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Speaker 1: Let me think, because I've been covering tech at Kati

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Speaker 1: So first off, UPS said, hey, do you want to

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Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro. You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: in Riverside. Karen, you're on with Rich Karen You here?

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Speaker 2: Nope, okay, let's I am.

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Speaker 1: Oh there you are. Hello, Welcome, Hi, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Service you provide, oh well thanks, I if I can

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Speaker 1: figure out the phone lines, it'll be a better service.

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Speaker 3: I know that feeling sometimes, Oh.

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Speaker 1: I feel it every day. I mean, you know, when

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Speaker 1: What's going on?

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Speaker 3: I have a pixel to phone and I was getting

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Speaker 2: Well, what do you use for your calendar?

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Speaker 3: It's just the calendar that's on the phone.

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Speaker 1: So it's just a Google login with your calendar. Yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: So if you go to a desktop computer and it

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Speaker 1: But typically, I mean I use Google Calendar, and I've

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Speaker 3: It does. It's interesting though, because I have text messages

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk to Mark German about Apple's new

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. My name is rich Dimiro. You're listening to

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Speaker 2: It's also the place where I answer your questions. My

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Speaker 2: guest is Mark German. He's a reporter for Bloomberg News

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Speaker 2: and he has been scooping Apple for years now. Mark,

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 8: Thanks for having me. Great to be here.

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Speaker 1: So, your latest article on Bloomberg is about Apple's new

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Speaker 1: mixed reality headset, and we've been hearing a lot about

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Speaker 2: Tell me about that.

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Speaker 8: Yes, so, I believe that the Apple Mixed Reality headset,

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Speaker 8: I'm for about seven eight years of development, will be

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Speaker 1: So paint us a picture of what this device will

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Speaker 2: What will Apple look like?

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Speaker 8: So Apples will be unique. And then it'll have a

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Speaker 2: Wow, and so with all these sensors. This is this

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Speaker 8: There's really one main comparison, and that's the underlying technology.

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Speaker 8: That's the mixed reality tech. So Meta uses a similar

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Speaker 8: The other, you know, comparison you could make is that

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Speaker 8: I think neither device really has a killer app or

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Speaker 2: Now you said that it has all these sensors.

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Speaker 1: This is to power some sort of eye and hand

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Speaker 8: With the iPod, that was the wheel. With the iPhone

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Speaker 8: and the iPad, obviously that was touch, and with the

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Speaker 8: Apple Watch, they really positioned the digital crown as that.

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Speaker 9: New input method.

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Speaker 8: Now, I think you can make an argument the crown

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Speaker 8: didn't really take off. It's a small part about how

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Speaker 8: you use the Apple Watch, but that's how they presented it.

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Speaker 8: And I think when they present this headset, which I

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Speaker 8: think will be called the Reality Pro, their major talking

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Speaker 8: point will be the eye and hand control. So look

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Speaker 8: at something to to identify it, to select it, pinch

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Speaker 8: your thumb and your index finger together to actually take

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Speaker 8: action on that item.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's talk about some of the things you'll

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Speaker 1: be able to do with this headset. Obviously, Apple has

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Speaker 1: a very deep developer base, many many great apps for

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Speaker 1: the iPhone. I imagine developers will be very excited to

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Speaker 1: make apps for this device. But in addition to apps,

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Speaker 1: immersive video content you're talking about FaceTime, video conferencing, meeting rooms,

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Speaker 1: even create an external display for your computer inside this headset.

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Speaker 8: That's right, So tapping into your other Apple devices, whether

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Speaker 8: that's your phone, your iPad, your Mac and integrating using

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Speaker 8: the phone's keyboard as the keyboard for the headset, extending

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Speaker 8: your max display. Those will be key parts of the headset.

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Speaker 8: And then the other important thing to note is that

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Speaker 8: this will run many of the different iPhone apps already

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Speaker 8: available in sort of VR and AR versions, whether that's

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Speaker 8: Apples apps or third party apps. This will have an

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Speaker 8: app store, third party app ecosystem. But I think the

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Speaker 8: real challenge for Apple will be, in addition to lacking

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Speaker 8: a key killer feature, is going to be the price point.

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Speaker 8: So this is probably going to cost around three thousand

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Speaker 8: dollars at the outset, and so I think that's going

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Speaker 8: to put this device really out of reach for many people.

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Speaker 8: I mean, I think the combination of a three thousand

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Speaker 8: dollars price tag, along with a very limited appeal for

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Speaker 8: the technology it's still being very early, combined with a

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Speaker 8: killer app or reason to buy the device, is going

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Speaker 8: to really you know, risk Apple's reputation for smash hit

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Speaker 8: new product categories.

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Speaker 1: This is more of a slow burn for Apple because

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Speaker 1: this is where the future we expect to go, and

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Speaker 1: I have to get in at some point. Is this

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Speaker 1: the right product for them to get in with or

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Speaker 1: should they have tried to get somewhere of a cheaper product?

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Speaker 10: You know, I.

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Speaker 8: Really think that now is a really opportune time for

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Speaker 8: them to strike, given the if they really believe that

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Speaker 8: this is the future. And I tend to agree that

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Speaker 8: the future is standalone AR glasses with iPhone like capabilities

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Speaker 8: and I like price and iPhone like battery life. You know,

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Speaker 8: I think it's going to be five to ten years

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Speaker 8: before you're able to get there, right, And they do

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Speaker 8: need it to prepare for that future. They need to

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Speaker 8: set the foundation for that. If they waited a couple

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Speaker 8: of years, they could probably get this down another thousand

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Speaker 8: dollars or so. But the time is right given the

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Speaker 8: competitive landscape right now is extraordinarily weak.

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Speaker 1: And so the timeframe you're thinking is they talk about

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Speaker 1: it in the next couple of months, Developers get to

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Speaker 1: really take a deep dive at WWDC, which is typically

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Speaker 1: in June, and then we may have this by the holidays.

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Speaker 2: Does that sound right.

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Speaker 4: Sounds right to me.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 8: I mean, obviously there's a strong chance that this doesn't

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Speaker 8: debut until June, but I'd be very surprised if it

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Speaker 8: doesn't debut by June.

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Speaker 11: Well.

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Speaker 1: WWDC is the big gathering of all the developers for

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Speaker 1: Apple apps up in San Francisco typically, and so it's

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Speaker 1: a great time. If they didn't reveal this until then,

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Speaker 1: it'd be tough for them to sort of get umped

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Speaker 1: about that and have people attending that that want to

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Speaker 1: talk more about virtual reality and augmented reality. I think

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Speaker 1: one of the big advantages here is the.

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Speaker 2: Fact that it will have the app store, or at

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Speaker 2: least a portion of it the catalog, available right out

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Speaker 2: of the gate.

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Speaker 8: So you will have iPhone apps available right other gate,

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Speaker 8: So just like you can run iPhone apps on an

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Speaker 8: iPad or just back then at the beginning of the iPad,

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Speaker 8: one of the key things they noted was you can

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Speaker 8: run the iPhone apps on the iPad. I think you'll

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Speaker 8: be able to run iPad and iPhone apps on this headset,

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Speaker 8: but you're really going to want new apps created for

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Speaker 8: this device, specifically to tap into AR, to tap into VR.

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Speaker 8: Some of the faster processors and such. I think that's

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Speaker 8: going to be something you see happen. But I think

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Speaker 8: developers are probably going to have to really consider how

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Speaker 8: quickly they want to jump onto this platform given the

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Speaker 8: price point. Right, developers are going to have to invest

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Speaker 8: a lot of time, resources, and money to build applications

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Speaker 8: for this, and so they're probably going to take a

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Speaker 8: slogo approach as well to try to determine if this

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Speaker 8: thing's really going to take off. Knowing Apple, they'll get

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Speaker 8: it right eventually, but I think it's going to take

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Speaker 8: a little bit of time.

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Speaker 1: And another key point is that you're thinking you will

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Speaker 1: not need an iPhone to use this, And of course

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Speaker 1: Apple has a very good network of their own stores

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Speaker 1: where they can easily demo this new product.

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Speaker 8: Definitely they want to position this is sort of a

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Speaker 8: halo product that's going to drive traffic to Apple retail source,

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Speaker 8: drive marketing to Apple. And maybe you come to play

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Speaker 8: with this Apple headset inside the store and you leave

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Speaker 8: with AirPods. That's not too bad for Apple.

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Speaker 2: Either, absolutely, and you'll probably want the air pods to

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Speaker 2: use for this as well. Mark German is a reporter

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Speaker 2: for Bloomberg. His newsletter is called Power on his Twitter

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Speaker 2: is at Mark German Mark.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me. How do you get

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Speaker 1: all these Apple scoops?

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Speaker 8: Thanks so much for having me. I really appreciate it

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Speaker 8: and great to finally be on here. And anyone listening

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Speaker 8: to this, please do tune into power on every Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Excellent and I'm not going to your last I didn't

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Speaker 2: think you would. All right, coming up more of your

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Speaker 2: calls plus tech news and tips.

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Speaker 1: If you want to join in. The phone number to

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Speaker 1: call is triple eight rich one oh one. My name

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rich on Tech. I'm Rich Damiro, hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you here talking about technology. The phone lines

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Bill. Bill is in Torns, California. Bill,

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Speaker 1: you're on with Rich. What's going on?

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Speaker 6: Hey?

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Speaker 7: Rich, thank you for taking my call. So I have

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Speaker 7: a Macintosh at work and I would like to access

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Speaker 7: it from my Mac laptop at home. And I know

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Speaker 7: there's you have like paid sponsors advertising those monthly fee things,

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Speaker 7: but it's rare that I want to do that, but

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Speaker 7: I know that Apple has like Apple Remote Access built in,

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Speaker 7: and there's a bunch of different weird free apps, but

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Speaker 7: they get really bad reviews. I just want to be

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Speaker 7: able to once WHI I'll log into my computer and

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Speaker 7: you know, maybe control what's running on my office computer

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Speaker 7: from my home Mac laptop got their way to do

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Speaker 7: that without getting one of these monthly fee things. I

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Speaker 7: used to use something called Chicken to the VNC many

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Speaker 7: many years ago. I don't even if that's still an option.

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Speaker 1: That's quite the name for that product. I haven't heard

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Speaker 1: of that one. Chicken of the VNC.

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Speaker 5: Wow, okay, yeah it worked.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, But okay, a couple of things. First off, is

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Speaker 1: your work going to allow you to do this?

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Speaker 7: Well, yeah, it's it's my own business. So there's there's

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Speaker 7: just one If there's one computer at my office and

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Speaker 7: I live, like, you know, a few miles away, and

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Speaker 7: I just want it once in a while. I got

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Speaker 7: my laptop, I'm like, man, I wish I could, you know,

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Speaker 7: look at something on my database. But right, you know,

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Speaker 7: then I have to drive into work and then turn

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Speaker 7: It's like it's kind of pain of the next and

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Speaker 7: I leave my computer on at work anyway.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's well, there's two things.

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Speaker 1: So first off, have you tried because Mac you know

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Speaker 1: they have they have Apple Remote Desktop built into the

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Speaker 1: Mac software.

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Speaker 2: So have you tried that? And is that not working?

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Speaker 5: I have?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I've tried it and it's not working. And I

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Speaker 7: don't know if I should hire like a tech guy

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Speaker 7: to come over and explain it to me, because it

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Speaker 7: just didn't seem to It just didn't work. It was

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Speaker 7: given me.

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Speaker 11: I watched YouTube videos and what the YouTube.

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Speaker 7: Video has said was not what I was seeing on

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Speaker 7: my machine. And maybe it was gifven operating system I'm using.

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Speaker 7: I'm using both machines. I think they're running Big Surve,

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Speaker 7: the most most up to date, uh you know, but

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Speaker 7: like for example, on one uh YouTube video, it said

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Speaker 7: when you click on you know, remote management, it will

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Speaker 7: give you like an IP address of all you have

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Speaker 7: to do is log into that. Well, on my computer

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Speaker 7: at work, when I click on you know remote management,

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Speaker 7: it gives me this whole like web address that you know,

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Speaker 7: it doesn't work, so I'm not quite sure what I'm doing.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and that could be that your network work

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Speaker 1: is set up to not allow remote access into this computer.

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Speaker 1: You know, it may be set up a certain way

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Speaker 1: where for security reasons, it's not allowing, you know, someone

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Speaker 1: to just pop into your network from outside of the network,

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Speaker 1: and that could definitely be a situation that is something

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Speaker 1: that you would have to figure out with, you know,

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Speaker 1: with an it person.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's like a router thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's been a while since I've done this

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Speaker 1: with my personal MacBook and okay, So so basically the

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Speaker 1: program that I would recommend if you want to just

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Speaker 1: try something easy, and this is the one that I use.

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Speaker 1: So my mom lives across the country and she's got

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Speaker 1: her computer set up and sometimes she needs help doing things,

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Speaker 1: and so I use a program called team Viewer.

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Speaker 2: Have you heard of that I have?

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Speaker 1: Okay, and so this has a completely free solution and

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Speaker 1: it should be able to do what you need to do.

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Speaker 2: It's always worked for me. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So it's an app and they do have price you know,

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Speaker 1: they do have paid products, but if you want to

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Speaker 1: use it free for personal use. Now this you know,

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Speaker 1: this runs a little bit of a gray line with

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Speaker 1: whether this is personal or business use. But you know,

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Speaker 1: team Viewer you can download it and you can log

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Speaker 1: onto your Mac from wherever you want. And it's it's

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Speaker 1: pretty simple.

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Speaker 7: Okay, wonderful and you you've had good success.

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Speaker 2: With that, I've had.

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Speaker 1: I mean, my mom is not a tech person, even

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Speaker 1: though she had a tech kid. So if she can

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Speaker 1: tell me the pat Now there's two ways of doing it.

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Speaker 1: There's a little passcode that can be generated, and she

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Speaker 1: can read that to you to make sure you know,

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Speaker 1: for security reasons that you're the you know, a trusted

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Speaker 1: person logging into their computer. But or you can just

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Speaker 1: save that that passcode as well on your device.

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Speaker 2: That's probably what you'd want to do.

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Speaker 1: But once you have this running on the one, yeah,

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Speaker 1: once you have this running on your other computer, anytime

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Speaker 1: you want to log in, you just you know, fire

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Speaker 1: up the app on your side, connect to the computer.

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Speaker 1: It'll be displayed on the screen if it's saved after

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Speaker 1: the first time you do it, and you'll just see

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Speaker 1: that screen. You'll you'll see your the other computer screen

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Speaker 1: on your screen and you can just use your mouse

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Speaker 1: and keyboard to control it just like you would you know,

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Speaker 1: any other computer.

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Speaker 2: Now, there may be a little lag or to lab I.

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Speaker 7: Do the app on both machines, correct, yep, Okay, and

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Speaker 7: I can control the one. I can actually control the

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Speaker 7: computer from my laptop.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, at the other end.

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Speaker 2: Yep, you'll see that.

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Speaker 7: Okay, yep, that's right.

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Speaker 2: That's what I recommend.

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Speaker 1: And you know, and also I think you should give

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Speaker 1: the other you know, the Mac remote desktop. I think

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Speaker 1: you should just try to use that first, just maybe

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Speaker 1: give that another spin, just because that's a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a cleaner solution because it's built in. But you know,

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Speaker 1: if it's not working for you, you just try the team

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Speaker 1: viewer and see if that works.

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Speaker 7: I prefer the remote desktop because it is built in

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Speaker 7: and that's what it's for. I'm just again a not

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Speaker 7: that tech savvy, and I figured maybe it was my

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Speaker 7: router not letting me get in to the back end

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Speaker 7: of that, you know, like there's forwarding stuff and.

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Speaker 5: I don't understand.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, that's where you get into. Now here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: Once you yeah, once you once you get into that

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Speaker 1: remote login, it's like I'm looking at it on this

689
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Speaker 1: computer and you've got to type in this whole address

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Speaker 1: to get to your network, and your network just may

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Speaker 1: not allow that to happen. And that's what I think

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Speaker 1: is going on, especially if you're using, you know, like

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Speaker 1: a router from the cable company or something like that.

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Speaker 2: Like they just may block those incoming requests, which is

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Speaker 2: typical because that's much more secure.

