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Speaker 1: But we were talking about those ray Band Meta smart

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Speaker 2: You've got a pair of these or why?

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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, I've had them about two three months and

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Speaker 4: I happen to be totally blind. Oh wow, Now, I'm

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Speaker 4: First of all, if you go down to ray Band,

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Speaker 4: a lot of a lot of technology for blind people

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Speaker 4: is very because it's of users. Well, anyway, these glasses

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Speaker 2: Well, so how are you using them? Tell me?

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Speaker 4: Well, I use them for scanning my mail.

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Speaker 4: The other day, I had one of those big Maverick

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Speaker 2: Exactly where it was.

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Speaker 4: No, it was amazing.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing. Yeah, I mean I was. I was in yesterday.

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Speaker 1: It just it described the whole scene, like the whole everything.

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Speaker 4: As long as you as long as you use the

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Speaker 2: No, way, that is incredible.

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Speaker 1: So it's interesting you say this because I went to

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Speaker 1: but they are very expensive, like the ones I saw

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Speaker 2: Yes, But here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: For me, it makes me feel superhuman because the fact

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Speaker 1: And it's just again, we are just the first couple

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Speaker 2: You can go to chat dot com.

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Speaker 1: Chat dot com will now take you straight to chat GPT.

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Speaker 1: Apparently this was the previous person who owned this purchased

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Speaker 1: the way, don't forget about perplexity AI, because chat gbt

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Speaker 1: If you're using it and all of your stuff went away,

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Speaker 1: here's how you get it back. Go into settings, tap

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Speaker 1: your name at the top iCloud and then notes and

442
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Speaker 1: make sure sink this iPhone toggle is enabled, and if

443
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Speaker 1: it's not, toggle it and reopen the notes app. It

444
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Speaker 1: takes about ten minutes for your notes to come back in.

445
00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:10,680
Speaker 1: If that doesn't work, then just toggle the sync off,

446
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Speaker 1: toggle it back on and reboot your phone. But that's

447
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Speaker 1: the main thing is I guess it was related to

448
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Speaker 1: this iCloud terms and conditions, but no permanent data loss

449
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Speaker 1: has been reported by people. And your notes are on

450
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Speaker 1: other devices, so if you have it on your Mac

451
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,640
Speaker 1: computer or something like that, but kind of scary. That's

452
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Speaker 1: like again, that's the biggest fear of logging in and

453
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Speaker 1: your stuff is gone.

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Speaker 2: That is not fun.

455
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, we have another endorsement for the metaglasses.

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Speaker 1: Julian and Woodland Hills. We've talked to you on the

457
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Speaker 1: show before Welcome back.

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Speaker 7: Yes, a little over a year ago, Oh my gosh,

459
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Speaker 7: and you would have me on to talk about AI

460
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Speaker 7: and how it's going to affect the lives of people

461
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Speaker 7: with who are blind, the mole vision, and we had

462
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Speaker 7: just started to talk about the be my I service

463
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Speaker 7: and that they were offering an AI assistant. Well, speaking

464
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Speaker 7: of the Meta glasses, something that was announced recently at

465
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Speaker 7: Meta's big conference about their stuff is a partnership with

466
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Speaker 7: that organization be My Eyes, where you can use the

467
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Speaker 7: Meta Smart glasses to connect with it Be my Eyes Volunteer.

468
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Speaker 7: It's currently in beta test right now. I'm one of

469
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Speaker 7: the beta testers, and I can tell you that when

470
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Speaker 7: this comes out to everybody, it's going to be amazing, because, yes,

471
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Speaker 7: we've been able to do this with our phones before,

472
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Speaker 7: but when you're blind in the vision and either using

473
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Speaker 7: a cane or a guide dog or something like that,

474
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Speaker 7: and carrying things, sometimes grabbing a phone is not the

475
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Speaker 7: most convenient thing to do, right, And it's because we

476
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Speaker 7: wear it. It's just so easy. You talk to it,

477
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Speaker 7: you don't have to do anything with your hands. It

478
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Speaker 7: just works. I'm in the midst of travel right now

479
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Speaker 7: and I use it through the airport to find food,

480
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Speaker 7: to find the gate, to find all kinds of things,

481
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Speaker 7: and it's just I mean, I think these are definitely game.

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Speaker 1: Changer, using the be my Eyes feature to find the gate,

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Speaker 1: like so, so explain how that works. So let's say

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Speaker 1: you're wearing these glasses. You say you connect to a volunteer.

485
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Speaker 1: Can they see what you're seeing in live time or

486
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Speaker 1: is it a snapshot or what?

487
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Speaker 7: No, it seems in real life, so wow, like making

488
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Speaker 7: a video call it It's like you know, right, Now

489
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Speaker 7: anybody can make a video call through a Facebook, Messenger

490
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Speaker 7: or WhatsApp, but it involves launching the app, making the call,

491
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Speaker 7: hitting the shutter button two times to enable the video

492
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Speaker 7: camera and the glasses. This makes it happen a seamless

493
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Speaker 7: where the phone's in my pocket. It never has to

494
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Speaker 7: come out. I just tell hey, m be my Eyes

495
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Speaker 7: and it says, okay, connecting you to a volunteer from

496
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Speaker 7: Be my Eyes. And within a matter of seconds, I'm

497
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Speaker 7: connected to a lit volunteer who has a view through

498
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Speaker 7: my camera in front of me and now can give

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Speaker 7: me access to whatever information I need.

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Speaker 2: That's wild.

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Speaker 1: So people are just standing by, like as they signed

502
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Speaker 1: up to be a volunteer for Be my Eyes. They've

503
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Speaker 1: got the app on their phone and they're just waiting

504
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Speaker 1: for someone to kind of ping them and they say okay, cool.

505
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Speaker 1: And then they get that live shot or the live

506
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Speaker 1: stream I should say live shot is TV talk. They

507
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,679
Speaker 1: get the live stream and they can just see and

508
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 1: be like, okay, so I see Gate one thirty four ahead.

509
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Speaker 1: If you look to the left, you can see the

510
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Speaker 1: lounges over there. If you look ahead, there's a Starbucks

511
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Speaker 1: and they can see all that.

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Speaker 2: That's really amazing. Wow, it's just.

513
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Speaker 7: Like having access to an assistant. There's another service that

514
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Speaker 7: you've probably heard of as well, called IRA, and they

515
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Speaker 7: also provide the same kind of service, but their agents

516
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Speaker 7: are trained and paid and under NDA and bonded and

517
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Speaker 7: all that stuff. And they've got a beta program going

518
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Speaker 7: as well, so pretty soon that'll be available. So both

519
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Speaker 7: visual interpreter services are going to be available to blind

520
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Speaker 7: the television people all over the world through these glasses.

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Speaker 1: Oh that so they're working with the IRA as well

522
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Speaker 1: on the metaglasses.

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Speaker 2: Wow, okay, that's a I r A. Is that the

524
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Speaker 2: one AI r A?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: AIRA dot io is their website and yeah, they're in

527
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Speaker 7: the process of getting that done and it's going to

528
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Speaker 7: be wonderful. And plus that to mention the AI and

529
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Speaker 7: these things is great. I use it all the time

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Speaker 7: just for going shopping, browsing the shells. You know, you

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Speaker 7: pick up something and wonder what is this? Now I

532
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Speaker 7: can just ask the thing, you know, what is look

533
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Speaker 7: and tell me what I'm holding, or look and read

534
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Speaker 7: to me what this is, and I get all kinds

535
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Speaker 7: of information.

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Speaker 2: It's so wild. Julian.

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Speaker 1: Thanks thanks for that, really really great insights, safe travels there.

538
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Speaker 1: And this is what's so great about testing this stuff out,

539
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Speaker 1: which is what I do for a living, is that

540
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Speaker 1: I was aware of these glasses. I was aware of

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Speaker 1: Meta AI. And sometimes you sort of I'm not gonna

542
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Speaker 1: say pooh pooh, but you sort of dismiss stuff.

543
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Speaker 2: You're like, oh, Meta AI, another AI service.

544
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Speaker 1: But when you put these things on and you realize,

545
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Speaker 1: like this is one of the few tech products that

546
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Speaker 1: I put on and tried, and it's like, immediately, I

547
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,439
Speaker 1: realized there's something special here, and we are just at

548
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Speaker 1: the beginning. And then when you hear from folks like

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Speaker 1: Russ and like Julian, you realize that there is something

550
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Speaker 1: bigger at play here. And like Julian or like Russ said,

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Speaker 1: you know these these visually impaired products, you know, the

552
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 1: products for the visually impaired are typically very expensive because

553
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Speaker 1: they're they're making them, maybe not at a mass scale,

554
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,399
Speaker 1: but something like the ray band metas they're making so

555
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:15,719
Speaker 1: many of them, millions of them for everyone, and so

556
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Speaker 1: that's why they're they're able to be three hundred dollars

557
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 1: versus five thousand dollars. There was that phone I saw

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Speaker 1: at that Assistive Tech content thing Assistant Tech conference. The

559
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Speaker 1: blind Shell Phone, which I thought was really incredible and

560
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Speaker 1: it does everything you need if you're visually impaired. But

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Speaker 1: it's expensive, and now it makes sense, it's because it's

562
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Speaker 1: a limited audience, so they're not you know, it's not

563
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Speaker 1: just a phone that everyone's going to buy, and they

564
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Speaker 1: can make them at mass scale, but it does have

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Speaker 1: all the features you need. That's Blindshell dot com anyway. Incredible.

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Speaker 1: I guess I really my my inkling on these glasses

567
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Speaker 1: was correct. They are really a game changer and I'm

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Speaker 1: looking forward to more people kind of discovering the magic

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Speaker 1: of them.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one.

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Speaker 2: The website is richon Tech dot tv.

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Speaker 1: If you want to sign up to be a volunteer

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Speaker 1: for b my Eyes, I put the link in the

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Speaker 1: show notes.

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Speaker 2: Just hit the light bulb icon. Coming up.

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Speaker 1: Another free ride is over max is the latest to

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Speaker 1: crack down on password sharing. This is rich on Tech.

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: like I like to say, the free ride is over.

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Speaker 1: This time it is Max. Remember it used to be

585
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,879
Speaker 1: called HBO Max. Now it's just Max. Not to be

586
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 1: confused with anything else out there. So Disney and Netflix

587
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,119
Speaker 1: have done this. Now Max is going to do it

588
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: starting gradually. So they said on the on the earnings

589
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 1: call that password sharing restrictions will begin in the next

590
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: few months with quote messaging to users. What does that mean?

591
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 1: It means when you log in and they kind of

592
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: know that you're cheating the system, they're gonna say, are

593
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Speaker 1: you sure you don't want to get your own account,

594
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: and you're gonna go No, as long as I can

595
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 1: use my friends, why not, I'll keep using theirs. But

596
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 1: next year they're gonna gradually put the uh you know,

597
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,679
Speaker 1: squeeze the uh the vice script's a little bit tighter

598
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,200
Speaker 1: and uh full implementation will be twenty twenty five, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six. Uh. They believe that this is Bobo's raising

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Speaker 1: his hand. He has a question, the question from the class. Yes,

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Speaker 1: mister mister Mitchell de Marrow.

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Speaker 3: So let's say I have my account, sure, Okay, I

603
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 3: go to my parents house quite often. Yeah, I watched

604
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 3: my account there. Yeah, how are they gonna regulate that? Well,

605
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 3: that's a good question. So I think that the they're

606
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 3: gonna use an algorithm number one, but number two it's

607
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 3: it's going to be sort of a two factor authentication.

608
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 3: So if if you're logging in at your parents' house,

609
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 3: it may bug you every time, But because you truly

610
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 3: own that account, they're gonna say, hey, we're gonna email

611
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 3: you a code and you're gonna put that in from

612
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 3: your email. It's not gonna be that big of a deal,

613
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 3: got you, But your friend over in you know, somewhere

614
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 3: across the US, that's latching onto your account, it's gonna

615
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 3: be after the third time annoying for you to be like, really,

616
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 3: you got to get this code.

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Speaker 2: Again for me.

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Speaker 1: Now, some people won't have a problem with that, but

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Speaker 1: I have noticed that there are you know, from what

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Speaker 1: I've seen in my personal experience with family members. It

621
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Speaker 1: only comes down to whether the company actually wants to

622
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: enable these restrictions, like they know, they know if you're

623
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Speaker 1: not like and it's very clear if you're logging into

624
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Speaker 1: a TV, which is a fixed thing usually like you're

625
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: not logging a TV around the nation. So if you're

626
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Speaker 1: a traveler and you've got Netflix on your tablet or

627
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 1: you're installing it on a tablet or a phone. They

628
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: kind of know that, Okay, people travel, But if they

629
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: notice that that phone you've installed on only stays in

630
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Speaker 1: a certain place that's not near your household, that's when

631
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Speaker 1: they'll start, you know, kind of pushing the password restrictions

632
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: a little bit harder on that device. So again, this

633
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 1: is not a perfect thing, but nobody's fooling anyone here.

634
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: These companies know exactly when people are sharing. So subscribers

635
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: that are sharing and that are part of that kind

636
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: of sharing idea, they will be paying more, although there

637
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 1: will be some sort of planet looks like where you

638
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: can latch off onto your own or break off onto

639
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 1: your own. Max has one hundred and ten million subscribers.

640
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 1: They added seven million in the last quarter. Trying to

641
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: think what that's attributable to, Like, do they have a

642
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Speaker 1: good show or something.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

644
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Speaker 1: They raised their prices back in June twenty twenty four,

645
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Speaker 1: But again I say, the free ride is over all.

646
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: These streaming services started so cheap, so so cheap, and

647
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 1: now they are definitely getting a lot more expensive. All right,

648
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: let's see, we've got a question here by email.

649
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 2: Pat. Let's see Pat says, hey, does using.

650
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Speaker 1: Your iPhone eight plus as a hotspot for a MacBook

651
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: air M two harm your phone in any way? So,

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00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: off the top of my head, not really. I mean,

653
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 1: it's really not a harmful thing for your phone. But

654
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Speaker 1: there are some things to consider. Number one, your battery life.

