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Speaker 1: it's a game of cat and mouse with Apple. The

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Speaker 1: How to bring Ai Santa to your backyard, plus your

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Speaker 1: tech questions answered. What's going on. I'm Rich Demiro and

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Speaker 1: this is Rich on Tech broadcasting live from Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: coast to coast. This is the show where I talk

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Speaker 1: about the tech stuff I think you should know about.

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

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Speaker 1: I believe that tech should be interesting, useful, and fun.

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Speaker 1: Phone lines are open at triple eight Rich one oh one.

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Speaker 2: Give me a call.

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Speaker 1: If you have a question about technology. Email also open.

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Speaker 1: Just go to richon tech dot TV hit contact. We've

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Speaker 1: got a great show this week. We've got guests in voting.

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Speaker 1: Eric Mitchagovski, the co founder of Beeper. He's going to

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Speaker 1: talk about Beeper Mini. This is the app that brought

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Speaker 1: my message to Android for a hot minute this week,

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Speaker 1: and it is currently shut down by Apple apparently, and

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Speaker 1: maybe back up and running by the time you listen

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Speaker 1: to this.

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Speaker 2: Who knows.

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Speaker 1: If you're not listening live Mitch Lee, one of the

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Speaker 1: founders of ARC. This is a startup building all electric

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Speaker 1: performance speed boats. I had the chance to go out

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Speaker 1: it is wild. So we'll talk to Mitch about electrifying

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Speaker 1: the boating industry. And we've got Steven Akino, a freelance

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Speaker 1: tech journalist covering accessibility and assistive technologies. He's going to

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Speaker 1: talk about Microsoft's Seeing Ai app, which is now on Android,

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Speaker 2: Well, I hope you're having a great week.

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Speaker 1: Last week after the show, I went to dinner and

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Speaker 1: a little wild story. So we're at dinner and basically

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Speaker 1: I'm taking a picture outside as I typically do my wife,

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Speaker 1: They stand out in the street and they say, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh what? And I kind of like

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Speaker 1: I played it cool and was like, no, it's fine,

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Speaker 1: that's kind of scary, Like what could someone do when

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Speaker 1: they have your phone. Well, they can look at your

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Speaker 1: They might try to access your banking apps. Now, a

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Speaker 1: Imagine someone just takes my phone and they post start

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Speaker 1: They could immediately try to change your passwords and lock

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Speaker 1: What else this week, Oh, we got to talk about

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Speaker 1: Getting a lot of messages recently about Amazon getting hacked.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Rich, I just wanted to put my two cents

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Speaker 1: So we got an app this week called Beeper Mini.

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Speaker 7: So I've been working in startups for a while. I

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Speaker 7: Mini and downloading the app on your Android phone. As

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Speaker 7: soon as you download it, you press a couple buttons

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Speaker 7: and you can start chatting with all of your iPhone

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Speaker 7: friends with a blue bubble. That means that you can

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Speaker 7: send full resolution images, videos, no more staticky you know,

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Speaker 7: small videos anymore. You can send emoji reactions, you can

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Speaker 7: participate in threads. All of your chats are now encrypted

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Speaker 7: so no one else can read them. And best of all,

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Speaker 7: your iPhone friends, when they type in your phone number,

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Speaker 7: you'll show up as a blue bubble, and you're probably

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Speaker 7: going to be more likely to be added to group chats.

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Speaker 7: I certainly have found that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So, Eric, I'm imagining that you did not go

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Speaker 1: to WWDC Apple's developer conference and get the blessing of

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Speaker 1: Apple to do this. So how did you make this

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Speaker 1: possible for these Android users?

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Speaker 7: Actually a pretty interesting story. So up until deeper many

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Speaker 7: the only devices that could send blue bubble messages were

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Speaker 7: iPhones and Max. But over the summer, a sixteen year

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Speaker 7: old security reacher researcher actually uncovered the secret to how

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Speaker 7: I message works, and he wrote up a blog post

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Speaker 7: and created a kind of open source project that describes it.

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Speaker 7: We found it. Actually he contacted us, and well, I

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Speaker 7: mean we hired him as this sixteen year old kid

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Speaker 7: to work with us to help us crack the code

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Speaker 7: and figure out how to get this to work on

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Speaker 7: Android phones. So over the last few months we've been

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Speaker 7: working furiously on that, and just this week we announced

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Speaker 7: the app for the first time.

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Speaker 2: Is there any sort of security issue here?

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Speaker 1: Is there any sort of worrisome aspect of this other

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Speaker 1: than the fact that Apple may or may not shut

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Speaker 1: this down?

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Speaker 2: And I guess that's my other question. Can Apple shut

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Speaker 2: this down?

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Speaker 7: Well, here's how I look at it. Rich iPhone users today,

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Speaker 7: when they send a message to a friend on an

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Speaker 7: Android phone, they get a worse experience. It's not great.

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Speaker 7: You know, there's no like I said, there's no high

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Speaker 7: resolution pictures, Your messages are unencrypted. When your Android friend

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Speaker 7: downloads peper Mini, all of a sudden, you get a

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Speaker 7: better experience on your iPhone. And now I think it

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Speaker 7: would be kind of crazy to stop something like that.

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Speaker 7: Bper Mini is an app that makes both Android users

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Speaker 7: lives better as well as iPhone users. So I think

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Speaker 7: it'd be like, I think it'd be nuts to stop

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Speaker 7: something like that. It's just a net positive for the world,

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Speaker 7: and in terms of security, we have gone out of

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Speaker 7: our way to make this as secure and private as possible.

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Speaker 7: So the most important thing that we've done is we

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Speaker 7: do something called end to end encryption. That means that

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Speaker 7: when you send a message using deeper Mini, your message

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Speaker 7: is encrypted before it gets sent. That means that no

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Speaker 7: one can read your message. We can't read it. Apple

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Speaker 7: can't read it, your internet provider, your cell phone plan

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Speaker 7: can't read that message. No one can read the message

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Speaker 7: except for the recipient, except for the person that you're

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Speaker 7: sending it to. And that's really important. And up until now,

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Speaker 7: if you are an Android user sending a message to

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Speaker 7: an iPhone user, your message wouldn't be encrypted. Basically everyone

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Speaker 7: could read it. It's like a postcard. And so peeper

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Speaker 7: Mini actually brings a lot more security to the average

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Speaker 7: group chat or direct message.

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Speaker 2: Why didn't Apple make this app?

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Speaker 7: I mean they kind of are. So there was some

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Speaker 7: news two weeks ago where Apple said that they're going

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Speaker 7: to adopt an open standard for messaging called RCS, the

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Speaker 7: Rich Chat Service Protocol. They didn't say exactly when they're

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Speaker 7: going to do this, maybe by the end of twenty

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Speaker 7: twenty four, so fingers crossed, you know, it would be

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Speaker 7: a lot easier for us to do our jobs if

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Speaker 7: there was an open standard for messaging. So we're excited

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Speaker 7: by the possibility that Apple will do this, but we

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Speaker 7: just just said we couldn't wait. We had to do

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Speaker 7: it now.

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Speaker 1: All right, There you have it, Beeper Mini. It was

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Speaker 1: working really well for about twenty four hours, and you

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Speaker 1: heard the question, I said, is Apple going to shut

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Speaker 1: this down? And indeed they seem to have shut this down.

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Speaker 1: So Beeper was tweeting over the overnight saying that they

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Speaker 1: are working on getting this back up and running. But

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Speaker 1: at this point it's kind of a game of cat

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Speaker 1: and mouse because Apple sort of refuses to bring this

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Speaker 1: to Android when they know they can and make a

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Speaker 1: lot of lives better. I mean, the divide between you know,

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Speaker 1: the green bubble and the blue bubble. It's a real

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Speaker 1: thing and it's really annoying. And it's like the debate

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Speaker 1: I posted on my Instagram at rich on Tech a

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Speaker 1: simple question, I said, iPhone versus Android, And you can't

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Speaker 1: believe that in the year twenty twenty three, people are

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Speaker 1: still debating the merits of these two platforms. Now, I

529
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Speaker 1: don't mind if you have a preference for the phone

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Speaker 1: that you want. That's fine. There's a lot of options

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Speaker 1: on either side, but the fact that our messaging does

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Speaker 1: not work in the same way, and I feel like

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Speaker 1: a broken record because I've talked about this so much.

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Speaker 2: It's just not right now.

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Speaker 1: Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone next year, they

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Speaker 1: said late next year. That's still another possible six, seven, eight, nine,

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Speaker 1: ten months that people have to deal with this. And

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Speaker 1: even when RCS comes to the iPhone, which means Android

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Speaker 1: users will be able to exchange high quality photos and

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Speaker 1: videos with iPhone users, they will also be able to

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Speaker 1: get those you know, everything's just gonna work nice. So

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Speaker 1: that's basically it is. You'll be able to, you know,

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Speaker 1: exchange the videos and photos and not have them look

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Speaker 1: like a postage stamp. That will be the big advantage.

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Speaker 1: But the messages are still going to turn up green.

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Speaker 1: So Beeper was onto something. They were trying something. We'll see,

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Speaker 1: we'll continue to see if this works out. By the way,

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Speaker 1: they are charging two dollars a month, something else that

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Speaker 1: Apple probably doesn't like. All right, if you have a

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Speaker 1: question for me, give me a call. Triple eight rich

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Speaker 1: one O one that's eighty eight seven.

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Speaker 2: Four to two four one zero one.

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Speaker 1: You can also go to the website rich on Tech

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Speaker 1: dot TV, hit the contact link and you can send

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Speaker 1: me your email.

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Speaker 2: More rich on Tech coming your way right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech, Rich to Miuro here

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Speaker 1: talking technology. Triple eight Rich one oh one is the

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Speaker 1: phone number for the show. That's eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. This is show

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Speaker 1: number forty nine. By the way, if you can believe it,

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Speaker 1: it's almost been a full year of this show, which

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Speaker 1: I want to say thank you for inviting me into

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Speaker 1: your home and your car and your speakers and your

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Speaker 1: phone and your earbuds and all the other places you

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Speaker 1: might listen. It has truly been an honor. And uh,

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Speaker 1: it's not over. It's not like this is not like

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Speaker 1: a goodbye, It's go. It kind of started to sound

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Speaker 1: like I thought Bobo was gonna play me out for

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Speaker 1: a second there. No, I'm just saying thank you. I

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Speaker 1: just can't believe a year has gone by that fast

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Speaker 1: playing me out music. Let's go to uh John in

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Speaker 1: more Park.

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Speaker 9: John, You're on with rich Thank you Rich taking my call.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 9: I use YouTube. I listened to it via Wi Fi

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Speaker 9: and whatever. Normally it works just fine. But every once

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Speaker 9: in a while they speed up the the velocity of

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Speaker 9: their speech. There's doubles of their time, and I have

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Speaker 9: hard time at normal speed even either that's too fast

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Speaker 9: for me. I'm so slow. Is there any way I

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Speaker 9: can get around that? A trait of YouTube's feeding me up.

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Speaker 9: So it happens a few seconds and then they go

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Speaker 9: back to normal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, I think I know what's happening here.

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Speaker 1: There's well, there's a couple of things, and I actually

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Speaker 1: think I have a solution to your you know, if

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Speaker 1: you want to listen to things slower too, there's actually

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Speaker 1: a solution for that. But so, what's happening I think,

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Speaker 1: And I've seen this before on my Instagram. I have

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Speaker 1: a really bad connection at one of the places why

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Speaker 1: I look at Instagram and my stories and like the

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Speaker 1: same thing happens. Like I'm watching a reel and it's

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Speaker 1: like super fast, and all of a sudden it slows down,

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Speaker 1: and then it speeds up and it slows down. And

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Speaker 1: what's happening, I think, is an unstable internet connection. So

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Speaker 1: it's buffering, and so it's getting all that stuff and

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Speaker 1: it starts to play it and then it slows down

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Speaker 1: and it starts to play it again. So I think

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Speaker 1: that's what's happening here. So what you can do is

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Speaker 1: you can try to improve your Internet connection wherever you're

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Speaker 1: using this, So I know, if it's a TV or

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Speaker 1: something or a computer, you know, you may not be

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Speaker 1: able to move it to a different place, but that

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Speaker 1: might be it. But you might want to just kind

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Speaker 1: of like clear the cookies and the cash on your

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Speaker 1: computer and on your web browser, I should say, And

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Speaker 1: maybe that will help kind of clear things out and

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Speaker 1: make YouTube run smooth again. Now, if you want to

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Speaker 1: listen to things a little bit slower on YouTube, actually

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Speaker 1: is a way to do that. And I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: if this is just a premium feature. I pay for

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Speaker 1: like YouTube premium, so I'm seeing this on my account,

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Speaker 1: but it may be available to everyone. But if you

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Speaker 1: are watching a video, there's a little gear icon and

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Speaker 1: it says playback speed, and you can playback normal. Some

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Speaker 1: people like to listen to things faster, so they'll do

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Speaker 1: like a two X, but you can choose anything from

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Speaker 1: point two five to two X. So if you want

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Speaker 1: to listen to something slower, that is a way to

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Speaker 1: do it. And that's just a built into YouTube. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if that's a premium feature though, I do

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Speaker 1: not have information on that right now, but I know

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Speaker 1: it's on my account.

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Speaker 2: I guess I can go into like a you know

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Speaker 2: what I can do. Let me try this.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to go into a incognito web browser and

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Speaker 1: see if that's still available, and sure enough it is,

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Speaker 1: So there you go. So John, just tap that little

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Speaker 1: gear icon in the on the screen when you're watching

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Speaker 1: a video and it will say playback speed, which is

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Speaker 1: anywhere from point two five to two.

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Speaker 2: Good question. Thanks for calling in today. Let's go to

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Speaker 2: Bob in the San Fernando Valley. Bob, you're on with.

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Speaker 5: Rich A Rich Happy forty nine and happy happy holidays.

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Speaker 2: Thank you you too. What can I help you?

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Speaker 5: I'm I'm a big fan of the show, both on

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Speaker 5: TV here as well as the radio and this. I

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Speaker 5: have been with Time Warner on the East Coast and

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Speaker 5: then Time Warner here on the West Coast, and then

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Speaker 5: ultimately Spectrum. All this time I've been able to record

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Speaker 5: anything I wanted from television using cable and a recorder

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Speaker 5: of EHS or DVD recorder. On the end of the

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Speaker 5: middle of May of this year, I get an email

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Speaker 5: from Spectrum saying your item will arrive on Wednesday. Well,

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Speaker 5: I didn't order anything. When it arrived, there was a

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Speaker 5: huge box. Ok, I didn't open it. I called them

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Speaker 5: and said, well, if you didn't order that, you can

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Speaker 5: take it back, just drop it off. So I was

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Speaker 5: in and out of the Midwest and back, and on

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Speaker 5: May thirtieth, I got an email saying your new account

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Speaker 5: will start tomorrow. On June first, and I lost service

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Speaker 5: and I ended up calling Spectrum at like one in

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Speaker 5: the morning and talked to a tech for three hours.