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Speaker 11: So got it.

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Speaker 1: All right, We'll try to eave you and let me

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Speaker 1: know what happens. Thank you, I will, all right, Bill,

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Speaker 1: thanks a lot. All right, big changes to Amazon Prime.

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Speaker 1: So Amazon Prime. I just paid my one hundred and

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Speaker 1: I think it was one hundred and fifty five dollars

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Speaker 1: for the year, and I've I've been a Prime member

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Speaker 1: since day one, and I've loved it. When I first

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Speaker 1: I will never forget signing up for Prime. I told

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Speaker 1: my my wife, my then girlfriend, I said, can you

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Speaker 1: believe that Amazon? I think it was like it was

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Speaker 1: either fifty nine or eighty nine bucks a year, sixty

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Speaker 1: nine something like that. I was like, can you believe

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Speaker 1: they're going to send us stuff second day deliver for

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Speaker 1: seventy bucks a year or whatever the initial price was.

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Speaker 1: She's like, no way, because back then shipping was so expensive.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you wanted second day shipping on anything, you know,

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Speaker 1: you're talking fifteen thirty dollars an item. It was just

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Speaker 1: not something that was inexpensive and I said, no, they're

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Speaker 1: going to send us stuff for a whole year. This way,

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Speaker 1: we're going to get it the second day after we

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Speaker 1: order it. And so I've been a subscriber ever since.

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Speaker 1: But quite honestly, Amazon has been pairing down some of

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Speaker 1: their benefits for people. And I got this email. Starting

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Speaker 1: February twenty eighth, twenty twenty three, Amazon Fresh delivery orders

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Speaker 1: this is from a grocery store that they own under

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty dollars will incur a service fee.

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Speaker 1: What so, it used to be thirty five bucks for

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Speaker 1: free delivery and then you tip them, so you know,

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Speaker 1: it was still expensive to do this. It was still

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Speaker 1: a premium service, but you were paying for that prime

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Speaker 1: you know membership that took care of some of this charge.

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Speaker 1: Now it's delivery charges will be three dollars and ninety

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Speaker 1: five cents for orders from one hundred to one hundred

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Speaker 1: five fifty dollars, six dollars, ninety five cents for orders

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Speaker 1: from fifty to one hundred dollars, and nine ninety five

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Speaker 1: for orders under fifty dollars. And they took away this perk.

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Speaker 1: I think it was last year. Whole Foods deliveries they

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Speaker 1: made nine ninety five. I think it's just a flat fee,

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Speaker 1: and so people were up in arms about that, and

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Speaker 1: then they came out and they said, well, Amazon Fresh

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Speaker 1: deliveries are still free if you spend thirty five bucks.

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Speaker 1: And now a year later, Amazon Fresh deliveries are changing.

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Speaker 1: And this is a product that a lot of people,

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Speaker 1: you know, got used to over the pandemic, this grocery

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Speaker 1: delivery situation, and now with this fee, it makes it like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, unless you feel like paying extra for stuff,

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Speaker 1: why would you do this? You're going to pay three

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Speaker 1: ninety five, six ninety five or nine ninety five for

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Speaker 1: your orders? No way, especially an order under fifty bucks.

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Speaker 1: Now that seems like a lot of money. And people

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00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: are complaining they don't want to do this, and I

748
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Speaker 1: don't blame them. This is a lot of money, especially

749
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Speaker 1: when you're paying all this money a year for these perks,

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Speaker 1: and to not have that perk is to me not

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Speaker 1: very good. So Amazon, you may lose some subscribers over this.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you that.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we got more of your calls,

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Speaker 1: We've got more stories. We're gonna talk about why I

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00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:15,360
Speaker 1: love the bookstore over Amazon.

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Speaker 2: Oh more, Amazon stories.

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Speaker 1: Plus we're gonna talk about that DOCU signed scam you

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Speaker 1: want to definitely be aware of. You're listening to rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech on rich Dmuro, give me a call eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight rich one oh one. Welcome back to rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. My name is rich Damuro, sitting here talking

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Speaker 1: technology with you at triple eight rich.

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Speaker 2: One oh one.

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

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Speaker 1: one zero one. My website is rich on tech dot tv.

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Speaker 1: There you can find all the recent stories I've done

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Speaker 1: for KTLA. You can watch those there, and anything I

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Speaker 1: post that's interesting, I'll usually put it right there. I

769
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 1: was in the airport yesterday, I was flying to San

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Speaker 1: Francisco for the day, and I walked into, you know,

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Speaker 1: like the little bookstore kind of convenience store there and

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Speaker 1: you know, to get a water, and I saw the books.

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Speaker 1: And I'm always drawn to books, even though I typically

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Speaker 1: use a kindle, you know, I love reading, and so

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Speaker 1: I just kind of browse the books for like two minutes,

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Speaker 1: and I found like five books I wanted to read

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Speaker 1: in those two minutes. And so I posted to my

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Speaker 1: Facebook and Instagram and I said, how is it that

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Speaker 1: I can browse Amazon for hours? And still not decide

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Speaker 1: on a book to buy yet. I can walk into

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Speaker 1: a bookstore and find a bunch that I want to

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Speaker 1: read immediately.

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Speaker 2: I mean, why is that.

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Speaker 1: Amazon has every book known to man and this bookstore

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Speaker 1: just had a small selection. But I'm sitting there going, oh,

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Speaker 1: I want to read that. Oh I want to read that.

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Speaker 1: And so of course the comments came in, lots and

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Speaker 1: lots of comments. And I'm not the only one that

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00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: feels this way. And believe me, I love my kindle.

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Speaker 1: I absolutely love reading on the kindle because it's simple,

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00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: it's but there's also something about the book. And Marie said,

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00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: it's multisensory. Reading is a tactical experience. There are smells

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Speaker 1: associated with paper, there's texture, there's depth, there's more. Libraries

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00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,839
Speaker 1: are so critical. When you're looking for one book, you

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Speaker 1: spy another, you grab it, you read a little bit.

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Speaker 1: It inspires you, it grabs your interest. That's I think

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00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: very true because I started reading some of these books,

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Speaker 1: like you just flip to a page and open them

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Speaker 1: and read them. Jim said, merchandising cover art sucks you

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00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: right in. Patricia said, it's the nostalgia of the actual

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Speaker 1: book in hand.

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Speaker 2: The smell.

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Speaker 1: It gets at you at the first crack of the page,

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00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 1: makes you want more and more. Janet says, nothing beats

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Speaker 1: a relaxing time than holding an actual book or magazine

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00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:53,760
Speaker 1: just to feel the pages, the smell. I put a Sadly,

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00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: I put a couple of the books that I saw

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00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: there in my Amazon shopping car. Is that wrong because

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00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: it was like five bucks cheaper. Melanie says. It's an

810
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: analogous to all of the streaming options on TV and

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Speaker 1: I still can't decide what to watch.

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Speaker 2: That is so true, So true.

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Speaker 1: I'd sit there and I try to have all these

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Speaker 1: systems in place for watching movies on the streaming services.

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Speaker 1: I have an app called Real Good. There's also an

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Speaker 1: app called Just Watch that I really like, and whenever

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Speaker 1: someone tells me how a good movie, I will put

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Speaker 1: it in this app and I'll say, Okay. The next

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Speaker 1: time I sit down on a Friday night to watch

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Speaker 1: a movie, I will look at the app. I will

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Speaker 1: pick the top movie from that, you know, my list

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Speaker 1: of things that are streaming on the services that I

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Speaker 1: pay for, and I'll watch it and guess what happens exactly,

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Speaker 1: not that I go. I don't know if I feel

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Speaker 1: like I'm in the mood for that movie tonight, Let's

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Speaker 1: watch something else, And so I sit there for twenty minutes.

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Speaker 2: And again, back in the day, walk into a blockbuster.

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Speaker 2: What did you do?

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Speaker 1: You picked out five or six movies that you wanted

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Speaker 1: to watch, And we used to come home with a

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Speaker 1: handful of movies that we'd watch over the weekend. And again,

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Speaker 1: maybe it's all the visual nature of this, where you

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Speaker 1: can pick up the movie, look on the back, look

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Speaker 1: on the front, read the synopsis.

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Speaker 2: Just like the books.

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Speaker 1: Let's see, Judy said. My late husband was a techi.

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Speaker 1: We used to have these discussions all the time. I

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Speaker 1: loved browsing through bookstores. I used to tell them it

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Speaker 1: was relaxing to crawl up on a comfy chair with

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Speaker 1: a good book. Not the same with an iPad or

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Speaker 1: a kindle. That's just me, no, not just you. Apparently

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Speaker 1: a couple hundred comments on this, so clearly people like books.

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Speaker 1: But when I travel, I like the iPad or sorry,

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Speaker 1: the kindle. I don't read on an iPad. I don't

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Speaker 1: I like that e ink display on the kindle. That's

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Speaker 1: what I really like, because it just doesn't have any reflection.

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Speaker 1: It works, It's simple, and it's just it feels like

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Speaker 1: the printed page, even though it's not so. Anyway, I

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Speaker 1: told my wife I'm going to buy a book, a

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Speaker 1: real book, and read it, and she's like, what don't

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Speaker 1: you like your kindle?

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Speaker 2: Who knows?

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, I've got a great guest, Tom

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00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 1: Merritt is going to join me. Tom's a great podcaster,

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00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 1: good friend, and he is I'm a little jealous of Tom.

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00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 1: He has been to Super Nintendo World, which is opening

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Speaker 1: at Universal Studios, Hollywood on February seventeenth. He's already been,

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00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 1: and I'm so jealous because I've wanted to go to

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Speaker 1: this since they announced it, but they will not return

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Speaker 1: my emails over at Universal, so I have not been

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Speaker 1: invited to any of the press things, which I don't know. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to Tom about his thoughts on the whole

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Speaker 1: new place. Let's talk to lou in the meantime. Lou

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Speaker 1: Is in Phoenix. You're on with Rich all right, One

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Speaker 1: of these days I'm going to figure out Louis there, Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's go to.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Corey in Highlands, California. Corey, are you there? Okay?

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Speaker 1: One of these days, I will figure out the most

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Speaker 1: simple of items in this room, which is the phone.

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Speaker 12: Well, you're only on day four, so give yourself some grace.

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Speaker 2: There, it's day four.

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Speaker 1: But I even put little numbers next to the buttons

873
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,879
Speaker 1: on the phone, Let's say one, two, three, four five.

874
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: Could it not get much easier than pressing the corresponding anyway, Corey,

875
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 1: what's going on?

876
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Speaker 12: I'm an executive coach and I coach clients in the

877
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 12: US and internationally, and I send them a link, and

878
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 12: I'm the one that creates it. I've had zoom ways

879
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 12: years before all the pandemic hit, and I've always used it,

880
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 12: and I always see if somebody comes in, either on

881
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 12: a phone or tries to come in on video. But

882
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:43,800
Speaker 12: I just like to check every once in a while

883
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 12: if it's still secure. Can anybody come in that I

884
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 12: cannot see? Or is already can anybody hack in?

885
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,879
Speaker 1: Well there's always a possibility of that, but is it

886
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:59,360
Speaker 1: likely no if you have the right guardrails on. So

887
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 1: in your zoom, how are you sending these? Are you

888
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:06,360
Speaker 1: sending the same invitation to everyone? Or are you sending

889
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: like your personal meeting room orre you're sending a new invitation.

890
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 1: How are you sending these invitations to people?

891
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 12: I create a new invitation each time with the you know,

892
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 12: not a regular That's one of the reasons why I

893
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,759
Speaker 12: use THEIRS. So it's random, okay, and I just send

894
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 12: a new one every single time to every single.

895
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Speaker 2: Client, okay.

896
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: And the settings on your invitation. Do you have the

897
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 1: waiting room enabled?

898
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:30,359
Speaker 6: No?

899
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 12: Oh, okay, So you want just have it where they

900
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:34,839
Speaker 12: can log in before me, if you know, they can

901
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,719
Speaker 12: get in before me, okay, so like if they get

902
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:38,479
Speaker 12: there a minute early.

903
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's something you want to change. So for sure,

904
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Speaker 1: turn on the waiting room and that way only persons

905
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: that you admit to the video can watch what you're doing,

906
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: so that that would be the number one thing I

907
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: would do, and I do that on mine obviously. Are

908
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: you using a passcode?

909
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:56,439
Speaker 4: Yeah?

910
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 1: Okay, so you've got the passcode, which is good, and

911
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 1: that's that's going to be like for nine of you know,

912
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,919
Speaker 1: people trying to get into your if they figure out

913
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 1: the meeting ID and they happen to be on there

914
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 1: at the exact same time, and then they happen to

915
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:12,959
Speaker 1: figure out the passcode, all three of those things would

916
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: have to happen for them to get into your meeting,

917
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: and that's probably not going to happen, but there are

918
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Speaker 1: people who spend a lot of time trying to figure

919
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 1: out these systems, and so it could happen. But I

920
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: would definitely put on the waiting room. That's one of

921
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:26,959
Speaker 1: the main things we learned during the pandemic when people

922
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: do you remember the term zoom bombing?

923
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 6: Yeah?

924
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 1: So, and it, believe me, it happened. I actually made

925
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:37,399
Speaker 1: the mistake of tweeting a link to a public room

926
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 1: one time just to test something out on zoom and

927
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe the people that came into this room

928
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 1: and the stuff they were doing was like I had

929
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 1: to look away from my screen because it was like

930
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 1: I didn't know what I was seeing, but it was

931
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Speaker 1: not good. And so, believe me, there are people that

932
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: like to mess with other people out there, especially on

933
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Speaker 1: the internet. So turn on the waiting room. And then

934
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Speaker 1: the other thing you can do if you want to

935
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 1: be really secure, do you record these conversations or no?

936
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 3: No?

937
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,240
Speaker 2: Okay, So if.

938
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Speaker 1: You really want to give your clients and you a

939
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 1: good amount of you know, a feeling that this is

940
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: very secure, I would turn on what's called end to

941
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: end encryption.

942
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 2: Have you heard of that?

943
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 6: Yeah?

944
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 1: Okay, So when you go on to Zoom, it kind

945
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 1: of looks like things are pretty secure because you see

946
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 1: that little lock in the left hand corner, right, Have

947
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 1: you clicked that right? It looks like a little badge

948
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: with like a shield, and it has a check mark

949
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: and it's green. Right, So if you click that, it'll

950
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 1: give you kind of like the information about that Zoom

951
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 1: meeting and it'll say encryption enabled. Now, there are different levels.

952
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 1: The default encryption is not the highest level because obviously

953
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: the higher level encryption costs Zoom more money, so they

954
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 1: want to just enable the basic encryption, which means encrypted

955
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: in transit, which means when you're doing that stream, no

956
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 1: one can really just tune into that stream on the

957
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,720
Speaker 1: web if they find that data going back and forth

958
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 1: from your computer to the other computer. But there are

959
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 1: ways of kind of unlocking that video stream. And so

960
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: for that reason, you would want what's called end to

961
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:10,760
Speaker 1: end encryption. And that means that nobody, not even Zoom

962
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: could could potentially look at this stream. And so you

963
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 1: can enable that by going into your settings. You have

964
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 1: to go on the web and you go into settings.

965
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,399
Speaker 1: So you have to log into Zoom dot Us, log

966
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: into your account, go into settings and under security, scroll

967
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: down and it'll say allow use of end to end encryption,

968
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 1: and you toggle that on. It's going to ask you

969
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 1: to confirm your phone number and then you can turn

970
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: on that feature and you can use end to end

971
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 1: encryption on your calls, and that's going to be the

972
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:39,800
Speaker 1: most secure. You may not need that, but I'm just

973
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:40,279
Speaker 1: giving you that.

974
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Speaker 12: As an option, okay, And I might actually have an

975
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 12: account at that level. I'll just go in right now

976
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:47,879
Speaker 12: and check to see if I have in there.

977
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not on by default.

978
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 1: I mean obviously they want to keep it off for

979
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,280
Speaker 1: you know, the majority of people. So it saves Zoom

980
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 1: money because especially with a free product, are you paying

981
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 1: for Zoom or.

982
00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 2: Is this a free version?

983
00:46:58,600 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 12: Oh no, I'm paying?