655
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: So if your phone is using hotspot, it definitely cranks

656
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: through that battery a lot faster. Also, because it's using

657
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Speaker 1: more on your phone for that modem, it's going to

658
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: get hotter. So that's number two. And then of course

659
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: your data that's number three. Is really it comes down

660
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: to how much data do you have on your plan

661
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 1: and are you going to burn through that? So I

662
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: will tell you that it's interesting because if you look

663
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: at the Wi Fi at your work, your company reserves

664
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: the right to pretty much look at anything you're doing

665
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: on your computer. I'm talking to anything, even if it's personal,

666
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: even if it's private, they can look at it. And

667
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: so there is this idea of people wanting to use

668
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: their hotspot at work off their phone because things are

669
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: a little bit more private and you can check your email,

670
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: you could do things like that. And I'd probably recommend

671
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: that if you want to stay more private at work,

672
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: it's probably a good idea to do that, you know.

673
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: But just understand that if you're on your work's WiFi,

674
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 1: they can see anything that's happening on that computer. Just

675
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: imagine that they can see it even if it's private.

676
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 1: Maybe if it's encrypted, it doesn't really matter. Sometimes they

677
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: have a certificate, the trust certificate that you accept when

678
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 1: you get onto that Wi Fi that says, hey, you

679
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: know what, you give us free rein to anything on

680
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: this device. Because it's all in the idea of that

681
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: they can monitor the network for anything that might harm

682
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: the network. But anyway, all all that to say that

683
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: if you have a hot spot, if you've got the

684
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: hotspot feature on your cell phone planned schirp, go ahead,

685
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: use it. There's nothing really that that's going to be

686
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:56,719
Speaker 1: a problem except for those three things I mentioned. And

687
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: by the way, all of the computers nowadays do a

688
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: pretty good job of connecting to the device seamlessly. So

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00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: for instance, on my computer, I've got a Mac computer

690
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: the iPhone. When I am out of range of Wi Fi,

691
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 1: it immediately pops up if my phone's nearby, says Hey,

692
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 1: do you want to connect to your iPhone as a hotspot.

693
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 1: It's very very convenient. Windows does the same thing. You

694
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: can set it up with your Android devices as well.

695
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 2: It used to be.

696
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 1: When you got a tablet you had to make a

697
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: decision like do I want Internet on this tablet?

698
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 2: Do I want a five G connection?

699
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: And quite honestly, like unless you are you have a

700
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: really specific use case for that. Ninety nine percent of

701
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,719
Speaker 1: people can just connect to their phone, which is incredible,

702
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: much easier than paying for a separate plan and all

703
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: that stuff. And even you know, hotspot overseas has gotten easier.

704
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: Just the idea of the phone being the everything, kind

705
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: of the center of your tech universe has gotten a

706
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: lot clearer over the last couple of years. So go ahead,

707
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: pat your use the cell phone as your hot spot.

708
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: No problem there, just understand those those downsides. Malvin from

709
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: chess Shire, Where's that?

710
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 2: Says?

711
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 1: I'm kindly looking for step by step information on how

712
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: to remove my unwanted information on Google. Great question. The

713
00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 1: feature you want is called results about you. So if

714
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: you Google results about you, you can see this Google

715
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: feature that's called results about you. And what you do

716
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: is you put your information. You sign up, you put

717
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: your information in here, so you say, here's my name,

718
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: here's my address, here's my phone number, here's my email address.

719
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: And I know it sounds scary to give Google all

720
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: this information, but guess what, they've already got it anyway.

721
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: They know exactly this information. You're just giving them that

722
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,879
Speaker 1: information so they can scan the internet to find when

723
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,320
Speaker 1: this information pops up. And you can give multiple email addresses,

724
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: you can give multiple phone numbers, you can give them

725
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can give them variations on

726
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,280
Speaker 1: your name, but you can give them all that information.

727
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 1: And so let's see, so I've got I'm looking at

728
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: my Yeah, so you can give them full name. Yeah,

729
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 1: you can a interesting It doesn't say I can add

730
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 1: a name online, but.

731
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 2: You can have Oh, I guess you can have one too.

732
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 1: I've got three names on here, and so I guess

733
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:10,319
Speaker 1: you can have up to three names that it will

734
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 1: scan for.

735
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:12,280
Speaker 2: And then you could have an address.

736
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 1: You can have a couple addresses, you could have a

737
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 1: couple phone numbers, you can have a couple of email addresses.

738
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 1: So Google results about you, just so you understand it.

739
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: Only it'll scan the web. It'll look for that information.

740
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: If it finds a search result with that information, it

741
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: will email you or give you a notification and say, hey,

742
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 1: do you want us to take this down from our

743
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: search results? Not off the internet. That is very very

744
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: important to understand. The information is still out there on

745
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 1: that website. Google is just taking the link off of

746
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 1: their search results. So when someone searches for your name

747
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: plus address, they will not see that search result to

748
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,280
Speaker 1: that website that contains your information. Your information will still

749
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: be on that website. So if you want to take

750
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: this step further and get it off that website, you

751
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: would then have to contact that website, do a takedown request,

752
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 1: or use one of these services like in Incogni or

753
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 1: delete me, and they will go and take these down.

754
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 2: But remember it's a game of whack a mole.

755
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 1: For every site you take your information off of, five

756
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: more sites pop up. But getting it off Google does

757
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 1: disconnect that link. Eighty eight rich one oh one. This

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Speaker 1: is Rich on Tech. Welcome back to another hour of

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00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 1: Rob Pigararo has looked at all the different plans out there.

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00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: He has picked his favorites, and we'll explain how to

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Speaker 1: choose the right carrier and plan for your needs. We've

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Speaker 1: been talking about the ray Band meta glasses all morning long.

781
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 1: If you want to see my point of view here,

782
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 1: you can actually see Bobo. I just posted it at

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00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,399
Speaker 1: richon tech on Instagram. You can see what I see

784
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 1: while I do the show. We have a question from

785
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: John and Fallbrook about the the the Meta ray bands.

786
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 2: What's up?

787
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 8: Hey, thank you very much, Richer and Joy your show

788
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 8: every week.

789
00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 2: Thank you. I got an iPhone.

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00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 5: We'll go work for me.

791
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 8: I'm visually impaired.

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00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: Great question. Yes it does work with the iPhone. That is, uh,

793
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:09,399
Speaker 1: something that I took for granted when I talked about these.

794
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: But yes, it does work with iPhone and Android. You

795
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 1: do need a an app from Meta It's called the

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00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: Meta View app. You download that and it basically connects

797
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: the glasses to your phone so that that way they

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00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: can you know, tap into the uh, answering the questions,

799
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,760
Speaker 1: sharing the videos, the files, the you know, the photos

800
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: that you take on it. It's all synced up and

801
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: you could of course change the options for the classes.

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00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 8: Can I get it? Best buy?

803
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 2: Great question? Let's see.

804
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: Uh, let's see if best Buy sells these best Buy

805
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 1: Meta ray band. Let's see if they have them. It

806
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: looks like they do have them there, So yeah, I

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00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 1: mean best Buy.

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00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 8: How much where they can did you?

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00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:49,839
Speaker 6: I'll find that out.

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00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they started three hundred dollars. It depends, you know,

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00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,879
Speaker 1: obviously that's for the base model. So if you want

812
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: like the transition lenses, or you want, you know, special

813
00:38:58,560 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 1: color or special feature.

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00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 2: It's all going to be.

815
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: You know, there's different, there's various you know, options and

816
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: upgrades and things.

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00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 8: But three hundred bucks, cat you see what color of

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00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 8: traffic light is.

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00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:10,879
Speaker 5: I don't care what color they are.

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00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 2: So you did you say you're visually impaired?

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00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: Yes, So so you're gonna you're gonna look into the

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00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:18,760
Speaker 1: kind of the AI features of these glasses.

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00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:19,280
Speaker 6: Huh.

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00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 7: Oh that's the that's the secret for me.

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00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: I can go to a grocery store and look at

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Speaker 8: the shelf and say pick me out some cereal or something,

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Speaker 8: and it says, oh, but right there, man, I'd be

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00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 8: My wife would be way happy. Then I could go shopping.

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00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 2: That's incredible.

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Speaker 1: Well, I you know, I think that again from what

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00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,880
Speaker 1: I heard with to be my eyes integration, it sounds

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00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: like that's just starting up and that's just brand new.

834
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 1: But it's I think that's going to be a huge

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00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 1: use case scenario for these glasses, just based on the uh,

836
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,319
Speaker 1: the reaction I've heard today. So John, check them out

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00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, just make sure you check that return.

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Speaker 6: Policy comment on your next article.

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Speaker 9: Sure, I have the Internet, but I get my WiFi

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00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 9: is cellular. So as you discuss your next plans or

841
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 9: the best plans, remember some people use internet the cellular

842
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 9: internet too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's definitely a yeah, absolutely thanks John, appreciate that. Yeah,

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00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 1: the cellular internet is definitely a growing area of interest

845
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 1: because the carriers have come in with their their nice

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00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: five G spectrum and they said, oh we could do

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00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: you know, we could easily make this home internet. And

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Speaker 1: so I've tested the one from Verizon. I don't think

849
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: I tested the T mobile on AT and T. They

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00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 1: it's very limited apparently where they have it, and it's

851
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: I keep asking them to test it and they have

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00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 1: not let me test it. So but it's a great

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00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 1: option if you live in a place where you can

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Speaker 1: get your Internet over the air. I think it's a

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00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,839
Speaker 1: great option for you because it's less expensive. I don't

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00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: think there's any contracts. You plug in play as long

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Speaker 1: as you have a good five G signal at your

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00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: house and they offer it to you. So, for instance,

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Speaker 1: from what I've heard with AT and T, because they

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00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 1: don't want to compete with themselves, they're only sort of

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00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 1: offering their AT and T Internet air in places that

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00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: don't have wired internet through AT and T, so again,

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00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 1: they don't want to. They don't want someone that has

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00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 1: fiber at their house for one hundred bucks to say, oh,

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00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,359
Speaker 1: I can get internet air for fifty bucks.

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Speaker 2: I'll just go with that. I don't need all the

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00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 2: speed of fiber.

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Speaker 1: So I think the only downside of the five G

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00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: home internet is probably maybe the speed and the bandwidth.

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00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: But of course that all depends on what you need.

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00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: Ninety nine percent of people are just checking their email,

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00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 1: they're just going on Netflix. They don't really need a

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00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 1: ton of stuff, and so I think that that's probably

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00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 1: a great option for other people. So thanks for the

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00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 1: call there, John in Fallbrook today and what are the

876
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: chances of this?

877
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,839
Speaker 2: We got another call from Fallbrook, Curtis. You're on with Rich.

878
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:52,720
Speaker 10: Hey, Rich, thanks sticking my phone call? Is the fallow

879
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 10: up to the last call you had. I am currently

880
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,879
Speaker 10: using the mobile home Internet at my home. I'm also

881
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 10: on twelve book. It works great. It's dirt too, and

882
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,399
Speaker 10: they probably do serve your area, John, so you might

883
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:07,239
Speaker 10: want to look into that.

884
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, no you could.

885
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 10: I don't know who your sill phone plan who your

886
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 10: sill phone planning is but you know, they have great

887
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 10: prices too.

888
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 2: How much are you paying for that?

889
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 10: Uh mine, I'm at thirty five bucks from Long.

890
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's incredible. And this is the thing they started out.

891
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: I think the prices have gone up a little bit,

892
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 1: but they started out very competitive because they were really

893
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: trying to you know, take it to the spectrums of

894
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: the world and the frontiers of the world. The problem

895
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:39,359
Speaker 1: is Verizon just bought Frontier. So the bigger these companies get,

896
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,479
Speaker 1: the less competition or you know, the less they want

897
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: to compete because they don't need to. So I love

898
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 1: that T Mobile came in with a very aggressive pricing.

899
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 1: Verizon came in with very aggressive pricing. But again it's

900
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: it's it depends on whether it's available where you are

901
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: and whether it's a good fit for what you need.

902
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 1: For me, personally, I probably couldn't use it just because

903
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,399
Speaker 1: I'm uploading downloading a ton of big files every day

904
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:05,319
Speaker 1: for my TV stuff. So but it's great if you're

905
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 1: you know, for someone like my mom, especially, she's paying

906
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: a ton for Internet and I keep saying, maybe it's

907
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,800
Speaker 1: time to switch to one of these, you know, wireless providers.

908
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 2: So anyway, check it out. So what's the question, Curtis.

909
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 10: Yeah, so my question is I recently went to Vancouver

910
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:25,280
Speaker 10: and I'm on the T Mobile plan. They do offer

911
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 10: a small price to buy like five gigs of data

912
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 10: for about a week. I found out. I went through

913
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 10: that extremely quickly. And my thoughts are to just buy

914
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 10: another plan when I'm out of country, use it for

915
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 10: a period of time, and you know, take advantage of

916
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,879
Speaker 10: you know, the prices that they offer and maybe get

917
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,720
Speaker 10: more utilization out of it. Then I'm getting too mobile.

918
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,399
Speaker 10: I mean, I didn't get the service. Wasn't bad once

919
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 10: I was cooked up to it. But you can go

920
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,320
Speaker 10: through five g five each a day really quickly.

921
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, especially especially recommendations. Okay, great question. What kind

922
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: of phone do you have?

923
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Speaker 10: I've got a Pixel nine.

924
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: Okay, well, so here's the great Oh wow, look at

925
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:12,879
Speaker 1: you Pixel nine.

926
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 2: Great phone. I love that device.

927
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 1: And the good news about the Pixel is that, Curtis,

928
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:18,960
Speaker 1: you're already set up. You don't need to buy a

929
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: different phone. You can do what's called an eSIM and

930
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: so it's very seamless. And uh, hate to bring up

931
00:44:25,239 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 1: my mom again, but she was able to figure this out.

932
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 1: And no shade to my mom. But she's not a

933
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: tech person and she was going on an international trip,

934
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: and I said, look, you can easily use this eSIM

935
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: and all you have to do is toggle it on.

936
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 1: I set it all up in advance remotely, by the way,

937
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 1: and I set it all up on her phone in advance.

938
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: I said, when you get to the country, when you land,

939
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:48,879
Speaker 1: just toggle this on and it should work. And sure enough,

940
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 1: she texted me she said it works. And she goes

941
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,240
Speaker 1: and all the girlfriends I'm with, none of their phones

942
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 1: work except mine. I said, well, that's why you got

943
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: a tech sun that knows what he's doing.

944
00:44:57,640 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 2: So with that, said.

945
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: Curtis, what I'd recommend is just an EA, and so

946
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: this is what I've used in countries. So here's sort

947
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: of my thought. Okay, so you experienced T mobile. Yes,

948
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 1: they include international on a lot of their plans, and

949
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 1: it's great. If you're just casually going to a different country,

950
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: maybe for a couple of days, you just need access

951
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: to maps, your email or text, that's fine. Absolutely, just

952
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 1: stick with what you got, it's included in your plan.

