras that

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Speaker 1: has an SD card?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 1: No, okay, So I would I would just search on

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Speaker 1: their security camera SD card and see what comes up.

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Speaker 1: You're basically going to just have a camera that's mounted

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Speaker 1: that is just continuously recording, and that's it. And how

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Speaker 1: many days are you going in between visiting these places?

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Speaker 6: It depends maybe once every three weeks.

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Speaker 1: Okay, three weeks.

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Speaker 6: I mean you're gonna have to so during the winter time.

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Speaker 6: In the summer, I go there, you know, once a week.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So most of these cameras that are doing the

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Speaker 1: continuous recording, if it's just as a small cheap camera,

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Speaker 1: many of them use like a thirty two gigabyte card,

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Speaker 1: which is really only going to record several hours of video.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not sure that you can get you know,

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Speaker 1: three weeks worth of video on one of these little cameras.

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Speaker 6: Oh do you know if they if they have some

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Speaker 6: that are like sensor activated.

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Speaker 1: Well again, I mean you're getting into you know, these

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Speaker 1: cameras that are a little bit smarter if you're going

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Speaker 1: to start doing sensor because then it needs Now do

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Speaker 1: you have a power situation here, like do you have

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Speaker 1: power to this camera or is this on battery as well?

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Speaker 6: Oh I can, I can get power to it.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So I think the bottom line here is you're

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Speaker 1: going to need some sort of camera that is not

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Speaker 1: one of these main brands that like the Why's or

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Speaker 1: the r Low. I think it's just going to be

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Speaker 1: sort of a small off brand camera. The other thing,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you could set up a GoPro and just

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Speaker 1: put that on and just let that record. But again,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how long that's going to record, because

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Speaker 1: you also need something that's probably weather proof I'm guessing.

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Speaker 6: Right probably Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't have a camera off the top of

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Speaker 1: my head that's going to fit this solution because it

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Speaker 1: seems like it's a very unique thing. But the things

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Speaker 1: that I would look at is I would check Wise,

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Speaker 1: I would check Rlow, Arlo, and then I would also

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Speaker 1: there used to be a brand called Canary. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if they're still around anymore. Oh, yeah they are,

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Speaker 1: but they're okay. But that's going to be a cellular camera,

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Speaker 1: but you may be able to it may work without cellular.

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Speaker 1: If you look up that that's canary c A n

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Speaker 1: A R Y do I S. And there's also there's

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Speaker 1: also another one. There's so many. It's so funny when

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Speaker 1: I go to like c S, I see all these things.

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Speaker 1: There's another one called it's it's not kangaroo, it's can

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Speaker 1: garu k A n g A r o O. And

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Speaker 1: that one. What's unique about that is it may not

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Speaker 1: capture video per se, but it could capture like little

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Speaker 1: clips and things. And they've got a whole bunch of products.

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Speaker 1: They have an indoor outdoor camera as well. That might

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Speaker 1: work for you. So I gave you a lot of options.

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Speaker 1: It just really depends on kind of this a very

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Speaker 1: unique situation. So I think that it's just going to

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Speaker 1: be a matter of which one sort of you look

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Speaker 1: at the features, you say, oh that's gonna work. That's

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Speaker 1: gonna work for my situation here.

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Speaker 6: All right, Well, you gave me a lot of good information.

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Speaker 6: I appreciate it and appreciate your time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this one may this kangaroo may work. It looks

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Speaker 1: like you know, it may work for you, and it's

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Speaker 1: only sixty bucks, so definitely check that one out. All right,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for the question, Vicky and San Diego.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to rich on Tech. Coming up, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about the day of unplugging. Could you give up

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Speaker 1: your smartphone for twenty four hours? I don't know, rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech coming back at you after this. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking technology and

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Speaker 1: taking your calls at Triple eight. Rich one on one.

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Speaker 1: Weird Science one of my favorite movies as a kid.

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Speaker 1: You know, when I was a kid, they played the

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Speaker 1: same movies over and over. It's not like today, like

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Speaker 1: last night, where I'm looking through one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: streaming options to find something to watch. You just watched

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Speaker 1: whatever was on TV at the time. And Weird Science.

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Speaker 1: All these movies were just like on HBO and like

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Speaker 1: the cable channels, over and over and over, so you

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Speaker 1: really got to know them too much choice nowadays, that's

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Speaker 1: for sure. All right. Joining me now is Kim Annimberg Cavallo,

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Speaker 1: the executive director of the Unplugged Collaborative, and this year,

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Speaker 1: instead of the National Day of Unplugging. It is now

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Speaker 1: the Global Day of Unplugging, a day when you are

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Speaker 1: asked to go without your phone for a full twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours. It is happening from sundown Friday, March third

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Speaker 1: to sundown Saturday, March fourth. Kim, thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: joining me today.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much, Rich for having me.

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Speaker 1: Now, we've done stories on KTLA about this, and I

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Speaker 1: believe it was the day the year before last year

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Speaker 1: when I did this challenge and I gave up my phone.