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Speaker 5: He said open the box. And the box was a

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Speaker 5: new cable box. And the one thing about the cable

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Speaker 5: box is it did not have a coaxial cable out.

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Speaker 5: There was a table in TV out. That's the way

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Speaker 5: it's always been. Apparently I was considered a legacy account holder,

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Speaker 5: and so they stopped digital adapters which had both cable in.

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Speaker 2: TV out there just doing digital out.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. So basically I now cannot record or time shift

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Speaker 5: anything to the recorder or disc because I would do

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Speaker 5: that for historical reasons. Basically time shift my work patterns

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Speaker 5: would be second shift, third shift, so I could record

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Speaker 5: what I needed to look at when I got home.

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Speaker 2: And now you have no way of doing that, no

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Speaker 2: way of doing it.

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Speaker 5: And that's a program they are introducing across the country.

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Speaker 5: So when I was in the Midwest, I went to

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Speaker 5: a Spectrum store and told them that do you have

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Speaker 5: a cable box, And the one that they presented me

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Speaker 5: was to act cable in TV out to cables.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 5: And then they said, because you are in California, we

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Speaker 5: can't do anything about it. Otherwise I'm sure they would

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Speaker 5: give me the box.

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Speaker 8: Right.

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Speaker 5: They started in California. They're introducing it across the country.

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Speaker 5: So by the middle of twenty twenty four or the

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Speaker 5: end of twenty twenty four, nobody will be able to

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Speaker 5: record to DVD or VHS. If you have it, I

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Speaker 5: have a combination right.

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Speaker 1: Well, look, I mean I think it makes sense. I

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Speaker 1: think it's thank you for the warning. By the way,

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Speaker 1: I think this makes sense as we make this digital transition.

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Speaker 1: I do think that less people are probably using the

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Speaker 1: coax out from their cable box and they're just using

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Speaker 1: HDMI into the back of their TV for the box.

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Speaker 1: And it's funny because I was just in a Spectrum

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Speaker 1: store and they showed me the cable box, and I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to look in my pictures to see if I

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Speaker 1: have a picture of the back of it.

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Speaker 2: I didn't look. Oh man, I wish I did. I don't.

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Speaker 2: I don't have a picture of the back of the

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Speaker 2: cable box.

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Speaker 1: But I'm curious now because I'm I didn't notice that

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Speaker 1: that it didn't have an out. So if you don't

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Speaker 1: have those outs, you can't bring this into like any

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Speaker 1: sort of recorder, which makes sense, but I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: there there are may be some ways around this if

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Speaker 1: you gosh. I mean with HDMI, there are a lot

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Speaker 1: more copyright protections on the signal and also on the cable,

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Speaker 1: so it probably will not give you away. I can't

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Speaker 1: even think there's a recorder that would take that signal

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Speaker 1: in and let your record like, especially like a DVD

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Speaker 1: recorder or something like that. I would say, maybe the

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Speaker 1: only way to round this is to do something like

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Speaker 1: a TiVo that might have a cable card, but I

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Speaker 1: don't even think they offer cable card anymore. At the

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Speaker 1: end of the day, these these companies want you to

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Speaker 1: use their products and services, and as we get more

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Speaker 1: into this on demand world and this world of cloud DVRs,

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Speaker 1: the companies control that, and that's what they want because

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Speaker 1: now you have to pay them. And also you don't

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Speaker 1: have as much flexibility. You can no longer keep that

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Speaker 1: recording for as long as you want. So, Bob, thanks

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Speaker 1: for the information, and now we know we've got the

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Speaker 1: fair warning.

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Speaker 2: Not gonna be able to do your own recording soon.

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Speaker 1: All right, Coming up next, how police can spy on

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Speaker 1: your push notifications eighty to eight rich one on one.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich On Tech.

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

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

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Speaker 1: to two four to one zero one. Man, the phones

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Speaker 1: are on fire today, just so many calls.

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Speaker 2: I do want to get to them. I will try.

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Speaker 1: It's always a dance because I want to answer the calls,

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Speaker 1: I want to answer the emails. But I also want

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Speaker 1: to tell you all the news that I brought in,

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Speaker 1: and I have tons of it. I mean, it's all

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Speaker 1: just like sitting here, like I have tons of little

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Speaker 1: topics I want to bring up like this. This week,

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Speaker 1: there was a bit of a revelation that governments can

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Speaker 1: basically spy on you through a push notification. So this

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Speaker 1: all came to light this week because US senator out

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Speaker 1: of Oregon sent a letter. I don't know who he

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Speaker 1: sent it to, but he sent it to someone or

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Speaker 1: maybe it was Apple and Google, but he said, hey,

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Speaker 1: you guys should really reveal the fact that you hand

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Speaker 1: over information on individuals if governments ask for it, and

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Speaker 1: the way they do this is really tricky and I

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Speaker 1: never really thought about this. Okay, So basically, let's say

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Speaker 1: you sign up for an app anonymously on your iPhone

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Speaker 1: or Android, okay, a messaging app, and you send a

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Speaker 1: bunch of messages and now all of a sudden you

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Speaker 1: get a notification. Well, that notification has to go through

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Speaker 1: Google or Apple servers. They're kind of like the post office,

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Speaker 1: and they know the address to your phone and what

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Speaker 1: do they also know? Well, they also know your account

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Speaker 1: information that you use to sign up for that Google

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Speaker 1: account or that Apple account. And so government's got hip

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Speaker 1: to this and said, hey, can you share that information

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Speaker 1: with us when we need it? And why would they

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Speaker 1: need it? Well, maybe there's some sort of dissident in

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Speaker 1: their government or an activist or anyone that they may

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Speaker 1: be interested in getting information on. And Apple and Google

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Speaker 1: apparently comply with these requests. Now for Apple and Google,

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Speaker 1: it depends on how they receive the request. With Apple,

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Speaker 1: I believe they need a subpoena and with Google they

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Speaker 1: need a court order. But the reality is if you

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Speaker 1: sign up anonymously, but then that notification comes to your

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Speaker 1: phone and you have an iPhone or an Android, there

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Speaker 1: is information that these companies can then share about you

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Speaker 1: because they know your account information. It's just wild that

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Speaker 1: this happens. And so my point is, if you think

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Speaker 1: you are being anonymous on your phone, you are probably not.

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Speaker 1: And I thought this was also interesting that Google and

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Speaker 1: Apple had this secret deal with the government that was

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Speaker 1: not previously disclosed until this senator said hey, you should

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Speaker 1: probably disclose this. And then Apple and Google came clean

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Speaker 1: and said, yeah, we do have this program, and now

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Speaker 1: we know about it. And now you just have to

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Speaker 1: realize that you're never really being anonymous online. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to Robin in Fallbrook, California. Robin, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 4: Hey there, Bruton, is this okay if I'm talking through

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Speaker 4: my phone on my car?

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Speaker 2: Yeah sounds great.

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Speaker 10: Oh perfect, Okay, I learned something new.

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Speaker 11: All right.

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Speaker 10: I have Spectrum at home internet. I have the right

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Speaker 10: internet only at my studio office, and now I want

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Speaker 10: and then I have a Verizon cell phone service for

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Speaker 10: just my husband and I and I'm kind of getting nailed.

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Speaker 10: I'm paying like one hundred and seventy five bucks a

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Speaker 10: month and it's not even unlimited internet. So we have

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Speaker 10: a place out in the middle of a desert where

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Speaker 10: I have to take like a they call it like

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Speaker 10: a jet path or something.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to do that anymore because it uses

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Speaker 4: up all my.

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Speaker 10: My my megabytes or data stuff for whatever they give

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Speaker 10: you every month. And is there is there something that

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Speaker 10: I can have that is like a portable internet that what's.

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Speaker 4: That thing with Elon Musk that he has that.

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Speaker 10: I forget what it's called like a link of starlink.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so a couple of things you can do here.

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Speaker 1: So here's my question. So you're right now you're paying

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Speaker 1: for what just your phone, your your Verizon serve and

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Speaker 1: when you go to your house in the desert, it's

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Speaker 1: using your jet pack, which is also on your account. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: and that's that's.

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Speaker 4: I need something where I can get unlimited minutes, which

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Speaker 4: I can do with consumer cellular for real cheap, but

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Speaker 4: they don't have the jet packed capability, so I would

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Speaker 4: have cheap internet and cheap cell phone unlimited, but then

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Speaker 4: I can't get internet out.

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Speaker 1: In the desert, right, Okay, Well, couple, yeah, a couple

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Speaker 1: couple of suggestions for you. So Starlink is Elon Musk's

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Speaker 1: satellite Internet. There's a couple of companies that provide satellite internet.

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Speaker 1: It's Starlink, one of them is called hues Net, and

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Speaker 1: then via sat. Now, I believe that the Starlink is

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Speaker 1: the fastest of the three and the best technology, but

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Speaker 1: you're going to be looking at some startup costs and

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Speaker 1: also some monthly costs which are not cheap. So I

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Speaker 1: believe the last time I looked at it, it was

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Speaker 1: about one hundred dollars a month for your Internet through

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Speaker 1: Starlink and then a setup fee which I think was

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Speaker 1: close to a couple hundred dollars. So that's going to

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Speaker 1: be a very expensive option if you're not using the

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Speaker 1: Internet a ton out there, like if you're living there.

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Speaker 2: I think that would be fine. But since you're telling.

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Speaker 1: Me that you have the ability to use a jetpack

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Speaker 1: at this location, a jet pack is basically just Verizon's

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Speaker 1: branding for a mobile hot spot. So there's a couple

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Speaker 1: things you could do. Number One, you can ask Verizon

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Speaker 1: for a plan that has more hot spot. So what

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Speaker 1: I would probably do is this would be this would

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Speaker 1: be the order of things I would do. So, if

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Speaker 1: you're already paying Verizon, see what plan you have, right,

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Speaker 1: And Verizon has different Internet plans or different phone plans,

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Speaker 1: and some of them include mobile hotspot. So if you're

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Speaker 1: using an iPhone or an Android, there is the ability

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Speaker 1: to turn your phone into a mobile hot spot, but

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Speaker 1: you need to have a certain amount of data to

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Speaker 1: do that, and all the companies used to kind of

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Speaker 1: include that in the plans. Now it is separated out

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Speaker 1: most of the time and you get a certain allotment

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Speaker 1: of that. So with Verizon plans, they're unlimited plans. You

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Speaker 1: may get thirty gigs of hot spot data or fifty

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Speaker 1: gigs of hot spot data. It kind of depends on

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Speaker 1: the plan you have with them. So I would go

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Speaker 1: to Verizon and ask them and say, Hey, I've got

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Speaker 1: this place in the desert and I want to use

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Speaker 1: my phone as a hot spot. That's the keyword, my

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Speaker 1: phone as a hot spot. Which plan do you think

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Speaker 1: is best for that? And they may say okay, Well,

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Speaker 1: if you're on the Unlimited Plus or the Unlimited Ultimate,

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Speaker 1: you'll get a certain amount of hot spots. So this

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Speaker 1: Ultimate plan includes sixty gigs of mobile hotspot. That's probably

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Speaker 1: enough for a month. So that's per month. By the way,

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Speaker 1: the middle plan with Verizon will give you oh wow,

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Speaker 1: the Unlimited Plus gives you thirty gigs, but you can

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Speaker 1: add an extra one hundred gigs of mobile hotspot. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: It's very confusing because it all depends on your plan.

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Speaker 1: So talk to someone at Verizon say hey, look, I

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Speaker 1: want to use my phone as a mobile hotspot at

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Speaker 1: my home. Now, when you get to your house, what

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Speaker 1: you would do is you would plug in your phone

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Speaker 1: and you would toggle the hot spot, and then your

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Speaker 1: devices like your TV and you know, I'm guessing it's

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Speaker 1: just your TV and your computer that you want to

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Speaker 1: connect to this thing. They would connect to your phone

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Speaker 1: and your phone would act as the mobile hotspot. I

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Speaker 1: would recommend that you plug in your phone so that

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Speaker 1: the battery doesn't go dead instantly.

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Speaker 2: Now that's one way of doing it.

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Speaker 1: The other way to do it is both Verizon, T

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Speaker 1: Mobile and AT and T. They all have what's called

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Speaker 1: five G home Internet, and Verizon is and T Mobile

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Speaker 1: are especially aggressive in their pricing and their promotions with

874
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,800
Speaker 1: this home Internet. So if you already have a Verizon

875
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:52,319
Speaker 1: signal at this place in the desert, you might just

876
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 1: want to get the Verizon Home Internet. And all that

877
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: is is a hot spot, a jet pack that you

878
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:02,400
Speaker 1: plug in in that home. It pulls in the cellular

879
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: connection and then it spits it out as a Wi

880
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: Fi connection. So it's just an industrial hot spot for

881
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: your entire house. And the good news is if you

882
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 1: already have a Verizon account, the pricing is very is

883
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:21,439
Speaker 1: very aggressive on this, so it's really affordable because they're

884
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 1: trying to get people to switch to this. So the pricing,

885
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much it is per month sort

886
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,319
Speaker 1: of depends on your Verizon plan, but I've seen it

887
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 1: anywhere from like twenty five to fifty five dollars a month,

888
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: but especially with the promotions for the first year, you

889
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 1: can at least try that out see if it works.

890
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:43,560
Speaker 1: That's probably what I would do. Use your phone first.

891
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: If that doesn't work, if you get really frustrated with that,

892
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: then I would I would try the home Internet. If

893
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:51,280
Speaker 1: you're going to move to this place, or you're spending

894
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: every single weekend there or weeks at a time there

895
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: and you're doing work. Maybe check out something like starlink.

896
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 1: That's probably the way to go. Question Robin and let

897
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:03,239
Speaker 1: me know what you do Rich on tech dot Tv.

898
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 1: Hit contact and keep me posted.

899
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:06,439
Speaker 2: All right.

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00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:10,359
Speaker 1: DoorDash, if you have DoorDash installed on your phone, you

901
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 1: can get free pickup and returns for your packages right now.

902
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,839
Speaker 1: So if you want to do five free pickups from

903
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 1: your house, you can use the code gift box. And

904
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 1: if you have dash Pass, which is their subscription service,

905
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 1: you can get unlimited free pickups of your packages until

906
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: December thirtieth.

907
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 2: So what does that mean.

908
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 1: You've got to return something to a store like Macy's

909
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 1: or Amazon. You've got the return code that you print

910
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: out at your house or the label. All you have

911
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 1: to do is stick that on the package, package it up.