953
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:21,839
Speaker 2: It works great.

954
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: And then the next level of ease is a lot

955
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: of these plans like the AT and t's of the world,

956
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,359
Speaker 1: the verizons of the world. They have where you get

957
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 1: for ten dollars a day quasi unlimited.

958
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 2: I don't think it's unlimited.

959
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 1: It's like a certain amount of data that you get

960
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: on a daily basis for ten bucks a day. And again,

961
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 1: if you know, if that works for you and you're

962
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 1: in a city for three days and you just want

963
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: to pay thirty dollars to have your phone work the

964
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: way it works, absolutely do that one hundred percent. That's

965
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 1: what I've done in a lot of countries when I'm

966
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: there for just a couple of days on business.

967
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:55,840
Speaker 2: Now, some plans actually.

968
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 1: Give you an allotment of those I think they call

969
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: it like a mobile passport day or some like that,

970
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 1: where you'll get that. Let's say your plan is one

971
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 1: of the expensive premium plans, they may give you a

972
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: day or two of those a month. Every month that

973
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 1: you have your plan, they may stockpile some of those

974
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 1: for you. So the last time I went overseas, I

975
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: had like ten international days, so I did not need

976
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:21,720
Speaker 1: to buy an eSIM for that trip on my primary phone.

977
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:22,839
Speaker 2: So that's the second thing.

978
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,320
Speaker 1: Now, the third thing, and what I think is probably

979
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 1: the easiest for a lot of people that just want

980
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 1: a lot of data and don't want to have to

981
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:29,720
Speaker 1: pay a lot of money.

982
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 2: Is what's called an eSIM.

983
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: And so the company that I like a lot is

984
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: called Erlo air Alo. I'll link them up in the

985
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,879
Speaker 1: show notes. I've used them around the world. And what

986
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: you do is you just download the app, you buy

987
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 1: the eSIM, and then you install it on your phone,

988
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: and with a Pixel or an iPhone or a Samsung

989
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: any recent phone can handle multiple sims at the same time.

990
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: So you don't even have to get rid of your

991
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: old calling plan. You just install this in seconds on

992
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 1: your phone without even interrupting your regular plan, and so

993
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: you can go when you get to the other country,

994
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:07,719
Speaker 1: you can turn off your regular cell phone plan. There's

995
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: a switch in the toggle in the settings, there's a

996
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: toggle switch. You turn that off and then your regular

997
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 1: plan will not be drawing any data or usage. And

998
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:19,319
Speaker 1: then you can toggle on the eSIM and now you've

999
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: got this eSIM that generally either has a lot of

1000
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 1: data or unlimited data depending on the country. They're all

1001
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 1: a little bit different, but it's very very easy. Aerolw

1002
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 1: is one ola Fly is another h O L a

1003
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: f l y. There's a ton of them out there.

1004
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:36,239
Speaker 1: I've tried a couple of them, but I like the

1005
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 1: Aero looks. It's straightforward, it's simple. They were one of

1006
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:41,800
Speaker 1: the earliest. But great question, Curtis, and good job on

1007
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 1: the Pixel nine. That is a fantastic phone. I got

1008
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 1: to tell you about the deal they have on it.

1009
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: I talked about that yet. No, I'll tell you about

1010
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 1: the deal on the Pixel nines. Coming up right here

1011
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:53,359
Speaker 1: on rich On Tech eighty to eight rich one oh

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00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one

1013
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 1: zero one.

1014
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich On Tech.

1015
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at

1016
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 1: Triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven

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00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,839
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Our caller told

1018
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 1: me he had a Pixel nine from Google, and I said,

1019
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: that was a great phone. So if you are looking

1020
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: at a Pixel, if you are toying with the idea

1021
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:27,200
Speaker 1: of purchasing one of these devices, I always say, uh,

1022
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: when you are looking at a Pixel device or a

1023
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: Samsung phone, wait for some sort of deal or discount,

1024
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:37,959
Speaker 1: because these things are priced to get discounted. And we've

1025
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: seen this over and over with the Pixel and the

1026
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:44,840
Speaker 1: Samsung devices. Apple devices are kind of weird because Apple

1027
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: never discounts their own stuff, but sometimes third parties will,

1028
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 1: or you'll get like, you know, they do that free

1029
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 1: phone upgrade through AT and T or Verizon or T Mobile,

1030
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 1: which we all know is not really free, but if

1031
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:58,399
Speaker 1: it works out for you, fine, But the Pixel nine,

1032
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,800
Speaker 1: there is a great discount thirty percent discount off of

1033
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:03,799
Speaker 1: this device. But you have to know where to find it.

1034
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: So let me show you where to find it. And

1035
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:08,839
Speaker 1: it's a I feel like this is probably the best

1036
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: deal we're going to see on this device throughout the

1037
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 1: holidays because thirty percent off is a reasonable amount. So

1038
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:17,319
Speaker 1: if you have an Android phone, you have to go

1039
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 1: into Google Play. So open up your Google Play and

1040
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 1: when you open Google Play, up at the top, there's

1041
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:26,800
Speaker 1: like some numbers. Those are your play points, so tap

1042
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: those and it brings you to an area where it

1043
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:33,239
Speaker 1: says earn use or perks, And what you want to

1044
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: do is tap perks. And once you're inside Perks, you'll

1045
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 1: see all the little offers that Google's giving you. And

1046
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you there's actually one more that popped

1047
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: up today that was actually pretty good. So if you

1048
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 1: look down it says get thirty percent off select pixel devices,

1049
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 1: and so you select that and then it'll give you

1050
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: a promo code. Now, this expires on December second, so

1051
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 1: you don't have too much time to kind of make

1052
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 1: your decision, but that gives you enough, gives you four weeks.

1053
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 1: And I've been checking Amazon because sometimes when these things happen,

1054
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: anytime there's a discount on one method of shopping, Amazon

1055
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:09,840
Speaker 1: will notice that and it will say, ooh, we're gonna

1056
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 1: discount it too, so you don't even need to shop there.

1057
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 1: And so I've been watching Amazon to see if they

1058
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 1: discount the Pixel nine and I noticed they did discount

1059
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,279
Speaker 1: the standard Pixel nine, which is now on sale for

1060
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: six hundred and fifty dollars regularly eight hundred. But actually

1061
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 1: I think thirty percent off of that is better. Right

1062
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:28,359
Speaker 1: eight times three is twenty four, that'd be two hundred

1063
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 1: and forty bucks off, So it's still a better deal

1064
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 1: to buy it directly from Google. Also, the Pixel Pro,

1065
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:38,280
Speaker 1: the Pixel nine pro fold is also discounted on Amazon,

1066
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:42,399
Speaker 1: but the Pixel nine Pro is not. So that's where

1067
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 1: you find it. And if you want to get that deal,

1068
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 1: just say redeem and it will give you that code.

1069
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: And if it's not for everyone, apparently not everyone has

1070
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,279
Speaker 1: access to it, but a lot enough do.

1071
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:53,879
Speaker 7: Now.

1072
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: The other deal I'm seeing here is a special offer

1073
00:50:56,680 --> 00:51:00,479
Speaker 1: from YouTube ad free YouTube and YouTube music for four

1074
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,799
Speaker 1: months for free. So that's another great deal. And I

1075
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:06,439
Speaker 1: last time I checked, and maybe you still have this one,

1076
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 1: but I found a deal for six months free of

1077
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: Hulu inside this little perks area. So if you have

1078
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:16,280
Speaker 1: an Android phone, don't forget to check this little perks

1079
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,279
Speaker 1: area because they often have things that are really really

1080
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 1: great and they're often sort of personalized just for you.

1081
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:25,120
Speaker 1: So again, open up Google Play up at the top,

1082
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:27,879
Speaker 1: you'll see the points hit perks and that's where you'll

1083
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 1: find all these perks. But Google nine Pixel nine at

1084
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 1: that price is really really good. Cannot be combined with

1085
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:37,279
Speaker 1: any other offers. Obviously you could do a trade in

1086
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 1: with it though, so if you have a phone to

1087
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: trade in, you can still do that.

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Speaker 2: Let's see here. Let's let's go to Craig and des Moines. Craig,

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Speaker 2: you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 10: How you doing it?

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00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 2: I'm doing excellent. Welcome back to the show.

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00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:53,360
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm the blind guy.

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00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 12: From des Moin DA.

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00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 2: How's life in des Moines these days.

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00:51:57,960 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 5: Oh, not too bad as cold.

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00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:01,000
Speaker 2: Oh it's cold.

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00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 7: I know.

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Speaker 1: I always forget how cold it gets everywhere else because

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00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: you're in Lalla Land. You know, it's like fantasy land.

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00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 1: Every day you wake up, you're like, oh, sun still shining,

1101
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 1: it's still beautiful. Oh it's a little shy sixty degree.

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00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 5: I lived in la for forty years.

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00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:17,400
Speaker 11: Oh that came back here for drilled me.

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00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 1: So you remember, you remember the days of just not

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00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 1: having to look at the weather forecast? Right, So what's

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00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: on your mind today?

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00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 12: Okay?

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00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 11: They made tell you I have a JB L.

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00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 5: Head. They covered the complete.

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00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 11: Hell Okay, Now on the box it said seventy hours. Okay,

1111
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 11: they were one hundred and sixty dollars, got them, but

1112
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 11: yesterday and I took the old hell bud back but

1113
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 11: they wouldn't pay in my heel. But anyway, how much

1114
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,200
Speaker 11: playtime do I have on them?

1115
00:52:57,000 --> 00:52:59,440
Speaker 1: So it says seventy hours? Are these wireless or they

1116
00:52:59,480 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 1: plug in?

1117
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 5: They go see the blue No, they don't clog, so

1118
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 5: they're Bluetooth.

1119
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:08,919
Speaker 2: Okay, and it says seventy hours that you get.

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00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:11,359
Speaker 9: Yeah, it said that on the bout.

1121
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:11,919
Speaker 13: Wow.

1122
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 2: Okay, Well I'm looking my woke redy to me.

1123
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: I'm looking here. Let's see here up to fifty hours

1124
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 1: of music, Okay, so yeah, I mean, look, these are

1125
00:53:22,120 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 1: these are over the year headphones, so they're they're probably

1126
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:26,759
Speaker 1: gonna give you a decent amount of hours. I'm looking

1127
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 1: at their website. Some of them are rated for fifty

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00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 1: summer seventy. But I think you're going to get a

1129
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 1: reasonable amount of time. I know with me personally, with

1130
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:38,360
Speaker 1: the over the year headphones I have, they last almost forever,

1131
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 1: like I barely need to charge them ever.

1132
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 2: So I think you've got a good thing to go.

1133
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:43,399
Speaker 2: And Craig, thanks for the call.

1134
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 1: Coming up, we're going to talk about cell phone plans,

1135
00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 1: which one's the best for you? Right here on rich

1136
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:52,000
Speaker 1: On Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro

1137
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you, talking technology. If you want

1138
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: to get in on the phone lines, they're open eighty

1139
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: to eight rich one one eight eight eight seven four

1140
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. We'll get back to

1141
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:07,440
Speaker 1: them in just a moment, but first we've got a

1142
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,840
Speaker 1: great guest to talk about your cell phone plan and

1143
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 1: choosing the right one for you. Rob Pegoraro, rights for

1144
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 1: Wirecutter and other uh all kinds of places, PC mag

1145
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 1: Fast Company, but just came out with a new guide

1146
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:26,400
Speaker 1: on the best cell phone plans for Wirecutter.

1147
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 2: So, Rob, welcome to the show for having me.

1148
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 1: So you've been doing this for a while, You've been

1149
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:33,879
Speaker 1: keeping track of these cell phone plans for a while.

1150
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 1: What do you think is the biggest thing that you've

1151
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:37,480
Speaker 1: seen change over the past couple of years?

1152
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 2: If anything, I've actually.

1153
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 6: Realized this is I've been doing this guide for just

1154
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 6: over ten years.

1155
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:42,759
Speaker 4: Now.

1156
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:46,600
Speaker 6: Wow, wait, before the Wirecutter was a New York Times property.

1157
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:50,440
Speaker 6: I mean the biggest change obviously is the rise of

1158
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 6: Tea Mobile. When I started it, they were, you know,

1159
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 6: kind of an upstart, really improving rapidly, but they had

1160
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,279
Speaker 6: a lot of work to do. It was a four

1161
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:01,200
Speaker 6: carryer market. Now it's three. Care you might have four

1162
00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 6: if boost Mobile continues growing.

1163
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, can you can you explain that

1164
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: real quick? Like, what is the deal Boost Mobile? Do

1165
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 1: they really have their own towers?

1166
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 6: They do? It's this weird sort of bank shot the

1167
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:17,280
Speaker 6: government set up when they approved Team Mobile buying sprints.

1168
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:20,319
Speaker 6: They said, okay, we want we don't want to see

1169
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:23,319
Speaker 6: US be a three carrier market permanently, so we'll sort

1170
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:27,280
Speaker 6: of cobble together one you sprint and give some spectrum

1171
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 6: to boost you sell off that band to the brand

1172
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:35,160
Speaker 6: to Dish network, which already had a bunch of licenses.

1173
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 6: And they've got a government deadline they've met to them

1174
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:41,240
Speaker 6: so far to build out a five G network from scratch,

1175
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:44,719
Speaker 6: which is really hard, and they've done pretty well so far.

1176
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 6: But it's one of these things, you know, the ninety

1177
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:51,880
Speaker 6: percent of the work is in the last ten percent

1178
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:54,560
Speaker 6: of the coverage, so they have more work to do,

1179
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 6: but they've been building out rapidly. It seems to work well.

1180
00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:58,839
Speaker 6: I have not a chance to try it out yet.

1181
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:00,560
Speaker 2: Okay, so big on them.

1182
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:03,279
Speaker 1: But it is available, like like is it like so

1183
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:05,239
Speaker 1: if I let's say, and I'm guessing so because I

1184
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:07,200
Speaker 1: know they have like their infinite network, which was like

1185
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 1: using like the other carriers, So I'm guessing until their

1186
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:13,240
Speaker 1: network is fully built out, they're kind of like relying

1187
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 1: on falling back so much.

1188
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 7: Now.

