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Speaker 1: Amazon sets a date for Prime Day twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: My international travel tips fresh off my trip to Rome,

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Speaker 2: Sell your data?

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Speaker 1: Plus your tech questions answered? What's going on on rich Damiro?

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Speaker 1: And this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I

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Speaker 1: talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about.

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Speaker 2: It's also the place where I answer the questions you

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Speaker 2: send me. Once again. My name Rich Damiro. My name

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Speaker 2: Rich Damiro.

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Speaker 1: My name is Rich Dmiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel

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Speaker 1: five in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: So, as I mentioned in.

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Speaker 1: The opening, I did just get back from Rome this week,

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Speaker 1: and uh, what a whirlwind trip. It's actually the longest

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Speaker 1: I've ever taken off from work in my entire life.

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Speaker 2: Maybe when I had my kids, I might have taken

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Speaker 1: So anyway, I had already It's kind of a long story,

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Speaker 1: but I was already going to New York and New Jersey,

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Speaker 1: and then my wife had something come up in Rome

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Speaker 1: for work, and so then we decided, well, we're kind

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Speaker 1: But it required staying out for very long It required

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Speaker 1: because their passports weren't up to date. And my family

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Speaker 1: they all said, yeah, yeah, we'll watch your kids, but

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Speaker 1: no one would actually commit to anything specific, like where

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Speaker 1: a leap of faith to say, Okay, we're gonna leave

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Speaker 2: It all worked out. They had a fantastic time.

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Speaker 1: They hung out with their cousins, their aunts, their uncles,

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Speaker 1: fantastic time. It was amazing. It was only four days.

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Speaker 1: I need way way longer in that country. But I

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Speaker 1: did you know while I was there. It's just one

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Speaker 1: of these things. Number One, I love international travel because

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Speaker 1: it gives you so much perspective. I think any travel

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Speaker 1: resets you into new ways of thinking. It builds new

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Speaker 1: Any travel, I mean literally going to another city will

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Speaker 1: The food was amazing. Everything was really fun. While I

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Speaker 1: should do a segment for KTLA on all of these

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Speaker 1: things that I packed. I really tried to pack light.

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Speaker 1: Severance on Apple TV plus. I binge that I haven't

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Speaker 2: Any spoilers, but it was a good show. All right.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about my international tech tips and

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Speaker 1: with with Amazon Prime Day. So Prime Day is happening

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Speaker 1: on July twelfth and thirteenth this year.

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Speaker 2: And Prime Day, you know, it used to get a

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Speaker 1: They've got brands, their brands, it says top national brands,

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Speaker 1: Already, Amazon devices are on sale. You can save a

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Speaker 1: And if you want ten dollars off Amazon, you can

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Speaker 2: I said I was going to do my Rome.

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Speaker 1: Virginia says, hey, Rich, thank you for all of your

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Speaker 1: valuable tech info. My husband and I are empty nesters

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Speaker 1: We just moved into a new home and it appears

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Speaker 1: our vast computer protection has expired. We just want to

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Speaker 1: know what's the best, non expensive program for our home computer.

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Speaker 1: We don't use it for business, just household bills and info.

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Speaker 1: T charge you ten dollars a day. However, that's going

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Speaker 1: to add up really fast. Verizon's international plan is not

435
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Speaker 1: very good. They only give you half a gig of

436
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Speaker 1: high speed data a day for ten dollars. That's not

437
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Speaker 1: very good. I think you can do better than that

438
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Speaker 1: with an eSIM and so this was the first time

439
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Speaker 1: that I purchased an eSIM right for my phone. It's

440
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Speaker 1: supported on newer Samsung iPhone and Pixel models. I used

441
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Speaker 1: an app called Errolo air Alo, and you buy the

442
00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,880
Speaker 1: SIM card right from your smartphone. It pops it into

443
00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,480
Speaker 1: your esimps. There's no physical card, it just activates the

444
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Speaker 1: eSIM on your phone. I paid sixteen dollars for ten

445
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Speaker 1: gigs of data. In fact, I might have only paid

446
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Speaker 1: thirteen dollars because Aerolow has like a referral thing, so

447
00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:28,760
Speaker 1: if you put in a referral code, you get three

448
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Speaker 1: dollars off. Mine is rich five three seven five. You

449
00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:35,600
Speaker 1: can use that for three dollars off, and it was

450
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Speaker 1: just fantastic. The data lasts thir thirty days, so I

451
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Speaker 1: got ten gigs of data for the price of less

452
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Speaker 1: than two days that Verizon wanted.

453
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Speaker 2: To charge me.

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Speaker 1: So now my wife is a little scared of the

455
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Speaker 1: eSIM so she stuck with Verizon. She got charged ten

456
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Speaker 1: dollars a day. She doesn't do as much social media

457
00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:56,360
Speaker 1: as me, so it was fine. But realistically I would

458
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Speaker 1: definitely check out the eSIM thing.

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Speaker 2: It's so much better.

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Speaker 1: The only downside to them is the fact that you're

461
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Speaker 1: going to want to turn off your primary simcard, which

462
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:05,560
Speaker 1: is your US one. You can do that right from

463
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Speaker 1: your phone, and that just means you're not gonna get

464
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Speaker 1: phone calls or traditional traditional text messages you'll still get

465
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Speaker 1: I message, but you just won't get regular texts all right.

