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Speaker 1: Amazon revamps its Fire TV lineup, Ring has a new

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Speaker 1: indoor drone, backing up iPhone pictures without the cloud, plus

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Speaker 1: your tech questions answered.

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Speaker 2: What's going on? I'm Rich Damiro and this is Rich on.

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Speaker 1: Tech, the podcast where I talk about the tech stuff

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Speaker 1: I think you should know about, and it's where I

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Speaker 1: answer the questions that you send me. My name is

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Speaker 1: Rich Dmiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me today. Lots and lots

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Speaker 1: of tech news. It is quite remarkable how many gadgets

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Speaker 1: are coming out from now. It started, you know, back

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Speaker 1: in August, and now we've got September, we have.

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Speaker 2: October and November.

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Speaker 1: Well, probably everything will be done by October end of

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Speaker 1: October with the iPhone. But man, there are so many gadgets.

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Speaker 1: It seems like it seems like a lot. But this

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Speaker 2: But it just seems.

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Speaker 1: Super odd right now because we're in this pandemic. Everyone's

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Speaker 1: we want computers. We want work from home stuff. Smartphones

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Speaker 1: on a new phone right now? But again, there have

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Speaker 1: a surprise. This is something that generally happens. It just

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Speaker 1: seems odd right now for this time of the year.

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Speaker 1: But I've been wearing the new Apple Watch Series six.

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Speaker 1: Se handy to kind of check out and I'm putting

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Speaker 1: them through their paces. The Series six, I mean, I'll

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Speaker 1: be honest, it's great. The loop band is cool. Took

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Speaker 1: I mean it's definitely brighter, and the apps are a

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Speaker 1: The oxygen stuff is interesting, but it's not enough for

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Speaker 1: average person because it gives you pretty much everything you

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Speaker 1: and that is Amazon. Amazon had a big event this week.

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Speaker 1: with some of their announcements. So they kind of revamped

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Speaker 1: They're gonna do user profiles now, so you have six

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Speaker 4: My kid always seems to go to YouTube because he

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Speaker 1: on that level. He came up with the video door bell,

437
00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:14,280
Speaker 1: he came up with this drone. How smart is this?

438
00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:15,920
Speaker 1: Let me give you a real world example.

439
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,920
Speaker 2: So I was. I flew to New Jersey one time.

440
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,920
Speaker 1: This was a couple of years ago, and next thing,

441
00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,119
Speaker 1: no we land, we get to my dad's house. I

442
00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:27,800
Speaker 1: get the alarm on my phone saying, you know, there

443
00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,280
Speaker 1: is a fire in your house. Your fire alarm. Sorry,

444
00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:32,000
Speaker 1: your fire alarm is going off. And I get the

445
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,280
Speaker 1: call from the alarm company. You know, we're sending the

446
00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,160
Speaker 1: fire department. Wait, what what do you mean my house

447
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 1: on fire? What?

448
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:39,640
Speaker 2: I got a check?

449
00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 1: At that point, I had no cameras in my house.

450
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,600
Speaker 1: I had no way of knowing if this was just

451
00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 1: a false alarm or a real fire.

452
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:47,120
Speaker 2: So what I do?

453
00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 1: I called my friend in the neighborhood, and I said,

454
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Speaker 1: can you please go.

455
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:51,040
Speaker 2: Over to my house.

456
00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm there. I'm dropping everything. I'm going right now.

457
00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:55,879
Speaker 1: He runs over to my house just in time to

458
00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 1: see the fire truck and the firefighters ready to break

459
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,439
Speaker 1: in the back door to see what the deal is.

460
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:04,639
Speaker 1: There's no smoke, thank god. And he said, there's no smoke,

461
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,760
Speaker 1: but you know the firefighters are heard you want them

462
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,439
Speaker 1: to break open the door. I said, if there's no smoke,

463
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,679
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. And so long story short,

464
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 1: Now I have cameras and this exactly plays into that world.