984
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:00,399
Speaker 2: Are paying?

985
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,240
Speaker 1: Okay, so they may they may enable it for paid

986
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 1: customers by default, but I'm not sure. So go in

987
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 1: there and again it's you know, the website settings and

988
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:12,399
Speaker 1: then allow use of end to end encryption, and that's

989
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:14,839
Speaker 1: really going to be between that and the waiting room.

990
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 1: I think your calls are going to be pretty secure.

991
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 1: I mean We've run like the whole world on Zoom

992
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,800
Speaker 1: for two years, so I think it's it's pretty darn.

993
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:22,799
Speaker 4: Good, right.

994
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:24,719
Speaker 12: And just I don't know if you heard yet that

995
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:27,360
Speaker 12: Zoom did. I just got the email a day or

996
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 12: two ago that says they are bumping up the accounts

997
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 12: by a dollar, so I wondered when that was going

998
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 12: to happen. They have, you know, the whole world listening,

999
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:36,359
Speaker 12: so they might as well.

1000
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean I think that. So what it

1001
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:41,840
Speaker 2: used to be? What fourteen ninety five a month or something?

1002
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's one of the levels.

1003
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, so now and how much are you paying for this?

1004
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 12: I think a little bit more, but I haven't checked

1005
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:51,719
Speaker 12: in a while. I did do the fourteen ninety nine

1006
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 12: and I think I bumped it up to the next level. Yeah,

1007
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:59,320
Speaker 12: and mine does say that encryption is enabled.

1008
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:02,440
Speaker 1: But well that's encryption but not necessarily end to end.

1009
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: So definitely check that setting. But here's the thing I

1010
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 1: would I would consider if you're paying a monthly, I

1011
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 1: would consider looking at the yearly because you can save

1012
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:13,839
Speaker 1: about seventeen percent if you're going to use it, and

1013
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: you're using this for your business and you know you're

1014
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: going to use it for the next year. I always

1015
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 1: recommend paying the year in advance for something like this,

1016
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 1: because why not, You're you're just you know, you're spending

1017
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 1: more each month just to have that flexibility of canceling

1018
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 1: when you're probably not going to if, especially if you're

1019
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: running your business on it.

1020
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 12: Right, Okay, thanks for the reminder.

1021
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 4: That's good.

1022
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 1: All right, Corey, Thanks so much for the call, and

1023
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: thanks for listening. I appreciate that. Coming up, we're going

1024
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: to talk about smartphones. Smartphones had their worst year last

1025
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,360
Speaker 1: year in a very long time. Plus I'm going to

1026
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 1: tell you just kind of the stuff I like out

1027
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 1: of this Samsung, Apple, who's on top? How many they sold?

1028
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: All that good stuff?

1029
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:52,760
Speaker 2: Plus your calls.

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Speaker 1: Triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two, four to one zero one. You're listening

1032
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Speaker 1: to Rich on tech. Welcome back to Rich on Tech.

1033
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Speaker 1: My name is Rich Demiro sitting here talking technology with you.

1034
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Speaker 1: The phone number is triple eight rich one O one

1035
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Speaker 1: eight eight eight rich one oh one. Mary Anne is

1036
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Speaker 1: in Laguna, Nigel, Mary Anne.

1037
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Speaker 2: You're on with Rich.

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Speaker 5: Hi. Rich.

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Speaker 10: How are you doing.

1040
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 2: I am doing fantastic. How are you?

1041
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 6: I'm good?

1042
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,399
Speaker 10: I'm good. I'm a little frustrated with Apple. I don't

1043
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:26,960
Speaker 10: know if you have any good advice for me, other

1044
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 10: than what I would call a potential paper weight. I

1045
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 10: have an old Apple air Pad, the original one. It's

1046
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:39,320
Speaker 10: a tablet, okay, I think I got it in twenty thirteen,

1047
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 10: and it keeps asking I use it for work. But

1048
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 10: now in the last couple of weeks, I can't get

1049
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 10: Google Google Chat to work. It wants me to keep

1050
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 10: upgrading all my apps, and it says it's not supporting

1051
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:57,800
Speaker 10: the new upgrades. So am I kind of out of

1052
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:00,359
Speaker 10: luck with this? Or is there a reset up can do?

1053
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:01,359
Speaker 10: Or what do you think?

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00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 1: So your your iPad is it? It turns on, it's functioning,

1055
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:06,919
Speaker 1: and everything it does work.

1056
00:50:06,960 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 10: I can play iTunes, I can do some surfing with

1057
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 10: the web. Some websites aren't loading though the way they

1058
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:14,239
Speaker 10: used to.

1059
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 2: Do you have the iPad with you right now?

1060
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 6: I do?

1061
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: Can you go into settings? I want to see what

1062
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 1: the exact model this is. So if you go into

1063
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: settings and then general and then about can you do

1064
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 1: that for me?

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00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,800
Speaker 10: Yeah? So I've got it's a software version that's running

1066
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:31,439
Speaker 10: is twelve point four point two.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

1068
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:34,520
Speaker 10: Model name is iPad.

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Speaker 1: Air, so it's just the iPad air. So it's the

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00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 1: original iPad air. Okay, yeah, okay, interesting, Okay, So iPad

1071
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Speaker 1: is on iPad os is on sixteen, so you're running,

1072
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: you know, four generations before and sixteen is only going

1073
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:55,279
Speaker 1: to run on iPad air third generation and later. So

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Speaker 1: if you go to the website Apple dot com and you,

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00:50:58,520 --> 00:51:01,720
Speaker 1: you know, go to the iPadOS, you've got mac os,

1076
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Speaker 1: You've got iPadOS, and you've got iOS and then you've

1077
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: got tvOS. So each one of these has a certain

1078
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:11,320
Speaker 1: amount of gadgets that they run on. And I understand

1079
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 1: the frustration, believe me, because you've got this device. It

1080
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 1: still works fine, but it's not getting the latest software update.

1081
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 1: But the reality is Apple is actually one of the

1082
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 1: better companies that really does a pretty good job of

1083
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 1: letting software run on pretty old devices. In fact, if

1084
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:29,839
Speaker 1: you look at iOS sixteen, sorry, let me just see

1085
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 1: what this one runs on, it runs on phones. Because

1086
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: people every year, whenever they come out the new software,

1087
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 1: people go they get up.

1088
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 2: In arms because they're like, well, now it doesn't run

1089
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 2: on my phone.

1090
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Speaker 1: But if you look at iOS sixteen, which is like amazing,

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Speaker 1: cutting edge, brand new software. It runs all the way

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00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:49,880
Speaker 1: back on the iPhone eight iPhone eight, and so let's

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00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:52,800
Speaker 1: just cross reference when that came out iPhone eight launch.

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Speaker 1: You're talking twenty seventeen, so you're talking three six years

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00:51:58,480 --> 00:51:58,919
Speaker 1: so far.

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00:51:59,120 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 2: That's pretty good.

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00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:04,359
Speaker 1: You know, companies like Samsung and Google, they promise, like

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00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 1: a lot of them have been promising like three years,

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00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:11,200
Speaker 1: maybe maybe four. So this is pretty good six anyway.

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Speaker 1: All that's to say that I understand the frustration, but

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00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:17,799
Speaker 1: have you done the software update and it and it

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00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:19,839
Speaker 1: just says you can't do anymore When you.

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00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 10: Go to it just says, sorry, I can't do it.

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00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 1: So when you go back one segment, you know we

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00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:27,760
Speaker 1: said about so if you go to software update under general,

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00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:29,799
Speaker 1: what what does it say under that? Does it say

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00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 1: up to date or what does it say?

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00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 10: It says checking for update. And so it's kind of thinking,

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00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 10: right now, I'll tell you when Wow.

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00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:40,239
Speaker 1: It turns out turns out I have a software update

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00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:44,359
Speaker 1: on my phone Marion Oh date iOS sixteen point three.

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00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: But it takes so long to install these updates that

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Speaker 1: I just wait a while.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: I used I used to be one of the people

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00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,439
Speaker 1: that was like doing it the second it came out,

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00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:53,240
Speaker 1: and then my phone it got like a bad update

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00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 1: one time, and my phone didn't work for twenty four

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00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 1: hours until Apple decided to come out with a fix.

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Speaker 1: And so now I wait a little bit. I wit

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00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 1: like a couple of days. This has been out for

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00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: like a week, I feel like, but so long story short,

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Speaker 1: The problem is the security of these apps. Some apps

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00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 1: just won't run on the older software because security reasons,

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00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 1: or they need a certain aspect of that software to

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00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 1: be able to run properly, and they just don't have

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00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 1: it on the older software. You know, you're creating apps

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00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:23,080
Speaker 1: for today, you couldn't really think about what the old

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00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 1: software has that you may need.

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Speaker 2: Does that make sense?

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00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 10: Yeah, it sure does. So I guess I'm stuck with

1132
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 10: either using the limited functionality that it still offers me.

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00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 10: Or is there any trade in value on this?

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00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:36,879
Speaker 6: Do you think rich?

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00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 10: I know I've had it like ten years. I think

1136
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 10: I got it in twenty thirteen.

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00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 2: I don't know.

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00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: Apple will tell you if you go on their website,

1139
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:48,880
Speaker 1: if you put a new iPad in your car and

1140
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:51,399
Speaker 1: then look for the trade in value, it will tell you.

1141
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 1: But I and iPad Air original generation of I'm going

1142
00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: to a website called gizmogo dot com which will buy

1143
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 1: anything from you. They'll give you sixty six bucks for it.

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00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 1: So I would I would maybe do that and put

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00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 1: that towards a new one.

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00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 10: Yeah. Yeah, because I really like the functionality of a tablet.

1147
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:12,319
Speaker 10: I have a PC a laptop, but it's a lot,

1148
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:15,399
Speaker 10: it's cumbersome. I have the tablets my go to. So

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00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 10: I hear you, well, okay, so gizmo dot.

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00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: Com is that the gizmogo dot com? All right, I

1151
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:22,840
Speaker 1: got a head out, but uh or got to go

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00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 1: to a break. Thanks for calling. We'll be back with

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00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:28,719
Speaker 1: more after this, including a new scam that involves doc

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00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:32,920
Speaker 1: you sign emails. You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome

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00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro hanging out with

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00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 1: you talking technology. You can find me on all social

1157
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:44,239
Speaker 1: media at rich on Tech. Got some cool things on

1158
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:48,359
Speaker 1: my Instagram today. I've got my drive in that way

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00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,319
Speaker 1: mo I was talking about earlier, that autonomous taxi ride

1160
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. I did a quick little reels about that.

1161
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: And if you're into lasers, my kid he made me

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00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 1: purchase a lazer for him, and he was convinced it

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00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 1: would be able to pop a balloon. I did not

1164
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 1: believe it, and sure enough we bought some balloons. He

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00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:10,400
Speaker 1: aimed the laser at the balloon and get popped. You

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00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:12,600
Speaker 1: can hear me go wow. I can't believe it because

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00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:14,279
Speaker 1: I recorded it the first time I saw it. So

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Speaker 1: if you want to see any of those reels Instagram

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Speaker 1: dot Com slash rich on tech. Lou is in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Speaker 1: Lou you're on rich Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Can you hear me?

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00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 2: Okay, I hear you just fine? How are you hey?

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00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:29,840
Speaker 6: You can help me decorry if I should use a

1174
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:33,400
Speaker 6: vice or a hammer on my cell phone. And my

1175
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:36,720
Speaker 6: bluetooth head said, I use with the cell phone.

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Speaker 1: Uh oh, that doesn't sound those don't sound like good options.

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Speaker 1: I assume you're not happy with these Bluetooth.

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00:55:41,719 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 6: Well, I was going to do one or the other,

1179
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:44,240
Speaker 6: and I thought, hey.

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Speaker 2: Call rich first, So what's what's happening with it?

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00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 6: Well, when regardless how I die, if I use the

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00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:55,600
Speaker 6: phone to dial, or if I use voice to dial

1183
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:58,319
Speaker 6: with it, or if I press the button on the

1184
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 6: blue tooth and dial, it dials the numbers, okay, usually

1185
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:08,080
Speaker 6: I can hear the telephone ringing of the other party

1186
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:13,440
Speaker 6: and when they answer. Sometimes they can hear me, sometimes

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00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 6: they can't. Usually I can hear them saying hello, Hello, Hello,

1188
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:23,040
Speaker 6: but they can't hear me. You ought to try booking

1189
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 6: comedy shows without being able to talk to people.

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00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 1: Oh that's yeah, Well, comedy business is a tough business

1191
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:30,720
Speaker 1: to being in general.

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00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:31,560
Speaker 2: So imagine with.

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00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:35,360
Speaker 1: The bluetooth issues. Yeah, what type of devices are we

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00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 1: talking about here?

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00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:42,759
Speaker 6: Okay, we're talking about a Jabra Stealth or the Top

1196
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 6: forty five. They're similar, and the problems with both of them,

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00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:53,120
Speaker 6: and the phone is a pixel for a Okay, I

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00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 6: figure there must be some type of a menu somewhere

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Speaker 6: that makes attention.

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00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 1: Well, so now is it? Is it all the time?

1201
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 1: And so you're you're saying you're having trouble with two

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00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:06,960
Speaker 1: different bluetooth headsets.

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00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:14,440
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're both made by job Bro Okay. And the

1204
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 6: thing is sometimes they can hear me, sometimes they can't, right,

1205
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 6: And of course I can't tell if they can or can't.

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00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 6: So what I do many times is just hit the

1207
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 6: speaker button and go to speaker right, and then they

1208
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 6: can hear me. But then I can't take notes and

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00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 6: do other stuff while you know, I'm on the phone.

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00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 1: Okay, Now this job or stealth. Is this a newer

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00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:40,640
Speaker 1: model or is this an older model?

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00:57:42,280 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 6: Well, the forty five is a newer model, the stealth

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00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:46,919
Speaker 6: is I think an older model.

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00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:49,800
Speaker 1: Okay, so the job a stealth. So first, okay, So

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00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 1: here's what I would do to try to troubleshoot this

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00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:54,600
Speaker 1: number one. So first off, I would make sure all

1217
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:58,440
Speaker 1: the software is up to date. So the Pixel software.

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00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if the Pixel four A is still

1219
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 1: getting software updates at this point. It's it's been out

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00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 1: for a little bit. So make sure that you're up

1221
00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 1: to the latest software on that.

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00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:09,440
Speaker 6: I think it is.

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00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:11,560
Speaker 1: Okay, and you've done that, You've done all the software

1224
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 1: updates there.

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00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:17,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know if I'm not sure how you

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00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 6: can update the software on your bluetoothes.

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00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:22,880
Speaker 1: Well, okay, so that's another thing. So I'm looking at

1228
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:25,720
Speaker 1: this stealth online and there was a there was a

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00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: Bluetooth update back in twenty eighteen. So you're talking the

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00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:34,800
Speaker 1: stealth device is at least, you know, a couple of

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00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:35,240
Speaker 1: years old.

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Speaker 2: You're talking five years old.

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00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 1: So yeah, and there says there solved an issue where

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00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: the headset in some cases would not connect when tapping

1235
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:46,040
Speaker 1: the voice button, so that you know, that could be

1236
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 1: part of the problem. So the way to download this

1237
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 1: is to download the Jabra Assist app, and that's on

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00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:58,080
Speaker 1: Google Play, So download Have you searched for that Jabra Assist.

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00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:02,040
Speaker 2: Okay, so that's that's probably not.

1240
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:04,360
Speaker 6: Load notches of stuff on my phone.

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00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, that's probably the first place to go then,

1242
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:09,120
Speaker 1: so I would just go to the Jabra Assist app.

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Speaker 1: And it's weird because, you know, even you, when I'm

1244
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: hearing this issue, I think in the back of my

1245
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,360
Speaker 1: head that every gadget has some sort of like firmware.

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00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:18,440
Speaker 2: Update or software update.

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00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:21,560
Speaker 1: But it's kind of funny to think that a Bluetooth

1248
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:24,520
Speaker 1: headset would have that. But this does, and so they

1249
00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 1: may have fixed this problem. And you know, sometimes these

1250
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:29,360
Speaker 1: little these little bugs do happen. What's the other one,

1251
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 1: the Jabra forty.