912
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: Someone from DoorDash will come to your house, pick it

913
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: up and bring it to a FedEx, a UPS or

914
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: a post office. This is for under thirty pounds under

915
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars. They will do everything you need. If

916
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 1: they mess it up, you've got a five hundred dollars reimbursement.

917
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 2: Claim that you can do.

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00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:58,359
Speaker 1: Uber also has a similar package return service. I checked

919
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:00,400
Speaker 1: on my Uber app and they are doing a promotion

920
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,239
Speaker 1: where they will give you the first package return for free.

921
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: But I don't know if you're like me, but we

922
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: order a bunch of stuff on Amazon, not all of

923
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 1: it works out. So by the front door, we've got

924
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of stuff that we need to return

925
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: to an Amazon Fresh store or a UPS store. And

926
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 1: if you have that and you want someone to do

927
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: that for you, you can have DoorDash to it, or

928
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 1: you can have Uber do it. And it might be

929
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:24,320
Speaker 1: a nice time to try this out during the holiday.

930
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: So again, the code is gift box or if you

931
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 1: have dash pass, it is free and unlimited.

932
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 2: This is all through December thirtieth.

933
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech, dot tv, slash wiki if you want

934
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 1: to link to anything I mentioned here. The phone number

935
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 1: to the show eight eight eight rich one oh one

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

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00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 1: More show coming up. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

938
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Speaker 1: My name is rich DeMuro, hanging out with you talking tech.

939
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Speaker 1: Phone line to the show is eight eight eight rich

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00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:57,719
Speaker 1: one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two

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00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 1: four one zero one. Caim will answer, and if you're

942
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 1: really nice to her, she may let you throw. I

943
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 1: know she's tough, but we get people on so I

944
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:11,840
Speaker 1: guess you know, some people are really really nice. You

945
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: can follow me on social media. I am at rich

946
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: on Tech. You can find me on Instagram. Yes, i

947
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 1: am back on X in a big way. I've got

948
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 1: the blue bubble or not the blue bubble, the blue

949
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:28,279
Speaker 1: check mark. Yes, I broke down and paid for the

950
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:34,759
Speaker 1: X because I will tell you why, bo bo. I

951
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:36,920
Speaker 1: will tell you why. I was pure pressured into it

952
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:40,360
Speaker 1: because I think I told this story. But I posted

953
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: on there, and look, you know people are still on

954
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:46,319
Speaker 1: there and it's tough to argue that. And anyway, I'm

955
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: having a lot of fun being on there again because

956
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:51,399
Speaker 1: I kind of gave up on it and now I'm back.

957
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm probably over correcting because now I'm

958
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 1: posting like everything.

959
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 2: I'm like, here's my breakfast. But I'm there.

960
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: I'm also on Facebook at rich on Tech on all

961
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 1: of these platforms.

962
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 2: Let's see. We got an email from Michael.

963
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 1: He said, Visible Wireless is the only phone plan with

964
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: unlimited hotspot that I know of.

965
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 2: It's twenty five dollars a month, and it's on Verizon.

966
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:17,400
Speaker 1: It should work in the desert, so yes, Verizon's Visible

967
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 1: does have a good plan with unlimited hotspot. There are

968
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 1: some limitations that you do need to know about. The

969
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 1: speed is capped, so I believe the speed is about

970
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 1: five megabits per second, which is slow, but it's probably

971
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 1: enough for like most things like you can probably watch

972
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: Netflix and stuff like that, but you may only be

973
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 1: able to connect one device to your phone at a

974
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: time with that, so check the fine print. There's always

975
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 1: fine print with all of these situations. Might have gotten

976
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 1: an email from Amazon that says Venmo is no longer

977
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:58,399
Speaker 1: accepted on Amazon dot Com starting January tenth, twenty twenty four.

978
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 1: Well that was fast. It's so wild how things change.

979
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:04,879
Speaker 1: I remember getting an email from Amazon saying, hey, we're

980
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 1: accepting Venmo and we'll give you ten bucks if you

981
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 1: add it to your account, and I said sure. So

982
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 1: I authorized my Venmo with my Amazon which I would

983
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 1: never do because why would I pay with Venmo? I

984
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: don't need to just use your card. And I got

985
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: ten dollars off my purchase. My Venmo was kind of

986
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:23,719
Speaker 1: lingering on my account. Actually, it's funny because I got

987
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:27,320
Speaker 1: a promo for adding Venmo to my Uber account and

988
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 1: my Amazon account, and then, of course what happens is

989
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 1: you set it as your payment method and you forget,

990
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 1: and so you start doing charges and they all go

991
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 1: through Venmo.

992
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 2: So this happened with Uber, it happened with Amazon.

993
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 1: I was like, oh shoot, I don't want to use

994
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:44,959
Speaker 1: Venmo for my Amazon account. And now it's no longer.

995
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:46,880
Speaker 1: I guess they're breaking up. That was like less than

996
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 1: a year that lasted. I don't know what changed, but

997
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 1: I guess it didn't work out. Nobody cared, nobody wanted it.

998
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 1: Might have gotten an email from Ring this week. Ring

999
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:59,399
Speaker 1: says we are reassuring users. On June sixteenth, twenty twenty three,

1000
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 1: we entered it into a settlement with the FTC to

1001
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:07,840
Speaker 1: resolve allegations that employees and contractors had access to the

1002
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:11,439
Speaker 1: stored videos collected by Ring cameras, and some of these

1003
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 1: employees viewed videos without permission and no business reason.

1004
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:17,360
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1005
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: Basically, the FTC said that Ring employees were just kind

1006
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: of looking at videos of your doorbell cams without any

1007
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:28,319
Speaker 1: sort of reason to do that. Now, yeah, that does

1008
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:31,279
Speaker 1: not sound very nice. It says, these individuals are no

1009
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 1: longer employed by RING, and since twenty eighteen, back when

1010
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 1: this happened, we have significantly changed our access and review practices.

1011
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 1: Now only a small number of employees can access videos

1012
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:47,440
Speaker 1: and in only limited circumstances. Does that sound very reassuring

1013
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 1: to you? Sounds like they can still watch my videos?

1014
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 1: So number one, is that a peeping tom? Is that

1015
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: a oh okay, that's crickets? Someone hiding in the bushes

1016
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: looking at your RING cameras. Now, look, in all seriousness,

1017
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:07,880
Speaker 1: I do think that these companies that have these cameras.

1018
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 1: Number one, you have to be aware that there probably

1019
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 1: is a method that someone can look at your video

1020
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 1: streams if they need it to in the event that

1021
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 1: there is a government request, police request. I think the

1022
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: other thing to do here, if you really want to

1023
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 1: make sure that nobody can see your videos, you can

1024
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:31,239
Speaker 1: enable what's called end to end encryption. It is not

1025
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 1: on by default, not every provider offers it. I do

1026
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:38,440
Speaker 1: believe RING does offer that, but there are some downsides

1027
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:42,440
Speaker 1: to that. Once you enable the end to end encryption,

1028
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 1: there are some things that are not possible when you

1029
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,240
Speaker 1: enable that, and it has to do with how many

1030
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:51,160
Speaker 1: different devices you can view your videos on and the

1031
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:53,839
Speaker 1: notifications and the videos and all that stuff. So it

1032
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:56,000
Speaker 1: is much easier if you don't enable that. But if

1033
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 1: you want the maximum protection and the maximum security of

1034
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 1: your cameras, then you know you can enable that.

1035
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 2: It is an option.

1036
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 1: But I do think that Ring has probably cleaned up

1037
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: their act and this was a couple of bad actors.

1038
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 1: You know, you're talking five years ago, and it's just

1039
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:14,839
Speaker 1: one of those things where now that people know about it,

1040
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 1: it probably won't happen again. But we do know from

1041
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 1: history that the government and law enforcement if they do

1042
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 1: request these videos in a you know, in sort of

1043
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: a court order or subpoena, they can probably get their

1044
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:30,320
Speaker 1: hands on them. So don't put them in your bedroom,

1045
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:34,439
Speaker 1: that's the bottom line. Keep them aimed out the front door.

1046
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: This is weird. Windows, that's not funny. You don't you

1047
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:43,320
Speaker 1: don't want cameras in your bedroom in general, Like that's

1048
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: kind of creepy, right. Windows bug renames printers to HP

1049
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: laser Jet. There's a Windows bug that is renaming printers

1050
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 1: to HP laser Jet, regardless of the actual brand model.

1051
00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 1: This is affecting Windows ten and Windows eleven device. The

1052
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:03,759
Speaker 1: bug also installs the HP smart app even if you

1053
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 1: don't need it. Microsoft is investigating and apparently you can

1054
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:10,399
Speaker 1: still print, but double clicking on a printer may show

1055
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:14,360
Speaker 1: a no tasks available error. This bug was first reported

1056
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: on December sixth. There's no estimated fixed time. If you're

1057
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,800
Speaker 1: really techy, you can block access to the Microsoft Store

1058
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:24,280
Speaker 1: and that will prevent the bug from renaming your printers.

1059
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 1: But if you're wondering why this happened, if you're scratching

1060
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:29,879
Speaker 1: your head, you're like, what is going on here?

1061
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:33,839
Speaker 2: It's a bug. You're not going crazy, all right?

1062
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 1: Coming up, we're going to talk to Mitch Lee, one

1063
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 1: of the founders of ARC. This is a startup that

1064
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 1: is building an all electric performance speedboat. I was on it.

1065
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 1: It is pretty fun, no fumes. We'll talk to Mitch

1066
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:47,800
Speaker 1: Lee coming up next right here on rich On Tech.

1067
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich On Tech.

1068
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:55,320
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology on location.

1069
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:58,879
Speaker 1: We've done interviews in the plane. This is the first

1070
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 1: time I've done an inner view on a boat. We

1071
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: are in Long Beach and joining me now is Mitchley

1072
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 1: of ARC Boats.

1073
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me.

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00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 6: It's great to be here and we are excited to

1075
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 6: have you out on our one of our boats.

1076
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: So this is an all electric boat. Describe what we

1077
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:15,919
Speaker 1: are on right now.

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00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 6: This boat that we're on now is called the ARC one.

1079
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:22,080
Speaker 6: It is the first model boat that we brought to market.

1080
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 6: It's a twenty four foot fully electric power boat, capable

1081
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:30,240
Speaker 6: of five hundred horsepower and software limited to forty miles

1082
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 6: an hour.

1083
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:33,919
Speaker 1: And I've already been on it spoiler alert, and it's

1084
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:38,160
Speaker 1: quite incredible. It's quiet, it's smooth, it's powerful. Tell me

1085
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:40,640
Speaker 1: about the company. Let's start with ARC You're based in

1086
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and what are you trying to do?

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Speaker 6: This company didn't even exist three years ago, and at

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00:55:47,239 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 6: this point we have already manufactured and delivered the ARC

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00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:55,600
Speaker 6: one to our initial customers. The entire company is now

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00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 6: focused on the next model we're bringing to market, which

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00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:01,880
Speaker 6: is a mass market wakesport boat. If you zoom back out,

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00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:04,840
Speaker 6: as a company, our goal is to electrify everything on

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00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 6: the water. Electric boats make a ton more sense than

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00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 6: gas boats across pretty much every aspect of boating. The

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00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:16,799
Speaker 6: ownership experience is much nicer. They're quiet, We can hold

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00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:20,680
Speaker 6: an interview on a boat. You're not smelling fumes. They're

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00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:25,239
Speaker 6: far more reliable, they're less expensive to operate, and the

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00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:28,320
Speaker 6: experience of operating one itself is so much better thanks

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00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 6: to software and the technology on this boat. The hard

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00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 6: part is actually putting enough energy on the boat to

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00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:37,919
Speaker 6: move through water at high speeds and with a lot

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Speaker 6: of power. That is what we specialize in. We build

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00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:44,799
Speaker 6: our holes, our battery packs, and a lot of the

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00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 6: systems that go into this boat in house in our

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Speaker 6: manufacturing facility in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: So, Mitch, what made you wake up and say I

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00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:54,720
Speaker 1: would like to electrify a boat.

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Speaker 6: I am a lifelong boating enthusiast. My parents were boating enthusiasts,

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00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 6: and particularly water ski enthusiasts. They love to slalom ski.

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00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 6: So I grew up out getting dragged behind a boat

1111
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:12,399
Speaker 6: with wakeboarding and knee boarding and water skiing and wakesurfing.

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Speaker 6: This is what I love to do with my time.

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00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 6: I also have a degree in mechanical engineering and spent

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00:57:19,360 --> 00:57:22,040
Speaker 6: a while portion of my career as a software developer,

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00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:26,520
Speaker 6: and this is kind of the marriage of all of

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00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 6: those things, my passion and my actual career.

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Speaker 1: When I tell people I'm going out on an electric boat.

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00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 1: They say, oh, a duffy because people think of a

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00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:40,280
Speaker 1: low powered or slower kind of boat. That's not what

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Speaker 1: you set out to build.

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00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:47,080
Speaker 6: No, we absolutely want to change the perception of electric

1122
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 6: boats in the same way that most people associate electric

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00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 6: cars with performance, with really fast zero to sixty times.

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Speaker 6: We are here to change the perception of electric boats

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Speaker 6: on the water, and hopefully your experience today made that point.

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Speaker 2: So we're on the arc one.

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00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:06,960
Speaker 1: This is the boat that you initially sold. You made

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Speaker 1: a couple dozen of them, and now you're onto Well,

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00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 1: tell me some of the features of this unit that

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00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:13,160
Speaker 1: we're on.

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00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 2: So this was a limited edition boat that.

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Speaker 6: Was our first entrance into the market, into the marine space.

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00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:26,439
Speaker 6: It consists of two battery packs. Each one of those

1134
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:29,520
Speaker 6: battery packs is larger than pretty much anything you'd find

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00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 6: in an electric car. In total, it's two hundred and

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00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 6: twenty kilowat hours of battery capacity, which, as a point

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00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 6: of references, roughly three times the size of a Model

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00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:44,760
Speaker 6: Y battery pack. The boat is laid out in an

1139
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:49,480
Speaker 6: open seating arrangement. Given that everything is packaged below the floor,

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00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 6: that affords a lot of space, a lot of space

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00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 6: for storage and a lot of space for seating on

1142
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 6: the boat of this size.

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00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:57,160
Speaker 1: It's a big boat. It's got a lot of space.

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00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 1: It's got a lot of space for people. Again, it's fast,

1145
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:04,479
Speaker 1: it's quiet. There is absolutely no scent to the boat.

1146
00:59:04,520 --> 00:59:06,960
Speaker 1: There's no fumes, there's none of that boating scent that

1147
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:09,680
Speaker 1: you kind of associate with being out on the open water.

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00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:12,680
Speaker 1: It's a very simple setup. So you've got just the

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00:59:12,720 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 1: steering wheel, the throttle. You've got this nice big screen

1150
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 1: which is kind of very Tesla esque in the center,

1151
00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:22,600
Speaker 1: which is showing maps, music. There's even a backup camera.