465
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Speaker 1: So if my fire alarm went off again, what would

466
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Speaker 1: I do? I'd send up the drone. Hey, take a

467
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,320
Speaker 1: look around my house and tell me if my house

468
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:25,199
Speaker 1: is on fire or not.

469
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,560
Speaker 2: And hopefully it never is. But this is just I

470
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 2: love it, love it, love it, love it.

471
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Speaker 1: Now. There are a lot of privacy kind of factors

472
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Speaker 1: built into this thing. And by the way, this drone

473
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 1: flies automatically when you're away out of your house and

474
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 1: the alarm is triggered in a way mode, so it

475
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Speaker 1: automatically will fly a path to see what's happening. So

476
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Speaker 1: even if you don't Let's say you're on a plane

477
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 1: and something happens. This drone will capture video inside your

478
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Speaker 1: house that you can watch later. The device rests in

479
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Speaker 1: a base, The camera is physically blocked when it's docked,

480
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Speaker 1: and it only starts recording when the device leaves the

481
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Speaker 1: base and starts flying one of the preset paths. The

482
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,640
Speaker 1: camera also hums at a certain volume, so you know

483
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,800
Speaker 1: that it's recording. They say it's privacy that you can hear.

484
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,200
Speaker 1: Apparently this thing, I think it was two hundred and

485
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,840
Speaker 1: fifty dollars if I remember. Let's see do they even

486
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,439
Speaker 1: say Ring always on cam price?

487
00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 2: Two hundred fifty dollars.

488
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,040
Speaker 1: Oh, I can't wait to buy this. I cannot wait

489
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Speaker 1: to get this. Can you pre order it?

490
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Speaker 2: It says at the bottom of the thing I have.

491
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Speaker 1: That's it's not been authorized by the FCC yet. It's

492
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Speaker 1: not offered for sale until then. But I can't wait. Brilliant, brillion, brilliant.

493
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 1: And this is when I say in previous podcasts, I've

494
00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 1: said that a lot of the momentum is behind Ring

495
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:44,760
Speaker 1: when you compare it to other companies that are doing

496
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:49,280
Speaker 1: home security. Ring is just there. And in fact, I

497
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 1: have a couple of the Ring devices. I think it's

498
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,359
Speaker 1: time for some more because they really are putting a

499
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 1: lot into their devices and into their R and D

500
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Speaker 1: and into kind of having something that works with all

501
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 1: different aspects of your home.

502
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:08,160
Speaker 2: So I love it. That's the Ring. What is it called?

503
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 2: Let me.

504
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 1: The ring always on cam? Everyone's calling it the drone?

505
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,120
Speaker 1: But yeah, the ring always on cam?

506
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 2: How cool is that? Love it? Love it? Love it?

507
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 1: Oh, time for another question, this question. Let's see, let's

508
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 1: see who it's from.

509
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,639
Speaker 3: Hi, Rich, I saw your report this morning about Google

510
00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 3: Maps now showing COVID information, but when I checked my

511
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 3: Google Map nothing was on there. Do I need to

512
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,359
Speaker 3: turn on that layer somehow? Or is this feature coming soon?

513
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 3: Thanks for your help. I always love your reports. Thanks Tanya.

514
00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 1: All right, this was a report that I did on

515
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:49,800
Speaker 1: KTLA about Google Maps now showing COVID information. And this

516
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 1: is always kind of the issue that I run into

517
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,360
Speaker 1: with being early on a lot of things, is that

518
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 1: a lot of these tech companies announce stuff but it's

519
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:03,440
Speaker 1: not necessary available immediately, and so you ride that line.

520
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,200
Speaker 1: Do I want to be late and tell people when

521
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 1: this actually shows up on my phone? Or do I

522
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: want to tell you at the moment that it happens,

523
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 1: and it's announced because I want you to be on

524
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 1: the lookout for it, I.