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Speaker 6: Five, you said, yep, Talk forty five.

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00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:35,320
Speaker 2: Jabra Talk forty five, and so.

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Speaker 6: I think it's a new year. I think it's.

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00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 1: Recent, so that's a more recent So it looks it's

1256
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:43,240
Speaker 1: very similar looking to the Stealth one and this one,

1257
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:45,480
Speaker 1: let's see if they have a firmware update there.

1258
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 11: Yep.

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00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 1: November fifteenth, twenty twenty one performance and stability improvements.

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00:59:50,200 --> 00:59:50,960
Speaker 2: So what I would do?

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00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 6: That was my birthday?

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00:59:52,720 --> 00:59:55,320
Speaker 2: Oh happy birthday. Very nice.

1263
00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 1: So you got a birthday gift of Maybe this Bluetooth

1264
00:59:59,840 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 1: is going to work properly once you do this. So

1265
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:05,200
Speaker 1: download the job or Assist app, connect these two to

1266
01:00:05,240 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 1: your phone, do the software update. I'm sure the app

1267
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:09,920
Speaker 1: will lead you through that. And then once you do that,

1268
01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: restart everything. Restart your phone and turn off this turn

1269
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:17,360
Speaker 1: it back on. You might even try disconnecting this device

1270
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:20,320
Speaker 1: from your phone once you do the software update, like

1271
01:00:20,720 --> 01:00:23,960
Speaker 1: disconnect it completely, like depair it, and then repair it

1272
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:27,120
Speaker 1: to your phone, and that may force the connection. But

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01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:29,480
Speaker 1: I think if you follow those steps, I bet you

1274
01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 1: these things will work a whole lot better.

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Speaker 6: I hope. So he can I tell you about my comedy?

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01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:40,280
Speaker 2: Uh? Sure, very quickly, Yes, if you have a fast act.

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01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:44,640
Speaker 6: Yeah. My website is arizonalud dot com and you might

1278
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:47,960
Speaker 6: laugh if you go there. Or you can google America's

1279
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 6: Favorite old Man. I'll be number one. Or you can

1280
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:55,840
Speaker 6: ask Alexa, Who's America's favorite old man. They'll say, here's

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01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:57,400
Speaker 6: loo I love it.

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01:00:57,680 --> 01:00:59,880
Speaker 2: I love it? All right. Well I'm in Phoenix. I

1283
01:01:00,240 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 2: have to come see you one of these days. Okay.

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01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:05,240
Speaker 6: Hey, I'm going to be in the LA area in

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01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:07,800
Speaker 6: first part of March.

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01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:11,520
Speaker 2: Is it a clean act or what friendly?

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01:01:11,720 --> 01:01:14,240
Speaker 6: I don't use I don't use foul language, but I

1288
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 6: do delve into adult concepts. I do mostly pre benefit

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01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:19,720
Speaker 6: shows for veterans.

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01:01:19,280 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 2: And very cool. Well, thank you for that.

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01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:24,040
Speaker 6: That's a schedule on my website.

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01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome Arizona, Lou. No, it's fine.

1293
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 1: Hey, it sounds like you're doing great stuff.

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01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:31,560
Speaker 2: So I love it.

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01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:34,840
Speaker 1: And once you get those bluetooth therapieces working, maybe you'll

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01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 1: have double the bookings.

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01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:40,600
Speaker 6: Hey, I hope. So right now I'm working on Florida.

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Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, Lou, appreciate it. Have a great day.

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01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about Uh, let's go from that

1300
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:52,160
Speaker 1: to this scam. So I'm always trying to keep you

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01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:55,440
Speaker 1: up to date on all these scam artists because they

1302
01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:58,600
Speaker 1: are really trying to you know, what did I get

1303
01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 1: the other day? I got one that was really good

1304
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 1: and I was like, wow, this is it's just wild.

1305
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 2: So this is a.

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Speaker 1: Phishing scam that involves docu sign email. So if you've

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Speaker 1: ever bought a house, or a car or signed a contract.

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Speaker 1: You know you've done docu sign. You know how it works.

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Speaker 1: You get this email from DocuSign. It says, hey, click here,

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Speaker 1: you choose a signature. I don't know how that's legal.

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Speaker 1: You choose, you know, and it writes your signature for you,

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Speaker 1: and now you've just signed your LifeWay. Well that's all

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Speaker 1: good and fine if it's legitimate. But these scam artists,

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Speaker 1: these hackers are sending these emails that look like they

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Speaker 1: originate from docu sign, but they contain a link in

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Speaker 1: an HTML attachment, and once you click to open the

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Speaker 1: view completed document, guess what. It is not a good thing.

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Speaker 1: They're going to try to steal your information. They're going

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Speaker 1: to try to download something to your computer. Perhaps it

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Speaker 1: redirects to a malicious link. And because of the way

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Speaker 1: they're doing this, they're actually hiding the malware in that

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Speaker 1: empty image attachment. So that means that the emails are

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Speaker 1: bypassing virus scanners.

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Speaker 2: So you could still get caught up in.

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Speaker 1: This thing, even if you have a virus scanning software

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Speaker 1: on your system. So the bottom line about this phishing

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Speaker 1: attack and phishing is when someone sends you an email

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Speaker 1: and they try to get your personal information by you

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Speaker 1: just entering it in basically, So the bottom line is,

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Speaker 1: if you are not expecting a docu sign email, you're

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Speaker 1: not buying a car, you're not buying a house, you're

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Speaker 1: not signing a contract for a new job, you're not

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Speaker 1: a lawyer, you're not a doctor, whatever.

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Speaker 2: Just don't open it.

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Speaker 11: Now.

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Speaker 1: If you think you're expecting it and you're wondering about it,

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Speaker 1: then you know, call the person on the other end

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Speaker 1: and say, hey, did you send me this? But don't

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Speaker 1: just open these things up. In fact, I think I

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Speaker 1: got this. That's now that I think about it, I

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Speaker 1: think this is what I got. And I you know,

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Speaker 1: it's funny. I've a company I work for sends us

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Speaker 1: these emails that are like they try to get you

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Speaker 1: to teach you a lesson about, you know, security online,

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Speaker 1: and so they'll send you something, hey, just review this picture.

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Speaker 1: Let us know what you think. And I'm like, I

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Speaker 1: wasn't thinking. I wasn't supposed to review a picture. And

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Speaker 1: then they say, gotcha when you click the link. So

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Speaker 1: if you see this docu sign email and you're not

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Speaker 1: expecting it, just don't click it. Coming up, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about smartphone sales. We're gonna talk about the new

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Speaker 1: Super Nintendo World opening up at Universal Studios. I've got

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Speaker 1: a guest who's already been in advance of the opening. Plus,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take more of your calls 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 to one zero one. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Comrade Jamiro

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Speaker 1: hanging out with you here talking technology 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 to one zero one. Dial that number,

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Speaker 1: give me a call, we'll talk about technology. Amazon introduced

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Speaker 1: a new service called RX pass. So earlier I was

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Speaker 1: talking about how Amazon got rid of their Prime benefit

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Speaker 1: with free grocery delivery, and now they're introducing another benefit.

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Speaker 1: This is OURX pass, So kind of interesting. Five dollars

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Speaker 1: a month for more than eighty common health condition medications.

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Speaker 1: So this is a new benefit for Prime members that

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Speaker 1: gives you affordable access to commonly prescribe generic medications. Now,

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Speaker 1: the five dollars a month is not for one medication.

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Speaker 1: The five dollars a month is for as many medications

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Speaker 1: as you need, and you can get them all delivered

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Speaker 1: for free. There's no hidden markups, there's no fees, at

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Speaker 1: least not right now, and it's available in most US states. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you have Medicare or Medicaid, you're not eligible for this,

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Speaker 1: and Amazon says Prime members, who typically take two or

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Speaker 1: more medications per month to manage chronic or ongoing health conditions,

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Speaker 1: could save significant time and money with this.

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Speaker 2: Five dollar RX pass subscription.

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Speaker 1: Now, it doesn't seem like you can use your flex

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Speaker 1: spending to pay for this, if you're wondering about that.

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Speaker 1: But here's the thing. Not in California. This is not

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Speaker 1: available in California, which is kind of a bummer because

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Speaker 1: that's a big state. But I'm guessing they say they're

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Speaker 1: in forty forty eight states, but are forty two states

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Speaker 1: rather Sorry, that's what happens when I try to type

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Speaker 1: and talk at the same time. So I was trying

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Speaker 1: to look up some of the medications that they offer

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Speaker 1: for this. So one low price, five dollars is for

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Speaker 1: all of it. Let's see generic for a lipitur, they've

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Speaker 1: got five bucks. Well, bututrin generic five bucks, now five dollars.

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Speaker 2: If you needed both of those.

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Speaker 1: That's a flat fee for as many of these medications

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Speaker 1: as you need a month. Let's see Propisha is on there,

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Speaker 1: Lexapro is on there, Zoloft. Now, these are all the

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Speaker 1: generic versions of these, obviously, but those are the brand

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Speaker 1: names that I know, Crestor. I mean, you see the

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Speaker 1: advertisements on TV. So if you pay for prescriptions more

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Speaker 1: than this, if you have one of these chronic conditions,

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Speaker 1: and you're paying more, and you're an Amazon Prime member

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Speaker 1: and you live in one of these states, that you

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Speaker 1: can get this, then it might be worth it. So

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Speaker 1: will it work in your state? Let me see, there's

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Speaker 1: a way to Okay, OURX pass is not currently available

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Speaker 1: to California, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington,

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Speaker 1: so if you're in one of those states, you can't

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Speaker 1: get it. Those are some pretty big states, California, Texas, Washington. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so I'm guessing in those places, with Washington is Amazon's hometown,

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing in those places that there are heightened restrictions

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Speaker 1: on what can be sent through the mail or some

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Speaker 1: sort of restriction with pharmacies. So that's why they can't

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Speaker 1: do it there. But our ex pass.

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Speaker 2: There you go.

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Speaker 1: This is interesting too. So I was talking about the

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Speaker 1: scam scam artists trying to scam us, and they spend

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Speaker 1: all day doing this. So what's really interesting and the

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Speaker 1: trend I've noticed with all of these scam kind of

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Speaker 1: texts and emails we get, they're all based on actual

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Speaker 1: real emails that we get. So if you've ever been

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Speaker 1: to the store and you go to buy something and

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Speaker 1: you get a text your card has declined, and you

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Speaker 1: get a text to your phone it says.

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Speaker 2: Hey, was that just you at Target?

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Speaker 1: Did you just try to spend you know, forty eight

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Speaker 1: dollars and seventy two cents. Press one for yes, press

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Speaker 1: new two for no, or text back one or two,

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Speaker 1: and so you say, yeah, that was me I just

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Speaker 1: got I was trying to buy something at Target. And

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Speaker 1: you decline the charge and so you press you you

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Speaker 1: text back one and it will say okay, try the

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Speaker 1: transaction again, and you do it and it goes through.

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Speaker 1: That's their fraud prevention at work. And these big companies

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Speaker 1: like Chase an American Express, it seems like they're protecting you,

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Speaker 1: but they're really not. They're protecting their own interest. And

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Speaker 1: so they're saying, we don't really trust this transaction, we

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Speaker 1: don't really want to be on the hook for this

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Speaker 1: fifty eight bucks, so we'll just we'll just decline it

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Speaker 1: and then make this person text us back. So it's

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Speaker 1: on them, really. And it's great when it works and

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Speaker 1: it's a a charge that they do don't let through

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Speaker 1: and it protects you. And I've had this happen, but

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Speaker 1: I've also had charges go through. I've had my card

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Speaker 1: hacked and you know, the person somehow used it in

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Speaker 1: where was it?

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Speaker 2: One time? It was in Spain.

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Speaker 1: It was actually at a what was the The place

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Speaker 1: was called a I'm gonna not say the name, right

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Speaker 1: Carrie four.

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Speaker 2: It is like c A R R E f O

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Speaker 2: U R.

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Speaker 1: And so I was like, how is this person using

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Speaker 1: my card in Madrid right now when I'm sitting here.

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Speaker 1: And so when I went to Europe it was I

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Speaker 1: think it was last year, you know, I was in

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Speaker 1: Europe and I went past one of these stores. I

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Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, that was the play that

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Speaker 1: was the place where they used my card. And in

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Speaker 1: that case, I didn't get any fraud prevention thing. You

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Speaker 1: always seem to get the fraud prevention when it's you.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Another time I was out at a restaurant and I

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Speaker 1: used my card and typically and this way I always recommend,

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Speaker 1: by the way, using your tap to pay. If you

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Speaker 1: can set up Apple pay or Google Pay or Samsung Pay,

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Speaker 1: or use the chip in your card, that is all

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Speaker 1: much more secure. In fact, try not to even use

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Speaker 1: anything with your card, like use your phone when possible.

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Speaker 1: If you can tap to pay, use it. It's the

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Speaker 1: most secure because think about it, nobody even sees your card.

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Speaker 1: They don't see your card number. What's exchanged is a

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Speaker 1: one time card number, which means the retailer, even if

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Speaker 1: they got hacked, if someone got a list of all

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Speaker 1: the credit cards used at Target that day, yours would

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Speaker 1: not be on there. What would be on there is

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Speaker 1: a one time use number that nobody else could use again.

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Speaker 1: And so you're protected that way. So when people say,

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Speaker 1: like Rich, I use tap to pay, absolutely use it.

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Speaker 1: It's really really good. So one time I was at

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Speaker 1: a restaurant and you know, of course I always try

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Speaker 1: to use the tap to pay, and I'm at the restaurant,

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Speaker 1: I hand over my credit card and in about thirty

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Speaker 1: seconds while the person walks away, with my card. I

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Speaker 1: get a message from my credit card saying, hey, your

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Speaker 1: card was just used in like Indiana.

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Speaker 2: Said what? And I watched that movie what's it called?

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Speaker 1: Emily the Criminal, I think, And it's about all about

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Speaker 1: like credit card theft and all this stuff, and so

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Speaker 1: I realized how they do this. I mean, it's a

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Speaker 1: really sophisticated operation. So anyway, my point is, these these

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Speaker 1: scammers try to emulate the stuff that we really get

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Speaker 1: and they try to trick us. So I tell you

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Speaker 1: all of this because Verizon right now is sending out

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Speaker 1: these text messages that are offering valuable customer discounts anywhere

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Speaker 1: from ten to twenty five dollars off your wireless bill

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Speaker 1: per month. It arrives by text message. It says, hey,

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Speaker 1: you're a great customer. Call this number. We'll give you

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Speaker 1: ten to twenty five dollars off your bill. It's actually legitimate.

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Speaker 1: They did it last year. I was one of the

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Speaker 1: people that got the messages. I saved ten dollars a

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Speaker 1: month on my bill. And so if you get this text,

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Speaker 1: it's very confusing because you're sitting here going, hey, who's

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Speaker 1: trying to trick me here? And it's odd that Verizon

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Speaker 1: would send a text that looks like this, but this

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Speaker 1: is the second time they've done it. So if you

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Speaker 1: get a message that says to your customer, you're from Verizon,

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Speaker 1: you're very loyal, we want to offer you this, there's

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Speaker 1: a phone number in that message to call. Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you this message is legitimate, But what I would

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Speaker 1: do is just google the phone number to make sure

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Speaker 1: that's the actual Verizon phone number, because what scam artists

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Speaker 1: are going to do is they're going to emulate these

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Speaker 1: texts and say, hey, we're with AT and T or

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Speaker 1: we're withth T Mobile. Here's ten bucks off a month,

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Speaker 1: give us a call and you call that number. What

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Speaker 1: are they going to do? Say, Hey, what's your phone number,

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Speaker 1: what's your pin code?

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Speaker 2: What's all this?

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01:12:43,320 --> 01:12:44,599
Speaker 1: And by the time you give them all that, they've

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01:12:44,640 --> 01:12:48,360
Speaker 1: just stolen your account. So just be aware of these things.

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01:12:48,360 --> 01:12:52,000
Speaker 1: But again, it's confusing because the hackers try to target

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01:12:52,080 --> 01:12:55,559
Speaker 1: us using the systems that we're familiar with. You're listening

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01:12:55,600 --> 01:12:57,559
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Give me a call triple eight

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01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:01,120
Speaker 1: rich one oh one. We'll talk to you coming up next.

