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Speaker 2: That sounds wonderful. It's always nice to tune into something

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Speaker 5: Hey, Rich, thank you. Here's my deal. I have an

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging

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Speaker 8: Thanks Rich, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: So saw the story about this, I guess over in Westwood.

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Speaker 1: Here in Los Angeles, they are going to make a

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Speaker 9: So the way it works is that it's known as

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Speaker 9: Specifically in Europe, there are a number of roads that

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Speaker 9: battery is eighty percent charged and goes down to seventy percent,

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Speaker 9: then it comes up to seventy two percent, then goes

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Speaker 9: down to sixty five percent and up to call it

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Speaker 9: sixty eight percent.

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Speaker 8: Whatever it is.

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Speaker 9: As it's driving along, it's extending the amount of range

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Speaker 9: that you have. But also when you do come back

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Speaker 9: to either your if you're at a fleet, like coming

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Speaker 9: back to your lot or coming back to your home

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Speaker 9: to charge up, you're not having to charge from you know,

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Speaker 9: essentially a dead battery all the way up. The amount

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Speaker 9: of energy that you're requiring is so much smaller because

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Speaker 9: you've been able to charge throughout the day in these

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Speaker 9: small increments.

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Speaker 1: Okay, got it interesting? So and I know you know

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Speaker 1: with my phone, obviously plug in chargings the fastest wireless

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Speaker 1: chargings a little bit slower, but I imagine dynamic wireless

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Speaker 1: charging has got to be a bit slower than sort

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Speaker 1: of steady or static charging, is correct?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, no, absolutely, it's not. This it solves everything kind

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Speaker 9: of technology. What does is it helps enable the deployment

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Speaker 9: on larger scale of vehicles because the way that the

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Speaker 9: dynamic inductive charging is set up, it can be utilized

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Speaker 9: in multiple vehicle classes. So when you're looking at kind

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Speaker 9: of a heavy duty vehicle, or think about your iPhone.

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Speaker 9: Let's just if you have an iPhone or an Android,

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Speaker 9: you're charging plugs may be different when you're looking at

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Speaker 9: charging for your car versus a bus. Those are different chargers,

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Speaker 9: those are different connectors, different powers. However, with something like

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Speaker 9: the inductive charging systems, we're talking about things that can

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Speaker 9: now be utilized across all vehicle classes, so you can

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Speaker 9: actually share the infrastructure. So instead of having to say,

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Speaker 9: I've got one charger for this one bus, it can

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Speaker 9: be a roadway that can be utilized for everyone driving

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Speaker 9: up and down it if they have the rest receivers

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Speaker 9: that are installed on the vehicle to be able to

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Speaker 9: utilize the inductive charging.

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Speaker 1: And do we know how long like this road is?

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Speaker 1: Is it like a couple of miles or is it

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Speaker 1: like a portion of a mile like what.

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Speaker 9: This first one I believe is going to be just

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Speaker 9: over a quarter of a mile I believe, But again

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Speaker 9: we're talking about pilots here. We also have another one

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Speaker 9: up in Detroit that we're working on, in another one

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Speaker 9: in upstate New York that we're doing to show the

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Speaker 9: technology and what it can do.

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Speaker 8: The one at UCLA.

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Speaker 9: One of the really exciting parts about this is not

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Speaker 9: just the fact that it'll be utilized for the Olympics,

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Speaker 9: for the Olympic Village but also that where it's located,

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Speaker 9: there are seven other transit agencies that are coming in

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Speaker 9: and laying over there. And the goal is that once

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Speaker 9: this is proven out with the UCLA, these other seven

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Speaker 9: agencies are going to be utilizing that same area. We

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Speaker 9: would love to get them to kind of join in

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Speaker 9: and say, yeah, we'd love to put some receivers on

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Speaker 9: here to charge our vehicles while we're driving up and down.

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Speaker 8: It's a way to expand the technology you into other

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Speaker 8: transit agencies.

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Speaker 1: Now, what about the safety of this, Like can I

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Speaker 1: walk on this road?

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Speaker 10: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Across? Am I going to be like blowing green? After

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Speaker 1: I get across the road?

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Speaker 8: If you're glowing green, it's not from the inductive charging?

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Speaker 6: Okay?

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Speaker 8: But no, no, it is safe. This is like I said, this.

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Speaker 1: Is metal shoes, Like what if there's metal in that?

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Speaker 1: I mean, is there any way you could What if

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Speaker 1: I put my phone on the ground and it's you know,

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Speaker 1: an iPhone that has like the wireless charging, is it

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Speaker 1: going to charge that?

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Speaker 8: Great question?

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Speaker 9: No, these are all because it's all bluetooth Like. There

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Speaker 9: has to be an actual way to communicate between the

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Speaker 9: the receiver and the charger itself to activate it can

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Speaker 9: people have so uh, any look, let's be very honest.

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Speaker 8: Anything could be hacked.

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Speaker 9: But this the way that is set up is that

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Speaker 9: it's it is like secure from a like the security

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Speaker 9: envelope is much stronger than you would have from a

513
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Speaker 9: traditional charger that you would have, but like you know,

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Speaker 9: anything can be hacked.

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Speaker 8: So I don't want to sit.

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Speaker 9: Here and say it's one hundred percent like no one

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Speaker 9: can ever do anything because any of your's asking for

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Speaker 9: people to try something.

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Speaker 8: But no, I mean, this is a very safe system.

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Speaker 9: And it is like I said, it's a secure system

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Speaker 9: for the infrastructure because they have to.

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Speaker 1: Be wow, and so this is going to be when

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Speaker 1: are they going to start this project? And what about that?

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Speaker 1: Isn't there one already in Detroit? So did you work

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Speaker 1: on that one or yes?

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Speaker 9: Yeah we're yeah, so cal Start we are doing the

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Speaker 9: data collection for the Detroit project, but the bus the

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Speaker 9: bus system has not started yet, so we haven't been

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Speaker 9: able to start collecting data on that one. The one

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Speaker 9: for UCLA, which we'll be doing data collection on that

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Speaker 9: as well. We're just to back up real quick. Cal

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Speaker 9: Start is a nonprofit. We are the ones that kind

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Speaker 9: of step in in a lot of these technologies to

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Speaker 9: validate them, because you need a neutral third party to

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Speaker 9: say whether or not something works, because our whole goal

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Speaker 9: is to drive down emissions and decarbonized transportation across the country,

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Speaker 9: and so we need technologies that work. So we are

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Speaker 9: an honest broker when it comes to the information because

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Speaker 9: the whatever we say, if it works or doesn't work,

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Speaker 9: we're going to let people know about it. That said,

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Speaker 9: with UCLA, one of the I guess one of our

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Speaker 9: big challenges that we're going to be facing is not

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Speaker 9: so much the technology but the construction because you do

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Speaker 9: have to pull up parts of a road to install this.

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Speaker 9: This is not a very a very heavily built out system.

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Speaker 9: It's just coils within the road. Can be done in

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Speaker 9: any kind of normal maintenance that may be done on

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Speaker 9: the road anyway, because you know, we're always repairing asphalt,

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Speaker 9: and so when we're pulling up certain parts, the coils

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Speaker 9: can be installed and then asphalt go back over top

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Speaker 9: of them. So this has a lot of potential and

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Speaker 9: it's a really exciting thing to see, especially the fact

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Speaker 9: that we're going to be utilizing this. I said, with

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Speaker 9: seven agencies, all kind of circling around this. It has

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Speaker 9: the ability to really transform the way that charging is

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Speaker 9: done in southern California.

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Speaker 1: Very cool. Well, good luck with it. Jared Schnader of

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Speaker 1: Calstart the website calstart dot org. I'll be looking forward

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Speaker 1: to seeing how this develops over the next couple of years.

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Speaker 8: Thanks sounds great, Thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: Paramount Plus, and a couple others including Max, all included

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Speaker 1: in your monthly fee. Now, I don't know how much

653
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Speaker 1: Spectrum TV Select monthly is, but you know, it's probably

654
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Speaker 1: about the same price as the YouTube TV, maybe a

655
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Speaker 1: little bit more or less. I'm not sure, because you know,

656
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Speaker 1: you got to go on their website and pray it

657
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Speaker 1: all out. Now, here's the difference. The reason why we

658
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Speaker 1: have switched to services like YouTube TV and Hulu Live

659
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: tv is because, guess what. Signing up for Spectrum TV

660
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: is very easy. It's when you want to change your cancel,

661
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: it's not going to be so easy. They're probably going

662
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Speaker 1: to make you talk to a representative. It's probably not

663
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Speaker 1: self service. It's probably gonna be a little trickier because

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Speaker 1: they have those retention tactics. And so that's the reason

665
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Speaker 1: why we like these streaming services in the first place,

666
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: because they put the customer in charge. When Netflix sends

667
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: a price increase to you, what do they do. They

668
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 1: don't say, please call our customer service hotline and we'll

669
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Speaker 1: help you out and we'll maybe give you a better deal.

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00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: They say, here's the cancelation link, go ahead, cancel. What

671
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: do we care. We've got, you know, two hundred and

672
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: fifty million people subscribe to us. And by the way,

673
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Speaker 1: we know that you're going to stick with us because

674
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Speaker 1: it's twenty three dollars a month or fifteen or seven

675
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: whatever you're paying, and it's probably a pretty good value.

676
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 1: It's less than the price of one movie ticket. So

677
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 1: what do you do, Jamie? You can go to this

678
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: website called the Streamable, the streamable dot com slash matchmaker,

679
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: And what live TV really comes down to is what

680
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: channels do you want to watch and what sports teams

681
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: do you want to watch. That's what really drives what

682
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: people subscribe to. If you just want to watch the

683
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 1: Hallmark channel, it's not going to cost that much because

684
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 1: you can subscribe to Filo for twenty eight dollars a month.

685
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: It's when you want to watch the Yankees or the

686
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: Jets or the Rams or whatever team is in your area,

687
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: or whatever team you follow, that's when it gets a

688
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: little bit more expensive. And that's when you need one

689
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 1: of these premium services. So if you go to the

690
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: streamabol dot com slash matchmaker, I really like it because

691
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: you type in the channels and the teams that you

692
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,359
Speaker 1: want to watch, and it will tell you the services

693
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: that actually have those channels and those teams. And I'm

694
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,359
Speaker 1: telling you, if you're talking sports, not going to be cheap.

695
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 1: The other thing to do is go back to an antenna.

696
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: You can easily. A lot of people emailed me said, hey, Rich,

697
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,399
Speaker 1: I'm going back to antenna. I'm putting that on my roof,

698
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: or I'm putting it inside, or I'm putting in your window.

699
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 1: Antennasdirect dot com you can check them out. They can

700
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: tell you which antenna might be working for your house.

701
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: But I've got an antenna on my roof. I might

702
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: go back to that. But the problem is getting the

703
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Speaker 1: DVR service. You can use something like Tableau t a

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Speaker 1: b l O that will record live TV. But you

705
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,320
Speaker 1: know TVO used to do it. That might still be around.

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Speaker 1: I'm not even sure, but an Amazon used to have

707
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: a device that would record live TV, but they've just

708
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 1: continued that. So those are your options. You've got to

709
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 1: pay up or get rid of some of these services.

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Speaker 1: This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

711
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:41,399
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Speaker 1: notes on everything I mentioned, so let's see. I am

724
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: fascinated with this story about the drones in New Jersey,

725
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 1: not just because I'm from New Jersey, but because I

726
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 1: just find it really hard to believe that these drones

727
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 1: are flying in the skies above New Jersey and nobody

728
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: knows what they are. Now, I've got all my family

729
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 1: that lives there, and so I asked him on our

730
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 1: group chat, I said, hey, have you seen these things?

731
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: And they've all said yes. So how in the world

732
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: are there just thousands of drone sightings and nobody knows

733
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: what they are? The government doesn't know, the police don't know,

734
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: the firefighters don't know. My sister said, she took dozens

735
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:56,839
Speaker 1: of pictures and nobody knows who they are. Saw not

736
00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:01,240
Speaker 1: a passenger plane, saw a jet flying super low and slow.

737
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: Well what is that? I mean, come on, wouldn't we

738
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: be freaking out if we saw this? I mean, I

739
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 1: will tell you when I go outside, and here's what

740
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 1: I think could be happening. Like there's a heat map

741
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,840
Speaker 1: online of all the different sightings in New Jersey. What

742
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 1: happens is that when one person sees something, suddenly a

743
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: lot of people see stuff.

744
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:21,839
Speaker 3: Right.

745
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,319
Speaker 1: And I don't know about you, but nine times out

746
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 1: of ten, when I see a plane in the sky,

747
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 1: I'm like, Oh, that's a UFO, And then I'm like, wait,

748
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: no it is, Oh that's Southwest. Sometimes they look like

749
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: they're just slow and like hovering. But I'm all for it.

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00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 1: I mean, I love stuff like this, Like it just

751
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: reminds you of a movie. Right, Like we're like we

752
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: are literally you know, we're not under attack, but we're

753
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 1: just like under surveillance, and they're just like kind of

754
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 1: testing the waters, coming in, seeing what's happening, seeing how

755
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: we react, seeing how far they can go, how close

756
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 1: they can get, and then you know, who knows what's

757
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 1: gonna happen. But anyway, I am absolutely fascinated with this story.

758
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: Now here's the funny thing. I've asked my family to

759
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: send me the pictures they've taken of these things. Not one.

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00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 1: No one sent me a picture or video, even though

761
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 1: they've seen them so many times. So I don't know,

762
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: draw your own conclusions there. Let's see, Mike and uh

763
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Speaker 1: San Fernando. Mike, you're on with rich Hey, drones there

764
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Speaker 1: in the y. I'm sorry, have you seen any UFOs

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Speaker 1: or drones in the valley.

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Speaker 10: Waiting for a night fall? Then I'll probably get a

767
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 10: whole bunch of them there.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 10: I wish I called earlier when you had the gentleman

770
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Speaker 10: on there discussing just dynamic charging, charging the vehicles while

771
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Speaker 10: you're driving down a road via induction. Yeah, I have

772
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Speaker 10: the pacemaker, and I'm supposed to stay away from anything

773
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Speaker 10: magnetic electronic. I wear a harness that keeps myself on

774
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Speaker 10: the right because all pocketed T shirts have it the

775
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 10: pocket right over the heart. Yeah, would you happen to

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Speaker 10: know anything, like if I'm coming up on one of

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Speaker 10: these roads, pull off to the side, take a detour

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Speaker 10: or whatever. Is it safe for the like me who

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Speaker 10: have pacemakers.

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Speaker 1: That's a great question. I would imagine that the folks

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Speaker 1: who are creating these roads are thinking about that stuff.

