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Speaker 1: down the latest streaming services, all the price hikes we've

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Speaker 1: cord cutter. Well, the big story of the week is

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Speaker 1: deep Seek. Yes, if you unless you live under a rock,

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Speaker 1: you have heard about this new AI. Deep Seek is

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Speaker 1: even sent tech stocks tumbling. Why well, they claim to

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Speaker 1: on similar technology. So their AI model, called R one,

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Speaker 1: they say it costs them about six million dollars to develop,

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Speaker 1: which you know, compare that to the one hundred million

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Speaker 1: a big difference. And by the way. They accomplished it

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Speaker 1: using lower end chips. So I don't know if you've

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Speaker 1: heard about this stock called Nvidia. A lot of people

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Speaker 1: This is not a financial show. I'm not giving financial advice,

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Speaker 1: but this is what people were saying, like, hey, have

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Speaker 1: we now have in a c of AI. Absolutely, let

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Speaker 1: That's what I love about technology. What you take for

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Speaker 1: Give me a call if you have a question about technology.

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Speaker 1: My name is Rich Demiro. You are listening to Rich

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Speaker 6: know it.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I've you know, I'm trying to think. I

436
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Speaker 1: just went to Paris and I you know. Anyway, So

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Speaker 1: the good news is your phone does support anisim iPhone eleven,

438
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Speaker 1: so it's iPhone ten s and later, so that means

439
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Speaker 1: the iPhone ten s.

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Speaker 6: So it's just when I land in Japan, I don't

441
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Speaker 6: have to worry about it. I land in Japan and

442
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Speaker 6: they will take care of it for me, and I

443
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Speaker 6: just give them money and they will.

444
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Speaker 3: Take care of it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I would just do it. I would do

446
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Speaker 1: it yourself. I would just do it on air low

447
00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 1: before you go. You download the app, you buy it

448
00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 1: in advance, and it will be ready to go on

449
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,680
Speaker 1: your phone before you, you know, as soon as you land.

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Speaker 1: So that's that's what I would do. Now, if you're

451
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Speaker 1: not comfortable with that situation, then yes, when you get

452
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Speaker 1: to when you land at the airport, you can literally

453
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Speaker 1: bline it to the I don't know what their carrier is,

454
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 1: their Vota phone or whatever it is. They will immediately

455
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Speaker 1: put that into your phone for you and help you

456
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Speaker 1: out with that. Less people are doing that just because

457
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,199
Speaker 1: every phone is down eSIM. But if you want, I

458
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Speaker 1: would download the Aralow app and see what the process

459
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Speaker 1: is like. I will tell you my mom traveled internationally.

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Speaker 1: I set it up for her from AFAR. I said,

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Speaker 1: download this app, download this eSIM toggle go into your settings.

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Speaker 1: So all I have to do is turn off your

463
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Speaker 1: Spectrum SIM and turn on your Aerlo SIM when you arrive,

464
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Speaker 1: and it will find the network and you'll be online.

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Speaker 1: So either way, but you'll be covered, Katie, no matter what.

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Speaker 1: Good with that? I lost you there? Okay, all right,

467
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Speaker 1: good luck and enjoy. Japan one of my favorite places

468
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Speaker 1: to go. Tokyo is incredible. It is a safe place,

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Speaker 1: it is high tech, it's futuristic. The oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: everyone is so friendly and respectful. That is the thing,

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Speaker 1: Like when you go and clean like everything. It's just

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Speaker 1: like like I literally take the train in Japan anywhere,

473
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Speaker 1: and every single train car, every person on there is

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Speaker 1: respectful of each other, and the train car is so clean.

475
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Speaker 1: We joke that you can eat off the floor because

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Speaker 1: it's just so not that I would recommend doing that,

477
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Speaker 1: but that's the idea of Japan. It's just like it's

478
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Speaker 1: so it's a very nice culture, so enjoy. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: the whole thing about the eSIM is that there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of companies that, you know, let you do this.

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Speaker 1: And I've used eSIMs all over Japan, I will tell

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Speaker 1: you is actually a little tricky when it comes to eSIMs.

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Speaker 1: So I had two phones when I went to Japan.

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Speaker 1: One was a Pixel and one was one was an Android,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it was. I think it was

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Speaker 1: a Pixel, and the other was an iPhone. The iPhone

487
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Speaker 1: had no problem getting on the eSIM, whereas the Pixel

488
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Speaker 1: was giving me real trouble. So iPhone will be just fine,

489
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Speaker 1: it'll be very simple. But just the main thing to

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Speaker 1: know when you travel is when you get on the airplane,

491
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 1: turn off your domestic SIM card, right like, turn off

492
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Speaker 1: that domestic connection because you don't want your phone when

493
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Speaker 1: you land to try connecting to that network back home,

494
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 1: because they may immediately charge you an access fee whether

495
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Speaker 1: you use it or not. It may just be as

496
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 1: soon as you start, you know, as soon as it

497
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Speaker 1: exchanges some data, you'll be on the hook for ten

498
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Speaker 1: dollars a day connection fee. So if you don't want

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Speaker 1: that to happen, I recommend that you download the e

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Speaker 1: SIM before you land, you know, get it set up

501
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Speaker 1: in the US, get it on your phone, toggle both

502
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Speaker 1: of those SIM cards off in your settings. You'll see this.

503
00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:42,719
Speaker 1: Your phone can actually handle multiple SIM cards. And then

504
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,360
Speaker 1: as soon as you land, just toggle on the one

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Speaker 1: roaming SIM, which is the ERL or whatever company. And

506
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,440
Speaker 1: there's so many that can do this. I've tested the

507
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Speaker 1: ARA low and there's just yeah, there's a million million

508
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Speaker 1: different companies that can do this. You know what Google five,

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Speaker 1: I think someone told me that they'll give you like

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Speaker 1: a free SIM as well, Like I think you get

511
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Speaker 1: like seven days for free or something. I don't quote

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Speaker 1: me on that because it's been a while since I

513
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 1: use that one. But there's a whole bunch if you

514
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Speaker 1: look up e SIM online, there's a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: companies at offer it all right, good question eight eight

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

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Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. Remember if you want

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Speaker 1: links to anything I mentioned, just go to the website

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Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot tv. This is episode one oh seven.

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Speaker 1: I will put links to all the things that I

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Speaker 1: mentioned there. We'll get to more callers. Plus, the Pebble

522
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Speaker 1: smart watch is making a comeback. I'll explain coming up

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

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Speaker 1: on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking technology at Triple eight

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Speaker 1: Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. The website for the show

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Speaker 1: is rich on tech dot tv. You can hit contact

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Speaker 1: there and send me a message. That's what Lisa did. Hey,

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00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:02,640
Speaker 1: Rich our favorite tech guy. What do you know about

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00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 1: these types of one plus phones and would they be

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Speaker 1: good in areas of low connectivity mountains, et cetera. They

532
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: said something about being able to talk to another user

533
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: if your phone carrier is out. Does that make sense, Lisa, Yes, Lisa,

534
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 1: I just posted my review of the one plus thirteen.

535
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 1: You can see it on my website rich on tech

536
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 1: dot tv. In this phone, they have a feature called

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Speaker 1: Beacon link b A b E A con beacon link,

538
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: so this is on the one plus thirteen. It's a

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00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:36,159
Speaker 1: walkie talkie functionality through Bluetooth. So this means that you

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00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 1: can talk with other users over Bluetooth up to two

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00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 1: hundred meters away. So this means it's good for hiking

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00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 1: or anywhere near a coastline, which you know may have

543
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 1: sparse cell connectivity. And right now you can chat with them,

544
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 1: but you know walkie talkie functionality. But they're going to

545
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:57,880
Speaker 1: have an update in the future that lets you send

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00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:02,199
Speaker 1: messages and photos via Bluetooth as well. So number one,

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00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,959
Speaker 1: this is an incredible feature that every phone should have.

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00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: And I'm surprised that Apple. Apple actually did have a

549
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 1: walkie talkie feature on the Apple Watch, which still went

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00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 1: over cellular or Wi Fi. This maybe I don't think

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00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: it ever defaulted to Bluetooth, but this is actually going

552
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 1: through Bluetooth, which two hundred meters is pretty impressive for

553
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: a connection. Now here's the downside, Lisa, this is only

554
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,120
Speaker 1: going to work if the other person has a one

555
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 1: plus thirteen phone as well, So that is the main

556
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 1: thing to know is you need to have I think

557
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: it's got to be a one plus thirteen because they

558
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: didn't have this before. But if you both had these,

559
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 1: that would work out nicely. So it's kind of a

560
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: cool feature. I think it's limited in scope because you

561
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: both have to have the same exact phone, but it's

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00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: cool and I wish that they would somehow open source

563
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 1: this and make it available to everyone, or if someone

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Speaker 1: had an app that could work like this for every phone.

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00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 1: I don't know what magic they're using on the back

566
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: end to make this work, but I mean it says

567
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: it's just using Bluetooth, which is pretty cool. Now the

568
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: new smartphones also have satellite connectivity, so I would say, Lisa,

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00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: the OnePlus would be nice to have this walkie talkie feature,

570
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: but again, you both have to have that phone. The

571
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: new smartphones the pixel, while the iPhone is going to

572
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: give you messaging over satellite, so you can actually just

573
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: text message with someone over I Message and just use

574
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: the satellite system. It's very it's a little bulky because

575
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 1: you do have to have a direct connection to the sky,

576
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: like you got to lock onto the satellite. It's not

577
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Speaker 1: as easy as you think. But with Starlink coming along,

578
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 1: and it looks like they're building starlink connections into the

579
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: new Samsung has it and also the iPhone. I just

580
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: read a report that it's supposedly getting it. It's not

581
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: confirmed just yet, but Starlink's going to make it a

582
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 1: lot easier because the big difference between what all these

583
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: phones are doing right now. And the starlink is that

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Speaker 1: you'll be able to be connected to the satellite without

585
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Speaker 1: looking at the sky, So your phone could theoretically be

586
00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: in your pocket and you'll still receive that message. So

587
00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: to explain, you know, when the fires were happening, I

588
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 1: was texting with someone in a fire area over satellite

589
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: and the problem was and what I realized is that

590
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 1: they were not getting my messages unless they went to

591
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Speaker 1: actually check for those messages. Your phone does not give

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Speaker 1: you an indication that you have a message because you

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Speaker 1: have to go out into the sky, you know, get

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Speaker 1: a clear view of the satellite, lock on, and wait

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Speaker 1: for those messages to come in. So it's kind of

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Speaker 1: a very bulky process. Whereas when the starlink and these

597
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: new satellite you know, these newer satellite networks come into play,

598
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: you'll just have a constant connection to them, which means

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00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: you'll get messages no matter what, whether you have cellular

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Speaker 1: or not. So hopefully that explains that. Lisa appreciate it

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Speaker 1: and the one plus thirteen, by the way, read the

602
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 1: full review. It's an excellent phone. It's just I had,

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Speaker 1: you know, I thought the can or could be a

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00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: little bit better, even though when it takes a good shot,

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00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: it's really nice. Let's go to uh Susan in San Diego, Susan.

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Speaker 1: You're on with Rich Hi there.

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00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 7: I am interested in getting a fitness tracker ring, and

608
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 7: I had one a few years ago with the one.

609
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 6: Brand that had come out then.

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Speaker 7: But now there are so many out there, and I

611
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 7: was wondering if you had any recommendations.

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00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 1: Well, there's a couple. I mean, I think Aura is

613
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: still overall the best I think they have. They've got

614
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: the market right now. Is that the one you had? Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and I liked it, but I thought, well, I'll

616
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 7: just ask the question and I'll get another one.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I think at this point, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Aura is still probably the best. That's O you

619
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Speaker 1: are a By the way, I tested the Aura. My

620
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: wife actually bought it for me for my birthday, and

621
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Speaker 1: I said, please don't buy me tech because you know,

622
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Speaker 1: I get a lot of tech to test and when

623
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: I when I purchase tech, it means I want to

624
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: keep it right. And so I wasn't sure if I

625
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 1: wanted this ring. My main thing with the ring, with

626
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: any ring, is that it gets in the way of

627
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. And so for me, I find

628
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Speaker 1: myself taking the ring on and off a lot, Like

629
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Speaker 1: if I go to work out, if I'm lifting weights

630
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: or anything, you know, it's like hitting up against the weights.

631
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: So it kind of bugs me because it's that's that's

632
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: the problem that I had with it. Did you have

633
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Speaker 1: that issue at all or no? I guess women are

634
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Speaker 1: more used to rings.

635
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 7: I guess, well, true, but I did. I did lose

636
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 7: mine because I had taken it off to wash my hands.

637
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 7: I've forgot to put it back on in.

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Speaker 4: A public restaurant.

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00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: See, So there you go. See, And that's the thing,

640
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: like now you do not have to take these off

641
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: to wash your hands. But again, if you put lotion on,

642
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: like when I do my hair, I've got that, you know,

643
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: the goo that you put in your hair, like, it

644
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: gets all gunked up in this ring. So there are

645
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: like with a regular like my wedding ring, I have

646
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: no problem. It's just thin. It's it's you know, it's

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Speaker 1: just it's I've never taken it off and ten whatever

648
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Speaker 1: how many years, and so I don't find an issue

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Speaker 1: with that. But for some reason, because these rings are

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Speaker 1: a little bit thicker and there's a little bit more

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Speaker 1: going on with them, and of course you have to

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Speaker 1: charge them. You are taking it on and awful lot,

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Speaker 1: So that was kind of my issue. But on the

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Speaker 1: flip side, and the other thing is you look like

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Speaker 1: et when you're sleeping because this thing is like blinking

656
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Speaker 1: at night all the time, and when you're in a

657
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Speaker 1: dark room, you're seeing like the light that it's you know,

658
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Speaker 1: using to read your your vitals. So the good news

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Speaker 1: is about these rings is that they give you a

660
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Speaker 1: lot of information about yourself. And it's twenty four to

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Speaker 1: seven right now. The main competition is the Aura Ring,

662
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Speaker 1: the Samsung Galaxy Ring, which is if you're using an iPhone,

663
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Speaker 1: you're not gonna that's not gonna be an option. Then

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Speaker 1: there's a brand called ring Con, which I have not

665
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Speaker 1: tested personally, but I do have friends that have tested

666
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Speaker 1: it and they do seem to like it. And the

667
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Speaker 1: other one that I've personally tested is called the Amaze

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Speaker 1: fit Ama z Fit And what's nice about that ring

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Speaker 1: is that it is a lot less expensive and I

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Speaker 1: found that it was X So I would if you

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Speaker 1: want something a little bit different, Susan, I might go

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Speaker 1: with the Amaze fit Ama z Fi t and they

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Speaker 1: have a great smart ring that you know is great.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that they're all different, they're all

675
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Speaker 1: doing the same thing in a slightly different way. But

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Speaker 1: I will tell you the Amaze Fit, I wore it

677
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Speaker 1: for a couple of months and I was like, wait

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Speaker 1: a second, why is this thing half the price of

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Speaker 1: the competition, Like how and that it just it just is.

680
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Speaker 1: They just do a great job. But if you want

681
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Speaker 1: the market leader, the Aura ring is going to work

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Speaker 1: with iPhone and Android, Samsung, just Android. The Amaze Fit

683
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Speaker 1: is going to work with iPhone and Android. And this

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Speaker 1: is of course a growing area we have not seen.

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Speaker 1: The thing about all this technology is that it's never

686
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Speaker 1: truly legitimatized until Apple does it. And so right now

687
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 1: we've had these companies come in and they've made these rings,

688
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 1: but Apple has not done this in a big way

689
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Speaker 1: just yet. And so the rumor is that Apple eventually

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Speaker 1: come out with a smart ring, which there's no reason

691
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Speaker 1: to believe they wouldn't. But when they come out with it,

692
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be like, oh, now everyone's into smart rings.