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01:13:01,680 --> 01:13:04,519
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here, rich on Tech. You are listening to

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01:13:04,560 --> 01:13:07,240
Speaker 1: the show where we talk about technology and take your

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01:13:07,360 --> 01:13:11,559
Speaker 1: calls at Triple eight rich one oh one. I'm the

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01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:14,960
Speaker 1: tech reporter for KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. You

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01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:17,760
Speaker 1: may see me on TV from time to time, or

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01:13:17,760 --> 01:13:21,920
Speaker 1: maybe on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook pretty much. Let's see

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01:13:21,920 --> 01:13:25,400
Speaker 1: which one am I on the most. Probably Instagram. I

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01:13:25,439 --> 01:13:28,400
Speaker 1: think it's Instagram. Twitter is more for like just fleeting

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01:13:28,439 --> 01:13:32,240
Speaker 1: little thoughts. Facebook is more. You know, I've got to

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01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:34,840
Speaker 1: really have a reason to post a Facebook.

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01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:35,479
Speaker 2: But I love it.

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01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:37,400
Speaker 1: I mean, got a lot of you on there that

1535
01:13:37,520 --> 01:13:41,320
Speaker 1: you know you love commenting, which I do read the comments,

1536
01:13:41,320 --> 01:13:44,559
Speaker 1: believe me. If you send me a message, a DM

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01:13:44,840 --> 01:13:48,760
Speaker 1: or you comment, I read most of them. But I

1538
01:13:48,800 --> 01:13:51,040
Speaker 1: can't always reply to every single one of them because

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01:13:51,080 --> 01:13:53,360
Speaker 1: it would be a full time job. So I do try,

1540
01:13:53,760 --> 01:13:55,479
Speaker 1: and I get some of my best story ideas from

1541
01:13:55,479 --> 01:13:57,800
Speaker 1: you just texting and tweeting and all that good stuff.

1542
01:13:57,800 --> 01:13:59,599
Speaker 1: So keep them coming, and believe me, I do get

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01:13:59,600 --> 01:14:00,840
Speaker 1: a laugh from a lot of the stuff, and I

1544
01:14:00,880 --> 01:14:04,040
Speaker 1: will try to like some times if I do. Nowhere

1545
01:14:04,080 --> 01:14:06,559
Speaker 1: else I get a lot of my ideas is my kid.

1546
01:14:07,560 --> 01:14:10,120
Speaker 1: I've got an eight year old that I think I'm

1547
01:14:10,120 --> 01:14:14,080
Speaker 1: going to have a weekly segment of how he's getting

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01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:17,960
Speaker 1: around all of the restrictions I have in place. So

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01:14:18,040 --> 01:14:19,960
Speaker 1: I told you last week how I came into his

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01:14:20,040 --> 01:14:22,000
Speaker 1: room and he was watching something on YouTube. I don't

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01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:24,559
Speaker 1: even know how he got on there. But this week,

1552
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:27,360
Speaker 1: since I kind of locked down YouTube a little bit more,

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01:14:27,439 --> 01:14:31,320
Speaker 1: I come into the room and he's facetiming with his friend.

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01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:35,160
Speaker 1: And guess what. He just figured out that his friend

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01:14:35,200 --> 01:14:38,800
Speaker 1: could share her screen to his iPad and they can

1556
01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:41,120
Speaker 1: sit there and watch YouTube videos because she's got no

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01:14:41,240 --> 01:14:44,759
Speaker 1: restrictions on her side, and so they.

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01:14:44,680 --> 01:14:46,040
Speaker 2: Just watched stuff together.

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01:14:49,280 --> 01:14:53,479
Speaker 1: I really had to laugh at his ingenuity here, because

1560
01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:56,320
Speaker 1: you know, as parents, it's really tricky because you can

1561
01:14:56,360 --> 01:14:59,479
Speaker 1: set up all these boundaries for your kids and it's

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01:14:59,520 --> 01:15:02,000
Speaker 1: kind of like you know you're gonna It's kind of

1563
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:04,439
Speaker 1: like when I was a kid, your parents had rules

1564
01:15:04,439 --> 01:15:07,120
Speaker 1: in your house. Then when you went to your friend's house,

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01:15:07,160 --> 01:15:09,479
Speaker 1: they had a whole different set of rules, and a

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01:15:09,520 --> 01:15:12,320
Speaker 1: lot of times those rules, depending on the friends you made,

1567
01:15:12,320 --> 01:15:14,320
Speaker 1: were a lot better than the rules you had. Like

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01:15:14,360 --> 01:15:17,559
Speaker 1: I remember sleeping over a friend's house one time and

1569
01:15:17,640 --> 01:15:20,160
Speaker 1: we were going to bed and I was like, oh,

1570
01:15:20,160 --> 01:15:21,880
Speaker 1: I gotta go brush my teeth and he's like what,

1571
01:15:22,200 --> 01:15:24,280
Speaker 1: it's like, I don't brush my teeth before bad I'm like, wait,

1572
01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:26,599
Speaker 1: what you don't brush He's like, nah, I don't have to.

1573
01:15:26,640 --> 01:15:28,519
Speaker 1: I'm like in my rules in my house, it's a

1574
01:15:28,560 --> 01:15:30,880
Speaker 1: rule you gotta brush your teeth before you go to bed.

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01:15:31,760 --> 01:15:34,400
Speaker 1: And then there was like snacks, you know, all kinds

1576
01:15:34,400 --> 01:15:37,520
Speaker 1: of different rules, and so kids, you know, they appreciate

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01:15:37,520 --> 01:15:40,160
Speaker 1: the rules the other homes because they can do things

1578
01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:43,240
Speaker 1: that they can't normally do at their house anyway. So

1579
01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:46,040
Speaker 1: the same thing kind of follows for all this tech stuff.

1580
01:15:46,439 --> 01:15:48,800
Speaker 1: It's like you can have all these rules and restrictions

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01:15:48,800 --> 01:15:51,519
Speaker 1: on your kid's iPad or your kid's computer, but as

1582
01:15:51,520 --> 01:15:53,559
Speaker 1: soon as they go to someone else's house, you know,

1583
01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:55,679
Speaker 1: they're just gonna be on their friend's iPad that has

1584
01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:58,120
Speaker 1: no limits or screen time or you know, they could

1585
01:15:58,160 --> 01:16:01,280
Speaker 1: download any game they want. So that was the newest

1586
01:16:01,280 --> 01:16:03,600
Speaker 1: hack that my kid figured out. The other one he

1587
01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 1: figured out because YouTube is currently banned on some of

1588
01:16:07,400 --> 01:16:10,000
Speaker 1: the devices or there's a time limit, is that he

1589
01:16:10,080 --> 01:16:12,519
Speaker 1: just goes to the Google Home which is like the

1590
01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:16,800
Speaker 1: little smart speaker slash display, and he'll just ask that

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01:16:16,880 --> 01:16:19,400
Speaker 1: to play a YouTube video, and so he'll just sit

1592
01:16:19,439 --> 01:16:21,200
Speaker 1: there and like, you know the room that has the

1593
01:16:21,200 --> 01:16:24,240
Speaker 1: Google and he'll just watch the video there. So I'm

1594
01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:28,680
Speaker 1: telling you, these kids are very They're very tricky, and

1595
01:16:28,720 --> 01:16:31,160
Speaker 1: it will serve him well in life later, but right

1596
01:16:31,160 --> 01:16:34,000
Speaker 1: now as a parent, believe me, it is you know,

1597
01:16:34,040 --> 01:16:35,679
Speaker 1: I get a laugh at the end of the day,

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01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:40,439
Speaker 1: but in the moment, it's really, oh my gosh, Like

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01:16:40,520 --> 01:16:41,920
Speaker 1: I'm just like, why are you in Why are you

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01:16:41,920 --> 01:16:42,599
Speaker 1: in my bedroom?

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01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:42,760
Speaker 5: Oh?

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01:16:42,760 --> 01:16:44,439
Speaker 1: Because there's a little Google home there so you can

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01:16:44,479 --> 01:16:47,240
Speaker 1: watch the video there. It's it's pretty amazing.

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01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:50,719
Speaker 2: These kids. They'll figure stuff out. Where there's a where there's.

1605
01:16:50,560 --> 01:16:53,040
Speaker 1: An Internet connection, there's a way, and they will figure

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01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:56,040
Speaker 1: it out. And the only reason, by the way, that

1607
01:16:56,080 --> 01:16:58,479
Speaker 1: he had because his iPad turns off at a certain

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01:16:58,520 --> 01:17:00,400
Speaker 1: time each night, and I was like, how is he

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01:17:00,479 --> 01:17:02,920
Speaker 1: still on this iPad even after you know the time

1610
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:06,599
Speaker 1: where it's supposed to lock up. And it turns out

1611
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:09,599
Speaker 1: that I left FaceTime open because I figure, well, FaceTime

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01:17:09,680 --> 01:17:11,200
Speaker 1: is kind of like the phone that I used to

1613
01:17:11,200 --> 01:17:13,519
Speaker 1: have in my room. You could always use it. It

1614
01:17:13,600 --> 01:17:16,439
Speaker 1: was like you call your friends, but now FaceTime allows

1615
01:17:16,479 --> 01:17:18,360
Speaker 1: you to do so much more than just call your friends.

1616
01:17:18,360 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 1: You know you're sharing memes, you're texting back and forth,

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01:17:21,360 --> 01:17:23,200
Speaker 1: you're you know you're on I message and you know

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01:17:23,240 --> 01:17:26,840
Speaker 1: you're also sharing screen now, So got to watch these kids.

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01:17:26,840 --> 01:17:30,840
Speaker 1: They're they're very tricky little beings. Mitch is in Denver. Mitch,

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01:17:30,880 --> 01:17:31,679
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.

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01:17:32,160 --> 01:17:34,000
Speaker 2: It rhymes Hi.

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01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:38,800
Speaker 5: Rich, Just get turned on your show. Thanks, really nice,

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01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:42,280
Speaker 5: really nice. I'm first off, I got to give you

1624
01:17:42,280 --> 01:17:47,920
Speaker 5: the buy description of the total opposite techie. Not not

1625
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:53,000
Speaker 5: along by any stretch. I'm a functioning computerization illiterate, okay,

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01:17:53,320 --> 01:17:59,280
Speaker 5: and uh, I just found and purchased a pair of

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01:18:00,520 --> 01:18:03,400
Speaker 5: they're light they're called they're more or less their light bulb,

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01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:08,000
Speaker 5: socket installed security cameras. So instead of you know, going

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01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:11,280
Speaker 5: through the whole thing of hardwire and a ring and

1630
01:18:11,400 --> 01:18:14,240
Speaker 5: all that and paid for a service to you know,

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01:18:14,320 --> 01:18:16,920
Speaker 5: to keep to monitor it, you just as long as

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01:18:16,920 --> 01:18:19,880
Speaker 5: you have Wi Fi and you have a socket and

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01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:24,400
Speaker 5: a clear view for the little camera. If you hook

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01:18:24,479 --> 01:18:26,559
Speaker 5: you link it up with the Wi Fi, you can

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01:18:26,680 --> 01:18:28,840
Speaker 5: monitor it. And you can even you can even put

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01:18:28,840 --> 01:18:31,640
Speaker 5: a card into you know, the record footage.

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01:18:32,120 --> 01:18:34,080
Speaker 1: Sure, but I think I tested one of these ones.

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01:18:34,120 --> 01:18:36,280
Speaker 1: It's just simple. You plug it in, you screw it

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01:18:36,280 --> 01:18:38,080
Speaker 1: into the light socket. It's got the power from the

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01:18:38,160 --> 01:18:41,000
Speaker 1: light socket. It's got a camera on it, and it records.

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01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:43,920
Speaker 1: I believe I tested one of these. Yeah, okay, exactly,

1642
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:45,080
Speaker 1: So what's going on with that?

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01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:51,200
Speaker 5: Well, okay, I excuse me. I got them, and I

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01:18:51,200 --> 01:18:54,360
Speaker 5: I went to I'm an Android, So I went to

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01:18:54,400 --> 01:18:59,639
Speaker 5: the Google App Store and took the very the description

1646
01:18:59,760 --> 01:19:03,720
Speaker 5: of the the app for the for it and downloaded that.

1647
01:19:04,240 --> 01:19:07,559
Speaker 5: And then when I go to pull up the app

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01:19:07,920 --> 01:19:10,439
Speaker 5: to activate it to sync it with the Wi Fi,

1649
01:19:11,280 --> 01:19:15,080
Speaker 5: it just it just stalls. It doesn't progress on and

1650
01:19:15,160 --> 01:19:19,240
Speaker 5: let me, you know, let me linked up and and

1651
01:19:19,320 --> 01:19:22,719
Speaker 5: get it to work right, and I just you know, beings,

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01:19:22,720 --> 01:19:25,240
Speaker 5: I don't have any I'm telling you a screener. I

1653
01:19:25,240 --> 01:19:27,400
Speaker 5: don't have a problem with sports guy. So I have

1654
01:19:27,439 --> 01:19:30,000
Speaker 5: a problem with like taking a ESPN and loading it

1655
01:19:30,040 --> 01:19:32,679
Speaker 5: on my smartphone and that works for me. But I've

1656
01:19:32,680 --> 01:19:35,320
Speaker 5: never done a device app like that, and I'm wondering

1657
01:19:35,320 --> 01:19:39,679
Speaker 5: if maybe I'm approaching it wrong to where I'm not sure.

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01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:42,639
Speaker 1: Ok Okay, So a couple of things. So first off,

1659
01:19:43,320 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 1: what do you have an Android or iPhone?

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01:19:45,560 --> 01:19:45,720
Speaker 5: Uh?

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01:19:45,760 --> 01:19:46,200
Speaker 11: Android?

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01:19:46,320 --> 01:19:46,760
Speaker 2: Okay, you have.

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01:19:46,760 --> 01:19:49,519
Speaker 1: Android and so you download the app. How is there

1664
01:19:49,560 --> 01:19:51,720
Speaker 1: a QR code to scan for the app? Like, how

1665
01:19:51,720 --> 01:19:52,360
Speaker 1: do you know you have.

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01:19:52,320 --> 01:19:52,920
Speaker 2: The right app?

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01:19:54,120 --> 01:19:56,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, it has it does have a scan code or

1668
01:19:56,760 --> 01:20:00,600
Speaker 5: you or you know, I can put the search engine. Uh,

1669
01:20:00,640 --> 01:20:04,040
Speaker 5: but I usually use the app and it it'll it'll

1670
01:20:04,080 --> 01:20:07,920
Speaker 5: take it and it'll it'll load it up and you know,

1671
01:20:07,960 --> 01:20:12,640
Speaker 5: and then I'll open it. But the initial page just

1672
01:20:13,240 --> 01:20:16,120
Speaker 5: the link you're supposed to hit that so you can

1673
01:20:16,160 --> 01:20:18,559
Speaker 5: start the process to link it up. It just falls.

1674
01:20:18,600 --> 01:20:21,320
Speaker 2: It doesn't It doesn't actually work that you know.

1675
01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:23,880
Speaker 1: Do you have anyone in the home or do you

1676
01:20:23,880 --> 01:20:25,360
Speaker 1: have an iPad that you might be able to use,

1677
01:20:25,439 --> 01:20:27,200
Speaker 1: or anyone in the home with an iPhone that you

1678
01:20:27,240 --> 01:20:29,439
Speaker 1: can try to see if the app works there? Just

1679
01:20:29,479 --> 01:20:32,120
Speaker 1: to activate this camera, I could.

1680
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:35,559
Speaker 5: Try my wife, my wife's phone. I haven't put that

1681
01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:39,000
Speaker 5: application on her, okay on her series is Android also,

1682
01:20:39,080 --> 01:20:42,240
Speaker 5: so I could do that. I No, I hadn't tried that.