1189
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:17,719
Speaker 6: They say that the last deadline they met was to

1190
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:20,359
Speaker 6: cover seventy percent of the US population. They meant that

1191
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 6: last summer. I think, yeah, last July. They've done that.

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00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 6: They they backfill that with least coverage from AT and

1193
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:29,760
Speaker 6: T and T Mobile and they say, with that we cover,

1194
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:33,600
Speaker 6: we give people access to more towers we don't own

1195
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:36,400
Speaker 6: them than any other service. That said, you have to

1196
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:38,960
Speaker 6: look at their what they're selling carefully because they have

1197
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:42,360
Speaker 6: very low prices. But you know, you asked me what

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00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 6: the biggest change is, I would say, how many different

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00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:48,880
Speaker 6: ways carriers have learned to spell and pronounce unlimited.

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00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 2: Ah, everyone will unlimited.

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00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 6: But you got to read the fine print, the asterisks,

1202
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 6: the double asterisks. There's so many different wrinkles they'll put

1203
00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:59,600
Speaker 6: in so they can differentiate, charge some people more if

1204
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:03,799
Speaker 6: they need more of an unlimited thing, and compete with

1205
00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:06,440
Speaker 6: other people to lett over priced by putting limits on

1206
00:57:06,480 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 6: their unlimited service.

1207
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 2: So I guess my first question.

1208
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:10,600
Speaker 1: And by the way, I wanted to nerd out real

1209
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 1: quick about the Boost Mobile. It reminds me back in

1210
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 1: the day when Sprint PCs was starting up and they

1211
00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 1: had their own brand new network that was like completely digital,

1212
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 1: and I was so hyped to get on that network

1213
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:25,080
Speaker 1: because it was brand new and digital instead of the

1214
00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:27,800
Speaker 1: old analog networks. But I remember it worked in like

1215
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:31,080
Speaker 1: literally driving around LA with like work in like three

1216
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 1: places for the beginning.

1217
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Speaker 6: Sprint spectrum lost in d C. I want to say

1218
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:38,320
Speaker 6: that was I don't really date myself. This was like

1219
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:43,880
Speaker 6: nineteen ninety four, ninety five, a prior millennium.

1220
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 2: Wow, that's that's a wild okay. So let's h okay.

1221
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Speaker 1: So the unlimited thing, So, first off, how do people

1222
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 1: figure out their coverage? Like I always tell people, get

1223
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 1: a cell phone plan that works where you work and

1224
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:55,560
Speaker 1: where you live really well, but how do you figure

1225
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:56,640
Speaker 1: out what works there?

1226
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:00,840
Speaker 6: So obviously the carriers have their own cutge maps, and

1227
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 6: usually they'll say we have awesome coverage, no problem. That's

1228
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 6: not always the case. I've certainly seen gaps between like

1229
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:09,959
Speaker 6: you know my I use T Mobile myself, and they'll

1230
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 6: say they have service in these places, but really they

1231
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 6: don't where it's very thin or patchy, and so you know,

1232
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 6: you might be able to post a picture to Instagram,

1233
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:20,560
Speaker 6: but your video reel is just not going to happen

1234
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:24,920
Speaker 6: in a feasible time. The biggest thing is just first

1235
00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 6: person testimonials. If friends of yours, people you know, people

1236
00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:31,440
Speaker 6: at work can say, yeah, this carrier is great in

1237
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 6: this place, but in a vacation home. They're awful. That's

1238
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 6: a really VALIDATA point. There are third party resources you

1239
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 6: can do. It was just poking around. There's an app

1240
00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:42,240
Speaker 6: called Open Signal from one of the companies that do

1241
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 6: their own sort of testing and research of coverage and

1242
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 6: network performance, and you can zoom in on an area

1243
00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:51,280
Speaker 6: and see where people using the Apple's sort of coverage

1244
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 6: they've found through the app. And yeah, I've definitely seen

1245
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:56,840
Speaker 6: there's a town in rural Virginia where a friend of

1246
00:58:56,840 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 6: mine has a house by the by the Jesse Bay.

1247
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:04,360
Speaker 6: And yeah, the Open Signal map seems to be correct

1248
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:06,800
Speaker 6: in saying that T mobile is not so great there,

1249
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 6: and AT and T and Verriison are a little bit better.

1250
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:11,520
Speaker 1: Interesting because you've been there and it's kind of crowdsourced

1251
00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 1: and you know from first person that doesn't really work there. Okay,

1252
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:16,960
Speaker 1: so how do you know if you should go to

1253
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:19,400
Speaker 1: prepaid because now we see all these prepaid plans they

1254
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 1: seem just as good as the big carrier plans.

1255
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 2: Like what's the delineation? Like why how do you decide?

1256
00:59:25,880 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 2: Two things?

1257
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:28,240
Speaker 6: I would say to look at Number one, you know,

1258
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 6: are you ready to just pay full price for an

1259
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:33,720
Speaker 6: unlocked phone, bring that to the carrier or the service

1260
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 6: usually prepaid, their offshoots, their third parties. You know, they're

1261
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 6: not actual network carriers like AT and T, T Mobile, Verizon.

1262
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 6: They'll sell you phones, but it will probably be you know,

1263
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 6: second tier stuff, maybe older iPhones. You won't get a

1264
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:54,240
Speaker 6: Google Pixel phone number two. You know, see how they

1265
00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 6: define on limited, they are much more likely to say, yes,

1266
00:59:57,800 --> 01:00:00,440
Speaker 6: we give you fifty gig as a prairie data instead

1267
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:03,520
Speaker 6: of oh, your service is going to get a little slower.

1268
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:05,680
Speaker 6: It will be your service will be cut down to

1269
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 6: like one point five megabits per second, which back in

1270
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:11,080
Speaker 6: nineteen ninety five would have been very very fast. Now

1271
01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 6: it's not or even like five hundred and twelve kilobits

1272
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:17,920
Speaker 6: per second, which we're really getting back to the you know,

1273
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 6: dial up speeds almost that's much more likely. One of

1274
01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 6: the things I'd look at if you travel internationally, prepaid

1275
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 6: services generally don't offer that. That's where if you buy

1276
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 6: the phone unlocked, you can just use an ESUM when

1277
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:33,880
Speaker 6: you travel. Otherwise you know you won't have service.

1278
01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:38,680
Speaker 1: And I would add my wife, which I switched, not

1279
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:40,720
Speaker 1: against her will, but she was like, why do I

1280
01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 1: have to switch. I'm like, because you don't use any data.

1281
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 1: So I switched her one of these cheap carriers. And

1282
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: when there became a problem, like the sim wouldn't switch

1283
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:52,880
Speaker 1: between two phones, everything had to be done over the

1284
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:55,920
Speaker 1: app like chat, which was kind of a nightmare. And

1285
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:58,920
Speaker 1: so the customer service aspect of the idea. If you're

1286
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:00,760
Speaker 1: paying you know, ninety huns or bucks a month, you

1287
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:03,040
Speaker 1: get the idea of you get that benefit of walking

1288
01:01:03,040 --> 01:01:06,000
Speaker 1: into a store and saying, here, fix this, whereas if

1289
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:07,560
Speaker 1: you're on one of these smaller ones that don't have

1290
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:10,120
Speaker 1: a store, you're going to be back and forth on

1291
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:12,200
Speaker 1: chat messaging, which is not ideal.

1292
01:01:13,160 --> 01:01:13,680
Speaker 6: Good point.

1293
01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 1: What about let's see, okay, you talked to International. How

1294
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:21,040
Speaker 1: much data do you think the average smartphone user needs?

1295
01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:23,520
Speaker 1: You know, you mentioned that slows down, but like, do

1296
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:25,480
Speaker 1: people really need an unlimited plan or what?

1297
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 6: In many cases they don't. And you know, the better

1298
01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 6: prepaid service is the ones that offer real saving sort

1299
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:35,160
Speaker 6: of recognize that. I would point to mint Mobile, which

1300
01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 6: used to be an independent company. Tea Lebile owns them

1301
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:40,800
Speaker 6: now they have very cheap prices, especially if you just

1302
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:43,720
Speaker 6: commit to pay for the year's worth of service. This

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Speaker 6: is sort of the old contract coming back, but at

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Speaker 6: least you save money that way. So right now I'm

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Speaker 6: going to pull up my own phone right here, Let's

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Speaker 6: jump into the end roid settings. See how much I've

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Speaker 6: used over the last internets. Now you're you're where to

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Speaker 6: Google hide this feature of the scenario?

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Speaker 4: Are you on? I on?

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Speaker 2: You're on fifteen?

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Speaker 6: This is this is a pixel eight a running indur

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Speaker 6: at fifteen.

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Speaker 2: Nice.

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Speaker 6: Also, let's see so far just started billing cycle, so

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Speaker 6: one point forty nine gigs used this month. Let's go

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Speaker 6: take a look at last Monthember.

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Speaker 2: Fourth, so where let's say, use.

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Speaker 6: Fifteen gigs last month, And like to state the obvious,

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Speaker 6: I'm not normal. I use my phone a lot more

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Speaker 6: than many other people. You know, there was a lot

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Speaker 6: of travel in that month, but fifteen gigs is below

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Speaker 6: the limited data plans of a lot of prepaid services.

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Speaker 6: Some of that service the data I used up was tethering,

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Speaker 6: which is something you may not get on some prepaid plans.

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Speaker 6: And that's another thing you have to watch out for.

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Speaker 6: How often are you going to want to use your

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Speaker 6: phone's been with and share it with your tablet or

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Speaker 6: your laptop via the mobile hotspot function on the phone.

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Speaker 6: That's that's a given on you know, the heavily advertised

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Speaker 6: unlimited plans, the Big three, the many smaller services, prepaid brands, resellers.

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Speaker 6: You don't get that, or it's very limited, or there's

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Speaker 6: a speed limit on it. There's some other way that

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Speaker 6: the unlimited thing becomes limited.

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Speaker 1: Right, Okay, we've got about a minute, and I want

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Speaker 1: to Obviously we're talking to Rob about the Wirecutter article

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Speaker 1: the best cell phone Plan, So instead of having you

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Speaker 1: go through what you found to be the best, you

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Speaker 1: can go to the article to read that. But I'm

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Speaker 1: curious for your take on these cable companies cellular plans.

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Speaker 1: I get a question like, hey, Rich, should I go

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Speaker 1: to a Spectrum Mobile? Do I go to an Infinity Mobile?

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Speaker 1: Are they worth it? And what's the catch?

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Speaker 6: The catch is you have to be the cable company's

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Speaker 6: internet customer. There's sort of a customer retention play. But

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Speaker 6: the thing is, the cable companies seem to be running

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Speaker 6: these services as well. Lots of people complain about comcasts,

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Speaker 6: TV and broadband, but in customer satisfaction surveys, they love

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Speaker 6: Exfinity Mobile.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well that's good, and I know it's a good deal,

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Speaker 1: but again it's like you have to stay a customer

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Speaker 1: and so that.

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Speaker 6: It's going to keep you from cutting that cable broadband cord,

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01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 6: which if Comcast is the only customer that was given anyways,

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01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:10,920
Speaker 6: then you just need to see how the service works.

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Speaker 6: And again check the pricing, because Exfinity Mobile is one

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Speaker 6: of these things where they sell you unlimited, but above

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01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:18,200
Speaker 6: a certain level it gets slowed down a whole lot.

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Speaker 6: Still usable, but not fast.

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Speaker 1: All right, and tell us about the article. What else

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Speaker 1: are we going to learn it. We're going to learn

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Speaker 1: to your top picks.

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Speaker 2: Huh.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we have picks for different scenarios. If you need

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Speaker 6: a lot of data, if you need maximum coverage, if

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Speaker 6: you're looking to optimize for price, if you travel a

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Speaker 6: lot internationally. I talk about trends in the industry, how

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01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:40,440
Speaker 6: five views has finally become a reality and is basically

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Speaker 6: a done deal. We're not letting up new frequencies. How

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Speaker 6: we're moving on to satellite roaming, whether it's emergency messaging

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Speaker 6: or actual broadband slower broadband coming to your phone from

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Speaker 6: a satellite.

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Speaker 1: All right, Rob Pegoraro, he wrote the Wirecutter Cell phone

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Speaker 1: plan guide. I will link it up on the website

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech dot TV.

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Speaker 2: Rob, this was a pleasure. Thanks for joining me tonight.

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Speaker 2: THANKIKS eighty eight.

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

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Speaker 1: more rich On Tech coming your way right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich On Tech. Ed is in Huntington Beach.

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Speaker 1: Ed wanted to comment on the uh.

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Speaker 2: The cell phone plans. Let's bring that up, Ed.

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Speaker 7: What's up you doing?

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Speaker 2: Rich good?

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Speaker 5: Hey buddy, Okay, so, yes, you're looking. You're you're discussing

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Speaker 5: the right payment plan or the right phone for you. Sure,

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Speaker 5: and I agree.

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Speaker 13: With you earlier.

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Speaker 5: There is no such thing as a free phone when

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Speaker 5: you sign up with anybody, correct, So I I I'm

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Speaker 5: with Metro PCs. I've been with them for darn near

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Speaker 5: fourteen years, right, okay, And that was back when it

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01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:00,000
Speaker 5: was taboo to be with Metro PCs.

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Speaker 2: Yes, still with now.

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Speaker 5: I only pay one hundred dollars a month for four

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01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:10,600
Speaker 5: phones and they're all iPhones. They do the same thing

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01:06:10,680 --> 01:06:14,280
Speaker 5: yours does, or anybody else's.

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Speaker 4: Memory.

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Speaker 5: All that gadget stuff you guys talk about, But the

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Speaker 5: only niche in it is you got to buy your

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01:06:24,600 --> 01:06:27,600
Speaker 5: own phone. Each whatever a couple of years when your

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01:06:27,600 --> 01:06:31,800
Speaker 5: phone wears out, right, right, But I mean it was

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01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:33,840
Speaker 5: one hundred dollars when it was just me and my

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01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:37,480
Speaker 5: wife and my kids were babies, and now they're grown,

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01:06:37,520 --> 01:06:40,560
Speaker 5: they're in high school, and I bought two phones for them.

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01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:44,040
Speaker 5: It's still one hundred bucks because I have the same

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01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:47,880
Speaker 5: contract I kept. I mean, come on, who has the

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01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:48,920
Speaker 5: same contract before?

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Speaker 2: Right, Okay, I see what you're saying.