466
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Speaker 1: The other thing turn off cellular uploads for things like

467
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Speaker 1: Google Photos or Dropbox, because you don't want that to

468
00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:24,800
Speaker 1: be gobbling up all of your data. Power adapter. I

469
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Speaker 1: use this model from a company called Epica. It was

470
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Speaker 1: top rated on Amazon. It's got a standard plug which

471
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Speaker 1: you can plug stuff into, along with four USB ports

472
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Speaker 1: and a USB C port. That was twenty three dollars. Siri,

473
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:40,040
Speaker 1: I gotta say, really, really did well. I use Siri

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Speaker 1: the entire time to convert money, to convert text, like

475
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:46,919
Speaker 1: to say, like, Hciri, how do I say, can I

476
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,520
Speaker 1: get the bill please? In Italian? And boom, she just

477
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Speaker 1: comes up with the answer. It's very very good. Google

478
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,320
Speaker 1: Assistant will do the same thing. Make sure you have

479
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Speaker 1: an external battery pack and walking directions if you have

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Speaker 1: an Apple Watch. I got to say, I'm not a

481
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Speaker 1: huge fan of Apple Maps, but it came in real

482
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Speaker 1: handy with the Apple Watch because you can just tap

483
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Speaker 1: the little crown on your Apple Watch and just say,

484
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Speaker 1: you know, give me walking directions to the coliseum, and

485
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Speaker 1: it will just spring into action, give you those walking

486
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Speaker 1: directions right on your wrist and your watch will just

487
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Speaker 1: vibrate when it's time to take a left or right.

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Speaker 1: It's a really really cool system and it's fantastic for that.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, I hope you enjoyed my tips.

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Speaker 1: I've got it all on my Instagram at rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: I literally did the entire trip from start to finish

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Speaker 1: on Instagram.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I didn't do it live in real time because I

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Speaker 1: wanted to enjoy my trip, so a lot of people

496
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Speaker 1: were confused or like, wait, rich how am I seeing

497
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Speaker 1: you on TV when you're posting about Rome right now?

498
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Speaker 1: It's like, well, I posted after I went because I

499
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Speaker 1: was like a couple of days behind with my post.

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Speaker 1: Because while I was in Rome, I truly wanted to

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Speaker 1: just be immersed in what I was doing, and so

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Speaker 1: I took a lot of pictures with the intent of

503
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Speaker 1: later instagramming them. Typically I do things in more real time,

504
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 1: but I tried something different this time where I just

505
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,200
Speaker 1: kind of just lived in the moment, took a bunch

506
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Speaker 1: of pictures and said, oh, that'll be interesting for Instagram later,

507
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 1: and then I posted them all as one big story.

508
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 1: So you can see my entire Rome highlights on my

509
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Speaker 1: Instagram go to my profile page and just click under

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Speaker 1: the highlights it says Rome and it's right there.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty awesome.

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's get to the next question from ron.

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Speaker 1: Ron says, Hey, I'm a senior looking for a three

514
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Speaker 1: and one device that will act as my voice, cable

515
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 1: telephone modem, cable modem, and Wi Fi router, all in

516
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Speaker 1: a single unit slash device. Currently have three devices and

517
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Speaker 1: would like to move to one. I've contacted my cable

518
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Speaker 1: company for assistance. They were no help at all. Oh, surprise, surprise.

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00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,560
Speaker 1: I've searched the Internet and it's frustrating to figure out

520
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 1: what to buy that would be compatible with my cable carrier,

521
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,120
Speaker 1: which is Cox. Can you direct me to someone who

522
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 1: sells a three and one device? Ron Ron, You need

523
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:04,320
Speaker 1: to just search COS approved modems, Cox approved modems, and

524
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 1: when you go there, what you want to do is

525
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:11,159
Speaker 1: look for a modem that provides how do you say it, telephony.

526
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Speaker 2: So if you go on that site.

527
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Speaker 1: So now I'm on that site and I type in

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Speaker 1: telephone T E L E, P H O N, and

529
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 1: now it says combination Internet and telephone modems purchased are

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Speaker 1: not certified for use with the cocks Network. Let's see,

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Speaker 1: oh interesting, Oh so hold on, interesting, that's combination.

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Speaker 2: Received a new from third party retailers.

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Speaker 1: If you'd not I said, okay, it's weird because it

534
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Speaker 1: says there is one that.

535
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Speaker 2: Says that there is one that.

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Speaker 1: Works with it, the RS Surfboard TM thirty four O two.

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Speaker 1: It says, oh see, hmm interesting. Okay, yeah, Ron, I'm

538
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Speaker 1: not sure you're going to find something from a third party.

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00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 2: It looks like you have to get it. Let's see.

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00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it looks like you have to get it

541
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 1: from them, and you're not gonna it's either it's either

542
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:11,679
Speaker 1: telephone and modem or Wi Fi and modem. You're not

543
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: gonna get all three in one, it looks like from them,

544
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Speaker 1: So I think that's why you had so much trouble.

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00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: So it looks like I would just get one of

546
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: these if you want to purchase it, do the math

547
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 1: on the break even. Otherwise, maybe just continue with what

548
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:28,120
Speaker 1: you're doing. It looks like you can consolidate a non

549
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 1: Wi Fi Internet and telephone modem into one, but then

550
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: you'd still need to put a Wi Fi router attached

551
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Speaker 1: to that. I'd recommend VILLO v I L O or

552
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Speaker 1: eero E E r O as.

553
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,879
Speaker 2: Your solution there. But yeah, this is it's tricky stuff.

554
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 1: These cable companies don't really they don't like when people

555
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,360
Speaker 1: use their own stuff because it's more work for them.

556
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 2: It's kind of it's kind of annoying.

557
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 1: If there's trouble with it, they say, oh, they put

558
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 1: their hands up and they say, sorry, we can't help you.

559
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,440
Speaker 1: That's not ours, that's not our equipment. Sorry you went

560
00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,120
Speaker 1: you went out and bought your own stuff.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: For me, I feel like mine's included. Whatever I have

563
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,880
Speaker 1: is included in my internet service. It's not like it's

564
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 1: not a line item that says I'm paying ten bucks

565
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: a month to rent this thing. So if you're not paying,

566
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Speaker 1: then just stick with what they're giving you. But if

567
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 1: you are paying, yeah, do the break even if you're

568
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Speaker 1: If it's ten bucks a month and the new one

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Speaker 1: is uh is you know, one hundred and twenty dollars,

570
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: that's twelve months. If you're gonna stick with them for

571
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:27,760
Speaker 1: twelve months, then you're all good. So it's it's often

572
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 1: these tech things are often a math equation.