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Speaker 1: But I think the benefit of them is that they're

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Speaker 1: a little slicker than the watch and you can wear

695
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Speaker 1: them twenty four to seven versus the watch. You know,

696
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Speaker 1: you got to take off and the battery lasts a

697
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Speaker 1: lot longer. So you're talking, you know, up just seven

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Speaker 1: days of battery life with these great question Susan. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm you're making me want to wear my ring again,

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Speaker 1: the smart ring, not the wedding ring. I do wear

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Speaker 1: that anyway. That sounded weird. Eighty eight rich one on

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

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

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Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. This is the show where

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

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Speaker 1: know about. It's also the place where I answer your

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Speaker 1: questions at triple eight rich one oh one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one, the

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Speaker 1: website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's been a bit since I tested this out. Actually

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Speaker 1: I went up there last month, I think the end

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Speaker 1: of the month. But this Pebble flow is really cool.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm not an RV guy, but I'm telling you

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Speaker 1: this is such. This is the iPhone slash Tesla of RVs,

715
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Speaker 1: and I want it because it is super cool. So

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Speaker 1: Pebble Pebble got a lot of publicity when they first

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Speaker 1: kind of launched this video of this device or this RV,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, a couple of years ago, and everyone

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Speaker 1: was like, oh my gosh, that's so cool because it

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Speaker 1: does a couple of magical things. So first off, it

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Speaker 1: automatically hitches itself to your car. So if you look

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Speaker 1: at this RV number one, it looks very futuristic. I

723
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Speaker 1: think it's got these rounded edges. It's very like glass

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Speaker 1: kind of forward. And the company was started by a

725
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:59,840
Speaker 1: bunch of folks that worked at Tesla, Rivian, SpaceX, NASA, Apple.

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Speaker 1: I mean, these are really smart people that said, wait

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Speaker 1: a second, why is r V so complicated? Why is

728
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Speaker 1: r ving so complicated? Why why do you need like,

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00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: you know, you ever try to back up an RV

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Speaker 1: or anything on a trailer, you have to like do

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00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 1: it in reverse, like everything if you turn one way

732
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 1: goes the other. Yeah. I've done the U haul thing

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Speaker 1: and it's not easy for a lot of people. So

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Speaker 1: I've never really had an interest in the RV because

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Speaker 1: or you know, the trailer because I don't know, I'm

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Speaker 1: just worried about it. But this solves all of those issues.

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Speaker 1: So number one, it hitches itself to the car, So

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Speaker 1: you literally put this RV near the back of your car,

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Speaker 1: uses cameras to self center and kind of find the hitch,

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Speaker 1: and then lower itself on there. And all you have

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Speaker 1: to do is connect those safety chains and you know

742
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:45,800
Speaker 1: whatever else that needs to be connected. It also moves

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Speaker 1: around by remote control. So I took this thing up

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Speaker 1: in a parking lot up in near San Francisco, and

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Speaker 1: they gave me an iPad, and they didn't even tell

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Speaker 1: me how to do it. They just said, here, try

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Speaker 1: to move this thing. And there's a couple of little

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Speaker 1: controllers on the iPad on the screen, and you just

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Speaker 1: move it like you would a remote controlled car. And

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Speaker 1: the weirdest thing when I saw this thing start to move,

751
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 1: your brain immediately goes into this idea because anytime it's

752
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 1: seen something big rolling by itself, it just imagines it's

753
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 1: going to roll into a wall, right, it's gonna slide

754
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 1: down the hill. But this thing just moves and then

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Speaker 1: when you take your finger off the iPad, it stops.

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Speaker 1: Move it some more, it stops. You can turn it

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Speaker 1: around three hundred and sixty degrees, and the idea is

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Speaker 1: that you can steer the trailer into anything you want,

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00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 1: like a parking lot or a parking spot or your

760
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Speaker 1: driveway without having to back it up. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: just that alone is enough to sell me on this thing.

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Speaker 1: Then they've got the active toe assist. So because this

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Speaker 1: thing is fully electric, it has electric motors, and so

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Speaker 1: when you're driving your car and they're imagining a lot

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Speaker 1: of people are probably gonna have evs with this thing.

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Speaker 1: That of course, having a giant trailer behind an EV

767
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: takes a lot of energy off off the EV. So

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00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 1: this has an electric motor that sort of pushes it forward.

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Speaker 1: So when they enable the electric motor. When I was

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Speaker 1: taking my test drive, you can feel that the car

771
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 1: just felt lighter because it wasn't dragging six thousand pounds

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00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: behind it. I mean it still was, but it was

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Speaker 1: being helped. So that was really cool. And then to

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Speaker 1: top it all off, when you finally get to the

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Speaker 1: camp site and want to set this thing up, you

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Speaker 1: press another button and it instantly levels itself out. So

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Speaker 1: it has these little things that pop out of the

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Speaker 1: bottom and it figures out the level nature of the

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Speaker 1: ground and it just levels itself in less than two minutes.

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Speaker 1: I mean really really cool stuff. Now here's the other

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00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: thing it can do. I mean it doubles as a

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Speaker 1: home office or a guesthouse when it's parked, because it's

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Speaker 1: all electric and it has solar on the top. It's

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Speaker 1: got a large battery so it can charge your EV

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00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,840
Speaker 1: car or it can even power your house during a blockout.

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Speaker 1: So the whole idea of this pebble flow is to

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Speaker 1: make rving more accessible for someone like myself who doesn't

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Speaker 1: necessarily want to deal with a traditional RV. Now. I

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Speaker 1: know there's a lot of you listening that use an RV,

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Speaker 1: drive an RV and you said, rich, come on, it's

791
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 1: not that tough, it's not that big of a deal.

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00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 1: But there are people like myself that are intimidated by this.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to do something wrong with a brand new,

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00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: beautiful RV that you've either rented or purchased. By the way,

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Speaker 1: the price on this not cheap starts at one hundred

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00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: and nine thousand dollars. But when you think about all

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Speaker 1: the possibilities of using it as a home office or

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Speaker 1: mobile office or a guesthouse, yeah, might not be a

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00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:43,839
Speaker 1: bad idea anyway. It's a Pebble Flow. If you want

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Speaker 1: to see my video on it, go to the website

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00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot tv. Check it out. I think

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00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:50,879
Speaker 1: it's really cool. I was very excited to try this thing.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Lou in Arizona. Lou, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 8: Cool.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm not gonna be a Pebble Flow, but I'm

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Speaker 4: going to be driving my minivan to California to do

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Speaker 4: comedy shows for veterans later this month.

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Speaker 1: All right, well that's exciting. What can I help you with?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Well, I have a Pixel seven and I keep

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00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 4: getting notices that say system update needed. Your system is

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Speaker 4: forty four data out of date? Learn more, restart? Now?

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Speaker 4: Can that be spoofed so that I would be accidentally

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Speaker 4: installing some malware on my phone?

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Speaker 1: Great question, Lou, It could be spoofed, It's unlikely that

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Speaker 1: it's spoofed. It sounds like what you're describing is the

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00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 1: standard update from Pixel. So if you want to be sure,

817
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 1: you can swipe out of any screen that you are

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Speaker 1: seeing on your phone, and you can swipe down from

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Speaker 1: the upper right hand corner. Swipe down again look for

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Speaker 1: the little gear icon in the lower right hand corner

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Speaker 1: that will take you to your settings, or just get

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Speaker 1: into your settings any way, scroll up and you're gonna

823
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 1: want to look for the setting that says system. You

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00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: tap that, and if you scroll down a little bit,

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00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 1: it'll say software updates. Now my pixel says your pixel

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Speaker 1: is up to date. So there's no software update available

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Speaker 1: right now on the one I'm using, but on yours

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Speaker 1: it would say system update pending, and you can tap

829
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: into there and you should see that same exact screen

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00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: that you were seeing before. But now you verify that

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00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: you went to the proper place to see it. So

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00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: once again, go into your settings, then go into system,

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00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: then go into software updates, and you should see the

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Speaker 1: system update for your pixel. Now, I'm glad you brought

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00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: this up, Lou, because there is currently a Chrome update

836
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Speaker 1: scam on the desktop computers. So hackers apparently have hijacked

837
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 1: tens of thousands of WordPress sites because they have outdated plugins,

838
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 1: and so they have figured out a way to get

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00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: these websites to show a Chrome update notification claiming that

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00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 1: the site needs something to You got to update your

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00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:11,359
Speaker 1: Chrome to function on this website. And when you click

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00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 1: the update, you think you're updating Chrome, you're actually installing malware.

843
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,760
Speaker 1: So if you look closely, you'll notice that there's poor grammar,

844
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: incorrect capitalization, an unnecessary comma. But a lot of people

845
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 1: probably fall for this stuff because they're getting tricked into

846
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 1: downloading an update. This is what I always talk about

847
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: with hackers and spammers. They mimic something that we know

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00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: to be real. So, yes, every one of us has

849
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,319
Speaker 1: seen that message on our computer or on our Chrome

850
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: browser or on our phone that says, hey, you got

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00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: to update, got to update the software. This software is

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00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: out of date. And so they take that and they

853
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: run with it, and they turn it on its side,

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00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: and they trick you and they make the screen look

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00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: like an update screen, but it's actually just bogus. And

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00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: so that's what they're doing here on Chrome. I have

857
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 1: not heard of that happening on the Pixel, although on

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00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,240
Speaker 1: the iPhone and on you know, if you're just surfing

859
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,800
Speaker 1: the web on your phone, you might have come across

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00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: a screen that says your phone is infected, you've got

861
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Speaker 1: viruses on your phone, you have malware on your phone,

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00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: tap to update or tap to fix. And that is

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Speaker 1: just either malvertizing, which is malware that's been injected into

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Speaker 1: advertising or it's just a bad website that somehow is

865
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Speaker 1: compromised and is serving up these messages. And so you

866
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Speaker 1: need to be very careful when you see this stuff

867
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Speaker 1: because you do not want to be tricked into downloading

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Speaker 1: malware to your phone or your computer. Now, most of

869
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Speaker 1: the time, on the phones, especially on the iPhone, it's

870
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Speaker 1: going to be very tough to download a quote unquote

871
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Speaker 1: virus to that phone because just the nature of the

872
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Speaker 1: iOS operating system, you can't really install a virus on there.

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00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: It's nearly impossible unless your phone is jail broken, unless

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Speaker 1: you are side loading it somehow, any of the apps

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Speaker 1: from the app store. I don't think there's ever been

876
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 1: a case where it's it's hidden malware. But you know,

877
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: the main thing is that they exploit vulnerabilities in something

878
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 1: like the web browser, a PDF viewer, and that's how

879
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 1: they get to to get take over your phone or

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00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: something like that. But it's very rare, let's put it

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00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: that way. So people always ask me all the time, Hey, Rich,

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00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: join you a virus anti virus for the iPhone? No,

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00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: you do not. You do not need anti virus for

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Speaker 1: the iPhone. Android little bit different, a little bit of

885
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 1: a different operating system. There's a little bit more freedom

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00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: on Android, although out of the factory, the Samsungs of

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00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: the world and the Googles of the world with a

888
00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: pixel they really lock down these phones so that it's

889
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 1: very tough to install something on there outside of Google Play.

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00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 1: But and what a lot of people like about Android

891
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: is that you can if you know what you're doing.

892
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: So for me personally, I was installing an app the

893
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: other day outside side of the Android Google Play and

894
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: it gave me a couple of warnings saying, hey, you

895
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: know you have to toggle these switches on for security

896
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 1: reasons to make sure we know that you're understanding what

897
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Speaker 1: you're doing here by quote unquote sideloading an app. So,

898
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:16,760
Speaker 1: if you're just a regular person, when you see that message,

899
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Speaker 1: you're going, huh wait a second, hold on, do I

900
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Speaker 1: really want to do that? So just be careful for

901
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 1: when it comes to Chrome. By the way, the way

902
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: they update is you'll see it in the upper right

903
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: hand corner. It'll it'll give you a message that as

904
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:32,359
Speaker 1: update Chrome. And if you're ever in question about that,

905
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 1: you can go to the settings on Chrome and tap

906
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,439
Speaker 1: about Chrome and it will check for updates and sure enough,

907
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: mine has one right now, it'll say nearly up to date.

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00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 1: Relaunch Chrome to finish updating. So there you go. Thanks

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00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:49,440
Speaker 1: for the call. Loon Arizona. I remember you from the

910
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:52,479
Speaker 1: comedian guy right you do the comedy shows. Very cool,

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Speaker 1: Keep up the good work. Eighty eight Rich one O

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

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Speaker 1: Coming up, I'll tell you about the Pebble smart watch

914
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: making a comeback. I'll tell you why why do we

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00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: need the Pebble in this day and age. I'll explain

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Speaker 1: right here on rich On Tech eighty eight Rich one

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

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Speaker 1: zero one man two segments on Pebble. Huh another one

919
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Speaker 1: with Pebble. Pebble smart watch is making a comeback. Pebble

920
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: founder Eric Mitchakowski, who has been on this show. Uh.

921
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Speaker 1: He talked about his plans to bring back the original

922
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:35,919
Speaker 1: smart watch because he just doesn't like what's out there,

923
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Speaker 1: and he says the Pebble smart watch would have an

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00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: always on e ink display that, of course you can

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00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 1: see in the sunlight, multi day battery life, physical buttons

926
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Speaker 1: for controlling music without looking at the screen. Tens of

927
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 1: thousands of smart watch faces compared to Apple's Apple Watches

928
00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 1: zero third party face support an open source operating system,

929
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 1: which means anyone can do whatever they want with it,

930
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 1: build upon it. It will support iPhones. And this all

931
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 1: happened because he, I guess, went to Google. So Pebble

932
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: was a smart watch back in the day. It was

933
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Speaker 1: one of the first reviews I did at KTLA, and

934
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 1: it was like a big kickstarter device, and it was

935
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 1: just a cool looking watch. I mean, now it doesn't

936
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Speaker 1: look that cool, but it used to. But I had

937
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 1: an e ink display all these things he's talking about.

938
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Speaker 1: And now, of course we've gone fully futuristic with the

939
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,360
Speaker 1: smart watches with apps and all this other stuff. But

940
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: he just wants something simple that shows you your notifications,

941
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: controls your music. The battery lasts for a long time,

942
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: and it's just a very simple display that you can

943
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 1: customize in a million different ways. So it's kind of cool.

944
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 1: But Pebble went out of business around I think twenty sixteen.

945
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: Fitbit purchased them during that time, and then Google ended

946
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Speaker 1: up purchasing Fitbit for like, I don't know, a couple

947
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:01,399
Speaker 1: billion dollars a couple of years later, and so Eric,

948
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 1: the original founder of Pebble, had to go to Google

949
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:08,320
Speaker 1: and convince them to open source the original Pebble operating

950
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Speaker 1: system so that he can build the new Pebble smart watch.

951
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: So if you're interested in this, Repebble, repebble dot com

952
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: is the website. I don't know. Would you trade your

953
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 1: Apple Watch for a Pebble watch. I don't know if

954
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 1: I'd do that at this point. I mean, I like

955
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 1: the idea of simplicity. I like the idea that works

956
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 1: with Android and iPhone. Apple Watch is very like you know,

957
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: it's iPhone centric. It's a great watch, but it's very

958
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:35,960
Speaker 1: much like just iPhone. Michelle writes in I don't trust

959
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 1: a lot of people online talking about Apple features. Just you.

960
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: I listened to your tech advice if it applies to me. Lately,

961
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:47,640
Speaker 1: I've seen video reels claiming Apple's latest update will automatically

962
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 1: install Apple AI. Is that true? Can we really disable AI?