782
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: But I would also imagine that the magnets are probably

783
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 1: pretty prevalent in these roads, because that's how this all works.

784
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,319
Speaker 1: I do know with the Apple stuff, you know, when

785
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Speaker 1: they came out with the mag safe on the back

786
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Speaker 1: of the iPhone, there was a lot of talk about

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Speaker 1: pacemakers and the impact, and so I think there is

788
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Speaker 1: a concern. I think that's some you know, I'm not

789
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Speaker 1: an expert on this, but I think there is a

790
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Speaker 1: level of like how strong the magnet is. I do

791
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 1: know that myself and my photographer, we you know, shoot

792
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 1: TV stories and we use these little wireless mics that

793
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: have a really strong magnet on the back because they

794
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,320
Speaker 1: can just click it to your shirt. And I always

795
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: uh ask people like, hey, do you have any medical

796
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 1: like things we need to know about before we clip

797
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,280
Speaker 1: this thing too? Is it okay to put a magnet

798
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Speaker 1: on your chest? Whatever? So it's something that I think

799
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Speaker 1: that is prevalent in this kind of thought process. I

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Speaker 1: don't have the answer for you, Mike, but I will

801
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Speaker 1: ask the the guy we had on last Jared. I'll

802
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: send him an email and see what he says about that.

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Speaker 10: Now, that would be fantastic because I don't hear a

804
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 10: but even at the airport, I don't recall seeing anything

805
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 10: if you have a pacemaker or something like that, because

806
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Speaker 10: I don't even think if you got wanded and you

807
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Speaker 10: just have to do the old, good old fashioned at down,

808
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 10: which is fine by me. Obviously you don't want to

809
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 10: mess with a pacemaker with electronics or magnetics. And as

810
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 10: you said, driving on a road to recharge a car,

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Speaker 10: you probably have magnetics go lore and well they better

812
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 10: set up detours before I hit that road, you know,

813
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Speaker 10: or anyone like me?

814
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I mean, well, what is what does your doctor

815
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Speaker 1: say have they you know, when they put this thing in,

816
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,319
Speaker 1: do they say like, hey, be careful around this or that,

817
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 1: or do they exactly.

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Speaker 10: It was maybe a five minute conversation right after I

819
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 10: came to from the surgery and all of that. No

820
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 10: more magnetics, no more this. You can't, No, MRI, you

821
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Speaker 10: cannot get wanded at the airport.

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Speaker 7: You can't.

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Speaker 10: Then I got it, and uh, well, where I work,

824
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Speaker 10: it helps to have a pocketed T shirt. That's where

825
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 10: I keep the cell phone, and it's like a thousand

826
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Speaker 10: percent full pocket, and T shirts have the pocket over

827
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Speaker 10: the heart. In fact, even some companies make a pacemaker

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Speaker 10: friendly T shirt. All they do is shift the pocket

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00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 10: to the other side. To me, that's still a little

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00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 10: too close to the device. So I just wear a

831
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Speaker 10: harness and keep the thing up to the side, and

832
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 10: that's the best I can do.

833
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 6: Wow.

834
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Speaker 10: But the thing, the trend getting everything getting electronic and

835
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 10: chargeable and chargeable on the go. I think that's fantastic,

836
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Speaker 10: But you know, I got to see if it's safe

837
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Speaker 10: for me.

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00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, good question and good thing for them to

839
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Speaker 1: think about as they keep things in mind. I've also heard,

840
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 1: you know, the electric cars. I'm curious, like you know,

841
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,359
Speaker 1: that could be an issue too, so but I'm sure

842
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 1: plenty of people have pacemakers that drive those as well.

843
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: But always consideration with any of this kind of stuff,

844
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 1: and a lot of it falls on you, I guess.

845
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of it just falls on the

846
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Speaker 1: person that has whatever medical condition or whatever medical you know,

847
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: procedure or instrument in their body. I guess it comes

848
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: to them to like kind of be aware of this stuff.

849
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Speaker 1: And like you said, with the wanding and things like that.

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00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 1: But great question, Mike, and I will pass it along

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00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: to Jarrett to see what he says about that. This

852
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 1: is you know, we hear about AI so much Google

853
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 1: This week. Google had a bunch of news this week.

854
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,359
Speaker 1: They had this really super fast computer chip and now

855
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:30,240
Speaker 1: they've got this new Gemini AI. So Gemini is Google's

856
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,720
Speaker 1: version of AI. And I've said this before, but Google

857
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: is pretty much they are feeling the heat right now.

858
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:39,879
Speaker 1: Because I was thinking about this the other day because

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00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: I've been using chatchibt now ever since they added the

860
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 1: web search. It's really really good. Now it's not perfect,

861
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: but it's still pretty good that you can now search

862
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:52,799
Speaker 1: the web with chatch ebt. But now, you know, so

863
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: Google is definitely feeling the heat. So they have been

864
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've noticed, but Google's kind of

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Speaker 1: been ramping things up, especially in the AI department. They've

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Speaker 1: been working on AI for a very long time, but

867
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Speaker 1: now they seem to have new products all the time

868
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: with their AI. So this new one this week is

869
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Speaker 1: called deep Research, and this is basically an AI powered

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00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 1: tool that will perform web based research for you and

871
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 1: create a report. And I watched this thing work. The

872
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 1: idea is that the AI can control your Internet and

873
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: just go and browse the Internet for you and create

874
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Speaker 1: a report. So, for instance, I asked it to make

875
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: me a report on a topic and let's see if

876
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: I can find it. I made like a So you

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Speaker 1: have to go You have to be paying for this,

878
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 1: by the way, so you have to go into it's

879
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:46,760
Speaker 1: called Deep Research. You go into Gemini Advance with Deep Research,

880
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:51,720
Speaker 1: and you can say, draft me a report on the

881
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 1: prevalence of UFOs over the past decade in the US,

882
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: and it will literally go on to the internet search

883
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 1: all these different sites and it will show you what

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Speaker 1: it's doing. So I have to press start research. So

885
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: it's going to say, okay, find reports from reputable news

886
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 1: organizations and scientific journals, find data and statistics, and it

887
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:20,399
Speaker 1: literally when I press start research, it shows me the

888
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 1: internet as it's searching the internet. So it's going off

889
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 1: on the web. And now this is AI searching the

890
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: web and compiling all this information and then generating a report.

891
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 1: And here it is. It's now it's going to YouTube.

892
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 1: It went to History dot Com, went to some government websites, CIA,

893
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 1: went to the BBC, went to the Pentagon's showing me

894
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: all the websites that it is visiting right now, Reddit

895
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:47,879
Speaker 1: map of UFO sightings around the world. And then once

896
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Speaker 1: it does all this, so it says researching thirty one websites.

897
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: It's going to collect all that information and then draft

898
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Speaker 1: a report that I can put into Google Docs. I mean,

899
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 1: this is what we did in school. And by the way,

900
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 1: all the sites, you know, they put that little you know,

901
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: you have to cite all your stuff at the bottom

902
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: of the report, like where do you get this info?

903
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 1: It will put all that in there as well, so

904
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 1: now AI can do your research for you. Now, my

905
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 1: kids struggle with this stuff because you know, they're in

906
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,760
Speaker 1: school and they've got to do all kinds of stuff,

907
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: and they're like, Dad, do you think it's okay if

908
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 1: I use AI for this, Dad, Do you think it's okay?

909
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:23,359
Speaker 1: If I proofread with AI, I say go for it.

910
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:27,240
Speaker 1: Because AI is now rst lne. You ever watch Wheel

911
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: of Fortune? What are the first letters people choose? Rst Lene.

912
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 1: It's the table stakes and everything, every puzzle that they

913
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:36,319
Speaker 1: solve Wheel of Fortune gives that to you now, and

914
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: so now it's like that's a given, you're gonna get

915
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:42,479
Speaker 1: those letters. Everyone in the world has access to AI now,

916
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 1: so you have to move beyond that, and you have

917
00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:48,320
Speaker 1: to use that to your advantage. So if you're scared

918
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 1: of AI, you're intimidated by it, you're not using it.

919
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:53,840
Speaker 1: You think you're better than it, you think that you

920
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 1: shouldn't be using it because it's cheating all. Throw all

921
00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 1: that out the window. Everyone is using it, Everyone is

922
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: using it, Everyone has it as a tool. So if

923
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 1: you're not using it, you're actually put at a disadvantage.

924
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: If you're sitting here trying to come up with this

925
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 1: UFO report on your own, Sure you can do that,

926
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,839
Speaker 1: and I understand at the base level you should know

927
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 1: how to do that. But then once you know how,

928
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 1: you can let these tools do it, and you have

929
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Speaker 1: to build upon that eyda to eight rich one O

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

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Speaker 1: one zero one. The website rich on Tech dot tv.

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Speaker 1: If you're right back, welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology at

934
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Speaker 1: triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: seven four two four one zero one. You can find

936
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 1: me on social media. I am at rich on Tech.

937
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:49,719
Speaker 1: I'm active on Instagram, I'm active on Facebook and X

938
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 1: Trying to get into the blue sky thing. It's proving

939
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:54,720
Speaker 1: to be a little tough because it's kind of boring

940
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: right now. I'll be honest, There's there's not a lot

941
00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:59,319
Speaker 1: going on in there, but you know it's growing, so

942
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: we'll see. Let's go to Jimmy in Los Angeles. Jimmy,

943
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Speaker 1: you're on with rich.

944
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 3: Jimmy.

945
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 8: Hey, Hey, how you doing.

946
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:13,399
Speaker 12: Hey? My name is Jimmy Day. And sometimes when I'm

947
00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 12: talking on a cell phone like i'm talking now, I

948
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:19,800
Speaker 12: run into a few the podcasts or videos on woodworking

949
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 12: and metallurgy metal working, and what I want to know

950
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Speaker 12: is how can I transfer those to my desktop video,

951
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:29,720
Speaker 12: I mean desktop computer.

952
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 1: So the podcasts or the videos.

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00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 12: That I'm looking at on my cell phone. How can

954
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:37,800
Speaker 12: I transfer that to my desktop computer?

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00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 7: Oh?

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00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: The videos okay, so like on YouTube or what?

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00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 13: Uh?

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00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 12: Most of them are on YouTube somewhere on.

959
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:45,760
Speaker 10: Google.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well typically, so I mean you probably want to

961
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:53,719
Speaker 1: access them. There are various third party tools that can

962
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 1: download videos. Many of them operate in sort of a

963
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 1: gray area. But there is a website called Cobalt Tools

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00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 1: c O B A L T dot Tools, and that

965
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: will let you pretty much download a video from almost

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Speaker 1: any website including Blue Sky, daily Motion, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, Snapchat, YouTube,

967
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:21,240
Speaker 1: I mean pretty much everything, Twitter, TikTok x, whatever it is, Vimeo.

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Speaker 1: So if you paste the link into that website, it

969
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 1: will generate a download. And so it's called Cobalt Tools

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00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: co O B A L T dot Tools. Now, the

971
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 1: tool is not illegal in any way. I mean you could,

972
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 1: you know, you can use this to download your own

973
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 1: videos or whatever. It's it's depends on sort of the

974
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 1: copyright of the video and the gray area that it's

975
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:47,799
Speaker 1: operating in when it comes to what you're downloading. So

976
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:49,719
Speaker 1: you have to you know, go by that with what

977
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: you're you know, if you're just using it for your

978
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 1: own personal stuff, you know, you got to figure out

979
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 1: what the rules and regulations are around that. But that's

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00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: the best way to do it. Cobalt Tools, uh, and

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00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 1: it's Cobalt dot Tools. And this is a really really

982
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:04,920
Speaker 1: handy website. You can do video, you can do audio,

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Speaker 1: and like I said, it works with almost every major

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00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: video and audio website out there. So pretty simple, pretty easy.

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Speaker 1: That's what I would recommend. Jimmy, Thanks for the call,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Eighty eight Rich one oh one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight seven four two four one zero one. Talking earlier

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00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 1: about the price increases on YouTube TV, Danny writes in

989
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: from Charlotte, North Carolina. I said, Hey, Rich, I have

990
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:33,720
Speaker 1: I used TVO and have for over twenty three years.

991
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 1: Still works for me. I have a four tuner model

992
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 1: and yes, sometimes record over the air four channels at

993
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: the same time. There you go, Danny, and Charlotte says

994
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 1: that TVO still works. Michael in Sherman Oaks says Ota

995
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:53,320
Speaker 1: DVR lives. Hey Rich alone with Tableau, whose fourth generation

996
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 1: products are a great way to DVR over the air.

997
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: TVO still does have their Bolt models or even better,

998
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 1: Zapperbox has an over the air DVR that not only

999
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 1: records regular TV, but also the new ATSC three point

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00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 1: zero next gen broadcasts. That's uh yeah, that's like a

1001
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 1: whole new thing. Hasn't taken off as much as I'm

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00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: sure the broadcasters have wanted, but I also haven't really

1003
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:20,800
Speaker 1: seen it promoted as much. But yes, the next gen broadcast,

1004
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:22,959
Speaker 1: A lot of the channels are broadcasting in this new

1005
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 1: format that uh, I guess has more data with the show.

1006
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:32,720
Speaker 1: So it's it allows you to do some different things,

1007
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 1: you know, like almost like interactive TV, where they can

1008
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:37,799
Speaker 1: see if you're watching, they know if you've seen an AD.

1009
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a two way thing versus just

1010
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: you know, broadcast, which is just one way. So the

1011
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 1: broadcasters like that. But and then I saw some of

1012
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:50,839
Speaker 1: these boxes at CES that take in the signal, and yes,

1013
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 1: a lot of them have DVRs built in. But also

1014
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: I think that the broadcasters can control that as well,

1015
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 1: like they can decide if they want you to be

1016
00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 1: able to DVR or not. Don't quote me on that,

1017
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:02,440
Speaker 1: but I think that's what they were saying. But if

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00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: you want to learn about ats C three point oh,

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00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:08,400
Speaker 1: I think let's see what's what's the website at s

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Speaker 1: C three point h uh. I thought it was like

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00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:14,760
Speaker 1: next gen TV dot com or something, but it's at

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Speaker 1: sc dot org. That's the Broadcast Standards Association, so you

1023
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: can check that out. Let's see here. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: Jerry Jerry and Palace Verdes. Jerry, you're on with Rich Hi.

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00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:33,319
Speaker 7: Uh I thowt the tenth generation ipada, you know, on

1026
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 7: Black Friday, and for some reason, the I download the

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00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:45,719
Speaker 7: countour which is the Cox cable ad, and the iPad

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00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 7: doesn't allow me to use that for some reason. You

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00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 7: any news for that?

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00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:54,360
Speaker 1: Does? It lets you down it lets you download it,

1031
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:55,160
Speaker 1: but it doesn't let.