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00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:24,360
Speaker 1: I guess if you can call it a back it's

1153
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:27,920
Speaker 1: a back camera. I should say. You see your current speed,

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00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:33,080
Speaker 1: your current battery, You've got a compass, the water temperature,

1155
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 1: and also the water depth. Do you think that this

1156
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 1: appeals to someone who has grown up with an iPhone

1157
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:41,360
Speaker 1: or someone who is driving a Tesla.

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00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:42,960
Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:47,120
Speaker 6: We want to make better boats and we hope that

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00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:49,880
Speaker 6: those boats and expect that those boats will appeal both

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00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 6: to people that have grown up boating and people that

1162
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 6: are brand new to it. By making boats far easier

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00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:00,280
Speaker 6: to own and far less expensive to actually operate, opens

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01:00:00,360 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 6: up the market. These are simply better boats. They solve

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01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 6: the main pain points with gas boats today.

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Speaker 1: What about the charging situation? How long does it take

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01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:13,640
Speaker 1: to charge? How much time do you get out in

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01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:14,960
Speaker 1: the water on a charge?

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01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 2: We think in terms of usage time.

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01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 6: We want people to be able to use their boat

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01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 6: exactly how they want to use it for a full day,

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01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:24,040
Speaker 6: plug in at the end of the day, and wake

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01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 6: up the next morning with a boat that is ready

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01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 6: to hit the water again. In practice, that tends to

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01:00:29,640 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 6: mean three to five hours of active usage time. That

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01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:36,840
Speaker 6: is a much better experience than what you gas boat

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01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:41,200
Speaker 6: owners deal with today, lugging gas cans down to a

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01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:44,160
Speaker 6: dock and filling it up manually, having to go twenty

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01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 6: minutes away to the nearest marina to pay ten dollars

1180
01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:50,400
Speaker 6: a gallon, or any of the other creative solutions people

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01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:50,880
Speaker 6: come up with.

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01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 2: Are the chargers readily accessible? Absolutely.

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01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 6: This boat uses what's known as a CCS one charger.

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01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 6: It is the same style of charger that you use

1185
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:05,040
Speaker 6: for any electric car on the road today. And another

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01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 6: awesome part about electric boats is that they tend to have.

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Speaker 2: Easier access to power.

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Speaker 6: When you look across a marina today, most of those

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Speaker 6: marinas actually already are equipped with what is known as

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Speaker 6: shore power, because even gas boats use electricity to power

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01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:25,720
Speaker 6: refrigerators or bilge pumps or other accessories on the boat.

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01:01:26,480 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 6: You can just plug straight into that, plug it into

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01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:31,000
Speaker 6: your boat, and again wake up the next morning with

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01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:34,760
Speaker 6: the charge. Boat docks tend to be the same way.

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Speaker 1: You've got the ARC One already. People are using this

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01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:39,720
Speaker 1: out in the world. You're learning a lot of data

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01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 1: from that, and you're now building your mass market electric boat.

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Speaker 2: What can we expect from that.

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Speaker 6: The next boat we're bringing to market is a mass

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01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 6: market wakesport boat. We'll have more to share about that soon.

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01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:56,240
Speaker 6: But as with a lot of new technology, the goal

1202
01:01:56,400 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 6: is to, over the course of our development time, make

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01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 6: the technology more accessible to more people. Our goal is

1204
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:07,920
Speaker 6: eventually for every boat on the water to be electric.

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Speaker 6: It makes sense from a customer perspective, from a product perspective,

1206
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:14,360
Speaker 6: and from environment perspective. We want to make it happen,

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01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 6: and we want to make it happen quickly.

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Speaker 1: How much are we talking for this boat for the

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01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 1: buyers that already have it, and also the upcoming model.

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Speaker 6: This boat was the ARC One was three hundred thousand dollars.

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01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:31,280
Speaker 6: That's a all in price that includes trailer delivery and

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01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:32,480
Speaker 6: best in class service.

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01:02:32,720 --> 01:02:34,160
Speaker 2: That might sound like a lot.

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01:02:34,080 --> 01:02:38,720
Speaker 6: But gas boats today of this size routinely sell for

1215
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:41,640
Speaker 6: that amount of money. Boats just tend to be more

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01:02:41,640 --> 01:02:45,080
Speaker 6: expensive than automotive. Having said that, our goal is to

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Speaker 6: drop the price of these boats over time.

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Speaker 1: Performance wise, we were doing some what do you call

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01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:53,960
Speaker 1: them s turns, S curves, and it was pretty wild.

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Speaker 1: This boat goes very fast, It has a lot of maneuverability.

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01:02:57,360 --> 01:02:58,880
Speaker 1: It feels like you have a lot of control in

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01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:02,560
Speaker 1: this boat. Advantages of the electric system.

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01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:06,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, so one of the things that we have designed

1224
01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:10,600
Speaker 6: into this boat is the ability to go quickly from

1225
01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:15,480
Speaker 6: zero up to top speed. You also get a lot

1226
01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:17,600
Speaker 6: of torque at low speeds, which makes it easy to

1227
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:20,000
Speaker 6: pull a wake order water skier out of the water,

1228
01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:23,560
Speaker 6: and it also makes the acceleration quite fun. So we

1229
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:25,640
Speaker 6: were out there doing what are known as hole shots,

1230
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:29,520
Speaker 6: which is when you pin the throttle down and let

1231
01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:32,560
Speaker 6: the boats software take over and accelerate that boat up

1232
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:35,440
Speaker 6: to top speed and then turn that into s turns

1233
01:03:35,440 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 6: where you're cranking the wheel left and right and going

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01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:41,600
Speaker 6: back and forth and really experiencing how sporty this boat is.

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01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:44,440
Speaker 6: We are not taking away from any part of your experience.

1236
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:48,640
Speaker 6: This is absolutely better than what you're experiencing today on

1237
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:49,280
Speaker 6: gas boats.

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01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:52,560
Speaker 1: All right, Mitch Lee, one of the founders of ARC.

1239
01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:55,640
Speaker 1: Tell folks how they can learn more about the company.

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01:03:56,280 --> 01:03:58,160
Speaker 6: Go to arcboats dot com.

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01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:01,440
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me today on the open water.

1242
01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:03,360
Speaker 1: If you want a link to that, I'll put on

1243
01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:07,160
Speaker 1: my website. Rich on Tech dot TV more rich on.

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01:04:07,120 --> 01:04:09,280
Speaker 2: Tech coming your way. Do you have a question about technology?

1245
01:04:09,320 --> 01:04:09,880
Speaker 2: Give me a call.

1246
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:12,800
Speaker 1: The number is triple eight rich one O one eight

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01:04:12,840 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

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01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:19,280
Speaker 2: My name is Richdmuro and you are listening to rich

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01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:19,760
Speaker 2: on Tech.

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01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:26,680
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Tomuro here hanging

1251
01:04:26,680 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology. The phone line is triple

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01:04:30,880 --> 01:04:34,160
Speaker 1: eight rich one O one. That's eight eight eight seven

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01:04:34,320 --> 01:04:35,920
Speaker 1: four to two.

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Speaker 2: Four one zero one. Ah. Did you like the electric boat?

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01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:42,360
Speaker 2: That thing was so fun?

1256
01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:43,320
Speaker 3: I was.

1257
01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:46,960
Speaker 1: I was loving it the entire time up until they

1258
01:04:46,960 --> 01:04:48,560
Speaker 1: said the price, and I just about I was like, oh,

1259
01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:53,040
Speaker 1: excuse me, wait why. I know boats are expensive, but uh,

1260
01:04:53,120 --> 01:04:55,120
Speaker 1: you know, it's one of these things where it's like

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01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:57,560
Speaker 1: I wanted it so badly. Like now that I saw it,

1262
01:04:57,600 --> 01:05:00,560
Speaker 1: I was like, ah, this is great. U let's go

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01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:03,560
Speaker 1: to Chris in Glendale.

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01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:08,080
Speaker 11: Chris John with Rich high Rich, thank you continuing my call.

1265
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:11,360
Speaker 8: I'm a bit of a text I know, so this

1266
01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:13,960
Speaker 8: might be user error and I can't keep calling my

1267
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:15,680
Speaker 8: thirty year old daughter to resolve this.

1268
01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:18,440
Speaker 2: But when i'm that's usually what happens.

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01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:22,920
Speaker 8: It always happens. I'm out and about. I have an

1270
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:26,480
Speaker 8: Apple phone, I have ways of application, I have Google Maps,

1271
01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:30,600
Speaker 8: I have the various apps. I'll be lost and I'm

1272
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:32,840
Speaker 8: trying to get somewhere, and when I try to use

1273
01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:36,880
Speaker 8: these apps, it comes up with no Wi Fi connection. However,

1274
01:05:37,720 --> 01:05:38,040
Speaker 8: I have.

1275
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:41,560
Speaker 11: My cellular data on my roaming on my personal hotspot on.

1276
01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 11: I thought that because I have all those things on,

1277
01:05:45,200 --> 01:05:48,760
Speaker 11: I'm going to be connected to my carrier, to a

1278
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:51,840
Speaker 11: Wi Fi signal. I guess that's not the case.

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01:05:52,160 --> 01:05:55,720
Speaker 1: Okay, So you're in a spot where you can't get

1280
01:05:55,760 --> 01:05:58,680
Speaker 1: the information you need from these apps because your phone

1281
01:05:58,680 --> 01:06:01,120
Speaker 1: looks like it's connected, but it's not getting the data

1282
01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:04,520
Speaker 1: needs right. Okay, Well, I have two solutions for you.

1283
01:06:04,600 --> 01:06:07,520
Speaker 1: Number One, You're not alone. This happens all the time,

1284
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 1: especially on the iPhone. Happens to me, and I will

1285
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:14,920
Speaker 1: tell you it's actually kind of weird. Number One, I

1286
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:18,600
Speaker 1: don't think the iPhone does a good job of ditching

1287
01:06:18,680 --> 01:06:21,040
Speaker 1: Wi Fi when there's not a good Wi Fi signal.

1288
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:24,080
Speaker 1: So what's happening is your iPhone when you're using it,

1289
01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:27,760
Speaker 1: is managing your cellular and your Wi Fi all the time.

1290
01:06:27,880 --> 01:06:32,160
Speaker 1: It's toggling those and using the connections based on availability

1291
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:34,960
Speaker 1: now most of the time. And let me give you

1292
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:37,520
Speaker 1: an example of how this works. So let's say you

1293
01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:40,720
Speaker 1: are driving in your car and you have, you know,

1294
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:44,120
Speaker 1: no Wi Fi signal around you. The iPhone recognizes that

1295
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:46,760
Speaker 1: and it says, okay, we're going to use Chris's internet

1296
01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:49,600
Speaker 1: connection from Verizon or T Mobile or AT and T.

1297
01:06:50,280 --> 01:06:52,080
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, it finds when you

1298
01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:54,680
Speaker 1: come into your living room, says, oh, we noticed that

1299
01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:57,400
Speaker 1: Chris's Wi Fi signal at home is here.

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01:06:57,480 --> 01:06:58,120
Speaker 2: Let's use that.

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01:06:58,520 --> 01:07:02,000
Speaker 1: So then the phone we'll switch to using that signal

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01:07:02,040 --> 01:07:04,400
Speaker 1: because it's saying, well, we always want to use Wi

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Speaker 1: Fi when it's available, because it's usually a better connection,

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01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:14,080
Speaker 1: it's cheaper, it's more readily available, whatever. But sometimes your

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01:07:14,080 --> 01:07:16,520
Speaker 1: phone gets tripped up and there's a Wi Fi signal

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01:07:16,560 --> 01:07:19,280
Speaker 1: that it thinks it can latch onto, but it's not

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01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:22,920
Speaker 1: valid or it's not usable. And this happens with my

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01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:26,680
Speaker 1: phone a lot because of spectrum has these hot spots

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01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:30,320
Speaker 1: all over the city, and I connected to it once

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01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:32,400
Speaker 1: and my phone thinks that it can always connect to that,

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Speaker 1: but somehow it's not a valid connection or a Starbucks

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Speaker 1: connection that you have to click into. So the reality

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Speaker 1: is there's a lot of times when your phone does

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Speaker 1: not have a connection when it thinks it does, and

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Speaker 1: it should drop that Wi Fi but it doesn't.

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Speaker 2: So a couple things you can do.

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Speaker 1: And I know this is annoying, but if you're ever

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Speaker 1: in this situation and you need a quick fix, you

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Speaker 1: can swipe down from the upper right hand corner of

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01:07:56,800 --> 01:07:59,720
Speaker 1: your iPhone and you'll notice there's a Wi Fi signal.

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Speaker 1: You can tap that Wi Fi signal and it should

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Speaker 1: be blue if it's on. If you tap it, it

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Speaker 1: will turn white, and that means the Wi Fi signal

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Speaker 1: is off. Now, that does not turn off Wi Fi forever.

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01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:16,120
Speaker 1: That only turns it off temporarily to get you out

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Speaker 1: of that situation. And then once your phone gets to

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Speaker 1: a place where there is a valid Wi Fi signal

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01:08:21,600 --> 01:08:24,280
Speaker 1: that it recognizes. Again, like when you get home, your

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01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:27,519
Speaker 1: phone will automatically toggle the Wi Fi back on and

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Speaker 1: it will connect to that Wi Fi.

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Speaker 2: So that's number one.

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Speaker 1: Number two I think is another solution that when you're

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Speaker 1: running into this issue is what's called offline maps. Now

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01:08:40,680 --> 01:08:44,599
Speaker 1: on ways, I don't know if you can download offline maps.

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01:08:44,720 --> 01:08:46,320
Speaker 1: Let me see if you can do that. I'm not

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01:08:46,360 --> 01:08:50,000
Speaker 1: sure that you can do that. Let's see settings. Let's

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01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:52,320
Speaker 1: see do they have an offline I don't think they do,

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01:08:53,200 --> 01:08:58,360
Speaker 1: but and they might. But on Google Maps, there is

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01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:01,800
Speaker 1: something called offline maps, and I highly recommend that you

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01:09:01,960 --> 01:09:06,360
Speaker 1: download these for the areas that you frequent. So, for instance,

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01:09:06,400 --> 01:09:09,040
Speaker 1: if you live in Los Angeles, you can download pretty

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Speaker 1: much all of the maps for Los Angeles, so they

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01:09:11,320 --> 01:09:14,040
Speaker 1: are on your phone. And there's two ways to do this.

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Speaker 1: The first is kind of a secret way. So just

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01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:20,040
Speaker 1: go to your open up your Google Maps and you

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01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:23,320
Speaker 1: can type in okay maps, And if you type in

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01:09:23,360 --> 01:09:25,960
Speaker 1: that keyword, it's like a little hack. It's a little trick.