573
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 2: Just just figure out what the math is.

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00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: But good question, Good luck, with that, all right, T Mobile, Oh,

575
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 1: these cellular companies, there's there's only three of them, three

576
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,679
Speaker 1: big ones, and they are tricky because even like with

577
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,199
Speaker 1: the with the data, with the international data, it's just

578
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 1: like it's just it's so tricky that Verizon charges you

579
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 1: ten dollars at and T charge you ten dollars. T

580
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 1: Mobile doesn't charge you anything to use your phone internationally,

581
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 1: but then they charge you for text, or not for text,

582
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: but for phone calls. It looks like so if you

583
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 1: look at the T Mobile International they charge it's it's free,

584
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,639
Speaker 1: free data and texting while traveling without roaming fees, but

585
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: they're going to charge you for phone calls. And yeah,

586
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 1: you're probably not going to get that many phone calls,

587
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,120
Speaker 1: but it's twenty five cents a minute, so unlimited basic data,

588
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,959
Speaker 1: unlimited texting, and twenty five cents a minute calling. That's

589
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 1: not so again, it's like all these little things and

590
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: that's up to five gigs of high speed data, which

591
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 1: is pretty good, but that's only over you know, like

592
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: I guess however long you're over there a month, I

593
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 1: don't know. So it's it's so tricky. This's why I'm

594
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: saying it's just so nice to have the e SIM

595
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 1: thing such a better option. Anyway, this is unrelated to

596
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about with T Mobile. T Mobile is

597
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: now going to sell some of your usage data to

598
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: advertisers unless you opt out. So this was first noticed

599
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: by a website called ad Exchanger, And the bottom line

600
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: is that you know, we we've heard of third party cookies,

601
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: we've heard of tracking online, but your ISP, the person

602
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: who actually supplies your Internet to you, whether it is

603
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: Wi Fi, whether it is cellular, whether it is your work,

604
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: whoever is giving you that connection to the Internet, they

605
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: see everything no matter what, unless you're using a VPN,

606
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: but that's for another conversation. But if you're just connected

607
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: to the Internet, pretty much, whatever website you're going to,

608
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: whatever you're doing on there, that activity is visible to

609
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: your ISP Internet service provider. Now, the level of detail

610
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 1: may not be one hundred percent available to them. So

611
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 1: they may see that you go to Google, but once

612
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: you start searching on Google, they may not be able

613
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 1: to see the actual search term because Google then encrypts

614
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: what you're doing between them and your computer, so they

615
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 1: may not be able to see exact details. But that's

616
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: where those third party cookies come into play. So those

617
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: third party cookies are on websites, they report back to

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Speaker 1: the big marketing companies and say, oh, Rich was shopping

619
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: for a comforter on overstock, so you should sell him

620
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: comforter ads. Things like that. People are getting hip to

621
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: those or blocking more of them. The web browsers are

622
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: blocking more of them. But again, at the end of

623
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Speaker 1: the day, your ISP does have a lot of information,

624
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: and so these ISPs are sitting there going hmm, can

625
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: we sell this information? And sure enough, T Mobile is

626
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: one of those companies that's doing that. I think verizon

627
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 1: Ate and T are also doing same things. But what

628
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 1: T Mobile is doing that's a little interesting is that

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Speaker 1: they're doing what's called App Insights, So they're layering on

630
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: top the apps that you have installed on your phone.

631
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: And before you get all bent out of shape, this

632
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 1: is primarily gear to Android users at this point because

633
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: iPhone is a little bit more locked down when it

634
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: comes to these privacy things. I think that Android has

635
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: gotten a lot better, but the iPhone is not included

636
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: in this program. So it's called App Insights, and it

637
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 1: pretty much layers on top of all the stuff you're

638
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: doing on your T mobile connection, the apps that are

639
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: installed in your phone. So if they see that you

640
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: have a furniture store app on your phone, another furniture

641
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: furniture store might say, hmm, Rich just installed two furniture

642
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: app furniture store apps. Let's send him an advertisement for

643
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 1: our furniture store app, because clearly he's shopping for furniture.

644
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 1: So again, it's just one more way of selling you stuff.

645
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: If you want to opt out of this, and I

646
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 1: probably think you should, you can download the Magenta Ads

647
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: Platform Choices app. It's available on both Android and iOS,

648
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 1: and so that will let you opt out of this program.

649
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: You probably should if you care about your privacy. My

650
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 1: thing is, you know, look the whole privacy thing online, Like,

651
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: I get it.

652
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 2: It's scary, it's.

653
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,479
Speaker 1: It's you know, there's definitely a lot of implications about it,

654
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: and you can say, well, I'm not doing anything that

655
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Speaker 1: anyone cares about.

656
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 2: Big deal.

657
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, they're selling you stuff.

658
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 1: And so if you want to save your money and

659
00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: not be berated and what's the word barraged with ads,

660
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: then you know, as much as you can keep yourself

661
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: private online, I don't think you need to use a

662
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: VPN twenty four to seven. You know, that's kind of

663
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: like the most secure I guess you can be. But

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Speaker 1: I do think that, you know, blocking third party cookies

665
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 1: is good blocking a lot of these ads that are

666
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 1: online using you know, private search engines if you want to.

667
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: I think that Google is still the best search engine.

668
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 1: But again, the little ways that you can protect yourself,

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00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: especially with the blocking third party cookies, is.

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Speaker 2: A good thing.