963
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:55,760
Speaker 1: Please ease my mind. This stuff is making me nervous. Michelle,

964
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,240
Speaker 1: thank you for trusting me. Your first mistake was watching

965
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 1: reels because there's a lot of nonsense. There could be fun,

966
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 1: but the amount of cleaning up I have to do.

967
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 1: It's like mopping up the misinformation that people see on

968
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:11,880
Speaker 1: TikTok and reels and all this stuff. Anyone could just

969
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 1: put something out there and people have to figure out

970
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 1: if it's real or fake. And so with tech news,

971
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: of course, it's like, oh, this scary new feature or

972
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:21,360
Speaker 1: this new thing or that or whatever. Change this setting.

973
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 1: Without giving you the basis of why you should do

974
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: that or why you shouldn't do that. They just tell

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00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 1: you to do it. But yes, you can disable yet.

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00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 1: So you're right. Apple is automatically enabling the Apple Intelligence

977
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Speaker 1: with iOS eighteen point three. Used to be had to

978
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 1: go in and toggle it on, but you can toggle

979
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 1: it off. It's very simple. You just go into settings.

980
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:47,319
Speaker 1: You'll see an option for Apple Intelligence and Siri, and

981
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 1: then you tap that and you'll see Apple Intelligence. You

982
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:52,479
Speaker 1: just toggle that off. Now, keep in mind, you can't

983
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 1: even get Apple Intelligence unless you have an iPhone fifteen

984
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Speaker 1: Pro or above, so iPhone fifteen Pro Promac and any

985
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,560
Speaker 1: of the iPhone sixteen models. So even if they automatically

986
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 1: force this upon your phone, you may not have access

987
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:09,400
Speaker 1: to it because your phone may be an older model.

988
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,800
Speaker 1: So good question, Michelle. Thank you for putting your trust

989
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:16,240
Speaker 1: in me. I do appreciate it. Pat from Sherman Oaks

990
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,240
Speaker 1: writes in can you recommend a good website to chart

991
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: a trip on a map? Or is an app required?

992
00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: Road Trippers road trippers that is the best planning tool.

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00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: So that's the one I used last time. Great great

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Speaker 1: features on there, so road trippers road trippers dot com.

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00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:37,800
Speaker 1: Let me make sure that's the website. Yep, road trippers

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00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:40,640
Speaker 1: dot com. Great website for planning a road trip. All right,

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Speaker 1: coming up, we're gonna talk to We're gonna talk cell

998
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,239
Speaker 1: phone plans. You think you have a good plan, you

999
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 1: want something cheaper, you want something better. We're gonna have

1000
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:50,799
Speaker 1: cell phone planned reviewers stets In dodge It on the

1001
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 1: line to talk about the latest offerings from carriers big

1002
00:51:54,640 --> 00:52:00,960
Speaker 1: and small. This is Rich on Tech. We'll get back

1003
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: to the phone lines in just a moment, but first

1004
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,839
Speaker 1: let's bring on Stetson dodge It. He is a cell

1005
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: phone plan reviewer. He's been doing it since twenty fourteen,

1006
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:12,879
Speaker 1: when he was researching the best plan to go along

1007
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:15,760
Speaker 1: with his iPhone five. Just to give you an idea

1008
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:17,759
Speaker 1: of how long he's been covering this stuff, stets and

1009
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Rich thank you so much for

1010
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 1: having me.

1011
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:22,879
Speaker 9: I'm so excited to be here and to help your

1012
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,480
Speaker 9: listeners save money on their phone bill.

1013
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: So you've got your YouTube channel where obviously you're talking

1014
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:30,799
Speaker 1: about this stuff. Tell me the channel name.

1015
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 8: It's just my name, stetson Dogget.

1016
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:36,359
Speaker 9: Users can find that if they search for best cell

1017
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 9: phone plans on YouTube.

1018
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:39,080
Speaker 8: I've been doing this for so long.

1019
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 9: A lot of my videos tend to come up and

1020
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Speaker 9: I talk about, you know, the best cell phone plans

1021
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 9: for individuals, the best unlimited plans, best plans for families.

1022
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 9: If it's related to cell phone plans, I'm talking about it,

1023
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 9: even how to get the best deal on the newest

1024
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:54,239
Speaker 9: iPhone when that comes out as well.

1025
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:57,320
Speaker 1: So I guess my question is what is the biggest

1026
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:00,360
Speaker 1: question people have when it comes to carry I mean,

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00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:02,759
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're confused because there's so many options out

1028
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 1: there nowadays.

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00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:06,800
Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, it can feel overwhelming as a customer.

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00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 9: There's over fifty cell phone carriers that I compare on

1031
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 9: my website, over four hundred cell phone plans, and I

1032
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 9: think the biggest question people have is like, how can

1033
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:21,200
Speaker 9: these smaller carriers, these mv and os as they're called offer.

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00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 8: Such affordable plans.

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00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 9: I mean, you look at Verizon, their cheapest limited plan

1036
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:26,680
Speaker 9: is going to be sixty five dollars a month. Then

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00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:29,360
Speaker 9: you look at something like Visible Wireless, their own limited

1038
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 9: plan is just twenty five dollars per month.

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00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:32,839
Speaker 8: How can that be?

1040
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:36,439
Speaker 9: And the answer is really that the big carriers sell

1041
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:39,839
Speaker 9: access to their networks to these smaller carriers so that

1042
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:43,000
Speaker 9: the small carriers can create their own bundles, create more

1043
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 9: affordable options in the marketplace, and start to create plans

1044
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 9: for different demographics of consumers, so targeting different niches and

1045
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:57,360
Speaker 9: market segments. And that's how you can find affordable plans

1046
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 9: that still use the big networks for coverage.

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00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 1: And there's really I mean, so I know there's three networks.

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00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:05,560
Speaker 1: You've got T Mobile, you've got Verizon and AT and T.

1049
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:08,160
Speaker 1: But then we have this new one from Boost coming up.

1050
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 1: So are they really building like their own network or

1051
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:12,359
Speaker 1: are they what's the deal with that?

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00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:17,160
Speaker 9: Yes, Rachel're absolutely correct. Boost is building their own network.

1053
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 9: They're building a five G only network, So any customer

1054
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,880
Speaker 9: who signs up for Boost, they will only be on

1055
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 9: the Boost network if they have a five G phone

1056
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 9: that's compatible with the Boost five G network. Otherwise, Boost

1057
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 9: has the agreement with AT and T at Mobile, and

1058
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:36,320
Speaker 9: customers will actually roam on the AT and T network

1059
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 9: or the T Mobile network for coverage. So even if

1060
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 9: you sign up for Boost, you'll get nationwide coverage. But

1061
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 9: their specific five G network is really just starting to

1062
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:49,840
Speaker 9: light up predominantly in cities and more urban areas to

1063
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 9: cover as many people as possible.

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Speaker 1: I've got to imagine it's going to be pretty good

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00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:55,920
Speaker 1: because if you're building it from scratch like they are,

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00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:59,160
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're using like the latest technology, so that'll

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00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 1: be interesting to check out out. So where do you

1068
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 1: think someone should start, Like how do they figure out

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00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:04,920
Speaker 1: like what they're you know, if you let's say you're

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00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 1: paying ninety bucks a month and you're like, I know

1071
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 1: I could be paying less than this. Like where do

1072
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 1: you think people start? Do they download their bill? Like

1073
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:13,320
Speaker 1: take a look at what That is a great question.

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Speaker 9: I think when you think of the telephone telephone space,

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00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:19,200
Speaker 9: your bill is made up of two things, the cost

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00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:22,839
Speaker 9: of your phone and the cost of your plan, and

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00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 9: you want to try.

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Speaker 8: And optimize both of those things.

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00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:28,440
Speaker 9: And I would say the best place to start is

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00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:31,280
Speaker 9: think about how many lines you have on your phone

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00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:33,880
Speaker 9: on your plan. If you just have one line, you

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00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:37,480
Speaker 9: typically want to be spending fifty dollars or less for

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00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:39,480
Speaker 9: both the phone and the service. I mean, you could

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Speaker 9: grab a twenty five dollars unlimited plan such as Visible Base.

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00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 9: You can finance a phone that's going to be twenty

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00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:48,320
Speaker 9: thirty dollars a month, and you're looking at maybe fifty

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00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 9: to fifty five dollars for both your plan and your service.

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Speaker 9: If you have multiple lines, that's where it can make

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00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:56,720
Speaker 9: sense to go with a big carrier like T Mobile,

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00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:59,440
Speaker 9: like AT and T, like Verizon, and you can do

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Speaker 9: a phone trade deal. So every three years the new

1092
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:05,279
Speaker 9: iPhone comes out, the new Samsung Galaxy comes out, you

1093
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 9: can trade in your old phone and get the new one,

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00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 9: and the combination of the plan and doing the phone

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00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 9: trade in deal ends up being pretty reasonable if you

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Speaker 9: have four more lines. But if you've got one, two,

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00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 9: three lines, that's when you're starting to think about, Okay,

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00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:21,960
Speaker 9: maybe I buy the phone outright and I go with

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Speaker 9: one of these lower costs cell phone carriers, because I'll

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Speaker 9: save a lot of money over three years in the

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Speaker 9: long run.

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Speaker 1: So what are you not getting when you do one,

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00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 1: like one of these mvn os, like this Visible plan

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00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 1: for twenty five bucks a month. What am I not

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00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:38,440
Speaker 1: getting compared to like Verizon for sixty five or eighty

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Speaker 1: a month.

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Speaker 9: That is another great question, like what are you missing

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00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:44,840
Speaker 9: out on? A lot of people initially think it's coverage.

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00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:48,200
Speaker 9: We kind of covered this all carriers in the United States,

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Speaker 9: whether they're the mv and os or the big carriers.

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00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 9: They're riding on AT and T, T Mobile, Verizon, or

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00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 9: Boost Mobile for coverage, So coverage.

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00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:57,840
Speaker 8: You'll get the same network.

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00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,759
Speaker 9: Really, what the differences are are going to be?

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00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:02,319
Speaker 8: I think there's three big ones.

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Speaker 9: Number one the phone financing deals AT and T, T Mobile, Bryzon.

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00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:10,560
Speaker 9: They're all offering one thousand dollars off the new iPhone,

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00:57:10,680 --> 00:57:14,279
Speaker 9: the latest Samsung phone, the latest Google Pixel phone when

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00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 9: those devices release. So if you're someone who loves to

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Speaker 9: finance their phone and do the trade in deals, the

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00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 9: bigger carriers are going to be your option if you

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00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 9: want to save money. The smaller carriers they're not going

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Speaker 9: to do the one thousand dollars off promotions, but they

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00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:32,800
Speaker 9: will offer great value on the service itself, so you're

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00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 9: not going to get the same kind of trade in

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Speaker 9: deals with the smaller carriers. The second difference is how

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Speaker 9: you get support the big carriers. You can go to

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Speaker 9: a physical store, walk into the AT and T store

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00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 9: and be like, Hey, I want to do this trade

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Speaker 9: in deal, or I need help with my service, or

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00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:48,440
Speaker 9: I'd like to get my friends set up with this

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00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 9: new device.

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00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:50,440
Speaker 8: They'll be able to help you.

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00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:53,440
Speaker 9: A lot of the smaller carriers they are online only,

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00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:55,439
Speaker 9: and that's one of the reasons they're able to offer

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00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 9: such affordable plans. They're not paying to staff sales employees

1137
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 9: or key inventory for accessories.

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00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:03,400
Speaker 8: They operate online only.

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Speaker 9: They have a much more streamlined process that doesn't cost

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Speaker 9: them as much. They pass those savings on to the customer.

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00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 9: And the third big thing is certain features. RCS is

1142
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 9: a brand new feature just announced. It's kind of like

1143
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 9: bringing I message features to Android devices in between iPhone

1144
00:58:21,120 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 9: and Android users. It turns out some smaller carriers they

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00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 9: don't quite support RCS just yet, and this is actually

1146
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 9: kind of the fault of the big carriers. They need

1147
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:35,000
Speaker 9: to sort of offer a bundle for the small carriers

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00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 9: to use to enable that feature. But some features aren't

1149
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:40,680
Speaker 9: quite working and sometimes you won't be able to add

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Speaker 9: things such as a tablet.

1151
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:43,960
Speaker 8: Line or a smart watch line.

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00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 9: But outside of that, you're using the same network for coverage,

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00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:50,440
Speaker 9: and you really are getting just about the same experience

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Speaker 9: on the small carriers as you are the big carriers.

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Speaker 1: Great explanation. I found that out the hard way. By

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00:58:56,920 --> 00:58:58,440
Speaker 1: the way, I switched my wife to one of these

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00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:00,560
Speaker 1: mv and o's and she had a problem with their

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00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 1: phone and it was like I had to chat with

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00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:05,240
Speaker 1: them through the app to get support, and then finally

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00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:07,560
Speaker 1: after chatting for like a half an hour, they're like, Okay,

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00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 1: here's our phone number. You can call us. And it

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00:59:09,240 --> 00:59:11,560
Speaker 1: was just like, oh my gosh. They make it hidden.

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Speaker 1: So you also run a website called CoverageMap dot com

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00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:19,080
Speaker 1: and then Bestphone Plans dot net. So definitely check those

1165
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:22,360
Speaker 1: out to see, you know, what service has the best

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00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 1: coverage in your area. But I want to hear like,

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Speaker 1: sort of what are your favorite budget friendly plans right now?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, so I've got five picks for your listeners. I

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00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:34,240
Speaker 9: think they're really going to like these options. So I

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00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:37,720
Speaker 9: personally use a plan called US Mobile Unlimited Starter twenty

1171
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 9: five dollars per month, thirty five gigs of high speed data,

1172
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:42,560
Speaker 9: your choice of coverage.

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00:59:42,600 --> 00:59:43,520
Speaker 8: So you can activate this.

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Speaker 9: Plan on Verizon, you can activate it on AT and T,

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00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:48,440
Speaker 9: or you can activate it on T Mobile. And I

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00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:51,440
Speaker 9: think it's just a great overall option for people to

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00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:54,320
Speaker 9: get started. And again, just twenty five dollars per month

1178
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:57,120
Speaker 9: per line, all taxes and fees included. If you want

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00:59:57,160 --> 01:00:00,200
Speaker 9: something more premium, I think the best premium unlimited plan

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01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:01,160
Speaker 9: is going to be Visible.

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Speaker 1: Plus.

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Speaker 9: This gives you unlimited priority data on the Verizon network

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01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:08,680
Speaker 9: when you're on five g ultra wideband, fifty gigabytes of

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Speaker 9: priority on LTE. It includes unlimited hotspot data at ten

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01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 9: megabits per second, a free Apple Watch line if I'm

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01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 9: going to be an Apple Watch user. Forty five dollars

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01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:22,240
Speaker 9: flat per month, taxes and fees included. You can even

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01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 9: get an annual version of this plan, which brings the

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01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 9: cost down to just thirty three dollars per month, which

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01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:29,720
Speaker 9: is pretty good if you're looking to get the best

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Speaker 9: plan with a free phone.

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Speaker 8: I actually really like what boost Mobile is doing.

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Speaker 9: They have their Infinite Access for iPhone plan and their

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01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:39,640
Speaker 9: Infinite Access for Galaxy Plan. Listeners can walk into a

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Speaker 9: Boost Mobile store sign up for this plan, you get

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Speaker 9: a free iPhone or free Galaxy phone today with no

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01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:48,880
Speaker 9: trade in, and then every year after you can trade

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Speaker 9: in your current phone to upgrade to the new one,

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Speaker 9: pretty much for completely free, which is a really good value.

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Speaker 9: This plan costs sixty five dollars per month, so a

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01:00:57,560 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 9: little bit more expensive, but overall rate value. If you're

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01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:04,920
Speaker 9: looking for something custom Mobile x less, you choose how

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01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:08,040
Speaker 9: many minutes, texts and megabytes of VITA you want per month,

1204
01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 9: very affordable. A three gig plan would be thirteen dollars

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01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:14,439
Speaker 9: a month and again completely custom and the best cheap plan.