525
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 2: Err on the side of telling you as it happens.

526
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:18,959
Speaker 1: And this is the result sometimes where you probably went

527
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: to Google Maps and you looked at the little layers

528
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 1: functionality and where is it rich? Well, first let me

529
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,879
Speaker 1: explain what the story is. So on Google Maps, Google

530
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 1: is now showing COVID information, which is just brilliant. And

531
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Speaker 1: the way to see it is to open up Google Maps.

532
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 1: If you look in the upper right hand corner, there's

533
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,160
Speaker 1: a little layers area where you can switch between satellite

534
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 1: terrain and some of the map details like street view

535
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,720
Speaker 1: or bicycling or traffic, and eventually there will be a

536
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,480
Speaker 1: little map type called COVID or I guess map details

537
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: called COVID. And this is great. Google is aggregating a

538
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 1: whole bunch of COVID information from various databases and putting

539
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,159
Speaker 1: it right on the maps. So let's say you're visiting

540
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 1: an area you want to see, hmm, is how's Bakersfield

541
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 1: doing with COVID. You just zoom in and you'll be

542
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 1: able to see how it's doing with cases, whether they're up,

543
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: whether they're down, whether you know how many there are

544
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 1: per one hundred thousand people. And you'll see it in

545
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 1: different ways. There's some numbers, there's some color coding, there's

546
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 1: some arrows trending up and down. But again, it's not

547
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 1: there just yet on my phone.

548
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,880
Speaker 2: But it should be there. So just check.

549
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:28,919
Speaker 1: And I keep checking every day. Whenever I see a

550
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: new feature that's really cool, I always want to. I

551
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 1: always check for it on like a daily basis to

552
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 1: see if it's there. And with Google, what they normally do,

553
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 1: since they have so many people and so many devices,

554
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: they don't send it out to everyone all at once

555
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 1: because that would be bad. They don't want everyone's phone

556
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: to crash if there is some sort of problem, so

557
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 1: they send it out in waves. And that's what happened

558
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,199
Speaker 1: with this COVID one. And so all you have to

559
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,639
Speaker 1: do is just wait for it to hit your device.

560
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to Samsung. I told you

561
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:01,679
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff this week with gadgets, but

562
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: this phone. I told you I fell in love with

563
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,360
Speaker 1: the Samsung Galaxy Note twenty, right, And I really did.

564
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,679
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no doubt about it. I love that phone.

565
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 1: I sit here every day and I miss it, and

566
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 1: I love my iPhone, but honestly, I'm a little bored

567
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,880
Speaker 1: by it. Even with iOS fourteen, I'm just like, Eh,

568
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 1: it's great. It does everything I want, but it's.

569
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 2: Kind of a boring phone.

570
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: And I say that because it just does everything so

571
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: perfectly that it's like, oh, come on, Whereas something like

572
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,640
Speaker 1: the Note twenty. There, you know, there's things I loved

573
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,679
Speaker 1: and didn't like about it, but it just had so

574
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: many little things going on and I was always discovering

575
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 1: new stuff. Wasn't enough to make me switch and buy it, no,

576
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: because it was too big. But the Galaxy S twenty

577
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: Fan Edition, I'm trying to find out what's wrong with

578
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 1: this because it seems like it would be a great

579
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: phone for me. This is the it's kind of like

580
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: a culmination of the S twenty series, or a mix,

581
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: i should say, of the S.

582
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 2: Twenty and the Note.

583
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:01,200
Speaker 1: So it's a premium flagship at a great price point

584
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: six ninety nine already, it's on sale for five ninety

585
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: nine on Amazon, and it has a lot of the

586
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,479
Speaker 1: features that people like about both of these devices, so

587
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: super smooth display one hundred and twenty hrtz display AI

588
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: powered camera. The best chipset that they have right now,

589
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: which is the Snapdragon eight sixty five.