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Speaker 1: I put it in a little bag and I did

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Speaker 1: not use it for a full twenty four hours. It

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Speaker 1: was tough. Do you hear that from folks?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. And the thing about Global Day of Unplugging

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Speaker 2: formerly National Day of Unplugging, is that it's really not

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Speaker 2: about doing a full twenty four our digital detoks. Some

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Speaker 2: people do that, but a lot of people will just

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Speaker 2: take the day to learn about their own habits, to

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Speaker 2: reflect on them, to do maybe a one hour, you know,

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Speaker 2: meal with friends without devices, walk their dog without their

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Speaker 2: phone for the first time. It's really almost like New

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Speaker 2: Year's Eve, where you know, we reflect on kind of

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Speaker 2: the year before, what were our tech habits and how

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Speaker 2: do we want to change them and improve them.

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Speaker 1: It's also kind of observing your own kind of reaction

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Speaker 1: to this situation, Like we just take for granted when

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Speaker 1: you leave your house, they say you only go back

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Speaker 1: for a couple of things your keys, your wallet, and

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Speaker 1: your phone. So it's this kind of habit that we've

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Speaker 1: formed where it's an important one, like you do need

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Speaker 1: to stay connected and if something ever happened, that's kind

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Speaker 1: of the argument. You got to have your phone. You

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Speaker 1: want to take a picture, you got to have your phone.

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Speaker 1: You want to pay for something, got to have your phone.

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Speaker 1: So tell me the benefits of unplugging from tech anology

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Speaker 1: for a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I mean, if we just get

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Speaker 2: to the basics of your physical well being. You know,

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Speaker 2: when we're sitting at our computers or hunching over our

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Speaker 2: phones many hours in the day, that really takes a

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Speaker 2: toll on your spine, your neck, your eyes. So there's that,

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Speaker 2: and then there's the mental well being, the sense of

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Speaker 2: you know, just being isolated, which seems interesting to most

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Speaker 2: of us because technology has given us this great gift

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Speaker 2: of being connected twenty four to seven. But if you're

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Speaker 2: scrolling on social media or you're incessantly answering texts or emails,

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Speaker 2: you can get a sense of being isolated and lonely.

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Speaker 2: And so what we encourage with Global dat I'm plugging

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Speaker 2: is really to you know, our mission is to elevate

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Speaker 2: human connection over digital engagement, and we want people to

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Speaker 2: come together to really embrace the people around them in person.

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Speaker 1: So what do you do? So tell me some of

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Speaker 1: the things. I know in years past you've had activities planned.

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Speaker 1: What can I do? I mean, do I go out

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Speaker 1: to dinner with friends? I mean these are things I

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Speaker 1: do typically, But do I leave my phone in the car? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I mean that's always great if you're going to have

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Speaker 2: dinner with friends. One of the fun games that I

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01:16:15,600 --> 01:16:17,920
Speaker 2: think has been going on for a decade now is

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01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:20,240
Speaker 2: people put their phones in the middle of the table

1501
01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:23,000
Speaker 2: and anyone who touches it first pays for dinner. Oh

1502
01:16:23,080 --> 01:16:27,360
Speaker 2: that's always a fun, fun game to play. And you know,

1503
01:16:27,439 --> 01:16:30,800
Speaker 2: there's a lot of ways, and we actually have the

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01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:33,360
Speaker 2: idea that it's gone from national and glo to global.

1505
01:16:33,439 --> 01:16:35,800
Speaker 2: We have a lot of people in different countries now

1506
01:16:35,840 --> 01:16:38,919
Speaker 2: that are taking this campaign and leading it in their country.

1507
01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:41,719
Speaker 2: So different parts of the world are doing different things,

1508
01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:45,360
Speaker 2: and we have an Unplugged Map, so people are putting

1509
01:16:45,360 --> 01:16:47,960
Speaker 2: their events on the map, so you can check out

1510
01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:50,479
Speaker 2: things that are happening in your city. And if you

1511
01:16:50,479 --> 01:16:52,400
Speaker 2: don't see something in your city and you want to

1512
01:16:52,400 --> 01:16:54,640
Speaker 2: put something on there, maybe you do a meetup in

1513
01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:57,360
Speaker 2: the park and you encourage people to come and take

1514
01:16:57,360 --> 01:17:00,000
Speaker 2: a hike, or there's a lot of really fun things.

1515
01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:02,240
Speaker 2: We have about two hundred plus ideas of things to

1516
01:17:02,320 --> 01:17:04,360
Speaker 2: do on Global Day of Unplugging or any day of

1517
01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:07,080
Speaker 2: the year that you'd like to unplug, and so there's

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01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:09,440
Speaker 2: a lot of really fun ideas.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we're talking to kim Annaberg Cavallo. She is

1520
01:17:13,479 --> 01:17:17,440
Speaker 1: the Unplugged Collaboratives executive director. We're speaking about the Global

1521
01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:22,240
Speaker 1: Day of Unplugging, which is happening next weekend Friday March

1522
01:17:22,320 --> 01:17:25,760
Speaker 1: third through Saturday March fourth. They're asking you to give

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01:17:25,840 --> 01:17:29,240
Speaker 1: up your phone technology for a day or even a

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01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:31,120
Speaker 1: couple hours for the day. I'd say go for the

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01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:33,360
Speaker 1: whole day. That's what I did, and it was it

1526
01:17:33,400 --> 01:17:35,720
Speaker 1: was a big challenge, but I really felt good afterwards.