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01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:17,840
Speaker 9: If you want something very basic, maybe for your your

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01:01:17,960 --> 01:01:20,680
Speaker 9: kid or your grandparent who doesn't really use their phone

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01:01:20,680 --> 01:01:23,440
Speaker 9: that much. US Mobile has a two gig plan for

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01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:27,040
Speaker 9: ten dollars flat and again your choice of coverage Verizon

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01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:29,680
Speaker 9: AT and T or T Mobile. So those are five

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Speaker 9: options I think your audience would be interested in and

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Speaker 9: can check out.

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Speaker 1: All excellent options. We're gonna leave it there. Check out

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Speaker 1: the website Bestphone Plans dot net. I'll link it up online.

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Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot tv cell phone reviewer sets in

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Speaker 1: dogg It thanks so much for joining me today. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much, Rich, you really know your stuff. I

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Speaker 1: can tell your passionate about this and I love it.

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Speaker 1: So thanks for sharing that excellent information today. Really really

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. You're welcome back anytime. Eighty to eight rich

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

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Speaker 1: zero one. Coming up. I'll tell you if you had

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Speaker 1: an Apple Watch with some battery issues, you might have

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Speaker 1: some money coming your way. I'll tell you how to

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Speaker 1: figure out if you're one of them. This is rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro

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Speaker 1: here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple eight

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

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Don't be shy. Go to

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Speaker 1: the website rich on Tech dot tv. I just updated

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Speaker 1: all of the mobile plans that we just talked about

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Speaker 1: that Stetson. That Stetson mentioned are his favorites, ranging from

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Speaker 1: ten dollars a month to sixty five dollars a month

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Speaker 1: including a phone, so check them out on the website.

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Speaker 1: Rich on Tech dot tv even mentioned a couple I

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Speaker 1: was aware of, like that US mobile ten dollars a month. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's pretty good. So I've got them all linked up there.

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Speaker 1: We got an email from Steve in Durham, North Carolina.

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01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:02,680
Speaker 1: He says, Hey, Rich Friday, I and a bunch of

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01:03:02,680 --> 01:03:05,640
Speaker 1: others got an update that the T Mobile Starlink Beta

1241
01:03:05,720 --> 01:03:08,520
Speaker 1: I signed up for in January is now available on

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01:03:08,560 --> 01:03:12,200
Speaker 1: my Pixel nine pro. Here's an article about it, and

1243
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:15,440
Speaker 1: apparently T Mobile and Starlink sent out a lot of

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01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 1: invites to Pixel nine owners. So, if you have a

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01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:20,280
Speaker 1: Pixel nine, you've got T Mobile and you signed up

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01:03:20,280 --> 01:03:24,040
Speaker 1: for the Starlink beta, check it out right now. Once

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01:03:24,040 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 1: you get it, you'll be able to message through Starlink

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01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:32,920
Speaker 1: on your phone. Voice calls will come later. Right now,

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01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:35,960
Speaker 1: it's just messaging. Now, don't forget On the Pixel you

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01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:40,000
Speaker 1: do have satellite messaging, but it is for emergencies only.

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01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 1: And on the iPhone it used to be for emergencies only,

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01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 1: and now it's available. You know, you can use it

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01:03:47,440 --> 01:03:50,280
Speaker 1: just to text. And we still don't know the price

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01:03:50,320 --> 01:03:53,240
Speaker 1: of all these services, right, So all these carriers and

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01:03:53,640 --> 01:03:56,160
Speaker 1: phone companies have said, yeah, you've got satellite messaging, but

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01:03:56,200 --> 01:03:58,560
Speaker 1: nobody has put a price tag on this yet. And

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Speaker 1: I think it's really tricky because let's say you're Apple,

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01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:04,040
Speaker 1: how do you put a price tag on if someone

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Speaker 1: doesn't subscribe to this satellite messaging. They have an emergency

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Speaker 1: and they need to use it. You can't keep them

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Speaker 1: from using it. You don't want to do that, right,

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Speaker 1: You don't want that publicity of someone being stranded. They

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Speaker 1: have satellite messaging, they weren't able to use it becau

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01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:18,200
Speaker 1: they didn't pay the bill. So there has to be

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01:04:18,240 --> 01:04:21,360
Speaker 1: some sort of like one time use scenario where they

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01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:23,400
Speaker 1: can just use it on demand. But then that keeps

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Speaker 1: people from subscribing to it because they know they could

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Speaker 1: just use it in an emergency. So it's a really

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Speaker 1: tricky situation because we have this connectivity, but how do

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Speaker 1: you price it? And by the way, the new Samsung

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01:04:34,200 --> 01:04:39,920
Speaker 1: device does have the satellite connectivity as well. But right

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01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:42,200
Speaker 1: now they're doing it a little bit differently. They're doing

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Speaker 1: it through the carriers. What did I do with my phone?

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01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:49,080
Speaker 1: I don't know where my Samsung phone went. It's missing.

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01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:52,800
Speaker 1: But yeah, so they're doing it a little bit differently.

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01:04:52,920 --> 01:04:54,440
Speaker 1: They're doing it through the carrier. So if you have

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Speaker 1: a Samsung the S twenty five Ultra, I've got I

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01:04:56,880 --> 01:04:59,440
Speaker 1: see it here, Adam, I put it over there. But

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Speaker 1: if you if you have the Ultra, the new one,

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01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:04,440
Speaker 1: or the S twenty five series from Samsung. You do

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01:05:04,520 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 1: have satellite messaging. They didn't really advertise it in a

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01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:09,240
Speaker 1: big way. That's because they're not doing their own so

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01:05:09,360 --> 01:05:11,880
Speaker 1: Google and Apple sort of like baked it into their

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01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:15,720
Speaker 1: phone doing their own deals. Samsung is saying, no, if

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Speaker 1: you have Verizon, you'll do it through them. If you

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01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:20,200
Speaker 1: have T Mobile, you'll do it through them. If you

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Speaker 1: have AT and T, you'll do it through them. So

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit different. And the MV and o's

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01:05:25,240 --> 01:05:28,320
Speaker 1: that's an interesting delineation as well. Well. They have satellite messaging.

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Speaker 1: Apple Watch Batteries swelling settlement, so if you had an

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Speaker 1: Apple Watch back in the day, you could be eligible

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Speaker 1: for up to fifty dollars from this new twenty million

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Speaker 1: dollars settlement. Apple agreed to pay twenty million dollars on

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Speaker 1: a settlement that certain Apple Watches the batteries swelled and

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01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:48,280
Speaker 1: that damaged the screens. So if you had a first

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Speaker 1: generation Apple Watch through an Apple Watch Series three and

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Speaker 1: you reported swelling between April twenty fourth, twenty fifteen and

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Speaker 1: February sixth, twenty twenty four, you can get fifty dollars

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Speaker 1: per of So the trick here is you had to

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01:06:03,240 --> 01:06:06,600
Speaker 1: have had you you had to have had reported this

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01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:10,120
Speaker 1: issue to Apple to get this fifty dollars, which is

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01:06:10,200 --> 01:06:12,520
Speaker 1: kind of like a weird, you know thing, but it

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01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:15,400
Speaker 1: says no claim form is needed, payouts will be automatic,

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01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:18,440
Speaker 1: but you should verify. You'll probably get an email. The

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Speaker 1: website is watch settlement dot com. Watch Settlement dot com. Uh,

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01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:26,120
Speaker 1: let's go to Lynn. Looks like Lynn has a question

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01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:27,880
Speaker 1: just to kind of bookend what we were talking about

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Speaker 1: with the MV and o's Lynn, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 1: What's up?

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Speaker 10: Hi?

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Speaker 2: Rich?

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Speaker 11: I love your show.

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Speaker 1: Thank you?

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Speaker 11: Sign up for an mb no and you're you're converting

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01:06:37,040 --> 01:06:39,960
Speaker 11: your photos and your contact via I guess it's the

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01:06:40,120 --> 01:06:44,120
Speaker 11: e simcard or some process. How easy and reliable is

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01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:46,280
Speaker 11: the process once you signed up? I don't want to

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01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:49,760
Speaker 11: get stuck or caught without having my phone and then

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01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:51,880
Speaker 11: kind of being in no man's land and lack of

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01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:54,840
Speaker 11: customer service. So tell me it's a quick and easy process.

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Speaker 5: Please.

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01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:59,440
Speaker 1: Yes, it is when it works, asterisk when it works.

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01:07:00,080 --> 01:07:01,840
Speaker 1: So I have been on both ends of this. I

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01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:05,120
Speaker 1: have been on the side where you switch your SIM

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01:07:05,160 --> 01:07:08,680
Speaker 1: to another carrier and it's instant, it takes seconds and boom,

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01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:11,200
Speaker 1: your phone lights up. I have been in no man's

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01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:13,560
Speaker 1: land where you go to switch this thing and it

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01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:16,320
Speaker 1: just does not take. And I had this happen with

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Speaker 1: both my main carrier and also an MV and O.

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01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:21,720
Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter if it's an MV and O

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01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:24,560
Speaker 1: or not. The difference is with the main carrier, at

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01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:28,040
Speaker 1: some point you can march into a store and say, hey,

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01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:31,400
Speaker 1: fix this, whereas with the MV and O you are

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01:07:31,520 --> 01:07:36,520
Speaker 1: beholden to typically text chatting through their app or calling

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Speaker 1: them through a phone number. Now what happened with me?

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01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 1: My SIM got stuck in never never Land. I test

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01:07:42,080 --> 01:07:44,920
Speaker 1: a lot of phones. Sometimes I will switch my actual

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01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:47,600
Speaker 1: SIM into that phone, and if it's an e SIM,

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01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:49,919
Speaker 1: it's a little bit trickier a physical sim. You could

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01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:52,480
Speaker 1: pop out of one phone and pop into Another problem

1341
01:07:52,560 --> 01:07:55,680
Speaker 1: is the new iPhones do not have a physical sim anymore,

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01:07:56,120 --> 01:07:58,760
Speaker 1: so you are you are not able to do that.

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01:07:58,800 --> 01:08:02,200
Speaker 1: You have to go eSIM and when it works, it's great,

1344
01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:05,680
Speaker 1: it just switches it right over. But when it doesn't work,

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01:08:05,760 --> 01:08:08,800
Speaker 1: it could be a problem. So in my instance, because

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01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:11,840
Speaker 1: my SIM went off of my phone, my eSIM and

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01:08:11,880 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 1: it did not make it to the other phone. Next

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01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:17,200
Speaker 1: thing you know, I had no signal on my phone,

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01:08:17,240 --> 01:08:19,200
Speaker 1: and so what did that mean. I couldn't even call

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Speaker 1: the carrier to get help. And when I got through

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01:08:23,160 --> 01:08:25,800
Speaker 1: the carrier because I used a different phone, they said, well,

1352
01:08:25,840 --> 01:08:27,920
Speaker 1: we can't verify you are who you say you are,

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01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:31,200
Speaker 1: because typically we send a text message to your phone,

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01:08:31,520 --> 01:08:33,120
Speaker 1: and I said, well, you can't because I don't have

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01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:36,280
Speaker 1: my phone line anymore. And so we ended up figuring

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01:08:36,280 --> 01:08:39,680
Speaker 1: that out. I convinced them after many I must have

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01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:42,280
Speaker 1: spent two hours on the phone with them. But I'm

1358
01:08:42,280 --> 01:08:44,599
Speaker 1: telling you all this len because it's supposed to work,

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01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:49,320
Speaker 1: but if you are faint at heart with any of

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01:08:49,360 --> 01:08:52,559
Speaker 1: this tech stuff, it can be a little tricky. And

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01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:55,879
Speaker 1: you know, most of the time it works, but anytime

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01:08:55,880 --> 01:08:59,280
Speaker 1: you're switching a sim, especially in eSIM, there could be

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01:08:59,280 --> 01:09:01,479
Speaker 1: something that goes wrong and it could get stuck and

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01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:03,680
Speaker 1: next thing you know, you've got to figure out how

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01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:05,639
Speaker 1: to make this work. And by the way, I don't

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01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:07,720
Speaker 1: know if you've ever not had a phone for a

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01:09:07,760 --> 01:09:11,120
Speaker 1: little bit, but it gets really gnarly very fast. Like

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Speaker 1: for me, I was going to pick up my kids

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01:09:12,600 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 1: at school. I had no way of hearing, you know,

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01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:17,240
Speaker 1: if the school had to call me for some reason,

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01:09:17,280 --> 01:09:20,000
Speaker 1: I couldn't get a phone call, I couldn't text them,

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01:09:20,240 --> 01:09:22,439
Speaker 1: So I mean there are implications. Now, with all that said,

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01:09:22,439 --> 01:09:25,599
Speaker 1: it sounds very scary. Most of the time this works

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01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:28,280
Speaker 1: out just fine. So I did switch my wife from

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01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:31,720
Speaker 1: a traditional carrier to Envy and Z and she was

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01:09:31,880 --> 01:09:34,160
Speaker 1: very concerned about it. And I'll tell you this is

1377
01:09:34,160 --> 01:09:37,840
Speaker 1: what keeps people from saving money because they're concerned just

1378
01:09:37,880 --> 01:09:40,240
Speaker 1: like you are, and so they just don't do it.

1379
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:42,599
Speaker 1: It's that inertia of I'd rather just stick with what

1380
01:09:42,640 --> 01:09:44,600
Speaker 1: I got. I know it works. I don't want to

1381
01:09:44,640 --> 01:09:47,840
Speaker 1: save you know, it's forty bucks a month savings worth

1382
01:09:47,840 --> 01:09:50,280
Speaker 1: all the headache. But when it works, it works great.

1383
01:09:50,840 --> 01:09:54,280
Speaker 1: So to answer your question, hopefully it works. If not,

1384
01:09:54,600 --> 01:09:58,120
Speaker 1: you know, you'll figure it out. But your phone calls

1385
01:09:58,160 --> 01:10:00,880
Speaker 1: and your contacts and all your photos and stuff that

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01:10:00,920 --> 01:10:05,439
Speaker 1: is not affected. Just your cellular connection is affected. This

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01:10:05,720 --> 01:10:10,360
Speaker 1: is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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01:10:10,439 --> 01:10:13,760
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology and

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01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:17,320
Speaker 1: having fun while I do it. Jacqueline writes in on

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01:10:17,360 --> 01:10:20,000
Speaker 1: the website richon Tech dot TV. Hey, Rich, I've recently

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01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:23,040
Speaker 1: discovered your program on nine to ten AM radio in Michigan.

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01:10:23,080 --> 01:10:25,599
Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying it. Thanks for all you do. Here's

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01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 1: my question. I had an iPhone twelve. It wasn't working.