1683
01:20:42,640 --> 01:20:44,640
Speaker 1: Well, I was thinking because you know, sometimes you know,

1684
01:20:44,720 --> 01:20:47,600
Speaker 1: Android and iOS apps can be vastly different depending on

1685
01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:49,760
Speaker 1: how they code them, and so it could be that

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01:20:49,800 --> 01:20:52,280
Speaker 1: the Android app has a you know, a bug in

1687
01:20:52,320 --> 01:20:55,479
Speaker 1: it or something that's just not playing nicely, and so

1688
01:20:55,560 --> 01:20:57,040
Speaker 1: I was thinking, if you can try it on an

1689
01:20:57,080 --> 01:21:00,360
Speaker 1: iPhone or an iOS app, you might be to see

1690
01:21:00,360 --> 01:21:01,800
Speaker 1: if you can at least get it to work and

1691
01:21:01,880 --> 01:21:05,639
Speaker 1: know that this camera works. So is there a return

1692
01:21:05,720 --> 01:21:07,439
Speaker 1: policy on this thing if it doesn't if you can't

1693
01:21:07,439 --> 01:21:09,920
Speaker 1: get it to work, I.

1694
01:21:10,320 --> 01:21:12,720
Speaker 5: You know, to be honest with there were only thirty bucks.

1695
01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:14,680
Speaker 5: So I kind of thought, okay, well I'll take a

1696
01:21:14,880 --> 01:21:18,000
Speaker 5: I'll take a wild stab at it. And the thing

1697
01:21:18,120 --> 01:21:22,280
Speaker 5: I've you know, it's funny rich because I can get it,

1698
01:21:22,680 --> 01:21:24,920
Speaker 5: and I don't know why it'll do a self check,

1699
01:21:25,040 --> 01:21:27,559
Speaker 5: so I know that the actual the actual bulb will

1700
01:21:27,880 --> 01:21:31,760
Speaker 5: do We'll go through the motions with its with its movements.

1701
01:21:31,800 --> 01:21:35,760
Speaker 5: And when I thought, okay, I've linked up, but it

1702
01:21:35,800 --> 01:21:38,479
Speaker 5: must do a self check and I can't even get

1703
01:21:38,479 --> 01:21:43,519
Speaker 5: that every time, and I've I've erased and retried loading

1704
01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:48,240
Speaker 5: up the app. I've even tried different uh, different companies

1705
01:21:48,680 --> 01:21:50,519
Speaker 5: apps for the like.

1706
01:21:51,080 --> 01:21:51,920
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think.

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01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:54,960
Speaker 1: I don't think the different companies apps would work. But

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01:21:55,360 --> 01:21:57,479
Speaker 1: here's the other thing. So what this app is doing

1709
01:21:57,680 --> 01:22:00,880
Speaker 1: is it's basically the camera is putting out its own

1710
01:22:00,920 --> 01:22:03,760
Speaker 1: Wi Fi network that your phone needs to pair with

1711
01:22:03,840 --> 01:22:07,720
Speaker 1: and connect to, and then it's provisioning the bulb to

1712
01:22:08,080 --> 01:22:10,800
Speaker 1: connect to your Wi Fi network eventually, So there is

1713
01:22:11,520 --> 01:22:14,280
Speaker 1: a little bit of time involved in that process. How

1714
01:22:14,320 --> 01:22:16,360
Speaker 1: long are you letting this app load up for the

1715
01:22:16,400 --> 01:22:21,040
Speaker 1: first time when you try to connect the bulb? Have

1716
01:22:21,120 --> 01:22:22,639
Speaker 1: you waited a good like two minutes?

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01:22:24,000 --> 01:22:24,840
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah?

1718
01:22:24,920 --> 01:22:28,320
Speaker 5: I at first I thought, you know, I could probably

1719
01:22:28,320 --> 01:22:32,200
Speaker 5: it probably link up pretty quick my router while I'm

1720
01:22:32,240 --> 01:22:34,519
Speaker 5: trying to do it. I've got my router, my Wi

1721
01:22:34,520 --> 01:22:37,880
Speaker 5: Fi router, about one and a half foot away from it.

1722
01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:40,320
Speaker 5: But I thought, okay, there's not a problem with distance

1723
01:22:40,439 --> 01:22:43,400
Speaker 5: or you know, getting a poor pickup of the Fi.

1724
01:22:43,640 --> 01:22:46,280
Speaker 1: One more question. When you turn on this bulb, if

1725
01:22:46,320 --> 01:22:48,360
Speaker 1: you go into the Wi Fi settings on your phone,

1726
01:22:49,040 --> 01:22:51,840
Speaker 1: does do you see the bulb Wi Fi network? Because

1727
01:22:51,880 --> 01:22:53,920
Speaker 1: it should emit its own Wi Fi network? Does it

1728
01:22:53,960 --> 01:22:56,080
Speaker 1: say like light bulb or something, whatever the brand is.

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01:22:56,120 --> 01:22:57,760
Speaker 1: Do you see that in your Wi Fi settings? Have

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01:22:57,800 --> 01:22:58,479
Speaker 1: you checked for that?

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01:22:59,840 --> 01:23:04,000
Speaker 5: I had looked, excuse me, I had looked. I don't

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01:23:04,120 --> 01:23:08,599
Speaker 5: see it in that? Is that the same the same

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01:23:08,640 --> 01:23:12,759
Speaker 5: page where it tells your your active Wi Fi network.

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01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:16,439
Speaker 1: It would be listed under like available networks. So I

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01:23:16,439 --> 01:23:18,160
Speaker 1: would Here's what I would do. I mean this and

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01:23:18,240 --> 01:23:20,200
Speaker 1: this is this is what I would do. So my

1737
01:23:20,280 --> 01:23:23,639
Speaker 1: advice is to see if you can download the app

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01:23:23,680 --> 01:23:25,360
Speaker 1: on your wife's phone. It could be just you know,

1739
01:23:25,400 --> 01:23:27,719
Speaker 1: whatever version of Android you're running or whatever, the app

1740
01:23:27,800 --> 01:23:29,760
Speaker 1: just doesn't agree with your phone. Believe me, I've I've

1741
01:23:29,760 --> 01:23:31,800
Speaker 1: set these things up and they can be very frustrating

1742
01:23:31,840 --> 01:23:34,360
Speaker 1: sometimes And in one case I wasn't able to get

1743
01:23:34,360 --> 01:23:36,519
Speaker 1: something set up at all that should have been very easy.

1744
01:23:36,760 --> 01:23:39,360
Speaker 1: And in other case is when I tried an iPhone

1745
01:23:39,439 --> 01:23:42,519
Speaker 1: versus an Android. Sometimes the iPhone works very easy to

1746
01:23:42,560 --> 01:23:45,000
Speaker 1: set it up, sometimes the Android. So if you can

1747
01:23:45,080 --> 01:23:47,240
Speaker 1: try a different device to set this up, that would

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01:23:47,240 --> 01:23:49,400
Speaker 1: be my first That would be my first line.

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01:23:49,439 --> 01:23:50,080
Speaker 2: That's what I would do.

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01:23:50,720 --> 01:23:53,559
Speaker 1: If you can't get that to work, I mean, it

1751
01:23:53,600 --> 01:23:56,200
Speaker 1: may just be that this is not going to play

1752
01:23:56,280 --> 01:23:59,240
Speaker 1: nice with your network. There could be some you know,

1753
01:23:59,360 --> 01:24:03,479
Speaker 1: some network settings that might be tweaked, you know, whatever

1754
01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:07,040
Speaker 1: band this phone is on versus the the Wi Fi

1755
01:24:07,120 --> 01:24:09,439
Speaker 1: band that this light is on. But the other thing

1756
01:24:09,520 --> 01:24:11,040
Speaker 1: is it kind of just goes to show that with

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01:24:11,080 --> 01:24:12,840
Speaker 1: a lot of these products that are not ring, that

1758
01:24:12,920 --> 01:24:16,920
Speaker 1: are not wise, you know, you don't know what you're getting.

1759
01:24:16,960 --> 01:24:19,160
Speaker 1: Sometimes they're going to work, sometimes they're going to be fine,

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01:24:19,240 --> 01:24:21,600
Speaker 1: other times they're going to be very frustrating. And so

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01:24:21,720 --> 01:24:24,519
Speaker 1: that's just what happens with some of these third party

1762
01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:27,360
Speaker 1: products that you know, we just don't really know where

1763
01:24:27,400 --> 01:24:30,439
Speaker 1: they're coming from or and the software is really the

1764
01:24:30,439 --> 01:24:32,519
Speaker 1: biggest thing. So when it comes to all these smart

1765
01:24:32,520 --> 01:24:35,840
Speaker 1: home devices, the software really differentiates.

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01:24:35,320 --> 01:24:36,719
Speaker 2: The good stuff from the bad stuff.

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01:24:36,760 --> 01:24:39,240
Speaker 1: And Mitch, hopefully you get this thing to work, but

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01:24:39,320 --> 01:24:42,240
Speaker 1: try those steps that I mentioned. I think that trying

1769
01:24:42,240 --> 01:24:44,800
Speaker 1: it on a different device would be best. And if

1770
01:24:44,840 --> 01:24:47,320
Speaker 1: you want to keep trying on your device, uninstall the

1771
01:24:47,400 --> 01:24:49,439
Speaker 1: app like you said you did, but then restart your

1772
01:24:49,439 --> 01:24:51,960
Speaker 1: phone and then restart the app. The other thing you

1773
01:24:52,040 --> 01:24:54,600
Speaker 1: do to flip this bulb and to try to you know,

1774
01:24:54,720 --> 01:24:57,360
Speaker 1: kick it into gear is to unscrew it and screw

1775
01:24:57,360 --> 01:24:59,439
Speaker 1: it back in a couple of times, and that usually

1776
01:25:00,200 --> 01:25:03,320
Speaker 1: it into getting into like the factory set up mode

1777
01:25:03,360 --> 01:25:06,639
Speaker 1: one more time. So and look on those support pages

1778
01:25:06,680 --> 01:25:10,519
Speaker 1: and see if there's anything pertaining to that app. All right,

1779
01:25:10,560 --> 01:25:13,200
Speaker 1: coming up, we're going to talk about why smartphones are

1780
01:25:13,240 --> 01:25:13,840
Speaker 1: not selling.

1781
01:25:13,920 --> 01:25:17,280
Speaker 2: Plus we're going to talk to Tom Merritt my guests, who

1782
01:25:17,320 --> 01:25:20,960
Speaker 2: has already been to the Super Nintendo World opening soon at.

1783
01:25:20,880 --> 01:25:24,679
Speaker 1: Universal Studios, Hollywood. You're listening to me rich on Tech.

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01:25:25,320 --> 01:25:27,960
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name is rich

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01:25:28,040 --> 01:25:31,960
Speaker 1: Jamiro hanging out and talking technology with you. Thanks for

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01:25:32,080 --> 01:25:33,679
Speaker 1: listening and being.

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01:25:33,479 --> 01:25:34,120
Speaker 2: Part of the show.

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01:25:34,160 --> 01:25:37,320
Speaker 1: By the way, triple eight rich one oh one eight

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01:25:37,439 --> 01:25:40,320
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one,

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01:25:40,360 --> 01:25:43,200
Speaker 1: this show is really all about you. It's all about

1791
01:25:43,360 --> 01:25:48,200
Speaker 1: helping you understand technology, helping you stay.

1792
01:25:47,960 --> 01:25:50,479
Speaker 2: Ahead of some of this stuff, and also.

1793
01:25:50,400 --> 01:25:52,720
Speaker 1: Not falling for a lot of the scams out there,

1794
01:25:53,200 --> 01:25:55,080
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of them. I mean, you feel

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01:25:55,080 --> 01:25:57,160
Speaker 1: like sometimes people are just scared to even use a

1796
01:25:57,160 --> 01:25:59,240
Speaker 1: computer or their phone. They don't want to hit the

1797
01:25:59,280 --> 01:26:02,719
Speaker 1: wrong button or the wrong they don't want to mess

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01:26:02,760 --> 01:26:05,200
Speaker 1: something up. And I'm here to tell you that most

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01:26:05,200 --> 01:26:07,920
Speaker 1: of the time you'll be okay. There's not really a

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01:26:07,920 --> 01:26:10,280
Speaker 1: lot of things that you can totally mess up. Well

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01:26:10,320 --> 01:26:13,120
Speaker 1: I guess there is, but will help you make you

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01:26:13,160 --> 01:26:16,040
Speaker 1: feel like you can do anything you want. So that

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01:26:16,120 --> 01:26:19,160
Speaker 1: last caller, Mitch made me think of a couple of things.

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01:26:19,160 --> 01:26:21,400
Speaker 1: He was having problems with this light bulb that he

1805
01:26:21,479 --> 01:26:24,400
Speaker 1: bought this light bulb camera and it made me think

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01:26:24,439 --> 01:26:27,160
Speaker 1: of two things. Number One, so when I first started

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01:26:27,200 --> 01:26:30,720
Speaker 1: setting up smart home devices, they were so complicated. I mean,

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01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:33,160
Speaker 1: the process to set these things up were just it

1809
01:26:33,160 --> 01:26:33,919
Speaker 1: took forever.

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01:26:34,240 --> 01:26:34,960
Speaker 2: It was annoying.

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01:26:35,040 --> 01:26:37,920
Speaker 1: You had to There's just a lot of hoops to

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01:26:38,040 --> 01:26:41,320
Speaker 1: jump through. And now things have gotten very very easy.

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01:26:41,400 --> 01:26:43,599
Speaker 1: In fact, the last kind of couple of smart home

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01:26:43,600 --> 01:26:45,679
Speaker 1: things I set up, I couldn't believe how easy they were.

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01:26:45,840 --> 01:26:47,719
Speaker 1: A lot of times you just scan a QR code

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01:26:48,120 --> 01:26:51,000
Speaker 1: and it just does everything in the background. It connects

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01:26:51,000 --> 01:26:52,920
Speaker 1: it to your Wi Fi, it'll connect it to your phone,

1818
01:26:52,960 --> 01:26:54,559
Speaker 1: it'll get it to the app. I mean, it's really

1819
01:26:54,600 --> 01:26:58,800
Speaker 1: really well done. So one of the things I was

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01:26:58,840 --> 01:27:01,640
Speaker 1: thinking is I was for so many years scared to

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01:27:01,840 --> 01:27:05,920
Speaker 1: change my Wi Fi network because I didn't want to

1822
01:27:06,240 --> 01:27:10,000
Speaker 1: reconnect all of these smart home devices. And then someone

1823
01:27:10,160 --> 01:27:12,320
Speaker 1: was like, Rich, you know, you can just use the

1824
01:27:12,360 --> 01:27:17,439
Speaker 1: same Wi Fi you know, password and network ID and

1825
01:27:17,560 --> 01:27:19,599
Speaker 1: everything will just carry over. And I was like what,

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01:27:20,600 --> 01:27:24,000
Speaker 1: And so sure enough, I replaced my router one time

1827
01:27:24,000 --> 01:27:26,479
Speaker 1: when I was trying, you know, to upgrade it, and

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01:27:26,560 --> 01:27:29,759
Speaker 1: I just use the same information and everything just followed

1829
01:27:29,840 --> 01:27:31,479
Speaker 1: it over. I couldn't believe it. I was like, oh

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01:27:31,560 --> 01:27:34,360
Speaker 1: my gosh. So that's a great tip if you're ever

1831
01:27:34,640 --> 01:27:37,280
Speaker 1: concerned you don't want to swap out your your modem

1832
01:27:37,360 --> 01:27:39,200
Speaker 1: or your router or you've done it in the past

1833
01:27:39,240 --> 01:27:40,799
Speaker 1: and you had to choose a new Wi Fi network

1834
01:27:40,800 --> 01:27:43,760
Speaker 1: and reconnect all your stuff. If you know if your

1835
01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:46,320
Speaker 1: system is secure, like if your username and ID, you

1836
01:27:46,360 --> 01:27:52,479
Speaker 1: know your your Wi Fi, you know the network name

1837
01:27:52,760 --> 01:27:55,559
Speaker 1: and the password is still secure and you can still

1838
01:27:55,600 --> 01:27:58,320
Speaker 1: reuse it, go ahead and then all your stuff will

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01:27:58,320 --> 01:28:01,200
Speaker 1: carry over, which is really great. Now, remember anything that's

1840
01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:03,080
Speaker 1: connected to that network in the past will find the

1841
01:28:03,120 --> 01:28:05,599
Speaker 1: new network. So only do that if you trust all

1842
01:28:05,600 --> 01:28:08,760
Speaker 1: the items on your network. The other thing is this

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01:28:08,880 --> 01:28:15,360
Speaker 1: story out of Massachusetts Minichog Regional High School. They've got

1844
01:28:15,400 --> 01:28:18,920
Speaker 1: a smart lighting system they installed at this school that

1845
01:28:19,600 --> 01:28:26,760
Speaker 1: broke and now all the lights are stuck on. So

1846
01:28:26,880 --> 01:28:31,160
Speaker 1: this green lighting system, seven thousand lights were installed over

1847
01:28:31,200 --> 01:28:34,240
Speaker 1: a decade ago, and it was supposed to save money,

1848
01:28:34,280 --> 01:28:38,400
Speaker 1: but the software that runs it apparently failed in August

1849
01:28:38,479 --> 01:28:41,439
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, and nobody's been able to turn off

1850
01:28:41,479 --> 01:28:44,960
Speaker 1: the lights ever since. It's been seventeen months, so teachers

1851
01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:48,080
Speaker 1: have been unscrewing the light bulbs. Some people have been

1852
01:28:49,040 --> 01:28:52,040
Speaker 1: flipping the breakers parts of the school to turn off

1853
01:28:52,040 --> 01:28:54,559
Speaker 1: the lights. They can't even dim the lights to show

1854
01:28:54,560 --> 01:28:57,320
Speaker 1: the kids a movie in the classroom or the board

1855
01:28:57,320 --> 01:29:01,440
Speaker 1: in front of the room. Lights are always full brightness.