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Speaker 1: So you're saying because on the big plans like the Verizon,

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Speaker 1: like for me personally, like I just had to switch

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Speaker 1: my entire plan because I got an email saying, oh,

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01:06:58,840 --> 01:07:00,920
Speaker 1: we're going to raise your rates this amount, or you

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01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:02,480
Speaker 1: can switch your plan to this because I was on

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01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:03,200
Speaker 1: an older plan.

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Speaker 2: And if you get one of those phones, the carrot,

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Speaker 2: that's the carrot, right exactly.

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Speaker 1: And then if you get an iPhone for free, quote unquote,

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Speaker 1: you got to change that. You know, whatever the latest

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01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:16,560
Speaker 1: unlimited plan is, they want you on that. Whereas I

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Speaker 1: remember when Metro was really being heavily promoted by T

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01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:22,360
Speaker 1: Mobile when they bought them, they were adding they're just

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01:07:22,400 --> 01:07:24,959
Speaker 1: tossing in lines like they were, you know, just free

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01:07:24,960 --> 01:07:26,280
Speaker 1: lines all over the place.

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Speaker 5: Right, And essentially Metro is T Mobile. Yeah, people, with

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Speaker 5: all my friends, it's kind of like a taboo question

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01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:38,360
Speaker 5: when you have somebody, hey, how much do you pay

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Speaker 5: for your cell phone bill each month?

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's right up there with with who you voted

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01:07:42,680 --> 01:07:45,720
Speaker 1: for two things you don't want to bring up at

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Speaker 1: a dinner party.

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Speaker 5: Ask me how much? I hey, three one hundred bucks

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Speaker 5: a month for four phones?

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Speaker 1: This is so so ed. You know my mom she

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01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:56,280
Speaker 1: has I moved her onto.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 1: She used to have Cricket. Now she's got Mint Mobile.

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01:07:59,840 --> 01:08:01,920
Speaker 1: And I'm not kidding. She tells all of her friends

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Speaker 1: how much she pays. She pays one time of year.

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Speaker 1: I think it's like three hundred bucks for the whole year.

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Speaker 1: And she has the same service, same stuff, And you know,

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01:08:09,480 --> 01:08:11,840
Speaker 1: Min obviously runs on T Mobile as well. And her

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01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:14,000
Speaker 1: friends like, no, no, I have a ninety dollars plan

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01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:15,640
Speaker 1: from AT and T. It can't there's no way it

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01:08:15,680 --> 01:08:17,120
Speaker 1: could be the same. She's like, it's the same.

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Speaker 2: I checked my Facebook.

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Speaker 5: They also say that too, there's no way your phone

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01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:24,400
Speaker 5: can do what mine can do. Yes, yeah, it does everything.

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Speaker 5: And I guess well, I'm trying to bring up a

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01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:30,920
Speaker 5: point as when when you're talking about the right plan

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01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:34,280
Speaker 5: for you. Of course you want the cheapest plan, but

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01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:36,200
Speaker 5: you don't want it to change. You want you don't

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01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:39,320
Speaker 5: want it to get more expensive. So I knew it

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01:08:39,360 --> 01:08:41,280
Speaker 5: a long time ago. As long as I keep this

1454
01:08:41,400 --> 01:08:44,920
Speaker 5: contract going and you can't miss a payment, there is

1455
01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:49,519
Speaker 5: no operators or anybody to call who cares. There's Google.

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01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:53,479
Speaker 5: But as long as you keep paying your pay payment

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01:08:53,560 --> 01:08:57,120
Speaker 5: each month, my bill does not change. Even when I

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Speaker 5: buy new phones and bring them in or buy them

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Speaker 5: from them. I know it's that's an expensive day, but

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01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:05,240
Speaker 5: it happens once in a while. But my I'm still

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Speaker 5: paying one hundred dollars a month. That's what's that's what's important.

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01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:10,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're saving over the long term, and most people

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01:09:10,400 --> 01:09:12,800
Speaker 1: don't want to do that math of the long term

1464
01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:14,960
Speaker 1: versus the initial And thanks for the call there on

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Speaker 1: hunting the beach.

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Speaker 2: Really appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, Metro is now for four lines

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01:09:19,840 --> 01:09:22,559
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five bucks a month, so one

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01:09:22,640 --> 01:09:25,000
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty for the first month, and that includes

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Speaker 1: some unlimited things. You're saving like seventy five dollars a

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Speaker 1: month for those four lines times twelve. That's nine hundred

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Speaker 1: bucks a year minimum, So that's a free iPhone right there.

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Speaker 1: Uh eighty eight rich one one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Talked about this

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Speaker 1: a little bit earlier in the show. But bitcoin, if

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Speaker 1: you happen to have some, you might want to take

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01:09:47,960 --> 01:09:50,720
Speaker 1: a look at your account because it is up, up, up,

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Speaker 1: up up. We talked about bitcoin extensively on a recent show.

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Speaker 1: Remember I went to that Bitcoin LA conference and uh, now,

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Speaker 1: bitcoin and there are a lot of people that are

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Speaker 1: very excited about bitcoin because of the election of President

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Speaker 1: President elect Trump and his pro crypto stance. So the

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Speaker 1: market is very optimistic. And in the past month, bitcoin

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Speaker 1: is up twenty seven percent. In the past week, it's

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01:10:22,040 --> 01:10:26,120
Speaker 1: up ten percent. The past day it's down one percent.

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01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:29,800
Speaker 1: So you know, but people, I think, what's gonna happen here?

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Speaker 1: We're seeing this has got to be almost an all

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Speaker 1: time high. We're at seventy six thousand dollars today. Apparently

1489
01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:40,639
Speaker 1: it reached seventy seven thousand on Friday before the weekend happened.

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Speaker 1: But people are buying this in their retirement plans as well.

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01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:46,800
Speaker 1: So you can buy bitcoin. Number one, you don't have

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Speaker 1: to buy a whole coin. Right, you can buy a

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Speaker 1: portion of a coin. So for instance, if you you know,

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Speaker 1: there's no way you're gonna put seventy six thousand, maybe

1495
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:57,240
Speaker 1: you would, I don't know, but there's you know, you

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Speaker 1: buy a portion, so you can say I want to

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Speaker 1: buy ten dollars of bitcoin. It will figure out the

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01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:03,920
Speaker 1: math and give you ten dollars. You want to buy

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Speaker 1: one hundred dollars a bitcoin, you do the math. So

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Speaker 1: there's various apps that can let you do this, something

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01:11:08,400 --> 01:11:11,240
Speaker 1: like a cash app, a PayPal app. There's a million

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01:11:11,280 --> 01:11:15,040
Speaker 1: coin base. I mean, there's so many ways to buy crypto. Again,

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01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:19,160
Speaker 1: from what I got from that bitcoin conference I went to,

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01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:22,479
Speaker 1: people are really hip on Bitcoin, but not so much

1505
01:11:22,560 --> 01:11:24,559
Speaker 1: the other coins out there. A couple of years ago,

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01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:27,720
Speaker 1: we saw a lot of coins being promoted and a

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01:11:27,760 --> 01:11:30,639
Speaker 1: lot of digital currency being promoted. Now we're mostly seeing

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01:11:30,680 --> 01:11:34,360
Speaker 1: the focus on bitcoin because it is where most of

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01:11:34,439 --> 01:11:38,800
Speaker 1: the emphasis is in the crypto world. So again, a

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Speaker 1: lot of analysts predicting that this could go up to

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01:11:41,160 --> 01:11:43,760
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars or more by the end of

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01:11:43,760 --> 01:11:46,200
Speaker 1: the year. And I will go back to my original

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01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:50,840
Speaker 1: email from my friend who told me back in many

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Speaker 1: many years ago. This is let me read this real quick,

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01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:58,200
Speaker 1: putting this on your calendar. This is in twenty thirteen.

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Speaker 1: There's been a lot of big coin news. Price just

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Speaker 1: Last time I emailed you was one twenty five. It's

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Speaker 1: ten years makes. Do your research before investing. This is

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

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

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. The website for

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Speaker 1: the show rich on Tech dot TV. You've got the

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Speaker 1: latest issue of my newsletter UH in it this week

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Speaker 1: talk about how to download your information from various services

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Speaker 1: like Instagram, Google, and Microsoft.

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Speaker 2: Explain that whole thing.

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Speaker 1: Then there's this idea of a you've heard of AI,

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Speaker 1: but what about private AI? There is a private and

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Speaker 1: uncensored AI chat bot. I mean, that's intriguing, right, So

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Speaker 1: I had to check that out. I've got that linked

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Speaker 1: up in the show note or as in the newsletter

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Speaker 1: as well. And then by way of my brother Justin,

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Speaker 1: who's been on the show, he sent me a link

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Speaker 1: to a open source image generation one of these AI

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Speaker 1: image generators. So there's a website hugging face and they've

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Speaker 1: got all these like AI models and things. But this

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Speaker 1: one's pretty cool because you use the latest AI stable

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Speaker 1: diffusion to generate images, so you can put into prompt

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Speaker 1: you don't have to sign in or anything, so it's

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Speaker 1: pretty good. Anyway, it's all in the newsletter. Rich on

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Speaker 1: tech dot TV. Just just hit the first thing on

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Speaker 1: leave your email address, says these smart glasses changed my POV.

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Speaker 1: It's all about those metas. Oh oh yes, I want

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Speaker 1: you to mention this too. Actually I might mention the feedbag,

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Speaker 1: but I talk about the the app that I I

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Speaker 1: used to email myself and I got an email about

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Speaker 1: that ironically, and I talk about how I switched. Actually,

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Speaker 1: one of the viewers or listeners that emailed me about

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Speaker 1: their app, I think it's better than one I picked,

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Speaker 1: So I talk about that as well. Eighty eight rich

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

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Speaker 1: four one zero. On this hour, we've got Dan Ackerman

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Speaker 1: in front of the show. He's been on before. I

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Speaker 1: used to work with him at c NEET. He is

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Speaker 1: going to talk to us about AI video clones and

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Speaker 1: also he uh he actually heads up sort of the

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Speaker 1: content creation at Microcenter. Remember we talked about micro Center

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Speaker 1: a couple couple weeks ago. How they're you know, they've

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Speaker 1: got the physical stores and all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: So might pick his brain a little bit about that.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Herbert in a Rancho, Santa Fe, California.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 12: Thank you, Rich. Quick question. I have a program that

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Speaker 12: goes through the computer and finds duplicates. Okay, and it's

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Speaker 12: called Jimminy two.

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Speaker 7: I think it's by math Paw.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 12: And I went through it and I didn't have any

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Speaker 12: idea I had that many dup with this. But I'm

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Speaker 12: just picking pictures, and I picked all the ones that

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Speaker 12: I would like to get rid of, but I'm afraid to.

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Speaker 12: I don't know enough about the program to commit to

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Speaker 12: getting rid of a several good advice of memory.

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Speaker 1: Well, okay, so first off, so Gemini to know it

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Speaker 1: very well, really like that program I use it have

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Speaker 1: used it in the past, and it's great. It does

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Speaker 1: what it says it does. Typically it chooses the file

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Speaker 1: that is either newer or smaller or something like that.

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Speaker 1: Is that what you've noticed?

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Speaker 12: You know, I didn't look into it enough. I glanced

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Speaker 12: at it. That is a concern that if I have

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Speaker 12: a picture in two different files, whether it takes it

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Speaker 12: out of the right one, but I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, usually about that.

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Speaker 1: Typically it uses smarts to kind of figure out, like

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Speaker 1: it goes, you know, it has like little rules that

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Speaker 1: are built in, so it's going to say, we know,

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Speaker 1: you know obviously, like let's say you have two of

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Speaker 1: the same pictures and it looks at the information on

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Speaker 1: them and says, okay, this one's smaller, so clearly this

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Speaker 1: is some sort of thumbnail or screenshot or a copy

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Speaker 1: that you made of this picture. Also, this one is newer,

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Speaker 1: so we know that there's an older version of it

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Speaker 1: that's bigger. So it's going to go through and choose

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Speaker 1: typically the one that it thinks it should keep, and

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Speaker 1: it typically does that using you know, just it's smarts

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Speaker 1: that are built into it. So that's that's probably what's

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Speaker 1: going to happen now. The other thing that I would

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Speaker 1: say is anytime you are going to make substantial changes

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Speaker 1: to a collection of photos, you want to make sure

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Speaker 1: that you have a backup before you do that. And

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Speaker 1: I know that that's tricky. You know that that can

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Speaker 1: be complicated. But if you just get a hard drive

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Speaker 1: and use time Machine on your Mac, are these stored

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Speaker 1: locally on your Mac?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, I I do that, Okay, back up on an

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Speaker 12: external hard drive.

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Speaker 1: Then you're good to go. Then I think you're fine.

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Speaker 1: As long as you have a double back or any

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Speaker 1: sort of backup of these pictures, I.

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Speaker 2: Think it's gonna be fine.

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Speaker 1: And that's that's the main thing, is that anytime you're

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Speaker 1: making large, substantial changes to any of the files on

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Speaker 1: your computer, you just want to be sure that, ay,

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Speaker 1: you're doing it slowly and methodically. You don't want to

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Speaker 1: just speed through this, and you're making sure you understand,

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Speaker 1: you know, the prompts that come up and things like that.

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Speaker 1: And with Jim and I, I believe that it puts

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Speaker 1: them in like a the trash first and then you

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Speaker 1: have to empty the trash. So if you you know,

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Speaker 1: I would probably leave them in the trash for the

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Speaker 1: next couple of days and then see if you need one.

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Speaker 1: But I will tell you one time, Herbert, that I

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Speaker 1: deleted a whole bunch of pictures one time out of

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Speaker 1: my Google drive and I realized that it was my

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Speaker 1: kid on like like some of the kid, like my

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Speaker 1: kid when he was born, Like they were all gone,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, oh no, this is not good.

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Speaker 2: And so thankfully I had a backup. I went back.

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Speaker 1: I pulled all those pics sures back. But my point

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Speaker 1: is it can happen. It's like once they're gone, you're

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Speaker 1: looking and you're like, oh no, this is not a

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Speaker 1: good thing. So but Gemini is a great program. They

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Speaker 1: actually make another one for the iPhone called they used

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Speaker 1: to make the version of this Gemini for the iPhone.