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Speaker 1: The website is Unplugcollaborative dot org. So you're you know,

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01:17:41,439 --> 01:17:44,479
Speaker 1: you're a tech entrepreneur. I mean, you know, in charge

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01:17:44,479 --> 01:17:47,360
Speaker 1: of this nonprofit. I assume you have to use your

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01:17:47,360 --> 01:17:50,880
Speaker 1: phone a lot. So how do you monitor and kind

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01:17:50,920 --> 01:17:53,639
Speaker 1: of you know, balance your own tech habits when you're

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01:17:53,640 --> 01:17:55,320
Speaker 1: dealing with all of this stuff. I'm sure people are

1533
01:17:55,320 --> 01:17:57,120
Speaker 1: emailing you and texting you all day about this.

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01:17:57,760 --> 01:18:00,280
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's the ironic part about this time year.

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01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:04,320
Speaker 2: The first quarter of every year is really challenging, extra

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01:18:04,400 --> 01:18:06,920
Speaker 2: challenging for me because there is a lot of in

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01:18:07,040 --> 01:18:10,160
Speaker 2: bround inquiries and a lot of conversations going on online.

1538
01:18:10,880 --> 01:18:14,280
Speaker 2: I just have to be really laser focused on my

1539
01:18:14,320 --> 01:18:17,599
Speaker 2: digital wellbeing and you know, keep up the habits of

1540
01:18:18,120 --> 01:18:20,479
Speaker 2: For me, it's really important to sleep with my phone

1541
01:18:20,560 --> 01:18:24,240
Speaker 2: outside of the bedroom. That doesn't necessarily bother everyone, but

1542
01:18:24,280 --> 01:18:26,160
Speaker 2: for me it really does because it's not so much

1543
01:18:26,200 --> 01:18:28,840
Speaker 2: about falling asleep, but it's the morning that gets me,

1544
01:18:28,960 --> 01:18:31,000
Speaker 2: because the alarm clock if I use it from my

1545
01:18:31,080 --> 01:18:33,439
Speaker 2: phone and then I pick it up and then for

1546
01:18:33,520 --> 01:18:36,519
Speaker 2: some reason, you know, an hour later, I've gone all

1547
01:18:36,520 --> 01:18:39,879
Speaker 2: the way through Instagram, I've made deposits and bank accounts.

1548
01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:42,400
Speaker 2: I'm you know, it's just like searching for things to

1549
01:18:42,439 --> 01:18:44,599
Speaker 2: do on the phone, and I don't move as quickly

1550
01:18:44,600 --> 01:18:46,920
Speaker 2: and don't do all the things that my morning routine,

1551
01:18:46,960 --> 01:18:49,559
Speaker 2: which is meditate, do yoga, do the things that'll really

1552
01:18:49,560 --> 01:18:52,400
Speaker 2: set me up for a better day. So that's something

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01:18:52,400 --> 01:18:55,960
Speaker 2: that I had to just be extra cautious about during

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01:18:55,960 --> 01:19:00,599
Speaker 2: this time of the year. Yeah, I think that's that's

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01:19:00,600 --> 01:19:02,960
Speaker 2: what I think is the hardest part about it. And

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01:19:02,960 --> 01:19:05,360
Speaker 2: when you say, you know, oh, people take you know,

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01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:08,400
Speaker 2: the twenty four hours, I think the other thing that

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01:19:08,439 --> 01:19:11,120
Speaker 2: we really are careful about is not shaming people because

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01:19:11,160 --> 01:19:13,040
Speaker 2: if you do take it and it's hard, that is

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01:19:13,080 --> 01:19:15,280
Speaker 2: a challenge and it would be illuminating to learn from that.

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01:19:16,040 --> 01:19:17,840
Speaker 2: But if for some reason it doesn't work out for

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01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:21,160
Speaker 2: the full twenty four hours, that's informative too, and it's

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01:19:21,160 --> 01:19:23,760
Speaker 2: something to talk about. And you know, it's global day

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01:19:23,760 --> 01:19:25,760
Speaker 2: of I'm Plugging is one day a year because we

1565
01:19:25,880 --> 01:19:27,840
Speaker 2: do put a lot of effort into this, but it

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01:19:27,880 --> 01:19:30,439
Speaker 2: can be any day of the year, and we hope

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01:19:30,439 --> 01:19:33,479
Speaker 2: that people bring this habit into their daily lives as well.