590
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 2: Is that the plus? It is the let's say snap Dragon.

591
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 2: How come they don't list that in an easy to

592
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 2: find place.

593
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: Shouldn't that be first on the spec sheet?

594
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 2: Let's see? Oh yeah, Qualcom Snapdragon eight sixty five.

595
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: So it's got that, it's got expandable storage, it's got

596
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 1: a battery that lasts all day. The weird thing is

597
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 1: it's got this thirty two megapixel front camera, which okay,

598
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 1: I mean they never had that on the other ones,

599
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: but now it's there. And if you remember, the big

600
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: problem with the S twenty Ultra was that it had

601
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 1: the focus issues. And so it's like, you know, I

602
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:00,400
Speaker 1: feel bad for people that bought that phone, and I

603
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 1: in my review, I said it needs.

604
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 2: To work out.

605
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 1: Let's see what did I say? I will tell you

606
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: exactly what I said. Let me look up KTLAS twenty Ultra.

607
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 1: I said, Samsung Galaxy S twenty review. Amazing phone, but

608
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: camera focus.

609
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 2: Issues need to be solved.

610
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,959
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure that you know they were solved

611
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 1: for a big part of it, but I still think

612
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: it was a little disappointing for that phone. Let's see

613
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: what else U thirty times space soom, which means it's

614
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 1: three times optical. The rest is being done digitally. They've

615
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: got these great colors cloud, red, cloud, orange, cloud, lavender, cloud, mint, navy.

616
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 2: And white. I mean, what more could you want?

617
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: The haze effect, so it's not gonna hold all your fingerprints,

618
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 1: It's got five g it's got a six point five

619
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: inch screen for forty five hundred million hours, water and

620
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 1: dust resistant. I think this is the perfect phone Samsung.

621
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: On paper, this looks perfect. One hundred and twenty eight

622
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 1: gigs of storage, six gigs of RAM, even expandable up

623
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: to one terabyte with a microSD card.

624
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 2: What more could you want?

625
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: Starting availability October second, So Samsung is sending me one

626
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 1: of these to test out. If I fall in love

627
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: with it, I will let you know. But at this point,

628
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 1: I can't imagine what I would not like about this phone.

629
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: I mean, it seems like they just said, hey, what's

630
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: good about our two devices? But maybe people don't want

631
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 1: the Ultra. Maybe they don't need all that craziness. One

632
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: hundred time zoom, fifty times zoom, all these little features

633
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: that you know you might not use a stylist that

634
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 1: Let's make a phone that's a little bit easier to

635
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: handle and a little bit more accessible price point. So

636
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: hopefully this is a winner, and I will keep you

637
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: updated as I usually do here in the podcast.

638
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 2: Let's get to another question.

639
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 5: Hi, Rich, thank you for trying to keep people informed

640
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 5: on the ever changing technology. I am a technology challenged

641
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 5: grammar and was thinking about getting my seven year old

642
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 5: grandson a watch for Can you recommend some that might

643
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 5: be suitable but not with too many games and gadgets?

644
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 5: Thank you for your time, Jamie.

645
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I was abrupt cut off there. Thank you

646
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: for your time, Jamie, Jamie, great question, and I think

647
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: the answer to your question is drum roll please, I

648
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: don't think.

649
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 2: I have a drum roll, but let's see what's this one? Oh? Nothing,

650
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 2: what's this one? No, that's not it?

651
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 1: All right, I think the answer to your question is

652
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: the Apple Watch se two hundred and seventy nine dollars.

653
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: It is perfect for a child because it has all

654
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: the features you need and it's Apple. It's gonna work great.

655
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 1: Hopefully you or someone in your family has or someone

656
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: in your let's see it granddaughter grandson has an iPhone

657
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,479
Speaker 1: to set it up because now they have this new

658
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: feature called family set Up, and so you can set

659
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: up an Apple Watch for your child. Now you need

660
00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: an Apple Watch cellular. So it's it's not gonna be

661
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 1: just the two seventy nine. I believe you're gonna have

662
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Speaker 1: to spend a little bit more. I think it's in

663
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Speaker 1: three twenty nine, maybe so. But now here's the thing.