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Speaker 1: Now they make one called Clean my Phone, which is

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Speaker 1: also for the iPhone. It can kind of find the

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Speaker 1: duplicates and things. But yeah, it's a great program. It

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Speaker 1: does what you need. The other one I like that

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Speaker 1: does the duplicates is Remo r E m O, and

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Speaker 1: they've got a version of that, I believe, for it

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Speaker 1: looks like I know Windows, And they also have one

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Speaker 1: for Mac as well and the iPhone. So these are

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Speaker 1: great programs. Gemini Remo, all good programs. But again, before

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Speaker 1: you make any of those changes, please just make sure

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Speaker 1: you have a backup. If you're on Windows, just use

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Speaker 1: the built in backup. Just get a hard drive back

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Speaker 1: up your computer. If you're on you know, the Mac

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Speaker 1: side of things, just use time Machine. And if you're

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Speaker 1: doing anything that's like working with your cloud stuff. You know, people,

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Speaker 1: it took a while for people to realize that when

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Speaker 1: you delete a picture on your iPhone to save space,

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Speaker 1: it's also deleting it out of iCloud. So just be

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Speaker 1: aware of that. You know, when you're deleting things, you

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Speaker 1: have to be very aware of just how much you're

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Speaker 1: doing and how permanent that deletion is. Thankfully, with most

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Speaker 1: of these cloud services, things go into a deleted folder

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Speaker 1: where they stick around for a good thirty days before

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Speaker 1: they actually get deleted. So on iPhone, if you want

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Speaker 1: to look into that, you can open up your photos

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Speaker 1: app and if you scroll I mean they just change

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Speaker 1: the way photos works.

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Speaker 2: It's such a mess.

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Speaker 1: But if you scroll down you'll see where it says

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Speaker 1: utilities and recently deleted. So if you go into that album,

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Speaker 1: that's where you're going to see the recently deleted. And

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you know, if you're I just I

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Speaker 1: see the evil uses of all this stuff, like if

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Speaker 1: you're you know anyway, my point is that'd be the

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Speaker 1: first place I looked on a phone if I had

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Speaker 1: to like kind of see what's going on with this

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Speaker 1: person in their phone.

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Speaker 2: Thankfully Apple got hipped to that.

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Speaker 1: And now if you notice there's a little lock next

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Speaker 1: to the recently deleted, that's because let's say you grab

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Speaker 1: someone's iPhone and you're like, oh, I bet you I

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Speaker 1: can find some interesting stuff and they're recently deleted. They

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Speaker 1: now lock that down, so you need to actually use

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Speaker 1: face ID or passcode to open that up because they

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Speaker 1: figured out that, yeah, people probably delete some stuff they

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Speaker 1: don't want other people to see. Now, if you're in

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Speaker 1: Google Photos, which is what I use for my photos,

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Speaker 1: same thing. If you go into your collections, then you

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Speaker 1: can go and find your trash in there. So if

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Speaker 1: you go Google Photos collections and then trash it takes

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Speaker 1: It says items will be permanently deleted after sixty days

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Speaker 1: from trash, so that gives you enough time to do

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Speaker 1: something like clean out your system and go, oh wait,

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Speaker 1: where's that picture I just deleted. Oh there it is okay,

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Speaker 1: and you can restore those pictures easily. So that's the

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Speaker 1: way to do it. Great call Herbert. Thanks for the question.

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Speaker 5: There.

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Speaker 2: Let's see, do we have time to go to another question?

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Speaker 1: Not really, we got might have to wait until after

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Speaker 1: the break eighty eight rich one oh one eight eight

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

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Speaker 2: Timothy Jacob Hudson.

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Speaker 1: In this in how to Geek, the website says you

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Speaker 1: can skip paid antivirus in twenty twenty four. This is

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Speaker 1: an argument, and I've heard this idea before that what's

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Speaker 1: built into Windows is probably good enough nowadays.

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Speaker 2: But let me give you his argument.

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Speaker 1: He says Windows Defender, which is Microsoft's built in antivirus,

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Speaker 1: basically gets perfect or near perfect scores in security tests.

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Speaker 1: So he says, the built in modern security on devices

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Speaker 1: like Windows, iOS, Android in Mac has pretty much comprehensive

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Speaker 1: protection without a lot of extra cost, and most common

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Speaker 1: malware threats are already blocked by email, they blocked dangerous

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Speaker 1: attachments built in firewalls and the default system protections that

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Speaker 1: you have on Windows, iOS, Android in Mac. But here's

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Speaker 1: the thing that I would say with the caveat. So yes,

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Speaker 1: if you want to save money, you can use the

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Speaker 1: Microsoft built in antivirus Windows Defender.

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Speaker 2: Just make sure it's up to date. But here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: This only really works a if your software is up

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Speaker 1: to date and current. So if you're you know, Mac software,

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Speaker 1: your Windows software, your iPhone, you're Android or all up

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Speaker 1: to date, that's number one, you have to have those

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Speaker 1: latest security patches. Number two, this does not necessarily protect

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Speaker 1: you against you So I've mentioned this a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago. Why I think Chrome is a great browser

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Speaker 1: to use because it will scan the links that you

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Speaker 1: click and it will tell you in real time, hey,

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01:22:34,560 --> 01:22:37,599
Speaker 1: this is a phishing link. But the problem is people

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01:22:37,720 --> 01:22:40,800
Speaker 1: still fall for this stuff on a daily basis, and

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Speaker 1: that no antivirus software can really protect you from that.

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01:22:44,640 --> 01:22:48,479
Speaker 1: So if you're clicking links, your clicking links that you

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01:22:48,520 --> 01:22:51,200
Speaker 1: get in your text messages or in your email, you're

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01:22:51,240 --> 01:22:54,000
Speaker 1: putting in personal information, you're logging into websites when it

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01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:56,479
Speaker 1: says hey there's a problem with your payment, you can

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01:22:56,560 --> 01:22:59,080
Speaker 1: still get caught even if you're using these built in

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01:22:59,120 --> 01:23:03,479
Speaker 1: antivirus or built in protection, So be careful, understand what

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01:23:03,520 --> 01:23:06,120
Speaker 1: phishing is and how they're trying to get you. This

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

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01:23:11,360 --> 01:23:15,200
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology. The

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01:23:15,240 --> 01:23:19,000
Speaker 1: website for the show richon Tech dot tv coming up

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01:23:19,000 --> 01:23:21,840
Speaker 1: this hour. We have the feedbag a little bit later

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01:23:21,880 --> 01:23:26,960
Speaker 1: on and Dan Ackerman formerly I've seen it now with Microcenter.

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01:23:27,040 --> 01:23:30,639
Speaker 1: He is going to talk about creating an affordable AI

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01:23:30,920 --> 01:23:34,120
Speaker 1: video clone. I guess he did this himself and has

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01:23:34,160 --> 01:23:38,040
Speaker 1: some thoughts on that. Let's see email for the show

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01:23:38,200 --> 01:23:42,759
Speaker 1: richon Tech dot TV got an email here from Michael

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01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:46,200
Speaker 1: from Duarte. Hey, Rich, I'm a seventy one year old

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01:23:46,320 --> 01:23:47,839
Speaker 1: and technology challenge.

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01:23:47,880 --> 01:23:50,080
Speaker 2: I still use my flip phone that serves me very well.

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01:23:50,400 --> 01:23:52,000
Speaker 1: I try to listen to your show whenever I can

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01:23:52,080 --> 01:23:54,840
Speaker 1: while i'm washing the car walking around the house. I

1755
01:23:54,880 --> 01:23:57,559
Speaker 1: find you're hosting and educational qualities to be very good

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01:23:57,600 --> 01:23:59,360
Speaker 1: and I do learn things from you and your guests.

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01:24:00,200 --> 01:24:02,920
Speaker 1: Just end the reading right there. Thank you, Michael, now,

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01:24:02,920 --> 01:24:05,920
Speaker 1: but I'll keep going. I guess he has a question.

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01:24:06,240 --> 01:24:09,320
Speaker 1: My Dell desktop with Windows ten serves my basic needs

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01:24:09,320 --> 01:24:13,200
Speaker 1: web surfing, eBay, forums and streaming TV. Microsoft keeps encouraging

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01:24:13,240 --> 01:24:15,960
Speaker 1: me to upgrade to Windows eleven. But I believe if

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01:24:16,000 --> 01:24:18,800
Speaker 1: it ain't broken, don't fix it, will I eventually be

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01:24:18,880 --> 01:24:21,240
Speaker 1: forced to upgrade. Keep up the great work, Rich, and

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01:24:21,280 --> 01:24:24,960
Speaker 1: thanks for not only educating us, but being entertaining as well. Wow,

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01:24:25,080 --> 01:24:29,160
Speaker 1: entertaining you hear that, Bobo entertaining. We are entertaining people here,

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01:24:29,760 --> 01:24:32,720
Speaker 1: he's being nice. That was auto draft. He just used

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Speaker 1: that like auto like the Gmail helped me write, Oh,

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01:24:36,200 --> 01:24:38,080
Speaker 1: write a nice email to Rich like butter them up.

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Speaker 2: So answer my question. No, I'm just kidding. Thank you, Michael.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So here's the deal with Windows, and I totally

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Speaker 1: understand what you're saying.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I used to be the person I still am where

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01:24:48,800 --> 01:24:51,720
Speaker 1: I like to upgrade the second it's available, right like,

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01:24:51,800 --> 01:24:53,800
Speaker 1: I want the cutting edge. And most of the time

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Speaker 1: that's just because I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I

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Speaker 1: just like to have the latest, greatest, and of course

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01:24:57,840 --> 01:24:59,680
Speaker 1: I want to test it out. But I think when

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01:24:59,720 --> 01:25:03,160
Speaker 1: it comes this is something like Windows eleven. Why do

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01:25:03,200 --> 01:25:04,960
Speaker 1: you need to do that? I don't think you do,

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01:25:05,160 --> 01:25:07,000
Speaker 1: especially with the things you're telling me you do with

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01:25:07,040 --> 01:25:10,280
Speaker 1: your computer. So yes, it's in a Windows best interest

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01:25:10,320 --> 01:25:13,000
Speaker 1: to get people to upgrade and to upgrade early, and

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01:25:13,040 --> 01:25:15,080
Speaker 1: if there will be a deadline that you need to

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Speaker 1: upgrade by, and that's October fourteenth, twenty twenty five, that's

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01:25:19,360 --> 01:25:21,720
Speaker 1: called end of support, end of life. That means that

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Speaker 1: after that date, Windows will no longer support your system,

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01:25:25,439 --> 01:25:28,280
Speaker 1: and like we just talked about, that means no more

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Speaker 1: security updates, no more bug fixes.

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Speaker 2: But here's the catch.

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Speaker 1: They just announced that for an extra thirty bucks, you

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01:25:37,040 --> 01:25:39,920
Speaker 1: can extend that by a year. So Michael, you're looking

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Speaker 1: at at the very least, if you don't feel like

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01:25:41,920 --> 01:25:44,920
Speaker 1: changing anything on your computer, you can use your current

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01:25:44,960 --> 01:25:48,559
Speaker 1: Windows ten for thirty bucks all the way until well,

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01:25:48,600 --> 01:25:51,040
Speaker 1: you can use it for free until October fourteenth, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five. For thirty dollars you can use it all

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01:25:53,920 --> 01:25:57,320
Speaker 1: the way until October fourteenth, twenty twenty six. So you're

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01:25:57,360 --> 01:25:59,760
Speaker 1: looking at two more years from now. No big deal.

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Speaker 1: I think that for what you need. If your computer's working,

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01:26:03,040 --> 01:26:04,920
Speaker 1: like you said, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:06,000
Speaker 2: You don't need to upgrade.

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01:26:06,640 --> 01:26:08,760
Speaker 1: If you want the Windows eleven stuff, it's a little

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01:26:08,800 --> 01:26:13,960
Speaker 1: bit tricky because clearly your computer supports it, so that's fine.

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01:26:14,400 --> 01:26:17,720
Speaker 1: But the stuff that Windows eleven offers is mostly the

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01:26:17,760 --> 01:26:21,519
Speaker 1: AI stuff, So I mean it's if you want to

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01:26:21,520 --> 01:26:24,360
Speaker 1: play with that stuff, find the copilot stuff built in,

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01:26:24,800 --> 01:26:25,920
Speaker 1: but I don't really know if.

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Speaker 2: You need it.

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01:26:27,160 --> 01:26:29,599
Speaker 1: It's it's you're not going to get a substantial change

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Speaker 1: in the things that you're doing, because it sounds like

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01:26:31,760 --> 01:26:34,479
Speaker 1: most of the stuff you're doing is just web browser

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01:26:34,520 --> 01:26:39,960
Speaker 1: brace web browser based. So great question, and just just

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Speaker 1: ignore that prompt until you have to.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to.

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Speaker 1: Mark in Woodland Hills. Mark and Woodland Hills is on

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Speaker 1: the line. Welcome to the show, afternoon.

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Speaker 13: You know, I have a question. But I've been listening

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Speaker 13: to all this about plans and phones. I'd have to

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Speaker 13: tell you that I was going to go to Visible

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Speaker 13: for my mobile plan sure, but Mint and get a

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Speaker 13: unlimited data. But Mint matched the price. So if people

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Speaker 13: like Mint, you can approach them with that, they probably

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Speaker 13: will do some. As far as my favorite phone ever,

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Speaker 13: it was a Yoda three. I know all the security

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Speaker 13: problems with it, but my friend who's a retired Special

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Speaker 13: Forces officer, showed me his unplugged by Eric Prince. It's

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Speaker 13: a fantastic phone. It's nine hundred and fifty bucks.

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Speaker 5: You know it's not cheap, but.

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Speaker 13: They have vetted everything, and everything on their app store

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Speaker 13: is vetted. Plus, when you turn your phone off, it's off,

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Speaker 13: it disconnects.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, phone has a lot.

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Speaker 13: Of security elements built into it, and if you know

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Speaker 13: who Erik Prince is you can figure out why. But

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Speaker 13: I just thought i'd share that with your listeners.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting the new phones actually, with both iPhone

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Speaker 1: and Android, if you've got the latest operating system, they

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01:27:57,080 --> 01:27:59,960
Speaker 1: may turn off, but they're still findable with the fine miss.

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Speaker 1: So if you look at the pixel and you look

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01:28:01,960 --> 01:28:05,719
Speaker 1: at the iPhone, things don't really go off on those.

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Speaker 1: Do you have you heard of the graphene Graphene os?

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01:28:10,800 --> 01:28:12,840
Speaker 1: So this is like you can put this on your phone.

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01:28:12,840 --> 01:28:15,080
Speaker 1: I guess it's like a you know, it's an Android

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Speaker 1: operating system that is completely secure and private and mobile.