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01:19:34,080 --> 01:19:36,880
Speaker 1: And I think learning from your habits is really the

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01:19:36,880 --> 01:19:39,559
Speaker 1: most important aspect of this is that, like you said,

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01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:42,160
Speaker 1: and everyone can identify with this. You know, you search

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01:19:42,240 --> 01:19:44,240
Speaker 1: for something to do on your phone. Sometimes I pick

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01:19:44,280 --> 01:19:45,680
Speaker 1: up my phone and I kind of forget what I

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01:19:45,720 --> 01:19:48,840
Speaker 1: even picked it up for. And I think notifications are

1574
01:19:48,880 --> 01:19:51,160
Speaker 1: a big part of that. You get one notification and

1575
01:19:51,200 --> 01:19:53,960
Speaker 1: it starts you down this path of Oh, let me

1576
01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:55,920
Speaker 1: check my Instagram now, let me check my Twitter now,

1577
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:57,880
Speaker 1: let me check my email now. And these are things

1578
01:19:57,880 --> 01:20:02,479
Speaker 1: that don't necessarily need to be checked incessantly all day long. Now.

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01:20:02,520 --> 01:20:04,640
Speaker 1: I remember when I posted about the National Day of

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01:20:04,720 --> 01:20:07,840
Speaker 1: Unplugging when it was still national instead of global. You know,

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01:20:07,920 --> 01:20:10,479
Speaker 1: some people were negative about it. They said, Rich, why

1582
01:20:10,560 --> 01:20:13,200
Speaker 1: why bother? My phone is my life, My phone is everything.

1583
01:20:13,240 --> 01:20:14,960
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem. I don't need to do this.

1584
01:20:15,760 --> 01:20:16,599
Speaker 1: What do you say to that?

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01:20:18,160 --> 01:20:21,439
Speaker 2: Well, you know, the idea that we think of a

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01:20:21,520 --> 01:20:24,040
Speaker 2: kind of like Earth Day, you know, I mean, we

1587
01:20:24,080 --> 01:20:28,120
Speaker 2: should all be, you know, thinking about the planet and

1588
01:20:28,680 --> 01:20:31,519
Speaker 2: conservation every day of the year. But the idea that

1589
01:20:31,560 --> 01:20:34,639
Speaker 2: we come together one time of year and really put

1590
01:20:34,680 --> 01:20:37,320
Speaker 2: our energy and our collective energy, and we get to

1591
01:20:37,400 --> 01:20:41,799
Speaker 2: bring our communities together around that idea is really powerful.

1592
01:20:42,120 --> 01:20:44,559
Speaker 2: And it's the same for Global Day of Unplugging. It's

1593
01:20:44,600 --> 01:20:49,000
Speaker 2: an opportunity to bring people together around an idea that

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01:20:49,400 --> 01:20:51,120
Speaker 2: you know, yes, we want to have these habits on

1595
01:20:51,640 --> 01:20:53,320
Speaker 2: the daily and even if you don't want to have

1596
01:20:53,360 --> 01:20:57,679
Speaker 2: those habits, that's habits, that's okay too. But to elevate

1597
01:20:57,760 --> 01:21:00,559
Speaker 2: human connection, I don't know how anybody can argue about

1598
01:21:00,760 --> 01:21:04,880
Speaker 2: against that, and we should, you know, think about just ways.

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01:21:04,920 --> 01:21:08,559
Speaker 2: I mean, we have people for the last fourteen years, schools,

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01:21:09,120 --> 01:21:14,920
Speaker 2: religious institutions, companies, other organizations, nonprofit organizations. They really take

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01:21:14,960 --> 01:21:18,880
Speaker 2: this opportunity every year to come together in person and

1602
01:21:18,920 --> 01:21:22,919
Speaker 2: do something screen free that will bring a deeper connection

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01:21:23,040 --> 01:21:25,120
Speaker 2: to each other and have fun.

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01:21:25,800 --> 01:21:30,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is important. Kim Annabercavallo, executive director of

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01:21:30,040 --> 01:21:32,599
Speaker 1: the Unplugged Collaborative, Thanks so much for joining me today.

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01:21:33,439 --> 01:21:36,840
Speaker 2: Thanks so much. Rich You're really, you know, help having

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01:21:36,880 --> 01:21:40,400
Speaker 2: people learn about technology and embrace technology and learn balance.

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01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:42,800
Speaker 2: You do such a great job and we so appreciate it.

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01:21:42,920 --> 01:21:45,920
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. And I'll be honest, I'm you know,

1610
01:21:46,520 --> 01:21:48,599
Speaker 1: I'm trying to learn the balance in my life as well.

1611
01:21:48,640 --> 01:21:52,120
Speaker 1: There are times when I feel like I am definitely

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01:21:52,160 --> 01:21:54,840
Speaker 1: overdoing it with the screens. It's part of my job.

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01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:57,439
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I like to disconnect as well,

1614
01:21:57,479 --> 01:21:58,960
Speaker 1: So if you want to do that. Global Day of

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01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:02,000
Speaker 1: Unplugging twenty twenty three is happening March third through fourth.

1616
01:22:02,280 --> 01:22:04,479
Speaker 1: I'll put a link to the website on mind. Just

1617
01:22:04,520 --> 01:22:07,760
Speaker 1: go to rich on tech dot tv if you want

1618
01:22:07,760 --> 01:22:10,960
Speaker 1: to participate and just do it. Just try it, Just

1619
01:22:11,040 --> 01:22:14,120
Speaker 1: try even even half the day. Believe me, it is

1620
01:22:14,160 --> 01:22:17,360
Speaker 1: a challenge. You will feel so good and you'll definitely

1621
01:22:18,240 --> 01:22:20,519
Speaker 1: your hands will feel like you're like, what's going on.