1856
01:29:01,520 --> 01:29:06,519
Speaker 1: I mean, not very not very good situation. So what

1857
01:29:06,680 --> 01:29:09,880
Speaker 1: is the lesson learned here? The lesson here, and this

1858
01:29:09,960 --> 01:29:12,479
Speaker 1: is something that you can apply to your own home,

1859
01:29:13,240 --> 01:29:16,240
Speaker 1: is that you got to be smart about how you

1860
01:29:16,280 --> 01:29:18,559
Speaker 1: install this smart home stuff. You can't think that it's

1861
01:29:18,600 --> 01:29:21,479
Speaker 1: always going to work properly. And so for that reason,

1862
01:29:21,800 --> 01:29:24,200
Speaker 1: you probably want to have a switch somewhere and you

1863
01:29:24,240 --> 01:29:26,760
Speaker 1: probably want to be able to change the setup in

1864
01:29:26,800 --> 01:29:29,640
Speaker 1: some way. So in my house, I went through and

1865
01:29:29,680 --> 01:29:33,040
Speaker 1: I kind of regroup things. And so if you say

1866
01:29:33,040 --> 01:29:36,200
Speaker 1: a certain thing like turn off the lights in one room,

1867
01:29:36,280 --> 01:29:39,320
Speaker 1: it may turn off all the lights. And so you

1868
01:29:39,439 --> 01:29:41,040
Speaker 1: just have to think about this stuff when you set

1869
01:29:41,120 --> 01:29:43,439
Speaker 1: up your smart home devices in advance, like, Okay, how

1870
01:29:43,479 --> 01:29:46,840
Speaker 1: would I work these lights if they you know, if

1871
01:29:46,880 --> 01:29:50,000
Speaker 1: the switch breaks or if the software doesn't work, or

1872
01:29:50,000 --> 01:29:51,559
Speaker 1: I can't turn them off from my phone, or I

1873
01:29:51,560 --> 01:29:54,040
Speaker 1: can't turn them off from you know, my voice control.

1874
01:29:54,439 --> 01:29:56,240
Speaker 1: So just think about that when you set it up,

1875
01:29:57,160 --> 01:30:00,120
Speaker 1: and it'll just make you think of the way that

1876
01:30:00,280 --> 01:30:02,000
Speaker 1: you know, you might set these things up in a

1877
01:30:02,000 --> 01:30:05,320
Speaker 1: way that there are a couple ways to control the lights.

1878
01:30:05,640 --> 01:30:07,559
Speaker 1: What was the other thing that happened? One time I

1879
01:30:07,640 --> 01:30:09,840
Speaker 1: was controlling the lights in one room and they turn

1880
01:30:09,880 --> 01:30:11,920
Speaker 1: on the lights in another room where I think someone

1881
01:30:11,920 --> 01:30:15,040
Speaker 1: in the house was sleeping to remain unnamed, and it's like,

1882
01:30:15,080 --> 01:30:17,439
Speaker 1: you woke me up, Oh my gosh. And it's like,

1883
01:30:17,439 --> 01:30:20,400
Speaker 1: because I'm always testing something, right, Oh, another time I

1884
01:30:20,439 --> 01:30:24,320
Speaker 1: was testing if you say, like Alexa or Google, like

1885
01:30:24,439 --> 01:30:27,080
Speaker 1: happy Halloween or something, it like changes all the lights

1886
01:30:27,120 --> 01:30:29,599
Speaker 1: in your house. And I didn't know it changed every

1887
01:30:29,640 --> 01:30:32,240
Speaker 1: single light and turn on the TV and started playing

1888
01:30:32,280 --> 01:30:36,240
Speaker 1: scary music. And so imagine everyone in my house running

1889
01:30:36,240 --> 01:30:39,360
Speaker 1: out of their room saying, what what's going on? Because

1890
01:30:39,400 --> 01:30:43,479
Speaker 1: I said, you know, happy Halloween. So anyway, smart home

1891
01:30:43,560 --> 01:30:45,720
Speaker 1: stuff very fun as long as you've got it right.

1892
01:30:46,280 --> 01:30:46,599
Speaker 11: All right.

1893
01:30:46,640 --> 01:30:50,080
Speaker 1: Coming up, My next guest is Tom Merritt. He is

1894
01:30:50,120 --> 01:30:54,280
Speaker 1: a podcaster, Extraordinary host of daily Tech news show, and

1895
01:30:54,439 --> 01:30:59,040
Speaker 1: he has been to Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios, Hollywood.

1896
01:30:59,040 --> 01:31:02,080
Speaker 1: I'm so jealous We're going to talk to Tom next

1897
01:31:02,200 --> 01:31:07,439
Speaker 1: about what's good and cool about this new land. Welcome

1898
01:31:07,479 --> 01:31:10,439
Speaker 1: back to rich On Zech. My name is Rich DeMuro.

1899
01:31:10,720 --> 01:31:14,639
Speaker 1: We are hanging out and talking technology. Phone lines are

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01:31:14,640 --> 01:31:18,200
Speaker 1: open at Triple eight rich one oh one. My next

1901
01:31:18,240 --> 01:31:23,360
Speaker 1: guest is a well known technology journalist podcaster and he's

1902
01:31:23,400 --> 01:31:26,080
Speaker 1: written a couple of books. He hosts daily tech news

1903
01:31:26,160 --> 01:31:30,599
Speaker 1: show and his name is Tom Merritt. Tom, I'm laughing

1904
01:31:30,680 --> 01:31:33,080
Speaker 1: because the music intro they played.

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01:31:33,320 --> 01:31:33,920
Speaker 2: Did you hear it?

1906
01:31:35,280 --> 01:31:35,439
Speaker 4: No?

1907
01:31:36,000 --> 01:31:37,120
Speaker 11: I didn't catch it? Or was it?

1908
01:31:37,120 --> 01:31:37,320
Speaker 3: It was?

1909
01:31:37,360 --> 01:31:38,759
Speaker 2: How do you talk to an angel?

1910
01:31:40,840 --> 01:31:43,360
Speaker 11: That's how I feel talking to you, Rich, That's.

1911
01:31:43,160 --> 01:31:48,680
Speaker 2: How I feel talking to you. Welcome to the show, Tom.

1912
01:31:48,160 --> 01:31:50,280
Speaker 13: Oh, Thanks man, it's really good to be here.

1913
01:31:50,280 --> 01:31:51,639
Speaker 11: Thanks for inviting me on.

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01:31:52,000 --> 01:31:55,120
Speaker 1: So, okay, I'm a little jealous because you have been

1915
01:31:55,240 --> 01:31:59,280
Speaker 1: to the Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios, Hollywood. It

1916
01:31:59,320 --> 01:32:04,080
Speaker 1: opens February seventeenth. You somehow got in, and I want

1917
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:06,400
Speaker 1: to hear all about it. So was it fun?

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01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:08,479
Speaker 5: It was?

1919
01:32:09,040 --> 01:32:10,080
Speaker 4: It was really fun.

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01:32:10,720 --> 01:32:15,000
Speaker 13: It was both bigger and smaller than I expected. And

1921
01:32:15,080 --> 01:32:18,720
Speaker 13: I'll explain that basically, you walk in and you are

1922
01:32:19,000 --> 01:32:22,160
Speaker 13: inside of a Nintendo. They did a great job with

1923
01:32:22,640 --> 01:32:27,360
Speaker 13: the colors and the decorations and animatronics, things like the

1924
01:32:27,400 --> 01:32:30,200
Speaker 13: little plants from Mario over there, popping up and down.

1925
01:32:31,240 --> 01:32:34,000
Speaker 13: It is a little smaller in the sense that.

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01:32:34,439 --> 01:32:35,840
Speaker 4: Once you've done the big.

1927
01:32:35,640 --> 01:32:38,760
Speaker 13: Ride Mario Kart, there's some fun little games to walk

1928
01:32:38,800 --> 01:32:39,360
Speaker 13: around and do.

1929
01:32:39,520 --> 01:32:42,360
Speaker 11: There's the Toad Cafe, go get a bite to eat.

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01:32:43,040 --> 01:32:45,839
Speaker 13: But there really is only the one big main attraction.

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01:32:46,920 --> 01:32:50,880
Speaker 1: So this is sort of a new land inside Universal Studios, Hollywood,

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01:32:51,360 --> 01:32:54,360
Speaker 1: and it's all based around Nintendo. And so if you're

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01:32:54,360 --> 01:32:58,360
Speaker 1: a Nintendo fan, you play these games grown up or now,

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01:32:58,840 --> 01:33:01,400
Speaker 1: it will probably be fun. So they've got this Mario

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01:33:01,520 --> 01:33:06,160
Speaker 1: Kart Challenge, Bowser's Challenge ride. Then they've got, like you said,

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01:33:06,160 --> 01:33:09,960
Speaker 1: the restaurants. They've got the bean Pole, they've got Bowser's Castle,

1937
01:33:10,600 --> 01:33:13,880
Speaker 1: they've got this power up band. So let's talk about

1938
01:33:13,880 --> 01:33:17,439
Speaker 1: the ride, Mario Kart, Bowser's Challenge. It's got sort of

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01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:19,800
Speaker 1: aspects of ar Tell me about that.

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01:33:20,840 --> 01:33:23,639
Speaker 13: Yeah, So, once you've made your way through the line,

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01:33:24,120 --> 01:33:25,080
Speaker 13: which like all.

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01:33:25,080 --> 01:33:26,559
Speaker 11: The amusement parks, has a long.

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Speaker 13: Line, but they do a lot of fun things to

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Speaker 13: keep the entertained along the way, you get into an

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Speaker 13: area where they instruct you how you're going to put

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Speaker 13: on this visor, and they give you a hat. It's

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Speaker 13: a Mario hat, so you put that on, you get ready,

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Speaker 13: you go down, You get in the car and there's

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Speaker 13: a visor there that snaps on.

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Speaker 11: It's pretty easy.

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Speaker 4: It's magnetic.

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Speaker 13: And then as you're going through the ride, there are

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Speaker 13: some things along the way in real life, but mostly

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Speaker 13: what you're looking at is other carts as if you're

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Speaker 13: inside the video game and you actually have control that

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Speaker 13: let you steer the car with the other people you're

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Speaker 13: in the car with, as well as shoot turtles at

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Speaker 13: some of the virtual cars in front of you to

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Speaker 13: try to gain points, so you really are riding inside

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Speaker 13: the video game.

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Speaker 2: What would you give this ride out of a ten?

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Speaker 4: Out of a ten, I give it an eight. Wow.

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Speaker 4: I had a lot of fun on it.

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Speaker 13: I wish I didn't have to wait so long in

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Speaker 13: line to do it.

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Speaker 4: And once you've done it once, I think you.

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Speaker 13: Get a sense of how to rack up the points.

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Speaker 11: Better because they give you a leaderboard at the.

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Speaker 13: End that tells you how many points you got and everything.

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Speaker 4: But it really is fun.

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Speaker 13: If you're a person who likes these kinds of video games,

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Speaker 13: especially these simple Mario Kart video games, which I don't

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Speaker 13: know about you, but I've played with my family. It

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Speaker 13: does give you a sense that you're inside the game.

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Speaker 1: Oh and that's the beauty of all Nintendo games is

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Speaker 1: that first party games at least, is that they're just

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Speaker 1: fun for the whole family. And I think that's probably

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Speaker 1: part of the reason why this opened at Universal Studio,

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Speaker 1: because the parents know the games, the kids know the games,

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Speaker 1: and everyone knows these characters. And I'm trying to remember.

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Speaker 1: I feel like this opened in Japan at some point

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Speaker 1: before the US.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, they opened the Japan version in March of twenty

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Speaker 13: twenty one, so it's been kicking around there for a while.

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Speaker 13: It's a little bit bigger there. So they have a

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Speaker 13: couple of rides. One of the things they did is

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Speaker 13: they took the Yoshi part of the Yoshi Ride and

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Speaker 13: they put it in the line waiting area in Hollywood,

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Speaker 13: So you're gonna still get some of that experience as

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Speaker 13: you're walking up to get ready to ride to Mario Kart.

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Speaker 1: My guest is Tom Merritt. He is a podcaster and

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Speaker 1: host of daily technewshow dot Com goes by Ace Detect

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Speaker 1: on Twitter. Can you explain why I've always wondered that.

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Speaker 11: The short version is it was a user name I

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Speaker 11: picked in the late nineties and it's stuck.

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Speaker 2: Okay, got it.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about the new Supernintendo World at Universal Studios, Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: It opens February seventeenth. I imagine it's kind of like

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01:36:03,720 --> 01:36:05,840
Speaker 1: before a new gadget comes out, Like there's not a

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Speaker 1: reason to go to Universal right now before the seventeenth,

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Speaker 1: because like my kid is like, I want to go

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Speaker 1: to Universal. I'm like, we got to wait till after

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Speaker 1: the seventeenth at least because this new area is opening.

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Speaker 1: So this other thing they've got is this power Up Band.

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Speaker 2: Do you have any.

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01:36:20,800 --> 01:36:22,599
Speaker 1: Experience with that? Do you know what that's all about?

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Speaker 1: It's an interactive wristband.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, this is something that is good to know before

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Speaker 13: you go in. When once you've decided to go, make

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Speaker 13: sure you head right to the Mario Band or the

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Speaker 13: power Up Band sales area if you want to take

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Speaker 13: part in it.

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Speaker 11: You don't have to take part in it, but it's

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Speaker 11: going to let you do.

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Speaker 13: More things and collect points and add them to an

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Speaker 13: app and all that sort of thing. But the main

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Speaker 13: thing you want to do is to get one of

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01:36:51,400 --> 01:36:54,519
Speaker 13: the bands. They are forty dollars, so it's not going

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Speaker 13: to be for everybody, but if you decide that that

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01:36:57,080 --> 01:36:59,479
Speaker 13: sounds like forty dollars worth of fun, you're going to

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Speaker 13: get a band that you'll take home with you. It's

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Speaker 13: a nice, big collectible band. They have them in various characters,

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Speaker 13: so there's a Mario colored one, there's a Princess Peach one,

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Speaker 13: there's a Luigi one, there's a Bowser one, and then

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Speaker 13: the band has what's called an NFC chip inside of

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Speaker 13: it so that you can walk around the park and

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Speaker 13: collect coins. So they'll be like three dimensional power boxes

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Speaker 13: pole boxes that you can hit and your band will

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Speaker 13: then record that you have collected the coin. And in fact,

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Speaker 13: if you do the Mario Kart Ride, any of the

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Speaker 13: coins you collect on the Mario Kart Ride go into

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Speaker 13: your account.

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Speaker 4: There's a QR.