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Speaker 1: But the problem is, you know, since it doesn't have

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Speaker 1: a lot of connections to the Google Play Store, it's

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Speaker 1: going to be a little trickier to run things. So

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Speaker 1: that's like if you really want, like to turn any

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Speaker 1: phone into like a private phone. Anyway, I was going

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Speaker 1: to tinker with that to just see what it was

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Speaker 1: all about. So sounds like that's what that the other

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01:28:35,160 --> 01:28:38,360
Speaker 1: unplugged phone. You're talking about privacy. Look, privacy is going

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01:28:38,400 --> 01:28:41,559
Speaker 1: to become more important, more and more important in this world. Okay,

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01:28:41,560 --> 01:28:44,479
Speaker 1: now now that we've burned up, now.

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Speaker 13: Nobody is your information with this phone.

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Speaker 1: Now that we've burned up all your time, did you

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01:28:48,080 --> 01:28:50,200
Speaker 1: actually have a question. We only have a minute before coming.

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Speaker 13: I have a lot of files and folders, I mean

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Speaker 13: thousands of files and they're on various external hard drives

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Speaker 13: and my laptop. Free software out there that would help

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Speaker 13: me organize all my stuff and boil it down to

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Speaker 13: one version so that I can both have that and

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Speaker 13: you know, a copy of course.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's a great question.

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Speaker 1: I mean what I would do is probably just dump

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Speaker 1: everything onto like get one drive and dump everything onto there,

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01:29:15,960 --> 01:29:18,400
Speaker 1: not one drive like Microsoft, but just one drive and

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01:29:18,479 --> 01:29:21,400
Speaker 1: jump dump everything in. That should take care of some

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01:29:21,439 --> 01:29:24,439
Speaker 1: of the duplicates. I'm trying to think if there's a

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Speaker 1: across the board.

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Speaker 2: I can't think of one off the top of my head.

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Speaker 1: But the good news about this show is that someone

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01:29:29,680 --> 01:29:32,479
Speaker 1: else may have a suggestion. But you're saying one app

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01:29:32,520 --> 01:29:36,559
Speaker 1: that can just go through everything and consolidate. I know

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01:29:36,680 --> 01:29:39,960
Speaker 1: Dropbox has dash but that may not be exactly what

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01:29:39,960 --> 01:29:42,479
Speaker 1: you're looking for. That's more for search. We'll think about it.

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Speaker 5: Mark.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we're going to talk about AI clones.

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

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Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology at eighty eight rich one

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

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Speaker 1: one zero one. Before the break, we had a Mark

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01:30:00,320 --> 01:30:03,520
Speaker 1: in Woodland Hills wanting to consolidate all of his files

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01:30:03,600 --> 01:30:06,120
Speaker 1: and he needed a good app to help him do that.

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Speaker 2: I was looking online.

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Speaker 1: I found one for Mac called space Drive, which sounds

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01:30:10,720 --> 01:30:13,080
Speaker 1: like it might actually help him out. It says design

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Speaker 1: for creators, hoarders, and the painfully disorganized. So I think

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Speaker 1: that one sounds like it might fit the bill for him,

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01:30:19,040 --> 01:30:21,800
Speaker 1: depending on what side of you know macro windows he's on.

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Speaker 2: Joining me now.

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Speaker 1: Oh by the way, if you want to comment on

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01:30:25,840 --> 01:30:27,280
Speaker 1: that or give me a suggestion, you can go to

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01:30:27,320 --> 01:30:29,800
Speaker 1: the website rich on Tech dot tv and hit the

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Speaker 1: show notes and email me that Joining me now is

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Speaker 1: Dan Ackerman, editor in chief at Microcenter.

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Speaker 2: Dan, welcome to the show. Not good to be with you,

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Speaker 2: Rich So.

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Speaker 1: Dan and I worked together at cnet many moons ago.

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Speaker 1: He is now the editor in chief at Microcenter. Explain

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01:30:46,400 --> 01:30:48,040
Speaker 1: what that means, because we wrote a love letter to

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01:30:48,080 --> 01:30:50,519
Speaker 1: micro Center a couple of weeks ago saying how much

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01:30:50,560 --> 01:30:52,960
Speaker 1: we love the idea of an in shopping in store

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Speaker 1: shopping experience, and what does that mean to your editor

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Speaker 1: in chief there?

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Speaker 14: Explain, Oh, that's so great because you know, after like

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Speaker 14: twenty plus years and traditional tech media working at c net,

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Speaker 14: being the editor in chief of Gizmoto, I got recruited

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Speaker 14: by Microcenter, which is a great organization. It's a series

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Speaker 14: about twenty eight twenty nine stores. We can get all

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Speaker 14: your computer stuff and TVs and three D printers, but really,

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01:31:15,840 --> 01:31:18,120
Speaker 14: if you're building a computer from scratch and you need

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Speaker 14: all the graphless cards parts, you go there and you

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01:31:20,360 --> 01:31:23,160
Speaker 14: hang outs all community. And they wanted to start doing

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Speaker 14: a news site because they saw that a lot of

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Speaker 14: the traditional tech media sites were going out of business,

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Speaker 14: laying people off, really downsizing, and they said, you know what,

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Speaker 14: let's just hire some experts and get in on this.

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Speaker 14: So they hired me, and then I have in turn

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Speaker 14: hired many many rich of our former c net colleagues

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Speaker 14: as freelancers. Is basically at Mini c net and we

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Speaker 14: do reviews and five we talk about AI a lot.

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Speaker 15: We're about to get into the holiday shopping season.

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Speaker 14: So it's really a tech news site that just happens

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01:31:49,120 --> 01:31:50,480
Speaker 14: to be under the microsport.

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Speaker 1: So if you go to microcenter dot com, is it

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Speaker 1: the MC news? Is that what you tap?

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Speaker 2: It is?

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Speaker 15: And it's also at microcenter dot news.

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Speaker 2: Oh, Microcenter dot News. All right, there you go.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk about some news first off, before we

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Speaker 1: get to the AI clones that you tested out. PlayStation

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01:32:06,360 --> 01:32:10,200
Speaker 1: five Pro launched this week seven hundred dollars. What do

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Speaker 1: we need to know about that? The PlayStation five Pro

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Speaker 1: really interesting.

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Speaker 14: They did this last generation with the PS four Pro

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Speaker 14: and the Xbox one X, where before the whole next

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Speaker 14: generation they had in between with slightly more powerful graphics,

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Speaker 14: more memory to kind of keep up. Because when you

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Speaker 14: buy a game console, you're buying something at set in Stone.

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Speaker 15: The hardware is not going to change.

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Speaker 14: And three or four or five years later, he ses

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Speaker 14: gaming PCs are so much more advanced you need kind

1945
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Speaker 14: of a catch up, and the PS five Pro is

1946
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Speaker 14: that catch up. Basically, if you play PS five games

1947
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Speaker 14: a lot of the time, you're going to see.

1948
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Speaker 15: There's two graphics options.

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Speaker 14: It's like fidelity, which means a lot of special effects

1950
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Speaker 14: and radtracing and stuff, but like thirty frames per second,

1951
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Speaker 14: or Performance, which strips a lot of the special effects

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Speaker 14: out and gives you sixty frames per second. And the

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Speaker 14: PS five Pro, because it's got a new GPU and

1954
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Speaker 14: more RAM and more storage space, it basically gives you

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Speaker 14: the sixty frames and the higher end graphics, and.

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Speaker 15: In some games it really makes a difference.

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Speaker 1: We were just testing out a game on the one

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Speaker 1: of the consoles and my kid came up against that screen.

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Speaker 2: He's like, which one should I choose. I'm like, I

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Speaker 2: don't know.

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Speaker 1: Do you want it the better graphics or you want

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Speaker 1: the faster gameplay? I guess that's the main thing, right.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, And most people go for the faster gameplay, and frankly,

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Speaker 14: that's the right choice a lot of the time, because

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Speaker 14: you want things to feel fluid, but you also don't

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Speaker 14: want to miss out on, you know, rate tracing and

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Speaker 14: those all THESS reflections and the cool water effects and

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Speaker 14: the lighting. So something like the PS five Pro, and

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Speaker 14: I'm sure there'll be an Xbox version of something similar

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Speaker 14: not that far in the future, you get to have

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Speaker 14: the best of both worlds, and even though it's more

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Speaker 14: expensive at you know, seven hundred dollars, it's still less

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Speaker 14: than buying a big gaming PC, which could cost you

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Speaker 14: twelve hundred and fifteen hundred, two thousand dollars or more

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Speaker 14: in order to get that frame rate plus really cool

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Speaker 14: visuals combination.

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Speaker 1: So would you recommend someone that has the PlayStation five

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Speaker 1: to get this and trade in their old one, or

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Speaker 1: who do you expect to buy it?

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Speaker 15: Says this thing? The trade in is not a bad idea.

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Speaker 14: If you have a PS five and you love it,

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Speaker 14: I don't think you really need to step up to this.

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Speaker 14: But if you're getting into it now and you're like, oh,

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Speaker 14: I'm going to go buy a PS five, finally you

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Speaker 14: should get the pro because it's going to have a

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Speaker 14: longer lifespan than the regular PS five. Or if you

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Speaker 14: have one and you're like, oh, I'm going to get

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Speaker 14: a second one for the den or the bedroom or something,

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Speaker 14: move the original back there, get the pro for your

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Speaker 14: living room.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And I'm looking at the trade in price on

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Speaker 1: the PS five. It's about two hundred and fifty dollars,

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Speaker 1: so that's not too bad for it's not.

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Speaker 14: Too bad, but if you're happy with the PS five,

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Speaker 14: you don't need to upgrade. But if you're getting into

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Speaker 14: the platform now, or if you want to like add

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Speaker 14: it to another room, that's a good excuse to this

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Speaker 14: lurg to get the.

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Speaker 1: Pro Okay, So in one of your latest articles for Microcenter,

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Speaker 1: you you experimented with creating an AI clone of yourself.

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Speaker 2: So you why'd you want to do that? You know,

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Speaker 2: since we.

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Speaker 14: Started talking about AI a couple of years ago, one

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Speaker 14: of the topics that keeps coming up is people doing

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Speaker 14: deep fakes, people making AI clones of themselves.

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Speaker 15: You know, Can you trust video? Can you trust audio?

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Speaker 15: And those tools have become available to just everyday folks

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Speaker 15: like you and me.

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Speaker 14: And I spent some time thinking about how it would

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Speaker 14: create a clone of myself that could do video, that

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Speaker 14: could have my voice, half my face, even half my

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Speaker 14: style in terms of writing. It cut me up with content,

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Speaker 14: but it was never really there. It was too expensive,

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Speaker 14: too complicated, it didn't work well enough. Finally this spring

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Speaker 14: it really started to come together, and I signed up

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Speaker 14: with one app called hey Jen that's a cloud based

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Speaker 14: AI app, and you give it some audio, audio and

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Speaker 14: video and it makes a phone of you and does

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Speaker 14: the video Okay, the voice is so su So then

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Speaker 14: I signed up with another app called eleven Lamps and

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Speaker 14: they do really good voice cloning, and then I could

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Speaker 14: api the two of them together. So I give my

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Speaker 14: script to one app and it does the video and

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Speaker 14: pulls in my voice from the other app, and then

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Speaker 14: it says, Hey, you've got a video.

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Speaker 15: It's something that looks like you reading this script.

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Speaker 14: And you know, if you know me very well, maybe

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Speaker 14: like you do Rich, you'd be able to tell it

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Speaker 14: wasn't really me, but the average person on the street.

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Speaker 14: I could make a pretty convincing case that that's a

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Speaker 14: real person talking to you.

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Speaker 2: Wow, and what do you?

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Speaker 7: So? Do you?

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Speaker 2: What's your conclusion here?

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Speaker 1: I mean, is this something that you would use for

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Speaker 1: content creation or is it more just to show like

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Speaker 1: this is just the beginning of we're going to see

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Speaker 1: people that we don't even know if they're real or not.

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Speaker 15: Yeah. I had two reasons I wanted to do this.

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Speaker 14: One was to see what you could do and how

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Speaker 14: inexpensively you could do it. The article I did on

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Speaker 14: this was called basically how to make an AI clone

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Speaker 14: yourself for under fifty bucks, Because if you want to

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Speaker 14: play around with it for a month. Hey jen was

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Speaker 14: like twenty nine dollars a month, eleven lamps was like

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Speaker 14: five dollars a month to the basic planner ten dollars

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Speaker 14: a month for a more advanced plan. I ended up

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Speaker 14: doing a little Q and A session with my virtual

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Speaker 14: self and I used the custom GPT I made and

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Speaker 14: chat GPT that was trained on all my writing.

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Speaker 15: So I would ask you a.

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Speaker 14: Couple of questions like should I play Star Wars Outlaws

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Speaker 14: or or a Space Marine two? Or what kind of

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Speaker 14: power supply do my need for a gaming desktop of

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Speaker 14: a forty eighty in video card? And it gave me

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Speaker 14: some good answers, and I had my AI you know

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Speaker 14: face read them out and.

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Speaker 15: Do the split screen. So it's showing that you can

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Speaker 15: do that, but it's more to.

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Speaker 14: Show people that you should be careful what you watch,

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Speaker 14: what you'd listen to, you know, be a smart consumer

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Speaker 14: of media. But then I did find a practically used

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Speaker 14: for it. I took articles I wrote and I made

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Speaker 14: TikTok videos out of them by basically running some b

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Speaker 14: roll in the background, giving the article to my AI

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Speaker 14: self to read and putt of the little pop up

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Speaker 14: end of myself in the bottom reading the article.

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Speaker 15: The lighting is always good, the voice always sounds good.

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Speaker 15: It's my words. And now you've got a quick TikTok.

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Speaker 14: Video or a YouTube shorts video based on the articles

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Speaker 14: that I wrote that I wouldn't have time to do

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Speaker 14: a breakout video up necessarily.

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Speaker 2: That is so wild, all right.

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Speaker 1: If you want to see this, you can go to

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Speaker 1: the website Microcenter.

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Speaker 2: Dan has got it linked up. Let me see here.

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Speaker 1: The article is titled how I turn myself into an

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Speaker 1: AI video clone for under fifty dollars. And I got

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Speaker 1: to say the video clone looked pretty good. I was impressed,

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Speaker 1: so it's pretty good.