1622
01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:22,160
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do with my hands because

1623
01:22:22,160 --> 01:22:24,599
Speaker 1: you're so used to just picking up your phone. All right,

1624
01:22:24,640 --> 01:22:26,080
Speaker 1: more of your phone calls. We're going to close out

1625
01:22:26,080 --> 01:22:28,240
Speaker 1: the show after this triple eight Rich one O one

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

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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you how supermarkets, Yes, supermarkets are

1628
01:22:35,120 --> 01:22:38,400
Speaker 1: spying on you. You are listening to Rich on Tech.

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01:22:38,680 --> 01:22:43,120
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Doug is in Torrents. Doug.

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01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:45,240
Speaker 1: You're on with Rich Hey.

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01:22:45,120 --> 01:22:48,360
Speaker 12: Rich Hi is Doug. Yes, I live in a guest

1632
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:51,080
Speaker 12: house on my landlord has given me free direct TV

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01:22:51,280 --> 01:22:55,240
Speaker 12: for over fifteen years, and I do have a smart TV,

1634
01:22:55,400 --> 01:22:59,200
Speaker 12: but I'm looking for a way that I can have

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01:22:59,360 --> 01:23:02,320
Speaker 12: like a box or something where I can be able

1636
01:23:02,320 --> 01:23:07,479
Speaker 12: to stream things and watch like network television, because I

1637
01:23:08,560 --> 01:23:11,960
Speaker 12: DVR different shows and things and I'm just kind of

1638
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:14,000
Speaker 12: loss of which thing to go to next.

1639
01:23:14,880 --> 01:23:16,960
Speaker 1: Will you have internet even though you're not gonna have

1640
01:23:16,960 --> 01:23:17,880
Speaker 1: the Direct TV?

1641
01:23:18,520 --> 01:23:21,679
Speaker 12: Yeah, I already have internet with AT and T because

1642
01:23:21,680 --> 01:23:23,479
Speaker 12: I have a landline with my internet.

1643
01:23:23,640 --> 01:23:27,160
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, the good news is there are many many

1644
01:23:27,200 --> 01:23:30,920
Speaker 1: ways to get free streaming. Now you're gonna have to

1645
01:23:30,920 --> 01:23:32,880
Speaker 1: put up with ads if you don't want to pay,

1646
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:35,160
Speaker 1: and this is just a star so you can start

1647
01:23:35,160 --> 01:23:37,519
Speaker 1: with this and then decide what you want to pay

1648
01:23:37,520 --> 01:23:40,400
Speaker 1: for later on. It's been nice to have that Direct TV,

1649
01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:43,240
Speaker 1: but at this point, if you're not having that, you

1650
01:23:43,280 --> 01:23:47,400
Speaker 1: can still watch a lot of stuff, in fact, almost

1651
01:23:47,439 --> 01:23:49,880
Speaker 1: everything except you know, maybe some of the newest movies

1652
01:23:49,920 --> 01:23:52,760
Speaker 1: and things. But the difference is you're gonna have to

1653
01:23:52,760 --> 01:23:54,840
Speaker 1: put up with ads, and you're not gonna be able

1654
01:23:54,920 --> 01:23:57,360
Speaker 1: to DVR stuff unless you're paying. As far as I know,

1655
01:23:57,880 --> 01:24:02,960
Speaker 1: there's not really an online DVR that is free. But

1656
01:24:03,240 --> 01:24:05,639
Speaker 1: with that said, I mean the first place to start

1657
01:24:05,800 --> 01:24:08,840
Speaker 1: is a site like or an app called Pluto TV.

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01:24:09,439 --> 01:24:11,439
Speaker 1: So I'd recommend that you have a whole bunch of

1659
01:24:11,520 --> 01:24:13,519
Speaker 1: channels it's owned by Viacoms. You're gonna get a whole

1660
01:24:13,560 --> 01:24:16,200
Speaker 1: bunch of CBS stuff as well. The thing is, you

1661
01:24:16,240 --> 01:24:18,160
Speaker 1: need to get a streaming stick first. You said you

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01:24:18,200 --> 01:24:21,200
Speaker 1: have a smart TV, but I don't. I'd I'd rather

1663
01:24:21,240 --> 01:24:23,599
Speaker 1: you have a streaming stick. I think that either Roku

1664
01:24:23,760 --> 01:24:25,639
Speaker 1: or fire TV stick is going to be the best.

1665
01:24:25,960 --> 01:24:27,880
Speaker 1: You can get one for very inexpensive, you know, the

1666
01:24:27,880 --> 01:24:30,519
Speaker 1: fire TV stick maybe thirty five dollars, and then you

1667
01:24:30,560 --> 01:24:34,360
Speaker 1: can start to download these things. Pluto TV's my first stop.