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00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 14: You use it.

1033
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:59,359
Speaker 7: I downloaded, but it doesn't work well.

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00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 3: I it real life.

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00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking.

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00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 7: At I called it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:08,359
Speaker 7: I called a cable company. They wanted ten dollars per month,

1039
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:13,239
Speaker 7: and I say, you Daniel alternative. They told me you

1040
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 7: have to talk to a hebh. That's strange.

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00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 1: Okay. So they want ten dollars a month to to

1042
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:23,799
Speaker 1: to add this feature to your to your service. Okay, yeah,

1043
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: because it looks like it works on oh you know what,

1044
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:30,479
Speaker 1: it doesn't say anything about Oh it does say iPhone okay,

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00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,280
Speaker 1: so it says iPhone and iPad iOS fourteen or higher.

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00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: But it looks like I'd have to look at this,

1047
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 1: but I have to see if you if you need

1048
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:44,279
Speaker 1: to pay extra to use this, I'll look at this

1049
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 1: and then talk about it on the way back from

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00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 1: the break. Coming up, we're going to talk about deep

1051
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Speaker 1: fakes right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to

1052
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 1: rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you,

1053
00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:57,799
Speaker 1: talking technology. Phone lines are open eighty eight rich one

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

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Speaker 1: My friend Diana did the music for this week's show,

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00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:07,959
Speaker 1: keeping things mellow, like real mellow like I usually am doing,

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Speaker 1: like you know, I'm usually choosing like the you know,

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00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:15,120
Speaker 1: mood booster stuff, but this is mellow. Before the break,

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Speaker 1: we had Jerry and Palas Verdes ask about Contour, this

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00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 1: app for cocks. It looks like the app is free,

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00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:26,360
Speaker 1: but depending on what you can do, you know, depending

1062
00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: on your your subscription through COS that determines what you

1063
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:32,439
Speaker 1: can do on this app. So you might be able

1064
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:35,359
Speaker 1: to download it to your iPad, but depending on what

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00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:38,759
Speaker 1: you have on your subscription, that determines if you can

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00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:43,000
Speaker 1: watch live TV or stream or manage your DVR. So

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Speaker 1: it all depends and that's sort of like, you know

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Speaker 1: what I was talking about earlier with the whole cable thing.

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00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 1: You know, it's like it gets confusing because it's all

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00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 1: about the package that you subscribe to. So that's probably

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Speaker 1: why you're having issues with that on your iPad. All right,

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Speaker 1: Joining me now, Perry Carpenter, cybersecurity expert, has a new

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Speaker 1: book called Fake, A Practical Guide to Living in a

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Speaker 1: World of Deep Fakes, different disinformation, and AI generated deceptions. Perry,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining me, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: So what was the reason for writing the book? What

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Speaker 1: trend did you see happening that you figured people needed

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Speaker 1: to know more about.

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Speaker 6: Well, I think the trend is fairly obvious. Over the

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Speaker 6: past two plus years, there's been a huge surge and

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Speaker 6: AI generated stuff out there because of this whole field

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Speaker 6: of generative AI, which is what chat, GPT and all

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Speaker 6: the image generation technologies and video generation technologies that we're

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Speaker 6: seeing falls under and that was creating a lot of questions, confusion,

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Speaker 6: and then also excitement about what the future is. And

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Speaker 6: the book was all around really giving people the right

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Speaker 6: terminology to be able to talk about it, helping them

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Speaker 6: understand what the opportunities are, what the dangers are, how

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Speaker 6: it's going to be taken advantage of and is being

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Speaker 6: taken advantage of by cyber criminals and disinformation artists, and

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Speaker 6: then how to fortify our minds to deal with the

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Speaker 6: new reality that we're all stepping into.

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Speaker 1: So give me an example of what these people are

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Speaker 1: doing with AI to trick us.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean the examples are many. So when you

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Speaker 6: think about deep fakes that gets in this area that

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Speaker 6: we call synthetic media, which is just computer generated media

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Speaker 6: and by media that could be text. So if you've

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Speaker 6: used chat, GPT, that's an example. Images things like Dolly

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Speaker 6: and mid Journey and Stable Diffusion or programs that people

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Speaker 6: are fairly aware of there, and then video and voice

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Speaker 6: and of course in election cycles what we've been like

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Speaker 6: what we have been in there was a lot of

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Speaker 6: that for political purposes, and then in just well generally

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Speaker 6: having fun and being on the Internet. There's lots of

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Speaker 6: examples of that. But if we flash back to something

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Speaker 6: that's a little bit old news right now. During the

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Speaker 6: primary season for this presidential election, in the New Hampshire primary,

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Speaker 6: somebody created a deep fake audio of Joe Biden's voice

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Speaker 6: and put that on a robocall circuit to call people

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Speaker 6: around and say, you don't need to go out and

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Speaker 6: vote in the primary today, And.

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Speaker 1: We talked about that story. I totally remember that, Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and the voice was pretty good. It's not the

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Speaker 6: best version of that that I have heard. But the

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Speaker 6: thing that makes this an interesting example is that every

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Speaker 6: deep fake, when it's intended for something other than fun,

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Speaker 6: every deep fake, every bit of disinformation, every scam is

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Speaker 6: after either two things or both money or mimes. And

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Speaker 6: in this what they were after really is making people

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Speaker 6: who would have voted for Joe Biden in the primary

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Speaker 6: sit out. And we would immediately think, well, that that

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Speaker 6: means that's a Republican challenger that was doing that. That

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Speaker 6: was you know, somebody on the other side was doing that.

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Speaker 6: Turns out it was actually another Democrat, but it was

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Speaker 6: somebody that was on that party that was trying to

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Speaker 6: challenge Joe Biden in the primary because they wanted their

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Speaker 6: name on the ticket. So the thing that makes that

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Speaker 6: really interesting to me is that there's, you know, that

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Speaker 6: multifaceted aspect and trying to understand the motivations of the

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Speaker 6: people that create these these bits of disinformation, propaganda, or

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Speaker 6: just scam material.

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Speaker 1: So I guess it depends on so the the products themselves,

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Speaker 1: Like a deep fake is not necessarily illegal, but I

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Speaker 1: guess it's how it's done or what it's used for,

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Speaker 1: because I know we've seen stories about you know, teenagers

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Speaker 1: in high schools are making deep fakes, usually sexually explicit

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Speaker 1: deep fakes of fellow students, and that's obviously a used

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Speaker 1: to is not good.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's uh, I mean every people think of yeah,

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Speaker 6: they should because at that point, you're you're defaming people,

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Speaker 6: you're also creating a fraud, You're I mean, there's so

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Speaker 6: many things that are wrapped into that. But it's like

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Speaker 6: any technology, any technology can be used for good or bad.

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Speaker 6: And what I say over and over and over in

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Speaker 6: the book is that every tool wields, every tool will

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Speaker 6: mold to the hand and intention of the person who's

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Speaker 6: picking it up. And deep fake technology, uh is like that.

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Speaker 6: When when you look at what this country and the

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Speaker 6: world is trying to deal with right now, it is

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Speaker 6: the fact that there is that dual nature and we

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Speaker 6: can create really interesting, good, productive, creative uses for AI

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Speaker 6: technology that will their humanity and help people thrive. At

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Speaker 6: the same time, it can become a cudgel, it can

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Speaker 6: become a weapon, it can become a tool of disinformation

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Speaker 6: or a tool that scam artists go to. And so

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Speaker 6: when you look at the ability to curtail that darker

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Speaker 6: use of it, that's what people are really struggling with.

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Speaker 6: And in California, of course, there were a couple of

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Speaker 6: bills that were passed prior to the to the election,

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Speaker 6: and what those bills were really trying to struggle with

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Speaker 6: is that dual use. They were trying to protect things

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Speaker 6: like you know, good use and parity and even you know,

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Speaker 6: the cynical, sarcastic use of these for political commentary, while

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Speaker 6: at the same time recognizing the fact that people would

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Speaker 6: weaponize deep fake technology to try to trick people and

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Speaker 6: what they came to, which I think is a good start,

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Speaker 6: but it's not all the way. There is that for

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Speaker 6: social media platforms that are over a certain revenue threshold

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Speaker 6: and have a certain user account, if they are alerted

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Speaker 6: to or discover a use of the technology. You know,

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Speaker 6: a piece of deep fake technology like a video or

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Speaker 6: audio clip or an image, if it is if its

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01:00:19,600 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 6: purpose is intended to deceive. They have seventy two hours

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Speaker 6: to take it down, So I call that.

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Speaker 8: A good start.

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Speaker 6: Their their hearts are are in the right place, but

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Speaker 6: seventy two hours is an entire news cycle, and people

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Speaker 6: will make actions and build belief systems based on that

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Speaker 6: way before the chance to take it down ever rolls around.

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Speaker 6: So it's a good start. But more than anything, it

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Speaker 6: points into the direction of the fact that this is

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Speaker 6: something we're going to wrestle with well.

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Speaker 1: And as a journalist, you know, I've been a journalist

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Speaker 1: for many, many years, and it used to be that

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Speaker 1: people would turn to folks like myself for like, you know,

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Speaker 1: vetted information, and I would post something on my Facebook

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Speaker 1: and people would know, like, oh, that's rich and you know,

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Speaker 1: he works for a major news outlet and obviously he's

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Speaker 1: posting stuff that's real. But then I saw in the

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Speaker 1: past couple of years people questioning even stuff that I'm posting,

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Speaker 1: you know, is this real? Is this are you for

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Speaker 1: real here? Which is just wild because that's now everything,

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Speaker 1: you know, Like when I'm scrolling on social media, the

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Speaker 1: first thing that comes to mind with every single video

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Speaker 1: or image I see is is this real? And so

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Speaker 1: how are we going, and I know they've got like

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Speaker 1: water marks and all this a but there's always going

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Speaker 1: to be ways around these things. So what is kind

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Speaker 1: of the bottom line here is that are we kind

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Speaker 1: of like we have to understand what to look out for.

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Speaker 6: I think you're onto it, So I'm really glad you

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Speaker 6: said that even though there's watermarks and other technologies, there's

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Speaker 6: always ways around it, because there are, and those will

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Speaker 6: be effective a percentage of the time, but we can't

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Speaker 6: count on those. And so what I really advocate for

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Speaker 6: is just this idea of cognitive security, And that's the

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Speaker 6: mental piece of this, because technology, as good as it is,

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Speaker 6: is never going to protect us from these things. They

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Speaker 6: will slip into our social media feed they will get

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Speaker 6: into our inbox, they will get into our text messages

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Speaker 6: and so on. Because the people that are out there

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Speaker 6: using these creating weaponized information with them, they're persistent and

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Speaker 6: so it will get to us and they're not playing.

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Speaker 3: By the rules.

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Speaker 6: No, not exactly. So even when open AI or anybody

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Speaker 6: else develops really good robust water marking, somebody will just

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Speaker 6: use a different tool set that doesn't have that, or

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Speaker 6: they'll find the way around, and then they'll weaponize that information,

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Speaker 6: so we cannot rely on that, and I think we

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Speaker 6: do a disservice to the population when we say, oh,

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Speaker 6: you'll always be able to tell that something's a deep

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Speaker 6: fake because of X, Y and Z. Instead, like you,

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Speaker 6: I am directionally pushed people towards asking critical questions like

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Speaker 6: why did this piece of media land in front of me?

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Speaker 6: What story is it trying to tell? What emotion is

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Speaker 6: it trying to invoke? And then ultimately what does it

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Speaker 6: want me to do or believe? And when I ask

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Speaker 6: those critical questions, for me, it doesn't matter if the

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01:03:19,520 --> 01:03:21,800
Speaker 6: thing that landed in front of me is real or fake.

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Speaker 6: It starts to unpack the broader implications of it, because

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Speaker 6: we were moving into a world where a lot of

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Speaker 6: what we see will be fake for some of that

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Speaker 6: for legitimate reasons, just because the tools exist, and so

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Speaker 6: being able to tell whether it's synthetically created or not

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Speaker 6: is going to be marginally important, but not really the

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Speaker 6: be all, end all tell that we need to be

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Speaker 6: looking out for. We need to understand the narrative and

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Speaker 6: the intention.

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Speaker 1: And I imagine, Perry, We're going to leave it there,

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Speaker 1: but I imagine that there will be degrees in this

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Speaker 1: stuff and how to tell you know, be an expert

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01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:00,640
Speaker 1: in deep fakes and how to tell this stuff is

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Speaker 1: really or not?

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: The book is called fake f a Ik. The website

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Speaker 1: this book is fake faik dot com. Perry Carpenter, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining me.

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Speaker 6: Thank you eight eight eight.

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Speaker 1: Rich one O one. We'll get to those phone lines

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

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Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four two four one zero one hop on. If you

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Speaker 1: want to get on the air here and ask a question,

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Speaker 1: you can also go to the website rich on tech

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Speaker 1: dot tv. Hit contact and uh you can get in

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Speaker 1: touch that way. And if I mentioned something on the

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Speaker 1: air that you want to get more information about, just

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Speaker 1: go to the website rich on tech dot tv. Hit

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Speaker 1: the show notes. That is the icon up at the top.

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Speaker 1: It looks like a light bulb. Or you can just

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Speaker 1: look for a show one O one and you'll see

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Speaker 1: a nice list of everything that I mentioned here.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Diana and Torrance has some feedback on the coxsapp. Diana,

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Speaker 1: what's up?

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Speaker 10: Hi, Rich?

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Speaker 14: I was just calling in to give you my two

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Speaker 14: cents based on my experience with that cocks app that

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Speaker 14: your caller that you just from Palisferti contour, Yes, I

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Speaker 14: I use, I downloaded and I used that app all

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Speaker 14: the time on iPhones and an iPad airs. The iPad

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Speaker 14: air I used is like a couple of years old.

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Speaker 14: I know he mentioned he has a tenth generation iPad

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Speaker 14: that he got from Black Friday. But so what I

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Speaker 14: would say is my parents have the Cox table. They

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Speaker 14: live in Palisberti's and I think he just needs to

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Speaker 14: make sure that whatever his table subscription includes, the you know,

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Speaker 14: allowed him to do the streaming.

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Speaker 6: From that app.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the main thing, is that because I

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Speaker 1: was looking at you know, the environments is really iOS

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Speaker 1: fourteen it says, which is like three, you know, four

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Speaker 1: years old. So his iPad definitely runs that the tenth

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Speaker 1: generation does. But I think what it comes down to is,

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Speaker 1: like you said, what can you do with the subscription

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Speaker 1: you have? You know you can't just like you can't

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Speaker 1: just download this and expect it to work if you're

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Speaker 1: I don't know if on a basic subscription or don't

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Speaker 1: even subscribe to Cox, but how much are you pay

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01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:24,960
Speaker 1: in a month? For them, and what do you have

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Speaker 1: to pay extra for this contour apples?