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00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: I talked about this, I think in my last podcast.

672
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: But if you on Chrome can block third party cookies

673
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: by going to the settings, which is by clicking those

674
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: three little dots next to your username or your user

675
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,479
Speaker 1: profile I should say, in the upper right hand corner,

676
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,719
Speaker 1: then clicking settings. Then you go to Privacy and Security

677
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: and it says cookies and other site data, and then

678
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 1: you say block third party cookies. And that's just a simple,

679
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: simple way that you can kind of protect a little

680
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: bit of your web browsing online. And so that's just

681
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: one thing you can do. I think there's a lot

682
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: more that you can do as well, but that's just

683
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Speaker 1: one simple, simple way to do it.

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Speaker 2: All right, Let's get to the next question here.

685
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: Let's see Paullette says I've been thinking about ditching Spectrum

686
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: and getting the Verizon five G Home Internet. The only

687
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: problem is it's not offered at my address. The Verizon

688
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: LTE Home Internet is offered. I was wondering if I'd

689
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: be okay with the LTE version instead of the five G. Also,

690
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: how often does Verizon expand the availability of their five

691
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 1: G home Internet? Great, great question, Paulette. So number one,

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00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: Verizon five G Home Internet. If you're not familiar with

693
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Speaker 1: what that is, it is basically a giant hotspot.

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Speaker 2: For your house.

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00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: So you call Verizon or I guess you go online,

696
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: you order the service. They send you this box, which

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00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 1: is pretty much a glorified Wi Fi hotspot for your

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00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: entire home. You plug it in and I mean plug

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00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: it into an outlet and that's it. It pulls in

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Speaker 1: a cellular signal, it turns that cellular signal into a

701
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: Wi Fi signal. And the reason why this is so

702
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: great is because five G, especially five GUW with Verizon

703
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 1: is a really fat pipe, which means you're getting a

704
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 1: really good Internet connection wherever you are. And so the

705
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: fact that they have this now in the in the

706
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: air and they can pull it out of the air

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00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: and broadcast it into Wi Fi. Is a really cool

708
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 1: thing for your house because now they can compete with

709
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: wired internet connections like the likes of Fiber and you know,

710
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,720
Speaker 1: Spectrum and Cox and all these other companies that offer

711
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,280
Speaker 1: Wi Fi you know at your house or I guess

712
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: wired connections that you turn into Wi Fi. So Verizon

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00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: five G Home Internet definitely something that is excellent and

714
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 1: I would recommend it. I tested it. It was fantastic.

715
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,760
Speaker 1: I tried it in three different locations at my home.

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00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: Just like your home PAULTT. I do not get the

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00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:00,359
Speaker 1: five G Internet so signal, so I only got an

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00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:04,879
Speaker 1: LTE signal. The Verizon LTE signal is not better than

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00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:08,280
Speaker 1: the wired signal I can get from my internet service provider,

720
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: which is one thousand down. The Verizon was like, I think,

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00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:15,279
Speaker 1: seventy five down. So I think that I'm gonna stick

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00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 1: with what I've got. Now, if I had five GUW

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00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: it's much cheaper. It's only fifty bucks a month. It's

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Speaker 1: cheaper if you're a.

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Speaker 2: Verizon customer, So definitely look into that. I would go

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00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 2: for it.

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00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: So the LTE Internet, my thought process on that is

728
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 1: I don't think it's as good as the five GUW.

729
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,319
Speaker 1: But it all comes down to the speed that you get.

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00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 1: So if you do a Verizon speed test, So if

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00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: you don't have a Verizon phone, get someone that's a

732
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: friend that has it. Stand right in the middle of

733
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 1: your house, in the center or where you might put this.

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00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: Technically you're supposed to put these Wi Fi hotspots in

735
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: you're a window or the cellular hotp whatever you want

736
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:56,439
Speaker 1: to call it, cellular hotspot and so and I would

737
00:35:56,440 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: do a test. So download the app called medior met em.

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00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: How do you spell that MEI medior met e o

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00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: R app m e t e o R medior app.

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00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: Download that app, do a speed test. Make sure you're

741
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 1: not on your Wi Fi. Make sure you're on specifically

742
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 1: the LTE connection from Verizon.

743
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 2: Do a speed test.

744
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 1: See where the upspeed is, see what the downspeed is.

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00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: If you're doing just basic things on the Internet like

746
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: watching Netflix, surfing the web, checking your email, you know,

747
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: any connection, even a seventy five connection, will be fine,

748
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: like I have at my house. The problem is, why

749
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 1: deal with seventy five for fifty bucks when I'm paying

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00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 1: just a little bit more for a thousand and so

751
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: I would say, you know, stick to that. It's just

752
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:43,720
Speaker 1: it's just again it's a math problem. See what you're paying,

753
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: See what speed you're getting. Again, if it's fifty dollars

754
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: for Verizon and one hundred dollars for your Spectrum and

755
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: you're getting two hundred on Spectrum and seventy five on Verizon,

756
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 1: go with the Verizon. You may not need all that

757
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: extra speed and it's going to be just fine. And

758
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: also the price they've got to I think guaranteed for

759
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,280
Speaker 1: two years. So again it's just kind of like weighing

760
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 1: what's best for you. I can't give you that answer,

761
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: but I will say if the five G was in

762
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 1: your house and it was a really good speed and

763
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: it was that fifty dollars a month price point, that's fantastic,

764
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: and it's wireless. I personally love the idea of going

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00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: with the Verizon five G home Internet because it's it's

766
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: like there's no wire so it's one less wire. It's

767
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: one I mean, I get it. It's just an Ethernet

768
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: cable from your house. But you know, I've lived through

769
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: many times. I've moved so many time. For these internet

770
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 1: installers have to come to your house, they've got to

771
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 1: run the cable under the house, they've got to put

772
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 1: it in. You got to ask the person if they

773
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: could run a new cable because I don't want to

774
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: use the one that's existing inside the house, because you know,

775
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: I want a fresh, nice cable that's not gnawed by

776
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 1: any squirrels or anything. And all these things take time,

777
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: they take effort, they take convincing. And if you have

778
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: this wireless connection, it's like, Okay, it's coming from Verizon's

779
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 1: tower straight to this little box, no middle man, no wiring,

780
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 1: no nothing, and now it broadcasts that signal throughout my

781
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 1: house as Wi Fi's that's pretty cool to me. So

782
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 1: starlink same thing. It's like a very cool way of

783
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: getting Internet.