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Speaker 1: It will say download this map, and now you can

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01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:32,680
Speaker 1: zoom out and download pretty much all of Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: and I highly recommend you do this because it's not

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Speaker 1: going to take up much data on your phone, like

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01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:40,519
Speaker 1: for literally the entire area of LA. It's saying it's

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01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:42,559
Speaker 1: going to take up three hundred and twenty megabytes, and

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01:09:42,600 --> 01:09:44,400
Speaker 1: you can zoom in to just do like, you know,

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01:09:44,520 --> 01:09:46,679
Speaker 1: the basin. What I don't know, I don't I don't

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01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:48,240
Speaker 1: know why I call the basin And is that like

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01:09:48,280 --> 01:09:50,760
Speaker 1: a part of LA you know, just like whatever you want.

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01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:53,599
Speaker 1: And I also recommend that you do this for any

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01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:56,679
Speaker 1: city that you're visiting. So if you are visiting let's

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01:09:56,720 --> 01:09:59,960
Speaker 1: say Seattle in the next couple of weeks, I would

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01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:04,200
Speaker 1: type in Seattle and you can do the same exact thing.

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01:10:04,280 --> 01:10:07,080
Speaker 1: So if you type in Seattle and then you scroll up,

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01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:10,720
Speaker 1: you'll see where it says download offline map, and you

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01:10:10,760 --> 01:10:13,760
Speaker 1: can tap that, and that means all of Seattle would

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01:10:13,800 --> 01:10:17,120
Speaker 1: now be downloaded onto your phone. And so what that

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01:10:17,200 --> 01:10:20,400
Speaker 1: means is that anytime you're in Seattle or navigating, you'll

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01:10:20,439 --> 01:10:24,759
Speaker 1: always have the ability to get directions in that place,

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01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:27,720
Speaker 1: even if you don't have a valid cellular connection in

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01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:31,679
Speaker 1: that area. So highly recommend it. Two ways to do it. Again,

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01:10:31,880 --> 01:10:35,920
Speaker 1: the keyword is okay maps, and if you type it in,

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01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:38,040
Speaker 1: it's kind of like, you know, Google has all these

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01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:40,280
Speaker 1: engineers that are just kind of like, you know, they're

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01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:44,120
Speaker 1: nerdy like myself, and nerds love secret little hacks like

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01:10:44,160 --> 01:10:47,439
Speaker 1: that Okay Maps. It's like, you know, okay computer kind

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01:10:47,479 --> 01:10:50,200
Speaker 1: of thing. So you type in okay maps and it

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01:10:50,240 --> 01:10:54,439
Speaker 1: will bring up the secret way to download any map. Now,

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01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:59,040
Speaker 1: if you fancy Apple Maps, you can. They just added

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01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:02,240
Speaker 1: the ability to do offline maps. So the way to

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01:11:02,280 --> 01:11:04,280
Speaker 1: do it on Apple Maps is if you type in

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01:11:04,280 --> 01:11:08,040
Speaker 1: a city. Let's type in Seattle again and you'll see

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01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:10,120
Speaker 1: if you start typing in a city, it will come

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01:11:10,200 --> 01:11:12,840
Speaker 1: up with that city name and you can tap download

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01:11:13,200 --> 01:11:16,320
Speaker 1: and it will give you the downloaded maps for that city.

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01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:20,679
Speaker 1: I don't know if Ways offers offline maps. I'm gonna

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01:11:20,720 --> 01:11:25,040
Speaker 1: check real quick and I'll see offline maps are not

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01:11:25,200 --> 01:11:29,200
Speaker 1: available at this point in Ways. But a good question,

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01:11:29,479 --> 01:11:32,880
Speaker 1: and hopefully that will help you out the next time

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01:11:32,920 --> 01:11:37,240
Speaker 1: you are in a pinch with that situation. All right,

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01:11:37,320 --> 01:11:40,160
Speaker 1: if you have Disney Plus, you might have noticed on

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01:11:40,200 --> 01:11:44,320
Speaker 1: your TV screen a new Hulu icon on the Disney

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01:11:44,360 --> 01:11:48,040
Speaker 1: Plus app. And this is because Disney is actually going

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01:11:48,080 --> 01:11:52,320
Speaker 1: to merge these two services. Disney Plus and Hulu are

1393
01:11:52,400 --> 01:11:55,800
Speaker 1: going to be one app come March twenty twenty four,

1394
01:11:55,880 --> 01:11:59,120
Speaker 1: but right now they're testing it with some people. I

1395
01:11:59,200 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 1: do not subscribe to Hulu at this point, so I

1396
01:12:01,280 --> 01:12:02,920
Speaker 1: don't have this, but I got a bunch of emails

1397
01:12:02,960 --> 01:12:06,559
Speaker 1: from people saying, rich, Hulu is now on my Disney screen. Yes,

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01:12:07,280 --> 01:12:10,439
Speaker 1: if you are a subscriber of both Disney Plus and Hulu,

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01:12:10,960 --> 01:12:13,800
Speaker 1: you might notice that that Hulu hub is now on

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01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:16,800
Speaker 1: your TV screen. So the reason they're doing this is

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01:12:16,840 --> 01:12:19,439
Speaker 1: because it makes sense. Disney owns both of these services,

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01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:22,200
Speaker 1: why not have them mixed into one place where you

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01:12:22,200 --> 01:12:24,360
Speaker 1: can watch the shows from all of them. So if

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01:12:24,360 --> 01:12:27,280
Speaker 1: you have it, you've got access to both, but you

1405
01:12:27,320 --> 01:12:29,840
Speaker 1: do have to pay. This is not something where you

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01:12:29,880 --> 01:12:32,559
Speaker 1: just have it if you don't pay. Let's see what

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01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:36,439
Speaker 1: else here. If you want to talk to Santa in

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01:12:36,600 --> 01:12:39,880
Speaker 1: augmented reality, this is really cute. If you go to

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01:12:39,920 --> 01:12:45,160
Speaker 1: the website ask Santa dot app, Ask Santa dot App,

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01:12:45,240 --> 01:12:47,240
Speaker 1: you go to this from your phone's web browser. There's

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01:12:47,280 --> 01:12:52,200
Speaker 1: no download necessary. This is an augmented reality Santa experience

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01:12:52,280 --> 01:12:55,599
Speaker 1: which lets you talk to Santa in real time and

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01:12:55,640 --> 01:12:57,120
Speaker 1: it's kind of cute the way they do it. You

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01:12:57,160 --> 01:12:59,320
Speaker 1: basically aim your phone at the sky. You have to

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01:12:59,320 --> 01:13:02,040
Speaker 1: aim your smart phone at the sky. You tap your

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01:13:02,080 --> 01:13:04,559
Speaker 1: phone screen and next thing you know, Santa will come

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01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:07,679
Speaker 1: down to your backyard and you can talk to Santa

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01:13:08,280 --> 01:13:11,960
Speaker 1: using AI. This is available now through January fifth. Again

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01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:16,280
Speaker 1: the website Asksanta dot App. This is from Nyantik, the

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01:13:16,400 --> 01:13:19,120
Speaker 1: creators of Pokemon Go. So it's kind of fun.

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01:13:19,400 --> 01:13:19,880
Speaker 2: Try it out.

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01:13:20,040 --> 01:13:22,719
Speaker 1: Ask Santa dot app. Eighty to eight rich one O one.

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Speaker 1: You are listening to rich on Tech. We'll have more

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01:13:25,880 --> 01:13:30,160
Speaker 1: coming up right after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Another hour of the show coming your way. My name

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01:13:36,080 --> 01:13:39,080
Speaker 1: is rich Demiro, talking technology with you at triple eight

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Speaker 1: rich one O one. That's eight eight eight seven four

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Speaker 1: question about technology, you need advice, you need something that's

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Speaker 1: not working, you need an app recommendation, a gadget gift,

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

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Speaker 1: for one zero one. The website for the show rich

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Speaker 1: Ontech dot TV. You can also send me an email

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01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:12,000
Speaker 1: there if you're too shy to call, and you can

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01:14:12,040 --> 01:14:13,559
Speaker 1: also find me on social media.

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01:14:13,600 --> 01:14:14,920
Speaker 2: I am at rich on Tech.

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01:14:15,840 --> 01:14:19,280
Speaker 1: Jim sent an email about the whole Beeper Mini situation.

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01:14:19,439 --> 01:14:23,320
Speaker 1: This is the app that brings iMessage to Android, he said.

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01:14:23,320 --> 01:14:26,559
Speaker 1: The question is really about allocating resources to develop a

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01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:29,400
Speaker 1: superior product and then have companies with a lesser product

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01:14:29,479 --> 01:14:32,360
Speaker 1: wanting to use it and make money. If Apple users

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01:14:32,400 --> 01:14:34,599
Speaker 1: don't like that, their friends have green words and they

1444
01:14:34,640 --> 01:14:36,759
Speaker 1: are free to trade in their iPhones for an Android,

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01:14:37,120 --> 01:14:39,400
Speaker 1: and Android users who don't like the interface can buy

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01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:41,880
Speaker 1: an iPhone. I haven't talked to any iPhone users who

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01:14:41,960 --> 01:14:45,120
Speaker 1: complain or want to switch. Plus, Beeper money will make it.

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01:14:45,479 --> 01:14:47,479
Speaker 1: Beeper Mini will make a ton of money without the

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01:14:47,560 --> 01:14:50,599
Speaker 1: upfront cost of developing I message. If a company cannot

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01:14:50,640 --> 01:14:53,320
Speaker 1: develop a superior product and protect it, then no company

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01:14:53,320 --> 01:14:55,800
Speaker 1: will spend the money on development. Rich How would you

1452
01:14:55,800 --> 01:14:58,120
Speaker 1: feel if someone duplicated your show, called it Rich on

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01:14:58,200 --> 01:14:59,960
Speaker 1: Tech and aired it at the same time you aired

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01:15:00,600 --> 01:15:04,679
Speaker 1: and took your audience that you built up. Jim, Well,

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01:15:05,120 --> 01:15:07,960
Speaker 1: I don't think the radio show thing is the same.

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01:15:08,040 --> 01:15:10,880
Speaker 1: That's basically competition and bring it on. If someone wants

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01:15:10,880 --> 01:15:13,799
Speaker 1: to talk technology at the same time and compete for listeners,

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01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:18,519
Speaker 1: that's fine. I think the issue I take with I

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01:15:18,640 --> 01:15:24,439
Speaker 1: Message is that it is unnecessarily dividing the world. So

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01:15:25,320 --> 01:15:30,000
Speaker 1: technology is supposed to connect us, right. Imagine back in

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01:15:30,040 --> 01:15:33,320
Speaker 1: the day when we had telephones, like a telephone line

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01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:35,080
Speaker 1: that was in your house and you had AT and

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01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:38,680
Speaker 1: T and someone else had Verizon in your phone like

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01:15:38,840 --> 01:15:42,360
Speaker 1: a standard phone line, and you tried to call that person,

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01:15:42,439 --> 01:15:45,599
Speaker 1: they said, oh, sorry, you can't call them because they

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01:15:45,600 --> 01:15:49,800
Speaker 1: have Verizon. It doesn't work like No, everything works the same.

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01:15:49,880 --> 01:15:53,000
Speaker 1: You call them, it goes through. It works email, no

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01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:58,400
Speaker 1: matter if you send through Yahoo, Hotmail, Aol, Gmail, it

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01:15:58,439 --> 01:16:01,520
Speaker 1: all works the same. There are things that are standardized.

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01:16:01,560 --> 01:16:04,800
Speaker 1: You plug in an HDMI cable, it is standardized. You

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01:16:04,840 --> 01:16:07,760
Speaker 1: plug in a coax cable, it is standardized. Wi Fi

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01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:13,160
Speaker 1: is standardized. Messaging is standardized. There is a standard message protocol.

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01:16:13,800 --> 01:16:18,120
Speaker 1: Apple has booked that trend because they locked people into

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01:16:18,160 --> 01:16:21,320
Speaker 1: I Message. Now, yes, you can say you can opt out,

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01:16:21,400 --> 01:16:23,720
Speaker 1: but the thing is it's using your phone number and

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01:16:23,760 --> 01:16:26,639
Speaker 1: it's on the iPhone. So I just feel like it's

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01:16:26,680 --> 01:16:28,840
Speaker 1: just the way they went about it, and they knew

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01:16:28,880 --> 01:16:30,760
Speaker 1: what they had here, believe me, because they would have

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01:16:30,800 --> 01:16:33,280
Speaker 1: come up with an I message app years ago if

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01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:36,240
Speaker 1: they didn't think that this locked people into their phones.

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01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:38,639
Speaker 1: And yes, it's great and it works really nice.

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01:16:38,640 --> 01:16:39,360
Speaker 2: But by the way, you.

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01:16:39,280 --> 01:16:43,360
Speaker 1: Can get all of those features on WhatsApp, on Telegram,

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01:16:43,680 --> 01:16:49,599
Speaker 1: on Signal, on RCS, on Facebook Messenger, Instagram Messenger, any

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01:16:49,600 --> 01:16:52,880
Speaker 1: other app in the world will work like this. But

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01:16:52,960 --> 01:16:57,600
Speaker 1: the thing is the cross message functionality. The cross platform

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01:16:57,680 --> 01:17:00,880
Speaker 1: functionality is what I take issue with. When you're sending

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01:17:00,920 --> 01:17:03,640
Speaker 1: a text message, it should send the same way to

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01:17:03,760 --> 01:17:06,880
Speaker 1: any phone, and we have protocols in place for that

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01:17:06,960 --> 01:17:11,160
Speaker 1: to happen. Apple is adopting those protocols, but it's confusing

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01:17:11,200 --> 01:17:13,400
Speaker 1: to the average person that is just using their phone

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01:17:13,439 --> 01:17:16,280
Speaker 1: number on an iPhone and they don't understand why when

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01:17:16,280 --> 01:17:18,559
Speaker 1: they text someone a picture or a video to an

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01:17:18,600 --> 01:17:21,800
Speaker 1: Android it comes out all pixelated. They don't know why

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01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:25,040
Speaker 1: that's happening, and they think it's because Android is not good.

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01:17:25,479 --> 01:17:28,720
Speaker 1: And that's where I take issue with that. Let's go

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01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:34,920
Speaker 1: to nas in Irvine. Nas am I saying that right, Yes, you.

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01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:35,439
Speaker 8: Are saying it.

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01:17:35,800 --> 01:17:37,559
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know what, You've got to move, You've got to

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01:17:41,560 --> 01:17:44,360
Speaker 1: move to a better place in your in your home

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01:17:44,560 --> 01:17:45,400
Speaker 1: so I can hear you better.

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01:17:45,439 --> 01:17:45,640
Speaker 2: I can.

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01:17:45,720 --> 01:17:48,200
Speaker 1: I'm really getting some breakup, So move to a better place.