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Speaker 15: Oh you know what?

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Speaker 14: That I don't know for sure because it's my parents

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01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:35,200
Speaker 14: subscription and I don't have the breakdown, but I go

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Speaker 14: there frequently and I kind of administer their stuff. So

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Speaker 14: I'll have to take a look and see if that's

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Speaker 14: like a I thought it was just included.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you're yeah, I.

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Speaker 14: Don't know if it's a separate item that you have

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Speaker 14: to subscribe to.

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Speaker 1: It's tough to get the information on their website. I'm

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01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 1: looking at the Uh. The website doesn't really say like

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01:06:52,320 --> 01:06:54,080
Speaker 1: if you have to pay extra for it or if

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Speaker 1: it's included. It doesn't say like it. Now here's the thing. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So on the facts, it's says can I watch live

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Speaker 1: TV out of home depending on your subscription. So it

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Speaker 1: must be based on your subscription what you can do,

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Speaker 1: because I've.

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Speaker 14: Done that too, and I do watch the live TV

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Speaker 14: when I'm at their house on their home network.

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Speaker 7: Right.

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Speaker 14: I also stream at when I'm on the go and

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Speaker 14: not on their home network.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so and there's probably different rules for that too,

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Speaker 1: So it all just depends.

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Speaker 6: But okay, but check into it.

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Speaker 14: And if I find out anything, I'll send you an

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Speaker 14: email or something.

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Speaker 1: All right, Dan, I appreciate it. My recorder on the

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Speaker 1: ground there and tourans appreciate it today. Okay, thank you

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Speaker 1: have a great one eighty eight rich one on one

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

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Speaker 1: Let's see here we've got David in Whittier. David, you're

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01:07:46,760 --> 01:07:50,600
Speaker 1: on with Rich Hi, Rich, I am doing great. What

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Speaker 1: can I help with?

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Speaker 13: Well, I had a little problem here. I had a

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Speaker 13: I bought a satellite link from Startlingk's. The minimum is

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Speaker 13: like fifty gigs per month, and which should be fine,

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Speaker 13: But what I'm trying to do is get or create

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Speaker 13: a security system. I had it with the telephone when

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Speaker 13: I had access to a telephone out there five hundred

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Speaker 13: miles away. But I don't have that anymore. So I

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Speaker 13: bought the satellite service, and I didn't think far enough

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01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:28,920
Speaker 13: ahead to figure out how I can get it to

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Speaker 13: What I really needed to do is just send me

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Speaker 13: a notification and then connect the camera or cameras so

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Speaker 13: I can see what's going on without having the cameras

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Speaker 13: online all the time. And because I'm limited to fifty

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Speaker 13: gigs a month, which is a lot, but I guess

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Speaker 13: you're going if the camera got turned on and was

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Speaker 13: going twenty four to seven, that might overrun that.

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Speaker 1: Well, it depends on the camera. So most of these

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Speaker 1: security cameras, they're not streaming twenty four to seven. They

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01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 1: might be monitoring twenty four to seven, but they're not

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Speaker 1: necessarily sending everything to the cloud. And so it depends

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Speaker 1: on the camera that you have. And so you can

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Speaker 1: get some cameras that will just send. So there's a

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Speaker 1: brand out there called Kangaroo Ka and Ga Roo and

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01:09:22,160 --> 01:09:25,040
Speaker 1: so these cameras, you know, they can send you a

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Speaker 1: snapshot of what they're seeing and then if you need to,

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Speaker 1: you can stream in. And so that's like just one example,

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Speaker 1: but there's the other one is called Blink. Have you

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Speaker 1: looked at those cameras from Amazon?

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Speaker 13: Was that blink?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Blink?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 13: I haven't.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So those cameras their whole thing, and Amazon I

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01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:44,960
Speaker 1: think paid like I don't know how much for this company,

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Speaker 1: probably a billion dollars. But they their whole thing is

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Speaker 1: that they invented a system where these phones are these

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Speaker 1: these cameras last like a year on like two double

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Speaker 1: A batteries, so they are certainly not streaming twenty four

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Speaker 1: to seven, but they're monitoring twenty four to seven. If

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Speaker 1: you have them connected to this star link, they will

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Speaker 1: send you a snapshot of what they're seeing.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 1: I think that's where the term blink came from, right,

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01:10:11,160 --> 01:10:12,920
Speaker 1: and so they'll send you a snapshot and then if

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01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:15,840
Speaker 1: you need to, you can get more and stream from

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Speaker 1: that camera. So that's what I would look for, And

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01:10:19,439 --> 01:10:21,519
Speaker 1: you know, there's a bunch of cameras that can do this.

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Speaker 1: I would say even the ring cameras, like my ring cameras,

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01:10:24,880 --> 01:10:27,120
Speaker 1: are not streaming up to the cloud twenty four to seven.

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Speaker 1: Only two of them are because they're certain like they're

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Speaker 1: connected hardwired. But the rest of them, they mostly they'll

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Speaker 1: see the movement and then they trigger recording. So you know,

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Speaker 1: unless you're getting one of these big systems like a

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01:10:40,439 --> 01:10:42,680
Speaker 1: Swan system or something like that, most of them are

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01:10:42,720 --> 01:10:45,960
Speaker 1: not twenty four to seven recording. The nest cams are.

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01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:48,120
Speaker 1: You can have them set up that way, but it

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01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:50,479
Speaker 1: all depends on the camera. So David, what are you

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01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:51,160
Speaker 1: trying to monitor?

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01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:55,479
Speaker 13: Just just the premises, just a vacation home.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I mean I think I would check into

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Speaker 1: the Blink cameras first. I would also check into the

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Speaker 1: Wise cameras wy Ze, and you know, both of those

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Speaker 1: cameras will do exactly what you're saying. And the Wise

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01:11:09,880 --> 01:11:12,120
Speaker 1: cameras have an SD card so they can record the

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01:11:12,160 --> 01:11:14,320
Speaker 1: whole time to that card if you put up a

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01:11:14,360 --> 01:11:18,160
Speaker 1: solar panel. But you'll get those notifications when they see motion.

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Speaker 1: Eighty eight Rich one O one Rich on tech dot TV.

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01:11:22,240 --> 01:11:27,200
Speaker 1: Back after this Rich on tech Rich Tamiro here hanging

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01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:30,240
Speaker 1: out with you. We should have played this song after

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01:11:30,960 --> 01:11:34,200
Speaker 1: In our interview the deep fakes man Elvis was talking

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01:11:34,240 --> 01:11:36,479
Speaker 1: about deep fakes back in nineteen sixty eight when he

1401
01:11:36,520 --> 01:11:43,320
Speaker 1: wrote this, that's wild edge of reality. I mean, that's

1402
01:11:43,320 --> 01:11:45,280
Speaker 1: where we are in our world right with all this

1403
01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:49,519
Speaker 1: deep fake stuff. Welcome to the show. Welcome back. My

1404
01:11:49,600 --> 01:11:51,519
Speaker 1: name is Rich Jamiro. This is the show where we

1405
01:11:51,560 --> 01:11:53,639
Speaker 1: talk about the tech stuff I think you should know about.

1406
01:11:53,800 --> 01:11:56,920
Speaker 1: I also answer your questions. Eighty eight Rich one O

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01:11:57,040 --> 01:11:59,280
Speaker 1: one is the phone number for the show. Eight eight

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01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:02,840
Speaker 1: eight seven four to four one zero one. If you

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01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:04,960
Speaker 1: want to get in touch on the website, it's Rich

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01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:09,240
Speaker 1: on tech dot TV. A couple of feedback items to

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Speaker 1: get through before we get to our caller. Let's see.

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Speaker 1: Charlie in Tahunga says, watching YouTube videos on my phone

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01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:20,000
Speaker 1: creates a history in my YouTube account, which enables me

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01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:22,880
Speaker 1: to find them easily on my Apple TV or desktop computer,

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01:12:23,360 --> 01:12:27,840
Speaker 1: much easier than downloading them as was recommended to the caller. Yes,

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01:12:28,600 --> 01:12:31,320
Speaker 1: but Charlie, I didn't you know he wanted a recommendation

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01:12:31,400 --> 01:12:34,360
Speaker 1: to download them, like I didn't you know. There's many

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01:12:34,400 --> 01:12:36,200
Speaker 1: ways to do this, to watch a video that you

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01:12:36,200 --> 01:12:38,120
Speaker 1: see on your phone on your computer or TV. But

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01:12:38,479 --> 01:12:41,280
Speaker 1: he specifically was asking for the download. But yes, you're right.

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01:12:41,320 --> 01:12:44,080
Speaker 1: I have often do that myself. I will just watch

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01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:46,120
Speaker 1: a video for a second on my phone just to

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Speaker 1: get it in that YouTube history, and then go to

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Speaker 1: my TV and I can watch it there easily. Steve

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01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:54,600
Speaker 1: writes in from Fairfax, you are the bomb. I just

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01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:57,479
Speaker 1: saved sixty dollars from your tip about starting to cancel

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01:12:57,560 --> 01:13:01,559
Speaker 1: YouTube TV to get a six month EXCEP. Thank you. Well,

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01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:03,760
Speaker 1: I'm happy to help, Steve. That's what I'm here for.

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01:13:03,960 --> 01:13:06,479
Speaker 1: I appreciate that I did it myself so I know

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01:13:06,520 --> 01:13:09,320
Speaker 1: it works. Darryl writes in, you can get a cheap

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01:13:09,360 --> 01:13:12,080
Speaker 1: converter box that also acts as a DVR. They're between

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01:13:12,080 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 1: twenty and forty dollars plus the cost of a thumb drive.

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01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:18,920
Speaker 1: They're available from Walmart and Amazon. The brands are Ematic

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01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:24,479
Speaker 1: and Medsnic. They record on they record HD on HD channels.

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Speaker 1: I have two of them. Darryl Okay. Yeah, that must

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01:13:27,040 --> 01:13:28,800
Speaker 1: be like a converter box. Remember they were giving us

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01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:31,800
Speaker 1: out for free for a while because they wanted everyone

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01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:34,599
Speaker 1: to switch. Remember the big switch from analog to digital.

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01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:37,920
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, but I think we made it through that.

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01:13:38,760 --> 01:13:42,920
Speaker 1: Let's go to Sandy in Huntington Beach. Sandy, you are

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01:13:43,040 --> 01:13:45,040
Speaker 1: on with rich Oh.

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01:13:45,120 --> 01:13:47,920
Speaker 15: I hope you can help me. I've got I just

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01:13:47,960 --> 01:13:50,080
Speaker 15: had to get a new phone. My other one pretty

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01:13:50,160 --> 01:13:53,960
Speaker 15: much died and I got an A thirty five. I

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01:13:54,040 --> 01:13:56,840
Speaker 15: just need the basics. I don't do anything financial. My

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01:13:56,960 --> 01:13:59,080
Speaker 15: other one was an A twenty one. It worked great.

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01:13:59,360 --> 01:14:01,920
Speaker 15: Never had a with that little guy. But this one,

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01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:04,280
Speaker 15: it's like, it took me forever to get into you.

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01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:08,320
Speaker 15: And then I was on hold and it disconnected, and

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01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:10,800
Speaker 15: it does it just goes blank. It goes blank, and

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01:14:10,840 --> 01:14:14,080
Speaker 15: then it disconnects. It hasn't done it on Bluetooth in

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01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:16,640
Speaker 15: my car but it does it in my house and

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01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:17,320
Speaker 15: out and about.

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01:14:17,560 --> 01:14:17,840
Speaker 1: Okay.

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01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:21,080
Speaker 15: So it's a new phone. I have to decide this week.

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01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:23,400
Speaker 15: Am I going to keep it and get my rebate

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01:14:23,560 --> 01:14:26,160
Speaker 15: or do I give it back? Is it an internal antenna?

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01:14:26,600 --> 01:14:27,679
Speaker 12: I have no idea.

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01:14:27,960 --> 01:14:28,840
Speaker 1: Well, okay, and I'm not.

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01:14:28,800 --> 01:14:30,519
Speaker 15: A checking person, but you're the wizard.

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01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:34,280
Speaker 1: I guess. I guess. The question is when it When

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01:14:34,280 --> 01:14:37,360
Speaker 1: this is happening, is the phone restarting or is it

1463
01:14:37,439 --> 01:14:38,639
Speaker 1: just dropping the call?

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01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:43,000
Speaker 15: It just robs the call, Okay, So I couldn't once.

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01:14:43,040 --> 01:14:45,160
Speaker 15: It did it when I was on with you, and

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01:14:45,200 --> 01:14:48,000
Speaker 15: it went away when I tried. When I called again,

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01:14:48,080 --> 01:14:50,439
Speaker 15: it said your phone is not connected to a network.

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01:14:51,680 --> 01:14:52,679
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I couldn't.

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01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:53,400
Speaker 15: I couldn't call.

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01:14:53,800 --> 01:14:57,639
Speaker 1: Okay. It sounds like the antenna in this phone. What

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Speaker 1: what service are you on?

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Speaker 15: Uh Mobile?

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01:15:00,680 --> 01:15:04,400
Speaker 1: Okay, So it sounds like the service or the signal

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01:15:04,520 --> 01:15:06,800
Speaker 1: or the antenna on this phone is not as strong

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01:15:06,840 --> 01:15:08,759
Speaker 1: as the old one. That's what I'm thinking is happening

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01:15:08,800 --> 01:15:10,679
Speaker 1: here because you're using it in the same place, which

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01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:15,240
Speaker 1: is your house, but it's dropping the calls. So I

1478
01:15:15,280 --> 01:15:17,960
Speaker 1: think that it's the antenna and you might need to,

1479
01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:22,040
Speaker 1: you know, maybe think about getting rid of this phone.

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01:15:22,240 --> 01:15:24,200
Speaker 1: So here's the deal. I will tell you this because

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01:15:24,200 --> 01:15:26,840
Speaker 1: I know from Okay. So in my house over the

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01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:29,160
Speaker 1: over the well, this is the weekend. But over the

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Speaker 1: week I had some work being done on my internet,

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Speaker 1: and when that internet was being worked, one I didn't

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Speaker 1: have Wi Fi for a while. And I'm not kidding.

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01:15:36,800 --> 01:15:38,679
Speaker 1: I tried to make a phone call from the place

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01:15:38,720 --> 01:15:41,000
Speaker 1: I make a phone call all the time, and my

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01:15:41,080 --> 01:15:43,880
Speaker 1: phone wouldn't work. It kept just saying, you know, disconnected

1489
01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:47,120
Speaker 1: signal note call failed whatever. I was like, that's so weird.