784
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 2: Oh.

785
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: Paultte also said here thanks in advance, your trip to

786
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: Rome look divine.

787
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Paultte.

788
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: So that's my answer. But again it's a math problem.

789
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: Just do the math. Do the basic needs situation, Like,

790
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: depending on if you're telling me you're running a home

791
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,760
Speaker 1: based business and doing zoom calls twenty four to seven

792
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,240
Speaker 1: and live streaming and all this stuff and your connection

793
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: on Verizon's twenty five, then no, that would not work out.

794
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: But if you're just doing basic emails, web surfing, and Netflix,

795
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: and there you go. That'll be just fine on a

796
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: seventy five to fifty one hundred connection from Verizon. But

797
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,720
Speaker 1: just see what that connection is good question.

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00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 2: All right, let's.

799
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 1: Get to the next story of the week. Let's talk

800
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: about this tech support scam.

801
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 2: Now.

802
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,359
Speaker 1: Look, I know that you're listening to a podcast. You're

803
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: a little bit tech savvier than the average individual because

804
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 1: somehow you figured out how to find me.

805
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 2: You downloaded this podcast, which is.

806
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 1: You know, ahead of a lot of other people, even

807
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: though podcasts are very popular.

808
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 2: But clearly you're a little step ahead.

809
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: So what I'm talking about right now maybe something that

810
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 1: you roll your eyes at and say, Rich, I'm not

811
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 1: going to fall for that.

812
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 2: Come on, give me a break.

813
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you because people do fall for it,

814
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 1: and you need to look out for the other people

815
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,760
Speaker 1: in your life, the people that you love, the people

816
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: that are your friends. I was home in New Jersey

817
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 1: for a week, and I'm not kidding you. It is

818
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 1: such a gut check when it comes to what the

819
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 1: average person knows about technology. When you just talk to

820
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: regular friends and family members about things that you just

821
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 1: take for granted that you know how to do on

822
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,800
Speaker 1: your phone or on a computer or with a router,

823
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: and they're just sitting there looking at you.

824
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 2: Like, what are you talking about?

825
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 1: So do not take for granted that everyone has the

826
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: same level of tech ex expertise that you have. Consider

827
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: yourself very lucky that you have that expertise, and share

828
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 1: it with other people, enlighten them and really help protect

829
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 1: them against this kind of stuff, because this is garbage

830
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: tech support scam. It's been happening for years. And here's

831
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 1: what happened. So I got an email from a viewer

832
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,319
Speaker 1: who actually did not fall for the scam, but they

833
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 1: were quick enough and smart enough to record their computer screen.

834
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 1: So a lot of times these things happen, people get

835
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: caught up in them, they pay money to some sort

836
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 1: of scam artists, they feel really ashamed, and they never

837
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 1: want to talk about it again. This person, Beverly Morse,

838
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: down at Redondo Beach, she grabbed her camera. She's an

839
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: older woman too, she grabbed her but she's a smart cookie.

840
00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 2: Let me tell you that she grabbed.

841
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 1: Her cell phone camera, she started recording the screen. So

842
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:52,720
Speaker 1: she sent me this amazing video of these scam artists

843
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: at work, saying you know, if you got to watch

844
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,839
Speaker 1: the video, go to my Instagram at rich on Tech

845
00:40:57,880 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: and just look for it.

846
00:40:58,719 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 2: You can see it.

847
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: It looks like a blue Windows screen, but the Windows

848
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,720
Speaker 1: you know, it pops up all of your computer screen.

849
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:06,760
Speaker 1: It looks like it's a Windows Defender message.

850
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 2: It says there's a virus detected illegal activity. Do not

851
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 2: shut off your computer. You're gonna lose all your data.

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00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,919
Speaker 1: Call this toll free number and someone from Microsoft will

853
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 1: be happy to help you.

854
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 2: Well, she knew better.

855
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: She didn't call. All she did was turn off your computer.

856
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 1: And by the way, that's the right thing to do.

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00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:24,840
Speaker 1: If you're tech savvy enough, you might be able to

858
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: do control all, delete and force quit the browser that's

859
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: running this giant full screen program. But realistically, if this happens,

860
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: if they take over your computer, they're not really taking

861
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: over your computer most of the time. It's just they're

862
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: taking advantage of your web browser and making it full

863
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: screen and putting you know what we call toast notifications

864
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: over your screen, which are like these kind of just

865
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: messages that live on top of every window. And so

866
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: just realize that you can turn off your computer in

867
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 1: these situations unless you actually have ransomware on your computer.

868
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,320
Speaker 1: That's a whole nother story. But most of the times

869
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: these things are just they're somehow popped up on your

870
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 1: computer through an ad, malware whatever, and they sort of

871
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: take over your screen, even your computer speakers, so the

872
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: speakers might say, please do not shut down your computer. Warning, warning, warning,

873
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: and it's just all bogus. So turn down the volume,

874
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:22,720
Speaker 1: turn off your computer, restart it, and you should be okay.

875
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: I talked to Microsoft about this. They said, yeah, they've

876
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:28,800
Speaker 1: been tracking this for years now, since twenty fourteen.