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01:17:48,240 --> 01:17:50,240
Speaker 1: I'll come back to you in a moment. Let's go

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01:17:50,280 --> 01:17:52,760
Speaker 1: to Sarah and Ventura. Sarah, you're on with Rich.

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01:17:55,520 --> 01:17:58,479
Speaker 12: I was calling because I have a problem with I

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01:17:58,520 --> 01:18:02,479
Speaker 12: was trying to head trap off my Internet, and then

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01:18:02,720 --> 01:18:06,920
Speaker 12: I was logging back into it. And then when I was,

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01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:09,680
Speaker 12: it said suddenly that it was untrusted.

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01:18:10,560 --> 01:18:13,080
Speaker 2: What do you mean you turned off your Internet?

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Speaker 12: I mean I turned off the router. Why there is

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01:18:19,040 --> 01:18:23,439
Speaker 12: something happening with it? Like I would be going to

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01:18:23,479 --> 01:18:26,360
Speaker 12: a page and then it would like kind of scroll

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01:18:26,520 --> 01:18:30,519
Speaker 12: backwards and go to the main screen like it would

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01:18:30,520 --> 01:18:36,000
Speaker 12: just It's like someone said, ah, I don't know what

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01:18:36,120 --> 01:18:37,280
Speaker 12: is it called? When we will?

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01:18:37,760 --> 01:18:40,519
Speaker 1: So what's happening now? You just you're just you can't

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01:18:40,640 --> 01:18:42,439
Speaker 1: serve the Internet on your computer or what?

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01:18:43,439 --> 01:18:47,440
Speaker 12: No. I I was trying to log into my Internet,

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01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:52,280
Speaker 12: and I said it so that it wouldn't log in automatically.

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01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:55,360
Speaker 12: I have to manually do that. So when I did tried,

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01:18:55,360 --> 01:19:00,000
Speaker 12: it said FFL is untrusted. Then on the page inside

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01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:04,360
Speaker 12: it's said data colon checks slash HTML.

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01:19:04,560 --> 01:19:07,160
Speaker 1: Why are you I'm confused. Why you need to log

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01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:08,240
Speaker 1: into your internet at home?

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01:19:08,320 --> 01:19:12,360
Speaker 2: Is this at home or a home? Okay? And who's

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01:19:12,360 --> 01:19:15,240
Speaker 2: your internet provider? Okay?

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01:19:15,280 --> 01:19:17,960
Speaker 1: And you're turning off Are you turning off your router regularly?

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01:19:20,040 --> 01:19:23,760
Speaker 12: Yeah, because I'm getting some kind of problem with it.

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01:19:23,880 --> 01:19:27,040
Speaker 12: And after talking to a test who came to here,

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01:19:27,120 --> 01:19:29,679
Speaker 12: he said I would check it and see if someone

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01:19:29,840 --> 01:19:31,559
Speaker 12: is gaining access to.

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01:19:31,560 --> 01:19:37,200
Speaker 1: Your No, no one's gaining access. I mean turning off

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01:19:37,200 --> 01:19:39,879
Speaker 1: your router is okay. But like I've had my Internet

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01:19:39,880 --> 01:19:41,800
Speaker 1: in my house for ten years, I've never turned it off.

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01:19:41,880 --> 01:19:44,040
Speaker 1: I mean, unless there's a power out, there's no reason

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01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:47,200
Speaker 1: to turn your internet. And if you're using uh, you

1540
01:19:47,200 --> 01:19:50,240
Speaker 1: know the way that these routers come from Spectrum or

1541
01:19:50,280 --> 01:19:54,920
Speaker 1: any company, they typically have secure passwords, and unless someone

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01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:59,759
Speaker 1: is physically gaining access to your house, they're not getting

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01:19:59,800 --> 01:20:04,080
Speaker 1: on your your internet at home. So I think you

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01:20:04,160 --> 01:20:05,320
Speaker 1: know what's happening here.

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01:20:05,400 --> 01:20:06,320
Speaker 2: It sounds like.

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01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:11,080
Speaker 1: By turning off your router and making it so you

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01:20:11,120 --> 01:20:13,800
Speaker 1: have to log into your Internet, it's just causing all

1548
01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:17,080
Speaker 1: kinds of problems. So you might have to pay Spectrum

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01:20:17,120 --> 01:20:19,040
Speaker 1: to come out there and kind of like reset things

1550
01:20:19,240 --> 01:20:23,400
Speaker 1: if you've changed settings. But it sounds like you've tweaked

1551
01:20:23,400 --> 01:20:27,559
Speaker 1: stuff that doesn't really need tweaking. These things should just

1552
01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:29,840
Speaker 1: be set it and forget it. If you want to

1553
01:20:29,880 --> 01:20:32,599
Speaker 1: secure your Internet, there's two things I recommend. Number one,

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01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:37,160
Speaker 1: when you come up with your Wi Fi password and SSID,

1555
01:20:37,360 --> 01:20:39,800
Speaker 1: if you're not using the one that Spectrum assigned to you,

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01:20:40,520 --> 01:20:43,240
Speaker 1: then you can change it. Make sure that that is secure.

1557
01:20:43,360 --> 01:20:46,080
Speaker 1: Make sure it's not something that's easily guessable. If you

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01:20:46,200 --> 01:20:49,160
Speaker 1: think that your neighbor is trying to latch onto your Internet,

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01:20:49,560 --> 01:20:53,400
Speaker 1: you can always do what's called hiding the SSID, which

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01:20:53,439 --> 01:20:55,240
Speaker 1: if you go into the settings on the router, there

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01:20:55,320 --> 01:20:57,439
Speaker 1: is an option to make it so that your router

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01:20:58,040 --> 01:21:02,400
Speaker 1: does not show your work to other computers. In fact,

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01:21:02,439 --> 01:21:04,519
Speaker 1: you won't even see it. You have to log in manually.

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01:21:04,560 --> 01:21:07,000
Speaker 1: I don't recommend that for like ninety nine point nine

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01:21:07,040 --> 01:21:09,599
Speaker 1: percent of people unless you are running some sort of

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01:21:09,640 --> 01:21:14,240
Speaker 1: like you know, security highly secure network at your house

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01:21:14,280 --> 01:21:18,639
Speaker 1: for some reason. Otherwise, I think what I would try

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01:21:18,640 --> 01:21:23,720
Speaker 1: to do is just factory reset the router. So there

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01:21:23,760 --> 01:21:25,439
Speaker 1: should be a push button on there that you can

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01:21:25,479 --> 01:21:27,479
Speaker 1: press and hold for a very long time and it

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01:21:27,520 --> 01:21:31,479
Speaker 1: will bring everything back to factory settings. I would do

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01:21:31,560 --> 01:21:35,880
Speaker 1: that and turn off your computer, reset your computer. You'll

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01:21:35,880 --> 01:21:38,840
Speaker 1: have to reconnect your computer and your other devices to

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01:21:38,960 --> 01:21:41,439
Speaker 1: this router. But in general, there is no reason to

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01:21:41,439 --> 01:21:44,160
Speaker 1: turn off your router. And if you're suspecting that your

1576
01:21:44,160 --> 01:21:47,920
Speaker 1: neighbor is on your router, there's typically a way to

1577
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:50,240
Speaker 1: log in to your router on the back end using

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01:21:50,240 --> 01:21:52,200
Speaker 1: the information on the bottom of it and see a

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01:21:52,280 --> 01:21:55,240
Speaker 1: list of all of the devices that are currently accessing

1580
01:21:55,280 --> 01:21:59,960
Speaker 1: that router. And if you see neighbor Gym's computer on there,

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01:22:01,240 --> 01:22:03,600
Speaker 1: then you've got a problem. But ninety nine percent of

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01:22:03,600 --> 01:22:05,960
Speaker 1: the time that is not the case, Sarah. But I

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01:22:06,200 --> 01:22:10,200
Speaker 1: I would stop resetting the router unless you have like

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01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:13,080
Speaker 1: an Internet connection issue, like if your powers going out

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01:22:13,120 --> 01:22:17,280
Speaker 1: a lot, NAS in Irvine. Uh, you're on with Rich

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01:22:17,520 --> 01:22:21,800
Speaker 1: you there? Nas you there?

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01:22:22,560 --> 01:22:23,080
Speaker 10: Is it better?

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01:22:23,439 --> 01:22:23,920
Speaker 8: Is it better?

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01:22:24,040 --> 01:22:25,439
Speaker 2: Yes? Much better? Thank you?

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01:22:25,600 --> 01:22:29,160
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you so much for your great program.

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01:22:28,920 --> 01:22:29,760
Speaker 9: Very informative.

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01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:30,599
Speaker 11: I appreciate it.

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01:22:30,760 --> 01:22:31,080
Speaker 2: Thank you.

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01:22:31,280 --> 01:22:33,120
Speaker 11: I have a question regarding TV.

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01:22:33,439 --> 01:22:38,040
Speaker 8: We have a package with clocks. It's a basic cable.

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01:22:38,200 --> 01:22:42,120
Speaker 9: A landline phone, and a DVR that you can record

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01:22:42,280 --> 01:22:44,560
Speaker 9: our programs and also the internet.

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01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:47,080
Speaker 1: Do you recommend something else?

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01:22:47,160 --> 01:22:48,080
Speaker 10: If you don't want to.

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01:22:48,120 --> 01:22:52,080
Speaker 8: Stay with cocks but have the same page. That's something

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01:22:52,120 --> 01:22:52,679
Speaker 8: you can record.

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01:22:52,760 --> 01:22:53,920
Speaker 2: How much are you paying for this?

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01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:57,760
Speaker 4: I'm paying about two hundred dollars and fluctuates.

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01:22:57,800 --> 01:23:01,680
Speaker 2: That's why you're a little bit so yeah. I mean

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01:23:01,680 --> 01:23:02,760
Speaker 2: that's called the triple play.

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01:23:02,800 --> 01:23:05,320
Speaker 1: You've got the Internet, you've got the full cable package,

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01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:08,280
Speaker 1: and you've got your phone through them. About two hundred

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01:23:08,280 --> 01:23:11,960
Speaker 1: dollars is kind of like you know, the running cost

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01:23:12,040 --> 01:23:14,960
Speaker 1: for that. And the only way that you could save

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01:23:15,040 --> 01:23:18,120
Speaker 1: money here is if you switch to a different provider

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01:23:18,600 --> 01:23:21,080
Speaker 1: that is in your area and they have you know,

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01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:26,200
Speaker 1: twelve month promotional pricing fee and like it maybe it's

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01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:28,839
Speaker 1: fifty dollars a month or something for first twelve months.

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01:23:29,479 --> 01:23:32,559
Speaker 1: But the reality is if you stay with cos and

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01:23:32,600 --> 01:23:35,719
Speaker 1: you just keep the Internet and then you start getting

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01:23:35,720 --> 01:23:38,960
Speaker 1: streaming services, number one, your Internet is probably going to

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01:23:39,040 --> 01:23:41,479
Speaker 1: be more expensive. You know, they might charge you one

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01:23:41,520 --> 01:23:44,320
Speaker 1: hundred dollars a month for just the Internet, and then

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01:23:44,360 --> 01:23:47,559
Speaker 1: you're gonna start getting your streaming services on top of that.

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01:23:47,960 --> 01:23:50,439
Speaker 1: Netflix is going to be twenty dollars, Disney Plus is

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01:23:50,479 --> 01:23:52,599
Speaker 1: gonna be thirteen bucks, Hulu is going to be another

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01:23:52,640 --> 01:23:55,880
Speaker 1: couple bucks. So there are ways of doing that, but

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01:23:56,120 --> 01:23:58,120
Speaker 1: the triple play that you have is probably going to

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01:23:58,160 --> 01:24:00,400
Speaker 1: be the cheapest if you like all that stuff. If

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01:24:00,400 --> 01:24:02,479
Speaker 1: you don't need all that stuff, if you're not watching

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01:24:02,520 --> 01:24:05,000
Speaker 1: a ton of Bravo and a ton of ESPN a

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01:24:05,000 --> 01:24:07,680
Speaker 1: ton of sports, you probably don't need all of that

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01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:10,559
Speaker 1: cable package. But if you're just gonna go and sign

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01:24:10,640 --> 01:24:14,600
Speaker 1: up with these cable packages independently, like if you go

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01:24:14,680 --> 01:24:17,040
Speaker 1: with YouTube TV or Fubo or any of this stuff,

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01:24:17,240 --> 01:24:19,360
Speaker 1: it's probably gonna come out to the same price, if

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01:24:19,400 --> 01:24:22,120
Speaker 1: not more so. The only way to really save is

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01:24:22,160 --> 01:24:26,600
Speaker 1: to get internet only, drop the other two services and

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01:24:26,640 --> 01:24:29,280
Speaker 1: then bring on a couple of streaming services on top

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01:24:29,320 --> 01:24:32,280
Speaker 1: of that. But you're still talking, you know, one hundred

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01:24:32,280 --> 01:24:34,920
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars if you're doing that. But I would

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01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:36,960
Speaker 1: check to see if there's any other providers in your

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01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:38,679
Speaker 1: area for the cheaper internet.

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01:24:38,960 --> 01:24:39,720
Speaker 2: Good question there.

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01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:42,280
Speaker 1: Nos eighty to eight rich one o one eight eight

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

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich On Tech.

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01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:53,040
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you at triple eight

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01:24:53,360 --> 01:24:56,280
Speaker 1: rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to

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01:24:56,320 --> 01:25:01,960
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Free call from anywhere in

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01:25:02,040 --> 01:25:08,000
Speaker 1: the US. Remember when calls were not free, like in general,

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01:25:08,280 --> 01:25:10,160
Speaker 1: Like I remember, you used to have to choose a

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01:25:10,200 --> 01:25:13,280
Speaker 1: long distance operator, Like remember, MCI, when was the last

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01:25:13,280 --> 01:25:16,400
Speaker 1: time you heard that spoken out of someone's lips? MCI,

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01:25:18,520 --> 01:25:19,400
Speaker 1: what's that?

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01:25:19,640 --> 01:25:19,840
Speaker 8: Oh?

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01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:20,360
Speaker 13: That was that?

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01:25:20,520 --> 01:25:21,759
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, bobo.

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01:25:22,439 --> 01:25:25,280
Speaker 1: They had all these codes you could dial before your

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01:25:25,720 --> 01:25:30,160
Speaker 1: before your long distance call to like save money. Oh man,

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01:25:30,280 --> 01:25:32,280
Speaker 1: those were the good old days, right, And you didn't

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01:25:32,280 --> 01:25:33,880
Speaker 1: know how much your phone bill was. At the end

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01:25:33,880 --> 01:25:35,760
Speaker 1: of the month, you would get it and it would

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01:25:35,760 --> 01:25:39,880
Speaker 1: just be some random, arbitrary amount. Sometimes it was a lot,

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01:25:40,040 --> 01:25:41,160
Speaker 1: sometimes it was a little.