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Speaker 1: When I went to the store, the Exfinity store for help,

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01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:33,599
Speaker 1: they were not able to help me, and they suggested

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01:10:33,640 --> 01:10:36,280
Speaker 1: I got a new Samsung A thirty five. The phone

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01:10:36,320 --> 01:10:39,040
Speaker 1: is free. They did not have iPhone deals. The problem

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01:10:39,040 --> 01:10:41,360
Speaker 1: I have is they did not transfer all the photos

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Speaker 1: from my iPhone to my Android. Initially, they told me

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01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:46,000
Speaker 1: it would take a few days for the transferring to

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01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:48,200
Speaker 1: be completed. When I called back after seven days, they

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01:10:48,200 --> 01:10:49,760
Speaker 1: told me they couldn't help with that. They had done

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01:10:49,800 --> 01:10:52,080
Speaker 1: everything they could do. Is this something you can help

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01:10:52,120 --> 01:10:57,640
Speaker 1: me with? Thanks so much for your time, Jacqueline in Heartland, Michigan. Yes, Jacqueline,

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01:10:58,000 --> 01:11:01,960
Speaker 1: hopefully you have your old phone. The on the iPhone,

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01:11:02,439 --> 01:11:06,479
Speaker 1: install Google Photos and that that is the best way

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01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:09,080
Speaker 1: to transfer. So once you install Google Photos on the

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01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:13,439
Speaker 1: iPhone twelve, have it download all of the photos from

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01:11:13,479 --> 01:11:17,320
Speaker 1: your collection, or I guess upload all the photos from

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01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:21,320
Speaker 1: your collection into Google Photos and then once it's in there,

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01:11:21,400 --> 01:11:24,479
Speaker 1: they should show up on your new Samsung phone. I mean,

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01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:27,439
Speaker 1: there's a million ways of doing this, but I think

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01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:29,760
Speaker 1: that's probably the easiest. I mean, the other way you

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01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:31,240
Speaker 1: can do it is you can make sure all your

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01:11:31,280 --> 01:11:34,439
Speaker 1: photos are uploaded to iCloud on the iPhone and you

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01:11:34,479 --> 01:11:37,120
Speaker 1: can then go to iCloud dot com and download them

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01:11:37,439 --> 01:11:41,559
Speaker 1: and then upload them to photos dot Google dot com.

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01:11:41,800 --> 01:11:46,400
Speaker 1: But basically your Samsung device. I mean, there's a way

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01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:48,559
Speaker 1: that you could Gosh, there's just so many ways to

1420
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:50,920
Speaker 1: do this, but the easiest, I think is to just

1421
01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:54,839
Speaker 1: use Google Photos and put Google Photos on the iPhone twelve,

1422
01:11:55,600 --> 01:11:58,040
Speaker 1: upload all the pictures from there into Google Photos, and

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01:11:58,080 --> 01:11:59,880
Speaker 1: then when you open up Google Photos on the new

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01:12:00,280 --> 01:12:02,240
Speaker 1: they should all be there. Now, if you don't want

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01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:05,439
Speaker 1: to use Google Photos for some reason, then you probably

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01:12:05,439 --> 01:12:08,160
Speaker 1: need to download the photos from the iPhone to a

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01:12:08,200 --> 01:12:12,120
Speaker 1: computer and then transfer them to the Android that way,

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01:12:12,800 --> 01:12:16,719
Speaker 1: and that would involve either plugging the Android into the

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01:12:16,840 --> 01:12:20,720
Speaker 1: computer and dragging them in from the computer folder. Or

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01:12:20,800 --> 01:12:23,640
Speaker 1: you can use a flash drive. I mean, there's just

1431
01:12:23,720 --> 01:12:25,679
Speaker 1: so many ways of doing this. You could use one drive,

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01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:32,320
Speaker 1: but you can also use the smart switch program on Android.

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01:12:32,439 --> 01:12:35,519
Speaker 1: So on Samsung, they have a program called smart Switch,

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01:12:36,280 --> 01:12:39,800
Speaker 1: and you could run that program and then when it

1435
01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:42,040
Speaker 1: asks you to switch. You can say I want you

1436
01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:45,479
Speaker 1: could plug in your iPhone and it should kind of

1437
01:12:45,520 --> 01:12:48,679
Speaker 1: suck the pictures over to your device. So many many

1438
01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:51,679
Speaker 1: ways of doing this, but get a cable. I would

1439
01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:53,680
Speaker 1: try the Google Photos one first because I just like

1440
01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:56,040
Speaker 1: Google Photos because then your photos are backed up as well.

1441
01:12:56,520 --> 01:12:59,400
Speaker 1: But if you want the I guess the smart switch

1442
01:12:59,439 --> 01:13:04,160
Speaker 1: is probably like the easiest wirelessly or wired solution to

1443
01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:06,800
Speaker 1: do that. So good question. Thanks for finding me there

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01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:11,200
Speaker 1: in Michigan. Let's see what was our other question here?

1445
01:13:11,240 --> 01:13:14,760
Speaker 1: I thought I had another one. Alan writes in from

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01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:17,760
Speaker 1: sandmis Hey, Rich, I'm sitting at home listening to your

1447
01:13:17,840 --> 01:13:19,640
Speaker 1: radio show. I have a quick question. I receive the

1448
01:13:19,640 --> 01:13:23,480
Speaker 1: iPhone sixteen Promax and an Apple Watch ten for Christmas.

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01:13:23,479 --> 01:13:26,080
Speaker 1: When I receive texts, I only get the notification on

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01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:28,320
Speaker 1: my watch when I'm wearing it and no longer on

1451
01:13:28,360 --> 01:13:30,200
Speaker 1: my phone. Is there a way to change the setting

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01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:32,599
Speaker 1: so I can get messages on both at the same time.

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01:13:32,720 --> 01:13:35,519
Speaker 1: Love your show, Keep up the hard work, Allan. Yes, So,

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01:13:35,640 --> 01:13:38,360
Speaker 1: by default, when you put an Apple Watch on your

1455
01:13:38,400 --> 01:13:42,840
Speaker 1: wrist for reasons to not drive you crazy, they typically

1456
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:47,679
Speaker 1: only deliver the notification to one of those devices, it'll

1457
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:50,320
Speaker 1: still deliver it to the iPhone, but it's silent if

1458
01:13:50,360 --> 01:13:52,879
Speaker 1: you're wearing your watch, and so your watch would vibrate

1459
01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:55,080
Speaker 1: or make a sound and show you the notification. The

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01:13:55,160 --> 01:13:58,320
Speaker 1: idea being that while you're wearing a watch, so that's

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01:13:58,320 --> 01:14:00,680
Speaker 1: where we're going to send the notification because that's the

1462
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:03,559
Speaker 1: one that you're going to look at immediately. So that's

1463
01:14:03,560 --> 01:14:06,160
Speaker 1: the default. But you can change this, and you can

1464
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:10,599
Speaker 1: easily change it by going into the watch app on

1465
01:14:10,640 --> 01:14:13,880
Speaker 1: your phone, so you know, just search Watch and then

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01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:18,000
Speaker 1: scroll down to where it says messages and instead of

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01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:23,280
Speaker 1: saying mirror my iPhone, say custom and then allow notifications

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01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:26,880
Speaker 1: and then you can do the sound, haptic, whatever. But

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01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:31,000
Speaker 1: that's the main thing is that it's basically the iPhone

1470
01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:33,760
Speaker 1: is deciding when your Apple Watch is off if it

1471
01:14:33,800 --> 01:14:36,719
Speaker 1: doesn't sense it on your wrist, it's saying, Okay, let's

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01:14:36,760 --> 01:14:38,719
Speaker 1: deliver it to the iPhone and let's make a sound

1473
01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:41,640
Speaker 1: or vibrate on the phone. When your Apple watches on

1474
01:14:41,680 --> 01:14:44,840
Speaker 1: your wrist, it's saying, oh, they're wearing their Apple Watch,

1475
01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:48,519
Speaker 1: let's notify that device first, and let's not notify the

1476
01:14:48,600 --> 01:14:51,200
Speaker 1: iPhone in the same way. Because then both would be

1477
01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:53,960
Speaker 1: ringing at the same time or vibrating at the same time,

1478
01:14:54,320 --> 01:14:56,479
Speaker 1: and that might be a little off putting. So if

1479
01:14:56,479 --> 01:14:59,120
Speaker 1: you want that, go ahead. But there's a reason why

1480
01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:02,560
Speaker 1: Apple did it is, as you know, people by default

1481
01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:05,160
Speaker 1: may just want a notification one place, otherwise they feel

1482
01:15:05,160 --> 01:15:09,479
Speaker 1: like they're getting buzzed all over the place. So good question, Alan,

1483
01:15:09,560 --> 01:15:13,160
Speaker 1: thanks for listening, and Sandymus and appreciate that. All right,

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01:15:13,240 --> 01:15:17,680
Speaker 1: let's go to uh Chris in Long Beach. Chris, you're

1485
01:15:17,760 --> 01:15:18,479
Speaker 1: on with rich.

1486
01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:24,200
Speaker 2: Hi Rich, Hi, Hi, thanks for taking my call.

1487
01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:25,320
Speaker 1: Absolutely.

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01:15:26,120 --> 01:15:31,920
Speaker 2: I have a Mac computer that's up okay, and I

1489
01:15:32,080 --> 01:15:37,360
Speaker 2: usually use the Google Chrome browser. Sure, but I find

1490
01:15:37,439 --> 01:15:41,040
Speaker 2: I cannot print with it. It will not print anything.

1491
01:15:41,600 --> 01:15:45,559
Speaker 2: I have an HP printer that I just bought that

1492
01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:49,640
Speaker 2: took up well. I used to have an epston and

1493
01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:54,000
Speaker 2: it wouldn't print to the Epston And I've gone online.

1494
01:15:54,040 --> 01:15:59,519
Speaker 2: I've called both of their help you know numbers. I

1495
01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:02,519
Speaker 2: haven't gotten any results from that. It's part of the problem,

1496
01:16:02,560 --> 01:16:04,800
Speaker 2: I'm afraid, and I hate to say this is I

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01:16:04,880 --> 01:16:09,000
Speaker 2: had a hard time understanding of them. So I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Is it just that Google will.

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01:16:11,320 --> 01:16:16,439
Speaker 1: Not connect with no Well number one Chris, you know

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01:16:16,479 --> 01:16:18,639
Speaker 1: the rule on this show we don't take printer questions,

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01:16:18,680 --> 01:16:24,200
Speaker 1: but I will make an exception for you. So printers

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01:16:24,200 --> 01:16:28,120
Speaker 1: are very tricky, notoriously tricky, and everyone has a different

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01:16:28,160 --> 01:16:31,519
Speaker 1: setup and we get the fair share. It's always a joke,

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01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:33,960
Speaker 1: like the printer questions. So that's why I say we

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01:16:33,960 --> 01:16:37,599
Speaker 1: don't take them. But here's the thing. Yes, Chrome will

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01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:42,439
Speaker 1: work with your printer. But Chrome is really just kind

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01:16:42,439 --> 01:16:44,840
Speaker 1: of the liaison for your computer. So it's just like

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01:16:44,880 --> 01:16:48,120
Speaker 1: any other program. It's actually looking at your computer setup.

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01:16:48,479 --> 01:16:52,640
Speaker 1: You said you have a Mac. Okay, Now have you

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01:16:52,680 --> 01:16:56,360
Speaker 1: gone into the system settings and looked at the printers there?

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01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:01,920
Speaker 2: I wanted toys some settings. The only print I see

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01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:03,400
Speaker 2: is the one that I have hope set.

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01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:05,040
Speaker 1: Okay, so you do see it there?

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01:17:05,720 --> 01:17:06,960
Speaker 2: Yes, I see it there.

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01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:11,320
Speaker 1: Okay. So if you see that there, the Google Chrome

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01:17:11,439 --> 01:17:14,200
Speaker 1: should see the printer. Now here's the other thing. When

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01:17:14,240 --> 01:17:17,400
Speaker 1: you initially set up Chrome, there might have been a

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01:17:17,439 --> 01:17:20,839
Speaker 1: notification can it look for things on your network? Because

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01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:24,960
Speaker 1: the way Apple works now is that they kind of

1520
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:29,720
Speaker 1: like keep everything very secure, So there might there might

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01:17:29,720 --> 01:17:31,639
Speaker 1: have been a setting when you first set up Chrome

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01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:33,439
Speaker 1: that said, hey, can we find stuff on your network,

1523
01:17:33,439 --> 01:17:37,360
Speaker 1: and you said no by accident, and now it's that's

1524
01:17:37,400 --> 01:17:41,320
Speaker 1: called permissions, by the way, so that could have been

1525
01:17:41,360 --> 01:17:43,920
Speaker 1: what's happening and why it's blocking your printer. Now, when

1526
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:47,719
Speaker 1: you go to your printers and scanners on this system settings,

1527
01:17:47,760 --> 01:17:50,799
Speaker 1: do you see the area that says your printer?

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01:17:51,920 --> 01:17:53,200
Speaker 2: Okay, let me get there.

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01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:59,840
Speaker 1: I do okay, yeah, okay, And you says scanner a printer.

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01:18:00,360 --> 01:18:02,839
Speaker 2: Well, it says printer scanners okay.

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01:18:02,960 --> 01:18:05,160
Speaker 1: And then and your print it.

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01:18:05,040 --> 01:18:09,000
Speaker 2: Says it shows my computer is the default computer.

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01:18:10,439 --> 01:18:12,840
Speaker 1: Okay. What does it say is the default printer?

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01:18:14,080 --> 01:18:14,559
Speaker 4: Uh?

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01:18:14,800 --> 01:18:15,160
Speaker 6: Added?

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01:18:15,640 --> 01:18:21,759
Speaker 2: It says it shows and then it says underneath ad printer.

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01:18:22,360 --> 01:18:24,599
Speaker 1: Okay, so you don't. So do you have a printer?

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01:18:24,880 --> 01:18:27,160
Speaker 1: That's so, is your printer listed there?

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01:18:28,120 --> 01:18:28,599
Speaker 2: Yes?

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01:18:28,760 --> 01:18:31,479
Speaker 1: It is? Okay, So when you tap the printer, let's say,

1541
01:18:31,520 --> 01:18:35,120
Speaker 1: let's say you go to the printer, can you can

1542
01:18:35,160 --> 01:18:39,800
Speaker 1: you say set as default It is my default Okay,

1543
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:43,799
Speaker 1: it is your default okay. So okay, so it's ally

1544
01:18:43,840 --> 01:18:46,440
Speaker 1: it sounds like your printers in there, which is good.

1545
01:18:47,439 --> 01:18:49,040
Speaker 1: And I'm just trying to see if we can do

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01:18:49,439 --> 01:18:54,120
Speaker 1: a like a test page or something. But you've printed

1547
01:18:54,160 --> 01:18:54,719
Speaker 1: from this.

1548
01:18:55,800 --> 01:18:58,000
Speaker 2: One of the things that says in the box that

1549
01:18:58,080 --> 01:19:03,120
Speaker 2: I just opened here this printer on the network.

1550
01:19:03,840 --> 01:19:05,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's network.

1551
01:19:05,760 --> 01:19:06,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not it.

1552
01:19:06,800 --> 01:19:09,080
Speaker 1: That's well, that would be if you had other computers

1553
01:19:09,120 --> 01:19:12,240
Speaker 1: that you wanted to use this printer with. Like this

1554
01:19:12,400 --> 01:19:14,680
Speaker 1: is so okay. So now when you go to when

1555
01:19:14,720 --> 01:19:16,879
Speaker 1: you open up Chrome, if you go into your settings

1556
01:19:16,880 --> 01:19:22,720
Speaker 1: there and you you go into settings okay, okay, and

1557
01:19:22,760 --> 01:19:25,280
Speaker 1: then on the left hand side are actually in the

1558
01:19:25,439 --> 01:19:27,960
Speaker 1: uh let's see if I can find the printer settings here.

1559
01:19:28,439 --> 01:19:30,160
Speaker 1: So actually it's going to be even before you go

1560
01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:32,080
Speaker 1: into settings, it should just say print. You see where

1561
01:19:32,120 --> 01:19:37,720
Speaker 1: it says print when I go into Google. Yeah, so

1562
01:19:37,840 --> 01:19:40,360
Speaker 1: on your on your Google Chrome, hit the menu, and

1563
01:19:40,360 --> 01:19:42,280
Speaker 1: then it should bring up a whole menu for like

1564
01:19:42,320 --> 01:19:45,720
Speaker 1: new tab, passwords, history, there's one that says print. Do

1565
01:19:45,760 --> 01:19:46,080
Speaker 1: you see that?