664
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Speaker 1: You do not have to activate the cellular. They strongly

665
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Speaker 1: recommend it, but you do not have to. Now, what

666
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: are you gonna lose in that situation? If you're using

667
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 1: this to keep track of your child or to communicate

668
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 1: with them, It's only gonna work during Wi Fi. You

669
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Speaker 1: know where they're in a Wi Fi network, and that's

670
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: not gonna be everywhere. So I would highly recommend that

671
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: you would get the cellular service if you truly want

672
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 1: this child to be connected. Uh, That's what I'd recommend.

673
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Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna recommend any of these other smart

674
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: watches for kids because they're all pretty pretty much garbage.

675
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: And Apple does have the best one. So if you

676
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: want the best, and you want your child to be connected,

677
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: and you want them, I don't know what. You didn't

678
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 1: really give me a reason for their watch. But if

679
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 1: it's connection, which is probably the only reason a seven

680
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,479
Speaker 1: or eight year old should have a watch, you know,

681
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: you need to have them on cellular. But I think

682
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: this is brilliant. The other ones I've seen out there,

683
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 1: like the Gizmo and all these things are giant.

684
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 2: It's like this giant.

685
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: Apparatus on the tiny child's wrist. So go with the

686
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Speaker 1: Apple Watch. See, it's a little bit more expensive, but

687
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Speaker 1: I think it will deliver what you need. And if

688
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 1: it's not, you know, the right time for it, save

689
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 1: up and you know, maybe just get it, you know,

690
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: next year or something like that. But that's a good question,

691
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: and I'm so happy Apple did that because there are

692
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Speaker 1: people out there that could benefit from their child having

693
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:32,879
Speaker 1: a smart watch to stay connected. All Right, we did

694
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Speaker 1: this story on KTLA this week, and I knew it

695
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: was gonna be popular, but I didn't realize just how

696
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: popular it was gonna be. But Wow, this was popular.

697
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:43,560
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna go through what we talked about,

698
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,720
Speaker 1: and the story was. I get so many emails people

699
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: want to know how they can transfer photos off their

700
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: iPhone to like sort of a flash drive without using iCloud.

701
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: And to me, I personally don't see the point of

702
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 1: this because the cloud is so easy. You've got Google Photos,

703
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: you've got iCloud, But why would you want to make

704
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,439
Speaker 1: life tougher for yourself. Well, there's various people out there,

705
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: and not one solution is for everyone, and so that's

706
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: why I looked into the solution for this, and it's

707
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: called the sand disc I Expand Flash Drive. They've been

708
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: making these for many years now. This is not the

709
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 1: first time I've heard of this, not the first time

710
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: I've featured it on KTLA. But when I saw how

711
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: many questions I was getting about people wanting to avoid

712
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: the cloud and backup photos from their iPhone, I said, okay,

713
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 1: well let's feature this thing. And so the one that

714
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,800
Speaker 1: they sent along is called the sand disc I Expand

715
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: Flash Drive GO. It's their newest, latest, greatest. The device

716
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: has a lightning jack on one side and then the

717
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 1: other side is USB. And to me, it would be

718
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 1: perfect if it was USBC, but it's not. It's just

719
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: regular USBA, and so you need a converter for something

720
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 1: like my computer. But it's a flash drive that plugs

721
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,280
Speaker 1: into your iPhone and it has special software from SanDisk

722
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: and when you activate it, when you plug this little

723
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 1: drive in, it says, hey, do you want us to

724
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 1: open the software? It opens the software and it starts

725
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: backing up your pictures from your camera roll immediately.

726
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's that cool. Now, when I tested it, it

727
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 2: was a little bit buggy.