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01:15:47,160 --> 01:15:48,920
Speaker 1: I never realized that I have no signal in this

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01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:51,800
Speaker 1: room because I've been on Wi Fi calling the whole time.

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01:15:51,920 --> 01:15:53,880
Speaker 1: So a couple of things you can do. First off,

1493
01:15:54,520 --> 01:15:59,120
Speaker 1: you can try to reset your network settings. But who

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01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:00,960
Speaker 1: set up this phone for you? Is it T Mobile

1495
01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:01,519
Speaker 1: at the store?

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01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:07,240
Speaker 15: Costco, Kiosk Mobile ko Okay?

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01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:09,280
Speaker 1: So, I mean I'm sure they set it up properly.

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01:16:09,479 --> 01:16:12,080
Speaker 1: You could. The problem is if you reset your network settings,

1499
01:16:12,080 --> 01:16:14,559
Speaker 1: which you can do yourself in the settings, it's going

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01:16:14,640 --> 01:16:17,519
Speaker 1: to reset everything like you know, Bluetooth, Wi Fi, your

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01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:21,320
Speaker 1: cellular that, yeah, and then you have to set it

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01:16:21,320 --> 01:16:23,040
Speaker 1: all up again. You got to connect it your WiFi,

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01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:25,519
Speaker 1: it might be worth it just to see if that helps.

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01:16:26,880 --> 01:16:28,840
Speaker 1: The other thing is that you could use Wi Fi

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01:16:28,880 --> 01:16:31,800
Speaker 1: calling when you're in your house. So have you set

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01:16:31,880 --> 01:16:33,160
Speaker 1: up that feature on your phone?

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01:16:34,120 --> 01:16:34,320
Speaker 16: Yes?

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01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:37,040
Speaker 1: Okay? And does that does that call drop when you

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01:16:37,080 --> 01:16:37,439
Speaker 1: have that on?

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01:16:38,479 --> 01:16:39,200
Speaker 15: My husband's here?

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01:16:39,520 --> 01:16:43,200
Speaker 7: So the Wi Fi the Wi Fi in the house

1512
01:16:43,479 --> 01:16:47,280
Speaker 7: is Spectrum okay, but the service for the phones is

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01:16:47,320 --> 01:16:48,280
Speaker 7: T Mobile.

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01:16:48,080 --> 01:16:50,639
Speaker 1: Right okay. So if you set up Wi Fi calling

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01:16:50,680 --> 01:16:52,000
Speaker 1: on your phone, and I don't think this is this

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01:16:52,120 --> 01:16:53,640
Speaker 1: is just a stop gap. I mean, you may have

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01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:56,360
Speaker 1: this problem forever. Does your husband have a Tea mobile

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01:16:56,400 --> 01:16:59,720
Speaker 1: in the house as well, and does his phone work?

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01:16:59,760 --> 01:17:00,760
Speaker 1: What phone does he have?

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01:17:02,240 --> 01:17:04,759
Speaker 15: He has an LG an old LG oh wow.

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01:17:04,520 --> 01:17:08,400
Speaker 1: Old LG okay, LG velvet Oh LG oh wow. The

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01:17:08,479 --> 01:17:12,240
Speaker 1: dulcet tones of the LG velvet look. I think it

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01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:14,840
Speaker 1: could be the antenna on this phone is just not

1524
01:17:14,960 --> 01:17:17,280
Speaker 1: pulling in the same signal that your old phone was.

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01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:19,920
Speaker 1: So I think it's.

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01:17:19,400 --> 01:17:22,360
Speaker 15: This model of phone for this particular phone.

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01:17:22,640 --> 01:17:24,559
Speaker 1: Well, it could be both. So what I would do

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01:17:24,680 --> 01:17:26,959
Speaker 1: first is I would just take it back to the Kiosk.

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01:17:27,040 --> 01:17:28,760
Speaker 1: I think it's since it's cost go they're going to

1530
01:17:28,840 --> 01:17:31,639
Speaker 1: be pretty accepting of it. Tell them what's happening. Say, look,

1531
01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:33,320
Speaker 1: you know, I used to have an old Samsung in

1532
01:17:33,439 --> 01:17:35,080
Speaker 1: a twenty one and this thing used to work in

1533
01:17:35,120 --> 01:17:37,880
Speaker 1: my house, no problem. Now I get the thirty five

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01:17:38,040 --> 01:17:40,400
Speaker 1: and it's worse, and I'm dropping calls left and right.

1535
01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:42,679
Speaker 1: And they may say, oh, you're the third person that's

1536
01:17:42,680 --> 01:17:44,679
Speaker 1: come back and told us this, or they may say okay,

1537
01:17:44,960 --> 01:17:47,160
Speaker 1: and you say, look, I want to swap out my

1538
01:17:47,200 --> 01:17:48,880
Speaker 1: phone for a new model, just to make sure it's

1539
01:17:48,880 --> 01:17:51,920
Speaker 1: not a hardware defect. Get the new model, see if

1540
01:17:51,920 --> 01:17:53,720
Speaker 1: it works. I know it's a pain because all your

1541
01:17:53,720 --> 01:17:56,640
Speaker 1: stuff is on this phone and everything, but you know,

1542
01:17:56,680 --> 01:17:58,200
Speaker 1: like you said, this is only a week old. You

1543
01:17:58,240 --> 01:18:00,919
Speaker 1: don't want to sit here and deal with this issue

1544
01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:03,160
Speaker 1: for the next couple of years. As you have this phone.

1545
01:18:03,240 --> 01:18:04,960
Speaker 1: Sounds like you keep your phone for a bit, So

1546
01:18:06,280 --> 01:18:08,719
Speaker 1: I would do that first. If you want to try

1547
01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:12,720
Speaker 1: the network settings reset, you can try that. And you

1548
01:18:12,720 --> 01:18:15,360
Speaker 1: can go into your settings and just search for network

1549
01:18:15,400 --> 01:18:17,960
Speaker 1: settings or just search for reset and you can look

1550
01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:20,000
Speaker 1: for that. That will not you know, you don't want

1551
01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:22,320
Speaker 1: to factory reset your phone because that will delete everything.

1552
01:18:22,800 --> 01:18:25,120
Speaker 1: But I would do that first. If it was me personally,

1553
01:18:25,160 --> 01:18:27,680
Speaker 1: I would do a network settings reset and then I

1554
01:18:27,680 --> 01:18:29,800
Speaker 1: would see if my phone works. If it doesn't, if

1555
01:18:29,840 --> 01:18:32,200
Speaker 1: it keeps dropping the calls, then I would take it

1556
01:18:32,240 --> 01:18:34,160
Speaker 1: back to the Kiosk, say hey, can we swap this

1557
01:18:34,240 --> 01:18:37,160
Speaker 1: out for a new hardware, And if that keeps dropping calls,

1558
01:18:37,520 --> 01:18:39,080
Speaker 1: then I would look into a different phone. But I

1559
01:18:39,080 --> 01:18:41,800
Speaker 1: will tell you you know, Sandy, I test every phone

1560
01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:46,200
Speaker 1: in the world, and they definitely, one hundred percent pull

1561
01:18:46,240 --> 01:18:51,719
Speaker 1: in different signals. Some phones have a greater signal than others,

1562
01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:53,519
Speaker 1: and it's just the way the phone is set up.

1563
01:18:53,920 --> 01:18:56,320
Speaker 1: It's just the way that the phone is created. So

1564
01:18:56,560 --> 01:18:58,800
Speaker 1: this phone may just pull in less of the T

1565
01:18:58,960 --> 01:19:01,160
Speaker 1: Mobile signal than your old phone. And that's just the

1566
01:19:01,200 --> 01:19:02,240
Speaker 1: reality of this device.

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01:19:03,360 --> 01:19:03,719
Speaker 6: Lovely.

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01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:07,439
Speaker 15: Another thing it does, and you were talking about AI earlier.

1569
01:19:08,800 --> 01:19:11,679
Speaker 15: When I with my other phone for texting, I could

1570
01:19:11,720 --> 01:19:15,519
Speaker 15: just talk, everything would come out perfect. This one it

1571
01:19:15,640 --> 01:19:18,559
Speaker 15: doesn't do that. It puts in its own punctuation, puts

1572
01:19:18,560 --> 01:19:20,519
Speaker 15: in its own words. It doesn't even come out what

1573
01:19:20,560 --> 01:19:24,200
Speaker 15: I've said. That is there a setting that can change that?

1574
01:19:24,520 --> 01:19:26,920
Speaker 1: There is. There's a couple settings. So it depends on

1575
01:19:26,960 --> 01:19:29,839
Speaker 1: the voice to text that you're using. Typically with Samsung,

1576
01:19:29,920 --> 01:19:33,360
Speaker 1: the default is Samsung's I like to change it to Google.

1577
01:19:34,000 --> 01:19:37,000
Speaker 1: So you can go ahead and download what's called g

1578
01:19:37,160 --> 01:19:41,720
Speaker 1: board g bo ar D. That's Google's keyboard, and that

1579
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:45,800
Speaker 1: will use Google's own audio voice to text. You can

1580
01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:48,559
Speaker 1: also go into your settings on the Samsung and there

1581
01:19:48,560 --> 01:19:51,280
Speaker 1: are If you go to the keyboard settings, it says

1582
01:19:52,040 --> 01:19:55,560
Speaker 1: text to speech, says something like I don't have my

1583
01:19:55,600 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 1: Samsung in front of me, but it says something like

1584
01:19:57,240 --> 01:20:02,679
Speaker 1: text to speech driver or system and typically, well always,

1585
01:20:02,720 --> 01:20:04,760
Speaker 1: the default is Samsung.

1586
01:20:05,920 --> 01:20:07,360
Speaker 10: Turn off Google's AI.

1587
01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:11,400
Speaker 1: Well that's a little different. Turning off. Well, that's a

1588
01:20:11,400 --> 01:20:13,720
Speaker 1: whole other thing. Google is building the AI into all

1589
01:20:13,720 --> 01:20:19,000
Speaker 1: these devices that Google's AI s Okay, well that.

1590
01:20:18,960 --> 01:20:21,360
Speaker 15: Is right here when I'm talking to you, right above it.

1591
01:20:21,439 --> 01:20:25,679
Speaker 15: It has this little lift and it has it within

1592
01:20:25,800 --> 01:20:28,439
Speaker 15: a circle. It says text call. What does that have

1593
01:20:28,479 --> 01:20:29,040
Speaker 15: anything to.

1594
01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:32,559
Speaker 1: Do with it? I'm not really sure because I'm not

1595
01:20:32,560 --> 01:20:36,160
Speaker 1: sure what that what what that's saying on their screen

1596
01:20:36,240 --> 01:20:38,639
Speaker 1: right now for a text call. But but the bottom

1597
01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:41,040
Speaker 1: line is, look, I think that the Google Voice to

1598
01:20:41,080 --> 01:20:42,800
Speaker 1: text is going to be just fine if you switch

1599
01:20:42,880 --> 01:20:45,040
Speaker 1: that keyboard out. I think it's going to be much

1600
01:20:45,040 --> 01:20:48,200
Speaker 1: better to what you want. The Samsung one is fine,

1601
01:20:48,240 --> 01:20:51,680
Speaker 1: but I think Google's is better. The AI stuff, you know,

1602
01:20:51,720 --> 01:20:53,280
Speaker 1: you got to go into your settings and try to

1603
01:20:53,360 --> 01:20:54,760
Speaker 1: you know, turn some of that stuff off if you

1604
01:20:54,760 --> 01:20:57,080
Speaker 1: don't want that to toggle. But uh, you know, you

1605
01:20:57,160 --> 01:20:58,639
Speaker 1: might get used to some of that stuff as well.

1606
01:20:58,640 --> 01:21:02,800
Speaker 1: And and Android and Google well in general is you know,

1607
01:21:02,880 --> 01:21:06,000
Speaker 1: they're they're still figuring all this stuff out, so it's

1608
01:21:06,040 --> 01:21:08,280
Speaker 1: not you know, look, you've got a totally different phone.

1609
01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:09,920
Speaker 1: You've got a phone that's a little bit newer than

1610
01:21:09,920 --> 01:21:12,160
Speaker 1: your old phone, so there are going to be some changes.

1611
01:21:12,560 --> 01:21:14,200
Speaker 1: The other thing that I would do, Sandy, is make

1612
01:21:14,240 --> 01:21:16,120
Speaker 1: sure that your software is up to date on this

1613
01:21:16,160 --> 01:21:18,920
Speaker 1: device and see if that helps as well. But you

1614
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:21,240
Speaker 1: can you can try toggling on the Wi Fi calling.

1615
01:21:21,280 --> 01:21:24,000
Speaker 1: If you're having issues with getting a signal in your home,

1616
01:21:24,439 --> 01:21:26,160
Speaker 1: or you're in a place where your signal is not

1617
01:21:26,200 --> 01:21:28,920
Speaker 1: that great, you could use Wi Fi calling to kind

1618
01:21:28,920 --> 01:21:32,200
Speaker 1: of paste that signal. What Wi Fi calling does is

1619
01:21:32,400 --> 01:21:35,360
Speaker 1: it routes the call. All calls these days, no matter

1620
01:21:35,360 --> 01:21:37,400
Speaker 1: what if you're making it over cellular or Wi Fi,

1621
01:21:37,680 --> 01:21:40,360
Speaker 1: they're all routed over the Internet. Your voice is changed

1622
01:21:40,400 --> 01:21:44,120
Speaker 1: into you know, a voice over IP, so it's not

1623
01:21:44,360 --> 01:21:47,080
Speaker 1: it's no longer analog. It's not taking that recording of

1624
01:21:47,080 --> 01:21:49,479
Speaker 1: your voice and sending it over the signal. It's actually

1625
01:21:49,520 --> 01:21:53,480
Speaker 1: just transforming it into little ones and o's and recompiling

1626
01:21:53,479 --> 01:21:56,040
Speaker 1: it at the other end, so you can go to

1627
01:21:56,120 --> 01:21:58,040
Speaker 1: Wi Fi calling. What Wi Fi calling does is it

1628
01:21:58,040 --> 01:22:02,720
Speaker 1: will transfer your call over your spectrum Internet, which is

1629
01:22:02,720 --> 01:22:06,120
Speaker 1: stronger than your T mobile signal. When you're out of

1630
01:22:06,120 --> 01:22:07,840
Speaker 1: your house, it'll still go T Mobile. When you're in

1631
01:22:07,880 --> 01:22:09,760
Speaker 1: your house, it'll go over the spectrum or your whatever

1632
01:22:09,760 --> 01:22:12,760
Speaker 1: your WiFi is. Eight eight eight rich one on one

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

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01:22:16,240 --> 01:22:20,960
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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01:22:21,040 --> 01:22:24,599
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01:22:41,880 --> 01:22:46,120
Speaker 1: I send it out every Saturday morning, so thirty seven

1642
01:22:46,160 --> 01:22:50,719
Speaker 1: thousand of you getting it currently, that's been pretty pretty wild. Uh,

1643
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Speaker 1: if you want to submit your question, comments and more

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01:22:53,320 --> 01:22:55,280
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Speaker 1: TV hit contact and in this hour next segment, actually

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01:23:01,200 --> 01:23:04,640
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to Miami parents. They created an

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Speaker 1: app called Firsties. This helps you capture, organize, and share

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01:23:08,920 --> 01:23:11,800
Speaker 1: your kids milestone moments. But first let's go to Mark

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01:23:12,439 --> 01:23:14,360
Speaker 1: in Woodland Hills. Mark, you're on with Rich.