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01:25:41,240 --> 01:25:42,640
Speaker 2: You just didn't know.

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01:25:43,240 --> 01:25:45,240
Speaker 1: And by the way, people probably got ripped off a

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01:25:45,320 --> 01:25:49,120
Speaker 1: whole lot more back then, because who really looked at

1664
01:25:49,120 --> 01:25:51,479
Speaker 1: this stuff and took the time to call in and

1665
01:25:51,560 --> 01:25:54,920
Speaker 1: say like, hey, MCI, I'm noticing I got charged eighty

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01:25:54,960 --> 01:25:57,839
Speaker 1: five ninety nine for a call to my grandma and Idaho.

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01:25:58,320 --> 01:25:59,800
Speaker 1: And they'd be like, yeah, that's how much it costs

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01:25:59,840 --> 01:26:01,879
Speaker 1: to call her for three minutes. You're like, oh, okay,

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01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:06,519
Speaker 1: I remember the party line we had. This is before

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01:26:06,560 --> 01:26:10,200
Speaker 1: your time, Bobo, no bobo saying remember this. My grandma

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01:26:10,320 --> 01:26:12,879
Speaker 1: had a house like in the middle of like the woods,

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01:26:13,479 --> 01:26:15,800
Speaker 1: and you would lift up the phone line and there

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01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:18,760
Speaker 1: would be someone on the phone line, like a party line.

1674
01:26:18,800 --> 01:26:21,960
Speaker 1: You'd share the phone line, like what kind of craziness

1675
01:26:22,000 --> 01:26:25,120
Speaker 1: did we grow up with? You could listen to someone

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01:26:25,120 --> 01:26:29,360
Speaker 1: else's phone line like conversation what and we're worried about

1677
01:26:29,400 --> 01:26:32,120
Speaker 1: all this stuff? And to end encryption like no, you

1678
01:26:32,160 --> 01:26:33,400
Speaker 1: would just pick up the line and be like, hey,

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01:26:33,439 --> 01:26:33,760
Speaker 1: are you on?

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01:26:33,880 --> 01:26:34,040
Speaker 5: Yeah?

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01:26:34,080 --> 01:26:34,640
Speaker 2: Can you call it?

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01:26:34,720 --> 01:26:36,880
Speaker 1: Can you like pick up the line in five more minutes,

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01:26:36,960 --> 01:26:40,879
Speaker 1: I'll be done? What what kind of Oh my gosh,

1684
01:26:40,960 --> 01:26:42,880
Speaker 1: it's fun when you think about this stuff, and this

1685
01:26:42,920 --> 01:26:46,120
Speaker 1: is why you've got to talk to your grandparents and

1686
01:26:46,320 --> 01:26:50,400
Speaker 1: people and your family and just ask questions, like just

1687
01:26:50,439 --> 01:26:52,639
Speaker 1: to ask, you know, if you have a loved one

1688
01:26:52,680 --> 01:26:55,840
Speaker 1: around that was around before you, like what what was I.

1689
01:26:55,840 --> 01:26:59,360
Speaker 2: Like as a kid? What what was this like? Or what?

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01:26:59,400 --> 01:27:02,000
Speaker 2: It's just it's so wild, the stuff that just by.

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01:27:01,920 --> 01:27:05,040
Speaker 1: Exploring and being curious, like even though you think you

1692
01:27:05,120 --> 01:27:08,280
Speaker 1: remember all this stuff, you don't, and just by hearing it,

1693
01:27:08,360 --> 01:27:12,240
Speaker 1: sometimes out loud, it just brings back, you know, conjures

1694
01:27:12,320 --> 01:27:16,559
Speaker 1: up these memories. Uh, all right, let's get to some

1695
01:27:16,640 --> 01:27:20,880
Speaker 1: news items here. Verizon has a bundle with Netflix and

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01:27:21,240 --> 01:27:24,479
Speaker 1: Max for ten dollars a month. Verizon's got a new

1697
01:27:24,479 --> 01:27:26,800
Speaker 1: perk for My plan users. You can get an ad

1698
01:27:26,840 --> 01:27:30,400
Speaker 1: supported Max and Netflix for ten dollars a month. Sounds great.

1699
01:27:31,240 --> 01:27:34,360
Speaker 1: You gotta have an Unlimited Welcome, Unlimited Plus or Unlimited

1700
01:27:34,439 --> 01:27:38,439
Speaker 1: Ultimate plan. It's cheaper than subscribing to both services separately.

1701
01:27:38,479 --> 01:27:41,200
Speaker 1: It saves you about seven dollars a month. But here

1702
01:27:41,320 --> 01:27:43,519
Speaker 1: is the thing. This is what I don't like about this.

1703
01:27:43,680 --> 01:27:46,280
Speaker 1: I know it's so tempting because these companies want you

1704
01:27:46,360 --> 01:27:48,800
Speaker 1: to bundle. It's kind of like what we were talking

1705
01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:52,720
Speaker 1: about with NAS. It's like bundling saves money, and the

1706
01:27:52,760 --> 01:27:54,920
Speaker 1: cable companies were all about bundling, and now it's the

1707
01:27:55,080 --> 01:27:58,240
Speaker 1: cellular companies are all about bundling. But here's the problem.

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01:27:58,400 --> 01:28:01,400
Speaker 1: When you need to make a change, there's a little

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01:28:01,400 --> 01:28:02,080
Speaker 1: bit more friction.

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01:28:02,360 --> 01:28:03,679
Speaker 2: So, for instance, right.

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01:28:03,479 --> 01:28:08,320
Speaker 1: Now, I've got my Peloton and my Netflix bundled up

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01:28:08,360 --> 01:28:12,240
Speaker 1: through my wireless provider. Now I don't know when that ends,

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01:28:12,479 --> 01:28:14,960
Speaker 1: and so what's gonna happen is invariably I'm gonna wake

1714
01:28:15,040 --> 01:28:17,960
Speaker 1: up to a bill for my wireless provider. It's gonna

1715
01:28:17,960 --> 01:28:20,439
Speaker 1: be like another two hundred dollars and I'd be like, wait, what, Oh,

1716
01:28:20,560 --> 01:28:23,360
Speaker 1: I forgot to change my Peloton and my Netflix and

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01:28:23,400 --> 01:28:27,240
Speaker 1: whatever promotion I had is gonna expire. So that's why

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01:28:27,240 --> 01:28:29,320
Speaker 1: they like you to do it is because they are

1719
01:28:29,360 --> 01:28:33,040
Speaker 1: now in control. If you don't have this bundle, you

1720
01:28:33,040 --> 01:28:35,920
Speaker 1: can go to Peloton dot com or Max dot com

1721
01:28:36,160 --> 01:28:39,040
Speaker 1: and you can easily change things as you need. But

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01:28:39,160 --> 01:28:41,840
Speaker 1: once things are bundled, it gets a little bit more complicated.

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01:28:41,880 --> 01:28:44,960
Speaker 1: And that's it's that tiny bit of friction that companies

1724
01:28:45,120 --> 01:28:48,160
Speaker 1: like because you may be able to call the next

1725
01:28:48,200 --> 01:28:50,360
Speaker 1: time after you see that on your bill, but now

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01:28:50,360 --> 01:28:53,760
Speaker 1: they've just won one extra bill on you, and that

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Speaker 1: one extra bill at ten, fifteen twenty dollars a month

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Speaker 1: times millions of customers is a whole lot of money.

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Speaker 1: So I personally do not like bundling. Even if it

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Speaker 1: saves you money in the short term, it may not

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Speaker 1: save you money.

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Speaker 2: In the long term.

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Speaker 1: Meta launches a free AI image generator called Imagine and

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Speaker 1: guess what It's trained on all the pictures you've been

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Speaker 1: uploading to Facebook and Instagram over the years. You knew

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Speaker 1: this was happening. Nothing is really for free. All those

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Speaker 1: pictures you've been uploading to Facebook and Instagram. If they're public,

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Speaker 1: they might have trained this AI model called emu EMU.

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01:29:32,720 --> 01:29:35,799
Speaker 1: It's trained on one point one billion Facebook and Instagram

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Speaker 1: user photos. You can try this out if you go

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Speaker 1: to Imagine dot Meta dot com. You have to log

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Speaker 1: in with your Facebook account. You can type in whatever

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Speaker 1: you want it to create, plane flying over cotton, candy clouds,

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01:29:48,600 --> 01:29:51,439
Speaker 1: and it'll create four images for you, all for free.

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Speaker 1: But if you notice that that picture looks like your

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Speaker 1: old girlfriend or you know someone in your family that

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01:29:58,200 --> 01:30:02,760
Speaker 1: you uploaded earlier, make no mistake, it's because they train

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Speaker 1: this AI model on these user uploaded pictures. Now, I'm

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01:30:08,400 --> 01:30:10,200
Speaker 1: just kidding, you're probably not going to find a picture

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01:30:10,200 --> 01:30:12,360
Speaker 1: that looks like someone you know. But the reality is

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01:30:12,960 --> 01:30:15,960
Speaker 1: when you are not paying for something, your data is

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Speaker 1: the payment, and that's what happens here. Now I'm not

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01:30:18,120 --> 01:30:20,960
Speaker 1: saying this is bad, it's kind of what's happening. All

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Speaker 1: these AI image generators have to be trained on something,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of them are just scraping images from

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Speaker 1: the web. But Meta had people upload a lot of

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Speaker 1: stuff over the years that they can use for this.

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01:30:32,640 --> 01:30:35,519
Speaker 1: And by the way, you probably tagged your images too,

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Speaker 1: with different things like descriptions, like maybe you uploaded a

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Speaker 1: pizza and you said, oh, best pepperoni pizza from Sal's

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Speaker 1: Pizzeria in Hoboken, And now they know exactly what that

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Speaker 1: pizza looks like because you've described exactly.

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Speaker 2: What that image contains. Very very smart.

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Speaker 1: All right. Coming up next, we're going to talk accessibility,

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Speaker 1: Microsoft's new app, Apple's personal voice feature, and a new

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Speaker 1: controller from PlayStation. It's all coming up right here on

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Speaker 1: the rich On Tech Radio show. Rich Demiro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology at Triple eight rich one

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

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Speaker 1: zero one. If you have some feedback for the show

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01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:27,240
Speaker 1: we'll get it in the feedback segment later on. Send

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01:31:27,320 --> 01:31:30,320
Speaker 1: it in right now on the website Richontech dot tv.

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Speaker 1: Hit contact if you want to get your voice in

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01:31:34,200 --> 01:31:37,240
Speaker 1: on the show. Tell me what's good, what's bad, what

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01:31:37,400 --> 01:31:40,320
Speaker 1: you like or anything you want to comment about. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's bring on Steven Aquino, freelance tech journalist covers accessibility

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Speaker 1: and assist of technologies for outlets like Forbes. Steven, welcome

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01:31:49,400 --> 01:31:54,639
Speaker 1: to the show. Hey there, I am doing great. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for joining me today. So tell me about your interest

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Speaker 1: in covering accessibility.

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Speaker 2: How did that come about?

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Speaker 12: Sure, well, it.

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Speaker 13: Really comes about because I was born freame much really

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Speaker 13: and I have a whole host of us the build

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Speaker 13: what it is that I've dealt with my entire life,

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Speaker 13: and you know it. They have affect how I use

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Speaker 13: you know, everything, and that includes technology. So I just

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Speaker 13: want to show people that not everybody uses technology in

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Speaker 13: the same way.

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Speaker 1: And that is very true. And I think that technology

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Speaker 1: has actually been a great you know, it's helped a

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Speaker 1: lot of people with varying of abilities do things because

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01:33:00,840 --> 01:33:05,680
Speaker 1: you know, you've got stuff like larger text on screens, readers,

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Speaker 1: all this stuff that has really I think done a lot.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk first about this Seeing AI app. It's

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Speaker 1: now available and Android. This is from Microsoft, and this

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Speaker 1: app narrates the world for the blind and low vision.

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Speaker 1: It can read text, it can identify products and describe photos.

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Speaker 2: So what do you make of this app? Have you

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Speaker 2: used it?

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Speaker 1: I have not.

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Speaker 13: I definitely reheard it and what it is is like

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Speaker 13: just as you were saying, it basically helps people like

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Speaker 13: me who have low eye sight or no vision you've

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Speaker 13: been at all, to be able to identify by objects

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Speaker 13: or even you know, other humans, you know in the

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Speaker 13: real world.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is now available on Android. It used

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Speaker 1: to just be on iOS, so that is available now

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Speaker 1: from Microsoft. It's called Seeing AI and it's available in

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Speaker 1: eighteen languages. It's free to use, and you know, it's

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Speaker 1: a great thing that you can aim it at something

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Speaker 1: and have it read text, identify an object, or describe

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Speaker 1: a picture. And it's also I guess they improved a

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Speaker 1: little bit because they brought it to Android. They've got

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Speaker 1: richer descriptions of photos and you can also kind of

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Speaker 1: go back and forth with documents a little bit, so

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Speaker 1: it does use some AI there.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about this feature on iOS.

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Speaker 1: It's called Personal Voice and basically you can record. This

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Speaker 1: is for folks that are at risk of losing their voice,

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Speaker 1: and you can record your voice and kind of save

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Speaker 1: it for later.

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Speaker 2: What do you make of that feature?

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Speaker 8: Sure, so.

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Speaker 13: This feature isn't intended for When it first came out,

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Speaker 13: Apple said that they worked with people at the l

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Speaker 13: the teams patients helping people with als, and the whole

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Speaker 13: idea here is that at some point someone with a

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Speaker 13: LS is gonna lose their build goody to speak. So

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01:35:44,960 --> 01:35:50,559
Speaker 13: the idea with this software is that you record I

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01:35:50,600 --> 01:36:01,440
Speaker 13: think it's fifteen minutes of spoken text through your and then.

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Speaker 2: The software will.

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Speaker 13: Forward that and you'll be able to talk using your

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Speaker 13: own voice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is like in you know, if you

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01:36:17,880 --> 01:36:21,479
Speaker 1: have a a you know, a system that would do

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01:36:22,000 --> 01:36:26,080
Speaker 1: a generic kind of computerized voice. Now you can actually

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Speaker 1: type something and speak it in your own voice, which

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Speaker 1: is pretty incredible just how far we've come with that technology,

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Speaker 1: especially since it's available on the iPhone. I did try

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Speaker 1: this out and it did take It took a little

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01:36:39,920 --> 01:36:41,800
Speaker 1: bit longer than I thought, Like, you can't just do

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01:36:41,880 --> 01:36:43,840
Speaker 1: this like quickly, Like you have to be able to

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01:36:43,880 --> 01:36:46,880
Speaker 1: have some time to sit down and record this. But uh,

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Speaker 1: you know again, if you are at risk of losing

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Speaker 1: your voice due to some sort of illness like als,

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Speaker 1: that is something that is an option. Now all right, finally,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about this PlayStation controller. This is a new

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Speaker 1: accessible controlller for PlayStation five. It looks like you wrote

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Speaker 1: about this for Forbes, right.