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01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:47,479
Speaker 11: Uh?

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01:19:47,760 --> 01:19:49,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I do.

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01:19:49,320 --> 01:19:50,240
Speaker 4: Let me open.

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01:19:54,560 --> 01:19:57,559
Speaker 1: And then when you see destination, is your printer listed there?

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01:19:59,000 --> 01:19:59,360
Speaker 2: Printer?

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01:20:00,080 --> 01:20:07,400
Speaker 1: Okay, No, it's not listed there at all. What happens

1572
01:20:07,400 --> 01:20:12,479
Speaker 1: when you tap see more, it's just there's no.

1573
01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:15,000
Speaker 2: Well, let me look the more.

1574
01:20:17,520 --> 01:20:23,240
Speaker 1: It's there, okay, all right, okay, So this is this

1575
01:20:23,320 --> 01:20:25,000
Speaker 1: is uh, this is why it's tough to do the

1576
01:20:25,000 --> 01:20:27,679
Speaker 1: printer questions because it's you know what I'm I can't

1577
01:20:27,720 --> 01:20:29,920
Speaker 1: see your screen right now, so I can't tell what's

1578
01:20:29,920 --> 01:20:34,000
Speaker 1: happening there. But basically, the main idea is that you

1579
01:20:34,080 --> 01:20:36,839
Speaker 1: need to go Chrome is just using whatever's on your computer.

1580
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:40,920
Speaker 1: So if you go into that print menu, you should

1581
01:20:40,920 --> 01:20:44,559
Speaker 1: see something that says destination and then you can tap

1582
01:20:44,640 --> 01:20:48,120
Speaker 1: see more and there's a manage button there and that's

1583
01:20:48,160 --> 01:20:50,640
Speaker 1: going to bring you back to your system setting. So

1584
01:20:50,720 --> 01:20:53,040
Speaker 1: again it's all just going through your system setting. So

1585
01:20:53,080 --> 01:20:56,800
Speaker 1: once you pick a printer where it says select destination,

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01:20:56,960 --> 01:21:00,320
Speaker 1: that should work. Now there is one more option that

1587
01:21:00,320 --> 01:21:03,080
Speaker 1: you could try. Okay, there's two more. Actually, when you

1588
01:21:03,120 --> 01:21:06,280
Speaker 1: go into that printer that printer window, when you go

1589
01:21:06,320 --> 01:21:09,719
Speaker 1: to print something, it says more settings and you can

1590
01:21:09,760 --> 01:21:12,400
Speaker 1: tap that and then scroll down it says print using

1591
01:21:12,520 --> 01:21:16,400
Speaker 1: system dialogue. So now this is going to bypass Chrome

1592
01:21:16,520 --> 01:21:20,000
Speaker 1: and it's actually going to use your Mac. Your Mac's

1593
01:21:20,280 --> 01:21:24,040
Speaker 1: default and built in printer dialogue, and so you can

1594
01:21:24,160 --> 01:21:26,160
Speaker 1: use that, and if that doesn't work, you've got a

1595
01:21:26,160 --> 01:21:28,479
Speaker 1: bigger problem. But I think that at the end of

1596
01:21:28,520 --> 01:21:30,760
Speaker 1: the day should work because if your printer is on

1597
01:21:30,800 --> 01:21:33,639
Speaker 1: your Mac. It's going to honor that when because you're

1598
01:21:33,680 --> 01:21:37,360
Speaker 1: using your default system dialogue for that. So it all

1599
01:21:37,400 --> 01:21:40,599
Speaker 1: sounds very complicated, but again, go into your settings on Chrome,

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01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:44,200
Speaker 1: press print and then tap more settings and then it

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01:21:44,240 --> 01:21:47,439
Speaker 1: says print using system dialogue. If you can find your

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01:21:47,479 --> 01:21:51,080
Speaker 1: printer in there under printer, select it and then press

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01:21:51,120 --> 01:21:52,760
Speaker 1: print and you can print. That's the way you can

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01:21:52,800 --> 01:21:55,280
Speaker 1: print from Chrome from here on out. If you can't

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01:21:55,320 --> 01:21:57,559
Speaker 1: figure out how to get this to recognize your printer,

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01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:01,559
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, appreciate it. Chris long Beach eighty

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01:22:01,600 --> 01:22:03,920
Speaker 1: to eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven

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01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:06,920
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Coming up this hour,

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01:22:07,400 --> 01:22:10,639
Speaker 1: we're going to talk super Bowl. Philip Swan, the TV

1610
01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:12,840
Speaker 1: answer man, is going to join us to talk about

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01:22:12,840 --> 01:22:16,160
Speaker 1: how you can stream the Super Bowl this year. Plus

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01:22:16,200 --> 01:22:19,120
Speaker 1: I'll tell you who has the fastest Internet speeds in

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01:22:19,160 --> 01:22:25,320
Speaker 1: the US. This is rich On Tech, who has the

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01:22:25,400 --> 01:22:29,639
Speaker 1: fastest Internet speeds in the US? New data from UKLA.

1615
01:22:30,200 --> 01:22:33,120
Speaker 1: These are the folks that do speed test dot net.

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01:22:33,400 --> 01:22:35,080
Speaker 1: So when you go to speed test dot net and

1617
01:22:35,160 --> 01:22:38,080
Speaker 1: run a quick speed test to see they are logging

1618
01:22:38,200 --> 01:22:40,120
Speaker 1: all of that information on the back end so they

1619
01:22:40,160 --> 01:22:42,639
Speaker 1: can come up with reports about you know who has

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01:22:42,680 --> 01:22:46,519
Speaker 1: good Internet. So T Mobile ranked as the fastest mobile

1621
01:22:46,600 --> 01:22:48,639
Speaker 1: network in the US for the second half of twenty

1622
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:52,360
Speaker 1: twenty four median five G download speed of two hundred

1623
01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:55,640
Speaker 1: and eighty one megabits per second. When it came to

1624
01:22:56,120 --> 01:23:00,200
Speaker 1: fixed internet, AT and T Fiber is the fastest there

1625
01:23:01,080 --> 01:23:03,960
Speaker 1: that clocked in at three hundred and fifty seven megabits

1626
01:23:04,000 --> 01:23:07,400
Speaker 1: for downloads and two eighty six for uploads. And I've

1627
01:23:07,400 --> 01:23:10,519
Speaker 1: talked about this before, but the main difference between a

1628
01:23:10,680 --> 01:23:14,360
Speaker 1: fiber connection like AT and T Fiber and a cable

1629
01:23:14,360 --> 01:23:18,120
Speaker 1: company connection is that typically the cable company will give

1630
01:23:18,120 --> 01:23:21,439
Speaker 1: you a really fast download speed but a much slower

1631
01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:26,760
Speaker 1: upload speed, whereas fiber connections are typically the same up

1632
01:23:26,880 --> 01:23:28,920
Speaker 1: and down. So when they say a five hundred plan,

1633
01:23:29,320 --> 01:23:32,400
Speaker 1: that's usually five hundred megabits down and up. So if

1634
01:23:32,400 --> 01:23:35,200
Speaker 1: you're uploading large files back to the server back to

1635
01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:38,000
Speaker 1: the cloud, they should be just as fast as downloading.

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01:23:38,880 --> 01:23:42,280
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh had the fastest mobile speeds at three hundred and

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01:23:42,400 --> 01:23:47,400
Speaker 1: two megabits per second. Raleigh, North Carolina, had the fastest

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01:23:47,760 --> 01:23:51,240
Speaker 1: fixed internet speeds at three hundred and twenty nine megabits.

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01:23:51,280 --> 01:23:54,839
Speaker 1: This is median, so some people at faster, some at slower.

1640
01:23:55,800 --> 01:24:00,679
Speaker 1: Let's see Florida, let's see Ala, Alaska had the slowest

1641
01:24:00,680 --> 01:24:05,320
Speaker 1: speeds for both mobile and fixed internet. That's sad. If

1642
01:24:05,360 --> 01:24:06,840
Speaker 1: you want to see the full speed test, I'll put

1643
01:24:06,880 --> 01:24:15,680
Speaker 1: on the website. It's again from Ukla Okla. Michael from Glasgow, Glasgow, Glasgow,

1644
01:24:15,840 --> 01:24:20,840
Speaker 1: Kentucky writes in I saw a Facebook ad for something

1645
01:24:20,840 --> 01:24:23,599
Speaker 1: called the car Tablet pro Max and was thinking about

1646
01:24:23,680 --> 01:24:26,240
Speaker 1: ordering it, but I wanted to get your feedback first.

1647
01:24:26,280 --> 01:24:28,040
Speaker 1: I have an older car without car play. I'm not

1648
01:24:28,040 --> 01:24:30,120
Speaker 1: really looking to pay for a full installation. Have you

1649
01:24:30,160 --> 01:24:32,679
Speaker 1: heard of this product? Thanks for all you doing prayers

1650
01:24:32,680 --> 01:24:36,280
Speaker 1: to everyone affected by the California wildfires. I have not

1651
01:24:36,400 --> 01:24:45,639
Speaker 1: heard of this car Tablet Promax. Sounds interesting? Hm? Interesting? Okay.

1652
01:24:45,680 --> 01:24:47,240
Speaker 1: It looks like a little car play system.

1653
01:24:47,320 --> 01:24:47,559
Speaker 3: Huh.

1654
01:24:47,640 --> 01:24:49,920
Speaker 1: Actually doesn't look half bad. I've just never heard of it,

1655
01:24:50,520 --> 01:24:52,640
Speaker 1: and I don't know if it's good or not, but

1656
01:24:52,720 --> 01:24:55,759
Speaker 1: it looks kind of cool. I would check the return

1657
01:24:55,840 --> 01:25:00,320
Speaker 1: policy and see if it's If you, I think you

1658
01:25:00,360 --> 01:25:02,040
Speaker 1: can be able to return this if it doesn't work.

1659
01:25:02,080 --> 01:25:04,840
Speaker 1: They say they have one hundred day return policy. I'm

1660
01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:08,639
Speaker 1: a little I don't know This looks kind of cool. Actually,

1661
01:25:08,720 --> 01:25:11,240
Speaker 1: it's basically looks like a little screen you can install,

1662
01:25:11,280 --> 01:25:13,760
Speaker 1: like a almost like a GPS screen from back in

1663
01:25:13,800 --> 01:25:17,160
Speaker 1: the day. But it's got a camera on it and

1664
01:25:17,280 --> 01:25:20,599
Speaker 1: also CarPlay, So if you want to try it, try

1665
01:25:20,640 --> 01:25:22,800
Speaker 1: it. It sounds like you don't have a screen in your car,

1666
01:25:23,600 --> 01:25:25,839
Speaker 1: so if you want to get a car play adapter,

1667
01:25:26,080 --> 01:25:27,920
Speaker 1: like if you had a screen that you wanted to

1668
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:32,400
Speaker 1: use with it, there's a wireless CarPlay adapter, I like

1669
01:25:32,439 --> 01:25:35,680
Speaker 1: call car link it, but I think that means that

1670
01:25:35,720 --> 01:25:38,080
Speaker 1: you already have. Oh Kim is saying they're all over

1671
01:25:38,120 --> 01:25:41,080
Speaker 1: TikTok okay. So yeah, I'm a little I'm always a

1672
01:25:41,120 --> 01:25:45,760
Speaker 1: little weary about things, or I'm always concerned when things

1673
01:25:45,800 --> 01:25:49,280
Speaker 1: are advertised on these sites because there's no real way

1674
01:25:49,280 --> 01:25:51,360
Speaker 1: to vouch for them unless someone like me tests it

1675
01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:55,720
Speaker 1: and let's see if there's an actual, like legitimate review. Yeah. See,

1676
01:25:55,720 --> 01:25:59,439
Speaker 1: the first thing is like a Reddit asking yes. See.

1677
01:25:59,439 --> 01:26:01,639
Speaker 1: The problem is there's no one that's like actually reviewed

1678
01:26:01,640 --> 01:26:05,080
Speaker 1: this thing, like from like a verge or like a wirecutter.

1679
01:26:05,680 --> 01:26:09,120
Speaker 1: So that tells me that I'd be concerned. I'd just

1680
01:26:09,160 --> 01:26:11,400
Speaker 1: be a little bit concerned about this thing. So be

1681
01:26:11,520 --> 01:26:15,040
Speaker 1: careful and maybe buy it with a credit card, so

1682
01:26:15,040 --> 01:26:17,280
Speaker 1: if there's ever an issue, you can get your money

1683
01:26:17,280 --> 01:26:19,719
Speaker 1: back and just you know, tell them that there's a problem.

1684
01:26:21,120 --> 01:26:24,000
Speaker 1: Luis writes in I enjoy your morning segments on TV.

1685
01:26:24,120 --> 01:26:26,759
Speaker 1: I have a question. Can you recommend a digital business

1686
01:26:26,800 --> 01:26:31,360
Speaker 1: card app? Hey, Luis, thank you for digital business cards.

1687
01:26:31,400 --> 01:26:34,680
Speaker 1: I like two of them. Poppel is the one. I

1688
01:26:34,800 --> 01:26:38,760
Speaker 1: use popl so they were kind of the first to

1689
01:26:38,840 --> 01:26:41,599
Speaker 1: the market. They started out with NFC where you tap

1690
01:26:41,680 --> 01:26:44,320
Speaker 1: the back of your phone. Now they all use QR

1691
01:26:44,360 --> 01:26:46,320
Speaker 1: pretty much. Hi Hello is the other one. That one's

1692
01:26:46,320 --> 01:26:49,000
Speaker 1: a little bit more business friendly. But to be honest,

1693
01:26:49,040 --> 01:26:51,160
Speaker 1: what I do now is I just make a note

1694
01:26:51,160 --> 01:26:52,920
Speaker 1: on my phone with all my info and then when

1695
01:26:52,920 --> 01:26:55,120
Speaker 1: I meet someone out they just take a picture of it.

1696
01:26:55,360 --> 01:26:57,280
Speaker 1: So it's much easier than all these other apps, and

1697
01:26:57,320 --> 01:26:59,760
Speaker 1: it's free. Coming up, we're going to talk Super Bowl

1698
01:26:59,800 --> 01:27:03,120
Speaker 1: and streaming services with the TV answer man. Right here,

1699
01:27:03,160 --> 01:27:09,040
Speaker 1: I'm rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

1700
01:27:09,160 --> 01:27:13,559
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology. The

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01:27:13,600 --> 01:27:16,479
Speaker 1: website for the show rich on Tech dot TV. If

1702
01:27:16,479 --> 01:27:19,360
Speaker 1: you want links to anything I mentioned, it's all right there.

1703
01:27:20,240 --> 01:27:24,240
Speaker 1: Super Bowl coming up super Bowl fifty nine. Here to

1704
01:27:24,280 --> 01:27:27,320
Speaker 1: talk about how to stream it, how to watch it,

1705
01:27:27,560 --> 01:27:32,120
Speaker 1: and all things streaming is the TV answer Man, Philip Swan.

1706
01:27:32,479 --> 01:27:36,439
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, Hi Rich, thanks for joining me

1707
01:27:36,560 --> 01:27:40,280
Speaker 1: once again. So did I get that right? Fifty nine? Right?

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01:27:40,360 --> 01:27:41,200
Speaker 10: Super Bowl fifteen?

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01:27:41,680 --> 01:27:43,720
Speaker 1: L L I X I am.

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Speaker 10: I am so old. I actually watched the first one

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Speaker 10: on a thirteen inch TV.

1712
01:27:48,880 --> 01:27:50,519
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, no way.

1713
01:27:50,960 --> 01:27:52,559
Speaker 10: That's a scary thought, but it's true.

1714
01:27:52,640 --> 01:27:54,479
Speaker 1: Well, I imagine you were just a little kid, so like,

1715
01:27:54,640 --> 01:27:55,040
Speaker 1: was it.