1651
01:23:14,960 --> 01:23:18,639
Speaker 16: Yeah, good afternoon, Rich. This all came about because something

1652
01:23:18,840 --> 01:23:21,280
Speaker 16: a scam that was basically pulled on an in law.

1653
01:23:21,760 --> 01:23:23,759
Speaker 16: I guess she got into one of these dating sites

1654
01:23:23,840 --> 01:23:28,960
Speaker 16: or whatever. But it got me to thinking, there's sometimes

1655
01:23:28,960 --> 01:23:31,519
Speaker 16: I buy things online. I've never heard of the company before.

1656
01:23:31,800 --> 01:23:33,960
Speaker 16: I don't know if they're a scam artists, I don't know.

1657
01:23:34,520 --> 01:23:39,080
Speaker 16: I don't want my real credit card attached to anything

1658
01:23:39,120 --> 01:23:40,920
Speaker 16: that they may take advantage of like they did my

1659
01:23:40,960 --> 01:23:41,400
Speaker 16: in law.

1660
01:23:41,680 --> 01:23:41,920
Speaker 7: YEP.

1661
01:23:42,160 --> 01:23:45,400
Speaker 16: Is it possible to get like virtual cards that you

1662
01:23:45,439 --> 01:23:47,679
Speaker 16: can load up with money so that at least if

1663
01:23:47,760 --> 01:23:50,800
Speaker 16: that is attacked, it doesn't lead back to any of

1664
01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:55,360
Speaker 16: your financial institutions or whatever. I guess she got caught

1665
01:23:55,400 --> 01:23:58,720
Speaker 16: in one of these dating sites or something, and some

1666
01:23:58,760 --> 01:24:01,679
Speaker 16: fellow wanted her to send money to apply him to London,

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01:24:01,760 --> 01:24:03,760
Speaker 16: and I got a hold of her before she did it,

1668
01:24:03,800 --> 01:24:05,200
Speaker 16: and I thank god, I did you know?

1669
01:24:05,840 --> 01:24:08,320
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this is it's so it's so wild because

1670
01:24:08,360 --> 01:24:10,040
Speaker 1: we talk about this stuff all the time on this

1671
01:24:10,080 --> 01:24:12,920
Speaker 1: show and I hear these stories and I'm just like,

1672
01:24:13,280 --> 01:24:15,840
Speaker 1: who falls for this? But people do good people like

1673
01:24:15,960 --> 01:24:18,760
Speaker 1: everyday people, and it's happening all the time. So what

1674
01:24:18,840 --> 01:24:23,760
Speaker 1: you're talking about, Mark, is a virtual card number. So yes,

1675
01:24:23,840 --> 01:24:25,800
Speaker 1: and I think it's very smart. So a couple of

1676
01:24:25,840 --> 01:24:28,000
Speaker 1: things my wife and I, so I typically use a

1677
01:24:28,000 --> 01:24:30,080
Speaker 1: debit card. You know, I do have a credit card,

1678
01:24:30,120 --> 01:24:33,040
Speaker 1: but I most of the time use that when my

1679
01:24:33,200 --> 01:24:36,160
Speaker 1: card leaves my hand, right So if I am putting

1680
01:24:36,160 --> 01:24:38,479
Speaker 1: my card in on the internet, that's leaving my hand

1681
01:24:38,560 --> 01:24:40,760
Speaker 1: because it's out of my hands. So I will use

1682
01:24:40,760 --> 01:24:42,519
Speaker 1: a credit card for that. And then of course at

1683
01:24:42,520 --> 01:24:45,400
Speaker 1: restaurants and places where they take your card off site.

1684
01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:47,760
Speaker 1: But if I'm typically just using you know, tap to

1685
01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:51,400
Speaker 1: pay somewhere, Tap to pay protects your card number, I

1686
01:24:51,400 --> 01:24:53,479
Speaker 1: will use my debit card. But what you're talking about

1687
01:24:53,560 --> 01:24:57,639
Speaker 1: virtual card number, there's actually a great service which would

1688
01:24:57,920 --> 01:25:02,760
Speaker 1: really help in any situation. But it's called privacy dot com.

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01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:06,000
Speaker 1: And so privacy dot com, you sign up with this

1690
01:25:06,520 --> 01:25:08,840
Speaker 1: and you have to link your debit card or a

1691
01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:11,800
Speaker 1: bank account, I believe. But once you do that, you

1692
01:25:11,840 --> 01:25:15,400
Speaker 1: can generate cards one time use cards, or they can

1693
01:25:15,439 --> 01:25:19,280
Speaker 1: be reused, but you can control everything about them. So

1694
01:25:19,400 --> 01:25:21,560
Speaker 1: you can say, okay, let's say you're signed up for

1695
01:25:21,600 --> 01:25:23,519
Speaker 1: a free trial of something right and you know you're

1696
01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:25,960
Speaker 1: going to forget to cancel this free trial. You can

1697
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:28,559
Speaker 1: go through and say, okay, here's my card for this

1698
01:25:28,600 --> 01:25:32,439
Speaker 1: free trial, and don't let it charge more than a

1699
01:25:32,479 --> 01:25:35,480
Speaker 1: dollar to this card. So they can do that authorization

1700
01:25:35,640 --> 01:25:38,000
Speaker 1: charge of one dollar. But then when they try to

1701
01:25:38,080 --> 01:25:39,920
Speaker 1: charge you ninety nine dollars, when you forget about that

1702
01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:42,360
Speaker 1: subscription in seven days, they will not be able to

1703
01:25:42,360 --> 01:25:44,559
Speaker 1: do that. That card number will not go through. So

1704
01:25:44,600 --> 01:25:47,639
Speaker 1: that's called privacy dot com. Now that's a whole other

1705
01:25:47,800 --> 01:25:50,479
Speaker 1: level of control. So you can say I only want

1706
01:25:50,520 --> 01:25:52,920
Speaker 1: this card to work for ten dollars a month, So

1707
01:25:53,000 --> 01:25:55,599
Speaker 1: if your subscription ever goes above ten dollars a month,

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01:25:55,720 --> 01:25:58,880
Speaker 1: it won't work. It'll the charge won't go through. So

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01:25:59,120 --> 01:26:02,680
Speaker 1: that is a service. Most of it is free. I

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01:26:02,680 --> 01:26:05,400
Speaker 1: think you get a certain amount. I've never paid for it,

1711
01:26:05,479 --> 01:26:08,840
Speaker 1: so I think that you get a certain amount of

1712
01:26:09,560 --> 01:26:12,080
Speaker 1: free usage per month, a certain amount of cards that

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01:26:12,120 --> 01:26:15,360
Speaker 1: you can generate. I'm sure that that's changed since I

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01:26:15,439 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 1: signed up. It's probably, you know, lesser than what I

1715
01:26:18,400 --> 01:26:19,800
Speaker 1: had when I signed up. It was you know, they

1716
01:26:19,840 --> 01:26:23,200
Speaker 1: probably gave much more back then, and I think it's

1717
01:26:23,240 --> 01:26:25,000
Speaker 1: like five whatever. I don't know what the point is,

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01:26:25,040 --> 01:26:27,479
Speaker 1: what the what the pricing is at this point, but

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01:26:27,600 --> 01:26:30,479
Speaker 1: that's how that works, and so you can really just

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01:26:30,560 --> 01:26:35,320
Speaker 1: control every aspect of your cards that you that you

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01:26:35,439 --> 01:26:37,599
Speaker 1: create on this website. I'm trying to see if they

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01:26:37,800 --> 01:26:40,559
Speaker 1: here we go pricing in plans. So for free, you

1723
01:26:40,600 --> 01:26:44,559
Speaker 1: can create up to twelve cards per month. For five dollars,

1724
01:26:44,560 --> 01:26:46,560
Speaker 1: you can create up to five dollars a month. Is

1725
01:26:46,640 --> 01:26:49,880
Speaker 1: up to twenty four cards a month, ten dollars a month,

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01:26:50,000 --> 01:26:52,080
Speaker 1: up to thirty six cards a month, and then twenty

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01:26:52,080 --> 01:26:54,040
Speaker 1: five dollars a month, up to sixty cards a month.

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01:26:54,080 --> 01:26:57,160
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're doing for sixty virtual cards

1729
01:26:57,200 --> 01:27:02,439
Speaker 1: a month, but okay, so that's privacy dot Com. Now

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01:27:02,600 --> 01:27:04,320
Speaker 1: there's another way you can do this mark And there's

1731
01:27:04,320 --> 01:27:07,160
Speaker 1: also what's called a virtual card number from your credit

1732
01:27:07,200 --> 01:27:10,880
Speaker 1: card company, and so Capital One I believe has the

1733
01:27:11,080 --> 01:27:14,559
Speaker 1: City Bank has them, Discover has them. I think the

1734
01:27:14,600 --> 01:27:17,559
Speaker 1: Apple card lets you do a virtual card number. Now

1735
01:27:17,600 --> 01:27:19,280
Speaker 1: that's a little different because I don't think it gives

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01:27:19,320 --> 01:27:21,680
Speaker 1: you the same level of control, Like I don't think

1737
01:27:21,720 --> 01:27:25,000
Speaker 1: you can say, Discover, let me make this card number,

1738
01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:27,000
Speaker 1: and it only works once you may be able to

1739
01:27:27,040 --> 01:27:30,320
Speaker 1: I don't have experience doing those, but that's another way

1740
01:27:30,360 --> 01:27:32,880
Speaker 1: to do it, where you can call your credit card

1741
01:27:32,880 --> 01:27:35,120
Speaker 1: company or just google the name of your credit card

1742
01:27:35,120 --> 01:27:37,880
Speaker 1: and say one time card number and see what it

1743
01:27:37,880 --> 01:27:40,640
Speaker 1: comes up with or virtual card number. And some of

1744
01:27:40,680 --> 01:27:44,120
Speaker 1: the banks, the big banks, you know, the City, these

1745
01:27:44,160 --> 01:27:47,559
Speaker 1: big banks don't really necessarily like this idea because they

1746
01:27:47,640 --> 01:27:50,000
Speaker 1: just want, you know, they just want it simple, and

1747
01:27:50,000 --> 01:27:51,600
Speaker 1: they want it to be able to people, to be

1748
01:27:51,640 --> 01:27:54,120
Speaker 1: able to charge you whenever they want. And so I

1749
01:27:54,160 --> 01:27:56,200
Speaker 1: think that they haven't really embraced this in a big

1750
01:27:56,240 --> 01:27:57,720
Speaker 1: way that I would have liked to see. Like you

1751
01:27:57,720 --> 01:27:59,639
Speaker 1: would think every credit card company would say, oh, yeah,

1752
01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:02,240
Speaker 1: we know people shop online. Let's give them these virtual

1753
01:28:02,280 --> 01:28:03,840
Speaker 1: card numbers to make it easier for them. And they

1754
01:28:03,840 --> 01:28:06,280
Speaker 1: don't forget about things and they don't get charged for stuff,

1755
01:28:06,280 --> 01:28:08,519
Speaker 1: and they can feel safe giving their card number out

1756
01:28:08,560 --> 01:28:11,880
Speaker 1: to people. But I haven't really seen the adoption in

1757
01:28:11,920 --> 01:28:14,600
Speaker 1: a big way, but I think privacy dot com is

1758
01:28:14,600 --> 01:28:17,360
Speaker 1: probably the best one. The only downside to it, I think,

1759
01:28:17,520 --> 01:28:19,639
Speaker 1: is that you have to use your debit or credit

1760
01:28:20,120 --> 01:28:22,960
Speaker 1: debit card or your bank account to actually sign up.

1761
01:28:23,240 --> 01:28:26,160
Speaker 1: I don't believe you can use a credit card to

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01:28:26,320 --> 01:28:29,840
Speaker 1: fund the virtual card that you're creating, so that's kind

1763
01:28:29,840 --> 01:28:32,559
Speaker 1: of the only caveat there. But I do have a

1764
01:28:32,600 --> 01:28:34,679
Speaker 1: couple of them set up there. They work really well

1765
01:28:35,000 --> 01:28:38,120
Speaker 1: and it's definitely saved me a couple of times from

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01:28:38,200 --> 01:28:41,760
Speaker 1: getting hit with charges when I forgot about stuff. Great

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01:28:41,840 --> 01:28:45,679
Speaker 1: question Mark and Woodland Hills, Oh my gosh, that already segment.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, We've got parents, a group of

1769
01:28:50,520 --> 01:28:53,840
Speaker 1: parents who created an app called first Ease. We're going

1770
01:28:53,920 --> 01:28:58,320
Speaker 1: to talk to them right after this. Welcome back to

1771
01:28:58,400 --> 01:29:00,680
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,

1772
01:29:00,800 --> 01:29:04,200
Speaker 1: talking technology. The website for the show rich on Tech

1773
01:29:04,240 --> 01:29:06,800
Speaker 1: dot Tv. There you can see the show notes by

1774
01:29:06,840 --> 01:29:09,519
Speaker 1: hitting the light bulb, or you can watch my TV

1775
01:29:09,600 --> 01:29:12,960
Speaker 1: segments that I do for KTLA TV in Los Angeles.

1776
01:29:12,960 --> 01:29:15,160
Speaker 1: That's all there on the website. Rich on tech dot TV.

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01:29:16,160 --> 01:29:18,240
Speaker 1: I was playing around this morning with an app, you know,

1778
01:29:18,320 --> 01:29:20,800
Speaker 1: Mint Money went away, so I was trying to find

1779
01:29:20,840 --> 01:29:24,599
Speaker 1: a replacement app for that, and I think I found it.

1780
01:29:24,680 --> 01:29:28,040
Speaker 1: The problem is it costs money, but it's called Monarch Money.