877
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 2: It's scary.

878
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: But you can turn off your computer, or you can

879
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 1: go to Microsoft dot com slash report a scam to

880
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:38,000
Speaker 1: explain what happened. You know, maybe you'll get some satisfaction

881
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: that way by them kind of going after these people.

882
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 1: But realistically, this happens day in, day out. If you

883
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: see a pop up window that urges you to call

884
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:49,280
Speaker 1: a tech support number or a tech support operator.

885
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 2: Calls you, do not fall for it. It is bogus.

886
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 1: Google does not call you. Microsoft does not call you.

887
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 1: These companies do not call you. Instagram doesn't call you,

888
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: Facebooked doesn't call you. They don't make you call them.

889
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 1: It just doesn't happen. The other thing is that if

890
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 1: you do fall for one of these scams, what they

891
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: try to make you do is install some sort of

892
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:14,399
Speaker 1: remote desktop software on your computer. They say, look, we're

893
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: gonna help you work through this. Go to this address

894
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 1: one nine to two dot six eight dot two four

895
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:24,399
Speaker 1: dot nine to two and download this software and then

896
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 1: we will Okay, now give us the code on the screen. Okay,

897
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: now we're gonna access your computer. We're gonna help you

898
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 1: get rid of this program. We're gonna help you get

899
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: rid of this malware that is actually the scam.

900
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 2: They're gonna lock up your computer. They're gonna hold.

901
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:39,280
Speaker 1: It hostage until you pay them money. Do not fall

902
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 1: for any of this, Tell your friends and family about it,

903
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 1: share the Instagram story on your story so that people

904
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 1: can see this, and just just take care of these

905
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: less tech savvy people in your life and let them

906
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: know that it's scary, it's frustrating, but it's just not

907
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: a thing like. Don't call these numbers, do not accept

908
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: these calls. Don't let anyone take control of your computer.

909
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 2: Please please, please, please please, Oh wow, speak of the devil.

910
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 1: Cheryl says, Hello, does Amazon have a security center that

911
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: will call you and walk you through the process of

912
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: clearing your computer and showing you your screen. Also wanting

913
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: to install the app on your phone called any Desk.

914
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: They want you to go to Target and get a

915
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,399
Speaker 1: card to clean your computer of the mess. They tell

916
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 1: you someone ordered something your name, They show your bank account.

917
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:27,280
Speaker 1: I do have a phone number, Thank you, Cheryl.

918
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 2: Do not do it. Stop stop, stop, stop stop. All

919
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 2: of this is exactly what I was talking about. I

920
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:33,400
Speaker 2: didn't even plan this in my.

921
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: Program here, like I didn't plan to have this right

922
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: after what I was talking about, but it just so

923
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: happened to work out that way.

924
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 2: But don't do it. This is what we're talking about.

925
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: Any Desk that's an app that will it's a legitimate app,

926
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: but they use it for nefarious purposes. So they're making

927
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 1: you install something like Team Viewer or any Desk on

928
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 1: your computer. She's saying your phone, just don't do it.

929
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:00,359
Speaker 1: Amazon will not call you. They will not say hey,

930
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,360
Speaker 1: you have you know. The only thing Amazon will do

931
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,200
Speaker 1: is say we're not gonna ship you out this product

932
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 1: because your your card was declined. That's it, And they'll

933
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: make you go to your Amazon account. But it is

934
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:12,360
Speaker 1: tricky for Amazon because they do send those kind of

935
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: alerts and.

936
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:14,799
Speaker 2: You sit there and you say, okay, well what do

937
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 2: I do?

938
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: So what I think Amazon should do in this case

939
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: is just say, we're not even gonna give you a

940
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 1: link in our emails.

941
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 2: We're never gonna give you a link.

942
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 1: You have to go to Amazon dot com log in,

943
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: and when you log in, they should put a big

944
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 1: banner on your.

945
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:28,840
Speaker 2: Page that says, hey, please update your card.

946
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: For this account. But again, this is what I'm talking about.

947
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 1: You don't want to fall for these tricks.

948
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:36,360
Speaker 2: Cheryl.

949
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you fell for this, but please

950
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: do not install any software on your computer. Just ignore

951
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 1: these these things from Amazon and Microsoft and all these

952
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: different companies. That's that's the bottom line there. All right,

953
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 1: Since that was a question that was kind of related

954
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: to the last thing, let's go to the next question.

955
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 1: Roger says, Hello, Rich, a longtime fan and viewer. We

956
00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: enjoy your informative segments. You're the only one I trust

957
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 1: for tech advice. Well, that's very common. I'm kind of

958
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: over iPods and iTunes. Is there a good alternative device

959
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 1: to download device and download platform like iTunes?

960
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:11,359
Speaker 2: Thanks? Well, yes, there is.

961
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:13,360
Speaker 1: And so there's a company I've mentioned them on the

962
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:16,919
Speaker 1: show many times called soft Reno. They are based in Ukraine.

963
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 1: They have a company or they have a.

964
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:24,320
Speaker 2: Piece of software called walter Pro. Walter Pro.

965
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 1: Is a program that will let you put any file

966
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 1: onto an iPhone or an iPad.

967
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 2: I'm talking. You can drag and drop a PDF.

968
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 1: You can drag and drop a photo, a video, an

969
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: MP three, pretty much a photo or video or MP

970
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 1: three or music or anything in any format, and it

971
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 1: will figure out the format, it will convert it, and

972
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: it will put it into the right place on your

973
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 1: phone and in the native place on your phone, which

974
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 1: means it'll put it in your photos, it'll put it

975
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 1: into your audio player, it'll put it into your video area.

976
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 2: So that is what you want to use. I think

977
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 2: it's I don't know how much it is.

978
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 1: They change the pricing on this stuff, but that's the

979
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 1: program that I've used in the past. It is fantastic.