1716
01:27:55,000 --> 01:27:59,639
Speaker 10: I mean, yes, embryonic at the time. Actually, I mean

1717
01:28:00,080 --> 01:28:01,679
Speaker 10: I'm not wasn't even one year old yet.

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01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:05,360
Speaker 1: Let's just go with that story, okay, and it's continued

1719
01:28:05,400 --> 01:28:08,160
Speaker 1: to build ever since then. So we've got Chiefs Eagles

1720
01:28:08,200 --> 01:28:12,240
Speaker 1: this year, New Orleans, Sunday, February ninth, three point thirty

1721
01:28:12,400 --> 01:28:14,600
Speaker 1: pm Pacific.

1722
01:28:15,160 --> 01:28:18,639
Speaker 10: Yeah, right, that is specific time, okay, thirty And it's actually,

1723
01:28:18,760 --> 01:28:21,280
Speaker 10: as we know with these things, we'll probably got six

1724
01:28:21,439 --> 01:28:23,799
Speaker 10: forty AI e t for the kickoff.

1725
01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:26,679
Speaker 1: But it gets you to tune in a little little early.

1726
01:28:27,360 --> 01:28:30,519
Speaker 1: So what is so you know, you talk about on

1727
01:28:30,560 --> 01:28:33,839
Speaker 1: your website all things cord cutting and you know, streaming

1728
01:28:33,880 --> 01:28:36,639
Speaker 1: and all this stuff. So this year, what is different?

1729
01:28:36,760 --> 01:28:38,960
Speaker 1: Anything new? Anything different with the Super Bowl?

1730
01:28:39,120 --> 01:28:42,240
Speaker 10: Yeah, there is something really different and big. I think

1731
01:28:42,280 --> 01:28:46,320
Speaker 10: if your four KATV lobb the Fox has announced that

1732
01:28:46,360 --> 01:28:49,080
Speaker 10: they're going to have a four K fee for free

1733
01:28:49,520 --> 01:28:52,800
Speaker 10: at the pub streaming app, which is a free ad

1734
01:28:53,360 --> 01:28:56,840
Speaker 10: supported app, which is pretty cool. You can just go

1735
01:28:56,920 --> 01:28:58,960
Speaker 10: to that app and watch it for free.

1736
01:28:58,960 --> 01:29:02,320
Speaker 1: A four KP not incredible.

1737
01:29:02,360 --> 01:29:06,000
Speaker 10: It is incredible, but probably very few people know out

1738
01:29:06,040 --> 01:29:09,519
Speaker 10: there that there are certain conditions. You're gonna have to

1739
01:29:09,600 --> 01:29:13,519
Speaker 10: have an Android TV or a Roku or k ROCU

1740
01:29:14,040 --> 01:29:17,800
Speaker 10: what Apple TV? Yes, yes, it's like you just can't

1741
01:29:17,840 --> 01:29:19,840
Speaker 10: do it with any four K TV, And a lot

1742
01:29:19,840 --> 01:29:21,400
Speaker 10: of people are going to go to two B on

1743
01:29:21,479 --> 01:29:23,880
Speaker 10: Super Bowl Day and go, oh, what the heck is

1744
01:29:23,920 --> 01:29:27,240
Speaker 10: going on? But you got again, have an Android TV

1745
01:29:27,680 --> 01:29:31,439
Speaker 10: or a four K enabled Roku or a four K

1746
01:29:31,600 --> 01:29:34,479
Speaker 10: enabled Fire TV or Apple TV. If you don't have

1747
01:29:34,720 --> 01:29:37,719
Speaker 10: one of those products, you can't watch it in four

1748
01:29:37,840 --> 01:29:38,240
Speaker 10: K on.

1749
01:29:38,240 --> 01:29:41,439
Speaker 1: Two b Okay. So okay, so I was a little

1750
01:29:41,439 --> 01:29:45,320
Speaker 1: ahead of you. So a Google TV, a Roku, a

1751
01:29:45,360 --> 01:29:47,280
Speaker 1: Fire TV, or an Apple TV, but they have to

1752
01:29:47,280 --> 01:29:49,280
Speaker 1: be a four K model. So a lot of these people,

1753
01:29:49,439 --> 01:29:51,960
Speaker 1: especially with the rokus. They've got those little streaming sticks

1754
01:29:51,960 --> 01:29:54,639
Speaker 1: that are not they're just HD or even with fire

1755
01:29:55,000 --> 01:29:57,720
Speaker 1: you know, you may have just a basic so it's not.

1756
01:29:57,680 --> 01:30:01,280
Speaker 10: A four K enabled device. You're out of luck. Now

1757
01:30:02,000 --> 01:30:04,200
Speaker 10: there's one other thing that's going to be different at

1758
01:30:04,280 --> 01:30:06,800
Speaker 10: to Be this year to Be. If you've ever seen it,

1759
01:30:06,760 --> 01:30:09,000
Speaker 10: it's pretty cool. They have all kinds of movies and

1760
01:30:09,080 --> 01:30:11,280
Speaker 10: shows and they're all free and you don't have to

1761
01:30:11,320 --> 01:30:13,519
Speaker 10: register or anything, give a credit card and all that

1762
01:30:13,560 --> 01:30:16,680
Speaker 10: sort of stuff. You just start watching Super Bowl, you're

1763
01:30:16,680 --> 01:30:19,080
Speaker 10: gonna have to register, put your email down there at

1764
01:30:19,160 --> 01:30:21,920
Speaker 10: create an account before you can actually start.

1765
01:30:21,640 --> 01:30:22,360
Speaker 2: Watching the game.

1766
01:30:22,800 --> 01:30:25,439
Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting. So, I mean I get it. They're

1767
01:30:25,479 --> 01:30:28,160
Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna drive a lot of downloads of this app,

1768
01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:30,599
Speaker 1: but they want to get that information of the viewers.

1769
01:30:30,720 --> 01:30:34,360
Speaker 1: So right, if you're having a party, don't do this

1770
01:30:34,760 --> 01:30:37,720
Speaker 1: at three point thirty PM, like sign up, download the

1771
01:30:37,760 --> 01:30:39,479
Speaker 1: app and make sure. So do you have to go

1772
01:30:39,520 --> 01:30:41,200
Speaker 1: to the website to do this hike? How do you

1773
01:30:41,200 --> 01:30:41,880
Speaker 1: sign up for to b?

1774
01:30:42,160 --> 01:30:43,800
Speaker 10: You go to the to b app where you can

1775
01:30:43,840 --> 01:30:46,800
Speaker 10: go to tub dot com and do it right there

1776
01:30:46,840 --> 01:30:47,559
Speaker 10: on their website.

1777
01:30:47,600 --> 01:30:50,280
Speaker 1: Either way, what is to be explained to.

1778
01:30:50,400 --> 01:30:53,360
Speaker 10: B is owned by Fox, and it's one of these

1779
01:30:53,479 --> 01:30:57,080
Speaker 10: news services that have emerged in the last two years

1780
01:30:57,080 --> 01:31:00,400
Speaker 10: three years. Particularly. They're free. You can go there and

1781
01:31:00,479 --> 01:31:03,959
Speaker 10: watch hundreds of channels, all kinds of on demand content,

1782
01:31:04,160 --> 01:31:06,960
Speaker 10: and all for free. However, you have to watch the

1783
01:31:07,040 --> 01:31:09,120
Speaker 10: ads that come with it. It's kind of like old

1784
01:31:09,120 --> 01:31:13,519
Speaker 10: school television of the fifties and sixties with antennas, and

1785
01:31:13,560 --> 01:31:16,720
Speaker 10: so you can do that with TUV and it's it's

1786
01:31:16,720 --> 01:31:19,840
Speaker 10: pretty cool. It's like Pluto TV and Roku Channel and

1787
01:31:19,880 --> 01:31:20,639
Speaker 10: things of that kind.

1788
01:31:21,000 --> 01:31:25,719
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I mean I just watched the show Mister Wizard,

1789
01:31:26,120 --> 01:31:28,479
Speaker 1: Mister Wizard's World. I don't if you remember that. When

1790
01:31:28,479 --> 01:31:30,800
Speaker 1: I was a kid. That was a popular show, and

1791
01:31:30,880 --> 01:31:32,519
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I think my kid might like this,

1792
01:31:32,720 --> 01:31:35,360
Speaker 1: and so I searched and sure enough to Be which

1793
01:31:35,400 --> 01:31:38,440
Speaker 1: is now owned by Viacom, which I guess owns Nickelodeon.

1794
01:31:38,800 --> 01:31:41,240
Speaker 1: They had the whole back catalog and it was completely free,

1795
01:31:41,280 --> 01:31:42,360
Speaker 1: and I was like, this is amazing.

1796
01:31:42,960 --> 01:31:46,519
Speaker 10: It really is. It's incredible the amount of content and

1797
01:31:46,560 --> 01:31:50,240
Speaker 10: programming it's on these things, and really old stuff shows,

1798
01:31:50,280 --> 01:31:52,600
Speaker 10: you you know, like back in the fifties that you

1799
01:31:53,080 --> 01:31:56,040
Speaker 10: thought would never exist anymore. Now had the whole two

1800
01:31:56,120 --> 01:31:57,840
Speaker 10: or three seasons, it's amazing.

1801
01:31:58,000 --> 01:32:00,840
Speaker 1: Well, I imagine someone like a Fox or Paramount they

1802
01:32:00,880 --> 01:32:03,320
Speaker 1: literally look in these cold vaults and they're like, how

1803
01:32:03,400 --> 01:32:05,799
Speaker 1: can we just you know, put these online and we'll

1804
01:32:05,840 --> 01:32:07,840
Speaker 1: sell the ads against them? And why not?

1805
01:32:08,640 --> 01:32:11,360
Speaker 10: That's it exactly. And I think we're going to talk

1806
01:32:11,360 --> 01:32:14,639
Speaker 10: a little bit later today about Netflix's price increase and

1807
01:32:14,800 --> 01:32:18,000
Speaker 10: that dovetails into what they're doing with Toby and some

1808
01:32:18,080 --> 01:32:19,240
Speaker 10: of these three services.

1809
01:32:19,600 --> 01:32:23,000
Speaker 1: Well, go ahead, yeah, no, I'm curious about that because

1810
01:32:23,000 --> 01:32:25,519
Speaker 1: we did just see another Netflix price increase. So now

1811
01:32:25,600 --> 01:32:27,000
Speaker 1: the top of the line plan I think is up

1812
01:32:27,040 --> 01:32:28,240
Speaker 1: to like twenty five a month.

1813
01:32:28,760 --> 01:32:32,639
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's the four K plan. It's twenty five a month.

1814
01:32:32,960 --> 01:32:35,080
Speaker 10: And man, you got to really love four K to

1815
01:32:35,120 --> 01:32:37,680
Speaker 10: pay twenty five dollars a month for Netflix just to

1816
01:32:37,720 --> 01:32:41,639
Speaker 10: get four K. It's not a good value. But even

1817
01:32:41,680 --> 01:32:45,080
Speaker 10: their fifteen forty nine plan went to seventeen ninety nine,

1818
01:32:45,240 --> 01:32:48,320
Speaker 10: and even their ads included plan went from six ninety

1819
01:32:48,400 --> 01:32:51,559
Speaker 10: nine to seven ninety nine. But it's seven ninety nine,

1820
01:32:51,640 --> 01:32:54,200
Speaker 10: and that looks pretty good compared to twenty five dollars,

1821
01:32:54,240 --> 01:32:54,640
Speaker 10: doesn't it.

1822
01:32:55,160 --> 01:32:57,960
Speaker 1: Well, Yeah, I mean, but you can't download. I'm guessing.

1823
01:32:58,200 --> 01:33:01,080
Speaker 1: I'm guessing you can't download offline. So that's one of

1824
01:33:01,120 --> 01:33:03,519
Speaker 1: the main things for me when I travel, I want

1825
01:33:03,520 --> 01:33:05,600
Speaker 1: to be able to download a show. Do any of

1826
01:33:05,640 --> 01:33:08,800
Speaker 1: these streaming services like the two bs, they probably don't

1827
01:33:08,840 --> 01:33:09,880
Speaker 1: let you do that either, do that?

1828
01:33:09,960 --> 01:33:13,240
Speaker 10: Yeah, they don't. It's again, it's it really is like

1829
01:33:13,320 --> 01:33:17,320
Speaker 10: the idea whose time has come again, and it's you

1830
01:33:17,360 --> 01:33:19,960
Speaker 10: watch television and you get ads, and you don't get

1831
01:33:20,040 --> 01:33:23,520
Speaker 10: anything special with it. It's no fancy whistles, bells and whistles.

1832
01:33:24,000 --> 01:33:25,920
Speaker 10: You just get to watch TV and ads.

1833
01:33:26,600 --> 01:33:29,960
Speaker 1: But that is but that is the fastest growing aspect

1834
01:33:30,000 --> 01:33:31,799
Speaker 1: of streaming services, right, yes.

1835
01:33:31,640 --> 01:33:35,240
Speaker 10: Because people still love free. What a what a surprise,

1836
01:33:35,400 --> 01:33:38,439
Speaker 10: They love free, and they're going to gravitate towards free.

1837
01:33:38,520 --> 01:33:43,080
Speaker 10: Particularly when you have the pay TV services, cable satellite,

1838
01:33:43,200 --> 01:33:46,400
Speaker 10: and the streaming services raising their prices all the time.

1839
01:33:46,439 --> 01:33:48,280
Speaker 10: It just makes them all the more. You're going to

1840
01:33:48,320 --> 01:33:49,479
Speaker 10: go watch the free stuff.

1841
01:33:49,720 --> 01:33:54,320
Speaker 1: Yeah. So my other question is this whole fu boo

1842
01:33:54,400 --> 01:33:58,599
Speaker 1: they sorry, fou boo, fu bo They just increased prices

1843
01:33:58,640 --> 01:34:01,240
Speaker 1: I heard, and they're also there's like a merger with Hulu,

1844
01:34:01,640 --> 01:34:03,040
Speaker 1: so what's happening there.

1845
01:34:03,720 --> 01:34:06,759
Speaker 10: Well, Fubo just raised their prices by five dollars a month.

1846
01:34:07,600 --> 01:34:11,360
Speaker 10: That's pretty comparable to the other live streamers, YouTube TV,

1847
01:34:11,600 --> 01:34:14,920
Speaker 10: Hulu Live, direct TV stream and so forth. Direct TV

1848
01:34:15,000 --> 01:34:17,120
Speaker 10: stream can be a little more expensive if you get

1849
01:34:17,120 --> 01:34:21,920
Speaker 10: the regional sports network plan. But yeah, they raised the prices,

1850
01:34:22,000 --> 01:34:25,680
Speaker 10: and they have agreed with Disney to merge Fubo with

1851
01:34:26,520 --> 01:34:29,640
Speaker 10: Hulu Alive. Probably be at least a year before it

1852
01:34:29,680 --> 01:34:33,400
Speaker 10: gets approved by the FEDS, but that's coming, and I

1853
01:34:33,439 --> 01:34:35,880
Speaker 10: think it's going to be an interesting thing what happens

1854
01:34:35,920 --> 01:34:38,240
Speaker 10: with the live streaming category, whether you're going to have

1855
01:34:38,320 --> 01:34:41,360
Speaker 10: made a direct TV stream go well, you know, maybe

1856
01:34:41,360 --> 01:34:44,280
Speaker 10: we should be hooking up with Sling TV to combat

1857
01:34:44,320 --> 01:34:45,559
Speaker 10: Fubo and Hulu.

1858
01:34:45,960 --> 01:34:48,599
Speaker 1: Wow, so we've already gotten far enough into the streaming

1859
01:34:48,680 --> 01:34:51,240
Speaker 1: where now we're seeing mergers and streaming And.