1781
01:29:28,080 --> 01:29:30,200
Speaker 1: And if you're looking to like kind of do all

1782
01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:32,639
Speaker 1: of your net worth, you know, put all your accounts

1783
01:29:32,640 --> 01:29:34,479
Speaker 1: into one place, which I know is a little scary

1784
01:29:34,520 --> 01:29:36,479
Speaker 1: to aggregate them all, but you know you want to

1785
01:29:36,520 --> 01:29:39,040
Speaker 1: see all your net worth on one page. This one

1786
01:29:39,120 --> 01:29:41,720
Speaker 1: is really good at that. It also does your you know,

1787
01:29:41,760 --> 01:29:45,400
Speaker 1: your car, your house, whatever you've got, plus your investments,

1788
01:29:45,439 --> 01:29:47,280
Speaker 1: your bank accounts, puts it all on one page, so

1789
01:29:47,320 --> 01:29:49,479
Speaker 1: you can see a net worth exactly what Mint used

1790
01:29:49,520 --> 01:29:51,920
Speaker 1: to do really well. The problem is they want to

1791
01:29:51,960 --> 01:29:54,040
Speaker 1: charge I think it's about one hundred bucks a year.

1792
01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:56,800
Speaker 1: So anyway, it might be worth just taking a look

1793
01:29:56,840 --> 01:29:58,800
Speaker 1: at it, because I have been testing out Rocket Money

1794
01:29:58,800 --> 01:30:01,880
Speaker 1: as well, which I like, but you know they don't

1795
01:30:01,920 --> 01:30:03,920
Speaker 1: do as good of a job with the net worth stuff.

1796
01:30:03,960 --> 01:30:07,240
Speaker 1: So if you're looking for a replacement for Mint Mobile,

1797
01:30:07,560 --> 01:30:10,880
Speaker 1: then Monarch Money might be the way to do it. Also,

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01:30:11,040 --> 01:30:14,400
Speaker 1: I was at Target yesterday and I was purchasing a

1799
01:30:14,439 --> 01:30:19,320
Speaker 1: gift card Bobo Hide Your Ears, and I noticed they

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01:30:19,320 --> 01:30:22,000
Speaker 1: have a whole new system to keep the thieves from

1801
01:30:22,200 --> 01:30:24,479
Speaker 1: draining gift cards. So now when you buy a gift

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01:30:24,479 --> 01:30:27,960
Speaker 1: card at least at Target, a Target gift card, they

1803
01:30:27,960 --> 01:30:31,800
Speaker 1: don't put the redemption barcode on the back until after

1804
01:30:31,840 --> 01:30:34,840
Speaker 1: you buy it. So it's actually so you know, the

1805
01:30:35,160 --> 01:30:38,320
Speaker 1: these thieves will go into stores, they'll scrape off or

1806
01:30:38,400 --> 01:30:41,479
Speaker 1: somehow tamper with the gift cards. They'll record the numbers

1807
01:30:41,520 --> 01:30:42,920
Speaker 1: off the back of the gift cards, and then when

1808
01:30:42,960 --> 01:30:45,720
Speaker 1: you buy it at the register, somehow they're alerted that

1809
01:30:45,760 --> 01:30:48,240
Speaker 1: it's been activated, and they will instantly go in and

1810
01:30:48,320 --> 01:30:50,080
Speaker 1: drain that account before you even get to use it.

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01:30:50,120 --> 01:30:52,759
Speaker 1: This happened to us last year. It's a very common occurrence,

1812
01:30:52,760 --> 01:30:54,559
Speaker 1: so I guess Target has found a way around that.

1813
01:30:54,680 --> 01:30:58,320
Speaker 1: So kudos to them for figuring out a more secure system.

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01:30:58,920 --> 01:31:02,080
Speaker 1: All right, Joining me on the show, Miami Parents, Natalia

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01:31:02,160 --> 01:31:06,599
Speaker 1: Daniel and Odd Pellet Pellett. They have a new app

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01:31:06,640 --> 01:31:09,439
Speaker 1: that they created. It's called first Ease. And this is

1817
01:31:09,439 --> 01:31:11,800
Speaker 1: an app that I wish I had when I originally,

1818
01:31:12,280 --> 01:31:14,160
Speaker 1: you know, had my kids. Back in the day, I

1819
01:31:14,200 --> 01:31:16,040
Speaker 1: think we wrote one thing down in a book and

1820
01:31:16,040 --> 01:31:19,519
Speaker 1: then we never wrote another thing, like first steps, first smile,

1821
01:31:19,560 --> 01:31:21,600
Speaker 1: and that was it. But this is an app that

1822
01:31:21,600 --> 01:31:25,360
Speaker 1: helps you capture, organize, and share your kids milestone moments.

1823
01:31:25,920 --> 01:31:26,680
Speaker 1: Welcome to the.

1824
01:31:26,640 --> 01:31:29,719
Speaker 5: Show, Hello, rich how about.

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01:31:30,120 --> 01:31:33,200
Speaker 1: I am doing fantastic. So tell me what gave you

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01:31:33,240 --> 01:31:35,920
Speaker 1: the inspiration for this this first d'z app.

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01:31:36,960 --> 01:31:39,160
Speaker 4: Well, I think it's so as parents, we all had

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01:31:39,200 --> 01:31:42,080
Speaker 4: the same moments. We all just wrote a few pictures,

1829
01:31:42,160 --> 01:31:45,559
Speaker 4: you know, first steps and first smile, and that's about it,

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01:31:45,760 --> 01:31:49,240
Speaker 4: and we stopped. And so actually I realized that when

1831
01:31:49,240 --> 01:31:52,200
Speaker 4: I was trying to put together a book for our kids,

1832
01:31:52,360 --> 01:31:54,040
Speaker 4: and I realized there was a lot of moments that

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01:31:54,120 --> 01:31:57,320
Speaker 4: I didn't capture. You know, there was the basic ones,

1834
01:31:57,360 --> 01:32:00,280
Speaker 4: but there's so many other milestones and moments that go

1835
01:32:01,360 --> 01:32:04,479
Speaker 4: not record it. And when I found the picture, I

1836
01:32:04,479 --> 01:32:08,360
Speaker 4: also found that they were scattered on multiple devices and

1837
01:32:08,400 --> 01:32:10,640
Speaker 4: it was really time consuming to bring them all in

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01:32:10,680 --> 01:32:13,479
Speaker 4: one place. So I turned to my husband, who works

1839
01:32:13,479 --> 01:32:15,280
Speaker 4: in tech, and I'm like, we have to come up

1840
01:32:15,280 --> 01:32:18,320
Speaker 4: with something a little bit easier for parents and really

1841
01:32:18,360 --> 01:32:21,040
Speaker 4: help them in capturing those moments that you know, go

1842
01:32:21,080 --> 01:32:24,320
Speaker 4: away really quickly if you don't capture them and help

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01:32:24,360 --> 01:32:26,599
Speaker 4: them retrieve them in a very easy way.

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01:32:26,760 --> 01:32:29,840
Speaker 1: So this is firsties and I love that it's not

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01:32:29,960 --> 01:32:33,040
Speaker 1: just like you know, it actually gives you prompts. So

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01:32:33,080 --> 01:32:35,960
Speaker 1: it says like, hey, you know, capture their first haircut,

1847
01:32:36,240 --> 01:32:39,519
Speaker 1: Capture their first going to a restaurant, Capture their first umbrella,

1848
01:32:39,760 --> 01:32:41,800
Speaker 1: you know, using an umbrella. So it's like all these

1849
01:32:41,800 --> 01:32:43,840
Speaker 1: little things that we take for granted as adults, but

1850
01:32:43,920 --> 01:32:46,160
Speaker 1: as kids, it's all brand new to them. Like almost

1851
01:32:46,160 --> 01:32:48,360
Speaker 1: everything they do is like they're going to do it

1852
01:32:48,360 --> 01:32:49,080
Speaker 1: for the first time.

1853
01:32:50,960 --> 01:32:53,360
Speaker 8: Yes, for sure, we definitely take it all for granted.

1854
01:32:53,920 --> 01:32:57,599
Speaker 4: So we have five hundred plus milestone prompts to inspire

1855
01:32:57,760 --> 01:32:59,519
Speaker 4: parents in capturing all those moments.

1856
01:33:00,360 --> 01:33:03,360
Speaker 17: And like you said, there are so many sweet moments

1857
01:33:03,400 --> 01:33:07,160
Speaker 17: that we regret for not capturing, especially with our first son.

1858
01:33:07,800 --> 01:33:10,600
Speaker 17: And you know when you ask parents, for example, do

1859
01:33:10,640 --> 01:33:13,240
Speaker 17: you have a video when of your kid first time

1860
01:33:13,320 --> 01:33:16,240
Speaker 17: seeing the reflection reflection in the mirror, you know, it's

1861
01:33:16,240 --> 01:33:18,479
Speaker 17: such a sweet moment. And most of your parents we

1862
01:33:18,520 --> 01:33:20,720
Speaker 17: talked to like, oh, no, I wish I captured it.

1863
01:33:21,080 --> 01:33:23,679
Speaker 17: And you know, what's your excuse? You had the phone,

1864
01:33:23,720 --> 01:33:25,679
Speaker 17: you had the camera, but a lot of time with life,

1865
01:33:26,160 --> 01:33:29,000
Speaker 17: we just don't think, right, life goes by and suddenly

1866
01:33:29,080 --> 01:33:30,880
Speaker 17: your kid is like ten years old, and you were like, oh,

1867
01:33:30,920 --> 01:33:32,800
Speaker 17: I wish I captured this, and I wish I captured that.

1868
01:33:33,320 --> 01:33:35,360
Speaker 17: So that was really kind of like the thing that

1869
01:33:35,439 --> 01:33:38,880
Speaker 17: Natalia came to me with. And you know my background,

1870
01:33:39,080 --> 01:33:42,840
Speaker 17: I've been in consumer tech in mobile gaming for almost

1871
01:33:42,920 --> 01:33:45,439
Speaker 17: fifteen years, and I was like, that actually can be

1872
01:33:45,479 --> 01:33:49,599
Speaker 17: a really fun idea to also gamify, right, And there's

1873
01:33:49,640 --> 01:33:52,000
Speaker 17: a lot of apps and I always talk about due Lingo,

1874
01:33:52,760 --> 01:33:55,880
Speaker 17: the language learning app that did a fantastic job putting

1875
01:33:55,880 --> 01:33:58,640
Speaker 17: on top of it like a layer of gamification and

1876
01:33:58,720 --> 01:34:03,280
Speaker 17: rewarding the users for not skipping a day and for

1877
01:34:03,720 --> 01:34:07,880
Speaker 17: like having a continuous experience and engagement with the app.

1878
01:34:08,240 --> 01:34:09,320
Speaker 3: So we thought the same thing.

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01:34:09,320 --> 01:34:14,000
Speaker 17: We said, first, let's create and gather those hundreds of

1880
01:34:14,080 --> 01:34:17,600
Speaker 17: milestone suggestions, and we did it, you know, working and

1881
01:34:17,640 --> 01:34:21,240
Speaker 17: collaborating with a group of moms and parents and pediatricians.

1882
01:34:21,320 --> 01:34:24,559
Speaker 17: Right so right now it's actually almost seven hundred super

1883
01:34:24,640 --> 01:34:27,320
Speaker 17: cute suggestions prompts in different categories.

1884
01:34:27,640 --> 01:34:29,559
Speaker 18: And then on top of that, we said, okay, let's

1885
01:34:29,640 --> 01:34:36,040
Speaker 18: reward that the parents for capturing those moments, right, and you're.

1886
01:34:35,880 --> 01:34:38,080
Speaker 3: Probably familiar and all the audience is probably familiar. A

1887
01:34:38,080 --> 01:34:40,160
Speaker 3: lot of mobile games or games in general, give.

1888
01:34:40,080 --> 01:34:44,320
Speaker 17: You achievements for achieving certain things inside the game. In

1889
01:34:44,360 --> 01:34:46,920
Speaker 17: this case, it's an app. But for example, as soon

1890
01:34:46,960 --> 01:34:51,120
Speaker 17: as you capture or upload five Thirsties, you get gems.

1891
01:34:51,160 --> 01:34:54,160
Speaker 17: You get rewards inside the app that they can later

1892
01:34:54,200 --> 01:34:56,880
Speaker 17: on use, for example for making and we'll talk about

1893
01:34:56,880 --> 01:35:00,759
Speaker 17: it more. Hopefully you can make you know, beautiful musical

1894
01:35:00,840 --> 01:35:03,519
Speaker 17: videos of the child, or you can order a real

1895
01:35:04,160 --> 01:35:04,919
Speaker 17: photo books.

1896
01:35:05,439 --> 01:35:06,879
Speaker 3: So that that's.

1897
01:35:06,680 --> 01:35:10,400
Speaker 17: Really the the what we've been developing now for almost

1898
01:35:10,520 --> 01:35:11,280
Speaker 17: three years.

1899
01:35:11,680 --> 01:35:12,720
Speaker 3: Super excited about it.

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01:35:12,760 --> 01:35:16,960
Speaker 17: You know, our team is almost eighteen people working hard

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01:35:17,000 --> 01:35:21,160
Speaker 17: on creating this is this appened. And the other thing

1902
01:35:21,280 --> 01:35:26,120
Speaker 17: is as we were building and developing, all started with,

1903
01:35:26,160 --> 01:35:28,679
Speaker 17: you know, in Natalia's idea about like not missing capturing

1904
01:35:28,760 --> 01:35:32,120
Speaker 17: these moments. The other thing that we realize very quickly

1905
01:35:32,640 --> 01:35:36,840
Speaker 17: is that we as parents, we share those moments that

1906
01:35:36,920 --> 01:35:39,400
Speaker 17: we did capture across multiple channels.

1907
01:35:39,479 --> 01:35:39,639
Speaker 3: Right.

1908
01:35:40,040 --> 01:35:43,120
Speaker 17: Some I share, you know, with my family via what'sapp.

1909
01:35:43,720 --> 01:35:45,559
Speaker 17: Some friend does not have what's PP, so I use

1910
01:35:45,680 --> 01:35:49,439
Speaker 17: SMS and here is on by email, and sometimes we

1911
01:35:49,520 --> 01:35:53,160
Speaker 17: live a digital footprint on on social media and suddenly

1912
01:35:53,160 --> 01:35:55,000
Speaker 17: you're like all this stuff.

1913
01:35:54,960 --> 01:35:56,160
Speaker 3: Like where is it? You know?

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01:35:56,240 --> 01:35:59,360
Speaker 17: And we wanted to create something that is like one

1915
01:36:00,160 --> 01:36:03,639
Speaker 17: centralized place, super secure, private.

1916
01:36:03,720 --> 01:36:04,639
Speaker 3: We can talk about that.