728
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: But it seems like there's been two software updates since

729
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 1: I started testing it, and it seems to be a

730
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: little bit more smoothed out, and so it's great. I mean,

731
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Speaker 1: I can't recommend this thing enough if you want to

732
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: manually back up your photos on your iPhone. Now, people

733
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 1: were asking me, when you back them up, can I

734
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: delete them off my phone? No, just because you have

735
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: them on this flash drive does not mean you can

736
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 1: get rid of the originals on your phone. So if

737
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 1: you're trying to free up storage on your iPhone, you

738
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:41,839
Speaker 1: need to actually transfer these off or actually copy them

739
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: from this little flask drive to another place. You always

740
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:48,800
Speaker 1: have to have your pictures in two places. You cannot

741
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: just have your pictures on one place. What happens to

742
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,720
Speaker 1: this flash drive? You drop it in water? Boom, goodbye,

743
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: see ya? You misplace it?

744
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 2: Goodbye? See you.

745
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,919
Speaker 1: So pick two places, and that's where you need.

746
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 2: To back up your photos. So I am okay with this.

747
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,760
Speaker 1: If you want to have your photos on your iPhone

748
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,359
Speaker 1: and then back them up to this little device, and

749
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: that's fine. That's fine. That's two places. They're on your phone,

750
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 1: they're on your device. If your phone goes missing, oh

751
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: I've got all the pictures on this little flash drive.

752
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 1: If the flash drive goes missing, oh I've got all

753
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: the pictures on my phone.

754
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 2: You see how that works.

755
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 1: If you're going to delete them off your phone, you

756
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: need to find another hard drive and transfer the photos

757
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: or sorry, copy the photos from the flash drive onto

758
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 1: that other hard drive. So now you have them in

759
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 1: two places you can safely delete them from your phone. Personally,

760
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 1: I would copy them to a cloud service. I know

761
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 1: you don't want it there, but that's what I do.

762
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: And right now I'm a little bit not taking my

763
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 1: own advice because right now I only have my pictures

764
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 1: in Google Photos and on my phone. Actually right now

765
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: they're only in Google Photos. But I'm in the process

766
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 1: of consolidating everything and then what I'm gonna do is

767
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: download my Google Photos library once every month or something

768
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 1: like that.

769
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:01,439
Speaker 2: But it's big.

770
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: It's like a terabyte, so it's kind of a process.

771
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 1: But that's what I would say. And then of course

772
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 1: I get all the questions from the Android folks, Rich

773
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: is there something similar for Android? Well, there is a

774
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: sand Disk also makes something called the sand Disk Ultra

775
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: Dual Drive LUX. And the question is do they make

776
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 1: the same software, because you can plug any USBC drive

777
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 1: into an Android phone and it will copy files back

778
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,839
Speaker 1: and forth for ninety nine percent of Android phones. Rather,

779
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,720
Speaker 1: but the software is the magic, because the software enables

780
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 1: the automatic backup of your photos, and that's what you

781
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:37,879
Speaker 1: really want.

782
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 2: So let's see.

783
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: Sand disk I expand Android. Or let's just do Google

784
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 1: Play and let's see if they have a Google Play

785
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: app and see I don't know if they do. Oh wait,

786
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 1: do they see I don't think they do. Let's see

787
00:38:54,000 --> 00:39:00,840
Speaker 1: sand disk I expand Android. Let's see if oh gosh,

788
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if they do. This is let's see

789
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: for Android. H is there an app? I see a

790
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 1: lot of flash drives. I'm looking for an app on

791
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:16,280
Speaker 1: their website, and so far I do not see one.

792
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: I'll go all the way down to the bottom. Yeah,

793
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: I don't know, So I'm not really sure, but they

794
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: do have a sand disc connect wireless stick and that

795
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:30,320
Speaker 1: might work.