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Speaker 13: Code on the back of the band that you can

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Speaker 13: pair with the Universal app and be able to access

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Speaker 13: all your points. And I didn't try this last part,

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01:37:49,400 --> 01:37:52,040
Speaker 13: but apparently you'll then be able to take those coins

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Speaker 13: and attach them to your Nintendo account and apply them

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Speaker 13: to some of the points based stuff that are available.

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Speaker 1: There, very elaborate, I mean, and it's okay, so forty dollars.

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Speaker 2: I get it.

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Speaker 1: You're at a theme park. I mean you can't get

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Speaker 1: like a churro for less than ten bucks.

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Speaker 11: So right, and it is something you get to take

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Speaker 11: home with you. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like one of these things.

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Speaker 1: There's like certain places in the world where you just

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Speaker 1: have to have a suspension of all money disbelief.

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Speaker 2: It's like a.

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01:38:18,160 --> 01:38:22,519
Speaker 1: Theme park, an airport, where else let's see. Yeah, it's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: a ballpark. Yeah, you're like, wait, when's the beer thirty

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Speaker 1: eight dollars? Oh, at the stadium? I get it, So okay.

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Speaker 1: Anything else of note? Did you go to the Toadstool

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Speaker 1: Cafe or did you sample any They've got Toadstool Cheesy

2056
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Speaker 1: Garlic knots, super mushroom soup, Piranha plant caprece, Mario Bacon cheeseburger,

2057
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Speaker 1: Luigi Pesto chicken burger, question Block Tieramie Sue, and Princess

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Speaker 1: Peach cupcake. Did you try any of those things?

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Speaker 13: I can't say that we did. We did peek in

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01:38:52,600 --> 01:38:57,000
Speaker 13: and gotta look at it. The food looked nice. It

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01:38:57,080 --> 01:38:59,840
Speaker 13: looks more like they had named it things. They put

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Speaker 13: some sprinkles and decorations on it to give it a

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01:39:02,360 --> 01:39:06,479
Speaker 13: little Nintendo flare, but the line for that was also

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01:39:07,000 --> 01:39:10,640
Speaker 13: incredibly long because it was new and in preview, so

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01:39:10,680 --> 01:39:11,639
Speaker 13: people wanted to get a.

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Speaker 11: Crack at it.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I can't. I can't tell you if.

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Speaker 13: It delivers on the flavor profile as promised or Now.

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Speaker 1: First off, a little rich on tech trivia. You know,

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Speaker 1: I used to work at Universal Studios. I was the

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Speaker 1: tram tour guide when I was in college. Oh nice,

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Speaker 1: So I used to be one of those people that

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01:39:27,640 --> 01:39:29,720
Speaker 1: led you around the back law and did all the

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01:39:29,800 --> 01:39:33,439
Speaker 1: corny jokes and stuff. This may be too inside baseball,

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Speaker 1: but where is the actual Nintendo World located?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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01:39:39,439 --> 01:39:41,960
Speaker 13: That was an interesting thing that I wanted to find

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Speaker 13: out too. So when you come into the park, you're

2079
01:39:44,520 --> 01:39:47,120
Speaker 13: kind of upstairs, and you walk through the main street,

2080
01:39:47,240 --> 01:39:49,280
Speaker 13: and then you pass by Harry Potter and you go

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Speaker 13: through Simpsons and then you take escalators down and anybody

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01:39:54,240 --> 01:39:56,960
Speaker 13: who's been there before knows, oh, right, that's where the

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01:39:57,040 --> 01:40:01,880
Speaker 13: Mummy rides, right right, That's where the Transformers Gerastic World.

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Speaker 9: Now they're revamping maps from showing my Age Graphic World

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Speaker 9: So the Nintendo World is located kind of straight off

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01:40:11,920 --> 01:40:13,960
Speaker 9: the escalators. You kind of go a little bit to

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01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:18,000
Speaker 9: the right and heads straight. And I looked at a

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01:40:18,040 --> 01:40:21,320
Speaker 9: map to double check this. There used to be a

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Speaker 9: studio or a warehouse or some structure there, so this

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01:40:24,760 --> 01:40:27,080
Speaker 9: is not a ride that they've removed.

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01:40:27,120 --> 01:40:31,000
Speaker 13: They tore down a building and created Nintendo World in

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01:40:31,080 --> 01:40:32,559
Speaker 13: the space they freed up there.

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Speaker 2: Okay, very cool, All right.

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Speaker 1: Super Nintendo World opens at Universal Studios, Hollywood, February seventeenth,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Just in a couple of weeks here,

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01:40:43,280 --> 01:40:46,360
Speaker 1: So Tom quickly tell us about you. You do a

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Speaker 1: show called Daily Tech News Show and a bunch of

2098
01:40:49,160 --> 01:40:51,920
Speaker 1: other stuff as well. But how can folks find you

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01:40:51,960 --> 01:40:52,479
Speaker 1: and listen?

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Speaker 13: Yeah, the idea with Daily Tech News Show is Sarah

2101
01:40:56,280 --> 01:40:59,880
Speaker 13: Layne and I and the whole team really enjoy looking

2102
01:41:00,000 --> 01:41:02,040
Speaker 13: through all the tech news every day, and we want

2103
01:41:02,080 --> 01:41:04,200
Speaker 13: to make it easy for other people to understand what's

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01:41:04,240 --> 01:41:06,800
Speaker 13: going on since there's so much of this technology out there,

2105
01:41:07,240 --> 01:41:09,400
Speaker 13: So we boil it down into thirty minutes to day

2106
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Speaker 13: that'll keep you up to date, make you the person

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Speaker 13: who's most up to date on tech in the room,

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Speaker 13: and you can find us at Dailytechnewshow dot com or

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Speaker 13: if you've got a podcast app you use, just type

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Speaker 13: in Daily Tech News Show we'll pop right up.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, thanks so much for joining me today, Tom,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it, and a little bit of more trivia

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Speaker 1: for you. Tom and I used to work together at

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Speaker 1: CNAT for a brief moment, so that was pretty cool

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Speaker 1: as well. I went on one episode of buzz Out

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Speaker 1: Loud back in the day and it was I think

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Speaker 1: that was the first time my voice was ever on audio.

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Speaker 1: All right, thanks so much for joining me, Tom, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Can't wait to visit the new Nintendo World at Universal Studios.

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Speaker 1: Coming up in the show, I'm going to talk about

2121
01:41:48,439 --> 01:41:50,840
Speaker 1: the smartphone sales why they're down.

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Speaker 2: Plus we'll take a couple more calls at Triple eight.

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Speaker 1: Rich one oh one. You're listening to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. I'm Richtamiro hanging out

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Speaker 1: talking technology with you. Smartphone sales in twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: were not very good. Worldwide smartphone shipments declined eighteen percent.

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01:42:13,200 --> 01:42:16,280
Speaker 2: Year over year. That was in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: Then when you look at the year, down eleven percent,

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01:42:20,479 --> 01:42:24,080
Speaker 1: so they sold The good news is the carrier, the manufacturers.

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01:42:24,160 --> 01:42:27,600
Speaker 1: You know, they shipped one point two to one billion units.

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01:42:28,040 --> 01:42:31,679
Speaker 1: But guess what, that's the lowest annual number since twenty thirteen.

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01:42:31,760 --> 01:42:35,120
Speaker 1: So what happened? Why are people buying less phones? Well,

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Speaker 1: consumer demand, inflation, economic uncertainties, and the reality is phones

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Speaker 1: are lasting longer, so people are feeling they don't need

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Speaker 1: to upgrade as often. And last year I think we

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Speaker 1: had some really good phones. I mean, the Pixel seven

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01:42:49,240 --> 01:42:53,519
Speaker 1: was amazing, the iPhone fourteen was really good. And this

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Speaker 1: year we have the you know, the S twenty three

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Speaker 1: coming up very soon from Samsung. I know there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of excited folks for that, but the reality is

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Speaker 1: people are keeping their phones thirty six to thirty nine

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Speaker 1: months now. They're no longer getting a new one every year.

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Speaker 1: You just don't see the reason to do that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: unless you're me, I get one, gotta keep it fresh,

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01:43:13,960 --> 01:43:17,080
Speaker 1: you know, swap it out every couple of months. Anyway,

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01:43:17,600 --> 01:43:19,840
Speaker 1: So what does this mean for you? Well, on a

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01:43:19,880 --> 01:43:22,200
Speaker 1: positive note, and this is all by the way, according

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01:43:22,200 --> 01:43:26,519
Speaker 1: to IDC, you may find more generous trade in offers

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01:43:26,520 --> 01:43:31,200
Speaker 1: and promotions because these companies and these carriers want to

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Speaker 1: sell you phones. So how did the major I keep

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01:43:35,840 --> 01:43:38,799
Speaker 1: saying carriers, but it's really the manufacturers Apple and Samsung

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01:43:38,880 --> 01:43:42,519
Speaker 1: here in the US. How did they do so last year?

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Speaker 1: What do you think is on top Samsung or Apple worldwide?

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01:43:46,600 --> 01:43:49,320
Speaker 1: It's actually Samsung. You might think because we live in America.

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01:43:49,360 --> 01:43:52,599
Speaker 1: In the US, Apple is very popular, but Samsung actually

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01:43:52,640 --> 01:43:56,320
Speaker 1: sells more phones worldwide. Last year they sold two hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty million phones, Apple two twenty six million, So

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Speaker 1: market share for Samsung twenty one percent, Apple eighteen percent.

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Speaker 1: They were both down though last year, like I mentioned.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, it's a good time to be a consumer

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Speaker 1: with new phones. I know the prices seem to keep

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Speaker 1: going up on these phones, but there are some good

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Speaker 1: deals out there if you're looking for a new one.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Let's see if I can get this right.

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Speaker 1: Janet is in Santa Monica. Janet, you're on with Rich Rich.

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Speaker 14: Well, when I was on hold, I drove my son

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Speaker 14: to a boy Scout project which was cleaning up and

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Speaker 14: beautifying tong the springs. So that's one suggestion as to

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Speaker 14: help getting your son off excess technology.

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Speaker 1: H I love that suggestion. Put them to work. I

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Speaker 1: love it anything in the real life. This is I'm

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Speaker 1: actually a big fan of that. So like after school,

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01:44:46,920 --> 01:44:48,640
Speaker 1: like they you know, for some reason, they have like

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Speaker 1: a half day once a week, I will literally take

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Speaker 1: them like directly to a hike or some sort of

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Speaker 1: like outdoor activity because to me, the longer they're out

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Speaker 1: of the house the better because it's less screened. So

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Speaker 1: great idea on that one, ultimately.

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Speaker 14: But the reason I'm calling is you started telling a

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Speaker 14: story which I found very interesting, about how the waitress

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Speaker 14: at the restaurant took your phone away for thirteen seconds

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Speaker 14: and then immediately somebody somewhere else was charging stuff. And

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Speaker 14: you said you figured out how they did it, and

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Speaker 14: so I was waiting for you to say, Okay, how

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Speaker 14: did they do it? And I was yelling at this

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Speaker 14: at the radio. But then I said, okay, that's not helping.

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Speaker 2: So I decided to call you and ask you a

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Speaker 2: good question.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So first off, it was well, it was a

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Speaker 1: waiter actually, but I'm not blaming the waiter for what happened.

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Speaker 1: And it wasn't my phone. It was actually my card.

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Speaker 1: So that's what I was saying. Typically I use my

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Speaker 1: phone to tap to pay and so only if they

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Speaker 1: have to pry my credit card or my debit card

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Speaker 1: out of my hand while I actually use the physical card,

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Speaker 1: because nine times out of ten, it's way more secure

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Speaker 1: to use your phone to tap to pay because no

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Speaker 1: one sees your number. Now, at a restaurant you are

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Speaker 1: you are particularly at risk because someone is taking your

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Speaker 1: card into another place where you don't see that card

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Speaker 1: for a while. In other places in the world, they

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Speaker 1: have these little machines they bring to your table and

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Speaker 1: they will put your card into the machine, or you

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Speaker 1: can tap the machine and they'll do the entire bill

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Speaker 1: right at your table side. That's mostly in Europe and Asia.

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Speaker 1: Here in the US, they still take your card to

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Speaker 1: a machine somewhere off, you know, somewhere else in the restaurant,

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Speaker 1: swipe your card or whatever, and do the transaction that way.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if the person that took my card

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Speaker 1: at this restaurant was stealing the number. It could have

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Speaker 1: been a coincidence, but it just so happened. That was

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Speaker 1: the first time I used my physical card in a

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Speaker 1: very long time, and I got a message from my

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Speaker 1: bank within minutes saying, hey, did you just use you know.

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Speaker 2: Did you just use your card.

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Speaker 1: It was at some it was like a gas station

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Speaker 1: in Indiana or something, and I said no, and so

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Speaker 1: sure enough, after that night, I had to get a

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Speaker 1: new card. And so I don't know if it was related,

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Speaker 1: but I'm just saying when you're using your physical card,

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Speaker 1: and especially when someone else is taking that card away

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Speaker 1: from you, there's always a chance something can happen. So

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Speaker 1: the moral of the story is not really to blame

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Speaker 1: the restaurant or the waiter. I have no idea if

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Speaker 1: it was related. It's just, you know, use tap to

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Speaker 1: pay when possible. People are very hesitant to set that

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Speaker 1: feature up because they don't trust it or they don't

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Speaker 1: know if it's secure. It is very secure, Janet. Do

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Speaker 1: you use that tap to pay or no?

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Speaker 14: No, But I think I will because you know, I

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Speaker 14: charged tickets on Ticketmaster one time, and within minutes somebody

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Speaker 14: you know, across the country was charging stuff on that

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Speaker 14: card as well. Yeah, so I'm always looking for a

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Speaker 14: more secure way to charge things.

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Speaker 2: Yep.

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Speaker 1: And I've had that happen too. I bought something on

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Speaker 1: a website once and the second I put in my

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Speaker 1: credit card information on that website, and it was a website.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't like a big website. It was a smaller

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Speaker 1: website that I was ordering like a car accessory from.

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Speaker 1: And it was the first time I shopped there, and

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Speaker 1: sure enough, as soon as I put my card number in,

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Speaker 1: it was like bing. I got an email that said, Hey,

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Speaker 1: did you just use your card in this place? I

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Speaker 1: said no, and so I had to get that card.

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Speaker 1: And it's very frustrating to have to get your card

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Speaker 1: number or placed, because you know, you have these cards

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Speaker 1: saved to pay for Netflix and things like that, and

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Speaker 1: if you have to get a new card number, sometimes

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Speaker 1: will carry over the information to the new card. Other

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Speaker 1: times you gotta you know, the last time this happened

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Speaker 1: to me, I got all these things saying you better

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Speaker 1: change your card number or else. So, Janet, does that

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Speaker 1: help with some of the explanation there some of the

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Speaker 1: mystery out of that.

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Speaker 14: It does help, And I'm going to start using my

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Speaker 14: phone more and I appreciate your advice.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: All right, thanks a lot. So where's your kid cleaning

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Speaker 1: up today?

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Speaker 14: To the springs?

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Speaker 2: Okay, Tonga Springs, you know where that is?

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Speaker 3: It went It's adjacent to Uni High, Okay, I know

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Speaker 3: where that is yeah, good, excellent.

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Speaker 14: I was just it. It's the original site where when

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Speaker 14: they discovered Santa Monica, the missionary and explorer said, the

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Speaker 14: springs look like the tears of St. Monica. So that's

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Speaker 14: how the city got its name. And it is still

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Speaker 14: there and it's beautiful. We try to keep it just

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Speaker 14: like the native solid hundreds of years ago.

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Speaker 2: Amazing.

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm going to check it out next time

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Speaker 1: i'm over there. I love to run in Santa Monica.

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Speaker 1: I'll park at the inspiration point there and do a

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Speaker 1: nice run along the ocean. So beautiful, beautiful area. Thank you, Janet,

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Speaker 1: and thank you for listening. That's going to do it

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Speaker 1: for this episode of the show. Next week, big big

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Speaker 1: news from Samsung. We have the launch of the S

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Speaker 1: twenty three smartphones. I will be at the event in

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Speaker 1: San Francisco. It's Samsung's first in person event in three years,

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Speaker 1: so I can't wait. I'm looking forward to that. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you all about those new phones. And if you'd

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