1917
01:36:04,720 --> 01:36:08,599
Speaker 18: There's a lot of technology that went into securing our app.

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01:36:08,840 --> 01:36:11,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, talk about to talk about the privacy aspect, because

1919
01:36:11,520 --> 01:36:13,719
Speaker 1: you know, people are sharing their you know, their memories

1920
01:36:13,760 --> 01:36:16,800
Speaker 1: in this app. You know, how have you made you know,

1921
01:36:16,840 --> 01:36:18,880
Speaker 1: what is the privacy? Are their ads? Do you collect

1922
01:36:18,960 --> 01:36:19,800
Speaker 1: data on people?

1923
01:36:19,880 --> 01:36:19,960
Speaker 3: Like?

1924
01:36:20,000 --> 01:36:22,680
Speaker 1: What can you feel confident knowing that you know what

1925
01:36:22,720 --> 01:36:24,760
Speaker 1: you're putting in here is going to remain private.

1926
01:36:26,320 --> 01:36:27,120
Speaker 3: One hundred percent.

1927
01:36:27,200 --> 01:36:30,240
Speaker 17: And again that's the thing that we wanted to differentiate

1928
01:36:30,280 --> 01:36:34,760
Speaker 17: and build Here no ads. The platform was built not

1929
01:36:35,080 --> 01:36:38,600
Speaker 17: like traditional social media that was really built for broadcasting

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01:36:38,680 --> 01:36:39,200
Speaker 17: to the world.

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Speaker 3: This is by invite only.

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Speaker 17: When you send an invite to a close family member,

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Speaker 17: a close friend, they have three days to accept the invites.

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Speaker 17: Everything is encrypted. A lot of a lot of work

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Speaker 17: went through encryption. I know you spoke about it, I

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Speaker 17: believe last week in your podcast.

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Speaker 3: What is Encryption? So a lot of effort went into that,

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Speaker 3: and yeah, no, no ads, We don't collect data.

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Speaker 17: It's really a private inner circle platform for sharing your

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Speaker 17: most precious moments with the family.

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Speaker 1: And what I know you've got So you can start

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Speaker 1: for free. You've got a completely free version, and then

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Speaker 1: you've got the premium version, So explain kind of the difference.

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Speaker 1: What do you get with each?

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Speaker 17: So we wanted to give enough for the users to

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Speaker 17: really appreciate and enjoy the app.

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Speaker 18: The app is, most of the features are free. It

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Speaker 18: comes with a complimentary storage. You can upload almost one

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Speaker 18: hundred photos and videos for free. You can upload one

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Speaker 18: proof file or kid.

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Speaker 17: We actually just added also inside a pet version, so

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Speaker 17: if you have you know, we all have our pets,

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Speaker 17: so you.

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Speaker 3: Can add a child that part of the family.

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Speaker 17: There's a lottery of stickers and filters and a lot

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Speaker 17: of cute animations that you can add on.

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Speaker 17: But obviously, if someone wants to use the app, and

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Speaker 17: you know, and we we ourselves have been using it

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Speaker 17: now for like a year and a half, and you know,

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Speaker 17: the fos in the videos keep gathering, you know, you

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Speaker 17: need more storage, and especially.

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Speaker 3: If you want to have more of the advanced.

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Speaker 17: Features, we're using a lot of the I of the

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Speaker 17: apps for making the videos, for creating the photobook for you.

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Speaker 17: That requires the premium subscription. The subscription both the subscription

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Speaker 17: has a seven day free trial and it's nine ninety

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Speaker 17: nine a month or sixty year, which comes to like

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Speaker 17: five dollars and eighty three cents a month.

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Speaker 1: And again, this is the This is the first das app.

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Speaker 1: It is for kind of cataloging your child's milestones. It's

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Speaker 1: available for iOS and Android Natalia. Are you happy with

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Speaker 1: the way the app turned out? You had the idea?

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Speaker 1: Are you happy the way it was executed?

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Speaker 4: It's way better than I thought. And I wish I

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Speaker 4: had it when our kids were younger because I would

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Speaker 4: have captured so many moments. Not only it's super useful,

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Speaker 4: but it looks really good and it's really well designed

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Speaker 4: and very practical.

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Speaker 5: So I'm more.

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Speaker 4: I'm so happy with and I really hope people enjoy

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Speaker 4: you as well.

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Speaker 1: Okay, the website first D's dot com again catalog all

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Speaker 1: the first moments with your child, all the milestones, and

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Speaker 1: you can also share those privately with friends and family.

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Speaker 1: Makes me want to have another kid. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Minor passed the first step though we're almost in high

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Speaker 1: school now. Thanks so much for coming on the show.

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Speaker 1: Natalia Daniel oded pelled first D's app creators. Coming up,

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Speaker 1: We're going to open up the feedback see what you

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Speaker 1: have to say about last week's show. This is rich

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

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Speaker 1: Here a couple items of note before we open up

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Speaker 1: the feedbag. iHeartRadio app got a major redesign, so if

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Speaker 1: you update your iHeartRadio app, you'll notice a whole bunch

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Speaker 1: of new features. Number one, custom presets. You can now

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Speaker 1: save up to fifteen of your favorite stations, playlists, or

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Speaker 1: podcasts for quick access. I would recommend that you save

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech my podcast kfive. You're in the LA

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Speaker 1: area or whatever station you're listening on, you can save

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Speaker 1: that as a preset, and of course KTLA if you

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Speaker 1: want to listen to the morning news that I work

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Speaker 1: on as well. They have a scan button now so

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Speaker 1: you can scan different radio stations, kind of like back

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Speaker 1: in the day in the radio car dial. Same thing.

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Speaker 1: Then they have a live radio dial so you can

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Speaker 1: see the live radio stations that are near you, organized

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Speaker 1: by genre and location, lyrics and also what's trending. So

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Speaker 1: the app rollout. The brand new app is rolling out

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Speaker 1: to iOS and Android users, will be available to everyone

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Speaker 1: by the end of December. It's a big one. I

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Speaker 1: already got it on one of my phones and it's

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Speaker 1: a nice upgrade. And Moxie. This is a robot that

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Speaker 1: was for kids and it's gonna shut down so Embodied,

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Speaker 1: the company behind it, says they don't have enough money,

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Speaker 1: so they got to shut down their operations. This is

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Speaker 1: an eight hundred dollars robot that was marketed as an

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Speaker 1: emotional support and educational companion for kids, a lot of

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Speaker 1: kids on the autism spectrum. It was also marketed as

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Speaker 1: good for them. And the robot is going to stop

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Speaker 1: functioning entirely. Shutdown could occur within days, so no refunds.

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Speaker 1: Maybe someone who purchased within the last thirty days might

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Speaker 1: get a refund, but if you're you know. And the

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Speaker 1: other thing is that apparently people are still paying this

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Speaker 1: thing off, So you're gonna be paying off a robot

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Speaker 1: that you can no longer use. So what is the

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Speaker 1: moral of the story. Why do I tell you this?

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Speaker 1: It's because all these products nowadays, they all need sort

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Speaker 1: of a cloud connection, not just Internet, but a proprietary

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Speaker 1: cloud connection from the company that runs the product to

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Speaker 1: operate properly. And so if that company shuts down or

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Speaker 1: runs out of money, you're out of luck. And I

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Speaker 1: think about this with the electric car companies. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to mention them by name, but there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of electric car companies, these startups that are

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Speaker 1: kind of on the bubble, and you're like, what happens

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Speaker 1: if they go out of business? What happens to my

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Speaker 1: car is they's still going to run. As happens with

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Speaker 1: electric bikes. Same thing, all these devices that require a

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Speaker 1: cloud connection, not just an Internet connection, but a cloud

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Speaker 1: connection to this company that runs it. Yeah, all right,

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Speaker 1: let's open up the feedback. These are the emails, the questions,

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01:42:32,120 --> 01:42:33,800
Speaker 1: the comments, all the stuff that you wrote to me

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Speaker 1: in the past couple of weeks. Stand Ward writes in

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Speaker 1: Hey Rich, great one hundredth show. Wanted to share my

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Speaker 1: experience after listening to your segment on Coinbase and crypto scams,

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Speaker 1: a girl I was writing to tried convincing me to

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Speaker 1: open a Coinbase account and act as a middleman for

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Speaker 1: moving crypto red flag red Flag. She claims she needed

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Speaker 1: money to get back to the US from Spain. Turn

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Speaker 1: out to be total bs. Thanks to your advice, I

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Speaker 1: gave her a big no, and I hope I avoided

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Speaker 1: getting scammed. Wishing you and your family a great Christmas. Stanward,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you avoided that. Stacey from Westlake Village rights in.

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Speaker 1: I've been watching you on KTLA for years. I love

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Speaker 1: your newsletter. As the quote computer tutor, I teach seniors

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Speaker 1: how to use their tech devices. Stacy we Shavy on

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Speaker 1: the show, I use a MacBook and iPad, but prefer

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01:43:19,160 --> 01:43:22,599
Speaker 1: Google Pixel phones. I've had one since the Pixel three.

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01:43:22,960 --> 01:43:25,040
Speaker 1: Thanks to your tips, I got the ten dollars discount

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Speaker 1: on YouTube TV for six months. You're so informative and

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Speaker 1: fun to follow. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Well, Stacy,

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Speaker 1: thank you, and Merry Christmas to you as well. Jeff

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Speaker 1: from Frisco, Texas writes in on your recent show, the

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Speaker 1: guy had the old Samsung phone. You wanted to move

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Speaker 1: his pictures, You might consider an SD card reader like

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Speaker 1: this the Anchor mag Go USB adapter USBC adapter. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that is a great way to move pictures. I probably

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Speaker 1: should have mentioned that I can't remember exactly what his

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Speaker 1: problem was, but yeah, that would work as well. You

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01:43:53,360 --> 01:43:56,040
Speaker 1: can always Yes, you can plug an SD card reader

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Speaker 1: right into the bottom of most modern smartphones, whether it's

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Speaker 1: iPhone or Android, and answer files that way. Jeff says,

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Speaker 1: By the way, as a retired school technology director of

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Speaker 1: thirty years, I really appreciate how you never judge your

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01:44:08,240 --> 01:44:10,960
Speaker 1: callers and always do your best to solve their problems.

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Speaker 1: Keep up the great work, love the show. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: Jeff from Frisco. Pete from Avila Beach writes in hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I saw that starlink now offers a mini portable device

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Speaker 1: for backpackers, starting at just fifty bucks a month for

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Speaker 1: fifty gigs of service. It weighs about three pounds with

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Speaker 1: the battery, perfect for anyone needing fast internet at the beach.

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Speaker 1: I download and listen to your Saturday podcast every week.

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Speaker 1: You're always so interesting. Keep up the great work, Pete. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Pee is referring to the caller that said he was

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Speaker 1: doing metal detecting on the beach and needed like mobile

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Speaker 1: internet access, And I said, I don't think starlink does

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Speaker 1: it that portable, but I guess it does. So there

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01:44:47,280 --> 01:44:50,120
Speaker 1: you go. You can get Internet anywhere. Annie from Central

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Speaker 1: Florida writes in Hey Rich, regarding the lady with the

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Speaker 1: ray band OH with the I issue who needed the

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01:44:55,640 --> 01:44:59,160
Speaker 1: ray band metaglasses, she should first file an appeal. If

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01:44:59,160 --> 01:45:01,479
Speaker 1: that doesn't work, can file a complaint with her state's

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Speaker 1: insurance commissioner, mentioning that other insurance companies are covering the cost.

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01:45:05,240 --> 01:45:08,759
Speaker 1: If she's low income on a Medicare advantage plan with Medicaid,

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Speaker 1: she might have access to one thousand dollars in funds

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Speaker 1: for items not covered by medical insurance. If she's legally

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Speaker 1: blind and disabled, she might also qualify for SSDI and

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01:45:18,320 --> 01:45:21,599
Speaker 1: Medicare after two years of disability. It's a bit confusing,

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Speaker 1: so it's best to contact her insurance agent for guidance.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Annie, that sounds like you got some good

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Speaker 1: options there. Audrey from Chatsworth writes in Hey Rich, I

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01:45:30,760 --> 01:45:32,559
Speaker 1: just wanted to say thanks for all the helpful advice

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01:45:32,600 --> 01:45:35,439
Speaker 1: in your newsletters and podcasts. I showed my dad how

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Speaker 1: to use his AirPods for the enhanced hearing, and it's

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01:45:37,760 --> 01:45:40,880
Speaker 1: been life changing. He hears me clearly now and his

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01:45:40,920 --> 01:45:44,040
Speaker 1: communication is so much better. His only complaint, there's an

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Speaker 1: occasional echo, but otherwise it's been a game changer. Wishing

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Speaker 1: you and your family a happy holiday season. OG podcast

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Speaker 1: listener number seventy seven Audrey and I commented that I

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Speaker 1: like that she gave herself a listener number, and I

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Speaker 1: guess there's a show Mark and Brian on Klos back

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Speaker 1: in the day that they used to sign their I

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Speaker 1: don't know. It's like something that they used to do with,

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Speaker 1: like listener numbers. I don't know the phone Yeah, me too,

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Speaker 1: I have to look it up. I was like, wait,

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Speaker 1: what so anyway, I guess not. Yeah, let's see here.

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Speaker 1: Let's see Neil from Ohio. Not sure if you're doing

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Speaker 1: an end of your recap, but here are the best

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Speaker 1: things from your show. I'm thankful for the Aura frame.

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Speaker 1: They do it right local send. I use it every month,

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Speaker 1: replacing one drive. I amazing. Even though I didn't pay,

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Speaker 1: it's still quite good, although the licensing model put me off.

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Speaker 1: Wishing you and your impressive family a happy holiday season.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Neil. Uh okay, I think we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: to uh that's it. That's gonna do it for this

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Speaker 1: episode of the show. You can find links to everything

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Speaker 1: I mentioned on the website just go to rich on

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Speaker 1: Tech dot TV. If you want to get your feedback

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Speaker 1: in just go there and hit contact. You can find

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Speaker 1: me on social media. I am at rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Next week, our guests include Marcia Collier. She is author

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Speaker 1: of Android smart Phone Owns for Seniors for Dummies. She's

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Speaker 1: going to share tips from her new book. And we

2135
01:47:05,120 --> 01:47:09,360
Speaker 1: also have Jonathan Garner Mind over Tech. He's going to

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Speaker 1: talk about how to develop a healthier relationship for technology,

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Speaker 1: which we can all use going into the new year.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. There are so many

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Speaker 1: ways you can spend your time. I do appreciate you

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Speaker 1: spending it right here with me. Thanks to everyone who

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Speaker 1: makes this show possible. Bobo Kim, My name is rich Dmiro.

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Speaker 1: I will talk to you real soon.