1860
01:34:51,240 --> 01:34:54,720
Speaker 10: Yeah, the live streaming category started ten years ago with

1861
01:34:54,840 --> 01:34:59,439
Speaker 10: Sling TV, and it never developed the way companies thought

1862
01:34:59,439 --> 01:35:03,839
Speaker 10: it would. It's really it's maybe got about twenty million

1863
01:35:04,000 --> 01:35:07,080
Speaker 10: tops now in subscribers when you combine them all the

1864
01:35:07,120 --> 01:35:10,360
Speaker 10: top five or six live streaming services, and that's not

1865
01:35:10,439 --> 01:35:14,120
Speaker 10: a big chunk over ten years so it's time for consolidation.

1866
01:35:14,400 --> 01:35:18,120
Speaker 10: So you'll have probably maybe two or three services in

1867
01:35:18,280 --> 01:35:20,960
Speaker 10: maybe eighteen to twenty four months. That's my prediction.

1868
01:35:21,120 --> 01:35:23,559
Speaker 1: Wow, I did not realize that's such a small amount

1869
01:35:23,560 --> 01:35:26,799
Speaker 1: of subscribers. I mean, that is not a significant amount.

1870
01:35:27,520 --> 01:35:31,200
Speaker 10: Well, it's not a surprise, rich because again because they

1871
01:35:31,240 --> 01:35:35,160
Speaker 10: have had raised prices, they're not that much different than

1872
01:35:35,160 --> 01:35:38,479
Speaker 10: a cable satellite does service. Now when you're talking Fubo

1873
01:35:38,600 --> 01:35:42,920
Speaker 10: and YouTube TV and who live eighty ninety dollars a month,

1874
01:35:43,400 --> 01:35:45,439
Speaker 10: you know, that's pretty much what you were paying for

1875
01:35:45,520 --> 01:35:47,800
Speaker 10: cable and satellite a couple of years ago or maybe

1876
01:35:47,800 --> 01:35:48,200
Speaker 10: even now.

1877
01:35:49,000 --> 01:35:50,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's still a pain to find where your game

1878
01:35:50,920 --> 01:35:55,400
Speaker 1: is playing before I run thoughts on direct TV my sports,

1879
01:35:55,600 --> 01:35:57,880
Speaker 1: who's that for it is?

1880
01:35:58,760 --> 01:36:01,000
Speaker 10: That's a good question, because I don't think there's an

1881
01:36:01,040 --> 01:36:06,400
Speaker 10: audience for it if they're charging seventy dollars a month

1882
01:36:07,160 --> 01:36:10,680
Speaker 10: for what is basically twenty five channels, and it's a

1883
01:36:10,680 --> 01:36:15,200
Speaker 10: combination of sports channels and news channels basically and broadcast,

1884
01:36:16,120 --> 01:36:19,240
Speaker 10: and it's designed to be the kind of the all

1885
01:36:19,680 --> 01:36:22,519
Speaker 10: you know, great sports plan. If you are a sports lover,

1886
01:36:22,640 --> 01:36:24,760
Speaker 10: you'll pretty much have the channel that do all the

1887
01:36:24,760 --> 01:36:27,639
Speaker 10: sports program and the problem is with the plan, they

1888
01:36:27,680 --> 01:36:30,360
Speaker 10: don't have all the sports channels. They don't have TVs,

1889
01:36:30,400 --> 01:36:33,360
Speaker 10: they don't have TNT, they don't even have CBS now

1890
01:36:34,320 --> 01:36:36,960
Speaker 10: and so consequently, if you're a sports fan, you're gonna

1891
01:36:37,000 --> 01:36:41,320
Speaker 10: miss a lot of great sports on direct TV's my

1892
01:36:41,400 --> 01:36:45,719
Speaker 10: sports plan. So it's it's an idea that makes sense

1893
01:36:45,760 --> 01:36:49,000
Speaker 10: in theory, but in execution right now, it's leaves a

1894
01:36:49,000 --> 01:36:49,919
Speaker 10: lot to be desired.

1895
01:36:50,240 --> 01:36:52,519
Speaker 1: All right, We're gonna leave it there. Philip Swan, the

1896
01:36:52,640 --> 01:36:55,840
Speaker 1: TV Answerman tvanswerman dot com. Who do you have in

1897
01:36:55,880 --> 01:36:57,639
Speaker 1: this year Super Bowl? Before we run?

1898
01:36:57,760 --> 01:37:03,200
Speaker 10: I see the Eagles winning sixty three eat nothing. All right,

1899
01:37:03,600 --> 01:37:06,720
Speaker 10: that's what I'm hoping for. Different I think I think

1900
01:37:06,720 --> 01:37:07,640
Speaker 10: the Chiefs are gonna win.

1901
01:37:07,760 --> 01:37:11,599
Speaker 1: I have to say, all right, TV Aanswerman dot Com.

1902
01:37:11,720 --> 01:37:14,360
Speaker 1: Check him out. He's got all the info on all

1903
01:37:14,360 --> 01:37:16,840
Speaker 1: of the streaming services. Philip Swan, thanks for joining me today.

1904
01:37:17,040 --> 01:37:19,840
Speaker 1: Thank you, rich all right, appreciate it. Coming up, we

1905
01:37:19,920 --> 01:37:22,439
Speaker 1: are going to open up the feedbag, so we'll read

1906
01:37:22,479 --> 01:37:24,799
Speaker 1: some of the emails that you sent this week. Plus

1907
01:37:24,960 --> 01:37:27,719
Speaker 1: I got a couple of things here. Google's new game,

1908
01:37:28,280 --> 01:37:31,600
Speaker 1: the website that helps you spot a scam, and a

1909
01:37:31,640 --> 01:37:35,880
Speaker 1: helpful website with online tools. It's all coming up right

1910
01:37:35,880 --> 01:37:41,920
Speaker 1: here on rich On Tech. Let's get to a couple

1911
01:37:42,000 --> 01:37:44,880
Speaker 1: of items before we open up the feedbag, which is

1912
01:37:45,000 --> 01:37:49,040
Speaker 1: just overflowing as usual. I'll get to as many of

1913
01:37:49,080 --> 01:37:52,439
Speaker 1: these as I can. But first off, helpful website to

1914
01:37:52,520 --> 01:37:55,599
Speaker 1: help you detect scam. So if you get a text

1915
01:37:55,640 --> 01:37:59,360
Speaker 1: message or an email, just take a screenshot of it

1916
01:37:59,520 --> 01:38:02,240
Speaker 1: and upload it to this website and it will analyze

1917
01:38:02,240 --> 01:38:04,840
Speaker 1: it using AI and tell you if it thinks it's

1918
01:38:04,880 --> 01:38:08,120
Speaker 1: real or not. And so the website is scam dot Ai.

1919
01:38:08,200 --> 01:38:11,200
Speaker 1: It's brand new and it can tell you if a

1920
01:38:11,240 --> 01:38:16,600
Speaker 1: deep fake image is real, anything any image or screenshot,

1921
01:38:16,680 --> 01:38:18,519
Speaker 1: it'll analyze it and it's pretty good. I tried it

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Speaker 1: with something and it worked. Another website that's helpful browser

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Speaker 1: links online tools, so you know sometimes you have to

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Speaker 1: or shuffle words or convert words to numbers. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's so many tools here and it's really really simple,

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Speaker 1: and it's all done through the browser. It's called onlinetools,

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Speaker 1: dot com bookmarket. There are just so many tools you

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Speaker 1: can search for what you want to do, but they've

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Speaker 1: got them all listed there. I mean, there's so many tools,

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Speaker 1: PNG tools, jpeg tools, text tools, image tools, list tools,

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Speaker 1: time tools. I mean, there's just everything you could possibly imagine.

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Speaker 1: And they get pretty nerdy too, like the fractal tools,

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Speaker 1: integer tools. Anyway, it's all on there online tools dot com.

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Speaker 1: That's a great bookmark. And then finally, if you want

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Speaker 1: to have some fun, search block Breaker on Google. They

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Speaker 1: just added a hidden arcade style game and search. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to download anything. Just search block Breaker on

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Speaker 1: Google and tap play and it's basically, you know the

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Speaker 1: old school game, the arcade style. It's kind of like

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Speaker 1: Atari Breakout, but you know Google's version. All right, all

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Speaker 1: that's linked up on the website. Rich on tech dot tv.

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Speaker 1: Let's open up the feedbag. Let's see Gary writes in

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Speaker 1: I picked up the Pixel nine Pro for on sale

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Speaker 1: for about nine hundred and fifty dollars. It's been a

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Speaker 1: big upgrade from the Samsung S twenty four FE. The

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Speaker 1: sound quality both for calls and media is better, no

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Speaker 1: more shrill, tinny audio. The cameras also sharper, especially when

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Speaker 1: taking pictures of my handwritten notes. The Pixel nine pros

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Speaker 1: slightly smaller size and lighter weight makes it more pocketable,

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Speaker 1: which I appreciate. That said, I still prefer Samsung's UI.

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Speaker 1: It's more customizable and what I'm used to, but overall,

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Speaker 1: I am happy with the switch. Thanks for letting me know.

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Speaker 1: Gary Germo from Los Angeles writes in Uber Eats gave

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Speaker 1: me the run around after a delivery fail. I couldn't

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Speaker 1: find a phone number to contact them, and when I

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Speaker 1: finally emailed customer service, they told me I'd missed the

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Speaker 1: forty eight hour window to report the issue. I disputed

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Speaker 1: the charge with my credit card and got a refund.

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Speaker 1: But now Uber Eats wants their money and I can't

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Speaker 1: use the app unless I pay them. Oh well, not

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Speaker 1: hoping for this to happen again. I think Girmo was

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Speaker 1: replying to me posting on Instagram a warning because I

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Speaker 1: had a problem with my delivery order. I didn't say

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Speaker 1: anything for over three days, and when I did, they

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Speaker 1: were like, oh, sorry, forty eight hours. So if you

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Speaker 1: have a problem with your Uber Eats, get in touch

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Speaker 1: with them immediately, don't wait like I did. Let's see.

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Speaker 1: Rick writes in I bought the Samsung Galaxy Ultra unlocked

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Speaker 1: five hundred and twelve gigs from Samsung dot Com for

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Speaker 1: eight hundred dollars plus tax. That price includes my five

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars trade in on the S twenty one, plus

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Speaker 1: an eighty dollars credit for online purchases at check out.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the tip. All right, enjoy Rick, I think

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Speaker 1: you're gonna love it, Sarah writes in don't knock cassettes.

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Speaker 1: I use a radio cassette frequently to record a radio

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Speaker 1: show and listen later. No Wi Fi needed. I may

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Speaker 1: not be in California, but I'm thankful for Wi Fi

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Speaker 1: to catch your show. Oh you're recording my show. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, that's amazing. Someone's recording this show on cassette

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Speaker 1: and listening to it. I love it, Sarah. I must

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Speaker 1: have made fun of a cassette tape on another show,

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Speaker 1: but I don't hate cassettes. I many many years using cassettes.

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Speaker 1: George from Temple Rights in another family tear jerker is

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Speaker 1: the Disney film Old Yeller. When I was in when

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Speaker 1: it was in theaters, kids and parents alike were left crying.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't seen it, it's a great family movie.

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Speaker 1: George is replying to my wild Robot recommendation last week,

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Speaker 1: and it was great, but I don't know if I'm

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Speaker 1: ready for another cry. I did watch a movie last night,

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Speaker 1: The Saturday Night Movie by Jason Reitman. Excellent. If you

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Speaker 1: like Starday Night Live or whatever, it's just great. Goes

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Speaker 1: By flies by that movie. And by the way, another

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Speaker 1: recommendation the Letterboxed app. I don't know if you know

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Speaker 1: this one letter Boxed. I think it's b letter box

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Speaker 1: bo x D so no E letter boxed and it's

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Speaker 1: for iPhone and Android. But it's now my favorite app

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Speaker 1: for like following movies I want to watch and stuff

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Speaker 1: like that. It's really great. It's very it's just it's excellent,

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Speaker 1: all right. Moving on Blair from Santa Barbara writes in

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Speaker 1: stop Drop is a great product to prevent losing things

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Speaker 1: under your car seat, founded on Amazon for twenty five dollars.

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Speaker 1: Love your show. I think Blair was responding to the

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Speaker 1: fact that I said, when I wear sweatpants in my car,

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Speaker 1: I always all this stuff always drops out into the

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Speaker 1: crevice between the seat and the door or the seat

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Speaker 1: and the middle console. And I think stop Drop was

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Speaker 1: a Shark Tank product thanks, maybe I'll get one. Let's

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Speaker 1: see long, Ben wrights in. Long in the Tooth comes

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Speaker 1: from the practice of checking a horse's age by examining

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Speaker 1: its teeth, where seeding gums made them appear longer. Similarly,

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Speaker 1: don't look a gift Horse in the Mouth advises against

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Speaker 1: assessing the value of a gift, encouraging gratitude instead of scrutiny.

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Speaker 1: I must have used long, long in the tooth because

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Speaker 1: I was talking about sayings that we say, and long

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Speaker 1: in the tooth. It's like we say this stuff and like, wait,

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Speaker 1: where did that come from? Long in the tooth? Now

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Speaker 1: we know horses and Robert rights In. I'm listening in

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Speaker 1: Federal Heights, Colorado, while delivering mail. I love your show, well, Robert,

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Speaker 1: thank you. I always wonder what the mail carriers listen

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Speaker 1: to while they're delivering, because my guy does too. He's

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Speaker 1: always listening to something or he's on the phone. But

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Speaker 1: he always says hi, and we always say, Hey, how's

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Speaker 1: it going, what's up? Always a smile on his face.

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Speaker 1: John from Haines City rights in you recently talked about

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Speaker 1: charging cell phones in an emergency using battery packs. I'm

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Speaker 1: surprised you didn't mention the most obvious option your car.

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Speaker 1: Many cars, including my twenty year old Ford X Expedition,

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Speaker 1: have live twelve volt outlets even when the ignition is off.

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Speaker 1: Cars typically have large batteries, ranging from fifty to ninety Ah.

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing that's ampier hours, making them a great resource

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Speaker 1: for charging phones, even for the whole neighborhood. If the

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Speaker 1: battery starts to run low, just charge the engine and

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Speaker 1: let it recharge at idle. Okay, you know, John, good tip,

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Speaker 1: But I didn't think about that because you know, I

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Speaker 1: do have an electric car, so of course you can

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Speaker 1: always charge stuff from there. But I imagine in an

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Speaker 1: emergency people might be conserving their gas or their battery.

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Speaker 1: But yes, that is a great option. And I'm glad

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Speaker 1: you didn't call it the cigarette lighter, because that's what

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Speaker 1: I think of every time I see that. All right,

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Speaker 1: that's going to do it for this episode of the show.

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Speaker 1: You can find links to everything I mentioned on my website.

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Speaker 1: Just go to Richontech dot TV. Can find me on

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Speaker 1: social media. I am at rich on Tech. I'm on Instagram,

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Speaker 1: I'm on X I'm on Facebook, very active on Instagram,

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Speaker 1: and don't forget This show is also available as a podcast,

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Speaker 1: so if you miss an up, just search in your

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Speaker 1: favorite podcast app or audio app for Rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Next week, we're going to talk to YouTuber Jimmy is Promo.

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Speaker 1: You might follow him for all of his Samsung stuff.

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Speaker 1: He's going to offer some Samsung tips and tricks for

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Speaker 1: your new phone. Thanks so much for listening. There are

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Speaker 1: so many ways you can spend your time. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: you spending it right here with me. Thanks to everyone

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Speaker 1: who makes this show possible. Adam in for Bobo this week.

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Speaker 1: Kim on Phones. My name is Richdmiro. I'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you real soon.