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Speaker 13: I did. I brod buttered a lot.

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Speaker 1: So what.

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Speaker 13: This is is is it's a specially designed roller for

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01:37:24,600 --> 01:37:33,400
Speaker 13: people who for some reason can't use the stock roller

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01:37:33,439 --> 01:37:39,360
Speaker 13: that comes with the system. So what it is is

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01:37:39,560 --> 01:37:43,800
Speaker 13: it's you've got its own shape and everything, and you

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Speaker 13: can like swap out the different buttons and the sticks

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Speaker 13: on the controller, and there's a whole lot you can

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Speaker 13: do in software to sort of uh break your own

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01:38:00,960 --> 01:38:05,439
Speaker 13: like super controlled the Blue as it were, because you

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01:38:05,479 --> 01:38:09,080
Speaker 13: can like hailor it to your you know how you

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Speaker 13: have to have.

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Speaker 1: It so your abilities. It's configurable in a lot of

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01:38:15,880 --> 01:38:19,679
Speaker 1: different ways. And also, you know, the main point here

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01:38:19,840 --> 01:38:22,800
Speaker 1: is that one size does not fit all when it

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Speaker 1: comes to controllers, Like if you have varying abilities or

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Speaker 1: a disability, you know, you can program this and and

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Speaker 1: kind of orient it in the way that you need.

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Speaker 1: So there's a whole bunch of stuff that you can do,

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Speaker 1: and it's just a really great way to open up

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Speaker 1: gaming to a wider audience.

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Speaker 2: Do you think this is going to be a good thing?

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Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, uh greaming technology switchy is really important

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Speaker 14: and it says a whole lot that these huge com.

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Speaker 8: For these.

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Speaker 13: Like Sony have you know, had time and effort to

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01:39:04,520 --> 01:39:07,280
Speaker 13: do this because uh, you know, as you were saying,

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Speaker 13: it really fixed their games you know, accessible to to

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Speaker 13: a to a audience.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And this is available for the PlayStation five. I've

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Speaker 1: also been at Microsoft events. They have a lot of

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Speaker 1: accessible kind of like, they have a lot of pushes

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Speaker 1: into this accessibility idea, and so does Apple, and so

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01:39:32,040 --> 01:39:35,040
Speaker 1: does Google. So it really is amazing what these tech

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Speaker 1: companies have done for bringing technology to more people and

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Speaker 1: allowing more people to do things in the way that

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Speaker 1: works for them. Steven Akino, thanks so much for joining

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Speaker 1: me today. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 12: Great Rich.

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Speaker 13: You for having me, sir.

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Speaker 1: All right, find them online Steven Akino on Forbes. You

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01:39:55,840 --> 01:39:58,640
Speaker 1: can find them also on x and read uh and

1894
01:39:58,720 --> 01:40:04,240
Speaker 1: keep up on all of the accessibility and diversity options

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01:40:04,240 --> 01:40:06,080
Speaker 1: that are out there with technology.

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Speaker 2: All right, thanks for joining me today. Let's uh, Oh,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna go to break.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we'll go to break and we'll come back and

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Speaker 1: we'll do the feedback segment. Oh my gosh, that means

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Speaker 1: it's almost the end of the show. Get those emails

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Speaker 1: in rich on tech dot TV, hit contact if you

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Speaker 1: want yours right on the air. Welcome back to rich

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Speaker 1: On Tech time for the Oh well, we're gonna get

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Speaker 1: to feedbag. And yes, I decided I think it is

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Speaker 1: a feedback segment. Because this is what I've decided. It's feedback,

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Speaker 1: but it's also mail bag. So the feedback plus the

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Speaker 1: mail bag is feedbag. All right, let's get through a

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Speaker 1: couple of stories before we get to the feedbag.

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Speaker 2: YouTube Premium.

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Speaker 1: If you're paying for YouTube premium and you were grandfathered in,

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Speaker 1: well your price is going up in January. So if

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Speaker 1: you're paying seven ninety nine a month or nine to

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Speaker 1: ninety nine a month, those are both grandfathered in, you

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Speaker 1: will be paying thirteen ninety nine a month, effective on

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Speaker 1: in January twenty twenty four, so next month. So it

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Speaker 1: was delayed. This was announced back in July, so don't

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Speaker 1: get mad at me. This was something that was announced

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Speaker 1: for many months now. But you were grandfathered in, which

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Speaker 1: is pretty rare these days. Most of the time when

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Speaker 1: these companies are announcing price hikes, it's like effective with

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Speaker 1: your next billing cycle. So the fact that you got

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Speaker 1: six months, you know you should be thanking me.

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Speaker 2: No, it's not me that's doing it.

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Speaker 1: Threads has added hashtags, but they don't call them hashtags,

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Speaker 1: and they don't have the pound sign or the hashtag

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Speaker 1: sign whatever you however you look at it, So they

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Speaker 1: call hashtags tags. They're clickable blue links, not the traditional

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Speaker 1: hashtag symbol. You can add one tag per post. The

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Speaker 1: feature was rolled out and it's kind of confusing because

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Speaker 1: why did they change a good thing.

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Speaker 2: We all know what hashtags are.

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Speaker 1: Every single online website uses hashtags, but not threads.

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Speaker 2: They use tags. I don't like it.

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Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts arrives on Tesla next week. If you have

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Speaker 1: a Tesla, you're gonna get a holiday software update and

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Speaker 1: you will have Apple Podcasts, which is kind of nice.

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Speaker 1: They added Apple Music last year. It does not work

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Speaker 1: very well. I will tell you that hopefully this will

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Speaker 1: be better. Apple music is very, very slow and just

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Speaker 1: not very good at least in my experience in the Tesla.

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Speaker 1: But Apple Podcasts it'll be nice to have. So you

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Speaker 1: can listen to the show Rich on Tech. Search it

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Speaker 1: up and if you'd like to listen to the podcast,

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Speaker 1: you can do it in your Tesla. As of next week,

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Speaker 1: if you have a pixel phone, two things one thing

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Speaker 1: to do. There is a new feature where it will

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Speaker 1: send critical data to first responders. You can share medical

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Speaker 1: info and emergency contacts with nine one one.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: This is on the pixel phone in the personal safety

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Speaker 1: app Pixel has or I guess they've somehow. There's a

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Speaker 1: partnership with this rapid SOS company which sends medical info

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Speaker 1: to the first responders. But it's been available on iPhone forever.

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Speaker 1: I did a story with this years ago, but now

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Speaker 1: it's finally coming to Android, starting with the Personal Safety

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Speaker 1: App on Pixel. So if you go to open up

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Speaker 1: the Personal Safety app, your info emergency info access share

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Speaker 1: during emergency.

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Speaker 2: Call, turn that on.

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Speaker 1: That way, if you ever have to die on nine

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Speaker 1: one one, it'll send more information. And Jimmy Stewart has

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Speaker 1: a new bedtime story inside the call map. How is

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Speaker 1: that possible?

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Speaker 2: You ask?

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Speaker 1: It's AI generated. They took Jimmy Stewart's voice, they recreated it,

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Speaker 1: and now he's reading. It's a wonderful sleep story. It's

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Speaker 1: a story about love, lost, hope and joy. Sounds like

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Speaker 1: my life.

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Speaker 2: Most of it.

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Speaker 1: Stuart's family was okay with this. The AI voi was

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Speaker 1: created by a company called Respeecher. It's pretty good. I

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Speaker 1: listened to the little clip they put online and I

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Speaker 1: got goosebumps because Jimmy Stewart is no longer with us,

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Speaker 1: yet somehow he is now reading a new story.

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Speaker 2: It's quite incredible.

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Speaker 1: I know it's controversial because people, you know, some people

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Speaker 1: say you're exploiting these actors that have passed away. But

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Speaker 1: if their a state is okay with it, I guess

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Speaker 1: it's fine. But anyway, you have to be a calm

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Speaker 1: subscriber to hear the whole thing. All right, let's get

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Speaker 1: to feedback. Bert says, please quit saying everyone hates X. Clearly,

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Speaker 1: if you're getting a lot of interaction, everyone doesn't hate it.

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Speaker 1: The beautiful thing is that you can get on X

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Speaker 1: and say everyone hates X, and that's fine because free

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Speaker 1: speech is alive and well on that platform. Thanks to Elon,

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Speaker 1: the guy responsible for the car you love. Great show,

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Speaker 1: minus the fake news.

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Speaker 2: Bert. Thanks Bert, there's no fake news on this show.

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Speaker 1: Gary says, Hey, Rick, Rick, I love when people call

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Speaker 1: me because I've never called myself Rick, but so many

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Speaker 1: people call me Rick.

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Speaker 2: I like the radio show you do, Leo proud.

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Speaker 1: I purchased a one plus phone on Amazon and it's

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Speaker 1: locked to T Mobile. Is there a legal way to

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Speaker 1: remove the carrier lock? I'll be returning this. If there's

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Speaker 1: not an easy way to remove this, Gary, go to

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Speaker 1: the unlocker dot com. The unlocker with Noe dot Com

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Speaker 1: and he specializes in all things unlocking phones. Yes, you

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Speaker 1: can unlock a phone. Just keep in mind it may

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Speaker 1: not work on every network, so it'll probably work on

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Speaker 1: T Mobile AT and T. It may not work on

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Speaker 1: Verizon if you unlock it. You just have to be

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Speaker 1: careful with that. Bruce says, I want to recommend fuel

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Speaker 1: Rod rechargeable. I'm biased as I'm a maintenance tech that

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Speaker 1: services the kiosks here in San Diego. No complaints, Charge

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Speaker 1: it at home, or swap it for a used rod

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Speaker 1: for a fully charged one for one buck. Love your show,

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Speaker 1: Bruce and San Diego.

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Speaker 2: Bruce.

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Speaker 1: Yes, there's a couple of these companies around with kiosks

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Speaker 1: that lets you get one of these portable batteries. It's

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Speaker 1: very nice when you see them because you feel like

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Speaker 1: you can use your phone and if worse comes to worse,

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Speaker 1: you go to the vending machine, you pop out one

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Speaker 1: of these portable batteries you can charge your phone. The

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Speaker 1: main thing is most of them you do have to

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Speaker 1: return at some point. But I've seen them all over

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Speaker 1: the place. I've seen fuel Rod for sure. I did

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Speaker 1: a story with another company that plays these things and

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Speaker 1: it's a big business. Pine says constructive criticism from a fan.

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Speaker 1: As I start this week this Monday, your segment comes on,

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Speaker 1: I put down my coffee because I'm a fan. I'm

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Speaker 1: only disappointed by you showing the same report you did

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Speaker 1: on your Saturday radio show. It's happened many times. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you're lazy or they don't pay you enough,

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Speaker 1: but it's annoying. I don't want to troll because I'm

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Speaker 1: a fan. Can you fix this or at least tell

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Speaker 1: me to avoid watching both shows? Okay, I think you're

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Speaker 1: referring to the fact that I overlap. Like on the radio,

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Speaker 1: I will do an interview with someone that I then

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Speaker 1: show on TV.

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Speaker 2: These are two different mediums. Radio.

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Speaker 1: If you notice, the interviews are much longer, so you're

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Speaker 1: getting kind of a deeper dive. TV the stories are

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Speaker 1: two minutes, so I think it's called synergy.

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Speaker 2: Like today we had the electric boat.

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Speaker 1: If you like the electric boat that you heard about

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Speaker 1: on this week on TV, you're going to see that

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Speaker 1: electric boat segment. It's not laziness. And no nobody ever

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Speaker 1: pays anyone enough, do they. No, people always want more,

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Speaker 1: So it's not about laziness. It's just I think it's

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Speaker 1: great that you can hear the story on the radio

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Speaker 1: and learn more. Oh David has a reply to this.

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Speaker 1: I'm older and not very tech savvy, but willing to learn.

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Speaker 1: I find you interesting and informative. I listen on Fox

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Speaker 1: fifty nine in Indianapolis. So David David likes the reports

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Speaker 1: on TV. Let's see what else do we have here?

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Speaker 1: So many things? Oh my god, these just keep going

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Speaker 1: on and on and on. Okay, uh, let's see. Hi, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I love your show and podcasts. I want to make

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Speaker 1: a custom wall calendar for my hiking club, but I

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Speaker 1: want members of the club to be able to order

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Speaker 1: their own copies. There are many companies that will let

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Speaker 1: me make a calendar, but the problem is to order it.

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Speaker 2: Everyone needs to use my account.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to give away my account number and

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Speaker 1: password so they can order the calendar that I create.

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Speaker 1: Is there a company that allows me to share my

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Speaker 1: work so my company my friends can print the calendar, Dan, Dan,

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Speaker 1: I think that Canva will handle this situation. So Canva

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Speaker 1: dot com. You create your calendar on Canva. You share

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Speaker 1: the link to that calendar with the people who want

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Speaker 1: to order it. They can then sign in, they can

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Speaker 1: do whatever tweaks they want. They want to add their

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Speaker 1: birthdays to the calendar, and then they can print it

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Speaker 1: out using their account and their phone number. So that's

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Speaker 1: what I would recommend. Canva dot com is incredible. The

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Speaker 1: problem is with Canva, a lot of it you might

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Speaker 1: have to pay for, like the design you want. It's

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Speaker 1: like it's a free it's a freemium kind of account thing.

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Speaker 1: So just know that if you use things that cost

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Speaker 1: money inside there, like the things with Little Star, people

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Speaker 1: are gonna have to pay to print that out.

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Speaker 2: All right, if you can believe it, that's going to

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Speaker 2: do it.

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Speaker 1: For this episode of the show, you can find links

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Speaker 1: to everything I mentioned on my website. Just go to

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Speaker 1: rich on tech dot tv for the show notes. You

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Speaker 1: can also go to rich on tech dot tv slash

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Speaker 1: wiki to see all of the show notes from over

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Speaker 1: the last year. You can find me on social media.

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Speaker 1: I am at rich on tech. Next week some great guests.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk eBay with the person who has sold

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Speaker 1: two million books about eBay, so we're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: eBay tips and tricks. Plus a really cool website guy

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Speaker 1: runs a website with all kinds of spy accessories, so

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Speaker 1: that's really fun. Thanks so much for listening. There are

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Speaker 1: so many ways you can spend your time. I do

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Speaker 1: appreciate you spending it right here with me. Thanks to

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Speaker 1: everyone who makes this show possible. Bill, Bobo, Kim. My

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Speaker 1: name is Richdmiro. I will talk to you real soon