980
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:06,799
Speaker 1: It's easy, drag and drop, it'll convert it. Now, you

981
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: mentioned a platform like iTunes, so I'm not sure if

982
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:11,399
Speaker 1: you have the music that you already want to put

983
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 1: on there, or if you need to locate music now

984
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 1: there are third party music stores that.

985
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:18,319
Speaker 2: You can download music from.

986
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 1: I am not really privy to the names of those things,

987
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 1: but they are out there. I'm not sure if they

988
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:30,360
Speaker 1: sell music like, you know, mainstream music like a Coldplay album,

989
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:34,040
Speaker 1: but they probably have third party music from like independent

990
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:35,840
Speaker 1: artists and things like that. So you're gonna have to

991
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: find the source of where you want to get these

992
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 1: files from. But you can use walter Pro to actually

993
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 1: get them onto your iPhone if you find a good

994
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: you know, I think, what's the one SoundCloud? Like if

995
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 1: you download music from SoundCloud, sound Cloud, you can just

996
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 1: drag that into walter Pro and it will place that

997
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 1: into your music player on the iPhone.

998
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:56,720
Speaker 2: So great question.

999
00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:00,480
Speaker 1: Definitely something that is possible, and it you know, it's

1000
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:02,800
Speaker 1: a little bit of you know, I'm not going to

1001
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:05,719
Speaker 1: say it's a little bit of reverse engineering by this

1002
00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 1: company to make this possible because Apple would rather you

1003
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,839
Speaker 1: go through iTunes. iTunes I think is such a pain

1004
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 1: to use that I just don't even use it. I'll

1005
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:20,800
Speaker 1: use this program instead. All right, let's talk about Google's

1006
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 1: password manager. I'm always talking about the importance of a

1007
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: password manager, but ninety nine point nine percent of people

1008
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 1: do not want to use a password manager because it's

1009
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: so complicated and it's just.

1010
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 2: Kind of a pain.

1011
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 1: Now there are password managers built into iOS, built into Android,

1012
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:39,640
Speaker 1: built into Chrome. The problem is, in the past I've

1013
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 1: only recommended those if you're only using iOS or if

1014
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:45,839
Speaker 1: you're are sorry, if you're only using Apple products, you're

1015
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:49,440
Speaker 1: only using Chrome or a combination of Chrome and Android.

1016
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:53,239
Speaker 1: But Google has done something very, very smart. They have

1017
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 1: now made what might be the best free password manager

1018
00:48:56,960 --> 00:49:02,439
Speaker 1: because they're just expanding the available ability of what they've

1019
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: already had for years, which is a really good free

1020
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 1: password manager that's built into Chrome and Android. But now

1021
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: they're expanding that to work on iOS as well with autofill.

1022
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 1: And so if you have Chrome installed on your iOS device,

1023
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 1: you can now go into your settings on iOS, go

1024
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 1: into passwords, go into autofill, and select Chrome or Google

1025
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: as your autofill of choice for your passwords.

1026
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:29,399
Speaker 2: What does that mean.

1027
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:34,960
Speaker 1: It means you can now use Google Chrome Androids password

1028
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 1: manager on iOS devices as the default, which is a

1029
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:42,840
Speaker 1: huge deal. In the past, I have recommended third party

1030
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 1: independent password managers, something like dash Lane, something like one Password,

1031
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 1: something like bitwarden, because they were platform agnostic. They worked

1032
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 1: across all platforms where they're using Windows PC and then

1033
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,840
Speaker 1: an iPhone, whether you're using an Android and then a Mac,

1034
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 1: these platform agnostic password managers will work everywhere. But now

1035
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 1: Google is making something that also works everywhere, and I

1036
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 1: think that is a huge win for passwords. So all

1037
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:17,439
Speaker 1: you have to do is start using it. And I've

1038
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:20,399
Speaker 1: tested this out. It works fantastic, it's great. I may

1039
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 1: switch to it myself because now that it's free and

1040
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 1: it works on everywhere, why not. Right now I'm using

1041
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 1: a paid solution and I'd rather use free. I think

1042
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: it's just as good to use the free version from Google.

1043
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:34,760
Speaker 1: You got to put a little bit of trust in Google.

1044
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:37,840
Speaker 1: Of course, you got to continue to use Google. I

1045
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: think overall, I would still recommend an independent third party

1046
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 1: platform if you are very tech savvy. If you're not,

1047
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: I would definitely one percent just recommend using what Chrome

1048
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 1: is doing, what Google is doing. If you are just Apple,

1049
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: if you're only using Apple products, if you use a

1050
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 1: Mac computer and iPad, Apple TV which doesn't really have

1051
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:00,880
Speaker 1: the password manager on it anyways, don't worry.

1052
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 2: Disregard that, and.

1053
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 1: An iPhone, just use the built in iCloud keychain, that's

1054
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 1: what they call it.

1055
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:08,799
Speaker 2: Just use that. It will work like a charm.

1056
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 1: It will suggest passwords when you need to make one,

1057
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 1: it will fill them into apps.

1058
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,800
Speaker 2: It will use face ID. Just use that across your devices.

1059
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: You don't have to get fancy if you're using If

1060
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 1: you're a Google person and you're using Chrome, you're using

1061
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:25,440
Speaker 1: you know, maybe you're just like you just like Chrome,

1062
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 1: and so you're using Google Chrome on your computer as

1063
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:31,479
Speaker 1: your web browser, and then on your phone you're using

1064
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 1: an iPhone, but you also have Chrome installed.

1065
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 2: Go ahead and use this. It's very simple, it will work,

1066
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 2: it's great, it's free, highly highly recommend it. Definitely check

1067
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:41,279
Speaker 2: it out.