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01:24:34,920 --> 01:24:38,160
Speaker 1: I'd install YouTube. YouTube has a ton of stuff. They

1669
01:24:38,160 --> 01:24:41,280
Speaker 1: have a ton of free streaming stuff. Live streams is

1670
01:24:41,320 --> 01:24:43,479
Speaker 1: on there, so you can watch a lot of live

1671
01:24:43,479 --> 01:24:47,639
Speaker 1: streaming news through there. To Be to Be, I believe

1672
01:24:47,760 --> 01:24:52,040
Speaker 1: is owned by Fox and so to Be you're gonna

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01:24:52,040 --> 01:24:54,400
Speaker 1: get a lot of the Fox programming and they're gonna

1674
01:24:54,439 --> 01:24:56,200
Speaker 1: have a whole bunch of stuff to watch for free

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01:24:56,240 --> 01:25:00,200
Speaker 1: as well. Then Amazon has something called free V f

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01:25:00,360 --> 01:25:03,720
Speaker 1: R E E V E E Amazon Free V and

1677
01:25:03,760 --> 01:25:05,680
Speaker 1: so you're gonna get a whole bunch of the Amazon

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01:25:05,920 --> 01:25:10,639
Speaker 1: stuff streaming free through there. You see where I'm going here,

1679
01:25:10,640 --> 01:25:12,479
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff that you can get. Now

1680
01:25:12,520 --> 01:25:16,400
Speaker 1: there's another site or another app called Crackle, and so

1681
01:25:16,560 --> 01:25:19,880
Speaker 1: Crackle will have a lot of Hollywood movies, so you

1682
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:23,680
Speaker 1: can get a whole bunch of stuff there. Sometimes you're

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01:25:23,720 --> 01:25:25,679
Speaker 1: gonna have to deal with ads on there as well.

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01:25:25,920 --> 01:25:29,400
Speaker 1: And Crackle at one point was I guess it's still

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01:25:29,439 --> 01:25:32,160
Speaker 1: owned by Sony. Sony, so Crackle is Sony, so you'll

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01:25:32,160 --> 01:25:34,120
Speaker 1: probably get a lot of Sony things there as well.

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01:25:35,200 --> 01:25:36,880
Speaker 1: A new one that I talked about on the show

1688
01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:40,720
Speaker 1: last week is called Sling Free Stream. So this is

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01:25:41,080 --> 01:25:44,599
Speaker 1: Sling TV. They have something called free Stream, which is

1690
01:25:44,680 --> 01:25:49,679
Speaker 1: their free streaming service, and you can just download the app.

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01:25:49,720 --> 01:25:52,519
Speaker 1: It's the Sling app and you can watch that for

1692
01:25:52,600 --> 01:25:56,479
Speaker 1: free as well. And finally there's one called Zoomo x

1693
01:25:56,600 --> 01:26:00,160
Speaker 1: U m O. This is owned by Comcast, and you

1694
01:26:00,200 --> 01:26:02,240
Speaker 1: can get that and they have a bunch of news

1695
01:26:02,320 --> 01:26:06,719
Speaker 1: programming on there. Now, if you're in the Los Angeles area,

1696
01:26:07,640 --> 01:26:09,760
Speaker 1: you might figure out, well, how do I watch like

1697
01:26:09,800 --> 01:26:12,559
Speaker 1: my over the air channels? Many of the over the

1698
01:26:12,600 --> 01:26:14,839
Speaker 1: air channels will be included in some sort of app.

1699
01:26:15,479 --> 01:26:17,760
Speaker 1: But if you want something like KTLA, the channel that

1700
01:26:17,840 --> 01:26:20,759
Speaker 1: I'm on, we have our own app. It's called KTLA Plus,

1701
01:26:21,360 --> 01:26:24,439
Speaker 1: and so you can stream the news on there, and

1702
01:26:24,479 --> 01:26:26,439
Speaker 1: I was doing this yesterday and it works just fine,

1703
01:26:26,960 --> 01:26:29,280
Speaker 1: and you can download it. It's totally free. And again,

1704
01:26:30,040 --> 01:26:32,400
Speaker 1: this is a lot of stuff that I'm giving you.

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Speaker 1: You don't necessarily need to download all of these, but

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01:26:34,840 --> 01:26:36,840
Speaker 1: this is giving you a wide range of options. Now,

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01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:39,400
Speaker 1: if you're telling me you want to stream sports, like

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01:26:39,439 --> 01:26:42,599
Speaker 1: if you're really into following a certain sport, you may

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01:26:42,640 --> 01:26:46,600
Speaker 1: have to subscribe to that sports streaming package, and a

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01:26:46,640 --> 01:26:49,800
Speaker 1: lot of the major league sports have them. The challenges

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01:26:50,080 --> 01:26:53,240
Speaker 1: if you're in a local market, many times the games

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01:26:53,280 --> 01:26:56,240
Speaker 1: that are played locally you can't watch. So if it's

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01:26:56,840 --> 01:26:59,639
Speaker 1: a game that's happening here in Los Angeles, you probably

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01:26:59,680 --> 01:27:01,120
Speaker 1: won't be able to watch that. Most of the time,