796
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 2: Here's a USB USB. Gosh, they have so many different models.

797
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 2: But let's see.

798
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: Do they have an app free up? Oh, sand disk

799
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: Memory Zone app that looks like the app that you

800
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 1: need sand Disc Memory Zone. Let me see when this

801
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: was last updated, and it was last updated on September second,

802
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:53,840
Speaker 1: twenty twenty.

803
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 2: Boom.

804
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 1: You are good to go. So now you know sand

805
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: disc check it out. Just look for a and disca

806
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: drive that works with your Android phone, whether you have

807
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: Micro USB or if you have the newer phones which

808
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: have USBC. All right, finally, one more question here we go, Hi.

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00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 6: Rich, how do I put a time limit on my

810
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 6: grandson's iPhone and iPad and not online? I play one

811
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 6: of the games when he's not with me on my iPad.

812
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,800
Speaker 6: He has my old iPhone and iPad. They're all connected

813
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:25,720
Speaker 6: to my Apple account.

814
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 3: Midge.

815
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 1: All right, super super easy set up screen time, and

816
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,359
Speaker 1: Midge screen time will enable you to put a time

817
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 1: limit on that iPad. You say that you share the

818
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 1: iPad with your grandson, so all you need to do

819
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: is that when you're playing.

820
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:44,320
Speaker 2: It's super easy.

821
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 1: It will just say, oh, time limit, And well, there's

822
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 1: a couple things you can do. You can set just

823
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: time limits for his apps and leave your app alone,

824
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: or you can set time limits for all the gaming

825
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: on there, and then when you go on there to play,

826
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 1: you can you can just type in a code it

827
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: says like, oh sorry, screen time, and you can just

828
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: go in there and type it says more time, and

829
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 1: you can just authorize it with your pin codes. You

830
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: can make a little pin and that's it. That's why

831
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: I do my kids with screen time as well. Super

832
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: duper easy. So set up screen time. Go on the

833
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,319
Speaker 1: Apple support website search screen time, set it up on

834
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:23,280
Speaker 1: the iPhone and iPad and set up for your child

835
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 1: or your grandson rather. And then when you go on

836
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: there to play the game, it'll say, oh sorry, time limit.

837
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 1: It's already been played for two hours. Games have been

838
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: played on here. You just say, oh, give me, you know,

839
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 1: another half an hour or I think it. I think

840
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 1: they give you options, whether it's fifteen minutes or an hour.

841
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: You just select one of those options and that's it.

842
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: The child, you know, you can bypass the child because

843
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 1: you are the adult.

844
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 2: Midge.

845
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: You know that, right, You are the adult, even though

846
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 1: on this show your synthesized voice, So yes, that is going.

847
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 2: To do it for this episode of the show.

848
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 1: If you would like to submit a question for me

849
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: to answer, just go to you rich on tech dot

850
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 1: tv and hit the email button at the bottom of

851
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 1: the page. Also, i'd love it if you would rate

852
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Speaker 1: and review this podcast so you can help other people

853
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:12,240
Speaker 1: discover it. Just go to rate this podcast dot com

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00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: slash rich on tech and let me know what you

855
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:18,439
Speaker 1: liked or didn't like about the computerized voices. I think

856
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: I haven't decided what I'm gonna do about the questions,

857
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: but you know, I'm just trying new things and seeing

858
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: what works what doesn't work. If you like me reading them,

859
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: let me know. If you like someone else reading them,

860
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:30,839
Speaker 1: let me know. If you like the computer reading them,

861
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 1: let me know. I thought it's kind of fun to

862
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:34,399
Speaker 1: have the computer because you know, this is a tech

863
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: show and I just like the idea of it.

864
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 2: But let me know.

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Speaker 1: You can find me on social media at rich on Tech.

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00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:44,800
Speaker 1: I'm rich Timiro. Thank you so much for listening. Stay safe,

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Speaker 1: I'll talk to you real soon.