1068
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: I think that is a pretty big win by Google

1069
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:46,759
Speaker 1: that people are just going to sort of get savvy to.

1070
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to one more question before we

1071
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:50,760
Speaker 1: close out the show.

1072
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 2: Here.

1073
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 1: Steven says, I've been getting messages from my Experience Complete

1074
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 1: ID monitoring service that we subscribe if you telling me

1075
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 1: my cell phone number has been found on the dark web?

1076
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 1: What do I do? Do I need to change my

1077
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 1: phone number? Thank you so much for your help. I

1078
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:09,680
Speaker 1: don't think you need to change your phone number. It's

1079
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:13,240
Speaker 1: pretty commonplace that cell phone numbers are out there. Sadly,

1080
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 1: it's just the norm nowadays that our information is leaked

1081
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Speaker 1: and breached day in, day out. The main things that

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00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 1: are out there are your email address, your phone number,

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00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:29,840
Speaker 1: your address. Credit card information is leaked a lot, but

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00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 1: your data birth is out there. So this information is

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Speaker 1: out there. It's the reason why you get so many

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00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:36,799
Speaker 1: spam phone calls, it's the reason why you get so

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Speaker 1: many phishing emails. It's the reason why hackers are having

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Speaker 1: a field day right now because there's so much information

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Speaker 1: about us out there, they just merge it all together

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00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 1: and send us these emails, send us these phone calls

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00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:49,400
Speaker 1: and say hey, we know you have a mortgage with

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Speaker 1: this company, or we know you have a credit card,

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00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: or we know you have your car. There's just so

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Speaker 1: much information floating around there about us. So I think

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Speaker 1: it's good that you have the experience complete ID. I

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00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:01,880
Speaker 1: don't think you need to change your cell phone number.

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Speaker 1: I do think you need to be d vigilant about

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Speaker 1: the phone calls that you get. So if you notice

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Speaker 1: an uptick in sort of spamy calls, that's where they're

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Speaker 1: originating from. Just don't trust people that say, hey, we're

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Speaker 1: calling you about your American Express, We're calling you about

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Speaker 1: your you know, mortgage company, We're calling you about your car,

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00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:22,919
Speaker 1: we're calling you about this your bank. Just just be very,

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Speaker 1: very vigilant about understanding that those are probably scams. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's one more question from Marcia. She says, I leave

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Speaker 1: for a cruise in Europe in less than two weeks.

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Speaker 1: I'm interested in getting luggage tags.

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Speaker 2: Are they worth it?

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Speaker 1: I've heard about Apple tags, but I do not have

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Speaker 1: Apple products. What I probably can't use them? Can I

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Speaker 1: what other brands of luggage tags are good? What's the

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Speaker 1: distance that they work? Which ones have the longest distance?

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Speaker 1: The distance is not a problem because of the way

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Speaker 1: these things work. It's more about the Bluetooth network that

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Speaker 1: they are on Apple tags, the biggest competitor is Tile,

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Speaker 1: so I would go with Tile tags. The way that

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Speaker 1: these wars, and the reason why Apple is really so

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Speaker 1: great is because Apple has turned every single Apple device

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Speaker 1: around the world into a beacon station for these little tags.

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Speaker 1: And so when one of these Apple tags sees one

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00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:17,839
Speaker 1: of these Apple devices, and there are billions of them

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Speaker 1: out there, I mean there's a lot. It says, Oh, okay,

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Speaker 1: here noted location of this device of the little tag.

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Speaker 1: And so for that reason, whether you travel to Italy,

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Speaker 1: whether you travel to Tokyo, whether you travel to wherever,

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Speaker 1: even though your phone is not near these devices, chances

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Speaker 1: are someone's Apple device is near these devices, which allows

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Speaker 1: them to check in and send their location to your device.

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Speaker 2: And so that's how they work. Tiles the closest.

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Speaker 1: The biggest difference between Tile and Apple is that every

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Speaker 1: product that is sort of a beacon for the Tiled

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Speaker 1: products has to opt into that, and so someone had

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Speaker 1: to physically install the file app on their phone to

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Speaker 1: get that functionality. Now, Tile did a deal with Amazon

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Speaker 1: and specifically there I think it was their Echo devices

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Speaker 1: and their ring devices, So there are more of them

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Speaker 1: on the network, sort of unwittingly, and so there are more.

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Speaker 1: I just think you're going to get a lock on

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Speaker 1: an Apple device way faster than you will on a

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Speaker 1: Tile device. But if you want the biggest competition, go

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00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:28,320
Speaker 1: with the Tile devices, and you know you're taking a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a chance there.

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Speaker 2: I don't think they're going to be as great as Apple.

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Speaker 1: You can also activate the Apple tags with any Apple device,

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Speaker 1: whether it's a Mac, computer or an iPad or an iPhone.

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Speaker 1: So can you do with a Mac computer, I'm not sure.

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Speaker 1: I know you can do it with the iPad. So

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Speaker 1: if you have an iPad, you can definitely activate the

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Speaker 1: Apple tags as well.

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Speaker 2: So those were amazing.

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Speaker 1: Music came in a little bit earlier then I anticipated.

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Speaker 1: You know, I get a lot of these Apple air

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00:55:57,880 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 1: tag alerts on my phone. I kind of ignore because

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00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 1: it's like, I haven't really lost the stuff. I guess,

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00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:06,120
Speaker 1: knock on wood, maybe one day if I did lose something,

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00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 1: which hopefully I don't. But I did track my stuff

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Speaker 1: all throughout Europe and on the plane and all that,

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00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 1: and it did work. So I got to say, Apple

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00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 1: really really built a special device with these Apple tags,

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Speaker 1: these air tags.

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Speaker 2: They really really do a good job of helping you

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Speaker 2: keep track of your stuff, all right. That music means

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Speaker 2: that's gonna do it for this episode of the show.

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