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Speaker 14: The first version I did, I used just the stealthy

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Speaker 14: camera on my phone and it was okay. The second version,

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Speaker 14: I used the rear camera on the phone is really

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Speaker 14: good natural lighting.

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Speaker 15: That was a lot better.

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Speaker 14: The third version I went to the Microcenter studio and

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Speaker 14: they shot me in a studio with.

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Speaker 15: A professional camera in professional lighting.

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Speaker 14: And the better material that you give these AI apps,

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Speaker 14: the better version of yourself that you're going to get back.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 1: And I've also seen you can make headshots. You know,

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Speaker 1: people use these programs to make headshots of themselves as well,

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Speaker 1: and it's like you need like a couple of pictures

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Speaker 1: and it like makes you look like the best possible

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Speaker 1: you've ever looked in your life.

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Speaker 2: Like, how did they do that? Oh, it's ai.

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Speaker 15: It's really funny.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, very fun Dan, thanks so much for joining me today.

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Speaker 1: Really appreciate it. The website microcenter dot com and uh

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Speaker 1: tell me again, it's microcenter dot dot news, dot news

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Speaker 1: if you want to go.

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Speaker 15: Directly new stories and reviews.

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Speaker 1: Yep, and very exciting, very very cool. And I love

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01:38:59,000 --> 01:39:01,599
Speaker 1: that you're doing this this news site there.

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Speaker 2: It's so cool.

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Speaker 1: And we love micro Center because I was in New

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Speaker 1: Jersey and I visited it and I talked about how

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Speaker 1: much I liked it on the show, and then people

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Speaker 1: were emailing me. They said, you know, you didn't have

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Speaker 1: to go as far as New Jersey. We have one

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Speaker 1: in Tustin, California that we love.

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Speaker 15: The Tustin show loved the New Jersey store.

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Speaker 14: New ones in Miami and Charlotte and Santa Clara coming

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Speaker 14: next year.

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Speaker 1: And what's the number one thing people buy there when

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Speaker 1: they go in is it the computers?

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Speaker 14: Right now, it's like a lot of graphics cards and

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Speaker 14: CPUs and I bet next year, when we have the

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Speaker 14: next generation Navidia cards, you're gonna see a huge run

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Speaker 14: on those.

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Speaker 1: All right, Dan Ackerman, editor in chief at micro Center,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining me today.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 15: Thanks a lot.

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Speaker 1: Rich All right, coming up, Oh, we are opening up

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Speaker 1: the feedback plus. I'm gonna tell you why Verizon is

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Speaker 1: giving you a little extra time to switch your messaging app.

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

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

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Speaker 1: of my favorite things to do every week. Also listening

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Speaker 1: to one of my favorite songs right now. Good job,

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Speaker 1: I'm playing that at the end, Bobo. So before we

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Speaker 1: get to the feedback, which is just bursting open this week,

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Speaker 1: let me tell you about Verizon Message Plus. Remember we

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Speaker 1: talked about this a couple of weeks ago. Verizon Messages

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Speaker 1: is going away and they want you to switch to

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Speaker 1: Google Messages. And that was supposed to happen on November seventh,

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Speaker 1: but guess what, the deadline has been extended to December ninth.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to keep Verizon Messages for just

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Speaker 1: a little bit longer, you do have a couple more weeks.

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Speaker 1: But I think you should probably switch to a different

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Speaker 1: app because this is going away on December ninth, unless

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Speaker 1: they extend it again. But then you're really rolling the dice.

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Speaker 1: But the reason why they want you to switch from

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Speaker 1: Verizon Messages to Google Messages is because you'll get better

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Speaker 1: cross messaging between iPhone and Android. Basically, you'll get the

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Speaker 1: upgrade to RCS, which means you can send your Android

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Speaker 1: friends and your iPhone friends larger quality pictures and videos,

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Speaker 1: and you'll see the read receipts and the typing indicators.

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01:41:11,360 --> 01:41:15,040
Speaker 1: It's just a much better, better solution. All right, Let's

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Speaker 1: open up the feedbag. These are the emails, the comments,

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01:41:17,840 --> 01:41:19,920
Speaker 1: and the questions you send to me every week on

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Speaker 1: the website. Rich on tech dot tv hit contact, Leo

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Speaker 1: writes in, Hey, Rich, just had a chance to listen

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Speaker 1: to your last podcast, and I have a couple of notes.

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Speaker 1: Rear dash cams work great through the rear windows, but

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Speaker 1: I haven't found a tape that stays put when the

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Speaker 1: sun beats down. Even heavy duty heat resistant tape melts off.

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Speaker 1: I'd suggest mounting it on the package shelf or another

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Speaker 1: part of the car. Also, you said the email me

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Speaker 1: app is only available for iOS, but I've used it

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Speaker 1: a long time on Android and it's free.

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Speaker 2: Keep up the good work.

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Speaker 1: So I had to look this up because I use

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Speaker 1: email me on iOS and then I use email myself

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Speaker 1: on Android. Email me is available on Android, but it's

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Speaker 1: not the same app that's on iOS. Yes, so I

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Speaker 1: did check out the email Me and I gotta say, Leo,

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Speaker 1: I actually switched over because I like it. It's cleaner,

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Speaker 1: it's simpler, it's easier. It is free, with the one

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Speaker 1: caveat that if you want to change the subject line

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Speaker 1: you have to pay. And that's actually a smart thing

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Speaker 1: by the developer because for me, the way I filter

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Speaker 1: all of my notes to self is with the subject line.

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Speaker 2: I put a little hashtag in it. So I will

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Speaker 2: be paying the.

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Speaker 1: Whatever it is three dollars to upgrade this, but email

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Speaker 1: me I'll link it up on the show notes. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for the suggestion. It's rare that I switch an app

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Speaker 1: that quickly. Terry writes in, Hey, Rich, love watching you

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Speaker 1: on TV and also on social media. Your sessions are helpful.

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Speaker 1: I have total av on my desktop some years ago.

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Speaker 1: I took advantage of an introductory price. Each year, I

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Speaker 1: call total AV and explain I'm a senior on a

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Speaker 1: fixed income, before asking if they can help with the price.

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Speaker 1: Much to my surprise, they are willing to assist. Recently,

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Speaker 1: we agreed to fifty nine instead of one to fifty

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Speaker 1: nine for my renewal. A few days later they offered

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Speaker 1: twenty nine, which I accepted. I verified this low price

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Speaker 1: was legitimate, calling their official number. Good job, Terry, And yes,

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Speaker 1: I think that the less you pay for this probably

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Speaker 1: the better they will get you on a high renewal

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Speaker 1: rate if you don't pay less. And I find that

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Speaker 1: this is a good thing to do. With anything that

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Speaker 1: you're paying, always call in, because honestly, even with doctor's offices,

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Speaker 1: just say, hey, is this the best deal I can get?

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Speaker 2: Is this the best price you can give me?

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Speaker 1: I've called doctor's bills and they literally just by asking them,

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Speaker 1: they'll be like, oh, yeah, here, we'll take fifty bucks

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Speaker 1: off or whatever. So same thing with all these things.

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Speaker 1: Just call in if you want to get a better price.

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Speaker 1: Steven from Orange rites in you might be interested in this.

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Speaker 1: I always pay cash at brick and mortar merchants. Recently,

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Speaker 1: at Trader Joe's, I pulled my wallet from my pocket

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Speaker 1: and the cashier handed me my receipt.

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Speaker 2: Wait, I hadn't paid yet.

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Speaker 1: Turns out the reader had detected my credit card through

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Speaker 1: my thick leather. Wallet management said, this can happen, Stephen.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad you wrote me this, because I have

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Speaker 1: actually experienced this myself, specifically at Trader Joe's. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what their systems are, but they are the strongest

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Speaker 1: RFI D NFC whatever you one, it's NFC. It is

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Speaker 1: the strongest NFC antenna I've ever seen in my life.

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Speaker 1: I pull out my card and immediately it goes oop

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Speaker 1: and I said, wait, what, I didn't even tap yet.

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Speaker 1: And it's happened several times. So thankfully, I use a

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Speaker 1: debit card most of the time, and it still wants that.

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Speaker 1: It still wants that pin number. But if you use

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Speaker 1: a credit card, yeah, it's just gonna authorize it instantly.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people like these RFI D blocker wallets,

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Speaker 1: so a lot of the wallets I've seen have that

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Speaker 1: built in just for this sort of protection. So there's

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Speaker 1: a company named Silent Pocket that makes these things and others,

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Speaker 1: but you can just look for any RFI D blocker technology.

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Speaker 1: My wallet actually has that now my new wallet does

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Speaker 1: have that, and so I do. I do like that

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Speaker 1: feature because you just never know. And it's only happened

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Speaker 1: to me at Trader Joe's for some reason. But I

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Speaker 1: love that place, so I'm fine with it, and it

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Speaker 1: is me buying it, So there you go. Alan from Brookline,

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Speaker 1: Massachusetts listens to the podcast. He says, listening to your

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Speaker 1: November second podcast about the caller with Google Chrome quote

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Speaker 1: performance issues. I tried your suggestion to perform a settings reset.

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Speaker 1: I had the same issue on my MacBook Pro. It

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Speaker 1: took about sixty seconds and it kept my bookmarks. I

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Speaker 1: just had to reactivate some extensions like bitwarden and re

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Speaker 1: log into your web into websites. Thank you for your knowledge. Well, Alan,

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Speaker 1: this is what I love about this show. You listen

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Speaker 1: to it and you'll learn and you hear things that say, huh,

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01:45:33,080 --> 01:45:35,400
Speaker 1: I didn't think about doing that, and it helps you out.

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01:45:35,479 --> 01:45:37,519
Speaker 1: So it sounds like the person who had all the

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01:45:37,520 --> 01:45:39,680
Speaker 1: different random things happened on their Chrome, they did a

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01:45:39,680 --> 01:45:41,519
Speaker 1: settings reset and it took care of it.

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Speaker 2: Did the same thing for you. Oh, let's see.

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Speaker 1: Don writes in a computer upgrade story, After my laptop

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01:45:48,960 --> 01:45:51,479
Speaker 1: started showing its age. I tried switching to a Mac

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01:45:51,560 --> 01:45:54,400
Speaker 1: Mini on a friend's recommendation. Despite his help, I struggled

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Speaker 1: with the different interface, so I donated it to my church. Later,

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Speaker 1: my tech savvy friend Josh found me a mull Form

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Speaker 1: Factor PC for just twenty five dollars what after setting

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01:46:04,200 --> 01:46:07,080
Speaker 1: it up, It's working perfectly, a great alternative to big

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01:46:07,160 --> 01:46:08,200
Speaker 1: desktop towers.

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Speaker 2: Two lessons learned.

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Speaker 1: There are affordable solutions out there, and having a knowledgeable,

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Speaker 1: helpful friend is invaluable. Keep up the great work, Rich,

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Speaker 1: it's helping us all.

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01:46:17,840 --> 01:46:18,559
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you.

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Speaker 1: And finally, Reg from the Bay Area listens on the podcast,

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01:46:23,320 --> 01:46:25,439
Speaker 1: says Rich, just a note of thanks for your segment

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Speaker 1: on US Mobile for cell service. I've been an AT

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Speaker 1: and T customer for years, paying almost one hundred bucks

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01:46:30,720 --> 01:46:34,040
Speaker 1: for two lines. After your information, I switched to US Mobile,

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Speaker 1: where I'm now on Verizon's network with unlimited calls and

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Speaker 1: texts plus five gigs a month for twenty three dollars

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Speaker 1: a month, no extra fees. The transfer is easy. I

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Speaker 1: wish I'd done it years ago. Thanks for all your

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Speaker 1: good work and sound advice. Thank you, Reg. I do

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Speaker 1: appreciate that, and that's what I aim to do help

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Speaker 1: you just know about this stuff. At the end of

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01:46:52,160 --> 01:46:53,720
Speaker 1: the day, you have to make the decision on whether

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01:46:53,720 --> 01:46:55,760
Speaker 1: you want to switch or whether it's worth it, whether

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01:46:55,800 --> 01:46:57,840
Speaker 1: you want to do something. But that's why I'm here

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01:46:57,880 --> 01:47:00,000
Speaker 1: to explain this stuff that is going to do it

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01:47:00,080 --> 01:47:01,760
Speaker 1: for this episode of the show. You can find links

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01:47:01,800 --> 01:47:03,519
Speaker 1: to everything I mentioned on the website. Just go to

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech dot TV. You can find me on

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01:47:06,520 --> 01:47:09,639
Speaker 1: social media. I am at rich on Tech. Before we go,

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Speaker 1: I do want to mention one thing. Robin Bertolucci, program

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Speaker 1: director at KFI, one of the primary stations we are

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01:47:18,920 --> 01:47:22,559
Speaker 1: on here with this show, is leaving KFI after twenty

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01:47:22,640 --> 01:47:24,920
Speaker 1: four years there as program director and I have to

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01:47:24,960 --> 01:47:29,680
Speaker 1: tell you Robin instrumental in getting me here to do

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01:47:29,760 --> 01:47:33,640
Speaker 1: this show. Robin was an amazing mentor. I don't know

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01:47:33,640 --> 01:47:35,519
Speaker 1: how she did it, but she seemed to listen to

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01:47:35,640 --> 01:47:37,400
Speaker 1: every word that came out of my mouth.

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Speaker 2: Over the years.

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Speaker 1: Has given me so much, so many opportunities, so much advice,

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01:47:45,240 --> 01:47:48,040
Speaker 1: always there for me, and I'm gonna miss her so

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01:47:48,200 --> 01:47:51,920
Speaker 1: much because even though she didn't directly oversee this show,

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01:47:52,200 --> 01:47:54,720
Speaker 1: she was always there to tell me what I did right,

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01:47:55,120 --> 01:47:57,599
Speaker 1: what I did wrong, what I could do better, And

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01:47:57,720 --> 01:47:59,519
Speaker 1: it's just one of those people that you meet in

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01:47:59,560 --> 01:48:02,479
Speaker 1: your life time that's just quite incredible and has an

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01:48:02,520 --> 01:48:05,880
Speaker 1: impact not only on you as a person, you as

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01:48:06,040 --> 01:48:10,280
Speaker 1: an employee and you as just a human. Just what

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Speaker 1: an amazing person, Robin. I will miss you. Thanks to

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01:48:13,520 --> 01:48:16,160
Speaker 1: everyone else who makes this show possible. Kim on phones,

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Speaker 1: Bobo on the board. My name is rich Demiro. I

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Speaker 1: will talk to you real soon.