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01:27:01,120 --> 01:27:03,880
Speaker 1: you can watch the out of town games, so that

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01:27:03,920 --> 01:27:06,120
Speaker 1: gets a little bit tricky. Sports definitely gets a little

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01:27:06,120 --> 01:27:09,400
Speaker 1: tricky when you want free, but any other programming, there's

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01:27:09,479 --> 01:27:11,680
Speaker 1: really a lot of it. And I mentioned earlier when

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01:27:11,720 --> 01:27:13,640
Speaker 1: it comes to things like new movies, you may not

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01:27:13,760 --> 01:27:16,679
Speaker 1: be able to access those per se, but I can't

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01:27:16,720 --> 01:27:20,240
Speaker 1: even access them unless I pay. So you also mentioned

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01:27:20,240 --> 01:27:22,720
Speaker 1: some sort of box to get everything for free. I

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01:27:22,760 --> 01:27:24,720
Speaker 1: know those are out there. I do not recommend them.

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01:27:25,080 --> 01:27:27,600
Speaker 1: People call them the black boxes or whatever, but it

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01:27:27,600 --> 01:27:31,559
Speaker 1: gets you know, all IPTV boxes. I don't recommend those.

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01:27:31,600 --> 01:27:33,800
Speaker 1: They're operating in a gray area. They may work, they

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01:27:33,800 --> 01:27:36,000
Speaker 1: may not. It's not going to be fun. The other

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01:27:36,040 --> 01:27:39,640
Speaker 1: thing I like about the Amazon Fire TV stick is

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01:27:39,640 --> 01:27:42,280
Speaker 1: that includes a web browser. So anything that you may

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01:27:42,280 --> 01:27:44,679
Speaker 1: not be able to access through an app, you can

1731
01:27:44,760 --> 01:27:47,320
Speaker 1: just bring up on the web browser and so you

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01:27:47,360 --> 01:27:49,960
Speaker 1: can stream pretty much anything that's online, you'll be able

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01:27:50,000 --> 01:27:53,120
Speaker 1: to view it through there. So, Doug, that's a great question.

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01:27:53,200 --> 01:27:55,080
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you have to give up your free direct

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01:27:55,120 --> 01:27:58,479
Speaker 1: TV after so many years. Ugh. Free is always the best,

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01:27:58,520 --> 01:28:00,840
Speaker 1: isn't it. But hopefully I get you some apps that

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01:28:00,880 --> 01:28:04,439
Speaker 1: you can get started on your streaming journey. All right,

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01:28:04,520 --> 01:28:07,600
Speaker 1: before we go, let me tell you about the supermarket.

1739
01:28:07,720 --> 01:28:10,080
Speaker 1: Can you believe that your supermarket is spying on you? Yes,

1740
01:28:10,240 --> 01:28:14,960
Speaker 1: it is big supermarket companies. They you know that little

1741
01:28:15,040 --> 01:28:17,400
Speaker 1: club card that you scan when you check out, That

1742
01:28:17,560 --> 01:28:21,080
Speaker 1: is not to give you coupons and to give you discounts. Yes,

1743
01:28:21,160 --> 01:28:23,840
Speaker 1: that's what it's doing on the surface, But what it's

1744
01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:27,360
Speaker 1: really doing is building a very big picture of who

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01:28:27,360 --> 01:28:30,400
Speaker 1: you are and what you shop for. And what you purchased.

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01:28:30,920 --> 01:28:33,080
Speaker 1: And that's the reason why these companies want you to

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01:28:33,080 --> 01:28:35,559
Speaker 1: sign up. Almost every grocery store at this point, almost

1748
01:28:35,600 --> 01:28:38,720
Speaker 1: every store at this point, you go in there and

1749
01:28:38,760 --> 01:28:40,519
Speaker 1: they say, hey, we'll give you, you know, five percent

1750
01:28:40,520 --> 01:28:42,799
Speaker 1: off or ten percent off or you know, a coupon

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01:28:42,880 --> 01:28:45,320
Speaker 1: for signing up for our club card. And it used

1752
01:28:45,320 --> 01:28:47,720
Speaker 1: to be fun when these things first came out. It

1753
01:28:47,800 --> 01:28:49,960
Speaker 1: was great, but you had a whole keychain of remember

1754
01:28:50,000 --> 01:28:51,960
Speaker 1: your keychain was just filled with like one hundred and

1755
01:28:51,960 --> 01:28:54,080
Speaker 1: fifty different club cards. They were all those tiny little

1756
01:28:54,080 --> 01:28:56,880
Speaker 1: things and they defined who you were, you know, whether

1757
01:28:56,920 --> 01:28:59,680
Speaker 1: you had your you know, whatever company that you like

1758
01:28:59,800 --> 01:29:03,599
Speaker 1: to shop at, well these cards. This is a great article.

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01:29:03,640 --> 01:29:06,439
Speaker 1: It's from the markup dot org and it says, forget

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01:29:06,439 --> 01:29:09,000
Speaker 1: milk and egg. Supermarkets are having a fire sale on

1761
01:29:09,120 --> 01:29:12,000
Speaker 1: data about you. Now. They focus on Kroger because it's

1762
01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:15,240
Speaker 1: one of the biggest grocery companies. But what they say

1763
01:29:15,360 --> 01:29:17,439
Speaker 1: is that when you walk into that store, and this

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01:29:17,520 --> 01:29:19,880
Speaker 1: happens with a lot of stores, there are things called

1765
01:29:19,920 --> 01:29:23,840
Speaker 1: bluetooth beacons which record your presence. They ping your phone

1766
01:29:23,960 --> 01:29:26,759
Speaker 1: and that will help you get personalized offers. Your location

1767
01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:29,680
Speaker 1: in the store is tracked. Maybe even your facial recognition

1768
01:29:29,760 --> 01:29:33,479
Speaker 1: data is tracked. Once you use that membership card, all

1769
01:29:33,600 --> 01:29:37,960
Speaker 1: that information gets siphoned off into this big data set

1770
01:29:38,120 --> 01:29:41,360
Speaker 1: and they know exactly what you purchased, and they can

1771
01:29:41,439 --> 01:29:44,000
Speaker 1: help mix that with other data. So they may take

1772
01:29:44,360 --> 01:29:46,759
Speaker 1: data that they know about you from other sources, whether

1773
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:50,760
Speaker 1: it's your credit report or whether it's your marketing databases

1774
01:29:50,800 --> 01:29:53,559
Speaker 1: that they've purchased from other companies, and they will mix

1775
01:29:53,640 --> 01:29:55,760
Speaker 1: all that stuff together to know that you just had

1776
01:29:55,760 --> 01:29:58,439
Speaker 1: a kid, you need diapers and baby formula, and they're

1777
01:29:58,439 --> 01:30:00,360
Speaker 1: going to send you more ads for that and or

1778
01:30:00,600 --> 01:30:03,280
Speaker 1: coupons for that stuff. If you look closely at a

1779
01:30:03,320 --> 01:30:06,000
Speaker 1: majority of these postcards you get in the mail from

1780
01:30:06,040 --> 01:30:10,000
Speaker 1: big companies, they are printed uniquely for you. I got

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01:30:10,000 --> 01:30:11,760
Speaker 1: one the other day from a company, and it was

1782
01:30:11,800 --> 01:30:14,360
Speaker 1: filled with just the products that I had purchased from

1783
01:30:14,400 --> 01:30:17,559
Speaker 1: that retailer. And it looked like the same thing they

1784
01:30:17,600 --> 01:30:20,559
Speaker 1: send to everyone, but no, it was specifically just for me.

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01:30:22,240 --> 01:30:25,879
Speaker 1: The Markup says on a website promoting Kroger's data business,

1786
01:30:26,120 --> 01:30:31,240
Speaker 1: they have thirty five plus petabytes of customer data and

1787
01:30:31,320 --> 01:30:33,920
Speaker 1: this is data that they say is sixty six percent

1788
01:30:34,040 --> 01:30:37,320
Speaker 1: larger than the US Library of Congress's digital collection, which

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01:30:37,360 --> 01:30:40,000
Speaker 1: clocked in at twenty one petabytes in twenty twenty two.

1790
01:30:40,360 --> 01:30:43,600
Speaker 1: So a grocery company knows more about Americans than the

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01:30:43,640 --> 01:30:46,960
Speaker 1: Library of Congress information. Yeah, these companies have a thing

1792
01:30:47,040 --> 01:30:49,840
Speaker 1: or two. They know what they're doing. They employ very

1793
01:30:49,880 --> 01:30:53,160
Speaker 1: smart data scientists to get us to spend our hard

1794
01:30:53,240 --> 01:30:55,479
Speaker 1: earned cash. If you don't think it's happening to you,

1795
01:30:56,000 --> 01:31:00,080
Speaker 1: it absolutely is. Don't be fooled. All right, thanks so

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01:31:00,160 --> 01:31:02,360
Speaker 1: much for listening this week. That is Gonna do It.

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01:31:03,080 --> 01:31:05,760
Speaker 1: I know we had a couple of technical difficulties this show,

1798
01:31:05,800 --> 01:31:08,439
Speaker 1: but thanks for holding on and hanging on and listening

1799
01:31:08,439 --> 01:31:10,360
Speaker 1: to my dad jokes at the beginning of the show

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Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for this week. You can find

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Speaker 1: me on social media. I am at rich on Tech.

1802
01:31:16,520 --> 01:31:18,519
Speaker 1: I put everything we talked about today on my website,

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01:31:18,640 --> 01:31:20,760
Speaker 1: rich on tech dot TV. Don't forget to check out

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01:31:20,800 --> 01:31:24,200
Speaker 1: my KTLA TV segments. My name is rich Demiro. Thanks

1805
01:31:24,240 --> 01:31:26,320
Speaker 1: so much for listening. There are so many ways you

1806
01:31:26,360 --> 01:31:28,760
Speaker 1: can spend a rainy day and your time. I do

1807
01:31:28,840 --> 01:31:31,240
Speaker 1: appreciate you spending it right here with me. I'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you real soon.